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Cameras went dark during vote count at facility in key Nevada county

Zachery Stieber
ZeroHedge
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:16 UTC
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© Trevor Bexon/Getty ImagesElection officials sort mail-in ballots at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters Office in Reno, Nev., on Nov. 8, 2022
Cameras at the vote counting facility in a Nevada county still counting midterm election votes stopped broadcasting overnight, officials said on Nov. 10.

The livestream computer application that provides the feeds "lost connection with" the cameras at 11:24 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Bethany Drysdale, a spokesperson for Washoe County.

All staff members left for the night about an hour before the issue and none returned until 7 a.m. on Thursday morning, county officials said.

The connection was restored just before 8 a.m. on Nov. 10.

The Washoe County security administrator was said to have reviewed security cameras at the building, which run on a different system. The cameras showed that no person entered the ballot room or Registrar's Office while the live feeds were cut off.

Security personnel are working to make that footage public.
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Why elites like Greta Thunberg hate capitalism

Michael Shellenberger
michaelshellenberger.substack.com
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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© ReutersGreta Thunberg
Free markets have lifted millions out of poverty, liberated women, and protected the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives against them?

For the last three years, Greta Thunberg has said that her life's purpose was to save the world from climate change. But last Sunday, she told an audience in London that climate activists must overthrow "the whole capitalist system," which she says is responsible for "imperialism, oppression, genocide... racist, oppressive extractionism." Her talk echoed the World Economic Forum's calls for a "Great Reset" away from fossil fuels and toward renewables. There is no "back to normal," she said.

But her claims are absurd. The "whole capitalist system" has, over the last 200 years, allowed for the average life expectancy of humans to rise from 30 to 70 years of age. The "whole capitalist system" produces larger food surpluses than any other system in human history. And the "whole capitalist system" has resulted in declining greenhouse gas emissions in developed nations over the last 50 years.

Comment: The middle ground is where reason and cooperation shake hands, therefore 'normal' has a moving set point. Fixed polarities create stagnation.

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The FBI's transformation, from national police to domestic spy agency. Part one: 'Disruption'

Matt Taibbi
taibbi.substack.com
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
Steve Friend
© FBI/KJNFBI informant Steve Friend
A Florida FBI agent blows the whistle on a Bureau that's stopped worrying about making cases, shifting resources to a vast new mission: domestic spying without predicate. Part one of a series.

Late on an October morning in a quiet neighborhood near Daytona Beach, Florida. FBI agent Steve Friend sits in his kitchen, fidgeting. He's a wiry, energetic man, built like a marathoner, not muscled up but exuding fitness, not a sitter. This is not a person meant for desk work, much less staying home all day. But as a whistleblower whose name has been all over media after a complaint about statistical manipulation and other problems in the January 6th investigations, this will be his lot for a while.

By that morning, the first rush of news stories about Friend's case already passed. CNN and MSNBC demonized him, Fox hailed him as a hero, but the furor was beginning to die down. What a whistleblower talks about in this inevitable moment will say a lot about his or her motivation. Looking out a window into the stillness of his suburban neighborhood, Friend shook his head.
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Trump blasts Maricopa County after Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly defeats Blake Masters: 'Do election over again!'

Lawrence Richard
Fox News
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:19 UTC
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© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesFormer U.S. President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters at a campaign rally at Legacy Sports USA.
Trump specifically mentioned Maricopa County, where votes were still being counted days after polls closed

Former President Donald Trump made unfounded claims of "voter fraud" in Maricopa County after Republican Blake Masters, his endorsed senatorial candidate in Arizona, lost to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. The race was called late Friday evening.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump claimed the result was "a scam" that could be attributed to "voter fraud" and that acting forces "stole the election," which he said should be held again.

"People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands" in Maricopa County, he claimed.

Comment: Masters had a lot to say about the Arizona debacle




Then there is the not-to be-mentioned fact that Hobbs was not only running for governor, but in her present capacity as secretary of state, she was overseeing her own election run:




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Whoops. Sam Bankman-Fried's implosion took down Democrats' second-biggest donor with it as the party gears up to regulate crypto

Steve Mollman
Fortune
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:30 UTC
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
© Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried speaks with senators and their staff on Feb. 9 in Washington, D.C.
Fewer names have been bigger in cryptocurrencies this year than Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto exchange FTX. So when it became clear this week that the curly-haired billionaire and his exchange faced a liquidity crunch, he was no longer a billionaire, and his exchange likely wasn't solvent, it cast a shadow over the entire crypto space and sent digital currencies plummeting.

It cast a shadow in Washington, D.C., too.

