Pentagon Lifts Travel Ban in All States Except Florida, California

Troops and their families based in most states across the country have been given the OK to resume regular travel, except for those in Florida and California, which continue to see troubling rises in coronavirus cases.

Ten more states have met the criteria to lift the travel restrictions the Pentagon set in place in March, defense officials announced on Monday. That allows more service members and their families to resume not only recreational travel, but also permanent change-of-station moves.

Troops based in Guam, Puerto Rico and South Korea are also allowed to travel, with approval from their local commanders.

Locations must meet a series of criteria to see earlier travel bans lifted. Those criteria include no shelter-in-place orders; a two-week downward trend in COVID-19 symptoms; and a 14-day decline in new cases.

The two states where travel remains limited for service members Florida and California have recently reported increases in coronavirus cases. As of this weekend, Florida's cases were up fivefold in two weeks, and California has seen a record number of cases in recent days. Plans for reopening both states are now in flux.

Waivers will still be considered for mission-essential travel, emergencies and some PCS moves. Deployments could also resume for some units in locations that are still seeing travel restrictions, though they're being considered on a case-by-case basis.

Defense Department travel restrictions were relaxed across much of the U.S. earlier this month. Travel was also allowed to resume for troops based overseas in Bahrain, Belgium, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Local commanders can still limit travel at the base level, according to the Defense Department.

Pentagon officials in March announced strict travel restrictions at the start of the global pandemic. That halted many deployments, temporary assignments and PCS moves.

The ban was expected to be lifted on May 11, but was later extended to June 30.

Nearly 12,000 U.S. troops have tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. About half of those troops have recovered. Three service members have died of COVID-19 and nearly 300 have required hospitalization.

The U.S. is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases this month. The illness has infected more than 2.6 million Americans, killing 128,000.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/29/pentagon-lifts-travel-ban-all-states-except-florida-california.html

Putin Announces Big Tax Cuts to Transform Russia Into an IT Hub

In a televised address to the nation Tuesday, Putin also announced big tax cuts for the IT sector, apparently a bid to “turn Russia into India” by using tax incentives to attract and retain tech entrepreneurs. Putin claimed that, even in the midst of a pandemic, it was clear how the Russian IT sector has “powerful technologies and human capital opportunities.”

Putin said interest rates on insurance payments for IT companies will be lowered from 14% to 7.6% while they will also see corporation profit tax slashed from 20% to 3%. This is even better than “jurisdictions like India and Ireland,” according to Putin.

The new profit tax rate is comparable to Cyprus, a favorite location for Russian IT companies (in Cyprus it’s 2.5 percent). But it’s higher than Belarus where the rate is 0% and President Alexander Lukashenko wants to build a local ‘Silicon Valley’.

The initiative is part of major reform of the IT sector and the personal initiative of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to a Kremlin official and a government relations specialist at a major IT company. Mishustin has “big plans to develop IT in Russia, and is always pushing the idea that IT is the most important driver of the economy”, one of these sources told The Bell. The tax breaks will hopefully become part of a major tax reform making it unappealing for companies to locate their businesses in offshore zones, according to two IT entrepreneurs from Russia who took their businesses abroad.

The day after the announcement it became clear the proposal was not as straightforward as many thought. Kommersant newspaper reported the government could increase VAT on software in a bid to compensate its losses from the tax breaks. Unsurprisingly, it is the companies that stand to gain most from paying less tax that make most of their money from software development — including internet giant Yandex.

Unease about Russia’s IT brain drain is justified: there are dozens of IT entrepreneurs who have moved abroad (from Playrix to Revolut). Taxes play an important role in such decisions, but they are usually not key. Political predictability is no less important, and so is an impartial court system. Russia lacks both of these.

https://russia-insider.com/en/putin-announces-big-tax-cuts-transform-russia-it-hub/ri30776

The Socialists Plan To Manipulate Votes By Manipulating The Voters Through COVID-19 & Riots

The Nazi core Socialists believe they have the 2020 elections in the bag this November, now having the power to demand mail in voting because of COVID-19. The virus itself, created in a lab in Wuhan Province, China last year was the joint nuclear option used by George Soros and Barack Obama in making sure the anti-American Socialists retake control of the country.

