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News blackout: Shot fired at family home of N. Carolina US House candidate

Hannah Schoenbaum
U.S. News
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 05:45 UTC
pat harrigan
© The Associated PressThis image provided by Pat Harrigan for Congress, shows Pat Harrigan, a firearms manufacturer and U.S. Army veteran, is running against Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson for an open U.S. House seat in North Carolina's new 14th District in western Charlotte. A shooting at his parents' home in Hickory, N.C., on Oct. 18, 2022, has placed tremendous stress on the family in the final weeks of his campaign, his mother Marla Harrigan said on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022.
A recent shooting at the Hickory, North Carolina, residence of GOP congressional candidate Pat Harrigan's parents and young children caused no injuries but has placed "tremendous stress" on the family in the final weeks of his campaign, Harrigan's mother said.

A recent shooting at the Hickory, North Carolina, residence of GOP congressional candidate Pat Harrigan's parents and young children caused no injuries but placed "tremendous stress" on the family in the final weeks of his campaign, Harrigan's mother said Thursday.

Harrigan, a firearms manufacturer and U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, is running against Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson for an open U.S. House seat in North Carolina's new 14th District based in western Charlotte. The left-leaning district emerged from a lengthy redistricting battle during which North Carolina redrew its congressional map to account for the additional seat it was awarded following the 2020 census.

Comment: Sounds like a warning shot. That the shot was fired at the place the children were staying, and not at the candidate himself, sends the message loud and clear. Obviously Harrigan is doing something the PTB don't like very much, to dramatically understate it.

On another note, it's rather telling that this story hasn't been covered by the mainstream press. This event took place almost a month ago, and yet there isn't a peep about it in the news.





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Red Flag

Here we go: Outage in PA voter database as election day nears

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sat, 05 Nov 2022 09:35 UTC
pennsylvania department of state
The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a memo on Friday telling election officials in all counties that a "widespread outage" is impacting Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) services. This means that the voter databases, as maintained by the state, is essentially non-functioning as election day approaches.

SURE is the state-wide system to maintain accurate voting records that county election officials can rely on when managing and facilitating polling places in their counties.

The memo, ontained by The Post Millennial, has the subject "Enterprise Outage Impacting SURE Services" and reads "Commonwealth Enterprise is experiencing a widespread outage which is impacting various services of SURE. This outage is currently impacting report, correspondence, and poll book generation."

Comment: Go back to hand-counting ballots, for crying out loud! The potential of digital vote manipulation is clearly too great to make it a worthwhile endeavor, not to mention it's obviously much slower.



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Cow Skull

Best of the Web: Lockdowns: The Great Gaslighting - A Damning Retrospective

Michael P Senger
The New Normal
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Mao's propaganda
The lockdowns of 2020 were very real. And few opposed them.

More than two years since the lockdowns of 2020, the political mainstream, particularly on the left, is just beginning to realize that the response to Covid was an unprecedented catastrophe.

But that realization hasn't taken the form of a mea culpa. Far from it. On the contrary, in order to see that reality is starting to dawn on the mainstream left, one must read between the lines of how their narrative on the response to Covid has evolved over the past two years.

The narrative now goes something like this: Lockdowns never really happened, because governments never actually locked people in their homes; but if there were lockdowns, then they saved millions of lives and would have saved even more if only they'd been stricter; but if there were any collateral damage, then that damage was an inevitable consequence of the fear from the virus independent of the lockdowns; and even when things were shut down, the rules weren't very strict; but even when the rules were strict, we didn't really support them.

Put simply, the prevailing narrative of the mainstream left is that any upside from the response to Covid is attributable to the state-ordered closures and mandates that they supported, while any downside was an inevitable consequence of the virus independent of any state-ordered closures and mandates which never happened and which anyway they never supported. Got it? Good.
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Bad Guys

Which companies are quitting Twitter: The list

Giulia Carbonaro
Newsweek
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:09 UTC
musk twitter content moderation
© NewsweekElon Musk
Since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter last week, at least six major companies have stopped advertising on the platform over concerns about how the billionaire will affect content moderation policies on the app.

During the rocky process of acquiring the platform, marked by U-turns, controversies, and lawsuits, Musk pledged to make Twitter a champion of free speech. This promise led many right-wingers to see Musk's takeover as a victory for conservatives over political correctness, though the Tesla CEO is yet to implement any changes to the way the platform moderates content.

But where right-wingers saw potential, many companies appear to have spotted a risk of damage to their business, especially after a sudden surge of slurs and hateful comments were reported on the platform immediately following Musk's takeover.

Comment: It's more likely those companies and others will loudly virtue-"quit", then quietly make their way back onto the platform. More fodder for pundits and trolls. If nothing else, Musk has brought some humor back to Twitter.







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Stock Down

Bank of England warns of longest recession in 100 years, 11% inflation expected this year

Larry Elliott
The Guardian
Sat, 05 Nov 2022 18:17 UTC
Bank of England
© Yui Mok/PALarry Elliott and Phillip Inman
The Bank of England has warned the UK risked being plunged into the longest recession in 100 years after it pushed up the cost of borrowing to 3% in the biggest single interest rate rise since 1989.

