Riots Nationwide Forced Temporary Closure of 70 Coronavirus Testing Sites, 31 for Full Week

The riots in American cities last week and the week before forced the temporary closure of at least 70 separate coronavirus testing sites nationwide, the White House Coronavirus Task Force was told on Tuesday.

At the Task Force’s meeting on Tuesday at the White House, Admiral Brett Giroir—the assistant secretary for health (ASH)—of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS) informed members of the temporary closures because of the riots.

Two officials present in the meeting also confirmed to Breitbart News that Giroir said 31 of the 70 sites that were temporarily closed because of the riots were shuttered for a full week.

Most of the shuttered sites are back up and running now.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not reply to a request for comment.

This news comes after weeks of mass gatherings at which public health officials have expressed concern that coronavirus could spread.

Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) expressed concern that the riots and protests represent “a perfect setup for further spread” of coronavirus.

“What runs through my mind is what does every time I hear about or see the congregation of large crowds at a time and in an area — a geographic area where clearly there is active infection transmission,” Fauci said in an interview with DC-area radio station WTOP. “It’s a perfect setup for further spread of the virus in the sense of creating these blips, which might turn into some surges. So, I get very concerned, as my colleagues in public health, when they see these kinds of crowds. I mean, obviously, not only are they congregating physically close to each other. But often, when they start screaming and demonstrating, which is part of the process of demonstrating, I’m not criticizing that, but I’m saying what it’s going to be leading to is a likelihood that you might have situations where you would force the spread of infection, and that’s really of concern.”

Fauci had been silent on the unrest and coronavirus before this, but many other officials at the federal, state, and local levels have said they were concerned that the riots and protests could cause a second wave of coronavirus. Complicating matters is that these riots and protests—rife with large crowds—came just as most of the country began reopening.

In an interview just a few days before Memorial Day in Norcross, Georgia, Vice President Mike Pence—the chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force—laid out how every state in America is in the reopening process.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/09/exclusive-riots-nationwide-forced-temporary-closure-of-70-coronavirus-testing-sites-31-for-full-week/

Arsonists Target California Homes Displaying American Flags

Police in the Sacramento, California suburb of Citrus Heights are investigating a string of arsons targeting homes displaying the American flag.

According to CBS13, at least four homes were targeted in the Sungarden neighborhood Saturday morning.

A charred pole is all that’s left of the American Flag that had been flying outside Marie Nuzzi’s home.

“If it had burned longer it would have caught the house on fire,” Nuzzi said. “Somebody’s lives, for what?”

The fire was set at about 3 a.m. Saturday morning and burnt out before reaching the house where Nuzzi and three other family members were sleeping inside.

“It was a nylon flag, so it’s just all this black soot is just on the concrete,” Nuzzi said. -CBS13

Down the street from Nuzzi, arsonists set trees on fire at another home which had smaller American flags on display around the front lawn, while at least two other American flags were set ablaze.

Local resident Michael Howard, who helped clean up the ashes, says he's never seen this type of crime in his 10 years in the neighborhood.

"This is the first time anything’s happened," he said. "Gut reaction? Is it somebody with an agenda?"

Police are investigating whether the arsons are tied to the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes as onlookers begged him to stop.

Nuzzi isn't so sure.

"I really don’t want to think like that, I really don’t," she said, adding "I just think it was kind of a random thing."

Police are asking for the public's help with any surveillance footage from ring doorbells or other cameras which may have recorded the suspects around 3 a.m. on Saturday.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arsonists-target-california-homes-displaying-american-flags

25,000 More Store Closures Expected As Pandemic-Fueled "Retail Apocalypse" Rolls On

The one discussion bulls chose to ignore while equity markets soar to new highs is the permanent economic damage story due to months of coronavirus lockdowns. A new report shows tens of thousands of brick and mortar shops could close their doors this year, which would indicate the "retail apocalypse" is accelerating.

The report, commissioned by Coresight Research, forecasts that in 2020, upwards of 25,000 retailers could shutter operations after months of lockdowns decimated mall traffic – collapsing store sales and resulting in delinquent rent payments.

