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"One candidate seems to be willing to pour gas on every potential fear and doubt about the integrity of the system while the other seems uninterested in some very troubling reports and witness testimony. We need to let the system we have work through these problems. It will take time and involve lawyers and arguments: that's ok and has worked before in contested elections."
"The Secretary of State has a monitor onsite, has sent additional investigators, and dispatched the Deputy Secretary of State as well to oversee the process to make sure to thoroughly secure the vote and protect all legal votes. Observers from both political parties are there as well."
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe has been censored again by Twitter shortly after releasing a video of a whistleblower attesting to voter irregularities in Pennsylvania. The video can still be accessed on Facebook at the present time.And not for the first time:
Big League Politics has reported on the censorship that O'Keefe is receiving for merely exposing abnormalities with regards to the election process:Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe was recently locked out of his Twitter account for a nine-month-old tweet that supposedly violated a copyright shortly after he uncovered a Democrat ballot harvesting scheme operating out of Minneapolis, Minn. tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) protects communications between two devices from eavesdropping by a third party, even if the snooper intercepts the message. Popular Services like WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook Messenger use it to protect user privacy.
Austrian public broadcaster ORF reported on Sunday that the EU may soon get access to this type of protection, linking the potential policy shift with the recent terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Vienna. It cited a draft document of the Council of the European Union, which member states may approve as soon as this month.
The EU believes that "competent authorities must be able to access data in a lawful and targeted manner," according to the draft. E2EE makes it "extremely challenging or practically impossible" to see the contents of the communications "despite the fact that the access to such data would be lawful."
Actually, the document in question has been in the works long before the latest terrorist attacks in Europe, while the issue of undefeatable encryption has been under debate for years. Public perception of encryption gained a boost in the wake of the 2013 revelation by Edward Snowden of mass electronic surveillance by the US and its allies. E2EE helps journalists protect their sources, facilitates anonymous anti-government speech in repressive nations and otherwise serves the goals of freedom.
Of course, it just as easily serves criminals. The rise of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Iraq and Syria in 2014 and the spillover of Islamist violence into Europe in the following years propped up the argument that privacy concerns should be sidelined for the sake of public safety. Unsurprisingly, spy agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are among the most vocal proponents of this approach.
The draft cited by ORF is reflective of what privacy groups see as the EU's growing willingness to dismantle E2EE in favor of some diluted encryption solution. The tech companies so far have resisted the push to remove E2EE from their products.
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown rescinded an executive order Sunday that called on State Police and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in Portland to take charge of the police response to expected violent protests in the wake of Tuesday's presidential election.
Thank you to everyone who exercised their free speech rights largely through joyful celebration. Now, the hard work begins to heal the divisions in our nation," Brown tweeted.
Who does she thinks she's kidding??
Unfortunately, there appears to be a long way to go before the healing can begin, as Oregon State Police arrested four people during competing protests at the State Capitol in Salem on Saturday.
Before Brown rescinded the executive order, police deployed tear gas, which had previously been banned, to disperse groups of demonstrators in Portland.
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Comment: It just goes to show how out of touch these 'health experts' are that they would even considering hiking the cost of healthy food while the number of families struggling to buy even the cheapest of foods is soaring.
The ridiculous claims that vegetarianism is 'better for the planet' as well as for human health are easily and thoroughly refuted in the following articles: