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San Diego man fired for alleged racist gesture, but he says he was just cracking his knuckles. His accuser has changed his tune


Conservative Fighters
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:07 UTC
tweet of man using racist hand gesture
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A San Diego man lost his job recently after being accused on social media of making a racist gesture, but he says he was just cracking his knuckles. Now his accuser has backed off and said it might have all be a big mistake.

Emmanuel Cafferty lost his job with San Diego Gas and Electric last month after a stranger took a photo of him with his arm hanging out the window of his company pickup while he happened to be near a Black Lives Matter rally. The photographer then posted the image to Twitter, KNSD-TV reported.

The poster accused Cafferty, who is Hispanic, of making a "white power" hand gesture that has been made popular by many white supremacists. The gesture resembles the "OK" sign that includes the thumb and forefinger in a circle and the three other fingers extended.

The original tweet said, "[J]ust passed a bunch of kids walking on the sidewalk holding BLM signs, honked to say I am with them and this guy in the #SDGE truck pulls along side and flashes this at me for the next couple blocks."

Comment: Hopefully the accuser has learned a valuable lesson about the dangers of getting whipped into a fervor and throwing accusations around based on emotions and not evidence. Unfortunately, that doesn't help Cafferty whose life is now significantly changed because of a wrongful accusation.

That SDG&E fired Cafferty over this is perhaps an indicator of just how scared companies are of the being set upon by the woke mob. However, kicking an employee to the curb over nothing in order to protect their bottom line will not only sow distrust and disloyalty among the employees it also won't protect the companies. What they don't realize is that bending the knee today doesn't protect them from the accusations of tomorrow.





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Boston Mayor in favor of removing statue of Abraham Lincoln setting slaves free

Anthony Leonardi
Washington Examiner
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:15 UTC
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The mayor of Boston supports calls to remove a statue in tribute to President Abraham Lincoln as the "Great Emancipator."

Mayor Marty Walsh, who designated racism as a public health crisis in the city of Boston, is in favor of removing a statue of Lincoln that has stood for over 100 years in the city's Park Square. Walsh's office told the Boston Globe last week that it hopes to recommission that statue into one that "recognizes equality" and is investigating what processes the city would need to undergo to remove it.

The statue depicts Lincoln with one arm extended above a freed slave with broken shackles, symbolizing that, by Lincoln's hand, the institution of slavery was broken. The inscription on the statue reads, "A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors."

Comment: These fanatics are reviving the spirit of Mao's Cultural Revolution where history can be replaced by any idiotic interpretation that turns reality upside down. Nothing is off limits, even the actual battles fought against slavery.

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Sen. Hawley introduces bill to give Americans the ability to sue Big Tech companies over political censorship concerns

Adam Shaw and Jake Gibson
Fox News
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:25 UTC
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced legislation Wednesday to give Americans the ability to sue major tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter if they engage in selective censorship of political speech.

The Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act, cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Mike Braun, R-Ind., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., would stop such companies from receiving immunity under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, unless they update their terms of service to promise to operate in good faith.

"For too long, Big Tech companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook have used their power to silence political speech from conservatives without any recourse for users," Hawley said in a statement. "Section 230 has been stretched and rewritten by courts to give these companies outlandish power over speech without accountability. Congress should act to ensure bad actors are not given a free pass to censor and silence their opponents."
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Attention

Facts vs. fake: A worldwide lockdown of everything

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:37 UTC
Fake news invasion
Do you know who coined the curse, "conspiracy theory" or accusation, "you are conspiracy theorist!" - It was nobody less than the CIA in the 1950s, to silence those who saw through the lie of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. This was a complete lie by US war strategists, to install fear in the population in general and in Europeans in particular and to boost the American Military Industrial complex - and presenting a constant threat to the communist Soviet Union.

A complementary phrase developed in the last years is "fake news" — people who are saying well-founded truths, are being accused of spreading "false news" - and that by the very media that spread the real false news and lies in the first place. A dystopian world indeed, and most of the public doesn't capture it.

Another denigrating term that has it lately into the vocabulary of the mainstream, "populist". It refers to people or ideas from the left, the middle or the right - as soon as they don't stick to the going narrative. By Webster's definition, a populist is someone who represents the people's views, a majority view, actually, it's a very democratic term, because a true leader should represent the people's views. But media manipulation has made of "populism" something of "lesser intellect" - and, of course, nobody wants to be of "lesser intellect", hence, it's become a derogatory term. That's how the media and psychologically worked propaganda can alter what people would call "my common sense".
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Vice is promoting a SPLC 'hate map' of Confederate monuments. This has led to violence before

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:05 UTC
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Vice is encouraging sledgehammer-wielding wannabe revolutionaries to use the Southern Poverty Law Center's map of Confederate monuments as a destructive treasure map. And it didn't end well the last time.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's "Whose Heritage?" map depicts the southeastern US as positively bristling with racism, in the form of brightly colored tags representing Confederate monuments. Updated last year to reflect the removal of more than 100 such sites, it still boasted 1,747 at the time of its republication. As anti-Confederate fever flares up amid the George Floyd protests against racism and police brutality, and rioters take sledgehammers to any monument they believe they can link to slavery, Vice has helpfully trotted out the SPLC's map again, handing the angry mob a to-do list that could keep them busy for months.

