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The wokescolds are criticizing Israeli actress Gal Gadot for playing Cleopatra instead of an Arab, even though Cleopatra was Greek

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:24 UTC
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© AP Photo / Marco Ugarte
Israeli actress Gal Gadot earlier announced she would be teaming up again with 'Wonder Woman' director Patty Jenkins to appear in a new film about the legendary Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.

Israel-born actress Gal Gadot revealed on 11 October that she would be trying on the role of Cleopatra in a retelling of the epic made famous by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 classic, sparking an outcry over her casting as the legendary Egyptian Queen.

​Gadot went on Twitter to share her excitement over joining forces again with "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins for the "thrilling" new project, to be produced by Paramount Pictures and written by Laeta Kalogridis.

However, the announcement triggered a heated debate on social media, as some criticized the casting of an Israeli actress as the Queen of Egypt, suggesting an Arab or Black woman might have better suited the role. ​The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra was born in Egypt and traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals. However, accuracy was no impediment to ire among the usual suspects on Twitter.
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Health

'Rather die from COVID than loneliness': Long-term care residents in Greeley, Colorado protest COVID-19 restrictions

Anica Padilla
CBS News - Denver
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:18 UTC
Greely nursing home protest
© Natalie Dyer
Residents at nursing and rehabilitation facility in Greeley organized a protest against Colorado's coronavirus restrictions. On Thursday, about 20 residents gathered outside Fairacres Manor, many in wheelchairs, holding signs that read "Rather die from COVID than loneliness," and "Prisoners in our own home," and "Give us freedom."

Ben Gonzales, an assistant administrator at Fairacres Manor, said the residents are upset about the COVID-19 restrictions put in place by the state health department.

"They want to be able to hug their grandchildren, they want to be able to hold the hands of their loved ones," Gonzales said.

Gonzales said the residents are able to see visitors, but they have to stay six feet apart and can't have any physical contact.

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Sherlock

Man falls to death off cliff while taking pictures, more human remains found during recovery effort

Jon Haworth
ABC News
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:14 UTC
Colorado River
© National Park ServiceColorado River from the Dam Overlook
A 25-year-old man is dead after falling more than 250 feet off a cliff to his death as he was taking pictures at a scenic overlook, according to the National Park Service.

The incident occurred when the National Park Service Dispatch at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area received a report at approximately 9:04 a.m. on Oct. 4 indicating that a man had fallen off a cliff.

The NPS reported that witnesses saw the man, later identified as Orlando Serrano-Arzola from Phoenix, taking pictures at the Glen Canyon Overlook near Page, Arizona, before falling an estimated 100 feet and then sliding approximately 150 feet further down into the canyon.

"A Coconino County Sheriff's Office Deputy rappelled to the victim at 9:27 a.m and confirmed the victim was deceased," the NPS said in a statement. "The Coconino County Sheriff's Office, National Park Service, Page Police Department and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation provided assistance with recovery operations. The victim was transported to the Medical Examiner's Office in Flagstaff for an autopsy."
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Bizarro Earth

Two white female farmers raped and tortured by two armed black men in South Africa in latest horrific attack

Jamie Pyatt
Daily Mail
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:09 UTC
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Divorcee Chantel Kershaw, 44, (left and right) was ambushed by two armed black men while working her land in Delmas east of Johannesburg on Wednesday
A female farmer has been sexually assaulted and strangled to death while another rural worker has been tortured and murdered in the latest attacks on South Africa's white farmers.

Divorcee Chantel Kershaw, 44, was ambushed by two armed black men while working her land in Delmas east of Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Kershaw's underwear was ripped off and stuffed into her mouth and she was strangled to death inside her garage.

Comment: See also: Russia welcomes first 50 South African farming families

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No long-distance travel till 2022 for Australians - and that's IF POPULATION-WIDE vaccine is rolled out next year, budget predicts


RT
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:38 UTC
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Australians weary of restrictions are out of luck, as the country's new budget predicts social distancing will continue for two years and long-distance travel is to remain off-limits until everyone is able to get a Covid-19 jab.

Widespread adoption of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus will be a prerequisite for Australians being able to travel long distances again, according to the country's new budget that was unveiled on Tuesday. Until that vaccine is rolled out, they can expect social distancing, intermittent lockdowns and a stagnant economy.

"It is assumed that over the forecast period material localised outbreaks of COVID19 occur but are largely contained. A population-wide Australian COVID19 vaccination program is assumed to be fully in place by late 2021. General social distancing restrictions are assumed to continue until a vaccine is fully available," reads the part of the document titled "Key assumptions."

The budget papers' attempt to put a positive spin on travel-loving Australians being confined to the continent is to pour $250 million into encouraging anyone feeling wanderlust to explore "their own backyard" - i.e. the rest of Australia. State borders are expected to be open by Christmas, except for Western Australia, which is projected to remain closed until its election in March.
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Evil Rays

Manhunt underway after teenager shoots his grandmother then kills 3 innocent people at bus stop in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod


RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:35 UTC
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© AFP/Jean-Francois Monier
Police in central Russia are searching for an 18-year-old male after a shooting spree in a suburban town near Nizhny Novgorod on Monday. Three people were killed and three injured; one of the victims was the gunman's grandmother.

