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SOTT Focus: Facemasks Turn us Into Voiceless Submissives - And It's Not Science Forcing us to Wear Them, It's POLITICS

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:09 UTC
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The Government began its wild, disproportionate shutdown of the country by spreading fear of a devastating plague that would destroy the NHS and kill untold thousands. Now, as many people find that Covid-19 is, in fact, nothing of the kind, new ways have to be found to keep up the alarm levels. Commuters are pictured above on the London Underground
In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence.

It has come between husbands and wives at the ends of their lives. It has forbidden the old to embrace their grandchildren.

It has denied us funerals and weddings, locked the churches, silenced the ancient monastic music of cathedral choirs and prevented the free worship of God for the first time in 800 years, and banned us (unless we are Left-wing) from holding or attending public meetings.

It has ordered us to stay at home, scolded or fined us for sunbathing, going on country rambles or even entering our front gardens.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - The Ultimate Insanity of the Covid Lockdown - Interview with Sott.net Editor Joe Quinn

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Thousands rally in Khabarovsk, Russian Far East, for 3rd consecutive Saturday over arrested ex-governor

Jonny Tickle
RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:10 UTC
Khabarovsk
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Residents of Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have continued to show their support for imprisoned former governor Sergey Furgal, with the city's streets seeing mass protests for the 15th day in a row.

Furgal, a highly popular politician in the Far East, was arrested on July 9 on suspicion of ordering two successful murders, and a third failed murder, dating back to the 2000s. Following his detainment, the former governor was flown immediately to Moscow, where he currently awaits his day in court. Many Khabarovsk locals, over 6,000km from the capital, are infuriated that Furgal has been removed by federal powers and will stand trial so far away. Furgal maintains his innocence.

According to local news portal DVhab.ru, an estimated 15,000-20,000 people took to the streets in the main city of the Khabarovsk Region, with the mayor's office counting only 6,500. Though the protest was unsanctioned, the mass gathering appeared to go off without a hitch.
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Greek protesters burn Turkish flag, Ankara & Athens trade insults after Hagia Sophia's first Muslim prayer in decades


RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:11 UTC
Hagia Sophia
© REUTERS/Umit BektasWorshippers attend afternoon prayers and visit Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, for the first time after it was once again declared a mosque after 86 years, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 24, 2020
Turkey and Greece have locked horns once more, this time over Ankara's decision to turn the famed Hagia Sophia landmark back into a mosque. Some hot-headed Greeks even burned a Turkish flag to oppose the move.

Though joyous for those Turks who supported changing Hagia Sophia's status, the milestone decision by Ankara was met with outrage in neighboring Greece, which saw it as an affront to its Christian legacy.

The Foreign Ministry called it "a blow to the cultural heritage of humanity" and even warned of a risk that the mosaics and other works of art in Hagia Sophia's interior would be damaged, "beyond the symbolism of such a move."

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Rage sweeps US cities: Riot in Seattle, tear gas in Portland and LA on high Alert

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 05:52 UTC
BLM protests
© AP Photo / Ted S. Warren
Protests against racial inequality and police brutality across the US have been under way since the death of African American citizen George Floyd in police custody in May.

Seattle police declared the protest against racial injustice in the city a "riot" on Saturday as people vandalised an eastern police precinct, setting a small fire inside and trying to tear down a fence protecting the building.

Law enforcement tweeted that at least 25 people had been arrested in the riot, and one officer hospitalised "with a leg injury caused by an explosive".


Officers from the Special Response Team of the US Customs and Border Protection were previously deployed to Seattle, under orders from the Trump administration.

The protests were joined by the Wall of Moms group who claimed that they "marched peacefully until SPD and unmarked Federal Contractors tear gassed a bunch of moms, allies, and youth" on Saturday.

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'Virtually all white people contribute to racism': Treasury Department lectures white employees as part of 'Diversity Training'

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has been using so-called "anti-racism" training to tell white employees that "virtually all" of them "contribute to racism" and that they cannot object if a person of color "responds to their oppression in a way you don't like."

The training materials were sent by a whistleblower to Director of the Center of Wealth & Poverty Christopher Rufo, who is also the contributing editor of City Journal. Rufo produced a Twitter thread to disseminate what he found, calling the training documents "deeply disturbing - and an affront to equality."

