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British policing's Orwellian practice of recording 'non-crime hate incidents' that blacklist children for thoughtcrime must end

Frank Furedi
RT
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 08:22 UTC
police uk lgbt
© ReutersA 14-year-old girl has taken police in Britain to court over recording a classroom comment as a 'non-crime hate incident
Something has gone seriously wrong in this country, when the police take it upon themselves to intimidate a 14 year-old schoolgirl by making an official record of her innocuous statement in class.

The girl, known only as Miss B, became a target of police interest because she, along with millions of other people, took the view that sex is distinct from gender identity. At a time when it is increasingly verboten to question trans ideology's claims on the subjectivity of both sex and gender identity, Miss B's views are too often condemned as hatred.

Miss B, who has indicated that she is 'frightened about speaking openly on transgender issues is - along with her parents - seeking legal recourse and challenging the decision of the police to classify her comment as a non-crime hate incident. Her lawyers' letter to the College of Policing states that Miss B is 'concerned about the possibility of having a police record potentially including details of conversations that she has had at school' and fears 'this record would impact on her future career prospects.'

Comment: The police themselves are being subjected to behavioral modification to ensure that this agenda can be furthered without obstruction:
UK police forces want officers to wear LGBT rainbow flags - this virtue-signalling nonsense has to stop

See also: Police swarm on London wedding for having 100+ guests, venue faces £10,000 fine

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Compass

Together but falling apart

Alex Bartlett
OffGuardian
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Covid on the line
© Getty Images
2020 staggers on, each month becoming more bleak, tiresome and increasingly onerous.

In the early winter months we paid scant attention to the Coronavirus story developing in China. And why should we have? After SARS, almost twenty years ago, then minor scares such as Swine Flu, Ebola, Zika Virus, Flesh Eating disease, along with past potential terrors like Avian Flu and Foot and Mouth Disease, there was no reason to think this was anything but another sensationalized false alarm. Indeed, an honest investigation, not even one all that rigorous, could easily have demonstrated that this was the case.

However, the last nine months have been nothing but an absolutely dedicated, well organized and diligent global effort to re-brand the common flu as a devastating pandemic just barely under control.

We have been asked to turn to some of the most trusted people in our civil society, Doctors and Professors, the types of professionals whom we would least expect to lie to us or to deliberately mislead us. They have sworn an oath to heal, to do no harm; they are dedicated to the search for the truth, borne out of diligent research and a rigorous scrutiny of the data. If they gravely and repeatedly tell us that we are at great risk and that things can and will get much, much worse very quickly then who are we to question their wisdom and their warnings?

The suddenness and unrelenting persistence of this great Covid lie wears us all down.
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Arrow Up

Switzerland defies EU pressure to lockdown, ski resorts stay open much to the chagrin of neighbors


Financial Times
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:15 UTC
ski lift
© Frederik van den Berg/FTSkiing has become an unlikely, but bitter, political faultline dividing European countries as they seek a response to the latest phase of the pandemic
As heavy snow closes in on the village of Andermatt, high in the Swiss Alps, local hotelier Johan Granvik gives short shrift to the arguments that have led other EU countries to close their ski resorts.

"If you go out on a Saturday morning to the grocery shop — you can't tell me that's less dangerous than spending five minutes in a télécabine and then being out on the wide open slopes," said Mr Granvik, who has taken on more than 30 staff for his hotel and restaurant business for the winter season. Closing the pistes to halt coronavirus "makes no sense whatsoever", he added.

Standing by the icy river Reuss for a photograph as the snow rakes across the ground, Mr Granvik, 35, said the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic meant bankruptcy was something he recently had to worry about for his seven-year-old business.

Comment: One wonders what has enabled Switzerland to defy the nefarious agenda that leaders of other countries have enforced with glee? Perhaps its governance by direct democracy played a role? Either way, it exposes the manufactured crisis that is destroying freedoms and livelihoods elsewhere in Europe for the sadistic farce that it is: 'And that no man might buy or sell': Welsh government to roll out 'coronavirus vaccine ID cards'

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Sheriff

California Sheriff slams Gov. Newsom's 'dictatorial' lockdowns, won't be 'blackmailed, bullied or used as muscle' to enforce

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:02 UTC
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco
© Riverside County Sheriff's OfficeRiverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco
The sheriff of California's fourth-largest county has slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom over the most recent COVID-19 lockdown orders, and says that his department won't be "blackmailed, bullied or used as muscle" against residents during the pandemic, after they were told "there was a potential he would be withholding federal and state funding from counties who did not enforce the orders."

In a Friday evening video posted to social media (which currently has 4,700 'thumbs up' vs. 141 'thumbs down'), Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco called out Newsom's "dictatorial attitude toward California residents while dining in luxury, traveling, keeping his business open and sending his kids to in-person private schools," which he called "extremely hypocritical."
Ironically, it wasn't that long ago our same governor loudly and publicly argued how wrong it was for the President of the United States to withhold federal funding from states not complying with federal laws.
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Bullseye

A-listers Matthew McConaughey and Russell Brand slam the left for their treatment of conservatives

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Russell Brand • Matthew McConaughey
© Russell BrandRussell Brand • Matthew McConaughey
Actor Matthew McConaughey has blasted the "far left," and said that the "illiberal left" is condescending, patronizing, and arrogant when it comes to dealing with conservative Americans.

