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#9950864 at 2020-07-13 21:19:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12733: Left Idiocy In Meme Edition
Another statue down - Raleigh, NC - Judge Thomas Ruffin
NC Court removing statue of controversial judge, slave owner in downtown Raleigh
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article244185702.html
Thomas Ruffin, a 19th century North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, has long stood as a controversial emblem of the state's judicial history.
His legacy, which includes pro-slavery rulings and rhetoric, and his own status as a slave owner, will no longer grace the state's Court of Appeals in downtown Raleigh.
Sharon Gladwell, communications director for the state's court system, told The News & Observer that Ruffin's statue was removed due to safety concerns associated with it.
"The State Capitol Police recently informed the Court of Appeals (COA) of safety concerns associated with the Thomas Ruffin statue remaining at the COA Building," she said in an email. "After making a request of the Governor's Office for the statue to be removed, the Court began working cooperatively with the N.C. Department of Administration and the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources on the removal and relocation of the statue. The statue was removed this morning."
The removal comes amid a push by protesters to take down statues and other monuments erected in memory of the confederacy and pro-slavery historical figures. Last month, Gov. Roy Cooper ordered the removal of three confederate monuments at the Capitol, just days after protesters tore down two confederate statues. He cited public safety then as the reason for their removal.
Ruffin was North Carolina's third chief justice, and his statue was erected over a century ago in 1915. In his time on the state's highest court, he authored a decision affirming the "absolute" power of a slave owner in a widely studied case in slave law.
When a young enslaved woman named Lydia sought to evade punishment from slave owner John Mann, he shot her from behind. In State v. Mann, an 1829 case, a jury found Mann guilty of assault and battery. But Ruffin overturned the decision, writing that "the power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect."
Ruffin was also a slave owner and operated his own plantation, where he reportedly rubbed salt and pepper into the wounds of his slaves, among other extreme practices.
In January, the Orange County courthouse in Hillsborough removed Ruffin's portrait, citing "his racist past and his participation in slave trading and slave ownership."
On Friday, UNC-Chapel Hill's History, Race and A Way Forward Commission voted to recommend renaming Ruffin Residence Hall, alongside three other buildings named after men who "used their positions to impose and maintain violent systems of racial subjugation."
#9950807 at 2020-07-13 21:11:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12733: Left Idiocy In Meme Edition
Another statue down - Raleigh, NC - Judge Thomas Ruffin
NC Court removing statue of controversial judge, slave owner in downtown Raleigh
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article244185702.html
Thomas Ruffin, a 19th century North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, has long stood as a controversial emblem of the state's judicial history.
His legacy, which includes pro-slavery rulings and rhetoric, and his own status as a slave owner, will no longer grace the state's Court of Appeals in downtown Raleigh.
Sharon Gladwell, communications director for the state's court system, told The News & Observer that Ruffin's statue was removed due to safety concerns associated with it.
"The State Capitol Police recently informed the Court of Appeals (COA) of safety concerns associated with the Thomas Ruffin statue remaining at the COA Building," she said in an email. "After making a request of the Governor's Office for the statue to be removed, the Court began working cooperatively with the N.C. Department of Administration and the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources on the removal and relocation of the statue. The statue was removed this morning."
The removal comes amid a push by protesters to take down statues and other monuments erected in memory of the confederacy and pro-slavery historical figures. Last month, Gov. Roy Cooper ordered the removal of three confederate monuments at the Capitol, just days after protesters tore down two confederate statues. He cited public safety then as the reason for their removal.
Ruffin was North Carolina's third chief justice, and his statue was erected over a century ago in 1915. In his time on the state's highest court, he authored a decision affirming the "absolute" power of a slave owner in a widely studied case in slave law.
When a young enslaved woman named Lydia sought to evade punishment from slave owner John Mann, he shot her from behind. In State v. Mann, an 1829 case, a jury found Mann guilty of assault and battery. But Ruffin overturned the decision, writing that "the power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect."
Ruffin was also a slave owner and operated his own plantation, where he reportedly rubbed salt and pepper into the wounds of his slaves, among other extreme practices.
In January, the Orange County courthouse in Hillsborough removed Ruffin's portrait, citing "his racist past and his participation in slave trading and slave ownership."
