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NPR worries that declaring violent Portland protests to be riots could be racist

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A church burns during the August 2020 Kenosha riots
Taxpayer-funded outlet aired report saying riot declaration laws rooted 'in the state's racist history'

Authorities in Portland, Ore. may be racist in the way they define "riot," according to National Public Radio.

The taxpayer-funded media outlet aired a report Thursday in which it claimed that state laws governing riot declarations "have roots in the state's racist history."

An accompanying article by Oregon Public Broadcasting's Jonathan Levinson linked to a June interview with Black studies educator and writer Walidah Imarisha, who claimed the state's historically racist laws "absolutely" echo through Oregon's current governance.

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Best of the Web: Kenosha Wisconsin footage the media doesn't want you to see (Compilation)

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Kenosha Wisconsin Footage The Media Doesn't Want You To See (Compilation)

In these controversial situations, context is everything. However, our media seemingly goes out of their way to not provide these precious contexts and give the masses just enough info to enrage them but not enough to truly inform them.

Here is a compilation of videos from Kenosha Wisconsin so that you have as much context as possible to develops your own opinion.


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10,000 protest in London against draconian lockdown measures

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© Press AssociationThe crowd moving towards Downing Street and towards the Houses of Parliament
UK authorities have imposed coronavirus-related restrictions regarding social gatherings in most parts of the country amid a surge in new coronavirus disease cases.

Sputnik presents a live broadcast from the British capital where demonstrators are rallying on Saturday against COVID-19 lockdown measures.

The so-called "Unite for Freedom" protest aims to push for easing the lockdown measures related to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, such as the mandatory wearing of face masks, mobility restrictions, and obligatory vaccines.​

Since the start of the outbreak, the UK has confirmed 331,644 COVID-19 cases. The latest government figures also show that the UK's death toll now stands at 41,486.

Comment: The Sun newspaper reports:
The 'Unite For Freedom' rally began at midday - with protesters calling for an end to "government lies" over the pandemic.

Pictures show large crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square holding signs claiming that the virus is a "hoax" and a "scam".

Other placards read: "No to mandatory vaccines!"

Most of the defiant crowd refused to wear a mask during the protests.

The event is currently moving towards Downing Street and towards the Houses of Parliament.

Well-known conspiracy theorist David Icke - well known for his conspiracy theory linking the coronavirus to 5G technology- is currently addressing a large crowd.

In May, Icke had his YouTube account axed in May after repeated warnings from the company that he had violated its policies by posting misleading information about the pandemic

His address follows an earlier speech from Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers.

A poster advertising the event read: "Nothing is more important as time is very short - the Government are voting for a two-year extension of their emergency Covid-19 powers in September 2020.

"The first six months was a disaster - this must not be allowed to continue! We have to take a stand."

It comes as similar 'Unite For Freedom' protests erupted across Europe today.

Berlin police today disbanded a mass protest in the German capital against coronavirus curbs, where marchers failed to keep their distance and wear masks as instructed.

"Unfortunately, we have no other option," the city's police said on Twitter, adding people had failed to comply with the safety conditions of the march.

Some 3,000 officers had been deployed to control crowds estimated at 18,000.

And in Paris, hundreds rallied to protest new mask rules and other restrictions prompted by rising virus infections around France.

Police watched closely but did not intervene in the event.

The protests drew an assorted crowd of anti-maskers, conspiracy theorists as well as "yellow vests" who formerly protested economic injustice.

The 'Unite for Freedom' group's priorities are listed as "no more lockdowns, no social distancing, no masks. No track and trace, no health passports. No mandatory vaccinations, no "new normal".

The march is part of several protests expected to take place across the world under the Unite for Freedom banner.
As noted above, on the same day there was a massive protest against the lockdown in Berlin, Germany, and there were also protests under different banners, but voicing similar grievances, in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well by the Yellow Vests in France.






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Italian mayor outlaws mask-wearing in public without serious need

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The mayor of the Italian town of Sutri north of Rome has established fines for wearing masks except when required by law, insisting that "only thieves and terrorists wear masks."

The contrarian Italian parliamentarian Vittorio Sgarbi, who is also the mayor of Sutri, has been a vocal critic of mask-wearing and other restrictions imposed by the Italian government to address the coronavirus.

Mr. Sgarbi announced Saturday that in Sutri "anyone found wearing a face mask without need will be fined," noting that there are no cases of coronavirus infection in the city.

"In compliance with the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, the use of the mask outdoors in the City of Sutri is prohibited for obvious health reasons and indoors except in the case of assemblies," the city ordinance reads.

Comment: How about that, getting a fine FOR wearing a mask. Although people should be free to decide on their own if they want to wear a medical mask or not, Sgarbi's reasoning makes more sense than the current mandates.


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CDC: No need for asymptomatic people to get tested

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This past week the CDC finally seemed to get fed up with the coronavirus hysteria that has existed in this country since March.

