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Oldest US journalist organization urges Biden to lift restrictions on visits to border facilities amid migrant surge


RT
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:05 UTC
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US Border Patrol agents process migrants who crossed the Rio Grande
Penitas Texas, March 17, 2021
President Joe Biden is failing on his promise of transparency, said the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), condemning his policy of denying access to the US-Mexico border to members of the media.

It is "crucial" that journalists be given "unfettered access" to the border to inform the public of what is happening there, the SPJ said in a statement on Tuesday, condemning the "tactics" of the Biden administration that resulted in effective restrictions on reporting.

Biden "promised both a more humane approach to immigration and more transparency than his predecessor," said SPJ National President Matthew T. Hall, adding that his administration's "refusal to let journalists fully observe and assess the growing humanitarian crisis at the border... shows he is failing on both promises."

The SPJ urges Biden and his administration "to let journalists do their job by granting them access to facilities along the border" as well as interviews with officials "who know and can accurately convey to the public what is going on."
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Trump congratulates O'Keefe on 'big win' in defamation lawsuit against NYT: Encourages legal defense fund contributions


Project Veritas
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:54 UTC
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Former President Donald Trump and Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe
Project Veritas CEO James O'Keefe met with President Trump at his office inside Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, to discuss the outlet's ongoing defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.

Trump and O'Keefe stood side by side as the Project Veritas CEO held up a hard copy of the litigation filed against the "Gray Lady."

"I want to congratulate Project Veritas on their big win on The New York Times [lawsuit], now the suit will continue, and whatever you can do for their legal defense fund, we're with them all the way," he said.

Comment: We look forward to more of Project Veritas's excellent reporting.

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NPC

If blaming 'whiteness' doesn't work, play the gun card: Boulder shooting spun by opportunists with no interest in truth or solutions

Tony Cox
RT
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:19 UTC
Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa grocery store
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Boulder, Colorado, shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is shown in his booking photo.
America's latest massacre, this time at a Colorado supermarket, means everyone will extrude the horrific tale through confirmation biases and political agendas to make the murders as useful and self-gratifying as possible.

Monday's killing spree in Boulder, which left 10 people dead, is an especially illuminating example of America's penchant for sickeningly selfish spin-doctoring. When police led the suspected murderer away from the King Soopers grocery store, the shirtless man's appearance was ambiguous enough that he was like a walking Rorschach test for some observers - revealing what they wanted the story to say.
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Fire

At least 15 found dead after Bangladesh Rohingya camp blaze - 400 people still missing


kiro7.com
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:37 UTC
BLAZE
Searchers recovered at least 15 charred bodies after a devastating fire destroyed thousands of shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, officials said Tuesday.

At least 400 people were still missing and around 560 were injured by the fire, according to Louise Donovan, a spokesperson for the United Nations' refugee agency. The UNHCR said around 45,000 people were displaced by the fire, which broke out Monday afternoon and burned well into the night.

In the aftermath, refugees picked through the burned debris looking for their belongings. Others wept.

"Yesterday before the fire started, my kids went to study at the Islamic school. I did not see them after they came back. I found two of my older kids but I still can't find my youngest son," said Shappuni, a Rohingya refugee who uses only one name.

At least three of the dead were children and the search for victims was still ongoing, said Nizam Uddin Ahmed, the top government official in Ukhiya, a sub-region of the Cox's Bazar district where the camp is located.

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Boulder mass shooting suspect's anti-Trump posts uncovered: Obliterate 'right-wing extremist' claims

Kyle Becker
Becker News
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC
ahmad al issa posts
The news broke on Tuesday that the name of the suspected mass shooter in the Boulder, Colorado supermarket incident was released. The suspect, who is accused of killing ten innocent people, including a police officer, is named Ahmad al Alissa.

"Police have identified the suspect in the Boulder, Colo., shooting as Ahmad Alissa," the New York Daily News reported. "The 21-year-old is charged with 10 counts of murder in the first degree in connection with the Monday afternoon shooting at the King Sooper supermarket, police said Tuesday at a press conference."

Reports also surfaced that the Biden administration has been briefed on potential ISIS sympathies.

Comment: See also:

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Pistol

21-year-old wanted for murder in Dallas nightclub shooting that killed woman and injured 7 others


MSN
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 02:41 UTC
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A woman was killed and five people were wounded in a shooting at a Dallas night club early Saturday, police say.
A 21-year-old man is wanted for murder in connection to a shooting at a Dallas club early Saturday, police say.

Authorities are looking for Jonathanlacory Terrell Rogers, 21, who faces one murder charge and seven counts of aggravated assault, Dallas police said.