Since the 2016 elections, everything they have tried has failed, from fake polls showing the Socialist candidate way ahead of such as them, showing Jeb Bush with a huge lead over Donald Trump, Obama ordering the DHS to tamper with ballots across the country, to cheating on a state and local level, but the vast turnout of voters who support the USA overcame all of these criminal efforts.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/08/homeland-security-tied-to-attempted-hack-of-georgias-election-database-report.html

Today, with the COVID-19 scare they can manipulate the votes by manipulating the voters in restricting our ability to vote via lockdowns during spikes in those testing positive for the disease, to actual numbers of people sick.

COVID-19 is the perfect application in rigging the election for the Socialists since they can create a spike in infections at any given time, or keep it going longer than it normally would have. Such is the case with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and California Governor Gavin Newsome in demanding COVID-19 patients be placed in nursing homes where those who are most susceptible to the disease are. By doing this, they drastically bumped up the numbers of cases and the death rate while prolonging the shutdown.

Another example of manipulating the masses at any given point was the gradual return to normal in many states in easing COVID-19 restrictions which was going well with only slight increases in new cases, mainly due to improved testing. Recently, however, we are seeing a dramatic increase in cases, in some instances seeing more infected people now than during the initial wave causing many states to slow their reopening or stop it altogether. This dramatic increase is solely the result of the massive protests and riots across the country. As it is now, most of us are infected both through direct and indirect contact from rioters.

The riots themselves are a result of the George Floyd incident in Minneapolis which was set up and carried out under Obama’s direction, just to create the climate necessary for him to orchestrate civil unrest in achieving two goals. The first is the rapid destruction of American monuments to erase history, heritage, and culture for the implementation of the NWO Socialist agenda. The second, is reviewing their ability to shut down the country whenever they damn well feel like it by purposely manipulating a drastic increase in

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/the-socialists-plan-to-manipulate-votes-by-manipulating-the-voters-through-covid-19-riots/

Surrounded by Government Failure, Why Do People Still Believe?

I am always amazed by the faith that people have in government. Scour the newspaper any day of the week and you will read stories detailing the many failures of the federal, state, and local governments or agencies, and of their stupendous ability to commit the same mistakes over and over again. Yet these agencies are the one that people turn to in times of troubles or needs.

Astonishing.

Take the June 26th edition of the Wall Street Journal. There you’ll find a piece on how the Small Business Aid program has a significant fraud risk, according to the Government Accountability Office. That’s unfortunate for a program riddled with implementation problems that leave many small businesses unable to apply, while many large ones had no problems getting one of the available small-business loans.

And then there’s the report about how the IRS paid $1.4 billion in stimulus payments to dead people. That’s correct: dead people. According to the report, “The IRS, which was trying to get the money out quickly, didn’t use death records from the Social Security Administration as a computerized filter in the first three rounds of payments, according to GAO.”

One common reaction to these two stories is that Congress was rushing, everyone was panicking, and pundits were clamoring that we must go big or even bigger than big. But if that’s the problem, how to explain the $137 billion in improper payments made in 2018? For the record, this staggering level of improper payments happens every year. And then there’s the fact that we can’t even measure how many improper payments take place in the Department of Defense because that agency fails its audits on a regular basis—hence no one really knows where all the money goes. Yet here we are, always trusting the same government to somehow do better this time around.

On that same page in the Journal you can also read how “Battered U.S Wine Importers Brace for Higher Tariffs.” As the Journal reports, “The U.S. Trade Representative’s office, which imposed 25% tariffs on wine, cheeses, olives and other products from the European Union in October, is now considering raising levies to 100%, citing a lack of progress in negotiating a settlement and eliminating subsidies for Airbus SE.” Never mind that the president has finally hinted that he knows full well that Americans—the same Americans who have nothing to do with the Boeing-Airbus dispute—are paying the tariffs.

Yet, President Trump, and pretty much everyone in the Democratic Party, happily contributes to this new protectionist wave. Sadly but predictably, barely anyone in the Republican party is pushing back against the president and his protectionism sidekicks, Peter Navarro, Robert Lighthizer, and Wilbur Ross.

Scanning further down the page of the Wall Street Journal report you learn that thanks to government-imposed lockdowns, “140,000 Businesses Listed on Yelp are still Closed Because of Covid-19 Pandemic.” Depressingly, you read, “A large minority of that set, 41%, has shut for good, according to Yelp.”

