CLEAN-UP OPERATION: DC Police Clear Out Vermin from Streets North of White House Where Squatters Set Up “Autonomous Zone”

Time to go kids.

DC Police on Tuesday swept out the leftist vermin in the street attempting an autonomous zone in the nation’s capitol.

The squatters wanted an autonomous zone blocks from the White House.

They want a revolution.

The DC Police were chanting, “Move forward. Move forward…” as they cleared the street from far left activists.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/clean-operation-dc-police-clear-vermin-streets-north-white-house-squatters-set-autonomous-zone/

Governor Huckabee on Radical Left’s Calls to Eliminate Christian Statues and Artwork: “These Crazy People on the Left Are Becoming Like Islamic Terrorists”

Race activist Shaun King on Monday called for the taking down of all statues, murals and stained glass windows of “white Jesus and his European mother”. King issued his statement on Twitter to his 1.1 million followers.

Mike Huckabee compared these actions on the left to the Taliban Islamists.

Mike Huckabee: “These crazy people are becoming like Islamic terrorists.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/governor-huckabee-radical-lefts-calls-eliminate-christian-statues-artwork-crazy-people-left-becoming-like-islamic-terrorists/

Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes South Of Mexico City; 1 Dead

Update (1200ET): The US National Weather Service just warned that a tsunami could hit Mexico, and/or parts of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

TSUNAMI WAVES 1-3 METERS ABOVE TIDE LEVEL POSSIBLE ALONG MEXICO

TSUNAMI WAVES 0.3 TO 1 METERS ABOVE TIDE POSSIBLE ALONG ECUADOR

TSUNAMI WAVES LESS THAN 0.3 METERS POSSIBLE ALONG COSTA RICA

Vulnerable stretches of coastline are being evacuated. So far, there have been no reports of falling buildings in Mexico City, though the mayor of the city said there has been "some" structural damage.

Video from the scene has made its way on to social media.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/magnitude-71-earthquake-strikes-mexico-city

‘No exceptions!’ Trump orders the arrest of anyone vandalizing monuments, warns they face up to 10 years in prison

Donald Trump has authorized law enforcement to arrest anyone who vandalizes statues or other landmarks on federal property and sentence them to as much as a decade in prison. He said the measures can also be imposed retroactively.

The US president wrote on Twitter that he would no longer tolerate the destruction of federal property.

“I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent,” he said, adding that his instructions would be implemented “immediately” and may also be used retroactively to prosecute vandals.

“There will be no exceptions!” he warned.

Trump had earlier hinted that protesters who attacked a statue of Andrew Jackson, located across from the White House in Lafayette Park, could face years in prison. He said similar punishments could be imposed on those who vandalized the historic St. John’s Church.

Police intervened and dispersed the protesters as they attempted to pull down the Jackson statue on Monday. The statue, as well as the nearby church, was tagged with graffiti.

Countless statues and monuments have been vandalized and toppled across the United States. In most cases, police have been hesitant to get involved. Trump's new directive appears to apply only to federal property – which likely means that many instances of vandalism will remain unpunished.

https://www.rt.com/usa/492692-trump-people-vandalizing-monuments-arrested/

Project Veritas Undercover Video: Facebook Content Moderator: ‘If Someone is Wearing a MAGA Hat, I Am Going to Delete Them For Terrorism’

https://youtu.be/l7o4A16QCxE

Apple Can Now Unlock Your Car And Listen To You Washing Your Hands

Among some of the more disturbing features revealed at yesterday's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote were the additions of CarKey - a feature that is going to allow some BMW owners to unlock their car with their phone - and an app on your watch that literally listens to you wash your hands and reminds you if you haven't washed them for long enough.

The company was adamant on Monday that it wants to replace your car keys, despite the fact that the company's long-held goal of making its own EV hasn't materialized. Instead, it appears to have surrendered the whole car and is now focusing on something a little bit easier: putting your car keys on your smartphone.

"They've been around for over 100 years but they've become big, bulky and ripe for reimagining," am Apple company executive said on stage yesterday.

The company is going to be rolling out the feature for 2021 BMW 5 series vehicles to start and demonstrated the "feature" on Monday, showing that even just a door handle top with an iPhone can now unlock a sedan. Drivers can then place the phone on the car's charging pad and start the vehicle.

