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"Happy Birthday, sweetie! :)" - Her dad, probably.

Anyway, breaking this into posts, because of NYT's bullshit subscription rules.

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>A frightened girl called 911 after her father killed her mother and sisters at her birthday party in Brooklyn before turning a gun on himself, the police said.

>A man attending his daughter's birthday party in Brooklyn on Monday night turned the joyful celebration into a scene of carnage when he shot and killed her mother and two sisters, the police said.

>The man, Joseph McCrimon, then left his 8-year-old daughter inside the fourth-floor apartment in a public-housing project in Brownsville and shot himself in the head on a nearby sidewalk, the police said. The final act was captured by a security camera, officials said.

>The distraught girl called 911 around 11:15 p.m. and told police that her father had come to her party and had killed her family. "She was weeping and crying," and said her father didn't bring presents, Chief of Detectives James W. Essig said on Tuesday. "It was heartbreaking."

>The officers who responded found the girl inside the apartment clutching her sister's bloody cellphone and a stuffed pink unicorn, according to a police official briefed on the investigation. She had been asleep and had been awakened by the sound of arguing and gunshots and had hidden in the closet, the official said.


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In the Netherlands, a new translation of the literary treasure The Divine Comedy, written by the Italian medieval poet and writer Dante Alighieri, is being published. A Belgian translator edited the famous work to be "friendlier and more accessible," meaning, among other things, that in the first part of the book, called Inferno, she reworked one of the main passages about Mohammed and even omitted the name of the Islamic prophet.

Dante wrote Inferno between 1304 and 1307. In a Radio 1 interview, which described the new Dutch translation as very beautiful, translator Lies Lavrijsen justified omitting Mohammed's name by saying she wanted the masterpiece to be available to the widest audience possible, especially to the younger generation.

"We knew that if we left this passage as it was, we would unnecessarily hurt a large part of the readers," she said defending the choice.

Moreover, according to her, the decision was taken "during the tense period when teacher Samuel Paty died in France." The teacher was beheaded in October last year, near Paris, by a young Muslim Chechen.

However, the censored passage of Inferno is a crucial part of the work when Dante himself enters hell and encounters many historical figures who were cast there "because of their more or less serious sins."

Mohammed appears in Canto XVIII and is being punished for spreading "his religion, which sowed strife on Earth."

According to the translator, the Muslim prophet is described in a particularly contemptuous way.

In English, the verse says: "See how twisted and broken Mohammed is! Before me walks Ali, his face Cleft from chin to crown, grief-stricken."

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It’s time to unplug the sanitizing robots and put away the bottles of hand sanitizers that line the entrances to every school, restaurant and supermarket wanting to advertise its safety protocols. While such protocols may be reassuring to an anxious populace, they are not necessary, says a revised guidance issued on Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,” the new CDC guidance says, estimating that the chance of contracting the coronavirus through surface transmission is lower than 1 in 10,000.

The coronavirus is spread almost exclusively by airborne and aerosolized particles, as scientists have known for months. Despite scientists’ growing certitude about how the pathogen is transmitted, many establishments have continued to insist on strict sanitization protocols. In some school districts, for example, classrooms close for full-day “deep cleaning.”

The persistence of such practices has led to the advent of a derisive term — “hygiene theater” — to describe rituals that appear to do little to stop the virus from spreading.


https://news.yahoo.com/end-the-hygiene-theater-cdc-says-173440864.html

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https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-media-lawsuits-elections-912eea8e168f95d51dec02da78ac2760

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.

The lawsuit is part of a growing body of legal action filed by the voting company and other targets of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden. Those claims helped spur on rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent siege that left five people dead, including a police officer. The siege led to Trump’s historic second impeachment.

Dominion argues that Fox News, which amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.

“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” the lawsuit said. “... If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does.”

Even before Dominion’s lawsuit on Friday, Fox News had already filed four motions to dismiss other legal actions against its coverage.

“Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court,” it said in a statement on Friday.

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And just like that, the first nail into the first amendment's coffin has been hammered. Only more to come, I assure you.
>If is passes the House, Oregon would become the latest state to criminalize using a noose to intimidate others.

>In a legislative session focused on racial equity and inclusion, Oregon is one step closer to outlawing displaying a noose.

>The state Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved Senate Bill 398 by a vote of 27-1. The lone dissenter was state Sen. Dennis Linthicum, R-Klamath Falls, who did not offer an explanation or argue against the bill.

>SB 398 would create a new crime in Oregon: intimidation by display of a noose. As currently written, the bill would make it a class A misdemeanor to place a noose in public or private property without permission, with the intent of causing intimidation or fear of harm. The crime could be punished by nearly a year in jail, and up to $6,250 in fines.

>"Hate speech has to stop," said state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Portland, who spoke in favor of the bill. "The noose is one of the most provocative, dangerous unambiguous forms of hate speech there is."
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/01/bill-would-outlaw-display-of-noose/

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> WASHINGTON (AP) — A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

>At least one officer was in serious condition, while the driver was in critical condition, the officials said.

https://news.yahoo.com/us-capitol-lockdown-report-gunfire-172117880.html?guccounter=1

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And how can I profit off it?
https://amp.nine.com.au/article/9426bdcb-2141-47cf-8060-b323b50efbb8

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The US Embassy promised that USAID will give Ukraine refrigerators to store the Pfizer vaccine.

The United States Agency for International Development USAID will provide refrigerators for the transportation and storage of the Pfizer vaccine to Ukraine.

This was reported on Facebook by the press service of the US Embassy in Ukraine.

"To support Ukraine's vaccination efforts, USAID is helping prepare for Pfizer and other approved vaccines by directly supporting ultracold storage and shipping chains and supporting efforts to provide the public with accurate information about vaccines," the post said.

https://strana.ua/news/326788-usaid-dast-ukraine-kholodilniki-dlja-khranenija-vaktsiny-pfizer-posolstvo-ssha.html

Ukraines jewish dictator refuses to take russian vaccine which would be produced on demand inside of Ukraine. instead they stole the money to build roads and then stole the same money into own pockets. The Order to keep away from Russian SputnikV came directly from US embassy resulting in few thousands death(ukrainian gov put actual stats under secret and ban from public. all nummbers published there are either WHOs or local speculations). when local population started to revolt. Ukrainian jewish dictator took money again and went on beggar tour resulting with the contract with indians. after massive remarks against indian vaccine indians simple refused to deliver more (mostly because ukrainian jewish dictator just used racism to stop the trade and to steal the money again)

now Ukraine has the highest Covid rates in the world(also speculated) and ukrainian jews spending millions on naked parties in Dubai.

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It is beginning to feel as though not a week can go by without scientists identifying a new variant of the coronavirus. Each time a new strain is announced, I feel myself becoming increasingly numb to the shock factor that the headline is supposed to trigger.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/5/should-we-be-worried-about-indias-double-mutant-covid-19-strain

I have written extensively about variants originating in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa and New York; this week, it is the turn of India.

In late March, India’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, announced that a new variant – dubbed a “double mutant” – had been identified in samples of saliva taken from people in Maharashtra, Delhi and Punjab. This comes on the back of a month that has seen a surge in cases of COVID-19 across India, with many states re-imposing curfews, restrictions and lockdown measures.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare says this new “double mutant” variant has not been found in sufficient numbers to account for the increase in COVID-19 cases across the country. That, rather, is thought to be due to large public gatherings such as weddings, the opening of cinema halls and gyms, as well as large political rallies in West Bengal where elections are due to be held soon.

Nevertheless, it is a “variant of concern” (VOC) and is being closely monitored. The genome sequencing carried out by a consortium of 10 labs in India, called the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG), has identified two important mutations in the new variant, giving it the unfortunate title of “double mutant”.

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>Pfizer has halted shipments of coronavirus vaccines to Israel in outrage over the country failing to transfer payment for the last 2.5 million doses it supplied to the country, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/banana-republic-pfizer-outraged-israel-failed-to-pay-for-covid-vaccines-664140?utm_source=spotim&utm_m https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/banana-republic-pfizer-outraged-israel-failed-to-pay-for-covid-vaccines-664140?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation edium=spotim_recirculation

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rise of super-mutant strains which "threaten" the global fight against the virus.


“It’s a nuclear reactor that has set off a chain reaction and is out of control. It’s a biological Fukushima."

His comment was a reference to the shocking explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan sparked by a tsunami in 2011.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14567615/brazil-covid-plague-biological-fukushima-mutant-strains/


>just out of curiosity; is their a correlation then with starfish melting syndrome, starfish blood is seawater, and the Fukushima disaster if its now considered a huge disaster that the media downplayed for years?

