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Legendary economist Thomas Sowell warns US is approaching the 'point of no return'

Elise Ehrhard
The Western Journal
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:24 UTC
Thomas Sowell
Conservative economist and American treasure Thomas Sowell has a warning for Americans:

The 2020 elections could be a "point of no return" for the United States.

Sowell delivered the grim news Sunday during an appearance on conservative commentator Mark Levin's Fox News Show, "Life, Liberty and Levin" — and appearance that came against a national backdrop of leftist calls to "defund police" amid rising crime and chaos in the streets of major U.S. cities.

"I must say, even though I was regarded as pessimistic, I was never pessimistic enough to think that things would degenerate to the point where they are now," Sowell told Levin.

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NY Mayor's 'Black Lives Matter' mural attacked for third time in a week, this time by Christian activist


RT
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:09 UTC
BLM protest
© Reuters/ Andrew Kelly
An NYPD officer attempts to detain Bevelyn Beatty in New York City, July 18, 2020
Police dragged away Christian activist Bevelyn Beatty after she dumped a tin of paint on the 'Black Lives Matter' mural on New York's Fifth Avenue. All week, activists have been dropping paint on the controversial mural.

Beatty is a black, conservative, Christian activist, and is no stranger to controversy. She's taken to the streets in Seattle to blast protesters and supporters of Joe Biden, she's been handcuffed for protesting outside Planned Parenthood in New York, and arrested for disrupting a city council meeting on face masks in Florida just two weeks ago.

Beatty was in New York on Saturday, this time targeting the gigantic, yellow 'Black Lives Matter' mural put down on Fifth Avenue by Mayor Bill de Blasio last week. She strode out onto the mural, spilled a tin of black paint over the letters, and chanted "Jesus matters" and "refund the police."

Comment: See also:

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Protesters clash with police in Jerusalem & Tel Aviv on eve of 2nd hearing in Netanyahu's corruption trial


RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:50 UTC
israel protests
© Reuters / Ammar Awad
Scuffles have broken out between police and protesters who took to the Israeli streets on Sunday, including to PM Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem, demanding he resign and lambasting his coronavirus response.

Police used water cannon and mounted units to disperse crowds in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as thousands of protesters demanded Netanyahu's resignation over corruption charges, as well as demonstrating against the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A big crowd marched to Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem for the fourth time this week.
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German study finds no evidence coronavirus spreads in schools

Caroline Copley and Markus Wacker
U.S. News and World Report
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:04 UTC
students
© INA FASSBENDER/AFP
Very few of 2,000 school children and teachers tested in the German state of Saxony showed antibodies to COVID-19, a study found on Monday, suggesting schools may not play as big a role in spreading the virus as some had feared.

Germany began reopening schools in May, though debate continues as to the role children may play in spreading the virus to vulnerable adults at home as well as to older teachers and school staff.

The study by the University Hospital in Dresden analysed blood samples from almost 1,500 children aged between 14 and 18 and 500 teachers from 13 schools in Dresden and the districts of Bautzen and Goerlitz in May and June.

The largest study conducted in Germany on school children and teachers included testing in schools where there were coronavirus outbreaks.
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Nantes cathedral 'catches' fire: Arson suspected as 400-year-old organ destroyed in blaze - UPDATES

Alice Tidey
euronews.com
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:24 UTC

Comment: They've done it again...


Nantes
© Laetitia Notarianni/AP Photo
French police officers look at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, damaged by a blaze on Saturday morning. July 18, 2020
More than 100 firefighters were deployed in the western French city of Nantes on Saturday morning to tackle a "violent blaze" at the cathedral.

"For the moment, the fire has been contained," General Laurent Ferlay, the head of the local fire service, told reporters at around 10:00 CEST.

An arson inquiry has been launched, the Nantes prosecutor said.

Footage released on social media earlier by the French Federation of Firefighters showed flames leaping inside the gothic monument as a large cloud of black smoke escaped to rise towards the sky.

Comment: An eyewitness who lives near the cathedral told the LCI news outlet that he was woken up by "a very strange sound of bells" and he could see the fire from his home.

Also this week there was a stabbing at church in Virginia, US, and just a few days earlier another church in the US was vandalized with satanic and anarchist symbols.

Update 18 July 2020

Further reports and photos show that the fire indeed started in several places:
Images showing the charred interior of the 15th-century cathedral in Nantes, France, appear to point at three separate outbreaks of flames having damaged the Gothic gem on Saturday. Arson is being investigated.

The diocese of Nantes released images on Facebook in the wake of the blaze. It completely destroyed the grand organ at the Cathedral of St. Pierre and St. Paul, blew out the stained glassed windows at the front of the building, and consumed a valuable 19th-century painting that had been sent from Rome.

Locals quickly spotted that, judging by the photos, there had been two separate fires on the ground floor, located meters away from each other. The third apparently broke out on the upper level.

Nantes Cathedral1
© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
Nantes Cathedral2
© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
Nantes Cathedral
© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
Nantes Cathedral4
© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
Nantes Prosecutor Pierre Sennes confirmed there had been three fire hotspots in the building and announced that "an arson investigation has been opened."
Update 19 July 2020

A 39-year-old Rwandan man, who worked for the diocese as a volunteer, is a suspect, according to the Europe1 news outlet - and he has been taken into custody.

Breitbart adds:
The 39-year-old migrant detained following the blaze, according to French reports, worked for the diocese, and was angry over difficulties he had been having with his expired visa — although the authorities have cautioned against leaping to conclusions about his involvement in the fire.

