For the fifth straight day, demonstrators took to the streets of Iraq to protest government corruption. In the Shi’ite city of Karbala, security police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 18 of them.
In other news, the House of Commons voted to support Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for a general election, which will be held on December 12.
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Democratic Leaders Walk Back Thursday Impeachment Vote
House Democratic leaders are walking back a planned vote Thursday that would officially endorse impeachment proceedings and say that the resolution would merely address the process of holding public hearings on the matter.
“This is not an impeachment resolution,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Tuesday morning. “I don’t know what an impeachment resolution is.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday that the planned vote was “not an impeachment resolution.”
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Don’t be Afraid of Google, Be Very Afraid!
When Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt starts talking about Google Search and how it can help “augment reality” for people by giving them “better” answers, it’s time to be concerned. When he states that anything but the “right” answer is considered a “bug” in the algorithm, it’s time to be afraid.
At the beginning of August, Google released its updated guidelines to its network of search quality evaluaters, some of these guidelines are straight out of Orwell’s 1984.
If you believe in Western Allopathic Medicine as the only answer to your health care needs, then you will likely have no issue with Google’s advisement to their evaluaters. Your searches will be ordered so that the top results will be distilled from:…
[Comment: Article from two years ago, but still relevant as Google’s defining “truth” and censorship has gotten worse…]
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Epic: Dude Kicked Off Stage by Anti-Trump Rapper After He Refuses to Say “F**k Trump”
Defiant young man declines to bad-mouth president in the face of bullying.
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FBI Releases Documents on ‘The Finders’ — A Secret Society Accused of Child Sex Abuse
Satanic group with ties to intelligence community accused of ritual child abuse.
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Federal Judge Reopens Covington Catholic Teen’s $250 Million Lawsuit Against Washington Post
Federal Judge William Bertelsman reopened the $250 million defamation case filed by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against the Washington Post.
Sixteen-year-old Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann was smeared and maligned by the liberal press after he was harassed in Washington DC following the March for Life. The Washington Post accused the teen of blocking and impeding Nathan Phillips as the native American elder was harassing him. It was all a lie and the Washington Post was one of the leading liberal outlets attacking the young Catholic boys.
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Today we can report that the US Senate may have Comey’s original memos used by the FBI to open the FBI’s Trump obstruction case which likely differ from the final memos Comey provided a few weeks later to Mueller’s Special Counsel gang.
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George Soros is Buying the Government While Saying His “Enemies” Are “Would-be Dictators”
Billionaire financier George Soros is buying the United States government with wads of lobbying money. As he attempts to own politicians by buying them (lobbying), he’s calling his critics “would-be dictators” who will not succeed.
Under Trump, the Open Society founder has been pouring greater sums of money into lobbying than ever before, and Soros doesn’t care who he makes an enemy of. “I’m very proud of the enemies I have,” he told the New York Times in an interview published Friday according to a report by RT. “It’s a perfect way to tell a dictator or a would-be dictator if he identifies me as an enemy,” Soros said.
In that same interview, Soros confidently predicted the popular opposition to his globalist philosophy was winding down and that a backlash against Trump-style nationalism was on the horizon.
Soros says that the advancement of global communism is going to happen. That means forget any sense of being an individual, and embrace collectivism, theft, and equal distribution of money, whether you work for it or not. But don’t expect Soros’ wealth to be redistributed. He’s the one buying the politicians to ensure that won’t happen.
[Comment: Should have been jailed long ago.]
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Internet Must be Decentralized, Says Wikipedia Founder
In this exclusive interview with The New American’s Alex Newman, Wikipedia Founder Larry Sanger explained why he is now a critic of the online encyclopedia he helped to create. Sanger, who serves as executive director of the Knowledge Standards Foundation, blasted the liberal bias of Wikipedia, as well as the lack of public participation. He says the Big Tech companies have centralized the Internet, and that must be reversed. And finally, he talks about the pedophilia scandals involving elites from Silicon Valley, Hollywood, government, and beyond, saying humanity must understand how the world really works.
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Long Time Clinton Advisor: ‘Hillary is Running; Feels She Was Put on Earth to be President’
“Make no mistake. She wants it,” he added.”She’s planning on it. She’ll do everything she can to achieve it.”
Rumors that Hillary Clinton will once again run for President continue to abound. The latest comes in the form of long time Clinton advisor Dick Morris insisting that Hillary will become the Democratic nominee because she believes ‘she was put on Earth to be President’.
