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Atlanta DA, who charged officer with murder in the Rayshard Brooks case, just lost his reelection bid

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© Brandon Camp/APOusted Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
Voters in Georgia have ousted Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard — who charged two officers with murder in the Rayshard Brooks shooting earlier this summer — by a whopping 45-point margin.

What are the details?

Howard, a 20-plus-year incumbent and the first black district attorney elected in Georgia, lost his post to Democratic challenger Fani Willis in a runoff election Tuesday, WAGA-TV reported. Willis garnered 73% of the vote in a commanding victory over her former boss.

Howard conceded the race late Wednesday night saying, "I came in with pride and I'm leaving with pride," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Willis vowed to bring "transparency and accountability" to the district attorney's office.


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Alan Dershowitz hits back at Netflix over Epstein-linked allegations

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© Sergei Chuzavkov/APAlan Dershowitz
The famed defense attorney finds the tables turned as he faces the fight of his life amid underage sex allegations connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

Alan Dershowitz has appeared on the courtroom stage, front pages and TV sets around the world as the defense attorney for some of the most notorious accused personalities of modern times - from OJ Simpson, Leona Helmsley and Jim Bakker to Patty Hearst and Claus Von Bulow, a case that resulted in the best-selling book and film Reversal of Fortune.

These days, however, one of the world's most famous lawyers and a former prestigious Harvard law professor is engaged in the legal battle of his lifetime, defending a most important client - himself.

Amid accusations that he was a willing participant in the alleged sex trafficking operation of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's more than two decades ago, Dershowitz is aggressively going on the offensive.


Comment: His high profile resumé neither proves him innocent nor guilty.


Comment: They say 'where there's smoke, there's fire' - and Dershowitz has been huffing and puffing profusely. Even if he did not participate in personal activity (7 accusations), Dershowitz had to have known what was transpiring and had a duty to report it.

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Rantz: After attacks and taxes, Amazon looks to expand out of Seattle

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© Getty ImagesAmazon Spheres downtown Seattle.
After endless attacks from Seattle City Council, e-commerce giant Amazon appears to be putting out feelers for further expansion outside of Seattle. This could have crippling economic implications to the city.

In a daily poll to Puget Sound employees, Amazon asked its workers where they would rather work, in addition to Bellevue and Seattle. The options provided were Bothell/Woodinville, Renton, Tacoma, Redmond, and Issaquah. Amazon has confirmed the poll is authentic, screenshots of which appeared on social media and Reddit.

Amazon has already expanded to Bellevue, and may be ready to make some further moves.

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Whitewashing crimes of Stalin 'unacceptable' - Gorbachev on 30th anniversary of decree rehabilitating 'enemies of the people'

Mikhail Gorbachev
© Sputnik / Eugene Odinokov
Attempts to downplay the repressions of the Stalin era must be fought relentlessly, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said, three decades after his decree to rehabilitate victims of Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime.

The order was signed in the final years of perestroika - a policy aimed at transforming the Soviet totalitarian system into a liberal market economy - which ended 16 months later, along with the country itself.

Still, the first (and only) Soviet president, Gorbachev, now 89, told TASS news agency that the achievements of perestroika must be protected from continuous attempts to find justification for the crimes of Stalinism and efforts to "portray criminals as 'efficient managers.'"

In modern Russia, the description of Joseph Stalin as an "efficient manager" has popped up from time to time since the early 2000s in various discussions online and offline.

Calling that approach "unacceptable," Gorbachev urged the Russian leaders of today to "take a firm stance" against such attempts, so no one may justify political repression by saying "that was required at that time."


Comment: Unfortunately, that's the path the weak-minded and heartless tend to take. "You've got to break a few eggs to make an omelet", right? But the omelet is never served. It's possible to be proud of your history without idolizing weak or evil men, and mass atrocities. Those on the far left and far right love doing so however. Maybe it has something to do with this.


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Sweden's success shows the true cost of our arrogant, failed establishment

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Picnic time in Sweden, meanwhile in the UK the lockdown has unnecessarily wiped billions of pounds from the UK economy
So now we know: Sweden got it largely right, and the British establishment catastrophically wrong. Anders Tegnell, Stockholm's epidemiologist-king, has pulled off a remarkable triple whammy: far fewer deaths per capita than Britain, a maintenance of basic freedoms and opportunities, including schooling, and, most strikingly, a recession less than half as severe as our own.

