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Los Angeles bar owner furious to see Mayor Garcetti approved outdoor dining area for movie company across from her shuttered restaurant

owner of Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill in Sherman Oaks
Crazed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti this week closed down all outdoor dining and told his constituents it is time to just "cancel everything" due to rising Covid cases.

"The next three months are going to be the most difficult in the public health history of this nation," Garcetti said. "The latest data is nothing short of alarming. In the last month alone, our daily infections have tripled, our hospitalizations have more than tripled and are at a new peak."

One Los Angeles bar owner was furious after she discovered that Mayor Garcetti approved outdoor dining for a movie company directly across from her shuttered restaurant.

Comment: Garcetti doesn't care. None of these small-fry petty tyrants care about the businesses that are going under. They'll bend over backwards for the lucrative movie industry, approving whatever they need, while the small businesses get social-distanced to death.

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Fire

USA Today is COVID damage control, not 'fact-checking'

coronavirus model
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USA Today has a "fact-checking" team that is run and weaponized by Facebook to limit or censor social media posts. But amazingly, the standard employed isn't whether something is factual or nonfactual. It seems to be whether someone is a Democrat or not.

"Fact-checker" Abby Patkin penned a Dec. 2 article revolving around the claim that "Several Democratic politicians are urging social distancing and issuing stay-at-home advisories while hosting or attending gatherings themselves." Patkin threw a penalty flag at the conservative Facebook page "Occupy Democrats Logic," which included a Nov. 13 tweet from former One America News host Liz Wheeler about Democratic hypocrisy.

The politicians Wheeler criticized were hypocrites. Fact-check: true.

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Bad Guys

Ingraham: Elites, political class seek a post-pandemic world that is 'never normal again'

Laura Ingraham

The Ingraham Angle' host warns of elite seeking to use pandemic for Biden-esque 'reset'
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the stark divide between between America's blue-collar working class and the ruling class, Laura Ingraham told viewers Friday.

"This time of year is usually filled with Christmas parties, bustling restaurants, trips to visit loved ones, it happens all over the country," said "The Ingraham Angle" host. "But of course, because of COVID, for most of us, nothing seems the same. More Americans are on edge, some are legitimately terrified of getting the virus, others want to end lockdowns.

Ingraham went on to decry what she called the "arbitrary and destructive" lockdown decrees, which she said are finally being met with pushback.

The host cited this week's drama involving Staten Island saloon owners Danny Presti and Keith McAlarney, whose bar -- Mac's Public House -- was shut down by the New York City Sheriff's Office for refusing to close indoor dining as part of an "orange zone" mapped out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Pistol

Leader of black militia group, NFAC, accused of pointing gun at police before Breonna Taylor rally

John Fitzgerald Johnson NFAC
The leader of the Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC), a Black militia group who have staged armed demonstrations demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, has been charged with allegedly pointing a gun at law enforcement.

John Fitzgerald Johnson, 57, also known as The Real Grandmaster Jay, is accused of assaulting federal task force officers in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 4.

According to the criminal complaint, Johnson "forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered" with Louisville Metro Police officers, as well as federal officers and the Secret Service, by aiming a rifle at them one day before the NFAC were due to hold a rally to coincide with the Kentucky Derby demanding criminal charges over the shooting of Taylor.

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Attention

'It's time to cancel everything': LA mayor issues strict warning to residents as multiple politicians break own Covid-19 rules

Eric Garcetti
© REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has warned city residents that it's time to "hunker down" amid the holiday season, with travel only being allowed for "essential" trips.

"My message couldn't be simpler," Garcetti said at a Wednesday night press conference. "It's time to hunker down. It's time to cancel everything. And if it isn't essential, don't do it."

The latest stay-at-home order for Los Angeles makes exceptions for travel, such as work, shopping for food, and getting automobile service.

The mayor has also warned residents that "gatherings" are prohibited. "Don't meet up with others outside your household. Don't host a gathering. Don't attend a gathering," he said.


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No Entry

Chief medical officer says Canadians who refuse vaccine won't have "freedom to move around"

David Williams
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Ontario's Chief Medical Officer says that those who refuse to take the COVID vaccine won't have "freedom to move around" and will have to continue to wear masks.


Dr. David Williams was asked if he "would make some sort of mandatory vaccination recommendation."

Williams acknowledged that "we can't force someone to take a vaccine," but when on to explain how people who didn't take it would have their freedom of mobility severely restricted.

"What we can do is to say sometimes for access or ease of getting into certain settings, if you don't have vaccination then you're not allowed into that setting without other protection materials," said Williams.

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Bad Guys

San Francisco man arrested for vehicle theft for 13th time in just 18 months amid push by Soros-linked DA to put fewer people in jail

Car theft
© Reuters/Callaghan O'Hare (file photo)
An alleged vehicle thief in San Francisco has now been arrested over a dozen times in just 18 months, as the local DA, reportedly elected with funding from billionaire George Soros' associate, works to reduce incarceration.

The suspect was nabbed on Monday in the city's Tenderloin district after being spotted riding a motorcycle that had been reported stolen, San Francisco police said Wednesday on Twitter. Police called attention to the case because the unidentified suspect has repeatedly been put back on the streets despite a prolific string of alleged thefts.


Handcuffs

Beirut detains Lebanese-French businessman close to Sarkozy after Interpol request

Ziad Takieddine
© Bertrand Guay, AFP
Ziad Takieddine in Paris in 2019.
Lebanon has detained a Lebanese-French businessman who was close to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy after receiving a request for his arrest from Interpol, a judicial source told AFP Friday.

"Internal security forces have detained (Ziad) Takieddine, based on an arrest warrant Interpol sent the public prosecution, over him being wanted by the French authorities over involvement in corruption and funding Sarkozy's campaign," the source said.

Takieddine was once the main accuser in an inquiry into suspected Libyan financing of Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign.

The businessman was investigated in late 2016 after he told the press he had delivered millions of euros in cash from Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

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Ladybug

Disgusting: World Economic Forum encourages plebs to eat weeds & drink sewage to reduce CO2 emissions

The 'Great Reset' never tasted so disgusting.
Weeds
© Mike Perkins via Getty Images
The World Economic Forum published two articles on its website which explored how people could be conditioned to get used to the idea of eating weeds, bugs and drinking sewage water in order to reduce CO2 emissions.

Yes, really.

"Finding new plant-based foods is becoming increasingly urgent with the world's population forecast to grow by two billion in the next 30 years," states an article authored by Douglas Broom published on the official WEF website

"While farming animals for meat generates 14.5% of total global greenhouse emissions, weeds capture carbon from the atmosphere and can therefore help to control climate change."

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Briefcase

Covid rules 'misunderstood, toothless, or insufficient': Experts claim most countries violated international law during pandemic

woman sitting airport with mask
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According to new research by a team of 13 global health law experts, 'most' countries have breached international law during the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the need for major reform.

In a review of international public health policy begun by the Global Strategy Lab (GSL) at York University in 2019, researchers found numerous instances in which countries had flouted international agreements.

Back in the pre-Covid era, the experts had begun analyzing what countries are legally allowed to do to one another during public health crises, such as the Ebola and SARS outbreaks, in accordance with the International Health Regulations (IHR) that legally bind 196 countries.