A 0.75% increase, the latest in a series of eight interest rate rises since last year, would not be enough to guarantee victory in the war against double-digit inflation, the Bank said, as it cautioned further action would be needed.

The UK economy faces a "very challenging outlook", with a recession that began this summer now expected to last until the middle of 2024.


Comment: Despite the endless speculation in this article about the 'possible' impact of this or that interest rate or decision, no one really knows what's up ahead, because there are numerous variables that the establishment does not control, and the current situation is unprecedented.

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Hammer

Why has San Francisco DA vowed to limit public's access to Pelosi attack evidence 'as much as possible'?


Just the New
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:35 UTC
david depape court hearing pelosi attack
© Vicki BehringerIllustration of David DePape in court in San Francisco, Calif. on Nov. 1, 2022.
Releasing footage to media "not what we think is appropriate," prosecutor claims.

The San Francisco prosecutor overseeing the trial of the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi last week is vowing to sharply limit the public's access to key evidence surrounding the assault.

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told CNN on Wednesday that "a very limited number of family members" will be able to access both the 911 call made by Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, during the attack and the police body cam footage recorded by officers responding to that call.

Comment: More weirdness:





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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Truth-Killing Cancel Culture Has Always Existed to Bolster the Status Quo

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, L.P. Koch, Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
cancel culture
The cancel culture phenomenon has reared its rancorous and destructive head to such a degree that many holding non-mainstream points of view are made to think twice about sharing them in public. For cancel culture doesn't merely seek to respond to the differing perspectives with counterarguments in honest debate. It seeks to stifle the message completely and even, in the worst cases, annihilate the speaker himself.

While we're aware of how this pathological and ideological weaponization of rhetoric exists in contemporary times, the tools or modus operandi of cancel culture have actually been around for a good long time - especially when someone's particular message challenges conventional wisdom - or, in more meaningful cases, questions the higher truths of the reality in which we're immersed.

Join us this week on MindMatters as we discuss the drives some people have to become cancel culturists, what forces may be behind it, and the rhetorical patterns that always seem to be on the misguided side of an argument.


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Megaphone

Russian narrative gaining traction in Germany - study


RT
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:18 UTC
frankfurt protest
© Thomas Lohnes/Getty ImagesFrankfurt, Germany.
The report authors urged the authorities to do more to counter what they see as disinformation from Moscow.

The number of Germans who agree with Russia's position on the root causes of the Ukraine conflict has risen over the past several months, a recently published study reveals. The researchers categorically dismissed Moscow's version of events as "propaganda" and called on the German government to take action to counter it.

Published on Wednesday and titled 'Endurance test for democracy: Pro-Russian conspiracy narratives and belief in disinformation in society', the paper is based on opinion polls conducted at intervals of several months.

Comment: See also:

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NPC

Ex-soccer star convicted of transphobia over 2017 social media post


Ekathimerini.com
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:44 UTC
Vassilis Tsiartas
A retired star of Greek soccer has been convicted to a commuted sentence of 10 months in prison and fined 5,000 euros over a transphobic social media post, in which he referred to gender reassignment as an "abomination" and likened trans people to pedophiles.

Former AEK and Greece player Vassilis Tsiartas made the offending post in 2017 to express his objection to the legalization of sex reassignment surgery.

"I hope the first sex changes are carried out on the children of those who ratified this abomination," Tsiatras said in the post.

Comment: More from Greek Reporter:
Vasilis Tsiartas, a Greek former football player of AEK Athens F.C. and the Greek national team, was sentenced by the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Athens to ten months in prison. He also received a five thousand euro suspended fine for his transphobic post on social media in 2017.

The Transgender Support Association (SYD) describes the conviction of Vassilis Tsiartas, the first for public incitement to violence or hatred for reasons of gender identity, as "particularly important for the transgender community."

SYD also points out that an application for just satisfaction will follow due to exceeding the reasonable duration of the trial, as more than five years have elapsed from the initial filing of the lawsuit.
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In 2017, shortly before the passing of the bill for the redefinition of gender identity, Tsiartas posted a statement on his official Facebook page.
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Tsiartas revealed through a post on his Twitter account that he will appeal the prison sentence and fine imposed on him.

The Greek footballer said he will also reveal more details next week about the procedures he is going to follow.


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Calendar

What we knew in the early days


Brownstone Institute
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
Prague astronomical clock
The claim is now everywhere: we had to lock down because we just didn't know about this virus. It was all very confusing and we had to play it safe. We had no other option because we just had no clarity about what we were dealing with. The precautionary principle dictated the unprecedented actions.

Actually, the precautionary principle goes both directions. It also dictates that we not enact policies that we know for sure would wreck lives and liberties. They did it anyway, without sufficient knowledge that the measures would achieve any positive good.

We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.

Comment: See also:

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