SO YOU’RE TELLING ME BLACK LIVES MATTER, EH?
Reminder: All these cities are run by Democratic machines.
Related: When Black Lives Matter to Democrats — And When They Don’t.
Archive for 2020
July 7, 2020
SEEMS LIKE MORE CHARGES MAY BE COMING. A woman accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at a police car suggests a protester gave her the device.
A White woman accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police car in late May during a George Floyd protest in Brooklyn claims she was given the device by a Black protester, New York prosecutors say. But investigators said the woman got the bottle for the Molotov cocktail from a friend in upstate New York, according to court filings from the US District Court, Eastern District of New York. The woman, Samantha Shader, was indicted June 11 on seven counts: use of explosives, arson, using an explosive to commit a felony, arson conspiracy, use of a destructive device, civil disorder and possessing and making a destructive device.
Prosecutors say video provided by a witness shows Shader approaching an NYPD car filled with four officers in Brooklyn on May 30 and throwing a Molotov cocktail at the car, shattering two windows and causing internal damage to the vehicle. The officers in the vehicle arrested Shader, according to the complaint.
Shader allegedly told authorities after her arrest that she was approached on the street and given a bottle by a Black man who was in a group with another Black man and a Black woman.
“Samantha Shader stated the man who handed her the bottle told her that they were going to prove a point, and (she) stated that she felt important at the time she took the bottle because she was the only White person in the area,” according to court filings.
Prosecutors say Shader agreed to speak with law enforcement in recorded interviews, where she admitted to possessing the Molotov cocktail made from a bottle and throwing it at the NYPD vehicle, but denied that she constructed the cocktail herself. CNN has reached out to attorneys representing Shader for comment.
Investigators in the complaint said that the bottle Shader threw at the NYPD car was actually provided to Shader by her co-defendant, a man named Timothy Amerman, a 29-year-old painter from Saugerties, New York.
Hmm.
PRIVACY: Security cameras can tell burglars when you’re not home, study shows. “Researchers found they could tell if someone was in, and even what they were doing in the home, just by looking at data uploaded by the camera and without monitoring the video footage itself.”
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HOW DO YOU SAY ‘CHUTZPAH’ IN MANDARIN? Chinese ambassador says UK ban on Huawei would damage trust.
That’s rich, coming from the ambassador from a country that just abrogated a treaty with Britain in order to impose full Communist rule on a once-free city of 7.5 million people.
ALSO, THEY WANT THE MONEY: Cornell announces return to campus, citing ‘public health’ benefits of in-person classes.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Beware America—Crazy Joe Biden Wants to ‘Transform’ You. “The Democrats’ constant refrain about America needing to be changed is wearisome. It’s also being taught in public schools. The woke youth of today go into adulthood truly believing that the United States is terribly broken and in desperate need of a socialist fix. That’s really the end game for modern Democrats. It wasn’t just a few years ago but the whole party has rushed off of the far-left fringe. They aren’t so much interested in ‘transformation’ as they are ‘undoing’.”
DO TELL: Protests May Have Spread Coronavirus, Some Cities Admit.
Not only did the marches spread the disease directly, the fact that they were tolerated and even encouraged by authorities convinced everyone else that precautions weren’t as essential as they’d been told. This secondary effect wasn’t limited to the places where big protests took place, either.
SAD, BUT TRUE: Scientists Long Ago Exhausted Their Covid-19 Capital.
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!).
#RESIST: US tech giants halt Hong Kong police help. “Facebook and Twitter have confirmed they have suspended processing demands for user data from Hong Kong authorities following the introduction of a new Beijing-imposed national security law.”
DEMOCRATS: THIS MONSTER MUST BE STOPPED! Trump’s payroll tax cut boosts blacks ‘most,’ could add 2M-3M jobs: Analysis.
CHARMING: Dem Law Firm Behind Weinstein Defense Takes Millions in PPP Aid. “Boies Schiller Flexner, a white-shoe firm founded by former Al Gore lawyer David Boies, applied for and obtained between $5 and $10 million through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the federal program aimed to support small businesses hurt by the pandemic. Boies Schiller Flexner earned more than $400 million in gross revenue in 2019, making it one of the highest-grossing law firms in the world, according to The American Lawyer. The multinational firm’s partners took home more than $3.3 million on average in 2019, but it still capitalized on the taxpayer bailout that was designed to help mom-and-pop shops.”
