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Medical tyranny: UK 'nudge unit' proposes wristbands for those who test Covid negative

Adam Forest
The Independent
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:15 UTC
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People in the UK who test negative for coronavirus should be given a wristband to help them identify themselves as Covid-free, a government advisory body has recommended.

Allowing citizens who display the wristband to move around more freely would help the country recover more quickly, according to the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) — the government-backed company known as the "nudge unit".

In a new report, BIT said Boris Johnson's government could learn lessons from Slovakia, where everyone who tests negative is given a paper certificate allowing them to escape restrictions.

The nudge unit said the UK could build on Slovakia's success by giving out paper wristbands as well as certificates to allow for "easier recognition of whether they can enter venues".

Around 3.6 million people in Slovakia were tested for Covid-19 during a single weekend as part of a major mass testing drive — allowing the authorities to identify over 38,000 new positive cases and ask them to quarantine.

Comment: As expected, the Twitterati aren't amused:







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Puerto Rico: 180 boxes of uncounted ballots found after election

Brie Stimson
Fox News
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Vote counting Puerto Rico
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Vote counting in Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Boxes of uncounted ballots have turned up in different parts of Puerto Rico a week after its Nov. 3 election run alongside the U.S. election, according to a report. At least 180 boxes of votes from all over the island have been found, election officials said Tuesday, the Miami Herald reported.

"We don't know exactly how much is in there," Roberto Iván Aponte, the electoral commissioner of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, said, according to the Herald. The Absentee and Early Vote Administrative Board is now in possession of the ballots, he said.

The Puerto Rico State Elections Commission said the problem happened because of the higher number of voters casting their ballots by mail - more than 227,000.
"If it had been a smaller amount, it would have been carried out without any problem, because on Election Day there was no problem. The big problem is how this early voting issue was handled."
Nicolás Gautier, the electoral commissioner of the Popular Democratic Party, said, "I'm not leaving here until I fix this mess that just happened so it doesn't happen again in the future."

Comment: Puerto Ricans are voting on statehood. However, this election is one more example of how voting regulations are not met with adherence to protocol, and outcomes are only as true as the mechanisms and diligence applied.

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There's no pleasing Megan Rapinoe! Even when she gets 'social justice', it's a 'disgrace' it didn't come quick enough


RT
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC
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Megan Rapinoe has taken a swing at Manchester United, calling the Premier League club a 'disgrace' for not investing in there women's team earlier
Virtue-signaller supreme Megan Rapinoe has taken her latest socially-woke swing at men's football for... investing in women's football, calling it a "disgrace" it didn't come sooner, while being unaware that it actually had.

You have to hand it to US Women's National Team captain Megan Rapinoe. Holding the world to ransom for everything you stamp your feet on the ground for in the name of 'progressiveness', and then complaining when it doesn't come quick enough, is a clever and crafty hustle that has worked perfectly thus far.

And now, Rapinoe has received exactly what meets her never-ending demands with the creation and investment in professional women's teams by major European clubs, but the self-appointed saint of soccer social justice still moans it should have come sooner, despite not being aware it already had.

While riding the woke wave that has washed over sports in recent years, Rapinoe has managed to wring out every last tenuous stand that could be made for social justice on the sporting stage, even when it logically does not add up, something which has become a staple of the two-time World Cup winner's off-field persona.

The latest target of Rapinoe's perennial progressive protest is English Premier League club Manchester United. Their crime against the Rapinoe crusade? Creating, carefully constructing and heavily investing in a successful and sustainable professional women's football team that were crowned FA Women's Championship champions in their very first year of existence.
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Media: Voter fraud is common....um, no impossible! Russia! Russia! Russia

Briggs
William M. Briggs
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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I'm working on more analysis which will appear soon.

The media can't make up its mind. Not about Trump, whom they loathe because the man called them out for what they are. They can't bear their power, which is real and devastating, being challenged. No, it's not Trump they're indecisive about. They can't keep their story straight about voting fraud.

For nearly four years the media declared that voting fraud was perpetrated by Russia on the behalf of Trump. The election was stolen! There was fraud! This fraud was certain, beyond all doubt, and anybody who didn't agree was a bad person. We were told this again and again, then again some more.

True, the media never said exactly how this fraud was supposed to have been worked. Did Russia send a cruise ship full of Boris and Natashas, adept at disguises, to infiltrate polling places and pull levers for Trump? Did the KGB send out mind control waves (via satellites?) to discourage voting for Hillary? Did Putin threaten to cease sending his country's best players to the NHL unless Democrat Governors "accidentally" lost Hillary's mail in votes?

We'll never know, because the media never said. But it had to be something. They insisted on it. Fraud was pervasive. No polling location was spared.

Voting fraud, the media implied, was easy. And common.

And we believed them — as we should. They are the media! Guardians of our democracy! Noble, selfless beings who only have our best interests at heart. They would never lie, hyperventilate, exaggerate, or omit.

Right?

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So 'coloured' is racist but 'people of colour' isn't? The woke speech police strike again to claim another victim

Chris Sweeney
RT
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:28 UTC
Greg Clarke
© AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia
FA Chairman Greg Clarke poses for photographers as he arrives on the occasion of the 43rd UEFA congress in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019.
The chairman of the English FA Greg Clarke has been forced to resign following a vicious online shaming after a slip of the tongue in a discussion on racism. The ego-driven zealots who forced him out have lost the plot completely.

