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Oakland police station vandalized after hundreds rally in support of Portland protesters

ABC News
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:38 UTC

Hundreds of protesters participated in what started as, and was intended to be, a peaceful march through the streets of downtown Oakland Saturday evening to show support for the ongoing protests continuing in Portland since George Floyd's death nearly two months ago.

The event began at 7:30 p.m. at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza at 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland, according to organizers which included the Wall of Moms Bay Area, Refuse Fascism Bay Area and Vigil for Democracy.

The Wall of Moms group encouraged participants to wear yellow and bring sunflowers. All must wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

"Reject secret federal police in our cities, and celebrate our right to gather peacefully and protest," the moms' group Facebook page says.

Comment: Further violence has ensued with the brazen murder of black Trump supporter, Bernell Trammel, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt asked that US Attorney Matthew Krueger investigate whether the "senseless" killing was politically motivated. Trammel was gunned down around midday Thursday in front of his small publishing business, eXpressions Journal. Police are still looking for the shooter.

Trammell was well known for standing outside his shop or Milwaukee City Hall with handmade signs urging passersby to re-elect Trump in November. He also displayed other signs with religious or anti-violence messages, as well as messages in support of Black Lives Matter.

His death was met with shock in Milwaukee, where he was reportedly remembered for being positive, polite and selfless. Conservatives such as Fox News host Laura Ingraham reacted with outrage.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk suggested that lack of attention to the gruesome murder showed the hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter protest movement. "It shouldn't be dangerous to support the president," Kirk said on Twitter. "His name was Bernell Trammell. Did his life not matter to BLM Inc.?"

The conservatives' concerns are not unfounded, as animosity among leftists toward black conservatives is nothing new. Drew Duncomb, a black Trump supporter, said he was stabbed early on Saturday by an "Antifa dude" in Portland who had been following him around. Another black man was assaulted by protesters in Portland on Friday, after standing outside the fence protecting the city's federal courthouse and calling for calm.

Florida's 'Covid-19' case spike includes gunshot deaths, motorbike accidents - Medical examiner calls it 'clerical error'

WPBF
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:33 UTC

Some Palm Beach County residents making public records requests for the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office's COVID-19 weekly death tallies noticed errors in the reports.

In eight instances of the over 580 deaths listed by mid-July, the cause of death was not COVID-19.

The list included a 60-year-old man who died of a gunshot wound to the head; several people who died of cancer, and one who died from a hip fracture following a fall.

The inclusion of those deaths worried some who said inflating the number of COVID-19 deaths was sending wrong information to the Florida Department of Health and to the County Commission.

But according to the medical examiner's office, the list given out for public records request is not the official tally.

Why Sweden remains mask-free

Freddie Sayers
The Telegraph
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:07 UTC

Masks may only have been mandatory in British shops since yesterday, and British airports for a couple of months, but what I saw as I arrived in Sweden this past week already felt oddly transgressive, almost indecent.

At no point on the journey does anyone tell you that you can remove your face mask, so when we landed in Stockholm, my fellow passengers on the quarter-full SAS flight from Heathrow kept them on up the gangway and into the airport terminal. Then you notice that the customs officers aren't wearing them as they check your passport, nor the airport staff swooshing around on silent scooters, but you keep it on just in case. Only when you finally emerge from the baggage hall and into the row of waiting taxis do you realise: nobody is wearing one. Not a single person. In Sweden, it's a mask-free world.

In central Stockholm the restaurants and shops are busy, even if less busy than they might normally be; there's a table-service-only rule, so many bars have queues of patient Swedes outside to avoid any overcrowding inside. The outside watering holes of Stureplan and along the waterfront at Strandvägen are positively booming.

'Everyone is panicking': British gov mandates 2 week quarantine for those returning from holidays in Spain

Sam Jones
The Guardian
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:21 UTC

News that the British government had imposed a two-week quarantine on those returning from Spain quickly soured the Saturday night mood in the Brew Rock beach bar in Altea, Alicante - and across the rest of the country.

Lisa Griffin, who runs Brew Rock and an Irish pub in nearby Benidorm, was as poleaxed by the announcement as her customers were.

"They were just in shock," she said. "At first, a lot of people were saying, 'This is fake news!' because of all the social media stuff. They were saying, 'Oh my God! It can't be true, it can't be true!' And then as it came in from different sources, the reality was hitting home for everyone."

The need for returning Britons to self-quarantine will further hobble a tourist sector that had already been preparing for a difficult summer in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

Comment: The new normal appears to be governments implementing draconian, inhumane and illogical rules on a whim and citizens having no say in the matter:

'Baby Lives Matter' mural painted in front of Planned Parenthood clinic in Salt Lake City

Caleb Parke
Fox News
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC

A anti-abortion activist splashed the words "Baby Lives Matter" in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, arguing the Black Lives Matter movement "wasn't talking about the actual problems in their community."

Tayler Hansen targeted the nation's largest abortion provider, aiming his message at BLM protesters who in the past weeks have painted murals on major cities, including one in front of Trump Tower in New York City and one near the White House in Washington, D.C.

"This affects every race, but Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who consulted with the KKK to create the organization," Hansen told Fox News. "They place these abortion mills in predominantly poor and Black demographics on purpose, to exterminate the Black race. The true racism happening in America today is Planned Parenthood."

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In broad daylight: Murder of black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell spurs call for federal investigation

Mary Kay Linge
New York Post
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:37 UTC

The shooting death of a black Trump supporter in Milwaukee has state Republicans calling for a federal investigation.

