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'Just like the Communists' - Pastor who kicked police out of church has choice words for lockdown tyrants

Jordan Lancaster
Daily Caller
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:08 UTC
Screenshot - Artur Pawlowski
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Pastor Artur Pawlowski, who went viral after kicking several officers out of his church, spoke to the Daily Caller about the months of harassment he says his church has experienced at the hands of police.

One Calgary police officer and officials from Alberta Health Services and City of Calgary Bylaw services interrupted a Passover service Saturday night at the Street Church in Alberta, Canada. They had entered the church building uninvited on its holiest, most anticipated day for parishioners, Pawlowski told the Caller.

Pawlowski claimed he had been harassed by authorities for 13 months. He has asked repeatedly that officials not enter the church building in their capacity as law enforcement, or harass and intimidate the parishioners.

"If they want to talk or inspect the building, they can call me and we can arrange that," the pastor explained. But instead of meeting with him, he said, "they preferred a method of storming."


Comment: This case has garnered such wide-spread attention we wouldn't be surprised if the Calgary police got a call from on high to have Pawlowski "made an example of". See also:

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Democratic Florida mayor slams 60 Minutes segment criticizing Gov. DeSantis

Kenneth Garger
The New York Post
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:02 UTC
Mayor David Kerner
© Palm Beach CountyPalm Beach County Mayor David Kerner, right, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, speak at a COVID-19 vaccine center.
A Democratic Florida mayor claimed Monday that a "60 Minutes" segment "intentionally" falsified a report that criticized Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' vaccine rollout.

The Sunday report suggested that DeSantis favored Publix grocery stores in Palm Beach County for COVID-19 vaccine distribution because the chain had donated to his PAC, Fox News reported.

The segment came under fire when it was revealed a clip of the governor's response to a question about the grocery chain's exclusive rights was heavily edited, according to Mediaite.

Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner was one of several state officials to come to the governor's defense on Monday.

Comment: The truth has come out about 60 MINUTES blatant attempt to besmirch DeSantis - who is one of a number of governors who refuses to bend his state to the whims of medical Tyranny. See also:

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Yellow Vest

'Activism, not journalism': CNBC called out for article pressuring corporations into taking position on Florida voting laws


RT
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:03 UTC
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CNBC is the latest network being accused of mistaking activism for journalism, thanks to a piece calling out and shaming corporations that have not issued statements on proposed 'restrictive voting bills' in Florida.

Disney, Geico, Expedia and others have "backed Florida lawmakers who are now sponsoring restrictive voting bills," CNBC journalist Brian Schwartz tweeted on Monday, adding that "since 2018 thousands of dollars have flowed from these corporations into the campaigns of Florida lawmakers sponsoring the bills." Schwartz followed up by pointing out that the named corporations and others have not issued public comments about where they stand on multiple voting proposals in Florida.

Similar to the recent controversial voting law enacted in Georgia, the Florida proposals would put new requirements on voting, such as needing a driver's license number or social security number to request a mail-in ballot, restricting who can drop off ballots, and adding heightened security to ballot drop boxes, among other things. Liberal lawmakers in the state have argued the proposals equate to voter suppression, while Republicans deny they would have such an effect.
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Whistle

Espionage Act banned me and now Daniel Hale from defending ourselves - Kiriakou on first whistleblower to be convicted under Biden


RT
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:50 UTC
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The Biden administration is set to see its first conviction over a leak proclaimed to be a violation of the Espionage Act. Daniel Hale faces the same unfair system as others before him, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou told RT.

Hale, 33, pleaded guilty last week to one count of violating the archaic US Espionage Act. He is facing up to 10 years in prison after sentencing, which is scheduled for July 13. His alleged crime was leaking classified documents on US drone warfare programs to a journalist, identified by the media as an Intercept reporter. His likely conviction would be the first of its kind under President Joe Biden - but one of many similar cases in the US.

Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst who likewise was prosecuted under the Espionage Act for exposing US torture of terror suspects under George W. Bush, says the 1917 law is inherently unfair to whistleblowers like Hale or himself. It prohibits them from explaining their motives for leaking during trial - which means they cannot argue a public-interest defense.
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NPC

'Don't be surprised if buildings burn': BLM activist warns 'all hell will break loose' if Chauvin acquitted of George Floyd murder


RT
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:42 UTC
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A prominent Black Lives Matter activist has said that "all hell is going to break loose" if former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin is acquitted of George Floyd's killing. Amid a wave of condemnation, she deleted her post.

"If George Floyd's murderer is not sentenced, just know that all hell is gonna break loose," model and activist Maya Echols said in a now-removed video. "Don't be surprised when buildings are on fire. Just sayin'."

Echols is a model represented by IMG Models Worldwide, and she regularly posts pro-BLM vlogs for her 484,000 followers on TikTok. Her latest post triggered a torrent of condemnation from conservatives online, with some accusing her of threatening "domestic terrorism."