But that's not all: BMW owners will be able to unlock their car from long distances using a technology called "ultra wideband" and will also be able to share their car's key simply by sending a message to someone else's phone.

Recall, we wrote about a year ago about hackers that have cracked similar key fobs by using cloners and range extenders to steal vehicles, notably Teslas.

It was back in 2018 that researchers unveiled a serious flaw in the security of Tesla's vehicles, relating to the Model S keyless entry system, according to Wired. With little more than standard radio equipment, hackers were able to defeat the car's encryption and wirelessly clone the sedan's key fob in seconds, allowing them to unlock the car and drive away without ever touching the owner's key.

In response to this report, Tesla created a "new" version of its key fob that supposedly patched the underlying flaw. But now, predictably, the same researchers are back and say that they have found yet another vulnerability that even affects the replacement key fobs.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-can-now-unlock-your-car-and-listen-you-washing-your-hands

‘Christianity’ trends as Americans fear it will be next on cancel culture’s chopping block

Christianity’ is trending across the United States, but it’s not some great reawakening of the American faithful – it’s anxious church-goers who are nervous that their religion will be next to suffer the wrath of cancel culture.

The phrase shot to the top of the Twitter trending charts after a member of US President Donald Trump’s legal team, Jenna Ellis, drew the battle lines with a rallying cry to her fellow Christians.

“I’m going on record now,” Ellis wrote. “If they try to cancel Christianity, if they try to force me to apologize or recant my Faith, I will not bend, I will not waver, I will not break.”

The lawyer added that she’s “proud to be an American,” upping the stakes in the Twitter row that was to unfold. The tweet clearly struck a chord with many as it quickly racked up over 65,000 likes. However, it also got under many peoples’ skin as it drew over 25,000 replies.

Unsurprisingly, the tweet served as a lightning rod for many who wanted to vent their spleen over the Trump administration, and Ellis was attacked for working for the president. It also provoked a wider debate about Christianity and over 100,000 messages were posted about the topic.

https://www.rt.com/usa/492676-christianity-trends-twitter-cancel-white-jesus/

Farage investigated by US Homeland Security over trip to attend Trump Tulsa rally

A US congressman who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security has launched an investigation into Nigel Farage after the Brexit Party leader apparently flew to America to attend a Donald Trump rally during the Covid-19 pandemic.

US Democrat representative Bennie G Thompson sent a letter to Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, on Monday, requesting “all relevant documents” on the decision to “waive the travel ban for Mr Farage,” saying it raised “troubling questions” at a time of strict restrictions being enforced.

Thompson highlighted media reports that Farage had initially been “denied boarding while trying to fly from the UK to the US on Friday,” but was subsequently given the green light by the Trump administration to make the trip.

The Brexit Party leader tweeted a photo of himself on Saturday looking very cheery, with the caption: “In the USA, only twenty four hours from Tulsa” – the location of the US president’s rally over the weekend. Images later emerged on Saturday night appearing to show the 56-year-old backstage at the ‘Team Trump on Tour’ as part of the rally.

The US has barred entry to arrivals from the UK, with exemptions given to US citizens, their family members and “individuals who meet specified exceptions.”

According to the congressman, America’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has provided a statement to his staff, saying the Department of Homeland Security conducted a review and concluded that Farage’s travel was “permissible” as his entry to the US “would be in the national interest,” and so he was allowed to board the flight.

In his letter to Wolf, the Mississippi Democrat also requested that the Department of Homeland Security provide “all communication” since March 14 relating to Farage’s trip and documents regarding the “determination and justification” that his entry was indeed in the “national interest.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/492674-farage-investigated-trip-trump-tulsa/

Black man with contentious cop history risks life to save officer from burning car: 'This man is my brother through Christ'

True faith

A man with a history of negative run-ins with local and state police saved the life a police officer after a fiery crash that surely would have taken the officer's life.

Daylan McLee, who is black, was sitting in his home Sunday evening when his house shook from a nearby impact.

He heard the boom just before his house rattled and believed that a small earthquake shook the city of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, — until a relative came into his house to tell him that there was a car crash outside his home.

McLee, 31, sprinted outside, only to discover Uniontown Police Officer Jay Hanley trapped in a burning police cruiser. The flames had just begun to spread into the passenger compartment when McLee intervened and dragged Hanley from the burning wreck.

"We felt it in the house and my sister came screaming that two cars hit each other and one was a cop," he recalled.

