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Portland protesters battling federal police to sound of Star Wars' Imperial March


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:31 UTC
Federal law enforcement officers are seen during a demonstration against the presence of federal law enforcement officers and racial inequality in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
© REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
Chaotic scenes outside Portland's federal courthouse were given a snarky soundtrack by a demonstrator who showed up to the fracas armed with a stereo. The city has seen nightly clashes between police and protesters.

Footage taken by New York Times correspondent Mike Baker shows activists and federal agents fighting over control of a fence guarding the building in downtown Portland, which has been under siege by demonstrators for nearly two months.

Protesters used projectiles and laser pointers against federal law enforcement tasked with protecting the courthouse, who in turn deployed tear gas to keep the mob at bay.

During the skirmish, one protester deployed a loudspeaker hooked up to a car to blast out the iconic 'Imperial March' from 'Star Wars', presumably as a cheeky way to paint police as Darth Vader-serving stormtroopers.
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Portland: Business owner targeted by looters tells RT 'failed leadership' has created a 'warzone'


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:19 UTC
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© Facebook / Noha Khouri KassabThe interior of Nouri Kassab's family business
A Portland jeweler whose store was ransacked amid ongoing protests has lashed out at local officials, saying they have failed to adequately respond to looting and that, as a result, the city has changed for the worse.

Noha Kassab's family-owned business lost nearly $1 million in merchandise after a mob broke into her store on May 31. In an interview with RT, Kassab, whose jewelry store has been a fixture in downtown Portland for more than three decades, said that she no longer recognizes the city.
It's not the Portland we know. It's not the city we've been doing business in for over 30 years. It's just boarded up streets, a lot of graffiti, destruction everywhere and it's just not the Portland we know.
The city "looks like a warzone," the jeweler said, adding that she was uncertain about the future of downtown Portland.

Comment: The blame can squarely be laid at the feet of that spineless worm, "Mayor" Ted Wheeler, who has spent his incumbency kowtowing to the woke mobs he has allowed to infest the city he is supposed to be serving.

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The Jewish National Fund 'charity' isn't planting trees, it's uprooting Palestinians

Jonathan Cook
The National
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:59 UTC
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© David Shulman / Peace NowThe Sumarin family's could be the latest case of Palestinians being evicted from their property.
The Jewish National Fund has won plaudits for its environmental work, but its agenda has been to evict on behalf of the state

The Jewish National Fund, established more than 100 years ago, is perhaps the most venerable of the international Zionist organisations. Its recent honorary patrons have included prime ministers, and it advises UN forums on forestry and conservation issues.

It is also recognised as a charity in dozens of western states. Generations of Jewish families, and others, have contributed to its fundraising programmes, learning as children to drop saved pennies into its trademark blue boxes to help plant a tree.

And yet its work over many decades has been driven by one main goal: to evict Palestinians from their homeland.

The JNF is a thriving relic of Europe's colonial past, even if today it wears the garb of an environmental charity.
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Dominoes

NY Times has found the REAL culprit in the racial achievement gap: 'Nice White Parents'


RT
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:05 UTC
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The New York Times is launching a podcast series that appears to blame "Nice White Parents" for longstanding issues with the US public school system, deflecting responsibility off incompetent officials onto the bogeyman du jour.

The paper of record debuted a sample of its "Nice White Parents" podcast on Thursday, promoted as a miniseries "about the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block." Spoiler alert: the white parents are the bad guys.

Set to upbeat music, the teaser tells the story of a group of white New York City parents who lobbied heavily in 1963 for the Board of Education to move a planned new school from the proposed site, close to a housing project, to a new site closer to a white neighborhood so kids of all races could attend school together. This was less than a decade after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision struck down "separate but equal" and rendered segregation effectively illegal, and "integration" was one of the hottest issues of the day.

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JK Rowling receives apology from children's site after threatening legal action over claims she 'harmed trans people'

Adam White
Independent
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:55 UTC
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Site aimed at schoolchildren implied Harry Potter author was 'deeply unpleasant'.

JK Rowling has received an apology from a children's news site after she threatened legal action over its claim that she had harmed transgender people.

On 10 June, The Day, a site aimed at schoolchildren, published an article under the headline "Potterheads cancel Rowling after trans tweet".

Comment: As Rowling illustrates, if you stand up to these ideologues they fold like a cheap deck of cards.

