Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 5, 2020, 11:44 p.m. No.11922420   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2438 >>2504 >>2663 >>2819

Something burned on the 5th of December

1776

 

Fire guts historic church home to New York’s Liberty Bell

 

NEW YORK (AP) — A historic church in lower Manhattan that houses New York’s Liberty Bell and whose congregation dates to the city’s earliest days was gutted by a massive fire early Saturday that sent flames shooting through the roof.

Dec. 6 2020 @ 12:05am

 

NEW YORK (AP) — A historic church in lower Manhattan that houses New York’s Liberty Bell and whose congregation dates to the city’s earliest days was gutted by a massive fire early Saturday that sent flames shooting through the roof.

 

The Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village burned before dawn after a fire spread from a five-story vacant building adjacent to the church around 5 a.m. Flames shot from the roof and the church’s stately front window glowed from the conflagration inside.

 

“We are devastated. We are gutted like our building is gutted; our hearts are crushed like our doors are crushed,” the Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis said. “But we know how to be the church, and we know that God is God, yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

 

The fire department said in an Instagram post there were four minor injuries to firefighters and that marshals were investigating the blaze.

 

Built in 1892, the church is home to the oldest congregation of the Collegiate Churches of New York, which date to the Dutch settlement of the island in the 1620s, according to the church’s website.

 

The Middle Collegiate Church had been in two other locations in Manhattan since 1729.

 

The bell tower houses New York’s Liberty Bell, which pealed to mark the birth of the nation in 1776 and has since been rung for the inaugurations and deaths of American presidents and events such as remembrance of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the church.

 

Lewis believed the bell survived the fire but was not certain. Church minister Amanda Ashcraft told WABC the Tiffany stained glass windows were gone.

 

Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that the fire was “heartbreaking” and pledged: “We’ll do whatever we can to help Middle Collegiate rebuild.”

 

The fate of the church building is unclear, Lewis said, but the ministry will continue.

 

“Our church has been worshipping digitally since March 15,” Lewis said. “And that’s what we’ll be doing tomorrow.”

 

https://www.newstribune.com/news/national/story/2020/dec/06/fire-guts-historic-church-home-to-new-yorks-liberty-bell/851615/

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 5, 2020, 11:49 p.m. No.11922436   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2504 >>2663 >>2819

Georgia Runoff Candidates Campaign With Man Who Compared Jews to 'Termites'

 

Some might call it a bold choice.

 

On Saturday, Georgia Democrat senatorial candidates Raphael Warnock and Joe Ossoff campaigned with a man who’s reportedly referred to Jews as “termites.”

According to a Mobilize.us event notice, the trio teamed up to “register to vote in [the state’s] critical runoff!”

The drive-in rally was helmed with Hank Johnson, who — per The Washington Free Beacon — “compared Jewish Israeli settlers to termites” in 2016.

Hank offered the analogy at an event sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

 

He was quoted thusly:

“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up, and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever-increasing rate, to the point where it has become alarming.”

Johnson went on to liken Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to President Trump:

“The fact is the Israeli government, which is the most right-wing government ever to exist in the state of Israel in its history, the most right wing government, you got a guy like Trump who is now the minister of defense in Israel calling the shots on defense.”

Do you consider The Donald to be uber-right-wing?

Back to Georgia, for any who think it took moxy for Raphael and Joe to hang with Hank, the state’s 4th District definitely disagrees — it elected Mr. Johnson to Congress.

On Twitter, Hank praised Raphael — that’s Revered Warnock — and asserted Republicans are trying to strip away health care:

.@ossoff & @ReverendWarnock in the Senate will fight to protect #healthcare for all American families by safeguarding pre-existing condition protections, no matter how hard some Republicans will work to strip them away. pic.twitter.com/24sLkAv0LN

— Hank Johnson (@ReElectHank) December 5, 2020

 

As for the termites thing, it’s not the first time the wood-eating insects have been prominently referenced with regard to Israel.

