The Minneapolis city council voted unanimously to disband the police department and replace it with “community-led public safety”. Meanwhile, a statue of Winston Churchill in Prague was vandalized with BLM graffiti. Also, antifa activists in Rotterdam defaced two statues, one of them of Pim Fortuyn.
In other news, Jean Raspail, the French author who wrote The Camp of the Saints, has died at the age of 94.
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“It’s Over, America”: Tulsa Police Major Says Cops Across Country on Verge of Quitting
A Tulsa, Oklahoma police major says he’s “extremely concerned” that cops across America are on the verge of quitting amid global protests against law enforcement.
“Every department, every officer you talk to is looking to leave,” Maj. Travis Yates told Fox News‘ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” adding that he is “extremely concerned” for the future of law enforcement.
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Brawl at Thrift Store Breaks Out Over One Way Social Distancing Arrows
By now, you’ve all seen them: the arrows that are placed on the floors at stores to try and help customers keep up with social distancing rules. And while you may have even had a friendly engagement with other shoppers about somebody going the wrong way down a “one way” aisle, it was probably nothing like what took place in a Tampa, Florida Goodwill last week.
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Chicago Fed Economist Fired for Criticizing “Defund the Police”
Submitted by Mark Glennon of Wirepoints
If you are among the two-thirds of Americans opposing calls by Black Lives Matter to defund the police, think twice about saying so in public.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is the latest example of what you might face. On Friday it cut ties with a prominent University of Chicago economics professor, Harald Uhlig, who was a scholar at the bank, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The Chicago Fed said it terminated Mr. Uhlig’s contract effective that day.
What was Uhlig’s sin?
A series of tweets criticizing Black Lives Matter’s call to defund police departments.
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Denver School Board Votes Unanimously to Pull Police Out of Schools, Citing “Systemic Racism”
The Denver school board voted unanimously this week to remove police officers from all public schools by this time next year to “fulfill its responsibility for undoing the systemic racism that Black children and children of color face.”
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Entire SWAT Team in Florida City Resigns After Police Chief Kneels With Protesters
All 10 members of the SWAT team at the Hallandale Beach Police Department resigned on Friday in response to their police chief kneeling alongside protesters earlier this week.
In a memo addressed to Police Chief Sonia Quinones, the SWAT team members cited a number of grievances they had against their leader.
The officers complained that the team was “minimally equipped, under trained and restrained by the politicization of our tactics.”
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‘Is Anyone in Charge Here?’ Woman Asks Amid Row Over Removing CHAZ Sign
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, a scuffle broke out at the antifa-anarchist Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) rebellion in Seattle, Wash. A man in a blue helmet climbed up a ladder, apparently intending to remove the sign reading, “Welcome to Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” The crowd prevented him from removing the sign by seizing the ladder, and a row broke out over who exactly was in charge.
“Is anyone in charge here?” a woman yells at the man in the blue helmet, in a video recorded by Townhall’s Julio Rosas.
The man, who is wearing a facemask, responded by shouting something about “democracy.” It appears he said, “This ain’t a damn democracy here!”
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It’s Going Down, Antifa. Uncle Sam Just Started Delivering Payback for Terror Riots
The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast to coast following weeks of rioting in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police. As antifa itself would say, “It’s going down.”
More than 50 people have been indicted on various charges in La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma.
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Jefferson Davis Statue Removed From Kentucky Capitol Where it Stood for 84 Years
A marble statue of Jefferson Davis, the leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War, was removed from the rotunda of the Kentucky state Capitol on Saturday, where it stood since 1936.
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Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Get Rid of Police Department
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously voted to get rid of its police department and replace it with a “community-led public safety system” amid ongoing pressure from civil rights activist and far-left Democrats to defund the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
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NAACP Demands Atlanta Chief Resign Over Latest Police Killing of Unarmed Black Man
The latest police killing of an “unarmed” black man unfolded Friday night in Atlanta, and footage released Saturday afternoon is already causing a major uproar in the city. Activists are demanding that Atlanta’s police chief Erika Shields, whose statements to the press and willingness to push deescalation tactics made her a media darling during the unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd.
Though the only details of the incident so far involve grainy cellphone camera footage, it’s clear in the video that one of the two APD officers involved in the incident shot a suspect in the back as he was running away after wresting one of the officer’s tasers away from him.
