Whites Can't Share Oprah 'Reaction Memes' or They'll Be Guilty of Practicing 'Digital Blackface'

Oprah Winfrey’s interview last week with Harry and Meghan was apparently a big hit. Not sure who might have been interested — probably many of the same people who watch “Dancing With the Stars” or “Thousand-Pound Sisters” — uplifting shows like that.

At any rate, Oprah created meme heaven for those who keep track of stuff like that with her priceless reactions of shock and surprise.

But there’s a problem with this, according to the Slow Factory Foundation. It seems that if a white guy like me used Oprah to do some meme-spreading, I would be guilty of practicing “digital blackface.”

Digital blackface is sort of like regular blackface except a real person isn’t wearing blackface. Neither is anything “digital.” In fact, it has nothing whatsoever to do with reality.

It’s a make-believe term used exclusively in the make-believe world of race-shaming.

Daily Mail:

In an Instagram post, the organization used an Oprah meme as a direct example of ‘digital blackface’ – sparking a furious debate in the comments where some agreed with the message, while others hit back, claiming that banning non-black people from posting the memes equates to ‘black erasure’.

‘Performing Blackness, be it IRL or online, is not an acceptable form of expressing reaction or dissatisfaction, especially not in exchange for likes and retweets,’ the organization wrote in its post.

Sort of like the ban on using images of Mohammed but without the threat of being beheaded.

Note that it’s OK to “like” and “retweet” the meme — just don’t comment on it. And if you can wrap your head around that, try understanding white people who agree.

“Thanks for educating! Didn’t know about this,” one person wrote, while another added: “What an interesting point that I’ve never even considered. I never been a fan of non Black people using Black emojis because it felt obviously wrong.”

“But sharing gifs and images is one that never even crossed my mind and the example given makes so much sense. Definitely going to evaluate what I post and when.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/03/14/whites-cant-share-oprah-reaction-memes-or-theyll-be-guilty-of-practicing-digital-blackface-n1432403

National Guard Association Echoes Pleas to End Capitol Occupation

The National Guard’s presence in Washington, D.C., got extended last week when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved the Capitol Police’s request for 2,300 troops to remain in place for approximately two months. Americans heard about threats from QAnon devotees on Inauguration Day, during the impeachment trial, and on March 4th. Exactly nothing happened. Perhaps this is why not everyone agrees with the extension for the National Guard:

National Guard Bureau Chief Dan Hokanson had questioned the extension because it was not rooted in specific threats. Instead, it was to give Capitol Police more time to fill staff and training gaps. In a memo obtained by Fox News, Hokanson wrote on March 4:

I am concerned that the continued indefinite nature of this requirement may also impede our ability to man future missions.

Efforts to date have not secured enough volunteers among supporting states to meet the USCP request of 2,280 soldiers, nor Option B of 1,000 soldiers.

Now, the National Guard Association of the United States has released a statement supporting Hokanson’s position. The Association represents active, separated, and retired commissioned and warrant officers of the National Guard and partners with other organizations representing enlisted members.

The response from Major General Michael McGuire, the NGAUS chairman, and retired Brigadier General J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, noted that the National Guard met an unprecedented demand in 2020 due to unanticipated domestic disasters as well as continued overseas deployments. They also noted it was increasingly difficult to convince the Guardsmen that Congress needed their continued presence at the Capitol. The statement closed with a call to end the mission:

National Guard soldiers and airmen here in Washington need to return home to their families, civilian employers and regular military obligations. They have completed their mission. They have made us all proud.

It’s time for local law enforcement to take it from here.

Only two publicly known threats remain. One was uncovered by intrepid reporter Dave Weigel at CPAC. Weigel met someone named Ken, who was not wearing a CPAC pass. He was likely one of the 20 or so people outside the hotel trading jabs with some BLM protestors that this commentator observed upon exiting the hotel to take a phone call. Orlando bicycle officers stood on the median between the two groups, and that was about it. They were there for a few hours midday. Meet Ken:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/03/13/the-national-guard-association-echoes-pleas-to-end-capitol-occupation-n1432285

High-Ranking Military Official Openly Threatens Tucker Carlson with Violence, “Trust Me, You’d Know if the DoD Attacked You”

The US Military is now openly threatening and trolling journalists and conservatives.

Last week US Military Brass carried out a coordinated attack on their latest foe — FOX News host Tucker Carlson.

This came after Tucker Carlson mocked the military and Joe Biden for the important new program focusing on “maternity flight suits” for pregnant women flying military planes.

Command Senior Enlisted Leader of United States Space Command, Scott H. Stalker, took time from his day to lash out at Tucker Carlson for mocking the nonsense coming from the left today.

Then the official US Marine Corps Twitter account piled on “boomer” Tucker Carlson, Fox News and attacked civilians for daring to use their First Amendment rights.

