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Texas governor to sign bill banning vaccine passports

Reid Wilson
The Hill
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 05:31 UTC

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) will sign legislation on Monday barring businesses and government agencies from requiring proof that someone has been vaccinated against the coronavirus before providing services.

Abbott signed an executive order in April banning government entities from requiring so-called vaccine passports. The new law, passed in the waning days before Texas legislators adjourned for the year, would extend to private businesses as well.

The law bars those establishments from requiring documentation showing that someone has either been vaccinated against or has recovered from an infection with the coronavirus before gaining access to or receiving services from a business. Businesses that require vaccine passports would be barred from receiving grants from or winning contracts with the state. " Abbott wrote on Twitter:

"I'm signing a law today that prohibits any business operating in Texas from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information. Texas is open 100% without any restrictions or limitations or requirements."

Vaccine passports have become the latest cause taken up by Republican elected officials in what they cast as the war between onerous public health restrictions and individual liberty.

Only two states — New York and Hawaii — have implemented vaccine passport rules.

Georgia Republicans overwhelmingly pass resolution to censure Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger

Human Events
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC

Georgia Republicans passed a resolution Saturday to censure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for his defense of the state's election process and refusal to side with President Trump.

Passed at the annual convention on Jekyll Island this weekend, the resolution claims the secretary of state and current Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan "denied that there was election fraud and punished Georgia Republican State Senators who asked for election audits."

Raffensperger was censured for "dereliction of his Constitutional duty," and the resolution "calls on Governor Brian Kemp and all elected officials to repair the damage that has been done and commit themselves to securing Georgia's elections."

The resolution says the secretary of state undermined the security of elections by allowing mass mailings of absentee ballot applications, which "created opportunities for fraud and overwhelmed election offices." It goes on to say that absentee ballots made signature matches impossible and ballot drop boxes were allowed without proper chain of custody."

Both Kemp and Raffensperger are running for reelection.

Comment: Raffensperger was not 'asked to side with Trump'. He was asked to oversee a fair and honest election.

More than two dozen Antifa rioters charged for Portland mayhem

Andy Ngo
New York Post
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:39 UTC

More than two dozen suspected Antifa rioters have been charged in Portland in the past two weeks, signaling an escalation by both local and federal prosecutors following a full year of riots in the besieged Oregon city.

On Thursday, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office announced charges against 10 suspects following several grand jury indictments.

Maximilian Ryan Jennings, 23, James Walker Prettyman, 25, and Thomas Moll-Rocek, 34, are charged with one count each of felony riot, felony first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree criminal mischief.

The three were indicted over accusations they were part of a black-clad mob that broke most of the windows on the Multnomah County Democrats' headquarters on Nov. 8, 2020. At the time, Antifa accounts on social media promoted the "direct action" to oppose the presidential election.

Comment: Author Andy Ngo had first-hand encounters with Antifa rioters:

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website mocked for blurring out face of female Israeli party leader: 'Like she's a Mossad agent'

RT
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:14 UTC

israel female face blurred ultra othordox Merav Michaeli

One of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox Jewish media outlets was mocked online for censoring the face of Labor Party chief Merav Michaeli, who is set to join the new government.

The news website Behadrei Haredim altered the photo illustrating a story about the so-called 'unity' or 'change' coalition - a bloc of eight parties that agreed to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by forming a government together.

The outlet blurred out the face of Michaeli, the sole woman in the picture.

Ultra-Orthodox media typically censor or omit publishing images of women due to the religious and cultural beliefs of their audience.

Health minister reveals death rates have fallen to pre-pandemic levels in most of Russia, but some remote regions still struggling

RT
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:20 UTC

© Sputnik / Alexey Maishev
The doctor works with the patient in the ward of the hospital for patients with coronavirus infection COVID-19 on the basis of the City Clinical Hospital No. 67 in Moscow.

Mortality rates in over half of Russian regions have returned to pre-pandemic lows, the country's top health official has said, as authorities in rural Buryatia scramble to deploy additional beds to meet a rise in Covid-19 cases.

Speaking to TASS in an interview published on Monday, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko announced that the majority of regions in the country were seeing the rate of deaths falling to the level they were at before the start of the coronavirus crisis last year. To boot, these levels, he said, had been "the lowest in history. Covid, of course, radically changed the situation."

Murashko credited two developments responsible for the dip in deaths, the first being effective "measures for the mass prevention of coronavirus infection." In addition, he said, the "resumption of medical examinations" that were disrupted by the pandemic had helped head off mortality from diseases unrelated to Covid-19.

However, in a sign that the fight against the virus is unlikely to be over just yet, the Minister of Health of Buryatia, a Far-Eastern Russian republic on the border with Mongolia, warned that the local epidemiological situation was worsening. Evgenia Ludupova wrote on Instagram to urge residents "to observe safety measures." She added that "in particular, in the last week we have seen an increase in the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections and new coronavirus infections."

