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Following the original incident, Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters showed up at the scene and Antifa members were seen lighting fires in intersections and worked to prevent people from taking video of their activities.
Comment: This is not because of a virus, it's because of the lockdowns.
In a fresh study, the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) found that a full 8.8 percent of global working hours were lost in 2020, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019.
That is equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs, or "approximately four times greater than the number lost during the 2009 global financial crisis," the ILO said in a statement.
Giuliani becomes the latest defendant in a lawsuit filed by Dominion, joining pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and the Trump campaign, all of whom now face potential financial consequences for their public claims about the company.
The company claims in its lawsuit that it has had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra security for employees as a result of Giuliani's defamatory statements, as well as over $1 million responding to claims made by the various defendants after the election.
Comment: Associated Press expands:
The company faced such a mountain of threats and criticism that one of its top executives went into hiding. The suit is based on statements Giuliani made on Twitter, in conservative media and during legislative hearings where the former mayor of New York claimed the voting machine company conspired to flip votes to President Joe Biden.Giuliani has made a statement regarding the lawsuit:
"For Dominion — whose business is producing and providing voting systems for elections — there are no accusations that could do more to damage Dominion's business or to impugn Dominion's integrity, ethics, honesty, and financial integrity," the lawsuit says. "Giuliani's statements were calculated to — and did in fact — provoke outrage and cause Dominion enormous harm."
The lawsuit argues that Giuliani worked in concert with Trump supporters and lawyers Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and conservative media outlets "determined to promote a false preconceived narrative about the 2020 election."
Dominion has also sued Powell, who claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late leader Hugo Chavez and that it has the ability to switch votes.
"Dominion's defamation lawsuit for $1.3B will allow me to investigate their history, finances, and practices fully and completely. The amount being asked for is, quite obviously, intended to frighten people of faint heart. It is another act of intimidation by the hate-filled left-wing to wipe out and censor the exercise of free speech, as well as the ability of lawyers to defend their clients vigorously. As such, we will investigate a countersuit against them for violating these Constitutional rights." — Rudy Giuliani
Sanders released a video on Monday morning officially announcing her bid following reports over the weekend that she planned to jump into the race. She resigned her post in the Trump administration in June 2019.
Sanders began her video with an anecdote of meeting a soldier in Iraq while working under former President Donald Trump. She went on to say the "radical left" has taken control of Washington, D.C., and that state governors are now the "last line of defense."
"America is great because we are free, but today our freedom and the rule of law are under attack. I was the first White House press secretary to require Secret Service protection because of a credible, violent threat against me. We've seen violence in our streets, at a congressional baseball practice and at our Capitol. This is not who we are as Americans."
Gov. Gavin Newsom was expected to make an announcement later Monday at a news conference that the Stay-at-Home Order will be lifted. The move means a return to restrictions based on conditions in each county after what officials said are positive signs about the virus' spread.
The county-based system includes a color-coded tiered guide to reopening and allows counties to impose restrictions that are even stricter than the state-imposed order.
Dr. Tomás Aragón, CDPH director and state public health officer said:
"Californians heard the urgent message to stay home as much as possible and accepted that challenge to slow the surge and save lives. Together, we changed our activities knowing our short-term sacrifices would lead to longer-term gains. COVID-19 is still here and still deadly, so our work is not over, but it's important to recognize our collective actions saved lives and we are turning a critical corner."The statewide order was based on regional numbers, such as intensive care unit capacity, and included the San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area and Southern California. Four-week capacity projections for these three regions are above 15%, the threshold that allows regions to exit the order, state health officials said Monday.
The Sacramento Region left the order on Jan. 12 and the Northern California region was never under the statewide order.
Comment: See also:
- It's a secret: California keeps key virus data from public
- California Public Health director suddenly quits after massive virus data error discovered
- California Governor excludes Hollywood from lockdown but can't explain why
- California refuses to disclose Covid-19 data used to drive lockdowns
A devastated Johaug lamented, "I feel I did everything right. I went to an expert who gave me the ointment, and I asked him if the cream was on a doping list. The answer I got was 'no.'"
But the powers that be were undeterred from their well-established hard line of fairness, and Johaug was forced to watch the 2018 winter Olympics from the sidelines.
It's an unfortunate set of circumstances that raises the question: If chemicals from a necessary, medicated lip balm can be construed as such an unjust physical advantage, how on Earth can athletic authorities continue to turn a blind eye to the litany of physical advantages the transgender men increasingly competing in women's sports so obviously possess in their male bodies?
