The NYPD Paid An Informant To Help A BLM Protester Charged With Sabotaging Police Van – Gothamist

“It’s troubling,” said Martin Stolar, a civil rights attorney who’s spent nearly five decades challenging NYPD surveillance overreach. “It sounds like they put the informant to work circulating among the protesters. We don’t know how far back it extends, how long they had this guy in play.”

The NYPD’s paid informants have previously faced scrutiny for their role in pushing their targets to commit or discuss crimes. A former NYPD informant told the Associated Press that he was paid $1,000 to “bait” his Muslim associates into making incriminating statements. In another high-profile case, a paid NYPD informant allegedly spent months plying Jose Pimentel with food and marijuana, enticing the apparently unstable man to build a bomb.

“The way they stay on the payroll is turning over criminals, so they have an incentive to create crime,” Stolar told Gothamist. “They’re working for money. They’re not working for justice.”

 

Source: The NYPD Paid An Informant To Help A BLM Protester Charged With Sabotaging Police Van – Gothamist

Beirut explosion: Lebanon in mourning as international assistance arrives | News | DW | 06.08.2020

Several countries dispatched emergency aid to the country on Wednesday. Qatar sent mobile hospitals, generators and burn sheets, while Algeria will send four planes and a ship with humanitarian aid, medical teams and firefighters.

France’s President, Emmanuel Macron is set to visit Lebanon on Thursday, while the World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to send trauma and surgical kits from Dubai.

Meanwhile, Germany has sent dozens of search and rescue specialists to find survivors trapped beneath rubble following the explosion.

 

Source: Beirut explosion: Lebanon in mourning as international assistance arrives | News | DW | 06.08.2020

Coronavirus rallies: Germany′s growing anti-lockdown movement | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 06.08.2020

(Extreme right and left each work to destabilize society and create situation where they each hope they could dictate future to their liking. In this case, they inadvertently bring death instead of their preferred nirvanas.)

Source: Coronavirus rallies: Germany′s growing anti-lockdown movement | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 06.08.2020

Summer Travels Bring Rising Coronavirus Numbers to Germany – DER SPIEGEL – (There is no going back to “normal.” Until vaccines are readily available, distancing, masks and testing are required to survive.)

On top of that is a rising number of outbreaks inside Germany. The virus, which had seemed to be under control, is proving to be quite stubborn and unpredictable, popping up here and there as though wanting to make all those look foolish who thought that Germany would be able to quickly defeat the pathogen.

Source: Summer Travels Bring Rising Coronavirus Numbers to Germany – DER SPIEGEL

Cherokee reports COVID-19 cases in three more schools

In an updated COVID-19 case count Wednesday evening, the Cherokee County School District added one middle and two elementary schools to its list of affected schools. These schools are in addition to Sixes Elementary, which had the first known COVID-19 case Monday, the first day of classes in the district.

As with Sixes Elementary, students and staff are quarantining at all three schools.

 

Source: Cherokee reports COVID-19 cases in three more schools

Victoria records 471 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths, including four linked to aged care – ABC News

There are 7,449 active coronavirus cases in Victoria, including 1,533 linked to aged care, including residents and staff.

Stage 4 restrictions requiring most non-essential businesses to close took effect across Melbourne today.

Stage 3 restrictions also began in regional Victoria today.

Mr Andrews said there had been “many hundreds” of discussions with industry groups to clarify the stage 4 shutdown regulations for business.

“This is always going to be an imperfect process, it’s never been done before,” he said.

“There will always be further changes based on further feedback we get.”

Source: Victoria records 471 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths, including four linked to aged care – ABC News

Schools Will Close Again

We love to cling to the belief that kids are generally low risk if they become infected or that younger children don’t spread it as much as older ones and adults, but because we shut down schools so early (as we should have), we don’t really know what happens when a large population of kids are potentially exposed all at once. And this virus hasn’t existed long enough for us to know the long-term consequences for someone who had even a mild case of it.

As careful as our schools try to be, as much as we remind our kids why masks are important, and as much as our teachers try to keep their distance and sanitize all the things while also, you know, teaching, this isn’t going to work.

So brace yourself now. If your district still plans to re-open in person, even on a hybrid schedule, and even with all the possible precautions in place: it’s temporary. Your school is going to close again, and it will be soon.

 

Source: Schools Will Close Again

Duckworth: Republican coronavirus package would ‘gut’ Americans With Disabilities Act | TheHill

“Allowing businesses to exclude employees with disabilities from reopening plans is exactly the kind of discrimination the ADA sought to abolish, yet the GOP’s HEALS Act seeks to relegate millions of Americans back to second class status, sending the offensive message that our community can be cast aside if the costs to companies are too high,” Duckworth added.

“No one is asking for special treatment, what we are asking for is to not take away those basic rights the Constitution promised all those centuries ago and this chamber affirmed three decades ago under a Republican president.”

 

Source: Duckworth: Republican coronavirus package would ‘gut’ Americans With Disabilities Act | TheHill

Trump tempers his description of Beirut explosion as an attack: ‘Nobody knows yet’

He just made up an answer and can’t admit he was wrong or just a blowhard!

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President Trump on Wednesday tempered his comments from the day before that the massive explosion in the capital of Lebanon was an “attack,” telling reporters it is too soon to say whether the deadly incident was a delibe…