First, the CDC released new guidelines saying there was no need for asymptomatic people to get tested if they were otherwise young and healthy. That's even if you were exposed to someone who had tested positive for the virus.

Then the CDC put up on their official website the following details for people who have covid symptoms:
"If you have symptoms of COVID-19 and want to get tested, call your healthcare provider first. Most people will have mild illness and can recover at home without medical care and may not need to be tested."
So, yeah, the CDC is telling you to treat covid like any other illness. Stay home if you're sick, you'll probably be fine. That's because for most people covid is a mild illness. If, however, you get sick enough to need treatment, go seek treatment.

This is the advice we should have had since March. And in retrospect we should have never, ever shut down at all. (In fact, if New York governor Andrew Cuomo hadn't been the worst political leader this century, we probably wouldn't have ever panicked in the first place. New York was such a disaster that the rest of the country panicked based on their incompetence. An incompetence, by the way, that led to the worst coronavirus response in the entire world.)

But this was the final kicker that also went up on the CDC website:
"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death."
This illuminates what I have been saying for a long time, there's a big difference between dying WITH COVID and dying FROM COVID.

94% of people are dying with covid, per the CDC, not because of it. In fact, not only are people dying with it, they are dying with covid and an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of death.

This would mean roughly 10,000 deaths are directly attributable to covid alone.

Because right now if you have terminal lung cancer, kidney and liver failure and covid, you are counted as a covid death.

Now, this doesn't mean covid can't be dangerous, it can. But it's almost exclusively dangerous among those with extremely ill health, that is multiple serious co-morbidities, or extremely advanced age.

Now, to be fair, what we still don't know is what percentage of people who have died with covid in 2020 would otherwise be alive if this virus had never existed. That is, it's possible there are likely more than the roughly 10,000 people who are listed as dying from covid alone who have died with covid and another illness. Maybe if covid never existed those people could have survived their co-morbidities and might still be alive today. (Although this raises an interesting question, if covid was the tipping point illness for many very sick people with multiple co-morbidities, wouldn't the number of elderly people dying in later months this year and next year likely be lower than normal? Because those very ill people had their deaths accelerated by a few months due to covid? That seems likely to me.)

We don't the answer to this question and we can't just look at excess death data either because, and this is the really unfortunate part of our shutdown madness, there is now strong evidence that locking down our country cost us more years of life in this country than we gained.

This is according to the incredible work being done by the Ethical Skeptic Twitter account. (You should all go follow him for his charts and analysis of covid data).


Remember, the average age of death from covid in this country is older than the average age of death in this country overall. Meanwhile the people who are dying in excess numbers from something other than covid due to our lockdowns are much younger. These are much younger people dying of suicides, drug overdoses, from declining to seek medical care for fear of covid.

And this is a MONSTER story. A story which, not surprisingly, almost no one is telling.

We shut down our country to protect very old people from covid yet the deaths of much younger people from other causes are actually costing us more years of life, by far, than the years of life we are protecting. And this doesn't even count, by the way, all the disastrous impacts from children being kept out of school for months at a time. There's been a tremendous rise, for instance, in domestic abuse and, likely, child abuse during the lockdown as well. And it also doesn't count the very real economic costs of tens of millions of lost jobs, which will echo through poor families for years and years.

Let's just be clear here: outside of nursing homes — which comprise nearly half of our deaths in this country despite only having .6 of our population — there is zero reason for any lockdowns to still exist in this country.

Zero.

It's well past time for everyone to be back at work, school, and playing sports on all levels from little league to pro sports. And if you don't want to do that because the media has terrified you, that's your choice, you can stay in your house buried under the covers forever, but the rest of the us need to get on with our lives, you can't hold us hostage any longer.

Unfortunately this isn't happening because covid is now the entire basis for Joe Biden's presidential campaign. Meaning instead of these facts being debated and discussed in a rational manner, Biden has tied his entire campaign to stoking more fear based on the false idea that we're all in tremendous danger from the coronavirus.

Even if it's not true at all.

Worse than that, the media, which ostensibly exists to speak truth to power, has also completely embraced the fear porn narrative as well.

Which is why our national response to the coronavirus is the biggest failure of truth, logic, and honesty since the Vietnam War.

It's time for you, me, and everyone else with a functional brain to get back to our normal lives.

Which is exactly what I'm doing.

Join me.

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Best of the Web: CDC quietly publishes the REAL Covid-19 death toll: Only 9,210 Americans died FROM Covid-19 - The rest had other serious illnesses

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So let's get this straight - based on the recommendation of doctors Fauci and Birx the US shut down the entire economy based on 9,000 American deaths due entirely to the China coronavirus?

We were first to report that the Director General of the WHO on March 3, 2020 a set off the panic with his highly flawed statement:
While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.

Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
This statement caused a global panic. We, however, knew it was wrong and we wrote about it on March 17, 2020. Here is the video of Dr. Ghebreyesus's remarks.

The WHO leader's coronavirus death rate number of 3.4% was false and we proved this in our post at the time.

