Monday, August 31, 2020

Only the American Democrat Partysees no problems with China

German lawmakers urge pressure on China

The Chinese foreign minister is visiting Berlin next week for talks. A cross-party group of MPs want Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to bring up issues such as the Uighur internment camps and "aggressive" foreign policy.

A group of German lawmakers on Saturday called on Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to talk "in plain language" with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, ahead of a meeting in Berlin next week.

Due to China's recent "blatant breach of international legal norms" regarding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Maas should "use a language other than the consistently restrained language," the three lawmakers wrote in a cross-party letter cited by German national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The politicians — the Green Party's Margarete Bause, Gyde Jensen from the business-friendly FDP and Michael Brand of the ruling Christian Democratic Union — called on Maas to press Wang on closing the "huge" Uighur internment camps.

They also criticized China's domestic and foreign policy as "aggressive." China has shown an "undisguised claim to power" even towards Germany and the rest of Europe, they wrote.

China also "discredited" democratic institutions and attempted to use propaganda to spread a "totalitarian narrative — also in Europe," said the lawmakers.

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German-Sino relations

Earlier this year, Beijing passed a controversial national security law in response to a wave of anti-government protests that took place throughout 2019.

The new law drew widespread international criticism. Many are concerned the legislation will see Beijing crack down on free speech and dissent, as well as endangering civil liberties within the "one country, two systems" policy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel previously said she feared that Hong Kong's autonomy was being "eroded" and that Berlin would raise issues such as human rights with China during its six-month tenure as president of the Council of the European Union that began on July 1.

In July, Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier defended Germany's continuing trade relationship with China, despite the Hong Kong bill.

Wang is visiting as part of a tour of European countries — his first abroad since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Fact Check: Antifa.com does really take you directly to Biden’s campaign site. Many are asking ‘why?’

August 30, 2020

Since at least the beginning of August, the web domain Antifa.com has redirected Internet users to the campaign website for Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden.

What remains unknown is whether the redirect was established as a prank or because the left-wing extremists affiliated with Antifa genuinely support Biden, and whether not the Democrat presidential nominee is aware of the redirect.

What’s known is that the domain Antifa.com has existed since 2002, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers:

More importantly, as recently as as July 24th, the Antifa.com homepage had contained actual pro-Antifa propaganda, according to records by the Wayback Machine.

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CDC: 6% of coronavirus deaths were solely from COVID-19

Why wasn't this widely known before now?

PAUL SACCA

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a report stating that just 6% of COVID-19 deaths listed the only cause of death as coronavirus and no other comorbidities.

For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death," the CDC website reads.

Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, noticed the important information on the CDC's website on Aug. 6.

Based on the CDC's data, 94% of people have died with coronavirus, along with one or more other underlying health issues. The CDC's Aug. 28 update stated that there were 167,558 COVID-19 total deaths, which means 10,053 died solely of coronavirus alone with no other health conditions.

The CDC's figures are derived from provisional death counts, which are based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for Health Statistics.

"Provisional death counts deliver the most complete and accurate picture of lives lost to COVID-19," the CDC states. "They are based on death certificates, which are the most reliable source of data and contain information not available anywhere else, including comorbid conditions, race and ethnicity, and place of death."

The CDC listed the following as the top underlying medical conditions linked to coronavirus deaths:

Influenza and pneumonia
Respiratory failure
Hypertensive disease
Diabetes
Vascular and unspecified dementia
Cardiac Arrest
Heart failure
Renal failure
Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
Other medical conditions

Dr. David B Samadi MD, urologic oncology expert and robotic surgeon, commented on the CDC news.

"As a men's health expert, many men have been affected by COVID-19," he wrote on Twitter. "The CDC today revealed that only 6% of COVID deaths were in patients without existing comorbidities. 94% of the deaths were in cases with pre-existing conditions. This affects the entire public."

