wnd--2020-06-04--DHS report: Antifa, opportunists causing violence at riots - No evidence of white supremacists

Violence being committed amid nationwide unrest has not been perpetrated by “ white supremacists , ” according to a new analysis .
In an assessment of the protests , which have at times turned into all-out riots , the Department of Homeland Security dumped cold water on a narrative that groups of white supremacists have been engaging in widespread disturbances , Reuters reported .
After viewing some of the department findings , the outlet reported that “ opportunists , ” including those affiliated with the far-left group antifa , are “ contributing to the violence.
” “ There was no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were causing violence at any of the protests , the document said.
” Department analysts did find evidence that some white supremacists were among extremists contributing to unrest online , according to the report .
TRENDING : Police : 'Stashes ' of bricks staged near protests were 'to be used during a riot' DHS spokesman Alexei Woltornist told Reuters that the agency would “ hold those responsible for the unrest accountable.
” The wire service downplayed reports of leftist activists initiating violence , as has been asserted by President Donald Trump and Attorney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities around the country , the voices of peaceful protest are being hijacked by violent radical elements , '' Barr said in a statement released by the Justice Department .
`` In many places , it appears the violence is planned , organized , and driven by anarchistic and far left extremists , using Antifa-like tactics , ” he added .
Trump , meanwhile , has taken a hardline stance against such groups , including antifa .
“ It ’ s ANTIFA and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lay the blame on others !
” the president tweeted on Saturday .
Citing two anonymous DHS sources , Reuters claimed those officials “ had seen little evidence ” to place blame on leftist groups .
On Saturday , Democrats and some media reporters began to push a narrative that white supremacists were behind the violence .
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took Twitter to blame the violence in his city -- where George Floyd died on Memorial Day after a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes -- on outside groups @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We are now confronting white supremacists , members of organized crime , out of state instigators , and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region , ” Frey wrote .
Soon , a number of media outlets , political pundits and reporters ran with speculation blaming white supremacists for the violence .
Chad Dion Lassiter , the executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission , also blamed unrest in the state on white supremacists .
`` What I saw was a coordinated effort of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behind signs demanding justice while promoting anarchy , ” Lassiter said of violence in Philadelphia , according to the Ellwood City Ledger .
The initial DHS assessment of the violence did not support those conclusions .
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

Violence being committed amid nationwide unrest has not been perpetrated by “white supremacists,” according to a new analysis.
In an assessment of the protests, which have at times turned into all-out riots, the Department of Homeland Security dumped cold water on a narrative that groups of white supremacists have been engaging in widespread disturbances, Reuters reported.
After viewing some of the department findings, the outlet reported that “opportunists,” including those affiliated with the far-left group antifa, are “contributing to the violence.”
“There was no evidence, however, that white supremacists were causing violence at any of the protests, the document said.”
Department analysts did find evidence that some white supremacists were among extremists contributing to unrest online, according to the report.
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DHS spokesman Alexei Woltornist told Reuters that the agency would “hold those responsible for the unrest accountable.”
The wire service downplayed reports of leftist activists initiating violence, as has been asserted by President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr.
Barr blamed leftist groups for the unrest Saturday.
“Unfortunately, with the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities around the country, the voices of peaceful protest are being hijacked by violent radical elements," Barr said in a statement released by the Justice Department.
"In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics,” he added.
Trump, meanwhile, has taken a hardline stance against such groups, including antifa.
“It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!” the president tweeted on Saturday.
It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2020
Citing two anonymous DHS sources, Reuters claimed those officials “had seen little evidence” to place blame on leftist groups.
On Saturday, Democrats and some media reporters began to push a narrative that white supremacists were behind the violence.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took Twitter to blame the violence in his city -- where George Floyd died on Memorial Day after a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes -- on outside groups, including white supremacists and foreign nationals.
“We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region,” Frey wrote.
We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region. — Mayor Jacob Frey (@MayorFrey) May 30, 2020
Soon, a number of media outlets, political pundits and reporters ran with speculation blaming white supremacists for the violence.
So now, the attorney general, Bill Barr, is attempting to pin the anarchy and infiltration, which is already documented as coming from white nationalist groups, on "left leaning" ANTIFA groups. The goal is to force the media to repeat that. What is his proof? — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020
This tweet comes as officials in Minnesota are investigating whether outsiders, including white supremacists, are inciting riots. https://t.co/bKXbcIE5R7 — Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 30, 2020
Let’s be honest. 1. Yes, white supremacists are rioting & trying to sabotage. 2. Yes, anarchists are rioting & causing chaos. 3. And yes, some from the community are rioting & looting. 4. But the vast, vast majority of people are peacefully demanding justice for George Floyd. — Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 31, 2020
Chad Dion Lassiter, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission, also blamed unrest in the state on white supremacists.
"What I saw was a coordinated effort of looting encouraged by white supremacists who hide behind signs demanding justice while promoting anarchy,” Lassiter said of violence in Philadelphia, according to the Ellwood City Ledger.
The initial DHS assessment of the violence did not support those conclusions.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-06-04--WHO halted hydroxychloroquine trials based on suspect data from small U.S. company

The World Health Organization and a number of other governments changed COVID-19 policies and treatments based on `` flawed '' data from a U.S. health care analytics company , according to a report from The Guardian .
The Guardian 's investigation revealed that U.S. based Surgisphere has provided data for coronavirus studies , but has been unable to adequately explain how it got the data or its methodology .
In particular , a May 22 study posted in The Lancet used data from Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine were more likely to die in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ study was important because President Donald Trump has touted the anti-malarial drug as a potentially promising treatment for COVID-19 .
Within days of study 's publication , randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine came to a stop , including part of the WHO 's trial of potential COVID-19 treatments .
TRENDING : Police : 'Stashes ' of bricks staged near protests were 'to be used during a riot' In the midst of scrutiny into Surgisphere 's data , The Lancet released an `` expression of concern '' on Tuesday about its study , which states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questions have been raised about data reported in the paper '' and `` an independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has been commissioned by the authors not affiliated with Surgisphere and is ongoing . ''
Among the concerns were the large number of patients involved and the provided details about their demographics and dosages that seemed implausible .
`` It began to stretch and stretch and stretch credulity , '' Nicolas White , a malaria researcher at Mahidol University in Bangkok , told Science .
The New England Journal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Surgisphere 's data and issued a similar expression of concern .
`` Recently , substantive concerns have been raised about the quality of the information in that database , '' the statement read .
`` We have asked the authors to provide evidence that the data are reliable.
” Surgisphere founder and CEO Sapan Desai told Science through a spokesperson that he was arranging to provide the authors of the NEJM paper with the data access it has requested .
The Guardian found other concerning aspects of the company , beyond the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The publication found that several of the company 's employees have little or no data or scientific background .
These employees include a science editor who appears to be a science fiction author and a marketing executive who appears to be an adult-content model .
The company 's LinkedIn page also listed only three employees as of Wednesday afternoon .
Surgisphere says it is one of the largest and fastest hospital databases in the world but appears to have no online presence .
The Guardian reported its Twitter account has fewer than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't posted since October 2017 .
The company 's founder has also been named in three medical malpractice suits , unrelated to the company 's database .
After reviewing available data on hydroxychloroquine , the WHO announced it would resume its study into the drug in a media conference on Wednesday , CNBC reported .
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

The World Health Organization and a number of other governments changed COVID-19 policies and treatments based on "flawed" data from a U.S. health care analytics company, according to a report from The Guardian.
The Guardian's investigation revealed that U.S. based Surgisphere has provided data for coronavirus studies, but has been unable to adequately explain how it got the data or its methodology.
In particular, a May 22 study posted in The Lancet used data from Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine were more likely to die in the hospital, Science reported.
This specific study was important because President Donald Trump has touted the anti-malarial drug as a potentially promising treatment for COVID-19.
Within days of study's publication, randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine came to a stop, including part of the WHO's trial of potential COVID-19 treatments.
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In the midst of scrutiny into Surgisphere's data, The Lancet released an "expression of concern" on Tuesday about its study, which states that "[i]mportant scientific questions have been raised about data reported in the paper" and "an independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has been commissioned by the authors not affiliated with Surgisphere and is ongoing."
Among the concerns were the large number of patients involved and the provided details about their demographics and dosages that seemed implausible.
"It began to stretch and stretch and stretch credulity," Nicolas White, a malaria researcher at Mahidol University in Bangkok, told Science.
The New England Journal of Medicine also published a study based on Surgisphere's data and issued a similar expression of concern.
"Recently, substantive concerns have been raised about the quality of the information in that database," the statement read.
"We have asked the authors to provide evidence that the data are reliable.”
Surgisphere founder and CEO Sapan Desai told Science through a spokesperson that he was arranging to provide the authors of the NEJM paper with the data access it has requested.
The Guardian found other concerning aspects of the company, beyond the data it provided the different scientific studies.
The publication found that several of the company's employees have little or no data or scientific background. These employees include a science editor who appears to be a science fiction author and a marketing executive who appears to be an adult-content model.
The company's LinkedIn page also listed only three employees as of Wednesday afternoon.
Surgisphere says it is one of the largest and fastest hospital databases in the world but appears to have no online presence. The Guardian reported its Twitter account has fewer than 170 followers and until March, hadn't posted since October 2017.
The company's founder has also been named in three medical malpractice suits, unrelated to the company's database.
After reviewing available data on hydroxychloroquine, the WHO announced it would resume its study into the drug in a media conference on Wednesday, CNBC reported.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-06-04--Watch: African immigrant blasts lib protesters, says 'Black Lives Matter is a joke'

