Listeners are concerned about the various impediments to voting in this election.

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THE BIRDS

 NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

 RATCHED  (recently on Netflix)

 BEETLEJUICE

 CAPE FEAR  (1962)

 LOVE AT FIRST BITE

CABARET  

And from John, the original Frankenstein and Dracula

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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

THE UNTOUCHABLES

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

THE ROCK

GOLDFINGER

ROBIN AND MARIAN

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

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Cases are on the rise in San Francisco. 

 

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A Washington Post analysis has found that as Trump’s first term winds to a close, he has weakened or wiped out more than 125 rules and policies aimed at protecting the nation’s air, water and land, with 40 more rollbacks underway.

The administration has accelerated its push to deregulate in the weeks before the election, to ease requirements on power plants that leak waste into waterways, weaken efficiency standards for dishwashers, scale back oversight of mine safety and approve seismic drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge.

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There is no escaping it: America is on the ballot on Tuesday — the stability and quality of our governing institutions, our alliances, how we treat one another, our basic commitment to scientific principles and the minimum decency that we expect from our leaders. The whole ball of wax is on the ballot.

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President Donald Trump claimed without substantiation that US doctors are lying about the number of Americans who have died from Covid-19, saying they inflate the figure because they are paid more money for deaths attributed to the virus.

There's no evidence for the president's assertion, and physician groups have castigated him for maligning their profession.

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Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday freedom of expression should stop if it offends more than 1.5 billion people, following the display of images in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous. Sisi also said he firmly rejects any form of violence or terrorism from anyone in the name of defending religion, religious symbols or icons. “We also have rights. We have the right for our feelings not to be hurt and for our values not to be hurt,” he said during an address to commemorate the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday. “And if some have the freedom to express what is in their thoughts I imagine that this stops when it comes to offending the feelings of more than 1.5 billion people,” he added in televised remarks.

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The Great Barrington strategy is a tempting one. Coming out of a libertarian think tank, it tries to procure maximum liberty for commerce and daily life. It is a seductive idea. Yet consistency of message is not an unalloyed good, even when the subject is liberty. And when there is a pandemic, one of the government’s most vital roles is to secure public goods, such as vaccines.

The declaration is disappointing because it is looking for an easy way out — first by taking the best alternatives for fighting Covid off the table, then by pretending a normal state of affairs is also an optimum state of affairs.

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