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It's time to dramatically increase the penalty for election fraud

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For almost four full years, Americans were fed a steady diet of outrage from our mainstream media and political elites regarding the Russia hoax. "A foreign power interfering in our electoral process is a threat to our very democracy," they told us.

Russia's actual crimes during the 2016 election amounted to little more than spending a few hundred thousand dollars on Facebook ads (spreading disinformation about both Democrats and Republicans, by the way) and meeting with various representatives of the Trump campaign to discuss aspects of future U.S.-Russia relations.

Joe Biden has not yet been officially declared the winner of the election, yet he has already bragged about being in contact with various foreign leaders to discuss the would-be future of his presidency. Yet when Gen. Michael Flynn engaged in similar discussions on behalf of the Trump campaign in 2016, such behavior was tantamount to treason and resulted in an all-out assault by the Obama Justice Department on the general. Where is the outrage from the media and the political establishment?

Even after the Mueller Report was released exposing the hoax, the feigned indignation carried on for months before finally petering out in favor of the media's newfound fury over an imaginary scandal involving Ukraine.

Yet here we are and virtually every day that passes yields evidence of potential new incidents of voter fraud; not by sinister actors from a foreign power, but by fellow Americans.

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Threat to Israel? As Ultra-Orthodox community increases, secular population fears country's collapse

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© Reuters/Ronen ZvulunUltra-Orthodox Jews take part in a rally supporting United Torah Judaism Party.
Israel's Haredi population is projected to make up some 40 percent of the country by 2065. And if that happens, the nation's economy might be at risk, simply because its secular individuals, who make up the main work force, will struggle to find the means to sustain it.

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox community, which currently makes up 12 percent of the country's nine million people has gotten used to being blamed for the Jewish state's multiple problems.

Israel's Scapegoats?

With the eruption of COVID-19 in mid-March, Israeli media blamed them for not adhering to the regulations enacted to curb the spread of the virus, and multiple reports have been devoted to registering the instances in which they broke the rules set by the government.

Such was the case in November, when despite the ban, Ultra-Orthodox cities and neighbourhoods opened their educational institutions. And such was the case in December, when reports suggested the Haredi community was still holding mass weddings and gatherings despite the raging pandemic that has already claimed the lives of more than 3,000 Israelis.

In fact, the campaign against them was so strong and loud that several high-profile members of the Ultra-Orthodox community published op-eds, claiming the Israeli media was "allowing their blood to be spilt".

Comment: Israel's economy is at risk? The US bends over backwards to prioritize and subsidize this leach of a nation over the needs of American citizens. Perhaps between now and 2065, Israel could save a billion bucks per year by eliminating bombing raids on its neighbors.


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Georgia runoffs report: Officials brace for weeks of litigation as they expect a tight race

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More than two million people have already voted early in the US Senate runoff elections in Georgia pitting Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock.

Election officials in Georgia are "gearing up" for a scenario that the 5 January runoff vote may see a neck-and-neck race that will be followed by weeks of litigation, Fox News reports.

Both Republicans and Democrats reportedly expect "razor-thin" results in the hotly contested US state, which has been at the center of the Trump campaign's fraud claims following the 3 November US presidential election.

The Fox News report comes a week after the pro-Trump political group True the Vote announced that it is challenging the eligibility of more than 364,000 voters in Georgia ahead of the runoff elections.

The group said it is cooperating with state officials to make challenges in line with Georgia law envisaging that any registered voter can challenge the eligibility of any other voter within the same county if the person being challenged does not meet the requirements for voting legally.The law obliges local election boards to determine whether the challenges have merit.

At least 2.1 million people have, meanwhile, cast ballots early for the Georgia runoffs, voting at in-person polling places or sending ballots by mail.

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Coronavirus vaccine passport may be required for traveling in 2021

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Comment: Though the following article gives us a good idea of digital id apps are going, like many articles these days it says little to nothing about the massive impingement of human freedom implied in the enforcement of said id's...


As different countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia now begin administering COVID vaccines from various companies, the hope of opening the world by 2021 is getting stronger days before 2020 ends. However, going back to normal before pandemic struck the world may require people to apply for a coronavirus vaccine passport.

Numerous technology companies and groups have begun developing systems where individuals can create digital credentials and upload details about their Covid-19 vaccinations and tests. These data in forms of smartphone apps will be shown before entering different offices, public facilities like movie theaters, stadiums, concert venues, or even traveling abroad.

What is COVID vaccine passport?

Basically, people who already received a coronavirus vaccine will be issued a COVID vaccine passport to allow them move more freely by giving them access to more indoor restaurants, movie theaters, other public facilities, and even travel abroad.

Comment: See also:


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Chinese citizen journalist jailed for four years over Wuhan coronavirus reports

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A Chinese court sentenced a citizen journalist to four years in prison on Monday for her uncensored reports from Wuhan during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak.

Zhang Zhan, 37, appeared in court in Shanghai in a wheelchair because of her deteriorating health. She began a hunger strike in late June to protest her detention, and has been subjected to force-feeding through a nasal tube, according to her lawyers.

Ms Zhang was found guilty of picking quarrels and provoking trouble after a brief hearing, according to one of her defence lawyers, Ren Quanniu. She had faced up to five years on the charge, which authorities regularly use to detain activists and other dissidents.

"She said when I visited her (last week): 'If they give me a heavy sentence then I will refuse food until the very end.' ... She thinks she will die in prison," Mr Ren told the AFP news agency.

"It's an extreme method of protesting against this society and this environment," he added.

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Harassed by guards and extorted by inmates, Jeffrey Epstein shared suicidal thoughts at NYC federal jail

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Jeffrey Epstein’s federal jail cell and the torn sheet of prison linen he used to kill himself
Before he died by suicide, Jeffrey Epstein got an early taste of hell.

The multimillionaire sex offender was extorted by inmates and ignored by staff as he became increasingly suicidal, Metropolitan Correctional Center inmates told the Daily News in exclusive interviews.

"He was saying he's going to kill himself because the government is trying to kill him anyway," one inmate recalled.

Shocking details about Epstein's one-month stay behind bars in lower Manhattan were corroborated by the niece of Efrain "Stone" Reyes, who was the last inmate to share a cell with the multimillionaire sex offender.

"Epstein was very depressed and he mentioned to my uncle that he didn't want to live anymore and my uncle was telling him, 'Don't do any of this while I'm in the room,' " Angelique Lopez told The News. "My uncle just wanted to do his time and get out."

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Crossing the line

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There is a video making the rounds of a self-described desperate restaurant owner in California being confronted by several armed government workers who appeared because the restaurant owner - out of desperation and to make a point - had used his truck to prevent a Gesundheitsleiter (a "health inspector") from backing his car out of a parking spot . . . so as to prevent him from "doing his job" to some other restaurant owner.

The point being that the Gesundheitsleiter wasn't experiencing the suffering he was visiting so casually on others.

He had come to levy fines on the restaurant owner for not obeying the Gesundheitsbefehls - health orders - of Gesundheitsfuhrer Gavin Newsome, who has been caught ignoring his own befehls - which do not apply to him, of course, since he controls the Gesundheitsleiters and AGWs who enforce the befehls.

Some of these fines were apparently issued to the restaurant owner on account of people sitting outside his restaurant, on city-owned benches situated on the city-owned sidewalk - over which the restaurant owner has no control, since it's not his property. How, he asked, is he supposed to police people sitting on public benches on public property?

But that wasn't the point.

The restaurant owner was using his truck to try to convey to the Gesundheitsleiter what it felt like to be prevented from working, the very thing the Gesundheitsleiter had come to make sure the restaurant owner didn't do by punishing him for trying to do.

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Truck playing audio 'similar' to Nashville bomb RV probed outside city

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A white box truck playing "audio similar" to the RV that exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning was reported outside the city Sunday, prompting a police probe that ultimately revealed no explosives, according to local authorities and outlets.

"Sheriff's deputies in Rutherford and Wilson Counties are investigating a box truck parked at a store playing audio similar to the Christmas explosion in Nashville," the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office tweeted Sunday afternoon.

"The driver was stopped by deputies and detained. Residents evacuated. Investigation active."

Officials later told local news outlets that that no explosives were found in the truck.

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'He's going for a jog, shoot his legs': Brits imagine what 'Tier 5' could look like amid rumors of even tougher lockdown

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Twitter has gone into panic mode as users shared their wildest ideas of what a Tier 5 lockdown could bring amid rumours of the British government announcing new restrictions.

The highest level of restrictions on the UK government's current menu is Tier 4, also known as 'Stay at Home'.

That did not stop many online from imagining what a hypothetical 'Tier 5' lockdown would look like amid growing speculation of even tougher new rules.


Twitter exploded with memes about Prime Minister Boris Johnson setting up automatic guns outside people's houses or personally hunting down quarantine rule-breakers.

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Courageous woman speaks for millions of Americans: "I'm done" with this COVID insanity!

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Sane people are fed up with the insanity of COVID restrictions.

A woman confronted in a store for not wearing a mask says what millions of Americans are thinking:
I'm not saying COVID is not real, I am saying I'm not sick. I'm not sick and asymptomatic spread has shown to be a myth. So why am I treated like a sick person?

...This is a lie and everyone's buying it... I am done. Tonight I reached a breaking point and I am done...

...I'm a healthy person. I'm not crazy. This is a psychosis, for everyone to put all this stuff on their face when they're healthy is insanity.

Comment: The rebellion is growing. From Covina, California:
A health inspector that was shutting down a Covina, CA based restaurant got a taste of his own medicine last week, as the owner of the establishment used his big ass pickup truck to block in the health inspectors' car.

Cue the police, who apparently have nothing better to do, as six officers respond to the scene.

Carlos Roman, owner of Bread & Barley, pleads with police and the health inspector, explaining that his employees are going broke, one of whom recently had a baby. "This guy needs to know how hard it is," Roman says to the female officer, pointing to the health inspector. "You're out here enforcing, doing your job, did you get a paycheck on Friday? Did you get a paycheck? My people don't. You're just doing your job, right? We're all in this together," he starts to say facetiously.

"What do I tell my employees?" he asks of the inspector and police, and is met only with generic "we need you to step over here" from the cops, as they threaten to tow his truck.

"You're talking to someone who's getting orders from his supervisor," explains the female cop, who then starts to make the argument that "We all have all jobs. I have a job... I don't agree with the things that my job does but I have to do them, because I have to provide for my family."

Well, she just made the point for Roman.


Behold the petty authoritarians in action



Apparently the restaurant has been ordered shut down and fined $1000.


Roman eventually did move his truck.

A GoFundMe has been set up here to help Roman and his employees. Click HERE for the GoFundMe.

You can complain to the health inspectors' office at 626 813 3346.
Salons are another frontline:
Bravely putting their lives on the line to protect the public from hair stylists serving customers, police in Stockton, CA, raided Pomp Salon just before Christmas and ordered the place to close, as it been operating in defiance of Governor Newsom's shutdown orders. "About five armed state police officers burst into our salon shouting drop everything you're doing. Stop, you're being shut down," salon co-owner Vicki Kirk told ABC 10 news.

"They burst into our salon and they treated it like a drug raid," Kirk told FOX40.

The San Joaquin County District Attorneys office has announced that they were not involved in this raid and will not proceed with charges against the salon, as these were state actors and not county or city officers.