Kitchen is a fucking mess
these notes are shit gatekeeper notes
Biden Says World Community Should 'Significantly' Expand Sanctions on Lukashenko's Circle
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden in a statement said the international community should significantly expand sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko's closest associates over his handling of mass protests in the country.
"No leader who tortures his own people can ever claim legitimacy," Biden said in the statement on Tuesday. "That is why the international community should significantly expand its sanctions on Lukashenko's henchmen and freeze the offshore accounts where they keep their stolen wealth."
Mass opposition protests have been ongoing in Belarus since the August 9 presidential election in which incumbent Lukashenko secured his sixth consecutive term. The opposition has refused to recognize the official results and has continued to organize regular rallies.
Biden said that if he is elected US president he will work with European allies to develop a plan of economic support for Belarus.
For now, Biden said he will continue to back former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in her call for a transfer of power, the release of all political prisoners, and free and fair elections.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202010271080895314-biden-says-world-community-should-significantly-expand-sanctions-on-lukashenkos-circle/
Acting for his masters, same tune as IMF
One Week Left: 42 Percent of Pennsylvania Mail-in Ballot Requests Not Returned
A large number of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania have not been returned by voters who requested them, according to the latest numbers from the commonwealth on Tuesday.
The latest tally of mail-in ballots shows that 1,702,115 ballots requested by voters in Pennsylvania have not been returned with seven days remaining. That’s 42 percent of the 2,969,485 total mail-in ballots requested.
That leaves Democrats in a last-minute struggle to deliver on their push to get voters to submit their vote-by-mail ballots.
“A major problem for them is that a ballot request doesn’t translate into a vote cast until the person fills it out and sends it in,” Trump campaign director of communications Tim Murtaugh said in a call with Breitbart News and other reporters.
Of the mail-in ballots requested, Democrats lead with 63 percent while only 25 percent of the ballots were requested by Republicans.
The data from the US Election Project shows that 1.2 million Pennsylvania Democrats have returned mail-in ballots with a 62.6 percent return rate.
“While Democrats may in states have a lead in absentee and vote by mail ballots returned, it is not a significant lead,” Murtaugh said.
He noted that Democrats were no longer pressing their supporters to vote by mail.
“They have now realized that they put too many eggs in the vote-by-mail basket, and they are not hitting the marks they need,” he said.
Murtaugh said that Democrats’ early lobbying for vote-by-mail was only frightening their own voters away from voting in person.
Democrats face the challenge of chasing down 712,749 remaining ballots requested by their supporters, with just a week left to get those ballots returned.
Republicans face a similar problem, but the numbers are much lower. Of the 761,811 mail-in ballots requested by Republicans, only 406,494 ballots have yet to be returned.
The Trump campaign believes that the Biden campaign does not have the necessary infrastructure to get those ballots returned.
“In order to chase those ballot requests and turn them into ballots cast, you have to have a ground game,” Murtaugh said. “Joe Biden doesn’t have one.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/27/one-week-left-42-percent-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballot-requests-not-returned/
Illinois Gov Ends Indoor Dining Across 2/3rds Of State As Winter Cold Looms
After imposing tighter restrictions in suburban Cook County and the populous Metro East region (the part of Illinois that includes the suburbs of St. Louis) on Monday, Illinois Gov JB Pritzker has imposed similarly harsh restrictions on the City of Chicago, expanding the number of regions facing the most restrictive measures to 7 out of 11.
Beginning on Friday, indoor dining will be closed along with bar service, and private gatherings will be limited to 25.
Since we're talking about Chicago in late October, it's likely few will be willing to brave the cold to eat outside in a two sided tent (since, as the health department clarified yesterday, a four-sided tent outdoors is considered an "indoor tent").
The city has seen sustained increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations and its COVID-19 test positivity rate, reporting 2x as many hospitalizations per week as it did a month ago.
Chicago has a positivity rate of 7.8%, up from 6.7% a week earlier.
Last week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered traditional taverns and brewery taprooms that don't serve food to close, and asked residents to cap gatherings to just 6 people. It marked a reversal from the reopenings she allowed just last month.
And with the holiday season approaching, both mayor and governor are threatening harsher restrictions if the situation doesn't improved
With 7 out of 11 regions, home to 8 million people, or 2/3rds of the state's population,, will soon have their economic reopenings rolled back.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/illinois-gov-ends-indoor-dining-across-23rds-state-winter-cold-looms
Hunter Audio Released As Dems Double Down On 'Russia Origins & Election Meddling'
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe again shot down charges by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, that emails revealing that Biden knew about his son’s business dealings in Ukraine are a “smear” organized by Moscow. This came the same day a damning audio of Hunter was released.
“Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” Ratcliffe said.
“Let me be clear: The intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with Adam Schiff, or any member of Congress,” he said.
Ratcliffe then shattered Schiff.
“It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence,” Ratcliffe said. “Unfortunately, it is Adam Schiff who said the intelligence community believes the Hunter Biden laptop and emails on it are part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
An email revealed Hunter Biden introduced his father, who back then was President Barack Obama’s vice president, to a top executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm whose board he sat on.
The confrontation occurred a year before
Biden called for the ouster of a top Ukrainian prosecutor.
Vadym Pozharskiy, an adviser to the Burisma board, blessed Hunter Biden for the “opportunity” to meet his father first hand in an email sent on April 17, 2015.
The messages were found on the hard drive of a laptop that the son allegedly dropped off at a Delaware computer store and never went back to get it.
Ratcliffe explained the computer is “in the jurisdiction of the FBI.”
“The FBI has had possession of this,” he said. “Without commenting on any investigation that they may or may not have, their investigation is not centered around Russian disinformation and the intelligence
community is not playing any role with respect to that.
He also warned Schiff and others not to “leverage the intelligence community for a political narrative that’s not true.”
“In this case, Adam Schiff saying this is part of a disinformation campaign and that the intelligence community has assessed and believes that — that is simply not true,” Ratcliffe said. “Whether it’s Republicans or Democrats, if they try to leverage the intelligence community for political gain, I won’t allow it.”
https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1020352-hunter-audio-released-as-dems-double-down-on-russia-origins-election-meddling?utm_source=c-pm&utm_medium=c-pm-email&utm_term=c-pm-GI&utm_content=6VI7tUwKWKo4vfBhwQRRVAYo21k0mldQVDHvbb9bNoE4.A