[Breitbart] CNN anchor Jake Tapper has issued no formal statement after it was revealed that police are now investigating his former producer for crimes involving “juvenile victims.”
Earlier in December, Project Veritas revealed audio and text messages allegedly from Rick Saleeby, a former senior producer for CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, showing him fantasizing about sex acts with his former fiancé’s underaged daughter. On Tuesday, Fairfax County police confirmed that Saleeby is being investigated by the child exploitation squad:
[MAIL] A law enforcement operation in New Orleans found five missing teenage girls, some of whom may have been trafficked, and led to the arrest of 17 people for felony sex offender registration violations.
'Operation Boo Dat' - conducted by the US Marshals Service's New Orleans Task Force in partnership with state, county and local authorities - lasted from mid-October to December 24.
The rescued teens range in age from 14 to 17.
One of them is a 16-year-old girl who ran away from home after allegedly stealing a relative's car and a handgun. She was found living in a house with several adults, including an 'adult female strip club dancer.'
One of the suspects, Lorenzo Oliver, will have to register as a sex offender for life after he was arrested on December 10 for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in an abandoned home on the West Bank of New Orleans.
Oliver was previously convicted of attempted forcible rape and sexual battery in 2015 after he followed a woman into a library bathroom and tried to rape her, according to the Marshals Service.
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No, nothing yet from the US Marshals relative to events on Saint James Island and Operation Poo T***. Thanks for asking though.
[NYPOST] A 28-year-old man died when he jumped a subway turnstile in Queens on Sunday and struck his head on the floor, cops said.
The man was "attempting to evade the fare" at the Forest Hills-71st Avenue train station around 6:45 a.m. when he hopped the turnstile, a police front man said.
He came crashing down on his head on the station’s cement floor and was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
The man’s identity wasn’t immediately released. The station provides E, F, M and R line service.
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This is why limbo dancing should be compulsory in all schools
[BBC] Richard Leakey, a world-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter has died aged 77.
His groundbreaking work contributed to the recognition of Africa as the birthplace of humankind.
He also spearheaded campaigns to stop poaching in Kenya, famously burning the country's stockpile of poached ivory.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Leakey had "served our country with distinction".
Leakey served in various positions in the Kenyan government including the National Museums of Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service and as head of the civil service.
"Besides his distinguished career in public service, Dr Leakey is celebrated for his prominent role in Kenya's civil society where he founded and successfully ran a number of institutions," Mr Kenyatta said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Tappon and other staff confirmed to the news outlet that they came to the decision after reading a 2017 scholarly article on the song's origins, written by Boston University Core Curriculum Director Kyna Hamil.
Hamill explains the history of the song and the life of its composer, James L. Pierpont. She included documents showing that the song's first public performance may have been in 1857 by white actors in blackface at a Boston minstrel show. Very debateable.
But many in the community took issue with the song being banned and argued that it's a harmless and traditional part of celebrating the winter holidays, prompting Brighton Central School District Superintendent Kevin McGowan to publish a letter on the district's website explaining the decision.
'... it may seem silly to some, it is
but the fact that 'Jingle Bells' was first performed in minstrel shows where white actors performed in blackface does actually matter when it comes to questions of what we use as material in school,' he wrote. So now we have to ban songs that at some point in the past may have been performed by a mistral group.
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Most jazz roots and some blues roots are in the mainly black musicians who were in whorehouses to provide musical entertainment with some "performances". Should this ban most jazz and blues?
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Oh, and while we are at it... The father in the Trapp, Georg von Trapp, was originally a NAZI supporter. Should this ban all the "Sound of Music" type "BubbleGum" music as NAZI music?
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It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857. It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song. Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight! Oh!
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh. Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Although less well-known than the opening, the remaining verses depict high-speed youthful fun. In the second verse, the narrator takes a ride with a girl and loses control of the sleigh:
A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side,
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot.[a]
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In the next verse (which is often skipped), he falls out of the sleigh and a rival laughs at him:
A day or two ago,
The story I must tell
I went out on the snow,
And on my back I fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh,
He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away. Ah!
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In the last verse, after relating his experience, he gives advice to a friend to pick up some girls, find a faster horse, and take off at full speed:
Now the ground is white
Go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight
and sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed bay
Two forty as his speed[b]
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.
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I recently read that those light-hearted sleigh upsets often ended with mangled horses and passengers, and often enough either or both dead. The point was that modern cars are much safer than anything horse, not to mention earlier cars that lack modern materials and safety features.
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Israel is only approving the booster for the elderly in retirement homes, those immunocompromised, and medical staff — all who had their third shot at least four months ago. They’re hoping to pass peak in a few weeks.
As I recall, g(r)omgoru did argue that because corona viruses evolve so quickly, vaccines would need to follow suit.
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Pope Fauxi I is now telling vaccinated people to avoid unvaccinated people. Anyone see the gaping hole in that logic?
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On Twitter there is a statistics expert who has written many statistics books including textbooks.
His look at the "scientific results" of the vaccines is quite interesting... You might want to follow him and read his result analysis. BOTH SIDES of the VACCINE ISSUE HATE HIM!
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The short of it is that 1) there really is a dangerous set of viruses out there. 2) Most of the statistical information sources on COVID data are pre-processed or cooked in ways easy to prove 3) Vaccine usefulness is not a given and may even hurt one 4) He sill gets his vaccinations and has his wife and family do the same. It may or may not be useful but it's the only prevention game out there. 5) He wishes for other options and openness and discussion with the powers that be.
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Oh and the disease follows a seasonal pattern and it's various peaks and valleys are not much different than were predicted for no vaccine. As to less terminal hospital stays with a vaccination that seems to be the case.
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It's not a vaccine, it's an injection of mRNA.
Somewhere Mengele giggles.
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g(r)omgoru did argue that because corona viruses evolve so quickly, vaccines would need to follow suit.
The man has a point. We're not talking "viruses" and "vaccines" in general, but this specific virus and these specific mRNA vaccines. Join me, as we stroll into the Land of Tortured Analogies...
Imagine if you will, that a virus is made up of little colored Lego bricks (proteins). Our friend, COVID-19, has something unusual - a little red brick (the spike). Vary rare.
When COVID first showed up, our close personal friends, the Chinese who apparently had some previous experience, were neither forthcoming nor trustworthy. This being a novel virus and not knowing how dangerous it was, we panicked and cranked out a vaccine as quickly as possible. None of that 5 years and a bazillion dollars of drug testing because PANDEMIC!
A vaccine works by giving your immune system a heads-up so it can recognize who the bad guys are when they come around. It's like handing out mug shots to the bouncer at the door so he can recognize the gang-bangers.
Traditionally, when we make vaccines, we mush up the virus in a test tube and squirt it in your arm. Your body sees all the little Lego bricks and has an idea what to look for next time. In this specific case, we made a vaccine with *only* red Lego bricks. Only.
But viruses mutate. It's what they do. The DNA copying mechanism is a bit sloppy and every once in a while, an error occurs. BAM! A new mutation. A new variant.
Being freshly vaccinated, our bouncer is standing at the door looking for little red bricks. Anybody shows up with a red brick, they get punched in the face and tossed out on the street. Yay, the vaccine working!
But viruses mutate. If that red brick mutates into a green brick, there is nothing to alert the bouncer and he says come on in and make yourself at home. And just like that, you have a COVID variant. It is essentially the original virus, but it has evolved just enough to get around this specific vaccine.
Dang! So we boot up the gene sequencer and sus out what color of Legos we are dealing with now. We iterate through our quick vaccine process and here is your "booster" shot. Easy peasy. The red and green variants don't stand a chance.