Now this…

A high-ranking military official openly threatened Tucker Carlson with violence.

This is insane!

“The DoD didn’t “attack” your show, we absolutely disagree with you! Trust me, you’d know if the DoD attacked you—it’s a doctrinal term,” the high-ranking official said to Tucker Carlson.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/high-ranking-military-official-openly-threatens-tucker-carlson-trust-know-dod-attacked/

Ireland Suspends AstraZeneca Vaccine Amid Blood Clot Reports

LONDON—Irish health officials on Sunday recommended the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of serious blood clotting after inoculations in Norway.

Dr. Ronan Glynn, Ireland’s deputy chief medical officer, said the recommendation was made after Norway’s medicines agency reported four cases of blood clotting in adults after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.

He said that while there was no conclusive link between the vaccine and the cases, Irish health officials are recommending the suspension of the vaccine’s rollout as a precaution.

Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic authorities have taken similar precautionary steps. The World Health Organization and the European Union’s medicines regulator said earlier in the week that there was no link between the jab and an increased risk of developing a clot.

The U.K.’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, said Thursday that “reports of blood clots received so far are not greater than the number that would have occurred naturally in the vaccinated population” and that “available evidence does not confirm that the vaccine is the cause.”

It said people should still go and get their COVID-19 vaccine when asked to do so.

https://www.ntd.com/ireland-suspends-astrazeneca-vaccine-amid-blood-clot-reports_581320.html

“Virtually Every Indicator” Shows Pandemic (And Government Response) Sets Back Childhood Development: UNICEF

There’s no question that the virus pandemic has impacted the younger generation that could deeply scar them, mentally and physically, for years. More than one year since the pandemic began, UNICEF warns, “progress has gone backward across virtually every key measure of childhood.”

“The number of children who are hungry, isolated, abused, anxious, living in poverty and forced into marriage has increased. At the same time, their access to education, socialization and essential services including health, nutrition, and protection has decreased”, Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, said in a statement.

“The signs that children will bear the scars of the pandemic for years to come are unmistakable,” Fore continued.

UNICEF’s latest data is a stark reminder that shuttering the economy and schools for an extended period is a flawed policy decision. In a rare moment on Wednesday, Anthony Fauci told CNN there is no scientific reason why people who have had the COVID-19 vaccine are still having their freedoms restricted. Further, there has been widespread evidence showing that children’s immune response to the virus is better than adults’. But still, many schools are closed around the world…

Fore requested governments place children “at the heart of recovery efforts,” particularly by “prioritizing schools in reopening plans.”

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Here are UNICEF’s results that show “virtually every indicator” of progress for children has reversed under lockdowns:

In developing countries, child poverty is expected to increase by around 15 percent. An additional 140 million children in these countries are also already projected to be in households living below the poverty line.

Schools for more than 168 million schoolchildren globally have been closed for almost a year. Two-thirds of countries with full or partial closures are in Latin America and the Caribbean.

At least 1 in 3 schoolchildren has been unable to access remote learning while their schools were closed.

Around 10 million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice.

At least 1 in 7 children and young people has lived under stay-at-home policies for most of the last year, leading to feelings of anxiety, depression, and isolation.

As of November 2020, an additional 6 to 7 million children under age 5 may have suffered from wasting or acute malnutrition in 2020, resulting in almost 54 million wasted children, a 14 percent rise that could translate into more than 10,000 additional child deaths per month – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. With a 40 percent decline in nutrition services for children and women, many other nutrition outcomes can worsen.

Politicians and unelected officials experimented with lockdowns, social distancing, and school delays without considering the long-term consequences. So far, according to the research above, the impact on younger generations has been horrific. We’ve mentioned before – this has produced a slow-motion mental health explosion.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/03/virtually-every-indicator-shows-pandemic-sets-back-childhood-development-unicef.html

Whistleblower NYPD cop probed by Internal Affairs for podcast appearance

A whistleblower NYPD cop who tried to expose alleged corruption in Queens is under internal investigation for speaking out on a recent podcast — a move his lawyer said was “retaliation” by the department.

Sergeant Steven Lee — who previously dished to The Post about alleged widespread corruption in the 109 Precinct in Flushing, Queens — was ordered to appear later this month for a preliminary hearing with the Internal Affairs Bureau, his attorney, Joe Murray, told The Post.

Murray said he spoke to a sergeant from IAB’s Group 1, who confirmed the investigation into Lee.

“I asked her what’s this in regard to? She said, ‘a podcast,'” Murray said.

“The next relevant question is, is he a subject or a witness? Do you want information that he reported about corruption, or do you want to attack him?” he added.

“She said: ‘he’s a subject.’ So this is more retaliation,” Murray said.

Lee told The Post in 2018 that he went undercover for IAB, working to sniff out dirty cops in Flushing who were taking bribes from owners of karaoke bars in the neighborhood.