What are the details?

McConaughey recently spoke to fellow entertainer and British actor Russell Brand and discussed the attitudes of those on the "far left" when it comes to dealing with their conservative peers and working-class Americans.

Brand began:
"We live in a time, I feel, in my country and yours, where there's this sort of ... condemnation and criticism of what I might describe as ordinary working people. A kind of offhandedness, like, 'Oh, they're dumb, they're voting for Brexit, they're voting for Trump.

"I don't like it, and I don't like to hear it. I've spent enough time with people that have been described in this manner to feel ill at ease with it. How do you feel about ... that kind of judgment? Do you feel that there is a way of meshing together these apparently disparate groups right now?"
McConaughey responded:
"I hope so. ... Let's get aggressively centric, I dare you. It's not a recessive, it's an aggressive move. There are a lot [of people] on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant towards the other 50%."
He went on to explain that many people on the "illiberal left" are hard-pressed to get along with those on the right.

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US Supreme Court rules against Governor Newsom's indoor worship bans

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
church pews
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday against California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) restrictions on indoor worship services, agreeing with religious groups they are unconstitutional.

The High Court granted a petition from Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena that sought to overturn a lower court's ruling in favor of Newsom's restrictions.

The ruling cited the Supreme Court's decision last week in a similar case in which it ruled in favor of faith groups that challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) worship restrictions.

Liberty Counsel, which represented Harvest Rock Church, noted that Newsom's restrictions are "more severe than those in New York."

"Governor Gavin Newsom's orders ban ALL in-person worship for 99.1 percent of Californians," the nonprofit litigation firm stated, adding that while Newsom has banned the majority of in-person religious services, "warehouses, big box centers, shopping malls, liquors stores, family entertainment and destination centers, gyms, fitness centers, and museums receive preferential treatment with either no capacity limits or no numerical limits."

The law firm said Newsom's pandemic "Blueprint," released in August with a system of four tiers, "discriminates against religious meetings in churches and places of worship in every Tier."
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Snakes in Suits

BLM leader rakes in millions while chapters get a lesson in 'trained Marxism'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:18 UTC
blm protest
© REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstBlack Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, December 1, 2020.
While the Black Lives Matter Global Network, led by 'trained Marxist' Patrisse Cullors, embraced the windfall of donations following the George Floyd protests across America, local chapters say they were left holding the bag.

It was through the hard work of "radical black organizers" engaging in a "protracted struggle for our lives against police terrorism" that Black Lives Matter attracted millions of dollars in contributions this year, yet the BLMGN only recently invited selected chapters to apply for a $500,000 grant, ten chapters from across the US said in a statement this week.

"This is not the equity and financial accountability we deserve," they declared.

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USA

The US election may not have been 'stolen,' but if this had happened in any other nation, America would brand it illegitimate

Scott Ritter
RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:51 UTC
Trump supporters
© ReutersSupporters of U.S. President Trump protest against election results in Washington.
The 2020 presidential election shambles will go down in history as the event that exposed the fallacy of America's democracy and made a mockery of its notion of free speech about politics in the eyes of the world.

On the night of November 3, as the results from largely 'in-person' votes were tallied across the nation, by all appearances, it looked as if President Donald Trump was headed toward a resounding victory against his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Then a water pipe broke in the arena where the Fulton County, Georgia election results were being tallied, prompting a delay in the counting of mail-in ballots. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, election officials stopped counting mail-in ballots at 9.30pm on election night, resuming the tally at 9.00am the next morning. In Detroit, poll watchers were locked out of the vote counting room, raising concerns about transparency as election officials processed tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.
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Black Cat

Culture wars: Singer Noah Cyrus calls Candace Owens a 'nappy a** heauxz', but no backlash seen - cancel culture absolves liberals of racism

Zachary Leeman
RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:37 UTC
Candace Owens (L) Noah Cyrus (R)
© REUTERS / Benoit Tessier; REUTERS / Danny MoloshokCandace Owens (L) Noah Cyrus (R)
The white singer has given a half-hearted apology for a racially charged barb about the black conservative commentator, something that would end a career if their politics were reversed. Enough excusing racism from liberals.

Noah Cyrus, a Grammy-nominated musician better known as the younger sister of superstar Miley, targeted author and conservative commentator Owens over her recent comments criticizing a Vogue photoshoot featuring One Direction singer Harry Styles in a dress.

"He wears this dress better than any of u nappy a** heauxz," she wrote beneath a photo of Styles in said dress on her Instagram story.

Cyrus's words drew the ire of mostly conservatives, after her use of the racially charged term was highlighted by author Rob Smith on Twitter.
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Attention

Georgia's DeKalb County 'can't find' its chain of custody records for absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes

Tiffany Morgan
The Georgia Star News
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:02 UTC
absentee ballot
An absentee ballot
'It has not been determined if responsive records to your request exist'

DeKalb County responded to an Open Records Request from The Georgia Star News to produce the ballot transfer forms that formed the critical chain of custody link in the absentee ballots deposited in the near 300 drop boxes in the state and transported to county election offices in a letter received on Friday that said the county did not know if such records exist.

Earlier this week, the Secretary of States' office told Breitbart News that it did not know how many of the 1.3 million absentee ballots cast in the 2020 general election were delivered by mail vs. drop box, but the counties should know.

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