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Brazen unmasked thieves nonchalantly raid London electronic store in broad daylight

Bryony Jewell
Daily Mail
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:01 UTC
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Three brazen thugs have been filmed ripping electrical gadgets from their displays at a Currys PC World in Orphington, Greater London, with their faces on full display. Members of staff (far right) can be seen standing close to the group but unable to stop them walking out
This is the shocking moment a group of brazen thugs rip thousands of pounds of electrical equipment from displays at a Currys PC World store.

A member of the public recorded them walking into the Orpington, Greater London, branch on Wednesday and taking tablets, mobile phones and laptops.

The men, who appear to be in their late teens or early 20s, are seen ripping products from the stands, with one shouting he will kill anyone who tries to stop them.


Comment: It's worth noting that he doesn't have an English accent.


During the incident members of staff can be seen standing close to the group but unable to stop them walking out with the gadgets.

Comment: Crime of all kinds appear to be on the rise in the UK, and in London in particular: 3 men killed in London stabbing frenzy - Knife crime doubled since 2014





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The boss who put everyone on 70K, five years on

Stephanie Hegarty
BBC
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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Dan Price, founder, and CEO of Gravity Payments
In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m. Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off.

Dan Price was hiking with his friend Valerie in the Cascade mountains that loom majestically over Seattle, when he had an uncomfortable revelation.

As they walked, she told him that her life was in chaos, that her landlord had put her monthly rent up by $200 and she was struggling to pay her bills.

It made Price angry. Valerie, who he had once dated, had served for 11 years in the military, doing two tours in Iraq, and was now working 50 hours a week in two jobs to make ends meet.

Comment: What a wonderful idea, it seems to have been successful in more ways than Price could've imagined and a lesson for him personally. See also: What really happened at Gravity Payments with its $70,000 minimum wage

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Marine commandant banishes Confederate symbols from all Corps installations

Jeff Schogol
Task and Purpose
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:58 UTC
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A protester waves a Confederate battle flag in front of the South Carolina statehouse, Thursday, July 9, 2015, in Columbia, S.C.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has ordered all Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from Marine Corps installations, his spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.

A document showing the commandant's decision appeared online on Wednesday, though it did not say when all of the Confederate-related paraphernalia needed to be removed by.

Berger's spokesman confirmed to Task & Purpose that the commandant had sent a directive to his senior staff ordering all installations to get rid of symbols of the Confederate States of America.

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Chinese scientists desperately researching coronavirus discover that it shares human cell binding site with HIV, Ebola

Peter Andrews
RT
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:43 UTC
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Chinese scientists have reported that the coronavirus ripping through populations worldwide is much more likely than its close cousin Sars to bind to human cells, as it contains unexpected genes which link it to HIV and Ebola.

The research comes from Nankai University in the north Chinese city of Tianjin. Published on February 14, it has already become one of the most viewed papers on the platform, indicating the massive interest both in China and abroad for the latest findings on the virus.

It is well-known by now that 2019-nCoV shares over 80 percent of its DNA with Sars virus, making the cause of the 2002/3 outbreak in Southeast Asia its closest genetic relative. Sars invaded the human body by binding to a receptor protein, called ACE2, on the membranes of cells. But this was ultimately the downfall of that virus — ACE2 is rare in the cells of healthy people, which limited the spread of Sars significantly, resulting in it burning itself out by 2004. In the end, only about 8,000 people worldwide were infected, as compared to covid-19 which has already infected over 80,000 people.

Unlike Sars though, the novel Coronavirus has a section of genes that are absent from the Sars genome, according to this research. In fact, they bear resemblance to genes found in HIV and Ebola. These genes may encode for a different pathway targeting the protein furin on human cells, which is how HIV and Ebola attack. If it operates as those other viruses do, this mutation could make it up to 1,000 times better at binding to human cells than Sars.

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'Epstein didn't kill himself' float rolls through a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans

Valerie Edwards
Daily Mail
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:10 UTC
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A disturbing float with a Hillary Clinton dummy strangling a Jeffrey Epstein figure rolled through a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans last week.

In a video, shared on Twitter by Paul Blair, the brightly-colored float is seen being pulled by a John Deere tractor.

