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Three officers shot in Texas house call turned hostage situation - UPDATE: Hostages freed


The Daily Caller
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:10 UTC
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© CNN
Three police officers were shot in an Austin suburb Sunday.
Three officers were shot Sunday in a Texas suburb after a suspect barricaded himself inside a home and took multiple hostages, police wrote on Twitter.

Cedar Park Police responded to a home call on Sunday after a woman said her son "had kicked in the door and was acting very aggressive," the department said in a press conference Sunday, according to CNN. All three of the officers who had been shot have been admitted to hospitals and are in stable condition, a Tweet from assistant police chief Mike Harmon detailed.

Comment: Local station KXAN reports the standoff is over:
Joseph Desean Taylor hostage texas
© Cedar Park Police Department
Joseph Desean Taylor mug shot from September 2019
Joseph Desean Taylor, 26, surrendered Monday morning after barricading himself in his home, along with his sister, brother and mother in an ordeal that started when officers arrived at the home for a disturbance. Taylor is accused of shooting Cedar Park officers Jaqueline Quiles, Cris Hester and Nik Anderson shortly after the trio responded to the call, and then Taylor allegedly took his family members hostage in an ordeal that later ended peacefully.

Law enforcement mentioned in press briefings Monday officers had responded to the home and incidents with the suspect before, and arrest documents show Taylor was arrested in 2019 after a third-degree felony family violence crime.


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Town Hall senior columnist banned from Twitter after criticizing Biden

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:48 UTC
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Marina Medvin is a journalist. She expressed an opinion on a candidate in the upcoming election. Twitter called this "abuse and harassment."
Marina Medvin, senior columnist at Town Hall, caught a seven-day Twitter ban for criticizing the presidential contender in this year's election, former Vice President Joe Biden.

Medvin is a journalist. She expressed an opinion on a candidate in the upcoming election. Twitter called this "abuse and harassment."

Medvin commented on an article from the Catholic News Agency, which discussed the fact that Biden counts his Catholic faith, the Pope, and nuns among his inspiration. This is as per a video put out by the Democratic National Committee on August 9.
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SATIRE PURGE: Twitter suspends multiple conservative satire accounts including The Babylon Bee

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:02 UTC
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The Babylon Bee, an account known for its scathing humour and social commentary, was suspended and quickly restored by Twitter. Many other satire accounts remain suspended though.
The Babylon Bee, an account known for its scathing humour and social commentary, has just been suspended by Twitter. Shortly after the suspension, the hashtag #FreeTheBee began to trend on Twitter. The Bee has since been restored by Twitter, but many other conservative satire accounts remain suspended.


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The 2020 San Francisco exodus is real, and historic, report shows

Andrew Chamings
SF Gate
Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:18 UTC
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Real estate inventory change from February to July 2020, in metro area and city proper.
A new report confirms what many have been talking about for weeks: There is an exodus out of San Francisco, and the numbers are staggering.

Online real estate company Zillow released new statistics shining a stark light on the issue this week. Their "2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report" reveals that inventory has risen a whopping 96% year-on-year, as empty homes in the city flood the market like nowhere else in America.

The reason for this change is likely a combination of a few unprecedented factors that have collided this summer, resulting in a historic shift in the city.

Comment: We can think of a few other reasons people may be chomping at the bit to get out of San Francisco...

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New Zealand government seeking to expand its internet censorship powers

Tim Cushing
Tech Dirt
Fri, 29 May 2020 03:33 UTC
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New Zealand has been in the censorship business for years, but the government appears to believe it's still not doing enough censoring. Legislation stemming from the government's reaction to the live-streamed Christchurch shooting seeks to expand its ability to block content it deems to be objectionable. In most cases, this means content related to terrorism or violent extremism. But the livestreaming of a mass shooting has created an open-ended definition for the government to work with in conjunction with its criminalization of this act.

