President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci got called out for misinformation on COVID’s origins during a segment on BBC One’s “Sunday Morning” with Sophie Raworth on March 27, 2022.
Dr. Fauci said he was “misinterpreted.”
This is the first time a mainstream reporter confronted Fauci on his open lies about the origins of the COVID virus.
It must be nice to have an inkling of a legitimate news service.
Unfortunately, the BBC reporter did not do her research before the segement. We now know that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Dazcak initiated the call to publish the Lancet Study in February 2020 where they labeled any mention of a lab created virus a “conspiracy” and attempted to suppress any challenges to their narrative.
We also know that in September 2021 Dr. Richard Ebright and 15 other top doctors eviscerated Dr. Dascak, Fauci and others for publishing the fraudulent document a year before.
The BBC reporter forgot to mention this. But at least she attempted to confront Fauci, something the fake news refuses to do in America.
As Cassandra Fairbanks reported earlier — Will Smith rushed the Oscar stage and smacked comedian Chris Rock in the face for making a joke about his wife’s hair.
Smith then went back and sat down and screamed profanities at Rock on the stage.
The Academy of Motion Pictures announced Wednesday they will take appropriate action against Will Smith for assaulting this year’s host Chris Rock on stage during the ceremony and then screaming f-bombs at Rock from his seat in the front row. Such a class act.
Later today the Academy announced that they asked Will Smith to leave the awards show but he refused.
Will Smith was asked to leave the Oscars ceremony after hitting Chris Rock but refused, the Academy says.
The body also says it has initiated “disciplinary proceedings” against Smith.
Smith slapped Rock after the comic made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, a result of the hair-loss condition alopecia.
The actor – who won the first Oscar of his career at the ceremony – has since apologised.
In its statement, the Academy said: “Mr Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, [but] we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently.”
It also announced it had “initiated disciplinary proceedings against Mr Smith for violations of the Academy’s Standards of Conduct”.
As reported earlier today by Cristina Laila — The Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about funding the fake Russia dossier.
The FEC fined Clinton and said her campaign violated the rules because they failed to disclose payments funneled to Fusion GPS through DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks before he shocked the world with his 2016 presidential victory.
The election agency said that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm Fusion GPS through their law firm.
A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research.
Instead, the DNC’s $849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign’s $175,000 covered Fusion GPS’s opposition research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called “Russia hoax” that dogged Trump’s first term.
Twenty-one Republican state attorney generals filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Biden administration to nullify the rule issued by the CDC that requires the use of face masks on planes and other public transportation.
The State of Florida lead the multi-state lawsuit, announced by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody, and was filed in the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division.
“The suit largely argues the mandate is a federal violation of state “sovereignty” since states and localities are left to enforce the mandate on buses and other forms of public transit, while numerous Republican governors have enacted bans on mask requirements,” according to Forbes.
Twenty-one states on Tuesday sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies to end the country’s much-debated mask mandate on public transportation.
“Florida has led the nation in standing up to misguided federal government policies and fighting back against heavy-handed mandates that have no scientific backing,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a press release announcing the action. “If politicians and celebrities can attend the Super Bowl unmasked, every U.S. citizen should have the right to fly unmasked. It is well past time to get rid of this unnecessary mandate and get back to normal life.”
The complaint — which names as defendants the CDC, the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, as well as the heads of each agency — seeks to end the mandate on public transportation and establish a permanent injunction against its enforcement.
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made ‘unprecedented assertion[s] of power,’” the lawsuit states.
The CDC declined to comment. TSA, HHS and DHS did not respond to a request for comment.
Florida is joined in the suit by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
“It’s long past time to alleviate some of the pressure on travelers and those working in the travel industry,” Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the US Senate just passed Republican Senator Rand Paul’s repeal of the mask mandate on public transportation. The vote passed: Yea 57–NAY 40. Joe Biden’s administration was reportedly threatening to veto the bill.
Last week, the CEOs of American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and other major carriers sent a letter to Joe Biden urging him to end federal mask mandates on airplanes as well as international pre-departure testing requirements. Citing scientific data, the airlines implore Biden to lift the travel restrictions on airlines so the US travel and tourism sectors no longer needlessly struggle.
