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While journalists and politicians seem to assert that everything is fine in their neighborhoods and that the violence demonstrated over the last six months is a political ploy exploited by President Trump, cities like NYC, Chicago, Boston see record numbers of fatalities grow.
On Sunday night into Monday morning, Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland marched and gathered in front of the North Precinct Community Policing Center, a building activists have tried to burn down with people inside before and during demonstrations.
A crowd chanting, "burn it down," set multiple mattresses on fire and added debris to the fire until first responders deemed it dangerous and had to move in to extinguish it.

This Aug. 28, 2006 file photo shows FEMA trailers used for housing for University of New Orleans students and faculty in New Orleans.
On August 31, without much fanfare and with almost no news coverage, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Lost His Way) ordered Interim Director of Health Lance M. Himes to amend the insidious (and unconstitutional) health order the state's citizens have been suffering under since March to create what amounts to FEMA camps. The order purports to "avoid an imminent threat with a high probability of widespread exposure to COVID-19 with a significant risk of substantial harm to a large number of people in the general population, including the elderly and people with weakened immune systems and chronic medical conditions."
Never mind that deaths and hospitalizations have been on the decline in Ohio since July 1.
DeWine has been using an archaic sentence in the Ohio Revised Code, which gives the health director "ultimate authority" during a pandemic, to order everything from shutdowns to a statewide mask order to school closings. Several of these orders have been overturned by judges who have ruled them unconstitutional, but that hasn't stopped DeWine from continuing to pile more orders onto the original abomination.
HM Revenue and Customs told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee it estimates that 5-10% of furlough cash has been wrongly awarded.
Latest data shows the programme has cost the government £35.4bn so far.
The scheme has paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave since March, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.
Speaking to MPs on Monday, HMRC's permanent secretary, Jim Harra, said: "We have made an assumption for the purposes of our planning that the error and fraud rate in this scheme could be between 5% and 10%.
Comment: We're only just beginning to see the true cost of the lockdown:
- UK's lockdown could cause extra 35,000 extra cancer deaths due to delayed diagnosis and treatment
- UK expects 1.3 million lockdown-related job losses as furlough scheme ends

The spike in infections reported in the past few days was to be expected as life slowly returns to our streets and workplaces. Pictured: A deserted Heathrow Airport last week
The spike in infections reported in the past few days was to be expected as life slowly returns to our streets and workplaces.
Comment: And yet dishonest governments are behaving as though this took them by surprise and in turn are reimposing lockdown restrictions.
They are concerning and, yes, we must be prepared for a second wave of Covid-19 while working hard to contain localised outbreaks to prevent it.
We must not, however, let this hamper our efforts to return to normality.
Comment: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - Gov. Response Killed More Than Covid - Interview with Denis Rancourt
More worrisome trends... or rather signs of the times signalling that for many the gentrified Big Apple has, as one family recently put it, reached its "expiration date". Two separate NY Times reports on Sunday detailed that moving companies are so busy they're in an unprecedented situation of having to turn people away, while simultaneously the suburbs are witnessing an explosion in demand "unlike any in recent memory".
And then there's fresh data showing that during the pandemic Americans are fast getting the hell out of the more expensive "real estate meccas" of New York and New Jersey.
Comment: The Covid fiasco plus riots in the streets have lead many to conclude what they should have a long time ago - highly populated urban centers are not the places to be when modern civilization is taking a nosedive.
See also:
- Life imitates art: 'Footloose' comes to New York as Governor Cuomo bans dancing
- Paul Craig Roberts: Flight from New York
- Escape from New York: Wealthy residents flee in droves as the city degenerates into a hellhole
- New York City dumps homeless pedophiles in hotel near elementary school playground
- Tucker: What happens to New York City matters to the rest of us
- I was born in New York, and I've never seen the city so scared and uninhabitable. I fear we're on the brink of a second civil war
- New York City bows to cancel culture, passes budget with nearly $1 billion in police cuts
Shoppers who choose to pass through the door to enter the supermarket are misted with a disinfectant spray.
Store manager David Accaries told France 3 the door was installed to make sure customers felt safe when visiting the supermarket. He said that in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis: "People were afraid, they were panicking. We didn't know if we had to wear masks, we didn't know what was going on. It was total uncertainty. We had a very difficult time."
Comment: Nuking all bacteria, including those that are beneficial to our immune system, will make many more people more susceptible to illness. This has been proven throughout a plethora of studies, such as children growing up in homes where excessive amounts of cleaning products are used as well in adults who were prescribed numerous antibiotics as children.
Meanwhile, also in France, Macron demonstrates how to wear a mask:
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Rochester's Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, along with his entire command staff, resigned on Tuesday in the wake of the riots following the release of body cam footage showing the arrest of Daniel Prude.
Comment: See: Disturbing new video from Rochester shows man die during arrest - UPDATE: The officers have been suspended
Rochester's Mayor Lovely Warren confirmed Singletary's resignation in a press release, saying that he and Commander Morabito both announced their retirement. She thanks the Singletary and Morabito for their service, saying that she appreciated their work.
Warren felt it necessary to reassure Rochester residents that the community will continue to have a police force. She said "the Rochester Police Department will continue to serve and protect our residents and our neighborhoods." Singletary will remain at his post through the end of September.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) said in a report published Tuesday that 13% of deaths in Europe were the result of environmental pollution. The Copenhagen-based agency said environmental pollution caused more than 400,000 premature deaths in the EU per year.
"There is a clear link between the state of the environment and the health of our population," said EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius.
The report said the novel coronavirus pandemic had shown how vulnerable Europe's population was to "human health and ecosystem health." It noted that vulnerable populations, including children and the elderly, were at most risk of succumbing to environmental pollution.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use a press conference on Wednesday to announce the change in the law after the number of daily positive Covid-19 cases in the UK rose to almost 3,000.
The legal limit on social gatherings will be reduced from 30 people to six. It will apply to gatherings indoors and outdoors - including private homes, as well as parks, pubs and restaurants.
Gatherings of more than six people will be allowed where the household or support bubble is larger than six, or where the gathering is for work or education purposes.
Exemptions will also apply for weddings, funerals and organised team sports in a Covid-secure way.
Comment: Now it's all about 'cases' and a perfect cover to continue with the dismantling of any freedoms you migh have remaining. See also:
- COVID - why terminology really, really matters
- Up to 90% of people who test positive for Covid barely carry any virus & are not contagious. Every stat about the disease is bogus
- UK gov concerned people aren't taking 'harmless' coronavirus seriously












Comment: More violence from the "mostly peaceful" supporters of BLM and Antifa:
Man Who Attempted to Kill Trump Supporter Still at Large, May Be Member of Mongols Motorcycle Club Still 'mostly peaceful?': Disturbing Portland 'Kill press' graffiti spotted by heavily armored journalists