SVR computer analysis of Derek Chauvin booking photos compared with photos and video at incident scene (all above) fails to find any eye, facial, nose or hair matches.
One Man Killed After National Guard, Louisville Police Return Fire On Crowd
A man was reportedly killed early Monday morning after police officers and the Kentucky National Guard were allegedly shot at while trying to break up protesters. His name was David McAtee, according to local WDRB reporter Lexie Ratterman.
“Last night at around 12 a.m., it is our understanding that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Kentucky National Guard were dispatched to 26th and Broadway,” Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement on Twitter. “While working to disperse a crowd, LMPD [Louisville Metro Police Department] and the Kentucky National Guard were fired upon.”
“It has been a very difficult four days for our city,” Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said during a press briefing. “I think it’s very, very clear that many people do not trust the police. That is an issue that we’re going to have to work on and work through for a long time.”
According to WLKY, it is unclear if David McAtee, the man who reportedly died, was the person who fired at officers and police are currently interviewing witnesses.
“He didn’t hurt nobody, didn’t deserve to get shot down like he did,” McAtee’s sister said to WAVE 3 News. “I don’t know what happened, but whatever happened here, my brother didn’t do nothing wrong. He was an innocent person, and innocent bystander. He did not deserve this at all.”
She also said that the crowd gathered at the scene of the shooting did not relate to the protests, according to WAVE 3 News. McAtee’s sister claimed that the group meets outside of Yaya’s BBQ Shack next door to Dino’s Food Market every Sunday for food and music. David McAtee is reportedly the owner of Yaya’s BBQ Shack and was helping to serve food to the crowd.
“Both LMPD and National Guard members returned fire,” said Conrad. “We are collecting video from the incident and expect to release what we have sometime (Monday).”
The city of Louisville was under a “dusk to dawn” curfew Sunday night into Monday morning, according to NBC News. The curfew began at 9 p.m. Sunday night.
This is the fourth day of protests and riots in Louisville after the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Taylor was killed March 13 in her own home while police were serving a “no-knock” search warrant. She was a 26-year-old EMT who was working to help coronavirus victims.
Floyd was arrested May 25 by police officers for alleged forgery. A bystander’s video shows an officer pinning Floyd to the ground and putting his knee on Floyd’s neck.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/01/national-guard-louisville-police-department-fire-shot-crowd-david-mcatee/
PICS: Antifa, Black Lives Matter Flood London Despite Lockdown, Police Do Little
Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other activists have met little resistance from the authorities after flooding the streets of London in an unauthorised protest, despite the British coronavirus regulations.
Activists at the protests, which were supposedly prompted by the death of a black man while he was being taken into custody by a white police officer — who has now been charged with third-degree murder and negligent manslaughter — on the other side of Atlantic, carried placards bearing slogans such as ‘THE UK IS NOT INNOCENT’ and the ominous ‘NO LIVES MATTER UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER’.
No permission was sought to hold the demonstrations, which shut down huge swathes of Britain’s hyper-diverse capital, and activists showed no regard for the draconian coronavirus lockdown regulations which have hitherto been enforced with enthusiasm by the authorities — but the police allowed the mass law-breaking to take place largely unopposed, with the Associated Press reporting: “[P]rotesters ignored UK government rules banning crowds because of the pandemic. Police didn’t stop them.”
Indeed, the Metropolitan Police Force — despite graffiti by activists suggesting the ‘MET POLICE SERVE TRUMP’ — merely tweeted that they were “aware of demonstrators gathering”, that “Officers are on scene & engaging with those in attendance”, and “An appropriate policing plan is in place.”
The Met later reveal that “Three arrests were [made] for breaches of COVID legislation and two were [made] for assault on police”, followed by “six further arrests [for] offences from possession of an offensive weapon to assault on police, obstructing a public carriageway to breaches of COVID legislation” — but this would appear to be only a tiny fraction of offenders.
