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Terrified academics withdraw study showing white cops aren't killing more blacks

Rick Moran
PJ Media
Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:57 UTC
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The authors of a 2019 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examined "917 fatal police shootings of civilians from 2015 to test whether the race of the officer or the civilian predicted fatal police shootings" was withdrawn by the authors after being cited by noted conservative author and essayist Heather MacDonald.

Psychologists Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland say they stand behind their work, which concludes there was "no significant evidence of anti-black disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by the police." But they objected to its "misuse." MacDonald cited the study in congressoinal testimony last September and again in an article for City Journal. But it wasn't until her June 3 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that cited the study when there were "complications" on campus and outraged wokesters demanded that the profs be flogged — or something.

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NPC

The progressive left is becoming blatantly racist

David Marcus
The Federalist
Thu, 09 Jul 2020 06:45 UTC
stop racism protest
© John Englart
By and large, conservatives have taken a nuanced approach to the progressive attempt to redefine racism. This new definition crafted over the past few decades, mainly in the academy, states that racism is not a question of animosity or feelings of superiority towards a racial group but rather a matter of privilege and systems. Under this rubric racism is not about individual actions, but rather support for "systems of oppression."

But there is a key difference in the way that the left and the right have engaged in this dialogue. Progressives have no trouble at all saying that people who reject their newspeak version of racism are in fact racist. Up until now conservatives have largely resisted reaching the logical conclusion of their definition of racism, which is essentially discrimination based on skin color. That has to change now. The blatant racial bigotry of the left must be called out. It is no longer an esoteric academic debate; it is a crisis that threatens to tear the country apart.

Take this tweet from Farnaz Fassihi, a journalist at the New York Times, in reaction to a letter calling for an end to cancel culture.

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Fire

21 injured as massive blaze & explosion cripple US military ship in San Diego


RT
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 18:44 UTC
USS Bonhomme Richard fire at a naval base in San Diego
© Twitter / Chris Cavas
The USS Bonhomme Richard has caught fire at a naval base in San Diego. Footage from the scene shows a large plume of smoke emitting from under the ship's deck; one explosion and injuries among the crew have been confirmed.

The fire triggered a massive response, with multiple fire engines and ambulances seen at the pier.

"Seventeen Sailors and four civilians are being treated for non-life threatening injuries at a local hospital," US Naval Surface Forces wrote on Twitter a while later.

Officials also announced that all the crewmembers had been evacuated from the ship and accounted for.

So far, it remains unclear what triggered the blaze. Local fire department said that at least one explosion occurred aboard the ship during the blaze.

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'Tsunami' of evictions could make 28 million Americans homeless this summer alone

Elias Marat
The Mind Unleashed
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:18 UTC
eviction notice
With the pandemic continuing to sink its claws into the United States, economic conditions have also failed to improve for millions of people. As a result, nearly one-third U.S. households - representing 32 percent - have still not made their full housing payments for the month of July, according to a survey from online rental platform Apartment List.

And with public health experts warning people to continue to "Stay at Home," the slogan is taking on a perverse new meaning as humanitarian disaster looms for some 28 million people in the U.S. who are facing eviction and homelessness in the immediate future.

About 19 percent of those surveyed were unable to make any housing payment in the first week of the month, while 13 percent paid a portion of their rent or mortgage.

The numbers represent the grim fact that for four months now, a "historically high" amount of U.S. households have been unable to pay their housing bill, either on time or in full. It also represents an increase from 30 percent in June and 31 percent in June.

Comment: See also: UK's lockdown debt crisis expected to triple homelessness

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Propaganda

Fake News: NY Times caught faking a climate change 'debate'!

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen
wattsupwiththat.com
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
The New Your Times Climate Debate (that never was)
© Debate (screen shot)
The New York Times' Climate section is a source of continuing amusement for me. This one made me laugh out loud.

In an exhibition of astounding audacity, the New York Times' Editor of the Climate Desk, Hannah Fairfield, stages what is billed as a "debate" about moving forward with solutions to climate change.

Let me be perfectly clear, this is a fake debate - no debate takes place. Having given up the standards of professional journalism almost entirely, the Climate desk has moved on from misinformation, disinformation and fake news to . . . . Fake Debates.

If you have one and a half hours to utterly waste, you can watch the whole thing here.