Bernell Trammell, 60, a dreadlocked activist known for carrying handmade signs through the streets reading "Vote Donald Trump 2020," and posting them on his storefront, was gunned down by an unknown assailant on his sidewalk Thursday afternoon, police said.

"Because of Trammell's well-known political activism and the possibility that his murder could be politically motivated, I respectfully request that United States Attorney Matthew Krueger open an investigation," said Andrew Hitt, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, late Friday.

Comment: So being a black Trump supporter now comes with a death sentence. We guess Black Lives don't Matter after all.

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Anti-Trumpers count George Carlin among its ranks, but the late, great comedian hated all politicians equally

Graham Dockery
RT
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:11 UTC

Dark, incisive, and anti-authoritarian, George Carlin was a rebel until death. Now the woke left have claimed him as their own, a figurehead in their anti-Trump crusade. But George's legacy isn't one of feelgood social justice.

"They call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it," Carlin sneered in a famous 2005 monologue. In a devastating broadside against politicians, the media, corporate interests, and the "dumb ass motherf**kers" who remain ignorant to the "big red white and blue d**k jammed up their a**holes everyday," Carlin takes no prisoners, and the crowd delights in his shredding of the status quo.

Now, a group of activists based in Portland have repackaged the famous monologue, putting it alongside video clips of President Donald Trump's America: race riots, coronavirus deaths, and of course, Trump shaking hands with Vladimir Putin. "#AmericaWakeUp," reads a caption at the end of the clip.

Ukraine's Privatbank now says Kolomoysky, partner laundered nearly $800 million

RFE/RL
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:49 UTC

Privatbank, the Ukrainian lender nationalized by the state in 2016, now claims its former owners laundered nearly $800 million through the United States.

After analyzing additional bank records, Privatbank filed an amended complaint in a Delaware court on July 21 against tycoons Ihor Kolomoyskiy and Hennadiy Boholyubov, claiming the men laundered $660 million through a group of U.S. companies called Optima and an additional $100 million through other U.S. entities.

The Kyiv-based lender is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from the tycoons.

Comment: Kolomoysky has his fingers in many pies.

Portland protests have no goal except violence and anarchy

Andy Ngo
New York Post
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:35 UTC

At the end of May, rioting and looting broke out in Portland, Ore., as it did in dozens of other American cities in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd. In one night, hundreds of rioters ravaged downtown, breaking into jewelry stores, the mall and banks. They left a trail of broken windows and fires in their wake. That was seven weeks ago. And while violent protests have ebbed or stopped everywhere else, it has continued and grown stronger in Portland.

For 58 days, mass protests and riots have taken over parts of the city. Some streets and areas are literal "no-go zones" at night — either blocked by fires or teams of "guards."

Day after day, hundreds and even thousands take to the streets and claim the territory as theirs. They cycle through a number of chants like "All cops are bastards" and "F- -k the police." A large number of them participate in violent criminal acts such as arson and assault. They've made it a game to lure law-enforcement officers out of buildings so they can assault them with blinding lasers, paint, rocks and other weapons.

Those who don't engage in direct violence cheer them on, assist in "de-arresting" comrades and act as cop watchers. Rioters try, and have succeeded in, breaking into Portland police facilities. Now they're focused on the federal Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse in response to the Department of Homeland Security sending in reinforcements earlier this month.

Besides the violence and anarchy, what exactly do the rioters want?

Comment: Ngo mentions "other weapons." RT gives a rundown on what the Portland rioters have been using: ropes and electric saws, high-powered lights including lasers (three federal agents were likely permanently blinded by their use), projectiles including glass bottles and ball bearings, leaf blowers to redirect tear gas, not to mention spray paint and starting fires. Some footage of all these in action:

Police declared a riot after the fence surrounding the federal courthouse was torn down:

Meanwhile, the UN's human rights office decries the 'disproportionate use of force' by law enforcement against protesters.

Seattle police declare RIOT amid arson, vandalism & clashes with protesters

RT
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:33 UTC

© David Ryder / Getty Images via AFP
A construction site for a youth detention center torched by protesters in Seattle on July 25, 2020

Protesters in Seattle have clashed with officers, vandalized several buildings, and set fire to a construction site for a county juvenile detention facility, forcing local police to declare a riot due to "public safety risks."

After a group of protesters set fire to the King County facility construction site, police issued "dispersal orders" and were forced to deploy "less-lethal munitions" to clear the area and secure access to the blaze for the city's fire department.

The officers were pelted with stones, bottles, liquid-filled balloons and other projectiles, as well as "some sort of explosives," Seattle Police Department said on Twitter.

Due to the ongoing damage and public safety risks associated with this incident, SPD is declaring it a riot.

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Society's Child

Oakland police station vandalized after hundreds rally in support of Portland protesters

Florida's 'Covid-19' case spike includes gunshot deaths, motorbike accidents - Medical examiner calls it 'clerical error'

Why Sweden remains mask-free

'Everyone is panicking': British gov mandates 2 week quarantine for those returning from holidays in Spain

'Baby Lives Matter' mural painted in front of Planned Parenthood clinic in Salt Lake City

In broad daylight: Murder of black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell spurs call for federal investigation

Anti-Trumpers count George Carlin among its ranks, but the late, great comedian hated all politicians equally

Ukraine's Privatbank now says Kolomoysky, partner laundered nearly $800 million

Portland protests have no goal except violence and anarchy

Seattle police declare RIOT amid arson, vandalism & clashes with protesters

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