Report: Cancer Patients Decry Deadly Delays and Cancellations Due to Focus on Covid

Cancer patients in Britain report their lives are being cut short by delayed diagnoses and treatment pauses due to the “obsession” with COVID-19.

Sharing their stories with the Daily Mail, several patients facing dramatically shortened lifespans — many the parents of young children — said that ‘The NHS should be for everybody, not just Covid patients.”

“My prognosis is not good. I’ve likely got four months to a year left to live,” reported 42-year-old Beth Purvis, who said she had an operation to remove a tumour from her lung cancelled on just a week’s notice in March.

The mother-of-two said the she “burst into tears” when she received the “devastating” news that her operation had been cancelled.

devastated, I just burst into tears. It is a critical operation because it could help buy me time.

“I will never know if that operation could have saved my life. It might have done. But it was cancelled, and then I found out at the end of May it had spread to my brain,” she told the newspaper.

Similarly, 40-year-old Jennifer Eldridge, also a mother-of-two, found herself completely unable to secure a face-to-face appointment with a doctor when she began experiencing symptoms, and it took a full month to organise an online consultation — which ended with a prescription for painkillers.

Four months later, a belated blood test and colonoscopy revealed she had terminal colorectal cancer.

“If I could have seen my GP earlier, if those supposedly ‘non-urgent’ tests had been carried out… the cancer might not have had the chance to spread. To suddenly have your future as a family ripped from your hands is the worst part. I won’t be there with Jonathan to guide Lina and Jasmine through their childhoods,” said Jennifer, who says she “could have just two years to live” — although she is attempting to beat the odds with a GoFundMe to raise money for treatment not provided by Britain’s socialised National Health Service.

Cost of Lockdown: Heart Charity Claims Hundreds of Excess Deaths Due to Lockdown https://t.co/Uf5D6kiLod

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 15, 2020

For 31-year-old mother-of-one Kelly Smith, however, the book has already closed, with step-father Craig Russell reporting that she died in late June after doctors paused her chemotherapy for three months in March.

“I’m angry at Covid and that I got put on this break because I don’t think I should have,” Kelly had said before she passed away.

“I’m terrified – absolutely terrified. I don’t want to die. I feel like I’ve got so much more to do.”

“Cancer is a far bigger threat than Covid ever could be. Every day 500 people die from cancer and those numbers are starting to increase because there is no treatment. Sadly, it is too late for Kelly, but there is still time to save others,” said her step-father, who has set up a petition “urg[ing] Matt Hancock to boost cancer services, at all stages of the cancer pathway, to stop tens of thousands of cancer patients dying unnecessarily.”

Over 316,000 people have signed as of the time of publication.

Covid Cops and Lockdown Enforcement to Get £60m in Taxpayers’ Cash https://t.co/xuwZfnJX8G

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 9, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/18/report-cancer-patients-decry-deadly-delays-and-cancellations-due-focus-covid/

Just Obama’s former speech writer, Nathan Osburn, hiding behind a mask pretending to be an undecided voter at the town hall…and Joe Biden pretending not to know who he is…

Oh nothing…

Just Obama’s former speech writer, Nathan Osburn, hiding behind a mask pretending to be an undecided voter…and @JoeBiden pretending not to know who he is…#DemocratsLieAndManipulate#UntrustworthyAndDishonest pic.twitter.com/CpaU5DoHR3

— Jali_Cat{⭐️} (@Jali_Cat) October 17, 2020

Biden town hall questioners all end up being Obama admin staffers, lmao.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/just-obamas-former-speech-writer-nathan-osburn-hiding-behind-a-mask-pretending-to-be-an-undecided-voter-at-the-town-hall-and-joe-biden-pretending-not-to-know-who-he-is/

As Communist China Rises, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi’s Communists Ties Re-Surface

Bloomberg News reports that the US intelligence community has concluded that China is “intentionally” hiding the true numbers of its coronavirus cases and fatalities — a fact that should surprise no one, and is yet another way Beijing has made the pandemic a bigger problem for the rest of the world.

China reacted slowly but then effectively to the spread of the virus. It brought it under control, and the flu didn’t become the Chernobyl moment for China many foreign pundits predicted.

But the bigger picture is that we should expect the spread of Communism after this crisis.

