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Dems who attacked Trump for 'vote twice' advice silent as Project Veritas exposes NH Democrats' fake elections inspector

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© Reuters / Gretchen ErtlPrimary day in New Hampshire
New Hampshire Democrats appointed a fake voter as 'elections inspector' last month, conservative investigator Project Veritas (PV) discovered - but liberals remain more concerned Trump supposedly told supporters to 'vote twice.'

West Lebanon, NH resident Vincent Marzello admitted to Project Veritas earlier this month that he "voted twice" in the 2016 election, in a video posted by the outlet on Thursday, returning to the polls in a wig and pretending to be a woman called "Helen Elizabeth Ashley." Not only was Marzello not initially prosecuted - despite getting caught by cops in the act of picking up "Helen's" phony voter ID - but "she" was even named an elections inspector by the state's Democratic Party in July, PV reported.

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Ohio citizens group files federal lawsuit to remove State COVID-19 emergency order

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© Ohio Stands Up
Ohio is getting a lot of attention lately for alleged legislator-lobbyist-utility corruption (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and also citizens taking action against state mandated COVID-19 orders (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Recently, another lawsuit has been filed by the latter.

From RichlandSource:

Ohio Stands Up! files lawsuit to remove DeWine's COVID-19 emergency order

An Ohio citizens group has filed a lawsuit in federal court to remove Gov. Mike DeWine's emergency health order, which was signed on March 9 and remains in place today.


Handcuffs

Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

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Today, the corporate media that cried "Media freedom" when Extinction Rebellion blocked the billionaire owned propaganda presses, is silent as Julian Assange's Calvary for bringing real truth unfiltered to the public moves on to its next station; the macabre Gothic architecture of the Old Bailey.

The Tories appeared remarkably tolerant in the days when Extinction Rebellion were causing general disruption to the public. But to threaten the interests of billionaire paymasters is something against which the entire political class will unite. At a time when the government is mooting designating Extinction Rebellion as Serious Organised Crime, right wing bequiffed muppet Keir Starmer was piously condemning the group, stating: "The free press is the cornerstone of democracy and we must do all we can to protect it."

It is surely time we stopped talking about "free press", as if it was Thomas Paine or William Cobbett distributing pamphlets. Print media is now the subject of phenomenonal ownership concentration. It broadcasts the propaganda of some very nasty billionaires to a shrinking audience of mostly old people. The same ownerships have of course moved in to TV and Radio and increasingly into new media, and have a political stranglehold over those who control state media. At the same time, the corporate gatekeepers of Facebook and Twitter purposefully strangle the flow of readers to independent online media. The idea of a "free press" as an open marketplace of democratic ideas has no real meaning in modern society, until anti-monopoly action is taken. Which is the last thing those in power will do.

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Bizarro Earth

Black militia, armed 'Patriots' & BLM protesters face off in Louisville on chaotic Kentucky Derby day

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© Reuters / Bryan Woolston
Hundreds of protesters from rival groups have descended on Louisville, with armed pro-police activists facing off with anti-racism protesters, as members of all-black NFAC militia staged yet another demonstration of force.

Dressed in black combat fatigues and carrying rifles, around 200 members of the Not F**king Around Coalition (NFAC) gathered in Louisville on Saturday. Having checked their weapons, they marched to a park just outside the Churchill Downs track, where they posed in formation, kneeled, and otherwise demonstrated their resolve to fight for racial justice.

Simultaneously, a large group of Black Lives Matter, Until Freedom, and other activists also marched to the track, chanting "No justice, no Derby," blasting the city for holding recreational and leisure "celebrations" while the country is gripped by "systemic racism."

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1 dead, 7 injured during 90 minute stabbing rampage in Birmingham, UK - Man arrested on suspicion of murder

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© GettyThe attacks happened at four different locations across Birmingham city centre
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one person died and seven others were injured in stabbings across Birmingham city centre.

The 27-year-old suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 BST, West Midlands Police said.

Police said he was also being held over seven counts of attempted murder.

The attacks happened at four different central Birmingham locations over 90 minutes in the early hours of Sunday.

