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A former judge of elections and Democratic committeeperson from South Philadelphia pleaded guilty to accepting $2,500 in bribes to inflate the vote totals for three Democratic candidates for Common Pleas Court judge between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced Thursday.

Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for the candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, and violating the Travel Act, which forbids the use of a cell phone to promote illegal activity — bribery, McSwain’s office said.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-elections-convicted-conspiring-violate-civil-rights-and-bribery

https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-philadelphia-ward-leader-judge-of-elections-domenick-demuro-guilty-plea-20200521.html

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When the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, China promised to respect it’s independence for the next 50 years. The shorthand for that plan was “one country, two systems.” But the two systems part of the plan could effectively come to an end tomorrow. China has tried and failed in the past to exert more control over Hong Kong, but this time it seems prepared to simply bypass Hong Kong’s government entirely and pass the new law via the mainland’s one party system:

Security rules proposed by the Hong Kong government in 2003 would have empowered the authorities to close seditious newspapers and conduct searches without warrants. That proposal was abandoned after it triggered large protests.

This time, China is effectively circumventing the Hong Kong government, undercutting the relative autonomy granted to the territory. Instead, it is going through China’s rubber stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, which holds its annual session starting Friday.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/world/asia/hong-kong-china.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52762291
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-protesters-fear-end-of-the-road-after-beijing-plans-new-security-law-11590094615?mod=e2tw
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senators-to-propose-bill-sanctioning-chinese-officialsover-hong-kong-security-law-11590086826
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4762
https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Press-Releases&id=01ECB3C3-97E5-4F94-A973-91FEA4929155

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/05/21/tomorrow-end-hong-kong-know/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/government-report-predicts-covid-19-cases-will-reach-200000-a-day-by-june-1/2020/05/04/02fe743e-8e27-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

William Wan,
Lenny Bernstein,
Laurie McGinley and
Josh Dawsey
May 4, 2020 at 12:46 p.m. CDT

A draft government report projects covid-19 cases will surge to about 200,000 per day by June 1, a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day.

The document predicts a sharp increase in both cases and deaths beginning about May 14, according to a copy shared with The Washington Post. The forecast stops at June 1, but shows both daily cases and deaths on an upward trajectory at that point.

T-rump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns
President Trump told reporters Monday that he has been taking the drug for about one and a half weeks and that the White House physician knows he is taking it despite the fact that he continues to test negative for the virus. Clinical trials, academic research and scientific analysis indicate that the danger of the drug is a significantly increased risk of death for certain patients

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-is-taking-hydroxychloroquine-to-protect-against-coronavirus-dismissing-safety-concerns/2020/05/18/7b8c928a-9946-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html

https://coloradosun.com/2020/05/15/cornelius-haney-colorado-prison-release-coronavirus-shooting/

A man who was released from prison last month on parole following policies enacted by Gov. Jared Polis to prevent an outbreak of the new coronavirus among inmates has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a woman last weekend in Denver.

Cornelius Haney, 40, is accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of 21-year-old Heather Perry near the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and Verbena Street on May 9.

Haney was released on April 15, four months early, under an executive order by Polis before that allows inmates to be released on “special-needs parole.”

Just another jogger released early because he was just jogging through other people's stuff, clearly he wasn't a danger.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sedh0kV98M&feature=emb_title

Yartsa Gunbu, a fungus that infects ghost moth caterpillars on the Tibetan Plateau, is considered by far the most expensive parasite in the world, fetching up to $50,000 a pound.

A close relative of the tropical parasite that infects ants and turns them into zombies, Ophiocordyceps sinensis is only found on the Tibetan Plateau, where it infects the larvae of ghost moths while they are buried deep underground and feeding on plant roots. The larvae are most vulnerable in the summer, when they shed their skins, becoming more easily infected. The parasite slowly grows in its hose by consuming it during the fall and winter, and just when the snow starts to melt, it pushes its dying larvae host upward and grows a plant-like, spore-filled stalk that pierces the ground, becoming the way to spot the valuable Yartsa Gunbu. It is then harvested by local villagers and sold modest prices that turn into a fortune as the fungus passes through several middleman, costing the final client more that three times its weight in gold.

The name Yartsa Gunbu actually means “summer grass, winter worm”, a simple and effective description of the fungus’ life cycle. The most valuable specimens contain both the spore-filled stalk that shoots upward from the host’s head, as well as the body of the dead ghost moth, but harvesting it hole is a very difficult process. Not only is the stalk difficult to spot, as it closely resembles the sedges growing on the Tibetan Plateau, but the hard ground makes unearthing a Yartsa Gunbu without breaking the stalk very challenging.


https://www.odditycentral.com/news/yartsa-gunbu-the-worlds-most-expensive-parasite-is-worth-three-times-its-weight-in-gold.html

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/14/biden-laughs-off-dementia-joe-memes-young-voters-n/
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden laughed off the myriad internet memes poking fun at his speaking skills and history with women, saying voters and particularly young people aren’t getting the majority of their news online.

During a wide-ranging interview Wednesday on Snapchat’s “Good Luck America” daily political show, which was also published by Vanity Fair, Mr. Biden was asked by host Peter Hamby how he plans to “fight back” against the notion that he’s “old” and “kind of lame.”
“The Shorenstein Center up at Harvard did an analysis of all of the anti-Biden memes out there on the internet,” Mr. Hamby said. “According to them, the top three slogans they’re seeing, this is from the left and the right, are Dementia Joe, Sleepy Joe, Creepy Joe. Barack Obama reportedly said last week that his daughters had been showing him anti-Biden TikToks. Basically, there’s an entire discourse on the internet right now that’s painting you as creepy and old and out of touch and kind of lame. How do you fight back against that?”

