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Tyrant Michigan Gov. Whitmer stripped of emergency powers


Fox News
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:26 UTC
Whitmer
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan legislators have stripped Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of the emergency powers she freely wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The state Senate approved the Unlock Michigan initiative on July 15. On Thursday, the Republican-controlled state House passed the measure with a 60-48 vote largely along party lines.

"Yesterday was a great day for Michigan, and yesterday was anything but partisan politics," Michigan Congresswoman Lisa McClain told "Fox & Friends First" on Friday. "It was the voice of the people saying enough is enough."

Whitmer utilized powers granted by the Emergency Powers of Governor Act of 1945, which allowed her to enact significant health and safety restrictions in the early days of the pandemic.

Comment: Good. Now it's time to bring on the criminal charges.

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Light Sabers

Russian billionaires vs British writer: London court battle begins over Putin book


South China Morning Post
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:28 UTC
Roman Abramovich
© ReutersRussian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich
England's High Court will begin hearing arguments on Wednesday from lawyers for four Russian billionaires including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich and state-owned oil firm Rosneft about a book on President Vladimir Putin which they say defames them.

In the 2020 book, British journalist Catherine Belton chronicles Putin's rise to power and how many of his associates from the former Soviet spy services rose to positions of wealth and influence after he won the top Kremlin job in 1999.

Lawyers for the businessmen will tell the court that passages in the book Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West, published by HarperCollins, are defamatory. Abramovich is suing both HarperCollins and Belton, according to case details filed with the courts and tribunals service.
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Question

MyPillow CEO, Mike Lindell, predicts Biden and Harris may resign over latest election claims

Andrew Blake
Washington Times
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:54 UTC
mike lindell my pillow election fraud law suit investigation
© AP Photo/Alex BrandonMyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, March 30, 2020.
MyPillow CEO Michael J. Lindell said Monday that he thinks President Biden might resign next month when the pro-Trump bedding magnate reveals his latest purported evidence of alleged election interference.

Mr. Lindell, who denies the results of the 2020 election, falsely added that former President Trump will be reinstated if both Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris resign as he predicts may happen.

Speaking to Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's former strategist, Mr. Lindell described the hypothetical dual resignations as one of several "pathways" for the former president to reenter the White House.

Comment: Despite the sneering tone of the article, Mr. Lindell has marshalled a bevy of experts and an impressive pile of evidence that he is correct about the fraudulent election. Whether or not that will be enough to overturn it is another matter, given that multiple courts have dismissed previous lawsuits on technicalities, before any evidence could be presented. What is odd and unsettling is that many Republican party members are impeding Lindell whenever possible. Apparently Trump is unacceptable to Washington swamp critters on both sides of the aisle.

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Mr. Potato

'Leftist' ESPN columnist mocked after claiming US flag-waving at Olympics reminds him of 'rise of white nationalism'


RT
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:09 UTC
ESPN columnist Bill Rhoden
© The Daily MailESPN columnist Bill Rhoden; Opening ceremonies at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics
A veteran sportswriter has come under fire after suggesting that United States flags on display during the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics were a visual reminder of the alleged surge of white nationalism in the US.

ESPN columnist Bill Rhoden told CBS This Morning that the opening ceremony used to be one of his favorite parts of the Olympics, but that this year he felt differently about the event.

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Human Rights Watch: Israel 'devastated entire families' in Gaza

Abdel Raouf Arnaout and Nour Abu Eisha
Anadolu Agency
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:28 UTC
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© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / ReutersA building in Gaza collapses after being hit by Israeli missiles on May 12, 2021.
Israel's 11-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip in May amount to "war crimes", Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.

Israeli attacks on Gaza "violated the laws of war and apparently amount to war crimes," the New York-based rights group said in a report.

HRW added it "investigated three Israeli strikes that killed 62 Palestinian civilians where there were no evident military targets in the vicinity."

Gerry Simpson, associate crisis and conflict director at HRW, said Israeli forces carried out attacks "that devastated entire families without any apparent military target nearby," noting that Israel's "consistent unwillingness to seriously investigate alleged war crimes" underlines the need for the International Criminal Court's inquiry.

Comment: The excuse eventually given by Israel was the launching of 'incendiary balloons' into the area adjacent to the open air prison.



