July 18th, 2020

Protest organizer claims their mission is the “abolition of the United States as we know it”

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— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) July 18, 2020

In a new twist, Berlin has suggested that a country’s commitment to NATO be measured by the proportion of its armed forces allocated for the alliance’s needs, not by the well-worn rule of spending two percent of GDP on defense... She dismissed the two-percent benchmark as “a cipher” that is losing relevance, given the damage the Covid-19 crisis has inflicted on NATO members’ gross domestic product (GDP) and proposed using other measurement methods instead...

The Sinoloa cartel in their prime were impressive but the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has taken things to a new level.

Looks like an army of a mid-size country...

Will the #US ever intervene in #Mexico again? pic.twitter.com/WeqQNnN4VW

— BasedPoland (@BasedPoland) July 18, 2020

The WHO signed a $135,000 contract on May 1 with Hill + Knowlton Strategies to reach out to influencers of all stripes, including celebrities with more than 1 million followers on social media, according to documents filed this week to the Justice Department... In addition to celebrity influencers, Hill + Knowlton said that it will identify “microinfluencers” who have smaller, niche followings, as well as lesser known people such as health experts who appear on news programs.

Police say that some members of the crowd of protesters turned toward police and attacked officers with fireworks, rocks, frozen bottles and a variety of other objects.

The ACLU’s lawsuit seeks to block federal law enforcement from dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force against journalists or legal observers.

The claim that Trump's secret police are "abducting" people is a lie. It's an #antifa falsehood to distract from the fact that DHS has been extremely effective at arresting criminal suspects.

I went on @FoxNews w/Prof. John Yoo to discuss the #PortlandRiots, now on its 7th week pic.twitter.com/RDLdSGMRx6

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 18, 2020

Regional fire chief General Laurent Ferlay has told AFP that, after a two-hour battle, firemen have contained the blaze. The wire service reports that officials have told them the damage is “not comparable to last year’s fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris”, although interior fixtures including the cathedral organ have been destroyed.

Attorney Billy Williams requested the investigation by the DHS Inspector General after a video emerged of federal law enforcement detaining protesters and putting them into unmarked vehicles. Civil rights groups accused the agency of “kidnapping” and the state’s congressional lawmakers and attorney general also demanded an investigation over fears that civil rights had been violated and that it was exacerbating tensions.