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Anonymous ID: 58985f July 30, 2020, 6:56 a.m. No.10124553   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4604 >>4929

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8571451/Madeleine-McCann-investigators-resume-digging-German-allotment.html

 

Maddie suspect's 'secret cellar': Madeleine McCann police dig up basement beneath foundations of demolished building on Christian Brueckner's old allotment that has remained untouched since the year toddler vanished

 

Madeleine McCann investigators have found a hidden cellar at the German allotment where kidnapping suspect Christian Brueckner allegedly lived in 2007.

 

Police discovered the basement in the foundations of a building near Hanover which neighbours say was demolished in late 2007 or 2008, shortly after Brueckner left.

 

The cellar was not filled in when the building above it was torn down, meaning it could have been untouched since the year Madeleine vanished from her Praia da Luz holiday apartment in May 2007.

 

Detectives have been removing slabs of building materials in a two-day search of the vegetable garden, accompanied by specialist search dogs that look for dead bodies and computer equipment.

 

Officers were seen carrying large blue bags away from the site during the search on Wednesday.

 

Wolfgang Kossack, 73, who owns the plot next to Brueckner's former allotment, told MailOnline that Brueckner had lived off-grid at the site in 2007 and talked about planning his return to southern Europe.

 

Mr Kossack said he only realised the link to Brueckner this week when police started digging up the allotment, saying: 'I remembered his face from the pictures in the news. And I remember his van and his dogs. I had completely forgotten about him up until then.'

 

Last month a former friend of Brueckner reportedly claimed the kidnap suspect told him he had a cellar at a different property which he wanted to line with metal sheets 'like Josef Fritzl's'.

 

Brueckner - who is currently in jail in northern Germany - is suspected of killing Madeleine after she vanished in May 2007 - the same year that Brueckner lived at the allotment.

 

Local media says the search at the allotment is due to end tonight, but police have not revealed what they are looking for or whether they have found it.

Anonymous ID: 58985f July 30, 2020, 7:08 a.m. No.10124627   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4635 >>4692 >>4968

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>https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1288836772718432258

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html

 

==Together, You

Can Redeem the Soul

of Our Nation==

 

–Though I am gone, I urge you to

answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.–

 

By John Lewis

 

Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral. Editorial Page Editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote about this piece and Mr. Lewis’s legacy in Thursday’s edition of our Opinion Today newsletter.

 

July 30, 2020

 

While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.

 

That is why I had to visit Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, though I was admitted to the hospital the following day. I just had to see and feel it for myself that, after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on.

 

Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. He was 14 when he was killed, and I was only 15 years old at the time. I will never ever forget the moment when it became so clear that he could easily have been me. In those days, fear constrained us like an imaginary prison, and troubling thoughts of potential brutality committed for no understandable reason were the bars.

 

Though I was surrounded by two loving parents, plenty of brothers, sisters and cousins, their love could not protect me from the unholy oppression waiting just outside that family circle. Unchecked, unrestrained violence and government-sanctioned terror had the power to turn a simple stroll to the store for some Skittles or an innocent morning jog down a lonesome country road into a nightmare. If we are to survive as one unified nation, we must discover what so readily takes root in our hearts that could rob Mother Emanuel Church in South Carolina of her brightest and best, shoot unwitting concertgoers in Las Vegas and choke to death the hopes and dreams of a gifted violinist like Elijah McClain.

 

Like so many young people today, I was searching for a way out, or some might say a way in, and then I heard the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on an old radio. He was talking about the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence. He said we are all complicit when we tolerate injustice. He said it is not enough to say it will get better by and by. He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out. When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.

 

Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.

 

You must also study and learn the lessons of history because humanity has been involved in this soul-wrenching, existential struggle for a very long time. People on every continent have stood in your shoes, though decades and centuries before you. The truth does not change, and that is why the answers worked out long ago can help you find solutions to the challenges of our time. Continue to build union between movements stretching across the globe because we must put away our willingness to profit from the exploitation of others.

 

Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.

 

When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burdens of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.

 

John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death.

Anonymous ID: 58985f July 30, 2020, 7:12 a.m. No.10124663   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4674 >>4860 >>5053 >>5208

https://themissouritimes.com/soros-gets-involved-in-st-louis-circuit-attorney-race/

 

Rep. Gardner gets aid from Soros in St. Louis circuit attorney race

July 21, 2016

 

Mega-donor George Soros (right), who funded the ongoing Ferguson protests, has waded into the St. Louis City circuit attorney election, funding a television ad for state Rep. Kim Gardner (left). Gardner will compete with three others in the primary election Aug. 2.

 

At least one ad funded by by Soros’ Safety and Justice committee has been created for Gardner. The ad focuses on Gardner’s plan to Kim Gardner’s Plan to focus on mental health care for non-violent offenders, increase public accountability and to crack down on gang violence.

 

“Together, we can make St. Louis safe by being smart and tough on crime by reforming a broken system,” she says in the video.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-199NM0i8q0

 

Safety and Justice, which paid for the ad, reported $30,000 in contributions since it was formed April 21. In the July quarterly filings, it reported spending $26,700 on NGP VAN, a Washington-based liberal campaign consulting company and Gordon Loewen Research, a political, focused on progressive issues based in Minneapolis.

 

Wednesday, Gardner’s campaign reported a $67,693.23 in-kind contribution from Safety and Justice, likely related to the media buy.

 

So far, time for the ad has only been purchased on cable stations, totaling $52,000 on Charter Communications stations in St. Louis. The ads will run through the primary election.

 

This isn’t Soros’ first foray into a local prosecutor election over the past couple of years. He’s funded candidates in places as different as Houston, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; two races in Mississippi; Bossier City, Louisiana and Chicago.

 

According to the Los Angeles Times, Soros also funded multiple groups, including Safety and Justice California, to support the state’s Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014 and which reclassified possession of heroin, methamphetamine and other illegal drugs, and theft of $950 or less, as misdemeanors in California.

 

The goals of Proposition 47 coincide with the goals of the candidates Safety and Justice has supported — mainly reforming the criminal justice system and moving away from jail time for low-level offenses.

 

However, some of Soros’ projects have earned him backlash from critics who say those groups extended the Ferguson unrest.

 

“In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations,” wrote Washington Times columnist Kelly Riddell in 2015. “The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.”

 

Local police groups have noticed the connection as well and were upset with Gardner’s acceptance of the donation. Joe Steiger, president of the St. Louis Police Officers’ Association, said the contrbution was a “problem”

 

“It’s kind of insulting to our members, if I’m being completely honest with you,” he said. “Out all races the circuit attorney race probably affects the police the most and for her to take money from out of state activists is a problem for us.”

 

“It caused problems, not only for police officers, but put peaceful protesters in harm’s way,” he said referencing Soros’ money connection to the Ferguson unrest. “It’s just a problem to be accepting money from someone who’s promoting that type of activity.”

 

Soros’ injection into the race in St. Louis could have a significant impact. His $67,000 contribution to Gardner more than doubles her available cash on hand, which was $63,000 in her July filing report.

 

She still sits behind Mary Pat Carl, currently the lead homicide prosecutor in the city, who reported $145,000 cash on hand last week. Gardner is also competing against Patrick Hamacher ($57,000 cash on hand) and Steve Harmon ($19,000 cash on hand).