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Georgia Senate votes to repeal no-excuse absentee voting

Victor Morton
The Washington Times
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

The Georgia Senate voted Monday to repeal no-excuse absentee balloting and tighten identification requirements.

According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the bill restricts absentee voting to people at least 65 years old, have a physical disability or will be out of town on Election Day.

The bill passed on a 29-20 party-line vote.

The Atlanta paper reported that all Georgians also would need to provide a driver's license number, a state ID number or other identification in order to cast a ballot.

The bill heads for the state House, which also has a Republican majority and which, the AJC reported, passed a different bill last week that would tighten vote-security rules.

A record 1.3 million Georgians voted absentee in the presidential election, more than a quarter of the state's total turnout of 5 million, the paper reported.

After having been solidly Republican for years, the 2020 election saw Democrats win the presidential race and two U.S. Senate seats, in part because of unprecedented voter mobilization and loosened rules in the midst of the COVID epidemic.

Comment: As the dust settles from the angst and uproar of the recent presidential election, there are folks coming forth willing to reevaluate local protocols and improve the voting process. Perhaps all was not for naught.

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U.S. homicide rates skyrocket in 2020; exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic

Security Magazine
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC

At the end of 2020, police in the city of Chicago reported more than 750 murders, a jump of more than 50% compared with 2019. In December 2020, Los Angeles reported a 30% increase over the previous year with 322 homicides. In New York City, the city reported 437 homicides by Dec. 20, nearly 40% more than the previous year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York has told reporters that the rise was related, in part, to the coronavirus pandemic and "to the fact that people are cooped up."

But large cities aren't the only parts of the U.S. seeing rises in homicides. Increases in homicides are spiking in areas around the country. One such example is Asheville, North Carolina, which, according to a study by 24/7 Wall St., is in the top 10% of most violent cities in the U.S. after reviewing FBI crime data for 4,548 cities with more than 5,000 people in 2019.

New Orleans-based data consultant Jeff Asher who studies crime rates told NPR, "We're going to see, historically, the largest one-year rise in murder that we've ever seen." He said it has been more than half a century since the U.S. saw year-to-year murder rates jump approximately 13%. He also told NPR:

"We have good data that the rise in murder was happening in the early stages of the pandemic. We have good data that the rise in murder picked up in the early stages of the summer, and we also have good data that the rise of murder picked up again in September and October as some of the financial assistance started to wear off."

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Man dies when gunfire erupts near 'George Floyd Square' in Minneapolis as Chauvin trial looms

John Bacon
USA Today
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:45 UTC

A manhunt was underway Sunday in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of a man near "George Floyd Square," an intersection that serves as a memorial to the man whose death at the hands of police in May set off Black Lives Matter protests across the nation.

Police provided few details of the shooting, which took place less than 48 hours before jury selection is set to begin in the murder trial of the police officer charged in Floyd's death.

Police spokesman John Elder said police were alerted to Saturday's shooting at about 5:45 p.m. local time and were told the victim or victims had been brought to the "autonomous zone" at the edge of the intersection.

"Officers were met with some interference at the scene," Elder said. They were notified that the victim had already been brought to a hospital, and a short time later learned he had died.

CDC granting vaccinated Americans 'LIMITED FREEDOMS' - as MSM puts it - met with claims of government overreach

RT
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:39 UTC

The CDC has issued new guidelines that grant - in the words of US mainstream media - "limited freedoms" to Americans who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, leading some to wonder when the Bill of Rights was abolished.

The new federal guidelines issued on Monday allow people who are at least two weeks past being fully vaccinated - meaning two jabs with the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or one shot of the newly approved Johnson & Johnson inoculation - to visit indoors sans masks with others who meet the same criteria.

It's also safe enough, the CDC said, to be around small groups of unvaccinated people in some situations, such as a single household with no one deemed to be at high risk of severe Covid-19 cases.

Fully vaccinated Americans can even refrain from quarantining themselves if they are exposed to an asymptomatic person who is found to have been infected with Covid-19. But masks and social distancing are still required, the CDC said, when visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households or with individuals who are considered high-risk or live with someone who is high-risk.

On International Women's Day we must ask, why are women being silenced on Twitter for stating basic biology?

Debbie Hayton
RT
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:26 UTC

For better or worse, Twitter has become the world's public square. In theory, an open forum where anyone can speak to anyone who cares to listen to them. The reality, of course, is rather different.

Donald Trump is perhaps the highest profile individual who cannot now tweet to the world. His @realDonaldTrump account was "permanently suspended" on January 8. But not by order of any court, for Twitter alone is prosecutor, judge and jury. Twitter determined that two of his tweets "glorified violence" and summarily silenced a sitting president of the United States.

We may or may not agree with their decision, but Twitter's ability to exercise absolute power should worry us all. If the leader of the free world can be shown the door, what hope is there for ordinary people who take a different view to Twitter on what constitutes glorification of violence, or "hateful conduct"?

Samuel Paty murder: how a teenager's lie sparked a tragic chain of events

Kim Willsher
The Guardian
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:22 UTC

Like many a school truant, the 13-year-old girl was keen to prevent her father from discovering she had been suspended because of repeatedly failing to turn up for lessons.

