California Republicans Commit Voter Fraud To Own The Libs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWG6nhVGNHA&ab_channel=SecularTalk

PRIEST SENTENCED TO 33 MONTHS FOR PROTESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS

By Kings Bay Plowshares 7.

October 16, 2020




https://popularresistance.org/priest-sentenced-to-33-months-for-protesting-nuclear-weapons/

Fifteen supporters in a carefully Covid masked and distanced courtroom witnessed Father Steve Kelly receive a sentence of 33 months today. After a 20 minute delay to get the telephone conference line working and properly muted 160 people listened in to the proceedings on the audio link.

Fr. Steve’s sentence falls in the middle of the proposed guidelines and will likely allow his release from the Glynn County Detention Center where he is presently being detained 30 months after the action. He has accumulated sufficient good time during his incarceration to cover the remaining three months.

Judge Wood held up a 7 inch thick sheath of hundreds of letters she had received in support of Fr. Steve and said she had read and considered all of them. However, she then proceeded to rule against all the arguments he had submitted disputing the probation department’s assessment of his record and their recommendations for a substantial sentence. She ruled that the activists had shown disregard for human life by entering a deadly force zone and failed to show acceptance of responsibility. Fr. Steve had earlier submitted a presentencing statement where he told the court he would not agree to any conditions of probation or restitution. Judge Wood did not address this statement.

Read presentence statement: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/2020/10/sentencing-oct-15-16-call-in-information/

Watch Dennis Apel reading it outside courthouse :






Fr. Steve’s character witness, Dennis Apel from Santa Maria, CA, who has known him for many years and participated in numerous protests together strongly condemned the US court system for maintaining idolatry to the Pentagon. By using in limine motions to so broadly limit what Plowshares activists can say in court the “whole truth” which the witness’ oath demands is impossible to express. (Full text follows below)

The prosecutor, Gil Gillully, expressed horror at property destruction by the defendants while remaining deeply oblivious to the threat of total global destruction by Trident’s nuclear weapons. He argued that people who attack naval bases and destroy property are not peaceful protestors and must be punished and deterred. He asked for the high end of the guidelines for Fr. Kelly who he said has been arrested 20 times over 20 years.
Patrick O’Neill Will Be Sentenced Friday, October 16 At 1pm EDT

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The other four defendants, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Martha Hennessy, and Carmen Trotta, are now scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 12 and 13, with Covid conditions possibly causing further postponements. Liz McAlister was sentenced to time served via video from her home in Connecticut in June. She had served 17 months in the Camden and Glynn County jails. She also received similar probation and restitution requirements.

This sentencing took place almost a year since their conviction on three felony and one misdemeanor charge and nearly two and a half years since the nuclear disarmament action of the Kings Bay Plowshares. On April 4th, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the KBP7 entered the Kings Bay Trident nuclear submarine base in south Georgia to spotlight the extreme illegality and immorality of the omnicidal weapons based there.

Healthcare Billionaires Got Nearly $150 BILLION Richer

 

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The Case For And Against Confirming Amy Coney Barrett

https://politics.theonion.com/the-case-for-and-against-confirming-amy-coney-barrett-1845391831




Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has driven controversy in Washington over both her beliefs and the legitimacy of her appointment. The Onion presents the case for and against confirming Barrett for the Supreme Court.




Case For Confirming Barrett:

Was able to name most of the protections under the first amendment.


Brings the wealth of judicial experience that only three years on the job can provide.

Mentored by Ginsburg’s longtime friend and colleague Antonin Scalia.

Seems only fair to let Republicans control at least one branch of government for foreseeable future.

Has promised not to make judicial decisions based on all the things she believes and has promised to uphold.

Case Against Confirming Barrett:

Rejecting her would mean everyone got infected at her nomination for nothing.


Internet flooded with DIY abortion videos.

Potentially inappropriate to appoint justices right before an election as noted by Judge Amy Coney Barrett in 2016.

Will inspire Catholic women all over the country.

'These Two Things Are Related': As Big Oil Ups Donations to Dems, Biden Says Banning Fossil Fuels Within Next Decade 'Not Possible'

"Yes it is. And we're going to do it," countered Jamie Henn of Fossil Free Media.



