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Abbott says Texas will 'eliminate all rapists' in defending abortion bill

Cameron Jenkins
The Hill
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 04:04 UTC
Abbott
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Tuesday defended his state's controversial abortion bill by arguing that the legislation does allow for victims of rape to get an abortion and that the state will work towards eradicating all rapists.

Abbott made his comments during a press conference in which he addressed how the law applies to instances of rape, according to a local NBC News station.

He said that the new law, which bans all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, allows victims of rape up to six weeks to get an abortion, arguing that it "does not do [forcing victims to have their assaulter's child]," the news outlet reported. Abbott said, according to KXAN:
"Let's be clear: rape is a crime. And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets."
The law has been widely criticized by pro-choice advocates. President Biden last week condemned the law, saying it will "significantly impair" women's access to health care.


Comment: See: Texas abortion providers receive narrow win from state judge over heartbeat bill


Comment: Governor Greg Abbott shakes up the status quo with more legislation changes:
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a GOP-led bill that includes some of the most comprehensive voting-reform measures in the country.

State Democratic lawmakers had for months attempted to block the passage of the bill, even leaving the state to keep their Republican counterparts from having enough Assembly members to hold a vote.

Even before Abbott's signing, several groups, largely liberal leaning, opposed the new restrictions on mail-in voting and other balloting and mounted court challenges.
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Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation

Freddie Sayers
The Post
Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
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The Öresund bridge linking Denmark and Sweden was closed earlier in the pandemic.
Denmark, a country whose approach earlier in the Covid pandemic was thought of as the opposite of Sweden, with early border restrictions and school closures, has now overtaken its neighbour as the most restriction-free country in Scandinavia.

An article in today's Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish broadsheet, observes:
It seems like an upside-down world all of a sudden: that the Danes, who at the start of the pandemic gave Swedish travellers the cold shoulder on the Öresund bridge and told them to turn back because Swedish Covid restrictions were too mild, are now letting go of the reins altogether. - SVENSKA DAGBLADET
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UK fires up coal power plant as gas prices soar to record levels


BBC
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:25 UTC
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The UK fired up an old coal power plant on Monday to meet its electricity needs.

Warm, still, autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas.

As a result, National Grid ESO - which is responsible for balancing the UK's electricity supply - confirmed coal was providing 3% of national power.

It said it asked EDF to fire up West Burton A, which had been on standby.

On Tuesday, the use of coal returned to 2.2% of the UK's electricity generation.

Comment: Back in 2018, when record cold hit the UK and the country struggled to supply power to people's homes, Russia bailed them out with multiple shipments of desperately needed gas. Perhaps that could be at least one positive outcome from the UK's unsolved energy crisis: that UK citizens will see the advantages of friendly relations with Moscow and its ample supply of affordable and reliable gas.

Our planet needs to have reliable sources of energy because we appear to be heading into another ice age: Texas cold snap linked to 40 years of increasing snowfall in Arctic & disruptions in stratospheric polar vortex - increase in extreme cold events likely - study

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AP forced to issue correction on fake news about ivermectin

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:31 UTC
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The Associated Press was forced to issue a correction after it falsely claimed that 70 per cent of calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were about people ingesting ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

The actual number was 2 per cent.

Whoops!

Comment: The rabid censorship and smearing of viable alternatives to Covid vaccination continues (and their stories get less and less believable all the time).

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Australian missing boy, AJ Elfalak, found safe and well after going missing from family's Putty property

Elizabeth Daoud and Alex Chapman
7 News
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:54 UTC
AJ Elfalak found
© 7NEWS
Anthony “AJ” Elfalak’s family react after finding out he was found alive.
A three-year-old boy who went missing from his family's property in NSW Hunter region has been found.

Anthony "AJ" Elfalak, who has autism and is non-verbal, disappeared from the Putty property before midday on Friday.

More than 130 police officers, volunteers and other authorities spent the weekend searching the property and its surrounding areas.
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Migrant crisis: Record number tried to cross Channel to UK on Monday, say witnesses


Sky News
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:36 UTC
migrants cross channel beach UK

A group of migrants are brought ashore from the local lifeboat at Dungeness in Kent on Monday.
It is thought to be the highest daily number, surpassing the previous record of 828 migrants on 21 August.

