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15 year old boy killed & 3 others injured in shoot out at Juneteenth music festival in Washington DC

Natasha Anderson
Daily Mail
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 03:15 UTC
juneteenth shooting
Multiple people including a police officer were shot at a social justice-inspired musical festival in Washington DC. Police said the gunfire left a 15-year-old boy dead
A 15-year-old boy was killed and three people including a cop were wounded after shots rang out at a social justice-inspired musical festival in Washington DC.

A total of four people -the dead boy, two adult partygoers and a cop - were shot Sunday evening near the intersection of 14th and U Street NW, where the Moechella music festival, a Juneteenth celebration, was underway.

Witnesses described how the teenager was 'screaming out for his mom' after being shot, WTTG reported.

The officer was taken to an area hospital and is in stable condition, police confirmed. The other two victims are also recovering.

Comment: Juneteenth according to Wikipedia:
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas.[7] Originating in Galveston, the holiday has since been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts of the United States, often broadly celebrating African-American culture. The day was first recognized as a federal holiday in June 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.[8][9]


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Snakes in Suits

EU says Russian food and fertilizers are 'free from sanctions', EU chief warns of worldwide famine


RT
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:23 UTC
wheat
© NurPhotoThese products can be freely bought, transferred, and insured, Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell says
Anyone who wants to buy Russian food and fertilizers can do so freely and without the fear of sanctions, which don't apply to these products, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.

"Our sanctions don't target food, don't target fertilizers. Everyone that wants to buy Russian food and fertilizers, they can do it, no obstacles... so they can operate, they can buy, they can transfer, they can insure," Borrell told the press ahead of a meeting with EU foreign ministers, which is set to focus on ways to free up Ukrainian grain stuck in Black Sea ports amid the ongoing military conflict in the country.

However, EU sanctions target Russian shipping, preventing the country's grain and fertilizers from being delivered to the global market. This has led to a growing food crisis, with wheat prices surging to record highs over the past two months.


Comment: Later this year we'll begin to see the deadly fallout of the global fertilizer shortage.


Comment: Starvation in the poorer nations will be just the beginning, because numerous world leaders have warned of a looming global famine:
Egypt's finance minister echoes warning of looming global famine where 'millions could die', intends to remove country's bread subsidies

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Nationwide strike in Belgium over cost of living forces cancellation of all flights at Brussels Airport


Press TV
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:38 UTC
National strike, Belgium
National strike, Belgium
Brussels Airport has decided to cancel all its departing flights after most security staff joined a nationwide strike across Belgium for better wages.

In a post on its Twitter account on Monday, the airport informed its passengers that all departing flights will be scrapped for the day, urging them not to come to the airport.

Apart from a few connecting flights, a total of 232 flights were canceled.

Incoming commercial flights are also affected, with one in four flights operating. All freight traffic is maintained.

Comment: Over in the UK Transport unions are threatening to strike in what could be the largest in 30 years, and, elsewhere on the planet protests have turned into riots and state of emergencies are being declared as the consequences of the nearly two year long lockdowns and the West's proxy war on Russia begin to bite:

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Ukraine bans pro-Russian party of Putin friend Medvedchuk


RFE/RL
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Medvedchuk/Putin
© Kremlin/TASSVictor Medvedchuk • Russian President Vladimir Putin
A court in Kyiv has banned the pro-Russian Opposition Platform -- For Life (OPZZh) political party led by jailed Kremlin-friendly politician Viktor Medvedchuk.

The Justice Ministry issued a statement after the Administrative Court of Appeals No. 8 handed down the decision on June 20, saying that the party's property and assets will be confiscated by the State Treasury.

Medvedchuk was captured by Ukrainian law enforcement in April after he violated house-arrest restrictions and tried to flee to Russia.

The leader of the OPZZh, which advocated close ties with Russia, was arrested last year on charges of treason and terrorism financing. The 67-year-old Medvedchuk denies the charges and calls them politically motivated.

Medvedchuk, who has vacationed with Putin and even made him the godfather of his child, is one of Ukraine's wealthiest individuals, with a fortune estimated at around $620 million by Forbes, including energy assets in Russia.

Ukraine placed sanctions on Medvedchuk in February 2021, freezing his assets, and took off the air three television stations it said belonged to him for promoting Russian propaganda.
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Arrow Up

Texas GOP approves measure declaring Biden 'was not legitimately elected'

Zach Schonfeld
The Hill
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:02 UTC
Biden
© Adam Schultz/Biden for PresidentThen candidate for President, Joe Biden
The Texas Republican Party adopted a new platform declaring that the 2020 election violated the Constitution and President Biden "was not legitimately elected."

The Texas GOP adopted the 40-page platform at its biennial convention in Houston, which concluded this weekend. The platform reads:
"We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States."
James Wesolek, the Texas GOP's communications director, told The Hill that the resolution passed by voice vote.

The platform claims that "substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas" affected results in five states, swinging the election in Biden's favor.

The party also claimed various secretaries of state, who serve as the top elections official in many states, "illegally circumvented" state legislatures, committing constitutional violations. The platform states:
"We strongly urge all Republicans to work to ensure election integrity and to show up to vote in November of 2022, bring your friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans and overwhelm any possible fraud."
There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, and a coalition of leading federal and state election officials said the contest was the "most secure" election in American history.

Comment: 'No evidence' is in the closed eye of the beholder.

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Cancel culture is beneficial 'for social and racial justice'

Craig Simpson
The Telegraph
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 08:55 UTC
head and X
© Getty Images/KJNList of things teachers are forbidden to say keeps getting longer...
Academics at almost 100 UK universities taking an anti-racism course have been urged to share 'collective expressions of moral outrage'

Cancel culture has "benefits", academics at almost 100 UK universities have been told as part of an anti-racism course.

The Open University has devised a training programme titled Union Black, backed by £500,000 of Santander investment, which offers teaching staff lessons including "white people have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism".

Academics taking the course are urged to become "active allies" in advancing racial justice, course materials reveal, and taught about the advantages of "cancelling" people and institutions.
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Uvalde hires private law firm to argue it doesn't have to release school shooting public records

Jason Koebler
Vice
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:31 UTC
Robb school
© Allison Dinner/AFP/Getty ImagesRobb Elementary School
Some of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be "highly embarrassing," involve "emotional/mental distress," and are "not of legitimate concern to the public," the lawyers argued.

The City of Uvalde and its police department are working with a private law firm to prevent the release of nearly any record related to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 19 children and two teachers died, according to a letter obtained by Motherboard in response to a series of public information requests we made. The public records Uvalde is trying to suppress include body camera footage, photos, 911 calls, emails, text messages, criminal records, and more.

"The City has not voluntarily released any information to a member of the public," the city's lawyer, Cynthia Trevino, who works for the private law firm Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech, wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The city wrote the letter asking Paxton for a determination about what information it is required to release to the public, which is standard practice in Texas. Paxton's office will eventually rule which of the city's arguments have merit and will determine which, if any, public records it is required to release.
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US forces capture senior ISIS leader during operation in Syria

Patrick Reilly
New York Post
Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:03 UTC
soldiers Syria
© Getty ImagesOperation Inherent Resolve
US forces captured a senior ISIS leader who is known as a bomb maker during an operation in Syria on Thursday.

Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led coalition against The Islamic State, said no civilians were harmed in the operation and there were no damages incurred to coalition aircraft or assets.

"The mission was meticulously planned to minimize the risk of collateral damage, particularly any potential harm to civilians," the coalition said in a statement.

The identity of the ISIS leader, described as "one of the group's top leaders in Syria," has not been released. Additional details on the operation were not immediately available.

"Coalition forces will continue to hunt the remnants of Daesh wherever they hide to ensure their enduring defeat," Operation Inherent Resolve said.

Comment: "Release and Catch"

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Elite scientists urge Africans to eat baked goods made of insects

John Hayward
Breitbart
Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
bug meals
© Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
A group of scientists called the Malabo Montpellier Panel published a report in May that encouraged Africa to develop a "sustainable bio-economy" through such innovative techniques as making muffins and meatloaf out of flies.

The report, titled Nature's Solutions: Policy Innovations & Opportunities for Africa's Bioeconomy, is the latest installment in the bizarrely persistent environmentalist craze to make people eat bugs. Waves of mainstream media articles about the value of insects as a "sustainable" source of protein appear every year, usually laced with complaints about the volume of greenhouse gas emitted by the livestock industry and from the posteriors of the livestock themselves.

For example, the New York Times extolled "The Joy of Cooking (Insects)" in February 2022. Time magazine explained "How Humans Eating Insects Could Help Save the Planet" exactly one year previously.

The Malabo Montpellier Panel argued in May that "rising costs of food, fuel, and fertilizer, as well as the longer-term impacts of [Chinese coronavirus] and climate change" make Africa the perfect laboratory for creating a new type of continent-wide "bio-economy" that would putatively feed its exploding population and create millions of jobs.
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Toronto man charged after woman allegedly set on fire on city bus


The Toronto Star
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:01 UTC
toronto bus terminal
Toronto police say a 33-year-old man has been charged after allegedly setting a woman on fire on a city bus on Friday in what is now being investigated as a suspected hate crime.

Investigators say they were called to the area of Kipling Avenue and Dundas Street West shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Friday for reports of an assault.

They allege a man poured a liquid substance on a woman while on board the same bus as her and then lit the liquid on fire.

Comment: More from CP24:
The woman, believed to be in her 20s, was helped by TTC employees and citizens nearby. She suffered second and third-degree burns and was rushed to the hospital, where she remains in critical condition.
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On Sunday, police identified the man as 33-year-old Tenzin Norbu of Toronto. He is facing four charges, including attempted murder and assault with a weapon.
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Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Const. Alex Li said the man and the woman were unknown to each other. Police have said the attack was an isolated incident, and there is no threat to the public.

"The issue with (a) random (incident) is that we have to then trace what the relationship or how this came to be, what the motive was," Li said. "So in this instance, (it) being random (is an) obvious cause of concern."

He commended the "quick act of the good Samaritans" to help the woman.

"The message again to the community is when you see something suspicious, or you notice something that is not right, notify authorities immediately. Be cognizant of your surroundings," Li said.

Norbu is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.


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