shoebat--2020-05-29--Spain Officially Moves To Give A UBI To Families

The calls around the world for a socialist Universal Basic Income , or UBI , have been gaining popularity in many nations .
Some nations have been experimenting with this concept , but now the nation of Spain has decided to give a UBI to 850,000 families according to Fox5NY .
The Spanish government will provide more money for the country ’ s most impoverished 850,000 families so they can reach a minimum monthly income in the nation ’ s first attempt to guarantee a basic salary .
The plan was approved by the ruling left-wing coalition led by Prime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Spanish Socialist Party is under pressure to spur economic recovery and reduce the fallout from a two-month lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus that ’ s killed at least 27,000 .
Citizens over 21 will be eligible for benefits if they don ’ t meet a minimum monthly income ranging from 461 euros ( $ 513 ) to 1,015 euros ( $ 1,130 ) , depending on the number of family members .
Migrants who have been in Spain for more than one year can apply .
Social Security Minister @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reduce poverty and inequality .
He says 100,000 households will immediately benefit and the government aims to include 750,000 more in coming months .
The total cost for Spain ’ s public coffers is estimated at 3 billion euros ( $ 3.3 billion ) annually .
( source ) The concept of a UBI sounds great , but it always ends disastrously because people have to continually pay out more money than can be taken in .
Basic mathematics is its enemy because the calculations to support it do not add up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cause social chaos that could be uses to start a revolution or other socially destabilizing movement using the drain on financial resources as an excuse to justify violence .
This has happened before and is happening right now in Germany with the refugee situation- the refugees are not “ robbing ” the German treasury , but are being given it under the guise of free social handouts , and in doing so , it is angering the people and encouraging nationalism .
Is this what the end purpose of the UBI is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it does not matter what one ’ s race or national origin are when it comes to cause and effect , as the result of serious , long-term social instability coupled with poverty is a historically proven formula to incite a revolution anywhere .
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The calls around the world for a socialist Universal Basic Income, or UBI, have been gaining popularity in many nations. Some nations have been experimenting with this concept, but now the nation of Spain has decided to give a UBI to 850,000 families according to Fox5NY.
The Spanish government will provide more money for the country’s most impoverished 850,000 families so they can reach a minimum monthly income in the nation’s first attempt to guarantee a basic salary. The plan was approved by the ruling left-wing coalition led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The leader of the Spanish Socialist Party is under pressure to spur economic recovery and reduce the fallout from a two-month lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus that’s killed at least 27,000. Citizens over 21 will be eligible for benefits if they don’t meet a minimum monthly income ranging from 461 euros ($513) to 1,015 euros ($1,130), depending on the number of family members. Migrants who have been in Spain for more than one year can apply. Social Security Minister José Luis Escrivá says the measure intends to reduce poverty and inequality. He says 100,000 households will immediately benefit and the government aims to include 750,000 more in coming months. The total cost for Spain’s public coffers is estimated at 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) annually. (source)
The concept of a UBI sounds great, but it always ends disastrously because people have to continually pay out more money than can be taken in. Basic mathematics is its enemy because the calculations to support it do not add up. That is, unless one wants to cause social chaos that could be uses to start a revolution or other socially destabilizing movement using the drain on financial resources as an excuse to justify violence. This has happened before and is happening right now in Germany with the refugee situation- the refugees are not “robbing” the German treasury, but are being given it under the guise of free social handouts, and in doing so, it is angering the people and encouraging nationalism.
Is this what the end purpose of the UBI is? One cannot say, but it does not matter what one’s race or national origin are when it comes to cause and effect, as the result of serious, long-term social instability coupled with poverty is a historically proven formula to incite a revolution anywhere.
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shoebat--2020-05-29--Michigan State Police Arrest CNN Reporter On Live Television, Then Try To Lie About It

Whether or not one likes CNN , the fact is that the media has a place in covering major events .
It is a hallmark of third world nations , or rather oppressive nations , to violently suppress media reporting about problems or protests , including arresting journalists .
This just happened on CNN while broadcasting live , as state police arrested a journalist who identified himself earlier , and then the police tried seemingly to lie about why he was arrested .
A CNN crew was arrested by police Friday morning while giving a live television report in Minneapolis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protests over the death of George Floyd .
The crew , including correspondent Omar Jimenez , were handcuffed and detained as Jimenez gave a live report on a Minneapolis street shortly after 5 a.m. CT ( 6 a.m .
ET ) .
Police told the crew they were being detained because they were told to move , and didn ’ t , one member of the CNN crew relayed to the network .
Officers approached the crew as they moved in to arrest a protester behind them .
Jimenez could be seen holding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ himself as a reporter , and telling the officers the crew would move wherever officers needed them to .
An officer gripped his arm as Jimenez talked , then put him in handcuffs .
“ We can move back to where you like .
We are live on the air here .
… Put us back where you want us .
We are getting out of your way — wherever you want us ( we ’ ll ) get out of your way , ” Jimenez said before he was led away .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ your way when you were advancing through the intersection , ” Jimenez said .
Jimenez and the crew had been reporting from the site — near a city police department precinct that protesters had burned and officers had abandoned overnight .
About a block away , a fire was burning at a different , four-story building that had contained restaurants .
Over 100 state police officers in body armor and riot gear had arrived and lined up near the area where the CNN crew was , near the precinct building on East Lake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , his camera was set on the ground and continued to transmit live images .
( source ) Some people are saying the arrest may have been racially motivated .
I ’ m not going to try to touch on that , because to me it is actually the less relevant point rather than the general principle , which is that the police are essentially arresting reporters for doing their job , not interfering , and then lying about the arrests .
This is a sign of a burgeoning dictatorship , without any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and this is not something that can be blamed on either political party .
The Democrats , while they are openly admitting support of socialism , are at least honest about doing it , which is more respectable than the Republicans , who preach one line but openly do another .
This is not about political bickering .
It is that men do not want to live in peace any more with each other .
Instead , they have chosen the long and hard arm of force and power .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well for anybody .
It has been noted before that while protests can be effective , there comes a time when they are not anymore .
Historically speaking , this seems to be that particular time .
If anything , having protests will only serve to get one arrested and imprisoned , possibly on false charges , just as what happens to people in many other parts of the world .
There are more effective ways to express disagreements .
Likewise , any protest going forward should be considered as suspect , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really were organic protests the US military would violently suppress them as American history consistently shows , it is not worth the legal risk and extensive economic and personal costs in resources , time , and energy to go through a legal battle over something that will not make any fundamental difference for oneself or for a society of people who do not care about each other and live as isolated units whose care only is aroused once the television ceased to function or the Internet is turned off .
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Whether or not one likes CNN, the fact is that the media has a place in covering major events. It is a hallmark of third world nations, or rather oppressive nations, to violently suppress media reporting about problems or protests, including arresting journalists. This just happened on CNN while broadcasting live, as state police arrested a journalist who identified himself earlier, and then the police tried seemingly to lie about why he was arrested.
A CNN crew was arrested by police Friday morning while giving a live television report in Minneapolis, where the crew was covering ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd. The crew, including correspondent Omar Jimenez, were handcuffed and detained as Jimenez gave a live report on a Minneapolis street shortly after 5 a.m. CT (6 a.m. ET). Police told the crew they were being detained because they were told to move, and didn’t, one member of the CNN crew relayed to the network. Officers approached the crew as they moved in to arrest a protester behind them. Jimenez could be seen holding his CNN badge while reporting, identifying himself as a reporter, and telling the officers the crew would move wherever officers needed them to. An officer gripped his arm as Jimenez talked, then put him in handcuffs. “We can move back to where you like. We are live on the air here. … Put us back where you want us. We are getting out of your way — wherever you want us (we’ll) get out of your way,” Jimenez said before he was led away. “We were just getting out of your way when you were advancing through the intersection,” Jimenez said. Jimenez and the crew had been reporting from the site — near a city police department precinct that protesters had burned and officers had abandoned overnight. About a block away, a fire was burning at a different, four-story building that had contained restaurants. Over 100 state police officers in body armor and riot gear had arrived and lined up near the area where the CNN crew was, near the precinct building on East Lake Street. After the photographer was arrested, his camera was set on the ground and continued to transmit live images. (source)
Some people are saying the arrest may have been racially motivated. I’m not going to try to touch on that, because to me it is actually the less relevant point rather than the general principle, which is that the police are essentially arresting reporters for doing their job, not interfering, and then lying about the arrests.
This is a sign of a burgeoning dictatorship, without any exaggerations made. America is fundamentally transforming, and this is not something that can be blamed on either political party. The Democrats, while they are openly admitting support of socialism, are at least honest about doing it, which is more respectable than the Republicans, who preach one line but openly do another.
This is not about political bickering. It is that men do not want to live in peace any more with each other. Instead, they have chosen the long and hard arm of force and power. This is a historical problem and it never ends well for anybody.
It has been noted before that while protests can be effective, there comes a time when they are not anymore. Historically speaking, this seems to be that particular time. If anything, having protests will only serve to get one arrested and imprisoned, possibly on false charges, just as what happens to people in many other parts of the world.
There are more effective ways to express disagreements. Likewise, any protest going forward should be considered as suspect, because aside from the fact that if these really were organic protests the US military would violently suppress them as American history consistently shows, it is not worth the legal risk and extensive economic and personal costs in resources, time, and energy to go through a legal battle over something that will not make any fundamental difference for oneself or for a society of people who do not care about each other and live as isolated units whose care only is aroused once the television ceased to function or the Internet is turned off.
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shoebat--2020-05-29--Trump Re-Tweets Tweet Saying That The Only Good Democrat Is A Dead Democrat

