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Millions March in Berlin & London, PLUS: Only 6% of C0ViD Deaths actually from C0ViD?

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We take a look at the millions of protesters marching in Berlin and London over the weekend and we break down the numbers from CDC that appear to show that only 6% of C0VlD deaths are actually not from C0VlD– it turns out that is not quite true. I’ll explain.

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London Mayor Targets Knives As Wave Of Stabbings Pushes Murder Rate Above NYC’s

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(DCNF) London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city’s murder rate past New York’s for the “first time in modern history.”

Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more “confident” in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.

“What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer,” the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.

Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.

“No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife,” Khan said on Twitter. “Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.”

The crackdown on knives comes as London has seen two consecutive months in which the number of murders exceeded New York City homicides, a historically unprecedented occurrence. In February, London had 15 murders, compared to New York’s 14 murders for the month. London again edged New York in March, with 22 and 21 homicides, respectively.

London has among the toughest gun control laws in Britain, which has long mandated strict licensing rules for shotguns and rifles and has effectively banned handgun ownership. The rising tide of murders in London is driven mostly by knife attacks: of the 47 murders in the city so far for 2018, 31 have been committed with knives, Reuters reported.

Stabbings have worsened despite Britain’s already strict knife control laws. U.K. law prohibits knife sales to those under 18 and makes it illegal for anyone to carry a knife “without good reason,” unless it has a folding blade of three inches or fewer.

The British Home Secretary is expected to roll out a new strategy on Monday to combat the wave of knife crime. The measures include legislation prohibiting knives from being sent to residential addresses when bought online and banning possession of a knife on “further education premises,” according to Sky News.

 

Written by Will Racke. Follow Will on Twitter

 

This article was republished with permission from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Featured, Gun Rights, International, US

London Murder Rate Surges Past NYC After Spike in Stabbings, Gun Crime

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Over the past two months, London’s murder rate has for the first time risen above that of New York City. The shift in data follows a year-over-year downward trend in New York’s murder rate and a surge in gun crime that has plagued London since 2014.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service reported 15 murders in February and 22 murders in March, whereas the New York Police Department reported 14 murders in February and 21 in March, according to Reuters.

A spike in stabbing attacks has also contributed to London’s increased murder rate, as 31 of the 47 murders in London this year have been carried out with knives.

Both cities have similar total populations around 8 and half million residents.

According to Get West London, a London Assembly report noted that in the 12 months leading up to October of 2017, gun crime in London was up by 16 percent compared to the previous year and 44 percent compared to 2014. Also the number of guns fired in violent crimes has increased by 20 percent since 2012.

The Evening Standard notes that New York City’s murder rate has plunged by 87 percent since the ’90s, whereas London’s murder rate has spiked by 40 percent in the past 3 years, excluding deaths caused in terror attacks.

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Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, Britain’s top cop, blamed social media for the rise in violent crime, saying that gangs are using popular online services to glamorize attacks and escalate conflicts.

Britain’s Interior Ministry said that in response to the spike in knife attacks, it’s considering legislation that would ban the delivery of knives by online stores to residential addresses and ban the possession of some types of weapons in public.

A BBC editorial cautioned that the two-month spike might just be a statistically anomalous “blip” that looks large due to having a small sample size of only two months, and pointed out that London has only had 47 murders this year so far compared to 50 in New York City.

Some have blamed the fact that officials in London have decreased the frequency at which officers perform stop-and-frisk searches for causing the increase in murders. However, New York City has also decreasingly used its own stop-and-frisk program during the same period, and murder rates have fallen precipitously, according to the BBC.

After a fatal south London stabbing on Sunday and the fatal shooting of a 17-year old girl in North London on Monday, a spokesperson for London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Tuesday, “The Mayor is deeply concerned by violent crime in the capital – every life lost to violent crime is a tragedy… Our city remains one of the safest in the world … but Sadiq wants it to be even safer and is working hard to bring an end to this violent scourge.”

International, Politics, US

NEW VIDEO: Guardian newspaper destroys Snowden files while feds look on

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Screenshot from The Guardian Newspaper's video footage
Screenshot from The Guardian Newspaper’s video footage

LONDON, Janurary 31, 2014– On Saturday 20 July 2013, from the basement of the Guardian’s office in Kings Cross, London, watched by two Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ: British spy agency) technicians, Guardian staff destroyed hard drives and memory cards, which stored encrypted files leaked by NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden. This is the first time footage of the event has been released.

Editors and journalists were ordered to destroy all computers and peripheral devices which could have stored Snowden data. However, it is doubtful that this information is lost forever with today’s modern technology.

The video is certainly surreal. Sending chills down the spines of all who watch it, viewers are left wondering, “Have we lost?”

Government agents have literally entered the basement of a news publication and forced them to destroy evidence of the world’s greatest predatory threat to human rights.

The Guardian is starting a quasi awareness campaign with the release of this footage named #TheSnowdenFiles.

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