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Charges dropped against Stephen Colbert staffers who were arrested for unlawful entry in House office building

Lindsay Kornick , Chad Pergram
Fox News
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:33 UTC
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© CBSCharges against Stephen Colbert's staff were dropped on Monday.
The 'Colbert 9' were arrested in an unauthorized area of a U.S. Capitol building in June.

The "Colbert 9" were cleared of "unlawful entry" charges Monday after staffers for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" were caught recording comedy skits inside a House Office Building after hours without permission in June.

A statement from the U.S. Attorney's office read:
After a comprehensive review of all of the evidence and the relevant legal authority, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has determined that it cannot move forward with misdemeanor charges of unlawful entry against the nine individuals who were arrested on June 16, 2022 at the Longworth Office Building. The individuals, who entered the building on two separate occasions, were invited by Congressional staffers to enter the building in each instance and were never asked to leave by the staffers who invited them, though, members of the group had been told at various points by the U.S. Capitol Police that they were supposed to have an escort. The Office would be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these invited guests were guilty of the crime of unlawful entry because their escort chose to leave them unattended. We do not believe it is probable that the Office would be able to obtain and sustain convictions on these charges. The defendants no longer will be required to appear for a scheduled hearing in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on July 20, 2022.

Comment: Considering the Jan. 6 protesters were granted access to the building by police and yet they're being prosecuted to utmost extent of the law, it seems rather hypocritical to drop charges against entertainers who had dodgy permission to be there. Apparently it's more about which side of the aisle your team is on than one's actual actions.

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Washington mayor torched as hypocrite for complaining about border migrants bused to DC

Charles Creitz
Fox News
Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:56 UTC
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© Olivier DOULIERY / AFPviaGettyMuriel Browser (composite)
Florida and Pennsylvania officials have floated busing migrants to Delaware.

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is being criticized as a "Not-in-my-backyard" hypocrite for complaining about the influx of asylum seekers utilizing homeless shelters and other city services, months after Texas began busing migrants to the place they say caused the overall crisis.

Bowser called the migrant issue "significant" and said she is urging a coordinated federal response, further claiming migrants are being "tricked" into boarding buses to Washington.

Earlier this year, video circulated of buses arriving from Texas and debarking passengers off Massachusetts Avenue near Capitol Hill.

Comment: See also: 'I'm daring them': Texas AG responds after White House shoots down migrant busing threat

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The astonishing data that may prove masks DON'T work as Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand overtake Australia despite super strict mandates: 'They don't matter'

Kevin Airs
Daily Mail Australia
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:44 UTC
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© ReutersShock data has revealed Covid case numbers in New Zealand and Singapore - where masks are reularly worn all the time outdoors, as seen here - have overtaken Australia in the latest Omicron wave despite ultra-strict mask mandates
  • Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand have overtaken Australia per capita
  • Both still have very strict mandates in place unlike Australia where rules eased
  • Death rates in New Zealand are also higher than in Australia despite masks
  • Data shared by infectious diseases professor in post saying masks 'don't matter'
  • It's the latest damning data to counter calls for a Covid clampdown in Australia
New data shows Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand have overtaken Australia in the latest Omicron wave despite ultra-strict mask mandates.

Masks are worn everywhere in the densely-populated Asian city while New Zealanders are forced to wear them in all indoor public places, such as shopping centres and libraries.

But both now have higher case numbers per million than Australia, where compulsory mask rules have been abandoned in most indoor settings.

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Coronavirus Germany to re-impose mask mandate in September despite COVID wave already "losing momentum"

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:42 UTC
German parliament
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Germany is set to re-impose its mask mandate in September despite the summer COVID wave already "losing momentum," indicating such rules are being made permanent.

Justice Minister Marco Buschmann announced that Germans would have to mask up this autumn when indoors and that the rules would be in place throughout the winter.

Ludicrously, such measures are being finalized months in advance when nobody even knows what the COVID situation will be later in the year.

Buschmann also acknowledged that the summer COVID wave in the country is already "losing momentum," but Germans will be forced to wear face coverings anyway.

The measures will be sent to parliament in September, where they are likely to be voted into law.

Comment: See also: Still no conclusive evidence justifying mandatory masks

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Jordan Peterson speaks to House Republicans on positive messaging

Emily Brook
The Hill
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:24 UTC
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Psychologist and author Jordan Peterson spoke to a group of House Republicans on Wednesday at a lunch for the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House.

"I'm trying to help formulate a positive conservative message," Peterson said after the lunch. "It's dangerous in these times where politics has become increasingly tit for tat. It's easy to recoil into a kind of resentment, especially in relationship to the radicals on the left and to just be tossing increasingly barbed insults back and forth."

"I suppose that's the danger of a kind of reflexive populism, that you can appeal to that resentment," Peterson continued. "But I think more traditional types have a real opportunity to put forward a positive vision and to guide themselves through the next election in the fall, the election cycle in the fall and in the presidential election, with a positive message. And hopefully that will also cool down the political temperature to some degree, because that needs to happen."

Peterson spoke to the group at the invitation of Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).
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Worksheet at Boston high school suggests assassinations as legitimate form of resisting 'oppression'

JM Phelps
The Epoch Times
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:12 UTC
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© Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesStudents walk to their classrooms at a public middle school in Los Angeles, California, on Sept. 10, 2021.
At Charlestown High School in the city of Boston, certain teachers instructing students learning English who recently arrived in the United States may be indoctrinating these children to incite violence as a form of resistance to their alleged oppressors, according to experts.

The "classroom files" of three of the school's teachers in the Sheltered English Immersion program are currently available for download on the Boston Teachers Union (BTU) website. These teachers teach Humanities to ninth- and tenth-grade students who have recently arrived in the country from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and China, the website states.

One part of the curriculum profiled on the website involves "notes and assignments around oppression, resistance, and narrative structure."

"It includes detailed note-taking sheets and powerpoints on institutional, interpersonal, and internalized oppression," the BTU website states. "Students are invited to critically examine when certain forms of resistance might be appropriate."

A worksheet titled "Forms of Resistance" is included as an example of what's taught in the course.

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Ireland's gov't takes aim at its farmers threatening '30% carbon cut' that will force farmers to reduce herds

Máire Ní Mhaoine
Gript.ie
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:00 UTC
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Young farmer blasts carbon emission targets: 'Govt has turned its back on Irish food and agriculture industry'
A young Irish farmer has taken aim at Climate Minister Eamon Ryan's strict carbon emission targets which will require a reduction in the national herd - after the Minister said he hopes to see the legally binding targets for cuts in emissions signed off this month.

The Green Party leader is demanding a 30% carbon cut to be imposed on the agriculture sector, and claimed that the targets, although being met with opposition, are needed for climate reasons, as well as for the restoration of 'water quality and biodiversity', as he warned that we "cannot lose our environment" despite building opposition to the proposed cuts from farmers.


Comment: 'Water quality and biodiversity' are admirable goals, but how does the Green Party leader suppose people will eat in the short term?


The leader of the Greens has previously claimed that farmers will be provided with alternative sources of income and will be financially rewarded for taking on practices aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.


Comment: Perhaps they will sell out, but once those farmers are gone, so is the knowledge, and the land will be sold off, never to be returned to small agricultural owners: England's farmers to be paid to 'rewild' land, despite soaring food costs & supply issues


It emerged today that both Minister Ryan and Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalgoue are due to meet for discussions this week, with Minister Ryan reportedly 'confident' that the sectoral targets requiring a cut in the national herd will be put forward before the month is out - as he reaffirmed his commitment to introducing the targets.
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Video shows explosion and fire at Hoover Dam in US


RT
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 23:14 UTC
Explosion rocks Hoover Dam
Explosion rocks Hoover Dam in US (VIDEO) Tour group captured smoke rising from historic landmark on Arizona-Nevada border
A fire broke out after an explosion at Hoover Dam, a major hydroelectric power plant on the border of US states of Arizona and Nevada, on Tuesday morning. The fire was put out by the time firefighters from nearby Boulder City arrived on the scene, but the moment of the explosion was captured by a tour group.

"My goodness, something just blew up," someone can be heard saying in a short video posted on Twitter by Kristy Hairston, a writer based in Nashville, Tennessee who was visiting the dam with a group of other tourists. A pillar of thick black smoke can be seen rising from the power plant at the bottom of the dam.

Hairston's video was posted at 10:11 local time. BY 10:51, Boulder City officials said the fire had been extinguished before their fire brigade arrived on the scene.

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Also today there was a gas explosion at a 6-story residential building that injured 11:
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© PHOTO / PEOPLE.COM.CNA blast happens at a residential building in a community in Beichen district of North China's Tianjin, July 19, 2022.
And in the UK, the day after at least 10 different regions across the country battled with crop fires, an unexplained house fire was reported (with one user blaming it on manmade global warming):




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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: It can't be stopped, you have 60 days


Adapt 2030
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 21:33 UTC
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Wheat planting after final numbers is at a low not seen since 1919, corn is under 90 million acres and fertilizer + herbicide + Insecticide shortages mean that the CME in Sept will not have the physical commodities to deliver and this will crash the market. Alternative food and protein sources will be needed.

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Russian activist jailed for 10 years for organizing 2020 protest against lockdown


RFE/RL
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:58 UTC
russia opera singer jailed covid protest
© VK/VadimCheldiyevVadim Cheldiyev
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced opera singer Vadim Cheldiyev to 10 years in prison for his role in organizing a massive rally against anti-coronavirus restrictions in the entertainer's native North Ossetia region in 2020.


Comment: He was an opera singer. He quit to return to his hometown of Vladikavkaz, capital of North Ossetia, in 2019, to open a charity for the poor. Russian state security must have had an eye on him since then because this video report about his charitable turn mentions that he was 'interviewed about his political beliefs' in 2019.


The Rostov regional court on July 19 also sentenced co-defendants Ramis Chirkinov and Arsen Besolov to eight and 8 1/2 years in prison, respectively.

Cheldiyev was found guilty of the distribution of false information about the pandemic, extremism, hooliganism, organization of mass disorder, and attacking a law enforcement officer.

Comment: From The Moscow Times:
Vadim Cheldiyev in April 2020 posted a video calling on people to attend a planned protest against Covid-19 restrictions in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia's republic of North Ossetia, over concerns that the lockdown would cost many local jobs. The baritone was detained shortly after and initially charged with spreading "fakes" about the pandemic.

A court in the southern Rostov region on Tuesday found Cheldiyev guilty of spreading calls for unauthorized mass protests and sentenced him to 10 years in a maximum-security prison.

About 1,000 people gathered for the April 2020 protest in Vladikavkaz, despite the lockdown measures, to demand local authorities' resignation and Cheldiyev's release from custody.
Seeing that both RFE/RL and The Moscow Times are Western propaganda mouthpieces, one might wonder if there is more to the story than a passionate local activist being hounded for his beliefs.

10 years for organizing a protest is obviously way too harsh. But the location of this protest may be a clue; one of Russia's 'trouble spots' that Western agents tend to exploit.

Was this particular protest linked with such agents?

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