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Robinhood lifts trading restrictions on all stocks, including GameStop


NY Post
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 22:55 UTC
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Online brokerage app Robinhood said on Thursday it has removed temporary trading restrictions on all stocks, including GameStop Corp and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc, according to an update on its website.

Earlier in the day, Robinhood's website showed that the trading limit on GameStop's shares was set at 500, while for AMC the limit was set at 5,500 shares.

Trading restrictions on a few other stocks had been lifted on Wednesday.

The online broker, one of the hottest venues in last week's retail-trading frenzy, had put temporary buying restrictions on a number of securities including Nokia, Express Inc , as clearing house-mandated deposit requirements for equities increased ten-fold.

GameStop's shares and others favored recently by retail investors fell further on Thursday, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen vowed to protect investors, but also said financial market regulators needed to fully understand the recent trading frenzy before taking any action.

Source: Reuters
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Lockdown is a disaster for kids' mental health, and they need support - but we also cannot pathologize an entire generation

Joanna Williams
RT
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:44 UTC
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Self-harm, attempted suicides and eating disorders are all on the rise as a result of children being locked up at home. However, we must be careful not to confuse mental illness with the rational misery of our current situation.

"Children in mental health crisis used to be brought to A&E about twice a week. Since the summer it's been more like once or twice a day. Some as young as 10 have cut themselves, taken overdoses, or tried to asphyxiate themselves." These words, from a doctor's diary published by the BBC, make for difficult reading. A matron on a paediatric ward adds that self-harming "used to be the mind-set of older teenagers but we are seeing much younger children doing this now."

Evidence of the damage lockdown is doing to the mental health of children is growing by the day. Increasing numbers are presenting at hospital emergency departments having self-harmed or attempted suicide. NHS data shows a rise in the number of children being treated for eating disorders. Dr Agnes Ayton, chair of the eating disorders faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: "This deadly illness is thriving because people have lost many of their support networks alongside access to community services as a result of Covid-19."

Comment: Lockdown policies appealing to compassionate ends have had the opposite effect of accepting the inhuman abuse toward children. Parental instincts are naturally quite strong. When entire societies have diminished these instincts in favor of an illusory 'greater good', you can expect the resulting decline will be rapid and unrelenting. This is the choice many people have made. The lessons that come from it will likely be difficult, but it is also the only thing reality has left to offer them.

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Biden regime strips parental leave from outgoing government staff

Natalie Winters
The National Pulse
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Ashlee Rezin/Sun Times/APUS President Joe Biden
According to Politico, "a number of ex-Trump political officials lost their parental leave when Joe Biden was sworn into office."

Their boss (President Trump) may have been the one let go, but his departure has meant that they, too, lose their jobs and benefits. Still, they argue that the Biden administration should have honored their leave by keeping them on payroll until the end of it — a request that, emails reviewed by POLITICO show, the Biden transition did not grant.

The story highlights Vanessa Ambrosini, former deputy communications director at the Commerce Department:
"had gotten approval to take parental leave from early January to late March. But she was informed a day before her baby was due on Dec. 17 that her leave would be ending Jan. 20, when the inauguration was taking place."
Politico added:
"A pair of married former Trump Homeland Security officials said they had a similar experience. They provided POLITICO with emails showing an agency official telling them that, as political appointees, their parental leave benefits would be treated the same as those for career employees. Their baby was born on Dec. 18. Late at night on Jan. 5, the father got an email from the HR office saying that they had been wrong and that their benefit would end on Jan. 20.

"It's pretty scary to have a premature baby at home and not knowing if you're going to have an income or health insurance."
The Biden regime refused to speak about the issue with Politico on record.

Comment: Let there be no doubt as to the lack of heart in this administration.

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'Who cares!' Trump resigns from Hollywood Union SAG-AFTRA in scathing letter

Lia Eustachewich
New York Post
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:09 UTC
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© Rage/KJNFormer US President Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump ripped Hollywood's largest labor union in a resignation letter Thursday ahead of a "so-called" disciplinary hearing — telling the entertainment industry union, "Who cares!"

Trump, a member of SAG-AFTRA for more than 30 years, faced expulsion after its national board last month ruled that he had violated the union's constitution — by allegedly inciting the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Deadline reported.

"I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!" Trump wrote in a signed letter to union president Gabrielle Carteris — who played Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210 for a decade.

The former reality TV star-turned-commander-in-chief then rattled off his own film and TV credits while taking a swipe at Carteris:
"While I'm not familiar with your work, I'm very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice - to name just a few!"
Trump then panned SAG-AFTRA for having a "dismal record as a union."


Comment: Donald Trump's response to SAG-AFTRA:
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Dubai and Tel Aviv plan to dismantle the UNRWA


Press TV
Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:57 UTC
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© UNRWAUNRWA services provide food to Palestinian refugees.
In August last year, the United Arab Emirates and the Israeli regime decided to normalize - or as critics put it - to publicize their relations. Since then, many bilateral agreements in various areas such as technology, media, and tourism have been made.

Whereas these deals have been announced with much fanfare, Dubai and Tel Aviv are reportedly in cahoots with each other over issues they prefer to keep secret.

One of them is the elimination of UNRWA, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Founded in 1949, UNRWA meant to support Palestinian refugees dispersed across the region after the creation of the Israeli regime with jobs, essential food, healthcare and education.

The bombshell to eliminate the agency was dropped by the French daily Le Monde in last December. According to the daily, Israeli and Emirati officials have formulated a "strategic axis to make UNRWA progressively disappear, without conditioning this on any resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem."
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Dominion case: Judge orders Michigan officials to turn over communications with Big Tech companies

Zachary Halaschak
Washington Examiner
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 04:13 UTC
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© Office of Gov. Rick SnyderAntrim County Circuit Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer
A Michigan judge ruled that the state's election officials must release communications with Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google as part of a lawsuit filed in Antrim County dealing with Dominion Voting Systems machines.

Antrim County Circuit Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer told the Bureau of Elections and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to turn over the records after they were requested by Matthew DePerno in one of the last remaining election-related lawsuits after President Biden's inauguration. Elsenheimer also ordered the officials to turn over any communications with Dominion as part of the ruling.

Elsenheimer gave Benson's office a Tuesday deadline to turn over the records when he filed the order late last month, although he agreed to extend the deadline to this coming Monday.

The extent of possible communications with Apple, Amazon, and Google is not clear, nor is what DePerno seeks by requesting the records. Facebook and elections officials do have some ties. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, used their charity group, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, through the nonprofit organization Center for Technology and Civic Life, to send some $400 million to counties and localities prior to the Nov. 3 election.
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Italian Mafia demands Naples ambulances stop using sirens because they scare off drug dealers

Kirill Kurevlev.
Sputnik
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:15 UTC
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© Salvatore LaPorts/Kontrolab/Lightrocket/GettyAmbulance sirens and lights can be mistaken for the arrival of police cars and interrupt drug-pushers’ business by scaring off customers
As several scary incidents have reportedly occurred in communities around Naples, local ambulance drivers are now demanding police protection from mafia abuse, and lawmakers urge the country's government to put up a full-scale fight against the local secret criminal society, Camorra.

Ambulance drivers in Naples have been told by the Italian mafia to stop using their sirens and flashing lights because they spook drug dealers, who confuse them with police vehicles, the Sunday Times reported Wednesday.

According to the report, one of the incidents occurred last Saturday, as an ambulance was intercepted by two gang members who threatened to kill the driver for having the siren on while driving to the southern part of the city for an emergency call.

Comment: The Daily Mail elaborates:
While travelling to an emergency in the city's Spanish quarter, one medical worker was driving an ambulance with its siren on when the vehicle was flanked by two men riding a large motorbike, reported The Times.

They banged on the ambulance window and threatened to kill the driver.

'Haven't you understood you cannot use your siren here? Turn it off or we'll shoot you,' one of the men warned.

After the incident, the terrified medic was forced to call the police to escort him out of the neighbourhood safely.

Similar have been reported in neighbourhoods across Naples, said Manuel Ruggiero, a 42-year-old emergency doctor and local head of Nessuno Tocchi Ippocrate, a group fighting violence against medical workers.

He told The Times: 'We have already been ordered not to use sirens in other neighbourhoods, including Sanità and Traiano, where the locally based ambulance turns on its siren only after it leaves the area.'

Ambulance crews have also been assaulted by relatives of patients after they arrived on the scene too late to save them.

'The same ambulance involved in the incident on Saturday was kicked, and the crew pushed, when they were not in time to save a cardiac arrest patient,' the doctor added.


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The shackling of free expression signals the death of democracy

Jon Holbrook
The Critic
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 18:52 UTC
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© John Holbrook/TwitterThe tweet that cost barrister John Holbrook his job
Cancel culture is a straitjacket on the free expression of ideas, and democracy cannot hope to function when antagonists are muzzled

The woke may pose as lovely people who just want us all to be nice to one another. But they are not, as my cancelling shows: they are intolerant proselytisers who want to silence those who challenge them.

I have been expelled from my barristers' chambers because of a tweet. During my 15 years as a barrister at Cornerstone Barristers and 30 years at the bar, I had an unblemished professional record and was top ranked by legal directories for my work - particularly in public law. And yet my one-sentence tweet on a platform designed to be polemical has ended this particular career.

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Best of the Web: Documenting the White House Youtube channel's manipulation of 'dislike' stats - with pictures!

Zoe Phin
phzoe.com
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:58 UTC
white house youtube home page
© The White House/YouTube
I've seen screenshots of YouTube modifying dislikes of White House videos. I decided I would do a thorough analysis myself. I wrote a script to check video stats every 80 seconds for 24 hours - for all videos on White House's YouTube channel.

The collected data is archived here and here. The format is space-separated "CSV", as follows:
code white house stats
© Zoe Phin
Here is a sample of the most egregious manipulation:

Comment: Zoe has gracious posted her code here (scroll to bottom), for anyone who wants to continue her research.

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Why are so many Americans stockpiling guns, silver and food right now?

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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We were told that 2021 would be the year when everything starts to get back to normal. But that hasn't exactly been the case, has it? It has been just over a month, and there is still chaos everywhere. We have seen a wild riot at the U.S. Capitol, civil unrest has been erupting in major cities from coast to coast, millions of people have filed for unemployment benefits, a president was impeached, and a crazy ride on Wall Street made "GameStop" a national phenomenon. That would normally be enough for an entire year, but we are still in the first week of February.

All throughout history there have been critical turning points when events have greatly accelerated, and it appears that we have reached one of those turning points.

In fact, this may be turn out to be the biggest turning point of them all.

Millions upon millions of Americans can sense that big trouble is ahead. For many, it is like a "gut feeling" that they just can't shake.
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