Daily Mail (UK),
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Adriana Diaz
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Black Lives Matter has announced its seventh year of boycotting 'white companies' during the holiday season to support 'Black Xmas.'
On Black Friday, the official Black Lives Matter Global Network shared an Instagram post calling to 'support Black-led-Black-serving organizations.' 'We're dreaming of a #BlackXmas. That means no spending with white companies from Black Friday until New Years Day', the official blackxmas.org site states. The group suggest three ways for its supporters to take part in Black Xmas: Build Black, Buy Black, and Bank Black. The group is encouraging its followers to 'buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses' claiming 'white-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal
New York Daily News,
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Clayton Guse
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The MTA has proposed spending $100 million over the next year on weekly COVID-19 tests for thousands of transit workers who refuse to get vaccinations. That works out to about $5,000 for each transit worker not now vaccinated. Metropolitan Transportation Authority data show about 20,000 of its employees—about 30% of the workforce—have not submitted proof that they have received at least one vaccine dose. The $100 million testing budget is enough to cover about $2,000 in hazard pay for the roughly 50,000 front line MTA workers who risked their health during the worst of the pandemic.
It’s also enough to buy 37 subway cars
New York Post,
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Georgett Roberts *
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12/1/2021 7:56:05 PM
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Smoking crack cocaine is officially sanctioned at the “safe injection sites” Mayor Bill de Blasio brought to Manhattan this week in a move that’s infuriated the centers’ neighbors—and has at least one business owner packing his bags. “People are allowed to bring the substance that they prefer to use here and they are permitted to consume the substance in the manner of their choice,” East Harlem site director Kallin See confirmed.(Snip)One merchant near the second center, in Washington Heights, said the junkie haven is forcing him to move his retail shop out of the neighborhood. “Now they’re going to promote the drugs and people don’t have to worry
Washington Times,
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Kerry Picket
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12/1/2021 7:22:49 PM
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are flummoxed by the waves of smash-and-grab retail thefts in their states, with some denying it’s happening and others saying they are not ready to make major shoplifting a felony. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, said retailers could be fabricating the rash of smash-and-grab burglaries and “flash mob” shoplifting sprees. “We have to talk about specifics because, for example, we’re actually seeing a lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out,” she told The Washington Times. “I believe it’s a Walgreens in California cited it, but the data didn’t back it up.”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Andrea Blanco
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Multi-millionaire Wall Street executives have begged the world's biggest bank to cancel its in-person conference in lawless San Francisco next year because they fear for their safety with the city's out-of-control smash-and-grab crime. A number of unidentified high-ranking financiers have complained about having to make the trip to attend JPMorgan's 40th Annual Healthcare Conference in the crime-ridden Bay Area in January. 'I'm scared, the amount of lawlessness now is astounding,' one senior Wall Street executive told the New York Post. 'Violence is a huge topic of discussion at our bank.'(Snip)However, there are no signs that JPMorgan will relent
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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There are many unknowns about the omicron variant of the coronavirus, including whether it spreads faster than other strains or is more deadly. But here’s another puzzler: How to pronounce it.
World Health Organization officials give Greek names to new variants of concern, like alpha and delta. Those were pretty straightforward, but omicron appears to be tripping people up. President Biden repeatedly referred to it as “omni-cron” during remarks Tuesday, a flub that Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health appeared to repeat from the podium. On Wednesday, Dr. Fauci pronounced it as “ah-mi-cron,” with a short O sound at the start,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Dan Sales
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Police are investigating a disturbing video of a gang of yobs hurling abuse and spitting at a bus of Jewish teenagers celebrating Hanukkah. The attack happened on London's flagship shopping strip Oxford Street on Monday night. In the video of the incident on Facebook, none of the yobs' insults can be heard because they are outside of the bus. But on board the vehicle, the terrified occupants can be clearly picked up saying ' We are all Jewish'.
Cllr Rachael Robathan, leader of Westminster City Council, this afternoon condemned the social media scenes.(Snip)Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also said the action of the yobs were completely unacceptable.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mary Kekatos
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is ordering all airlines to turn over the names of passengers who arrived in the U.S. from eight countries that are facing travel restrictions
The directive, first reported on Wednesday by Reuters, has been issued in an effort to quickly identify and stop the spread of the Omicron variant. The countries include Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. On November 8, the CDC required all airlines to collect contact tracing information from international travelers, but had not required those details to be turned over. According to the directive, which took effect on Tuesday evening, airlines have 24 hours
New York Post,
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Georgett Roberts
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Julia Marsh
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11/30/2021 10:31:12 PM
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With just four weeks left in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched the country’s first legal shooting galleries Tuesday morning, calling them safe havens for addicts—shortly before five people overdosed at just one of the clinics on opening day. “Overdose Prevention Centers are a safe and effective way to address the opioid crisis. I’m proud to show cities in this country that after decades of failure, a smarter approach is possible,” de Blasio said in a statement. The nonprofit-run centers, New York Harm Reduction Educators on E. 126th Street in Harlem and Washington Heights’ CORNER Project on W. 180th Street, opened Tuesday. There were five overdoses
Daily Mail (UK),
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Keith Griffith
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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's new book touting himself as the potential savior of the Republican Party has sold just over 2,000 copies in the week since it was published. In its first week available in stores, Christie's tome titled Republican Rescue has sold just 2,289 copies, according to BookScan data cited by the publishing newsletter Press Run. Press Run author Eric Boehlert called the sales figures a 'a colossal publishing flop' and 'debacle' for Christie, comparing the dismal sales to the same-week sales of 24,000 for Jonathan Karl's new political book, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show. The meager book sales come despite persistent promotion
Guardian [U.K.],
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Philip Oltermann
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Germany’s chancellor-to-be, Olaf Scholz, supports making vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory, German media have reported, as neighbouring Austria is debating how to enforce obligatory jabs from February. Scholz, a Social Democrat, who is expected to be sworn in as Angela Merkel’s successor in the coming week, reportedly told a meeting of regional leaders he was in favour of a cross-party initiative to make vaccines mandatory, as well as requiring customers at non-essential stores to show proof of vaccination or recovery from the virus. “As a delegate I would certainly vote in favour, to make that very clear,” Der Spiegel reported Scholz as saying.
New York Post,
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Evan Rusnak
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A doctor in Germany is under investigation for allegedly doling out homemade COVID-19 “vaccines” to about 20,000 people. Millionaire Dr. Winfried Stöcker said he didn’t submit his self-concocted shot for approval to German authorities because that “would take too long and cost millions,” according to the Irish Times. He is accused of running the unauthorized vaccination center, which is located in an airport he owns in the city of Lübeck. Authorities raided it Sunday, the Times said. “We have a responsibility to the patients, not the state,” Stöcker told the German outlet Bild. “But the police stopped everything.”(Snip)He says the three-dose jab is 97 percent
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Does this apply also to Migrants, or just to the dwindling share of native-born Germans?