Ambassador Hangs Black Lives Matter Banner on Facade of US Embassy in South Korea

The U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea has hung a large ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner from the facade of the embassy, according to a tweet on the embassy’s Twitter account posted Saturday. Ambassador Harry Harris posted a follow-up statement that quoted President Kennedy, not President Trump, about race relations in the United States.

“The U.S. Embassy stands in solidarity with fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand positive change. Our #BlackLivesMatter banner shows our support for the fight against racial injustice and police brutality as we strive to be a more inclusive & just society.”

Ambassador Harris posted in English and Korean on Twitter:

“I believe in what President JFK said on June 10, 1963 at American University: “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” USA is a free & diverse nation…from that diversity we gain our strength…When Dr. Benjamin Mays delivered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s eulogy in 1968, he said Dr. King’s “unfinished work on earth must truly be our own.” Recent weeks remind us that MLK’s work remains unfinished. Friends, I believe that work falls on each of us today.”

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/ambassador-hangs-black-lives-matter-banner-facade-us-embassy-south-korea/

Right-wing & BLM protesters face off in London, police intervene

Right-wing demonstrators have hit the streets of Britain’s capital, vowing to “protect” historical monuments from anti-racism protesters. The gathering escalated into scuffles with police, as well as with rival protesters.

Following days of unrest involving protests against racism and police brutality, right-wing groups took to the streets of London on Saturday. The protesters condemned Black Lives Matter demonstrators and vowed to protect historical monuments from them.

Multiple monuments, some linked to Britain’s colonial past, have been vandalized in London and elsewhere in recent days. Several statues, including one of Winston Churchill outside Parliament, have been put into protective coverings by the authorities.

While the demonstration remained peaceful for a while, some protesters became unruly and scuffled with the police, who have a heavy presence in central London. Some right-wing demonstrators were seen making gestures that appeared to be Nazi salutes.

https://www.rt.com/uk/491721-london-statues-blm-protest/

Central Banks Bailed Out Markets To Avoid Trillions In Pension Losses

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report showing how pension funds in OECD countries recorded a massive loss of approximately $2.5 trillion during the stock market meltdown in February through late March. Shortly, after that, central banks intervened with monetary cannons to rescue stock markets and other financial assets to avoid pension returns from going negative.

The spread of COVID-19 worldwide and its knock-on effects on financial markets during the first quarter of 2020 are likely to have reversed some of these gains. Early estimates suggest that pension fund assets at the end of Q1 2020 could have dropped to USD 29.8 trillion, down 8% compared to end-2019 [or about a $2.5 trillion loss].

Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz pointed out in a tweet, "this report [referring to the OECD report] shows the massiveness of pension assets & points to why central banks are tethered to bailing out markets: social infrastructures depend on their not going down too much."

Abramowicz is 100% right. A significant drop in asset prices, if that is in equities, commodities, corporate bonds, etc., central bankers are quick to act by lowering interest rates and firing up the printing presses.

To sum up, central banks are in the game of supporting asset prices so pension funds can deliver positive returns if negative returns are seen, the Ponzi implodes and social unrest follows. However, social unrest has already begun despite the central bank induced V-shaped recovery in financial asset prices. What do central bankers do now?

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/pension-fund-chaos-25-trillion-lost-corona-market-crash-q1

Entire SWAT Team in Florida City Resigns in Response to Police Chief Kneeling with Black Lives Matter Protesters

An entire SWAT team in Hallandale Beach, Florida resigned on Friday in response to Police Chief Sonia Quinones kneeling with Black Lives Matter protesters.

The police chief scheduled a meeting for Monday with the officers who resigned to hear their complaints.

In a memo, the SWAT officers said in addition to being under trained and minimally equipped, they were outraged to see the police chief kneeling with political activists.

“The team is minimally equipped, under trained and often times restrained by the politicization of our tactics to the extent of placing safety of dogs over the safety of the team members,” the officers wrote.

“Lastly, and most shockingly, having members of the Command Staff taking a knee in solidarity with Vice-Mayor Javellana (who stated she wants the officers “fired and charged”) and a handful of political activists…” the officers wrote in a memo.

Via Miami Herald:

The 10 members of the Hallandale Beach Police Department’s SWAT team have stepped down from their roles, citing among other grievances anger over the city’s police chief kneeling with protesters earlier this week, a memo the officers signed read. They will remain with the police department.

On Friday evening, Hallandale Beach received a memo from the members of the SWAT team with a list of grievances, Hallandale Beach City Manager Greg Chavarria said.

