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British Labour party calls for emergency censorship laws to "stamp out" pro-choice vaccination content

Jon Stone
Independent
Sun, 15 Nov 2020 11:15 UTC
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Protesters hold up placards as they march during a freedom rally in Liverpool.
The government should bring forward emergency legislation to "stamp out" dangerous anti-vax misinformation ahead of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine, Labour has said.

The shadow culture secretary, Jo Stevens, and the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, have written to the government warning that "our historic strength in vaccine uptake must not be taken for granted" as the prospect of a treatment for the virus looms.

Keir Starmer's shadow ministers are calling for financial and criminal penalties for social media companies that fail to censor posts promoting anti-vaccination content, which they note is rampant on those platforms.

Comment: It's typical of tyrants to want to stamp out those who question their position, rather than debate them on it. And it's notable that there have been a number of chilling attempts by EU governments to push for emergency laws that would provide them with dictatorial power: See also: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

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Brick Wall

7 Democrats who violated coronavirus guidance as Left moves to cancel Thanksgiving

Hannah Bleau
Breitbart
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC
Lori Lightfoot
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Several high profile Democrat politicians ignored guidance related to the Chinese coronavirus when it appeared to be personally convenient — a realization that comes as Democrat politicians, such as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, attempt to limit gatherings in personal residences ahead of the holiday season.

Democrat politicians have stood united in criticizing the Trump administration's response to the virus, accusing the president and his supporters of not taking it seriously, particularly when it comes to wearing a mask and avoiding unnecessary public gatherings. However, several of these same politicians have violated their own purported beliefs — and self-declared moral standing — by removing their masks and engaging with crowds, even in recent days. Below are some of the most notable offenders.

Comment: There are probably many more eggregious examples. Here's another from RT:
'Should have modeled better behavior,' California governor says after attending party that breaks his own strict Covid-19 advice
13 Nov, 2020 22:05

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is the latest public official in hot water over his behavior during Covid-19 restrictions as he reportedly attended a birthday party with over 12 people from more than three different households.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that Newsom, along with his wife, attended the birthday party of advisor Jason Kinney in Yountville earlier this month.

State guidelines in California state that gatherings that have more than three households in attendance are prohibited.

A spokesperson for Newsom defended the party, saying health guidelines were followed and it was held outdoors, which is recommended for social gatherings during the pandemic. They did not deny, however, that more than three households were in attendance.

According to The Chronicle, Newsom warned that people are "letting their guard down" when it comes to Covid-19 restrictions at a press conference this week. He also warned there are dangers to mixing households during the holidays, and said social gatherings are driving up cases in the state.

"They're taking their masks off. They're starting to get together outside of their household cohorts. They're starting to see businesses reopen and we're starting, again, to see more people mixing. As it gets colder, we'll see more still," he said on Monday.

Following the defense from his representative, Newsom issued a statement acknowledging he should have "modeled better behavior."

"While our family followed the restaurant's health protocols and took safety precautions, we should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner," he said.

Newsom has been slammed on social media as a hypocrite for his decision to attend the party.

"More 'do as I say, not as I do' from public officials. Again, hurts public trust. Sorry if I'm a broken record on this, but I think it's serious," author Daniel Darling tweeted.

"We're all equal, right? Except some are more equal than others," writer Mary Chastain added.




California has recorded over one million cases of Covid-19, as well as more than 18,000 deaths.

Criticism of Newsom follows on the heels of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot facing similar hypocrisy accusations after issuing a stay-at-home order in her state only days after attending a massive gathering of Joe Biden supporters.
And here's Mayor Lori Lightfoot blaming weddings and funerals for Covid spread while defending her participation in the Biden celebrations:


And to further illustrate the partisan nature of the issue, this from RT: Republicans & Democrats clash over how to celebrate Thanksgiving amid pandemic after AOC says her family will gather via ZOOM CALL

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Eye 1

Unelected officials override the President to continue wars (but only kooks believe in the Deep State)

Caitlin Johnstone
Substack
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC
US soldiers
Outgoing US envoy to Syria James Jeffrey stated in a recent interview with Defense One that US officials have been "playing shell games" about the number of troops in the region to deceive the Trump administration into thinking there has been a military withdrawal. Here are some excerpts:
"We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there," Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is "a lot more than" the two hundred troops Trump agreed to leave there in 2019.
...
"What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal," Jeffrey said. "When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That's the story."
...
Officially, Trump last year agreed to keep about 200 U.S. troops stationed in northeast Syria to "secure" oil fields held by the United States' Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS. It is generally accepted that the actual number is now higher than that — anonymous officials put the number at about 900 today — but the precise figure is classified and remains unknown even, it appears, to members of Trump's administration keen to end the so-called "forever wars."