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The Ontario police officer who found a toddler “alive and well” after the child was lost in the woods north of Kingston, Ont., for more than 72 hours is telling the nearly miraculous story of his recovery.

“That’s the best day I’ve had in the OPP in 25 years,” said provincial Const. Scott McNames, who found three-year-old Jude Leyton in the woods of South Frontenac, Ont., Wednesday just after 3 p.m. He was taken to Kingston General Hospital by Frontenac Paramedics Wednesday, and remains there in stable condition. The hospital says he’s expected to recover.

Katherine Leyton, Jude’s mother, posted her thanks to Twitter Thursday for all those who responded to Jude’s story, and to those who worked to find him.

“Jude was returned to us due to the unrelenting dedication and perseverance of the OPP’s search and rescue ground, air, and underwater teams and tireless effort of community volunteer searchers, firefighters and paramedics,” Katherine said.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7733619/officer-toddler-ontario-woods-recovery/

She also posted pictures of Jude recovering in hospital.

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>"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." - Bill Kristol

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-legislature-bills-state-elections-voting-rights-b2b014cc81894a50fc513168a5f1d0b8

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew protests Thursday as he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.

Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. It is one of a wave of GOP-backed election bills introduced in states around the country after former President Donald Trump stoked false claims that fraud led to his 2020 election defeat.

President Joe Biden called such GOP efforts “un-American” and “sick” during a news conference Thursday. And a group of voter mobilization groups filed a lawsuit late Thursday in federal court in Atlanta challenging the new law.

The Republican changes to voting law in Georgia follows record-breaking turnout that led to Democratic victories in the presidential contest and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state.

“After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed,” said Kemp, who drew Trump’s ire after certifying Biden’s victory in Georgia.

Kemp signed the bill less than two hours after it cleared the Georgia General Assembly. The state House approved it 100-75, before the state Senate quickly agreed to House changes, 34-20. Republicans supported it, with Democrats opposed.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/04/us/politics/domestic-terrorism-biden.html

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat domestic extremism, increasing funding to prevent attacks, weighing strategies historically used against foreign terrorist groups and more openly warning the public about the threat.
The attempts to more assertively grapple with the potential for violence from white supremacists and militias are a shift from President Donald J. Trump’s pressure on federal agencies to divert resources to target the antifa movement and leftist groups despite the conclusion by law enforcement authorities that far-right and militia violence was a more serious threat.
President Biden’s approach also continues a slow acknowledgment that especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, the federal government needs to put more attention and money into tracking and heading off threats from inside the United States, after two decades in which it made foreign terrorism the security priority.
In an intelligence report delivered to Congress last month, the administration labeled white supremacists and militia groups as top national security threats. The White House is also discussing with members of Congress the possibility of new domestic terrorism legislation and executive orders to update the criteria of terrorism watch lists to potentially include more homegrown extremists.
The Homeland Security Department has begun a review of how it handles domestic extremism. For the first time this year, the department designated domestic extremism as a “national priority area,” requiring that 7.5 percent of the billions in grant funds be spent on combating it.
Mr. Biden bolstered a team focusing on domestic extremism at the National Security Council that had been depleted in the past four years, detailing officials from the Justice Department, the F.B.I. and the National Counterterrorism Center, according to senior administration officials.

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Amid an escalating armed conflict in Mozambique, the Pentagon has sent US Special Operations troops into the southern African nation. The deployment of these troops, described as “trainers” and “advisers,” and justified in the name of the endless “war on terrorism,” provides fresh confirmation of the Biden administration’s global escalation of US militarism, including on the continent of Africa.

Announced in the middle of last month, the US deployment has come amid a sharp escalation in the civil war being fought in Mozambique’s northern-most province of Cabo Delgado, where the Mozambican government is confronting an insurgency among that region’s predominantly Muslim population.

The latest fighting has centered in the town of Palma, a hub for the exploitation of the country’s natural gas fields, which was seized by the rebels at the end of last month, sending an estimated 11,000 people fleeing to the port city of Pemba on the Indian Ocean. According to the United Nations, some 670,000 have been displaced since fighting began in the region in 2017.

Commander Chongo Vidigal, the chief of the government forces sent to retake Palma from the rebels told the media Sunday that the area was now “safe.” An earlier attempt to bring reporters to the scene, however, was aborted after the helicopter flying them to the town came under fire.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/06/moza-a06.html