Echols deleted her video sometime before Tuesday morning, without posting any further explanation.
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Iran prosecutor says 10 indicted for Ukraine plane shootdown

John Gambrell
Yahoo
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:35 UTC
ukraine plane crash iran
© AP Photo/Ebrahim NorooziDebris at the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran
Ten officials have been indicted in Iran over the 2020 military shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday, an announcement coming just as Tehran begins indirect negotiations with the West over its collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.

The timing of the announcement comes after Iran faced withering international criticism last month for releasing a final report into the shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines flight No. PS752 that blamed human error but named no one responsible for the incident.

Tehran military prosecutor Gholamabbas Torki similarly avoided naming those responsible when he announced the indictments Tuesday while handing over his office to Nasser Seraj. The semiofficial ISNA news agency and the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency both reported his remarks.

"The indictment of the case of the Ukrainian plane was also issued and a serious and accurate investigation was carried out and indictments were issued for 10 people who were at fault," Mizan quoted Torki as saying, without elaborating.

Comment: Previously:

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Two people injured after shooting in Frederick, Maryland, gunman killed

Kaelan Deese
Washington Examiner
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:14 UTC
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Two people suffered severe injuries near Army base Fort Detrick on Tuesday after a now-deceased Navy medic shot them, according to authorities.

"The U.S. Navy can confirm there was an active shooter incident at Fort Detrick, MD involving U.S. Navy Sailors," a spokesperson for the Navy Office of Information said in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said in a Tuesday afternoon press conference that the shooter was a 38-year-old Navy Hospital Corpsman, Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet. He added Woldesenbet was brandishing a rifle.

"We can confirm that [Woldesenbet] is an active member of the Navy at the rank of E-4," Lando added.
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Bad Guys

'What happened next?' CIA roasted after bragging about arming Afghan Mujahideen, aka the Taliban


RT
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:03 UTC
taliban
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The fact that the CIA armed the same Afghan militants who now kill US troops is not a conspiracy theory, and the agency was roasted after it took to Twitter to boast about its covert 1980s arms shipments to jihadists.

In a Twitter post on Tuesday, the CIA proudly displayed a shoulder-fired FIM-92 Stinger missile launcher. The launcher, the post read, "supplied by the United States gave Afghan guerrillas, generally known as the Mujahideen, the ability to destroy the dreaded Mi-24D helicopter gunships deployed by the Soviets to enforce their control over Afghanistan."

Operation Cyclone was one of the CIA's longest and most expensive covert operations, and saw the agency covertly funnel arms and money to Afghan Mujahideen fighters, who in the early 1980s were waging a guerilla campaign against invading Soviet forces. The program continued through the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as the US insisted the Mujahideen were "freedom fighters."
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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: France investigates secret restaurants for Paris elite

Angela Charlton
Associated Press
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 22:59 UTC
cafe
© AP Photo/Michel Spingler, FILE
Champagne, lobster and no masks: That's what a French TV documentary says is on the menu at one of multiple high-end "clandestine restaurants" catering to the Paris elite, in violation of nationwide pandemic restrictions.

What's even more shocking to the newly confined French public — and exhausted medical staff — is that one organizer claimed government ministers are among those who attend.

French authorities are investigating the accusations, and government members scrambled to insist they're behaving properly.

Anti-capitalist activists and critics of President Emmanuel Macron aren't convinced, and plan a protest Tuesday — advertised on social networks under the banner "Let's Eat the Rich" — at one of the alleged secret venues,
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Why postmodernism is incompatible with a politics of liberty

Michael Rectenwald
Mises.org
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 20:19 UTC
Intersectionality postmodern liberal leftist
Several months ago, I debated Thaddeus Russell on The Tom Woods Show. The proposition debated was "Postmodern philosophy is compatible with a politics of individual liberty." Thaddeus defended the proposition and I opposed it. Here, I want to flesh out some of the points I made in the debate, adding more context than I could marshal under the constraints of the format. For better or worse, this requires a somewhat deep dive into postmodern ideas.

Postmodernism, I argue, is incompatible with liberty, first because it sees the individual as a mere product, as constructed by language, social factors, and so on. As such, postmodernism effectively denies self-determination and individual agency. Second, the cultural obsession with social identity that is current today derives from the social constructivism of postmodern philosophy. Such social constructivism further denies individual agency. The very concept of truth, meanwhile, is denied in favor of subjective belief. For reasons discussed below, the denial of the concept of truth is anathema to liberty.

Thaddeus Russell takes postmodernism's "anything goes" epistemological subjectivism, skepticism, and idealism for epistemic "humility." That is, because postmodernism eschews or denies "truth" and suggests that there are merely different "narratives" that pass for truth, it allows for people to escape from the truth claims that others, like the state, would impose on them. Its rejection of metanarratives is liberational and Russell takes this as an invocation of freedom.
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