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Best of the Web: A doctor speaks: I've studied the data swirling around this perplexing Covid virus. One stark truth stands out: lockdowns don't work

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:31 UTC
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One year since it began, there are still more questions than answers about Covid-19. Just about the only reliable data on it are the mortality rates for various countries. In a murky world, they give us clarity.

I've not written much about Covid-19 recently. What can be said? In my opinion, the world has simply gone bonkers. The best description can be found in Dante's Inferno, written back in the 14th century.

In it, Dante describes the outcasts, who took no side in the rebellion of angels. They live in the vestibule. Not in heaven, not in hell, forever unclassified. Naked and futile, they race around through a hellish mist in eternal pursuit of an elusive, wavering banner, symbolic of their pursuit of ever-shifting self-interest.

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Best of the Web: Julian Assange: London court rules Wikileaks founder should not be extradited to the US

Rachael Kennedy
euronews
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:53 UTC
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© Matt Dunham/APJulian Assange spent seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid another extradition request, but has been in Belmarsh prison since 2019.
Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face charges of espionage, a British court has ruled.

Delivering her decision at the Old Bailey on Monday, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser upheld many of the arguments from lawyers representing the US, but ultimately found in favour of the Wikileaks founder due to concerns over his mental health.

The 49-year-old is said to have experienced suicidal ideation while detained in London's Belmarsh prison and has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and depression.

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Best of the Web: NHS had 15% LESS patients this December compared to 2019 - Any crisis is due to budget cuts, staff shortages and excessive measures

Lucy Johnston
Independent
Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:49 UTC
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© Peter Byrne/PAPA MediaHOSPITALS had almost fifteen percent fewer patients this December compared with 2019
A freedom of information request to NHS England revealed that on December 22, three days after Boris Johnson introduced tier four for millions, more than 13,000 fewer beds were occupied than the same date in 2019.

The new data suggests a key reason hospitals are struggling is this lack of capacity.

The NHS is meant to keep a tenth of its beds free to create flexibility to admit patients and cope with sudden surges in demand - usually seen in winter.

Over the years this spare capacity has been used each winter and the NHS has been forced to treat patients in trolleys and in ambulances as ward beds have filled.

Comment: There you have it, the NHS isn't overwhelmed because of the coronavirus, it's suffering from decades of budget cuts, staff shortages, and the final straw was the excessive 'coronavirus measures' that removed any potential extra capacity that it had. Note that even with less admissions to hospitals the system still couldn't cope.

While the UK's population has increased by 14% over the last 20 years, there's been a massive 33% decrease in hospital beds. And, as is clear from The Guardian headlines below, this issue, that has been ongoing for well over a decade, was well known:
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Best of the Web: Expert analysis: Biden's win 'suspicious,' 289,000 election-changing 'excess' votes

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:43 UTC
John R. Lott, Jr.
© Ramsdell/APJohn R. Lott, Jr.
An analysis of the 2020 presidential vote suggests that there were 289,000 "excess" votes for Joe Biden in states his victory over President Trump was small, and that differences in votes by neighbors were "suspicious."

The study by economist John R. Lott Jr., noted for his statistical analysis of guns in America, called into question the victories declared for Biden in Pennsylvania and Georgia and cast a cloud over those in Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Comment: So that's mass vote fraud - enough to flip the overall result from Biden to Trump - proven from yet ANOTHER angle.

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Best of the Web: Covid camps on the way? Proposed New York law suggests putting disease 'carriers' in DETENTION CENTERS


RT
Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:25 UTC
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© REUTERS/Brendan McDermidA man exits the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, US, December 8, 2020.
A New York state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow the government to detain people deemed a potential public health risk, amid concerns that the Covid-19 crisis is being allegedly used to usher in authoritarianism.

Authored by a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly N. Nick Perry, Bill A416 calls for the "removal and/or detention" of individuals who are identified as a "case, contact or carrier" of a contagious disease.
Such person or group of persons shall be detained in a medical facility or other appropriate facility or premises.

