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Dutch restaurant group suing state over Covid closures, warns industry is on brink of bankruptcy with no end to lockdown in sight


RT
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:48 UTC
restaurant Amsterdam
© AFP / ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSENA restaurant in Amsterdam
The Netherlands' largest restaurant association has said it will sue the Dutch state in a bid to get the government to drop its ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, due to their devastating impact on the hospitality sector.

Koninklijke Horeca Nederland (KHN) said on Monday it was taking legal action based on the fact that the government has not provided epidemiological evidence for the restrictions that have forced the industry to close.

KHN has also criticized a lack of state financial support for restaurateurs and the government's failure to announce an exit plan for the current shutdown. The amount the association is seeking through the lawsuit has not been disclosed.

The association's chairman, Rober Willemsen, said he was "deeply disappointed" in the government and its decision to uphold the current measures, warning that the "catering industry is going to hell."
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Footprints

Suffolk/USA Today poll: Nearly half of GOP would leave for Trump party

Eric Mack
NewsMax
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:27 UTC
Trump
© Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump does not just lead the Republican Party still, he ostensibly owns it, according to the latest Suffolk University-USA Today poll released Sunday.

By a near 2-to-1 margin, Republicans would leave the GOP to follow former President Donald Trump to a third party.
Brandon Keidl, 27, Republican small-business owner from Milwaukee told USA Today after being polled.:
"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day. But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."
The poll found 46% of Republicans would follow Trump to a new party, compared to just 26% that would stay with the GOP and remainder undecided. A majority of Trump voters (54%) are more loyal to the candidate than the party (34%). Just 19% believed Republicans should turn away from Trump and remain loyal to establishment Republicans.

There is also "a seismic shift in the landscape of trusted news sources for conservatives in the country," according to Suffolk University Political Research Center Director David Paleologos.

Comment: Political parties pay for packaging and calculated rhetoric to sway public choice, not fulfillment. It is stale and it stinks. We could use some fresh political air.

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Red Flag

Foreign student who attended college in Michigan and returned to Taiwan in 2004 received absentee ballot application

Patty McMurray
100 Percent Fed Up
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:16 UTC
Jocelyn Benson michigan vote rolls
Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
Non-citizen's name STILL remains on "qualified voter" list

The state of Michigan has suffered a huge black eye following the incompetent handling of the 2020 elections by Michigan's radical Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Last year, with no congressional approval, Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson made the unilateral decision to mail absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million addresses in Michigan, hiding behind the COVID pandemic as an excuse to do what Democrats have been trying to do for decades — normalize no ID mail-in voting.

Comment: Michigan seems to want to give Pennsylvania a run for most corrupt electoral elections.

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Blackbox

Best of the Web: Mother of Officer Sicknick confirms media got cause of death wrong: 'He wasn't hit on the head'

Noah David Alter
Post Millennial
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:17 UTC
sicknick
The mother of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick said in an interview with Daily Mail that her son was not beaten with a fire extinguisher, but likely suffered a stroke.

"He wasn't hit on the head no. We think he had a stroke, but we don't know anything for sure," Gladys Sicknick said. "We'd love to know what happened."

Shortly after the Capitol Hill riot on Jan 6, The New York Times reported, based on anonymous sources, that Sicknick was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.

"[Pro]-Trump supporters... overpowered Mr Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher according to two law enforcement officials," the paper wrote. They have since issued a correction to the story weeks later.

The report was picked up uncritically by other major news outlets, who did not bother to confirm the legitimacy of the Times' reporting. The story of him being beaten with a fire extinguisher was even presented as fact in former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
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2 + 2 = 4

New Hampshire Senate votes 24-0 to force the state to perform audit of Windham, New Hampshire November 3rd elections

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:06 UTC
new hampshire
As we previously reported at The Gateway Pundit —

A recent hand recount in the Rockingham District 7 NH House Race in Windham, New Hampshire, found that the Dominion-owned voting machines shorted EVERY REPUBLICAN by roughly 300 votes.

Via Facebook

The Dominion machine counted results were wrong for all 4 Republicans in Windham by almost exactly 300 votes.

Dominion Voting Systems owns the intellectual property of the AccuVote machines used in New Hampshire.

Earlier this month we spoke with Dr. David Strang M.D., the Belknap County Republican Committee State Committee Member, for the New Hampshire GOP.

David told The Gateway Pundit that the Republican candidates in Windham had 6% of their total votes removed by the Dominion-owned voting machines.

According to Dr. Strang, these same Dominion-owned machines are used in 85% of the towns in New Hampshire.

Comment: Due to overwhelming Zoom requests, the meeting was postponed. Ken Eyring over at Granite Grok has some misgivings, however:
The current Bill authorizes the AG's office and the Secretary of State to perform the audit. However, I believe their positions have been compromised by showing their predispositions to dismiss our concerns regarding the largest unexplained machine count vs. hand count election results discrepancy in the history of NH.
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The Bill DOES NOT mandate an audit of all ballots, NOR an audit of all races. In essence, it authorizes the Secretary of State to perform a MEANINGLESS audit of the Windham November general election. Are you kidding me???

The foxes will guard the hen house with legislative cover. That's nonsense. This is America! A Constitutional Republic! A nation of laws!

