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Family ejected from Frontier Airlines flight, passengers say due to maskless baby

Tamar Lapin and Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:21 UTC
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Frontier Airlines said they cancelled a flight from Florida on Sunday after a "large group" of passengers refused to wear masks — but the family involved claims they were booted simply because of a maskless baby.

The fracas took place aboard flight 2878, which was set to depart Miami en route to LaGuardia Airport at 7 p.m. until the disagreement forced all passengers to deplane and reschedule a flight for the next morning.

"Multiple people, including several adults, were asked repeatedly to wear their masks and refused to do so," the airline said in a statement Sunday night.

"Based on the continued refusal to comply with the federal mask mandate, refusal to disembark the aircraft and aggression towards the flight crew, local law enforcement was engaged."


However, fellow passenger Hershey Greenbaum told The Post the child seemed to be the reason for the family's removal.

Comment: See also: United Airlines kicks couple off flight because their 2-year old wouldn't "comply" and wear a mask

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At least 18 killed in Myanmar on bloodiest day of protests against coup


Yahoo!
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:59 UTC
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© ReutersA riot police officer fires a rubber bullet towards demonstrators during a protest against the military coup in Yangon.
Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the U.N. human rights office said.

Police were out in force early and opened fire in different parts of the biggest city of Yangon after stun grenades, tear gas and shots in the air failed to break up crowds. Soldiers also reinforced police.

Several wounded people were hauled away by fellow protesters, leaving bloody smears on pavements, media images showed. One man died after being brought to a hospital with a bullet in the chest, said a doctor who asked not to be identified.

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Propaganda

Promoting Propaganda? Minneapolis to hire influencers to spread 'City Approved' information during trial over George Floyd's death


CBS News
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters/Getty Images/Twitter/Ruth RichardsonDerek Chauvin • George Floyd
The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously approved paying six social media influencers to spread city-approved messaging and updates throughout the upcoming murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged in George Floyd's death. On Friday, the council approved $1,181,500 for communication with the community during the trial, CBS Minnesota reports.

The city says social media partners will help dispel potential misinformation, and that the influencers will intentionally target Black, Native American, Somali, Hmong and Latinx communities with their messaging. Each influencer will be paid $2,000.

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NPC

Merit based admission is Racism? Boston Public Schools suspend Advanced Program Because of more number of Asian and White Students

MARLO SAFI
Daily Caller
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Asian students in Boston schools
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An advanced program for high-performing students at Boston Public Schools was suspended after district officials determined the program would not promote antiracism due to the disproportionate number of Asian and white students, GBH News reported.

The Advanced Work Classes program, which provides an accelerated academic curriculum for students in fourth through sixth grade, will be suspended for one year after Boston Public Schools' superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the school focus on reforming its antiracist policies, according to GBH News.

"There's been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address," Cassellius said, according to GBH News. "There's a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education."

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Vader

Hypocritical California Gov. Newsom appears to post TikTok inside restaurant, denies eating there

Morgan Phillips
Fox News
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:31 UTC
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared indoors at a restaurant in a county where indoor dining is not allowed, but the governor's office has said he did not dine at the restaurant.

He was there to meet with the restaurant's owners, who received a relief grant, Newsom spokesperson Daniel Lopez told Fox News.

Newsom posted a video to his TikTok account with celebrity George Lopez talking about where to look for coronavirus vaccine eligibility. Newsom and Lopez were in Fresno, Calif., and are inside Los Amigos restaurant.
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Snakes in Suits

Second Cuomo aide accuses governor of sexual harassment

Daniel Payne
Just the News
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:04 UTC
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© Reuters / Mike Sega
A second former aide of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has accused the veteran politician of sexual harassment, with a bombshell New York Times account revealing a fresh set of allegations against the Democratic executive, ones that Cuomo himself has not fully denied.

Charlotte Bennett, a former executive assistant and health policy adviser for the Cuomo administration, told the newspaper that Cuomo had "asked her numerous questions about her personal life, including whether she thought age made a difference in romantic relationships, and had said that he was open to relationships with women in their 20s."

Bennett claimed that Cuomo had at one point also asked her "whether she was having sex with other people" in recent relationships, and had claimed to feel lonely after a recent split with his girlfriend.

Comment: As Donald Trump Jr. pointed out, Andrew Cuomo should be held to the standards that he has held other to:

Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, said that POTUS supports an independent investigation into the allegations against Cuomo. Now that there's enough pressure on Cuomo to force him to act, he has called for an "outside review" of the sexual harassment claims. He wants the NY AG and chief appellate judge to pick an independent counsel to conduct the investigation.

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Shocking video shows Asian woman dragged by car in Oakland purse theft

Amy Graff
SF Gate
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:49 UTC
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© Oakland Beauty SupplyA woman in Oakland's Chinatown was dragged by a car down a street on Feb. 24, 2021, after her purse was stolen in an incident captured in surveillance video
A woman visiting Oakland's Chinatown Wednesday was dragged by a car down a street when a thief allegedly stole her purse, according to surveillance video circulated widely online.

The victim's husband told KPIX his wife was wearing the purse crossed around her neck and shoulder and she was pulled 150 feet by the suspect's car.

"She's very scared and shaken up," the victim's husband, who did not want to be identified, told KPIX. The couple had driven from out of town to go to Oakland Beauty Supply.

The store's surveillance cameras captured the video showing the woman being pulled on her stomach across the pavement.

Comment: The increased attacks on Asian Americans is not going unnoticed, as hundreds of people staged a rally in lower Manhattan
to protest attacks on Asian Americans. The rally was near the site of an attack against an Asian man who was stabbed in the stomach.

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Eye 2

UK: Covid vaccination may be required before EVERY foreign holiday

Henry Bodkin
The Telegraph
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:47 UTC
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© Leon Neal/Getty ImagesOxford team believes vaccine passports system is 'feasible' but should not be introduced yet because of a lack of uniform standards
A coronavirus vaccination may be required before every foreign holiday under an international system of vaccine passports, experts have said.

The Oxford University team behind a new report believe uncertainty over how long vaccines confer immunity and how well they stand up against new Covid variants could prompt countries to demand proof of a recent vaccination for overseas travellers.


Comment: Why are they formulating policy based on experimental vaccines that needed emergency legislation because they have not been proven to be safe nor effective?


They believe that, overall, a system of vaccine passports is "feasible" but that a lack of uniform international standards means one should not yet be introduced.


Comment: Clearly that's not the only hurdle.


Comment: It appears to be part of an attempt to coerce people into getting a vaccine they don't want, knowing that people do want to go on holiday aboard. And it seems to be working; well known news columnist Christopher Hitchens who has been very vocal in his criticism of lockdowns and the Owellian threat of vaccine IDs recently admitted he had preemptively, if begrudgingly, received his first dose because he sorely wanted to visit family living abroad:





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Eye 1

Best of the Web: 'Without parallel in democratic world': Israel slammed by watchdog over total border closure amidst lockdown


RT
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Ronen ZvulunRare passengers at Ben Gurion international airport near Tal Aviv during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Israel is the only democracy in the world to prohibit its citizens from returning home during the pandemic, the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) said, urging authorities to relax an entry ban that, it says, violates human rights.

All entry points into Israel by land, sea and air remain shut tight since January 25 as part of the Benjamin Netanyahu government's measures to prevent the new coronavirus variants from getting into the country. No one may come or go, except the few who have received a special permission from the Exceptions Committee.

The harsh restrictions that resulted in thousands of Israelis being stranded abroad are "extremely problematic from a constitutional perspective and are without parallel in the democratic world," IDI experts said, in a paper submitted to Israel's Deputy Attorney General, Raz Nizri, on Sunday.

Australia, France, Germany, UK, Russia, the US and other nations have tried different approaches in tackling the virus, but all of them have allowed their citizens to return, the institute pointed out.


Comment: For now they have...


Comment: See also: UK, US & Singapore push for vaccine passports and yearly Covid-19 vaccinations



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No Entry

Germany cracks down: 20 arrested in raid on banned Salafist group, 8 arrested in raid on far right group


Deutsche Welle
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:00 UTC
Moabit polizei
Hundreds of police were part of the dawn raids in Moabit and other Berlin neighborhoods
Authorities in the German capital have announced a ban on the radical Islamist group Jama'atu Berlin following a series of dawn raids.

Berlin's Senate has announced on Twitter that it has banned the "jihadist-Salafist association Jama'atu Berlin," also known as Tauhid Berlin.

The tweet Thursday said police in Berlin and Brandenburg had carried out early-morning searches of properties belonging to the group's members.

Comment: A day later Reuters reports that German security forces raided a far right group:
Hundreds of police in Germany carried out dawn raids on 27 homes and business premises on Friday, including a lawyer's office, in an operation targeting members of far right groups suspected of drugs and weapons trafficking, public broadcaster MDR said.

Prosecutors told the broadcaster that eight people, aged from 24 to 55, had so far been arrested in the raids which were carried out by 500 police officers. The suspects were members of the neo-Nazi groups Turonen and Garde 20, MDR said.

Authorities said the two gangs have for years been kingpins in the drugs trade in the eastern state of Thuringia, running a network that distributed crystal meth and weapons.

The offices of a lawyer in the central state of Hesse were also raided.

MDR said that its own investigations had revealed that the raids were the result of two years of tapping and bugging operations by security services.

The Turonen and Garde 20 are recognisable by their wearing of black clothes with far right nationalist insignia on them. They have become major players in the promotion of far right heavy metal concerts, at which neo-Nazi bands from Germany and other countries perform.
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