McLee said that Hanley asked not to be moved because of an apparent leg injury. He clearly didn't see or feel the flames from the wreck spreading up to the cruiser's cabin.

"Then we started to see flames start to come inside of the car from the bottom, and I knew we had to get him out," McLee explained. "Another officer tried to assist me, and I just ripped the door open and we started dragging him across the street before the car ignited or anything serious like that."

McLee also said that there was no way he could stand by and watch the officer burn to death.

"I know this man is my brother through Christ, and I couldn't leave him behind," McLee said. "There were people outside screaming. We felt it in the house. It was like a jolt."

State police are investigating the crash.

"The investigation is going to show whether the traffic signal was working properly, whether the lights and the sirens on the vehicle were working at the time of the crash," Trooper Robert Broadwater explained. "It's still undetermined."

First responders flew Hanley to a nearby hospital for leg surgery. The driver of the other vehicle was able to walk away from the accident.

You can watch a video report on the incident here.

What else?

Uniontown Police Lieutenant Thomas Kolencik told WTAE-TV that there is no doubt in his mind that McLee saved Hanley's life.

"Daylan actually said, 'I'm not going to let him die.' There's just no words to describe, you know," he recalled. "We are so thankful Daylan was in the area at the time. It could have been a lot worse."

Uniontown Mayor Bill Gerke said that McLee truly cares about people and is easily the strongest man in the city.

"The day I met him is still the way he is today," Gerke said. "He cares about people, he cares about Uniontown, and that's what Uniontown is all about."

He added, "He said he's a God-fearing man, and he cares about all human beings, and no one was going to die on his watch. I'm sure he didn't wake up yesterday morning and that was on his mind that he was going to pull someone out of a burning car in the middle of Fayette Street, but thank goodness Daylan was there."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-man-risks-life-saves-cop

Tampa police officers 'ambushed' by hundreds of protesters, attacked with glass while trying to find a shooting victim

The police chief is calling it a 'setup'

Overhead footage of a chaotic and violent gathering in Tampa, Florida, Saturday shows police officers being driven back by large crowds of people in what the city's police chief is calling a "setup."

In a press conference following the incident, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan told reporters that his officers were "ambushed" by the crowd of people and targeted with "bottles and glass."

"It's an ambush. I have no other way to describe it. When there are that many people out there and clearly no one had been shot. It was just a setup to get the cops there," Dugan said, according to WFTS-TV.

Officers originally responded to the scene after there were reports of shots fired with a possible victim, but when they arrived on the scene to investigate, they weren't able to locate a victim. Instead the crowd reportedly surrounded and harassed the officers, throwing objects and jumping on patrol cars.

Two officers were injured during the incident and taken to the hospital with lacerations, WTVT-TV reported. Both officers are expected to be fine.

The police chief noted the size of the crowd in his comments to the press.

"There were hundreds of them — hundreds. We ended up having to call every single police officer that was available that night to respond there, from New Tampa to South Tampa," he said.

Police arrested one man during the incident, Aaron Lamar Brown, 25, for violently resisting arrest and violating his probation, according to WFLA-TV.

Anything else?

The Saturday night incident was followed by a separate ambush that occurred Monday morning at a 7-Eleven, when a suspect resisted arrest and attempted to take an officer's gun.

The suspect also reportedly struck the officer in the face several times, leaving him with cuts and bruises.

Dugan made clear that he will not tolerate violence against his officers.

"There have been some violent acts. People are acting out. They think they can get away with doing whatever they want toward the cops," Dugan said. "We're going to use the necessary force to take people into custody. I think that's what people need to understand."

"The police, we always have everyone's back. Nobody has ours right now and that is what I think is missing here," he added. "The cops are not going to lie down. We're going to go out there and do our job, but we're being really careful."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-tampa-police-ambushed

Donald Trump on Slowing Coronavirus Testing: ‘I Don’t Kid’

President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday defended his comments about slowing coronavirus testing, noting the growing number of cases of the virus was a result of increased testing.

“I don’t kid, let me just tell you, let me just make it clear,” Trump replied when asked about his remarks at a campaign rally on Saturday that he wanted to slow coronavirus testing.

During the rally, the president said, “I said to my people slow the testing down, please,” a comment seized and criticized by cable news.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday the president’s comment was in jest to highlight the hypocrisy of the media.