President Trump recently created more havoc after he retweeted according to TheWeek.com a tweet saying that ‘ the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.
’ President Trump has retweeted a video where a supporter declares “ the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat ” — and the man ’ s explanation behind the comment is even more violent .
Trump retweeted a video from the account Cowboys for Trump at midnight Thursday , in which the leader of the group Couy Griffin declares “ the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.
” Griffin then explains he doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physical sense , ” but rather “ in the political sense ” because “ the Democrat policy and agenda is anti-American right now.
” A generous interpretation of the video would suggest Griffin is trying to compliment Democrats of the past , but he never quite makes that point .
The Cowboys for Trump tweet comes in response to a Daily Beast article covering Griffin ’ s rally at a New Mexico church , which he held to defy the state ’ s COVID-19 social distancing orders .
The Daily Beast asked Griffin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comment in an interview after the Tuesday rally , but he only repeated the statement and suggested that top Democrats enforcing social distancing will “ get to pick your poison : you either go before a firing squad , or you get the end of the rope.
” ( source ) One does not have to like the Democrats .
One does not have to agree with them .
However , the fact that Trump would embrace rhetoric such as this which promotes intentional strain between parties by suggesting violence is evil .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are evil .
There is no accident to what he was doing .
He approved and his team knows full well what it means .
Ask yourself , would this be good if a Democrat did it ?
Certainly not , because Republicans should not do this either .
It is the same principle that Shoebat.com applies to the sodomite issue , or many other issues- wrong is wrong no matter who the actor is that does it because of moral principle .
What Trump is doing here is magnified by the fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the future .
Basically , if a Republican can do this , why can ’ t a Democrat do it ?
What is needed more than anything right now is peace .
There must be peace between parties , peace between peoples , and peace in society .
Trump ’ s words are not causing peace , but stoking the flames of war in society to the point where violence between neighbors could erupt if not now then in the future .
Is this what “ MAGA ” looks like ?
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Rather , people wanted a return to order and prosperity , not a president encouraging what is essentially street violence in the name of political gain .
Trump was given not the chance of a lifetime , but the chance of history , and he threw it away for political gain , for while politicians are just actors , woe to the one who chooses to act in a role that brings the country closer to war and sows horrendous social division .
At this point , what is wrong with Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have a man whose mental illness , sexual deviancy , horrendous policies , and disgusting opinions that are known publicly to the world than a man who presented himself as an angel of light but just like a demon only brought darkness ?
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President Trump recently created more havoc after he retweeted according to TheWeek.com a tweet saying that ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’
President Trump has retweeted a video where a supporter declares “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” — and the man’s explanation behind the comment is even more violent. Trump retweeted a video from the account Cowboys for Trump at midnight Thursday, in which the leader of the group Couy Griffin declares “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.” Griffin then explains he doesn’t mean it “in the physical sense,” but rather “in the political sense” because “the Democrat policy and agenda is anti-American right now.” A generous interpretation of the video would suggest Griffin is trying to compliment Democrats of the past, but he never quite makes that point. The Cowboys for Trump tweet comes in response to a Daily Beast article covering Griffin’s rally at a New Mexico church, which he held to defy the state’s COVID-19 social distancing orders. The Daily Beast asked Griffin to clarify his “dead Democrat” comment in an interview after the Tuesday rally, but he only repeated the statement and suggested that top Democrats enforcing social distancing will “get to pick your poison: you either go before a firing squad, or you get the end of the rope.” (source)
One does not have to like the Democrats. One does not have to agree with them. However, the fact that Trump would embrace rhetoric such as this which promotes intentional strain between parties by suggesting violence is evil.
Yes, Trump’s words here are evil.
There is no accident to what he was doing. He approved and his team knows full well what it means.
Ask yourself, would this be good if a Democrat did it? Certainly not, because Republicans should not do this either.
It is the same principle that Shoebat.com applies to the sodomite issue, or many other issues- wrong is wrong no matter who the actor is that does it because of moral principle.
What Trump is doing here is magnified by the fact that his actions are setting a precedent for the future. Basically, if a Republican can do this, why can’t a Democrat do it?
What is needed more than anything right now is peace. There must be peace between parties, peace between peoples, and peace in society. Trump’s words are not causing peace, but stoking the flames of war in society to the point where violence between neighbors could erupt if not now then in the future.
Is this what “MAGA” looks like? This is not what many- arguably most -supported. Rather, people wanted a return to order and prosperity, not a president encouraging what is essentially street violence in the name of political gain.
Trump was given not the chance of a lifetime, but the chance of history, and he threw it away for political gain, for while politicians are just actors, woe to the one who chooses to act in a role that brings the country closer to war and sows horrendous social division.
At this point, what is wrong with Biden 2020, for is it not better to have a man whose mental illness, sexual deviancy, horrendous policies, and disgusting opinions that are known publicly to the world than a man who presented himself as an angel of light but just like a demon only brought darkness?
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shoebat--2020-05-30--Nine Million Families Cannot Afford Food Next Month

While people are focused on the current riots , the crisis related to COVID-19 is ongoing .
If it was not for the fear that many will not be able to pay their housing rent or mortgages , Zero Hedge reports by way of data from the US Census Bureau that nine million families next month fear they may not be able to afford to pay for food .
A poll released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week revealed that at least nine million American households that include children are unsure whether they ’ ll be able to access @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and millions more are experiencing housing insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic .
The bureau ’ s weekly Household Pulse Survey , taken between May 14 and 19 , asked respondents about their loss of employment , food security , overall health , and other issues they are facing during the pandemic .
According to the data , more than nine million households are “ not at all confident ” that they will be able to afford food in the next month , and more than 18 million are only “ somewhat confident ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also asked respondents whether they had experienced food insecurity prior to March 13 , when President Donald Trump declared the pandemic a national emergency and schools across the country shut down .
Just over two million people had “ often ” not had enough to eat before the pandemic forced state and local economies to shut down , which was followed by little economic relief for families from the federal government .
Since the coronavirus outbreak began spreading across the country in March , food banks have reported skyrocketing numbers of Americans relying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had never before needed assistance accessing food .
With 74 % of U.S. families living paycheck-to-paycheck — including one in four households that earn at least $ 150,000 per year — the pandemic and the federal government ’ s reluctance to offer more than a one-time direct payment of $ 1,200 to most Americans plunged millions into desperate situations overnight .
( source )

While people are focused on the current riots, the crisis related to COVID-19 is ongoing. If it was not for the fear that many will not be able to pay their housing rent or mortgages, Zero Hedge reports by way of data from the US Census Bureau that nine million families next month fear they may not be able to afford to pay for food.
A poll released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week revealed that at least nine million American households that include children are unsure whether they’ll be able to access enough food in the next four weeks and millions more are experiencing housing insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic.
The bureau’s weekly Household Pulse Survey, taken between May 14 and 19, asked respondents about their loss of employment, food security, overall health, and other issues they are facing during the pandemic.
According to the data, more than nine million households are “not at all confident” that they will be able to afford food in the next month, and more than 18 million are only “somewhat confident” about their food security.
The Census also asked respondents whether they had experienced food insecurity prior to March 13, when President Donald Trump declared the pandemic a national emergency and schools across the country shut down.
Just over two million people had “often” not had enough to eat before the pandemic forced state and local economies to shut down, which was followed by little economic relief for families from the federal government.
Since the coronavirus outbreak began spreading across the country in March, food banks have reported skyrocketing numbers of Americans relying on their services, including many who had never before needed assistance accessing food.
With 74% of U.S. families living paycheck-to-paycheck — including one in four households that earn at least $150,000 per year — the pandemic and the federal government’s reluctance to offer more than a one-time direct payment of $1,200 to most Americans plunged millions into desperate situations overnight. (source)


shoebat--2020-05-31--The Government Of Minnesota Announces: Some Rioters Have Ties To White Supremacy Groups

During this tense situation , it is not a surprise to find out that the riots are being contributed to by provocateurs who have ties to white supremacy groups , as we read in a report from Heavy : Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that in the last 48 hours they ’ ve seen peaceful protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer morph “ to something very different.
” The state ’ s leaders announced early this morning in a press conference that they are mobilizing the largest force that has ever been used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that are coming in from other places to cause destruction and violence .
According to Minnesota State Commissioner John Harrington , they ’ ve found ties to some of the people who ’ ve been arrested to white supremacist groups .
Harrington said in analyzing information on those who have been arrested in the riots , they ’ re seeing white supremacist organizers putting out calls on social media for members of their groups to go to Minneapolis .
They are still working to see which other organizations people are involved with .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ would not be shocked to find out that these riots are part of a strategy of tension to foment civil unrest .
Western government have been involved in false flag attacks or have planned them out — Gladio and Operation Northwoods – , and these were done to cause a political provocation , so the idea that these riots are part of a strategy of tension is not far-fetched .

