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Liberty King: Florida governor to pardon everyone in state charged with breaking Covid restrictions

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© AFP / Joe RaedleFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced he will pardon all Floridians who have been legally charged for breaking coronavirus restrictions on mask wearing and social distancing, arguing guidelines should be advisory.

Appearing Wednesday on Fox News with Florida gym owners Mike and Jillian Carnevale, who were arrested on several occasions and threatened with months in prison for allowing people to enter their business without a face mask, DeSantis said he would overrule the "total overreach" against them.

"This is exactly what we ordered against last summer, many months ago," the governor declared, before announcing that "effective tomorrow morning" he would "sign a reprieve under my constitutional authority" that would "delay the case for sixty days."

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Former top military brass question 2020 election result, Biden's health

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© Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetired generals and admirals penned an open letter questioning the 2020 presidential election result and President Joe Biden’s current state of health.
More than 120 retired generals and admirals have published an open letter questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election as well as President Biden's fitness to be commander-in-chief.

The letter, first reported by Politico, bears the heading of a group calling itself "Flag Officers 4 America" and says the United States "is in deep peril," with Americans "in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776."

Among the letter's 126 signatories are retired Rear Adm. John Poindexter, national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan, and retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, who spent five years as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush and is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council.

"Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the 'will of the people' our Constitutional Republic is lost. Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen," the letter reads before going on to blast critics of voter ID laws as engaging in a "tyrannical intimidation tactic."

"Additionally, the 'Rule of Law' must be enforced in our election processes to ensure integrity," the letter continues. "The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020."

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Merriam-Webster defines 79 percent of Americans as 'anti-vaxxers'

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Are you now or have you ever been an anti-vaxxer?

Chances are high that the answer is yes if you're using Merriam-Webster's definition of the term: "a person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination." (Emphasis added).

A Morning Consult poll from this past December indicated that only 21 percent of Americans would support making the coronavirus vaccines mandatory for adults, rendering a shocking 79 percent of the public "anti-vaxxers."

Observers took notice of the inclusive Merriam-Webster definition on Wednesday, two days after New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared that State University of New York (SUNY) campuses would be requiring vaccination for all students enjoying in-person instruction. "I encourage all private colleges & universities to require vaccinations as well" Cuomo added.

Comment: It's not anti-vax to be against forced vaccinations by the State. It's pro-liberty.


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The Israel narrative is crumbling: Phone cameras and the internet expose the lie

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"Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes," reads a new report from AP.

Nine children, killed with the help of United States funding to the tune of $3.8 billion a year.

Remember kids, the US loves Muslims and just wants to protect their human rights.


The Monday night airstrikes were in response to rocket attacks by Gaza resistance groups which had reportedly injured six Israelis, and those rocket attacks were in turn were a response to a deluge of Israeli police brutality footage in Jerusalem in preceding days. Electronic Intifada reports:

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Flashback 'I watched the terrifying way in which we Judaize the land': an eyewitness account of the Sur Baher home demolitions

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Ismail sits with one of his sons after being thrown out of their home. (Screenshot from Yuval Abraham's film "A Dark Night in Wadi al-Hummus")
Translator's note: Below is the testimony of Yuval Abraham, a filmmaker and journalist, who stayed with a family in Sur Baher the night their home was demolished by Israeli forces. Abraham's account, translated from Hebrew, was originally published on Facebook and addressed to fellow Israeli Jews. The story of Ismail's family, described here through Abraham's eyes, is one of many. That night, 72 other families had their homes demolished by Israeli forces. Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Shor made a short film about these events, available at 972 Magazine: A dark night in Wadi al-Hummus. — Yarden Katz


I'm mentally exhausted. I spent the night in Sur Baher. I saw with my own eyes how they ruined Ismail's life and his home. A gentle man, with kind eyes. He planned every detail in his home. "My dream home," he told me at three o'clock in the morning, before the catastrophe, as his foot was shaking. He kept saying, I wish it won't happen. I wish they won't destroy [my home]. The kitchen cabinets were painted bright pink, the style he loves, that he picked, and the walls of his four-year old daughter were soundproof and insulated, to prevent the room from overheating in the summer. He sent her to sleep at her grandfather's. His other kids were home. Everyone's awake. Scared to death that the monster might come.

