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‘Day of Rage’ protesters in Boston chant anti-Israel, pro-Hamas slogans, call for intifada

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Protesters in Boston in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests following the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer advocate for the anti-Israel BDS movement on July 1, 2020. Courtesy: CAMERA.

(JNS) Tensions brewed at “Day of Rage” rallies and vehicle caravans nationwide on July 1, protesting Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank. The name refers to times when Palestinians riot and hurl rocks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, most recently near the border with the Gaza Strip.

Approximately 300 people associated with BDS Boston—a coalition of far-left anti-Israel organizations—chanted Hamas slogans on Wednesday night in front of the offices of the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Community Relations Council in the Massachusetts capital.

The BDS organizers said that they were protesting police brutality in the aftermath of the killing of African-American George Floyd, 46, on May 25 in the custody of Minneapolis police.

“The protesters hijacked legitimate outrage over the death of George Floyd to justify an ugly display of hostility towards Israel and Jewish organizations on the streets of Boston,” said Dexter Van Zile, an analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, or CAMERA, which is based in Boston. “This wasn’t about changing American police policies, but about coarsening and brutalizing the discourse around Israel and Jews through the exploitation of black suffering.”

CAMERA staff filmed the rally. A speaker for BDS Boston is on video leading the large crowd in the Hamas chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which is a call for the replacement of Israel with a majority-Arab Muslim country.

At other times, the crowd can be heard loudly chanting “Intifada, Intifada,” the name of violent Palestinian uprisings. Hamas is a U.S.-designated terrorist group.

“Kaffiyeh-wearing college students and mostly middle-class white activists with Palestinian flags were shouting for the violent elimination of the world’s only Jewish state,” said Van Zile. “Think about that: They’re chanting eliminationist rhetoric outside the offices of mainstream American Jewish organizations—a fact that shows that this wasn’t simply about Israel, but about Jews as Jews.”

CAMERA’s Hali Haber said “what struck me about the rally wasn’t just the hatred, but the outright lies. An SJP leader at Boston University repeatedly screamed into the microphone that Israel is guilty of ‘genocide,’ a lie easily disproved by looking at Palestinians’ soaring birth rates and increasing lifespans. I can’t decide whether the people at this rally were ignorant or malevolent—maybe both.”

She added that “whatever their motivations towards Jews, their exploitation of the black American experience should be opposed by good people everywhere.”

The video should be available soon, here is footage from the Brooklyn,NY BDS event

In Los Angeles, demonstrations border on violent

Elsewhere, protests in California and New York set off tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian supporters. The demonstrations are being organized by groups such as Al-Awda, American Muslims for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

In Los Angeles, a caravan of approximately 150 cars drove around the Israeli consulate with their windows down, honking their horns and waiving Palestinian flags. Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian supporters also stood outside the consulate with the demonstrations became nearly violent, according to The Forward. There were 10 Los Angeles Police Department officers there to keep the peace, reported the Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal.

In San Diego, about 50 cars as part of a pro-Palestinian caravan escorted by police drove past various Jewish institutions, including, but not limited to, the Hillels at University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, as well as the local office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, reported the San Diego Jewish World.

In Portland, Ore., rioters torched “a police precinct and set a fire [to] Portland’s iconic Elk statue, which has stood since 1900,” reported The Post Millennial.

In Brooklyn, N.Y., police officers stood between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

In the vicinity of the demonstrations nationwide, SWU have been using truck ads with messages such as “Israelis Want Peace,” “Palestinian Leaders: Stop the Hate, Negotiate Peace,” “Palestinian Leaders: Stop Teaching Hate & Rewarding Violence,” “Palestinian Leaders Said No to Peace in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2008 and 2020?” and “Israel Needs a Partner for Peace.”

On July 2 in Miami, protesters blocked the SWU truck in the area.

“Day of Rage” events were scheduled for on July 4 in Toronto and Misssissauga, Ontario.

Separately, while not a “Day of Rage” event, Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, D.C., chanted “Israel we know you, you murder children, too,” referring to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Colin Kaepernick’s Independence Day Message: ‘We Reject Your Celebration of White Supremacy’

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Colin Kaepernick took to Twitter on Independence Day to deliver a strong rebuke to the celebration of the nation’s founding.

According to Kaepernick, America has “dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized” blacks for centuries. He further called the celebrations commemorating the nation’s founding a “celebration of white supremacy.”

Kaepernick, the NFL’s original anthem protester, has not played in the NFL since the end of the 2016 season. After a long legal battle with the NFL, in which he accused the league of “blackballing” him and fellow protester Eric Reid, the NFL eventually settled the suit with Kaepernick. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently apologized for not listening to Kaepernick and other protesters. He then went so far as to say he would “encourage” a team to sign Kaepernick.

For some time after he began his protests, Kaepernick’s supporters inn the media claimed that his movement was not intended as disrespect to America or the flag. Though, in light of his determined effort to get his sponsor, Nike, to stop distribution of their Betsy Ross Flag sneakers on the 4th of July in 2019.

And, of course, his strident condemnation of America in his tweet today, those claims are not and never have been supportable.

