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Indoor dining is not allowed in the City of Philadelphia right now because of the coronavirus but Mayor Jim Kenney was spotted dining at a restaurant in Maryland. Kenney firing back and blaming the federal government......NBC 10 PHILADELPHIA
The Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec making threats because of a "spike" in coronavirus cases.
Francois Legault threatening to reimpose lockdown measures saying:
"There has been a general slacking on the rules in Quebec"
Officials say the number of cases in the province has been rising in the last two weeks......CBC NEWS
The coronavirus crackdown in the UK continues with 13,320 dollar (10,000 pound) fines being handed out to those who organized a rally in London's Trafalgar Square Saturday. The rally held in opposition to COVID-19 restrictions in the UK.
One of the organizers fined is Piers Corbyn older brother of the former Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Piers Corbyn is a businessman who operates his own weather forecasting service and he does not believe in "climate change".
Corbyn says that police grabbed him on the stage right after the rally was held Saturday saying that he was "frogmarched" then held for ten hours........THE GUARDIAN UK
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That's perhaps best served up by a Brit (Peter Hitchens on Twitter today) and Pastor Niemoller's warning about 1930's Germany figures in it.....PETER HITCHENS TWITTER POST
I watched Ammon Bundy get arrested twice in Idaho last week with the rest of the world distracted by the raging street violence and regardless of who wins that fight THE COVID-19 DICTATORSHIP REMAINS IN THE USA. ITS ENFORCED BY THE BLUE LINE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS IN UNIFORM. WHY DO THE POLICE HOLD BACK ON BLM-ANTIFA? HOLDING BACK TO ENFORCE CORONAVIRUS ORDERS AS THEIR ULTIMATE PRIORITY? THAT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATED WITH AMMON BUNDY'S ARRESTS AT THE DIRECTION OF THE REPUBLICANS WHO RUN IDAHO FOLLOWED BY THEIR BAN ON HIM FROM COMING INTO THE STATE CAPITOL.
Back to the UK a little satire featuring UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his "Mini-Me" among others.....SANDRA WEEDEN TWITTER
AT LEAST TWO REPORTED KILLED IN ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKES SOUTH OF DAMASCUS TONIGHT...........TASS......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
ISRAEL'S CORONAVIRUS 'CZAR' RELEASING AN EXTENSIVE LISTS OF "RED" CITIES WHERE RESTRICTIONS ON GATHERINGS ARE ENVISIONED IN THE NAME OF STOPPING COVID-19 SPREAD....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
In Washington DC late last night police using flash bangs and tear gas on a group of some 100 "black blocs" anarchists at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House. The protest was called in response to tough police tactics employed during protests on Saturday night........WTOP
THE IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTING ON RECENT VIOLENT EVENTS IN THE US. JAVAD ZARIF SAYS THAT THE COMMENTS OF ACTING HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY CHAD WOLF ABOUT "ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE" REMIND HIM OF US POLICY TOWARD IRAN. HE THINKS AMERICANS SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THAT.... PRESS TV IRAN
India says that Chinese soldiers made "provocative" movements in the disputed border region over the weekend.......DEUTSCHE WELLE......India's NDTV reporting that Indian soldiers blocked Chinese soldiers from moving into disputed territory......TASS
AN HISTORIC FLIGHT TODAY WITH AN ISRAELI AIRLINER TOUCHING DOWN IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. ISRAEL'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AND PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SON-IN-LAW JARED KUSHNER AMONG THE DIGNITARIES ON BOARD.....BBC NEWS
A new Prime Minister for Lebanon following the explosion disaster in Beirut. Mustapha Adib, Lebanon's Ambassador to Germany, winning support from key political forces.....BBC NEWS
Yesterday's election in the small Balkan nation of Montenegro giving opposition parties more votes than the currently governing pro-NATO party. The main opposition pro-Russia-Serbia party is in a position to form a coalition with other opposition parties......TASS......BBC NEWS
THOSE CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY VIA WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 38,560 NEW CASES LED BY CALIFORNIA WITH 6,485, TEXAS WITH 3,774 AND MISSOURI 2,233.
A DEADLY SHOOTING IN PORTLAND AMID CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATORS AND SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP MORE LATER BUT FIRST........
FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW PROTESTERS OPPOSED TO CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY RULE TAKING TO THE STREETS OF BERLIN. YESTERDAY TENS OF THOUSANDS IN THE STREETS WITH POLICE MAKING ARRESTS.....VIDEO FEED FROM BERLIN
Israel's cabinet voting to extend the coronavirus "state of emergency" that was set to expire September 6th. 60 more days added to the emergency powers........ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Police in Victoria state Australia handing out 192 fines for breaching coronavirus lockdown rules including one for a woman who hosted a birthday party for a five year old girl. Some 20 of the fines handed out for not wearing a muzzle (mask) outside of home......AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS-TV NEW ZEALAND
More restrictions being placed on residents of New Zealand's largest city Auckland over COVID-19 with gatherings limited to 10 people or less and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying those rules should be followed outside the city when residents leave it. The new controls follow two more cases of the coronavirus being discovered in the country of some three million people. Ardern saying:
"There is a chance that we will need more restrictions in the future unless we can all work together"....SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (AUSTRALIA)
ONE PERSON SHOT AND KILLED IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND SATURDAY EVENING AS COMPETING PROTESTS WERE UNDERWAY IN THE CITY. SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP STAGING A CARAVAN OF HUNDREDS OF VEHICLES INTO THE CITY FROM THE SUBURBS AS COUNTER-PROTESTERS CAME OUT ONTO THE STREETS WITH FIGHTING AND INTERVENTION BY POLICE IN SOME CASES.
