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Best of the Web: Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar 'in solidarity with Black Lives Matter'

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Also pledges to decolonize the writing center.

The English Department at Rutgers University recently announced a list of "anti-racist" directives and initiatives for the upcoming fall and spring semesters, including an effort to deemphasize traditional grammar rules.

The initiatives were spelled out by Rebecca Walkowitz, the English Department chair at Rutgers University, and sent to faculty, staff and students in an email, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.

Walkowitz sent the email on "Juneteenth," which celebrates the commemoration of emancipation from slavery in the United States.

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Best of the Web: Men's Rights attorney and advocate Marc Angelucci slain by hitman disguised as delivery driver

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On the Saturday before last, July 11, just before 4 pm, my dear and wonderful friend Marc Angelucci was at his home in Glenwood Drive, Cedar Pines Park, California with friends.

There was a knock at the door.

One of his friends' answered, but the delivery man said he had a package that Angelucci needed to sign for.

Marc went to the door.

Shots were fired.

A car sped away.

His friends called for help.

Paramedics arrived.

Angelucci was pronounced dead at the scene.

On a Saturday afternoon, at his own front door, formidable lawyer Marc Angelucci, 52, was murdered.

Comment: The above article was published on Monday, July 20th. Just a few hours earlier, on Sunday July 19th, a hitman disguised as a FedEx delivery driver shot dead the son of Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Angelucci was assassinated a week earlier on July 11th. (Note one difference between the two: in Angelucci's case, the hitman specifically requested that he come to the door to sign for a package; in Salas' case, the hitman did not appear to request Esther Salas herself.)

Now the media is linking the two deaths - which obviously are linked, given the shared modus operandi - but with the somewhat spurious suggestion - based on leaks from "anonymous law enforcement officials" - that their suspect in the Salas home attack was "men's rights attorney and activist" Roy Den Hollander, that he "held a grudge" against Salas, and now, despite shared interests as "men's rights attorneys", that he also "held a grudge" against Angelucci (according to "a friend of the family").

The Atlantic has in the meantime published a synopsis of "thousands of pages written by Hollander, and uploaded in bulk to the Internet Archive." The outlet provides no links to this content, and no screenshots, so we have to trust them that this "manifesto" is indeed out there somewhere. A search of the username Atlantic provided ("Roy17den") on "the Internet Archive", by which Atlantic presumably means this site, yields no such "thousands of pages of documents.")

Granting The Atlantic the benefit of doubt by assuming that the content is indeed written by Hollander, then he did seem like a "man on a mission" to "show Feminazis what's what." More than that, some of the quotes selected by Atlantic suggests a highly unstable individual - so unstable that he claims to have "contacted my buddies at the GRU" in order to "get those Clinton emails for Trump in 2016."

If an attorney-at-law involved in some fairly high-level cases in the USA were seeking to attract the FBI's attention, the CIA's attention, the NSA's attention, and the Mueller Investigation's attention, that is precisely what he would write and publish online. And yet it never landed him in hot water. Clearly then, anything that is claimed to have been written or said by Hollander - who is now dead remember, and thus cannot contest it - must be treated as suspect.

So what are we, for now, looking at?

Three dead bodies - one the son of a judge, the other two attorneys - all ostensibly connected by men's rights issues. Look deeper though and the judge in question was 4 days into investigating Jeffrey Epstein's banking with Deutsche Bank, while the now-dead suspect in both killings has a history with a US-Israeli-linked private intelligence firm.


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New York Post: Roy Den Hollander, the 'FedEx killer', had photos and address of NY Chief Judge Janet DiFiore in his car

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A top New York judge may also have been in the cross hairs of "anti-feminist" lawyer Roy Den Hollander — her photo was found in the car where he killed himself, officials revealed Tuesday.

Now, Janet DiFiore, the Empire State's chief judge, is being guarded in the wake of the unnerving find, made after Den Hollander fatally shot a New Jersey federal jurist's son and wounded her husband before taking his own life, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

"In the car that the body was found [in], they also saw a picture of our Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, her name and her address, so I have directed the state police to provide security for our chief judge," Cuomo told reporters in a conference call.

