Hungarian police discovered two tunnels that were being used by human smugglers to bring migrants across the border from Serbia. 44 migrants were detained, and a Serb suspected of human trafficking was arrested.
In other news, climate protesters disrupted Black Friday shoppers at shopping malls across the world. Although, strictly speaking, the demonstrations only occurred in the Western world.
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Poland GDP Up 3.9 Pct y/y in 3rd Quarter — Stats Office
The Polish economy grew by 3.9 pct year on year in the third quarter of 2019, down from a 4.6 pct growth in the second quarter, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Friday. In its earlier flash estimate, GUS put the Q3 growth rate figure at 3.9 pct.
Investments grew by 4.7 percent year on year in the third quarter of 2019, individual consumption increased by 3.9 percent and domestic demand went up by 3.3 percent, GUS data show.
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Poland’s Unemployment Rate Flat at 3.2 Pct in October — Eurostat
Poland’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 3.2 percent in October 2019, unchanged from September 2019, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, reported on Friday.
According to Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), the unemployment rate in the country fell to 5.0 percent in October 2019 from 5.1 percent a month earlier.
The discrepancy between GUS and Eurostat figures results from the use of different methodologies.
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Poland’s Inflation in November at 2.6 Percent y/y — Stats Office
Prices of consumer goods and services increased by 2.6 percent year on year in November 2019 and by 0.1 percent month on month, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported in a flash estimate on Friday.
Economists polled by PAP expected November’s prices of consumer goods and services to go up by 2.6 percent year on year and 0.1 percent month on month.
In October, prices of consumer goods and services increased by 2.5 percent year on year and by 0.2 percent month on month.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says that modern day liberals posed the biggest impediment to his career, as opposed to what he was taught to believe.
I felt as though in my life I had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic toward me. We were told that, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be the bigot in the pickup truck; it’s gonna be the Klansmen; it’s gonna be the rural sheriff,” Thomas says in a forthcoming documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.”
“But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern day liberal,” he added. “They were the ones who would discount all those things because they have one issue or because they have the power to caricature you,” according to ABC News.
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Alarmists Propose Rebranding ‘Climate Change’ For Greater Shock Value
Climate change alarmists are pushing for a change in vocabulary to scare people into taking global warming more seriously, starting with terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”
Writing for AdAge this week, Aaron Hall argues that in order to get people to “take action” against climate change, “rebranding” is crucial, since people have gotten too used to the idea that climate is changing and need to be shocked into the notion that the world as we know it is ending.
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Black Friday: Women in Hijabs Fight Over a Vacuum Cleaner at Walmart
Black Friday chaos has begun early, with one video showing two women in hijabs fighting over a vacuum cleaner at Walmart as store employees are forced to intervene.
The women refuse to let go, prompting staff to demand the women “put it down.”
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Brown University Students Want to Abolish All Prisons Because They Are ‘Racist’
A group of Brown University students want to abolish all prisons “in the name of justice” because they are “racist” and “punishment at any stage doesn’t guarantee any kind of growth.”
“The end goal is to not have prisons as any form of incarceration,” student Grace Austin, a member of the group called RailRoad, said at a teach-in called “Prison Abolition 101” held early this month, according to The Brown Daily Herald.
The students did not respond to questions regarding whether they would be happy to have the rapists, murderers, thieves and child molesters come and live on their own streets instead of being housed safely behind bars.
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We’ve seen some of the most unorthodox and outrageous behavior coming from current and former Trump administration people in regards to their treatment of the president, but an op-ed by fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer in the Washington Post Thursday takes the cake.
The Washington Post. Of course.
In it, Spencer — who was terminated for going outside the chain of command in order to persecute a Navy SEAL who had himself been abused by the military justice system — actually admits that he tried to order President Trump to stay out of his business.
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Flashback: Mike Bloomberg Says Taxing Poor People Will Help Them Live Longer
For a taste of the nanny state which would unfold if left-wing billionaire Michael Bloomberg becomes president, look no further than comments he made in April, 2018 while speaking to the IMF’s then-president Christine Lagarde — when he said we need to tax poor people so they’ll live longer.
