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Seattle Mayor Durkan refers to CHAZ as a 'block party', plans to let anarchists enjoy their 'summer of love'

Andrew Gleeson
Quillette
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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A protester uses a scope on top of a barricade to look for police approaching the newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington on June 11, 2020.
The bluest skies you've ever seen in Seattle
And the hills the greenest green in Seattle
Like a beautiful child growing up free and wild
Full of hopes and full of fears
Full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams to last the years in Seattle
In Seattle

So Perry Como sang in the late '60s. Now it seems the days of beautiful children growing up free and wild are returning to Seattle. Like other American cities over the last three weeks, Seattle saw protests rapidly become violent clashes with police. This ugliness waxed and waned for a fortnight until police withdrew from their East Precinct Building, effectively ceding the surrounding area to the protestors. Barriers were erected around it by activists who initially christened the new territory the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), and later renamed it the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). As their quasi-manifesto of June 9th put it, they had "liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle."

Now a tense and potentially dangerous stand-off has developed. What does the city administration intend to do? On June 11th, the Democratic mayor of the city, Jennifer Durkan, was interviewed on CNN by a sympathetic Chris Cuomo. Cuomo began by asking if Durkan had lost control of her own city's streets.

Durkan: We've got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere. It's not an armed takeover, it's not a military junta. We will make sure that we can restore this. But we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time... There is no threat right now to the public and we're looking, we're taking that very seriously, we're meeting with businesses and residents...


Comment: No threat?? Residents think otherwise: Frontline report: 'I've been scared every day': Seattle resident speaks out about life on the border of CHAZ


Cuomo: The counter will be block parties don't take over a municipal building, let alone a police station and destroy it, basically thumbing their nose at any sense of civic control. Do you believe that you have control of your city, and that you would be able to clear those streets? Because you haven't.

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Police officers all over America are quitting their jobs because of the George Floyd protests

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:04 UTC
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Even during the best of times, being a police officer in one of America's major cities is extremely stressful, and these are definitely not the best of times. In 2020, the entire profession has become the target for a vast nationwide outpouring of anger and hatred. It doesn't matter if you are a good officer or a bad officer, because everyone is being lumped together. Every single person that puts on a police uniform understands that they are putting their lives on the line every single day, but now that is even more true than ever.

All over the U.S., police officers are being attacked, abused and targeted for violence, and I can't even imagine what it is like to never be able to let your guard down because someone could assault you at any moment. And even if you never get physically attacked, most officers must still endure the mental torment of knowing that vast numbers of people want them dead simply because they have chosen to serve in the police. For Winchester, Tennessee police officer Dustin Elliott, that was one of the main factors that caused him to quit his job:
"I thought long and hard about whether or not I should even make a video, but I feel like that today we all kinda need to understand where law enforcement is and the crusade against us that is weighing on every officer's heart in America right now," he said.

It's devastating to be a police officer right now, and to know what's going on and how people feel about you and the things that you do in this job, the sacrifices that you make," Elliott added. "There's a lot that would rather see you dead just because of the uniform that you wear.
I have never seen as much hatred for the police as we are seeing right now, and that is incredibly sad.

Yes, there have been abuses, but most police officers have never had any problems and serve their communities with distinction.
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Snakes in Suits

BLM: California Assembly passes reparations bill task force

Rachel Sandler
Forbes
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 03:09 UTC
Shirley Weber
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California State Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego)
A bill creating a task force to study how reparations could be implemented statewide passed the California Assembly this week as Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. force leaders to reckon with the country's history of racism.

KEY FACTS

The bill would establish an eight-member task force to study how reparations could be awarded and who would be eligible for them in an effort to address the wrongs of slavery in the U.S.

The measure was passed 60-14 with bipartisan support. The bill still has to pass the State Senate and be signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom.

If the bill becomes law, California would be the first state to create an official task force studying the issue.
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, the author of the bill, said:
"The discriminatory practices of the past echo into the everyday lives of today's Californians... We seem to recognize that justice requires that those who have been treated unjustly need the means to make themselves whole again."

Comment: The 'means' to make themselves whole again...with money? The message - if you protest too much we will pay you to stop.

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Supreme Court upholds pipeline permit for gas line tunnel under Appalachian Trail, but problems remain

John Kruzel, Rebecca Beitsch
The Hill
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:16 UTC
Appalachian Trail
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Appalachian Trail near Asheville, North Carolina
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a permit for a controversial $8 billion gas pipeline that would tunnel below the famed Appalachian Trail.

The 7-2 opinion handed a defeat to environmental groups who challenged the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), which would carry natural gas some 600 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina.

The decision to uphold the permit resolves a complex bureaucratic dispute involving multiple U.S. environmental agencies and overlapping legal authorities. The justices held that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) had been duly authorized to greenlight the project, rejecting the challengers' claim that power over the affected land lay elsewhere.

The dispute stemmed from the Department of the Interior's decision to make the National Park Service (NPS) responsible for the Appalachian Trail. Prior to the court's Monday decision, the question of whether this move also transferred authority of lands underneath the trail had been an open one.

But Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, said the administrative arrangement did not remove the USFS's power to permit construction under the trail.
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'Information Heros'? Reporters Without Borders acknowledges WH press corps for pandemic coverage


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:01 UTC
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White House press corps journalists bravely overcoming adversity
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has praised journalists who distinguished themselves with courageous work on the Covid-19 pandemic - whistleblowers and reporters who were jailed and persecuted - and the White House press corps.

The press organization published a list of 30 "information heroes" whose "courage, perseverance or capacity to innovate has helped to circulate reliable and vital information" during the coronavirus outbreak which has infected close to eight million people worldwide as of Monday.

Among the jailed and persecuted whistleblowers, suppressed media outlets, and courageous truth-tellers who endured real adversity in their efforts to cover the pandemic, the decision to include the entire White House Correspondents' Association raised a few eyebrows.
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Heart - Black

Corbett Report: Rosemary Frei on how the high death rate in Care Homes was created on purpose

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:31 UTC
Care Home Covid
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Comment: This was first introduced by medical journalist, Rosemary Frei, writing for the OffGuardian, May 26, 2020. At the time, Rosemary Frei detailed the horrendous conditions in Care Homes in Ontario (possibly not so dissimilar to other areas around the world), along with the medical procedural and policy steps that helped to make it so. Here James Corbett conducts an excellent interview with Rosemary Frei.

Currently, as families come to grips with the loss of their loved ones from within these Care Homes, they are rightly asking 'who hath done this thing' to their very dear family members - who are also members of society, least we forget. Their questions of accountability are pouring in, including what is being discussed here by Rosemary Frei. Many others have similar stories.

The government-supported media are doubling down, deflecting these horrors back upon Care Home providers singularly, providers who were faced with near-impossible conditions thrust upon them (and obviously they bear responsibility). However, Care Home providers were mandated to follow their Health Ministry 'how to' policies that directed the outcome of this awful and unnecessary human story. This next question becomes; who wrote and demanded that these policies be followed and who (no pun intended) directed their hands in writing said policies?

In response to this carnage of the elderly and infirm, the best that a Canadian leader could come up with was: "It is deeply disturbing." Yes, most normal people would agree with the Prime Minister's statement, albeit for different reasons as they become more aware.

To date, almost all alleged Covid-19 deaths in Canada were from within Care Home facilities while hospitals remained largely empty.

Read the May 26th article by Rosemary Frei for background: Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?


Rosemary Frei has an M.Sc in molecular biology from a faculty of medicine and was a freelance medical journalist for 22 years. She is now an independent journalist in Canada. In her recent article, "Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?" she examines how all of the rules and guidelines pertaining to elderly care, death certification and treatment of bodies in Ontario have been changed during the course of this "crisis" in order to increase the numbers reported "dying of COVID." We discuss the reasons behind these changes and what they tell us about the real nature of this pandemic panic.

Comment: Note that Dr. Huyer was made responsible to report to the government back when those horrid Wettlaufer murders took place. As Rosemary Frei reminds, Huyer's report (affidavit) discussed transparency in Care Homes, including investigation responsibilities: 'death investigations'. Thereafter, and as discussed in the above interview, policies Huyer helped create for Covid washed away any transparency. Death became a non-investigation if Covid could be made the claim. Having a runny nose was a claim...

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People

Paris police clash with protesters at health workers' rally, firing tear gas


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:33 UTC
Healthcare worker demonstration in Paris
© Reuters/Charles Platiau
Protesters face off with police during a demonstration by health workers in Paris, France, June 16, 2020 .
France's healthcare workers have been marching for better pay and increased funding. As demonstrators thronged the streets of Paris, violent clashes between protesters and police broke out, with tear gas fired into the crowds.

Hailed as "heroes in white coats" by President Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, France's health-sector employees assembled en masse on Tuesday to demand more than just applause and platitudes. Calling for salary raises and an end to hospital-bed cuts, one powerful union taking part said that "the government's soothing speeches, chocolate medals and promises of random and hypothetical bonuses will not suffice."

In Paris, an estimated several thousand workers descended on the Ministry of Health. Elsewhere in the city, clashes broke out between 'black bloc' militants and the lines of riot police who showed up to keep order.


These more violent demonstrators hurled bottles and fireworks at the police, who responded by firing tear gas at the mob, some of whom flipped vehicles and set fires.
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Bad Guys

America: A Color Revolution™ of its very own

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:55 UTC
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Chicago police and protesters scuffle near Daley Plaza on Saturday during a protest over the death of George Floyd, in police custody, in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.
Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order.

If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, and look at what has taken place across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
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Bulb

Former cop to AOC, Pelosi: 'Defund your protection first'

Hannah Bleau
Breitbart
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:11 UTC
Tom Homan
Former police officer Tom Homan, speaking at Saturday's pro-cop "We Back Blue" event in D.C., slammed progressive politicians for loudly calling for defunding police. He singled out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and challenged them to "lead by example" by defunding their own protection first.

Homan, a former officer who spent over three decades serving his community, spoke at the event and blasted progressive politicians who have, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, largely vilified police officers and demonstrated support for defunding police departments across the nation.

"Schumer and Pelosi are not speaking up," he told the audience, emphasizing, again, that "we're all against" racism.

"No one's going to justify that, but they'll stand out on a moment's notice and defend people that are in here in the country illegally in violation of law, but they won't stand out there and defend the men and women who leave the safety and security of their home every day ... to defend their communities," he continued. "They haven't said a word. "

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Minnesota Freedom Fund spent $200K on bail despite millions in donations

Lia Eustachewich
NY Post
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:22 UTC
Protesters in Minneapolis
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Protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Minnesota Freedom Fund said it's spent "well over" $200,000 in bailing protesters out of jail — despite receiving more than $30 million in donations.

"We are working on doing more," the fund tweeted on Monday.

The fund, established in 2016, briefly stopped accepting donations, which have been flowing in since the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

"We are no longer the same organization we were one week ago," MFF wrote on its website on June 2. "One week ago we were a small bail fund struggling to get anyone to listen about the harms of cash bail and pre-trial detention. We are now flooded with resources and we are going to take a beat while we marshal those. We have some big plays in mind."
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