By Theodore Shoebat
During this tense situation, it is not a surprise to find out that the riots are being contributed to by provocateurs who have ties to white supremacy groups, as we read in a report from Heavy:
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that in the last 48 hours they’ve seen peaceful protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer morph “to something very different.” The state’s leaders announced early this morning in a press conference that they are mobilizing the largest force that has ever been used in Minnesota to deal with organized groups that are coming in from other places to cause destruction and violence. According to Minnesota State Commissioner John Harrington, they’ve found ties to some of the people who’ve been arrested to white supremacist groups. Harrington said in analyzing information on those who have been arrested in the riots, they’re seeing white supremacist organizers putting out calls on social media for members of their groups to go to Minneapolis. They are still working to see which other organizations people are involved with.
This is not surprising, and I would not be shocked to find out that these riots are part of a strategy of tension to foment civil unrest. Western government have been involved in false flag attacks or have planned them out — Gladio and Operation Northwoods –, and these were done to cause a political provocation, so the idea that these riots are part of a strategy of tension is not far-fetched.
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shoebat--2020-05-31--Right-wing Agitators Are Using The George Floyd Riots To Foment A Race War

There are reports coming out about Right-wing provocateurs infiltrating the George Floyd demonstrations , with some talk about them trying to use the situation to spark a race war .
According to Mia Bloom : Minnesota Governor Tim Walz echoed this sentiment in a press conference on Saturday alleging that the demonstrations that caused so much damage included provocateurs , likely from outside the area .
At the same press conference , Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter stated , “ Every single person we arrested last night , I ’ m told , was from out of state.
” State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrested in the Twin Cities on Friday were from outside Minnesota .
Former FBI agent and CNN commentator , Josh Campbell wrote , that Minnesota “ authorities have been monitoring alleged criminals online , including postings by suspected white supremacists trying to incite violence.
” Experts on political violence ( and not just Qanon conspiracy theorists ) shared stories on social media that the May 27 looting and arson at AutoZone by an unidentified man in a gas mask carrying an open umbrella ( dubbed # umbrellaman ) was not necessarily a protester @ @ @ @ @ @ @ member of the police .
In video posted to YouTube , while this man smashed windows with a hammer , protesters at the scene accused him of being an outsider and began to film him .
According to reporting in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , “ The man ’ s actions were so odd that other rioters in the area paused their own protests to call him out and began filming .
“ Are you a f—ing cop ?
” someone else can be heard yelling to the man as he disappeared from view.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ the accelerationists ” or Right-wing provocateurs who want to agitate tensions with the hope of accelerating a race-war : The demographics of a largely white , young , and destructive group fit more with a movement known as accelerationists than Black Lives Matter .
The accelerationists , if you have never heard the term , are an extreme subset of white nationalism whose goal is to bring about chaos and destruction .
The basic tenet of accelerationism argues that since Western governments are inherently corrupt , the best ( and only ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end of society by sowing chaos and aggravating political tensions .
“ Accelerationist ideas have been cited in mass shooters ’ manifestos — explicitly , in the case of the New Zealand killer — and are frequently referenced in white supremacist web forums and chat rooms , ” Zack Beauchamp explained .
White Supremacists pretending to host a protest to honor Floyd George on Facebook to whip up violence in San Diego were posted on Black Lives Matter-San Diego social media , warning people not to go and that it was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remarked on the fact that the demographics were wrong in places like Oakland , where the majority of the destruction was perpetrated by young , Caucasian men , and has inspired not just people on social media but reporting in the mainstream media to properly question whether this is a form of infiltration by outside extremist elements .
Vice News ’ Tess Owen wrote about the Bugaloo Bois , anti-government extremists recognizable by their Hawaiian shirts , that “ in addition to their physical presence at the protests , the # boogaloo hashtag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ memes in the last couple days egging on violence , and talking about how they hope this is the beginning of a civil war.
” The Vice Magazine report also specifies how “ hardcore ‘ accelerationists ’ … are encouraging their neo-Nazi followers to go to the protests and carry out acts of violence against black people.
” There ’ s a photo of a protestor who hashtagged the photo with “ # bugaloo ” :

By Theodore Shoebat
There are reports coming out about Right-wing provocateurs infiltrating the George Floyd demonstrations, with some talk about them trying to use the situation to spark a race war. According to Mia Bloom:
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz echoed this sentiment in a press conference on Saturday alleging that the demonstrations that caused so much damage included provocateurs, likely from outside the area. At the same press conference, Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter stated, “Every single person we arrested last night, I’m told, was from out of state.” State officials said around 80 percent of those arrested in the Twin Cities on Friday were from outside Minnesota. Former FBI agent and CNN commentator, Josh Campbell wrote, that Minnesota “authorities have been monitoring alleged criminals online, including postings by suspected white supremacists trying to incite violence.” … Experts on political violence (and not just Qanon conspiracy theorists) shared stories on social media that the May 27 looting and arson at AutoZone by an unidentified man in a gas mask carrying an open umbrella (dubbed #umbrellaman) was not necessarily a protester but could be an agent provocateur or member of the police. In video posted to YouTube, while this man smashed windows with a hammer, protesters at the scene accused him of being an outsider and began to film him. According to reporting in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “The man’s actions were so odd that other rioters in the area paused their own protests to call him out and began filming. “Are you a f—ing cop?” someone else can be heard yelling to the man as he disappeared from view.”
Bloom goes on to write on “the accelerationists” or Right-wing provocateurs who want to agitate tensions with the hope of accelerating a race-war:
The demographics of a largely white, young, and destructive group fit more with a movement known as accelerationists than Black Lives Matter. The accelerationists, if you have never heard the term, are an extreme subset of white nationalism whose goal is to bring about chaos and destruction. The basic tenet of accelerationism argues that since Western governments are inherently corrupt, the best (and only) thing supremacists can do is to accelerate the end of society by sowing chaos and aggravating political tensions. “Accelerationist ideas have been cited in mass shooters’ manifestos — explicitly, in the case of the New Zealand killer — and are frequently referenced in white supremacist web forums and chat rooms,” Zack Beauchamp explained. White Supremacists pretending to host a protest to honor Floyd George on Facebook to whip up violence in San Diego were posted on Black Lives Matter-San Diego social media, warning people not to go and that it was a white supremacist-organized rally. People attending demonstrations remarked on the fact that the demographics were wrong in places like Oakland, where the majority of the destruction was perpetrated by young, Caucasian men, and has inspired not just people on social media but reporting in the mainstream media to properly question whether this is a form of infiltration by outside extremist elements. … Vice News’ Tess Owen wrote about the Bugaloo Bois, anti-government extremists recognizable by their Hawaiian shirts, that “in addition to their physical presence at the protests, the #boogaloo hashtag on social media has been flooded with memes in the last couple days egging on violence, and talking about how they hope this is the beginning of a civil war.”
The Vice Magazine report also specifies how “hardcore ‘accelerationists’ … are encouraging their neo-Nazi followers to go to the protests and carry out acts of violence against black people.” There’s a photo of a protestor who hashtagged the photo with “#bugaloo”:
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shoebat--2020-05-30--New US Military Sniper Rifle Can Fire Three Different Calibers Of Bullets

