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Rich kid 'rioters' are ignorant about the poor working class

Rob Henderson
New York Post
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 15:17 UTC
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© FacebookThe tantrums of well-off alleged rioters like Clara Kraebber (above) and pals Frank Fuhrmeister (insets, from top), Claire Severine and Adi Sragovich impose costs on the poor they claim to be fighting for.
Across the country, pampered children of the overclass are taking part in the vandalization, looting and burning of businesses, many of which are owned by immigrants and members of minority groups, under the guise of championing the Black Lives Matter movement. In the 1960s, Malcolm X characterized white liberals as "the most dangerous thing in the entire Western Hemisphere," and now we are seeing why.

Consider the case of Clara Kraebber, who faces felony rioting charges after a recent alleged window-smashing spree that police say caused at least $100,000 in damage. The Postreported that Kraebber is a wealthy Upper East Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a psychiatrist. She was allegedly joined in the rioting by Frank Fuhrmeister of Stuyvesant Heights, a freelance art director who has designed ads for Joe Coffee and has also worked for Pepsi, Samsung and Glenlivet, among other high-profile brands. Another accused rioter is Adi Sragovich, an accomplished musician and student at $57,000-a-year Sarah Lawrence College who grew up in the super-tony enclave of Great Neck, NY. Claire Severine, a former jet-setting model, was also arrested.
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Fire

'Greece was sacrificed to migration': The people of Lesbos won't allow a new Moria, locals say

Dimitra Triantafillou
Sputnik
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 05:54 UTC
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© AFP 2020 / ANGELOS TZORTZINISRefugees and migrants from the Moria camp protest near Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 12, 2020, a few days after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp.
"Let them leave!" "No new structures!" "Enough!" - these are just a few of the chants by the residents of the Greek island of Lesbos, where the largest migrant camp in Europe was destroyed by a massive fire earlier this month, leaving nearly 13,000 migrants without shelter. Now, a new facility is being built on the island.

A huge fire destroyed Greece's largest migrant and refugee reception and accommodation centre, Moria, on Lesbos earlier this month. A new situation is currently unfolding on the island, which has proportionally borne the brunt of a great deal of the migration crisis.

There's a feeling on the island that can be expressed by the saying "Now or never!" The island's residents want nothing else but the final act of the drama.
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Bullseye

'Maskless flash mob' marches through Target shouting 'Take off that mask'

Jackie Salo
New York Post
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:12 UTC
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A rowdy group of anti-maskers marched through a Target in Florida and shouted at other shoppers to "Take off that mask," viral video shows.

Footage on Twitter Tuesday showed the crowd parading around the aisles of the store — located in Ft. Lauderdale, according to HuffPost — and disregarding the store's face mask requirement as one of them exclaims, "We're not going to take it anymore!"

"Anti-maskers in Florida invade a Target," wrote a user who shared the video, which has received more than 6.6 million views as of Wednesday afternoon.

Comment: More of this, please!

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Microscope 2

'Non-scientific': Chinese 'whistleblower' claiming Beijing released 'man-made' Covid-19 roasted by virologists, blocked by Twitter


RT
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:45 UTC
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© Reuters / Thomas Peter
American virologists ridiculed a bombshell claim by Chinese scientist-turned-'whistleblower' Li-Meng Yan that Covid-19 was produced in the Wuhan laboratory, as the news went viral across US media and social networks.

Yan certainly grabbed the headlines when she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that she has "solid evidence" that the dreaded Covid-19, which infected almost 30 million people around the world and killed more than 935,000, was "deliberately" produced in the Wuhan laboratory. She did not stop at that and went on to claim that Beijing also released the deadly virus "intentionally" to inflict "damage" on the world.


Comment: Controlled opposition? It's certainly a rather convenient piece of fake news that manages to smear the idea that SARS-CoV2 is man-made by debunking a study that clearly had tarring China as its main objective.

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Eye 1

Best of the Web: Steve Bannon is behind bogus study that China created COVID

Adam Rawnsley and Lachlan Markay
The Daily Beast
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:32 UTC
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The study goes against basically all scientific evidence and expert opinion. But it fits with the former Trump adviser's anti-China posture.

A new study purporting to show that the novel coronavirus was manufactured in a Chinese lab was published by a pair of nonprofit groups linked to Steve Bannon, the former top Trump strategist now facing felony fraud charges.

The study, co-authored by a Chinese virologist who fled Hong Kong this year, claims that "laboratory manipulation is part of the history of SARS-CoV-2." Its findings were quickly picked up by a handful of prominent news organizations such as the New York Post, which hyped the "explosive" allegations that run counter to virtually all existing scientific literature on the source of the virus.

The study is the work of the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation, sister nonprofit organizations that Bannon was instrumental in creating. According to documents posted on the Society's website last year, he served as that group's chair. The Bannon connection was first spotted by Kevin Bird, a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, and shared by Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, who called the study "bizarre and unfounded."

Comment: Regardless of whether or not it was intentional, it seems the current fraudulent study will be used to further discredit the actual evidence that SARS-CoV2 was man-made. Rather predictable.

See also: Chinese defector virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan publishes report claiming COVID-19 was made in a lab

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Eye 1

New virus facts ignored by politicians too stubborn to change

John Kehoe
Australian Financial Review
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:30 UTC
Melbourne business district
© Joe ArmaoA deserted street in Melbourne's central business district. There must be more sustainable and humane alternatives than draconian shutdowns.
"When the facts change, I change my mind," John Maynard Keynes famously said.