As protests and riots continue to sweep through the country , the Black Lives Matter movement appears to be at the forefront of the most recent societal upheaval .
While the majority of conservatives have been standing on the principle that all lives matter and are equally valued in God 's sight , the BLM movement is spurring division based on skin color .
At least one black immigrant is refusing to buy into the divisive rhetoric .
`` Black Lives Matter is a joke .
You are the racists , '' Nestride Yumga , an American citizen who immigrated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ near her home in Washington .
The BLM demonstrators gathered in response to the death of George Floyd , a black man who died on May 25 while in Minneapolis police custody .
TRENDING : Police : 'Stashes ' of bricks staged near protests were 'to be used during a riot' Yumga called out the hypocrisy of Black Lives Matter for refusing to acknowledge the exponential amounts of black-on-black crime , particularly in Chicago and other liberal-led cities .
`` When black people kill black people , they don ’ t come out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
`` The only time they do this crap is when a white person does it . ''
Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims from 1976 to 2005 were killed by other African-Americans , the National Review reported last year .
Over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago , 84 people were wounded by gun violence and 24 of them died , the Chicago Sun-Times reported .
Yumga attempted to point out facts like these but was met with willful ignorance and combativeness .
`` Go to Chicago .
They do n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
They do n't matter [ to you ] because you ca n't get attention from that , '' she said to protesters .
While Democratic politicians ignore the economic and societal devastation of their policies , it has been President Donald Trump who 's enacted strategies such as `` Opportunity Zones '' to help neglected neighborhoods .
Yumga was told to `` shut up , '' and others mumbled that what she was saying was not welcome .
WARNING : The following video contains vulgar language that some viewers may find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ let the growing crowd around her convince her that she is oppressed because of the amount of melanin in her skin .
`` Group of hypocrites !
Go to Southeast D.C. , Northeast D.C. Tell them black lives matter !
If it matters , it should matter everywhere .
You guys are hypocrites , attention seekers .
Black lives should matter everywhere .
It does n't take a white cop to kill a black person [ for their life ] to matter , '' Yumga continued .
Instead of kowtowing to her hostile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the country that has provided her with so much .
`` I 'm proud of my country , and I do n't want my country to be portrayed like this , '' Yumga told Breitbart News .
She also refused to fall into the victimization trap to which so many have succumbed .
`` The idea is to create a group of people who feel oppressed , OK ? ''
Yumga said .
`` Because the more they feel oppressed , the more they are going to look for some kind of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in America , '' she said , explaining that as a foreigner she values the opportunities this country provides .
She condemned violence of all types , including the death of George Floyd in police custody .
But that was not enough to appease the mob .
Virtue signaling can only get you so far .
Yumga showed that when facts are brought up , the contrived narrative of Black Lives Matter does not have a solid leg to stand on .
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

As protests and riots continue to sweep through the country, the Black Lives Matter movement appears to be at the forefront of the most recent societal upheaval.
While the majority of conservatives have been standing on the principle that all lives matter and are equally valued in God's sight, the BLM movement is spurring division based on skin color.
At least one black immigrant is refusing to buy into the divisive rhetoric.
"Black Lives Matter is a joke. You are the racists," Nestride Yumga, an American citizen who immigrated from Africa, told BLM protesters Sunday near her home in Washington.
The BLM demonstrators gathered in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died on May 25 while in Minneapolis police custody.
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Yumga called out the hypocrisy of Black Lives Matter for refusing to acknowledge the exponential amounts of black-on-black crime, particularly in Chicago and other liberal-led cities.
"When black people kill black people, they don’t come out and do this crap," she said. "The only time they do this crap is when a white person does it."
Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims from 1976 to 2005 were killed by other African-Americans, the National Review reported last year.
Over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, 84 people were wounded by gun violence and 24 of them died, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Yumga attempted to point out facts like these but was met with willful ignorance and combativeness.
"Go to Chicago. They don't have schools, and they die every day. They don't matter [to you] because you can't get attention from that," she said to protesters.
While Democratic politicians ignore the economic and societal devastation of their policies, it has been President Donald Trump who's enacted strategies such as "Opportunity Zones" to help neglected neighborhoods.
Yumga was told to "shut up," and others mumbled that what she was saying was not welcome.
WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive.
However, she refused to let the growing crowd around her convince her that she is oppressed because of the amount of melanin in her skin.
"Group of hypocrites! Go to Southeast D.C., Northeast D.C. Tell them black lives matter! If it matters, it should matter everywhere. You guys are hypocrites, attention seekers. Black lives should matter everywhere. It doesn't take a white cop to kill a black person [for their life] to matter," Yumga continued.
Instead of kowtowing to her hostile critics, Yumga persisted in standing up for the country that has provided her with so much.
"I'm proud of my country, and I don't want my country to be portrayed like this," Yumga told Breitbart News.
She also refused to fall into the victimization trap to which so many have succumbed.
"The idea is to create a group of people who feel oppressed, OK?" Yumga said. "Because the more they feel oppressed, the more they are going to look for some kind of equalization."
"Nobody is oppressed in America," she said, explaining that as a foreigner she values the opportunities this country provides.
"I am not oppressed," Yumga confidently declared.
She condemned violence of all types, including the death of George Floyd in police custody. But that was not enough to appease the mob.
Virtue signaling can only get you so far. Yumga showed that when facts are brought up, the contrived narrative of Black Lives Matter does not have a solid leg to stand on.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-06-04--Black business owner rips BLM movement: 'We're trying to build it up and you're tearing it down'

Some feel as though the Black Lives Matter movement is helping the African American community .
According to one black business owner , however , it is instead `` tearing it down . ''
In a video posted on Tuesday , one co-owner of The Valentine Deli Corp in the Bronx section of New York City took Black Lives Matter rioters to task for looting and destroying the local neighborhood .
`` You says black lives matter .
I worked here part-time .
Plus I 'm a part-owner of this store .
You said black lives matter .
Why do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black .
Look what you did to my store .
Look at the things you 've done , look .
We 've been here all night cleaning up , '' the unidentified woman said in the video .
`` Tell me black lives matter .
You lied .
You wanted to loot the store , you needed money .
Get a job , like I did .
Stop stealing .
This is a neighborhood .
We 're trying to build it up and you 're tearing it down . ''
The video was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Williams and viewed over 400,000 times .
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After discovering the store , fellow conservative comedian Nicole Arbour set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for The Valentine Deli Corp. Over $ 61,000 has been raised so far .
The Valentine Deli Corp is far from the only black-owned business to be destroyed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , many of these businesses have been given a chance to rebuild .
Last week , an African American firefighter and small business owner named K.B .
Balla suffered the destruction of his business , Scores Sports Bar in Minneapolis , thanks to violent rioters .
While CBS News was interviewing Balla in the remains of his sports bar , multiple looters were caught on tape returning to the scene to try and steal his safe .
Ball then started a GoFundMe of his own and raised over $ 1,100,000 .
Additionally , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pearson set up a fundraiser called `` The Left is Burning Down Black Business . ''
All of the earning will be distributed to various African American owned businesses that have been destroyed in the riots .
So far Pearson has raised over $ 111,337 .
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

Some feel as though the Black Lives Matter movement is helping the African American community. According to one black business owner, however, it is instead "tearing it down."
In a video posted on Tuesday, one co-owner of The Valentine Deli Corp in the Bronx section of New York City took Black Lives Matter rioters to task for looting and destroying the local neighborhood.
"You says black lives matter. I worked here part-time. Plus I'm a part-owner of this store. You said black lives matter. Why don't you choke me? I'm black. Look what you did to my store. Look at the things you've done, look. We've been here all night cleaning up," the unidentified woman said in the video.
"Tell me black lives matter. You lied. You wanted to loot the store, you needed money. Get a job, like I did. Stop stealing. This is a neighborhood. We're trying to build it up and you're tearing it down."
The video was then shared by conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams and viewed over 400,000 times.
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THEY DONT CARE ABOUT PEOPLE This woman wants to know how can they say #BlackLivesMatter while ruining her black life & business. She said “ You told me Black Lives Matter, you lied, you wanted to loot the store, you needed money, Get a Job, stop stealing” *RT SHARE HER MESSAGE pic.twitter.com/pHKKSQmRgv — Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) June 2, 2020
"THEY DONT CARE ABOUT PEOPLE," Williams wrote.
"This woman wants to know how can they say #BlackLivesMatter while ruining her black life & business."
After discovering the store, fellow conservative comedian Nicole Arbour set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for The Valentine Deli Corp.
Hey @w_terrence we found her business! Can you help share the fundraiser to rebuild!? https://t.co/5uOxhWsoBR https://t.co/dxaTuWruRk — Nicole Arbour (@NicoleArbour) June 3, 2020
Over $61,000 has been raised so far.
The Valentine Deli Corp is far from the only black-owned business to be destroyed. Thanks to various online fundraisers, however, many of these businesses have been given a chance to rebuild.
Last week, an African American firefighter and small business owner named K.B. Balla suffered the destruction of his business, Scores Sports Bar in Minneapolis, thanks to violent rioters.
While CBS News was interviewing Balla in the remains of his sports bar, multiple looters were caught on tape returning to the scene to try and steal his safe.
Ball then started a GoFundMe of his own and raised over $1,100,000.
Additionally, on Monday, youthful conservative commentator CJ Pearson set up a fundraiser called "The Left is Burning Down Black Business." All of the earning will be distributed to various African American owned businesses that have been destroyed in the riots.
So far Pearson has raised over $111,337.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-06-04--Trump to bar Chinese airlines from flights to U.S.

( SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST ) -- The US government said on Wednesday that it would bar Chinese airlines from @ @ @ @ @ , starting on June 16 , in retaliation for Beijing ’ s refusal to let @ @ @ @ @ China .
Last month , the US Department of Transportation ( DOT ) requested permission @ @ @ @ @ of China ( CAAC ) for US carriers to resume flights to the country .
@ @ @ @ @ an order that limited all domestic and foreign carriers to international flight schedules in place @ @ @ @ @ In doing so , CAAC was rejecting DOT ’ s request .
US carriers had @ @ @ @ @ China in February , as part of efforts to block the spread of Covid-19 , @ @ @ @ @ ordered immigration authorities to bar most non-US citizens travelling from China from entry into the @ @

(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST) -- The US government said on Wednesday that it would bar Chinese airlines from flying passengers to US destinations, starting on June 16, in retaliation for Beijing’s refusal to let American carriers resume service to China.
Last month, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) requested permission from the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) for US carriers to resume flights to the country. But the CAAC merely extended an order that limited all domestic and foreign carriers to international flight schedules in place as of March 12.
In doing so, CAAC was rejecting DOT’s request. US carriers had voluntarily halted passenger service to China in February, as part of efforts to block the spread of Covid-19, after US President Donald Trump ordered immigration authorities to bar most non-US citizens travelling from China from entry into the US.
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wnd--2020-06-04--Ellen slammed for deleted tweet about protests saying 'people of color'

( FOX NEWS ) -- Ellen DeGeneres caught backlash on social media after posting , and subsequently deleting , a @ @ @ @ @ in the U.S. that users found to be both vague and tone-deaf .
The 62-year-old @ @ @ @ @ each episode of her talk show with the phrase `` be kind to one another @ @ @ @ @ video urging her fans to spread love that came along with a pair of tweets @ @ @ @ @ to worthwhile causes to support the Black Lives Matter movement .
However , Insider notes @ @ @ @ @ she deleted a tweet that many were quick to criticize as being without any real @ @

(FOX NEWS) -- Ellen DeGeneres caught backlash on social media after posting, and subsequently deleting, a post about the ongoing protests in the U.S. that users found to be both vague and tone-deaf.
The 62-year-old comic, known for ending each episode of her talk show with the phrase "be kind to one another," shared a powerful video urging her fans to spread love that came along with a pair of tweets advocating for people to donate to worthwhile causes to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
However, Insider notes that those posts came after she deleted a tweet that many were quick to criticize as being without any real substance.
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wnd--2020-06-05--Brands, restaurants respond to Black Lives Matter protests

( DAILY MEAL ) Big food brands are taking to social media to let followers know where they stand on @ @ @ @ @ of George Floyd ’ s death .
From Ben & Jerry ’ s to DoorDash @ @ @ @ @ have made their solidarity clear using strong language , with many putting their money where @ @ @ @ @ a statement , Ben & Jerry ’ s said , “ The murder of George @ @ @ @ @ inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy .
What happened @ @ @ @ @ the result of a bad apple ; it was the predictable consequence of a racist @ @ @ @ @ that has treated black bodies as the enemy from the beginning.
” The ice cream @ @ @ @ @ , elected officials and political parties to disavow white supremacists and nationalist groups ; and @ @ @ @ @ .
40 , legislation that would create a commission to study the effects of slavery @ @ @

(DAILY MEAL) Big food brands are taking to social media to let followers know where they stand on protests happening in the wake of George Floyd’s death. From Ben & Jerry’s to DoorDash, here are brands that have made their solidarity clear using strong language, with many putting their money where their message is.
In a statement, Ben & Jerry’s said, “The murder of George Floyd was the result of inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy. What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated black bodies as the enemy from the beginning.”
The ice cream company called on the president, elected officials and political parties to disavow white supremacists and nationalist groups; and on Congress to pass H.R. 40, legislation that would create a commission to study the effects of slavery and discrimination.
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wnd--2020-06-05--Michigan anti-lockdown protesters reportedly had phone data tracked – Floyd protesters did not

( BIZPAC REVIEW ) Phone data from about 400 activists in Michigan ’ s capital who protested coronavirus-related government orders @ @ @ @ @ progressive advocacy group , but the same group has not collected similar data on George @ @ @ @ @ to Protect Medicare and Affordable Care , under the direction of former Democratic congressional candidate @ @ @ @ @ used cell phone data generated by an application called VoteMap to track the movements of @ @ @ @ @ after they departed from the capital , according to The Detroit News .

(BIZPAC REVIEW) Phone data from about 400 activists in Michigan’s capital who protested coronavirus-related government orders was reportedly collected by a progressive advocacy group, but the same group has not collected similar data on George Floyd protesters.
The Committee to Protect Medicare and Affordable Care, under the direction of former Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Rob Davidson, used cell phone data generated by an application called VoteMap to track the movements of the rally’s attendees after they departed from the capital, according to The Detroit News.
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wnd--2020-06-05--Minneapolis city council seriously weighing disbanding police

( THE BLAZE ) Several Minneapolis council members are reportedly considering altogether `` disbanding '' the city 's police department @ @ @ @ @ Floyd 's death and the subsequent protests and riots that have erupted across the country @ @ @ @ @ I do n't know yet , though several of us on the council are working @ @ @ @ @ it would take to disband the [ Minneapolis Police Department ] and start fresh with @ @ @ @ @ safety and outreach capacity , '' said Steve Fletcher , a council member who represents @ @ @ @ @ , which covers parts of downtown , on Twitter .

(THE BLAZE) Several Minneapolis council members are reportedly considering altogether "disbanding" the city's police department in the wake of George Floyd's death and the subsequent protests and riots that have erupted across the country in recent days.
"I don't know yet, though several of us on the council are working on finding out, what it would take to disband the [Minneapolis Police Department] and start fresh with a community-oriented, non-violent public safety and outreach capacity," said Steve Fletcher, a council member who represents the city's Ward 3, which covers parts of downtown, on Twitter.
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wnd--2020-06-05--Mayor pleads with Walmart, other retailers to not abandon Chicago

( WBBM ) Mayor Lightfoot said she ’ s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted @ @ @ @ @ surrounding George Floyd ’ s killing by police in Minnesota .
But , she ’ @ @ @ @ @ the biggest .
Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and @ @ @ @ @ stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago .
She said she pleaded @ @ @ @ @ Chicago .

(WBBM) Mayor Lightfoot said she’s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. But, she’s unsure of one of the biggest.
Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.
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wnd--2020-06-05--'Karen' strikes again: Cranky woman loses it over toy car

( TMZ ) Karen has struck again -- this time at a park where a few little kids were taking @ @ @ @ @ for a spin ... and she was ready to pull 'em over .
Check it @ @ @ @ @ -- who one Twitter user hilariously dubbed `` grandkaren '' -- is upset that the @ @ @ @ @ letting them `` drive all over the place . ''
When the woman says the @ @ @ @ @ their toy vehicle , Karen says she 's never seen a car in the park @ @ @ @ @ bothers her is that they do n't have a driver 's license .

(TMZ) Karen has struck again -- this time at a park where a few little kids were taking a Power Wheels toy car for a spin ... and she was ready to pull 'em over.
Check it out ... the old lady -- who one Twitter user hilariously dubbed "grandkaren" -- is upset that the woman watching the children is letting them "drive all over the place."
When the woman says the kids are just playing in their toy vehicle, Karen says she's never seen a car in the park before ... and what really bothers her is that they don't have a driver's license.
Read the full story ›


wnd--2020-06-05--CNN: White children 'Don't deserve innocence'

( SUMMIT NEWS ) CNN gave airtime to an ‘ anti-racist activist ’ who suggested that white children should not @ @ @ @ @ ‘ innocent ’ childhood , but rather be made to feel guilty about their ‘ @ @ @ @ @ early age .
CNN host Poppy Harlow cited a letter sent to her from a @ @ @ @ @ to teach their kids about their ‘ white privilege ’ , and asked Tim Wise @ @ @ @ @ this with their kids and how ?
” Wise responded that it should be at @ @ @ @ @ possible , and that white kids need to be repeatedly told they are over privileged @ @ @ @ @ them .

