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Rose McGowan unleashes fury against Joe Biden, Democrats: 'You are monsters, frauds'

Melissa Roberto
Fox News
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Rose McGowan
© GettyUS actress Rose McGowan gives opening remarks to the audience at the Women's March / Women's Convention in Detroit, Mich., on Oct. 27, 2017.
The actress has stood behind Biden assault accuser Tara Reade in recent months

Rose McGowan blasted Joe Biden and the Democratic Party on the final day of the Democratic National Convention in a series of tweets in which she dubbed them all "frauds."

The actress and activist, 46, who has stood behind Biden assault accuser Tara Reade and blasted Hollywood stars for their support of the Democratic presidential nominee, made her distaste for Biden loud and clear as she ripped his speech in which he described America as a "cloak of darkness" under Trump.

"Give people light. Those are words for our time. The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division," Biden said on Thursday night.

"You are the season of darkness. @JoeBiden @dnc You are monsters. You are frauds. You are the lie," McGowan reacted on the social media platform.
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Airplane

Brooklyn mother traveling with six children was forced off JetBlue flight when her 2-year-old daughter wouldn't wear mask

Chelsia Rose Marcius
New York Daily News
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:34 UTC
JetBlue child mask kicked off
© ScreencaptureOther passengers on the JetBlue flight rallied in support of the mother
A Brooklyn mother traveling alone with her six children was forced off a JetBlue flight in Orlando, Fla. Wednesday when her 2-year-old daughter wouldn't wear her mask.

Flight attendants ordered Chaya Bruck of Midwood to get off the Newark-bound plane after her daughter Dina refused to keep the face covering on — and when the desperate mom tried to explain the tot wasn't cooperating, the attendants told all of the passengers to get off the aircraft.

"It was horrible, the whole experience was traumatizing," Bruck told the Daily News from Orlando International Airport, where she and her children were still stranded Wednesday afternoon.

Comment: JetBlue's corporate image is not faring well:





Mindless authoritarian followers were also out in force:






with the equally mindless identity politics, including 'antisemitism', not far behind:




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Network

Almost half of Muscovites support city's ever-expanding facial recognition system

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:02 UTC
facial recognition
© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevFILE PHOTO.
Moscow's CCTV system, recently used to catch people violating the Covid-19 quarantine, continues to split opinion. A survey has revealed that just under half of the capital's residents support the expansion of facial recognition.

According to research conducted by the Levada Center, 42 percent of Muscovites oppose the installation of facial recognition cameras, with 47 percent supporting it. The Russian capital has an extensive citywide CCTV system, allowing the authorities to track and find criminals wanted by law enforcement. In recent months, the cameras were used to detect and punish citizens for breaking the rules under the city's strict coronavirus self-isolation regime.

The research revealed that those who supported the installation of cameras mainly explained that they help to combat crime (70 percent), with another quarter (27 percent) saying they are necessary for safety. Opponents of the facial recognition system cited "total surveillance" (53 percent) and the violation of citizens' freedoms (39 percent) as their main complaints.


Comment: Whether they really do help combat crime is still up for debate although evidently those in support of them think that they do.


Comment: Ultimately it's not the technologies that are the problem but who is in control of them:

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Water

Michigan reaches $600M deal in Flint water crisis, attorney tells AP

John Flesher
Washington Times
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Flint water plant
© AP Photo/Carlos OsorioIn this March 21, 2016, file photo, the Flint Water Plant water tower is seen in Flint, Mich. Multiple news outlets report Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, that the state of Michigan has reached a $600 million agreement to compensate Flint residents whose health was damaged by lead-tainted drinking water.
Michigan will pay $600 million to compensate Flint residents whose health was damaged by lead-tainted drinking water after the city heeded state regulators' advice not to treat it properly, an attorney involved in the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Details will be released later this week, according to the attorney, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about it ahead of an official announcement. The settlement was first reported by The Detroit News, MLive.com and WXZY-TV.

It is intended to resolve all legal actions against the state for its role in a disaster that made the impoverished, majority-Black city a nationwide symbol of governmental mismanagement, the attorney said.

The offices of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have been negotiating for more than 18 months with lawyers for thousands of Flint residents who have filed suits against the state.
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Hotdog

Remember Russiagate? Vox writer ROASTED for claiming Democrats 'mostly CONTAINED' their conspiracy nuts


RT
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:23 UTC
russia gate headline VOX
© Vox.com / screenshot; (inset) Twitter / @zackbeauchampThe author of the Vox 'Russia bounties explainer' thinks Democrats have contained their "conspiracy nuttery"
A senior writer at the liberal explainer site Vox got the left and right to unite in laughter and mockery, as they dunked on his claim that Democrats have nothing like QAanon and have done better with their conspiracy "nuttery."

