The highest-ranking uniformed member of the NYPD, Chief of Department Terence Monahan, who knelt with protesters at the beginning of June, was one of four NYPD officers injured during protests in New York on Wednesday. Monahan and the other injured officers were marching with a pro-police group when they clashed with anti-police activists.
&#8220;Police photos of the aftermath showed a lieutenant with a bloodied face, a detective holding a bandage to his head, and a bicycle officer helping a fellow officer dress a head wound. Monahan, who last month kneeled in a show of solidarity with protesters, sustained injuries to his hand,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/cad4d52e21b422d0196a49b46cae6a41">The Associated Press</a> reported Wednesday.
Monahan was &#8220;said to be bloodied but not seriously hurt,” <a href="https://abc7ny.com/terence-monahan-chief-of-department-support-good-news/6225766/">ABC 7</a> stated, noting that a sergeant and a lieutenant who were attacked with canes and bats were transported to a hospital.
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Bill Casey of the Retired Sergeant Association told ABC 7, “We&#8217;re fighting for unity. It just seems that there&#8217;s so much violence. And the cops are being portrayed as villains instead of what they really are, which is heroes.&#8221;
On June 1, Monahan knelt with protesters.
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Highest-ranking uniformed member of the NYPD takes a knee with protesters following the death of George Floyd.
Chief of Department Terence Monahan urged demonstrators to &quot;be safe&quot; as he hugged them. <a href="https://t.co/dAKlPisUk6">https://t.co/dAKlPisUk6</a> <a href="https://t.co/njjBiVSxEC">pic.twitter.com/njjBiVSxEC</a>
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Monahan <a href="https://abc7ny.com/terence-monahan-chief-of-department-support-good-news/6225766/">stated</a> that his kneeling was the first step in &#8220;getting this together&#8221; and &#8220;getting those groups out of here,&#8221; referring to reputed outside agitators stirring up trouble. &#8220;The people who live in New York want New York to end the violence. Get the intruders that are not from this city the h*** out of here and give us back our city.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve had five days of war here, that needs to end. It has to end today,” he <a href="https://www.insider.com/nypd-chief-departments-takes-knee-george-floyd-protesters-2020-6">added</a>, telling protesters, &#8220;Leave it out to those who are to cause damage and we&#8217;ll get rid of them. We&#8217;ll get rid of those that are ruining your neighborhood.&#8221;
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/de-blasio-backs-terence-monahan-against-criticism-of-protest-response/">praised</a> Monahan, saying, “Terry Monahan defused a very tense situation in Washington Square Park. This is not just an average cop. He took a knee with the protesters out of respect. That’s an indelibly powerful statement.”
Monahan <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-chief-terence-monahan-racism-new-york-protest/">stated</a> on &#8220;CBS This Morning&#8221; of the protests after the death of George Floyd, “What happened in Minnesota was an outrage, completely and totally. But 800,000 law enforcement officers around this country are paying the price for what that guy did in Minnesota.”
He then appealed to the protesters, saying, “Protest, yell, scream, let your rage out, but don&#8217;t take your rage out on the community, destroy the businesses that actually employ members of this community.”
Monahan continued, &#8220;Bottles and rocks thrown at my cops, windows being broken, stores being looted &#8230; got no place in American society … You have to look at the entire incident. You have to look at the rocks being thrown, the injuries to my officers, what happened before, what precipitated that event. Knowing that we had a commanding officer trapped in his car, his last transmission was, &#8216;This may be my last transmission,&#8217; dragged out of that car. This is what&#8217;s going through a cop&#8217;s mind as he gets surrounded.&#8221;
&#8220;I would never say that we are a racist police department. Absolutely not,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Have incidents happened? Maybe there was a racist incident, something, and that person has been removed from this agency? Absolutely. We all care about the communities we work in. We care deeply in the minority communities, the cops that work there, each and every day.&#8221;
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On Tuesday, Burger King, in a seeming attempt to seem as politically correct as possible, issued a tweet asserting that they were feeding their cows lemongrass in their diet so methane emissions from cow farts leading to climate change would be reduced.
Burger King tweeted, “cow farts &amp; burps are no laughing matter. they release methane, contributing to climate change. that’s why we’re working to change our cows’ diet by adding lemongrass to reduce their emissions by approximately 33%.”
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cow farts &amp; burps are no laughing matter. they release methane, contributing to climate change. that’s why we’re working to change our cows’ diet by adding lemongrass to reduce their emissions by approximately 33%. learn about our ongoing study: <a href="https://t.co/kPCXpjfbGL">https://t.co/kPCXpjfbGL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CowsMenu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CowsMenu</a> <a href="https://t.co/DnmF8gVVL0">pic.twitter.com/DnmF8gVVL0</a>
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Burger King linked to a site from its parent company, Restaurant Brands International, which also owns the restaurant chains Tim Hortons and Popeyes, in which the <a href="https://www.rbi.com/IRW/CustomPage/4591210/Index?KeyGenPage=474738">site stated</a>:
<blockquote>Livestock is responsible for 14.5% of all human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to estimates from the <a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/">Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)</a>, and beef production accounts for 41% of those emissions …
Cows have a complex digestive system consisting of four stomachs, which enables them to eat and digest food that we cannot – such as grass – through a process called <a href="https://www.rbi.com/IRW/CustomPage/4591210/Index?KeyGenPage=1073754622">enteric fermentation</a>. As the cows digest their feed, they <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3437e.pdf">produce a lot of methane</a>. This greenhouse gas is released every time the cows burp and fart the methane gas out. Methane is considered a high contributor to global warming, making it a key area for us to tackle in pursuit of the 2016 Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. &#8230;
We teamed up with top level scientists in the US and Mexico to study different herbs, like chamomile, cosmos bipinnatus and lemongrass, in order to find a solution that could potentially benefit the environment and the millions of people that simply love meat. As a result, we found that by adding 100 grams of dried lemongrass leaves to the cows’ daily feed, we were able to see a reduction of up to <a href="https://www.rbi.com/IRW/CustomPage/4591210/Index?KeyGenPage=1073754622">33% on average</a> of methane emissions during the period the diet was fed (the last three-to-four months of the cow’s life in the case of our research).</blockquote>
In the “frequently asked questions” document appended to the “Green New Deal” proposal espoused by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-NY), there was <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf">this section</a> dealing with “farting cows”:
<blockquote>We are calling for a full transition o fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases. Anyone who has read the resolution sees that we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy. Simply banning fossil fuels immediately won’t build the new economy to replace it – this is the plan to build that new economy and spells out how to do it technically. We do this through a huge mobilization to create the renewable energy economy as fast as possible. We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez later <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ocasio-cortez-blames-staffer-controversial-green-new-deal-farting-cows-document">blamed a staffer</a> for the document, protesting, &#8220;I definitely had a staffer that had a very bad day at work.”
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On Tuesday, President Trump, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-michael-flynn-back-to-white-house-roger-stone/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=93964213">asked by CBS News</a> whether he would welcome former national security advisor Michael Flynn to the White House, answered bluntly, &#8220;I would. I think he&#8217;s a great gentleman.”
Trump was speaking to CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge as he added, “He&#8217;s a great — he&#8217;s been in the military for many, many decades, actually. Highly respected. What General Flynn went through is so unfair.&#8221;
Flynn served as Trump’s first national security advisor; he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn.html">resigned</a> on February 13, 2017, after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn.html">saying</a> he had given “incomplete information” vis-à-vis a telephone call he had with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States. Flynn <a href="https://apnews.com/f5ab3e3c75304b9bbe1e4b32322b3faf/Trump-alters-story-on-why-he-fired-Flynn">pled guilty</a> to lying to the FBI, a plea that Flynn later <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/michael-flynn-moves-withdraw-guilty-plea-after-doj-flips-prison-n1115761">attempted to withdraw</a> in January 2020. Flynn’s sentence was delayed after he agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation targeting Russian interference in the 2016 election. But new evidence surfaced in 2020 that the FBI may have acted inappropriately in Flynn’s case.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-documents-suggest-fbi-knew-flynn-wasnt-trying-to-deceive-trump-responds?%3Futm_source=twitter">reported</a> earlier this week:
<blockquote>An attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn says new documents show the FBI knew Flynn wasn’t trying to lie during his January 24, 2017, interview, yet they concocted a criminal case against him anyway. Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/flynn-judge-gets-reprieve-as-court-weighs-new-dismissal-hearing">reported</a> that the U.S. Department of Justice gave Flynn 14 new pages of documents, which his attorney, Sidney Powell, said in a filing amounts to prosecutorial misconduct.
“These documents establish that on January 25, 2017 &#8212; the day after the agents ambushed him at the White House &#8212; the agents and DOJ officials knew General Flynn’s statements were not material to any investigation, that he was ‘open and forthcoming’ with the agents, that he had no intent to deceive them, and that he believed he was fully truthful with them,” Powell wrote in the filing …
The charges against Flynn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-dropping-criminal-case-against-michael-flynn">were dropped</a> on May 7, citing “a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” The DOJ argued that Flynn’s January 2017 interview was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”</blockquote>
Trump told Herridge of Flynn, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to need a pardon because he&#8217;s been proven to be innocent. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to need a pardon.&#8221; He added, “You have to understand. I was given information that he lied.&#8221;
In late June, Powell and another attorney for Flynn, Jesse Binnall, reacted to the news that handwritten notes by ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok in January 2017 appeared to indicate former Vice President Joe Biden brought up the idea of investigating former national security advisor Michael Flynn, according to attorneys representing Flynn.
The attorneys said that Strzok&#8217;s notes indicated that Biden thought Flynn might have violated the Logan Act when he conversed with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to court papers that had been filed. &#8220;The previously sealed document also says that former President Barack Obama told top members of his administration that ‘the right people’ should investigate Flynn,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/24/biden-may-have-personally-raised-idea-to-investigate-flynn/amp/">the New York Post</a> reported.
Binnall and Powell, calling the new revelation “stunning and exculpatory evidence,” stated, “According to Strzok’s notes, it appears that Vice President Biden personally raised the idea of the Logan Act. That became an admitted pretext to investigate General Flynn.”
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In March, a COVID-19 vaccine was tested on 45 healthy adults in Phase 1 tests administered by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. On Tuesday evening, it was reported that all the participants in the study reflected an immune system boost response, enabling the entities testing the vaccine to start testing it on 30,000 participants starting on July 27, which would make it the largest study in the world.
The results were taken from the younger subjects in the study; results from older adults are currently being analyzed.
“Those early volunteers developed what are called neutralizing antibodies in their bloodstream &#8212; molecules key to blocking infection &#8212; at levels comparable to those found in people who survived COVID-19, the research team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine,” <a href="https://apnews.com/e4d5259bfc6c74fcb090d885737c55a6?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">AP reported</a>.
The leader of the study, Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, asserted, “This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection.”
