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Convoy protesters say seized items missing, police dispute numbers

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
True North
Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00 UTC
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© unknownFreedom Convoy • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Freedom Convoy protesters who are trying to retrieve their seized belongings say Ottawa police are giving them a hard time, and that thousands of materials and other items are now missing and unaccounted for.

Ottawa Police Service (OPS) says it seized only 41 items when it cracked down on convoy demonstrations between Feb. 17 and 20. Among these are generators, heaters and barbecues which were either purchased by the protesters themselves or donated by supporters.

OPS claims that six of the 41 items have been returned but that 35 pieces of equipment remain locked up and in their possession.

OPS told CBC News:
"As with any property, the owner can provide proof of ownership to retrieve their item. Receipts, serial numbers, and photos of items are acceptable means of identifying the property."
According to several protesters, the OPS have blocked attempts to retrieve equipment and materials worth thousands of dollars. Organizer David Paisley, who hosts Live from the Shed responded:
"As best we can tell, everything was kind of thrown in trailers and taken out of there as quick as possible. Time was the overarching priority, so everything was very rushed. If they truly only have 41 items in their possession, then either a significant amount of items were thrown out, or there's some contractor somewhere sitting on a large number of items."
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Woman finds box of mail-in ballots abandoned on East Hollywood sidewalk

Koco McAboy
Fox11 LA
Mon, 09 May 2022 19:29 UTC
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© Fox 11A woman walking her dog in East Hollywood on May 7, 2022, found a box of more than 100 mail-in ballots for the upcoming election just sitting on the sidewalk.

The LA County Registrar is investigating

The Los Angeles County Registrar's Office and the United States Postal Service are investigating after 104 ballots were found unopened on the sidewalk in East Hollywood.

The ballots were found by Christina Repaci, who was walking her dog Saturday evening.

"I turned the corner and I just saw this box of envelopes, and it was a USPS box. I picked some envelopes up and I saw they were ballots," said Repaci.

Repaci said she took them home for safekeeping while trying to figure out what to do next. She sent videos of the ballots to popular social media accounts to share the content and ask for guidance on next steps. Repaci said she called several politicians and the LA County Sheriff's Department.
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Bad Guys

Victory Day flowers stir conflict between authorities and residents in Latvia


RT
Wed, 11 May 2022 19:11 UTC
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© Sputnik / StringerRussian ambassador to Latvia Mikhail Vanin lays flowers at the memorial to Soviet Soldiers, in Riga, Latvia.
Riga residents ignored official warnings and kept bringing flowers to a Soviet war memorial

Police in Latvia have blocked access to the Liberators of Riga monument as Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins expressed his frustration at city residents twice creating a carpet of flowers, despite authorities' attempts to prevent and remove it.

Latvian police announced on Wednesday that "in order to prevent endangering public safety" and to avoid "possible provocations" they had decided to close public access to Victory Park where the monument is located. It was explained, that following "the events of May 9 and especially May 10," when a crowd gathered near the monument. In the opinion of the Latvian authorities, the site "is most directly related to the continuation of Latvia's occupation after the Second World War and is actually perceived by society as a symbol of the Soviet regime."

On May 9, when former Soviet republics celebrate Victory Day, flowers brought in by the city's residents were removed by a tractor.

Comment: Apparently Latvia's "leaders" are deaf to the sentiments of their people. And yet, when the rubber meets the road: Latvia may agree to pay for Russian gas in rubles

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Of course she did: Incoming WH press secretary Jean-Pierre called Fox News 'racist' in 2020

Callie Patteson
New York Post
Tue, 10 May 2022 15:41 UTC
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© MSNBCIncoming White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described Fox News as a "racist" network during an appearance on MSNBC's "AM Joy" in March 2020
Newly minted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described Fox News as a "racist" network during a TV appearance in March 2020, according to a clip that resurfaced this week.

"[Fox News] was racist before coronavirus, they are racist during the coronavirus, Fox News will be racist after the coronavirus," Jean-Pierre said during a March 15 appearance on MSNBC's AM Joy.

"So there is nothing new here," she continued. "I think the difference is they are all-in on being state TV for Donald Trump, and so they will continue to give misinformation."

At the time, Jean-Pierre worked as a political analyst for the left-wing network before joining the Biden campaign a couple of months later. She tweeted out the clip from her personal account and it was still up as of Tuesday afternoon.
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Israeli troops kill Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during Jenin raid

Shatha Hammad
Middle East Eye
Wed, 11 May 2022 16:35 UTC
Shireen Abu Akleh
© AFP/Al JazeeraShireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head during her coverage of an Israeli raid in the West Bank
Israeli forces shot and killed a senior Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent during an army raid on Wednesday in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Qatar-based news channel and Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Wearing a press vest, Palestinian Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot in the head during her coverage of the incursion and was transferred to Ibn Sina hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Another journalist, Ali Asmoadi, an Al Jazeera producer, was wounded by a gun shot and is in a stable condition.

Middle East Eye contributor Shatha Hanaysha said she and a group of six journalists, including Abu Akleh, were together when they came under fire from Israeli snipers.

