McCloskeys Vindicated: St Louis Couple Who Defended Home from BLM Mob Have Convictions Quashed
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St Louis couple who armed themselves and confronted BLM protestors outside their home in 2020, have had their misdemeanour convictions overturned by a judge.
The two attorneys filed a request in January to have their convictions expunged, and on Wednesday Judge Joseph P. Whyte granted their request. The purpose of such an expungement is to give people who have rehabilitated themselves a second chance. Prosecutors and protestors opposed the move.
Republican Governor Mike Parson had already pardoned the couple after they pled guilty to misdemeanour assault in 2021.
The McCloskeys are now requesting the return of their weapons, which were seized after their arrest.
“It’s time for the city to cough up my guns,” Mark McCloskey told the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
McCloskey says he will file a lawsuit if the guns are not returned.
The McCloskeys became prominent symbols of the plight of ordinary hard-working Americans in the face of the widespread mob violence during the summer of 2020. Unlike others who submitted to having their businesses and homes wrecked, they fought back, exercising their constitutional right to defend their homes with legally owned weapons.
NATO Chief Scraps €100 Billion Ukraine Fund Plan – Report
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has ditched a five-year plan to provide Ukraine with €100 billion ($108 billion) in military aid after pushback from members of the bloc, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
In April, several Western media outlets reported, citing diplomatic sources, that Stoltenberg had presented a draft long-term military support plan for Ukraine, designed in part to guard against any cut in US support if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House. Earlier this year, Trump called for restricting aid to Ukraine to loans and insisted that European NATO members match Washington’s level of assistance to Kiev.
The Stoltenberg plan was reportedly been questioned by several NATO members who sought clarification from the bloc’s secretary general on where and how the enormous sum of money involved would be obtained. The unnamed officials told Politico last month that the plan was “confusing” and that the €100 million figure would be revised.
Earlier this week, a NATO diplomat told the FT that Ukrainian authorities were “not super thrilled” with the idea either, pointing out that the package would in practice only duplicate bilateral and EU-managed commitments and not actually represent fresh cash.
Instead, Stoltenberg is expected to submit an updated plan to provide Kiev with lethal and non-lethal aid of around €40 billion annually, the sources told Bloomberg. The new proposal will reportedly be discussed by NATO defense ministers next week.
Under the new plan, which is aimed at providing more transparency about what Ukraine’s supporters contribute, the amount of assistance from each NATO member would be determined on the basis of a percentage of their gross domestic product. The US would reportedly account for nearly half of the aid, with the other 31 members providing the rest.
The sources also told the news outlet that Türkiye has cautioned that any coordination of military assistance for Ukraine could create the perception of greater involvement of the bloc in the conflict.
Last month, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Budapest was opposed to the initial plan, explaining that since the aid was to be collected over five years, this meant NATO “expects the hostilities to continue for this period.” The diplomat added that Hungary does not plan to participate in arming Ukraine or training its soldiers. The country’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has expressed the view that NATO is getting closer to war with Russia every week.
Another Afghan Migrant Attacks German Police Officer with Knife
Another German police officer has been attacked with a knife by an Afghan migrant, just days after a police officer died in a vicious knife attack.
A 22-year-old Afghan man was arrested on Wednesday evening for attacking a police officer on the island of Rügen, in northeast Germany.
The police officer was responding to reports of a man kicking his bus and destroying conservative election posters with a kitchen knife. One of the posters bore the slogan, “Citizens for Conservative Values.”
After initially complying with police, the man then launched an attack with the knife. The officers managed to restrain the attacker without injury. The attacker himself, however, sustained injuries that saw him hospitalized.
He has been charged with resisting arrest, assaulting an officer and destruction of property.
The attack came just a few days after a fatal stabbing in Mannheim, when an Afghan migrant attacked a prominent German critic of Islam as he was distributing information from a stall in the town center. A police officer was stabbed multiple times in the neck as he attempted to intervene. He later died. The attacker was shot dead at the scene.
Although the motivation for the fatal attack remains unclear, religion is likely to be the cause. Footage from social media showed Muslim immigrants celebrating the attack and threatening further attacks.
The death of the police officer prompted public protests demanding stricter immigration measures.
Hundreds of people, outraged by the recent attack on a policeman by a knife-wielding man born in Afghanistan, joined a protest organized by the Alternative for Germany party in Mannheim to demand stricter migration measures. pic.twitter.com/s3Skvl3vd1
— RT (@RT_com) June 9, 2024
Political violence has been on the increase in Germany as campaigning for the EU elections takes place. On Wednesday, an Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician was stabbed by a political activist when he attempted to prevent him pulling down posters.
Knife crime in general has also soared with immigration to the country, hitting record levels last year. New statistics show that 60% of all violent crime is committed by foreigners, despite only making up 14% of the country’s population.
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Overweight Children Suffer Reduced Intelligence: New Study
Overweight and obese children are likely to suffer reduced intelligence and a greater risk of depression according to a new study.
The new study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, looks at links between weight and cognition among over 5,000 children aged 9-11 years. Baseline indices of weight, including body-mass index and waist circumference, and cognition were taken and then measured again during the two-year study.
The results showed that children who had lower baseline cognition were likely to gain more weight over the span of the study. Higher baseline body-mass index was also associated with greater depression symptoms and problems, and, likewise, higher baseline psychopathology was associated with greater weight gain.
No explanation was given for the observed links between intelligence and weight gain and mental health and weight gain.
OBESITY SHRINKS YOUR BRAIN.
A large-scale study from 2022 shows that obesity in children shrinks the brain’s white matter and reduces the thickness of the brain’s cortex, which is critical for overall cognitive function. ? pic.twitter.com/nsXhfYRI7A— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) April 5, 2024
Other studies have shown links between obesity and IQ in children. A 2018 study, for example, showed that children who are overweight in the first two years of their life have lower scores for perceptual reasoning and working memory compared to children who are not overweight.
More recently, in 2022, a study showed that obesity in children shrinks the brain’s white matter and reduces the thickness of the cortex, which is critical for overall brain function.
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Mexican Govt Dispute WHO’s Claim Of World’s First Human H5N2 Bird Flu Death
The Mexican government has denied claims by the World Health Organization that one of its citizens died of H5N2 bird flu. Last week the WHO reported that a Mexican man was was the world’s first […]
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Court Says Covid mRNA Jabs Are Treatments NOT Vaccines
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the COVID-19 mRNA jabs do not qualify as vaccines under traditional medical definitions. The decision could mean that pharmaceutical companie are now vulnerable to legal actions […]
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