Comment: See also:

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MIB

Hammer and Scorecard: Big Tech's drive to end democracy

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC
Dominion voting
On the evening of November 5, the President of the United States delivered remarks from the White House relaying the evidence of a massive vote fraud conducted by the same intelligence community-Wall Street- Big Tech alliance that had been actively organizing for his overthrow for 4 years. Despite the truthfulness of his remarks which growing evidence of vote counting computer software fraud has only validated, the mainstream media from NBC, CNN, NPR and MSNBC made the unprecedented move of censoring the President in mid speech for the protection of the minds of viewers.


Comment: And we're only just scratching the surface it seems! See also:

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Propaganda

Front-page 'NY Times' story on Iran-Al Qaeda links is dishonest — and could help justify a U.S./Israeli attack

James North
Mondoweiss
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
NY Times HQ

New York Times Headquarters
The New York Times is publishing a misleading report on its front page that further raises the risk that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu could provoke a conflict with Iran during the Trump administration's final 66 days.

Unnamed "intelligence officials" have just told the Times that "Al-Qaeda's second-highest leader," Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was "gunned down on the streets of Tehran" in August, "by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States."

The article reeks of dishonesty. At least one of its four authors, Ronen Bergman, an Israeli (who has lavished praise on the Israel lobby AIPAC), has sources in Israel's spy apparatus, which immediately raises suspicion. The report's only sources are those unnamed "intelligence officials," who provide suspiciously precise details, reminiscent of a movie script: the paper said that last August in Tehran, al-Masri
was driving his white Renault L90 sedan with his daughter near his home when two gunmen on a motorcycle drew up alongside him. Five shots were fired from a pistol fitted with a silencer. Four bullets entered the car through the driver's side and a fifth hit a nearby car.

Comment: You can be sure that Iran had something to say about the dangerous lies propagated by the New York Times.
[...]

On Saturday, Iran's Foreign Ministry described the story as baseless and said there were no Al-Qaeda "terrorists" on Iranian soil.

"From time to time, Washington and Tel Aviv try to tie Iran to such groups by lying and leaking false information to the media in order to avoid responsibility for the criminal activities of this group and other terrorist groups in the region," ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said. He urged the US media "not to follow the Hollywood scenarios of the American and Zionist authorities."

According to the Times, which cited unnamed sources, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, a.k.a. Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was allegedly shot along with his daughter Miriam on August 7 by two Israeli assassins riding on a motorcycle.

Abdullah and his daughter had reportedly been living freely in Tehran since 2015, after being released from Iranian custody as part of a prisoner swap with the terrorist group. The presumed Al-Qaeda commander is wanted by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

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'Covid test isn't a Geiger counter' says Russia's ex-health czar after Elon Musk brings up his own false positives


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:36 UTC
Musk
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Elon Musk in a September 2, 2020 file photo from Berlin, Germany
As SpaceX and Tesla mogul Elon Musk struggled to figure out false positive rates of rapid Covid-19 tests, Russia's former chief health inspector said that declaring people infected after a single positive result was poor practice.

Musk, 49, embarked on a quest to sort out the possible false positive rates of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, after getting two positive and two negative results in the same day.

"Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD," Musk tweeted out, sending social media into a frenzy on Friday.
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Snakes in Suits

The law is clear: If an election is stolen State legislature can restore the will of the people


Revolver
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump/states
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US President Donald Trump
President Trump and his team are under a relentless media blitz campaign which has only one goal: Pressuring the president to concede the election and stop asking questions about suspicious behavior in decisive states. Thuggish CNN anchor Jake Tapper is openly proposing that those who question the election result should have their careers ruined.
The sheer intensity of this campaign is proof enough that Trump should not concede. A campaign this brazen can only be motivated by one thing: Fear. Democrats and their press adjuncts fear what a full investigation of last week's vote might reveal.

President Trump must continue his campaign. But the president must not act alone. State-level Republicans must rally behind him and conduct a full audit of the election results. If enough evidence of fraud is found, these state-level Republicans must be prepared to assemble state legislators in emergency sessions to choose slates of pro-Trump electors. Such an action is not illegal. In fact, in the face of glaring illegality, it is both a constitutional and moral duty.

