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>>9598367 Top Executive Pay Should Be Cut First; Dallas Mayor to City Manager

>>9598441 Deadly Shooting: Memorial Service Planned For Isabella Thallas

>>9598459 2015 Engineer working at Bill Gates' mansion gets just 90 days in jail after he was caught sending 6,000 child porn images on Gmail

>>9598464 udge Limits California Governor’s Emergency Rule-Making

>>9598499 Alternate reading of Mayan calendar suggests end of the world is next week

>>9598509 Ukrainian Law Enforcement Arrest Individual Allegedly Attempting to End Investigation Into Burisma and Hunter Biden with $6 Million Bribe

>>9598584 Former FBI Director William Sessions dies at 90

>>9598614 China's rich seek ways to move cash abroad as yuan weakens

>>9598643 Hallandale Beach SWAT team steps down, outraged over police chief kneeling with protesters

>>9598733 Facebook Appoints Israeli Censor to Oversight Board

>>9598742 Right-wing & BLM protesters face off in London, police intervene

>>9598795 Italy, Germany, France & Netherlands sign deal for up to 400 million Oxford Covid-19 vaccines – Italian health minister

>>9598836 Truck Drivers Say They Will Not Deliver to Dangerous Far Left Cities with Defunded Police Departments

>>9598887 UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear

>>9598933 Hillary Clinton Criticizes Trump Campaign over Coronavirus Waiver: ‘Shouldn’t Be Holding’ Rallies

>>9598952 Black Lives Matter Founder an Open Supporter of Socialist Venezuelan Dictator Maduro

>>9599007 Similarities with Macedonian Color Revolution 2015 & current US situation

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1 June Q post 4384 Roger ball

'Approximately 18 seconds before the aircraft touches down on the flight deck, the LSO calls out "Roger, ball" to signal to everyone that the pilot is cleared to land' https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=104292

Roger ball is 18 seconds from landing

18 secs aka days

19 June fightback launches

Q post 1281 Done in 30

Expand.

19 June + 30 days = 19 July

Q post 4256 11 week countdown to Q starting 17 May we are in week 6

5 weeks to go starting next week

11 weeks = 77 days 17 May + 77 days = 19 July

Complete Chaos until the 19th?

Delingpole: London’s Race-Baiting Mayor Khan Is Pouring Petrol on the Flames

One of the more dispiriting revelations of recent days has been the terrifying degree to which our great cities — from Seattle to Toronto, from Minneapolis to Bristol — are now utterly in thrall to the radical left.

Yes, of course, this has been years in the making and we’ve all seen the warning signs. But it’s shocking and dispiriting all the same to see, for example, a metropolis as mighty as London brought low by the machinations and dirty politics of the crappy, two-bit, Islamist Social Justice Warrior currently acting as its Mayor.

As if his record on everything from censorship to knife crime wasn’t bad enough, Mayor Sadiq Khan has embarrassed London further by allowing a statue of Britain’s greatest hero Winston Churchill to be vandalised right in front of the Houses of Parliament by a bitter, hard-left, race-baiting mob.

Now, to add insult to injury, he has had the statue boarded up for reasons which smack of both cowardice and cynicism.

The cowardice (which also includes a good measure of Khan’s trademark incompetence) is the way it capitulates to the mob. It sends out a signal that the Metropolitan Police — who come largely under the Mayor of London’s control — are now incapable of keeping order and protecting property even in the most heavily guarded, security-conscious zone of the entire city.

The cynicism lies in the timing. Khan is boarding up the statue in part, I would argue, in order to smear his political opponents.

This Saturday various groups will be arriving in London in a show of defiance against the recent, violent Black Lives Matter/Antifa rallies where police officers (and at least one police horse) were viciously assaulted and where public property was damaged.

These groups range from the mostly white working-class Democratic Football Lads Alliance (invariably and for the most part unfairly described in the mainstream media as “far-right thugs”) to sundry military veterans properly incensed at watching their capital’s streets mobbed, its war memorials vandalised, their national heroes mocked, and their history trashed by a bunch of hard-left bully boys.