The study reported in the <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483?query=featured_home">New England Journal of Medicine</a> that the scientists “conducted a phase 1, dose-escalation, open-label trial including 45 healthy adults, 18 to 55 years of age, who received two vaccinations, 28 days apart … There were 15 participants in each dose group … After the first vaccination, antibody responses were higher with higher dose. After the second vaccination, the titers increased. After the second vaccination, serum-neutralizing activity was detected by two methods in all participants evaluated …  Solicited adverse events that occurred in more than half the participants included fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site. Systemic adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly with the highest dose, and three participants in the 250-μg dose group reported one or more severe adverse events.”
The study concluded, “The mRNA-1273 vaccine induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants, and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified.&#8221;
The prospective vaccine would be given twice; the second time one month after the first
Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center pointed out of the mild side effects, “Small price to pay for protection against COVID.” He added the results obtained from the study constituted “a good first step,” and surmised that final testing might reveal the vaccine to be ready as 2021 commences, although he warned, “It would be wonderful. But that assumes everything’s working right on schedule.”
In mid-May, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moderna-vaccine-shows-success-in-early-clinical-trials">reported</a>, &#8220;Moderna’s team conducted Phase 1 tests on eight people, giving each doses of the vaccine and testing whether the vaccine caused the recipients to develop a natural immunity to the coronavirus. The researchers said that all participants tested positive for antibodies against the coronavirus 15 days after their first dose.&#8221;
Dr. Anthony Fauci commented on Tuesday that people think “this is a race for one winner. Me, I’m cheering every one of them on. We need multiple vaccines. We need vaccines for the world, not only for our own country.” He concluded, “No matter how you slice it, this is good news.”
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An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department who served in Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti&#8217;s protection detail is claiming in a lawsuit that an advisor to Garcetti repeatedly sexually harassed him while Garcetti was present and Garcetti did not intervene.
The lawsuit was filed by LAPD officer Matthew Garza, whose stint protecting Garcetti began in October 2013. The allegations from Garza focus on Rick Jacobs, asserting that Garza was “subjected to unwanted sexual harassment by Jacobs, who is openly gay.&#8221; The complaint alleges, “Jacobs was particularly liberal with his comments and advances toward Plaintiff when Plaintiff would accompany Mayor Garcetti on out-of-town trips where Jacobs was also present.”
The complaint states Jacobs made comments such as “You’re so strong and handsome,” “Your muscles are so tight,” and “I love me my strong LAPD officers.” It also states, &#8220;The Mayor took no action to stop the comments from being made or even identify the comments as being inappropriate. On some occasions, the Mayor would laugh at Jacobs’ crude comments,&#8221; adding that Garcetti was present on &#8220;approximately half of the occasions when Jacobs behaved in this way.&#8221;
The complaint asserts, “On over a dozen occasions, both while Jacobs was employed by the City and after he left City employment, staffers in Mayor Garcetti’s office apologized to Plaintiff for Jacobs’ harassing conduct and comments, including telling Plaintiff words to the effect of, &#8216;I’m sorry you have to deal with that, he’s such a pig.&#8217; Nevertheless, the Mayor’s office never took any action to stop Jacobs’ harassment of Plaintiff.”
Jacobs referred to having &#8220;rough sex&#8221; with his gay partners and liking &#8220;big c***s,” the lawsuit alleges, according to <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/lawsuit-lapd-officer-claims-garcetti-repeatedly-witnessed-sexual-harassment-did-nothing-to-stop-it">Fox LA,</a> which added that the lawsuit also alleges Garcetti was sitting directly next to Jacobs when Jacobs would massage Garza’s shoulder and say, “You’re so strong; I love my LAPD officers.”
The lawsuit states that Garza left Garcetti’s detail “because of the continual touchings, comments, and vulgar behavior directed at him by Jacobs and silently condoned by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles.”
In April 2018, Garcetti <a href="https://www.lamayor.org/mayor-garcetti-signs-executive-directive-improve-reporting-and-investigation-harassment-and">signed an executive directive</a> to &#8220;improve reporting and investigation of harassment and discrimination.&#8221; He stated, “Everyone in Los Angeles has the right to feel safe in their workplace. City Hall must set an example for L.A.’s entire workforce, by making a systemic shift in how we handle sexual harassment and discrimination reporting.”
The directive <a href="https://www.lamayor.org/sites/g/files/wph446/f/page/file/ED%2023%20-%20Harassment%20and%20Discrimination.pdf">asserted</a>, &#8220;The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released the Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace, a report that estimates that 90 percent of incidents of harassment do not result in formal complaints, indicating that nationwide, these incidents may be more prevalent than statistics would suggest. Victims of harassment and discrimination face considerable barriers to filing formal complaints due to fear of blame, disbelief or retaliation. As a City, we must administer policies and practices that prevent harassment and discrimination, as well as support those who wish to report their experiences.&#8221;
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One of the leading art curators in the nation resigned from his job after allegedly stating at a recent staff meeting, “Don&#8217;t worry, we will definitely still continue to collect white artists.&#8221;
Gary Garrels, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), was targeted by a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/xsfm0ma-we-are-calling-for-the-resignation-of-sfmoma-senior-curator-gary-garrels?utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=custom_url&amp;recruited_by_id=ccbfb0e0-c184-11ea-a7b3-1fafb4e4eb7c">petition</a> that stated, &#8220;Gary&#8217;s removal from SFMOMA is non-negotiable. Considering his lengthy tenure at this institution, we ask just how long have his toxic white supremacist beliefs regarding race and equity directed his position curating the content of the museum?&#8221;
“The petitioners cite few examples of anything even approaching bad behavior from Garrels,” wrote Robby Soave at <a href="https://reason.com/2020/07/14/gary-garrels-san-francisco-museum-modern-art-racism/">Reason</a>, adding, “Their sole complaint is that he allegedly concluded a presentation on how to diversify the museum&#8217;s holdings by saying, ‘don&#8217;t worry, we will definitely still continue to collect white artists.’&#8221;
<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gary-garrels-departure-sfmoma-1893964">Artnet.com</a> reported, “At the meeting, Garrels said that the museum could not avoid collecting the work of white men, which would amount to ‘reverse discrimination.’” Although he ultimately stepped down, Garrels protested, &#8220;I do not believe I have ever said that it is important to collect the art of white men. I have said that it is important that we do not exclude consideration of the art of white men.&#8221;
Garrels also wrote, “I want to offer my personal and sincere apology to every one of you. I realized almost as soon as I used the term ‘reverse discrimination’ that this is an offensive term and was an extremely poor choice of words on my part. I am very sorry at how upsetting these words were to many staff.”
“Garrels recently <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sfmoma-protest-letter-1202692108/">became the target of criticism</a> after it emerged that he (as well as the museum’s director) had received no-interest home loans from the museum, which some saw as emblematic of its unequal treatment of employees. (Garells’s loan was worth $500,000.),&#8221; Artnet.com noted.
But Garrels also auctioned off a Rothko painting for $50.1 million to fund work by female artists, artists of color, and LGBTQ+ artists.
&#8220;Garrels served as chief curator in the department of drawings and curator in the department of painting and sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Numerous shows he curated for the MOMA include the acclaimed retrospectives of Brice Marden (2006) and Dieter Roth (2004). Moreover, he had tenures as senior curator at the WalkerArtCenter, Minneapolis and as director of programs at the Dia Art Foundation, New York,&#8221; <a href="https://flash---art.com/2008/05/san-francisco-gary-garrels-appointed-at-sfmoma/">FlashArt</a> reported in 2008.
SFMOMA was in the news in early June: “A former employee, Taylor Brandon, has accused the museum of silencing her criticism in a comment on its image of a Glenn Ligon work SFMOMA posted over the weekend. The museum disabled comments on the post after Brandon called it a ‘cop out,’ arguing the institution has not done enough to support black employees internally and naming some of its upper management. The museum has since reopened comments on the post and added its own statement apologizing, but maintains that Brandon’s post violated Instagram’s terms of service by naming individuals,” Artnet <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-june-3-2020-1877811">reported.</a>
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A prominent museum curator resigned after he was accused of &quot;white supremacy&quot; for saying that he&#39;d still collect some art from white men. This is what constitutes &quot;white supremacy&quot; in our country of lunatics. <a href="https://t.co/bzcXxE36jk">https://t.co/bzcXxE36jk</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1283101684848365568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, Andrew Sullivan, a former editor of the New Republic and currently a writer-at-large for New York Magazine, announced he will leave the magazine at the end of this week.
Sullivan issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1283100444865290240">Twitter thread</a> in which he wrote:
<blockquote>This will be my last week at New York Magazine. I’m sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly improving my work. I’m also proud of the essays and columns I wrote at NYM &#8211; some of which will be published in a collection of my writing scheduled for next year. The underlying reasons for the split are pretty self-evident, and I’ll be discussing the broader questions involved in my last column this Friday. I&#8217;ve been preparing for this eventuality, and the column will continue elsewhere. See you on Friday, when I&#8217;ll detail some exciting news.</blockquote>
On Tuesday, noting Bari Weiss’ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">blistering resignation letter</a> to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger in which she delineated the hostile environment she had to endure at the Times, Sullivan tweeted, “The mob bullied and harassed a young woman for thoughtcrimes. And her editors stood by and watched.”
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The mob bullied and harassed a young woman for thoughtcrimes. And her editors stood by and watched. <a href="https://t.co/P4cNBvpgI4">https://t.co/P4cNBvpgI4</a>
&mdash; Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) <a href="https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1283091489904459776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In mid-June, Sullivan published a <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-is-there-still-room-for-debate.html">column</a> in which he disputed the current narrative that believes, as Sullivan wrote, “America is systemically racist, and a white-supremacist project from the start.” Sullivan, who was born in the United Kingdom but later became an American citizen, countered, “There is truth in it, truth that it’s incumbent on us to understand more deeply and empathize with more thoroughly. But there is also an awful amount of truth it ignores or elides or simply denies. It sees America as in its essence not about freedom but oppression. It argues, in fact, that all the ideals about individual liberty, religious freedom, limited government, and the equality of all human beings were always a falsehood to cover for and justify and entrench the enslavement of human beings under the fiction of race.”
Sullivan continued, “This view of the world certainly has ‘moral clarity.’ What it lacks is moral complexity. No country can be so reduced to one single prism and damned because of it. American society has far more complexity and history has far more contingency than can be jammed into this rubric … a country that actively seeks immigrants who are now 82 percent nonwhite is not primarily defined by white supremacy… Nor is a country where nonwhite immigrants are fast <a href="https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/10/income-and-wealth-in-the-united-states-an-overview-of-data">catching up</a> with whites in income and where some minority groups<a href="https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2018/demo/p60-263/figure1.pdf"> now outearn</a> whites.”
He concluded:
<blockquote>“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values,” President Kennedy once said. “For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” Let’s keep that market open. Let’s not be intimidated by those who want it closed.</blockquote>
New York Magazine editor-in-chief David Haskell responded to Sullivan’s news by claiming he and Sullivan agreed that Sullivan was not “the right match” for the magazine. Haskell stated, “I will continue to push us to publish work that challenges the liberal assumptions of much of our readership. But publishing conservative commentary, or critiques of liberalism and the left, is difficult to get right, and thoughtful, well-meaning people can come to different conclusions about it …”
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&mdash; Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1283116719591038978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Andrew Sullivan, Former Editor Of The New Republic