So she made up a story. The teenager said her history teacher, Samuel Paty, had instructed Muslim students to leave the classroom so he could show the rest "a photograph of the Prophet naked".

It must have seemed a harmless enough lie, but it sparked a chain of events that led to unimaginable horror.

Ten days later, the teacher was dead - decapitated by a Islamist terrorist. Paty's family were left devastated, France traumatised and the girl and her father facing criminal charges. Two other teenagers, who took money from the assassin, Abdullakh Anzorov, are also under investigation.

Comment: The social acceptance of outrage culture has created a veritable tinder box of extreme behavior and violence. The unfortunate reality is there are too few people in positions of responsibility who understand the basic civil necessities of decency and cooperative communication that serve as protective measures against the spread of pathological expansion. The removal of respectful boundaries toward others has cultivated the most profane elements of society to react against one another at ever increasing levels. In this story, we see how the pathological elements of Charlie Hebdo, Muslim extremism, narcissistic family dynamics, and cancel culture are amplified against the other through the lens of victimization with tragedy being the end result.

LA teachers advised not to post spring break pics on social media as union advocates to keep schools closed

Libby Emmons
The Post Millenial
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:23 UTC

Los Angeles teachers were advised on a private Facebook group not share their spring break vacation pics on social media. Why? Because a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the union is still advocating to keep schools closed, calling a return to in-person learning "unsafe," and teachers partying it up on vacation would ruin that narrative.

In a private Facebook group called UTLA FB GROUP-Members Only, 5,700 members were warned to keep their pics private. According to Fox News, the post read:

"Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep that off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel."

The teachers weren't advised not to go on vacation or socialize while continuing to advocate for schools to remain closed due to "unsafe" conditions, they were simply advised not to tell anyone about it. The appearance of hypocrisy was deemed to be way more damning than the hypocrisy itself.

Nazi war criminal celebrated by Lithuanian government as hero of WW2 resistance exposed by own granddaughter in brand new book

Paula Slier
RT
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:09 UTC

American journalist Silvia Foti exposed a major cover-up by the Lithuanian government. Her grandfather, considered a WWII hero in the country, was actually a Nazi mass murderer. Now she's written a book that tells the real story.

It seems clear that Foti's grandmother, who begged her not to write about her husband, knew the truth. "Just let history lie," she whispered to her granddaughter. This week, with the book's publication, the truth will finally be told: known as an Anti-Soviet partisan, Jonas Noreika, celebrated with monuments in his homeland, was a war criminal who had been personally responsible for having ordered the murder of thousands of Jews in Lithuania during the Holocaust.

One such place was in the western town of Plungė, where Noreika served in the beginning of WWII as commander of the Lithuanian Activist Front, an openly anti-Semitic group that cheered the coming of the Nazis as liberators. Plungė's entire Jewish population of more than 1,800 was murdered, mostly by local people, within days of their arrival in July 1941.

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New editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue accused of anti-Asian racism after old tweets resurface

Mia Cathell
The Post Millennial
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

The incoming editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue is facing accusations of racism after old tweets of hers have resurfaced that expressed anti-Asian sentiments.

New editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond is under fire for her series of insensitive tweets posted in 2011. While the offensive statements on Twitter were removed in 2019, Philadelphia sports blog Crossing Broad had documented her remarks.

Twitter users had combed through McCammond's account after an unrelated quarrel with NBA analyst Charles Barkley, digging through her entire social media history for something compromising, and found the buried blurbs.

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France's outlawed Génération Identitaire: 'We are not a militia and even if you ban our group, you cannot ban the way we think'

RT
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:56 UTC

© AFP / Philippe LOPEZ
Protesters walk in the street during a demonstration against islamism organised by the far right group Generation Identitaire (GI) in Paris on November 17, 2019.

The right-wing youth movement Génération Identitaire may have been dissolved by Emmanuel Macron, but the anti-immigration, anti-Islam mindset has taken hold among some of France's youth and must be addressed by the authorities.

Organisers behind outlawed French right-wing group Génération Identitaire have vowed to fight all the way to the European Court of Justice to overturn President Emmanuel Macron's controversial decision to ban it, RT can exclusively reveal.

Speaking to RT, Jérémie Piano, a spokesman for the now-dissolved group, condemned what he called a political decision and said he expected that the legal battle to reverse the order - issued by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin - would last several months without any guarantee of success.

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Society's Child

Georgia Senate votes to repeal no-excuse absentee voting

U.S. homicide rates skyrocket in 2020; exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic

Man dies when gunfire erupts near 'George Floyd Square' in Minneapolis as Chauvin trial looms

CDC granting vaccinated Americans 'LIMITED FREEDOMS' - as MSM puts it - met with claims of government overreach

On International Women's Day we must ask, why are women being silenced on Twitter for stating basic biology?

Samuel Paty murder: how a teenager's lie sparked a tragic chain of events

LA teachers advised not to post spring break pics on social media as union advocates to keep schools closed

Nazi war criminal celebrated by Lithuanian government as hero of WW2 resistance exposed by own granddaughter in brand new book

New editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue accused of anti-Asian racism after old tweets resurface

France's outlawed Génération Identitaire: 'We are not a militia and even if you ban our group, you cannot ban the way we think'

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