Orange County Launches Student Contest To "Normalize Mask Wearing"

To “help normalize mask wearing” in the community, the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) in California has launched a contest for students that will award the winners thousands of dollars in technology grants for their schools.

There are three categories in the contest: mask art, written essay, and social video. Entrants will be split into age groups including elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

“The three entries with the highest scores in each entry category for each school level will be named winners,” according to the agency’s website.

A total of 27 technology grants will be awarded: $7,000 for nine first-place winners, $6,000 for nine second-place winners, and $5,000 for nine third-place winners. The grants can be used to buy WiFi hotspots or other technology equipment for the winners’ schools.

The winning mask design in each of the county’s five districts will also be produced for students in those schools to wear.

For the projects, students are encouraged either to come up with a mask design that they think everyone will want to wear, explain why wearing a mask is important in a 300 to 400 word essay, or create an original video that shows the benefits of wearing a mask in 60 seconds or less.

Students are being asked to have fun, get creative, and do their best to make a project “that entertains and educates how awesome wearing a mask can be.”

The entries will be judged based on originality, creativity, technical skill, artistic value, and how well they encourage people to wear a mask.

The students can find a mask template and a helpful downloadable toolkit, including the official entry form, on the website. The deadline for entry is Nov. 19 at 11:59 p.m, and winners will be posted by Dec. 4 at 11:59 p.m.

Orange County Hires After-Hour Nurses

At a press conference on Oct. 22, the OCHCA also announced the agency will be hiring a team of nurses to be on-call outside of regular business hours for COVID-19-related issues at local schools, which are gradually reopening for on-site instruction.

The nurses will assist school representatives “with isolation, quarantine protocols, disinfection instructions, and other critical guidance,” said Dr. Margaret Bredehoft, deputy agency director of Public Health Services at OCHCA.

They will be available by phone or other contact methods on weekdays from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. and on weekends from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The nurses will also be consulting with physicians to conduct detailed investigations into any COVID-19 cases in students, teachers, and staff, and will communicate with school nurses as needed.

Dr. Matthew Zahn, OCHCA’s medical director for communicable disease control, said the county has realized that the faster officials can respond to COVID-19 cases at schools, the less disruption will occur for the students and the schools.

“When there is a case in a school, on an individual site, we rely on the school staff and the school nurse, if there’s a school nurse available, to communicate to us the information … then we give them guidance as to exactly how to respond, which people need to be excluded or not, which people need to be tested or not,” Zahn said.

COVID-19 Case Numbers Holding Steady

The OCHCA on Oct. 23 reported 162 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six additional fatalities.

Orange County now has a total of 58,010 reported cases of the disease and 1,440 deaths. There are 162 people currently hospitalized and 58 cases in the intensive care unit (ICU).

https://www.theepochtimes.com/orange-county-launches-student-mask-contest-to-normalize-mask-wearing_3550345.html

Report: Netflix cancellations 'skyrocket' after boycott campaign over 'Cuties' documentary

The film sexualizes young girls, critics say

Netflix triggered widespread outrage last month when the streaming platform debuted "Cuties," a documentary that critics claimed hyper-sexualized pre-adolescent girls.

As TheBlaze reported, one of the parental warnings on the film's IMDB page warned of one scene in the film that could be "lawfully defined as pedophilia."

The warning read, "During one of the many highly sexualized & erotic dance scenes that purposefully exploit & objectify numerous scantily clad under age [sic] girls, one of the female child dancers lifts up her cropped top to fully display her bare breast. This is lawfully defined as pedophilia and can be extremely distressing to many viewers."

In response, #CancelNetflix trended on social media for days, and more than 660,000 people signed an online petition vowing to cancel their Netflix subscriptions.

And now it appears those Netflix users made good on their promise to cancel their subscriptions.

What are the details?

According to a report from the New York Post, Netflix subscription cancellations "skyrocketed" in the wake of controversy over "Cuties," surging 800%.

During an earnings call this week, Netflix chief financial officer Spence Neumann reportedly downplayed the controversy by not mentioning the documentary, instead choosing to focus on how the coronavirus pandemic helped Netflix nearly meet its annual subscriptions goal.

However, multiple analyses found that the campaign to boycott Netflix yielded significant results.

From the Post:

Neumann told investors the company "came pretty close" to meeting its membership goal of 195 million worldwide. For the three months that ended Sept. 30, Netflix added 2.2 million global subscribers — down from the first two quarters of 16 million and 10 million, respectively.

But numbers analyzed by New York data analytics firms Antenna and YipitData tell a different story — that the protest, led by conservatives who claim the film's portrayal of pre-teen girls living in Paris "hyper-sexualized" children, had made a big dent in subscriptions.

Antenna reported that Netflix lost five times as many subscribers in September's first couple of weeks — a few days into the protest — than the company lost in all of August. YipitData gave even grimmer numbers, putting September cancellations at 8 times of those in August and declaring the drop "a multi-year high."

Not only did the "Cuties" controversy hurt Netflix's subscriber metrics, but the company also found itself in legal trouble over the film.

Earlier this month, a grand jury in Texas indicted Netflix, saying the company and its CEOs "knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."

In response, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos defended the film, arguing the documentary has been "misunderstood."

Last month, a Netflix spokesperson claimed in a statement to TheBlaze, "There is no underage nudity in this film."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/netflix-cancellations-surge-cuties-boycott

Trump Campaign Files Lawsuit in Nevada, Asks Court to Stop Officials From Counting Early Votes

According to Forbes magazine, more than 50 million Americans have already voted in the presidential election in the United States, as authorities have adjusted the electoral system due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Many Americans have voted by mail, a measure that Donald Trump has harshly criticised, saying it may result in voter fraud.

The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit in Nevada asking a state court to prohibit officials in Clark County from tallying early votes. According to court documents, the plaintiff accuses the county officials of restricting election observers in a way that prevents them from meaningfully examining the voting process.

"It is troubling that those trusted to run our elections are going to have to be compelled by the court to follow state law and protect this election. We join President Trump in his fight for transparency and accountability in Nevada's election system", said Michael McDonald, chair of the Nevada Republican Party, commenting on the lawsuit.

The development comes following months of complaints from Republicans about the election procedures in Nevada. In a letter sent earlier this week to Nevada's Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, the Trump campaign wrote that officials in Nevada’s most Democrat-leaning county are prohibiting observers from entering areas where ballots are handed to voters and later counted. The Trump campaign also complained that local officials had rejected its offer to pay for cameras that would be installed in the voting facilities.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit drew attention to the fact that County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria has changed the Agilis Ballot Packing Sorting System’s tolerance level for detecting improper signatures, thereby increasing the likelihood of "fraudulent and improper ballots are being tabulated by Clark County".

How have Democrats responded?

The Democrats have called the Republicans' complaints "misleading" and "inaccurate". Clark County spokesperson Dan Kulin said local authorities had gone "above and beyond to provide access to observers". He emphasised that the Republicans' request for observers to be granted access to certain areas in polling locations would violate voters' privacy and that the request to install cameras is "likely not permitted by" law.

The Nevada Democratic Party called Trump’s lawsuit an attempt at "voter suppression".

"This lawsuit from Trump and Republicans is nothing more than an obvious attempt to impede record-breaking momentum in Clark County, the most diverse county in the state. The demands articulated in the GOP’s lawsuit amount to voter suppression, plain and simple", said Nevada's Democratic Party Chair William McCurdy.

Due to the severe coronavirus situation in the United States, millions of Americans have been allowed to cast their ballots ahead of Election Day, scheduled for 3 November. An estimated 80 million Americans will vote by mail in the election. Donald Trump has previously criticised the measure, saying it may result in a voter fraud, with foreign powers potentially influencing the election. He also cited delays in postal deliveries, warning that it could take "months" or even "years" before the country knows the results of the vote.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202010241080870832-trump-campaign-files-lawsuit-in-nevada-asks-court-to-stop-officials-from-counting-early-votes/

Judge Denies Motion For New Trial for Raniere

In a terse decision that was less than 8-pages long, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis denied the “Motion For A New Trial” that was filed by Keith’s attorneys earlier this week.

Interestingly enough, the decision was entirely based on the judge’s finding that the motion was “untimely”.

