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Fort Hood soldier who reported sexual abuse found hanged - 12th death this year

Fionnuala O'Leary
The Sun
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:05 UTC
Fernandes
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A body believed to be Fernandes' was found on Tuesday
A MISSING Fort Hood soldier who reported sexual abuse was allegedly found hanged - becoming the twelfth death linked to the base this year.

Cops said the body believed to be that of missing Sgt Elder Fernandes was found in Temple, about 30 miles from Fort Hood, the Texas army base, on Tuesday.

Local police determined that it was the missing soldier based on the backpack he had with him, which had his drivers license inside but forensic confirmation is pending.

Fernandes, 23, is the twelfth Fort Hood soldier to die this year and his family's attorney Natalie Khawam said he was found hanging in a tree.

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Police threaten 'zero tolerance' towards ongoing protests against increasingly tyrannical lockdown measures in Melbourne

Emily Olle
7 New
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:11 UTC
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© 7NEWS
The protesters say they are taking a stand against Victoria’s Stage 4 COVID-19 restrictions.
Hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters have stormed the streets in Melbourne's south-east, prompting a tense stand-off with police.

Anger has boiled over in Dandenong as police attempt to deal with the crowd.

The protesters say they are taking a stand against Victoria's Stage 4 COVID-19 restrictions.

7NEWS understands one man has been arrested for antagonising and refusing to cooperate with police.

Comment: As noted below in a Sky News Australia broadcast, a rise in cases means very little - think of how many cases of flu could be reported each year - because, in fact, the numbers of people in hospital with coronavirus is actually very low, and more concerning is the impact these tyrannical policies are having on the Australian economy:


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Modern day witch-hunt? Those who protest against the 'official' Covid-19 narrative are categorized as 'psychopaths'

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:06 UTC
covid protest
© Reuters / Lindsey Wasson
A diabolical process is underway which consists in "identifying" all those who are opposed to the governments' management of the coronavirus pandemic. According to ongoing psychological studies, these opponents are categorized as anti-social psychopaths.

The unspoken objective is to shunt the emergence of an organized protest movement pertaining to social engineering and the decision taken Worldwide at a political level to close down the national economies of more than 150 members states of the United Nations.

Peer reviewed psychological "studies" are currently being carried in several countries using sample surveys.

Accept the "big Lie" and you are tagged as a "good person" with "empathy" who understands the feelings of others.

Protest against the official truth ("big lie"), criticize government guidelines, express reservations regarding the closing down of the global economy, social distancing and the wearing of the face mask, and you will be tagged (according to "scientific opinion") as a "callous and deceitful psychopath".

Comment: See also: Does Not Complying With Social Distancing Rules Mean You're a Psychopath? The Answer is Obvious

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Police requests to access your smart speaker are up 72% since 2016

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:32 UTC
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Amazon said it had received more than 3,000 requests for smart speaker user data from police earlier this year, according to a new article from Wired. Even more stunning, Amazon complied with the police's requests on more than 2,000 occasions, forking over recordings and data that give law enforcement an ear into someone's household.

This number marks a 72% increase in these types of requests from the same period in 2016 - the first time Amazon disclosed the data. The number of requests are up 24% year over year.

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Douglas Orr, head of the criminal justice department at the University of North Georgia, told Wired that police look for this smart home data "as routinely as data from smartphones". Police can continue to collect data if one electronic device (like a phone) leads them to another (like a smart home speaker) simply by amending search warrants, he said.

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Bad Guys

'Major victory' for paedophiles as baffling law is passed that could see rape and sexual assault victims thrown into JAIL just for telling their stories

Tita Smith
Daily Mail Australia
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 03:49 UTC
Supreme Court of Victoria
© AAPIMAGE
The Supreme Court of Victoria
Victorian sexual assault survivors could be jailed for up to four months or face fines exceeding $3000 for telling their stories using their real names.

The Judicial Proceedings Reports Act was changed in February, prohibiting victims from identifying themselves publicly if their attacker has been found guilty.

The new law applies retrospectively, meaning victims who have lawfully spoken out previously are now censored from speaking out publicly. Media outlets who defy the law can also be prosecuted and face fines of up to $8,000.

The only way for victims to identify themselves and tell their stories is to obtain a court order - which is not only time consuming, but would cost more than $10,000 in legal fees.
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Food insecurity: Fevers, floods and insects - China's growing agriculture crisis

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
storm damage in China
For the past months the Peoples' Republic of China has been subject to one after the other devastating shocks to its agriculture sector. A deadly outbreak of African Swine Fever that halved China's huge pig herds in 2019, was followed by infestation from a plague of fall armyworms (FAW) which reached China in December, 2018 and now threaten China's corn belt. Now the worst floods in some 60 years is wiping out major rice and other crops in central China along the Yangtze and other rivers. Food Security is one of six national priorities for national security. President Xi Jinping has just issued a call to citizens not to waste food or face penalties, a sign that the depth of the food security threat is far worse than thought.

While any of the several problems would be manageable in normal times, the combination of agriculture disasters combined with the economic consequences of the China outbreaks of coronavirus are presenting challenges that could well impact global food security in coming months.

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Echo of riots: 4 charged for torching Minneapolis police precinct during protests sparked by George Floyd death


RT
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:56 UTC
George Floyd protests
© Reuters / Nicholas Pfosi
Four men have been indicted by a grand jury for their alleged roles in burning the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct station on May 28, marking progress in efforts to punish those who escalated George Floyd protests into riots.

Indictments were issued against Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 22; Davon De-Andre Turner, 24; Bryce Michael Williams, 26; and Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, US Attorney Erica MacDonald announced on Tuesday. All four men are from Minnesota, and each is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit arson.

The incident occurred three days after Floyd died in police custody. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Third Precinct headquarters in south Minneapolis, at one point chanting "Burn it down, burn it down." Police chose to abandon the building and flee for their own safety as rioters tore down a perimeter fence and breached an entrance.
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Bizarro Earth

Rioters tear down dinosaur statue... in the name of social justice?

James Anthony
The Post Millenial
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:47 UTC
dinosaur statue
Two days ago, BLM protestors managed to pull down the statue of a dinosaur which was gracing the area outside the Kenosha Dinosaur Discovery Museum.

The Kenosha Dinosaur Discovery Museum was one of many municipal buildings that were damaged, including the public library, the Harborside Academy charter school, the US Postal Service building and the county register of deeds.

It is unclear as to why the mob decided to take its rage out on the dinosaur statue, but it can be seen damaged and defeated outside the museum, perhaps in testament to misplaced anger that is all too common these days.


The unrest and violence in Kenosha stems from an incident last Sunday afternoon around 5 pm, in which the police shot and badly injured Jacob Blake several times in the back at close range.
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Light Sabers

'Clear case of self-defense': Pundits argue video evidence exonerates 17-year-old charged with Kenosha killings


RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:51 UTC
Kyle Rittenhouse kenosha shooting self defense
© Brendan Gutenschwager/via REUTERS
Kyle Rittenhouse opens fire after being chased by protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, US, August 25, 2020
Numerous commentators claim that all available evidence shows that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he opened fire on protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The teen is accused of killing two protesters.

Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder over the shooting of three demonstrators - two of whom died - during riots in the city on Tuesday night.

Although painted as a bloodthirsty white supremacist by some journalists and activists, multiple observers have made the case that Rittenhouse had good intentions and pulled the trigger as a last resort.

Comment: Social media has been publishing the backgrounds of the shooting victims.






Tucker Carlson came under fire for defending Rittenhouse:
Carlson's segment on the ongoing protests and rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Wednesday night largely took aim at state and local officials, arguing that those in positions of power were to blame for a spike in violence after leaving city residents to cope with the unrest on their own.


"Kenosha has devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge of the city abandoned it," he said. "People in charge from the governor of Wisconsin on down refused to enforce the law, they stood back and they watched Kenosha burn."

So are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"

Media outlets from the Huffington Post to the Daily Beast and the Guardian were soon reporting as flat fact that Carlson's comments were a 'defense' and 'justification' of Rittenhouse's actions, while critics sent #FireTuckerCarlson into the trends on Twitter - some compiling a list of the pundit's advertisers in a bid to see him 'canceled.'



Some netizens weighed in to clarify the points advanced in Carlson's Wednesday segment, however, noting that he never offered a defense of the shooting, but rather criticized authorities for failing to protect the city from violence and destruction.


And finally, closet lefty site GoFundMe is not allowing any fundraising for Rittenhouse's legal defense, but hosting campaigns for the attackers:
The URL for his legal defense fundraiser "Help us Free Kyle!", set up by his father Tom Rittenhouse, still appears in Google searches but redirects to a "page not found" notice on the GoFundMe website.


Meanwhile, GoFundMe is directing people to the campaign for Anthony Huber, one of the two men allegedly shot dead by Rittenhouse during the violent altercation, describing him as a "hero" who "gave his life" and "tried to save others."

This move was not popular online, as Huber's alleged history of domestic violence has been discussed widely among those critical of the mainstream narrative about the shooting incident.



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Caesar

The removal of a bust of the British Museum's founder is no trivial issue. It is a step towards the erasure of the Enlightenment

Alexander Adams
RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:01 UTC
Hans Sloane statue, Hans Sloane bust, British Museum
© Wikimedia / Paul Hudson
The wrong-headed decision to give the activists a victory by 'toppling' Hans Sloane will not end their campaign, but boost it. These people will not stop until they have destroyed the very principles of Western society.

The British Museum has moved the bust of its founder from its prominent position. Hartwig Fischer, the museum's director, this week announced that due to social media pressure from Black Lives Matter, the sculpture of Sir Hans Sloane had been moved to a cabinet, where it is surrounded by contextualizing material. Activists state that Sloane benefited from owning slaves. Fischer took up the iconoclastic imagery of social-justice rioters by stating, "We have pushed him off the pedestal, we must not hide anything."

Sir Hans Sloane was a leading physician in London. He saved countless lives from the 1680s onwards through pioneering smallpox vaccination and malaria treatment. He traveled widely and sought to understand the natural world and human culture, which led to him form a large collection of historical and man-made artifacts.

He believed that material should benefit humanity, so, upon his death in 1753, he bequeathed it to the British nation. It was an act of philanthropic generosity which led to the foundation of the British Museum, British Library and Natural History Museum (originally in one body) in 1753.
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