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House Republicans passed a controversial bill late Thursday night that would change how officers interact with the more than 673,000 Ohioans who hold a concealed-carry license.
House Bill 425 would eliminate the duty to “promptly notify” an officer that you’re carrying a concealed firearm and replace it with a duty to notify in response to a direction question about whether you’re armed. It would also significantly lower the penalty for failure to notify.
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Rand Paul Introduces Justice for Breonna Taylor Act to Ban “No-Knock” Warrants
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit federal law enforcement and local police that receive federal funding from entering homes without warning through a “no-knock” warrant, which was reportedly obtained by the officers that shot Louisville resident Breonna Taylor in her home on March 13.
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Republic of CHAZ Begins Reparations; White Participants Pressured to Give Blacks $10 Each
Seattle’s so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) has begun reparations, as white members of the fledgling sovereignty were asked on Friday night to give at least one black person $10 before leaving the area.
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Riot Games Exec Ron Johnson Fired for Posting Facts About George Floyd Criminal History
Former Riot Games executive, Ron Johnson, was the global head of consumer products… until he posted facts about the deceased George Floyd. Said facts did not sit well with the Social Justice arbiters on Riot Games’ board, and so they ousted Johnson after conducting a preliminary investigation into his comments. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that Riot Games is on the Traitors of America master list.
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‘So it’s a Socialist Renaissance Fair’: Julio Rosas Finds Chaz Medic Dressed in Medieval Armor
As Twitchy reported, an account that may or may not be a parody sent out a call for donations of clothing to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, although contributors were asked not to donate major-label clothing if possible and remove logos. What we know is real, though, is the whiteboard listing things protesters would like, including phone cards, comforters, and clothing — the weather is wet there and people are going to need a change of clothes.
Townhall’s Julio Rosas is reporting from inside CHAZ and says he found a medic who is dressed in armor. Not body armor, but a knight’s armor.
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All is not well in the United States of America. The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police has unleashed uninhibited anarchy across the country. The looting and rioting appears to have died down largely, however, autonomous zones are coming up across the country, the first among them being CHAZ. The entry to some of these zones declare that those who enter are leaving the USA.
The first one to come up was in Seattle. It called itself the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). Along expected lines, things did not go according to plan. Their food was stolen by the homeless people they invited and a ‘warlord’ took over the place and he enforced his will upon the populace with help from his armed militia.
Now, fights appear to be breaking out among the people who established the autonomous zone. And the protesters do not wish for the fights to be recorded as it might harm the reputation of CHAZ. It’s unclear how the disputes will be settled since the Police is not permitted at the scene. The possibility of unmitigated violence in the are is, thus, very high.
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Twitter Reinstates Zerohedge After Admitting it Made an “Error”
133 days after Twitter “permanently” banned Zero Hedge on January 31, the social network has reinstated us after admitting it made an error.
As a reminder, what happened in late January was confusing. Shortly after we asked if “This [Is] The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic”, referring to Wuhan Institute Of Virology scientist Peng Zhou (who three months later was being investigated by western spy agencies for his role in creating Covid) and some low-grade “reporter” from Buzzfeed decided to report us to Twitter for “doxxing” Zhou using publicly available information, Twitter told us that the account had been suspended for “violating Twitter rules against abuse and harassment”, which was false as we neither incited abuse nor harrassment, but merely asked questions. But the confusing part is that at the same time, Twitter fabricated an entirely different explanation for its decision when speaking to outside media, telling them the suspension was due to “platform manipulation” — whatever that means.
An odd mix of conflicting explanations but in any case, neither was true as we said at the time, and as we further told Bloomberg, the suspension was “unjustified, and likely motivated by reasons other than the stated ones” adding that “we are confident that we did not violate any of the stated Twitter terms: we neither incited harassment, nor did we ‘dox’ the public official, whose contact information is as of this moment listed on the Wuhan institute’s website.”
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Virginia Gun Sales Skyrocket in First Five Months of 2020
NORFOLK, Va. — FBI statistics show that criminal background check requests submitted for gun sales in Virginia during the first five months of this year are up 77% over the same period last year.
Robert Marcus, the owner of Bob’s Gun Shop in downtown Norfolk, said gun purchases first began to increase late last year when Democrats won the majority of Virginia’s legislative seats and vowed to pass more restrictive gun laws.
