>>12906406

Planefags please see if it is actually Marine One in the air. tia.

>>12906540

Well, crap.

Gonna have to catch that quisling on an airplane then.

>>12906554

Yeah, and save his $4 million per year travel budget.

Repeat.

And save his $4 million per year travel budget.

China bans BBC for ‘fake news’ on Xinjiang, coronavirus

UK foreign secretary calls move ‘an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom.’

Chinese authorities banned BBC World News on Thursday, accusing the British broadcaster of not being “factual and fair,” according to a government statement.

The decision was a result of a “slew of falsified reporting” on issues including the Xinjiang region and China’s handling of the coronavirus, state media Global Times said, adding that “fake news” is not tolerated in China.

The BBC's series of reporting about Xinjiang internment camps, forced labor and, most recently, systematic rape of Muslim women have infuriated Beijing authorities.

While the BBC was not available in most Chinese households, the ban suggests it will no longer be streamed in any venues such as hotels.

“We are disappointed that the Chinese authorities have decided to take this course of action. The BBC is the world’s most trusted international news broadcaster and reports on stories from around the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favor,” the BBC said in a statement.

The U.K.’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called it “an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom.”

“China has some of the most severe restrictions on media & internet freedoms across the globe, & this latest step will only damage China’s reputation in the eyes of the world,” Raab wrote on Twitter.

Labour Party MP Yasmin Qureshi, the shadow minister for international development, said the decision showed the Chinese government’s intolerance of “recent reports revealing the horrific systematic rape and sexual abuse of Uyghurs and other detainees in the Xinjiang prison camps.”

“If the Chinese government has got nothing to hide in Xinjiang, what has it got to fear from the free press?” Qureshi said in a statement issued by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-bans-bbc-for-fake-news-on-xinjiang-coronavirus/

California Is Making Liberals Squirm

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?

You may have heard that San Francisco’s Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to rename 44 schools, stripping ancient racists of their laurels, but also Abraham Lincoln and Senator Dianne Feinstein. The history upon which these decisions were made was dodgy, and the results occasionally bizarre. Paul Revere, for instance, was canceled for participating in a raid on Indigenous Americans that was actually a raid on a British fort.

In normal times, bemusement would be the right response to a story like this. Cities should have idiosyncratic, out-there politics. You need to earn your “Keep X weird” bumper stickers. And for all the Fox News hosts who’ve collapsed onto their fainting couches, America isn’t suffering from a national shortage of schools named for Abraham Lincoln.

But San Francisco’s public schools remain closed, no matter the name on the front. “What I cannot understand is why the School Board is advancing a plan to have all these schools renamed by April, when there isn’t a plan to have our kids back in the classroom by then,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. I do not want to dismiss the fears of teachers (or parents), many living in crowded homes, who fear returning to classrooms during a pandemic. But the strongest evidence we have suggests school openings do not pose major risks when proper precautions are followed, and their continued closure does terrible harm to students, with the worst consequences falling on the neediest children. And that’s where this goes from wacky local news story to a reflection of a deeper problem.

San Francisco is about 48 percent white, but that falls to 15 percent for children enrolled in its public schools. For all the city’s vaunted progressivism, it has some of the highest private school enrollment numbers in the country — and many of those private schools have remained open. It looks, finally, like a deal with the teachers’ union is near that could bring kids back to the classroom, contingent on coronavirus cases continuing to fall citywide, but much damage has been done. This is why the school renamings were so galling to so many in San Francisco, including the mayor. It felt like an attack on symbols was being prioritized over the policies needed to narrow racial inequality.

California has the highest poverty rate in the nation, when you factor in housing costs, and vies for the top spot in income inequality, too.

The median price for a home in California is more than $700,000. As Bloomberg reported in 2019, the state has four of the nation’s five most expensive housing markets and a quarter of the nation’s homeless residents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opinion/california-san-francisco-schools.html

>>12906614

Perfect!

Thank you!