THE SHOOTING VICTIM LAY IN THE STREET WITH CAMOUFLAGE GEAR NEXT TO THEM ALONG WITH INFIDEL AND BLUE LINE PATCHES, SYMBOLS OF SUPPORT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. THE VICTIM ALSO WEARING A "PATRIOT PRAYER" HAT......OREGONLIVE....THE VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS JAY BISHOP A FRIEND AND SUPPORTER OF "PATRIOT PRAYER"......OREGON LIVE
A 48-YEAR OLD MAN BEING INVESTIGATED BY PORTLAND POLICE AFTER THE SHOOTING WAS ACCUSED EARLIER THIS YEAR WHEN CARRIED A LOADED GUN AT A PROTEST. MICHAEL FOREST REINOEHL IS A SELF-DESCRIBED ANTI-FASCIST (ANTIFA)....OREGONLIVE
PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETING ABOUT PORTLAND JUST BEFORE 5 AM THIS MORNING SAYING LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE INCOMPETENT AND SHOULD ASK FOR HELP INCLUDING THE NATIONAL GUARD. THE PRESIDENT CALLING FOR 'LAW AND ORDER'.....NEW YORK POST
ACTING HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY CHAD WOLF SPEAKING TODAY OF 'ALL OPTIONS' BEING IN PLAY INCLUDING FEDERAL FORCES WHEN IT COMES TO A RESPONSE TO THE SITUATON IN PORTLAND.........FORBES
PROGRESSIVE LEADERS IN PORTLAND CALLING FOR THE POLICE CHIEF AND MAYOR TO RESIGN........OREGON LIVE
PORTLAND MAYOR TED WHEELER AND POLICE CHIEF CHUCK LOVELL HOLDING A NEWS CONFERENCE THIS AFTERNOON THE MAYOR SAYING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP EITHER 'SUPPORTS US' OR 'GETS THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY'.......MAXINE BERNSTEIN OREGONLIVE TWITTER
Court filings in the case of four former Minneapolis police officers accused in the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis indicate that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is prosecuting the case, wants to see tough sentences imposed because of aggravating factors in the case.
One factor is that Derek Chauvin is seen kneeling on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes while bystanders including children pleaded for his life and watched him die.....AFP STORY-AL ARABIYA SAUDI ARABIA
KENTUCKY'S REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON SAYS HE HAS AN FBI BALLISTICS REPORT ON THE MARCH 13TH POLICE SHOOTING OF BREONNA TAYLOR IN LOUISVILLE. CAMERON, A POLITICAL UNDERSTUDY OF SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL, HEADING UP THE PROBE INTO TAYLOR'S DEATH IN KENTUCKY.......CBS NEWS (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
In Montreal a statue of Canada's first Prime Minister John A McDonald toppled by anti-racist attackers Saturday. The head of the statue broken off in the fall. Protests in both Montreal and Toronto calling for the defunding of police yesterday.....VIDEO LINK
Opposition protesters on the streets of the capital of Belarus today and security forces out in large numbers making arrests and blocking the main square. Minsk the site of a major rally protesting against the government of President Alexander Lukashenko recently declared a landslide winner in what was seen by the opposition as a rigged election......BBC NEWS
The US says that two Russian fighters acted in an "unprofessional matter" when they intercepted a B-52 bomber over the Black Sea near southern Russia on Friday.......US VIDEO..........TASS
Parliamentary elections in the small Balkan nation of Montenegro being watched today with competing pro-NATO and pro-Russia parties vying for power.....RADIO FREE EUROPE-RADIO LIBERTY.....An exit poll tonight showing a very close result between the two leading parties with a third party holding the balance of power.....TASS
A French military officer being investigated suspected of passing documents to Russian spies. The officer taken into custody back on August 21st......REUTERS-METRO US
THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION HAS CONDEMNED THE BURNING OF ISLAM'S HOLY BOOK IN THE SOUTHERN SWEDISH CITY OF MALMO FRIDAY. A RALLY BY ANTI-ISLAMIST ACTIVISTS HELD IN THAT CITY AND DURING THE RALLY A COPY OF THE KORAN WAS TORCHED. FRIDAY NIGHT OPPONENTS OF THE KORAN BURNING RIOTED IN THE THE SWEDISH CITY BURNING TIRES AND PALLETS....MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
CORONAVIRUS CASES ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS TODAY SOME 33,981 NEW CASES REPORTED IN THE USA WITH 371 MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.
"In this case study, inapparent infections in children may have been associated with silent COVID-19 transmission in the community"
Researchers in South Korea saying that children are capable of carrying the coronavirus in their noses and throats for weeks without showing any symptoms......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
The Yellow Vests carried on today during a week when coronavirus fears were raised in France with large numbers of new COVID-19 infections being officially reported......
Paris also the site of another protest today with hundreds demanding "liberte" when it comes to the order to wear the muzzle (mask) in the city........PROTEST AGAINST MUZZLE-MASK ORDER PARIS 8/29/2020
Back to the Yellow Vests and the protest in Besancon today. Besancon located near Geneva, Switzerland in the Alpine region of France......YELLOW VESTS BESANCON, FRANCE 8/29/2020
And just southwest of Paris Sain-Arnoult en Yvelines the site of march along a road today. It was a march in the rain that led to a toll plaza. These toll booths operated by private companies that have taken over French highways imposing another tax on people. The Yellow Vests making the road toll free today in an event they described as a "liberation". Here is a 41 minute video of this very traditional Yellow Vests event that hearkens back to the origins of the movement.....YELLOW VESTS SAINT ARNOULT EN YVELINES 8/29/2020
And that is the story of the Yellow Vests for this week......
"Freedom Is Everybody's Business Your Business My Business The Church's Business And A Man Who Will Not Use His Freedom To Defend His Freedom Does Not Deserve His Freedom"
Dr. Carl McIntire-"Fairness Doctrine" Target In The 1960's and 70's
"You had the numbers. So when Ammon Bundy was arrested why did everyone leave as asked? If you make them arrest everyone, everything changes."
"Gavin Seim For Liberty" Facebook 8/26/2020.....LINK
"MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC"-MAMA CASS ELLIOT
"NOTHING FROM NOTHING"-BILLY PRESTON
"HAWAII FIVE O"-THE VENTURES
Well "Hawaii Five-O" when I was young meant Jack Lord saying "Book Em Danno" but nowadays in Hawaii the message is "Lock Em Danno" as in another coronavirus lockdown "stay at home" order coming into force for Honolulu Thursday to last at least two weeks......
We are in the "Dictatorship of Covid-19" and so much one can talk about this week of politics and the reminder that China is a problem and China and the virus are linked and so on but that doesn't have to mean that we live under all these controls and restrictions and the list goes on. Sweden did just fine without em.
A lot has been said about "mental health" being impacted by all this coronavirus fear, panic and nonsense and that's one way to put it. I'm a drunk and I see it in the context of being pressurized by the dictatorship into making intoxicating choices in one's life.
Plenty of political intoxication this week I left it behind.
AM I "SAVED" WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS?
If by "saved" you mean do I support President Trump the answer is "Yes" because I see the need for the "wild card" because the rest of political landscape is so bleak and barren. People who believe in nothing along the lines of this nation's Founders.
The Republicans with a few exceptions so corrupt and unworthy of my support even as they say they support President Trump and he says that he supports them.
The "Dictatorship of Covid-19" is Republican as well as Democrat.
Idaho Republican Governor Brad Little imposing emergency measures there and the Idaho Republican run legislature ramming through new legislation to force compliance in exchange for liability protection from lawsuits related to COVID-19.
And THE ONLY ONE MAKING THEIR STAND AND GETTING ARRESTED TWICE AMMON BUNDY......
BREAKING NEWS: POLICE IN BERLIN ORDER FREEDOM PROTESTERS TO DISPERSE (ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SPEAKS TO RALLY)
A court allowed the protest to go forward in a ruling yesterday but the police are already cracking down in Berlin today.
Its after 6 pm in Berlin as I post this and the rally is on with a speaker in English from the UK in recent minutes and I've been made aware that the son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy among the speakers in Berlin at that rally today (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.). I will work to get more on that later...........
All this talk about "Law and Order" right now is it conditioning you to accept the "Dictatorship of COVID-19"?
What does this tyranny mean?
Peter Hitchens shared a piece on his blog that was not published when he made his regular contribution to "First Things" which originates here in the USA.......
"There's been a tremendous amount of lies which I don't really care about but I just want you to know that never once did I speak out or like break decorum or break my word"
Ammon Bundy speaks in hour-long Facebook video 8/27/2020 after his second arrest at the Idaho State Capitol at 6:00 into video.....VIDEO LINK
I stopped listening to the lies about Ammon Bundy way back in 2016 when I watched the Oregon Standoff protest and subsequent trial where he was found not guilty by the jury on a host of federal felony charges with Billy Williams, the US Attorney in Portland, leading the persecution.
That guy is supposed to be some sort of hero in relation to the Antifa-BLM right now. The evil Williams did in relation to Ammon Bundy and his prosecution and persecution of Bundy and the others in the Oregon Standoff case as "domestic terrorists" in 2016 was Antifa.
When the III Percent crowd came in as if on cue (who sent them the FBI?) as Ammon tried to speak to the media about the Hammonds and the persecution of them by the federal government Ammon sent those Kyle Rittenhouse type guys away. They weren't needed. Ammon was trying to make a point about the non-violence of his protest and its defensive nature. Let the federal government perp the violence and sure enough they did in the end with LaVoy Finicum killed and Ryan Bundy injured by shrapnel on January 26th, 2016.
We'll continue this story later.......
BELARUS UPDATE: FOREIGN JOURNALISTS LOSE ACCREDITATION ON EVE OF MAJOR PROTEST
The government of Alexander Lukashenko going after the foreign journalists in the country covering the post-election protests......
The Russian Embassy helping the Russian citizens expelled to leave Belarus today......TASS
Other Belarus developments include a protest of women in the capital city of Minsk today....TASS...The opposition in Belarus speaking and the Russian news agency Tass giving its version of a call for the Interior Minister in charge of law enforcement to resign and the claim that Western nations are funding the opposition in the country.......TASS
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SPEAKS TO THE FREEDOM RALLY IN BERLIN
"Back home in the United States newspapers are saying that I came here today to speak to about five thousand Nazis....I look at this rally and I see the opposite of Nazism"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Speaks In Berlin 8/29/2020
The crowd some 30-thousand strong in Berlin today for the speech from the nephew of the former US president who spoke the words "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" in the city some 57 years ago this summer.
Here is RFK Jr. speaking along with his German translator......
And people in Canada looking for some freedom today and they were on Parliament Hill protesting. I visited this spot back in the summer of 2015 when we were free to travel and I see the Quebecois showed up with their flags among others.
The border is closed but some USA imports visible as in "Trump 2020" materials being displayed by some protesters. Canadians endorsing the President's re-election.....FREEDOM PROTEST OTTAWA, CANADA 8/29/2020
"Miste was like I am press and she shows her badge and you know and she tries to assert and immediately that's what was alarming to me was immediately here come all these ISP officers and it was all of them all the 15 to 20 and they just, just flowed in the room just filled the room.
And immediately went down to where Miste and Brian were and surrounded them and began to basically drag them off and ultimately arrested Brian. Well and then the people were upset. It totally, it was it was like they were exciting, trying to get excite the people, to incite the people"
Ammon Bundy Facebook Video 8/29/2020 at approx 11:30-VIDEO LINK
And there is Ammon Bundy with the story of what happened leading up to his arrests at the Idaho State Capitol Tuesday and Wednesday. Bundy says someone there was pushing buttons and trying to push people's buttons as the legislature forced through its "Dictatorship of COVID-19" legislation.....
"ODE TO A LOST INNOCENCE"-SILVERWIND
"ROD AND STAFF"-SECOND CHAPTER OF ACTS
"I BLEW UP THE CLINIC REAL GOOD"-STEVE TAYLOR
Some classics from the world of Contemporary Christian Music and wow things seem to be blowing up and burning down lately.
REFLECTIONS ON KENOSHA FROM JACOB BLAKE TO KYLE RITTENHOUSE AND ALL THINGS IN BETWEEN
Word tonight that President Trump will visit Kenosha on Tuesday and I can't begin to think what he's going to say but I have to share what's on my mind.
