Children's favourite, Dr. Seuss, BANNED!

I was brought up on Dr. Seuss and still adore him.  Some of my favourite are below. 

Leftists Cancel Dr. Seuss: Six Books Cease Publication Because They’re ‘Racist And Insensitive’

Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be printed after being deemed racist.

the National File,

3 March, 2021

Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel, better known under his pen name, Dr. Seuss, is the latest to encounter cancel culture, as decades after the prolific children’s books author’s death, six of his books will cease publication due to accusations of “racist and insensitive imagery.”

According to the Associated Press, these books have been targeted for destruction since at least last year, and the company finally announced it determined that they could no longer go forward with publishing the children’s books today.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises informed the AP. “Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families.”

The allegedly offensive books to be removed from the printing press are “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”; “If I Ran the Zoo”; “McElligot’s Pool”; “On Beyond Zebra!”; “Scrambled Eggs Super!”; and “The Cat’s Quizzer”.

According to the AP, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” is racist against Asians, as “an Asian person is portrayed wearing a conical hat, holding chopsticks, and eating from a bowl.” Similarly, “If I Ran the Zoo” is racist against those of African ancestry, as it “includes a drawing of two bare-footed African men wearing what appear to be grass skirts with their hair tied above their heads.”

This comes after years of the country’s most powerful teachers union, The National Education Association, “has for several years deemphasized Seuss and encouraged a more diverse reading list for children.”

It also comes after, in 2017, First Lady Melania Trump was criticized for donating 10 “racist” Dr. Seuss books to a school district in Virginia, with leftists at the time complaining that Dr. Seuss’s children’s books are “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”

Academia greeted the proverbial book burning with glee. Rebekah Fitzsimmons, a professor at Carnegie Melon University, celebrated the decision on Twitter. “The books we share with our children matter,” she wrote. “As grown-ups, we have to examine the worldview we are creating for our children, including carefully re-examining our favorites.”

More Dr. Seuss books may soon be on the chopping block, including the immensely popular “The Cat In The Hat”, which has been identified as racist. Additionally, “Babar The Elephant” was already removed from British bookshelves in 2012, after the book was accused of promoting the racist ideas of Western civilization.

The Lorax

Gerald McBoing Boing

The Cat in the Hat

Has the ex-vice chairman of Pfizer been removed from Twitter?

Yardley Yeadon is one of the best-qualified and decent people in the biotech industry but has been subject to a campaign of vilification and disinformation because he has dared to speak out. 

Has Twitter closed the account of Yardley Yeadon?

Indeed he is a gentle person, unsuited and ill-equipped to handle this sort of nastiness thrown at him for simply speaking the truth.

Hear him talk for himself

Dr. Yeadon has been subject to a campaign of vilification and disinformation for speaking out on this.

Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization – Head of Pfizer Research

Article by Health & Money News.

The vaccine contains a  spike protein (see image) called  syncytin-1, vital for the formation of human placenta in women. If the vaccine works so that we form an immune response AGAINST the spike protein, we are also training the female body to attack syncytin-1, which could lead to infertility in women of an unspecified duration.

Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon request a stop of all corona vaccination studies and call for co-signing the petition

2020NEWS at Health and Money News

On December 1, 2020, the ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr. Michael Yeadon and the lung specialist and former head of the public health department Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg filed an application with the EMA, the European Medicine Agency responsible for EU-wide drug approval, for the immediate suspension of all SARS CoV 2 vaccine studies, in particular the BioNtech/Pfizer study on BNT162b (EudraCT number 2020-002641-42).

Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon demand that the studies – for the protection of the life and health of the volunteers – should not be continued until a study design is available that is suitable to address the significant safety concerns expressed by an increasing number of renowned scientists against the vaccine and the study design.StarGate TV Series Warned Us In 2001 About the
Vaccination Disaster Facing Us Today

On the one hand, the petitioners demand that, due to the known lack of accuracy of the PCR test in a serious study, a so-called Sanger sequencing must be used. This is the only way to make reliable statements on the effectiveness of a vaccine against Covid-19. On the basis of the many different PCR tests of highly varying quality, neither the risk of disease nor a possible vaccine benefit can be determined with the necessary certainty, which is why testing the vaccine on humans is unethical per se.

