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Vandals deface Andrew Jackson statue outside White House, Trump promises 'long-term sentences'

Rebecca Shabad
NBC News
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:23 UTC
Andrew Jackson vandalism Washington DC
© Drew Angerer / Getty Images
Protesters try to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on Monday, June 22, 2020.
Protesters defaced a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square outside the White House on Monday night as they tried to topple it, according to the Interior Department and media reports.

The Jackson statue remained on its pedestal, according to The Associated Press. Videos posted on social media showed that the protesters had climbed on the statue and tied ropes around it, then tried to pull it off its pedestal, the AP said.

When asked about reports of pepper spray being used in Lafayette Park, a National Park Service spokesperson told NBC News: "I am still gathering information, but it is accurate that pepper spray was used to disengage the protesters from the statue and clear the area."

Comment: It sounds like these vandals were attempting to set up a charming new 'autonomous zone' in Washington DC. RT reports more:
Activists were seen erecting makeshift barricades in the streets of Washington, DC on Monday evening, less than two miles away from the White House, with footage showing one protester hauling a piece of plywood labeled with the words "people's fence" in spray paint.


Taking after Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) - formerly the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) - the demonstrators have apparently christened the area the 'Black House Autonomous Zone' (BHAZ).




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Bizarro Earth

Lockdown returns to German district with Europe's largest meat processing plant closed following coronavirus testing

Holly Ellyatt
CNBC
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:59 UTC
germany coronavirus
© Alexander Koerner
Members of the technical emergency service secure an area within an apartment complex used by the Toennies meat company to house labourers from eastern Europe during the coronavirus pandemic on June 20, 2020 in Verl near Guetersloh, Germany.
A district in Germany where there has been an acute outbreak of coronavirus cases at a meat-processing plant is being put back into lockdown, the premier of North Rhine-Westfalia said Tuesday.

State premier Armin Laschet said he was putting the district of Guetersloh, home to around 360,000 people, back under lockdown until June 30. The move comes after at least 1,000 workers at a meat processing plant in the area contracted Covid-19.

Bars, museums, galleries, cinemas, sports halls, gyms and swimming pools in Guetersloh will now be closed, and picnics and barbecues prohibited, according to Reuters.

Comment: The US shut down its largest meat packing plants and food shortages followed. It also threw farmers out of business, thus threatening the food supply for the years ahead.

One should question why countries insist on these lockdowns when the data is quite clear, and numerous official health representatives have repeatedly stated, that the coronavirus is harmless for the vast majority, and worse, the lockdowns actually lead to increased death? Everything You Think You Know About Coronavirus...

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Red Flag

UK police sergeant under criminal investigation merely for sharing George Floyd meme in private message

Kurt Zindulka
Breitbart
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:51 UTC
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A British sergeant for the Devon and Cornwall Police force is under criminal investigation for sharing an 'offensive' meme of George Floyd in a private group message with other officers.

The image of Mr Floyd was reportedly shared by the sergeant on May 30th, five days after Floyd died in an altercation with police in the United States. The meme was flagged by a fellow officer — like the Sergeant facing the allegations, also reported by a local news source to be of white ethnicity — and is now being investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to determine whether it was motivated by racism.

The content of the meme was or why it was deemed as offensive has not been revealed. The force is responsible for policing in the Devon and Cornwall area, one of England's most rural regions, least densely populated, and least racially diverse. It is a popular holiday destination for wealthy Londoners and residents from the densely-packed south-east region. According to the 2011 census, 95 per cent of full-time residents of Devon and Cornwall are white British, compared to less than 80 per cent in the whole of England.
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Eye 1

Australians balk as 7-Eleven rolls out facial recognition nationwide


RT
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:37 UTC
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© Reuters / Yuya Shino
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is debuting facial recognition across all 700 Australian locations, supposedly for no other purpose than to avoid customers "gaming" their feedback system. Aussies aren't buying it - literally.

A 7-Eleven spokesperson told Australian outlet iTnews that the ominous signs popping up in store windows over the past few weeks - "Site is under constant video surveillance. By entering the store you consent to facial recognition cameras capturing and storing your image" - refer solely to the use of the chain's new Rate It customer feedback tablets.

Footage captured by the system is "not used for any other purpose," the chain claimed on Monday, adding that "if a customer doesn't use the feedback tablet, their image won't be recorded." Images are stored for seven days and permanently destroyed afterwards, and 7-Eleven "does not have access to this encrypted data," the company stated.
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Eye 2

Disturbing video shows laughing man throwing huge firework at sleeping homeless person in Harlem


RT
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:25 UTC
harlem fireworks man
© Twitter / @YossiGestetner
A man was captured on video throwing a live firework at what appears to be a sleeping homeless person in Harlem, with a massive explosion seen going off at point-blank range.

A brief clip made the rounds on social media on Monday night, showing a group of men and women recording the assailant as he pitched a lit firework at somebody laying on the sidewalk, presumably a homeless man, outside a business in Harlem. The firework is seen detonating just inches away from the victim's body, making a loud bang and shooting off flares as one bystander is heard laughing.
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NPC

Will to believe: Japanese reporter goes to CHAZ to prove it's peaceful, gets beaten up, returns - to prove it's peaceful


RT
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:17 UTC
chaz
© Reuters / Nick Wood; Twitter / @oogesatarou
The so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle.
A Japanese artist, activist and reporter went to Seattle to cover the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and to show that the protest was non-violent. He left within 15 minutes having been severely beaten up.

Oogesa Taro, the organizer of a collaborative social art project called 'Without Borders', travelled to the US to explore the ongoing protests that erupted in the wake of the George Floyd killing by Minneapolis police.

Reporting from the ground within the CHAZ, it didn't take long before Taro was set upon and beaten up by some of the area's less welcoming residents.


Despite the unsavoury encounter and hostility, Taro's indomitable spirit led him back to the scene of the crime.

"Im back. #CHOP. To prove that this is not a protest that affirms violence. To prove that this is not a violent protest," he said.

Comment: This is a perfect allegory for the history of communist/socialist states in the 20th century. There will always be fellow travelers willing to ignore the totalitarianism, choosing instead to see the socialist utopia of their dreams, even if it kills them.

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Syringe

Russia to prepare 70 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, lead scientist hopes it will provide immunity for more than 2 years

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:14 UTC
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© Sputnik / Russian Defence Ministry
Russia's homegrown Covid-19 vaccine will create immunity for more than two years, according to the director of Moscow's Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, which developed the drug with the Ministry of Defense.

Alexander Ginzburg, the research center's director, explained that the vaccine will be administered to humans twice - including a so-called secondary 'booster' injection. According to the scientist, the effectiveness of this method was proven by the center's work in Guinea, where they conducted vaccinations against Ebola.

Up to 70 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will be required for mass immunization of Russians against coronavirus, said Ginzburg. Along with the authorities, the country's health organizations are already planning a quick ramping-up of large-scale production in order to meet this demand.

Clinical trials of the vaccine are expected to be completed by the end of July. If successful, the drug will be officially registered, produced, and distributed throughout the country.

Ginzburg and his team made international headlines earlier this month, when it was revealed that scientists at the Gamalei Institute had successfully tested the vaccine on themselves, with no side effects.
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Chess

American convicted of espionage in Russia won't appeal, will seek US-Russia prisoner swap


RFE/RL
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
whelan

A combo photo of Paul Whelan (left), Viktor Bout (center), and Konstantin Yaroshenko
A lawyer for the former U.S. Marine convicted of espionage in Russia last week says his client will not appeal the decision because he doesn't trust the country's judicial system.

The Interfax news agency quoted Vladimir Zherebenkov as saying on June 23 that Whelan hopes Washington and Moscow will instead agree on an exchange of prisoners.

"Today, we met [Whelan] in the detention facility and after a discussion it was decided not to appeal the verdict because he doesn't believe in Russian justice," Zherebenkov was quoted as saying.

"He hopes that he will be swapped in the near future for Russians who have been convicted in the United States," he added.

Comment: Previously:

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Red Flag

The Guardian's sister paper forces YouTube to again terminate 'far-right' channel The Iconoclast, doxes man behind it


RT
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:52 UTC
youtube
© Global Look Press / Ulrich Roth
The liberal newspaper the Observer has prodded YouTube into re-suspending "the most successful and toxic British far-right" anonymous channel and has unmasked the individual running it.

The Observer, the sister newspaper of British liberal heavyweight the Guardian, has joined campaigners in celebrating a victory over YouTube channel 'The Iconoclast'. It's author will no longer be able to use Google's video platform to deliver messages of hate and white supremacy to its 218,000 subscribers, the newspaper said.

The channel was suspended "after the Observer asked YouTube why it continued to host The Iconoclast," to which the service said they shared "a deep concern and responsibility in protecting the community against hate speech and do not want our platform used for harm."
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NPC

Police thwart protesters' attempt to remove statue of President Andrew Jackson outside White House

Matt Stieb
Intelligencer
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:32 UTC
protester removing statue Andrew Jackson
© Getty
On Monday night, in the midst of a nationwide wave of protestors taking down statues of slaveowners and Confederate leaders, demonstrators in Lafayette Park outside the White House attempted to remove a statue of President Andrew Jackson. Using ropes attached to the top of the head of the 167-year-old figure, the demonstrators were interrupted by police before they were able to bring down the 15-ton statue.


Comment: This article is yet one more demonstration of the media's deliberate twisting of the facts- many of the 'protests' have descended into violent riots; many police have been injured and some killed by the rioters. See:

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