A police source told Moscow news agency TASS that the teenager, named as Daniil Monakhov, first had an argument with his grandmother, whom he wounded with a gunshot from a hunting weapon. He then killed a neighbor before opening fire on people at a nearby bus stop.

Cops believe Monakhov, who fled from the scene of the murders in a Kia car, is carrying two smoothbore shotguns, one of which he has held legally since September. He is believed to have around 40 rounds of ammunition in his possession.

The incident happened on Monday afternoon in the village of Bolsheorlovskoe, outside the town of Bor, itself a major suburb of Nizhny Novgorod, the country's sixth-largest city. Specialist officers from the Spetsnaz unit of the National Guard of Russia have been sent to the area to find Monakhov.
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Pirates

Portland protesters topple statues of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln in 'Day of Rage'; police declare riot


Oregonlive
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:10 UTC
Protesters toppled statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
© The Oregonian/OregonLive
A group of protesters toppled statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and shattered the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in Portland's South Park Blocks late Sunday before moving into other areas of downtown, smashing storefronts and engaging in other acts of destruction.

Police declared the event a riot and ordered people rampaging through the city's streets to disperse but did not directly intervene until nearly an hour after the first statue fell. The crowd scattered when police cruisers flooded the area, and officers in tactical gear appeared to make several arrests.

Protest organizers had promoted the event on social media as an "Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage." Monday is the federally observed holiday of Columbus Day, but many states and cities now recognize the day instead as Indigenous Peoples Day over concerns that Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas helped launch centuries of violence against indigenous populations.


Comment: Despite the no photos no filming rules, word got out on social media:



Trump weighed in on the rioting:
US President Donald Trump mocked authorities and rioters in Portland calling them "fools" while sharing footage of the so-called "Day of Rage" in which alleged indigenous activists tore down statues of former presidents.

The US president's bombastic multi-tweet broadside began early Monday morning, after a night of violence once again reduced central Portland to something resembling a warzone.





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Rob Slane: Escaping the Covid Vortex

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 18:24 UTC
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If you can cast your mind back to the beginning of the year, you will hopefully recall that Britain, despite its many and growing problems, was still a relatively peaceful, relatively prosperous, relatively free, relatively law-governed society. In little more than half a year, much of that has simply gone and we have become a country where:
  • The Government runs our daily lives in minute detail
  • Neighbour is increasingly set against neighbour
  • Local economies and businesses are being decimated
  • Unemployment is sky-rocketing
  • The mental health of millions is deteriorating
  • Old people are dying alone and unloved
  • People who are ill cannot get treatment
  • People who may be ill cannot get a consultation
  • The education of children is a shambles and their futures hugely uncertain
  • We can be (and have been) denied permission to see members of our own families
  • We face extortionate fines if we break arbitrary and irrational rules
  • The rule of law has been trampled on by those charged with protecting it
  • We are compelled to wear a covering over our respiratory passages
  • Parliament is effectively dead
  • Bizarre and sinister measures are imposed to change the way we interact with one another
  • Our lives have been utterly overturned
  • The spiritual, social, economic and psychological fabric is being torn to shreds
None of this is remotely a rational response to a virus which leaves 99.9% of those who get it in the land of the living. Lockdown was a poisonous spring, from which all manner of entirely foreseeable disasters flow, and as these turgid waters proceed, the whole thing resembles nothing less than a huge social and psychological experiment conducted against a people and against what it actually means to be human — an attack on the Imago Dei.
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GOP win: Appeals court rules Wisconsin absentee ballots must be delivered to clerks by 8PM on November 3

Sophie Mann
Just the News
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 03:50 UTC
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A federal appeals court has blocked a lower-court decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin. The decision is considered a win for Republicans who wanted the election night deadline to stand, under state law. However, Democrats are expected to appeal the decision Thursday to the Supreme Court.

If the appeals court ruling stands, absentee ballots must be delivered to Wisconsin election clerks by 8 p.m. on Election Day, adhering to state law.

Last month, U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled that any ballot that arrived in clerk's offices by Nov. 9 will be counted, as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 3.

The 7th Circuit Court judges initially upheld Conley's ruling on Sept. 29, rejecting the Republicans' standing to intervene. After the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed that standing, the same three-judge panel delivered Thursday's ruling, according to the Associated Press.

A federal court of appeals has reinstating Wisconsin's Election Day receipt deadline and rule out the possibility of accepting ballots through email. "This is a huge victory for Wisconsin voters who reasonably expect timely and secure election results," said Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
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Despot Whitmer says Michigan won't rush to get results on Election Day, calls it an 'artificial deadline'

Bradford Bet
Fox News
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:49 UTC
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© Ann Arbor News via APMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wears a mask with the word "vote" displayed on the front during a roundtable discussion on healthcare in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The governer's comments come just days after the FBI revealed a group of anti-government vigilantes had plotted to kidnap her.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Sunday said her state will not rush to ensure all the results of the 2020 presidential race are counted on Election Day, Nov. 3 -- a date she appeared to imply was artificially set.

The Democratic governor made the comments during an appearance on CBS' Face the Nation, while discussing the election's expected surge in mail-in votes amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Asked by host Margaret Brennan how long it will take Michigan to declare the winner of the race, Whitmer would not give a definitive timeline.

Comment: Whitmer seems to be suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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