(SUMMIT NEWS) CNN gave airtime to an ‘anti-racist activist’ who suggested that white children should not be allowed to have an ‘innocent’ childhood, but rather be made to feel guilty about their ‘white privilege’ at an early age.
CNN host Poppy Harlow cited a letter sent to her from a school directing white parents how to teach their kids about their ‘white privilege’, and asked Tim Wise “When should parents do this with their kids and how?”
Wise responded that it should be at as young an age as possible, and that white kids need to be repeatedly told they are over privileged in order to sufficiently indoctrinate them.
Read the full story ›


wnd--2020-06-05--Local prosecutor lets all St. Louis rioters and looters out of jail

Lawlessness in St. Louis apparently has spread from the city 's streets to the district attorney 's office , as many of those who are accused of attacking the fundamental rule of law are being released from jail after being arrested for allegedly rioting and looting .
It ’ s the kind of thing you would expect to see in California , where a `` zero bail '' policy sets criminals free immediately after their arrests in some cases , or in New York , where “ bail reform ” sees looters also walk free despite their violent actions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ attorney general is livid after police officers risk their safety and their lives daily to protect St. Louis from violent mobs , only to see those people not charged with crimes and released from custody .
Early Tuesday morning , four police officers were shot in downtown St. Louis , the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported .
On Monday , David Dorn , a 77-year-old retired black police captain , was murdered in cold blood as he attempted to protect a business in his beloved city .
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But those people are being released as quickly as they 're being apprehended , according to Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt .
KMOV-TV reported Schmitt is calling out St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner for offering apparent immunity to rioters in the city , noting that 36 people who were arrested between Sunday and Monday for allegedly rioting and looting were quickly released .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ office has learned that every single one of the St. Louis looters and rioters arrested were released back onto the streets by local prosecutor Kim Gardner , ” Schmitt wrote Wednesday on Twitter .
Schmitt , a Republican , also shared a video documenting the mayhem occurring in St. Louis .
The 60-second clip shows a lawless environment with motorists speeding away from an inferno while gunfire engulfs the area .
“ There wasn ’ t one person looting and rioting and shooting at police officers that could have been charged ?
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ KMOV of the people who were released .
Gardner , a Democrat , responded to Schmitt ’ s criticism by blaming police officers and accusing him of attacking her for some apparent political gain .
“ We need the police to bring admissible evidence to charge .
My office can not issue any case when there is not admissible evidence .
Point blank , ” she said in a video defending her decision not to prosecute those accused of ransacking the city .
Gardner also said prosecuting the alleged looters and rioters without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unethical.
” She further leveled an attack against law enforcement that leaves little doubt about which side of the law and order argument she sits on .
“ I ’ ve noticed that the attorney general is tweeting quite a bit about looters and rioters and not about the fact that we have a history of police violence in this city and nation , '' the city attorney said .
Gardner said the violence in the wake of George Floyd 's death last week in Minneapolis police custody is the result of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminal justice system.
” With that kind of attitude from a prosecutor , it is no wonder that , by all appearances , the criminal mobs in St. Louis feel emboldened to destroy their community and attack police officers with little fear of consequences .
St. Louis now joins California and New York in seemingly siding with mob rule .
The three locations all have one thing in common : They are run by Democrats .
Schmitt is working to circumvent Gardner and the St. Louis court system by taking the cases to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We ’ re working to assist with anyone that wants to cooperate with us .
And that ’ s why we are working with the U.S. Attorney ’ s Office , ” he said .
Until the city ’ s prosecutor is willing to support the rule of law , justice will have to be served by taking other avenues .
Schmitt wants to restore the rule of law to a city that now resembles a battlefield almost every night after the sun goes down .
Gardner , meanwhile , apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advocate for social justice as the residents in her city are held hostage by domestic terrorists .
How many attacks on America 's law enforcement officers and citizens will Democrats tolerate before they are willing to do their jobs ?
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

Lawlessness in St. Louis apparently has spread from the city's streets to the district attorney's office, as many of those who are accused of attacking the fundamental rule of law are being released from jail after being arrested for allegedly rioting and looting.
It’s the kind of thing you would expect to see in California, where a "zero bail" policy sets criminals free immediately after their arrests in some cases, or in New York, where “bail reform” sees looters also walk free despite their violent actions.
In Missouri, the state’s attorney general is livid after police officers risk their safety and their lives daily to protect St. Louis from violent mobs, only to see those people not charged with crimes and released from custody.
Early Tuesday morning, four police officers were shot in downtown St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
On Monday, David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired black police captain, was murdered in cold blood as he attempted to protect a business in his beloved city.
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Police, family and friends march today in honor of retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, killed fending off looters at Lee’s pawn shop on June 2nd. pic.twitter.com/IONTqBQsbC — David Mueth (@DavidMueth) June 4, 2020
Nobody has been arrested for the apparent indiscriminate shootings of law enforcement officers, but people are being arrested for other violent acts, which is a start.
But those people are being released as quickly as they're being apprehended, according to Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
KMOV-TV reported Schmitt is calling out St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner for offering apparent immunity to rioters in the city, noting that 36 people who were arrested between Sunday and Monday for allegedly rioting and looting were quickly released.
“In a stunning development, our office has learned that every single one of the St. Louis looters and rioters arrested were released back onto the streets by local prosecutor Kim Gardner,” Schmitt wrote Wednesday on Twitter.
Schmitt, a Republican, also shared a video documenting the mayhem occurring in St. Louis. The 60-second clip shows a lawless environment with motorists speeding away from an inferno while gunfire engulfs the area.
In a stunning development, our office has learned that every single one of the St. Louis looters and rioters arrested were released back onto the streets by local prosecutor Kim Gardner. pic.twitter.com/tMZVAyHssw — Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) June 3, 2020
“There wasn’t one person looting and rioting and shooting at police officers that could have been charged? It’s absurd,” he told KMOV of the people who were released.
Gardner, a Democrat, responded to Schmitt’s criticism by blaming police officers and accusing him of attacking her for some apparent political gain.
“We need the police to bring admissible evidence to charge. My office cannot issue any case when there is not admissible evidence. Point blank,” she said in a video defending her decision not to prosecute those accused of ransacking the city.
Gardner also said prosecuting the alleged looters and rioters without “admissible evidence” would be “unethical.”
She further leveled an attack against law enforcement that leaves little doubt about which side of the law and order argument she sits on.
“I’ve noticed that the attorney general is tweeting quite a bit about looters and rioters and not about the fact that we have a history of police violence in this city and nation," the city attorney said.
Gardner said the violence in the wake of George Floyd's death last week in Minneapolis police custody is the result of people demanding “accountability and change in our criminal justice system.”
With that kind of attitude from a prosecutor, it is no wonder that, by all appearances, the criminal mobs in St. Louis feel emboldened to destroy their community and attack police officers with little fear of consequences.
St. Louis now joins California and New York in seemingly siding with mob rule.
The three locations all have one thing in common: They are run by Democrats.
Schmitt is working to circumvent Gardner and the St. Louis court system by taking the cases to federal authorities instead, he told KMOV.
“We’re working to assist with anyone that wants to cooperate with us. And that’s why we are working with the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” he said.
Until the city’s prosecutor is willing to support the rule of law, justice will have to be served by taking other avenues.
Schmitt wants to restore the rule of law to a city that now resembles a battlefield almost every night after the sun goes down.
Gardner, meanwhile, apparently has chosen to use her office to advocate for social justice as the residents in her city are held hostage by domestic terrorists.
How many attacks on America's law enforcement officers and citizens will Democrats tolerate before they are willing to do their jobs?
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-06-04--4 reasons the 'collective culpability' racket is dangerous

During my lifetime , the national conversation about race has gradually moved from culpability for individual behavior to culpability for ideology to collective culpability without regard to behavior or ideology .
This transition is significant .
It is deliberate .
And it is dangerous .
Focusing on `` discrimination , '' as our laws have done for decades , places the emphasis on conduct , which can be clearly identified and prohibited .
Individuals ( or groups ) who engage in that prohibited conduct can be penalized .
Punishing an attitude of racism , however , is more problematic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But how do you penalize or sanction it , apart from the conduct that reflects it ?
Contemporary race theorists and activists have chosen to expand their definitions even further to encompass what they now call `` systemic racism '' and `` white privilege . ''
These newer , broader definitions of the reprehensible sweep much wider swaths of people into the `` racism '' net , no matter how beneficent and inclusive their personal attitudes and actions may be .
TRENDING : Limbaugh : Rioters 'are paid , and they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one is culpable simply for having `` benefited '' from a system in which blacks and other minorities were – and are – discriminated against .
`` Race '' is not only a `` social construct '' ; it becomes a matter of economic identity , rather than ethnic identity .
Even nonwhites who have succeeded in this system become `` white '' by virtue of that success .
Conversely , whites who have endured poverty , discrimination , broken homes , substance abuse or countless other factors beyond their control that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told that those struggles are irrelevant to their `` privilege . ''
It is one thing to acknowledge that blacks have suffered grievous discrimination , and that the consequences of that continue to this day .
Those are the ugly facts .
Similarly , when white Americans – or anyone who has not personally endured bias and discrimination – vow to do everything in their power to make their community and our country a better place , that is individual agency , not collective guilt .
But some of the current calls for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the `` privileged '' classes admitting to collective culpability .
This is cast as a precursor to `` healing , '' and many well-intentioned people are more than willing to do it .
I have read tweets and emails , and watched videos in which white Americans kneel , bow their heads in supplication , beg for forgiveness for the wrongs committed by other people or refer to themselves as `` recovering racists '' simply because they are white .
This is insulting , offensive and dangerous .
First , it runs completely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tenets of the American legal tradition : We do not punish people for the crimes or wrongdoing of others .
Second , there is no natural place where one can logically stop with the collective culpability racket .
If I as a `` white '' American of multi-European ethnicities have `` benefited '' from the political and economic systems in the United States , one could just as plausibly argue that I benefited from the Irish Potato Famine , the Inquisition , the Thirty Years ' War , the bubonic plague , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every other historical event that somehow made it possible for me to be who and what and where I am at this moment .
I am no more responsible for the abhorrent acts committed during the era of slavery , or the Jim Crow laws , or the brutality of corrupt police officers than I am for those atrocities .
Third , there is plenty of modern precedent to show us what happens when a country incorporates a system of collective culpability purportedly to remediate oppression .
The Reign of Terror during the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ innocent people to the guillotine .
Tens of millions were killed during Russia 's and China 's revolutionary upheavals of the 20th century , condemned as `` bourgeois '' or `` running-dog capitalists . ''
Even in tiny Cambodia , nearly 3 million people – a fifth of the population – were murdered by the Communist Khmer Rouge regime , which condemned anyone who was educated as an `` enemy of the poor . ''
Fourth , a system that blames classes of people for things they have not individually done also exonerates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ individually done .
We need look no further back than the events of the past few days , as mobs of violent individuals have used justifiable outrage and lawful protests as a cover for vandalism , arson , looting , theft , destruction , brutal assault and even murder .
And yet there are voices in our `` national conversations '' that would excuse this behavior as an understandable response by the oppressed in a system that is rigged against them .
Such a system will not long endure ; it will collapse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities burn , we can not fool ourselves by thinking that what happened in France in the 1790s , in Russia in the 1930s , in China in the 1960s and in Cambodia in the 1970s can not happen here .
We owe it to ourselves and our children to make sure that it does n't happen here .
We can punish police brutality without smearing all police officers .
We can acknowledge destructive policies and practices of the past and present ; work together to eliminate them ; and improve conditions for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But a move from individual responsibility to collective culpability will destroy our nation .
History has proven – amply – that a political system founded upon class resentment , blame , hatred and violence destroys everything and helps no one .

During my lifetime, the national conversation about race has gradually moved from culpability for individual behavior to culpability for ideology to collective culpability without regard to behavior or ideology.
This transition is significant. It is deliberate. And it is dangerous.
Focusing on "discrimination," as our laws have done for decades, places the emphasis on conduct, which can be clearly identified and prohibited. Individuals (or groups) who engage in that prohibited conduct can be penalized.
Punishing an attitude of racism, however, is more problematic. It is one thing to condemn it. But how do you penalize or sanction it, apart from the conduct that reflects it?
Contemporary race theorists and activists have chosen to expand their definitions even further to encompass what they now call "systemic racism" and "white privilege." These newer, broader definitions of the reprehensible sweep much wider swaths of people into the "racism" net, no matter how beneficent and inclusive their personal attitudes and actions may be.
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According to these theories, one is culpable simply for having "benefited" from a system in which blacks and other minorities were – and are – discriminated against. "Race" is not only a "social construct"; it becomes a matter of economic identity, rather than ethnic identity. Even nonwhites who have succeeded in this system become "white" by virtue of that success. Conversely, whites who have endured poverty, discrimination, broken homes, substance abuse or countless other factors beyond their control that have impeded their own upward mobility are told that those struggles are irrelevant to their "privilege."
It is one thing to acknowledge that blacks have suffered grievous discrimination, and that the consequences of that continue to this day. Those are the ugly facts. Similarly, when white Americans – or anyone who has not personally endured bias and discrimination – vow to do everything in their power to make their community and our country a better place, that is individual agency, not collective guilt.
But some of the current calls for "honest conversations" entail members of the "privileged" classes admitting to collective culpability. This is cast as a precursor to "healing," and many well-intentioned people are more than willing to do it. I have read tweets and emails, and watched videos in which white Americans kneel, bow their heads in supplication, beg for forgiveness for the wrongs committed by other people or refer to themselves as "recovering racists" simply because they are white.
This is insulting, offensive and dangerous.
First, it runs completely counter to one of the most fundamental tenets of the American legal tradition: We do not punish people for the crimes or wrongdoing of others.
Second, there is no natural place where one can logically stop with the collective culpability racket. If I as a "white" American of multi-European ethnicities have "benefited" from the political and economic systems in the United States, one could just as plausibly argue that I benefited from the Irish Potato Famine, the Inquisition, the Thirty Years' War, the bubonic plague, the sacking of the library at Alexandria and every other historical event that somehow made it possible for me to be who and what and where I am at this moment. I am no more responsible for the abhorrent acts committed during the era of slavery, or the Jim Crow laws, or the brutality of corrupt police officers than I am for those atrocities.
Third, there is plenty of modern precedent to show us what happens when a country incorporates a system of collective culpability purportedly to remediate oppression. The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution sent tens of thousands of innocent people to the guillotine. Tens of millions were killed during Russia's and China's revolutionary upheavals of the 20th century, condemned as "bourgeois" or "running-dog capitalists." Even in tiny Cambodia, nearly 3 million people – a fifth of the population – were murdered by the Communist Khmer Rouge regime, which condemned anyone who was educated as an "enemy of the poor."
Fourth, a system that blames classes of people for things they have not individually done also exonerates classes of people for things they have individually done. We need look no further back than the events of the past few days, as mobs of violent individuals have used justifiable outrage and lawful protests as a cover for vandalism, arson, looting, theft, destruction, brutal assault and even murder. And yet there are voices in our "national conversations" that would excuse this behavior as an understandable response by the oppressed in a system that is rigged against them.
Such a system will not long endure; it will collapse on itself.
As we watch our cities burn, we cannot fool ourselves by thinking that what happened in France in the 1790s, in Russia in the 1930s, in China in the 1960s and in Cambodia in the 1970s cannot happen here. We owe it to ourselves and our children to make sure that it doesn't happen here.
We can punish police brutality without smearing all police officers. We can acknowledge destructive policies and practices of the past and present; work together to eliminate them; and improve conditions for those who have been most negatively affected. But a move from individual responsibility to collective culpability will destroy our nation.
History has proven – amply – that a political system founded upon class resentment, blame, hatred and violence destroys everything and helps no one.


