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Zimbabwe probes deaths of 12 elephants near Hwange park

Tony Karumba
Yahoo
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:49 UTC
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Zimbabwean wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of 12 elephants last week in a forest north of the country's famed Hwange National Park, an official said Sunday.

Eleven carcasses were discovered on Friday and another on Saturday in the Pandamasuwe forest tucked between Hwange and Victoria Falls town.

"We have ruled out things like poaching because the tusks are intact, we have also ruled out cyanide poisoning because no other animal has been affected including vultures which are feeding on them," parks and wildlife spokesman Tinashe Farawo told AFP.
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Attempted rape on NYC subway platform thwarted, caught on disturbing video

Tina Moore and Jackie Salo
NY Post
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:20 UTC
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The alleged rapist
A creep pushed a 25-year-old woman on an Upper East Side subway platform to the floor and then attempted to rape her in a brazen daytime attack, cops said.

The woman was waiting on the platform for the F train around 11 a.m. Saturday inside the Lexington Avenue and East 63 Street train station when the man approached her, police said.

Video taken by a witness showed the man on top of the woman before a crowd of bystanders intervened.

"Hey, get off her!" the group was yelling at the attacker, cops said.
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Roses

Tipping Point? Man shot-dead in Portland for backing Trump

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Portland victim
After 4 years of the most vicious, hyperbolic and incendiary character assassination campaign in the nation's history, the media finally claimed its first fatality in a shootout in Portland on Saturday night. The victim - whose name has not yet been disclosed - was shot by an (allegedly) Antifa member who saw the man's hat as sufficient provocation to gun him down in cold blood. This is the first incident in which the hysteria generated by the media and its accomplices in Democrat party can be directly linked to a political assassination justified on the basis that the victim espoused political beliefs different than those of the perpetrator. Simply put, he was killed because he was identified as a Trump supporter and, thus, "fair game".


Comment: More facts about the murder have since come to light:

The media has fanned the flames of political hatred and retribution from the very beginning; from advising the public to reject the results of the 2016 elections to openly challenging Trump's legitimate right to govern the country. They have fueled the animosity towards Trump by denouncing him as a fascist, a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist and a Russian agent. The media has employed all of its prodigious powers of persuasion to relentlessly demonize Trump, and they are responsible for the highly-charged and toxic atmosphere in which a tragedy - like Saturday's shooting - became unavoidable. They cleared the path for a confrontation in which a self-righteous perpetrator felt entirely - justified in killing an unarmed man whose only crime was that he openly supported the president of the United States. There is no way to overstate the media's culpability in this shocking incident.
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After Kenosha - Divided we stand

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Kenosha riots
It would always come to this. At some point there would be a reckoning for BLM and Antifa.

The shootings in Kenosha, WI are a dividing line for America.

This is the moment where normal people finally said, "Enough. There will be consequences. "

This is a war between radicalized lunatics bathed in unquenchable envy and self-pity and those who refuse to act like victims.

But they are victims.

All of us are. On both sides of the divide.

We are victims of a vicious program to divide and conquer the U.S. through a culture war designed to dehumanize each other.

Comment: See also: Rittenhouse incident is being used by Democrats to INCREASE police powers (once they take power)

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Light Saber

Australian businesses to sue government for losses over "arbitrary" lockdown

Patrick Durkin
Australian Financial Review
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:05 UTC
Daniel Andrews
© AAP/James Ross.Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
The Andrews Labor government is facing a multibillion-dollar COVID-19 bill from businesses shut down during the stage four lockdown for failures in hotel quarantine, in a landmark class action that names Health Minister Jenny Mikakos, Jobs Minister Martin Pakula and their department secretaries.

The man who successfully sued the Queensland government for as much as $1 billion following the 2011 floods is launching one of the country's largest claims, expected to be worth billions of dollars and potentially crippling to Victoria, after Premier Daniel Andrews went it alone this year to pass laws that support the class action industry.

Mr Andrews' latest woes comes as federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg labelled the Premier's handling of the pandemic as a "slow car crash" and a "massive drag on the national economy", as the state recorded 114 new cases and 11 deaths.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - The Ultimate Insanity of the Covid Lockdown - Interview with Sott.net Editor Joe Quinn

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Taxes on 'non-essential' foods won't prevent obesity - but they will hurt poorer people

Rob Lyons
RT
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:13 UTC
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After the UK government published its new obesity strategy, a leading think tank has suggested drastic measures to reduce childhood obesity. Such 'nanny state' nonsense only hits personal freedom and the pockets of the poor.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a left-leaning think tank that has a track record of supporting state intervention in our lives. Moreover, the IPPR's new report, The Whole Society Approach: Making A Giant Leap On Childhood Health, has been bankrolled by three charities - Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation - that have also been keen supporters of the government micromanaging our lives and suppressing our 'bad habits.'

There's a formula to such reports. First, overstate the problem. Second, exaggerate the benefits of solving the problem. Third, claim that the proposed solution is much more effective than it really is, while ignoring the potential downsides.

Comment: Governments the world over should be looking to their deadly erroneous dietary guidelines before they start targeting those suffering because of them:

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4 South Koreans dead after crash with US armored vehicle, training suspended

Kim Gamel
Military.com
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:30 UTC
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© Pocheon Fire Station handout photoEmergency workers attend a collision involving a U.S. armored personnel carrier and a civilian SUV, which killed four South Koreans near the Rodriguez Live-Fire Complex in Pocheon, South Korea, on Aug. 30, 2020.
A crash involving a U.S. military vehicle killed four South Koreans, prompting U.S. Forces Korea to temporarily suspend training in the area, which is near the border with North Korea, officials said Monday.

An SUV carrying the four civilians rear-ended the armored personnel carrier -- a tracked vehicle -- at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday on a road near the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in the city of Pocheon, local police and fire officials said.

The four civilians were pronounced dead at the scene, a fire official said. The two soldiers in the military vehicle were not seriously injured. One was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation but was cleared and released back to his unit, according to the 2nd Infantry Division.

Comment: See also:

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Brick Wall

The MSM won't report what it's really like in Kenosha, Wisconsin, so I will

Evita Duffy
The Federalist
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:14 UTC
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Firefighters mop up after another night of rioting in Kenosha, WI
Kenosha, Wisconsin is situated in the southern part of the state, about an hour and a half from Chicago, and has a population of approximately 100,000. Republican Rep. Bryan Steil, who represents Kenosha in Wisconsin's First Congressional district, told The Federalist the city "is like a lot of cities in Wisconsin." Steil says Kenosha is "family-centered" and "hard-working."

Kenosha became a very different place after police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times. Subsequent video footage showed that Blake was armed with a knife and had been wrestling with officers, threw off a Taser, and was disregarding police commands to stop after they were called to address a domestic violence complaint.

Following the shooting that left Blake paralyzed, rioting erupted in the city. Although the first night was relatively peaceful, after the second night, things were "spiraling out of control," said Steil. Fire and looting consumed uptown and downtown Kenosha, and Steil said the city was no longer the "Kenosha we know."
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Piers Corbyn fined £10,000 for organizing anti-lockdown rally

Damien Gayle
The Guardian
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:05 UTC

Comment: This is his second arrest at a Freedom rally this summer. The British Establishment really has it in for the Corbyn family...


Piers Corbyn
© Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesPiers Corbyn addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square on Saturday.
Piers Corbyn has become one of the first people to receive a £10,000 fixed penalty under new coronavirus laws restricting public gatherings of more than 30 people.

The weather forecaster and climate change denier, who is the older brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was arrested and fined for his part in organising Saturday's demonstration in central London against lockdown restrictions.

He said he was arrested on the stage set up in Trafalgar Square at the end of the event, while protesters marched off down Whitehall.

The 73-year-old told the Guardian:
"After the rally had finished, I was saying goodbye to people ... I was just looking around thinking I had better go now, and then they [the police] just grabbed me from behind. I was not expecting it at all. They frogmarched me - they didn't handcuff me - and told me they were arresting me for contravening the coronavirus regulations for organising a gathering of more than 30 people."
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Progressive community leaders call for Portland mayor, police chief to resign following deadly shooting

Eder Campuzano
Oregon Live
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Ted Wheeler
© Dave Killen/The OregonianPortland mayor Ted Wheeler
A group of leaders representing various progressive organizations from across the Portland area have called for the resignations of Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police Chief Chuck Lovell in the wake of Saturday's fatal shooting.

Bobbin Singh, executive director of the Oregon Justice Resource Center, said the conditions leading up to the incident were predictable citing various instances of clashes between right-wing protesters and counter demonstrators over the years.
"These conditions have been created because there's been a lack of leadership, a lack of vision. We can no longer move forward with the current leadership that's in place in Portland."
The victim of Saturday's shooting has not been identified but was wearing a hat bearing the logo of Vancouver, Washington-based Patriot Prayer. Leader Joey Gibson told The Oregonian/OregonLive that although he couldn't provide a name, the deceased man was "a good friend and a supporter" of the organization.

Portland-based community groups have long said they feared confrontations would lead to serious injuries or worse.

Comment: Portland's mayor blamed Trump for the violence and the subsequent shooting with verbal and written condemnations:
Trump renewed his calls for the National Guard to enter the city to temper increasingly violent protests, which have gone on for nearly 100 days. Wheeler has denied the federal assistance and warned them to stay out.

"He has an opportunity to uplift us and bring us together and help us move through this difficult situation in our nation's history and instead he chooses to play petty politics and divide us," the mayor said.


"The only way you will stop the violence in the high crime Democrat run cities is through strength!" Trump added.


Many conservatives blasted Wheeler for his handling of protests in the city, where the county district attorney said he would not prosecute most of those apprehended amid the unrest.





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