Trump July 4th Speech Live From White House

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Maxwell, Epstein Exchanged $20M From ’07-’11

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By Eric Mack(NEWSMAX)

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein shifted totals of $20 million back and forth for a five-year period starting in 2007, according to federal prosecutors.

The revelation comes in a memo from U.S. attorneys in making the argument Maxwell is a flight risk and should be held without bail, CNN reported.

“The fact that she and he would exchange so much money indicates that they had a very close business relationship and that he clearly trusted her with a phenomenal amount of money,” former federal prosecutor Duncan Levin told CNN.

“There may be a completely innocent explanation for it, but it definitely is a sinister data point.”

Maxwell was arrested Thursday at a New Hampshire estate and has been charged with grooming underage girls for abuse and potential sex trafficking.

Maxwell had argued in a civil lawsuit following Epstein’s August death she should have rights to his Virgin Islands estate because she claimed Epstein had vowed to always support her, according to reports.

“They had a very close business relationship and that he clearly trusted her with a phenomenal amount of money,” Levin told CNN.

Airport chief says Israel’s aviation industry on brink of collapse

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Photo by Flash90A board showing a number of cancelled flights at the Ben Gurion International Airport on March 11, 2020.

(I24) Israel’s aviation industry is on the brink of collapse after months of inactivity due to the coronavirus epidemic, CEO of the country’s largest airport Shmuel Zakay lamented on social media Friday.

Ben Gurion Airport is just “days away from reaching the point of no return,” Zakay warned in his Facebook post, adding that the competency of aviation professionals, from pilots to ground crews, may have eroded to dangerous levels.

“Bringing them back to efficient and safe flights will take months,” he said.

Acknowledging that health restrictions were necessary to battle the spread of the “dangerous and lethal pandemic,” Zakay still accused the government of “stagnation” and lacking a coherent strategy that could help the private and public sectors manage the risks of the disease.

“This week civilian flights resumed in the world even in countries whose illness levels are high,” he stated. “We can operate safe civilian aviation even under the shadow of coronavirus.”

Zakay added that revamping the aviation sector was a “strategic” imperative that could prevent “fatal harm to an industry comprised of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of professions.”

Earlier this week, Israel’s national airline EL AL announced that it has canceled all its flights – both passenger and cargo – due to the massive loss of revenue and ongoing labor disputes.

The economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic has hit airlines across the globe particularly hard. A company statement released Tuesday highlighted that EL AL has hemorrhaged $140 million in the first quarter of 2020.

In addition, negotiations between representatives of Israel’s pilot union and EL AL ended without resolution, contributing to the airline being shuttered.

El Al has sought a $400 million government bailout as it negotiates a repayment scheme. Reports suggest EL AL could receive the entire sum as a loan mostly backed by a state guarantee.

A second option includes a state-guaranteed loan of $250 million and an equity offering of $150 million, also with state backing.

English Pubs Reopen but Little Normal Elsewhere in the World: Pandemic Update

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People enjoy their drinks at The Black Lion pub in London, Saturday, July 4, 2020. England is embarking on perhaps its biggest lockdown easing yet as pubs and restaurants have the right to reopen for the first time in more than three months. In addition to the reopening of much of the hospitality sector, couples can tie the knot once again, while many of those who have had enough of their lockdown hair can finally get a trim. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

By CARA ANNA (AP)

Pubs, hair salons and movie theaters across England reopened Saturday as part of Britain’s biggest step toward post-outbreak normal, while South Africa and other parts of the world signaled anything but — reporting another day of record confirmed coronavirus cases.

Many people relished the easing of restrictions on public life that had shuttered U.K. restaurants and bars, although a trade group estimated that only about half of England’s pubs elected to open on the first possible day. The ones that decided to start pouring at the earliest hour allowed – 6 a.m. — had customers to serve.

“Let’s not blow it now,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said as some in England rushed to restaurants or barbers for the first time in more than three months.

Critics pointed to the experience elsewhere in Europe and in some U.S. states, where the reopening of bars and restaurants is blamed for a spike in infections from patrons losing their inhibitions among strangers and abandoning social distancing after imbibing a few drinks.

Reinforcing the concern the British government had been too hasty: the World Health Organization said its member nations reported more than 212,000 new COVID-19 cases to the U.N. health agency Saturday, the highest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic. WHO said more than half of the new confirmed infections were reported from the Americas region, which includes Brazil and the United States.

In the U.S., where many Fourth of July parades and fireworks displays were canceled because of the virus, health authorities warned that Independence Day would be a crucial test of Americans’ self-control. Confirmed cases are climbing in 40 states, and the U.S. on Saturday reported more than 50,000 new cases nationwide.

g to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

More than 11.1 million people around the world are known to have been infected with the virus, 2.8 million of them in the U.S., according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. With shortages of testing materials, the real number of cases is unknown. More than 527,000 people have died in the pandemic, according to the Johns Hopkins data.

In South Africa, a growing hot spot as the pandemic picks up speed in parts of Africa, confirmed cases have climbed to more than 177,000, with a record 9,063 reported in the most recent 24-hour period.

If Africa’s most developed country is struggling to manage the pandemic, that’s ominous for less-prepared African nations. Confirmed cases across the 54-nation continent are now above 433,000.

