Vandals broke into a church in France and did extensive damage. Among other desecrations, they tore up prayer books, set them on fire, and smeared them with human excrement.
In other news, Venezuelan university students attempted to take their protest march to a military base in Caracas, but were blocked by the national guard.
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Sweden’s Central Bank Governor Lays Out Digital Currency Vision
by Steven Guinness
Before a technological concept is introduced to the wider public, it is common for it to first undergo beta testing to iron out any deficiencies that may not be immediately obvious to the developers. An example of this in the UK is the latest instalment of the Football Manager franchise. Every year the maker Sports Interactive issues a beta version which players painstakingly test prior to the official release of the game. After feedback is analysed and acted upon, the aim then is for a smooth launch of the finished product.
Whilst on a much grander scale, beta testing will serve as an equally important aspect in how central banks plan to successfully implement their own variants of digital currency.
In one of my recent articles I discussed an appearance by Federal Reserve board member Lael Brainard at an event held in Washington D.C. called, ‘The Future of Money in the Digital Age’. Present also at this event was the Governor of Sweden’s central bank (the Sveriges Riksbank) Stefan Ingves. During a panel discussion, Ingves laid out a six step criteria for the introduction of central bank digital currency. Before expanding on Sweden’s specific role pertaining to CBDC’s, here is a summary of the six steps in question:…
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After Report of Racist Incident, Syracuse Suspends All Fraternities — Even Minority Ones
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2019 — Days after an alleged racist incident caused Syracuse University to pull the plug on all fraternity activities — even those of minority fraternities — the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is calling on the university to stop punishing students it doesn’t even suspect to have done anything wrong. The incident is one of many to rock the campus in recent weeks, prompting increased scrutiny from the public and political leaders, and causing the university to scramble to take action.
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AOC is Still Blocking Her Critics on Twitter
It appears that rookie congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is still blocking multiple conservative Twitter users, even after she settled a lawsuit to unblock prominent Jewish activist Dov Hikind.
The list includes three conservative journalists who are critical of her policies, Liz Wheeler of One America News Network, Ryan Saavedra of The Daily Wire, and Harry Cherry formerly of The Jewish Voice. Additionally, Niraj Antani, a Republican state representative in Ohio is blocked by AOC. All of these users have their accounts verified by Twitter.
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Black School-Choice Protesters Shout Down Warren Speech Celebrating Black Women
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gave a speech in Atlanta celebrating black female domestic workers. Yet black protesters disrupted the speech, criticizing Warren for her opposition to school choice.
“Our children, our choice!” chanted mostly black protesters wearing shirts with the phrase “Powerful Parents Network.”
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Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Gets Good News in Lawsuit Against Nbcuniversal
A federal judge in Kentucky ruled on Thursday that a $275 million lawsuit from Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against NBCUniversal can proceed in court, the third lawsuit from Sandmann that the judge has allowed to proceed.
U.S. District Court Judge William Bertelsman dismissed parts of the lawsuit while allowing discovery on allegations that the network’s coverage defamed the teen by reporting that he ‘blocked’ Native American elder Nathan Phillips in a Jan. 18 encounter at the Lincoln Memorial,” The Washington Times reported.
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Department of Justice Says Chicago Gang Leader Was Radicalized by ISIS
He is the purported leader of the “AHK Street Gang,” a gang in the Chicago area that traffics various narcotics throughout the city region, including heroin and cocaine, according to the Department of Justice.
But Thursday, Jason Brown stepped into a federal courtroom not on drug charges, but for allegedly attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
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Election Fraud on a National Scale?
By Eric Georgatos
Dallas patriots Kevin Freeman, host of the Economic War Room on BlazeTV and Russ Ramsland, a voter fraud and election expert, have released detailed findings from a cyber/forensic investigation into election fraud utilizing compromised voting machines in 2018 (and quite probably, in the governor’s race in 2019 in Kentucky).
In summary terms, Freeman’s “Episode #70” reveals that (1) security protections in voting machines were disabled, (2) penetration and manipulation of actual vote tabulations was and is possible, and (3) evidence already exists that votes were surreptitiously, electronically manipulated to change election results.
This is the 21st century version of Stalin’s ruthless observation, “it’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” Only today’s Stalins can do it all by online penetration of unsecure ‘voting machines’ to count and alter votes, and leave almost no IT fingerprints.
Freeman’s “Episode #70” is currently behind a paywall (though available via 30-day free trial).
The implications of what has been exposed are absolutely staggering on both hindsight perspective on the meaning of past election results, and on the future of America as a constitutional republic. Yes, it is that serious.
