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Colorado wildfires burn hundreds of homes, force evacuations

 DENVER (AP) — An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping center have burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in wind-fueled wildfires outside Denver, officials said Thursday evening.

 At least one first responder and six others were injured, though Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle acknowledged there could be more injuries and deaths could be possible due to the intensity of fires that quickly swept across the region as winds gusted up to 105 mph (169 kph).

 The first fire erupted just before 10:30 a.m. and was “attacked pretty quickly and laid down later in the day and is currently being monitored” with no structures lost, Pelle said.

 A second wildfire, reported just after 11 a.m., “ballooned and spread rapidly east,” Pelle said. The blaze spans 2.5 square miles (6.5 square kilometers) and has engulfed parts of the area in smoky, orangish skies and sent residents scrambling to get to safety.

 The activity of the fires, which are burning unusually late into the winter season, will depend on how the winds behave overnight and could determine when crews are able to go in and begin assessing the damage and searching for any victims.

 “This is the kind of fire we can’t fight head on,” Pelle said. “We actually had deputy sheriffs and firefighters in areas that had to pull out because they just got overrun,” he added.

 Evacuations have been ordered for the city of Louisville, home to about 21,000 people, and Superior, which has another 13,000 residents.

 The neighboring towns are roughly 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Denver in an area filled with middle and upper-middle class subdivisions surrounded by shopping centers, parks and schools. The area is in between Denver and Boulder, a foothills college town home to the University of Colorado.

 Residents evacuated fairly calmly and orderly, but the winding streets in the suburban subdivisions quickly became clogged as people tried to get out. It sometimes took cars as long as 45 minutes to advance about a half mile (less than a kilometer).

 Small fires cropped up here and there in surprising places — on the grass in a median or in a dumpster in the middle of a parking lot — as wind gusts caused the fire to jump and spread. Shifting winds caused the skies to turn from clear to smoky and then back again as emergency sirens blared nearby.

 Some of the several blazes in the area Thursday were sparked by downed power lines.

 Six people who were injured in the fires were being treated at UCHealth Broomfield Hospital, spokesperson Kelli Christensen said. A nearby portion of U.S. Highway 36 also was shut down.

 Colorado’s Front Range, where most of the state’s population lives, had an extremely dry and mild fall, and winter so far has continued to be mostly dry. Denver set a record for most consecutive days without snow before it got a small storm on Dec. 10. It hasn’t snowed since, though snow was expected in the region Friday.

 One video captured by a bystander outside a Superior Costco store showed an apocalyptic scene with winds whipping through barren trees in the parking lot surrounded by gray skies, a hazy sun and small fires scattered across the ground.

 Leah Angstman and her husband saw similar dark skies while returning to their Louisville home from Denver International Airport after being away for the holidays. As they were sitting on the bus going toward Boulder, Angstman recalled instantly leaving clear blue skies and entering clouds of brown and yellow smoke.

 “The wind rocked the bus so hard that I thought the bus would tip,” she wrote in a message to The Associated Press.

 The visibility was so poor that the bus had to pull over and they waited a half-hour until a regional transit authority van escorted them to a turnaround on the highway. There she saw four separate fires burning in bushes across the freeway, she said.

 “The sky was dark, dark brown, and the dirt was blowing in swirls across the sidewalk like snakes,” she said.

 Angstman later ended up evacuating, getting in a car with her husband and driving northeast without knowing where they would end up.

 Vignesh Kasinath, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado in Boulder, evacuated from a neighborhood in Superior with his wife and her parents. Kasinath said the family was overwhelmed because of the sudden evacuation warning and anxious from the chaos while trying to leave.

 “It’s only because I am active on Twitter I came to know about this,” said Kasinath, who said he did not receive an official evacuation notice from authorities.

 The fires prompted Gov. Jared Polis to declare a state of a emergency, allowing the state to access disaster emergency funds.

 The evacuations come as climate change is making weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive, scientists say. A historic drought and heat waves have made wildfires harder to fight in the U.S. West.

 Ninety percent of Boulder County is in severe or extreme drought, and hasn’t seen substantial rainfall since mid-summer.

 “With any snow on the ground, this absolutely would not have happened in the way that it did,” said snow hydrologist Keith Musselman, who was at home when the fire broke out not far away.