The evidence on COVID-19 has changed since governments imposed hard lockdowns in late March when the virus was so uncertain.

The World Health Organisation now says that serological surveys show the infection fatality ratio has kept falling, so far to between 0.5 and 1 per cent, substantially below the 2-3 per cent originally feared.

The survival rate is above 99 per cent. People aged under 60 are far more likely to die in a road accident, but we don't ban them driving cars.

The second wave of the virus during the European summer is killing far, far fewer people. It is spreading mainly among the young and healthy, while older and vulnerable people are sensibly isolating and health systems are getting better at managing the virus.
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Dollar Gold

Violent rioters busted in NYC reportedly come from privileged backgrounds: yacht clubs, modeling jobs, second homes in Connecticut

Phil Shiver
The Blaze
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:51 UTC
New York City
A group of Black Lives Matter rioters recently busted for smashing windows and causing mayhem in Manhattan reportedly come from privileged backgrounds that include yacht club performances, modeling gigs, and second homes in Connecticut, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

The would-be revolutionaries had their mug shots tweeted out by the New York City Police Department this week after they were booked for rampaging through the Flatiron District and reportedly causing at least $100,000 in damage.

Their activities were part of a protest allegedly put on by groups who referred to themselves as the "New Afrikan Black Panther Party" and the "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement."

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Light Saber

Americans against unconstitutional mask mandates

Michelle Malkin
UNZ Review
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:09 UTC
sheep with masks
Good news: The anti-mask mandate movement is gaining steam. Americans yearning to breathe free are waking up from their pandemic stupor. Common sense and constitutional principles, now more than ever, are vital to a sovereign nation's health.


On Monday, a federal judge rescinded Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's shutdown orders restricting gatherings, forcing "nonessential" business closures and directing citizens to stay at home to combat COVID-19. U.S. District Judge William Stickman determined that the sweeping measures violated "the right of assembly enshrined in the First Amendment." He noted Wolf's hypocrisy in severely limiting indoor and outdoor fairs, festivals, concerts and other gatherings and condemning a small anti-lockdown protest of small-business owners (whom he called "selfish," "cowardly" and "unsafe") — while marching with thousands of non-socially distancing Black Lives Matter radicals in Harrisburg in June.

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NPC

TV host slams Joe Rogan as 'misogynistic, racist & homophobic' after Trump says he wants him to host presidential debate


RT
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:08 UTC
Joe Rogan
© YouTube / PowerfulJRE
Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan was blasted by 'The View' co-host Sunny Hostin as "misogynistic, racist, homophobic" in a segment tearing into him as "inappropriate" to host a presidential debate.

Rogan, who recently signed a $100 million deal with Spotify for his podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience,' has been a frequent critic of the left, many of whom have taken to sharing quick, out-of-context clips of the comedian saying things deemed inappropriate.

Those certainly came in handy after the 'number one' podcaster, comedian and UFC commentator offered to host a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump - an idea that Trump immediately liked on Twitter, but many on the Left apparently disliked.

"I think it would be inappropriate for Joe Rogan to host a presidential debate," 'The View's' Hostin said. "I mean, I think given his use of the n-word, I think given his, comparing a black neighborhood to 'Planet of the Apes,' given the fact that he has called a transgender woman a man, I think all of that disqualifies him to be the host of a presidential debate."

Comment: Rogan really isn't much of a racist, homophobic, misogynist as he has gays, females, and minorities on his show regularly and treats each of them with the utmost respect and courtesy. But that's beside the point as a person can have wrong-headed beliefs and still be a good debate moderator. Which Rogan is if his massive following is anything to go by.

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Snakes in Suits

New evidence makes Hunter Biden's 'business' deals reek worse than ever

Peter Schweizer and Jacob McLeod
New York Post
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:14 UTC
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden
© Teresa KroegerFormer Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter faces questions over his business deals with foreign entities.
Foreign entities looking to influence American politics sometimes devise lucrative commercial deals involving a politician's family. While the deals can, and do, ensnare politicians of all stripes, those involving the Biden family are particularly troubling: The transactions implicate US national security.

While Joe Biden served as vice president, his son Hunter received offers from foreign governments and oligarchs in areas where he had little or no expertise. That his foreign partners included a rival state, Communist China, makes these arrangements particularly brazen, even by Washington's swampy standards.

Newly released Secret Service travel records for Hunter paint a clearer picture of how extensive these efforts were. The documents, reviewed by Judicial Watch, show that between 2009 and 2014, Hunter made 411 trips across 29 countries. While some of those trips were perhaps leisure and others related to his volunteer work for the World Food Program, many of them appear to be connected to deals that he or his associates either secured or sought with foreign governments and oligarchs.

For example, Hunter visited China five times between 2009 and 2014. Most notoriously, he traveled with his father aboard Air Force Two in December 2013 as part of an official visit with Chinese officials. Ten days after their return to Washington, Hunter and his associates partnered with the state-owned Bank of China to formally establish BHR, a new, first-of-its-kind fund aimed at making investments outside China through the newly established Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

When this deal was first revealed in Peter Schweizer's book "Secret Empires," Team Biden attempted to paint Hunter as a passive participant involved in the formation of BHR, arguing that "other business partners" had laid the groundwork for it in a June 2013 meeting. But the new travel records reveal that Hunter was, in fact, in Beijing in June 2013.

Hunter's trips to China are also of interest in light of what happened with another company he co-founded and served as a board adviser, Rosemont Realty. In 2015, that firm sold a majority stake to Gemini, a Chinese state-owned company.
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