Morris served as an advisor to Bill Clinton while he was in the White House, and has ties to both Clintons going back decades.
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Majority of Americans Continue to Support UK-U.S. Bilateral Trade Deal
The majority of Americans back a bilateral trade deal with Brexit Britain, while more than half believe the Special Relationship is more important now than it was five years ago.
A poll conducted by the U.S.-based Emerson College found that the nearly two-thirds of Americans, 62 per cent, support a bilateral trade deal with the UK post-Brexit, in the second consecutive year that the poll found strong support for improved trade between the two countries.
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NYC Secretly Shipping Homeless People to Over 350 Cities Including Honolulu, Houston
New York City officials have been quietly dumping homeless people to more than 370 cities across 32 states, including Honolulu and Houston.
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Poll: Only 36% Say House Should Impeach Trump
A newly-released poll found less than 40 percent of registered voters believe House Democrats should vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
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Separating Illinois From Cook County Would Help Save the Historic American Nation
If you want to how divided the country is becoming thanks to immigration-driven demographic polarization, Black Lives Matter type-bullying, and the never-ending demonization of whites by SJWs and their torpedoes in the MSM, consider this: Polling data show that more and more Americans across all categories—most notably, age and race—think secession(subdividing towns, cities, even states—all the way up to outright leaving the American Union) is a good idea. This is great news for American whites i.e. the group that used to be known as “Americans” until the disastrous 1965 Immigration Act. It offers them a way to protect their interests and their communities. Hence last year’s try in California, and the long-running effort in Illinois. You read that right: Illinois—Barack Obama’s launching pad.
Republicans there want to split the Land of Lincoln like one of Honest Abe’s fabled logs. Well, almost. In 2018, HR 1138 proposed Chicago as the 51st state, while 2011’s HJR 0052 would have split off Cook County (which includes Chicago and other townships and comprises 40% of Illinois population). Both efforts failed, but two grassroots organizations are keeping hope and change alive.
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Students Hold ‘Die-in’ To Protest Fossil Fuels — ‘Stuff That Literally Kills People’
Students at Binghamton University in New York held a die-in to protest the alleged lack of transparency in the school’s fundraising foundation, the Binghamton University Foundation, which one group suspects is investing in fossil fuels, which it says “literally kills people.”
Die-ins are a type of protest where participants lie on the ground as if dead, typically to bring attention to a cause that is leading to death.
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Texas Art Museum Encourages Children to Eat Bugs
An art museum in Texas encouraged children and families to eat insects, including crickets and mealworms, during its “Eat a Bug” day this past weekend.
According to the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, its “Eat a Bug!” Free Family Arts Day is the venue’s most popular event, providing children with the chance to gobble “fried crickets” or “fried mealworms that are provided by a local pest control company.
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The corrupt players in the Deep State set up General Flynn and then they turned around and used that fraudulent crime to set up the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump!
Breitbart news reported yesterday —
A multifaceted “criminal conspiracy” to destroy former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was launched by persons across the national security state apparatus to prevent audits of intelligence agencies’ operations, said Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.
The well connected Col. Tony Shaffer agreed with the above assessment —
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The Democrats Really Think That They Have Finally Got Trump This Time
There are persistent rumors that quite a few Republican Senators are ready to stab Trump in the back.
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Traitor Jeff Sessions Seriously Considering Entering 2020 Senate Race in Alabama
After recusing himself like a coward and allowing Rosenstein and Mueller to hijack the Justice Department for two years — which ended in a bloodbath of Trump associates, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seriously considering entering the 2020 race for his old Senate seat in Alabama.
Jeff Sessions, 72, served in the Senate for over 20 years before President Trump chose him to be US Attorney General.
Sessions has until Friday, November 8th to qualify for the ballot.
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Media Bailout Memo to Liberal Minister Completely Redacted by Government
A journalist and past president of Canadian Association of Journalists who tried to get a memo to the Liberal finance minister on the $600 million media bailout was informed the entire 27 pages would not be released publicly.
The response letter came from a federal government Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) officer who said that all “the records you requested are excluded” because they’re to brief the minister on government policy.
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Trudeau Plans More Internet Censorship During the Next Election (And the CBC Loves the Idea)
We all know that Justin Trudeau wants to censor the internet. But do you know who wants that even more?
