The California government says it will allow movie theaters to reopen on June 12, with restrictions. Meanwhile, a statue of Christopher Columbus was torn down and thrown in a lake in Richmond, Virginia. Also, a spokesman for George W. Bush said that reports that Mr. Bush will not support the re-election of Donald Trump are complete fabrications.
In other news, Hungarian police say that 300 illegal migrants attempted to cross the border over the weekend.
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60 Million U.S. Coronavirus Cases Were Prevented by Lockdowns, Study Claims
The nationwide lockdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus cases in the United States, according to research from UC Berkeley published on Monday. The study concludes that the lockdowns had large health benefits.
To put that number in perspective, the CDC estimates that there were 60.8 million H1N1 (swine flu) cases during the 2009 pandemic.
The 60 million refers to total cases, but due to limitations in testing, they conclude the lockdowns prevented 4.8 million confirmed cases nationwide.
If we go by the CDC’s latest best estimate for the overall fatality rate (0.26%) that means the 60 million infections prevented saved 156,000 lives. At the time of this writing, there have been just over 110,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States.
According to the study, lockdowns in the United States, China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, and France prevented a total of 530 million infections. Prior to the lockdowns, infections were growing an average of 38 percent daily, doubling roughly every two days, but the lockdown policies slowed the spread.
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Alarmists: No ‘Climate Justice’ Without Defunding the Police
Climate alarmists have upped the ante once more, insisting global warming is directly tied to law enforcement and therefore “climate justice” cannot be achieved without defunding the police.
“It’s impossible to disentangle the various threads of environmental racism and its ties with policing,” writes Brian Kahn, managing editor of Earther. “The history of redlining and police-enforced segregation has led to massive hotter neighborhoods and more people with chronic health problems tied to air pollution.”
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Project Veritas has released their third installment of #ExposeANTIFA, after undercover journalists infiltrated the leftist movement to expose their violent tactics.
In their latest, Veritas has released footage of their 2018 infiltration into Antifa’s Shelby, North Carolina self-described “above ground militant formation” known as Redneck Revolt, or the “John Brown gun club” — a ‘militia wing’ of Antifa founded in June, 2016 which claims to have 30 branches nationwide.
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Arsonists Target California Homes Displaying American Flags
Police in the Sacramento, California suburb of Citrus Heights are investigating a string of arsons targeting homes displaying the American flag.
According to CBS13, at least four homes were targeted in the Sungarden neighborhood Saturday morning.
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In a move unusual for media organizations, Axios has told its staffers that it would cover costs for any employees injured while protesting.
Co-founder and CEO Jim VandeHei assured Axios employees in a company-wide email on Monday that the outlet would pay the costs associated with any staffer who was injured or arrested during participation.
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Blacklash: Anger at Democrats for Cringe Kneeling in African Garb
Black social media users hit out at Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers Monday for again turning the death of George Floyd into a PR stunt.
Pelosi and a host of other Democrats got down on their knees and in an even more bizarre act, wore traditional African Kente garb while doing so.
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BLM Leader Says Group Developing Highly Trained “Military” Arm for “War on Police”
A Black Lives Matter leader in New York revealed in an interview with the Daily Mail that the activist group is developing a highly trained “military” arm to lead the “war on police.”
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California Allows Movie Theaters to Reopen on June 12 With Restrictions
For the first two weeks, cinemas are expected to operate at 25 percent capacity, sources say.
Movie theaters in California can begin reopening as early as June 12 with strict social distancing measures in place for at least the first two weeks, according to a new industry guidance documentissued by the state of California on Monday. A host of other safety measures are also recommended.
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Christopher Columbus Statue Torn Down, Thrown in Lake by Protesters
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) — The Christopher Columbus statue has been torn down and thrown in the lake by protesters in downtown Richmond.
The Christopher Columbus statue is located in Byrd Park.
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Coronavirus Sparks ‘Insane’ Evacuation From NYC, Movers Say, As Residents Head South
New York City, the metropolitan area hardest hit by the domestic coronavirus outbreak, is losing residents at an unprecedented clip, according to local moving companies.
Roadway Moving President Ross Sapir, for example, told FOX Business that people are moving out of Manhattan in numbers he has “never seen before,” as his company deals with its busiest season since its 2008 inception.
“It’s insane … I’ve never seen such growth,” Sapir said. “[Business is] double or triple compared to any other season as far as moving out of the city.”
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Criminology Researcher to Lose Sixth Paper
A criminologist whose work has been under scrutiny for a year is set to have a sixth paper retracted, Retraction Watch has learned.
Last July, Justin Pickett, of the University of Albany at the State University of New York, posted a 27-page explanation of why he was asking for one of his papers to be retracted. The paper in question had been co-authored by Eric A. Stewart, a professor at Florida State University, whose work had been questioned by an anonymous correspondent.
