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Black militia, armed 'Patriots' & BLM protesters face off in Louisville on chaotic Kentucky Derby day


RT
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 02:36 UTC
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Hundreds of protesters from rival groups have descended on Louisville, with armed pro-police activists facing off with anti-racism protesters, as members of all-black NFAC militia staged yet another demonstration of force.

Dressed in black combat fatigues and carrying rifles, around 200 members of the Not F**king Around Coalition (NFAC) gathered in Louisville on Saturday. Having checked their weapons, they marched to a park just outside the Churchill Downs track, where they posed in formation, kneeled, and otherwise demonstrated their resolve to fight for racial justice.

Simultaneously, a large group of Black Lives Matter, Until Freedom, and other activists also marched to the track, chanting "No justice, no Derby," blasting the city for holding recreational and leisure "celebrations" while the country is gripped by "systemic racism."
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1 dead, 7 injured during 90 minute stabbing rampage in Birmingham, UK - Man arrested on suspicion of murder


BBC
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:06 UTC
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The attacks happened at four different locations across Birmingham city centre
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one person died and seven others were injured in stabbings across Birmingham city centre.

The 27-year-old suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 BST, West Midlands Police said.

Police said he was also being held over seven counts of attempted murder.

The attacks happened at four different central Birmingham locations over 90 minutes in the early hours of Sunday.

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Bullseye

'Covid claims are absurd, we are being DUPED' - UK TV star Richard Madeley calls out catastrophic lockdown

Richard Madely
Express
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 06:52 UTC
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THIS week a friend told me about an elderly relative who died a few weeks ago from emphysema. The poor man, a lifelong smoker, had been slowly suffocating for a year or more. He wasn't expected to make it past May. Sure enough, he died before the month was out. Of emphysema.

But his death certificate recorded that he'd been carried off by Covid-19.

A blood test a few days before his death showed the patient had the virus, although he wasn't displaying symptoms of anything other than the lung condition about to kill him.

Comment: Richard Madeley is just one of an increasing number of UK household names calling out the lies of the UK government, and, as he says, it would appear that a backlash is brewing:



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Gates' keepers: Bill Gates' control over journalism

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
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I've written several articles reviewing Bill Gates' control of global health, technology and food policy agendas. Financial influence is, of course, at the heart of this power and not-entirely-obscure influence.

By injecting millions of dollars into various industries, companies and organizations, many of which further strengthen the connections by interlinking and doing business with each other, Gates has risen to become one of the most influential individuals in the world.

While he has faced public backlash a number of times in his career, especially when he was CEO of Microsoft in the '90s, he's become increasingly insulated from negative reviews, thanks to the fact that he also funds journalism and major media corporations.

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Elderly New Yorkers languish on wait lists for critical services amid COVID-19

Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:14 UTC
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The pandemic has dramatically increased the number of elderly New Yorkers waiting for help from city-funded agencies — and it will be months before the residents get the services they need, advocates say.

New data from LiveOn NY, a senior advocacy group, shows that the number of older Big Apple residents waiting to receive everything from personal-care help to a lift to the supermarket has soared 265 percent, to 2,936 people, since February.

That figure — fueled by coronavirus fears over venturing out and budget cuts — comes from a survey completed by the 15 non-profit organizations contracted by the city's Department for the Aging to connect the elderly with needed services through case management, LiveOn NY told The Post.

"It just seems to be growing exponentially," Allison Nickerson, LiveOn NY's executive director, said of the wait for services. "It's catastrophic to people's lives."

"You have a virus that specifically is affecting older New Yorkers ... and there's been zero investment in trying to figure that out. In fact, there are cuts," she said.

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Just how deep is your coronavirus religion?

John Tamny
Real Clear Markets
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:38 UTC
closed restaurant
"I wanted to stay put in Colombia to build a better future for my daughter, but we have to go back." Those are the words of Nelson Torrelles to Wall Street Journal reporter John Otis. As Otis reported in the August 31 edition of the Journal, the "haggard and hungry" Torrelles along with his wife and 5-year old daughter are walking back to Venezuela on a Colombian highway.