Andrew Sullivan Announces He’s Quitting New York Magazine

Andrew Sullivan

Bari Weiss

New York Magazine

On Monday, a Seattle business owner issued a public apology for her dreadlocks after she was vilified on social media.
Rachel Marshall, founder of Rachel’s Ginger Beer in Seattle, responded on Instagram to critics who viewed her dreadlocks as cultural appropriation.
One critic <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQ_N__ARbE/">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Seattle, we gotta talk. @rachelrgb owns <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rgbsoda/">@rgbsoda</a> here in Seattle with multiple locations. She is a white woman with dreadlocks and allegedly gives her product to cops (the people brutalizing her customer base) for free. It has always confused me that we have seen this woman speak at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cherrybombe/">@cherrybombe</a> and cozy up regularly with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lindaderschang/">@lindaderschang</a>(owner of multiple restaurants here in Seattle) and no one has confronted her about how her choice to willfully appropriate Black hairstyling is highly problematic.
We aren’t in a post-racial utopia. And there is no federal law to protect Black people from being penalized for their natural or protective hairstyling. Hell, we are still trying to convince everyone Black Lives Matter. So, until racial equity is achieved in wealth, politics, education and work, white people should not be wearing dreads out of love, solidarity and respect for Black people. At least, this is my current understanding.</blockquote>
Another wrote: “I was trying to find this post for so long after first seeing it! I’m glad I found it again – sounds like a boycott is appropriate.”
Marshall, founder of Rachel’s Ginger Beer in Seattle, <a href="https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1282863293653123072">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>hello everyone, its rachel: i have come to understand — far too belatedly — that my hairstyle is harmful. It is clear that I have been stubbornly resistant, and I sincerely apologize to those I hurt. I am deeply sorry for the pain I caused to members of the african-american community, who have been and still are discriminated against &amp; mistreated for having dreadlocks, and I’m so sorry that it took so long to admit and address my mistake. I have an appointment to remove my dreadlocks, and more broadly, am committed to earnestly listening to and learn from the voices and lived-experiences different from my own. I never want to cause any harm.
Going forward, I will work in consultation with diversity and equity representatives to ensure my companies’ policies, practices and actions align with our intention to maintain a fair, equitable and enjoyable workplace for everyone. I commit to doing better, as an individual and with my companies, and to being more responsive to feedback in the future. I thank the people who have taken the time to express their concerns and help me learn.</blockquote>
The argument over dreadlocks goes back years, as many people in the black community regard it as an important part of their cultural heritage while other people point out that many ancient cultures, including the Celts and Vikings, wore their hair in dreadlocks.
“Dating as far back as 2500 B.C., <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/">The Vedas</a>, Hinduism’s oldest scriptures, depict the Hindu God Shiva wearing locs or ‘jaTaa’ in the Sanskrit language, according to Dr. Bert Ashe’s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Dreadlock-Chronicles-Bert-Ashe/dp/1932841962">Twisted: My Dreadlocks Chronicles</a>,” <a href="https://www.ebony.com/style/history-dreadlocks/">Ebony.com</a> noted, adding, “‘Dreadlocks can be traced to just about every civilization in history,’ says Chimere Faulk, an Atlanta-based natural hair stylist and owner of <a href="http://www.drlocs.com/">Dr. Locs</a>. ‘No matter the race, you will find a connection to having dreadlocks for spiritual reasons.’”
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Dreadlocks

