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82 dead in fire after 'oxygen tanks explode' at Covid hospital in Iraq


The Telegraph
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:10 UTC
hospital fire
© ReutersPeople look on at Ibn Khatib hospital after a fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion
A fire that ravaged a Covid-19 hospital in Iraq's capital killed 82 people pre-dawn Sunday, sparking angry calls for officials to be sacked in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure.

Many of the victims were on respirators when the blaze at Baghdad's Ibn al-Khatib hospital started with an explosion caused by "a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders", medical sources told AFP.

Flames spread quickly across multiple floors in the middle of the night, as dozens of relatives were at the bedsides of the 30 patients in the hospital's intensive care unit where the most severe Covid-19 cases are treated, a medical source said.

Comment: Other fires in healthcare facilities recently:

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140 patients injected with saline instead of Pfizer vaccine 'by mistake' in France


RT
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:07 UTC
Pfizer vaccine
FILE PHOTO: A French healthcare worker administers a dose of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
Dozens of people due to be vaccinated against Covid-19 using the Pfizer-BioNtTech jab were injected with normal saline instead as the result of an unexplained blunder by French medical workers.

Some 140 people who attended the vaccination center at Reims University Hospital in the town of Epernay, 130km northeast of Paris, erroneously received injections on Tuesday.

The injections contained normal saline, which is a harmless solution of sodium chloride dissolved in water. It can be applied externally to clean wounds and help with dry eyes, or it can be injected to treat dehydration, among other conditions. The error is therefore not expected to result in any serious health consequences.

Comment: It's rather curious that they weren't able to explain what led to the apparent error. Although there have been a number of accidental overdoses reported, and usually with explanations forthcoming, including in Germany, the US, and Israel.

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Virginia plans to eliminate all accelerated math courses prior to 11th grade in an effort to achieve equity: report

Paul Sacca
The Blaze
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:49 UTC
Calculator
© Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images
The Virginia Department of Education is eliminating accelerated math courses before 11th grade to "improve equity in mathematics learning opportunities," according to a report by Fox News.

Loudoun County school board member Ian Serotkin brought attention to the reported academic changes on Tuesday with a Facebook post exposing the plans. Serotkin warns of a "sweeping initiative by the Virginia Department of Education to revamp the K-12 math curriculum statewide over the next few years." Serotkin's post included a chart of proposed math courses for 2022-2030.

"The Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI) is a joint initiative among the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and the Virginia Community College System (VCCS)," according to the VDOE website.

The initiative set goals to redefine "mathematics pathways for students in the Commonwealth to address the knowledge, skills, experiences, and attributes that students must attain to be successful in college and/or the workforce and to be 'life ready.'" The VMPI will also "improve equity in mathematics learning opportunities" and "empower students to be active participants in a quantitative world."

Comment: As with all of these 'equality' programs, the net effect is to bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator, i.e. making everyone equally dumb.

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Man wearing body armor killed by police after confrontation


AP
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:02 UTC
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© Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty ImagesA black vehicle covered with stickers is cornered by police cars at the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on April 24, 2021 after an officer-involved shooting.
Los Angeles police said officers killed a man wearing body armor Saturday after he backed his vehicle into a police car and confronted the officers.

The shooting happened at 2:37 p.m., after officers in Hollywood responding to a call were cut off by a vehicle in front of them on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Meghan Aguilar told reporters.

The driver hit his brakes and backed into the police car, Aguilar said.
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'They want to burn & intimidate': Portland Mayor Wheeler calls on public to help 'unmask' violent 'anarchist' protesters


RT
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 06:03 UTC
antifa portland
© Reuters / Lindsey WassonProtesters smash windows at the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters during a protest after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, in Portland, Oregon.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has extended a city-wide state of emergency declared over fears of violent protests, while calling on the public to help "unmask" an "anarchist mob" involved in attacks on police and businesses.

Wheeler said the emergency declaration would continue through the weekend during a Friday press conference, first imposed on Tuesday after ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. The mayor pointed to concerns of violence from demonstrators who've taken to the streets on dozens of occasions since the 46-year-old was killed in police custody last May.

"They want to burn. They want to bash - like they did to the nonprofit Boys and Girls Club in Northeast. Really, they want to intimidate. They want to assault," Wheeler said, referring to an incident on Monday which saw activists inflict nearly $20,000 in damage on a local community center during an anti-police brutality protest.

Comment: Wheeler did absolutely nothing about rioters in the city while Trump was in office, (probably because he was told not to by high ranking Dems). But now that Trump is out, chaos and rioters in the streets no longer sends the wanted message. Suddenly Antifa is a problem in Portland, and it's up to everybody else to help solve it. What a weasel.

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Judge orders Chauvin juror names sealed, citing risk of harassment

John Kruzel
The Hill
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:35 UTC
Judge Cahill
The judge who presided over Derek Chauvin's murder trial ordered that the names of the jurors who handed down guilty verdicts against the former Minneapolis police officer remain secret until further notice.