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Now Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jenny Harries says the evidence that masks stop the spread of coronavirus is 'not very strong in either direction'

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The evidence on face coverings 'is not very strong in either direction', England's deputy chief medical officer has said, leaving Britons confused once again over experts' changing attitudes to masks.

Government guidance released late last night ahead of the return of children to classes next week said teachers and students may need to wear face coverings in communal areas.

It follows existing rules which state masks must be worn on public transport, in hospitals and in many shops, as well as leisure facilities such as cinemas, but not pubs or restaurants.

Experts' attitudes to face coverings have changed repeatedly since restrictions were first enforced nearly five months ago, and Jenny Harries' latest comments caused further confusion.

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Belarus color revolution: Pro-opposition 'women's march' scuffles with riot police in Minsk as 'motor rallies' held in support of Lukashenko

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Thousands of pro-opposition women marched and tried to breach a police cordon in central Minsk on Saturday while 'motor rallies' were held in support of President Alexander Lukashenko, as political turmoil continues in Belarus.

The women were carrying flowers, white-red-white flags and white-red-white umbrellas, and chanting slogans such as "Shame!", "We will not forget, we will not forgive!" and "Long live Belarus!" The protesters had planned to march along Independence Avenue, but minibuses blocked their way.

Police warned the marchers that their action was unauthorized and called on the crowd not to disturb public order and to break up the gathering. However, the marchers ignored the calls - and at one point they even attempted to break through one of the police cordons blocking a street. Footage suggests the attempt was a success.

Comment: Keep in mind what Putin recently said in an interview regarding the Belarus uprising:
This was an operation by secret services.The people you mentioned were used without their knowledge in order to move them to Belarus. They received perfectly legal assignments. They were told that they must go to third countries, to Latin America and the Middle East, for absolutely legal work. But in fact they were dragged off to Belarus and presented as a potential attack force in order to destabilise the situation during the election campaign. This had nothing to do with reality.

Let me repeat that these people were going to work in a third country. They were simply lured there, dragged across the border. By the way, our border guards did not let them out and they could not move in anywhere. But de facto they were brought in on fake documents.

Sergei Brilyov: Ukrainian secret services?

Vladimir Putin:This was an operation of Ukrainian secret services in cooperation with their US colleagues. Now this is known for sure. Some participants in this event or observers, well-informed people do not even conceal this now.
Once one understands where the "seed" of such an uprising exists, then it is much simpler to see the situation clearly. In Belarus, the West decided to destabilize the government and are attempting to oust the president and put in a leader who is much more pro-Western and will cause problems with Russia.

Unfortunately their machinations have been working on the people of Belarus - many of whom are legitimately unhappy but are being used as pawns by the elites - as thousands protested in Minsk.


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FBI 'Top Ten' fugitive nabbed for his 2008 'honor killings' of his daughters

Cab driver reportedly became upset when daughters, ages 18 and 17, started dating non-Muslims

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© Justice for Sarah and Amina Facebook pageAmina and Sarah Said
A Texas cab driver accused of murder who had been on the FBI's "Top Ten" list of fugitives has been apprehended after being on the lam since 2008, according to reports.

Yaser Abdel Said, 63, of Lewisville, northwest of Dallas, reportedly became upset when his daughters, ages 18 and 17, started dating non-Muslims, police told FOX 4 of Dallas.

On New Year's Day 2008, Said invited his daughters Amina and Sarah out to eat but instead drove them to Irving, where he allegedly fatally shot them inside his vehicle in what were described as "honor killings," the station reported.

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Best of the Web: Joe Biden's embrace of Cardi B is shameless & immoral, but it shows that we on the Right have lost the culture war

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© Getty Images/Prince Williams;Getty Images/Drew AngererCardi B performs at Vewtopia Music Festival 2020; Joe Biden (inset)
The 77 year-old Democrat is happy associating with a rapper who revels in women being whores and hypersexualized objects. But does he even know what her latest hit, WAP, stands for? Has he listened to its words or seen the video?

Folks, the culture war is over, and we on the right side of things have lost. Nothing is too low, too vile, too disgusting for the Left to embrace and for most Americans to go along with.

Yes, there are Americans who hate this stuff, but no one cares. I don't even want to bring up Cardi B's video of her performing her latest hit, WAP, with my 17-year-old daughters for fear they'll YouTube it to see what I'm talking about.

I haven't listened to it or watched it, but to my shame, I did listen to NWA in the '90s, and they were just as bad. Honestly, I'd sometimes like to leave society behind and cloister up somewhere on an island with like-minded people.

Comment: What's even weirder about Biden's handlers pushing him into this critter's orbit is that they specifically chose her to be the man's first 'interviewer' of his entire campaign!

This time in 2016, Never-Trumpers were ranting about how "unpresidential" Trump was - and they certainly could make a valid case - but the candidate they today expect to unseat Trump is going way, WAY further 'out there' to 'make an impression on the American people'.

US Democratic Presidential candidate finally gives media interview... to vapid celebrity 'Cardi B'