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Bullseye

Sure, Aaron Rodgers misled people about his vaccine status - but the holier-than-thou media backlash is over the top

John Balfe
RT
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:35 UTC
Aaron Rodgers
© USA Today Sports
NFL star Aaron Rodgers is at the center of a media firestorm after admitting he misled people about his vaccination status, but such a public figure can hardly be blamed for being wary of releasing personal medical information.

Green Bay Packers star Rodgers, who is the reigning NFL MVP, is among the most high-profile athletes in the United States. With that comes an intense media glare, some of which, to be fair, is stoked by Rodgers himself, such as his stint guest-hosting the gameshow 'Jeopardy!' as well as his relationships with the likes of actress Olivia Munn, NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, and, most recently, fiancée Shailene Woodley.

Tabloid talk and media whispers come with the territory of being one of the best-paid athletes in America. It is a necessary evil part and parcel with being a star quarterback - and for the most part, it is a role that Rodgers relishes as he attracts countless sponsorship dollars to add to his already inflated salary.

But a blurred line exists between what sports fans are entitled to know and what they expect to know about their favorite sports star's health. Sure, if Rodgers has an elbow injury which could threaten to keep him from the field, that is relevant information for fans and oddsmakers alike - but does Rodgers owe anyone a full disclosure of his decision to best protect himself against Covid-19?
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Eye 1

Mob beats 62-year-old man in unprovoked Hell's Kitchen attack

Amanda Woods
New York Post
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:48 UTC
NYC attack
While the victim was still on the ground, six other men ran up to him and stabbed and slashed him multiple times.
Disturbing video captures the moment a mob of suspects brutally beat a 62-year-old man in an unprovoked attack in Hell's Kitchen.

The victim was walking on West 44th Street near Eighth Avenue just after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday when a man came up behind him and snarled, "What are you looking at?" cops said.

The suspect then knocked him to the ground with what appears to be a metal object and ran off, footage released by the NYPD shows.

While the victim was still on the ground, six other men ran up to him and stabbed and slashed him multiple times, according to cops and the footage.
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Bulb

Fashion icon Tom Ford says cancel culture restricts creativity


RT
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:42 UTC
Tom Ford
© Reuters / Caitlin OchsTom Ford poses on the carpet at the 2021 CFDA Awards in New York, November 10, 2021
Legendary designer Tom Ford isn't an outright opponent of 'cancel-culture,' but he reckons that the modern left's zero-tolerance attitude to "cultural appropriation" is making it "tough to be creative."

Flogging clothing and fragrances from his eponymous design house and after stints as creative director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford is one of the best-known names in the world of fashion. However, he sees troubling times ahead for his industry.

"There is a zero-tolerance policy, which is great in many ways but very difficult to manage if you are a public person or if you are running a company," he told the Evening Standard on Wednesday.
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Pills

State supreme court lets Johnson & Johnson off the hook for $465 million opioid fine

Laurel Duggan
Daily Caller
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:34 UTC
Johnson & Johnson opioid
Oklahoma's Supreme Court overturned a $465 million public nuisance judgment against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) on Tuesday. The earlier ruling from a lower court blamed the company for the opioid crisis.

The court ruled that J&J was not liable for a public nuisance because it had no control over its products after it sold them to distributors and wholesalers.

"This case challenges us to rethink traditional notions of liability and causation," Justice James R. Winchester wrote in the opinion. "The court has allowed public nuisance claims to address discrete, localized problems, not policy problems."

Comment: Seems letting off Big Pharma in the opioid crisis is the going trend: Drug companies win in California opioid crisis lawsuit

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Megaphone

FDA recalls millions of Covid test kits over false results


RT
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:16 UTC
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© AP/Fateh GuidoumA nurse arranges antigen covid-19 tests in a private laboratory in this Dec. 6, 2020, file photo. Antigen tests, commonly called rapid tests, detect protein fragments specific to the coronavirus. It is different that a PCR test, which detects genetic material specific to the virus.
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued "the most serious type of recall" for popular home testing kits that show if one is infected with coronavirus. At least 2.2 million products may have been showing false positives.

Some 2,212,335 kits produced by the Australian-based biotech company Ellume and distributed in the US potentially show false positive SARS-CoV-2 test results, the public health agency said in a statement on Thursday.

The FDA warned that the use of faulty kits "may cause serious adverse health consequences or death," identifying the case as a 'Class I recall.'

Comment: 'At least 35 cases' means nothing. It's a manipulation of language masking the real numbers which are no doubt vastly higher for the tests to be recalled.

