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Catholic priest Father Schumacher among defenders of St Louis statue

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© STLJB/ShutterstockThe moon over the Apotheosis of St. Louis statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri.
Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city's namesake as protesters called for its removal Saturday.

Umar Lee, an organizer of the protests, said June 27 that the statue "is gonna come down," reported Joel Currier of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "This guy right here represents hate and we're trying to create a city of love. We're trying to create a city where Black lives matter. We're trying to create a city where there is no antisemitism or Islamophobia ... this is not a symbol of our city in 2020."

Fr. Schumacher, whose priestly ordination was in May 2019, addressed a shouting mob, attempting to inform them about St. Louis' life, saying, "St. Louis was a man who willed to use his kingship to do good for his people."

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US university requiring both flu and COVID-19 vaccines for students to enter campus

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Those who believe that mandatory vaccines couldn't happen in America should really pay attention now.

Many U.S. health officials and pharmaceutical operatives are claiming that the only way for society to "return to normal" is for every person to receive a vaccination, otherwise it will take 'far longer' for humans to reach collective immunity against COVID-19. While this top-down narrative does not reflect reality, few in the media or politics seem brave enough to challenge it.

While there may be tens of billions being poured into the race for a COVID vaccine, it should be pointed out that all previous attempts at an effective coronavirus vaccine have failed, and that there is a much higher risk it will not be safe by virtue of how fast the industry and governments are moving. History shows us that rushing development will likely lead to catastrophic failure. But the pharmaceutical industry may not care because they will have already received legal immunity from the government which protects them from mass lawsuits if their experimental vaccine happens to injure or kill many people upon deployment.

The legal imperative for any mandatory vaccinations will likely come under the guise of "emergency measures" (see story below). In fact, some leading American legal bodies are now advocating for mandatory COVID vaccines on this basis, despite the fact that over 99% of the population are not at any real risk of complications from the virus.

"Some Americans may push back on the COVID-19 vaccination for religious, philosophical or personal reasons," says the report released on Thursday by the NYSBA, but, it says, "for the sake of public health, mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19 should be required in the United States as soon as it is available."

Comment: You can refuse - you just won't be able to go to school, or travel, or do any number of things people who previously considered themselves free could do.


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Barista receives over $32,000 in tips for not serving 'Karen' without a face mask

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A barista who declined to serve a woman, who has been nicknamed 'San Diego Karen' because she was not wearing a mask, received praise from Internet users and whopping $32,000 in tips.

Lenin Gutierrez, working as a Starbucks barista in San Diego, gathered praise and $32,000 in tips when the woman, Amber Lynn Gilles, posted about him on Facebook with an aim to criticise him for not serving coffee because she was not wearing a mask.

"Meet Lenin from Starbucks who refused to serve me cause I'm not wearing a mask. Next time I will wait for cops and bring a medical exemption," she posted.

The post backfired. Many Facebook users defended Guiterrez and chided Gilles. It got over 1,00,000 reactions and comments and 50,000 shares.

Comment: This woman was understandably frustrated at the absurdity of not being able to get a cup of coffee without having to follow a rule that she has a medical exemption for. If anything, the people shaming this woman are being a bunch of Karens.


USA

'The Star-Spangled Banned': Activists say change national anthem to John Lennon's 'Imagine' (NWO)

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Can the broad stripes and bright stars make it through the perilous fight?

Amid a national reckoning over racial tropes in culture, historian Daniel E. Walker, author Kevin Powell and others are calling to "rethink ['The Star-Spangled Banner'] as the national anthem, because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America," Walker told Yahoo Entertainment.

The song would join a long line of cultural mainstays that are rebranding after the Black Lives Matter protests โ€” foods such as Eskimo Pies and Aunt Jemima syrup among them.

The song was originally a poem written in September 1814, during the Battle of Baltimore, by Francis Scott Key, who owned slaves. The poem was eventually set to music and became the country's official anthem in 1931. President Herbert Hoover authorized the song, sung often at baseball games and graduation ceremonies โ€” notably missing the third verse, which references "the hireling and slave."

Powell argues the song is still problematic โ€” beyond being at the heart of the NFL protests kicked off in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick.

"Scott Key ... was literally born into a wealthy, slave-holding family in Maryland," Powell says. He also brings up Key's unsavory ties to President Andrew Jackson and Roger Taney, a Supreme Court justice who opposed abolition. Why not, argues Powell, replace the tune with John Lennon's "Imagine"?