Seattle Business Owner Issues Public Apology For Wearing Dreadlocks

Cultural Appropriation

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Bari Weiss, the New York Times writer and editor whose independent views in the Opinion section made her a thorn in the side of The New York Times’ leftist editorial staff, is leaving the paper.
Weiss issued an open letter that was addressed to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger in which she notes that after the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the paper hired her as part of an effort to understand the perspective of American citizens who didn’t share the paper’s views.
Weiss cites the numerous voices she had brought to the Times over the last four years, among whom were many people who have spoken out against brutal, tyrannical regimes.
But then she continues with these blistering paragraphs:
<blockquote>But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.</blockquote>
Weiss notes the alleged abuse she has taken for her views, writing, “ … some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly ‘inclusive’ one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”
She throws down the gauntlet at the publisher: “I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.”
More: &#8220;The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people. This is a galaxy in which, to choose just a few recent examples, the Soviet space program is lauded for its &#8216;diversity&#8217;; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.&#8221;
A Times spokesperson sent <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay47q/bari-weiss-is-leaving-the-new-york-times?utm_content=1594738085&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=VICE_twitter">Vice</a> a statement from Kathleen Kingsbury, acting editorial page editor, which stated:
<blockquote>We appreciate the many contributions that Bari made to Times Opinion. I’m personally committed to ensuring that The Times continues to publish voices, experiences and viewpoints from across the political spectrum in the Opinion report. We see every day how impactful and important that approach is, especially through the outsized influence The Times’s opinion journalism has on the national conversation.</blockquote>
Weiss’ <a href="https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter">full letter</a> is below:
<blockquote>Dear A.G.,
It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.
I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming.
I was honored to be part of that effort, led by James Bennet. I am proud of my work as a writer and as an editor. Among those I helped bring to our pages: the Venezuelan dissident Wuilly Arteaga; the Iranian chess champion Dorsa Derakhshani; and the Hong Kong Christian democrat Derek Lam. Also: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Masih Alinejad, Zaina Arafat, Elna Baker, Rachael Denhollander, Matti Friedman, Nick Gillespie, Heather Heying, Randall Kennedy, Julius Krein, Monica Lewinsky, Glenn Loury, Jesse Singal, Ali Soufan, Chloe Valdary, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Wesley Yang, and many others.
But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.
My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.
There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong.
I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.
Part of me wishes I could say that my experience was unique. But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times. Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world? And so self-censorship has become the norm.
What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity. If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.
Op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an editor or a writer in serious trouble, if not fired. If a piece is perceived as likely to inspire backlash internally or on social media, the editor or writer avoids pitching it. If she feels strongly enough to suggest it, she is quickly steered to safer ground. And if, every now and then, she succeeds in getting a piece published that does not explicitly promote progressive causes, it happens only after every line is carefully massaged, negotiated and caveated.
It took the paper two days and two jobs to say that the Tom Cotton op-ed “fell short of our standards.” We attached an editor’s note on a travel story about Jaffa shortly after it was published because it “failed to touch on important aspects of Jaffa’s makeup and its history.” But there is still none appended to Cheryl Strayed’s fawning interview with the writer Alice Walker, a proud anti-Semite who believes in lizard Illuminati.
The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people. This is a galaxy in which, to choose just a few recent examples, the Soviet space program is lauded for its “diversity”; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.
Even now, I am confident that most people at The Times do not hold these views. Yet they are cowed by those who do. Why? Perhaps because they believe the ultimate goal is righteous. Perhaps because they believe that they will be granted protection if they nod along as the coin of our realm—language—is degraded in service to an ever-shifting laundry list of right causes. Perhaps because there are millions of unemployed people in this country and they feel lucky to have a job in a contracting industry.
Or perhaps it is because they know that, nowadays, standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits. It puts a target on your back. Too wise to post on Slack, they write to me privately about the “new McCarthyism” that has taken root at the paper of record.
All this bodes ill, especially for independent-minded young writers and editors paying close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers. Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.
For these young writers and editors, there is one consolation. As places like The Times and other once-great journalistic institutions betray their standards and lose sight of their principles, Americans still hunger for news that is accurate, opinions that are vital, and debate that is sincere. I hear from these people every day. “An independent press is not a liberal ideal or a progressive ideal or a democratic ideal. It’s an American ideal,” you said a few years ago. I couldn’t agree more. America is a great country that deserves a great newspaper.
None of this means that some of the most talented journalists in the world don’t still labor for this newspaper. They do, which is what makes the illiberal environment especially heartbreaking. I will be, as ever, a dedicated reader of their work. But I can no longer do the work that you brought me here to do—the work that Adolph Ochs described in that famous 1896 statement: “to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.”
Ochs’s idea is one of the best I’ve encountered. And I’ve always comforted myself with the notion that the best ideas win out. But ideas cannot win on their own. They need a voice. They need a hearing. Above all, they must be backed by people willing to live by them.
Sincerely,
Bari</blockquote>
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The New York Times Co. Post An 82 Percent Decline In 2nd Quarter Profi

Gadfly Bari Weiss Quits New York Times, Savages Them: If You ‘Speak Your Mind … You’ll Be Hung Out To Dry’

New York Times

Over the weekend, an activist got a rude awakening near the Justice Center in Portland when he opened the door of a car that was stationary on the street.
The driver leaped out of the car, executed a perfect leg-sweep takedown, then crouched over the supine activist, thundering at him, “Don’t you EVER, EVER come into my vehicle again! Do you understand me?!”
As the other suddenly frightened members of the group, identified as Antifa, scurried away, one calling out from a safe distance, “Well, get the f*** out of here,&#8221; the driver continued yelling at the supine man, “Do you understand me? Get up!”
The supine man protested, “I wasn’t trying to do anything.”
The driver was having none of it, yelling, “Get up!”
As he climbed back in his car and closed the door, the other activists, suddenly more courageous, started taunting the driver: “Get the f*** out of here!”
“That’s on video!” one yelled. “What was that?!” another asked.
Then, one of the members of the group made a shocking revelation: “He’s got arrows in the back of his car. He’s got a bag of bows! He’s got arrows in his car. Hey, we need a bunch of people down here now! Bow and arrows! Let’s take a picture of his license plate.”
Video of the incident has circulated online:
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Over the weekend, masked antifa in Portland opened a black man’s car door during a violent protest. Watch how he responded to them: <a href="https://t.co/p8gNADCkGM">pic.twitter.com/p8gNADCkGM</a>
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The absolute best thing in this video is all the other pastys run off like roaches when that dude hits the concrete. <a href="https://t.co/3kBD7LCqoy">https://t.co/3kBD7LCqoy</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1282756167408611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This video is awesome for so many reasons. He executed a fantastic leg-sweep take down, and then they freaked out because of a bow and arrow. 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/WcsU8ycITq">pic.twitter.com/WcsU8ycITq</a>
&mdash; Matthew Betley (@MatthewBetley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewBetley/status/1282760907047735298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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They want to be the only one with weapons.
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-claims-anti-fascist-group-playing-major-role-in-portland-unrest">The Daily Wire</a> noted, the Seattle Times reported Monday on the actions of a self-styled &#8220;anti-fascist&#8221; group operating in the area:
<blockquote>A report in the <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/meet-the-youth-liberation-front-the-militant-group-promoting-a-marathon-of-angry-portland-protests/">Seattle Times</a> claims that an &#8220;anti-fascist&#8221; group, the Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front, is behind a month-long period of violent unrest in downtown Portland, Oregon, and is supplying and arming protesters who have staged nightly attacks on law enforcement officials in an effort to emancipate and occupy a federal courthouse.</blockquote>
The Times stated that authorities are investigating the group, which the Times described as “emerging as a persistent militant voice” in the riots in Portland.
The Times wrote:
<blockquote>For the Youth Liberation Front’s anonymous leaders, these protests are part of the revolution. They are resolutely anti-capitalist and anti-fascist, and express disdain for those who work for reform within what they view as a failing political system …  three of their leaders, one of whom identified himself as still in high school, said they were spurred to activism over a range of issues that included climate change, law enforcement misconduct and the rise of right-wing hate groups.</blockquote>
“The group’s leaders remain anonymous, and its Twitter page urges community members to join them in the streets while also commenting in real time about what is unfolding,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/anti-fascist-teenagers-seeking-revolution-behind-continued-portland-riots">Washington Examiner</a> reported.
Last Friday, acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/president-trump-weighs-in-on-portland-protests/283-705d9747-6505-40e0-9f22-fc977123d2a7">commented on</a> the protests in Portland. &#8220;I think what we see in Portland is really a smaller example of what we see around the country regarding some of the civil unrest and the attacks on law enforcement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had to send in additional individuals. We&#8217;re making arrests. But there has been violence, there&#8217;s been assaults on federal law enforcement officers. And it really just shouldn&#8217;t occur. We should have more support of the local police there.&#8221;
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Black Lives Matter protests continue in Portland

WATCH: Activist Rips Open Door Of Citizen’s Car. Citizen Leaps Out, Flattens Him.

