Last week, pre-production for the film ‘They Are Us’, which intended to dramatize New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s response to the killing of 51 Muslim worshippers by a white supremacist in Christchurch in 2019, was shut down due to outrage from New Zealand’s Muslim community, which deemed the project …
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On Wednesday, Tala Halawa, a Palestinian journalist who was unceremoniously let go from the BBC in June, blasted the British broadcaster for her sacking and accused it of giving into the “pro-Israel mob.”Halawa, who has set her Twitter location as Palestine, worked as a digital journalist at BBC Monitoring from …
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In February 2021, Larry Sanger, one of the founders of the online encyclopedia, said, “The days of Wikipedia’s robust commitment to neutrality are long gone.” This was not his first time speaking out against Wikipedia. Personally, I was surprised to learn that Wikipedia was ever neutral. In his more recent …
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On Saturday, Schneider fumed over the news that Pfizer wanted to introduce a new Covid-19 booster shot, making full vaccination against the virus a three-dose procedure. On Twitter, the comedian urged his followers to “just say no” to the vaccine. “Over Half of the US population is continuing to say …
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The violence came after Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili attacked the march as “unreasonable,” claiming that the Pride event, named ‘The March of Dignity’, had been organized by the “radical opposition” that seeks to “spark tension” and destabilize the country. “The march scheduled today carries risks of civic confrontation because the …
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Le Pen was re-elected at a party congress on Sunday, winning 98% support and facing no competition. “Your confidence honors and obliges me,” Le Pen tweeted after the vote. “Unite for victory!” Her re-election comes ahead of a presidential showdown against incumbent Emmanuel Macron next April, and polls show Le …
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“Today, flying the flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person’s political affiliation in a deeply divided nation,” the Times said in an article on Saturday, the eve of the US Independence Day …
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It would be fascinating in the near future for sociologists and psychiatrists to examine what it was about left-leaning politicos that led them to embrace the Covid-19 pandemic so heartily. Unfortunately, most potential researchers probably hold that particular voting bent and are less likely to self-examine adequately to answer such …
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Right Wing Watch describes itself as a group that “monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations.” What that means in practice is RWW combs social media for controversial statements, before explicitly or implicitly calling for the accounts behind them to be banned. However, tables were seemingly turned on …
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Speaking on Wednesday, Britain’s immigration minister, Kevin Foster, said that individuals who fail to apple for settled status by the June 30 deadline will not immediately lose their rights, which are protected by law. Instead, immigration officials will begin to issue 28-day warnings to those who are eligible for the …
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