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Three dead in Pennsylvania snow shovelling dispute

Three dead in Pennsylvania snow
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Three dead in Pennsylvania snow shovelling dispute
Couple shot in argument with neighbour

Three people died in a Pennsylvania shooting that stemmed from a dispute over snow clearance.

A husband and wife were found gunned down in the street following a violent argument with their neighbour, who was then found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his nearby home.

Police say that the violence unfolded in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, during Monday's heavy snowstorm and that neighbours reported hearing a dozen shots shortly after 9am.

District attorney Stefanie Salavantis said there had been existing friction between the neighbours but that "this morning, the dispute was exacerbated by a disagreement over snow disposal."


Pirates

Antifa activists occupy hotel in Washington state Capitol, demanding shelter for homeless

Red Lion Hotel on Capitol Way

An activist group calling itself Oly Housing Now has occupied 17 rooms of a Red Lion Hotel on Capitol Way in downtown Olympia, WA, according to a news release issued by the group.
Update 9pm: At least 12 people have been arrested so far.

Update 8:30 PM: EMTs were seen entering the building. City of Olympia releases a statement on the events on the evening.

Update 8:20 PM: Sympathizers of the hotel occupiers are harassing journalists and citizen journalists documenting the event, trying to get them to stop filming.

Comment: From Jason Ratz:




And Andy Ngo:


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Quenelle

Facebook insider leaks: Hours of video of Zuckerberg & execs admitting they have 'too much power'

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Project Veritas released a new video today leaked by a brave Facebook insider exposing CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives admitting to the company's wide-ranging powers to censor political speech and promote partisan objectives.

In a Jan. 7 video, Zuckerberg is seen accusing then-President Trump of subverting the republic.

"It's so important that our political leaders lead by example, make sure we put the nation first here, and what we've seen is that the president [Trump] has been doing the opposite of that...The president [Trump] intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power," Zuckerberg said.

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Attention

Investigation: 100K Covid Deaths? We don't think so!

švedska covid antitjela
On the 26th January 2021, authorities announced that the UK had surpassed 100,000 deaths due to Covid-19. We've told you time and time again that this number is hugely misleading due to the fact when they started the count in 2020 they initially counted anybody who they suspected had symptoms of Covid. Symptoms that are common with all respiratory diseases that have been around for our entire lives.

Then once they could start testing, with the controversial PCR test they were counting anybody who died within 45 days of a positive test. Then they revised that to 28 days. Then right at the start of the third lockdown they changed those parameters to within 60 days of a positive test. Meaning even if the person was to tragically die in a car accident, if they had received a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 within the set time frame they have been and are added to the Covid death statistics.

So that number of 100,000 Covid deaths just doesn't add up to us. But you're not just going to take our word for it. So we decided to take a look at official Office of National Statistics data for Deaths in 2020 compared to previous years, and this is what we found...

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Red Flag

Andy Ngo exposes Antifa and Democrat hypocrisy in new bestselling book

andy ngo unmasked
One of the more irritating consequences of America's ever-increasing polarization is that events, which are considered to be true and crucial by one group, are broadly dismissed as delusion and dogma by the other.

Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of this willful blindness, but it has taken some effort for America's left-wing to ignore Antifa's violence. Take, for instance, the way in which the East-Coast media has reacted to the events of 2020: "Antifa as Trump imagines it only exists in the conservative mind," wrote one journalist at Vox. Or take this extraordinary act of mental gymnastics by Vanity Fair, which didn't just declare that Antifa was of no threat, but went one step further, saying that the "bogeyman" simply didn't exist.

Biden's Democrats like to pretend that Antifa are simply lentil-eating, art graduates bestowed with the all-American task of punching Nazis. But now, with a Democratic president and total control of Congress, the DNC may finally have to greet the monster that grew under their supervision.

If Joe Biden's eyesight still works, someone should probably give him Andy Ngo's Antifa Unmasked. After all, it seems unlikely that Antifa's violence will stop after something as bloodless as Biden's election victory. As Portland's Mayor Ted Wheeler, who presided over more than 100 days of Antifa-led riots, was forced to admit: his efforts "at de-escalation" were met with "ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa."

Bizarro Earth

Deranged Disney producer Jack Morrissey apologizes for '#MAGAkids into the woodchipper' fantasy

Disney Morrissey
© Twitter, Walt Disney Pictures
Film producer Jack Morrissey apologized on Monday for a social media post envisioning the bloody outcome of Covington Catholic High School students being put into a woodchipper.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin captured and shared Morrissey's since-deleted tweet, which draws on a scene from the 1996 film Fargo in which a character's corpse is fed through a woodchipper:


Morrissey joined a myriad of "verified" Twitter profiles in his response to the narrative of "racist" high school students harassing a Native American. He has since locked his Twitter profile and prevented non-approved followers from viewing his posts.

Comment: Isn't it a bit concerning that a guy who creates movies for kids has these types of thoughts?? Maybe Disney could consider hiring people who don't fantasize about violently murdering children? It seems like a low bar, but maybe it's difficult to find people with just a bit of character in Hollywood these days.


Attention

America's murder rate increase in 2020 has 'no modern precedent,' crime analyst group finds

Do not cross tape
© Flickr / Tony Webster
Murder rates saw a "historic" increase in 2020 compared to 2019, with more than 1,200 additional killings year-over-year in a sample of 34 American cities, according to a study released Monday.

"The coronavirus pandemic, continuing incidents of police violence, and rising homicide and violent crime rates each pose massive policy challenges in their own right, but the interplay between them creates even more difficult decisions for policymakers," states a report from the National Commission of COVID-19 and Criminal Justice (NCCCJ). "Despite this difficulty, leaders at all levels of government should take bold action in responding to all three crises."

Homicide rates jumped by 30% from 2019 to 2020, while gun assault and aggravated assault rates climbed 8% and 6%, respectively, experts found.

"Homicide rates were higher during every month of 2020 relative to rates from the previous year," the report states, calling the 30% surge "a large and troubling increase that has no modern precedent."

Heart - Black

Outrage after police pepper-spray handcuffed NINE-YEAR-OLD girl in Rochester, New York

Police pepperspray girl
© Police bodycam
An internal review was launched after a police officer was filmed pepper-spraying a minor who was sitting in the back of a patrol car. Police claimed the girl was suicidal and threatened to kill her mother.

A minute-long bodycam video shows a girl in handcuffs sitting in the back of a police car. She is distressed and does not appear to be following the officers' commands. The clip was edited to blur the girl's face.

"Come on. I'm gonna pepper spray you, and I don't want to, so sit back. Come on, this is your last chance, otherwise pepper spray is going in your eyeballs. Come on, let's go," an officer says.

"I want my dad," the sobbing girl pleads, to which a female officer replies: "I'm gonna go get him." She adds: "I will fix it," apparently referring to the cuffs.

Eye 1

French government threatens it will withdraw financial aid & fine restaurants that open during lockdown

france restaurant
© AFP
The managers of a restaurant in Metz, eastern France, watching Prime Minister Jean Castex laying out new Covid-19 rules on January 7th.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned restaurant owners Monday that they risked losing Covid-19 financial aid if they open in defiance of the pandemic shutdown, following calls to protest and serve clients.

Angry owners say their livelihoods are at risk since the closures were ordered on October 30th, with little prospect of a return to business as usual anytime soon.

Several chefs and thousands of people have already backed a call by Stephane Turillon, a chef in eastern France, for restaurants to open for protest meals on Monday.

Comment: The hospitality industry wouldn't need government aid if they hadn't been forced to close for much of the past year. But then, many of us saw this coming; now that governments have a significant proportion of the population at the mercy of their handouts, those handouts will be used as their means of control. And it's likely that this is a preemptive move, because throughout Europe hospitality venues have been planning a coordinated 'great re-opening' in defiance of the destructive and nonsensical forced closure of businesses: Over 50,000 Restaurants in Italy Declare "I Am Open" Defying Lockdown Measures

See also: Despite bans on protesting The Covid, anti-lockdown protests take place in multiple European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Austria


Handcuffs

Navalny's wife among 5000+ protesters arrested in Russian demonstrations

Yulia Navalny
© Reuters/Yuri Belyat
Yulia Navalny
Yulia Navalny, the wife of the jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, was detained in Moscow on Sunday, as thousands demonstrated to support freeing her husband.

Thousands marched across Russia for the second week to rally for Navalny, prompting police to use force and arrest over 5,000 people protesting in Russia's 11 time zones, according to the Associated Press. This weekend's arrests have surpassed the roughly 4,000 from last weekend's demonstrations.

After the first round of protests earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled the demonstrations as unlawful and "dangerous." Yulia Navalny was also detained during the first round of protests.

Comment: The Navalny protests continued with intensity, targeting both Moscow and St. Petersburg:
Several police officers placing Yulia Navalny into a van:
Law enforcement gained control, but not without consequences:
An officer can be seen drawing his service pistol after being punched and kicked by demonstrators, who were chasing a small group of policemen down a street just off Sennaya Square in St. Petersburg.

An unconscious man being carried onto a bus in the historic city center as police could be seen making arrests outside.

The opposition-leaning news outlet also reported that journalists wearing identifying yellow vests were detained by officers in riot gear. A video shows one being carried by their arms and legs to an awaiting van.


Tapping the US interest and involvement with Navalny?
A letter to President Biden by allies of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny, sparked fierce backlash and calls for harsh measures against high-profile Russian officials and businessmen.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), set up by Navalny in 2011, has asked the White House for fresh sanctions, local media reported on Sunday. The group is registered as a 'foreign agent' by the Russian Ministry of Justice, because it has received funding from abroad in the past.

The appeal calls on Biden to target the "corrupt Russian allies of President [Vladimir] Putin." "We would be grateful if the US would take concrete policy and sanctions actions to limit corruption and abuse of human rights,"

Among those on the list are billionaire Roman Abramovich, the country's Minister for Health Mikhail Murashko and 33 other prominent Russians. However, amidst those singled out by the group, seven of those named are already targeted under existing US sanctions lists.

Vladimir Ashurkov, executive director of the foundation, told CNN that the letter was personally addressed to Biden as leader of the world's 'most powerful country.' "If anyone can do anything, it is the United States," he said. The group is reportedly planning to send similar letters to leaders of the European Union and the United Kingdom.

First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov slammed the organization in comments made to RIA Novosti.
"It smacks of treason. Can you imagine an American organization appealing to Vladimir Putin with a request to impose sanctions on the US president? This must be harshly suppressed. There must be a strong reaction from law enforcement agencies, the Office of the Prosecutor General, and [the state security agency] the FSB."
St. Petersburg experienced an uptick in violence over the past fortnight:
moscow protest
© Sputnik/Alexey Mayshev
Moscow Protest, week #2
Siberian Federal District protest
© Sputnik/Yevgeny Odinokov
Novosibirsk, Russia at -20 degrees Celsius
Clips from Russia's second largest city showed lines of OMON troops, the country's specialist riot police, beating their shields and pushing back waves of demonstrators.

The Union of Journalists of Russia issued a warning after 60 media workers were detained. At least eight of those held by police were in St. Petersburg and footage showed a reporter in a fluorescent yellow 'press' vest being carried off to a waiting vehicle.
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Protesters detained at rallies in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny in Russia's Far East and Siberia