The CBC. Because when they think of election “meddling,” what they really mean is, someone saying something they disagree with.
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Trudeau Minister Says They Found Fake News This Election
Karina Gould, Trudeau’s Minister of Democratic Institutions, has said in a statement that Canada needs to do more to fight against online disinformation, only days after the federal election.
Although the government did not state precisely how much disinformation circulated during the election, Gould did say that the government is currently deliberating on improvements that could be made to safeguard the level of information for the next election according to the CBC.
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Chinese Professor at Brussels University on ‘Spy’ Charge
Professor Xinning Song, director of the Confucius Institute at the Brussels University (VUB), can no longer enter Belgium after being accused of espionage for China, De Morgen writes. He had a 10-year tenure. Previously, there were complaints at the French part of the Brussels university (ULB) about Chinese pressure on academics working on China.
[Comment: Interesting. It appears that the US is not the only country with a Confucius Institute problem.]
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‘Dead in a Ditch’: UK Destroys Commemorative 31 Oct Brexit Coins
Thousands of commemorative Brexit 50p coins bearing the date October 31st will be melted down after the Remainer-dominated House of Commons forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson to break his pledge to deliver Brexit by Halloween.
Mr Johnson pledged to take the UK out of the EU on October 31st — after his predecessor, Theresa May, delayed Brexit from March 29th — “do or die”, “with or without a deal”. In September, he said that he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than delay Brexit any further.
However, the Remainer-dominated House of Commons forced through a bill that compelled the prime minister to ask for an extension if an exit agreement had not been passed in the lower house by October 19th to stop a clean-break Brexit.
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Denmark: Stram Kurs Leader Rasmus Paludan Attacked by Migrants
Rasmus Paludan, the leader of Danish party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), had to be evacuated by police after immigrants attacked him with powerful firecrackers during a demonstration in the multicultural area of Tingbjerg.
Over the weekend, the leader of the hard-right party and Denmark’s chief critic of Islam and mass immigration had to be evacuated from the area just 20 minutes into the demonstration, Danish TV2 reports.
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Europe: Cooperative Free Nations or Overly Controlled by Brussels?
Europe is in the throes of an internal debate between those who continue to view it as a constellation of free nations and those who see it as an entity controlled by Brussels.
Although the Brexit controversy may highlight this split, the conflict — as the former Czech President (and former Prime Minister), Vaclav Klaus, pointed out 13 years ago — has been raging for decades.
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Italy: Salvini Alliance Scores Historic Victory in Umbria Regional Election
After governing for 50 years, the left has been vanquished in Umbria as the center-right alliance led by right-wing populist Matteo Salvini garnered close to 60 percent of the vote in Sunday’s regional elections.
The candidate for governor of the region, Donatella Tesei, who’s backed by Salvini’s League, the national-conservative Brothers of Italy, and Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia, snagged 57.5 percent of the vote, defeating Vincenzo Bianconi, who was supported by Italy’s ruling leftist coalition.
Some, including Matteo Salvini, have referred to the victory as historic since the region has — for the past 50 years — been well-known as a stronghold for Italy’s left, Il Giornale reports.
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Muslim Man Jailed for Threatening to Behead Danish Queen in Deranged Facebook Rant
A Muslim man living in Copenhagen has been locked up after sharing his desire to kill Denmark’s royal family.
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Paris Man Arrested After Yelling ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ During Screening of ‘Joker’
Police arrested a man yelling “Allah hu Akbar” in a Paris cinema during the screening of Joker after his actions caused panic among filmgoers.
The incident took place on Sunday evening at the Grand Rex cinema in central Paris and saw the man yell the phrase, which is closely associated in France with terrorist attacks, causing people to start running for the exits, Le Parisien reports.
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Poll: 61 Per Cent of French Say Islam ‘Incompatible’ With Society
An Ifop survey has discovered that nearly two-thirds of French people, or 61 per cent, believe that Islam is “incompatible with the values of French society”.
The results are an eight per cent increase compared to a previous study released in February of last year and reflect growing concerns of the impact of religion in public life against France’s traditional secularist stance, according to the study, Le Journal du Dimanche> reports.
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Puigdemont Extradition Hearing Postponed
The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, said on Tuesday that a Brussels court has postponed to 16 December his hearing over the arrest warrant issued by Spain for his extradition, Reuters writes. Puigdemont’s lawyer, Simon Bekaert, said the legal arguments are still the same as in 2017, when Spain issued a previous warrant for Puigdemont’s arrest and Belgium rejected it. “We will, of course, invoke immunity,” Bekaert said.