Following pickup of the story by The Chronicle of Higher Education, that paper was eventually retracted, along with four others Stewart co-authored. But that was not the end of the tale.
Stewart is now having another paper retracted, this one from 2003 in Justice Quarterly. The paper, titled “School social bonds, school climate, and school misbehavior: A multilevel analysis,” has been cited 186 times, according to Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science.
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Democrats’ Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Poll
Democratic lawmakers, operatives, and commentators are calling for the defunding or abolition of America’s police departments in the wake of officer Derek Chauvin’s killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.
While the proposal is popular among the party’s progressive activist wing and on Twitter, it faces a hard wall of resistance among the wider public. A recent YouGov poll showed that fewer than 20 percent of Americans of all parties supported any cutting of police funding—a finding consistent with decades of polling.
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Expect Seattle Police Defunded ‘By 50 Percent Ideally’ Says Seattle Council Member
Teresa Mosqueda, a Seattle City Council member, called for a radical dismantling of the Seattle Police Department on Monday.
“We are not going to pass the mayor’s 2020 revised budget until we as a council have a chance to have a full, thorough, and transparent deep dive into the Seattle Police Department’s funding,” Mosqueda said.
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FBI Combing Through Social Media After People Openly Brag About Looting on Facebook
Anyone logging into social media lately has likely noticed a seeming deluge of virtue signaling related to the ongoing Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests. Often the same people who a mere days before were lecturing others to “stay home, save lives” amid the pandemic, have made a seamless switch to urging others to take to the streets in protest.
But a CBS Chicago affiliate has uncovered something truly new: people are now openly bragging about what they’ve looted from ravaged stores on Facebook over the past two weeks of BLM protests and riots. Apparently they’re even trying to sell the stolen goods.
“Selling looted goods on Facebook — CBS 2 found it’s happening right now, with several videos and photos sent our way,“ the CBS 2 report begins. “We sent the evidence to Chicago Police, and on Monday night, CBS 2’s Tara Molina looked into what will happen next — with the CPD and the FBI investigating.”
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Four Eyeless Animal Species Discovered in Dark Depths of Colorado Caves
Researchers recently found four new animal species living in the deep and dark caves of Colorado — three of which were named to honor Colorado residents. The four species are millipedes, considered to be some of the smallest in the world.
The previously undiscovered cave-dwelling millipedes — eyeless and albino — were identified by David Steinmann (a research associate in the zoology department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) and Dr. William Shear (a professor of biology emeritus at Hampden-Sydney College) after two decades of research. The new genus has been dubbed “Coloradesmus” as they are only known to exist in the state of Colorado.
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George Floyd Protests: 1,258 Arrested, 130 Police Officers Injured in Chicago
As peaceful protests entered their ninth day in the city, Chicago police announced Saturday they had arrested 1,258 people in three days during the unrest that swept Chicago after the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
More than half of those arrests were related to criminal conduct tied to looting and destruction of property, officials said. Officers recovered 135 guns and made 62 arrests on gun-related offenses, officials said.
In addition, 130 police officers were injured between 5 p.m. May 29 and midnight May 31, department officials said. The unrest began to quiet on June 2, officials said.
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Antifa are just iconoclasts at heart. Or…more likely…they don’t even know what they don’t know. Rioters did go after the monument to the 54th Massachusetts regiment last week. They were not some Confederate outfit. The 54th was an all-volunteer black Union regiment that fought against slavery during the Civil War, and proved that black men could be soldiers every bit as good as their white comrades. It’s sad that they had to proved that, but prove it they did.
Back to Gandhi:
Unknown miscreants vandalised the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian embassy in Washington DC with graffiti and spray paint, prompting the mission to register a complaint with the local law enforcement agencies.
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Google Faces $5 Billion Lawsuit for Tracking Users’ Online Activity Despite Use of “Incognito Mode”
Google has been sued for $5 billion for tracking the online activity of users, including those who believe their history is not being saved at all because they are using what the company has labeled “incognito mode.”
The class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of three people in California cites the Federal Wiretap Act. Under the act, interception of private conversations can be grounds for a lawsuit.
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Gunman at Seattle Protest Claims He Feared for His Life. Witnesses Paint a Different Picture
A Seattle man who shot a protester in the arm as he sped into a crowd on Capitol Hill said he had panicked after a crowd circled his car.
“I just had to shoot someone; they tried to jack my car,” he yelled as he ran toward police and surrendered. He held a gun as he ran.
Nikolas Fernandez, 31, of Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood, made his first court appearance Monday. Cell phone footage from all angles captured him driving his car toward a crowd of protesters on Capitol Hill Sunday night.
Fernandez was arrested after surrendering himself to police shortly after shooting a man in the upper right arm. He has not yet been charged, but is being held on $150,000 bond.
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NY police union chief Mike O’Meara gave an impassioned speech Tuesday with a large group of cops standing behind him, in which he unloaded on the media and politicians for treating police officers “like thugs and animals” and declared, “I am not Derek Chauvin! They are not him!”
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KY Gov. Beshear Announces Plans to Provide 100% Health Coverage for Black Residents
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Monday that the state would begin workingtowards getting “100% of our individuals in our black and African-American communities” health insurance in an effort to correct racial inequalities in health coverage.
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Law-Abiding Americans Have Much to Learn From the George Floyd Police Brutality Protestors
Everyday law-abiding Americans need to remember their history and learn from the George Floyd protestors. The government fears the George Floyd protesters, because they are willing to fight violently for what they believe in. Are Americans going to only peaceably protest, or will Americans rise up to fight for their rights.
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LSU Prof Pledges to ‘Drop’ Students Who Engage in ‘Hate Speech’
A Louisiana State University assistant professor called on her colleagues to create a list of students who engage in “hate speech,” so that she can drop them from her classes in the future.
Amid calls for action to be taken against students who engage in “hate speech” on campus, Louisiana State University reminded students on its official Twitter account that as a public university, “we are subject to constitutional limitation on our ability to take action in response to free speech.”
In response, LSU Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Alyssa Johnsonshared the university’s tweet with a comment revealing that she wishes to take matters into her own hands. She appeals to her fellow professors to “keep a list of names” of students who utter hate speech because “it’s a threat to student safety.”
Johnson even took it a step further by saying, “if I see them enrolled in my course, I will drop them.”
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Man Accused of Killing David Dorn Had Been Sentenced to 7 Years in 2014, Never Served a Day
Stephan Cannon, the man charged with murdering retired St. Louis police Captain David Dorn during recent riots, had been previously convicted of felony robbery and sentenced to seven years in prison. However, the judge in that case suspended Cannon’s sentence and granted the murder suspect probation, meaning Cannon never saw jail time.
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Man Charged in Connection With Arson of Minneapolis Police Precinct
A Minnesota man has been charged in connection with setting a Minneapolis police station on fire during riots following the death of George Floyd, authorities reported Monday.
Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, of St. Paul, was charged in federal court with aiding and abetting arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct, according to the Justice Department.
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Microsoft Employees Demand Company Pull Services From Police Department
Over 250 Microsoft employees have signed a letter addressed to the top executives, urging a more proactive response to the George Floyd protests and demanding that Microsoft stop offering services to law enforcement.
Many police departments use Microsoft Office 365 which gives them access to Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and other tools — including SharePoint and communications tools.
Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure also powers intelligence software such as Chorus Intelligence.
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Microsoft Accused of Telling Staff to Censor Negative Article About the Company
Last Thursday, Microsoft announced it was firing dozens of journalists that maintain the news homepage on the Microsoft Edge browser and MSN website and replace them with artificial intelligence (AI) software that curates the news.
This software doesn’t create original content and instead curates news from various sources including BBC, CNN, and The Guardian and it will sometimes also choose an accompanying image to be published with the curated articles.
The remaining human staff are unable to stop the AI selecting and automatically publishing stories which means that negative coverage of Microsoft’s news-curation AI could potentially be published to the MSN homepage by this software.
And now The Guardian is reporting that this decision appears to have backfired and that Microsoft has been telling its remaining human staff to look out for and delete negative articles about alleged racist bias in this AI software if it gets published by the AI.
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Money Laundering: Global Donations to BlackLivesMatter.com Funneled to DNC
Democrats openly conducting illegal money laundering operation in the name of saving black lives.
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MSU Student Gov Helps Promote Looting as ‘Righteous’ Act
Editor’s note: This story first appeared on The Morning Watch. It has been republished with permission.
In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing riots and protests, Michigan State University’s student government is sharing content defending looting, claiming that white people can’t experience racism, as well as how to join a “White Space,” and more.
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Muni Says it Won’t Transport SFPD to Protests: ‘We Have a Lot of Work to Do’
Just hours before SFMTA bus drivers halted service for eight minutes and 46 seconds to symbolically memorialize the life of George Floyd, the transit agency made another monumental decision.
As several demonstrations continued to take place throughout the Bay Area on Tuesday, Muni announced it would no longer transport officers from the San Francisco Police Department to protests.
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NC Gov. Cooper Declares Ace Speedway an ‘Imminent Hazard’ And Closes the Facility
Gov. Roy Cooper ordered an Alamance County speedway that’s violated his executive orders against mass gatherings closed immediately, declaring the venue an imminent hazard.
In an order issued Monday night and obtained by The News & Observer, Cooper and Dr. Mandy Cohen said Ace Speedway could open again if it presents a plan to adhere to state guidelines and that plan is approved by the Department of Health and Human Services.
“Mass gatherings do spread the virus,” said Cohen, the state’s DHHS secretary who signed the order closing the speedway. “It was irresponsible for them to keep operating in the way they were doing.”
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A New York Times columnist wrote an article in which he demanded that people ditch family members who don’t make financial donations to Black Lives Matter.