Not only does the Times falsely claim that this represents some kind of debate, they can't even count to ten - there are only six guest speakers and Hannah....and when I attended elementary school in the 1950s, six plus one made seven (it may be the "new math", similar to that being used to count "New Covid Cases"). Oh well, almost nothing else in the video is true either.

Comment: It was rather unfortunate for all with ears to hear and eyes to see, that the NYT, with their mutual appreciation climate debaters, had no room for even this more than able young debater - now that would have been a debate:

'Climate realist' Naomi Seibt challenges Thunberg's radical climate alarmism



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No Entry

The delusion of a seamless reopening is about to be obliterated

Brandon Smith
Birch Gold Group
Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
pandemic mask
During the first wave of pandemic lockdowns, America became a rather surreal place. The initial shock that I witnessed in average people in my area was disturbing. Half the businesses in the region closed and a third of the grocery store shelves were empty. The look in people's faces was one of bewilderment and fear; their eyes were like saucers, no one was staring into their cell phones as they usually do, and people huddled over their shopping carts like wild dogs protecting a carcass.

Luckily, this tension has subsided, but only because the majority of Americans have been assuming for the past couple months that the pandemic was going to fade away in the summer and that the "reopening" was permanent. Sadly, this is a delusion that is going to bite people in the ass in the next month or two.

In "The Economic Reopening Is A Fake-Out", published at the end of May, I stated:
The restrictions will continue in major US population centers while rural areas have mostly opened with much fanfare. The end result of this will be a flood of city dwellers into rural towns looking for relief from more strict lockdown conditions. In about a month, we should expect new viral clusters in places where there was limited transmission. I suggest that before the 4th of July holiday, state governments and the Federal government will be talking about new lockdowns, using the predictable infection spike as an excuse.

Comment: For a more accurate account of the virus' inception, don't miss: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made

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Mr. Potato

Liberals act like crazy idiots who pretend to be for truth & morals - then worship John McCain & push Russia hoax

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Chris Hayes
Whenever John McCain is trending on Twitter I like to try and float a reminder of what a disgusting warmonger he was on top of the trend to disrupt the worshipful hagiography within the mainstream liberal echo chamber.

It's a provocation. I freely admit this. But it's a provocation with a fuse that should not exist (nobody should object to someone speaking ill of a killer with a body count like McCain's), and the charge it sets off is just fascinatingly disproportionate to what's being said.

I mean check out the hundreds of responses to my latest act of blasphemy where I said that McCain was a bloodthirsty warmongering psychopath and the world is better off without him. There are liberals on there saying I deserve to die for saying this, that there's a special place in hell for people who say such things, that my parents should have aborted me, that karma is going to get me for this.

Comment: See also: Letter to my Liberal American Friends on the True Nature of the U.S. Empire

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Sherlock

Group seeking truth behind Dyatlov Pass incident reject official probe that blamed avalanche


RT
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:02 UTC
dyatlov
© dyatlovjournal / Instagram
A group dedicated to solving the mysterious deaths of nine hikers in 1959 blasted the results of a new investigation into the case, which concluded they were crushed by an avalanche or had succumbed to the blistering cold.

The demise of nine fit young university students in the Urals has puzzled many for more than six decades. Their empty tent was found to have been cut open from the inside with a sharp object, and their bodies - some naked, others shoeless or half-dressed - were scattered nearby, several with skull fractures, facial damage, and massive internal injuries, on a slope that locals would later dub "the Mountain of the Dead."

The Soviet investigation failed to determine how the group perished and the mystery eventually spawned more than 70 different theories, including the intervention of a UFO.

Comment: For more, see: The Dyatlov Pass incident: Investigators claim they've found the true cause behind the mysterious deaths in 1959 - did they?

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Bad Guys

Thousands of protesters enraged over Bibi's handling of Covid-19 crisis gather in Tel Aviv: 'No more games!'

Hagay Hascohen
The Jerusalem Post
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 21:12 UTC
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© Avshalom Sassoni/MaarivThousands protest economic situation amid coronavirus crisis in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2020
Politicians were told not to come as thousands gathered in Tel Aviv, to warn government not to let them down during COVID-19 financial crisis.

Some 80,000 protesters gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Saturday to voice their anger at the failed policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Israel Katz, who promised to help the nation's economy during the COVID-19 crisis.