Khan wants to promote the narrative that the real threat to Britain’s security comes — against all evidence — not from the far left but from the “far right”. Hence his series of provocative tweets like this one below:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/13/londons-race-baiting-mayor-khan-is-pouring-petrol-on-the-flames/

Trump To West Point Cadets: You’re Joining The Ranks Of Those Who Sent Tyrants ‘Through The Gates Of Hell’

President Donald Trump delivered a commencement address to the graduating cadet class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, with graduates spaced six feet apart and no parents in attendance.

The socially distanced graduation took place on the historic West Point Plain Parade Field on Saturday morning, with the coronavirus forcing more changes than just the six-foot space between chairs. Rather than receiving their diplomas in-person and shaking hands with the president, graduates stepped forward to exchange salutes with Trump and West Point Superintendent Army Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams when their names were called. Friends and family members also viewed the graduation online.

Trump’s remarks focused on the pedigree of West Point graduates, which include American icons like Gen. George Patton, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gen. Omar Bradley.

Trump said the officers were now joining the ranks of a force “who sent tyrants, terrorists and sadistic monsters running scared through the gates of hell.”

“No evil force on earth can match the noble power and righteous glory of the American warrior,” Trump said.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/13/trump-west-point-commencement-coronavirus/

6-Hour Maritime Interdiction Leads to Arrest of 25 Migrants, Smuggler

CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents tracked an ocean-going boat with a load of migrants for 6.5 hours before interdicting the failed human smuggling effort off the coast of California. The interdiction marks the second human smuggling bust in as many days for AMO agents.

An AMO aircrew assigned to a multi-role enforcement aircraft on patrol office the San Diego Coast on June 10 observed a boat leaving Mexican waters headed to the U.S. This aircrew tracked the boat for 3.5 hours before handing off to a second surveillance aircraft, according to information provided by San Diego Sector CBP officials.

The second aircrew continued tracking the vessel for an additional three hours and vectored an AMO coastal interceptor vessel to interdict. At about 2:3o a.m. the marine interdiction craft came into contact with the boat from Mexico off the shore of Point Loma, California, officials stated.

The marine agents boarded the 32-foot cabin cruiser and identified 25 migrants onboard plus the boat’s captain. Due to the number of passengers on the boat, AMO agents contacted a U.S. Coast Guard vessel to assist in the transportation of the migrants to shore. The Coast Guard Cutter Menjamin Bottoms responded and took custody of the migrants. The cutter transported the migrants to awaiting Border Patrol agents at the dock.

Border Patrol agents identified the illegal aliens as Mexican nationals — 18 adult men (ages 18-66), six adult women (agents 20-47), and one 15-year-old boy. Border Patrol officials said they will all be returned to Mexico after being medically cleared and passing a criminal background investigation.

“From the time our aircraft crew first spotted this boat, we continuously tracked the vessel for six and a half hours before interdicting this boat, and working with our partners to bring everyone to shore,” Christopher Hunter, Deputy Director of Marine Operations for CBP in San Diego said in the written statement. “These kinds of lengthy pursuits are very taxing, but not unusual for our Air and Marine agents as smugglers try to use the vastness of the ocean to cover their tracks.”

AMO agents seized the smuggler’s boat.

One day earlier, AMO agents detected another boat where the smugglers spray painted the boat black in an attempt to avoid detection, Breitbart Texas reported.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/06/13/6-hour-maritime-interdiction-leads-to-arrest-of-25-migrants-smuggler/

Pompeo Going to Meet Chinese Officials in Hawaii

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is going to hold a meeting with Chinese government officials in Hawaii, media reported.

Details of the meeting are being currently finalized, the Politico newspaper reported, citing two sources.

The US Department of State and the Chinese Embassy in the United States have not commented on the reports yet, Politico added.

Under President US Donald Trump's administration, relations between the two countries have considerably soured, with Washington accusing Beijing of unfair trade practices, human rights violations in some of its regions, and encroachment on the special status of Hong Kong. China has denied the accusations and, in its turn, pointed to various violations of international law on the part of the United States.

Since the eruption of the coronavirus pandemic, Washington has also been accusing Beijing of concealing information about the outbreak and failing to inform the international community about it in time. The allegations have been refuted by China.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202006131079600206-pompeo-going-to-meet-chinese-officials-in-hawaii–reports/

US Troops in Colombia “Associate with Illegal Groups”, Killing Farmers, Seek to “Spark a War with Venezuela”

Since the end of May, 53 military personnel have arrived in the country: five on May 27 and 48 on Tuesday.