Beijing is attempting to de facto export an ideology. It is riding a Weltanschauung that is antithetical to the Western paradigm, which is based on the geopolitical, economic-commercial, and cultural centrality of the United States. This is not an explicit attempt – like exporting communism during the Cold War – but a different, subtler, and at times unconscious endeavor, and has similar if not wider outcomes.

In light of the communist expansion that is happening, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight the enemy within and the radical socialist and communist ties that the leaders of the Democratic party have.

We can start with the dynamic duo that leads the Democratic party, Chuck and Nancy.

Schumer and Pelosi may attempt to position themselves as “moderates,” but they are as radical as they come. The appearance of “moderation” is nothing more than an act to disarm conservatives and gradually pull mainstream Democrat voters further to the left.

Nancy Pelosi

In 2001, on the 100th anniversary of Harry Bridges’ birth, San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi wrote in the Congressional Record: “Harry Bridges was arguably the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century.” Bridges was “beloved by the workers of this nation, and recognized as one of the most important labor leaders in the world” and his International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union was “the most progressive union of the time.”

During the 1940s, Grigory Kheifetz was Josef Stalin’s intelligence Rezident in San Francisco. Kheifetz worked closely with Harry Bridges, a Stalinist and Soviet agent who headed the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, and followed every twist and turn of the Communist Party line.

Pelosi was very close to several key Communist Party USA allies in San Francisco in the 1970s and ’80s. Also some involvement with Democratic Socialists of America.

Earlier in her career, Pelosi had a close personal relationship with the radical socialist, pro-communist Hallinan family, from whom she received money for one of her campaigns.

According to AIM, Pelosi said of the couple: “If Vincent was the lion, Vivian was the lioness.” The House Speaker also called Vivian Hallinan a “mentor.”

Vivian Hallinan publicly supported communists in Central America during the ’80s. AIM notes:

“Indeed, Pelosi paid tribute to Vivian Hallinan by inserting into the Congressional Record an article saying that she had ‘opposed U.S. policy in Central America’ under President Reagan, had ‘befriended Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s [Communist] Sandinista leader,’ and had met with Cuban dictator Castro.”

Vincent Hallinan was a founding member of the San Francisco chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, widely known to be a Communist Party front.

https://conservativeus.com/communist-china-rises-chuck-schumer-and-nancy-pelosis-communists-ties-re-surfaces/

Facebook says it rejected 2.2m ads seeking to obstruct voting in US election

A total of 2.2m ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120,000 posts withdrawn for attempting to “obstruct voting” in the upcoming US presidential election, Facebook’s vice president Nick Clegg has said.

In addition, warnings were posted on 150m examples of false information posted online, the former British deputy prime minister told French weekly Journal du Dimanche on Sunday.

Biden article row shows how US election is testing Facebook and Twitter

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Facebook has been increasing its efforts to avoid a repeat of events leading up to the 2016 US presidential election, won by Donald Trump, when its network was used for attempts at voter manipulation, carried out from Russia.

There were similar problems ahead of Britain’s 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.

“Thirty-five thousand employees take care of the security of our platforms and contribute for elections,” said Clegg, who is vice president of global affairs and communications at Facebook.

“We have established partnerships with 70 specialised media, including five in France, on the verification of information”, he added. AFP is one of those partners.

Clegg added that the company also uses artificial intelligence that has “made it possible to delete billions of posts and fake accounts, even before they are reported by users”.

Facebook also stores all advertisements and information on their funding and provenance for seven years “to ensure transparency,” he said.

Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook

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In 2016, while he was still deputy prime minister, Clegg complained to the Journal du Dimanche that Facebook had not identified or suppressed a single foreign network interfering in the US election.

On Wednesday, Trump rebuked Facebook and Twitter for blocking links to a New York Post article purporting to expose corrupt dealings by election rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine.

A day earlier Facebook announced a ban on ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated, in light of the coronavirus pandemic which the social media giant said has “highlighted the importance of preventive health behaviours”.

http://www.madnesshub.com/2020/10/facebook-says-it-rejected-22m-ads.html

Beijing Views US Consulates As "Hostile Forces", Orders Monitoring Of Diplomats: Leaked Documents

Chinese authorities see U.S. consulates as “hostile forces” that conduct “infiltration and sabotage” activities on Chinese soil and have ordered officials to monitor key U.S. diplomats, according to a leaked document obtained by The Epoch Times.

In a four-page “work plan” dated April 2018, the Leizhou Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau described the “U.S. and other Western consulates in China” as key targets that could threaten the region’s political and social stability.