Furthermore, they demand that it must be excluded, e.g. by means of animal experiments, that risks already known from previous studies, which partly originate from the nature of the corona viruses, can be realized. The concerns are directed in particular to the following points:

• The formation of so-called “non-neutralizing antibodies” can lead to an exaggerated immune reaction, especially when the test person is confronted with the real, “wild” virus after vaccination. This so-called antibody-dependent amplification, ADE, has long been known from experiments with corona vaccines in cats, for example. In the course of these studies all cats that initially tolerated the vaccination well died after catching the wild virus.
• The vaccinations are expected to produce antibodies against spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. However, spike proteins also contain syncytin-homologous proteins, which are essential for the formation of the placenta in mammals such as humans. It must be absolutely ruled out that a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, as otherwise infertility of indefinite duration could result in vaccinated women.
• The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance – this means that many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.
• The much too short duration of the study does not allow a realistic estimation of the late effects. As in the narcolepsy cases after the swine flu vaccination, millions of healthy people would be exposed to an unacceptable risk if an emergency approval were to be granted and the possibility of observing the late effects of the vaccination were to follow. Nevertheless, BioNTech/Pfizer apparently submitted an application for emergency approval on December 1, 2020.

CALL FOR HELP: Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon ask as many EU citizens as possible to co-sign their petition by sending the e-mail prepared here to the EMA.

https://2020news.de/wp content/uploads/2020/12/Wodarg_Yeadon_EMA_Petition_Pfizer_Trial_FINAL_01DEC2020_EN_unsigned_with_Exhibits.pdf

Two videos removed from You Tube in 24 hours

 I wondered, when I posted it how long it would remain up. I have reposted it on Brighteon.

This is the second video that has been removed in the last 24 hours. The other was Dr. Wakefield's warning about the vaccine.

I shall continue to work around the censorship.

Hi Sawmorerocks98,

Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our Community Guidelines. We've removed the following content from YouTube:

Video: UK hospitals

We know that this might be disappointing, but it's important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all. If content breaks our rules, we remove it. If you think we've made a mistake, you can appeal and we’ll take another look. Keep reading for more details.

How your content violated the policy

YouTube doesn’t allow content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of local health authorities’ or World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on social distancing and self isolation that may lead people to act against that guidance. Learn more here.

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How this affects your channel

Your channel now has 1 strike. You won't be able to do things like upload, post, or live stream for 1 week. A second strike will prevent you from publishing content for 2 weeks. Three strikes in the same 90 day period will result in your channel being permanently removed from YouTube.

What to do next

95% of creators who get 1 strike never get another one. We want that for you too, so please:

Make sure you understand YouTube's Community Guidelines and strikes basics. Review your content with our policies in mind. If after reviewing your content you think we made a mistake, let us know. You can appeal this decision here. Understand that this strike will expire after 90 days, and that deleting the content will not remove the strike.

Sincerely, The YouTube Team

On coronavirus and 5G

Video Removed & BBC 

inferred I lied. My 2 cents

The deleted video

Facebooks censorship

Climate change truth-teller Joe Neubarth BANNED from Facebook for 30 days

Middle East Observer terminated by You Tube

(Urgent): YouTube terminates Middle East Observer after almost 10 years online

Vineyard of the Saker,

8 March, 2019

After almost 10 years online, over 250 videos, almost 13,000 subscribers, and about 8 million total video views, YouTube has terminated the Middle East Observer (MEO) channel on its platform.

Although perhaps MEO became best known for its video translations of regional political actors such as Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, its work was certainly not limited to that. Middle East Observer sought to provide its viewers with reliable English translations on politics, religion, and culture from the Middle East more broadly, with a particular focus on media from key states such as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The termination of MEO’s channel came after several months of seemingly routine ‘violation’ emails sent to us by YouTube, the taking down of various videos of ours (most of which were uploaded several years ago) and the imposition of ‘channel strikes’ accompanied by emails about how we could better uphold its rather vague and in many ways hegemonic ‘Community Guidelines’. We gradually realised that no matter what measures we took, it would not satisfy YouTube’s ‘Guidelines’, as the platform’s architecture and policies increasingly moved towards the censorship of alternative news and views.

This censorship process against MEO began several years earlier, when YouTube deactivated our ability to monetise the absolute majority of our videos, classifying them as “Non-advertiser friendly”. Needless to say, this demonetisation regime has increasingly been criticised by many observers and major ‘YouTubers’ in recent years. They argued that the “Non-advertiser friendly” label was deeply ideological, as it worked to effectively censor (no funds = less ability to produce content) alternative and non-mainstream narratives while continuing to portray YouTube as a democratic and transparent media platform.

