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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

The police slaughtered peaceful people in cities across America, in a coordinated assault, journalists confirm. This could be it.

Meanwhile, Facebook is helping to incite violence with ads and propaganda. Other media companies were reportedly compromised.

And lastly, in Forks, Washington, four high school students used chainsaws to rescue a multi-racial family from Spokane accused of being Antifa.

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The local, national, and global situation is uncertain, but for one thing: the power of all people united can overcome any terror.

Video reports gathered from trusted sources from around the US show men in uniform firing into peaceful crowds. Official sources have denied using tear gas. So what kind of gas is it? It seems war has come to many places all at once. Peace is all we want. Early in the day Chief Pig of the United States Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray gave a press conference. Neither could name a single extremist group behind the chaos now playing out across the US and the world.

Army secretary Ryan McCarthy posed for a photo op with South Carolina National Guard some hours before the fighting began. At 8pm Eastern Time yesterday, the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Martin Dempsey, condemned the domestic deployment of the military but praised police for knowing their communities.

Boris Johnson made an overture for EU workers to one day return to the UK. Kashmir entered its third consecutive day of 2G Internet shutdown. The region has been cut off since August. Here in Western Canada, there are sirens, but no gunshots. We are planning for a long trip.

Elsewhere in the US: reports of white nationalist militia in suburbs from Kennewick, Washington to Long Island, New York. Seattle labor unions fought to expel the pigs’ so-called union. Habeas corpus is suspended in New York. But together we will be free

Online Disinformation Everywhere

Asked to address police brutality against African-Americans today at a choreographed press conference, Donald Trump said he had talked enough about George Floyd. Trump attacked the media and said he can get his word out QUOTE beautifully on social media ENDQUOTE.

Facebook ran an ad from Georgia Republican Paul Brown, shown holding an AR-15, encouraging violence. Facebook eventually removed it -- but only after a reporter called the company out. The top trending video on Facebook yesterday was reportedly Candace Owens calling for QUOTE justice ENDQUOTE for George Floyd, who she blamed for his own death.

Facebook employees reportedly denounced Mark Zuckerberg.

New York Times journalists lambasted Opinion staffer Bari Weiss, who was reported to have approved of the publication of Senator Tom Cotton’s call for military suppression of US dissidents.

Journalists in Buffalo, New York, published a viral video of uniformed men brutally charging an elderly white man, pushing him to the ground, and splitting his skull. One tried to help the old man but another cop moved him along.

Later, two Buffalo police were reportedly charged. But at least three of the men shown were involved.

Journalists were again targets for attack by police at many peaceful gatherings. Journalists of color at the Philadelphia Inquirer organized a sick-out after the paper ran an editorial titled QUOTE Buildings Matter Too ENDQUOTE.

Why do cops get to have all the surveillance gear in the world, but we can’t film them?

Oregon Republicans helped fascist propagandist Andy Ngo file a $900,000 lawsuit against Rose City Antifa and others, seeking discovery of evidence.

Campers Framed by Locals as ANTIFA

Trusted journalists in Washington State reported that in the town of Forks, a multi- racial family was accused of being members of Antifa. They were followed and prevented from leaving their campsite, local deputies said.

Four high school students cut the trees blocking their campsite with chainsaws to allow the family to leave, according to a press release signed Sergeant Ed Anderson.

The local Sheriff’s Office is actively conducting a criminal investigation into the incident and is seeking information regarding those involved, Anderson said.

Before camping, the family was confronted in town by seven or eight carloads of douchebags carrying what appeared to be semi-automatic rifles. They told deputies they heard gunshots and power saws nearby. Local teens cleared the roadway for the family with chainsaws.

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Journalist David Sirota reported the pigs donated $1 million to Andrew Cuomo.

A Minneapolis City Council member said on Twitter he agreed with Attorney General Keith Ellison that the MPD should be dismantled and replaced with a QUOTE transformative new model ENDQUOTE.

The AFP reported that a sex worker was arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom.

Actor Dwayne Johnson asked, QUOTE Where is Donald Trump? ENDQUOTE. Your guess is as good as ours.

May 27, 2020 - AM Quickie

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