How Did Potatoes Get So Popular?
June 2nd, 2020This isn’t just about potatoes.
Via: Corbett Report:
Military Begins Staging to Quell George Floyd Protests
June 2nd, 2020Via: Newsweek:
The Defense Department has begun positioning active duty troops around the Washington area in anticipation of President Donald Trump following through on his historic threat Monday to use the military to quell widespread and at-times violent protests across the country, including in the nation’s capital, if local authorities didn’t do more to stop them.
Active duty military police and combat engineers had not entered the District of Columbia but were, as of Monday evening, staging in the region – likely on one of the military bases nearby – “to ensure faster employment if necessary,” according to a senior defense official speaking on the condition of anonymity. Some had come from units based elsewhere in the country, but the official declined to offer specifics. Other news outlets, including Military.com, reported soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina were among the forces that had deployed.
President Donald Trump Makes Reference to “… Greatest Weapons Ever Imagined” in SpaceX Speech
June 1st, 2020Via: Black Vault:
The George Floyd Protests – 20 Unanswered Questions
June 1st, 2020Via: Off Guardian:
Racial politics in America are a simmering pot waiting to boil over, they have been for decades. This is only exacerbated as the poverty created by the (totally unnecessary) lockdown starts to hit home.
As the weather gets hot, and jobs dry up and prices skyrocket and the small businesses close…people will get tense. They will get angry.
This is dry tinder which can burst into flames at any moment.
All it took was a spark.
Now the protesters swarm cities all across America, as windows are smashed, shops looted and public buildings set afire. Civilians are being maced and tasered and the rubber bullets are flying.
How did we get here?
Related: Is Someone ASSISTING The RIOTS Across AMERICA?
Pandemic Effects Could Leave 54 Million Americans Without Food
June 1st, 2020
Via: Guardian:
A record number of Americans face hunger this year as the catastrophic economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic looks set to leave tens of millions of people unable to buy enough food to feed their families.
Nationwide, the demand for aid at food banks and pantries has soared since the virus forced the economy to be shutdown, resulting in more than 40m new unemployment benefit claims, according to the latest figures.
As a result, an estimated one in four children, the equivalent of 18 million minors, could need food aid this year – a 63% increase compared to 2018.
Overall, about 54 million people across the US could go hungry without help from food banks, food stamps and other aid, according to an analysis by Feeding America, the national food bank network.
L.A. COUNTY STATE OF EMERGENCY; COUNTYWIDE CURFEW
May 31st, 2020Via: LA Times:
After two days of protest, chaos and looting, it was a surreal Sunday in Southern California as demonstrators once again gathered en masse, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died last week after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck.
National Guard troops and police officers guarded the barricaded steps of Los Angeles City Hall. Los Angeles County officials enacted a mandatory, countywide overnight curfew — and Santa Monica enacted one that started even earlier, at 4 p.m.
The protests in downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Beach and elsewhere were, by far, mostly peaceful. But in Santa Monica and Long Beach, police struggled to deal with looters breaking into stores and vandalizing businesses.
California: Newsom Declares State of Emergency in L.A., Deploys National Guard
May 31st, 2020Via: LA Times:
Gov. Gavin Newsom late Saturday declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles county and city and activated the National Guard to assist police after two days of violent demonstrations sparked by the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a black man whose neck was pinned down by a white police officer.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti requested that Newsom mobilize the Guard less than an hour after the mayor expanded a mandator curfew, first set for downtown, to the entire city from 8 p.m. Saturday to 5:30 a.m. Sunday. Los Angeles Metro said it was suspending all transit during the curfew period.
NASA Resumes Human Spaceflight from U.S. Soil with Historic SpaceX Launch
May 30th, 2020Via: Reuters:
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years.
This Company Will Point Satellites at Earth and Use them to Look for UFOs
May 30th, 2020Via: Vice:
Hypergiant was founded just two years ago, in 2018, but the company has already worked with the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton, Shell, NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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“UAPs are the X at the cross center.”
Minneapolis: Pentagon Puts Military Police On Alert
May 30th, 2020Via: AP:
As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests.
Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders. Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been told to be ready within 24 hours. The people did not want their names used because they were not authorized to discuss the preparations.
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The person said the military units would be deployed under the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was last used in 1992 during the riots in Los Angeles that followed the Rodney King trial.
