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Paris Plunges Into Chaos As Protesters Denounce New Security Law
Soaring coronavirus cases, a slumping economy, and continued social unrest plague France at the moment.
According to RT News, thousands of protesters flooded the street of Paris Saturday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron’s “Global Security” bill.
On Nov. 27, the French National Assembly approved the Global Security bill’s Article 24, which makes it illegal to distribute images or videos of police officers that can easily be identified.
The security bill has been criticized by activists and journalists, who warn the government is set to increase its surveillance tools and restrict rights of posting images and videos of police officers online. Journalists say this violates freedom of the press.
According to Reuters, the demonstration began peacefully in Paris then quickly spiraled out of control as protesters and police clashed on city streets.
Protesters were seen torching multiple cars.
Next Stop America
Update: 8/17/2020 Mid-Austin Guts Police Budget to Fund Abortion, and Other Twists From America’s Dying Cities
Austin guts police budget to pay Planned Parenthood
The Austin City Council voted unanimously Thursday to gut its police budget. The Austin Police Department, which is already about 200 officers below full strength, will have its budget cut by one-third. The city’s murder rate is spiking but evidently that’s of no concern.
The Austin City Council has chopped $150 million from the Austin Police Department‘s budget, roughly 34% of the department’s $434 million total budget.
The move comes after months of racial justice protests throughout the city, calling for defunding the police.
Going into Thursday’s budget discussions, the council was considering slashing the department’s $434 million budget by about a third, or $150 million.Nearly a fifth of that extra money, or $21 million,will go toward things such as violence prevention and permanent housing services.
That’s a typical mainstream media report, in that it omits the consequences that will unfold from this heinous decision. The short version: Crime will increase and people will die.
So much for the Democrats’ mantra of “If it saves one life!”
Not only will defunding police get innocent people killed, but the city council doubled down on that: Some of the funds that would have been devoted to law enforcement will be diverted to cover abortion in the city.
The proposal to cut police funding by about one-third of its total $434 million budget calls for immediately cutting around $21.5 million from the department. This would include reallocating these funds to areas like violence prevention, food access, and abortion access programs.
Margaret Sanger, racist founder of Planned Parenthood, undoubtedly would approve.
In crass political terms, the Austin City Council has moved public funds from police, who tend to be conservative, over to abortionists, who tend to pour millions of dollars into Democrat campaigns.
Austin’s mayor and city council evidently want the city to become Portland for the riots and Chicago for the weekend shooting sprees, turning Austin from weird to the wild west. Among the cuts, the council gutted the police department’s mounted patrol. That very unit broke up illegal street protests a couple of weekends ago, protests that reportedly aimed at taking over a chunk of downtown and turning it into one of those Seattle-style violent “autonomous zones.” Mounted police may not be around to stop the next one. So who will?
Here’s a clue: City Councilman Jimmy Flannigan literally urged police to just let the rioters take over the streets if they want to, during a recent council meeting after an illegal street protest turned deadly. Flannigan replaced the last Republican on the council when he won the seat, proving that elections do indeed have consequences. Flannigan has a Republican opponent in November — Mackenzie Kelly. She is running on a platform that includes supporting the police.
The Austin Police Association opposes the cuts, but they have no voice or advocate at City Hall at the moment. The mayor and council only listen to the far-left advocates who don’t think even this cut is enough. They don’t listen to business. They don’t listen to average citizens who contribute their taxes and build things. They just listen to the hardcore activists. The council tried to bully APD Chief Brian Manley into quitting. So far he’s staying put, but for how long? How long will any police officer in Austin stay on the job when the city’s top elected officials keep stabbing them in the back?
So that’s Austin. It still has a ways to go to catch up to Seattle.