CORPORATE HYPOCRISY KNOWS NO BOUNDS: Companies That Boycott Facebook Continue to Advertise on Russian Social Media Platform: VK is popular among white supremacists, bans gay rights groups.
Advertisers that are now boycotting Facebook to protest “hate speech” have spent years running ads and marketing campaigns on a Russian social media platform that bans gay-rights groups and is known as a haven for white supremacists.
Over 100 companies announced a boycott of Facebook last week in protest of divisive political speech on the website. The boycott coincides with a public pressure campaign led by Joe Biden and other top Democrats to press Facebook to enforce stricter control over President Trump’s postings.
But many of these companies—including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Adidas, and Reebok—have been regular advertisers on VK, a popular Russian media website used by many white supremacists and neo-Nazis who have been banned from Facebook. Several of these companies continue to have a marketing presence on the Russian website, raising questions about their recent concern about “hate speech” on social media sites.
VK’s popularity among white supremacists and neo-Nazis has been documented for years by media outlets and watchdog groups.
Even as they remain mum on VK’s laissez-faire attitude toward online hate speech, major companies have pulled ads from Facebook for not policing speech on its own site.
It’s as if they’re mostly interested in controlling Americans.
THERE’S NO ‘MAY BE’ ABOUT IT: TikTok may be ‘data collection service disguised as social media.’
IT’S DEJA MOYNIHAN OVER AGAIN! “It may be that history does run in cycles—that it doesn’t repeat, but rhymes. And so I dusted off the collected letters and documents from Daniel Patrick Moynihan that was published about a decade ago, in particular to remind myself of what Moynihan wrote in his private memos to President Nixon and others in 1969 and 1970, when the last counter-cultural movement was running at full tide,” Steve Hayward writes at Power Line.
Moynihan played the role of Cassandra in the first volume of Hayward’s magisterial 2001 The Age of Reagan — (almost) always right, but never listened to by his fellow Democrats, and he plays a featured role as one of the recurring cast of characters in Amity Shlaes’ new Great Society book. As Shlaes has noted, Moynihan, frozen out – even by fellow members of Lyndon Johnson’s brain trust – for “his 1965 argument that family troubles played a role in black poverty,” was arguably the first victim of cancel culture.
ATLANTA: Dressed the part, ‘Panther’ group came straight from central casting.
They said they were Black Panthers, and they looked the part with all-black attire and black berets adorned with a cat-head patch. Their leader was a tall, thin black woman armed with an assault rifle and a determined look. Photos of the group popped up in local news outlets, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but also in the British tabloid press.
“Armed female Black Panther leads her comrades including a white recruit on a march through Georgia,” The Daily Mail wrote in an online story about the June 3 demonstration Decatur. The story featured several dramatic photos and embedded Instagram posts.
It is easy to see why the group attracted attention. In a moment of fury over police shootings of black people, the group was perfectly cast. Maybe too perfect.
Within a few days, an activist on Twitter sussed out that the group was comprised of models and actors from Atlanta’s film and entertainment industries. A Twitter user who goes by Wolf The Red identified them from their Instagram accounts where he found the group modeling haute couture or publicizing their film credits, but “zero prior demonstrations. No posts with guns. No calls to action.” . . .
“The outfits? We just pulled inspiration from (the Black Panthers),” she said. “It was mostly black and leather — pleather. Some of us are vegans, vegetarians.”
Well, don’t laugh. Hitler was a vegetarian, after all.
JOANNE JACOBS: What’s wrong with ‘work hard, be nice?’
I’ve always liked KIPP‘s motto: “Work hard. Be nice.” It’s clear and concise.
It’s not a false promise, like “if you can dream it, you can do it.” Furthermore, students can work hard and be nice right now, not in some distant future. It stresses effort and good character, rather than being “special.”
After 25 years of educating primarily black and Latino students, the charter network is retiring the slogan and rejecting “the illusion of meritocracy,” writes Richard Barth, KIPP Foundation CEO.
In addition, KIPP will review discipline practices, reassess security and use “restorative” conflict resolution practices.
In a letter to alumni, co-founder Dave Levin apologizes for a culture that “perpetuated white supremacy and anti-Blackness.”
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I’d just add that this should serve as your daily reminder of O’Sullivan’s Law: “Any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.”