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Russian journalist fired by US state-run media RFE/RL for suggesting Navalny's father was member of Russia's secret service

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:54 UTC
Olevskii
© Настоящее время; Sputnik / Alexey Vitvitsky
(inset) Timur Olevskii
Has he thought twice about offending the gatekeepers? A Russian journalist apologized to Alexey Navalny's wife after his sacking by US state-run media threatened to make him a pariah among Moscow's liberal opposition community.

Last week Timur Olevsky was sacked by RFE/RL cutout Current Time TV, after talking publicly about a conspiracy theory suggesting that Yulia Navalnaya's father was a member of the Russian secret services. The journalist had previously spoken about the topic in private to Oleg Kashin, a controversial columnist, who later blew his cover on YouTube.

"Yulia, I apologize to you for becoming an unintentional participant in the campaign against your family and giving birth to an opportunity for rumors and speculation," Olevsky wrote on his Facebook page. "My non-public interest in your family has been dictated by a journalistic instinct."

Comment: See also: Why Navalny was handed over to Germany

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Stormtrooper

So much for 'defund the police'? Cops beat BLM protesters outside LA Mayor Garcetti's home


RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:14 UTC
BLM protesters
© AFP / Patrick T. Fallon
BLM protesters outside the residence of Mayor Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles, California
Clashes broke out between cops and Black Lives Matter activists outside the home of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who made huge cuts to the city's police budget in solidarity with the racial justice protesters.

The skirmish erupted during a protest in front of the mayor's residence organized by BLM. For nearly two weeks, the group has been holding daily demonstrations demanding that Garcetti not be offered a cabinet position, if Joe Biden is confirmed as president-elect. The activists say that Garcetti's poor handling of transportation and homelessness in the city should exclude him from any job in Washington DC.

According to BLM-LA, protesters had peacefully assembled near Garcetti's mansion on Sunday morning when officers "advanced without warning and violently attacked" them.

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Eye 1

NBC accused of 'deceitful' editing of angry California restaurant owner's viral video

Brian Flood
Fox News
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:58 UTC
Angela Marsden
NBC News has been accused of "deceitful" editing for reporting on a California restaurant owner who went viral after saying her restaurant was forced to close because of COVID-19 restrictions while a Peacock Network comedy was allowed to feed its crew steps away.

Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill owner Angela Marsden filmed herself complaining that a Hollywood crew had been allowed to set up an outdoor dining area a few yards from where her restaurant's outdoor dining patio was forced to shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The New York Times reported that NBC comedy "Good Girls" was the production that required catering only feet away from the shuttered Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill, but NBC News apparently didn't want its corporate sibling to be part of the story.

NBC's "Sunday Today" aired a segment about businesses suffering from coronavirus lockdowns and used part of Marsden's viral video but didn't inform viewers why she was worked up, according to the Media Research Center.

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Bulb

Goya Foods CEO names Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'employee of the month' when her boycott spiked his sales

Virginia Kruta
Daily Caller
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:26 UTC
goya
Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue says sales spiked so dramatically after her calls for a boycott that he named Democratic New York Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as "employee of the month."

Unanue told Michael Berry that his sales spiked 1000% after Ocasio-Cortez supported calls to boycott Goya Foods in mid-July.

Unanue took criticism from a number of Democrats — including former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and Ocasio-Cortez — after saying that he believed the United States was "blessed" to have a leader like President Donald Trump.

Comment: The progressive woke crowd really has no clue how the majority of Americans think and feel. This is a case in point in how their "cancel culture" has the opposite effect they intended.

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Yellow Vest

Restaurants unite against Michigan governor's draconian coronavirus restrictions

Catie Perry
Fox News
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:06 UTC
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
© Michigan Office of the Governor via AP, Pool, File
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
In light of "very frustrating" coronavirus dining restrictions, the owners of the Joe Vicari Restaurant Group have united hundreds of Michigan restaurant owners to push back against government orders.

"I called my restaurant groups in southeastern Michigan to band together," Joe Vicari, the president and owner of the restaurant group, said on FOX Business' "Varney and Co." "We had about 400 restaurants come together.

Vicari said the restauranteurs coordinated using Skype due to the state's restrictions on in-person gatherings.

"We're standing united," he told host Stuart Varney. "We want to get to a solution with the governor to reopen restaurants."
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Extinguisher

Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard

Mary Ellen Klas and Ana Ceballos
Miami Herald
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 23:34 UTC
Rebekah Jones
© News4jax/Courtesy photo
The Tallahassee home of the former Department of Health data scientist who has been running an alternative web site to the state's COVID dashboard was raided Monday morning by state police, according to a post she put on Twitter late in the day.

"There will be no update today. At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech,'' wrote Rebekah Jones at 5 p.m. "They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint. They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids."


Jones was fired from her job in May as the geographic information system manager for DOH's Division of Disease Control and Health Protection after she complained in an email to users of a state data portal that the state was manipulating data. She announced that she had been removed from overseeing the dashboard and hinted that she had been stripped of the responsibility as a result of raising concerns about the state's commitment to transparency.
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Attention

Protest erupts at MI Sec of State Benson's home upon discovery all MI county clerks ordered to delete all election-related data from computers

Patty McMurray
100%FedUp.com
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Jocelyn Benson
© Paul Sancya/AP
Michigan's Democrat Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson
On Friday, Kristina Karamo, host of the Kristina Karamo Project, Dr. Linda Lee Tarver a 29-year former Secretary of State election integrity liaison, and Angelic Johnson, went to Lansing, Michigan to put Michigan's Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on notice after it was discovered by Phil Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, that Benson had given the far-left Rock The Vote group full "front door access" to Michigan voter rolls.