It is not surprising: businesses cannot be kept closed for months and then survive having done nothing. Yet many states haven’t reopened fully in order to allow businesses to survive by reorganizing their activities to keep consumers and employees safe.

https://www.aier.org/article/surrounded-by-government-failure-why-do-people-still-believe/

'Enough is enough!' — Seattle police chief fed up after another fatal shooting of a black teen near CHOP

One report says it was CHOP "security" that shot them

The police chief of Seattle is fed up with the violence in and around the "CHOP" encampment after a fourth shooting took the life of a black 16-year-old and injured another 14-year-old.

The shooting occurred on Monday morning and was captured on surveillance video.

"Enough is enough here," Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said on Monday. "Two men are dead and a child, a 14-year-old, is hospitalized, and we don't know what is going to happen to that kid."

Best was referring to a previous shooting where a 19-year-old died and another suffered serious injuries.

On Monday, police responded to multiple reports that shots had been fired at a white Jeep parked near one of the barriers set up around the encampment.

CHOP encampment "medics" brought the two victims to a hospital where one died.

KING-TV reported that some witnesses said the victims in the Jeep were driving erratically and had shot at protesters. Some reports indicated that they were shot by "security" members of the CHOP encampment.

Here's a local news video about the lethal shooting:

https://youtu.be/mpLANIpZxdU

https://www.theblaze.com/news/chop-shooting-death-black-teen

‘White Women Are Lucky Black People Are Not Calling For Revenge’: WaPo Opinion Editor

Karen Attiah – a Washington Post opinion editor – sent out a series of tweets Sunday night attacking Trump supporters and saying “white women are lucky” black people are “not calling for revenge.”

Could this be real? Did an opinion editor for the Washington Post publish such an incendiary statement against white women? Yes, and then later that night she deleted the Tweets. But this is exactly how she feels, along with many of her colleagues.

This type of racist threat should be a fireable offense.

In the age of ‘cancel culture’ and open hate for anyone supporting President Donald Trump these types of comments are applauded by the left. It didn’t matter that her statement was an underlying threat to women, to which she is one. Why? Because women who support Trump, or for that matter, women who are white must pay a heavy price for ancestors, historical events and anything else they (Attiah) deem offensive.

Moreover, Attiah listed historical racial incidents she believes white women are responsible for. She did so knowing that these tweets would be associated with The Washington Post.

This type of racist threat should be a fireable offense.

Reporters and opinion writers are stoking division in the United States and creating resentment among people. Their bosses have failed to hold them accountable, much like liberal leftist Democrats have failed to hold those destroying their cities accountable for their actions.

I’d like to know what you think?

Jerry Dunleavy captured Attiah’s Tweet online before it could be deleted. Read Below.

https://saraacarter.com/white-women-are-lucky-black-people-are-not-calling-for-revenge-wapo-opinion-editor/

Venezuela's Maduro Orders EU Envoy to Leave Within 72 Hours Over Newly Imposed Sanctions

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered EU envoy Isabel Brilhante Pedrosato to leave within 72 hours after the EU sanctioned a group of Venezuelan officials.

"I have decided to give the European Union ambassador 72 hours to leave the country," Maduro said in a televised address, also noting that Pedrosato will be allowed to use a plane to leave the country.

"Enough of European colonialism against Venezuela," Maduro added.

Maduro's order comes hours after the Council of the European Union on Monday sanctioned 11 additional Venezuelan officials, including parliamentarians, a magistrate and a senior military chief, for acting against the National Assembly, which is dominated by the opposition, Reuters reported. The individuals sanctioned are recognized by the Maduro government but not by the members of the Assembly.

The sanctions include a travel ban and an asset freeze. So far, 36 Venezuelan officials linked to the Maduro government face sanctions.

According to the Council, the 11 newly-sanctioned individuals “are particularly responsible for acting against the democratic functioning of the National Assembly, including stripping the parliamentary immunity of several of its members," Reuters reported. The Council also accused the individuals of "creating obstacles to a political and democratic solution to the crisis in Venezuela."

The United States itself has imposed numerous rounds of sanctions against Venezuela in response to the political developments in the country. On January 23, 2019, opposition leader Juan Guaido proclaimed himself Venezuela's interim president, denouncing Maduro's government as undemocratic and calling for Maduro's ouster. Since then, several failed attempts have been made to remove Maduro from power.

Last year, the US also imposed sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA. Recently, the Trump administration sanctioned three Mexico-based individuals for selling crude oil from Venezuela.

“The illegitimate Maduro regime created a secret network to evade sanctions, which Treasury has now exposed,” US Deputy Secretary Justin G. Muzinich said in a statement at the time. “The United States will continue to relentlessly pursue sanctions evaders, who plunder Venezuela’s resources for personal gain at the expense of the Venezuelan people.”

Last Wednesday, Washington also imposed sanctions on the captains of five Iranian tankers over oil deliveries to Venezuela.

“Today, the United States is sanctioning five Iranian ship captains who delivered around 1.5 million barrels of Iranian gasoline to Venezuela in support of the illegitimate Maduro regime," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

Maduro has repeatedly stated that the US is using sanctions to choke out his government and gain access to the country's oil reserves, which are the largest in the world.

“Let’s not allow a Vietnam in Latin America,” Mr. Maduro said last year, warning against the dangers of US intervention.“If the United States intends to intervene here, they will have a Vietnam worse than what they can imagine. Let’s not allow violence.”

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202006291079752376-venezuelas-maduro-orders-eu-envoy-to-leave-within-72-hours-over-newly-imposed-sanctions/

Joe Biden: H-1B Foreign Workers ‘Built this Country’

Joe Biden told NBC News that he would immediately lift President Donald Trump’s June 22 moratorium on the inflow of H-1B contract workers if he wins the 2020 election.

Trump “ended H1B visas the rest of this year,” Biden said in a June 27 town hall meeting organized by NBC News. “That will not be in my administration.”

“The people coming on these [H-1B] visas have built this country,” Biden added.

“He said the H-1Bs built this country? So the country didn’t exist before 1998? That is interesting,” responded Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA. If Biden is elected, she said:

I think we will see an increased number of parents realizing that their children will not do better than they did, and that is the antithesis of the American dreams. If many college graduates cannot get good jobs, well-paying jobs, they are not going to be as successful as their parents, and we will have reversed one of the foundational principles of America. – that we are a country of opportunity.

We’re already seen that the most recent high school and college grads are looking at what’s ahead of them and they are very insecure and they are very depressed. The question is how to they respond to that environment? They can take whatever job they can find, or do they rebel and go out and tear down statues?

On June 22, Trump announced H-1B reforms that will open up jobs for young U.S. graduates. He blocked the entry of new H-1B workers until January 2021, and he directed officials to complete a regulation that would allocate H-1B visas to the employers who offer the high pay. Trump adopted the reforms amid determined resistance from globalist aides because of grassroots pressure by U.S. professionals.

The H-1B program keeps roughly 600,000 foreign H-1B workers in U.S. white-collar jobs, including many who are doing on-the-job training so they can bring those jobs back to India. The H-1B and other visa workers are not immigrants but are foreigners who are allowed to take jobs in the United States, even if Americnas can do the job

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/06/29/joe-biden-h-1b-foreign-workers-built-this-country/

Gov. Cuomo Calls on Trump to Sign Executive Order ‘Directing Everyone to Wear a Mask’

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday called on President Trump to sign an executive order “directing everyone to wear a mask” and urged the president to “lead by example” by wearing one himself.

Cuomo told reporters on Monday that the Trump administration “should start telling the people of this country the truth” of “how real a threat COVID is” and called on him to take action.

“To start simply, the president can do two things. First, sign an executive order directing everyone to wear a mask,” Cuomo said, lamenting the absence of such an order.

“How we’re at this point as a nation and we still haven’t done the simple, easy, minimal step of saying you must wear a mask when you are in public,” Cuomo said.

“And the president doesn’t have to pass a piece of legislation, doesn’t have to call the Congress. Just sign an executive order saying wear a mask,” he continued, noting New York’s mandate, which went into effect over two months ago:

We did it two months ago in this state. The other states are just starting to do it now — states that were recalcitrant. Governors who said, ‘We don’t need to do this, Masks don’t work,’ all the political nonsense we heard, now they’re doing a 180, and you have the same states now wearing masks. Let the president have the same sense and do that as an executive order.