Comment:
- Day One: Biden obliterates women's sports, reinstates rule allowing transgender students to use 'preferred' bathrooms
- Former British swimmer states the obvious: Transgender athletes should not compete in women's sports
- Coach and Olympian: Allowing trans women to compete against biological women ruins sports
- Women's sports may one day soon consist entirely of men
- Three female athletes file federal discrimination complaint over transgender competition
- Common Sense: South Dakota to consider bill banning Transgender students from competing against opposite biological sex
- Idaho passes law banning biological men from competing in women's sports

A police officer holds a dog during a protest against Covid-19 restrictions in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on January 24, 2021.
Police faced off with curfew-defying crowds in The Hague, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Venlo, Stein, Roermond, Oosterhout, Breda and elsewhere across the nation for the second day in a row on Sunday.
At least 190 people, including minors, were detained in Amsterdam alone, where some 1,500 protesters gathered at the central Museum Square, according to local media.
Comment: There are reports that protests have erupted again this evening against the curfew.
Throughout the West we're seeing the police willingly become the enforcers of the government's tyrannical lockdown measures:
- Anti-lockdown protests continue in Madrid, police response grows increasingly violent, army checkpoints at 'restricted zones'
- Lockdown tyranny: Illinois gov. orders police to patrol for COVID violations, France extends draconian curfews, Ireland arrests protesters
- It is not the police's job to enforce the lockdown whims of UK ministers - former senior judge Lord Sumption
- Israel enforces unpopular second lockdown, protests erupt and some prepare to defy the orders
Update 26 January 2021
The protests continued for a third night.
Police were called to the scene around 4 a.m. on Sunday to investigate reports of one shooting victim, a juvenile male, according to the Associated Press. As officers investigated the shooting, they received additional information that led them to a home nearby, where they found five people dead.
Indiana Metropolitan Police Sgt. Shane Foley called the event a "mass murder" and a "different kind of evil."
Lauren Wolfe stirred online anger on Tuesday by sharing her feelings about Joe Biden's arrival at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for his upcoming inauguration ceremony. She called the Trump administration "petty" and "childish" over a widely reported (and later revealed to be false) claim that it denied Biden a military plane to arrive in DC. Wolfe said she had "chills" seeing Biden's private jet land.
The awkwardly-worded tweet apparently not only caused Wolfe humiliation due to online mockery, but also cost her her job as an editor at the New York Times. The Gray Lady has canceled her contract, she confirmed on Twitter. HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali was the first to report the news.
Comment: It sounds like they were looking for an excuse to fire her. It's unlikely that the Times would have given in to a conservative outrage mob, since that's not even close to their target audience.
See also:
- The 'New York Times' covers up B'Tselem verdict, that Israel is an 'apartheid regime'
- New York Times normalizes racist eugenics supported by woke doctors
- New York Times election data feed may not only give President Trump the win, it could put Dems in jail
- Project Veritas taking The New York Times to court for defamation
- The real story behind the New York Times's big 'anonymous' op-ed is exceptionally sleazy
- 'Fake news': New York Times hit piece claims Trump paid no federal taxes
- Race quotas will make the New York Times a truly second-rate paper
- Bari Weiss' resignation letter from the New York Times: Says Twitter is its ultimate editor
In response the government has vehemently denied using covert techniques, saying it's public information campaigns have been "transparent" and necessary to set out "clear instructions" on how the spread of the virus can be delayed.
It has admitted to communicating public information campaigns 17 per week on average during the peak of the pandemic in order to reach an estimated 95 per cent of adults.
Comment: The coordinated psychological warfare is widespread, here's Canada's Christmas contribution:
See also:
- UK gov figures show 75,000 could die because of lockdown, excess deaths are already soaring
- Surge of student suicides pushes Las Vegas schools to reopen
- MindMatters: Dystopias Are Really Utopias - For Psychopaths
- Objective:Health - Deconstructing the Covid Narrative with Investigative Journalist Rosemary Frei
Comment: RT reports the predictable fact that the lockdowns have made the super rich, even richer, and the rest of us, poorer: We've still yet to see the true impact the lockdowns have had on the economy. This is particularly true in the Western world where governments raid public funds for massive furlough schemes. It's likely that the new normal will feature an intensified campaign of budget cuts which will leave the vast majority of people at the mercy of the government and its handouts, and at the same time further consolidating their tyrannical control: