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Chicago goes into lockdown as bridges raised and freeway exits closed to restrict access to downtown | Daily Mail Online

Black Lives Matter Chicago held a protest Monday night in which they defended looting as a form of 'reparations' 
Drawbridges into Chicago were raised Monday night and freeway exits closed as downtown was locked down
Precautions were being taken to avoid a second night of chaos, following riots and looting in the early hours
SWAT teams were seen patrolling the streets of the Illinois city on Monday afternoon
Protests and looting erupted when a false rumor spread that police had shot and killed a child on Sunday
Police in fact had shot and injured a 20-year-old man, who ran from them, turning to fire his gun at officers
Latrell Allen has been charged with attempted murder after the shooting on Sunday which sparked the riots 
Chicago's Magnificent Mile was hit by looters after hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police  
People then started organizing on Twitter and Facebook to loot downtown in a caravan of vehicles  
The violence coincided with the sixth anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri 
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the looting had nothing to do with peaceful protest over police brutality
She denied that the decision not to prosecute looters during George Floyd riots had spurred on looters now 

Chicago Raises Bridges After Unrest and Looting Batters Downtown – DNyuz

Videos that were circulating on social media captured the early morning scenes of hundreds of people in the streets, dozens of police officers, looting and confrontations with the police. There was also an exchange of gunfire with the police in the downtown, according to a police spokesman, Tom Ahren. He said on Twitter early Monday that there were “shots fired at police who returned fire,” and that no officers were injured. He said it was “unknown at this time if offenders were shot.”

Hundreds ransack downtown Chicago businesses after shooting

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people descended on downtown Chicago early Monday following a police shooting on the city’s South Side, with vandals smashing the windows of dozens of businesses and making off with merchandise, cash machines and anything else they could carry, police said.

NYPD cops don't lift a finger as 11-year-old is beaten in broad daylight

NYPD cops had a front-row seat to a five-on-one brawl — but let the violence play out rather than doing their jobs to break it up, The Post has learned.

An 11-year-old girl was slapped, punched, kicked and even shocked with a stun gun by a group of five other girls after a basketball game around 7 p.m. Sunday on East 125th Street near Madison Avenue in Harlem.

During the roughly 4-minute beatdown, cops sat idly in nearby cruisers — but they didn’t get out until the girl was bloody and bruised, a Post photographer observed.

At least 20 police cars were nearby on the street — with at least one a little more than a car-length away, photos show.

He's not wrong.

Senator Ben Sasse Tells President Trump 'America Doesn't Have Kings' in Response to Recent Executive Orders | National Review

Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) doubled down on his criticism of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders in a tweet on Monday afternoon, saying “no president” has the power to make such unilateral policy decisions.

“No president — whether named Obama or Trump or Biden or AOC — has unilateral power to rewrite immigration law or to cut taxes or to raise taxes,” Sasse said. “This is because America doesn’t have kings.”

Evidence is growing, but what will it take to prove masks slow the spread of COVID-19? | The Seattle Times

To definitively answer the question of whether face masks protect against the novel coronavirus, here’s what you’d need to do:

▪ Recruit thousands of volunteers.

▪ Randomly divide them into two groups.

▪ Assign one group to always wear masks outside of the house, and one group to never wear masks.

▪ Wait a few months, see who gets infected — then try to sort out all possible confounding variables, like compliance, mask fit and social distancing.

A study like that would be not only tough to pull off, but unethical in the midst of a pandemic. It also wouldn’t be able to determine community-level effectiveness — that is, how well masks work not just to protect individuals, but to reduce the spread of the disease through a population. For that, you would need multiple experimental groups across multiple cities — which isn’t going to happen.




Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

This apparently did not sit well with Danish health officials. They responded by noting there is little conclusive evidence that face masks are an effective way to limit the spread of respiratory viruses.

“All these countries recommending face masks haven’t made their decisions based on new studies,” said Henning Bundgaard, chief physician at Denmark’s Rigshospitale, according to Bloomberg News. (Denmark has since updated its guidelines to encourage, but not require, the use of masks on public transit where social distancing may not be possible.)  

Denmark is not alone.

Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never” wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they “always” wear masks when they go out.

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Aurora, Colorado, police officers ordered at gunpoint a mother and her children out of the SUV the woman was driving, made them lie down on the pavement and handcuffed them after mistaking her vehicle for a motorcycle reported stolen in another state. Police Chief Vanessa Wilson blamed the error on a license plate scanner that hit on the vehicle's license plate number. Wilson did not explain why officers did not confirm the description of the vehicle before pulling it over and detaining the family. "We have been training our officers that when they contact a suspected stolen car, they should do what is called a high-risk stop. This involves drawing their weapons and ordering all occupants to exit the car and lie prone on the ground," she said. Wilson said she has apologized to the family and spoken to the division chief about better training for officers on detaining children.

