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The new abnormal: UK pub installs electric fence to enforce social distancing

Mirror
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC

An electric fence has been erected at a pub bar to ensure people keep socially distanced from one another.

Staff at The Star Inn in St Just were struggling to keep punters under control following their recent reopening.

Rather than continuing their attempts at herding the proverbial cats, they have erected an electric fence, Devon Live reported.

Star Inn landlord Johnny McFadden confirmed that the fence was placed there to enforce social distancing.

Comment: The coronavirus hysteria has been revealing just how far some will go against their fellow man:

UK farm reports over 70 Covid-19 cases following increased testing, workers asked to self-isolate

CGTN
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC

At least 73 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus at a farm in Herefordshire in the UK, according to local media.

A S Green and Co, based in Mathon near Malvern, says 73 of its 200 employees have COVID-19 following an outbreak there.

Its workers, mainly responsible for picking and packing vegetables, are now asked to isolate in mobile homes on site.

Comment: Obviously increased testing is likely going to result in an increase in reported cases, however the vast majority of people are asymptomatic. What is notable is that this is just the latest in high profile stories regarding food suppliers and covid-19 testing, and what often follows is the shutdown of a critical industry; in the US it wasn't long before there were food shortages:

LA's first black District Attorney slams 'Black Lives Matter' for targeting her home

Stephanie Elam and Jason Kravarik
CNN
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:29 UTC

Says defunding the police would lead to lawlessness

Holding homemade signs, a crowd has gathered in downtown L.A. nearly every Wednesday for two and a half years, screaming a familiar chant.

"Jackie Lacey must go! Jackie Lacey will go!"

Their mission has intensified in the wake of George Floyd's death and resulting nationwide protests. But unlike other Black Lives Matter targets -- including police brutality often at the hands of White officers -- their aim is on Los Angeles County's first Black and female district attorney, a homegrown prosecutor raised in South L.A.

Migrants in US syphon $19B untaxed remittances to China, $103B globally

John Binder
Breitbart
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 01:00 UTC

Migrants in the United States sent about $103 billion in mostly untaxed remittances to six foreign countries last year — including about $19 billion to China.

A World Bank report, detailed by the Wall Street Journal, reveals the extent to which foreign nationals living in the U.S. drain mostly untaxed money from the nation's economy to send to relatives overseas.

In 2019, migrants sent close to $40 billion to Mexico and nearly $20 billion to China. Only one state in the U.S., Oklahoma, taxes remittances. Last year, the state raked in more than $13 million from its one percent remittance tax.

Migrants in the U.S. also sent about $14 billion to India, another $14 billion to the Philippines, $10 billion to Guatemala, and $9 billion to Vietnam — almost all of which is untaxed.

Comment: A big problem becoming bigger? The financial syphoning loopholes add perspective to Trump's demand to enforce migrant quotas.

Two-faced Jake Tapper, admonishing Trump for lack of mask, shows 'no need for masks' clip on his own show

RT
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:29 UTC

CNN's Jake Tapper was confronted with coverage from his own show claiming masks were "not needed" during the Covid-19 pandemic, after he tweeted Donald Trump may have saved lives if he'd worn them in public months ago.

"Some day someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved if this happened in February or March," Tapper tweeted, reacting to the president being pictured for the first time wearing a mask.

Shaming citizens for refusing to wear masks in public - despite many states and businesses requiring them - has become commonplace on social media, but in "February or March," health officials were claiming they were "not needed" and insisting Americans not go out and buy them.

Comment: Denial is its own mask, obviously familiar to Tapper by frequent useage.

Lam: Dem's plan for legislative majority to oppose government policy might be illegal according to security law

Tom Grundy
Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:13 UTC

Chief Exec. Carrie Lam has said that a coordinated effort by democrats to win a majority in the legislature in order to oppose government policy may be illegal under the national security law.

Lam was asked on Monday for her reaction to the pro-democracy camp's primary election over the weekend, which saw a high turnout of over 600,000 citizens. At a press conference, she warned that people must not "interfere, disrupt [or] cause confusion" in the run-up to the legislative election in November:

"If this so-called primary election's purpose is to achieve the ultimately goal of... rejecting to, resisting every policy initiative of the Hong Kong SAR government, then it may fall into the category of subverting the state power, which is now one of the four types offences under the new national security law."

Lam added she was only issuing a warning, but there may be a case to answer.