Colombian senators on Wednesday said that U.S. troops that arrived in the South American country in early June are allowed to associate with illegal groups and seek an eventual international confrontation.

The Democratic Congressman Ivan Cepeda revealed that the current manuals of the U.S. special forces (SFAB) that arrived in Colombia “mention the function of advising non-governmental militias and illegal partners.”

“We can end up like Libya, a destroyed state that has become a field for the multinational oil companies,” the opposition congressman added.

The arrival of U.S. military personnel in the country without the consent of Congress demonstrates the responsibility of the government of Ivan Duque in that regard.

The presence of foreign troops in Colombia violates the Peace Agreement aplication. It turns social plan implementation territories into theatres of war.

The Democratic Pole, Congressman Wilson Arias, also valued that, “this is the operations manual of the US special forces, strengthening paramilitary groups and working with them.

Since the end of May, 53 military personnel have arrived in the country: five on May 27 and 48 on Tuesday.

The military are in obligatory preventive isolation and as soon as they finish the quarantine they will move to Tumaco (Nariño), Tibú (Norte de Santander), Macarena (Meta) and the rest will stay in Bogotá.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/colombia-us-troops-country-seek-international-conflict/5715771

Video: Hearing Is Not Like Seeing: NATO’s Terrorists Burning Syrian Wheat Crops

A video clip shared by local farmers from Ras Al-Ayn showing an inferno burning their livelihood before their eyes, hundreds of acres of wheat on fire just as the crop is due to harvest.

We’ve been reporting about these fires in areas of operation of the NATO’s Turkish (Orwellian-named) ‘Spring of Peace’ military operation in northern, and especially in northeastern Syria regions as well as in areas where remnants and sleeper cells of NATO-sponsored terrorists of ISIS and its affiliates are active in the south of the country.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-nato-terrorists-burning-syrian-wheat-crops/5715759

Envoy: Trump Wants US Troops Out of South Korea, Japan

Germany cuts may just be the beginning

Outgoing US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grennel finally tackled US troop cut announcement for Germany, saying it is in keeping with Trump’s position, and that he also wants cuts in Japan and South Korea.

Grennel said he doesn’t think this sends a wrong signal because its been Trump’s position all along that the deployments cost the US too much.

In addressing South Korea, it is likely the administration is trying to scare yet more money out of them after months of failed negotiations. Trump was always expected to seek more money from Germany, but was unlikely to get it.

Polls have showed that while German politicians are somewhat split, voters much preferred a US pullout to more military spending. Die Linke MPs enthusiastically said the US cuts could save money.

South Korea has already offered a substantial increase, but are far from Trump’s unprecedented demands. Japan is also expected to oppose massive new demands from the US.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/06/12/envoy-trump-wants-us-troops-out-of-south-korea-japan/

Pentagon Starts Bailing Out Companies That have Lost Business Due to Coronavirus

The Defense Department is sending millions of dollars to keep companies afloat, and more deals are expected.

The Pentagon has begun to bail out U.S. companies that have seen large parts of their business dry up amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a bid to make sure they can still build weapons.

On Wednesday, officials announced that five mid-tier defense companies had received a total of $135 million to “help sustain defense-critical workforce capabilities in body armor, aircraft manufacturing, and shipbuilding,” according to a Defense Department statement.“These actions will help to retain critical workforce capabilities throughout the disruption caused by COVID-19 and to restore some jobs lost because of the pandemic,” Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, a Defense Department spokesman, said in the statement.

Meanwhile, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers that DoD plans to ask Congress for money to reimburse many of its contractors for COVID-related expenditures; for example, wages paid to keep employees on the payroll despite idled production lines and vacated offices; purchases of personal protective gear, and alterations to factory and other work spaces for social distancing.

These moves will buttress earlier Pentagon efforts to shore up its COVID-rattled contractors, including paying firms more money up front and awarding multibillion-dollar contracts earlier than planned.

On Wednesday, Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, told a House Armed Services Committee hearing that the Pentagon has asked White House’s Office of Management and the Budget for permission to request on the lower end” of “tens of billions of dollars” to cover personnel-cost reimbursements in a future coronavirus stimulus package.

