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Updated: Aug 1, 2021
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Trump Had To Step Aside So The American People Could Be “The Storm”
AUDITS
Gen. Flynn Exclusive: 10 Indisputable Facts on the 2020 Election That Argue for Audits
PA
Pennsylvania Senator Prepares to Issue Subpoenas After Three Counties Reject Audit Requests
see bottom of this article for the details
COVID
Make your mind up! White House slams WaPo and NYTimes for 'completely irresponsible' tweets that misrepresented the CDC's Cape Cod study on Delta spread - that Biden then used for U-turn on mask advice
Arkansas Judge Restores $300 Pandemic Jobless Benefit Boost
see bottom of this article for the details
Florida Governor DeSantis signs executive order making masks optional in schools
https://oltnews.com/florida-governor-desantis-signs-executive-order-making-masks-optional-in-schools
Walmart, Disney Mandate Vaccines For Many Workers
Walmart is requiring that all workers at its headquarters as well as its managers who travel within the U.S. be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 4.
The retailer based in Bentonville, Arkansas, is also reversing its mask policy for its employees working in stores, clubs, distribution facilities and warehouses. Going forward, they will be required to wear masks in areas with high infection rates, even if they have been vaccinated.
Australia uses helicopters and the ARMY to enforce its 'Zero Covid' lockdown as thousands of police flood Sydney to enforce the rules and hand out $500 no-mask fines - with just 17% of adults vaccinated
A California restaurant is using a talking robot to serve customers because it can't find enough workers during the labor shortage
Make your mind up! White House slams WaPo and NYTimes for 'completely irresponsible' tweets that misrepresented the CDC's Cape Cod study on Delta spread - that Biden then used for U-turn on mask advice
FINANCE
U.S. Senate works on the weekend on $1 trillion infrastructure bill
The bill does not include funding for most climate change and social initiatives that Democrats aim to pass in a separate $3.5 trillion measure without Republican support.
WEATHER
Turkish wildfire leaves charred home and ashes, as blazes continue
TRUMP
WORLD
Massive Crowds Protest Vaccine Passports And Mandatory Vaccinations All Over France
BYEDIN
Report: Biden Staffers Referring To Biden As “The Nightmare On Elm Street”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/report-biden-staffers-referring-biden-nightmare-elm-street/
New attacks on US officials prove Russia is our enemy, not our friend
EPOCH TIMES
Pennsylvania Senator Prepares to Issue Subpoenas After Three Counties Reject Audit Requests
A Pennsylvania senator is preparing to ask a panel he chairs for the authority to issue subpoenas to compel counties to cooperate with his effort to investigate the 2020 election.
“We’re eagerly awaiting my committee coming together when I can get a quorum, get everyone’s calendars matched up—it is summertime. As soon as I get a quorum, we will have a meeting, we will vote on subpoenas, and let the fun begin,” Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican who chairs the state Senate’s Intergovernmental Operations Committee, said on One America News this week.
Mastriano initiated a forensic probe of the 2020 and 2021 elections in early July by sending requests for materials like ballots and asking for access to machines, to Tioga, York, and Philadelphia counties.
But officials in all three counties are refusing to comply voluntarily, setting up the need for subpoenas.
Mastriano set a deadline of July 31 in his letters to the counties.
York County commissioners indicated in mid-July that they would not send materials to Mastriano, or give him access to voting machines. Tioga County officials said Thursday they wouldn’t let Mastriano’s panel access machines unless the state Senate authorized funding for new machines. And Philadelphia City Commissioners on Friday voted against voluntary participation in the audit.
“Philadelphia County’s participation in your proposed analysis would be duplicative of extensive efforts already undertaken by the Philadelphia County Board of Elections, the Pennsylvania Department of State, state and federal courts, and your colleagues in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Participation could also impair our ability to operate fair and secure elections in Philadelphia,” Lisa Deeley, a Democrat commissioner, wrote in a July 30 letter to Mastriano.
Previous election reviews have shown no issues with the 2020 election, Deeley noted.
Commissioner Omar Sabir, the only Republican commissioner, joined the two Democrats in rejecting the request.
County officials have cited the threat of machine decertification as one of the reasons they will not comply. Philadelphia officials said replacing the machines would cost over $35 million. Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid, an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, decertified Fulton County’s machines last week after they agreed late last year to an election assessment based on a request from Mastriano.
Wake Technology Inc., a Pennsylvania-based company, carried out the assessment. But that access was not authorized, and prevents Dominion Voting Systems, whose machines are used by the county, from “affirming that the system continues to meet state and federal certification standards,” according to Degraffenreid.
Mastriano has said the pressure on counties from the executive branch is a form of intimidation.
Wolf and the secretary of state “are trying to threaten and bully” the counties, he told reporters at a recent press conference.
Stuart Ulsh, a Republican commissioner in Fulton County, added that the machines there were not compromised or tampered with. Wake workers performed the review under the strict supervision of county officials, he said.
Ulsh alleged that officials with the Pennsylvania Department of State had asked him to remove from the county’s website the report Wake produced on what they found.
“It makes you wonder what you’re trying to hide,” he said.
Arkansas Judge Restores $300 Pandemic Jobless Benefit Boost
An Arkansas judge on Thursday ordered the state to resume paying the $300 supplemental federal pandemic jobless benefit that the state’s governor blamed for fueling a hiring crunch and decided to end early.
In granting the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction that reinstates the federal jobless compensation boost, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herbert Wright Jr. expressed “serious doubts” whether Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson had the authority to end the benefit early, according to a July 28 order (pdf).
Hutchinson, a Republican, in May announced that the state would end its participation in the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program on June 26, citing business hiring difficulties.
“The $300 federal supplement helped thousands of Arkansans make it through this tough time, so it served a good purpose,” Hutchinson said in a statement at the time. “Now we need Arkansans back on the job so that we can get our economy back to full speed.”
The plaintiffs—five Arkansas residents—sued Hutchinson and the Arkansas Director of Workforce Services, arguing they lacked the authority to end the state’s participation in the federal program ahead of its scheduled termination date in September.
The judge agreed, arguing in the order that such decisions would normally be the subject of legislation from the Arkansas state legislature and that the plaintiffs have a “reasonable likelihood of success on the merits and are likely to suffer harm in the absence of a preliminary injunction.”
The Arkansas ruling came on the same day that an Ohio judge rejected a similar bid to reinstate the $300 pandemic jobless benefit top-up.
In the Ohio ruling (pdf), Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Michael J. Holbrook said his decision to deny plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction was “not one that can be taken lightly” but that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine acted within his authority when he opted out of the federal program.
“The court is aware of, and sympathetic to, the thousands of Ohioans without work and in desperate need of any assistance available,” Holbrook wrote, but “the court simply cannot legislate from the bench and overlook the clear terms” of Ohio law.
DeWine and Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said in a statement they were pleased with the decision.
“We have heard over and over again from employers who can’t find workers to fill open positions, and this policy helps both employers and workers,” they said. “As a result of the tough decisions we have made, Ohio’s recovery is strong, unemployment claims are declining, and Ohio’s unemployment rate is below the national average.”
Around two dozen states have decided to end their participation in the FPUC program, with governors nearly universally arguing that the extra benefit—which is over and above state unemployment compensation—discouraged workers from taking jobs and so hurt businesses.
While lawsuits have been filed in a number of states over the early opt-out, efforts to reinstate the $300 weekly boost have so far succeeded only in Indiana, Maryland, and Arkansas.
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