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FCC Votes 5-0 to Ban China’s Huawei, ZTE From Gov’t Subsidy Program
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted 5-0 on a new rule that would ban service providers from using government subsidies to buy China’s Huawei and ZTE equipment, reported Reuters.
22-Nov-2019 11:26:34 AM — FCC VOTES 5-0 TO BAR U.S. RURAL CARRIER CUSTOMERS FROM U.S. GOVERNMENT FUND TO PURCHASE HUAWEI, ZTE EQUIPMENT, SERVICES
All five FCC commissioners voted for the ban at the Friday meeting.
The new rule would prevent rural carriers from accessing an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase Huawei and ZTE electrical components.
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During her testimony in the impeachment hearings this week, Fiona Hill dismissed charges she was a “globalist” by referring to the term as an “anti-Semitic” conspiracy theory, despite the fact that she writes for a publication literally called ‘The Globalist’.
Hill was responding to a question by Democratic Representative for Illinois Raja Krishnamoorthi, who quoted Hill’s earlier deposition in which she complained about Roger Stone labeling her “the globalist leftist [George] Soros insider.”
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Florida Man Friday Saves the First Amendment
Life was hard in the American West of old. Water could be scarce, infrastructure was non-existant, the natives were sometimes deadly, and the law could be hours or even days away. But hard times breed hard people, and the people who settled the West tamed the West. What was once a wild frontier soon grew into America’s economic engine of resource production and technological innovation.
Life can be hard in modern Florida, too. Think of the sweltering heat, streets built on top of sinkhole sands, Yankee immigrants who think they can wrestle alligators, and foreign tourists determined to cut in front of you in line at Hollywood Studios. And yet, Florida Man not only survives, but thrives. Could it be that Florida Man will stand at the forefront of the next great American Renaissance?
Let’s dig into the headlines and find out, on another exciting…
Florida Man Friday
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Former CIA Officer Sentenced to 19 Years for Conspiring With Chinese Spies
A former CIA case officer was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for conspiring to provide American intelligence secrets to the Chinese government, in an espionage case that some current and former officials say dealt a devastating blow to U.S. intelligence operations.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, served 13 years as a Central Intelligence Agency case officer in several locations overseas, including China, where prosecutors said he had firsthand knowledge of some of the agency’s most sensitive secrets, including the names of covert CIA officers and clandestine human sources in China.
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He’s Back! Al Gore Returns With Another Odious Climate-Change Telethon
Former Vice President Al Gore is back in the spotlight (sort of) and looking to capitalize on the sudden hotness of climate change with a 24-hour telethon broadcasting from Vanderbilt University called “24 Hours of Reality,” and a series of appearances on late-night television.
The original climate change activist Gore has, lately, been overshadowed by more extreme environmentalists, including adolescent “climate strike” founder Greta Thunberg and “Green New Deal” author Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who, unlike Gore, are more interested in encouraging socialism (and, subsequently, crushing industrialization and technological advancement) as a vehicle for curbing carbon emissions.
He’s also run afoul of Thunberg and her followers — at least implicitly — for encouraging a system of climate indulgences, called “climate credits,” to offset egregious consumption rather than cutting that consumption entirely.
Gore’s landmark speech, kicking off 24 hours of activism “across the globe” had a “massive” audience of about a thousand people, according to local news in Nashville.
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Horowitz Reportedly Finds FBI Lawyer Falsified FISA Doc; WaPo Stealth-Deletes Strzok Connection
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has found evidence that an FBI lawyer manipulated a key investigative document related to the FBI’s secretive surveillanceof a former Trump campaign adviser — enough to change the substantive meaning of the document, according to multiple reports.
The show-stopping development comes as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News that Horowitz’s comprehensive report on allegations of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant abuse against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page will be released on Dec. 9. “That’s locked,” Graham said.
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Maoist Communists and Socialists Increase Their Influence on Philadelphia City Council
The City Hall building with the statue of William Penn on top is seen in the city center of Philadelphia on December 3, 2017. Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,872 and more than 6 million in metropolitan area, as of 2016. Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley region, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. / AFP PHOTO / Eric BARADAT (Photo credit should read ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images) Radical Maoists from Liberation Road and their small “c” communist allies from Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) elected one of their own to Philadelphia City Council on Nov. 5.
Kendra Brooks, who won a city council at-large seat, will join fellow radical Helen Gym on the 17-member body.
Heavily Democratic Philadelphia follows an unusual system for electing city councilors. Ten councilors are elected by district, while seven are elected “at-large” from the whole city voting base. Two of those seats are traditionally reserved for “minor parties,” which has for decades guaranteed two Republican seats on the council. Brooks took one of these minority seats, cutting Republican representation down to one.
