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No, Sweden has not changed its mind about lockdown


Spiked
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
anders tegnell
Our fanatically pro-lockdown media keep spreading fake news about Sweden.

Sweden's chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has admitted to making some mistakes over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. His acknowledgement that Sweden's death toll was 'too high' has been seized on by our fervently pro-lockdown media as a sign that Sweden's more relaxed strategy has failed.

'Sweden's controversial decision not to impose a strict lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to too many deaths', reports the BBC. 'Swedish expert admits country should have had tighter coronavirus controls', says the Financial Times - a newspaper recently criticised for its botched and misleading graphs of Covid deaths. Tegnell's words were framed in a similar way by reports from Sky News, the Telegraph, and many others.

Comment: See also:

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Ambulance

Driver plows through BLM protesters in Indianapolis, then makes a run for it


RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:48 UTC
Driver hits BLM protesters
© RT
Stomach-wrenching video has captured a woman driving her minivan through a group of protesters in Indianapolis on the city's 11th straight day of anti-racism and police brutality protests in the wake of George Floyd's death.

The group of about 50 protesters was in the downtown Monument Circle area when a municipal truck arrived to take down barricades but was blocked by the protesters for a time. The minivan driver went to drive around the truck, struck several protesters and accelerated away from the scene, as captured in eyewitness video from the incident.

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Fire

Best of the Web: 'People are just f***ing lawless right now' - Chicago's aldermen plead with mayor to protect their communities from bands of armed looters

Heather Cherone & Paris Schutz
WTTW News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:22 UTC
riots Chicago May 2020
© (Hugo Balta / WTTW News)A chaotic scene in Chicago on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
As unrest swept the city Sunday, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help them protect their communities from roving bands of criminals clashing with police and looting businesses.

WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor's office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city's response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.

While one alderman wept, others grew angry with the mayor, demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence that began in earnest late Saturday.

The call provides a snapshot into the city's response as of midday on Sunday to the most widespread and damaging unrest since the uprising after the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the police riots after the Democratic National Convention in 1968.

The recording begins with Ald. Michelle Harris (8th Ward) wondering how she could convince businesses like Walmart and CVS to rebuild on the South Side after the destruction.

"It's like, what are we going to have left in our community?" Harris asks her colleagues before answering herself. "Nothing."

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Bad Guys

BLM UK crowdfunds £700,000, but do donors know the real ambitions of these radical activists?

Damian Wilson
RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:23 UTC
BLM protest london
© Getty Images/In Pictures/Barry Lewis7th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom
The British group doesn't just want to eradicate racism - it includes the end of imperialism, capitalism and the police in its list of revolutionary aims. But it doesn't offer any clue as to what it would replace them with.

As the crowdfunding target of £700,000 for the UK offshoot of Black Lives Matter (aka UKBLM) was reached today, after just six days, you have to wonder: do those generous folk who've donated their hard-earned cash actually know where their money is going?

Because UKBLM is an all-flavours-of-liberal-grievance sorta outfit. A hotch-potch of causes hiding behind a big helping of anti-racism. And sure, what reasonable person would disagree with efforts to have equality be the norm across all communities? But UKBLM goes further in the struggle it imagines itself facing. A lot further.

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Ambulance

Best of the Web: As woke world protests 'systemic racism' in the USA, Black-on-Black murders break 60-year-old record in Chicago

Tom Schuba, Sam Charles & Matthew Hendrickson
Chicago Sun-Times
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:21 UTC
"We've never seen anything like it, at all," said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
murders chicago
© Chicago Sun-Times
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.

A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.

A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.

A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.

While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd's murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab's data doesn't go back further than 1961.

Comment: And that was after the deadliest ever Memorial Weekend in Chicago, just the weekend before this record deadly weekend.

It's as if the riots/woke outrage empowered Blacks to kill more Blacks?

In any event, mayhem is spreading/intensifying from Democrat-controlled plantations/cities.

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Che Guevara

Seattle residents don bulletproof vests as police yield precinct to control of Antifa & BLM

Esmy Jimenez & Isolde Raftery
kuow.org
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:46 UTC
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The Seattle Police Department announced Monday afternoon that the barricade near the East Precinct -- where officers have used pepper spray, tear gas and flash bang grenades on demonstrators for eight days -- would be removed.

During a press briefing, Police Chief Carmen Best said Seattle Police would try something new.

