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Divisive martyrs: Chicago's latest excuse for mass looting is another dubious case that undermines BLM's credibility

Tony Cox
RT
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:19 UTC
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© REUTERS/Kamil KrzaczynskiWorkers clean up a looted shop in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. August 10, 2020.
We don't even know his name yet, but a 20-year-old man who had already wracked up four arrests on his record was shot and wounded by Chicago police after shooting at them and running. In so doing, he inspired a movement.

That movement took the form of a "very orchestrated" caravan of cars overnight Sunday-Monday that rushed aggrieved parties about 10 miles from Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, where the shootout with police took place, to the Magnificent Mile downtown shopping district. Once there, folks expressed their outrage over systemic racism by helping themselves to whatever they could carry off from some of Chicago's poshest stores - from Nordstrom to Gucci to Louis Vuitton to a Tesla dealership.

It didn't matter that police were called Sunday afternoon to investigate reports of a man carrying a gun and confronted a person who matched the suspect's description. It didn't matter that the man responded by shooting at police and fleeing on foot. It didn't matter that Chicago is suffering an epidemic of gun violence in which young black people are killing dozens of other black people just about every month.

Comment: The appalling situation in Chicago is on its feckless mayor, Lori Lightfoot: But what can one expect when Lightfoot thinks this is a smart policy move:

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How to fight the enemies of academic freedom

Sergiu Klainerman
Quillette
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty ImagesParticipant holding a sign at a City University of New York (CUNY) protest, 2020/06/27.
According to a 2019 Cato Institute study, 75 percent of immigrants who are American citizens are very proud to be American compared to only 69 percent of native-born Americans. Based on my own experience, I expect the discrepancy to be much greater if you compare the sentiments of all immigrants to those of American-born elites, especially the young.

I escaped communist Romania in 1975 and came to the US to pursue my dream — attracted to the United States, as millions of other immigrants have been, by its reputation as a country that values freedom and rewards hard work and talent. I came with nothing but a strong desire to become a research mathematician, yet have been able to succeed far beyond my expectations. This is the result partly of my own efforts and whatever talent I may have, but a larger part of the credit is due to the sheer good fortune of being able to pursue my career in the US within an academic system which has been, at least until today, the freest, most competitive, and fairest in the world. By "fair" I mean the remarkable ability of this system to reward talent and hard work, with absolutely no regard for ethnicity, religion, race, sex, age, or any other considerations.

Comment: Well said.

See also:

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'Crime minister': Thousands protest against Netanyahu over COVID-19 and corruption


Middle East Monitor
Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:17 UTC
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© Ruptly
Thousands of Israelis rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on Saturday as anger mounted over corruption allegations and his handling of the coronavirus crisis, Reuters reports.

"Your time is up", read the giant letters projected on to a building at the protest site, as demonstrators waved Israeli flags and called on Netanyahu to resign over what they say is his failure to protect jobs and businesses affected by the pandemic.

The protest movement has intensified in recent weeks, with critics accusing Netanyahu of being distracted by a corruption case against him. He denies wrongdoing.

Comment: RT reports:
The authorities said that 5,000 people took part in the protest, while Channel 13 reported up to 15,000 in the Saturday night rally that took place in Jerusalem for the fifth consecutive week.

Holding signs with slogans like "Your time is up" and "Crime Minister," protesters demanded Netanyahu resign over corruption charges and alleged mishandling of the coronavirus crisis.


The protest ended without major incidents, amid a heavy police presence deployed to prevent any unrest, as well as to ensure the demonstrators "follow the Health Ministry's instructions," according to Sputnik.


Meanwhile, Netanyahu once again blasted Israeli media, and Channel 13 in particular, for its 'one-sided' coverage of the protests. The violence on the part of the demonstrators is completely ignored, he said, as well as the daily "death threats" against his family - all while he is "fighting to restore the economy and provide financial aid to Israeli citizens."


Netanyahu was charged with bribery, fraud and breach of public trust in several cases last November.
A clip from RT's Ruptly video agency shows scuffles between activists and police officers on Sunday as they attempt to disrupt a sit-in at the Israeli PM's official residence in central Jerusalem, that has been become the focus of frequent anti-government demonstrations.



After midnight police demanded demonstrators to disperse, then started to remove those who refused to leave by force. According to The Times of Israel, at least three people were detained for "disturbing public order and attacking officers." The paper citing a police spokesperson reported that a Haaretz photographer was also briefly held for allegedly "attacking" an officer.



Thousands took to the streets on Saturday in a massive anti-government protest. Demonstrations have been taking place across the country for the past several weeks - the largest protests since 2011.


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Pistol

Salt Lake City police release footage of shooting of hostage taker


Toronto Sun
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:40 UTC
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© Salt Lake City Police Department / Toronto SunA screen grab from video released by the Salt Lake City Police Department.
The Salt Lake City Police Department has released jarring body camera footage from an officer-involved shooting that killed Andrew Jacob Preece on July 25.

Officers responded to a call about a fight with a knife and found Preece with another man.

When officers closed in on Preece, he grabbed the other male and put the knife to his neck.

Comment: Here's the footage of the shooting:



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Fire

1 dead, 6 rescued after gas explosion levels Baltimore homes

Julio Cortez and Nathan Ellgren
Boston Herald
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:50 UTC
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© WJLA-TV via APThis photo provided by WJLA-TV shows the scene of an explosion in Baltimore on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Baltimore firefighters say an explosion has leveled several homes in the city.
A natural gas explosion destroyed three row houses in Baltimore on Monday morning, killing a woman and trapping other people in the debris. At least six people were seriously injured, and firefighters were searching for more survivors.