But on Tuesday, Trump reaffirmed the high case numbers were a result of the increased testing as he left the White House to visit the southern border.

“We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world, we test better than anyone in the world,” he said.

He noted the United States had more than 25 million coronavirus tests performed, which far surpassed other countries.

“We test, we’re going to have more cases, by having more cases it sounds bad but actually what it is, we’re finding more people,” Trump said.

The president said the United States continued to have a very low mortality rate, despite the spike in cases.

“Here’s what I say, testing is a double-edged sword, in one way it tells you you have cases, in another way you find out where the cases are and you do a good job,” Trump said.

The president also expressed his frustrations with how the media covered the administration’s handling of the virus.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/23/donald-trump-on-slowing-coronavirus-testing-i-dont-kid/

Fauci: ‘None of Us Have Ever Been Told to Slow Down on Testing’

During Tuesday’s congressional hearing on coronavirus oversight, Dr. Anthony Fauci denied claims that they had been asked to scale back testing, clarifying that they will actually be “doing more.”

“I know for sure that to my knowledge none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing,” said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, when asked about President Trump’s recent comments.

“That just is a fact. In fact, we will be doing more testing,” he continued.

Fauci, a member of the coronavirus task force, also promised “much more surveillance if you want to get your arms around and understand exactly what’s going on in community spread.”

“So it’s the opposite. We’re going to be doing more testing, not less,” he added:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/23/fauci-none-of-us-have-ever-been-told-to-slow-down-on-testing/

BET Founder Robert Johnson Calls for Independent Black Lives Matter Political Party

Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Robert Johnson is calling on Black Lives Matter to break away from the Democrat Party to form an independent political party.

Joe Biden’s racist “you ain’t black” comment appears to have been what motivated Johnson to come up with this idea.

During a Tuesday morning appearance on CNBC, the billionaire explained, “I’ve been convinced for a long time that 40 millions African Americans who tend to vote as a bloc in one of the two parties limit their leverage in getting action from both parties.”

Last week, Johnson wrote a letter to Black Lives Matter urging them to do exactly that:

I am writing to you with a suggestion that Black Lives Matter (BLM) consider establishing a formal independent political party. The party could be founded on the principle articulated by the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. That formative principle stated, “Black people have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies.…just permanent interests.” The effort to create an independent Black party, created specifically to address Black issues, is not a new idea among Black people. There are many people, both Black and white who believe that independent parties can make a significant contribution to the current political system as to how this nation of 300 million diverse citizens can be governed in the best interest of all Americans. Many pundits will try to convince you that it is impossible for independent parties to exist in this country. They will argue that the American people seem to be satisfied with just two choices. To the contrary, I believe a politically astute and structured Black independent party, committed and engaged in the electoral process, can prove them wrong.

Earlier this month, Johnson argued for $14 trillion — with a “T” — in slavery reparations, which would be pretty difficult in a country that only has $1.5 trillion in cash floating around. Anyway…

On CNBC, Johnson expanded on his Black Lives Matter independent party idea: “I think it’s time African Americans to form an independent party, not be an appendage of one party or ignored by the other party.”

“Had African American interests been fully embraced by one of two of the dominant parties, we wouldn’t have the tremendous social and economic racial issues that we have now,” he continued.

Johnson added that he would like to see Black Lives Matter candidates run at all levels of government, local, state, and national.

Johnson admits it is too late for an independent party to gear up for this year, but believes now is the time to have the discussion. “As you can see, the Democrat Party is terrified of the notion that black folks might either vote a protest vote at the top of the ticket or decide to sit this out.”

As an example of how the Democrat Party takes the black vote for granted, Johnson referred back to Biden’s declaration last month that black people who don’t vote for him “ain’t black.” Johnson said this was a “horrific statement [that] reflects the need for a black independent party. That someone can be so presumptuous that you have to vote for a Democrat or otherwise you are not identified as black.”

“That is the principle reason why we need an independent black party — to change that kind of behavior so that we’re not taken for granted by the Democrats and ignored by the Republicans.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/06/23/nolte-bet-founder-robert-johnson-calls-for-independent-black-lives-matter-political-party/

CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: ‘We Are Right Back to Square One’ On Flattening The Curv

Monday on CNN, chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta said we were “right back to square one” when it comes to flattening the curve of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lemon asked, “Is this virus on brink of getting out of control again?”

