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Laptop repair store owner who discovered Hunter Biden's emails sues Twitter for defamation

Ari Hoffman
PM
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:56 UTC
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Repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac • Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
The computer repair shop owner who was paid to repair Hunter Biden's laptop and was the source for The New York Post story about Biden's emails, has filed a lawsuit against the social media platform for defamation, claiming it falsely labelled him as a hacker.

John Paul Mac Isaac was the owner of The Mac Shop, a Delaware computer repair business that was paid to repair the Biden laptop. He is seeking $500 million in damages and a public retraction from Twitter, after the Tech giant made the decision to "...communicate to the world that [Isaac] is a hacker."

In the suit, which was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Isaac says he was forced to close his shop after Twitter blocked The New York Post's Hunter Biden reports in October, weeks before Election Day.

According to the suit, Isaac claims that his business began to receive threats and negative reviews after Twitter decided to censor the article and moderate posts of those that had shared the content. Isaac claims he is "...now widely considered a hacker" because of Twitter. The lawsuit claims that the "...plaintiff is not a hacker and the information obtained from the computer does not [constitute] hacked materials because Plaintiff lawfully gained access to the computer."

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Save us, Big Brother! Ever-shifting Covid-19 guidance is designed to make you beg for dictatorship

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:43 UTC
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While much of the US is succumbing to pandemic fatigue, caring less than ever about the latest scary numbers, a small but influential faction is demanding dictatorship for everyone to ensure compliance with "the rules."

"All I want for Christmas are Covid-19 mandates," Washington Post columnist Kate Cohen wrote as the holiday loomed on the horizon last week. Seemingly terrified that Americans' festive habits might overtake their pandemic-inculcated learned helplessness for a few days and unwilling to "allow" people to celebrate in peace, Cohen spoke for the burgeoning Snitch Nation, begging for more rules to follow — and an iron fist to enforce them on the disobedient.

Lamenting that Americans "have been left to regulate ourselves," Cohen whines "why don't we just follow the rules?" Even as she admits those rules have been changing rapidly and illogically for months, she demands more of them, embodying the threadbare old joke about how "the food was terrible - and such small portions!"
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72% of Republicans see Trump as a model for party's future


Rasmussen Reports
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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US President Donald Trump
When the Republican Party reorganizes itself next year, GOP voters strongly believe President Trump should remain the role model, but most think the party should look for a new face to be its next presidential candidate.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 72% of Likely Republican Voters think their party should be more like Trump than like the average GOP member of Congress. Twenty-four percent (24%) see the average Republican in Congress as a better model. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Most Republicans have consistently identified more with Trump than the average GOP member of Congress in surveys for the last several years.
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Lockdown: A deadly, failed experiment

Fraser Myers
Spiked
Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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It has been a global catastrophe. We must never go down this road again.

The country this year which has been most ravaged by Covid-19 - losing a shocking 1,600 people in every million to the virus at the time of writing - is Belgium.

That might come as something of a surprise. You could be forgiven for thinking it was America, thanks to Trump's alleged ignorance of science. Or what about Britain, which locked down 'too late' because of its government's short-lived but foolish belief in freedom? Or Brazil, whose right-wing leader complained that lockdowns and masks were for 'fags'? If not those, then surely Sweden, where there has famously been no hard lockdown at all?

But no, it's Belgium. There's nothing particularly unusual about Belgium's response. Nothing that diverged significantly from the consensus. It did the same thing as everyone else around the same time as everyone else. It even garnered praise for its testing capacity.

There's one caveat: Belgium's unparalleled death rate might be down to how the deaths are counted. Some say Belgium is merely the 'most honest' country - while others have accused officials of overcounting and including all kinds of deaths not caused by Covid.
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Frank Capra's Defense of Humanity: Cinema Considered as a Moral Institution

Matthew Ehret
Rising Tide Foundation
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:16 UTC
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Scene from 'It's A Wonderful Life', directed by Frank Capra
For those who find themselves with excess time this holiday season which they would prefer not to squander with idleness or Netflix binges, then I'd like to offer this serving of Frank Capra films to uplift the soul.

Frank Capra (1897-1991) stands as one of the most brilliant directors/producers of the 20th Century, and sadly also one of the least understood- known at best for the film It's a Wonderful Life played every year as a Christmas tradition, or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Heroes: Top 10 'anti-woke' celebrities who held their ground in 2020's cancel culture wars

Zachary Leeman
RT
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:59 UTC
JK Rowling, Joe Rogan, Rose McGowan
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(L-R) JK Rowling, Joe Rogan, Rose McGowan
In RT's The Wokies series, we've been handing out the dubious accolade of being the loudest virtue signalers of 2020. It's time to honor the other side - those few who stood up to the social justice warriors' onslaught.

