John Earle Sullivan,
the left-wing activist who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6
Capitol riot in Washington, is facing three additional charges,
according to reports on Monday.
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Accused left-wing Capitol activist John Sullivan facing new charges
An ‘Apolitical’ Rabble-Rouser Is at the Center of a Right-Wing Campaign to Blame the Capitol Riot on the Left
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/john-sullivan-capitol-riot/
Prominent Trump supporters, including the President’s lawyer Rudy
Giuliani, have seized on Sullivan’s prior involvement in protests for
racial justice to claim that “antifa” and left-wing groups infiltrated
and steered an otherwise peaceful protest toward violence. (The FBI has said there is “no indication” that antifa took part in the U.S. Capitol riot.)
“A known antifa member” dressed as a Donald Trump supporter “and caused the Capitol riot” on Jan. 6.
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Activist John Earle Sullivan, who has often posed as a journalist to record protests, joined supporters of Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and is charged with crimes for his participation.
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Sullivan extensively recorded the riot and he can be heard in his footage cheering on the violent acts as he followed rioters through the Capitol.
We found no evidence that he is a member of antifa, or that he caused the riot.
Fact check: Misleading claim about 'antifa member' at Jan. 6 Capitol riot
The claim: A "known antifa member" was paid $70,000 for his video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Court documents show news outlets paid about the
listed amount – $90,000 actually – to use Sullivan's footage, which
captured the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt. But Sullivan is
not a "known antifa member" – and antifa activists weren't behind the
Capitol insurrection, as the post makes it seem.
Yamina drops to zero seats in latest poll
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316052
Latest poll shows the Likud with wide lead - but still short of a clear path to a 61-seat majority government.
Agunah Allowed To Remarry Without Get, Über Haredi Rabbis Lash Out
But many of the more normative haredi rabbis, especially those living in Israel, are reticent to directly challenge Sternbuch and Edah Haredit’s top rabbi, Moshe Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, for butting into their business, in large part because Edah Haredit followers are notoriously violent and neither of Edah Haredit’s two top rabbis – especially Weiss – has done much to limit that bad behavior, and Weiss is even thought to encourage it.
Supreme Court declines to block Maine vaccine mandate
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/29/supreme-court-maine-vaccine-mandate-block-517746
Dozens of health care workers have opted to quit, and a hospital in Maine’s second-largest city already curtailed some admissions because of an “acute shortage” of nurses.
But most health workers have complied, and Maine residents in general have been supportive of the vaccine. The Maine Hospital Association and other health care groups support the requirement.
Dutch Reform rabbi says COVID-19 policies remind her of Nazi Germany
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-reform-rabbi-says-covid-19-policies-remind-her-of-nazi-germany/
Those involved in enforcing COVID-19 public health measures “have the best intentions,” Benima added. “But as a Jew, what happened in Nazi Germany is a warning to me. Those in power all had the best of intentions. Also when they declared Jews a danger to ‘public health.’ Also when they declared a war against the ‘virus’ of those times. So don’t play with fire by setting aside people in our society as ‘a danger to public health,’ as Health Minister Hugo De Jonge regularly does.”
Shaked apologizes to Gantz over leaked recordings
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315986
In the recordings of Shaked, published on Channel 12 News this week, she was heard criticizing Alternate Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, and saying that "Lapid is a superficial person - every week he carries out an attack and Naftali rescues [him], and no one knows [about it].
Democratic lawmakers ask Biden to stop Jerusalem consulate move
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316013
So far, efforts to prevent the consulate from opening have only been on the Republican side. Last week, 35 senators from the rival party initiated a law to ban the administration from opening a consulate in Jerusalem. Their attempt to recruit Democrats to support the law have failed. This will be the first time senior members of the president's party have spoken out against the opening of the consulate.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Latest Fact-checks of Tucker Carlson
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/
"In Texas, the power companies have automatically raised the temperature of people's thermostats in the middle of a heatwave without their permission."
Tucker Carlson Goes Full 1/6 Truther in New Fox Doc
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/tucker-carlson-january-6-truthe
Tucker Carlson faced widespread condemnation from media figures, Republican lawmakers, and even one of his own Fox News colleagues after airing a trailer for his upcoming project that seemingly portrays the January 6 Capitol riot as a “false flag” operation orchestrated by the government. The promo for Carlson’s documentary series, titled Patriot Purge and airing next week on the Fox Nation streaming service, features one voice suggesting the U.S. government is waging a “domestic war on terror” against “half of the country.”
The trailer, which opens with onscreen text that reads, “The true story behind 1/6” and “The War on Terror 2.0 and the plot against the people,” includes interviews with a man who claims “the left is hunting the right” and “sticking [American citizens] in Guantanamo Bay…leaving them there to rot.” Later in the promo, a woman asserts that “false flags have happened in this country. One of which may have been January 6.” A man is then shown firing a rifle at a shooting range as a narrator states “We are dealing with an insurgency in the United States," before the ad cuts to Joe Biden giving a speech in which he describes white supremacy as “the most lethal threat” in America.
Tucker Carlson condemned over ‘false flag’ claim about deadly Capitol attack
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/30/tucker-carlson-condemned-capitol-attack-liz-cheney
The conservative Republican Liz Cheney and the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League led condemnation of Fox News and Tucker Carlson, after the primetime host announced a series about the supposed “true story” of the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January.
They denounced Carlson for spreading dangerous conspiracy theories in the latest scandal to engulf a man whose popularity belies his record of racist and untrue statements on issues from immigration to racial justice.
“Fox News is giving Tucker Carlson a platform to spread the same type of lies that provoked violence on 6 January,” tweeted Cheney, a Wyoming representative on the dwindling anti-Trump wing of the Republican party.
Jonathan Greenblatt, of the ADL, wrote to Lachlan Murdoch, chief executive of Fox Corporation, to demand the series be shelved.
“Clearly Carlson has the right to make outrageous claims,” Greenblatt wrote. “But freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. You have no obligation to validate his views with airtime on your platform and, I would argue, a moral responsibility not to do so.”
Fox News' Tucker Carlson problem
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/30/media/reliable-sources-fox-news-carlson-trutherism/index.html
Fox News is not officially commenting on the record, but it seems the right-wing talk network is quietly trying to distance itself from Tucker Carlson's 1/6 trutherism.
That's
the takeaway from this story by Daily Dot's David Covucci. He wrote on
Friday that after his outlet published a story on Carlson's 1/6 special
series, titled "Patriot Purge," the Fox News PR department reached out.
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