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How 'Defund the Police' backfired

Michael Shellenberger
UnHerd
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:30 UTC
defund the police protester
© Matt York/APProtesters rally in Phoenix, demanding the city council defund the Phoenix police department on 3 June 2020.
After a spike in crime, progressive cities are reversing cuts

Over the last two decades, progressives have established a new consensus on crime. Nonviolent felonies like shoplifting and drug possession should be reclassified as misdemeanours. Cities should defund the police and spend the money on nurses, psychologists and social workers instead. Offenders should have minimal involvement with the justice system — and be kept out of jail wherever possible.

But now, rising crime is rapidly undermining the progressive consensus. Homicides rose 30% in 2020, and over two-thirds of America's largest cities will have had even more homicides in 2021 than in 2020. At least 13 big cities will set all-time records for homicides, including Philadelphia, Austin, and Portland. Meanwhile property crimes in California's four largest cities rose 7% between 2020 and 2021. Car break-ins in San Francisco declined temporarily in 2020, because Covid emptied the city of tourists, but they have since skyrocketed, reaching 3,000 in November. Many residents have stopped bothering to report crime.
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France bans Britons from driving through country under new lockdown rules


The Guardian
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:48 UTC
Eurotunnel Eurostar
© Hale-Sutton Europe/AlamySince 18 December France has only allowed travel from the UK for ‘compelling reasons.
Eurotunnel is warning British citizens who live in the EU that they cannot travel through France by car from the UK due to new coronavirus restrictions imposed by the French government.

Getlink, the operator of the Channel rail link, issued an urgent warning on its website and Twitter page on Wednesday evening that appeared to confirm that the French government had changed its travel rules.

The statement read: "Following a French Government decision, on 28/12/2021, unless they hold French residency, British citizens are now considered 3rd country citizens and can no longer transit France by road to reach their country of residence in the EU."

Comment: It's increasingly looking like there will come a time where these exceptions no longer exist and that these nonsensical and draconian restrictions to travel will become a permanent part of the 'new normal'. As of right now, however, it seems we're going through a period of acclimatization: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever



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Gruesome details about sacked UK police officer revealed


RT
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:19 UTC
police uk
© REUTERS/Jon Super
A tribunal has sacked police officer Ryan Connolly from the Merseyside force after it emerged that he'd taken a selfie at a murder scene and sent several racist, homophobic and offensive images, police confirmed to The Guardian.

The tribunal decided that during his six years in the police force, PC Ryan Connolly frequently failed to meet standards, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday. Among a litany of misdemeanors, Connolly was found to have taken a selfie at the scene of a teenage murder in 2018, in which the victim had been stabbed multiple times.

"Connolly had taken photographs of vulnerable people on his personal phone whilst on duty ... This breached the duty of confidence; lacked honesty and integrity and through his discreditable conduct he has undermined public confidence," Merseyside police's deputy chief constable, Ian Critchley, told the paper.

Comment: This officer sounds like a psychopath or an extremely disturbed individual at the least. Liverpool World reported that he was convicted of three offenses of possession of extreme pornographic material:
The offences, which date back to 2017, include possession of an extreme pornographic image which was 'grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character and portrayed in an explicit and realistic way a person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal'.

He was also in possession of an 'extreme pornographic image which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character and portrayed in an explicit and realistic way an act which resulted, or was likely to result, in serious injury to a person's genitals and/or threatened a person's life'.


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Russians more concerned about lockdowns than coronavirus, study reveals

Layla Guest
RT
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:08 UTC
Russia qR code covid vaccination
© Sputnik / Konstantin MihalchevskiyFILE PHOTO. Simferopol, Crimea, Russia.
Russians are fearful about the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements and new restrictions on those who haven't had a jab - but they're less concerned about the prospect of being infected themselves.

That's according to CROS, which published its National Anxiety Index on Wednesday, revealing the biggest worries and phobias keeping people up at night.

As per the analysis, the rollout of a QR-code system barring those without vaccines or natural antibodies from mass events and public spaces in many areas is the biggest source of concern, coming out on top in 70 of the country's regions.

Comment: Whilst the QR code may pass and force a significant number of Russian's to have to suffer a Covid jab they don't want, it reveals that a significant number of the population haven't fallen for the propaganda in the same way those in the West have. This is likely partly because Russia, having suffered under pathological regimes in living memory, has made them rightly mistrustful of government that claims to have the people's best interest at heart whilst also threatening them with cruel and unusual punishments if they don't comply: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever



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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Breakdown of agriculture and basic services 2022-2024


Adapt 2030
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:02 UTC
farmer
Fertilizer shortages are slated to sweep the globe in 2022, which will reduce global crop output and spike prices as the highest bidder gets the grains. Same time organic yields are 25% less than chemical fertilizer, so can farmers switch? Sri Lanka is a perfect guide to allow us a glimpse into the future with basic services limited and supply capacity shrinking.


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'Get boosted now' message hits Liverpool streets with 'hi-tech' backpack screens

Ellen Kirwin
Liverpool Echo
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:42 UTC
NHS Get Boosted Now message
© Liverpool ECHONHS Get Boosted Now message
People wearing screens encouraging the public to get their covid booster jab have been spotted on Liverpool's Lord Street.

The screens read 'get boosted now' and have official government and NHS branding logos on them.

The messages appear on a monitor that is being carried around on the shoulders of those carrying them.

Comment: We live in a clown world! The government and the NHS are pushing the 'Get boosted now' message hard! On boxing day text messages were sent out to people in the UK strongly urging them to get the booster shot, although the message drew ire and ridicule on social media from some:



Newspapers and advertising stands were also flooded with the message:





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Moscow court orders Memorial Human Rights Center banned after repeatedly failing to declare foreign agent status, a rule instigated by the US


Deutsche Welle
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:42 UTC
Memorial international protest russia
Protesters spoke out against the ruling, with a sign reading 'Hands Off Memorial, Freedom For Political Prisoners'
Following the ban on Memorial International, a Russian court has ordered its sister organization Memorial Human Rights Center be liquidated. The group focuses on helping political prisoners.

Protesters spoke out against the ruling, with a sign reading 'Hands Off Memorial, Freedom For Political Prisoners'

The Memorial Human Rights Center was ordered to close by a Moscow court on Wednesday for not marking all of its publications with a "foreign agent" label. The Kremlin has forced the designation on media outlets and nongovernmental organizations the state claims receive funding from abroad.


Comment: The organisations have the US to thank, because it was America that forced Russian organisations to register as 'foreign agents', and Russia responded by enforcing the same requirements.


A lawyer from Memorial told the AFP news agency before the judge's decision was announced that "it's obvious" Russia will move to shut down the Memorial Human Rights Center.


Comment: It perhaps is "obvious" that organisations repeatedly breaking the law will eventually be shut down. Why didn't they declare their foreign agent status as Russian organisations working in the West are required to do? What do they have to hide?


Comment: The US is known to use groups like this in its attempts to destablise society and incite regime change, and Russia has become increasingly less tolerant of groups being used as cover to further these aims:

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CDC's Rochelle Walensky admits COVID-19 PCR tests have a major flaw

Tim Meads
The Daily Wire
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:01 UTC
rochelle walensky fauci CDC
© Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesDr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Antony Fauci
As part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) updated COVID-19 guidance, individuals no longer have to obtain a negative PCR test to end quarantine after isolating for five days so long as they are asymptomatic. CDC director Rochelle Walensky's explained that is because we now know that PCR tests often show "positive" COVID-19 cases well beyond the point of transmissibility. In effect, we would be needlessly keeping people in isolation if we depended on PCR tests.

That reasoning enraged many Americans who have long argued that exact sentiment and wondered how long this fact has been known by the medical establishment.

On ABC News' "Good Morning America," Walensky stated Wednesday morning that the PCR tests can show positive cases for as long as three months.

Comment: The WHO admitted this fact literally a year ago. The CDC is obviously a little slow on the uptake (deliberately so, undoubtedly).

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Old Parliament House in Canberra set on fire during protest by Aboriginal sovereignty groups


BBC
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:18 UTC
Canberra fire parliament
The fire occurred as protests for indigenous rights ramped up in the capital city of Canberra
Australia's former parliament building in the capital Canberra was briefly set alight on Thursday by protesters during a demonstration for Aboriginal sovereignty, police said.

No-one was injured in the fire, which engulfed the Old Parliament House's front doors before it was put out.

It follows a fortnight of protest activity at the site, police said.

Protest violence on this scale is rare in Australia, but flare-ups have become more common during the pandemic.

Comment: These kinds of incidents only really serve the establishment by providing them with an excuse to further tighten the screws on people's right to protest. However, if it is true that these protesters did start the fire, it may be a sign of an uptick in the discontent people are feeling towards the authorities. Which is perhaps not so surprising, considering that certain regions of Australia have had some of the most crushing lockdown restrictions on the planet: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: NAZI Redux - Covid Camps in Australia, Mandatory Vaccinations in EU



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Jury finds Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on charges tied to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring

Clare Hymes
CBS News
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:40 UTC
ghislaine maxwell courtroom sketch
© Elizabeth Williams / APIn this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, center, sits in the courtroom during a discussion about a note from the jury, during her sex trafficking trial, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, in New York.
A jury in New York on Wednesday convicted British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of grooming minors for sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was found guilty of five of the six federal counts related to Epstein's sex trafficking ring.

Maxwell, who turned 60 on Christmas, pleaded not guilty to the charges stemming from her interactions with four teenage girls from 1994 to 2004. During that span, Maxwell was romantically involved with and then later worked for Epstein.

She faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison on the counts that she was convicted of.

Comment: Maxwell should burn, but she's just the tip of the iceberg. She's being thrown to the lions because the crowd is demanding blood, but none of the guilty people higher up the ladder are going to see the inside of a courtroom. At least it's a small victory.

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