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Louisiana woman stabbed to death on Facebook Live after 'drug binge': cops

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© AP/Baton Rouge Police DepartmentEarl Lee Johnson Jr. admitted to the killing of Janice David, per a report.
A Louisiana woman was stabbed to death on a Facebook Live video after her killer allegedly tied her hands to a car steering wheel using jumper cables, cops and reports said Tuesday.

Earl Lee Johnson Jr., 35, was arrested for the murder of Janice David, 34, who was found beaten and fatally stabbed in a car at 9:52 p.m. Monday, Baton Rouge Police Department said.

The Facebook Live session lasted about 15 minutes and came after a three or four-day "drug binge," Sgt. L'Jean McKneely told reporters Tuesday.

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CNN+ streaming service looks doomed

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Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN's longtime chief financial officer as it weighs what to do with the subscription streaming service moving forward, five sources tell Axios.

Why it matters: Inside CNN, executives think the launch has been successful. Discovery executives disagree.
  • CNN+ has roughly 150,000 subscribers so far.
  • Warner Bros. Discovery wants to eventually build one giant service around HBO Max.
  • New leadership has replaced CNN CFO Brad Ferrer with Neil Chugani, Discovery's current CFO for streaming and international, as part of a broader finance team restructuring.
  • Other high-level positions at WarnerMedia across different business functions are likely to be eliminated to cut costs and streamline leadership in coming weeks.

Comment: They blew $300M on this turkey. Gosh darn, what a shame.


Attention

Johnny Depp says he was demeaned, berated by Amber Heard

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© Jim Watson/Pool Photo via APActor Johnny Depp listens during a hearing at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., Tuesday April 19, 2022. Depp sued his ex-wife Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse."
Actor Johnny Depp returned to the stand Wednesday for testimony in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, a day after he denied her allegations of domestic abuse.

Depp took the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court after nearly three hours of testimony on Tuesday.

Most of his Day 1 testimony focused on his descriptions of a difficult childhood, his rise to fame as an actor after an aborted music career and his early relationship with Heard after meeting her on the 2011 film "The Rum Diary." The two married in 2015 and she filed for divorce a year later.

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Best of the Web: WaPo's Taylor Lorenz slammed as 'hypocrite' for 'doxxing' 'Libs of TikTok' creator

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© TwitterThe “Libs of TikTok” is a parody account which posts videos of liberals on TikTok.
Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post's internet culture beat reporter, is being accused of "doxxing" the anonymous woman who operates the popular Twitter account "Libs of TikTok."

Lorenz, the former New York Times journalist who earlier this month broke down in tears on MSNBC while recounting "harassment" she has experienced online, published an article on Tuesday revealing the identity of the social media user.

"Doxxing" is the term used to describe the act of posting the personal information of those who wish to remain anonymous.

Comment: What isn't mentioned in the piece above is that the Washington Post article originally published the Libs of Tik Tok creator's home address, only to later remove it due to backlash.


The Libs of Tik Tok creator appeared on Tucker Carlson after the incident:

Lorenz outing herself as a hypocrite:

From Newsweek:
Despite the clearly alarming trend of creating official lists of enemies for your political opponents and using ethically questionable means to expose private information, these kinds of retribution fantasies are enthusiastically embraced by the Democrats and their media allies.

Taylor Lorenz's doxxing of "Libs of Tik Tok" is just the latest incarnation of this trend. It showcases the absurd lows that corporate media will stoop to in order to silence independent voices that capture inconvenient popular sentiments.

One need not agree with the political stances of Trump supporters or the "Libs of Tik Tok" account to feel apprehensive about these attacks on anonymity and privacy being normalized and celebrated as brave activism.

The Washington Post exposé not only failed to explore the cultural and political reasons why the "Libs of Tik Tok" Twitter account gained such cultural prominence; it also failed to contextualize why the choice to doxx the anonymous user served any real political or journalistic purpose beyond a show of malice and intimidation. This kind of petty behavior is a common theme among the self appointed digital "authorities" of the corporate media class, who mask their desire to silence independent actors that pose a threat to their discursive dominance beneath a facade of activism and the work of exposing pernicious actors.




Dollars

Court fines Alex Jones $1 million to pay litigants' legal fees after filing for bankruptcy protection

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© ShutterstockConspiracy theorist Alex Jones reportedly was ordered to pay $1 million in legal fees for the families of some Sandy Hook victims.
The Infowars founder was ordered to pay legal fees for families of two Sandy Hook victims, and a Norwalk native falsely accused of a crime.

A day after he filed for bankruptcy protection, Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered by a Texas court to pay $1 million in legal fees for the families of two victims in the Sandy Hook mass shooting, the News-Times reported.


Additionally, Jones, who lost two defamation lawsuits in connection with the 2012 Sandy Hook murders, also must pay legal fees of a Norwalk native who was falsely accused on Jones's Infowars website of being the shooter in the fatal 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida.

