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Virginia Senate approves proposal to allow reduced penalty for assaulting police

Dean Mirshahi
ABC 8 News
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 03:41 UTC
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© AP Photo/Steve HelberVirginia State Senator Scott Surovell
The Virginia Senate passed a measure Wednesday that gives judges and juries the discretion to reduce the charge for assaulting law enforcement officers from a felony to a misdemeanor if the officer is not hurt during the encounter.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax), eliminates mandatory minimum sentences for assault and battery charges against police, judges, magistrates, correctional officers and firefighters. Democrats argued that the felony, which carries a minimum six-month sentence, is too harsh of a penalty as it is frequently used in encounters that are inconsequential.

While the charge remains to be a felony, the measure gives a judge or jury the power to reduce it to a misdemeanor if the incident did not result in a bodily injury.

Republicans claimed that the law would make it more difficult for officers to do their jobs and for departments to find new recruits. GOP senators called for the bill to be taken up during next year's session.

Comment: The Dems do not want their opposition forces curtailed in any capacity, especially prior to the election. Will the negation of punitive consequences reduce or magnify the desire and willingness to inflict harm on the police and other officials?

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Operation Not Forgotten: US Marshals find 39 missing kids and rescue 15 from sex trafficking in Atlanta, Georgia

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:26 UTC
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The U.S. Marshals Service put out a press release on Thursday announcing the recovery of 39 missing kids, some of whom were rescued from sex traffickers in Atlanta and Macon during Operation Not Forgotten in the state of Georgia.

"Operation Not Forgotten" resulted in the rescue of 26 children, the safe location of 13 children and the arrest of nine criminal associates. Additionally, investigators cleared 26 arrest warrants and filed additional charges for alleged crimes related to sex trafficking, parental kidnapping, registered sex offender violations, drugs and weapons possession, and custodial interference. The 26 warrants cleared included 19 arrest warrants for a total of nine individuals arrested, some of whom had multiple warrants.

Darby Kirby, chief of the Missing Child Unit said:
"When we track down fugitives, it's a good feeling to know that we're putting the bad guy behind bars. But that sense of accomplishment is nothing compared to finding a missing child. It's hard to put into words what we feel when we rescue a missing child, but I can tell you that this operation has impacted every single one of us out here. We are working to protect them and get them the help they need."
The U.S. Marshal's Office is taking on child traffickers around the country. Historically, the U.S. marshals are famous for the manhunt. This kind of work is right up their alley and it was surprising to learn they had not been utilized to find missing children up until now.

Comment: The article states: 'Every forty seconds a child is abducted in this country.' This is a jaw-dropping statistic!

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Best of the Web: Paul Joseph Watson: Cancel Culture, Salem Witch Trials And The Dark Triad

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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With recent studies showing that virtue signalling and cancel culture behavior are actually signs of the Dark Triad of personality: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, Paul Joseph Watson takes a look back at the events of the Salem Witch Trials to help explain exactly what we are witnessing occur in present times - providing a very apt psychological description of today's radical and authoritarian left, and the very dangerous mind virus they are promulgating like wildfire.


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James Corbett: World rising up against the lockdowns as protests mount

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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Welcome back to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

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Children at 'tiny' risk of acute coronavirus - UK academics


RT
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:05 UTC
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© REUTERS/Eric GaillardFILE PHOTO
The chances that children infected by Covid-19 could die are slim, as underage patients' symptoms are markedly less acute than in those across other age groups, a promising study has suggested.

The research published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) involved a cohort of children aged 19 or under who had tested positive for coronavirus and been hospitalized between January and July of this year.

Of the 651 underage cases reviewed across England, Scotland, and Wales, only 18 percent required intensive care, the authors report. Six children - about 1 percent of the total cluster - had died, but they suffered from cardiac anomaly and bacterial sepsis, or were immunosuppressed by chemotherapy that hindered the coronavirus treatment.


Comment: And these coronavirus treatments likely did not include the tried and tested, but now egregiously banned, Hydroxychloroquine: Spain, US & Russia using Hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus while France, Italy and Belgium ban it due to WHO concerns


Eighty-nine percent of the cohort were eventually discharged from hospital and the remaining 10 percent were undergoing treatment at the time of publication. "Children and young people have less severe acute Covid-19 than adults," the researchers concluded.

Comment: As reported yesterday in British newspaper The Times, only a few children who were already suffering from a severe illness died with coronavirus.

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Best of the Web: Face masks make you stupid

Patrick Fagan
The Critic
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:28 UTC
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In Joost Meerloo's analysis of false confessions and totalitarian regimes, The Rape of the Mind, he coins a phrase for the 'dumbing down' of critical resistance - menticide. "In the totalitarian regime," he wrote, "the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorise, to salivate when the bell rings."