wnd--2020-06-04--Looting is local – courtesy of Leroy & Lakisha

Dr. Michael Baden determined that George Floyd died by cop .
That , the courageous onlookers who filmed the snuff film could have told him .
The nation 's foremost forensic pathologist was called in to weigh-in scientifically and independently on the demise of the Minneapolis man , whom millions across the world have , by now , watched slowly suffocate to death on camera , May 25 .
`` Look at him .
Get off him now .
What is wrong with y'all .
Leave him .
You 're killing him .
Bro , he 's not moving .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ bubbling out of his mouth .
These good Samaritans loudly protested this police porn .
There was a trickle on the asphalt , as Floyd likely lost control over bodily functions , near the end .
Dr. Baden , who confirmed mechanical asphyxiation due to pressure on the neck and back , was asked to perform an independent autopsy because the initial , official one was comical , suggesting the cops ' actions were secondary complicating factors .
The Hennepin County medical examiner made it sound like George Floyd should have been able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a knee on his neck and three Minneapolis police officers pushing down on his diaphragm , subsequently reducing blood flow to the brain .
Floyd failed that fitness test because he was on drugs , drunk , COVID-positive and in really bad physical shape .
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The reality is that millions around the world witnessed George Floyd expire on camera because he was made to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Floyd 's death was a case of , `` Who are you going to believe , me or your own lyin ' eyes ? ''
Which is the colloquial used when one is staring at an immutable reality , yet choosing to see an alternate universe .
The world saw that Mr. Floyd was not in the throes of death until that knee appeared on his neck and those hands pressed down on his diaphragm .
Put it this way : Correlation is not causation , but it was not a complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the State-administered treatment the man died .
The non-violent offense Floyd was tackled and terminated for was paying for cigarettes with an alleged counterfeit bill .
It 's entirely possible he was guilty of using counterfeit money .
It 's also likely he did n't know the bill was fake .
Given how much paper money changes hands , this could happen to anyone .
Uncle Sam – which has its proverbial boot on the American taxpayer 's neck – counterfeits trillions with impunity .
America 's central bank ( the Federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forever injecting funny money into credit markets .
With government imprimatur , the system known as fractional reserve banking is engaged in counterfeiting , when inflating the money supply and issuing paper notes not backed by real assets .
The central bank 's phony money creation is counterfeiting by any other name , except that it 's legal , because it 's perpetrated by the State .
Next , they 'll tell us that , just as the State can forge and devalue the coin , so it can also kill us with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brazen cops were broadcasting – that murder under the `` Color-of-Law '' was n't quite murder .
Another of our deformed society 's Big Lies kicked in when , like locusts , rioters and looters descended on America 's cities – from Minneapolis to Miami , from Los Angeles to Louisville .
The specter of looting and rioting is another case of , `` Who are you going to believe , me or your own lyin ' eyes ? ''
Fake Newsers , Fox News included , then began energetically , sans evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trash can – to promote a fake conspiratorial narrative : Looters were never local , but always mysterious outside agitators – well-organized `` Antifa . ''
The fiction was promoted as enthusiastically by Fox News as it was by CNN and MSNBC .
Anything to avoid the reality of crime , while signaling your own virtue .
Even John Robert Lewis , a black civil right leader , got fed up and told MSNBC that looting was local .
At one point , Seattle 's KOMO News divulged that 82 people had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed .
All were homeboys .
If rioters everywhere are from somewhere not here , what 's the logic ?
If so-called organized , George Soros-activated Antifa terrorists intend to ignite the country and operate networks and chapters across it – why would they need to migrate , to lob rocks at a Macy 's in a town away from home ?
Why not riot in your hometown if so organized ?
The truth is that conservatives , like liberals , refuse to candidly confront the indisputable realities of race and crime in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality of crime to a political theory – too much welfare , too little capitalism , not enough Trumpism .
The statistical relationship between race and crime , however , is as strong as the relationship between Derek Chauvin 's knee and the late George Floyd 's neck .
This correlation , writes Unz Review editor Ron Unz , `` so substantially exceeds the poverty/crime relationship that much of the latter may simply be a statistical artifact due to most urban blacks being poor . ''
To discount the immutable reality of race @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discount `` the real-world impact of these grim statistics . ''
Never , ever are righteous individuals within a community to be fingered for what the wicked among them do .
Still , seekers of truth should be able to talk about trends within communities without fearing a loss of reputation and marginalization .
These are the sort of trends social science measures .
Or , once measured .
As I put it in the book `` Into the Cannibal 's Pot : Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa '' : '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not hunches , generalizations are not incorrect .
Science relies on the ability to generalize to the larger population observations drawn from a representative sample .
People make prudent decisions in their daily lives based on probabilities and generalities .
That one chooses not to live in a particular crime-riddled county or country in no way implies that one considers all individual residents there to be criminals , only that a sensible determination has been made , based on statistically significant data , as to where scarce and precious resources – one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invested . ''
( pp .
41-42 )

Dr. Michael Baden determined that George Floyd died by cop. That, the courageous onlookers who filmed the snuff film could have told him.
The nation's foremost forensic pathologist was called in to weigh-in scientifically and independently on the demise of the Minneapolis man, whom millions across the world have, by now, watched slowly suffocate to death on camera, May 25.
"Look at him. Get off him now. What is wrong with y'all. Leave him. You're killing him. Bro, he's not moving. Check his pulse." Blood is bubbling out of his mouth. These good Samaritans loudly protested this police porn. There was a trickle on the asphalt, as Floyd likely lost control over bodily functions, near the end.
Dr. Baden, who confirmed mechanical asphyxiation due to pressure on the neck and back, was asked to perform an independent autopsy because the initial, official one was comical, suggesting the cops' actions were secondary complicating factors.
The Hennepin County medical examiner made it sound like George Floyd should have been able to endure 8 minutes and 46 seconds with a knee on his neck and three Minneapolis police officers pushing down on his diaphragm, subsequently reducing blood flow to the brain. Floyd failed that fitness test because he was on drugs, drunk, COVID-positive and in really bad physical shape.
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I'd hate to have my physical fitness and sobriety tested that way.
The reality is that millions around the world witnessed George Floyd expire on camera because he was made to star in his own State-sanctioned snuff film.
Floyd's death was a case of, "Who are you going to believe, me or your own lyin' eyes?" Which is the colloquial used when one is staring at an immutable reality, yet choosing to see an alternate universe.
The world saw that Mr. Floyd was not in the throes of death until that knee appeared on his neck and those hands pressed down on his diaphragm. Put it this way: Correlation is not causation, but it was not a complete mystery when 8 minutes and 46 seconds into the State-administered treatment the man died.
The non-violent offense Floyd was tackled and terminated for was paying for cigarettes with an alleged counterfeit bill. It's entirely possible he was guilty of using counterfeit money. It's also likely he didn't know the bill was fake. Given how much paper money changes hands, this could happen to anyone.
Uncle Sam – which has its proverbial boot on the American taxpayer's neck – counterfeits trillions with impunity. America's central bank (the Federal Reserve Bank) and the banks are forever injecting funny money into credit markets. With government imprimatur, the system known as fractional reserve banking is engaged in counterfeiting, when inflating the money supply and issuing paper notes not backed by real assets. The central bank's phony money creation is counterfeiting by any other name, except that it's legal, because it's perpetrated by the State.
Next, they'll tell us that, just as the State can forge and devalue the coin, so it can also kill us with impunity. That's what the four brazen cops were broadcasting – that murder under the "Color-of-Law" wasn't quite murder.
Another of our deformed society's Big Lies kicked in when, like locusts, rioters and looters descended on America's cities – from Minneapolis to Miami, from Los Angeles to Louisville.
The specter of looting and rioting is another case of, "Who are you going to believe, me or your own lyin' eyes?"
Fake Newsers, Fox News included, then began energetically, sans evidence – other than some bricks in a trash can – to promote a fake conspiratorial narrative:
Looters were never local, but always mysterious outside agitators – well-organized "Antifa." The fiction was promoted as enthusiastically by Fox News as it was by CNN and MSNBC.
Anything to avoid the reality of crime, while signaling your own virtue.
Even John Robert Lewis, a black civil right leader, got fed up and told MSNBC that looting was local.
At one point, Seattle's KOMO News divulged that 82 people had been arrested, after the city center was destroyed. All were homeboys.
If rioters everywhere are from somewhere not here, what's the logic?
If so-called organized, George Soros-activated Antifa terrorists intend to ignite the country and operate networks and chapters across it – why would they need to migrate, to lob rocks at a Macy's in a town away from home? Why not riot in your hometown if so organized?
The truth is that conservatives, like liberals, refuse to candidly confront the indisputable realities of race and crime in America, reducing, instead, the reality of crime to a political theory – too much welfare, too little capitalism, not enough Trumpism.
The statistical relationship between race and crime, however, is as strong as the relationship between Derek Chauvin's knee and the late George Floyd's neck.
This correlation, writes Unz Review editor Ron Unz, "so substantially exceeds the poverty/crime relationship that much of the latter may simply be a statistical artifact due to most urban blacks being poor." To discount the immutable reality of race and crime in urban America is to discount "the real-world impact of these grim statistics."
Never, ever are righteous individuals within a community to be fingered for what the wicked among them do. Still, seekers of truth should be able to talk about trends within communities without fearing a loss of reputation and marginalization. These are the sort of trends social science measures. Or, once measured.
As I put it in the book "Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa":
"Provided they are substantiated by hard evidence, not hunches, generalizations are not incorrect. Science relies on the ability to generalize to the larger population observations drawn from a representative sample. People make prudent decisions in their daily lives based on probabilities and generalities. That one chooses not to live in a particular crime-riddled county or country in no way implies that one considers all individual residents there to be criminals, only that a sensible determination has been made, based on statistically significant data, as to where scarce and precious resources – one's life and property – are best invested." (pp. 41-42)


wnd--2020-06-04--Who is behind the rioting and looting?

Who is behind the rioting and looting?