Brooks ran on the Working Families Party ticket. The party, which has recently expanded from its New York base to several new states, spent more than $400,000 on Brooks and her running mate Nicolas O’Rourke, and knocked on 150,000 doors and sent 300,000 text messages.
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Adam Schiff’s closing witness Thursday in the Democrat impeachment show trials was Fiona Hill.
During her opening statement Fiona Hill insisted she was non-partisan.
Fiona Hill: “I take great pride in the fact that I am a nonpartisan foreign policy expert, who has served under three different Republican and Democratic presidents.” — The Hill (@thehill) November 21, 2019
As reported earlier by Joe Hoft— As we previously mentioned Roger Stone outed Fiona Hill in 2017 as a Deep State spy in the White House under then NSA Advisor General H. R. McMaster.
The George Soros connected traitor was outed by Israeli spies as was reported by Stone at InfoWars.
InfoWars reported on Hill and suggested she may be one of the current deep state anti-Trump “whistleblowers.”
The second White House whistleblower in the Democrats’ Ukraine witch hunt is none other than George Soros operative Fiona Hill, Infowars has learned.
Infowars was contacted by sources close to the president confirming our suspicions that Fiona Hill is definitely one of the so-called White House whistleblowers involved in the current Ukraine witch hunt against President Trump.
Infowars first reported that Hill worked as a mole for Soros when Trump confidante Roger Stone broke the bombshell in May 2017, revealing that Hill was serving as Soros’mole under the supervision of former NSA adviser H.R. McMaster.
The video below shows Trump confidante Roger Stone in July 2017 warning that he was told he would be “targeted for annihilation” by the FBI for exposing the mole.
Stone was raided by the FBI and arrested in January.
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A New York Times writer who praised Hillary Clinton for wearing a white pantsuit called Tulsi Gabbard a “cult leader” for wearing exactly the same thing.
Style writer Vanessa Friedman had drooled over Hillary’s clothing back in 2016, calling her white pantsuit “presidential.”
However, when Gabbard, a fierce critic of Clinton, wore virtually the exact same outfit, Friedman said it made her look like a “cult leader” full of “combative righteousness” and that the white fabric has “connotations of the fringe, rather than the center” and even undermines “community building.”
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NYT’s Paul Krugman: ‘The Deep State Contains Some Really Impressive, Principled People’
We’re supposed to be delighted that we have a thoroughly unimpressive shadow government ensuring the prog-globalist agenda marches on unimpeded no matter who we vote into office.
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Portland Antifa Militant Filmed on Video Attacking Elderly Man, Arrested.
This story has been updated from the original.
A Portland antifa militant wanted for the assault of an elderly driver has been arrested after being on the run for months.
Shaun Clancy, 37, was arrested on Wednesday by Portland Police on an outstanding felony warrant stemming from a violent Black Lives Matter protest last year. On Oct. 6, 2018, Clancy was allegedly part of a far-left mob who shut down a street in downtown Portland and attacked an elderly driver.
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Rep. Jim Jordan: Impeachment is About Democrats Not Accepting Election Result
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) says that the impeachment hearings are just another consequence of Democrats not accepting the 2016 election result and defying the will of 63 million Americans.
During an appearance on Fox News, the Ohio Republican said the entire basis for the hearings was flawed given there’s no evidence of Trump delivering anything to Ukraine and “quid pro quo” claims are just a ruse.
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Several Arrested at Harlem Protest for Subway Candy Vendor
HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) — Several protesters have been arrested after demonstrating against the arrest of people selling food and candy in subway stations.
Multiple people were arrested during the protests Friday evening in Harlem on 122nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Police do not yet have an exact number of arrests.
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Soros’ Influence Pops Up in Dem Impeachment Drive
A key witness in the Democratic impeachment investigation, former National Security Council official Fiona Hill, worked for George Soros’ Open Society Institute and has connections to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the infamous “unverified and salacious” dossier of Democratic Party-funded opposition research on Donald Trump.
The Gateway Pundit reported a former Trump adviser accused Hill in 2017 of being a “deep state spy” in the White House under then National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster.”
Along with working for the Open Society Institute from 2000 to 2006, Hill has known Steele for years, beginning when Hill was working on Russia at the National Intelligence Council and Steele was on MI6’s Russia desk.
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White House: Trump Wants Impeachment Trial in the Senate
“He wants to be able to bring up witnesses like Adam Schiff, like the whistleblower, like Hunter Biden, like Joe Biden.”
The White House announced Thursday that President Trump is relishing the idea of impeachment hearings reaching the Senate so he can call witnesses including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ‘whistleblower’, and Hunter and Joe Biden.