The CARES Act allows defense companies to recoup money they used to keep employees working amid the pandemic. But while Congress authorized these disbursements, it appropriated no new funds to cover them. If lawmakers don’t provide the money, Lord said, Pentagon officials would likely have to cut weapons programs.

“The defense industrial base, I believe, is the nexus of economic security and national security,” Lord told lawmakers. “It’s vitally important to make sure that they remain as healthy as possible.”

To date, Lord said, no contractors have requested reimbursements.

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2020/06/pentagon-starts-bailing-out-companies-have-lost-business-due-coronavirus/166106/?oref=d-topstory

Wealth transfer to the corporate elite continues

Coalition chairman: No Palestinian state as long as I'm around

MK Miki Zohar makes clear that he supports sovereignty but will not permit the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Amid the disagreements within the right surrounding the application of sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria, coalition chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) made clear on Friday that as long as he serves as coalition chairman, there will not be a Palestinian state.

"I am in favor of applying sovereignty to all Jewish communities in all parts of the Land of Israel," Zohar told Meir Berger, political commentator of Hamevaser newspaper. "This is a historic opportunity that it is not certain we will have in the future - to apply sovereignty to at least 30 percent of Judea and Samaria. We should not be afraid to acknowledge the fact that this is our holy land and ours alone."

"On the other hand, I strongly oppose the principle of a Palestinian state. I will not allow any situation in which the government or Knesset commits itself to the establishment of a Palestinian state. As long as I am the chairman of the coalition, I will ensure these matters, as these are ideological and principled matters on which I will not compromise."

"Obviously there are still issues within the plan that require treatment. These issues include the roads, the enclaves, and more. But these are things that can be dealt with. These are not things that are unresolvable. Except for the fact of a Palestinian state which is something that, as I said, I will in no way agree to."

Zohar commented on the political partnership with the Blue and White party, claiming it can work out. "It is possible to work with them. There is a very positive collaboration with Blue and White. They look at things very matter-of-factly and they make very statesmanlike decisions.”

"There are big gaps between us on all kinds of issues, for example on issues related to the legal system or the Land of Israel. But still, when I look at the establishment of the unity government, I understand that this was the right thing that is needed for the present time. In the end, we have to put our ego aside and work for the good of the people of Israel."

At the same time, he acknowledged that a reform on issues related to the legal system is not expected anytime soon due to material differences of opinion between the parties.

“It’s true. On issues related to the legal world, we have not been able to come to terms with them. Therefore, I do not identify any legal reform that is expected to take place soon."

(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281776

The I Of The Storm

Talk about chaotic times. To look on the surface, the external can really get you down. It defies common sense while at the same time it appears obviously engineered to be the way it is.

It’s the reactivity that gets to us.

Sure there are very real threats, especially the techno-insanity being foisted upon humanity. Besides the obvious political and media toxic sewage being pumped out, the escalating Orwellian tracking mechanisms and especially the exponentially increasing microwave assaults are a very real threat to the survival of not just our species, but our entire planet.

All of this is nothing new. They’ve just created a reason to step on the gas using this latest false flag. This time with an unseen threat that again, like the so-called war on terror, is a ploy that has no possible end and can be refreshed at will.

It’s not a pretty picture out there.

The Fear Factor

Fear is an amazing subject. Consciously and subconsciously perceived reality mixed with personal fear based belief systems are what activate the most detrimental effects of all of this. This is where it gets real personal, whatever external forces assail.

Imagine if no one got triggered by the barrage of fake science, or the obvious race baiting going on. It’s not easy sometimes to untangle the spaghetti of entangled influences. I like what Alexander did to the Gordian knot – he just sliced through the bullshit. That’s what the sword of Truth does.

It seems they’re at every turn anticipating and provoking what they consider to be an easily fooled and triggered populace. That’s how this works. And what’s the common denominator?

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/06/the-i-of-the-storm.html

8 Simple Steps To End The Lockdown: Say Yes, Not No

To those paying attention, the evidence about Covid-19 and the lockdown response is clear. We’ve been sold a pup.

The UK Government itself has confirmed several times that the virus is not serious to the majority of people who catch it. The lockdown was a panic-driven overreaction.

For example, in the UK the infection rate has receded, there’s been no evidence of a link between infection rates and social distancing, lockdown, and the wearing of masks It’s all been guesswork.

