Seattle Police Abandon Residents As Antifa Uses Twitter, Facebook To Organize Nationwide Protests

The Seattle Police Department announced on Friday that residents and business owners are essentially on their own, after the City Council banned the use of pepper spray and other 'less lethal tools' to disperse crowds.

"Simply put, the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd," reads a letter from Seattle Chief of Police, Carmen Best - who added that thanks to the City Council, "Seattle Police will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend."

And in anticipation of violent weekend protests coordinated over social media platforms (which ban conservatives for mean words), Seattle business and police have been boarding up.

Nationwide coordination

The Portland-based Pacific Northwest (PNW) Youth Liberation Front - which describes itself as a "decentralized network of autonomous youth collectives dedicated to direct action towards total liberation," has issued a call to action for other Antifa cells across the country on Saturday - calling it "J25" (July 25).

In a Facebook 'call to action,' the anarchist group writes:

The Federal Government has already waged war against Portland, which has been protesting everyday for 50 days straight, and now feds are going to war against protesters everywhere in an attempt to take control and snuff out the fire of this uprising. We must become more powerful than them.

Form an affinity group.

Coordinate an action.

Get tactical.

Mask up.

Bring a friend.

Show up.

-PNW Youth Liberation Front.

-Marin Youth Liberation Front.

-Tennessee Youth Liberation Front.

​​​​​​​-Direct Action Alliance.

-Maryland Youth Liberation Front.

-Olympia Youth Liberation Front

•Oakland action: 7:30pm, Grant Oscar Plaza.

•Tacoma action: July 24th, 2pm, tollefson plaza.

•Seattle: July 25th, 1pm, Pine and Broadway.

•Portland: July 25th, 8pm, Alberta Park.

•Salem: 6pm, Oregon State Capitol.

•New Jersey: at Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 12, 6pm.

•Washington DC: DuPoint circle, 6pm.

•Eugene, OR: 8:00pm, federal courthouse.

•Los Angeles: 4:30pm, LA city hall.

•Richmond, VA: July, 25th, location TBD.

•Las Vegas: Bellagio fountains, 7pm.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle-police-abandon-residents-antifa-uses-twitter-facebook-organize-nationwide

Morrison government ministers allowed to defy travel ban to fly to the US

Australia's foreign and defence ministers will become the first members of the government to leave Australia since the border closed.

Today, Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds will travel to Washington for annual talks with the US government, with "China" set to dominate discussions.

The Australian Ministers will meet face-to-face with US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington DC — a risky trip given the US has hit over four million COVID-19 cases.

The small delegation, which also includes Chief of the Defence Force, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) secretary Frances Adamson and Defence secretary Greg Moriarty, will have isolate for fourteen days when they return.

"And they'll be doing it on the basis of medical advice," Health Minister Greg Hunt said.

"The fact that they're meeting in the middle of the pandemic is important, and of course it will all be about China," Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told 9News.

"It's acceptable for both Washington and Canberra if we kind of to steer our own courses on this issue.

"It's not smart for Australia to look like we're just in American's coattails."

Before take-off, the ministers blasted Beijing for its coercive conduct in the South China Sea and its undermining of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong.

They also noted cyberattacks are on the rise — without once naming China.

Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Australia formally rejected Beijing's claims to islands in the crucial trading waters.

"Australia needs to defend the Australian national interest and we also need to stand up for international law," Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/morrison-government-ministers-allowed-to-defy-travel-ban-us-meeting-china/f6c95774-c6ed-43cf-aee1-cce4a13293bd

China's claim to South China Sea illegal, Australia says

Australia has joined the US in rejecting China's claims to key parts of the South China Sea.

The government has described China's actions in the South China Sea as inconsistent with international law in a statement to the United Nations today.

"There is no legal basis for China to draw straight baselines connecting the outermost points of maritime features or 'island groups' in the South China Sea," Australia's statement reads.

"Australia rejects China's claim to 'historic rights' or 'maritime rights and interests' as established in the 'long course of historical practice' in the South China Sea."

China claims the strategic waterway is its sovereign territory and since 2014, it has built artificial islands on reclaimed reefs and installed military bases on them.

The Australian government has previously maintained that it does not take sides in the dispute, making the statement a significant change in position.

The move comes as Defence and Foreign Ministers Linda Reynolds and Marise Payne leave for Washington tomorrow to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark Esper.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/chinas-claim-to-south-china-sea-illegal-australia-says/02f82b40-dc3d-4d72-ba32-25e2b3dcf3b8

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Trips of truth

Free press? Labour letter demands RT UK’s license gets REVOKED in light of ‘damning’ Russia report that gave NO examples or proof

An evidence-free parliamentary report accusing RT UK of being an instrument of ‘Russian influence’ in Britain is already being quoted as a pretext to ban the broadcaster, in a letter sent to Ofcom by a Labour shadow minister.

Labour MP Jo Stevens demanded that “Ofcom urgently reviews RT’s licence” and requested an urgent meeting with Dame Melanie Dawes of the regulatory agency to “discuss my concerns about the broadcaster,” in a letter sent Wednesday.

Stevens – signed as the Shadow secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport – said the review was needed given the “troubling revelations in the Russia report about the role of RT and Sputnik in spreading Kremlin-backed disinformation in the UK.”

The shadow secretary further claimed that the parliamentary report, released on Tuesday, “sets out in black and white” the issues OFCOM has supposedly already identified with RT, and “exposes the role RT plays in the much wider issue of Russian influence.”

Unfortunately for Stevens, the report does no such thing. When asked to provide an “egregious” example of the alleged Russian interference, committee members were unable to give “any, egregious or otherwise,” as noted by the BBC’s Andrew Neill.

The committee did not even cite any of the British intelligence agencies – indeed, it excoriated them for allegedly refusing to investigate the ‘Russian meddling’ the parliamentarians asserted as fact – but relied instead on “open-sourced reporting.”

In practice that translated to articles published in the media and testimonies from experts such as Christopher Steele of the debunked “Trump-Russia dossier” infamy, or ex-American financier Bill Browder, who’s reinvented himself as a human rights crusader after being charged in Russia with tax evasion.

Democrats in the US infamously blamed Russia for their loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, using Steele’s spurious dossier as evidence. Labour currently holds only 202 seats in the 650-member House of Commons as a result of their historic collapse in 2019.

OFCOM is a supposedly independent regulatory agency tasked with ensuring impartial reporting by media outlets operating in the UK, and this kind of pressure from a political party is highly unusual and improper.

https://www.rt.com/uk/495676-labour-stevens-letter-ofcom-rt/

Archbishop Viganò: ‘Heresy, sodomy, and corruption’ are trademark of ‘deep church’

'These three elements – heresy, sodomy, and corruption – are so recurrent that they are almost a trademark of the deep state and of the deep church'

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has pointed out three elements that have become what he calls the trademark of the deep Church: “heresy, sodomy, and corruption.”

In a new wide-ranging interview with Vatican expert Marco Tosatti (read full interview below), the Vatican whistleblower speaks about the deeper significance of the case of former Cardinal McCarrick in relation to the “doctrinal crisis” the Church is facing.

“There is a very strict relationship between the doctrinal crisis of the Church and the immorality of the clergy, that scandalously reaches up to the highest levels of the hierarchy. But it is also apparent that this crisis is being used by the ultra-progressive wing not only to impose a false morality together with a false doctrine, but also to irremediably discredit the Holy Church and the Papacy before the faithful and the world, through the action of its own leaders,” stated the Archbishop.

Viganò says that a “gay lobby” has “infiltrated into the Church and that is literally terrified that good pastors will shed light on the influence that it exercises in the Secretariat of State, in the Congregations of the Roman Curia, in the Dioceses, and over the entire Church.”

“Bergoglio has surrounded himself with compromised and thus blackmailed personalities, whom he has no qualms about getting rid of as soon as they risk compromising him in his media image,” he said.

Viganò said that “these three elements – heresy, sodomy, and corruption – are so recurrent that they are almost a trademark of the deep state and of the deep church.”

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Marco Tosatti’s introduction: The commitment of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America, to denounce the veil of silence and cover-ups in the management of abuse cases by members of the clergy, is well known. The spicy and annoyed response by the Vatican authorities – and in particular of various prelates – to the well-argued refutations of the combative prelate is also well known. In this interview, we investigate with His Excellency the developments in the case of former Cardinal McCarrick, also in light of a recent article at Church Militant entitled The McCarrick Bombshell. (1)

But before we get into the content of this article, let’s make a brief review. From February 21 to 24, 2019, a meeting was held in Rome of all of the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences on the topic of The Protection of Minors in the Church. (2) A few days earlier, on February 16, 2019, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced the dismissal from the clerical state of Theodore McCarrick, who was accused of other serious crimes, and added: “The Holy Father has recognized the definitive nature of this decision made in accord with law, rendering it a res iudicata (i.e., admitting of no further recourse).” (3)

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-heresy-sodomy-and-corruption-are-trademark-of-deep-church?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

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Abp. Viganò: This solemn affirmation is disavowed by the most emblematic case, the very case of Theodore McCarrick, and makes us think that other interests may have led to the decision to liquidate the matter through the administrative path, and, even more gravely, without the publication of the judicial acts.

Marco Tosatti: What are those other interests, in your opinion?

Abp. Viganò: They want to focus attention on the abuse of minors, moving it away from the clear and dutiful condemnation of the homosexual behaviors which are often the cause of these abuses. For Bergoglio and his entourage sodomy is not a sin that cries out for vengeance in the presence of God, as the Catechism teaches. Bergoglio’s words on this topic – and even more the actions and words of those who surround him – unfortunately confirm that an operation of legitimization of homosexuality is currently underway, and that prelates and theologians are carrying this discussion forward who have manifested without equivocation that they are unfaithful to Catholic teaching.

Cardinal Tobin himself – whose embarrassing messages on his cell phone speak for themselves (14) – has clearly stated that he does not agree with the condemnation of sodomy present in the Catechism, refusing to define homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered.” (15) And these statements follow Cardinal Tobin’s support for the book Building a Bridge by Father James Martin, S.J., that has the same content. Thus we find a cardinal who is a friend of McCarrick lined up in favor of the LGBT movements and the Jesuit whom Bergoglio appointed as a Consultor of the Secretariat for Communications of the Holy See, even inviting him to speak at the World Encounter of Families in Dublin in 2018 and receiving him in audience. (16)

Cardinal Cupich has expressed himself many times in favor of homosexuals, and during the Synod on Youth – to which he was sent to participate by direct appointment of the Pope without having been elected to represent the American bishops – the controversial theme of homosexual relations was inserted into the Instrumentum Laboris even though no group of young people had requested it. I recall, en passant, that Cupich was imposed on the See of Chicago by Bergoglio, against the opinion of the Nunciature.

The interests are therefore clearly those of the “gay lobby” that has infiltrated into the Church and that is literally terrified that good pastors will shed light on the influence that it exercises in the Secretariat of State, in the Congregations of the Roman Curia, in the Dioceses, and over the entire Church. The obscene, even sacrilegious homoerotic fresco that Archbishop Paglia commissioned for the cathedral of Terni (17) is an arrogant ideological manifesto that no Authority has ever censured or deplored; the excessive financial affairs of the Substitute of the Secretariat of State Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra (18) – tied to Cardinal Maradiaga (involved in the scandal of homosexual abuse by his auxiliary bishop, Juan José Pineda, without there being news of any ecclesiastical initiative against him) – and the very grave accusations de Sexto that weigh on him (19) and that I have amply denounced, (20) have not in any way interrupted his cursus honorum in the Vatican; the same holds for Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, (21) whom Bergoglio has promoted and, while a criminal trial is still pending, has recently reappointed as Assessor of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. (22) After the order to bring all the current accounts of the dioceses and religious congregations of the world to APSA, Zanchetta finds himself managing the finances of the Church (being able to boast in his own curriculum of having the authoritative diploma of an electrician) and being at the same time easily the object of internal and external blackmail. (23) And let’s not forget the work of Archbishop Ilson de Jesus Montanari, Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops, Secretary of the Sacred College and vice-Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, in the name of and on behalf of those who elevated him to the highest ranks of the Roman Curia as a reward for his fidelity.

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Abp. Viganò: If it is possible to shed light on this affair, this will happen despite the Vatican: the interests at stake are enormous and directly affect the very top of the Church, and not only for questions of a doctrinal, moral, or canonical nature, but also for political and diplomatic aspects that have seen the Holy See become the object of a coup d'état with the complicity of those who should have defended it in its sovereignty and independence. What did not succeed during the pontificate of Benedict XVI was brought to fruition after his resignation. How can we hope that the one who is indebted for his own election to McCarrick – who was one of the main proponents of the secret agreement with China – will be able to clarify a series of events that involve him personally, demonstrating the connivances with the Chinese dictatorship against Catholics faithful to the Holy See and perhaps also the responsibility of that regime for the resignation of Pope Benedict? How can we imagine that the murky events of Saint Gallen will become clear, when it was there that the conspirators organized the election of Bergoglio? And how can we believe that the Church will purify herself of the corruption and vice of her clerics and prelates, when they are the ones who have taken power and who are promoted to the highest levels in a web of complicity between heretics, perverts, and traitors?

The one who ought to investigate the scandals is heavily involved in the appointment, promotion, and protection of those who are guilty: Bergoglio has surrounded himself with compromised and thus blackmailed personalities, whom he has no qualms about getting rid of as soon as they risk compromising him in his media image.

Let’s not forget that the legitimization of homosexuality is part of the agenda of the New World Order – to which the Bergoglian church adheres openly and unconditionally – not only for its destabilizing value in the social body, but also because sodomy is the principal instrument with which the Enemy intends to destroy the Catholic priesthood, corrupting the souls of the Ministers of God.

For this reason, at least as far as what seems possible, the entire truth about McCarrick will never officially come to light.

Marco Tosatti: How can we respond to this corruption?

Abp. Viganò: Today what cannot be deferred is a joint action of those who are good – those who in my Open Letter to President Trump I defined Biblically as “the sons of Light” – in order to bring to light the complicities and crimes of those who make war on the Good so as to establish the New World Order. In this operation of truth and transparency, the role of the United States may be decisive, above all when those who should and could contribute from the Vatican practice a code of silence. As the Lord said, “I tell you that if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out.” (35)

But there is a more important aspect, of a spiritual nature. We must understand that the ecclesial crisis was caused by having wanted to remove the crown from the Church’s King, Our Lord: He must return to reign not only in our hearts and families but also in civil society and most of all in the Church. Oportet illum regnare. And along with the King of Kings, Our Lady must also reign, the Queen and Mother of the Church, which has culpably disobeyed her by not consecrating Russia to Her Immaculate Heart. This is my most sincere wish, to which I ask all people of good will to unite themselves.

• Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

22 July 2020

Saint Mary Magdalene

Official translation by Giuseppe Pellegrino

PART 3

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Clarence Page: Chicago’s ‘Dreadful’ Crime Rate Will Fall Thanks to Partnership with Feds

During the predictions segment of Friday’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page predicted that the “dreadful” rates of homicides and violent crimes in the city of Chicago will end up declining thanks to “a productive relationship” between the city and the federal government.

Page said, “I predict that Chicago’s dreadful homicide and violent crime rate will decline with a productive relationship between the U.S. and the feds — or I should say it’s between Chicago and the federal government. And President Trump will take credit for it, no matter what happens.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/25/clarence-page-chicagos-dreadful-crime-rate-will-fall-thanks-to-partnership-with-feds/

Justice denied

At the base of Mount Misery, developers are turning the site of Australia’s largest child abuse case into a housing estate.

Property searches give only a glimpse of how much money was made by the Catholic order that ran BoysTown, after it sold the land at Beaudesert, west of Brisbane.

Two years ago, just over a third of the site — where the former State funded and licensed boys home once stood — changed hands for $4.4 million.

hat sum would not cover the legal fees paid by abuse victims, much less the cost of four decades of abuse.

By 2017, the trustees for the De La Salle Brothers reported paying out almost $27 million in response to 219 credible abuse claims — the highest number against any church institution in Australia, and what a judge called “a Gulag right in our midst”.

And the controversy continues today, with survivors preparing to lodge new claims, arguing they were short-changed by both the Catholic order and the Queensland Government.

A lauded institution

As the last of the large-scale institutions for disadvantaged children in Queensland, BoysTown was once lauded for taking on disadvantaged youth.

More

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/boystown-abuse-survivors-justice-legal-action/12336012?nw=0

Monica Lewinsky Goes Viral on Twitter With Joke About Internship

Monica Lewinksy was an intern at the White House from 1995-1996. During this time she had an affair with President Bill Clinton which later led to his impeachment. Lewinsky, who is now an activist and TED talk speaker, has spoken about how she was demonised and bullied during the scandal.

Anti-bullying activist and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky went viral on Twitter after making light of her affair with former US President Bill Clinton.

On Friday an “I have a joke” trend started on Twitter, with users making jokes about their professions.

One user tweeted, “I have a Charles Manson joke and it kills,” to which Lewinsky responded, “I have an intern joke and it….nevermind.”

The tweet has received over 450,000 likes since it was written on Friday.

High profile Twitter users such as Mia Farrow commented on it, saying: “Monica wins the internet.”

Lewinsky, now 47, famously had an affair with President Clinton while she was an intern at the White House in 1995-1996.

This led to Clinton’s impeachment and was later referred to by the media as the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Lewinsky was 22 at the time, while Clinton was 49.

Clinton initially denied having the affair after it became known to the media in 1998, but later after Lewinsky produced DNA evidence he admitted in court to having a relationship with her that was “not appropriate.” Clinton was acquitted by the Senate.

In March, the former President was criticised for saying the affair was an outlet for him to manage his anxieties.

Earlier this month, Lewinsky also made a playful reference to the affair when comedian and writer Sarah Connor shared advice with younger generations.

Connor tweeted, “Make your mistakes now. Because by the time you're 40, you'll barely even remember them!

“And then you get to make the same mistakes all over again it's really fun.”

To which Lewinsky commented: “Uhhhmmmmmm.”

https://sputniknews.com/us/202007251079984006-monica-lewinsky-goes-viral-on-twitter-with-joke-about-internship/

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