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Donations to Black Lives Matter are funneled through a Democratic fundraising group

Daniel Payne
Just the News
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 05:24 UTC
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Nearly 4% of all donations go to a third-party progressive organization.

Financial contributions to Black Lives Matter are first processed through a Democratic and progressive fundraising group, one which takes a cut of all donations before passing it along to the racial justice organization.

Donations to Black Lives Matter have been skyrocketing in recent weeks amid ongoing protests in response to the killing of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis resident. Floyd died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes; bystander video of the incident captured Floyd screaming, "I can't breathe!" as the officer kept his knee on Floyd's throat.

Major corporations have been scrambling to donate huge sums of money to Black Lives Matter as the sometimes-violent protests have continued. Some of the donations have been astronomical: The Korean pop band BTS donated $1 million to the group earlier this month, and their fans quickly matched that amount with another $1 million donation.

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Instant Karma? 'Warlord' of Seattle Autonomous Zone struggles to be the police he hates as real cops have 2nd thoughts


RT
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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A self-styled "warlord" of the Seattle Autonomous Zone (and local rapper) is quickly learning that policing is a tough job, struggling to maintain safety and order amid the newly minted commune's post-revolutionary hangover.

Raz Simone, self-appointed "warlord" of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), attempted to clear up some misunderstandings about the protest community, explaining to the Post Millennial on Thursday that his only goal for the moment was "to keep the peace and unity, honestly, that's it." Sort of like a police officer.
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Cost of Riots: Mayor Lightfoot pleads with Walmart, Other Retailers to not abandon Chicago

Craig Dellimore
WBBM News Radio
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Mayor Lightfoot said she's hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd's killing by police in Minnesota. Woman Attacks Cop At Brickyard Mall
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Mayor Lightfoot said she's hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd's killing by police in Minnesota. But, she's unsure of one of the biggest.

Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.

Comment: Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend in years amid coronavirus lockdown

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Man who claimed George Floyd and Derek Chauvin "bumped heads" changes story

Jeff Pegues
CBS Evening News
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:29 UTC
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A man who worked at the same club with George Floyd and Derek Chauvin - and previously told CBS News the two had "bumped heads" - changed his story Wednesday, saying he had mistaken Floyd for another unnamed African-American employee.

David Pinney told CBS News he worked at the same club where Chauvin and Floyd were employed to provide part-time security. Chauvin is the former police officer who is charged in Floyd's death.

In an interview with CBS News, parts of which aired Tuesday, Pinney had described a tense relationship between Chauvin and a man who he said was Floyd, and said that the two knew each other "pretty well."

On Wednesday, Pinney told CBS News in an email he had confused Floyd with someone else: "There has been a mix up between George and another fellow co-worker," he wrote.
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'Like living in prison': Refugees from jihadist-ruled Idlib share stories of oppression


RT
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC
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No one felt safe under the brutal rule of an Al-Qaeda-linked group holed up in Syria's Idlib, refugees from the area told RT's Ruptly video agency. Russia has warned that terrorists in Idlib are a threat to peace and security.

"The situation in Idlib, where we used to live, was like living in a prison - in every sense of the word," Mahmoud Abdel Hamid, who managed to flee the area, told Ruptly.

Idlib, a major city in Syria's northwest, and the territory around it are largely controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an offshoot of Al-Qaeda in Syria formerly known as Al-Nusra Front. The group has cracked down on any dissatisfaction that has been voiced.

Comment: These fanatical jihadists forced people to wear face coverings and gloves, prevented children from going to school, and didn't allow people to go outside their homes. Does this remind you of anything else going on in the world?

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BA, easyJet and Ryanair begin court action over UK quarantine rules - no scientific evidence

Gwyn Topham
The Guardian
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:17 UTC
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Ryanair planes at Dublin airport
Britain's three biggest airlines have filed papers in the high court to seek an urgent judicial review of the government's quarantine laws, which they say are having a devastating effect on tourism and the wider economy.

British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair say the rules, which came into effect on Monday and require passengers arriving from abroad to self-isolate at a single address for 14 days, are flawed and will cost thousands of jobs.

The airlines sent a letter to the government last week to start their legal challenge, and court proceedings are now in train. The airlines have requested a hearing as soon as possible.