Obama said he had a pen and a phone but Trump is really doing it. Now he must be stopped. Is there no constitutional leader in our midst?

Trump Teases Further on Executive Order on Pre-Existing Conditions: It’s a “Double Safety Net” and a “Second Platform.” – Reason.com

On Monday, President Trump held a press conference. At 31:30, a reporter asked him about his planned executive order on pre-existing conditions. Why was it necessary, the reporter asked, given the fact that the ACA already requires insurers to cover people with pre-existing conditions. Trump's response is barely coherent. He states, over and over again, that the individual mandate was "terminated." It wasn't. The penalty was reduced to $0. But at 33:05, President Trump finally meanders to his answer.

This is not only a lie, it is evil.

Americans Are Growing Less Willing To Beg for Permission To Make a Living – Reason.com

Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise with or without licenses and permits.

It appears that government-imposed restrictions on travel, business, and social contact don't become more palatable with age. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to simmer, the one competency that officials have consistently displayed is in tightening the screws, using the licenses and permissions they require as enforcement tools. For people tired of being bossed around, the obvious response is to carry on without the government's imprimatur—and they're doing so in droves. It's an attitude likely to live on long after the crisis has passed.

"Our businesses are doomed," Chris Polone, co-owner of a Fort Worth bar that was one of more than 800 such establishments to open in defiance of Texas closure orders, said at the end of July. "We have nothing to lose. We can either fight this thing, Or we can starve ourselves out."

As apocalyptic as that sounds, it's a reasonable statement when the review site Yelp reports that 55 percent of all businesses shut during the pandemic are believed to have closed their doors forever. For many entrepreneurs, breaking the rules may be the only way to survive.

This is the kind of wicked reporting that takes the truth and uses it to tell a lie. The death rate is only 1%. That is below the national and worldwide rate.

San Quentin coronavirus disaster exposes a dangerous road to 'herd immunity'

COVID-19 spread unchecked across California's oldest prison in ways that stunned public health experts, despite efforts to control the disease. As of Monday, there had been more than 2,200 cases and 25 deaths, among a population of more than 3,260 people. On Sunday, a guard became one of the latest to die.

Lebanon government on brink over blast fallout - France 24

According to the health ministry, at least 158 people were killed in Lebanon's worst peacetime disaster, 6,000 were wounded and around 20 remained missing.

Melbourne lockdown 'the worst-ever violation of Australia's civil liberties' | Daily Mail Online

Victoria's state of disaster, from 2 August, gives huge power to the government 
The Police Minister can seize private property and officers can enter homes 
Research group IPA says Melbourne's stage-four restrictions have gone too far
Up to 400,000 are set to lose their jobs due to forced closure of businesses 

And people wonder why many of us consider the vast majority of "higher education" to be a farce.

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AUGUST 10, 2020
Math education prof says using '2+2=4' to show math's objectivity 'reeks of white supremacist patriarchy' — and gets dragged for it

'If I were an astronaut, and you worked for NASA, I would quit my job'

A math education professor said that using the phrase "2+2=4" to demonstrate the objectivity and neutrality of mathematics "reeks of white supremacist patriarchy."

"The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH," Laurie Rubel of Brooklyn College tweeted a week ago. "I'm ready to move on with that understanding. who's coming with me?"

She added in a subsequent tweet that "along with the 'of course math is neutral because 2+2=4' trope are the related (and creepy) 'math is pure' and 'protect math,'' and that it all "reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. I'd rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals)."

Black Lives Matter has zero to do with actual black lives.

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Black Lives Matter mob shoots at black cop, physically assaults him at girlfriend's home they vandalized

I love it. These Marxists want insanity - give it to them.

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AUGUST 10, 2020
Portland cops handcuff female protester, get asked if female cop is there for pat-down. Male officer quips, 'How do you know that I don’t identify as a female?'

Woke observers who heard the officer's sarcastic reply were most definitely triggered

So sad.

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AUGUST 11, 2020
Neighbor reportedly rushes 5-year-old boy playing outside, puts a gun to his head, and executes him

The most evil thing

A 5-year-old boy is dead after a man in Wilson, North Carolina, reportedly ran up to the child while he was playing in a neighborhood street and fatally shot the child in the head.

According to a report from WRAL-TV, the shooting took place on Sunday.

Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his father's house on the dusky summer evening when their neighbor — 25-year-old Darius N. Sessoms — charged Cannon, produced a handgun, and shot him in the head.

The child's 7-year-old and 8-year-old siblings witnessed the murder.

First responders came to the scene and transported the little boy to Wilson Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Doris Labrant, a neighbor, said she witnessed Sessoms running up to Cannon, putting the gun to his head, and firing the weapon before fleeing the scene into his own home.