To bypass reliance on YouTube advertising revenue, we tried various options over the years, the last of which being an up-until-now successful experience on Patreon (here’s our page), where after only a few months 17 of our global viewers/readers joined the highly flexible crowd sourcing platform to fund our work and keep it going. Truly without their support we would not have been able to continue producing translations consistently (by all means support us to help us expand our work too).

Nevertheless, we believe that the termination of our channel today is a great blow to the coverage on YouTube of voices, news, and perspectives found on Arab and Islamic media that are rarely covered – or even purposefully silenced – by Western mainstream media.

YouTube’s message today is clear: the production, uploading, and viewing of genuinely critical and alternative ideas and viewpoints is not welcome.

Thankfully we at MiddleEastObserver.net have been anticipating this scenario for many years, and especially in the last 6 months. For now, these are the best ways to continue to follow and support our work:

– Support us financially (even with $1/month) on Patreon
– You won’t miss out on any content if you subscribe to our Website Mailing List
– We will now be uploading our video content on our Daily Motion channel
– Like our Facebook page 
– Follow us on Twitter

Best wishes,
Middle East Observer

Facebook censors Russia-linked accounts

Facebook, Instagram Delete Dozens of Russia-Linked Accounts

Sputnik,

3 March, 2018

On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it had deleted 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram mostly Russian-language accounts owned by Internet Research Agency (IRA), the Russian group accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.

In addition, 138 Facebook pages controlled by IRA were also closed down. Many of those pages also ran ads, which were removed.

In a Tuesday blog post by Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos, he wrote, "Of the pages that had content, the vast majority of them (95 percent) were in Russian — targeted either at people living in Russia or Russian-speakers around the world including from nearby countries like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine."

He adds that "the IRA has repeatedly used complex networks of unauthentic accounts to decide and manipulate people whom use Facebook, including before, during and after the 2016 US presidential elections." 

The blog post notes that the accounts and pages were deleted from the platform not because of their content, which included information on domestic and international political issues as well as information on Russian culture and tourism, but merely because they were controlled by the IRA.

In a post by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published Tuesday, he wrote that the accounts had been closed because of their aim to "manipulate people in the US, Europe and Russia." Though of course, if 95 percent of the accounts deleted were in the Russian language, their target audience in the US and Europe must have been relatively small.

"Security isn't a problem you ever fully solve. Organizations like the IRA are sophisticated adversaries who are constantly evolving, but we'll keep improving our techniques to stay ahead — especially when it comes to protecting the integrity of elections," he added in his Facebook post.

Earlier this year, a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian national and three Russian groups, including the IRA, for running Eastern European and Russian "troll farms." The indictments come as part of US special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. 

Mueller has indicted former officials from US President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign Paul Manafort and Rick Gates for tax fraud and related charges related to their work as lobbyists for Ukrainian politicians before joining the campaign. Michael Flynn, briefly Trump's national security adviser, and George Papadopoulos, a campaign adviser, have pleaded guilty to making false statements in the investigation. No charges of conspiracy or collusion with Russia have been leveled against members of the president's campaign, and Moscow and Trump have consistently denied that any such collusion occurred.

Last month, Trump called Mueller's ongoing investigation a "witchhunt."

Mark Zuckerberg

6 hours ago

Today we're taking an important step to protect the integrity of elections around the world by taking down more than 270 pages and accounts operated by a Russian organization called the Internet Research Agency (IRA). Most of our actions against the IRA to date have been to prevent them from interfering in foreign elections. This update is about taking down their pages targeting people living in Russia. This Russian agency has repeatedly acted deceptively and tried to manipul...

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​"A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!" Trump tweeted March 19.

Zuckerberg has previously dismissed allegations that his platform was used by foreign agents to influence the presidential election. The popular social media platform, however, was recently drawn again into the election morass after after recent allegations that data and political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica received information about Facebook users through a personality app developed by Alexander Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher.

Media reports state that the firm worked for US President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign as well as the Brexit campaign to develop a mechanism that would allow it to predict and influence voter behavior. The analytics contractor reportedly gained access to private data from 50 million Facebook users.

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the data-mining company's corporate parent, the SCL Group, are being accused of misrepresenting their app as an academic research tool instead of a way to obtain Facebook users' personal data.