They'd initially moved to Colombia to escape Venezuela's socialist hellhole, only for Torrelles to get a job as a waiter at a barbecue restaurant in Bogota. But when Colombia joined much of the rest of the alarmed world in shutting down its economy in March in response to the coronavirus, Torrelles lost his job and soon enough the family apartment that he couldn't make rent on. Hard as it may be to imagine for those of us lucky enough to live in the United States, the hungry Torrelles and his family are moving back to Venezuela.

Please stop and think about this for a minute. Please stop and imagine the pain Torrelles is in. It surely extends well beyond hunger. Imagine not being able to adequately provide for your family, including a daughter too young to understand that your failures are largely beyond your control. Words don't begin to describe what Torrelles must be going through, nor can someone lucky enough to be in the United States understand just how awful things must be for Torrelles and his family.

About the coronavirus shutdowns, this column will stress yet again what it always has: the greater the presumed lethality of any virus, the less of any kind of need for shutdowns or government intervention. Practicality is behind this simple assertion.
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San Francisco gym owners livid after discovering gyms in government buildings have been opened for months

Emma Colton
Washington Examiner
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:34 UTC
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Gyms within government buildings in San Francisco have been open for months, despite privately owned establishments being ordered to close due to the coronavirus.

"It's shocking, it's infuriating," Daniele Rabkin, of Crossfit Golden Gate, told a local NBC station. "Even though they're getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It's shocking."

The gyms that have been open for government employees include those for police officers, judges, lawyers, bailiffs, and paralegals, according to the report. One such gym, the Hall of Justice gym, has been open since July 1.

"It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do," Dave Karraker, owner of MX3 Fitness in the Castro, said.

"What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe," said Karraker. "So, at this point, we're just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have."

Comment: Do as we say not what as we do.

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Life Preserver

The US is facing a teen suicide pandemic

Sandra M. Chafouleas, PhD
Psychology Today
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:50 UTC
Depressed teen
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New data confirm the urgency of confronting it now

Six months ago, we could not have imagined that our daily vocabulary would be filled with the p-word. And while perhaps we are getting tired of hearing the word pandemic, I can't help but ask why we haven't used it to bring urgency to confronting teen suicide. The race to find a cure to the COVID-19 pandemic certainly is front and center, but that same sense of urgency does not seem to be evident for the unsettling rise in teen suicide.

In the United States, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death — with more than 2,000 14- to 18-year-olds dying every year by suicide, and accounting for about one of every three injury-related deaths. That's the equivalent of losing a large high school's worth of teenagers to suicide, year after year. These numbers demand our attention.

New CDC data reveal that almost one in five teens across the nation have seriously considered attempting suicide. Picture a typical high school classroom of 25 students. About five of those students could be thinking about suicide.
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Feds step in to prosecute Portland rioters after local DA declines to enforce the law

Tony Cox
RT
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:57 UTC
Portland Police
© Reuters/Terray Sylvester
Portland Police North Precinct building, Oregon, US, August 23, 2020.
The Trump administration is giving rioters in Portland at least a risk of accountability, filing US District Court charges when the local district attorney declines to prosecute and deputizing state police to make federal arrests.

Kevin Phomma became the latest Portland protester to be hit with federal charges, as the US Attorney's Office for the region announced on Friday that he was indicted for felony civil disorder. Phomma, 26, who allegedly assaulted police with bear spray, faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison if convicted.

The indictment marked the seventh such case this week and followed an announcement by US Attorney Billy Williams that 74 people were being charged with federal crimes in connection with crimes they committed during anarchist riots that have raged on for three months in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.
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Eye 2

Experts say pandemic causing exponential rise in online exploitation of children

Fernando Alfonso, III
CNN
Mon, 25 May 2020 19:00 UTC
Keyboard
© CNN
At first glance, Shelley Allwang's cubicle looks just like any other office space.

But alongside a pinboard full of tchotchkes and a photo of her dog, sits a story that reminds Allwang of the importance of her job, now more than ever.

"The Boy and The Starfish" is about a boy tossing beached starfish back into the ocean, saving just one at a time.

Allwang doesn't work with starfish. But as a program manager at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), her day-to-day job involves helping children who are abused online.

The story is a reminder to Allwang of perseverance in the face of difficult odds; there will always be more starfish to pick up, like there will always be more children who need help. The story has taken on added significance in recent weeks, as Allwang has watched the number of reports of children being abused online soar four-fold.

Comment: See also: Behind the Headlines: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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