With those disturbing thoughts in mind... Windham - and not the State - must perform the audit on our town's voting machines. Sadly, I believe this approach will be the only way to determine the reason(s) for the largest unexplained election discrepancy in the history of our state. I believe there is no other alternative - and that Windham must insist on it - or there will forever be unanswered questions and a justifiable lack of confidence in our election process.
The meeting will now take place on March 1.

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Star of David

Tide turning: Strong majority of foreign policy experts say Israel/Palestine is 'akin to apartheid'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:56 UTC
Shibley Telhami brookings institute israel survey apartheid
© Dina TelhamiShibley Telhami
52 percent of Middle East scholars say the two-state solution is no longer possible. 59 percent say the current reality is "akin to apartheid."

Last week Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch released a survey of nearly 1300 Middle East scholars that found that by large majorities they regard the reality in Israel/Palestine as "akin to apartheid" and think the two-state solution is dead.
Perhaps the starkest finding of the survey is the collective assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A strong majority, 59%, describes the current reality for Israel and the Palestinians as "a one-state reality akin to apartheid."
Here are the key questions and results. Likelihood of a two-state "outcome"
a) It's no longer possible 52%
b) It's possible and probable within the next ten years 6
c) It's possible, but improbable within the next ten years 42

Comment: Is this now statistical confirmation of what has been for years, unacknowledged public opinion?

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Quenelle

North Dakota House votes to make mask mandates illegal

Steve Watson
summit.news
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:49 UTC
gavel mask
© JJ Gouin / Getty Images
The House of Representatives in North Dakota has voted to make mandates on wearing face masks illegal.

The bill was sponsored by Rep. Jeff Hoverson who labelled the mask mandate instituted by the State governor last year as "diabolical silliness," adding that "Our state is not a prison camp."

The legislation outlines that "A state or local elected official, the state, or a political subdivision of the state may not mandate an individual in this state use a face mask, face shield, or other face covering."

It also "prohibits making use of a face mask, shield, or covering a condition for entry, education, employment, or services."

The bill also notes that "If a state or local elected official, the state, or a political subdivision of the state recommends an individual in this state use a face mask, shield, or covering, the official or entity shall provide notice the recommendation is not mandatory."

Hoverson said that the mask mandates are being enforced by "unelected, wealthy bureaucrats who are robbing our freedoms and perpetuating lies."

The bill was approved 50-44 and will now advance to the state Senate.

Comment: Nice to see a little good news for a change.

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Black Cat

Biden brings back 'kinder' kids in cages - 'The containers offer privacy!'


RT
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:04 UTC
immigrant children holding centers kids cages
© Reuters / Eric GayHolding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, June 2019
The first child immigration detainment facility under President Joe Biden opened this week, prompting Democrats who had attacked former President Donald Trump for maintaining similar facilities to go on the defensive.

A former oil field worker camp in Carrizo Springs, Texas, it was briefly used as a detainment facility by the Trump administration in 2019 before being closed down, but is now back in operation to hold "up to 700 children," with the Biden administration saying it was needed since capacity has been cut at other facilities due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Immigration activists were saddened to hear of the facility reopening, with lawyer Linda Brandmiller telling the Washington Post it was "unnecessary,""costly," and "absolutely against everything Biden promised he was going to do."

Comment: Trump did a great deal to improve the lot of migrant children post-Obama, and rightly emphasized that many of the children being housed were not traveling with their parents, but with child traffickers. But that fact bucks the Biden narrative and is not to be reported.

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Compass

Appropriate cancel: LinkedIn deletes racist Robin DiAngelo 'course' that told people to 'be less white'

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:56 UTC
robin diangelo course cancel linkedin less white
© The Post MillennialBacklash has caused LinkedIn to pull Robin DiAngelo's latest grift
In the wake of fallout from their hosting of "antiracist" indoctrinator Robin DiAngelo's workshop on how to "be less white," LinkedIn has pulled the course from their selection of LinkedIn Learning webinars.

A search for the course, "Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo," could no longer be found on the platform as of Tuesday morning. Similar courses also revealed nothing.

The course, led by DiAngelo and available for a fee, was implemented by the Coca-Cola Company as part of it's employee training. But a whistleblower leaked the information, it was shared by Karlyn Borysenko, and the backlash was swift and fierce.

Comment: Nice to see a platform show some common sense, even if it had to be enforced by its outraged users. Unfortunately the hashtag #WokaCola is already making the rounds on social media.

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Dollars

Newsom giveaway: California stimulus package includes checks for illegal immigrants

Audrey Conklin
Fox Business
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:36 UTC
newsom
Governor Gavin Newsom
In total, 5.7 million payments will be made out to low-income Californians

California lawmakers on Monday approved $600 stimulus checks for state residents, including immigrants who are in the country illegally, according to reports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's office passed the provision for stimulus checks on Monday as part of the state's new $7.6 billion COVID-19 relief package and said he would sign it into law on Tuesday.

About $470 million in stimulus checks will go to 565,000 Californians with individual tax identification numbers who did not receive federal stimulus payments and whose income is less than $75,000, many of whom are here illegally, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

Comment: Does it not seem that Newsom is shoring up his electoral base? Except that the majority of that base should not be voting (or even in the country) in the first place.

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