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Health

Ireland will finally distinguish between hospital patients actually ill from Covid and those who simply test positive

Michael Curzon
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:09 UTC
doctor patient close up
The Irish Government has announced that it will change the way it collects data on Covid hospitalisations by distinguishing between those who are admitted to hospital because of the virus and those who test positive after being admitted for other reasons. It's only taken them 17 months! RTÉ has the story.
At present, the Health Service Executive [HSE] Covid hub website states that there are 141 people in hospital who have tested positive for Covid, of whom 22 are in ICU.

A Government spokesperson said it is "seeking better data on hospitalisations in order to better inform decision making.

Comment: Guess Ireland has finally caught up with the NHS in figuring out that only counting actual Covid deaths as Covid deaths (rather than anyone dying with Covid as a 'Covid death') the official numbers of total deaths from the disease will come down, making it seem as if the vaccines are working. Clever, no?

See: NHS Told to Identify Patients Actually Sick From Covid-19 Rather Than Those Testing Positive

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Every fourth pedophilia suspect in Poland is a priest, state commission reveals


RT
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:32 UTC
Bishop pedophilia poland
© Reuters / Jacek MarczewskiFILE PHOTO: People carry a banner, reading "Bishop, hiding pedophilia is a crime," during a protest in Warsaw.
Nearly 30% of all sexual offences against minors in Poland are linked to representatives of the clergy, the State Commission on Pedophilia revealed in its first report.

The commission, which was established by the government in 2019, shared the results of its work on Monday in a 250-page paper.

The experts examined 349 pedophilia cases during this period, with priests being suspects in around 100 of them. More than 50 of these cases have been forwarded to the Prosecutor's Office, the report said.

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Sheriff

Atlanta officers relieved of duty after video shows handcuffed woman being kicked in head

Olafimihan Oshin
The Hill
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:57 UTC
atlanta police
© Getty
The Atlanta Police Department (APD) has relieved two officers from duty after a video surfaced of one of them kicking a handcuffed woman in the head.

A video surfaced on various social media platforms showing a Black woman handcuffed, laying on the ground facedown as two APD officers stand over her.

The woman then appears to raise her head and spit on one of the officers' boots and pants. The officer in response swiftly kicks the woman in the head while his colleague watches.

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NPC

Scottish government will ask staff to put gender pronouns in emails, despite overwhelming opposition - media


RT
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:31 UTC
scottish flag
© AFP / ADRIAN DENNIS
The Scottish government is reportedly preparing to ask civil servants to put their gender pronouns at the end of emails in an effort to boost inclusivity - despite the majority of employees opposing the idea.

According to the Telegraph newspaper, the government supports a proposal that would encourage civil servants to take a "pronoun pledge" and add their preferred pronouns - such as he/him, she/her, they/them, or even zie/zir - to their email signatures.

Though it appears that the Scottish government is moving ahead with the proposal, it has already proved to be an unpopular idea among government staffers.

Comment: The authoritarian hammer is coming down! It's all well and good to have people voluntarily putting their pronouns on display and allowing for those who think it's stupid to refrain. But forcing everyone to take part in this ridiculous virtue signal is trampling on free speech rights.

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Fire

"Extreme threat": Explosion rocks waste incineration plant in Germany, 2 dead, 5 missing, 30 injured


Euronews
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:45 UTC
explosion germany
Emergency vehicles stand not far from an access road to the Chempark over which a dark cloud of smoke is rising in Leverkusen, Germany, July 27, 2021.
Two people have been killed and five others are still missing after an explosion at a chemical park in the German city of Leverkusen.

More than thirty people were injured in the blast, including three "seriously," the municipality said in a statement.

"My thoughts go to the injured and their relatives. The search for the missing is still going on at full speed. Unfortunately, the hope of finding them alive is fading, " said the site operator's manager Lars Friedrich.

Comment: This is just the latest incident at an industrial facility of late, and the regularity of these kinds of events appears to be increasing: It's likely that the cause behind these explosions and fires aren't all connected, some will be due to human error and malpractice and some will be sabotage, however, it's also likely that some are linked to the Earth Changes that are wreaking havoc in other areas of our lives: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions

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