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Mayor de Blasio tells NYPD to pay people home visits for 'hurtful' comments

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
de Blasio
© Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesNew York Mayor Bill de Blasio
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says NYPD officers should pay people home visits if they engage in "hurtful" behavior to others even if the action isn't criminal.

What could possibly go wrong?

De Blasio told reporters:
"Even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it's NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they've done was very hurtful to another person — and could, if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges — that's another important piece of the puzzle."
The Mayor failed to define precisely what he meant by "hurtful," but since he framed it in the context of non-criminal behavior, he can only be referring to mean words. De Blasio urged officers to "confront" people to tell them their behavior is "not appropriate," urging alleged victims to make more reports to authorities.

He then even suggested that cops, instead of responding to actual crimes, should visit New Yorker's homes to police their speech. "I assure you, if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask you about something you did, it makes people think twice," he said. "We need that."

Comment: There are not enough minutes in the day, nor officers on the sidewalks, to make this really stupid idea happen.

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Footprints

Americans move to freedom - fleeing these five states and here's why

Chuck DeVore
Fox News
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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When people vote - with a moving van or a U-Haul truck - they vote for lower taxes and smaller government. That's the conclusion from comparing a new report on freedom at the state level with the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data.

Over the course of a year a net of 788,381 people moved to Florida, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, the "freest" five states in America, according to the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom in North America index.

The annual report, published by Canada's Fraser Institute, ranks the states and provinces of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico using objective measures of government spending, tax rates and labor market freedom. The least-free U.S. state is New York. West Virginia, Alaska, California and Vermont round out the bottom five.

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Footprints

Three trucks packed with hundreds of migrants stopped in Mexico - ignored Biden's call to stay home


The Guardian
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:18 UTC
Migrants
© Adrees Latif/Reuters.jpgHonduran man with his son after crossing into the US from Mexico.
Three trailer trucks packed with hundreds of migrants have been found in Mexico in the latest sign that many would-be immigrants are ignoring calls from Joe Biden not to risk trying to enter the United States.

Mexican migration agents along with national guard police said they stopped the trucks early on Thursday near the border with Guatemala as part of routine checks and discovered 329 Guatemalans and Hondurans inside, including 114 unaccompanied minors.

The trucks were stopped on a highway south of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas state, according to an interior ministry statement.

The migrants were provided with food and water. The unaccompanied minors were sent to shelters run by the migration authority while the adults were taken to nearby offices to begin administrative processing, the statement added.
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Attention

Fauci and The Variants

Eric Peters
EricPetersAuto
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:58 UTC
Corona
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It sounds like an '80s synth band but the tune is more like the braying of a defective donkey.

Perhaps you saw the exchange between Pope Fauci and Senator Rand Paul over Mask Wearing Forever, which the Pope of Sickness insists on.

Paul inquired of his Holiness, why dost thou continue to wear thy vestment in view of the fact that thou hast been anointed with the Holy Water (i.e., the "vaccine" - which ostensibly renders the recipient immune from the 'Rona, else why bother taking it and with it, whatever risk of unknown problems it may cause)?

The Pope's reply was what one would expect of any religious leader: Just believe. For I saith so.

And, obey.

Rand - playing the part of a latter-day Martin Luther - questioned the Pope about this, demanding to know what evidence could be adduced to substantiate the Holy Assertion that wearing a vestment or two served other than a ritualistic purpose. None was forthcoming.
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Document

In incredible dissent, federal judge has launched broadside attack on SCOTUS precedent protecting left-wing press

Chris Pandolfo
The Blaze
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:15 UTC
Laurence H. Silberman
Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
US Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman warns the current state of media is 'a threat to a viable democracy'

A federal judge called for a landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press and libel laws to be overturned in a fiery dissent decrying "bias against the Republican Party," blasting the near "one-party control" of legacy news media, slamming Silicon Valley's censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and warning that the current state of American media is "a threat to a viable democracy."

U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a Reagan appointee, launched a broad attack on the Supreme Court's unwillingness to revisit precedent and the news media in a dissent in Tah v. Global Witness — a defamation case. After arguing against the court majority's ruling on the merits of the case, Silberman was "prompted to urge the overruling of New York Times v. Sullivan" — a landmark ruling that established what a plaintiff must show to prove a claim of defamation or libel made against a publisher.

Comment: Finally, a judge who is ready to recognize the current reality. However appropriate the New York Times v. Sullivan ruling was then, it is a different world now.

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Mr. Potato

White House dismisses Biden stumble as minor mishap, but some jokingly blame Kremlin


RT
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:54 UTC
biden stairs stuble
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Critics of Joe Biden had a field day after his awkward boarding of the Air Force One, bringing up his past mockery of Donald Trump's mobility issues. But some say (in jest) Joe should blame the Kremlin rather than strong winds.

The video of Biden's stumbling walk up the steps on Friday provided the inspiration for many jokes, ranging in tone from light-hearted puns and video game mashups, to ableist digs, and partisan attacks gleefully shared by the Trumpworld.

Comment: The memes are flowing:







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Video

The US Marines secretly advised on the hit movie 'Avatar', despite its later framing as being anti-war

Tom Secker
RT
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:27 UTC
avatar movie US marines military
© 20th Century Fox; Scott Olson / Getty Images(L) 'Avatar' (2009) Dir: James Cameron (R) Female and male Marine recruits
New documents show the makers of the film - the highest-grossing in history and now re-released - secretly liaised on its plot and dialogue with the Corps. The subsequent attack on it was all about military control over Hollywood.

The 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar was recently re-released in China, and revenues from the People's Republic have seen the movie overtake Avengers: Endgame and reclaim its position as the highest-grossing film of all time.

This tidbit about box office statistics has resulted in a flurry of news coverage, but hidden behind the endless reports from journalists with dollar signs in their eyes is a tale of covert military propaganda, and how the DOD pressures filmmakers to produce more pro-war content.

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Health

UK: Only 0.06% of School Covid Tests Positive Last Week

Michael Curzon
Lockdown Sceptics
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
masked students
In the week that all students returned to school, only 0.06% of rapid Covid tests produced positive results. The TES has the story.
Only 0.06% of the rapid Covid tests carried out in schools in the week that all pupils returned were positive, new statistics reveal.

More than 4.5 million lateral flow tests were taken in schools and colleges in the week between March 4th and March 10th according to Department of Heath statistics.

But they only picked up 2796 positive cases.
The question is, how many of these positive results really were positive? Earlier this month, Will Jones wrote here that "mass testing in schools was always a bad idea - cruel, intrusive, pointless. The high proportion of false positives, with their needless and disruptive requirement to self-isolate, only underlines that fact". A report in the Telegraph also explained that infection levels are now so low that the majority of positive results could be false.

Comment:
Children returning to school has not led to surge in Covid infections, figures show

The Department of Health's figures, which cover the period from March 4 - 10, also record results of all tests taken at schools which includers teachers and sixth form college students. The results were similar with 2,039 positives out of 3,725,655 equivalent to 0.06 per cent of cases.

"These figures are much lower than the assumptions that the Government have been using to plan this policy," Prof Deeks told The Telegraph. "Clearly the Government predictions are seriously wrong."

It came as two studies showed that children did not have a major impact in spreading infection in the pandemic.
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Liam Smeeth, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, at LSHTM said: "There is clearly a great deal of interest in kids going back to school, and what the risks are to households.

"We found that overall no increased risk out in the first wave. In the second wave while we did see a small increased risk of infection this didn't translate into increased risk of death and the absolute increased risks, were really, really small."

A similar study from the University of Glasgow and Public Health Scotland (PHS) found adults living with children were at no greater risk of testing positive for coronavirus - even during periods when schools are open and there was active transmission in the community.
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Attention

Militants beheading children in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado, report


Africa News
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:45 UTC
Women and a child rest in a tree
© africanews ALFREDO ZUNIGA/AFP or licensorsWomen and a child rest in a tree in the community of Ntocota, Metuge District in Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province on February 22, 2021.
Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, aid agency Save the Children said in a new report.

Armed groups, known locally as al-Shabab ("young people" in Arabic), have been sowing terror for more than three years in the strategic province of Cabo Delgado, which borders Tanzania and is an area that is rich in natural gas.

More than 2,600 people have died in the conflict and more than 670,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.

Comment: See also: Islamists behead more than 50 people in Mozambique as football pitch is turned into killing field

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Blue Planet

Daughter of late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan accused of nasty anti-China rant

Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:12 UTC
Maura Moynihan
© InstagramMaura Moynihan was caught on video berating an Asian American couple in the wake of increasing attacks on the Asian community in NYC and across the country.
A woman accused of telling an Asian American couple in Manhattan to "go back to China" has been identified as the daughter of late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a new report said.

Maura Moynihan admitted to WABC that she was the woman captured on camera arguing with Dan Lee, 31, during a confrontation at First Avenue and East 22nd Street last Sunday.

Lee's wife, 25-year-old Maria Ha, told the news station that the heated exchanged kicked off when Moynihan randomly told her to "go back to China."
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