India also reported its highest single-day spike, with 22,771 new confirmed cases for a total of more than 648,000, including 18,655 deaths.

Russia marked a milestone as the death toll rose above 10,000. The national coronavirus task force also reported 6,632 new infections, raising the total for the outbreak to 674,515.

Russia’s caseload is the world’s third largest behind the United States and Brazil, but its reported deaths are lower than many other countries. Officials have denied speculation that the figures are being manipulated.

Elsewhere, authorities targeted communities for special measures as virus clusters emerged.

Australia’s Victoria state locked down nine public housing towers and three more Melbourne suburbs after 108 new cases. Premier Daniel Andrews said 3,000 people in the towers will go into “hard lockdown,” meaning “there will be no one allowed in … and no one allowed out.”

Authorities in northeast Spain ordered the lockdown of El Segriá county around the city of Lleida, home to over 200,000 people, after health officials recorded a jump in 60 cases in 24 hours. The outbreaks are linked to agricultural workers in the rural area.

And Tokyo confirmed 131 new cases, exceeding 100 for the third day in a row and hitting a new two-month high, prompting Governor Yuriko Koike to ask residents to avoid nonessential out-of-town visits.

Concerns are rising about a resurgence of infections as Japan is now nearly back to business as usual after its state of emergency was lifted in May.

France said it is sending medics to its South American territory of French Guiana, where infections have surged as the virus swept neighboring Brazil.

Of the roughly 5,000 new cases confirmed across France over the past week, 1,400 were in French Guiana, with a population of just 300,000, according to the health agency. The military is flying patients from saturated facilities to the French Caribbean island of Martinique for treatment.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that “the way our country reacted to the pandemic has largely proved to be right.” The country, which has over 190,000 confirmed cases and five times fewer deaths than Britain, has started testing asymptomatic people in care homes.

Merkel paid tribute to the elderly, who like elsewhere in the world, have been particularly hard hit. “The most painful thing was surely not to be able to see children and grandchildren for many weeks,” she said.

Determined to enjoy a holiday from months of uncertainty, thousands of tourists waited at the Bulgaria-Greece border for up to five hours under the scorching sun after setting off for Greece’s beaches.

Chaos In Portland, BLM Protests Rage On, Governor Finally Speaks after 5 Weeks of Madness`

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Protesters in the uber-liberal, predominantly White city of Portland have taken to the streets every day for more than five weeks to decry “police brutality”, while pushing the hard-line anti-White, anti-Israel, anti-American  BLM & ANTIFA  ideology.

Portland has escaped corporate media scrutiny for weeks as the violence raged on, the media repeated the mantra “peaceful protests”

Violence , by what the corporate media describes as “smaller groups”, is allegedly  dividing the movement and drawing complaints that some white demonstrators are co-opting the moment.

ABC News reported:

Late last week, some protesters barricaded the doors to a police precinct a half-block from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and set fire to the building, which also houses Black-owned businesses, including an Ethiopian restaurant and a barber’s school. Two nights later, a potluck at a park in the heart of the Black community morphed into another violent clash with police, who unleashed tear gas to quell the crowd of several hundred people.

What is astonishing is how entities like ABC news will report on the violence and in the same breathe use words like “marred” and “handful” and “mostly peaceful”. After 6 weeks of violence, destruction, deaths, brutal beatings & hundreds of reverse racism incidents of blacks violently attacking whites, the media is still telling you the violence is the exception to the rule.

According to reports, Black protesters are getting fed up with the “woke” White protesters, who are literally destroying Black business.

ABC  continued:

On Friday, a Portland man was arrested for his role in an overnight attack on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said. Rowan M. Olsen, 19, aka Kiefer Alan Moore, was arrested by Federal Protective Service officers early Friday morning, he said in a news release. Olsen is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday, Williams said.

The change has angered and frustrated some in the Black community, who say a “white fringe element” is distracting from their message with senseless destruction in a city where nearly three-quarters of residents are white and less than 6% are Black.

“This is NOT the Black Lives Matter movement. This is chaos,” Kali Ladd, executive director of KairosPDX, wrote in a Facebook post. “These white actors are enacting dominance in a different form under the guise of equity … White supremacy has many forms.”

So in other words, Black protesters are claiming the White protesters are taking over their movement and it’s “White supremacy” at work !!  Translation the radical left are eating each other .

If you look at video footage from around the country, it is true most of the fires being lit and buildings being destroyed are being done by White rioters. There seems to be 2 different agendas at play, one a civil rights movement against police brutality and another movement based on destroying and toppling America itself.

Gov. Kate Brown on Friday urged the Portland Police Bureau to de-escalate nightly tensions with a group of protesters that she said have “repeatedly taken to the streets with the intent to destroy property”, at the same time she attacked the police for using tatics to quell the insanity.

While she noted that “this group has repeatedly lit fires, thrown rocks, bottles, fireworks and other objects and have put the safety of others at risk,” Brown said the police response has gone too far, MSN reported.

The governor has tied the police’s hands behind their back, while expecting them to stop the madness.

