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'Madness of Crowds' author Douglas Murray slams authorities as hypocrites for allowing mass protests while still urging social distancing rules

Jemma Carr
Daily Mail
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:37 UTC
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Thousands of people blocked the road as they gathered outside the US Embassy in London last Sunday
The author of best-selling political book 'The Madness of Crowds' has slammed authorities as hypocrites for allowing mass anti-racism protests while still urging Britons to stick to social distancing rules.

Controversial author Douglas Murray said that while 'everybody in the UK has to lock down', thousands are permitted to gather for protests across the UK sparked by the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in the US.

Floyd was killed when a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds despite Floyd's desperate pleas that he 'can't breathe'.

He passed out and later died in Minneapolis on May 25.
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At least 11 killed during US protests seeking justice for George Floyd, many of them African Americans


KTLA5
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:46 UTC
James Scurlock, a 22-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a white bar owner
One man was the beloved owner of a Louisville barbecue restaurant who provided free meals to officers. Another was a man known as "Mr. Indianapolis," a former star football player. Yet another was a federal officer working security during a protest.

They are among those killed as protests have roiled American cities in the week since the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as a white Minneapolis officer jammed a knee into his neck.

The deaths have at times been overshadowed by the shocking images of unrest, from heavy-handed police tactics to violence, vandalism and arson. Tens of thousands have marched peacefully in demonstrations against police brutality and racism.

Many of the people killed were African Americans, compounding the tragedy for black communities.

Hundreds of others have been injured in the chaos, with police officers getting shot and protesters struck with rubber bullets.

The death toll and circumstances of the killings are still being sorted out in many cities, but here is what we know so far:

Comment: These are just a small sampling of the deaths and injuries that came as a result of the mass chaos witnessed in the last two weeks.

See also:

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NPC

'Where does this end?' NYT oped suggests cutting off family & friends unless they protest or give money to anti-racism orgs


RT
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:24 UTC
george floyd protest
© REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A New York Times opinion piece suggests the only true way to alleviate white guilt is to cut off family and friends unless they support anti-racism causes, either through protest or financial contributions.

Author Chris Sanders is not happy about white people he knows texting him about the current unrest in the nation amidst the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd.

After ranting about his agent and publishing company pushing off a scheduled meeting for a "blackout" day in support of the demonstrations around the country and people suddenly caring about the Black Lives Matter movement in light of protests, Sanders argues white people texting him about these issues "drain my time and energy."

Being guilty is not enough, Sanders suggests. He offers only three ways white people can be allies to black people today.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer marches with George Floyd protesters despite pandemic: 'Elections matter'

Jessica Chasmar
The Washington Times
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:53 UTC
Gretchen Whitmer
© Clarence Tabb, Jr./Detroit News via AP
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, center, marches with others, on Woodward during a rally in Highland Park, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in honor of George Floyd, a man who died last week while being arrested by Minneapolis police.
Three days after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urged Michiganders to "Google" how to cut their own hair during the ongoing coronavirus-related restrictions, the Democratic governor was spotted marching with her hands raised among throngs of George Floyd protesters in Detroit Thursday.

A video tweeted by WXYZ Detroit showed Ms. Whitmer purportedly violating her own social distancing orders by marching shoulder-to-shoulder with protesters. In the video, the governor wore a face mask with her arms raised as protesters chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot."


"Elections matter," Ms. Whitmer said during the march, The Detroit News reported. "We cannot be defeated. We must move forward together. When we do that, we cannot be defeated."

According to the state administration's website, "Persons may engage in expressive activities protected by the First Amendment within the State of Michigan, but must adhere to social distancing measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including remaining at least six feet from people from outside the person's household."

Comment: And the double standards abound. A real piece of work that one. See also:

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NPC

Abraham Lincoln statue vandalised during London's BLM protests

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 02:32 UTC
lincoln london
© Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart News
The vandalised Abraham Lincoln statue in London's Parliament Square
Activists defaced and scaled Abraham Lincoln's statue in Parliament Square, London, at a Black Lives Matter rally held in defiance of Britain's anti-coronavirus regulations.

Video from protest, estimated to be 15,000-strong at the time of publication, shows the Lincoln statue defaced with the graffiti reading "BLM" and naming George Floyd, Mike Brown, and other individuals said to have been killed wrongfully by the police.

One side of Lincoln's pedestal has also had a banner and several placards duct-taped to it, reading "RACISM IS A PANDEMIC TOO", "SILENCE IS VIOLENCE", "BLM", and "ABOLISH THE POLICE".

Comment: It was known that a reaction by the imprisoned public would follow the lockdown, and so one wonders whether these protests and riots, that aren't being prevented from happening, nor are they being denounced by the mainstream media, and this despite emergency laws rushed through parliament to stop mass gatherings, are instead being hijacked and hyped to the establishments advantage?

