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No surprise: Emails poke holes in Cathy Areu's lawsuit against Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity

Rudy Takala
Mediaite
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:28 UTC
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Tucker Carlson and Cathy Areu
Inconsistencies are emerging in claims made by Cathy Areu, a once-periodic Fox News guest, that she was harassed by some of the network's biggest names — including prime time anchor Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. New emails obtained by Mediaite shed further light on the case.

In a lawsuit filed on Monday in the Southern District of New York, Areu claims she was harassed by Carlson, Hannity and other employees of the network, and that she was largely barred from appearing after she declined their advances. In an initial response the company said the claims were "completely false."

Over the last several days, records of Areu's appearances on the network and other publicly available information has undermined some of her claims. New emails between Areu and the network's employees seem to add to those concerns.

Even more significantly, eyewitness accounts indicate Carlson's wife was with him on a key evening when Areu said Carlson promised her he would be alone.

Comment: Fox stars Tucker Carlson & Sean Hannity face sexual harassment allegations, former host Ed Henry accused of rape in new lawsuit

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Mr. Potato

NY's authoritarian Cuomo calls for national mask mandate & is confronted with photos of himself NOT wearing a mask days earlier


RT
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:37 UTC
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Andrew Cuomo wears a protective face mask a coronavirus briefing in Manhattan in New York City, New York
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined calls for a federal mandate on mask-wearing in public, despite being photographed only days before at an event without a mask — something critics were quick to remind him of.

"There should be a national mask mandate," Cuomo tweeted on Thursday.

Unsurprisingly, the governor was instantly confronted with the photos of himself wearing no mask — which could be seen as doubly hypocritical and ironic since everyone else in the pictures are wearing masks.


Comment: What's even worse than his hypocrisy is that Cuomo is content to remain abysmally ignorant of how benign the virus is for most people. He's content to congratulate himself on his authoritarian style and accrue more power - even as he destroys the state and the lives of millions he was elected to serve.

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Hardhat

Christopher Columbus statues taken down after Mayor Lightfoot orders them 'temporarily removed' from Grant Park, Arrigo Park

Marissa Parra
CBS Chicago
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:47 UTC
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© Tyler Lariviere/Sun-Times/Chicago Sun-Times, via Associated Press
Crews removed Christopher Columbus statues from two Chicago parks early Friday. Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered their temporary removal in response to the ongoing protests.
After protests, demonstrations and violent clashes with police, Chicago's Christopher Columbus statues have been removed from both Grant Park and Arrigo Park.

CBS 2's Marissa Parra reported crowds cheered overnight as the Grant Park statue was removed by the city. The statue in Little Italy was removed early Friday morning.

Comment: Taking down statues while ignoring the elephant in the room with regards to actual problems facing black communities only divides the populace into radicals and anti-radicals. Which serves the agendas of the Deep State more than anything else.

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Burka

'Do as I say, not as I do'? Twitter goes berserk after mask advocate Fauci forgoes his own Covid-19 guidances


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:13 UTC
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© Reuters / Geoff Burke
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci has taken a tongue-lashing on social media, after photographs of the top US doctor showed him ignoring guidelines put in place to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key player in guiding the US response to Covid-19, enjoyed a pleasant day at the ballpark on Thursday, where he threw the ceremonial first pitch of the MLB opening day game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals. His throw was wildly off-target, sparking near-unanimous mockery of his baseball skills on Twitter. But he received equally ferocious criticism for his coronavirus etiquette while watching the game from the stadium's empty bleachers (fans have been banned from attending games, a policy which Fauci strongly advocated for).


Comment: Since baseball games in the US aren't open to the public, then this must mean Fauci doesn't see himself as a member of the public.


Photographs caught Fauci sitting between two people with his mask on his chin. The grinning doctor appears to be having a great time, even though the photographic evidence suggests that he violated his own social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines.

Social media backlash was swift and unforgiving.

"Showing us all he knows exactly how well masks work! Thanks for the lesson, doc," quipped writer and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who has repeatedly pointed to studies and data which cast doubt on the efficacy of widespread public mask use.

Comment: The public is rightfully angry at this narcissistic hypocrite telling everyone how to live their lives, while he himself does whatever he pleases in stark contrast to his dictates to everyone else. See also:

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USA

Portland protesters battling federal police to sound of Star Wars' Imperial March


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:31 UTC
Federal law enforcement officers are seen during a demonstration against the presence of federal law enforcement officers and racial inequality in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
© REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
Chaotic scenes outside Portland's federal courthouse were given a snarky soundtrack by a demonstrator who showed up to the fracas armed with a stereo. The city has seen nightly clashes between police and protesters.