As Cassandra Fairbanks reported earlier — Will Smith rushed the Oscar stage and smacked comedian Chris Rock in the face for making a joke about his wife’s hair.
Smith then went back and sat down and screamed profanities at Rock on the stage.
The Academy of Motion Pictures announced Wednesday they will take appropriate action against Will Smith for assaulting this year’s host Chris Rock on stage during the ceremony and then screaming f-bombs at Rock from his seat in the front row. Such a class act.
We all know already the Academy will not have the guts to condemn Smith’s vicious assault.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will determine “appropriate action” against Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, the group told its members in a letter obtained by NBC News.
In the letter, film academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson said the leaders of the nonprofit organization were “upset and outraged” that this year’s celebration of achievement in the film industry was “overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior on stage by a nominee.”
“The Academy’s Board of Governors will now make a determination on appropriate action for Mr. Smith,” they said, adding that the process “will take a few weeks.”
“We will continue to update you on any developments, but we also ask that you respect your Board, Academy staff and the process as this unfolds so it can work in the considered way it was intended and mandated,” they added.
Meanwhile, US comedy clubs are reassessing security measures following Smith’s violent assault on Chris Rock on the Oscar stage.
When Curtis Shaw Flagg, president of The Laugh Factory Chicago, witnessed Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards, a sinking sense of déjà vu set in.
“We’ve had more instances lately of audience members trying to charge the stage,” says Flagg…
…As the industry reels over Smith’s attack — drawing stinging and angry rebukes from A-list comics like Kathy Griffin (who tweeted, “Now we all have to worry about who wants to be the next Will Smith in comedy clubs and theaters”) and Joe Rogan (who said on his podcast that it “sets a terrible precedent for comedy clubs”) — the live-comedy gatekeepers are reevaluating security protocol while bracing for whatever comes next.
Smith’s reaction is indicative of an overall mood shift in the standup-comedy world, says Laugh Factory owner and CEO Jamie Masada. Masada has noticed an atmospheric change inside his clubs since they reopened to the public, first to limited capacity in March 2021 and then to full capacity about six months ago. Audiences, he says, are on edge.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) sign a bill on Wednesday banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Ducey also signed legislation banning biological males from competing against girls in sports and banned gender reassignment surgeries for minors.
“In Arizona, we know there is immeasurable value in every life, including preborn life,” Ducey said. “I believe it is each state’s responsibility to protect them.”
The measures signed by Gov. Doug Ducey will outlaw abortion after 15 weeks if the U.S. Supreme Court allows it, prohibit gender confirmation surgery for minors and ban transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams.
The Arizona abortion legislation mirrors a Mississippi law now being considered by the nation’s high court. The bill explicitly says it does not overrule a state law in place for more than 100 years that would ban abortion outright if the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that enshrined the right to abortion in law.
Mexico – At least 20 people were killed on Sunday in a massacre at an underground cockfight in Zinapécuaro, Michoacán.
According to Reuters, the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) got into a fight with the Familia Michoacana criminal organization and Los Correa, a local gang.
Gunmen massacred 20 people on Sunday night in a suspected gangland attack at a clandestine cockfighting venue in western Mexico, authorities said, in one of the worst mass shootings under the current government.
The killings took place in Las Tinajas in the state of Michoacan, where the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has been fighting local gangs for control of drug routes.
“It was a massacre of one group by another,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference, expressing his regret at the deaths.
He blamed criminal gangs in the area for the killings and said a team was on the way to investigate the crime.
Seventeen of the dead were men and three were women, and officials secured 15 vehicles as part of the investigation, Michoacan state prosecutors said in a statement.
According to reports, three Americans were among the people killed at the cockfighting venue.
Mexican authorities have identified 19 of the 20 people shot to death Sunday in a clandestine cockfighting ring in Zinapecuaro, Michoacan.
The victims include three U.S. citizens whom the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office only identified by first names: Melissa S., Salvador A. and Jose Abiel A. The latter allegedly was the owner of the unlicensed cockfighting arena inside a ranch called El Paraiso (Paradise); the woman was one of three females killed in the attack.
KION-TV identified the deceased woman as Melissa Silva, 36 and a mother of four, and said her sister, Arleth, 16 and a resident of Chicago, was among six wounded. The station quoted their brother, Alex, as saying the sisters were vacationing in Mexico, where family members live.
Mississippi game wardens recently uncovered what is regarded as the largest wild turkey poaching ring in history. It included three states, 15 people, and more than 100 wild turkeys. And, like most wildlife cases, the investigation known as “Operation Longbeard” began with a tip—or what game wardens called “whispers”—about its ringleader, Kenneth Ray Britt Jr. of Wesson, Mississippi.
“Everyone always talked about how many deer he killed, how many turkeys he killed,” Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Master Sergeant Randy Cooley told Mossy Oak in a podcast about the bust. “They looked up to him as a hunting role model. He was a poachers’ legend; the people he carried along with him began using the outlaw traits that he was teaching them.”
But when Cooley began investigating Britt with the help of MDWFP Lieutenant Sheila Smith and Sergeant Major Jake Guess, they soon discovered that he wasn’t working alone. In fact, three other men—Tony Smith, Dustin Treadway, and Barney Bairfield—also played key roles in the poaching ring that sprawled across southwest Mississippi and into Kansas and Nebraska.
“This was not one of those fly-by-night things,” said Cooley. “This was plotted out,”
According to Mossy Oak, Britt, Smith, Treadway, and Bairfield acted as the “four main poachers.” An additional 10 to 11 individuals worked to assist them in their crimes, helping the men stealthily leave where they had permission to hunt—on either a small parcel of private land or public land bordering private—and dropping them off to illegally hunt land that was specifically managed for turkeys, and that they didn’t have permission to hunt.
They carried on with this scheme for years, the wardens explained, confounding landowners who were never able to catch them in the act of trespassing or killing birds. So without enough evidence for a search warrant, officers had to wait until someone opened their mouth to brag, which eventually happened in early 2019.
Not wanting any of the targeted offenders to know they were onto them, the wardens staged a coordinated effort that included 20 wildlife officers and three teams, and they issued search warrants simultaneously on Easter Sunday. Then they got to work.
Officers seized multiple cell phones and laptops, 25 to 30 game cameras, about 80 memory cards, and several card readers. After poring over all these files and devices, they used the evidence gathered to piece together who was involved with the poaching ring and just how many turkeys had been killed. Because of a two-year statute of limitations on wildlife violations in Mississippi, officers concentrated their efforts on collecting evidence from the 2018-2019 hunting seasons.
“The whole thing started out in Lincoln County, but once we began the investigation, we realized five counties in Mississippi were involved,” said Smith. “And once we got to looking at the evidence, we realized they were killing [turkeys] in Nebraska and Kansas as well. That’s when we brought in the feds to help with the case.”
Master Sergeant Randy Cooley (left), Lieutenant Sheila Smith, and Sergeant Major Jake Guess received the inaugural NWTF CEO/Chairman Award in February. National Wild Turkey Federation
Operation Longbeard took months of research and investigation, and it ended with the largest wild turkey poaching arrest in U.S. history. Officers issued a total of 286 state-related wildlife charges, along with another 12 federal charges—some of which fell under the parameters of the Lacey Act, since they knowingly transported illegally-taken birds across state lines. In total, 15 people were charged for illegally taking birds in Mississippi, Kansas, and Nebraska, and they were fined roughly $100,000 altogether—with Britt ordered to pay $37,354 individually. The ringleader also lost his hunting and fishing privileges for five years, while the other three main poachers lost their privileges for two to four years. Their privileges will be suspended in all three states because Mississippi, Kansas, and Nebraska are all members of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
As a gesture of appreciation, the National Wild Turkey Federation presented Cooley, Smith, and Guess with the inaugural NWTF CEO/Chairman Award, which was “created to recognize a significant national or regional contribution to the conservation of the wild turkey, habitat management, public awareness, policy work, or hunting heritage.”
