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Slay, queen? Pride signs in New York subway suggest death threats to the transphobic


RT
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:53 UTC
Pride
© Twitter / @PrideTrainNYCA screenshot shows the 'Pride Train' posters on display in New York
Rainbow-colored signs in New York's subway stations remind riders to drop the "bigotry, hatred, or prejudice" against LGBT people, but the signs close with a chilling message that looks like a barely veiled death threat.

Along with nearly every other corporation and government body in the US, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has plastered itself in rainbow graphics and started spouting pro-LGBT affirmations for Pride Month, which runs until the end of June.

"No bigotry, hatred, or prejudice allowed at this station at any time," mock service information posters read, reminding the intolerant that "your BS stops here."

Comment: See also: Liberal Fascism: Why Fascism Has Always Been a Leftist Movement, And How to Recognize Its Flavor

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US: 3 mass shootings in 1 weekend leaves 2 dead & 30 wounded

Stephanie Pagones
Fox News
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:45 UTC
Police US
© Austin Police Department via APThis photo provided by Austin Police Department shows Chief Chacon providing an update on overnight shootings in Austin, Texas, early Saturday, June 12, 2021. Chacon says gunfire erupted in a busy entertainment district downtown early Saturday injuring several.
Two people were killed and at least 30 more were wounded in separate weekend mass shootings reported in three states, stirring already brewing fears that a spike in gun violence could continue into summer.

The cities of Savannah, Georgia, Chicago and Austin, Texas are the latest to fall victim to mass shootings late Friday and early Saturday, police have said.

The attacks come amid an easing of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in much of the country, including Chicago, which lifted many of its remaining safeguards on Friday. Many hoped that a spike in U.S. shootings and homicides last year was an aberration perhaps caused by pandemic-related stress amid a rise in gun ownership and debate over policing. But those rates are still higher than they were in pre-pandemic times, including in cities that refused to slash police spending following the death of George Floyd and those that made cuts.

Comment: There are a number of triggers to consider, but it's notable that a similar surge in violence occurred in the UK in recent weeks. Some psychologists warned before even the first lockdown began - well over a year ago - that, following harsh restrictions, a rise protests and riots can be expected. And we saw just that last summer when lockdowns were briefly lifted and BLM riots erupted across the West: History and psychology predict protests and riots after lockdowns

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Journey Into Darkness: Inside the Criminal Mind

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Liberal newspaper won't print description of black male suspect in mass shooting because it 'could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes'

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:24 UTC
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The Austin American-Statesman, a liberal-leaning news outlet in Texas, published an article on the mass shooting that happened early Saturday morning, but refused to print the police's description of the at-large black male suspect.

At least 14 victims were left injured. One suspect, described by local law enforcement as a slim black male with dreadlocks, escaped the scene.

"The Austin American-Statesman is not including the [police's] description as it is too vague at this time to be useful in identifying the shooter and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes," the editor's note reads at the bottom of the article, adding that reporting will be updated if more detailed information is released to the public and the press.

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Judge pauses discriminatory loan forgiveness program for farmers of color


AP
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:21 UTC
farm fields harvest
A federal judge has halted a loan forgiveness program for farmers of color in response to a lawsuit alleging the program discriminates against white farmers.

U.S. District Judge William Griesbach in Milwaukee issued a temporary restraining order Thursday suspending the program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

The program pays up to 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American or Pacific Islander farmers. President Joe Biden's administration created the loan forgiveness program as part of its COVID-19 pandemic relief plan.

Emily Newton, the lead attorney representing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the lawsuit, didn't immediately respond to an email Friday seeking comment on the restraining order.

Minority farmers have maintained for decades that they have been unfairly denied farm loans and other government assistance. Federal agriculture officials in 1999 and 2010 settled lawsuits from Black farmers accusing the agency of discriminating against them.

Conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed suit in April arguing white farmers aren't eligible, amounting to a violation of their constitutional rights. The firm sued on behalf of 12 farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Oregon and Kentucky.
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Letters from a D.C. jail

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Trump Rally DC
© Getty ImagesTrump Rally January 6, 2021
The rule of law for anyone involved in the events of January 6 has been flipped on its head by the U.S. justice system; defendants are presumed guilty before proven innocent.

This week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office's handling of January 6 protesters. The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees.

Joe Biden's Justice Department routinely requests — and partisan Beltway federal judges routinely approve — pre-trial detention for Americans arrested for their involvement in the January 6 protest. This includes everyone from an 18-year-old high school senior from Georgia to a 70-year-old Virginia farmer with no criminal record.

Comment: Inhumane leverage and unwarranted criminal punishment keeps the lie alive. To not do so would risk the whole Democratic narrative. They want convictions and torture is their chosen means.

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Texas, Arizona govs calling for states to send police to the border to help deal with border crisis

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Abbott/Ducey
© Flickr/World Travel & Tourism Council/Gage Skidmore/CCBY-SA 2.0Texas Governor Greg Abbott • Arizona Governor Doug Ducey
The governors of Texas and Arizona are calling on their counterparts in other states to send law enforcement to help stem the crisis at the southern border that has overwhelmed officials and border states. Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona wrote in a letter to their fellow governors this week:
"On behalf of Texas and Arizona, we respectfully but urgently request that you send all available law-enforcement resources to the border in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity."
Both the federal government and border states have been dealing with a surge in migration to the border, with more than 180,000 migrants encountered in May alone -- including more than 10,000 unaccompanied children.

Texas and Arizona have seen a number of facilities built, opened or refashioned to house the migrants coming across the border -- including the use of hotels by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Officials have complained that migrants are often let loose into communities and able to travel to wherever they want.


Comment: We are as yet to see America's top leadership tour the border conditions they reset in motion. Without accountability and regulation, the crisis multiplies. Like Abbott and Ducey, more governors will need to align behind a united course of action to maintain stability and governorship of their states. They can't count on Washington and neither can the people.


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Tens of thousands gather in Madrid to protest plans to pardon jailed Catalan independence leaders


RT
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:42 UTC
Madrid protest
© Reuters / Javier BarbanchoPeople demonstrate at Colon Square in Madrid, Spain on June 13, 2021.
A huge crowd of protesters has assembled in Madrid, decrying government plans to pardon jailed Catalan leaders behind the failed 2017 independence bid, and demanding the resignation of the country's PM over the move.

Some 25,000 people gathered in central Madrid on Sunday, according to estimates by Spain's National Police. Local law enforcement estimated a higher figure, however, stating that at least some 126,000 demonstrators had shown up for the rally.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Kurdistan and Catalonia: The Politics of Self-Determination

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Barred big-name candidate publicly challenges Iran's election vetters


RFE/RL
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:25 UTC
Ali Larijani
© Anwar Amro/AFP.Disqualified candidate Ali Larijani
The influential political scion and former speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, has demanded an explanation from the country's vetters as to why he was excluded from running in next week's Iranian presidential election.

Larijani's query toward the hard-line Guardians Council follows that body's disqualification of hundreds of would-be candidates in a familiar feature of Iranian elections that left just seven contenders to succeed incumbent Hassan Rohani.

There are no prominent critics of the senior leadership or Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who holds ultimate power in Iran's clerically dominated system, among them.

Larijani tweeted:
"Dear Guardians Council, please, between yourself and God, in view of proving the falsity of the reports given to that council regarding me and my family, state all the reasons for my disqualification formally and publicly,"
With just seven days to go before the June 18 vote, it is unclear what the intended effect of Larijani's public challenge could be.

Comment: See also: Iran approves hardliner for presidential polls, bars several hopefuls

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Journalist Christopher Sign, who broke the 2016 secret Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting found dead, officials investigating as a suicide


The Daily Mail
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:51 UTC
Christopher Sign clinton lynch tarmac suicide
© FacebookChristopher Sign, who broke the 2016 story about Bill Clinton's tarmac meeting with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, has died of an apparent suicide, according to authorities in Alabama.
The 45-year-old television news man who was the first to report of a secret meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch that was held on her private jet in 2016 has died of an apparent suicide.

Police in Hoover, Alabama, said they received a 911 call at 8:13am on Saturday of a person down at a home on Scout Trace.

First responders arrived at the home and found the body of Christopher Sign, a former University of Alabama football player and veteran broadcast journalist with Birmingham's ABC TV affiliate WBMA-LD. News of Sign's death, which is being investigated by police as a suicide, was reported by AL.com.

Comment: From Alabama.com's original report of Mr. Sign's death:
Sign, who grew up near Dallas, previously worked as a reporter for ABC 33/40 from 2000 to 2005, where he covered the 2001 Brookwood mine disaster and hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Ivan.

While a reporter and morning anchor at ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Sign broke the story of the June 2016 secret tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Sign wrote a book about his experience called Secret on the Tarmac.

Sign also won a 2014 Emmy Award for breaking news for his coverage of the shooting of two Phoenix police officers, as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award for spot news, for his coverage of the search for the "Baseline Killer" and "Serial Shooter" who terrorized Phoenix in the summer of 2016.

Sign attended the University of Alabama in the 1990s and spent four years as an offensive lineman for the Crimson Tide under former coach Gene Stallings.

While at Alabama, he met his wife, Laura, an All-SEC volleyball player. The couple has three sons.
For posterity, the original report filed June 29, 2016 with Arizona's ABC15 by Christopher Sign:
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meet privately in Phoenix before Benghazi report
Christopher Sign

Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton.

The private meeting took place on the west side of Sky Harbor International Airport on board a parked private plane.

Former President Clinton was visiting the Phoenix area and arrived to Sky Harbor Monday evening to depart.

Sources tell ABC15 Clinton was notified Lynch would be arriving at the airport soon and waited for her arrival.

Lynch was arriving in Phoenix for a planned visit as part of her national tour to promote community policing.

ABC15 asked Lynch about the meeting during her news conference at the Phoenix Police Department.

"I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as he was leaving and spoke to myself and my husband on the plane," said Lynch.

The private meeting comes as Lynch's office is in charge of the ongoing investigation and potential charges involving Clinton's email server.

The private meeting also occurred hours before the Benghazi report was released publicly involving Hillary Clinton and President Obama's administration.

Lynch said the private meeting on the tarmac did not involve these topics.

"Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix," said Lynch Tuesday afternoon while speaking at the Phoenix Police Department.

Sources say the private meeting at the airport lasted around 30 minutes.

"There was no discussion on any matter pending before the Department or any matter pending with any other body, there was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of State Department emails, by way of example I would say it was current news of the day, the Brexit decision and what it would mean," she said.

Sources tell ABC15 former President Clinton did not play golf during his most recent visit in Phoenix.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told reporters the two discussed him playing golf in Phoenix, but it's not clear if the golf reference was aimed at the most recent visit or a previous stop in Phoenix.

Also, ABC15 has confirmed former President Clinton arrived in Phoenix Monday and was hosted by prominent real-estate developer Jim Pederson.

Pederson is the former chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party and once ran for U.S. Senate against Jon Kyl.

ABC15 has been told Clinton was in the Valley for an intimate meeting with a small group of community leaders.

Calls and emails from ABC15 to Pederson have not been returned.
Though five years on, should Christopher Sign death be added to the purported Clinton Bodycount? Some seem to think so, as many of the investigations into the 2016 elections are winding up to present conclusions, and possibly issue charges.





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Cancel everything! Snowflake NJ school district removes all holiday names from academic calendar, 'no hurt feelings at being left out'

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:39 UTC
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© Getty ImagesColumbus Day won’t be on the academic calendar in Randolph, NJ this year.
Have a Merry "day off" and a Happy "day off"!

That's the message from the school board of Randolph Township in Morris County, New Jersey, which unanimously voted Thursday to remove holiday names from their academic calendar following an uproar over renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day, according to reports.

Now holidays like Thanksgiving and Memorial Day, as well as Jewish holy days like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, will simply be listed as "day off."

"If we don't have anything on the calendar, we don't have to have anyone [with] hurt feelings or anything like that," board member Dorene Roche told Fox 5.
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