You may remember such a quote from National Representative of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan:

 

Stop Lying On Farrakhan!!!! Stop changing his words!!! He clearly stated,”I'm not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite.” #StandWithFarrakhan All praises are due to Allah🙏 pic.twitter.com/VTNUtL6zsR

— Sudan Muhammad (@sudans1love) January 15, 2019

 

Farrakhan:

– “I'm not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite.”

– “Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit”

– “Powerful Jews are my enemy”

– “The false Jew will lead you to filth and indecency”

– “You are the synagogue of Satan” pic.twitter.com/1rRR8rnTDK

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 27, 2018

 

Anti-Semitism aside, how will the Peach State’s runoffs go? There’s a lot riding on it, and the Commander-in-Chief wants to see GOP voters turn out in droves — to pull the lever for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

 

Hence, he’s doing an election drive of his own:

 

Register to vote before Monday 12/7. Register now on https://t.co/bFJXEeKHLV, then request your absentee ballot before 12/31 – do it TODAY, and return your ballot the same day you get it. If you aren’t planning to vote by mail, vote early in person, or vote on Election Day! pic.twitter.com/mGnORcriXw

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020

 

And that includes a featuring of Warnoff:

pic.twitter.com/7NhZCVBncg

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020

A lot is at stake…and right now, in addition to a focus on the presidential race, Americans certainly have Georgia on Their Mind.

 

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/12/05/georgia-runoff-joe-ossoff-raphael-warnock-hank-johnson-israel-jews-termites-n290005

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 5, 2020, 11:56 p.m. No.11922462   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2504 >>2663 >>2819

Trump: 'They're Going to Try to Rig This Election, Too'=

 

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 December 2020 07:46 PM

 

President Donald Trump delivered a stirring rebuke of the "rigged election" as he campaigned for Republican senators left to fight for Senate control in the Jan. 5 runoff elections, which he warned Democrats are going to try to "steal," too.

 

"You must go vote and vote early starting Dec. 14 – you have to do it – they cheated and they rigged this presidential election, but we will still win it," Trump told a large Valdosta, Georgia, rally Saturday night, which aired live on Newsmax TV. "We will still win it.

 

"And they're going to try to rig this election, too."

 

Incumbents Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., face challenges from Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in runoff elections that might determine the balance of power in the Senate.

 

Republicans already hold 50 Senate seats, but if Democrats sweep the two Georgia runoffs and Joe Biden wins the White House, the vice president casts the deciding vote in a 50-50 tie.

 

"At least you have two beauties, and you know what you also have two beauties running against them, but beauty in a different way," Trump told a raucous crowd of Republican supporters. "They're two beauties, but there's never been a case where a state has this prominence on the Senate races, because they're never together.

 

"This is something that's very important, and you have to get out you have to vote. You have to make sure you have every vote counted. Everybody vote has to count. You got to make sure they don't throw away any ballots. You got to make sure that when they collect the ballots – they're bragging about how many ballots they have already collected – you've got to make sure your secretary of state does what the hell he's doing.

 

"And you got to make sure your governor gets a lot tougher than he's been. He's gotta get a lot tougher."

 

Trump seemed to admit remaining in the White House is an uphill battle, suggesting Vice President Mike Pence would not be the one casting the deciding vote in the next Senate if Democrats win a 50-50 Senate split with a Jan. 5 sweep.

 

"At stake in this election is control of the U.S. Senate, and that really means control of this country," Trump said. "The voters of Georgia will determine which party runs every committee, writes every piece of legislation, controls every single taxpayer dollar.

 

"Very simply you will decide whether your children will grow up in a socialist country or whether they will grow up in a free country."

 

He added later, "if the other side manages to steal both elections, we will have total one party socialist control. And everything you care about will be gone. Your whole philosophy is going to be gone."

 

The crowd broke out in a "Stop the steal" chant, before Trump added: "But we're working hard to ensure that it doesn't happen, and now they're trying to steal these two important Senate seats from Georgia."

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rigged-election-georgia-senate/2020/12/05/id/1000209/

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 6, 2020, midnight No.11922472   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2489 >>2504 >>2663 >>2819

Study Concludes Cuban Diplomats Suffered From Effects of 'Microwave Radiation'

 

A long-awaited study by the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that the illnesses that struck American diplomats and their families in Cuba and China in 2017 were likely caused by directed microwave energy, although it’s not clear if the source was a weapon or not.

 

U.S. intelligence agencies had believed since 2018 that Russia was behind the attacks, using some kind of “sonic weapon.” The NAS study included examining 40 of the affected diplomats and came to the conclusion that nothing like this had previously been documented in the medical literature.

 

NBC News:

 

“The committee felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy,” the report says. “Studies published in the open literature more than a half-century ago and over the subsequent decades by Western and Soviet sources provide circumstantial support for this possible mechanism.”

 

While important questions remain, “the mere consideration of such a scenario raises grave concerns about a world with disinhibited malevolent actors and new tools for causing harm to others, as if the U.S. government does not have its hands full already with naturally occurring threats,” says the report, edited by Dr. David Relman, a professor in medicine, microbiolology and immunology at Stanford, and Julie Pavlin, a physician who leads the National Academies of Sciences global health division in Washington.

 

It still might be the Russians. Recent reports have documented other cases of CIA agents being targeted and showing similar symptoms after an attack. Tracking devices show some Russian agents who had worked on microwave weapons were present in the vicinity.

 

Saying that the microwave energy was “directed” raises the question: by whom? And if it’s not a weapon, why was it pointed at the U.S. embassy?

 

As the state department and CIA are saying, there are still plenty of unanswered — and perhaps unanswerable — questions.

 

The State Department, responding to the report, said that “each possible cause remains speculative” and added that the investigation, now three years old, is still “ongoing.” Although it praised the National Academies of Sciences for undertaking the effort, the State Department offered a long list of “challenges of their study” and limitations in the data the academies were given access to, suggesting that the report should not be viewed as conclusive.

 

“While the above limit the scope of the report, they do not lessen its value,” the State Department said in an emailed statement. “We are pleased this report is now out and can add to the data and analyses that may help us come to an eventual conclusion as to what transpired.”

 

Whoever is doing it — and most of the signs apparently point to Russia — they are very careful not to leave any footprints to follow. The weapon has been used sparingly and in several places — perhaps testing the weapon before deploying it.

 

Until we figure it out, our diplomats will be in danger.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/05/study-concludes-cuban-diplomats-suffered-from-effects-of-microwave-radiation-n1194088

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 6, 2020, 12:12 a.m. No.11922509   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Biden on Potential Disagreement With Kamala: 'I'll Develop Some Disease and Say I Have to Resign'

 

In a CNN joint interview with running-mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Joe Biden said that if he has a “fundamental disagreement” with Harris while she serves as his vice president, he will “develop some disease and say I have to resign.” While Biden likely meant this line to be a joke, he delivered it straight and neither he nor Harris laughed. It appears CNN moderator Jake Tapper also did not laugh.

 

Biden insisted that he agreed with Kamala Harris on important matters like his philosophy of government, and he only spoke about getting sick and resigning in cases of fundamental disagreement.

 

“But all kidding aside, it’s a matter of the thing we are simpatico on our philosophy of government and simpatico on how we want to approach these issues that we’re facing,” Biden said.

 

“When we disagree, so far it’s been just like when Barack and I did. It’s in private. She’ll say, ‘I think we should do A, B, C, or D,’ and I’ll say, ‘I like A, don’t like B and C.’ Like I told Barack, if I reach something where there’s a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I’ll develop some disease and say I have to resign,” Biden said.

 

Biden delivered the line seriously, as if he were continuing to speak frankly about his discussions with Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama.

