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movetheboat
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ANOTHER GENIUS!!
Brazil's Supreme Court has opened an inquiry into comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro wrongly claiming that Covid-19 vaccines may increase the chance of contracting Aids.
The comments, made during a social media livestream in October saw him temporarily banned from Facebook and YouTube under their fake news policies.
Mr Bolsonaro has frequently cast doubt over the effectiveness of vaccines.
He is already facing a separate inquiry into his handling of the pandemic.
During the livestream on 24 October, Mr Bolsonaro claimed that reports "suggest that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) much faster than expected". The assertion has been strongly rejected by scientists and medical experts.
The embattled president, who has refused to get vaccinated himself, has defended the comments and claimed that he was simply quoting from an article in a magazine.
Brazil's Supreme Court has opened an inquiry into comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro wrongly claiming that Covid-19 vaccines may increase the chance of contracting Aids.
The comments, made during a social media livestream in October saw him temporarily banned from Facebook and YouTube under their fake news policies.
Mr Bolsonaro has frequently cast doubt over the effectiveness of vaccines.
He is already facing a separate inquiry into his handling of the pandemic.
During the livestream on 24 October, Mr Bolsonaro claimed that reports "suggest that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) much faster than expected". The assertion has been strongly rejected by scientists and medical experts.
The embattled president, who has refused to get vaccinated himself, has defended the comments and claimed that he was simply quoting from an article in a magazine.
Mad Magazine????
movetheboat
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Sun and sand… and a rising cost of living.
Tel Aviv, Israel, was ranked the most expensive city in the world, according to this year’s Worldwide Cost of Living report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit on Wednesday.
The Mediterranean metropolis rose to the top spot from fifth place last year, beating out Paris and Singapore, which were tied for second place. The top American city on the list, New York, came in sixth, ahead of Hong Kong and Zurich. Los Angeles was the only other American city in the top 10, coming in at number nine, ahead of Osaka, Japan.
Part of the reason for Tel Aviv’s rise to the top was the strength of its currency, the shekel, when translated into dollars, the report said. Prices there in shekel terms increased around 1.6 percent, led by groceries, household goods, cars and fuel. The city was the second most expensive place to buy alcohol.
While the report doesn’t include property prices, it noted that they have also risen in Tel Aviv, especially in residential areas. That’s a major drain on locals’ wallets, according to Oren Kessler, a political analyst and author who moved to Tel Aviv from Washington D.C. two years ago.
“Prices here are similar if not more expensive than in Washington, yet the salaries don’t compare,” he said in a phone interview, noting that the price of a renovated apartment in the capital was similar to that of an older place in Tel Aviv. “Most Israelis at one point or another want to spend time here. It’s a magnet in that sense.”
Overall, this year’s inflation rate across cities was the fastest recorded in the past five years at 3.5 percent. That number was pushed up by the rising price of transport, as well as by the cost of recreation, tobacco and personal care. In 2020, inflation increased 1.9 percent, while it was up 2.8 percent in 2019, according to the report.
Tel Aviv, Israel, was ranked the most expensive city in the world, according to this year’s Worldwide Cost of Living report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit on Wednesday.
The Mediterranean metropolis rose to the top spot from fifth place last year, beating out Paris and Singapore, which were tied for second place. The top American city on the list, New York, came in sixth, ahead of Hong Kong and Zurich. Los Angeles was the only other American city in the top 10, coming in at number nine, ahead of Osaka, Japan.
Part of the reason for Tel Aviv’s rise to the top was the strength of its currency, the shekel, when translated into dollars, the report said. Prices there in shekel terms increased around 1.6 percent, led by groceries, household goods, cars and fuel. The city was the second most expensive place to buy alcohol.
While the report doesn’t include property prices, it noted that they have also risen in Tel Aviv, especially in residential areas. That’s a major drain on locals’ wallets, according to Oren Kessler, a political analyst and author who moved to Tel Aviv from Washington D.C. two years ago.
“Prices here are similar if not more expensive than in Washington, yet the salaries don’t compare,” he said in a phone interview, noting that the price of a renovated apartment in the capital was similar to that of an older place in Tel Aviv. “Most Israelis at one point or another want to spend time here. It’s a magnet in that sense.”
Overall, this year’s inflation rate across cities was the fastest recorded in the past five years at 3.5 percent. That number was pushed up by the rising price of transport, as well as by the cost of recreation, tobacco and personal care. In 2020, inflation increased 1.9 percent, while it was up 2.8 percent in 2019, according to the report.
movetheboat
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Russia Dismisses U.S. Media Reports About Possible Ukraine Offensive
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Dec. 4, 2021, at 6:27 a.m.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...edia-reports-about-possible-ukraine-offensive
Best news of the day....
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Chris Cuomo Fired From CNN Amid Investigation of Involvement in Brother Andrew’s Case
"This is not how I want my time at CNN to end," Cuomo said in reaction to his dismissal
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movetheboat
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Michigan school shooting: Suspect's parents arrested in Detroit
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Watch: ‘Don’t do it.’ Parents charged in Oxford High shooting
The parents of a teenager suspected of a deadly school shooting have been arrested in a Detroit basement hours after going on the run, police say.
