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>>10999047 Gov. Cuomo: ‘I Don’t Care’ About Your Religion — ‘You Have to Follow the Rules of the State’

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>>10999140 Former Commander of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Sentenced to Prison

>>10999216 Daily Caller reporters say authorities forcibly detained, kicked, repeatedly hit them with clubs during Wisconsin riots

>>10999246 Transcript of “Covid Crimes Against Humanity” Video

>>10999290 Big Brother is watching your social-distancing! Over 1,000 AI scanners are monitoring how close pedestrians are walking to each in major UK cities

>>10999334 New UK Study Reveals Cambridge Analytica Did Not Act Improperly During 2016 Campaign

>>10999336 #Durham Two sources, 1 admin + 1 senior republican, both familiar with probe said they do not BELIEVE findings or indictments will come before election Catherine Herridge

>>10999356 Skeptical of USPS cuts, Philadelphia voters hand-deliver ballots instead

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>>10999649 Louisiana priest, 37, is arrested for recording himself having a threesome with two dominatrices on church altar

>>10999694 Protests will not be permitted in COVID-19 'red zones' under NYPD order https://trib.al/beAELyc

>>10999736 The White House pounced on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 25th Amendment talk Friday, hitting her for her own mental fitness for office

Baker will now ignore these or will put in anAnon bun so the scrapper sites can't pick up all the details.

Infiltration/subversion

Facebook removes 276 fake accounts tied to right-wing group Turning Point Action after they were used to pose as conservative Americans commenting on articles in favor of Trump

Facebook has removed 276 accounts that used fake profiles to pose as right-leaning Americans and comment on news articles, often in favor of President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.

The platform said in a statement that it had linked the bogus accounts to Rally Forge, a US marketing firm working on behalf of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Turning Point USA said that Facebook's announcement was actually in reference to Turning Point Action, which it called 'an entirely separate entity.'

Turning Point USA and political action committee Turning Point Action were both founded by conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

In a statement, Turning Point USA said that Turning Point Action always works hard to operate within social media terms of service on all of its projects, and hopes to work closely with Facebook to 'rectify any misunderstanding.'

Facebook said it had permanently banned Rally Forge, the Arizona-based digital communications firm that it said was behind the fake accounts.

The move was prompted by reporting last month in the Washington Post that Turning Point Action was paying teenagers to post coordinated messages, a violation of Facebook's rules.

At the time, Kirk issued a statement from TPA's field director defending the social media campaign and saying any comparison to a troll farm was a 'gross mischaracterization.'

'This is sincere political activism conducted by real people who passionately hold the beliefs they describe online, not an anonymous troll farm in Russia,' the field director, Austin Smith, said in the statement.

Facebook removed 200 accounts and 55 pages at the social network and 76 Instagram accounts it said were part of the deception campaign and violated policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/10/facebook-removes-276-fake-accounts-tied.html

Why Is The ATF Making Secret Rules For The Firearms Industry?

Federal rulemaking should be open and transparent . This outcome is supposedly ensured by the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA).

Across federal agencies, the rules should be the same for everyone. They should be open for public comment while still in draft form and publicly available once finalized. Moreover, every industry and every individual should get the same answer to the same question. Anything less is not rulemaking: it is arbitrary government.

As conservatives have anxiously pointed out for years, the rise of the administrative state has corrupted the rulemaking process. Enabled by an overly-deferential judiciary and a supine Congress have allowed agencies to move beyond drawing up rules to implement carefully written laws passed by Congress. Now, regulators take block grants of Congressional power to make their own laws as they see fit. This is incompatible with the continued existence of the United States as a constitutional republic.

So conservatives rightly cheered when President Trump, in one of his first acts in office, issued a “2 for 1” executive order, requiring the federal government to cut two rules for every new rule it issued. They cheered again when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions reined in administrative rulemakers in the Department of Justice. His Nov. 16, 2017, memo prohibited them from using public guidance documents as a substitute for rule-making under the APA and required to work within the authority delegated by Congress.

All of this was entirely for the good. But in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the ATF, it has gone entirely wrong.

The Sessions memo was backed up in January 2018 by a new Department of Justice policy that “prohibits the use of agency guidance documents in affirmative civil litigation in a manner that would convert such guidance into binding rules of conduct.” The ATF understood these directives to mean that it had to stop issuing public, industry-wide guidance or opinions—the very documents that could ensure uniform compliance in industry with existing regulations. When this author reached out to ATF for comment, the ATF stated that it was of course abiding by the former Attorney General’s memo, and that “we do not interpret the law.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedbromund/2019/03/24/why-is-the-atf-making-secret-rules-for-the-firearms-industry/#13f5043c526d

US, France, Russia Meet to Discuss Nagorno-Karabakh as Fighting Continues

Clashes that started on September 27th continue, over 400 reported killed

Fighting continued between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as representatives from the US, Russia, and France met to discuss the conflict. Over 400 people have been reported killed in the 12 days of fighting, including dozens of civilians on both sides

Azerbaijan’s foreign minister was due to attend the talks in Geneva on Thursday. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is expected to hold separate talks in Moscow on Monday with officials from the US, Russia, and France. So far, no direct talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been scheduled.

Baku said the city of Ganja had come under fire on Thursday, which is deep inside Azerbaijan’s territory. A cathedral in the town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh was hit on Thursday, and several journalists were injured. Armenia said Azeri forces hit the cathedral, but Azerbaijan denied involvement.

Washington, Paris, and Moscow co-chair the Minsk Group, which was set up in 1992 by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote negotiations and peace talks over Nagorno-Karabakh. The three countries have called for a ceasefire since the fighting broke out on September 27th.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke to his Azeri counterpart on the phone Thursday and called for “the swift stabilization of the situation … a halt to military action and the relaunch of the negotiation process.”

Russia and Armenia are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a defense alliance made up of six post-Soviet states. The head of the CSTO, Stanislav Zas, said the alliance would come to the aid of Armenia if its sovereignty was threatened.

But Zas does not believe the fighting will spread that far. “I don’t think Azerbaijan or Armenia need the conflict to flare up to regional level, nor is that in the interests of any other country,” he said. Zas also expressed concern over reports of Turkey sending fighters from northern Syria to Nagorno-Karabakh to support Azerbaijan.

Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan. The collapse of the Soviet Union turned the border dispute deadly, and tens of thousands were killed until a ceasefire was reached in 1994. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh has operated as a de facto independent state with Armenian support.

The latest clashes are the heaviest fighting Nagorno-Karabakh has seen since the ceasefire was declared in 1994.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/08/us-france-russia-meet-to-discuss-nagorno-karabakh-as-fighting-continues/