Disney, ESPN Ink Deal w/ Colin Kaepernick to Create Documentary about His Life

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Disney, ESPN Ink Deal w/ Colin Kaepernick to Create Documentary about His Life

‘Colin’s experience gives him a unique perspective … which will undoubtedly create compelling stories that will educate, enlighten and entertain…’

ESPN Films will produce a documentary series about Colin Kaepernick, after The Walt Disney Co. reached a deal with the former football quarterback turned Black Lives Matter icon, NBC Sports reported.

The Walt Disney Co. partnered with Kaepernick’s media company, Ra Vision Media, “a new platform to showcase the work of Black and Brown directors, producers, creators and storytellers.”

Beyond a series about Kaepernick’s life, the companies will seek nonwhite people to produce media about race, social injustice and equity.

The shows that develop from the partnership will be streamed on Walt Disney Television, ESPN, Hulu, Pixar and The Undefeated.

The Undefeated is the anti-white, identity-politics wing of ESPN.

“I am excited to announce this historic partnership with Disney across all of its platforms to elevate Black and Brown directors, creators, storytellers, and producers, and to inspire the youth with compelling and authentic perspectives,” Kaepernick said in a statement.

“I look forward to sharing the docuseries on my life story, in addition to many other culturally impactful projects we are developing,”  he said.

Even though Kaepernick keeps embracing his position as a leader of the radical Black Lives Matter movement, he said that he wants to return to the NFL.

The NFL has changed its stance toward the national anthem since Kaerpernick first kneeled during it in 2016.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell apologized in June for the NFL’s previous policy that required players to stand for the national anthem.

“During this unprecedented time, The Walt Disney Co. remains committed to creating diverse and inclusive content that resonates and matters,” said Bob Iger, Disney’s executive chairman.

“Colin’s experience gives him a unique perspective on the intersection of sports, culture and race, which will undoubtedly create compelling stories that will educate, enlighten and entertain, and we look forward to working with him on this important collaboration,” Iger said.

POMPEO: Trump Admin Weighs Ban on Chinese App TikTok Due to Espionage Concerns

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POMPEO: Trump Admin Weighs Ban on Chinese App TikTok Due to Espionage Concerns

‘This is a necessary step to protect the security of the United States and the data security of every American…’

The Trump administration is “certainly looking at” banning TikTok, a popular social media app controlled by China, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Pompeo made the comments on Monday after news broke that India had banned dozens of Chinese apps, including TikTok, which has around 30 million active American users, many of them children or teenagers.

“With the respect to Chinese apps on people’s cellphones, I can assure you the United States will get this one right,” Pompeo told Fox News. “I don’t want to get out in front of the president, but it’s something we’re looking at.”

The video-sharing app—much of which is based around users choreographing dances or reacting to other content on the platform—was “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data” to servers outside of India, according to India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

U.S. security experts have raised similar concerns, which is why the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security have already prohibited their employees from using the app.

Asked whether Americans should download TikTok, Pompeo said, “Only if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.”

TikTok has repeatedly denied allegations that it is controlled by or that it works with China, but just this week the company announced that it would be suspending operations in Hong Kong, citing “recent events.”

Hong Kong citizens have been protesting against China’s authoritarianism for months.

The app also was credited for the low turnout at President Donald Trump’s June campaign rally in Tulsa—his first in more than three months.

The app reportedly encouraged users to register for seats in the venue, the nearly 20,000-capacity Bank of Oklahoma Center, even though they had no intention of using them. Fewer than 7,000 rally-goers actually turned up for the event, which came amid heightened tensions in the media due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and race riots.

If the Trump administration doesn’t take action against Chinese social media apps, several Republican lawmakers have vowed to do so. Chinese companies, including TikTok, have no choice but “to support and cooperate with intelligence work controlled by the Chinese Communist Party,” Republicans pointed out.

“This is a necessary step to protect the security of the United States and the data security of every American,” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.

Trump Withdraws from WHO after House Dems Seek to Reverse Defunding Order

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Trump Withdraws from WHO after House Dems Seek to Reverse Defunding Order

‘This bill rejects the President’s go-it-alone approach to foreign policy…’

Update: Late Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he was officially withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.

The announcement left unclear the status of the Democrats’ prior funding commitment.

