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Terry Crews says people 'discouraging free thought' scared him more than KKK when he was young

Emma Colton
Washington Examiner
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:27 UTC
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Actor Terry Crews said that he was never afraid of the Ku Klux Klan when he was younger and was more afraid of people "discouraging free thought."

Crews condemned entertainer Nick Cannon last week for anti-Semitic remarks he made during an episode of his YouTube show.

"We have to include this white voice, this Hispanic voice, this Asian voice. We have to include it RIGHT NOW, because if we don't ... it's going to slip into something we are really not prepared for," Crews tweeted after Cannon promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

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Health

Hydroxychloroquine should be available over the counter

John and Andy Schlafly
Townhall
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:01 UTC
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© AP Photo/John Locher
It is time to take the bull by the horns to conquer the Wuhan virus. Drastic action is necessary, like on December 8, 1941 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

President Trump should order immediate public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) by making the medication available over-the-counter (OTC). Liberals have interfered with public access to this medication for COVID-19 through the old-fashioned route of requiring a prescription and then having a pharmacist fill or reject the prescription.

Millions of Americans do not visit physicians, and cannot obtain a prescription for HCQ if they did. Even if you have been exposed to COVID-19, you cannot obtain a prescription for HCQ in most states because regulators prohibit dispensing it without a positive test result, which typically cannot be obtained until late in the progression of the disease.

No one credibly doubts that HCQ is safe, and safer than many medications currently available OTC. No one credibly doubts the dozens of studies showing that early use of HCQ, pre-exposure and immediately after exposure to COVID, has helped many overcome this dreaded disease.

Americans do not need a prescription to obtain hundreds of medications which once required a prescription. Nexium, Prevacid, Prilosec, Claritin, Flonase, and Primatene Mist are medications that have been shifted from Rx to OTC in recent years, not because the medical establishment pushed for the change, but because of public demand for it.

Comment: See also: A Scientific Look at The Mask Fallacy - And Why We're Told to Wear Them

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Gold Coins

Gold price set to soar over 20% this year, Russian analysts predict


RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 03:22 UTC
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© Getty Images / Anthony Bradshaw
Gold will extend its rally as the price may surge more than 20 percent in 2020, according to a recent forecast from Russia's National Rating Agency (NRA).

The economic uncertainties triggered by the coronavirus pandemic have sparked interest in the traditional safe haven asset. In the first half of the year, the price of the precious metal rose 26 percent, hitting a near decade high.

However, the NRA expects gold demand to cool in the next six months as fears about the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak wane, leading to a downside correction. Although gold price growth may slow to 15-17 percent in the second part of the year, the annual average price will still grow by 21 percent, the agency said.
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Chess

BRICS countries bet on digital technologies to boost development of small and medium-sized businesses


RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 03:13 UTC
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© Sputnik / Nina Zotina
Russia's Ministry of Economic Development has held an online roundtable discussion on the support and development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) within the five-member BRICS trade alliance.

The video conference was attended by government officials and representatives of public and business structures.

They exchanged experiences and best practices on using digital technologies for the development and support of SMEs. The participants also reviewed the main steps to ensure successful digitalization of this segment of the economy, as well as state regulation tools.

"The interaction of the BRICS countries on the support and development of SMEs is an excellent opportunity to achieve the growing potential of the economies of BRICS countries," said the ministry's Deputy Director of the Investment Policy and Entrepreneurship Development Department Kirill Sergashov.
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Legendary economist Thomas Sowell warns US is approaching the 'point of no return'

Elise Ehrhard
The Western Journal
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:24 UTC
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Conservative economist and American treasure Thomas Sowell has a warning for Americans:

The 2020 elections could be a "point of no return" for the United States.

Sowell delivered the grim news Sunday during an appearance on conservative commentator Mark Levin's Fox News Show, "Life, Liberty and Levin" — and appearance that came against a national backdrop of leftist calls to "defund police" amid rising crime and chaos in the streets of major U.S. cities.

"I must say, even though I was regarded as pessimistic, I was never pessimistic enough to think that things would degenerate to the point where they are now," Sowell told Levin.

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Popcorn

NY Mayor's 'Black Lives Matter' mural attacked for third time in a week, this time by Christian activist


RT
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:09 UTC
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An NYPD officer attempts to detain Bevelyn Beatty in New York City, July 18, 2020
Police dragged away Christian activist Bevelyn Beatty after she dumped a tin of paint on the 'Black Lives Matter' mural on New York's Fifth Avenue. All week, activists have been dropping paint on the controversial mural.

Beatty is a black, conservative, Christian activist, and is no stranger to controversy. She's taken to the streets in Seattle to blast protesters and supporters of Joe Biden, she's been handcuffed for protesting outside Planned Parenthood in New York, and arrested for disrupting a city council meeting on face masks in Florida just two weeks ago.

Beatty was in New York on Saturday, this time targeting the gigantic, yellow 'Black Lives Matter' mural put down on Fifth Avenue by Mayor Bill de Blasio last week. She strode out onto the mural, spilled a tin of black paint over the letters, and chanted "Jesus matters" and "refund the police."

