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US schools struggling with a wave of student misbehaviour following lockdowns


Wall Street Journal
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:57 UTC
students us school bus
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High school students in Albuquerque, N.M., in August.
School districts across the U.S. say they are seeing a surge of student misbehavior in the return to in-person learning, after months of closures and disruptions due to the pandemic.

In the hallway between classes one afternoon this fall at Southwood High School in Shreveport, La., two boys exchanged words. All at once, they jumped at each other, witnesses said. Dozens of other students joined and they all fell into a heap, kicking and punching, until teachers pulled them apart.

The fight was one in a series of brawls in Southwood's courtyards and hallways on three subsequent days that led to 23 students being arrested and expelled.

Comment: There were spikes of child suicides at the very beginning of the lockdowns, and, since then, statistics and professionals have repeatedly waened that unprecedented numbers of children are suffering mental health issues due to the prolonged confinement, and deliberate fearmongering; this was all widely known, and entirely predictable, preventable, and wholly unnecesary for a virus that's milder than the flu.

These troubles aren't just confined to schools, either, because incidents like the one seen in the video from Manchester, England, seem to be on the rise:


Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: The Red Line? Governments Extend Vaccine Mandates to Children




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Bullseye

Professor Ehud Qimron: "Ministry of Health, it's time to admit failure"


Swiss Policy Research
Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Qimron
© Haaretz
Professor Ehud Qimron (c) at Tel Aviv University
Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli - and indeed global - management of the coronavirus pandemic.

Original letter in Hebrew: N12 News (January 6, 2022); translated by Google/SPR. See also: Professor Qimron's prediction from August 2020: "History will judge the hysteria" (INN).
Ministry of Health, it's time to admit failure

In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one-by-one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic - we told you so.

Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.

You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda "you overcame the plague." And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.

You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so ("Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007", p. 26).

Comment: In just a few paragraphs, Qimron layered on the truth and slamed the Israeli Ministry of Health magnificently.

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Dollars

Left-wing group secured $158M taxpayer-funded contract to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation

Joe Schoffstall
Fox News
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
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A progressive group that views immigration enforcement agencies as a "threat" to civil liberties secured a $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation, records show.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the Vera Institute of Justice, a left-wing nonprofit that backs defunding the police, the contract in 2021 to "provide immigration related legal services to unaccompanied minors," according to USASpending, a federal contract database. Jason Hopkins, an investigative associate with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, told Fox News:
"The Vera Institute of Justice is a behemoth progressive nonprofit based out of New York City with well over a $140 million budget, which they use to fund a slate of progressive causes and initiatives across the country. Whether that be criminal justice reform, bail reform and also immigration."
Hopkins said the institute gets around half of its funding from the federal government. In fact, between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, nearly $137 million of the group's $174 million in revenue came from government grants, the institute's most recent tax forms show.

"The $158 million is just the latest in the hundreds of millions that they provided to Vera for their services," Hopkins said.


Comment: The Biden administration's open border fiasco compounds these problems every day. Ultimately the cost of this policy, be it feeding, housing, transporting, administrating or deporting migrants comes down to the taxpayer, without vote or recourse. The problem lies with the incompetence of the gatekeeper.

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Dollars

Former Obama WH adviser pleads guilty to wire fraud

Natalie Prieb
The Hill
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:13 UTC
Andrew
© C-Span
Seth Andrew, former Obama WH advisor
A former White House adviser to former President Obama pled guilty to wire fraud on Friday in connection to an alleged scheme to steal $218,000 from a school network that he helped create.

"Seth Andrew, a former White House advisor, admitted today to devising a scheme to steal from the very same schools he helped create," Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "Andrew now faces time in federal prison for abusing his position and robbing those he promised to help."

The 42-year-old founded Democracy Prep Public Schools in New York City in 2005, and left the position to work for the Department of Education (DOE) in 2013.

Following his time at the DOE, he worked in the Obama White House as a senior adviser in the Office of Educational Technology, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Following his work at the White House in 2017, he officially severed his ties with the charter school system he had helped to create.

According to the DOJ, Democracy Prep Public Schools each had to maintain "escrow accounts" that were only meant to be accessed if the school dissolved. Andrew, according to the statement, had access to these accounts, and closed them out when he left the school system. He then placed the money in different accounts that the department labeled "fraud" accounts.
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Telescope

Drone seen flying over Forsmark nuclear plant in Sweden, police deploy helicopter patrol


Reuters
Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:21 UTC
Forsmark nuclear power plant

FILE PHOTO: General view of nuclear power plant in Forsmark
Police in Sweden deployed patrols and helicopters to the Forsmark nuclear plant to hunt for a large drone seen flying over the site late on Friday, but were unable to catch the unmanned vehicle, they said on Saturday.

The incident came a day after Sweden's military started patrolling the main town on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland amid increased tensions between NATO and Russia and a recent deployment of Russian landing craft in the Baltic.

Forsmark, which is Sweden's biggest electricity producer, lies on the Baltic coast about 150 km (93 miles) north of the capital, Stockholm.

Comment: This brings to mind a number of other events that may be linked, and occurred in just the last few months: In addition, these unexplained drone sightings near sensitive areas has been ongoing for years now:

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Pistol

Texas synagogue accused hostage taker identified as British national

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:16 UTC
police synagogue attack texas
© AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Law enforcement officials talk to each other after a news conference where they announced that all hostages at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue were safe and the hostage taker was dead on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas.
The man who allegedly held Jewish worshippers hostage at a Texas synagogue was a British citizen.

The suspect who died at the scene after allegedly taking hostages at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, near Fort Worth, Saturday was a British national, according to the U.K. government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

"We are aware of the death of a British man in Texas and are in contact with the local authorities," a spokesperson for the office said in an emailed statement to Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the State Department, Justice Department, the FBI Dallas Division and the Colleyville Police Department early Sunday seeking additional comment.

It's unclear how the individual entered the U.S. or if he had a criminal background.

Comment: President Houseplant was trotted out to say something profound:
President Joe Biden said Saturday's hostage situation at a Texas synogogue was an "act of terror." He added they were still learning about the now-deceased suspect's motives.

The president made his comments while at an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Sunday.

The president said he has been briefed on the situation by Attorney General Merrick Garland and they are working to address "these types of acts." He added that he has spoken to the rabbi who was among the captives.

Biden also addressed gun control on Sunday, calling background checks on weapons purchases "essential."

"The idea of background checks are critical, but you can't stop something like this if someone's on the streets buying something from somebody else on the streets," he said, alleging it had been too easy for the suspect to arm himself.
The attacker has since been identified:
The FBI has identified the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue on Saturday as Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British citizen.

In a Sunday statement, authorities said they are continuing to investigate but do not believe other individuals beyond Akram were involved. The hostage situation ended with the death of Akram after police entered the synagogue following hours of negotiations.

Multiple US media outlets speculated on Saturday that Akram was the brother of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged in 2010 with attempting to murder US soldiers and FBI agents overseas. Siddiqui is currently serving an 86-year sentence in the US, and Akram was reportedly negotiating for her release, referring to her as his "sister."

However, a lawyer for Siddiqui's biological brother confirmed that they are not related to the now-deceased suspect. The imprisoned woman, who many argue is an innocent political prisoner, also condemned the actions of Akram.
Some of the background on Dr. Aaifa Siddiqui that Fox News skated over. Her situation more complex and disturbing than they let on:

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NPC

Lunatic Florida Dem Gov. candidate compares Ron DeSantis to Hitler

Patrick Reilly
New York Post
Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:46 UTC
Nikki Fried florida governor candidate democrat
© AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
Nikki Fried said DeSantis has done "everything possible to take power away from local governments."
Florida Agricultural Commissioner and 2022 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried compared Gov. Ron DeSantis to Adolf Hitler in a recent interview.

In an appearance on NPR's Friday Roundup Podcast, Fried was asked about having previously referred to the Republican governor an "authoritarian dictator" by co-host Melissa Ross, a reporter at WJCT in Jacksonville.

"He is doing everything possible to take power away from local governments, taking away people's abilities to protest, making it harder to vote, talking about, you know, banning books," Fried responded.

"That's what dictators do. Instead of listening and trying to govern with the people, he is trying to govern over the people, and, you know, that, I'm sorry, I'm a student of history, too. I saw the rise of Hitler."

Comment: Awfully rich, as Fried stands there maskless at her podium, free to live her life with virtually none of the vaccine mandate coercion suffered by less well-governed states.

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Yellow Vest

Dutch cafes & bars defy lockdown in protest against nonsensical restrictions


DutchNews.nl
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:02 UTC
Cafes
© Remco de Waal ANP
Cafes in Groningen were open.
Saturday's protests by dozens of bar and cafe owners, who opened in defiance of the government's closure orders, passed off without problems Dirk Beljaarts, director of hospitality industry lobby group KHN, told television talk show Nieuwsuur that there will be 'more protests in the days to come'.

Beljaarts described the public support for Saturday's protests as 'heartwarming', adding that if opening cafes was 'so life-threatening', mayors would have acted to close them down.

On Friday, the government said shops, universities and fitness centres could reopen, but that bars, cafes and the cultural sector must remain shut because of the surge in coronavirus cases.


Comment: Citizens everywhere should be extremely concerned that people in positions of power endorse the enforcement of nonsensical rules such as that above: Political Ponerology And The Rise Of Totalitarianism In The West


Comment: What with the propaganda media now admitting that the last 21+ months were based on lies, many more people are now readily pushing back against the restrictions and coercion, however, some of these same people that waited to be told it was OK to question the official narrative will likely just as easily revert back to following orders when governments move in lockstep onto the next stage of the nefarious agenda: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: New Year, Same 'New Normal': Mass Formation Psychosis & Crowd Psychology



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Arrow Down

Democrat group hides comments accusing Nike of slave labor after praising company


RT
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:46 UTC
Nike
© Getty Images / Budrul Chukrut; SOPA Images; LightRocket
American multinational sport clothing brand Nike store in Hong Kong, 13 January, 2022
Occupy Democrats, a popular left-wing political advocacy group which supports the US Democratic Party, was caught hiding comments expressing concern about slave labor after it praised sportswear company Nike.

The group praised Nike on social media after the multi-billion-dollar company threatened to fire employees who remained unvaccinated against Covid-19.

"Nike sends a defiant letter to its remaining unvaccinated employees that they will be FIRED by January 15 if they fail to get vaccinated against Covid. Republicans attacked Nike's mandate, but the company held its ground," the group tweeted, before calling on its supporters to "thank Nike for standing strong."
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Attention

Seniors to be fined for violating vaccine mandate


RT
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:41 UTC
Covid-19 vaccination station
© Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP
A Covid-19 vaccination station in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2021.
The Greek prime minister has made a final appeal to the country's senior citizens to get inoculated before monthly punishments for violating the country's vaccination mandate kick in next week.

"Our fellow citizens who are over 60 and still unvaccinated - I encourage them today: take this step," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a visit to a health center in Megara, near Athens, on Saturday.

"Protect your life and the lives of those you love, and understand that the vaccine is safe and saves lives."
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