300 Black Teens Destroy Putt-Putt Fun Center in Memphis After They Were Denied a Refund (VIDEO)

Several hundred teens rioted and destroyed the Putt-Putt Fun Center in Memphis on Saturday night after they were denied refunds.

The Putt-Putt Fun Center realized they were overcrowded and decided to shut down early.
The Putt-Putt Fun Center also decided not to give out any refunds.

So the kids trashed the place.

KTSM reported:

Things were quiet Sunday at the Putt-Putt Fun Center off Summer Avenue, but it was anything but quiet Saturday evening, when things quickly turned chaotic…

…The business decided to close up shop because of overcrowding, then the chaos erupted once employees said they would not issue a refund—instantly turning the fun center into a frenzy zone.

The video of the chaos made its rounds on social media throughout the night.

In the video, a girl who appears to be a teenager can be seen tearing apart a plexiglass divider.

She then throws the divider along with metal rope stands across a counter, where employees are standing.

The employees dodge every item coming at them.

Moments later, the young girl was seen spitting at another worker.

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Horowitz: Where’s the endgame? The media is using viral lies to stoke violent hatred

Our unique faces are what distinguish us as human beings created in the image of God. The dehumanizing obsession with mandating masks for every person – sick or healthy – without any time limits, benchmarks, transparency, or debate, has created such a vociferous cult that it is resulting in violence. What is the exit strategy from an unprecedentedly arbitrary and capricious power play that began with “15 days to flatten the curve”?

At first, I joked with my colleagues that Democrats will never abolish the police because they need them to enforce coronavirus tyranny and punish racial infractions. But now we are seeing that the media has stirred up a mob to enforce these things themselves. The same way we have seen violent mobs surround cars on the road and demand that people support the racist BLM agenda, we are now seeing the mask police violently attack those who are deemed a public hazard for their mere right to breathe free air.

Ash O’Brien and her husband Jarrett Kelley were enjoying a picnic at a San Diego dog park with their puppy on Thursday when an enraged woman approached them and verbally assaulted them for not wearing a mask. It was outdoors and nobody was around them until this woman herself approached them, but this is how far the mask cult stirred up by the media has gone. Suddenly, according to the victims, the enraged women came back with a bottle of mace and sprayed the entire can at the husband, who shielded his wife. The husband was taken to the hospital for medical treatment.

A witness captured the incident on camera and took down the license plate of the woman, according to ABC10. A police report has been filed with local police.

This is what happens when the media drags politicians into this moral hazard of shaming people and regulating their ability to breath freely without restriction. To suggest that a human being is a hazard simply by existing and forcing them to take an action to cover their humanity is a big deal. As I mentioned last week, this cannot be taken lightly and requires a minimum threshold of evidentiary standards, public hearings, and a democratic process.

But what is taking place is complete flat-earth science and is fueled by mob hatred, fear, panic, and herd mentality – the worst human traits.

Perhaps the biggest moral hazard of this tyranny is the lack of an endgame. It’s one thing for a politician to come before the people with humility and promise that this is only for a short period of time in specific places and that he will have public hearings to get to the bottom of the issue of effectiveness. But leaders across the country are now making this the new normal.

Miami-Dade County has at the top of its COVID webpage a title, “Moving to a New Normal.” “Anyone in Miami-Dade County who is not following New Normal rules faces a civil offense, punishable with a $100 fine,” states this Orwellian order from Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. Who even talks like this? Anyone who violates the new normal?

Kids have a lower risk and transmission rate for this virus than for the seasonal flu. If this is the new threshold to upend the lives and humanity of children and force them to wear a face burka for the entire day, when will this ever end? More children will die from the flu, and they will certainly transmit it into the community more prolifically, as they do every year. Is this going to be mandated in public and in schools every year? Indefinitely?

As absurd as it sounds to suggest we will make this the “new normal” for a respiratory disease, this will not end even with a vaccine. Our medical expert and overlord, Bill Gates, announced recently that he thinks the vaccine will not work in one dose and will require multiple doses. What other goalposts will be moved? Remember, most respiratory viral vaccines are not fully effective, as we see with the flu vaccine. Thus, if full eradication is the only way out of the new normal, don’t kid yourself into thinking a vaccine is a panacea for this emotional epidemic.

This is no longer a scientific pandemic, but an emotional pandemic based on fear and fed by dangerous groupthink through the media. There is no herd immunity, no vaccine, and no clinical treatment. If we don’t fight back as informed citizens, this indeed will be the new normal – forever. As Henry David Thoreau said: “Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.”

