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Cuomo was reportedly offered $4M for pandemic memoir

Bernadette Hogan, Tamar Lapin
New York Post
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:16 UTC
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© Brendan McDermid/APNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo
New details emerged Wednesday about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pandemic memoir, including how he enlisted government staffers to help with the book — for which he was offered more than $4 million, according to a new report.

Top aides Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton as well as junior staffers assisted the governor with drafts of American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was published in mid-October, The New York Times reported.

The governor's book deal — which came as he was riding high in popularity due to his nationally televised coronavirus briefings — ended with a $4 million offer, the Times reported.

Crown Publishing has since paused promotion of "American Crisis" because of a federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

Early last summer, while DeRosa was helping to edit early drafts and attending video meetings with publishers, she and other top aides were also worried about an impending Health Department report about the virus' toll on nursing homes, according to the Times. The report threatened to reveal a far higher number of nursing home deaths from the coronavirus than had previously been made public by the administration.
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Psaki grilled on teachers giving in-person instruction to migrant kids before their own students

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Tod Gloria and tour group
© Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune/APSan Diego Mayor Tod Gloria and officials on tour of temporary shelter.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday was grilled about San Diego public school teachers volunteering to teach migrant children in-person before returning to the classroom to teach the students in their own district. Psaki seemed to defend the in-person instruction while students are on spring break, saying "context is important."

Fox News first reported that teachers from San Diego Unified School District are teaching migrant children in person, while SDUSD students are still learning in an online-only format.

The district is expected to move into a hybrid model of in-person and online learning on April 12. Psaki was asked during the press briefing whether the White House supported the arrangement.
"As I understand it, San Diego public schools are opening in early April. Students will be back in the classroom — part time — and certainly you know our objective from the White House — 5 days a week for majority of schools across the country."

Comment: There are still no photographers allowed into migrant facilities, but no problem here. It's what you can't see that is the story.

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NYC judge removes 6-Year-Old from Mother because she didn't wear a mask while dropping her off at school

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:45 UTC
Dr. Micheline Epstein
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A New York City judge has removed a 6-year-old girl from her mother because she did not wear a mask while dropping her off outside of the school.

In a shocking and egregious move, the court also told Dr. Epstein that in order to get short supervised visits with her child — she will have to wear a mask inside her own home.

It was a normal day for Dr. Micheline Epstein, a family physician, when she went to drop her daughter off at the Birch Wathen Lenox School on the Upper East Side last week — until her entire life was turned upside down in an instant.

Comment: The fact that they are even doing this to doctors is disturbing. According to Dr. Epstein, this is not an isolated incident, see the full interview here:



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Israel is a vengeful democracy

Amira Hass
If Americans Knew
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:27 UTC
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Laith Abu Zeyad is a human rights researcher and campaigner at Amnesty International. He has been prevented from leaving the West Bank to take up his position
Israeli journalist Amira Hass calls out Israel's unjust treatment of a young Palestinian man with an otherwise promising future - false accusations and "secret evidence" keep Laith Abu Zeyad from a position with Amnesty International in London, and also from seeing his mother on her deathbed.

The Shin Bet security service has ruled that Laith Abu Zeyad, 30, would be a danger to Israeli security if he travels to London for a year to work in the head office of Amnesty International. The risk he poses to our security is so great that Israel didn't even allow him to be at his mother's side as she was dying from cancer in an East Jerusalem hospital, three kilometers (less than two miles) from their home in Al-Azzariyeh in the West Bank. After much effort was exerted, the permit came through, two days after his mother died.

The Shin Bet has not summoned him for any type of interrogation. Soldiers haven't raided his house in the dead of night. The military prosecution hasn't charged him with anything. And still, for over a year-and-a-half he has been forbidden to do what he had previously done without any problem - go to Amnesty's office in East Jerusalem and travel abroad.

Comment: Israel's 'secret evidence' serves as my chains, lock and key

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Ontario to throw province back into lockdown with month-long reimposition of restrictions


Yahoo
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:15 UTC
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© Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press - image creditSources say Premier Doug Ford's government will move all of Ontario to the grey lockdown zone of public health restrictions effective on Saturday.
For the latest on Ontario's province-wide shutdown, click here. Meanwhile, Ontario has released new modelling showing the spread of variants of concern is dangerously outpacing Ontario's COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government will announce on Thursday that it's putting the entire province under lockdown restrictions for 28 days, multiple sources tell CBC News.

The move for all public health units will take effect on Saturday under what the government has called its "emergency brake" provisions.

Comment: It's notable that, despite quite different situations, and irrefutable proof that lockdowns don't work - and worse - numerous countries throughout Europe are also reimposing livelihood destroying restrictions:

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Harvard apologizes after trying to help fight anti-Asian racism by telling students 'You may wish that you weren't Asian'


RT
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:18 UTC
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© Reuters / Brian Snyder
Harvard University, long accused of discriminating against Asians in its admissions policies, is apologizing after botching its campaign to fight anti-Asian racism by presuming students may feel ashamed of their own ethnicity.

"You may wish that you weren't Asian," the university told Asian students on its Counseling and Mental Health Services website. "But remember that your ancestors likely went through similar or even worse incidents. They survived by recognizing the beauty and strength of their community. So seek out or create literature, art, films, shows and music that highlight your community in a positive light."

Harvard junior Matteo Wong was among the students and other observers who found the advisory and its stereotypically "orientalist" tea set and bamboo background photo outrageous. "Another lovely gem: 'Permit yourself to take care of you.' Thank you for the permission, Harvard. Too bad I can't take advantage of it because every time I see a statement like this, I have an aneurysm."

Comment: Why does anyone pay the extortionate tuitions for institutions like this that are so clearly clueless?

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Latvia begins blocking RT news site aimed at country's Russian-speaking minority as outlet accuses Riga of attack on free press

Gabriel Gavin
RT
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:42 UTC
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© Sputnik; (inset) The Latvian flag AFP / GINTS IVUSKANSRT stand at the 2018 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
A ban on RT's Russian-language news service is coming into full force in Latvia after officials began implementing a controversial decision by the country's online media watchdog, which has already seen RT channels taken off air.

RT confirmed on Wednesday morning that authorities had started to implement restrictions on access to its Russian website, in line with a decision by the Latvian National Electronic Media Council. The ruling, issued in June last year, has already seen seven separate RT channels officially banned from the airwaves in the Baltic country. Free press watchdog Reporters Without Borders railed against the decision at the time, saying it was made on a "flimsy legal basis."

"Latvia has begun to shut down access to the RT website in Russian. The site is now inaccessible to users of several major providers in the country," the network said in a statement.

Comment: See also:

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£24,000 Greta Thunberg statue unveiled at Winchester University despite criticism from union bosses

Amar Mehta
Sky News
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:02 UTC
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The UCU said the bronze is a 'vanity project' for the outgoing vice-chancellor.


The timing of the unveiling of the Greta Thunberg statue has been criticised after years of cuts at the university.

A £24,000 bronze statue of Greta Thunberg, which has been described as a "vanity project", has been unveiled at the University of Winchester.

The controversial life-size bronze sculpture of the environmental activist has been placed on the university's campus, despite calls from the students' union and staff union to delay the unveiling.

Comment: It seems somehow appropriate that what amounts to a £24,000 virtue signal would be erected in honor of Ms. Thunberg. It's perfectly captured her essence.

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Boy, 8, 'forced to watch as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell gang-raped his mother'

Jack Longstaff
Metro
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:21 UTC
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell raped a young mother in front of her eight-year-old son, then threatened to feed her to alligators if she reported them, it is claimed.

The Turkish-born woman, identified only as Jane Doe, claims she was 'repeatedly raped' by Epstein with the assistance of his co-accused, Ghislaine Maxwell, at his Palm Beach mansion in Miami, Florida, in 2008. The federal complaint, filed on March 22, alleges that Epstein and Maxwell told the woman, who was 26 at the time, she would 'be devoured should she ever reveal what Epstein had done to her'.

The lawsuit was obtained by The Miami Herald and details how the woman also claims that Epstein also forced her to undergo vaginal surgery to make her appear as a virgin. The surgery left her mutilated and permanently damaged, the document says.

Comment: This is absolutely vile. Unfortunately, given much of what has been revealed about Maxwell and Epstein, it's totally believable.

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Berlin to require negative Covid-19 tests for entry to non-essential businesses amid rise in new cases


RT
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:05 UTC
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© REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeA customer at a Saturn electronic store as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown measures are eased in Berlin, Germany, March 11, 2021.
Berlin will require residents to show that they have tested negative for Covid-19 before being allowed in certain shops and cultural institutions, as part of new restrictions aimed at containing the spread of the virus.

Starting on Wednesday, all shoppers in the German capital will have to present a daily negative test result before entering a store. Cultural institutions such as museums and galleries will also require a negative test for entry. Proof of vaccination or antibodies will not be accepted. The rule does not apply to essential services such as supermarkets and pharmacies.

The city will offer a minimum of one free test per week at 170 centers set up around the capital, but there is currently no set limit to how many can be taken without paying. Retailers have also been asked to set up test points in parking lots, and will be provided with medical personnel to help out.


Comment: Daily test result? Good luck implementing it, the whole idea sounds like a logistical nightmare.Just when one would think it couldn't get any more ridiculous, they find a way to outdo themselves.


According to local media, tests administered at home will not be accepted because there is no way to confirm their authenticity or when they were administered.

Comment: The whole idea sounds like a logistical nightmare. See also:

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