 

After all, Biden began the vignette with the statement, “All kidding aside.” It seems as though Biden was reading from a script written by someone else who intended the getting sick line as a joke, but Biden didn’t get the joke, so he delivered it as though it were a serious remark.

 

Naturally, it seems highly unlikely Biden actually intended to pledge to the American people that in cases of serious disagreement with Kamala Harris, he would simply get sick and resign. After all, if he did win the — as yet disputed — 2020 election, Americans elected Biden, not Harris, to be president. But his delivery — and the reactions of others involved — make it harder to just dismiss his comment as tongue-in-cheek.

 

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shared the moment on Twitter.

 

Biden on what he would do if he disagrees with Kamala:

"I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign." 🤔 pic.twitter.com/eUhamNMgwp

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) December 4, 2020

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/12/04/biden-on-potential-disagreement-with-kamala-ill-develop-some-disease-and-say-i-have-to-resign-n1191754

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 6, 2020, 12:15 a.m. No.11922523   🗄️.is 🔗kun

More than half of FDNY say they’ll refuse COVID-19 vaccine

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More than half of New York City firefighters say they won’t be vaccinated for COVID-19 when the potentially life-saving shot becomes available to first responders in a matter of weeks, according to a new internal survey.

 

About 55 percent of 2,053 smoke-eaters polled in the last three days by their union, the Uniformed Firefighters Association, answered “No” when asked, “Will you get the COVID-19 Vaccine from Pfizer when the Department makes it available?” UFA President Andy Ansbro told The Post. The responses account for about 25 percent of the UFA’s 8,200 active members.

 

The stunning anti-vax response follows an August survey of MTA workers that showed only 30 percent of 645 respondents were definitely willing to be vaccinated. Thirty-eight percent were unsure and 32 percent said they would not take the vaccine, according to the poll of Transport Workers Union members conducted by the NYU School of Global Public Health.

 

If the survey results become the reality, it would mean thousands of NYC’s first responders and other essential frontline workers would continue to be vulnerable to the virus and remain potential spreaders.

 

The FDNY announced last week it would not make the vaccine mandatory for its members, a policy expected to be followed by all city agencies and even hospitals.

 

The data comes as Trump pandemic advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said that most healthy Americans should not expect to be vaccinated before the spring, as the first shots are rolled out to health care workers, the elderly and the medically vulnerable.

 

“A healthy non-elderly person with no recognizable underlying conditions, will likely start . . . in the end of March, early April. Once you get into April, probably full blast with those individuals,” Fauci said during a CNN town hall Friday — the same day the city reported positive coronavirus test results doubled in the past month.

 

Among firefighters, positive tests have tripled during that time, according to an FDNY source, who said that as of Friday there were more than 130 positive cases in the department’s ranks. At least six firehouses have three or more cases.

 

Vaccine acceptance is a matter of trust, it seems.

 

NYU researchers said of the reluctant transit workers, “The main reason for not taking it or being unsure was the lack of trust in its safety.” Respondents said “the main sources of trusted, reliable information included: personal healthcare provider, CDC, Governor Cuomo and the TWU leadership.

 

“A sizeable portion said they no longer trust anyone,” researchers wrote.

 

Many healthy firefighters in their 30s and 40s have become less fearful of the virus as they’ve overcome it themselves or know of colleagues who bounced back after a diagnosis, Ansbro said.

 

“A lot of them probably feel they are not in a risk category, they are younger, stronger, they may have already had it and gotten through it, and feel it’s not their problem,” Ansbro said. “They are more familiar with the coronavirus than they are with the vaccine.”

 

Ansbro said he plans to receive it himself.

 

EMS workers, who will be among the FDNY members to receive the vaccine early, have also been vocal in their skepticism, according to Oren Barzilay, president of the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Inspectors union.

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 6, 2020, 12:16 a.m. No.11922527   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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“A few are anxious to get it, but there have been a few dozen responses saying, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” Barzilay said of online chatter. “They were thankful it was not mandatory, because they don’t want to be looked at as test subjects.”

Barzilay said, “I personally am going to wait and see what the side effects are, what the independent studies show” before being vaccinated.

An veteran FDNY member expressed frustration with the naysayers, and believes first responders getting vaccinated is a public health necessity.

“The 55 percent doesn’t surprise me. They’re called the Bravest, not the Smartest,” the source said.

“It’s saving their lives, and the lives of their co-workers, families, friends, and the people they take care of. They respond to live-threatening medical emergencies. The last thing you want is a family member in dire straits being worked on by an unvaccinated firefighter.”

Some policy experts believe mandatory vaccines — which have been touted as safe and 95-percent effective by their manufacturers — are the best way to protect the public.

“It may become necessary to require that certain individuals or communities be vaccinated, such as health care workers and students, to protect the public’s health,” Mary Beth Morrissey, a research fellow at Fordham University and chair of the New York State Bar Association’s COVID-19 task force, said in a statement announcing a resolution calling upon the state to consider mandating a vaccine.

Mistrust has also been apparent in the general population. According to a yet-to-be-released survey of New Yorkers taken by the city Health Department in October, just over 50 percent say they will be vaccinated.

Nationwide, the number is at about 58 percent, according to a September Gallup poll — taken before drug companies Pfizer and Moderna made announcements in early November about the 95-percent efficacy of their vaccines.

“There’s an underlying issue with rising vaccine hesitancy and within certain communities and groups, that percentage is much higher than what we see nationally,” said Rachael Piltch-Loeb, a public health expert who worked on the TWU study.

Reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated are wide-ranging and depend demographics; religious, political and geographical affiliations; and experience with the virus thus far, Piltch-Loeb said.

Among beleaguered essential workers, levels of mistrust could be even higher, Piltch-Loeb said.

“There’s been a lot of misinformation, a lot of mistrust in government messaging, how the pandemic’s been handled, and a lot of distaste among certain essential workers how they really were not prioritized to receive PPE,” she said.

“We want to encourage essential workers to get the vaccine, but we need to be super conscientious about how much we ask of essential workers.”

Some teachers are also pushing back on any madatory COVID vaccine. A group called NY Teachers Against Vaccine Mandates for Educators has collected nearly 10,000 petition signatures.

Others said the group is the minority: “Almost every teacher I know believes in science and would support mandatory vaccinations,” said Liat Olenick, a Brooklyn elementary-school teacher.

The city’s Health and Hospitals Corp. is preparing to distribute the vaccine “as soon as it becomes available,” but will not mandate workers at the city’s 11 public hospitals take it.

The Police Benevolent Association, which represents 40,000 rank-and-file NYPD officers, said it is encouraging the city to distribute the vaccine to cops as soon as possible — but on a voluntary basis.

“As we did with PPE and testing, the PBA will press for the vaccine to be made available to our members as early as possible,” said President Patrick J. Lynch. “If the goal is to stop the spread everywhere, we should prioritize protections for the first responders whose duties take us into every corner of the city.”

The state expects to receive 170,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 15, pending emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The company is scheduled to present the vaccine, which it says is 95 percent effective, to the FDA and Centers for Disease Control for approval on Thursday. Moderna’s vaccine is scheduled for review a week later.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/12/05/these-nyc-first-responders-fear-covid-19-vaccine-side-effects/

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 6, 2020, 12:31 a.m. No.11922570   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2663 >>2819

Scriberr News

@ScriberrNews

HAPPENING NOW: Trump supporters protest in #HuntingtonBeach against Newsom‘a stay at home orders & the projected election results. #stopthesteal #protest #orangecounty

 

https://twitter.com/ScriberrNews/status/1335474143882461184

Anonymous ID: 0addd4 Dec. 6, 2020, 1:08 a.m. No.11922665   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>11922640

No sweet, you cannot post the same meme in a single bread.

I had to redo some CP memes alterations, so baker could post a current version in the next notables.