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Ex-eBay executives harassed couple who gave company negative reviews with live roaches, 'bloody' pig mask, stalking

Nicolas Vega
NY Post
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:38 UTC
ebay
© Getty Images
Six former eBay employees have been charged with undertaking a coordinated stalking campaign against a couple who ran an e-commerce newsletter, going so far as to mail them live bugs and a "bloody pig face" mask.

The Department of Justice alleges that the employees targeted the Natick, Mass., couple after executives at the site took issue with perceived negative coverage from the husband and wife's newsletter.

The harassment began in August of 2019, according to the Department of Justice, after the eBay executives saw an article in the newsletter about litigation involving eBay, and sent messages about the publisher, saying it was time "to crush this lady."

The employees, including eBay's former director of safety and security, James Baugh, set up a "three-part harassment campaign, the first of which involved the defendants ordering "anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims' home, including a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath" and "a book on surviving the loss of a spouse."
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One person shot after protesters attempt to pull down statue in Albuquerque, New Mexico


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:24 UTC
Albuquerque shooting
© Via Twitter@SimonRomero
A demonstration in Albuquerque, New Mexico ended in violence after an individual was shot as protesters attempted to topple a statue. Unconfirmed reports claim the shooter was a member of a militia, but this has been disputed.

Demonstrators assembled outside the Albuquerque Museum on Monday, in what was initially billed as a "prayer gathering" and a "peaceful call" for the removal of a nearby statue of a Spanish conquistador. But it appears the group decided to take more active measures to ensure the statue's removal - a trash bag was put over the conquistador's head, and a metal chain was tied around the its neck.

As the crowd began to pull on the chain, all hell broke loose. In a video of the incident, protesters begin to shout at a man carrying a firearm. A masked protester then strikes him with a skateboard, as someone is heard screaming: "It's a cop, it's a cop!" The man then pulls back and slowly walks away as the group follows in pursuit. Screams of "Get him! Follow him!" can be heard.

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Once the statues are all dethroned, should we tear down the BBC, the Mail & the Guardian with their Nazi & slavery links?

Chris Sweeney
RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC
Newspapers in London
© Reuters/Luke MacGregor
British newspapers are at a newsagent's stand in central London.
The Black Lives Matter protests have sparked a look-back at important people's histories, but the newspapers and media who report on all of this have the same skeletons in their closets.

Britain is divided by its legacy, best displayed right now by Sir Winston Churchill. To some he's the hero who masterminded the war effort and to others, he's an example of abhorrent racism for his belief in using poison gas to kill "uncivilised tribes" and also for his role in the Bengal famine that saw three million die.

Churchill is just the latest in what has become statue-gate, kicked off by Edward Colston's effigy being thrown in a river. These are inanimate objects and by definition only relate to one person, whose life and times are there to be judged.

It's not so simple to analyse the media.


Comment: Propaganda would be a better word to use.


Britain has the biggest newspaper market in the world, where the press have long wielded much power and been afforded respect by the population. However, their own past certainly raises a few unpalatable truths.

Comment: As the propaganda arm of the governments, these fake news outlets have incited violence, fomented wars based on abhorrently dishonest reporting. Maybe they should be dethroned and tossed in the rubbish bin.

See also: Fake News: The weapon of choice for a handful of countries

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Attention

Leftist cognitive dissonance: Self-styled CHAZ leader filmed handing out AR-15s to followers


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:08 UTC
chaz
© Reuters / Goran Tomasevic
Protesters hang around an entrance of the Seattle Police Department East Precinct at the self-proclaimed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), in Seattle, Washington.
Raz Simone, the so-called warlord of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone carved out of Seattle by activists, has been filmed handing out assault rifles to minors. That's a state felony, if only there were anyone to enforce the law.

Video that surfaced on Monday - from Simone's own June 10 Facebook livestream, apparently - shows him handing out assault rifles that look like the ubiquitous AR-15 semi-automatic, including to individuals who look far younger than 21.


Washington state law, which came into effect last year, makes it a gross misdemeanor to transfer an assault rifle to anyone under 21, with any subsequent offenses considered felonies.

Moreover, under the law, persons between the ages of 18 and 21 are only able to possess a semiautomatic assault rifle or pistol in their place of residence or business, on real property under their control or when moving houses or traveling "to and from" allowed storage locations, as well as in the case of selling to those over 21.

Comment: Meanwhile, in Seattle proper, the City Council has made the use of tear gas, pepper spray, and chokeholds on peaceful protesters illegal.

See also:

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GitHub gives in to the woke mob, will replace the term 'master' with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Catalin Cimpanu
ZDNet
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:17 UTC
master and slave computer
GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday.

