RTSat, 13 Nov 2021 10:53 UTC
© Reuters / Andrew KellyA demonstrator gestures toward New York Police Department officers at a protest in support of "Black Lives Matter" in lower Manhattan, New York, July 1, 2020.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Chivona Newsome has warned that she has the power to "snap our fingers and unleash the people," should New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams resurrect controversial NYPD anti-crime units.
"Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force," Newsome told RT America on Thursday. "That's how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in ... dire, dire poverty."
Created to stop violent crimes and confiscate illegal guns, the plainclothes anti-crime units were credited by supporters with keeping the city relatively free of violent crime. However, the units had a reputation for aggressive tactics and racial profiling, and plainclothes officers were involved in the deaths of Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo, all black men whose deaths galvanized black activists across the US.
Comment: Explain again how are these people
not a terrorist organization?
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BBCSat, 06 Nov 2021 11:44 UTC
Hundreds of people destroyed the VIP security entrance, bypassing the checkpoint
At least eight people have died and scores of people have been hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in Houston, Texas.
Panic broke out after the crowd began to press towards the front of the stage at rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival, emergency officials said.
Eleven people were taken to hospitals in cardiac arrest and eight died. Some casualties are aged as young as 10.About 50,000 people attended the event, which has now been cancelled.
Lina Hidalgo, the county judge of Harris County, described what had happened as an "extremely tragic night".
Comment: People dead and screaming for help, yet 'the show must go on'.
Scott is shacked up with really famous person Kylie Jenner, by the way, and she was there that night, 'instagramming' footage of ambulances coming and going...
What could better illustrate the collective descent into madness than such a 'cultural event'.
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UPDATE 7/11/2021: Houston PD made a
statement stating that a security guard reported being pricked in the neck with a needle:
Chief Finner said a security guard working the event felt a prick in his neck by an unknown assailant while he was trying to restrain a citizen -- and he quickly fell unconscious. Finner says the guard was revived by use of NARCAN ... and that medical personnel did, indeed, see something on his neck that indicated he'd been stabbed with a syringe.
Finner also said some people had been trampled, so it appears there was a mix of reasons why people were injured/passing out ... and perhaps why some died. The total number of people who've passed away remains at 8, and autopsies are underway to determine the causes of death for each.
TMZ
reported:
What many will be looking for here is whether there's any evidence to suggest the 8 people who've died thus far might've been triggered into cardiac arrest via outside influence or a third party ... namely, a would-be culprit who was allegedly going around and injecting folks with a syringe.
More videos are coming out from the event. One, in particular, shows people dancing on an emergency vehicle that was trying to make its way through the crowd:
Another shows multiple people receiving CPR on the scene:
UPDATE 8/11/2021: Families of those killed in the chaos and concertgoers who say they were injured in the crowd have filed more than
40 lawsuits against the performer and Astroworld organizers. Attorneys from Kherkher Garcia LLP said in a
statement that "Scott has a history of inciting violence and creating dangerous conditions for concertgoers".
Souza, who "suffered serious bodily injuries when the uncontrolled crowd at the concert knocked him to the ground and trampled him" is filing a lawsuit which states: "
Scott actively encourages his fans to 'rage' at his concerts. His express encouragement of violence has previously resulted in serious violence at numerous past concerts." NBC goes on to explain:
In 2017, Scott was arrested after he encouraged fans to bypass security and rush the stage — which he often does — leaving a security guard, a police officer and several others injured during a concert in Arkansas. Scott pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and had to pay more than $6,000 to two people injured at the show, according to The Los Angeles Times.
In a separate incident, he was sentenced to one year of court supervision after pleading guilty to reckless conduct charges stemming from a 2015 incident in Chicago at the Lollapalooza music festival.
Social media posts and a concert video from 2015 have resurfaced following the incident:
Scott made a public
statement saying he was "devastated by what took place". He has also offered to refund all tickets,
pay for the funerals of the deceased, and has partnered with an online therapy company that is offering one free month of therapy to concert-goers...
UPDATE 12/11/2021: In a recent public
statement, Houston police backtracked on the claim that a security guard was pricked in the neck at the concert, potentially with drugs. Police chief Finner
said that they had located the security guard and interviewed him.
"He says he was struck in his head, he went unconscious and he woke up in the security tent. He says that no one injected drugs into him. So we want to clear that part up."
RTFri, 12 Nov 2021 03:49 UTC
© Reuters
has obtained 'privileged communications' of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, raising suspicions that an FBI source might have leaked the newspaper confidential data obtained during recent raids.
FBI agents raided the home of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe last Saturday as part of an investigation into the acquisition of a diary purportedly written by President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley. On Thursday, less than a week after the raid, the
New York Times published an
article claiming to have obtained "internal documents" from Project Veritas' attorney.
