Month: July 2022
Undercover Project Veritas Video Resurfaces Suggesting CNN Is Going To Focus On Climate Now COVID Is Over
Footage released by Project Veritas of CNN technical director Charlie Chester discussing the network’s move to focus mainly on climate change resurfaced on social media Wednesday.
“Like, our [CNN’s] focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that’s what it was, right?” Chester said to the journalist in the undercover recording. “So our next thing is going to be for climate change awareness.” The video takes place in what appears to be a restaurant or bar, and is a continuation of a series of clips originally shared in 2021.
In the Project Veritas footage, Chester said the “climate thing is gonna take years. So, they’ll probably be able to milk that for quite a bit.” He later said that “Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN. We’re gonna hone in on it.”
The tech director claimed in the video that the decision to focus on climate change came from the former head of CNN, Jeff Zucker, who left the network in early 2022.
The video went viral on social media shortly after transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg shared a Tweet regarding climate change. Biden also called climate change a “clear and present danger” Wednesday, and nearly declared a national climate emergency on the same day, CNN reported.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/21/undercover-project-veritas-video-cnn-climate-change-covid-over/
US Army to dismiss scores of unvaccinated soldiers
Almost a quarter of the US army that has not yet received the second vaccine will be facing dismissal. President Joe Biden is ready to purge those in the military who have not received their second jab.
Currently, more than 260 000 US Military personnel are not “fully vaccinated” which means that they have only received one jab against Covid instead of two or more. Of the more than 268 000 soldiers who are not fully vaccinated, more than 252 000 are in the Army, according to the US Department of Defense (DoD). These soldiers, at least 27,5 percent of the more than 914 000 serving members, are now facing discharges.
Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth in February explained the jab policy of the DoD: “Army readiness depends on Soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars… Unvaccinated Soldiers present a risk to the force and jeopardize readiness. We will begin involuntary separation proceedings for Soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption.”
This week, the US Air Force issued similar directives: “As Covid-19 cases continue to rise, Air Force medical leaders are urging all Airmen, Guardians and their families to vaccinate against Covid-19 and stay up-to-date on their vaccinations. Approved vaccines have been proven to decrease the chances of severe Covid-19 and prevent hospitalizations and death. Currently, the United States is averaging more than 120 000 daily reported cases and more than 350 deaths per day, driven by the new, more contagious variant called BA.5.”
Other service branches however have a better vaccination rate. Only 2 983 Marines out of more than 203 000 (1,4 percent) are not “fully” jabbed, 5 300 sailors out of more than 389 000 (1,35 percent) and 8 285 airmen out of more than 505 000 (1,6 percent).
According to some sources, the number of serving members is 485 000, which would mean around 50 percent could be purged due to not complying with the Biden administration’s mandates. To boot, the US military is already mired in a recruitment crisis.
Targeting Christians
On a podcast hosted by Republican representative Matt Gaetz from Florida, he accused the DoD of using the vaccine mandate to “intentionally purge” religious service members. They all agreed that the involuntary separation policy for vaccine refusal is part of a concerted effort to target certain members of the military.
“If you are a believer and you are listening to this podcast, you need to understand that God-fearing service members are being intentionally purged from the services,” one soldier told Gaetz.
“It’s a purposeful purge. Anyone who would disobey an unlawful order is being purged out of the military, and there is a shadow policy in place that is protecting all of these people enforcing this shadow policy,” another said.
A civil war?
The Biden administration’s policies of vaccine mandates, ethnic animosity, unlimited military spending abroad and constant toxic political invective have meanwhile contributed to a sharply growing divide among Americans.
More than half of Americans expect that a civil war will erupt in the United States sometime in the near future, according to a study done by researchers at the University of California Davis Violence Prevention Research Program and the California Firearm Violence Research Center.
The study was conducted by the pollster Ipsos and surveyed 8 620 respondents in English and Spanish between May 13 and June 2.
When asked to respond to the statement “In the next few years, there will be a civil war in the United States,” some 36,4 percent said they “somewhat” agreed with the statement, 8,4 percent agreed “strongly,” while 5,3 percent agreed “very strongly.” Some 47,8 percent of respondents said they did not agree and the remaining 2,1 percent did not express an opinion.
More than two-thirds of respondents agreed that “[t]here is a serious threat to our democracy,” while more than 40 percent indicated that “[h]aving a strong leader for America is more important than having a democracy”.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/22/us-army-to-dismiss-scores-of-unvaccinated-soldiers/
France: 21-year-old Senegalese arrested after stabbing two men and assaulting two women
A 21-year-old Senegalese national has been arrested in France for a violent attack in which two men were stabbed multiple times and two women were assaulted in two separate attacks in the northern city of Rouen.