Society is in a precarious position. Baying mobs want to create offence or exaggerate any if given the chance.

This is evidenced by the 'outrage' which has led to the forced resignation of the Chairman of England's Football Association, Greg Clarke.

Appearing in front of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, he discussed how footballers endure insults and attacks online. He said: "If I look at what happens to high-profile female footballers, high-profile coloured footballers and the abuse they take on social media ... they take absolutely terrible abuse."

That was the sentence that cost him his livelihood - because of the term "coloured".

One of the committee, Kevin Brennan, the Labour MP for Cardiff West, spotted a chance to create a scandal, as he asked, "I think I heard you refer to coloured people earlier on; if that's the case, would you want to withdraw that language?"

Comment: This should be a lesson to everyone who bends the knee and pushes for further restrictions on speech and acceptable ideas. There is no protection against accidentally saying the wrong word in the wrong way, and no one is above being hung, drawn, and quartered by the Woke mob.

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Danish PM apologizes after illegal cull order of entire mink population over Covid outbreaks


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:05 UTC
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The decision to cull Denmark's entire population of mink after a mutated strain of Covid-19 was found to have no legal basis, the country's prime minister has admitted, days after ordering the move to hinder its spread to humans.

PM Mette Frederiksen last week ordered the culling of the country's 15-17 million-strong mink population, after the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was looking into reports that the virus was jumping from animals to people.

"Even if we were in a rush, it should have been completely clear to us that new legislation was required, and it was not. I apologize for that," Frederiksen told parliament on Tuesday.
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Ongoing legal battle over 2005 UK police killing brings to light covert op to smear victim justice campaigns


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:27 UTC
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Tributes for compatriot Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell Underground station, London, August 18, 2005.
On July 22, 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes was executed by armed police on a London Underground train. He was quickly found innocent, but his family's fight for justice goes on, exposing police efforts to dodge responsibility.

Due to a litany of catastrophic blunders and miscommunications by senior officials and officers on-the-ground, he'd been wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a string of failed suicide bombings the previous day.

Followed by a team of plainclothes police from his home to nearby Stockwell Underground station, despite clear orders from Metropolitan Police 'Gold Command' he be apprehended, Jean Charles was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at close range in an underground train carriage. His body was said to be "unrecognizable" afterwards.

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Trump files emergency injunction in Michigan alleging fraud; demands recounts over 'malfunctioning' Dominion machines

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:43 UTC
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The Trump campaign has requested an emergency injunction in a federal lawsuit aimed at preventing the State of Michigan from certifying the results of last week's election until election officials can certify that only legally cast, on time, and legally observed ballots are included in the count. The campaign is alleging several types of fraud, misconduct, and invalidated ballots based on a number of reasons - including 'malfunctioning' vote counting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems.

The Tuesday night filing in the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan alleges, among other things, that officials prevented GOP challengers from observing the count, scanned "batches of the same ballots multiple times," illegally accepted and pre-dated late ballots, including from unmonitored drop boxes, and that election workers illegally duplicated ballots," according to a statement from the campaign. The lawsuit requests that the court toss all ballots not observed by a GOP election challenger who has been "allowed to meaningfully observe the process and the handling and counting of the ballot."

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'I was in Philadelphia watching fraud happen. Here's how it went down'

Jerome M. Marcus
The Federalist
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC
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At issue was President Trump's request for an order changing the way Pennsylvania absentee and mail-in ballots are being reviewed at the Philadelphia Convention Center.

Legacy media are lying when they claim that all of President Trump's allegations of voter fraud are baseless. I know, because I argued a case on the president's behalf in federal court in Philadelphia.

At issue was President Trump's request for an order changing the way Pennsylvania absentee and mail-in ballots are being reviewed at the Philadelphia Convention Center. CNN and others claim he "lost." That's false: he won. As I made that argument on behalf of the president's campaign, I can tell you what really happened.

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Decades of child sexual abuse in Catholic church 'swept under the carpet'

Owen Bowcott and Harriet Sherwood
The Guardian
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:49 UTC
Cardinal Vincent Nichols
© Victoria Jones/PA
The report says Cardinal Vincent Nichols did not ‘demonstrate compassion towards victims in the recent cases which we examined’.
Leader of church in England and Wales refusing to resign despite damning IICSA report

Pope Francis asked Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales, to stay in his post, despite a damning report that criticised his leadership and concluded that the church repeatedly prioritised its reputation over the welfare of child sex abuse victims.

In its final review of the church, the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) said the Vatican's failure to cooperate with the investigation "passes understanding".

The 162-page report said "the church's neglect of the physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of children and young people in favour of protecting its reputation was in conflict with its mission of love and care for the innocent and vulnerable."

Of Nichols, it stated: "There was no acknowledgment of any personal responsibility to lead or influence change. Nor did he demonstrate compassion towards victims in the recent cases which we examined."

Comment: Yes, psychopaths hold positions of power in religious institutions as well:

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