Two cops from the precinct were ultimately arrested and pleaded guilty to charges related to the corruption — but Lee alleged the systemic corruption in the precinct was overlooked.

“I can’t understand. This guy went undercover — risked his life, had these guys arrested, they plead guilty. He’s a hero,” Murray said.

“I represent him now. I’m going after all these guys. Screw them,” he added.

The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/14/whistleblower-nypd-cop-probed-by-iab-for-podcast-appearance/

Syria Solidarity Movement Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the War on Syria

Since March 2011, Washington has led a coalition of NATO countries, Arab monarchies and Israel, in a proxy regime change war, using terrorist mercenaries as foot soldiers. Today, US troops illegally occupy nearly a third of Syria, containing much of Syria’s oil and gas and some of its best farmland. In addition, the US maintains a proxy army of Kurdish separatists in Syria’s north that seeks to dismember the country by carving out a Kurdish state where the population was overwhelmingly Arab prior to US intervention. The February 25th, 2021, US bombing of Syria signaled the Biden government’s intention to continue the US war of attrition on Syria.

Syria has defiantly resisted for ten years, in the face of illegal US attempts to dismember their sovereign state. These included false flag gas attacks by terrorists to blame the Syrian government – with the help of OPCW; attempts by the International Criminal Court to indict President Assad; propaganda constructs like the White Helmets to support western military intervention; increasingly severe economic sanctions which devalued Syria’s currency, created widespread unemployment, impoverished millions, and created huge shortages in the midst of a pandemic; spurious propaganda like the “Caesar photos”; and covert operations to buy the support of western mainstream media.

With allies Russia, China, Iran, Hezbollah, and Palestinian militias; support of Venezuela and Cuba to North Korea; and supporters in the global peace movement, the Syrian government has frustrated most of the above schemes, and avoided becoming a Libya-style failed state.

Syria has paid a great price: nearly half a million dead; 6.6 million internally-displaced persons; 5.6 million refugees across the Middle East, Europe, and North America; enormous civilian infrastructure destruction; looting of archeological treasures; physical and psychological trauma to its citizens; and much, much more. All of these cry out for an international accounting with reparations from those responsible.

The wide portrayal of the conflict as a “revolution” or popular uprising ignores Wikileaks revelations that the US has been promoting destabilization and sectarianism inside Syria since 2005. The Syrian people have shown great courage and endured great sacrifices in order to preserve their secular, pluralistic, and Arab socialist state, with universal free education and medical care.

The Syria Solidarity Movement seeks to end the criminal war on Syria, and we call upon others to join this effort. In particular, we ask you to put pressure on your elected officials to

Stop the war against Syria;

Resume diplomatic relations with Damascus;

End the coercive economic measures against Syria and Syrians;

Support the reconstruction of SSM International, March 15, 2021.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-solidarity-movement-statement-tenth-anniversary-war-syria/5739729

Leaked Voter Info and Illegal Electioneering: Inside Netanyahu’s Election Day App

Elector is just one of the election day apps used in Israel. A review reveals how it is used by Likud to get private info. Meanwhile, a data leak from a competing app and party shows how risky election tech can be

Likud, Israel's ruling party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has turned electioneering into a game. Using an app called Elector, Likud posts a "champions list” for those who have sent the party the most names of potential supporters.

“Omri, my bro! How many Likud supporters have you added to Elector? It’s not enough! Add more!” This is but one of the numerous messages posted on a Facebook page operated by the party, aimed at encouraging supporters to download the app and provide the party with names of voters.

Elector is only one of several so-called voter-management apps that have become popular in recent election campaigns. Like many others, its use contravenes the privacy laws - as these platforms encourage law-abiding citizens to name names - revealing whether neighbors, friends and relatives are for Likud or against it. The information is uploaded without the approval of the people in question.

The Privacy Protection Authority has repeatedly issued guidelines explicitly stating that the voter registry, to which the parties have access, is meant solely for maintaining contact with potential voters, and it is forbidden to use people’s personal information without their permission. Nevertheless, the parties using these apps flout these guidelines and continue to use voter data for other ends as well as instructing supporters to add more information.

The Elector app provides parties access to the huge database of eligible voters – 6.5 million Israelis. This in and of itself is still legal; every party is also permitted to augment the data to help their voter turnout efforts.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-leaked-voter-info-zero-privacy-inside-netanyahu-s-election-app-1.9611603

Investigation after toddler found in toilet with stranger at aquatic centre

A popular Sydney swimming centre was forced to close down over the weekend after a toddler was reportedly found in the toilet with a stranger.

An investigation is underway to a possible assault after a two-year-old boy was reportedly found in the toilet of a Sydney swimming pool with a stranger.

