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African cardinal criticizes Black Lives Matter movement for ‘dismantling’ civilization July 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – South African Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier strongly criticized the Black Lives Matter movement for its “dismantling” of civilizations and cultures.  Napier, himself a black man and archbishop of Durban on the South African coast, tweeted that a “ brief study of the founding statement of ‘Black Lives Matter’ indicates the movement is being hijacked by the interests & parties committed to dismantling the very values, structure & institutions which have over the centuries undergird the best civilisations & cultures!” After his original tweet on July...

Portland police and Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies have filed court documents that give a day-by-day accounting of their protest response over the last six weeks, including dozens of videos that show violence downtown, photos of broken windows to courthouses and businesses and a list of more than 100 fires set. They estimated repair costs to public buildings approaching $300,000 so far and $4.8 million in property damage to businesses. The inventory was among more than 100 pages submitted to U.S. District Court by the city and county to answer a lawsuit filed by Don’t Shoot Portland. The nonprofit group seeks...

A predominantly Black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta on Saturday, calling for removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism. Video footage of the Independence Day rally posted on social media showed scores of demonstrators dressed in black - many in paramilitary-style clothing and all wearing face scarves - quietly parading several abreast down a sidewalk at the park. The protesters all carried rifles, including military-type weapons, and some wore ammunition belts slung over their shoulders. Although African Americans appeared to account...

THE SEATTLE COMMUNE is no more. Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, rechristened CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest, the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1. The cops shut it down. As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. If the Paris Commune of 1871 is the archetype, that mass uprising and swift slaughter of the communards who rose against the regime, what happened in Seattle is the farce. Police Chief Carmen Best, who opposed Mayor Jenny Durkan’s surrender of one of her precinct stations...

To repeat the overall conclusion: neither a mask of any sort nor ordinary social distancing are effective at all in preventing you from catching a viral infection. Not. One. Bit. Effective.

Over the last few weeks Parler has become the talk of Trumpist land, with promises of a social media site that "supports free speech." The front page of the site insists that its content moderation is based on the standards of the FCC and the Supreme Court of the United States:...Besides, as we pointed out, Parler's terms of service allow them to ban users or content for any reason whatsoever -- suggesting they didn't have much conviction behind their "we only moderate based on the FCC and the Supreme Court."...So, anyway, on Monday, we noted that Parler was actually banning...

This video shows Jack (in blue) getting liquid thrown on him, pushed, punched, robbed, mobbed, life threatened by Antifa in Lincoln Park. Police saved Jack - who is pressing charges

So they can burn it ALL down.

Businesses say the man had been harassing them for several days MADISON, Wis. — Business owners along State Street said the 28-year-old man who was arrested outside Cooper’s Tavern on Tuesday afternoon had been harassing them and their customers for several days prior to his arrest. Several businesses, which did not want to be identified due to fear of retaliation, said Devonere Johnson came into their restaurants with a bat and a megaphone demanding free food and drinks and threatened those who wouldn’t give it to him, allegedly saying he would burn down their buildings or beat them up. One...

Recently we have received several concerns from people about a 911 call that was made public where a woman and her child were driving downtown and they were met by demonstrators. While the woman was on the phone with our 911 center, a person jumped on her vehicle.... We had an officer open a criminal investigation the folloewing day to identify to identify the person who jumped on her vehicle.

BET Founder Robert Johnson mocked the cancel culture mob for taking down statues, getting television shows removed, and have professors fired, thinking that’s what African Americans want. People who are knocking down statues "have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South," Johnson told Fox News. "You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way...

Protests flared overnight in Northeast Portland, resulting in confrontations between police and protesters, property damage and fires. Reports say police used tear gas to disperse crowds. Police have not released information about munitions used during the demonstration, which began Thursday and stretched into the early-morning hours Friday. They did say multiple people were arrested and that businesses were vandalized and looted. The protest, which was among others held Thursday in Portland on the one-month anniversary of George Floyd’s death, drew hundreds of marchers to the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct on Killingsworth Street. Police later declared an unlawful assembly and...

Video has emerged showing a large group of people causing a late-night disturbance in Brooklyn by shooting dozens of fireworks into the sky, amid a citywide crackdown on the illegal explosives. Witness Christopher Maslanka was driving through Crown Heights on June 16 when a 'mob of 50 to 60 people' emerged and began setting fireworks alight in the middle of the road. Maslanka captured the incident on video which showed the crowd marching down the street while firing off multiple Roman candles into the air in an elaborate display lasting about two minutes long.

When the race baiters are given the microphone and take center stage given by the MSM, it's as though amnesia sets in. All the people in all the world who help one another without regard to race are forgotten, and suddenly the only people that "matter" are hucksters like Al Sharpton, leader of more than one hoax with devastating consiquences or Antifa or some other repulsive freaks in our society. But what happened to the FL officer who rushed like a father to save his own son, regardless of the race of the baby he saved?Video shows Florida deputy save...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers activated the National Guard on Wednesday after protesters toppled two statues, vandalized buildings and a state senator was attacked outside the Capitol during a night of violence that erupted following daylong protests. The guardsmen will protect state properties and "make sure people can exercise their First Amendment rights while ensuring the safety of members of the public and state buildings and infrastructure," Gov. Tony Evers said. The unrest that unfolded Tuesday night began after 200 to 300 protesters marched through downtown Madison and escalated once they reached the state Capitol grounds. Some tried breaking into the...

Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks” and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals. The collection — nearly 270 gigabytes in total — is the latest release from Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), an alternative to Wikileaks that publishes caches of previously secret data. The archive indexes “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and...

[Barf Alert] Moral March on Washington Fr. James Martin endorses pro-gay march "This movement is not about saving the Democratic Party or criticizing the Republican Party; this movement is about saving the soul of this nation." Endorsed by pro-gay Jesuit, James Martin, "the Mass Poor People's Assembly and Moral March on Washington" took place on Saturday — digitally.  Father James Martin remarked of the event, "Now, why would a Catholic go to something like that and participate digitally? Well, first of all, as Christians, we know that Jesus stood with the poor. In His ministry, He was consistently taking the side of...

As the fog pushed through the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday evening, hundreds of swimmers jumped into the chilly waters of San Francisco Bay in a unique show of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Gathered as a massive group in the waters of Aquatic Park, the protestors' swim cap-topped heads bobbed in the gently rolling ocean, spreading a rainbow of colors. In unison, they chanted, "No peace, no justice," "Say her name. George Floyd," and "I can't breathe." Their resounding cries carried to the beach, up to Ghirardelli Square and across Fisherman's Wharf. The Swim Out in Solidarity...

It’s been fascinating – and not in a good way – to see how the mainstream media and Democratic “leaders” like Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan continue to declare that the CHAZ or CHOP or whatever the hell it is called is a “peaceful” place with a “block party atmosphere.” Some in the media have likened it to a “street festival“, while Durkan recently predicted the occupied zone could very well turn into a “summer of love.” The reality on the ground is actually much different than these gaslighters would like for people to think it is. As my RedState colleagues...

From a Seattle police officer last night: "Hey guys, I have a little down time so here is an update on things here. Absolute madness here. Can't even express it all. Day 12 for us and our Mayor and chief abandoned a major precinct and gave it to the anarchists. Unthinkable. 9 blocks of our city under the complete control of these terrorists. No joke. This is unreal. No police, no fire dept, no sanity allowed in. They have an armed force patrolling, manning checkpoints and stopping cars and citizens at gun point. They are creating a currency, an ID...