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Las Vegas: over 223K mail-in ballots bounced as 'undeliverable' in recent primary election, from one county

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More than 223,000 mail-in ballots sent to registered voters in Clark County, Nevada, were bounced as "undeliverable" in the state's June primary election, newly released data reveals.

According to data collected by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) from the Clark County Election Department, a total of 223,469 mail-in ballots sent to registered voters for the June 9 primary election ended up bouncing as "undeliverable" — 17 percent of the total 1,325,934 mail-in ballots that were sent out in the county.

"These numbers show how vote by mail fails," PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement, adding:
"New proponents of mail balloting don't often understand how it actually works. States like Oregon and Washington spent many years building their mail voting systems and are notably aggressive with voter list maintenance efforts. Pride in their own systems does not somehow transfer across state lines. Nevada, New York, and others are not and will not be ready for November."
For comparison, in the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 general elections, the entire state of Nevada recorded just 5,863 mail-in ballots as "undeliverable." That data comes from U.S. Election Assistance Commission surveys.

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Police face off with protesters after Lukashenko wins another term as president of Belarus

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© Sergei Gapon/AFPA man lies on the ground in front of riot police during a protest in Minsk.
Police in Belarus have cracked down on opposition protesters after an official exit poll put President Alexander Lukashenko on course to win a sixth term.

The exit poll for state television on Sunday gave Lukashenko 79.7 percent of Sunday's vote, with his main challenger, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, coming second with 6.8 percent. A political newcomer, Tikhanovskaya mounted an historic challenge to Lukashenko and drew big crowds in campaign rallies around the country.

Preliminary results are not expected until Monday.

Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, had pledged to crush any protests but thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital, Minsk, shortly after the exit poll was broadcast. The opposition had said it expected the results to be rigged.

Late on Sunday, the atmosphere in the city was tense as riot police faced off with opposition protesters, beating some with truncheons and using flash-bang grenades to try to disperse them. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from Minsk, said the capital was "a city filled with anger and frustration" and described "hectic scenes" that "Minsk hasn't witnessed before".

Comment: Clashes are ongoing in Minsk between protesters and riot police:

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© Dmitry Brushko/Tut.By/Reuters/Vasily FedosenkoBelarus riots



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© Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko/Sputnik/Victor TolochkoScenes from Minsk
Other cities, such as Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk, also saw protests:


Minsk Riot police have erected a barricade to contain protesters, deploying flashbangs and water canons:

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© Dmitry Brushko/Tut.By/ReutersCentral Minsk riot police
One person was killed in last night's protests, while more than 3,000 people were arrested:
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© RIA NovostiProtesters in Minsk, August 9, 2020.
The country's Interior Ministry denied the claim that the protests resulted in a fatality. The head of Belarus' Investigative Committee said that criminal charges will be brought against demonstrators accused of carrying out acts of violence against security forces. If found guilty, they could face up to 15 years in prison. More than 3K were arrested as protests took place in 33 towns and villages.
Additionally, more than 50 demonstrators and 39 police were injured:.

Meanwhile, re-elected President Lukashenko has blamed the violent protests on countries directing the chaos from abroad:
Lukashenko also blamed foreign countries for internet connection troubles.

"They were controlling our, I beg your pardon, sheep: they don't understand what they're doing and they're being controlled already. Switching off the internet in Belarus wasn't the government's initiative - it was also done from abroad."

The president promised that he won't allow a Maidan-style coup, like the one in Ukraine in 2014, in his country, urging the protesters to "calm down". He also advised parents to look after their children - who join the rallies - better to "avoid pain" in the future.



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Tens of thousands of Quebecois stage mass march against plandemic tyranny

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© Jean-Claude Taliana/Radio-CanadaProtesters chanted "liberté" as they marched from the main gates of McGill University on Sherbrooke Street to the CBC/Radio-Canada building on René-Lévesque Boulevard.
On August 8th, tens of thousands of citizens in Montreal took the streets to protest the draconian and unscientific push towards tyranny under the pretext of public health.

Legacy news outlets controlled by the globalist deep state either failed to cover this event, or gave it a passing mention, despite it being a tremendous outpouring. Such manifestations, given that they have not been promoted or financed by corporatist oligarchs and their fake news media outlets, are a good indicator that tremendously more are, or have now, woken up.

Thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Montreal last Saturday to protest against the Quebec government's mandatory mask regulations.

The protesters — the vast majority of whom did not wear masks — carried signs and wore t-shirts indicating a variety of motivations and ideologies in opposition to face coverings.

Some demanded freedom, some were critical of the Coalition Avenir Québec government, Premier François Legault or public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda, and others espoused various theories about COVID-19 and U.S. politics.

"I find it illogical," said Nathalie Warren, who travelled from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. for the protest.

"Say we go into a restaurant," she said. "We walk in wearing a mask, because, what, COVID is there? Then we sit down and we can take the masks off because, what, the COVID is gone?"

Oil Well

Is the OPEC+ alliance beginning to crumble?

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It's been a wild and bumpy ride for OPEC+ this year. The consortium, consisting of the traditional members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plus oil and gas superpower Russia, was largely responsible for the huge collapse in oil prices toward the end of April. After a huge drop in oil demand corresponding with the devastating spread of the novel coronavirus around the world, an OPEC+ strategy meeting turned into a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia which then turned into an all-out oil price war and massive global oil glut. The oil storage shortage created by this glut would go on to push the West Texas Intermediate crude benchmark into previously-unthinkable negative territory, closing out the day on April 30th at nearly $40 below zero per barrel.

OPEC+ has since reconciled and once again banded together to address the oil market crisis, making myriad pledges and severe production cuts to bolster crude oil prices. But many of the countries that made those pledges have fallen far short of their promises. "OPEC reached a historic deal to cut output by 9.7 million barrels per day in April, but a number of countries fell significantly short in meeting their production targets," reports Markets Insider.

Light Sabers

'Save Pear from Apple': Small app developer battles IT giant to keep its fruit logo

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The developers of a meal planning app, which has a pear as its logo, say Apple has taken them to court over it, but the five-man team is reluctant to give in to the corporation.

The people behind Prepear software have launched a petition on Change.org, asking Apple to drop its lawsuit which calls on them to change their pear-shaped logo.

The Cupertino-based corporation claims that Prepear's emblem, which it described as "a minimalistic fruit style with a proper-angled leaf," confuses buyers into thinking that the app is affiliated with Apple.The logo "quickly calls to thoughts Apple's popular Apple Symbol and produces a very similar commercial effect," it stated.

However, the Prepear team said that they have "clearly done nothing wrong," insisting that their logo is completely different from the famous 'bitten apple.'

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'I am a product of a child molester; do I deserve to be loved?' RT speaks to victims of horrific Berlin pedophile abuse scandal

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When a famed sex educator convinced Berlin authorities to house young orphans with known pedophiles, the bizarre scheme led to shocking abuses. Two of his victims spoke to RT in a revealing new documentary.

Dr. Helmut Kentler was a star amid the loosening of sexual morals that started in the 60s. A psychologist and sex educator, he lived as an openly gay man and would even by today's standards be seen as a progressive. He set up his Pedagogical Center in Berlin to spread his ideas, and this center would eventually be tasked by the city's senate with placing vulnerable children into care.

Kentler, in a shocking move that was supported by Berlin's left-wing senate of the early 1970s, decided to house these boys with known pedophiles, well aware that these predators would have sex with them. That didn't bother Kentler, who argues as recently as 1999 that pedophilia "can have a very positive effect on a boy's personality development." In a parliamentary hearing in 1981, he claimed that pedophiles made for great foster fathers, as they "fell in love with" the boys. The practice was allowed to continue until 2003.

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Gunmen kill six French tourists, their driver and guide in Niger

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© REUTERS/Joe PenneyThe Niger River in Niamey, Niger.
Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French tourists and a Nigerien tour guide and driver in Niger on Sunday, AFP reported, citing a local governor.

The attackers struck in the West African country's Kouré area, the agency quoted the governor of Tillaberi, Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, as saying.

The French foreign ministry said "checks are underway" into the reports of the attack. There was no immediate comment from the government in Niger.

Hammer

Widespread looting reported in Chicago after police-involved shooting

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Video emerged online purporting to show widespread looting and police clashes in Chicago early Monday in response to a police-involved shooting Sunday that wounded a suspect in his late teens or early 20s.

Fox 32 Chicago reported that the shooting occurred Sunday afternoon in the city's Englewood neighborhood. A crowd emerged that faced off against the police and eventually began hurling things at the officers. Police told the Chicago Tribune that someone spread the unfounded rumor that it was a child who was hit.

A police officer told the station that an officer sustained a shoulder injury in the confrontation and one of the police cars had its windows broken. The tension carried on into the night.

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NPC

Why is the BBC promoting identity politics?

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It is supposed to bring us together. But it has embraced a divisive agenda.

While the identity-obsessed left peddles its white-privilege theories, white working-class boys languish at the bottom of the academic pile. The evidence is clear, available for all to see on Gov.uk — white working-class boys are the most consistently disadvantaged social group in our country, after gypsies, and nobody in the mainstream media is willing to fight their corner.

For the BBC to be further perpetuating the critical race theory myth of 'white privilege' adds insult to injury. To suggest 'privilege' is primarily based on skin colour is overly simplistic and, frankly, somewhat racist. That's precisely what the BBC commissioned John Amaechi to say on its educational outlet, BBC Bitesize, last week. Worse, when called out by Andrew Neil on Twitter, John Amaechi acted as if his words were not his opinions after all, but indisputable facts.

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USA

More Americans are relinquishing their US citizenship than ever before

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© AFPA US flag flies next to a statue of former US President Bill Clinton at a boulevard named after him in Pristina on June 23, 2020.
Amid the growing number of concerns in the United States, a new trend has surfaced in the country. According to a new research published on August 9, a record number of people are now giving up US citizenship.

In the first half of 2020, over 5,800 gave up their citizenship of the US, as compared to the 2,072 Americans who gave it up in all of 2019, as per data from Bambridge Accountants.

Comment: Is it really the "mishandling of the coronavirus" and a hatred of Trump that's driving people out of the US. Or could it be the widespread rioting (unacknowledged by the mainstream media), threats of a civil war, possible mandatory vaccination, dictatorial lockdown measures with virulent citizen enforcers and the rise of the police state?

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