"No more games!" one of the protest organizers, Ronen Mili of the Association of Restaurant and Bar Owners, told N12. "We waited for four months and haven't seen a dime!"

Some protesters carried signs mock-asking the public for charity via the popular Bank HaPoalim money transfer app, Bit.

Mili was one of the people invited to meet with Netanyahu and Katz on Friday as part of a larger delegation that presented the concerns of students, artists and restaurant owners to the prime minister. Netanyahu urged the delegation to call off the protest and assured them they will hold weekly Friday meetings from now on. Yet most activists, already fed up with promises, declined.
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Conversion of Hagia Sophia into mosque infuriates Russian Orthodox Church: 'A slap in the face of all Christianity worldwide'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC
Hagia Sophia
© Reuters/Murad SezerHagia Sophia
The Russian Orthodox Church has criticized Turkey's leaders for revoking the museum status of "one of the greatest Christian shrines," Istanbul's famous Hagia Sophia, accusing Ankara of playing politics.

Founded by the Christian emperor Justinian, the Hagia Sofia was consecrated in the year 537, as a Byzantine cathedral. For almost a thousand years, it operated as a church - sometimes Orthodox, sometimes Catholic - before being converted into a mosque in 1453, following the Byzantine Empire's fall.

Nowadays, the Hagia Sophia is arguably the most popular tourist attraction in Turkey. On Friday, the Turkish Council of State annulled a 1934 decision to turn the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a museum. Immediately afterwards, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree returning the iconic site to its former status as a mosque.

Comment: Greece has warned Turkey that its move on the cathedral is not a just a matter between the two countries, but a concern of the whole world.
"There, [at the EU meeting] Greece will ask the European Union to draw up a list of the stringiest possible measures against Turkey in case it violates the sovereign rights of Greece", Dendias said in the interview.

The top diplomat went on to say that Greece's mediation in the debate was not enough and that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the UN must show initiative.

"The danger is that we reflect on the issue of Hagia Sophia from the angle of the Greek-Turkish relationship, while it is a global one. It is the issue of neglecting the rules and disrespecting the world community", Dendias stated.

The minister noted that Ankara's decision on Hagia Sophia was another provocative action against Greece and other countries in the region, and the fact that Turkey did not show any spirit of cooperation to comply with international law should not be ignored.
Pope Francis has also expressed "concern and sadness" over the proposed conversion
"My thoughts go to Istanbul. I'm thinking about Hagia Sophia. I am very distressed," the pontiff said, in the Vatican's first reaction to the decision taken by the Turkish authorities. The brief remark made during a Sunday prayer marking the International Day of the Sea saw the Pope add his voice to the growing chorus from other Christian churches worldwide that have expressed concern over the move.

Earlier, the World Council of Churches, a Geneva-based organization comprising numerous Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican institutions, expressed "grief and dismay" over the development, adding that Hagia Sophia had, until now, been "a place of openness, encounter and inspiration for people from all nations."
Megalomaniac Erdogan sees the co-option of the Hagia Sophia as one more step in his delusional march to recreate the Ottoman Empire.
"We made a decision to change the status of the Hagia Sophia, based on the opinion of our people and not those who say things about us", Erdogan stated during an appearance on Turkey's NTV broadcaster.

During his television appearance, Erdogan added that the country will continue to "take the right path, in order to build a mighty and strong Turkey".
Turkey has tried to allay fears of alteration or damage to the historic building, which began life as a Christian church. Given the Islamic prohibition of images, there is real apprehension over the fate of the many mosaics and other artworks contained in the building
Speaking to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, he stressed that "opening up Hagia Sophia to worship doesn't keep local or foreign tourists from visiting the site", and that Turkey would preserve the unique Christian icons and mosaic images of Jesus Christ in the building.

Kalin, however, did not elaborate on the matter, further, fuelling concerns about the future of these Christian shrines following the Turkish president's decree earlier on Friday to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

This was preceded by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk from the Russian Orthodox Church warning last week that the temple's "miraculously spared" mosaics will most likely be damaged if Ankara makes the conversion decision.

In an interview with Russia's Rossiya 24 news outlet, he said that he would like to know about "the fate of these mosaics" and "how this building will function if it is turned into a mosque again".

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who said that Athens "categorically condemns Turkey's decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque" and that "this decision, taken 85 years after Hagia Sophia was declared a museum, is an affront to its ecumenical character".


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