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Australia faces largest economic deficit since WWII following lockdown

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© Alex EllinghausenTreasurer Josh Frydenberg: "We can see the mountain ahead and Australia begins to climb. We must remain strong."
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has revealed the budget will be in the red by $85.8 billion in 2019-20 and $184.5 billion in 2020-21, marking the biggest deficit since World War II due to drastic spending to mitigate the damage from the coronavirus pandemic.

At a special budget update on Thursday, the first since December, Mr Frydenberg said the unemployment rate was expected to reach 9.25 per cent in the December quarter, while GDP would contract by 0.25 per cent in 2019-20 and shrink 2.5 per cent in 2020-21.

The economic downturn has cost the budget $32.4 billion in 2019-20 and $72.2 billion in 2020-21. Tax receipts are down $31.7 billion in 2019-20 and $63.9 billion in 2020-21.

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Manhunt for father after deaths of daughters who were subject of Amber Alert UPDATE: Father found dead, possible suicide

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The Surete du Quebec (SQ) has confirmed that the bodies found by a search and rescue team in a wooded area of Saint-Apollinaire on Saturday are those of Romy and Norah Carpentier.

An Amber Alert had been issued for Romy, six, and Norah, 11, in Levis, south of Quebec City on Thursday. It was lifted earlier Saturday when the bodies were found. The girls had gone missing along with their father Martin Carpentier, 44, after a crash on Highway 20.

The search continues for the father. In a tweet Saturday night, the SQ wrote that all necessary resources had been deployed for the manhunt, including helicopters, ATV patrollers and dog handlers.

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From CTV News:
Martin Carpentier's body found, showing signs he died by suicide, police say
Selena Ross and Amanda Kline
Last Updated Tuesday, July 21, 2020 5:35PM EDT

Quebec provincial police say they've located the body of a man that appears to be Martin Carpentier, the subject of a manhunt lasting nearly two weeks after his two young daughters were found dead.

Indications are Carpentier died by suicide, police said in an announcement on Twitter.

"Following information received from a citizen, the body of a man was found in the Saint-Apollinaire sector at around 7 p.m.," tweeted the Surete du Quebec.

"All signs suggest that it's Martin Carpentier. According to initial findings, he took his own life."

They said they would not be releasing a further statement at the moment.


Carpentier, 44, was sought after he disappeared along with his two daughters, Norah and Romy, ages 11 and six, on July 8.

The two girls' bodies were found in the same wooded area July 11. Their funeral was held today in Levis.

Police spent nearly two weeks exhaustively searching a 50-square-kilometre area for signs of Carpentier and asking local residents to search their property.

They said Carpentier had broken into a trailer at one point and appeared to be scavenging for food and supplies to survive.

For Saint-Apollinaire locals, it was a relief to hear the search was over, their mayor told CTV News on Monday.

The small town, which is about a 20-minute drive south of Quebec City, had been inundated by police and it had been hard on everyone, said Saint-Apollinaire Mayor Bernard Ouellet. More than that, they were living in fear, he said.

"Even though it's bad news this individual has died, for the population it's very good. Their worries can start to ease," said Ouellet.

"They've been really scared of this man -- we didn't know if he was dangerous or not."

In another sense it was a shame he was found dead, Ouellet said.

"For the family, it's different," he said. "For the family, the mother... unfortunately they won't have a full explanation. That's awful."

Police had spent the last few days warning the public not to expect Carpentier to be found alive.

On Saturday, they called off the ground search, saying today they believed there was very little chance he could have survived this long given the conditions.

"Since July 8, the date on which we found Martin Carpentier's damaged vehicle, we have received, processed, validated and analyzed more than 1,000 reports," police said at the time.

"We have searched over 700 addresses, outbuildings, cottages and other places to locate or find clues."

Police have said Carpentier and his daughters were seen in their hometown of Levis, Que., and about an hour later, they were believed to be involved in a serious car crash on Highway 20 in Saint-Apollinaire.