Footage taken by New York Times correspondent Mike Baker shows activists and federal agents fighting over control of a fence guarding the building in downtown Portland, which has been under siege by demonstrators for nearly two months.

Protesters used projectiles and laser pointers against federal law enforcement tasked with protecting the courthouse, who in turn deployed tear gas to keep the mob at bay.

During the skirmish, one protester deployed a loudspeaker hooked up to a car to blast out the iconic 'Imperial March' from 'Star Wars', presumably as a cheeky way to paint police as Darth Vader-serving stormtroopers.
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Wolf

Portland: Business owner targeted by looters tells RT 'failed leadership' has created a 'warzone'


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:19 UTC
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© Facebook / Noha Khouri Kassab
The interior of Nouri Kassab's family business
A Portland jeweler whose store was ransacked amid ongoing protests has lashed out at local officials, saying they have failed to adequately respond to looting and that, as a result, the city has changed for the worse.

Noha Kassab's family-owned business lost nearly $1 million in merchandise after a mob broke into her store on May 31. In an interview with RT, Kassab, whose jewelry store has been a fixture in downtown Portland for more than three decades, said that she no longer recognizes the city.
It's not the Portland we know. It's not the city we've been doing business in for over 30 years. It's just boarded up streets, a lot of graffiti, destruction everywhere and it's just not the Portland we know.
The city "looks like a warzone," the jeweler said, adding that she was uncertain about the future of downtown Portland.

Comment: The blame can squarely be laid at the feet of that spineless worm, "Mayor" Ted Wheeler, who has spent his incumbency kowtowing to the woke mobs he has allowed to infest the city he is supposed to be serving.

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The Jewish National Fund 'charity' isn't planting trees, it's uprooting Palestinians

Jonathan Cook
The National
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:59 UTC
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© David Shulman / Peace Now
The Sumarin family's could be the latest case of Palestinians being evicted from their property.
The Jewish National Fund has won plaudits for its environmental work, but its agenda has been to evict on behalf of the state

The Jewish National Fund, established more than 100 years ago, is perhaps the most venerable of the international Zionist organisations. Its recent honorary patrons have included prime ministers, and it advises UN forums on forestry and conservation issues.

It is also recognised as a charity in dozens of western states. Generations of Jewish families, and others, have contributed to its fundraising programmes, learning as children to drop saved pennies into its trademark blue boxes to help plant a tree.

And yet its work over many decades has been driven by one main goal: to evict Palestinians from their homeland.

The JNF is a thriving relic of Europe's colonial past, even if today it wears the garb of an environmental charity.
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Dominoes

NY Times has found the REAL culprit in the racial achievement gap: 'Nice White Parents'


RT
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:05 UTC
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© Global Look Press / moodboard / Tim Hall
The New York Times is launching a podcast series that appears to blame "Nice White Parents" for longstanding issues with the US public school system, deflecting responsibility off incompetent officials onto the bogeyman du jour.

The paper of record debuted a sample of its "Nice White Parents" podcast on Thursday, promoted as a miniseries "about the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block." Spoiler alert: the white parents are the bad guys.

Set to upbeat music, the teaser tells the story of a group of white New York City parents who lobbied heavily in 1963 for the Board of Education to move a planned new school from the proposed site, close to a housing project, to a new site closer to a white neighborhood so kids of all races could attend school together. This was less than a decade after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision struck down "separate but equal" and rendered segregation effectively illegal, and "integration" was one of the hottest issues of the day.

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Info

JK Rowling receives apology from children's site after threatening legal action over claims she 'harmed trans people'

Adam White
Independent
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:55 UTC
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Site aimed at schoolchildren implied Harry Potter author was 'deeply unpleasant'.

JK Rowling has received an apology from a children's news site after she threatened legal action over its claim that she had harmed transgender people.

On 10 June, The Day, a site aimed at schoolchildren, published an article under the headline "Potterheads cancel Rowling after trans tweet".

Comment: As Rowling illustrates, if you stand up to these ideologues they fold like a cheap deck of cards.

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Newspaper

Home of prominent Ukrainian anti-corruption activist burned down in suspected arson


RFE/RL
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:59 UTC
Shabunin

Ukrainian anti-corruption campaigner Vitaliy Shabunin speaks with journalists in front of his gutted house in Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on law enforcement to find those responsible for a suspected arson attack on the home of a prominent anti-corruption activist that has caused deep concern among Western countries.

Vitaliy Shabunin, who serves as the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center's executive board, showed reporters on July 23 the remains of his home in the capital, Kyiv, which burned down overnight.

"The culprits must be found and punished," Zelenskiy said in a statement, adding that such attacks "cast a shadow on the reputation of our state, on our institutions of power, and especially on our law enforcement agencies."

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