James and Jennifer Crumbley were found unarmed hiding in a warehouse after a tip-off from someone who saw their car.
The couple had failed to show up in court on Friday after being charged with involuntary manslaughter.
They denied the charges after being detained.
Prosecutors say Ethan Crumbley, 15, used his father's gun to shoot classmates in the nearby Michigan town of Oxford, killing four and wounding seven.
His parents are accused of ignoring warning signs before their son's alleged rampage.
Detroit Police Chief James White told reporters that Ethan's parents had been taken into custody without incident.
"They were very distressed as they were walking out," he said.
He said they had been aided in getting into the building, which he said was used as an art studio, and that the person who helped them could face charges.
Earlier the US Marshals - a federal law enforcement service - had offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to their arrest.
Rick67
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Wish Mario was around to see this ?Best news of the day....
Chris Cuomo Fired From CNN Amid Investigation of Involvement in Brother Andrew’s Case
"This is not how I want my time at CNN to end," Cuomo said in reaction to his dismissal
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wader
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'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6
In a 36-page memo to the Capitol riot committee, Col. Earl Matthews also slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-ridden report.
Rick67
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Alec Baldwin exclusive: 'The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger'
George Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview airs Thursday on ABC, streams on Huluabcnews.go.com
I know a few here have more of an expertise with firearms, whether from our military or just from getting involved and joining the sport.
My question is, can a F.LLI Pietta Long Colt .45 caliber revolver (which I have zero experience) just aim itself at a person and mysteriously without trigger pull, discharge?
Wish they would change the name of the bridge.
Rick67
Well-Known Angler
That’s in the works.
This is insane. Look what our society is becoming
www.newsbreak.com
Armed Police Officers Made Restaurant Staff 'Uncomfortable,' Denied Service - NewsBreak
Hilda and Jesse, a restaurant in San Francisco, California, said the officers were asked to leave because they were...
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And so it goes...
By Ed Shanahan
Dec. 6, 2021
A Long Island man was charged on Monday with threatening violence against L.G.B.T.Q. groups and leaders in dozens of hate-filled letters, including one warning of an attack that would make the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida “look like a cakewalk.”
The man, Robert Fehring, 74, of Bayport, N.Y., sent the letters over the course of eight years starting in 2013, according to a federal criminal complaint in which he was charged with making threats via the U.S. mail.
A search of his home last month by F.B.I. agents turned up two loaded shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two stun guns, an American flag-patterned machete and a DVD titled “Underground Build Your Own Silencer System,” the complaint says.
Investigators also found a stamped envelope addressed to a lawyer who had worked on L.G.B.T.Q.-related cases, the complaint says. Inside were the remains of a dead bird.
“The defendant’s hate-filled invective and threats of violence directed at members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community have no place in our society,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said in a statement announcing the charges.
Mr. Fehring’s lawyer, Glenn Obedin, said in a statement that his client “respects the legal process, and asks that the process be allowed to play itself out to its appropriate and lawful conclusion.”
David Kilmnick, the president of the New York LGBT Network, which operates four community centers on Long Island and in Queens and runs the annual Long Island Pride event, said he had mixed feelings about Mr. Fehring’s arrest.
Most of the letters that Mr. Fehring is charged with sending went to Mr. Kilmnick, his group and other L.G.B.T.Q. organizations and leaders on Long Island.
Mr. Kilmnick said he was glad someone had finally been charged with making the threats. But he also expressed frustration over the failure of the Suffolk County, N.Y., police — which had investigated some of the letters in recent years — to make an arrest sooner.
“There is no reason why we had to live through this fear and anxiety for the past eight years,” Mr. Kilmnick said.
In a statement, the Suffolk County Police Department said that its Hate Crimes Unit investigates every report that it gets.
Its investigation into the threats attributed to Mr. Fehring by the federal authorities “became part of a larger F.B.I. investigation that our department fully cooperated with,” the statement said. The department referred all other questions to the F.B.I., which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to the complaint, investigators identified at least 60 letters from Mr. Fehring, postmarked from June 2013 to September of this year, in which he said he would use guns and explosives to attack L.G.B.T.Q. groups and people. Copies of some of the letters were found during the F.B.I.’s search of his home, the complaint says.
A May 20 letter addressed to the executive director of a group involved in planning L.G.B.T.Q. events warned of a major attack on New York City’s Pride March this year, the complaint says.
In the letter, according to the complaint, Mr. Fehring said that “we” would use radio-controlled devices at “numerous strategic places, and firepower aimed at you from other strategic places.”
“This will make the 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,” he wrote, the complaint says. In June 2016, Omar Mateen fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
Mr. Kilmnick said that the first threatening letter sent to his group, in 2013, warned of violence that would make the Boston Marathon bombing pale in comparison.
The other letters that Mr. Fehring is accused of sending, according to the complaint, include one this year threatening to shoot a high-powered rifle at a Long Island Pride event in June; another warning a local Chamber of Commerce member that ambulances would be needed if the group allowed an L.G.B.T.Q. event to proceed; and a third describing a Brooklyn barbershop as a “perfect target for a bombing.”
If convicted, Mr. Fehring, whom Newsday identified as a retired high school teacher, band director and track coach, faces up to five years in prison.
Court records show that he sued the Suffolk County police unsuccessfully after being taken into custody in 2010 after an off-duty officer saw him hide a shotgun under a raincoat and bring it into a Long Island office building.
After an initial appearance in Federal District Court in Central Islip, he was released on a $100,000 bond, confined to home detention and ordered to wear a monitoring device, officials said.
Mr. Kilmnick expressed outrage over Mr. Fehring’s release given the nature of the threats he is charged with making and the weapons that were seized from his home.
“This guy should not be out on bail,” Mr. Kilmnick said.
Man Charged With Sending Dozens of Violent Threats to L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
Robert Fehring warned that an attack on New York City’s Pride March would make the Pulse nightclub shooting “look like a cakewalk,” the authorities said.By Ed Shanahan
Dec. 6, 2021
A Long Island man was charged on Monday with threatening violence against L.G.B.T.Q. groups and leaders in dozens of hate-filled letters, including one warning of an attack that would make the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida “look like a cakewalk.”
The man, Robert Fehring, 74, of Bayport, N.Y., sent the letters over the course of eight years starting in 2013, according to a federal criminal complaint in which he was charged with making threats via the U.S. mail.
A search of his home last month by F.B.I. agents turned up two loaded shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two stun guns, an American flag-patterned machete and a DVD titled “Underground Build Your Own Silencer System,” the complaint says.
Investigators also found a stamped envelope addressed to a lawyer who had worked on L.G.B.T.Q.-related cases, the complaint says. Inside were the remains of a dead bird.
“The defendant’s hate-filled invective and threats of violence directed at members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community have no place in our society,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said in a statement announcing the charges.
Mr. Fehring’s lawyer, Glenn Obedin, said in a statement that his client “respects the legal process, and asks that the process be allowed to play itself out to its appropriate and lawful conclusion.”
David Kilmnick, the president of the New York LGBT Network, which operates four community centers on Long Island and in Queens and runs the annual Long Island Pride event, said he had mixed feelings about Mr. Fehring’s arrest.
Most of the letters that Mr. Fehring is charged with sending went to Mr. Kilmnick, his group and other L.G.B.T.Q. organizations and leaders on Long Island.
Mr. Kilmnick said he was glad someone had finally been charged with making the threats. But he also expressed frustration over the failure of the Suffolk County, N.Y., police — which had investigated some of the letters in recent years — to make an arrest sooner.
“There is no reason why we had to live through this fear and anxiety for the past eight years,” Mr. Kilmnick said.
In a statement, the Suffolk County Police Department said that its Hate Crimes Unit investigates every report that it gets.
Its investigation into the threats attributed to Mr. Fehring by the federal authorities “became part of a larger F.B.I. investigation that our department fully cooperated with,” the statement said. The department referred all other questions to the F.B.I., which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to the complaint, investigators identified at least 60 letters from Mr. Fehring, postmarked from June 2013 to September of this year, in which he said he would use guns and explosives to attack L.G.B.T.Q. groups and people. Copies of some of the letters were found during the F.B.I.’s search of his home, the complaint says.
A May 20 letter addressed to the executive director of a group involved in planning L.G.B.T.Q. events warned of a major attack on New York City’s Pride March this year, the complaint says.
In the letter, according to the complaint, Mr. Fehring said that “we” would use radio-controlled devices at “numerous strategic places, and firepower aimed at you from other strategic places.”
“This will make the 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,” he wrote, the complaint says. In June 2016, Omar Mateen fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
Mr. Kilmnick said that the first threatening letter sent to his group, in 2013, warned of violence that would make the Boston Marathon bombing pale in comparison.
The other letters that Mr. Fehring is accused of sending, according to the complaint, include one this year threatening to shoot a high-powered rifle at a Long Island Pride event in June; another warning a local Chamber of Commerce member that ambulances would be needed if the group allowed an L.G.B.T.Q. event to proceed; and a third describing a Brooklyn barbershop as a “perfect target for a bombing.”
If convicted, Mr. Fehring, whom Newsday identified as a retired high school teacher, band director and track coach, faces up to five years in prison.
Court records show that he sued the Suffolk County police unsuccessfully after being taken into custody in 2010 after an off-duty officer saw him hide a shotgun under a raincoat and bring it into a Long Island office building.
After an initial appearance in Federal District Court in Central Islip, he was released on a $100,000 bond, confined to home detention and ordered to wear a monitoring device, officials said.
Mr. Kilmnick expressed outrage over Mr. Fehring’s release given the nature of the threats he is charged with making and the weapons that were seized from his home.
“This guy should not be out on bail,” Mr. Kilmnick said.
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