There is no real indication that the authorities intend to crack down on the activists after the fact, despite the real threat of their reigniting the fading coronavirus epidemic in the capital — indeed, anti-trump city mayor Sadiq Khan appeared to offer tacit support to the activists by tweeting that the “death of George Floyd has rightly ignited fury and anguish not just in the USA but around the world.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/31/antifa-black-lives-matter-flood-london-despite-lockdown-police-do-little/
FSB
Bill de Blasio on Daughter’s Arrest: ‘I’m Proud of Her That She Cares so Much’
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) reacted to the arrest of his daughter, Chiara, at a protest hotspot that had descended into rioting in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.
“As was reported, my daughter, Chiara at a protest,” de Blasio began in a press conference. “I want you first to know, and I think many parents can appreciate this, she is 25 years old and did not inform us of her intention to get arrested.”
“I knew of some of her views, I knew she believed in peaceful protest, I knew she had done so a few nights ago, but in a peaceful manner,” the mayor continued. “When I found out she had been arrested, we finally reached him with Chirlane and we asked her to recount the whole story.”
“I love my daughter deeply, I honor her and she is such a good human being, she only wants to do good in the world, she wants to see a better and more peaceful world. She believes a lot of change is needed. I am proud of her that she cares so much and she was willing to go out there and do something about it,” he added.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/01/bill-de-blasio-on-daughters-arrest-im-proud-of-her-that-she-cares-so-much/
Thousands Gather for Black Lives Matter Demo in Front of US Embasssy in Denmark - Photo, Video
The death of black man George Floyd at the hands of US police triggered protests in the US that quickly turned violent, involving clashes with police officers, cars set on fire, and even looting. Since then, similar demonstrations, albeit peaceful, have been held in Europe.
Around 2,000 people have gathered on the streets of Copenhagen to protest against the killing of African American George Floyd by US police.
The demonstration in Copenhagen started outside the US Embassy in Østerbro and ended at Christiansborg, the seat of the Danish parliament. The demonstrators held signs saying “Justice for George Floyd”.
According to the Copenhagen Police, the demonstration was peaceful. Copenhagen Police Chief Henrik Svejstrup estimates that the demonstration reached its peak at Christiansborg with about 2,000 participants, in what has been described as the biggest turnout since the 2009 climate conference held in the Danish capital. Nevertheless, the demonstration was described as “quiet and peaceful”.
“I believe it's unfair that people around the world are treated so poorly, regardless of their skin colour. There is also racism in Denmark. After all, we are world citizens, so it's important to make it clear. I think what has happened is violent and unethical”, protester Lea Rejmers told Danish Radio.
https://sputniknews.com/society/202006011079482748-thousands-gather-for-black-lives-matter-demo-in-front-of-us-embasssy-in-denmark—photo-video/
Senator ‘Little Marco’ Rubio Lies and Says Far Left AND FAR RIGHT Activists Are Behind Violent Riots
Senator Marco Rubio claims far right activists are blamed for violent riots going on around the US today! Outrageous!
What the hell is Rubio talking about? Thank God he didn’t win the Republican Nomination in 2016. Rubio is a disgrace to all patriots who joined Tea Party movements around the country. He clearly took advantage of this for his own fame.
http://www.hideoutnow.com/2020/06/senator-little-marco-rubio-lies-and.html
Sheldon Adelson's bitch
We're Living the Founding Fathers' Nightmare: America Is Corrupt to the Core
Our ruling elites, devoid of leadership, are little more than the scum of self-interested, greedy grifters who rose to the top of America's foul-smelling stew of corruption.
The Founding Fathers were wary of institutional threats to liberty and the citizenry's sovereignty, which included centralized concentrations of power (monarchy, central banks, federal agencies, etc.) and the tyranny of corruption unleashed by small-minded, self-interested, greedy grifters who saw all elected offices and positions of government influence as nothing more than a means to increase their own private wealth.
The Founders feared the dominance of self-interested, greedy grifters because they had no concept of the public good: to the greedy grifters, the government existed solely to serve their petty private interests and the interests of their fellow grifters.
The Founders understood that a republic required disinterested leadership capable of looking past petty self-interest to the common good of the people and their nation. They feared the election of self-interested, greedy grifters because once no one served the common good, the republic would fall into a fatal disunity.