Gupta said, “I worry it is. It was 18 states that were seeing significant growth on Monday of last week. So a week later you see five more states added to the list.”

Lemon asked, “You have heard what the Trump administration is saying about this, claiming the case surge is all about an increase in testing. There’s alarming data from states that show that is not true.”

Gupta said, “It’s not true. This is frustrating this many months into this. The only thing really that other countries have been able to use to be able to bring the case count low into the teens or hundreds, not the tens of thousands, has been robust testing. Finding people who have the virus, isolate them to break the cycle of transmission.”

He continued, “How do you explain hospitalization? If you look at hospitalizations in all the states you mentioned they are also going up. There’s Arizona, they have been going up. They should be going down. 2,000 hospitalizations? At this point in the pandemic that is not what we should be seeing. Same thing you see in Texas, same thing you see in Florida as well. I’m particularly worried about Florida. My parents live in Florida. This is a state where 20% of the population is over the age of 65. We know that the virus — there is a vulnerable population, people who are elderly, have preexisting conditions. Seventy-five percent of the ICU beds are already occupied in Florida.”

He added, “We kept talking about flattening the curve so as to not tax the hospital system. We are right back to square one in terms of that discussion again, flattening the curve. That was March. We should be having a new discussion, which is ‘bring this down to near zero.’ Instead, we’re talking about how to keep the hospitals from redlining once again.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/06/23/cnns-sanjay-gupta-we-are-right-back-to-square-one-on-flattening-curve/

Suspected UK Terrorist Was Released From Prison Early and Known to MI5

Khairi Saadallah, the Libyan refugee who has been detained on suspicion of perpetrating the knife attack in Reading, was released early from prison, was enrolled in the government’s Prevent deradicalisation scheme, and is believed to have been known to the UK’s security services as a possible terror suspect before the attack.

Saad­allah had been sentenced in October 2019 to 25 months and 20 days in prison for breaching a suspended jail term, racially motivated assault, criminal damage, and affray (public fighting) — yet only served 17 months and 20 days behind bars.

In March, the Court of Appeal decided to cut the prison sentence for the 25-year-old short, releasing him 16 days before the terrorist attack took place this past Saturday, June 20th.

The Libyan refugee was given strict licence conditions upon his release due to his violent past and history of mental illness. However, probation and social service officials reportedly struggled to keep track of him due to the Chinese coronavirus national lockdown.

“He obviously had an interest in extremism dating to last year. He had delusional and probably paranoid schizophrenia and was on strong medication which could be administered regularly in prison. His issues mean any trigger could have been very quick,” a source told The Sun.

The source added his motives for the attack — in which he killed men reported to be part of the Reading LGBT community — “remains unclear” and “His associations in prison are one line of inquiry”.

Khairi Saadallah reportedly first entered the United Kingdom as an illegal migrant in 2012 before being granted asylum in 2018.

According to The Telegraph, he had bragged to his friends that he was a former child soldier in Libya, fighting to overthrow Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

“He would describe himself as a Libyan soldier and said he had escaped because he didn’t want to be in the army,” a friend of Saadallah said.

The 25-year-old is also said to have told friends that he “fought for and against Islamic State” terrorist organisation. His erratic claims were believed by health officials to be linked to a form of mental illness, The Times reported.

Saadallah had been involved in the government’s Prevent programme, which seeks to deradicalise people, mostly of the younger generation, who are at risk of joining extremist groups or committing acts of terror.

He is reported to have met with Prevent officials, and had access to various support services provided through the programme. Officials, however, determined that Saadallah was not a likely terror threat.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/23/suspected-uk-terrorist-released-prison-early-known-mi5-prevent/

UK Police Sergeant Under Criminal Investigation for Sharing George Floyd ‘Meme’

A British sergeant for the Devon and Cornwall Police force is under criminal investigation for sharing an ‘offensive’ meme of George Floyd in a private group message with other officers.

The image of Mr Floyd was reportedly shared by the sergeant on May 30th, five days after Floyd died in an altercation with police in the United States. The meme was flagged by a fellow officer — like the Sergeant facing the allegations, also reported by a local news source to be of white ethnicity — and is now being investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to determine whether it was motivated by racism.

