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Ex-Miss Hitler entrant among four 'diehards' jailed for belonging to banned far-right group


Sky News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:47 UTC
Alice Cutter

Alice Cutter denied being an NA member, despite attending the group's rallies
A former Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for a total of more than eight years for belonging to banned far-right group National Action (NA).

Alice Cutter was sentenced to three years and Mark Jones to five-and-a-half-years at Birmingham Crown Court for being members of the terrorist organisation.

The pair, from Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire, were convicted in March alongside two other neo-Nazi "diehards", Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.
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Kentucky Gov. Beshear says state will put resources into making sure all black residents have health insurance


WAVE 3 News
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:29 UTC
Gov. Andy Beshear
© Gov. Andy Beshear - Youtube
Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the state will begin working toward correcting inequalities in health care coverage across the state.
Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the state will begin working toward correcting racial inequalities in health care coverage, among other areas, across the state.

During his daily updates in Frankfort the last three months, Beshear has been providing a breakdown of the racial makeup of the state's COVID-19 cases. Throughout the crisis, cases involving black patients have outpaced the state's black population.

"We are gonna begin an effort to cover 100 percent of our individuals in our black and African-American communities," the governor said. "We're gonna be putting dollars behind it."

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Lives don't matter against the privileged and armed government worker

Eric Peters
Eric Peters Auto
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
Armed Government Workers
© Eric Peters Auto
George Floyd didn't get a knee because his killer was a racist. He got it because his killer is an armed government worker (AGW).

An authoritarian.

The distinction is important.

Daniel Shaver wasn't black - and the AGW (Philip Brailsford) who got away with killing this unarmed white man who was crawling on the floor begging for his life wasn't motivated by racism, either.


He was motivated by something far worse than racism - because authoritarianism is policy.

AGWs - the term is used not in a derogatory but in a literal sense - are not in the business of protecting rights. They are in the business of enforcing laws (they use exactly this term to describe themselves). To the nth degree, submission to the law being the fundamental thing.

Including, implicitly, submission to them.

Think carefully about that - about what it means. As opposed to what it used to mean to be a peace officer, whose business was protecting people's rights.
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Leading Green party politicians call for 'race' to be removed from German constitution


Deutsche Welle
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC
child reads basic German Basic Law
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The term "race" should be removed from the German constitution, two leading Green politicians said Monday. In recent weeks, Germany has seen widespread anti-racism protests and dialogue around systemic racism in a German context following the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in the US.

"We have to unlearn racism," Green co-chair Robert Habeck and party vice-president for the state of Schleswig-Holstein Aminata Touré wrote in the German daily Taz. "Racism is also a German phenomenon. As a black woman and a white man we are affected differently by this, but it affects us all."

"The word race should be removed from the Basic Law," they added. "There is no such things as race, there are only people."

Germany's Basic Law is the country's constitution, penned in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, and so goes to great lengths to forbid the Nazi regime's worst crimes.

"No person shall be favored or disfavored because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions. No person shall be disfavored because of disability," section 3 of Article 3 says.

Habeck and Touré argue that the term race implies the existence of different categories of people, claiming it undermines another key clause of the Basic Law: "All people are equal before the law."


Comment: These politicians are focusing only on 'race' because that is what is politically expedient for them. However, their argument justifying the removal of 'race' also applies to the rest of the section, because to claim the existence of different sexes also implies the existence of different categories of people. Therefore, if they make this argument for one they must make it for all if they wish to be logically consistent.

The thing of it is, the differences listed in section 3 Article 3 were included to remove ambiguity and ensure that every individual, no matter their physical characteristics or otherwise, is treated equally under the law. So not only are they being inconsistent by only focusing on 'race' they're also calling for the removal of protections against legal discrimination.

All to appease and pander to the 'woke' populace who've completely lost touch with reality.


The politicians did not suggest a replacement word or an exact alteration.
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Liberals ditch New York Times for publishing Senator Cotton's 'Send in the troops' op-ed


RT
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:55 UTC
Tom Cotton
© AP
US Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Opinion editors at the New York Times are facing calls to resign over publishing an op-ed by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton making a case for deploying the military to quell the riots that have broken out across the US.

Published on Wednesday and titled "Send in the troops," Cotton's op-ed argued that the police and even the National Guard couldn't quite provide an "overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers" and that the US military should be used for the purpose.

Times subscribers - current and former - condemned the op-ed and swore to boycott the paper going forward.

Comment: One man's opinion is another man's newspaper cancellation.

See also:
'Kill...'demonstrators'': NYT contributor Schmuel Rosner pulled a 'Tom Cotton' without repercussions two years ago

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Israel reneges promise, demolishes 65 Palestinian homes

Hagar Shezaf
Israel-Palestine News
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Bedouin homes destroyed
© Unknown
Bedouin boys sit near the rubble of a tent in the Deir Hajle Bedouin community, east of the Palestinian city of Jericho, June 3, 2020.
The Israeli military on Wednesday tore down the homes of 65 Palestinians in the West Bank, marking the largest number of housing demolitions in one day since the coronavirus crisis began.

Israel's Civil Administration, the branch of the military with authority over civilian matters in the West Bank, said in early April it would stop confiscating or demolishing inhabited structures deemed illegal until the end of the crisis.

Abu Dahuk said he and his young children were asleep when the army and the Civil Administration came to destroy the houses.
"Imagine what it's like when a little boy is asleep and the army suddenly barges in. My little boy immediately panicked and asked what they were doing here. This is not a normal life for young children."
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UCLA professor fired 'for not being lenient with Black students grades' because they were 'traumatized by Floyd killing'

Graham Dockery
RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC
Protest BLM
© Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon
A demonstrator holds a placard depicting George Floyd during a protest in Los Angeles, California, June 3, 2020.
A UCLA professor has been placed on leave after refusing to give black students preferential grades in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing. The college said his Martin Luther King-inspired attitude to race was "troubling."

Floyd's death in Minneapolis and the two weeks of civil unrest that followed have given American activists a fresh platform to air all manner of ethnic grievances, from demanding that whites renounce their supposed "privilege," to calling for multi-trillion dollar reparation payments for slavery.

For one group of students at the University of California Los Angeles' Anderson School of Management, it was an opportunity to dodge an end-of-year examination. Last week, a group of minority students emailed Professor Gordon Klein, asking him to let black students sit out this week's exams in light of recent events.

Comment: It seems anyone with common sense and values, that predate the current fixated mindset, is in potential jeopardy. The 'wokers' have no idea where this will lead, the destruction they cause, nor the consequences of living in constant reaction. Stuck in this rut, what else is going on around them that remains unnoticed?

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'Kill...'demonstrators'': NYT contributor Schmuel Rosner pulled a 'Tom Cotton' without repercussions two years ago

Philip Weiss, James North
Mondoweiss
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
RosnerAl-NajjarCotton
© Twitter/Al-Najjar Family/AP
Shmuel Rosner • Razan Al-Najjar • Senator Tom Cotton
As all media-watchers know today, The New York Times has been shaken up by an Op-Ed it ran that it later apologized for following a firestorm of criticism.

In that Op-Ed, Sen. Tom Cotton called for using soldiers against demonstrators. Headlined "Send In the Troops. The nation must restore order. The military stands ready," the article asserted that the supposed protesters are rioters, who are carrying out an "orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic." Cotton dismissed the political ends of the demonstrations as violent extremist, saying, "nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa infiltrating protest marches. . ."

The response to the Op-Ed was overwhelming and soon caused resignation and reshuffling at the NYT. Many Times staffers, including several in the Opinion department, tweeted, "Running this puts all black people in danger, including @nytimes staff members." Columnist Michelle Goldberg called Cotton's argument "fascist."

Comment: See also:
Liberals ditch New York Times for publishing Senator Cotton's 'Send in the troops' op-ed

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Arrow Down

Dem senators kneel during tribute for George Floyd

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Kneeling senators
© Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
US Senators down on their knees
Five Democrat senators knelt during a moment of silence for George Floyd — a black man who recently died in police custody in Minneapolis — on Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.

Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Michael Bennet (D-CO) knelt during the tribute, which lasted for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time that video showed fired Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on Floyd's neck before he died. Chauvin faces a second-degree murder charge over the incident.

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History shows abolishing the police is a terrible idea, but an obvious solution no longer fits the narrative

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC
BLM woman
© Reuters/Hannah McKay
Black Lives Matter protest in London, June 7, 2020.
Activists protesting across the US are increasingly demanding abolishing police departments altogether. Ironically, one of the alternatives they offer sounds just like the modern police, whose origin they wrongly insist is racist.

The city council of Minneapolis, Minnesota has just secured a veto-proof majority in favor of the proposal to disband its police department. It was Minneapolis PD officer Derek Chauvin whose actions sparked the protests last month, when he was filmed kneeling on the neck of George Floyd until the African-American man died.

While the campaign for abolishing or de-funding police is intensely emotionally satisfying for the activists, there are few practical proposals as to how to go about it. Even the Minneapolis councilors didn't say when they might get rid of their police, or what they wish to replace it with. More education and social workers are being mentioned as possible alternatives, but at the end of the day someone still needs to put the 'force' into law enforcement.
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