Roberto Schmidt/GettyLast summer, one week after the killing of George Floyd, the D.C. National Guard horrified human-rights groups by intimidating protesters in the capital by flying helicopters 50 feet above their heads on the city’s streets.On Wednesday, a redacted investigative U.S. Army report into the incident not only condemned the flights as a misuse of medical aircraft—it also showed Guard troops celebrating their overly aggressive tactics, which witnesses said created a deafening noise and sent shards of glass through the air.The investigation, reported by The Washington Post, uncovered texts between Brig. Gen. Robert K. Ryan, who oversaw the controversial mission, and an unnamed subordinate on June 1 as videos of the low-flying choppers spread on social media and cable news. It came hours after tear gas was used to break up crowds of protesters near St. John’s Episcopal Church to allow Donald Trump to stage a Bible-clutching photo-op at the site.Read more at The Daily Beast....

Leaders condemn ‘unsolicited involvement by others in our territory’ as activists seek to protect old-growth treesTwo chiefs of a First Nation in western Canada have told anti-old growth logging protesters camped out on their traditional lands to pack up and go home.Operating under the banner of the Rainforest Flying Squad, a group of predominantly non-Indigenous activists have been blocking logging roads across a swath of southern Vancouver Island and calling for an immediate halt to old-growth logging since last August. Continue reading......

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In April 1981, a simmering tension between the police and Brixton’s black community erupted in violence. Forty years, on Aamna Modhin revisits that weekend with those who witnessed the events unfoldingOn the Saturday night petrol bombs began flying through the air. Rumours had spread around Brixton, in south London, of police mistreatment of a local black man. Soon it was a full-scale riot and by the time it was over almost 300 police officers and 60 civilians had been injured in the unrest that ensued.The Guardian’s community affairs correspondent, Aamna Modhin, tells Anushka Asthana that for many who were there these were not riots but an uprising. Among those Modhin spoke to were Ros Griffiths and Alex Wheatle, who were teenagers living in Brixton at the time. Continue reading......

China’s one-time NBA hope star Guo Ailun is still MIA, absent from the Chinese Basketball Association because he signed for the wrong sportswear brand.The mystery injury that is keeping him out of CBA action since March 26 seems to be that he wears Jordan shoes.Despite rumours that Guo would return to action for the Liaoning Flying Leopards in midweek he sat out their big game with the Xinjing Flying Tigers, the seventh in a row.The team didn’t miss him, beating their rivals 96-84 in the 54th…...

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Fearing democracy, the DUP and loyalist groups are retreating into a paranoid huddleA few of the boys and men asked about their alleged involvement in last week’s street violence in Northern Ireland spoke as if struggling to remember troubled dreams. A person was holding a plastic off-licence bag. They had already had a lot of drinks and this looked like more, but then the bag contained petrol bombs. Someone for reasons unknown to himself made the journey from mid Ulster to Belfast. He found himself in the middle of a riot. Another was passing the end of a street and saw boys attacking the police. A child he knew was disappearing down an alley. He followed but then he was at other riots in other parts of the city.Watching clips of the many videos taken of the disturbances had a similar, dislocated, nightmarish feel. A fleet of white police Land Rovers speed down to block a road. A man’s voice roars: “Party time!” A cheering crowd surges forward, missiles flying. A doubledecker bus lurches along a city street, a ball of fire where the driver should be. The gate across the peaceline, with “No peace is bad, no war is good” painted across it, is locked. Hooded boys slosh petrol over it, set it alight and finally wrench the gate open to reveal, facing them from the other side, their mirror image, hooded boys. Continue reading......

Hong Kong will allow locally based, unvaccinated cargo flight crews to skip quarantine if they have stayed in six Asia-Pacific countries deemed lower risk, while fully vaccinated aircrews will also be allowed to bypass isolation, the Post has learned.The new policy, seen in a document obtained by the Post, was revealed hours after the government on Wednesday night tightened criteria for banning flights as well as entry rules for passengers from high-risk countries where new coronavirus variants…...

Blue Origin completed another test flight of its New Shepard vehicle April 14, putting the company on the verge of finally flying people. SpaceNews...

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The New Jersey State Park Police (NJSPP) reported last Friday that their officers had identified and “disarmed” a UFO detecting device found in Wharton State Forest. The foolish people behind this decision took responsibility for their short-sighted action in a Facebook post that, if we’re lucky enough to survive the…Read more......