At a time when bilateral relations hit a historical low, the document from Leizhou city of China’s southeastern Guangdong Province offers a rare glimpse into how the Chinese regime deals with American diplomats.

All departments and units within the bureau must work to counter such influences, by effectively “blocking [the consulates] from establishing connections with key [Chinese] political figures, prominent lawyers, ‘public intellectuals,’ ‘rights defenders,’ and special interest groups,” the bureau told its staff.

The bureau’s goal is to “break all threats and nets” and leave no room for such attempts, the document stated.

A policeman stands guard in front of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, southwestern China’s Sichuan province, on July 26, 2020. (Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

Methods

To address the perceived threats, the bureau outlined a four-step plan, with measures such as watching for “infiltration activities” organized by foreign consulates in Guangzhou city, the capital of Guangdong, and “use all efforts”—including “reminders, warnings, and a mild degree of force”—to discourage the aforementioned individuals from attending events held by consulates.

The bureau staff were to monitor organizations and individuals that have “close ties” with the foreign consulates, and gather any relevant information, such as their background and any changes in their “asset accounts,” to cut off any “financial enticements” from U.S. consulates.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-views-us-consulates-as-hostile-forces-orders-monitoring-of-diplomats-leaked-documents_3542181.html

Trump Says Hunter Was 'Middle Man' For Businesses To Talk To Joe

During a speech to seniors in Tampa, Fla., on Friday, President Trump compares Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son Hunter Biden to shady “middlemen” who fix pharmaceutical drug prices.

Promoting his work to cut drug prices, the commander-in-chief asked anyone if they’d met a middle man before joking that Hunter Biden worked as one — a nod to The Post’s reporting this week on Biden’s foreign business dealings.

“I’ll bet you Hunter is a middle man. He’s like a vacuum cleaner,” Trump told the crowd, accusing the oft-troubled son of following around his ex-vice president father Joe Biden on overseas trips to hoover up piles of cash.

The president was referring to Hunter Biden’s emails published by The Post on Wednesday and Thursday which indicated

he allegedly leveraged his father’s influence to score lucrative deals overseas.

October 17, 2020

“His father goes to Germany — Hunter’s right there. ‘Hey give me a couple of million.’ Not a couple of million, a hell of a lot more than a couple of million. It’s a shame. I’ll tell you what, it’s an organized crime family, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump continued.

On Friday afternoon, Trump smiled approvingly as a rally crowd in Ocala, Fla., chanted, “Lock him up!”

The chant was reprised Friday night, at Trump’s rally in Macon, Ga.

“The Biden family is a criminal enterprise — Frankly it makes crooked Hillary Clinton look like an amateur,” Trump told the cheering Georgia crowd.

https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1019979-trump-says-hunter-was-middle-man-for-businesses-to-talk-to-joe?utm_source=c-pm&utm_medium=c-pm-email&utm_term=c-pm-GI&utm_content=6VI7tUwKWKo4vfBhwQRRVAYo21k0mldQVDHvbb9bNoE4.A

Protesters Demand Migrant Amnesty in Paris Day After Migrant Terror Attack

Thousands of pro-migration protesters took to the streets of Paris, demanding that the French government give amnesty to the “undocumented” migrant population just one day after a Chechen migrant is believed to have beheaded a teacher in Paris.

On Saturday, several thousand protesters were seen marching in the French capital — defying the country’s China virus lockdown measures — as a part of the ‘March of Solidarity’ for migrants “without papers” — a left-wing euphemism for illegal aliens.

The organisers of the protest, which included the Federation of Associations of Solidarity with All Immigrants (FASTI), also called on the government to close migrant detention centres and provide “housing for all”, according to Le Figaro.

“I’m 42-years-old, I can’t eat enough every day because I can’t work. Things must change, the government must listen to us,” a Senegalese illegal migrant told the Fench newspaper.

“I work from time to time in restaurants, construction, cleaning, under aliases (with someone else’s papers),” he admitted, seemingly unafraid of legal repercussions.

“But we are really tired, because even during the confinement, who worked? It’s us. And in addition, we are poorly paid,” claimed another illegal migrant.