When a gun is made , it is chambered- i.e .
fitted -for a particular round of bullet .
For example , a handgun chambered in 9mm can not shoot a .45 caliber .
There are a few exceptions to this rule , such as how a gun chambered to a .357 magnum round can also shoot a .38 special round , but these are particular exceptions and not the rule .
Likewise , one is yet to hear about three different calibers of bullets used in a single gun .
However , this is changing as Business Insider reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US military can now fire three different calibers of rounds .
In the past year , the US Army , Marine Corps , and Special Operations Command have all shown interest in the same bolt-action rifle for their snipers — the Barrett Multi-Role Adaptive Design ( MRAD ) rifle able to fire three different rounds .
“ We ’ re excited about it because it ’ s going to improve capabilities , it ’ s going to improve our ability to conduct operations , and it is going to allow for a more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Army sniper told Insider .
The multi-caliber rifle known by a few different names can be chambered in 7.62X51 mm NATO , .300 Norma Magnum , and .338 Norma Magnum , meaning snipers no longer have to choose between weapons systems capable of firing different rounds for different missions and targets .
The Army , the Marine Corps , and the special operations community all want the same bolt-action rifle for their snipers , and US sharpshooters are excited to get their hands on it .
“ It ’ s an awesome gun @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a seasoned Army sniper , told Insider , referring to the Barrett Multi-Role Adaptive Design ( MRAD ) rifle , known as the Precision Sniper Rifle ( PSR ) in the Army and the Advanced Sniper Rifle ( ASR ) by Special Operations Command and the Marines .
The PSR , which the Army also calls the Mk 22 , is a “ good gun coming at a good time that is going to increase efficiency and capabilities , ” Sipes , who oversees the sniper course at Fort Benning , Ga. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ excited about it because it ’ s going to improve capabilities , it ’ s going to improve our ability to conduct operations , and it is going to allow for a more flexible sniper element , ” he said , explaining that the new rifle essentially lets US snipers employ three separate weapon systems in a single platform .
Instead of making US military snipers choose between weapons capable of firing different rounds for different missions and targets , the multi-caliber rifle can be chambered in 7.62X51 mm NATO , .300 Norma @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ It gives more flexibility to the sniper as to what configuration to put it in and what targets they are going after , ” Lt. Col. Chris Kennedy , lethality branch chief of the Maneuver Center of Excellence ’ s Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate soldier division , previously told Insider .
( source ) The concept of this- that a gun can fire a multiplicity of calibers -is interesting in light of the growing militarization around the world .
We know that the world is heading towards war .
We know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be developed .
As we and others have noted , there is a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and the role that it will play both in the administration of weapons from afar ( such as firing missiles ) as well as how it may be integrated with robotics in order to create a Terminator-like soldier robot that has the potential to fundamentally transform the battlefield just as how the machine gun and poison gas in World War I and the nuclear bomb in World War II changed the world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ possibly something that , in combination with robotics , could be a major change in war .
Imagine , if you will , a robot with a “ built-in ” gun that can fire a multiplicity- say five or six -completely different calibers of bullets .
This would be an incredible asset for the one who has the robot and a devastating liability for the one who has to fight it , as the ability to “ change ” between ammo would make it much more difficult for the robot to run out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenario .
The possibilities are endless .
Times change but man does not .
The desire for war and the horror it causes remains constant throughout history , while the tools used to realize the same end are all that changes .
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When a gun is made, it is chambered- i.e. fitted -for a particular round of bullet. For example, a handgun chambered in 9mm cannot shoot a .45 caliber. There are a few exceptions to this rule, such as how a gun chambered to a .357 magnum round can also shoot a .38 special round, but these are particular exceptions and not the rule. Likewise, one is yet to hear about three different calibers of bullets used in a single gun.
However, this is changing as Business Insider reports that a new sniper rifle for the US military can now fire three different calibers of rounds.
In the past year, the US Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command have all shown interest in the same bolt-action rifle for their snipers — the Barrett Multi-Role Adaptive Design (MRAD) rifle able to fire three different rounds. “We’re excited about it because it’s going to improve capabilities, it’s going to improve our ability to conduct operations, and it is going to allow for a more flexible sniper element,” a veteran Army sniper told Insider. The multi-caliber rifle known by a few different names can be chambered in 7.62X51 mm NATO, .300 Norma Magnum, and .338 Norma Magnum, meaning snipers no longer have to choose between weapons systems capable of firing different rounds for different missions and targets. The Army, the Marine Corps, and the special operations community all want the same bolt-action rifle for their snipers, and US sharpshooters are excited to get their hands on it. “It’s an awesome gun,” 1st Sgt. Kevin Sipes, a seasoned Army sniper, told Insider, referring to the Barrett Multi-Role Adaptive Design (MRAD) rifle, known as the Precision Sniper Rifle (PSR) in the Army and the Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) by Special Operations Command and the Marines. The PSR, which the Army also calls the Mk 22, is a “good gun coming at a good time that is going to increase efficiency and capabilities,” Sipes, who oversees the sniper course at Fort Benning, Ga., said. “We’re excited about it because it’s going to improve capabilities, it’s going to improve our ability to conduct operations, and it is going to allow for a more flexible sniper element,” he said, explaining that the new rifle essentially lets US snipers employ three separate weapon systems in a single platform. Instead of making US military snipers choose between weapons capable of firing different rounds for different missions and targets, the multi-caliber rifle can be chambered in 7.62X51 mm NATO, .300 Norma Magnum, and .338 Norma Magnum. “It gives more flexibility to the sniper as to what configuration to put it in and what targets they are going after,” Lt. Col. Chris Kennedy, lethality branch chief of the Maneuver Center of Excellence’s Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate soldier division, previously told Insider. (source)
The concept of this- that a gun can fire a multiplicity of calibers -is interesting in light of the growing militarization around the world.
We know that the world is heading towards war. We know that new weapons of warfare are going to be developed. As we and others have noted, there is a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and the role that it will play both in the administration of weapons from afar (such as firing missiles) as well as how it may be integrated with robotics in order to create a Terminator-like soldier robot that has the potential to fundamentally transform the battlefield just as how the machine gun and poison gas in World War I and the nuclear bomb in World War II changed the world.
What we are looking at here is possibly something that, in combination with robotics, could be a major change in war.
Imagine, if you will, a robot with a “built-in” gun that can fire a multiplicity- say five or six -completely different calibers of bullets. This would be an incredible asset for the one who has the robot and a devastating liability for the one who has to fight it, as the ability to “change” between ammo would make it much more difficult for the robot to run out of ammo.
This is just one scenario. The possibilities are endless.
Times change but man does not. The desire for war and the horror it causes remains constant throughout history, while the tools used to realize the same end are all that changes.
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shoebat--2020-05-30--Hindu Priest Beheads Man In Ritual Human Sacrifice To End COVID-19 Pandemic

A common feature of ancient religions and really , the ancient world is human sacrifice .
It does not matter what the place or who the people in question is , for paganism inevitably bifurcates along one of two paths- either to a search for the true God ( which culminates in Christ and His revelations , which is why so many ancient peoples converted to Christianity when it was presented to them , for it explained the errors in their paganism that could not be answered ) , or it leads to a rejection of God and the manifestation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a reflection of hell , for as many a saint has noted throughout history , all of the various pagan “ gods ” are just demons under different names .
Hinduism is no exception to this rule , and for all of the talk about “ culture ” and nationhood , Hinduism is at its core a form of ancient Iranian paganism brought to India and imposed on the people there as a means of social control , and it involves human sacrifice when one pursues it to its natural end .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as suttee ) , it can involve things such as beheadings or other gruesome actions .
Such an example of this recently took place in India , where the UK Daily Mail reports that a Hindu priest , seeking to end the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the world , ritually beheaded another man in a human sacrifice to the pagan Hindu ‘ gods ’ .
A drunk 70-year-old priest decapitated a man as a sacrifice to end the coronavirus pandemic after smoking marijuana in India .
Sansari Ojha from the Brahmani @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cuttack cut off 52-year-old Saroj Kumar Pradhan ’ s head .
The Hindu priest from the Bandhahuda area in Odisha killed the man to appease a goddess , he claimed .
He beheaded Pradhan with an axe at 1am in the morning in the temple ’ s shrine after an argument .
Detective Ashish Kumar Singh said Ojha was heavily drunk at the time and surrendered to police the same day after coming to his senses .
e said Ojha claimed he was ordered by a goddess in his dream to sacrifice a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the pandemic .
Alok Ranjan Ray , Athagarh sub-divisional police officer , said : ‘ The priest claimed that he saw a goddess in his dream and was asked to sacrifice a human ’ s life to bring an end to coronavirus .
‘ Hence , to appease the goddess , he decapitated the man , ’ he told Gulf News .
( source ) Certainly , as the story notes , alcohol and drugs were central to his behaviors as also was his disagreements with the other man .
It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ sacrifice ” to Hindu dieties as an excuse for his own bad actions because of personal grievances .
While one can debate either position , the general point is that the concept of human sacrifice in Hinduism is something that is too often overlooked and not given the attention it deserves .
India is rising in power , and as part of this attempt to assert herself on the world stage she is seeking to promote a religious revival in her nation .
This is a very serious matter , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christianity , but also can not divest herself from the more gruesome aspects of the religion , such as human sacrifice .
There is a significant amount of human sacrifice in the name of Hinduism that goes on in India .
Most of it seems to go underreported , and only comes up when a legal case such as this forces it to be exposed .
It will be interesting to see , as a trend , if this becomes a more prominent trend for the future , i.e .
human sacrifice gains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religious practice in the name of “ culture ” and “ tolerance ” in India .
This would likely take time , but the potential for this to rise should not be ruled out .
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A common feature of ancient religions and really, the ancient world is human sacrifice. It does not matter what the place or who the people in question is, for paganism inevitably bifurcates along one of two paths- either to a search for the true God (which culminates in Christ and His revelations, which is why so many ancient peoples converted to Christianity when it was presented to them, for it explained the errors in their paganism that could not be answered), or it leads to a rejection of God and the manifestation of a darwinistic power struggle that is a reflection of hell, for as many a saint has noted throughout history, all of the various pagan “gods” are just demons under different names.
Hinduism is no exception to this rule, and for all of the talk about “culture” and nationhood, Hinduism is at its core a form of ancient Iranian paganism brought to India and imposed on the people there as a means of social control, and it involves human sacrifice when one pursues it to its natural end. While some practices are better known (such as suttee), it can involve things such as beheadings or other gruesome actions. Such an example of this recently took place in India, where the UK Daily Mail reports that a Hindu priest, seeking to end the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the world, ritually beheaded another man in a human sacrifice to the pagan Hindu ‘gods’.
A drunk 70-year-old priest decapitated a man as a sacrifice to end the coronavirus pandemic after smoking marijuana in India. Sansari Ojha from the Brahmani Devi Temple under Narasinghpur police station in Cuttack cut off 52-year-old Saroj Kumar Pradhan’s head. The Hindu priest from the Bandhahuda area in Odisha killed the man to appease a goddess, he claimed. He beheaded Pradhan with an axe at 1am in the morning in the temple’s shrine after an argument. Detective Ashish Kumar Singh said Ojha was heavily drunk at the time and surrendered to police the same day after coming to his senses. e said Ojha claimed he was ordered by a goddess in his dream to sacrifice a human in order to bring an end to the pandemic. Alok Ranjan Ray, Athagarh sub-divisional police officer, said: ‘The priest claimed that he saw a goddess in his dream and was asked to sacrifice a human’s life to bring an end to coronavirus. ‘Hence, to appease the goddess, he decapitated the man,’ he told Gulf News. (source)
Certainly, as the story notes, alcohol and drugs were central to his behaviors as also was his disagreements with the other man. It is very possible he used the excuse of a “sacrifice” to Hindu dieties as an excuse for his own bad actions because of personal grievances. While one can debate either position, the general point is that the concept of human sacrifice in Hinduism is something that is too often overlooked and not given the attention it deserves.
India is rising in power, and as part of this attempt to assert herself on the world stage she is seeking to promote a religious revival in her nation. This is a very serious matter, for Hinduism is not only paganism that hates Christianity, but also cannot divest herself from the more gruesome aspects of the religion, such as human sacrifice.
There is a significant amount of human sacrifice in the name of Hinduism that goes on in India. Most of it seems to go underreported, and only comes up when a legal case such as this forces it to be exposed.
It will be interesting to see, as a trend, if this becomes a more prominent trend for the future, i.e. human sacrifice gains a sort of social legitimacy as a religious practice in the name of “culture” and “tolerance” in India. This would likely take time, but the potential for this to rise should not be ruled out.
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shoebat--2020-05-30--Germany Turns Down G7 Invitation From Trump, Cites COVID-19 Concerns

According to Business Insider and Politico , Germany has turned down an invitation from Trump to the G7 meeting amid concerns about COVID-19 .
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down President Donald Trump ’ s invitation to the G7 Summit next month , Politico reported .
“ The federal chancellor thanks President Trump for his invitation to the G7 summit at the end of June in Washington .
As of today , considering the overall pandemic situation , she can not agree to her personal participation , to a journey to Washington , ” the report quoted German government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Reuters , the White House said that Trump believes there would be “ no greater example of reopening ” than holding a G7 summit in the US at the end of June .
Trump had initially canceled the meeting which would have been held on June 10 through June 12 back in March , as the coronavirus outbreak in the US grew .
Last week , he announced that he is considering hosting it again at Camp David , Business Insider previously reported .
In a tweet , he said : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the same or similar date , in Washington , D.C. , at the legendary Camp David .
The other members are also beginning their COMEBACK .
It would be a great sign to all – normalization !
” A senior US official , who declined to be named told Politico that Trump and Merkel had “ heated disagreements on topics including NATO , the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany , and relations with China , ” during a phone call this week .
Merkel said she believes June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hold large gatherings since the virus is still circulating , according to Politico .
Trump was reportedly “ furious over Merkel ’ s reluctance to attend the summit , ” Politico reported .
( source ) Now it is true that COVID-19 is a real threat and people should pay attention to it .
This position has not changed .
However , as I have noted , COVID-19 has been used as an excuse to do many things , hence why I have referred to it as a “ gift ” that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be used to advocate any number of social ideas and positions .
We know for a fact that Germany wants to rise again .
She has a long history of this .
We also know that Germany wants to break away from US influence and exert herself in the European continent and internationally .
We know that Germany does not like the US , and that her dislike of the US only continues to increase with the more power she gains .
Ask yourself , is this turning down of the meeting really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intentional snub to the US using COVID-19 as an excuse to express German political desires ?
The fact is that we do not know the answer definitively .
However , the timing is very interesting in history , and is something to watch for the future .
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According to Business Insider and Politico, Germany has turned down an invitation from Trump to the G7 meeting amid concerns about COVID-19.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down President Donald Trump’s invitation to the G7 Summit next month, Politico reported. “The federal chancellor thanks President Trump for his invitation to the G7 summit at the end of June in Washington. As of today, considering the overall pandemic situation, she cannot agree to her personal participation, to a journey to Washington,” the report quoted German government spokesman Steffen Seibert as saying. According to Reuters, the White House said that Trump believes there would be “no greater example of reopening” than holding a G7 summit in the US at the end of June. Trump had initially canceled the meeting which would have been held on June 10 through June 12 back in March, as the coronavirus outbreak in the US grew. Last week, he announced that he is considering hosting it again at Camp David, Business Insider previously reported. In a tweet, he said: “I am considering rescheduling the G-7, on the same or similar date, in Washington, D.C., at the legendary Camp David. The other members are also beginning their COMEBACK. It would be a great sign to all – normalization!” A senior US official, who declined to be named told Politico that Trump and Merkel had “heated disagreements on topics including NATO, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, and relations with China,” during a phone call this week. Merkel said she believes June is still too soon to reopen and hold large gatherings since the virus is still circulating, according to Politico. Trump was reportedly “furious over Merkel’s reluctance to attend the summit,” Politico reported. (source)
Now it is true that COVID-19 is a real threat and people should pay attention to it. This position has not changed.
However, as I have noted, COVID-19 has been used as an excuse to do many things, hence why I have referred to it as a “gift” that “keeps on giving” since it can be used to advocate any number of social ideas and positions.
We know for a fact that Germany wants to rise again. She has a long history of this.
We also know that Germany wants to break away from US influence and exert herself in the European continent and internationally.
We know that Germany does not like the US, and that her dislike of the US only continues to increase with the more power she gains.
Ask yourself, is this turning down of the meeting really about COVID-19, or is this an intentional snub to the US using COVID-19 as an excuse to express German political desires?
The fact is that we do not know the answer definitively. However, the timing is very interesting in history, and is something to watch for the future.
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shoebat--2020-05-30--There Are Many Questions About The Minneapolis Riots And Not Enough Answers