The training, called "Difficult Conversations about Race," is aimed at white employees at the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and National Credit Union Administration, Rufo tweeted. The goal of the training, he wrote, is to convert "everyone in the federal government" to "antiracism."

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Best of the Web: "Honey, I shrunk the people's constitutional rights!" How administrative tribunals are replacing constitutional courts

Rosemary Frei
OffGuardian
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 06:02 UTC
Canada Charter
Chris Weisdorf was penalized for parking improperly in December 2017 and he decided to fight the fine. But he slammed up against legal structures that give virtually unchecked power to untold numbers of administrators around the world who oversee and enforce everything from parking regulations to public-health edicts.

The parking-ticket system in Toronto, Ontario - where Weisdorf had committed his offense - had been replaced with an Administrative Penalty System (APS). The bylaw creating APS was billed as streamlining the court system. After very little public consultation and notice it was approved overwhelmingly by Toronto city council in July 2017 (there appears to no longer be a record online of the council vote).

The bylaw contains Orwellian redefinitions designed to wriggle traffic- and parking-law violations out of the category of what the Supreme Court of Canada views as criminal offenses and into the administrative category — and along with that, defendants out of the purview of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the core of the Canadian constitution.

The bylaw's redefinitions include calling offenses 'infractions,' defendants 'customers' and parking tickets 'parking violation notices.' And in what Weisdorf calls "a legal oxymoron for the ages," monetary penalties are deemed to be 'not punitive.'
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Indiana Sheriffs refuse to enforce Statewide mask order that makes not wearing one punishable by 6 months in jail

Jocelyn Grzeszczak
Newsweek
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Sheriffs in four Indiana counties have said their departments will not enforce a statewide mask mandate announced this week by the governor.
Hamilton county, Indiana sheriff on masks
The sheriffs in Sullivan, Hamilton, Delaware and Johnson counties expressed concern that the executive order was not passed by elected state legislators. "The announced order has not been introduced as a bill in the General Assembly and our legislators are not in session," Hamilton County Sheriff Dennis Quakenbush said in a statement.

He added, "The General Assembly could be called into session by the Governor if the 'public welfare shall require it,' but this critical step has not taken place."

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3 killed as small plane crashes into apartment block in Germany


RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:32 UTC
plane crash germany
© Reuters / Leon KuegelerRescuers are seen at the scene where an ultra-light aircraft has crashed into a residential building in Wesel.
An ultralight plane has smashed into the roof of a five-story residential building in the town of Wesel in northwestern Germany. At least three people were killed in the crash, with two others injured, including a child.

The plane caught fire after the crash. Photos from the scene show thick white smoke coming from the roof, but not the aircraft itself as the debris may have remained inside the building. Firefighters extinguished the blaze by noon on Saturday.

The victims haven't been identified yet, police in the town located near the border with the Netherlands said. It's also unclear if the pilot was among those killed.

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New abnormal: Wales bans phone calls and reading on public transport over 'coronavirus concerns'


Metro
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC
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© RexWales has banned people on public transport from chatting on the phone, reading newspapers, or eating and drinking while on public trains and buses
Wales has banned people on public transport from chatting on the phone, reading newspapers, or eating and drinking while on public trains and buses.

In the Welsh government's guidance for restarting public transport, published earlier this week, a number of new measures have been introduced including 'no "loud" activities in public transport (like singing)'.

It also bans the use of mobile phones for calls on public transport unless in the case of an emergency. Both of these measures are in place in order to 'reduce potential aerosol transmission' of the virus.

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Trump admin tried to block documentary release showing ICE agents illegal actions to arrest immigrants w/o criminal records

Charles Davis
Business Insider
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:06 UTC
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© ReutersICE officers detain suspect in Los Angeles, CA
The Trump administration fought to prevent the release of a new Netflix documentary that provides a behind-the-scenes look at its immigration policy in action, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau began work on the project soon after President Trump was inaugurated, embedding with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and given "rare access to parts of the country's powerful immigration enforcement machinery that are usually invisible to the public," The Times reported.

Although the project was approved by ICE leadership, the Trump administration sought to block the release of the final product until after the 2020 election — and to prevent the release of certain segments altogether.
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