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Report reveals shocking double standards for bringing US rioters to justice

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One would think a major report from a group representing America's top law enforcement leaders analyzing the widespread riots of 2020 would have garnered significant media attention. One also would think such a report would garner widespread discussion after the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capital due to the parallels between it and the 2020 riots. Given our hyper-partisan environment, however, one would be woefully wrong.

Specifically, back in October 2020, the Major Cities Chiefs (MCC) released a comprehensive report full of data from dozens of cities that provides deep insights into the 2020 riots that plagued America after George Floyd's death in Minnesota. The MCC's "Report on the 2020 Protests and Civil Unrest" served as an excellent after-action report that cities, states, and the federal government could use to reform their practices and, equally importantly, to prepare for future riots.

With the ongoing hunt for and prosecution of January 6 participants and recent actions by Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi to veto Republican Kevin McCarthy's choices for the January 6 Commission, the MCC report has become more relevant than ever. The sheer similarities and differences between what happened with and to the participants of the 2020 riots compared to the January 6 riot and rioters are, frankly, shocking.

Comment: Prelude to a color revolution...with tyranny and injustice for all?


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Taliban and Afghan forces clash again outside Herat city, a day after UN police guard was killed

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Afghan security stands guard at check point in Herat, Afghanistan.
Afghan government forces struggled against Taliban assaults on several major cities Sunday as the insurgents stepped up a nationwide offensive that saw a key airport in the south come under rocket fire overnight. Hundreds of commandos were deployed to the western city of Herat while authorities in the southern city of Lashkar Gah called for more troops to rein in the assaults.

Fighting has surged across the country since early May when US-led foreign forces began a final withdrawal from Afghanistan that is now almost complete.

After seizing large tracts of rural territory and capturing key border crossings, the Taliban have started assaulting provincial capitals with grueling onslaughts.

Flights out of Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city and the former stronghold for the insurgents, were halted after rockets struck the airport before dawn. Airport chief Massoud Pashtun said two rockets had hit the runway and repairs were under way with planes likely to resume service later on Sunday. The facility is vital to maintaining the logistics and air support needed to keep the Taliban from overrunning the city, while also providing aerial cover for large tracts of southern Afghanistan.

The attack came as the Taliban inched closer to overwhelming at least two other provincial capitals, including nearby Lashkar Gah in Helmand province.

Comment: See also:


Bad Guys

China tests millions, imposes new travel restrictions as virus cases rise

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China on Sunday reported 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions.
The coronavirus outbreak is geographically the largest to hit China in several months after the country's successes in largely snuffing out the pandemic within its borders last year.

Chinese cities rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions as health authorities battled Sunday to contain the country's most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months.

China on Sunday reported 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions, with a cluster linked to an eastern airport now reported to have spread to over 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces.

Comment: Some see the development as the latest fear ploy. It will be interesting to see the demographic affected, if China chooses to publicize that information.:






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Leaked CDC slides call for universal masking, reinstating 'mitigation strategies', vaccine mandates for HCP to stop delta variant

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According to leaked slides, the Delta variant is more transmissible than Ebola, Smallpox and the 1918 Spanish Flu - thus, the CDC is calling for universal masking, vaccine mandates and more mitigation strategies.

The slides suggest that the next steps for the CDC are to "acknowledge the war has changed, improve [the] public's understanding of breakthrough infections, [and] improve communications around individual risk among [the] vaccinated."

Comment: Notice the CDC's sleight of hand. "More transmissible" does NOT equate to "more lethal". The CDC is playing the numbers game again, just as it did with death rates. Anyone who 'died with Covid' was equated statistically as having 'died FROM Covid.' Thus was the panic born. They're trying the same trick again with the added threat of covid passports, but it may not work as well as they hope.


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NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it)

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In the face of growing mass demonstrations against government overreach, political authorities across the West this week DOUBLED-DOWN on their 'anti-pandemic measures' by announcing the return of mandatory facemask-wearing in public (the vaccinated included), and mandatory vaccines for all.

Also this week, the US CDC acknowledged that the 'fully vaccinated' are just as likely to spread the virus (and come down with Covid-19) as the non-vaccinated. So... what's the point of the vaccines again?! And the masks? And the lockdowns and the social distancing for that matter!?

In this NewsReal, Joe & Niall disentangle the mixed government messaging and the media misinformation about what people 'should' or 'must' do, and conclude that... the PANDEMIC IS OVER! (for the awake and aware)

UPDATE

OOPS! Looks like YT censored our show. Here's the reason:
"YouTube doesn't allow content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of local health authorities' or World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on social distancing and self isolation that may lead people to act against that guidance."
Notice they do not say that the information is incorrect, just that it "disputes" official statements. The dispute could be valid, but it doesn't matter, if it "disputes" it is censored.

