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Catholic magazine's comparison of George Floyd to JESUS sparks wave of mockery

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An article likening the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis cop to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, eliciting a chorus of mockery - and outrage from Christians.

Floyd's death, which kicked off months of historic unrest across the US after the excruciating eight-minute video took social media by storm, was no mere lynching; it was a crucifixion, according to America Magazine, which styles itself as the "leading Catholic journal of opinion in the United States."

The outlet attempted to draw several parallels between Floyd's on-camera demise and the death of the best-known religious figure in the western world in an article published on Thursday. It opined that the ancient equivalent of police would have carried out Jesus' crucifixion, and noted that both men apparently suffered from thirst in the moments before death.

Comment: That's actually pretty close to the mark, in terms of symbolizing how most supporters of George Floyd/BLM feel about 'the cause'.

Here's Floyd recently 'elevated' in holographic form, and currently touring US cities as a kind of 'modern icon' for people to worship:

Then there's the whole act of submission via 'taking the knee'... What does it say in the Bible? "He is risen! He is Lord! Every knee shall bend..."


Heart - Black

Search for missing boy leads Mexican police to 23 abducted children

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The search for a 2 1/2 year-old boy who was led away from a market in southern Mexico three weeks ago led police to a horrifying discovery: 23 abducted children being kept at a house and forced to sell trinkets in the street.

Prosecutors in Chiapas state said Tuesday that most of the children were between two and 15 years old, but three babies aged between 3 and 20 months were also found during a raid Monday at the house in the colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas.

San Cristobal is a picturesque, heavily Indigenous city that is popular among tourists. It is not unusual to see children and adults hawking local crafts like carvings and embroidered cloth on its narrow cobblestone streets.

Arrow Up

Huge crowds of Muslims join Turkish President Erdogan in first official prayer at Hagia Sophia for eight decades

Hagia Sophia
© Murad Sezer/ReutersConstructed as a Byzantine cathedral work on the Hagia Sophia was completed in 537.
Thousands of revelers, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have flocked to the Hagia Sophia in the historic heart of Istanbul, for the first official Muslim prayers held at the site in 86 years.

The Friday prayers marked the monument's reopening for worship after Turkish President President Tayyip Erdogan declared it to be a mosque once more. Prayer mats were laid out in Sultanahmet Square as the call to prayer rang out.


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Eye 2

Pedophilia-friendly Peter Tatchell - See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell
In the course of researching this article we sent Peter Tatchell detailed questions regarding his connections to individuals involved in pro-paedophile groups and comments he had made. Mr Tatchell responded in detail and all 46 questions, and Peter Tatchell's answers, can be found at the bottom of this piece, in full and unedited.

UPDATE 23.07.20: Peter Tatchell responded to the publication of this piece with comments regarding the factual accuracy of three sections of the piece. We have included an update at the bottom of the piece, before the interview with Mr Tatchell, discussing those concerns and why we have decided all of the highlighted sections are accurate and free of factual error. Click here

Peter Tatchell, born on the 25th of January 1952, is one of the most high-profile LGBT activists in the UK, and arguably one of the most high-profile LGBT activists in the world. He has worked primarily in Britain, although he himself is Australian by birth, but also in many other countries across the world.

He has been involved in LGBT advocacy in the UK since the earliest days, when being openly gay in the UK and advocating greater rights for homosexuals carried real physical risks to one's health. He has remained active in the LGBT movement as it has grown from a small number of tightly-knit groups into the broader, more popular, more professional movement that it is today.

Dollars

Washington Post to pay Covington student Nick Sandmann after he wins $250 million defamation lawsuit

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Nicholas Sandmann, one of the students from Covington High School who was vilified in January 2019 for innocently standing at the Lincoln Memorial with his student group while wearing a MAGA hat, won his defamation suit against the Washington Post today.

The Covington kids were called names and social media erupted with comments as to Sandmann's "punchable face." Criticism erupted over Sandmann's political expression, and the Washington Post assumed that the boys were racist and derogatory to the man Sandmann can be seen here talking to.

The terms of the settlement have yet to be disclosed. Sandmann was also involved in litigation against ABC News, CBS News, The New York Times, Gannett, & Rolling Stone. CNN recently settled a $275 million lawsuit with Sandmann.

In 2019, the CBC had to apologize for their broadcast of the fake news about the Covington kids. Sandmann filed lawsuits against multiple news outlets.

The story of the Covington kids highlights the mainstream media bias that has been directed against conservatives and Trump supporters since the heated 2016 election season.

Comment: Previously:


NPC

Men's Health magazine tells Joe Rogan to shut up & look pretty

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Comment: Imagine if the the same thing was said to a female celebrity. All of the Left would be up in arms, screaming "Sexist!!!". But since it's a man who doesn't follow Woke Orthodoxy, it's entirely fine to make sexist statements. This is the state of logic in the Woke Leftist paradigm.


Lifestyle mag Men's Health is clutching its pearls over podcaster Joe Rogan's conversation with a transgender-skeptical writer - but they were fawning over his workout and diet just months ago. What changed? Not his politics.

Rogan's number-one podcast is "putting lives in danger," freelance writer Philip Ellis shrieked in the pages of Men's Health earlier this week. Ellis pointed a quivering finger of outrage at the former MMA commentator over an episode guest-starring journalist Abigail Shrier, in which the pair bemoan what they see as a coordinated push within the medical industry to railroad young girls into irreversible gender transitions.

Declaring Rogan "has a history of platforming divisive voices," Ellis accused him of "actively fanning the flames of hate" and exposing millions of subscribers to "bigotry" and "hate speech," all for the sake of clicks. By inviting Shrier on his program, the writer claimed, Rogan "lend[s] a veneer of credibility to some truly dangerous prejudices."

Arrow Down

'White Fragility' is an exhausting, dull, racially obsessed book that only serves to deepen divisions

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© robindiangelo.com; Wikipedia / Unitarian Universalist Association
Robin DiAngelo's bestseller just proves that the woke intersectional left is equally unhealthily obsessed with race as the alt-right white nationalists they claim to despise.

'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism' has recently ensconced itself in the global zeitgeist. Despite being written in 2018, its popularity has soared this year in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and global Black Lives Matter protests-cum-riots. It is currently on both the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists, no doubt making its author, Robin DiAngelo, a very wealthy woman.

I didn't want to read this book; Scandinavian detective novels are more my bag to be honest, but given the prominence of it, I thought it best to see what all the fuss was about. Thus I subjected myself to this exhausting, boring read, so you don't have to put yourself through it - or further line the pockets of Professor DiAngelo.

The book's argument is simple: if you are white, you are a racist. There is no way out of this fact as DiAngelo says that white people denying they are racist is simply further proof that they are racist. This, she argues, is the eponymous 'white fragility' which is a product of white people growing up in a society which is steeped in 'white supremacy'.

You may well have thought that white supremacy was confined to meetings of skinheads with swastika tattoos and rallies full of hooded lunatics setting fire to crosses. However, DiAngelo argues that Western society is built on white supremacy and as a result it pervades everything. Again, denying that our society is inherently racist only serves to compound and protect that white supremacy on which it is built.

Comment: This pretty much sums it up:




Handcuffs

Chinese researcher who took refuge at San Francisco consulate now in US custody

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© Reuters/Hyungwon KangJuan Tang
A Chinese researcher who took refuge from U.S. authorities at China's consulate in San Francisco is now in American custody and is expected to appear in court on Friday, a senior U.S. Justice Department official said.

According to court filings in U.S. District Court in San Francisco this week, Juan Tang, who worked at the University of California, Davis, falsely claimed on her visa application that she had not served in the Chinese military. She was charged with visa fraud on June 26.

The Justice Department official told reporters Tang was detained on Thursday night and did not have diplomatic immunity as she was not declared as a diplomatic official.

"She'll make her initial appearance in court later today," he said, alleging that Tang was part of a network of associates who concealed their military affiliation when applying for visas.

The Chinese embassy did respond to a request for comment on the case.

Fire

Judge blocks US agents from arresting observers in Portland

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© AP Photo/Noah BergerProtesters walk through chemical irritants dispersed by federal agents at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Following a larger Black Lives Matter Rally, several hundred demonstrators faced off against federal officers at the courthouse.
A federal judge specifically blocked U.S. agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at protests in Oregon's largest city where President Donald Trump is testing the limits of federal power.

Federal agents appeared to deploy tear gas early Friday to force thousands of demonstrators from crowding around the federal courthouse.

Protesters had projected lasers on the building and attempted to take down a security fence that had been reinforced to keep demonstrators at a distance. The protesters moved away as clouds of gas rose from the area and flash grenades could be heard.

U.S. Judge Michael Simon made his ruling late Thursday, a day after Portland's mayor was tear-gassed by federal agents while making an appearance outside a federal courthouse during raucous demonstrations. Protesters have been kept up in the city for nearly two months since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.

Simon had previously ruled that journalists and legal observers are exempt from police orders requiring protesters to disperse once an unlawful assembly has been declared. Federal lawyers intervened, saying journalists should have to leave when ordered.

"This order is a victory for the rule of law," Jann Carson, ACLU of Oregon's interim executive director, said in a statement.


The judge said objections by law enforcement were outweighed by First Amendment concerns.

"None of the government's proffered interests outweigh the public's interest in accurate and timely information about how law enforcement is treating" protesters, he wrote.

Comment: Some video of the tear gas:




Two black BLM protesters tried to stop others from tearing down the fence surrounding the courthouse. One was attacked by hooligans:







Black Cat

No surprise: Emails poke holes in Cathy Areu's lawsuit against Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity

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© Fox NewsTucker Carlson and Cathy Areu
Inconsistencies are emerging in claims made by Cathy Areu, a once-periodic Fox News guest, that she was harassed by some of the network's biggest names — including prime time anchor Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. New emails obtained by Mediaite shed further light on the case.

In a lawsuit filed on Monday in the Southern District of New York, Areu claims she was harassed by Carlson, Hannity and other employees of the network, and that she was largely barred from appearing after she declined their advances. In an initial response the company said the claims were "completely false."

Over the last several days, records of Areu's appearances on the network and other publicly available information has undermined some of her claims. New emails between Areu and the network's employees seem to add to those concerns.

Even more significantly, eyewitness accounts indicate Carlson's wife was with him on a key evening when Areu said Carlson promised her he would be alone.

Comment: Fox stars Tucker Carlson & Sean Hannity face sexual harassment allegations, former host Ed Henry accused of rape in new lawsuit