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Stormtrooper

"Antifa" organizer exposed as member of elite political family

Eric Striker
National Justice
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC
Sean Thomas Kratovil-Lavelle
A leading organizer in a self-described "Antifa" cell, Iron Front USA, is a member of a prominent Maryland political family. The organization takes inspiration from the German Iron Front, a paramilitary group that embraced violence against conservatives, National Socialists, and even left-wing rivals.

Sean Thomas Kratovil-Lavelle, pictured above at an "Antifa" rally next to his sister Charlotte, posts on the Iron Front's reddit under his own name, bragging about engaging in the groups masked antics. Kratovil-Levelle is wearing the three arrows symbol appropriated by anarchist paramilitary organizations, while his sister is wearing a "Refuse Fascism" t-shirt, a group run by the Revolutionary Communist Party.

According to witnesses, the mother of the two, an immigration attorney and open borders activist, was present with them at the rally.
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Stock Down

After one month of coronavirus lockdown, more than 50% of Los Angeles is now unemployed

Tom Murray
Business Insider
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:16 UTC

Comment: Good job, globalists and liberal enablers...


food bank
© REUTERS / Lucy NicholsonPeople queue to pick up fresh food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank giveaway of 2,000 boxes of groceries, lockdown continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 9, 2020.
More than half of the population of Los Angeles are now unemployed, according to a national survey from the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research.

Researchers found that only 45% of LA workers are still employed, compared with 61% in mid-March as 1.3 million people have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis.

"In LA, there was a certain level of insecurity to begin with, and it has increased a little bit more than it has in the national average," USC's Jill Darling, survey director for the Understanding America Study, said according to LAist.

Comment: No doubt they'll go 'Q' on us and say 'Trust the Plan!'

We're ruled by utter morons.

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Cloud Grey

The US slipping into poverty before our eyes

Vladimir Odintsov
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
tent city
The coronavirus epidemic that has put the world under lockdown is having numerous negative consequences, and one of them is the terrifying impoverishment people are experiencing in many countries.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the economic and social consequences of the outbreak were compared with the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but now researchers are beginning to compare it with the Great Depression. "COVID-19 is laying bare socio-economic inequalities and could exacerbate them in the near future," writes economist Enrico Bergamini, a research assistant at the Bruegel European think tank. People will feel the economic shock brought on by the pandemic in different ways, depending on their level of income, living conditions and profession, which may make society more polarized.

At the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the media was dominated by headlines about business people losing billions within a short space of time, but as time went on, the most vulnerable socio-economic groups have begun feeling the more and more painful impact of the financial blow, as they could face a significant deterioration in living standards or even be left with nothing at all. The International Labor Organization fears that more than one billion workers are at high risk of a pay cut or being left completely unemployed. The UN is also sounding the alarm: the current crisis may undo the significant progress that had been made over recent decades towards the target of ending poverty, which had been set for 2030.
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Stock Down

Big businesses usurp relief loans said to be for small businesses

Thomas Franck
CNBC
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:02 UTC
we the corporations
Hundreds of millions of dollars of Paycheck Protection Program emergency funding has been claimed by large, publicly traded companies, new research published by Morgan Stanley shows.

In fact, the U.S. government has allocated at least $243.4 million of the total $349 billion to publicly traded companies, the firm said.

The PPP was designed to help the nation's smallest, mom-and-pop shops keep employees on payroll and prevent mass layoffs across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Comment: If mega-corporations are exploiting 'loop holes' in the existing fund, it is because the lawmakers designed it that way. The result is that the remaining creative and productive spirit in the US is being stamped out so big business might gain an even larger market share than they already have.

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Bullseye

Top elections lawyer: Vote-by-mail would be 'the most massive fraud scheme in the history of America'

Margaret Menge
Inside Sources
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
vote by mail
The First Amendment lawyer famous for Citizens United has taken up arms against a new foe: all-mail voting.

Jim Bopp, Jr. filed two lawsuits in federal court this week — one in Nevada and one in Virginia — to stop officials in those states from mailing out ballots to everyone on the voter rolls, not just those who request them.

"I don't use the word 'voters,'" he says, "I use the word 'people on the registration rolls' because many of them are ineligible to vote. They're not voters. They're people that are on the registration rolls that are ineligible to vote."

As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the nation, Democratic officials and activists began pushing states to switch to voting by mail, eliminating in-person voting altogether — and probably permanently.

But organizations that have spent years reviewing the voter rolls in many states estimate that more than 20 million of the names nationwide are duplicates, people who have moved away, are deceased, non-citizens or felons who have not had their voting rights restored.

Comment: The people who think, and are willing to act on, the 'anyone-but-Trump' mentality - are pulling out all the stops to get their puppet Biden into office. The thing is its become increasingly obvious to so many that that is exactly what they are trying to do:

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Attention

US approaches meat shortage as processing plants shutdown causing cascade of financial wreckage

Bloomberg
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:30 UTC
meat butcher counter
The clock is ticking for the U.S. to avoid a meat shortage as sick workers force more slaughterhouses to shut down.

Tyson Foods Inc. on Wednesday said it was idling its largest pork plant, making it at least the sixth major U.S. meat facility to shutter in the last few weeks. Currently, about 15% of hog-slaughtering capacity is completely offline, and there are also additional slowdowns at pork, beef and poultry companies across the nation.

Meat prices are starting to surge on the disruptions. But with slaughterhouses closing, farmers don't have a market for their animals. That's causing hog futures to drop, potentially creating a situation where pigs get euthanized and buried as supplies back up. Meanwhile, retail costs may rise as grocery stores mandate rationing on pork chops.
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Pocket Knife

Knife crime England and Wales reached record high in 2019

Jamie Grierson
Guardian
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:48 UTC
London violence knife crime
© Rob Stothard / Getty
The number of offences involving knives recorded by police in England and Wales in 2019 was the highest on record, official statistics show, with big cities driving up the numbers.

There were 45,627 offences involving knives or sharp instruments recorded by police in 2019, a 7% rise year on year, and 49% higher than 2011 when comparable records began, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Knife offences continued to be concentrated in metropolitan areas across England and Wales, the ONS said, with about a third of all the offences recorded in London, where there was a 5% increase. The West Midlands police, which covers Birmingham, recorded an increase of 13%.

In separate Home Office statistics, the proportion of recorded offences that resulted in a charge or summons fell from 8.3% to 7.1% in 2019.

London was an exception to the trend of an overall drop in knife killings. The number of homicides - murders or manslaughter offences - involving a knife or sharp instrument decreased by 8% in 2019 to 242 offences. But in the capital there was a 13% increase in homicides involving a knife or sharp instrument, from 77 to 87.
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Yellow Vest

'Open the economy - I need to feed my family!' Will lockdown fatigue spiral into destructive mass protests?

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:12 UTC
michigan protests quarantine
© AFP / JEFF KOWALSKY
As the world races against time to beat Covid-19, many feel the lockdown has been unfair and over-the-top. Now, anger and frustration threatens to snowball into something that makes a pandemic look like a picnic by comparison.

For many Westerners, many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck, the 'shelter-at-home' order in response to the coronavirus feels like a death sentence, especially if accompanied by the loss of a job. Now, many people, despite lockdown orders, are beginning to vent their anger on the streets.

Over the weekend, a number of American and European cities no longer resembled ghost towns, as hundreds of people protested their Covid-19 incarceration.
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NPC

Greta Thunberg's renewed environmental jihad is irrelevant, insulting, and needs to be shelved

Graham Dockery
RT
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:07 UTC
Fridays For Future
© Reuters / Fridays For FutureA screen grab from Fridays For Future's new Earth Day advertisement
The earth's being ravaged by a devastating disease, yet climate activist Greta Thunberg still wants you to feel ashamed for what little of your normal lifestyle remains intact. But now more than ever, we need new role models.

Did you remember that today is Earth Day? You'd be forgiven for forgetting. After all, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 2.5 million people worldwide and killed nearly 180,000. It's made nearly 200 million people unemployed. The news media talks of little else.

But fear not, Greta's here. Again. Ms Thunberg has emerged from her hiatus to remind the (Western) world that, in addition to worrying about our health, our newfound unemployment, and the steady erosion of our freedoms, we should still feel bad about our contribution to climate change. In a new video to mark Earth Day, her Fridays for Future organization warns us that "our house is on fire."
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Bullseye

A long lockdown will be catastrophic for developed nations - but a 'biblical' disaster for the developing world

Rob Lyons
RT
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:55 UTC
indian villagers
© REUTERS / Danish Siddiqui
The looming deep and probably long-lasting global recession caused by the shutting down of our economies will hurt us all - but it will be much, much worse for those already living on the brink of starvation.

A report by the UN World Food Program (WFP), published earlier this week, paints a depressing view of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The report suggests the number of people facing severe food shortages - on the brink of starvation - could double over the next 12 months, from 130 million to 265 million. The head of the WFP, David Beasley, has described the possible famines as 'biblical.' Those debating lockdowns in the West should bear in mind the world's poor before demanding that restrictions should stay in place.

The WFP's chief economist, Dr Arif Husain, told the media: "Covid-19 is potentially catastrophic for millions who are already hanging by a thread. It is a hammer blow for millions more who can only eat if they earn a wage. Lockdowns and global economic recession have already decimated their nest eggs. It only takes one more shock - like Covid-19 - to push them over the edge. We must collectively act now to mitigate the impact of this global catastrophe."
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