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Romanian Presidential Election Horror Story
With 12 days left to the Presidential Elections, the divided Establishment of Romania has decided that there will be no debate between the 14 candidates running for President. And an even more divided country will have no chance to know which one of the 14 traitors would make a better President.
But this is not the only horror story surrounding these “Elections”. The candidates themselves are being involved in scandal after scandal, to the excitement of the Press, who would never waste an opportunity to insult someone. And to add insult to injury, the electorate’s confusion is further magnified by the new scandals that appear to involve the entire political class, without counting the exhausting old scandals.
It’s a real pity to see people’s faces, looking so hopeless. They might have the “right to vote”, but the puppet masters didn’t give them too many options to choose from. It’s like choosing between the Devil and Satan. No matter who you vote, you gonna lose.
It’s a wonder why the Romanian High Court of Justice (Tribunalul Bucuresti) refuses stubbornly to consider my request to investigate these elections? I have made that request three months ago and they still didn’t take a decision. I have made a similar request 3 weeks ago to the institution organizing these elections, the Central Electoral Bureau (Biroul Electoral Central). And to my “surprise”, they haven’t bothered to reply yet. Because organizing this circus called “Presidential Elections” takes a lot of time, and energy, and money. Our money. People’s money…
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Scientocracy Busts Open the Motivation Behind Global Warming Politics
The title of this new book is a play on aristocracy. The science aristocracy is living off its former reputation as honest investigators of the natural world. But now they are largely mean-spirited bureaucrats who don’t hesitate to fake science when it serves their bureaucratic and financial goals. The public, politicians, and the media are mostly scientific ignoramuses easily fooled into believing that fake science is rock-solid science. There is an alliance driven by the money-greed of the science mandarins and the socialist dreams of the political Left. It is not an accident that the many ecological catastrophes predicted by rogue science get political support from the Left.
The book consists of 11 essays by prominent whistleblowers that have waged mostly losing battles with the scientocracy. The editors are Patrick Michaels, a distinguished skeptical climate scientist, and Terence Kealey, a biochemist and former university administrator in Great Britain.
The science establishment has been corrupted by money, specifically federal research grants. A wise President Eisenhower warned about the corrupting effect of money on science in this 1961 farewell address. Money is now more important than science. A big bite of every research grant goes to the university as “overhead.” So the university bureaucracy is intensely focused on bringing in more research grants. For the researcher, money means promotion, status, and the means to engage in expensive research projects.
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Sweden: What to Do About Gang Violence?
In Sweden, crucial societal issues, such as who is behind the current crime epidemic, are a public taboo.
“With the exception of three people in the survey, all have been offered help since they were boys. Some of them were already registered with the police as ten-year-olds… They have undergone programs… far from the criminal environment in Malmö… It has not worked. In many cases, social services use the same words: all resources have been exhausted. Put another way: what the social services have done so far does not help, and there are no more measures to try out”. — Sydsvenskan, September 21, 2019
The government therefore recently presented a new initiative, which seeks to tackle the gang violence. The government proposal, however, never specifically mentions who is mainly behind the gang violence and that its own migration policies have in large part created the situation in which Swedish society now finds itself.
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Sweden: Preschool Imposes Vegetarian Menu on Students to “Save the Planet”
A school in Sweden has imposed vegetarianism on all of its students in a supposed attempt to help combat climate change.
The radical policy has been implemented at the Gitarren Preschool in Umeå and represents the first attempt by a municipal school to eliminate meat on the food menus. All meals served at the preschool will be entirely meatless, and students will not be given the choice to opt-out of the program, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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UK Set for 12 December General Election After MPs’ Vote
The UK is set to go to the polls on 12 December after MPs backed Boris Johnson’s call for an election following months of Brexit deadlock.
By a margin of 438 votes to 20, the House of Commons approved legislation paving the way for the first December election since 1923.
The bill is still to be approved by the Lords but could become law by the end of the week.
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UK Steps Up Surveillance of Known Extremists in Wake of ISIS Leader Raid
The British security services have stepped up their surveillance of extremist suspects in the wake of the death of Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, to catch would-be revenge attacks.
