"I am not extending the statewide mask mandate, but I want to be clear, I still believe masks work. I think the facts and data across this country bear that out"
Those words spoken by Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves today as he continues a mask order for certain professions and for schools in the State of Mississippi along with other COVID-19 restrictions......
Police in Israel have handed out 3,570 fines for violations of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in the last 24 hours......YNET NEWS
Spain moving to expand a lockdown already underway in parts of its capital city. The lockdown will now include all of Madrid and surrounding areas.......BBC NEWS
British Parliament members promised a better response from the government by Health Minister Matt Hancock as the House of Commons speaker admonished the government but refused to allow an amendment to reduce the power of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to rule without the consent of Parliament.......PETER HITCHENS COMMENTARY
Azerbaijan says that the fighting with Armenia continues today in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region......TASS......The country's president vows to continue fighting......BBC NEWS....More on the conflict from the "Al Jazeera" blog......AL JAZEERA BLOG ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN WAR 9/30/2020
RUSSIAN TROOPS BREAKING THROUGH A US BLOCKADE TO ESTABLISH A CHECKPOINT IN THE EASTERN PART OF SYRIA. THE CHECKPOINT SAID TO BLOCK ACCESS FROM NEIGHBORING IRAQ..........SOUTHFRONT
A court approving an 800 million dollar settlement for more than 4,400 victims and their relatives in the October 2017 mass murder incident in Las Vegas. 58 killed and more than 850 wounded. The MGM Resorts International organization does not admit liability in the deal but pays out 49 million dollars along with 751 million from its insurance companies......ASSOCIATED PRESS
KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON GETTING AN EXTENSION FROM A JUDGE WHO ORDERED RELEASE OF GRAND JURY RECORDINGS IN THE BREONNA TAYLOR CASE AT NOON TODAY. THOSE RECORDINGS MUST NOW BE RELEASED BY NOON ON FRIDAY.......CNN
Portland city officials are saying they didn't know that 56 police officers in the special unit with deals with protests were being federally deputized until the end of the year. The deputizing took place last Saturday morning ahead of the Proud Boys rally in the city.
The city attorney has written to the counsel for the US Attorney in Portland saying it does not consent to the deputizing lasting until the end of the year.....OREGONLIVE
THE US INCREASING ITS MILITARY PRESENCE ON THE GREEK ISLAND OF CRETE AMIDST TENSIONS BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY OVER ENERGY RIGHTS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN......WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The World Health Organization is probing allegations by 50 woman of sexual misconduct by its employees sent to combat the ebola virus. Two news organizations reporting on the allegations in the Democratic Republic of Congo......BBC NEWS
In India a special court acquitted top leaders from India' ruling BJP party of inciting Hindu mobs to destroy a mosque in 1990. Rioting that followed the demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya killed around two thousand people......BBC NEWS
WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY SHOWING 40,929 NEW CASES WITH 955 MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.
WORLDWIDE 313,858 NEW CASES REPORTED INCLUDING 12,845 IN FRANCE, 7,018 IN THE UK, 3,294 IN THE NETHERLANDS AND 1,797 IN CANADA.
Disney laying off 28-thousand workers with its parks and resorts business being heavily impacted by the coronavirus situation.....CNN
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pointing to rising coronavirus rates among Orthodox Jews in the state.........ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAYS ISRAEL'S SECOND CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN THIS YEAR WILL LAST AT LEAST ONE MONTH AND MAY BE EVEN LONGER THAN THAT......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
ISRAEL'S PARLIAMENT MOVING TO BAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE NAME OF PREVENTING COVID-19 SPREAD. DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE THE PARLIAMENT AS THE LEGISLATION MOVED TOWARDS APPROVAL........YNET NEWS.....THE DEMONSTRATION BAN APPROVED ON A 46-38 VOTE TONIGHT.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER A HOSTAGE SITUATION IN SALEM, OREGON. A DEPUTY OPENED FIRE BUT THE DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED ARE NOT CLEAR YET. THE OREGON STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING THE INCIDENT......CNN
Prince George's County, Maryland agreeing to pay the family of William Green 20 million dollars. Green was handcuffed in the back of a police vehicle when he was shot six times and killed by a police officer. The officer, Michael Owen Jr., is in jail facing charges including second degree murder. Both the shooting victim and the accused officer are black.......CBC NEWS CANADA
THE POLICE IN PORTLAND MOVED AGAINST A PROTEST BEFORE IT GOT STARTED LAST NIGHT DECLARING IT AN UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY SEIZING SHIELDS, CONFISCATING SIGNS AND MAKING ARRESTS. PORTLAND'S RAPID RESPONSE UNIT IS NOW FEDERALLY DEPUTIZED......OREGONLIVE. 24 ARRESTS MADE LAST NIGHT........SECOND OREGON LIVE STORY
The American Civil Liberties Union calling for a special prosecutor after Saturday night's aggressive police action against demonstrators and members of the media in downtown Portland.
Police say objects were being thrown at them when they went into action and made some 30 arrests....OREGON LIVE
Grand jury tapes in the Breonna Taylor case are to be released tomorrow. A grand juror sued saying the panel was used a:
"shield to deflect accountability and responsibility"
The conflict rages on for a third day in the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.......BBC NEWS.....Armenia says that a Turkish F-16 shot down an Armenian warplane today.....TASS....Turkey is denying the report.
