The Manufactured Consent of the Elites

The Manufactured Consent of the Elites

The film is a critique of social status both in the West and the East, but it is also a wake-up call about the manufactured consent of elite journalism.

Juxtaposed with passages from George Orwell’s 1945 allegorical novella Animal Farm, “Mr. Jones” tells the story of the real-life Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who uncovered the horror of the Holodomor, Ukraine’s great famine of 1932-1933. If we are to believe that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” it makes sense that Jones would have been hunted down in Ukraine and discredited in the West. To this day, Gareth Jones remains an obscure figure.

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Two Liberal MPs resign from government roles after traveling abroad amid coronavirus

Two Liberal MPs resign from government roles after traveling abroad amid coronavirus

Two Liberal MPs have resigned from their government and House of Commons roles after admitting to recently traveling overseas despite strict travel restrictions due to the spread of the coronavirus.

Pierrefonds—Dollard MP Sameer Zuberi stepped down from multiple committee roles while Kamal Khera, who represents Brampton West, resigned as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of International Development, according to a statement from the chief government whip.

I think they’re talking about Canada.

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Trump reportedly urges Raffensperger to ‘find’ 11,000 votes to give him Georgia

Trump reportedly urges Raffensperger to ‘find’ 11,000 votes to give him Georgia

President Trump isn’t giving up on Georgia, reportedly telling Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find the votes needed to overturn the state in his favor.

Trump reiterated claims that election integrity was undermined in Georgia, prompting its 16 electoral votes to go to President-elect Joe Biden, according to audio released by the Washington Post. Trump reportedly accused Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, of knowing what was happening but not doing anything about it.

“You should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican,” Trump allegedly said in a call to Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, a general counsel in the secretary of state’s office. “… You know what they did, and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal offense, and you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk.”

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LA activists call for arrest of ‘Soho Karen’ in march to police station

Civil-rights activists marched on a Los Angeles police station over the weekend calling for the arrest of “Soho Karen,” the woman who falsely accused a black teen of stealing her cell phone in Manhattan last month.

The protesters assembled outside the LAPD’s North Hollywood Police Station on Saturday demanding the arrest of Miya Ponsetto, who has been laying low in California since the Dec. 26 incident, according to New York’s ABC-7.

Ponsetto shot to viral infamy when video emerged of her going off on 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. in the lobby of Soho’s Arlo Hotel.


This is over the top, but then so is she evidently – New details emerge about ‘Soho Karen’ Miya Ponsetto’s penchant for going berserk in hotels

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The Coming Assault on Religious Freedom

Modern-day Thomas Beckets are needed to stop it.

Joe Biden’s view of religious freedom is exceedingly narrow. Where religious freedom conflicts with the goals of liberalism, he supports suppressing it. He has promised Planned Parenthood that he will resume the Obama-era harassment of the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious groups if they don’t conform to his mandates. During the campaign, he opposed “broad exemptions” for those who resist his view of LGBTQ rights.

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Defunding police, segregation, and speech crackdowns: 2020’s craziest campus stories

2020 was the year that unleashed COVID-19, the “defund the police” and Black Lives Matter movements, and an intense presidential election.

The year was no less chaotic on college campuses, despite most in-person courses shifting to online-only classes.

Campus Reform compiled a list of the craziest campus stories of 2020.

Those were the days… Pic – Delta Delta Delta, Texas University of Texas, Austin 1944

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Breaking Canada’s Quarantine Rules Could Result In 6 Months In Prison & $750K Fines

If you want to avoid hefty fines or even prison time, it’s probably best to follow Canada’s quarantine rules if you decide to travel.

In a tweet shared on January 2, just days after officials promised to crack down on rule-breakers, Health Canada warned that “violating any instructions provided when you entered is an offence under the Quarantine Act.”

Per their notice, failing to quarantine for 14 days as directed could result in “up to six months in prison and/or $750,000 in fines.”

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‘Islamic State’: Weakened, but still dangerous

‘Islamic State’: Weakened, but still dangerous

The two women and 12 children the German Foreign Ministry recently got released from the al-Hol prison camp in northern Syria have returned to Germany. It was a humanitarian gesture from the German side. And for the Kurdish autonomous government, it means less of a burden on their security forces.

The camp houses about 64,000 people, most of them from a region once occupied by the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist organization. Most of the detainees are Syrian and Iraqi citizens, according to a UN report. It says almost 9,500 come from elsewhere, many of them from Europe.


Syria: dozens killed in Isis bus attack

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‘Screaming match’ breaks out on House floor after Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly refuses to wear face mask

“2 new Republicans — including @mtgreenee — are being told by House floor staff that they have to put their masks on. as of now, they seem to be telling the floor staff that they will not put it on. Taylor Greene is leaving the floor with the other R, who were trying to ID,” Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman tweeted Sunday.

“Now, the Republiacn (sic) and Democratic floor staff are in a screaming match on the floor. So this Congress is going great already,” he added.

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Ex-FDA head predicts new COVID-19 strain will be ‘majority’ of US cases by March

Ex-FDA head predicts new COVID-19 strain will be ‘majority’ of US cases by March

Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb on Sunday predicted that the contagious, new strain of COVID-19 will account for the “majority” of cases in the US by March.

“There are some estimates that the new variant probably represents about 1 percent of all infections in this country. By March, it’s going to be the majority of infections,” Gottlieb said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Gottlieb said it will “grow quickly” and its arrival adds more pressure to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are distributed as soon as possible.

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