Austin Police Association Head Suggests Officers Stop ‘Active Enforcement’
The death of the Emerald City
Seattle was dying even before the pandemic ruined everything. That was the assessment of KOMO TV more than a year ago. The pandemic and the riots, and most importantly the city’s reaction to it all, have accelerated the Emerald City’s demise.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigned earlier this week after that city council gutted its police budget and slashed her salary. The hard Marxist left has won there. Now they’re just mopping up.
Best was both the city’s first black female police chief and the only adult in the room as Seattle’s elected officials turned the city over to riots. Best spent 28 years trying to keep Seattle safe. The city council didn’t even give her a gold watch on her way out. It’s too often the case that elected officials cannot abide real leadership when they see it. They recognize it, and they either hate it or fear it. So they remove it.
Best will presumably be replaced by someone more disposed to the city council’s Marxism and the radical advocates’ fondest utopian dreams. These are the people who, despite media lies to the contrary, really do mean abolishing police departments when they say “defund the police.” All the cuts they have approved to date are just a start. They really think social workers are the answer to all that ills us.
These radicals consider Mayor Jenny “summer of love” Durkan not radical enough. So they’re trying to recall her and remove her from office. The state supreme court is allowing that effort to move forward.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan asked the state Supreme Court to reverse the decision of a King County circuit court judge that allowed a recall effort to move forward against her, which could result in her expulsion from office.
Durkan, a Democrat, was called out by five Seattle residents who filed a petition seeking to recall her because of how law enforcement officials have responded to protests this summer, according to The Seattle Times.
The city council there may be violating the consent decree with the federal government regarding police staffing and practices, and dating to 2012, but they don’t seem to care. Laws based on a fundamentally racist country are invalid, dontcha know. They’re presiding over the death of Seattle so they can fundamentally transform it. If it’s a deadly, crime-ridden hellhole along the way and after the transformation is complete, well, you’ve heard the saying about omelets and eggs.
Police Chief Carmen Best’s Resignation Email Shows She’s the Adult in the Room
New York, New York
“If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,” Sinatra once crooned of the city that never sleeps. Now New York is the city that always bleeds: shootings and murders are way up, formerly busy shops on once clean streets are hit by looters, boarded up by mandates, and occupied by the homeless and criminals. Residents are deciding now is the time to make it somewhere — anywhere — else. New York just isn’t worth it anymore.
New York City was, until very recently, the safest large city in America. It earned that status by working hard over the course of many years and more than one mayor to clean up its act. New York backed the NYPD blue.
One mayor has undone all of that progress. Now it’s dying. New York’s rotten Marxist Mayor Bill de Blasio is seeing to a police defunding and demoralization program, and its citizens who can afford to, are seeing to a hasty exit.
“People are fleeing the city in droves,” says Moon Salahie, owner of Elite Moving & Storing in Yonkers, who has been working nonstop since the city began Phase 1 of its reopening in June.
Salahie said 90 percent of the moves are to the suburbs and mostly families with kids worried about the school year. He’s packed people out of neighborhoods all over Manhattan.
“The least movement would be the Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue crowds,” he said. “Those people don’t have to leave because they have second homes.”
The rich can go. The rest suffer. It’s up to you, New York, to save yourself. But about a half a million and probably a lot more of you have already left town. So who’s left and what will they save?
The saddest part of all this, aside from the rape and murder sprees these and other cities will suffer now, is the fact that none of the current leaders in them see the mayhem to come as a failure. They really don’t.
It’s all a means to an end as they swing their hammer (and sickle) at the system they want to smash.
As Christians living in the world, we are to be careful not to be taken “captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ” (Col. 2:8). Realizing the battleground is the mind, we are to think biblically in everything, which is our only safeguard against the enemy.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. (2 Cor. 10:3-5)
Christians face situations every day in which they are pressured to compromise God’s Word. They face difficulties at work, school, home, or other places, in which they are confronted by worldly minded persons, both saved and unsaved, who demand and pressure them to abandon their biblical values. There is room for personal compromise where Scripture is silent on a matter; however, where Scripture speaks with absolute authority, there the believer must never compromise!
