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Americans respond to riots, crime fears by buying more guns as Smith & Wesson reports 'unparalleled' demand

RT
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 22:11 UTC

Smith & Wesson is proving to be a chief beneficiary of the violence and unrest plaguing the country's big cities, as the largest US handgun maker posted record quarterly sales amid surging demand for firearms.

Gun sales in the company's first fiscal quarter, ended July 31, jumped 141 percent from a year earlier to a record $230 million, Smith & Wesson said late Thursday. The firm also set an all-time quarterly high for guns shipped out, more than doubling to 584,000 units, as production was ramped up and inventories were drained.

"The current increase in consumer demand for firearms is in many ways unparalleled," chief executive Mark Smith told investors on a conference call. The company also noted that its customer base is widening, citing a National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) estimate that 40-60 percent of the consumers purchasing firearms this year are first-time gun owners, led by increasing numbers of women and blacks.

Facebook takes down Patriot Prayer account days after the murder of one of their members

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 05:37 UTC

Facebook has taken down pages for Patriot Prayer as well as the account of its leader, Joey Gibson. Gibson said that there were other members of the group whose accounts were also taken down, according to The Oregonian.

Chandler Pappas and his friend Aaron (Jay Bishop) Danielson, who was murdered by an avowed member of Antifa in Portland, Ore. on Aug. 29, both wore Patriot Prayer hats. Pappas wore his during an interview with Tucker Carlson yesterday.

Comment: Now a new video analysis of the incident reveals the murder of Aaron "Jay Bishop" Danielson by violent felon and Antifa member may have been an organized assassination:

Northeastern U kicks out students for 'crowded gathering' as coronavirus gives colleges a license to steal tuition fees

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 21:42 UTC

Boston's Northeastern University has dismissed 11 students, kicking them off campus and pocketing their $36,534 tuition checks. Coronavirus has blurred the distinction between higher education and highway robbery even further.

The students were enrolled in Northeastern University's Nu.in program, which usually places students abroad for their first semester. However, coronavirus restrictions saw the students confined to Boston this year, and put up in the city's Westin Hotel. Tuition remained at a pricey $36,534, even though the hotel's "socially distanced" student center was a far cry from the foreign campus experience in Ireland they were promised.

However, that experience was cut short and all 11 were dismissed on Friday with no refund, after they were caught gathering together in one of the hotel rooms in breach of the university's coronavirus rules. "Students who attend an unsafe gathering, social or party, either on or off-campus, can expect suspension," student affairs vice-chancellor Madeleine Eastbrook wrote in a letter to students.

Comment: Pay and obey: Universities are taking advantage by balancing less expenses with impossible rules that may culminate in mass tuition forfeiture. Harvard, with an endowment worth more than 100 countries GDP, has refused to return $8.6M federal bailout money:

Harvard has refused a call from President Donald Trump to return millions in coronavirus bailout money, insisting it needs it for financial aid. Trump has threatened to "look at" Harvard's fat $41 billion endowment.

It said it would not return $8.6 million in 'emergency' funding allotted as part of last month's $2.2 trillion CARES Act, despite pleas from several politicians, including Trump and some members of Congress who stipulated that at least half the money go to financial aid for students.

Harvard's refusal followed a press briefing in which Trump called on Harvard, with one of the largest endowments "in the country, maybe in the world," to pay back the government's largesse. "Harvard is going to pay the money back and they shouldn't be taking it."

Trump wasn't done with Harvard, however, responding to their refusal in a late-night tweet with a threat to "look at" their "whole 'endowment' system" if they did not return the funds.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a Harvard alum, pointed out that the school's massive endowment equates to "$13mm per student, or $171mm per faculty member."

"Universities with billions & billions stashed away in endowments should get no taxpayer money until they have tapped those endowments," Missouri senator Josh Hawley tweeted on Monday, calling the bailout of the wealthy college "obscene."

Note: Harvard University has since issued a statement after this article was published revealing it has decided not to take the bailout money after all. Read about it here.

However, Harvard administrators want students to know the school is suffering, too. The university's chief financial officer told campus outlet the Harvard Crimson last week that the value of its endowment, estimated at $40.9 billion in June, has declined to 'only' the "mid-30-billion range" due to the stock market crash.

In comparison:

Yale University pulled down $6.9 million despite sitting on a $30.3 billion endowment, while Stanford University got $7.4 million in bailout bucks despite a $27.7 billion endowment. Columbia University was a big winner with $12.8 million, though its $11 billion endowment is chump change compared to its Ivy League brethren. $14 billion in total was distributed to colleges and universities as part of the bailout.

Professor believes coronavirus pandemic is all over, despite rising 'R' rate this morning

JayTe
The Duran
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

While the US and UK governments and their mainstream media adjuncts are still pushing the COVID 'pandemic' narrative, more public health experts are breaking ranks, and are sharing their factual findings with the public.

Despite the UK government's claim that the coronavirus 'R' rate is rising, Professor Carl Heneghan from Oxford's Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) is taking a more optimistic approach to the COVID crisis, and believes that the 'pandemic' is more or less over now and that society should really be trying to get back to normal, and that parents should be sending their kids back to school. He states:

"As we go back to schools, we can be reassured that the risks to children are incredibly low .... and they (children) are more at risk to infections like influenza. Across the board the disease is a a low level, and its impact is minimal."