State legislators in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and other disputed states should declare openly, right now, that they will only accept a Joe Biden victory after a thorough and complete investigation of all potential voter fraud in every state where the electoral outcome is contested. If these investigations are obstructed by the left, then they can and must exercise their Constitutional power to choose electors that restore the will of the people.

This is not only a moral necessity to restore dignity and legitimacy to our nation's electoral system — it is entirely constitutional. Having state lawmakers choose electors is not a new concept. Federal law already gives legislatures the exact power to do this.
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Bug

Pro-Biden bug also suspected in Georgia's vote-counting software

Paul Sperry
RealClearInvestigations
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Raffensberger/Favorito/Map GA/Abrams
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Brad Raffensperger • Garland Favorito • Fulton County, GA • Stacy Abrams
A curious thing happened as Fulton County, Ga., election officials counted mail-in ballots at Atlanta's State Farm Arena in the days after the election. In the early hours of Nov. 5, a surge of some 20,000 mail-in votes suddenly appeared for Joe Biden, while approximately 1,000 votes for President Trump mysteriously disappeared from his own totals in the critical swing state, where Biden holds a razor-thin lead.

A poll watcher noticed the suspicious shift in votes while monitoring the interim election results on the Georgia secretary of state website.
"I concluded from looking at these results that this was an irregularity, since there was no obvious reason for President Trump's totals to have decreased while former Vice President Biden's totals increased dramatically."
Voter GA co-founder Garland Favorito swore in an affidavit he filed this week with the secretary of state's office.

Favorito suspects a variety of factors, including that votes were "artificially inflated" for Biden while using the same Dominion Voting system used by Antrim County, Mich., which erroneously transferred 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden. Last year, Georgia contracted with Dominion to automate vote tabulations in all 159 of its counties.

"The software appears to have thrown votes from Trump to Biden here too," he said in a RealClearInvestigations interview. "Or Biden ballots were manufactured."
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Arrow Down

The return of the Obama 'adults' in a Joe Biden administration is likely to spell ruin for America

Scott Ritter
RT
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:09 UTC
US capitol/flag
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The State of the Nation
The US establishment, and the world, has spent the last four years trying to adapt to the disruptive policies of a childish president. Now the Democrats' 'adult' leadership team will return. Watch out, folks.

To those watching the drama unfolding in Washington, DC around the stalled efforts on the part of nominal President-elect Joe Biden in forming a transition team, the parallels are eerily familiar: a bitterly contested election between an establishment political figure and a brash DC 'outsider', a controversial outcome delaying the implementation of the transition between administrations, and an openly condescending atmosphere where the incoming team postured as comprising a return to 'adult' leadership.

That time was December 2000, when a Republican team led by President-elect George W. Bush stood ready to install a cabinet composed of veteran spies, diplomats, and national security managers who had cut their policy teeth during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. With Colin Powell as secretary of state, Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, George Tenet as director of central intelligence, and Condoleezza Rice as national security advisor, the foreign policy and national security team that Dubya surrounded himself with upon assuming the presidency was as experienced a team as one could imagine.

And yet, within two years of assuming their responsibilities, this team of 'adults' had presided over the worst terrorist attack in American history, and the initiation of two wars (in Afghanistan and Iraq) that would forever change both the geopolitical map of the world and America's role as world leader.
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Bullseye

Trump's Pennsylvania complaint is brilliant

James V, DeLong
American Thinker
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
US Supreme Court
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The US Supreme Court, Washington D.C.
The complaint filed in Pennsylvania by the Trump campaign is a superb piece of legal craftsmanship.

It was filed in federal court, not state. The gist is that some of the state's actions, and particularly the exclusion of Republican poll-watchers during the counting of hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots, violated federal constitutional requirements.

The point is obvious enough once one thinks of it, but it's brilliant all the same. It shifts the focus from state law, where a politicized Pennsylvania court has the last word, to federal law, where the U.S. Supreme Court rules.

As for the obviousness of the point, consider as a thought experiment a state law requiring that all votes be counted in secret by an unelected board named by the party in power. Could it survive a constitutional challenge?

As my old Harvard constitutional law professors would have said, "to ask the question is to answer it." It is hard to count all the constitutional guarantees violated here: Equal Protection, Due Process, Privileges and Immunities. Indeed, the complaint stacks up the Supreme Court precedents supporting its arguments, including the long line of ringing statements in the chain of one-person-one-vote decisions.
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