Former New York Times investigative reporter Alex Berenson wrote on Twitter:

A lot of people are jumping on the @cdcgov statement just 6% of US #Covid deaths list #Covid alone as the cause. But to use that figure to claim 'COVID ONLY KILLED 9,000 AMERICANS' is wrong. Other causes include conditions like pneumonia, which can clearly be Covid-related. A better way to use the data may be to TAKE OUT causes clearly unrelated to #sarscov2. I'd include Alzheimer's, sepsis, dementia, cancer, and unintentional injury (Let's be conservative and leave off kidney failure, diabetes, obesity, and strokes). The other advantage of leaving off those conditions is that there is significant overlap in, say, diabetes and obesity (and the CDC reports the average COVID death certificate included 2.6 other conditions). That's less likely for the conditions I included. So, okay, the five conditions on my list were on about 50,000 certificates (assuming no double counting). The accidental deaths and poisonings alone were 5,000. Those deaths - at a minimum - are much more likely to fall in the WITH rather than FROM #Covid category. It would also be nice if @cdcgov offered more specific information about the 77,000 deaths that had other 'unspecified' conditions listed. But this is a start, at least - and it's in keeping with the other steps the CDC has taken recently.

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The suspect began firing on officers as they approached the home.

St. Louis cop dies after sustaining gunshot wound to the head during weekend assault against officers

Ambushed

Image source: YouTube screenshot

SARAH TAYLOR

Tamarris Bohannon, a 29-year-old St. Louis, Missouri, police officer is dead after a suspect shot him in the head on Saturday. He succumbed to his injuries Sunday evening.

What's a brief history here?

Bohannon and another officer responded to a shooting call on Saturday evening when they encountered a man who had barricaded himself inside a residence.

The suspect began firing on officers as they approached the home.

The second officer was shot in the leg, and transported to a local hospital for treatment and release.

What's happening now?

Bohannon is survived by his wife and their three young children.

In a letter shared on Twitter, the fallen officer's family refers to Bohannon as a "hero to many," but "most importantly to his loving wife and three incredible children."

"It is with great sadness we share the loss of Officer Tamarris 'T' Bohannon, affectionately known as "Bo" by his squad of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department," the letter said. "A three-year veteran who was raised and continued to live and raise his family in the city in which he patrolled."

"He is a hero to many, but most importantly to his loving wife and three incredible children," the letter continued.

"The loss of this great man is felt deeply within the St. Louis community and we ask for your prayers and support in the days ahead," the heartfelt letter concluded.

What else?

Authorities took into custody a 43-year-old male suspect after a 12-hour standoff, later identified as Thomas Kinworthy, who reportedly has a lengthy criminal history.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief John Hayden said that Bohannon and the second officer were ambushed while "trying to do their job," and said that this latest incident is the most recent in a "surge of violence" against police officers that the city has seen since June.

"We're trying to cope through a very trying summer, and it's very difficult," Hayden said. "It's very difficult."

KMOV-TV reports that Bohannon is the first officer to be fatally shot in the city since 2011.

No fewer than four police officers were shot in Chicago and St. Louis over the weekend.

Sunday, August 30, 2020

de Blasio is achieving the goal of making NYC a beggar city...like Calcutta

AUGUST 30, 2020

Horrifying video shows man attempting to rape women in broad daylight in NYC, bystanders don't intervene

Moving companies in such high demand as New Yorkers flee the city

By Kevin Sheehan and Kate Sheehy

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Rich Manhattanites are fleeing the city so fast because of the pandemic and deteriorating quality of life in the Big Apple that moving companies can barely keep up with them.

“It’s nuts!’’ said Perry Chance of “Show Up” movers to The Post on Sunday. “We have four of our own trucks — but we have so many books that we had to start using U-Haul trucks!”

“The volume has increased by at least 70 percent” in the past few months, he said.

“[Clients] are mostly moving out of luxury buildings. [People] say the rich are leaving New York. Well, they are!”

Chance said 25 percent of the company’s customers are heading from the city to states such as Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Another 5 percent are moving somewhere else in the Apple.

The rest, 70 percent, are moving elsewhere in New York — mainly Long Island, he said.

And it’s not only the wealthy who are trading big-city life for the suburbs.

“When you have an office on Park Ave, and you don’t see anyone but the less fortunate, the homeless, no more day-to-day workers, the high rent makes no sense,” explained a small-business owner at the U-Haul truck-rental center on West 23rd Street in Chelsea, as he prepared for a move to Long Island.

“I have 10 people who just moved out [of the city],” the Manhattan businessman said. “Two of my business partners and eight employees.”

Stephen Bisogno, a 41-year-old insurance underwriter, said he is moving with his wife and 2-year-old daughter from Murray Hill in Manhattan to upstate Poughkeepsie.