 Musselman said this severe fire risk can be expected in September and October following a dry summer, but the lack of any precipitation – snow or rain – this late in the season is highly unusual.

 The National Weather Service predicts up to a foot of snow could fall tomorrow in Boulder, and that moisture would bring substantial relief, Musselman said.

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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CDC warns against cruises, regardless of vaccination status

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned people on Thursday not to go on cruises, regardless of their vaccination status, because of onboard outbreaks fueled by the omicron variant.

 The CDC said it has more than 90 cruise ships under investigation or observation as a result of COVID-19 cases. The agency did not disclose the number of infections.

 “The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads easily between people in close quarters on board ships, and the chance of getting COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high,” even if people are fully vaccinated and have received a booster, the CDC said.

 The Cruise Lines International Association said it was disappointed with the new recommendations, saying the industry was singled out despite the fact it follows stricter health protocols than other travel sectors.

 The decision “is particularly perplexing considering that cases identified on cruise ships consistently make up a very slim minority of the total population onboard,” a statement said. “The majority of those cases are asymptomatic or mild in nature, posing little to no burden on medical resources onboard or onshore.”

 In March 2020, as the coronavirus took hold in the U.S., the CDC put a halt to all cruises for what turned out to be 15 months. Last June, it allowed ships to resume sailing under new strict new conditions.

 In August, as the delta variant surged, the agency warned people who are at risk of severe illness despite being vaccinated not to go on cruises.

 The CDC on Thursday also recommended that passengers get tested and quarantine for five days after docking, regardless of their vaccination status and even if they have no symptoms.

 Omicron has sent cases skyrocketing to unprecedented levels across the U.S., including Florida, the hub of the nation’s cruise industry. The state set another record this week for new daily cases, with more than 58,000 recorded Wednesday.

 U.S. cruise lines have not announced any plans to halt trips, though vessels have been denied entry at some foreign ports.

 Carnival Corp.’s spokesman Roger Frizzell said in an email after the CDC recommendation that the company had no planned changes.

 “Our enhanced health and safety protocols have proven to be effective time and time again over the past year,” he said.

 Before the CDC announcement, Royal Caribbean Group said in a statement that omicron is leading to passenger cancelations and changes to itineraries, but it is causing “significantly less severe symptoms than earlier variants.”

 The company said that since cruising restarted in U.S. waters last spring, 1.1 million guests had traveled with its cruise lines and 1,745 people had tested positive for COVID-19, or about 0.16%.

 It said that 41 people required hospitalization, and that no passengers hit with omicron had been taken to the hospital.

 “We don’t like to see even one case, but our experience is a fraction of the comparable statistics of virtually any other comparable location or industry. Few businesses are subject to such intense scrutiny, regulation and disclosure requirements by so many authorities,” said Richard Fain, CEO of Royal Caribbean.

 Most cruise lines require adult passengers to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19. Ships are allowed to relax measures such as mask use if at least 95% of passengers and 95% of crew are fully vaccinated.

 Iris Krysty, 76, of Hamburg, New Jersey, and her husband are supposed to leave on a 10-day Caribbean cruise Jan. 19. This latest CDC warning leaves travelers like them in an unfair bind, she said. Krysty was told Thursday they can only get a refund if they test positive before the trip. So, they will go to avoid losing thousands of dollars — a decision their daughter and son-in-law are not happy with.

 “I know they’re upset about us going but that’s a lot of money for us to lose,” Krysty said. “As far as we know, we’re going and hope we’ll be OK.”

 Janine Calfo, 55, of Salt Lake City, put off a four-day Carnival cruise from Long Beach, California, to Ensenada, Mexico, earlier this month when she got a breakthrough case of COVID-19 three days before departure. She rebooked the cruise for February and is still set on going.

 “This is my own personal opinion, but it looks like the omicron is going to be a quick burn,” said Calfo, who is asthmatic and plans to get the booster in a couple of weeks. “My cruise is over 40 days away.”

 She added, though: “I think I will plan on getting travel insurance this time.”

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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Decades of DOD efforts fail to stamp out bias, extremism

In February, with the images of the violent insurrection in Washington still fresh in the minds of Americans, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took the unprecedented step of signing a memo directing commanding officers across the military to institute a one-day stand-down to address extremism within the nation’s armed forces.

