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About 50,000 Ohio voters receive wrong absentee ballots

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 05:09 UTC
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© AP/Julie Carr SmythLineup at Franklin County Board of Elections for early voting
About 50,000 voters in Ohio received inaccurate absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 general election, according to election officials.

The Franklin County Board of Elections said in a statement on Friday that 49,669 voters received inaccurate ballots out of the 237,498 that were sent through the United States Postal Service.

The board said Friday that it has already begun the process of printing replacement ballots which will be sent to the Postal Service within 72 hours for delivery.

"Every voter who received an inaccurate ballot will receive a corrected ballot," the board said. In addition, the board will send out postcards to all impacted voters to explain what happened, and their options for voting moving forward.


Comment: Luckily this discovery was early enough to correct the errors and resend new ballots. Others may not be so timely to rectify.




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Bizarro Earth

Around 29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery, report shows


Daily Sabah
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:16 UTC
Indian women hold placards protesting against the alleged gang rape
© APIndian women hold placards protesting against the alleged gang rape and killing of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh state, in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020.
A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labor, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.

Grace Forrest, the co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organization, said Friday that one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.

"The reality is that there are more people living in slavery today than any other time in human history," she told a U.N. news conference. Walk Free defines modern slavery "as the systematic removal of a person's freedom, where one person is exploited by another for personal or financial gain," she said. Forrest said the global estimate of one in 130 women and girls living in modern slavery was made based on work by Walk Free, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), both U.N. agencies.

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Megaphone

Police disperse protest rally in Russia's Far East after attempt to set up tent camp in central Khabarovsk square


RT
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 10:08 UTC
Khabarovsk protest
© ReutersThere have been months of protests in Khabarovsk.
Supporters of the former governor of Far Eastern Khabarovsk have been prevented from putting up tents in front of the region's government building, marking the first forced dispersal of a rally after three months of protests.

Locals unhappy with the circumstances around the arrest and sacking of Sergey Furgal, a member of the far-right opposition LDPR party, have been staging protests in the city since July. They began after his career as a popular governor was torpedoed by a criminal investigation. Each Saturday a progressively larger gathering was held, with smaller protests organized during workdays.

The protests, which were unauthorized from the start, eventually petered out, and in recent weeks they have attracted a fraction of the initial crowds. Rather than a broad coalition of various factions, the movement seems to have been hijacked by Soviet-nostalgists and patriots of the region.

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Red Flag

Suspect charged in Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot had anarchist flag, hates police

Kyle Olson
Breitbart
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:01 UTC
Brandon Caserta antifa
© Facebook
United States attorneys in Michigan charged six individuals on Thursday with an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and overthrow the state's government.

The feds have charged Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta, the Detroit News reported. Twelve individuals were charged in all.

Via the News:
The investigation dates to early 2020 when the FBI learned through social media that individuals were discussing the violent overthrow of several state governments and law enforcement.

In June, Croft, Fox and 13 others from multiple states held a meeting in Dublin, Ohio, near Columbus, according to the government.

Comment: These people are clearly not Trump supporters. But that won't stop the MSM from trying to spin it that way.

This from RT:
MSNBC sets off Twitter after pundit compares Trump to ISIS leader, blaming president for Michigan governor kidnapping plot
10 Oct, 2020 16:21

Anti-Trump author and MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance has labeled the anti-government extremists who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer "VanillaISIS" and claim they follow "their al-Baghdadi," Donald Trump.

"These people were radicalized by the very fact that a black man could sit in the Oval Office," Nance said of the recently-arrested Michigan would-be kidnappers and other radical groups in the US.

"Where they are now," he continued, "is a state of readiness to support Donald Trump."

"He is their al-Baghdadi," Nance added, comparing the US president to the late Iraqi terrorist and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) leader.

Nance then deemed the Michigan extremists and others "VanillaISIS," in reference to the '90s white rapper Vanilla Ice and the terrorist organization.

"And this particular strain of VanillaISIS, if you want to call it that, they are arming themselves," the author said.

...

The term "VanillaISIS" has begun trending on social media where mostly liberals have capitalized on the comparison.

"VanillaIsis are Terrorists - pure and simple - and they should be treated as such," North Carolina politician Mark Judson tweeted.

"Donald Trump incites Domestic Terrorism. Donald Trump incites #VanillaISIS,"wrote journalist David Leavitt.

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Though Nance and numerous Democrats have at least partly blamed Trump's controversial rhetoric for the Michigan kidnapping plot, at least one of the men arrested, Brandon Caserta, has now been revealed to be a critic of the president, posting a video blasting him as part of the "enemy" in government.