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Florida Man Friday: Don’t Cry Over Spilled Meth
The Crazy Season starts for my family every year the week before Halloween. If Halloween — with two young boys, decorations, parties, costumes, etc — weren’t enough, as soon as we get all that stuff torn down, it’s time for my wife’s birthday. Her “birthday season” as we’ve come to call it includes a dinner out, a dinner at home, a dinner with her folks, and a dinner with her friends. While we’re still recuperating from that, it’s Thanksgiving… followed by Black Friday, more decorating, wrapping, three different parties, and Christmas itself. Christmas itself involves packing all the presents in the car, plus two days worth of luggage and three dogs, heading to the in-laws, and then packing everything back up 48 hours later and bringing it all back home. Then our oldest has his birthday on December 28, which means we have two days to get rid of all the Christmas and make the house ready for his b-day party. To top it off, just three days after that we throw a New Year’s party so massive that we have to hire a DJ and a couple bartenders. So you see why we call everything from late October to New Years Day the Crazy Season.
For Florida Man, the Crazy Season began in the most shrouded mists of ancient times, and ends on the fifth of never.
So make yourself a big plate of Thanksgiving leftovers, and gather ‘round the fire for another exciting…
Florida Man Friday!
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‘Free Nick!’: Miami Climate Change Activist Arrested at Black Friday Mall Protest
Fresh off a climate change-related hunger strike, Miami activist Nicholas Vazquez was arrested Friday afternoon at the Dadeland Mall during a protest.
Nearly 40 protesters, mostly young people, swarmed the mall for a planned protest Friday morning for government action on climate change. They dropped a banner inside the mall that read “end consumerism before it ends us” and staged a “die-in,” where activists drop to the ground and symbolically “die” for a cause.
The teens were quickly chased to the sidewalk outside by mall security and Miami-Dade police officers, said 17-year-old Elijah Ruby. They continued their chants of “fossil fuels have got to go” and “the Earth is on fire,” before Vazquez, 22, walked into the middle of the intersection and sat down.
[Comment: These protestors need to get a life.]
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Huffpost: Thanksgiving ‘National Day of Mourning’ For Native Americans
HuffPost has published a helpful Thanksgiving guide, “6 Things Every Non-Native Should Do On Thanksgiving,” after asking “Indigenous educators and activists to share what non-Natives need to know to be a good ally.”
One of the lessons non-Natives need to understand, HuffPost explains, is that Thanksgiving is a “National Day of Mourning” for Native Americans because of “the subsequent, nation-wide racial genocide that occurred between the settlers and the tribes whose territories they encroached on, and ongoing assaults on Native culture and religion.”
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Mansour: Instead of ‘Canceling’ Thanksgiving, Celebrate it as Our Founding Myth
The Wokesters are hard at work rewriting our history one school kid at a time. Ann Coulter gave an excellent summary of the new interpretation of Thanksgiving: “As every contemporary school child knows, our Pilgrim forefathers took a break from slaughtering Indigenous Peoples to invite them to dinner and infect them with smallpox, before embarking on their mission to fry the planet.”
She’s not joking either. America’s teachers have “begun a slow, complex process of ‘unlearning’ the widely accepted American narrative of Thanksgiving,” Education Week reports. To unlearn the “myth” of Thanksgiving, educators are seeking ways “to help students appreciate colonial oppression of Natives and the violence that ensued from it.” The article helpfully includes a video of PBS NewsHours’ Judy Woodruff explaining that the “quintessential feel-good holiday” of Thanksgiving actually “perpetuates a myth and dishonors Native Americans.”
The story of Thanksgiving fares even worse on college campuses, where students are taught that it should be commemorated as a “National Day of Mourning,” not a day off for food, family, and football.
“It’s kind of just based off the genocide of the indigenous people,” one student at Minnesota’s Macalester College told the College Fix. “The history of the holiday is obviously not the best. It’s very violent and oppressive,” said another.
Like the Democrats’ impeachment narrative, this new “narrative of Thanksgiving” is total bulls**t. I know because I’ve read the transcript.
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I’m not sure what the media’s endgame is with this new “Trump supporters are a cult” narrative they’ve got going, but they’re really kicking it into high gear.
Do they think this message will resonate with Independents, who will hear it and say, “I can’t vote for Trump, that’s a cult!”
All this does is further show how wildly partisan these hacks are and what shameless fake news they spread. It also insults a bazillion people and makes us hate the media even more than we already do.
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Protesters March in St. Louis Galleria Mall on Black Friday
RICHMOND HEIGHTS — About 16 protesters marched on Friday inside the St. Louis Galleria mall, yelling popular social justice slogans and calling out what they said was an unjust police shooting this summer.
Terry Tillman, 23, of St. Louis, was fatally shot in August. A Richmond Heights police officer saw Tillman carrying a gun, and chased him out of the mall, according to St. Louis County police.
The protest on Friday started small, with just a few people on the Galleria’s third floor, yelling over the balcony to shoppers, who had begun to fill the mall for Black Friday sales.
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Protest Outside Cherry Creek Mall Closes E. 1st Ave. On Black Friday
DENVER (CBS4) — During one of the busiest shopping days of the year, traffic outside the Cherry Creek Mall was brought to a standstill at the hands of protesters. A group known as “Extinction Rebellion Colorado” blocked traffic by positioning a sleigh in the middle of East 1st Avenue, and locking people to the sleigh by their necks.
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Journalist Ronan Farrow said Hillary Clinton tried to distance herself from him when she discovered he was investigating sexual assault allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
“It’s remarkable how quickly even people with a long relationship with you will turn if you threaten the centres of power or the sources of funding around them,” Farrow told the Financial Times.
“Ultimately, there are a lot of people out there who operate in that way. They’re beholden to powerful interests and if you go up against those interests, you become radioactive very quickly,” he said.
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US Intelligence Agency Traitors Have Long Tortured & Murdered Americans With Impunity
There is reason to believe that outright communists and Muslims, people who wish to destroy what remains of our Republic, have been infiltrating the CIA and FBI for decades. John Brennan, the man whose face appears perpetually contorted by hatred, voted for a communist candidate for President in 1976, but, shortly thereafter, was hired by the CIA, eventually rising to the post of Director from 3/2013 to 1/2017. The FBI’s former chief, James Comey, had also voted communist. Bear in mind that the CIA hired communist Brennan during the Cold War, when Russia really was our main rival and potential enemy.
Note that the leftists and neocons who today tell us over and over that Putin is evil and Russia is our deadliest foe were always sympathetic to the communist government of the USSR. Brennan was very close to Hussein Obama, who was very likely a Muslim, and he learned Arabic while studying in Cairo. In 1996 he was appointed Station Chief for the CIA in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has consistently been pro-Islamic, and many believe that this former Catholic and graduate of Fordham University converted to Islam years ago.
He is in favor of gun “control” and has denied that “jihad” means “holy” war. More than once he has met with the Islamic Society of North America, which is a front for terrorists. Brennan has denied the existence of unalienable rights. If the CIA had all along gone out of their way to hire traitors, they could not have done any worse. Brennan, along with his fellow communist Comey, was involved from the start in the underhanded attempts to sabotage and even impeach Trump. He presently has a cushy job with the slimestream media.
Trump appointed Gina Haspell as DCIA; she had worked directly for Brennan, and headed a site in Thailand where prisoners were tortured. She and Trump have made no effort to purge the traitors from the CIA and other agencies and bring about real reform. The creation of the CIA, along with the Civil War, the creation of the Federal Reserve and IRS, the FBI, FDR’s New Deal, and LBJ’s welfare and voting “rights” acts, is just another milestone on our path from being a free and prosperous Republic to being a Third World Schiff-hole with a fascist government. As I have said before, one way or another, we’re going to have to fight these people.
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2 Vancouver Climate Protests Create Spectacle During Black Friday Rush
A flashmob of about 200 protesters spilled out of a downtown Vancouver mall and erupted into a dance party on Granville Street between Georgia and Dunsmuir streets amid Friday afternoon rush hour traffic and Black Friday shoppers.
The local chapter of Climate Strike Canada, Sustainabiliteens, organized the event called Futurefest, it said, to build on momentum gained during October’s action with Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, and to demonstrate alternatives to consumerism by holding a community clothing swap.
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Bashir Mohamed Crashes Edmonton Catholic School Board Meeting Over Allegedly Racist Dress Policy
An Islamic refugee from Somalia crashed an Edmonton Catholic School Board meeting earlier this week. Bashir Mohamed, someone who has been described as a “real life troll” by the National Post raised his fist in the air in protest, as the board Chair began reading scripture from the Gospel of Matthew.
His issue was that a school kicked an elementary student out for wearing what the administration described as a “gang symbol.” Mohamed, always the first to cry “racism” attached himself personally to this story, which led him to this week’s meeting.
Mohamed has a history of being arrested for real time interruptions of public events.
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Canadian Comedian Loses Appeal, Must Pay $35,000 for Joke
A Quebec judge rejected part of comedian Mike Ward’s appeal regarding a joke about a disabled boy.
Ward was ordered to pay $35,000 to Jeremy Gabriel, who suffers from a genetic disorder that causes facial deformity and affects his hearing, due to a joke the comedian told at shows between 2010 and 2013.
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Quebec Fat Activist Starts Petition to Have Fat Rights in Charter of Rights and Freedoms
A Quebec fat activist is fighting for the rights of fat people everywhere, as she moves to have fat rights in the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Edith Bernier, a fat rights activist, has launched the petition in the National Assembly this Thursday to amend an article of the Charter “to add discrimination based on appearance,” specifically when it comes to people of weight, ie. fat people.
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The Way They Teach Orwell in Canada is Orwellian
All writers enjoying respect and popularity in their lifetimes entertain the hope that their work will outlive them. The true mark of a writer’s enduring influence is the adjectification of his (sorry, but it usually is “his”)—name. An especially jolly Christmas scene is said to be “Dickensian.” A cryptically written story is “Hemingwayesque.” A corrupted legal process gives rise to a “Kafkaesque” nightmare for the falsely accused. A ruthless politician takes a “Machiavellian” approach to besting his rival.
But the greatest of these is “Orwellian.” This is a modifier that The New York Times has declared “the most widely used adjective derived from the name of a modern writer … It’s more common than ‘Kafkaesque,’ ‘Hemingwayesque’ and ‘Dickensian’ put together. It even noses out the rival political reproach ‘Machiavellian’, which had a 500-year head start.”
Orwell changed the way we think about the world. For most of us, the word Orwellian is synonymous with either totalitarianism itself or the mindset that is eager to employ totalitarian methods—notably the bowdlerization or suppression of speech and freedoms—as a hedge against popular challenge to a politically correct vision of society dictated by a small cadre of elites.
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Torontonians Try to Find Alberta on a Map
I went to downtown Toronto to Yonge and Dundas Square to ask Torontonians what they know about Alberta in light of western separatism gaining ground.
After all, is it any wonder that some Albertans want to leave Canada when their own countrymen can’t even find them on the map?
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Angela Merkel Says Freedom of Speech Must be Curtailed to Keep Society Free
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that freedom of expression must be curtailed in order to keep society free.
Yes, really.
“For all those who claim that they can no longer express their opinion, I say this to them; If you express a pronounced opinion, you must live with the fact that you will be contradicted,” said Merkel during a speech to the German Parliament.
“Expressing an opinion does not come at zero cost, but freedom of expression has limits,” she added, as some in the Bundestag could be heard voicing their disagreement.
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Black Friday Backlash: Protests Against Amazon Erupt Across France
Activists across France have staged Black Friday protests against Amazon, decrying consumerism and its impact on the environment.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the company’s French headquarters in Clichy, north of Paris.
Protesters also tried to blockade a shopping centre in Paris and a logistics centre near the eastern city of Lyon.
In video from Lyon riot police can be seen dragging activists away.
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Claim: Germany Preparing to Ban Terrorist Hezbollah
German media has claimed that the German government is looking to completely ban the Islamist terror group Hezbollah as early as next week.
Der Spiegel has reported that the Federal Foreign Office, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of the Interior have all agreed to a blanket ban of the Lebanese-based terror group. The magazine reports that a final decision will be made next week at the Conference of Interior Ministers.
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Climate Change Protests: Marches Worldwide Ahead of UN Talks
Three days before the start of the UN climate conference in Madrid, people have taken to the streets on Friday in 2,400 cities across 157 countries to protest government inaction on climate change.
The Fridays for Future movement said it thought some 100,000 climate strikers would participate in more than 500 demonstrations across Germany. Their demands include:
An end to fossil fuel subsidies;
Switching off a quarter of all coal-fired power stations;
Renewable sources to cover 100% of Germany’s energy needs by 2035.
[Comment: 1. I agree with ending government subsidies. 2. Keep coal-fired power stations on. 3. Renewable sources are a pipe dream. Go with nuclear power.]
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Climate Protesters Block Stores, Disrupt Black Friday Shopping
Protesters around the world disrupted Black Friday shopping in order to draw attention to climate change days before the United Nations met to discuss the issue in Madrid.
The retail holiday saw protests in a long list of countries — including France, Germany, the United States — with some activists entering stores and others holding mock funerals. Near Paris, climate demonstrators blocked a shopping mall and gathered in from of Amazon’s headquarters to protest over-production they say is killing the planet.
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Dutch Police Arrest Alleged Jihadists Plotting Holiday Season Terror Attack
Dutch police have arrested two men this week on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack during the December holiday season using explosive vests and car bombs.
Police arrested the two men, aged 20 and 34, in the town of Zoetermeer on Monday with the Public Prosecution Service stating that the suspects are part of the radical Islamic scene in the Netherlands and were actively looking for instructions to make explosives, broadcaster BNR reports.
