The arrest came less than two weeks after the Capitol riot, where a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building, breaking through security and entering the Senate Chambers and Rotunda, in an attempt to stop the Congressional certification for President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. … [Read more...] about FBI Says Extremist Charged With Carrying Pipe Bombs May Have Targeted Newsom, Twitter And Facebook
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Top Kremlin Diplomat Says ‘Nyet’ to Russian Vaccine
Yet weaving conspiracist skeins out of banal facts is precisely the point of disinformation schemes, in this case with the added market incentive of boosting Russian pharmaceuticals at the expense of the Western competition. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced the first vaccine for the once-in-a-century pandemic in November; days later, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund heralded its own, with the head of that fund, Kiril Dmitriev, later disparaging Western vaccine manufacturers as relying on “experimental, little studied and not proven in the long-term technologies, encountering obstacles in their clinical trials.” For all that, then-President-elect Joe Biden received his second shot of the Pfizer vaccine on live television ten days before his inauguration, whereas Vladimir Putin still has declined to take the Sputnik V shot. … [Read more...] about Top Kremlin Diplomat Says ‘Nyet’ to Russian Vaccine
Capitol Police union rebukes top brass after officers at riot sustain brain injuries, one will lose eye
Speaking to Fox News about the injuries, Papathanasiou said he blames the chiefs of police "who took away our riot helmets and gas masks weeks and months ago." He said he believes it was an MPD officer who suffered the eye injury, and "would also add, the union addressed the issue on the helmets in writing, as well as in formal meetings, and the Chiefs flat out ignored us." … [Read more...] about Capitol Police union rebukes top brass after officers at riot sustain brain injuries, one will lose eye
NJ police union wins dispute over demand that officers reveal possible involvement in Capitol riot
The town issued a notice on Jan. 20 that required officers to identify if they were involved in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C. The FOP argued, however, that there was "no indication, complaint, or information to suggest that any Neptune Superior Officer was in any way involved." … [Read more...] about NJ police union wins dispute over demand that officers reveal possible involvement in Capitol riot