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Portland

On Monday morning, a man splashed red paint over the Black Lives Matter mural painted on the street in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Fifth Avenue, the same mural that Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-suggests-ban-on-public-gatherings-like-parades-or-fairs-black-lives-matter-protests-are-different?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">helped paint last Thursday</a> as he yelled, “We are saying Black Lives Matter in New York City and Black Lives Matter in the United States of America! Let’s show Donald Trump what he does not understand; let’s paint it right in front of his building for him!”
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Have you ever seen a more useless politician than Bill de Blasio?
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With shootings <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-shootings-video">soaring</a> in his city and the growing cries for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/01/new-york-city-budget-billion-nypd-defund-police/5354307002/">defunding the police</a> affecting the city, de Blasio made sure his list of priorities included making sure that the paint was removed from the mural as soon as possible, sending out a group of workers as he tweeted, “To whoever vandalized our mural on 5thAvenue: nice try. @NYC_DOT has already fixed it. The #BlackLivesMatter movement is more than words, and it can’t be undone.”
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To whoever vandalized our mural on 5th Avenue: nice try. <a href="https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYC_DOT</a> has already fixed it. 
The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> movement is more than words, and it can’t be undone. <a href="https://t.co/nlYTALCWxJ">pic.twitter.com/nlYTALCWxJ</a>
&mdash; Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1282798688943955969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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ABC News, which obtained a <a href="https://abc7ny.com/trump-tower-black-lives-matter-mural-vandalized-red-paint-in-nyc/6315320/">copy of the video</a> showing the man splashing the paint, reported, “The suspect was described as a white male wearing a black hat and black T-shirt who fled westbound on West 56th Street.”
Last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-suggests-ban-on-public-gatherings-like-parades-or-fairs-black-lives-matter-protests-are-different?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">appearing on CNN</a> with host Wolf Blitzer, de Blasio took aim at President Trump, who had said that the mural “denigrated” 5thAvenue. De Blasio <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pure-racism-mayor-bill-de-blasio-rips-trump-for-denouncing-nycs-black-lives-matter-mural-in-front-of-trump-tower/">called Trump’s remarks</a> about the mural “pure racism,” stating that the mural was “liberating” 5thAvenue:
<blockquote>De Blasio: Wolf, it was such an important message. The people of this city believe black lives matter, and we wanted to send that message to our whole city, but to our whole nation. And in fact, here was an opportunity for the President of the United States to show respect for the fact that that’s what we value here. And what did he do? He literally tweeted that writing “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue would “denigrate the luxury of that avenue.” That is pure racism. That is acting like an acknowledgment of the value of black people is somehow belittling, when in fact what we’re trying to do is lift up people who have built this city and built America and haven’t been given their respect. And it can’t just be words, Wolf, it has to be actions.
So we’re taking resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs. We’re acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down. We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it. But the president, rather than having a chance to acknowledge America’s original sin, he literally made it worse by suggesting that honoring black people on Fifth Avenue would somehow make it less valuable or luxurious. I gotta tell you, people are outraged by that, but more importantly, they’re speaking out, and folks today felt jubilant and triumphant. We were not denigrating Fifth Avenue; we were liberating Fifth Avenue by putting those crucial words right there in front of President Trump’s building.</blockquote>
De Blasio&#8217;s focus on the street mural amid the wave of violent crime in the city prompted blowback from commentators online:
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I’m sure this will be of great comfort to the family mourning their one year-old son and grandson tonight. <a href="https://t.co/hNIwVuibjo">https://t.co/hNIwVuibjo</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1282849592158105600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Heya glad you fixed your painting. Any thought on the 4 kids shot over the weekend? <a href="https://t.co/faCtUu0yzu">https://t.co/faCtUu0yzu</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1282804572960899072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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You make David Dinkins look like <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RudyGiuliani</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZWrHqlb2eJ">https://t.co/ZWrHqlb2eJ</a>
&mdash; Larry O&#39;Connor (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1282805726486892544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Massive surge in violent crime and this dolt is busy promoting murals to an unashamedly anti-police, neo-Marxist group. <a href="https://t.co/XJWr88yXub">https://t.co/XJWr88yXub</a>
&mdash; Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1282849565238890496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Really impressive turnaround. You guys couldn&#39;t have gotten to that any faster if it had been a lock on a Jewish neighborhood playground. <a href="https://t.co/YsqqJ6N0EK">https://t.co/YsqqJ6N0EK</a>
&mdash; Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href="https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1282807537708957700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter Mural Painted On Street In Front Of Trump Tower

Paint Splashed On De Blasio’s BLM Mural. With Shootings Soaring, He Makes Sure It’s Fixed ASAP.

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On Monday, the U.S. Conference of Mayors published a letter in which they backed the idea of Democrats to create a reparations commission so the idea of slavery reparations to 41 million black Americans could be examined.
The letter, signed on behalf of the mayors by Louisville mayor Greg Fischer, the president of the organization, was addressed to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who had submitted bills in their respective houses to create a reparations commission.
The letter stated:
<blockquote>I am pleased to share with you that last week at the Conference’s 88th Annual Meeting, the nation’s mayors unanimously passed a resolution I sponsored in support of the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (H.R. 40/S. 1083). We recognize and support your legislation as a concrete first step in our larger reckoning as a nation, and a next step to guide the actions of both federal and local leaders who have promised to do better by our Black residents. Our support of your bicameral legislation is not just an endorsement – it is a resolution.
We have resolved to do better for our Black residents by promoting equal rights and opportunity through the implementation of policy reforms at the local level, as well as through our advocacy for action at the federal level … . We are committed to doing our role in local government to disrupt systemic racism, which inhibits the realization of a nation of liberty, prosperity, and justice for all. Thank you for your tireless advocacy on behalf of our cities. We are proud to echo your calls to address centuries of racial injustice and inequities in America, and the nation’s mayors stand ready to support and amplify your efforts.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/mayors-back-reparations-could-cost-6-2-quadrillion-151m-per-descendant">The Washington Examiner</a> noted, a study <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0034644620926516">published in The Review of Black Political Economy</a> theorized how much the bill for reparations would be, writing:
<blockquote>The total debt in 2018 would be US$6.202 quadrillion, divided by 40,909,233 Black non-Hispanic descendants of the enslaved would result in a total reparations payment per descendant of US$151.63 million, and the per capita debt for all 327,167,434 American residents would be US $18.96 million, with the net per capita reparations amounting to US$132.67 million per descendant in 2018.</blockquote>
In April 2019, Booker introduced a bill to create a group to study the payment of slavery reparations. Booker said, &#8220;This bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed.&#8221;
Booker’s bill was a “Senate companion to a bill introduced in the House of Representatives in January by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, which if passed into law would set up a commission to study the impact of slavery and continued discrimination against black Americans and make recommendations on reparation proposals for the descendants of slaves,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/booker-introduces-senate-bill-for-slavery-reparations">Fox News</a> reported.
Jackson Lee said, “The commission aims to study the impact of slavery and continuing discrimination against African-Americans, resulting directly and indirectly from slavery to segregation to the desegregation process and the present day. The commission would also make recommendations concerning any form of apology and compensation to begin the long delayed process of atonement for slavery.”
<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Party_affiliation_of_the_mayors_of_the_100_largest_cities">Ballotpedia</a> has noted, “Democratic mayors oversaw 64 of the 100 largest cities at the beginning of 2020, 61 at the start of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Partisanship_in_United_States_municipal_elections_(2019)">2019</a>, 63 at the start of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Partisanship_in_United_States_municipal_elections_(2018)">2018</a>, 64 at the beginning of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Partisanship_in_United_States_municipal_elections,_2017">2017</a>, and 67 at the start of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Partisanship_in_United_States_mayoral_elections_(2016)">2016</a>.” The U.S. Conference of Mayors is comprised of mayors from cities with populations of 30,000 or more.
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USA, South Carolina, Charleston, Close up of gate of old slave market

U.S. Conference Of Mayors Backs Democrats’ Plan For Slavery Reparations Commission

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On Monday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-nyc-crime-surge-maybe-due-to-people-being-scared-to-pay-their-rent-dont-have-jobs">had stated</a> that the “uptick in crime” in New York “has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent, and so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money so you maybe have to, they’re put in a position where they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night.” McEnany responded succinctly, “That is preposterous.”
McEnanay also ripped Rep. Ilhan Omar for her remarks about police in which she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq__vGy4xsk">called</a>  police &#8220;cancer,&#8221; firing back, “This is not how we should be talking about our heroes.”
The subject arose after a reporter asked about Democrats wanting to defund the police. The reporter asked, “If you will expand on the difference between this time last month and now, when it comes to framing the discussion about law enforcement — last month, the President hosted a law enforcement roundtable, and at that roundtable, he said that he would not support defunding the police.  And yet, one month later, we still have Democrat cities doing so — disbanding their police, defunding the police.  How does the White House feel it should frame the debate now, with regards to defunding the police, so that a reasonable discussion can be had with these Democrat cities who are trying to do so?”
McEnany answered: “Yeah, it’s a very good question.  We know that in Los Angeles, when they announced they would be defunding their police department by 150 million, they basically, immediately after, saw a 250 percent increase in homicides.  When you have people out there, like Representative Ilhan Omar, saying, ‘We have to completely &#8216;dismantle the police&#8217; and police are &#8216;cancer,&#8217; this is not how we should be talking about our heroes.”
McEnany then turned to Ocasio-Cortez: “You have, most egregious of all, really, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying, &#8216;Defund[ing] the police means defund[ing] the police.&#8217; She criticized, of course, the announcement of $1.5 billion being taken down from NYPD. And this weekend, you know, when faced with — there were 28 shootings in New York, a 600 percent increase from this time last year — you have Representative Ocasio-Cortez saying this is just because people are trying to get food with their families.  That is preposterous.&#8221;
McEnany continued, “The reality is 63 percent of Americans in this country fear that criticism of our police departments will lead to no public safety in their streets, and 69 percent of black Americans.  This is a real issue when you call our police ‘cancer,’ when you talk about dismantling them.”
She concluded:
<blockquote>The two officers ambushed this weekend, one of them — Officer Chavez’s daughter wrote a very touching tribute online.  She said, “Words cannot describe the pain I’m in, but I’m glad my dad is at peace.  You were an amazing man and anyone who ever came across you knew that.  I’m going to miss you so much.  You died doing what you loved most.  You died a hero.”  And those touching words were written by Savannah Chavez, and I know she received vile and outrageous comments online that were absolutely atrocious for her touching sentiment to her dad.
I want Savannah to know: Your dad is a hero.  His police department should never be defunded because most of our police officers are good, hardworking men and women, and heroes — much like Savannah’s dad.  We’ll be praying for you, Savannah.</blockquote>
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WATCH: McEnany Rips Ilhan Omar On Police, AOC On Crime

