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Mayor Durkan: Seattle will move to dismantle 'Chaz' occupied protest zone 'in the near future'


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 02:23 UTC
CHOP Seattle
© Reuters/Lindsey Wasson
CHOP section of Seattle shows concrete barriers installed by the city.
The so-called "Capitol Hill Organised Protest", or "CHOP", was established by protesters in the vicinity of Capitol Hill about two weeks ago, after police retreated from the East Precinct in the area, with Durkan's approval.

Seattle authorities will take back control over the "CHOP", Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday, following two shootings that left a 19-year-old man dead and two more people injured. Durkan said at a news conference:
"The cumulative impacts of the gatherings and protests and the nighttime atmosphere and violence has led to increasingly difficult circumstances for our businesses and residents. We can still accommodate people who can protest peacefully, who come there and gather. But the impacts on the businesses and residents and community are now too much."

Comment: People are dead and wounded because the mayor has condoned a societal framework without accountability. She removed both protection and leverage - and seems in no big hurry to readdress it. Other crimes including rape, arson and burglary have also been reported.

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NPC

If all 'problematic' statues have to go, then that includes monuments to Gandhi, Marx, Engels and Che Guevara

Noah Carl
RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Karl Marx statue
© Wikimedia Commons / Einsamer Schütze
Now that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have been ignominiously defenestrated, it is clear that the "woke" iconoclasts really do mean business. But will left-wing icons be held to the same standards as everyone else?

Charges leveled at figures who have been marked for defenestration include: being involved in colonialism or slavery; making pejorative statements about other ethnic groups; and expressing support for eugenics. Since all those who stand accused have the misfortune of being deceased, none have been able to repudiate the charges against them. And as a consequence, many have been found guilty.

So far, most of the guilty parties are either symbols of the old order (such as Cecil Rhodes) or individuals more revered on the right than the left (such as Winston Churchill). But when it comes to historical figures at whom the aforementioned charges could be leveled, there is plenty of material to work with on the left.
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Cell Phone

Israeli spyware used to target Moroccan journalist, Amnesty claims

Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 23:00 UTC
Omar Radi
© Photograph: courtesy of Fanny Hedenmo
Amnesty International says Omar Radi’s phone was hacked using NSO’s software even after the firm professed its commitment to human rights.
Amnesty alleges phone of Omar Radi in Morocco was infected by NSO's Pegasus software

As NSO Group faced mounting criticism last year that its hacking software was being used illegally against journalists, dissidents and campaigners around the world, the Israeli spyware company unveiled a new policy that it said showed its commitment to human rights.

Now an investigation has alleged that another journalist, Omar Radi in Morocco, was targeted with NSO's Pegasus software and put under surveillance just days after the company made that promise.

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Stop

Life Care fired staffer who revealed nursing home nightmare to Reuters

Chris Kirkham
Reuters
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
Colleen Lelievre

An undated handout photo of nurse Colleen Lelievre, who was fired last week from her job at the Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley.
A nursing home owned by Life Care Centers of America Inc has fired one nurse and banned another from the premises after the two were quoted in a Reuters investigation detailing horrific conditions, a staff exodus and a botched management response to the facility's deadly COVID-19 outbreak.

Life Care terminated one of the nurses, Colleen Lelievre, last week after managers at the Littleton, Massachusetts, home accused her of making clerical errors involving narcotics for residents. She said she had not been told of any issues until June 12, two days after publication of the Reuters report. Another nurse, Lisa Harmon, said a manager barred her from the building the same day, without explaining why.

"I don't know how they think that they're just blatantly doing this and getting away with it," said Harmon, a supervisor.

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Bullseye

Face masks are making statists of us all

Iain Davis
In This Together
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:48 UTC
Face masks must be worn in the UK on public transport (to begin with) by order of the State. We will explore the reasons why people might comply or resist this diktat. What reasons are there to wear a face mask, do they make sense and what does our compliance or resistance say about us?

covid facemask
© engin akyurt / Unsplash
The State Is A State Of Mind

The State is a belief system. It is a faith, rather like a religion. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with faith. It doesn't necessarily mean the belief itself is "wrong." Faith can be a powerful force for good. It all depend upon what the belief is.

If your faith dictates that you treat all with love, compassion and respect then your belief is "right." If you live in accordance with your faith then you are living in the truth, regardless of which deity you follow.

However, if your faith teaches you that you are better than "non believers," that yours in the only true way and that those who don't follow your beliefs, or your deity, deserve to be punished, you are "wrong." You are not living in harmony with the truth.

People who believe in the State are called statists. Those who don't, broadly come under the umbrella term anarchists. For statists, the anarchist is despised. Life without their State is unimaginable, therefore those who wish to live without it must be evil. The anarchist has long been reviled by statists as the dangerous subversive.