Prosecutors said it would be "premature and hasty" to brand the migrant, who was apparently responsible for locking the cathedral up the day before the fire, as an arsonist.

It appears he was taken into custody because there are inconsistencies in his timetable — but Nantes public prosecutor Pierre Sennès has stressed that this is "normal procedure" and that, so far, the authorities are not working under the assumption that he started the blaze.

Jean-Charles Nowak, a clerk at the cathedral, has defended the unnamed migrant, saying he "adores" the building.

"I don't believe for a second that he could have set the cathedral on fire," Nowak said.
It sounds like they're dangling this man as a fall-guy, for now, in order to gaslight the population into privately thinking "I knew it had to be a foreigner," while, of course, it probably wasn't him - though he may have unwittingly allowed the actual perpetrators to sneak in and do their wicked deed.

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Man, 26, suffers collapsed lung after jogging 2.5 miles while wearing face mask

Kelly-Ann Mills
The Mirror
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:43 UTC
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© China News Service via Getty Images
Jogging is popular in China
A young man fell to the ground due to a collapsed lung after running two-and-a-half miles while wearing a face mask. Doctors say his condition was caused by the high pressure on the man's organ, due to his intense breathing while wearing the face covering.

Surgeons say the 26-year-old, who is known by the pseudonym Zhang Ping, from Hankou, China, had a puncture in his left lung and it had shrunk by 90 per cent.

Mr Zhang, was rushed to the Wuhan Central Hospital on Thursday, May 7 after he became breathless and started having severe chest pain. He wrote in a social media post that he is now recovering in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery to save his life.
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State troopers demand exit from NYC after bans on use of force

Jonah Gottschalk
The Federalist
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:11 UTC
New York State Police patrol car
© New York State Police
The head of the New York State Troopers union is demanding all state police be removed from the New York City over looming reforms.
The president of the State Police association is demanding troopers be removed from New York City after the passage of policing restrictions this Wednesday. The request, which was filed to the New York State Police superintendent, stated the city's new regulations would harm officers' ability to perform their duties, and place them in legal jeopardy.

"This poorly conceived bill, which will be signed into law by Mayor de Blasio today, puts an undue burden upon our Troopers," Association President Thomas Mungeer wrote. "It will prevent Troopers from safely and effectively arresting resistant subjects."

The proposed exit comes in the midst of a historic crime surge in the city. Shootings have nearly doubled this year, with 53 new victims from this past weekend alone. Yet this hasn't stopped the city from slashing police budgets and pushing through a wish-list of laws restraining officers.
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Che Guevara

Marxist activist elder Angela Davis: Biden is the 'candidate who can be most effectively pressured'

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:47 UTC
Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis
In a discussion about why she is supporting Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, radical Marxist and former Black Panther Angela Davis explained Monday that while Biden is by no means an ideal candidate for the radical left, he is the "candidate who can be most effectively pressured."

RealClear Politics brought attention to a tweet by J Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy that contained the clip of Davis appearing on Russia Today's (RT) Going Underground.
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Pistol

Shooting in Peoria, Illinois, leaves 12 hurt, 2 reported in serious condition

Andy Kravetz
Journal Star
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:45 UTC
police cordon
Multiple shooters involved in incident that leaves 13 people shot on Peoria's riverfront

Peoria police say multiple shooters were involved in an incident on Peoria's riverfront early Sunday morning that left 13 with gunshot wounds.

A man was shot in a separate incident late Saturday night just south of Downtown Peoria.

The brutal weekend has seen 17 people shot with one death since Friday night.

Peoria Police spokeswoman Amy Dotson said none of the injuries as of 6:45 a.m. were deemed to be life-threatening.

Comment: RT adds:
Gunfire is not an unusual sound in Peoria. Though the city is home to only 110,000 people, a CBS News investigation last year ranked it the 18th deadliest city in the country, coming in only two places behind neighboring Chicago.The shooting is at least the second such act of violence in the small city this weekend.

Two men were shot in the early hours of Saturday morning, with one dying in hospital. Police have no leads on the suspect, but the incident is under investigation. The death was the city's seventh homicide this year.


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Suspicious: Explosion hits central Iranian power plant only a few weeks after Natanz nuclear site blast

Oleg Burunov.
Sputnik
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:10 UTC
iran power plant
© AP Photo / Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
The blast occurred a few weeks after an explosion ripped through Iran's Natanz facility for enriching uranium, in an incident that was reportedly caused by a bomb.

An explosion took place at a power plant in Iran's central Isfahan Province on Sunday, the country's IRNA news agency reports.

The news outlet cited Saeid Mohseni, chief executive of Isfahan Power Generation Co., as saying that the blast did not disrupt the plant's electricity supply to customers.

"The damaged equipment is being repaired", he said, adding that the power station resumed operations about two hours after the explosion.

The incident reportedly took place due to a technical problem at the plant and did not cause any casualties.

Comment: Other incidents have followed on including a fire at a manufacturing plant and an explosion along a pipeline:
A factory located close to the town of Sheikh Hassan, in Northwestern Iran has caught fire, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA).

Firefighters from the Iranian cities of Khosrowshah and Sardrud promptly arrived on the scene of the major blaze at a cellophane printing company situated southwest of Tabriz, ILNA reported. No casualties have been reported so far. The cause of the fire remains unknown.



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