High-risk radical Islamist suspects are considered to be at even higher risk of attempting to launch attacks in the wake of Western strikes against Islamic State targets, out of a desire to make reprisals. Aware of this potentially major security threat, British security services afford a greater degree of surveillance to catch any plots before they can be launched, according to unnamed sources cited by Sky News.
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Great Britain and now most of Europe behave in classic dhimmi fashion, falling prey to the imaginary racism called Islamophobia. In fact, as Salman Rushdie writes in Joseph Anton, “a new word has been created to help the blind remain blind: Islamophobia. To criticize the militant stridency of this religion in its contemporary incarnation [is] to be a bigot.”
After the Iranian Revolution of 1980, the term “Islamophobia” “underwent a mutation that weaponized it.” It continues to be more militant as it has “entered the global lexicon.” Clearly, America and Canada are not immune, either.
Thus, the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims (APPG) recently released a report titled “Islamophobia Defined: The inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia.” A few quotations from the lengthy report should highlight the disingenuousness of a document that is essentially recommending a form of blasphemy law.
[W]e drew attention to the fantastic work done by British Muslims over the Christmas period. Muslim-led charities and the huge contribution they make to civil society and social welfare … was the subject[…]
So the first item in the report caters to the uninformed, claiming that Islam is a religion that merely wants to reach out in an expression of genuine ecumenical brotherhood. Are we allowed to ask why so many Muslims, in the name of Islam, murder non-Muslims? Muslim persecution of Christians is at an all-time high.
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UK: Police Have Prevented 24 Terrorist Attacks Since 2017
Officials from London’s Metropolitan Police Force say that they’ve prevented 24 terrorist attacks since 2017.
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said that investigators have stopped a total of 24 terror attacks in the last two years since Khalid Masood successfully carried out the Westminster Bridge attack which killed five and left forty-nine others injured.
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Lebanon Crisis: PM Hariri Offers Resignation Amid Protests
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri has said he is resigning, amid protests that have gripped the country for almost two weeks.
Mr Hariri said Lebanon had reached a deadlock and needed a shock to break the crisis.
The announcement was met with cheers from protesters in Beirut.
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Masked Iraqi Security Forces Open Fire on Protesters, Killing 18: Report
Masked Iraqi security forces in the Shiite holy city of Karbala opened fire on protesters on Tuesday, killing 18 and wounding hundreds, according to security officials.
The attack, which happened overnight, came as Iraqis took to the streets for a fifth consecutive day, protesting their government’s corruption, lack of services and other grievances.
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NPR Gushes Over Baghdadi: “He Was a Real Leader”
NPR gushed over ISIS terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, describing him as a “real leader” who spearheaded a “movement we’ve never seen before.”
During a roundtable discussion about Baghdadi’s death, NPR reporter Greg Myre all but praised the man responsible for beheading three Americans and enslaving and killing an American woman.
“He led a movement that we’ve never seen before,” Myre said. “ISIS had tens of thousands of members, fighters, coming in from all over the world.”
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Pro-Democracy Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Barred From Election
Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday barred high-profile pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong from participating in the Chinese territory’s upcoming district council elections, a decision likely to sow further discord within the city wracked by nearly five months of political protests.
Wong, 23, said he was the only person among a pool of 1,100 candidates prevented from participating in the upcoming district council elections on Nov. 24, posting a copy of the letter he received to his Twitter page that said his nomination was no longer valid.
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Consumer Data Privacy Breach Spells Lawsuit for Alphabet’s Google in Australia
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, alleging that the company misled smartphone users on how personal location data was being collected, kept and used.
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Family friendly parks, playgrounds, train stations and even money have been found with traces of cocaine and cannabis within Adelaide.
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A Muslim woman has accused a popular Sydney pub of discrimination, claiming she was barred from entering unless she took off her hijab.
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Amazonian States Want $30 Billion in Ecological Reparations From ‘Rich Countries’
ROME — A group of regional leaders from the Amazon proposed Monday at the Vatican that rich nations be compelled to indemnify them for environmental damage caused in the so-called “lung of the planet.”
Gathered for the Vatican’s Pan-Amazonian Synod, Brazilian governors as well as regional governments of other Amazon countries held a special summit at the Pontifical Academy for Sciences Monday, in which they insisted that the Amazon is a natural carbon sink that releases oxygen for the whole world and they deserve compensation for it.
