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Portland Police revoke permit after riot breaks out as protesters clash downtown

Eder Campuzano
The Oregonian
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:41 UTC
Portland riot
© Bryan Colombo / Reuters
Portland Police declared a riot Saturday after tensions between the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and local anti-fascist activists came to a head and broke out in violence.

The afternoon began with a permitted rally at Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza organized by Joey Gibson, U.S. Senate candidate for Washington and leader of the right-wing, Vancouver-based group.

A counter-demonstration by masked local anti-fascist groups gathered nearby among a heavy police presence. Officers seized weapons such as utility knives, clubs and chemical sprays, detaining several protesters early on.


Portland Police made four arrests during the demonstrations, none of them connected to the events of the day.

Tusitala "Tiny" Toese, 22, and Donovon Flippo, 23, were arrested upon arriving at Terry Schrunk Plaza for an alleged assault in Portland earlier in the month.

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USA

The Left can't face the new reality: Trump is winning

Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:36 UTC
Pres Trump
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
To understand the madness gripping American leftists, try to see the world through their eyes. Presto, you're now part of the raging resistance.

Like the Palestinians who mark Israel's birth as their nakba, or tragedy, you regard Donald Trump's 2016 victory as a catastrophe. It's the last thing you think of most nights, and the first thing most mornings.

You can't shake it or escape it. Whatever you watch, listen to or read, there are reminders - Donald Trump really is president.

You actually believe the New York Times is too nice to him, so you understand why a Manhattan woman urged a reporter there to stop covering Trump to protest his presidency.

And where the hell is Robert Mueller? He was supposed to save us from this nightmare - that's what Chuck Schumer banked on. Well?

You spend your tax cut even as you rail against the man who made it happen. And you are pleased that cousin Jimmy finally got a job, though you repeat the daily devotional that Barack Obama deserves credit for the roaring economy.

And now this - Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, and Trump gets another Supreme Court pick. The court might tilt right for the rest of your life. He's winning.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Attention

Free speech advocates join UKIP: Leftist media equates free speech with 'extremism'

Mikey Smith
Mirror
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:20 UTC
Paul Joseph Watson
© YouTubeNew Ukip member Paul Joseph Watson
A string of high-profile hard-right 'influencers' have very publicly joined Ukip, sparking an influx of their young, largely alt-right followers into the party's membership.

Last week, YouTube personalities Paul Joseph Watson, Sargon of Akkad, Count Dankula and former tech blogger Milo Yiannopoulos announced they were joining the ailing party.

And the party has welcomed their new members, who prefer to label themselves 'classical liberals' or 'radical centrists' rather than 'alt-right'.

What unites them is a fundamentalist, almost fanatical defence of 'freedom of speech'.

In practice, that often means the freedom to say whatever they want and attack whomever they please, however they please to their enormous and engaged social media following, without consideration or consequence.


Comment: Wait, isn't that exactly what this writer did just now? Isn't that what all mainstream news outlets do everyday? In fact, aren't they the ones taking it to such an extreme that they get very close (if not are) to publishing libel / slander or just outright lies that are read by millions of people?


Comment: The 'risk' is worth a lot more than the 'irrelevance'. Free speech is the foundation with which society can make real progress, both at an individual level and collective level. The point being, that in order for us to discover, learn and navigate in the world we need to be exposed to dangerous ideas, otherwise, how would we ever learn to recognize such if one couldn't speak out against it? How would we ever learn to distinguish truth from lies?



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Black Magic

Four lions poisoned & butchered for suspected use in 'black magic' rituals


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:18 UTC
Lion
© Mystic Monkeys & Feathers Wildlife Park / Facebook
Four lions were beheaded and chopped up for body parts at a wildlife park in South Africa for suspected use in 'black magic' rituals. Images of the horrific scenes have been shared by the animal park.

Six lions, including two cubs, were poisoned by poachers - the four adult lions had their heads decapitated and some paws cut off.

Mystic Monkeys & Feathers Wildlife Park in Pretoria confirmed the lion massacre on its Facebook page condemning it as"senseless and heartless."

"To see these beautiful animals so mutilated is a pitiful disgrace," Christa Saayman, proprietor of the park told IOL. The suspects reportedly threw chicken heavily laced with poison into the lions' enclosure.
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The left is dead, rootless and stands for nothing

Nirmal Dass
The Daily Caller
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:10 UTC
zombie hands
© pix-hd.com
Although much is made of the political and cultural left, few realize that this creature is long extinct. Once it stood for stronger unions, economic equality, better working conditions and organized labor. Such was its root, its reality, from which it has fully severed itself.

This means that the left now chases utopias - from multiculturalism to environmentalism and green initiatives, from the "rights" industry and intersectionality to gender-fluidity, from anarchism and communism to ever-morphing liberalism, from abortion and euthanasia to the cult of Trump-hatred by self-styled sophisticates. In each case, the logic is the same: Shoehorn reality into theory, and mold humanity into the confines of ideology.

And, because it is now rootless, the left is all things to many agendas, and thus stands for nothing. The only coherence it possesses is progressivism, whereby all that ails society is to be cured by economics and technology, whose anodynes are doled out by politicians in thrall to "experts," who in turn cannot help but contradict each other.

Comment: May it rest in peace or pieces.

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Marijuana

Senate approves bill to legalize hemp, introduces bill to decriminalize cannabis

Johnny Liberty
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:05 UTC
Freetheweed
© THEFREETHOUGHTPROJECT.com
It is no secret that in America, political change is a slow and agonizing process. For years, lawmakers have paid lip service to the topic of decriminalizing cannabis while millions have continued to suffer as their medicine remains "illegal" and millions more are arrested for possessing a plant that is legal, in some form, in over half of the country.

Thankfully, the United States Senate has finally begun to take meaningful steps towards rectifying this injustice.

This week, the Senate overwhelmingly approved the 2018 Farm Bill with a vote of 86-11, which includes a provision that would legalize the cultivation, processing, and sale of industrial hemp. This vote comes just two weeks after the legislation was approved by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, with a vote of 20-1.

While hemp is typically demonized because it is the product of a variety of the cannabis plant, it is non-psychoactive and is not a "drug." Hemp has the potential to be used in more than 25,000 products, including fibers, textiles, paper and construction and insulation materials - which may explain why the federal government has spent years trying to keep it from the public.

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Pistol

Drug war's 'walk of shame' mayor killed by sniper during Philippines flag ceremony


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:07 UTC
Philippine mayor
© AFPTanauan Mayor Antonio Halili
A Philippines mayor, who paraded drug suspects around his city and at the same time allegedly had drug ties himself, was shot dead - possibly by a sniper - during a flag-raising event. The shocking murder was caught on video.

Mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan city in Batangas province south of capital Manila was targeted by an unknown perpetrator on Monday morning. He died from his wounds on the way to the hospital. "The bullet went through his chest," Superintendent Renato Mercado, Tanuan police chief, told local media.

In amateur footage Halili is seen standing in a line with government employees singing the national anthem "Lupang Hinirang" in front of city hall. As camera shifts to another group, a single shot is heard, followed by screams and people scattering.

Warning: Disturbing video:


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Handcuffs

Kindergarten teachers arrested, caught on camera stabbing children with paperclips because they refused to nap


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:54 UTC
Children
© China Stringer Network / Reuters
Two kindergarten teachers have been arrested in China, having been caught on camera stabbing children with paperclips, because they refused to nap. Police intervened after a dramatic confrontation between parents and teachers.

Local media report that parents grew concerned when their children began to return home with red needle marks on their skin. One mother -known only as Ms Pan- raised the issue of the red marks in a parent's group chat, via Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat.

One of the parents said she saw red needle marks on her daughter's arm," Pan told China Business News. "The girl then said the teacher stabbed her with paper clips."
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Photos of US female hunter posing with rare black giraffe 'trophy kill' spark backlash


RT
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:40 UTC
Tess Talley
© Tess Talley / Facebook
Images posted by a US hunter of her "dream kill" -an 18-year-old rare black giraffe she shot down in South Africa- have sparked outrage online and have prompted the hunter to defend her actions.

The photos, actually taken in June 2017, had resurfaced online after they were shared by a local South African website, AfricLand Post, a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks in part to some celebrity power from actors Ricky Gervais and Debra Messing, the tweet about the "white American savage" has now been shared over 37,000 times and caught the attention of thousands of angry animal lovers.

"Giraffes are now on the 'red list' of endangerment due to a 40% decline over the last 25 years." Gervais tweeted. "They could become extinct. Gone forever. And still, we allow spoilt c***s to pay money to shoot them with a bow and arrow for fun."
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Fans behaving badly: Buenos Aires asks Russia to punish Argentinian fan who 'humiliated' Arab supporter


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:28 UTC
Argentina football fans
© Anton Vaganov / ReutersNigeria vs Argentina - Saint Petersburg Stadium
Authorities in Buenos Aires have asked their Russian counterparts to ban an Argentinian local official from World Cup matches after he was filmed sneering at an Arabian football fan.

A man identified as Juan Pablo Olguin, a secretary of legal affairs in a local Argentinian province, was recorded asking an Arab man, who didn't speak Spanish, to repeat a phrase containing threats to blow up a football club located in the city of Naschel, Argentina.

Argentinian Security Minister Patricia Bullrich posted a tweet on Thursday, asking the Russian authorities to annul Olguin's Fan ID as a punitive measure for his actions, which were deemed inappropriate and damaging.

Comment: No matter how well behaved the majority are, there are always some jerks who have to ruin it for everyone else. But considering the reputation of football fans, the World Cup in Russia has been low drama so far.

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