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Looting hits Gucci store in DC as chaos breaks out in City Center & Georgetown areas


Zerohedge
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:05 UTC
metro police statement
The Washington Post confirms "incidents of looting and vandalism" in Georgetown, City Center, and other parts of Washington, DC, in the overnight hours.

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) released a statement that said, "Overnight, groups of individuals decided to destroy property and burglarize businesses throughout our city, specifically in the City Center and Georgetown areas, along with a store in the H Street Corridor, a store in Logan Circle, and a store north of Columbia Heights."

"We immediately increased our police resources in the impacted areas. Preliminary, MPD is investigating six burglaries and six destruction of property offenses in those area," police said.
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Attention

Residents of Springfield Ohio beg for help after 20,000 Haitians overwhelm city, eat local wildlife: "Can't take it anymore"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:56 UTC
springfield overrun haitians city council
Noel BEGS Springfield City Council for help August 13, 2024 as Haitian ILLEGALS invade her property & threaten her
The city of Springfield, Ohio - population 60,000, has been overwhelmed by roughly 20,000 Haitian illegal migrants, who flocked to the city - exacerbating a 'significant housing crisis' according to city officials, and eating pets and wildlife according to locals.

During an Aug. 27 City Commission meeting, one local resident said that Haitians were "in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them."

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Sherlock

Bridge partially collapses in Germany's Dresden, cause unknown


Barrons
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:57 UTC
dresden bridge
© Robert Michael/dpa/AP
A bridge partially collapsed in the eastern German city of Dresden, authorities said Wednesday, adding that no one was injured but there was a risk of further sections crumbling.

A roughly 100-metre (330-foot) section of the Carola Bridge, which connects Dresden's historic old town to other parts of the city, plunged into the Elbe River around 03:00 am (0100 GMT), the Dresden fire brigade said.

The entire area around the bridge has been sealed off.

Residents have been urged to stay away amid concerns other parts of the bridge could come crashing down.

Comment: A rather odd incident considering Germany's reputation for engineering excellence, and that, as of right now, there's no implication of extreme weather or neglect being responsible: In other news, two days ago, Chancellor Scholz made some notable comments about the, as of yet unexplained, Nord Stream sabotage, as well as intimations of pushing for a peace deal in Ukraine. Although with his party set to lose in the elections, and a loss in Ukraine looming, these unusually lucid comments are probably to be expected:



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Cardboard Box

Fading industry in the West as energy policy consequences surface - The grey zone surge begins

Sundance
The Last Refuge
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
build back better
For those who have followed my travels, research and granular reviews into the background motives of the multinationals, an article within Politico catches my attention and I hope it may be of value for an enlarged conversation.

At the beginning of my post-COVID economic research, I noted all of the proactive investments by the big multinationals would benefit from a diminishment "western" economic dominance.

Specifically, I noted that if you look at the investment footprint - where the multinational corporations actually put all of that money they have been extracting from the Western consumers, you will see they have spent the past generation investing heavily in the "GREY Zone" within the map below. With that reality as the backdrop, would the multinationals lose or benefit from the "Build Back Better" agenda that pushed the YELLOW zone into a system of forced drops in the standards of living?
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Phoenix

UK: More people getting their news online than from TV for first time ever, BBC suffers record drop in viewers

Anita Singh
The Telegraph
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:56 UTC
BBC BBC
© PA IMAGES/ ALAMY STOCK PHOTOViewers are turning away from the BBC's scheduled News at Ten, News at Six and lunchtime bulletins. Report shows YouTube more popular than news broadcaster as online information source for young people.
BBC One has suffered a record drop in audiences for its news bulletins, with increasing numbers of people reading headlines via social media platforms.

For the first time, online sites overtook television as the UK's main source of news.

Viewers turned away from the BBC's scheduled News at Ten, News at Six, and lunchtime bulletins, according to a report by Ofcom.

BBC One remains the most-used single source of news, with 43 per cent of those surveyed saying they watch it, down from 49 per cent in 2023 - the biggest drop since the annual survey began.

Comment: This is partly why governments across the West, as living standards plummet and the geopolitical situation escalates, are accelerating their crackdown on dissenters of all kinds, from TikTok to Russian news outlets, Telegram's CEO, accredited independent journalists, even influencers have been arrested for simply sharing information:

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Family

Best of the Web: On Being a "Threat to Democracy"


"I Protest" by Donald Jeffries
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
Democracy
Merriam-Webster defines "democracy" as: "a: Government by the people especially : rule of the majority, b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections."

