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London airport says industry may take years to recover

Silvia Amaro
CNBC
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 03:53 UTC
Gatwick
© Chris J RatcliffeEasyJet aircraft at Gatwick Airport in London, England.
Passenger demand at London's second-largest airport may not return to pre-crisis levels for another three or four years as the sector grapples with severe disruption.

Airports have been heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, with airlines stopping or significantly reducing their flights in the wake of lockdowns and travel restrictions to contain Covid-19.

"We think it will take three to four years for Gatwick to come back to 2019 passenger volume levels," Stewart Wingate, chief executive officer of Gatwick, told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick Monday.

Comment: Evidently, while the UK government continues about the harmless virus, businesses are well aware that there's no danger, hence their criticisms of the unjustifiably quarantine measures: Global stocks slump amid fears of renewed lockdown measures due to claims of coronavirus 'outbreaks' in US and China

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Global stocks slump amid fears of renewed lockdown measures due to claims of coronavirus 'outbreaks' in US and China

Steve Goldstein
Barrons
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:24 UTC
Jakarta
© Associated PressHealth workers take nasal swab samples during a public testing for the new coronavirus conducted in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 15, 2020.
Stocks slumped across the globe on Monday as concerns grew over rising Covid-19 infections that come just as many countries open up after pandemic lockdowns. Investors worried that if new outbreaks lead to broad stay-at-home orders and extend restrictions on businesses and travel, the economic recovery could be slowed or delayed.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 128 points, or 0.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite ticked up 0.3% and the Russell 2000 rose 0.3%. Each index was well off of its lowest levels of the morning, when the Dow had lost more than 700 points.

The S&P 500 was down 9 points, or 0.3%, at 3,032. The 3,000-point mark had provided support for the index during last week's selloff. That level could now become resistance as the market eventually seeks to recover its recent losses.

Comment: Note that the markets do not seem to be fearful of the effect of the virus or any 'outbreaks' , per se - which would make sense because it's harmless for the great majority - instead it's the threat of renewed, tyrannical lockdown measures that have decimated economies that are of most concern:

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Many young men are shunning sex. Is it because feminism and #MeToo are constant reminders of the inferiority of male identity?

Frank Furedi
RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:13 UTC
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© Getty Images / Tara Moore
Celibacy is becoming the new normal, as surveys show that the number of sexually inactive young Americans is increasing, particularly among males aged between 18 and 24.

Once upon a time sex was regarded by young adults as a pleasurable activity that played an important role in their lives. These days, many young adults claim that sex is not a big deal. Surveys show that during the past two decades, the number of sexually inactive young Americans has steadily increased.

Sexual inactivity is particularly widespread among young men. A survey of American adults, published by the American Medical Association (AMA), indicates that between 2000 and 2018, sexual inactivity increased among men aged 18 to 24, to the point that around one in three reported no sexual activity during the past year.So it is not surprising that, contrary to the expectation that people would increase their sexual activity during the lockdown, reports indicated that they were having less sex than previously.

Comment: There is also the unchecked influence of a near infinite amount of internet pornography that is only a couple of clicks away. It may not be as hip or trendy an explanation as blaming feminists and the MeToo movement, but no theory or explanation as to why young men aren't having as much sex would be complete without taking it into account. See:

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Black Lives Matter's story of racist killing of George Floyd may fall apart

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC
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© Reuters/David J. Phillip7 June 2020 photo of a mural honouring George Floyd in Houston’s Third Ward.
The Black Lives Matter protest movement over George Floyd's death has triggered a lot of questions, starting with whether the murder was really driven by any racist prejudices and why BLM ignores the tremendous progress in American society in improving the treatment of African Americans in the last decades, says US journalist Jason Goodman.

George Floyd, a 46-year old African American man who died at the hands of white policeman Derek Chauvin, has become the symbol of the Black Lives Matter's anti-racism protest, which has spilled over into the other countries of the world. One might ask whether Floyd really deserves to be revered as a new black icon akin to Martin Luther King.
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Best of the Web: Seattle's anarchist utopia is already breaking down, CHAZ residents call for the guillotine


RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:11 UTC
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© Reuters / Goran TomasevicProtesters collar a street preacher in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), Seattle, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), June 13, 2020
"An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave," American anarchist Ammon Hennacy once wrote. Based on the scenes playing out in Seattle's Antifa-occupied 'autonomous zone', Hennacy was dead wrong.

A ragtag collective of Antifa types, anarchists, socialists, and 'Black Lives Matter' activists have occupied a six-block area around an abandoned police precinct in downtown Seattle for a week now. Roads into the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ) have been blockaded, and the would-be revolutionaries inside have set in motion a bold experiment: to prove that a cop-free society, based on "mutual aid," can sustain itself.

Sunday night seems to have proven otherwise. When the owner of an auto shop in the zone found a man attempting to light his business on fire, he detained the culprit, or so he told a crowd gathered outside. However, rather than let their comrade be handed over to law enforcement, the crowd set about pulling down the fence around the lot, in a bid to free the thwarted arsonist.


"The police won't come," the owner told a cameraman. "The fire department won't even come. This is really bad for business. Covid was bad enough, and now this stuff basically put the icing on the cake."

