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Poll shows overwhelming majority support voter ID laws

Eric Lendrum
The Georgia Star News
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC
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People Voting
The latest poll by Rasmussen Reports indicates that three-fourths of all Americans support stricter voter ID laws, such as requirements to present photo identification before voting, as reported by Breitbart.

The poll shows that 75 percent of likely American voters are in favor of laws that require presenting some form of photo ID, such as a driver's license; only 21 percent opposed such a proposal. Among the 75 percent, 89 percent of Republican voters approved of such a suggestion, along with 77 percent of independents, and 60 percent of Democrats. In addition, an overwhelming majority of black voters support voter ID, at 69 percent to 25 percent.

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Veteran facing charges over Capitol protest says cops told his group they wouldn't be arrested if they left, so he did — they lied

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:35 UTC
Mark Sahady and Sue Ianni
Mark Sahady and Sue Ianni are two extremely patriotic Americans who are facing charges due to peacefully attending President Donald Trump's rally in Washington, DC on January 6th.

The duo have long been the subject of contempt and scorn from the left for their organization, Super Happy Fun America, that made headlines for their Straight Pride Parade in Boston with grandmaster Milo Yiannopolous.

Sahady is an Army combat veteran who served in Afghanistan. Ianni is a mother of three and local conservative activist. Both live in Massachusetts.

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Miami Beach extends state of emergency, curfew & road closures for 3 weeks as police struggle to contain wild parties


RT
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:04 UTC
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A man dances on top of a police car as revelers enjoy spring break festivities despite a 8pm curfew imposed by local authorities in Miami Beach, Florida, US, March 20, 2021.
The Miami Beach City Commission unanimously voted to extend the state of emergency in South Beach until April 12, following yet another night of wild partying, after the Florida governor declared the state an "oasis of freedom."

The commission granted Interim City Manager Raul Aguila the authority to extend the restrictive measures for up to three more weeks if needed, following an emergency meeting on Sunday. The emergency curfew will remain in place for parts of South Beach until 6am Monday, and extended as authorities see fit, while inbound traffic will also remain restricted on the three main causeways connecting the island city with Miami.


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Asian-American woman attacked in possible hate crime while ON THE WAY TO A PROTEST against anti-Asian violence


RT
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:25 UTC
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Footage provided by New York City police shows the suspect in Sunday's alleged hate-crime attack on an Asian-American woman in Manhattan.
An Asian-American woman in New York City was traveling to a protest against anti-Asian violence when she became the victim of such crime - a man allegedly assaulted her on the street for no apparent reason other than her race.

The 37-year-old woman was walking in lower Manhattan near midday on Sunday, on her way to a Columbus Park rally against anti-Asian hate crimes, when a man took her sign and tried to put it in a garbage can, police said. He then stomped on the sign. When the woman asked him why he did it, he allegedly punched her in the face twice with a closed fist.


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10 killed in Boulder store shooting, including police officer, suspect in custody


RT
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:00 UTC
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10 killed in Boulder store shooting, including police officer, suspect in custody
Police officers and an ambulance are seen at the scene where an active shooter was reported at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, March 22, 2021.
Ten people were killed in a shooting spree at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, including one police officer, local law enforcement confirmed. A suspected gunman has been arrested.

"Our hearts go out to all families impacted. There are 10 fatalities," Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold told a press conference on Monday evening, several hours after a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a King Soopers supermarket in the Table Mesa neighborhood.

Among the victims was officer Eric Talley, who was first to respond to the reports of a gunman with "a patrol rifle" at the store, Herold said, calling the officer's conduct "heroic."
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Horrifying video filmed by a shopper during Monday's mass shooting at a Boulder supermarket shows bodies strewn in the parking lot and on the supermarket floor

Comment: Someone claiming to be a journalist caught most of the event on camera. YT is letting this one stay up. Hmmm...

Details about the uploader here.


Apparently the gunman - a 21-year-old Syrian migrant - just downed his gun at one point and gave himself up quietly:
"They found his weapons right by the pharmacy," she said, adding that she heard the shooter say: "I surrender. I'm naked."
He is yet one more in a long line of completely (apparently) motiveless mass shooters in the USA. He literally said nothing the whole time he methodically shot dead 10 people:
The scariest part of the ordeal, Smith said, was that the gunman didn't say a single word as he made his way around the store. "There was a little bit of screaming in the beginning, but it died immediately. And for the 40 minutes that he was inside the building, there was absolutely no words said," he said.