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Attention

New Marxist frontiers: The riots cured the incurable virus

Daniel Horowitz
Conservative Review
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:32 UTC
george floyd protests
© Ira L. Black/Corbis | Getty Images
It was the biggest news story and most consequential policy decision of our lifetime. The lockdowns destroyed potentially 53% of our GDP, paralyzed our health care system, shut down our education system, and induced a physical and mental health crisis along with a social, economic, and labor catastrophe that we still can't begin to conceptualize. Yet we were told it was absolutely necessary for our survival because of the most dangerous virus ever that required these actions to some degree until there is a vaccine or a cure. Well, it appears that we found a cure, though not a medical one.

From day one, the coronavirus response was a display of the tail wagging the dog - the media driving the scientific and medical community, not the other way around. This is why the minute the media found a more exciting narrative to advance their agenda, namely racial strife, not only is the virus is out of the news entirely, but the cult-like devotion to quarantine, wearing masks, and the mind-numbing trope of "social distancing" has been repudiated within hours of the first sacred "protesters" smashing and burning storefronts in Minneapolis last week.

Even the media figures who tacitly condemn the violence and the local officials who take some action against the most violent rioters have all elevated the "protesters" to sainthood status. They have allowed them to break curfews and gather in the thousands on top of each other. Politicians have even joined in with them, and there have been group hugging and kneeling sessions with the police.

Comment: See also:

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NPC

Reddit founder steps down from company board, requests seat 'go to black board member'

Taylor Hatmaker, Ingrid Lunden
Tech Crunch
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:42 UTC
Reddit Alexis Ohanian

Founder and former CEO of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian, the founder and former CEO of Reddit, stepped down from his position on the company's board Friday as the U.S. roils with nationwide protests against police brutality after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man.

Ohanian is calling on the company he founded to fill his position with a black board member, a high-profile step for a company with its own rocky track record around issues of race.

"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now," Ohanian said in his announcement. "To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop."
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Liberal magazine Slate declares violence is 'important' for protests, does NOT get censored by Twitter

Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Fox News
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:57 UTC
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© Twitter/Screenshot
Slate tweet proclaiming “Non-violence is an important tool for protests, but so is violence.” June 4, 2020
The liberal news site Slate is facing intense backlash for claiming that "violence" is an "important tool for protests."

While some reports have either downplayed or even defended the violence that taken place in recent days, no defense was bolder than Slate's, whose account tweeted on Wednesday, "Non-violence is an important tool for protests, but so is violence."

Included in the tweet is a link to a 24-minute audio analysis explaining the "history of violent protest."

"Big structural change in America doesn't happen without violence," read the subheadline of the linked article.

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Bad Guys

Antifa wants to lead African-Americans to their slaughter to spark a race war

Andrew Korybko
One World
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC
African

The leftist-terrorist organization Antifa deceptively presents itself as the militant vanguard of America's anti-racism protests, but in reality it employs the deeply racist tactic of trying to lead African-Americans to their slaughter in order to spark a "race war" that they believe could serve as the catalyst for carrying out their envisaged "revolution", which they tacitly regard as an ideological end that "justifies" their aforesaid means.
Background Briefing

Antifa is the talk of every town in America after Trump publicly declared his plans to officially designate it as a terrorist group in response to the network's role in carrying out acts of urban terrorism all throughout the country over the past week. For those who aren't familiar with the author's analysis of the Hybrid War of Terror on America, they're requested to at the very least skim through one, some, or all three of his related works on the topic so as to better understand his perspective prior to proceeding to the rest of the present piece:
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Attention

RT journalist and family to be evacuated from Yemen due to death threats following colleague's murder


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:13 UTC
RT stringer Nabil Hassan al-Qaichi

Ruptly stringer Nabil Hassan al-Qaichi was shot by unidentified people near his home in Aden.
This week, the Russian foreign language broadcaster confirmed that unidentified people had shot and killed Ruptly stringer Nabil Hasan al-Quality near his home in Aden on June 2. The Committee to Protect Journalists and UNESCO condemned the murder, and urged for a thorough probe into the photojournalist's death.

RT Arabic stringer Salah Al-Aklu and his family will be evacuated from Yemen after receiving death threats, Sputnik and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has indicated.
"The threats began after a friend and colleague who collaborated with our Ruptly video agency was shot dead outside his home in Yemen a few days ago," she wrote, referring to the killing of al-Quaety, a photojournalist working with a number of news organizations, including Ruptly, Agence France-Presse, and others.
Simonyan thanked Russia's foreign ministry and the Russian ambassador in Yemen, saying they are helping in the urgent evacuation of Al-Aklu and his family from the war-torn country.

Comment: Thousands turned out to mourn the slain journalist in Aden on Thursday:



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