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The data shows injuries and homicides caused by gun violence during a 72-hour period, from the evening of Friday, July 2 to the evening of Monday, July 5, according to Gun Violence Archive data.
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The data shows injuries and homicides caused by gun violence during a 72-hour period, from the evening of Friday, July 2 to the evening of Monday, July 5, according to Gun Violence Archive data.
Anti-police Washington state and local elected officials politicized the memorial service for fallen Seattle Police Department officer Lexi Harris on Thursday. More than one thousand people attended the memorial service for officer Lexi Harris at T-Mobile Park, honoring the life of the five-year veteran with the Seattle Police Department who was highly respected amongst her peers and members within the community.
Comment: See also:
- Seattle police officer speaks out after Capitol Hill Pride bans LGBTQ officers from this year's events
- Why are we allowing the lawless madness of Seattle's CHOP autonomous zone to be repeated in Minneapolis' George Floyd Square?
- Antifa thugs assault Post Millennial journalist in downtown Seattle
- White House: NYC, Portland, Seattle 'anarchists jurisdiction' labels may go away
- Not needed anymore? Seattle police and city attorney FINALLY take hardline stance against Antifa
- Reports of police moving in on Antifa hotel occupation near Seattle
National Public Radio (NPR) continued its yearly July 4 tradition of posting the Declaration of Independence to social media.
This year, however, there were a few twists and caveats.
"245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence," NPR tweeted, linking to an article about its annual reading of the founding document.
Comment: At least they didn't censor it outright.
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- NPR worries that declaring violent Portland protests to be riots could be racist
- NPR ripped on social media after they publish a gender identity 'glossary' & tips on proper pronoun usage: 'A complete guide to lunacy'
- NPR tells readers the Hunter Biden story is a 'waste' of time and a 'pure distraction,' so they're not reporting on it
- NPR promotes insane book celebrating looting and riots
Vaccination nurse Lorraine Mooney gives a vaccination to a member of the public outside a bus in the car park of Crieff Community Hospital.
A further 24,885 people tested positive for coronavirus today, up from 18,270 last Saturday and the sixth day in a row the daily figure has surged above 20,000.
But the 18 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours marks a drop of 21.7 per cent on the 23 recorded on this day last week.
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- NHS app will be used as Covid 'vaccine passport' for foreign travel
- "Sinister" plan to MANDATE Covid vaccine for all NHS staff decried by Trusts
- Personal responsibility should replace government orders as UK learns to 'live' with Covid-19 - minister
- 15,472 dead, 1.5M injured (50% serious) reported in European Union's database of adverse drug reactions for COVID-19 shots
- Lockdown in New South Wales, Australia fails to prevent spread of Delta Covid variant
- Judicial ruling: Just 152 official deaths from Covid in Portugal
- Ivermectin's success in battling COVID-19
- U.S. Sen. Johnson holds news conference with families injured by COVID vaccines, ignored by medical community
After failing to reach his previously stated benchmark for vaccinations, Joe Biden desperately tweeted a plea for Americans to do "the most patriotic thing you can do" and take the COVID shot.
Comment: Patriotism is the love of and devotion to one's country, not the love and devotion, and blind obedience to, that country's leaders. Perhaps a true patriot would forego the vaccine to be left healthy enough to continue its legacy.
See also:
- Vaccine watchdog won't admit the Covid-19 jabs cause period irregularities despite 4K women reporting problems
- Reports of growing censorship across social media doesn't help bring people together to a more rational understanding of vaccine risk-benefit analysis
- Probe launched after Ukrainian man passes out, dies 4 hours after taking Pfizer Covid vaccine
- Big Tech cracks down on Robert Malone, mRNA vaccine pioneer who warns about their risks
- U.S. Sen. Johnson holds news conference with families injured by COVID vaccines, ignored by medical community
- Doctors in Singapore urge expert committee on Covid-19 vaccination to stop vaccine drive for school boys: Media report
- The corruption is obvious in how mRNA vaccine complications are downplayed compared to other jabs
- Trump defends the unvaccinated; doctor behind covid vaccines said refusing the vaccine is a 'fundamental right'
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Pairs of children's shoes and toys are seen at memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2021.
Pairs of children's shoes and toys are seen at memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2021.
The nearly 1,000 bodies of indigenous children in mass graves were recently found by ground-penetrating radar, said the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) and the Cowessess First Nation.
A reported 150,000 indigenous children were abducted and imprisoned in the Catholic schools, where they were tortured with the intent of erasing their culture and language, as were also sexually abused, had needles driven through their tongues for speaking their own language, were sterilized, among many other horrific practices.
Comment: See also:
- Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II torn down in Canada
- British Columbia First Nation says remains of 182 found near former school
- Spate of arson attacks burns down Catholic churches in Canada
- Cowessess finds signs of 751 unmarked graves at former residential school
- Trudeau's regret over children's deaths does nothing to address the issues faced by Canada's indigenous people
- Remains of more than 200 children found at site of Canadian indigenous school
The blaze was eventually 'stabilized', officials said
Around 50 firefighters were deployed to the scene after the explosion rocked the Navodari Petromidia refinery on the Black Sea coast.
The refinery's operations "have been stopped as a security measure," said the Kazakh KazMunayGas (KMG) group that owns the oil processing site.
Comment: Also this week two other major explosions occurred:
- Huge explosion filmed in Caspian Sea, officials speculate oil rig fire or mud volcano (July 4th)
- Undersea gas pipeline rupture causes fire in Gulf of Mexico (July 3rd)
- Huge explosion & fire underneath tube station in London (June 28th)
- Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children (June 25th)
- Scottish Dark Sky Observatory destroyed in suspicious fire (June 24th)
- Fire at medical marijuana lab in Italy kills 1, injures 3 (8th May)
- Despite major fire on hospital roof, medical team stay inside to complete heart operation - Russia (April 21st)
- Fire kills 55,000 animals at one of Germany's biggest pig farms (April 1st)
- Large fire at San Borja Arriaran Hospital in Santiago (Jan 30th)
- Fire breaks out at world's biggest vaccine maker, India's Serum Institute (Jan 21st)
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Author Michael Knowles and book "Speechless"
Author Michael Knowles and book "Speechless"
That's according to Publisher's Weekly, which gets its data from NPD BookScan, the industry's most comprehensive count of book sales.
But you wouldn't know it from reading The New York Times. The Times' prestigious "bestseller list" does not include Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds at all in its list of the top 15 books for the same week.
Instead, it lists books like On Juneteenth, which according to BookScan sold only 4,774 copies that week, or just over a quarter as many as Knowles' book. At #13, it lists Somebody's Daughter, a "memoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration" that does not appear anywhere in Publisher's Weekly's list of the top 25 nonfiction books.
The Times lists O'Reilly's book, Killing the Mob, in first place.
Comment: The New York Times is a self-appointed gatekeeper. Loyal readership believes whatever it is told.
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More than 1 per cent of Iceland's working population took part in the pilot programme which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay.
Joint analysis by think tanks in Iceland and the UK found that the trials, which ran from 2015 to 2019 and involved more than 2,500 people, boosted productivity and wellbeing and are already leading to permanent changes.
"Progressive change is possible"
Icelandic trade union federations, which collectively negotiate wages and conditions for most Icelandic employees, have already begun to negotiate reduced working hours as a result.
The researchers estimate that as a result of new agreements struck in 2019-2021 after the trials ended, 86 per cent of Iceland's entire working population now either have reduced hours or flexibility within their contracts to reduce hours.
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Israeli Arab women protest renewal of discriminatory law.
Israeli Arab women protest renewal of discriminatory law.
Critics, including many left-wing and Arab lawmakers, say it's a racist measure aimed at restricting the growth of Israel's Arab minority, while supporters say it's needed for security purposes and to preserve Israel's Jewish character.
The law creates an array of difficulties for Palestinian families that span the war-drawn and largely invisible frontiers separating Israel from east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, territories it seized in the 1967 war that the Palestinians want for a future state.
"You want your security, it's no problem, you can check each case by itself," said Taiseer Khatib. His wife of more than 15 years, from the West Bank city of Jenin, must regularly apply for permits to live with him and their three children in Israel.
"There's no need for this collective punishment just because you are Palestinian," he said.
Israel's dominant right-wing parties strongly support the law, and it has been renewed every year since being enacted. But Israel's new government includes opponents of the measure, and the right-wing opposition led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — aiming to embarrass the government — has warned it won't provide the votes needed to renew the law.
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