Then in March, the coronavirus pandemic caused many to fear it would lead to civil unrest.
That’s when Marcus and some other local gun shop workers say sales really skyrocketed.
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Vocal Online Trump Supporter Fired After Activists Flood Business With Complaints
David Leatherwood was fired from his job at Craft Kafe after activists flooded the establishment with multiple complaints, namely for his recent comments surrounding Black Lives Matter and his support of President Trump.
David Leatherwood, a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, was let go from his job after four and a half years of service due to a series of complaints.
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Guelph ISIS Suspect Denied Bail Appeal
An Ontario court has shut down an appeal for bail by a man accused of attempting to join ISIS with his wife.
22-year-old Guelph resident Ikar Mao will have to remain in detention to face his charges, according to Global News.
Mao, who was arrested in December 2019, is being charged with participating in the activity of a terrorist group and leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group.
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Czech Rep: Winston Churchill Statue in Prague Vandalized With Black Lives Matter Graffiti
The pedestal of Winston Churchill statue in Prague became a target of Black Lives Matter movement supporters who vandalized the monument, scribbling “was a racist” and “Black Lives Matter” on the pedestal.
The incident caused outrage among many Czechs, with top politicians describing the act as an attempt to deface a historical monument.
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France: Dismantling of Charred Scaffolding at Notre-Dame Starts
French media reported that delicate job of dismantling the 200-300 tonnes of steel that melted atop Notre-Dame when the cathedral went up in flames has begun.
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France: ‘African Defence League’ Threatens Statues of Napoleon and De Gaulle
The far-left French “Black African Defence League” has threatened statues of some of France’s most famous icons, including Napoleon Bonaparte and General Charles De Gaulle.
On Wednesday, the group called to remove a statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the former First Minister of State under King Louis XIV.
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France: “Anti-Racist” Demonstrators Hurl Anti-Semitic Slurs at Identitarians (Video)
“Anti-racist” demonstrators hurled anti-Semitic slurs at activists from the Generation Identity movement who were present at a mass protest in Paris today. Thousands assembled to denounce alleged police brutality and demand “justice” in the name of Adama Traore.
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French Police Clash With Anti-Racism Activists in Paris
French police have clashed with activists protesting in Paris against racism and alleged police brutality.
Police used tear gas against stone-throwing protesters who tried to hold a march that was banned.
The rally is part is a worldwide movement inspired by America’s Black Lives Matter protests.
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Germany: Alleged Illegal Ramadan Party Blamed for Hundreds of New Coronavirus Infections
The German city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony has seen a fresh wave of hundreds of Chinese coronavirus infections, with some blaming them on an alleged illegal party to mark the end of Ramadan.
At least 200 people have been infected with the virus in a wave that some have blamed on a party held by Kosovar Muslims at a local hookah bar to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the feast that represents the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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Italy: Antifascists Want Montanelli Statue Removed
Journalism doyen bought, ‘married’ 12-year-old Ethiopian girl
(ANSA) — Milan, June 12 — The anti-fascist ‘Sentinel’ group want Milan to join the spirit of the Black Lives Matter protesters and remove a statue of Indro Montanelli, late doyen of Italian journalism, because he bought and ‘married’ a 12-year-old Eritrean girl during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936.
The Sentinels said in an open letter to Mayor Giuseppe Sala that the statue, located in the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli (Indro Montanelli Public Gardens), represents the acceptance of slavery, racism, and colonial abuse.
The letter also requests that the name of the park be changed to honour someone “more worthy to represent the history and memory of our city.” Montanelli was a prominent right-wing journalist known for being an independent-thinker and prolific writer. He died in 2001, and never expressed remorse about his decision to purchase the Eritrean girl. On the contrary, he spoke and wrote openly about it on numerous occasions.
In a 1982 interview with journalist Enzo Biagi, he referred to the girl, named Destà, as a “docile animal.” As Montanelli is an icon of Italian journalism, many journalists and political leaders are firmly against the statue’s removal.
Sala said Friday he was “not favourable” to removing the statue, saying: “I think that in all our lives there are mistakes. And Montanelli certainly made one. But Milan recognises his qualities, which are unquestionable”.
Nationalist opposition League leader Matteo Salvini said “the left are a disgrace” in wanting the stature removed.