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley made the revelations in an interview with Fox News.
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Prince Andrew: Canadian Orgs Won’t Say if They’ll Cut Ties With Disgraced Royal
With numerous organizations and companies across the U.K. and Australia cutting ties with the Duke of York amid allegations of sex crimes relating to his friendship with prolific pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, no Canadian organization tied to the disgraced Royal have responded to The Post Millennial‘s queries if they’ll follow suit.
On Thursday, Standard Chartered became the second corporate partner to cut ties with Prince Andrew’s business mentoring initiative, Pitch@Palace.
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Quebec Will Force DUI Drivers to Have Breathalyzer in Their Car for Life
The Quebec government has passed a new law that will force drivers who have two DUIs to have a breathalyzer in their car for life, according to the CBC.
The new law will come into effect on Monday. The new legislation requires a driver to blow into a device to prove that they have no alcohol in the system before the car can start. This only applies if the driver has been convicted twice for driving under the influence in under a decade.
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Former Prime Minister of Iceland: ‘Melting Glaciers Are Nothing to Panic About’
Climate is always changing and humans are always adapting, writes Iceland’s former prime minister, so people should stop panicking over global warming.
Despite the stories delivered by “teary-eyed reporters” about the tragedy of melting glaciers, the fact is that some glaciers melt while others grow and it has been this way for all of history, says David Gunnlaugsson, who served as Iceland’s prime minister from 2013 to 2016.
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Human Excrement Smeared at Vandalised French Church
Two men are accused of breaking into a church in the French commune of Tarbes and vandalising the place of worship and soiling books with faeces.
The church attack occurred on Wednesday afternoon and saw the pair, who are still at large, take out prayer books which they proceeded to tear up, set on fire, and soil with human waste, French broadcaster Franceinfo reports.
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Hungary’s Breaches Back on EU Agenda Next Month
EU affairs ministers will hold a second hearing on Hungary’s possible breach of EU rules and values at their next meeting on 10 December under the Article 7 procedure, Finland’s EU presidency said.
Finland’s EU ambassador Marja Rislakki was speaking to MEPs in the civil liberties committee on Thursday (21 November) in a debate on Hungary, which is under EU scrutiny for curbing judicial independence, media and academic freedom.
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Italy: Nun Falls in Love Forcing Convent to Close
Near Arezzo
(ANSA) — Arezzo, November 21 — An Italian nun has fallen in love forcing her convent near Arezzo in Tuscany to close, Florence’s La Nazione newspaper reported Thursday.
The 40-year-old nun’s only companion in the convent was an 8O-year-old sister who has now been forced to move out.
The religious order ruled that she was too old to run the convent alone.
The 40-year-old suffered “a vocational crisis” and then fell for a local man, the daily said.
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Norway: Anti-Islam Group Slammed After Violence at Quran Burning Event
A Muslim union in Norway has said they will be reporting an anti-Islam group for hate crimes after a Quran burning protest turned violent.
The protest, which was held by the group Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN), took place in Kristiansand and saw the leader of the group, Lars Thorsen, set fire to a copy of the Quran after throwing it into a nearby bin, NRK reports.
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UK to Repatriate ‘Islamic State’ Orphans
UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab said the UK has made arrangements to repatriate orphaned children from parents who were involved in the war in Syria, including children from fighters from the so-called “Islamic State”. With this the UK joins Germany, Belgium and Australia who made these arrangements earlier. “These innocent, orphaned, children should never have been subjected to the horrors of war,” he said.
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UK: Coldplay Won’t Tour Because it’s Killing the Planet or Something
I make fun of eco-hypocrites a lot, because it’s galling to listen to guys like Leonardo Di Caprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger scold me for killing the planet as they’re stepping into their private jets. If they really believed what they’re saying, they’d quit their jobs and go live in a commune. They’d stop ruining the planet while claiming to love it. They’d practice what they preach.
Which is why I have to tip my hat to Chris Martin and the rest of Coldplay. After 20 years in the music business, they’ve finally released something I want to hear!
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UK: Farage’s Brexit Party Launches ‘Contract With the British People’
Nigel Farage will announce his party’s “contract with the people” on Friday where he pledges to cap immigration to 50,000a year, announce tax breaks for small businesses, and reform of Britain’s political system.
Ditching the “one of the least trusted” words in the English language — “manifesto” — Mr Farage wrote in The Telegraph that “the Brexit Party is instead launching a contract with the British people. We trust that this word speaks for itself.”
