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British supermarket bends the knee to ONE transgender activist & gets ads slashed. Is no one safe from these woke super-soldiers?

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:35 UTC
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© WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images
04 July, 2020 in London, England
Lurking behind an anonymous profile picture is a hidden power capable of bringing the UK's biggest corporations to their knees. Meet the transgender campaigner, the woke world's arbiter of all that is right and moral.

'Stop Funding Hate' is a social media campaign dedicated to driving advertisers from conservative newspapers and media outlets. When the group noticed ads for Co-op - Britain's fifth-largest supermarket chain - in The Spectator last week, it manned battle stations and pressed the retailer to cut its ties with the "toxic and inflammatory" conservative magazine.

But nobody listened, and the group's tweets went unheard for several days. Enter the transgender campaigner, a woman by the name of 'Lisa' with a couple hundred followers and pronouns in her bio. When Lisa spoke, Co-op listened, promising the enraged transsexual that they'd demand change from The Spectator, or pull their ads from its filthy, transphobic pages.

Comment: Co-op supermarket and The Spectator cancel each other over 'transphobia' ad row

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Attention

NY town pushing for policy to allow cops to accept 'sexual gratuities' from citizens

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 18:41 UTC
Sexaul Favors
© Screen grab from COPS
Tonawanda, NY — Over the years, TFTP has reported on utterly asinine requests for special privilege for law enforcement. We've seen departments exempt themselves from sex with prostitutes so they could turn around and arrest prostitutes as well as dozens of states that allowed cops to have sex with people in their custody. Now, a town in New York is taking this ridiculousness to the extreme by proposing legislation to allow officers to receive 'sexual gratuities' while on duty. Seriously.

As if figuratively licking the boots of an authoritarian state wasn't good enough, citizens of Tonawanda, New York are pushing the Town Board to change its policies to allow cops to receive literal sexual favors from worshipful citizens.

When this report came across our radar, we originally thought it was satire. However, the Buffalo Chronicle is not The Onion and according to report, this is actually happening.

The push to allow citizens to "tip" cops with sexual favors comes amid sexual misconduct allegations against a popular career police officer, Brett Rider, 46.

According to the Chronicle, the Town of Tonawanda is planning to discuss the possible termination of Rider, a veteran public safety dispatcher, after an internal investigation found he committed misconduct on the job. On Monday, the Town Board passed a resolution to let the town supervisor or police chief to discipline dispatcher Brett Rider.

The Board would not explain what Rider is accused of doing, but it is widely rumored that Rider is accused of having sexual intercourse with a married woman, age 56, while on duty. The department also stepped up sexual harassment training after the allegations.
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Liverpool cop fights, pepper-sprays, & handcuffs maskless commuter with alleged 'health condition,' triggering online wrath


RT
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:41 UTC
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© Twitter / Anti-Lockdown
British Transport Police has been pelted with virtual tomatoes online after an officer was filmed trying to heavy-handedly enforce the mask-wearing order on a stubborn passenger, ending up in an intense one-on-one scuffle.

The footage has caught the eye of multiple viewers and shows a uniformed Liverpool transport police officer in the middle of a heated argument with a commuter, who'd apparently refused to wear a compulsory mask. "I do not have to wear a mask," he insists, adding it's "against the law to challenge me."

Meanwhile, a man filming is heard adding, "underlying health conditions, you don't have to wear a mask." Face coverings are mandatory to wear on public transport in the UK, unless a passenger reports having a medical condition that prevents them from doing so.

"I'm not going to ask you anymore. Get off or we're taking you off," the officer tells the passenger seconds before the scuffle breaks out. "Get off me! Who the f**k do you think you're grabbing?" the rider shouts as the scuffle continues and he tries to avoid being restrained.

The confrontation turned more violent after the officer tried to apply handcuffs and pepper-sprayed the man. During the struggle, the man's shirt comes off.


The video garnered scores of views and shares by Friday afternoon, with tweets of support for the man who "stands tall for his freedom" and calls to "discipline the officer and overturn this madness."
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Hundreds of NYC restaurants file $2B suit against Cuomo, de Blasio over indoor dining ban

Daniel Payne
Just the News
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:03 UTC
Cuomo/De Blasio
© Family Traveler/Getty Images/Marketwatch/Brandon McDermid/Reuters/KJN
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo • NY Mayor Bill De Blasio
A class-action lawsuit filed in New York City is seeking $2 billion in damages against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the indoor dining ban that still persists in the city even as the rest of the state has been allowed to resume the practice.