The group of journalists, there to cover the raid, came under fire at the main entrance to Jenin refugee camp, near the main roundabout.

Comment: In a statement, Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the "blatant murder" of Abu Akleh, calling it a "heinous crime, through which it is intended to prevent the media from fulfilling its message".

"We hold the Israeli government and the occupation forces responsible for the killing of the late colleague Shireen," Al Jazeera said in a statement, urging the international community to hold the Israeli occupation forces accountable for their "intentional targeting and killing" of Abu Akleh.

Shireen Abu Akleh
© Mohamad Torokman/Reuters‌Thousands of Palestinians arrived in the West Bank to honor Abu Akleh, as her body was covered in the Palestinian flag and carried through the streets of Ramallah


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Facebook moderator sues company over 'human trafficking'


RT
Tue, 10 May 2022 19:45 UTC
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© Getty Images / Caia Image
Meta has been accused of a "deceptive recruitment process" in Kenya.

Former Facebook moderator Daniel Motaung has sued the social media giant's parent company Meta and its African subcontractor Sama, alleging in the suit filed on Tuesday that the company "subjected current and former content moderators to forced labor and human trafficking for labor."

Motaung claims he was laid off for organizing a strike in 2019 and trying to unionize Sama's employees. The subcontractor, he alleges, engaged in a "deceptive recruitment process" by advertising call center jobs that turned out to be content moderation jobs - with all the exposure to psychologically harmful content that entailed.

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Fire

Far-left group claiming responsibility for attack on pro-life org warns of more violence


The Post Millennial
Wed, 11 May 2022 01:15 UTC
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A pro-abortion group calling itself "Jane's Revenge" has both claimed responsibility for a Molotov Cocktail attack against a pro-life organization in Madison, Wisconsin, and vowed to continue acts of violence if pro-life groups across the nation don't disband.

A "first communique" was sent to far-left activist journalist Robert Evans on Tuesday morning.


Comment: It would seem the elite's have always held an overturning of Roe vs. Wade in their back pockets for when they want some chaos to erupt. It's rather telling that they've played this card now.

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Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reacts to Musk's plan to unban Trump


RT
Wed, 11 May 2022 02:37 UTC
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© House Energy and Commerce Committee via APFormer Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Jack Dorsey claims he is against permanent bans, with a few exceptions.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said he generally agrees that there should not be permanent suspensions of individual users, after billionaire and newly-minted owner of the social media giant Elon Musk promised to reverse the ban on former US President Donald Trump after the acquisition is completed.

Dorsey tweeted on Tuesday: "generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don't work," listing exceptions like child sexual exploitation, spam, "network manipulation," and other "illegal behavior."

Comment: It's rather curious that Dorsey is coming out in support of Musks announced planned changes when he never made any such changes himself when he was CEO. Were his hands tied, or is he just a high profile yes-man?

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Oil Well

'Recipe for blackouts': Millions Of Americans face power outages thanks to green energy transition

Thomas Catenacci
The Daily Caller
Wed, 11 May 2022 01:31 UTC
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© Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Consumers nationwide are facing a summer of blackouts as utility companies and local governments continue to push a rapid transition to renewable energy.

Independent operators of major regional electric grids serving tens of millions of Americans have recently warned that as temperatures rise this summer, they may have to resort to scheduled blackouts and other emergency measures to prevent significant wide-scale impacts. For several years, states have unveiled laws mandating a green transition and prohibiting fossil fuel infrastructure, forcing U.S. energy providers to plan renewable energy infrastructure upgrades worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

"You're doing everything you can to increase the demand for electricity while constraining supply," Jonathan Lesser, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has experience in the utility industry, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. "Well, that's a recipe for blackouts. Simple as that."

Wind and solar energy accounted for 14.5% of net power generation across sectors in the U.S. in February, up nearly double from five years ago when such sources produced 8.5% of total grid generation, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). In February 2012, ten years ago, wind and solar produced just 3.6% of net generation.

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German airline accused of booting all Jewish passengers off flight


RT
Tue, 10 May 2022 06:48 UTC
Orthodox Jewish travelers
© AP / Ariel Schalit
Even those obeying the rules were removed from the plane for merely appearing to be Jewish, passengers claimed.

A group of Orthodox Jewish travelers was expelled from a Lufthansa airliner during a stop in Frankfurt after some were accused of flouting its masking requirements. Some passengers insist they complied with the rule and were removed solely for their religious identity, while non-Jewish travelers were allowed to go on their way.

While stopped in Frankfurt during a connecting flight from New York to Budapest last week, a number of Jewish travelers were barred from re-boarding the plane by staff with Lufthansa airlines, who claimed some were not wearing masks during the last flight from NYC's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In footage purportedly filmed by a passenger during a heated exchange with an airline employee on Wednesday, the staffer is heard saying "everyone has to pay for a couple," referring to those who ran afoul of the masking requirement, and that "It's Jews coming from JFK. Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems."

Comment: Whether were they expelled because they were jews or because they allegedly refused to wear masks, it is still a fascism. It looks like a lot of people are still not aware of the real world and that they live in a global totalitarian police state where you have to be obedient citizen in order to function "normally."

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