We are living the Founders' nightmare, for America is corrupt to the core. While everyone gorging at the public trough bleats about the "common good," their single-minded focus is on aggrandizing as much power and private wealth as possible, and feeding their corrupt crew of insiders, lobbyists, "business interests," bankers and assorted other legalized looters.
America has plenty of law enforcement, prosecutors and prison cells for those who loot a Whole Foods, but none for those who loot the public treasury, commit stock market swindles or financial fraud on a monumental scale. Not only did no one go to prison for the rampant institutionalized fraud of the 2008 looting, a.k.a. the Global Financial Meltdown–the looters were bailed out by the Federal Reserve and Treasury.
More recently, no one was even questioned when a biotech company issued a press release about a Covid-19 vaccine trial that boosted the stock's price just long enough for insiders to dump millions of dollars of shares on a credulous public and also sell new shares in the company at a premium: a classic looting strategy known as pump and dump.
Members of Congress were caught red-handed in what amounted to insider trading, selling millions of dollars in their stock portfolios based on their secret briefings of the coming pandemic, while they reassured the public Covid-19 was no biggie. The farcical "investigation" found no wrong-doing.
Corruption in our political parties is so endemic nobody even bothers listing it except as a parlor game of pondering which party is more corrupt.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/06/were-living-founding-fathers-nightmare.html
‘F*** TRUMP AND KEEP GOING’: Teigen, Carell, Other Celebs Posting Bail For Rioters
Celebrities like model Chrissy Teigen and actors Steve Carell and Seth Rogan are actively donating money to bail out criminal rioters across the nation.
On Friday night, Teigen promised $100,000 as bail money for criminal rioters in reaction to a so-called “MAGA night,” a reference to a tweet from President Donald Trump.
“In celebration of whatever the f*** maga night is, I am committed to donating $100,000 to the bail outs of protestors across the country,” she wrote.
http://www.cuzzblue.com/2020/06/f-trump-and-keep-going-teigen-carell.html
Is It One Gigantic Psy-Op? George Floyd’s Coroner Was Also Jeffrey Epstein’s
There is a lot of information about the murder of George Floyd, the man who was killed by a police officer in broad daylight, that the mainstream media is intentionally hiding from the public while they ask you to look only at the color of the skin of those involved. A piece of relevant information they just so casually left out of their race-baiting broadcasts was that Floyd’s family conveniently hired the same coroner as Jeffrey Epstein.
Mainstream reported that Michael Baden was, indeed, the coroner, but unless you dig further than the simple title, you wouldn’t know that that was the same guy who said Epstein hung himself in a jail cell. we all know the entire Epstein situation is a lie and the official narrative was crafted to cover for the elites and the ruling class. So why did Floyd’s family choose Baden to perform his autopsy? Because this is likey a psychological operation designed to bring in totalitarianism and martial law for the permanent enslavement of mankind. Tyranny has no race. We will all be slaves soon if we don’t unite regardless of our skin color.
Dr. Michael Baden, who previously conducted an independent autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, will do the examination after the family takes Floyd’s body back from the state, their lawyer said Friday.
“We’re going to take custody back of his body, and we’re bringing in Dr. Michael Baden to perform an independent autopsy,” the attorney, Ben Crump, said at a news conference, 1010 WINS reported.
“The family does not trust anything coming from the Minneapolis Police Department. How can they?” Crump added. –The New York Post
And yet, they trust the guy who said Epstein managed to than himself in his own jail cell?
American Gulag Death Of Jeffrey Epstein: Will Julian Assange Be Next?
If you’re still stuck in the left/right paradigm, you’d better wake up and you’d better do it quick. This is now a race to see who owns your mind; you, or the government? If you don’t start thinking for yourself, and very soon, someone (the police, the military, at the demands of government) will be using force and violence to do the thinking for you by way of mainstream media propaganda. It’s a battle for your mind.
https://youtu.be/BNjfEH1EtFE
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/is-it-one-gigantic-psy-op-george-floyds-coroner-was-also-jeffrey-epsteins_06012020
Audio of President Trump Call With Governors on Riots; Media Says ‘Unhinged’, Listen and Decide
Audio clips are being posted from President Trump’s conference call with governors that took place Monday morning. The media said Trump was “unhinged.” Listen and decide.
