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Collective punishment: Melissa Rolfe, Garrett Rolfe's stepmother, fired from job at Equity Prime Mortgage

Jessica McBride
Heavy
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:53 UTC
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Melissa Rolfe, mother of Garrett Rolfe
Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of former Atlanta, Georgia, Police Officer Garrett Rolfe, was fired from her job at Equity Prime Mortgage LLC.

The termination has sparked outrage on social media, where some people claimed that Melissa Rolfe was fired because of her association with the former officer, who was criminally charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. One Twitter user wrote in response: "Do NOT use @equity_prime or do ANY business with this HORRIBLE Company."

However, in a statement, the company denied that claim and indicated that Melissa Rolfe's views had created a hostile work environment. Equity did not specify what those views were. Here is the company's statement, which it released late in the evening on June 18:
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NPC

Destroying history: George Washington statue toppled by protesters in Portland, Oregon


CBS News
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:06 UTC
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A statue of George Washington was pulled down by protesters on Thursday night, which was Juneteenth eve, reports CBS Portland affiliate KOIN-TV. The nation's first president owned slaves.

KOIN said Thursday marked the 21st day of demonstrations for racial justice and police reform sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Two groups — Rose City Justice and Lavender Caucus — hosted a sit-in rally at Jefferson High School in the evening where community members shared their experiences with racism with a crowd of a few hundred.

A separate group of about 20 people met around 10 p.m. at the site of the large bronze statue of Washington.
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Red Flag

Bags with human remains discovered along Seattle shore

Dennis Romero
NBC News
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:57 UTC
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Bags full of human remains were discovered along the shoreline in Seattle, police said Friday night.

The discovery included "several bags," and at least one was in the water, the Seattle Police Department said in a statement.

Officers responded to a park along Elliott Bay, on a point across from the city's main waterfront and Pike Place Market, after someone reported a "suspicious bag on the beach," the department said.

Detectives responded after officers determined the contents to be remains, police said. Identities of the dead or the number of bodies possibly involved was unknown.

The King County Medical Examiner's Office was working with detectives. "This remains an active and ongoing investigation," the Seattle department said.

Comment: This is the same general area where a number of severed feet have washed up on the shore: Another shoe containing human foot washes up in Pacific Northwest coast; 16 feet since 2007

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Eye 2

Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein's 'pimp' hiding from US investigators in Paris, report claims


Sputnik
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:53 UTC
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The 58-year-old British socialite has all but disappeared from radars, as her former boyfriend and suspected accomplice Jeffrey Epstein faced grave child sex trafficking charges. Although Maxwell is not a French citizen, she was born there, which means that she could escape potential extradition to the United States.

Ghislaine Maxwell is hiding out in Paris to avoid being interviewed by US investigators looking into child sexual assault allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, The Sun reports, citing sources with knowledge of the situation.

It is understood that the British media heiress was seen in the French capital in March before city authorities announced a lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Family

Almost 3 in 10 parents say social distancing is harming child's mental health: poll

Rebecca Klar
The Hill
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:47 UTC
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Nearly 3 in 10 parents said their child is experiencing mental or emotional health issues due to social distancing and coronavirus closures, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

In addition to the 29 percent of U.S. parents who said their child is already experiencing emotional or mental harm, 14 percent said they could only follow social distancing guidelines for "a few more weeks" before their child's emotional or mental health suffers, based on the poll.

Twenty-three percent said they can follow social distancing for "a few more months" and 33 percent said for "as long as is necessary" before their child's emotional or mental health suffers, based on the poll.

Comment: See also: Lockdown 'has left pupils withdrawn and disturbed', says top London head

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NPC

Twitter is 'canceling' Joe Rogan again after he said MSM ignores Joe Biden's mental decline


RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:46 UTC
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Joe Rogan was trending on Twitter as people tried yet again to have the world's most popular podcaster canceled. It comes after he revisited his skepticism about Joe Biden's capacity to be the next president, among other remarks.

Attempts to make Rogan disappear from public view or at least shame people into not listening to his podcasts are nothing new. They have not been successful before and don't appear to be working now.

Why is he 'being cancelled' this time? There were several things that my have prompted the outrage.

In a Thursday podcast, Rogan, who usually steers clear of politics, reiterated his negative attitude to how the Democratic Party primary went in the US. He criticized the 'vote blue no matter who' position and said mainstream Democrats and their friendly media have been ignoring problems with the candidacy of Joe Biden, like "speeches that clearly show some kind of cognitive decline" in the former vice president.
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Brick Wall

A wall for me but not for thee: CNN dragged for building 'wall' around HQ following attack by protesters


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:18 UTC
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© REUTERS/Dustin ChambersProtesters vandalize CNN office in Atlanta on May 29, 2020.
An image of CNN protecting its Atlanta headquarters from protesters with a fence has inspired many to go after the network for constantly questioning President Donald Trump's support of a southern border wall.

The photo of CNN's fortified headquarters went viral on Friday, as many conservatives blasted the network for hypocrisy, based on its past coverage of both the proposed border wall between the US and Mexico and the protests over George Floyd's death.


Comment: A wall protecting areas controlled by those opposed to border walls is magically different than walls built by people who aren't opposed to them, and that magical difference is what's known as cognitive dissonance.

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Evil Rays

Black man beats Macy's white employee over alleged racial slur, store says attack was 'unprovoked'


RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:32 UTC
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A viral video shows a black man assaulting a Macy's employee in Michigan, wrestling the white man on the ground and beating him allegedly over a racial slur. The department store says the attack was unprovoked.

Footage of the incident surfaced online earlier this week, promptly going viral. According to the description of the video, the black man overheard the Macy's employee using the word "n****r" while on the phone and then attacked him right at the store.

The video itself does not show what led to the assault - it begins with the black man punching the victim from behind. Moreover, it shows the attacker himself repeatedly using the n-word as he was beating down the white employee, who seems to be wondering why the man assaulted him.
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Bad Guys

Drug check in Germany sparks attacks on police, vandalism


Associated Press
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:48 UTC
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© Simon Adomat/dpa via APGoods lie on the floor after people broke into a shop on Marienstrasse in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 21, 2020. Dozens of violent small groups devastated downtown Stuttgart on Sunday night and injured several police officers, German news agency DPA reported.
Police in the German city of Stuttgart said Sunday that 20 people were arrested and four police officers injured after a check for drugs sparked attacks on officers and police vehicles and widespread vandalism of stores in the city center. Police said several hundred people were involved.

The disturbance started as an apparent reaction to a police search for drugs as groups of people partied outside late Saturday and early Sunday in a central park. People then attacked storefronts in a nearby shopping street, according to German public television reports, tearing up paving stones and smashing store windows.

Cellphone video purporting to be of the events circulated widely in social media. Police asked witnesses to upload videos that could provide evidence to assist the investigation.

Stuttgart police said 200 officers responded to the incident and four were injured. They said they were investigating to get a clearer picture of what happened and said they would provide more information later Sunday.

Comment: Attacks on people's livelihoods and societal order seem to be one of the big underlying goals and outcomes of the worldwide coronavirus shutdown. If this chaos continues unabated, we'll likely soon see demands for even greater governmental controls. People may think this will restore the order they knew, but it will not be. What is being sought by the elite is an order with little, if any, humanity left in it.

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Calculator

Global tipping point? Half the world is now 'middle class' or wealthier

Homi Kharas and Kristofer Hamel
Brookings.edu
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
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Something of enormous global significance is happening almost without notice. For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty. By our calculations, as of this month, just over 50 percent of the world's population, or some 3.8 billion people, live in households with enough discretionary expenditure to be considered "middle class" or "rich." About the same number of people are living in households that are poor or vulnerable to poverty. So September 2018 marks a global tipping point. After this, for the first time ever, the poor and vulnerable will no longer be a majority in the world. Barring some unfortunate global economic setback, this marks the start of a new era of a middle-class majority.


Comment: This article was published in September 2019... Welcome to 2020! With its near global lockdown that accelerated the impending world economic crisis.


We make these claims based on a classification of households into those in extreme poverty (households spending below $1.90 per person per day) and those in the middle class (households spending $11-110 per day per person in 2011 purchasing power parity, or PPP). Two other groups round out our classification: vulnerable households fall between those in poverty and the middle class; and those who are at the top of the distribution who are classified as "rich."

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