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Startling report reveals the dramatic rise of domestic terrorism during the Trump years
April 12, 2021
During President Donald Trump's term in office, the Department of Homeland Security turned its focus from threats facing the homeland to leftist groups the administration viewed as a threat, reports revealed last year. Now the data is clear that the four years Trump led, right-wing terrorism flourished in the United States.
The Washington Post compiled the data into a shocking chart showing the dramatic increase.
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<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Washington Post shows data of dometic terrorism increases in the US</small></p><p>The data, compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, revealed that the terrorism was coming largely from "white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right," said the report. This dramatically eclipsed domestic terrorism from leftist groups. </p><p>"Since 2015, right-wing extremists have been involved in 267 plots or attacks and 91 fatalities, the data shows," said the Post. "At the same time, attacks and plots ascribed to far-left views accounted for 66 incidents leading to 19 deaths."</p><p>The groups targeted range from Black Americans, Jews, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Asian Americans and other groups of color targeted by right-wing groups. Institutions of faith have also been the target of right-wing extremists. Mosques and synagogues along with Black Churches have seen an increase in attacks from terrorist groups. </p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/domestic-terrorism-data/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F31d62d1%2F607471819d2fda1dfb4c85b1%2F5cb873e59bbc0f0bf8494909%2F8%2F68%2F607471819d2fda1dfb4c85b1" target="_blank">Read the full analysis from the <em>Washington Post</em>. </a></p>
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Conservationists could inadvertently be killing endangered species with kindness by spreading "devastating" diseases and parasites as they relocate populations to protect them, researchers said Monday.
Scientists in Britain looked in particular at efforts to save threatened populations of mussels.
<p>Freshwater mussels play an important role in the food web and in cleaning rivers and lakes, but many species around the world are in decline due to human activity, especially pollution.</p><p>The researchers said there is growing interest in shifting mussels to new locations to boost populations, or so they can be used as "biological filters" to improve water quality.</p><p>But "moving animals could introduce a disease to a new region, or expose the individuals being moved to a disease that they haven't encountered before," said lead author Joshua Brian, at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.</p><p>"People move mussels and other animals around all the time, and they almost never stop to think about parasites or diseases first," he told AFP.</p><p>In a study in the journal Conservation Letters, the researchers looked at 419 published reports of mussel relocation and noted a significant increase since the 1990s.</p><p>They found only 34 percent of these movements included a period of quarantine.</p><p>The authors identified four risk factors for parasite and disease spread: the number of infected individuals and size of the moved population; the density of the population after it is moved, since disease can spread faster through tightly packed groups; immunity levels; and the life cycle of the parasite or disease.</p><p>They said that while pathogen spread has not been well studied in mussels, evidence from other species illustrated the risks.</p><p>For example, the authors said a pack of wolves moved to Yellowstone National Park died after being exposed to parasites carried by local canines.</p><p>Researchers calculated that if a group of 50 mussels were moved from a population where five percent of the population had a particular pathogen, then there was a 92 percent chance that the pathogen would be transported in at least one individual.</p><p>"Given translocation sizes can often reach the thousands, there is high scope for moving and spreading even low-abundance pathogens," the study said.</p><p>Brian said every animal or plant could be seen as a community of things that live on it -- like viruses, bacteria, worms, ticks -- that are "often invisible, but can have devastating consequences".</p><p>"Before large-scale movements of animals occur, there needs to be an effort to understand these communities more," he said.</p><p>- 'Only takes one' -</p><p>The report highlighted in particular the risks to mussels of a gonad-eating parasitic worm.</p><p>In a complex life cycle that involves mussels and fish, the larval stage of these tiny worms infects the mussel and clones itself, effectively turning the mussel into a "worm factory" and castrating it, said Brian.</p><p>Researchers warned in particular of the risk in captive breeding programmes where different mussel populations are brought together.</p><p>"We've seen that mixing different populations of mussels can allow widespread transmission of gonad-eating worms," said senior author David Aldridge of Cambridge's Department of Zoology.</p><p>"It only takes one infected mussel to spread this parasite, which in extreme cases can lead to collapse of an entire population."</p><p>The report recommended that species are only relocated when absolutely necessary and conservationists make use of quarantine periods to stop pathogens spreading.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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'Irresponsible rhetoric just fuels this': Kayleigh McEnany blames CNN hosts for latest Minnesota 'riots'
April 12, 2021
Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany on Monday blamed several CNN hosts for so-called "riots" that broke out in Minnesota on Sunday after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed by police at a traffic stop.
"There is a preachy crowd in America that says, 'Oh, you've got to sit down and sing Kumbaya and do all of that,'" Fox News host Harris Faulkner told McEnany during a segment about the protests. "This might be an opportunity for Republicans because there's nobody in the streets trying to help organize this. And I'm wondering, do you go there and do you do what the preachy crowd says what they're always going to do and make it better?"
<p>"This should be called out," McEnany replied, ignoring the question. "I've also seen a media that ignores it when it happens and sometimes enables it, when you have individuals like [CNN host] Chris Cuomo, saying, where does it say that protests have to be peaceful?"</p><p>"I've heard [CNN host] Don Lemon say that riots are a mechanism for changing the country," she continued. "That's irresponsible rhetoric that just fuels this, not just ignores it but fuels it."</p><p>McEnany, however, did not address how then-President Donald Trump's rhetoric fueled a violent insurrection that took place in the nation's Capitol on Jan. 6.</p><p>Watch the video below from Fox News.</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IDZM6tk1BuM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>
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