Original article below:

House Democrats introduced a spending bill this week that would reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to defund the World Health Organization.

Trump announced in April that the U.S. would no longer fund the WHO, citing the organization’s failure to adequately prepare the world for the coronavirus pandemic and its habitual kowtowing to China.

He and other Republicans lawmakers have denounced the United Nations-baked organization’s decision to install Ethiopian leader Tedros Ghebreyesus as the head of WHO, despite allegations of corruption and charges that he was beholden to China.

Democrats, however, ignored Trump’s request to defund. Instead, they increased spending for international organizations and the U.S. State Department by more than 50%, according to The Hill.

“This bill rejects the President’s go-it-alone approach to foreign policy and instead reaffirms our strong support for international allies, for reproductive health, climate change, and multilateral assistance, and for long-term investments in development and democracy,” said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., chair of the House Appropriations Committee.

The U.S. must “repair” it sown “global standing and commitments,” Lowey continued—commitments Trump has abandoned, she said.

Trump has made it clear that he will not support the WHO until it agrees to undergo a thorough investigation regarding the coronavirus pandemic.

“The WHO failed in its basic duty and must be held accountable,” Trump said in April.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dismissed Trump’s concerns and said that the WHO would not cooperate with an investigation until “we have finally turned the page on this pandemic.”

“Now is not that time,” he said, claiming that the WHO needs to focus all of its resources and personnel to combating the coronavirus worldwide.

The WHO has proved itself to be a “China-centric,” corrupt organization, according to Trump and the GOP. It refused to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, and then quietly updated its website months later to include the fact that COVID-19 first appeared in China’s Wuhan region.

The WHO has also spread misinformation about the virus, claiming that it could not be transmitted via person-to-person contact earlier this year, and changing its guidance on face coverings every few weeks.

Oregon County Candidate Admits to Posting Fake ‘Racist’ Letter on Facebook

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Oregon County Candidate Admits to Posting Fake ‘Racist’ Letter on Facebook

‘I never meant to file a report. It just kind of spiraled out…’

A recent local government candidate in Oregon admitted this week that he wrote a racist letter to himself to draw voters’ attention during the May election.

Jonathan Lopez, who recently ran for Umatilla County commissioner, confessed that he wrote an anonymous letter he claimed to have found in his mailbox right before the election.

Lopez had posted a picture of the letter, full of racist, homophobic and misogynist slurs, on Facebook, and said that he had “no resentment for whomever wrote this.”

The letter, which Umatilla County officials said was “fabricated,” said that Lopez and other “Mexicans” were “not welcome here,” and that “America is for the God fear, pro gun, pro life humans who refuse to be controlled by the government.”

After the letter drew attention online, Lopez filed a report with Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston, who investigated in the incident shortly thereafter.

Because filed a false report, Edmiston said he is forwarding the incident tot he Umatilla County District Attorney’s office, where Lopez could face a Class A misdemeanor charge.

“From the onset, this alleged incident has been thoroughly investigated,” Edmiston said in a statement, according to the East Oregonian.

“Our investigation has shown that Mr. Lopez wrote the letter himself and made false statements to the police and on social media,” Edmiston said. “The end result is a verbal and written admission by Mr. Lopez that the letter was fabricated.”

Lopez claimed that his attempted race hoax was just a big misunderstanding, and that he had meant to use the letter as an example of the type of racism Hispanic people face in the U.S.

“I never meant to file a report. It just kind of spiraled out,” he admitted.

Emiston, however, blasted Lopez for distracting his office from the important work it does on a daily basis and aggravating racial tensions within his community.

“The time spent on this fictitious claim means time lost on other matters, not to mention it needlessly adds to the incredible tension that exists in our nation today,” Edmiston said.

“As a lifelong resident of this diverse community, I’m disgusted someone would try to carelessly advance their personal ambitions at the risk of others,” he said.

Actor Terry Crews Calls Out Don Lemon’s Lies on BLM

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Actor Terry Crews Calls Out Don Lemon’s Lies on BLM

‘Black people need to hold other black people accountable…’

Actor Terry Crews pushed back against CNN’s Don Lemon after Lemon tried to lecture him about Black Lives Matter and what the movement represents.

