One Syrian Soldier Killed, Three Wounded in Israeli Air Attack, Defense Ministry Says

This is the second Israeli airstrike in Syria within a week, according to state media

One Syrian soldier was killed, and three others wounded in an Israeli air attack on Syria's Palmyra area in the province of Homs on Wednesday evening, the Syrian defense ministry said.

The attack targeted a communications tower and caused some material losses, it added in a short statement on its Facebook page.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/israeli-air-attack-targets-palmyra-area-in-syria-state-media-reports-1.10292769

Maricopa County Officials Claim They DID NOT Delete Elections Data – They Just Archived It and Withheld It from the Senate Auditors

Maricopa County Elections Officials recently admitted that data was deleted in the 2020 election and they’ve already called their media allies to redact the statement.

The Gateway Pundit reported that the County finally admitted to deleting data when being questioned by US Rep. Andy Biggs.

On Monday, Senate President Karen Fann shared an article by RTM analyzing the statement by Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates where he admits to deleting files in what looked like a Freudian slip.

He attempted to recover the fumble by saying that the deleted files were archived and that the deleted files did not fall under the request for “all the records related to the election”.

Neither he nor Board Chairman Jack Sellers would confirm that deleting the files was the standard operating procedure.

Supervisor Bill Gates responded to Fann’s tweet above by tweeting:

He couldn’t even get the rating right – the AP fact-checker rated Fann’s claim, “partly false”.

AP: CLAIM: “Maricopa County admits they DELETED and moved the election data to hide it from auditors AFTER they got a subpoena.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: Partly false. Arizona’s largest county did not admit deleting and moving election data to hide it from auditors. The county has explained it was necessary to archive and move the data because there was not space for it to be stored on the server indefinitely.

THE FACTS: Weeks after a cybersecurity firm presented flawed findings in a Republican-backed review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing on the controversial election review on Thursday led to a new array of false claims online.

Twitter users shared one clip of Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona questioning Republican Maricopa County Supervisors Bill Gates and Jack Sellers, along with baseless claims that the county made a shocking admission.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/fact-check-maricopa-county-officials-not-delete-elections-data-receiving-subpoena-az-senate/

MERRICK GARLAND Threat Against Parent’s 1st Amendment Right Backfires…Dad Serves Stunned School Board With $200 Million Lawsuit In Middle of Meeting

We are in serious trouble in the United States of America. We have a mostly incoherent “president” that over half of America doesn’t believe was elected fairly. Joe Biden is likely taking orders from unelected people working behind the scenes with an agenda that is so evil that, if exposed by our dishonest media, would shock our nation to its core.

100 Percent Fed Up reports – On October 4, Barack Obama’s failed Supreme Court nominee turned Joe Biden’s Barack Obama’s Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a threatening note to warn parents of his plan to plant federal law enforcement agencies in communities around America. The letter was likely meant to chill dissent against school boards or school administrators over mask mandates and the teaching of CRT. The letter was prompted by the National School Board Association (NSBA), who called on the Biden administration to take action against unruly parents who keep showing up at school board meetings; the Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken up the cause against parents. The NSBA encouraged the Biden administration to classify the actions of concerned parents as “the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”

A lot has happened since our US Attorney General Merrick Garland’s threat against the First Amendment Right of parents to speak freely against the racist Critical Race Theory (CRT) being pushed on students in grades K-12 or against forcing our children to wear masks to school?

Shortly after Merrick’s threat against parents speaking out, it was discovered that Merrick Garland’s daughter is married to the co-founder of a company that provides schools with materials to teach CRT.

Parents were supposed to stop coming to school board meetings—but they haven’t. In fact, in many cases, they’re doubling down and showing up in even larger numbers.

On Monday, a father in Clark County, Nevada, showed up to a Clark County School Board meeting and stunned the board members when he served them with papers in the middle of his speech.

“This is segregation based off of your own fears and your own personal interests,” the unidentified father told the school board members. “The people in this country have had enough, and we are fighting back.”

“I have something to give you,” he said. He called security and asked them to do him a “favor,” asking “Would you please hand those forms to the board members?” As the security person was handing out the papers serving each member, the father announced, ” You’ve been officially served a $200 million lawsuit with six complaints and violations or multiple amendments.”