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Speaking on &#8220;Fox Report Weekend,&#8221; Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at The Hoover Institution and <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas">professor and Chief of Neuroradiology</a> at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 until 2012, surmised that the spike in coronavirus cases around the southwestern United States could be attributed to two factors: crowds of protesters and people traveling back and forth across the U.S. Mexico border:
Atlas propounded:
<blockquote>The unwritten sort of story here is also why are all these cases exploding, particularly in the border counties? When you look in the southern counties of California, Arizona and the bordering counties of Texas — with the Mexico border — these are where most of these cases are really exploding. And then you look at the Mexico map and in Mexico, that&#8217;s where their cases are. Their cases are in the northern border zone states. And it turns out the timeline here correlates much more to the Mexico timeline of increasing cases than anything else.</blockquote>
He continued, “When you really look closely at these so-called re-opening policies, whether it&#8217;s in Georgia or Florida or Texas, you know, we didn&#8217;t really see a big correlation of cases and hospitalizations from that. That&#8217;s really not true. That&#8217;s sort of some sloppy thinking, I think, again. We really have to look closely at why these things are happening.”
Atlas pointed to the enormous surge in coronavirus cases in California, where the lockdown that was implemented was more severe than many states and yet Los Angeles County <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-09/los-angeles-critical-juncture-coronavirus-surge-continues-to-worsen">experienced a massive surge.</a> Atlas noted, “By the way, California didn&#8217;t really reopen. Yet they have cases coming up. Why is that? I mean, that&#8217;s because these cases don&#8217;t really correlate to that. They correlate mainly to two things — the big thousands and thousands of people with protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming. That&#8217;s a setup to spread cases. And also when you look at the analyses of the border counties, there&#8217;s a tremendous amount of cases coming over the border and exchanging with families in the northern Mexico states.”
<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/black-lives-matter-protests-didnt-contribute-to-covid19-surge">Healthline</a> had a differing perspective on whether the protests caused spikes in the coronavirus: &#8220;A <a class="content-link css-5r4717" href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nber.org%2Fpapers%2Fw27408&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdmills%40healthline.com%7C66a26a806ec9430f6f9108d8235bba5c%7C4289d6102cfd46218c9644a1518ddb0a%7C0%7C0%7C637298224183356005&amp;sdata=Tgg71dIKxXG74GSdt2EaVeg6b7MaoXQVc1eQn%2BLqB%2Fk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">paper</a> looking at virus data from protests between May 26 and June 20, found &#8216;no evidence that urban protests reignited COVID-19 case growth during the more than three weeks following protest onset.&#8217; &#8216;We conclude that predictions of broad negative public health consequences of Black Lives Matter protests were far too narrowly conceived,&#8217; the authors of the National Bureau of Economic Research paper wrote.&#8221;
Atlas pointed out that the numbers coming in from southern states could be deceptive, asserting, “If you look more than just superficially at the number, when you look at Texas, and in their overcrowded situation, where they really have about 85-90% hospitals occupied, only 10-20% of the patients are COVID patients. When you look at Arizona, where they do have isolated hospitals that are having problems and when you look at the numbers, it’s really about 60% of the COVID-hospitalized patients don’t have symptoms from COVID- they’re COVID positive. That’s from their own website. When you look at Florida, we know a significant percentage also have COVID-positive testing, but not COVID.”
His advice? “So the real concern that I see right now is that there are hospitals getting crowded in their ICUs and this is clearly a concern. The crowding is from the reinstatement of regular medical care, which is actually very important. We have locked that down before and that policy kills people. So we don&#8217;t want to go back to that. The solution to this is really protect the high risk in a more diligent way than we are, the very highest-risk group. We have been very, very clear about that to people. The second part is increase the hospital capacity.&#8221;
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Black Lives Matter Holds Protest In Los Angeles After Death Of George Floyd

Hoover Institution Doctor: Spike In Virus In Southwest From Protests, Families Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border

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On Saturday, the National Rifle Association, possibly in response to the rioting and looting across the nation during the summer, issued a tweet describing the AR-15 as &#8220;the modern day musket.&#8221;
&#8220;The AR-15 is the modern day musket. An everyday gun for everyday citizens,&#8221; the tweet reads.
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The AR-15 is the modern day musket. An everyday gun for everyday citizens.
&mdash; NRA (@NRA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1282041621169819648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The tweet elicited support from gun rights advocates who felt that the necessity of protecting one’s home or business required arms strong enough to fend off possible attacks, while it engendered an incendiary response from gun control advocates, who lambasted the NRA and cited school shootings that were committed with the AR-15.
One prominent gun control activist, David Hogg, who was a student present at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a shooter killed 17 people and injured 17 others in February 2018, mocked the tweet.
&#8220;6 minutes 20 seconds Is all it took for the shooter at my high school to fire over 100 rounds from his AR-15 to shoot 34 people,&#8221; wrote Hogg. &#8220;In that same amount of time even the most trained person would have only been able to fire 18 rounds with a musket. Modern day musket my ass.&#8221;
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6 minutes 20 seconds Is all it took for the shooter at my high school to fire over 100 rounds from his AR-15 to shoot 34 people.
In that same amount of time even the most trained person would have only been able to fire 18 rounds with a musket. 
Modern day musket my ass <a href="https://t.co/ED2Tyxxdrc">https://t.co/ED2Tyxxdrc</a>
&mdash; David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1282388067714818049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hogg’s tweet appears to have incensed Juanita Broaddrick, who noted Hogg had made no public comment about a recent report regarding AR-15s.
&#8220;Where was your outrage when the leader of Chaz was handing out AR-15’s like candy?&#8221; she wrote.
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Where was your outrage when the leader of Chaz was handing out AR-15’s like candy? <a href="https://t.co/hwKoE3cT0y">https://t.co/hwKoE3cT0y</a>
&mdash; Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1282471587992735744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Video shows Raz Simone handing out a long rifle to another person inside the Seattle BLM “Autonomous Zone.” Guns, weapons and drugs are ubiquitous in and around the “no cop” zone. <a href="https://t.co/u9ZsS1YlZP">pic.twitter.com/u9ZsS1YlZP</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1272640687511494658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Independent reporter Any Ngo’s report of Simone&#8217;s actions was confirmed by <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/raz-simone-guns/">Snopes</a>.
<a href="https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/warlord-of-seattles-lawless-zone-hands-out-guns-from-his-tesla/news-story/7b749d67f83231efa16946233d8a116b">News.com.au</a> reported of the reputed leader in Seattle’s Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, Raz Simone:
<blockquote>… footage from the rapper’s live stream, which has been viewed almost 500,000 times on social media, shows Mr Simone handing out guns to strangers from the boot of his Tesla. The footage from June 10 – two days after the CHOP was established – shows him walking down the street holding one of the guns and two young masked men also holding the weapons. “We’re just being ready,” he says to the camera in the footage. “We’re not doing anything illegal.”</blockquote>
Initiative 594, passed in Washington state in 2014, <a href="https://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/finaltext_483.pdf">states</a>:
<blockquote>No person shall sell or transfer a firearm unless: 
(a) The person is a licensed dealer; 
(b) The purchaser or transferee is a licensed dealer; or 
(c) The requirements of subsection (3) of this section are met. (3) Where neither party to a prospective firearms transaction is a licensed dealer, the parties to the transaction shall complete the sale or transfer through a licensed dealer as follows:
(a) The seller or transferor shall deliver the firearm to a licensed dealer to process the sale or transfer as if it is selling or transferring the firearm from its inventory to the purchaser or transferee, except that the unlicensed seller or transferor may remove the firearm from the business premises of the licensed dealer while the background check is being conducted. If the seller or transferor removes the firearm from the business premises of the licensed dealer while the background check is being conducted, the purchaser or transferee and the seller or transferor shall return to the business premises of the licensed dealer and the seller or transferor shall again deliver the firearm to the licensed dealer prior to completing the sale or transfer.</blockquote>
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Candidates Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Hold Second Presidential Debate At Washington University

NRA: AR-15 ‘Modern Day Musket.’ David Hogg: ‘Musket My A**.’ Juanita Broaddrick Fires Off Question For Hogg.

