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Jordanians continue fuel protests, day after riots broke out


Al Jazeera
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:00 UTC
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© Jehad Shelbak/ReutersJordanian security personnel carry the coffin of senior police officer who was killed in riots on Thursday night according to authorities, in Jerash, Jordan
Jordanians staged sit-ins on Friday and activists called for more protests against fuel price increases that have caused the cost of living to rise, a day after riots in the southern city of Maan left one police officer dead, witnesses and security sources have said.

The authorities said the policeman was killed on Thursday night by a gunshot fired by an unidentified individual when armed officers entered a neighbourhood of Maan to quell riots. Youths had attacked government property in the city, witnesses said.

Although the streets were calm on Friday, sporadic protests continued with a sit-in in front of Maan's main mosque and a mosque in the capital Amman after Friday prayers, while activists called for more demonstrations.

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Mayor Eric Adams calls out Hochul, feds as NYC braces for flood of migrants with end of Title 42

Bernadette Hogan, Jesse O'Neill and David Meyer
New York Post
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:14 UTC
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© Robert MillerThe city expects “2 buses [of migrants] today and 10-15 more expected in the next two days.”
The number of migrants coming to the Big Apple is expected to snowball with the lifting of Title 42 this week - with 10 to 15 busloads of asylum seekers set to arrive in the next two days, according to dire warnings issued by Mayor Eric Adams and City Hall on Sunday.

In an email blast sent to City Council members and their staff, the Adams administration noted that New York City's shelter system was at capacity and stressed that it had reached out to Gov. Kathy Hochul and President Biden for help.

"Please be advised that due to the lifting of Title 42 later this week, the City is expecting a higher amount of asylum seeker buses beginning today with 2 buses today and 10-15 more expected in the next two days," City Hall said in the message obtained by The Post.

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The mayor of El Paso declared a state of emergency on Dec. 17, citing a surge in the numbers of illegal aliens in the city's streets and an expected influx of more to come across the Southern border as the Title 42 border policy is set to end by Dec. 21.

El Paso, a Democrat stronghold in Texas located on the U.S. border with Mexico, has a history of welcoming immigrants but has struggled in recent months to deal with tens of thousands of illegal aliens crossing the southern border into the United States.

Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, said the emergency measures will allow the city to have more resources and authority to shelter those who have crossed the southern border, and that this is expected to become more necessary with the Title 42 policy's ending on Dec. 21, reported the El Paso Times.

He said he was prompted to consider issuing the state of emergency declaration after seeing scores of illegal aliens, who have been released into the city, sleeping in downtown streets in freezing temperatures on the night of Dec. 16. Leeser said he decided to declare a state of emergency after conference calls with federal, state, and municipal officials.

"That's not the way we want to treat people," the mayor said during a Dec. 17 news conference.

"We wanted to make sure people are treated with dignity. We want to make sure everyone is safe."

On Dec. 21, the increase in illegal aliens would be "incredible," and daily apprehensions and street releases could reach up to 6,000 per day, Leeser told reporters, according to the El Paso Times.


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Elon Musk: Taylor Lorenz temporarily suspended from Twitter due to 'prior doxxing action'

Simon Kent
Breitbart
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
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Far-left Washington Post activist Taylor Lorenz was suspended from Twitter on Saturday night, with Elon Musk outlining the action came in relation to a "prior doxxing action."

"Doxxing" is the term used to describe the act of posting the personal information about private individuals who wish to remain anonymous.

Lorenz claimed in a Substack post the Twitter CEO was directly involved in the suspension. She also alleged she did not - and has not - violated Twitter's terms of service.

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FBI agent Elvis Chan gave Twitter execs top secret clearance in advance of 2020 election

Michael P Senger
michaelpsenger.substack.com/
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:50 UTC
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FBI Agent Elvis Chan
New internal documents from Twitter, revealed today as part of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" series, show FBI Agent Elvis Chan arranged for Top Secret security clearance — the highest level of US national security clearance — to be granted to Twitter executives for the purpose of facilitating the censorship of suspected misinformation in advance of the 2020 election.

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Actor Tim Robbins expresses regret for his support of Covid authoritarianism


Zerohedge
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:20 UTC
Tim Robbins
With multiple peer-reviewed studies showing the potential danger from autoimmune side effects associated with covid mRNA vaccines (the more doses the higher the risk) , along with numerous studies debunking the notion that lockdowns, mandates and masks are effective at stopping the spread of the virus, more and more public figures are beginning to speak out about their initial support of the authoritarian measures.

Actor Tim Robbins recently expressed his regret on Russell Brand's podcast for blindly following government mandates and he admonished tyrannical attitudes that led lockdown supporters to call for the deaths of their political opponents.

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Best of the Web: Why Tucker Carlson remains a giant that the establishment media can't pull down

Robert Bridge
RT
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:53 UTC
Tucker Carlson
© Janos Kummer / Getty ImagesTucker Carlson
The jungle of the US media kingdom appears to be divided between two powerful entities - the pro-establishment behemoth often referred to as the mainstream media, and Tucker Carlson. And against all odds, Carlson appears to be winning.

It would be difficult to name a single person, aside from the rabble-rouser Donald J. Trump, who is more disgusting and/or terrifying (depending on who you ask) for the establishment media than Fox News host Tucker Carlson. This one man is considered such a threat that the New York Times in May spent a boatload of ink to assassinate his character in a 20,000-word hit piece. Ironically, the article backfired as it laid bare the reasons Americans no longer trust the 'legacy media'.

Straight from the Grey Lady's mouth: "'Tucker Carlson Tonight' has presented a dominant narrative, recasting American racism to present white Americans as an oppressed caste. The ruling class uses fentanyl and other opioids to addict and kill legacy Americans, anti-white racism to cast them as bigots, feminism to degrade their self-esteem, immigration to erode their political power. Republican elites, however improbably, help to import the voters Democrats require at the ballot box. The United States, Mr. Carlson tells his viewers, is 'ruled by mercenaries who feel no long-term obligation to the people they rule.'"

Those sentiments, which the piece dismisses out of hand as some wild conspiracy theories, are shared by tens of millions of average Americans whose trust in journalists and politicians is now at an all-time low.
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Global coal use set for all-time high this year thanks to war in Ukraine

Breanne Deppisch
Washington Examiner
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:34 UTC
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Global coal demand is on track to hit an all-time high in 2022, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

According to the report, worldwide coal consumption is forecast to rise 1.2% in 2022, surpassing 8 billion tons in a single year for the first time ever and eclipsing the previous record set in 2013.

The rise in coal consumption is a setback to global efforts to transition to renewable energy sources, including the ambitious goal set by the Biden administration to slash carbon emissions to 50% of 2005 levels by 2030.

The rise in coal use is due in large part to a surge in natural gas prices caused by Russia's war in Ukraine, which has forced countries to increase their reliance on coal for power generation.

Countries, especially in Europe, have struggled to replace Russian fossil fuels, exacerbated by lower hydro and nuclear power generation across the continent. Based on the report and latest market trends, the report forecasts that coal consumption will remain flat at the 2022 levels through 2025, given the robust and likely continued demand from emerging Asian economies.

Comment: If there's a way to sabotage coal, they would do it.

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Opposition to school vaccine mandates has grown significantly in the US since Covid, study finds

Jan Hoffman
New York Times
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC
California vaccine mandate protest
© Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNGLAUSD parents and students rallied against student COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the corner of Victory Blvd and Balboa Blvd. in Lake Balboa on Monday, October 18, 2021, in conjunction with a statewide Schools Walkout campaign.
For generations of most American families, getting children vaccinated was just something to check off on the list of back-to-school chores. But after the ferocious battles over COVID-19 shots of the past two years, simmering resistance to general school vaccine mandates has grown significantly. Now, 35% of parents oppose requirements that children receive routine immunizations in order to attend school, according to a new survey released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

All of the states and the District of Columbia mandate that children receive vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella and other highly contagious, deadly childhood diseases. (Most permit a few limited exemptions.)

Throughout the pandemic, the Kaiser foundation, a nonpartisan health care research organization, has been issuing monthly reports on changing attitudes toward COVID vaccines. The surveys have showed a growing political divide over the issue, and the latest study indicates that division now extends to routine childhood vaccinations.
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NYT crossword puzzle shaped like a swastika on the 1st day of Hanukkah causes uproar

Alex Hammer
Daily Mail
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:23 UTC
swastika new york times
Readers looking to partake in this Sunday's New York Times crossword puzzle have left dumbfounded by its layout - which many noticed bears a resemblance to a Nazi swastika
Donald Trump Jr. was among hundreds of New York Times readers who slammed the newspaper for their crossword puzzle on Sunday - which many noticed bore an uncanny resemblance to a Nazi swastika.

The puzzle's silhouette has caused a stir on social media, with several prominent Jewish leaders and political figures taking to social media to voice their outrage - especially since it was published on the first night of Hanukkah.

Some contend the pattern - which is striking and jumps off the page even at a glance - is a coincidence, while others claimed it serves as one of the latest and most brazen examples of the paper's supposed history of anti-Israel rhetoric.

The Times has yet to comment on the controversial puzzle.

Donald Trump Jr. slammed the puzzle as 'disgusting,' writing Sunday that 'only the New York Times would get Hanukkah going with this is the crossword puzzle.'

Comment: It seems unlikely that this could be due to the New York Times 'siding with the Palestinians', or being particularly critical of Israel, because few if any mainstream American media outlets take that stance, partly because the Israel lobby is so powerful in the US.

What makes this 'coincidence' even stranger is that this isn't the first time it has happened. Back in October 2017 the crossword also just so happened to resemble a swastika - and some users highlighted the one of the words was 'overready' -

to which the NYT Games account responded:
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Federal court declares it's fair for biological males to compete in women's sports

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 08:02 UTC
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Connecticut women high school athletes have been waiting for justice for years, ever since their sporting events and rankings were upended by biological males who entered women's competitions, and then dominated. A federal court ruled that these women will not see justice served.

Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alana Smith, and Ashley Nicoletti all competed against biological males in high school athletics in the state of Connecticut, and each one, despite their dominance in the sport when it was restricted to females only, lost to biological males Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller.


In the case before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, the court stated they were "unpersuaded" by the arguments that it is unfair for biological males to compete in women's sports. The case specifically asked for the women to be given the titles they would have earned had the biological males not competed, and the trans-identified athletes be stripped of those titles.
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