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NYC's 'mask patrols' add insult to injury as city languishes under endless shutdown

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© Reuters/Carlo AllegriNothing to sneeze at...
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to "aggressively" target mask refuseniks, but deploying hundreds of officials on "mask patrols" to fine violators will only amplify resentment of a regime that seems to enjoy inflicting misery.

The mayor warned those who dare to move around the city bare-faced that his "mask patrols" would be prowling nine so-called "hotspot" zip codes looking for violators. Nearly 1,000 cops, contact tracing workers, and other city staffers will be empowered to warn, fine, and ticket the unmasked in areas where the percentage of positive Covid-19 tests has recently approached or exceeded 3 percent.

While they'll be handed a free mask at first, repeat offenders will be slapped with tickets carrying $1,000 fines - an outrageous sum during a recession. Worse, the mayor has warned that if the case numbers keep climbing - the city averaged 3.25 percent positive case rate as of Tuesday - he will begin shutting down businesses again. This would be a truly nightmarish scenario for a city that still hasn't reopened some industries.

Comment: A rebellion is on the rise for this mayor and his Draconian control issues.




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Report: Laptop, memory sticks to program Philadelphia voting machines stolen

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© Jessica Kourkounis/Getty ImagesVoting in Philadelphia
Multiple memory sticks and a laptop used to program voting machine in Philadelphia have been stolen from a city warehouse, according to a Wednesday report. Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
The equipment appeared to be taken this week, sources said. Officials immediately began checking to make sure none of the voting machines had been compromised while also working to contain the fallout for fear of how President Donald Trump and his allies might use the news to cast doubt on the integrity of the city's elections. [...]

Many details surrounding the incident remained unclear Wednesday afternoon including exactly how the equipment was taken, whether there are any suspects, and details on how the missing technology might be used. Officials said there are multiple levels of security to prevent the equipment from being used maliciously, and a police investigation is ongoing.

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Two in five Russians think climate change is 'far-fetched and overblown,' new survey reveals

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© Sputnik / Maxim BogodvidFILE PHOTO.
While the vast majority (93 percent) of Russians believe that climate change is real, only 52 percent think it's a significant problem, and a whopping 40 percent reckon the issue is "overblown," according to a new survey.

More than half (57 percent) of all surveyed Russians surveyed by Russian pollster WCIOM believe that climate change has an impact on human life, with this opinion being held more commonly (62 percent) by those in rural areas.

Despite its apparent effect on day to day business, the fact that two-fifths (40 percent) believe the issue is "overblown" means that a majority of Russians are still not ready to pay more for various goods and services in order to protect the environment. 76 percent of respondents said they aren't prepared to splash out extra for fuel, 74 percent said this for utilities, and 62 said they wouldn't spend extra on public transport. However, 94 percent of those surveyed said they would participate in a tree-planting initiative to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Comment: The 68% of respondents that think the EU's 'environmental' tax on Russian enterprises is a pure money grab are dangerously close to the truth. Not just about this particular tax, but regarding the global warming/environmental movement as a whole.


NPC

UK paints Royal Mail postboxes black to honour black people

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© PA MEDIAThe four black postboxes are in London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast
Four postboxes have been painted black to honour black Britons including Sir Lenny Henry and nursing pioneer Mary Seacole.

The Royal Mail postboxes - in London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast - have been painted as part of Black History Month in October.

Each features a significant figure in the British black community and has a social media link.

Royal Mail says the aim is to help mark the success of black Britons.

A QR code on the postboxes can also be scanned to bring up a list of the black Britons who have appeared on special stamps.

Comment: Titania sums it up here:




Black Magic

Seagram liquor heiress Clare Bronfman gets six years for role in NXIVM sex trafficking ring

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© REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesClare Bronfman, an heiress of the Seagram's liquor empire, following her arraignment on charges of racketeering and conspiracy in relation to the Albany-based organization Nxivm at the United States Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn at New York, U.S., June 24, 2018.
Seagram's liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was sentenced to more than six years in prison on Wednesday for her role in a New York self-help organization that federal prosecutors say engaged in forced labor, extortion and sex trafficking.

Bronfman, 41, pleaded guilty in April 2019 to two felony counts in connection to her involvement with Albany-based NXIVM (pronounced Nexium), an organization led by New York businessman Keith Raniere that former members say was run as a cult.

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Hypocrisy: Portland BLM 'security' tackles man to the ground, puts him in chokehold

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© Andy Ngo/TwitterAt one point, a young white man was seen moving quickly through the crowd before being unceremoniously steamrolled to the ground by 'security' at the event before being placed in a chokehold
As protesters gathered in Portland at a vigil for a black man killed by police two years ago, BLM security at the event were filmed tackling a man and placing him in a chokehold, which police are forbidden from using.

Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters attended the event held at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Harvey Milk Street, the scene of the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Patrick Kimmons in 2018.