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Iran is considering a deal with China that would enable Iran to receive billions of dollars in Chinese investments while Iran would sell China heavily discounted Iranian oil for the next quarter-century, according to a document obtained by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/asia/china-iran-trade-military-deal.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">The New York Times</a>,
The Trump administration has isolated the despotic Iranian theocratic regime with sanctions, economically crippling the the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism while other nations have been loath to support it.
But China appears to be willing to join Iran in opposition to the United States. According to the Times, the 18-page proposed agreement “also describes deepening military cooperation, potentially giving China a foothold in a region that has been a strategic preoccupation of the United States for decades.&#8221; The document reportedly &#8220;calls for joint training and exercises, joint research and weapons development and intelligence sharing.&#8221;
Last week, a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, Zhao Lijian, <a href="https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/t1795337.shtml">hinted</a> a deal might be pending. &#8220;China and Iran enjoy traditional friendship, and the two sides have been in communication on the development of bilateral relations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We stand ready to work with Iran to steadily advance practical cooperation.&#8221;
Although Iran’s Parliament has reportedly not discussed the document as yet in order to bestow its approval and is divided over the issue, if the Chinese persist and invest what is reportedly $400 billion in Iran, the Trump administration might impose more sanctions on Iran.
Two Iranian officials told the Times that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, approves of the deal.
A State Department spokesman responded, “The United States will continue to impose costs on Chinese companies that aid Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism … By allowing or encouraging Chinese companies to conduct sanctionable activities with the Iranian regime, the Chinese government is undermining its own stated goal of promoting stability and peace.”
The agreement would expedite China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), which has already enabled China to gain a foothold across central Asia. Some of the projects listed in the document include &#8220;free-trade zones in Maku, in northwestern Iran; in Abadan, where the Shatt al-Arab river flows into the Persian Gulf, and on the gulf island Qeshm,&#8221; the Times reports.
Other proposals include help building a 5G telecommunications network and use of the new Chinese Global Positioning System, Beidou.
But some critics within Iran are concerned about the deal as they worry that Iran may lose control in various areas, noting that Chinese deals across Africa and Asia have left the partner countries indebted to China, leaving them vulnerable. One area of particular concern is the group of proposed port facilities in Iran, one of which, near the Persian Gulf, has strategic importance for oil transportation, as well as the United States military, because the Navy’s Fifth Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain.
That control of the port facilities would join ports China has already built around the Indian Ocean, permitting China’s navy greater access to the area. China already has ports in Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
In fall 2019, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif went to China, where his counterpart, Wang Yi, <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/05/chinas-great-game-in-iran/">pledged</a> to invest $280 billion in Iranian oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors. As Maya Carlin noted in an op-ed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carlin-china-exploits-international-system-advance-maya-carlin">The Daily Wire</a>:
<blockquote>The PRC’s aggressive behavior in the South China Sea and <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/30/china-targets-africa-with-debt-trap-diplomacy-and-military-expansion/">takeover</a> of strategic ports in Africa under the guise of the BRI is reflective of the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s hegemonic ambitions. The U.S. patrols that routinely counter China’s sovereignty claims over the South China Sea are often aggressively intercepted by Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army aircraft and vessels. China’s militarization of this body of water is just one of many predatory strategies the Chinese Communist Party uses to further its global ambitions.
At the core of PRC President Xi Jinping’s BRI project, furthermore, is his utilization of &#8220;debt-trap diplomacy.&#8221; Under &#8220;debt-trap diplomacy,&#8221; Beijing provides business loans to countries and when those countries become unable to reimburse the loans, Beijing moves in and demands control of critical bases, ports, or strategic resources, depending on the underlying location.</blockquote>
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Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi Meets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Report: Iran Considering Deal That Could Give China Greater Influence, Military Presence In Middle East

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In late-June, Black Lives Matter activists marched through the posh area of Beverly Hills, California, yelling, “Abolish capitalism, now!”
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Black Lives Matter protesters in Beverley Hills, Cal. chant: “Abolish capitalism, now!” <a href="https://t.co/RgEdMfmyA1">pic.twitter.com/RgEdMfmyA1</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1276792358546239488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It appears that in Washington, D.C., at the Black Lives Matter Plaza, those activists are getting their wish, as a notice went out that starting Monday, no vendors, including the many vendors selling Black Lives Matter paraphernalia, would be permitted to set up shop in the area.
Justin Hinton of ABC News tweeted: “Vendors have set up shop along Black Lives Matter Plaza for what appears to be the last time. Someone with DCRA was passing out this flyer saying ‘agencies will begin active enforcement of vending regulations …’ starting Monday. There’s also a no-vending sign. @ABC7News.”
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Vendors have set up shop along Black Lives Matter Plaza for what appears to be the last time. Someone with DCRA was passing out this flyer saying “agencies will begin active enforcement of vending regulations&#8230;” starting Monday. There’s also a no-vending sign <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC7News</a> <a href="https://t.co/su7IFJh9tv">pic.twitter.com/su7IFJh9tv</a>
&mdash; Justin Hinton (@justinhintontv) <a href="https://twitter.com/justinhintontv/status/1282373027846651906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ notice read:
<blockquote>Pursuant to DC DCMR Title 24 §502.1, §524.1and §524.2,the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA), District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and other District agencies will begin active enforcement of vending regulations in and around the following areas as of Monday, July 13, 2020.</blockquote>
The DCRA then listed the boundaries of the area in question before continuing, “Any person found vending on or after July 13, 2020, will be subject to fines/penalties in an amount up to $2,093.00.&#8221;
Some Black Lives Matter leaders have openly slammed capitalism or championed Marxism, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-issued-demands-urged-crowd-to-disrupt-white-capitalism-at-weekend-l-a-rally">The Daily Wire</a> reported in early-June:
<blockquote>Dr. Melina Abdullah, lead organizer of Black Lives Matter’s L.A. chapter, led call and response chants of “disrupt white capitalism,” a concept she believes is the root cause of police violence in America. Abdullah, who is also a college professor, went on to drop a string of expletives that seemingly foreshadowed what was to come after the rally would end.
“F*** the police,” she shouted into the megaphone. “F*** white capitalism. F*** The Grove. F*** 3rdand Fairfax. F*** Beverly Hills.” By nightfall, stores at every shopping district Abdullah mentioned had been vandalized and looted, and several LAPD cruisers in the Fairfax District were reportedly set <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-30/protesters-march-toward-beverly-hills-demanding-justice-for-george-floyd">on fire</a>.</blockquote>
Abdullah <a href="https://lasentinel.net/blacklivesmatters-blackxmas-is-not-just-about-buying-black-its-about-saving-black-lives.html">wrote</a> in 2018:
<blockquote>In addition to investing in our own communities, #BlackXmas and the emerging economic empowerment work of Black Lives Matter is intended as a divestment from White corporations that contribute to the murder, death, abuse, and exploitation of Black people in real terms. We assert that White capitalism is killing our people in very real terms, most starkly through its utilization of a violent, racist, police force to protect its quest for profit. …
Black people, we must be radical in our approach, daring to get to the root of it all. White capitalism requires racist, violent policing to protect it. In order to eliminate police violence, and the killings of our people at their hands, we must also target the economic systems that built it and rely on it.</blockquote>
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/">stated</a> of herself and co-founder Alicia Garza in 2015, &#8220;The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.&#8221;
H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/07/12/blm-plaza-declared-a-capitalism-free-zone-blm-vendors-hardest-hit/">Twitchy</a>
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Protesters Demonstrate In D.C. Against Death Of George Floyd By Police Officer In Minneapolis

Black Lives Matter Activists Want To ‘Abolish Capitalism.’ Vendors Selling BLM Merch Just Got Shut Down In Black Lives Matter Plaza.

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After it was reported on Sunday that President Trump had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-denies-federal-aid-request-from-minnesota-after-democrat-governor-mayor-fail-to-stop-damage-report-says">rejected the request</a> of Minnesota governor Tim Walz for $500 million to address damage incurred in his state from rioting following the death of George Floyd, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted that he was introducing legislation to make local governments liable to private property owners if the government deliberately withheld police protection.
Cruz wrote:
<blockquote>Minnesota Dems willfully allowed Minneapolis to burn &amp; then blamed the police whom they demonized. Now, they want the fed govt to pay the bill. I’m introducing legislation to make local govt liable to private property owners if officials deliberately withhold police protection.</blockquote>
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Minnesota Dems willfully allowed Minneapolis to burn &amp; then blamed the police whom they demonized. Now, they want the fed govt to pay the bill.
I’m introducing legislation to make local govt liable to private property owners if officials deliberately withhold police protection. <a href="https://t.co/fZZCYgekMI">https://t.co/fZZCYgekMI</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1282340910731321345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-denies-minnesota-governors-request-for-500-million-to-repair-damage-from-riots">The Washington Examiner</a> reported of Walz’s request: “Walz, a Democrat, requested that Trump declare Minnesota a ‘major disaster’ zone <a href="https://www.startribune.com/feds-deny-walz-s-request-for-aid-to-rebuild-after-riots/571715162/?fbclid=IwAR2rBFfzstFOy1h4ORU9tpNImwdc5lbTiZwdiz3tfeBUzpyVRp9wI8g1Evo">in a request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency</a> on July 2 after more than 1,500 buildings were damaged by looting and rioting in the wake of Floyd’s death, totaling over $500 million in damages.”
Walz’s office released a statement reading, “The Governor is disappointed that the federal government declined his request for financial support. As we navigate one of the most difficult periods in our state’s history, we look for support from our federal government to help us through,” as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-gov-waltz-responds-after-trump-rejects-500-million-bailout-ask-conservatives-rejoice">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Jenna Ellis, a senior legal advisor for Team Trump, said of Trump’s action: “Wise. You want to defund police and let the woke mob run wild, do it on your own dime, Gov. You should have asked the President for help BEFORE you incurred this much damage.”
Days after George Floyd died, and rioters ran rampant through the city of Minneapolis, the <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/04/they-have-lost-control-how-minneapolis-leaders-failed-to-stop-their-city-from-burning/">Twin Cities Pioneer Press</a> wrote of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey:
<blockquote>A close examination of the events, including interviews with more than two dozen elected officials, activists, business owners and residents, suggests at least some of the destruction resulted from a breakdown in governance. The mayor and other local leaders, many of them relatively new to their roles, failed to anticipate the intensity of the unrest or put together an effective plan to counter it.
Frey has struggled to regain the confidence of Minneapolis residents. He has been slammed by business owners for not doing enough to protect their property. He has been pilloried by the police for ordering the abandonment of the precinct house.</blockquote>
The Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct was evacuated in late-May after on <a href="https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minneapolis-mayor-ordered-evacuation-of-3rd-precinct-due-to-imminent-threat">order</a> from Frey to do so. Frey said he ordered the evacuation due to an &#8220;imminent&#8221; threat of danger. He stated that the “symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life, of our officers, or the public. We Could not risk serious injury to anyone.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-minneapolis-city-council-president-asked-who-to-call-if-someone-breaks-into-your-house-after-dismantling-police-says-step-back-check-your-privileg">Speaking</a> with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota in early June after the Minneapolis City Council had stated that it intended to “dismantle” the city’s police department, Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender was asked what a citizen should do if an intruder broke into their house in the middle of the night and there were no police to call. Bender suggested that the opportunity to call the police “comes from a place of privilege,” adding that those citizens should “step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.”
“Do you understand that the word ‘dismantle’ or ‘police-free’ make some people nervous?” Camerota asked. “For instance, what if in the middle of the night, my home is broken into? Who do I call?”
Bender answered, “Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.”
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Senate Judiciary Cmte Holds Hearing On Transnational Cartels And Border Security

Cruz To Introduce Legislation So Governments Withholding Police Protection Are Liable To Private Property Owners

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Protesters who were demonstrating in a crosswalk in St. Petersburg, Florida, were noted by the St. Petersburg Police Department because they refused to stop while a fire-rescue ambulance, which may not have had its lights and sirens on, was waiting to cross through the intersection.
The police department released a video of the incident in which the ambulance can be seen driving up behind a car waiting for the protesters, who were demonstrating in front of the St. Petersburg Police Department station, to let it through the intersection.
Police said the ambulance was attempting to get through the intersection; it can be seen in the video inching up to the car in front of it before the driver finally turns down another street.
“The entire length of the video is 39 seconds. During the incident, the fire-rescue vehicle does not appear to have lights and sirens on,” <a href="https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/protests/st-petersburg-protesters-fire-truck/67-1553a001-0683-4363-8b39-ab4a28930146">WTSP</a> noted, adding, “St. Pete Fire Rescue said the ambulance was not on an emergency call at the time.”
According to the St. Petersburg police, they have received 413 complaint calls to their Emergency Communications Center vis-à-vis protesters blocking traffic through July 7. They added, &#8220;This does not count the numerous phone calls and emails sent to individual police supervisors and officers and messages received through the department&#8217;s social media platforms.”
The police added that in the last three weeks almost 80 phone calls and emails have reached Mayor Rick Kriseman&#8217;s office regarding protesters blocking streets while the City Council got 15 complaints in the last 10 days.
On July 7, the police department announced on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StPetePD">Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>Reminder- Pedestrians Must Follow the Law Too!
Pedestrians</blockquote>
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The department added, “You could be fined $62.50.”
Florida Statute §316.2045 <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;URL=0300-0399/0316/Sections/0316.2045.html">states</a>, “It is unlawful for any person or persons willfully to obstruct the free, convenient, and normal use of any public street, highway, or road by impeding, hindering, stifling, retarding, or restraining traffic or passage thereon, by standing or approaching motor vehicles thereon, or by endangering the safe movement of vehicles or pedestrians traveling thereon; and any person or persons who violate the provisions of this subsection, upon conviction, shall be cited for a pedestrian violation, punishable as provided in chapter 318.&#8221;
RapidSOS <a href="https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/549701/Documents/RapidSOS_Outcomes_White_Paper_-_2015_4.pdf">notes</a>:
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Florida Police Release Video Of Protesters Blocking Crosswalk While Non-Emergency Ambulance Waited

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The Sergeants Benevolent Association in New York (SBA), responding to a New York City Council bill overwhelmingly passed in mid-June that would prosecute cops who use a chokehold whether intentionally or unintentionally, has released a video of a man getting a member of the NYPD in a headlock.
On July 1, two NYPD officers in the Bronx intended to disperse a crowd that had gathered. “The two cops — both of them Neighborhood Coordination Officers, tasked with tackling quality of life issues — were part of an NYPD initiative to discourage outdoor crowds, in hopes of minimizing the multiple people getting injured during individual shootings,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/12/nypd-cop-placed-in-headlock-while-trying-to-break-up-bronx-crowd/">the New York Post</a> reported.
The crowd reportedly would not disperse, prompting the cops to write a summons for one car that was double-parked. The car owner reportedly assumed that meant he could leave the car in place, allegedly telling the officers, “Well, now that you wrote the summons, I can park here for hours and hours.” But when the officers told him that his supposition was not true, the car owner got “combative,” according to sources for the Post.
Another man then got involved, getting an officer in a headlock as one bystander videotaping the incident allegedly called, “F*** him up! F*** him up!” and “They smoked you, p***y! You just got smoked, p***y!” The officer later needed staples for a gash on the head he incurred from the incident, a source told the Post.
The man who put the officer in a headlock is a known gang member who has been arrested 11 times on charges including gang assault and criminal possession of a loaded firearm and robbery, according to police. He turned himself in to police a week after the incident, according to law enforcement.
The video of the incident was used by the attorney of the man using the headlock to exonerate his client because it depicted the cop lunging at the suspect before their confrontation, according to the Post’s source, but the Post added, “But the video does not show what caused the cop to lunge — which was the suspect allegedly kicking down the street a body camera that had fallen off the uniform of one of the cops.”
The suspect was reportedly released without charges pending further investigation by the Bronx DA’s office, prompting an NYPD spokesperson to assert, “The NYPD was disappointed that the individual was not charged initially. The violence against the police officer speaks for itself. We are now in discussions with the District Attorney regarding the case.”
The SBA tweeted the video with the caption, “COREY JOHNSON your STUPID law is about to be signed by NYC STUPID Mayor it’s time you both take your community input &amp; grab these perps yourself.”
Video below: Caution: Strong language:
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COREY JOHNSON your STUPID law is about to be signed by NYC STUPID Mayor it’s time you both take your community input &amp; grab these perps yourself. <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IngrahamAngle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealCandaceO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyinNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoreyinNYC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JudgeJeanine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/w_terrence?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@w_terrence</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@charliekirk11</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JCats2013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JCats2013</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kristyswanson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kristyswanson</a> <a href="https://t.co/lHBqWI89st">pic.twitter.com/lHBqWI89st</a>
&mdash; SBA (@SBANYPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/SBANYPD/status/1282046880571154432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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One furious law enforcement source told the Post, “Putting a cop in a headlock could mean a death sentence if they lose control of their gun. A cop in a headlock can’t maintain weapons control.”
After the bill passed the council in mid-June, New York City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/18/city-council-approves-chokehold-ban-and-nypd-reforms/">stated</a>, “It’s insane. A police officer will be guilty even if there’s no intent. The bill was written by people who clearly have never been in a fight in their lives, never mind a fight for their life … The message to the NYPD is that it’s now better to take a hit for failure to take police action than take police action.”
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