MSN reported: “Use of force, regardless of its legal justification, will do nothing to solve the underlying concerns of racial justice and police accountability raised by the protests,” Gov Brown  said. Said she is “disturbed” by the bureau’s use of crowd-control munitions, which include distraction grenades, pepper spray and tear gas. Under a court order signed in June, Portland police aren’t allowed to use tear gas unless officers believe lives are in danger.

Like all leftists, she is more concerned with how rioters and degenerates who are committing acts of literal insurrection are being treated by the police than the destruction and violence itself.

Here are scenes from Portland. Look carefully, as this will be your neighborhood too, if you don’t speak up against the radical left, who are using this to literally end America.

Even with of of Twitter’s censorship issues, you can get a better picture of the BLM protests thru these accounts as opposed to what broadcast journalism allows you to see.

New Study Reveals Hydroxychloroquine Does Work in Fighting COVID & Saving Lives

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A study, published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, determined that hydroxychloroquine provided a “66% hazard ratio reduction,” and hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin a 71 percent reduction, compared to neither treatment.

In-hospital mortality was 18.1 percent with both drugs, 13.5 percent with just hydroxychloroquine, 22.4 percent with azithromycin alone, and 26.4 percent with neither drug. “Prospective trials are needed” for further review, the researchers note.

At a news conference, Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for the Henry Ford Health System, attributed the results to giving the drug to patients as an early treatment, News Wars reported.

“What we think was important in ours … is that patients were treated early. For hydroxychloroquine to have a benefit, it needs to begin before the patients begin to suffer some of the severe immune reactions that patients can have with COVID,” Dr. Zervos said about the highly analyzed peer-reviewed study.

“Considered in the context of current studies on the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, our results suggest that the drug may have an important role to play in reducing COVID-19 mortality,” Zervos said in a Henry Ford Health System press release.

Dr. Steven Kalkanis, a neurosurgeon with the Henry Ford Health system, also said, “Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives.”

“As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”

On Twitter, the study’s findings were taken as another win for President Trump, who held strong on the drug’s efficacy despite constant negative press from the mainstream media.

Here’s just one example of numerous headlines slamming Trump just two months ago…

 

“I can’t keep track anymore. So Trump was right… again?” remarked independent journalist Tim Pool, asking, “How long until this gets reversed.”

Trump to Go Big July 4 in Face ‘Cancel Culture’ Opposition

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President Donald Trump speaks during an Independence Day celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

(AP) President Donald Trump aimed to go big, promising a “special evening” in Washington that could bring tens of thousands to the National Mall.

Trump’s “Salute for America” celebration Saturday evening was to include a speech from the White House South Lawn that he said would celebrate American heritage, as well as a military flyover over the city and an enormous fireworks display that could pack people downtown.

The celebration has been rebuked by his political enemies since Trump initiated it.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who said she did not have the right to shut down the holiday spectacle because it is on federal land, warned the federal government about the obvious dangers of such a large crowd. On Friday, she urged the city’s residents to be smart about how they spend the holiday.

“Just because someone invites you to a party doesn’t mean you have to go,” Bowser tweeted.

The president kicked off the holiday weekend by traveling to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota for a fireworks display Friday night near the mountain carvings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. In his remarks, he accused protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”

In a presidential message Saturday on the 244th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Trump acknowledged “over the past months, the American spirit has undoubtedly been tested by many challenges.”

His participation in big gatherings comes as many communities have decided to scrap fireworks, parades and other holiday traditions. The goal is to try to prevent further spread of the coronavirus, which large gatherings could spur. Confirmed cases are climbing in 40 states, and the U.S. set another record Friday with 52,300 newly reported infections, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

For the Mount Rushmore event, GOP Gov. Kristi Noem, a Trump ally, insisted social distancing wasn’t necessary and masks were optional. Trump spent little time in his Mount Rushmore address reflecting on pandemic, which has killed more than 129,000 Americans.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that mass gatherings like the one scheduled for Washington present a high risk for spread of the virus.

Trump’s surgeon general, Jerome Adams, who has stepped up his call for Americans to wear a mask in public, sidestepped when asked during an interview Friday whether he would caution a loved one from attending such large gatherings.

“It’s not a yes or no,” Adams told NBC’s “Today Show.” “Every single person has to make up their own mind.”

Trump has been aching to see the nation return to normalcy, and has been willing to push the envelope further than many state and big city mayors are willing to go.

Last month, he held his first campaign rally since early March in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Trump is accustomed to jam-packed crowds, but the BOK Center was only about one-third full for the president’s first rally of the coronavirus era. Days later, he addressed a packed megachurch for a Students for Trump event in Arizona. Few attendees at either event wore masks.

Interior officials said they would hand out 300,000 face coverings to spectators who gather on the National Mall. Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt said visitors would be encouraged to wear masks and keep a six-foot distance from one another. There was no indication that would be mandatory, despite the recommendations of health officials.

US Surgeon General Warns Of A Two-Week ‘Lag’ Time On COVID Deaths, Urges Americans To Wear Masks

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In this March 9, 2020, photo Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington about the coronavirus outbreak. Standing behind Adams are Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, from left, Vice President Mike Pence and Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned Friday morning that death rates from coronavirus might increase over the next two weeks.