The content of the meme was or why it was deemed as offensive has not been revealed. The force is responsible for policing in the Devon and Cornwall area, one of England’s most rural regions, least densely populated, and least racially diverse. It is a popular holiday destination for wealthy Londoners and residents from the densely-packed south-east region. According to the 2011 census, 95 per cent of full-time residents of Devon and Cornwall are white British, compared to less than 80 per cent in the whole of England.

The Regional Director for the IOPC, Catrin Evans said: “It will be of considerable public concern that such an image was apparently shared among colleagues by a serving police officer. We are criminally investigating the sergeant who allegedly shared the image, and examining the conduct of some others involved in the group.”

“Our investigators will be considering whether the sharing of this image was motivated by racial discrimination. Devon and Cornwall Police has rightly promptly referred it to the IOPC, and I would like to assure people we are conducting a thorough and independent investigation,” Evans added per Devon Live.

The IOPC is also investigating the officer for gross misconduct, and he has been suspended while the investigation is carried out. Other members of the WhatsApp message group are being investigated as well over what they allegedly said in response to the meme and their supposed failure to report their fellow officer.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/23/uk-police-sergeant-under-criminal-investigation-for-sharing-george-floyd-meme/

‘What happens with customer data?’ British joy over reopening of pubs muted by BoJo’s plans for owners to collect personal details

Excitement at British PM Boris Johnson’s announcement that pubs will be given the green light to reopen on July 4 has been somewhat curbed as the plans include businesses requesting customers provide personal contact details.

Johnson’s plans for pubs to restart trading on their premises was met with cheers by many lawmakers in parliament, but details on the conditions attached to the reopening reveal it will be anything but business as usual for owners and customers – particularly concerning personal data.

https://www.rt.com/uk/492714-pubs-bojo-personal-data/

That’s Weird? Clinton Pal, Philanthropist and Multi-Millionaire Steve Bing Jumps From High Rise to His Death

Clinton friend, philanthropist, film financier and multi-millionaire, Steve Bing, 55, jumped from a Century City building on Monday and was found dead at the scene.

Steve Bing was a longtime friend of the Clintons.

According to reports, Mr. Bing donated up to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Both Clinton and Bing were in the past reported to be part of a billionaire clique that included Burkle and Jeffrey Epstein – reported LA Mag.

Deadline reported:

Steve Bing, the film financier and philanthropist who backed hit movies from Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar Express and Beowulf to the Rolling Stones concert movie Shine a Light, has died.

According to law enforcement sources, Bing jumped from a Century City building at around 1 p.m. Monday. Following standard protocol, the Los Angeles Police Department would not confirm that the individual in question was Bing. However, the description of the man in his 50s who was found dead on the scene fits that of the producer.

Bing, also an influential political donor, was a real estate tycoon from a family with a rich history. In 2012, he pledged a $30 million legacy gift to the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

Sources told TMZ that Steve Bing was depressed about “lack of human contact during quarantine.”

Actress Elizabeth Hurley tweeted that she was “devastated” over the death of Steve Bing, the father of her 18-year-old son.

“I’m saddened beyond belief that Steve is no longer with us. Our time together was very happy and although there were some tough times, the memories of a sweet, kind man are what matter. We became close again in the last year and last spoke on our son’s 18th. This is devastating news.” Elizabeth Hurley said.

Former president Bill Clinton released a statement on the death of his friend Steve Bing.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/weird-clinton-pal-philanthropist-multi-millionaire-steve-bing-jumps-high-rise-death/

German Security Agency Warns Far-Left Political Assasinations by Antifa Groups ‘No Longer Unthinkable’

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has sounded the alarm over the increased level of violence from far-left Antifa militants, saying murders of political opponents are now possible.

According to the German security agency, far-left extremists have become more radical to the point that “the development of terrorist structures in left-wing extremism” is now a real possibility.

The 22-page report, which was obtained by German newspaper Die Welt, adds that “even the step of deliberately killing a political opponent no longer seems completely unthinkable”.

The agency specifically notes several groups within the far-left scene in various German regions which have become more radicalised and have closed off from many in the broader far-left. BfV said the left-extremists are “committed to their own facts, and split off from the rest of the scene due to their increasing willingness to use violence”.

Radicalisation has been seen in several hotbeds of far-left extremism, according to the agency, including Berlin, Hamburg, and Leipzig.

The Antifa militants in Leipzig especially have become more extreme and violent in recent months. They are believed to be responsible for the sabotage of construction sites linked to building projects they have deemed to be gentrification.