 The stand-down came in response to the participation and the subsequent arrests of several veterans and at least one active duty service member, who along with thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, stormed the U.S. Capitol in a melee that sent lawmakers scrambling for safety, left one person fatally shot by Capitol Police and caused millions of dollars in damages to the building largely seen as the symbol of American democracy.

 Austin’s order, which also came as America as a whole was grappling with how to address systemic racism, was the latest in a series of decades-long efforts by the military to purge its ranks of extremists and white supremacists. Last week, in response to the order the military issued new rules to deal with extremism that included social media usage policy updates where liking and reposting white nationalist and extremist content could result in disciplinary action. The DOD also updated its screening of recruits and is looking at how to prepare troops who are retiring from being targeted by extremist organizations.

But an AP investigation found that despite the new rules, racism and extremism remain an ongoing concern in the military.

 The investigation shows the new guidelines do not address ongoing disparities in military justice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the legal code that governs the U.S. armed forces. Numerous studies, including a report last year from the Government Accountability Office, show Black and Hispanic service members were disproportionately investigated and court-martialed. A recent Naval Postgraduate School study found that Black Marines were convicted and punished at courts-martial at a rate five times higher than other races across the Marine Corps.

 The AP investigation also shows the military’s judicial system has no explicit category for bias-motivated crimes – something the federal government, at least 46 states, and the District of Columbia have on the books – making it difficult to quantify crimes prompted by prejudice.

 As a result, investigative agencies such as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service or Army Criminal Investigative Division also don’t have a specific hate crime category, which impacts how they investigate cases.

“While it’s possible hate crimes have occurred, our investigations are not titled as such,” the NCIS said in an email. “For example, an assault on a person, regardless of the reason for the assault, would still be categorized as an assault…regardless of what motivated the crime.”

 The new National Defense Authorization Act signed into law by President Biden on Monday directs the Secretary of Defense to make a recommendation to Congress within 180 days if a new statute is needed to address violent extremism, but does not address hate crimes or racial disparities in military law.

 The new Pentagon rules do not outright ban service members from being members of extremist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, Oath Keepers, or other right-wing and white nationalist groups. The regulations, like the previous ones, only prohibit “active participation,” in such groups, a murky policy that civil rights organizations have raised concerns about for years. The military describes active participation as “publicly demonstrating or rallying, fundraising, recruiting and training members,” as well as organizing or leading organizations.

 Experts interviewed by the AP say there’s also ongoing concern over the military commander’s ability to enact a wide range of administrative and disciplinary actions -- including administrative separation or appropriate criminal action -- against military personnel who engage in prohibited activities.

 Commanders essentially have total discretion to determine how to address situations as they arise, which experts say has created non-uniform, scattershot enforcement, with some commanders establishing a no-tolerance approach and others employing weak enforcement of the rules.

 The AP investigation also found that while the DOD says it considers racism and extremism within the military to be a “security concern,” it does not have funding that specifically supports efforts to address extremism. Instead, military officials said the Pentagon uses personnel vetting programs, training, and education programs, and the Insider Threat Program to “positively contribute to countering extremism within the force.”

 The Pentagon did not respond to questions about how much money it has spent or budgeted for efforts solely related to diversity and inclusion, and how many employees are dedicated to it. Officials also did not respond to dozens of questions from the AP on how it plans to enforce its new guidelines on extremism.

 Pentagon Spokesperson Maj. César Santiago acknowledged in a statement to the AP that extremism and extremist ideology can have an outsized effect on the military force.

 But he added: “The vast majority of the women and men in uniform serve their nation with honor and integrity.” He said since taking office in January, Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first African American to serve as Secretary of Defense, has taken immediate action to address extremism. In addition to the new guidelines on extremism, the Defense Department appointed an interim deputy inspector general for diversity and inclusion and military insider threats in April.

 Susan Corke, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, commended the DOD for taking key steps this year, including the changes announced last week, to address extremism. She said the DOD sought the expertise of civil rights organizations, academics, and others who have sounded the alarm about the dangers of extremism in the ranks for years.

 But Corke said it’s too soon to definitively say whether the updated policies will purge extremism from military ranks.