In the memo, the officers say the SWAT team was minimally equipped, under trained and restrained. The memo says the safety of dogs was given priority over the safety of the officers at times.

“The risk of carrying out our duties in this capacity is no longer acceptable to us and our families,” the memo says. “The anguish and stress of knowing that what we may be lawfully called upon to do in today’s political climate combined with the team’s current situation and several recent local events., leaves us in a position that is untenable.”

According to the Miami Herald, SWAT officers from other local police agencies will fill in to help Hallandale Beach.

This is just the beginning. More and more police officers will resign and cities will crumble under chaos and violence.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/entire-swat-team-florida-city-resigns-response-police-chief-kneeling-black-lives-matter-protesters/

Italy, Germany, France & Netherlands sign deal for up to 400 million Oxford Covid-19 vaccines – Italian health minister

Four EU countries have signed a contract with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to produce enough Oxford University vaccines to rid the continent of Covid-19 infections, the Italian health minister said.

Under the agreement, British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca will produce up to 400 million doses of the vaccine, which is enough for “the whole population of Europe,” Roberto Speranza wrote on Facebook.

The minister said that trials for the vaccine, which was developed by Oxford University, are set to be completed this fall, and the first doses will be available by the end of the year. “The vaccine is the only definitive solution to Covid-19,” he wrote.

AstraZeneca has a deal with the US government to supply the country with 300 million doses of the vaccine. Earlier this week, the company signed an agreement with American firm Emergent BioSolutions to be its manufacturing partner in the US.

Various nations and companies have been racing to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 7.6 million people globally, and killed over 426,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.

https://www.rt.com/news/491724-europe-400-million-vaccine/

'Expect Something Big': Kim Jong-Un's Powerful Sister Threatens Military Action Against South

Earlier this week North Korea announced it would cut off all government and military communications with the South, also as its foreign ministry declared Pyongyang would "never again" allow President Trump to use 'empty' dialogue to score political points, suggesting the whole prior year long Trump-Kim bromance is now effectively dead.

And now the increasingly visible and powerful sister of Kim Jong Un has further gone on the offensive by threatening military action against South Korea Saturday.

Kim Yo Jong vowed “We will soon take a next action.” Referencing her brother, she described, “By exercising my power authorized by the Supreme Leader, our Party and the state, I gave an instruction to the arms of the department in charge of the affairs with enemy to decisively carry out the next action,” according to KCNA news agency.

“The right to taking the next action against the enemy will be entrusted to the General Staff of our army. Before long, a tragic scene of the useless north-south joint liaison office completely collapsed would be seen,” Kim Yo Jong added.

The widely reported "reason" behind the sudden jingoistic stance is related to activists apparently continuing to defy the north in floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.

Such activism has been particularly sensitive to the north because it's driven in many cases by defectors. Lately Pyongyang's angry rhetoric against South Korea welcoming and hosting such defectors and their political activism has intensified.

But there's also rising tensions given Seoul's failed to materialize assurances that Washington would ease sanctions as part of denuclearization talks. This further appears an opportunity for Kim's increasingly visible and powerful sister to flex her authority over the military and next in line to rule.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/expect-something-big-kim-jong-uns-powerful-sister-threatens-military-action-against

Initial Reports: Bikers for Trump and Other Groups Planning to Retake Seattle Occupation Zone on July 4th

It’s being reported that a post on Facebook is announcing that a number of groups are planning to retake the Antifa occupation zone in Seattle on July 4th.

A post on Facebook has announced that some American patriots are planning to take back the Antifa occupation zone on July 4th. The post reads:

On July 4th, Independence Day, a coalition of patriot groups and all who want to join are going to retake the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone for America. Antifa members are illegally occupying public property and terrorizing small businesses in the neighborhood. American patriots have agreed to come together again, remove the barricades illegally obstructing traffic, and free the people in the zone.

We are not going to hurt anybody, break the law, etc. We are simply going to tear down the illegal barriers on public property, clean up the mess these communist kids made, and return the police station over to Seattle Police Department control.

*The staging area will be Seward Park. The parking lot can handle roughly 10,000 bikes easily.

Another individual on Twitter posted a similar story:

The mayor of Seattle and the governor of Washington, both Democrats, have no idea what to do.

