FBI investigating as ballot boxes go up in flames in Vancouver, Washington

Ballot boxes in Washington State and Oregon were set alight by the same culprit damaging hundreds of votes, the FBI believes.

Footage of the blaze in Vancouver, Washington shows smoke billowing from a red drop box as a uniformed officer scrapes at the smouldering remains of voter slips.

Hundreds of ballots appeared to be reduced to ashes and local media reported that only a handful were saved.

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Che Guevara was a sadist

Fitting model for a Che Guevara t-shirt

Why do people still glorify this child murderer?

Che Guevara died 57 years ago this month and yet, even now, he remains the epitome of revolutionary cool. You never know when he is going to pop up. I came across him recently in the lobby of a hotel in Kandy in the highlands of Sri Lanka. There he was with that determined, heroic look under a dashing beret with a red star badge. He was on a poster dominating the wall above the capitalist till where the luxury hotel took payment.

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B.C. NDP hangs on to power, will form next government, CBC News projects

David Eby’s British Columbia NDP appears to have fended off the John Rustad Conservative surge by a razor-thin margin to form the next provincial government, CBC News projects.

Whether the party forms a minority or majority government is still uncertain.

Currently, the NDP has been elected in 46 ridings and is leading in one, with the Conservatives elected in 43 and leading in one. The B.C. Greens have been elected in two ridings.

And …

Did the Democrats run these elections?

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PBS Flouts Goldwater Rule, Invites Shrink to Diagnose Trump: ‘Ample Evidence’ of Dementia

PBS = TDS

PBS News anchor Amna Nawaz hosted clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis on Thursday’s PBS News Hour for a segment that felt very much like a violation of the psychiatric profession’s so-called Goldwater Rule.

Nawaz pounced on Trump’s long pause for music appreciation during a campaign appearance, after two medical emergencies in the crowd had halted proceedings, and another rambling anecdote involving a battery, a sinking boat, and a shark.

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India’s plans to punish spitting in food spark controversy

This month, two states ruled by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced plans to impose hefty fines and imprisonment for contaminating food with spit, urine and dirt.

The northern state of Uttarakhand will fine offenders up to 100,000 rupees ($1,190; £920), while neighbouring Uttar Pradesh is set to introduce stringent laws to address the issue.

The government directives followed the circulation of unverified videos on social media showing vendors spitting on food at local stalls and restaurants – and one video depicting a house-help mixing urine into food she was preparing.


This is why I do not trust any 3rd world staffed fast food joints, restaurants or delivery services in Canada any longer.

Trudeau and his corporate welfare pals like Tim Horton’s in their greed are unwittingly ruining the food services sector of the economy.

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Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever.

Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever.

When Donald Trump’s campaign announced plans for a rally at Madison Square Garden, Democrats and their media allies knew they had a problem. Trump was going to pack the house on their turf. So they wasted no time pushing the tired Hitler narrative and claimed that the choice of venue was an homage to a pro-Nazi rally held there in 1939.

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Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds

At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canada.

Imposters used the company’s confidential credentials to get unauthorized access into hundreds of Canadians’ personal CRA accounts, change direct deposit information, submit false returns and pocket more than $6 million in bogus refunds from the public purse, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada has found.

… In the end, the public was never alerted to the scheme.

… In a statement, H&R Block said there is no evidence the breach came from it.

h/t Patti Jo

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