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Bay Area city washes away BLM street art after resident asks for MAGA 2020 painting


SFgate.com
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:47 UTC
Protesters kneel
© Nhat V. Meyer/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty ImagesProtesters kneel in downtown Redwood City, CA
Roughly two weeks after a massive Black Lives Matter street painting appeared in downtown Redwood City, Calif., it was washed away - leaving the asphalt without a trace of the message's familiar bright yellow paint. But unlike in other cities where vandals targeting BLM murals have been arrested and even charged with a hate crime, this time it was the city that suddenly removed the artwork.

Despite granting permission for the temporary street art and even providing the paint for the July 4 project, officials in the Northern California city ordered the painting removed from its prime location late last week, KPIX reported.

City spokeswoman Jennifer Yamaguma told The Washington Post in a statement early Wednesday:
"Staff is concerned about public safety issues that may arise from painting murals on its public streets, which could result in driver confusion and traffic accidents. Thus, the existing mural has been removed from Broadway and no further art installation will be authorized on the City's streets."
But supporters of the artwork, who have expressed outrage over its removal, point to another factor they say actually prompted the city to take action: one resident's request to paint "MAGA 2020" along the same stretch of street.
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California officials free 'Mr. Rape, Torture, Kill' sex offender from mental hospital

John Binder
Breitbart
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:55 UTC
Cary Jay Smith
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California state officials have freed a sex offender considered "dangerous" from a mental hospital where he spent more than 20 years there in confinement.

Cary Jay Smith, 59 years old, was released from the Coalinga State Hospital this month after being in state custody since 1999. Smith was originally placed in state custody after his wife provided evidence of her husband's intentions to sexually abuse a seven-year-old boy in their Costa Mesa neighborhood.

During hearings every six years, Smith has said that he goes by the name "Mr. RTK," which stands for "Mr. Rape, Torture, Kill" and has claimed to have murdered three boys and sexually abused 200 others. Smith has said he fantasizes about raping and killing boys.
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Bad Guys

Rebellion brewing? Regional UK police force announces they won't stop shoppers for not wearing masks

Ross Ibbetson
The Daily Mail
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:21 UTC
UK police face masks
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A police force has announced they won't crack down on shoppers not wearing masks in stores after retailers also said their staff would not intervene. Devon and Cornwall police said its officers don't have time to respond to calls about the face coverings, unless they involve a public order offence.

From Friday, masks will be mandatory for people going to shops and other enclosed places in England, with £100 fines in place for non-compliance.

Scotland imposed a facemask rule for shop-goers on July 10, while the devolved governments of Northern Ireland and Wales are still keeping it under review.

Comment: Good to see common sense is flourishing in the UK countryside.

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Escorted by heavily armed police, Israel demolishes livelihood of local fisherman in Jisr al-Zarqa

Naim Mousa and Wasim Nasser
Mondoweiss
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:44 UTC
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© Naim MousaA sign reading "The State of Israel and Lands Administration Authority/ Entry to this area is prohibited!/ Those who enter do so under their own responsibility and will have to face the consequences" at the demolition of Ali Jurban's fishing shack in Jisr al-Zarqa
A demolition in the Palestinian village of Jisr al-Zarqa highlights the discrimination Palestinian citizens of Israel face on a daily basis

Early in the morning on July 20th the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, escorted by heavily armed police equipped with assault rifles and bullet proof vests, demolished a fishing shack belonging to a local fisherman in the Palestinian village of Jisr al-Zarqa.

After completely destroying the building, the demolition team and police forces abandoned the wreckage, forcing the local fishermen and the building's owner, Ali Jurban (whom they did not notify of the imminent demolition), to clean it up. Adding insult to injury, the costs of the demolition will fall upon Jurban.

Comment: Can we call it apartheid now?

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Arrow Up

More evidence emerges of inflated Covid-19 fatality rates - are we being intimidated?

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:57 UTC
NHS Seacole Centre
© Getty Images / Victoria Jones/PA ImagesA Rehab Support worker checks on patient notes as the first patients are admitted to the NHS Seacole Centre at Headley Court, Surrey, a disused military hospital, which has been converted during the coronavirus pandemic, May 28, 2020
This week we were told that, in the UK at least, anyone who has had a positive Covid test and who then died - from any illness - would be recorded as a coronavirus-related death. No matter when they die.

This means that someone could have tested positive in March, with no symptoms of Covid at all, and who then died in July, would be recorded in the official figures, as having died of Covid-related causes. Even if they were hit by a bus.

Even more weird is the fact that there does not seem to be any time limit to this. So, you could test positive in March 2020, then die in March 2040, and still be recorded as having died of Covid. I doubt this will happen, but it could.

To be honest, I have known something very strange has been going on with the UK data for some time. The UK has not provided any figures on how many people have recovered from Covid-19. In almost all countries, figures are provided on the total number of cases, the total number of deaths, the number of active cases and the number who have recovered.

In the US for example, there have been almost four million cases, over 140,000 deaths and over a million people have officially recovered. In the UK, there have been nearly 300,000 cases, 45,000 deaths - and no recorded recoveries.

In short, in the UK, you cannot ever recover from Covid. Once you've got it, that's it, you've got it. This anomaly has been reported-on before. Here, for instance, from The Guardian in June.

Comment: See also:

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NPC

Time's up kiddies: NYPD clears out 'Occupy City Hall' camp after weeks-long standoff


RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:40 UTC
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© TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFPPolice move out squatters from the New York City Hall encampment
NYPD officers in riot gear, armed with shields and helmets, cleared out the weeks-long 'Occupy City Hall' encampment in Manhattan's City Hall Park overnight. According to the police, it was a planned operation.

Footage from the scene shows the moment officers descended on the camp and warned protesters to leave or be arrested.

There were no reports of major clashes, though some local media say there were at least four arrests during the operation, citing an unnamed NYPD spokesperson. Additional video uploaded to social media shows city workers and garbage trucks clearing the area of debris and trash.

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The Atlantic finally admits its police abolition piece is based on a false narrative

Christopher Bedford
The Federalist
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:49 UTC
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"We called 911 for almost everything except snitching" reads the first line of an Atlantic article, "How I Became a Police Abolitionist," by social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell. Her deeply personal essay, first published July 6 in the Ideas section, tells of her childhood in a polluted neighborhood surrounded by violence and beset by fear, using one particularly disturbing memory of a police officer shooting their cousin, just a "boy," in the arm for skipping the basketball sign-in sheet in front of Purnell and her sister, who had been playing basketball but were forced to hide "in the locker room for hours afterward."

"When people dismiss abolitionists for not caring about victims or safety," she writes, "they tend to forget that we are those victims, those survivors of violence."

"This story means everything to me," Purnell wrote on Facebook later that day. "I cried a lot while writing it."

An investigation by The Federalist encompassing newspaper archives, police department records, questions to The Atlantic, the police union, and the office of the mayor, however, called the story — including facts about the neighborhood, the timeline of the incident, and if the incident described even happened at all — into question.

Four days, six comment requests, and one follow-up story later, The Atlantic issued a series of major corrections that confirmed The Federalist's investigation — and gutted the Purnell's story of the police violence that made her "a police abolitionist," rendering it a story about a private security guard shooting his adult cousin. Although the updated story no longer involves personally motivated and barely punished police violence against children, it now includes mention of a police investigation. Additionally, a contemporary news article uncovered by The Federalist using the updated timeline details pending police charges against the shooter.

Someone in the neighborhood, it appears, called 911.
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Portland protesters barricade courthouse with federal officers inside, then try to set it on fire

Lia Eustachewich
New York Post
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:39 UTC
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© REUTERSA federal law enforcement officer pushes a mother back during a demonstration in Portland, Oregon.
Portland protesters barricaded federal officers inside a courthouse — and tried to set the building on fire — as the two groups clashed again Tuesday night into Wednesday.

As hundreds chanted "Black lives matter" and "Feds go home," a team of protesters propped several wooden beams and sandbags against a door to the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, according to tweets from Clypian, an online news outlet run by South Salem High School students.

Videos posted by Clypian throughout the night show protesters yanking off plywood covering another entrance and the feds launching tear gas and pepper bombs at the crowds. At one point, someone tosses a firework at the officers, which explodes at their feet.

Another video showed the plywood facade of the courthouse — which has been routinely attacked as the feds stand guard inside — on fire, prompting a stream of officers to pour out.


Protests have been raging in Portland for more than 50 days — but tensions between demonstrators and police have escalated in recent days following President Trump's deployment of federal officers to the city.

A total of 114 federal officers were sent to the West Coast city, including from the Federal Protective Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Customs and Border Protection and the US Marshals Service, USA Today reported, citing documents filed Tuesday.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Crackdown coming? Gardaí should call to homes of people who refuse to take Covid-19 test, TD tells Dáil committee


TheJournal.ie
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:03 UTC
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© DMG Media Ireland
The Gardaí may may need to call to people's doors if they refuse to come for a Covid-19 test, a TD has said.

Fine Gael TD Fergus O'Dowd told the Dail Covid-19 committee 1,314 people who are a direct contact of a person who has a confirmed case of Covid-19, have not turned up for a test.

"That seems like a very high figure to me," he told the committee.

O'Dowd said could call to their homes and ask them to take a test as it is a serious public health issue.

He said: "I think it is a huge figure and you need to do more work on it. If it means that the Gardai (may need to) call to them.. You know who these people are - it is not a question that they are unknown.
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The crumbling lawsuit against Fox News

Amber Athey
The Spectator
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:46 UTC
Tucker Carlson
© Fox NewsCathy Areu appears on Tucker Carlson's Fox News program
The latest claims against the network are riddled with basic factual errors

The new lawsuit filed by two women against Fox News and several of its personalities is riddled with inaccuracies. This raises questions about the veracity of its claims. Jennifer Eckhart and Cathy Areu, a former Fox Business producer and frequent network guest, respectively, claim that they suffered sexual misconduct, harassment, and even rape at the hands of Ed Henry, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Howard Kurtz.

The lawsuit immediately made waves in the mainstream media, where it was picked up by the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, CBS News, and other major outlets. It has been a top trending topic on Twitter since its filing. However, a review of several claims made in the suit reveals many basic inaccuracies. A lawyer for Eckhart and Areu admitted to The Spectator that errors were made in the filing, and The Spectator has learned that Carlson's wife was with him the evening Areu claims that he told her he would be alone.

Comment: As has been said previously, putting pressure on corporate advertisers - and thus Fox Corp - to drop two of the last remaining voices of reason on US TV apparently failed, so The Beast has made its next maneuver: Cry rape and raise a mob against them.

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