The first incident took place on the evening of July 19 in a restaurant on the Place du Vieux-Marché. According to local media, the attacker, who was a staff member at the Cancan restaurant, stabbed a colleague several times. Local reports suggest an argument ensued after the assailant was asked to “clean a cutting board” by his victim.
The attacker proceeded to flee the scene, allowing a Spanish doctor, who was on vacation, to intervene and provide the victim with first aid before he was transferred to the hospital.
The suspect was arrested at 5:30 a.m. in an apartment on Place de la Rougemare after police were called following a second incident in which a second man was stabbed in the buttocks. Two women are also understood to have been assaulted in the violent exchange.
Initial screenings suggest the perpetrator was not under the influence of alcohol; further drug tests were ordered but have not yet been reported on.
The suspect was immediately taken into custody. After initially giving a false identity, he was finally identified as the alleged perpetrator of the events that occurred earlier at the Cancan restaurant.
Late on Wednesday afternoon, the owner of the restaurant, Pierre Guéret, provided an update via social media on the condition of the injured employee.
“It’s a pretty good sign, he texted his colleagues, he’s out of the woods,” Guéret said, revealing that the restaurant had been closed for the day following the incident.
“The restaurant manager will see how long we will remain closed,” he added.
“We are doing everything we can to support our employees and the customers present last night in this ordeal whom we invite to contact us if necessary,” the restaurant added in a Facebook post.
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Germany Begged Canada for Russian Gas Pipeline Part to Prevent a Populist Uprising: Report
Authorities in German are said to have begged for Canada to surrender a part needed for its Russian gas pipeline by arguing that the essential component was needed to prevent “popular uprisings”, a report claims.
In the hopes of persuading authorities within Justin Trudeau’s leftist government to relax sanctions against Russia enough to allow the export of an essential energy pipeline part, German authorities reportedly told their Canadian counterparts that, without the component in question, Germany would be forced to fend off internal “popular uprisings”.
While authorities have since tried to play down their own statements on the matter, these claims made by German authorities are consistent with previous statements from ministers, with one decrying the possibility of so-called “right-wing extremists” gaining popularity should the country’s government be unable to manage the country’s energy situation.
According to a report by Die Welt, Germany’s foreign affairs minister, Annalena Baerbock, told Canadian authorities that Germany would no longer be able to support Ukraine without the Siemens-produced turbine, which has been deemed an extremely important part for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline between Russia and Europe.
The absence of the part allegedly due to Western sanctions had been used as a raison d’être by Russian President Vladimir Putin to drastically reduce the amount of Russian gas being supplied to Germany, a reduction that launched the central European state head-first into a crippling gas crisis.
“The Canadians said, ‘We have a lot of questions’, so we said, ‘We can understand that, but if we don’t get the gas turbine, then we won’t get any more gas, and then we won’t be able to support Ukraine at all perform because we are then busy with popular uprisings,” the publication reports Baerbock as saying.
When pressed on the point, the Green party official reportedly retreated slightly, saying that the possibility of “popular uprisings” was “perhaps a bit exaggerated”, despite the fact that Germany “still need[s] gas from Russia.”
Despite her retreat on the issue, Baerbock’s statement to Canadian officials in regards to the possibility of popular uprisings echoes previous warnings issued by the country’s antifa-linked Minister for the Interior, Nancy Faeser.
According to Faeser, the current government’s inability to control the gas situation could lead to the likes of COVID-19 lockdown protesters — who have been so often decried and attacked by the country’s political class in the past — gaining popularity amongst the general public.
“Of course there is a risk that those who roared out their contempt for democracy during the Corona period and were often out and about with right-wing extremists will see the sharply rising prices as a new mobilization issue try to abuse,” Faeser previously said, the minister having been in the past criticised for allegedly ignoring far-left and Islamic extremism in favour of attacking the right.
“They want to exacerbate crises in order to make a profit from them,” she went on to claim.
This sentiment was echoed by the leader of the German Greens, who said he feared that “right-wing populists” would “exploit” a forthcoming gas crisis, while another official for the Social Democratic Party said that his country was “probably facing the greatest social test in post-war history”.
Laptop with classified NATO info stolen at Paris meeting
Senior officers from all the armies of the Atlantic Alliance met in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in the Cercle National des Armées for a seminar on defence on 1 July.
The French daily, le Canard Enchaîné first reported on the meeting in which a strange set of circumstances played out. According to another daily, Le Parisien, the laptop of a German soldier, which contains highly confidential information, disappeared.
The mystery was quickly solved thanks to the surveillance cameras that showed a man entering the building, right under the noses of the security guards. He passed the checkpoint by approaching a woman. The way in which he did it, made the guards believe that he was her companion.
The man then went up to the meeting room and in the presence of the soldiers, he took a laptop with a German army sticker on it and then quietly left the premises. The investigation showed that the man returned to a café where he stole another object.
Seeing how the thief was quite adept at relieving unsuspecting individuals of their belongings, the gendarmes investigators were less stressed, because if he had been a spy, he would have disappeared immediately without wasting time in committing a second robbery, they said.
Identified as a known thief, he was spotted contacting a reseller, but he never had contact with a foreign power, according to the gendermes.
The thief and the reseller were both arrested, then released pending trial before the Paris Criminal Court. The computer could be blocked remotely, but… it has not been found yet.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/22/laptop-with-classified-nato-info-stolen-at-paris-meeting/
Muslim employees of German airports pose on the web giving the salute of the terrorist organisation IS
It is extremely frightening: Three employees of the airport in Düsseldorf showed the IS salute on the tarmac, openly professing their sympathies for Islamist terror. Pictures of this surfaced on the net – the police reacted promptly.
Mohamed A. R. (19), Hamit A. (20) and Serhat I. (20). The three men were quickly identified from the pictures. All three were born in Germany, grew up among us in Europe. Nevertheless, they identified themselves as belonging to the terrorists of the “Islamic State” (IS).
“Airport passes have been blocked with immediate effect, so that it is ensured that any access to security areas of the airport is excluded,” the Federal Police spokeswoman told the newspaper “Bild”. And the State Security Service also took action. Officers raided the homes of the Islamist fans. A spokesman for the Düsseldorf police headquarters: “We conducted interrogations with two people.” One of them is now on holiday. The authorities are still keeping an eye on him.
In Germany, the incident is also causing a stir politically: vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Andres Lindholz (CSU) is appalled: “A scandal in terms of security policy! There must be “immediate consequences”. “There must be no compromises when it comes to air traffic safety”. He further attests: “This is how the government endangers the safety of travellers in Germany.”
https://exxpress.at/skandal-am-rollfeld-flughafen-mitarbeiter-zeigen-islamisten-gruss/
Why Are We Talking About Monkeypox Instead of Meningitis?
The Point tries to limit its coverage of nonsense except where it’s entertaining. So this has probably been the first time I typed the word, “monkeypox” (and had it autocorrected to “Morley Safer”, because that I have typed)
And this is about the things we pay attention to and why we pay attention to them.
Monkeypox may be in the news, but Florida health officials are alarmed by another, more serious outbreak — meningococcal disease.
“Meningococcal disease, to some degree, concerns me more given the severity of the disease,” said Dr. Ulyee Choe, statewide medical director for the Florida Department of Health, at a Wednesday press conference.
The meningitis outbreak in Florida, which has primarily affected gay and bisexual men, has been much more deadly than monkeypox, which has not led to any deaths in the United States, Choe said.
By contrast, 12 people have died among the 48 cases of meningococcal disease confirmed in Florida in 2022 — a 25 percent death rate, Choe said. There have been four cases in Miami-Dade and two in Broward from Jan. 1 to July 19, according to the health department.
So why do we keep talking about monkeypox and not meningitis, which is really a good deal nastier and scarier?
In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is working with the state health department, said the two health agencies are investigating the Florida cases, which it called “one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history.“
Meningococcal disease is caused by a bacteria and typically requires close contact to transmit it from one person to another, such as kissing or sharing of food or drinks. It can first feel like the flu, but quickly worsens to infect the brain and spinal cord, a condition known as meningitis. It can also get into the bloodstream.
1. America’s media and its public health bureaucracy are fundamentally unserious and ‘monkeypox’ sounds newer and more exciting.
You’re not going to get that many people clicking on a headline about meningitis. If this headline didn’t have “monkeypox” in it, fewer people would have clicked on it. And a lot more people are likely to care about or have opinions about monkeypox than meningitis.
2. Death isn’t a measure of anything
It doesn’t matter how many people die of something. What matters is how the thing slots into the trending politics of the moment. Monkeypox is good political fodder. Meningitis isn’t.
And that in summary is why the system is badly broken. The public health authorities spend all of their time virtue signaling about masks, except apparently in Florida, and posturing about massive outbreaks while failing to provide meaningful guidance and deal with the manageable crises, like this, in their actual bailiwick.
And that would require some uncomfortable and inconvenient truths about both monkeypox and meningitis.
