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States have a strong interest in ensuring that the votes of their own citizens are not diluted by the unconstitutional administration of elections in other States. When non-legislative actors in other States encroach on the authority of the "Legislature thereof" in that State to administer a Presidential election, they threaten the liberty, not just of their own citizens, but of every citizen of the United States who casts a lawful ballot in that election — including the citizens of amici States.UPDATES 10 Dec 2020

Both lawsuits cite Facebook's 2012 purchase of Instagram for $1 billion and a $19 billion deal for WhatsApp in 2014 as examples of its efforts to eliminate competitors.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's view, expressed in a 2008 email, that "it is better to buy than compete," the FTC said in its suit. "To further entrench its position, Facebook has also imposed anticompetitive conditions that restricted access to its valuable platform — conditions that Facebook personnel recognized as 'anti user[,]' 'hypocritical' in light of Facebook's purported mission of enabling sharing, and a signal that 'we're scared that we can't compete on our own merits.'"
For Facebook, the coordinated federal and state lawsuits represent the most aggressive legal action against the company to date by government authorities, culminating a bipartisan campaign to rein in big technology companies. It's the second time in two months that the government has moved against a tech giant.
"It's time that the courts put an end to Big Tech's specious claim that its products are 'free,' so 'consumer welfare' is not infringed upon and the antitrust laws don't apply," Ed Mierzwinski, U.S.
PIRG's* senior director for federal consumer programs, said in a statement. "Actually, consumers pay with our data, through a Big Tech business model of constant corporate surveillance and manipulation."
*Public Interest Research Group
Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), told lawmakers on Wednesday that people will not get to select which vaccine they want to take during the first phase of the UK's mass immunization programme.The safest option would be to not volunteer to be a guinea pig for any of these experimental vaccines, particularly for the 99% of the population who could safely rely on their immune system which would also confer a lifetime of immunity: 'And that no man might buy or sell': Welsh government to roll out 'coronavirus vaccine ID cards'
"A situation where we have enough vaccines that you have a choice which one you wish, (that) will be a very nice problem for us to have. It is not the problem we have at the moment and it is not a problem we're going to have for the next four months," Whitty said.
"Currently, if the choice is between a good vaccine and no vaccine, I'm going to just go for whichever good vaccine is available," the CMO added.
There isn't enough data to know whether these vaccines are 'good' and as the UK's CMO one would expect that he would be scientific and honest.
Whitty's comment comes as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) issued a warning on Wednesday that people with a history of 'significant' allergic reactions should not take Pfizer's Covid-19 jab.
The alert was issued after two NHS staff members experienced adverse reactions to the Pfizer jab. They are both said to be recovering well.
The UK's mass vaccination programme started on Tuesday at hospitals across the country, using the recently approved Pfizer vaccine.
So far, the Pfizer vaccine has only been approved for use in the UK.
Even though Switzerland has ordered millions of doses of the Pfizer vaccine it has not approved it for use because of the lack of data on its safety and efficacy.
On Tuesday, Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said he was hoping that the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca may also be approved before the end of the year.

"There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic... You do not vaccinate people who aren't at risk from a disease. You also don't set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn't been extensively tested on human subjects." Dr. Mike Yeadon PhD, Pfizer's former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory Disease
Here's what I think is currently going on in our country and across much of the western world. A public health crisis - that was manufactured and gamed - out before the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China - has been used to short-circuit long-held civil liberties, strengthen the authority of political leaders, collapse the economy, dramatically remake basic social relations, and impose absolute control over work, school, gatherings and recreational activities. Public policy is now set by unelected technocrats who operate behind the cover of lofty-sounding organizations that are entirely controlled by the world's biggest corporations and richest oligarchs. President Dwight Eisenhower anticipated this troubling scenario 70 years ago when he said:"What we know about coronavirus from 30 years of experience is that a coronavirus vaccine has a unique peculiarity, which is any attempt at making the vaccine has resulted in the creation of a class of antibodies that actually make vaccinated people sicker when they ultimately suffer exposure to the wild virus." Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
Comment: To read the Corman-Drosten Review Report, submitted 27th November, 2020, go here. Included are: a detailed analysis of mistakes, a list concerns and a summary of errors found in the paper.
'Follow the science' they said. What they didn't tell you is that what they want you to follow is not science.
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