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Prosecutor won't act on low-level Portland protest arrests

Gillian Flaccus
The Washington Times
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:01 UTC

© Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool, File
In this Feb. 20, 2020, file photo, Demetria Hester reacts to verdicts of guilty on all twelve counts at the Jeremy Christian trial in Portland, Ore. One of the protesters arrested in Portland, Oregon early Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, is a Black woman who was assaulted by a white supremacist in a high-profile case three years ago and who now leads a group of "moms" in racial justice protests each night. Hester, 46, was booked on suspicion of disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer during a protest that began Sunday night and stretched into the early morning hours.

The newly elected district attorney in Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday that under a new policy, his office will not prosecute people who have been arrested since late May on non-violent misdemeanor charges during protests in Oregon's largest city.

The new policy recognizes the outrage and frustration over a history of racial injustice that has led to more than 70 nights of sustained, often violent protest in Portland as well as the more practical realities of the court system, which is running more than two months behind in processing cases because of COVID-19, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said.

In practical terms, it means at least several hundred people who have been arrested in the past few months will not face criminal prosecution, according to statistics provided by Schmidt's office. People arrested on similar charges in future demonstrations will also not be prosecuted, he said.

Comment: There seems to be little reasoning behind this move other than to embolden protesters to break the law with impunity. It's like pouring gasoline on an already out of control fire.

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Wisconsin govt agency says employees must wear masks during Zoom work calls at home 'to visually remind folks'

TJ Macias
Kansas City Star
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:15 UTC

Comment: 'The human mask' slips to reveal the real reason they're pushing dangerous facemasks.

'Wear a mask, be cool like us.'

Some Wisconsin state officials aren't fooling around when it comes to the spread of COVID-19.

In an email to employees sent out on July 31, the head of Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources not only reminded employees of Gov. Tony Evers' mask order going into effect on Aug. 1, he also said that every DNR employee must wear a mask ... even while on a teleconference.

"Also, wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual meeting that involves being seen — such as on Zoom or another video-conferencing platform — by non-DNR staff," Preston Cole said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public service employee care about the safety and health of others."

Sweden's head epidemiologist: 'Dangerous' to think masks will stop virus

Oliver Moody
The Times
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:43 UTC

The epidemiologist in charge of Sweden's coronavirus response has dismissed the scientific evidence for mask-wearing as "astonishingly weak" and suggested that making face coverings mandatory could backfire.

Anders Tegnell, the face of his country's distinctive light-touch approach to Covid-19, said it was "very dangerous" to believe that facemasks on their own could control the spread of the disease.

He also conceded that Sweden had failed to protect its old people's homes against the virus but said the number of new infections in the care sector had dwindled away to a negligible level since the height of the outbreak four months ago.

Dr Tegnell has steered a markedly different course from those plotted by most other European countries, leaving bars, restaurants and most schools open throughout the pandemic.

My time with Extinction Rebellion activists showed them to be clueless about the daily injustices faced by working-class people

Dr Lisa McKenzie
RT
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:32 UTC

XR is back in the headlines after a protest in central London. These middle-class eco-warriors are happy to fight for indigenous people in Brazil, but have no understanding of the plight of Britain's poor, nor do they care.

Last weekend, the sun came out and so did the cranks from Extinction Rebellion, bringing attention to the plight of indigenous people in Brazil, who have quite literally found themselves on the front line of fighting the fire of capitalism.

XR showed its solidarity by throwing fake blood down the steps of Trafalgar Square, to be cleaned up later by London's army of working-class people in high vis.

And what's wrong with that, you might say? I agree the indigenous people of Brazil need global support - they are battling the effects of Covid-19 while fighting for the future of the world's lungs, the Amazon rainforest. So why does Extinction Rebellion seem to get on everyone's nerves?

Transgender & 'gender diverse' people six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic, true figure likely higher - study

RT
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:44 UTC

A new major study has found that transgender and "gender-diverse adults" are six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than the general population.

The fresh research by scientists at the University of Cambridge's Autism Research Center took data from more than 600,000 people and confirmed previous findings from smaller scale studies of a similar nature.

They combined five different data sets in which participants provided detailed information on their gender identity, autism diagnosis as well as any and all other pertinent mental health diagnoses, such as depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Across all five datasets, transgender people were three to six times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than non-trans or non-gender-diverse people.

Rowan Atkinson invokes wrath of cancel culture for raising concerns about controversial 'hate crime' bill

RT
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:34 UTC

Comedian Rowan Atkinson has incurred the wrath of woke warriors on social media after voicing his opposition to a controversial hate crimes law which he believes will stifle free speech and rational debate.

The British comedy legend was among a group of authors, journalists, philosophers and campaigners who signed an open letter against legislation put forward by the Scottish Nationalist Party, warning of the "unintended consequences" the bill could have.

The signees raised specific concern over provisions around making "stirring up hatred" an offence, even if it was not the intention of the person making the comments.

"The Bill creates stirring up offences without any intent being examined; merely that the words, action, or artwork might do so. This offence could even be applied to being in possession of materials produced by someone else, where sharing the material could stir up hatred," the letter states.

The unintended consequences of this well meaning Bill risk stifling freedom of expression, and the ability to articulate or criticise religious and other beliefs.

