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Cancelling Family? NYC school encourages kids to stop using words like 'mom,' 'dad'

Grace church school , NYC, NY
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A private school in New York City is looking to ax terms like “mom” and “dad” from students’ vocabulary, according to its “inclusive language guide.”
A Manhattan private school aiming to use more "inclusive language" is encouraging its students to stop using the terms "mom," "dad" and "parents" because the words make "assumptions" about kids' home lives.

The Grace Church School in Noho — which offers academic courses for junior kindergarten through 12th grade — issued a 12-page guide to students and staff explaining the school's mission of inclusivity.

The detailed guide recommends using the terms "grown-ups," "folks," "family" or "guardians" as alternatives to "mom," "dad" and "parents." It also suggests using "caregiver" instead of "nanny/babysitter."

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Why are we allowing the lawless madness of Seattle's CHOP autonomous zone to be repeated in Minneapolis' George Floyd Square?

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Flower memorial for George Floyd killed by police.
It's been a bad few weeks for the protest at the Minneapolis memorial site, with a shooting death and journalists being threatened. The authorities need to act now to shut the area down, before more lives are needlessly lost.

If I were to sit you down and tell you about an autonomous zone inside a major city where there are reports of violent crime and journalists are being threatened for approaching it, you'd probably think that I was referring to the madness of Seattle last year.

But no, the craziness has returned to another of America's big cities. You see, it seems that there is now another autonomous zone in Minneapolis.

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Handcuffs

One year into '15 days to flatten the curve', why are we still tolerating authoritarian government clampdowns on our daily lives?

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French policemen control a driver's permission form on the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, on November 13, 2020, as France is on a second lockdown aimed at containing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus.
In the 12 months since states first started ordering citizens to stay at home under the pretext of Covid, we've come a long way. Particularly in our understanding of how illiberal our politicians can be and how supine we are.

One year ago, at noon on Tuesday, March 17, France went into total lockdown for the first time. Until then, Covid-19 was something of which we were faintly aware - background noise in our daily lives that was mostly relegated to Wuhan, China. But we all had that one moment when we realized that it was about to hit home hard.

In my case, that instant came two days before the lockdown, when the local outdoor pool posted a sign on the door drastically reducing the total user capacity to just 100, right before closing entirely the following day. On March 16, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation to announce what he described as temporary measures, to be implemented for at least 15 days. Only essential trips outside the home would be allowed. Period. Case closed. All in the interests of protecting the French healthcare system, the long-suffering victim of perennial government cutbacks, from being forced onto life-support as it tends to be nearly every year during flu season.

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Two thirds of covid cases in schoolchildren are false positives say experts

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Mass testing in schools as children returned this week is resulting in hundreds of positives - but viral prevalence is now so low that the large majority of them are wrong and result in children and their contacts isolating needlessly. Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph explains.

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Czech police tackle man, put him in headlock for not wearing mask as toddler cries in viral clip

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Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest against the Czech government's restrictions, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Prague, Czech Republic, October 18, 2020.
A disturbing video of police in the Czech Republic putting a man into a headlock after he allegedly refused to wear a face mask to protect against Covid-19 has gone viral and prompted an investigation.

In the clip recorded on Wednesday in Uherske Hradiste, police can be seen tackling the maskless 40-year-old man to the ground and holding him in a headlock as his frantic three-year-old son cries.

Comment: The PTB are using the police as their personal bodyguards and merely a tool to impose true tyranny and totalitarian rule over the people.
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Chart Pie

Anti-Asian hate crimes have surged nearly 150 percent in major U.S. cities

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Multiple data sources report sinophobic violence amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The sharp increases in violence against Asian Americans since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic are well-documented, as are the accompanying legislative initiatives taken to help curb the violence.

New data published by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism (CSUSB) underscores how dramatic the uptick has been, with anti-Asian hate crimes surging by 149 percent, despite overall hate crimes reportedly dropping by seven percent in 2020.

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Books

Amazon decides not to sell books 'that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness'

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Amazon's decision to remove a popular conservative book on transgender issues was made because the company has chosen not to sell books that frame sexual orientation or gender identities as mental illnesses.

The impetus for the company's policy was revealed in an exchange of correspondence between Amazon and Republican senators asking why When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was no longer available on Amazon nor on its Kindle and Audible platforms.

Amazon responded to Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri's letter on Thursday, and in it, Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, said the company has "chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness," according to the Wall Street Journal.

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AstraZeneca's deal to not profit from COVID-19 vaccine set to expire in July 2021, when it expects 'pandemic period' to be over

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AstraZeneca's promise to make no profit from its COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic could expire before July 2021, newly uncovered documents show In a manufacturer agreement, AstraZeneca defined the pandemic as ending July 1, 2021 - but the drug maker has the power to push the date back.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca promised in June not to make any profit from its COVID-19 vaccine "during the pandemic" - but the company could declare the pandemic over by July 2021, according to a manufacturer agreement.

The pharmaceutical company, one of the front-runners in the race for a vaccine, said in June that it would provide doses of its vaccine at cost price until the pandemic finishes.

