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Pro-Trump activist Bevelyn Beatty stabbed in the back... Multiple Proud Boys stabbed in DC

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:36 UTC
Bevelyn Beatty stabbed
Pro-Trump activist Bevelyn Beatty and multiple Proud Boys were stabbed in DC while attempting to help another person who was being assaulted.

Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio tells Gateway Pundit that he was slashed in the stomach, Beatty was stabbed in the back, and multiple other members of the men's social group were stabbed and are now hospitalized with serious wounds.

A law enforcement confirmed to TGP that the group was walking down the street, away from the protests, when they saw an older man being stabbed and intervened.

Comment: This is the same Bevelyn Beatty, Christian activist, who was arrested for painting over the Black Live Matter mural on New York's Fifth Avenue back in July. See: NY Mayor's 'Black Lives Matter' mural attacked for third time in a week, this time by Christian activist

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Hospital intensive care no busier than normal for most trusts, leaked documents show

Sarah Knapton
The Telegraph
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 05:09 UTC
hospital beds
Hospital intensive care is no busier than normal for the majority of trusts, leaked documents have shown, raising more questions about whether a second national lockdown is justifiable.

An update from the NHS Secondary Uses Services (SUS), seen by The Telegraph, shows that capacity is tracking as normal in October with the usual numbers of beds available that would be expected at this time of year, even without extra surge capacity.

An NHS source said: "As you can see, our current position in October is exactly where we have been over the last five years."

The new data shows that, even in the peak of the Covid outbreak in April, critical care beds were never more than 80 per cent full.

Although there has been a reduction in surge capacity since the first wave, with the closure of the emergency Nightingale Hospitals, there is still 15 per cent spare capacity across the country - fairly normal for this time of year.

Comment: See also:

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PA poll watchers denied access, illegal campaigning observed at polling stations: 'The steal is on'

Hannah Bleau
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:25 UTC
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© NBC News
Voters lined up outside St. Paul's Lutheran Church in New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania.
Election Day kicked off with a bout of chaos in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with poll watchers reportedly denied access and witnesses alleging "illegal campaigning" at various polling locations.

According to Trump 2020 EDO director Mike Roman, Democrat election officials are banning Trump poll watchers all across the city, as one video shows. Another photo on social media shows a physical barrier, which Roman says Democrat officials are using to keep poll watchers far from the counting tables:

Comment: In New York and Florida, the deceased apparently feel their civic duty keenly:
Ballots have been posted in to the New York City Board of Elections in the name of dead voters, according to The New York Post. The elections board received an absentee ballot from a Frances Reckhow of Staten Island, but as it turned out Frances Reckhow had died in 2012, according to an obituary filed with The Staten Advance.

Moreover, another absentee ballot was mailed from a certain Gertrude Nizzere, born in 1919, who also turned out to have a passed away a long time ago, according to the Board of Elections. After the incident, all data has been transferred to the police and Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon's office for investigation.

Earlier, a number of media outlets have cited the Broward County Election Commission on reporting that Florida election officials and law enforcement officials have disclosed an attempt to register about 50 deceased voters to vote in the 2020 US presidential election. More than 96 million early votes have been cast, which represents almost 70% of the 2016 total, according to the US Elections Project.
Just the sort of situation Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch have been litigating against:

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Breaking a Lance in Support of Trump

Joris De Draeck
Sott.net
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:03 UTC
Trump buy American
Fair warning: I'll squarely defend Trump in this article. I'll hone in on the good things he has done. Lo' and behold: there are many. With Trump's press coverage being 95% negative, I think that approach is needed, necessary and long-overdue.

I tried to make each section readable in and by itself. So skim over the headlines, pick a topic, read a bit, get upset (because "I defend the orange monster") and think: what if?
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Twitter ups political censorship for election announcements from non-mainstream media accounts


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:00 UTC
Trump/Twitbirds
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Trump vs the Twits
Twitter has unveiled a new label for Election Day announcements that don't come from "official sources" - a category including not just election authorities, but national news outlets that frequently get stories wrong.

From Tuesday through Inauguration Day - over two months - Twitter will slap a 'disputed' label on "some Tweets that make claims about election results," the platform announced on its blog on Monday. Election-related tweets from any candidate running in 2020 and their campaigns, along with US-based accounts with over 100,000 followers, risk incurring the punitive labels, as does any tweet with over 25,000 likes or retweets. (see below)

The alert shows up as a blue exclamation point and a warning that "official sources may not have called the race when this was tweeted" or "official sources called this election differently," depending on the outcome. Attempting to retweet the offending material enlarges the warning, adding a button so the user can "find out more" about how to "help keep Twitter a place for reliable info."