Comment: See also:

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Yellow Vest

Protesters clash with police in Jerusalem & Tel Aviv on eve of 2nd hearing in Netanyahu's corruption trial


RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:50 UTC
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© Reuters / Ammar Awad
Scuffles have broken out between police and protesters who took to the Israeli streets on Sunday, including to PM Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem, demanding he resign and lambasting his coronavirus response.

Police used water cannon and mounted units to disperse crowds in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as thousands of protesters demanded Netanyahu's resignation over corruption charges, as well as demonstrating against the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A big crowd marched to Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem for the fourth time this week.
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Red Pill

German study finds no evidence coronavirus spreads in schools

Caroline Copley and Markus Wacker
U.S. News and World Report
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:04 UTC
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© INA FASSBENDER/AFP
Very few of 2,000 school children and teachers tested in the German state of Saxony showed antibodies to COVID-19, a study found on Monday, suggesting schools may not play as big a role in spreading the virus as some had feared.

Germany began reopening schools in May, though debate continues as to the role children may play in spreading the virus to vulnerable adults at home as well as to older teachers and school staff.

The study by the University Hospital in Dresden analysed blood samples from almost 1,500 children aged between 14 and 18 and 500 teachers from 13 schools in Dresden and the districts of Bautzen and Goerlitz in May and June.

The largest study conducted in Germany on school children and teachers included testing in schools where there were coronavirus outbreaks.
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Cross

Nantes cathedral 'catches' fire: Arson suspected as 400-year-old organ destroyed in blaze - UPDATES

Alice Tidey
euronews.com
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:24 UTC

Comment: They've done it again...


Nantes
© Laetitia Notarianni/AP Photo
French police officers look at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, damaged by a blaze on Saturday morning. July 18, 2020
More than 100 firefighters were deployed in the western French city of Nantes on Saturday morning to tackle a "violent blaze" at the cathedral.

"For the moment, the fire has been contained," General Laurent Ferlay, the head of the local fire service, told reporters at around 10:00 CEST.

An arson inquiry has been launched, the Nantes prosecutor said.

Footage released on social media earlier by the French Federation of Firefighters showed flames leaping inside the gothic monument as a large cloud of black smoke escaped to rise towards the sky.

Comment: An eyewitness who lives near the cathedral told the LCI news outlet that he was woken up by "a very strange sound of bells" and he could see the fire from his home.

Also this week there was a stabbing at church in Virginia, US, and just a few days earlier another church in the US was vandalized with satanic and anarchist symbols.

Update 18 July 2020

Further reports and photos show that the fire indeed started in several places:
Images showing the charred interior of the 15th-century cathedral in Nantes, France, appear to point at three separate outbreaks of flames having damaged the Gothic gem on Saturday. Arson is being investigated.

The diocese of Nantes released images on Facebook in the wake of the blaze. It completely destroyed the grand organ at the Cathedral of St. Pierre and St. Paul, blew out the stained glassed windows at the front of the building, and consumed a valuable 19th-century painting that had been sent from Rome.

Locals quickly spotted that, judging by the photos, there had been two separate fires on the ground floor, located meters away from each other. The third apparently broke out on the upper level.

Nantes Cathedral1
© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
Nantes Cathedral2
© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
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© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
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© Facebook / Diocese of Nantes
Nantes Prosecutor Pierre Sennes confirmed there had been three fire hotspots in the building and announced that "an arson investigation has been opened."
Update 19 July 2020

A 39-year-old Rwandan man, who worked for the diocese as a volunteer, is a suspect, according to the Europe1 news outlet - and he has been taken into custody.

Breitbart adds:
The 39-year-old migrant detained following the blaze, according to French reports, worked for the diocese, and was angry over difficulties he had been having with his expired visa — although the authorities have cautioned against leaping to conclusions about his involvement in the fire.

Prosecutors said it would be "premature and hasty" to brand the migrant, who was apparently responsible for locking the cathedral up the day before the fire, as an arsonist.

It appears he was taken into custody because there are inconsistencies in his timetable — but Nantes public prosecutor Pierre Sennès has stressed that this is "normal procedure" and that, so far, the authorities are not working under the assumption that he started the blaze.

Jean-Charles Nowak, a clerk at the cathedral, has defended the unnamed migrant, saying he "adores" the building.

"I don't believe for a second that he could have set the cathedral on fire," Nowak said.
It sounds like they're dangling this man as a fall-guy, for now, in order to gaslight the population into privately thinking "I knew it had to be a foreigner," while, of course, it probably wasn't him - though he may have unwittingly allowed the actual perpetrators to sneak in and do their wicked deed.

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Attention

Man, 26, suffers collapsed lung after jogging 2.5 miles while wearing face mask

Kelly-Ann Mills
The Mirror
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:43 UTC
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© China News Service via Getty Images
Jogging is popular in China
A young man fell to the ground due to a collapsed lung after running two-and-a-half miles while wearing a face mask. Doctors say his condition was caused by the high pressure on the man's organ, due to his intense breathing while wearing the face covering.

Surgeons say the 26-year-old, who is known by the pseudonym Zhang Ping, from Hankou, China, had a puncture in his left lung and it had shrunk by 90 per cent.

Mr Zhang, was rushed to the Wuhan Central Hospital on Thursday, May 7 after he became breathless and started having severe chest pain. He wrote in a social media post that he is now recovering in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery to save his life.
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