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Manhunt underway for attacker in Portland truck assault: police - UPDATE

Stephanie Pagones
Fox News
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:56 UTC
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© Portland Police BureauMarquise Love is being sought in connection to a vicious assault on a Portland truck driver.
Portland police on Tuesday identified a suspect in Sunday night's attack on a truck driver who was seen on video being pulled from the vehicle and violently beaten.

The Portland Police Bureau is on the hunt for Marquise Love, who also goes by the name "Keese Love," for his alleged involvement in the vicious assault that was caught on video and circulated on social media.

Officials said in a press release they have made several attempts to find 25-year-old Love, but have so far been unsuccessful. They have said they have probable cause for his arrest.

Comment: Police have apprehended and charged Marquise Love for the assault:
The Portland Police Bureau said that Marquise Love, 25, was charged with felony Assault II, Riot and Coercion after he and his attorney coordinated his surrender with detectives and the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office.

"I am pleased the suspect in this case turned himself in and appreciate all of the efforts to facilitate this safe resolution," said Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell. "Thank you to all of the members of the public who have provided information and tips to our investigators. Your assistance is very much appreciated."
The suspect had previously posted claims on social media that he was "only fighting".
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© TwitterImage that Marquise Love uploaded to Snapchat with his explanation of scene from the July 16, 2020 attack.

Love, a 25-year-old who identified himself on Facebook as an armed airport security guard, was booked into Portland's Multnomah County jail early Friday morning, law enforcement records show. He faces felony charges of aggravated assault, coercion and rioting. The lead indictment is a high-level assault charge, a class B felony, for which Love's bail was set at $250,000. Bail on the other charges was $5,000 each.

Police had been looking for Love since Tuesday, after failing to persuade him to turn himself in. The suspect reportedly posted messages under the name 'Daddy Keese' on social media Thursday, begging for money and denying wrongdoing. "Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all I did was fight him," Love said. "Look it up on Twitter. Put money on my books and come see me."

Love might want to seek legal counsel before running with an "all I did was fight him" defense. Videos posted on social media Sunday showed a man identified as Love striking the alleged victim, Adam Haner, from behind after he was pulled from his truck and surrounded by a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. With Haner sitting dazed in the street, the man identified as Love takes a running kick at the man's head, knocking him unconscious.


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Revisionist 'scholars' risk reversing decades of women's gains when they declare an unearthed Viking woman warrior is transgender

Helen Buyniski
RT
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:46 UTC
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© Global LookMisgendering Valkyries can be fatal
The discovery of a female body in a Swedish Viking warrior's tomb was a gift to activist researchers, who pounced on a chance to woke-ify the iconic Norsemen. But recasting woman warriors as trans is misogynistic and dangerous.

When DNA testing confirmed a tenth-century skeleton found buried with the trappings of a high-status Viking warrior had two X chromosomes, intersectional revisionists got to work injecting 21st century realities into the culture in which the warrior lived and died.

The warrior woman discovered in Birka, whose tomb was first excavated in 1878, "may have been someone who, in our terms, was a trans man, someone living as a man," Swedish archaeology professor Neil Price wrote, in his much-hyped forthcoming book on Viking history. No mere strong-willed female shattering the social norms of the time to take up arms against her enemies, she instead "may have been transgender...or non-binary, or gender fluid."

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Oliver Stone says Senate Russia report is untrustworthy on Bill Maher's show, Twitterati grab pitchforks & torches


RT
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:24 UTC
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© Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/Danny MoloshokOliver Stone • Bill Maher
The US Senate report on alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia should not be taken at face value, film director Oliver Stone has said, angering people who perceive the US president as a tool of the Kremlin.

The document released earlier this week is the final report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Russiagate saga. Democratic members of the committee discovered "a breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian government operatives" in the same set of findings that their Republicans colleagues interpreted as proving otherwise.

The news galvanized anti-Trump sentiment and was brought up on the latest installment of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. Maher asked his guest, acclaimed film director Oliver Stone, what he thought about the story. His response was skeptical, to say the least.
"The intelligence agencies are not reliable, they've been screwing with America going back to the Vietnam War, going back to the Iraq wars, the Afghani wars," Stone said. "It's very hard to find out the truth from them."
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Chicago mayor bans protesters - but only on her own block

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:15 UTC
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© DiverseChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot banned protestors, but only on the block where she lives, citing safety concerns for her family and her due to "daily" threats, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Lightfoot claimed that her particular need for heightened security is special, not because of her office, but because of the numerous threats she receives on a daily basis against her wife, her home and her. She failed to elaborate any further on the exact number or nature of the threats.

Lightfoot said, "I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure."

The order, which came to light from an email made public in July, requires police to keep clear the block on which Lightfoot and her wife live, and to arrest anybody who won't leave immediately.

The order as it read doesn't distinguish at all between peaceful protestors or violent ones. This is despite Lightfoot frequently stating in public that she supports any and all peaceful protestors. According to the order, all protestors are to be treated in the same manner. Lightfoot also recently famously backpedaled on the issue of allowing federal agents into Chicago sent by US President Trump.

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Lightfoot said: "I'm not going to make any excuses for the fact that, given the threats I have personally received, given the threats to my home and my family, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure they're protected."

