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Brick Wall

Best of the Web: Poland to build new $400 million WALL on border with Belarus to stem flow of migrants


Comment: What goes around comes around. Belarus leader Lukashenko has borrowed the Turkish method of countering Western meddling by engaging in a little 'directed mass migration'... forcing the Wokist EU to accept a Trumpian 'wall'!


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© Sputnik / Viktor TolochkoPolish border guards watch a refugee camp behind barbed wire installed on the border between Belarus and Poland near the village of Usnarz Dolny, Belarus.
Poland is set to build a new border wall on its eastern flank in an effort to end a sharp spike in asylum seekers attempting to cross over from neighboring Belarus, after Warsaw declared a state of emergency over the situation.

On Wednesday, the country's president, Andrzej Duda, signed into force new legislation for the construction of the barrier, after it was backed by the national parliament. Expected to cost more than $400 million, work on the new wall will likely be completed next summer. Running close to half the length of the 400-kilometer border, it will be kitted out with both motion sensors and surveillance systems.

Warsaw has warned that around 500 people a day are attempting to cross into the country illegally, with a sharp spike in recent months. The EU has accused Belarus of laying on flights from troubled destinations like Iraq and Iran, and of encouraging would-be migrants to make the border crossing.

Comment: Maybe Belarus doesn't want to take responsibility for refugees and migrants that are actually the result of Western scheming and warmongering? Note also that Belarus has become a target of the establishment after rejecting bribes to lockdown its citizens and for turning away from the EU towards Russia: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis


Quenelle - Golden

Best of the Web: Vaccine mandates are fanning the flames of worker rebellion

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In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official.

"We're going to lose a lot of employees over this," said Cornell Beard, head of the local Machinists union district. Many workers did not object to the vaccines as such, he said, but were staunchly opposed to what they see as government meddling in personal health decisions.

The union district has hired a Texas-based lawyer to assist employees and prepare potential lawsuits against the companies should requests for medical or religious exemptions to vaccination be denied.

Crusader

Best of the Web: How bad is it for the Dems? Trucker Ed Durr spends less than $10K, defeats powerful New Jersey State Senator Steve Sweeney

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© CBSSweeney, a union president has held the 3rd District seat since 2002
Meet Edward Durr, giant slayer.

Durr, a truck driver for the furniture store Raymour & Flanigan, was declared the victor Thursday in a race against one of the most powerful people in New Jersey: State Senate President Steve Sweeney, a top officer in the international Ironworkers union whose influence rivals that of governors.

In a week filled with surprises beyond the razor-thin New Jersey governor's race, the election in South Jersey's 3rd Legislative District was the biggest shocker of all โ€” and one with massive implications for the future of New Jersey politics. Sweeney, who's led the state's upper legislative chamber for 12 years, was talked up in Democratic circles as a likely 2025 candidate for governor. He had amassed significant power in Trenton, shrewdly cutting deals with former Republican Gov. Chris Christie and frequently standing in the way of Gov. Phil Murphy's agenda.

Comment: U.S. News profiles Durr:
Durr describes himself as a 2nd Amendment rights advocate and fiscally conservative, who wants to lower taxes. In an interview with NJ.com, he described how unlikely he viewed his victory to be. He has previously run unsuccessfully for state Assembly in 2017 and 2019, but this is his first elected position.

"I joked with people and I said, 'I'm going to shock the world, I'm going to beat this man,'" Durr said Wednesday afternoon. "I was saying it, but really kind of joking. Because what chance did a person like me really stand against this man? He's literally the second-most powerful person in the state of New Jersey."

Sweeney is an ironworker by trade who has served as an executive with the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. He is also a key ally and friend of Democratic power broker, George Norcross, who's widely considered to be one of the most powerful unelected people in the state.
And from the Cherry Hill Courier-Post:
Durr also pushed back on media reports that his campaign spent $153 to unseat Sweeny, a West Deptford resident. Durr estimated he spent somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 in the campaign.

"It's a story I keep trying to squash," he said of the lower figure,

An Oct. 26 filing with the state's Election Law Enforcement Commission shows a $153 expense for the 3rd District Republicans' joint campaign, covering the cost of food for poll workers and campaign literature.

But a campaign filing on Wednesday showed additional outlays of about $2,160 from Durr's account for campaign literature, signs and other expenses.

In contrast, an Oct. 4 filing by Sweeney for Senate showed spending of $490,576,46, including $400,000 to a joint campaign for the 3rd District Democrats.

Other spending included more than $7,000 for political meetings at restaurants and more than $50,000 directed to other Democratic campaigns.

That left Sweeney's campaign with a balance of almost $800,000 โ€” a number boosted by more than $116,000 in contributions received later that month.



People 2

Best of the Web: Virginia elects first Hispanic AG and first black Lt. Governor, both Republican


Comment: Well, so much for the Dems being 'the party of equality'...


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Two Republicans made history in Virginia on Tuesday after the state elected the first black woman to become Virginia's Lt. Governor and an hispanic man as Attorney General.

Virginia's Winsome Sears (R) is expected to be named the first black female Lt. Governor of Virginia after statewide elections predict a victory over Democratic nominee Hala Ayala.

"I'm telling you that what you are looking at is the American Dream," Sears said during a victory speech in Chantilly on Tuesday.

In 2001, Sears made history when she became the first female veteran, first black female Republican, and first naturalized citizen to serve in the House of Delegates, representing the state's 90th district. Sears immigrated to the US from Jamaica as a child and later went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps.


Family

Best of the Web: TikTokers are trading stocks by copying what members of Congress do

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Young investors have a new strategy: watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.

Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stock trading disclosures are a treasure trove. "Shouts out to Nancy Pelosi, the stock market's biggest whale," said user 'ceowatchlist.' Another said, "I've come to the conclusion that Nancy Pelosi is a psychic," while adding that she is the "queen of investing."

"She knew," declared Chris Josephs, analyzing a particular trade in Pelosi's financial disclosures. "And you would have known if you had followed her portfolio."

Last year, Josephs noticed that the trades, actually made by Pelosi's investor husband and merely disclosed by the speaker, were performing well.

Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: Patrick Lawrence: The Manufacture of Decline

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© ddatch54, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0โ€œDin and Cocktails,โ€ west side of Detroit, 2014.
"We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered ... sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies and their pure and applied sciences, their grammars, dictionaries, classics ... their critics and the critics of their critics.... We could not count them. But these wrecks, after all, were of no concern of ours."

That is Paul Valรฉry, the modernist poet, essayist and Academician, writing in April 1919. The Great War was but a few months over. Europe understood, if subliminally at that moment, that the world order of which it had been the center had shattered like glass. Or โ€” better put โ€” that Europe had shattered it.

"Everything came to Europe, and from Europe everything has come. Or almost everything," Valรฉry wrote. "Now, the present situation permits of this capital question: Will Europe retain its leadership in all activities? Will Europe become what she is in reality: that is, a little cape of the Asiatic continent?" [Emphasis the author's.]

Stock Down

Best of the Web: Fed Reserve chair Jerome Powell unloaded more than a million dollars of stock as the market tanked

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© peakprosperity.comFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
Disclosure documents reveal that the spectacle of Fed officials personally trading stocks extended to the chair himself.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020, according to disclosure forms reviewed by the Prospect. Powell's sale of shares from a Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has not been previously reported. This sale occurred right before the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a significant drop.

A Fed media relations spokesperson was not available for comment. We will report on any Fed statement on Powell's trades.

Three other senior Fed officials have faced serious criticism for making stock trades during the pandemic. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren were compelled to take early retirements as a result of the disclosure of their trades. Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida also came under fire for stock trading. The other trades are now the subject of investigations by the Fed's own inspector general and the SEC.

Comment: Sooooo . . . . what you're saying is, the Fed Chair engaged in massive insider trading, and nobody's even blinked. Apparently Trump had Powell's number but was unable to neutralize him:


Syringe

Flashback Best of the Web: Greek anti-vaxxers bribe doctors for "vaccination" with water, end up with the real vaccine anyway

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Real or placebo?
Mass fake vaccinations have been taking place in dozens of vaccination centers throughout Greece, media reported on Sunday. The bribe fee for doctors and nurses is apparently 400 euros. the fee is paid is by those who do not want to receive the vaccines against Covid-19 but want to gain access to several activities or simply avoid the twice per week rapid tests for professional and other reasons.

But then a hilarious thing happened: Doctors pocketed the bribe but administered real vaccine and not "water" in order to avoid getting into trouble should the fake vaccination come out, according to a report by Mega TV.

According to newspaper tovima, some 100 to 200 vaccination centers out of 2,000 in total and the participation of some 200-300 doctors and nurses have been involved in such fake vaccinations and/or in efforts to alter the vaccination data. It estimated that over 100,000 citizens have obtained fake vaccination certificates through illegal methods.

Comment: Greece has seen its share of lockdown tyranny and subsequent protests


Bullseye

Best of the Web: Alex Berenson: Why athletes matter

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A couple of you have raised questions like this, so I want to explain why I am pushing these stories about the heart - or undisclosed - problems that top professional athletes are suffering.

The writer is correct. These are stories. Even if the players are confirmed to be vaccinated, each case is an N of 1.

Why should we care?

All kinds of reasons.

Maybe most importantly, stories matter.

Snowflake

Best of the Web: 11 FEET of snow pounds Alaskan ski resort + Asia braces for a harsh winter

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Alyeska Resort in Girdwood has started its snow season in jaw-dropping fashion.

Officially, Alaska's largest ski resort begins recording its annual snowfall on October 1, but this year historic falls hit earlier than usual with 13 inches "unofficially" settling on September 23:


September's snowstorm was a mere taster of things to come. Since that official start date of Oct 1, a whopping 136 inches (11.3 feet) of global warming goodness has accumulated at the top of the mountain (to Nov 1). Breaking down the numbers - data courtesy of alyeskaresort.comโ€” 22 inches of that fell within the last 24 hours, with the 'snow depth' at the summit currently standing at an astonishing 67 inches.