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For decades, politics-watchers have speculated that Boris Johnson’s ramshackle appearance and oafish manner is all an act. That, underneath it all, he was actually a calculated political operator with a unique ability to charm the public and rise above scandal to cling to power. Over the past few weeks, that theory has been quite spectacularly obliterated.
His latest unprecedented humiliation came Thursday following a plot to get rid of him that was cooked up by his own lawmakers who were outraged over a string of revelations that he attended or hosted boozy parties while the rest of Britain was in lockdown—even Queen Elizabeth, who sat alone at her husband’s funeral hours after one Downing Street bash.
It looked like that plot had been seen off, at least for the time-being. But then a member of the British prime minister’s Conservative Party went public with an extraordinary allegation—that Johnson’s government was blackmailing lawmakers in a potentially illegal attempt to stop them from joining rebels who were trying to oust Johnson from office.
The lawmaker, William Wragg, went so far as to encourage his colleagues to contact the police if they had been subjected to the alleged threats, which Wragg claimed included withholding government money for local projects and leaking damaging stories about rebels to the press.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/boris-johnsons-government-accused-of-blackmailing-lawmakers-to-wreck-plot-to-oust-him?ref=home
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If true......
AG Seemed to Know He Killed a Man With His Car, Say Agents
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg knew that he had run over and killed a man, a pair of North Dakota investigators told a South Dakota legislative panel considering impeachment proceedings on Wednesday afternoon.
North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (NDBCI) Special Agents Arnie Rummel and Joe Arenz, who interviewed Ravnsborg twice in the weeks following the 2020 fatal crash, said there was a “very realistic possibility” that AG knew that he had struck a person and actually saw the body of Joe Boever, the 55-year-old Highmore, South Dakota, man whom he killed.
“He walked by a flashlight that’s on,” Rummel said. “There’s a body that’s laying within two feet of the roadway and obviously deceased and he’s all white, there isn’t any blood being pumped in him, and the fact white is reflective, I believe that he’d have to see him.”
Videos of their 2020 interviews with Ravnsborg, with the agents telling him that some people thought he was lying about having no idea he’d killed a man until returning to the scene of the crash the following day, had been posted on a South Dakota Department of Public Safety website for a few days last year. The judge hearing the criminal case against Ravnsborg ordered them taken down. But copies still exist online.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-dakota-ag-jason-ravnsborg-seemed-to-know-he-killed-a-man-with-his-car-agents-say-at-impeachment-hearing?ref=home
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When was the last time you saw a deer with a flashlight?
Cardi B to pay funeral expenses for victims of the Bronx fire
Cardi B will pay the funeral expenses for victims of the deadly Bronx fire, the New York City Mayor's office announced Wednesday. Seventeen people, including eight children, were killed after the fire ripped through a residential apartment complex in early January.
"I'm extremely proud to be from the Bronx and I have lots of family and friends who live and work there still. So, when I heard about the fire and all of the victims, I knew I needed to do something to help," the rapper, born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, said in a statement from the mayor's office. "I cannot begin to imagine the pain and anguish that the families of the victims are experiencing, but I hope that not having to worry about the costs associated with burying their loved ones will help as they move forward and heal."
Many of the victims appeared to be immigrants from the Gambia. The statement said Almánzar has also committed to paying repatriation expenses for victims who will be buried there.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bronx-fire-cardi-b-pay-funeral-expenses/
The 'Great Resignation': Why a growing number of CEOs are leaving their jobs
Corner office or not, everybody seemed to need a break after 2021. CEOs and other executives have spent the past two years juggling work-life balance like everyone else — and just like employees on lower rungs of the corporate ladder, a growing number are walking away.
“The job of a C-level executive is you’re burning the midnight oil. You add Covid into that and it feels like you’re doing twice the work for half the payout. You can’t get in front of the fires that pop up,” said Miles Crawford, former CEO of a staffing company about an hour south of Walmart’s home base of Bentonville, Arkansas. Crawford left his job in June when the company was being sold.
In February of 2020, job site ZipRecruiter.com found that there were an average of 22,072 active C-suite level job openings advertised across its network. That number plunged to a trough of 9,301 in May 2020 — and then started to climb, hitting 40,681 in October 2021.
Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, said a number of factors are prompting people to quit top jobs. “It’s many factors — the burnout, the pandemic, the school closures, the need to take stock of life,” she said. “It’s a whole wide range of shocks.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ceos-are-joining-great-resignation-trading-fatigue-family-time-rcna12223
George Floyd's murder sparked a movement. The officers who stood by as he died also triggered change
Outrage at Derek Chauvin was apparent from the moment video surfaced of his knee pressed into George Floyd's neck for 9 ½ minutes.
Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murder in April, became the face of intolerance, injustice and police brutality, his actions driving worldwide protests against those ills.
But the inaction of the three colleagues who stood by as he killed Floyd has similarly spurred change.
The lack of response that day by the former officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — whose federal trial begins this week on charges that they violated Floyd's civil rights — has led multiple states to codify through legislation or policy that officers have a duty to step in if they witness a colleague using excessive or unauthorized force.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/actions-officers-didnt-stop-derek-chauvin-spur-duty-intervene-laws-rcna12673
Jamaica to compete in 4-man bobsled at Olympics for 1st time in over 20 years
Nearly 30 years after “Cool Runnings” became a feel-good hit movie, it’s time for a reboot.
The Jamaican four-man bobsled team is back in the Winter Olympics for the first time in decades after it qualified for a spot in next month’s competition in Beijing.
It’s the first time the four-man Jamaican team has earned a berth in the Winter Olympics since the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan. Its famous origin story in it journey from the small island nation to its first Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, in 1988 was the subject of the 1993 movie “Cool Runnings.”
The team’s results in international competition this season punched its ticket Monday to be part of the field of 28 four-man teams.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/jamaica-compete-4-man-bobsled-olympics-1st-time-20-years-rcna12601
'He is Really Naughty': 5-Year-Old Gives Verdict on Boris Johnson Amid Downing Street Party Row
A little girl in Leicester, England, summed up why UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been ‘really naughty’ following the news that a gathering was held in the garden at Downing Street in May 2020 during lockdown.
In video posted to Facebook on January 13 by her father Nitesh Somani, five-year-old Layla explains how Johnson had misbehaved to her grandparents.
“He told everybody to stay at home but in lockdown…he just went down to a party… He is really naughty. He had to go to the naughty centre and tell everybody that he is sorry for going to a party in lockdown,” Layla says in the video. She goes on to say that because of this, he can no longer be prime minister and that someone else will have to take the job.
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/style/really-naughty-5-old-gives-113144729.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jcm9va3NhbmRsaWFycy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ7RtCzAU9hqRIi-ReqASzb5BbBMWY5sMckJhGkXMCpndr3g23w-lnZpViwkM2G-f2obvKsTk7HAetmxcL4trMxFQQ-2NFkC6WcaEm7uDF9NXi8EaqkVZrdzWk238OtGvhJWSqtA_x3VoBeFujIv1BhQZY0NJLyrdrW90ha7_pZd
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Cops Accused of Killing 'Disoriented' Dad as He Stumbled From Car Wreck
Criminal justice activists have accused Raleigh police of fatally shooting a young dad who was “so confused and disoriented that he didn’t even respond to his wife when she spoke to him” following a highway crash in North Carolina.
Daniel Turcios, 43, was shot and killed by officers who responded to a car crash last week involving the beloved husband and father to three boys. Police said they received multiple 911 calls at about 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 11 about a car wreck indicating that a person was intoxicated.
During a news conference, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said the El Salvador native was allegedly “armed with a knife” when he was walking away from the scene of the crash alongside a small child.
According to Patterson, who cautioned repeatedly that details about the incident were “preliminary,” Turcios was ordered repeatedly to drop the knife.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/raleigh-cops-accused-of-killing-disoriented-dad-daniel-turcios-as-he-stumbled-from-north-carolina-car-wreck?ref=home
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Never occurred to them that a head injury suffered in the accident would have made him disoriented. Nope.......
A 13-Year-Old Died of a Fentanyl Overdose. Experts Say the Response Was 'Theater.'
The decision by government officials to sanitize students’ shoes with an OxiClean mixture and shut a school down for a mass cleanup after a grade 7 student overdosed on fentanyl is not based in reality, addiction experts say.
Last Thursday, a 13-year-old student from the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford, Connecticut, overdosed on fentanyl at the school and died two days later. According to Hartford police, two other seventh grade students came into contact with the drug and felt “dizzy” but were released from hospital after being evaluated.
Police searched the school Thursday and found 40 bags of powder fentanyl stashed in the gym and two classrooms, believed to have been brought into the school by the student who overdosed, Hartford police spokesman Lt. Aaron Boisvert told VICE News.
Students and staff at the college-preparatory middle and high school were made to walk through a solution of OxiClean and water before they could leave on Thursday, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection told VICE News. The school remained closed as part of a mass sanitization effort, but reopened Wednesday.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb3e3/connecticut-school-fentanyl-overdose
Update:Controversial Rutherford County judge to retire in September
The judge at the center of controversy in Rutherford County will be calling it quits before the end of 2022.
Judge Donna Scott Davenport announced Tuesday she will retire at the end of her elected term in September and not seek reelection. Judge Davenport had previously announced intentions to run for her seat again in 2022.
She was appointed to the Rutherford County Juvenile Court in 1999 as referee and then elected as judge in 2000. She was reelected in 2006 and 2014 for eight-year terms.
Judge Davenport’s retirement comes as Tennessee lawmakers are calling for her impeachment. Just this week, a group of lawmakers, led by Democrats, came forward saying impeaching her is necessary to protect the children in Rutherford County.
https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/controversial-rutherford-county-judge-to-retire-in-september/
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This is the judge illegally detaining kids as young as 6 for fake "crimes".
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