Antifa Takes Seattle City Hall, Barricades 6-Block Perimeter as Police Abandon Precinct

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Antifa and other radical groups are now the proud owners of a six-block radius in the heart of Seattle that has been renamed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.”

The rioters are barricading the area and stationing armed guards around the zone—all with the blessing of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.


Some Twitter commenters noted the irony that the group, which has waged virulent open-borders protests in the past, had decided to erect walls of its own.

The group—which also has ties to the Black Lives Matter movement—reportedly coerced police into abandoning their East precinct with the support of some of the city’s top leaders.Councilwoman Kshama Sawant allegedly used her key to unlock City Hall and allow them inside, according to the Gateway Pundit.

Despite the fact that both Sawant and Durkan are radical leftists, there appears to be a rift among the city councilors, with the activists demanding Durkan’s resignation over her past support of law enforcement.

The main objective appears to be forcing the city to defund its police department.

“Two years ago, there was a police contract up for the vote,” Sawant said during a speech Tuesday, according to the anarchist rebels’ blog.

“It was a bad contract. It was a racist contract,” she continued. “It was going to roll back the limited accountability measures that were hard fought for by community members.”

Signs posted around the area largely seem to signal support for the movement, reported Townhall writer Julio Rosas.

One provides the link to a petition that demands a 50% cut in police funding while also demanding spending on a number of social-justice-related programs and amnesty for the rioters.

“The cops will always be racist because capitalism requires inequality,” says the accompanying message.

Another sign, from Seattle Central College, offers support including aid, food and water to the rioters.

According to conservative journalist Andy Ngo, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, there is some precedent. Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, allowed a similar anarchist takeover in 2018 during protests over Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Portland is continuing to deal with the cleanup, including human waste and discarded hypodermic needles, that resulted after the five-week occupancy.

“Not only did it become a biohazard site w/intravenous drug abuse, the local businesses & residents were terrorized,” Ngo wrote in a recent tweet comparing the two. “Tax payers had to pay for the extensive cleanup.”

Ironically, despite the insurrection—which was reportedly a peaceful transfer of power—the activist groups, in coordination with the far-left American Civil Liberties Union and the Democrat law firm Perkins Coie, also filed suit against the city over the police’s alleged use of excessive force, including tear gas, as a deterrent while having their secured area encroached upon.

The suit complained that the deterrent measures impeded several people with disabilities—including one with asthma and another who had mobility issues—from fully enjoying their First Amendment freedoms guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.

Given the sympathetic stance of Seattle’s leaders toward the insurrectionists, the suit is likely to be settled and assist the radicals in transferring the wealth of Seattle’s taxpayers to the radical rioters without ever going to trial.

It remains to be seen whether Seattle’s capitulation to the anarchist demands will lead groups to attempt similar overthrows in other cities.

Minneapolis May See Mass Exodus as Businesses Go Up in Flames

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‘They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own…’

Minneapolis Manufacturer Vows to Leave City After ‘Protestors’ Torched His Business
Onlookers watch as fire consumes a building in southeast Minneapolis during recent riots. / IMAGE: Vibe TV via YouTube

(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) One week after violent protestors turned Minneapolis into an apocalyptic warzone, the first of presumably many business owners has vowed to leave the city.

“They don’t care about my business,” Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., told the Minneapolis Star–Tribune.

Wyrobek founded his manufacturing firm in 1987, and over 33 years it grew to employ more than 50 people. But last week it was looted and burned to the ground amid shocking scenes of violence, arson and theft.

“They didn’t protect our people,” said Wyrobek. “We were all on our own.”

His life’s work in ruins, Wyrobek recounted the fateful evening when he lost everything: “The fire engine was just sitting there,” he said, “but they wouldn’t do anything.”

The 7-Sigma plant produces precision rollers used in high-speed printing systems and usually operated until 11 p.m. But it closed early on the first night of rioting to protect workers from violent mobs.

Two employees became alarmed when a $30-million public housing complex burst into flames next door. Within hours, 7-Sigma was destroyed.

Other business owners have similarly blasted city leadership for allowing rioters to pillage and burn businesses unobstructed, though Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has refused to answer questions about a potential mass exodus, the Star-Tribune reported.

Frey, a progressive Democrat, enthusiastically sided with protestors and would not allow police officers to intervene, or even defend the department’s Third Precinct headquarters when rioters successfully set about smashing windows and burned it down.

Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tom Walz called the city’s response an “abject failure,” but that didn’t stop him or Frey from blaming President Donald Trump.

A preliminary survey of property damage showed that nearly 1,000 commercial properties were damaged during the riots, including 52 businesses that were completely destroyed and another 30 businesses that sustained severe damage.

Frey has petitioned the federal government for financial assistance to rebuild Minneapolis, but the shameless appeal would likely serve as a thin veil on a much deeper problem that the city’s leaders refuse to address.

Rather than reassure the business community that looting and rioting will not be tolerated, the city council voted to defund its police department on Sunday.

When asked if he ever considered relocating before the riots, Wyrobek said, “not in my wildest nightmare.”

GOP Sens. Urge Trump to Take It Easy on RINO Murkowski

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‘She won a write-in in her race. The last time that had happened was 1954. She knows her state…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Senate Republicans are asking President Donald Trump to go easy on Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, after he threatened to campaign against her reelection effort.

Last week, Trump suggested that he would launch a campaign against Murkowski if she decided to run again in 2022, arguing that he’d be willing to back anyone with a “pulse” over her.

His comments drew the ire of concerned Republicans. Some want Murkowski, who sides with the Democratic Party almost as often as she sides with her own colleagues, to keep her seat.

“I’d leave Lisa alone. She’s a member of our conference, and we want to keep it that way,” said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., according to The Hill.

While Thune is, himself, a frequent aisle-straddler, some of Trump’s more vocal allies also weighed in to show solidarity with their congressional colleague.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also said he doesn’t support Trump’s threat “at all.”

That may change if Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate who became an early beacon of the Tea Party movement, were to challenge Murkowski in the GOP primary during her 2022 re-election bid.

Nonetheless, Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., pointed out that, logistically, Murkowski would be tough to beat.

“She won a write-in in her race. The last time that had happened was 1954,” Barrasso said. “She knows her state.”

RINO Sen. Murkowski Says She's Struggling with Supporting Trump
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Murkowski applauded former Marine Gen. James Mattis, who accused the president of dividing the country, for criticizing Trump last week, claiming Mattis’s words were “true, and honest and necessary and overdue.”

When asked if Trump’s threat made her rethink her support of Mattis, Murkowski said she stands by her comments.

“I made the comments that I made,” Murkowski told CNN on Monday.

“I stand by them. Again, I think it’s important that we have a president who is working to bring people together,” she continued.” … And tone and words matter. I cannot live in fear of a tweet. That’s where I am now.”

Hillary Baffled How People w/ 'Beating Heart,' 'Working Mind' Support Trump

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‘ Every single day has been a surprise, an unpleasant surprise…’

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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Savaged by angry Bernie Sanders supporters who recently caused the hashtag #STFUHillary to trend on Twitter, 2016 election loser Hillary Clinton pivoted back to her favorite bullying target: deplorables.
Clinton continued her tradition of insulting President Donald Trump’s supporters last week, saying that “it is a mystery why anybody with a beating heart and a working mind still supports him.”
She bashed Trump for his response to the coronavirus panic and George Floyd’s death in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that was intended to be about the Hulu documentary “Hillary.”
“And it may well be that a leader like Trump, who depends upon distraction, has finally been brought down to Earth because people are watching in real time what is happening and how inadequate his response has been to these historic moments,” she said.
“He has been such a failure across the board,” she said.
She said she’s hopeful following the peaceful protests that “hearts” can be changed and the “structural impediments to equality and justice” can be removed.
Clinton said Trump’s presidency has been worse than she imagined it would be.
“Despite having my own front-row seat and being concerned about his character and behavior, he has gone further and broken more norms and undermined our institutions more deeply than I thought would have been possible in such a short period of time,” she said, without evidence.
She accused Trump of narcissism, saying that “Everything has to be all about him,” after she taped a Hulu documentary about herself.
Even the corporate media tries to distract from the investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion hoax with the Ukraine impeachment charade, the coronavirus panic, and George Floyd’s death, Clinton said Trump is the one who uses “diversion and distraction.”
She again rehashed her feelings about Trump’s inauguration, calling it a speech to his “outraged base,” despite its unifying tones.
“And every single day has been a surprise, an unpleasant surprise, about how there seems to be no bottom to this man and his presidency,” Clinton said.