Yes, really.
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Not the Bee: Watch This Lady Melt Down and Weep Bitterly While Reading a Trump Fundraising Email
I didn’t believe it was real when I first saw it, and you probably won’t either.
But it’s real.
I repeat: This is not satire.
Watch this extremely triggered individual read a fundraiser email from the Trump campaign and begin weeping bitterly before saying that Trump is literally Hitler.
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NYT Report That Bush Will Not Vote for Trump “Completely Made Up, “ Spokesman Says
A New York Times report that former President George W. Bush will not support President Trump’s reelection is “completely made up,” according to a spokesman.
Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said that the Times’ report — which named several members of the Republican party that were either not supporting Trump or were casting a vote for Democratic opponent Joe Biden — was simply false.
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Obama’s Not So Subtle Marching Orders to George Floyd Protestors
Obama in his “town hall” and more specifically in the article he penned for Medium makes it clear where his priorities are — that the aftermath of Mr. Floyd’s death needs to be used for gain, to affect changes Obama deems necessary, and the troops need to be front and center; keep up the pressure to “make people in power uncomfortable.”
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The head of Minneapolis’ city council says calling the police if an intruder breaks into your home “comes from a place of privilege.”
During an interview Monday, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota asked city council President Lisa Bender if she realizes that some people are nervous about the idea of living in a city without a police department and asked what a person should do in in the case of a home invasion.
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Prof at Hillary Clinton’s Alma Mater Makes the Case for Political Violence
As riots and looting desecrate America’s cities, one professor is defending political violence, claiming that it is sometimes necessary and suggesting that it is racially biased to criticize African Americans for violent acts.
During an interview with Slate, Wellesley College Africana Studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson makes several claims regarding American social change, including that violence is often necessary to solicit desired societal outcomes.
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Thanks Users That Asked for More Censorship on the Platform
The last couple of weeks have highlighted just how much influence external pressure can have on the social media executives who shape content moderation policies.
Two weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Twitter’s decision to fact-check President Trump and suggested that the company wouldn’t be censoring his posts.
Less than a week after making this original statement and after facing sustained pressure to take action against the President, Zuckerberg changed his tune and said the company was considering adding warning labels to posts from world leaders.
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Scenes From Philadelphia’s Meltdown
Though many of the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd began with peaceful intentions, anyone familiar with protest culture today must realize that an undercurrent of violence and anarchy always lies beneath the surface. Just look at Philadelphia, where last week’s initially peaceful protest quickly devolved into a flame-throwing rush of destruction.
According to the Philadelphia Police Department, 378 fires were set in the city and 246 commercial burglaries were committed during the unrest. At first, Mayor Jim Kenney and new police commissioner Danielle Outlaw blamed the fires and looting on a small group of outsiders, but they later had to eat their words. In fact, official arrest data showed that 181 of the arrested were from Philadelphia, while 46 came from outside the city (with 30 having no address). The worst of the rioting and looting occurred over three days, long enough to call into question Kenney’s contention that the agitators and looters were just a small band of troublemakers. Occupying a city and rendering police helpless are feats beyond the capacity of ragtag rejects.
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Seattle Protesters Declare ‘Cop Free Zone’ After Police Leave Precinct
Protesters declared a “Cop Free Zone” near where Seattle police boarded up and seemingly abandoned their East Precinct building Monday night, according to local reports — following days of demonstrations in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The surrounding area had seen more than a week of protests, with some of them growing violent.
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Severed Pig Head on Spike Left in Front of L.A. Police Station
A bloody, severed pig head on a spike was placed outside of a Los Angeles police station over the weekend, photos obtained by TMZ show.
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Suspects Posing as Cops Rob Manhattan Jewelry Store of $150k Before Capture: Report
Two suspects robbed a jewelry store of more than $150,000 in a broad-daylight heist over the weekend while impersonating NYPD cops amid George Floyd protests raging in the city, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Ismael Igartau of Queens and Jose Rodriguez of the Bronx, both 59, were buzzed into a jewelry store on 92nd Street at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday because the storeowner believed they were cops from the 19th Precinct.
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Terry McAuliffe Recorded Saying Dems Prefer Biden Stay ‘In the Basement’
EXCLUSIVE: Top Joe Biden surrogate Terry McAuliffe told a videoconference meeting of Virginia Democrats over the weekend that the former vice president should remain in his basement — where he has famously campaigned remotely during the coronavirus pandemic — and that Democratic officials are broadly “preferring” that Biden stay out of the limelight.
Fox News has obtained a video of McAuliffe’s Norfolk comments, which came after Biden has made a series of gaffes in his already-limited public appearances as he social distanced from home — including by declaring that African-Americans who support President Trump “ain’t black.”
