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Stock market will hit new highs if Trump wins 2020 presidential election, chief strategist tells Boom Bust


RT
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:29 UTC
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The National Bureau of Economic Research said this week that the US economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, ending its longest expansion on record.

RT's Boom Bust is joined by Todd Horwitz of Bubba Trading to talk about the state of the US economy and what direction it might take.

"Nobody really knows the answer to that," he points out, adding that there's more action in the market and people are starting to go to work. "So, again, if the virus stays away and we can continue to open and get the country fully open, then the recession will be over... Overall, we are still very strong."
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Arrow Down

Remember how public health COLLAPSED after Soviet Union fell? I fear West will see same due to post-lockdown economic CATASTROPHE

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:55 UTC
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The self-inflicted damage we've done to our economies in the name of combating Covid-19 will kill far more people than the virus itself. The economic collapse that followed the communist bloc's break-up caused millions of deaths.

There has never been a situation to compare with what we have been living through these past weeks and months. Never in the history of the world have entire countries been locked down. Never have entire countries inflicted such enormous damage to their own economies and distorted their health systems away from all other activities, to deal with a virus.

I felt, right from the start, that the potential harms from lockdown could well exceed any - speculative - reduction in Covid deaths. I began by arguing against lockdown from an economic perspective, which many people hated. They felt it was impossible to put a value on a human life, even to attempt to balance money versus health.

Comment: Many are now anticipating the horrible fallout of the useless and economically detrimental lockdowns:

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: 'Community policing' is a trick - new enforcers for the same oppressors, not a dismantling of tyranny

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:23 UTC
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As the massive anti-police-brutality protests sweeping the US are diverted into calls to "defund the police" and to replace them with community-based enforcers, Americans would be wise to keep an eye on "who benefits."

There's no question US police departments have become too militarized, too much like occupying armies, when the cities they patrol truly need engagement and accountability. Police in some areas pose more of a threat to residents than criminals, seizing a bigger chunk of Americans' assets via civil asset forfeiture in 2014 than were stolen by burglars that same year. Certainly outfitting cops with military surplus equipment, sending them to Israel to learn chokeholds like the one that killed George Floyd, and then deploying them in American schools to keep the kids safe is not a workable model.

Most people concerned with the police brutality problem would support demilitarizing the cops, retraining them, even holding them accountable to the many laws already on the books. Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd, had already racked up a number of brutality complaints and been involved in several shootings. In a functioning system, he would not have been on the street on Memorial Day.
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Sheriff

NY police union head rails against legislators, media for 'vilifying' law enforcement

J. Edward Moreno
The Hill
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:18 UTC
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The New York Police Benevolent Association (PBA) railed Tuesday against state legislators and the press for "vilifying" law enforcement officers amid the nationwide demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.

The New York PBA's president, Mike O'Meara, said at a press conference that officers have 375 million interactions with individuals each year and that most of them are "overwhelmingly positive."

"But what we read in the papers all week is that in the black community, mothers are worried about their children getting home from school without being killed by a cop. What world are we living in? That doesn't happen," O'Meara said.

"Our legislators are failing us. Our press is vilifying us," he added. "Stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with some respect. That's what we're here today to say. We've been vilified. It's disgusting."
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Chess

Senate confirms Gen. Charles Brown Jr. as first black service chief in unanimous vote


NBC News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:12 UTC
General Charles Brown Jr.
© Kevin Dietsch- / Getty ImagesGeneral Charles Brown Jr.
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Gen. Charles Brown Jr. as chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, making him the first black officer to lead one of the nation's military services.

Vice President Mike Pence took the unusual step of presiding over the vote, something he usually does to break ties. But Brown's confirmation, 98-0, was not close. Pence called the moment "historic."

The vote came as the Trump administration and the mostly white Senate Republican conference grapple with the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Protests have convulsed the nation alongside the coronavirus pandemic, with racial discrimination being the common thread between them. The vote in Washington overlapped with Floyd's funeral in Houston.

Brown most recently served as the commander of U.S. Pacific Air Forces. He is a fighter pilot, with more than 2,900 flying hours, including 130 in combat.

Comment: This appointment should fly in the face of claims from the political Left that Trump is a racist president. He did something that Obama never did - appoint a black man as chief of staff in the military.