Crews appeared on Lemon’s show Tuesday night and focused on promoting a message of unity — a message the BLM is intentionally tossing aside, he explained.

Black Lives Matter is a “great mantra” and a “true mantra,” Crews said, but it has turned into a “supremacist” position that values black lives more than others.

“Black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they’re being viewed as sellouts or called Uncle Toms,” Crews told Lemon.

If the BLM movement isn’t checked, leftists activists could initiate a “move from on oppressor to the next” and constantly playing the victim card for no reason at all, Crews argued.

Instead of blaming everyone else for the Black community’s problems, African Americans should focus on real issues, like black-on-black crime, Crews added.

“The Black Lives Matter movement has said nothing about this,” Crews said. “Black people need to hold other black people accountable.”

Lemon immediately fired back and claimed Crews needs to develop a tougher skin.

“I have skin as tough as an armadillo because of what I do. I think maybe you should adapt that,” Lemon said.

Crews has been vocally critical of BLM for weeks, urging activists not to let “#blacklivesmatter morph into #blacklivesbetter.”

Cal State Faculty Want Freebies for Minorities; Say Education Rooted in ‘White Supremacy’

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Cal State Faculty Want Freebies for Minorities; Say Education Rooted in ‘White Supremacy’

Campus police ‘give students a feeling like they’re in prison … They all have access to weapons, and this is really terrifying to students of color…’

Faculty across California State University are demanding that the school and each of its 23 campuses adopt a slew of social justice-related reforms, including disarming campus police, requiring a new class on ethnic studies, and providing free tuition for black students.

The reason for the spending spree: because the education system is “fundamentally grounded in a white supremacist colonial discourse and culture,” according to Summit News.

The California Faculty Association, the union representing faculty across the university’s campuses, released its list of demands last week.

The “Anti-Racism and Social Justice Transformation Package” would require CSU to create departments solely devoted to African American studies, increase the number of black administrators, and overcompensate black staff members to prevent racial pay gaps in the system.

This “racial pay equity” is necessary, the report states, because the “workload is higher for Black faculty given that CSU faculty are majority-white, and CSU students are majority of color, resulting in ‘cultural taxation.’ ”

The package also states that CSU must “provide free tuition for all Black, Native, and Indigenous students,” according to Campus Reform.

And to increase admission of these “marginalized students,” CSU must make efforts “to overturn Proposition 209, the ban on affirmative action.”

CSU spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp told Ed Source that the university is “committed to working to address racial inequities,” but not by using “the tactics” laid out by the CFA.

He reiterated the university’s support for campus police departments, and clarified that CSU already supports overturning Proposition 209, which prevents CSU and other public universities within the state from considering race or ethnicity while making admissions decisions.

Several faculty members, however, said that campus police officers’ presence is a non-starter, because they “give students a feeling like they’re in prison,” according to Sharon Elise, the union’s associate vice president of racial and social justice.

“They all have access to weapons,” Elise said of campus police, “and this is really terrifying to students of color.”

COTTON: Left Turns Blind Eye to China’s Assault on Freedom While Whining over US Cops

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COTTON: Left Turns Blind Eye to China’s Assault on Freedom While Whining over US Cops

‘Many of the woke champions on the left in America … turn a blind eye to their crimes, at the same time we denounce our own police officers…’

As the communist Chinese government began to crush freedom in Hong Kong, protestors in the formerly autonomous city took to the streets on the Fourth of July and waved American flags.

Ironically, the same flag was portrayed as a symbol of oppression this weekend by members of the news media, Black Lives Matter and other activist groups in the United States.

But as Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., recently pointed out, only one of the countries is actually engaging in human rights abuses—and it’s not even close.

“They are running concentration camps in Northwestern China, and they are persecuting Christians throughout their region, and they have long forced abortions on women or sterilization on women,” Cotton said.

“Yet many of the woke champions on the left in America, like so many NBA players led by Lebron James, turn a blind eye to their crimes, at the same time we denounce our own police officers, which I think is a disgraceful and shameful contrast,” he continued.

China recently passed a sweeping national security law that targets dissenters in Hong Kong. It’s the type of oppression that the activist left seems to believe is happening in the U.S., as if they’d be allowed to protest under an actual oppressive government.

