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The blast did not take place at a military site, a defense ministry spokesman, Davoud Abdi, told state TV late Thursday night, adding that the blaze was quickly taken under control and that there were no casualties.
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The blast did not take place at a military site, a defense ministry spokesman, Davoud Abdi, told state TV late Thursday night, adding that the blaze was quickly taken under control and that there were no casualties.
NYPD Deputy Inspector Richard Brea
Deputy Inspector Richard Brea is throwing in the towel after nearly three decades because he says his bosses are not giving him enough guidance on how to get guns and drugs off the street now that the department has disbanded and reassigned its anti-crime unit, according to people familiar with the matter.
Guardian Angels leader Curtis Sliwa confirmed Brea's retirement to The Post Thursday after speaking with the inspector, who leads the Bronx's 46th Precinct.
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A skirmish between people of opposing viewpoints on the Columbus statue in New Haven.
A skirmish between people of opposing viewpoints on the Columbus statue in New Haven.
But while cheers met the statue's removal, it didn't come down without a fight.
After word got out that the city planned to remove the statue Wednesday morning, a group of several dozen people came out to defend it and had formed a crowd of 40 to 50 people by about 6 a.m., according to police Capt. Anthony Duff.
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Comment: All this tilting at the windmill of racism, while a real cause for concern is getting ignored.
Comment: Ladies & gentlemen, meet a relic from a bygone age: an actual racist...
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead essayist on New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, wrote a letter to the editor in Notre Dame's The Observer stating that "the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world."
Hannah-Jones claimed that the actions of European settlers and explorers such as Christopher Columbus were "acts of devils" and likens them to Hitler.
"[The whites] lasting monument was the destruction and enslavement of two races of people," Hannah-Jones wrote.
Hannah-Jones claims Africans arrived in North America long before Europeans, but that unlike Europeans, Africans befriended and traded with the indigenous people. She claims pyramids in Mexico are a symbol of said friendship.
At Fox Valley Gun Range in Elgin, Illinios, owner Mark Galvin says he's gone from selling ten guns per day last year to as many as 200 per day in recent weeks. According to the Chicago Tribune, the flood of new gun owners has resulted in further backlogs to the state's background check system.
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Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams fired the officers a day after being named permanent chief.
Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams fired the officers a day after being named permanent chief.
These are the words of a now-former Wilmington Police Department officer Kevin Piner.
He, along with two other officers, have been fired from the department after dash-cam footage recorded two phone conversations — accidentally — and a supervisor conducting a routine audit of the videos found the disturbing content.
Michael 'Kevin' Piner, James 'Brian' Gilmore, and Jessie E. Moore II were all terminated from the force. The announcement came from the new Chief of Police Donny Williams — not even 24-hours into his first day as chief.
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Jeffery Epstein (L) Ehud Barak (R)
Jeffery Epstein (L) Ehud Barak (R)
Lawyers for Dershowitz, who was a friend of Epstein as well as a member of his legal defense team, released the claim about Barak in a Tuesday court filing, attempting to cast doubt on allegations made by accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the first Epstein victims to go public with her story.
Pointing to the "denials and disclaimers" issued by the powerful men Giuffre said she'd had sex with, they suggested her word had been "thoroughly discredited by her proven lies." If their hope was to smear Giuffre, however, it didn't quite go as planned, instead renewing media interest in the suspects named by the former Epstein "sex slave."
Comment: The Daily Mail reports :
In a letter to the court, his or her attorneys [referring to John Doe- Sott.net ed.] Nicholas Lewin and Paul Krieger argued it would derail the painstaking legal protocol already agreed upon to decide how and when materials in the Maxwell-Giuffre case should be unsealed.One can only wonder why Dershowitz so desperate to get his hands on those sealed documents...
'This marks Dershowitz's second - or, by some measures, third - attempt to make an end-run around this Court's carefully constructed unsealing protocol,' the letter stated.
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Cambridge University is defending Dr Priyamvada Gopal after the academic received a torrent of abuse for posting a series of tweets.
Cambridge University is defending Dr Priyamvada Gopal after the academic received a torrent of abuse for posting a series of tweets.
Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a professor in colonial and postcolonial literature at Cambridge University, has faced a stream of abuse after posting a series of tweets on Tuesday.
It comes during heightened public discussions around racial equality following the global Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by US police in May.
Gopal tweeted: "I'll say it again. White Lives Don't Matter. As white lives", followed by "Abolish whiteness" in a later tweet.
Comment: Cambridge defends the rights of its academics to express their opinion, but only when that opinion is the "correct" one:
Update:
Cambridge Promotes Academic Who Said "White Lives Don't Matter" to Full Professorship
However, both the university and media outlets responded by trying to frame a narrative that Gopal was being "abused" by a hate mob, completely pardoning her for her overtly racist comments.
Despite the fact that Twitter has now removed Gopal's original tweet for hate speech, Cambridge University itself has rewarded the academic.
"Thanks to everyone who wrote to @Twitter: the ludicrous ban has been lifted. I am therefore delighted to share with you personally, that last night Cambridge promoted me to a full Professorship," tweeted Gopal. "The hate mails & threats are coming in non-stop but @CambridgeCops are following up."
Cambridge University has therefore literally rewarded Gopal for publishing racist hate speech.
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"We have received tip-offs that in isolated cases clan members have received emergency financial aid from the federal government," Thomas Jungbluth, a senior officer from the Criminal Police Office (LKA) in the state of North Rhine-Palatinate, confirmed on Thursday.
He told the Rheinische Post newspaper that, while the police are investigating those cases, there's a legal gray zone out there.
Even those belonging to a crime clan have the right to claim hardship allowance if their business - say, a hookah bar - has had to close because of the Covid-19 lockdowns and zero attendance.
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Germany is one such country that has suffered a major setback.
Germany is one such country that has suffered a major setback.
"Last week, Europe saw an increase in weekly cases for the first time in months," the WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge told reporters.
He said more than two dozen countries in Europe had seen resurgences of the deadly virus.
Comment: RT reports on the situation in Texas where claims of cases have risen:
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that the state is halting its reopening process after hospitals were flooded with new Covid-19 cases and health officials raised fears of bed shortages.See also:
We've seen these 'bed shortage' claims before and they never came to pass, and instead they likely led to increased mortality: Empty Hospitals? Where Are All The Coronavirus Patients?
"The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses," Abbott said in a statement. "This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business."
The development comes as Texas, the US state with the second largest population, continues to report record increases in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.© REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
A protest against contact tracing for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Conroe, Texas.
More than 5,000 new cases were recorded on three consecutive days and successive hospitalization records were hit for 13 consecutive days. Coronavirus testing numbers reveal that 10 percent of Texans tested are positive for the disease.
It's becoming clear that if you go looking you can find a great many viruses in everybody: Typical human virome includes HIV, hepatitis & many other viruses - 2017 study
It also comes the day after the US broke its own record for the number of coronavirus cases recorded in a single day, with more than 38,000 new patients confirmed in 24 hours.
The Republican Governor explained that businesses that were permitted to open under the previous reopening phases can continue to operate under the guidelines set out by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Residents were also asked to wear face masks and abide by social distancing guidelines. "The more that we all follow these guidelines, the safer our state will be and the more we can open up Texas for business," Abbott said.
With over 121,000 fatalities recorded, the US Covid-19 death toll is by far the highest in the world.
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Comment: It looks like Richard Brea's resignation is unrelated to the anti-police protests, but who knows with all the madness going on.
Predictive policing is not like 'Minority Report' - It's worse