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Arrow Down

Seattle will move to dismantle CHOP, mayor says

Gene Johnson
Associated Press
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:38 UTC
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone
© AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
A sign welcomes visitors Monday, June 22, 2020, near an entrance to what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle. For the second time in less than 48 hours, there was a shooting near the "CHOP" area that has been occupied by protesters after Seattle Police pulled back from several blocks of the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood near the Police Department's East Precinct building.
Faced with growing pressure to crack down on an "occupied" protest zone following two weekend shootings, Seattle's mayor said Monday that officials will move to wind down the blocks-long span of city streets taken over two weeks ago that President Donald Trump asserted is run by "anarchists."

Mayor Jenny Durkan said the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters opposing racial inequity and police brutality. She said at a news conference that the city is working with the community to bring the "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone, or CHOP, to an end and that police soon would move back into a precinct building they had largely abandoned in the area.

Durkan also vowed to address some of the protesters' demands, including investing more in Black communities, reimagining policing in cooperation with community leaders, and pushing for accountability measures and statewide reform of police unions.

The mayor did not give an immediate timeline for clearing out the occupation but said "additional steps" would be examined if people don't leave voluntarily. With scores of people camping in a park in the protest zone, Durkan said peaceful demonstrations could continue, but nighttime disorder had to stop.

Comment: See also: My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle's cop-free CHAZ

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NPC

Statue Wars come for JESUS as activist claims Christ and Virgin Mary are 'white supremacy'


RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:10 UTC
jesus
© REUTERS/Manaure Quintero
It began with Confederate generals and quickly escalated to Columbus and former US presidents; now the monument-removal crusade has come for Jesus, with racial activist Shaun King insisting his depictions are 'racist propaganda.'

"Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down," King tweeted on Monday. "They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been."

He also argued that all "murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down," calling them "a gross form white supremacy... tools of oppression [and] Racist propaganda."
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Heart - Black

Immunity for US diplomat's wife involved in teen's death branded 'absurd,' critics blast UK double standards over Assange


RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:06 UTC
assange and anne sacoolas
© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
A former British ambassador has called US and UK claims that Anne Sacoolas - the wife of a US intelligence officer - had immunity, as "a palpable absurdity." Sacoolas is accused of killing Harry Dunn last year in a car crash.

The 19-year-old was fatally injured after he was allegedly struck by Sacoolas in her car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August 2019. Sir Ivor Roberts, a former top British diplomat in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, was asked by lawyers representing the Dunn family for his opinion on the tragic case.

The ex-British ambassador hasn't minced his words, branding it "a palpable absurdity" that both the British Foreign Office and the US Embassy say she could claim the same level of diplomatic immunity as her husband, Jonathan Sacoolas.

Roberts' scathing views focus on an August 1995 agreement between the UK Foreign Office and the US ambassador to Britain about American personnel at RAF Croughton - the military base where Sacoolas' husband was stationed at the time of Dunn's death.
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Bullseye

Gov't advisor: Britons were 'terrorised' by the government's tough coronavirus message and 'lost sight' of the fact most people only have mild illness

Jack Maidment
Daily Mail
Fri, 08 May 2020 00:02 UTC
Professor Robert Dingwall

Professor Robert Dingwall
Boris Johnson's hardline coronavirus lockdown message has 'effectively terrorised' the UK population into believing they will die if they catch coronavirus, one of the government's experts has said.

Professor Robert Dingwall suggested Britain had 'completely lost sight' of the true nature of the disease because 'mostly it isn't' killing people.

His comments illustrate the potential problems facing the Prime Minister as he prepares to set out his lockdown exit plan in an address to the nation on Sunday night.

Polling published yesterday showed almost two thirds of the population are worried about the effects of lifting the draconian curbs too early.
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Red Pill

No evidence for two-metre rule, Oxford experts say

Sarah Knapton, Christopher Hope, Danielle Sheridan, and Robert Mendick
The Telegraph
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:40 UTC
oxford street
© Heathcliff O'Malley
The two-metre rule has no basis in science, leading scientists have said as the Government comes under increasing pressure to drop the measure.

Writing for The Telegraph, Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, from the University of Oxford, said there is little evidence to support the restriction and called for an end to the "formalised rules".

The University of Dundee also said there was no indication that distancing at two metres is safer than one metre.

The intervention comes as two Government ministers suggested on Monday that the rule is likely to be relaxed following a review commissioned by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister.

On Tuesday, shops experienced daily footfall drops of 41 percent compared to the same day last year, while enormous queues built up outside because of social distancing requirements.
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