“We know deaths lag at least two weeks and can lag even more,” Adams said on “Fox & Friends” before mentioning that most of the country’s deaths originated in nursing homes. It ultimately doesn’t matter when the country officially reopens, he added, “if people don’t follow the measures that we recommend all along.”

He added: “Now the majority of cases are in people who have an average age of 35, and so those folks are gonna have less comorbidities.”

Adams urged young people to wear face masks and keep a distance between themselves and others over the Independence Day weekend.

“What we’re really worried about  — particularly with young people  — is that they get it and then they spread it to their grandmother, to their grandfather,” he said.

His advice stands in contrast to what he said in February before officials began instituting strict lockdowns to slow the coronavirus spread.

“They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!” Adams told his Twitter followers in a Feb. 29 tweet regarding face masks. The best preventing measure is hand washing, he added. 

A New York Times report published in late June showed that coronavirus, or COVID-19, has infected more than 282,000 people at 12,000 nursing homes since March, constituting roughly 43% of all COVID-19-related deaths. Nursing homes represent 11% of all COVID-19 cases yet account for nearly half of all deaths, data show.

The virus has reportedly resulted in the deaths of nearly 129,000 people in the United States.

Democrats and members of the media often criticize President Donald Trump for not wearing a mask while in public. For instance, Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told CNN that she is asking the president “not to return” to her state after Trump was seen in May without a mask while visiting a Ford plant in her state.

Trump has since warmed to the idea of mask wearing, telling Fox Business Wednesday that he’s worn a face covering in the past.

“People have seen me wearing one,” he said, before adding that they “get tested before they see me.”

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2 Women Hit by Car on Seattle Highway Closed Amid Protests

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(AP) Two women were struck by a car whose driver sped through a protest-related closure on a freeway in Seattle, authorities said early Saturday.

A 24-year-old woman from Seattle suffered critical, life-threatening injuries and a 32-year-old woman from Bellingham had serious injuries, Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead said.

The driver, a 27-year-old man from Seattle, was in custody, Mead said, adding that impairment was not considered a factor. Charges remain under investigation, as does the motive and point of entry onto the interstate, but Mead said the unnamed man faced multiple felony charges and was suspected to have come on the wrong way on a ramp.

Mead said troopers did not know whether it was a targeted attack.

Video on social media showed a white car traveling at a high rate of speed navigate around two vehicles positioned across the lanes as a barrier. The car careened toward a small crowd of protesters on the freeway, striking two people who flew into the air before landing on the ground.

A nearly two-hour-long Facebook livestream captioned “Black Femme March takes I-5” from Diaz Love ended abruptly; with about 15 seconds left, shouts of “Car!” can be heard as the camera starts to shake before screeching tires and the sound of impact are heard. The Associated Press could not immediately reach her.

Trump: Far-Left’s ‘Goal Is Not a Better America, Their Goal Is to End America’

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President Donald Trump smiles at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Friday, July 3, 2020, near Keystone, S.D. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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During Friday’s address at Mount Rushmore’s Independence Day celebration, President Trump said the radical left’s goal is “not a better America, their goal is to end America.”

“Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America’s destiny,” Trump told the crowd in front of the American landmark Friday evening.

“In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country and that we feel for each other,” he explained. “Their goal is not a better America, their goal is to end America.”

Rather than striving for a better America, Trump said those who seek to destroy the country’s heritage “want power for themselves.”

“But just as patriots did in centuries past, the American people will stand in their way, and we will win and win quickly and with great dignity,” the president said.

We will never let them rip America’s heroes from our monuments or from our hearts. By tearing down Washington and Jefferson, these radicals would tear down the very heritage for which men gave their lives to win the Civil War, they would erase the memory that inspired those soldiers to go to their deaths, singing these words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, “As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on.” They would tear down the principles that propelled the abolition of slavery and ultimately around the world ending an evil institution that had plagued humanity for thousands and thousands of years. Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights.

Trump added that they would “tear down the beliefs, culture, and identity, that have made America the most vibrant and tolerant society in the history of the earth.”

“My fellow Americans, it is time to speak up loudly and strongly and powerfully and defend the integrity of our country,” he urged as the crowd shouted, “USA!”

“It is time for our politicians to summon the bravery and determination of our American ancestors. It is time,” he continued.”It is time to plant our flag and to protect the greatest of this nation, for citizens of every race, in every city in, every part of this glorious land.”

Jimmy Carter speaks out against Israeli sovereignty plans, touts former accords

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Credit: The Carter Center.

(JNS) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has criticized Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank.

“Israel’s planned annexation of up to 30 [percent] of the West Bank as early as today would violate international laws prohibiting the acquisition of territory by force and changing the status of occupied territories,” said Carter in a statement on Wednesday. “The planned move would violate the Oslo and Camp David accords, and jeopardize Israel’s peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt.”

“For decades, Jewish settlements in the West Bank have expanded, jeopardizing any possible establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel,” he said. “Formal annexation will signal the end of the internationally agreed-upon two-state framework for peace, and with it the possibility for a just solution to the conflict.”