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UK: Farage Slams Labour, Tories: ‘Manifestos Tell People What They Want to Hear Without Meaning it’
Brexit leader Nigel Farage launched an all-out attack on one of the great elephants in the room of British politics Friday, when he laid into the establishment parties for persistently and willfully lying in their election manifestos — documents he said that were written to flatter voters without any intention of actually following through.
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UK: Majority of Brexiteer Students Feel Unable to Talk Politics on Campus: Study
A report has warned that “academic freedom is being significantly violated” at British universities due to “forms of political discrimination”, with findings revealing that only four in ten Brexit-voting students feel comfortable sharing their political opinions.
Centre-right think tank Policy Exchange found that while British universities are world-leading, there is a concern that a “culture of conformity” is stifling academic rigour.
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Caroline Glick: The Reign of the Prosecutors
In Israel Thursday morning, the politicians were the big story. Israel Beitenu chairman Avigdor Liberman was the villain who had held the country hostage for nearly a year as he fed his narcissistic personality disorder.
The left’s latest flagship, the Blue and White party is all the once vibrant political camp can put together now that it has lost its ideology. With its god of peace killed by suicide bombers and missiles, and its socialism statues crushed under the weight of bankrupt government companies, all the left has left is Blue and White. The party stands on two planks — destroying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and eternalizing the regime of Israel’s unelected bureaucrats.
The party’s figurehead — Benny Gantz — was tempted to join a unity government with Netanyahu that would guarantee he would serve as prime minister in a rotation agreement. But his comrades wouldn’t let him. Joining a government with Netanyahu would be a betrayal of their very reasons for existing. So, unhappily, he walked away.
And then there was Netanyahu himself. Thursday morning, his supporters shook their heads in frustration and his enemies clapped their hands in glee at the sight of Israel’s greatest stateman, the leader the public wants to keep in office, unable to form a government,
The conversation about Israel’s politicians lasted less than 24 hours.
At 4 in the afternoon, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s office announced that at 7:30 in the evening he would announce he his decision to indict Netanyahu. The underlying message was crystal clear: The day after Benny Gantz returned his mandate to form a government to President Rueven Rivlin after he failed to get a sufficient number of coalition partners to build a government, Mandelblit said that there’s no point in talking about whether or not Israel is going to new elections in March.
Voters don’t decide anything. The lawyers do. Politicians are irrelevant. The only people who count in Israel today are the unelected attorneys who run the country…
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Iran Petrol Protests: ‘100 Leaders’ Arrested in Crackdown
Iran has arrested about 100 leaders of the protests against a hike in petrol prices, the judiciary says.
They were identified and detained in “various parts of the country” by Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards.
The announcement came as the US placed sanctions on Iran’s communications minister for restricting internet access during the unrest.
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The location of the real Noah’s Ark may have been confirmed by relic-hunters in a remote mountain range.
Experts claim they’ve snapped underground images of a mysterious ship-shaped object discovered half a century ago in eastern Turkey.
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[…]
In April 2018, Fenech was revealed to be the owner of 17 Black, one of two Dubai companies named in a leaked email that Nexia BT partner Karl Cini had sent Mossack Fonseca, requesting the Panamanian law firm to open bank accounts for Mizzi’s and Schembri’s companies with the Witherbotham bank in the Bahamas.
In the email, Cini stated that Schembri’s and Mizzi’s main target clients will be Dubai companies called 17 Black and Macbridge and that these two companies will transfer €150,000 a month to Mizzi’s and Schembri’s companies.
The Daphne Project, an international journalistic collaboration set up to complete Caruana Galizia’s work, revealed that 17 Black’s bank account at the Noor Bank in Dubai had received three payments — one single payment of €161,000 from Mario Pullicino, the local agent for the tanker supplying gas to the LNG power station, and two separate payments amounting to €1.1 million from an Azeri security guard. …
Earlier this year, Yorgen Fenech was named as a minority shareholder of Maltese gaming company, L & L Europe Limited, during an investigation into gaming companies operating illegally in Norway.
The Tumas Group’s website names one of the business group’s interests as the Tumas Fenech Foundation for Education in Journalism, a social corporate responsibility initiative which was set up to train Maltese journalists.
In a bitter turn of events, the Foundation last year sponsored the Institute of the Maltese Journalists’ Gold Award, its highest recognition for people working in journalism. The award winner just so happened to be Daphne Caruana Galizia…
[See also:
Yorgen Fenech is suspect in Daphne murder https://manueldelia.com/2019/11/yorgen-fenech-is-suspect-in-daphne-murder/
17 Black owner Yorgen Fenech under arrest after yacht stopped from leaving Portomaso https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/98742/afm_stops_17_black_owner_yorgen_fenechs_yacht_after_leaving_portomaso
Corruption costing Malta €725 million a year https://theshiftnews.com/2018/12/09/corruption-costing-malta-e725-million-a-year/
]
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China Could ‘Turn Off Power’ In the Philippines, Senate Hears
China could switch off the Philippines’ national grid, congress has heard in Manila.
The head of the National Transmission Corporation confirmed the possibility during a senate session.
China has part-owned the Philippines’ national grid since 2009 — leading one senator to question whether China’s “hegemonic ambitions” posed a security threat to the Philippines.
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Communist Cruelty: UK Consulate Employee Says He Was Tortured by Chinese Communist Party
Simon Cheng, who was detained by communist authorities and brought to Mainland China this summer while he was representing the British government in Hong Kong, said he was tortured by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the 15 days he was imprisoned.
In a graphic Facebook post, Cheng recalled in detail the abuse he suffered at the hands of his communist captures, saying that he was bound “handcuffed and shackled” in a “steep X-Cross doing a spread-eagled pose” which he said lasted for hours at a time, resulting in extreme pain.
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Fossils Show New Species of Large Carnivorous Dinosaur
Katsuyama, Fukui Pref., Nov. 22 (Jiji Press) — Fossil remains found in Thailand have been determined to be those of a new species of carcharodontosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur group, according to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in central Japan and Thailand’s Khorat Fossil Museum.
A paper on the finding has been published in U.S. online journal PLOS One.
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Furious China Shadows Two US Warships Sailing Through Disputed Waters, Warns Them to Leave
As trade wars continue to be unresolved, it’s becoming increasingly evident that military tensions between both countries are increasing as well.
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More than 4.13 million voters in Hong Kong will head to the polls on Sunday as the city holds its district council election. It will be the first governmental polls since the city’s social unrest began in June.
District councils are lower level government bodies looking after local matters — such as bus routes and recreation facilities. They have a four-year term, and one council is in charge of each of Hong Kong’s 18 districts.
With the ongoing anti-government protest that has dragged on for more than five months, political considerations may come across more important than local agendas when voters cast their ballot on Nov. 24.
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Defecting Chinese Spy Offers Information Trove to Australian Government
A Chinese spy has risked his life to defect to Australia and is now offering a trove of unprecedented inside intelligence on how China conducts its interference operations abroad.
Wang “William” Liqiang is the first Chinese operative to ever blow his cover. He has revealed the identities of China’s senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong, as well as providing details of how they fund and conduct political interference operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.
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Mugahed Adam Eldouma, 39, allegedly got into the victim’s Armadale house through a window, leaving behind fingerprints, then snatched her mobile phone away as she called triple-zero for help.
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The 31-year-old woman, who is 38 weeks pregnant, was with friends at Bay Vista cafe on Church Street, Parramatta, at 10.30pm on Wednesday when she was set upon.
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Retiring ASIO Boss Issues a Chilling Warning That China Seeks to ‘Take Over’ Australia
Retired ASIO chief Duncan Lewis has accused the Chinese government of using ‘insidious’ foreign interference operations to ‘take over’ Australia’s political system.
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Footage shows the woman approaching the group as their train travelled towards Punchbowl in south-west Sydney, at 7.51am on November 14.
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Amazonian Tree With Human-Sized Leaves Finally Gets ID’d as New Species
At the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, a framed exhibit of a massive dried leaf has been a local attraction for decades. But the complete identity of the tree it belongs to remained unresolved — until now.
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Argentina Issues Arrest Warrant for Msgr Zanchetta
For sex abuse of 2 seminarians, bishop is in Vatican
(corrects spelling of name in slug) (ANSA) — Buenos Aires, November 21 — Prosecutors in the Argentinian city of salta on Thursday issued an international arrest warrant for Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, who resides in the Vatican, on charges of simple and continued sexual abuse of two adult seminarians, aggravated by the fact that the alleged crime was committed by a clergyman.
Pope Francis has vowed that a crackdown on predator priests will be stiffened.
Prosecutor María Soledad Filtrín decided to issue the warrant for the former bishop of Orán, considered close to Pope Francis, after he did not respond to repeated phone calls and emails sent to him in order to communicate legal acts and after his decision to set up his domicile in the Vatican.
The bishop was recalled to the Vatican by Francis in 2017.
The pope authorised the opening of a canon law procedure against Zanchetta in may of this year.
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Venezuela Students Blocked in Protest March to Military Base
University students in Venezuela have staged a protest calling for an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s rule.
A few hundred students on Thursday marched several blocks from the Central University of Venezuela campus in Caracas, but a National Guard blockade cut short their goal of reaching the city’s main military base.
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Bosnia: 24-Hour Curfews Introduced at Overwhelmed Migrant Camps Along the Croatian Border
In response to protests against the arrival of thousands of migrants, authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have introduced a 24-hour curfew on migrant camps siutationed near its border with Croatia.
After hundreds of locals showed up outside numerous migrant camps to protest against the newly arrived migrants, authorities announced that the camps would not be allowing any more new arrivals. Migrants living in camps near Bihac and Velika Kladusa were also told that the only way for them leave the camps is if they never return, Poland Daily reports.
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Greece: Government to Replace Overcrowded Asylum Centers With Closed Detention Facilities
Athens announced plans to shut down several of its overcrowded migrant camps scattered across the Aegean islands and replace them with five ‘closed detention facilities’ as the embattled EU member state struggles to cope with the ongoing migrant invasion.
The facilities, which are planned to be built on the islands of Samos, Chios, Lesvos, Kos, and Leros, will have space to house between 1,000 and 5,000 people each, Greek morning newspaper Kathimerini reports.
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A man from Northern Ireland has been arrested by police investigating the deaths of 39 migrants whose bodies were found in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex.
The man, 23, was held on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
He was arrested by Thames Valley Police on the M40, near Beaconsfield in the early hours of Friday morning and remains in custody, Essex Police said.
The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals, including two 15-year-old boys, were found in the trailer in an industrial park in Grays, in the early hours of October 23.
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Authorities in Germany have released the nationalities of the three migrants who were arrested earlier this week for gang-raping a 14-year-old native German girl on Halloween night in the city Ulm.
The cowardly rapists, three ‘asylum seekers’ from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, aged 15, 16, and 26, are currently in police custody. Two additional suspects said to have been involved in the sexual assault remain at large, German Bavarian daily newspaper Münchner Merkur reports.
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Migrant Crisis 2.0: More Than 1,350 Migrants Land on Greek Islands Last Weekend
Greece’s Coast Guard reported that over 1,350 migrants landed on the country’s various islands in the Aegean Sea over the weekend. The news comes as migrant facilities operating on the Greek islands already face massive overcrowding and growing violence.
According to the Greek Coast Guard, between Friday and Monday morning, 658 migrants were picked up while another 730 migrants succeeded in landing on the shores of one of the Aegean islands not far from Turkey, Courrier International reports.
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PM: Greece Will ‘Shut Door’ To Migrants Without Rights
Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament on Friday that he approved the hiring of 400 guards at Greece’s land border with Turkey and 800 more on its islands, to prevent the entry of migrants not entitled to stay in the country, Reuters writes. “We will permanently shut the door to illegal human traffickers, to those who want to enter although they are not entitled to asylum,” Mitsotakis said.
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Sweden: The Price of Migration
New figures from the European Union’s statistical bureau, Eurostat, show that unemployment is rising in Sweden. According to Eurostat, unemployment there was 7.4% in August, whereas the EU average for August was 6.2 %. This leaves Sweden, on Eurostat’s unemployment ranking of countries, at number 24 out of 28. According to the daily newspaper Expressen, one of the main reasons for Sweden’s high unemployment happens to be the large number of immigrants that the country has taken in.
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UK: Dozens of Illegals Found in EU-Origin Containers in Two Incidents in One Day
Dozens of illegals were found in two shipping containers in the British Isles that had travelled from mainland Europe in two separate incidents on Thursday.
Police in the Republic of Ireland confirmed that 16 male migrants believed to be of Middle Eastern origin were found in a sealed container during a routine inspection of cargo travelling by ferry from the French port of Cherbourg to Rosslare, County Wexford, according to Reuters.
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Watch: Anti-Trump Protester Refuses to Denounce Obama for Deporting More Immigrants Than Trump
‘Trump is a racist who is trying to ‘make America white again’ by deporting immigrants.’
‘But Obama deported double the number of immigrants and put kids in cages’.
‘I didn’t follow politics then…I wouldn’t denounce him because he was a gentleman.’
Meanwhile, imagine showing up to a protest and having absolutely no idea what you are protesting against.
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CBS Program Asks About Six-Year-Olds Being Taught How to Masturbate
Internet users overwhelmingly reject lesson being taught in UK schools.
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Chick-fil-A is Now Funding Pro-LGBT Group
In 2014, Chick-fil-A decided to stop funding the Paul Anderson Youth Home because it was accused of being “anti-LGBT.” But it still had funding commitments with the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, both of which are also falsely accused of being “anti-LGBT” because they have biblical policies on marriage and sex outside of marriage. Now that the funding commitment has expired, Chick-fil-A says it will no longer fund the Salvation Army and FCA, even though the Salvation Army fits within its giving priority of funding organizations that provide housing and food banks, and FCA provides education. Instead, Tassopoulos states Chick-fil-A will now fund Covenant House International, which is much smaller than the Salvation Army (in only 31 cities) and an LGBTQ activist.