There is a lot of attention being paid to the rioting taking place in Minneapolis and other major American cities .
I have been watching this as well , and as I pointed out yesterday , there is enough evidence to garner a reasonable suspicion that these riots , while in some cases natural , are being fomented by police and government .
Ask yourself , why is this violence happening ?
Certainly the death of George Floyd is unfortunate .
However , one can not help but wonder why , in this particular election year at a time where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incident getting so much attention outside of the due justice it merits .
Does his death really merit rioting ?
Murders ( there are allegations of people being murdered over this ) ?
Street violence ?
Likewise , why does it seem there are constant messages from people suggesting that the police and fire departments are being told to stand down by their superiors ?
This is outside of the evidence I noted in my article from yesterday .
Why does it seem that the public is being forced to watch as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , consider that a public eruption of anger such as this could have happened at any time .
Consider the case of Trayvon Martin- regardless of what one thinks of him or not , there were protests , and the same level of violence could have been reached .
However , Police refused to allow this to happen .
Yet what does it appear is happening here ?
That instead of stopping the protests , there may be provocation by police of the protesters so to encourage the worst behavior possible , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in similar conduct ?
Could it be that the police let this happen on purpose ?
Is it not interesting that there are videos being made of people in the protests alleging that pallets of bricks are appearing not anywhere near construction sites , but right in the middle of protests , as though they were put there for people to throw ?
The questions continue to rise , and with no answers to be found .
Likewise , notice the relative and curious silence of President Trump .
For all the talk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charge ” , what has he fundamentally done to remedy the situation other than making strongly-worded statements ?
He has done effectively nothing .
Even as the riots were taking place , where was the tweeting from his account ?
Where was his “ leadership ” ?
Indeed , it seemed as though he had more to say about conflict with China than dealing with the domestic situation of the riots , even as protests are practically taking place right outside of the White House ?
Ask yourself , what would the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we seeing the progressive establishment of police militarization in that in the name of preserving “ public security ” from riots such as this , this incident could be used as justification to continue what began in 2001 , with the unleashing in full force of a police presence that is ever-more militarized and ever-present on American streets ?
Likewise , how will these actions have an impact on future protests ?
Could this incident be used as a pretext to shut down any protest-regardless of what the situation or issue may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full violence and even a sort of imposed isolation on the public in the name of security ?
I do not know .
I do not have answers and I do not pretend to have them .
I can only evaluate what information I have that can be confirmed and attempt to see how patterns of previous behavior relate to contemporary actions .
The impacts of these protests and the response , or lack of response from the government is something to watch .
Conclusions can not be drawn right now , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seems to be something else going on that is far greater than just the protests .
George Floyd was said to have been a peaceful man who loved Minneapolis and would have hated to see the city burn .
If this is true , then it would be even more unfortunate to see his death used as a pretext for strange national manipulation in order to leverage more control over people at a time when peace and the ability to agree to disagree in a civil manner is less common yet more in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now to help support the work of this site .
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There is a lot of attention being paid to the rioting taking place in Minneapolis and other major American cities.
I have been watching this as well, and as I pointed out yesterday, there is enough evidence to garner a reasonable suspicion that these riots, while in some cases natural, are being fomented by police and government.
Ask yourself, why is this violence happening? Certainly the death of George Floyd is unfortunate.
However, one cannot help but wonder why, in this particular election year at a time where COVID-19 is also spreading, is this incident getting so much attention outside of the due justice it merits.
Does his death really merit rioting? Murders (there are allegations of people being murdered over this)? Street violence?
Likewise, why does it seem there are constant messages from people suggesting that the police and fire departments are being told to stand down by their superiors? This is outside of the evidence I noted in my article from yesterday.
Why does it seem that the public is being forced to watch as the “authorities” do nothing?
Likewise, consider that a public eruption of anger such as this could have happened at any time. Consider the case of Trayvon Martin- regardless of what one thinks of him or not, there were protests, and the same level of violence could have been reached. However, Police refused to allow this to happen.
Yet what does it appear is happening here? That instead of stopping the protests, there may be provocation by police of the protesters so to encourage the worst behavior possible, as well as engendering future thoughts about engaging in similar conduct?
Could it be that the police let this happen on purpose?
Is it not interesting that there are videos being made of people in the protests alleging that pallets of bricks are appearing not anywhere near construction sites, but right in the middle of protests, as though they were put there for people to throw?
The questions continue to rise, and with no answers to be found.
Likewise, notice the relative and curious silence of President Trump. For all the talk of him being able to “take charge”, what has he fundamentally done to remedy the situation other than making strongly-worded statements?
He has done effectively nothing. Even as the riots were taking place, where was the tweeting from his account? Where was his “leadership”? Indeed, it seemed as though he had more to say about conflict with China than dealing with the domestic situation of the riots, even as protests are practically taking place right outside of the White House?
Ask yourself, what would the end goal of all this be?
Are we seeing the progressive establishment of police militarization in that in the name of preserving “public security” from riots such as this, this incident could be used as justification to continue what began in 2001, with the unleashing in full force of a police presence that is ever-more militarized and ever-present on American streets?
Likewise, how will these actions have an impact on future protests? Could this incident be used as a pretext to shut down any protest-regardless of what the situation or issue may be -and to bring immediate police clampdown with full violence and even a sort of imposed isolation on the public in the name of security?
I do not know. I do not have answers and I do not pretend to have them. I can only evaluate what information I have that can be confirmed and attempt to see how patterns of previous behavior relate to contemporary actions.
The impacts of these protests and the response, or lack of response from the government is something to watch. Conclusions cannot be drawn right now, but what can be said is that there seems to be something else going on that is far greater than just the protests.
George Floyd was said to have been a peaceful man who loved Minneapolis and would have hated to see the city burn. If this is true, then it would be even more unfortunate to see his death used as a pretext for strange national manipulation in order to leverage more control over people at a time when peace and the ability to agree to disagree in a civil manner is less common yet more in dire need than ever before.
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shoebat--2020-05-30--Islamic Terrorists Murder 57 People In Highly Resource Rich Area In Congo