Even before the pandemic, we noted the "retail apocalypse was particularly bad in 2019," with about 10,000 stores closed for good. Most of the closures were mall-based retailers as consumerism and spending shifted online. Lockdowns, in the last few months, accelerated the shift to buying items online while strict social distancing rules enforced by the government led to non-essential shop closures.

Coresight CEO Deborah Weinswig wrote in the report, a closure wave of "anchor tenants" in shopping malls will lead to surrounding shops closing up as well. She said if that happens, her firm would then expect 20,000 to 25,000 shops to close by year-end.

"Department and large apparel-chain store closures in malls will, therefore, create a ripple effect that spells bad news for malls," Weinswig said.

In early June, Simon Property Group, one of the largest mall operators in the US, sued GAP, it's the largest tenant, claiming the retailer failed to pay more than $65.9 million in rent and other charges during shutdowns.

The lawsuit "highlights the mounting tension between retail landlords and their tenants, many of which stopped paying rent after the crisis forced them to shut stores," CNBC noted.

So far, US retailers have planned about 4,000 permanent store closures, with hundreds from Pier 1 Imports, Neiman Marcus, Tuesday Morning, JC Penney, Stage Stores, and L. Brands. Before the virus outbreak, Coresight was already forecasting 15,000 stores would close this year.

Store closures this year have already triggered an unprecedented implosion in US commercial real estate. The latest remittance data by Trepp shows a massive surge in newly delinquent CMBS loans.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/retail-apocalypse-meets-pandemic-could-trigger-25000-store-closures-year

White House Correspondents’ Association Gives CNN Special Award For Filming Pre-Dawn FBI Raid of Roger Stone

The White House Correspondents’ Association announced winners of their 2020 journalism awards on Tuesday.

CNN was awarded for filming the pre-dawn FBI raid of Roger Stone.

The winners include ‘journalists’ from PBS, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times and ProPublica, the WHCA wrote:

CNN FOR “FBI. OPEN THE DOOR.”

From the judges:

CNN’s reporting on the Roger Stone arrest began a month earlier, with a clue about a court scheduling anomaly. Then came unusual grand jury activity. Then an odd, packed suitcase wheeled by one of the prosecutors in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Stone. It culminated early in the morning of Jan. 25, 2019, when a CNN producer and a photojournalist, staked outside of Stone’s home in Ft. Lauderdale, captured the 5 a.m., no-knock raid by the FBI of the former confidant of President Donald Trump.

CNN’s viewers saw the raid unfold in real time, the product of a team or reporters, producers and photojournalists tracking the investigation over months, connecting the dots and scooping the rest of the press corps. They even scooped Stone’s own lawyers, who only found out when CNN called for a comment. In addition to the exclusive video, the team produced a compelling, supportive package that explained the charges against Stone. On deadline.

The entire Mueller inquisition has been debunked but the liberal WHCA is handing out awards to CNN after they were tipped off about the Roger Stone raid.

CNN was tipped off by someone on Mueller’s team (Weissmann?) or Comey’s FBI.

CNN’s camera crew allegedly arrived at Stone’s residence a whole hour before the raid and CNN’s Sara Murray provided Stone’s attorney with a draft copy of the indictment in an early morning communique to confirm the FBI raid and arrest.

CNN was the only camera crew on the scene of the FBI raid on Roger Stone’s home.

Documents obtained exclusively by The Gateway Pundit show a copy of the draft indictment without the PACER filing number or official stamps of the court, with metadata on the document identifying it as being authored by “AAW”, who is suspected to be lead Special Counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/white-house-correspondents-association-gives-cnn-special-award-filming-pre-dawn-fbi-raid-roger-stone/

A deal that pleases no one? Israeli settlers tell RT West Bank annexation gives too much to Palestinians

For left-wingers, Israel’s plan to absorb parts of the West Bank would harm Palestinian statehood. But even Israeli settlers in the territory seem unhappy with the plan, telling RT there was little to gain from the move.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to place around 30 percent of the West Bank under permanent Israeli control – but Israelis living in the area have said that the deal, which would grant Palestinians limited statehood if they meet certain conditions, is actually bad for the controversial settlements.