Comment: More from newstimes:
The order is from the same Texas judge who is overseeing two upcoming trials to determine damages from defamation lawsuits Jones lost to Sandy Hook parents, and comes one day after three Jones-controlled businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Meanwhile Guerra Gamble has scheduled a conference on Wednesday to discuss whether the first trial to award defamation damages will begin as scheduled on April 25. The question is complicated even though a bankruptcy filing automatically delays a civil proceeding, because neither Jones himself nor his Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protection. Both Jones and Free Speech Systems are defendants in the lost defamation suits.

In Connecticut, where Jones lost a third defamation lawsuit to an FBI agent and eight families whose loved ones were slain in the Sandy Hook massacre, Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis called off a conference planned for Wednesday after learning Jones had filed a separate motion in bankruptcy court "which appears to remove the entire case, including the plaintiffs' claims against the other defendants."

"Therefore, this court will take no further action unless and until all or part of this matter is remanded back by the bankruptcy court," Bellis wrote.



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Airline passengers celebrate end of travel mask mandate

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Upon hearing that the TSA will no longer be enforcing travel mask mandates aboard airlines, videos circulated around social media of passengers celebrating.

"The agencies are reviewing the decision and assessing potential next steps," a Biden administration official said on Monday. "In the meantime, today's court decision means CDC's public transportation masking order is not in effect at this time."

In various videos shared across Twitter, airline captains and flight attendants announced the new rule only to be met with a chorus of applause as some could be heard shouting, "Finally!"

Eye 1

Reports of OSCE aiding Ukrainian Military could damage its reputation

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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, better known by its acronym OSCE is, per its own definition, the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, post-conflict rehabilitation, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations, but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. Most of its 57 participating countries are in Europe, but there are also members present in Asia and North America. The participating states cover nearly all of the Global North.

These self-describing definitions would make you think that OSCE cannot possibly be anything but a force for good. After all, in short, this should be their stated mission. Well, the war in Donbass, which has been going on for nearly a decade now, and which has taken the lives of around 15,000 local men, women and children, has pushed the role of OSCE into more of a gray area, especially in light of recent revelations.

OSCE's mission in Donbass, which the organization itself claims to be "arms control, promotion of human rights, early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management" has already failed. In fact, it has continually been failing for 8 years now, because how else could you call the fact that the Ukrainian shelling of the people of Donbass never stopped. Worse yet, former president of the post-Maidan Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko once openly stated that "our kids will be going to school freely, while their kids will be hiding in basements". So much for the "president of all Ukrainians". OSCE never reacted to such statements.

Comment: See also: Russia tells OSCE to leave Ukraine


Video

Exclusive interview - Aiden Aslin - British man fighting for Ukraine, captured in Donbass, Mariupol


And just in case YouTube decides to "protect" us from the truth, here is the same version, but uploaded to BitChute.

Comment: In custody in handcuffs, Aslin's interview discusses his indoctrination and subsequent realization of massive deception by the West/Ukraine, the magnitude of the global game and its already devastating consequences. He wants a ticket home...to a country whose government is steeped in false narratives. The interview is compelling. Propaganda, perception management or truth?


Health

Coronavirus: Shanghai reports first Covid-19 deaths just as city tiptoes towards business restarts on declining new cases

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© Xinhua via APMedical worker conducts antigen testing for an elderly resident in Shanghai, April 3, 2022.
  • Three unvaccinated residents - all elderly, aged from 89 to 91 years, with underlying ailments - died, out of 372,000 infected cases since March 1
  • The number of new cases fell 10 per cent from Sunday to 22,248, while the number of symptomatic cases declined by 25 per cent to 2,417
Shanghai reported the first fatalities from the city's current wave of Covid-19, just as local authorities embarked on a plan to gradually restore production and business activity in China's commercial centre after more than two weeks of lockdown.

New cases in Shanghai fell 10.4 per cent to 22,248, according to data released on Monday, while those showing symptoms declined by 25 per cent to 2,417 cases. The three deaths were among 16 "severe cases" of Covid-19 infections, all of them unvaccinated elderly residents with underlying ailments.

Stop

Democrats are blocking Republican efforts to digitally upload Hunter Biden's laptop

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© The Independent/UnknownRepublican Florida Representative Matt Gaetz • Hunter Biden
Democrats are blocking Republican efforts to upload the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop in a searchable digital format into the congressional record, the Daily Caller has confirmed.

House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff, which is responsible for entering documents into the record, is refusing to upload the laptop by citing technological limitations. Instead, they're forcing Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz's office to print hard copies and PDF-form documents of pages. Democrats maintained the stonewall even after Gaetz's office offered to provide the proper equipment to enable the digital file transfer, the Daily Caller has learned.

Gaetz initially moved to enter the laptop during a March 29 hearing, but committee chairman Jerry Nadler of New York prepared to object to Gaetz's request. Nadler ultimately relented after conferring with a committee lawyer. However, staffers he appointed are refusing to facilitate a file transfer.

Comment: See also:

Republicans have Hunter Biden's laptop: A 'treasure trove' of incriminating information