Despite reports of private briefings that "air bridges" allowing travel between the UK and some other European countries could be established by the end of the month, the three airlines say they have not yet seen any evidence of how and when they would be implemented.

Instead, they are urging the government to revisit a policy briefly introduced in March that targeted passengers entering from "high-risk" countries for quarantine.

They said: "This would be the most practical and effective solution and enables civil servants to focus on other, more significant issues arising from the pandemic while bringing the UK in line with much of Europe which is opening its borders mid-June."

The airlines' chief executives have been outspoken in their criticism of the rules. Willie Walsh, the boss of BA's parent company IAG, has described them as "irrational and disproportionate", while Ryanair's Michael O'Leary has said they are "nonsense".
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MSM's favorite feminist bully Anita Sarkeesian trashes 'abusive' Cards Against Humanity co-creator, but only after taking his cash

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:05 UTC
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Anita Sarkeesian at the screening for "Netizens" during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theatre on April 22, 2018 in New York City
Never lacking reasons to insert herself under the spotlight, Anita Sarkeesian is once again using her feminist status to cancel a man over allegations of abuse, though in doing so her hypocrisy has been exposed for all to see.

With a post over on her Medium blog, the grifting queen comes out swinging and calls Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin an abuser. The catalyst for this is a thread on Twitter that makes some pretty wild leaps to arrive at the hot topic of the week, racism.

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Giving in to the woke mob: College apologizes for letting cops use restrooms, country band Lady Antebellum changes name, Fawlty Towers scrubs episodes

Mitchell Willetts
Charlotte Observer
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:37 UTC
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Responding to "hurt and anger" caused when it allowed police officers to use restrooms on its campus, the Berklee College of Music — a private university in Boston — issued an apology, and a promise it won't happen again.

The apology released Wednesday on Facebook comes almost two weeks after members of the Boston Police Department staged near the school on May 31, a day of protests against racial injustice largely triggered by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in the custody of Minneapolis police on Memorial Day. Boston police officers were given permission to use the bathrooms inside the Berklee Performance Center, outlets report.

"Allowing police officers into the space was in no way meant to undermine Berklee's support for Black Lives Matter," the apology, cosigned by Berklee's President Roger Brown, its chief financial officer, and its public safety chief, said.

"The decision to allow them into our facilities was ours. This was not a formal decision by the institution, but an informal one, made on the spot."
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Satire: Man burns his entire book collection to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:59 UTC
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A man from Dorset has removed every book he owned and burned them, in a stand against racism, following the recent Black Lives Matter protests and the tearing down of statues. Gordon Mappling, a 40-year-old Policy Support Officer, who has been on furlough, took the action after seeing the protests on TV:
"When I saw what happened in Minneapolis, and the protests that followed, I knew I needed to do my bit to show a gesture of solidarity. But since there weren't any protests near me, and I couldn't get to London because of the Lockdown, I thought I'd take it upon myself to make a protest in my own living room."
He began by removing a copy of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is well known for its repeated use of the N word, confessing that he felt a deep sense of shame for having it on his shelf for years:
"As soon as I realised my guilt, I felt white-shamed and so quickly went outside to set it on fire. But when I came back into the house, feeling a sense of satisfaction that I'd done my bit to make the world a better place, what was the first thing I saw? It was a Collins Dictionary on the dining room table. Of course, I knew it contains the same word, so that had to go too. So back out the house I went to commit it to the flames."
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'Literally putting a band-aid on racism': Iconic bandage company goes woke in latest corporate pander-fest


RT
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:25 UTC
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Band-Aid has released a line of bandages in five different skin tones, pledging to donate to Black Lives Matter to combat systemic racism. Unfortunately for its woke aspirations, the joke is right there in the brand name.

The brand posted an image of its new bandage colors fanned out from light to dark to Instagram on Thursday, accompanied by a verbose and somewhat stilted paean to diversity ("we are committed to launching a range of bandages in light, medium and deep shades of Brown and Black skin tones...") and a promise to make a donation to Black Lives Matter.

Tellingly, the size of the donation wasn't mentioned, nor were any further steps outlined beyond another promise that "this is just the first among many steps together in the fight against systemic racism."
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