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'That 70s Show' actor Danny Masterson charged in 3 rapes

Andrew Dalton
AP
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Annie I. Bang/Invision/APIn this March 24, 2014 file photo, actor Danny Masterson arrives at Youth for Human Rights International Celebrity Benefit in Los Angeles. Masterson, known for his roles in "That '70s Show" and "The Ranch," has been charged with raping three women, Los Angeles County District Attorney's officials announced Wednesday. The incidents occurred between 2001 and 2003, officials allege. Masterson's attorney Tom Mesereau said his client “is innocent, we’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light and witnesses have the opportunity to testify.”
"That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson was charged with the rapes of three women in the early 2000s, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday, the culmination of a three-year investigation that resulted in a rare arrest of a famous Hollywood figure in the #MeToo era.

The three counts of rape by force or fear against Masterson were filed Tuesday, and an arrest warrant isssued. Masterson, 44, was arrested late Wednesday morning, jail records showed. He was released a few hours later after posting bond and is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 18.

Masterson's attorney Tom Mesereau said his client is innocent, and "we're confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light and witnesses have the opportunity to testify."

Comment: The rabbit hole goes much deeper on this one. See: Scientology conspiracy: Leah Remini Calls 'Bullsh*t' on the LAPD and Danny Masterson

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Best of the Web: Mayhem in Minneapolis: Violent crime explodes since riots and moves to defund police - 8 people shot Tuesday over 2-hour period

Libor Jany
Star Tribune
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:04 UTC

Comment: Imagine our shock upon learning this...


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Nine people were wounded by gunfire across Minneapolis Tuesday, including a two-hour span that saw eight shot, adding to a recent rash of violence since last month's unrest over the police killing of George Floyd.

Police Department statistics show that a record 149 people have been shot since the start of the year — nearly half were shot within the past three weeks.

The most recent violence started shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday, when patrol officers responded to calls of gunfire in the 2900 block of Columbus Avenue, only to learn that a male victim had been dropped off at an area hospital.

A preliminary investigation showed that the shooting was preceded by an argument between a group of people, according to police, who offered few other details.

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Nine people were shot and one stabbed in separate incidents across Minneapolis Tuesday and early Wednesday.

Comment: If you can, make 2020 the year you moved out of the city.

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Best of the Web: Street battles rage between rival foreign Muslim militias in French city of Dijon


RT
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:32 UTC

Comment: There has been almost no media coverage about this incident in France...


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The French city of Dijon was rocked by chaotic scenes reminiscent of a war zone as rival gangs clashed following an assault on a Chechen teen - but was it more a "battle of territories" in a drugs war than simple score-settling?

For several nights, the rule of law seemed suspended in parts of the historic French tourist town, as Chechen and Maghreb gangs openly brandished weapons and took over city streets, prompting surreal scenes and leaving residents in fear of venturing outside their homes.

Footage posted to Twitter showed a car speeding through a group of Chechens and flipping over, like a scene from a video game. The situation finally calmed on Monday, after the government deployed militarized police units to quell the unrest. Dijon Mayor François Rebsamen accused the Chechen community of attempting to "enforce its own right and law of retaliation."

On social media, some offered the knee-jerk explanation that the violence gripping the French city was simply the inevitable result of immigration - and, indeed, the non-integration of Muslim immigrants in France has led to plenty of cultural clashes. Yet, the reality of how Dijon became the center of all-out gangland warfare is more complicated.



Comment: Pretty much. And govts, irrespective of their intentions, are helping that scenario to happen.

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Shooting charge dropped against suspected New Mexico shooter

Andrew Hay
Reuters
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:29 UTC
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© Fight For Our Lives/Social Media via REUTERSAttendees help a man who was shot and wounded during clashes between protesters trying to pull down a statue of Juan de Onate and armed members of civilian militia group New Mexico Civil Guard in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. June 15, 2020, in this still image obtained from a social media video.
A New Mexico prosecutor on Wednesday dropped a shooting charge against an Albuquerque man suspected of shooting a protester and called for further investigations after allegations the protester was armed at the time he was shot.

Torrez dropped an initial aggravated battery with a deadly weapon charge against Steven Baca, 31, after images emerged online showing protester Scott Williams, 39, holding what was rumored to be a knife before he was allegedly shot by Baca. Torrez said he expected Baca to claim self defense in the case.

"There have been rumors on social media about what transpired in the final seconds before this and we are actively looking into those and whether or not this was justified," Torrez told an online press briefing. "The reason he is not facing that charge right now is because this investigation is not complete."

Comment: Judging from the video circulating online (now difficult to find), Baca was pretty clearly trying to flee the scene and was being ganged up on when he fired the shots. And at one point, he was pretty clearly hit with a skateboard. It would be difficult to argue he was the attacker at that point, regardless of what he did beforehand.

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Best of the Web: Priest defrocked by Russian Orthodox Church for refusal to cease ministering his flock during lockdown seizes convent at site of massacre of Romanovs


Sott.net
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:13 UTC
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Father Romanov
Everyone is dealing with Corona-madness in their own way. In Russia, one priest has decided to take a serious stand over it. How serious this stand becomes remains to be seen, but it could yet provoke a 'schism' within the Orthodox Church - symbolically, if not literally.

Here's Russia Today's somewhat tepid report about the stand-off:
A Russian priest who believes Covid-19 is an invention by evil forces hellbent on "chipping the population" has apparently used Cossack fighters to seal off a women's convent after church authorities prohibited him from preaching.

