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National Guard to be 'FULLY MOBILIZED' in Minnesota, governor calls George Floyd protests 'attack' on civil society


RT
Sun, 31 May 2020 16:00 UTC
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© AP Photo/John MinchilloA protester yells at a member of the Minnesota National Guard on Friday, May 29, 2020
The governor of Minnesota has pledged to "fully mobilize" the National Guard saying that the protests that have gripped the state are no longer about the death of George Floyd but rather an "attack" on civil society.

"The situation in Minnesota is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities," Governor Tim Walz said during a press conference on Saturday.

Walz said he arrived at the decision to fully mobilize the National Guard for the first time in Minnesota's history after speaking with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, as well as with mayors from across the country.

Comment: Utah has followed suit in mobilizing its contingent as well as, with Salt Lake City declaring a curfew
Herbert directed the National Guard to "help control the escalating situation" in Salt Lake City, while calling on protesters to behave peacefully.

"We are in close contact with our Department of Public Safety and receiving regular updates," the governor said.

Herbert's announcement came around the same time as Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall issued an 8pm curfew.

Washington, DC has also mobilized the National Guard, as local police have the added responsibility of protecting the White House:
The guardsmen were mobilized after a request from the US Park Police, the DC National Guard (DCNG) commander, Major General William J. Walker said.

"The DCNG is always ready to assist District and Federal agencies to protect human life and property," he noted.

Protesters had earlier pushed security barricades further down Pennsylvania Avenue and climbed on the roofs of Secret Service vehicles outside the White House, demanding justice for George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died during an arrest attempt by a white officer earlier this week.




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Not just the West: Russian companies facing huge losses due to covid lockdown, difficulty accessing government aid


RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 17:53 UTC
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© Reuters / Shamil ZhumatovA woman wearing a protective mask walks past closed shops along a street in Moscow
More than four million Russian businesses saw their revenues falling by a third due to the coronavirus outbreak and measures to contain it, according to a report submitted to President Vladimir Putin.

This is nearly 67 percent of the total of over six million small and medium-sized enterprises, large companies and individual entrepreneurs working in the country, Russia's business ombudsman, Boris Titov, said in his report on Thursday.

According to the survey cited in the document, more than half of firms called the situation they're facing a "crisis" and "catastrophe," while six in ten said their chances of survival are below fifty percent.
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Pistol

Gun 'fever': US weapon demand skyrockets amid pandemic


RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 14:35 UTC
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An unprecedented surge in demand for firearms in the US, with many of the customers appearing to be first-time buyers. On top of that - shooting-ranges remain closed...

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Eye 1

33 examples of Twitter's anti-conservative bias


NewsBusters
Thu, 28 May 2020 05:59 UTC
Twitter
© Getty Images / Omar Marques / SOPA Images / LightRocket
President Donald Trump is right that social media companies have been targeting conservatives. Twitter, in particular, has been engaging in a relentless attack on the American political process by censoring conservatives.

Now that has escalated to fact-checking the president nearly five months from a presidential election.

The Media Research Center released a report in 2018, which found that Twitter led in censoring the right. That hasn't changed. Project Veritas caught Twitter with hidden camera interviews admitting the process of shadow banning — which means content is hidden from users without the poster ever knowing it. One engineer admitted that accounts were flagged as bots simply by searching for words such as "America" and "God." Twitter's rules have been influenced by liberal think tanks like the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Since then, Twitter has gotten worse.

Here are some examples:

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Best of the Web: German official leaks report denouncing corona as 'a global false alarm'

Daniele Pozzati
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 29 May 2020 05:35 UTC
drone
© REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
Germany's federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry.

Some of the report key passages are:
  • The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.
  • The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).
  • Worldwide, within a quarter of a year, there has been no more than 250,000 deaths from Covid-19, compared to 1.5 million deaths [25,100 in Germany] during the influenza wave 2017/18.
  • The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.
  • A reproach could go along these lines: During the Corona crisis the State has proved itself as one of the biggest producers of Fake News.
So far, so bad. But it gets worse.

The report focuses on the "manifold and heavy consequences of the Corona measures" and warns that these are "grave".

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: The question of evidence when governments push political narratives

Kevin Smith
OneWorld
Sun, 24 May 2020 05:17 UTC
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In the last 30 years, there have been many big events which have been questioned. Iraq is the classic example of where a relative few questioning the pretext of that invasion (Weapons of Mass Destruction - WMDs) were insulted and smeared but later vindicated.