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Bullseye

'Covid claims are absurd, we are being DUPED' - UK TV star Richard Madeley calls out catastrophic lockdown

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THIS week a friend told me about an elderly relative who died a few weeks ago from emphysema. The poor man, a lifelong smoker, had been slowly suffocating for a year or more. He wasn't expected to make it past May. Sure enough, he died before the month was out. Of emphysema.

But his death certificate recorded that he'd been carried off by Covid-19.

A blood test a few days before his death showed the patient had the virus, although he wasn't displaying symptoms of anything other than the lung condition about to kill him.

Comment: Richard Madeley is just one of an increasing number of UK household names calling out the lies of the UK government, and, as he says, it would appear that a backlash is brewing:




Propaganda

Gates' keepers: Bill Gates' control over journalism

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I've written several articles reviewing Bill Gates' control of global health, technology and food policy agendas. Financial influence is, of course, at the heart of this power and not-entirely-obscure influence.

By injecting millions of dollars into various industries, companies and organizations, many of which further strengthen the connections by interlinking and doing business with each other, Gates has risen to become one of the most influential individuals in the world.

While he has faced public backlash a number of times in his career, especially when he was CEO of Microsoft in the '90s, he's become increasingly insulated from negative reviews, thanks to the fact that he also funds journalism and major media corporations.

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Elderly New Yorkers languish on wait lists for critical services amid COVID-19

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The pandemic has dramatically increased the number of elderly New Yorkers waiting for help from city-funded agencies — and it will be months before the residents get the services they need, advocates say.

New data from LiveOn NY, a senior advocacy group, shows that the number of older Big Apple residents waiting to receive everything from personal-care help to a lift to the supermarket has soared 265 percent, to 2,936 people, since February.

That figure — fueled by coronavirus fears over venturing out and budget cuts — comes from a survey completed by the 15 non-profit organizations contracted by the city's Department for the Aging to connect the elderly with needed services through case management, LiveOn NY told The Post.

"It just seems to be growing exponentially," Allison Nickerson, LiveOn NY's executive director, said of the wait for services. "It's catastrophic to people's lives."

"You have a virus that specifically is affecting older New Yorkers ... and there's been zero investment in trying to figure that out. In fact, there are cuts," she said.

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Just how deep is your coronavirus religion?

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"I wanted to stay put in Colombia to build a better future for my daughter, but we have to go back." Those are the words of Nelson Torrelles to Wall Street Journal reporter John Otis. As Otis reported in the August 31 edition of the Journal, the "haggard and hungry" Torrelles along with his wife and 5-year old daughter are walking back to Venezuela on a Colombian highway.

They'd initially moved to Colombia to escape Venezuela's socialist hellhole, only for Torrelles to get a job as a waiter at a barbecue restaurant in Bogota. But when Colombia joined much of the rest of the alarmed world in shutting down its economy in March in response to the coronavirus, Torrelles lost his job and soon enough the family apartment that he couldn't make rent on. Hard as it may be to imagine for those of us lucky enough to live in the United States, the hungry Torrelles and his family are moving back to Venezuela.

Please stop and think about this for a minute. Please stop and imagine the pain Torrelles is in. It surely extends well beyond hunger. Imagine not being able to adequately provide for your family, including a daughter too young to understand that your failures are largely beyond your control. Words don't begin to describe what Torrelles must be going through, nor can someone lucky enough to be in the United States understand just how awful things must be for Torrelles and his family.

About the coronavirus shutdowns, this column will stress yet again what it always has: the greater the presumed lethality of any virus, the less of any kind of need for shutdowns or government intervention. Practicality is behind this simple assertion.

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San Francisco gym owners livid after discovering gyms in government buildings have been opened for months

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Gyms within government buildings in San Francisco have been open for months, despite privately owned establishments being ordered to close due to the coronavirus.

"It's shocking, it's infuriating," Daniele Rabkin, of Crossfit Golden Gate, told a local NBC station. "Even though they're getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It's shocking."

The gyms that have been open for government employees include those for police officers, judges, lawyers, bailiffs, and paralegals, according to the report. One such gym, the Hall of Justice gym, has been open since July 1.

"It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do," Dave Karraker, owner of MX3 Fitness in the Castro, said.

"What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe," said Karraker. "So, at this point, we're just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have."

Comment: Do as we say not what as we do.