The code-hosting portal is just the latest in a long line of tech companies and open source projects that have expressed support for removing terms that may be offensive to developers in the black community.

This includes dropping terms like "master" and "slave" for alternatives like "main/default/primary" and "secondary;" but also terms like "blacklist" and "whitelist" for "allow list" and "deny/exclude list."

The concern is that continued use of these racially-loaded terms could prolong racial stereotypes.

"Such terminology not only reflects racist culture, but also serves to reinforce, legitimize, and perpetuate it," wrote academics in a 2018 journal.

Comment: When it comes to the woke progressives, no longer can words have multiple meanings. If a word can be read as politically incorrect in a single context, all the other contexts are irrelevant. That is the logic of the thought police.

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Bizarro Earth

Bizarro world: Southern California gym to reopen with pods for clients to exercise inside

Jennifer McGraw
KRON 4
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:01 UTC
workout pods
When a Redondo Beach gym reopens to clients Monday, it will look very different.

Those walking into Inspire South Bay Fitness on Artesia Boulevard will be told to sanitize their hands, have their temperature taken, asked to sign a waiver and then assigned into a pod, each with its own dumbbells and other equipment inside.

The pods took three days to build using shower curtains and pipes — a lower-cost alternative to installing plexiglass dividers, the gym's owner Peet Sapsin said.

Gyms and fitness centers have been shuttered for months as the state grappled with the spread of the coronavirus.
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Eye 1

Big Brother is Watching! Facial recognition camera system named 'Orwell' to be installed in all 43,000 schools in Russia for 'safety purposes'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:57 UTC
surveillance
© Sputnik / Maxim Bogodvid 18
All Russian schools will soon be equipped with face-recognition cameras, with the stated aim of protecting the safety of children by tracking a child's comings and goings in school, as well as by identifying visitors.

According to reports by Russian business daily Vedomosti, Rostec's National Center for Informatization (NCI) will be equipping educational centers with video surveillance systems for inside their buildings, as well as cameras to protect their perimeters.

The video-recording equipment will be hooked up to a platform called 'Orwell,' a surveillance system with the ability to perform face recognition, provided by Russian company NtechLab.

Comment: As Benjamin Franklin famously said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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Heart - Black

Elderly man's survival of COVID-19 comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page bill

Danny Westneat
Seattle Times
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:22 UTC
Michael Flor
© Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
Health care workers applaud Michael Flor upon his release from Swedish Issaquah last month Pushing the wheelchair is Dr. Anne Lipke, Flor’s critical care doctor.
Remember Michael Flor, the longest-hospitalized COVID-19 patient who, when he unexpectedly did not die, was jokingly dubbed "the miracle child?"

Now they can also call him the million-dollar baby.

Flor, 70, who came so close to death in the spring that a night-shift nurse held a phone to his ear while his wife and kids said their final goodbyes, is recovering nicely these days at his home in West Seattle. But he says his heart almost failed a second time when he got the bill from his health care odyssey the other day.

Comment: Also see: Undercover Nurse Exposes Neglect, Mismanagement & Corruption in Treatment of Covid-19 Patients in New York City

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Russian jets intercept US strategic bombers over Baltic Sea


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:25 UTC
US B-52H strategic bombers
© Ruptly
US B-52H strategic bombers have again been spotted near Russian borders, forcing its Baltic Sea Fleet's Su-27 fighter jets to take to the skies and monitor their actions, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

Video released by Moscow showed all stages of the 'intercept' - from the pilot in full gear rushing towards his jet to the Su-27s gaining on the American nuclear-capable bombers and "foreign surveillance planes" above the neutral waters.

NATO aircraft have frequently been spotted close to Russian airspace above Baltic and Black Sea frontiers in recent years. The flights, which Moscow deems provocative, have intensified since 2014, when Russia reabsorbed Crimea and a military conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine.
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Arrow Down

Seven Minneapolis police officers quit after George Floyd protests due to 'lack of support from city leaders'

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:24 UTC
george floyd protest
© Reuters / Eric Miller
At least seven police officers in Minneapolis have quit and others are in the process of resigning in the wake of the protests over George Floyd's death that have morphed into a rallying cry to defund or dismantle law enforcement.

Current and former officials with the Minneapolis Police Department told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday that more than half a dozen police officers are in the process of resigning, citing a lack of support from department and city leaders. However, police stressed to Fox News that only seven have been "separated" from the department since Floyd's death on May 25.

"We don't know how many plan on leaving until they leave. Seven have had their employment agreement separated. That's the bottom line," a police spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday evening.

Comment: For important information on the call to 'defund the police', check out:

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