Israeli Minister Gets Security Detail After Jewish Extremists Issue Ruling Calling for His Murder

Shin Bet puts Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana under guard after discovering group issued 'din rodef' ruling sanctioning his murder. Sources tie the threats to kashrut, conversion reforms the minister is promoting

The Shin Bet security service ordered boosted security on Sunday for Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana of Yamina, following the discovery that a religious extremist group had called for applying a rare religious law permitting the killing of a person whose actions threaten another's life.

The Jewish jurisprudence department in the Justice Ministry explains that halakhic principle of the religious law, known as "din rodef," is based on the idea that “the saving of the life of a person pursued by an attacker is so important that even the killing of the pursuer is allowed to save the person from the pursuer, if no other option exists.”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-minister-gets-security-detail-after-jewish-extremists-issue-ruling-against-him-1.10435217

Buzzfeed Union Stages Walkout Because $50,000 Is 'Not Enough To Live' In 'New York And San Francisco,' Other Grievances

The employee union of Buzfeed News has staged a walkout today to show employee dissatisfaction with the company’s pay scale and management policies. Buzzfeed is perhaps best known in political circles as the outlet the first covered the wholly debunked Steele Dossier, which falsely claimed that 45th President Donald Trump traveled to Russia and paid women to urinate on him in a bed once shared by 44th President Barack Obama and his wife.

According to a digital flyer distributed by Buzzfeed employees via social media, the company’s union members have staged a walk out today. “There is no BuzzFeed News without us,” the union members warned, “and we’re walking out today to remind management of that fact.”

Grievances listed by the union include an apparent dispute over pay, alleged lack of creative control given to Buzzfeed employees, and management’s expectation for writers to produce content that generates traffic.

In its first category of grievances, the union complained that Buzzfeed has only offered a 1% guaranteed annual raise, and “they have not budged on their proposed $50,000 salary floor.” The union complained, “That’s not enough to live in the major cities like New York and San Francisco where BuzzFeed has newsrooms,” then warned that $50,000 per year as an entry level, starting salary “is not enough to attract truly diverse talent.”

Buzzfeed’s union also claims that the company strictly regulates “creative work” done outside of an employee’s official work tasks, “including publishing a freelance article that falls outside your newsroom beat, writing a personal Medium post about your mental health, posting outfits on Instagram, or even doing a makeup tutorial on TikTok.”

The employees also suggest that it is wrong for Buzzfeed to penalize employees if their content does not perform adequately. “Pageviews and clicks are not something an individual employee can control,” the union asserted.

Last year, Buzzfeed famously closed its offices in the United Kingdom and Australia due to economic constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying government lockdowns.

https://nationalfile.com/buzzfeed-union-stages-walkout-50000-not-enough-live-new-york-san-francisco-grievances/

America abortion laws on par with China and North Korea: Chief Justice John Roberts

During Dobbs v. Jackson hearings, Justice Roberts noted America is a world outlier regarding abortion law, grouped with the likes of China and North Korea.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts noted during Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral hearings Wednesday that Roe v. Wade places American abortion law in the same class as China and North Korea.

Roberts pointed out during questioning that the 15-week mark, at which abortions are banned in the Mississippi law HB 1510 at issue in Dobbs, is not only “not a dramatic departure from viability,” but also a “standard that the vast majority of other countries have.”

“When you get to the viability standard, we share that standard with the People’s Republic of China and North Korea,” said Roberts, highlighting the fact that the legalization of on-demand abortion until the age of viability is something the U.S. has in common with these brutally oppressive Asian nations and a handful of other countries.

As even the left-wing Washington Post has admitted, the United States, China, and North Korea are among seven of 198 nations that allow elective abortions (abortion for any reason) after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The others are Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Vietnam.

The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that “47 out of 50 European countries analyzed” “either do not allow elective abortion (8 countries) or limit elective abortion to 15 weeks or earlier (39 countries). Of the 59 countries in the world that permit elective abortion, 36 limit elective abortion at 12 weeks gestation, and nine countries limit elective abortion before the 12th week.”

Roberts also questioned the inherent logic of establishing a “right” to unfettered abortion until the age of viability.

He asked attorney Julie Rikelman, who represents the Mississippi abortion facility Jackson Women’s Health Organization, during questioning, “If you think that the issue is one of choice … viability, it seems to me, doesn’t have anything to do with choice. If it really is an issue about choice, why is 15 weeks not enough time?”

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization concerns the constitutionality of Mississippi’s HB 1510 law banning abortions from being committed past 15 weeks for any reason other than physical medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities.

HB 1510 challenges Roe v. Wade precedent which imposed on all 50 states a “right” to pre-viability abortion on demand.

While several commentators, pro-life and pro-abortion alike, observed that yesterday’s court proceedings indicate Roe could be overturned, others cautioned that the justices’ decision-making process is not fully captured during cross-examination, and therefore a split decision upholding HB 1510 without ending Roe or Casey remains a serious possibility.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/america-abortion-laws-on-par-with-china-and-north-korea-chief-justice-john-roberts/?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=usa

NYPD’s top cop Dermot Shea and second in command file for retirement

NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and another top cop have put in their retirement papers in the weeks before Mayor-elect Eric Adams takes office, The Post has learned.

Shea and First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker will step away from the police department on Dec. 31, according to police sources.

Shea, the third white Irish man as the top cop under Mayor Bill de Blasio, was appointed police commissioner in November 2019 after former police leader James O’Neill retired. He, like his predecessor, was considered a protege of Bill Bratton.

Shea joined the force in 1991.

Tucker, the second in command in the NYPD, has been part of the department for 24 years. He had been passed over three times for the police commissioner role.

Adams has publicly vowed to appoint a black woman as the next police commissioner and is expected to make an announcement next week.

His camp has narrowed down the national search to three cops, including former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and NYPD Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/nypds-commissioner-dermot-shea-announces-retirement/

Health Dept. in Maryland says they gave dozens of kids expired COVID vaccine

LARGO, MD – The Prince George’s County Health Department has notified the families of 70 children ages 5 through 11 who, due to a vaccine storage error, received expired first or second doses of Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine at the County’s Sports and Learning Complex on Friday, November 26. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Maryland Department of Health (MDH), Pfizer and the County Health Department recommend the children receive a replacement dose to ensure they have the most protection possible against COVID-19.

Officials say there is no health risk to children who received the expired vaccine, but those doses are likely to be less effective at protecting against COVID-19 according to the CDC, MDH and Pfizer.

“We deeply regret the error and we apologize for the concern and inconvenience this has caused families,” said Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Health, Human Services, and Education Dr. George L. Askew. “As a pediatrician, I want to assure parents that receiving an expired COVID-19 vaccine dose or receiving a replacement dose does not endanger your child’s health. An expired dose may not provide the maximum protection that these vaccines give and that’s why the County quickly made arrangements for each of these children to get re-vaccinated.”

The Department will be offering special private clinics only for affected families at its Cheverly Health Center (3003 Hospital Drive Cheverly, MD 20785) on Sunday, December 5 and Saturday, December 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Walk-ins and appointments are accepted.

If the families want to get re-vaccinated sooner, they are also invited to attend any of the regular clinics offered at select County elementary and high schools as well as at the Sports and Learning Complex. For additional public and private COVID-19 vaccine clinic schedules, including a clinic locator mapping tool and a mobile clinic calendar, visit mypgc.us/COVIDvaccine. If families have transportation difficulties and need assistance getting to a clinic, they can contact the County’s Department of Public Works & Transportation hotline at 301-499-8603.

“The vaccination vendor at the Sports and Learning Complex has been retrained on vaccine storage and administration protocols, and the County has been assured from the vendor administering vaccine that it has taken corrective action that will prevent this from happening again,” said Prince George’s County Health Officer Dr. Ernest Carter. “Our collective goal remains protecting each other during the holiday season and from emerging variants. I urge residents to get vaccinated or boosted while continuing to mask up, maintain good hygiene, and get tested, especially if you begin to feel symptoms or if you have been exposed to COVID-19.”

On November 19, the County Health Department received a transfer of 300 pediatric Pfizer doses from a provider that was unable to administer the doses before they expired on November 24.

The vaccination vendor at the Sports and Learning Complex clinic, HealthCare Dynamics International, administered all but 70 of the transferred vaccine doses before the expiration date. However, the remaining 70 doses were not discarded, which is the proper protocol, and were mistakenly stored in the refrigerator with viable vaccine. On November 26, the remaining doses (at that point expired) were mistakenly placed on a tray with viable doses and were administered at the clinic that day.

https://breaking911.com/just-in-health-dept-in-maryland-says-they-gave-dozens-of-kids-expired-covid-vaccine/

Figures: US Oil Reserves Released by Joe Biden to Go China and India — Will Not Put a Dent in US Gas Prices Here at Home

Two weeks ago Joe Biden announced he was going to open the US oil reserves. This was after he spent the last year blocking pipelines and production here in the United States.

Now we know that the oil reserves are expected to go to India and China.

Who could have guessed it?

And this move by Joe Biden will not put a dent in US gas prices at the pump.

According to the AAA website, US gas prices will not be affected at all after this move.

But maybe China and India will see a price drop?

FOX Business Network reported:

President Biden’s move to tap the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is expected to supply Chinese and Indian oil needs as gas demands have led to global shortages, reports said Tuesday.

The White House said the Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil held in U.S. reserves — 18 million of which have already been congressionally approved for sale.

China and India have been actively purchasing U.S. sour crude oil produced in the Gulf of Mexico, first reported Bloomberg.

Sour crude oil contains high levels of sulfur, which reportedly makes it more expensive to process and traditionally turns buyers away.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/figures-us-oil-reserves-released-joe-biden-go-china-india-will-not-put-dent-us-gas-prices-home/

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