A model of concision and clarity, Montanelli’s journalism, and historical writings, is still widely admired.
A staunch anti-Communist, he famously left establishment newspaper Corriere della Sera when it took a leftward turn in the late 1970s and founded his own, conservative and libertarian newspaper, Il Giornale, only to be forced out when media magnate and owner Silvio Berlusconi wanted to bend it to his political aims after entering the fray at the head of the centre-right Forza Italia in 1994.
Montanelli became a fierce critic of Berlusconi’s sally into politics, which was to make him the most successful centre right leader in recent history.
This isn’t the first time the Montanelli statue has been at the centre of controversy. On 8 March 2019, feminist activists from the group Non Una di Meno (Italy’s equivalent of the Me Too movement) dumped a bucket of pink paint over the statue. The incident occurred after a 1969 RAI Storia video clip circulated online of Eritrean-Italian journalist Elvira Banotti interrogating Montanelli about his relationship with Destà. In the video, when Banotti accuses him of being a rapist, he defends the relationship as a cultural difference between Africa and Europe. At the time, the legal age of consent in Italy was 14.
I Sentinelli’s request comes as other statues are being removed in the US and the UK. On 7 June, a statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader, was toppled by protesters in Bristol.
In London on 9 June, a statue of Robert Milligan, a wealthy slaveholder, was formally removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands. In the US, some protesters are vandalizing statues of confederate soldiers, while others are negotiating with state representatives about their removal.
Many Black Lives Matter activists in Italy stand strongly with I Sentinelli. The nonprofit organization Arci Milano, also based in Milan, voiced support of I Sentinelli in a post on Facebook.
A petition on Change.org to remove the statue of Montanelli currently has over 7,500 signatures. A more recent petition to change the name of Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli to Giardini Pubblici di Porta Venezia (Public Gardens of Porta Venezia) has over 1,500 signatures. The latter petition also requests that the nearby street named “Via Montanelli” be renamed “Via Destà.”
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Jean Raspail (5 July 1925 — 13 June 2020) was a French author, traveler and explorer. Many of his books are about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie française. Internationally, he is best known for his controversial 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third-world immigration to Europe.
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Netherlands: Far-Left Activists Deface Statues in Rotterdam
Far-left activists on Friday defaced a pair of statues in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. According to the group, the vandalism was carried out to “criticize” what they consider to be “the glorification of Dutch colonialism”.
“We demand rejection of these unjust ‘heroes’ and we criticize the collective memory of Dutch history, because murderers, exploiters and fascist politicians are not worthy of a monument!” the far-left group wrote on its social media account
The group, which calls itself ‘Heroes of Never’, spray painted graffiti on the statues of Piet Hien and Pim Fortuyn.
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Poland Accidentally Invaded Czech Republic in May
Poland mistakenly invaded its neighbor, the Czech Republic, and maintained a military presence there in May until the mistake was discovered and the soldiers were called back to Poland proper, CNN reported on Friday.
The Polish Republic closed its borders to protect its public from the spread of the coronavirus and, to ensure that nobody entered the country, the army was sent to Pielgrzymow in the south of Poland.
Due to both nations being EU member countries, the border is not clearly marked and it is possible the soldiers simply mistook their grounds as part of Poland when it was, in fact, a foreign country.
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Pope Francis: ‘Evil Seems to Reign Supreme’ In Today’s World
ROME — Pope Francis urged Christians Saturday to live in hope despite the many serious troubles and sorrows that plague our world.
“Bad news fills the pages of newspapers, websites and television screens, to the point that evil seems to reign supreme. But that is not the case,” the pope said in his annual message for the World Day of the Poor.
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Sweden Democrats MP Accuses Government of Promoting Anti-Swedish Racism (Video)
Tobias Andersson, an MP for the Right-wing Sweden Democrats party from Västra Götaland County and the National Spokesperson for the Young Swedes, has accused the Swedish government itself of promoting crime and racism against the country’s native population.
Andersson made the comments during a debate in the Riksdag, the Swedish Parliament, on Thursday with Morgan Johansson, Sweden’s current Minister for Home Affairs from the Left-wing Social Democrats, according to a report by Fria Tider.
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Taking Back Control? UK Won’t Impose Full Border Checks on EU Goods Until July 2021
The British government has announced that it will not be imposing full border controls on goods coming into the country from the European Union until July 2021.