Police said Rogers is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds. He is considered armed and dangerous.
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'Outlandish & arrogant theft': Former CEO John Matze sues Parler, says company stole his ownership stake & fired him illegally


RT
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:14 UTC
parler app
Parler's ex-CEO John Matze has sued the conservative-friendly social media site, claiming he was unlawfully forced out of his position and that his ownership stake in the platform was stolen from him by rivals within the firm.

Matze filed his suit on Monday in a Nevada state court, accusing several higher-ups at Parler of breach of contract, conversion - or when one party takes control of another party's property with the intent of changing ownership - unlawful firing, defamation and conspiracy to commit each of those offenses.

Primarily targeting high-profile conservative donor and Parler partner Rebekah Mercer, the legal challenge comes after Matze was abruptly ousted from the CEO role earlier this year, which he claims was part of a scheme to deprive him of his 40% ownership stake in Parler, a company now worth millions.

"Rebekah Mercer sought to co-opt [Parler] as a symbol or as the 'tip of the spear' for her brand of conservatism, and plotted to force Matze out as CEO, manager and member, and steal his 40% ownership interest," Matze's court filing reads.

Comment: See also: Palace coup: Parler CEO John Matze terminated by Mercer-controlled board of directors: 'The future of Parler is no longer in my hands'

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Attention

One year to flatten life as we knew it

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:48 UTC
flatten the curve
It is a year since we embarked on an untried, untested, unscientific, draconian and frankly mad medical, social, economic and psychological experiment on millions of people. On the day we were thrust into this folly I wrote, "So that seems to be that. The end of Britain as we knew it." All that has taken place since has, I believe, confirmed that, and my only surprise is that millions of people still cling to the bizarre idea that Lockdowns were based on science, that they were necessary, that they have been effective, and that we have a benevolent Government whose aim has been to keep us all safe. None of these things are true.

A Brief Recap of What Has Taken Place

You will search in vain for pre-2020 medical and scientific literature advocating the mass quarantining of healthy people as an appropriate response to a pandemic. In fact, after a panicked Mexican Government flirted with the idea for five whole days during the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak (ending it once it was realised how devastating it would be), the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the time, Dr Margaret Chan, explicitly warned against such destructive measures being used:
"In this regard, let me make a strong plea to countries to refrain from introducing measures that are economically and socially disruptive, yet have no scientific justification and bring no clear public health benefit."
So this disruptive, unscientific measure, with no clear public health benefit was quietly buried and forgotten about. Until, that it is, it was implemented in January 2020, in the Chinese province of Hubei, on the orders of Xi Jinping, leader of one of the most totalitarian regimes on the planet, as the lawyer Michael Sanger details in great depth here.

Comment: See also:

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Light Sabers

HART's covid report attacked in The Times

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:57 UTC
tom whipple
HART's must-read report "COVID-19: an overview of the evidence", written about in Lockdown Sceptics on Thursday, has been making waves today. Former Supreme Court Judge Jonathan Sumption praised it in the Telegraph this morning, and then this afternoon Times Science Editor Tom Whipple did his best to bury it under smears of being anti-vaccine and "extremely irresponsible".

In a mean-spirited piece that makes no effort to engage with the arguments of the report, Whipple rounds up the usual suspects to heap opprobrium on anything that deviates from the establishment line or raises awkward questions.

Originally headlined "Scientists condemn report claiming vaccines caused second wave deaths", it now reads "Scientists condemn report questioning role of vaccine in second wave deaths", presumably after someone pointed out to the editors that the report never makes such a claim but only raises questions based on patterns in data. The report clearly states that "we cannot infer causation from correlation".
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Footprints

Raddatz interview: Migrant admits he came to US because of Biden, 'definitely' not if Trump were president

Chris Enloe
Blaze Media
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Migrants & kids
© Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images
Migrants and children
'The same environment that's been going on today wasn't there last year' A migrant who is seeking asylum in the United States admitted in an interview that aired Sunday that he would not have attempted to travel to the U.S. if Donald Trump were still president. In fact, the migrant said specifically that he decided now was the right time to seek asylum here because of President Joe Biden.

What are the details?

ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz recently spoke with a Brazilian man — just one of the tens of thousands of migrants who are traveling to the U.S. in search of asylum — who admitted that Biden's presidency was a motivating factor for coming to America.

"Would you have tried to do this when Donald Trump was president?" Raddatz asked.

"Definitely not. Definitely. We have a chance, you know. The same environment that's been going on today wasn't there last year," the man responded. "We used to watch the news and I definitely wouldn't do this."

Comment: The so-called 'mess' Biden inherited was a well-thought out and executed plan that functioned to the benefit of the migrants and the USA. Biden unplugged this systematic mechanism, choosing chaos over order, politics over Americans. Put one more checkmark in the column titled: 'Voter' Regrets.

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