Jacob Blake "did not obey the order of an officer" and when it comes to that notion I have seen people "not obey the order of an officer" before like this man on a highway in Oregon January 26th, 2016......LAVOY FINICUM ON CELL PHONE VIDEO 1/26/2016
LaVoy got shot in the back too but only got shot three times in total not seven.
His supporters did not riot afterwards but some people decided that violence was the right response in Kenosha to the killing of Jacob Blake.
But before we go there Blake is being made guilty before his trial because of the sexual assault allegations against him. Peter Hitchens has watched the flood of sexual abuse allegations in the UK sweep up the innocent along with the guilty and he says better the guilty go free than the innocent go to jail.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES SAYS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY BUT NOWADAYS FROM FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ON DOWN THAT NOTION IS NOTHING MORE THAN A URINAL.
The violence was awful but please notice that when all hell broke loose the "blue line" of law enforcement lined up at the government buildings and protected their own facilities like the police building and the county courthouse.
THE 'BLUE LINE' DID NOT PROTECT THE PROPERTY OF THE CITIZENS AND THEIR BUSINESSES LIKE THE FURNITURE STORE OR THE CAR DEALER ETC. ETC. THEN THE GUYS LIKE KYLE RITTENHOUSE COME ON IN TO THE PICTURE.
Ammon Bundy has warned the people in recent months that when the various factions start fighting each other the rights of the people in the middle are in danger and they need to be protected.
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A court in Berlin will allow a freedom protest in Germany's capital city tomorrow. The court overturned a ban on the demonstration against coronavirus restrictions in Germany. The protest expected to draw over 22,500 people being allowed with conditions........DEUTSCHE WELLE
An emergency ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction from a federal district judge restricting federal law enforcement in Portland. The injunction was aimed at protecting members of the media and legal observers from federal officers........MAXINE BERNSTEIN OREGONLIVE TWITTER
AN ILLINOIS JUDGE PUTTING A 30-DAY HOLD ON AN EXTRADITION HEARING FOR KYLE RITTENHOUSE. RITTENHOUSE CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF MURDER AND ONE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR ATTACKING PROTESTERS SUPPORTING JACOB BLAKE IN KENOSHA, WISCONSIN TUESDAY NIGHT. BLAKE SHOT SEVEN TIMES IN THE BACK BY A KENOSHA POLICE OFFICER SUNDAY.......KENOSHA NEWS STORY-TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH
A march in Washington today called in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis back in May. The march held on the 57th anniversary of the March of Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....... TRT WORLD TURKEY
A full pardon from President Trump today for Alice Johnson, who had received a life sentence for drug offenses before he commuted her sentence several years ago. Johnson spoke this week at the Republican National Convention........NTD NEWS
IN BELARUS SOME 264 PEOPLE DETAINED BY AUTHORITIES YESTERDAY ACCORDING TO HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.....TASS THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO GETTING OPEN SUPPORT FROM RUSSIA YESTERDAY.
Russia says that one of its fighters intercepted a US spy plane today over the Black Sea near southern Russia........TASS.......Russia also saying that one of its fighters intercepted three NATO spy planes, one American, the other Swedish and the third Danish over the Black Sea near southern Russia.......TASS
China flexing its military muscle this week with the firing of two ballistic missiles said to be a response to a U-2 spy plane flight in a Chinese "no fly zone". One of the missiles dubbed an "aircraft carrier killer" by China......AL JAZEERA QATAR NEWS REPORT
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTING THAT THE NUMBER OF US TROOPS IN IRAQ IS TO BE REDUCED TO 35-HUNDRED........
Greece is calling for the European Union to impose sanctions on Turkey over its energy drilling activities in disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean. Germany said to be concerned that such sanctions would harden the Turkish stance.......ANF KURDISH NEWS.....Today the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell issued a warning to Turkey that sanctions could be coming on individuals, ships and the use of European ports. No decision will be made until a European summit set to begin September 24th.......AL JAZEERA QATAR REPORT
A close friend and ally of President Trump, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, resigning today due to a chronic illness.......BBC NEWS
Evidence uncovered of United Arab Emirates involvement in the war in Libya. A UAE drone reported to have been involved in deadly airstrike in January of this year.......BBC NEWS
SOME 2,663 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES REPORTED IN IOWA TODAY WITH ANITGEN TEST RESULTS BEING ADDED TO THE TOTAL. THIS IS THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW OF LARGE NUMBERS OF NEW CASES BEING REPORTED. YESTERDAY REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS ORDERED BARS IN SIX COUNTIES CLOSED DUE TO THE RISING NUMBER OF COVID-19 CASES.......KCCI DES MOINES
THE CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 49,601 NEW CASES IN THE UNITED STATES LED BY CALIFORNIA AT 5,406, TEXAS AT 4,987 AND FLORIDA AT 3,815.
WORLDWIDE TODAY ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS SOME 284,967 NEW CASES LED BY INDIA WITH 76,665. SOME OTHER COUNTRIES INCLUDE ARGENTINA WITH 11,717 WHICH A SINGLE-DAY RECORD NUMBER AND FRANCE WITH 7,379. ALSO ISRAEL TODAY WITH 1,597 NEW CASES REPORTED.
THE CONVICTED KILLER OF A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL PUT TO DEATH AT A FEDERAL PRISON IN TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. 45-YEAR OLD KEITH NELSON THE SECOND FEDERAL INMATE EXECUTED THIS WEEK AND THE FIFTH THIS YEAR.....ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY EAST BAY TIMES
Apple terminating the developer account of Epic Games today. This follows a dispute with Epic over payments that used to be made through an Apple app giving Apple revenue. Epic had started to allow users to get a cheaper price by paying it directly......DEUTSCHE WELLE STORY
Canada's navy is tossing out traditional titles in its enlisted ranks like:
"Ordinary Seaman"
"Able Seaman"
"Leading Seaman"
and
"Master Seaman".
More gender neutral terms being introduced with the word "sailor" in them like "Sailor Third Class", Sailor Second Class" and so on.......CBC NEWS
And that's the way it really is Friday August 28th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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"I am writing this open letter today, to a watching world, so that all can see for themselves the reality of the tyranny we are now living under--even in a place like Idaho"
Those words coming in recent hours from Peoples Rights activist Ammon Bundy.
What is the real story of Ammon Bundy and why he was arrested twice this week at Idaho's State Capitol in Boise? Bundy now publishing an open letter about what happened and why. Its a version of events you won't see in the mainstream media or some "conservative media" out there.
To follow up on that open letter "from jail" Ammon Bundy freed from the county jail in Boise now and back home with his wife Lisa posting a video late this afternoon.......FACEBOOK VIDEO
Orthodox Jews in Israel rushing to leave the country for a religious pilgrimage to Ukraine because of a coronavirus ban being imposed on them by Ukraine at the request of Israel's government.........YNET NEWS ISRAEL
France's Prime Minister Jean Castex planning to make the face muzzle (mask) mandatory in Paris along with other measures due to increased numbers of reported COVID-19 cases in France.......BBC NEWS
TONIGHT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION OFFERING A STARK CONTRAST BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN............BBC BLOG
CHINA SAYS THAT IT FORCED BACK A US WARSHIP THAT VIOLATED ITS TERRITORIAL WATERS IN A DISPUTED AREA OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA........NEWSWEEK
A RUSSIAN WEBSITE RELEASING VIDEO OF THE COLLISION BETWEEN A RUSSIAN AND US ARMORED VEHICLE TUESDAY IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA. THE US SAYS THAT RUSSIA CAUSED THE COLLISION WITH RUSSIA BLAMING THE US. FOUR US SOLDIERS RECEIVED CONCUSSION INJURIES....VIDEO LINK WITH COLLISION AT :49 INTO THE VIDEO
Russia moving to support the authoritarian rule of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko today announcing the formation of a "law enforcement unit" to be used if the situation "gets out of hand" in Belarus.....TASS
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that events in Belarus are being influenced from outside. There have been mass protests in the country over the results of the August 9th presidential election which are widely seen as rigged in favor of the incumbent President Lukashenko......TASS
Journalists in Minsk, the Belarus capital, detained by authorities late today.
SIX ROCKETS FIRED FROM GAZA INTO SOUTHERN ISRAEL EARLY FRIDAY FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKES INTO GAZA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
In New Zealand Brenton Tarrant the convicted mass murderer in the attacks on two mosques last year sentenced to life in prison today. The life without parole sentence is the first of its kind handed down in New Zealand.....BBC NEWS
CRUNCHING THE COVID-19 NUMBERS AS PROVIDED BY WORLDOMETERS TODAY SOME 46,286 NEW CASES REPORTED IN THE USA WITH LEADING STATES BEING CALIFORNIA, TEXAS AND FLORIDA. SOME HIGH NUMBERS IN THE OTHER STATES TODAY INCLUDED IOWA WITH 1,566, OHIO WITH 1,226, MINNESOTA WITH 1,154, INDIANA WITH 1,145 AND IN THE SMALLER STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA WITH LESS THAN ONE MILLION POPULATION SOME 623 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES BEING REPORTED TODAY.
The coronavirus story around the world today as interpreted by BBC News on its daily blog.......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/26/2020.........
That's the way it really is Thursday August 27th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.........
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A collision between Russian and US armored vehicles in Syria leads to a high level conversation but first.......
Citizens were urged to show up en masse at Idaho's State Capitol in Boise today (745 am local time, 945 Eastern US time) following yesterday's tumultuous events when riot police flooded the building and citizen journalists were removed from the building leading to the arrest of Peoples Rights activist Ammon Bundy and two others late in the afternoon......FACEBOOK EVENT
And again today Ammon Bundy arrested and removed from the Senate gallery in the Idaho State Capitol and he has been banned from the state Captiol building for a year......YOU TUBE VIDEO.....EAST IDAHO NEWS
Activists trying to stop legislation that would offer civil liability to business over COVID-19 in Idaho in exchange for business compliance with government coronavirus orders.
It appears from what is happening in Boise that what one might call 'political games' are taking place like a bill to stop Republican Governor Brad Little's State of Emergency and its martial law over COVID-19 passing the House by a big margin but not being taken up by the Senate. The Republicans who run Idaho figure people will be distracted by the GOP Convention message and forget that the coronavirus has been used to take away their freedoms and impose authoritarian rule on them.
And as the legislature rams through the immunity from liability in exchange for compliance with muzzle-mask orders only Ammon Bundy has the courage to take a stand for freedom and get himself arrested. Freedom is lost here in the USA one can rightly argue that the people have chosen to give it up......GAVIN SEIM FOR LIBERTY FACEBOOK
A sweeping stay-at-home order imposed on Hawaii's main and most populous island of Oahu for the second time this year because of the coronavirus. Testing to be ramped up along with contact tracing in and around Honolulu along with stepped up quarantine and isolation measures.......HONOLULU ADVERTISER
THE TOP GENERALS FROM RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES TALKING AFTER AN INCIDENT IN SYRIA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INVOLVING A COLLISION BETWEEN A RUSSIAN MILITARY VEHICLE AND AN AMERICAN ONE. FOUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS REPORTED TO HAVE SUSTAINED CONCUSSION RELATED INJURIES. THE US IS BLAMING RUSSIA FOR THE INCIDENT........TASS REPORT
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THE US AND RUSSIAN PATROLS OPERATING IN NORTHEAST SYRIA HAVE BEEN PRETTY MUCH PLAYING A CAT AND MOUSE GAME WITH EACH OTHER FOR MANY MONTHS NOW. FROM TIME TO TIME ONE SIDE WILL BLOCK THE PATH OF THE OTHER. THAT THIS WOULD 'ESCALATE' IS NOT SURPRISING.
At the protests over the Sunday evening police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin two people shot and killed another wounded around midnight last night. Authorities have arrested the suspected shooter.
THE SUSPECT, 17-YEAR OLD KYLE RITTENHOUSE, SAID TO BE AN ADMIRER OF POLICE.
THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TODAY IDENTIFIED THE POLICE OFFICER WHO SHOT JACOB BLAKE AS RUSTEN SHESKEY.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
A group of armed men protecting a gas station seen in the area just before the shootings. Protesters were seen arguing with them minutes before the shooting on live video streams.
VIDEO POSTED ONLINE SHOWS THE ARGUING FOLLOWING BY A SEGMENT WITH AN ARMED MAN TALKING TO POLICE IN ARMORED VEHICLES FOLLOWED BY LATER VIDEO OF AN ARMED MAN CHASING AND SHOOTING SOMEONE. LATER THE APPARENT SHOOTER CHASED IN THE STREET AND SHOOTING BACK FIRING MULTIPLE SHOTS AFTER HE'S KNOCKED TO THE GROUND. FROZEN VIDEO OF A MAN HOLDING A GUN AT THE END.
AND TONIGHT THE WORD IS OF A MUCH QUIETER NIGHT WITH PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS IN KENOSHA.......WISN-TV
ALSO TONIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS LOOTING IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY FOLLOWING WHAT POLICE SAY WAS THE SUICIDE OF A MURDER SUSPECT NOT A POLICE SHOOTING OF THE SUSPECT. LOOTING GOING ON IN PLACES WHERE POLICE ARE NOT PRESENT. STATE POLICE AND SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES CALLED ONTO THE STREETS OF THE CITY...WCCO-TV VIDEO REPORT
France's Defense Minister says its miltiary will join exercises with Italy, Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean amidst tensions with Turkey over energy exploration in disputed waters.
Germany is trying to mediate with Turkey while France is calling for support for fellow European Union member Greece.....RETUERS
Today Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is committed to protecting its interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean and Black Sea.
Erdogan said "We will take whatever we are entitled to in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black seas, we will not make any concessions.".......DAILY SABAH TURKEY
Iran saying it will allow International Atomic Energy Agency Inspections to view former suspected nuclear sites in the country.....BBC NEWS
Police in Hong Kong arresting 16 people involved in pro-democracy protests in opposition to government policy in the territory ruled by mainland China........BBC NEWS
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un making a public appearance after a recent claim he was in a coma. Kim urging measures against the coronavirus and an approaching typhoon......DAILY MAIL UK
US CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR TODAY SHOWING 44,637 NEW CASES ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS WITH TOP NUMBERS FROM TEXAS (6,053), CALIFORNIA (5,415) AND FLORIDA (3,220). NUMBERS FROM OTHER STATES INCLUDE GEORGIA AT 2,236, ILLINOIS AT 2,157, ALABAMA AT 2,012, KANSAS AT 1,359 AND OHIO WITH 1,059 NEW CASES REPORTED. THE STATISTICS ALSO ATTRIBUTING 1,289 MORE DEATHS TO COVID-19.
The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG
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AMMON BUNDY ARRESTED TODAY AT THE IDAHO STATE CAPITOL DETAILS BELOW.....
"Who's in charge. Who's holding us back"
Those words spoken in the Idaho State Capitol by People's Rights activist Ammon Bundy with Idaho State Police keeping citizens out of the legislature as lawmakers gathered to propose and advance new laws related to COVID-19 including linking compliance with mask and muzzle orders to liability protection for businesses in the state........YOU TUBE VIDEO.....Today Bundy and others testified before a House of Representatives committee.....YOU TUBE VIDEO
The legislative process continued today backed up by the presence of riot equipped police at the State Capitol.
AND WHEN HE WAS ORDERED TO LEAVE A LEGISLATIVE HEARING ROOM AMMON BUNDY ARRESTED. BUNDY PROTESTING THE WAY CITIZEN JOURNALISTS WERE TREATED BEING REMOVED FROM THE HEARING ROOM DURING THE DAY TWO OTHERS ARRESTED WITH HIM NOW REPORTED RELEASED......ARREST VIDEO......ACTIVIST PAM HEMPHILL WITH THIS VIDEO REPORT OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE HE WAS TAKEN TO....YOU TUBE
CITIZENS NOW BEING URGED TO SHOW UP IN LARGE NUMBERS AT THE STATE CAPITOL WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR A LEGISLATIVE HEARING SET TO START AT 8 AM.
A resolution to end the State of Emergency passed the State House of Representatives 48-20 BUT LEGISLATION OFFERING LIABILITY PROTECTION IN EXCHANGE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT ORDERS ALSO IN THE LEGISLATURE AS MENTIONED EARLIER WITH THE HEARING ON IT SET TO CONTINUE 8 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING......HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO FACEBOOK
ISRAELI FORCES HITTING TARGETS IN SOUTHERN LEBANON TONIGHT AFTER FORCES OF THE IRANIAN BACKED HEZBOLLAH GROUP FIRED ON ISRAELI TROOPS....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Jerry Falwell Jr. confirming his resignation as President and Chancellor of the Conservative Christian Liberty University. He told the "Wall Street Journal" about the resignation late Monday after hours of confusion about the matter......NBC NEWS....The university board meeting today and accepting his resignation.
Tonight in Kenosha Wisconsin protest followed by confrontation outside the county courthouse ringed by riot police and armored vehicles. Tear gas fired at around 1040 pm local time. Rolling trash dumpsters pushed into the path of armored vehicles and firecrackers fired at advancing riot police ......LIVE VIDEO FEED....Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers declaring a state of emergency and doubling the National Guard deployment supporting police to 250 soldiers.
