Covington Catholic Cancels Classes ’to Ensure Safety’ School Beefs Up Security Amid Left-Wing Rage… …Hate Continues Despite Fake News Retractions

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By Joshua Caplan

Covington Catholic High School, the Kentucky school at the center of a national controversy over a viral video of an encounter between some of its students and a Native American activist at Friday’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., has canceled classes Tuesday due to safety concerns.

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“After meeting with local authorities, we have made the decision to cancel school and be closed on Tuesday, January 22, in order to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff,” Robert Rowe, the school’s principal, wrote in an email to parents and employees. “All activities on campus will be cancelled for the entire day and evening. Students, parents, faculty and staff are not to be on campus for any reason. Please continue to keep the Covington Catholic Community in your prayers.”

According to Fox 19, the school had readied additional security at Covington Catholic High School for when students return Tuesday following threats of violence issued against the school and its students since the weekend. The American Indian Movement Chapter of Indiana and Kentucky are scheduled to protest at the Diocese of Covington at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Initial video of a confrontation between Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips created a firestorm on social media, with media pundits from across the political spectrum accusing the student of disrespecting the man. Sandmann is seen grinning in a red Make America Great Again hat while simply standing in front of Phillips, an elder with the Omaha tribe. Several students could be seen laughing and making hand gestures believed to be mocking Phillips.

Yet, subsequent videos show that the students were not only approached by Philips first, but were verbally accosted by a religious group, Black Hebrew Israelites, which have been labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

In a pair of tweets, President Trump defended the students, stating that they had been unfairly treated by the media and expressed hope that the incident could be used to bring Americans together. “Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Catholic students were treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be false – smeared by media. Not good, but making big comeback!” the president tweeted.

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“Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of Fake News and how evil it can be. They have captivated the attention of the world, and I know they will use it for the good – maybe even to bring people together. It started off unpleasant, but can end in a dream!” he added.

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Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside AVIS Rental Car At Ft. Lauderdale Airport

By Tyler Durden

Provisional ballot boxes from the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office were reportedly discovered in the back of an AVIS rental car at Fort Lauderdale Airport on Sunday night, as first reported by investigative journalist Laura Loomer.

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Attorney and Broward GOP State Committeeman Richard DeNapoli says he received a call from an AVIS employee informing him of the found ballot boxes after sheriff’s deputies were initially unwilling to investigate. Approximately 20 minutes after receiving the tip, however, a heavy police presence arrived and blocked off traffic to the airport, and a bomb threat was announced.

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Pictures taken at the scene show two boxes. One box is red, and the other is grey. The grey box is labeled “PROVISIONAL BALLOT BOX” with a sign that says “Broward County Supervisor of Elections”, a purple tag that says “ERT region 13”, and a backwards yellow tag with a seven digit numerical and five letter code. –Laura Loomer

DeNapoli says that the car was rented to a man by the name of Noah Holliman.

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DeNapoli recaps what happened here:

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Sunday evening, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office tweeted “Our deputies and bomb squad are responding to a report of a suspicious package outside @FLLFlyer Terminal 4,” only later to tweet an “all-clear.”

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Loomer says that when she attempted to make her way to the airport, she was blocked by an officer. She then told the public that “Broward County Sheriff’s Officers were on the scene filling out a police report and documenting the ballots.” 

Florida Politico Lauren Cooley also rushed to the scene, saying (via Laura Loomer):

“The AVIS employee didn’t know what to do. No one wanted to touch the boxes or take responsibility for them. Finally, sheriffs deputies agreed to take the provisional ballot boxes into their custody. It’s an odd situation when supervisor of elections (SOE) employees are so careless with important election materials, but its becoming a trend in Broward County.”

Meanwhile, DeNapoli added the following in an emailed statement to Loomer:

“The way it went down: rental agency guy contacted me because he saw my name on Florida GOP website as contact for Broward County. He said he spoke with some Sheriffs Deputy Personnel at the airport but they seemed disinterested in getting involved. I contacted some friends in law enforcement who got the FDLE involved. After I arrived at the airport, FDLE contacted Broward Sheriff Jeremey Hansen who came to the Avis at the Fort Lauderdale airport. They interviewed me and the AVIS employee and took the boxes into evidence.”

Loomer notes that “while the “media” was in Terminal 4 reporting on a non-existent bomb threat that was literally tweeted from the official Twitter account of the Broward Sheriffs Office. Meanwhile, there was never a bomb.”

“The FBI needs to kick in the door, interview all board of election employees, shutter the Broward County elections offices, seize all the ballots and put a stop to the Democrats disrupting the elections,” said GOP operative Ali Alexander with StopTheSteal – a campaign established to collect intelligence  and document alleged election malfeasance amid the Florida ballot controversies.

“This is a bigger story than we could have ever imagined and Floridians and the entire country demand answers.”

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JUST IN: Shots fired into Republican Party office in Florida!

Thankfully no one was hurt. But volunteers showed up to the Volusia County Republican Party satellite office this morning to find the front windows broken out and four bullet holes in the office:

ORLANDO SENTINEL – At least four shots were fired into the Volusia County Republican Party’s office in South Daytona, police said Monday.

No one was injured, according to South Daytona police Capt. Mark Cheatham, but the shooting broke the offices’ front window and caused some damage to the drywall inside.

Cheatham said a volunteer reported the incident on Monday, which could’ve happened between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning at the office located at 2841 South Nova Road.

No eyewitnesses have been identified and investigators are in the process of tracking down surveillance footage from neighboring businesses, Cheatham said.

Here’s more from the Volusia County Republican chair on what happened:

I don’t know if this has been on the big TV newsers this morning, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc, but my suspicion is that it hasn’t been since no one was hurt.

It’s just a shame that all this crap is happening up against he last week before election day, when many are already voting.

Right-wing Bolsonaro wins Brazilian election in landslide despite mass protests

Right-wing Bolsonaro wins Brazilian election in landslide despite mass protests

 

Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate from Brazil’s Social Liberal Party (PSL), has won the presidential election run-off, beating Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party after a campaign riddled with controversy.

With 99 percent of the ballots counted, Bolsonaro, dubbed “Tropical Trump” for his populist rhetoric, is ahead with 55.1 percent of the vote. His main opponent, left-leaning Haddad, is trailing with 44.9 percent.

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, has become a polarizing figure in Brazil because of his anti-LGBT, sexist and racist remarks.

He has represented the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil’s congress since 1991.

The 63-year-old politician easily won the first round on October 7, finishing far ahead of the field with an overwhelming 48 percent. While it was not enough to secure the presidency in the first round, polls predicted a problem-free run-off victory for Bolsonaro.

History might have gone the other way if popular former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had not been banned from running for office in early September. The Workers’ Party founder, known simply as Lula, is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption. However, before his presidential bid was rejected by the court, Lula was leading the polls.

Bolsonaro’s all but certain victory in the second round has sparked a vibrant protest movement that has seen thousands of women taking to streets to say “Ele nao” or “Not him” in Portuguese. Many of those who staunchly oppose Bolsonaro’s ascent to the highest office point to an array of controversial statements he made through the years and which he never recanted.

A military man, Bolsonaro saw virtues in the dictatorship that ran Brazil in 1964-1985, saying in an interview in 2016 that “the dictatorship’s mistake was to torture but not kill.” His scandalous remarks on homosexuals, rape, African-Brazilians, women, refugees who he once branded “the scum of the earth,” have resurfaced in the media, making international headlines.

Bolsonaro has come to power on the promise to fight corruption in a country that has been plagued by high-profile scandals in the recent years, as well as on the back of a liberal economic program. Bolsonaro vowed to reduce public debt by 20 percent through privatization of public companies, carry out pension reform, and lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16. Even before his election, Bolsonaro appointed banker Paulo Guedes to lead a newly-established economic ministry that would combine the current ministry of finance and planning with the ministry of industry and trade.

An advocate of gun rights, Bolsonaro has proposed loosening gun ownership laws, and threatened to unleash a war on drugs in Brazil.

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