“In the ’burbs, it feels more normal — put a mask on, and do what you have to do,” Bisogno told The Post. “Here, all the stress and posturing by the de Blasio administration, it just adds to the stress on us.”

John Romero, 28, a furloughed house trombone player for the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, said he is moving from the Upper West Side to Texas.

“There is not much work here for musicians,” he said. “I’m from Texas, and I have friends and family there.”

“Plus, teaching is part of my business, and people there will be more willing, less scared, to go out, go for lessons now.”

Guardian Angels founder and current mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa told The Post on Saturday that he has seen a huge wave of people moving from his neighborhood around West 87th Street.

“The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from New York City is in full effect,” Sliwa said.

“The moment I walked out on my block near Central Park West, there was a moving truck,” he said. “I asked, ‘Where you going?’ and they said, ‘Virginia.’”

“They told me, ‘Curtis, first the pandemic hit us and now the quality of life is so bad.’ The woman was almost crying.”

Lats month, there was a 44 percent jump in home sales in New York City’s suburbs — including a 112 percent hike in Westchester County — compared to same month last year, according to the New York Times.

Meanwhile, Manhattan property sales dropped 56 percent.

What else would you expect from people who encourage violence from their militia

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Florida cop shot serving warrant, suspect killed in gun battle: officials

By Stephen Sorace, Fox News

August 30, 2020 | 1:11pm

Florida police shot and killed a man wanted for attempted murder on Saturday after the suspect opened fire on officers, striking one of them during a “gun battle,” officials said.

The officer was hit in his bullet-proof vest and suffered a bruise to his chest from the impact, Daytona Beach Police Chief Craig Capri told reporters. A second officer tripped during the gunfire and injured his head and neck. Both officers were in “great spirits” at a hospital, according to Capri, and were expected to recover from their injuries.

The department released officer bodycam footage of the shootout, which Capri said shows that the suspect “tried to murder these police officers,” who were forced to return fire in self-defense.

“His intent was to go out in a shootout,” Capri said of the suspect, “not to surrender.”

Officers were responding to a tip about the whereabouts of a violent felon, later identified as 44-year-old Michael A. Harris, who had shot a woman twice in the back about two weeks ago, police said.

The officers arrived at an apartment complex and tried to arrest Harris, the department said in a news release. The suspect ran into a bedroom and fired a handgun at officers through an open door.

Police returned fire and wounded Harris, who died at the scene.

Capri said that the officers did not intend to take a life, but the suspect’s actions to fire on police first dictated the officers’ response.

“We don’t get paid to get killed,” the chief said. “If you pull a gun on a police officer and shoot a police officer, you’re going to get killed. As simple as that.”

Capri said he was proud of his officers for doing their job to protect and serve the community.

“It’s like I said, 99.99% of officers in this country do the same thing, and people want to all of us as being bad under the same brush,” he told reporters. “We’ve been attacked not only in the media but also by several radical groups.”

Black on black murder

Alabama pedestrian shot, killed supposedly for crossing street too slowly: reports

The victim was shot eight times and pronounced dead at the scene

An Alabama man was shot and killed apparently for walking too slowly, according to local reports.

Johnarian Travez Allen was shot eight times on Thursday evening in Union Springs, a small town some 45 miles outside of Montgomery, WSFA 12 reported.

Jeremiah Wesley Penn claimed he shot Allen because the 29-year-old was taking too long to cross the street, according to Union Springs Police Chief Danny Jackson.

Jeremiah Wesley Penn (L) has reportedly confessed to fatally shooting Johnarian Travez Allen (R). The apparent motive, according to Union Springs police, stems from Allen crossing a road too slowly. (Union Springs Police Department)

Penn is being held on a capital murder charge in the Bullock County jail.

Penn had supposedly gone to a store to purchase food. On his way over, he stopped to let Allen cross the street, at which point Penn felt that Allen was taking too long.

Authorities then believe that’s when Penn got out of his vehicle and engaged in a verbal altercation with Allen, ABC 3340 reported. Shortly after that, Penn shot Allen multiple times.

Allen was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police responded to the call, arriving at the gas station where Allen was shot, but Penn had already fled the scene. He later turned himself in to a sheriff’s deputy he knows.

Peter Aitken is a New York born-and-raised reporter with a focus on national and global news.