"We're not going to evacuate or abandon the East Precinct," she said. "We will be hardening the East Precinct facility by boarding up the exterior windows, and applying fire retardant to the building exterior and installing fencing."


Comment: They've abandoned the East Precinct.


Best said demonstrators should be able to walk freely around Capitol Hill.

"This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation," she said.

Comment: That's the media narrative of what's going down in Seattle.

Here's a more accurate version:



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Water

White residents wash black priests' feet during George Floyd vigil in Cary, NC


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:30 UTC
white people wash feet black pastor
© Twitter / Ian Miles Cheong; @stillgray
Several white locals washed the feet of black pastors during a prayer for George Floyd in North Carolina, invoking a religious rite that sparked a flurry of divisive comments online.

The ritual, which was organized by pastors Faith and Soboma Wokoma in Cary, North Carolina, was part of a prayer walk for black Minnesota man George Floyd, who died in police custody in late May.

Protesters, which included Black Lives Matter activists, first observed eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence to mark the length of time that a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd's neck before he died.

In addition to the silent commemoration, widely shared photos show what appears to be a group of white police officers and other white attendees kneeling before a number of priests, washing their feet in buckets.

Comment: These are the types of acts that are contributing to the death of the liberal ideal.

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Bullseye

Liberalism won when it promised that no free man has to bow down to another. Cops prostrating for #BLM mobs are killing it

Guy Birchall
RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:02 UTC
I can't breathe, George Floyd protests
© Getty Images / Samuel Corum
Forget liberty and the sanctity of the individual. Police chiefs prostrating themselves before mobs seeking absolution for the sins of their race doesn't heal divisions; it further fans the destructive flames of identity politics.

Liberalism, the philosophy that has ruled much of the world since the Age of Enlightenment, appears to be in its death throes, much to the delight of the anarchists and left-wingers burning down properties and toppling statues from Bristol to Minneapolis, and London to New York.

Some political ideologies are harder to pin down than others, with perhaps those of the "middle ground" the most ephemeral of all. "Liberalism" is an extraordinarily broad term used to cover a variety of political and economic policies spanning the right-left spectrum.

In the West, it can be used as a compliment or a pejorative depending on the context and there seems to be no clearly demarcated overarching philosophy it applies to. However, there always seemed to be one factor that was, for the most part, agreed upon when it came to liberalism: that every person was an individual and should be treated as such.
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Hammer

Virtue signaling or necessary intervention? UK MP calls on govt to 'speed up' removal of all slave-trader statues


RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC
Layla Moran
© REUTERS / Mohiudin Malik / parliament.co.uk(L) Protesters tear down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol (R) Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
An MP has urged the UK government to help local communities "speed up" the process of removing statues of slave merchants across the nation, prompting praise, anger and cynicism by turns online, given the timing of her request.

On Monday, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran published on Twitter the letter she sent to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Oliver Dowden, in which she asked that the UK government allow local councils to involve their communities in assessing and removing the controversial memorials to slave traders.
Statues of slave merchants shouldn't still be standing - end of story.
The issue around the suitability of monuments commemorating individuals involved in the slave trade reached a tipping point on Monday. Anti-racism activists protesting the death of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis had torn down and jubilantly jumped on the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol the previous day. The monument had subsequently been rolled down the road by protesters and into the River Avon.

The intervention by Moran - who is running to be the next leader of her party - drew wide-ranging heated responses on social media. One commentator who praised the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon said that "we need reminding where the UK's wealth came from," and suggested the best place for such statues was in a "memorial admitting our shame at the treatment of slaves."


Comment: Some people would rather forget than remember, rather destroy than create. When you destroy history and ban books, you may think you are ensuring ideological purity for the emergence of a new and better society, but all you are really doing is creating simple minds who will create a nightmare for other people. Don't mistake these kinds of people with those who actually care about things like truth, history, and justice. They are revolutionaries - whether serious or not - with no interest in actual justice. They just want power under the cloak of some empty ideology.

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Ex-Miss Hitler entrant among four 'diehards' jailed for belonging to banned far-right group


Sky News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:47 UTC
Alice Cutter
Alice Cutter denied being an NA member, despite attending the group's rallies
A former Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for a total of more than eight years for belonging to banned far-right group National Action (NA).

Alice Cutter was sentenced to three years and Mark Jones to five-and-a-half-years at Birmingham Crown Court for being members of the terrorist organisation.

The pair, from Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire, were convicted in March alongside two other neo-Nazi "diehards", Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.
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