On Friday, UNC-Chapel Hill's History, Race and A Way Forward Commission voted to recommend renaming Ruffin Residence Hall, alongside three other buildings named after men who "used their positions to impose and maintain violent systems of racial subjugation."
#7525496 at 2019-12-16 19:48:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9626: I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN! Let'em have it!! Edition
Boris Johnson Uses Mandate to Target Critics of Israel; Govt Czar to Investigate 'Far-Left Websites' For Anti-Semitic 'Hate'
Boris Johnson's election was reported as an indictment of open-borders, liberalism and the government's failure to follow through on Brexit but his top priority is apparently punishing critics of Israel.
From The Jerusalem Post, "Boris Johnson to pass anti-BDS law, official says":
The new Conservative government in the UK will pass a law making it illegal for public bodies to engage with BDS, UK Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues Eric Pickles said at the International Institute for Strategic Dialogue's conference in Jerusalem on Sunday.
"BDS is antisemitic and should be treated as such," Pickles said, explaining that the new law will not allow public bodies to work with those who boycott, divest from or sanction Israel in any way.
The British government's antisemitism tsar, John Mann, revealed one day after the election he was launching an Orwellian probe into "far-left websites" with the seeming aim of charging them with various thought crimes – such as hate speech or incitement – for defending Labour figures against accusations of antisemitism.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61027
#7217714 at 2019-07-27 19:30:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9234: We know the Q! A: Corn Fest and 42! WWG1WGA! Edition
Wow FFS
New UK anti-Semitism adviser: Jews are the canary in the coal mine for humanity
Labour MP John Mann hopes new PM will keep him in role he was given in one of May's last acts as premier; no love lost between lawmaker and some Corbyn allies in his own party
According to British Labour MP John Mann, "when it comes to fighting anti-Semitism, it's not enough for us to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish community, when the anti-Semites are throwing the stones of hatred, of bitterness, of bile."
"We have to stand in front of [Jews] in this fight. This must not be only the responsibility of the Jewish community," he said.
On Tuesday July 23, in one of her very last acts as prime minister, Theresa May appointed Mann as the government's adviser on anti-Semitism. He joins Lord Tariq Ahmad as adviser on freedom of religion and belief, and Lord Eric Pickles as the special envoy on post-Holocaust issues. All three of the posts are performed pro-bono.
Mann, a tall, fit and burly politician with a well-founded reputation for plain speaking, knows what he is talking about. For the last 15 years he has headed the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) against anti-Semitism, stepping down from his chairmanship only this week.
He co-founded, with Canada's former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, the International Coalition for Combating Antisemitism. Both bodies have consistently produced deeply researched reports into the nature and level of anti-Semitism, making recommendations to governments.
Perhaps the single act which brought him to national consciousness was his 2016 confrontation with former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who had just claimed on a radio program that Adolf Hitler was initially a supporter of Zionism. Not mincing his words, Mann rounded on Livingstone in a building crammed with TV cameras, calling him "a Nazi apologist." It put him definitively out of kilter with many colleagues in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's inner circle, but Mann did not care.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-uk-anti-semitism-adviser-jews-are-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-humanity/
#7148507 at 2019-07-23 19:11:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9146: Eyes of Providence and Omar diggz! Domes Everywhere! Edition
PIZZGATE
1/2
They say work on Pizzagate is illegitimate because people are rushing to conclusions, or because they are being paranoid, or partisan (despite so many of different political complexions provably working together). The subtitle here of course is that the State is solely legitimate to suspect and investigate crimes.
But what if the State itself is, in a systemic way, responsible for said crimes? It wouldn't be a first; after all, democide (death by government, a word surprisingly absent from conversations) was the first cause of non-natural deaths in the 20th century. Whether one is from the right, left, or center, one cannot deny government is the number one abuser, enslaver and serial-killer in History. We may honestly disagree on the ways to eradicate the phenomenon, or we may regret that fact, but we cannot deny it.
So, if the State itself is committing crimes, it is the people's sovereign and sacred duty to expose it. Those who understand this truth best tend to become journalists. At least, that's what drove me to the profession.