The UN Security Council is calling for a cease-fire in the conflict......TASS
An Iranian oil tanker has reached Venezuelan waters carrying fuel that is much needed in Venezuela....PRESS TV
THE DEBATE BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE CHALLENGER FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TONIGHT MODERATED BY CHRIS WALLACE OF FOX NEWS.......THIS TWO HOUR VIDEO STARTS 28 MINUTES BEFORE THE DEBATE BEGAN..........VIDEO LINK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE
The story of the coronavirus today via the BBC News daily blog. Mainstream media touting statistics showing one million COVID-19 deaths worldwide today......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 9/29/2020
THE CORONAVIRUS STATISTICS FOR TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 44,227 NEW CASES IN THE US. LEADING STATES TEXAS WITH 5,995, FLORIDA WITH 3,266 AND CALIFORNIA WITH 3,030. AMONG THE OTHER STATES MISSOURI WITH 2,080, PENNSYLVANIA WITH 1,576 AND NEW YORK WITH 1,197.
AROUND THE WORLD 287,906 NEW CASES LED BY INDIA WITH 80,500. AMONG THE OTHER NATIONS ARGENTINA WITH 13,477, SPAIN WITH 9,906, THE UK WITH 7,143 AND CANADA WITH 1,660.
That's the way it really is Tuesday September 29th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves has not rescinded his mask-muzzle order. A letter on social media claiming to be from his office appeared over the weekend prompting the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to call the letter "a FAKE".........ABC NEWS-ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three regions of Canada's Quebec province moved into the coronavirus "RED" zone including Montreal and Quebec City. Starting Thursday restrictions will be imposed including the closing of all casinos, bars and restaurants with take out service only permitted.
Home gatherings will be prohibited with a single caregiver exception among others. People must stay two meters apart and worship services, funerals and weddings will be limited to 25 people.
Schools will remain open with conservative Premier Francois Legault saying:
"Schools must remain open. Businesses are open so parents can continue to work and earn money"
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warning of 19,200 coronavirus cases a day by Christmas. Merkel telling a meeting of her political party (Christian Democratic Union) that local outbreaks of infection must be dealt with to prevent this from happening.....POLITICO
Police in Portland being criticized for aggressive actions Saturday night during protests where some 24 people were arrested. Police aggression aimed at journalists covering the clashes. The police say some in the crowd were throwing rocks and shot ball bearings at them.......OREGONLIVE
The United States is urging an end to heavy fighting that broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan yesterday. The State Department urging the two nations to stop fighting and start talking......AL ARABIYA SAUDI ARABIA.....Russia is aligned with Armenia and Turkey with Azerbaijan. Energy pipelines also run through the two nations....AL JAZEERA QATAR........Today word is that the fighting continues.....BBC NEWS......TASS.....Armenia says that Turkey is sending in weapons, advisers and mercenaries......TASS
The US telling te Iraqi government it intends to shut down the embassy in Baghdad if its not protected from attacks..........TASS
The Spanish Supreme court upholding the ban on Catalonia's President Quim Torra. He was removed from office for not following the dictates of Madrid......BBC NEWS
CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FROM WORLDOMETERS FOR TODAY SHOWING 37,418 NEW CASES IN THE USA. AROUND THE WORLD 230,547 INCLUDING 16,018 IN BRAZIL, 8,135 IN RUSSIA, 4,070 IN FRANCE AND 4,044 IN THE UK.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY NOW SAYING THAT MORE THAN ONE MILLION HAVE DIED WORLDWIDE OF COVID-19......TASS
Video of the protest here including the coffee spilling of a pro-mask counter protester that led to an anti-mask protester throwing some punches.......VIDEO MOSCOW IDAHO ANTI-MASK PROTEST 9/26/2020
"scared" and "confused"
Thousands of university students locked down in their residence halls in the UK over positive tests for the coronavirus......BBC NEWS
Meanwhile in Ireland Professor Dolores Cahill says that a positive COVID-19 test may mean the presence of the common cold. She also says that "politicians and the media" are using the coronavirus "as a fear-mongering propaganda tool to try and take away rights from people" among other things.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
After yesterday's show of strength by the "Proud Boys" of the "Right" in Portland who were opposed by the "Left" the "Left" took its protest into downtown Portland Saturday night. Police made arrests in the area of the federal buildings there. This video poster saw the confrontation as one between the police and what he called "fake press".....VIDEO PORTLAND SATURDAY NIGHT 9/26/2020.....Portland Police in the Rapid Response Unit that deals with protests are now deputized by the federal government. Any attacks on them could lead to federal charges.....FULL PORTLAND PROTEST VIDEO SATURDAY NIGHT 9/26/2020
WAR BETWEEN TWO NATIONS CLOSE TO RUSSIA AND TURKEY. AREMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN ATTACKING EACH OTHER TODAY.
THERE WAS A BORDER CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS DECADES AGO AND IN RECENT MONTHS VIOLENT BORDER INCIDENTS.
