Biden signs 17 executive orders hours after entering the Oval Office. In doing so he sweeps aside some of President Trump’s more controversial policies.
Revoking travel bans on some Muslim majority countries
The halting of the US-Mexico border wall construction
Directed the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to take appropriate measures to fortify Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Revoking orders to exclude undocumented individuals from the census and apportionment of Congressional representatives.
Memorandum reinstating deportation protections for Liberian immigrants
Establishing a position of coordinator of the COVID-19 response
Masks must be worn on federal property
Reversal of the order removing the US from the World Health Organisation
Executive order extending moratorium on evictions and foreclosures
A pause on student loans
Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords
Stopping the Keystone Pipeline ang halting leasing for gas and oil permits in the Arctic.
The promotion of racial equality
An order barring discrimination based on gender and sex
Executive order requiring ethics pledge for government appointees
The documentary Hail Satan? is to stream on Netflix this month. The program premiered at Sundance in 2019, and won awards. It documents the rise of the Satanic Temple.
The organisation mixes religious practises with aggressive secularism in an attempt to end, what they see as, the evangelical church’s political power in the nation.
The founder of the temple Lucien Greaves is a political activist, he has also set up projects such as The Project Children Project and After School Satan.
A family on a United Airlines flight to New York were told to leave after their two-year-old would not wear a face mask. Video shows the parents trying to put the mask on their child, and the little girl becoming distressed. At one point the father puts his hand over her mouth and says that she now is compliant.
However, the family were removed from the flight. In a further inconvenience to the family their luggage and the toddler’s car seat remained on the flight.
The Federal Trade commission has sued to break up Facebook. If successful the social media giant would be forced to sell off Instagram and What’s App as individual businesses.
“Facebook has maintained its monopoly position by buying up companies that present competitive threats and by imposing restrictive policies that unjustifiably hinder actual or potential rivals that Facebook does not or cannot acquire,” the commission said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Japan is facing a metal health crisis. With more people committing suicide in October than died of Covid over the whole of the year. women have been affected worse than men.
Japan is one of the few nations in the world to release real time data on suicides, for example the more recent data for the US is 2018. The data from Japan gives an insight into the mental health cost of the pandemic. Experts have warned that as the economic and social impacts of the pandemic continue the mental health implications will worsen.
Voting expert Col Phil Waldron in giving evidence at the Pennsylvania election hearing has claimed that in one batch of ballots that recorded some 570,000 votes for Joe Biden and only 3,200 for Donald Trump. If true, that would mean 99.4% of that batch would have went to Joe Biden.
Col. Waldron also outlined the weakness in the electronic voting system.
Waldren: At the very beginning of the chart, where there’s a circle that says “On Election Day,” what that indicates is there’s a spike in loaded votes. 337,000-plus-or-minus-some votes that were added in there in one big batch. So that was an anomaly in the reporting. Normally you would expect to see a smooth curve going up, not any big spikes, that’s kind of what Greg was talking about, the anomalies of loading and uploading those votes. So that big spike that occurs there is a prime indicator of fraudulent voting.
Giuliani: And that’s [a total of] 604,000 votes in 90 minutes, is that right?
Waldren: Correct, this is [shows chart] 337,000 votes in that period of time.
Giuliani: And when you look at this entire curve, with all these spikes, can you calculate how much of a vote that accounted for for Biden, and how much for Trump?
Waldren: Close to 600,000. I think our figures were about 570-some-odd-thousand that all those spikes represent overtime.
The United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have joined forces to seek out “wrong information” and try to create new “social norms” for the spreading of news and information over social media. The two globalist organisations are to set up a new global coronavirus news service.
“When COVID-19 emerged, it was clear from the outset this was not just a public health emergency, but a communications crisis as well,” Melissa Fleming, chief of global communications for the United Nations, said.
“We’re trying to create this new social norm called ‘pause – take care before you share’,” Fleming continued. “We’re equipping people, through this new social norm, with a bit of ‘information scepticism’.”
At the G20 Summit President Xi Jinping has called for a “global mechanism” to open up international travel.
He suggested that everyone have a QR code. “We need to further harmonise policies and standards and establish ‘fast tracks’ to facilitate the orderly flow of people,” he said.
QR codes would be linked to your health care status.
However, human rights campaigners have warned that the system could be used for “broader political monitoring and exclusion”.
Within the Chinese city of Hangzhou a permanent QR code system will be implemented to give citizens a personal health score based on their medical history, personal fitness and health check ups.
Singapore and Australia have also used QR code technology during the pandemic in their track and trace systems.
In a relatively short period of time the AI technology of deep fakes has managed to create images which look real. Websites now exist where you can buy fake people photos.
People might use them on their gaming profiles. However, very often they are used for nefarious purposes. Such as online trolling, people seeking to infiltrate intelligence organisations, and dangerous political organisations.
The technology takes images of real people and feeds it into the program. The program then learns the way a human face is built, and using complicated mathematical modelling can recreate a human face, with parameters set by you; for example, gender, race, age.
France has been in a second lockdown since the end of October. As the end of November looms the streets of Paris are deserted of the Christmas shoppers. Flagship stores are boarded up.
“It’s sad. We are outside Galeries Lafayette and everything is closed,” said one would-be shopper, Emmanuelle Tiger. “They’ve put up (shop window) lights. That’s great, but we don’t feel the Christmas spirit at all.”
In a keynote speech to the conservative Federalist Society Justice Alito has warned that religious liberty and free speech are no longer as valued as they once were. He said that, “Tolerance for opposing views is now in short supply,” and warned that people in the country face retaliation, and harassment if they do not conform to the popular ideologies.
“In certain quarters religious liberty has fast become a disfavored right,” he said. “For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom. It’s often just an excuse for bigotry and it can’t be tolerated even when there’s no evidence that anybody has been harmed.”
In the address he warned that religious liberty was in danger of becoming a “second-class” right.