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“Former RFK running mate Nicole Shanahan: Celebrating abortions is ‘fundamentally anti-human’” (Kelli Keane, Live Action)
From the article -- “I was such a Planned Parenthood freedom of choice maximalist. Prior to joining politics, I couldn’t see anything negative to Planned Parenthood and what it represented,” Shanahan said. “Since I was a little girl, the women’s movement was always around abortion and the freedom to choose and bodily autonomy. Even months in, I couldn’t imagine ever being pro-life or understanding the pro-life perspective.”
But certain powerful experiences Shanahan had on the campaign trail opened her eyes to the truth...
2) “October 7th, Lord Roberts and the Most Important Report of the Year” (Eric Lipman, Times of Israel)
From the article -- And as readers make their way through the report, they will learn a lot that has not been widely publicized before; such as: Hamas’s planning for this attack was underway for seven years before October 7; and that the supply lines for the sophisticated weaponry used by Hamas during the attacks do not just run back to Teheran, but also to Moscow, and Beijing, and Pyongyang. The October 7 horror story has profound implications for the safety of the entire Western World.
In this respect, Lord Roberts’ shining a light into the darkest places on Earth recalls Eisenhower’s steely determination and foresightedness following the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
Be sure to not that the article includes a direct link to Lord Roberts' original report: "7 October Parliamentary Commission Report (Chaired by Lord Roberts of Belgravia)"
3) “How the New York Times Is Killing America” (John Kass)
From the article -- But in the 21st Century an amazing thing happened to the media. Even as they mouthed their cliches about “speaking truth to power,” America’s corporate media began to openly revel at their participation in the power structure alongside their classmates and elites in the increasingly dominant managerial class. They became the willful tip of the spear for Deep State censorship and misinformation operations against populist challenges.
The Chicago political world was all about accountability not to the people, but to their fellow warlords. But the New York Times was accountable to no one.
Because of its dominant position in corporate journalism, the New York Times has never been held accountable. It leverages corporate media but has never taken responsibility for misinformation and malfeasance. The newspaper’s lies have been rewarded with dominant market position and those Pulitzer Prizes based on lies were wrapped adulation based on fear.
Far from its carefully nurtured Hollywood image as the fearless speaker of “truth to power,” the old gray lady is the newspaper of the Deep State and the American Kemalists who control and feed the Deep State.
But now, following abuses of journalism that have finally reached critical mass in the public consciousness, the New York Times has yet again become the object of ridicule by recently publishing a pathetic defense of its COVID coverage, misleading readers even as it bleats “We Were Badly Misled.”
4) “Foundation Aims to ‘Decolonize’ Shakespeare in His Own Hometown” (Jarrett Stepman, Daily Signal)
From the article -- The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which manages William Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, has reportedly announced that it will “decolonize” future celebrations of the great playwright over concerns that his works could be used to promote “white supremacy.”
There have been enough stories like these over the years to know that this isn’t a Babylon Bee satirical report. It’s real...
Among the other things the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust finds problematic about Shakespeare—whom they don’t seem to particularly like—is that he’s been portrayed as a “universal” genius and that establishing his works as a foundation for high art reinforces “Anglo-cultural supremacy.”
According to a research project sponsored by the trust in 2022, celebrating Shakespeare has promoted the idea of British “superiority” and thereby “has caused harm.” The project reportedly urged the trust to stop calling Shakespeare the “greatest,” instead urging it to praise him as part of a community of “equal and different” writers.
Related: “Shakespeare’s ‘Decolonizers’ Are Making Much Ado About Nothing” (Auguste Meyrat, Federalist)
5) “How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins: The suppression of the lab-leak theory is the mother of all Covid scandals.” (Matt Ridley, spiked!)
From the article -- It was the first of many dreadful mistakes made by the government during the Covid pandemic: shutting schools at the behest of unions, assuming the virus was not airborne, vaccinating children, overclaiming for vaccines and masks. The government thought it knew best and it let us down.
But all those errors pale beside the biggest one of the lot, and the one that has done most to undermine trust in scientists – that is, the initial insistence that the virus did not originate in a laboratory accident. We now know that it almost certainly did. The evidence is overwhelming, as I have rehearsed many times. And it now includes a huge stack of documents – inadvertently made public and spotted by two open-source investigators, ‘Billy Bostickson’ and Gilles Demaneuf – that shows just how systematically we were deceived about this mother of all scandals.