J’étais cet après-midi aux côtés des sans-papiers, qui marchaient en nombre dans les rues de Paris pour l’égalité et la dignité ✊#MarcheDesSolidarites #MarcheDesSansPapiers pic.twitter.com/dQyv79WZDy

— Leïla Chaibi (@leilachaibi) October 17, 2020

European Parliament member Leïla Chaibi, of the democratic socialist La France Insoumise party, joined the protest, writing on social media: “This afternoon, I was alongside the undocumented migrants, who marched in numbers in the streets of Paris for equality and dignity.”

Video footage shared on social media showed thousands of closely packed demonstrators marching through the streets of Paris, and HuffPost France reporter Pierre Tremblay described the scenes as “excited”.

“Thousands of people have come to Paris to support this movement of undocumented migrants for their regularization,” Tremblay reported.

“Several of them also worked on the front line during the [coronavirus],” he claimed.

In September the French government pledged to speed up the pace of naturalisation for migrants in France who took action “on the front line” of the China virus pandemic.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/18/thousands-protest-for-migrant-amnesty-in-paris-after-islamic-terror-attack/

The Bankruptcy of ‘Bipartisan Foreign Policy’

A potential Biden Secretary of State lays out his case for a failed orthodoxy

Does America need a bipartisan foreign policy consensus? It is preferable that there be a broad national consensus about what U.S. interests are and how they should be pursued. The U.S. is poorly served if its foreign policy veers back and forth between two poles every few years. But if bipartisan foreign policy simply means a return to the stagnant, narrow range of views that have prevailed for the last thirty years, then we should want no part of it.

There have been some promising signs of bipartisan cooperation in reining in the executive and opposing illegal wars in the last few years, especially in connection with U.S. involvement in Yemen. If there is to be a foreign policy consensus in this country, it will need to be built on that foundation of commitment to the Constitution, peace, and restraint. Trying to revive a bankrupt consensus that has already failed the country will only lead to more of the same costly debacles and missed opportunities.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) recently outlined his vision of what “bipartisan foreign policy” should look like in the future, and it is very much the opposite of what the country needs. Coons describes going back to a pre-Trump approach in which both parties collude in maintaining exorbitant military spending, excessive commitments to too many other states, and perpetuating endless wars. To the extent that there is still bipartisan consensus in support of these things, that is not good for the U.S., and the continued existence of such a consensus is cause for lament rather than celebration. Coons proves that a bipartisan foreign policy is still possible, but he does not prove that it is desirable. This article matters because it is clear that Coons is writing as more than a Biden campaign surrogate. He is auditioning for a top position in a Biden administration, most likely Secretary of State, and there is reason to expect that he will get that appointment if Biden wins.

The senator says, “The key to a bipartisan foreign policy is never losing sight of the home front,” but neglecting things at home is what defenders of this consensus have done for decades. It is all very well to say that policymakers should consider how U.S. foreign policy affects Americans at home, but this doesn’t seem to be tied into any serious rethinking of what U.S. priorities should be or how large of a role the U.S. should have. Despite the numerous failures of the bipartisan foreign policy consensus in the last twenty years alone, Coons shows no interest in any of the creative thinking going on in his own party about how to change and improve U.S. foreign policy.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-bankruptcy-of-bipartisan-foreign-policy/

The Illusion Is Failing

Trust in the system is vanishing fast

Sometimes the magic fails.

The secret to the trick is accidentally revealed. The woman was always in the box. The eye is no longer deceived. And there’s no getting the audience’s sense of awe back.

Just like a bungled illusion, once trust is broken, it’s gone.

For many during 2020, the loss of their jobs and businesses — in many cases due to incompetent government management of the pandemic — has been both a blessing and a curse.

Of course nobody likes being laid off or losing a business they’d carefully built up over the years.

But for a significant number of those people, however, they’ve now been given time (against their will, admittedly) to reflect and realize how much they hated their work in the first place. For them, the illusion has been broken.

They won’t go back to pretending their former lives were acceptable or tolerable, and they’re actively looking for employment that better fits their values. Time for something new.

Others have realized how much they really disliked what air travel had devolved into. With its demeaning theater of faux displays of ‘safety’– being groped by TSA agents and having to perform a striptease to get personal items through the security scanners.

I’m one of these folks. I’ll be traveling a lot less in the future, no matter what happens with the SARS-2 virues. I’ll be content to stay local and conduct my business via Zoom calls as much as can possibly be done. I won’t miss the pat-downs, delays, crowded seats, and cancelled flights.