NC Gov. Cooper Orders Race Track to Shut Down as He Supports Radical Protesters

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‘ I have serious reservations on the legality of his order…’

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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Shortly after Ace Speedway declared itself to be a “peaceful protest,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper called the venue an “imminent hazard” and ordered Alamance County authorities to close it, The News & Observer reported.
Cooper’s executive order limits the  size of outside gatherings to 25 people in clear defiance of the First Amendment, which guarantees the “right of the people peaceably to assemble” for any purpose.
As Cooper targets the speedway that can hold 2,500 people, he continues to encourage Black Lives Matter protesters who gather in groups larger than 25 people.
The governor’s office said Ace Speedway can operate if they draft a reopening plan that the Department of Health and Human Services approves.
The speedway has planned its next event for June 19.
Cooper ordered the speedway to announce its intention to cancel events through June 22. Ace Speedway must publish the notice by 5 p.m. on June 9.
The speedway’s owners have not published anything about the order.
Amy Galey, who chairs the Alamance County Board of Commissioners, said she will let Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson decide if he should enforce Cooper’s unconstitutional order.
“This is a law enforcement issue, not a county government issue,” Galey wrote. “There is no role for the Board of Commissioners in enforcing an Executive Order.”
Johnson questioned Cooper’s rationale for closing the race venue while allowing much larger gatherings, such as protests and church services, to continue.
Cooper has not harassed other racing venues, such as 311 Speedway in Stokes County, Johnson said.
He said Cooper is motivated by political gain.
“I assure you that I respect the Office of the Governor of North Carolina but I have serious reservations on the legality of his order,” Johnson wrote in a statement released Monday night, The News & Observer reported.

Wealthy Elites Fleeing NYC and Other Big Cities at an ‘Insane’ Pace

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‘There’s a mad rush to get out of the city. What I’m really doing well with right now is anything that’s turnkey…’

New York Marks 1st Shooting-Free Weekend in 25 Years
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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) New York City residents have had enough of both the coronavirus and attendant stay-at-home orders, and local moving companies report that they are fleeing at an “insane” rate.
Roadway Moving President Ross Sapir said New Yorkers are fleeing the city like he has “never seen before,” Fox News reported.
He said 2020 has been the busiest moving year in the company’s 12-year history.
“It’s insane … I’ve never seen such growth,” Sapir said. “[Business is] double or triple compared to any other season as far as moving out of the city.”
Compared to previous years, Roadway Moving has been receiving twice as many inquiries about New Yorkers who want to leave the city.
Sapir said the people most interested in leaving the city are 25- to 45-year-old professionals who live in wealthy areas of Manhattan.
United Van Lines CEO Marc Rogers said that 61 percent of residents who are leaving the city earn more than $100,000 per year.
“New York City is up very dramatically for May in … these leads for interest in moving,” he said.
Rogers said his company’s customers have been much older. Of those who are leaving the city, 64 percent are 55 or older, with only 25 percent of his customers being 25 to 40.
United Van Lines said that, according to its estimates, requests to move outside the city have increased by 40 percent.
The jump in May moving requests may be the result of a steep decline in moving requests during March and April.
Oz Moving said they lost nearly 50 percent of their overall business in March and April, when the coronavirus panic was at its height. Yet, the company said their moves out of New York City rose 12 percent from March to May.
In other words, New York City residents stopped moving around within the city, but increased their moves out of the city.
New York City has not yet weathered the moving season’s peak. Moving companies said the busiest time of the year for moving is between July and September.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that the California exodus, which began more than a year ago due to the toxic combination of pricey real estate and radical leftist policies, had only been amplified by the health crisis.