The lawsuit, filed late last month in the state Supreme Court on behalf of several hundred restaurants, argues that Cuomo and de Blasio have enforced "catastrophic" policies against New York City restaurants, continuing a ban on indoor dining there while restaurants throughout New York state have been allowed to re-open their dining rooms.

It further claims that Cuomo over the past several months has "issued stricter and confusing executive orders" even as the virus remained under control in the city and the state.

Comment: Food for fraught? Cuomo and de Blasio have been overly reactionary and inconsistent with their handling of the 'pandemic' - a quality of the duo that has left heavy resentment and public confusion within their jurisdictions.

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A walk on the dark side

Jeff Minick
Intellectual Takeout
Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Riot
© Mstyslav Chernov/Unframe, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Riot
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri coined the above phrase in his Divine Comedy, an inscription hung by the poet above the gates of hell.

Today "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" might serve as the perfect slogan for that band of anarchists, Marxists, thugs, and all-round loonies running amuck in our cities, who appear in the media bemoaning the evils of America, who seek to "cancel culture" and their opponents by mobbing dissenters on social media, and who revel in destruction rather than in creation.

Recently, a friend wondered aloud how people faced such disasters as COVID-19 and the looting and burning in so many of our cities without a belief in God. A devout Christian, she couldn't imagine coping with these horrible disasters and indeed with everyday life without her faith.

Her musings ignited a series of questions about the vandals bringing devastation to our urban streets.
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Militia members face gun charges, alleged to have come to Kenosha 'to pick people off'

Louis Casiano
Fox News
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:17 UTC
michael karmo cody smith kenosha militia weapons charges
© Justice Department
Michael Karmo (L) Cody Smith (R) have been charged in a federal criminal complaint with illegal possession of firearms
Michael Karmo, 40, and Cody Smith, 33, are prohibited from possessing firearms because of past criminal convictions

A pair of Missouri residents connected to a militia group traveled to Kenosha, Wis., amid demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake "to loot and possibly 'pick people off,'" according to a federal criminal complaint.

Michael Karmo, 40, and Cody Smith, 33, both of Hartville, Mo., were arrested Tuesday at a hotel in Kenosha County on federal charges of illegal possession of firearms. Both men are barred from possessing firearms because of past criminal convictions.

Karmo has prior convictions for vehicle theft, evading a peace officer resulting in injury or death and burglary, among other crimes. Smith has a domestic battery conviction.

Comment: From Channel 3000:
Matthew D. Krueger's office announced Thursday that 40-year-old Michael M. Karmo and 33-year-old Cody E. Smith, who are coworkers and roommates in Hartville, Missouri, have been charged in a federal criminal complaint with illegal possession of firearms after being arrested Tuesday at a hotel in Pleasant Prairie.

At about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday, FBI agents found and detained Karmo and Smith at the hotel, which is located about 7 miles from Kenosha. After receiving consent to search Karmo and Smith's vehicle and hotel room, FBI agents recovered an Armory AR-15 assault rifle, a Mossberg 500 AB 12-Gauge shotgun, two handguns, a silencer, ammunition, body armor, a drone and other materials, officials said.

A witness also told authorities that Karmo had been talking about conspiracy theories and "other 'crazy' political talk" and that Karmo was not in the right mindset to have a firearm, the complaint said.

According to the complaint, Smith told investigators that he and Karmo had traveled to Wisconsin to attend the rally Tuesday for President Donald Trump outside of the high school in Kenosha. Smith said they wanted to see proof of the rioting in Kenosha. He told officials that two pistols were locked in the glove compartment of Karmos' vehicle while they were at the rally. He said they brought the guns because they didn't want to leave them unattended in the hotel room.

Also included in the criminal complaint were screenshots of posts on Karmo's Facebook page showing him posing with guns in recent years. One post that appeared to be timestamped June 2018 reads, "Will the real homeland security please stand up..."

Karmo has prior felony convictions, according to the complaint. Smith has a prior misdemeanor domestic battery conviction and acknowledged regular drug use. Because of their convictions, on the day they were found with the guns, Karmo and Smith were prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition.

Karmo told authorities that he didn't own any firearms, just an air rifle, he never carried a pistol and that he only brought body armor and a drone on their trip. He also claimed that he didn't know anything about any suppressors or silencers found in the vehicle.

