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Another Florida win: Federal judge rules CDC can't regulate cruises

Celine Castronuovo
The Hill
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:53 UTC
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A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) coronavirus-era sailing orders were an overreach of power, issuing a preliminary injunction temporarily barring the CDC from enforcing the guidelines.

Judge Steven Merryday for the Middle District of Florida in his ruling sided with the Sunshine State in its argument that the "CDC's conditional sailing order and the implementing orders exceed the authority delegated to CDC."

As a result, Merryday approved Florida's motion for a preliminary injunction suspending the mandatory guidelines for cruise ships, writing that the CDC is "preliminary enjoined from enforcing against a cruise ship arriving in, within, or departing from a port in Florida the conditional sailing order and the later measures."

Comment: Governor DeSantis has defended his constituents from the covid lunacy from the beginning. The result has been predictable.

San Francisco losing record numbers of residents to Florida and Texas

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Meet the Censored: Former Evergreen College professor Bret Weinstein

Matt Taibbi
TK News
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:30 UTC
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Professor Bret Weinstein
Canceled on campus for speaking his mind, he's now going through a sequel at the hands of Silicon Valley

On May 23, 2017, not so long ago in real time but seemingly an eternity given the extraordinary history we've lived through since, a group of 50-odd students at Evergreen State College arrived at the classroom of a biology professor named Bret Weinstein, demanding his resignation. He stepped into the hall to talk, believing he could work things out.

He was wrong. Weinstein's offense had been to come to work during an event called the "Days of Absence," in which white students, staff, and faculty were asked to stay home. This was an inverted version of a longstanding Evergreen event of the same name that, based on a Douglas Turner Ward play, invited students of color to stay home voluntarily, to underscore their value to the community. As he would later explain in the Wall Street Journal, Weinstein thought this was a different and more negative message, and refused to comply. When that group of 50 students he'd never met arrived at his door and accused him of being a racist, he assumed he could find common ground, especially when his own students (including students of color) spoke on his behalf.

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Over 3 million people displaced due to man-made conflicts in 2020, largely due to US wars abroad - UN

Jamey Keaten
Associated Press
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:55 UTC
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In this Saturday, March 23, 2019 file photo, displaced families arrive after being rescued by boat from a flooded area of Buzi district, 200 kilometers (120 miles) outside Beira, Mozambique. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said Friday June 17, 2021, that conflicts and the impact of climate change in places like Mozambique were among the leading sources of new flows of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.
War, violence, persecution, human rights violations and other factors caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement worldwide, the U.N. refugee agency said in a report Friday.

In its latest Global Trends report, UNHCR said the world's cumulative number of displaced people rose to 82.4 million — roughly the population of Germany and a new post-World War II record.

Filippo Grandi, the United Nations' high commissioner for refugees, said conflict and the fallout from climate change in places such as Mozambique, Ethiopia's Tigray region and Africa's Sahel area were key drivers of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.


Comment: Whilst the shifting and cooling climate surely will have an impact on how and where we live, it's man's inability to adapt - and even acknowledge - what's happening that is problematic.


Comment: Russia and China aren't starting these wars, fomenting these coups or supplying these terrorists, the West and its allies are; in some cases it's only because of Russia and China's response that the situation isn't even more dire than it already is:

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Georgia investigator's notes reveal 'massive' election integrity problems in Atlanta

John Solomon and Daniel Payne
Just the News
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:54 UTC
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In a nationally televised interview in January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rattled off an impressive list of measures his state used to ensure the November election count was accurate.
"We had safe, secure, honest elections," he declared to "60 Minutes."
That rosy assessment, however, masked an ugly truth inside his agency's own files: A contractor handpicked to monitor election counting in Fulton County wrote a 29-page memo back in November outlining the "massive" election integrity failures and mismanagement that he witnessed in the Atlanta-area's election centers.

The bombshell report, constructed like a minute-by-minute diary, cited a litany of high-risk problems such as the double-counting of votes, insecure storage of ballots, possible violations of voter privacy, the mysterious removal of election materials at a vote collection warehouse, and the suspicious movement of "too many" ballots on Election Day.
"This seems like a massive chain of custody problem," the contractor Carter Jones warned in the memo delivered by his firm Seven Hill Strategies to Raffensperger's office shortly after the election.

Comment: This is another proof that the 2020 controversial elections in Georgia and in the US, in general, were set up in favor of Biden.
Nothing that we already didn't know. Just more fresh pieces of information supporting the suspicion that the elections were rigged.

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Rep. Higgins condemns the extension of the closure of the US-Canada border, 'another month's delay is 'bulls**t'

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:11 UTC
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Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) communicated once again on Friday his inconformity with the fact that the US/Canada land border closure has once again been extended, this time to Jul. 21 2021.

"There's no other way to say it: another month's delay is bullshit. #LetUsReunite," tweeted Higgins.
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The Israel hasbara machine is attempting to sanitize Naftali Bennett's "I killed many Arabs" quote

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:01 UTC
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Naftali Bennett, new Prime Minister in Israel.
Not only did new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett say "I've killed many Arabs in my life, and there's no problem with that," but it was actually even worse than it appears.

Israel just got its most right-wing Prime Minister ever, in the form of Naftali Bennett. We have already seen the signs that Israeli pundits were trying to sanitize his racist history, to make him a better sell than Netanyahu.

But what do you do with phrases such as "I've killed many Arabs in my life, and there's no problem with that"? I mean, that's one of the singularly most racist things he's said, it's often quoted, and it's not only racist but has a genocidal hint to it?

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80+ students abducted in attack on Nigerian school


Reuters
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:33 UTC
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Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher said.

Comment: For insight into just what is driving destabilization in the region, check out SOTT's: Western-backed Boko Haram and 'Patriotic' Militants Efforts to Counter China-Nigeria Relations

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Horowitz: 'Religious liberty' in the Supreme Court: If this is a victory, what would a loss look like?

Daniel Horowitz
Blaze Media
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:01 UTC
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Three years ago, conservatives celebrated the 7-2 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop as a victory for religious liberty. Yet, as I predicted at the time, its extremely narrow ruling mixed with implicit anti-liberty inuendo on behalf of protected groups paved the way for Jack Phillips to continue to be targeted, as he is to this very day. Well, history has repeated itself again in the Philadelphia adoption case, except this time it's after the appointment of two supposedly more conservative justices.

In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the lower court's opinion allowing the city of Philadelphia to discriminate against Catholic Social Services by denying the organization contracts for foster care placement based on their refusal to place kids into homes without a mother and father. A 9-0 victory in favor of religious liberty might sound too good to be true. And in fact, it actually is too good to be true, because this is not much of a victory as it relates to most other cases or likely even for the party in this case. It should have been a much broader 5-4 ruling with all the non-Roberts GOP appointees joining the concurrence written by Justice Alito.

Comment: See also: Supreme Court rules Philadelphia can't force Catholic agency to serve gay foster parents

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Hongkongers queue to buy Apple Daily newspaper copies after editor-in-chief is arrested

Helen Davidson
The Guardian
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 06:05 UTC
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Photographers take photos of copies of Apple Daily coming off the printing press on Friday.
Public outpouring of support for tabloid after raid on offices by national security police.

Hongkongers queued at city news stands before dawn on Friday to buy the latest edition of the Apple Daily newspaper, a day after national security police arrested its editor-in-chief and four other directors.

On Thursday morning hundreds of officers from the Hong Kong police national security department raided the homes of the employees, including editor-in-chef Ryan Law, and the Apple Daily newsroom for the second time in less than a year. It froze millions of dollars in company assets.

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Joe Rogan savages CNN's Brian Stelter and his 'f - king terrible' show

Lee Brown
New York Post
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:32 UTC
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"Brian Stelter's show keeps slipping and slipping and slipping in the ratings," Joe Rogan said.
Podcast king Joe Rogan has savaged CNN's Brian Stelter for being under the thumb of the White House — and losing viewers with a "f-king terrible" show.

In the latest episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the podcaster trashed Stelter for having complained about YouTube personalities like him getting more viewers than CNN "as if it was some horrible thing."

"They were describing it as if they're entitled to viewers," Rogan, 53, noted of a panel discussion on Stelter's "Reliable Sources" in January.

"This is because the market has spoken and your show's f — ing terrible," the UFC commentator said, not holding back any punches.

"Brian Stelter's show keeps slipping and slipping and slipping in the ratings," said Rogan, whose show has had hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and regularly leads the podcast charts.

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