TURKEY IS BACKING AZERBAIJAN AND RUSSIA, WHICH HAS A MILITARY BASE IN ARMENIA, IS CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE.......BBC NEWS......TASS......DAILY SABAH TURKEY
A FEDERAL JUDGE TODAY ISSUED A TEMPORARY INJUNCTION AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PLAN TO STOP DOWNLOADS OF THE TIK TOK APP IN THE UNITED STATES. THE RULING WILL ALLOW TIKTOK DOWNLOADS TO CONTINUE.......CNN
He's no friend of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange but journalist Peter Hitchens says its time for journalistic friends and foes of Assange to come to his defense because what's happening to him may happen to them next.....PETER HITCHENS TWITTER
More opposition protests and more crackdown in Belarus today as opposition continues to the results of the presidential election that showed longtime ruler Alexander Lukashenko the winner........BBC NEWS
A referendum in Switzerland today to end free movement with European Union nations in a bid to stop illegal immigration. The proposal rejected by a 62-38 percent margin......BBC NEWS
The French President Emmanuel Macron blasting the Iranian backed Hezbollah movement following the failure of Lebanese political parties to form a new government.....THE NATIONAL-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Russia's economic development ministry estimates that coronavirus restrictions will shrink global GDP four to four and a half percent this year......TASS
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FROM WORLDOMETERS FOR THE USA TODAY SHOW 33,782 NEW CASES WITH 276 MORE DEATHS BEING ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19. TOP STATES CALIFORNIA AT 2,518, WISCONSIN WITH 2,217 AND TENNESSEE REPORTING 2,104.
AROUND THE WORLD 251,915 NEW CASES REPORTED. INDIA LEADING WITH 82,767. OTHER COUNTRIES INCLUDE FRANCE WITH 11,123, COLOMBIA WITH 7,018, THE UK WITH 5,693 AND IRAN REPORTING 3,362.
That's the way it really is Sunday September 27th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
Fear of COVID-19 riding high in France with sharp increases in reported COVID-19 infections leading to restrictions in major French cities this weekend.
Starting off with the music some women I was infatuated with in my fantasy world back in my youth and the reality slap to the face of my vanity and ego from the late great Jim Croce a short life with some great music left behind........
I fantasized that I was someone much greater than myself to deal with reality through decades of my life and wanting to be someone big can lead to something awful.
A convicted killer said this when he appeared before a parole board last month.......
"I assassinated him...because he was very, very, very famous and that's the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish."
Mark David Chapman telling the parole board in New York that he deserved the death penalty for killing John Lennon describing his actions as "creepy" and "despicable".
Chapman at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo along with other prisoners including Harvey Weinstein the movie mogul convicted of rape and sexual assault who lost his Commander of the British Empire title this week.
HECK MAYBE ITS A TITLE NOBODY WOULD WANT ANYWAY CONSIDERING THE PRESENT STATE OF WHAT WAS ONCE CALLED THE "BRITISH EMPIRE"
NEWSDUMP ALERT: FREEDOM PROTEST LONDON WITH ANOTHER POLICE CRACKDOWN
Here's some of the words spoken at the protest today including some blunt language "you can stick your new world order up your........" along with "we are the 99 percent". I sure hope so but I have my doubts with all the distracting issues being put out there.
The Metropolitan Police of Commissioner Cressida Dick and her police force doing the "Maduro thing" using coronavirus rules as their pretext to do what they do in Venezuela and Belarus today. And you think the police are always right and you have to "obey the officer"? These COVID-19 restrictions are wrong and should not be obeyed but I do not want violence against anyone......
Then the reception Republican Governor Mike DeWine got when President Trump introduced him at a campaign rally in Ohio two days earlier. Cheer and claps quickly countered by boos and the President taking a diplomatic approach not going after the detractors instead referring to the Dictator DeWine as a "good man"..........
"BAD RAP" (WHO YOU TRYIN' TO KID, KID)-STEVE TAYLOR
PORTLAND ALERT: THE TRAP IS SET FOR THE LEFT-WINGERS WITH PROUD BOYS BAIT AND FEDERALIZED POLICE
Now Governor Kate Brown has proclaimed a state of emergency and decried the Proud Boys rallying in Portland today.
But the police configuration includes Oregon State Police deputized by the federal government along with Portland Police now deputized by the federal government.
Federal charges imposed already on the left-wing protesters from previous protests on the basis of federal deputization of local police.
The national control of the local police now that is Venezuela again my friend.
When the leftists attack the Proud Boys the federalized police are in the way and the leftists get federal charges dropped on them.
THE RALLY IN PORTLAND SET FOR FIVE PM EASTERN US TIME TODAY.....WATCH OUT FOR DEVELOPMENTS.....
What's going on out there with the COVID -19 DICTATORSHIP along with the police violence and the anti-police protest backlash in the streets?
"FEAR HATE RINSE REPEAT"
The view of Gavin Seim who does not endorse President Trump like I do but I have no problem with his message. It's worth listening to and considering......
Well that's his opinion but when it comes to the President I decided to vote a certain way but Trump only, not the Republicans who really don't support him or don't support Constitutional freedom only give lip service to it in the Dictatorship of COVID-19 reality the Uniparty politicians have imposed on us. Exceptions only for Rand Paul and Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
A few incidents with at least one arrest reported this afternoon.
But now as we move on Portland's police have their federal deputization which means anything done to the members of the "Rapid Response Unit" that deals with rioting can result in federal charges.