Following Friday’s meeting of the government’s Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee (WAJC) meeting, Michael Gove, Cabinet Office minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, formally notified the European Union that the United Kingdom “will neither accept nor seek any extension to the Transition Period”.
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UK: ‘Fawlty Towers’ DVD Sales Soar After Woke Cancellation
“Gone With the Wind” has some company.
That 1939 classic got officially canceled by HBO Max, sans apology, earlier this week. The film’s depictions of race, slavery and the Civil War proved insufficiently evolved. Out went the “Wind,” and just hours after an LA Times op-ed argued it had to go.
Sales of the classic film soared as a result.
“Gone With the Wind” zipped to the top of Amazon’s best-sellers sales chart for TV and movies, a day after WarnerMedia’s HBO Max pulled the movie for “racist depictions.”
Amazon bases its rankings on sales data. The site currently offers the 70th anniversary two-disc DVD edition of “Gone With the Wind” starting at $29.55, while Amazon Video offers the movie as a digital HD rental at $3.99 and for purchase at $9.99.
Meanwhile, on Apple’s iTunes movie chart for the U.S., “Gone With the Wind” on Wednesday was in the No. 5 spot…
Now, it’s “Fawlty Towers’“ turn.
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UK: Fawlty Towers: The Germans Episode to be Reinstated by UKTV
A classic episode of the comedy Fawlty Towers will be reinstated to streaming service UKTV with a warning about “offensive content and language”.
A 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off the BBC Studios-owned platform because of “racial slurs”.
In it, the Major character uses highly offensive language, and John Cleese’s hotel owner Basil Fawlty declares “don’t mention the war”.
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UK: Image of Sir Winston Churchill Disappears From Google Amid Rising Cancel-Culture Tensions
The image of Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister who led Britain to victory against the Nazis in World War II has disappeared from Google’s results at the time of writing, alarming users who have seen recent attacks on the Prime Minister’s statue and legacy.
On the English language version of Google, when searching for “British Prime Ministers” a heading section featuring the images of all of Britain’s past Prime Ministers are shown — with one exception: The image for Sir Winston Churchill is just a blank avatar.
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UK: London: BLM Supporters Mob and Seriously Assault People Suspected of Being ‘Far Right’
Black Lives Matter supporters have seriously assaulted a number of people suspected of being “far-right” in London.
The day’s protests saw Black Lives Matter supporters take to the capital’s streets in reduced numbers after some organisers attempted to call off planned demonstrations, along with counter-protesters including veterans, football fans, and some far-right elements, intending to prevent the vandalisation of historic statues and war memorials which has characterised previous BLM demonstrations.
Police, who at previous protests were seen kneeling to BLM supporters, fleeing from violent mobs, and failing to protect monuments such as Churchill’s statue and the Cenotaph war memorial, adopted a far more robust approach towards these counter-protesters, manning metal barricades in full riot gear including helmets, shields, and clubs to restrict their movements.
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By Noah Carl, an independent researcher based in the UK. In 2019, he was fired from St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, after a campaign by student and academic activists. Follow him on Twitter @NoahCarl90
The Western world appears to be in the midst of a “woke” Cultural Revolution. Historical monuments are being toppled, popular authors are being denounced for saying “sex is real,” and corporations are rushing to pledge fealty.
A question that naturally arises at the beginning of any such period of upheaval is, “Who will survive the purge, and who won’t?” I fear that even Charles Darwin might not be safe.
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UK: Patriots Protect London Landmarks and Clash With Police (Video)
Thousands of patriotic counter-demonstrators gathered in central London today to protect the city’s historical landmarks from rioters after the authorities showed an unwillingness to do so. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) organisation urged their supporters to stay away from London today out of concerns that they may end up in fights with counterprotesters. “Anti-racist” demonstrations continued in other areas, however.
The counter-demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square and Whitehall, around the Cenotaph War Memorial, after having vowed to protect such symbols of Britain’s history from further harm. The groups that joined the event included Britain First, war veterans, and various football clubs.
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Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has told Boris Johnson to “grow a pair” after seeing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square repeatedly vandalised at Black Lives Matter protests.
