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Good riddance: St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner resigns, effective June 1

Kevin S. Held, Chris Hayes and Joey Schneider
Fox 2 Now
Thu, 04 May 2023 21:36 UTC
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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has tendered her resignation effective June 1, 2023
After months of calls, requests, and demands for her to resign, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is stepping down. Her resignation is effective June 1.

Gardner, the city's first African American chief prosecutor, tweeted her resignation letter to city residents at 3:44 p.m. In the letter, she drew a connection to her presence in power and the Missouri Legislature's efforts to take over both the circuit attorney's office and turn control of the city's police force back over to the state.

"It is not the first time the legislature has proposed bills that would take away our city's power — that has happened in nearly every legislative session since I took office. It is also clear to me, however, that as long as I remain in the office, it will not be the last," Gardner said.

"... I can absorb those attacks, and I have. But I can neither enable nor allow the outright disenfranchisement of the people of the City of St. Louis, nor can I allow these outsiders to effectively shut down our important work. ... But I cannot be the final Circuit Attorney ever to be elected in St. Louis. You must be able to have a voice in your criminal justice system. And we must allow our office to continue to operate."

Comment: More on this miserable excuse for a government prosecutor. St. Louis could hardly do worse: The Gateway Pundit comments:
Kim Gardner may be the most radical Soros-funded Circuit Attorney in the nation today.

Kim Gardner is so intolerable that two dozen attorneys and more than one-third of the trial lawyers left the office when she took over the office in 2017. And this is a Democrat dominated office!

Recently Kim Gardner refused to put the man charged with hitting high school student and volleyball player Janae Edmondson back in jail even though he violated the conditions of his bond more than 50 times. The repeat offender went on to hit a Tennessee teenage volleyball player walking in St. Louis City last week — and the young girl lost her legs after she was pinned to another vehicle. The driver NEVER should have been on the street. And Missourians are furious!

Kim Gardner also plotted to take down popular Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.

A court in 2021 found that Kim Gardner engaged in 62 acts of misconduct and 79 false representations in her prosecution of Eric Greitens.
If you can stomach it, read Gardner's resignation letter here (scroll to bottom)

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No Entry

Halt! Frenchman fails in EU escape attempt - Vehicle disabled at Poland-Russia border


RT
Thu, 04 May 2023 20:15 UTC
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A Frenchman has been arrested and fined after he plowed his car through a border checkpoint separating Poland from Russia's Kaliningrad Region. The man reportedly told security officers that he planned on building a new life outside the EU.

The man pulled up at the Grzechotki checkpoint on Tuesday morning, but was turned away as he lacked the proper documents to leave Poland, Polish border officials said in a statement.

The man turned back, but returned in the afternoon to the checkpoint, which separates northern Poland from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

This time, he accelerated and rammed his Citroen through the barrier, before stopping when border guards deployed a spike strip.


Comment: It's like the Berlin Wall all over again... only, in reverse!

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Best of the Web: America's obsession with DEI Is sabotaging our medical schools

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
The Free Press
Thu, 04 May 2023 19:35 UTC
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'I spent over 50 years as a physician and educator at Penn Med. Now I'm using civil rights legislation to protect the profession — and American patients.'

For better or worse, I have had a front-row seat to the meltdown of twenty-first-century medicine. Many colleagues and I are alarmed at how the DEI agenda — which promotes people and policies based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual orientation rather than merit — is undermining healthcare for all patients regardless of their status.

Five years ago I was associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and prior to that, codirector of its highly regarded kidney division. Around that time, Penn's vice dean for education started to advocate that we train medical students to be activists for "social justice." The university also implemented a new "pipeline program," allowing ten students a year from HBCUs (historically black colleges or universities) to attend its med school after maintaining a 3.6 GPA but no other academic requirement, including not taking the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). And the university has also created a project called Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project (PMAS) in order to "reshape medical education. . . by creating social justice-informed medical curricula that use race critically and in an evidence-based way to train the next generation of race-conscious physicians." Finally, twenty clinical departments at the medical school now have vice chairs for diversity and inclusion.

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Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: Green madness: New York to ban gas stoves and heating systems in new construction

Greg Wehner
Fox News
Thu, 04 May 2023 19:29 UTC
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New York, beginning in 2026, will prohibit gas stoves and heating systems for new construction of buildings seven stories or less, according to reports.

The Associated Press reported that a law negotiated between New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, and fellow party members in the legislature is included in the state budget. The legislation also gives the Empire State a head start in the race among several states looking to pass similar bans they say are intended to reduce emissions from buildings.

New York plans to phase in the elimination of fossil fuel heating devices in 2026, when newly constructed buildings must have electric-powered induction ranges and heat pumps.