The feds can get around the DA in Portland and his reluctance to file charges during riots.
This four hour video of the events in Portland earlier........
Another great ABBA hit and of course ABBA reminds us of the island of sanity in the midst of this FaUcian world we are living in.........
WE ARE ALL PRISONERS AT GITMO NOW
The terrorists from Afghanistan were taken to Guantanamo Bay Cuba and put into a special prison almost 20 years ago and what were they wearing when they arrived there?
YOU CAN SEE THE MUZZLES-MASKS ON THE REAL GUANTANAMO BAY PRISONERS IN THIS "HISTORY OF GUANTANAMO BAY" STORY DONE BY CBC NEWS
".......The Covid Muzzle demands an extraordinary act of personal self-cancellation. At the recent anti-lockdown demonstration in Melborune, police were observed forcibly placing these muzzles on the faces of arrested protesters already in handcuffs and powerless to resist. The officers involved, many of them in heavy body armor, unwittngly illustrated their real purpose--to turn us into mouthless, voiceless servants of power.
It is fascinating to look back at the first pictures of prisoners arriving in Guantanamo, chained and humiliated in orange jumpsuits. They too were wearing the little blue muzzles over their mouths, which 20 years later, are now worn by normal citizens everywhere. Surely nobody can argue that this extra piece of subjugation and belittling was a health precaution...."
Peter Hitchens-"Democracy Muzzled"-October 2020 Issue "The Critic"-LINK
"HOW CAN I UNLOVE YOU"-LYNN ANDERSON
"I LOVE"-TOM T. HALL
"KO-KO JOE"-JERRY REED
Jerry Reed with a country hit from 49 years ago today a song moving up into the Top 30 on the country charts........
Time to wrap things up the Supreme Court nomination has been made Amy Coney Barrett a big distracting issue going into the election both sides whooping it up to distract you from your coronavirus chains as I see it.....
But the bigger issue is that this political rage is a giant noise interference in our lives to keep us from facing the deeper truths in our lives......
A guy came into my home over 30 years ago and told me that I was:
"acting like an alcoholic"
I finally figured out 20 or so years later that I was a drunk and it took me that long to get there as I lived the raging life of a Conservative, Christian political activist.
The next speaker here was in AA meetings in the 1970's sobering up when it came to booze and drugs but seeing the need to apply the 12 Steps to something else he was hooked on. He was into God and was even an associate pastor at one time early in his life. But he was hooked onto something even more powerful than drugs and alcohol.
Roy K has called himself a "Christian, Jew and Muslim" in the context of his Armenian heritage and what he is about to say after the introductions may shock you but he's telling his story to you and the role of God in his recovery from his intoxication.......
More about Roy K via Wikipedia.......He wrote a book about a plague a pandemic its title.....
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY INTO EARLY SATURDAY AM)
Arrests made during an outdoor worship service in Moscow.....Idaho Wednesday evening. Coronavirus regulations cited regarding wearing of masks-muzzles and social distancing......
New York City authorities threatening a coronavirus crackdown in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. They say the number of COVID-19 cases is rising in those area......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Coronavirus restrictions tightened and expanded in the north-west of England........BBC NEWS
TWO PEOPLE STABBED IN PARIS TODAY NEAR THE FORMER OFFICES OF THE 'CHARLIE HEBDO' MAGAZINE. THOSE OFFICES THE SITE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK IN 2015 WHEN A CARTOON OF THE PROPHET MOHAMMED WAS PUBLISHED.
A MACHETE USED IN TODAY'S ATTACK. POLICE ARRESTING TWO SUSPECTS WITH ONE DESCRIBED AS 18 YEARS OLD AND PAKISTANI. FRANCE'S ANTI-TERRORISM PROSECUTOR INVOLVED IN THE CASE..... (BFM-TV GOOGLE TRANSLATION)...
The Proud Boys intend to go forward with their rally in Portland tomorrow. City officials said their proposed rally violated coronavirus restrictions. While the Proud Boys will be at Delta Park, left-wing counter protesters are rallying at Peninsula Park. Police gearing up to respond with the goal of keeping the two sides apart.......OREGON LIVE.....
Late today Oregon Governor Kate Brown proclaiming a state of emergency with Oregon State Police and Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies being mobilized. Unlike Portland's police, these agencies will be able to use tear gas if needed.........OREGON LIVE.....Also Portland police officers at the protests tomorrow will be deputized by the federal government enabling federal charges to brought against anyone who attacks them.........OREGON LIVE
THE US ATTORNEY IN THE MIDDLE OF PENNSYLVANIA IS PROBING DISCARDED BALLOTS IN LUZERNE COUNTY SEVEN OF WHICH CONTAINED VOTES FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. US ATTORNEY DAVID FREED SAID: "THE PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF THIS INQUIRY ARE TROUBLING".........WILKES-BARRE TIMES LEADER
Media reports tonight say that President Trump will nominate federal appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The President's announcement at 5 pm Eastern US time tomorrow.........
THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THAT THE US AND RUSSIA SHOULD EXCHANGE GUARANTEES OF NON-INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS......TASS
RUSSIA'S CHIEF OF MILITARY STAFF SAYS THAT NATO MILITARY ACTIVITES HAVE BEEN STEPPED UP CLOSE TO RUSSIA'S BORDERS IN THE BALTIC. BARENTS AND BLACK SEAS........TASS.....A RUSSIAN SU-27 FIGHTER SCRAMBLED TODAY TO INTERCEPT TWO US B-52H BOMBERS FLYING OVER THE BALTIC SEA CLOSE TO RUSSIA........TASS
AT LEAST 22 KILLED IN THE CRASH OF A UKRAINIAN AIR FORCE PLANE. THE TRANSPORT PLANE CARRYING AIR FORCE CADETS.......THE NEW DAILY AUSTRALIA
A high ranking Vatican official resigning. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu was involved in a controversial deal to purchase a luxury property in London with church funds......BBC NEWS
NORTH KOREA'S RULER KIM JONG-UN ..... NEW ZEALAND HERALD.... APOLGIZING TO SOUTH KOREA OVER THE SHOOTING AND BURNING OF A SOUTH KOREAN OFFICIAL. APOLOGIES FROM THE NORTH ARE A RARITY.......
The last leader of the Communist Soviet Union writing in a Japanese newspaper saying that the coronavirus situation has worsened the conflict between China and the United States. Mikhail Gorbachev saying that Russia should work diplomatically to prevent conflict between the US and China.......TASS
The family of Breonna Taylor wants the grand jury transcripts in her case released. They expressed their disappointment in the probe launched by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron that led to no charges filed against Louisville police officers for her killing........CBS NEWS......The protests over that grand jury decision continued for a third night tonight in Louisville and other cities. Arrests tonight in Louisville......LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL
THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING THE POLICE KILLING OF A TEENAGE BOY IN HIS FAMILY'S DRIVEWAY. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED IN 2018 IN THE SUBURBS OF KANSAS CITY WITH A NOW FORMER POLICE OFFICER FIRING 13 SHOTS. THE LOCAL PROSECUTOR DECLINED TO FILE ANY CHARGES IN THE MATTER......BBC NEWS
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY WITH 53,629 NEW CASES REPORTED ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS. THE LEADING STATE TEXAS WITH 4,646. OTHER STATES INCLUDE ILLINOIS WITH 2,805, WISCONSIN 2,504, ALABAMA 2,452, TENNESSEE 1,910, NORTH CAROLINA 1,693 AND UTAH 1,411.
AROUND THE WORLD 317,937 NEW CASES LED BY INDIA WITH 85,468. AMONG THE OTHER NATIONS FRANCE WITH 15,797, ARGENTINA 12,969, THE UK 6,874 AND GERMANY WITH 2,361.
New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo talking about his state's coronavirus vaccine plans today. Cuomo setting up two task forces with one studying whether the vaccine works and the other dealing with its distribution to New York's 19.5 million residents.
Cuomo saying New York should have a "model vaccination program" for the entire country.......NEWSDAY NEW YORK
A look at what's really going in Republican Governor Mike DeWine's Ohio nowadays. A woman tased by police and arrested for not wearing a mask-muzzle at a middle school football game......NEW YORK POST (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
Israel's "coronavirus cabinet" voting for tighter lockdown restrictions starting Friday that will be more severe than the controls imposed earlier this year. All non-essential services and all non-essential factories ordered shut down. Outdoor protests and prayers will be restricted to within one kilometer (.6 miles) from homes. The new regime will be in force until October 10th.........ASSOCIATED PRESS-YNET NEWS
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT MOVING TO IMPOSE SPECIAL RESRTICTIONS ON MAJOR CITIES IN THE COUNTRY INCLUDING PARIS, LYON, MARSEILLE AND MONTPELLIER IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING COVID-19. LOCAL OFFICIALS IN MARSEILLE ASKING FOR A DELAY IN THEIR IMPLEMENTATION BUT HEALTH MINISTER OLIVIER VERAN SAYS 'THE PRINCIPLE OF RESPONSIBILITY MUST PREVAIL'....(BFM-TV GOOGLE TRANSLATION)
Facebook's censorship apparatus gearing up ahead of the November election in the US. Part of the framework is a "Supreme Court" that will hear appeals when items are taken off the platform. The "Oversight Board" set to start its work in the middle of next month.....BBC NEWS
Portland the scene of an intense confrontation last night as protesters moved on a downtown police building. The protest following the Kentucky state decision yesterday not to prosecute any police officers for the March 13th killing of Breonna Taylor.
A battle in the downtown streets with Portland Police and federal law enforcement teaming up to drive back the demonstrators. At one point a Molotov cocktail (firebomb) thrown at law enforcement. The law enforcement side dishing out tear gas and flash bang rounds.....TWITTER VIDEOS
The City of Portland is denying a permit to the Proud Boys group to hold a rally this Saturday. The city saying the crowd estimate of 10-thousand is too large due to the coronavirus......OREGON LIVE
The Russian military mission in Syria says that opposition jihadists are readying a false flag chemical attack in the northwestern Idlib region. The Russians say the jihadists are using chemical agents and planning a video showing civilian casualties that will be pin the blame on Syria's government......TASS
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arrested by police for participating in a protest in 2019 and wearing a mask during the protest.......NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW
Political conflict in Poland between activists who want a more conservative position on social issues and the more "mainstream" Law and Justice Party that is considered to be "conservative' by the mainstream media......REUTERS
THE CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN THE USA TODAY SHOWING 45,355 NEW CASES LED BY TEXAS WITH 4,435. AMONG THE OTHER STATES WISCONSIN WITH 2,392, UTAH WITH 1,198 AND NEW YORK WITH 1,043. SOME STATES WITH SMALL POPULATIONS UNDER ONE MILLION PEOPLE NORTH DAKOTA 470, SOUTH DAKOTA 463 AND MONTANA 330.