But when police arrived, no one was inside the wrecked vehicle and an Amber Alert was triggered the following day for the missing girls.



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Head of Denver Police Union reveals there was RETREAT ORDER when Michelle Malkin's Back the Blue Rally was attacked

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Journalist and conservative icon Michelle Malkin has revealed that the Denver Police were under a retreat order when the Back the Blue rally she was speaking at was attacked by Antifa.

Sunday's rally was attacked by violent leftists leaving several people injured, as police did almost nothing to prevent violence or protect the crowd.

On Wednesday, Malkin tweeted that Nick Rogers, the head of Denver's police union, revealed that the incident commander handling the event ordered officers to retreat.

Comment: Makes one wonder why anyone would be marching to support the police when the police obviously don't want the support. That's hardly the gratitude one would expect.

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Arrow Up

Germany bans full-face coverings in schools

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Baden-Württemberg will now ban full-face coverings for all school children. State Premier Winfried Kretschmann said burqas and niqabs did not belong in a free society. A similar rule for teachers was already in place.

The government of the western German state of Baden-Württemberg agreed on Tuesday to ban full-face coverings, often known as burqa or niqab, in schools.

The new rule comes as the topic of Muslim face coverings has been hotly debated in Germany and follows a ruling by a court in Hamburg that reversed that city's own ban.

Baden-Württemberg's city council's decision to ban full-face coverings, typically worn by ultra-conservative Muslim girls, matches the ban for teachers that is already in effect.

Comment: Common sense prevails when it comes to acceptable religious attire, meanwhile governments throughout the Western world have only just begun muzzling their citizens all in the name of a harmless virus: A Scientific Look at The Mask Fallacy - And Why We're Told to Wear Them


Attention

When will the madness end?

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I was sitting in the green room in a Manhattan television studio on the day that the storm seemed to hit. It was Thursday, March 12, 2020, and I was waiting anxiously for a TV appearance, hoping that the trains wouldn't shut down before I could leave the city. The trains never did shut but half of everything else did.

On this day, everyone knew what was coming. There was disease panic in the air, fomented mostly by the media and political figures. A month earlier, the idea of lockdown was unthinkable, but now it seemed like it could happen, at any moment.

A thin, wise-looking bearded man with Freud-style glasses sat down across from me, having just left the studio. He was there to catch his breath following his interview but he looked deeply troubled.

"There is fear in the air," I said, breaking the silence.

"Madness is all around us. The public is adopting a personality disorder I've been treating my whole career."

"What is it that you do?" I asked.

Attention

Lockdown may cost 200,000 lives in United Kingdom

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Research shines a light on the reasons why the Government has been keen to lift lockdown, in spite of experts claiming it happened too soon

More than 200,000 people could die from the impact of lockdown and protecting the NHS, an official government report shows.

As national restrictions were imposed, experts from the Department of Health, the Office of National Statistics (ONS), the government's Actuary Department and the Home Office forecast the collateral damage from delays to healthcare and the effects of recession arising from the pandemic response.

It estimated that in a reasonable worst case scenario, around 50,000 people would die from coronavirus in the first six months of the pandemic, with mitigation measures in place.

But in the report published in April they calculated that up to 25,000 could die from delays to treatment in the same period and a further 185,000 in the medium to long term — amounting to nearly one million years of life lost.

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'The world is going back to a gold standard as the US dollar is about to collapse' - Peter Schiff

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As the world grapples with Covid-19, precious metals' prices are pushing higher. Massive moves in gold and silver are coming, according to veteran stockbroker Peter Schiff.

He says silver may hit $50 per ounce. The rally will be short-lived, however, with Schiff describing the metal as "the new bitcoin."

The rise in gold and silver price is "about to explode" and this is just the beginning of a much bigger move, according to Schiff.

"We're barely getting started," the CEO of Euro Pacific said in his podcast. He explained that is also coinciding with what's happening to the US dollar, because gold is the greenback's "principle competitor" when it comes to reserve assets.