A full day and early evening of protest followed by riot in Kenosha Wisconsin Monday over the police shooting of Jacob Blake late Sunday afternoon. Law enforcement grouped to protect government-police buildings downtown where some in the protesting crowd launched attacks with objects including firecrackers. After law enforcement's use of tear gas and flash bangs to drive the crowd back those prone to violence began smashing and looting and torching various businesses in the streets nearby.....FULL SEVEN HOUR VIDEO
Meanwhile Blake's father says he was paralyzed after being shot seven times by police........BBC NEWS
HUNDREDS PROTESTING IN LOUISVILLE TODAY AND SOME 68 ARRESTED FOR BLOCKING CENTRAL AVENUE IN THE VICINITY OF CHURCHILL DOWNS. PROTESTERS DEMANDING JUSTICE IN THE POLICE KILLING OF BREONNA TAYLOR BACK ON MARCH 13TH. TAYLOR KILLED DURING A NO-KNOCK POLICE RAID. HER BOYFRIEND EXERCISING HIS SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT NOT KNOWING WHO WAS ENTERING HER APARTMENT FOLLOWED BY POLICE GUNFIRE.......... WLKY LOUISVILLE
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continuing his tour of the Middle Eastern region seeking Arab-Muslim nations willing to normalize relations with Israel. One nation where a spokesman spoke of such a normalization of relations before losing his job visited by Pompeo today. After visiting Sudan Pompeo also set to go to Bahrain before arriving in the United Arab Emirates which has already moved forward with a full normalization of relations with Israel....YNET NEWS.... ISRAEL.....Pompeo also offering up an endorsement of President Trump for the Republican National Convention today......
The Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya saying "We are the majority" now as she spoke to a committee of the European Union parliament today.......MEDUZA.....A human rights group has evidence of hundreds beaten by the authorities in Belarus after being arrested at demonstrations against the government there being called "riots" by Russia's news agency Tass......TASS REPORT
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA FROM WORLDOMETERS TODAY SHOWING SOME 40,098 NEW CASES NATIONWIDE. COVID-19 TESTING WILL STOP IN THE HOUSTON AREA TOMORROW BECAUSE OF THE APPROACHING HURRICANE.
THE ENTRY OF ORTHODOX JEWS INTO UKRAINE BEING RESTRICTED IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING COVID-19 AT THE REQUEST OF ISRAELI AUTHORITIES......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
And Hurricane Laura continuing to approach the Gulf Coast with landfall expected tomorrow night along the Texas-Louisiana border. Maximum sustained winds now 90 miles per hour with strengthening expected before landfall.......
That's the way it really is Tuesday August 25th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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IN IDAHO TODAY THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION FLOODED FROM FREEDOM LOVING ACTIVISTS DEMANDING AN END TO THE MARTIAL LAW STATE OF EMERGENCY IMPOSED IN THE STATE BY REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR BRAD LITTLE OVER COVID-19......HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO FACEBOOK......THERE WAS CONFRONTATION WITH STATE POLICE INSIDE THE CAPITAL BUILDING.......YOU TUBE VIDEO PAM HEMPHILL....IDAHO'S LEGISLATURE VOTING TO INTRODUCE BILLS AS HUNDREDS WERE BEING PREVENTED FROM ENTERING THE IDAHO HOUSE GALLERY. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SPIN ON TODAY'S EVENTS........KTVB STORY
TONIGHT IN KENOSHA WISCONSIN PROTEST AND CLASHES OUTSIDE THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN REACTION TO LAST NIGHT'S POLICE SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE.....WISN-TV VIDEO REPORT......LIVE VIDEO FEED
EXIT RAMPS FROM INTERSTATE 94 IN KENOSHA COUNTY SHUT DOWN BY POLICE VEHICLES AND TRUCKS WITH 125 WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS ACTIVATED TO ASSIST LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE AREA.
MANY FIRES LIT AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS NEAR THE COURTHOUSE IN KENOSHA TONIGHT WITH LOOTING ALSO REPORTED.......SECOND LIVE VIDEO FEED
THE STORY OF LAST NIGHT IS PUBLISHED BELOW.........
The area around the county courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin became a riotous battlefield Sunday night following the shooting of a black man in the city by police several hours earlier.
Tear gas and smoke bombs, firecrackers, rubber bullets and flash bangs employed in the fray as police fought people who lit fires around the courthouse building including garbage trucks and dump trucks being used to block access to the building. Cars also torched.....DAILY MAIL VIDEO
Law enforcement calling on the crowd to disperse at 1245 am local time, 145 am Eastern US time. Outside the police line near the courthouse the smashing of windows on nearby streets. Some people chose to protest by speaking directly to sheriff's deputies and state patrol officers sent into the city on the line....CJ TV FACEBOOK VIDEO STREAM
Jacob Blake shot at least seven times in the back by Kenosha Police with the investigation of the shooting being taken over by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
"You shot him numerous times for no reason"
The words of Laquisha Booker, Blake's fiance who also says she was shouting at police about her children inside the vehicle Blake entered where he was shot seven times by police.....WTMJ MILWAUKEE VIDEO
PRESIDENT TRUMP OFFICIALLY NOMINATED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE GOP CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING MULTIPLE TIMES TODAY ALONG WITH HIS SON DONALD TRUMP JR., FORMER UN AMBASSADOR AND SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY AND CURRENT SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR TIM SCOTT.
FROM BELARUS TODAY WORD THAT TWO OPPOSITION LEADERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED A DAY AFTER SOME 100-THOUSAND PEOPLE PROTESTED IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF MINSK.
LITHUANIA PROTESTING A BORDER INCURSION BY A MILITARY HELICOPTER FROM BELARUS. THE CHOPPER TOOK OUT BALLOONS DESCRIBED BY BELARUS AS 'ANTI-STATE SYMBOLS'.....BBC NEWS
TWO DEADLY BOMBINGS ON THE PREDOMINATELY MUSLIM SOUTHERN PHILIPPINE ISLAND OF JOLO TODAY. 14 KILLED AND DOZENS MORE WOUNDED IN THE TERRORIST ATTACKS. ONE SAID TO HAVE INVOLVED A BOMB ATTACHED TO A MOTORCYLE AND THE OTHER WITH A FEMALE SUICIDE ATTACKER........DEUTSCHE WELLE STORY
A court in New Zealand told today that mass murderer Brenton Tarrant planned his attacks on mosques in Christchurch for years before executing them on March 15th of last year. Tarrant intended to attack three mosques but only was able to attack two that day when he killed 51 people. Its the first day of a four day sentencing hearing for Tarrant .........BBC NEWS
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Israel today promising that the US will help Israel maintain its military edge in the Middle East region. His comments come as the US is considering sales of F-35 fighters to the United Arab Emirates, which just established diplomatic relations with Israel. During the Obama Administration, the United States committed to a 40 billion dollar, ten-year program of support for Israel's defense industry.......YNET NEWS ISRAEL.....The British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arriving in Israel this evening.