The sabotage has cost companies millions of euros and even led to an incident in which Antifa extremists viciously assaulted a female real estate company employee in her own home in November of last year.

The state of Saxony, where Leipzig is located, has set up a special police division named Soko LinX, specifically to deal with the rise of far-left extremist violence.

Berlin has also seen continued Antifa violence, primarily centred around the “Riga 94” apartment complex which has been occupied illegally by far-left extremists for decades.

Most recently, far-left extremists were thought to be responsible for assaulting a German television crew during May Day protests, sending most of them to the hospital.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/23/german-security-agency-warns-far-left-political-assasinations-by-antifa-groups-no-longer-unthinkable/

Three Mexican Federal Judges Considering Gulf Cartel Boss’ Release Unmasked

Three Mexican federal appellate judges issued a ruling potentially leading to the release of a top leader with the Gulf Cartel. The criminal figure has a history of favorable findings from federal judges.

If the legal maneuvers continue in the coming weeks, Jose Alfredo “El Contador” Cardenas Martinez could be released on a possible ruling from the Fourth Tribunal of the Tenth Region’s Auxiliary Center Circuit based in Saltillo, Coahuila. El Contador has been in state and federal prisons since his arrest in March 2019 for a kidnapping case in Tamaulipas.

Cardenas Martinez is the current leader of the Matamoros faction of the Gulf Cartel. His criminal organization is linked to a large part of the raging violence in the northern part of the border state of Tamaulipas. Cardenas is the nephew of former Gulf Cartel supreme leader and founder of Los Zetas, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, who is serving a 25-year U.S. sentence.

El Contador is leading a fierce turf war with a rival faction of the Gulf Cartel known as “Los Metros” for control of Reynosa. The area is located immediately south of the Texas cities of McAllen, Hidalgo, Pharr, and Mission. The fighting has led to hundreds of murders and hours-long firefights.

Court documents show that although final decisions have not been made for case 1127/2019, on June 2, the judges did rule El Contador’s initial arrest to be illegal. On June 3, the judges sent notice to all federal prosecution offices asking if there were any pending cases or arrest warrants. The feared drug lord has pending kidnapping and robbery charges in Tamaulipas. He could also face indictment in Texas.

The appellate tribunal in Coahuila was carrying out a review of a previous injunction that Cardenas Martinez’s attorneys sought and lost, claiming his arrest had been illegal. The three judges are Cecilia Sorinao Alvarado, Carlos Aldo Vargas Eriarte, and Emilio Enriquez Pedroza Montes.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/06/23/exclusive-three-mexican-federal-judges-considering-gulf-cartel-boss-release-unmasked/

Silicon Valley pioneer claims that Google and Facebook are “choking” the internet

As the founder and CTO of a tech company, you’d hardly expect David Heinemeier Hansson to be one of Silicon Valley’s biggest critics. But the co-founder of Basecamp and creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web application framework is far from your typical Silicon Valley executive.

On social media, Hansson regularly tweets about breaking Google up and holding Tesla accountable for the failures of its Autopilot. The company he founded is one of the few that has eschewed having a presence on Facebook. Actions like these have earned him over 400,000 followers on Twitter.

Now, Hansson is once again taking aim at Silicon Valley’s biggest firms. He claims that their near-monopoly is stifling the internet, stating: “A handful of companies have colonized the web, and they’re choking it.”

More than just pointing out these issues, Hansson has put his money where his mouth is and actually tried to do something about it. Back in 2018, he and fellow Basecamp co-founder and CEO Jason Fried started what would become Hey. The paid, $99-per-year, email service launched on June 15 and is designed to protect users from the types of invasive surveillance that have become the norm. (Related: Google and Facebook are the new NSA.)

From innovator to crusader

For the most part, Hansson was mostly content with nurturing Basecamp, the project management software business he had co-founded with Fried. Things started to change after the 2016 election when it came to light just how much private information Facebook had been able to share to political consulting firms without users’ consent.

In an interview with Fast Company, Hansson said that that moment was “Pandora’s box” and that it laid bare “the way the industry actually worked.”

Following that, Hansson started doing more research into online advertising technology and was horrified by what he found. By December of 2018, he was disgusted enough with a series of targetted ads his own company ran on Facebook that he announced that Basecamp was becoming a “Facebook-free” business — no Facebook ads, no presence at all on the social media site.

This was just the start. Hansson’s crusade against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies would continue to grow. This past January, Hansson testified before Congress in a hearing on the market power of online platforms alongside other tech industry leaders.

“At first I was a little cynical, to be honest, that I was just going to show up and deliver my little speech,” Hansson said. “When you’re on Twitter a lot, you’re in the bubble of thinking that everyone is paying attention to the same things you know. Then you get into the real world. It felt like we were delivering new information to Congress.”

According to Hansson, his experience in Congress gave him a newfound sense of purpose. Since then, he began advocating for more stringent legislation to “break up the monopolies” and “give consumers better alternatives.” The latter has become a personal refrain, with him reflecting that any advocacy needs to “present compelling alternatives.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/silicon-valley-pioneer-claims-that-google-and-facebook-are-choking-the-internet/

Chicago Mayor Calls 'Scooby-Doo' Parody Criticizing Her 'Racist,' Then the Artist Fires Back

Political correctness often leads to the left eating its own.

After the Chicago Teachers Union posted a “Scooby-Doo” parody on Wednesday criticizing Mayor Lori Lightfoot for not defunding the police, she responded by suggesting the cartoon was “clearly racist.” The mayor did not provide any evidence to back up her accusations.

Later, she admitted that she hadn’t even seen the tweet.

On Saturday, the artist of the cartoon responded, criticizing the mayor for being ignorant of the picture’s true intentions.

ccording to Fox News, Lightfoot had decried the image and the CTU in a news conference on Thursday.

“If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them, and I think our scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU,” she said.

“It’s certainly disappointing when a group that professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms teaching our young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and disappointing tactics.”

The artist of the parody, going by the name Electricstripe, questioned how a left-wing meme calling for the defunding of police could also be racist.

“My only question to those people is, how can you have an illustration that promotes the defunding of police, in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement, and also imagery of a Black person being lynched in the same picture? It’s contradictory and simply doesn’t make sense,” Electricstripe told TooFab.

“I’ve been out here protesting alongside my Black brothers and sisters everyday that I can. Why would I throw that effort away with a racist drawing? There are people out here who really hate our teachers and seriously went out of their way to make something what it’s not.”

The fact that the mayor hadn’t even seen the image was bad enough, but she also was given an utterly misleading description of it by her subordinates. Electricstripe saw this as utterly ridiculous.

“When the illustration was described to our mayor, (which I had no idea she was visually impaired to see it for herself) they were described as a group of ‘unhappy white people, around a tied up black woman in rope,'” he said.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/06/chicago-mayor-calls-scooby-doo-parody.html

NYPD Rearrests Over 250 Inmates After COVID-Related Mass Jail Release

We’ve been frequently told, as jails across the country release pretty much everyone they can, that COVID-19 is a scourge that’s uniquely problematic in situations like jails, where it can spread like wildfire. This is accurate.

We haven’t been frequently told that jails are often full of people who both deserve and need to be in jails. This bit is important since it’s also accurate.

We’re beginning to find out just how accurate.

In New York City alone, the New York Police Department estimates, roughly one out of every 10 inmates released from Rikers Island jail — the city’s main jail complex — has been rearrested by the city’s police force.

“We’re continuing to see people get arrested over and over and let right back out. And it really defies common sense,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea told New York’s WNBC-TV.

Michael LiPetri, head of Crime Control Strategies for the NYPD, said that at least 250 of the roughly 2,500 defendants who were freed from Rikers Island as part of the massive COVID-related jail release have been rearrested by the NYPD.

Nothing is more illustrative of the problem than the case of 27-year-old Jonathan Martinez.

On June 6, Martinez was caught on video stealing socks from drugstore Prime Essentials and putting them on. He also stole medicine, according to WNBC’s report, after throwing a rock through the store’s window.

Co-owner Josh Rahmani said he felt sad when he first saw the video.

“I felt really bad that he got arrested for taking socks, food and medicine,” Rahmani said. “We would have just given it to him if had asked.”

He found out from the station that Martinez had been rearrested at least three times before this and was less thrilled.

“This is shocking and disturbing,” co-owner Ebi Khalili said. “It’s a bad decision by our leaders.”

The NYPD said it wasn’t against letting older prisoners out but was opposed to letting offenders like Martinez go.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2020/06/nypd-rearrests-over-250-inmates-after.html