Similarly, social media has now been revealed to be run by petulant sociopaths whose goal is for you to see exactly what content they want you to see, because that fits their profit incentive. But they do so under the guise of “protecting” us from uninteresting or inappropriate material.

Their contradictions couldn’t be any more gaping. They’re pushing a “diversity” that requires uniformity of thought.

Living on the internet this year while researching and publishing over 100 updates about covid, I’ve seen innumerable examples of this on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — such as their promotion of the W.H.O.’s inconsistent and blatantly Big Pharma-conflicted messages while suppressing front-line doctors armed with positive real-world results.

The list goes on and on.

None of it makes any sense. At least, not once you lift your head up and shake off the consumer lifestyle blinders.

The world is literally and figuratively on fire.

We are now seeing the most profound ice loss ever in the arctic.

We’re seeing more destructive wildfires in the US than ever before.

https://www.peakprosperity.com/the-illusion-is-failing/

'Don't get yourselves caught': How the British state allowed its secret agents to commit crime

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill marks the UK government's latest attempt to permit its intelligence and security agencies to break the law lawfully

In the early months of 2011, as Muammar Gaddafi and the people around him fought for their lives, significant numbers of young British-Libyan men slipped into the country to take up arms against them.

Later, some of these men described their surprise at the way in which the UK’s domestic security service, MI5, had lent a helping hand, ensuring they could reach Libya and play their part in the revolution.

The following year a number of men recruited in Britain as what MI5 terms covert human intelligences sources, or “chises”, were sent to Syria, where they fought in the civil war and fed back information about their fellow fighters.

What these revolutionaries and agents and informers had in common was that they had committed serious offences under the UK’s counter-terrorism laws.

Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 could not be clearer: it is a terrorist offence to use or to threaten to use serious violence; to damage property; or even to seriously disrupt any electronic system, in order “to influence the government … of the United Kingdom or of a country other than the United Kingdom”.

If prosecuted and convicted, these men could have faced life imprisonment.

Syria is not the only country in the Middle East and North Africa to which MI5 and its overseas counterpart, MI6, have sent covert human intelligence sources.

And chises also operate in the UK. They were a critical weapon in the armoury of the British government during its 30-year struggle to quell the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.

In an assessment published in 2016, William Matchett, a former detective with the local Special Branch – the intelligence-gathering section of the police – estimated that around 60 percent of intelligence came from informers during the Troubles, and that they saved dozens of lives each year.

Matchett also hailed chises as “force multipliers”, men and women who induced paranoia inside the underground organisations within which they were embedded. While doubtless highly useful to the British government and its security forces at the time, that effect has left a poisonous legacy: the paranoia lives on.

The Israeli criminologist Ron Dudai, who has studied the use of informers in Northern Ireland, talks of “an open wound from the past”, one that gnaws away at confidence in the forces of law and order, and which impedes the restoration of normality.

More

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-covert-human-intelligence-sources-secret-service-torture

The FBI was given Biden’s laptop 11 months ago in 2019 only because of individuals like Rudy we now know the truth

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-fbi-was-given-bidens-laptop-11-months-ago-in-2019-only-because-of-individuals-like-rudy-we-now-know-the-truth/

5 days later & Twitter refuses to unlock NY Post account

Twitter refuses to unlock New York Post account unless Hunter Biden posts deleted.

https://theduran.com/5-days-later-twitter-refuses-to-unlock-ny-post-account/

Pelosi gives White House 48-hour deadline for coronavirus stimulus deal

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave the White House a 48-hour deadline for the coronavirus stimulus deal, her top aide tweeted Saturday night.

Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill posted that the speaker and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke on the phone for more than an hour on Saturday night. He said the agreement had to be “addressed in a comprehensive manner in the next 48 hours.”

The speaker told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the 48-hour deadline applies to whether the coronavirus stimulus deal would be completed before the election.

“The 48 only relates to if we want to get it done before the election, which we do,” she said. “I'm optimistic because, again, we’ve been back and forth on all of this.”

When asked by George Stephanopoulos whether Americans would “get relief before Election Day,” Pelosi responded, “Well, that depends on the administration.”

NEW: “We don’t have agreement in the language yet,” Speaker Pelosi says when asked if they are closer to reaching a deal on COVID-19 stimulus negotiations, adding, “we’re seeking clarity” because Trump administration officials are “not legislators.” https://t.co/P6iz1jjwYE pic.twitter.com/wYtJv3jIye

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 18, 2020

The Saturday talks between Pelosi and Mnuchin resulted in “some encouraging news on testing,” Hammill tweeted.

But he added, “there remains work to do to ensure there is a comprehensive testing plan that includes contact tracing and additional measures to address the virus’ disproportionate impact on communities of color.”

… address the virus’ disproportionate impact on communities of color. There remains an array of additional differences as we go provision by provision that must be addressed in a comprehensive manner in the next 48 hours. Decisions must be made by the White House… (2/3)

— Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) October 18, 2020

Hammill had previously tweeted last week that Mnuchin agreed to the Democrats’ language on national testing with “minor” edits.

President Trump has encouraged a deal before the election, suggesting Mnuchin should go beyond the current $1.8 trillion proposal, despite Republican senators’ pushback on the cost.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he will not bring a $1.8 trillion deal to the Senate floor, but the chamber plans to vote this week on a $500 billion bill with a Paycheck Protection Program extension and expanded unemployment benefits.

Pelosi and Democrats have argued that neither the White House’s or Senate’s proposed bills are adequate, calling for more funding for state and local governments.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/521598-pelosi-gives-white-house-48-deadline-for-coronavirus-stimulus-deal

Biden 'most compromised person in the history of American politics': Donald Trump Jr.

Joe Biden is being protected by collusion between the media and Democrats, Trump Jr. claimed

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is "the most compromised person in the history of American politics," Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday in response to allegations about Hunter Biden's overseas business deals.

"The swamp, social media, mainstream media, they want Biden to win, even though it's likely that Biden is probably the most compromised person in the history of American politics," Trump Jr., the eldest of President Trump's children, told "Sunday Morning Futures." "We're two weeks out from an election, and they're pretending like this is a non-issue."

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is "the most compromised person in the history of American politics," Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday in response to allegations about Hunter Biden's overseas business deals.

"The swamp, social media, mainstream media, they want Biden to win, even though it's likely that Biden is probably the most compromised person in the history of American politics," Trump Jr., the eldest of President Trump's children, told "Sunday Morning Futures." "We're two weeks out from an election, and they're pretending like this is a non-issue."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-donald-trump-jr-maria-bartiromo

Biden Surrogate Says He’s Open to Court Packing

While Democrats have implied their intention to pack the Supreme Court for weeks, Sen. Chris Coons (D., Del.) on Sunday explicitly said he was "open" to adding justices to the High Court.

"If we happen to be in the fact pattern where we have a President Biden, we'll have to look at what the right steps are to rebalance our federal judiciary," said Coons, a Biden campaign surrogate.

Over the past few weeks, reporters have asked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his campaign nearly a dozen times about the candidate's intentions to expand the number of justices on the Court. Each time, Biden has deflected, saying it would shift focus and only benefit President Trump to discuss. More recently, however, Biden has indicated he is open to the idea. During an ABC town hall last week, he said his plan for the Supreme Court "depends" on how Senate Republicans "handle" Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation.

"It depends on how much they rush this," the former vice president said. He also promised to reveal his position on court packing before Election Day.

Coons, who has been discussed as a potential Biden administration cabinet pick, joined Democrats' recent efforts to redefine the term "court packing." The senator said last week that Barrett's confirmation to the Court's vacant seat would constitute court packing. The term, however, refers to expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court.

Failed presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, a member of the Biden transition team, also said on Sunday he was open to court packing should Biden win the presidency. He said the move would depoliticize the High Court.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/biden-surrogate-says-hes-open-to-court-packing/

Beto (Finally) Fails Downward: Former 2020 Frontrunner Lands Teaching Gig at Texas State

"He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches."

—George Bernard Shaw

For perhaps the first time in his boringly privileged life, former congressman Beto O'Rourke has failed to fail upward. Having proven himself unable to find success as a Senate candidate, presidential candidate, or blogger, Beto has accepted a teaching position at Texas State University, a mediocre institution of higher education.

O'Rourke, a graduate of the Woodberry Forest boarding school for boys, was not recruited by the university. "He originally approached people in the administration … and expressed an interest in teaching," said Ken Grasso, chair of the political science department at Texas State. "I was thrilled."

Beto will teach Texas politics at the university beginning in the spring 2021 semester, according to the University Star. He was reportedly motivated by a desire to connect with young people during such a "crucial time for the state and the country."

Beto became a national political celebrity among Pod Save America hosts and listeners in 2018 during his failed campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas). Having decided he was "just born to be in it," the Senate failure set his sights on even higher office, announcing his presidential campaign with a cover story in Vanity Fair.

As it turns out, Beto was born to lose. He entered the Democratic primary in third place behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and former vice president Joe Biden, the eventual nominee, and raised an impressive amount of money. Unfortunately, Beto's poll numbers steadily declined from there, and in just a few months' time, he was approaching "statistically insignificant" territory in the early primary states. He quit the race in November 2019, months before voters had the chance to not vote for him.

At the time, Beto had urged the remaining Democratic candidates to focus on issues that "brought us together," such as his wildly unpopular proposal to take away people's guns. His recent attempt to influence the Democratic Senate primary in Massachusetts by endorsing Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D., Mass.) over the incumbent, Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.), also ended in failure.

Despite his flaws as a candidate, Beto embodied much of what Democratic voters were looking for in a candidate. Their desire to nominate a white male was obvious, but at the end of the day, they just couldn't stomach a white guy under the age of 75.

https://freebeacon.com/satire/beto-fails-downward/

Amid historic absentee voting, rejected mail-in ballots could have 'significant effect' on outcome

Up to 3% of first-time mail-in voters see their ballots rejected, potentially upending projected vote totals.

Rejected mail-in ballots could play a decisive role in the 2020 election, with a small but critical number of dismissed ballots potentially flipping poll numbers on their head and handing President Trump another surprise victory Nov. 3.

Americans are voting by mail in record numbers in 2020, driven largely by months of public health warnings that due to COVID-19, Americans should avoid large gatherings, particularly indoor events, and should avoid touching commonly used surfaces or objects, inescapable realities of in-person polling locations.

Though officials including White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci have assured Americans that voting in person this year is safe, a record number of Americans — around 30% — plan to cast their ballots by mail this year. That's up from about 20% in 2016 and is a threefold increase from 2000.

Problems with first-time mail-in voters could lead to hundreds of thousands of rejections

Polling data indicate that mail-in voters strongly favor Biden, which — when coupled with early voters who also favor the Democratic candidate — could give Biden a further boost in what appears to be his considerable advantage over Trump heading toward Election Day.

Yet a not-insignificant percentage of those ballots could end up rejected and uncounted, potentially shaving Biden's edge and giving the president a surprise upset in November.

"We know that, historically, one to one and a half percent of mail-in ballots are declined," veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen told Just the News this week.

"But we also know that people who fill out a mail-in ballot for the first time are about three times as likely to have their ballot rejected," he continued. "So this year if we have a huge growth in the number of people who vote by mail … it might have a significant effect."

The number of rejected ballots through this election season is already comparatively large. An NPR analysis in August found that about 550,000 ballots were rejected during this year's primaries, about 75% more than were rejected during the 2016 general election.

Whether or not the November election will see enough rejections to affect the race is unclear, though the sheer volume of mail-in ballots expected in every state will likely play even more havoc than election centers saw over the course of the primaries.

"We won't know who wins Pennsylvania for three weeks," Rasmussen predicted, "because Pennsylvania has no history with mass mail-in voting."

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/amid-historic-absentee-voting-rejected-mail-ballots-could-have

Almost 1m. Israelis unemployed, half below the age of 34

The report revealed that during the month of September, both women and young people were more likely to file for unemployment, and at rates higher than even during the first wave.

The coronavirus lockdown in September has led Israel to a second peak of a wave of unemployment with almost 1 million jobless registering, according to a bleak new report which was published on Sunday afternoon by the Israeli Employment Service.

The report also revealed that during the month of September, women and young people were more likely to file for unemployment, at rates higher than even the first wave.

Since July, there has been a slow increase in the number of new unemployed Israelis relative to the number of people returning to work.

However, in September, the number of people who registered in the Employment Service increased to 205,000, with only slightly over 25,000 returning to work.

The September unemployment numbers, while three times higher than the amount registered in August, are still significantly lower than the peak of 850.5 thousand monthly unemployed which was registered in March, at the beginning of the first wave.

Unemployment numbers skyrocketed slightly after Rosh Hashanah (September 17), peaking in the fourth week of September, when more than half of that month's unemployment requests were filed.