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Fire

Firefighting helicopter crash in China kills four

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Helicopter crash in China May 10, 2021. Still image from video.
It was attempting to refill its water bucket at a lake

Four were killed Monday May 10 after a helicopter crashed in Erhai Lake in Dali, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The Z-8X helicopter operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force had been assisting firefighters on the ground by dropping water with an external bucket. It crashed while attempting to refill at the lake.

Initially it was reported that the two pilots were killed and there were two missing crewmembers. After a search that involved 16 ships and more than 490 rescuers the crewmembers were found deceased about 16 hours later, very early Tuesday morning local time.

Videos show the aircraft start to slowly rotate or spin while it was a couple of hundred feet above the lake before the bucket was lowered into the water. The spin increased in speed and the helicopter descended, then there is an explosion that sends debris flying before the helicopter hits the water.


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Texas officials back pardoning Floyd for 2004 drug arrest

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Top leaders in the Texas county where George Floyd grew up supported a resolution Tuesday calling for him to be posthumously pardoned for a 2004 drug arrest by a former Houston police officer now facing murder charges in a separate case.

The five members of Harris County Commissioners Court unanimously approved the resolution in support of the pardon request, which was submitted last month to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board still must decide whether to recommend a pardon, and Gov. Greg Abbott will have the final say.

"I think this is a phenomenal opportunity to fix a miscarriage of justice in George's case," Tera Brown, a cousin of Floyd, told commissioners before they approved the resolution.

Comment: The lionization of St. George Floyd continues unabated. Of course Floyd didn't deserve to die, but all evidence points to the fact that he wasn't exactly a model citizen. No need to paint him as such in retrospect.

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Ruling paves way for longer sentence in George Floyd's death

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill
© Court TV via AP, PoolIn this April 19, 2021, file image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill addresses the court after the judge put the trial into the hands of the jury, in the trial of Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. In a ruling May 12, 2021, Judge Cahill finds aggravating factors in death of George Floyd, paving way for tougher sentence for Chauvin.
A Minnesota judge has ruled that there were aggravating factors in the death of George Floyd, paving the way for the possibility of a longer sentence for Derek Chauvin, according to an order made public Wednesday.

In his ruling dated Tuesday, Judge Peter Cahill found Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer when he restrained Floyd last year and that he treated Floyd with particular cruelty. He also cited the presence of children and the fact Chauvin was part of a group with at least three other people.

Cahill said Chauvin and two other officers held Floyd handcuffed, in a prone position on the street for an "inordinate amount of time" and that Chauvin knew the restraint was dangerous.

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Former Olympian: Female weightlifters told to 'be quiet' about transgender people competing for Olympics

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Former Olympic weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs said female athletes are being told to silence complaints about transgender New Zealand athlete Laurel Hubbard competing in women's weightlifting competitions.

Lambrechs blasted allowing biological men to compete against women in sports during an interview with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) last week, according to Reuters. Lambrechs comments come as the 43-year-old Hubbard is poised to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics, assuming they can qualify under the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) regulations for fitness and performance.

"I'm quite disappointed, quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot," Lambrechs said. "We're all about equality for women in sport but right now that equality is being taken away from us."

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Former MSNBC host justifies death of white man punched by black teen after racial slur at Dunkin' Donuts

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Former MSNBC host Touré Neblett blasted "white justice" and appeared to celebrate the death of a 77-year-old man who died after being punched for reportedly using a racial slur.

Neblett was reacting to a story out of a Florida Dunkin' Donuts where a 27-year-old black man named Corey Pujols said he punched a man nearing 80 after he reportedly used a racial slur. The man later died, and Pujols is facing a manslaughter charge, something Neblett argues is unjustified.

"If there was actual justice in this country, as opposed to white justice, then if you went to someone's minimum wage job and called them the n-word twice, whatever happened after that would be legally acceptable," the liberal pundit tweeted on Wednesday.

Comment: Words are justification for murder now. No free speech, no right to a free trial, it's instant death penalty with no consequences for the assailant if one dares utter the wrong word. Sounds fair Touré.