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Arkansas doctor closing practice forgives $650K of cancer patients' debt

Amy Furr
Breitbart
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:00 UTC
Omar Atiq
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An oncologist has lifted the crushing weight of medical debt off the shoulders of almost 200 cancer patients in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Dr. Omar Atiq founded the Arkansas Cancer Institute in 1991 and his clinic recently sent out a special holiday greeting to his patients, according to Fox 16.

The letter read:
I hope this note finds you well. The Arkansas Cancer Clinic was proud to serve you as a patient. Although various health insurances pay most of the bills for majority of patients, even the deductibles and co-pays can be burdensome. Unfortunately, that is the way our health care system currently works. Arkansas Cancer Clinic is closing its practice after over 29 years of dedicated service to the community. The clinic has decided to forego all balances owed to the clinic by its patients. Happy Holidays.
Dr. Atiq said because this year has been so challenging, it brings him great joy to help his patients with their finances.

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Big money pouring into effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom

Mike LaChance
American Lookout
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:00 UTC
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California governor caught ignoring his own mask and social distancing rules at private restaurant dinner with two high-level members of the California Medical Association
California Governor Gavin Newsom is now facing a serious effort to recall him from office.

Not only have the people behind the recall gathered nearly a million necessary signatures, they are now getting huge donations to keep their efforts going.

Comment: Why are Californians are fed up with their governor? A small sample:

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Native American and former marine tased after walking off park path

Elizabeth Louise
Daily Caller
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:58 UTC
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Man and dog tased
A Native American man who was taking a stroll with his sister was tased by a park ranger in New Mexico after stepping off the walking trail on a national park, according to video released Tuesday.

Former Marine and member of the Oneida and Navajo tribes, Darrell House and his sister had gone for a walk Sunday afternoon with their dog at the Petroglyph National Monument where House often comes to pray and meditate. House saw a group of incoming walkers and stepped off the trail in order to practice social distancing, NBC News reported.

In a nine-minute video posted on the National Park Service website, body camera footage shows the park ranger approaching House and his sister to tell them why he wants them to remain on the trail. House walks away several times during the discussion before the ranger tases him.

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Revolt at RFE/RL: US propaganda outfit denounces boss as partisan, claims he threatens their 'freedom and independence'


RT
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:15 UTC
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Editors and section chiefs at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have sent a letter to Congress claiming their agency head is threatening their journalistic autonomy and stellar reputation, both of which are dubious concepts at best.

The actions of Michael Pack, head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), are "intended to revoke RFE/RL's financial autonomy" and "embed" his appointees within the service's board of directors for two years, in an "unprecedented departure" from its tradition of working with changing administrations, says the letter dated Wednesday, which was leaked to CNBC and made public on Thursday.

Pack's actions "will compromise the freedom from political influence that for seven decades has characterized [RFE/RL] as an independent surrogate news organization for countries with no free press of their own," adds the letter, signed by Editor-in-Chief Daisy Sindelar, six other executives, and 21 heads of different language services.

Comment: News wars are won in the minds of the readers, especially those who trust too freely, believe too easily. For them, 'truth' magically appears and reputation doesn't matter.

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Census bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizes Trump plan


Newsmax
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:25 UTC
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The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.

That delay could undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures aren't turned in before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

It will be the first time that the Dec. 31 target date is missed since the deadline was implemented more than four decades ago by Congress.

Internal documents obtained earlier this month by a House committee show that Census Bureau officials don't see the apportionment numbers being ready until days after Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

Once in office, Biden could rescind Trump's presidential memorandum directing the Census Bureau to exclude people in the country illegally from numbers used for divvying up congressional seats among the states. An influential GOP adviser had advocated excluding them from the apportionment process, to the advantage of Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.

Comment: Of course Biden will rescind the memo. Democrats notoriously support illegal aliens with resources and voter rights to reap a benefit at the polls.

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Arizona citizens investigation discovers thousands of phantom voters in state - up to 30% of addresses in investigation were fraudulent

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:26 UTC
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Here is a final report on the press conference last night in Phoenix, Arizona by Citizens Investigation that uncovered thousands of illegal votes in the state.

Mathematician Bobby Piton supplied Liz Harris, the Director of Citizens Investigation, and We The People AZ Alliance, a random sample of 3,900 questionable AZ voter names to check for residency from the latest election in Arizona. This list represented all 5 categories of voters (Republican, Democrat, etc.).

Bobby Piton testified in the AZ State hearing in late November about ghost voters and other anomalies. He was banned by Twitter during his compelling testimony. He has spent over 400 hours researching abnormalities with voter names and registrations.

Liz Harris then rounded up several hundred patriot volunteers who knocked on these doors looking to find what Piton calls "phantom sleeper" and suspicious Undefined or "U" voters. They are not eligible to vote for a variety of reasons. He estimated there are 160,000 to 400,000 of these illegal voters in Arizona. The team were able to visit 1,000 of the addresses in person and were often harassed or threatened by the residents. They found 539 voters DID NOT LIVE at these addresses. Additional results are below.

Comment: See also:

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Georgia Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, Stacey Abrams' sister, reverses controversial voter eligibility ruling

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
Politico
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:06 UTC
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Sisters: Georgia District Judge Leslie Gardner and Stacey Abrams
A federal judge has agreed to allow a Georgia county to require that certain voters cast provisional ballots, just days before two runoff elections in the state that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.

More than 4,000 voters faced eligibility challenges ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs based on unverified postal change-of-address records. The new injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, issued just before midnight on Wednesday, replaces an earlier restraining order she had issued that prevented Muscogee County from forcing those voters to cast provisional ballots at all. The latest order represents a significant move in the direction the county board urged during a court hearing earlier Wednesday.

Although the county may now require provisional ballots from those voters, Gardner's order directs that no challenges to their eligibility be upheld based exclusively on data in the National Change of Address Registry, a U.S. Postal Service database that Democrats have worried is an unreliable and unverified indicator of whether individuals have changed their legal residence.

Comment: Georgia judge, Stacey Abrams' sister, rules against purge of illegal voters before Senate runoffs

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Papers, please: US, Canada, Sweden to require proof of negative Covid test for foreigners entering countries


Newsmax
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:08 UTC
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The U.S. government might expand coronavirus testing requirements for international air travelers beyond Britain as early as next week, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other U.S. agencies held a lengthy call with U.S. airlines Wednesday that discussed expanding COVID-19 test requirements to travelers arriving from other countries, sources briefed on the call said.

The U.S. government Monday began requiring all airline passengers arriving from Britain - including U.S. citizens - to test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of departure.

The CDC said in a statement, "efforts are currently ongoing in the U.S. to assess the risk reduction associated with testing and other recommended preventative measures, determine what a feasible testing regime for air travel may look like, and gain some level of agreement on standards for a harmonized approach to testing for international air travel."

The CDC expansion could eventually cover all U.S.-bound international air arrivals, officials said. Canada said Wednesday it will soon require that air travelers test negative for COVID-19 before arrival.

Airlines for America, a trade group representing major U.S. airlines, said Wednesday it has "been advocating for the federal government to set a national standard on testing in order to lift travel restrictions." The group added it believes "testing can be used to safely reopen borders."

Comment: Sweden will require the same for UK travelers. Welcome to the new normal.

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Some healthcare workers are refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

Lynn Allison
Newsmax
Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:47 UTC
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Approximately 20% to 40% of healthcare workers in Los Angeles County, California, are not willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine even though they have top priority for immunization. A further 50% of workers in nearby Riverside County also nixed the drug, forcing public health officials to strategize how to distribute the unused doses.

According to the Los Angeles Times, researchers are surprised at the reaction of frontline healthcare workers across the country who should be more aware of the science behind the vaccines and willing to get the shot. According to experts, the safety and efficacy of both the Pfizer and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has been proven according to data from clinical trials involving thousands of people.

Comment: Meanwhile Times of Israel reports on arse-covering in Israel's vaccine program:
While stressing it did not see a link to the vaccination, the Health Ministry said Monday it was investigating the death of a 75-year-old man with serious health problems who died at home hours after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

The man received the injection of the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at 8:30 a.m. Monday morning in his northern hometown of Beit She'an. After waiting an obligatory half an hour at the medical clinic, he was released home, saying he felt fine. Some time after getting home, he lost consciousness and was later pronounced dead as a result of heart failure.

The Health Ministry said a preliminary investigation indicated the death did not appear to be connected to the shot. The man suffered from heart disease and cancer, and had suffered a number of previous heart attacks, the ministry said.

The man's family also asked not to link his death to the vaccine, Hebrew media reported.

Ministry director general Chezy Levy nonetheless announced the formation of a committee of inquiry to investigate the incident.

In a separate incident Monday evening, a man was taken to the Terem emergency medical clinic in Jerusalem after suffering a severe allergic reaction around an hour after receiving a dose of the virus.

The man, 46, does not suffer from preexisting conditions but has an allergy to penicillin, Terem said in a statement. The clinic said he has suffered anaphylactic shock as a result of his allergy but that he was given medication and his condition had "stabilized."

The Pfizer vaccine is not made with the coronavirus itself, meaning that there is no chance anyone could catch it from the shots. Instead, the vaccine contains a piece of genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spiked protein on the surface of the virus.

No major safety issues were uncovered in trials of the shot and only common vaccine-related side effects like fever, fatigue and injection site pain were found.

A small among of people, however, did suffer severe allergic reactions in the trials. Last week the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they had seen six cases of severe allergic reaction out of more than a quarter-million shots of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine given, including in one person with a history of vaccination reactions.

Israel's Health Ministry on Monday announced a new daily record in coronavirus vaccination numbers, with 98,916 shots administered the previous day, a week after Israel began its inoculation campaign. The total number of inoculations in the country stood at 379,000.


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15-year-old arrested in connection with BMW bicycle gang attack in NYC

Larry Celona and Elizabeth Elizalde
New York Post
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:42 UTC
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Stills from a video show a group of bicyclists attacking a BMW in NYC.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the wild Tuesday attack on a BMW driver whose posh car was vandalized by a bicycle gang in broad daylight in Manhattan, The Post has learned.

The teen from Queens — who is not being identified because he's a minor — is being charged as a juvenile after allegedly attacking Max Torgovnick's luxury ride on Fifth Avenue, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

The sources said approximately 25 bikers were involved, six of whom damaged Torgovnick's car. Police have also identified another teen and are searching for him, the sources added.


Torgovnick told The Post Wednesday that he and his mother, who is in her 70s, had just dropped off a donation at a nonprofit organization and were heading to his father's neurology office when they ran into around 50 teen bikers Tuesday afternoon.

Video of the harrowing attack shows the bikers surrounding the BMW at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, with some pounding the vehicle with their fists and feet, and another smashing a bike on Torgovnick's windshield.

Comment: Before this, the young criminals attacked a cab driver:
The youngsters' two-wheeled terror spree on Tuesday began in Midtown, where they swarmed the taxi on Fifth Avenue near East 29th Street, trying to damage the vehicle around 4 p.m., police sources said Thursday.

When the cabbie got out to check the damage, one of the teens threw a bike at his back.


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