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Study: Are Election 2020 poll respondents being honest about their vote?

Leib Litman, et al.
CloudResearch
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:31 UTC
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Background

Lately, there's been considerable debate over the accuracy of presidential polls. While recent polls show Joe Biden ahead, a number of pundits speculate that some Donald Trump supporters may be hesitant to share their true opinions when polled by phone. That hypothesis is gaining traction, leading some to argue that Trump may be leading despite what the latest numbers show. It's also being fueled by the belief that 2020 will be a repeat of the 2016 election, when Trump polled poorly in advance of the election, but still went on to win the Electoral College vote.

Despite the current debate on whether there are segments of Trump (or Biden) backers reticent to express their true opinions in phone polls, there's been little empirical investigation into if the phenomenon actually exists. Pundits on major broadcast and cable news networks, such as Fox News and CNN, continue to speculate on the potential impact of so-called "shy Trump voters" on the outcome of the November presidential election result. In a recent article published in The New York Times, David Winston says the following:

Comment: One has only to look at the nightly MSM reporting on Leftist violence to understand why Trump supporters would be reluctant to declare themselves.

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Leftist pundit tweets MOB JUSTICE 'will be served' for 17-year-old Kenosha shooter if court fails to convict


RT
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:17 UTC
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© REUTERS/Brendan McDermidPeople gather for a vigil, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., August 28, 2020.
Twitter pundit Rob Gill - apparently triggered by a conspiracy theorist who sees Russian bogeymen behind every evil act - has threatened mob justice if the teenager charged with shooting three protesters in Wisconsin is acquitted.

"Kyle Rittenhouse will be served justice and pay for his crimes, either by the justice system or by his fellow Americans," Gill tweeted on Friday. The Black Lives Matter supporter, who has more than 25,000 followers on Twitter, blocked replies to his message. He later took his tweets into social-media hiding, allowing only approved followers to see his recent and former posts, amid heavy backlash.

Comment: The Rittenhouse case may be a watershed moment in the leftist violence ripping the country apart:

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Democrats have directly encouraged violence on the streets. Winding it back isn't going to be easy

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:59 UTC
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© Reuters/Mike De SistiA man confronts police outside the Kenosha Police Department in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 23, 2020.
Protests and riots have spiraled out of control in the US. However, these aren't spontaneous demonstrations. Instead they're egged on by Democrats, who seem hell-bent on burning America to the ground.

To those fed a diet of mainstream media disinformation, the protests sweeping the US are just that: protests. They're grassroots affairs, expressions of discontent and resentment at a status quo that oppresses African Americans and denies them the rights and privileges afforded to whites.

That may have been true for all of about a day following the death of George Floyd back in May, and some of the protesters no doubt still feel that they're fighting the good fight. But far more have taken to the streets to commit brazen acts of violence, looting, and criminality. Thousands have been injured, and more than 32 people have been killed, including the two shot in apparent self-defense by teenager Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha on Tuesday night.

The riots have been enabled by Democrat leaders who have at best excused and at worst encouraged the most base excesses of the mob.
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Virginia Senate approves proposal to allow reduced penalty for assaulting police

Dean Mirshahi
ABC 8 News
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 03:41 UTC
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© AP Photo/Steve HelberVirginia State Senator Scott Surovell
The Virginia Senate passed a measure Wednesday that gives judges and juries the discretion to reduce the charge for assaulting law enforcement officers from a felony to a misdemeanor if the officer is not hurt during the encounter.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax), eliminates mandatory minimum sentences for assault and battery charges against police, judges, magistrates, correctional officers and firefighters. Democrats argued that the felony, which carries a minimum six-month sentence, is too harsh of a penalty as it is frequently used in encounters that are inconsequential.

While the charge remains to be a felony, the measure gives a judge or jury the power to reduce it to a misdemeanor if the incident did not result in a bodily injury.

Republicans claimed that the law would make it more difficult for officers to do their jobs and for departments to find new recruits. GOP senators called for the bill to be taken up during next year's session.

Comment: The Dems do not want their opposition forces curtailed in any capacity, especially prior to the election. Will the negation of punitive consequences reduce or magnify the desire and willingness to inflict harm on the police and other officials?

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Operation Not Forgotten: US Marshals find 39 missing kids and rescue 15 from sex trafficking in Atlanta, Georgia

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:26 UTC
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© U.S. Marshalls Service via Flickr
The U.S. Marshals Service put out a press release on Thursday announcing the recovery of 39 missing kids, some of whom were rescued from sex traffickers in Atlanta and Macon during Operation Not Forgotten in the state of Georgia.

"Operation Not Forgotten" resulted in the rescue of 26 children, the safe location of 13 children and the arrest of nine criminal associates. Additionally, investigators cleared 26 arrest warrants and filed additional charges for alleged crimes related to sex trafficking, parental kidnapping, registered sex offender violations, drugs and weapons possession, and custodial interference. The 26 warrants cleared included 19 arrest warrants for a total of nine individuals arrested, some of whom had multiple warrants.

Darby Kirby, chief of the Missing Child Unit said:
"When we track down fugitives, it's a good feeling to know that we're putting the bad guy behind bars. But that sense of accomplishment is nothing compared to finding a missing child. It's hard to put into words what we feel when we rescue a missing child, but I can tell you that this operation has impacted every single one of us out here. We are working to protect them and get them the help they need."
The U.S. Marshal's Office is taking on child traffickers around the country. Historically, the U.S. marshals are famous for the manhunt. This kind of work is right up their alley and it was surprising to learn they had not been utilized to find missing children up until now.

Comment: The article states: 'Every forty seconds a child is abducted in this country.' This is a jaw-dropping statistic!

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Best of the Web: Paul Joseph Watson: Cancel Culture, Salem Witch Trials And The Dark Triad

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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With recent studies showing that virtue signalling and cancel culture behavior are actually signs of the Dark Triad of personality: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, Paul Joseph Watson takes a look back at the events of the Salem Witch Trials to help explain exactly what we are witnessing occur in present times - providing a very apt psychological description of today's radical and authoritarian left, and the very dangerous mind virus they are promulgating like wildfire.


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James Corbett: World rising up against the lockdowns as protests mount

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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Welcome back to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

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Children at 'tiny' risk of acute coronavirus - UK academics


RT
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:05 UTC
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© REUTERS/Eric GaillardFILE PHOTO
The chances that children infected by Covid-19 could die are slim, as underage patients' symptoms are markedly less acute than in those across other age groups, a promising study has suggested.

The research published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) involved a cohort of children aged 19 or under who had tested positive for coronavirus and been hospitalized between January and July of this year.

Of the 651 underage cases reviewed across England, Scotland, and Wales, only 18 percent required intensive care, the authors report. Six children - about 1 percent of the total cluster - had died, but they suffered from cardiac anomaly and bacterial sepsis, or were immunosuppressed by chemotherapy that hindered the coronavirus treatment.


Comment: And these coronavirus treatments likely did not include the tried and tested, but now egregiously banned, Hydroxychloroquine: Spain, US & Russia using Hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus while France, Italy and Belgium ban it due to WHO concerns


Eighty-nine percent of the cohort were eventually discharged from hospital and the remaining 10 percent were undergoing treatment at the time of publication. "Children and young people have less severe acute Covid-19 than adults," the researchers concluded.

Comment: As reported yesterday in British newspaper The Times, only a few children who were already suffering from a severe illness died with coronavirus.

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Best of the Web: Face masks make you stupid

Patrick Fagan
The Critic
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:28 UTC
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In Joost Meerloo's analysis of false confessions and totalitarian regimes, The Rape of the Mind, he coins a phrase for the 'dumbing down' of critical resistance - menticide. "In the totalitarian regime," he wrote, "the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorise, to salivate when the bell rings."

Neolithic man had a similar problem dealing with his livestock. Homo sapiens' success has relied not insignificantly on cattle - their dairy, meat, leather and manure. Yet the cow's ancestor, the auroch, was quite a different beast. It was fast, aggressive and dangerous - hardly conducive to be corralled into predictable channels of behaviour. So, about 10,500 years ago, man started to deliberately breed the most docile aurochs for domestication.

The key word here is docile, which comes from the Latin docere, meaning "to teach" (as does, say, 'doctorate' and 'document'). Being docile means being compliant and following commands, which means submitting to a system of thought.

Whereas animals, however, typically need to be bred to have a higher level of reasoning to be taught commands, human beings, already being quite smart, need to be dumbed down. You won't disobey an order if you lack the cognitive ability to question it. This is particularly pertinent to the smooth running of a modern world system which relies on millions of individual souls, each with their own nuanced life history and perspective, thinking and acting in the same way.

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Millennials can't afford property so don't care about protecting it. Why are we surprised they're setting fires and smashing cars?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:31 UTC
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© AFP / Scott Olson
The sight of Antifa mobs smashing their way through the US' business districts strikes fear into property owners' hearts. But what do they expect when owning property is a near-impossible dream for an entire generation?

Video footage of a Kenosha, Wisconsin man trying to impart respect for private property to a group of young protesters has gone viral, mostly among conservatives who hold it up as proof the kids flooding the streets to smash windows and set things on fire are spoiled brats who've never worked a day in their lives. That self-serving reading is only half the story, however: while owning a home and business remains the American Dream even for young adults, many of them are finding that, just like any other dream, it vanishes when they wake up.

"What y'all don't f***ing understand is that people have their lives in these businesses," the exasperated man tells the younger protesters in the video, posted earlier this week to social media.

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