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#4809796 at 2019-01-18 22:14:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6139: Pepe Friday Edition
Canada wants to start harvesting organs before donors are dead
The foundations of medicine and ethics are on thin ice.
According to an opinion article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors from the University of Western Ontario and a bioethicist from Harvard Medical School urge Canada to loosen restrictions around euthanasia. Such a change calls for organ donors who have chosen the unfortunate path of euthanasia to donate their organs while they are still alive. The authors claim by loosening these restrictions, doctors will be able to remove organs for donation in the best possible condition. And while the purpose of the notion sounds positive, the process is anything but.
Euthanasia and CanadIan Law
The doctors - Ian Ball, Robert Sibbald, and Robert Truog - argue that allowing patients to donate their organs by euthanasia is ethical, as long as they give consent. The authors write:
"Although some patients may want to be sure that organ procurement won't begin before they are declared dead, others may want not only a rapid, peaceful, and painless death, but also the option of donating as many organs as possible and in the best condition possible. Following the dead donor rule could interfere with the ability of these patients to achieve their goals. In such cases, it may be ethically preferable to procure the patient's organs in the same way that organs are procured from brain-dead patients (with the use of general anesthesia to ensure the patient's comfort)."
The report reveals clearly the proposed procurement process will involve live patients under anesthetics. This process would therefore require the Criminal Code of Canada to be modified since the only accepted form of assisted suicide in Canada is through "the administering by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner of a substance to a person, at their request, that causes their death." To add, the commonly referred to "dead donor rule," which states that a patient must be dead before the donation process begins, would also be scrapped.
Weighing the Risks
Drawing a bridge between euthanasia and organ donation is scary enough, considering the pressures which are put on the patient to donate organs by euthanasia. Patients already feel the inevitable self-manifested pressure on whether or not euthanasia is right for them when considering their life, family, and friends before the scariest choice of their life.
Obviously, there are many people who will likely side with the doctors who wrote this opinion piece, perhaps because of their professional opinion or because they think the changes they would like to see happen are all for the benefit of the donor and the receiving patient. But what they tend to not realize is that maybe this whole euthanasia thing isn't so beneficial. Maybe it is actually detrimental to the foundations of the ethical plane of society and culture in which we live today.
Considering what cultural implications might take place if Canada starts to abandon its moral roots, it is almost indisputable to anticipate a moral landslide that would take place in the years to come. Think of it as a healthy individual choosing whether or not they should eat a chip from an large bag; once that individual has one chip, they will probably want to eat another, then another, and so on.
CanadIans have always been slightly more tolerant of the idea of euthanasia than other western countries, but never before have they been introduced to an idea which would entail multiple breaches in the CMA Code of Ethics and the Criminal Code of Canada.
Considering the serious moral and ethical implications harvesting organs from a living person would include, the pressure that would ensue on countless future donors, and the ethical breaches that would likely take place shortly after passing a proposal like this, CanadIans need to reject this idea before it gains any more traction and leaves CanadIans hopeless on a tragic moral downfall.
https://humandefense.com/canadas-euthanasia-plans-are-out-of-control/
https://twitter.com/HumanDefenseINI/status/1085695648014360581
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (8)
#11415047 at 2020-11-02 23:34:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition
#10 - Part 16
Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide - Part 1
>>10706258 How Victoria's Covid lockdown protests are galvanising Australia's right - Michael McGowan - theguardIan.com
>>10706380 Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis - Jason Wilson - theguardIan.com
>>10729596 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: False rumours spread online about former Supreme Court Justice - Benedict Brook - news.com.au
>>10729636 Q Post #2653 - [RBG] Why was she 'selected'? Who appointed her? Remember [her] history.
>>10729636 Senators Overlooked Radical Record of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Phyllis Schlafly - August 23, 2005
>>10729744 Sex Bias in the U.S. Code: A Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Key Excerpts from Q Post #2653
>>10766576 AustralIan Jitarth Jadeja: Former QAnon Followers Explain What Drew Them In, And Got Them Out - EJ Dickson - rollingstone.com
>>10781303 The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pushed Me To Join The Satanic Temple - Jamie Smith - huffingtonpost.com.au
>>10781312 Q Post # 2904 - Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
>>10793340 How British grannies are spreading QAnon conspiracy theory memes on Facebook - Sue Greenwood - theconversation.com
>>10804202 'Playing with fire': The curious marriage of QAnon and wellness - Sophie Aubrey - smh.com.au
>>10818272 Why the QAnon conspiracy theory is gaining popularity - Ines Eisele & Mirjam Benecke - dw.com
>>10818469 If your friends or family have fallen for an internet conspiracy cult, here's what you should do - Van Badham - theguardIan.com
>>10851652 Video: What is QAnon and why is it so dangerous? - Julia Carrie Wong - GuardIan News
>>10866340 The U.S. Exported QAnon to Australia and New Zealand. Now It's Creeping Into COVID-19 Lockdown Protests - Amy Gunia - time.com
>>10866725 US Conspiracy network comes down under - Naomi Levin - aijac.org.au
>>10940706 Conspiracy Extremism and Digital Complexity - Where to Start? - Elise Thomas - gnet-research.org
>>10940929 Increased Visibility of Far-Right Movements in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Samaya Borom - gnet-research.org
>>10960694 Facebook bans all QAnon groups as dangerous amid surging misinformation - Joseph Menn - smh.com.au
>>10960694 Facebook Newsroom Tweet: We're strengthening our enforcement efforts against the QAnon conspiracy theory movement
>>10960694 Facebook Newsroom Tweet: Our Dangerous Organizations Operations team is starting to enforce this updated policy today
>>10960706 Facebook to ban QAnon conspiracy theory content from its social media platforms - abc.net.au
>>10960764 Facebook Newsroom Post: An Update to How We Address Movements and Organizations Tied to Violence
>>10960834 Facebook, Instagram ban all QAnon conspiracy theory content ahead of US election - Jack Gramenz - news.com.au
>>10965892 Facebook's QAnon ban omits high-profile AustralIans linked to conspiracy theory - Christopher Knaus, Josh Taylor & Michael McGowan - theguardIan.com
>>10978951 QAnon super-spreader Facebook's latest crackdown may be doomed to fail, experts warn - Isabelle Lane - thenewdaily.com.au
>>10983442 Facebook is removing QAnon pages and groups from its sites, but critical thinking is still the best way to fight conspiracy theories - Shane Satterley - theconversation.com
>>10983540 AustralIan wellness celeb 'Paleo Pete' fuels 'infodemic' - Andrew Beatty, Andrew Leeson, Johnny Lieu & Tania Lee - ctvnews.ca
>>10994062 RISE OF ONLINE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM MAPPED IN LANDMARK NSW STUDY - Macquarie University - mq.edu.au
>>10994062 PDF: Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales - Dr BrIan Ballsun-Stanton, Lise Waldek & Dr JulIan Droogan - Macquarie University
#11414831 at 2020-11-02 23:23:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition
#10 - Part 2
AustralIan Politics and Society - Part 2
>>10941290 Miranda Devine is a conservative AustralIan columnist and writer…As of early 2020, her columns appear in the New York Post
>>10941290 Coronavirus battle shows the bravery of President Trump: Devine - Miranda Devine - nypost.com
>>10941326 "Those who know Cardinal George Pell, the pope's honest former finance minister, always suspected he had been set up" - Miranda Devine
>>10960152 2020 race: Donald Trump on track to lose by a landslide - Cameron Stewart - theaustralIan.com.au
>>10976399 US Embassy Canberra Twitter Thread: Ambassador Culvahouse will be sharing his outlook on the future of the #USwithAUS
>>10976399 "As long as the United States and Australia continue to work together, I am confidently optimistic about the future." - Ambassador Culvahouse
>>10976399 Transcript: Ambassador Culvahouse Speech - ASPI Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue - October 7, 2020
>>10976426 Video: Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue: The future of US-Australia relations - US Ambassador to Australia, Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. - ASPICanberra