Cuomo also called on the president to “lead by example” and wear a mask “because we know it works.”

“We’ve proven that it works in the state of New York and the president can still be New York tough and New York smart and united and disciplined and loving,” he added:

Several states, in addition to New York — including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington — have imposed requirements involving face coverings in recent weeks. Several localities across Florida, where coronavirus cases have spiked, have also imposed their own restrictions.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, when asked about the recent mask mandate in Jacksonville, Florida — where the president’s nomination celebration will take place — said that the president has “no problem with masks and to do whatever your local jurisdiction requests.”

“It’s his choice to wear a mask. It’s the personal choice of any individual as to whether to wear a mask or not,” McEnany told reporters on Monday.

“He encourages people to make whatever decision is best for their safety,” she added.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/29/gov-cuomo-calls-on-trump-to-sign-executive-order-directing-everyone-to-wear-a-mask/

Mexican President and Governor Trade Blame for Release of Cartel Leader’s Mother

Mexico’s President and a governor traded jabs over the release of relatives and friends belonging to a cartel leader linked to car bombs and extreme violence in central parts of the country. The president blamed corruption, while the governor claims the allegations are federal in nature.

The controversy stems from the release of Maria Eva “N.,” the mother of Jose Antonio “El Marro” Yepez Ortiz, the leader of a fuel theft organization Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima. On June 20, Guanajuato state police and military units arrested 32 alleged members of CSRL–including El Marro’s mother and at least two other relatives. In the following, days, state judges released most of the parties.

According to Proceso Magazine, Guanajuato State Judge Paulina Medina Manzano claimed there was no evidence to link El Marro’s mother, a cousin, and two others to any crimes and added that they were tortured while in custody.

During a news conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the releases were due to corruption.

“It has to do with an old problem, linked to two factors: inefficacy and corruption,” AMLO said. “There is always talk of releasing certain criminals because the investigation was not carried out properly and it is a way to hide a deal–to put it clearly–they are always looking for certain judges … in this case, we are going to do a thorough investigation to determine why they released this person.”

Guanajuato Governor Diego Sinhue took his rebuke to Facebook, claiming that the crimes allegedly committed by El Marro, his family, and his organization are federal and should have been prosecuted by Mexico City.

“These omissions will cost lives and violence in Guanajuato,” the governor said.

According to Sinhue, state prosecutors joined the investigation and prosecution in an assisting fashion, but federal counterparts declined to ultimately take the case.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/06/29/mexican-president-and-governor-trade-blame-for-release-of-cartel-leaders-mother/

Chinese Criminal Groups Continue Controlling Marijuana Farms on U.S. Soil

Illegally cultivated grow farms in California and Washington state are operated by Chinese nationals, according to a report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

A leaked law enforcement-sensitive bulletin obtained by Breitbart Texas states that Chinese nationals on overstayed visas continue to be found working on marijuana grow farms. Some are operated by Chinese drug rings.

On May 4, 2020, CBP agents working at the Colville Border Patrol Station and assigned to the Stevens County Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force executed search warrants in at least seven locations.

At all seven, authorities encountered Chinese nationals. Eight individuals were apprehended, including seven Chinese and one American. Agents seized 8,841 marijuana plants, $87,000 cash, three firearms, and six mortgage-free properties valued at $950,000 total.

On May 20, 2020, CBP agents from the Yuma Sector assisted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office with suspected illegal grow sites near Palo Verde College in Blythe, resulting in the apprehension of 104 individuals (of which 80 were Chinese). It was determined that 14 of the 80 Chinese nationals violated their immigration statuses. All admitted during questioning to having flown into Los Angeles on temporary business or tourism visas, according to CBP reporting.

The report goes onto state that due to a decline of marijuana trafficking from Mexico and Canada, tactics have shifted. More is grown domestically and moved from U.S. states which have fully legalized. The shift in production may act as an economic pull factor for Chinese nationals to remain illegally in the United States while working on grow farms, based on several interviews.