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The Deep Dark Secrets of the Rich, Famous, And Powerful
Trump was never a member of this club, the CFR, but he may have incriminating information about various members, stemming from the time when he knew Epstein and had commented publicly about Epstein’s attraction to young girls. He has a megaphone, Twitter, now reaching over 81.9 million people. This is why Trump’s Tweets are now being carefully scrutinized and even censored. He knows a lot more than he is telling.
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The Ohio State University’s undergraduate student government sent a letter to administration demanding that OSU dismantle all connections with the Columbus Police Department and redirect any affiliated funds to diversity efforts. Thousands of students have signed the letter in agreement.
The letter, sent June 1, addresses the “injustices against the Black Community and Columbus Protestors by the Columbus Police Department.”
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Top L.A. Dem Uses LAPD Private Security Detail While Calling for Department to be Defunded
Democratic L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez has been using members of the LAPD to guard her home over the past two months while pushing to cut $150 million from the LAPD budget.
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Trump: 75-Year-Old Protester Pushed by Police in Buffalo “Could be an Antifa Provocateur”
President Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, New York, who was shoved by police Thursday, may have been working with the radical, left-wing group Antifa.
He “could be an ANTIFA provocateur,” Trump speculated, before writing that “Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.”
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Trump Plans to Restart MAGA Rallies in 2 Weeks
President Trump plans to restart MAGA campaign rallies in the next two weeks, according to campaign manager Brad Parscale.
“Americans are ready to get back to action and so is President Trump,” Parscale said in a statement. “The Great American Comeback is real and the rallies will be tremendous. You’ll again see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm that Sleepy Joe Biden can only dream of.”
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Tucker Carlson is Right! The Cultural Revolution Has Come to America
Alex Jones explains the left’s ongoing plan to subvert the country’s political and legal institutions and crush any resistance to it.
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TV Show “Cops” Canceled After 32 Seasons Amid Anti-Police Uproar
Less than one week before its 33rd season was set to premiere, The Paramount Network confirmed that they have canceled classic reality show “Cops” as anti-police protests rage around the U.S.
“‘Cops’ is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a spokeswoman for the network said Tuesday.
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U.S. Army May Rename Bases Named After Confederate Military Leaders
U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are “open to a bipartisan discussion” about renaming nearly a dozen bases and installations named after Confederate military leaders, an Army official said Monday evening.
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UCLA Lecturer’s Job in Jeopardy After Refusing ‘Accommodations’ For Black Students
One academic’s response to an email from a student has resulted in a massive backlash against him, including calls for him to be fired.
University of California-Los Angeles Lecturer Gordon Klein faces an online petition that asks UCLA to terminate his employment, following an email he allegedly sent to a student regarding “special treatment” for black students in light of the George Floyd protests.
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UMass-Boston: ‘The State Police Presence on Campus Has Ended’
University of Massachusetts-Boston Interim Chancellor Katherine Newman and university Police Chief Donald Baynard addressed the campus community in separate letters announcing that state police will no longer have a presence on campus.
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Undercover Investigation — Minneapolis Riot Was Pre-Planned
Look into who’s behind the movement.
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Video: Cop Refuses to Kneel to Protesters Who Demand it
Don’t give up hope for the US just yet.
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‘What Are We Going to Have Left in Our Community?’ Aldermen React With Panic, Sorrow to Unrest
As unrest swept the city Sunday, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help them protect their communities from roving bands of criminals clashing with police and looting businesses.
WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor’s office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city’s response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
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White Citizens and Police Officers Wash Feet of Black Leaders, Ask for Forgiveness
Amid ongoing protests against racial inequality and police brutality, a group of white police officers and citizens knelt to wash the feet of black religious leaders in Cary, North Carolina, on Saturday.
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Why Bill Gates Wants to Rip Newborns Away From Their Mothers
Two tests within 48 hours, and then if the baby even has a suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection they should be ‘perhaps separated from their mother,’ according to this doctor. Make no mistake — the neurobiological impacts of this, right into adulthood, are absolutely horrific.
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After Black Lives Matter protesters in the Belgian city of Antwerp defaced a statue of King Leopold II, Belgium’s longest-reigning monarch, authorities removed it and said it will be put in a museum.
The statue, which was situated in front of a church, was daubed with paint by demonstrators, prompting its removal by local authorities.
However, according to Johan Vermant, a spokesman for Antwerp’s mayor Bart de Wever, the statue will not be returned to its original position after restoration and will instead likely end up in a museum.
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Belgium: Police Union Calls for Strike Amidst Accusations of Racism
Belgium’s labour union for police officers is calling for a strike in response to accusations of “institutional racism” coming from some politicians and experts following rioting at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Brussels on Sunday. “To say that there is a general and major problem with racism in the police services is a bridge too far for us,” the union said in a statement.
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France: Public’s Trust in Science Suffers ‘Significant Decline’ Over Coronavirus
People’s confidence in scientists has dropped dramatically as a result of confusion and contradictions over the coronavirus pandemic, a French survey reveals.
Reporting on the survey conducted by the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po, the UK-based Times Higher Education noted that more than a third of the French public now believe scientists are hiding information, largely because of contradictory messages regarding the use of face masks and confusion over the benefits of hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus.
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Greece: 5 Minors Arrested With Molotov Cocktails May Have Been Recruited by Antifa
Five minors believed by Greek investigators to have been recruited by Antifa were arrested with Molotov cocktails last week. The group admitted that they had planned to attack police officers.
The five minors, whose backpacks were stuffed with bottles of gasoline, were arrested on Friday night in Thiseio, a neighborhood in central Athens. Police say the group told investigators that they were headed to Exarcheia, another neighborhood in central Athens, to carry out an attack against police officers in the area, the Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.
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How a New French Cheese Was Accidentally Created During Lockdown
A French cheese making family has created a new kind of cheese after accidentally leaving some rinds in the fridge during lockdown.
The Vaxelaire family breed a herd of 25 cows in the Vosges region in eastern France, near the German border. They usually turn all of the milk that the cows produce into cheese and during the lockdown, between March 16 and May 11, as sales fell by more than 80%, they was forced to put some of the cheese in the cellar. They then promptly forgot about them.
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Leftists Want to Topple Statue of British Prime Minister Whose Government Ended Slavery
Leftists in the UK have expressed their desire to topple a statue of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey, a former British Prime Minister, despite the fact that he oversaw the abolition of slavery in the British empire.
Yes, really.
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‘Political Correctness’ in the UK: Shut Down Discussion Before it Can Start
For many years now, Trevor Phillips OBE has been one of the most prominent individuals of black ancestry in the United Kingdom. He is a multitalented individual who has played significant roles in business, politics, journalism, and more throughout a long life (he is now 66). A full list of his achievements would take up most of this article. Here are only a few examples:
He was, until June 2018, the President of the John Lewis Partnership, Europe’s largest employee-owned company. He has also Chairman of Index on Censorship, the international campaign group for freedom of expression, and was founding chair of both the Greater London Authority, and of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission. Originally chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, and as head of the EHRC, Phillips was a controversial figure: he was an opponent of multiculturalism, apparently preferring a more constrained policy towards integration, a view he still maintains. Although a member (until recently) of the left-wing Labour party, he is still a senior fellow with the leading Conservative think tank, Policy Exchange.
Shockingly, on March 9, Phillips was suspended from the Labour Party on the grounds of “Islamophobia.”
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A politician from Sweden’s liberal Christian Democratic party told a conservative commentator (pictured above) that he hoped she would suffer the same fate as George Floyd over social media.
Gilite Rugerero, the Vice President of the Christian Democrats party in the town of Nora, made the remark in a tweet directed at Mira Aksoy, a conservative writer and debater who was formerly active with the Right-wing Sweden Democrats party.
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‘Topple the Racists’: British Hard Left Published Baedeker Raid List of Statue Targets
Emboldened by the zero-resistance police response to the destruction of a statue on Sunday, a hard-left campaign group with a history of high-profile activism has published a list of dozens of other public memorials targeted for removal.
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UK ‘Dangerously Reliant’ On Food Imports, Must Become Self Sufficient: Bow Group
The conservative Bow Group has exposed the risks that the United Kingdom faces if either food production or imports fall in the event of another world-wide crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, telling the government that the country must look towards self-sufficiency.
Britain’s oldest conservative think tank revealed that currently, more than half, 50.07 per cent, of all of the UK’s food comes from overseas, but by counting the raw ingredients as opposed to final products, that estimate jumps to as much as 80 per cent.
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UK: Demonstration Planned Against Antifa Anarchists on Saturday June 13th
A massive demonstration has been planned for Saturday, the 13th of June, in response to the attacks on brave Met Police officers, the vandalism of UK landmarks, and rioting by Antifa Terrorists.
The event is due to take place at 11am on Saturday June 13th on Whitehall — and intends to be a peacefull response to Antifa anarchy and welcomes and all colours, creeds and orientations.
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UK: Khan’s London: Historic Statue Pulled Down to Appease Leftist Protests
The 207-year-old statue of Robert Milligan, the Scottish merchant who established the West India Docks in London, has been preemptively removed by the authorities over his links to slavery.
Milligan, who was born into a family which owned a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, was a key figure in turning the docks into an important commercial hub, and his memorial described him as “A merchant of London, to whose genius, perseverance and guardian care the surrounding great work principally owes it’s [sic] design, accomplishment and regulation”.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan faced backlash Tuesday after he announced the formation of a commission to review all London landmarks and street names, and vowed to remove any that do not comply with ‘diversity’.
Khan promised to ‘review and improve’ London diversity in the wake of BLM “protests” at which statues of Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln were defaced.
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UK: Muslim Public Affairs Committee Calls for More Statues to be Torn Down
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK has joined the mob of Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists and is calling for additional statues in Britain to be torn down.
The move comes days after a mobs of far-left rioters defaced two statues — one of Sir Winston Churchill and one of Abraham Lincoln — in central London over the weekend. On Sunday, to the west, in Bristol, another mob used ropes and other equipment to tear down a statue of Edward Colston, an Englishman and member of the Royal African Company who took part in bringing African slaves to the Americas in the 17th century.
Now, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee has joined leftist revolutionaries and is calling the statues of six other Britons to be torn down.
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Video: Gang Stabs Irish Teen Over Bus Fare
Leftist activists fight to shut down GoFundMe intended to help victim.
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Qatar Spends Billions to Support Islamist Causes in the West
Qatar allegedly continues to spend billions of dollars to support and finance terrorist and extremist operations throughout Europe. International newspapers have reported that Qatar sends its funds through the Qatar Charity Foundation, which the government recently used to send 71 million euros to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe under a charitable cover.
Recently, French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot published a 295-page book titled “Qatar Papers — How the State Finances Islam in France and Europe”, which provides evidence that Qatar is sending large sums of money to the Muslim Brotherhood in order to fund their projects around Europe.
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China Mobilises Thousands of Troops, Armoured Vehicles Near Border With India
China has mobilised thousands of paratroopers, armoured vehicles and equipment in a military drill, saying they could be deployed “within hours” to the border with India in the Himalayas, where tensions have again flared.
The soldiers and armoured vehicles were transported from the central province of Hubei to an unspecified location in China’s northwest plateau, thousands of kilometres away, in “just a few hours”, according to state media reports over the weekend.
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Chinese Propaganda Outlet Paid Millions to Washington Post, Wall Street Journal
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
A Chinese propaganda outlet paid millions of dollars to The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to run advertisements made to look like news reports.
New documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice show China Daily paid over $4.6 million to the Post and nearly $6 million to the Journal since November 2016.
China Daily, an English-language newspaper, is overseen by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Publicity Department, the governmental agency in charge of disseminating propaganda.
Over the past few years, it has spent millions running supplements — called “China Watch” — containing propaganda disguised as news, in major U.S. newspapers including the Journal, The New York Times, and the Post.
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More Than 250 Churches in China’s Anhui Province Stripped of Crosses
More than 250 Protestant churches run by the Chinese Communist Party have been stripped of their crosses, Christians in China’s Anhui province report.
“All Christian symbols are ordered to be removed as part of the government’s crackdown campaign,” said a CCP employee in one of the affected cities.
Reportedly, symbols of Islam and Buddhism also must be removed in keeping with a national policy.
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT — A group of schoolboys from Victoria, recorded the moment they strung up a dead dog and attacked it with an axe.
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The man in his thirties, who lives on the streets of Kallangur, north of Brisbane — had his possessions and camp site set alight on Sunday.
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Hungarian Police: 300 Illegal Migrants Tried to Cross Border Over the Weekend
Confirming a recent analysis warning about renewed migration pressure as coronavirus movement restrictions are lifted, the weekend report of Hungarian National Police showed that police and armed forces acted against over 300 migrants who tried to illegally enter the country.
The report said that police and armed forces detained and returned 258 foreign nationals on the territory of Hungary, prevented 58 people attempting to illegally enter the country, apprehended 28 people caught in the act of illegal entry, charged five persons with people smuggling, and two with forging official documents.
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Italy Deports Tunisian Migrant Linked to Berlin Christmas Market Terrorist
Italian authorities have announced the deportation of Tunisian migrant Montassar Yaakoubi, a man linked to radical Islamist terrorist Anis Amri who carried out the 2016 Berlin Christmas market terrorist attack.
The Italian Interior Ministry has described the Tunisian as an “associate of the Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri”. The ministry said on Saturday that he had been sent back to Tunisia on a private flight, but did not give the exact date of his deportation.
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SD Leader Jimmie Åkesson: Immigration Must be Reduced to Zero
The leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, the third most popular party in the country, argued that asylum immigration must be reduced to zero during a televised debate which aired yesterday.
On Monday, Swedish state media outlet SVT broadcast a discussion about immigration policy between Sweden Democrat chief Jimmie Åkesson and the Center Party’s migration policy spokesperson Jonny Cato, Nyheter Idag reports.
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Google Chrome Moving Away From the Word ‘Blacklist’ And ‘Whitelist’ To be More Inclusive
Over the past few weeks, protesters around the world have spoken out against all forms of racism and to proudly declare that Black lives matter. Google has been a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests, and now the Chrome team is beginning to eliminate even subtle forms of racism by moving away from terms like “blacklist” and “whitelist.”
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‘My Preferred Regulatory Regime’: Harvard Prof Offers Details on Proposed Homeschool Ban
The controversial Harvard Law professor who called for a ban on homeschooling is making the rounds yet again to clarify her statements, and offer proposed policies as to how to practically prevent parents from educating their children at home.
Elizabeth Bartholet raised eyebrows in April when she publicly proposed a government ban on the “authoritarian” practice of homeschooling as parents across America were being forced to transition to various forms of at-home education due to the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Pictured: Post-Pandemic Pod Designed for Office Slaves
An architect has unveiled a system of pods for office workers that will provide a sterile, isolated environment for each employee to operate within.
Welcome to the new normal, wage slave. Enter your sterile pod and get to work.
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‘The Flash’ Actor Hartley Sawyer Cancelled for Bad Tweets From Before He Was Famous
Once a witch hunt gets going, the most important thing is to make sure somebody else is the witch. When a mob of angry people are emboldened by their successes and need someone else to hurt, that someone else could be you. How do you keep that from happening? How do you protect yourself?
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The Rockefeller UN Global Takeover is Upon Us
The globalists are making last-ditch moves.
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I for one will resist this to the best of my ability. I will not comply with a lie. It is not going to end until courageous, enlightened people take a stand and say, enough is enough. And when asked, “Where is your face mask?” We must look them in the eye and say, “haven’t you heard?…the face mask has been proven to be completely ineffective and is actually dangerous to you.
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Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd Lose Weapons in Looney Tunes Reboot, HBO Says it is “Not Doing Guns”
Fans of the classic cartoon franchise Looney Tunes may be slightly disappointed by the reboot currently airing on HBO Max. Peter Browngardt, the executive producer, has confirmed that both Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd will be losing their weapons.
The cartoons will continue to feature Acme-inspired hijinks.
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1 Day After Saying Asymptomatic COVID-19 Transmission “Very Rare, “ WHO Walks it Back
One day after claiming the transmission of COVID-19 by people who never develop symptoms is “very rare,” the World Health Organization walked back its comments, saying asymptomatic spread is a “really complex question.”
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said Tuesday that information pertaining to the spread of coronavirus is still unknown and that she was referring to a small subset of studies when she made her original assessment.
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Douglas Murray tweeted:
Congratulations to everyone who guessed which founder of a major world religion was also a slave-owner. True there aren’t any statues to him. Or many drawings. But perhaps the Woke mob can insist that anybody named after him just changes their name? That should do it.
+1
But didn’t you know?! Islam has gone WOKE!
https://mobile.twitter.com/nazir_lord/status/1270416082327810049
Excellent! Of course female members should name themselves after Mohammed’s last wife, Ayesha; probably not the first victim of muslim rape of a minor, and definitely not the last.
They are equal opportunity rapists. The one being raped while underage is just as likely to be named Mohammed as to be named Ayesha, or Eeyore.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/10/whore-slag-slave-owner-queen-victoria-statue-vandalised-blm-slogans/
Another statue vandalized.
More censorship.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/09/little-britain-removed-by-bbc-and-britbox-for-blackface-sketches-amidst-blm-purge/
And more appeasement.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/10/uk-establishment-caves-blm-mp-police-chief-knee-church-prepares-racism-apology/
Now Macron is on it too.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/10/macron-party-calls-eight-minute-silence-solidarity-george-floyd-protesters/
I wish this was fake.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8404285/Labours-cultural-revolution-130-councils-launch-review-statues-linked-slave-trade.html
Britain is screwed.
It’s worse than “screwed”. Britain is over! Finished. The Left have achieved their goals. We have a Marxist “Tory” Party in power with a Globalist PM “Dear Leader” Johnson. In any other time these crazed Lefties would have received rough treatment and the order of the boot. Britain is now a Third World entity with similar levels of corruption. Enjoy the British Gulag. To add insult to injury, Britanistan will become and Islamic state within a year or two, from what I hear.
Suggested placard:
“Slavery….One of the Virtues of Islam”
This is from a Kuwaiti cleric:
Slavery should be celebrated as one of the virtues of Islam
https://barenakedislam.com/2017/12/24/kuwaiti-muslim-cleric-slavery-should-be-celebrated-as-one-of-the-virtues-of-islam/
More insanity; museum curators in on it now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JessRobeson/status/1270671659096301570
The talking heads of British media made some absurd arguments of why the events in Bristol are tolerable, comparing it to removing statues of Adolf Hitler in the 1940s and 1950s.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RupertLowe10/status/1270260961748963329
And of course YORKSHIRE TEA has to weigh in on all of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLS30MfJt00&t=904s
More rioting in France.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1270674741481873408
and all this none sense from America.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1270626687609442305
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1270618467415265280
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1270494886685442049
God help us all!
For gods sake it’s unending.
https://summit.news/2020/06/10/london-councillor-promotes-petition-to-remove-churchill-mural/
https://mobile.twitter.com/Tim_R_Dawson/status/1270462161295495169
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/there-are-statues-in-ireland-that-we-need-to-talk-about–varadkar-1004393.html
Ireland too! No one is safe, not even Gladstone was.
Grotesque
https://mobile.twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1270063745801375748