Anonymous ID: 115e55 Feb. 2, 2021, 6:38 a.m. No.12799264   🗄️.is 🔗kun

“Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” Rapper Silento Charged With Murder Of Cousin In Georgia

 

Rapper Silento, known for his viral song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” was arrested in Georgia on Monday and charged with murder.

 

Silento, born Richard Hawk, was arrested for the murder of his 34-year-old cousin Fredrick Rooks, the DeKalb County Police Department shared on Twitter. On Jan. 21, police officials investigated Rooks’ death after finding him dead with mutliple gunshot wounds on Deep Shoals Circle.

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the rapper is being held without bond.

 

Silento rose to fame when his number “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” debuted on May 5, 2015. The catchy number also featured an accompanying dance that soon became viral on social media platforms including Instagram and Twitter. The rapper even performed a version for Nickelodeon to promote their Labor Day weekend lineup.

 

“Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2015.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/watch-whip-nae-nae-rapper-045249068.html

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Former QAnon follower explains why she left movement

 

A former follower of the QAnon conspiracy has explained how she came to believe in, and subsequently left, the bizarre fringe movement.

 

Lenka Perron explained to CNN that she became disillusioned with the Democratic Party, accusing them of “rigging” the 2016 primary against Bernie Sanders.

 

“For me, it started out with being disillusioned with the Democratic party,” she said in an interview with Don Lemon on Monday.

 

“We found ourselves connected on social media, if the democratic party was capable of rigging an election, what else were they capable of?”

 

Ms Perron explained that as she and others were researching online that “some outside conspiracy forces sort of came into our news feeds and sort of dropped information.”

 

“We don’t really know who they are but it was as if we were being bated,” she said, adding: “At some point Q comes along.”

 

QAnon is a vast conspiracy that largely rests on the belief that the president is secretly working to save the world from a satanic cult of paedophiles and cannibals.

 

The theory is run by a mysterious 4chan user named Q that posts cryptic messages for followers to figure out that make reference to the vast conspiracy theory.

 

The name appears to be a reference to the fact that the person claims to have “Q” clearance, a designation in the US Department of Energy.

 

“It brought up concerns, until at least for me it got to the point where it just… it was very obvious to me it was getting… it couldn’t possibly be true,” Ms Perron said, explaining her decision to leave.

 

“For me, there were a number of things,” she said. “It became obvious to me that they were really targeting the Democratic party and accusing them of many things that I already knew that the Republican party was involved with as well.

 

“So that was a big question, why are they just targeting the Democratic party?"

 

Q appears to be a Donald Trump supporter, and many of the posts complain about the fact the “deep state” is blighting his work against a secretive and evil global cabal.

 

“When they painted Mr Trump as some kind of saviour to come in and fix corruption and address the child sex trafficking issue, well I was watching him do the same thing that I opposed on the Democratic side,” Ms Perron said.

 

She added: “I was watching him appoint corporatists into his administration. I was watching him speak. I was looking at his history with the different controversies he was involved with."

 

In August 2020, when asked to comment on the theory, Mr Trump said he didn’t know much about it but that he would be willing to help them "save the world".

 

Ahead of the election in October, polling from HOPE not hate found that roughly one in 10 Americans are engaged with QAnon beliefs, with 4.6 per cent of respondents explicitly identifying as “strong supporters”.

 

“It just absolutely did not add up for me,” Ms Perron concluded. “I can understand how people kind of get lost in it."

 

The conspiracy has once again come into the spotlight following recent controversies surrounding Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has previously expressed support for the theory.

 

Rep Greene has since tried to distance herself from the group saying it does not represent her current views.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-qanon-follower-explains-why-120607207.html

Anonymous ID: 115e55 Feb. 2, 2021, 7:12 a.m. No.12799529   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump Official's Last-Day Deal With ICE Union Ties Biden's Hands

 

WASHINGTON — A whistleblower complaint filed Monday said a top Trump homeland security official sought to constrain the Biden administration’s immigration agenda by agreeing to hand policy controls to the pro-Trump union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

The complaint accuses Kenneth Cuccinelli of “gross mismanagement, gross waste of government funds and abuse of authority” over the labor agreements he signed with the immigration agents’ union the day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

 

Cuccinelli — an immigration hard-liner whose legal legitimacy to serve in senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security was contested — essentially sought to tie Biden’s hands, according to the complaint.

 

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“This abuse of authority is shocking,” wrote David Z. Seide, a lawyer representing the whistleblower, whom he described as “a current federal employee who wishes to remain anonymous” and who “possesses information concerning significant acts of misconduct” by Cuccinelli.

 

A senior homeland security official confirmed that since Biden’s inauguration, officials have been meeting to discuss the implications of the ICE labor agreements. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

 

One clause in the contract requires homeland security leaders to obtain “prior affirmative consent” in writing from the union on changes to policies and functions affecting agents. It also appears to allow the ICE union to argue that it can reject changes such as Biden’s recent order to focus on violent criminals and not prioritize other immigrants who entered the country illegally.

 

Under a federal law, an agency head has 30 days to cancel such an agreement once it is signed, after which it goes into effect.

 

The agreements essentially require the homeland security secretary — currently David Pekoske in an acting capacity — to notify the union in writing about any elements of the agreements that he may disapprove. In each case, that element would be sent back for further negotiations.

 

But the agreements signed by Cuccinelli suggest that the union could appeal any such rejection to the Federal Labor Relations Authority. And once the agreements take effect, they purport to “irrevocably” block the government’s ability to challenge anything about the concessions to the ICE union for the next eight years.

 

Cuccinelli said in an email that the previous labor agreement with the ICE union had “languished for many years, through several administrations” and argued that the new deal he signed was in the best interest of the agency.

 

“I absolutely deny any mismanagement, waste of government funds and any misuse of authority,” Cuccinelli said. “The agreement is entirely legal and appropriate, or we wouldn’t have executed it.”

 

He declined to respond to a question inquiring how the agreement would affect Biden’s directives to ICE.

 

Chris Crane, the union president who signed the agreements with Cuccinelli, did not respond to a request for comment. The ICE union, which represents more than 7,500 agents and employees, endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections.

 

Seide, a senior counsel at the Government Accountability Project, which represents whistleblowers, filed the six-page complaint with Congress, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general and the Office of the Special Counsel, which protects whistleblowers. He attached copies of three “memorandums of understanding” signed Jan. 19 by Cuccinelli and Crane.

 

Among other things, Seide’s complaint portrayed the agreements as “effectively giving the union unprecedented veto authority in many areas,” including enhancing its power “to slow and impede agency activities by requiring its express written approval prior to implementing changes in the conditions of employment” for agents.

 

One of the agreements, for example, says: “No modifications whatsoever concerning the policies, hours, functions, alternate work schedules, resources, tools, compensation, and the like of or afforded employees or contractors shall be implemented or occur without the prior affirmative consent” in writing by the union.

 

The complaint also characterized the agreements as granting “outsize” levels of “official time” — compensation for time spent on union activities — that vastly exceeded what other public employee unions received, the complaint said. Seide estimated that these concessions by Cuccinelli would cost taxpayers several million dollars a year.

 

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