The article sparked outrage among conservatives, who accused the FBI of leaking private communications from the organization to the newspaper.
Comment: See also:
UPDATE: From
The Post Millennial:
On Thursday evening, attorney Harmeet Dhillon sat down with Tucker Carlson to talk about the raid on her client, Project Veritas founder and CEO James O'Keefe, and how The New York Times published a story containing privileged information that was obtained in an "illegal and unethical" way.
O'Keefe's home was raided by the FBI on Saturday morning, which Dhillon said that they "had a battering ram, and they threw him out in the hallway and took, you know, in handcuffs and took his phones."
"Now a lot of privileged information was on his phones, including communications with -- by my count four dozen different lawyers over the years. And coincidentally, this publication came out this afternoon from The New York Times," she continued.
"I can't say with a certainty how The New York Times got this information, but I can say that they got it in a way that is illegal and unethical," Dhillon added.
Dhillon stated that its a "very disturbing situation of the U.S. attorney's office and/or the FBI tipping off The New York Times to each of the raids on Project Veritas — current and former employees."
She states that the know the outlet had been tipped off because reporters from The New York Times were calling mere minutes after the raids occurred, both on O'Keefe's house and earlier in the week on other Project Veritas-associated properties, and were the only journalism outlet to know they occurred.
"And they published this hit piece today, which is really despicable. I don't think I've ever seen this low from The New York Times before — to publish people's private legal communications," said Dhillon.
Dhillon continued on to ask "what does it prove?"
"All it proves is that Project Veritas is an honest and thoughtful journalistic organization that sought legal advice before making various publications. That's what Fox News does. That's what The New York Times does. And that's what every major journalism outlet does. So, I don't know what 'gotcha' they think they were doing there other than they got themselves. Because they criticized Project Veritas for its tactics. And yet they sink so low, Tucker," said Dhillon.
Carlson asked Dhillon if there was "any way to catch them in the act of doing this?" adding that "which I think would be a crime."
He also noted that the administration "we know for a fact" leaks information about critics of said administration to news outlets.
"We asked the court to order a special master, to review this information and let the Southern District of New York prosecutors and the FBI look at it without somebody separating out this information. The government would not agree to do that voluntarily, but we went to court and today a federal judge did order the government to stop looking at these phones," Dhillon responded, stating that the phones obtained "confidential source information" from sources in the Biden Administration, as well as sources in "corporate America" and donor information.
"So ultimately, we're going to get some answers as to what was reviewed and what they did with it. It may be a long time. We may never know what they've done. The government still hasn't admitted on your situation Tucker, that they did something illegal. I think they did. And you think they did. And there's a lot of this going on," she added.
Dhillon noted that the Privacy Protection Act is in place to protect journalists and their information "from exactly this type of thuggish behavior."
"But what the DOJ has done in this case -- they have blown federal law. They have blown the constitution; they have blown due process and civil rights. And now they're communicating at some level for sure with The New York Times. So, this is a scandal of epic proportions and every journalist who isn't worried and concerned about this should hang up their journalism card, ditto, all First Amendment lawyers as well," she concluded.
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Kate Connolly, Samantha Lock and agencies
The GuardianFri, 12 Nov 2021 08:01 UTC
© Xinhua/Rex/ShutterstockPeople queue to receive jabs from a Covid vaccination bus in Vienna, Austria. Those who are not fully vaccinated face a lockdown in the regions of Upper Austria and Salzburg.
in two of Europe's worst-hit coronavirus regions from Monday and could extend it across the country, the chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, has said.
Millions of people not fully vaccinated against Covid in the regions of Upper Austria and Salzburg will be allowed to leave their homes only for reasons considered essential to life, such as going to work, grocery shopping or visiting the doctor, Schallenberg said - measures believed to be unprecedented in Europe.The restrictions are in line with recommendations from medical experts and will be
monitored through random checks that the health minister, Wolfgang Mückstein, compared to traffic controls.Separately, the German government said it planned to tighten restrictions against unvaccinated people, as infections in both countries soared to record highs and intensive care units faced increasing strain.
Comment: Here we go again with another destructive wave of draconian restrictions and strengthening of the police state across Europe. They are managing and manipulating the numbers with PCR tests and the way they
analyze the samples.
We already know that
PCR tests are not a reliable method for
diagnosing any infectious disease, including Covid.
The mass vaccination campaigns are producing
mutated viral strains that can be much more dangerous than the original virus itself. At the same time vaccinated people are the ones who are
spreading all these new viral strains because they are allowed to move without any restrictions, while the healthy people are locked.
The ones who obey their government are allowed to continue their lives as the government tells them. For the ones who don't obey, the government will make a hell from their lives.
A perfect script for a police state for unlimited time. Welcome to the
new normal.See also:
On Thursday,
Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten published a tweet questioning when those who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 will face legal ramifications of their personal decision.
"Is there a point at which the 'unvaccinated' need to be prosecuted?" the columnist asked.
Weingarten has been vocal in recent months about those who have decided not to get the vaccine, writing tweets and columns about those who decided not to do so.In one tweet on October 30, Weingarten wrote on Twitter that "The 'vaccine hesitant' are selfish idiots whose selfish idiocy is killing people but we are not allowed to say that because why?"
Bethany Bell
BBCFri, 12 Nov 2021 08:51 UTC
© Getty ImagesAustria recorded almost 12,000 new cases on Thursday, the highest so far
Austrians are days away from a first lockdown for anyone not fully vaccinated, after record infections were reported across the country.
Upper Austria province will impose restrictions from Monday if it gets the go-ahead from the federal government. Salzburg also plans new measures.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said a national lockdown for the unvaccinated was "probably inevitable".Two-thirds of people should not suffer because others were hesitant, he said.
Upper Austria, which borders Germany and the Czech Republic and has a population of 1.5 million, has the country's highest level of infection and the lowest vaccination rate.
Nationally, a record 11,975 Covid-19 infections were recorded in the past 24 hours and Austria's coronavirus commission has warned of a threat that "must be taken seriously".
© Leeroy PressHawk Newsome (left), Mayor-elect Eric Adams, Chivona Newsome (center) and other Black Lives Matter activists meet inside Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday.
Leaders of the city's Black Lives Matter movement on Wednesday threatened "riots" and "bloodshed" in the streets if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reverses the abolition of the NYPD's controversial anti-crime units.
"If he thinks that they're going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people," said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of a group known as Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, after a heated meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall.
"So there is no way that he is going to let some Gestapo come in here and harm our people," Newsome told the
Daily News. "We pray for peace but ... prepare for the worst."
The hotel and Mr Humm have 'mutually' decided to part ways as the US-born chef aims to bring a 'bold new vision' of fully plant-based eating to London
Claridge's star chef has been sacked from his £150-a-head restaurant because bosses refuse to allow him to turn the restaurant fully vegan.
Daniel Humm, 45, will leave his post at Davies and Brook at the end of December
following tense talks with the five-star hotel's management.The vegan chef wanted to create a fully plant-based kitchen at the hotel's fine-dining restaurant.But bosses said
'this is not the path we wish to follow here at Claridge's at the moment' in a statement posted to
Twitter.
The hotel and Mr Humm have 'mutually' decided to part ways as the US-born chef aims to bring a 'bold new vision' of fully plant-based eating to London.
Comment: He must have noticed the private jets and cavalcades of cars at the Cop26? The menu there was also not vegan, despite the other righteous proclamations of the hypocrites in attendance.
This incident is telling, because it's clear the establishment won't be eating bugs, nor synthesized burgers, they won't even restrict themselves to just vegetables - because they know the detrimental impact such a diet has on health - but we can be sure that they will expect the masses to do just that, ostensibly to 'save the planet':
And check out SOTT radio's:
Behind the Headlines: Dissecting the Vegetarian Myth - Interview with Lierre Keith
Jonathan Turley
USA TodayFri, 12 Nov 2021 16:59 UTC
© Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, PoolKyle Rittenhouse, center, looks up and away from a video monitor as footage of him shooting on the night of Aug. 25, 2020, is shown during the trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, Nov. 3 2021.
The trial of
Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. By only touching discrete parts of the animal, the men describe vastly different animals. In coverage of this trial, one would think that there were parallel trials occurring in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
One consensus however is emerging: Things are not going well for the prosecution.But the reason for this developing failure depends greatly on what media you are watching other than the trial itself. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism.
Rittenhouse is facing
six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction.
Kyle Morris
Fox NewsThu, 11 Nov 2021 14:52 UTC
© AP Photo/Alonzo Adams, FileIn this Feb. 3, 2020, file photo, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt delivers his State of the State address in Oklahoma City.
Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed an
executive order preventing the Oklahoma State Department of Health from issuing gender-neutral birth certificates.
The order was filed Monday and comes after the state issued its first nonbinary birth certificate last month, a move Stitt claims is not allowed under current state law.
"It has come to my attention that the Oklahoma State Department of Health has entered into a settlement agreement which was not reviewed or approved by my administration," Stitt wrote in the order.
"This settlement requires OSDH to amend birth certificates in a manner not permitted under Oklahoma Law. This Order ensures that this unauthorized action will be corrected."
Comment: Explain again how are these people not a terrorist organization?
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