Carter, 95, concluded, “The envisioned annexation would amount to a massive, illegal expropriation of Palestinian territory. Annexation must be stopped, and the Israelis and Palestinians should return to meaningful negotiations based on U.N. resolutions and previous bilateral agreements.”

Verizon Donation Demonstrates Al Sharpton Can Get Away with Anything

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On June 1, declaring feelings of “regret and sadness” at “events unfolding across the country that are rooted in hate,” Verizon chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg pledged $10 million to be spread evenly among seven “social justice organizations” that purportedly advance Verizon’s commitment to “diversity and inclusion.”

One of the seven is the National Action Network (NAN), founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the controversial preacher and MSNBC commentator. Sharpton is still the president of NAN and (with his face adorning eight of the nine news features on its homepage) apparently remains the star attraction.

So, Verizon has pledged a $1.4 million payday for the man who, according to the late left-leaning journalist Christopher Hitchens, “proves that you can get away with anything in this country if the word reverend is in front of your name!”

Mafia Ties

As explained in the InfluenceWatch entry for Sharpton, this included a stint as a controversial informant for the FBI, which (Sharpton’s protestations of innocence to the contrary) did not appear to get going because he had donned a Batman cape and set out to fight crime:

In April 2014, muckraking website The Smoking Gun (TSG) posted the results of a lengthy investigation of Sharpton’s history as a confidential FBI informant regarding the New York underworld, which started in the early 1980s. The report was based on several hundred pages of documents released by the FBI in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, interviews with law enforcement officials, and TSG’s own interview with Sharpton. TSG’s conclusion was that “by any measure, Sharpton himself was a Mafia ‘associate,’ the law enforcement designation given to mob affiliates who, while not initiated, work with and for crime family members.”

Titled “The Left’s Street Boss,” a feature on Sharpton in Capital Research magazine begins with another look at this early era in his business career:

In 1980, according to a 1988 Washington Post report, the Rev. Al Sharpton presented himself as the majority stakeholder in a trash hauling company seeking a minority “set-aside” contract from the Con-Edison electrical utility. The venture failed when the real owner was revealed to be Matthew “Matty the Horse” Ianniello. Leaving aside that Mr. Ianniello did not fit the desired profile for a minority entrepreneur, the real problem was his rumored prominence in the Genovese crime family. Sharpton responded to the setback by saying he had never met Ianniello. Ianniello would later go to prison in 1988 and again in 2006 for racketeering offenses related to businesses silently under his control.

o, Mr. Hans Vestberg, CEO of Verizon, how’s that for a commitment to “diversity and inclusion”?

Business Interests

Sharpton’s legally suspect business affairs didn’t end there. The InfluenceWatch entry for Sharpton notes: “Over several decades, Sharpton and organizations associated with him (such as the National Action Network) have been embroiled in numerous legal entanglements with law enforcement and tax collection authorities.”

One example from the InfluenceWatch profile is a 1989 incident when the state of New York alleged “67 felonies relating to fraud and larceny,” complete with an allegation of stealing from a predecessor organization to NAN. (Sharpton eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.) In a second example, “Federal agents with subpoenas visited the homes of NAN staffers in 2007 to investigate several financial concerns that resulted in a $2 million assessment for unpaid payroll taxes.”

Shakedown Artist

But the Capital Research profile of Sharpton also shows it’s reasonable to speculate that other concerns about “diversity and inclusion” motivate corporate America to make these choices:

But back in 1988, the Washington Post was still telling a different story. Rather than a “kingmaker,” Sharpton, along with his then-buddy, boxing promoter Don King, put the squeeze on the King of Pop—Michael Jackson—during the mega-star’s 1984 concert tour. The result was that Sharpton landed a $500,000 contract ($1.2 million in 2018 dollars) as the Jackson tour’s “community relations director,” after he and King had threatened a boycott of the tour if “black promoters” didn’t “have a piece of it.”
It wasn’t clear why anyone of any race who hadn’t directly contributed to Michael Jackson’s success deserved a piece of anything. What is easier to comprehend is why Sharpton critics at that time (and not for the last time) referred to one of his business arrangements as a “shakedown.”

For much more on the career of Al Sharpton, see comprehensive InfluenceWatch profiles of him and the National Action Network, the Capital Research feature about him, and many other reports posted from the Capital Research Center.

Verizon’s Pledge

It is reasonable to wonder whether Verizon is aware of these concerns and whether, knowing of them, Vestberg would choose to advance Verizon’s commitment to “diversity and inclusion” through a different organization. Or is something else going on here?

 

FBI Knew Of Allegations Against Ghislaine Maxwell As Early As 1996, Accuser Says. It Took 24 Years To Arrest Her

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Sholom Schreirber
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The FBI knew about allegations against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell as early as 1996, an Epstein accuser says. Maxwell was not arrested until Thursday.

A grand jury indicted the British socialite and heiress on charges of conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors for illegal sex acts, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, and perjury. She was arrested at 8:30 am Thursday morning in Bradford, New Hampshire.

The victims were as young as 14 years old, the indictment said, noting that both Maxwell and Epstein “knew that certain victims were in fact under the age of 18.” The indictment also describes how Maxwell allegedly groomed multiple minors for Epstein, “knowing that he had a sexual preference for underage girls.”

