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Antifa militants clash with 'Choose Freedom' protesters in front of LA City Hall, stab one - no arrest

Ian Miles Cheong
The Post Millennial
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 16:03 UTC

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In what first began as a clash of words between anti-mask mandate protesters and Antifa in front of the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters escalated into blows as left-wing militants struck out at the protesters. One man was stabbed by an Antifa militant, prompting dozens of protesters to retaliate.

Organizers of the "Choose Freedom March" rallied on Saturday to protest against the city's "medical tyranny, mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports," where they were soon met by an opposing group of Antifa, who were dressed in "black bloc" gear, who called for "no safe spaces for fascists."

At least 500 Los Angeles residents gathered in front of the south lawn of the Los Angeles City Hall to peacefully protest the city's issuance of mask mandates and mandatory vaccinations, where they were met by black-clad counter-protesters at around 2pm, LAPD spokesman Lt. Raul Jovel said.

Comment: Journalist Andy Ngo also posted footage of the assault as recorded by JLeeQuinn:

California Gov. Newsom kicks off anti-recall counter-offensive with simple message: 'Just vote no'

Joe Garofoli
San Francisco Chronicle
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:49 UTC

© Jungho Kim/Special to The Chronicle
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters during a press conference for his “Vote No” camapaign at Manny’s in San Francisco.

There was a palpable sense of urgency — and concern — among the top San Francisco Democrats standing behind Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday as he kicked off a weekend-long statewide barnstorming trip to urge Californians to vote no against the recall.

With polls showing that likely voters are virtually split on whether to recall Newsom, Assemblyman David Chiu invoked the memory of election night 2016, when heavy Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton lost to Republican Donald Trump.

"We thought we had it in the bag. The polls showed us that we are way ahead. Well, it turned out we were wrong," Chiu said at Newsom's campaign stop at Manny's, a Mission District restaurant and political gathering place.

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'Weaponizing its terms of service': Facebook FORCED shutdown of project monitoring Instagram's algorithm, German researcher says

RT
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:38 UTC

German social-media researcher AlgorithmWatch said it was forced to abandon a project monitoring Instagram's newsfeed algorithm after the Big Tech platform's parent, Facebook, threatened to take punitive action.

"Ultimately, an organization the size of AlgorithmWatch cannot risk going to court against a company valued at $1 trillion," the German not-for-profit group said on Friday. The project was halted last month, and AlgorithmWatch said it chose to speak out now - highlighting the need for lawmakers to protect future research of online platforms - after Facebook shut down the accounts of researchers at New York University's Ad Observatory.

The group's project involved recruiting 1,500 volunteers to install a browser extension that scraped data from their Instagram newsfeeds. In the project's first 14 months, AlgorithmWatch made such findings as: Instagram encouraged content creators to post certain types of pictures, such as shirtless men or women wearing bikinis or underwear; and politicians were more likely to reach a larger audience if they refrained from using text in their posts.

But when the researcher asked Facebook for comment on its findings, the tech giant said the project was "flawed in a number of ways," and it later said it had found shortcomings in the study's methodology. Facebook didn't spell out what those flaws and shortcomings were, AlgorithmWatch said, and it came back in May 2021 to claim that the group had violated its terms of service.

Comment: See also: An unseen guiding hand: The 'algorithm' and the mysterious rules of social media

How the Child Victims Act revealed New York's dark history of child sexual abuse

Priscilla DeGregory and Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:00 UTC

© Stephen Yang
Steven Cowen, 53, alleged that he was sexually abused when he was an altar boy at Saint Rita's in Staten island beginning in 1977.

Inside the red brick walls of the Church of Saint Rita, 9-year-old Steven Cowen was Father Stephen Gregory's "favorite altar boy."

The then-32-year-old Catholic priest at the Staten Island church used to take Cowen out of his classes and ply him with wine until the child was "visibly intoxicated," court records say.

Then, in the quiet solitude of the church's rectory and sacristy, Cowen's young body was repeatedly defiled when he was allegedly forced to wash Gregory's feet and genitals with holy water and perform oral sex on him.

The abuse Cowen, now 53, says he endured over the course of two years starting in 1977, which Gregory emphatically denies, later led to a crippling sex addiction and has continued to haunt him to this day. But thanks to the Child Victims' Act, which allowed victims with old claims that have passed the statute of limitations to take legal action, he's finally getting the closure he's long hoped for.

Comment: Although a step in the right direction, we're still a long way from any real exposure of what is going. See also:

France: Hundreds of thousands march against injection passport for fifth week in a row

France 24
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 17:50 UTC

© Sameer Al-Doumy, AFP
People take part in a march organised by the French nationalist party "Les Patriotes" (The Patriots) as part of a national day of protest against the compulsory Covid-19 vaccination for certain workers, and the mandatory use of the health pass called for by the French government to access most public spaces, in Paris on August 14, 2021

Protesters have marched in cities across France for a fifth consecutive weekend against rules compelling them to show a COVID-19 health pass for dailyactivities, but in lesser numbers than a week ago.

Comment: See the media below, the turn out was likely much bigger than previous protests.

They rallied through the streets of Paris, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier and other towns waving placards reading "Pass=Apartheid" and chanting "Freedom, freedom".

Since last Monday, citizens have been required to show the pass in public places, proving that they have been vaccinated or have recently been tested negative for the coronavirus.