Now specifically on this work. First, there is context; institutional child abuse is already a common-knowledge phenomenon. From the Presidio affair to Jimmy Saville and the BBC, or from the Vatican's historic involvement in covering-up pedophilia to US legislators' documented trips on the "Lolita Express", from the questions still surrounding Dutroux to the Hampstead doubts, the scourge has been featured in the news, movies, documentaries, art work. There have also been many policymakers, prosecutors, investigators and victims denouncing the very phenomenon; see for example British MP John Mann passionate speech before Parliament on the subject last year, or the extensive report by former undercover Interpol agent (Bannon). Indeed it is a secret de Polichinelle. So the only possible disagreement can be on the scale and systemicity of the phenomenon.
To honestly decide whether that's what we are seeing in the Podesta emails, please have a look at this one example. Look at the invitation at the end of the thread. Ms Luzzatto is inviting people (among which are John and Mary Podesta) to a farm in Lovettsville. This is what she says:
We plan to heat the pool, so a swim is a possibility. Bonnie will be Uber Service to transport Ruby, Emerson, and Maeve Luzzatto (11, 9, and almost 7) so you'll have some further entertainment, and they will be in that pool for sure.
Impossible, you say? They couldn't possibly be speaking about abusing the children! After all, what step-grandmother would offer three innocent children up for group abuse?
This is how invitee Drew Littman answers the invitation:
I've never had an affair, so I pass the Walter Jones test.
If you aren't aware, Walter B. Jones has for 20 years been the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district; in DC he's regarded as the absurd caricature of a do-gooder, i.e. he is a noble man indeed.
Agreed, if that example was the only one, one could dismiss it as baroque misinterpretation. But there's more, much more. Let's not even get into the handkerchiefs and codewords - even though "cheese pizza" is a known euphemism for "child porn" (and there are abundant examples in the Podesta emails where that term is used in very strange and out-of-context Manners).
How about the fact that John and Tony Podesta are old friends of Jeffery Epstein, Dennis Hastert and Clement Freud, three convicted child molesters? Who has so many child rapists as friends? Who stays friends with child rapists after they're exposed and convicted?
How about the Katy Grannan photos plastered around the Podestas' mansion, depicting naked teenagers?
How about Tony Podesta writing he's "very good and a little wired" from being seated next to "the kids" on an airplane?
How about the underground vault on the Podestas' property which admittedly allows them to watch "very complicated video pieces"?
If you are feeling ill-at-ease, that reaction is honorable. And the worse thing is you haven't yet seen much. But for more, you'll have to look for it. Indeed one might be breaking statutory laws by linking to some of the clues Internet sleuths have found in the past three weeks.
#5994120 at 2019-03-31 20:02:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7666: Good Trumps Evil Edition Edition
I found this on pizzagate when searching for something else. Some have seen it, many have not.
On The Legitimacy Of This Investigation (with an important message to fellow journalists I know are lurking on this sub) (self.pizzagate)
Edit: this is a throw-away account, I will not be using it further nor answering any questions
Edit2: impossible to get such a piece passed my editor, so I'm leaving it here for people to distribute (send it to journos if you have the emails, it will silently resonate)
We are told the work on /r/Pizzagate (and other message boards) is illegitimate because people are rushing to conclusions, or because they are being paranoid, or partisan (despite so many of different political complexions provably working together). The subtitle here of course is that the State is solely legitimate to suspect and investigate crimes.
But what if the State itself is, in a systemic way, responsible for said crimes? It wouldn't be a first; after all, democide (death by government, a word surprisingly absent from conversations) was the first cause of non-natural deaths in the 20th century. Whether one is from the right, left, or center, one cannot deny government is the number one abuser, enslaver and serial-killer in History. We may honestly disagree on the ways to eradicate the phenomenon, or we may regret that fact, but we cannot deny it.
So, if the State itself is committing crimes, it is the people's sovereign and sacred duty to expose it. Those who understand this truth best tend to become journalists. At least, that's what drove me to the profession.