The 30-year-old Bankman-Fried has been a major force in Democratic politics, ranking as the party's second-biggest individual donor in the 2021-2022 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, with donations totaling $39.8 million. That ranks only behind George Soros (about $128 million) but ahead of many other big names, including Michael Bloomberg ($28.3 million). What's more, he had promised to spend far more on Democrats moving forward, predicting in May that he'd fund "north of $100 million" and had a "soft ceiling" of $1 billion for the 2024 elections.

That doesn't look nearly as likely now. He backed away from the prediction last month, describing it as "dumb" to Politico, and on Tuesday his net worth fell from $15.6 billion to potentially below $1 billion, which Bloomberg called the biggest one-day collapse it had ever seen among billionaires. Rumors are now flying in the cryptosphere that he may even go bankrupt.

Comment: Major crypto hub issues bankruptcy warning

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Best of the Web: Eco-extremists are leading the world towards despair, poverty, and starvation

Dr. Jordan Peterson
The Telegraph
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:29 UTC
JOrdan Peterson
Dr. Jordan Peterson
Utopian solutions for saving the planet are doomed to failure - and worse. We must wake up before it is too late

This winter, millions of British citizens, including children, will be tipped, or dumped, into energy poverty severe enough to risk permanent damage to their health. Cold, damp houses provide the perfect breeding ground for mould that not only causes respiratory distress, but renders houses essentially unlivable once established.

One Left-leaning newspaper ran the story outlining the danger, but without a word about why this crisis has emerged: because the woke moralisers of the "environmental" movement helped to create it.

The narcissists of compassion - callow, self-aggrandising, incompetent politicians, their celebrity lackeys, Machiavellian journalists - have insisted ever more loudly over the last five decades that no cost was, and is, too great for others to bear in the pursuit of blind service to "the planet."
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Solar farm owner Toucan Energy enters administration amid Thurrock scandal

Alex Lawson
The Guardian
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:46 UTC
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© Pexels
One of the country's largest solar farm owners has entered administration amid the fallout from a scandal that forced an Essex council leader to resign.

Administrators at Interpath Advisory have been appointed to Toucan Energy Holdings, which owns a portfolio of 53 solar parks with a combined capacity of 513 megawatts across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

A recent investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that Thurrock council in Essex, Toucan's main creditor, borrowed hundreds of millions of pounds to invest in the solar farm scheme run by globetrotting financier Liam Kavanagh.
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800 passengers test positive for Covid-19 on fully vaccinated cruise, ship docks in Sydney amid threats of 'fourth wave'

Ben Doherty
The Guardian
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:03 UTC
Majestic Princess
© Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockThe Majestic Princess Covid outbreak comes after a surge in case numbers across Australia over the past week.
The Majestic Princess cruise ship - carrying about 800 Covid-19 positive passengers - has docked in Sydney and passengers have disembarked in the city.

The ship docked at Circular Quay early Saturday morning, having sailed from New Zealand. It will depart Sydney for Melbourne on Saturday afternoon.

The docking of the ship has raised the spectre of the arrival in Sydney of the Ruby Princess in March 2020 - early in Australia's pandemic - which was ultimately linked to 28 deaths and more than 600 infections, sparking a NSW government special commission of inquiry and a class action case against the operator.


Comment: And even then, it's most likely the majority of those deaths were deaths with Covid.


About 4,600 passengers and crew were aboard the Majestic Princess when it docked in Sydney early on Saturday.
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WWII era planes crash mid-air at air show in Dallas, Texas

Melissa Koenig
Daily Mail
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 20:07 UTC
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Dallas Fire-Rescue squads are responding to the scene where the B17 bomber crashed down
Two World War II-era planes have collided in mid-air at the Wings Over Dallas event Saturday, sending debris flying and igniting a fire nearby.

Video posted online shows a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber approaching the flight path of a Bell P-63 Kingcobra. Soon, the bomber completely collides with the Kingcobra, ripping it to shreds.

The front of the B17 split off from its rears as its wings caught on fire and it spiraled to the ground nearby.

One man who was at the air show said theP-63 was banking left at the time and had the B17 in his blind spot so he could not prepare for the impending crash.

Comment: On the 23rd of October: Russian fighter jet crashes into a two-storey residential building in Siberia, both pilots killed

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Music school in trans row after telling students to 'report' women who oppose the ideology

Eleanor Harding
Daily Mail
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:16 UTC
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The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
An elite music college has been forced to issue an apology after telling students to 'report' women who oppose transgender ideology.

The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) put up a sign claiming female students who wanted single-sex spaces were 'transphobic'.

It said there was a 'zero-tolerance' approach to 'Terfs' - a derogatory term which stands for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists'. And it included a QR code so that students could use their smartphones to report such women to an official university complaints website.

Comment: Gender-critical views are a protected belief, appeal tribunal rules

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