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China seeks to "reduce non-medical abortion"

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© Visual China Group/GettyKaamil AhmedA fitness class in Shijiazhuang obstetrics hospital. After years of limiting population growth, Beijing now wants families to have more children.
China's pledge to limit abortions puts women's bodies under the state's control just as the one-child policy did and could endanger the lives of women seeking abortions, rights groups have said.

The Chinese government announced on Monday that it would seek to reduce abortions for "non-medical reasons" - a move seen as being in line with its attempts to accelerate birthrates.

Government guidelines did not provide detail on what constitutes a non-medical abortion.

Comment: Abortion is clearly a nuanced issue, but surely wanting to help women avoid the ordeal is a positive goal?

It's telling that those parts of the world that want to protect the rights of children and families, are also those looking to reduce abortion, whilst in the West the same countries promoting transgender ideology to children and allowing them access to harmful hormone blockers are also those pushing for sinisterly late, late-term abortions, for any reason: And check out SOTT radio's: Objective: Health - Law or Flaw? Let's Talk About Abortion


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'Liberal's hero' Liz Cheney corrects Lesley Stahl: Says waterboarding is 'not torture' in CBS interview

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© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstUS Representative Liz Cheney
These days one only needs to be against Donald Trump to win liberal hearts, it seems. Just ask Liz Cheney, who can be both a "hero" to the liberals while also favoring waterboarding, according to her recent 60 Minutes interview.

CBS News' Lesley Stahl caught up with the Wyoming representative to discuss her status as a Republican maverick earned after picking a public fight with former President Donald Trump.

Cheney's move cost her standing in the Republican party and may even cause her to lose her House seat. Trump has endorsed her opponent in next year's primary election in apparent retaliation - and whether the US establishment likes it or not, Trump's word has much sway with the Republican base.

The intra-party fight, along with a more personal moment, in which Cheney admitted she was "wrong" to oppose same-sex marriage even as her father Dick Cheney supported it in 2013, attracted the bulk of political attention on Twitter.

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Snakes in Suits

Scholz: Voters want Germany's election winner SPD to seek coalition with Greens & FDP, not Merkel's bloc

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© Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/APOlaf Scholz, finance minister and SPD candidate for chancellor
The Social Democrats' candidate for Germany's next chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said his party has received a mandate to form a government with the Greens and liberal FDP rather than with its old partner, Merkel's center-right bloc.

"The voters have very clearly spoken. They said who should form the next government," Scholz said on Monday.

They strengthened three parties - the Social Democrats, the Greens and FDP [Free Democratic Party]- and therefore that is the clear mandate that the citizens of this country have given. These three should form the next government.

Scholz, the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) candidate to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor, made his statement after the party came first in Sunday's vote with 25.7%, while its chief rival, the center-right CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union) alliance, showed the worst performance since 1949 with 24.1% of the vote. The parties had governed the country in a coalition before the election.

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An American Horror Story

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© APSWAT Team
Thomas Caldwell's wife awakened him in a panic at 5:30 a.m. on January 19. "The FBI is at the door and I'm not kidding," Sharon Caldwell told her husband.

Caldwell, 66, clad only in his underwear, went to see what was happening outside his Virginia farm. "There was a full SWAT team, armored vehicles with a battering ram, and people screaming at me," Caldwell told me during a lengthy phone interview on September 21. "People who looked like stormtroopers were pointing M4 weapons at me, covering me with red [laser] dots."

Agents demanded that Caldwell, a former lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy who suffers from debilitating service-related spinal injuries, come outside and lay down in the grass.
"Someone grabbed my legs and dragged me through the grass. They threw me face down on the hood of the car, kicked my legs apart, put a chain around my waist and put me in handcuffs."
Caldwell said he looked up to see Sharon, his wife of 22 years, dressed in her nightgown holding her hands up with a sock in either hand. She, too, was covered in red dots from the weapons aimed at her. Sharon, 61, begged to put on her socks before they forced her outside in the cold.

"I said a prayer, 'Father, please don't let them kill my wife,'" Caldwell said through sobs.

Shopping Bag

Costco limits purchases of toilet paper, paper towels and bottled water amid inflation, supply-chain issues

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© Will West/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/KJN
Costco is implementing new consumer limitations on purchases of household essentials including toilet paper, paper towels, and Kirkland bottled water as the company has seen an increase in demand due to a surge in the delta variant and supply-chain complications.