The DEA’s Cannabis Suppression/Eradication Program statistics were also provided. In 2019, law enforcement agencies raided over 1,344 outdoor grow sites in California and 42 in Washington state, compared to 899 and 44, respectively, in 2018. Approximately 2,600,000 outdoor cultivated cannabis plants were seized in California and Washington State in 2019, compared to 1,400,000 in 2018. Law enforcement also confiscating approximately 3,210 weapons from illegal cannabis cultivators last year.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/06/29/chinese-criminal-groups-continue-controlling-marijuana-farms-on-u-s-soil/

>>9792365

Lets go then, we ready

Chinese National In U.S. Admits To Laundering MILLIONS For Mexican Drug Cartels

A Chinese national pleaded guilty today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with laundering more than $4 million in drug proceeds generated by large-scale cocaine trafficking in the United States.

According to court documents, Xueyong Wu, 40, cultivated relationships with Latin American drug trafficking organizations to transport and launder their United States-based drug proceeds. Wu is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 29.

Much of this money was repatriated to Mexico through a complex series of international financial transactions. Wu received a percentage of the money involved in these transactions as compensation for organizing these laundering activities. Much of this money was generated through movement of cocaine or payment for cocaine that took place within the Eastern District of Virginia.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael P. Ben’Ary and David A. Peters, along with Trial Attorneys Steve Sola and Kerry Blackburn of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section are prosecuting the case.

https://breaking911.com/chinese-national-in-u-s-admits-to-laundering-millions-for-mexican-drug-cartels/

Tennessee Governor Extends State of Emergency to Aug. 29

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) today signed Executive Order No. 50 to extend the State of Emergency related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to August 29, 2020. The order allows the continued suspension of various laws and regulations and other measures in these orders to facilitate the treatment and containment of COVID-19 through regulatory flexibility, promoting social distancing and avoidance of large gatherings, and protecting vulnerable populations.

Gov. Lee also signed Executive Order Nos. 51 and 52, which extend provisions that allow for electronic government meetings subject to transparency safeguards and remote notarization and witnessing of documents, respectively, to August 29, 2020.

Executive Order No. 50

Executive Order No. 50 extends previous provisions that:

Urge Tennesseans to continue limiting activity and staying home where possible, as well as following health guidelines and maintaining social distancing;

Urge persons to wear a cloth face covering in places where in close proximity to others;

Urge employers to allow or require remote work/telework if possible;

Provide that persons with COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms are required to stay at home, and that employers may not require or allow employees with COVID-19 to work;

Limit social and recreational gatherings of 50 or more persons, unless adequate social distancing can be maintained (the 6 counties with locally run county health departments may issue different directives on gatherings)

This does not apply to places of worship, for which there are guidelines for safe operation of worship services and gatherings, though places of worship are urged to continue virtual or online services where possible;

This does not apply to weddings, funerals, and related events, but encourages postponement of large-gathering components of such events;

Limit contact sports with a requirement or substantial likelihood of routine close contact

This does not apply to collegiate or professional sports conducted under the rules or guidelines of their respective governing bodies and does not prohibit training or otherwise practicing the elements of such sports that do not involve close contact with persons;

Limit nursing home and long-term-care facility visitation, while providing a framework for safe, limited visitation set forth in Executive Order No. 49, and continue the closure of senior centers;

Provide that employers and businesses are expected to comply with the Governor’s Economic Recovery Group Guidelines (e.g., Tennessee Pledge) for operating safely, as well as general health guidelines from the CDC and other government entities (the 6 counties with locally run county health departments have authority to issue different directives on businesses/venues);

Provide that bars may only serve customers seated at appropriately spaced tables and must follow the Economic Recovery Group Guidelines (e.g., Tennessee Pledge) for restaurants (the 6 counties with locally run county health departments have authority to issue different directives on businesses/venues);

Urge persons and businesses to take special care to protect vulnerable populations, including by offering delivery or special shopping hours where possible;

Allow take-out and delivery alcohol sales by restaurants and limited-service restaurants to continue to encourage customers to utilize take-out or delivery options;

Allow broad access to telehealth services;

Increase opportunities for people to easily join the healthcare workforce;

Provide easier access to unemployment benefits;

Ensure supply chain protections;

Extend deadlines and suspend certain in-person continuing education or inspection requirements to avoid unnecessary person-to-person contact; and

Increase opportunities to work remotely where appropriate.

https://breaking911.com/tennessee-governor-extends-state-of-emergency-to-aug-29/

YouTube Bans Richard Spencer, Stefan Molyneux & Others As "White Supremacist" Crackdown Continues

Molyneux has released a video statement on twitter, asking his fans to "stay in the conversation" while bemoaning the loss of "thousands of hours of work", which was destroyed along with his YouTube archives.

