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New rules may allow Australian police to detain 'conspiracy theorists'


OffGuardian
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:21 UTC
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Police arresting a protester in Melbourne. Video shows him being hit with a car and stamped on while on the ground.
New rules passing in the Australian state of Victoria could see "conspiracy theorists" and those "suspected by health authorities of being likely to spread the virus" detained in quarantine centres, according to The Age.

The rules are amendments being added to the Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill, which was first passed back in April.

The proposed detention would last "for the period reasonably necessary to eliminate or reduce a serious risk to public health".

To translate that from bureaucrat into English: it means as for long as they want, or can get away with.

Legislation with this kind of vague verbiage is always a red flag, but then Victoria is currently over-flowing with warning signs of this kind.

VICTORIA - THE WORLD'S FASCIST TEST RUN?

Maybe you haven't been following exactly how bad things are getting in Australia - and most especially Victoria - but they have essentially aggressively seized their opportunity to create a fascist micro-state. A social Petri dish, in which to culture some tyranny.

They have declared both a "state of emergency" AND a "state of disaster" for a disease which has killed fewer than a thousand people in 9 months across the entire country.

For a sense of perspective, in 2018 over three times as many people died of influenza, and the same number again committed suicide.

As of right now Australia has just 16 cases of coronavirus classified as "severe".
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Big Brother Zuck: Lawsuit accuses Facebook of using phone cams to spy on Instagram users

J. Edward Moreno
The Hill
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC
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Instagram and its parent company Facebook are being sued for allegedly spying on users with their mobile phone cameras.

The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco federal court Thursday by a New Jersey Instagram user Brittany Conditi who claimed Facebook accesses mobile cameras while users are on the app "to collect lucrative and valuable data on its users that it would not otherwise have access to."

"By obtaining extremely private and intimate personal data on their users, including in the privacy of their own homes, [Facebook is] able to increase their advertising revenue by targeting users more than ever before," the lawsuit alleges.

"For example, [Facebook is] able to see in-real time how users respond to advertisements on Instagram, providing extremely valuable information to its advertisers."

The lawsuit comes after reports that emerged this summer that an Instagram bug appeared to have allowed the company to access iPhone cameras even when they weren't actively being used. Facebook at the time said that they were working on addressing the bug.
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FBI raids home of Biden campaign surrogate, Netflix 'Cheer' star, after underage sex allegation - UPDATE: Arrested, charged for child porn

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:47 UTC
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Netflix Cheer star and former Joe Biden presidential campaign surrogate Jerry Harris is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit images and sex from minors, according to a report.

USA Today stated Monday:
The criminal investigation is based on allegations that were reported separately to police by Varsity Brands, a private company that dominates the cheerleading industry and handles everything from uniform sales to major competitions. In Aug. 1 letters to police in Florida and Texas, Varsity's chief legal officer, Burton Brillhart, said the company learned of "inappropriate sexual conduct" allegations against Harris and reported the information to authorities as required by law.
[...]
Brillhart included two screenshots in his communication with law enforcement. In one - a Snapchat message - a picture of the upper part of what appears to be Harris' face is labeled with the message, "Would you ever want to ****". The other screenshot - which is a series of text messages - indicates an exchange that began on Friday, May 3, 2019, when an individual named "jerry harris" wrote, "Hey btw I found a place for us to do stuff it's actually pretty good haha."

Comment: Harris has now been arrested and charged with producing child pornography.
In an interview with law enforcement officials on Monday, the complaint says, Mr. Harris, 21, admitted to asking for and receiving child pornography from at least 10 to 15 individuals he knew were minors. He also admitted to having sex with a 15-year-old at a cheerleading event in 2019.


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American politics has literally turned cr*p, with fights over November's election descending into slinging matches

Micah Curtis
RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:15 UTC
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As if the rioting and burning of businesses weren't bad enough, now bowel movements are being used as a symbol of protest. It's a perfect metaphor for today's toxic political discourse.

It seems that anytime I look into politics as a topic for an op-ed, I find more and more ridiculous stories each time. Every once in a while, you hear something being described as a s**t job. Unless you're working on sewer lines or septic tanks, you don't expect that to be literal. And yet, it seems as if politics itself has gone down the crapper.

In the state of Maine, police are looking for a suspect who has been taking fecal matter from a dog and stuffing it into the mailboxes of Trump supporters. Whoever this person is (the suspect is described as a middle-aged woman riding a bicycle), they are so angry at Donald Trump that they are willing to pick up dog feces and carry it to someone's mailbox to deposit it. I don't think that anyone would ever call this the mark of someone who is completely sane.
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COVID-19 emails from Nashville mayor's office show numbers SO LOW they had to be kept secret to enforce continued lockdown

Dennis Ferrier
WZTV
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:49 UTC
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The coronavirus cases on lower Broadway may have been so low that the mayor's office and the Metro Health Department decided to keep it secret.

Emails between the mayor's senior advisor and the health department reveal only a partial picture. But what they reveal is disturbing. The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that. And most disturbingly, how to keep it from the public.

On June 30th, contact tracing was given a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes were found to be causing problems with more than a thousand cases traced to each category, but bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases.

Leslie Waller from the health department asks, "This isn't going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor's Office?"

"Correct, not for public consumption," writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles.

Comment: Red State comments:
We're increasingly noticing that the reason for the lockdowns is less about keeping people safe and more about politics. Nashville's Mayor, John Cooper, is a Democrat, and it is Democrats who are keeping areas under their control in a lockdown, while Republican leaders are lifting restrictions left and right.