 “The devil will be in the details,” she said. “ I do appreciate that there is a commitment from the Defense Department to have much more consultation with outside partners and that there’s much more focus on doing additional research. So, we’re going to hold their feet to the fire.”

 Corke said the SPLC is still pressing for additional reforms, including how the military’s command structure allows commanders to have virtually absolute command authority over subordinates, which might discourage members from reporting incidents or concerns of extremism.

 Even some in the military agree that the armed forces need to do more. “There needs to be a change in action and behaviors – elements that can’t be so easily influenced by a change in military law, ″ said Maj. Tyrone Collier, a judge advocate in the Marine Corps Reserve, in an interview with the AP.

 “Even if some legislation is passed from the highest echelons of government that says you will do this and that, will it actually get done?” Collier said.

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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New COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest levels on record

 CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.

 New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old mark of 250,000, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University.

 The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over Christmas and New Year’s, forcing communities to scale back or call off their festivities just weeks after it seemed as if Americans were about to enjoy an almost normal holiday season. Thousands of flights have been canceled amid staffing shortages blamed on the virus.

 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious-disease expert, said Wednesday that there is no need to cancel small home gatherings among vaccinated and boosted family and friends.

But “if your plans are to go to a 40- to 50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year, I would strongly recommend that this year we not do that,” he said.

 The threat of omicron and the desire to spend the holidays with friends and loved ones have spurred many Americans to get tested for COVID-19.

 Aravindh Shankar, 24, flew to San Jose, California, on Christmas from West Lafayette, Indiana, to be with family. Though he felt fine, he decided to get tested Wednesday just to play it safe, since he had been on an airplane.

 He and his family spent almost an entire day searching for a testing appointment for him before he went to a site in a parking lot next to the San Jose airport.

 “It was actually surprisingly hard,” Shankar said about trying to find a test. “Some people have it harder for sure.”

 The picture is grim elsewhere around the world, especially in Europe, with World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying he is worried about omicron combining with the delta variant to produce a “tsunami” of cases. That, he said, will put “immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems on the brink of collapse.”

 The number of Americans now in the hospital with COVID-19 is running at around 60,000, or about half the figure seen in January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

 While hospitalizations sometimes lag behind cases, the hospital figures may reflect both the protection conferred by the vaccine and the possibility that omicron is not making people as sick as previous versions.

 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed over the past two weeks from an average of 1,200 per day to around 1,500.

 Public health experts will be closely watching the numbers in the coming week for indications of the vaccines’ effectiveness in preventing serious illness, keeping people out of the hospital and relieving strain on exhausted health care workers, said Bob Bednarczyk, a professor of global health and epidemiology at Emory University.

 CDC data already suggests that the unvaccinated are hospitalized at much higher rates than those who have gotten inoculated, even if the effectiveness of the shots decreases over time, he said.

 “If we’re able to weather this surge with hopefully minimal disruptions to the overall health care system, that is a place where vaccines are really showing their worth,” Bednarczyk said.

 It’s highly unlikely that hospitalization numbers will ever rise to their previous peak, said Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School Public Health. Vaccines and treatments developed since last year have made it easier to curb the spread of the virus and minimize serious effects among people with breakthrough infections.

 “Its going to take some time for people to get attuned to the fact that cases don’t matter the same way they did in the past,” Adalja said. “We have a lot of defense against it.”

 But even with fewer people hospitalized compared with past surges, the virus can wreak havoc on hospitals and health care workers, he added.

 “In a way, those hospitalizations are worse because they’re all preventable,” he said.

 Several European countries, including France, Greece, Britain and Spain, also reported record case counts this week, prompting a ban on music at New Year’s celebrations in Greece and a renewed push to encourage vaccination by French authorities.

 WHO reported that new COVID-19 cases worldwide increased 11% last week from the week before, with nearly 4.99 million recorded Dec. 20-26. But the U.N. health agency also noted a decline in cases in South Africa, where omicron was first detected just over a month ago.

 ___ Associated Press writer Terry Tang in San Jose, California, contributed to this report.

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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Clinton: 'It is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections'

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took a swipe at progressive Democrats earlier this month, saying that her party needs to consider “what wins elections” rather than what plays well “in deep-blue districts.”