The censored show from yesterday (along with other recent shows) is, however, on Rumble (see link below), a platform which still appears to tolerate that apparently antiquated notion (according to YT) of free speech.


Running Time: 01:48:49

Download: MP3 — 74.7 MB


Comment: Alternatively, you can watch this podcast on NewsReal's Rumble channel:




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Dozens of House Republicans, staffers march maskless to Senate floor to protest mask mandate

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Republican congressmen and staffers protest the new mask mandate in the House chamber, July 29, 2021.
Dozens of House Republicans and their staffers marched maskless out of the House to the Senate floor in protest of the new mask mandate for the lower chamber.

The lawmakers and their staffers traveled across the Capitol on Thursday to protest the fact that Capitol Police have instructed officers to arrest staffers and visitors who don't wear masks and refuse to leave the House.

Prior to the migration, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, motioned to adjourn the House in protest against the mandate that Republicans have said came down from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.


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Trump blamed Justice officials for "inaction" over election fraud, said they had obligation to declare election "illegal, corrupt'

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© Kristinn Taylor
President Trump speaks at Save America rally in Wellington, Ohio, June 26, 2021.
President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the results of the 2020 election "corrupt" in a December phone call, according to handwritten notes from one of the participants in the conversation.

"Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," Trump said at one point to then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to notes taken by Richard Donoghue, who was then Rosen's deputy and who was also on the call.

The notes of the Dec. 27 call, released Friday by the House Oversight Committee, underscore the lengths to which Trump went to try to overturn the results of the election and to elicit the support of senior government officials in that effort. Emails released last month show Trump and his allies in the last weeks of his presidency pressured the Justice Department to investigate unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud, forwarding them conspiracy theories and even a draft legal brief they hoped would be filed with the Supreme Court.


Comment: If the claims were 'unsubstantiated conspiracy theory', surely they'd have had no problem allowing the legal brief to be filed, if only to make an example of Trump's request and prove the allegations as false, after all, it was requested by the then democratically elected President.


Comment: See also: 120+ retired US generals sign letter questioning Biden's mental health, 2020 election result, warn of 'tyrannical govt'

And check out SOTT radio's: Newsreal #33: Strange Days in DC - Military Checkpoints as US Capital Awaits 'Virtual Inauguration'




Sheriff

'Vaccination must remain a personal choice': Bavaria's minister defends rights of citizens for refusing the injections

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FILE PHOTO: People outside a vaccination center in Dresden, Germany, July 29, 2021.
A senior German official in Bavaria has shrugged off criticism from fellow politicians who are accusing him of supporting the country's anti-vaccination movement.

Hubert Aiwanger, Bavaria's economy minister and deputy minister-president, pushed back against criticism of his stance on immunization.

"I believe that vaccination is an important component of the fight against the coronavirus, but it still has to remain a personal decision."

Comment: Meanwhile in Australia: MILITARY enforcing lockdown, helicopters soar overheard blaring warnings, gov't wants to inject 80% of population before border block lifted


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Obrador takes a stand: Mexico won't be 'hostage' to Big Pharma, internet predicts trouble after he rejects Covid jabs for kids

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Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Social media users have theorized that President Andres Manuel López Obrador could face severe repercussions after he refused to purchase Covid vaccines for children, vowing that Mexico wouldn't bow to pressure from drugs firms.

In remarks made earlier this week, the Mexican leader said his government was still waiting for the scientific community to demonstrate the benefits of vaccinating minors. Until conclusive evidence was provided, Mexico would refuse to purchase jabs for children, Obrador announced, adding that pharmaceutical firms seemed to be focused more on making profits than on ensuring medical necessity as they rake in record sales from Covid-19 vaccines.

Comment: There is precedent prompting the warnings to Obrador:


Eye 1

Excuses: Twitter claims it banned election audit accounts because of 'spam'

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Jack Dorsey
Twitter is claiming that the real reason it banned six accounts dedicated to the audit of 2020 election ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania is because the accounts were "spamming" the platform.

The banned accounts included @ArizonaAudit, @Audit_PA, @AuditGeorgia, @AuditNevada, @AuditWisconsin, and @AuditWarRoom.

The bans came on on the same day that Congress began its partisan, Democrat-led Jan 6th proceedings, a day after PayPal announced it would work with law enforcement to monitor "extremists," and a day after an online counter-terrorism organization of which Twitter is a member announced it would shift its focus from Islamic extremism to the "far right."

Comment: Dorsey's excuses are becoming threadbare. Twitter's latest actions are in keeping with social media's long-term attack on Trump and his supporters. It also extends to conservative views in general. What are they so afraid of?