Newsroom has written up a very thorough examination of the proposed law, with this chilling bit found all the way at the end of its article.
Lastly, the legislation makes it an offence to livestream objectionable content. [...] The new offence would be punishable by up to 14 years in prison if carried out by an individual or a $200,000 fine for corporations.
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Here's a list of corporations funding the 'Defund The Police' movement

Jake Dima and Peter Hasson
Daily Caller
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:59 UTC
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Dozens of corporations from around the world have collectively donated millions of dollars to left-wing organizations that advocate for defunding America's police departments, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.

Companies including Microsoft, Intel and Airbnb have donated to Black Lives Matter Global Network and Color of Change, both of which want to defund police departments across the country.

Color of Change is leading a national petition campaign demanding elected officials "defund the police, and invest in communities now!"

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Wuhan pool party shows China is over the Covid-19 lockdowns; the rest of the world, not so much

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:06 UTC
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© STR / AFP
People watching a performance as they cool off in a swimming pool in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province.
The sight of partygoers in Wuhan, China piling into a water park without masks or social distancing seems like a cruel joke to nations where no measures, however disruptive, seem to be helping against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wuhan is where the first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus were first observed in late 2019. The city of 11 million, and much of the surrounding Hubei province, were placed under strict lockdown to halt the spread of the virus. The lockdown included drastic measures such as people getting their front doors welded shut, if one is to believe photos circulating online.

Fast-forward to this past weekend, when AFP published photos and video of an electronic music festival at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park.


Comment: Funny that our 'freedom loving' governments have become more totalitarian than China.

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Twitter 'accidentally' suspends satirical site Babylon Bee after it mocked Kamala Harris and USPS conspiracies


RT
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:48 UTC
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Twitter suspended the account of parody news site The Babylon Bee after it mocked Democrat VP candidate Kamala Harris and 'mail vote suppression' conspiracies. It was shortly restored amid protests about censorship.

The Bee went dark around 6 pm on Monday. Archives showed that their last tweet was a story about President Donald Trump "riding around in an SUV" smashing mailboxes "to make it impossible for people to mail in their ballots."

The tweet before that one was about Harris proposing a "housing plan" where "everybody gets free 10'x10' room and three meals a day" - a clear reference to prison, as Harris had been a prosecutor before getting elected to the Senate.

One conservative commentator pointed out that Twitter spokesman Nick Pacilio was previously the press secretary for Harris's abortive presidential campaign.
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Amazon pulls disgusting 'realistic' child sex dolls from website in France


RT
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:25 UTC
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© Reuters / Jason Lee
Normalizing pedophilia
Amazon France has withdrawn advertisements for child-sized realistic sex dolls, following a campaign by activists. However, worldwide laws against the dolls remain scant, and Amazon's enforcement is lacking.

When screenshots of the dolls surfaced online over the weekend, French anti-pedophile activist group AIVI alerted the authorities. On Monday, Adrien Taquet, France's junior child protection minister, announced that Amazon had pulled the ads at his request.

"Banishing child crime from our society is everyone's responsibility," Taquet tweeted.

However, while some advertisements were removed, more remained active on Amazon France as of Monday evening. Activists provided links to several dolls for sale which clearly depicted minors, and whose manufacturers boasted of the dolls' "realistic three holes," and their "discreet shipping" - a feature likely valued by buyers, given the repulsive nature of the products.
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India: 13-year-old girl raped, murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh

Kanwardeep Singh
Times of India
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
13 yr old Rape and Murder in UP, India
A 13-year-old Dalit girl was raped and murdered for defecating in a farmland in Pakaria village of Isanagar area in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district late on Friday.

The girl was missing after she had gone to relieve herself in the field. She was found dead in the cane field later.

Police dismissed reports that the girl had sustained grievous injuries on her tongue and eyes in the incident, and said the postmortem stated that the death was due to strangulation after rape. The incident drew strong opposition condemnation, with Congress and SP leaders attacking the Adityanath government over the law and order situation in the state.
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