Comment: See also: 8 EU countries SUSPEND AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine amid reports of fatal blood clots


Green Light

Assembly Democrats give green light for Cuomo 'Impeachment investigation' Updates

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Democrats in the state Assembly on Thursday gave a green light for an "impeachment investigation" of Gov. Andrew Cuomo by the Judiciary Committee — the first step toward potentially removing him from office.

Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx) announced the momentous decision following an afternoon meeting of the entire Democratic Assembly conference. Heastie said he was
"authorizing the Assembly Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment investigation, led by Chair Charles D. Lavine, to examine allegations of misconduct against Governor Cuomo. The reports of accusations concerning the governor are serious. The committee will have the authority to interview witnesses, subpoena documents and evaluate evidence, as is allowed by the New York State Constitution."
Heastie also said the probe "will not interfere with the independent investigation being conducted by Attorney General [Letitia] James," who on Monday announced the hiring of several outside lawyers, including former acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim.

Comment: 11/3/2021: The trickle up effect? As allegations continue to surface, Cuomo feebly responds:
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© New York Post
"It's not one, it's not two, it's not three, it's not four, it's not five. It's six women coming forward," New York Mayor de Blasio told reporters during his daily City Hall news conference.

The incident allegedly took place after the woman was summoned to Cuomo's heavily guarded official residence to help him fix a problem with his cellphone, the Albany Times Union reported.

The paper said it was withholding the woman's name but described her as much younger than the 63-year-old governor.

Cuomo responded: "As I said yesterday, I have never done anything like this. The details of this report are gut-wrenching. I am not going to speak to the specifics of this or any other allegation given the ongoing review, but I am confident in the result of the Attorney General's report."
12/3/2021: Mayor de Blasio is not alone in his reactions. The majority of NY congressional Dems (59) are calling for resignation:
12 House Democrats from New York — including the chairs of the powerful Oversight Committee and Judiciary Committee — issued statements within minutes of each other on Friday calling for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign. With today's announcement that amounts to nearly three-quarters of New York's delegation, including:
Rep. Kathleen Rice - House Judiciary chair Jerry Nadler - House Oversight chair Carolyn Maloney - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Rep. Jamal Bowman - Rep. Mondaire Jones - Rep. Grace Meng - Rep. Yvette Clark - Rep. Adriano Espaillat - Rep. Nydia Velasquez - Rep. Anthony Delgado - Rep. Brian Higgins - Rep. Sean Maloney
Holdouts, so far, are: Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Gregory Meeks, Tom Suozzi, Ritchie Torres, Paul Tonko and Joe Morelle.

47 state senators have said Cuomo should step aside, more than the 46 needed to convict the governor if he's impeached by the Assembly. The governor is also facing an independent inquiry from the New York attorney general and a police inquiry in Albany.
12/3/2021: Cuomo aides, running interference, try to discredit a former employee:
Cuomo's office purportedly called at least six former employees shortly after former economic adviser Lindsey Boylan accused the governor of sexual harassing her. The calls were purportedly to learn whether the ex-staffers had heard from Boylan or get information about her.

Some of the former staffers were purportedly made uncomfortable by the call. "I felt intimidated, and I felt bewildered," said Ana Liss, a former aide to the governor who received one of the calls - who earlier this month accused Cuomo of inappropriate behavior. She said senior Cuomo adviser Rich Azzopardi called her in late December 2020, eight days after Boylan, in a tweet, began alleging the governor sexually harassed her. Boylan has said Cuomo made inappropriate comments at work and kissed her without consent.

The effort to contact former staffers was led by top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa. "As a result we proactively reached out to some former colleagues to check in and make sure they had a heads up," Azzopardi said.
12/3/2021 UPDATE: Cuomo made abundantly clear he is not going anywhere:
"I'm not going to resign. I was not elected by politicians...I'm not part of the political club and I'm proud of that. I won't speculate about people's possible motives...[but] as a former attorney general who's gone through this situation many times, there are often many motivations for making allegations," Cuomo said.

"You need to know the facts before you make a decision," he went on, adding that "serious allegations should be weighed seriously, that's why they are called serious.


"I won't speculate about people's possible motives...[but] as a former attorney general who's gone through this situation many times, there are often many motivations for making allegations. He went on, adding that "serious allegations should be weighed seriously, that's why they are called serious."
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24-year-old who escaped lockdown by taking police on high-speed car chase around Dublin breaks out of lockdown again, posts pics of holiday in Spain

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Gemma Greene, absolute mad lass
The woman who led gardai [Irish police] on a high-speed chase through Dublin has claimed she's left the country - for a sunny holiday in Spain.

Gemma Greene, 24, who was unmasked as the driver that caused chaos in Dublin last week, posted multiple pictures and videos which appeared to show her in Dublin Airport, and later cruising down a motorway in the direction of Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.

It comes three days on from when she brazenly told how she put her foot down and sped off when gardai tried to stop her last week.

She then caused chaos when she live-streamed the incident on social media - filming dozens of garda cars chasing her from Ballymun to Bray, Co Wicklow, and all the way back to Dublin.


But in these latest social media posts, Greene claimed she had left Ireland - showing a picture of a departures board in Dublin Airport that did match with flights leaving Monday.

Later posts showed what appeared to be Greene standing in the airport with a bag - and then a series of videos of her with her feet up in the passenger seat of a car in Spain.

Comment: Have a great holiday Gemma!

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