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Chicago judge allows city's lawsuit against Jussie Smollett to proceed

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Jussie Smollett
A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday refused to dismiss the city's lawsuit against actor Jussie Smollett, who claimed he was attacked by two white men in a hate crime.

U.S. District Virginia Kendall's ruling will allow the city's lawsuit to try to recoup $130,000 the police department spent trying to get to the bottom of Smollett's claims.

Smollett's lawyers argued that their client should not be forced to reimburse the city because he could not have known how much time and money police would spend investigating.

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Kim Dotcom accuses Twitter of 'shadowbanning' pro-Assange tweets: 'Deep state controls social media to control you'

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© Reuters / Henry Nicholls
Tech entrepreneur and activist Kim Dotcom has once again blasted Twitter for shadowbanning his tweets, this time in reference to the plight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who is fighting US extradition.

"Twitter just shadowbanned my Julian Assange tweets, again. You should know that Twitter is not on your side," Dotcom tweeted, railing against the platform's murky censorship practices.

"If you want to read my free speech and that of many other censored voices you have to visit our Twitter profiles. The deep state controls social media to control you."

Comment: Twitter has been caught multiple times throttling those who espouse 'inconvenient opinions'.



Rainbow

Kellogg's introduces new gay cereal to teach children how to become transgenders while they eat processed breakfast junk food

All Together cereal
Do you ever wake up in the morning and think to yourself, gee, I wish my breakfast cereal was just a little bit more gay. Well, never fear, Kellogg's is here with a brand new gay breakfast cereal that the company hopes will encourage more children to "be themselves," including by getting sex changes to become "transgenders."

According to reports, the new "All Together Cereal" by Kellogg's combines Corn Flakes, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, Frosted Mini Wheats, Raisin Bran, and Rice Krispies "exclusively together" in a bright purple box with the word "Together" emblazoned on both the front and back in an LGBT rainbow color display.

Timed to coincide with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defemation's (GLAAD) recent "Spirit Day" on October 17, the release of All Together Cereal by Kellogg's is an effort to promote "equality and inclusion in the workplace, marketplace and in the communities where we work and live," according to Kellogg's chief diversity officer Priscilla Koranteng.

According to Koranteng, Kellogg's has also donated $50,000 to GLAAD to continue promoting the LGBT agenda to children, which presumably includes having drag queen perverts read to children at public libraries.

"We all belong together," Kellogg's says on its website about its new gay cereal, emphasizing the LGBT theme of coexistence as part of its marketing tactic.

Comment: See: When the ideologues come for the kids


Newspaper

Bolivia opposition contests election count as rival protesters & police clash in streets

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© Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino
Riot police use pepper spray on demonstrators during a protest in La Paz, Bolivia, October 21, 2019.
Bolivian President Evo Morales is slated for victory in a highly contentious election after authorities issued a fresh vote tally, prompting claims of fraud from the opposition and chaotic protests across the country.

Following a 24-hour pause in the vote count by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the agency updated its tally late on Monday - accounting for over 95 percent of the ballots - putting Morales just over the 10 percent lead needed to win and avoid a run-off election with rival Carlos Mesa. Morales is currently vying to serve an unprecedented fourth term as president under the Movement for Socialism Party.

The previous figure - issued before the pause on Sunday with some 84 percent of the votes counted - suggested Morales was unlikely to secure the needed margin for victory, sparking allegations of fraud from the Citizen Community Party leader Mesa and his supporters, some of whom took to the streets to protest ahead of the final count.

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Hotdog

Australia opens probe into secret torture & slaughter of hundreds of racehorses for human and pet food

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© Reuters / Clodagh Kilcoyne
Queensland state authorities are investigating the shocking slaughter of some 500 retired racehorses a month at an abattoir where the creatures are allegedly tortured before they're turned into meat for animals and humans.