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Arizona Border Patrol Finds 30 Migrants Hidden in Semitrailer
Border Patrol agents discovered 30 migrants, including an unaccompanied minor, in the back of a semitrailer Saturday night at an Arizona checkpoint around 25 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tuscon agents referred the truck for a secondary inspection after a Border Patrol dog alerted to the vehicle. During the inspection, agents found 29 illegals from Mexico and one from Ecuador hidden in the back of the truck.
The 30 foreign nationals were arrested and will be processed for immigration violations. The driver and a passenger were arrested and will face human smuggling violations.
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France: Eight Migrants Found Alive in a Refrigerated Truck Bound for the UK
Eight migrants have been discovered alive in the back of a refrigerated lorry bound for the UK at the cross-channel port of Calais on Monday.
The migrants, who claim to be from Afghanistan, were discovered by British authorities during a routine inspection of the lorry before it was loaded onto a ferry headed to the UK, Deutsche Welle reports.
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NGO Says Greek Draft Asylum Law is Against Migrants’ Rights
NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday that a Greek draft law threatens to restrict access to protection for asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. “The bill is a naked attempt to block access to protection and increase deportations in the face of the recent increase in arrivals,” said researchers at HRW. Greece is currently facing the biggest resurgence of refugee arrivals since 2015.
[Comment: If a NGO doesn’t like what Greece is doing, then Greece is doing something right.]
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The Latest: Rescue Ship to Land in Sicily With 104 Migrants
The Latest on Europe’s migrant crisis (all times local):
6:05 p.m.
Italy is permitting the humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking with 104 migrants on board to land in Sicily.
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Trump Blasts Chicago’s Sanctuary City Policy
In his first official visit to Chicago since taking office, President Trump lambasted the city’s officials on Monday for their policy of refusing to work with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the capture of illegal immigrants in the city.
In a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, the president repeatedly linked the fight against crime to the need for local police agencies to cooperate with ICE’s efforts to remove immigrants who are in the country illegally. Trump singled out Chicago as a particularly bad offender. “Chicago is, unfortunately, the worst sanctuary city in America,” Trump said.
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Al-Jazeera Says Not Wanting to Eat Insects is Racist
According to Al Jazeera, not wanting to eat insects is racist because Christopher Columbus said it was a trait of “savages”.
Yes, really.
Al-Jazeera’s Yara Elmjouie put out a video entitled ‘Why bugs are the protein of the future’ in which he claims that westerners have a fear of edible insects because “European colonizers demonized indigenous people as “savages” for eating insects.”
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Amen! Florence Catholic Priest Refuses to Give Communion to Pro-Abortion Joe Biden
Former Vice President Joe Biden attended mass at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, South Carolina on Sunday.
The priest, Father Robert Morey, refused to give Communion to the pro-abortion Democrat.
ABC 15 reported:…
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Biden on Being Denied Communion: ‘I’m a Practicing Catholic, I Practice My Faith’
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden refused to confirm reports that he was denied Communion at a South Carolina church on Sunday because of his stance on abortion, referring to the incident as his “personal life.”
“I’m not going to discuss that,” Biden told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell in an on-air phone interview on Tuesday.
Biden and his wife attended Mass at the St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence during a campaign stop, but he was denied Holy Communion — seen by Catholics as receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ — after the pastor took issue with Biden’s support of a woman’s right to an abortion.
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Black Trans Man Disrupts Austin School District Anti-Child Sexualization Protest, Gets Arrested
Attempts to drown out critics’ First Amendment rights fail.
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I used to think 2019 was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a comedy.
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Drag Queen Flashes Young Children at ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’
Within the last decade or so, drag queens went from being a niche and esoteric art form intended for adult audiences, to a growing worldwide phenomenon with millions upon millions of fans.
With drag’s massive boost in popularity came the intersecting of drag and children. Across the United States and Canada, drag queens have been asked to participate in Drag Queen Story Hour, and events of a similar nature.
According to Hennepin County Libraries, the events promote “self-expression, dress-up, and gender fluidity through stories, rhymes, music and movement with drag performers” from around local communities.
Hennepin County Library has become the centre of an online scandal, though, as a photo from one of their Drag Queen Story Hour event went viral.
[Comment: It appears that this library is in Minnesota.]
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More Than Half of American Students Want Wearing “Offensive” Halloween Costumes to be Punished
More than half of American university students believe that wearing “offensive” Halloween costumes is not part of free expression and should “be punished.”