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University Of Minnesota Students See Reported Violent Crime Spike After Cutting Ties With Police Dept

University Of Minnesota Students See Reported Violent Crime Spike After Cutting Ties With Police Dept

Tyler Durden

Mon, 07/27/2020 – 14:55

Authored by Alyssa Rinelli via Campus Reform,

Students saw an increase in reported violence just weeks after the University of Minnesota announced that it would cut ties with the Minneapolis Police Department after the death of George Floyd.

In the weeks following the University of Minnesota’s announcement that it would cut ties with the Minneapolis Police Department, students received multiple systemwide public safety alert messages, telling them to be cautious on and near campus due to various reported violent crimes. This is a substantial increase in safety notifications for Minnesota students, given that prior to the announcement, only seven such announcements with only two emergencies were made in a six month period.

The university made its announcement on May 27. On June 16, students were alerted of both a robbery and an attempted robbery. On June 18, an alert warned students that an individual had been assaulted and four male suspects had stolen his car. The alert said that this incident “may be related to a second robbery.” Yet another robbery was reported on June 20, this time at gunpoint.  

On July 2, students received alerts about a robbery of a business by a female suspect during which “a gun was seen.”

On Thursday, students learned via the alert system that five males used a Ford SUV to knock a woman off her bike, in what was described as yet another “attempted robbery,” although the assailants reportedly left the scene without taking any property.

This is leaving many to wonder what the University of Minnesota is doing to keep students safe, especially considering that the Minneapolis Police Department responded to about half of the reported crimes listed on the UMN Police Department’s website since September.

“The University has its own police department, the University of Minnesota Police Department (UMPD), which continues to lead our day-to-day public safety efforts on our Twin Cities campus. Additionally, UMPD still collaborates with MPD on joint patrols and investigations that directly enhance the safety of our community and allow us to investigate and apprehend those who put our students, faculty, and staff at risk,” the university told Campus Reform.

Students, however, fear that the university is not taking their safety seriously. 

Nina Lind, a senior at the University of Minnesota, told Campus Reform that “I think that the [University of Minnesota] is more focused on the social issues brought up by students rather than our actual safety. I am genuinely concerned to come back to campus without the MPD being present."

Chase Christopherson, another student at the University of Minnesota, added, “It is disappointing that the leadership of the University of Minnesota caved into the mob and will thus provide less safety and services” adding that he “fear[s] that the University doesn’t care about our safety – only appeasing those who want nothing to do with law, order, and safety.”

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Chinese Spies Use Linkedin to Find American Contacts


A Chinese agent has admitted to using the career-focused social media platform LinkedIn’s “relentless” algorithm to find batches of U.S. government contacts with access to sensitive information. The spying operation would then gather data and send it to the communist regime in Beijing.

The Washington Post reports that a Singaporean man alleged to be an agent of the Chinese government claims that he used LinkedIn’s “relentless” algorithm to track down large batches of U.S. government contacts, telling investigators that collecting the info “felt almost like an addiction.”

The man, named Dickson Jun Wei Yeo, pleaded guilty on July 23 to being an illegal agent of China who claimed to be a student to travel to the U.S. and acquire “nonpublic information” for Beijing. Part of his plan involved recruiting Americans to write pair reports for his fake think tank.

Yeo admitted to using a “professional networking website” which the Washington Post alleges it LinkedIn to find government and military contacts who may have access to sensitive information.

“According to Yeo, the website’s algorithm was relentless,” the signed admission states. Yeo stated that he checked the site “almost every day to review the new batch of potential contacts suggested to him by the site’s algorithm,” telling investigators “that it felt almost like an addiction.”

Yeo then paid those contacts between $1,000 and $2,000 for reports on topics including the sales of F-35 aircraft to Japan and the U.S.-China trade war. The reports were mainly academic in nature but were submitted to contacts that Yeo knew were Chinese intelligence agents.

The New York Times reported last year that LinkedIn was the “prime hunting ground” where “Chinese spies are most active.” Yeo returned to the United States in November planning to ask an Army officer to provide classified information and to reveal that the was working for the Chinese government. Instead, law enforcement questioned and arrested him on arrival.

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Vaccine Execs Rake In $1 Billion In Stock Sales As Positive Headlines Boost Shares

Vaccine Execs Rake In $1 Billion In Stock Sales As Positive Headlines Boost Shares

Tyler Durden

Mon, 07/27/2020 – 15:13

With the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19 in full effect, biotech executives and other insiders from at least 11 companies have made hand over fist – raking in over $1 billion in stock sales after announcing positive developments, according to the New York Times.

In some cases, company insiders are profiting from regularly scheduled compensation or automatic stock trades. But in other situations, senior officials appear to be pouncing on opportunities to cash out while their stock prices are sky high. And some companies have awarded stock options to executives shortly before market-moving announcements about their vaccine progress. -NYT

In May, we noted that insiders at Moderna cashed out on some $30 million in options – while CEO Stephane Bancel has become a billionaire.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel

The company’s market value is now nearly $30 billion thanks to a stream of positive press releases, while insiders have sold around $248 million altogether since January – most of it coming following an April announcement that the company had been selected to receive federal funding to support their efforts.

The Times highlights another case; South San Francisco-based Vaxart, which was selected by the US government to participate in a federal initiative to quickly produce COVID-19 treatments known as Operation Warp Speed.

Vaxart’s shares soared. Company insiders, who weeks earlier had received stock options worth a few million dollars, saw the value of those awards increase sixfold. And a hedge fund that partly controlled the company walked away with more than $200 million in instant profits.

Meanwhile, companies such as Vaxart are allegedly using their inclusion in Operation Warp Speed as marketing ploys.

For example, the headline on Vaxart’s news release declared: “Vaxart’s Covid-19 Vaccine Selected for the U.S. Government’s Operation Warp Speed.” But the reality is more complex.

Vaxart’s vaccine candidate was included in a trial on primates that a federal agency was organizing in conjunction with Operation Warp Speed. But Vaxart is not among the companies selected to receive significant financial support from Warp Speed to produce hundreds of millions of vaccine doses.

Michael R. Caputo, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ assistant secretary for public affairs said the agency "has entered into funding agreements with certain vaccine manufacturers, and we are negotiating with others," but added "Neither is the case with Vaxart."

"Vaxart’s vaccine candidate was selected to participate in preliminary U.S. government studies to determine potential areas for possible Operation Warp Speed partnership and support. At this time, those studies are ongoing, and no determinations have been made," he added.

CEO Andrei Floroiu – who received stock options worth approximately $4.3 million in June (and worth $28 million weeks later) – defended his company, saying in a Friday statement "Vaxart abides by good corporate governance guidelines and policies and makes decisions in accordance with the best interests of the company and its shareholders," adding "We believe that Vaxart’s Covid-19 vaccine is the most exciting one in O.W.S. because it is the only oral vaccine (a pill) in O.W.S."

Andrei Floroiu, the chief executive of Vaxart, received stock options worth about $4.3 million in June. A month later, they were worth more than $28 million.Credit…Will Ragozzino/Patrick McMullan

While ‘fortunately timed’ stock sales are typically legal, they can create the appearance of malfeasance and profiteering from insider information.

"It is inappropriate for drug company executives to cash in on a crisis," said Ben Wakana, executive director of nonprofit advocacy group, Patients for Affordable Drugs. "Every day, Americans wake up and make sacrifices during this pandemic. Drug companies see this as a payday."

Executives at a long list of companies have reaped seven- or eight-figure profits thanks to their work on coronavirus vaccines and treatments.

Shares of Regeneron, a biotech company in Tarrytown, N.Y., have climbed nearly 80 percent since early February, when it announced a collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a Covid-19 treatment. Since then, the company’s top executives and board members have sold nearly $700 million in stock. The chief executive, Leonard Schleifer, sold $178 million of shares on a single day in May.

Alexandra Bowie, a spokeswoman for Regeneron, said most of those sales had been scheduled in advance through programs that automatically sell executives’ shares if the stock hits a certain price. –NYT

Meanwhile, executives and board members for Emergent BioSolutions, Quidel and Luminex have offloaded a combined $85 million in shares following positive announcements regarding vaccines, testing solutions or treatments according to the Times.

In April, Gaithersburg, MD-based Novavax issued a slew of stock awards to all employees when the stock was below $24 "in acknowledgment of the extraordinary work of our employees to implement a new vaccine program." Four senior executives – including CEO Stanley Erck, received awards worth under $20 million at the time.

Now, with shares over $135, the four execs’ stock options are worth over $100 million on paper. As long as the company achieves a vaccine testing milestone, which they expect to hit soon, they’ll be able to use the options to buy discounted shares as early as 2021 regardless of whether or not they are successful in developing a vaccine.