The world, or world-system, puts pressure on each person to try to get him to confirm (Rom. 12:2). Jesus Christ was not “of this world” and neither are His people (John 8:23; 17:14). But the unsaved person, either consciously or unconsciously, is controlled by the values and attitudes of this world.[5]
Shopping at Walmart now resembles a police state FEMA camp experience thanks to coronavirus: Our dystopian future has arrived.
We keep hearing from politicians, analysts, and social commentators that “things will never be the same in America” thanks to the rules and regulations we continue to see implemented around the country.
And while the easy thing to do is to simply wave off such claims as fantastical, dismissing them out of hand, it’s time to stop doing that.
All around the country — in red states and blue states, in liberal and conservative centers — the rules are changing right before our eyes. And so far anyway, there isn’t much we can do about it if we want to cling to the little remaining freedom to move about that we still have.
A trip to your local Walmart or other chain retailers will provide a glimpse into this dystopian future we thought ‘could never happen here.’
As noted by Michael Snyder at End of the American Dream:
Things are really starting to get crazy out there. All over the country, “non-essential” businesses have been forced to shut down, but because Walmart sells food and other basic supplies it gets to be one of the “essential” businesses that stay open. However, a trip to your local Walmart now will be far different from what you remember previously.
When you get there, you’ll find a narrow, yellow security-taped passageway and employees limiting the number of people who can enter the store. There are also limits on what you can buy and how many; you won’t simply be able to grab a cart and shop away. (Related: Gross underreporting of coronavirus deaths across the USA means that the “official” numbers are extremely LOW.)
“Wow, so we just got back from Walmart in Pine Bluff, AR….they herded us in, like cattle…I kid you not….we had to go through a taped-off line and they had only one door open instead of the two they normally have. They have a 5 person limit in Magnolia, AR…..and security guards at the door as well…armed security guards. You can only buy one loaf of bread and the store closed at 7PM…normally open 24 hours. It is CRAZY,” one of Snyder’s contacts wrote in a message to him.
How long are Americans going to put up with this?
Other reports note that creepy social distancing instructions are being broadcast in at least some Walmart parking lots, accompanied by cameras so that store security personnel can monitor customers to ‘ensure compliance.’
Just remember: “It can’t happen here.” But it is.
“Starting Saturday, we will limit the number of customers who can be in a store at once. Stores will now allow no more than five customers for every 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly 20 percent of a store’s capacity,” Walmart announced in recent days.
“To manage this restriction, the associates at a store will mark a queue at a single-entry door (in most cases the Grocery entrance) and direct arriving customers there, where they will be admitted one-by-one and counted. Associates and signage will remind customers of the importance of social distancing while they’re waiting to enter a store – especially before it opens in the morning. Once a store reaches its capacity, customers will be admitted inside on a ‘1-out-1-in’ basis,” the retailer noted further.
In some parts of the country, entire aisles in Walmart stores have been sealed off completely. In those aisles, products have been deemed “unnecessary” for coronavirus survival so as to prevent customers from wandering around the store to relieve ‘quarantine fatigue.’
In other words, Walmart wants you to get in, get the few things you’re ‘allowed’ to have and get out. Oh, and ‘thanks for shopping with us.’
How long are Americans going to put up with this? That depends on how bad things get. As more jobs disappear the longer the country remains in lockdown mode, the more desperate the situation is going to get for more and more people.
There won’t be enough police officers and military to contain those riots.
When people get to the end of their ropes, most of the time they are not thinking rationally. When frustration erupts, the results can be very, very messy.
All over the United States, we are already seeing some very troubling signs of the violence that is coming. Riots and civil unrest inside the United States are now more likely then ever….
Brace Yourself for Social Unrest Stemming From Coronavirus-Related Unemployment and Shutdowns…
Looting Wave Strikes New York City Amid Coronavirus Lockdown
We’ve been laying out the possible cause for the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that could be social unrest.