Tennessee woman who died 6 months ago receives letter claiming she has coronavirus

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

Comment: This story sums up the whole farce...

A Tennessee woman died six months ago, but that didn't stop the Shelby County Health Department from sending her a letter notifying her that she tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus and needed to self-quarantine, her bewildered son said Thursday.

Troy Whittington said he was surprised when he opened the letter this week from the Shelby County Health Department. He knew what was in that letter was false.

Whittington said a letter arrived from the Shelby County Health Department for his mother, Sandra Whittington. The letter says she has been diagnosed as COVID positive and needed to isolate.

That would be difficult, according to her obituary: the 66-year-old died February 16th. That was weeks before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Shelby County.

"It's been six months, almost seven, since she passed away," he added. "There was no testing that was done at that time. On her death certificate it was stated she died, what the cause of death was, and it was not COVID-19. It was COPD."

Comment: Will she also vote in the upcoming election?

Majority of young adults in the US live with their parents, first time since the Great Depression

Richard Fry, Jeffrey S. Passel and D'Vera Cohn
Pew Research Centre
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC

The coronavirus outbreak has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members. The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year, surpassing the previous peak during the Great Depression era.

In July, 52% of young adults resided with one or both of their parents, up from 47% in February, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of monthly Census Bureau data. The number living with parents grew to 26.6 million, an increase of 2.6 million from February. The number and share of young adults living with their parents grew across the board for all major racial and ethnic groups, men and women, and metropolitan and rural residents, as well as in all four main census regions. Growth was sharpest for the youngest adults (ages 18 to 24) and for White young adults.

Comment: By all metrics the US is in terminal decline:

Lunatic Extinction Rebellion protesters return to London - more than 600 arrests

The Guardian
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:10 UTC

Climate campaigners stage a range of public events over five days despite Covid restrictions

More than 600 people have been arrested during five days of climate crisis protests in central London, police have said.

Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion (XR) reignited its efforts to highlight the dangers of climate crisis this month after they were largely placed on hold by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a series of daily actions, protesters have marched on Parliament Square, blocked roads, staged sit-ins and glued themselves to the ground.

Comment:

Hundreds attend protest against lockdown in Edinburgh, Scotland

Katharine Hay
The Scotsman
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 13:37 UTC

Hundreds of people have turned up to an anti-face mask protest outside an Edinburgh parliament building.

The group Saving Scotland, a "grassroots health movement" is organised the event, which is aimed at protesting the mandatory face covering rule and putting an end to lockdown restrictions.

Members believe lockdown is more harmful than the virus itself.

About 500 to 600 people are believed to have attended the event, many of whom were carrying signs with anti-lockdown and anti-mask slogans.

Here are some photos of protesters on the day:

Comment: It seems that, while Scotland is suffering under lockdown-lite measures, they aren't yet being subjected to the shameless tyranny we're seeing in Australia: 'Full-blown fascism' comes to Australia: PREGNANT woman handcuffed & charged with inciting anti-lockdown event on Facebook

Although there is evidence of it in England:

Two French military personnel killed by IED during operation in Mali

Sputnik
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:56 UTC

The two soldiers were killed after their armored vehicle was stricken by an improvised explosive device, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on Saturday evening. According to the statement, a third serviceman was injured in the blast.

"The two soldiers killed were a Brigadier-Chief First Class Sergeant and Hussar Parachutist First Class Arnaud Volpe. They belonged to the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment of Tarbes."

The blast took place on Saturday morning in Tessalit province of the northeastern Malian region of Kidal.

Comment: See also: 10 killed in Somalia in 'Islamic extremist' attack on Mogadishu hotel

Suffer, little children: School closings, child abuse, and the COVID19 coup's war on democracy

Michael Lesher
OffGuardian
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:37 UTC

I've been an angry man since the age of sixteen. That was when I read Lloyd deMause's newly-published The History of Childhood, an inquest into the realities of growing up that minced no words about society's ingrained habit of victimizing children to serve the implacable ends of adults.

As I absorbed deMause's relentless account of the cruelty inflicted on children in the world's most "advanced" civilizations, I swore an angry oath to myself that I would never acquiesce in the deliberate harm of little kids, no matter how respectable their abusers might claim to be.

So I'm not going to pull any punches about the systematic child abuse being orchestrated, as I write, by a phalanx of America's most "respectable" politicians, pundits and self-styled educators.

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Society's Child

Americans respond to riots, crime fears by buying more guns as Smith & Wesson reports 'unparalleled' demand

Facebook takes down Patriot Prayer account days after the murder of one of their members

Northeastern U kicks out students for 'crowded gathering' as coronavirus gives colleges a license to steal tuition fees

Professor believes coronavirus pandemic is all over, despite rising 'R' rate this morning

Tennessee woman who died 6 months ago receives letter claiming she has coronavirus

Majority of young adults in the US live with their parents, first time since the Great Depression

Lunatic Extinction Rebellion protesters return to London - more than 600 arrests

Hundreds attend protest against lockdown in Edinburgh, Scotland

Two French military personnel killed by IED during operation in Mali

Suffer, little children: School closings, child abuse, and the COVID19 coup's war on democracy

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