At the front of the float, the Clinton dummy is seen with its hands around the neck of a dummy that appears to be Epstein dressed in an orange prison uniform.

The first sign on the tractor appeared to say: 'If ever I cease to live.'

Comment: If you believe that Epstein killed himself, as stated in the above, you've clearly not been paying attention.

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Rapper Zuby suspended by Twitter for tweeting "OK dude" to a transgender activist

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:23 UTC
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Ban celebrated by Antifa supporter called 'Pronoun Enforcer'.

Rapper Zuby was suspended by Twitter for tweeting "Ok dude" at a transgender woman who calls herself the 'Pronoun Enforcer' and the temporary ban was celebrated by the left-wing activist.

"I've been temporarily locked out of Twitter for tweeting 'OK dude' in response to someone," Zuby posted on his Instagram page. "Apparently that violates the 'hateful conduct' policy. Wow... I've appealed it."

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Students stage sit-in after Oklahoma professor quotes historical document containing N-word

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 23:58 UTC
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Students at the University of Oklahoma staged a sit in protest after a professor quoted a historical document that contained the n-word before demanding that a Popeye's chicken restaurant be opened inside the university as part of "diversity" reparations.

Yes, really.

A letter sent by OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. explains how a female professor gave a "trigger warning" before using the word but that this did "not lessen the pain caused by the use of the word."

"For students in the class, as well as members of our community, this was another painful experience," wrote Harroz Jr.

Comment: These children have no idea how the world works. They will be woefully unprepared for life outside a University that caters to their privileged whinings. God help them.

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This Assange "trial" is a self-contradictory Kafkaesque nightmare

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:01 UTC
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The first week of the Julian Assange extradition trial has concluded, to be resumed on May 18th. If you haven't been following the proceedings closely, let me sum up what you missed:

The prosecution is working to extradite Assange to the US under a US-UK extradition treaty, a treaty whose contents the prosecution now says we should ignore because they explicitly forbid political extraditions. The prosecution says it doesn't matter anyway because Assange is not a political actor, yet in 2010 the US government that's trying to extradite him labeled him a political actor in those exact words. Assange's trial is taking place in a maximum security prison for dangerous violent offenders because that's where he's being jailed for no stated reason and despite having no history of violence, which means he's kept separate from the courtroom in a sound-resistant safety enclosure where he can't hear or participate in his own trial. The magistrate judging the case says he can't be allowed out of the enclosure since he's considered dangerous, because he's been arbitrarily placed in a prison for dangerous violent offenders. The magistrate keeps telling Assange to stop speaking up during his trial and to speak through his lawyers, yet he's being actively prevented from communicating with his lawyers.

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NPC

Spreading fear: PETA is being mocked and ridiculed by social media users after implying that eating meat may cause coronavirus

Carly Stern
Daily Mail
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 03:55 UTC
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PETA is being mocked and ridiculed by social media users after implying that eating meat may cause coronavirus.

The aggressive animal rights organization made the shocking suggestion on Twitter last week, writing: 'Carnivorous is an anagram of coronavirus. Coincidence? We think NOT!'

Thousands of commenters have replied, accusing PETA of spreading dangerous misinformation and also pointing out a few unflattering anagrams of the name 'PETA.'

'Scientists have a hunch that contact with live animals or their dead flesh may be the source of the deadly virus,' PETA wrote.
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'OAS misled public': MIT study finds 'NO evidence of fraud' in Bolivia election that saw Evo Morales ousted in military coup


RT
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 03:48 UTC

Comment: Which means the OAS and Chrystia Freeland's Lima Group rigged it. TEXTBOOK 'meddling in other countries' democratic affairs'...


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© Reuters / Mariana Greif
A new MIT study has found no evidence of fraud in Bolivia's 2019 election, despite allegations of serious irregularities by the Organization of American States (OAS), which led to the ousting of Evo Morales in a military coup.

John Curiel and Jack R Williams examined the OAS's report and published their findings in the Washington Post on Thursday. "As specialists in election integrity, we find that the statistical evidence does not support the claim of fraud in Bolivia's October election," they wrote.

The MIT researchers said the OAS had adopted a "novel approach to fraud analysis" and that its statistical conclusions would appear to be "deeply flawed."

Comment: Previously:

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