In recent days, Lightfoot's city has been overwhelmed by incidents of looting. On Aug. 10, Chicago officials made the decision to raise bridges to the city's downtown in an attempt to prevent looting from occurring in the city's center. One jewelry and gift shop owner told the Chicago Tribune that city officials "have to get a hold of the city again." As she stood in front of her business, with its windows smashed, she said, "I feel like we are under attack and under siege."
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Hashem Abedi: Brother of Manchester Arena bomber jailed for life with 55-year minimum term over murder of 22 victims

Lizzi Dearden
Independent
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Greater Manchester PoliceMugshot: Hashem Abedi found guilty of 22 counts of murder.
The Manchester Arena bomber's brother has been jailed for life for his part in the terror attack.

Hashem Abedi was convicted of murdering the 22 victims after prosecutors said he was "just as responsible" as his suicide bomber brother. The 23-year-old dropped out of his trial and fired his legal team, then refused to attend his sentencing hearing at London's Old Bailey.

Mr Justice Jeremy Baker gave Abedi a minimum term of 55 years because the law did not allow him to pass a rare, whole-life order, because of Abedi's age at the time of the attack. He will not be released unless the Parole Board decides it is safe to do so, meaning he may spend the rest of his life in prison.

The judge said the brothers chose to target an Ariana Grande concert together, and "it was their intention to specifically target" young fans, including children. Justice Baker said:
"The stark reality is that these were atrocious crimes: large in their scale, deadly in their intent and appalling in their consequences. Those consequences have been graphically described in the many victim impact statements which I have had to consider concerning the diverse, talented and extraordinary individuals whose lives have either been extinguished or forever blighted by the physical and psychological effects of the explosion."
He said that the "despair and desolation" of bereaved families was palpable during the hearing, and that injured victims had been left feeling "guilt and shame" for surviving. "The only individual who should have any such feelings is the defendant," he added.

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Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger says it is 'surprising more can't see Assange case is worrying for all journalists'

Freddy Mayhew
Press Gazette
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:10 UTC
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Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadoran embassy in London on April 11, 2019. Though he has completed all prison time sentenced, he remains in solitary confinement at Britain's supermax Belmarsh Prison

Comment: Has Rusbrigder had his 'come to Jesus' moment about press freedom? True journalism will share Julian Assange's fate.


Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has said the ongoing US extradition case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is "disturbing" and "has worrying implications for all journalists".

And he has said it is "surprising" that more don't share his concerns.

While Assange has garnered support from a range of campaigning groups for his plight, the response from journalists and the news industry in the UK has been relatively muted.

Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian for 20 years, leaving in 2015. Under his editorship the paper worked with Wikileaks on the 2010 Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and, a few years later, the Snowden Files.

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Nearly one third of New Delhi's population have had Covid-19 according to government antibody survey


RT
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:58 UTC
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© Reuters/Anushree FadnavisNew Delhi
New Delhi's mass antibody testing has found that almost 30 percent of those living in the Indian capital may have been infected with the coronavirus. The number eclipses that of the country's overall Covid-19 tally.

"We found that 29.1 percent of the population of Delhi had antibodies, which means that they were infected and have been cured," the capital city's Health Minister Satyendar Jain told reporters on Thursday.

The serological survey studied as many as 15,000 people residing in New Delhi area and was conducted in the first week of August.

If confirmed by further testing, the number would eclipse the 155,000 cases officially recorded in the capital territory as of now. New Delhi's estimated population currently stands at over 30 million, meaning that almost 10 million people could have been infected if the projection is correct.

India is in the top three of countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic. The South Asian nation has reported 2.8 million active cases and 53,866 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.
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Best of the Web: International scholars must resist the American campaign to inject racial tribalism into science

Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz
Quillette
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:01 UTC
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"Schœlcher n'est pas notre sauveur," declared protestors who toppled statues on the French territory of Martinique earlier this year — "Schœlcher is not our savior." The reference is to Victor Schœlcher, the 19th-century politician who's long been lauded for his role in abolishing slavery in France and its colonial holdings. French President Emmanuel Macron rightly condemned the act, as did cabinet minister Annick Giradin, who denounced the destruction of monuments that embody the nation's "collective memory." And the mayor of Martinique's capital warned against la tentation de réécrire l'histoire — the temptation to rewrite history.


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As Democrats deliver 4-point poll boost to Trump, media spin says convention bounce 'not the point'


RT
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:15 UTC
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© REUTERS/Tom BrennerUS President Donald Trump speaks at the 2020 Council for National Policy meeting in Arlington, Virginia, August 21, 2020.
While the mainstream media have sought to downplay the impact of 2020 party conventions, polls showing President Donald Trump surging ahead as the Democrats held their virtual rally have them both stumped and spinning.

"Don't be surprised if Biden doesn't get a convention bounce in the polls. That's not the point," declared an early Friday headline in the Washington Post. Post-convention surges are hard when the country is polarized and the parties "stage theirs back to back, as they will this year," argued opinion writer Karen Tumulty.
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Except both things were just as true in 2016, which didn't stop the media from treating the "convention bounce" as a thing of conventional wisdom. Either way, the problem was not that the virtual Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin didn't move the needle for the Democrats and their ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - it's that it somehow managed to jolt the public opinion in favor of Trump!

The president's approval rating among likely US voters stood at 47 percent on Wednesday, with 51 percent disapproving. By Friday morning, those numbers had flipped completely, to 51 approval and 47 percent disapproval.
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Portland rioter Marquise Love viciously assaulted another white man before brutal attack on driver

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:20 UTC
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Portland rioter Marquise "Keese" Love, who is currently on the run from police for attacking a driver who had attempted to help stop a mob from attacking a trans person, was involved in a sickening gang assault on another white man prior to the viral incident.

In a shocking video of Love's previous attack, a large group is seen running up to a man and brutally beating him before dragging him down the street and continuing the attack. Love is clearly visible in the surveillance footage of the violence released by police in June.

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