Now specifically on this work. First, there is context; institutional child abuse is already a common-knowledge phenomenon. From the Presidio affair to Jimmy Saville and the BBC, or from the Vatican's historic involvement in covering-up pedophilia to US legislators' documented trips on the "Lolita Express", from the questions still surrounding Dutroux to the Hampstead doubts, the scourge has been featured in the news, movies, documentaries, art work. There have also been many policymakers, prosecutors, investigators and victims denouncing the very phenomenon; see for example British MP John Mann passionate speech before Parliament on the subject last year, or the extensive report by former undercover Interpol agent (Bannon). Indeed it is a secret de Polichinelle. So the only possible disagreement can be on the scale and systemicity of the phenomenon.
To honestly decide whether that's what we are seeing in the Podesta emails, please have a look at this one example. Look at the invitation at the end of the thread. Ms Luzzatto is inviting people (among which are John and Mary Podesta) to a farm in Lovettsville. This is what she says:
We plan to heat the pool, so a swim is a possibility. Bonnie will be Uber Service to transport Ruby, Emerson, and Maeve Luzzatto (11, 9, and almost 7) so you'll have some further entertainment, and they will be in that pool for sure.
Impossible, you say? They couldn't possibly be speaking about abusing the children! After all, what step-grandmother would offer three innocent children up for group abuse?
This is how invitee Drew Littman answers the invitation:
I've never had an affair, so I pass the Walter Jones test.
If you aren't aware, Walter B. Jones has for 20 years been the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district; in DC he's regarded as the absurd caricature of a do-gooder, i.e. he is a noble man indeed.
Agreed, if that example was the only one, one could dismiss it as baroque misinterpretation. But there's more, much more. Let's not even get into the handkerchiefs and codewords - even though "cheese pizza" is a known euphemism for "child porn" (and there are abundant examples in the Podesta emails where that term is used in very strange and out-of-context Manners).
#5531749 at 2019-03-06 04:06:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7073: Feckless, Reckless, but never Kekless Edition
FDA approves Johnson & Johnson's ketamine-like drug to treat severe depression
Nasal spray the first major innovation in depression drugs since Prozac
WASHINGTON - A mind-altering medication related to the club drug Special K won U.S. approval Tuesday for patients with hard-to-treat depression, the first in a series of long-overlooked substances being reconsidered for severe forms of mental illness. The nasal spray from Johnson & Johnson JNJ, +0.21% is a chemical cousin of ketamine, which has been used for decades as a powerful anesthetic to prepare patients for surgery. In the 1990s, the medication was adopted as a party drug by the underground rave culture due to its ability to produce psychedelic, out-of-body experiences. More recently, some doctors have given ketamine to people with depression without formal FDA approval.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Spravato as a fast-acting treatment for patients who have failed to find relief with at least two antidepressants. Up to 7.4 million American adults suffer from so-called treatment-resistant depression, which heightens the risk of suicide, hospitalization and other serious harm, according to the FDA. There have been no major pharmaceutical innovations for depression since the launch of Prozac and related antidepressants in the late 1980s. Those drugs target the feel-good brain chemical serotonin, and can take weeks or months to kick in.
Ketamine and J&J's version work differently than those drugs, targeting a chemical called glutamate that is thought to restore brain connections that help relieve depression. When the drug works, its effect is almost immediate. That speed "is a huge thing because depressed patients are very disabled and suffer enormously," said Dr. John Mann, a psychiatrist and researcher at Columbia University. If the drug doesn't work, physicians can quickly switch to other options, he noted.
The FDA approved Spravato, known chemically as esketamine, based on study results that showed patients taking the drug experienced a bigger improvement in their depression levels than patients taking a sham treatment, when measured with a psychiatric questionnaire. The drug is designed to be lower-dose and easier to use than ketamine, which is normally given as an intravenous infusion.
Robin Prothro, 60, began taking antidepressants more than 20 years ago. But she says none of the five medications she tried relieved the depression that has stymied her personal and professional life. Since enrolling in a Spravato trial two years ago, Prothro says her depression has lifted and she's returned to hobbies she abandoned years ago, like gardening. She takes the drug every two weeks at her psychiatrist's office while reclining in a comfortable chair. "You can feel it coming on, it's a strong drug," she said, describing colors and shapes that drift before her eyes. "I just let the drug work. I close my eyes and my mind is amazingly quiet."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fda-approves-Johnson-Johnsons-ketamine-like-drug-to-treat-severe-depression-2019-03-05
#2651381 at 2018-08-18 02:30:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3347: Pools, Rome & Red Shoes Edition
>>2651347
John Mann. is he clean?