AROUND THE WORLD 314,855 NEW CASES REPORTED LED BY INDIA WITH 85,919. AMONG THE OTHER NATIONS FRANCE WITH 16,096, ARGENTINA WITH 13,467, ISRAEL WITH 7,425 AND THE UK WITH 6,634.
And that's the way it really is Thursday September 24th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
A grand jury report on the March 13th police killing of Breonna Taylor presented to a judge today in Kentucky's capital of Frankfort. One police officer indicted. Brett Hankison was fired as a Louisville police officer and today was charged for endangering people in a next door apartment when he opened fire.
But none of the three officers investigated was charged in the killing of Taylor. Speaking to the media Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron stressing the search for both "facts" and "truth" in the investigation.
Protesters on the streets in Louisville with a curfew proclaimed at 9 pm tonight. At 830 pm tonight two Louisville police officers shot. Their injuries not life threatening......
Protests in other cities across the country over the decision not to charge the officers in Taylor's killing.
The events in Portland last month that led to the murder of Patriot Prayer activist Aaron "Jay" Danielson by a self-proclaimed Antifa activist are being investigated by the "Washington Post".
The "Post" is focusing its attention on the pro-Trump caravan that entered the city and confronted left-leaning protesters in the hours before the killing........RYAN HAAS OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING TWITTER FEED
The Mexican government investigating the claim of a whistleblower that six Mexican women were sterilized at a detention facility for illegal immigrants in Georgia......BBC NEWS
ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO QUIETLY SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT IN BELARUS TODAY AFTER LAST MONTH'S DISPUTED ELECTION WHICH HAS LED TO STREET PROTESTS. SOME NEARBY COUNTRIES REFUSING TO RECOGNIZE LUKASHENKO AS PRESIDENT.....TASS....PROTESTS IN THE STREETS OF THE BELARUS FOLLOWING LUKASHANKO'S INAUGURAL CEREMONY WITH HUNDREDS ARRESTED......TASS
THE US IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN NATIONALS AND ENTITIES LINKED TO INTERNET ELECTION INTERFERENCE IN 2016 AND THE MERCENARY WAGNER GROUP WHICH HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE LIBYAN CONFLICT.......TASS
The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny discharged from a Berlin hospital. Navalny was brought to Germany from Russia when he became ill from what is being called poisoning with the nerve agent novichok......BBC NEWS
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY VIA WORLDOMETERS SHOWING NEW 41,616 CASES IN THE USA. NUMBERS FROM OTHER NATIONS INCLUDE 89,688 FROM INDIA, SPAIN 11,289, ARGENTINA 12,625, FRANCE 13,072, ISRAEL 11,316 AND THE UK 6,178.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine getting booed by the audience when he was introduced by President Trump at a campaign rally in Dayton. DeWine has imposed extensive restrictions in Ohio in the name of fighting the coronavirus.....OAN VIDEO ON YOU TUBE......The President calling DeWine "a good man" and a person who's "been with me since the beginning".
(SPECIAL COMMENT)
The President only hurts himself carrying the deadweight of the COVID-19 tyrants among the Republicans in his campaign appearances. If he loses Ohio on election night we know who is to blame.
Wisconsin Democrat Governor Tony Evers extending the state's muzzle-mask order until November 21st.......ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS ON THE WAY IN THE UK THAT COULD LAST UP TO SIX MONTHS INCLUDING THE LIMITING OF THE SIZE OF WEDDINGS TO NO MORE THAN 15 PEOPLE. PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON WARNING THAT RESTRICTIONS COULD TIGHTEN UP EVEN MORE.......BBC NEWS
In Israel the lockdown already in force is to be tightened with the closing of houses of worship among the items next on the coronavrus cabinet's agenda.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
"We need help from the army for disinfection...and to strenghten local police and law enforcement"
Those words from the Mayor of Madrid after a meeting with Spain's Prime Minister. Isabel Diaz Ayuso has ordered a lockdown in parts of Spain's capital city......REUTERS
APPEARING IN FEDERAL COURT IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK TODAY PASCALE FERRIER CHARGED WITH SENDING A RICIN LACED LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. A FEDERAL MAGISTRATE JUDGE ENTERING A NOT GUILTY PLEA FOR FERRIER.......CBC NEWS........BBC NEWS
The US Army's armored battalion sized presence in a country neighboring Russia will continue into next year. The defense minister of Lithuania said today that the current deployment of US troops will continue until a replacement unit arrives later this year. That unit will stay in Lithuania until next year. The Lithuanian official says the deployment is not related to the current tensions in another neighboring country, Belarus, following last month's presidential election.......US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
Meanwhile in Belarus today joint military drills involving forces from Russia and Belarus including a parachute landing operation.......TASS
Turkey and Greece say they are ready to talk about their energy exploration dispute in the eastern Mediterranean. This follows talks involving the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Union Council President Charles Michel....AL JAZEERA QATAR NEWS STORY
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who disclosed spying on US citizens in the aftermath of 9/11, has agreed to pay the US government millions of dollars in profits from a book and speeches.......SPUTNIK NEWS
THE CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR THE USA FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 35,696 NEW CASES TODAY WITH 969 MORE DEATHS BEING ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.
AROUND THE WORLD 276,367 NEW CASES RECORDED TODAY INCLUDING 80,391 IN INDIA. OTHER NATIONS INCLUDE SPAIN WITH 10,799, ARGENTINA WITH 12,027, FRANCE WITH 10,008 AND THE UK WITH 4,926.
Top coronavirus officials in the UK told a media briefing today that the COVID-19 situation is worsening in the country with the suggestion that the country will have 49,000 new cases a day by October 13th. Following the briefing of Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser, and Professor Chris Witty, Chief Medical Officer, journalist Peter Hitchens said that perhaps one reason for the dramatic statements today was to justify continuation of the state of emergency in the country and to scare members of Parliament into approving it. He said in part:
"....On September 30th a mere nine days away Parliament has to vote on renewal of the extremely potent measures of the coronavirus bill and it seems to me that this whole ramping up of figures is to the appearance of a new second wave......" (comments start at 16;16 into video)......TALK RADIO VIDEO BRIEFING HITCHENS INTERVIEW
THE BBC IS SAYING THAT THERE IS NO INTENTION BY THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON TO SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY BUT THE PUBLIC IS BEING LED TO BELIEVE THAT NEW RESTRICTIONS INCLUDING CUTTING THE HOURS OF RESTAURANTS AND PUBS ARE TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW BY JOHNSON.
Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz today ordering preparations for military field hospitals and preparations for military support for Israel's police enforcing the current lockdown in the country......YNET NEWS
A raid on a condo in suburban Montreal as part of the probe into a poison laced letter sent to President Trump at the White House. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police helping with FBI with investigation.
Suspect Pascale Ferrier arrested crossing a border bridge from Canada into the United States suspected of sending on ricin-laced letter to the White House and five to officials in Texas.......CBC NEWS
There are many stories emerging from the leak of US Treasury Department financial control documents to Buzzfeed News. One story is about how US branches of Deutsche Bank are suspected of involvement in money transfers to Islamic State (ISIS) which is also called Daesh in the Middle East.....PRESS TV IRAN
THE US IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON IRANIAN OFFICIALS AND ENTITIES TODAY OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM......REUTERS
A rocket attack on the Baghdad International Airport late Sunday night. US military forces are based there and its believed that Iranian-backed Shia militia units are behind the attack.......SOUTHFRONT STORY (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
A court in Israel has ruled that accused child sex abuser Malka Leifer can be extradited to Australia. Leifer is the former principal of a Jewish school who is facing 74 charges of child sex abuse in Australia. Her case has stretched out over many years and previously an Israeli court had ruled her unfit to stand trial causing an uproar in Australia.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS........ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR DESIGNATING SOME AMERICAN CITIES 'ANARCHIST CITIES' MAKING THEM INELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL FUNDING. ITS ALL ABOUT THE RECENT DISORDERS IN THE STREETS OF THOSE CITIES. THE ISSUE HEADED FOR COURT......BBC NEWS
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY SHOWING 36,372 NEW CASES WITH 388 MORE DEATHS BEING PINNED ON COVID-19. WORLDWIDE 230.853 NEW CASES INCLUDING 74,493 FROM INDIA, 5,298 FROM FRANCE, 4,398 FROM THE UK AND 1,766 FROM CANADA.
More than 26-hundred fines handed out over a 24 hour period by Israeli police for violations of the country's coronavirus lockdown orders including 629 to people who did not mask-muzzle themselves with the rest being handed out to people who left their homes........YNETNEWS
Israeli police also fining restaurant owners who opened their establishment in violation of the lockdown....YNETNEWS.