"It was white noise. All you could hear was the store music. No words were ever said from him that I could hear and I do not know his motive."
This comes after another mass shooting in the US at a string of massage parlors in Atlanta: Obama & Dems claim massage parlor shootings 'anti-Asian hate crime' & 'white supremacy', despite having no evidence to support that motive

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New HBO documentary 'Q: Into the Storm' is just like QAnon in that it is vapid entertainment selling itself as truth

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:59 UTC
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The documentary mini-series goes down the wrong path on a whimsical search to uncover the identity of 'Q'. A more intriguing and worthwhile approach would be to ask why the QAnon conspiracy appeals to so many.

Q: Into the Storm is the new HBO documentary miniseries that explores the QAnon conspiracy theory and the collection of people mixed up in it.

The first two episodes of the six-part series, produced and directed by Cullen Hoback, premiered on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday night. The final four episodes will air over the next two Sundays.

QAnon, in case you are blissfully unaware, is a conspiracy theory revolving around statements made online by an anonymous person or group of people called 'Q'. QAnon believers think Q is a high-ranking insider who is working against a cabal of deep state power players involved in all sorts of nefarious activities, up to and including cannibalism and pedophilia.

According to Q, President Trump was meant to bring forth the revolutionary 'storm' that would round up and eliminate all the baddies in the world.
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It will never end: Social distancing 'may be needed for few years until world is vaccinated' according to UK head of immunization

Lucy Middleton
Metro
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:48 UTC
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Face masks and social distancing measures could still be needed for years to come, Public Health England's (PHE) head of immunisation has suggested.

Appearing on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show today, Dr Mary Ramsay described how 'lower-level' Covid restrictions would be required globally until the world had been vaccinated against the virus.

Asked how long she expected the measures to continue post-lockdown, she replied: 'I think we are talking about quite a long period of time. 'We may eventually get back to a much more normal situation but I think people have got used to those lower-level restrictions now and I think people can live with them and the economy can still go on with those restrictions, with those less severe restrictions in place.

'So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are and the numbers have come down everywhere, that's when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation.'
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The richest Americans don't report at least 20 percent of their income to the IRS, new research suggests

Peter Weber
Yahoo
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:52 UTC
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The richest Americans dodge much more in income taxes than the Internal Revenue Service previously assumed, according to research being published Monday by IRS and academic researchers.

The top 1 percent of U.S. households don't report about 21 percent of their income, and a big slice of that — 6 percentage points — is from sophisticated tax-avoidance strategies that aren't detected in spot IRS audits, The Wall Street Journal reports. The top 0.1 percent of households may hide nearly twice the amount of income projected by conventional IRS methodologies, the researchers found.

The main drivers of this tax avoidance by the super wealthy are hiding money offshore and the increasing use of pass-through businesses like investment funds, real estate enterprises, closely held family firms, and other partnerships, the researcher found. In such businesses, income passes through an owner's individual tax returns and is not taxed at the corporate level, the Journal explains.
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Kremlin secret assassination list REVEALED! But only if you're ready to believe the anonymous & erratic 'spy' sources beloved by Western media, that is...


RT
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:34 UTC
Putin gun range sniper rifle
© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi
A tabloid's dream image: Russian President Vladimir Putin shoots a Chukavin sniper rifle (SVCh 380) at Kalashnikov Concern shooting club at the military patriotic park Patriot.
Russia's security agencies are set for a busy few months planning a bloody Godfather-style killing spree to take out political opponents across the West, two of the UK's best-read tabloids have claimed in an explosive new expose.

Popular red-top newspapers the Sun and the Mirror ran the sensational allegations over the weekend, in which President Vladimir Putin was said to be plotting a post-pandemic assassination campaign against a "kill list" of targets, six of whom live in Britain.

Former Yeltsin-era oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and one-time Moscow-based vulture capitalist Bill Browder are supposedly being earmarked for a hit by the FSB and SVR, Russia's domestic and foreign intelligence agencies. Christopher Steele, the MI6 analyst who compiled a dossier of anonymous sources alleging Moscow's spooks had 'kompromat' on ex-US president Donald Trump, is also apparently among those on the list.
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Ikea goes on trial in France accused of spying on staff using police and private detectives


The Guardian
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:23 UTC
Ikea
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Ikea store in Montpellier, France. French branch of Swedish retailer accused of running elaborate system to spy on staff and job applicants
Ikea's French subsidiary has gone on trial accused of running an elaborate system to spy on staff and job applicants using private detectives and police officers.

Ikea France, as a corporate entity, is being prosecuted in a court in Versailles, as well as several of its former executives who could face prison terms.

The investigative publications Le Canard Enchaîné and Mediapart uncovered the surveillance scheme in 2012, and magistrates began investigating after the Force Ouvrière union lodged a legal complaint.

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