Tassopoulos, speaking of funding Covenant House, states: “This provides more focus and more clarity.” At least he is correct, and this clarity reveals the betrayal.
The founder of Covenant House, a Catholic priest pedophile, was sued for allegedly sexually abusing the youth who were seeking shelter and food. Covenant House proudly promotes LGBTQ on its website, referring to “LGBTQ Inclusion Initiatives,” and even doing an “inclusion assessment” at every one of its facilities.
Covenant House also proudly supports the New York City Gay Pride parade with its own float, banners, t-shirts, and hastag #CovUnity. Covenant House is recognized as a national funder of LGBTQ causes.
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College Students Think Women Can Have Male Genitalia
Also, men who have periods deserve tampons in male restrooms.
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Outside Mag: Vasectomy ‘Most Powerful’ Way to Fight Global Warming
The newest form of virtue signaling for the left involves cutting more than just carbon emissions. Now men are getting their nether regions snipped to save the planet — let’s see if this craze catches on!
On Thursday, 38-year-old lifestyle columnist Wes Siler wrote on Outside Magazine‘s website seemingly bragging about getting a vasectomy to stop global warming — “Getting one was, by far, the most powerful personal action I could take for our planet.”
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Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year: ‘Climate Emergency’
Oxford Dictionaries has declared the phrase “climate emergency” as its Word of the Year, after a 10,000 percent spike in usage.
Oxford defines “climate emergency” as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.”
In 2019, usage of the term skyrocketed to the top of public discourse. According to a statement published by their panel:
In 2018, climate did not feature in the top words typically used to modify emergency, instead the top types of emergencies people wrote about were health, hospital, and family emergencies…
But with climate emergency, we see something new, an extension of emergency to the global level.
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Video footage shows a high school girl choked up when her high school ruled that trans students have unrestricted access to bathrooms and locker rooms.
A high school student identified by the Daily Herald as Julia Barca chokes up as she discusses how her school district ruled Thursday that transgender students will have unrestricted access to bathrooms of their choice, video footage created by the Daily Herald shows.
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The Left Admits Abortion is Child Sacrifice
And they’re proud of it.
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The culture & the media tells men to “talk about their feelings.”
The left constantly promotes “mental health awareness.”
But when when middle aged white working class men (amongst whom suicide rates are soaring) try to do so, they are dismissed, scorned and told to shut up.
“OK Boomer!”
Why?
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Unhinged: Nora Loreto Says Hockey Leads to ‘White Supremacy and Misogyny’
It was inevitable.
A big story about hockey.
A horrifically bad take by Nora Loreto.
Loreto is the notorious activist best known for one of the most-ratioed tweets of all time in Canada following the Humboldt Broncos tragic crash:…
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WHO: 80 Percent of Adolescents Don’t Exercise Enough
A new report World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that more than 80 percent of adolescents worldwide are not active enough, putting their current and future health at risk. Globally, girls tend to be less active than boys. The prevalence of insufficient physical activity slightly decreased in boys between 2001 and 2016 (from 80 percent to 78 percent), but there was no change over time in girls (remaining around 85 percent).
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The Swedish Foreign Ministry said that Russians do not visit their country because of fear of migrants
Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde complained that Russian tourists did not want to visit the country. According to the politician, the reason for this is the negative image formed by local media.
“It happened, for example, that invited representatives of Russian civil society did not come to our meetings, fearing that it was not safe with us. It may seem ridiculous, but it’s true, ”the Swedish Foreign Ministry said.
Noting the role of the media, a ministry spokeswoman said that journalists cover only negative events in the country, and the authorities should work to block disinformation and show that the government and the police are doing everything possible to combat banditry, RIA Novosti reports citing Swedish MEDIA.
https://riafan.ru/1229246-shvedskii-mid-zayavil-chto-rossiyane-ne-poseshayut-ikh-stranu-iz-za-strakha-pered-migrantami
In Dublin, Ireland, a beautiful old Greek Orthodox Church in the Center of the city has been turned into another bar. The kind of pc together that the burgeoning Muslim population has no problem with. PC is the new thick as a brick.
ADL declare Poland most Anti-Semitic country in the World..Apparently 49% Polish people are ‘PURE ANTISEMITIC”..
Link to Mr. Karon take to be brandish by Jews as antisemitic..Chears…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Wi3iGowBI
Re Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year. Their word of the year for 2020 will likely be either ‘climate genocide’ or ‘climate extinction’. Yawn.