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Although California’s death count relative to New York was considerably lower per capita, its authoritarian lock-down policies have been no less draconian.
In particular, local real estate agents observed that the rich were fleeing the city of San Francisco for its more bucolic outskirts, including the cross-the-bay suburbs of Marin County and Napa Valley to the north.
“There’s a mad rush to get out of the city,” said Sotheby’s high-end property agent Ginger Martin. “What I’m really doing well with right now is anything that’s turnkey.”
Others are choosing to leave the Golden State altogether for places like Lake Tahoe, Nevada, which is close enough to maintain a base of operations in Silicon Valley.
And some, such as Tesla chief Elon Musk, have even mulled the possibility of taking their businesses with them.
Michael Snyder, a Christian-based author and political activist, blogged that the virus, growing scourge of homelessness, crime and the recent riots in urban areas had left some cities looking and feeling like a wasteland of urban decay.
“At one time, America’s beautiful shining cities were the envy of the entire planet,” he wrote.
“But now thousands of retail outlets have been boarded up, homelessness is absolutely exploding, and it looks like there will be much more rioting, looting and violence in the months ahead.”
Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Dubya Spokesman Denies ‘Completely Made Up’ NYTimes Claim of Biden Support

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‘He is retired from presidential politics and has not indicated how he will vote…’

Bush Spox Pushes Back on NYT Report: 'This is Completely Made Up'
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A spokesman for former President George W. Bush pushed back on a New York Times report that claimed Bush and other prominent ex-party leaders would not support President Trump’s reelection.

“This is completely made up,” Freddy Ford, Bush’s spokesman, wrote in an email to the Texas Tribune. “He is retired from presidential politics and has not indicated how he will vote.”

The New York Times wrote that Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; and Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain “won’t support the reelection of Mr. Trump.”

Even after Ford’s statement, the Times has not updated its reporting. Instead, it buried his statement toward the end of its piece:

“Freddy Ford, a spokesman for Mr. Bush, said the former president would stay out of the election and speak only on policy issues, as he did this week in stating that the country must ‘examine our tragic failures’ on race,” the Times‘s revised report states.

Even if the last Republican president opposed Trump, it would be of little news value since Bush—and most of the other “RINO” figures referenced in the article—already declined to vote for him in the prior election.

In what, at the time, was considered a particularly acrimonious Republican primary, Trump neutralized Bush’s brother Jeb, the early front runner, by waging personal attacks on both of the siblings. Their father, the late former President George H.W. Bush, also vocally criticized Trump.

According to Ford, neither Bush 43 nor former First Lady Laura Bush voted for either major candidate in 2016.

Similarly, Romney said on Monday that he’ll be “staying quiet” about his vote in November. Romney didn’t vote for Trump in 2016.

Shortly after voting to convict Trump during the Senate’s impeachment trial in February, the failed 2012 GOP nominee said he would not vote for the president in 2020 either.


But now he plans to keep his vote to himself, telling reporters on Capitol Hill this week that, “I’m not going to be describing who I’ll be voting for.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

WHO Official Says Asymptomatic COVID Transmission 'Very Rare'

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‘There is still too much unknown about this virus…’

CDC Admits That It's Been Conflating Two Different COVID Tests, Artificially Boosting Positive Cases
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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) A World Health Organization official said Monday that the asymptomatic transmission of the Wuhan virus is “very rare,” and governments should focus their efforts on quarantining people with active illnesses, CNBC reported.
The unscientific conspiracy theory of widespread asymptomatic transmission served as the justification for the mandatory house arrest of healthy citizens.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging disease and zoonosis unit.
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she said. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.”
After Van Kerkhove said asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus is very rare and the media’s narrative began to collapse, she was forced to recant her position, the Washington Post reported.
She called the entire episode “a misunderstanding” and assured the public that healthy people still pose a biological threat to other healthy people.
“I wasn’t stating a policy of WHO or anything like that,” she said, without offering any rebuttal of the data. “We do know that some people who are asymptomatic, or some people who do not have symptoms, can transmit the virus.”
Mike Ryan, head of emergency programs for WHO, likewise did not dispute the evidence that shows asymptomatic transmission is “very rare,” but he informed the public that healthy people must continue to socially isolate themselves and wear masks.
“There is still too much unknown about this virus and still too much unknown about its transmission dynamics,” Ryan said, adding that the WHO did not “say there is a new or different policy.”
Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, lamented the WHO’s flip-flopping, which has been a trend throughout the coronavirus panic.
“It’s a mess. I don’t know why they would say asymptomatic transmission is very rare when the truth is we simply don’t know how frequent it is,” he said.