With the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown restrictions, plus a US presidential election that sucked up everyone's attention, 2020 provided a plethora of opportunities for celebrities to virtue signal and prove their SJW bona fides.

Luckily, however, the woke beast that is the collective political thought bubble pushed by Hollywood also saw some significant pushback from fellow artists unwilling to keep quiet. Here is a look at the 10 who found the most success calling out the hypocrisy and speaking truth to power.
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Nashville blast: Lone bomber or false-flag attack?

Stephen Lendman
stephenlendman.org
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:12 UTC
damage nashville bombing
© Associated Press
Emergency personnel work near the scene of an explosion in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Dec. 25, 2020
On Christmas day, a recreational vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville, TN outside an AT&T transmission building — one block from the company's office building.

What happened knocked out communications and 911 emergency call centers over a wide area, including parts of neighboring Kentucky and Alabama.

Was the motive behind what happened what official reports claimed? Or was something else responsible for the blast? Was it a false flag?

Comment: Lendman raises important questions. The investigation is certainly following the same pattern as other false flag incidents, with the media predictably falling into line. Yet no one has yet asked the key question, 'Qui bono'? Who (ultimately) benefits from the damage to the AT&T building?

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Improvised explosive device kills 3 French soldiers in Mali

Shweta Desai
AA
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Armored vehicle hits improvised explosive device near country's border with Niger, Burkina Faso
French soldier
Three French soldiers were killed in eastern Mali as their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED), the French presidency said on Monday.

The incident took place when Brigadier-Chief Tanerii Mauri, Fighters 1st Class Dorian Issakhanian and Quentin Pauchet from the first regiment of hunters of Thierville-sur-Meuse were on an escort mission between Hombori and Gossi, near the border with Niger and Burkina Faso.

"Despite the immediate intervention of the medical team present in the convoy and the care provided, the three soldiers could not be revived," a statement from the Defense Ministry said.

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Scamdemic: More under-60s died on UK roads last year than those with no underlying conditions from coronavirus

Mason Boycott-Owen
The Telegraph, UK
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:15 UTC
road accidents uk

Road accidents, an actual thing. Unlike Covid-19-as-plague-like-pandemic...
Almost three times as many under 60s died in road crashes last year as those without health conditions killed by coronavirus, NHS data shows.

Just 388 people under the age of 60 with no underlying health conditions have died of coronavirus in England, NHS data has revealed.

The figures show that only 0.8 per cent of all deaths from coronavirus between April 2 and December 23 came from this group of the population.

In the same time 45,770 people had died with underlying health conditions, while 1,979 were viewed as healthy.

Of these, only 388 were between 40 and 59, 44 were between the ages of 20 and 39, and only six were younger than 19.

In comparison, during the whole of 2019, 955 under-60s died on England's roads.

It comes amid further criticism of the Government that their policy on lockdown and the tier system is doing more damage to the economy and mental health of it's working-age population than only shielding the vulnerable.
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Scamdemic: ICU occupancy in English hospitals no higher than last December

Toby Young
Lockdown Sceptics
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:23 UTC
nurses uk nhs dancing videos

UK NHS staff are so bored during this 'pandemic', they've been making silly videos all year long
The media is full of alarming reports of NHS hospitals being on the brink of armageddon, such is the surge in coronavirus patients. "As we head into the new year we are seeing a real rise in the pressure on NHS services, particularly across London and the south-east," Saffron Cordery, the Deputy Chief Executive of NHS Providers told the Guardian.

A letter from NHS chiefs sent to the chief executives of all NHS trust and foundation trusts on December 23rd contained this alarming paragraph:
With COVID-19 inpatient numbers rising in almost all parts of the country, and the new risk presented by the variant strain of the virus, you should continue to plan on the basis that we will remain in a level 4 incident for at least the rest of this financial year and NHS trusts should continue to safely mobilise all of their available surge capacity over the coming weeks. This should include maximising use of the independent sector, providing mutual aid, making use of specialist hospitals and hubs to protect urgent cancer and elective activity and planning for use of funded additional facilities such as the Nightingale hospitals, Seacole services and other community capacity. Timely and safe discharge should be prioritised, including making full use of hospices. Support for staff over this period will need to remain at the heart of our response, particularly as flexible redeployment may again be required.
And the Independent reports that the London Ambulance Service has issued a warning saying it can no longer guarantee an ambulance will turn up if women giving birth at home require emergency care.

Sounds like a major crisis, right? Better move the rest of England into Tier 4, make mask-wearing mandatory in all settings and close schools until Easter.

Or is it?

If you look at ICU occupancy in NHS hospitals across England on December 20th it was lower than the December average in 2019 in most of the country - and it's worth remembering that the 2019-20 flu season was unusually mild.
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