Now those authorities have opened an investigation into Meramist, one of just two facilities in Australia licensed to produce and export horse meat for human consumption, state premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced on Tuesday, reiterating that she was "sickened and appalled" by what she saw.

"Animal welfare is everybody's responsibility and my government will not stand for cruelty to animals," Palaszczuk told reporters, pointing out that Queensland has the strictest laws against animal cruelty in the country. The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission will oversee the probe, and a separate investigation conducted by Biosecurity Queensland was launched on Friday after the ABC program aired.

Comment: More reason to, where possible, shop local and get to know your supplier:


Fire

Is democracy a dying species?

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How does a democracy that has spawned within itself a powerful and implacable enemy deal with it?
What happens when democracy fails to deliver? What happens when people give up on democracy?

What happens when a majority or militant minority decide that the constitutional rights of free speech, free elections, peaceful assembly and petition are inadequate and take to the streets to force democracy to submit to their demands?

Our world may be about to find out.

Chile is the most stable and prosperous country in Latin America.

Yet when its capital, Santiago, recently raised subway fares by 5%, thousands poured into the streets. Rioting, looting, arson followed. The Metro system was utterly trashed. Police were assaulted. People died. The rioting spread to six other cities. Troops were called out.

Comment: See also: World in Flames: Why Are Protests Raging Around The Globe?

Any political system whose people have not been immunized to the ponerization process will eventually become corrupted: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg invited to speak in B.C. legislature

Greta Thunberg
© Dave Chidley / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a rally at the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019.
Thunberg spoke outside Alberta's legislature last Friday before a crowd of thousands, while a group of oil and gas supporters held a smaller counter rally nearby

The leader of British Columbia's Green party says he has invited climate change activist Greta Thunberg to speak in the provincial legislature.

Andrew Weaver says he extended an invitation to the 16-year-old Swede, who will visit Vancouver Friday to take part in what organizers say is a post-election climate strike.

Weaver says he has spoken to Speaker Darryl Plecas and he has agreed to allow her to address the legislature if Thunberg is willing.

Comment: Act like adults by giving in to the demands of teenagers lead by an autistic teen with mental problems. Makes sense.

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Craig Murray: Assange in court

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Julian Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador, London
I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday's events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange's legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening.

Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian's condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.

But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought.

Comment: Anyone who thought Assange would receive any semblance of a fair trial should be disabused of that notion by now. What is surprising is that they aren't even bothering to uphold the charade. Keep this in mind any time talks about the US being a "free country".

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Cupcake Pink

Pampered protests: Policing 'Extinction Rebellion' costs £37 million, more than TWICE annual budget for combating violent crime in London

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Policing the Extinction Rebellion protests has cost Scotland Yard £37million so far this year and has caused other investigations to be closed down. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said on Tuesday that the cost of the two-week protest action this month had cost £21million, a bill set to rise by several million pounds.

This included £3.5million for overtime, just under £6million for officers who were drafted in from 38 other forces in England and Wales, and £11.8million staffing costs.

Protest action by Extinction Rebellion (XR) in April cost the Met £16million, meaning the bill so far this year is £37million - more than twice the annual budget of its Violent Crime Taskforce. The annual budget for its Violent Crime Taskforce is £15million.

Comment: When instructed to, London police crack down hard on protests, to the point of killing passers-by.


Megaphone

Steven Crowder exposes how Tulsi Gabbard's videos were suppressed on YouTube while she was trending over Hillary Clinton feud

Tulsi Gabbard
© Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call
Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard's YouTube videos were being suppressed in search results in the United States while she was trending, causing her videos and channel to show up below videos about her from other pages when her name is searched, according to comedian Steven Crowder.

Crowder posted tweets showing that on Oct. 18, as Gabbard was trending on Google and social media for her response to allegations by Hillary Clinton that she was a Russian asset, her search results on YouTube in the United States buried Gabbard's own content on the platform.

Comment: Here's Crowder giving the details: