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Montreal Canada: 100K march for freedom, chant 'USA', fly 'Trump 2020' flags, protest COVID-19 policies


TradeGuru
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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© h/t SailingOnSoundMontreal rally
The number of people marching and chanting U-S-A stun onlookers.

Organizers estimate 100,000 people rallied in Montreal Canada on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020 to "fight for freedom" and protest overbearing COVID-19 restrictions. Several speakers panned fake news and downplayed the seriousness of the virus. Some speakers said the virus is similar to a bad flu. They explained how the Canadian government killed thousands of people by sending COVID-19 patients to senior residences. There were scores of Trump 2020 flags with the slogans "No More Bullshit." There were a handful of signs that read: "Better to die free than to live without freedom."

Many marchers chanted U-S-A for the duration of the march. Watch:


A photo journalist remarked, "It really was crazy how many American and Trump 2020 flags were there for a Canadian protest."
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Quebec City to isolate 'uncooperative' citizens in secret corona facility, visit homes to remove those who violate quarantine

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Isolation
© Anthony Devlin/Getty ImagesIsolation
Authorities in Quebec City, Canada have announced they will isolate "uncooperative" citizens in a coronavirus facility, the location of which remains a secret.

During a press conference, Dr. Jacques Girard, who heads the Quebec City public health authority, drew attention to a case where patrons at a bar were ordered to wait until their COVID-19 tests came back, but disregarded the command and left the premises before the results came back positive. This led to them being deemed "uncooperative" and forcibly interned in a quarantine facility.

Girard remarked during the press conference:
"[W]e may isolate someone for 14 days. And it is what we did this morning...forced a person to cooperate with the investigation...and police cooperation was exceptional."
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Sheriff

Citations issued to 9 of 300 people who demonstrated near McCloskey home

Jim Salter
The Washington Times
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Mark/Patricia McCloskey
© Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/APMark and Patricia McCloskey confront protesters and issued trespassing citations.
Nine protesters have been issued trespassing summonses for marching onto a private St. Louis street in June, a demonstration that prompted a couple to emerge from their home with guns to confront the demonstrators.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey were both charged in July with unlawful use of a weapon in a polarizing case that landed them a spot at the Republican National Convention last month. Police spokeswoman Evita Caldwell on Friday confirmed that nine protesters have been issued summonses but said the St. Louis City Counselor's office is still deciding whether to issue charges on the citations.

The Rev. Darryl Gray, who led the protest, called the citations an attempt to intimidate peaceful protesters:
"We're not going to be threatened, and that's what's happening across this country. You've got local governments and states who are trying to charge protesters, financially charge them, wanting them to pay costs. You've got others who want to make it a law against exercising our First Amendment right."
Gray was not issued a summons.
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Surfer handcuffed on beach for going into sea while infected with coronavirus

Gerard Couzens
Metro.co.uk
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:14 UTC
covid surfer arrest
© SolarpixPolice arrested the woman on La Zurriola beach, city of San Sebastian, Spain.
A woman was arrested on a Spanish beach after going surfing despite testing positive for Covid-19. The woman - who has not been named - worked as a lifeguard at La Concha beach in the northern city of San Sebastian.

Her colleagues were the ones to call police after she was spotted at nearby La Zurriola beach, according to local reports. Pictures show police handcuffing the woman on the sand after pulling her from the water as she surfed.

She was arrested on suspicion of disobedience, after she reportedly ignored officers for several minutes before getting out of the sea. Photos published by a local paper showed two people in hazmat suits escorting the woman across the sand after asking her to put a face mask on.

She is expected to face a heavy fine for breaching strict quarantine rules, which could be up to £5,500. If it is discovered she has passed coronavirus on to another person through her actions, the fine would be more than £100,000.


Comment: From surfing in the ocean, fresh air and catching an accommodating wave to handcuffs, citations and fines - how ridiculous.



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USA

The United States & its Constitution have two months left

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:31 UTC
US constitution
Bob Woodward writes that Trump's Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, and Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, spoke together about taking "collective action" to remove President Trump from office. General Mattis said Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."

This is the same thing that the Generals and the CIA said about President John F. Kennedy.

When Generals and the CIA say that a president is unfit and dangerous, they mean he is dangerous to their budget. By "unfit" they mean he is not a reliable cold warrior who will keep hyping America's enemies so that money keeps pouring into the military/security budget. By serving defense contractors instead of their country, generals end up very wealthy.

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Pumpkin

CNN has had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:11 UTC
CNN sign
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September 11 closed off a rather embarrassing week for CNN. Shortly after the network's chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, published a book condemning Fox News for a "dangerous distortion of the truth," evidence emerged that CNN leaders meddled in a congressional race, offered favors to a presidential candidate in exchange for the promise of a TV show in 2016, and tried to coach President Donald Trump's lawyer on the topic of Stormy Daniels.

But by all means, keep complaining about Fox News. That tactic is sure to hurt your competitor's ratings, right?

Without further ado, here's a round-up of CNN's scandals.

Comment: May the Clinton News Nuthouse have many more such weeks, bleeding into ratings oblivion, with MSNBC not far behind.

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Take 2

Disney's toxic strategy for its Star Wars franchise: Lie, fail, attack the fans

Matthew Kadis
RT
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:58 UTC
Darth Vader
© Gettyimages / Charles McQuillan / Stringer
Lucasfilm's modus operandi of lying to fans and then attacking them for being upset over the lies has been going on since Kathleen Kennedy took over in 2012. Can Star Wars survive this poisonous approach?

On September 8, 2020, the Jimmy Kimmel Live show aired a video of actor Josh Gad interviewing actress Daisy Ridley. Gad, being an ardent Star Wars fan, of course questioned Ridley about her role as Rey in episodes 7-9 of the new Star Wars Trilogy. Gad, in particular, focused on Rey's lineage, asking Ridley if she always knew her character was going to be the granddaughter of the evil Emperor Palpatine. Ridley responded:
"At the beginning, there was toying with an Obi-Wan connection. And then it went to 'she was no one', and then it came to Episode 9 and JJ [Abrams] pitched me the film and was like 'Oh, yeah, Palpatine is granddaddy.' And I was like 'awesome'. And then two weeks later he was like 'Well, we're not sure,' so it kept changing. So then even I think we were filming and I wasn't sure what the answer was going to be."
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Attention

State of denial: From 'never forget' to 'sensitive content', Baylor University gives trigger warning for 9/11 remembrance display on campus


RT
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:55 UTC
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© Twitter / @BaylorYCTBaylor University posted warnings on a Sept. 11 memorial, saying its "sensitive" content could evoke a "wide range" of emotions.
Baylor University administrators found it necessary to add a trigger warning to an annual September 11 memorial that is displayed on campus each year, suggesting that remembrance of the 2001 attacks is no longer a unifying cause.

The prestigious Christian university in Texas placed signs saying "Please be advised: sensitive content," near the memorial, which features 2,977 small American flags lining Baylor's Fountain Mall walkway to honor the people who were killed in the terror attacks.

"These signs amount to nothing short of a trigger warning for an event that should unite all Americans," said Baylor's Young Conservatives of Texas student club, which sets up the memorial each year.

The club demanded Friday that the university formally apologize. "This is incredibly saddening for us to see," the group said. "9/11 is a day that we can forget our political identities and come together to remember those who died and celebrate the triumph of our nation over evil."

The university issued a statement Friday night saying it apologizes for "any misunderstanding" its decision may have caused. But the trigger warning was just what it appeared to be. Baylor said that realizing the "wide range of emotions" that could be evoked by the flag display, signs were placed nearby to notify passers-by of its "potential impact." Such warnings are now considered for outdoor displays under rules that went into effect last year "based on feedback from our campus community," the administration added.


Comment: The net effect of 'critical' wokeness - its microagressions, trigger warnings, and other related nonsense - is that it has sensitized a substantial demographic to the point where they effectively block themselves off from real atrocities. That's a totalitarian's dream world. If you can't even face evil, you can't do anything about it. It's much more convenient to have the public focused on idiocy like woke "racism", "sexism", and other fictitious evils.

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Ambulance

LA protesters try to break into hospital where two officers are in critical condition after 'a cowardly' shooting

Khaleda Rahman
Newsweek
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:36 UTC
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© LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTLos Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva speaks at a news conference after two deputies were shot at point-blank range while in their patrol vehicle.
Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies are fighting for their lives after they were shot multiple times at point-blank range in an ambush, authorities said.

Crowds of protesters blocked the entrance to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where the wounded officers were in a critical condition, police said. Some protesters chanted "we hope they die," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter. A witness told ABC7 that some had tried to break into the hospital's emergency room.

The shooting happened at around 7 p.m. Saturday at the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Avenue and Compton Boulevard, not far from the Compton sheriff's station.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's department shared video of the incident in a post on Twitter that shows a person open fire through the passenger-side window of the patrol car in Compton.


The department tweeted: "Moments ago, 2 of our Sheriff Deputies were shot in Compton and were transported to a local hospital. They are both still fighting for their lives, so please keep them in your thoughts and prayers."

"The gunman walked up on the deputies and opened fire without warning or provocation," the department added. The suspect remains at large, it added.
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London's neglected bridges really are falling down

Mark Landler
New York Times
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC
Tower Bridge
© Andrew Testa for The New York TimesTower Bridge, recently shut for two days by a drawbridge problem, seen from beneath London Bridge, closed to cars during repairs.
Three major crossings on the Thames are closed to cars — one of them considered too dangerous even to walk across. Even the landmark Tower Bridge was recently shut for two days.

One by one, they stepped forward to tell their stories. Children suddenly forced to travel two hours each way to school. Pensioners whose weekly doctors' appointments have turned into arduous, half-day treks. Shopkeepers whose businesses have been crippled by the disappearance of commuters.

All because Hammersmith Bridge, a majestic but badly corroded 19th-century suspension bridge that connects the district of Barnes with much of London, was closed last month for safety reasons.

Comment: The UK, like the US which has seen a similar story with its crumbling infrastructure, is just like every other empire that has gone before it and is literally collapsing under the weight of its own corruption.

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