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Nadler Calls Antifa Violence A ‘Myth’ In Stunning Example Of DC Disconnect

Nadler Calls Antifa Violence A ‘Myth’ In Stunning Example Of DC Disconnect

Tyler Durden

Mon, 07/27/2020 – 10:29

In a perfect example of the disconnect between Ivory tower Democrats and reality, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) gave a shocking answer when writer-producer Austen Fletcher asked him if he would disavow Antifa violence in cities like Portland.

After a brief pause, Nadler said it was a "myth that’s being spread only in Washington D.C."

To which Fleccas replies: "Sir, there’s videos everywhere online. There’s fires and riots and they’re throwing fireworks at federal officers. DHS is there. Look online." 

"Meanwhile the whole city’s on fire and they’re trying to burn down the courthouse."

The stunning exchange – tweeted by Eric Trump with the caption "This is the Democratic party in 2020," comes after Portland enters its 60th day of protests which have turned violent on multiple occasions and have prominently included local Antifa.

Apparently Nadler didn’t get the briefing on that.

Meanwhile, Portland police just recovered four loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails in a local park after responding to reports of shots fired.

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Soros Pours Record $50 Million Into 2020 Election

Liberal billionaire George Soros has flooded Democratic PACs and campaigns with $50 million this election cycle, shattering his personal record by tens of millions with four months to go before the elections.

Soros ramped up his political spending this cycle through the Democracy PAC, which he created last year to pump large sums into the coffers of other left-wing groups. New filings to the Federal Election Commission show the PAC doled out nearly $17 million last quarter, bringing its total cash disbursements this cycle to $48 million. Soros gave another $4 million directly to Democratic campaigns and committees without first depositing the money into his PAC. The $52 million cash influx is more than double Soros’s previous high of $22 million, which came during the last presidential election.

Democratic candidates benefiting from Soros’s cash have railed against the influence of money in politics. Joe Biden’s government reform plan includes a promise to "reduce the corrupting influence of money in politics." The presidential candidate’s website says, "We could improve our politics overnight if we flushed big money from the system and had public financing of our elections…. Democracy works best when a big bank account or a large donor list are not prerequisites for office."

Such rhetoric from Soros-backed candidates has drawn criticism from the right. "While Democrats across the country sanctimoniously rail against the influence of dark money in politics, their party’s largest donors are bankrolling a massive web of liberal organizations to get them elected," one GOP operative told the Washington Free Beacon earlier this month. "George Soros’s unprecedented spending further highlights just how dependent Democrats are on contributions from billionaires, despite their hypocritical rhetoric."

Soros is one of several Democratic megadonors who opened their checkbooks last month to provide large sums to outfits backing Biden and hammering Republicans. The Biden Victory Fund in particular has benefited from a windfall of cash. It pulled in a whopping $83 million thanks to the Democratic Party’s wealthiest donors, including Soros, who donated $500,000.

The liberal billionaire is taking steps to obscure his election spending this cycle. In the past, he made donations to groups directly in his own name. This cycle, he has operated primarily by transferring tens of millions from the Fund for Policy Reform, a $750 million nonprofit in his sprawling Open Society Foundation network, into Democracy PAC. The PAC then disburses it to other Democratic PACs and committees. This arrangement allows Soros to keep his name from the top of donor lists. His $50 million in contributions makes him the largest donor of the 2020 cycle, though only $8 million is coming directly from him.

Soros has said he views the 2020 elections as especially important. Earlier this year during a speech at the World Economic Forum, the 89-year-old billionaire said the "fate of the world" is at stake and referred to Trump as a "con man" and "authoritarian" who is "willing to sacrifice the national interests for his personal interests."

Democracy PAC has provided financial backing to dozens of liberal PACs and state-level politicians. This past quarter, its donations ranged from $90,000 to $2 million. Some of the largest donations went to the Nancy Pelosi-linked House Majority PAC ($2 million), Chuck Schumer-tied Senate Majority PAC ($1.5 million), Planned Parenthood Votes ($625,000), and the dark money group Sixteen Thirty Fund ($1 million).

Soros’s $4 million in direct donations includes hundreds of thousands each to the DNC-led Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund, and the Biden Victory Fund.

The liberal billionaire has also increased his lobbying expenditures. The Open Society Policy Center, his D.C.-based lobbying shop, spent $48 million in 2019—a personal record for Soros. This amount was more than corporate giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Boeing, and Google’s parent company, Alphabet spent. The group finished the year as the country’s second-largest lobbying spender.

Soros’s spokesperson did not return a request for comment on the election donations by press time.

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