Comment: Just some of today's protests in France:

Paris:

Marseille:

Bordeaux:

Chambery:

Valence:

And protests have erupted in other countries threatening the same totalitarian restrictions:

Montreal, Canada:

Tel Aviv, Israel:

Oregon, US:

Newcastle, UK:

Manchester, UK

Brazilian singer turned congresswoman held over preacher husband's murder

The Guardian
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:02 UTC

© Michel Jesus/Brazilian Chamber of Deputies/AFP/Getty ImagesTom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, a former gospel star, was elected to Brazil's Congress in 2018.

The Brazilian gospel star turned congresswoman accused of masterminding the murder of her preacher husband has been arrested after she was expelled from congress earlier this week.

Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, an evangelical celebrity famed for raising more than 50 children she claimed to have rescued from lives of poverty and crime, was detained on Friday night at her home near Rio de Janeiro.

As she was escorted to a police car outside the house - the same address where her husband was shot dead in June 2019 - the singer shouted: "Faith in God!"

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Fauci: Everyone will need COVID vaccine booster shots 'sooner or later'

Lucas Manfredi
Fox News
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:09 UTC

The FDA is currently working with Pfizer and Moderna to authorize a booster shot for certain immunocompromised individuals

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warned during a press briefing on Thursday that a booster shot will be required for everyone "sooner or later" to ensure that the durability of protection from COVID-19 vaccines continues.

"As we mentioned, we are evaluating this on a day by day, week by week, month by month basis, looking at any of a number of studies, both international and domestic studies," Fauci continued. "If the data shows us that, in fact, we do need to do that, we'll be very ready to do it and do it expeditiously."

Comment: It looks like that the people will be forced to get booster shots at least once a year. It is a huge and permanent "market" for Big Pharma and a great way for PTB to continue with the fascistic measures, fear-mongering, and enslaving of humanity.

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Cuomo resigns and magically, his impeachment probe is suspended despite 'credible' evidence of wrongdoing

Nolan Hicks and Carl Campanile
New York Post
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:21 UTC

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Friday he will "suspend" the impeachment investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo, arguing that the probe was unneeded after the scandal-scarred executive announced his intention to resign, even though investigators had found evidence of misconduct.

"[T]he Assembly will suspend its impeachment investigation upon the governor's resignation taking effect on August 25," Heastie said in a statement released by his office Friday, in a decision that he said was backed by his fellow Democrats, who control the chamber.

The Assembly's attorneys concluded that New York's state constitution did not allow them to move to impeach an official who had already stepped down from office, Heastie said.

Comment: Tucker Carlson has an interesting take on Cuomo's downfall, comparing it to a palace coup by Letitia James as potential stepping-stone to the governorship, and noting that Cuomo himself had followed the same pattern:

Probe finds Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, violated federal and state law

'No Question': Lightfoot Says Chicago Police Budget Will Increase in New Fiscal Year

NBC Chicago
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:43 UTC

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled her budget proposal for FY 2022 on Wednesday, and even amid ongoing conflict between her administration and the union that represents the officers of the Chicago Police Department, she says that there is "no question" that the department's budget will be beefed up in the coming year.

Lightfoot made the comments amid increases in gun violence in the city of Chicago, which along with mass retirements and recruitment difficulties on the police force have caused many in the city to raise alarm bells about the situation.

"It is my expectation that the police department budget will increase. No question. We have to make sure that we are continuing to provide resources to recruit the next generation of police officers, and to make sure that we're doing that recruitment in a way that reflects the diversity of our city."

Comment: It appears that many of the police issues could have been avoided had the mayor managed to understand and plan for the consequences that are now plaguing the department. Hindsight never equals foresight and neither of them equal ongoing and appropriate functionality.

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US security experts want to avoid 'triggering' news & images from Afghanistan - a mess THEY made and refuse to learn from

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:41 UTC

With the Taliban on Kabul's doorstep and the US-backed Afghan government collapsing faster than a sandcastle in a tsunami, US "security experts" are urging each other to avoid "triggering" imagery of their historic failure.

Jennifer Cafarella wrote to her colleagues on Thursday:

"It is a very dark day in Afghanistan. Take care of yourself. It might require avoiding the news. We can & should bear witness. But it does not require self harm. Triggering PTSD symptoms or new trauma does not help Afghans."

Cafarella follows that with a list of helpful suggestions, such as not sharing "images or links to images that are likely to cause trauma" such as the fall of Kabul, Taliban executions of Afghan officials, or anything "Saigon-like" - a reference to the 1975 collapse of the US-backed regime in South Vietnam.

Comment: Truth is the small thing. Perception is the override. It should be the other way around.

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Society's Child

Antifa militants clash with 'Choose Freedom' protesters in front of LA City Hall, stab one - no arrest

California Gov. Newsom kicks off anti-recall counter-offensive with simple message: 'Just vote no'

'Weaponizing its terms of service': Facebook FORCED shutdown of project monitoring Instagram's algorithm, German researcher says

How the Child Victims Act revealed New York's dark history of child sexual abuse

France: Hundreds of thousands march against injection passport for fifth week in a row

Brazilian singer turned congresswoman held over preacher husband's murder

Fauci: Everyone will need COVID vaccine booster shots 'sooner or later'

Cuomo resigns and magically, his impeachment probe is suspended despite 'credible' evidence of wrongdoing

'No Question': Lightfoot Says Chicago Police Budget Will Increase in New Fiscal Year

US security experts want to avoid 'triggering' news & images from Afghanistan - a mess THEY made and refuse to learn from

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