Settlers in Elon Moreh told RT that life would become “impossible” because their community would essentially become an enclave in the center of a Palestinian state.

“We won’t be able to leave without a military escort,” one Israeli woman noted. “There will be more bombs, more shootings… Palestinian police will not even take us into account.”

Israeli activist Boaz Haetzni urged US President Donald Trump to “reconsider” his so-called “deal of the century.” He said that sovereignty for West Bank settlements was the goal, but that Israel should not tolerate the remaining 70 percent of the land becoming Palestinian-ruled territory.

The sentiment was mirrored by Benny Katzovel, former head of the Samaria Regional Council, who told RT that Trump has shown more support for Israel than his European counterparts, but that he was “giving [Israelis] more danger than good things.”

With right-wing settlers opposing the move, it seems that Netanyahu now faces widespread resistance to his plans. On Saturday, thousands of left-wing demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv to decry the annexation. One of the protest’s organizers, Knesset member Nitzan Horowitz, said in an address to the crowd that seizing the territory would constitute a “war crime” that would lead to bloodshed.

https://www.rt.com/news/491255-israel-annexation-settlers-opposed-west-bank/

Microsoft accused of telling staff to censor negative article about the company

Last Thursday, Microsoft announced it was firing dozens of journalists that maintain the news homepage on the Microsoft Edge browser and MSN website and replace them with artificial intelligence (AI) software that curates the news.

This software doesn’t create original content and instead curates news from various sources including BBC, CNN, and The Guardian and it will sometimes also choose an accompanying image to be published with the curated articles.

The remaining human staff are unable to stop the AI selecting and automatically publishing stories which means that negative coverage of Microsoft’s news-curation AI could potentially be published to the MSN homepage by this software.

And now The Guardian is reporting that this decision appears to have backfired and that Microsoft has been telling its remaining human staff to look out for and delete negative articles about alleged racist bias in this AI software if it gets published by the AI.

This negative article notes that MSN illustrated a story titled “Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall says she faced ‘horrific’ racism at school” with a photo of her fellow band member Leigh-Anne Pinnock and claims that Microsoft’s AI was responsible for choosing this image.

Thirlwall called out MSN for the mistake in an Instagram Story that was posted last Friday and wrote: “@msn if you’re going to copy and paste articles from other accurate media outlets, you might want to make sure you’re using an image of the correct mixed race member of the group.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/microsoft-accused-of-instructing-staff-to-delete-negative-articles-published-by-its-ai/

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The Union of the Unwanted — 30 Alternative Media Podcasters Discuss The Social Media Censorship

The Union of the Unwanted mega group podcast is now available! Sam Tripoli (Tin Foil Hat), Ricky Varandas (The Ripple Effect), Midnight Mike (OBDM), and Charlie Robinson (Macroaggressions) had a crazy idea of getting a large group together to discuss the censorship of the alternative media. Last night it happened.

Please share this video. This discussion needs to happen now before it is too late.

Special guests include:

James Corbett, Ben Swann, Greg Carlwood, Those Conspiracy Guys, The Conspiracy Farm, Monica Perez, Luke Rudkowski, Josh Sigurdson, Tim Picciott, Ernest Hancock, Red Pill 78, Jay Dyer, OBDM, Issac Weishaupt, Jason Bermas, XG, Tommy G, Kate Awakening, Scott DeGroat, Fame, Jamie Dlux, and more.

https://youtu.be/acnYEjBdc3c

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/06/the-union-of-the-unwanted-30-alternative-media-podcasters-discuss-the-social-media-censorship.html

Fifth Tennessee Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Offense for Beating Inmate and Conspiring to Cover up the Incident

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fifth-tennessee-correctional-officer-pleads-guilty-civil-rights-offense-beating-inmate-and

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