At one point, a young white man was seen moving quickly through the crowd before being unceremoniously steamrolled to the ground by 'security' at the event before being placed in a chokehold.

Cult

US demands that planet accept its damaging 'woke' concepts while continuing to lecture the world on democracy

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© Sputnik / StringerParticipants of the LGBT parade in Kiev.
As a democracy, the United States has the right to pick and choose the sort of social and cultural mores it wants to live by without any outside interference. So why does it not show the same courtesy to other nations?

When we hear discussions today about imperial 'conquests' and 'takeovers,' the natural assumption is that some form of military aggression is being alluded to. Yet that's not always the case. In fact, attacks on national traditions are occurring every single day on the social and cultural fronts, and it should come as no surprise that America is the driving force behind this juggernaut.

Presently, the US is undergoing a radical transformation the likes of which the world has never seen. Across the country, liberal progressives, captivated by the allure of 'wokeness' and extreme social justice, are overturning the 'natural order of things' by placing minorities and their controversial movements to the front of the serving line. This can be witnessed, for example, by the almost fanatical promotion of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community, which has its own flag, gratuitous corporate sponsorship, and even the entire month of June set aside in its honor.

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170 test positive for coronavirus at Cornwall meat plant, ALL were asymptomatic and unaware

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© GoogleThose who tested positive at the plant and those they have been in close contact with are isolating
Testing has uncovered 170 cases of Covid-19 among workers at a pork meat processing plant in Cornwall. Five hundred staff at Pilgrim's Pride in Pool, near Camborne, were tested in a contact tracing exercise by the NHS.


Comment: The tests are known to be inaccurate so we don't know if this number is correct, although it is true that the virus is harmless but it is becoming more infectious.


Most of those who tested positive were unaware they had Covid-19 and were not displaying symptoms.

They and those they have been in close contact with are isolating in line with government guidelines, said Cornwall Council.

Cases of Covid-19 in the South West are still below the national average, latest figures show.

Comment: Critical industries are being shutdown over a virus that the vast majority don't even know they have because they don't have symptoms and who are only being affected because of government mania:


Propaganda

Oxford University's 'scholarly' RT hit piece has no room for the mundane reality of how the world's news organisations really work

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© AFP/Yuri KADOBNOVFILE PHOTO: A picture taken on June 8, 2018 shows an unidentified anchor of the Russia Today (RT) TV company as he prepares to go on the air in their studio in Moscow.
The venerable Oxford University has entered the fray and churned out some RT bashing in the name of scholarship, and when the term 'disinformation' is in the very first line of the report, it's clear we're on familiar ground.

The Oxford Internet Institute's new study 'The Organizational Behavior of RT' makes the claim that it "advances the scholarship of news organizational behavior, information warfare, and international broadcasting." I will now make the claim that what it actually advances is the method of repeating the same old guff from anonymous sources and pretending it's research.

Let's get this on the record to start with: RT certainly does seek to represent a Russian view of the world and it does not hide that fact, and it is extremely critical of the West. As far as I know, RT makes no claims to have the monopoly on the truth, which is one way it certainly differentiates itself from Western organisations. It has made and does make mistakes, is not perfect, and, I'll be honest, the canteen is very disappointing. However, if you think it's some kind of homogenous organisation staffed by serfs spewing out the view of one person, well, then you've never met a Russian.

Comment: See also: The Nation editor: 'Registering RT as foreign agent is threat to press freedom'


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Bojo channels Cromwell as he bans singing and dancing. What's happening to Britain?

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© Corbis via Getty Images/Photo by VCG Wilson(L) Boris Johnson Getty Images/Justin Tallis - WPA Pool; (R) Oliver Cromwell after Samuel Cooper 1656. Oil on canvas, feigned oval, 29 3/4 in. x 24 3/4 inches. Located in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England, UK.
Publicans are under strict orders to prevent singing, dancing and general merriment from taking place in their establishments, as the Tories turn Britain into Bomont, the town from Footloose.

If anyone had said during the last election that the Tory Party was going to ban casual sex, singing and dancing, I think even the most ardent Corbynista would have thought that was a tad hyperbolic. But fast forward nine months into Boris Johnson's tenure as PM, and that's exactly what they have done.

New restrictions applying to pubs say that landlords must take "all reasonable measures" to stop singing and dancing on their property. That is now officially the law in the UK. Not in some Middle Eastern Islamic theocracy, not in some dystopian realm in a Margaret Atwood novel, not in the 1980s classic movie, Footloose, but 2020 Britain.

Comment: Evidently the government has proven to itself that it can impose tyrannical new laws at a whim, even when they are so nonsensical that the PM Bojo himself doesn't understand them: Bojo apologises for getting new coronavirus rules wrong, citizens not following "confusing" rules face fines

See also: 'Illegal': Madrid's leaders REJECT Spanish government's orders to lockdown but will comply until rule overturned