Buildings that already have gas elements will be grandfathered in under the new law.

Hochul spoke to reporters on Tuesday just before legislators began voting on the budget.
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Best of the Web: MP Andrew Bridgen expelled from Conservative Party for speaking out about Covid vaccine harms

Will Jones
Daily Sceptic
Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:05 UTC
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Andrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party after raising concerns about coronavirus vaccine harms.

Mr. Bridgen was stripped of the Tory whip and forced to sit as an independent MP in January after tweeting that the Covid vaccines were the "biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust", a statement he attributed to an unnamed cardiologist and endorsed.

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Pills

Ivermectin ban lifted in Australia

Rebekah Barnett
The Daily Skeptic
Thu, 04 May 2023 18:56 UTC
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Doctors will be free to prescribe ivermectin 'off-label' from June 1st 2023, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced today.

This is a reversal of a national ban on off-label prescribing of ivermectin, which the TGA enacted on September 10th 2021, in an attempt to prevent doctors from prescribing the drug to treat Covid.

At the time, the TGA stated that the restriction was necessary because:
  • People would be at risk if they took ivermectin instead of getting vaccinated;
  • People who took ivermectin may choose not to get tested or to seek medical care if they had symptoms;
  • Social media posts were promoting higher doses of ivermectin than what is normally recommended for approved uses;
  • There had been a 3-4 fold uptake in ivermectin and the TGA was worried about a shortage disadvantaging vulnerable people who really needed the drug.
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Bizarro Earth

Navy confirms using drag queen influencer as a 'digital ambassador' to attract recruits

Kristina Wong
Breitbart
Thu, 04 May 2023 14:19 UTC
Harpy Daniels
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The U.S. Navy confirmed to Breitbart News on Wednesday that it used a drag queen influencer as one of its "digital ambassadors" to attempt to recruit "a wide range of potential candidates."

The influencer is active-duty U.S. Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is "Harpy Daniels."

Kelley served as part of the Navy's pilot ambassador program from October 2022 to March 2023 and has openly performed as a drag queen for awhile, but garnered broader public attention this week after a video of him circulated on social media.

Kelley announced in November 2022 in a video on his Instagram page that the Navy asked him to be their "first" "Navy Digital Ambassador."
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Stock Down

Best of the Web: US banking crisis deepens as another bank goes under


RT
Thu, 04 May 2023 13:59 UTC
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Regional lender PacWest Bancorp has become the latest American bank to be caught up in the worst crisis in the sector since 2008. The bank has confirmed it is in talks with potential partners and investors about strategic options, following a 60% stock rout.

Shares in the bank nosedived in after-hours US trading on Wednesday over reports the Los Angeles-based lender was mulling a sale. PacWest's shares were down as much as 48% in early trading on Thursday.

"The bank has not experienced out-of-the-ordinary deposit flows following the sale of First Republic Bank and other news," PacWest stated on Wednesday. "Our cash and available liquidity remain solid and exceeded our uninsured deposits," it added.

According to the lender, discussions with potential buyers and investors "are ongoing" and the company will continue "to evaluate all options to maximize shareholder value."
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Attention

Report reveals 6,500 hospital sexual assaults in England and Wales over four years


Medical Xpress
Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:39 UTC
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More than 6,500 rapes and sexual assaults have been recorded in hospitals in England and Wales, over nearly four years, with only 4.1% of suspects known to have been charged.

A Women's Rights Network report, authored by University of Reading Professor of Criminology, Jo Phoenix, found that one in seven of these crimes occurred on hospital wards.

Shocking crimes, including the rapes of several children under 13, have been disclosed by 35 police forces, responding to Freedom of Information requests sent to 43 forces across the U.K.

Professor Phoenix said, "The figures are shocking and prove that NHS Trusts are failing in their duty to protect both patients and staff. Further, the fact that 95.9% of all reports were either no-further-actioned or not recorded is also truly appalling. Although there are no reasons given within the research for this alarmingly low figure, what is clear is that there appears to be ingrained inertia in dealing with this safeguarding and policing failure."
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21 bodies exhumed in investigation of Kenyan cult


The Guardian
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 13:34 UTC
Paul Mackenzie Ntheng
Pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge turned himself in to police last month after two children starved to death in the custody of their parents.
Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in eastern Kenya in an investigation into a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources have said.

On Saturday officials reported seven deaths in connection with the inquiry after the arrest of Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, who reportedly told followers to starve themselves in order to "meet Jesus".

"In total since yesterday, we have 21 bodies," a police source told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity, after exhumations in the Shakahola forest outside the coastal town of Malindi.
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