The law is more accurately an order from Beijing that the city’s laws, authorities and even judiciary function at the behest of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

It’s “an all-out assault on Hong Kong,” Benedict Rogers, founder of Hong Kong Watch, said in an interview with The Epoch Times.

The measure effectively usurps the global financial center, and former British enclave, and has turned it into another Chinese city.

Unlike in America, China’s National People’s Congress passed the so-called national security mandate in secret and criminalized dissent by defining it as subversion of the state, terrorism and collusion with foreign enemies.

Black Lives Matter is currently the leading anti-oppression group. Its founders are openly Marxist and it hasn’t bothered to advocate for the people of Hong Kong despite the atrocities committed against them.

Notably, a favorite expression of the group is “silence is complicity.”

NBA star Lebron James has proudly marketed himself as a Black Lives Matter celebrity, but James famously turned on Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey for tweeting an image that read, “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.”

The CCP blasted the NBA and several state-backed businesses suspended ties with the Houston Rockets. James took to Twitter to say that Morey was “misinformed.”

The basketballer has since claimed the National Football League has a slavery mentality and demanded that the NFL issue an apology to Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback who recently called the Fourth of July a “celebration of white supremacy.”

Not to be outdone, Disney, which owns ESPN and ABC News, has supported protest-chic activism and civil unrest in the United States as it pursues multi-billion-dollar business opportunities in China.

Like the NBA, Disney claims to stand for human rights but is completely silent on the massive human rights abuses occurring in the communist country.

The star of the entertainment giant’s new live-action remake of “Mulan,” Donnie Yen, even voiced support for the CCP-backed national security law in Hong Kong.

Yen, whose first language is not English, said, “Today is the celebration day for Hong Kong returned to motherland China 23 years.”

NC Utilities Are Going Broke Due to Dem. Gov’s Free Electricity Mandate

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NC Utilities Are Going Broke Due to Dem. Gov’s Free Electricity Mandate

‘We’re seeing freeloading all across the state…’

In the early days of the Wuhan virus panic, North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper ordered utility companies to provide electricity and water services to people even if they didn’t pay their bills.

Cooper continues to impose the mandate, and predictably, people have stopped paying even if they can afford it. As a result, utilities are going broke.

“We’re seeing freeloading all across the state,” Paul Meyer, spokesman for the North Carolina League of Municipalities, told WRAL.

“People just say, ‘Hey, they’re not going to turn my power off so I’m not going to pay,’” Meyer said. “So we’ve seen collection rates plummet.”

In North Carolina, water and sewer systems are run by cities. In many parts of the state, cities also run electricity, gas and even cable services.

But whether publicly owned or private investor-owned, Cooper’s March executive order didn’t differentiate between consumers who became unemployed due his ruthless Wuhan virus economic shutdown or those who can pay regardless. The order is slated to continue through the end of July.

Ratepayers are supposed to repay delinquent bills, assuming Cooper will allow enforcement measures. But in many cases, taxpayers will be forced to pick up the slack as cities move to replace lost utility revenues.

Meyer said $75 million vanished from utility balance sheets in March and April thanks to Cooper’s unqualified order.

“It was well-intended,” he said. “I get that. It really was. But when you put people behind four and five months on their payments, you know how this goes. People just won’t ever be able to pay.”

Cooper’s order is also expected to create a cascading effect of lost revenues and additional burdens on cash-strapped residents.

Utility services often make up half of local government budgets. But by removing the incentive to pay, Cooper has created a moral hazard where good-faith ratepayers are punished, and deadbeats get off scot-free. More and more people are likely to stop paying thereby exacerbating the problem he created.

Additionally, with such huge budget shortfalls, cities and towns are likely to double-down on new forms of revenue, such as taxes, fees, bogus code enforcement activities, and even traffic citations. This will further squeeze remaining ratepayers and make their ability to keep up with utility bills more difficult.

According to the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, ordinary Americans have already been targeted by government “taxation by citation” schemes in the COVID era.

But even that might not be enough to keep North Carolina municipalities from financial ruin.

State Treasurer Dale Folwell recently said that if smaller cities’ utilities are bankrupted, then there’s a real possibility that the cities themselves might have to be taken over by the state.

“The ones I’m particularly concerned about are the eastern municipal power agencies,” Folwell said, adding, “and those are the citizen-owned utilities east of Raleigh.”

