Author: A Reader

Stripes

President Donald Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security from an estimated tens of thousands of civil servants.

The directive, issued late Wednesday, strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration. Continue reading “Trump issues sweeping order stripping job protections from tens of thousands of federal employees”

KVIA 7

EL PASO, Texas– For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, El Paso is reporting its highest number of active cases – topping more than 6,000 residents. The concern is clear with city officials as the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all increasing daily.

“This is a very concerning situation, we have seen an increase in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from Covid-19 that is not stopping,” Dr. Hector Ocaranza, the El Paso City/County Health Authority, said. Continue reading “El Paso officials threaten stricter restrictions and police response amid virus spike”

The Drive – by Tyler Rogoway

The inbox here at The War Zone can be pretty interesting on any given morning, but today’s correspondence featured something you definitely don’t see every day—an entire Patriot air defense battery sprawled out on a runway at a small regional airport. Apparently, very few people, if anyone, at Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas knew exactly what was going on with the sudden deployment of the Army’s preeminent air defense system, either.

“Nobody knows anything, they just showed up” one commercial pilot that flies in and out of Easterwood daily told The War Zone.
Continue reading “Patriot Missile Battery Suddenly Appears At Small Regional Airport In Texas”

North Jersey

Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged Thursday that he did not wear a mask — because he was eating and drinking — at an event where he came into contact with a senior staff member who later tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the governor to quarantine.

But Murphy has tested negative twice since the encounter and has shown no symptoms, he said.   Continue reading “Gov. Murphy was eating, drinking, not wearing mask at event where he was exposed to COVID”

NBC News

WASHINGTON — A cybersecurity company says it has found a hacker selling personally identifying information of more than 200 million Americans, including the voter registration data of 186 million.

The revelation underscored how vulnerable Americans are to email targeting by criminals and foreign adversaries, even as U.S. officials announced that Iran and Russia had obtained voter registration data and email addresses with an eye toward interfering in the 2020 election. Continue reading “Cybersecurity company finds hacker selling info on 186 million U.S. voters”

CDPH

This guidance provides an updated plan for Californians to gather outside their household and replaces the prior gatherings guidance issued on September 12, 2020 and March 16, 2020. It applies to private gatherings, and all other gatherings not covered by existing sector guidance are prohibited. Gatherings are defined as social situations that bring together people from different households at the same time in a single space or place.  When people from different households mix, this increases the risk of transmission of COVID-19. Continue reading “California “rules” regarding holiday gatherings”

New York Post – by Sohrab Ahmari

China is one of the most censorious societies on earth. So what better place for ­Facebook to recruit social-media censors?

There are at least half a dozen “Chinese nationals who are working on censorship,” a former Facebook insider told me last week. “So at some point, they [Facebook bosses] thought, ‘Hey, we’re going to get them H-1B visas so they can do this work.’ ”  Continue reading “Meet your (Chinese) Facebook censors”

Health Money and News

The following is a transcript of the highlights (by Henna Maria) from Dr. Margarite Griesz-Brisson’s recent extremely pressing video message, that was translated on-air from German into English by Claudia Stauber. Video below.

Dr. Margarite Griesz-Brisson MD, PhD is a Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist with a PhD in Pharmacology, with special interest in neurotoxicology, environmental medicine, neuroregeneration and neuroplasticity. This is what she has to say about masks and their effects on our brains:  Continue reading “Covid-19 masks are a crime against Humanity and child abuse”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

This was stunning.

Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted to Jewish leaders in New York State that the government’s coronavirus initiatives are not based on science but were based out of fear.”  Continue reading “Cuomo Admits in Call with Jewish Leaders: Coronavirus “Initiatives Are Not Based on Science but Are Based Out of Fear””

Reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s government laid out conditions on Sunday for when land might be confiscated without reimbursement, saying a new law submitted to parliament would pass constitutional muster and reassure investors unnerved about property rights.

The law would allow land to be confiscated without reimbursement in certain cases if it is unused, abandoned or poses a safety risk, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille told a news conference. Continue reading “South Africa lays out conditions to seize land, says investors will be reassured”