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Democrats want to defund the police. But don't worry Antifa will defend you — for a price.
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This is your future with no police.
Democrats want to defund the police. But don't worry Antifa will defend you — for a price.
Sweden's chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has admitted to making some mistakes over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. His acknowledgement that Sweden's death toll was 'too high' has been seized on by our fervently pro-lockdown media as a sign that Sweden's more relaxed strategy has failed.
'Sweden's controversial decision not to impose a strict lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to too many deaths', reports the BBC. 'Swedish expert admits country should have had tighter coronavirus controls', says the Financial Times - a newspaper recently criticised for its botched and misleading graphs of Covid deaths. Tegnell's words were framed in a similar way by reports from Sky News, the Telegraph, and many others.
Comment: See also:
- So now Sweden and the UK each think they were WRONG about their Covid-19 approaches. They can't BOTH be right
- 'Prof Lockdown' Neil Ferguson admits Sweden used same science as UK
- Sweden's economy grows well ahead of the rest after opting against full lockdown
- Sweden's triumph: Staying free in a lockdown world
- Sweden's chief epidemiologist receives death threats for resisting globalists' lockdown orders
- Biased mainstream media again misuses science to paint sensible Sweden as reckless gamblers - here is why they are wrong
- Lessons from Kronavirus: Is Sweden's anti-lockdown approach more strategic?
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The group of about 50 protesters was in the downtown Monument Circle area when a municipal truck arrived to take down barricades but was blocked by the protesters for a time. The minivan driver went to drive around the truck, struck several protesters and accelerated away from the scene, as captured in eyewitness video from the incident.
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A chaotic scene in Chicago on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
A chaotic scene in Chicago on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor's office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city's response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
While one alderman wept, others grew angry with the mayor, demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence that began in earnest late Saturday.
The call provides a snapshot into the city's response as of midday on Sunday to the most widespread and damaging unrest since the uprising after the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the police riots after the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
The recording begins with Ald. Michelle Harris (8th Ward) wondering how she could convince businesses like Walmart and CVS to rebuild on the South Side after the destruction.
"It's like, what are we going to have left in our community?" Harris asks her colleagues before answering herself. "Nothing."
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7th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom
7th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom
As the crowdfunding target of £700,000 for the UK offshoot of Black Lives Matter (aka UKBLM) was reached today, after just six days, you have to wonder: do those generous folk who've donated their hard-earned cash actually know where their money is going?
Because UKBLM is an all-flavours-of-liberal-grievance sorta outfit. A hotch-potch of causes hiding behind a big helping of anti-racism. And sure, what reasonable person would disagree with efforts to have equality be the norm across all communities? But UKBLM goes further in the struggle it imagines itself facing. A lot further.
"We've never seen anything like it, at all," said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.
A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd's murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab's data doesn't go back further than 1961.
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A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd's murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab's data doesn't go back further than 1961.
Comment: And that was after the deadliest ever Memorial Weekend in Chicago, just the weekend before this record deadly weekend.
It's as if the riots/woke outrage empowered Blacks to kill more Blacks?
In any event, mayhem is spreading/intensifying from Democrat-controlled plantations/cities.
During a press briefing, Police Chief Carmen Best said Seattle Police would try something new.
"We're not going to evacuate or abandon the East Precinct," she said. "We will be hardening the East Precinct facility by boarding up the exterior windows, and applying fire retardant to the building exterior and installing fencing."
Comment: They've abandoned the East Precinct.
Best said demonstrators should be able to walk freely around Capitol Hill.
"This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation," she said.
Comment: That's the media narrative of what's going down in Seattle.
Here's a more accurate version:
© Twitter / Ian Miles Cheong; @stillgray
The ritual, which was organized by pastors Faith and Soboma Wokoma in Cary, North Carolina, was part of a prayer walk for black Minnesota man George Floyd, who died in police custody in late May.
Protesters, which included Black Lives Matter activists, first observed eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence to mark the length of time that a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd's neck before he died.
In addition to the silent commemoration, widely shared photos show what appears to be a group of white police officers and other white attendees kneeling before a number of priests, washing their feet in buckets.
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Liberalism, the philosophy that has ruled much of the world since the Age of Enlightenment, appears to be in its death throes, much to the delight of the anarchists and left-wingers burning down properties and toppling statues from Bristol to Minneapolis, and London to New York.
Some political ideologies are harder to pin down than others, with perhaps those of the "middle ground" the most ephemeral of all. "Liberalism" is an extraordinarily broad term used to cover a variety of political and economic policies spanning the right-left spectrum.
In the West, it can be used as a compliment or a pejorative depending on the context and there seems to be no clearly demarcated overarching philosophy it applies to. However, there always seemed to be one factor that was, for the most part, agreed upon when it came to liberalism: that every person was an individual and should be treated as such.
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(L) Protesters tear down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol (R) Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
(L) Protesters tear down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol (R) Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
On Monday, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran published on Twitter the letter she sent to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Oliver Dowden, in which she asked that the UK government allow local councils to involve their communities in assessing and removing the controversial memorials to slave traders.
Statues of slave merchants shouldn't still be standing - end of story.The issue around the suitability of monuments commemorating individuals involved in the slave trade reached a tipping point on Monday. Anti-racism activists protesting the death of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis had torn down and jubilantly jumped on the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol the previous day. The monument had subsequently been rolled down the road by protesters and into the River Avon.
The intervention by Moran - who is running to be the next leader of her party - drew wide-ranging heated responses on social media. One commentator who praised the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon said that "we need reminding where the UK's wealth came from," and suggested the best place for such statues was in a "memorial admitting our shame at the treatment of slaves."
Comment: Some people would rather forget than remember, rather destroy than create. When you destroy history and ban books, you may think you are ensuring ideological purity for the emergence of a new and better society, but all you are really doing is creating simple minds who will create a nightmare for other people. Don't mistake these kinds of people with those who actually care about things like truth, history, and justice. They are revolutionaries - whether serious or not - with no interest in actual justice. They just want power under the cloak of some empty ideology.
- Little Maoists: Tearing down of British slave trader statue prompts wave of suggestions for further destruction
- Abraham Lincoln statue vandalised during London's BLM protests
- Virginia governor to announce removal of statue of Gen. Robert E Lee to appease activists
- Vandals desecrate statue of Mahatma Gandhi near Indian Embassy in Washington, DC
- Univ. of Alabama Birmingham professor instructs rioters on how to tear down monuments
Comment: This is not going to end well. How can it end with anything other than a standoff between the revolutionary LARPers and the Feds?
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