Israel's coronavirus cabinet meeting Monday morning with voting on plans to strictly limit any business activity and issuance of work permits in the country. Factories not producing "essential goods" to be shut down.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Hundreds of Israelis took their protest of the lockdown to the beach in Tel Aviv this weekend......VIDEO
Fines of up to $12,916.50 could be imposed on people who refuse an order to self-isolate in the UK because of the coronavirus. The British government will require those who test positive or were in close contact with someone who tested positive to go into self-isolation starting September 28th.....BBC NEWS
There's concern in the UK that Prime Minister Boris Johnson may impose a nationwide lockdown when he speaks to the nation on Tuesday. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage among many voices warning against a second national lockdown.......NIGEL FARAGE TWITTER VIDEO
And protest in Spain where some Madrid neighborhoods go into coronavirus lockdown tomorrow........BBC NEWS.......GLOBAL NEWS CANADA VIDEO
THE RUSSIAN MILITARY MISSION IN SYRIA SAYS THAT JIHADIST OPPOSITION FORCES OF THE HTS ( FORMERLY AL QAEDA) ARE PLANNING FALSE FLAG CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACKS IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 'WHITE HELMETS' ORGANIZATION..........TASS
MASSIVE AIRSTRIKES REPORTED IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA'S IDLIB TODAY LAUNCHED BY BOTH SYRIAN AND RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT. JUST DAYS AGO THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY HAD SAID THAT THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT WAS NOT DOING ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN A CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION JIHADIST FORCES INCLUDING AL-QAEDA ELEMENTS......AL MASDAR NEWS LEBANON
TURKEY AND RUSSIA ARE SUPPOSED TO BE JOINT GUARANTORS OF A CEASE-FIRE AND THERE ARE LARGE NUMBERS OF TURKISH SOLDIERS BASED IN THE REGION. THE PRO-TURKISH GOVERNMENT 'DAILY SABAH' HAS PUBLISHED A STORY SAYING RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT DELIBERATELY TARGETED CIVILIANS IN IDLIB CITY......DAILY SABAH TURKEY
A FEDERAL MAGISTRATE JUDGE BLOCKING THE PLANNED SHUT DOWN OF THE WECHAT APP IN THE US TONIGHT. THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT MOVING TO BAN WECHAT ON NATIONAL SECURITY GROUNDS BUT US MAGISTRATE JUDGE LAUREL BEELER SAYING THE BAN RAISED FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH QUESTIONS.....BBC NEWS
There's word tonight that a suspect is in custody in the case of the poisoned letter addressed to President Trump. That letter with ricin discovered at a facility that processes mail for the White House. The suspect is described as a woman who was taken into custody trying to enter the US from Canada walking over the Peace Bridge from Fort Erie, Ontario into Buffalo, New York......NBC NEWS
A DRIVER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY TONIGHT BY ISRAELI POLICE WHEN HIS CAR APPROACHED A LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATION AGAINST PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IN JERUSALEM.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
An incident in Philadelphia yesterday when hundreds of left-leaning protesters gathered at Clark Park in West Philly. That's because of a posting on social media for a Proud Boys protest there. When the time came for the Proud Boys rally to materialize, it didn't. Instead the Proud Boys group said they were conducting video surveillance of the left-wing protesters. The Proud Boys saying they wanted to expose "Antifa violence". Videos like this one posted in the aftermath of the park protest.....WINDOW SMASHING VEHICLE 9/19/2020
There were tense moments including the presence of a man with a bat. His bat taken away with the crowd yelling he had a "gun" as that man ran away from the leftist protesters........PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
A decision expected as early as tomorrow by Kentucky's Attorney General over what charges if any police officers will face in connection with the March 13th killing of Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid on her apartment.
Daniel Cameron is an African-American Republican and political protege of GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, facing re-election in Kentucky in just weeks.
Precautions being taken at federal buildings in Louisville ahead of the decision. Plywood boards placed on windows at the federal courthouse this weekend with the courthouse to be closed during the coming week......WDRB LOUISVILLE
"I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman"
President Trump speaking at a campaign rally in North Carolina Saturday night following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg......
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said today that the new sanctions announced by the US will lead to a "crushing response". He added:
"America is approaching a certain defeat in its sanctions move...It face defeat and negative response from the international community.."...YNET NEWS ISRAEL
China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany all expressing opposition to the US decision restoring UN sanctions on Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring the sanctions in force this weekend but in a letter to the UN Security Council Britain, France and Germany saying his announcement:
"is incapable of having legal effect and so cannot bring into effect the procedure"
On Twitter Russia's Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskly saying:
"It's very painful to see how a great country humiliates itself like this, opposes in its obstinate delirium other members of the UN Security Council"
In his declaration Pompeo said in part:
"If UN member states fail to fulfill their obligations to implement these sanctions, the United States is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures".....OUTLOOK INDIA
PROTESTERS AGAIN ON THE STREETS OF BELARUS BY THE THOUSANDS TODAY OPPOSING THE ELECTION RESULTS FROM LAST MONTH. POLICE STARTED MAKING ARRESTS LATE IN THE DAY.......DEUTSCHE WELLE
A British businessman who formerly worked for the MI 6 secret intelligence service is being probed for selling information to Chinese undercover agents. Fraser Cameron, the man accused, says the allegations are "ridiculous". Cameron said to have been passing information about the European Union to the Chinese.......BBC NEWS
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FROM WORLDOMETERS FOR TODAY INCLUDE 33,344 NEW CASES REPORTED IN THE US WITH 294 MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.
WORLDWIDE 243,019 NEW CASES REPORTED WITH INDIA REPORTING 87,382 NEW CASES, BRAZIL 16,282, FRANCE 10,569 AND ISRAEL 4,300.
That's the way it really is Sunday September 20th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
The Yellow Vests rose again in France last week but as they rose up the coronavirus numbers also were rising with media generated fear and government warnings against people gathering together.
The government said that 6,000 people gathered for Yellow Vests protests last week but "Yellow Number" Facebook estimate was 19,604.
Today the Yellow Vests again came out like the gathering in Paris and in northern France at Valenciennes near the Belgian border.....
And this multi-stream video includes the scene in the south of France at Puget-Ville near Toulon where a traditional toll booth protest was underway along a highway.....
With 13,498 new coronavirus cases reported by the government in France today the ability of the government to deter protests over COVID-19 is running high.
And for now that is the story of the Yellow Vests in France.
