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Immunity for US diplomat's wife involved in teen's death branded 'absurd,' critics blast UK double standards over Assange


RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:06 UTC
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A former British ambassador has called US and UK claims that Anne Sacoolas - the wife of a US intelligence officer - had immunity, as "a palpable absurdity." Sacoolas is accused of killing Harry Dunn last year in a car crash.

The 19-year-old was fatally injured after he was allegedly struck by Sacoolas in her car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August 2019. Sir Ivor Roberts, a former top British diplomat in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, was asked by lawyers representing the Dunn family for his opinion on the tragic case.

The ex-British ambassador hasn't minced his words, branding it "a palpable absurdity" that both the British Foreign Office and the US Embassy say she could claim the same level of diplomatic immunity as her husband, Jonathan Sacoolas.

Roberts' scathing views focus on an August 1995 agreement between the UK Foreign Office and the US ambassador to Britain about American personnel at RAF Croughton - the military base where Sacoolas' husband was stationed at the time of Dunn's death.
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Gov't advisor: Britons were 'terrorised' by the government's tough coronavirus message and 'lost sight' of the fact most people only have mild illness

Jack Maidment
Daily Mail
Fri, 08 May 2020 00:02 UTC
Professor Robert Dingwall

Professor Robert Dingwall
Boris Johnson's hardline coronavirus lockdown message has 'effectively terrorised' the UK population into believing they will die if they catch coronavirus, one of the government's experts has said.

Professor Robert Dingwall suggested Britain had 'completely lost sight' of the true nature of the disease because 'mostly it isn't' killing people.

His comments illustrate the potential problems facing the Prime Minister as he prepares to set out his lockdown exit plan in an address to the nation on Sunday night.

Polling published yesterday showed almost two thirds of the population are worried about the effects of lifting the draconian curbs too early.
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No evidence for two-metre rule, Oxford experts say

Sarah Knapton, Christopher Hope, Danielle Sheridan, and Robert Mendick
The Telegraph
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:40 UTC
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The two-metre rule has no basis in science, leading scientists have said as the Government comes under increasing pressure to drop the measure.

Writing for The Telegraph, Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, from the University of Oxford, said there is little evidence to support the restriction and called for an end to the "formalised rules".

The University of Dundee also said there was no indication that distancing at two metres is safer than one metre.

The intervention comes as two Government ministers suggested on Monday that the rule is likely to be relaxed following a review commissioned by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister.

On Tuesday, shops experienced daily footfall drops of 41 percent compared to the same day last year, while enormous queues built up outside because of social distancing requirements.
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'Worst is yet to come': NYC shootings skyrocket after anti-crime unit disbanded


RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC
NYC shootings June 2020,

NYC has seen 100 shootings in May, the first time the city had hit that number in around five years.
Shootings in New York City increased by a massive 358 percent over the last seven days, compared with the same time last year. The skyrocketing numbers have prompted the police commissioner to warn the worst is yet to come.

There were 12 shootings during the seven-day period in question last year, while 2020 has seen 55. More than 70 people were wounded in the 55 shootings, with at least 19 injured on Saturday when the city saw over a dozen incidents, most of which occurred in the Bronx. In one of these incidents, a man died after being shot in the neck while washing his car.

"It takes a long time to turn a ship that sees an iceberg directly in front of us,"said New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, adding that the numbers had been trending upward "for a while" and that he had warned of a "storm on the horizon" in December.

Shea also said NYC had seen 100 shootings in May, the first time the city had hit that number in around five years.

The latest figures come only a week after Shea ordered the disbanding of an anti-crime unit which saw plainclothes police officers stopping individuals and searching for weapons. The effort at reform was sparked by nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last month.

Comment: Chicago isn't faring any better. The city just witnessed one of the deadliest Father's Day weekends on record as 104 people were victims of gun violence. This is just after experiencing its deadliest Memorial Day weekend:
From Friday evening to Monday morning, 104 people were shot in Chicago. Among them was three-year-old Mekay James. He was hit by a bullet on Saturday while riding in a car with his father, who was the intended target, police said. The young child was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after.

Two teenage boys, ages 17 and 16, were killed just over an hour before James' death, when a male suspect approached them and fired shots. Later the same day a 13-year-old girl died after being shot in the neck while watching TV in her home.[..]