>>10977747 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Great to meet again with AustralIan Foreign Minister @MarisePayne…to discuss Quad cooperation
>>10977747 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: The #Quad is a diplomatic network with a positive agenda: a region governed by rules, not power
>>10979128 Awkward moment Scott Morrison confronts Leigh Sales over her 'irresponsible question' when she grills him about the US presidential election
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>10994640 PDF: Parliament of Australia - Review Of The Four Major Banks - National Australia Bank - Anti-money laundering
>>11007426 SAS at war: Internal military investigation finds Ben Roberts-Smith may have threatened to shoot a fellow soldier in the back of the head
>>11008088 Freemasons NSW & ACT recruitment add in a local paper
>>11008922 ADF personnel warned about social media use after offensive Instagram account uncovered
>>11020501 US elections were changed for better (and worse) by the secret 'AustralIan Ballot'
>>11034788 Trump needs to take fight up to Biden and land some punches - Joe Hockey - theaustralIan.com.au
>>11035007, >>11035014 Democrat Barbara Bollier's praise of strict AustralIan gun laws roils Kansas Senate race
>>11048335 US election: Joe Biden in the White House would be good for us - Troy Bramston - theaustralIan.com.au
>>11048472 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: They operate in the shadows, but shed light that helps keep Australia safe - Defence Intelligence Organisation
>>11048507 Alarm as neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network expands to Adelaide
>>11063585 'An apocalyptic list': Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo says climate change, pandemics warrant security rethink
>>11063601 Video: Securing Australia: In conversation with Michael Pezzullo - national security in an increasingly complex and interconnected world
>>11079845 Bruce Springsteen: 'If Trump wins I'm moving to Australia' - Poppy Reid - tonedeaf.thebrag.com - tonedeaf logo symbolism
>>11080248 Pacific Marines Tweet: The ninth iteration of @mrfdarwin has wrapped up in the Northern Territory of #Australia
>>11080248 Video: Colonel David Banning, Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Commanding Officer
>>11080293 Police won't charge ABC journalist over 'Afghan Files' stories
>>11098507 NBC Moderator Savannah Guthrie (born in Melbourne, Australia) hailed for keeping Trump in check at town hall
>>11098719 Video: Savannah Guthrie: AustralIan-born town hall moderator who held Trump to task, married to former Al Gore political operative Michael Feldman
>>11098850 AustralIan-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden - THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN
>>11099297 Video: Lowy Institute Live: In conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston - https://qanon.pub/?q=mattis
>>11099672 AustralIan Defence Force orders ban on destruction of evidence from Afghanistan war, as inquiry into alleged war crimes nears end
>>11100195 ASIO warns foreign spies are secretly 'cultivating politicIans' across Australia
>>11100315 PDF: ASIO Annual Report 2019-20 "Parliament grants ASIO extraordinary powers, but those powers must always be exercised legally and ethically"
>>11100891 'Without peer': Top spy Nick Warner, Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence to retire this year
>>11112388 US election 2020: Voters are tired of Trump's catastrophic presidency - Troy Bramston - theaustralIan.com.au
>>11125093 Murder and abduction claims have Rwandan Government accused of intimidating critics in Australia
>>11125850 Video: Australia One - Riccardo Bosi Talks To Sacha Stone
>>11134109 PDF: Bit-chute replacements for YouTube patriot accounts
#11414521 at 2020-11-02 23:08:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
#10 - Part 16
Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide - Part 1
>>10706258 How Victoria's Covid lockdown protests are galvanising Australia's right - Michael McGowan - theguardIan.com
>>10706380 Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis - Jason Wilson - theguardIan.com
>>10729596 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: False rumours spread online about former Supreme Court Justice - Benedict Brook - news.com.au
>>10729636 Q Post #2653 - [RBG] Why was she 'selected'? Who appointed her? Remember [her] history.
>>10729636 Senators Overlooked Radical Record of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Phyllis Schlafly - August 23, 2005
>>10729744 Sex Bias in the U.S. Code: A Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Key Excerpts from Q Post #2653
>>10766576 AustralIan Jitarth Jadeja: Former QAnon Followers Explain What Drew Them In, And Got Them Out - EJ Dickson - rollingstone.com
>>10781303 The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pushed Me To Join The Satanic Temple - Jamie Smith - huffingtonpost.com.au
>>10781312 Q Post # 2904 - Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
>>10793340 How British grannies are spreading QAnon conspiracy theory memes on Facebook - Sue Greenwood - theconversation.com
>>10804202 'Playing with fire': The curious marriage of QAnon and wellness - Sophie Aubrey - smh.com.au
>>10818272 Why the QAnon conspiracy theory is gaining popularity - Ines Eisele & Mirjam Benecke - dw.com
>>10818469 If your friends or family have fallen for an internet conspiracy cult, here's what you should do - Van Badham - theguardIan.com
>>10851652 Video: What is QAnon and why is it so dangerous? - Julia Carrie Wong - GuardIan News
>>10866340 The U.S. Exported QAnon to Australia and New Zealand. Now It's Creeping Into COVID-19 Lockdown Protests - Amy Gunia - time.com
>>10866725 US Conspiracy network comes down under - Naomi Levin - aijac.org.au
>>10940706 Conspiracy Extremism and Digital Complexity - Where to Start? - Elise Thomas - gnet-research.org
>>10940929 Increased Visibility of Far-Right Movements in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Samaya Borom - gnet-research.org
>>10960694 Facebook bans all QAnon groups as dangerous amid surging misinformation - Joseph Menn - smh.com.au
>>10960694 Facebook Newsroom Tweet: We're strengthening our enforcement efforts against the QAnon conspiracy theory movement
>>10960694 Facebook Newsroom Tweet: Our Dangerous Organizations Operations team is starting to enforce this updated policy today
>>10960706 Facebook to ban QAnon conspiracy theory content from its social media platforms - abc.net.au
>>10960764 Facebook Newsroom Post: An Update to How We Address Movements and Organizations Tied to Violence
>>10960834 Facebook, Instagram ban all QAnon conspiracy theory content ahead of US election - Jack Gramenz - news.com.au
>>10965892 Facebook's QAnon ban omits high-profile AustralIans linked to conspiracy theory - Christopher Knaus, Josh Taylor & Michael McGowan - theguardIan.com
>>10978951 QAnon super-spreader Facebook's latest crackdown may be doomed to fail, experts warn - Isabelle Lane - thenewdaily.com.au
>>10983442 Facebook is removing QAnon pages and groups from its sites, but critical thinking is still the best way to fight conspiracy theories - Shane Satterley - theconversation.com
>>10983540 AustralIan wellness celeb 'Paleo Pete' fuels 'infodemic' - Andrew Beatty, Andrew Leeson, Johnny Lieu & Tania Lee - ctvnews.ca
>>10994062 RISE OF ONLINE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM MAPPED IN LANDMARK NSW STUDY - Macquarie University - mq.edu.au
>>10994062 PDF: Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales - Dr BrIan Ballsun-Stanton, Lise Waldek & Dr JulIan Droogan - Macquarie University
#11413969 at 2020-11-02 22:41:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
#10 - Part 2
AustralIan Politics and Society - Part 2
>>10941290 Miranda Devine is a conservative AustralIan columnist and writer…As of early 2020, her columns appear in the New York Post
>>10941290 Coronavirus battle shows the bravery of President Trump: Devine - Miranda Devine - nypost.com
>>10941326 "Those who know Cardinal George Pell, the pope's honest former finance minister, always suspected he had been set up" - Miranda Devine
>>10960152 2020 race: Donald Trump on track to lose by a landslide - Cameron Stewart - theaustralIan.com.au
>>10976399 US Embassy Canberra Twitter Thread: Ambassador Culvahouse will be sharing his outlook on the future of the #USwithAUS
>>10976399 "As long as the United States and Australia continue to work together, I am confidently optimistic about the future." - Ambassador Culvahouse
>>10976399 Transcript: Ambassador Culvahouse Speech - ASPI Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue - October 7, 2020
>>10976426 Video: Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue: The future of US-Australia relations - US Ambassador to Australia, Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. - ASPICanberra
>>10977747 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Great to meet again with AustralIan Foreign Minister @MarisePayne…to discuss Quad cooperation
>>10977747 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: The #Quad is a diplomatic network with a positive agenda: a region governed by rules, not power
>>10979128 Awkward moment Scott Morrison confronts Leigh Sales over her 'irresponsible question' when she grills him about the US presidential election
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>10994640 PDF: Parliament of Australia - Review Of The Four Major Banks - National Australia Bank - Anti-money laundering
>>11007426 SAS at war: Internal military investigation finds Ben Roberts-Smith may have threatened to shoot a fellow soldier in the back of the head
>>11008088 Freemasons NSW & ACT recruitment add in a local paper
>>11008922 ADF personnel warned about social media use after offensive Instagram account uncovered
>>11020501 US elections were changed for better (and worse) by the secret 'AustralIan Ballot'
>>11034788 Trump needs to take fight up to Biden and land some punches - Joe Hockey - theaustralIan.com.au
>>11035007, >>11035014 Democrat Barbara Bollier's praise of strict AustralIan gun laws roils Kansas Senate race
>>11048335 US election: Joe Biden in the White House would be good for us - Troy Bramston - theaustralIan.com.au
>>11048472 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: They operate in the shadows, but shed light that helps keep Australia safe - Defence Intelligence Organisation
>>11048507 Alarm as neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network expands to Adelaide
>>11063585 'An apocalyptic list': Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo says climate change, pandemics warrant security rethink
>>11063601 Video: Securing Australia: In conversation with Michael Pezzullo - national security in an increasingly complex and interconnected world
>>11079845 Bruce Springsteen: 'If Trump wins I'm moving to Australia' - Poppy Reid - tonedeaf.thebrag.com - tonedeaf logo symbolism
>>11080248 Pacific Marines Tweet: The ninth iteration of @mrfdarwin has wrapped up in the Northern Territory of #Australia
>>11080248 Video: Colonel David Banning, Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Commanding Officer
>>11080293 Police won't charge ABC journalist over 'Afghan Files' stories
>>11098507 NBC Moderator Savannah Guthrie (born in Melbourne, Australia) hailed for keeping Trump in check at town hall
>>11098719 Video: Savannah Guthrie: AustralIan-born town hall moderator who held Trump to task, married to former Al Gore political operative Michael Feldman
>>11098850 AustralIan-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden - THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN
>>11099297 Video: Lowy Institute Live: In conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston - https://qanon.pub/?q=mattis
>>11099672 AustralIan Defence Force orders ban on destruction of evidence from Afghanistan war, as inquiry into alleged war crimes nears end
>>11100195 ASIO warns foreign spies are secretly 'cultivating politicIans' across Australia
>>11100315 PDF: ASIO Annual Report 2019-20 "Parliament grants ASIO extraordinary powers, but those powers must always be exercised legally and ethically"
>>11100891 'Without peer': Top spy Nick Warner, Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence to retire this year
>>11112388 US election 2020: Voters are tired of Trump's catastrophic presidency - Troy Bramston - theaustralIan.com.au
>>11125093 Murder and abduction claims have Rwandan Government accused of intimidating critics in Australia
>>11125850 Video: Australia One - Riccardo Bosi Talks To Sacha Stone
>>11134109 PDF: Bit-chute replacements for YouTube patriot accounts
#11020515 at 2020-10-11 03:59:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
>>11020501
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The AustralIan Ballot arrives
The secret Ballot was designed to stop one problem made possible by these very public election days - voter intimidation.
It's much harder to intimidate or bribe someone if you can't see who they end up voting for.
But Dr DeBats says there was another reason some states and counties got behind the AustralIan Ballot.
It could be used to control who got to vote.
"It disenfranchised African Americans and disenfranchised anybody who couldn't read a Ballot on their own," Dr DeBats says.
US election Ballots are complicated. It's not just the president being voted for, there are other state and local offices (eg senators, attorneys general), and there are Ballot measures - proposed laws being put to voters.
Reading and filling out a Ballot - as opposed to dropping a pre-written party ticket in a Ballot box - required a level of education that many lacked.
"It was a pseudo literacy test. The AustralIan Ballot, worked very, very well, it disenfranchised millions," Dr DeBats says.
"Anybody who couldn't read a very complicated Ballot, on their own, in secret, in a kind of a sanctified space was essentially disenfranchised. And that was the idea."
A New York Times account of Mississippi's first use of AustralIan Ballots in 1891 says the law, "as is generally known, was passed to put the white people in control of the state for all time to come".
Today
Dr DeBats and other experts argue that the increasingly popular mail-in Ballots reduce secrecy, as voting at home doesn't guarantee the privacy of a polling booth.
It's also easier than ever to view public records with apps allowing people to see information on their friends and contacts (eg. whether they voted at the last election, their political affiliation) and encouraging users to remind them to vote.
But factcheckers warn claims by some such as US Attorney-General William Barr that voting by mail eliminates secret voting are misleading or unfounded.
Dr DeBats says the shift to voting in secret has had a lasting impact on elections that were once open, public, community events.
"Politics is about community, one way or another, and the AustralIan Ballot, individualised, sanctified, sterilised, the vote," he says.
"Do-gooders thought that was a fine thing. Other people thought it probably wasn't a fine thing.
"People who wanted to disenfranchise a lot of people said, 'This is a good way to do it'. And they did it."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-11/us-election-voting-changed-by-secret-australIan-Ballot-history/12726686
#11020501 at 2020-10-11 03:58:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
US elections were changed for better (and worse) by the secret 'AustralIan Ballot'
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The voters in one West VirginIan precinct weren't having it.
"They swore they wouldn't have any more of the AustralIan nonsense," the New York Times and other papers reported.
They told officials to step away and then demolished the polling booths.
It was 1892. They were meant to be using, for the first time, the 'AustralIan Ballot'.
Decades earlier Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia had done something innovative.
In 1856 they'd all passed laws requiring standardised Ballots with the names of all the candidates, that could be filled out secretly and placed in a Ballot box.
Victoria holds the honour of getting in an election first with this new method. SA came up with indicating your choice with an X - as opposed to crossing out the names you didn't want.
But the citizens of Lincoln County, West Virginia, reportedly found this method "slow and tedious".
They demanded, the report says, to vote "according to the old method in vogue before the war".
So they voted by voice.
Before the AustralIan Ballot
There were two ways of voting before the US took on the Aussie invention: viva voce (by voice) or with a party ticket.
If a state or county required voting by voice, men (it was almost all men - in the late 19th century very, very few states allowed women to vote) would announce to an official who they were voting for. Their name and vote was then written down in a poll book.
The other method involved voting with party tickets which were handed out by parties.
"They were highly visible, highly marked ... everybody could see the colour of the ticket. So there was no secrecy," Flinders University's Don DeBats says.
Dr DeBats has spent decades studying US political history and has used the 'viva voce' poll books and public records of two US cites to learn who the voters were, the lives they lived, and the votes they cast.
He says in this era elections were exciting, social events.
"It was a really great public occasion. Everybody got together, both voters and non-voters, they stood around outside - elections were outside - and they watched the election happen. And they watched individuals vote."
(continued)
#10994082 at 2020-10-09 07:54:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
>>10994062
Web of hate: how COVID fuels QAnon and other right-wing extremists in Australia
Right-wing extremism was already a growing problem. But the pandemic has made it that much worse.
MARGOT SAVILLE - OCT 09, 2020
When Donald Trump told US-based white supremacist group the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by", right-wing extremists in Australia were listening.
Groups such as Reclaim Australia and The Lads Society - which are strongly influenced by Trumpist rhetoric - have always been monitored by security agencies, but the scope of their influence has been unclear.
Today's launch of a landmark study, Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales, changes that.
Published by Macquarie and Victoria Universities, the report uses data from social media platforms to delineate a network of online communities which radicalise individuals and introduce extreme rhetoric into AustralIan politics.
On unregulated platforms such as Gab, Reddit, 4chan and 8chan/kun, along with the poorly-moderated Twitter and Facebook, there is a plethora of messages advocating violence, the report found. However, the actual threat of violence was difficult to distinguish from ironic and exaggerated posts.
"We know that individuals with violent intentions exist on these platforms. However, this environment is full of bragging, irony, and fantasy, meaning identification of violent threats is difficult," the report says.
Right-wing extremists are defined by the researchers as communities and individuals committed to an extreme social, political, or ideological position that is pro-white identity and actively suspicious of non-white others.
In these social media echo chambers, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic messaging and far-right conspiracy theories such as QAnon are used to recruit and engage users.
QAnon was the major influence on the Christchurch terrorist who live-streamed the fatal shooting of 51 worshippers at two mosques in 2019.
The dangers of these narratives are that, as well as fostering violent extremism, they serve to "polarise political debate and undermine trust in institutions and democracy," say study authors Dr JulIan Droogan, Dr BrIan Ballsun-Stanton and Lise Waldek.
COVID-19, of course, has made everything much worse. Right-wing extremists have been exploiting the fear about the virus by promoting conspiracy theories and misinformation.
"Conspiracy theories regularly play a critical role in the development of extremism through the formation of crisis narratives. These narratives offer individuals a framework to identify an enemy that can be held accountable and that requires decisive actions against so as to protect the believers from destruction," the report says.
For instance, people who are nervous about using vaccines are told that pharmaceutical companies are in the pocket of politicIans and are therefore part of a powerful cabal, Droogan says. Believing this gives people a sense of agency in a time of crisis and an explanation for acts such as refusing a vaccine.