Angelo Anestis Aquatic Centre at Bexley was forced to briefly shut down after the discovery was made on Saturday afternoon.

Follow our live coverage of today’s top news stories below.

https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/live-breaking-news-investigation-after-toddler-found-in-toilet-with-stranger-at-aquatic-centre/live-coverage/21fb4fe982624a99939f764e44646406

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Microsoft Exchange attacks: Watch out for this new ransomware threat to unpatched servers

Ransomware attackers are now targeting Exchange servers that haven’t received the patches that Microsoft released last week.

Microsoft has issued an alert that hackers using a strain of ransomware known as DearCry are now targeting unpatched Exchange servers still exposed to four vulnerabilities that were being exploited by suspected Chinese government hackers.

Microsoft is warning Exchange customers once again to apply the emergency patches it released last week for critical flaws affecting on-premise Exchange email servers.

Microsoft urged customers on March 2 to install the patches immediately due to the risk that more cybercriminals and state-backed hackers would exploit the flaws in coming weeks and months.

It said existing attacks were being carried out by a Chinese hacking group it calls Hafnium. However, security vendor ESET reported yesterday that at least 10 state-backed hacking groups were now attempting to exploit flaws in unpatched Exchange servers.

And now cyber criminals are looking to feed off the Exchange bugs. Ransomware attackers spreading a strain called DearCry are attempting to install the malware after compromising Exchange servers, according to Microsoft.

"We have detected and are now blocking a new family of ransomware being used after an initial compromise of unpatched on-premises Exchange Servers. Microsoft protects against this threat known as Ransom:Win32/DoejoCrypt.A, and also as DearCry," Microsoft warned in a tweet. Ransom:Win32/DoejoCrypt.A is the name under which Microsoft's Defender antivirus will detect the new threat.

Microsoft added that customers using Microsoft Defender antivirus that use automatic updates don't need to take additional action after patching the Exchange server.

Microsoft appears to be treating this set of Exchange bugs as an urgent one to fix and last week provided further security updates to address the flaw in unsupported versions of Exchange.

The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week ordered federal agencies to patch the Exchange flaws or cut vulnerable servers off from the internet.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-watch-out-for-this-new-ransomware-threat-to-unpatched-exchange-email-servers/

Biden administration supports global plan for graphic LGBT sex-ed

UN guidelines supported by the Biden administration aggressively promote social acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism from a young age, including teaching five-year-old children that their gender does not necessarily correspond to their biological sex

The U.S. government under Joe Biden supports “comprehensive sexuality education” in UN policy once again. This controversial UN approach to sex-education includes teaching grade-school children that homosexuality and transgenderism are healthy, and that masturbation is positive.

U.S. diplomats expressed strong support for “comprehensive sexuality education” in negotiations for an agreement on women’s issues to be adopted by the UN Commission on the Status of Women on March 23, according to insiders familiar with the negotiations.

Under the Trump administration the U.S. government had backed off promoting this controversial term. In a turnaround from only a few weeks ago, U.S. diplomats are now following the lead of the European Union and insisting that this term makes it into the agreement of the commission.

The insistence of European delegations and the Obama administration to include “comprehensive sexuality education” in UN agreements is responsible for derailing negotiations over past UN agreements. Countries who lean conservative on social issues oppose the term for fear of endorsing highly controversial sex education curricula promoted by international agencies.

The UN agency for education (UNESCO), alongside other UN agencies, released a UN-system-wide curriculum guide on “comprehensive sexuality education” in 2018. The guide endorsed by UNICEF, UN Women, UNFPA and the WHO is now used across the UN system and includes highly controversial content.

The UN agency guidelines propose teaching children as young as five that people show love and care for others “sometimes through sexual behaviors” and “the difference between biological sex and gender.” In the same age-range, the guidelines suggest pushing children to identify “trusted adults” other than their parents to “help them understand themselves, their feelings and their bodies.”

The guidelines aggressively promote social acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism from a young age, including teaching five-year-old children that their gender does not necessarily correspond to their biological sex and that “there are many different kinds of families.”

The UN agencies even recommend telling nine-year-olds that masturbation is normal and “does not cause physical or emotional harm but should be done in private.”

According to the curriculum teenagers as young as twelve should also be taught how to access contraception, abortion, and reproductive health “without significant barriers, regardless of ability, marital status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.” The UN guidelines do not mention any role for parental oversight or involvement in these decisions.

The UN system guide also maintains that teenagers should be taught that “everyone, including people living with HIV, have the right to express sexual feelings and love for others” and, at the same time, that individuals who test positive for HIV/AIDS should “not be required to disclose their HIV status.”

The UN guidelines recommend making comprehensive sexuality education mandatory in schools even though the evidence of its efficacy is mixed.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-administration-supports-global-plan-for-graphic-lgbt-sex-ed?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard