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GOP win: Appeals court rules Wisconsin absentee ballots must be delivered to clerks by 8PM on November 3

Sophie Mann
Just the News
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 03:50 UTC
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A federal appeals court has blocked a lower-court decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin. The decision is considered a win for Republicans who wanted the election night deadline to stand, under state law. However, Democrats are expected to appeal the decision Thursday to the Supreme Court.

If the appeals court ruling stands, absentee ballots must be delivered to Wisconsin election clerks by 8 p.m. on Election Day, adhering to state law.

Last month, U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled that any ballot that arrived in clerk's offices by Nov. 9 will be counted, as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 3.

The 7th Circuit Court judges initially upheld Conley's ruling on Sept. 29, rejecting the Republicans' standing to intervene. After the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed that standing, the same three-judge panel delivered Thursday's ruling, according to the Associated Press.

A federal court of appeals has reinstating Wisconsin's Election Day receipt deadline and rule out the possibility of accepting ballots through email. "This is a huge victory for Wisconsin voters who reasonably expect timely and secure election results," said Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
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Despot Whitmer says Michigan won't rush to get results on Election Day, calls it an 'artificial deadline'

Bradford Bet
Fox News
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:49 UTC
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© Ann Arbor News via APMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wears a mask with the word "vote" displayed on the front during a roundtable discussion on healthcare in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The governer's comments come just days after the FBI revealed a group of anti-government vigilantes had plotted to kidnap her.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Sunday said her state will not rush to ensure all the results of the 2020 presidential race are counted on Election Day, Nov. 3 -- a date she appeared to imply was artificially set.

The Democratic governor made the comments during an appearance on CBS' Face the Nation, while discussing the election's expected surge in mail-in votes amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Asked by host Margaret Brennan how long it will take Michigan to declare the winner of the race, Whitmer would not give a definitive timeline.

Comment: Whitmer seems to be suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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Suicide spike in Japan shows mental health toll of COVID-19

Ayai Tomisawa and Marika Katanuma
Bloomberg
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:38 UTC
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© KyodoJob-seekers wait for consultation at a public employment service in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward in June. When the economy started reopening, portions of the population were left behind, such as laid-off workers or those who continued to be stuck at home.
The number of suicides rose in Japan in August due to more women and school-aged children taking their own lives — offering a first glimpse into the consequences of the mental health strain brought about by COVID-19 around the globe.

Japan is among a few major economies that releases timely data on suicides as it is a persistent societal issue. The numbers hint at what may be going on around the world as countries grapple with the fallout from mass unemployment and social isolation that's impacting certain groups of people more than the rest.

Sociologists have long warned that the economic and social disruption wrought by measures to contain the coronavirus could cause more deaths than the pathogen itself. In Japan, the suicide rate has been falling but it remains a top cause of premature deaths — this year, suicide has taken over 13,000 lives, while total COVID-19 fatalities number less than 2,000.

According to government statistics, the number of suicides in August increased by 15.4 percent to 1,854. Although making up a smaller proportion of suicides, the number of women taking their own lives jumped by around 40 percent. The number of suicides by students in elementary to high school more than doubled to 59 from the same period last year.

The mental health toll looks set to be one of the pandemic's most insidious legacies given the difficulty of grasping or measuring the magnitude of self-inflicted harm until it is too late. Major economies like the U.S. and China don't report official data on suicides until years later, though experts have predicted a wave of such deaths this year while anecdotal evidence abounds on social media platforms.

Comment: Suicide will account for just a fraction of the deaths caused by lockdown, not Covid. In the U.S. at least 1/3 of all excess deaths during lockdown have been a result OF the lockdown. Probably more, since many probably get falsely attributed to Covid.





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Apollo co-founder and CEO, Leon Black may have funneled as much as $75M to Jeffrey Epstein

Peter Aitken
Fox News
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:22 UTC
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© Fox NewsLeon Black, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, speaks at the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016.
New reports suggest that Apollo CEO Leon Black may have funneled as much as $75 million to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein before supposedly cutting ties in 2018.

The initial report published by the New York Times uncovers a number of alleged payments from Black to Epstein made through several companies.

A company that owned Black's yacht wired $22.5 million to a company in 2017 that managed Epstein's private jet - a move that raised questions at Deutsche Bank, the report said.

Other transactions passed through Black-owned businesses, according to the report, including a company that Black used to buy much of his billion-dollar art collection. The total amount of money that Black may have funneled to Epstein is around $75 million, which may have allowed Epstein to continue building wealth following his first criminal case.

Comment: Some more background on the Black-Epstein relationship:

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Poking fun at Karens, gay people & the woke: Comedian Bill Burr finally injects some much needed life into the dreadful SNL

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:00 UTC
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© REUTERS / Mark BlinchBill Burr takes up the mantle of George Carlin
Saturday Night Live has become a haven for limp, politically correct comedy, but this weekend Bill Burr burned down the house with a searing monologue that came with a New York Times health warning.

Bill Burr, a brilliant and curmudgeonly stand-up comedian who refuses to kowtow to the politically correct, went scorched earth in his SNL monologue on Saturday night by taking on cancel culture, self-serving white women and their performative woke posturing, and Gay Pride Month.

Burr's monologue was apparently so incendiary the New York Times felt it needed a trigger warning, "Burr used his opening monologue to mock some sensitive topics - feel free to skip this section if you find that style of comedy distasteful."
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Tel Aviv: Tensions, clashes take over anti-Netanyahu protests

Tameer Beeri
The Jerusalem Post
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:38 UTC
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© Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90Israelis protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at Dizengoff Square Tel Aviv on October 10, 2020
The largest and "central" protest took place in Habima Square in Tel Aviv with hundreds and possibly thousands of protesters in attendance.

Tens of thousands of protesters went to the streets on Saturday night, only this time, each was a tad closer to home than Balfour Street in Jerusalem due to the current coronavirus restrictions.

Expressing their continued dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership and government corruption for the 16th straight week, demonstrators nationwide at over 1,000 locations cried out, "This is Balfour, too," arguing that their lack of proximity to Netanyahu's official residence does not make a difference to the movement.

Comment: Cunning Bibi has survived so many political crises. Will this be the one that brings him down?

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Covid marshals will use body cameras to catch rules breaches at weddings, parties and pubs

Charles Hymas
The Telegraph
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:56 UTC
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Covid marshals have been ordered to target weddings, parties, pubs and restaurants with body-worn videos to film evidence of breaches, under new Government guidelines.

The marshals - who the Government suggests should have security guard training - will be expected to call in police or council inspectors to enforce any breaches at premises they visit.

Dubbed "Covid Wombles," they will be issued with a checklist of Covid measures to ensure compliance in restaurants, pubs, bars, takeaways, shops and branches, tourist attractions, "close contact services" like hairdressers and nail bars, "wedding receptions and celebrations."


Comment: Welcome to Nazi England.


The Government suggests council marshals could operate a yellow card system, where they issue up to two warnings before businesses face fines or even closure.

They will also be expected to prevent mixing between groups in pubs, clubs and streets after the 10pm curfew, encourage social distancing in "busy night-life areas" and tell members of the public to wear masks.
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France's anti-maskers: the faces behind the movement

Ségolène Allemandou
France 24
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:04 UTC
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© AFP - Christophe ArchambaultProtesters hold up face masks and shout slogans during a protest against the mandatory wearing of face masks on the Place de La Nation in Paris on August 29 2020.
For many, face masks provide protection from the coronavirus. For others, they are a "muzzle" aimed at enslaving the population. Anti-maskers use social media to challenge what they consider to be a "health dictatorship". FRANCE 24 joined some Facebook groups to learn more about the movement.

Some people take off their face masks as soon as they set foot outside, others forget them at the bottom of a handbag or buried in a pocket. But there are also those who never wear them, proudly claiming they are "anti-mask" despite the fact that it is mandatory to wear a face mask outside in many cities and towns across France, including Paris.

Manuella*, interviewed by FRANCE 24 via a dedicated anti-maskers Facebook group, is in this latter category. Since the start of the Covid-19 health crisis, the 57-year-old artist living in the Cévennes in southern France has never bought a single mask. "Unthinkable," she says of the prospect. In shops, pharmacies or banks, she concedes she "yields to the rules" by covering the lower half of her face with a bandana. "But in the street, a mask is out of the question."

Fiona* says she will never give in. In a post published on September 29, she claims to have been fired for refusing to wear a mask.

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Best of the Web: Coronavirus: WHO backflips on virus stance by condemning lockdowns

Alex Turner-Cohen
news.com.au
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:16 UTC
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© News Corp AustraliaAn empty St Kilda street during lockdown
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.

Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop "using lockdowns as your primary control method" of the coronavirus.

He also claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty - with no mention of the potential lives saved.

"Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer," he said.

David Nabarro
© TwitterDr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method”.
"We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus," Dr Nabarro told The Spectator.

"The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we'd rather not do it."

Comment: So, if the lockdowns aren't coming from the WHO, where are they coming from?? See also:

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Operation Moonshot: UK says weekly COVID tests could offer "passport to freedom", normalcy

Robert Wheeler
The Organic Prepper
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
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Those who have watched the police state grow over decades have known that as the UK goes, so does the rest of the Western world.

Unfortunately, the UK population the testing grounds for intrusive and totalitarian policies that will be implemented in the rest of Western Europe and, after that, the United States.

Many researchers warned about early on (when the COVID hysteria was reaching fever pitch) that the threat of a pandemic would be used to usher in methods of control the world has scarcely seen. Contact tracing, lockdowns, mandatory masks, and now COVID passports..

Everyone who warned us of what was coming was labeled "conspiracy theorists" by media, government "officials," and hysterical citizens. Now contact tracing is in full effect, lockdowns have been ongoing for months, mandatory masks, and now COVID passports.

All these things were announced and unveiled by the same media outlets and government officials that denied the very possibility of their existence only a few months ago.

Comment: See? - All you have to do is submit to the UK gov's ridiculous and tyrannical covid policies and you, too, have a chance at having a semi normal life again. Provided you don't meet in groups of more than six people of course.

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