Transcript to come.
CNN clip transcribed by TGP:
Trump: “What happened in the state of Minnesota, they were (garbled) stuff all over the world. They took over the police department. The police were running down the street, sirens blazing, the rest of them running. It was on camera. And then they wiped out, you probably have to build a new one. But I’ve never seen anything like it. And the whole world was laughing.
“Two days later I spoke to the governor, the governor (garbled) and all of a sudden, I said you gotta use the National Guard to take over, they didn’t at first and then they did. And I’ll tell you I don’t know what it was, governor, it the third night, fourth night those guys walked through that stuff like it was butter. They walked right through and you haven’t had any problems since. I mean, they know. They’re not gonna go there, now they’ll go to some other place. But once you called out and you dominated, you took the worst place and you made it, they didn’t even cover it last night because there was so little action. You dominated, you dominated.
“Now what happened to New York, and I have to tell you I live in Manhattan, what’s going on in Manhattan I have no idea. New York’s Finest, they got to be allowed to maybe to do their jobs. I don’t know what’s happening in Manhattan, but it’s terrible. And because it’s New York, because it’s Manhattan it gets a lot of press, so they really spend a lot of time on it.
“But New York is gonna have to toughen up and we’ll send you National Guard if you want. You have the largest police force in the country, 40,000 people I understand. But what’s going on in New York is terrible. It’s terrible. Of all the places.
“What went on last night in Los Angeles with the stores and the storefronts is terrible. No domination. You have to dominate. (Garbled).”
End.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/audio-president-trump-call-governors-riots-media-says-unhinged-listen-decide/
AG Barr Directs Federal Riot Teams to DC, Miami in Response to Violent Left-Wing Mobs
US Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday directed the Bureau of Prisons to send a riot teams to DC and Miami in response to the violent left-wing mobs.
Left-wing terrorists descended upon the White House Sunday night, setting fires around the area.
This isn’t about the death of George Floyd. The left is using George Floyd’s murder as an excuse to usher in a violent Communist revolution.
FBI agents assisted the D.C. police and the national guard Sunday night.
President Trump was reportedly taken to the underground bunker in the White House five stories below ground.
On Monday, Bill Barr deployed the federal riot teams to stop the terrorists.
Via USA Today:
Attorney General William Barr has deployed federal riot teams to Washington, D.C., and Miami in an attempt to quell violent clashes between protesters and police.
Riot teams are being sent from the federal Bureau of Prisons, while the FBI also has directed its elite Hostage Rescue Unit to help in D.C., a senior Justice Department official said Monday.
A weekend of rioting in the nation’s capital left deep scars in the shadow of the White House and across the city where 88 people have been arrested, while dozens of law enforcement officers, including Secret Service agents were injured. The federal prison riot team arrived in Miami Sunday.
Leftists set fire to historic St. John’s Church across from the White House Sunday night.
The National Guard used flash bangs and tear gas to push back the rioters.
However, after a night of destruction only a couple dozen people were arrested in DC.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/ag-barr-directs-federal-riot-teams-dc-miami-response-violent-left-wing-mobs/
Two Airmen Killed in Shooting Incident at Grand Forks Air Force Base
Two active-duty airmen with the 319th Reconnaissance Wing at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, are dead following a shooting incident on base, the Air Force said Monday.
Base emergency services responded to the scene following the shooting, which occurred around 4:30 a.m. local time, according to a release.
"The incident happened on base in one of our dorms," Staff Sgt. Elijaih Tiggs, a spokesman for the base, told Military.com. He explained that the dorms are set for first-term, unaccompanied airmen.
"An investigation is ongoing," he added.
The service is withholding the identities of the deceased for 24 hours until family members are notified.
There is no risk to other personnel at this time, officials said.
The 319th executes intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, including those that support Customs and Border Patrol.
The CBP operates the "MQ-9 Predator B aircraft out of Grand Forks and provides high-quality streaming video to first responders," according to the wing's fact sheet. The CBP's drone is unarmed. The wing also assists in the 69th Reconnaissance Group's RQ-4 Global Hawk operational mission.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/01/two-airmen-killed-shooting-incident-grand-forks-air-force-base.html
Israel to demolish 200 Palestinian buildings in East Jerusalem
Israeli occupation authorities yesterday delivered an order to demolish 200 decades-old Palestinian-owned industrial structures located in occupied East Jerusalem, reported Wafa news agency.
As with many neighbourhoods in the area surrounding Jerusalem, Wadi Al-Joz is experiencing severe challenges with the aggressive expansion of the Jewish presence in the area.
The chairman of East Jerusalem’s Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Obeidat, told Wafa that the order was made by recommendation of the Israeli Planning and Zoning Committee and will demolish up to 200 structures including car repair shops, restaurants and other facilities.
Obeidat called the move a “racist order” to destroy the only Palestinian industrial area that serves the city’s 300,000 residents in East Jerusalem in order to build Israeli structures.
A spokesperson for the Jerusalem Municipality confirmed to the Jerusalem Post that the buildings were being demolished as part of a “building project” but could not provide further details.
Palestinians believe such measures are part of Israel’s Judaisation of the city, which include emptying it of its Palestinian residents.
The demolitions come amid heightened tensions in the city after Israeli forces shot dead Eyad Hallaq, an unarmed Palestinian with mental disabilities, also from the Palestinian neighbourhood of Wadi Al-Joz, where the demolitions are set to occur.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200601-israel-to-demolish-200-palestinian-buildings-in-east-jerusalem/
Afghan Government: Release of Taliban Prisoners Will Continue
Prisoners released from list provided by the Taliban
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s National Security Council confirmed over the weekend that releases of Taliban prisoners are set to continue, with the government intending to complete the release of 2,000 Taliban previously promised by President Ghani. Since that pledge, they have released 1,700.
The Ghani government has been accused of not being transparent on releases in the past, but now says the process includes releasing prisoners from a list provided directly by a Taliban negotiating team. The Taliban sent a technical team to work out the specifics in Kabul.
The US-Taliban deal called for 5,000 Taliban and 1,000 Afghan troops to be released. The Taliban have released 420 troops so far, and both sides seem set to move forward toward ultimately completing that.
This would be a big step forward for the intra-Afghan peace talks. The initial plan was for the talks to start shortly after the peace deal was signed, but it was on hold because the prisoner releases didn’t start right away. Now that the prisoner releases are happening, they are making progress on other matters too.
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/05/31/afghan-government-release-of-taliban-prisoners-will-continue/
US Considers New Weapons for Saudi Arabia as Kingdom Renews Yemen Border Bombings
“We needed sterilization tools and masks to avoid COVID-19, not American shells and bombs to smash our children.”
YEMEN-SAUDI BORDER — At seven years old, Radhiah Issa’s wide-eyed screams of panic and fear were understandable. Even an adult would be forgiven for waking up in a heated panic after discovering much of their body wrapped in blood-soaked bandages and laying in an unfamiliar room. Radhiah was in the family home of a Yemeni doctor who had scraped together whatever medical supplies he could in a heroic effort to render first aid and perform emergency surgery on Radhiah, who was seriously injured last Wednesday by a Saudi artillery shell while she stood amid her family’s grazing sheep near her home in the Shada District of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sadaa, near the border with Saudi Arabia.
“We needed sterilization tools and masks to avoid COVID-19, not American shells and bombs to smash our children,” one of Radhiah’s family members told MintPress News. For the past few weeks, residents along the Yemen-Saudi border, particularly in the Sadaa, Hajjah, and al-Jawf provinces, have faced two options: contend with life under constant bombardment by Saudi border guards and warplanes or seek refuge farther from the border where the threat of COVID-19 looms amid the other myriad epidemics raging across Yemen. “The bombing and COVID-19 are making our lives hell; if you are quarantined at your home, the bombs will demolish the building on your head, and if you leave the house, you are subjected to coronavirus,” one of Radhiah’s family members told MintPress as the young girl lay nearby, still dazed.
As locals in the border town of Maran were celebrating Eid, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, four civilians were killed and another injured after Saudi warplanes targeted a highway in the Haydan district of Sa’ada. The attack on Maran accompanied a spat of over 100 Saudi airstrikes focused mostly along the Kingdom’s border with Yemen during Eid celebrations. Malahat, Baqim, al-Jawf, and Marib provinces as well as Abs and Harad district in the country’s northern province of Hajjah, were all heavily targeted causing still known numbers of casualties and damage.
In Hodeida, the Eid al-Fitr festivities failed to bring quiet to the province’s war-weary residents as the Saudi-led Coalition continued to hammer the strategic port city. Since December 13, 2018, Saudi airstrikes on the city have been replaced with snipers, artillery shells, and missiles after the Houthis and Saudi Arabia agreed to a UN-brokered truce in Sweden. An eight-year-old boy sustained injuries after Saudi mercenaries shelled a residential area in Hodieda’s southern al-Durayhimi district on the same day that Saudi airstrikes were peppering mountaintops near Maran with indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes, as seen in video obtained by MintPress.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-weapons-saudi-arabia-renews-yemen-border-bombings/268105/
Tom Cotton UNLOADS Says What Every Law Abiding Citizen is Thinking
I’m proud to say that U.S. Senator Tom Cotton is from my home state, the great state of Arkansas. I’m always proud of Senator Cotton, proud to cast my vote for him. I’m even more proud of him today than normal.
Cotton was making the media rounds on Monday morning discussing the lawlessness, rioting, looting, and burning of buildings in America by a hundreds of thousands of thugs looking for an excuse to do criminal things.
Those groups some lead by Antifa, some just motivated knowing they won’t have an repercussions for doing what they are doing.
“Anarchy, rioting, and looting needs to end tonight. If local law enforcement is overwhelmed and needs backup, let’s see how tough these Antifa terrorists are when they’re facing off with the 101st Airborne Division. We need to have zero tolerance for this destruction.“
He’s spot on, then a liberal pundit decided to try to pop off to Cotton, and he annihilated her.
“And, if necessary, the 10th Mountain, 82nd Airborne, 1st Cav, 3rd Infantry—whatever it takes to restore order. No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters.“
He’s spot on, law abiding Americans have had enough of this attempt at Anarchy over a death that the autopsy shows had nothing to do with the officers knee. The victim had drugs in his system, and a heart condition according to the autopsy and court filings for the arrest of officer Derek Chauvin.
This is called mob justice, they’ve already condemned the man before trial, which goes against EVERYTHING the United States was founded upon, and our Constitution was written.
https://thedcpatriot.com/tom-cotton-unloads-says-what-every-law-abiding-citizen-is-thinking-video/
Trump shares ideas to hold G7 summit with Putin — Kremlin
Among other topics of the telephone conversation, the two leaders touched upon the energy sphere, space cooperation and fighting coronavirus
MOSCOW, June 1. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump informed Russian President Vladimir Putin about his idea to hold the upcoming G7 summit and potentially invite leaders of Russia, Australia, India and South Korea to attend it. This topic was discussed during a phone call between the two presidents on Monday held at the US initiative, the Kremlin press service reports.
"Donald Trump informed Vladimir Putin about his idea to hold the G7 summit with possible participation of leaders of Russia, Australia, India and South Korea," the Russian leader’s press service noted.
The leaders highlighted the importance of boosting the Russian-American dialogue on strategic stability and confidence-building measures in the military sphere, the Kremlin specified. "It was agreed to keep up contacts on various levels," the statement reads.
"Among other topics, Putin and Trump touched upon the energy sphere, space cooperation and fighting coronavirus. The presidents exchanged opinions on measures taken in the two countries to counter the spread of the virus. Putin extended gratitude to Trump for US ventilators transported to Russia.
"The Russian president congratulated Donald Trump on the successful launch of Crew Dragon spacecraft on May 30 that carried US astronauts to the International Space Station," the statement reads. "Mutual commitment to develop mutually beneficial cooperation in space was confirmed."