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Pirates

Iraqi PMF destroys ISIS stronghold allegedly used by group's leader


Sputnik
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:04 UTC
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© AFP 2020 / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of Shia armed militias also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, in cooperation with the country's security service, have liquidated a large Daesh stronghold in the country's north allegedly used by the group's leader in Iraq, PMF spokesman Ali Hashem al-Husseini said on Tuesday.

"[The PMF and security forces destroyed] a large headquarters of ISIS, which contains rooms, supplies and equipment, as well as secret documents that cannot be disclosed in Al-Zarka sector, indicating that the headquarters belongs to the new ISIS leader in Iraq or a regional leader of the terrorist organization," Al-Husseini said, as quoted by the state Shafaq news agency.

Eastern areas of the Salah ad-Din province, as well as districts of the neighbouring province of Kirkuk, have almost been fully liberated from the Daesh formations, except for some Daesh separated groups moving between the country's regions in an attempt to escape from the state's security forces, the spokesman added.
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Bizarro Earth

People found admitting to looting, selling stolen goods on Facebook

Tara Molina
CBS Chicago
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:00 UTC
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Selling looted goods on Facebook - CBS 2 found it's happening right now, with several videos and photos sent our way.

We sent the evidence to Chicago Police, and on Monday night, CBS 2's Tara Molina looked into what will happen next - with the CPD and the FBI investigating.

There was a call for photos and videos of looting last week. The FBI asking anyone with information on unlawful activity to submit it - information the CPD is taking in too.

One woman posted a Facebook Live video publicly on Sunday, May 31, and it got about 6,600 views and 41 shares. It showed looting at a strip mall and a van filled to the brim.
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NPC

Anarchists & 'Antifa' occupy Seattle police station abandoned by 'regime' forces, set up 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone'


RT
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:37 UTC
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© REUTERS/Jason Redmond
After police in Seattle, Washington retreated from the Capitol Hill neighborhood, protesters took over the abandoned 'regime' precinct and erected barricades to mark an 'autonomous zone' for several blocks around it.

Six blocks of downtown Seattle have been declared the 'Free Capitol Hill Zone' or 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ), according to area activists that have taken control of Seattle PD's East Precinct, on 12th Avenue and E. Pine Street.

Journalist Julio Rosas tweeted photos from the 'zone,' including flyers demanding that Seattle PD be defunded, and declaring that police "will always be racist because capitalism requires inequality."
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Bullseye

TERF war: In one tweet, JK Rowling has exposed the militant intolerance of the trans lobby

Jani Allan
RT
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:24 UTC
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J. K. Rowling
The Harry Potter author's assertion that people's biological sex couldn't be denied caused uproar. But the trans lobby's desire to shout down those who disagree with them shows their disregard for the human rights they champion.

Eons ago, Anita Loos once famously said, "Sex makes fools of us all." Now, in a completely different context, it continues to do so.

Social media is fulminating. The global disapproval of JK Rowling is almost comedic in its intensity. On Saturday, the British writer, beloved of the left, commented on an op-ed about healthcare inequality that used the phrase "people who menstruate."

The opinion piece could not have been more humane, more compassionate. Rowling chimed in on Twitter.

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Light Sabers

As looting and killing spree continues, Chicago aldermen spar with Mayor Lightfoot over refusal to deploy National Guard

Tobias Hoonhout
National Review
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:32 UTC
Lori Lightfoot
© Kamil Krzaczynski/ReutersChicago mayor Lori Lightfoot
Members of the Chicago City Council slammed Mayor Lori Lightfoot during a private conference over her decision to limit deployment of the National Guard to the city's central business district over the weekend, saying that districts on the south and west side of the city were left unprotected over Chicago's deadliest weekend in 60 years.

A recording the Sunday call, obtained by local PBS affiliate WTTW, reveals that a number of aldermen told the mayor that their communities had been wrecked by the violence in the wake of national unrest following the death of George Floyd, and urged her to deploy the National Guard to protect businesses.

Two dozen people were killed and at least 61 injured by gun violence over the weekend, with Sunday seeing 18 murders — the deadliest day in Chicago's 60 years of tracking data. The city's 911 center received 65,000 calls in a single 24-hour period Sunday — 50,000 more than normal.


Comment: Chicago is coming apart at the seams.

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