Smith told investigators that the silencer was Karmo's and Smith didn't think the silencer worked, but Karmo wanted to test it. Smith also said one of the pistols belonged to Karmo, who bought it from another coworker.

The criminal complaint charges Karmo with being a felon in possession of a firearm.


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Seven percent of US protests this summer were violent, according to nonprofit report

Zack Budryk
The Hill
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:24 UTC
blm protest
Despite several incidents of protests against racism and police brutality turning violent, more than 90 percent of the summer's protests were peaceful, according to an analysis released Thursday.

The report, produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, identified 7,750 protests between May 26 and Aug. 22 in 2,400 locations, according to The Washington Post.

The report found that about 220 became "violent" — a term defined as demonstrators fighting with police or with counterprotesters. The term also applies to demonstrations that resulted in property damage. In 93 percent of cases analyzed, there was no violence.

In the violent cases, the report said, violence was "largely confined to specific blocks, rather than dispersed throughout the city."

Despite these findings, however, the authors warned that due to the environment of "violent political polarization" in the U.S., violence is likely to occur again if there are issues with the November election.

"In this hyper-polarized environment, state forces are taking a more heavy-handed approach to dissent, non-state actors are becoming more active and assertive, and counter-demonstrators are looking to resolve their political disputes in the street," the authors wrote, according to the Post.
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Bad Guys

US pop star Akon's $6bn plan to build a real-life Wakanda in Senegal is an insult to black people's intelligence

Chris Sweeney
RT
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:40 UTC
Akon
© REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
Akon, artist, chairman and co-founder of Akon speaks at the Web Summit, in Lisbon, Portugal, November 6, 2019.
Akon is ploughing ahead with a futuristic smart city for black people 'fleeing racism', and plans franchises across Africa. Does he think they are Disney characters who want to live in theme parks?

Black people in America and Europe are going through the wringer. Donald Trump seemingly has no respect for them, and other leaders like Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron also appear disinterested in their plight.

So that's what makes the recent announcement of the much-hyped Akon City so heartbreaking. For those unaware, Akon is a singer born in America with Senegalese heritage. He is also a liar.The biggest hit of his career was the single, Locked Up, which spun a narrative that he'd operated a sophisticated stolen car operation that saw him facing 75 years in prison and that he'd written the lyrics while in his cell. The video depicts him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.
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Stock Down

'Bad optics'? Why are Moderna executives dumping stock while developing a Coronavirus vaccine?

Tom Dreisbach
NPR
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 05:00 UTC
moderna sign
© Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Moderna, based in Cambridge, Mass., has reached phase three trials for its coronavirus vaccine. At the same time, its executives have sold tens of millions of dollars worth of stock, which has led to intense criticism of the company.
Whether the coronavirus vaccine developed by Moderna succeeds or not, executives at the small biotech company have already made tens of millions of dollars by cashing in their stock. An NPR examination of official company disclosures has revealed additional irregularities and potential warning signs.

"On a scale of one to 10, one being less concerned and 10 being the most concerned," said Daniel Taylor, an associate professor of accounting at the Wharton School, "this is an 11."

Taylor said Moderna's stock-selling practices appear well outside the norm, and raise questions about the company's internal controls to prevent insider trading.

Comment: Mighty fishy indeed! Either these employees are complete newbs in the stock market and are selling as soon as they can profit, or they know something the rest of us only suspect - that this vaccine is going to be a dud at best or a complete disaster at worst.

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French court rules mandatory masks in public places "serious and illegal infringement" of citizens' liberties

Alice Tidey
Euronews
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:59 UTC
masks france
© AFP/Christophe Archambault
An announcement on the mandatory use of face masks on the streets of Paris on September 1, 2020.
Some French local authorities are being forced to revise orders making mouth and nose coverings compulsory as courts side with civil liberties groups.

A court in Lyon ruled on Friday that making face masks mandatory in all public spaces in Lyon and neighbouring Villeurbanne constituted a "serious and illegal infringement" of citizens' liberties.

It added that health authorities have "only recommended wearing of masks in cases of gatherings with a high density of people outside" and gave the prefecture until September 8 to amend their orders to exclude areas where conditions were not "likely to favour the spread" of the disease.

Officials must also remove periods of the day in which "there is no particular risk of spreading the virus" from the orders.

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