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Embattled Stanford Professor of Medicine Jay Bhattacharya: 'Academic freedom is dead'

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:07 UTC
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Professor of Medicine Jay Bhattacharya worked at Stanford University for more than three decades with no problems. Then came 2020, and everything changed.

Bhattacharya, co-author of the controversial Great Barrington Declaration, which challenged the pro-lockdown narrative during the COVID pandemic, said he paid dearly for speaking up: "We live in an era where we have a high clerisy that declares from on high what is true and what is not true."

"When you take a position that is at odds with the scientific clerisy, your life becomes a living hell," Bhattacharya said Saturday at an Academic Freedom Conference hosted at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "You face a deeply hostile work environment."

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Black Cat

San Francisco DA won't turn over Pelosi attacker for deportation, because it's a sanctuary city

Joseph MacKinnon
The Blaze
Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:55 UTC
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins
© Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesSan Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins
The very policy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long supported may ultimately be the same that keeps her husband's alleged attacker in the country. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she won't turn over Canadian national David DePape to federal authorities for deportation, citing San Francisco's sanctuary city status.

What are the details?

After having already lived in the U.S. for several years, David DePape — the illegal alien who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer — reportedly entered the U.S. again through the San Ysidro, California, point of entry on March 8, 2008, as a temporary visitor. There was nothing temporary about his visit.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, DePape registered as a member of the Green Party, unlawfully declaring that he was a U.S. citizen. He subsequently partook in liberal politics and advocated for public nudity.
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Bullseye

Tucker Carlson: Electronic voting machines are an 'actual threat to democracy'

Harold Hutchison
Daily Caller
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:26 UTC
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson called for an end to the use of electronic voting machines Tuesday night, citing issues in Arizona where nearly one-fifth of the machines broke down.

At least 20% of tabulation machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, malfunctioned, leading Republicans to file litigation seeking extended voting hours. A judge denied the request.

"I feel so sorry for you, Bret, and Martha, because it will probably be a very late night for you, and a tense one. And it points up the problem. Look, the country is really closely divided in a lot of places," Carlson told host Bret Bair.
" Pennsylvania is one. Nevada is another. Arizona. Lots of different places. And so, you're going to have close election results...People have to have confidence that those results are real, that they can trust the mechanics of the election. And what happened today in Maricopa County, where some huge percentage of voting machines, electronic voting machines, according to The Arizona Republic, 30 percent, they claim these are Dominion voting machines, but it almost doesn't matter."

Comment: It's not like this is a new thing. The first half of 2021 was consumed with the topic. States had two years to clean up their acts. Florida did it. It can only be, as Tucker stated, that "a small number of people" who have the levers of the real power, don't want to.

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Megaphone

Nationwide strikes over 'suffocating' inflation in Greece, Belgium, France

Elena Becatoro
Associated Press
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:09 UTC
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© AP Photo/Petros GiannakourisA Molotov cocktail explodes near riot police outside the Greek Parliament during clashes in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. Thousands of protesters are marching through the streets of Athens and the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki as public and some private sector workers walk off the job for a 24-hour general strike against price hikes.
Workers walked off the job in Greece and Belgium on Wednesday during nationwide strikes against increasing consumer prices, disrupting transportation, forcing flight cancellations and shutting down public services in the latest European protests over the rising cost of living.

In Greece, where workers were holding a 24-hour general strike, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki. Brief clashes broke out at the end of demonstrations in both cities, with small groups of protesters breaking off from the main march to throw Molotov cocktails and rocks at police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.

The clashes were over within minutes. Police said one officer was injured in Athens, while two people were arrested in the capital and another eight arrested in Thessaloniki.

Comment: Since governments in the West do not appear intent on alleviating the suffering of their citizens anytime soon, nor do they have any solutions to the problems created by their incompetence and corruption, we can expect that these life-threatening issues will only worsen, and that protests, strikes, and civil unrest will also increase:


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Bad Guys

2020 election redux: Suspicious ballots arrive way after legal deadline in Detroit

Ben Wetmore
The Gateway Pundt
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:40 UTC
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© The Gateway PunditWe can exclusively report that the City of Detroit was handling and beginning to process a significant number of ballots at 11:30PM on election night.
Michigan polls closed at 8:00PM yesterday, election day 2022. The results strongly favoring Democrats shocked the pollsters and prognosticators, who all predicted some degree of a 'red wave' that never materialized.

The results directly conflict with the perception by many campaign professionals, pollsters, and those in the media that were predicting strong Republican gains.

But of course nothing was done in response to the 2020 voter fraud well-documented by outlets like the Gateway Pundit. In fact, the Republicans in Michigan even made it easier to cheat by allowing clerks two extra days to 'process' ballots, giving potential bad actor clerks more time to cheat. This is in addition to the widespread observations of major problems with voting machines.

Comment: Arizona was also full of shenanigans:
A judge Tuesday evening rejected the RNC's effort to extend voting hours in Maricopa County, Arizona by 3 hours after problems with vote tabulators created problems and led to long lines.


The judge wasn't buying the RNC's argument that voters were denied their right to vote.


Polling locations across Maricopa County had massive lines and long wait times due to the voting machine errors that happened at 20% of polling locations.

According to the latest Maricopa County election day exit polls:
  • 58% Republican
  • 14% Dem
  • 28% Other
This is why voters in Maricopa County are being disenfranchised.

Maricopa County is now saying they expect to have 99% of their ballots counted by FRIDAY.



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Stop

Governor Ron DeSantis hits back at Biden's DOJ on election monitoring

Carmine Sabia
Conservative Brief
Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
DeSantis
© SOPA ImagesFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing back against President Joe Biden's Department of Justice.

Florida Department of State General Counsel Brad McVay penned a letter to John "Bert" Russ, Deputy Chief & Elections Coordinator for the Department of Justice in which he informed him that election monitors "are not permitted" inside Florida polling locations, The Floridian Press reported.

The letter said:
"Earlier today, the Florida Department of State received copies of your letters to Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in which you seem to indicate that the Department of Justice will send monitors inside polling places in these counties.

"We also understand you sent a similar letter to Palm Beach County. But Department of Justice monitors are not permitted under Florida law. Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statutes lists the people who 'may enter any polling room or polling place'"
Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list. Even if they could qualify as 'law enforcement' under section 102.031(3)(a)6. of the Florida Statutes, absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal statute that preempts Florida law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence," it said

Comment: AP calls Florida Governor's race: Winner DeSantis 59.4%; Christ 40.0%

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Stop

The Supreme Court could end affirmative action

Emma Camp
Reason
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:44 UTC
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Race-based affirmative action in college admissions is likely on its way out, as the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in two cases challenging the policy.
On Monday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an anti-affirmative action group, seeking to challenge the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University's race-conscious admissions policies. While the Court has sided in favor of colleges seeking to use race-based affirmative action policies in the past, most recently in 2016, the Court's current conservative majority leads legal experts to believe that the policy will most likely be ruled unconstitutional.
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Fire

Fire breaks out at Chevron El Segundo refinery in California

Christian Martinez
LA Times
Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:50 UTC
Chevron oil refinery fire
© KTLA-TV Channel 5Firefighters battle flames at the Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo on Tuesday night.
Fire crews battled flames for more than two hours at the Chevron El Segundo refinery before extinguishing the blaze Tuesday night.

The incident was reported around 6:15 p.m. at the fuel refinery in the 300 block of El Segundo Boulevard, the city of El Segundo said in an alert. The fire was extinguished as of 8:35 p.m.

Footage from KTLA-TV Channel 5 showed crews spraying water on roaring flames in an unidentified part of the refinery.

Comment: Footage of the fire:

With looming energy and food shortages, the number of fires and explosions at production plants in the US is a serious cause for concern, and, in some cases, suspicion: Explosions rip through chemical plant on US coast, multiple neighborhoods evacuated

See also: Russian sanctions are causing US diesel shortages, supplies won't recover until summer

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Family

Britain sees spike in children requiring speech support after lockdown

Peter Caddle
Breitbart
Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
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The number of children requiring speech and language therapy across Britain has spiked after lockdown, research by the BBC has found.

Analysis conducted by BBC's Shared Data Unit has found that the number of children requiring speech and language therapy in England has grown by 10 per cent compared to 2021.

Experts have largely put the increase down to children being kept from socialising with their friends during lockdown, with a number telling the UK state broadcaster that the figures reflect their own anecdotal experience.

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Dollars

Twitter daily user growth hits 'all-time highs' during first week under Musk

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:40 UTC
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While Twitter may be shedding virtue-signaling advertisers (who totally weren't looking for any reason to trim their ad budgets), daily user growth during the company's first full week under Elon Musk has hit 'all-time highs,' according to an internal document seen by The Verge.

According to an internal FAQ given to the company's sales team for use in conversations with advertisers, Twitter's monetizable daily user (mDAU) has jumped to more than 20%, while "Twitter's largest market, the US, is growing even more quickly."

The company has added more than 15 million mDAUs, "crossing the quarter billion mark" since the end of Q2, when it stopped reporting financials as a public company.

Comment: Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the numbers speak for themselves.

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