“Your job is not to be concerned with the children’s health,” he told them. “You’re not nurses. You’re not doctors. You are not responsible for their health organization. Your only focus is on our children’s education, and the education system here is 50th in the state, and you make almost more money than anybody else.”

“It is very clear that you have failed in doing that job,” he said. “This country is not alone. It’s time that we wake up. Now, we’re gonna do a lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. We can throw it out as much as you want. We’re gonna keep this paperwork on your desk and keep the problem going until we get exactly what we want.”

“This is not a negotiation, we will have our freedom of choice, and we’re gonna see you in court,” he added.

As the members were being served, the parents sitting behind the brave dad, who are clearly undeterred by our United States Attorney General’s threats, erupted in cheers and applause.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/merrick-garland-threat-parents-1st-amendment-right-backfires-dad-serves-stunned-school-board-200-million-lawsuit-middle-meeting-video/

New Zealand Forces Vaccination Mandate On All Education, Health-Care Workers

New Zealand announced late Monday that it would join the growing list of developed nations forcing workers - or at least certain workers - to choose: either accept the jab, or lose your job.

One week after Canada adopted mandatory vaccination rules for federal workers and travelers, New Zealand has announced its own vaccine mandates for most teachers and health care workers.

Per NZ's Liberal-led government, doctors, nurses and other health-care workers must be fully vaxxed by Dec. 1, while everyone working in education who has contact with students must be vaccinated by Jan. 1.

"We can’t leave anything to chance so that's why we are making it mandatory," said COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins, who is also the country's education minister.

"Vaccination remains our strongest and most effective tool to protect against infection and disease," Hipkins said.

New Zealand briefly enjoyed COVID-free status after the initial global outbreak, but the country's "drawbridge" strategy was unable to keep out the delta variant, imposing a lockdown in Auckland, the country's largest city after confirming just a single case. As cases spread despite the tightening restrictions, the government was forced to finally abandon its "COVIDZero" strategy.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said the highly transmissible delta variant had proved a "game-changer" that can't be easily eliminated.

As kiwis confront the new system, the Guardian is reporting that New Zealand's epidemiology "experts" were taken by surprise when Ardern abandoned "COVIDZero". They said they weren't consulted about the government's new system, which will lessen restrictions in three stages.

“We were obviously surprised on Monday last week when the government seemed to say that we were moving away from elimination,” said prof Michael Baker, one of the country’s most prominent pandemic communicators and a member of the ministry’s Covid-19 Technical Advisory group. “A decision of that size – changing your major strategy – you’d think you would consult with [the] quite small batch of scientists and other advisers who work very hard to support the government … explaining things to the public.”

“That was very unusual. I think the government’s done a great job generally with consultation and getting us all to at least understand the rationale for change.”

Others insisted that the only way out for the country is full vaccination.

Now, keep in mind, New Zealand has confirmed fewer than 5K cases and fewer than 30 deaths.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/new-zealand-forces-vaccination-mandate-all-education-health-care-workers

Mark Zuckerberg spent $419M on nonprofits ahead of 2020 election — and got out the Dem vote

During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasn’t traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally nonpartisan — but demonstrably ideological — nonprofit organizations.

Analysis conducted by our team demonstrates this money significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote margin in key swing states. In places like Georgia, when Biden won by 12,000 votes, and Arizona, where he won by 10,000, the spending likely put him over the top.

This unprecedented merger of public-election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic and should be the focus of electoral-reform efforts moving forward.

The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.

The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) passed a staggering $419.5 million of Zuckerberg’s money into local government elections offices, and it came with strings attached. Every CTCL and CEIR grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used.

This is not a matter of Democrats outspending Republicans. Private funding of election administration was virtually unknown in the American political system before the 2020 election.

Big CTCL and CEIR money had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, lobbying or other expenses that are related to increasingly expensive modern elections. It had to do with financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/mark-zuckerberg-spent-419m-on-nonprofits-ahead-of-2020-election-and-got-out-the-dem-vote/

GOP Fundraising Text: You’re A ‘Traitor’ And ‘Deserter’ Who Must ‘Prove Your Loyalty’ To Trump By Sending Cash To NRCC

"Your Trump patriot Status is INCOMPLETE. We're worried you've abandoned Trump. CHECK this box to CONFIRM your Trump Patriot Status and prove you're a TRUE PATRIOT."