In a poll conducted by The College Pulse, students were asked, “Are highly offensive Halloween costumes (such as blackface) a protected form of free speech on campus, or should students who wear them be punished?”
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Three ‘Abrahamic’ Religions Sign Landmark Text Condemning Euthanasia
ROME — Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths signed a joint declaration in the Vatican Monday condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide as “inherently” evil acts that should be prohibited.
“The three Abrahamic monotheistic religions share common goals and are in complete agreement in their approach to end-of-life situations,” says the document, which was submitted to Pope Francis.
“We oppose any form of euthanasia — that is the direct, deliberate and intentional act of taking life — as well as physician-assisted suicide — that is the direct, deliberate and intentional support of committing suicide — because they fundamentally contradict the inalienable value of human life, and therefore are inherently and consequentially morally and religiously wrong, and should be forbidden without exceptions,” it reads.
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Oh my God. How he looks like my aunt’s late husband.
The aunt’s husband was of mixed Ukrainian-Russian origin, and looks like this Frenchman. And the same kind eyes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7627371/Man-tried-burn-mosque-says-did-avenge-destruction-Notre-Dame-Cathedral.html
“With the exception of three people in the survey, all have been offered help since they were boys. Some of them were already registered with the police as ten-year-olds… They have undergone programs… far from the criminal environment in Malmö… It has not worked. In many cases, social services use the same words: all resources have been exhausted. Put another way: what the social services have done so far does not help, and there are no more measures to try out”. — Sydsvenskan, September 21, 2019
Sounds like Sweden should bring back the death penalty ASAP.
“‘Take That Off, What is it?’ Muslim Reveller, 21, Claims Bouncers at a Popular Sydney Pub Told Her She Must Remove Her Hijab to Enter While Her White Friends Could Walk Straight in — Before Police Told Her to Move on” Nothing happened. She was denied access because she refused to allow to be identified. It’s a waste of time writing a long article, two paragraphs are more than enough and, frankly, no ink should be wasted on something as minor as this. Plenty of people are refused access to clubs every night and nobody cares. Just because she’s muslim doesn’t make a difference. She might think it does, we only need to put her back into her place – nobody in the West is going to treat muslims like snowflakes, period.
What an entertaining reading I found! The Atheist Handbook 1987.
Chapter “Muslim Morality” (It’s very funny to read now. However, now no one would dare to say such a thing.)
… Based on the teachings of Islam about the eternity, immutability and universality of Muslim morality, the suitability of its norms for all times and peoples, Muslims living in a society of developed socialism are invited to be guided in life by the norms and principles of morality of feudal society.
… Islamic morality proceeds from a low level of moral consciousness of a person, assuming that a person can do the right thing only if he is told that his given action in any situation, in any situation, will be correct. Such morality orientates a person to thoughtless behavior. And this has its own logic: if all the actions of people have long been predetermined from above, then there is no reason for a person to think about the complexities of life situations.
… Such attitudes lead the believer to the idea that the existence of people who do not worship Allah, not only does not make sense, but is also not justified. And similar conclusions were made by Muslims in past centuries, which made it easier for the exploiting classes to raise Muslim workers under the banner of Islam to fight and destroy non-Muslim workers.
A believer – a member of a developed socialist society – has many questions in this regard. What if the requirements prescribed by the Qur’an and the Sunnah contradict the spirit of the times and interfere with people in their daily lives? For example, what is the position of modern Muslims in their relations with unbelievers and non-believers? The Qur’an warns that unbelievers will not fail to harm Muslims, they want believers to be in trouble, because unbelievers are clear enemies. The Qur’an encourages believers to fight with unbelievers, “until there is temptation, and all religion belongs to Allah” (8: 40), to produce “their great beating” (47: 4). The Qur’an also calls: “Beat the polytheists” (9: 5). Allah considers moral the principle “the soul is for the soul, and the eye is for the eye, and the nose is for the nose, and the ear is for the ear, and the tooth is for the tooth …” (5: 49), etc.
There are many other norms in the Qur’an that are inconsistent with the Soviet way of life, with the moral ideas of the citizens of our country, including believers.
Thus, Muslim moral preaching poses complex questions for believers, proposes to resolve insoluble contradictions, which deforms the moral consciousness of adherents of Islam.
http://religion.historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000000/st022.shtml