She couldn't believe her eyes.

"My first reaction was he's playing with the kids," she recalled. "For a second I thought, 'That couldn't happen.' People don't run across the street and kill kids."

Labrant said the situation became all too real when she saw the child's father react to the horrific scene.

Authorities took Sessoms into custody on Monday night and charged him with first-degree murder. He is being held in the Wilson County Jail without bond.

Authorities have not yet determined a motive in the shooting, but insisted that the killing wasn't random, as Sessoms was reportedly friendly with Cannon's father.

Hmm... This can't be good.

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11 August 2020
China Masses Missile Launchers Within Range of Taiwan

International news reports have shown satellite images of amphibious armored vehicles and mobile missile launchers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) massing at military bases in China’s Eastern Theatre Command — in China’s coastal region. These movements place Chinese missiles within range of Taiwan.

The images were originally published by the Canadian military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence. The magazine’s editor, Andrei Chang, wrote of the buildup: “The PLA ground forces want to play an active role in the Taiwan issue because so far their weapon systems are powerful enough to attack Taiwan without the help of missile force.”

“The Taiwan Strait is just 180km [111 miles] across. The PCL191 rocket launchers are able to destroy all military bases and government buildings on the island accurately because the weapons were equipped with the BeiDou navigation satellite system,” Chang added.

A reporter in the South China Morning Post for August 5 cited an unnamed analyst who said the deployment of more amphibious weapons systems in mainland China’s coastal cities across the strait from Taiwan is a sign that the armed forces are intended to play a key role in communist China’s long-standing mission to “reunify Taiwan.”

Like people need anymore reasons to home-school their children.

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11 August 2020
Teacher Worries Online Classes Will Interfere With Propagandizing Students

A Philadelphia public-school teacher recently fretted on Twitter that virtual classrooms might allow parents to interfere with teachers’ propagandizing on behalf of anti-racism and pro-LGBT causes.

Matthew Kay, an English teacher at the Science Leadership Academy, a Philadelphia magnet school, posted a thread on Twitter Saturday that began: “So, this fall, virtual class discussions will have many potential spectators — parents, siblings, etc. — in the same room. We’ll never be quite sure who is overhearing the discourse. What does this do for our equity/inclusion work?”

“How much have students depended on the (somewhat) secure barriers of our physical classrooms to encourage vulnerability?” he continued. “How many of us have installed some version of ‘what happens here stays here’ to help this?”

In other words, Kay is worried that he is teaching his students things of which their parents or other family members may not approve — and that, now that they will have a chance to observe his classes, they may counter his teaching, remove their children from his classes, or even jeopardize his job.

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AUGUST 11, 2020
Black Trump-supporting activist for #WalkAway movement squares off with arrogant white Black Lives Matter protester: 'I don't need you to tell me my life matters'

Powerful testimony

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AUGUST 11, 2020
Hunter Biden settled $450K in tax debt within 6 days last month. Last year, he said he was too broke to pay child support.

Something doesn't add up

Being from the south I have been to Stone Mountain and enjoyed it.

Stone Mountain braces for another armed protest

Hundreds of members of a Black militia turned heads July 4 as they marched with assault rifles, shotguns and other firearms, on Stone Mountain and its famous Confederate memorial.

Hoboken Considers $250 Fine For Citizens Not Wearing Masks Outside: ‘I Just Think It’s Gonna Be Unenforceable’ – CBS New York

HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Masks are already mandated in New Jersey, but one city is taking it a step further, saying if you don’t wear one outside where you can’t social distance, you could face a fine.

China is increasing its military drills as tensions with US heat up - CNN

Hong Kong (CNN)China is stepping up military drills around East Asia as a war of words with the United States heats up over Washington's military activities and the visit of a US cabinet secretary to Taiwan.

One Chinese think tank even says the People's Liberation Army (PLA) may consider live-fire exercises near the US island of Guam.

Beijing has stepped up the pace of its war games in recent weeks, after the US sent two aircraft carrier strike groups on rare dual-carrier exercises in the South China Sea twice in the month of July.

'Mask mouth' is a seriously stinky side effect of wearing masks

Now that dentists have reopened their doors, they’re having patients show up with a nasty set of symptoms, which the doctors have dubbed “mask mouth.”

The new oral hygiene issue — caused by, you guessed it, wearing a mask all the time to prevent the spread of the coronavirus — is leading to all kinds of dental disasters like decaying teeth, receding gum lines and seriously sour breath.

“We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,” says Dr. Rob Ramondi, a dentist and co-founder of One Manhattan Dental. “About 50% of our patients are being impacted by this, [so] we decided to name it ‘mask mouth’ — after ‘meth mouth.’ ”