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Hypocrisy: ACLU accused of telling black staff to 'keep quiet' on dearth of black leaders

Trone Dowd
VICE Magazine
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:49 UTC
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© GHI/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesACLU protest monitor at Night before Election demonstration, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA
A former associate director for the ACLU who says he was demoted and eventually fired for calling out internal racism at the pre-eminent civil rights nonprofit is now suing for discrimination and retaliation.

Robert Jackson filed a lawsuit Tuesday in New York District Court accusing the ACLU of not treating its own Black employees with the kind of equity that one would expect from a bastion of American values, equality, and justice. He says he and his Black colleagues were told to "keep quiet" about their criticisms concerning the organization's lack of leadership diversity, and he claims his bosses eventually tried to push him to quit his job.

"Despite the good the ACLU has done for the Black community outside of its walls, it appears that the scope of its stated mission starts and ends there," Jackson's lawsuit claims. "As was made clear to Mr. Jackson, complaints about systemic racism within the ACLU itself are not welcome, nor are the people who speak out."
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Unvaccinated students 'numbered' with Sharpie marker at New Hampshire prom

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 16:28 UTC
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At a prom in New Hampshire, high school students attending who weren't able to prove their vaccination status had numbers written on them with Sharpie marker to tell them apart from vaccinated attendees.

Students who were unable to provide evidence of their vaccination status, like their vaccine card, had a number written on their hand. Throughout the night of dancing, which was divided into three outdoor dance floors on school property, students were asked to raise their hand after every few songs to "determine who they were around," an email from the school obtained by WMUR9 stated.

State Representative Melissa Litchfield told WMUR9 that parents were concerned that students were being "singled out for not being vaccinated."

Several outraged constituents informed the state representative that unvaccinated students who attended the Exeter High School prom "had a number written on them in Sharpie" and were tracked throughout the evening since check-in.

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Appeals court in Florida sends Alachua County mask mandate back to lower court

Jim Saunders
Fox 13
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 16:01 UTC
Masked people
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Pointing to privacy rights, a divided state appeals court Friday overturned a circuit judge's decision last year that allowed Alachua County to keep in place a mask requirement to try to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, said Alachua County Circuit Judge Donna Keim did not properly consider the privacy rights of plaintiff Justin Green before she rejected a request for a temporary injunction against the mask requirement.

"The trial court simply looked at the right asserted by Green too narrowly, relying on the wrong privacy jurisprudence," said the 13-page majority opinion, written by Judge Adam Tanenbaum and joined by Judge Robert Long. "The right to be let alone by government does exist in Florida, as part of a right of privacy that our (Florida) Supreme Court has declared to be fundamental. ... (The Supreme Court) has construed this fundamental right to be so broad as to include the complete freedom of a person to control his own body. Under this construction, a person reasonably can expect not to be forced by the government to put something on his own face against his will. Florida's constitutional right to privacy, then, necessarily is implicated by the nature of the county's mask mandate."

The majority stopped short of declaring the Alachua County requirement unconstitutional but sent the case back to the lower court for reconsideration.
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Rare blood condition added as side effect of AstraZeneca shot, Pfizer & Moderna investigated for causing heart inflammation

Pushkala Aripaka
Reuters
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:32 UTC
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© REUTERS/Leonhard FoegerVials of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine are seen in a general practice of a doctor, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Vienna, Austria April 30, 2021.
Europe's drug regulator on Friday identified another very rare blood condition as a potential side effect of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and said it was looking into cases of heart inflammation after inoculation with all coronavirus shots.

The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) safety committee said that capillary leak syndrome (CLS) must be added as a new side effect to labelling on AstraZeneca's vaccine, known as Vaxzevria.

People who had previously sustained the condition, where fluids leak from the smallest blood vessels causing swelling and a drop in blood pressure, should not receive the shot, the EMA added.

Comment: Despite AstraZeneca's scandal-ridden offering, it's starting to look like the highly experimental Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines may pose an even greater risk to life: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - Protecting Yourself Against Vaccine Side Effects

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Ireland's major political parties investigated by privacy watchdog after admitting to using fake pollsters during elections


RT
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:48 UTC
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© Reuters / Henry NichollsElection posters of Michael Martin of the Fianna Fail party are displayed during the build-up to Ireland's national election in Youghal, Ireland.
Four of Ireland's biggest political parties, including the three currently in power, are facing audits after admitting to using fictional market research companies and posing as pollsters to survey voter mood ahead of elections.

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is conducting an investigation into how Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party, as well as opposition party Sinn Féin, have handled private data collected from voting members of the public.

In a statement, the DPC said that "all political parties have been asked to account for the source of each field of personal data they process concerning electors/voters."
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Hong Kong gov't can now censor films on national security grounds

Rhoda Kwan
Hong Kong Free Press
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:22 UTC
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New government guidelines have been enforced to allow Hong Kong authorities to censor films on the basis of safeguarding national security.

The updated censorship rules gazetted on Friday effectively allow censors to pull films they deem to be a violation of the national security law.

The new amendments to the Film Censorship Ordinance instruct the Film Censorship Authority to be "vigilant" against the depiction of "any act or activity which may amount to an offence endangering national security" in vetting whether films are appropriate for public screening.

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'Unacceptable misconduct': Elite German police force dissolved after investigation into sharing of neo-Nazi content


RT
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:14 UTC
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© Reuters / Fabrizio BenschFILE PHOTO: German special policemen SEK search a housing area in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
A special task force unit has been disbanded in the German city of Frankfurt am Main, a state interior minister has announced, amid an investigation into the sharing of extremist and neo-Nazi content on group chats.

The special operations command, known as SEK, will no longer exist in the city, Peter Beuth, interior minister of the central German state of Hessen, said at a press conference on Thursday, slamming the "complete failure" in leadership.

The announcement comes just a day after the alleged far-right extremist tendencies of a number of members were revealed. Some 20 SEK members, both active and former, are said to have exchanged hatred-inciting content in the special task force chats. The messages allegedly contained images of Adolf Hitler and swastikas - outlawed in modern Germany, as well as insults against asylum seekers, local media reported.

Comment: It's hard to know from what's revealed here whether this is yet another case of authorities overreacting to a bunch of spicy memes or that there actually were extremist views being shared by members of the force. We'll probably never know.

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Cop flipped pregnant woman's SUV while she was searching for a safe place to pull over

Brian Doherty
Reason
Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:52 UTC
cop flips car
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Arkansas cops love this insane practice they call "precision immobilization technique" — slamming into moving vehicles, sometimes over simple traffic stops.

Nicole Harper, pregnant with her daughter, was driving her SUV home on a Arkansas freeway in July 2020 when Arkansas State trooper Rodney Dunn decided to stop her for allegedly driving 84 in a 70 mph zone. He turned on his lights in an attempt to make her pull over.

Following what she understood to be standard safe procedure in this situation, Harper moved into the right lane, slowed down, turned on her hazards to indicate to the officer that she understood what was going on, and was seeking a safe shoulder or exit to pull over.

Comment: This was an absolutely insane and reckless move by Officer Dunn and should lead to his removal from the force. What he did was dangerous not only to the driver but to anyone else driving on the highway at the time. Do speeders deserve to have their vehicles destroyed and risk of injury or even death?

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No jab, no phone: Unvaccinated to have SIM cards blocked, Pakistan's Punjab govt says


RT
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 07:47 UTC
SIM cards
© REUTERS/Dado RuvicSIM cards lie on a table in this photo illustration taken in Sarajevo February 24, 2015.
Punjab's provincial government is turning to coercive measures to increase participation in its Covid-19 vaccination program, after unveiling plans to disable the SIM cards of people who decline to get jabbed.

The extreme decision was made during a meeting of high-ranking civil and military officials chaired by Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid.

Rashid said that the policy would disable SIM cards belonging to those who fail to get vaccinated "beyond a certain time."

"We are doing all we can to compel people to get vaccinated... The government cannot allow individuals, who do not want to get vaccinated, to risk lives of those who are already vaccinated," the health minister told Pakistan's Express Tribune. She said that the provincial government would devise a timeline for the policy's implementation once it received formal approval from the National Command and Operation Center, which coordinates Pakistan's national response to Covid-19.


Comment: Aren't the vaccines supposed to protect them from The Virus™? If so, how would an unvaccinated person put them at risk?


Punjab's Primary and Secondary Health Department announced the measure on Thursday in a tweet detailing the outcome of the meeting.

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Women are being attacked, sacked and threatened with jail simply for pointing out that you cannot change your biological sex

Rob Lyons
RT
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:01 UTC
Transgender rally
© Getty Images / Wiktor SzymanowiczTransgender people and their supporters take part in a rally in Parliament Square, London.
A Scottish feminist campaigner, Marion Millar, had been charged with hate crimes for alleged homophobic and transphobic posts on Twitter. The case seems bizarre. Millar is a 50-year-old mother of autistic twins and runs an accountancy business. She's also a feminist campaigner and, along with many other Scottish feminists, has been tweeting under the hashtag #WomenWontWheesht (Women won't shut up).

Millar has been unrepentant in calling out "predatory" men who, she argues, are claiming to be women, while also saying she "support transsexuals absolutely." In other words, she is not anti-trans, but is extremely worried about the most aggressive trans activists and the idea that someone can simply declare themselves to be a woman, something that could threaten women-only spaces.

According to blogger Lily Maynard, on April 28, Millar was contacted by local police and told that she would need to attend her local police station to be interviewed under the Malicious Communications Act (MCA). She was told she would have to place her children with social services while she was interviewed. After another cancelled appointment, she was interviewed on June 3, after which she was charged. If she is convicted, she could face up to six months in prison.

One of the apparently offensive tweets from Millar was of a photograph of a ribbon - in the Suffragette colours of green, white and purple - tied to a fence outside the studios where the BBC soap opera River City is filmed. However, it seems that the ribbon was interpreted by someone as a noose, implying that the tweet was in fact a veiled threat.

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