According to Karamo, the information provided to Rock The Vote, a far-left activist group that identifies as "non-partisan," included sensitive data like social security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and eye color of Michigan residents. According to Amistad's Phil Kline, Rock the Vote was also given the ability to add names to the MI voter rolls.

Karamo, who traveled to Lansing with Tarver and Johnson, posted a video of her visit to Secretary of State Benson's office on our 100 Percent Fed Up Facebook page. The Christian Republican activist told us that Dr. Linda Lee Tarver and Angelic Johnson are plaintiffs in a case that Amistad has filed on their behalf against MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for providing Rock The Vote with the private information of MI residents.


But that's not all Michigan's radical Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has been up to...

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Laptop

Maricopa County: AZ fed agents raid home of IT expert; confiscate 8 hard drives, 3 computers, bag of USB sticks

Patty McMurray
100 Percent Fed Up
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Elliot Kerwin/FBI
© forbesimg.com/WayneDupree.com
Elliot Kerwin • FBI agents
Arizona federal officials raided the home of 56-year-old IT expert, Elliot Kerwin in Maricopa County, AZ on Friday. During their raid, agents confiscated eight hard drives, three computers, and a bag of USB sticks.

According to The Gateway Pundit- The agents were looking for evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data.

Forbes reported:
On the morning of November 5, as the 2020 election hung in the balance, Arizona federal agents raided a two-story house in Fountain Hills, Maricopa County, a county that had become a key battleground in the presidential race. The agents were looking for evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data. They left with eight hard drives, three computers and a bag of USB sticks. The resident of the property, a 56-year-old IT expert named Elliot Kerwin, was served the warrant. He is not yet facing charges and was unreachable for comment at the time of publication. There is no indication that anything other than voters' information, which can be acquired for a few hundred dollars in Arizona counties, was taken from the affected office.

Comment: Forbes also reports:
[T]here is no evidence to suggest that any theft of voter registration data could've had an impact on the election in Arizona. And despite fears of foreign interference and voter fraud, the DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has stated the 2020 election was the "most secure in American history."

So, who is Elliot Kerwin?

It's not the first time Kerwin has been investigated by police. According to a police report obtained by Forbes, on April 1, 2011, when he was the IT administrator for the City of Ashland, Wisconsin, he was questioned by police regarding spoof emails, sent out just ahead of a local election.

Kerwin has been running his own IT companies, one named Loon-a-Tech, where he promised "assistance with viruses, malware and security software." According to his online CV, that Mercer, Wisconsin, business was closed in mid-2019, when he set up Desert Oasis Technology in Fountain Hills, Arizona, just northeast of metropolitan Phoenix. He also set up a sister company, Desert Oasis Tactical, which lists four specialties: weapon, warrior, defense and research. Amongst his services at his tech company are "cyber forensics" and "surveillance."
And this, stating bombshell news is flying so low it's not on anyone's radar:
This is huge, yet the MSM is dead-silent...
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Bad Guys

Ukraine's supply blockade takes its toll on Crimea, Yalta forced to limit water supply to residents

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:55 UTC
crimea
© Sputnik / Konstantin Mikhalchevskii
Authorities in Yalta will begin restricting water use to just mornings and evenings, with the peninsula's supply at critically low levels due to light rains and Kiev's blockage of a canal to the disputed territory.

Crimea has experienced water shortages since 2014, when the Ukrainian government cut off freshwater supply from the Dnieper River, following Russia's reabsorption of the peninsula.

Kiev built a dam on the North Crimean Canal, which had previously provided the vast majority of the peninsula's water. The canal was built by the Soviet Union when Russia and Ukraine were both parts of the same union state. Moscow has called the blockage a "violation of all conceivable conventions."

Comment: See also: US resumes military aid to Ukraine with payment of $250 million following Pentagon approved 'reforms'

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Syringe

Tory MP assures: Vaccine ID card 'not ticket to football or restaurant' as Britons reluctant to take jab, fear coercion


RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:16 UTC
Vaccine card
© Gareth Fuller-WPA/Getty Images
Post vaccine card to be issued in UK.
As the British government prepares to roll out Covid-19 vaccinations, Tories are expressing confidence that unlike some other programs it will be done right and that skeptics will not be forced to take it to re-enter society.

The first batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were distributed over the weekend as Britain prepares to start immunising frontline workers and vulnerable people against Covid-19 on Tuesday. The stockpile is enough for 400,000 people, but the government says it has secured 357million doses of seven vaccine candidates. Pzfizer's product and many others require two shots to work properly.

The NHS will hand out standard bank card-sized cards to people who receive the shot, suggesting they should carry them in a wallet. The card will list the name of the vaccine, batch number and the date the recipient got their immunisation, as well as a reminder to take the second dose in due time and some tips. The vaccination details will also be stored in an NHS database along with the patient's personal data.
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