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Lawsuit finally forces Pennsylvania to take 21,000 dead people off its voter rolls

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The state of Pennsylvania has agreed to take steps to remove deceased voters from being able to vote following a settled lawsuit filed by The Public Interest Legal Foundation.

The suit, filed in November, alleged that at least 21,000 deceased individuals were still on voter rolls during the 2020 presidential election. Data compiled by the Watchdog group alleged that more than 9,200 of the people registered had been dead for at least five years, in addition to nearly 1,990 that had been dead for 10 years. An estimated 197 voters were dead for at least twenty years. The Pennsylvania Department of State did not agree in the settlement with the number of dead voters.

"This marks an important victory for the integrity of elections in Pennsylvania," PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said. "The Commonwealth's failure to remove deceased registrants created a vast opportunity for voter fraud and abuse. It is important to not have dead voters active on the rolls for 5, 10, or even 20 years. This settlement fixes that."

Comment: Kudos to the work of the PILF. One down, 49 to go. Of course, Democrats and their cronies are completely against having one avenue of election fraud closed to them.


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Idaho governor Brad Little issues ban on mandated 'vaccine passports'

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed an executive order Wednesday banning any government entity from requiring people show "vaccine passports" that show proof that someone has been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

"Idahoans should be given the choice to receive the vaccine. We should not violate Idahoans' personal freedoms by requiring them to receive it," Little said in a statement. "Vaccine passports create different classes of citizens. Vaccine passports restrict the free flow of commerce during a time when life and the economy are returning to normal. Vaccine passports threaten individual freedom and patient privacy.

"I have serious concerns that implementing COVID-19 vaccine passports will violate Idahoans' medial privacy rights, prejudice those unable to receive the vaccine, slow our economic recovery, cause division among our populace and, ultimately, be counterproductive to the widespread administration of the COVID-19 vaccines among Idahoans," he added.

Comment: Governor Little, and others taking this stand - actually represent the silent majority of Americans who are against such egregious infringements on basic rights. They will (and are) coming up against incredible opposition by the Dems/Deep State that would seek to attain far greater control over the lives the population and are relentless their pursuit of such objectives.

Expect this struggle to intensify greatly.


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Northern Ireland tensions 'must be diffused before someone is killed', bus set on fire in Belfast amid night of unrest

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The wreckage of a bus on fire on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has condemned the violence seen in ongoing unrest in Northern Ireland and urged political leaders to work out a response "before someone is killed".

Mr Coveney told RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland that the images of violence on the streets in Belfast on Wednesday night were "shocking" and ones that he thought had been consigned to history.

"This needs to stop before someone is killed. That has to start at the top in terms of political leadership," he said.

The Northern Ireland Executive is meeting on Thursday morning to be briefed on the unrest seen over the last week.

Comment: RT has collated more footage from the incident:





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San Francisco losing record numbers of residents to Florida and Texas

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The number of people who moved from San Francisco to Texas increased by 32.1 percent between 2019 to 2020, and those who moved to Florida jumped by 46.2 percent.


One of the most liberal cities in the country, San Francisco, California, lost the most residents between 2019 and 2020, out of every major US city, according to a new study.

The report by the commercial realty firm CBRE Group reported that the city lost about 18 residents per 1,000 people in 2020, compared to losing just 9 residents out of every 1,000 the previous year. The majority of former residents, moved to other areas of the Golden State, but the number of people moving to Florida and Texas spiked compared to 2019. The number of people who moved from San Francisco to Texas increased by 32.1 percent between 2019 to 2020, and those who moved to Florida jumped by 46.2 percent.

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Japan govt proposes 4-day work week to 'improve quality of life & boost tourism'

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Katsunobu Kato (pictured in Tokyo on Tuesday, April 6) said on Monday that he intends to introduce a 'selective three-day weekly holiday system', based on initial recommendations made by the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters, within the month
Japan's government is considering bringing in a four-day working week aimed at improving people's quality of life, the country's Chief Cabinet Secretary has said.

