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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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Black Cat

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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Fire

Best of the Web: 8 WEEKS later, body found in Minneapolis pawnshop that was torched in race riots

Amanda Woods
New York Post
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Steel Brooks/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMax It Pawn was burned down during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
A charred body was found in the wreckage of a Minneapolis pawnshop this week — nearly two months after the building was burned down in the protests that followed George Floyd's police-custody death.

Investigators were acting on a tip when they found the man's body in the rubble of Max It Pawn on East Lake Street in south Minneapolis, police spokesman John Elder told the Star Tribune.

"The body appears to have suffered thermal injury and we do have somebody charged with setting fire to that place," Elder told the paper.

Comment: 8 weeks later. That's how bad the situation is/was. Whole portions of US cities are just being written off.

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No Entry

Best of the Web: Twitter to suspend 150,000 accounts tweeting QAnon 'conspiracy theory' that Trump is 'under attack from Deep State'


newshub.co.nz
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:13 UTC
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Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group that claims 'deep-state' traitors are plotting against US President Donald Trump.


Comment: Because clearly only lunatics would ever even countenance such a premise.


Twitter, which announced the change on its Twitter Safety page, said it would not serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in trends and recommendations, and would block URLs associated with the group from being shared on the platform.

The suspension, which will be rolled out this week, is expected to impact about 150,000 accounts globally, Twitter said.

Comment: Bashing/banning QAnon is to go after low-hanging fruit. What people miss is WHY it has proven such a draw: barmy on most issues, it nevertheless alludes to something that is fundamentally true; psychopaths, conspiracies and diabolical schemes abound in high places.

Because essentially everything the media reports is false or superficial, anyone genuinely interested in 'seeing beyond the lies' to something approximating 'the truth' must necessarily engage in speculative 'depth thinking'. Often their pattern recognition is off, but sometimes it's real close. Dangerously close, as far as the 'perception managers' are concerned.

So the system of course responds by setting up psy-ops like QAnon, precisely to attract those Seers and to derail them into false hope. By banning them, they of course only 'confirm' that 'Q' is correct, and that its believers must continue to 'trust the plan', i.e. trust that Big Brother really loves them.

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Black Magic

Madonna lied about 'million dollar fine for speaking up about gay rights' in Russia - what else is new?


RT
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:55 UTC
Madonna
© REUTERS/Alexander DemianchukMadonna performs on stage during her MDNA tour at St. Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex
Singer Madonna has boasted about an unpaid "one million dollar fine," which she says the Russian government slapped her with for speaking in favor of gay rights at a concert. The only problem is, the story is completely false.

"I made this speech in St. Petersburg eight years ago," the musician posted to her social media this week. Included was footage from the 2012 concert where she says "gay people, here and around the world" deserve the "same rights" as everyone else.

"I was fined one million dollars by The government for supporting the Gay community. I never paid," she proudly wrote in her post.

While numerous mainstream media outlets have reported Madonna's claim without pushing back against it in any real way, there are huge errors in her story.

Comment: It seems apt that following decades of certain vacuous celebrities being promoted as the epitome of success we're watching them voluntarily expose themselves as deceitful and addled individuals who represent a cultural malaise that is contributing to the demise of civilization:

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HAL9000

'Big Brother' goes underground: Moscow to install facial recognition cameras in Metro cars


RT
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:03 UTC
Moscow metro
© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevMoscow metro
Trains on Moscow's vast subway network will be fitted with surveillance cameras linked to facial recognition systems, according to a tender from Moscow's mayoral office.

Media reports suggest that the Moscow authorities will spend 1.4 billion rubles ($20 million) on equipping around a quarter of the system's carriages. They plan to install eight cameras in each car, all with the ability to distinguish faces. By the end of the year, 1,500 will be fully kitted out.

Moscow already has a vast facial recognition system throughout the city. During the Covid-19 quarantine, the city's CCTV cameras were used to track people violating self-isolation orders or evading other coronavirus-related measures.

In January 2020, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced that the metro facial recognition system would be implemented by September 1, enabling "people on the wanted list" to be recognized in a split second.
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NYC's COVID-19 contact tracing will ask about outdoor dining, not protests

Julia Marsh and Nolan Hicks
New York Post
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:44 UTC
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© Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesA medical worker administers a nasal swab test at a free coronavirus testing location outside Washington Square Park
The city's coronavirus tracing program will start asking people if they've been at outdoor bars and restaurants to help understand the spike in cases among those between the ages of 20 and 29 — even though health officials never asked if people attended the George Floyd protests, The Post has learned.

"Patients are asked who they spent close time with socially. To ensure we're adapting our program to New Yorkers' changing routes, patients will explicitly be asked if they spent time with their close contact at a bar or restaurant as the city continues to reopen," said City Hall spokeswoman Avery Cohen said, while reaffirming they won't be asked about demonstrations.

"People are asked to name any gatherings they have attended to help identify cases related to specific events," Cohen said. "Regarding bars and restaurants, we're adapting the program to match the increased mobility of New Yorkers, especially those in the younger age brackets."

The city's Dept. of Health found that the proportion of 20-somethings diagnosed with COVID-19 doubled during the second half of June. The new cases were less likely to live in the Bronx and more likely to reside in wealthier neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan including the Financial District and Greenwich Village, according to lab reports.
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Bizarro Earth

Overhyped health concerns prompt France to force wearing face masks in indoor public spaces

Alessio Dellanna
Euronews
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:21 UTC
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People in France will be compelled to wear face-masks in closed public spaces from Monday, a measure to stem the coronavirus transmission in the country.

It was revealed by the country's Health Directorate - Direction générale de la Santé, also knows as DGS - to news agency AFP on Sunday.

Venues concerned include meeting and performance halls, cinemas, restaurants, hotels, game rooms, educational centres, holiday centres, libraries, places of worship, indoor sports venues, museums, stations and airports.

"Stores, shopping centres, administrations, banks and covered markets" have also been added to the list, the DGS said, while masks remain mandatory on public transport too.
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Health

#CorbynWasRight trends on Twitter after amendment to protect NHS from foreign control gets voted down

Jack Peat
The London Economic
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
During the 2019 election, Jeremy Corbyn warned that the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US.

The hashtag #CorbynWasRight has been trending on Twitter after an amendment to protect the NHS from foreign control was voted down in parliament.

Yesterday the former Labour leader repeated warnings that the NHS could be "negotiated away, chopped up and sold off behind closed doors" ahead of a crucial vote that would put "red lines in the negotiations" rather than more "warm words and nice rhetoric".

During the 2019 election, Jeremy Corbyn said documents - which have been put under scrutiny by Dominic Raab - proved the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US - something denied by the government.

But suspicions have been raised that he could have been right all along following the House of Commons vote last night.
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