As a result, the judge did not even consider the merits of the motion.

But in a footnote at the end of the decision, the judge made it clear that even it were filed on a timely basis, the motion for a new trial would have been denied.

Here’s the wording of the footnote:

“Because the court finds that Mr. Raniere’s motion was not timely filed, it declines to analyze the merits of the motion. The court notes, however, that even if Mr. Raniere’s motion were timely, it would fail on other grounds, including the fact that the evidence contained in Ms. Hatchette’s and Ms. Clyne’s affidavits is neither material nor exculpatory.

The fact that these two individuals may have perceived their and others’ participation in DOS, sexual contact with Mr. Raniere, or uncompensated work for Mr. Raniere’s organizations to be voluntary or even beneficial does not undermine the credibility of other witnesses who testified to vastly different experiences and perceptions.

Mr. Raniere was not convicted of crimes committed against Ms. Hatchette or Ms. Clyne, and the fact that they do not perceive themselves as his victims is therefore of minimal relevance. See United States v. Scarpa, 897 F.2d 63, 70 (2d Cir. 1990) (‘A defendant may not seek to establish his innocence . . . through proof of the absence of criminal acts on specific occasions.’).

Even assuming, without deciding, that all of the information alleged in Ms. Hatchette and Ms. Clyne’s affidavits is true, the court is far from convinced “that the jury has reached a seriously erroneous result” or that justice was not served by the verdict in Mr. Raniere’s case. Snyder, 740 F. Appendix at 728.”

The message in that footnote makes it very clear why Judge Garaufis didn’t bother to hold oral arguments on the motion – which had been requested by Keith’s attorneys.

No matter what was said during such an oral argument, the judge had already decided that he was not going to grant a new trial to Keith Raniere.

https://frankreport.com/2020/10/23/nobody-told-me-thered-be-days-like-thesestrange-days-indeed/

Win-Win vs Lose-Lose: The Time Has Come for the World to Choose

It is a tragedy of our age that society has been locked in a zero-sum operating system for so long that many people living in the west cannot even imagine a world order designed in any other way… even if that zero sum system can ultimately do nothing but kill everyone holding onto it.

Is this statement too cynical?

It is a provable fact that if one chooses to organize their society around the concept that all players of a “great game” must exist in a finite world of tension as all zero-sum systems presume, then we find ourselves in a relatively deterministic trajectory to hell.

You see, this world of tension which game masters require in today’s world are generated by increasing rates of scarcity (food, fuel, resources, space, etc). As this scarcity increases due to population increases tied to heavy doses of arson, it naturally follows that war, famine, and other conflict will rise across all categories of divisions (ethnic, religious, linguistic, gender, racial etc). Showcasing this ugly misanthropic philosophy during a December 21, 1981 People Magazine Interview, Prince Philip described the necessity of reducing the world population stating:

“We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed-not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation, and war.”

When such a system is imposed upon a world possessing atomic weapons, as occurred in the wake of FDR’s death and the sabotage of the great president’s anti-colonial vision, the predictably increased rates of conflict, starvation and ignorance can only spill over into a global war if nuclear superpowers chose to disobey the limits and “norms” of this game at any time.

Perhaps some utopian theoreticians sitting in their ivory towers at Oxford, Cambridge or the many Randian think tanks peppering foreign policy landscape believed that this game could be won if only all nation states relinquished their sovereignty to a global government… but that hasn’t really happened, has it?

Instead of the relinquishing of sovereignty, the past decade has seen a vast rise of nationalism across all corners of the earth which have been given new life by the rise of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and broader multipolar alliance. While these impulses have taken on many shapes and forms, they are united in the common belief that nation states must not become a thing of the past but rather must become determining forces of the world’s economic and political destinies.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/10/win-win-vs-lose-lose-the-time-has-come-for-the-world-to-choose/

Are troops really leaving Germany? It’s not totally clear.

An amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act could put a hold on the repositioning of forces, but that’s if the plan survives beyond October at all.

“I do believe that if there’s a change in the administration, that this will not happen,” Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., told Military Times on Oct. 15 during a press call.

From the beginning, the plan was mired by politics.

President Donald Trump had been threatening Germany for years, questioning what more than 40,000 permanent troops were doing in that country.

In fact, minutes after Esper made a rare Pentagon briefing room appearance to unveil the plan on July 29, Trump insinuated to reporters outside the White House that Germany had it coming.

“Germany is not paying their bills,” he said. “They’re delinquent. It’s simple.”

He was referring to a goal NATO’s member nations set for themselves, to be contributing 2 percent of their gross domestic product by 2024. A handful of countries have met that benchmark ― including Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Poland ― but Germany is among the majority of countries who haven’t.

“They owe NATO billions and they know it,” Trump told reporters a month earlier. “Why should we be doing what we’re doing if they don’t pay?”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/10/23/are-troops-really-leaving-germany-its-not-totally-clear/

>>11257042

MOSSAD

>>11257101

They will ban anyone who doesn't toe the line and use bots to push others to believe their shit

Notable

>>11257090 (Me) calling you what you are

>>11257121 (You) trying to deflect

>>11257042 (You) baseless attack

So why don't you show Anon's my aggregator site and how my work here isn't organic????

Come on you wanna play with me put up your evidence

>>11257174

I ain't clicking that shit post the video if you're not a shill

Email Reveals Hunter Biden Was Worried His Chinese Communist-Linked Business Partner Would “Rat” to the “Feds”

New emails released from Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell reveals Hunter was worried his business partner tied to the Chinese Communist Party would “rat” to the “Feds.”

In 2010, Hunter Biden emailed his business partner linked to the Chinese Communist Party, Eric Schwerin: “Once the Feds got ya you’ll rat out your mother — or at least you would.”

Eric Schwerin replied, “Probably. I wouldn’t be good in jail.”

Via Raheem Kassam, EIC of The National Pulse:

Eric Schwerin was heavily involved in Hunter Biden’s grift and influence peddling scheme in China for many years.

Steve Bannon War Room on Friday released an email from China’s Communist Party operative Xin Wang to Hunter Biden and Eric Schwerin from 2018 regarding a loan agreement. In the email Xin Wang offers to extend the loan agreement to December 13, 2019.

This raises several questions including was this agreement with the CCP presented to the IRS or SEC?

If not that would be unlawful.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/email-reveals-hunter-biden-worried-chinese-communist-linked-business-partner-rat-feds/

>>11257211

sting op would be my guess

>>11257262

>Fucking Bill Barr is useless

Indeed

>>11257211

He Clicked it

>>11257321

Notable Anon theory

Cabal infighting?

France Recalls Its Ambassador to Turkey as Erdogan Claims Macron Needs 'Mental Checks'

The development follows Turkish President Erdogan's harsh reaction towards new measures that his French counterpart announced in response to the beheading of a school teacher by a Muslim refugee for showing Prophet Muhammad cartoons to pupils in a Paris suburb.

On Saturday, Paris recalled its ambassador to Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, has to undergo "mental checks" because of his treatment of "millions of members" of France's Muslim community.

"President Erdogan's comments are unacceptable. Outrage and insult are not a method," Macron's office said in a statement, following the heated address by the Turkish president.

A French presidential official, who did not disclose his name, described Erdogan's tirade in a comment to AFP as "excess and rudeness", adding that Paris demands the Turkish president "change the course of his policy because it is dangerous in every respect".

Erdogan delivered his fiery remarks about Macron in Turkey's central Anatolian city of Kayseri on Saturday. Speaking in a televised address, the Turkish president condemned his French counterpart for injust treatment of Muslims, stressing that Macron needs mental treatment.

"What can one say about a head of state who treats millions of members from different faith groups this way: first of all, have mental checks," Erdogan stressed. "What's the problem of the individual called Macron with Islam and with the Muslims?"

Murder of History Teacher in France

Macron has recently called Islam a religion "in crisis", directing the French government to come up with new legislation to bolster a 1905 law separating church and state in the country. He also refused to denounce the Prophet Muhammad cartoons and vowed to keep defending civil liberties in the wake of the killing of a school teacher outside the French capital.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010241080870912-france-reportedly-recalls-its-ambassador-to-turkey-over-erdogans-comment-about-macron/

>>11257413

Interesting