Comment: Twitter has arguably overreached its authority. It is supposed to be a public service, not a moderator of political content. Here is Twitter's new rules cheat sheet tweet, mentioned above:

Targeting the President, Twitter has become a self-appointed gatekeeper of communication and critic of policy above and beyond its scope of service and operation, flagging Trump's warning tweet of 'violence in the streets' after SCOTUS permits Pennsylvania to count ballots beyond election day:

See also:

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Five reasons why England's new coronavirus lockdown is not justified

Rob Lyons
RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:34 UTC
Lockdown in London
© In Pictures via Getty Images/Mike Kemp
As Londoners await the second coronavirus national lockdown people still come to visit the sights such as Tower Bridge, some wearing face masks and some not, on what will be the last few days of normality before a month-long total lockdown in the UK on 2nd November 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
There's a grave danger that Boris Johnson's decision to shut down the country again s based on a flawed, one-eyed interpretation of the facts, and that the 'cure' will be worse than the disease, again. Have we learned nothing?

On Saturday night, British prime minister Boris Johnson confirmed the worst-kept secret of the moment: that England would be going back into lockdown from Thursday 5 November - Bonfire Night. But the only things going up in smoke will be some of our most basic freedoms - and it's far from clear that such a clampdown is justified.

This was a moment that Johnson would have preferred to avoid, having made clear just a couple of weeks ago that he thought the idea of another lockdown was the "height of absurdity". Yet it would appear that he has been persuaded that "there is no alternative", echoing a phrase made famous by Margaret Thatcher. He said that "the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst case scenario of our scientific advisers, whose models... now suggest that unless we act we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day, a peak of mortality alas far bigger than the one we saw in April."
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Police interrupt 'possible arson attempt' at Portland Starbucks, as protesters promise 'good show' on election night


RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:30 UTC
Portland Starbucks
© Reuters
Violence at Starbucks, Portland, Oregon
Police interrupted a "possible arson attempt" at a Starbucks on the ground floor of an apartment building in Portland. Protesters then threatened to spit at responding officers and vowed more violence to come on election night.

According to police, a group of some 100 protesters smashed up windows at the Portland State University, breaking windows to the Public Safety Office reception area before attacking several other buildings on campus and finally turning their attention to a Starbucks on the ground floor of an apartment building.

Officers from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Portland Police Bureau, and Oregon State Police declared a riot and cleared the area, interrupting what they described as a "possible arson attempt."

Comment: As Portland prepares to handle violence and destruction, especially on the eve of the election, federal officers find themselves restrained to specific locations and parameters. The situation does not bode well and this is just the beginning:



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'Bob and Sally' political cartoon draws ire on Election Day Eve

Megan Manning
International Business Times
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:25 UTC
Sally and Bob
Election Day Eve is officially here and the annual "Bob and Sally" meme has hit social media again. Twitter users are not happy about it resurfacing this year. This meme surfaced in 2017 after President Donald Trump was inaugurated into office. It came from a Facebook group named, "The Silent Majority."

The meme reads, "This is Bob. He votes Republican. This is Bob's friend, Sally. Sally votes Democrat. Bob and Sally are still friends, because Bob and Sally are both adults. Be like Bob and Sally."


This has barely received any positive feedback, especially on the eve of this year's controversial election.

Comment: First things first. Twitter isn't reality. The nutters ranting on Twitter are not representative of the people across the US. They are a very small percentage of crazies who think their tiny world is much bigger than it is. Most people actually are like Sally and Bob. Those who aren't can have all the crazy they want.

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Open letter to the Covid-corrupted media: Non-stop reporting, alarming and fearmongering

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:16 UTC
covid-19 mask fear
© Getty Images / RealPeopleGroup
An appeal to the CEOs of Worldwide Media Giants... Also addressed to, We, the People.
We, The People, are concerned about worldwide media reporting about covid.

Are you, Western Media Moguls, realizing that there is hardly anything else on your programs other than covid? - Covid is at the center of everything. Covid discussions appear every hour on the hour, in the news and in between the news.

Covid reporting is non-stop alarming and fearmongering.

New "cases", new "infections" are reported almost on an hourly basis of the country concerned. Covid "cases" double or triple every 24 hours. It's astounding; really fear-inflicting. We are entering a "second wave"; hospitals are overflowing; you must submit to testing-testing-testing, it is key, so we can prevent others from being infected.

You must wear masks; you must respect social distancing - quarantine is obligatory, confinement, alias house arrest, closing bars restaurants public places, curfew - walking in the streets, even for food shopping, with license only, police squadrons surveillance — a universal tyranny the world has not known in history remembered.
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NPC

Kirstie Alley's treatment is yet another reminder that 'liberals' can't cope when women and black voters don't agree with them


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:18 UTC
kirstie alley ice cub
© REUTERS / Henry Nicholls; REUTERS / Mario Anzuoni
The 'Cheers' actress is the latest public figure to show us the intolerance of the left when it comes to women and black Americans dissenting from and even criticizing them.

If the 2020 presidential election cycle has shown us one thing it's that the US has an issue with tolerance at the moment. While tribalism is prevalent in both major political parties, it is the anti-Trump crowd that has proven themselves to have a particular issue with women and black voters who express opinions that break their narrative of the Republican Party equaling white supremacy.

Kirstie Alley is the latest to burst out of the leftist bubble of Hollywood and target liberals. The 'Cheers' star has faced near-constant criticism on social media for her support of Donald Trump, and she appeared on Fox News' 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Sunday to slam CNN for fear-mongering when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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