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Home of prominent Ukrainian anti-corruption activist burned down in suspected arson


RFE/RL
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:59 UTC
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Ukrainian anti-corruption campaigner Vitaliy Shabunin speaks with journalists in front of his gutted house in Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on law enforcement to find those responsible for a suspected arson attack on the home of a prominent anti-corruption activist that has caused deep concern among Western countries.

Vitaliy Shabunin, who serves as the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center's executive board, showed reporters on July 23 the remains of his home in the capital, Kyiv, which burned down overnight.

"The culprits must be found and punished," Zelenskiy said in a statement, adding that such attacks "cast a shadow on the reputation of our state, on our institutions of power, and especially on our law enforcement agencies."

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Best of the Web: Lockdowns DON'T work! Study claims forced stay-at-home orders were not associated with lower coronavirus deaths in countries around the world

Ben Spencer and Vanessa Chalmers
Daily Mail
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:12 UTC
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Lockdowns have not had a big impact on coronavirus death rates around the world, scientists have claimed.

Dozens of countries have been forced to tell people to stay home and close shops in a bid to stop the Covid-19 pandemic since it broke out in January.

But now a study has claimed the drastic measures don't even work. They found whether a country was locked down or not was 'not associated' with death rate.

Instead the health of each nation before the pandemic largely played a role, including obesity rates and age.

It could explain why countries such as Britain - with some of Europe's worst obesity rates - have had such a high death toll.

The early closure of international borders seemed to lower cases, but did not translate to real lives saved.

The study compared mortality rates and cases in 50 different countries worst hit by the pandemic up until May 1.

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Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to 'smear Epstein victims' and stall investigation

Josh Boswell
Daily Mail
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:55 UTC
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Ghislaine Maxwell hired fake news purveyor and accused felon Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of her and Jeffrey Epstein, Wohl's former friend has told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview
Ghislaine Maxwell hired fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to smear her and Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, a former friend has told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.

As part of a $25,000 deal made in June, Wohl and his lobbyist colleague Jack Burkman also allegedly pushed to get New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who had led Epstein's case, fired in order to stall or stop the criminal investigation into Maxwell.

Wohl and Burkman are far-right lobbyists who have become a laughing stock in DC after several failed attempts to smear top political figures including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Cruz, Robert Mueller and Dr. Anthony Fauci by paying women to make false claims of sordid affairs and drug-dealing.

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Face masks mandatory in Melbourne, police "will not hesitate to issue fines"

Imogen Dewey
9news
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:38 UTC
Melbourne
© NinePeople in Melbourne will be required to wear a face mask in public from today.
Victoria Police are now issuing $200 on-the-spot fines to anyone not wearing face masks in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire, after new rules for anyone leaving their home became mandatory at midnight.Officers will enforce the new rule as part of their daily patrols but will exercise discretion over the next seven days, they said.

"We understand that for many people this is a significant adjustment," Commissioner Shane Patton said.

The vast majority of Victorians are trying to do the right thing and our exercise of discretion will reflect that.

"That said, we do expect people to follow the Chief Health Officer's directions and will not hesitate to issue fines to people who are obviously and blatantly showing a disregard for community safety by failing to wear a mask."Victoria recorded 484 new infections yesterday, the highest number for the state since the pandemic began.

Comment: Melburnians need to ask themselves whether the hystericized claims add up and whether it's worth destroying their economy over: Australia faces largest economic deficit since WWII following lockdown

See also: And 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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Ice Cube calls on Hollywood studios to make amends for years-long mistreatment of Black artists

Tyler McCarthy
Fox News
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:50 UTC
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© Getty ImagesIce Cube called for a form of reparations to be adopted by Hollywood studios.
Ice Cube called on Hollywood studios to implement a form of reparations to help make up for years of mistreatment of Black artists in the entertainment industry.

The rapper and actor has taken a step outside his usual creative endeavors to help pen a document that he named "A Contract with Black America" that seeks to address police brutality in the United States and aims to dismantle larger pockets of systemic racism. Cube said the document in its current form is unfinished and he's looking to gather more experts and thinkers to help perfect it. Once he's done so, he plans to present it to both Democratic and Republican leaders.

Speaking on "The Breakfast Club," the artist touched on several aspects that the contract addresses. Late in the interview, host Angela Yee asked him about representation in Hollywood. He said he believes Hollywood has mistreated the Black community for years and studios eager to make up for that should give money to establish Black-run studios so that they can tell their stories unencumbered by the typical Hollywood system.

Comment: A better headline: 'Washed-up gangsta rapper Ice Cube thinks Hollywood should give him money".

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