But viruses mutate. Now it's a yellow brick. Aw, hell. So we turn the crank one more time and here is your "booster" shot! (booster shot strikes me as a bit of a misnomer since we are talking about a new vaccine against a very specific subspecies of a particular virus)
Sounds familiar and rather endless, eh? Lucky for us, another biological principle is in play: over time, a virus will evolve to become more contagious and less deadly. Kinda sorta like the South African Omicron variant that seems to be both contagious and mild. This does not mean the more virulent variants magically disappear. They are still around mutating, but being exposed to the rapidly spreading Omicron should give a more broad-spectrum immunity since it is based on the entire virus and not a single protein.
Bottom Line At Last (BLAL): maybe giving "boosters" to the old and infirm isn't such a bad idea.
It may or may not be useful but it's the only prevention game out there. 5) He wishes for other options and openness and discussion with the powers that be.
Well, in this case he's trusting the people who helped make the virus (and lied about it) and not only lied about treatments but killed people to further the lies to be telling the truth about the vaccines.
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As a data analyst for 21+ years the first thing you do before any statistical analysis is get good data. I have not seen any data related to COVID that would allow for any meaningful analysis. Just my professional opinion. And there is even less meaningful information to go by. Everyone is on their own to make an important decision about their health. Good Luck.
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(Hold on, let me search the thread for "ACE inhibitors, my eyes are shot today and I don't feel like reading the whole thing...
I think that part of the problem with the current set of vaccines used in the west is that they're targeting a molecule that was originally designed to infect the receptor sites for some important molecules for cardiovascular function, called angiotensin.
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in Israel, as elsewhere, a fair number of medical personnel are expecting the Omnicron to be, in effect, a passive vaccine
this would show with new cases above, say 20k per day for several weeks, while deaths per day are below 10
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Oh, one more thing: by making a vaccine that focuses on one protein, the so-called spike protein that's designed to screw up angiotensin receptors, the antibodies not only attack the spike protein, but also nearby molecules it's stuck to, like the surface of the heart cells.
There are other people out there who described the process in greater detail to me back in April/May 2021. Lots of the stuff that's happened seems to be matching up with what they said then.
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Spare our young men. The data show conclusively that they are at significantly greater risk -- about 5x -- of myocarditis if vaccinated than of COVID-induced hospitalization if not vaccinated.
There ought to be separate policies for the elderly, those under 30, and the rest of us.
Focused protection, in other words: this is what the 'Great Barrington' epidemiologists and biostatisticians Dr. Bhattacharya (Stanford), Dr. Kulldorf (Harvard), Dr. Gupta (Oxford), along with Dr. Scott Atlas and tens of thousands of experts from around the world, have recommended consistently.
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We have all been forced participants in a rushed, poorly-constructed, haphazardly executed gene-therapy experiment -- one characterized by constant shifting of goalposts, botched and incoherent data management, and heavy-handed and inconsistent policies made in secret by unelected bureaucrats throwing cost-benefit analysis to the winds.
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The latest from the Great Barrington (GBD) Drs. Bhattacharya, Kulldorf and Gupta -- thanks to an FOIA request, they can reveal now that Fauxi and Francis Collins and their counterparts in the U.K. deliberately smeared the GBD group with a propaganda campaign of lies and bullshit, funneled through an ignorant and compliant press. Excerpt:
"Collins and Fauci played critical roles in designing and advocating for the pandemic lockdown strategy adopted by the US and many other countries. In emails written four days after the Great Barrington Declaration and disclosed recently after a FOIA request, it was revealed that the two conspired to undermine the Declaration. Rather than engaging in scientific discourse, they authorized 'a quick and devastating published takedown' of this proposal, which they characterized as by 'three fringe epidemiologists' from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford.
"Across the pond, they were joined by their close colleague, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s biggest non-governmental funders of medical research. He worked with Dominic Cummings, the political strategist of UK prime minister Boris Johnson. Together, they orchestrated 'an aggressive press campaign against those behind the Great Barrington Declaration and others opposed to blanket COVID-19 restrictions.'