Co-mingled with law-abiding protesters in the wake of George Floyd 's murder by one rogue Minneapolis policeman , instigators are causing massive violence .
Who are these mostly-white masked men dressed in black , and why are they attacking and killing police , looting and torching black-owned stores , and spreading terror ?
This is Antifa , whose name ironically means `` anti-fascist . ''
This terrorist coalition arose in Europe to fight Adolf Hitler – not to save democracy or freedom , but because – then as today – these Marxists want Stalinist-style Communist totalitarianism to dominate the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Abolitionist Movement , is to `` destroy the state , police , military , corporations and all those who run the American plantation … by any means necessary . ''
`` In a crowd you can pick [ these professional instigators ] out , '' says Lara Logan , veteran investigative reporter formerly with CBS .
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`` They 'll have DSLR cameras that [ cost ] thousands and thousands of dollars .
… They 'll have communications equipment like radios with military-grade antennas .
You 'll see they have earpieces in their ears .
There are 'repeaters ' on top of [ their ] vehicles . ''
`` And these people come from the outside , '' Logan continued .
`` Their slogans are about abolishing the police … like 'The only good cops are dead cops . '
So they 're not looking to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' but to destroy America .
Antifa 's white Marxists exploit black concerns as a pretext for burning down cities and bankrupting America .
After a targeted city burns , these terrorists move on – leaving jobless blacks in the ashes of what used to be their neighborhoods and businesses .
Antifa is today 's KKK .
Antifa members are not peaceful protesters but highly trained , well paid and expensively equipped guerrilla soldiers .
Who pays millions to bankroll this anti-America army ?
Who buys pallets of bricks delivered to protest sites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ license plates , their high-tech radios that monitor and disrupt encrypted police communications , and incendiary devices white Antifa provocateurs hand to feverish adolescent blacks , telling them to throw Molotov cocktails at police ?
Who profits from recent riots ?
Communist China does .
Leftist profiteer and major Democratic Daddy Warbucks globalist billionaire George Soros does .
Soros `` has ties to Antifa through a far-left group called the Alliance for Global Justice ( AfGJ ) , '' according to investigator Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center .
Soros ' Open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 100,000 , and AfGJ `` gave $ 50,000 to Refuse Fascism , an unincorporated Antifa group , '' writes Vadum .
`` Refuse Fascism was created in the weeks after Donald Trump 's unexpected [ 2016 ] victory over Hillary Clinton , '' writes Vadum .
Refuse Fascism 's website slogan : `` It 's Fascism : Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime . ''
The Democrats ' only hope of stopping Trump 's 2020 reelection is to crash the economy from record highs to record lows .
Democratic governors and mayors continue to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protests ) on the pretext of COVID-19 , and profit by having their leftist media comrades foment hatred of Trump , racial polarization and lies that Antifa thugs are `` non-violent protesters . ''
Communist China hit the jackpot by attacking the United States with coronavirus biological warfare followed by Antifa terrorist warfare .
American freedom dies if we impose authoritarian government .
Antifa fulfills Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci 's scheme : a `` march through the institutions '' taking over American K-12 education , colleges , newspapers , media , Hollywood – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left-wing radicals – to brainwash young Americans .
Corrupt Joe Biden – bought with $ 1.5 billion in Communist Chinese money – might become America 's last president .
Biden 's handlers are helping bail out jailed terrorists , and Biden promises a police review board that will make peace officers afraid to arrest criminals .
Stoning was a biblical method of execution , but New York Marxist Mayor Bill de Blasio chastised an NYPD officer for merely drawing his sidearm when menaced by rioters throwing bricks .
Biden promises higher taxes to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not already taken from businesses .
Welfare Democrats call capitalists `` evil '' to justify stealing their money to buy votes , but looters now want to rob capitalists directly and eliminate Democratic middlemen .
Antifa enriches itself by mass looting and , in recent days , by blowing up 130 bank ATMs in Philadelphia – where Soros spent $ 33 per vote to elect a soft-on-crime radical district attorney .
The left 's reshaping of key institutions has turned too many young Americans into a fearful , infantilized , ignorant herd – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing for two African American security officers almost certainly just murdered by Antifa .
They are being stampeded into an Antifa race war , tricked into destroying their future , and ours .
But Trump-hating , power-addicted `` Progressive '' Democrats and their Marxist Antifa comrades have now picked the low-hanging fruit – cities and states where Democratic mayors and governors handcuff the police and let criminals run amok .
Hypnotized `` woke '' young Americans are beginning to awaken from the left 's destructive spell .
Trump 's threat of military intervention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the violence .
Democrats now must either unchain people and let the economy recover , or be blamed for destroying it ; either way , Trump 's reelection prospects will improve greatly .
God willing , America will defeat Antifacrats and remain the land of the free and home of the brave .
Lowell Ponte is a former Reader 's Digest Roving Editor .
His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times and other major publications .
His latest paper co-authored with Craig R. Smith , `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to rethink several areas of investment to protect and grow your savings against little-known economic threats .
For a free , postpaid copy , call toll-free 800-630-1492 .

Co-mingled with law-abiding protesters in the wake of George Floyd's murder by one rogue Minneapolis policeman, instigators are causing massive violence.
Who are these mostly-white masked men dressed in black, and why are they attacking and killing police, looting and torching black-owned stores, and spreading terror?
This is Antifa, whose name ironically means "anti-fascist." This terrorist coalition arose in Europe to fight Adolf Hitler – not to save democracy or freedom, but because – then as today – these Marxists want Stalinist-style Communist totalitarianism to dominate the world.
Their aim, says their Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement, is to "destroy the state, police, military, corporations and all those who run the American plantation … by any means necessary."
"In a crowd you can pick [these professional instigators] out," says Lara Logan, veteran investigative reporter formerly with CBS.
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"They often have equipment on their backs and gas masks that aren't the typical gas masks; they're the expensive ones," Logan told Fox News' Laura Ingraham.
"They'll have DSLR cameras that [cost] thousands and thousands of dollars. … They'll have communications equipment like radios with military-grade antennas. You'll see they have earpieces in their ears. There are 'repeaters' on top of [their] vehicles."
"And these people come from the outside," Logan continued. "Their slogans are about abolishing the police … like 'The only good cops are dead cops.' So they're not looking to reform … or fix the system," but to destroy America.
Antifa's white Marxists exploit black concerns as a pretext for burning down cities and bankrupting America. After a targeted city burns, these terrorists move on – leaving jobless blacks in the ashes of what used to be their neighborhoods and businesses. Antifa is today's KKK.
Antifa members are not peaceful protesters but highly trained, well paid and expensively equipped guerrilla soldiers.
Who pays millions to bankroll this anti-America army? Who buys pallets of bricks delivered to protest sites, their expensive cars and trucks without license plates, their high-tech radios that monitor and disrupt encrypted police communications, and incendiary devices white Antifa provocateurs hand to feverish adolescent blacks, telling them to throw Molotov cocktails at police?
Who profits from recent riots? Communist China does. Leftist profiteer and major Democratic Daddy Warbucks globalist billionaire George Soros does.
Soros "has ties to Antifa through a far-left group called the Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ)," according to investigator Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center. Soros' Open Society Institute gave AfGJ at least $100,000, and AfGJ "gave $50,000 to Refuse Fascism, an unincorporated Antifa group," writes Vadum.
"Refuse Fascism was created in the weeks after Donald Trump's unexpected [2016] victory over Hillary Clinton," writes Vadum. Refuse Fascism's website slogan: "It's Fascism: Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime."
The Democrats' only hope of stopping Trump's 2020 reelection is to crash the economy from record highs to record lows. Democratic governors and mayors continue to lock down businesses (but allow leftist protests) on the pretext of COVID-19, and profit by having their leftist media comrades foment hatred of Trump, racial polarization and lies that Antifa thugs are "non-violent protesters."
Communist China hit the jackpot by attacking the United States with coronavirus biological warfare followed by Antifa terrorist warfare. American freedom dies if we impose authoritarian government.
Antifa fulfills Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci's scheme: a "march through the institutions" taking over American K-12 education, colleges, newspapers, media, Hollywood – and now hijacking the Democratic Party by left-wing radicals – to brainwash young Americans.
Corrupt Joe Biden – bought with $1.5 billion in Communist Chinese money – might become America's last president. Biden's handlers are helping bail out jailed terrorists, and Biden promises a police review board that will make peace officers afraid to arrest criminals.
Stoning was a biblical method of execution, but New York Marxist Mayor Bill de Blasio chastised an NYPD officer for merely drawing his sidearm when menaced by rioters throwing bricks.
Biden promises higher taxes to expropriate whatever the lockdown and looters have not already taken from businesses. Welfare Democrats call capitalists "evil" to justify stealing their money to buy votes, but looters now want to rob capitalists directly and eliminate Democratic middlemen. Antifa enriches itself by mass looting and, in recent days, by blowing up 130 bank ATMs in Philadelphia – where Soros spent $33 per vote to elect a soft-on-crime radical district attorney.
The left's reshaping of key institutions has turned too many young Americans into a fearful, infantilized, ignorant herd – a groupthink lynch mob. They care nothing for two African American security officers almost certainly just murdered by Antifa. They are being stampeded into an Antifa race war, tricked into destroying their future, and ours.
But Trump-hating, power-addicted "Progressive" Democrats and their Marxist Antifa comrades have now picked the low-hanging fruit – cities and states where Democratic mayors and governors handcuff the police and let criminals run amok.
Hypnotized "woke" young Americans are beginning to awaken from the left's destructive spell. Trump's threat of military intervention – although opposed by Democrats – cooled the violence.
Democrats now must either unchain people and let the economy recover, or be blamed for destroying it; either way, Trump's reelection prospects will improve greatly. God willing, America will defeat Antifacrats and remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
Lowell Ponte is a former Reader's Digest Roving Editor. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other major publications. His latest paper co-authored with Craig R. Smith, "The Secret War," shows how to rethink several areas of investment to protect and grow your savings against little-known economic threats. For a free, postpaid copy, call toll-free 800-630-1492.