97 politicians killed, severed head thrown at polling station, in Mexico's bloodiest midterm election day in recent history

Lizbeth Diaz
Reuters
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:09 UTC

© REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
Members of the National Guard keep watch the a scene where unknown assailants left a plastic bag with human remains near a polling station, during the mid-term elections in Tijuana, Mexico June 6, 2021.

A man lobbed a severed human head at a voting station in the border city of Tijuana on Sunday and plastic bags filled with body parts were found nearby, local authorities said, as Mexicans voted across the country in midterm elections.

Authorities said the man ran away, but they did not specify whether he was captured. They said they found plastic bags with human remains and severed hands in the area.

It was not immediately clear what message the gruesome act was meant to send and how it related to Sunday's election.

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Israel arrests Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd hours after brutally detaining Palestinian journalist from Sheikh Jarrah

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 20:03 UTC

© tarekbakri/Twitter
Nabil El-Kurd, Muna and Mohammed's father waits for his children outside a Jerusalem police station.

"Israel fights my daughter because she is telling the story of Sheikh Jarrah," Nabil El-Kurd told journalists and supporters outside the police station following the arrest of his children, Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd.

Tensions came to a head over the weekend in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah after Israeli forces arrested local residents and journalists from the neighborhood, causing a storm on social media.

On Sunday morning Israeli forces arrested Muna El-Kurd, 23, from her home in Sheikh Jarrah and taken to an Israeli police station in Jerusalem for interrogation. Video footage being circulated on social media showed Israeli forces handcuffing El-Kurd and escorting her out of her home.

Comment: Muna el-Kurd came to worldwide prominence after her confrontation with the illegal squatter from New York who by Israeli court order, is living in half her family's home.

"We're in big trouble!" Dems panic as Republicans celebrate mayoral win in town that is 85% Latino

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC

Democrats were stunned over the results of a mayoral race in South Texas over the weekend after the town elected a former chairman of a local county-level Republican Party. Fox News reported:

"Republicans celebrated Javier Villalobos' narrow win in the mayor's race in McAllen, Texas, on Saturday even though the race is technically nonpartisan. Villalobos, an attorney, was appointed to the Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board by [Texas Republican Governor Greg] Abbott in 2018 and is the former chair of the Hidalgo County GOP."

The election comes as the U.S. southern border has been flooded with illegal aliens under Democrat President Joe Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris was tapped to lead Biden's response to his border crisis, yet she still has not visited the border and has not held a news conference about the border crisis.

California county cuts death toll after finding fatalities 'clearly not' caused by COVID-19

Jackie Salo
New York Post
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 02:52 UTC

The coronavirus death toll in a California county has been cut by 25 percent — after officials found that some fatalities were not a "direct result" of the virus.

Alameda County on Friday issued a corrected death toll that puts the total number of fatalities at 1,223, significantly down from its previous count of 1,634. Health officials said in a statement:

"Alameda County previously included any person who died while infected with the virus in the total COVID-19 deaths for the County. Aligning with the State's definition will require Alameda County to report as COVID-19 deaths only those people who died as a direct result of COVID-19, with COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death, or in whom death caused by COVID-19 could not be ruled out."

Health officials said they had begun counting any person who was positive for the virus at the time of their death as part of the official tally before the state came up with a new definition late last year.

Comment: How many other counties, in California and beyond, require revisions as the Covid death definition is redefined?

Boko Haram leader 'kills himself' in fight with rival jihadists in Nigeria - two weeks after it was reported he had died

South China Morning Post
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 05:01 UTC

© AFP
Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, at an undisclosed location in Nigeria.

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in a fight against rival jihadist fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) according to audio Agence France-Presse obtained from the group on Sunday, two weeks after reports emerged that he had died.

His death marks a major shift in Nigeria's 12-year-old jihadist insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around two million in the northeast.

Boko Haram has not yet officially commented on the death of their leader while the Nigerian army said it was investigating the claim.

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Society's Child

Texas governor to sign bill banning vaccine passports

Georgia Republicans overwhelmingly pass resolution to censure Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger

More than two dozen Antifa rioters charged for Portland mayhem

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website mocked for blurring out face of female Israeli party leader: 'Like she's a Mossad agent'

Health minister reveals death rates have fallen to pre-pandemic levels in most of Russia, but some remote regions still struggling

97 politicians killed, severed head thrown at polling station, in Mexico's bloodiest midterm election day in recent history

Israel arrests Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd hours after brutally detaining Palestinian journalist from Sheikh Jarrah

"We're in big trouble!" Dems panic as Republicans celebrate mayoral win in town that is 85% Latino

California county cuts death toll after finding fatalities 'clearly not' caused by COVID-19

Boko Haram leader 'kills himself' in fight with rival jihadists in Nigeria - two weeks after it was reported he had died

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