"Ignoring our call for focused protection of the vulnerable, Collins and Fauci purposely mischaracterized the GBDl as a “let-it-rip” “herd immunity strategy,” even though focused protection is the very opposite of a let-it-rip strategy. It is more appropriate to call the lockdown strategy that has been followed a “let-it-rip” strategy. Without focused protection, every age group will eventually be exposed in equal proportion, albeit at a prolonged “let-it-drip” pace compared to a do-nothing strategy.
"When journalists started asking us why we wanted to 'let the virus rip,' we were puzzled. Those words are not in the GBD, and they are contrary to the central idea of focused protection. It is unclear whether Collins and Fauci ever read the GBD, whether they deliberately mischaracterized it, or whether their understanding of epidemiology and public health is more limited than we had thought. In any case, it was a lie.
"We were also puzzled by the mischaracterization of the GBD as a “herd immunity strategy.” Herd immunity is a scientifically proven phenomenon, as fundamental in infectious disease epidemiology as gravity is in physics. Every COVID strategy leads to herd immunity, and the pandemic ends when a sufficient number of people have immunity through either COVID-recovery or a vaccine.
"It makes as much sense to claim that an epidemiologist is advocating for a “herd immunity strategy” as it does to claim that a pilot is advocating a “gravity strategy” when landing an airplane. The issue is how to land the plane safely, and whatever strategy the pilot uses, gravity ensures that the plane will eventually return to earth.
[NBC Miami] Two people have died after the vehicle they were in was struck by a Brightline train in Aventura.
The crash happened along West Dixie Highway near 214th Terrace, at around 6 a.m., Thursday.
The Toyota involved could be seen mangled on the side of the street.
Nearby surveillance cameras captured the vehicle stopped on the train tracks before being hit by the train.
Brightline officials said the crash was “a direct result of an individual driving around the gates, which were down, flashing and bells ringing, signaling an approaching train.”
No injuries were reported on board the train, according to Brightline officials.
According to Aventura Police, the Toyota was attempting to cross the railroad tracks while the safety gates were in the down position. Subsequently, the vehicle became stuck on the tracks when it was struck by the train. Two occupants in the vehicle died from their injuries.
Investigators shut down 214th Terrace as they worked the scene. It has since been reopened.
“It’s amazing how it ended up over there. It must have been some force because the train you can see is down the tracks a little bit, and the car is here, closer towards the lights,” said Steve Samansky, a driver in the area. “It just must have been unbearable.”
“It was hard to see,” said Caesar Tavares who lives nearby. “I knew right away the train hit somebody because it was real loud. The car was rolling. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Then all of a sudden it stopped.”
Tavares said, sadly, people do this all the time, but this is the first time he’s seen it cause this kind of destruction.
“The train comes here every 15 minutes and people are always stopping on the tracks. I knew it was bound to happen.”
Neighbors said they hope this doesn’t happen again.
“You know, all you gotta do is wait a few seconds. These trains usually pass by fast,” one man said.
[GEO.TV] COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: A herd of endangered wild elephants are rampaging through a safari park in Bangladesh, with officials warning Sunday the creatures were acting aggressively and posed a serious safety threat.The herd of at least 13 elephants knocked down a seven-foot (two-metre) concrete wall to break into the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, north of the resort city of Cox's Bazar, earlier this week.
"They are very restless, frightened and acting as if they are cornered. They are now very dangerous for other animals and our visitors," said park official Mazharul Islam.
The reserve is home to over 1,300 animals — including Bengal tigers, hippos and other threatened species — and sees around 5,000 visitors each day in winter.
"We are worried for the park's visitors," Islam said. "Night patrolling is getting difficult as the elephants are very agitated and they go wild very easily."
Fewer than 100 elephants remain in the South Asian country, where shrinking habitats and dwindling food supplies have resulted in growing conflict with humans.
Another official said the elephants were frightened because of increasing encroachment on their land by farmers and the killing of a dozen members of their herd in the past two years.
Scarcity of food has driven elephants to invade rice fields where they were often killed by electric fences, he added.
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"Elephants, you can't rampage in here! This is the Safari Park!"
The Bhut jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, ghost chili pepper, or ghost chili is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India.
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At a family party, my brother-in-law and nephew were trying hot sauces. They treated on that was literally just mashed peppers, uncut by vinegar, just like a hot sauce.
They regretted it.
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#4 "Happiest place on earth" ... that pachyderm punchfest made this viewer happy 😂
[JPost]Suddenly the 4,569th 5th most holy site in Islam
Researchers from Israel, Morocco and France have discovered remnants of a small Jewish community in the mountains of Morocco, Haaretz reported Monday.
The ruins of the community’s synagogue in the small village of Tamanart — located on the outskirts of the Sahara desert — were found while conducting a preliminary survey of Jewish sites in the area and after talking to locals who remembered their Jewish neighbors who left the area 70 years ago.
The researchers say Jews lived here from the 16th century until the early 19th century. They recovered scriptures, documents, and Kabbalist amulets from the synagogue’s genizah, or hiding place for worn texts that are no longer usable.
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, a researcher of modern Morocco at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, told Haaretz that the site’s synagogue had been damaged by looters as well as by natural events like floods, but the researchers were able to salvage texts and transfer them to a secure location for further analysis.
The discovery comes weeks after King Mohammed VI of Morocco ordered the restoration of hundreds of Jewish sites across the kingdom, and a year after Israel and Morocco agreed to formal diplomatic relations. The restoration plan includes the site at Tamanart, as well as cemeteries and hundreds of synagogues.
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[GEO.TV] A fire at the South African parliament caused extensive damage on Sunday, collapsing the roof and gutting an entire floor in one building and a man in his 50s was arrested in connection with the blaze.
The fire broke out in the early morning and authorities said the sprinkler system appeared to have been tampered with and so did not work. By afternoon, firefighters were still trying to contain the blaze in one of the several buildings that make up the parliament complex in the legislative capital, Cape Town.
A person was arrested inside parliament, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia De Lille told news hounds, adding that the case had been handed over to an elite police unit called the Hawks.
"It's the role of the Hawks to investigate any attack on political institutions," De Lille said.
Parliament said in a statement the suspect was a man in his 50s.
There were no reports of any injuries.
The cause of the blaze was not yet known but De Lille said that according to a report that she received, a standard maintenance fire drill had been conducted just before parliament closed for the Christmas and New Year holidays and everything including the sprinklers was working.
"What was discovered this morning is that somebody has closed one of the valves and so then there was no water to trigger that automatic sprinkler system coming on," De Lille said, adding that CCTV footage confirmed that somebody was in the building from the early hours of the morning.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told news hounds after visiting the site that parliament's work would continue despite the blaze. He also praised firefighters for saving a "very important national asset of our government".
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Many important documents were destroyed. Yes, many important documents.
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[KavkazUzel] Police officers confiscated a grenade from a drunk driver from Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian Interior Ministry reported.
In Tskhinval, on Heroev Street today, during raids, UGIBDD officers stopped a Mitsubishi Galant car. The driver of the car turned out to be a 30-year-old resident of the capital of the republic.
"During a personal search, an F-1 hand grenade was found and seized in a jacket pocket. The driver was intoxicated," the press service of the South Ossetian Interior Ministry said.
The offender was placed in a temporary detention cell. The investigation into this fact is being conducted by the Tskhinvali Department of Internal Affairs, the department informed on its website today.
Comments from the detainee or his lawyers have not yet been received.
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[NewsFrontInfo] Kiev has to begin to admit that there will be no such long-awaited Russian invasion and there is no threat of "aggression" for Ukraine.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that the statements about the pulling of Russian troops to the border with the "square" do not correspond to reality. About itinforms edition of RIA Novosti, referring to his speech on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel "NASH".
"If we talk about a large crowd, which the media abroad insist on, then we do not see this ... we keep track of everything and are aware of what is happening. Today we do not see threats for open aggression from Russia," he said.
However, he also could not completely abandon the line on which Washington so insists. Danilov said that Kiev will continue to monitor the situation in the future. Therefore, one cannot say that Ukraine has decided to be guided by common sense. Perhaps this is just his brief outburst, timed to coincide with the upcoming talks between Russia, NATO, the United States and the OSCE on security assurance projects.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The sex party was reportedly organised by a group of Americans who allegedly hired prostitutes to celebrate New Year's Eve and the arrival of 2022.
[GEO.TV] A 12-year-old girl in Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... lost her life after a bullet hit her during celebratory firing, Geo News reported Sunday. "Happy New Y[splat!]"
A man in the girl's neighbourhood was firing shots in the air to celebrate the birth of his friend's son when one of the bullets accidentally hit the girl, identified as Sawera. "Outta da way, Sawera! I'm (ungh!) shooting off!"
Police have arrested the suspect and a case has been registered against him. "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Do you have a tissue?"
According to the first information report (FIR) registered with the police, Sawera's neighbour, Sahil, had arranged a party at his residence to celebrate the birth of his son. His friend, Murshid, had started gun sex to express his happiness when the incident occurred. "Yee-haw! It's a boy! [BANG!BANG! BANGETY BANG!]"
Police further said that Sawera was rushed to the city's Nashtar Hospital after being hit by the bullet but she succumbed to her wounds on the way. "She's dead, Jim!"
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[JustTheNews] The military is required by law to examine religious accommodation requests on an individual basis.
The Navy and Air Force are allegedly issuing predetermined blanket denials of requests for religious exemptions from the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, in violation of federal law and regulations.
Vice Admiral John Nowell, deputy chief of naval operations for manpower, personnel, training, and education, created a 50-step standard operating procedure streamlining the denials of these requests, known as religious accommodation requests (RARs).
The military is required by law to evaluate RARs on an individual basis to ensure due process under the Fifth Amendment and protect service members' First Amendment right to religious freedom.
The 50-step process is separated into six phases. In phase 1, before an individual service member's RAR is reviewed, a denial template letter is added to the package of documentation included with the request.
The screenshot provided in steps 15 and 27 shows that highlighted portions of the letter to be edited include the service member's and supervisor's names and processing dates. But the section that says "your request for religious accommodation through waiver of immunization requirements is disapproved" is already written and not highlighted for editing. There's no mention of an approval template letter.
In phase 4, a reviewing officer is instructed to examine the RAR in step 35. "THIS IS THE MOST CRITICAL STEP IN THE ENTIRE PROCESS AND THE [Chief of Naval Operations] AND [Chief of Naval Personnel] ARE RELYING ON YOU TO ENSURE THAT YOUR REVIEW IS THOUROUGH [sic] AND ACCURATE," the instructions emphasize in all caps. "DO NOT RUSH THIS PROCESS AND ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND BEFORE MOVING FORWARD."
According to a formal complaint lodged with the chief of naval operations by a Navy officer who wishes to remain anonymous, this step is designed to provide an appearance of individual consideration of RARs because, by this point, the denial template has already been added, numerous offices have endorsed the denial, and a drafted memo to Nowell requests a denial.
The Air Force has also come under scrutiny regarding RARs. In October, an Air Force Reserve diversity officer filed a religious discrimination complaint after her orders were allegedly canceled for seeking an RAR.
The Air Force denies applying a one-size-fits-all standard to religious exemption requests, telling Just the News on Monday, "The Department of the AF does an individualized least restrictive means analysis for each case."
The military branch also made a similar statement in court last month.
"The Air Force does not apply a 'blanket' rule that no less restrictive means of protecting the force exists other than a vaccination," respondent Maj. Gen. Sharon Bannister, director of medical operations in the Department of the Air Force office of the surgeon general, told the District Court for Middle District of Florida in her declaration to the court on Dec. 3, 2021.
"The Approval and Appeal Authority must look at numerous factors that vary by individual," she continued. "The Department of the Air Force strives to make sure full and appropriate consideration is given to each request. Where an accommodation can be granted without adversely impacting the compelling government interest in mission accomplishment, it will be."
However, there have been no approvals by the service of religious accommodation requests, alleges an Air Force officer who also wishes to remain anonymous.
In response to this officer's RAR, the Air Force said — two months prior to Bannister's statement — that "vaccination is the least restrictive means of furthering the military's compelling governmental interest."
"The Air Force," the RAR denial recommendation continued, "could attempt to accomplish the governmental interest through alternative means, such as requiring face masks, distancing, and routine testing; however, such means would be much less effective than vaccination."
However, in testimony to the House Armed Services Committe in early 2021, Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Director for Operations, Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro indicated there are alternatives to vaccination that are compatible with sound military operation.
"The services and the commands have worked very hard over the last year to make sure that we can operate in a COVID environment, before vaccines were available," Taliaferro said. "The addition of the vaccine should make us more capable in that environment. But we've already demonstrated over the last year that we're fully capable of operating in a COVID environment."
"It seems clear that the Navy and Air Force fully intend to deny all religious accommodation requests," said Davis Younts, an attorney representing the Navy officer. "The entire process appears pre-determined from the beginning. This is a clear and intentional violation of the constitutional rights of military members."
Younts told Just the News that he has verified the accuracy of the information provided by the two military officers "through multiple interviews."
The Navy was unable to provide a comment to Just the News by publishing time, citing holiday understaffing.
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...Realistically, there was never any chance that anybody was going to get a religious exemption from DoD. If you have any kind of religious problem at all with vaccines, you would have never gotten in the door in the first place, and I suspect that there will soon be a change to the enlistment paperwork to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again.
Mike
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I thought the same about beards, turbans and pregnancy.
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I read somewhere (perhaps here) that the form letters the military is using to deny these exemptions could be used in court to evidence that the exemption requests were never given an individual review of circumstances.
Good news, for you antivaxers with Alzheimer's!
[MAIL] A nurse who spent 28 days in a Covid coma fighting for her life has been saved after medics gave her Viagra as part of an experimental treatment regime .
Double-jabbed asthmatic mother-of-two Monica Almeida, 37, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was admitted to hospital on November 9 after testing positive for coronavirus on October 31.
She was moved to intensive care a week later before doctors put her into an induced coma on November 16.
Mrs Almeida says they were just three days away from having her ventilator turned off when her condition started to improve and she woke up on December 14.
When she woke up doctors at Lincoln County Hospital revealed they had given her a large dose of viagra as part of an experimental treatment regime that she agreed to before going into a coma.
The erectile dysfunction drug enables greater blood flow to all areas of the body by relaxing the walls of blood vessels, and Mrs Almeida says it caused her condition to improve in just a week and the level of oxygen she needed to drop by half as it opened up her airways.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A 28-year-old man died when he jumped a subway turnstile in Queens on Sunday and struck his head on the floor, cops said.
[NBC Miami] Two people have died after the vehicle they were in was struck by a Brightline train in Aventura.
[GEO.TV] COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: A herd of endangered wild elephants are rampaging through a safari park in Bangladesh, with officials warning Sunday the creatures were acting aggressively and posed a serious safety threat.The herd of at least 13 elephants knocked down a seven-foot (two-metre) concrete wall to break into the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, north of the resort city of Cox's Bazar, earlier this week.
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