Our arrogant quangocrats and state "experts" should hang their heads in shame: their reaction to coronavirus was one of the greatest public policy blunders in modern history, more severe even than Iraq, Afghanistan, the financial crisis, Suez or the ERM fiasco. Millions will lose their jobs when furlough ends; tens of thousands of small businesses are failing; schooling is in chaos, with A-level grades all over the place; vast numbers are likely to die from untreated or undetected illnesses; and we have seen the first exodus of foreigners in years, with the labour market survey suggesting a decline in non-UK born adults.

Comment: As Neil Clarke concludes in UK economy heading for the rocks unless life returns to the 'old' normal, it would appear that the tyrannical and illogical lockdown is clear sign that there is a much more nefarious agenda, using the coronavirus as cover, is afoot.


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Mayor defends Chicago police after clash with protesters

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© Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via APAbout 200 anti-police brutality protesters march in the neighborhood of Bronzeville, in Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. Protesters walked from Bronzeville to Grant Park, after police prohibited them from marching along the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot praised city police Sunday for "fairly quickly" settling weekend protests that devolved into violent skirmishes while activists and other elected officials blasted police for unnecessary aggressive tactics.

The day of demonstrations against police brutality started peacefully Saturday with a march around noon. Later, a separate demonstration near downtown resulted in two dozen arrests, 17 injured officers and at least two injured protesters. None of the injuries were believed to be life threatening.

Lightfoot told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that agitators "have embedded themselves in these seemingly peaceful protests and come for a fight" though the clashes were "over very fairly quickly because our police department is resolved to make sure that we protect peaceful protests."


Comment: Seems Lightfoot has made some progress in seeing how her already destabilized city has been teetering on the edge of total chaos.


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5 arrested in Bangladesh after 3 children beaten to death

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© Barta24.comOne of the suspects being taken into police custody.
Five men have been arrested after three children were beaten to death at a juvenile detention centre in Bangladesh, police said on Sunday (Aug 16), the latest case to shed light on the treatment of minors in such institutions.

Eighteen boys allegedly had their mouths stuffed with towels and beaten with steel pipes, sticks and cricket stumps after attacking and breaking the hand of a guard at the facility, a police spokesman told AFP.

"Eighteen children were beaten for an hour around noon by the officials and several other children," police inspector Mohammad Rokibuzzaman said on Thursday.

"The injured were initially given first aid. But when one of them was brought dead to a hospital at 6.30pm, the hospital alerted us. Then two more ... died," he said.

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Best of the Web: Exposing the fear mongering, propaganda and outright lies that are plaguing the world: The five biggest coronavirus myths

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© Getty Images / Linh PhamMarch of the brainwashed
The coronavirus misinformation that scientists, politicians and media have fed to the public has been shocking. Take a tour through the bizarre, contradictory and downright ludicrous myths that have done more damage than Covid.

TRIGGER WARNING! Do not read this if you are a loyal member of the Branch Covidians, cravenly awaiting the pleasure-pain prick of the Covid vaccine before you will appear in your own garden without a face nappy.

Or rather, do read it, but don't expect to like it. There is no place for assumptions here — only logical thought from first principles. The only aim is to debunk the biggest myths that the media and political establishment have propagated.

And if you can hear me out then I salute you; there are few of us left who hold open minds.

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Scuffles, arrests in Jerusalem as people protest against PM Netanyahu for 8th consecutive week

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Thousands rallied against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday as anger over his alleged corruption and response to Covid-19 continues to boil in the streets. Several people were arrested when police dispersed protesters.

An estimated 10,000 people took part in the main anti-government demonstration outside of the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem, local media reported. The numbers were somewhat lower than the previous week, when record attendance was registered.

Ten protesters were arrested after police started dispersing demonstrators who stayed at the scene after midnight. Some were taken into custody for refusing to leave or resisting officers while others were intercepted trying to start a protest march to another location, which the police would not allow.


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Inmates evacuated after fire is deliberately started at Manhattan jail 'The Tombs'... where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held

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A fire broke out at New York City's Manhattan Detention Complex Friday night, injuring a corrections officer and a firefighter.

The blaze was started deliberately Friday night at about 8.30pm on the ninth floor of the jail - nicknamed 'The Tombs' - in Lower Manhattan.

FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Schiralli said that inmates had started a trash fire and that two or three cells had been involved, ABC 7 reported.

Comment: ...and it's where Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell is being held.

Was this a jailbreak disguised as a fire?

We know it's generally inappropriate to speculate, but we're talking here about the jail where the 'suicide' of the most high-profile inmate in the United States took place last summer...