Millions of Americans have just lost their jobs, have no saving, and insurmountable debts, are flooding food banks across the nation to survive. With the economy crashed and now entering a depression, last week was a significant milestone in the progression of the crisis, as looting of businesses in California and South Carolina began.
Now the looting is spreading across the nation. We noted how stores in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago, were boarding up their windows, preparing for civil unrest.
After all, when 10 million people lose their jobs in two weeks, and an estimated unemployment rate that could reach 15-20% in the second quarter, as per RealInvestmentAdvice.com’s Lance Roberts latest report, the ripple effect on society is so sudden that there could very well be an outbreak of unrest when the weather shifts too much warmer trends, and geographically be situated in low-income areas of inner cities. Hence why the National Guard was called up and now being positioned around and or in major metros.
The beginning innings of social unrest could now be unfolding across New York City. Households are cracking as hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs over several weeks. The city has become the epicenter of the virus crisis, recording 103,060 confirmed cases and 2,935 deaths (as of Saturday afternoon, April 4).
The Wall Street Journal reports an increase in burglaries of commercial establishments across all five boroughs from March 12-31, coinciding when mass shutdowns went into effect.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) recorded a 75% jump in burglaries of businesses during the period, or about 254 burglaries, compared with 145 over the same period last year.
“The increase in burglaries coincided with steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus. On March 15, the city ordered restaurants and bars to cease on-site service, prompting many establishments to close altogether or limit operations. A March 20 decree by Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the closure of all nonessential businesses, leading many retail stores to shutter,” the Journal noted.
“We knew with the closing of many stores that we could see an increase and, unfortunately, we are,” said NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri.
LiPetri said the most targeted establishments by criminals had been restaurants, supermarkets, and retail stores. Between March 12-31, there were over 30 reports of burglaries of supermarkets, a 400% increase over the same period last year.
He said thieves were specifically after food, alcohol, and retail goods. Many gained entry from rooftops and or forcing doors open or breaking windows.
The Journal notes that some retail chains have boarded up shops across the city, citing fears that social unrest could soon follow. Here are some shops that have already boarded up windows:
Thousands of stores in New York have boarded up their doors and windows to avoid possible looting pic.twitter.com/Bc0UvZGuoO— TRT World (@trtworld) March 31, 2020
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New-York Gazette Store owners boarding up buildings across Manhattan: http://fox5ny.com – NEW YORK – A growing scene for those who venture out into the streets of Manhattan these days is boarded up storefronts. From luxury retailers to small… http://dlvr.it/RT8G84
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As looting surges in New York City, the next fear is that the NYPD could become overwhelmed by virus-related incidents and or a shortage of officers.
On Friday, one out of every six NYPD officers was sick or in quarantine. Over 1,500 have tested positive for the virus, which could lead to decreased patrols while crime is surging across the city.
“It’s a worst-case scenario across the board,” a sergeant told The New York Times.
And now it should make sense why President Trump recently signed an executive order to activate up to one million troops – that is because the evolution of the virus crisis and economic collapse, is social unrest and looting and whatever else that may bring. Source: ZeroHedge
It’s just a matter of time before all hell breaks loose.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”—Viktor Frankl
We still have choices.
Just because we’re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn’t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe.
Whatever we give up willingly now—whether it’s basic human decency, the ability to manage our private affairs, the right to have a say in how the government navigates this crisis or the few rights still left to us that haven’t been disemboweled in recent years by a power-hungry police state—we won’t get back so easily once this crisis is past.
The government never cedes power willingly.
Neither should we.
Every day brings a drastic new set of restrictions by government bodies (most have been delivered by way of executive orders) at the local, state, and federal levels that are eager to flex their muscles for the so-called “good” of the populace.
This is where we run the risk of this whole fly-by-night operation going completely off the rails.
It’s one thing to attempt an experiment in social distancing in order to flatten the curve of this virus because we can’t afford to risk overwhelming the hospitals and exposing the most vulnerable in the nation to unavoidable loss of life scenarios. However, there’s a fine line between strongly worded suggestions for citizens to voluntarily stay at home and strong-armed house arrest orders with penalties in place for non-compliance.
More than three-quarters of all Americans have now been ordered to stay at home and that number is growing as more states fall in line.
Schools have cancelled physical classes, many for the remainder of the academic year.
Many of the states have banned gatherings of more than 10 people.
At least three states (Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania) have ordered non-essential businesses to close.
In Washington, DC, residents face 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine if they leave their homes during the coronavirus outbreak. Residents of Maryland, Hawaii, and Washington State also risk severe penalties of up to a year in prison and a $5,000 fine for violating the stay-at-home orders. Violators in Alaska could face jail time and up to $25,000 in fines.
Kentucky residents are prohibited from traveling outside the state, with a few exceptions.
New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., is offering its Rikers Island prisoners $6 an hour to help dig mass graves.
In San Francisco, cannabis dispensaries were included among the essential businesses allowed to keep operating during the city-wide lockdown.
New Jersey’s governor canceled gatherings of any number, including parties, weddings, and religious ceremonies, and warned the restrictions could continue for weeks or months. One city actually threatened to prosecute residents who spread false information about the virus.
Oregon banned all nonessential social and recreational gatherings, regardless of size.
Rhode Island has given police the go-ahead to pull over anyone with New York license plates to record their contact information and order them to self-quarantine for 14 days.
South Carolina’s police have been empowered to break up any public gatherings of more than three people.
Of course, there are exceptions to all of these stay-at-home orders (in more than 30 states and counting), the longest of which runs until June 10. Essential workers (doctors, firefighters, police, and grocery store workers) can go to work. Everyone else will have to fit themselves into a variety of exceptions in order to leave their homes: for grocery runs, doctor visits, to get exercise, to visit a family member, etc.
Throughout the country, more than 14,000 “Citizen-Soldiers” of the National Guard have been mobilized to support the states and the federal government in their fight against the coronavirus. While the Guard officials insist they have not been tasked with martial law, they are coordinating with the Pentagon, FEMA, and the states/territories on COVID-19 response missions.
A quick civics lesson: Martial law is a raw exercise of executive power that can override the other branches of government and assume control over the functioning of a nation, state, or smaller area within a state. The power has been exercised by the president, as President Lincoln did soon after the start of the Civil War, and by governors, as was done in Idaho to quell a miner’s strike that broke out there in 1892. Read More
This Pestilent Is Revealing to All What Many of Us Have Known for a Long Time: This Godless Nation Was Designed by the Un-Godly to Fail and so Its Failure Was Not Just Predictable but Inevitable
Sources include: EndOfTheAmericanDream.com HNewsWire NaturalNews.com PJMedia HNewsWire ZeroHedge
StevieRay Hansen
Editor, HNewsWire.com
Watchmen does not confuse truth with consensus The Watchmen does not confuse God’s word with the word of those in power…
All the official reassurances won’t be worth a bucket of warm spit. The Globals are behind the CoronaVirus, It Is a Man-Made Bioweapon.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Have NOT Got The Memo Yet, “Pestilences” Has No Cure
The Coronavirus Was Most Certainly Produced by Crazy (Un-Godly) Men in Laboratories, WGO and CDC Knew All Along That the Coronavirus Was a Bioweapon, There’re in Charge?
Well-known medical expert Bill Gates did an AMA on Reddit https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/A-coronavirus-AMA?WT.mc_id=20200319223000_Coronavirus-AMA_BG-LI&WT.tsrc=BGLI&linkId=84658834 (transcribed here), in which he casually drops some chilling ideas into the conversation: Ummm, people of God! Am I late? Did I miss this? Did we see this already? Digital certificates to identify those who got the #Covid19 vaccines and TO DO BUSINESS?
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