"Conspiracy theories typically flourish among parties out of power," Zach Beauchamp tweeted on Thursday. "Yet Democrats mostly contained the Louise Mensch-style nuttery while a QAnon devotee is going to Congress."

Beauchamp was referring to a Republican candidate for Congress who just won a primary and was an admitted fan of the vague, pro-Trump conspiracy movement. It did not take long for pundits from all over the political spectrum to point out the stunning lack of self-awareness at work.

Comment: The absurdity of this 3-yo circus is enough to make sane people cry.

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Burka

Uproar after Somali lawmaker presents bill to legalise child marriage

Abdi Sheikh
Reuters
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:06 UTC
Somalia
© Reuters/Feisal OmarNurta Mohamed, a Somali girl sits inside her mother's makeshift shelter after she ran away from a suspected forced marriage at the Alafuuto camp for internally displaced persons in Garasbaaley district of Mogadishu, Somalia. August 14th 2020.
Hafsa was married off at 13 by her father to a man who paid $100. She and her mother say she was beaten and raped for two years before they convinced him to divorce her.

"The man just slept with me, beating me always," she said, sitting by her mother, who clutches her daughter tightly. "I regretted I was born."

There is no law mandating a minimum age for marriage in Somalia. A bill introduced in parliament this month by a presidential ally caused a storm of criticism from lawmakers when they realised it would legalise marriage at puberty - as early as 10 for some girls.

Data from a government survey this year shows that nearly a third of girls are married before their 18th birthday - just under half of those before the age of 15.

Comment: See also:

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Boat

Report: Ship crash near Shanghai leaves 14 sailors missing


Washington Times
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:03 UTC
shanghai ship crash
Fourteen sailors were missing Friday after two ships collided in the Yellow Sea east of Shanghai, Chinese authorities reported.

Three other crew members were rescued from the water after Thursday's pre-dawn collision between a vessel carrying 3,000 tons of gasoline and another loaded with gravel, according to the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration.

The collision occurred outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, a busy shipping lane.
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TV

American Samoa 'hostage situation' & Rhode Island 'calamari ninja': Twitter loses it over DNC's virtual roll call


RT
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:00 UTC
somoa rode island roll call DNC
© DNC
As the Democratic Party moved to nominate Joe Biden, viewers watching at home were somewhat distracted, infatuated with Rhode Island's calamari-wielding "ninja" and a bizarre "hostage-taking" scene in American Samoa.

The party's national convention pushed into its second night on Tuesday, seeing Biden officially elevated as the Democrats' 2020 presidential candidate alongside running mate Kamala Harris. During the roll call vote prior to the nomination, however, spectators couldn't help but notice that delegates in American Samoa, a US territory, were flanked by a pair of uniformed soldiers, giving the appearance that they had been taken captive.

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Stormtrooper

Melbourne: Authorities to use surveillance drones to catch people not wearing masks

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:22 UTC
police drone
© PHOTOPQR/L'EST REPUBLICAIN/MAXPPP
Authorities in Melbourne, Australia will use high-tech surveillance drones to catch people outside not wearing masks as well as to scan for vehicles that are in violation of curfew by being more than 5km from home.

"High powered drones will be used to find people not wearing masks and cars too far from home," according to a 7News Melbourne news report.
The drones will also be used to ensure skate parks and playgrounds remain empty.

The surveillance devices can be flown up to a distance of 7km and produce images so clear they can "read a vehicle's number plate from 500 meters away."

Privacy advocates are concerned that there is no sunset clause on the use of such technology and the drones could continue to be used to spy on citizens after the pandemic ends.

7News Melbourne spoke to two residents who said they weren't worried because they were behaving and had "nothing to hide."

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: The case for masks, school closings, & social isolation just collapsed!

Michael Thau
RedState
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:00 UTC
jogging facemask
© AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

-Theodore Dalrymple
The Annals of Internal Medicine just published a comprehensive new study on how contagious the COVID-19 virus is. And I'm sorry to report that the case for a number of popular new practices that seem to have filled some spiritual need a lot of Americans have for self-abasement just completely collapsed.

The list of practices no longer having any conceivable rationale includes:
  • Closing down schools.
  • Closing down gyms, barber shops, or any other businesses.
  • Limiting the number of patrons allowed in restaurants or other businesses at one time.
  • Mass testing for the COVID-19 virus.
  • Putting healthy people in quarantine.
  • Keeping a distance of 3, 6, or some other arbitrary number of feet away from healthy individuals.
  • Healthy individuals with no criminal intent wearing masks when it's not Halloween.
Likewise for any other humiliating rituals state and local officials plan on forcibly enacting to keep you safe from the scourge of COVID-19 that their own sense of self-worth precludes participating in.

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