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Where are the protests? Firearms overtake fireworks as shootings over July 4th weekend leave scores dead in big US cities

Tony Cox
RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:04 UTC
ferguson fireworks
© REUTERS/Lawrence BryantFireworks explodes over a protestor with his hands up during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, May 30, 2020.
The Independence Day weekend turned deadly across the US as 77 people were shot in Chicago alone, continuing a spate of violence that has plagued largely black neighborhoods amid anti-racism protests focused on police brutality.

Between July 3 and July 5, 13 people were fatally shot in Chicago. The latest violence wasn't out of character in a city that earned the nickname "Chiraq" - likening the bloodshed to that in war-torn Iraq - and where around 80 percent of homicide victims each year are black, according to police data.

Father's Day weekend last month saw 104 shootings and 14 dead.

The city suffered its deadliest day in at least six decades on May 31, when 18 people were killed. Chicago had 1,384 shootings in the first six months of 2020, a 45 percent increase from the same point in 2019, according to police figures.

New York City, Atlanta, Milwaukee and other large US cities also registered a spike in violence in recent weeks. The Big Apple had 30 shootings, including 10 fatalities, on July 5 alone. NYPD responded to a 20-year high of 205 shooting incidents in June, compared with 89 a year earlier.

The carnage is taking place at the same time that activist group Black Lives Matter is leading anti-racism protests across the US, after 46-year-old black man George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.
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Red Pill

Plot twist! The coronavirus is NOT CHINESE, says famed British epidemiologist... but his reputation precedes him


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC
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© Global Look Press/Keystone Press Agency/Salvatore Laporta
One of the world's leading epidemiologists thinks the coronavirus may not actually have originated in China, with samples of Covid-19 surfacing from Spain in early 2019. The coronavirus story keeps getting stranger...

Dr Tom Jefferson is a British epidemiologist working for the Cochrane Collaboration's acute respiratory infections group. He also works at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University. In an interview with the Telegraph that is already sending shockwaves through the scientific community, he has promoted an alternative view of the coronavirus' origins. Jefferson believes that the virus lay dormant, possibly for years, before bursting into action late last year.

He points to a growing body of evidence involving traces of coronavirus turning up in sewage samples, from Europe to South America. The amazing thing about these samples is that they appear to pre-date the first instances of Covid-19 in Wuhan, the Chinese city of its purported origin.
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USA

Neither 'dark' nor 'divisive, Trump's Independence Day speech was American

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump
© C-SPANUS President Donald J. Trump, Fourth of July, 2020, Mount Rushmore
This cacophony comes from a sliver of society, with their voices amplified by a media selling an election year controversy to cripple President Trump.

Donald Trump did not launch the latest culture war: The left-leaning press, political foes, Marxist-believing activists, and corporate and educational institutions did. When President Trump stood before a patriotic crowd on Friday night, under the watchful eyes of our country's greatest presidents, his pronouncement that the silent majority will not retreat or surrender our founding principles was not divisive. It was American.

On the eve of Independence Day, our 45th president proclaimed the truths on which our country was founded. He reminded listeners that
"our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity" by enshrining the "divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: '...all men are created equal.'"
Then, to the horror of the leftists who seek to destroy this country, Trump continued:
"Our founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away - ever."
His 40-minute speech replayed this pivot many times. First came a celebratory truism overwhelmingly applauded by Americans. Then came Trump's juxtaposition of those values with the extremist left's latest beliefs and actions, which the president coupled with a resolute vow to defeat.

"Today, we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt," Trump began. The cheers followed. In another year and under another president, the entire nation would have rallied along.

Comment: See also: American Independence Day 2020: Trump delivers epic speech against totalitarianism at Mount Rushmore

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Heart - Black

Turley: Myth of the Boston Tea Party

Jonathan Turley
The Hill
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 10:00 UTC
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© fresnoalliance.com
As the country celebrates Independence Day, many Americans will view monuments that have been toppled, defaced, or entombed in protective fencing. Businesses across the nation have been vandalized or boarded up, creating a surreal landscape for many this holiday.

Most protesters did not engage in rioting or looting. Yet the only thing more maddening than random destruction is an increasingly common media rationalization that the rioters are the new Boston Tea Party patriots continuing a tradition of property damage as a form of political speech. These rioters have as much in common with the Boston Tea Party as the antifa movement has with the antifederalists.

The rationalization is not new. After violence in Ferguson in 2014, Yale University hired Black Lives Matter figure Deray Mckesson to lecture on "transformative leadership." His course included reading about looting as being a "righteous tactic." He defended property damage as a tradition dating to the Boston Tea Party. Many in the media have raised the analogy, including Don Lemon, who recently chastised anyone judging the rioting because "this is how this country started."

Even some academics have given these crimes the license of history or patriotism. Northwestern University professor Steven Thrasher wrote that "property destruction for social change is as American as the Boston Tea Party." These statements misrepresent history. Consider five conflicts.
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Pompeo: We're 'certainly looking' to ban TikTok, along with other Chinese social media apps


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:23 UTC
TicTok Pompeo
© Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Susan Walsh/KJNUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed Washington is considering a ban on Chinese social media apps, including the ultra-popular TikTok, apparently inspired by a similar ban in India and Australia's threat to do the same.

Speaking with Fox News, Pompeo affirmed "we're certainly looking at" banning TikTok and other Chinese apps, following the lead of India, which banned 59 Chinese apps after border skirmishes with Beijing, and Australia, which has threatened to do the same. Americans should download the apps "only if you want your information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party," he smirked.

Comment: Why should China have access to the same cache of private information on Americans that the US government and its conglomerate lackeys pilfer and covet? Geez!

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NPC

In the unforgiving world of woke, there's no room for personal development. One misstep decades ago and you're tarred for life


RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:25 UTC
protesters
© Getty Images / Ira L. Black / Corbis
Boeing's communications chief is the latest to lose his job after historical shaming over an article he wrote 33 years ago. Why can't the woke brigade accept that people can evolve and change their views over time?

Despite the urgent need to attend to the catastrophic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic pinballing around the aviation industry, it's a sad sign of the times to see Boeing's communications chief leave his job over a magazine article he wrote more than 30 years ago.

In the piece he penned for the magazine of the US Naval Institute, Niel Golightly wasn't flying the flag for neo-Nazis, nor was he extolling the virtues of pedophilia.

It was a clumsy article about women in the armed forces that has done it for Golightly, making him the latest victim of the self-righteous narcissists who patrol the world of gender politics with a take-no-prisoners attitude.
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Fire

Two more! Explosions outside Tehran kills two and damages the factory


Sputnik
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:19 UTC
Med center explosion
© UnknownA medical center suffered a gas explosion in Tehran, killing at least 19 people.
The explosion follows a string of similar incidents across the country in recent days, including a gas explosion at a Tehran clinic on 30 June which killed at least 19 people, an explosion at a nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran on 2 July, and a fire at a power station in southwestern Iran on 4 July.

An explosion rocked a factory outside Tehran early Tuesday morning, killing two people and injuring three others, Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency has reported. The blast was said to have taken place at the Oxijen plant in Baqershahr, an industrial zone about 23 km south of Iran's capital, with local administrator Amin Babaei saying:
"the explosion was caused by workers being negligent while filling oxygen tanks". "The explosion...was so powerful that the walls of the Saipapress factory nearby were also totally destroyed."
The blast reportedly took place just after 3 am local time, with firefighters arriving on the scene shortly after the fire began, preventing it from spreading to nearby factories.

Also on Tuesday, authorities in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran reported that a gas explosion had taken place in a sewing workshop, with five women injured and taken to hospital. The explosion followed a blast in a residential area of Ahvaz last week which injured two.

Comment: Similar settings, small timeframe, a logistic parameter, common outcomes...would seem they might be connected.

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Heart - Black

BLM Toronto leader believes white people are sub-human, calls them 'genetic defects' - begs 'Allah' to help her 'not kill white folks'


Conservative Fighters
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:57 UTC
Yusra Khogali
A social media post has resurfaced from a Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder in which she apparently argues that white people are "sub-human" and are "recessive genetic defects."

Yusra Khogali wrote the post on what appears to be her Facebook and attempted to use a genetic explanation involving melanin production to explain why white people are "defects." It has now gone viral after it was shared by scholar James Lindsay.


"Whiteness is not humxness," reads the statement. "in fact, white skin is sub-humxn."


Comment: "Humxn" is not a word.


"White ppl are recessive genetic defects. this is factual," the post later says. "white ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves. black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to."
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Yoda

A trans woman who is also a parent and teacher says JK Rowling is absolutely right; it's child abuse to push kids towards changing sex


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:06 UTC
JK rowling
© Getty Images for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights / Mike PontJ.K. Rowling accepts an award onstage during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Hosts 2019 Ripple Of Hope Gala & Auction In NYC on December 12, 2019 in New York City
The best-selling author has been vilified for warning about how children struggling with their mental health are being shunted towards hormones and surgery by trans activists. But she is brave and right to speak out.

After last month receiving a barrage of abuse for reclaiming the word 'woman' to describe her sex, JK Rowling might have been forgiven for handing the campaigning baton onto others. The transgender debate that she entered is perhaps the most toxic and divisive dispute raging across social media.

But she knew what she was getting into. In a superb 3,700-word essay, she explained why she had spoken out. She had researched the arguments, read the papers, talked to those involved - including a transsexual friend - and wanted no more than women's concerns to be heard; not to be met with threats and abuse.

Reasoned arguments, however, don't cut it in a debate that is punctuated by rhetoric and emotion. According to her opponents, women who do not accept the catechism, trans women are women, are evil terfs who must be cancelled.

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Black Magic

In an insane world, madness looks moderate and sanity looks radical

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:37 UTC
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© Associated PressJoe Biden presents George W. Bush with the Liberty Medal
There are no moderate, mainstream centrists in the US-centralized empire. They do not exist.

It's not that moderate, mainstream centrism is an inherently impossible position. In a healthy world, that's exactly what the predominant worldview would be. But we do not live in a healthy world.

There are no moderate, mainstream centrists anywhere in the tight alliance of nations which function as a single empire on foreign policy, because that functional empire is built upon murder, terrorism, exploitation, oppression, ecocide and the stockpiling of armageddon weapons.

People who support the status quo of this empire are called "moderates", but, just like the so-called "moderate rebels" of Syria, they are in fact violent extremists.
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