Comment: The bill is all of a piece with Cuomo's previous actions. Unfortunately he has imitators all over the globe.

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Best of the Web: Cruz missile launch: Multiple GOP senators will oppose certifying election results

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:28 UTC
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A group of GOP senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.

Cruz and the other senators claim the Nov. 3 election "featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud and illegal conduct."

Joining Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mike Braun, R-Ind.; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kansas; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.

Their effort is separate from one announced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who said this week that he will object to what he claims was the failure of some states -- most notably Pennsylvania -- to follow their own election laws.

"Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed," the lawmakers said Saturday in a statement. "By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes."

While the Trump campaign has challenged the results in dozens of lawsuits, judges have dismissed them due to a lack of evidence. Attorney General William Barr said last month that "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election."

Comment: As we can see from the 'pathway' this ploy opens up, it too is unlikely to overturn the 'official election result' for Trump.

But it might buy him some time and political momentum.

There's no way around the stark choice before Trump: to prevent a complete totalitarian takeover by the US establishment, he must effectively declare, "by the powers invested in me as president," that he does not recognize the 'Congress-approved Electoral College vote', and that he is therefore remaining as president after January 20th.

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Best of the Web: The Kafkaesque imprisonment of Julian Assange reveals the US mythology about 'freedom' and 'tyranny'

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:25 UTC
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© David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA billboard van calling for an end to extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waits at traffic lights in Parliament Square in London, England, on September 14, 2020.
The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents.

Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class.

Those who render themselves acquiescent and harmless that way will — in every society, including the most repressive — usually be free of reprisals. They will not be censored or jailed. They will be permitted to live their lives largely unmolested by authorities, while many will be well-rewarded for this servitude. Such individuals will see themselves as free because, in a sense, they are: they are free to submit, conform and acquiesce. And if they do so, they will not even realize, or at least not care, and may even regard as justifiable, that those who refuse this Orwellian bargain they have embraced ("freedom" in exchange for submission) are crushed with unlimited force.
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Best of the Web: More evidence of election fraud revealed at Georgia hearing: Jovan Pulitzer's team hacks Dominion, committee votes to audit State Farm ballots - UPDATE

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:23 UTC
Jovan Hutton Pulitzer QR Code
© Screenshot/Economic WarRoom/YouTubeIT Expert Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, the inventor of platform known as ‘QR Code'
Inventor Jovan Hutton Pulitzer was in front of the Georgia Senate today and he totally destroyed Georgia's 2020 election results and offered a plan where for free, he will determine the accurate results by examining the paper ballots used in the election.

Prior to today we've requested that President Donald J. Trump write an Executive Order mandating that the ballots and images in select states be audited and reviewed for fraud by Jovan Pulitzer.

We first learned of Inventor Jovan Pulitzer a few weeks ago and reported that he is able to audit millions of ballots in a day based on his method for reviewing ballots and images. His biography and ideas were provided in our article. He believes there was fraud in the 2020 election and that he can prove it quickly.

Today in Georgia Mr. Pulitzer gave a presentation that all of America should see and hear:

Comment: During his testimony, Pulitzer revealed that ballots were printed with different identifying information depending on which precinct they were for - some with seemingly deliberate alignment errors that would throw off digital scans. Later in the hearing, he revealed quite the bombshell. His team had accessed one poll center's polling device - as he spoke.


Here are some more highlights from the hearing:





But here's perhaps the biggest news:


Here's the full hearing:


UPDATES: According to Pulitzer, just hours after the vote to allow him to audit the ballots in question, moving trucks pulled up to the facility storing the ballots:
I'd like your permission of you and your fine audience that as I answer you that I have your permission to piss you off... The very minute that order went through and that order was followed, and all the legal notices were done, it didn't even take four hours later where moving trucks with this stuff was backed up to those buildings trying to get rid of the evidence.
Will they shred them?