 In an interview with NBC’s Willie Geist, Clinton said that supports “having vigorous debate” and including different voices in the process of governing. But she also warned that “it means nothing if we don’t have a Congress that will get things done” or “a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive.”

 “I think that it is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win,” Clinton told Geist. “I understand why people want to argue for their priorities. That’s what they believe they were elected to do.”

 Clinton’s comments came amid a larger debate over the direction of the Democratic Party and the influence that progressives should wield in shaping it.

 President Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have pushed to advance a sweeping social policy and climate change bill, despite reservations from some moderates, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who effectively stalled the measure earlier this month when he announced that he could not vote for it.

 Some in the party have also warned that pursuing liberal policy priorities could lead to a backlash next year in the 2022 midterm elections, when Democrats will have to defend their razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate.

In a race that was seen as an early bellwether for 2022, Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off an upset victory in the Virginia gubernatorial election last month. Republicans have touted that win as a sign that voters are poised to reject Democratic control in Washington next year.

 Progressives, meanwhile, argue that voters have given Democrats a mandate to govern by handing them both the House and Senate majorities, as well as the White House, and that the party should use its power in Washington to advance sweeping policy overhauls.

 Clinton, a fixture of Democrats’ establishment wing, has had a contentious relationship with her party’s progressive wing, having fought Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a standard bearer for the progressive movement, for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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State Dept warns Americans traveling abroad to 'make contingency plans'

The State Department warned on Thursday that Americans who are traveling abroad “should make contingency plans” as countries around the globe grapple with rising numbers of COVID-19 cases spurred by the omicron variant.

 "U.S. citizens who do choose to travel internationally should make contingency plans, as they may have to remain in a foreign country longer than originally planned, which will be at their own expense," the department said in a media note.

 "The Department recommends international travel insurance with coverage for COVID-related trip cancellation and medical benefits," it added.

 The State Department also noted that for Americans ages 2 years and older coming back into the U.S. from international travel would need either proof of recovery from COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 test taken within one day before they are set to return.

 Other foreign governments may also have additional COVID-19 guidance for visitors upon entering the country, the State Department added.

 The guidance underscores the seriousness with which officials are approaching the new omicron variant, the spread of which has already caused staff shortages and reductions in certain services in the United States.

Health officials say the variant, first discovered only a month ago in South Africa, is highly transmissible, but early data also suggests it may not be as severe as delta for people who are vaccinated.

 "We know now, incontrovertibly, that this is a highly, highly transmissible virus. We know that from the numbers we're seeing," Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, said during a White House briefing on Wednesday, adding “all indications point to a lesser severity of omicron versus delta.”

 A South African study that analyzed a hospital system in the "epicenter" of the new variant said omicron appeared to have already had its peak and did not seem to cause a corresponding spike in hospitalization and deaths.

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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Colorado governor cuts 100 years off sentence for truck driver in fatal crash

 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Thursday commuted the 110-year sentence of the truck driver involved in a crash that killed four people, calling the sentence that was handed down "highly atypical and unjust" and reducing it by 100 years.

 In October, a jury found Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, guilty on 27 counts relating to the incident in which his truck crashed into stopped traffic on I-70, killing four people and injuring at least 10 others. Aguilera-Mederos told the court that his brake had failed before the crash.

 Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to 110 years in prison due to mandatory minimum sentencing laws in Colorado. The sentence drew international outcry for its severity, with fellow truck drivers boycotting Colorado in protest.

 As KDVR reported, Aguilera-Mederos applied for clemency from Polis, which the Colorado governor granted on Thursday, cutting his sentence down to 10 years.

"I believe you deserve clemency for several reasons," Polis wrote. "You were sentenced to 110 years in prison, effectively more than a life sentence, for a tragic but unintentional act. While you are not blameless, your sentence is disproportionate compared with many other inmates in our criminal justice system who committed intentional, premeditated, or violent crimes."

 Polis stressed that the crimes Aguilera-Mederos was convicted of are "serious," but said he was "encouraged" by the "personal reflection" the defendant had done as well as "the commercial vehicle safety changes" that were made in light of the crash.

 "While you have begun the process of taking accountability and recognizing the mistakes that led to this tragic event, I strongly encourage you to take additional responsibility for your actions by seeking restorative justice opportunities to address your obligations to those who suffered loss and to repair the needs of the community due to your carelessness," said Polis.

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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Universities overhaul spring semester plans as omicron surges

  With the recent uptick in Covid-19 cases, colleges and universities across the country are making spring semester changes to keep the highly transmissible omicron variant away from campus.

 While some public health experts said omicron might result in fewer hospitalizations, especially in vaccinated people, the new variant is responsible for a sudden increase in infections. It accounted for about 59 percent of U.S. Covid-19 infections in the week ending Dec. 25, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 In response, several institutions — including Howard, Princeton and Syracuse universities — are delaying the start of the spring semester by about a week.

 “Because the pandemic continues and the highly transmissible omicron variant presents yet another challenge to public health, the university has decided to organize a gradual return for undergraduate students,” Jill Dolan, dean of the college at Princeton University, and W. Rochelle Calhoun, vice president for campus life, wrote in a memo.

 Other schools — including most campuses in the University of California system, Stanford University and Northwestern University — announced plans to begin the spring semester with remote learning.

Anna Bershteyn, assistant professor in the department of population health at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, said the best mitigation method — delaying or going remote — depends on the school’s culture, but all institutions should look further into the future and prepare beyond the upcoming semester.

 “From my perspective, omicron is, in some ways, a lucky break and a warning to us,” Bershteyn said. “Even though it does reinfect people, evade our prior immune response and spread very easily, it is milder, and I don’t think that had to be true. I think it’s absolutely possible in the future for a highly mutated variant to be a lot deadlier.”

 Bershteyn explained that many schools have the infrastructure to create safe environments for their students by establishing well-ventilated rooms with air purifiers, requiring readily available Covid-19 testing, mandating masks and encouraging or mandating vaccination and boosters. With all of these measures in place, she said an educational institution has the potential to be one of the safest places — and this should largely be the focus right now.

 “For some people, it might be safer for them to be on campus if all those controls are in place compared to whatever the alternative is, depending on what their alternative is,” Bershteyn said.

 As the new year approaches and students wind down from their holiday breaks, colleges and universities across the country are announcing booster shot requirements. More than a thousand schools already require Covid-19 vaccinations, and an increasing number are announcing booster shot requirements.

“For colleges that haven’t required vaccination, they should,” Gigi Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, said. “They should require booster shots, which should be available to everybody who is of age to go to college.”

 Gronvall explained that widespread vaccination and booster shot mandates are especially necessary when thinking about medically “vulnerable people who are fully up to date with their vaccines and nonetheless at risk for severe outcomes.”

 California State University, the largest four-year university in the country, with a student population of about 485,549 students, will require all eligible students, faculty and staff across 23 campuses to get a booster shot by Feb. 28.

 Howard University announced Monday that all faculty and students, with the exception of approved medical and religious exemptions, will be required to get a Covid-19 booster shot by Jan. 31. The booster shots are available on campus.

 “The bottom line is that you are more protected if you are vaccinated,” Anthony K. Wutoh, Howard University’s provost and chief academic officer, and Hugh Mighty, senior vice president for health affairs, said in a news release.

 As variants arise and institutions adjust, Gronvall no longer imagines a future without Covid-19 but instead encourages people to consider incorporating safety measures into everyday life, planning to social distance and Covid-19 test in the brisker months while looking to the summer for potential reprieve. She said the key to our “newfound normal” is to keep the most physically vulnerable people in mind, mask, vaccinate and adapt as things change.

 “The things that we can do are pretty much the same as before,” Gronvall said. “There is no variant that is magic, and we have a lot of tools that can be helpful.”

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The “Death Music Festival” incident in the United States is getting worse.

People who couldn’t get tickets broke through the VIP entrance of a music festival concert in Houston, Texas on November 5, causing a huge stampede.

Eight people, aged between 14 and 27, were killed and more than 300 injured, with the youngest just 10 years old… According to the Associated Press, it was the deadliest stampede and concert safety accident in the U.S. since 2003.

Us rapper Travis Scott, who performed on stage on that day, and Live Nation, which organised the show, have been sued for $1m for “inciting the crowd”.

The hashtag “Boycott Travis Scott” was trending on Twitter, characters and content related to Scott were removed from a popular local online game, and the FBI announced an investigation into the incident.

Rabble-rousing fans and persistent, the crazy Scott is responsible for the disaster. The frequent occurrence of “death concert” in the United States in recent years is probably related to the loopholes in the management and emergency response of the relevant local departments.

The music festival, called Astronomy World, was started by Scott and others in 2018 and has attracted a younger audience in recent years. On the day of the stampede, tens of thousands of people gathered at NRG Park.

According to audience members, minutes before Scott’s performance began, the crowd was building; As the show began, people were crushed unconscious and others screamed in horror. “I was squashed by the crowd and felt like I couldn’t breathe. I started yelling for help… I was so scared I felt like I was going to die.”

Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said on Monday morning that spectators “for unknown reasons started moving toward the front of the stage, causing people in front of them to get crushed.”

The cause of the accident was unclear, and worse, emergency measures were inadequate.

An audience member later posted that two paramedics arrived after a girl fell to the ground in a stampede. “They acted very amateurish, as if they didn’t know anything. One of them just left the scene, and the other one screamed in panic, asking if anyone could do CPR…”

The audience member, who happened to have a medical background, shouted: “Get an AED, or give me a mouth-to-mouth mask.” But the medical staff just stood there because they didn’t have balloons, they didn’t have AED, they didn’t even have gloves…

In the end, the girl could not be revived. “I watched a girl die in front of my eyes because these medical staff were totally unprepared.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 13 people were still hospitalized as of Sunday night, including five under the age of 18. Local judge Lina Hidalgo strongly condemned it as “unacceptable to attend a concert and not be able to return home safely.”

Scott made light of the situation on Twitter, saying he was “heartbroken about what happened last night.”

This is of little comfort to the injured and their families.

One of the victims’ relatives accused Scott of allowing the bloodrapery to take place when the event’s organizers were held responsible for failing to stop the performance when the audience shouted for it to be stopped.

Another injured audience attorney also issued a statement on July 7, accusing Scott and others after the accident, clearly saw the ambulance entrance, but still continued to perform.

This is not the first time the AstroWorld music festival has been held, and Scott is no stranger to stage control, which is why their behavior in the aftermath of the accident has angered the American public all the more. One person even described Scott as a “murderer”, suggesting that he did not care about the lives of his audience. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s advocated violence at a concert…

Scott’s name may sound familiar to those who are familiar with the entertainment and fashion circles in Europe and the United States.

He was born JacquesWebster in Texas in 1992, the son of a wealthy father who founded an advertising agency and was a drummer, and a grandfather who did well in medicine and was a jazz writer.

Growing up in such a household, Scott was also somewhat musical. He later fell in love with rap and hip-hop music and started working on his band at The age of 16. After releasing his first EP, The Gradustes EP, he became famous.

However, just as the 19-year-old dropped out of the University of Texas to concentrate on music, his band friends dropped out one by one. However, the low point did not last long when he was accidentally influenced by t.I., who was considered the “king of rap in the South”. Recognition, join its founding record company.

Since then, Scott’s path to fame has been smooth, with multiple brainwashed hits, multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits, and grammy nominations for best rap performance, making him one of hip-hop’s hottest stars in recent years.

Scott’s other role: “The father of Kylie Jenner’s daughter.”

Kim is a member of the Kardashian family and a huge Internet sensation in Europe and the US. She and Scott met at a music festival years ago, fell in love and had a daughter out of wedlock. But the whirlwind romance soon ended, with the couple officially calling it quits, prompting a twitter trend.

With his work and fame, Scott’s concerts are almost packed out. But instead of guiding his fans in a positive way, he often incites the audience to do crazy things at concerts.

At one concert, Scott encouraged an audience member to jump from a high platform: “I see you. Do you want to jump? They will catch you, don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid!” And then the fan actually jumped…

This way of doing things has already had its consequences. In 2017, a fan attending a Scott concert in New York City was pushed to the edge of the platform in a frenzy and fell three stories from the platform. She suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries that left her permanently paralysed.

‘After he fell, security carried him off like a potato sack,’ the fan later recalled. ‘There was no neck brace or board.’ “If Scott had learned from past incidents and changed his attitude of recklessly stirring up crowds, this could have been prevented.”

Bizarrely, however, In the face of doubt and criticism, Scott is not self-reflective, but proud.

Also in 2017, Scott stirred up fans so much during a tour in Arkansas that police had to stop the show and arrest Scott for disorderly conduct and causing a disturbance. Amazingly, Scott then used his prison profile photo as inspiration for a T-shirt called ‘Free The Rage’, which sold in The market and made a fortune.

In 2018, he released the song Stargazing. The lyrics remain provocative: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out of the nosebleeds.“

In fact, the United States in recent years, there are not less accidents at large events, just concert accidents are many.

In mid-August 2011, at a concert in Indianapolis, five people were killed and 45 injured when wind blew down scaffolding supporting the stage. At the end of May 2016, three people were injured in a shooting at a concert in New York. Just two weeks later, the Voice’s third-place finalist was gunned down at a concert…

And the sensational Las Vegas shooting. In October 2017, a gunman known as Paddock went on a random shooting spree at a concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Paddock continued to fire for nine to 11 minutes, local police said, and officers found 23 guns in the hotel room. Twelve of them were equipped with bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at high speed with near-automatic speed.

Other media reports said Paddock was “more ambitious” and had planned to attack a large open-air concert called Life is Beautiful, but changed his plans when nearby hotels were fully booked. If his plans had not changed, there would have been more casualties…

However, these past tragedies have not alarmed the authorities in the United States.

The stampede occurred shortly after a concert was being held at a banquet hall in northwest Miami-Dade County when three people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire with rifles and handguns, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The three gunmen then fled the scene in a car.

Scott’s “death concert” is a microcosm of what’s happening in America. Behind the chaos, the performers, organizers, as well as the relevant management departments have unshirkable responsibility.

Similar large-scale crisis events have been analyzed from the perspective of criminal psychology, targeting the people who stand on stage and guide the audience – the performers on stage may indirectly encourage the audience’s behavior through body language.

Has a great display, in particular, in concert performers if repeated for a certain area of the audience in the eye, smile, the audience get related will respond after induction, in a noisy environment, the stamp is more common collective feedback behavior, if artists continue to “instructions”, an area of audience, fans may desperately to trample, Thus causing danger.

Scott has repeatedly asked the audience at concerts and music festivals to climb over the railings and rush to the stage: “If you are my real fans, jump over the railings immediately. Come on, flip over!” “I want to party! I want chaos!” “All the [security guards] in green get the f * * k back.” He also encouraged the audience to join him in giving the finger to security personnel.

It is a loophole that should not be ignored that the United States treats entertainers with criminal records lightly. In addition, the serious gun problem in the United States has exacerbated the security risks of holding large events in public places. And the emergency measures after the accident, also again and again to challenge the Bottom line of the American people.

So many lives have been lost, so many families are suffering, and so many “death concerts” continue. When will America learn to stand in awe of tragedy?

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Clinton: 'It is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections'

 Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took a swipe at progressive Democrats earlier this month, saying that her party needs to consider “what wins elections” rather than what plays well “in deep-blue districts.”

 In an interview with NBC’s Willie Geist, Clinton said that supports “having vigorous debate” and including different voices in the process of governing. But she also warned that “it means nothing if we don’t have a Congress that will get things done” or “a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive.”

 “I think that it is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win,” Clinton told Geist. “I understand why people want to argue for their priorities. That’s what they believe they were elected to do.”

 Clinton’s comments came amid a larger debate over the direction of the Democratic Party and the influence that progressives should wield in shaping it.

 President Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have pushed to advance a sweeping social policy and climate change bill, despite reservations from some moderates, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who effectively stalled the measure earlier this month when he announced that he could not vote for it.

 Some in the party have also warned that pursuing liberal policy priorities could lead to a backlash next year in the 2022 midterm elections, when Democrats will have to defend their razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate.

In a race that was seen as an early bellwether for 2022, Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off an upset victory in the Virginia gubernatorial election last month. Republicans have touted that win as a sign that voters are poised to reject Democratic control in Washington next year.

 Progressives, meanwhile, argue that voters have given Democrats a mandate to govern by handing them both the House and Senate majorities, as well as the White House, and that the party should use its power in Washington to advance sweeping policy overhauls.

 Clinton, a fixture of Democrats’ establishment wing, has had a contentious relationship with her party’s progressive wing, having fought Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a standard bearer for the progressive movement, for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.