Concerns have been raised that people like JK Rowling could have been targeted by the new law, after she expressed her views on transgender issues.

Other prominent people to add their name to the letter include the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the philosopher AC Grayling. The Law Society of Scotland, the Scottish Newspaper Society, the Scottish Police Federation and the Catholic Church have also raised concerns about the bill.

Comment: If you don't like the message, shoot the messenger.

Facial recognition use by South Wales Police ruled unlawful - but "potentially great" by Court of Appeal

Jenny Rees
BBC
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:02 UTC

Ed Bridges has had his image captured twice by AFR technology, which he stated breached his human rights

The use of automatic facial recognition (AFR) technology by South Wales Police is unlawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

It follows a legal challenge brought by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges, 37, from Cardiff.

But the court also found its use was proportionate interference with human rights as the benefits outweighed the impact on Mr Bridges.

South Wales Police said it would not be appealing the findings.

Comment: If the current trajectory of police forces everywhere is anything to go by, this 'determination' to roll out this flawed and Orwellian technology is ominous:

Video shows police officer choke Melbourne woman for not wearing a mask amidst tyrannical lockdown

Kelsey Wilkie
Daily Mail
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:49 UTC

The woman can be heard repeatedly screaming 'He's choking me' throughout the clip

Disturbing footage has emerged showing a woman being choked by a male police officer during a violent arrest in Melbourne after she was caught not wearing a face mask.

The video was captured by an onlooker in an apartment building in Wellington Street, Collingwood, in the locked down city at 5pm on Monday.

It begins with the male police officer speaking to the 21-year-old red headed woman in baggy jeans.

The woman can clearly be seen without a face mask, which is in breach of public health orders that were introduced on July 19 to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Comment: We're living in dark times, indeed:

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California Public Health director suddenly quits after massive virus data error discovered

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:28 UTC

The director of the California Department of Public Health has abruptly resigned just days after the discovery of a computer system failure that resulted in the massive undercounting of COVID-19 cases.

Dr. Sonia Angell who had been in the position for less than a year (and had previously served as deputy commissioner for prevention and primary care at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2014 to 2019) reportedly resigned via an email sent to the California Health and Human Services Agency.

"Our department has been front and center in what has become an all-of-government response of unprecedented proportions to COVID-19. In the final calculation, all of our work, in aggregate, makes the difference," Angell reportedly wrote in her resignation letter.

Gov. Gavin Newsom in a statement offered thanks to Angell "for her service to the state and her work to help steer our public health system during this global pandemic, while never losing sight of the importance of health equity."

However, her departure is shrouded in political questions as the state government reckons with a data glitch that failed to log nearly 300,000 infectious disease testing records (though not all were coronavirus cases and some could be duplicates), clearly impacting decision-making at the highest levels of the California government.

As JustTheNews.com's Sophie Mann notes, the secretary of California Health and Human Services, Mark Ghaly, recently apologized to state residents for the error.

"Bottom line, our data system failed," said Ghaly who told The LA Times that he "became aware of the magnitude of the data backlog in the late afternoon on Monday and alerted the governor and his senior staff shortly thereafter."

With more than half a million reported cases of the virus, California tops the nation for positive diagnoses.

Five year-old boy executed at point-black range 'for riding into neighbor's yard'

Jimmy McCloskey
Metro
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:40 UTC

© GoFundMe/WRAL
Cannon Hinnant was shot dead while playing on his bike Sunday, with next-door neighbor Darius Sessoms, right, since charged with the youngster’s murder

A five year-old boy was shot dead in front of his sisters at point-blank range for cycling into his next-door neighbor's yard, it was claimed. Cannon Hinnant was killed close to his home in Wilson, North Carolina, on Sunday.

A GoFundMe page set up to raise cash for the youngster's funeral shared a possible motive for the 'senseless' killing, saying: 'A beautiful 5 year old baby boy riding his bicycle was shot by his neighbor point blank in Wilson NC. 'One minute he is enjoying his life, the next it all ends because he rode into his neighbors yard.' Cannon's neighbor Darius Sessoms, 25, has since been arrested and charged with the youngster's murder.

The victim's sisters - aged seven and eight - both witnessed their brother being gunned down, Cannon's mom said. He was rushed to hospital shortly afterwards, where doctors were unable to save his life, according to WRAL.

Comment: That animal should be publicly executed.

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Society's Child

Prosecutor won't act on low-level Portland protest arrests

Wisconsin govt agency says employees must wear masks during Zoom work calls at home 'to visually remind folks'

Sweden's head epidemiologist: 'Dangerous' to think masks will stop virus

My time with Extinction Rebellion activists showed them to be clueless about the daily injustices faced by working-class people

Transgender & 'gender diverse' people six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic, true figure likely higher - study

Rowan Atkinson invokes wrath of cancel culture for raising concerns about controversial 'hate crime' bill

Facial recognition use by South Wales Police ruled unlawful - but "potentially great" by Court of Appeal

Video shows police officer choke Melbourne woman for not wearing a mask amidst tyrannical lockdown

California Public Health director suddenly quits after massive virus data error discovered

Five year-old boy executed at point-black range 'for riding into neighbor's yard'

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