The wartime prime minister’s statue has been defaced with graffiti branding him a racist and slogans such as “BLACK LIVES MATTER” and “ACAB” (“All Coppers Are Bastards”) at Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the United Kingdom, which have quickly moved on from protesting the death of George Floyd in the United States to demands for the removal historic monuments and memorials whose activities and views are considered problematic by the standards of the 21st-century left.
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Turkish Daily Says Ancient Site in Thessaloniki Built 300 Years Before Mohammed is a Mosque
Turkish pro-government daily Daily Sabah, has published another article targeting Greece with falsities, historical inaccuracies and outright lies.
The Daily Sabah, owned by Ahmet Çalik, a close associate of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ran a new article with the title “Greece misuses Ottoman monuments in major blow to cultural heritage.”
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US Signs Commitment for Mass Troop Exit From Iraq, Vows “No Permanent Bases”
Via AlMasdarNews.com
The United States confirmed on Friday that it will discuss with the Iraqi government the status of its remaining military forces, stressing that it does not seek military bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq.
According to a joint statement of the first session of the strategic dialogue, Washington and Baghdad announced the continuation of the talks on the status of the remaining American forces in Iraq, where the two countries’ focus is towards developing a normal security relationship based on common interests. The governments of the two countries said in the statement that “in light of the significant progress made towards eliminating the threat from ISIS, the United States will continue in the coming months to reduce its forces in Iraq.”
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India: In the Name of Kissing Treatment, Muslim Peer Spread COVID 19 to Many and Died of It
Hand-kissing Muslim Peer ‘Aslam Baba’ Kisses His Own Life Goodbye, Dies Of Coronavirus Infecting Many Hindus…
Harshit Chouhan | HENB | Bhopal | June 12, 2020:: Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages, some people continue to indulge in antics, including a Muslim Peer (a self proclaimed Baba) who used to kiss the hands of his devotees, leading to the spread of the infection that ultimately took the fake holy man’s life.
In the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, the ‘fake Muslim baba’ named Aslam Peer used to kiss the hands of devotees, and as a result infected many people, many of them are Hindu women. According to information from the Health Department, so far 85 people have been found infected in Ratlam district, of which 19 came in contact with the ‘fake Muslim baba’ in Nayapura area.
The ‘fake Muslim Peer baba’ was rumoured to be treating people by kissing their hands and by black magic. He died on June 4 due to coronavirus. This was revealed after the discovery of the people who came in contact with him. Of those found positive, 13 people are Nayapura residents.
On June 11, Nodal officer for Covid 19 in Ratlam district, Dr Pramod Prajapati also admitted that 24 people have been found infected who were in contact with the ‘Muslim Peer’. The district currently has 46 active patients. So far four people have died.
The District Corona Control Room at Ratlam is now searching others who came in the contact of that Muslim Peer died of Coronavirus.
In India, Muslims are the forerunner to flout the Govt guidelines for Corona lockdown, thinking that Corona is a curse of Allha to infidels and will not harm Muslims anyway.
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Dalit colony in Bhadethi village in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh was engulfed with raging conflagration on June 9 as Muslims in the region launched an attack against the Dalit settlements. At least 35 people, including Samajwadi Party leader Javed Siddiqui, have been arrested in connection with setting ablaze the houses of Dalits in the Dalit Basti in a Jaunpur village.
In the aftermath of the dreadful incident, many Dalit victims have come forward to recount their ordeal and the atrocities meted out by the Muslims against them. A video of one of the victims, Pooja, narrating her tribulations is doing the rounds on the social media.
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Reddit Circulates ‘China Bootlickers’ List After Zoom Licks China’s Boots
A Reddit user has circulated a ‘China Bootlickers’ list after video chat company Zoom deactivated accounts of prominent pro-democracy Chinese activists based in the U.S.
The list, republished below, includes companies which have kowtowed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by taking actions to censor or restrict pro-democracy content, or otherwise promote CCP talking points. As Bloomberg notes, “Several tech companies were included on the list, including Activision Blizzard, which temporarily banned a gamer who voiced support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators, and Apple, which removed a mapping app in Hong Kong amid protests and pulled the Taiwan flag emoji from some iPhones.”
On Thursday, three US lawmakers asked Zoom to clarify its data-collection practices, as well as its relationship with the Chinese government, according to Reuters.