It is hoped that the scheme would also boost the country's tourism industry that has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, in a nation known for long working hours.

Katsunobu Kato said on Monday that he intends to consider the introduction of a 'selective three-day weekly holiday system', based on initial recommendations made by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, within the month.

Comment: Changes like these have the potential for good, and are in some ways long overdue. But it's notable that governments around the world have been considering changes such as these for years, prior to the lockdowns, along with other initiatives like Universal Basic Income, and the results for the various schemes, have been mixed. It has also become blatantly clear by this point that some proponents of these schemes do not have the same ideals and goals in mind as those of the average citizen. As just one example, those pushing the Great Reset seem to be using this time of crisis to implement social engineering policies that would have otherwise been rejected, similar to the Shock Doctrine/disaster capitalism model so favored by the establishment in the decades past:


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Russia's Hermitage receives official complaint over naked sculptures after suggestion kids could be 'corrupted,' says museum head

Antique Art Gallery, Hermitage Museum
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Antique Art Gallery, Hermitage Museum.
The Hermitage Museum in Russia's Saint Petersburg has received an official complaint from a government agency suggesting that its nude sculptures may have a bad influence on children and might have to be put in an adult-only room.

That's according to Mikhail Piotrovsky, the museum's general director, who refused to name which official body asked the institution to round up its naked figures.

"I laughed once when someone told us: gather all your nude sculptures into one room and put up an '18+' sign so our children are not corrupted," Piotrivsky said. "But now we have received an official complaint from an official body, so we are responding to it."

Comment: This is absurd. Naked human bodies are not obscene and they are not inappropriate for children. Children should not be deprived of seeing beautiful works of art because of some misguided perceptions of nature as being 'inappropriate'. It just goes to show that even Russia isn't hysteria-free.


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Abbott says there are allegations of children being sexually assaulted at federal migrant facility

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March 27, 2021 two unaccompanied seven year-old child immigrants who arrived illegally across the Rio Grande river from Mexico stand at a makeshift processing checkpoint before being detained at a holding facility by border patrol agents in the border city of Roma.
As the U.S. faces a surge of migrants along its southern border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot is calling for the closure of a San Antonio, Texas facility amid various complaints including that children there are being sexually assaulted.

The Lone Star State Republican said on Wednesday "the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services separately received tips that allege child abuse and neglect" at the facility located at the Freeman Coliseum. The Lone Star State Republican pinned the blame on President Biden's policies.

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TikTok blacklists PragerU

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Non-profit organization PragerU, founded by radio host Dennis Prager to produce short informative videos on conservative topics, has been permanently blacklisted from Chinese-owned social media app TikTok.

"Tik Tok has permanently banned PragerU from its platform for 'multiple violations' of their community guidelines," PragerU wrote in a tweet on Thursday. "This is blatant censorship." The organization started a petition over TikTok's blacklisting.


TikTok is the latest tech platform to censor PragerU, as the group has faced censorship from several platforms including Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube.

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Show your ID to use social media? Australia hints at new plans.

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Australia's federal government is preparing to introduce radical new rules that would outlaw anonymity on social networks.

The changes would be introduced under the pretext of combating bullying and "hate speech."

The proposal has been formulated by a parliamentary committee that recently compiled a report about these forms of online "abuse," and the new rules would apply to users creating new, or wishing to maintain their existing accounts on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tinder, or Instagram.

If adopted, the new rules would force Australians to provide picture IDs like passports or driver's licenses to prove their identity and be allowed to join social networks.

The committee's report phrased the requirement as providing "100 points of identification."

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What's Up With Our Very Big Fact-checking Blindspots?

Why do most people who can easily find holes in the official Covid narrative don't do even basic fact-checking of people they've chosen to follow on the Covid-questioning side of the equation?


Three days ago I posted this tweet:


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