Police Superintendent David Brown said that police are working on tracking down those responsible for the shootings. He added that "gangs, guns and drugs" are the common thread in those shootings.
"Good men throughout this city should be celebrating with their families on a beautiful day, but instead, a number of Chicagoans will be spending Father's Day grieving the loss of their children," he said at a press conference.
See also: As woke world protests 'systemic racism' in the USA, Black-on-Black murders break 60-year-old record in Chicago

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Baiting Christians? BLM activist wants to expunge all statues of Jesus because they were created as tools of oppression

Douglas Ernst
The Washington Times
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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Shaun King said Monday it's time for anything resembling "white Jesus" to be expunged from the public square.

The staunch Black Lives Matter activist made the comments as online activists continued to debate which statues and monuments were culturally unacceptable in 2020.

The May 25 death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, under the weight of Minneapolis police served as the impetus for activists to tear down statues of historical figures like Christopher Columbus and George Washington.

"Yes," Mr. King said regarding his support for tearing down images of Christ. "All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form [of] white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down."

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Snakes in Suits

Gov. Cuomo committed one of the worst atrocities by sending thousands of Covid patients to nursing homes full of vulnerable elderly individuals

Ethan Yang
AIER
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
New York nursing home Covid deaths
The 56th Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, had the grave misfortune of presiding over one of the states hit hardest by COVID-19. According to a recent poll the governor has enjoyed a sky-high approval rating due to his leadership during the ongoing crisis.

Prior to the pandemic, he was polling at a dismal 3/10 favorable rating whereas now he is seen as one of the most liked politicians in the country with a new rating of 7/10. Some people like his brother and CNN anchor Chris Cuomo even asked if he was considering running for president because of his new popularity.

However, his record is far from stellar. He may have easily committed one of the greatest atrocities of the crisis: Mandating the transfer of over 4,500 COVID-19 patients to nursing homes full of vulnerable and elderly individuals which eventually saw over 6,000 deaths.

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Ohio business owner whose store was destroyed by looters, now being threatened for cooperating with police

Talla Kaplan
Fox News
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:00 UTC
Kelly Kandah, colossal cupcakes
An Ohio business owner told "Fox & Friends" on Monday that she is receiving threats for cooperating with law enforcement officials investigating the looting of her cupcake store last month.

Kelly Kandah, the owner of Colossal Cupcakes in Cleveland, which was destroyed by looters, said some of those threats include people telling her that when her store is rebuilt, "it's going to get hit again."

She said she also received complaints that her cooperation with investigators is "unfair," that she shouldn't be cooperating with the FBI and that what she is doing is "against the cause, which I'm actually absolutely for the cause, but it's upsetting people that I would involve the police over something such as property."

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Watch as police clear streets of Nantes with tear gas on 1yr anniversary of man's death during crackdown on a party


RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:51 UTC
nantes police protest
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Police tear-gassed groups of youths on the streets of Nantes, some of whom were attending the 'Fete de la Musique' event, while others were demonstrating on the first anniversary of the death of Steve Canico in a police crackdown.

Eyewitness footage from the scene shows large crowds sprinting away from police through the streets of Nantes as tear gas canisters rained down from the sky.

Thousands gathered throughout Sunday in a silent march in memory of 24-year-old Steve Canico who died at the music festival in 2019, after disappearing during a police baton charge and tear gas barrage along the banks of the Loire.
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Dollar as reserve currency waning, Yuan showing promise - Deustche Bank


CNBC
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 04:06 UTC
China
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A Chinese bank employee counts 100-yuan notes and U.S. dollar bills at a bank counter in Nantong in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on August 6, 2019.
The currency markets are currently facing "multiple cross-currents" amid fears over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases in the world, said Deutsche Bank's Sameer Goel, who is chief Asia macro strategist.

A "big question" for investors right now over the U.S. dollar is whether it should be trading at a safe-haven risk premium as concerns rise over a potential second wave of virus infections, Goel told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Monday.

He said that in a potential resurgence of cases, the U.S. dollar could weaken against most of its peers in developed markets, and to an extent, possibly China too.

Comment: See also: A crash in the dollar is coming

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UK's lockdown forces poorest to take on more debt

Tom Belger
Yahoo
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:43 UTC
poverty uk
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Even before the coronavirus, living standards had flatlined amid wage stagnation and austerity.
Poorer households are twice as likely as high-income households to have turned to borrowing to tide them through the coronavirus crisis, new figures suggest.

A study for the Resolution Foundation highlights the precarious position of millions of people's finances as the economic fallout of the pandemic deepens.

It found in a survey that the average worker in a shut-down sector of the economy had just £1,900 in savings in May, compared with £4,700 of savings among those able to keep working from home.

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