During this livestream, he shared what was going on with the poll pad. A SmartTV was communicating via a hidden connection with the poll pad, sending and receiving data back to its manufacturer in China.




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Best of the Web: COVID 'vaccines' are a medical experiment on humanity

Tricia Consaga
Dr.Tom Cowan.com
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 03:23 UTC
COVID Vaccines
© Harvard UniversityThe person who tested positive for coronavirus in December had been vaccinated just hours before their Jan. 21, 2021 death.
How are the COVID vaccines different from other vaccines on the market?

The COVID vaccines are mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines, which are completely new. No mRNA vaccine has ever been licensed for human use before. There are no other therapies or prophylactics on the market that use the same approach, despite a handful of efforts.

Traditional vaccines introduce pieces of a virus ("live" or inert), as well as adjuvants such as aluminum and mercury, to stimulate an immune reaction. The new mRNA vaccine is completely different. It actually injects (transfects) molecules of synthetic genetic material from non-human sources into our cells. Once in the cells, the genetic material interacts with our transfer RNA (tRNA) to make a foreign protein that supposedly teaches the body to destroy the virus being coded for. So the vaccine is hijacking the protein-makeup machinery.

Note that these newly created proteins are not regulated by our own DNA, and are thus completely foreign to our cells. What they are fully capable of doing is unknown.

The Moderna vaccine is given in two doses, 28 days apart. The Pfizer vaccine will require two shots, three weeks apart.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines also include the traditional toxic adjuvants.
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Best of the Web: Dozens of Republican congressman planning to challenge fraudulent electoral college results - UPDATE: Make that 140+

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:14 UTC

Comment: The titanic struggle for the highest office on Earth continues...


Matt Gaetz
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesRep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks to reporters in Washington on April 21, 2020. Gaetz is one of dozens of Republcian lawmakers who plan on contesting electoral votes during the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress.
At least 25 Republicans plan on challenging electoral votes during next month's joint session of Congress, according to a tally by The Epoch Times.

Twenty-four representatives and representatives-elect, who will enter office several days before the session, plan on filing objections. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is the only member or member-elect of the upper chamber to commit to an objection.

"You've got 74 million Americans who feel disenfranchised, who feel like their vote doesn't matter. And this is the one opportunity that I have as a United States senator, this process right here, my one opportunity to stand up and say something, and that's exactly what I'm going to do," Hawley said on Wednesday.


Comment: Hawley isn't backing down:
"Josh Hawley's latest: he's all in on overthrowing our democratic elections. Another pointless and dangerous attempt to undermine the will of the people," Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said in a statement.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on CNN that Hawley's actions are undermining the democratic process, calling the planned objection a "reckless stunt."

Hawley responded to the claims during an appearance on Fox.

"First of all, I don't recall hearing the Democrats make any such outrageous claims when they were the ones who were objecting during the Electoral College certification in 2004 and 2016," he said.

"Democrats have done this for years in order to raise concerns about election integrity. Now, when Republicans — 74 million Americans — have concerns about election integrity, we're supposed to just sit down and shut up? I mean, somebody has to stand up here. You've got 74 million Americans who feel disenfranchised, who feel like their vote doesn't matter. And this is the one opportunity that I have as a United States senator, this process right here, my one opportunity to stand up and say something, and that's exactly what I'm going to do."
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Hawley said he plans to object to make the point that "we had states like Pennsylvania that did not follow their own laws, their own state law, in the election process." He also hopes to draw attention to how technology companies like Twitter came out in favor of Biden by censoring Trump in recent months. "I'm going to try to force a debate about all of these points," Hawley said.

Objections are filed in writing and must have support from at least one member of each chamber. If they do, they trigger a two-hour debate and a vote by the House of Representatives and the Senate. A simple majority in each chamber is required to uphold the challenge.

Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told The Epoch Times that the group plans to file objections against the votes from six states, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada. They're mulling an objection to votes from New Mexico.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) was the first to announce plans to file an objection.

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UPDATE: GOP reps believe the number will be at least 140.

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