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Fifteen arrested after Vienna attacks are part of local Islamist 'scene', Austria says


OAN
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:08 UTC
Police Vienna
© Matthias Schrader / AP
All 15 people arrested in connection with a deadly rampage in Vienna on Monday are part of the radical Islamist scene and just under half have criminal convictions, some for terrorism offences, Interior Ministry officials said on Thursday.

A 20-year-old native of the city, who had previously been jailed for trying to join Islamic State in Syria, was shot dead by police within nine minutes of opening fire on bystanders and bars on Monday. He killed four people.

"We are dealing with a violent perpetrator who was evidently intensely involved in the network of political Islam, of sympathisers, who took on their ideology," Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said.

The 15 are being held on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation. Seven of them have criminal convictions, Of those, four are for terrorism-related offences, Director General for Public Security Franz Ruf said.

Of those four, two involved acts of violence like assault and two were for attempted so-called honour killings, Ruf said, adding: "One can see that all are to be linked to the radical Islamist milieu".

Comment: See also: Over in France, Macron has pledged additional French border police amid the 'growing terrorism threat':
"We have foiled 32 plans for attacks on our soil" over three years, Macron said during a visit to the Pyrenees-Orientales area on France's border with Spain on Thursday.

The French president also called for an overhaul of the Schengen Area, the zone guaranteeing freedom of movement between ​​26 European countries, saying: "I am in favor of an in-depth re-foundation of Schengen to re-think its organization and beef up our common border security."

He said the increased controls would target illegal immigration, adding that he would put forward the first proposals on the project to the European Council in December.


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Election forecaster Nate Silver on Fox News, AP calling Arizona for Biden: 'Should be retracted now'

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:42 UTC
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FiveThirtyEight election forecaster Nate Silver called on Fox News and The Associated Press to retract their early projections that Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden would win the state of Arizona, saying that the race is getting very tight.

The remark from Silver comes after more votes were counted in Maricopa County which caused Biden's lead over Trump to shrink.

Silver wrote, "I don't know, I guess I'd say that Biden will win Arizona if you forced me to pick, but I sure as heck don't think the state should have been called by anyone, and I think the calls that were previously made should be retracted now."


MSNBC election forecaster Steve Kornacki updated Arizona's election numbers after the latest batch of ballots was tallied up.

"What you just saw was the vote total in Maricopa County, Arizona, just updated," Kornacki said. "To explain what's going on here. Maricopa County is about two-thirds of Arizona in terms of population. So, this is the motherload when you're talking about votes in Arizona."

"We have basically the third batch of votes, the third and final batch of votes that they're going to work through ... we called these the 'late early votes,'" he said. "They were mail ballots, absentee ballots, that came in sort of after this past weekend or were brought in on election day."

"And the suspense has been would this be a Trump favorable group or would it be a Biden favorable group? And so we just got those new numbers, of the new votes that were just reported out, Donald Trump won 43,966 of them, Joe Biden won 30,322 of them," he continued. "Donald Trump is getting around 59% of these votes."

Comment: Fox hasn't been doing itself any favors:


Even CNN had to acknowledge this:


See also:

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Music

Grammy awards virtue signal by renaming world music category to avoid 'connotations of colonialism'

Ben Beaumont-Thomas
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 21:20 UTC
Angélique Kidjo
© Monica Almeida/ReutersAngélique Kidjo with what was then called the best world music album award, at the 2020 Grammys.
The Grammys are changing the name of their "best world music" album category to "best global music" album, to avoid "connotations of colonialism".

In a statement, the Recording Academy said the change came "as we continue to embrace a truly global mindset ... Over the summer we held discussions with artists, ethnomusicologists, and linguists from around the world who determined that there was an opportunity to update the best world music album category toward a more relevant, modern, and inclusive term ... The change symbolises a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk, and 'non-American' that the former term embodied while adapting to current listening trends and cultural evolution among the diverse communities it may represent."

The term "world music" was originally coined in the UK in 1987 to help market music from non-western artists. The Grammys created the best world music album category in 1992, with winners since including Ravi Shankar, Gilberto Gil and three-time recipient Angélique Kidjo.

The term has fallen out of favour more widely in recent years. The Guardian stopped using it in July 2019, tagging articles about music from non-western countries instead with a more inclusive genre descriptor such as "pop and rock" or "electronic music".

Our world music album of the month column was, like the Grammys, renamed global album of the month. Guardian music critic Ammar Kalia reasoned that the change "does not answer the valid complaints of the artists and record label founders who have been plagued by catch-all terms. Yet, in the glorious tyranny of endless internet-fuelled musical choice, marginalised music still needs championing and signposting in the west."

Comment: Replacing world with global. Wow, what a dramatic, profound, and deeply affecting change that will impact several, perhaps even half a dozen, people.

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Hefty fines for Twitter, Facebook & Google? Russian social media users ask state to punish US websites that censor Russian news

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 21:11 UTC
Twitter, Facebook
© REUTERS / Jon NazcaFILE PHOTO.
A group of Russian social media professionals have asked the Ministry of Communications to fine foreign companies who censor Russian media, after it was revealed that US tech giants have restricted around 20 Russian outlets.

In an open letter, the Association of Professional Users of Social Networks and Messengers (APPSIM) proposed a fine of 10 million rubles ($130,000) for the offending parties, with their sights set on American firms, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

The notice cites data from Russia's federal censor, Roskomnadzor, which claims that the trio have blocked access to material from about 20 Russian media outlets, including RIA Novosti, RT, Sputnik, and Rossiya-1.