In court documents made public on Friday, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ordered that the jurors' identities be sealed for at least six months, citing concerns over possible unwanted publicity or harassment if their identities were made public.

The order will keep under wraps a list of the jury members who found Chauvin guilty of all three counts he faced, as well as their profiles and questionnaires, and the identities of alternate jurors.

Comment: One of the alternate jurors from the trial has already come forward and has been giving interviews to the press. From Breitbart:
Alternate Juror in Derek Chauvin Trial: 'I Was Concerned About People Coming to My House if They Were Not Happy with the Verdict'

Brooklyn Center resident Lisa Christensen, who served as an alternate juror in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, said she was "concerned about people" coming to her home if they were "not happy with the verdict" in the case.

Speaking to KARE 11's Lou Raguse, Christensen, who said she was ultimately "disappointed" when she discovered she would serve as an alternate juror, initially had "mixed feelings" about the possibility of being a juror in the controversial case.

"I had mixed feelings. There was a question on the questionnaire about it and I put I did not know. The reason, at that time, was I did not know what the outcome was going to be, so I felt like either way you are going to disappoint one group or the other," she said, explaining she did "not want to go through rioting and destruction again."

"And I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict," she admitted.


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DOJ mulling charges against Derek Chauvin for 2017 arrest involving 14-year-old boy: report

Stephanie Pagones
Fox News
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 09:08 UTC
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© Minnesota Department of CorrectionsDerek Chauvin is being held in custody following his conviction for the death of George Floyd. He is on "administrative segregation" status for his safety, corrections officials said.
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is mulling whether to charge now-convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in connection with a 2017 incident in which he allegedly violently handled a 14-year-old boy and used his knee to hold the teenager down for almost 17 minutes, according to a report.

ABC News cited a source in reporting that Minnesota prosecutors had tried in the months leading up to Chauvin's trial to include video evidence from at least one of his prior arrests, but the judge ultimately denied their request.

The Justice Department is now reportedly exploring whether to file charges against the ex-cop for the actions portrayed in the video.

Comment: From the sounds of things, Chauvin is likely a serial abusive cop and also likely deserves to be put away, but none the less, still should be afforded a fair trial.

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Light Saber

Best of the Web: Several hundred thousand protesters rally in London against lockdown tyranny


Sky News
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:04 UTC
london lockdown protest
'Just a few people breaking the law,' according to UK media...
Thousands of people have defied social distancing rules to march through the streets of central London - mostly in protest against COVID regulations including face masks and potential vaccine passports.

At least 10,000 demonstrators have been marching through the capital in the Saturday sunshine, according to Sky's home affairs correspondent Mark White, who was there.


Comment: Mark White needs new glasses. There were hundreds of thousands - if not over a million - people protesting.



A march initially said to be part of the "Kill the Bill" movement against laws granting greater powers to police was seemingly usurped by those protesting about coronavirus.

Mark White said: "The vast majority of people who are here are actually protesting against the rules around COVID, against vaccination, against the rules around masks.

"Lots of other concern as well about the potential for vaccine passports."

Comment: More footage of the protest, via RT:
Actor and mayoral candidate Laurence Fox, who has promised to do away with Covid-19 restrictions entirely if elected, was an enthusiastic participant. Posting videos of hordes of people marching through the streets, he decried the "total corruptstream media blackout" of the protest.

As of mid-afternoon, the mood seemed jovial. Though gatherings of such a large scale are still forbidden under the UK's lockdown rules, the mostly maskless crowd marched freely through the city.

Unlike protests by climate activists over the preceding days, Saturday's march was largely ignored by the mainstream media, with only a handful of British tabloids dedicating short stories to the demonstration.







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US judge frees gang member despite attempted-murder charges, he then goes on crime spree

Joe Marino
New York Post
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:13 UTC
Newson
© NYPDGang member Takim Newson allegedly went on a crime spree after dragging an NYPD cop with a car.
A reputed gang member who was freed without bail despite attempted-murder charges allegedly went on a crime spree that included dragging an NYPD officer with a car Friday — enraging the city's top cop.

"NYC: @NYPDDetectives are AGAIN searching for Takim Newson after he used a car to assault a police officer early this morning," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted Friday afternoon.

Newson, 32, allegedly ran amok for nearly 12 hours after cops approached him behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz with excessively tinted windows that was blocking traffic near Rockaway Parkway and Willmohr Street in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn at around 3:30 a.m., sources said.
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YouTube sanctions RT's English & German channels alleging 'Covid-19 disinformation'


RT
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 20:15 UTC
youtube rt
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic; Sputnik/ Ilya Pitalev
RT's English YouTube channel was issued a strike by the service over alleged Covid-19 disinformation, temporarily restricting its ability to launch live broadcasts. RT in Germany faced similar sanctions.

On Friday, four videos on RT's main English-language channel were made inaccessible for viewers for what YouTube said were violations of its policies on "medical misinformation" and "spam, deceptive practices and scams."

In its notification letter, the platform didn't specify what exact content in those clips went against its regulations. RT has addressed YouTube for clarification, but hasn't gotten a response yet.

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