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Only 22% of Illegal Immigrants on the Greek Islands Are Women
Between June 1— 7, 72 illegal immigrants arrived on the Aegean islands, an increase from the previous week’s 55 arrivals but a decrease from last year’s 766 arrivals during the same period, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported.
Currently, according to the agency, there are 36,900 illegal immigrants on the Aegean islands, with nearly half from Afghanistan. The majority of the population on the Aegean islands are from Afghanistan (49%), Syria (19%) and Somalia (6%).
Of the 36,900 illegal immigrants on the islands, 22% were women and 33% were children, in which 6 out of 10 are younger than 12 years old. Of those children, around 13% were unaccompanied or separated from their parents and were mostly from Afghanistan.
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Another Progressive Media Figure ‘Canceled’ For Being ‘Insufficiently Woke’
As the protests have quieted down and America waits for Minnesota AG Keith Ellison to prosecute Derek Chauvin and the 3 other officers who presided over the murder of George Floyd, the aftermath on the Internet has been surprising and swift, as many popular figures who have pledged their support to ‘BLM’ and the principles of dismantling white supremacy via posting and vague workplace ‘diversity’ commitments are being called out by other for being “insufficiently woke”.
Though most Americans who either aren’t on twitter or don’t spend the majority of their free time there probably don’t know/don’t care about any of this, the movement has claimed victims in the latest iteration of ‘cancel culture’ run amok.
Buzzfeed News reports that Leandra Cohen, the founder and top editor at fashion website Man Repeller, has decided to “take a step back” after acknowledging that she “failed” in her mission to expand the diversity of Man Repeller.
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Howard Stern Under Fire for Past Use of Blackface, Skit With N-Word
Howard Stern has become the latest in a long list of celebrities and power players to be forced to confront their use of blackface.
On Thursday a video appeared online showing Stern in minstrel-style makeup, liberally using the N-word. It was cut together with a recent appearance on “The View” during which he claimed he’d never used that word.
Sources tell Page Six that the clip — a skit that seems to take aim at Ted Danson’s infamous 1993 blackface performance with then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg — was part of Stern’s “New Year’s Rotten Eve Pageant,” which aired on pay-per-view on December 31 that year.
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Selective Abortion of Down Syndrome Babies Rises in UK
The number of Irish babies with Down syndrome aborted in England rose by 60 percent in just one year, from 17 in 2018 to 27 in 2019, the Iona Institute reports.
Since abortion was legalized in Ireland in January 2019, the number of abortions performed on Irish women in the UK in 2019 dropped by over 650 percent last year, but this did not curb the number of Down syndrome babies being aborted. On the contrary, that figure rose, mainly because British law allows abortion up to birth of babies suspected of having Down syndrome.
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Trump Administration Reverses Obama-Era Regulation That Redefined ‘Sex’
The Department of Health and Human Services has just announced a rule undoing an Obama-administration policy that had redefined “sex” to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy” for purposes of nondiscrimination under the Affordable Care Act.
Section 1557 of Obamacare prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in health-related programs or activities. Near the end of President Obama’s second term, his HHS Department released a regulation redefining “sex” for the purposes of Section 1557 to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy.”
As a result of the rule that HHS released today, that regulation has been reversed and “sex” once again refers only to biological sex, as was intended in the statute.
In December 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined Section 1557’s prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination of pregnancy. Last fall, the same federal judge vacated the rule, saying that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
As a result of these rulings, HHS no longer could enforce the Obama-era provision, and today’s new rule brings federal policy into compliance with court rulings…
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Trump Admin. Reverses ObamaCare Rule Compelling Doctors to Perform Abortions, Transgender Procedures
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday issued a regulation reversing an Obamacare “sex discrimination” rule that purported to protect transgender rights and women seeking abortions.
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But can you somehow arrange for the Black Lives to beat Russian officials and oligarchs, who, after robbing the country, fled to London with money?
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/uk-far-left-mobs-chase-down-and-beat-random-white-british-men-in-london-video/
https://twitter.com/Henrik_Palmgren/status/1271887526958116866
Savages
With all this drama around poor Winston, I think its approprate to leave this old gem here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYyq__nwrA4
The statue of Robert the Bruce in Bannockburn, first ‘King of the Scots’ and a patrilineal relative of my family, has just been defaced by BLM punks.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/14/scotland-robert-bruce-statue-vandalised-blm-racist-king-slogans/