According to local media sources, Shiigumen Sergius ousted the abbess of the convent, Varvara, along with several nuns, and took control of the building after his ban. Prior to the takeover, he was an informal leader of the community but was subservient to the regional diocese.

Since the incident, the cleric has not allowed local religious leaders to visit, and journalists from the area have claimed that the site is being guarded by Cossacks loyal to Sergius.
That claim is denied by the priest/'protestors'.

It's also interesting that RT opted to call him by his old name, whereas his new name is legally Romanov. Their report continues:
Sergius was forbidden from conducting religious duties at Ekaterinburg's Central Urals Monastery after criticizing the reaction of Russian authorities and Patriarch Kirill to the Covid-19 "pseudo-pandemic." Due to the precarious epidemiological situation, churches in Russia have been ordered to close for the safety of parishioners.

Sergius claimed on many occasions that the pandemic was an excuse to microchip the public, and complained that the closure of churches during the crisis was done under pressure from "the atheistic authorities."
'Chipping the population' was not the primary motive for declaring the pandemic, but the priest is essentially correct in that it in no way justified the lockdowns and mass suffering they caused. The media, as usual, caricatures the dissenting view in a manipulative effort to malign it in readers' eyes.
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D&D Orcs get woke proofreading: Censors standing on George Floyd's death are after a fantasy game

Micah Curtis
RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:56 UTC
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How many of those who support censorship in the name of Black Lives Matter have even played Dungeons & Dragons? Why are companies like D&D creator Wizards of the Coast caving in to the hurt feelings of the woke?

Some people like to say we're living in a "Clown World" where not much really makes sense. Given the current political climate and the effect it's having on the arts, I'm starting to agree. The recently renewed push to declare certain fantasy tropes like Orcs or Drow to be racist and offensive, is a case in point. The incessant drone, that we can't have certain ideas or words in the arts "in the year 2020," is often parodied as "in the current year," given that tv host John Oliver seems to state this every year as if it's going to matter.

Wizards of the Coast, the creators of D&D, has now stated that they are going to bring in "sensitivity readers" to check their work to see if it's offensive. So let's get this straight: A company is going to bring in the constantly offended to check and see if its own work is offensive? What could go wrong?

For the end product, it's like hiring Jack Kevorkian to monitor a loved-one in a coma, or like hiring Josef Mengele as your surgeon. It's likely going to end with someone or something dead, in this case your entire role-playing game franchise, or at least the last vestiges of fun it used to bring.

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: Facebook using 'fact-checkers' to censor dissent (based on accurate information) on Covid19


OffGuardian
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:39 UTC
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Facebook has flagged our article "It's all bullshit": 3 links sinking the Covid narrative" as 'false information', based on nothing but a single 'fact check' website, which does not even claim the information is 'false', but merely quibbles over terminologies to justify claiming the information is 'misleading.'

This is what you see today if you try to access that article on Facebook:

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And if you click on the 'see why' button you get taken here, to the website of Health Feedback, an "independent fact-checker".

Of course, they're not independent - they're actually funded by Facebook. They are also funded by the "Credibility Coalition", an NGO focused on "common standards for information credibility".

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: Cultural Revolution: Summer of Love in CHAZ


Paul Joseph Watson
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 06:59 UTC
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In the Communist utopia of CHAZ, things are going entirely as expected!

Video montage of what the Seattle mayor is describing as the 'Summer of Love' in the 'Capitol Hill autonomous Zone' (C.H.A.Z.)

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Best of the Web: What kind of 'popular revolution' is it when the political and corporate elite are onboard?

The Saker
The Unz Review
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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Jaime Diamond and JP Morgan Chase
I have to say that I am amazed that so many folks on the Left seem to think that the current riots in the US are a spontaneous rebellion against police violence, systemic racism, and history of persecution and exploitation of Blacks and Indians, etc. As for the violence, looting and riots - they are either excused as a result of some kind of righteous wrath or blamed on "infiltrators". In my previous article I tried to show how the Democrats and the US media instrumentalized these riots and to use them against Trump's bid for reelection. I accompanied the article with a carefully staged photo-op of US Democrats "taking a knee" in solidarity (as if the leaders of the Democratic Party gave a hoot about Blacks or poor US Americans!).

What I did not mention was how the US (and even trans-national) corporate world backed these riots to the hilt. Here are just a few examples of this:

YouTube:

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Comment: See: America: A Color Revolution™ of its very own

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Best of the Web: Is the 'second wave' another Coronavirus hoax?

Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the "medical community" told us we must throw out the "stay-at-home" orders and go to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police. The Covid-19 virus will not bother people who are protesting this injustice, they said. The virus only attacks people leaving their homes to protest the stay-at-home orders.

Now, after thousands of businesses - many of them black-owned - have been reduced to rubble and innocent people in the inner cities no longer have anywhere to shop for the basic necessities of life, the mainstream media has backed off of its non-stop coverage of the protests. Suddenly last week they all simultaneously embraced a new fear story to terrify the masses: a "second wave" of coronavirus was among us. It was targeting those states that dared to "open up" their economies and begin a return to relatively normal lives.

Texas, Florida, and California were singled out to scare the rest of the country into thinking that if you dare leave your homes you will catch coronavirus and die. There was a "spike" in coronavirus "cases" they claimed. Funny, just a month or so ago they were demanding that we massively increase testing, which would produce just that "spike" in coronavirus cases they are now using to scare authorities into reinstating the incredibly destructive stay-at-home orders.

Comment: See also:

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