A record number of migrants have attempted to cross the English Channel today, according to witnesses.

It's thought at least 1,000 men, women and children were spotted making the journey from France to the UK.

The Home Office has put the figure at lower than that but cannot yet say whether the record was broken.
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Finding loopholes: Missouri restaurant reopens as private club after shutting down over mask mandate

Luke Gentile
Washington Examiner
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:46 UTC
rae's cafe missouri
The owner of a Missouri restaurant that closed after allegedly not complying with county mask requirements said Saturday that the establishment is now a private club.

Amanda Wohletz, the owner, watched Jackson County officials close her restaurant, Rae's Café, Friday after the county deemed it was an imminent health hazard. But Wohletz said she found a way to keep her kitchen open. It now reportedly has a "no masks allowed" policy.

Wohletz allegedly violated the county's COVID-19 mask mandate by refusing to require masks in the restaurant.

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rae's private club missouri
Very clever! It will be interesting to see how long loophole exploits like this will be able to hold out.

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Ridiculous: National Archives places 'harmful language alert' on page hosting US constitution


The National Pulse
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
constitution harmful language
The webpage of the U.S. National Archives that hosts the nation's own Constitution has a "harmful language alert" for readers at the top of the page.

The alert now appears on many pages on the archives.org website, and links to a page entitled "NARA's Statement on Potentially Harmful Content," which they define as:
  • reflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes;
  • be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more;
  • include graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more;
  • demonstrate bias and exclusion in institutional collecting and digitization policies.

Comment: That super-lefties would be triggered by the US Constitution and need to have a 'trigger warning' provided really says everything you need to know about where things are headed.

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Attention

'They're making s*** up': Joe Rogan lashes out at CNN's misinformation about him taking "horse dewormer"

Brodigan
Louder With Crowder
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:39 UTC
joe rogan
You may have heard recently that Joe Rogan took "horse dewormer" to combat the 'rona. You may even believe that if you get your news from misinformation networks like CNN. What Rogan took was something called "ivermectin" as prescribed by his doctor. We'll get to why in a minute. But first, here is Rogan wondering if he has to sue CNN.
Do I have to sue CNN? They're making sh*t up. They keep saying I'm taking horse dewormer. I literally got it from a doctor. But CNN keeps saying I'm taking horse dewormer. They must know that that's a lie.
If I were to guess, yes. CNN does know it's a ... let's just call it an invalid truth. Ivermectin is a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honored distinction with indicated efficacy against C*VID-19. There is also a version of it that is concentrated on animals specifically. However, it is not approved by the CDC. It is also not the v*cc*ne, and the government only wants you to get shots and do nothing else. Since this is what the government wants, it's what CNN wants. Hence CNN repeating misinformation that Rogan took horse dewormer.


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Oregon police, firefighters sue Gov. Kate Brown over vaccination mandate

Michael Lee
Fox News
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:21 UTC
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
© AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus
In this March 16, 2020, file photo, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks at a news conference in Portland, Ore. The Oregon Supreme Court has upheld the governor's shutdown orders aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus. The court overturned a judge in a conservative and rural part of the state who ruled Brown's restricting of activities had been nullified after a time limit.
A coalition of police and firefighters are suing Gov. Kate Brown over her mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccination for state workers.

The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court, says the plaintiffs are the Oregon Fraternal Order of Police along with troopers from around the state and firefighters at the Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base in Klamath County, KOIN-TV reported.

It names the governor and the state of Oregon as defendants.

The group is asking a judge to declare Brown's executive order "unenforceable," claiming it allegedly works against existing Oregon statutes and would result in wrongful termination of employees, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes after an Oregon trooper was placed on paid leave for posting an Instagram video declaring his intent to defy the state's vaccine mandate.

"I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, to protect the freedom of the people who pay my salary," Zachary Kowing, 29, said in the video posted to Instagram last week. "I do not work for my governor but for them."

Comment: See also: NYC businesses sue De Blasio over vaccine mandate

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