The grand jury indictment also mentions three victims who were allegedly trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein in the mid 1990s.

Heavily redacted documents obtained by the New York Times show that the FBI interviewed two alleged victims in 2006 – victims who allege that Maxwell and Epstein sexually abused them.

According to the two alleged victims, both the FBI and New York Police Department may have known of allegations against Maxwell and Epstein as early as 1996, as highlighted in the Netflix documentary “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” and reported by The New York Times.

Painter Maria Farmer and her teenage sister Annie both say they were sexually abused by Epstein and Maxwell in 1996 – Maria Farmer at Epstein’s large estate in Ohio and Annie Farmer at his New Mexico ranch, the Times described. Annie Farmer also said she was abused by Epstein on a visit to New York.

Maria Farmer told the Times she contacted both the New York Police Department and the FBI in 1996 about alleged molestation by Maxwell and Epstein. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation, and the Times noted that the FBI has not acknowledged that she contacted them.

Maria Farmer insists they would have record of this contact, since she was contacted by the FBI in 2006 when she lived in North Carolina.

FBI spokeswoman Tina Jagerson referred the DCNF to the bureau’s Thursday press conference and did not address questions about the Farmer sisters or the length of time it took for Maxwell to be arrested. The FBI declined to comment further.

The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

Maria Farmer said she met Epstein at an art show and that he soon after called her to hire her to acquire art for him and then to be the manager of a townhouse he was renovating, according to the Times. Maria Farmer, who was 25 at the time, said she frequently saw young women coming in and out and was told by Maxwell that they were attending modeling auditions for Victoria’s Secret lingerie.

“They had a driver, and he would be driving along, and Ghislaine would say, ‘Get that girl,’” Maria Farmer told the Times. “And they’d stop, and she’d run out and get the girl and talk to her.”

Maria Farmer said that she often heard that Bill Clinton was coming to visit Epstein’s home, though she never saw him. She also described an incident wherein President Donald Trump came to Epstein’s office and eyed her legs before Epstein told him “she’s not for you.”

Both Trump and Clinton have said they knew Epstein. Clinton has denied knowledge of any improper behavior and Trump has said he was “not a fan” of Epstein.

Maria Farmer’s sister, Annie Farmer, told the Times that on one occasion, Epstein rubbed her hand and her leg during a movie when she was 16. He allegedly repeated this behavior when she stayed with him on his New Mexico ranch, where Annie Farmer says Maxwell gave her a topless massage and pressured her to give Epstein a foot massage. The 16-year-old also said that Epstein cuddled with her in bed one morning.

These allegations match the descriptions of Maxwell’s alleged abuses to Victim 2, detailed in the indictment.

Maria Farmer also told the Times that she was asked to give Epstein a foot massage at his Ohio estate before Epstein and Maxwell allegedly assaulted her by violently groping her until she fled and barricaded herself in a different part of the house.

The sisters spoke with one another about what had transpired, they told the Times, and when Maria Farmer returned to New York, she said Maxwell called her and threatened to burn all her artwork, telling the young painter that her career was over.

Maria Farmer said she reported the Ohio assault and the threat about the art to a New York police precinct, and that NYPD officers took a report on the threats of the art — a copy of which was obtained by the New York Times. The NYPD also referred Farmer to the FBI about the assault, the publication reports.

Heavily redacted FBI records appear to show handwritten notes from November 2006 interviews with both Maria and Annie Farmer, the Times reported. These notes include details such as Maria Farmer’s visit to the NYPD and her FBI referral.

Maria Farmer told the Times she talked to an agent at the FBI for about half an hour, asking whether she should call law enforcement in the states where the incidents had occurred. She says she was told it was up to her.

She told the Times she attempted to contact authorities in at least one other place but made no progress. She does not remember which jurisdiction it was.

The sisters also told their story to Vanity Fair reporter Vicky Ward in 2003 for an article on Epstein’s finances and his interest in young girls, but the article did not make any mention of the Farmer sisters, the Times reported. Ward said she did not include the sisters as she had not known “quite whom to believe” and her editor Graydon Carter said that the sources did not meet the Vanity Fair’s editorial standards.

Ward has since suggested on Twitter that Carter was pressured by Epstein, and former Vanity Fair contributing editor John Connolly said he remembered Carter discussing Epstein attempting to influence the article, the Times reported.

Maria Farmer said that Maxwell threatened her when word somehow got out that she and her sister had done the detailed interview.

“Better be careful and watch your back,” Maxwell allegedly told her. “I know you go to the West Side Highway all the time. While you’re out there, just be really careful because there are a lot of ways to die there.”

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Iran declines to Disclose Cause of Mysterious Nuke Site Fire

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his photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman in a report published Thursday, July 2, 2020 by the state-run IRNA news agency, said an “incident” has damaged an under-construction building near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, but there was no damage to its centrifuge facility. Kamalvandi said authorities were investigating what happened. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

By JON GAMBRELL (AP)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An online video and messages purportedly claiming responsibility for a fire that analysts say damaged a centrifuge assembly plant at Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear site deepened the mystery Friday around the incident — even as Tehran insisted it knew the cause but would not make it public due to “security reasons.”

The multiple, different claims by a self-described group called the “Cheetahs of the Homeland” included language used by several exiled Iranian opposition organizations. They also focused almost entirely on Iran’s nuclear program, viewed by Israel as a danger to its very existence.

The disparate messages, as well as the fact that Iran experts have never heard of the group before, raised questions about whether Natanz again had faced sabotage by a foreign nation as it had during the Stuxnet computer virus outbreak believed to have been engineered by the U.S. and Israel. Tehran’s reaction so far shows Iranian officials are increasingly taking the possibility seriously.

“If it is proven that our country has been attacked by cyberattacks, we will respond,” warned Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, the head of Iran’s military unit in charge of combating sabotage, according to a report late Thursday by the Mizan news agency.

Iranian officials have sought to downplay the fire, which erupted early on Thursday, calling it only an “incident” that affected an “industrial shed.” However, a released photo and video of the site broadcast by Iranian state television showed a two-story brick building with scorch marks and its roof apparently destroyed. Debris on the ground and a door that looked blown off its hinges suggested an explosion accompanied the blaze.

Two U.S.-based analysts who spoke to The Associated Press, relying on released pictures and satellite images, identified the affected building as Natanz’s new Iran Centrifuge Assembly Center. A satellite image on Friday by Planet Labs Inc., annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows what appears to be damage done to half of the building.

Iranian nuclear officials did not respond to a request for comment from the AP on the analysts’ findings. However, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency quoted the spokesman of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council as saying authorities know the cause of the fire.

“Due to some security considerations, the cause and manner of the accident will be announced at the appropriate time,” Keyvan Khosravi reportedly said on Friday, without elaborating.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said none of its inspectors were at Natanz at the time of the fire and “that the location where the incident occurred does not contain nuclear materials.”

Before news of the fire became public Thursday, the BBC’s Persian service says its journalists received emails from the self-proclaimed “Cheetahs of the Homeland” claiming an attack at Natanz.

A video claimed the group included “soldiers from the heart of regime’s security organizations” who wanted to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran long has maintained its atomic program is for peaceful purposes. However, the IAEA has said that Iran “carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device” in a “structured program” through the end of 2003.

The video and one written statement also referred to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “zahhak,” a monster in Persian folklore. But the tone across the messages clashed, with one using terminology often associated with Iran’s Mujahedeen-e-Khalq exile group, or MEK, and the video seemingly showing Iran’s Shiite theocracy as worse than the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The video also included parts of the nationalist song “Ey Iran,” which reformists and opposition groups both sing.

The MEK group said it was not responsible for the fire. Its statement described the blaze as a “reaction to the nuclear project of the religious fascism ruling Iran, which has afflicted the Iranian people (with) only poverty, repression, terrorism and war.”

The office of the shah’s exiled son, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, said he “does not have any contact with this group” that claimed the fire. The AP received no response to an email sent to one address associated with the “Cheetahs of the Homeland” statements.

The purported group’s name, “the Cheetahs of the Homeland,” also struck some as odd, given that “cheetahs” is a nickname for Iran’s national football club. Ronen Bergman, an Israeli journalist who works with The New York Times and published a book on the Mossad titled “Rise and Kill First,” questioned why an Iranian opposition group would name itself that.

“It’s highly unlikely that a serious opposition movement would use such a name, which is probably exactly what the people who came up with it, were aiming people to think,” Bergman wrote Friday on Twitter in English, without elaborating. He also tweeted a similar message in Hebrew.

Suspicion over the incident immediately fell on Israel, including in a commentary published by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency Thursday.

Meir Javedanfar, an Iran lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, who viewed the “Cheetahs of the Homeland” video, said any domestic group that managed to penetrate Iran’s heavily guarded nuclear facilities would be unlikely to risk being captured by distributing such a video. He said “it’s difficult to know” if Israel’s Mossad or another foreign intelligence agency produced the video.

“It could be a foreign intelligence agency, in order to sow discord in Iran … or maybe it’s a false flag by the Iranian regime in order to crack down,” Javedanfar said.

The video did, however, call it the Kashan nuclear site, rather than Natanz. Kashan is a nearby city once home to a large, historic Jewish community. Iranians uniformly call the nuclear site Natanz.

Destroying a centrifuge assembly facility could greatly impact Iran’s ability to more-quickly enrich greater amounts of uranium, which would be a goal for either Israel or the U.S.

Iran had begun experimenting with advanced centrifuge models in the wake of the U.S. unilaterally withdrawing two years ago from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. However, it took years for Iran to perfect its first-generation IR-1 centrifuge off designs it purchased from Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan’s black market network. It’s unclear if Iran has another similar-size assembly facility.

The fact that the Natanz fire also comes less than a week after an explosion in an area east of Tehran that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites also raises suspicions.

The Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor said either incident could “have been the result of a domestic group acting with or without foreign support, or the result of a U.S. or Israeli cyber attack.”

“If there is a campaign by the United States, Israel and/or local groups in Iran underway, then Iran is likely to eventually respond in kind, potentially against Western targets in the Persian Gulf,” Stratfor warned.

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