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Georgia declares state of emergency, calls up National Guard following months of rioting and crimewave


WRDW
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 12:02 UTC
Georgia
Governor of the US Georgia State Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency following an uptick in shootings over the July Fourth weekend that injured 31 people and killed five after weeks of violent crime and property destruction in Atlanta.
Georgia is under a state of emergency this morning after a violent holiday weekend, with Gov. Brian Kemp activating 1,000 National Guard troops under a new executive order signed Monday.

Although the order followed a spike in violent crime over the Fourth of July weekend, recent protests calling for police reform and racial justice played a large part in the executive order.

Here's a look at what's in the order:

Where will the troops be?
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Snakes in Suits

Robert De Niro's high-end restaurants and hotels took 14 coronavirus relief program loans worth $28million while he bashed Trump

Alana Mastrangelo
Breitbart
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 23:09 UTC
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Nobu, the posh, high-end restaurant and hotel chain — backed by left-wing actor and raging Trump-basher Robert De Niro — took more than a dozen loans from the Trump administration's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

In DeNiro's eyes, President Trump is a "mean-spirited, soulless, amoral, abusive con-artist son of a bitch." But that didn't stop one of the actor's prime investments from using the Trump administration's loan program for cash, a loan program meant to help keep small business wrecked by the Chinese coronavirus financially afloat.

The Nobu chain of luxury restaurants and hotels took 14 loans from the U.S. small business relief program for as much as $28 million, which went toward properties across the country, from California, to Texas, to New York, according to a report by CNBC. Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa — the celebrity chef and owner of the restaurant chain — has a net worth of $200 million. Meanwhile, Robert De Niro — who co-founded it — is worth an estimated $500 million.

Comment: News outlet Media Matters also raked in as much as $2 million in coronavirus relief loans as the left-wing blog slammed the Trump administration's coronavirus response.

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From everyday language to the worlds of Shakespeare and Austin, MSM finds racism everywhere


RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 22:46 UTC
everything is racist
CNN has taken cancel culture to a new level, pushing to police everyday language, some of which has nothing to do with racism, and they are not the only mainstream media outlet raising alarms with critics of political correctness.

Some of the terms called into question by one of the network's latest 'thinkpieces' are acknowledged as having origins rooted in racism like "sold down the river," but others have no connection to it.

For example, "master bedrooms/bathrooms," terms some realtors have retired in light of protests against racism across the world, are phrases that were first used in 1926, decades after slavery was abolished in the US, a fact the piece waves off.

"It's unclear whether the term is rooted in American slavery on plantations, it evokes that history," the CNN story reads.

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City of Toronto bans Holy Communion in churches, but rioting is fine!

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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Greek Orthodox Church in Toronto as priest explains to his people that Communion is forbidden by the city authorities.
There are two things that the priest in this video said that were correct. One was, "we are not worthy to receive Holy Communion." That is a statement every single Orthodox Christian can agree with. But it is different when we say it and hopefully mean what we say, that we may be grateful to the Lord for allowing us to receive it anyway. But not so in this church in Toronto. Here, by order of the city, the church had to not give Holy Communion. The presiding priest is clearly heartbroken:


The second thing was what we hear earlier in the video clip. "The persecution of the Church continues." And, in liberal Toronto this appears to be exactly the case. The Church shown here is a Greek Orthodox community, but the video appears to be unlisted so there is no information about exactly which parish it is or who the priest is.

What is maddening about this is that the priest did not decide to obey God rather than men and do it anyway. This would have been the right action. What is nevertheless good is that the priest is humble, not arrogant, and simply ascribes this horrific order to the state of the believers themselves, including himself, that "we have so little faith, we do not deserve this miracle." And he would be right in that.

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NPC

Halle Berry forced to apologize after going for the 'Oscar bait' with transgender role, misgendering character


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:55 UTC
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Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has been forced to issue a Twitter apology amid ferocious backlash after she revealed she was considering an upcoming film role as a transgender man.

In a Friday Instagram Live interview with hair stylist Christin Brown, in which the pair discussed whether Berry would ever wear her hair short again, the Oscar-winner revealed she might do so for one particular role.

"I'm thinking of a character where this woman is transgender," Berry said. "She's a woman that transitioned into a man."

However, the 53-year-old actress neglected to use the correct pronouns when discussing the role, which irked the trans activist community even more.
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USA

Where are the protests? Firearms overtake fireworks as shootings over July 4th weekend leave scores dead in big US cities

Tony Cox
RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:04 UTC
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© REUTERS/Lawrence BryantFireworks explodes over a protestor with his hands up during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, May 30, 2020.
The Independence Day weekend turned deadly across the US as 77 people were shot in Chicago alone, continuing a spate of violence that has plagued largely black neighborhoods amid anti-racism protests focused on police brutality.

Between July 3 and July 5, 13 people were fatally shot in Chicago. The latest violence wasn't out of character in a city that earned the nickname "Chiraq" - likening the bloodshed to that in war-torn Iraq - and where around 80 percent of homicide victims each year are black, according to police data.

Father's Day weekend last month saw 104 shootings and 14 dead.

The city suffered its deadliest day in at least six decades on May 31, when 18 people were killed. Chicago had 1,384 shootings in the first six months of 2020, a 45 percent increase from the same point in 2019, according to police figures.

New York City, Atlanta, Milwaukee and other large US cities also registered a spike in violence in recent weeks. The Big Apple had 30 shootings, including 10 fatalities, on July 5 alone. NYPD responded to a 20-year high of 205 shooting incidents in June, compared with 89 a year earlier.

The carnage is taking place at the same time that activist group Black Lives Matter is leading anti-racism protests across the US, after 46-year-old black man George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.
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Red Pill

Plot twist! The coronavirus is NOT CHINESE, says famed British epidemiologist... but his reputation precedes him


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC
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One of the world's leading epidemiologists thinks the coronavirus may not actually have originated in China, with samples of Covid-19 surfacing from Spain in early 2019. The coronavirus story keeps getting stranger...

Dr Tom Jefferson is a British epidemiologist working for the Cochrane Collaboration's acute respiratory infections group. He also works at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University. In an interview with the Telegraph that is already sending shockwaves through the scientific community, he has promoted an alternative view of the coronavirus' origins. Jefferson believes that the virus lay dormant, possibly for years, before bursting into action late last year.

He points to a growing body of evidence involving traces of coronavirus turning up in sewage samples, from Europe to South America. The amazing thing about these samples is that they appear to pre-date the first instances of Covid-19 in Wuhan, the Chinese city of its purported origin.
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USA

Neither 'dark' nor 'divisive, Trump's Independence Day speech was American

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump
© C-SPANUS President Donald J. Trump, Fourth of July, 2020, Mount Rushmore
This cacophony comes from a sliver of society, with their voices amplified by a media selling an election year controversy to cripple President Trump.

Donald Trump did not launch the latest culture war: The left-leaning press, political foes, Marxist-believing activists, and corporate and educational institutions did. When President Trump stood before a patriotic crowd on Friday night, under the watchful eyes of our country's greatest presidents, his pronouncement that the silent majority will not retreat or surrender our founding principles was not divisive. It was American.

On the eve of Independence Day, our 45th president proclaimed the truths on which our country was founded. He reminded listeners that
"our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity" by enshrining the "divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: '...all men are created equal.'"
Then, to the horror of the leftists who seek to destroy this country, Trump continued:
"Our founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away - ever."
His 40-minute speech replayed this pivot many times. First came a celebratory truism overwhelmingly applauded by Americans. Then came Trump's juxtaposition of those values with the extremist left's latest beliefs and actions, which the president coupled with a resolute vow to defeat.

"Today, we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt," Trump began. The cheers followed. In another year and under another president, the entire nation would have rallied along.

Comment: See also: American Independence Day 2020: Trump delivers epic speech against totalitarianism at Mount Rushmore

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Turley: Myth of the Boston Tea Party

Jonathan Turley
The Hill
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 10:00 UTC
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As the country celebrates Independence Day, many Americans will view monuments that have been toppled, defaced, or entombed in protective fencing. Businesses across the nation have been vandalized or boarded up, creating a surreal landscape for many this holiday.

Most protesters did not engage in rioting or looting. Yet the only thing more maddening than random destruction is an increasingly common media rationalization that the rioters are the new Boston Tea Party patriots continuing a tradition of property damage as a form of political speech. These rioters have as much in common with the Boston Tea Party as the antifa movement has with the antifederalists.

The rationalization is not new. After violence in Ferguson in 2014, Yale University hired Black Lives Matter figure Deray Mckesson to lecture on "transformative leadership." His course included reading about looting as being a "righteous tactic." He defended property damage as a tradition dating to the Boston Tea Party. Many in the media have raised the analogy, including Don Lemon, who recently chastised anyone judging the rioting because "this is how this country started."

Even some academics have given these crimes the license of history or patriotism. Northwestern University professor Steven Thrasher wrote that "property destruction for social change is as American as the Boston Tea Party." These statements misrepresent history. Consider five conflicts.
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Pompeo: We're 'certainly looking' to ban TikTok, along with other Chinese social media apps


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:23 UTC
TicTok Pompeo
© Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Susan Walsh/KJNUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed Washington is considering a ban on Chinese social media apps, including the ultra-popular TikTok, apparently inspired by a similar ban in India and Australia's threat to do the same.

Speaking with Fox News, Pompeo affirmed "we're certainly looking at" banning TikTok and other Chinese apps, following the lead of India, which banned 59 Chinese apps after border skirmishes with Beijing, and Australia, which has threatened to do the same. Americans should download the apps "only if you want your information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party," he smirked.

Comment: Why should China have access to the same cache of private information on Americans that the US government and its conglomerate lackeys pilfer and covet? Geez!

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