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Best of the Web: Craig Murray defense fund launched

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:31 UTC
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My Defence Fund now stands at £46,002, well on the way towards its target of £60,000.

There have so far been 2,205 donors, to each of whom I am very grateful, especially so many dedicated supporters who have stood by me in campaigns for civil liberties and for Scottish independence. But perhaps I may just note it was also heartwarming to receive donations from a few long term political opponents who are appalled by this attack on freedom of speech, and several senior lawyers likewise. Which is an interesting contrast with Scottish MSM journalists, who on social media all seem delighted at the prospect that anyone who counters their joint narrative should go to jail.

Legal Defence Fund over half way to the target in just 16 hours! £34,212 raised from 1,507 individuals. 54% of donors in Scotland, 22% in England, 14% in USA. I am choked with gratitude at the support. Will post further updates.
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Attention

Teacher reportedly wishes teens in park die 'long, painful death' from coronavirus

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:17 UTC
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A New Jersey high school math teacher has been caught on video yelling at a group of teens playing football in a park that they should "die a long, painful death" from the coronavirus, according to a report.

The teacher at Steinert High School in Hamilton Township was identified by several sources as Nicole Griggs, who has taught in the district for the past 15 years, according to The Trentonian.

One of the kids allegedly targeted by the teacher, a freshman at the school, told the news outlet that he and his pals were playing Thursday on East Franklin Street when she screamed at them from behind a fence.

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Books

Shameful: The Great Gatsby and Catch-22 among classic books banned from Alaska classrooms

Justin Vallejo
The Independent
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:24 UTC
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A school board in Alaska has removed a collection of classic novels from classrooms over "controversial" themes like language and sexual references.

The Mat-Su Borough School District, north of Anchorage, took some of the world's best known authors and novels off the approved list of works teachers could use for instructing students. According to members of the school board, which voted 5-2 to remove the books, if they were read in a corporate office environment today, they would be dragged into an equal opportunity complaint.
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Health

Best of the Web: Almost 90% of COVID-19 patients at New York's largest hospital system have died after being placed on ventilators

Yaron Steinbuch
NY Post
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:59 UTC
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Almost 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who were placed on ventilators in New York's largest hospital system have died from the coronavirus, according to a study.

Overall, 88 percent of the patients treated at Northwell Health died after receiving mechanical ventilation, Dr. Safiya Richardson at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and her colleagues found.

Of the 2,634 patients whose outcomes were known, 14 percent were treated in the intensive care unit, 12 percent were placed on ventilators and 3 percent received kidney replacement therapy, the study said.

Twenty-one percent of the total group died, according to the findings, which were was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Barcelona police catch 'serial killer' suspect after 3 homeless people found viciously beaten to death


RT
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:41 UTC
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A suspected serial killer believed to have murdered at least three homeless men in Barcelona has been taken into custody, accused of stalking the city's deserted streets amid Spain's Covid-19 lockdown for defenseless victims.

The suspect - a 35-year-old Brazilian man who has yet to be named, according to local media - was arrested on Tuesday on the outskirts of Barcelona mere hours after another victim succumbed to injuries sustained in a grisly beating, police said. He was identified with the help of witnesses and footage from security cameras.

"The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Barcelona Metropolitan Police Region have arrested a man related to the death of a man last night in the Eixample district of Barcelona and are investigating their relationship with other homicides that have taken place in recent weeks in Barcelona," the police said in a statement.

They added elsewhere that each murder took place around the same area, not far from the picturesque Sagrada Familia basilica, a major landmark in the city.
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Sherlock

GOP Sen. Hawley asks DOJ to open a criminal investigation into Amazon

Lauren Feiner
CNBC
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:55 UTC
Sen. Josh Hawley
© Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call via Getty ImagesSen. Josh Hawley
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Amazon, citing reports that he says suggest the company has used "predatory and exclusionary data practices to build and maintain a monopoly."

Hawley's request follows Friday's Wall Street Journal report that said Amazon employees had used data from third-party sellers to rival them with private label products under Amazon's own brands.

Amazon has previously testified to the House Antitrust Subcommittee that it only uses aggregated data from multiple third-party sellers to inform its product strategy, and did not look at sales data for individual products. But the Journal, after reviewing documents and interviewing more than 20 former employees, found that individual seller data could be easily deduced for some categories, making the distinction irrelevant in practice.
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US unemployment may be as high as 40 MILLION - national poll


RT
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:50 UTC
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© Reuters / Nick OxfordPeople who lost their jobs wait to file for unemployment at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, the US
The soaring jobless rate in the US due to the Covid-19 outbreak may be far worse than the official data shows, as millions of Americans have been unable to file for unemployment insurance, a poll finds.

The number of those who filed for unemployment surpassed 26 million, after an additional 4.4 million claims were filed last week. As more and more people are seeking financial aid amid massive layoffs triggered by the deadly pandemic, some have complained of glitches in the government's online system.

It turns out the frustration over the application process could have resulted in massive undercounting in the official number of unemployment applications, according to the Economic Policy Institute (ERI). The researchers say that millions could have filed for benefits if not for the difficulties, while just half of the applicants are actually receiving benefits.
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Yellow Vest

'Let State Police come down here': New Mexico mayor defies governor to reopen his city; governor threatens action

Kai Porter
KOB 4
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:33 UTC
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
The mayor of Grants plans to defy governor's Public Health Order, reopen his city on Monday. "I'm not going to have a town anymore if she keeps this up,'" said Martin "Modey" Hicks.

He's encouraging businesses in Grants, deemed non-essential under the governor's Public Health Orders, to reopen on Monday. "I can't make them open. It's up to them," said Hicks.

Hicks, who is a Democrat, feels the governor's Public Health Order is unconstitutional.
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Illinois judge rules against Gov. Pritzker's stay-at-home order in suit brought by GOP lawmaker

Tyler Olsen
Fox News
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:12 UTC
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
© Joshua Lott / Getty ImagesIllinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
An Illinois court has ruled against Gov. J.B. Pritzker in a case brought by a Republican state lawmaker seeking a temporary restraining order against the state's stay-at-home order aimed at stopping the coronavirus — a ruling that applies only to the one lawmaker but could have wider consequences if others try to follow suit.

The lawmaker, state Rep. Darren Bailey, filed a motion late last week that sought to prevent the governor "from taking any action ... which orders Darren Bailey to stay at home, or at his place of residence, as well as limiting his ability to travel within the state..." The motion alleged that Pritzker's stay-at-home order is "in excess of the authority granted him" under Illinois law.
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Are Canadians divided on mandatory vaccinations for Covid-19?

Lee Berthiaume
Global News
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:21 UTC
Covid-19
While researchers across the planet race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, a new poll suggests Canadians are divided over whether getting it should be mandatory or voluntary — setting up a potentially prickly public health debate if a vaccine becomes available.

The federal government has committed tens of millions of dollars to help find or create a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness that has infected at least 48,000 Canadians and killed more than 2,700.

Yet the poll conducted by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that while 60 per cent of respondents believe people should be required to get the vaccine once it is ready, the other 40 per cent think it should be voluntary.

Comment: So human beings have to wait for permission to spend time with each other? Considering our inherent need for social connection, it seems that promoting social isolation and loss of autonomy over our bodies - especially considering the dubious track records of vaccinations and organizations like the WHO - are both anti-human philosophies.

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