Comment: 'Oh say can you see' that America is trading history for hysteria. The offending stanza evaporated many years ago and is not part of the anthem's official lyrics.
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Attention

Redubbing America: Will your home state be renamed?

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In the rush to erase America's problematic past, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo will drop the word 'Plantations' from the state's full name. But why stop there? Why not give the entire US a rainbow-colored woke-over?

Raimondo, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Monday to drop the word 'Plantations' from 'Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,' the official name of the smallest US state. She told a cheering crowd in the city of Providence:
"We can't ignore the image conjured by the word 'plantation'. We can't ignore how painful that is for Black Rhode Islanders to see that and have to see that as part of their state's name."

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Disastrous response to Covid-19: 'The lockdown is causing so many deaths'

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Few would disagree that the UK's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been a shambles. We are now in the 14th week of a three-week lockdown and excess deaths are among the highest in Europe. But while the received wisdom is that lives could only have been saved by locking down harder, earlier and for longer, the benefits of lockdown remain unproven, while the costs of lockdown are starting to mount. Dr Malcolm Kendrick is a GP and author of Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense. spiked caught up with him to get his take from the frontline.

spiked: Do you think the Covid statistics are accurate?

Malcolm Kendrick: It is very difficult to tell. It is clear that different countries are recording deaths differently. Death certification is not a precise science. Normally, when someone dies, you have got a reasonably good idea what they died from. But if a person who is 85 drops dead, what do you put on the certificate? I do this, so I know it is not very accurate. GPs were advised to put Covid-19 on the certificate if they suspected somebody had it, even if there was no test done. We are in a strange situation where we are probably both over-recording Covid-19 and simultaneously under-recording it. Will we ever know what the real statistics were?

We are over-recording it because elderly people die quite often, and we may say they have died of Covid-19 but not know that was the case. Therefore there will have been a number of people who died of other things who have been recorded as dying of Covid-19. Equally, there will be people who died of Covid-19 but the GP did not know, so did not put it on the certificate. It really depends on how people decide to record the death.

Fire

Fireworks set off Utah wildfire - 100 people forced to leave their homes

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© Twitter/@JustinFreevesA wildfire started by fireworks burns in the Traverse Mountains north of Lehi, Utah, on Sunday, June 28, 2020. About 100 people were ordered to evacuate their homes.
A wildfire started by fireworks forced residents of dozens of homes to evacuate early Sunday in Utah.

"This cost a lot of people a long sleepless night. ... All because someone was using fireworks," Lehi Fire Department Chief Jeremy Craft said a briefing Sunday morning.

Firefighters worked through the night against the blaze, designated as the Traverse Fire. Sunday morning, it had consumed more than 1.5 square miles. No homes were burned, Craft said, but many of them may smell smoky for days.

About 100 people from 42 homes near the communities of Lehi and Draper were ordered to evacuate. The Red Cross set up two shelters. Craft said the evacuees may be allowed to return home Sunday afternoon.

Comment: More information from RT:
Two large blazes broke out on the hills surrounding the Traverse Mountain area late Saturday night. While one of the fires was put out, the other flared up due to strong winds. Now it is spreading rapidly, moving closer to the nearby towns of Lehi and Alpine.






Dominoes

Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson's name from school due to 'racist thinking'

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Woodrow Wilson (R) and Princeton University (L)
Princeton University will remove former President Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school and a residential college, the school's president announced Saturday.

Christopher Eisgruber announced the institution's decision in a statement published on the school's website. He cited Wilson's "racist views and policies" as the main factor in the decision.

"The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson's racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all its forms," the statement read.

NPC

Fox capitulates to the mob as The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters

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© 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection"The Simpsons" episode, "Orange Is The New Yellow."
Fox has released a statement on casting for non-white characters on "The Simpsons."

"Moving forward, 'The Simpsons' will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters," the network said Friday.

The move comes as several television shows have pulled episodes featuring blackface from their streaming platforms, and amid a nation dealing with controversial depictions of race on TV and film.

Bullseye

About time! Four men charged for allegedly attempting to tear down Andrew Jackson statue

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© Tasos Katopodis / Getty ImagesProtestors attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Four men have been charged in federal court for allegedly attempting to tear down the statue of former President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. on Monday. They have each been charged with destruction of federal property and one has been arrested, the Department of Justice announced Saturday.

Connor Matthew Judd, 20, was taken into custody Friday, according to the DoJ. The other three men, Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, Ryan Lane, 37, and Graham Lloyd, 37, were allegedly seen on video attempting to tear down or damage the statue along with Judd.

Judd is scheduled to appear in court Monday.

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