Kenny Stancil, staff writer



https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/16/these-two-things-are-related-big-oil-ups-donations-dems-biden-says-banning-fossil

During his town hall event Thursday night on ABC, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared banning fossil fuels within the decade an impossibility, just as the latest filings showed that major U.S. oil and gas companies have increased their financial contributions to Democratic candidates this election cycle, prompting one critic to warn Friday about the negative role that Big Oil donors play in weakening climate policies.

"The difference between me and the new green deal is they say, automatically, by 2030 we're going to be carbon free. Not possible," Biden said on Thursday night.

Biden's comments coincided with news that Chevron and Exxon Mobil, the two largest energy firms in the U.S., have "increased their share of campaign donations to Democrats this year... amid a looming battle over fracking," as Reuters reported Friday.

"These two things are related," Matt Huber, a geographer specializing in labor, energy, and climate politics, noted Friday on social media, connecting the dots between the growing Democratic share of the fossil fuel industry's political donations and Biden's more moderate approach to emissions reductions.


In a Twitter thread, Huber pointed out that the ruling class used to say the same thing about an eight-hour work day and other democratic regulations on the power of capital that Biden now says about rapidly ending the use of fossil fuels.

In the nineteenth century, Huber pointed out, "capitalists proclaim[ed] laws to limit the working day, bans on child labor, and other moral basics were simply 'impossible.'"

Unsurprisingly, Biden is light-years ahead of President Donald Trump, who as Climatewire noted, "didn't mention climate or energy issues during his combative NBC town hall" Thursday night.

Although progressives are pushing for a faster timeline for transforming the country's energy infrastructure, Biden does have a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the course of the next few decades while creating millions of green jobs, unlike the current White House.

For instance, while the Trump administration has bailed out the faltering fossil fuel industry during its pandemic-driven downturn, Biden proposed using public subsidies in more socially and environmentally beneficial ways.




The government could provide funding "to hire 128,000 of these people who are working in the industry to cap these [abandoned, methane-emitting] wells and get a good salary doing it now," he said.

As Climatewire reported, "Biden also returned to his usual climate pitch: Use the federal government's purchasing power to expand the electric vehicle market, invest in charging stations, and hire union workers to weatherize millions of buildings."

However, Biden also echoed his running mate Kamala Harris' recent defense of hydraulic fracturing when he said, "First of all, I make it clear, I do not propose banning fracking"—even though recent polling shows that fracking's negative impacts on human and environmental health have made it unpopular in places like Pennsylvania.

As Common Dreams noted earlier this week when reporting on the Sunrise Movement's new ad for Mike Siegel, the Democratic candidate for Texas' 10th congressional district, climate justice advocates have begun using unions as a vehicle to increase support for the Green New Deal among coal, gas, and oil workers as well as the public at large—many of whom have either not heard of or do not have a clear understanding of the plan, according to recent research.

Yet at the same time, Biden has been distancing himself from the Green New Deal, diluting its more ambitious and aggressive approach to achieving zero-emission electricity generation and transmission.

"My deal is a crucial framework, but not the new green deal," Biden said. "The new green deal calls for elimination of all nonrenewable energy by 2030. You can't get there. You're going to need to be able to transition."

Huber—who has written at length about the need to interweave the labor and environmental movements to realize a just transition to renewable energy that is supportive of and supported by the working class—acknowledged that problems like solar and wind intermittency and inadequate storage technology render it "very difficult" to completely eradicate dirty energy sources within the decade, but he argued that "it's bad to claim impossibility from the outset."

"If you take seriously the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report," Huber said, "and the need for the U.S. [to achieve] disproportionate reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions], we need radical curbs of fossil fuels FAST."

Regarding the possibility of eliminating fossil fuels in 10 years, 350.org co-founder and director of Fossil Free Media Jamie Henn tweeted Friday: "Yes it is. And we're going to do it."

Nancy Pelosi Flips Out on Wolf Blitzer During an Entitled Cable News Meltdown on CNN

 

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Town of Great Barrington Joins Health Experts in Condemning 'Herd Immunity' Death Cult That Bears Its Name

"Many town leaders believe herd immunity is a dangerous Covid-19 strategy... Please wear a mask."


by
Julia Conley, staff writer



https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/16/town-great-barrington-joins-health-experts-condemning-herd-immunity-death-cult-bears




Unequivocally aligning itself with public health experts who have spent months promoting common-sense methods of reducing coronavirus transmission, the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts released a statement Thursday denouncing an anti-science declaration which took its name earlier this month.

Officials in the town took issue with the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which proposes the pursuit of herd immunity—or what it calls "focused protection"—by allowing Covid-19 to spread through the young and relatively healthy population. In a statement, the officials warn such an approach would undermine months of hard work in the town to promote social distancing and the wearing of face coverings through its public health campaign, "GBSafe."


Town Manager Mark Pruhenski decried the declaration for creating "harmful misperceptions" about Great Barrington "just as we are doing all we can to protect residents, employees and visitors.” "For months, the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts has strived to be a Covid-safe community," reads the statement posted to the town's official website. "But this hard work is now challenged by the controversial 'Great Barrington Declaration.'"

"We are a Covid-safe community, we are not tossing off our masks," said Pruhenski.

The Declaration, unveiled in the town on Oct. 4 by three scientists, was developed by the American Institute for Economic Research, a think tank whose libertarian views are often at odds with the generally progressive leadership and population of Great Barrington.

The scientists hold prestigious appointments at University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Stanford Medical School, but National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins has warned that their views are "fringe" and "dangerous."

The declaration calls for officials to allow Covid-19 to spread through the young and relatively healthy population while the elderly and people with pre-existing health conditions would be protected in an unspecified manner.

Young people, argue the scientists, who met with Trump administration officials last week, should go about their daily routines with no regard for mask-wearing, social distancing, or avoidance of large gatherings—simple steps which public health experts agree can significantly reduce the transmission of Covid-19.

A day before the town of Great Barrington took pains to distance itself from the declaration, a coalition of 17 public health organizations also condemned the scientists' proposal in a joint statement.

With 85 to 90% of the U.S. public still at risk for contracting Covid-19, "There is no evidence that we are even remotely close to herd immunity," wrote the groups, including the American Public Health Association, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials. "Herd immunity is achieved when the virus stops circulating because a large segment of the population has already been infected. Letting Americans get sick, rather than focusing on proven methods to prevent infections, could lead to hundreds of thousands of preventable illnesses and deaths."

While critics of public health measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus—including Dr. Scott Atlas, a top White House adviser on the pandemic who has no public health expertise—have pointed to Sweden's approach as one the U.S. should emulate, the organizations note that the country has the highest mortality rate in Scandinavia after failing to implement an early and robust economic shutdown.




"We have seen the failure of the herd immunity experiment in nations such as Sweden," the organizations wrote. "It is illogical to ignore public health and scientific evidence when so many lives are at stake."

Also on Wednesday, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) released a separate statement calling the Great Barrington Declaration "inappropriate, irresponsible, and ill-informed."


"'Community immunity,' or 'herd immunity,' a goal of vaccination campaigns, should never come at the cost of planned exposure to infection of millions of additional people as well as the severe illness and preventable deaths of hundreds of thousands of people," the IDSA and HIVMA added. "As an association of more than 12,000 frontline infectious diseases scientists, physicians, public health experts, and other health professionals, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and its HIV Medicine Association strongly denounce the 'declaration,' released without data or evidence, that states this crisis can be controlled in the absence of critical public health measures," wrote the groups.

With one of its proponents working at Oxford, the Great Barrington Declaration has raised alarm in the United Kingdom as well as the U.S. On Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that the document is underpinned by two "emphatically false" claims.

"First it says that if enough people get Covid, we will reach herd immunity. This is not true. Many infectious diseases never reach herd immunity, like measles and malaria and AIDS and flu," said Hancock. "Herd immunity is a flawed goal without a vaccine, even if we could get to it—which we can't."

"The second central claim is that we can segregate the old and the vulnerable on our way to herd immunity," Hancock continued. "This is simply not possible...Whenever we've seen cases of young people rise sharply, we then see cases among the over-60s rise inevitably thereafter. And we are not the kind of country that abandons our vulnerable or just locks them up.


In Great Barrington, town officials made clear that they remain on the side of public health officials, not that of the authors of the declaration.

"Many town leaders believe herd immunity is a dangerous Covid-19 strategy: Achieving herd immunity levels could cost millions of lives, and this is unacceptable, particularly in a nation where far too many people live with risky, underlying health conditions," the officials said. "Please wear a mask."