His account had nearly 1 million subscribers.

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Richard Spencer, the American neo-nazi whose media bromance with 'edgy' digital-media outlets like Vice and Buzzfeed (along with mainstream outlets like CNN) helped bring him to national attention in the aftermath of President Trump's electoral victory, has been de-platformed from YouTube, joining a group of other far-right figures like Alex Jones, as well as sympathizers of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The Verge reports that Spencer has been banned, along with David Duke (currently the subject of Slate's popular "Slow Burn" podcast series) and Stefan Molyneux, a popular conservative voice on twitter and other platforms. Additionally, Spencer's American Renaissance (with its associated channel AmRen Podcasts) and the channel for his infamously vaguely named National Policy Institute. All of the banned channels repeatedly violated YouTube’s policies, a YouTube spokesperson said. All the channels allegedly said that protected classes were inferior, according to the spokesperson.

"We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies," a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge. "After updating our guidelines to better address supremacist content, we saw a 5x spike in video removals and have terminated over 25,000 channels for violating our hate speech policies."

Spencer is best known perhaps for being punched in the face on camera during the protests surrounding President Trump's inauguration in DC on Jan 2017. He also was a "featured speaker" at the far-right rallies in Charlottesville during the summer in 2017 where one counter-protester was killed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youtube-bans-charlottesville-featured-speaker-former-cnn-guest-richard-spencer

Arizona Governor Orders Bars, Gyms, Waterparks and Theaters to Close For at Least 30 Days to ‘Curb the Spread of COVID-19’

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) on Monday ordered all bars, clubs, gyms, waterparks and theaters closed for at least 30 days to ‘slow the spread of Coronavirus.’

Here we go again.

Just in time for Fourth of July.

Rioting and looting is allowed, but no 4th of July parties.

Governor Ducey made his decision based on confirmed cases of Coronavirus soaring over the last week.

According to reports, daily cases surpassed the 3,000 mark.

“We’re not going back to normal any time soon,” Ducey said Monday during a press conference.

Tucson.com reported:

With viral outbreaks continuing, Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday put off the start of school, closed bars, movie theaters and gyms, and issued new restrictions on swimming pools.

The closures go into effect today, Monday, June 29, at 8 p.m.

And forget organized Fourth of July celebrations.

In a wide-ranging series of orders, the governor effectively conceded that his decision to allow people to go drinking, tube down the Salt or Gila rivers and go to water parks makes no sense, at least for the immediate future.

The order is not permanent and will run only for a month. That paves the way for Labor Day festivities — assuming Ducey does not renew his orders.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/just-arizona-governor-orders-bars-gyms-waterparks-theaters-close-least-30-days-curb-spread-covid-19/

>>9792396

Chinese National Guilty of Laundering Millions for Mexican Drug Cartels

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-guilty-laundering-millions-mexican-drug-cartels

Trump Is Committed to Action: DOJ Has Arrested Over 100 Anarchists for Rioting, Destruction

On Monday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced that the DOJ and FBI have hundreds of live cases holding “anarchists” and rogue actors accountable for the looting, vandalism, and arson across America that have destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. At least 20 Americans, most of them black, have died in the riots.

“Law and order are the building blocks to the American dream, but if anarchy prevails, this dream comes crumbling down. Anarchy in our streets is unacceptable and anger is not enough. You have a president committed to action,” McEnany said in a press conference.

The press secretary announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) “has arrested over 100 anarchists for rioting and destruction on federal property. The DOJ has also charged four men in federal court for attempting to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square.”

Meanwhile, “the FBI has over 200 open domestic terrorism investigations ongoing. [Attorney General William] Barr has created a task force on violent anti-government extremists led by the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Northern Texas. With 200 Trump-appointed judges confirmed, the rule of law will be upheld.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/29/trump-is-committed-to-action-doj-has-arrested-over-100-anarchists-for-rioting-destruction-n587379