Well, that sounds good. Do we have a rule of the majority? The majority of Americans, after all, about eighty percent of them, are losing in this rigged economy, and living paycheck to paycheck at best. I don't think they're "ruling" anything. We all (well, some of us) know that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Again, sounds good. But when's the last time you heard about one of our tyrannical judges ruling in favor of someone invoking the 10th Amendment? Since the Constitution delineates very limited powers to the central government, this should mean that the vast majority of power in this country resides in the States, or the people.
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Ambulance

Two Delta planes collide on tarmac at Atlanta airport, FAA says

Kerry Breen
CBS News
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:55 UTC
delta plane collision
© WANF-TVA Delta Air Lines plane is seen after a collision on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Sept. 10, 2024.
Officials are investigating after a Delta plane collided with an Endeavor Air flight on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia. Endeavor Air is a Delta subsidiary.

Delta Air Lines Flight 295, an Airbus A350, was taxiing for departure to Tokyo, Japan, shortly after 10 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said, when its wingtip struck the tail of Endeavor Air Flight 5526. The Endeavor plane, a Bombardier CRJ900 craft, was bound for Lafayette, Louisiana. The planes were on alternate taxiways when the collision happened, Delta said.

There were 221 passengers aboard the Tokyo-bound flight, Delta said, and 56 people aboard the Louisiana flight. A spokesperson for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport said there were no injuries reported.
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UFO 2

'Clear and present danger': US police given new UFO handbook


RT
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:50 UTC
ufo sky
Police officers across the US have been issued a handbook on how to deal with reports of 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' (UAP).

The guidelines, which detail several past encounters, were sent out earlier this summer by the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCAA), which represents police executives from the largest cities in the US and Canada.

In the 11-page guide, the MCAA notes that UAPs detected in US airspace represent a "domain awareness gap" which poses a "clear and present danger to pilots and our soldiers that is more acute than ever." It also cites reports by several government agencies, such as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concluding that such phenomena are also a "clear threat to national security, since their capabilities and origins are unknown."

The handbook provided details on several UFO investigations, and cited the testimonies of whistleblowers who have been involved in such incidents, such as former US Air Force officer and intelligence official David Grusch.
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Dominoes

Electing Kamala Harris would be a 'step toward totalitarianism, censorship, suppression': Professors rally academics around Trump

Will Caldwell
The College Fix
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
Trump
© USA Today/The Register"The Lesser Evil" Former US President and current candidate Donald Trump
University professors have started a petition for academics to rally behind Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

The petition statement, a project of Professor Daniel Klein of George Mason University and Daniel Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science at Assumption University, encourages scholars to support the Republican candidate. As of Thursday, 51 professors had signed it. The list so far represents a mix of emeritus and current scholars from both private and public universities, including well known institutions and state schools.

Titled "Lesser Evil," it emphasizes the founding principle of individual liberty while decrying big government, and affirms the Declaration of Independence's exaltation of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as the "chief aims of good governance."

According to Klein, Republicans are more predisposed to oppose stark centralization, hence his support for what he deems the "lesser evil": the Republican presidential candidate.

Comment: Purely 'academic', the above opinions appear to be reactionary responses. Winner by deduction: Trump not Rump.

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Bizarro Earth

70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children, Gaza government data reveals


The Cradle.
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:28 UTC
gaza children palestine
© AAAround 3,556 massacres have been committed by Israeli forces in 11 months, constituting an average of 10 massacres daily since the war began
The majority of the victims of Israel's war on Gaza have been women and children, according to data released by the strip's Government Media Office on 5 September.

The data reveals that "69 percent of the victims are children and women." The number of dead children alone stands at 16,715, while the number of women killed stands at 11,308.

Marking "335 days of the genocide," the media office highlighted that 3,556 massacres have been committed by the Israeli army against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war.

The overall death toll now stands at 40,878, while another 10,000 are missing, either still under the rubble or in Israeli detention.


Comment: That figure is highly unlikely to be correct, because it was the generally agreed death toll back in March. Furthermore, two months ago, The Lancet, the prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, warned that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000, or more.

And, since then, Israel has committed many more massacres, as well as targeted killings, and starvation and disease have only worsened.

It's also worth noting that whilst Israel has made it impossible for independent verification of this data, numerous organisations, including the UN, have confirmed time and again that the data being released by these Palestinian organisations is reliable.


Comment: Considering the West's complicity in the genocide, It's perhaps no wonder that it's cracking down on dissenters at home: Professor Finkelstein on Israel's unprecedented brutality:

And this is footage of just one massacre from today:




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