As things stand, the maximum fine companies face for censorship is 10,000 rubles ($128). However, despite the fines, the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) currently doesn't have the ability to collect the money. According to Vladimir Zykov, director of APPSIM, the money should be taken from their Russia-based partners.
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Bad Guys

Voter fraud already

Ryan Dawson
The ANC Report
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:39 UTC
Joe Biden Meme
I need help spreading this video. This is happening in Atlanta #ElectionResults2020 #Election2020 #ELECTIONINTERFERENCE pic.twitter.com/UY7zvGs4Rj

— Prod. R A G E (@prod_rage) November 5, 2020

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Bad Guys

Fanning the flames: All four ex-cops charged in George Floyd murder case will be tried together in televised proceedings

Jerry Lambe
Law and Crime
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:44 UTC
gorge flyod cops
Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Kiernan Lane
A Minnesota judge has declined requests from the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd, ruling that all four will be tried in a single proceeding which will be televised despite state prosecutors not consenting to any audio or visual coverage in the courtroom.

The Wednesday night order, from Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, also denied requests from defendants Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Kiernan Lane to have the trial moved out of Minneapolis. The defendants had previously argued that remaining in the city would violate their Sixth Amendment right to a fair proceeding due to the amount of pre-trial exposure.

In allowing the proceedings to be televised, Cahill reasoned that the defendants' Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial ran concurrent with "the general public's First Amendment right of access to public trials."

Comment: Seems politics are at play to stoke tensions in the likely result that these men are legally found not guilty.

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The untold impact of lockdowns

Dr. Zoë Harcombe Ph.D.
zoeharcombe.com
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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Introduction

A paper was published in The Lancet on October 22nd, 2020, called "The temporal association of introducing and lifting non-pharmaceutical interventions with the time-varying reproduction number (R) of SARS-CoV-2: a modelling study across 131 countries" (Ref 1). That's the academic way of saying "The impact of different lockdown measures in 131 countries."

This was a timely study, as England is due to join the rest of the UK in lockdown from 5th November and measures are being re-introduced in a number of other countries. The UK has a particular knack for inventing words to avoid calling lockdowns "lockdowns". We have Levels 0-4 in Scotland, Tiers 1-3 currently in England, a 'partial' lockdown in Northern Ireland and a complete lockdown in Wales, but it's called a Firebreak. The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said of the latest measures "We are not going back to the full-scale lockdown of March and April... But from Thursday the basic message is the same: 'Stay at home. Protect the NHS. And save lives'." While other countries are variously locking down and opening up, this study looked at what it called non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to understand the impact of introducing and lifting different restrictions.

This was a two part modelling study. While we have often said that models are only as good as their assumptions - and this is true - the first part of this study modelled things that had happened and the second part was then an "ad hoc analysis", which tried to estimate what would have the greatest effect given the findings from part 1. Part 1, if not Part 2, could be of significant value because it modelled historical events rather than predicting future events based on assumptions.

Comment: One of the few crucial rules for locking down that so few are even thinking to inquire about and bears repeating:
"No medical intervention - pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical - should be undertaken without a harm-benefit analysis. This has still not been done."
See also: Radio host crushes leading UK epidemiologist's credibility over (unknown) cost of 2nd lockdown

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Bad Guys

Judicial Watch finds 1.8 million 'ghost voters' in 29 states, warns of 'dirty elections'

Jennifer Harper
The Washington Times
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:52 UTC
mail in ballots voting fraud
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Judicial Watch has released a comparison study of Census Bureau population statistics and state voter registration data to reveal a notable disparity. The watch dog group is now warning of potential voter fraud and "dirty" voter rolls.

The study found that 352 U.S. counties in 29 states managed to have 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens.

"In other words, the registration rates of those counties exceeded 100% of eligible voters. The study found eight states showing state-wide registration rates exceeding 100%: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont," reported Tom Fitton, president of the watchdog group.

Some of that excess ran as high as 187% in Texas, 177% in New Mexico and 171% in South Dakota.

"The new study of excess — or ghost voters — highlights the recklessness of mailing blindly ballots and ballot applications to voter registration lists. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections," Mr. Fitton noted.
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Bizarro Earth

North Korea bans smoking in some public places


The Guardian
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:11 UTC
smoking kim jong un
© APNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un is known to be a heavy smoker but his regime has moved to ban smoking in public places.
North Korea's supreme people's assembly has introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with "hygienic living environments", state media KCNA reported.

The tobacco-prohibition law aims to protect the lives and health of North Koreans by tightening the legal and social controls on the production and sale of cigarettes, KCNA on Thursday quoted the legislature as saying.

The law stipulates that smoking is banned in specific venues, such as political and ideological education centres, theatres and cinemas and medical and public health facilities, KCNA said.

Comment: Well, when it comes to totalitarian measures the West and North Korea are looking more similar by the day:

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Bad Guys

Suitcases and coolers rolled into Detroit voting center at 4 AM, brought into secure counting area

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:46 UTC
Detroit voter fraud
A poll watcher filmed highly suspicious activity at a vote-counting center in Detroit at 4 a.m., the morning after election day.

In the footage, taken by Kellye SoRelle, a Texas lawyer and member of Lawyers for Trump, a person in a white van was filmed loading up a red wagon outside the ballot counting location and bringing it instead.

SoRelle released the video to Texas Scorecard, because she wanted to raise "alarms that the box may have been a ballot box that arrived long after all ballots were expected to have been received at the counting facility."

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