The National Republican Congressional Committee is sending threatening text messages to supporters of 45th President Donald Trump calling them “traitors,” and demanding they send money to the NRCC to “prove your loyalty or be branded a deserter.” None of the funds go to President Trump, and prospective donors are rerouted directly to the NRCC’s donation page, which features more bizarre messages such as “Your Trump Patriot Status is INCOMPLETE.”

In the text messages, prospective donors are told, “You’re a traitor… You abandoned Trump. We were told you were a tried & true, lifelong patriot. But when Trump said he’d run for President if took back the House from Nancy Pelosi…. you did nothing. Was Trump wrong about you. This is your final chance to prove your loyalty or be branded a deserter. We’re giving you one final chance to stand with Trump. You only have 17 min >>>.”

Users are then redirected to an NRCC page with a ticking clock widget using the WinRed fundraising platform that features more alarmist messaging such as “SOS: Humbly asking for the last time… Your Trump patriot Status is INCOMPLETE. We’re worried you’ve abandoned Trump. CHECK this box to CONFIRM your Trump Patriot Status and prove you’re a TRUE PATRIOT. UNCHECK this box, we’ll tell Trump you abandoned him.”

Directly above this message is a line of text that states, “Your contribution will benefit NRCC.”

President Trump has filed multiple cease-and-desist letters against various Republican donors and politicians using his name and likeness to reel in small-dollar donors, starting in March of this year.

Kevin McCarthy, the top ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, likely has at least some knowledge of fundraising efforts from the NRCC. National File has contacted McCarthy for comment and did not receive an immediate response prior to publication. The NRCC itself is chaired by Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota.

https://nationalfile.com/gop-fundraising-text-youre-a-traitor-and-deserter-who-must-prove-your-loyalty-to-trump-by-sending-cash-to-nrcc/

Shocking pictures show hundreds of 'anti-vaxxers' swarming a regional doctor's clinic in bid to get a medical exemption to Covid vaccines before Dan Andrews' mandatory jab deadline

Dozens of Victorians queued up outside a regional Victorian Wednesday

Large crowds gathered amid rumours a doctor was handing out jab exemptions

But the GP informed patients there would be 'no more jab exemptions'

Witnesses claim many had travelled from Melbourne to wait outside the clinic

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10089603/Colac-Victoria-Huge-crowds-queue-outside-general-practice-exemption-Covid-jab.html

Putin says US itself killing dollar as reserve currency by weaponizing sanctions & uncontrolled money printing, fueling inflation

Washington itself is undermining the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency by using it as an instrument of sanctions abroad, while raising the national debt and inflating at home, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“It seems to me that the United States is making a very big mistake by using the dollar as a sanctions instrument… by preventing payment in dollars for the sanctioned products,” Putin told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on Wednesday, after a panel at the Russian Energy Week.

Countries facing US sanctions, like Russia, “have no other choice, we are simply forced to switch to settlements in other currencies,” he added. Gamble had asked about the possibility of using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to sell oil and gas, something Putin welcomed in principle but said it was “too early,” citing crypto’s volatility.

Russia is happy to use dollars in energy trade – for now – and has now plans to ditch the US dollar entirely, Putin noted, but “if the policy of the American authorities continues… then we will not have to do anything, the US will itself undermine confidence in the dollar.”

Even US allies were reducing their dollar holdings and reliance on US currency in mutual trade, the Russian leader pointed out. Not just because the dollar has been weaponized for sanctions, but also because Washington is devaluing the currency at home, by printing money and raising the national debt.

“For the first time, probably in history, inflation in the United States is growing at a rate that has not happened for a long time,” Putin told CNBC.

Everyone is now asking the question: what next? What will the US economic authorities do with this colossal debt? What will they do, carry out some manipulations with the dollar, lower its value?

The US is basically “sawing off the branch they’re sitting on,” Putin said, “by undermining the dollar’s dominance as the global reserve currency for the sake of short-term political gain at home, but harming their strategic economic interests” in the long term.

https://www.rt.com/russia/537407-putin-cnbc-dollar-inflation/

At his age I bet he shatners pants