Comment: There's more...



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A lesson from history: Unchecked, Seattle's CHAZ will become a violent no-go zone straight out of the European Antifa playbook

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:03 UTC
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© David Ryder/Getty ImagesA “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” sign hangs on the exterior of the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington
Antifa's newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle is straight from the playbook of their European counterparts who have established anti-police no-go squatter areas in European cities for decades.

The tactic of declaring an area "autonomous" and outside of police and government authority is relatively new to the United States hard-left, but has a deep history among Antifa extremists in Europe and has led to pitched battles and scenes of massive violence when police have tried to enforce government authority in Antifa strongholds.

While the original Antifa movement was a paramilitary wing of the German Communist Party in the 1930s, the current Antifa began in the "autonomous scene" of West Germany in the 1980s and went hand in hand with anarchists occupying various buildings, many of which remain occupied, with national laws unenforced, to this day.

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Animal baby boom at Palestinian zoo after people disappear

Rami Ayyub
Reuters
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:07 UTC
Ostrich with her eggs
© Reuters
Peacocks, ostriches and baboons joined in an animal baby boom at a Palestinian zoo during the coronavirus closure as they let nature take its course free from human distractions.

Fifteen animals were born at the tiny Qalqilya Zoo in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during the two months that it shut its doors to visitors - three times more than usual, zoo officials said.

"The coronavirus spread at the same time that trips were expected at the zoo. They were canceled and therefore the animals started to give birth," said zoo veterinarian Sami Khader.

An ostrich that laid eggs in normal years rarely had the chance to incubate them properly. But this year she produced 11 eggs and "because there weren't people around her, she was able to build a nest", he said.

In the monkey enclosure, usually bedeviled by miscarriages, one baboon gave birth, although she had little inclination to take care of the baby.
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YouTube is automatically deleting any comments about "black lives matter violence"

Cindy Harper
Reclaim the Net
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:04 UTC
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In recent times, it's been discovered that YouTube has automatic filters in place to auto-delete certain phrases and now it has been shown that YouTube is automatically censoring comments that link Black Lives Matter to violence.

At the time of writing, when commenting on a YouTube video, using the phrase "Black Lives Matter violence" will have your comment automatically deleted.

We first received reports from two YouTube users who were trying to comment on a news video that was talking about peaceful protesting. The users wanted to leave a comment to say that there were several incidences of Black Lives Matter protests that had descended into violence. However, after leaving their comment and checking back on it later, they found that it had disappeared.

After reporting this to us, we tested a few things ourselves to see what was happening.

We've managed to discover that any phrase that mentions "Black lives matter violence" in the YouTube comment system gets automatically deleted.

Comment: Because supporting an ideological movement means covering up for it and keeping its image squeaky clean - despite reality.

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Norway data protection authority temporarily bans use of coronavirus tracking app

Lauren Chadwick
Euronews
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:15 UTC
Norway's contact tracing app
© Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix via APA man holds a mobile phone showing Norway's National Institute of Public Health new mobile app infection stop for infection tracking, in Oslo, Norway, Friday April 17, 2020
Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of a public health application to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns.

The application Smittestopp "collects large amounts of personal information about those who use the app, including continuous location data and information about users' contact with others," the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said in a statement on Monday.

The app was set up to use both GPS and Bluetooth to track people's movements to determine the effects of social distancing and who the users come into contact with. The information gathered is then stored for 30 days.

Norway's public health institute said the decision to temporarily ban the app would "weaken an important part of our preparedness" and reduce the agency's ability to "fight the ongoing spread of infection."

Norway has recorded 8,631 cases and 242 deaths in a country with a population of 5.3 million people.

Comment: The coronavirus is not and has never been a real existential threat. What is a real threat is government authorities (and private companies for that matter) having access to people's location history and a list of people with whom they've associated. That is what people should be concerned about.

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Cop who shot Rayshard Brooks is without a job & declared guilty by media before any trial is held

Graham Dockery
RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:38 UTC
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© Reuters / Elijah NouvelageA Wendy’s burns following a rally against the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, in Atlanta, Georgia, June 13, 2020
Rayshard Brooks apparently was drunk, resisted arrest, and took a cop's taser. He lost his life for this, and the officer involved has been thrown under the bus by his superiors and fired. Is this justice, or mob rule?

Rayshard Brooks fell asleep at a Wendy's drive-through in Atlanta on Friday night, reportedly prompting staff to call the police. After failing a sobriety test, Brooks resisted arrest, stole a taser from an officer, and fled. He was fatally shot by Officer Garrett Rolfe after he fired the stolen taser at police, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation claims.

Were the country not already consumed with race-infused riots, Brooks' death would likely be another statistic. An unfortunate incident, a local news story for the weekend.

Comment: Atlanta police release complete sequence of Rayshard Brooks arrest & shooting from all angles

[Ed. note: The compilation of bodycam and surveillance footage published by RT has been removed. However, there is footage available showing the entire incident from the bodycams worn by the officers.]


Here is the full incident from the moment the officers find Brooks passed out in his car in the line at the Wendy's drive-through:




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