In 1996, One Nation's Pauline Hanson referred to Australia being "swamped by AsIans". According to the Macquarie University report, racist rhetoric in this country transitioned from a mainly anti-AsIan discourse to an anti-Islamic one in the early 2000s. This was triggered by 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of Islamic State, and the 2014 Martin Place siege.
With less than four weeks left until the US election, the extremist language on these social media platforms will only get worse. Recently, Donald Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory about Ballot fraud, fuelling fears he will refuse to stand down if he loses.
"THE MEDIA IS CORRUPT, JUST LIKE OUR DEMOCRAT-RUN BallOT SYSTEM IS CORRUPT. Look what's happening with Fake, Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country??? VOTE" he tweeted. His supporters are preparing to vote, but the Proud Boys heard something extra. They are standing back and standing by, with arms.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/10/09/covid-19-qanon-fuels-right-wing-extremists/
#10994062 at 2020-10-09 07:48:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
RISE OF ONLINE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM MAPPED IN LANDMARK NSW STUDY
Macquarie University - 9 OCTOBER 2020
Researchers from Macquarie and Victoria Universities have published the first study mapping the online activity of right-wing extremists in New South Wales. Their study has revealed a network of highly active, social, and complex communities that is difficult to monitor for potential offline violence and is highly successful in radicalising at-risk individuals and introducing hateful and extreme rhetoric into AustralIan political discussions. The report highlighted the strong influence of American populist politics particularly Trumpism on right-wing extremism in Australia.
Macquarie researchers Dr BrIan Ballsun-Stanton, Lise Waldek and Dr JulIan Droogan mined publicly available social media data to examine the narratives and recruitment methods of right-wing extremist groups and individuals and determine the level of risk posed by these online communities.
Across social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Reddit, 4chan, and 8chan/kun, the researchers found complex and dynamic communities that unite around shared narratives of threats to 'white identity'. These highly social spaces become 'echo chambers' where like-minded individuals reaffirm their extremist world views, socialise and develop their identities.
Common narratives used to recruit and engage users included anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic messaging, and far-right conspiracy theories such as QAnon.
"The propagation of extremist narratives online serves to polarise political debate, and to undermine trust in institutions and democracy," say the study authors. "Social media is playing a key role in the rise of right-wing violent extremism. The Christchurch terror attack is one example."
The authors say that messages advocating violence were frequent, particularly on less-moderated anonymous platforms, but the actual threat of violence was difficult to distinguish from ironic and exaggerated posts.
"We know that individuals with violent intentions exist on these platforms. However, this environment is full of bragging, irony, and fantasy, meaning identification of violent threats is difficult."
"While online right-wing extremist activity is difficult to moderate, ensuring real-world programs and infrastructure are well-placed to identify at-risk individuals and communities is essential as this threat continues to grow in NSW and Australia."
The report emphasises the need for increasing focus on societal resilience and strength building capabilities as well as targeted risk reduction strategies, and provides a baseline for further targeted research.
The public report and executive summary are available now. The project was funded by the NSW Department of Communities and Justice Countering Violent Extremism Program.
https://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2020/10/09/rise-of-online-right-wing-extremism-mapped-in-landmark-nsw-study/
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Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales
Dr BrIan Ballsun-Stanton, Lise Waldek and Dr JulIan Droogan
Department of Security Studies and Criminology - October 9, 2020
The project Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales (NSW) used the systematic mining and analysis of online data to generate evidence-based insights into online right-wing extremism (RWE) across the state. The project was conducted between July 2019 and February 2020 with data collection occurring from August to November 2019. The project addressed three key areas:
1. What is the nature of the online RWE environment in NSW?
2. How are themes and narratives framed in different online contexts in order to mobilise support?
3. What level of risk does the online RWE environment pose?
The research areas were framed as broad questions to facilitate wide exploratory research into the online RWE movement in NSW, a milieu that has been little studied. This breadth of scope was considered pertinent in the wake of the March 2019 mass casualty terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, by an attacker originating from NSW.
Academics from Macquarie University and Victoria University partnered to deliver this research. Expertise was provided by All Together Now. Funding was provided by the Department of Communities and Justice (NSW), Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Program.
Executive Summary - (88.1 kB)
https://zenodo.org/record/4017216
FINAL REPORT - (14.1 MB)
https://zenodo.org/record/4071472
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