Neolithic man had a similar problem dealing with his livestock. Homo sapiens' success has relied not insignificantly on cattle - their dairy, meat, leather and manure. Yet the cow's ancestor, the auroch, was quite a different beast. It was fast, aggressive and dangerous - hardly conducive to be corralled into predictable channels of behaviour. So, about 10,500 years ago, man started to deliberately breed the most docile aurochs for domestication.

The key word here is docile, which comes from the Latin docere, meaning "to teach" (as does, say, 'doctorate' and 'document'). Being docile means being compliant and following commands, which means submitting to a system of thought.

Whereas animals, however, typically need to be bred to have a higher level of reasoning to be taught commands, human beings, already being quite smart, need to be dumbed down. You won't disobey an order if you lack the cognitive ability to question it. This is particularly pertinent to the smooth running of a modern world system which relies on millions of individual souls, each with their own nuanced life history and perspective, thinking and acting in the same way.

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Millennials can't afford property so don't care about protecting it. Why are we surprised they're setting fires and smashing cars?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:31 UTC
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© AFP / Scott Olson
The sight of Antifa mobs smashing their way through the US' business districts strikes fear into property owners' hearts. But what do they expect when owning property is a near-impossible dream for an entire generation?

Video footage of a Kenosha, Wisconsin man trying to impart respect for private property to a group of young protesters has gone viral, mostly among conservatives who hold it up as proof the kids flooding the streets to smash windows and set things on fire are spoiled brats who've never worked a day in their lives. That self-serving reading is only half the story, however: while owning a home and business remains the American Dream even for young adults, many of them are finding that, just like any other dream, it vanishes when they wake up.

"What y'all don't f***ing understand is that people have their lives in these businesses," the exasperated man tells the younger protesters in the video, posted earlier this week to social media.

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Science is NOT about consensus

Jeff Harris
Ron Paul Institute
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:47 UTC
Ignaz Semmelweis
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Newsflash; real science is based on facts not "consensus". I'm sick and tired of idiots beating me over the head with pseudoscience instead of sticking to the cold, hard facts. Show me the hard data that standing six feet from someone is necessary. Show me the hard data that wearing any old rag on my face is going to materially stop the spread of a virus. Show me the hard data that enjoying fresh air and sunshine outdoors could be an invitation to an early death.

Please, stick to the facts and don't dare lecture me about the "consensus" and here's why. Maybe you've heard of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian obstetrician with a prickly personality. If not, you will quickly recognize his contribution to the medical profession with the three words he made famous:

"Wash your hands."

This was way back in 1847. Dr. Semmelweis provided hard data clearly demonstrating that once he and his staff began washing their hands and disinfecting equipment between patients the number of infections and deaths dropped dramatically.

Unfortunately, the scientific "consensus" at the time held that there was no benefit to these measures and his advice was almost completely ignored by the learned medical community. In fact, many of his medical peers were incensed with his suggestion that they could be responsible for transmitting illness and disease!
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'Hysteria & reverse racism': Ex-NHL star Pavel Bure questions BLM protests and US unrest


RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:04 UTC
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© REUTERS / Shaun BestPavel Bure
Russian and NHL superstar Pavel Bure has added his weight on the issue of the ongoing protests in the US, questioning why large-scale unrest occurs only when black people suffer.

The former Vancouver Canucks forward called the ongoing protests, which have swept the US following the shooting of Jacob Blake, "hysteria," insisting that all people should be treated equally regardless of their race and nation.

"If we talk about equality, one law should be interpreted equally for everyone. If something happens to a white person, it's OK, but if he is black - it's a big tragedy. All people should be treated equally," Bure was quoted as saying by Sport-Express.

"I worked in America for more than 20 years playing with guys from different ethnic groups. My best friend was Gino Odjick, an American Indian who introduced me to his ethnic community.

"But native Indians are the most oppressed nation in North America. Donald Brashear, a black guy, was also my friend and there was no racism. What is happening now is outrageous hysteria, reverse racism. Why should anyone apologize?," the 'Russian Rocket' added.
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Extinction Rebellion and Keira Knightley film's bogus claims of impending apocalypse damages the climate change cause

Damian Wilson
RT
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:12 UTC
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© Getty Images / John Keeble; REUTERS/Henry NichollsExtinction Rebellion protest; Keira Knightley (inset)
An XR film starring Keira Knightley that claimed human extinction is a real possibility has had to be re-edited before its launch this weekend. Unscientific nonsense like this makes a fool of everyone involved.

Pint-sized 17-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg announced last week that she was stepping out of the limelight and returning to school, but it seems she's not the only climate change activist who could use a bit more classroom time.

Because if Serena Schellenberg, age 59, was equipped with a clearer understanding of the need for critical analysis, particularly in the climate change minefield, maybe her rookie error of producing an Extinction Rebellion campaign film based on totally bogus information could have been avoided.

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