With the 2020 election coming up, there are a few issues for the Democrats — issues that make President Donald Trump too powerful to defeat. The main one is the economy, and the Coronavirus was the perfect excuse to keep America's economy from growing, and returning to the powerhouse it was under Trump's leadership.

With no logical answer as to why Democrats want to keep everyone in lockdown despite information telling us that the lockdowns aren't working and were ultimately unnecessary, what we're left with is political positioning.

To be clear, the Democrats have destroyed millions of lives so they could give themselves a foothold in a presidential election. People's jobs have been wiped out, businesses they built closed, and suicide rates have skyrocketed, all so that they had a better chance of beating Donald Trump.

If this is happening in Nashville, what other cities is this happening in?
Tucker delivers a blistering assessment of Cooper's disgraceful behaviour:



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US lockdown forces parents to jump through endless bureaucratic hoops to open 'learning pods' for children at home

Lenore Skenazy
Reason
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:45 UTC
Parent children stress
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"My daughter can have five friends over for a sleepover without my being fingerprinted and federally background-checked."
Pennsylvania parents thinking of starting a learning pod for their children should prepare to jump through quite a few bureaucratic hoops.

The state Department of Human Services' Office of Child Development and Early Learning announced on August 26 — the day school was set to begin — that families with kids attending public school cannot form a learning pod of six or more unrelated students unless the parents do all of the following:

1. Develop a COVID-19 health and safety plan that aligns with with state and CDC guidelines.

2. Develop an evacuation plan in the event of an emergency.

3. Check with local zoning zoning ordinances in case residential childcare is prohibited.
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Survey on Holocaust knowledge among US Millenials, Gen Z 'worrying'

Zachary Keyser
Jerusalem Post
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:32 UTC
Auschwitz survivors
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CHILD SURVIVORS on the day of their liberation from Auschwitz (Seventh and eighth from left Marta Wise and her sister Eva Slonim)
According to the Claims Conference, the results of the Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Study showed a "worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge" among the respondents.

A survey on Holocaust knowledge among US millennials and Gen Z was released by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on Wednesday. According to the Claims Conference, the results of the Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey showed a "worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge" among the respondents. Some 63% of the sample were unaware that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, and 36% thought that number to be "two million or fewer." At least nine states reported more than 60% of respondents were unaware that six million Jews were killed. Eight states had more than 30% of respondents claim they believed less than two million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

"We came to realize that, although a number of states already mandate Holocaust education, which is an excellent first step, for the mandates to have a significant effect in classrooms there must be state funding to support the mandates," said Claims Conference Holocaust task force leader Matthew Bronfman. "The Holocaust is a broad topic. Specialized teacher training and a thoughtfully developed curriculum is needed for students to benefit.

Comment: Students should absolutely be taught about and be informed on the Holocaust - as well as many of the other Holocausts that have been perpetrated against innocents by psychopathic leaders and their pathologized citizens over the span of known history.

However horrific, the Holocaust perpetrated against the Jews during WWII, while unique in some ways is, sadly, not a unique 'event' experienced by humanity at large.

It is unfortunate, also, that many Zionists use the great tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust to justify the horrors Israel perpetrates against the Palestinians and other groups in the Middle East. This type of thinking, and the aggression justified by it, is actually a denigration of those who lost their lives and loved ones in the concentration camps and elsewhere.

The true lesson of "never again" is that the evil of genocide should not be perpetrated against any group. But unfortunately, this most important value appears lost on many.

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Sometimes survival is not about WHAT you know - It's about WHO you know

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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Like a lot of frequent travelers, I'd been itching to get back on the road after months of lockdown. A couple of months ago, I drove from the east coast to the west coast and ended up in Mexico, where I rented a condo near some close friends to settle in for the expected second wave of Covid-19.

I'm all about new cultures and new experiences when I travel. As I've written before, traveling has made me a far more adaptable person and I believe has greatly enhanced my resilient mindset. Just like the previous article, this isn't a newsy article filled with deep research or a how-to that will teach you ways to deal with specific threats. It's simply a blog post in which I'm sharing a personal story and philosophy that some folks will find thought-provoking and others will find outlandish. But either way, do share your thoughts in the comments.

I learn a lot by observing others when traveling, and there is one theme that has been consistent throughout the current adventure.
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84% of Canadians think the ICC should investigate Israeli officials for war crimes

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:14 UTC
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"This demonstrates that Canada's tendency to apply double standards when it comes to Israel is very unpopular with Canadians," IJV's National Coordinator Corey Balsam
A new survey conducted by EKOS Research Associates shows that an overwhelming majority of Canadians would support International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of Israel.

The poll, which was co-sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), and the United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel (UNJPPI), found that 84% of Canadians think the ICC should investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israeli officials. 86% of Canadians do not believe that the human rights record of Israel should be overlooked because the country is an ally of Canada. 82% want Canada's current policy toward Jerusalem to be maintained, with the city being shared rather than it being recognized as Israel's capital exclusively.

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Ireland faces months of restrictions including in people's homes, says Taoiseach

Marie O'Halloran, Harry McGee
The Irish Times
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 13:26 UTC
People wearing face masks
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Reduction of social contacts including in people's homes will be the "key ingredient" across all levels of the Government's mid-term plan because the disease is most prominent in homes, the Taoiseach has said.

Micheál Martin said that keeping schools and third level institutions open will be the Government's top priority, ahead of pubs, aviation and sports.

There would be restrictions across all five proposed levels in the proposals for the next six months to be announced on Tuesday, "even in the home because that's where the prevalence of the disease is most dangerous and still alive in too many households".

Mr Martin's comments come as cases of coronavirus rise in Ireland with a particular focus on the capital where the disease is said to be spreading rapidly in households.

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