Yet the UK government has just declared it mandatory for the public to wear masks on public transport from 15 June 2020. That makes no sense whatsoever. Even the World Health Organisation (WHO), from which the government cherry-pick their guidance to reinforce ‘trust the experts’ narratives, for months advised that it was not necessary to wear masks. The WHO curiously U-turned on this in recent days.

So far, most of the public aren’t picking up on these anomalies, or at least when they do, it doesn’t particularly register with them, perhaps because of the continued media avalanche of misinformation, distraction, and scaremongering.

If people are told by the media that social distancing works, they seem to accept it, even if a brief reflection would make them realise there’s no evidence that lockdown translates into lower infection rates, particularly when there are so many other factors and unknowns in play.

So, it’s not really about going over the facts and figures or science anymore. It’s about merely getting the obvious conclusions, so far largely kept from the public, out there.

Therefore, how do we achieve this and get out of this lockdown mess to begin repairing the terrible damage caused to date?

Just the other day, Professor Ferguson, whose forecasts were central to the lockdown decision, basically admitted that lockdown made no difference when it came to containing Covid-19.

Great, so we can go back to normal?

Unfortunately, this huge admission only made it to the middle pages of a few newspaper publications. The rest of the media missed the story and continued with their usual brain-dead output.

But, perhaps we can get the government to admit they acted upon wrong advice and the lockdown was a mistake?

Well, hold on there. No one likes to admit they’re wrong, particularly when the errors are huge and so stupid beyond belief. That’s never going to happen voluntarily, at least without some encouragement or a sweetener.

Perhaps, however, there’s a chance. The proposal below is simple and quick. It gets us out of lockdown without too much recrimination. And the idea may have further appeal to the government because it will give them a sense of ultimate power (we know they love that). Hopefully it will mean that we can all move forward – back to the old normal.

https://theduran.com/8-simple-steps-to-end-the-lockdown-say-yes-not-no/

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Crazy week incoming then fight back!

US confirms readiness to cooperate with Moscow on Russia Day - envoy

John Sullivan highlighted that cooperation of great nations brought an end to Nazi aggression in Europe

MOSCOW, June 12. /TASS/. The United States Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan congratulated Russian citizens on behalf of US President Donald Trump and the American people on Russia Day, confirming Washington’s readiness to cooperate.

"On this the 30th Russia Day we reaffirm our wish to work with the people of Russia to create a more peaceful, prosperous world for all our citizens," the diplomat said in a video address posted on the US Embassy’s Twitter account. "On this holiday the United States recalls the democratic aspirations the Russian Federation embraced three decades ago and salutes the Russian people who continue to work toward achieving the universal freedoms enshrined in your Constitution," he stated.

"Our countries have come together at important moments to confront critical challenges as the global community marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. The US honors the shared sacrifice of all those who sought to defeat Nazism and fascism, including the millions of Russian soldiers and citizens who endured enormous suffering and loss of life," he noted.

The ambassador highlighted that cooperation of great nations brought an end to Nazi aggression in Europe. "I hope we can strive to do the same now as we collaborate to overcome current global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic so that the citizens of all countries may share a healthy, secure and democratic future."

Russia Day is a state holiday celebrated since 1992 on the day of the adoption of the declaration of state sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

https://tass.com/world/1167165

UAE said to warn Washington annexation will cripple Gulf backing for Trump plan

Abu Dhabi also says Israeli move would end all efforts at public rapprochement with Jewish state, including talk of non-aggression pact, according to TV report

The United Arab Emirates has warned the White House that an Israeli move to unilaterally annex parts of the West Bank will severely impair Gulf states’ cooperation with the Trump administration’s peace plan and will end all efforts at public rapprochement with Israel, Channel 12 reported Saturday.

UAE diplomats conveyed the message to Washington at the same time as a top diplomat for the country published an unprecedented op-ed in a leading Israeli newspaper, warning against the push to apply sovereignty to settlements and the Jordan Valley, the report said.

Abu Dhabi was said to warn that an American green-light for annexation would severely curtail Gulf states’ support for the plan, and lead them to take a step back from the US efforts.

In addition, it said such a step would end all efforts to bring Israel and the Gulf States publicly closer together, including efforts that were discussed to sign non-aggression pacts.

The network also reported that with two weeks left until Netanyahu’s July 1 target date to start the ball rolling on annexation, defense officials have not seen any maps or been given a timetable.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/uae-said-to-warn-washington-annexation-will-cripple-gulf-backing-for-trump-plan/

Masks now seen as vital tool in coronavirus fight

Evidence is mounting that widespread mask-wearing can significantly slow the spread of coronavirus and help reduce the need for future lockdowns.

Public health authorities did not initially put an emphasis on masks, but that's changed and there is now increasing consensus that they play an important role in hindering transmission of the virus at a time when wearing one has become politicized as some states and businesses have made them a requirement for certain activities.

Wearing a mask is also seen by experts as a relatively easy action that could help avoid much costlier responses like stay at home orders and closing businesses.

“It's a lot less economically disruptive to wear a mask than to shut society, so I can't understand some of the resistance to mask wearing,” Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on a call with reporters on Thursday.

Experts say mask-wearing is not the only response needed to slow the spread of the virus. Avoiding crowds and staying six feet apart from others is also important, as is an effective system of testing and contact tracing so people can quarantine and prevent further spread.

A study from University of Cambridge researchers this week found that widespread mask-wearing can help prevent a resurgence of the virus with less reliance on lockdowns that have proven economically devastating.

The modeling in the study found that if 50 percent or more of the population routinely wore masks, each infected person would on average spread the virus to less than one additional person, causing the outbreak to decline, the university said.

“We have little to lose from the widespread adoption of facemasks, but the gains could be significant,” Renata Retkute, one of the authors of the study, said in a statement.

Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA Commissioner for President Trump, pointed to the study on Twitter this week and wrote: "More widespread masking with higher quality masks could help mitigate a second wave."

It cannot be ruled out that further lockdowns will be needed, but wearing a mask is one part of a strategy to help avoid them, according to Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“I think it could substantially help open workplaces, but I’d still want to maximize distancing,” he said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/502539-masks-now-seen-as-vital-tool-in-coronavirus-fight

Seattle police chief and mayor at loggerheads over handling of George Floyd protests, autonomous area

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and police chief Carmen Best are at odds over the city's handling of the self-declared autonomous zone set up by protesters spanning several blocks surrounding a police precinct.

Best has accused the mayor of shirking her responsibilities as an elected official and allowing protesters to oust police officers from a precinct located inside the 6-block radius now deemed a "cop free zone."

Demonstraters inside the perimeter of the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" - or "CHAZ" - have battened down for almost a week decrying police brutality after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and are demanding the city abolish the Seattle Police Department.

Attempts to identify the leaders of the organized demonstrations and negotiate a deal to allow officers back into the area have been unsuccessful.

Best and Durkan appeared at a joint press conference on Thursday, and was asked by a reporter if they had faith in each other, Komo News reported.

“Yes, I have faith in the mayor," Best said. "I’m standing right next to her giving this briefing."

“I have confidence in the chief,” the mayor said. "We’ve been asked in other forums, 'Are you going to resign? Is the chief going to resign?' The answer is no and no.”

But the local news outlet reported observers typified the exchange as tense and seemingly forced.

The two city officials have repeatedly given diverging messages over the ongoing situation in Seattle, compounding speculation of rising tensions behind closed doors.

Best, in an interview with "Good Morning America on Friday," said she was angry about the protester takeover.

“I am very angry about the situation that we have and at this point we just want to make sure that it gets resolved,” she said.

Durkan, on the other hand, expressed her support for the peaceful demonstrations and described it as an act of "patriotism."

“Lawfully gathering and expressing First Amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism. It’s patriotism,” the mayor said at a press conference.

Despite their differences, Best and Durkan attempted a united front on Friday, participating in the Black Lives Matter Seattle Kings County silent march against police brutality.

The mayor thanked Best in a post on Twitter.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-police-chief-mayor-clash-george-floyd-autonomous-zone-chaz

Police Reform Faces Key Test at Supreme Court

The new national push to reform police practices will face an early test at the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, as the justices decide whether to revisit a legal rule that protects police officers from lawsuits involving constitutional violations.

Congressional Democrats and criminal justice reform advocates are pushing to abolish qualified immunity, a defense available to police in civil rights cases that is extremely difficult for plaintiffs to surmount. Lifting immunity would leave law enforcement financially responsible for wrongdoing, which advocates say would help curb wrongdoing by cops.

While a cross-ideological body of critics say the doctrine has made it impossible told hold cops accountable in court, the prospects of a legislative compromise look dim.

The legislative bottleneck is putting heightened attention in the Court’s decision. About a dozen petitions now pending before the justices urge the Court to rein in qualified immunity or rescind it altogether.

The Court could announce whether it will hear one of those cases as soon as Monday. Arguments would take place in the winter, with a decision to follow by summer 2021.

But there are reasons the justices might defer to the political branches, at least for the time being. The Court generally resists putting itself between Congress and the president, particularly on issues subject to active deliberations. Yet refusing to act could extract its own costs.

"I think it puts the Court in a tough spot," Dan Epps, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told the Washington Free Beacon. "Chief Justice Roberts seems to love dodging controversial issues when there’s a chance the Court won’t have to decide the question because of what the political branches might do. But here it’s not clear what the Court can do that won’t make the justices part of the story."

"It wouldn’t surprise me to see the cases get held without action for some time, or perhaps denied with some kind of statement by one or more justices explaining that they remain interested in the issue," Epps added.

https://freebeacon.com/courts/police-reform-faces-key-test-at-supreme-court/

Corporate America Pledges $1.7 Billion to Black Lives Matter

It is going to be quite a trip watching Black Lives Matter spend billions of dollars in the coming years handed to them by the most powerful megacorporations in the world to tell everyone how "systemically oppressed" they are!

From Black Enterprise, "Black Lives Matter: Corporate America Has Pledged $1.678 Billion So Far":

Companies have made extraordinary pledges of support in the face of significant operational and financial challenges. Many have stepped up support for black workers and communities. These monetary commitments are designed to facilitate and support "action for racial justice – to empower, support, and accelerate immediate solutions, as well as work towards long-term systematic transformation."

What is surprising is the paucity of corporations and the stinginess of the donations. In a sense, this shows the true regard corporate America has for black people and is, in actuality, why marches and demonstrations were required in the first place. The corporations in our BLM response database list earned over $400 billion in 2019. While we understand that the level of uncertainty in the economy warrants conservation of monetary resources, these institutions are the primary beneficiaries of the Fed's corporate credit facility, a $6.7 trillion dollar expansion in the Federal Reserve's balance sheet specifically designed to help these corporations.

Indeed, this is where our bailout money went.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61533

Hertz Allowed To Sell $1 Bn In Shares Despite Bankruptcy

Coronavirus-hit car rental company Hertz was granted permission Friday to sell $1 billion in shares, an extraordinary move after it declared bankruptcy in the United States and Canada.

The unusual green light was given by a bankruptcy court in the US state of Delaware, which "held a hearing and approved the Motion," according to documents filed by Hertz with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The company says it will sell the shares at its discretion in terms of timing and volume.

Hertz is trying to capitalize on a surge in its volatile stock price since it filed for bankruptcy on May 23.

Trading at less than a dollar at the end of last week, shares are now worth three times as much, even peaking at $5.53 at the beginning of the week.

On Friday the stock climbed 37.38 percent during the day, but fell 10.5 percent to $2.53 at 2130 GMT in after-market trading.

Traditionally, shares of bankrupt companies lose value with debt repayment taking precedence.

Experts say in Hertz's case, however, the price has been affected by the abundance of cheap money flooding the economy after the US Federal Reserve turned on the tap to combat the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Traders after a good deal are also playing a role.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hertz which filed for bankruptcy after lockdowns imposed to stop the spread of COVID-19 devastated the car rental industry is buried under $19 billion in debt.

https://www.ibtimes.com/hertz-allowed-sell-1-bn-shares-despite-bankruptcy-2993052

SPLC Uses Anniversary of Islamic Terror Attack to Demonize Conservative Christians

Four years ago yesterday, a radical Islamic terrorist opened fire in Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others. He pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) during the attack, and ISIS later claimed responsibility. Yet, because Pulse is a gay bar, leftists have memory-holed the terrorist’s intentions and blamed “anti-LGBT hate” for the heinous attack. On Friday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) used the anniversary of the shooting to demonize conservative Christians and the Trump administration.

“The Pulse murders occurred during Pride Month in a nightclub that acted as a haven for LGBTQ people in Orlando to celebrate their whole selves. Anti-LGBTQ hate groups and some members of the radical right, in a sickening display of bigotry, praised the gunman after the attack,” the SPLC’s Lecia Brooks wrote in a post commemorating the anniversary.

“It’s clear that the LGBTQ community remains under threat — the 2019 SPLC Year in Hate and Extremism report showed a nearly 43% spike in anti-LGBTQ hate groups. Groups that vilify the LGBTQ community, the report found, represented the fastest-growing sector among hate groups in 2019, rising from 49 in 2018 to 70 the following year,” Brooks added. “LGBTQ hate even has a home in the halls of the White House: The Trump administration has welcomed members of these hate groups who have designed new, oppressive policies.”

So, who are these nefarious “hate groups” who would celebrate radical Islamic terrorism and yet somehow weaseled their way into the Trump White House, which is — shall we say — not the biggest hub for radical Islam?

Well, the SPLC’s “anti-LGBTQ hate group” category is rather elastic, by design. The SPLC, which grew to prominence by suing the Ku Klux Klan and related racist hate groups into bankruptcy, has weaponized that history to defame its political opponents by accusing them of being “hate groups” like the KKK. It has a financial incentive to do so — SPLC co-founder Morris Dees discovered that “reporting on” “hate” is a fabulous fundraising tool. In fact, former SPLC employees have explained that much of the “hate” tracking is a scam, as the SPLC exaggerates the threat of mostly defunct “hate groups” in order to bilk donors.

“Anti-LGBTQ hate groups” include mainstream Christian law firms like Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which has won nine cases at the Supreme Court since 2011. The SPLC’s category includes the Ruth Institute, a Roman Catholic nonprofit dedicated to helping the victims of the Sexual Revolution. Upon accusing the Ruth Institute of being a “hate group,” the SPLC seized on RI’s statement that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,” which is a direct quote from the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet the SPLC has not marked the Catholic Church a “hate group…”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/13/splc-uses-anniversary-of-islamic-terror-attack-to-demonize-conservative-christians-n525473

It's Going Down, Antifa. Uncle Sam Just Started Delivering Payback for Terror Riots

The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast-to-coast following weeks of rioting following the killing of George Floyd by police. As Antifa itself would say, “it’s going down.”

From La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, and Dallas to Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma, Wash., more than 50 people have been indicted on various charges.

Conspicuously absent in this wave of indictments is anyone from Portland, Ore., arguably the area most seeded with members of the group designated as domestic terrorists by the Trump Administration. Rioters there attacked the Justice Center. They were back Saturday night to finish the job.

Among the crimes being pursued are:

Crossing state lines for purposes of riot

Throwing Molotov cocktails

Torching cop cars

Looting gun stores and pharmacies

Online threats against cops

Arson

Shining lasers in eyes of police helicopter pilots

Bringing guns to a riot

The New York Post reports on a couple of specific incidents.

Brandon Wolfe was arrested for swiping items from the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct on June 3. Cops found him with “body armor, a police-issue duty belt with handcuffs, an earphone piece, baton, and knife” and his name “handwritten in duct tape on the back of the body armor.”

Wolfe, 23, also had a “riot helmet, 9mm pistol magazine, police radio, and police issue overdose kit” and allegedly confessed to tossing a barrel into the fire at the precinct.

Antifa members are fond of impersonating police officers.

John Wesley Mobley Jr. was busted for allegedly flashing “what appeared to be a law enforcement badge” at protesters in Orlando on May 31 and threatening them, “Do you want to get arrested? Do you want to go to jail?”

One protester apparently responded, “He’s a Marshal!”

Mobley, 36, was also allegedly in possession of a BB gun replica of a Glock pistol, handcuffs and a silver badge reading “United States Marshal.”

He’s been convicted twice before for impersonating law enforcement.

Now, for the moment at least, the tables are finally turning on antifa. The real cops are doing their jobs.

It’s going down for real.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/06/13/its-going-down-antifa-uncle-sam-just-started-delivering-payback-for-terror-riots-n525503

>>9599753

DOC is a fucking clown

Been proven that many times but faggots keep defending him

>>9599811

want me to do a bun?