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Lockdown wipes out US economy, contracts by worst-ever 32.9% in Q2

Emily McCormick
Yahoo
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC

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The US economy contracted at the sharpest rate on record in the second quarter this year, with GDP declining 32.9% on a quarter over quarter, annualized basis.

The US economy contracted at the sharpest rate on record in the second quarter this year, affirming fears that the coronavirus pandemic and measures to contain it drove a historic plunge in consumer and business activity.

Here were the main metrics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) advance Q2 GDP report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

Q2 GDP annualized, quarter over quarter: -32.9% vs. -34.5% expected vs. -5.0% in Q1
Q2 Personal consumption: -34.6% vs. -34.5% expected vs. -6.8% in Q1
Core Personal consumption expenditures, quarter over quarter: -1.1% vs. -0.9% expected vs. 1.7% in Q1

Market participants were bracing for an ugly second-quarter print, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing business closures and disrupting daily life for much of the April through June period.

"The decline in second-quarter GDP reflected the response to COVID-19, as 'stay-at-home' orders issued in March and April were partially lifted in some areas of the country in May and June, and government pandemic assistance payments were distributed to households and businesses," The BEA said in its statement.

"This led to rapid shifts in activity, as businesses and schools continued remote work and consumers and businesses canceled, restricted, or redirected their spending."

Comment: Many of those countries that implemented some of the harshest - and most deadly - lockdown measures are now facing the economic consequences, many of which have only just begun to be felt:

Now masks are not enough! Fauci claims eye protection might be required for 'perfect' Covid-proofing

RT
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:22 UTC

Top US immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci is now saying citizens are not "complete" in protecting themselves from the Covid-19 pandemic unless they go beyond wearing a mask and add in eye protection like goggles, too.

In an interview with Dr Jennifer Ashton, ABC News' chief medical correspondent, Fauci was asked if we might reach a point where masks are not only mandated, but eye protection as well.

"It might," he replied, going on to explain that the only way to have "perfect protection" from the virus is by protecting the eyes, as well as the mouth and nose.

"If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it," he said. "It's not universally recommended, but if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it."

Comment: We've been down dumbed, socially numbed, activity crumbed, mind mummed, economically bummed and now sight thumbed?

Man knifed in the back at Portland protest: 'I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist'

Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
The Oregonian
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

A videographer knifed near the scene of a protest outside Portland's federal courthouse said Wednesday he was nearly killed over his right-wing politics and activism.

"I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist," said Andrew Duncomb, 25, who films demonstrations and other political events under the moniker "Black Rebel."

Duncomb, who is Black and a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he had traveled last Friday to Portland from his home in Northern California to document the nightly unrest outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse and county Justice Center. He had a specific agenda in mind.

"My main goal was to show that it wasn't just the feds creating the problems," Duncomb said.

Study: Global lockdowns killing 10,000 children per month

Matt Palumbo
Bongino.com
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

Weighed against the benefit of slowing the spread of coronavirus, a new study bolsters the argument of those claiming that when it comes to lockdowns, the cure may be worse than the disease itself.

The study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and published in The Lancet puts a number to the human cost of lockdowns when it comes to children specifically and the results are grim: the deaths of 10,000 children per month, and severe malnutrition to another 550,000.

It's tragically ironic that some of the damage from the virus could've been averted had publications like The Lancet not published bogus studies attempting to discredit hydroxychloroquine that they were forced to retract.

Comment: See also: Does the Handling of the Coronavirus by Our Government Amount to Torture?

Two women charged with beating Wisconsin state senator during June Madison riots

Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:21 UTC

kerida o'reilly samantha hamer beating wisconsin senator

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Kerida O’Reilly, left, and Samantha Hamer, right, were charged Wednesday, July 29, 2020, with battery in connection with an attack on Wisconsin state Sen. Tim Carpenter, during a protest against police racism outside the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, on June 23.

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged two women, including a high school social worker, with attacking a Wisconsin state senator during a chaotic night of violence outside the state Capitol last month.

Kerida O'Reilly, 33, and Samantha Hamer, 26, were each charged with one count of being a party to substantial battery, a felony punishable by up to $10,000 in fines and three-and-a-half years in prison, online court records show.

Both women were arrested Monday after they turned themselves in to police. They were scheduled to make initial court appearances on Wednesday afternoon.

Comment: No wonder so many kids are messed up these days.

Wisconsin Senator Tim Carpenter collapses after being 'punched' & 'kicked' in the head at protests

My ex-police colleagues have given up trying to stop black youths carrying guns and knives because it puts their careers at risk

Kevin Hurley
RT
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:00 UTC

Young black men are 25 times more likely to be murdered, yet any initiative to try to discuss why this is, or to use software to identify whether different ethnic groups "specialize" in particular types of crime, is deemed taboo.

