Literal Battle Zones Are Erupting All Over America (WARNING: VIOLENT CONTENT)

Part of the “new normal” in America seems to be battle zones erupting across the nation. I’m not just talking about protests, but full-on sieges that may last for days, weeks, or even months. Some of these began due to acts of police brutality, while others have taken on lives of their own with wholesale looting and violence.

The United States of America we see today is incredibly different from the one we saw at the beginning of the year. We’ve been wracked by a pandemic, a subsequent economic catastrophe, and massive, widespread civil unrest.

Let’s take a look at these pockets of violent behavior. (WARNING: This article contains videos with violent content.)

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Yesterday, police officers shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back as he tried to enter the vehicle where his children were. Blake is in stable condition and expected to live, but the shocking video has spread virally across social media. You can see the cell phone footage below. (Violence Warning)

Police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father, several times in the back today in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was getting into his car after apparently breaking up a fight between two women. His three sons were inside the car and witnessed a cop shooting their father! He’s pic.twitter.com/3maVuX5qYk

— Prince (@Prince31590353) August 24, 2020

Kenosha, a city in Wisconsin of about one hundred thousand people, quickly erupted in protest of the shooting. (Never think these things only happen in large cities – here is an inside look at the Ferguson riots of 2014.)

Escape the cities… https://t.co/iTuuObjJQq

— TheMadPrepper (@TheMadPrepper) August 24, 2020

Kenosha, Wisconsin

pic.twitter.com/2xC3Hady3y

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 24, 2020

Protests, riots, and looting are expected to continue in Kenosha.

Denver, Colorado

Not only is Colorado currently beset by wildfires, but it’s also plagued with violent civil unrest. Over the weekend, rioters set out to destroy property in downtown Denver.

Antifa are smashing the windows of every storefront in Denver, Colorado. pic.twitter.com/mhw2xxeSjw

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 23, 2020

One Twitter user reported that a group of protesters had gathered in front of a police department in Denver, and that a van pulled up to hand out shields.

A protest in front of Denver Police headquarters is small but has escalated quickly. About 50 protesters are here right now, many with shields and helmets. A van pulled up and passed out shields to protesters. Protesters are at a standoff with a SWAT team now #9News pic.twitter.com/XlzmcenfG9

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

The Denver “protesters” called for the abolition of police.

A group of about 40 people protested outside the Denver Police Department headquarters Saturday night and marched through streets in the area, blocking traffic. Some clashed with officers, set fires and broke windows…

…Chemical agents were deployed to control the crowd and eight people were taken into custody…

…Copter4 was over 13th and Delaware when people in the group were breaking windows.

People in the group set two small fires, which were quickly extinguished. (source)

More

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/battle-zones-america/

Qatar envoy arrives in Gaza with $30 million in cash seeking to placate Hamas

Arson balloons from Gaza spark 29 fires in Israel Tuesday; Airborne bomb launched by terrorists explodes in basketball court in Netivot, as escalation continues

A Qatari envoy arrived in the Gaza Strip late Tuesday bringing $30 million in cash, seeking to ease the Israel-Hamas tensions that have led to daily arson balloon and rocket attacks on Israel and IDF reprisal strikes.

Mohammed el-Emadi arrived with $30 million to help the territory of two million people, half of whom live under the poverty line, sources close to the envoy told AFP.

He was expected to meet Hamas officials during the night.

His arrival comes a day after the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq al-Awsat reported that the head of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, visited Qatar this week in a bid to secure a ceasefire agreement with the Hamas terror group.

VIDEO showing the arrival of Qatari envoy with the aid money in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/KEpq9VtK4s

— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 25, 2020

Hamas is under immense international pressure from Qatar, Egypt, and UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov to halt its attacks, alongside pressure from the Gazan public, which is getting only three to four hours of electricity per day after becoming used to more than three times that amount. The electricity shortages are a result of Israel stopping fuel imports in response to the violence, which led a Gaza power plant to shut down.

The uptick in violence along the border is thought to be linked to demands for increased cash transfers from Qatar to the Strip, where around 60 percent of the population is unemployed.

In recent days the IDF has responded to dozens of daily arson balloons and intermittent rocket fire with near-nightly reprisal strikes on Hamas targets in the Strip, including underground infrastructure, weapons production facilities, cement factories used to make parts for tunnels, and observation posts along the border.

On Monday, a senior Hamas official told the pro-Hamas channel Palestine Today that the surge in violence would continue until the terror group’s demands on lifting the blockade were met.

“It is our right to break this siege,” Ismail Radwan said.

Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade on Gaza since Hamas ousted the Palestinian Authority in 2007. The blockade is meant to prevent Hamas from importing weapons with which to attacking Israel, as well as material used to construct fortifications and underground tunnels. Israel also frequently tightens restrictions on the Gaza Strip to put pressure on Hamas or in response to violence emanating from it.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/qatar-envoy-arrives-in-gaza-with-30-million-in-cash-seeking-to-placate-hamas/

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-live-updates-august-26-sydney-hotel-quarantine-victoria-border-bubble-covid19/589b74ac-0b2d-4f07-93e3-4cd62fc7b2b2#post=9a8b785f-f37b-4690-aaef-9fbb03245cf2

Can anyone reach this site?

http://www.sana.sy/en/

Syrian state media might be off air

Iranian Axis Of Resistance Falls Victim To US-Israeli Covert Campaign

A large explosion rocked the Arab Gas Pipeline in Syria on August 24 causing a blackout in the country’s capital Damascus and multiple other cities and towns.

The explosion occurred between the towns of Ad Dumayr and Adra the a result of a ‘terrorist attack’, according to Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Ghanem. The incident led to a pressure drop and cascading shutdowns of the country’s power stations. Authorities almost immediately extinguished the fire, but as of August 25 morning blackouts were still seen in many towns and even in the capital, with some power restored to hospitals and government buildings.

This is the sixth time that stretch of the gas pipeline has been hit by an explosion over the course of the Syrian conflict, Kharboutli added, refusing to speculate about possible causes of the latest blast. The US envoy for Syrian affairs James Jeffrey insisted that the explosion was likely an attack by ISIS.

Earlier, ISIS claimed responsibility for several drone and rocket attacks on Syria’s oil and gas infrastructure in the Homs desert. In April, a mysterious explosion also erupted on a natural gas pipeline near al-Shadadi in the province of al-Hasakah. This area is in the hands of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces and the US-led coalition. Then, some sources also accused ISIS cells operating in the area. However, there are many more than just one suspect.

In January, Damascus said divers had planted explosives on offshore pipelines belonging to the Banias refinery on the Mediterranean coast, but the damage had not halted operations. This attack was likely conducted by Israeli forces.

The terrorist attack in Syria took place two days after a top Iranian nuclear official has for the first time described the July 2nd fire at the Natanz nuclear facility as sabotage.

“The explosion at the Natanz nuclear facility was a result of sabotage operations,” Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said adding that “Security authorities will reveal in due time the reason behind the blast.”

The fire at Natanz caused severe damage, setting back the development of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges. On top of this, Iran was targeted by a series of strange explosions and fires at various military and industrial sites across the country.

These developments together with the attacks in Syria and the blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, raise more and more concerns that Iran and countries from the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance became a target of a major Israeli-led or even US covert destabilization campaign.

https://southfront.org/iranian-axis-of-resistance-falls-victim/

Woman Reportedly Sues Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Son for ‘Mass, Public Sexual Harassment’

In late February, 19-year-old Dana Cassidy reportedly vowed to file a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, for “mass sexual harassment” of her after he tweeted a photo of her and allegedly hinted that she was having an affair with opposition leader Benny Gantz. She later started a GoFundMe campaign.

Dana Cassidy, an Israeli animal rights activist, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, for allegedly being responsible for a “mass, public sexual harassment” of her after he allegedly hinted that she was having an affair with opposition leader Benny Gantz, according to The Times of Israel.

The 19-year-old woman is reportedly seeking compensation of NIS 500,000 ($147,000) from Yair Netanyahu over his 23 February tweet of a photo of her, 10 days before the Knesset elections, insinuating a relationship between her and his father’s main rival, Benny Gantz, who is now serving as the country’s Alternate Prime Minister and Defence Minister.

Cassidy claimed in her filing that the PM’s son “described a clear, sexual, intimate and romantic relationship between the plaintiff and Gantz — something that has no ground in reality.”

Her legal brief also states that Yair chose her randomly as part of his attempts to harm his father’s political rival ahead of the election.

“The defendant didn’t consider the plaintiff, her family or her friends and loved ones. According to the defendant, any person can be trampled on because the end justifies the means, however wrong they are,” according to the lawsuit, which is said to consist of 15 pages, accompanied by 109 pages of appendices.

On February 23, Yair tweeted allegations of affairs by Gantz. Later in the day, he posted a screenshot from Cassidy’s Twitter page questioning, “Does anyone know who this is?”

מישהו יודע מי זאת? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/nWtzbkMZ46

— Yair Netanyahu 🇮🇱 (@YairNetanyahu) February 23, 2020

In response to the PM's son’s tweet, a reportedly pro-Likud Twitter account posted a selfie of Cassidy with Gantz, captioned by the text: “He invited me for tea and it turned me on”, according to The Times of Israel.

כל אחד והכוס תה שלו. pic.twitter.com/gahHe0nps9

— חדשות אמת (@TrueNewsIL) February 23, 2020

Cassidy's legal brief claims that she has never written the words captioned in the photo. She detailed that the selfie was taken during a visit by Gantz to a farm in which she was employed by Blue and White MK Miki Haimovitch, a leader of campaigns for environmental protection and animal rights.

Cassidy later vowed to take legal action against Netanyahu's son, and created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for her lawsuit.

The Netanyahu son quickly characterized the court filing as “a ridiculous, delusional and baseless SLAPP suit whose sole purpose is to win publicity and which must be rejected by law”, cited by The Times of Israel.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008261080278009-woman-reportedly-sues-israeli-pm-netanyahus-son-for-mass-public-sexual-harassment/

NY Politician Introduces Bill to Criminalize Sale & Manufacture of Firearms

A politician in Brooklyn New York thinks he has come up with a brilliant solution to the crime wave currently sweeping through the Big Apple: Criminalize the sale and manufacture of firearms. New York City (among other urban areas controlled by anti-gun politicians) is facing a return to the bad old days of rising violent crime. It doesn’t take a sociologist or criminologist to see why.

Any reasonable person paying attention to these explosive trends could have predicted the deadly outcomes, as evidenced by the overwhelming demand for defensive firearms, particularly among first-time and non-traditional gun owners. But the politicians whose jurisdictions are descending into anarchy have a different explanation: you, the law-abiding citizen, and your guns.

That’s why New York State Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) introduced a bill last week intended to criminalize the sale and manufacture of firearms.

Specifically, the bill would amend New York State’s public nuisance law to allow the state to prosecute the “sale or manufacture of products” as an activity considered to illegally or unreasonably “create or maintain a condition which endangers the safety or health of a considerable number of persons.”

While the language doesn’t mention firearms specifically, Myrie made clear in comments to the New York Daily News that guns are exactly the “products” he has in mind. “Every illegal gun on the street was a legally purchased gun at one time,” he said. Myrie continued: “In the wake of a gun violence epidemic plaguing the city, state, and nation, we have a duty to hold all responsible parties accountable.”

Yet while the bill amends a criminal statute, Myrie made clear that what he really hopes to do is to create a work-around to the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in order to empower gun control advocates to sue the American firearms industry into oblivion in civil court.

The Daily News article notes the impetus for the bill was a New York City lawsuit that sought to hold several firearms companies liable for creating a public nuisance because unaffiliated criminals were using their products to harm third parties. That theory, however, did not hold up court.

A New York Times article on the lawsuit quotes none other than Michael Bloomberg – America’s biggest spending firearm prohibitionist – as characterizing the nine-year legal assault on firearm manufacturers as “one part of our strategy to fight against illegal guns.”

https://patriotrising.com/ny-politician-introduces-bill-to-criminalize-sale-manufacture-of-firearms/

BLM Leader – Rioting And Violence Are By Design To Abolish The Police

Shaun King, a major figure in Black Lives Matter, has revealed that the movement’s efforts to promote violence in American cities are designed to push forward with a “complete dismantling of American policing.”

King made the comments on social media on the same day riots took place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police officers multiple times.

Video of the incident appears to show Blake persistently ignoring commands from Wisconsin police officers, actually brawling with them, and then lunging into his vehicle on the driver’s side.

King, who has over one million followers on Twitter, pushed for violence in the streets.

“I’m not going to call for peace. We’ve tried peace. For years. Y’all don’t understand that language,” he threatened. “We are calling for a complete dismantling of American policing.”

“It’s NOT broken. It was built to work this way. And mayhem is the consequence,” King added. “You earned it.”

Scam artist/Bernie Sanders surrogate Shaun King is using his large platform to openly call for rioting and violence in American cities. pic.twitter.com/OOJZwGjWxY

— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) August 24, 2020

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/blm-leader-rioting-and-violence-are-by-design-to-abolish-the-police/?utm_campaign=TPI08252020afternoon&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1d09840caddec138a6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

The Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America’s Elites

Those of us that immigrated to the United States from various hellholes over the decades find one characteristic of the current American populace astonishing and disturbing. That is the breathtaking level of gullibility and ignorance of many ostensibly well-educated native-born Americans.

Over the years, this growing naïveté and obliviousness has been a source of amusement and head-shaking incredulity. However, these traits have now become so dominant among an ever-growing segment of the upper classes within American society that the future of this nation as a prosperous and freedom loving country is in serious jeopardy. The potential descent into the pitfalls of collectivism of the nation that has done more than any country in world history to lift vast swaths of mankind out of poverty and despair would precipitate a catastrophe not only for the American people but for the rest of humanity.

There is little doubt that a major contributing factor to the ever-growing ignorance of much of the native-born citizenry can be traced back to Marxist leaning education establishment that has been increasingly focused, for the past 45 years, on indoctrination not education. In the 1960’s and 70’s the United States had the best educated young people on the planet ranking at or near the top in math, reading and science. However, by 2015 out of 70 developed countries throughout the world, American 15-year-olds ranked 38th in math, 24th in reading and 24th in science.

Concurrent with the precipitous drop in these core subjects, curricula previously used for over a century in secondary and higher education, designed to foster appreciation of the Judeo-Christian basis of the nation’s founding as well as the development of reason and independent thinking by the students, was deliberately abandoned. Most notably at the nation’s colleges and universities. In its place was an emphasis on revisionist American history and so-called self-esteem and its corollary, victimhood. All with an eye toward an eventual fundamental transformation of the United States.

While this calamitous makeover of the education establishment is a major underlying factor in the growth of gullibility among the ostensibly well-educated, there are other dynamics at play as well.

Four generations of Americans have been born since this nation experienced a catastrophic national crisis and attendant hardships. Over those eighty years of unprecedented peace and prosperity a mindset of “it could never happen here” coupled with “the omnipotent entity known as government will take care of any problems” took root among the upper classes. This overall viewpoint essentially replaced a belief in God with a reliance on man and his institutions.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/the_breathtaking_ignorance_and_gullibility_of_americas_elites.html

Ohio Republicans draft articles of impeachment against GOP governor over COVID-19 orders

Gov. Mike DeWine reacts to the news by saying, 'It's a free country … have at it.'

A handful of Republican Ohio state lawmakers have signed on to legislation calling for the impeachment of GOP Gov. Mike DeWine, saying he violated the law and stomped on citizens' civil liberties with his executive orders aimed at stemming the spread of COVID-19.

Cleveland.com reported Monday that state Rep. John Becker (R) introduced a resolution containing 10 articles of impeachment against DeWine, claiming the governor — among other things — "violated the separation of powers by having the Ohio Department of Health issue orders outside the scope of its authority that are "tantamount to creating new laws."

The impeachment documents also accuse DeWine of violating citizens' civil liberties by issuing a stay-at-home order for Ohioans, and violating the First Amendment by mandating that masks be worn in houses of worship.

The outlet pointed to a website set up to promote the group and track which lawmakers are in the support of the measure. GOP Reps. Candice Keller, A. Nino Vitale, and Paul Zeltwanger had signed on as co-sponsors as of this writing.

According to The Hill, "The resolution also claims that "people are more likely to infect themselves with COVID-19" if they're wearing a mask, something that experts have disputed as "dangerous nonsense."

But the Republicans calling for DeWine to be impeached are facing an uphill battle. WYSO-FM noted that "A Quinnipiac poll in June showed DeWine's approval rating at an all-time high of 75%."

A DeWine spokesman said of the lawmakers' initiative, "Governor DeWine is focused on saving lives during the pandemic. He is focused on helping the economy and getting Ohioans back to work. That is what he is focused on. Not this."

What did the governor say?

The governor reacted to the legislators' actions on Tuesday, saying, "I have a great deal of respect for the four leaders," while reminding members of the General Assembly that "every legislator has my cell phone [number]" and can reach out directly when they have concerns.

"If there are others in the legislature who want to spend their time on drawing up resolutions and filing articles," DeWine added, "Ya know, look, it's a free country. If that's how they want to spend their time, I would just say to them: Have at it."

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) responds to the Republican legislators calling for his impeachment over COVID public safety… https://t.co/xSZXtBWVEJ

— The Recount (@The Recount)1598385205.0

https://www.theblaze.com/news/ready-ohio-republicans-draft-articles-of-impeachment-against-gop-governor-over-covid-19-orders