Today, in the background of the risk of world conflict and threat to health and our way of life arising from Covid-19, it's never been more important to be sceptical and understand evidence.

Earlier in my career, I used to adjudicate financial disputes between two parties, weigh up the evidence, and decide the most likely scenario.

So, in terms of what's going on in the world, I'm interested in narratives which are open to challenge and the thinking and motives of those in power, the media, and experts behind them. And particularly how the public watching and listening process these messages.

First, before reading on, watch this clip, which I think is hilarious and vaguely relevant to what I'm going to say.
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Brick Wall

Rex Murphy: Newfoundland's SOS falls on deliberately deaf ears

Rex Murphy
National Post
Fri, 29 May 2020 06:47 UTC
St. John, Newfoundland and Labrador
A cityscape of St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, is seen from Signal Hill in a file photo from 2009. Postmedia News
Even during the plague year, Ottawa cannot get off its carbon-emissions high horse.

A couple of days ago Premier Dwight Ball of Newfoundland and Labrador and a host of others pleaded in a conference call for urgent assistance to the devastated offshore oil industry. The industry is moving closer to the autopsy table by the hour. Then from Seamus O'Regan, Newfoundland's minister in the federal cabinet (wherever it is these days, and whatever it is doing), came an email which pointedly didn't say it was considering the urgent request — how could it not? — but did say that the "province's commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 is good for our environment and good for our economic competitiveness."

In what dreamland did that line emerge? O'Regan gets an emergency request asking for immediate aid from the premier on May 26, 2020, and he emails in response a fantasy projection 30 years into the unknowable future, 2050. Which, as chance would have it, is presumably around the time Parliament might reopen.

Comment:

At the end of this article: Greenmail: Trudeau makes Covid-19 aid intended to 'save Canadian jobs' conditional on meeting 'climate change goals' there is a partial list of Canada's Prime Minister Chaos Trudeau's most pressing issues on behalf of all his subjects, as Justin likes to remind dear Canadians at every opportunity, which is not a great deal different than other world chaotic leaders lockstep priorities to their people.
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

-Mark Twain


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Sexualizing children: Church of England school in Hull 'sorry' after students given pornographic homework


BBC
Wed, 20 May 2020 17:53 UTC
Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull
© Paul Harrop/GeographArchbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull.
A head teacher says he is "sorry" if homework asking pupils to define types of hardcore pornography led them to undertake inappropriate web searches.

The work was given to children, aged 11 to 14, at Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull, the Hull Daily Mail reported.

Principal Chay Bell stressed the assignment did not require internet research as the answers were in the material the pupils were sent.

Leon Dagon was "flabbergasted" when he saw his 13-year-old sister's homework.

The work is part of pupils' Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) learning, the school said.
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Propaganda

Minnesota riots coverage: This is why Trump called mainstream media 'enemy of the people'


RT
Sat, 30 May 2020 17:51 UTC
Minneapolis riots
© AP Photo/Julio CortezA protester stands on a platform in front of a fire at a restaurant, early Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis.
One of President Trump's legacies will be exposing the US media as political activists who have polarized the nation by peddling a narrative rather than evidence-based facts and truth.

When Trump tweeted that the media were the enemy of the American people, it caused fury around the world.
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017
Journalists claimed the tweet had placed their lives at risk, and that all they had ever done was report the news. Is that accurate? No, not at all. Several groups analysed all the news stories broadcast about Donald Trump in 2017 and the results were shocking:
How Could People Not Trust The #Media And #SocialMedia ? Just Ask @realDonaldTrump@parscale Remember this? pic.twitter.com/MHljiT7ul3

— Planet Ponzi (@PlanetPonzi) May 29, 2020
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As Minnesota burns, media fans flames of race war... and everyone forgets about Covid-19

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 20:18 UTC
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© REUTERS/Carlos BarriaA man confronts a National Guard soldier in Minneapolis, Minnesota as journalists take photos, May 29, 2020.
The speed with which the mainstream media forgot all about coronavirus, 'social distancing' and masks to de facto promote a race war with coverage of riots and looting in the Twin Cities makes one wonder about their priorities.

Just days ago, the sanctimonious shills on cable channels were clutching their pearls in concern over Americans failing to maintain 'social distance' and going out in public without masks, while wringing their hands about the 100,000 deaths attributed to the pandemic in the country so far.

Then George Floyd died with a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck. Within three days, protests turned to looting, then rioting, then arson. Minneapolis and St. Paul burned, as local authorities ordered police to stand down and let it happen.
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