Don't see your favorite monument on the map? Readers who think the map is "missing" a site can suggest an addition via a helpful submission form, which Vice provides a link to. Not that the invitation will be abused at all at a time when statues of even Thomas Jefferson - who, despite being a founding father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, held slaves and therefore had to go - are being pulled down.
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Postmodern logic: Not being racist isn't enough, Germans must be 'anti-racists,' President Steinmeier insists


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:20 UTC
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
© REUTERS/Annegret HilseGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has instructed his countrymen to weed out all of their subconscious bigotry, real or imagined, declaring that the nation must take up arms against racism.

In televised remarks on Tuesday, Steinmeier took a somewhat inflexible stance on how to ensure equality in Germany.

"No, it's not enough not to be a racist. We have to be anti-racists! Racism requires taking a counter-position, counter-speech, action, criticism and - perhaps most difficult - self-criticism, self-examination," he proclaimed.

The German president went on to pontificate that "anti-racism must be learned, practiced and lived."

Comment: Telling people what they have to do in order to be politically correct to an intolerant group of scolding hypocrites is not a good idea as a politician. Steinmeier can virtue signal all he wants, but people typically don't like their leaders getting on moral high horses and shaking their finger at the populace for their perceived lack of morals.

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Chess

US to allow companies to work with Huawei on 5G standards

Yifan Yu
Asian Review
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC
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The U.S. Commerce Department announced on Monday that it will allow American companies to work with Huawei on setting standards for 5G networks despite Washington's continuing crackdown on the Chinese company.

Since Huawei was placed on the U.S. entity list -- a trade blacklist-- in May 2019, American companies have been required to obtain a special license from the Commerce Department to have any business dealings with Huawei and its affiliates. This rule change allows companies to disclose U.S. technologies to the Chinese telecom giant without a license if it is for the purpose of 5G standards development.

The amendment is meant to ensure Huawei's placement on the entity list "does not prevent American companies from contributing to important standards-developing activities despite Huawei's pervasive participation in standards-development organizations," according to the Commerce Department announcement.
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Chinese companies retreat from US market, fastest pace since 2015

Manuel Baigorri
SFGate
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:55 UTC
Street in China
© China Daily
Chinese companies are ditching their U.S. listings at the fastest pace since 2015 as they grapple with rising tensions between Beijing and Washington.

The latest is China's biggest online classified firm 58.com, which on Monday agreed to a buyout deal led by private equity firms Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic. An investor group backed by Chinese tech tycoon Pony Ma's Tencent Holdings said last week it will take Bitauto Holdings private in a deal valuing the car-listing website at $1.1 billion.

So far this year, U.S.-listed Chinese companies have announced four go-private deals with a combined value of $8.1 billion including debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's up from zero during the same period last year. It's also the highest value for any full year since 2015, when $29.8 billion of such buyouts were announced.

The uptick comes as President Donald Trump weighs tighter scrutiny on Chinese companies after a string of accounting scandals including Luckin Coffee that have burned some of Wall Street's biggest names. Nasdaq is planning new rules that would make initial public offerings more difficult for some Chinese firms, potentially curtailing their access to the world's biggest capital market.
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Norway: Integration report shows significant skepticism towards Islam


RT
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:49 UTC
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A recent survey conducted in Norway found that the majority of respondents were skeptical of Islam and immigration, with many blaming immigrants themselves for a lack of integration into Norwegian society.

The 2020 Integration Barometer, commissioned by the Norwegian Integration and Diversity Directorate (IMDI), recently published the results from its ninth survey since 2005 and they make for unsettling reading for immigration advocates.

Only one fifth of respondents said that immigration worked 'very' or 'quite' well, while 79 percent of Norwegians argued any shortcomings of integration are due to lack of effort from immigrants themselves.

Some 52 percent believe the values of Islam are incompatible with Norwegian society, with 56 percent are skeptical of having a Muslim son-in-law or daughter-in-law, 45 percent are skeptical of Muslims overall, while 70 percent were skeptical of those with a "strong Muslim faith."

However, many also expressed wariness towards those with strong Christian beliefs (54 percent) which was a higher degree of reticence than towards those of a "moderate Muslim faith" (34 percent). "We thus see that skepticism about religious beliefs is not just about specific religions, but also about how strong the beliefs are perceived," the report said.
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How to bankrupt your company: Airlines take alcohol off the in-flight menu as part of COVID-19 response


cbs4indy.com
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
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Alcohol sales may have boomed during lockdown, but our return to air travel will be an altogether more sobering experience.

Airlines including Easyjet and KLM in Europe, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines in the United States, and Asia's Virgin Australia, are suspending all or part of their alcoholic drinks service in response to COVID-19.

It's part of a widespread revision of the industry's food and drink service to minimize interaction between crew and passengers and to ensure a safer journey for all.

With face masks already mandatory on pretty much all flights around the world, and new legislation introduced in January 2020 to curb anti-social behavior on flights, it's another in a line of barriers — literal and legal — to getting high in the sky.

Many airlines are limiting drink options to water only. As face masks must be kept on other than when passengers are eating and drinking, it's a way of ensuring passengers are lingering over their refreshments for no longer than necessary.
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