Iran says that it killed three members of a group it calls "terrorists" in the northwestern part of the country. Iran also saying the three were affiliated with foreign forces opposed to Iran's government......PRESS TV IRAN
A South Korean diplomat saying that North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un has fallen into a coma is that his sister Kim Yo Jong is poised to take leadership in the country......FOX NEWS
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY 41,484 NEW CASES REPORTED INCLUDING 6,168 IN CALIFORNIA, 4,514 IN TEXAS AND 2,258 IN FLORIDA. ALSO SOME NUIMBERS FROM OTHER STATE INCLUDE 1,660 IN INDIANA, 1,458 IN MISSOURI AND 1,317 IN KANSAS.
The coronavirus story around the world as interpreted by BBC News on its daily blog......BBC NEWS
That's the way it really is Monday August 24th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION STARTS TOMORROW IN IDAHO WITH LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE IMMUNITY FROM LAWSUITS OVER COVID-19. BUSINESSES WILL BE FORCED TO COMPLY WITH GOVERNMENT IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS IN ORDER TO GAIN THAT IMMUNITY......HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO FACEBOOK
A police crackdown on a nightclub party in Peru over coronavirus restrictions led to a crush that killed 13 people......BBC NEWS....Police in the UK also cracking down on parties considered to be in violation of coronavirus restrictions.....BBC NEWS
IN KENOSHA, WISCONSIN LOCATED BETWEEN CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AN INCIDENT INVOLVING POLICE AND A BLACK MAN WITH AN OFFICER SHOOTING THE MAN AT LEAST SEVEN TIMES AS HE ENTERED A VEHICLE.
THE SHOOTING VICTIM IN SERIOUS CONDITION. POLICE CALLED OVER A "DOMESTIC INCIDENT" BUT THE FIANCE OF VICTIM JACOB BLAKE SAYS SHE DID NOT MAKE ANY SUCH CALL AND IS NOT AWARE OF IT (WISN-TV)....WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS....
A LARGE GROUP OF PROTESTERS GATHERED THIS EVENING WITH VIOLENCE ON THE STREETS. A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND CURFEW PROCLAIMED LATE TONIGHT..... VIDEO FEED KENOSHA, WISCONSIN TONIGHT....
A GAS PIPELINE EXPLOSION KNOCKING OUT ELECTRIC POWER ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION OF SYRIA. THE BLAST MONDAY MORNING SYRIA TIME SAID TO HAVE OCCURRED IN THE SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY. A SYRIAN OFFICIAL SAYS THE EXPLOSION MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A TERRORIST ATTACK........TASS
IRAN SAYS THAT A JULY 2ND EXPLOSION AT ITS NATANZ NUCLEAR FACILITY WAS AN ACT OF SABOTAGE. BEHROUZ KAMALVANDI OF THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY SAYS MORE DETAILS OF THE SABOTAGE WILL BE REVEALED 'IN DUE COURSE'.........PRESS TV IRAN
NATO rejecting the claim of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko that they have built up forces on the country's western borders. Lukashenko making the claim in a speech where he wore military fatigues.....BBC NEWS
The authoritarian ruler of Belarus also telling security forces in his country to start acting against "instigators and troublemakers" in the country starting on Monday amidst continuing protests following what opponents consider a rigged presidential election earlier this month.....TASS .
A protest against the Lukashenko government underway late Sunday afternoon in the capital city of Minsk......DEUTSCHE WELLE VIDEO REPORT.....Lukashenko said to have thanked members of law enforcement protecting his residence and to hace flown over the capital city in a helicopter....TASS......This video has appeared of Lukashenko exiting a helicopter carrying a rifle......BBC NEWS VIDEO
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreeing to a compromise today to extend a budget deadline. This means that Israel will avoid elections for now........YNET NEWS ISRAEL
Hezbollah shooting down an Israeli drone this weekend. Hezbollah affiliated Al-Manar news reporting the shoot down. Israel confirming it.......ANI NEWS INDIA
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visiting Israel and the United Arab Emirates this week following the announcement of normalization of relations between the two countries. Pompeo promoting US policies against China and Iran during his visits. President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner due to visit both countries in September.......YNET NEWS ISRAEL
The US pulling out of a military base in Iraq targeted with rocket attacks in recent months.....MIDDLE EAST EYE
Iran revealing details of its probe into the shoot down of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran earlier this year. The Iranians say two missiles hit the plane 25 seconds apart and that those on board were still alive after the first hit. Iran says it accidentally shot down the plane on Janaury 8th during a time when Iran's air defenses were on high alert during a confrontation with the United States......AP-REUTERS-RADIO FREE EUROPE RADIO LIBERTY
Turkey announcing military maneuvers Saturday in the Aegean Sea amidst the tension between Turkey and Greece over Turkey's energy exploration activities in disputed Mediterranean waters....BULGARIAN MILITARY NEWS
Police in Portland breaking up a demonstration declared a riot late Saturday night with tear gas and flash bang rounds......OREGONLIVE
Earlier in the day Saturday pro-police and Black Lives Matter protesters confronted each other in downtown Portland outside the federal courthouse with words and more exchanged. These video reports on that protest.....KPTV FOX 12.....KOIN-TV VIDEO REPORT.......KGW VIDEO REPORT
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE WORLD FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 206,768 NEW CASES TODAY WITH 32,718 OF THEM REPORTED IN THE USA.
Weather news with two tropical systems moving towards the Gulf Coast of the United States. Tropical Storm Marco expected to brush along the Louisiana and Texas coastlines west of the Mississippi River starting Monday evening.....Tropical Storm Laura expected to follow in Marco's wake making a landfall on the western Louisiana coast Wednesday evening.......
That's the way it really is Sunday August 23rd, 2020, another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
Also tonight White House counselor Kellyanne Conway leaving the White House at the end of the month and her husband George Conway announcing his departure from The Lincoln Project. Both intend to focus on family matters.......CNN
