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Protesters railing against lockdown hang effigy of Kentucky governor

Justin Wise
The Hill
Mon, 25 May 2020 07:46 UTC

protesters hang effigy of Kentucky governor

A group of protesters in Kentucky on Sunday hung an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear (D) outside the state capitol during a rally celebrating the Second Amendment and opposing coronavirus restrictions.

The demonstration was organized by the group Take Back Kentucky and billed on Facebook as an opportunity for individuals to "celebrate freedom and to fight back against the unconstitutional shutdown over the Coronavirus." The event attracted approximately 100 people to the Kentucky State Capitol, The Louisville Courier Journal reported.

As the rally entered its final stages, organizers reportedly led a crowd to the governor's mansion as part of an attempt to deliver a message asking Beshear to resign. During their walk to the residence, individuals could reportedly be seen carrying signs saying, "Abort Beshear from office" and "My rights don't end where your fear begins."

Comment: Below is a clip of the Hanging of Governor Beshear in effigy:

GOP groups sue California Gov. Newsom over vote-by-mail, claim order is 'brazen power grab'

Ronn Blitzer
Fox News
Mon, 25 May 2020 18:55 UTC

California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom

The Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and California Republican Party sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Sunday, claiming an executive order sending mail-in ballots to all registered voters in the state is an "illegal power grab" that invites potential fraud.

Newsom's order, aimed at allowing voters to avoid exposure to coronavirus, will send ballots to all registered voters including inactive voters. This has led to concerns that ballots sent to people who have moved or died will end up being filled out and submitted anyway unless voter rolls are inspected and cleaned out before ballots are mailed. Many Republicans have expressed concern that Democrats could try using these ballots improperly, to swing races in their favor.

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Belgian citizens sue government for 'unacceptable Communist quarantine', restricting rights and freedoms

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Mon, 25 May 2020 18:21 UTC

A group of 40 Belgian citizens filed the first lawsuit in the kingdom against the state, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and personally the head of the department, Peter De Crema, for restricting personal freedoms and rights during quarantine justified by the Coronavirus pandemic, the RTBF television channel reported on May 24th.

According to activists, the country's authorities "copied the measures taken by China without taking into account European human rights standards." The lockdown provisions have provoked the ire of whole layers of society.

According to the plaintiff's lawyer, "Communist quarantine is unacceptable in Belgium, it was necessary to analyze these measures from a human rights perspective."

At the same time, the channel does not explain why De Crem is the main defendant, although restrictive measures were introduced by the decision of the Belgian National Security Council.

The Belgian Ministry of Internal Affairs said it did not know anything about this lawsuit, but recognized the right of citizens to defend their rights in court.

The Authoritarian State's dream has come true thanks to the repulsive word 'lockdown'

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sat, 23 May 2020 17:41 UTC

Police are pictured speaking to demonstrators in Hyde Park, London last week. We are learning, during this induction period, to do what we are told and to become obedient, servile citizens of a new authoritarian State

We will never get out of this now. It will go on for ever. We will not be free people again.

Even when we seem to be free we will be like prisoners on parole, who can be snatched back to their cells at a moment's notice.

I think I now understand why this period has come to be known by the repulsive word 'lockdown', an American term which describes the punishment of rioting convicts in a penitentiary, by confining them in their cells for long periods.

I hate this word, because it does not seem to me to be fitting to describe free people in a free country.

But we are no longer such people, or such a country. We have become muzzled, mouthless, voiceless, humiliated, regimented prisoners, shuffling about at the command of others, stopping when told to stop, moving when told to move, shouted at by jacks-in-office against whom we have no appeal.

Comment: Yup, the Corona World Order is here to stay.

It won't last long, thank God. A decade at most.

Full-blown pathocracy has nowhere to but down.

Nobel prize-winning scientist: The Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential

Freddie Sayers
UnHerd
Sat, 02 May 2020 17:13 UTC

As he is careful to point out, Professor Michael Levitt is not an epidemiologist. He's Professor of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems." He's a numbers guy — as he told us in our interview, his wife says he loves numbers more than her — but then, much of modern science is really about statistics (as his detractors never tire of pointing out, Professor Neil Ferguson is a theoretical physicist by training).

With a purely statistical perspective, he has been playing close attention to the Covid-19 pandemic since January, when most of us were not even aware of it. He first spoke out in early February, when through analysing the numbers of cases and deaths in Hubei province he predicted with remarkable accuracy that the epidemic in that province would top out at around 3,250 deaths.

His observation is a simple one: that in outbreak after outbreak of this disease, a similar mathematical pattern is observable regardless of government interventions. After around a two week exponential growth of cases (and, subsequently, deaths) some kind of break kicks in, and growth starts slowing down. The curve quickly becomes "sub-exponential".

Deputy gets prison for stealing from charity that helped kids of fallen military and cops

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Robert Simeone, a former Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy and U.S. military veteran, originally faced up to 175 years in prison for the 30 felony charges he pleaded guilty to this month. However, despite the long list of crimes, including stealing from a children's charity, Simeone will spend just five years behind bars thanks to a likely blue privilege-inspired plea deal given to him this month.

Simeone, 49, pleaded guilty to 30 felony charges for stealing $50,000 from a children's charity and paying kickbacks to lure patients into a drug treatment center he ran in West Palm Beach.

On Wednesday, this prior 'pillar of the community' stood before a judge and admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from children in a charity he set up to get rich in the name of dead cops and veterans.

According to the Sun-Sentinel, in 2017, Simeone became one of the first individuals ensnared by State Attorney Dave Aronberg's Sober Homes Task Force. It's a law enforcement push against abuses in the area's drug-recovery industry. There have been more than 100 arrests in three years.

Liberal insanity: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer allows gay swinger's club to operate while barber loses license

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Wed, 20 May 2020 11:40 UTC

There is perhaps nothing more confusing than Democrat governors' orders during the Chinese WuFlu pandemic. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is by far the worst. That was made clear with the news that a gay swinger's club with "glory holes" is being allowed to operate under her nose in Lansing while she aims her business-killing death ray on 77-year-old barber Karl Manke for giving haircuts.

Comment: Too bad the author is falling into the anti-Chinese mindset calling the virus the WuFlu pandemic.

Gay swinger's club is essential.

But strangers servicing each other through holes in a basement wall in the state capitol is perfectly fine. I guess group sex is an "essential" activity in the Democrat-run state of Michigan. The underground private club, Club Tabu, has a website that describes what goes on there. (HT: Steve Gruber)

Tabu events are defined as "private party" lifestyle socials. There is no sexual activity permitted except in the privacy of your own accommodations.

Comment: If the above story doesn't prove that following much of the ultra-liberal mindset - especially demonstrated by politicians - amounts to losing one's mind, nothing will.

But here are a few more anyway:

Suspect in beating of nursing home resident placed at facility after contracting coronavirus, father says

Emma Colton
Washington Examiner
Sun, 24 May 2020 12:30 UTC

A Michigan father said his 20-year-old son, who was seen beating a nursing home patient in a viral video, was placed in the facility after he tested positive for the coronavirus.

The man, who has not yet been publicly named, is suspected of beating a 75-year-old veteran at the home after footage of the incident surfaced last week, but his family is horrified by his actions and said he has mental issues.

"He has issues and for them to put him in a facility like that, nothing good was going to happen," the suspect's father told 7 Action News on Friday.

Comment: See the report on the original incident: Suspect arrested after video surfaces showing violent beating of elderly nursing home patient

Put those authoritarian impulses to work! Consider becoming a "contact tracer"

Megan Cerullo
CBS News
Mon, 18 May 2020 14:36 UTC

As U.S. unemployment soars to historic levels, the hottest job of the year could be a lifesaver: contact tracing. Containing the coronavirus as the economy gradually reopens has created an urgent need for hundreds of thousands of people trained to identify infected individuals and track down anyone and everyone they could have exposed to the virus.

In the absence of a federal plan, some city and state health departments are already seeking to fill thousands of these positions. Experts estimate that between 100,000 and 300,000 contact tracers — who can earn up to $65,000 per year — will be needed nationwide based on state populations and projected COVID-19 infection rates.

"I do think that it's a fantastic job for people who have been furloughed, and it's something that people can be trained to do," said Roger Shapiro, a professor of medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health. "It takes some training, but it's not impossible to train almost anybody with reasonable social skills, who can work off a script, begin a conversation with people, convey a few key messages and collect data," he said.

Comment: One wonders if the Gestapo had similar advertising campaigns. Not to come down on those who need to take any job they can get in the current employment landscape, but in an ideal world, this lockdown never would have been instituted and this type of work would be completely unnecessary.

See also: "Contact Tracer" and "Disease Investigator" jobs spring up across the country

April grocery prices jumped the most in 46 years

Jordan Davidson
Eco Watch
Wed, 13 May 2020 12:31 UTC

Not since 1974 have grocery store prices surged 2.6 percent in just one month. That just happened in April, according to new data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday, as CNBC reported.

Prices Americans paid for eggs, meat, cereal and milk all went higher in April as people flocked to grocery stores to stock up on food amid government lockdowns designed to slow the spread of Covid-19, according to CNBC.

The largest increases were for meat and eggs. Consumers paid 4.3 percent more in April for meats, poultry, fish and eggs, 1.5 percent more for fruits and vegetables, and 2.9 percent more for cereals and bakery products, as well as nonalcoholic beverages, the Labor Department said, as The Washington Post reported.

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Society's Child

Protesters railing against lockdown hang effigy of Kentucky governor

GOP groups sue California Gov. Newsom over vote-by-mail, claim order is 'brazen power grab'

Belgian citizens sue government for 'unacceptable Communist quarantine', restricting rights and freedoms

The Authoritarian State's dream has come true thanks to the repulsive word 'lockdown'

Nobel prize-winning scientist: The Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential

Deputy gets prison for stealing from charity that helped kids of fallen military and cops

Liberal insanity: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer allows gay swinger's club to operate while barber loses license

Suspect in beating of nursing home resident placed at facility after contracting coronavirus, father says

Put those authoritarian impulses to work! Consider becoming a "contact tracer"

April grocery prices jumped the most in 46 years

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