wnd--2020-06-05--Yes, riots are violence

Yes, riots are violence

It 's weird that this needs to be said , but here we are .
Then again , the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property `` is not violence '' risks nothing .
She agitates for revolution from the safety of her apartment .
Much the same , I suspect , most of those excusing the destruction of our cities – either contending that businesses `` have insurance '' or peddling false choices about life being `` more valuable than property '' – have never built a business themselves .
Nor have I .
Yet , I do know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ devastating , and `` having insurance '' wo n't make victims whole .
My parents were immigrants from Hungary .
My father , who 'd worked as an industrial chemist in the old country , ended up in New York 's jewelry district in the 1970s learning how to set diamonds .
Learning a new craft takes patience and hard work .
My mother , pregnant with me and unable to speak much English , would take the F-train from Rego Park to Manhattan to bring home necklace-beading work .
Like millions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade , saving money and taking out loans , my parents opened a small business in a strip mall in the suburbs .
As a kid , I often walked the mile and a half from my elementary school to spend time at our small jewelry shop .
I was no different from the kids in the neighboring liquor or Chinese food stores , where parents toiled away for endless hours .
In those days , it was more common to see children helping out in family-run businesses , or at least that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on a half-day of school , as my luck would have it – our shop was robbed .
The fact that the strip mall was situated on a busy road , or that it was the middle of the afternoon , did n't deter the thieves .
Three men , two inside and one outside , pulled out guns and demanded the combination to the safe .
They cleaned out the place .
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Yet , in 1981 , many people in the metropolitan area had been either mugged , robbed , threatened or had their cars stolen .
That year , New York City reported more robberies than in any year in its history – over 120,000 – and over 2,100 murders .
Anyway , my parents had insurance .
They were lucky enough to be reimbursed for the things that were stolen , but they would never see a penny for the years of preparation , exertion and sacrifice .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ built business – given up time with their kids , spouses and parents – will end up in a similar circumstances due to the inability of our elected officials to stop criminals and cosplay revolutionaries .
While it 's sickening to watch an Obama bro grouse that there 's too much media attention being paid to devastated communities , it 's unconscionable to see the attorney general of Massachusetts , the top law-enforcement officer in her state , say , `` Yes , America is burning , but that 's how forests grow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minneapolis , where George Floyd was murdered ?
Does n't sound like it : The riots and arson that followed protests of George Floyd 's death have devastated organizations and businesses that serve communities of color .
Destruction from the south side 's Lake Street to West Broadway Avenue in north Minneapolis has hit immigrant- and minority-owned businesses already struggling amid the pandemic-induced shutdown .
Now , ethnically diverse neighborhoods are grappling with the loss of jobs , services and investments .
Riots may excite the keyboard revolutionary , but they wo n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fact .
Not only are the anarchists who burn and loot stores subjecting many of their neighbors to a dehumanizing experience , they are destroying poor and minority neighborhoods .
Big businesses might be able to afford to fix the smashed windows and ransacked supply room , but family-owned ones are going to struggle .
Chain stores have insurance , but the individuals and smaller manufacturers who depend on them for their livelihoods also are threatened .
The big stores themselves will be paying higher insurance rates , and some of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these poorer neighborhoods .

It's weird that this needs to be said, but here we are.
Then again, the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property "is not violence" risks nothing. She agitates for revolution from the safety of her apartment. Much the same, I suspect, most of those excusing the destruction of our cities – either contending that businesses "have insurance" or peddling false choices about life being "more valuable than property" – have never built a business themselves.
Nor have I. Yet, I do know that having a business destroyed can be devastating, and "having insurance" won't make victims whole. My parents were immigrants from Hungary. My father, who'd worked as an industrial chemist in the old country, ended up in New York's jewelry district in the 1970s learning how to set diamonds. Learning a new craft takes patience and hard work. My mother, pregnant with me and unable to speak much English, would take the F-train from Rego Park to Manhattan to bring home necklace-beading work.
Like millions of Americans, after years of plying a trade, saving money and taking out loans, my parents opened a small business in a strip mall in the suburbs. As a kid, I often walked the mile and a half from my elementary school to spend time at our small jewelry shop. I was no different from the kids in the neighboring liquor or Chinese food stores, where parents toiled away for endless hours. In those days, it was more common to see children helping out in family-run businesses, or at least that's my recollection.
One day – on a half-day of school, as my luck would have it – our shop was robbed. The fact that the strip mall was situated on a busy road, or that it was the middle of the afternoon, didn't deter the thieves. Three men, two inside and one outside, pulled out guns and demanded the combination to the safe. They cleaned out the place.
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Seeing a sawed-off shotgun pressed against a family member's head is not an experience I recommend. Yet, in 1981, many people in the metropolitan area had been either mugged, robbed, threatened or had their cars stolen. That year, New York City reported more robberies than in any year in its history – over 120,000 – and over 2,100 murders.
Anyway, my parents had insurance. They were lucky enough to be reimbursed for the things that were stolen, but they would never see a penny for the years of preparation, exertion and sacrifice. I suspect thousands of Americans who have built business – given up time with their kids, spouses and parents – will end up in a similar circumstances due to the inability of our elected officials to stop criminals and cosplay revolutionaries.
While it's sickening to watch an Obama bro grouse that there's too much media attention being paid to devastated communities, it's unconscionable to see the attorney general of Massachusetts, the top law-enforcement officer in her state, say, "Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow."
Is the forest growing in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered? Doesn't sound like it:
As The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, "The riots and arson that followed protests of George Floyd's death have devastated organizations and businesses that serve communities of color. Destruction from the south side's Lake Street to West Broadway Avenue in north Minneapolis has hit immigrant- and minority-owned businesses already struggling amid the pandemic-induced shutdown. Now, ethnically diverse neighborhoods are grappling with the loss of jobs, services and investments."
Riots may excite the keyboard revolutionary, but they won't bring racial equality. The opposite, in fact. Not only are the anarchists who burn and loot stores subjecting many of their neighbors to a dehumanizing experience, they are destroying poor and minority neighborhoods.
Big businesses might be able to afford to fix the smashed windows and ransacked supply room, but family-owned ones are going to struggle. Chain stores have insurance, but the individuals and smaller manufacturers who depend on them for their livelihoods also are threatened. The big stores themselves will be paying higher insurance rates, and some of them may decide to never come back to these poorer neighborhoods.


wnd--2020-06-06--Protesters track officers to their homes, throw Molotov cocktails at patrol cars

( WSBTV ) Three protesters are in jail Thursday after being arrested for trying to set police cars on fire @ @ @ @ @ were denied bond in court Friday .
Police say the vandals tracked those officers down @ @ @ @ @ to torch their cars .
Both fires were put out quickly , leaving minor damage @ @ @ @

(WSBTV) Three protesters are in jail Thursday after being arrested for trying to set police cars on fire with Molotov cocktails.
They were denied bond in court Friday.
Police say the vandals tracked those officers down at their homes and tried to torch their cars. Both fires were put out quickly, leaving minor damage to the vehicles.
Ebuka Chike-Morah, 21, Alvin Joseph, 21, and Lakaila Mack, 20, all face multiple charges.
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wnd--2020-06-06--Lisa Page is new national security and legal analyst at NBC News

( DAILY CALLER ) Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page is the new national security and legal analyst for NBC News @ @ @ @ @ announced Friday .
“ We ’ re very happy to welcome to our network Lisa @ @ @ @ @ who worked as special counsel for Robert Mueller ’ s legal team , ” Nicolle @ @ @ @ @ worked on the Russian government disinformation probe and on the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
” @ @ @ @ @ to be having an affair with former FBI agent Peter Strzok , who worked on @ @ @ @ @ s investigation before he was removed for showing bias against President Donald Trump in text @ @ @ @ @

(DAILY CALLER) Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page is the new national security and legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, the network announced Friday.
“We’re very happy to welcome to our network Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer who worked as special counsel for Robert Mueller’s legal team,” Nicolle Wallace said. “She worked on the Russian government disinformation probe and on the Hillary Clinton email investigation.”
Page was discovered in 2017 to be having an affair with former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation before he was removed for showing bias against President Donald Trump in text messages exchanged with Page.
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wnd--2020-06-06--D.C. mayor has 'Black Lives Matter' painted on street leading to White House

( MEDIAITE ) On Friday , photos and video went viral of the phrase “ Black Lives Matter ” being @ @ @ @ @ on a street in Washington , D.C. , but the art project highlighted divisions between @ @ @ @ @ in our nation ’ s capital , as President Donald Trump , D.C. Mayor Muriel @ @ @ @ @ Chapter of Black Lives Matter traded criticisms back and forth .
The painting began before @ @ @ @ @ one of the streets that leads to the White House .
While the presidential residence @ @ @ @ @ streets surrounding it are city-owned , and Bowser authorized the painting of the bright yellow @ @ @ @ @ of the street and visible from blocks away .
Because of the location and the @ @ @ @ @ , many interpreted it as a rebuke of Trump .

(MEDIAITE) On Friday, photos and video went viral of the phrase “Black Lives Matter” being painted in giant yellow letters on a street in Washington, D.C., but the art project highlighted divisions between several of the key leaders in our nation’s capital, as President Donald Trump, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and the D.C. Chapter of Black Lives Matter traded criticisms back and forth.
The painting began before dawn along 16th Street, one of the streets that leads to the White House. While the presidential residence is federal property, the streets surrounding it are city-owned, and Bowser authorized the painting of the bright yellow letters stretching the full width of the street and visible from blocks away. Because of the location and the large size of the message, many interpreted it as a rebuke of Trump.
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