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EFF Urges Court to Block Dragnet Subpoenas Targeting Online Commenters
CLICK! For the full motion to quash: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/hersh_v_cohen/UOJ-motiontoquashmemo.pdf
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Associated Fress - Overwhelmed hospitals convert chapels, cafeterias, waiting rooms, halls & a parking garage into treatment areas. Staff desperately call other centers for open beds. Fatigue & frustration set in to 1st responders
Conditions in US hospitals deteriorate daily as the virus unrelentingly rages across the US & the death toll surpasses 250,000, highest in world, as per Johns Hopkins
“We're depressed, disheartened & tired to the bone” said Alison Johnson, a director @ Johnson City Medical Center TN, adding she drives to & from work in tears
Covid patients in US hospitals doubled in a month & set new records every day this week. 77,000 by Tues
Daily new infections exploded 80+% in 2 weeks to the highest levels on record, daily counts close to average 160,000. It's rising in all 50 states. Deaths average 1,155+ a day
Out of control surge leads govs & mayors to grudgingly mandate masks, limit gatherings, ban indoor restaurants, close gyms & restrict bars, stores, etc
NYC school system — US’s largest at 1+ million students — suspended in-person classes Wed amid mounting infections
Texas rushes 1000s extra staff to hospitals as patients statewide accelerate to 8,000. In the worsening rural Panhandle, half the patients in Lubbock hospitals have COVID. 12 waited for beds Tues night, said Dr Ron Cook @ Lubbock Co health authority
“We’re in trouble” Cook said
Overwhelmed El Paso morgues pay prisoners $2 hourly to move bodies. A crush of patients forces non-COVID cases elsewhere in the state
5,400+ extra medical personnel are deployed around Texas by the state, said Lara Anton, spokeswoman @ TX DOH, not including military & volunteer help
“There are only so many personnel to go around. What we see in places like El Paso is not sustainable in large part” said Dr Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner
Appalachian Ballad Health warns it's stretched so thin that minus a miracle, its hospitals may refuse patients. They've just 16 open beds Wed after 250 staff quarantined. It's trying to recruit 100s of nurses
Idaho doctors warn hospitals almost reach where they can't treat everyone from no beds & staff
“Never thought we'd need to ration care in America” said Dr Jim Souza, chief medical officer @ St Luke’s
In Reno, NV, Renown Regional Medical moved virus patients to a parking garage. Video of the garage before it opened to patients shows rows of beds separated by screens, each marked by number, space to treat 700 people
Kansas hospitals converted chapels & cafeterias to COVID wards, said Cindy Samuelson, spokeswoman @ Kansas Hospital Assoc
Stormont Vail Health in Topeka, KS, devoted a hospital floor to COVID as numbers swelled, hitting 90 on Wed. The hospital also converted waiting rooms for non-infected patients, spokesman Matt Lara said
Kansas health chief Dr Lee Norman said a system like air traffic control for virus patients is in place so nurses in rural hospitals make one call for a large hospital to take the sickest patients. Nurses used to spend up to 8 hours searching hospitals for openings
Maryland has a clearinghouse on open beds so hospitals need only make 1 call. The state also issued an emergency order prohibiting most visitors until further notice
Bill Baksheesh carved out an exemption for the 3 Musketeer orgs: the Fressers, the Archdiocese & Satmar
New York City is shutting schools to try to stop renewed spread of the virus, Mayor de Blasio said today in a painful about-face.
The nation’s largest public school system will halt in-person learning Thurs, the mayor tweeted.
The city had said school buildings would close if 3% of virus tests citywide over a 7-day period came back positive. As the rate neared that point last week, de Blasio advised parents to prepare for a shutdown.
The rate has now passed that mark.
Even as the school system stayed open, nearly 1,500 classrooms had temporary closures after students or staff tested positive. There were also entire school shutdowns in neighborhoods where virus cases rose rapidly.
2,300+ students-staff at public schools tested positive since the start of the school year.
While many big school districts decided to start the fall term with online learning, de Blasio pushed for opening schools. The Democrat argued students need services they got in school & many parents count on it to get back to work.
The reopening date, originally Sept 10, was postponed twice as teachers, principals & parents said safety precautions & staffing were inadequate. Teachers unions repeatedly threaten to strike.
NYC agreed to changes, including hiring 1000s more teachers & testing to 20% of all students & staff monthly for the virus.
When high schools finally opened their doors, de Blasio hailed it as “an absolutely amazing moment”
“This is what makes NYC great. We did something other cities around this country could only dream of because we have fought back this pandemic so well”
Nat Lewin must be totally insulted that the Fressers petitioned SCOTUS without bringing him on board for his "expertise".
I can understand the Fressers ghosting him, considering how the blowhard has such a weak track record & made a fool out of himself with Rubashkin.
But if that was the Fresser cheshbon, then why go with another LOSER in the form of Avi Schick?
I'm disappointed that the Beckett Fund went along with the Agudah Fressers. I thought they were more level headed but they seem to be acting here like the irrational ACLU in trying to make a point at the expense of pikuach nefesh.
I think the Fressers bashmeck that they've a shot with this particular Supreme Court because all it's members to the Right happen to be religious Catholics at a time when the Vatican is moping the same self-serving BS as the Fressers. Because they are more interested in money & control, they are completely fine with the human sacrifices that it costs. The Justices may be smart people but I'm not sure they can see the true sinister motivations as the Agudah-Vatican-Satmar trio sputter their false pieties. Maybe someone can show the Justices that everytime this trio has gotten together it is for some selfish, nefarious purpose like protecting molesters & sticking it to victims.
Agudah was emboldened by the recent statement by Justice Alito on religious liberty, and by ACB sitting on the Court.
Their timing is wrong as the pandemic spins out of control!
They still have hurdles that are almost insurmountable:
1- They have to convince the Court that there was an outright demonstration of the violation of the Religious Liberty Clause with the intent of violating their freedom of religion. That is if they can get the Court to hear it. Their argument that Governor Cuomo picked on Orthodox Jews is a sham!
Justice Alito calls Covid restrictions 'previously unimaginable', cites danger to religious freedom
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-alito-calls-covid-restrictions-previously-unimaginable-cites-danger-religious-n1247657
Paul, I need your scholarly take on...
1) ...Now They See That Rav Chaim Was Right, It’s Time To Apologize...
2) ...Captain Alfred Dreyfus-Berland...
3) ...Haven't been sick with COVID-19 before, will not have it now....
1 - Tipshim --- Impossible to argue with false propaganda, hundreds died in Bnei Brak during the first wave of Covid. Seemingly, the second wave is not as deadly initially, we'll know soon enough.
2 - Tipshim
3- Tipshim
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The Justice Dept on Fri declined to extend parole of Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying on America for Israel. The 66 yr old is now free to travel to the Jewish state.
Pollard attorneys Jacques Semmelman & Eliot Lauer announced the US Parole Commission notified their client they terminated the parole that had lasted 5 years.
“Mr Pollard's no longer subject to curfew, no longer prohibited working for a company without US govt monitoring on its computers, no longer required to wear a wrist tracker & free to travel anywhere, including Israel, for temporary / permanent residence, as he wishes”
Pollard responded telling reporters he's glad to move to Israel where he'll be able to care for his wife who's sick with cancer. He expressed gratitude to Israel’s Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer for his help bringing about the end to his parole.
Pollard, who served 30 years in prison for providing intelligence to Israel, publicly appealed to Netanyahu last year to ask him to intervene on his behalf to Trump to commute his parole, so he could care for his sick wife.
Given the high profile of Pollard, it's likely the decision required ok from higher-ups. In setting the ex-spy free, Trump bestowed yet another gift to Israel, which lobbied for years for Pollard to be allowed to move to the Jewish state.
An ex-US Navy analyst, Pollard was sentenced to in 1987. His imprisonment was long a point of tension in Israel-US relations. Israeli & Jewish leaders petitioned US counterparts for years to secure his release.
After his release in 2015, Pollard was given 5 years probation, during which he wasn't allowed to travel outside the US. Parole also required him to stay in his NY home from 7 pm to 7 a.m., to submit any computer he uses for inspection, and to wear a GPS monitoring device at all times.
The 66 yr old was made an Israeli citizen in 1995 & expressed desire to settle in the Jewish state with his family.
In 2017, a federal appeals court rejected Pollard’s request to lift his parole 0s.
In 2018, Channel 12 reported the Justice Dept refused a formal request by Israel to allow Pollard to emigrate. Netanyahu also asked Trump to let Pollard move to Israel.
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