Caserta and others accused of wanting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer reportedly wanted to incite a civil war in Michigan through the kidnapping and other acts of violence.
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Attention

Being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Osama bin Laden's niece

Noor bin Ladin
The Spectator
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:37 UTC
Noor bin Laden Osama niece
Noor bin Ladin in a picture from her website
Americans are, in my experience, the warmest, most kind-hearted and open-minded people in the world. I have found this to be true for my whole life, despite being the niece of Osama bin Laden and sharing the same last name (albeit spelled slightly differently — bin Ladin is the original translation). Americans base their judgment on the content of someone's character and actions, not on the color of their skin — or their last name. This was reaffirmed last month, after I voiced my love for America and support for President Trump. The response to 'My Letter to America' has been overwhelmingly wonderful, and I am most thankful to all those who took the time to read it and send kind messages, including Spectator readers. But in my private life, I have lost a few so-called friends for backing Donald Trump over the past five years. Coming out publicly was a step too far for some, and the vitriol I received for stating my political beliefs revealed unflattering sides to certain characters. From a sociological standpoint, it is quite interesting that in some elitist circles being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than carrying the name bin Ladin.
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Pistol

Cops release photos that were tagged 'partners in crime' from Breonna Taylor's boyfriend's phone that show them both holding gun believed to be the one he used to fire at police

Tim Stickings
Daily Mail
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:28 UTC
breonna taylor gun
In one text message to Walker, Taylor sent an image of herself with the AR-15 pistol.
The Louisville Metro Police Department has released the contents of its internal investigation following the death of Breonna Taylor, including photos of her brandishing guns and text messages that indicate her boyfriend Kenneth Walker sold drugs.

On Wednesday, LMPD released 4,470 pages including investigative reports, interview summaries and evidence reports, as well as 251 videos and hundreds of photos.

Taylor's death in a hail of police bullets early on March 13 sparked protests nationwide, and the document dump follows a controversial grand jury ruling that saw no officers directly charged in her death.

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Attention

Facebook's privacy changes might jeopardise unmasking of sexual predators, warns law enforcement

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 05:57 UTC
Facebook
© Reuters / Johanna Geron
Last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned that the platform's new privacy proposals could allow child abusers to evade detection, after the chief executive promised that his company would be implementing end-to-end encryption across all of its messaging services.

Facebook services helped law enforcement identify around 94 percent of the 69 million images of children being subjected to sex abuse reported by US technology companies in 2019. However the privacy laws it is considering are about to jeopardise these efforts, writes Sky News.

Seven countries, including the UK, have published a statement warning of the potential dangers to public safety that could stem from the implementation of proposed end-to-end encryption.

Signed by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, along with the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan, it urges tech companies to remain vigilant to "criminality on their platforms".

"We owe it to all of our citizens, especially our children, to ensure their safety by continuing to unmask sexual predators and terrorists operating online," Patel is cited as saying.

Comment: Is law enforcement's complaint really about 'the children' or the fact that they will have a harder time accessing the data of anyone on the platform?

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Attention

WHO (accidentally) confirms covid is no more dangerous than flu

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:17 UTC
world health organisation
The World Health Organization has finally confirmed what we (and many experts and studies) have been saying for months - the coronavirus is no more deadly or dangerous than seasonal flu.

The WHO's top brass made this announcement during a special session of the WHO's 34-member executive board on Monday October 5th, it's just nobody seemed to really understand it.

In fact, they didn't seem to completely understand it themselves.

At the session, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO's Head of Emergencies revealed that they believe roughly 10% of the world has been infected with Sars-Cov-2. This is their "best estimate", and a huge increase over the number of officially recognised cases (around 35 million).

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USA

Does the Coronavirus make our constitutional freedom of assembly obsolete?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
covid freedom
Over the past couple of weeks a trend has become apparent in the state of Idaho, specifically in Moscow, Idaho in Latah County. The city council of Moscow has issued a mandatory mask order, and they are using police to enforce it. Bizarrely, the city had ZERO deaths from Covid at the time the mask order was instituted, meaning their action was in response to...nothing.

Idaho has had a total of 500 deaths from Covid since the beginning of the outbreak. To put this in perspective, the state also has around 400 deaths from diabetes every year, and 250 deaths from the flu/pneumonia according to the CDC. Perhaps they should ban sugar, and make masks mandatory for the flu as well, just to be safe...

The residents of Moscow are not too happy with the city council attempt to unilaterally enforce such mandates. Church congregations in particular are fighting back by holding outdoor services without masks. The city has responded by ARRESTING the pastors of any church that dare to defy mask laws.

I bring up this specific instance of coronavirus enforcement because the circumstances surrounded it are disturbing...
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Yellow Vest

No to 'permanent fear campaigns': Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters decry government restrictions in Berlin


RT
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:58 UTC
Berlin protests
© Global Look Press / Fabian Sommer
Thousands of people marched through central Berlin protesting the lockdown measures taken by the German government due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which they say violate their "human rights."

A loose column of demonstrators stretched along several major streets of the German capital as they slowly walked from Konrad Adenauer Square in the western part of the city to the Victory Column in the central Tiergarten Park and near the iconic Brandenburg Gate.

Dubbed the 'Silent March' by its organizers, the demonstration was nevertheless held with the slogan 'We have to speak out!' displayed on a large banner that a group of protesters marching at the helm of the procession were carrying. Apart from that, there were hardly any signs, as the organizers urged them to leave all flags, banners, and even clothing with slogans printed on it at home.

Comment: With the World Bank forecasting that the poverty rate will rise because of the lockdowns it's likely these protest movements erupting around the world are only just beginning:

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