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Anti-vaccine TV preacher dies of Covid | Boing Boing
Marcus Lamb, a conservative TV preacher whose network offered a constant stream of Covid misinformation to its viewers, died earlier this week of Covid.
Jonathan Lamb described his father's Covid infection as "a spiritual attack from the enemy" to "take down" Marcus Lamb. The network has dedicated hours of broadcasts to anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination activists and groups. In July 2020, the Lamb family devoted an hour of their broadcast to "censorship" around the Covid pandemic, featuring the misinformation group America's Frontline Doctors.
Lamb was lately in the news when Inside Edition ran an expose on his lavish lifestyle and a jet acquired while receiving nearly $4m in pandemic loans from the U.S. government. Little-mentioned in the coverage is that Lamb was a "prosperity theologian". Every message and every moment was built from the ground up to part people from their money. The way his TV network glommed onto Covid misinfo is a reminder of how apocalyptically engaged conservative audiences are with it. It's like a leaking gasoline pipeline: how much can they bottle before it blows? Read More »
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Warning shots fired as unrest breaks out over Dutch plans to restrict access for unvaccinated people to some venues
Police in Rotterdam have fired warning shots, injuring protesters, as riots broke out in central Rotterdam at a demonstration against government plans to restrict access for unvaccinated people to some venues.
Police said in a tweet that “there are injuries in connection with the shots” during the violent unrest on Friday night. Riot police used a water cannon in an attempt to drive hundreds of rioters from a central street in the port city.
Photos in Dutch media showed at least one police car ablaze and another with a bicycle smashed through the windscreen.
Police said in a tweet that rioters started fires and threw fireworks. Authorities closed the city’s main railway station, they said. Read More »
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Lewes, England
The town’s traditional Bonfire Night celebrations take on a Covid-related theme
Photograph: Dan Kitwood
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