Islam and political movements related to major western nations and economic competition have a disturbing history where they overlap .
According to a recent story from the Christian Post , 57 Christian were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Congo .
At least 57 people were killed this week in attacks carried out by an Islamic rebel group in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo as escalating violence near the Ugandan border has displaced hundreds of thousands of people so far this year .
The Centre for the Promotion of Peace , Democracy and Human Rights said in a statement that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Walese-Vukutu villages in Ituri province on Tuesday , killing 40 , according to The Associated Press .
Attacks on villages have been attributed to members of the Allied Democratic Forces and a group known as MTM , which claims to be affiliated with the Islamic State terror faction .
According to the news agency , the two groups have begun carrying out attacks together .
The latest attacks follow a separate attack on Monday that was attributed to ADF , an Islamist rebel group that was driven out of Uganda in the late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and resurged in recent years .
A military offensive was launched against the group ’ s bases last year .
A source told Reuters that ADF launched an early morning attack on civilians in the village of Makutano in Ituri .
“ They fired several shots in the air .
When the population was fleeing , they captured some people and cut them up with machetes , ” Gili Gotabo , a civil society leader in the Irumu territory , said of the Monday attack .
The Kivu Security Tracker , a research @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , reported that at least 17 were killed in Monday ’ s attack .
However , Gotabo told Reuters that there are likely to be more deaths .
ADF has been blamed for killing hundreds of people since the offensive began last year .
After a sharp decline of violent deaths in March , the Kivu Security Tracker shows an uptick in attacks in the region over the last two months .
( source ) As the article notes , the attack took place in a region known as Kivu .
Conflicts are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as the area has been in a state of constant war since 1998 with the Second Congo War from 1998 to 2003 , and the conflict that has continued since then called the Kivu Conflict .
Weapons have been coming into the area for a long time .
The conflict between the government and the rebel groups in North Kivu is a conflict between a socialist government versus the various nationalist and tribalist groups , so it reflects the same paradigm in many of the conflicts around the world which have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the US as a part of Operation Gladio .
The US has openly supported both the government and the rebels in the conflict : The first reason for supporting such a conflict would be for the benefit of the military and industrial complexes , as North Kivu is an area rich in natural resources , especially the rare-earth mineral Coltan , which contains Niobium and Tantalum .
The former is used in heat-intensive metal alloys for infrastructure and electronics , the latter is used for high-quality capacitors in electronics , and both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ modern technology and of which 50 % of Coltan is mined in Rwanda , the direct neighbor to North Kivu .
But there is another more important reason for going into the DRC , and specifically that region : Oil .
Export.gov published a report in 2017 in which it said that after Angola , a former Portuguese colony , the second largest known concentrations of oil in sub-saharan Africa is in Congo , specifically in the North Kivu area and surrounding Kivu lake region , in addition to tremendous amounts of untapped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gas discoveries in the east of the country give the DRC the second largest crude oil reserves in Central and Southern Africa after Angola .
These reserves are primarily located in the four major lakes bordering Tanzania , Burundi , Rwanda , and Uganda .
The DRC contains three sedimentary basins ; the Coastal Basin located in Kongo Central , extending offshore past the Congo River estuary , the Central Basin , and the Grabens Albertine and Tanganyika , extending from the Ugandan-DRC border to the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reserves of 180 million barrels , though estimates of total petroleum reserves exceed 5 billion barrels .
Currently , Congolese oil production is limited to the Coast Basin , yielding 25,000 barrels per day of offshore production , all of which are exported .
Along with large recently identified oil fields , the DRC may hold as many as 30 billion cubic meters of methane and natural gas in the three major petroleum deposits .
Lake Kivu , bordering Rwanda and Burundi , has nearly 60 billion cubic meters of dissolved methane in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poses a threat to populations along its shores , this gas can be trapped and converted to electricity .
Methane is already being extracted on the Rwandan side of the Lake , through a Rwandan built biogas power plant that is generating 30-40 megawatts of electricity .
Beyond the estimated 60 billion cubic meters of methane in Lake Kivu , the lake generates as much as 250,000 cubic meters of methane annually .
( source , source ) Yahoo News in a recent article ( here , here ) produced a map showing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is one listed for the DRC , Camp Dungu , which was opened to allegedly help fight the Lord ’ s Resistance Army , another terrorist group that existed in the DRC during the late 1990s and early 2000s but since has disappeared and the US in May 2017 announced they would pull out of Congo .
Now it is a known fact that ISIS is a US creation , and the documentation can be found in the Shoebat archives .
Building upon this thesis , it is interesting that in a nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that niobthat is critical to industrial processes , all of a sudden ISIS shows up and begins to attack .
This is an invitation for the US to return to the Congo in the name of “ security ” , which is exactly what the President of the Congo recently announced would happen ( source , source ) .
Notice this speech was given on April 4th- the time when he cited a threat from ISIS .
Coincidentally , two weeks later to the day , ISIS initiates the first ever terrorist attack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that exact same contested region .
One could say this is a co-incidence , but the circumstances are highly suspicious , and it would be unwise to eliminate the involvement of the US , who created ISIS , in doing this as a justification to return to that region .
There is also another reason that is very important .
Take a look at that Yahoo News map above , and one will notice a prevalence of US military footprints surrounding but not within Nigeria , and also her involvement in Gabon on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an important nation to watch because she is the most pro-China nation outside of China , and she is a major powerhouse in West Africa , mostly from her oil exports .
This is why Shoebat.com warned about terrorism in Nigeria rising , which it has continued to , as well as in her neighbors , as her alliance with China as well as the fact that she has a pipeline that goes from her to Algeria which brings oil to Europe .
In the event of a war , Nigeria will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to supply China .
The US and her ally in Germany , who has also been returning to her former African colonial territories , has been aggressively exploring West Africa over the potential of new oil fields , which AFRICOM noted in 2009 stretch likely from Senegal all the way to Congo .
The Chinese are working to capture already functioning oil fields .
The US is working with those but also is working on securing brand new ones in the anticipation of a coming conflict , as well as areas with rare-earth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that she will be increasing her presence in Gabon in response to the Congo situation .
It is a known fact that the US military base in Entebbe , Uganda , east of Congo , is a critical base for US military intelligence operations in Africa .
Gabon is likewise a center of military intelligence , but less so .
By building up the US military presence in Gabon in the West and now having a justification to assert not only a stronger military presence East of Congo but now in the Eastern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ direct “ line ” from one base to the other .
This “ line ” can press north towards Cameroon , CAR , and other nations , or south into Zambia and Angola , and effectively creates a buffer zone as well as a battering ram that divides and can be used to press other militaries out of the area , of which the biggest target would be the Chinese since they are the US ’ greatest enemy and competitor in Africa at the moment .
This is about locking down as many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dividing and cutting out the Chinese presence in Africa through claims of “ security ” , and to that getting ready for another global conflict .
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Islam and political movements related to major western nations and economic competition have a disturbing history where they overlap. According to a recent story from the Christian Post, 57 Christian were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Congo.
At least 57 people were killed this week in attacks carried out by an Islamic rebel group in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo as escalating violence near the Ugandan border has displaced hundreds of thousands of people so far this year. The Centre for the Promotion of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights said in a statement that Islamic rebels attacked Samboko, Bandavilemba and Walese-Vukutu villages in Ituri province on Tuesday, killing 40, according to The Associated Press. Attacks on villages have been attributed to members of the Allied Democratic Forces and a group known as MTM, which claims to be affiliated with the Islamic State terror faction. According to the news agency, the two groups have begun carrying out attacks together. The latest attacks follow a separate attack on Monday that was attributed to ADF, an Islamist rebel group that was driven out of Uganda in the late 1990s but has operated in eastern DRC and resurged in recent years. A military offensive was launched against the group’s bases last year. A source told Reuters that ADF launched an early morning attack on civilians in the village of Makutano in Ituri. “They fired several shots in the air. When the population was fleeing, they captured some people and cut them up with machetes,” Gili Gotabo, a civil society leader in the Irumu territory, said of the Monday attack. The Kivu Security Tracker, a research initiative that monitors violence in the region, reported that at least 17 were killed in Monday’s attack. However, Gotabo told Reuters that there are likely to be more deaths. ADF has been blamed for killing hundreds of people since the offensive began last year. After a sharp decline of violent deaths in March, the Kivu Security Tracker shows an uptick in attacks in the region over the last two months. (source)
As the article notes, the attack took place in a region known as Kivu. Conflicts are not unknown to happen in this area, as the area has been in a state of constant war since 1998 with the Second Congo War from 1998 to 2003, and the conflict that has continued since then called the Kivu Conflict.
Weapons have been coming into the area for a long time. The conflict between the government and the rebel groups in North Kivu is a conflict between a socialist government versus the various nationalist and tribalist groups, so it reflects the same paradigm in many of the conflicts around the world which have been used by “stay-behind” groups supported by the US as a part of Operation Gladio. The US has openly supported both the government and the rebels in the conflict:
Although the Clinton administration has been quick to criticize the governments involved in the Congo War, decades of U.S. weapons transfers and continued military training to both sides of the conflict have helped fuel the fighting. The U.S. has helped build the arsenals of eight of the nine governments directly involved in the war that has ravaged the DRC since Kabila’s coup. U.S. military transfers in the form of direct government-to-government weapons deliveries, commercial sales, and International Military Education and Training (IMET) to the states directly involved have totaled more than $125 million since the end of the Cold War. (source, source)
The first reason for supporting such a conflict would be for the benefit of the military and industrial complexes, as North Kivu is an area rich in natural resources, especially the rare-earth mineral Coltan, which contains Niobium and Tantalum. The former is used in heat-intensive metal alloys for infrastructure and electronics, the latter is used for high-quality capacitors in electronics, and both are considered critical to the functioning of modern technology and of which 50% of Coltan is mined in Rwanda, the direct neighbor to North Kivu.
But there is another more important reason for going into the DRC, and specifically that region: Oil.
Export.gov published a report in 2017 in which it said that after Angola, a former Portuguese colony, the second largest known concentrations of oil in sub-saharan Africa is in Congo, specifically in the North Kivu area and surrounding Kivu lake region, in addition to tremendous amounts of untapped energy under the ground:
Oil and gas discoveries in the east of the country give the DRC the second largest crude oil reserves in Central and Southern Africa after Angola. These reserves are primarily located in the four major lakes bordering Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda. The DRC contains three sedimentary basins; the Coastal Basin located in Kongo Central, extending offshore past the Congo River estuary, the Central Basin, and the Grabens Albertine and Tanganyika, extending from the Ugandan-DRC border to the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika on the Zambian-DRC border. The DRC has proven reserves of 180 million barrels, though estimates of total petroleum reserves exceed 5 billion barrels. Currently, Congolese oil production is limited to the Coast Basin, yielding 25,000 barrels per day of offshore production, all of which are exported. Along with large recently identified oil fields, the DRC may hold as many as 30 billion cubic meters of methane and natural gas in the three major petroleum deposits. Lake Kivu, bordering Rwanda and Burundi, has nearly 60 billion cubic meters of dissolved methane in its waters. While the methane gas poses a threat to populations along its shores, this gas can be trapped and converted to electricity. Methane is already being extracted on the Rwandan side of the Lake, through a Rwandan built biogas power plant that is generating 30-40 megawatts of electricity. Beyond the estimated 60 billion cubic meters of methane in Lake Kivu, the lake generates as much as 250,000 cubic meters of methane annually. (source, source)
Yahoo News in a recent article (here, here) produced a map showing US military footprints throughout Africa:
There is one listed for the DRC, Camp Dungu, which was opened to allegedly help fight the Lord’s Resistance Army, another terrorist group that existed in the DRC during the late 1990s and early 2000s but since has disappeared and the US in May 2017 announced they would pull out of Congo.
Now it is a known fact that ISIS is a US creation, and the documentation can be found in the Shoebat archives. Building upon this thesis, it is interesting that in a nation where the US has to withdraw from that niobthat is critical to industrial processes, all of a sudden ISIS shows up and begins to attack.
This is an invitation for the US to return to the Congo in the name of “security”, which is exactly what the President of the Congo recently announced would happen (source, source).
Notice this speech was given on April 4th- the time when he cited a threat from ISIS. Coincidentally, two weeks later to the day, ISIS initiates the first ever terrorist attack by their group in the Congo in that exact same contested region.
One could say this is a co-incidence, but the circumstances are highly suspicious, and it would be unwise to eliminate the involvement of the US, who created ISIS, in doing this as a justification to return to that region.
There is also another reason that is very important. Take a look at that Yahoo News map above, and one will notice a prevalence of US military footprints surrounding but not within Nigeria, and also her involvement in Gabon on the western border by Congo.
Nigeria is an important nation to watch because she is the most pro-China nation outside of China, and she is a major powerhouse in West Africa, mostly from her oil exports. This is why Shoebat.com warned about terrorism in Nigeria rising, which it has continued to, as well as in her neighbors, as her alliance with China as well as the fact that she has a pipeline that goes from her to Algeria which brings oil to Europe. In the event of a war, Nigeria will likely shut off that pipeline and continue to supply China. The US and her ally in Germany, who has also been returning to her former African colonial territories, has been aggressively exploring West Africa over the potential of new oil fields, which AFRICOM noted in 2009 stretch likely from Senegal all the way to Congo.
The Chinese are working to capture already functioning oil fields. The US is working with those but also is working on securing brand new ones in the anticipation of a coming conflict, as well as areas with rare-earth minerals.
Now the US has announced that she will be increasing her presence in Gabon in response to the Congo situation. It is a known fact that the US military base in Entebbe, Uganda, east of Congo, is a critical base for US military intelligence operations in Africa. Gabon is likewise a center of military intelligence, but less so.
By building up the US military presence in Gabon in the West and now having a justification to assert not only a stronger military presence East of Congo but now in the Eastern regions of Congo, it provides a direct “line” from one base to the other. This “line” can press north towards Cameroon, CAR, and other nations, or south into Zambia and Angola, and effectively creates a buffer zone as well as a battering ram that divides and can be used to press other militaries out of the area, of which the biggest target would be the Chinese since they are the US’ greatest enemy and competitor in Africa at the moment.
This is about locking down as many resources as possible as it is about dividing and cutting out the Chinese presence in Africa through claims of “security”, and to that getting ready for another global conflict.
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shoebat--2020-05-31--Police Officer Fires Pepper Balls At News Reporter And Crew

In a video that has shocked many , WAVE 3 News Louisville reports that their reporters were fired on by police at a protest with pepper balls .
WAVE 3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust and photojournalist James Dobson were struck by pepper balls reportedly fired by an LMPD officer during a protest in downtown Louisville on Friday night .
It was previously reported that the officer was firing rubber bullets , but LMPD spokeswoman Jessie Halladay said the department ’ s officers do not use rubber bullets , and it was likely that was Rust and Dobson were hit with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the incident during a Saturday morning briefing with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer .
“ We believe it was one of our SRT officers ; we are still trying to identify which officer , ” Halladay said .
“ Targeting the media is not our intention .
There was a lot going on last night , and to be fair to both the officer and to Kaitlin , we need to take a deeper look at what happened and what prompted that action .
So we have said that we will do that and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will address it.
” In response to what happened to Rust and Dobson , WAVE 3 News General Manager Ken Selvaggi issued a statement saying , “ We strongly condemn the actions of the LMPD officer who tonight repeatedly fired at and hit our reporter and cameraman , both of whom were courageously and lawfully covering breaking news in their community .
There is simply no justification for the Louisville police to wantonly open fire , even with pepper balls , on any journalists under any circumstances.
” The statement also said “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Mr. Dobson , the two had been following police instructions , were standing behind the police line when they were fired upon , and were not disrupting or otherwise interfering with law enforcement.
” ( source ) Was this an accident ?
Surely it was possible .
However , what is the excuse ?
Just look at the video .
One of the major rules about having a gun is to NEVER POINT IT AT SOMETHING YOU DO NOT INTENT TO HARM .
This is a fundamental rule of all firearms handling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it can not be taken back .
This is , if one may call it , “ Firearms 101 ” , and is probably the most serious of all rules alongside the rule to always check if a gun is loaded before receiving it from another person and even before doing anything else with it even if one is alone .
Police officers know this well .
Their job involves being entrusted with the same handling of firearms , which most do .
The same can be said about most gun handlers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even accidentally , that person is held responsible for the accident , and there are often severe consequences .
Please tell me , how can one say that , upon seeing the video , that this was just an “ accident ” ?
What excuse would there be for a police officer that he would be unable to distinguish between , say , an individual posing a true threat , versus a news crew ?
I can say with certainty that if this was an average man who did the exact same thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saw him , he would be hit up with all kinds of charges , and told that he was “ irresponsible ” and the state would move to try and strip him of his rights to own a firearm .
Likewise , why does it seem from statements released by police after and picked up and reported by the station that there is a seeming “ defense ” of this particular person ’ s actions ?
If the police was actually asking the reporters to move , why were they not approached ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at them ?
What specific reason justifies it ?
I ’ m not saying that people don ’ t have to make tense decisions in a short amount of time .
I ’ m not saying that accidents don ’ t happen involving firearms .
What I am saying is that it is incredibly difficult to believe that given all of the tension between police and the citizenry going on right now , including the fact that it seems and there are allegations that police are being ordered to stand down in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how police are being watched so carefully , that a police officer , fully dressed in tactical gear , would fail so gravely in his duty to distinguish between a serious threat and a clearly obvious local news crew filming and then simply proceed to shoot at them as though they were no different than rioters .
That is a very difficult concept to process .
The only thing that I can take away from this video is that we are witnessing , albeit slowly , the death of freedom of the press @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donate now to help support the work of this site .
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In a video that has shocked many, WAVE 3 News Louisville reports that their reporters were fired on by police at a protest with pepper balls.
WAVE 3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust and photojournalist James Dobson were struck by pepper balls reportedly fired by an LMPD officer during a protest in downtown Louisville on Friday night. It was previously reported that the officer was firing rubber bullets, but LMPD spokeswoman Jessie Halladay said the department’s officers do not use rubber bullets, and it was likely that was Rust and Dobson were hit with pepper balls. Halladay commented again on the incident during a Saturday morning briefing with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer. “We believe it was one of our SRT officers; we are still trying to identify which officer,” Halladay said. “Targeting the media is not our intention. There was a lot going on last night, and to be fair to both the officer and to Kaitlin, we need to take a deeper look at what happened and what prompted that action. So we have said that we will do that and if there needs to be discipline we will address it.” In response to what happened to Rust and Dobson, WAVE 3 News General Manager Ken Selvaggi issued a statement saying, “We strongly condemn the actions of the LMPD officer who tonight repeatedly fired at and hit our reporter and cameraman, both of whom were courageously and lawfully covering breaking news in their community. There is simply no justification for the Louisville police to wantonly open fire, even with pepper balls, on any journalists under any circumstances.” The statement also said “When the officer fired at Ms. Rust and Mr. Dobson, the two had been following police instructions, were standing behind the police line when they were fired upon, and were not disrupting or otherwise interfering with law enforcement.” (source)
Was this an accident? Surely it was possible.
However, what is the excuse?
Just look at the video.
One of the major rules about having a gun is to NEVER POINT IT AT SOMETHING YOU DO NOT INTENT TO HARM. This is a fundamental rule of all firearms handling, because once a bullet is released, it cannot be taken back. This is, if one may call it, “Firearms 101”, and is probably the most serious of all rules alongside the rule to always check if a gun is loaded before receiving it from another person and even before doing anything else with it even if one is alone.
Police officers know this well. Their job involves being entrusted with the same handling of firearms, which most do. The same can be said about most gun handlers. If a person is shot, even accidentally, that person is held responsible for the accident, and there are often severe consequences.
Please tell me, how can one say that, upon seeing the video, that this was just an “accident”?
What excuse would there be for a police officer that he would be unable to distinguish between, say, an individual posing a true threat, versus a news crew?
I can say with certainty that if this was an average man who did the exact same thing to another average man and the police saw him, he would be hit up with all kinds of charges, and told that he was “irresponsible” and the state would move to try and strip him of his rights to own a firearm.
Likewise, why does it seem from statements released by police after and picked up and reported by the station that there is a seeming “defense” of this particular person’s actions?
If the police was actually asking the reporters to move, why were they not approached? Why the need to fire a weapon at them? What specific reason justifies it?
I’m not saying that people don’t have to make tense decisions in a short amount of time. I’m not saying that accidents don’t happen involving firearms. What I am saying is that it is incredibly difficult to believe that given all of the tension between police and the citizenry going on right now, including the fact that it seems and there are allegations that police are being ordered to stand down in the face of riots across the country and how police are being watched so carefully, that a police officer, fully dressed in tactical gear, would fail so gravely in his duty to distinguish between a serious threat and a clearly obvious local news crew filming and then simply proceed to shoot at them as though they were no different than rioters.
That is a very difficult concept to process.
The only thing that I can take away from this video is that we are witnessing, albeit slowly, the death of freedom of the press in real time by historical events.
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shoebat--2020-05-31--Protesters Desecrate Outside Of St. Patrick’s Cathedral With Graffitti

St. Patrick ’ s Cathedral is a famous Catholic Church in New York City .
Following the nationwide and also @ @ @ @ @ as it pertains to circumstances protests , the New York Post reports that the church @ @ @ @ @ with graffitti .
Protesters desecrated St. Patrick ’ s Cathedral with graffiti Saturday , staining @ @ @ @ @ two walls .
The graffiti on one wall on Fifth Avenue and 51st Street read @ @ @ @ @ red letters .
On an adjacent wall , vandals scrawled “ BLM ” — for @ @ @ @ @ with “ NYPDK ” in red letters and “ No justice no peace ” in @ @ @ @ @ the stairs was spray-painted with “ George Floyd ” in black letters .
A Post @ @ @ @ @ around 6:30 p.m. Police at the scene declined immediate comment .
The sacrilegious scrawl was @ @ @ @ @ protesters marched down Fifth Avenue past the Cathedral earlier Saturday .
( source )

St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a famous Catholic Church in New York City. Following the nationwide and also, highly suspicious as far as it pertains to circumstances protests, the New York Post reports that the church was desecrated on the outside with graffitti.
Protesters desecrated St. Patrick’s Cathedral with graffiti Saturday, staining stairs and spewing hatred on two walls.
The graffiti on one wall on Fifth Avenue and 51st Street read “F–k F–k” in red letters. On an adjacent wall, vandals scrawled “BLM” — for Black Lives Matter — along with “NYPDK” in red letters and “No justice no peace” in black letters.
One of the stairs was spray-painted with “George Floyd” in black letters.
A Post reporter spotted the vandalism at around 6:30 p.m. Police at the scene declined immediate comment.
The sacrilegious scrawl was more than likely etched while protesters marched down Fifth Avenue past the Cathedral earlier Saturday. (source)