Dozens of firefighters converged on the piles of rubble. A fourth house in the row was ripped open, and windows were shattered in nearby homes, leaving the northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Reisterstown Station strewn with glass and other rubble.

"It's a disaster. It's a mess. It's unbelievable," said Diane Glover, who lives across the street. Her windows where shattered and her front door was blown open. "I'm still shaken up," she said hours later.

Seven people were hospitalized, while a woman was pronounced dead at the scene, the department said on its Twitter page. Rescuers were painstakingly going through the rubble by hand, prepared to work into the night.

Comment: See also:

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Vader

The British public has been terrorised

Tim Black
Spiked
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 06:08 UTC
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© Getty
Polls and surveys over the past couple of weeks reveal the same troubling reality: British people have been terrorised. Not by the actual threat of Covid-19, but by what they perceive to be the threat of Covid-19.

Ipsos Mori, for instance, reported that 68 per cent of Brits were 'very concerned' about the threat coronavirus poses to their health, compared to 28 per cent who were just 'fairly concerned'. Perhaps more disturbingly, a separate survey found that, on average, the British public believes seven per cent of the UK population has died from coronavirus, which would amount to a death toll of nearly five million — as opposed to the real figure of 50,000-plus. It also found that Brits were the most fearful out of other surveyed nations about the threat of a second wave of infections, with 76 per cent 'expecting one in the next year or so'.

There may be lies, damned lies and polls, but these figures tally with the national experience over the past couple of months, from parents' fear of sending children back to school, to the curiously enthusiastic embrace of now mandatory face masks, to the increasingly deserted high streets in towns across the country.
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Attention

States have authority to fine or jail people who refuse coronavirus vaccine, attorney says

Derek Staahl
ABC15
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:51 UTC
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As drugmakers race to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, several legal questions are emerging: could the government require people to get it? Could people who refuse to roll up their sleeves get banned from stores or lose their jobs?

The short answer is yes, according to Dov Fox, a law professor and the director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego.

"States can compel vaccinations in more or less intrusive ways," he said in an interview. "They can limit access to schools or services or jobs if people don't get vaccinated. They could force them to pay a fine or even lock them up in jail."

Fox noted authorities in the United States have never attempted to jail people for refusing to vaccinate, but other countries like France have adopted the aggressive tactic.

The legal precedent dates back to 1905. In a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the court ruled Massachusetts had the authority to fine people who refused vaccinations for smallpox.

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YouTube shuts down a Russian "Fox"

Rhys Jones
OffGuardian
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 05:37 UTC
Tsargrad TV Konstantin Malofeev
It has been worrying to read about Off-Guardian's recent difficulties with it's Facebook news feed, where posts have been blocked and denied propagation. Another very similar situation has been brought to my attention that reinforces the view that the US deep state is behind the steering wheel at Google, Facebook, YouTube and likely every other western social media platform as well.

Tsargrad TV is a Russian channel owned by Konstantin Malofeev, one of Putin's biggest supporters amongst Russia's wealthiest entrepreneurs. A renowned Fox News producer Jack Hanick shared Fox's production prowess with Tsargrad and the channel quickly became something of an Internet phenomenon, as has AJ+, Al Jazeera's YouTube channel.

Like AJ+ it was following a YouTube-centric (rather than a conventional TV) model. Besides becoming known for the best production values amongst Russian broadcasters, it unashamedly supports Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and the Donetsk People's Republic.

The Google subsidiary blocked Tsargrad's YouTube account on July 28th over "a violation of the law on sanctions and trade rules". The channel's owner, Konstantin Malofeev, was under EU sanctions for his alleged involvement in the civil war in Donbass (on the pro-Russian side that is supported by the overwhelming majority of the people of Donbass).

Comment: See also: Orthodox TV hits the airwaves, Russian style

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Family

Most US voters don't think Biden will be able to finish his full four-year term if elected president - poll


RT
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 03:21 UTC
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© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Most US voters, including nearly half of Democrats, don't expect Joe Biden to serve his full four-year term if elected president in November, saying his vice president will have to take the helm at some point, a new poll reveals.

Fifty-nine percent of all likely voters and, somewhat surprisingly, 49 percent of Democrats, say the 77-year-old Biden probably isn't up to running the country for four years, according to the Rasmussen Reports poll released on Monday.


Comment: If there's any Democratic voter that feels that way, they should absolutely not vote for him.


Less surprising, 73 percent percent of Republicans and 57 percent of independents agreed that it's likely Biden's running mate would become president sometime during his term.
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NPC

White NYT reporter tells black people they didn't vote for Hillary in sufficient numbers because Russia duped them


RT
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
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© Reuters / Brian Snyder
It only took almost four years, but New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth has finally gotten to the bottom of why black Americans didn't get excited about Hillary Clinton's 2016 candidacy for president: Russian trolls.

"We don't talk about this enough, and it has been lost in the 2016 election hot takes," Perlroth said Sunday on Twitter. "While 2016 saw record turnout, it also saw record decline in black voter turnout - the biggest decline in 20 years. Blacks were the number one demographic Russian trolls targeted on social media."

So, it wasn't that some black voters possibly genuinely disliked Clinton or disagreed with her policies. There can only be one explanation for the decision of many to stay home, and it's the same answer that Clinton herself and other Democrats often turn to when explaining undesirable outcomes that might otherwise be attributed to their own shortcomings: It's Russia, obviously.
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