I have spent thirty-five years in policing, most of it in inner city London trying to keep people safe. People of all creeds and all colors.

Along the way, I had daily leadership of Operation Blunt 2, the Metropolitan Police attempts to reduce murder amongst teenagers from a peak in 2008 of 29 a year, with 26 of them caused by stabbing or shooting, to a low by 2012 of only eight, with just six caused by stabbing and none by the gun.

Judging by the trends of 2007 onwards, that operation probably saved the lives of over 100 teenagers by 2012. Not to mention the probable 250-plus who would have got life in prison or long sentences for involvement in what were principally gang-related murders. The key tactic of this operation was the stop-and-search targeting of gangs of black inner-city youths by specialist units.

It would be wrong not to give due credit to the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and his Deputy Mayor for Policing, Kit Malthouse, who gave unstinting support to police efforts trying to stop this carnage among our young people.

Comment: The woke mob can't help but make things worse for those they claim they wish to help, because they're modus operandi is bending facts to fit their theories which blinds them to the real problems. Which creates an ironic twist where the woke are making life worse for minorities and the police are actually making it better.

District attorneys backed by Soros join fray in clash with police

Ronn Blitzer
Fox News
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:06 UTC

Calls for drastic criminal justice and police reforms have swept the country since the death of George Floyd, but local prosecutors already are making waves on that front -- in a sign that under-the-radar political investments made by progressive groups in recent years are paying off.

District attorneys and current candidates whose campaigns benefited from the work of left-wing organizations - including ones backed by liberal billionaire George Soros - are now pushing for new practices that could see sharp reductions in prosecutions and incarcerations.

Soros, through the Justice & Public Safety PAC and other groups, has been spending millions of dollars on prosecutorial races in recent years, with a number of beneficiaries making headlines since their elections.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was boosted by Soros in her campaign, drew controversy when she announced her office was bringing felony charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who brandished guns outside their home as protesters marched by in June.

Solidarity? Portland's Wall of Moms crumbles amid online allegations of 'anti-blackness' by former partner organization, Don't Shoot PDX

Alex Hardgrave
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:52 UTC

Portland Wall of Moms, a group formed in recent weeks and quickly recognized as a staple of nightly downtown protests, was accused publicly Wednesday of "anti-Blackness" by leaders of an existing, Black-led community group.

Wall of Moms, whose members said they aimed to support and protect other Black Lives Matter protesters near the fence in front of the federal courthouse, announced Friday that its white leadership had rescinded their positions to allow women of color to be in charge. New leaders announced Friday include Teressa Raiford, executive director of Don't Shoot Portland, Demetria Hester and Danialle James.

But less than a week later, Don't Shoot Portland took to Instagram to urge people against supporting the Wall of Moms, saying that it was no longer working with the moms group.

Comment: The Left can't seem to stop eating its own.

Election interference? Google purges Breitbart from search results

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:40 UTC

A few days after the 2016 election, at an internal meeting later leaked to Breitbart News, top Google executives, including Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, and Kent Walker, lamented President Trump's victory, comparing Trump voters to "extremists" and discussing their desire to make Trump's election and the populist movement a "blip" in history.

True to their word, four years later, Google is deliberately working to interfere with the reelection of Trump in 2020.

There are several ways in which Google is interfering in the 2020 election, but this article will focus primarily on one of them: political search bias.

Seattle police say explosives found in abandoned van at protests over weekend

Elise Takahama
The Seattle Times
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:24 UTC

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Seattle police show photos of a large haul of pyrotechnic explosives, stun guns, bear spray and sets of spike strips

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best revealed at a Wednesday news conference that police discovered explosives, smoke bombs and other weapons in a van stationed at the weekend protests.

Saturday's demonstration, promoted by the Youth Liberation Front in support of protesters in Portland, erupted in violence. Best said over the weekend that officers used blast balls, pepper spray and 40mm sponge-tip rounds, while some in the crowd of protesters broke windows and started fires. At one point, she said, someone threw an explosive that blew an 8-inch hole through a wall of the Police Department's East Precinct.

Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said Saturday evening that his team responded to multiple fires, including one that destroyed four trailers at a construction site.

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Society's Child

Lockdown wipes out US economy, contracts by worst-ever 32.9% in Q2

Now masks are not enough! Fauci claims eye protection might be required for 'perfect' Covid-proofing

Man knifed in the back at Portland protest: 'I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist'

Study: Global lockdowns killing 10,000 children per month

Two women charged with beating Wisconsin state senator during June Madison riots

My ex-police colleagues have given up trying to stop black youths carrying guns and knives because it puts their careers at risk

District attorneys backed by Soros join fray in clash with police

Solidarity? Portland's Wall of Moms crumbles amid online allegations of 'anti-blackness' by former partner organization, Don't Shoot PDX

Election interference? Google purges Breitbart from search results

Seattle police say explosives found in abandoned van at protests over weekend

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