Costco has been dealing with significant issues centered around supply-chain complications and inflation according to the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Richard A. Galanti. Galanti informed analysts of the issues during a conference call, transcribed by Alpha Street, regarding Costco's fourth-quarter earnings on September 23:
From a supply chain perspective, the factors pressuring supply chains and inflation include port delays, container shortages, COVID disruptions, shortages on various components, raw materials and ingredients, labor cost pressures and trucker and driver shortages — trucks and driver shortages. Domestically, anecdotally rather from a — even on a domestic side, various major brands are requesting longer lead times. Some cases difficulty in finding drivers and trucks on short notice. Lead times on ingredients and packaging have been extended in some cases.
After noting complications regarding supply chains and inflation, Galanti announced,
"Also we're putting some limitations on key items like bath tissues, roll towels, Kirkland Signature water, high demand related SKUs related to the uptick in the Delta related demand."

Comment: When retail giants limit purchases...the worst is just around the corner.


Light Saber

Cyber Ninjas on Arizona election: "Based on these factual findings, the election should not be certified, and the reported results are not reliable."

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© Cyber Ninjas
On Friday September 24 CyberNinjas submitted to the AZ Senate a report (pdf) that read as follows:
"57,734 ballots with serious issues were identified in the audit. These issues include improper voter registration, improper votes, and discrepancies in the registration. This is a conservative estimate, as there were other identified problems that were not quantified nor included in that total, likely resulting in a much larger number of flawed ballots. Additional issues identified: backdated registrations, multiple voter registrations linked to the same voter affidavit, voters without records in a commercial database, and printing defects rendering thousands of ballots as suspicious.

"In the 2020 presidential election, the margin of victory was only 10,457 votes, a small fraction of the 57,734 ballots with known issues. Again, this is almost 6 times the margin of victory in the Presidential race and is multiples of the margin of victory in other races. Based on these factual findings, the election should not be certified, and the reported results are not reliable." — Cyber Ninjas' submitted Maricopa 9/24 Report

Comment: Presentation of the report starts at 23:00:



Stormtrooper

Jackboots: Police in Australia turn up on doorsteps to question private citizens over social media posts

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© TikTokAustralian police caught on camera harrassing private citizens in their homes
In footage that has to be seen to be believed, citizens in Australia are sharing with the world the moment police turn up at their door, warning them over their social media posts.

Police appear to be scanning social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and looking for users who they think may support protests.

"We're here to have a chat to you because we have instructions that you've been posting some things on social media," the plainclothes police officer said in a viral TikTok video.

Comment: The Australian police have morphed into what could be termed an occupying army. The actions they've taken in response to those protesting inhuman and unnecessary lockdowns are shocking in their brutality. : Matters have only deteriorated:








Bullseye

TX Gov. Abbott vows to hire Border Patrol agents punished by Biden administration

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© REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File PhotoTexas Gov. Greg Abbott speaking at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in May 2018.
Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX), on this week's broadcast of Fox News Sunday, pledged to hire Border Patrol agents who were punished by the Biden administration for riding on horseback while blocking Haitian migrants.

Anchor Chris Wallace said, "A number of people have been — Democrats especially — have expressed outrage over those Border Patrol officers on horseback who were at the border and seemed to be trying to block Haitians pretty aggressively from coming across the border. Here was President Biden on all of that this week."

Comment: Heartening to see some governors have actually read the US Constitution.


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2020 Election Improper Governmental Operations Report - Presented to Arizona senate and will be submitted to attorney general

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All evidence of fraud presented in the Arizona audit report on Friday will be referred to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

We The People AZ Alliance drafted a report on Improper Governmental Operations of the Maricopa County Elections Department and Board of Supervisors and have presented it to the Arizona Senate to possibly be used today.

The Gateway Pundit has obtained a copy of this report which details statute and policy violations that occurred before, during, and after the 2020 election.

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NPC

Harry & Meghan, Lizzo and more raise voices for vaccine equity at Global Citizen Live

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© Getty Images; GC ImagesColdplay, Billie Eilish and Jennifer Lopez are among the performers scheduled to take the stage beginning at 4 p.m. on Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City.
"Get up, stand up" - for each other and for global vaccine equity.

That was the message delivered Saturday by celebrities, political leaders and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during Global Citizen Live festivities on the Great Lawn on Central Park.

The event was the Big Apple's contribution to the international music festival to raise awareness for humanitarian causes, including the effort to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to poverty-stricken nations around the world.

Comment: Oh the inanity! The only thing missing from this woke celebrity cringe-fest is some vegan virtue signalling! Greta must have been busy.

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