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Best of the Web: Do French Lives Matter? Where was the outrage when police were maiming protesters in France?

Fraser Myers
Spi!ked Online
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:08 UTC
yellow vest protests
The brutal police killing of George Floyd has sparked waves of protests not only in the United States but also in the form of solidarity demos in Europe. In the UK, thousands defied the lockdown to march in London, while hundreds also protested in Manchester and Cardiff. The killing of Floyd, the subsequent protests and riots and the police brutality meted out against demonstrators have all received copious attention in the UK from the media, celebrities, politicians and more.

What is striking in this sudden outpouring of protest is how much it contrasts with the total indifference to the police violence which was, not long ago, on display week in, week out practically on our doorstep. I'm talking, of course, about the yellow-vest protests in France. The gilets jaunes revolt was the most significant and sustained period of unrest in France since 1968. But the protests themselves garnered disproportionately little media attention. And the many acts of police violence against the protesters raised barely any comment or condemnation whatsoever. The perception of a media blackout was so strong that fake-news stories spread online saying that the British government had actually banned our press from covering the gilets jaunes.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin: Self-isolation restrictions to end as of Tuesday, summer cafes open June 16


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC
Moscow
© Reuters/Maxim Shemetov jpgMoscow, Russia
Moscow's ten-week long strict lockdown will begin to loosen from Tuesday. Since March 29, residents have endured significant restrictions on their movement throughout the city, but normal life is now set to resume, in stages.

Initially, cafes, gyms, and most shops were closed. The measures were tightened further in the middle of April 15, with Muscovites required to apply online for a QR-code pass to leave the house for almost any reason except food shopping.

Over the past two weeks, authorities have gradually begun to ease the lockdown, and residents have been allowed to go for walks subject to a strict schedule, set by the local government. All these restrictions will be scrapped.

Writing on his personal website, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that "the vast majority of Muscovites responsibly complied with recommendations and restrictive requirements," and the city "managed to bypass a disaster." He emphasized that with over 20 million people in the city and its surrounding region, the Russian capital was in a uniquely precarious position, by European standards, given the population density.

Sobyanin explained that, from June 9, hairdressers, beauty salons, photo stores and veterinary clinics will begin to get back to work, as well as many other businesses and organisations. From June 16, libraries and museums will open up. Finally, one week later, June 23, fitness clubs, pools and fitness centers will be allowed to restart operations.

Comment: Waiting to fly to Russia? There's finally good news:
The country's Federal Air Transport Agency plans to resume international flights from July 15. That's according to news agency TASS, citing a source 'in one of the airlines.'
"Yesterday, a meeting was held at the Federal Air Transport Agency, during which it was decided to propose resuming international air traffic from a number of cities of the Russian Federation from July 15 to 15 countries. The Federal Air Transport Agency plans to send its proposals to [Russia's Consumer Rights Watchdog] Rospotrebnadzor."
This information was further backed up with details emerging from news agency Interfax, which confirmed that Russian airlines are exploring the possibility of resuming international passenger flights "subject to stable positive dynamics." Flights to and from Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries would likely be the first to resume. Furthermore, he added that it is planned to open flights "to almost all countries" for business aviation.
See also: The disease within: Russia's covid game of elites

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Che Guevara

Minneapolis: City Council plans to disband police - Veto-proof majority endorses proposal


RT
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:42 UTC
Police defund
© Twitter/ Ilhan Omar
The majority of the members on the Minneapolis City Council have announced they are ready to commit themselves to getting rid of the city's police department. The idea has become one of the rallying cries of the ongoing protests.

Council President Lisa Bender broke the news during a rally in Minneapolis on Sunday, saying that nine out of the body's 13 members have so far gone on board with the idea. Speaking to CNN, Bender said that the council has yet still to work out a plan how exactly they want to uproot the police department, noting that "the idea of having no police department is certainly not in the short term."

Comment: Others had opposing positions:


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Alarm Clock

Best of the Web: Coping with chaos: Societal collapse and mass psychosis

Michael Prescott
michaelprescott.typepad.com
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 18:45 UTC
yeats second coming
Right now I think many people have the sense that society is coming apart at the seams. It's like the famous WB Yeats poem, "The Second Coming":
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
Yeats's Second Coming is not an event to be celebrated. It is not Christ, but the great Sphinx of Giza, who is lumbering toward civilization, with nothing good on its mind.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
In the past few months we've seen mass hysteria over a virus that, according to the CDC's "best estimate," has a lethality rate of 0.26%. (That's 0.4% of those with symptoms, adjusted for the CDC's estimate of 35% infected without symptoms.) Then we saw new hysteria over a suspect who died in police custody and whose death was captured on video. George Floyd's death should not have happened, but the officer responsible has already been charged and is being held in custody, so what exactly does "justice for George Floyd" represent? A lynching? Perhaps. In any event, the tragedy is being used to justify looting, arson, murder, and the destruction of inner-city neighborhoods that won't be rebuilt for a generation, if ever. In the meantime, so-called "medical authorities" are telling us that, while the virus makes it incredibly dangerous to gather together for a picnic or sports event, it is not only safe but morally necessary to assemble for protests.
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Best of the Web: The Silence of the lambs: Why are the churches still shut?

Rob Slane
theblogmire.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:22 UTC
closed church
This piece is written exclusively with Christians in mind. Atheists and those of other religions are of course welcome to peek in through the window, and in fact part of me suspects that many who do, though disagreeing with the theology, will perhaps see the points being made more clearly than many of our national church leaders.

Never before in the history of the church have so many churches been shut for this long. Never before in the history of the church have God's people failed to meet together in such great numbers for so long. Never before in 2,000 years of church history has the Lord's Supper been suspended for so long for so many.

After weeks of this startling situation, we have started to hear a few murmurings from one or two prominent church leaders. However, most of it is so insipid that it bears the same sort of resemblance to John and Peter's declaration to the Sanhedrin in Acts 5 — "We must obey God rather than men" — as Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock's arbitrary and irrational rules bear to the Declaration of Independence.

Comment: The churches don't or won't say anything because if they do, they would have to actually call out this infernal situation for what it is: a cult of worship to The Darkness...

Archbishop Breaks Ranks to Support Trump: 'Covid-19 Emergency And Riots an Infernal Deception by Children of Darkness'

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China's Covid-19 statistics are accurate, while lockdown makes little difference - Nobel laureate biophysicist Levitt tells RT


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:38 UTC
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© Reuters / Carl Recine
Challenging the widespread belief that the worldwide anti-coronavirus lockdown has helped in slowing down the disease spread, Stanford Professor Michael Levitt believes that it's actually made very little difference.

Speaking to RT's Going Underground, Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist Levitt said that there was no reason to doubt China's official coronavirus figures, since its statistics are corresponding with the dynamics observed elsewhere.

"What happened in China outside of Hubei is exactly the same dynamics of the curve as what happened in New Zealand," Levitt stated. "If China is forging statistics, they must have a time machine. And if they have the time machine, they would've beaten us in any competition anyway."
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Little Maoists: Tearing down of British slave trader statue prompts wave of suggestions for further destruction


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:43 UTC
Winston Churchill in Parliament Square BLM protests
© REUTERS/Dylan MartinezA demonstrator in front of graffiti on a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square during a Black Lives Matter protest in London on Sunday.
After protesters in the city of Bristol dramatically tore down a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston on Sunday, a wave of suggestions for whose effigy should be destroyed next has been unleashed.

Colston made the bulk of his vast fortune with the Royal African Company (RAC). The company had a monopoly on the West African slave trade and it branded its RAC initials on the slaves' chests. His statue was sent to a watery grave when demonstrators threw it into Bristol Harbor on Sunday.

The striking scenes have prompted a raft of suggestions for further demolitions, as some in Britain have suggested that the country should attempt to come to terms with its blood-drenched history. Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell and imperialist Cecil Rhodes have led the nominations, while Margaret Thatcher, prime minister from 1979 to 1990, also drew some fire.

Comment: Tearing down old monuments only removes the symbols of who we were and from whence we've come, and is done at the peril of all involved.

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Reckless Twitter hashtag or serious future policy? US cops give RT their views on 'defund the police' campaign


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
police
© REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Calls to strip law enforcement of funds should remain on social media and don't reflect reality, a police union president told RT. A former NYPD commander countered that some funds could be reallocated and restored if needed.

Nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis cops last month have spawned a growing movement to defund police departments. The radical idea has already been embraced by Minneapolis City Council, which has assembled a veto-proof majority to replace traditional law enforcement with a "community-led system." The proposal, which proponents admit will take time to fully implement, has sparked fierce debate about how to ensure public safety in America's cities while rooting out discrimination and corruption.

Stripping the police of funding would have serious consequences, and those who support the idea on social media are likely not the ones who will be most affected by such extreme measures, Joe Gamaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, told RT.
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Evil Rays

China to build 600,000 5G bases in 2020 despite COVID-19 impact


CGTN
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:08 UTC
5g cities
China is expected to build more than 600,000 5G base stations by the end of the year, covering cities above the prefecture level in the country, said an official with the country's industry and information technology ministry on Saturday.

The basic telecommunications companies in China have built more than 250,000 5G base stations and with over 36 million 5G users, said Lu Chuncong, deputy director of the Information and Communications Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), at the first anniversary of the 5G licensing online summit

As of May, shipment of 5G mobile phones in China hit 59.85 million units. The shipment is expected to exceed 180 million by the end of the year, said Lu.
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Red Pill

Best of the Web: The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots

John Daniel Davidson
The Federalist
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:00 UTC
riots
It seems no great event or upheaval in our national life can pass now without the media lying to our faces about it.

They lied about the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016. They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn. They lied about Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president and the impeachment farce that ensued. They lied about the coronavirus and the lockdowns and the White House response. And now they're lying about the riots.

In recent days we've heard a steady drumbeat of lies, distortions, and disingenuousness from the mainstream media about almost every aspect of the unrest now gripping American cities. The deceit is almost too pervasive and amorphous to describe, but I'm going to try anyway.

Over the weekend we were told, for example, that the looting and violence was being instigated not by left-wing anarchists and antifa groups but by the media's favorite villains: white supremacists. CNN, whose Atlanta offices were vandalized Friday, went on and on — without a shred of evidence to back it up — about how white supremacists might be infiltrating the protests and stirring up trouble. The New York Times, in a report that even quoted a senior police official in New York City saying outside anarchist groups were coordinating mayhem before the protests began, nevertheless veered into a long aside about how far-right "accelerationists" were hoping the unrest would bring about a long-sought second civil war.
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