Folwell said that he intends to ask Cooper at a Council of State meeting on Tuesday to allow all citizen-owned utilities to start collecting on overdue accounts immediately — which isn’t just good for cities, towns and utility companies, but also non-paying consumers who may be forced to pay off months upon months of bills for years to come.

“They have been dealing for decades with folks who have trouble paying their bills,” Folwell said. “Ultimately, if these bills aren’t paid, we’re putting these citizens in a hole they can never climb out of.”

“Eventually that’s going to result in much higher rates — not just for these utilities but also property taxes, which is the last thing that rural North Carolina needs, especially eastern rural North Carolina,” he added.

MLB’s Cleveland Indians to Change Team Name, Mascot

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MLB’s Cleveland Indians to Change Team Name, Mascot

‘I know that we’re never trying to be disrespectful… But I don’t think that’s a good enough answer today…’

The Cleveland Indians baseball team said on Sunday that the team will change its name, citing concerns over racial division and tension.

“I know in the past, when I’ve been asked about, whether it’s our name or the Chief Wahoo, I think I would usually answer and say I know that we’re never trying to be disrespectful,” said the team’s manager, Terry Francona, according to CNN.

“And I still feel that way,” he continued. “But I don’t think that’s a good enough answer today. I think it’s time to move forward. It’s a very difficult subject. It’s also delicate.”

The baseball team announced last week that it was considering changing its name, since its “among the most visible ways in which we connect with the community.” The team had previously removed its “Chief Wahoo” logo, a caricature of a Native American that activists argued was racist.

The team name, however, was in part a tribute to the success of Louis Sockalexis, a former Native American star in Cleveland, according to Cleveland Magazine. Despite this, the team admitted that its name does not “advance social justice and equality.”

The Cleveland Indians are one of several professional sports teams featuring Native-American roots.

After facing pressure from its stadium sponsor, FedEx, the NFL’s Washington Redskins also announced last week that the team would undergo a “thorough review” of its name, following years of perennial complaints from left-wing activist groups.

Dan Snyder, owner of the Redskins, has long defended the name despite this criticism, but the demands from FedEx and other major sponsors—including Nike—seem to have have outweighed the principle.

“This process allows the team to take into account not only the proud tradition and history of the franchise but also input from our alumni, the organization, sponsors, the National Football League and the local community it is proud to represent on and off the field,” Snyder said in a statement on Friday.

NBA Approves Social-Justice Phrases Players Can Display on Jerseys

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NBA Approves Social-Justice Phrases Players Can Display on Jerseys

The National Basketball Association released a list of “approved messages” that players can display on the back of their jerseys during this year’s season, and each one of them has something to do with social justice.

The league’s player union reached an agreement with the NBA that 29 words and phrases can be displayed on a player’s jersey above their number, where their last name is typically located.

The words and phrases include, “Black Lives Matter,” “How Many More,” “Power to the People,” “I Can’t Breathe” and “Anti-Racist.”

Each player will be given a first and second choice, according to ESPN, and those who abstain will have their last names displayed as usual.

“The league and the players are uniquely positioned to have a direct impact on combating systemic racism in our country, and we are committed to collective action to build a more equal and just society,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.

“A shared goal of our season restart will be to use our platform in Orlando to bring attention to these important issues of social justice,” Silver said.

The NBA also said it will paint “Black Lives Matter” on the hardwood playing floor when games resume July 30.

Compare this response to the NBA’s continued kowtowing to China.

The authoritarian, communist regime has been forcing women in its Xinjiang region to abort their children or go on birth control, and it violently suppressed protests and demonstrations in Hong Kong.

When it came down to it, Silver sided with the communist government to maintain their multi-billion dollar relationship.

The NBA began removing fans who wore pro-Hong Kong shirts at games, and prominent players, such as LeBron James and James Harden, apologized on behalf of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, who had tweeted his support for Hong Kong’s protesters.

“We apologize,” Harden, who plays for the Rockets, said.

“We love China,” he continued. “We love playing there. I know for both of us individually we go there once or twice a year. They show us the most support and love. So we appreciate them as a fan base and we love everything they’re about and we appreciate the support that they give us individually and as an organization.”

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