High treason or state oppression? Russian journalist arrested and charged with passing intel to Czech Republic

Johnny Tickle
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:50 UTC

Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and a current adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, has been charged with treason. He is alleged to have passed secret information to the Czechs at the behest of the US.

Safronov, who previously wrote for the well-known Russian newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti, is believed by investigators from the Federal Security Service to have been working for the Czech Republic, a NATO member state.

According to Safronov's lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, he maintains his innocence. He also explained that Safronov will cooperate with the investigation. If found guilty, Safronov could serve up to 20 years in jail.

Veteran activists slam BLM as Democrat weapon that 'profits from the death of black men' and drowns out grassroots voices

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:26 UTC

© Getty Images via AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Stephen Maturen
Demonstrators take a knee outside the Target Center and First Avenue during the Black 4th protest in downtown on July 4, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Black Lives Matter movement has made millions off black Americans' suffering. A St. Louis activist explains how it comes from a long tradition of white liberals coopting grassroots movements to push a Democratic Party agenda.

The foundation-funded social justice activism of Black Lives Matter is using black pain to cash in on white liberal guilt, dividing American society in pursuit of a Democratic political agenda, St. Louis activist Nyota Uhura told RT.

Uhura founded her website handsupdontshoot.com in August 2014 to counter false narratives coming out of the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Having witnessed BLM's rise up close as the nascent organization swooped into Ferguson amid the calls for justice triggered by Brown's killing, methodically coopting the genuine protest energy while ignoring or even obstructing those protesters' demands, Uhura has fought to warn others of what the organization really represents - leveraging black activism into a boost for the Democratic Party.

Comment: See also:

Russian prosecutors reverse course - press murder charges against sisters accused of killing abusive father

Matthew Luxmoore
RFE/RL
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:43 UTC

© Moscow City Court/TASS
Two of the three sisters accused of killing their father, Angelina Khachaturyan (front) and Krestina Khachaturyan (back), at a court hearing in Moscow.

Russian prosecutors have confirmed murder charges against three sisters accused of killing their abusive father in 2018, the sisters' defense team says, reversing their earlier calls for charges to be dropped and dealing a blow to women's rights activists who see the case as a litmus test for Russia's approach to domestic violence.

Attorney Aleksei Liptser, a member of the defense team, told RFE/RL on July 13 that the indictment had been finalized and the case would now go to trial.

In July 2018, investigators say, Krestina, Angelina, and Maria Khachaturyan -- then 19, 18, and 17 years old, respectively -- killed their father, Mikhail Khachaturyan, at their home in Moscow's outskirts. Materials gathered by investigators included substantial evidence of protracted sexual and physical abuse by Khachaturyan against his daughters.

The 'woke' philistines taking over Hollywood hate white men much more than they love cinema

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:09 UTC

Hollywood's suffocating new wave of identity politics targets white men, and movies and TV will suffer significantly as a result.

Hollywood, despite its reputation as a liberal bastion, has long been a hothouse of vicious reactionary sentiments.

For example, the anti-communist mania of the late 1940s and '50s was a particularly shameful time in Hollywood's history. It was during this Red Scare that Hollywood studios created a blacklist where any person thought to be a communist or associated with communists, regardless of their ability, was barred from working in the industry.

Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee used the threat of the Hollywood blacklist to force many artists to become informers on their colleagues in order to maintain their livelihoods.

Not surprisingly, as the Black Lives Matter panic now rages, Hollywood is once again succumbing to the hideous siren's call of dehumanization and discrimination. Except this time the accusation isn't about communism, but rather, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a white man?"

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Society's Child

The new abnormal: UK pub installs electric fence to enforce social distancing

UK farm reports over 70 Covid-19 cases following increased testing, workers asked to self-isolate

LA's first black District Attorney slams 'Black Lives Matter' for targeting her home

Migrants in US syphon $19B untaxed remittances to China, $103B globally

Two-faced Jake Tapper, admonishing Trump for lack of mask, shows 'no need for masks' clip on his own show

Lam: Dem's plan for legislative majority to oppose government policy might be illegal according to security law

High treason or state oppression? Russian journalist arrested and charged with passing intel to Czech Republic

Veteran activists slam BLM as Democrat weapon that 'profits from the death of black men' and drowns out grassroots voices

Russian prosecutors reverse course - press murder charges against sisters accused of killing abusive father

The 'woke' philistines taking over Hollywood hate white men much more than they love cinema

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