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#13830199 at 2021-06-04 20:36:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
>>13828662
"Secret cash trail that meant Fox HAD to go: Defence Secretary resigns after claim he 'personally asked Tory donor to fund his best man'" - Part 3dated 15 October 2011 at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049222/Liam-Fox-resigns-Defence-Secretary-finally-quits-Adam-Werritty-scandal.html.
Continuation of 2011
June 12 - It emerges that a multimillion-pound lawsuit is being brought by Porton and the MoD's civilian research arm Ploughshare Innovations against US conglomerate 3M for its alleged failure to develop a technology for detecting the superbug MRSA.
June 17 - Dr Fox meeting with Mr Boulter in a Dubai hotel, organised by Mr Werritty after the businessman bumped into him in a restaurant the previous day.
Later that day, Mr Boulter emails 3M lawyers urging them to settle the lawsuit and telling them that he has discussed with Dr Fox the possible withdrawal of a knighthood from the company's British boss, Sir George Buckley. His email results in 3M launching a blackmail suit.
June 24 - MoD issues Dr Fox's denial that he discussed the 3M dispute with Mr Boulter.
June - Defence Secretary learns that Mr Werritty is using business cards bearing the parliamentary portcullis and describing himself as Dr Fox's adviser, and tells him to stop.
July 9 - Dr Fox visits Sri Lanka to deliver Kadagamar Memorial speech. Mr Werritty is in the audience.
August 5-19 - Dr Fox on holiday in Spain with family and friends including Mr Werritty.
August 8 - The Guardian reports on Dr Fox's meeting with Mr Boulter. The Defence Secretary confirms Mr Boulter did raise the issue of his dispute with 3M but denies the knighthood was discussed.
August 19 - The Guardian names Mr Werritty as broker of the meeting with Mr Boulter, noting that he describes himself as an adviser to Dr Fox but is not an employee of the MoD.
September 15 - In a written ministerial answer to Labour MP John Mann, Dr Fox states: 'Mr Werritty is not an employee of the Ministry of Defence and has, therefore, not travelled with me on any official overseas visits.'
October 5 - It is revealed that Mr Werritty has visited Dr Fox at the MoD in Whitehall on 14 occasions since he took office. Dr Fox insists the meetings were 'not in an official capacity'.
October 6 - Dr Fox denounces what he says are 'baseless allegations' about his links with Mr Werritty and asks MoD permanent secretary Ursula Brennan to carry out an internal inquiry to establish whether there has been any breach of national security or the ministerial code.
October 7 - Dr Fox's visit to Libya is overshadowed by media reports of his links with Mr Werritty.
October 8 - Mr Cameron demands an interim report by the start of the next week.
October 9 - After a phone conversation with the Prime Minister, Dr Fox issues a statement accepting that he was wrong to meet Mr Boulter in the absence of officials and recognising that the "misleading impression" may have been given that Mr Werritty was an adviser, rather than a friend.
October 10 - Dr Fox gives a statement to the Commons, in which he apologises for blurring the lines between ministerial responsibilities and loyalties to a friend, but denies wrongdoing.
Mr Cameron receives interim report from Ms Brennan, which states that it was "not appropriate" for material from Dr Fox's diary to have been made available to Mr Werritty.
Downing Street says it is clear that 'serious mistakes' have been made and Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell is ordered to take over the inquiry.
MoD releases a list of 40 meetings between Dr Fox and Mr Werritty either in the MoD's Whitehall offices or on trips overseas.
October 11 - Mr Werritty interviewed by Cabinet Office officials as part of Sir Gus O'Donnell's inquiry.
October 12 - It emerges that a younger man was present in Dr Fox's flat at the time of last year's burglary. A press conference scheduled during Dr Fox's visit to Paris is cancelled. "Friends" of Dr Fox suggest that Mr Werritty may be a Walter Mitty-style fantasist, to the reported annoyance of the Defence Secretary.
October 14 - Dr Fox resigns.