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Arrow Down

Scottsdale school board member publicized parents' social security numbers, divorce proceedings, financial records in effort to intimidate outspoken parents

Chrissy Clark
Daily Caller
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:31 UTC
SUSD dossier
© Amy Carney
Parents with children enrolled in the Scottsdale Unified School District were appalled when they uncovered that one of the district's school board members had editing access to a Google Drive that included personal pictures and information on a slew of outspoken parents, including their social security numbers, a divorce proceeding, and financial records.

Mother Kim Stafford uncovered a Google Drive link when school board President Jann-Michael Greenberg sent her an email accusing her of "anti-Semitic" comments against billionaire George Soros. Greenburg sent Stafford a screenshot of his desktop, which included a since-deleted Google Drive URL reviewed by the Daily Caller. The drive was available to anyone who had the link.

Comment: From Arizona Daily Independent:
Scottsdale Unified School District Communications sent an email out on the evening of November 10 to assure all families that their data is safe. However, the district also solely blamed the discovered digital dossier site on Mark Greenburg, the father of SUSD Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg.

Even though Mark Greenburg is listed as the drive owner, Jann-Michael voiced in the SUSD Special Governing Board Meeting on August 17, 2021, that he shares a computer with Mark. Since Mark and Jann-Michael share a computer and a home, there is no way to know who is uploading files to the drive, say parents.

Parents say that despite his denial of any involvement, they believe there is evidence that Jann-Michael has complete knowledge of the drive and has shared contents to intimidate parents. Parents are calling that an "unacceptable abuse of power."

"We request President Greenburg's resignation from the Governing Board effective immediately for this and other recent embarrassments to our district," concluded Carney.


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Arrow Down

Philadelphia school district considering 'gag order' to intimidate employees from talking to media amid CRT backlash

Chrissy Clark
Daily Caller
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:53 UTC
Philadelphia school district
© Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images
The Philadelphia School District is considering implementing a policy that would prohibit employees from talking to the media unless they receive a staff sign-off, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The proposed media relations policy would be updated to read, "staff members shall not give school information or interviews requested by news media representatives without prior approval of the Office of Communications," the Inquirer reported. Under the new policy, employees cannot share photographs taken inside school buildings either.

Philadelphia School District's current policy encourages employees to seek permission before responding to media requests, but employees are currently allowed to seek media coverage.
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Bad Guys

Yemen's Houthi militants storm US embassy in Sana'a, seize hostages and equipment

Adam Kredo
Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:12 UTC
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Houthi militants storm the US embassy in Sanaa, which was closed in 2015, but some local staff continue to work from home or as security guards for the premises
State Department 'concerned about the breach of the compound,' demands release of hostages

The State Department is working to secure the release of several kidnapped hostages taken by Iran-backed terrorists just a day after the militant group stormed the U.S. embassy facility in Sana'a, Yemen, U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon early Thursday.

A group of Houthi rebels reportedly stormed the U.S. compound on Wednesday seeking "large quantities of equipment and materials," according to regional reports translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The raid comes just five days after the Houthis kidnapped Yemeni nationals who work for the U.S. embassy. "The alleged raid comes after the Houthis kidnapped three Yemeni nationals affiliated with the U.S. Embassy from one of the employee's private residences in Sana'a on November 5," according to MEMRI. At least 22 other Yemenis were kidnapped by the Houthis in recent weeks, "most of whom worked on the security staff guarding the embassy grounds," according to MEMRI.
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NPC

Report says LGBT staff quitting BBC over 'hostile' environment


RT
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:42 UTC
LGBTQ flag
© Miguel Sotomayor via Getty Image
Several BBC employees have reportedly quit over the broadcaster's perceived insensitivity toward LGBTQ-related matters. While some see the network as ultra-woke, others apparently see just the opposite.

"The BBC is a hostile place to be LGBT at the moment," one senior staffer, a bisexual woman, told Vice on Thursday, accusing the organisation of "touting transphobic nonsense."

The employee, who declined to give her name, was one of several to quit in recent months, citing the broadcaster's treatment of LGBT staffers and its news coverage.

Comment: Good riddance. Saner members of the Beeb (if there are any left) must be breathing a sigh of relief. While a good number of the Twitterati astroturf groups flooded social media with lockstep posts of support, others were willing to give voice to reality:





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Bulb

Pennsylvania court throws out governor's school mask mandate


Fox 45 News, Associated Press
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:05 UTC
florida kids school masks
© AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, FileIn this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, file photo, students, some wearing protective masks, arrive for the first day of school at Sessums Elementary School in Riverview, Fla.
A state court has thrown out an order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools, but the Wolf administration plans an appeal.

Commonwealth Court ruled that said the mask mandate didn't comply with rules for setting regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.

Commonwealth Court sided 4-1 with the ranking Republican in the state Senate and others who sued to challenge the masking order that took effect in early September.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday announced he'll return authority over masking decisions to local school districts in January. Wolf's spokesperson said the ruling would be appealed later Wednesday.

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