According to the report, by the end of September, the number of unemployed Israelis had reached 944.5 thousand - an increase of 20.9% compared to the end of August (781.3 thousand).

The number of unemployed who are considered on "unpaid leave" rose to 612.6 thousand, 64.9% of all registered unemployed at the end of September.

The occupation most affected (35.4% of all unemployed) by the latest lockdown was sales and services - more than in August ( 23.3%) and even more than during the first lockdown in March (27%).

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/almost-1m-israelis-unemployed-half-below-the-age-of-34-646133

DOUBLESPEAK: New York Times Magazine Says The Biggest Threat to Free Speech…is Free Speech

In another showing of proof that the fake news is in fact the enemy of the people, the New York Times Magazine has published an article arguing that the biggest threat to free speech…is free speech itself.

Feminist author Emily Bazelon believes that government and corporate censorship must be used to save free speech, and she made her case very poorly in an op/ed riddled with Orwellian doublespeak.

“It’s an article of faith in the United States that more speech is better and that the government should regulate it as little as possible. But increasingly, scholars of constitutional law, as well as social scientists, are beginning to question the way we have come to think about the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech,” Bazelon wrote, effectively arguing for an end to the Bill of Rights.

“They think our formulations are simplistic — and especially inadequate for our era. Censorship of external critics by the government remains a serious threat under authoritarian regimes. But in the United States and other democracies, there is a different kind of threat, which may be doing more damage to the discourse about politics, news and science. It encompasses the mass distortion of truth and overwhelming waves of speech from extremists that smear and distract,” she wrote, using left-wing blather to justify shredding the U.S. Constitution.

Bazelon is arguing that since freedom of speech allows people like Trump and his supporters to speak freely, it must be sharply curtailed. This way, her liberal agenda can be protected from any dissent or challenge that is allowed under the evil 1st Amendment (which, after all, was written by slave owners!).

“This concern spans the ideological spectrum. Along with disinformation campaigns, there is the separate problem of “troll armies” — a flood of commenters, often propelled by bots — that “aim to discredit or to destroy the reputation of disfavored speakers and to discourage them from speaking again,” Jack Goldsmith, a conservative law professor at Harvard, writes in an essay in “The Perilous Public Square,” a book edited by David E. Pozen that was published this year,” she wrote.

Goldsmith, who Bazelon inaccurately describes as a conservative, is actually a prominent anti-Trump writer. He even wrote a book, “After Trump,” calling for wholesale changes to the U.S. political system in order to make sure nobody like Trump can ever get elected again.

Bazelon argues that “critical voices” need to be protected from free speech in order to save free speech, or something.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78269/doublespeak-new-york-times-magazine-says-the-biggest-threat-to-free-speechis-free.html

US Secretary of State Pompeo Warns of Sanctions For Any Arms Sales to Iran

On 18 October, all restrictions on the transfer of arms, related activities and financial services to and from Iran were lifted.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that arms sales to Iran would breach UN resolutions and lead to sanctions.

"For the past 10 years, countries have refrained from selling weapons to Iran under various UN measures. Any country that now challenges this prohibition will be very clearly choosing to fuel conflict and tension over promoting peace and security," Pompeo said, as quoted by AFP.

Also in his statement, Mr Pompeo said that the US was ready "to use its domestic authorities to sanction any individual or entity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, or transfer of conventional arms to or from Iran."

According to US Secretary of State, if a country supports the fight against terrorism it "should refrain from any arms transactions with Iran."

Tehran Celebrates End of Decade-Long Arms Embargo

This comes after Iran announced earlier this week that all restrictions on the transfer of arms, related activities and financial services to and from the Islamic Republic of Iran were expiring under the terms of the UN resolution that confirmed the JCPOA signed between Tehran and world powers in 2015.

A momentous day for the international community, which— in defiance of malign US efforts—has protected UNSC Res. 2231 and JCPOA.

Today's normalization of Iran’s defense cooperation with the world is a win for the cause of multilateralism and peace and security in our region. pic.twitter.com/sRO6ezu4OO

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) October 17, 2020

​The arms embargo which prevented Iran from buying foreign weapons had been in place for a decade. Washington has insisted that it should be extended but all its draft resolutions concerning this matter were rejected by other UN members.

In 2018, the US unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal and began reintroducing sanctions on Iran.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202010181080809689-us-secretary-of-state-pompeo-warns-of-sanctions-for-any-arms-sales-to-iran/

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