The conversation also reviewed the situation on the global oil market, taking the OPEC+ agreement into account. The sides confirmed that this multilateral agreement reached with the active support of the Russian and US presidents is gradually reviving oil demand and stabilizing prices. "The status of affairs on the global oil market was reviewed in the context of implementation of the OPEC+ agreement. It was stated that this multilateral agreement reached with the proactive support of presidents of Russia and the US leads to the gradual recovery of the oil demand and prices stabilization," the Kremlin’s press service says.
According to arrangements reached in April 2020, OPEC+ countries will reduce oil production by 9.7 mln barrels per day in May-June and by 7.7 mln barrels daily from July until the end of December 2020. The OPEC+ agreement is effective until the end of April 2022.
Overall, the Kremlin said the phone call was "constructive, business-like and substantial."
https://tass.com/politics/1162793
Gantz tells army to step up preparations, as West Bank annexation looms
A month ahead of proposed extension of Israeli sovereignty to settlements and Jordan Valley, the government fills in the military on plans
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday ordered IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi to “step up preparations for the Israel Defense Forces,” ahead of a government proposal to annex portions of the West Bank, his office said.
The military has roughly one month to complete preparations ahead of the government’s plan to extend Israeli sovereignty to settlements and the Jordan Valley — some 30 percent of the West Bank — which many defense analysts and officials have warned could lead to an outbreak of Palestinian violence, as well as threaten Jerusalem’s ties with its neighbor Jordan and other Arab countries.
Gantz himself is believed to oppose unilateral annexation, but his coalition deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allows the latter to push forward with the plan from July 1, so long as he can secure approval from the Knesset — where he is almost guaranteed a majority — and from the US.
Though the military has already been preparing for potential unrest in response to the move, until Gantz’s meeting with Kohavi on Monday, the IDF was doing so without having specific information about the government’s plans.
In his statement, the defense minister did not explicitly refer to annexation, but ordered Kohavi to “step up preparations for the IDF ahead of diplomatic efforts on the agenda in the Palestinian arena.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-tells-army-to-step-up-preparations-as-west-bank-annexation-looms/
Washington, DC, imposes 7 pm curfew after night of violent demonstrations
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced a 7 p.m. curfew on Monday night following an outbreak of violent demonstrations across the nation’s capital and dozens of cities across the U.S.
Bowser said “significant damage” had been done to the downtown areas, as protests over the death of George Floyd after his arrest by Minneapolis police turned violent, with incidents of arson, vandalism and clashes between protesters and the police.
“Every American should be outraged by the murder of George Floyd,” Bowser said. “I want to implore D.C. residents to think of ways to be part of the solution, not part of the destruction.”
Washington Police Chief Peter Newsham said 88 people were arrested on Sunday night, with half of those charged with “felony rioting.” Seven police officers were injured but none were hospitalized.
Newsham said the antagonists appeared to be “organized in nature” and that the police will make further arrests after analyzing camera footage.
The police chief declined to elaborate on what organization might be behind it, saying only that “they were largely from this region.” The city is offering $1,000 rewards for information that leads to arrests of suspected criminals.
The Monday night curfew will begin at 7 p.m. and extend until morning. It will not impact journalists covering protests or other “essential employees.”
“People are torn because they feel so sad and angry about the killing of George Floyd, but also they don’t want their city torn up, so that’s what we’re managing,” Bowser said.
The nation is undergoing one of the most intense periods of civil unrest in modern times, as anger at law enforcement over the death of Floyd, an unarmed black man, boils over.
Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has been arrested for Floyd’s death after video emerged showing him restraining Floyd by kneeling on his neck. Floyd died on the scene.
Broadcast and cable news outlets have been beaming in disturbing video of police aggressively clashing with protesters, vandalism and stores and businesses being ransacked in major cities across the country.
In D.C., several landmarks were vandalized, including the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial and a statue of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski. St. John’s Church, where scores of past presidents have attended services, was set on fire.
President Trump briefly retreated to an underground bunker on Friday night as the protests swelled around the White House.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/500455-washington-dc-imposes-7-pm-curfew-amid-violent-demonstrations
PRAY FOR EACH OTHER
you don't belong here fuck off
needs more protesters on the streets
no you weren't