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The US Senate yesterday voted – by a single vote – to allow government agencies like the FBI and CIA to access your browsing history without a warrant. (no you fucks not your webbrowser. history noted in the system of your int provider)

This means they would not need to show probable cause for believing you have committed a crime before requiring your ISP to hand over its records on your web browsing and search histories …

The Senate is being asked to reauthorize the Patriot Act, which gives government agencies powers to carry out mass electronic surveillance of US citizens. Three amendments were put forward, one of which would have prevented accessing web browsing history without a warrant.

Use of a VPN provides protection against this kind of surveillance, as it means your ISP would have no way to know which websites you visited.

There was some good news: a second amendment did pass, which allows judges ruling on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests to seek input from independent experts.
A third amendment, requiring warrants to carry out FISA searches on US citizens, is due to be voted on today.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/14/access-your-browsing-history/

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>Vienna (AFP) - Renovation works at Auschwitz have turned up spoons, forks, cobbler's tools and other objects hidden beneath a chimney flue -- some that might have been used to plan escapes, a national fund said Tuesday.
>The objects, which also include knives, hooks, scissors, pieces of leather and parts of shoes, were found last month in block 17 of the main camp, Austria's National Fund for Victims of National Socialism said.

these will be put on display behind a glass case while viking artifacts are being melted down

https://www.yahoo.com/news/auschwitz-renovation-uncovers-objects-hidden-prisoners-152356774.html
http://archive.is/RhGZy

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We're all fucked

https://www.foxnews.com/science/evidence-suggests-sun-entering-solar-minimum-stage-reports.amp

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President Donald Trump says he wants a commitment to "substantive improvements" to the World Health Organization in the next month or he will make his temporary pause on U.S. funding to the group permanent.

In a letter to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted to Twitter late Monday, Trump accused the organization of an "alarming lack of independence" from China amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world," the letter said.

Biologist doctor Caroline Gutsmuth gives a phone call in medical biology laboratory who opened a coronavirus drive-thru testing site, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, Monday, March 23, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron urged employees to keep working in supermarkets, production sites and other businesses that need to keep running amid stringent restrictions of movement due to the rapid spreading of the new coronavirus in the country. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems.

Trump called on the organization to commit to reform or he will make the "temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization."

The president's demand comes as worldwide cases of the coronavirus exceed 4.8 million and deaths near 319,000. U.S. health officials report more than 1.5 million infections and over 90,000 fatalities.

China on Tuesday pushed back against accusations listed in the letter.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-19/trump-demands-who-reform-threatens-to-make-us-funding-pause-permanent

The WHO 'can't' you trust POTUS?
Misleaders disguised as experts and leaders? Dig deep and see them for what they are?

Four of the main global big pharmaceutical companies are convicted felons. Having paid billions of dollars in fines for defrauding regulators, falsifying science, bribing doctors, lying to the public and for killing lots and lots of people. Robert Kennedy Junior. Look it up!

The free non patentable treatments are suppressed and stamped out together with those who dare to spread this TRUTH.

You are worth more VX'D living half dead than cured...wake up? Take back domain and ownership of your bodies?

Are the rates of all illness over 1000% lower in the Amish community? They don't VX? Do they? Wake up?

Injecting billions of people makes no logical sense? 0.1 to 0.3 Death rate so why force inject 99.09% who will survive, should they ever become ill? What is in the VX they so desperately are cornering you to have? Why?

Scrutinise their VX record in Africa before we let the unelected herd driver dictate which medicines we need to take? The smoking gun?


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Drug smugglers took advantage of the current pandemic to conceal methamphetamine in shipments of hand sanitizer and face masks sent to Australia, according to officials.

Earlier this month, officers with the Australian Border Force found two kilograms of meth hidden in shipments of some of the most needed items during the coronavirus pandemic.

"We know criminals will go to any length to smuggle drugs into the country, so it's no surprise they're trying to use in-demand items such as masks and hand sanitizer to hide them in," ABF Superintendent John Fleming said in a news release on Friday.

Australian authorities have conducted a series of high-profile drug busts in recent years, seizing billions of Australian dollars worth of illicit substances hidden in everything from Sriracha bottles to snow globes. Last year, they seized a record-breaking haul of methamphetamine worth $820 million, hidden inside stereo speakers shipped from Thailand.

Cont'd:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/world/meth-smuggled-hand-sanitizer-australia-trnd/index.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/05/22/joe-biden-breakfast-club-interview-274490

Biden: ‘If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presence-of-women-in-military-has-grown-only-slightly-in-recent-years-study-finds/2020/05/20/5088b4ac-9aa8-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html

The share of female troops in the U.S. military increased only slightly over 14 years, consistently representing less than a fifth of service members, and women remain more likely to leave the military than male troops, a government watchdog report shows.

Women cited an array of challenges in deciding to end military careers at higher rates than men, including sexual assault and difficulty reconciling pregnancies and parenthood with career advancement, according to the study by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

The GAO’s analysis stems from concerns raised by lawmakers in recent years that disproportionate female attrition may harm Defense Department readiness and take an economic toll on the military.

The report comes as the Pentagon seeks to modernize its force and reorient toward China after two decades of counterinsurgent operations. In recent years, the military has sought to prepare for high-tech conflicts by buying sophisticated weaponry and growing its digital capability as the Trump administration has promoted increased defense spending.

But the GAO found that the military has failed over multiple administrations to adequately plan for and track the integration of women across the force, including into ground combat roles. More recently, the department — whose senior leaders remain predominantly male — has not established clear plans and metrics to ensure it can create a more diverse force, the watchdog found.