Those poor crazy communist kids had better figure out where they are going to get their soy lattes soon, because their days in the Seattle occupation zone appear to be numbered.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/initial-reports-bikers-trump-groups-planning-retake-seattle-occupation-zone-july-4th/

Truck Drivers Say They Will Not Deliver to Dangerous Far Left Cities with Defunded Police Departments

77% of truck drivers say they will not deliver to far left cities with defunded police departments.

Nor should they.

Truck driving is a dangerous profession.

Far left mayors and violent rioters make it deadly.

Here’s a scene from a “peaceful protest” last week that did not end well for the trucker.

The mob yanked him from his cab and beat him senseless.

As cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments, truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety. Seventy-seven percent of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.

Truck driving is historically ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. In 2018, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported truck driving as the most deadly job in the country.

Truck drivers have spent the last year on the front line of a global pandemic and protests. Now many are fearful of what might happen if police departs disband or are defunded.

Truck drives have been voicing their concerns on the CDLLife App. After reading about their concerns, CDLLife posted a poll on the app.

We asked drivers on the app, “Would you pick up/deliver to cities with defunded or disbanded police departments? Why or why not?”

To date, 77% of drivers say they will refuse loads to cities with disbanded or defunded police departments.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/truck-drivers-say-will-not-deliver-dangerous-far-left-cities-defunded-police-departments/

In 4 Years in 1 State, 100’s of Cops Charged with Felonies, Like Raping Kids — 0 Have Gone to Jail

A review of law enforcement licenses in the state of Texas has found that hundreds of officers were forced to surrender their licenses to avoid or limit prosecution in the past four years — most of which were felonies.

A KXAN investigation found that an overwhelming majority of the cases where officers were forced to surrender their license, their badges were used as a bargaining tool to avoid prosecution for serious crimes.

KXAN reviewed 297 cases where officers were forced to surrender their badges in Texas between 2015 and 2018 and in almost every case, the police officer was able to avoid serious charges by agreeing to give up their careers in law enforcement. More than half of these charges were felonies and many of them involved violent crimes that were committed both on and off-duty.

The in-depth investigation was the result of over 100 public information act requests which were filed at all levels of local and state governments. Most of the officers who surrendered their licenses received very little jail time or none at all. Some of the officers were involved in very serious crimes, including sexual assault of children and women in custody, lying about police shootings, and tampering with evidence. Domestic violence is another common charge that police officers use their positions to avoid.

Kali Cohn, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said that this arrangement is evidence that police are above the law.

“What it appears is that police officers are being treated differently than a person who would be charged with the same crime that is not an officer. When we see they are treated better than the average citizen, when we see they are treated differently, when we see that they are given preference, that makes the law enforcement office less legitimate in the public eye and starts chipping away at the credibility of the rule of law in our society,” Cohn told KXAN.

These accusations have been denied by police officials, who claim that they are actually held to a higher standard than the average person. However, anyone who reads TFTP on a regular basis knows that this is not true. Cops are frequently held to much lower standards and rarely go to jail for even the most heinous of crimes.

Bargaining the Badge | Full Investigation

https://youtu.be/Kb9k7PSmkBs

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/in-4-years-in-1-state-100s-of-cops-charged-with-felonies-like-raping-kids-0-have-gone-to-jail/

Netherlands: Far-left activists deface statues in Rotterdam.

Far-left activists on Friday defaced a pair of statues in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. According to the group, the vandalism was carried out to “criticize” what they consider to be “the glorification of Dutch colonialism”.

“We demand rejection of these unjust ‘heroes’ and we criticize the collective memory of Dutch history, because murderers, exploiters and fascist politicians are not worthy of a monument!” the far-left group wrote on its social media account

The group, which calls itself ‘Heroes of Never’, spray painted graffiti on the statues of Piet Hien and Pim Fortuyn.

According to a report from the NL Times, the words “killer” and “thief” and “Do not pay tribute to racism” were spray painted on the Piet Hein statue and on the Pim Fortuyn statue, respectively.

Piet Hein, an admiral for the Dutch republic during the Eighty Years’ WaR, had also worked for the Dutch East and West India companies. Hein had rejected slavery in the Spanish New World colonies.

Pim Fortyn, on the other hand, was a Dutch politician, academic, and business man who expressed views critical of Islam, multiculturalism, and mass migration. For his views, Fortyn was labelled a far-right populist by his political opponents and the left-wing press, a label that he vehemently rejected. In 2002, Fortuyn was assassinated by a left-wing extremist.

“Fortuyn should not be exalted because Fortuyn has never been a hero,” the group said.

The defacing of the Rotterdam statues comes about a week after far-left activists defaced statues of Sir Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln in London. In the US, statues commemorating Confederate generals have also been defaced and ripped from their pedestals.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/netherlands-far-left-activists-deface-statues-in-rotterdam/

UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear

Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should be able to work independently without fear of sanctions, the UK’s foreign secretary said in an apparent jab at Washington, which threatened the body for probing US troops.

“The UK strongly supports the International Criminal Court in tackling impunity for the worst international crimes,” Dominic Raab said. “We will continue to support positive reform of the court, so that it operates as effectively as possibly. ICC officials should be able to carry out their work independently and impartially, and without fear of sanction.”

Earlier the Donald Trump administration said any ICC officials engaged in “any effort” to investigate and prosecute US military service members for alleged crimes will face travel restrictions and economic sanctions. The threat also hangs over their family members.

The current round of tensions between the US and the ICC was triggered by the court’s investigation into alleged war crimes committed by American troops in Afghanistan.

The Hague-based body has denounced the US threat, saying it was obviously meant to sway the course of justice and was an “unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law.”

Several European nations traditionally friendly with the US, including Germany, France and the Netherlands, criticized Washington for issuing the threat.

Its other major ally Israel on the contrary hailed the move, branding the court as “corrupt and biased.” The Israeli government believes the ICC pays too much attention to alleged crimes by Israeli soldiers while overlooking wrongdoing by its rival Iran. Both the US and Israel also reject the ICC’s inclusion of Palestine as its member, arguing that it does not qualify as a sovereign state.

The stand-off between the US and the ICC has been going on pretty much since its creation in 2002. The US believes that the court which is tasked with prosecuting the worst criminal offenses like genocide cannot offer American citizens due process and a fair trial.

https://www.rt.com/news/491729-britain-blasts-us-icc/

Hillary Clinton Criticizes Trump Campaign over Coronavirus Waiver: ‘Shouldn’t Be Holding’ Rallies

Hillary Clinton criticized the Trump campaign for its coronavirus disclaimer to attendees, suggesting the president “shouldn’t be holding” any rallies.

“If your rallies come with a liability waiver, you shouldn’t be holding them,” Clinton said in response to the news of the Trump campaign having attendees of the upcoming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, acknowledge a disclaimer assuming all risks related to the Chinese coronavirus:

The disclaimer reads:

By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.

Trump has been on the receiving end of criticism due to his decision to resume his iconic MAGA rallies following a months-long pause because of the coronavirus pandemic. He and the GOP have also received criticism for moving the celebration of his nomination to Jacksonville, Florida, after officials in North Carolina failed to guarantee that the celebratory event could proceed in Charlotte as planned due to coronavirus-related concerns.

“Trump wants 15,000 delegates cheering him at his GOP convention in Florida. No social distancing. His rejection of medical advice endangers not only those there but those they come in contact with,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said of the decision, just days after praising hordes of protesters who have taken to the streets:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/13/hillary-clinton-criticizes-trump-campaign-coronavirus-waiver-shouldnt-holding-rallies/

Black Lives Matter Founder an Open Supporter of Socialist Venezuelan Dictator Maduro

One of the most high-profile founders of the Black Lives Matter organization – now one of the most influential and powerful political movements on the planet – has a long history of supporting Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Maduro has presided over one of the world’s most repressive regimes since 2013 when his predecessor Hugo Chávez died. Under Maduro, Venezuelan police forces have committed a long list of human rights atrocities including the torture, kidnapping, rape, and killing of unarmed protesters. Under Maduro, Venezuela has become an especially dangerous place for minors.

In light of the prominence of Black Lives Matter – a global non-profit currently receiving millions in donations – photos have begun to circulate of Opal Tometi, a founder of the organization, hugging Maduro at the 2015 People of African Descent Leadership Summit in Harlem, New York, where several high-rank officials of the Venezuelan regime also participated. Maduro, currently banned from the United States, was in town for the annual United Nations General Assembly.

Tometi appears alongside Maduro on a Venezuelan government propaganda site’s news report from the event, raising a fist and embracing him. The photo appears to be taken in front of a giant photo of Maduro’s face.

Tometi spoke at the summit, standing in front of a Venezuelan flag for the speech and thanking Maduro’s government for the opportunity. Among her targets during the speech were the government of the Dominican Republic for deporting Haitians and “Western economic policies, land grabs, and neocolonial financial instruments like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund” for, she argued, creating the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/13/black-lives-matter-founder-an-open-supporter-of-socialist-venezuelan-dictator-maduro/

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