China’s Loss of Business from US Companies Has Begun

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‘We cannot trust China to continue to manufacture our pharmaceuticals…’

Sen. Rick Scott Wants WHO Investigated for Parroting China's Coronavirus Lies
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Since President Bill Clinton granted China “Most Favored Nation” status, allowing the communist country to grow into the world’s second-largest economy at the expense of millions of American blue-collar workers, U.S. corporations have flocked to the East Asian giant to cash in on cheap labor.

But as the Chinese Communist Party has tightened its grip in recent years, doing business in the totalitarian state has proven too expensive — in more ways than one — and many U.S. companies have considered leaving.

Now, new data compiled by the Hong Kong-based research firm, Qima, shows that the exodus has begun.

“The Qima report is based on data collected from tens of thousands of supply chain inspections conducted globally for consumer goods brands and retailers,” the Epoch Times reported on Monday.

“Companies use these inspection reports to make decisions about whether to migrate to a new supplier,” it said.

The result was a 45 percent increase in supply chain inspections for North American companies compared to the same period last year, indicating that they are on the move.

Additionally, a poll of more than 200 companies conducted in February showed that 87 percent of respondents expected the Wuhan pandemic to trigger changes in their supply chain decisions, which the new Qima figures bear out.

However, fleeing U.S. companies do not appear to be coming home; rather, the supply chain report shows they’re mainly looking to relocate to other cheap labor countries that are more friendly to U.S. interests, such as Vietnam, Burma, the Philippines and Bangladesh.

In September 2019, President Donald Trump urged U.S. companies to ditch China ahead of aggressive tariffs meant to force the CCP to engage in fairer trade practices.

The devious political choices the Chinese government made that allowed the Wuhan virus to spread around the world also forced the hand of top companies operating in China, especially as tens of millions of workers failed to show up at factories in the country’s industrial centers.

Chinese state-run media also reported in March that the CCP had threatened to impose pharmaceutical export controls over vital drugs as leverage against American citizens.

“We cannot trust China to continue to manufacture our pharmaceuticals, things like antibiotics, penicillin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, to say nothing of dozens of other basic pharmaceutical ingredients,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas said at the time.

U.S. Women’s Soccer Players Demand Apology for Policy that Forbade Kneeling

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‘While I’m enjoying all of this unprecedented and, frankly, a little bit uncomfortable attention … Colin Kaepernick is still effectively banned from the NFL…’

Trump Tells US Women's Soccer Star Not to 'Disrespect' Country
Alyssa Naeher & Megan Rapinoe/Photo by Jamie Smed (CC)

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) U.S. Women’s Soccer star Megan Rapinoe is leading the team in a new effort to force U.S. Soccer to end its policy requiring players to stand during the National Anthem.

The female players accused the federation of silencing criminal justice reform advocates by forbidding players from kneeling during the anthem, and demanded that U.S. Soccer release a public apology, as well as a plan for “how it will now support the message and movement.”

“The Federation should immediately repeal the ‘Anthem Policy,’ publish a statement acknowledging the policy was wrong when it was adopted, and issue an apology to our Black players and supporters,” the female players said in a statement, according to Buzzfeed News.

The U.S. Soccer board is set to review its anthem policy, which requires players to “stand respectfully” during the Star-Spangled Banner. This rule was implemented after Rapinoe kneeled during the anthem in 2017 — a trend started by failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

In their statement, the players accused the board of pushing “misconception sand fear that clouded the true meaning and significance of Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe and other athletes taking a knee — that Black people in America have not been and continue to not be afforded the same liberties and freedoms as white people and that police brutality and systemic racism exist in this country.”

Rapinoe has vocally supported Kaepernick for years, and even used her acceptance speech at Glamour magazine’s Women of the years Award to blast the “system” of “white supremacy” that “banned” Kaepernick from the NFL.

“While I’m enjoying all of this unprecedented and, frankly, a little bit uncomfortable attention and personal access, in large part due to my activism off the field, Colin Kaepernick is still effectively banned from the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of known and systemic police brutality against people of color, known and systemic racial injustice, known and systemic white supremacy,” she said.

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