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EU’s New Green Deal Slammed as ‘Half-Baked’ Before Launch
The “set of deeply transformative policies” that appear in a draft document of the new climate EU law — seen by EUobserver — have not convinced environmental NGOs, such as Greenpeace, which believes that the new European Commission’s proposals are “too weak, half-baked or missing altogether”.
The incoming commissioner for the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, is expected to present the draft of this new environmental EU law to the MEPs in an extraordinary plenary session that will take place in Brussels on 11 December.
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France: Paris Train Station Evacuated After Bomb Scare
A busy Paris train station was evacuated Friday afternoon after a potentially explosive device was discovered in a passenger’s bag.
Authorities later determined the item to be an inactive mortar round and resumed service at Gare du Nord station in northern Paris. Gare du Nord is one of the busiest railway stations in Europe with more than 214 million average travelers per year. It provides train transportation to many European nations, including the United Kingdom via the Eurostar. Gare du Nord specifically bans inactive weapons, which people often purchase as souvenirs.
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Mental Health Crisis: More Swedes Are Taking Anti-Depressants Than Ever Before
More Swedes than ever before — nearly one million — are currently taking anti-depressant medications, according to new reports.
In 2018, close to one in ten Swedish citizens were taking anti-depressant medication, a number that has doubled since the early 2000s. The Swedish population now consumes more antidepressants than the vast majority of countries in the world, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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Netherlands: The Hague Stabbing: Three Injured in Attack on Shopping Street
Three people have been stabbed in an attack on a busy shopping street in The Hague, officials say.
Police said they were still searching for a suspect and no arrests had been made after the attack at about 19:45 local time (18:45 GMT).
Images and videos on social media showed dozens of Black Friday shoppers running away from the scene.
Three young people were treated in hospital, but were later able to go home, police said.
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Norwegian Justice Minister Says Quran Burning Part of Freedom of Speech
Norway’s Justice Minister Jøran Kallmyr has said that the recent controversial Quran-burning by an anti-Islamisation group should be covered under the nation’s commitment to free speech.
The Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN) group attempted to burn a copy of the Islamic holy book this month at a protest in Kristiansand, leading to controversy over whether or not the act was covered under freedom of speech or was illegal, Verdens Gang reports.
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Report: Malta PM Muscat Set to Resign
Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat has voiced his intention to resign after the political and legal crisis stemming from the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Times of Malta reported on Friday. The paper reported that Muscat visited president George Vella on Friday morning when he seems to have given notice of his intention to quit. This week, two ministers and Muscat’s chief of staff also resigned.
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Greta Thunberg is being taught to Swedish children as part of a course about “religious knowledge,” with kids being asked to mock her opponents.
News outlet Samhällsnytt reported that the 16-year-old climate activist is now included in the school curriculum and is being portrayed in an overtly sympathetic light, with the course describing her as an “alarm clock” that “allows us to discuss, talk, and reflect on what is happening to our world.”
According to one student, “Greta is practically painted as a saint.”
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Tusk Plans to Engage in Polish Politics as Council Presidency Ends
Outgoing European Council President and former Polish PM Donald Tusk said in Brussels on Friday that he plans to engage in Polish politics as soon as he finishes exercising his duties on December 1. He will also head the European People’s Party (EPP).
Tusk was the head of the European Council in the years 2014-2019. In 2014, he replaced Belgian Herman Van Rompuy in this position. His successor, Charles Michel, is also Belgian.
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UK: Another Grenfell Scammer Convicted in £89,000 Fraud Case
Yet another bogus Grenfell Tower victim has been convicted, having scammed taxpayers out of £88,860.27.
51-year-old Alvin Thompson had claimed he was living in the 1970s tower block as an illegal squatter when it caught fire in 2017, killing 72 people, and had burned his hand helping people to escape from the blaze.
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UK: Former Speaker Admits He ‘Facilitated’ Stopping Clean-Break Brexit
Former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has admitted that he had a “handmaiden role” in helping to stop a clean-break Brexit.
Speaking to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Mr Bercow denied that he had “stopped” No Deal, but confirmed: “I facilitated colleagues who wanted legally to stop the No Deal Brexit.”
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UK: London Bridge Terror: Police Shoot Knifeman, Several Injured
One man was shot by police Friday afternoon in the aftermath of a ‘terror’ incident on London Bridge, just yards from the 2017 terror attack where nine were killed and dozens injured in an Islamist attack.
Images and video uploaded to social media from London bridge Friday show dozens of police vehicles and armed response officers in the area amid the apparent knife attack. Police shot one man dead at the scene and several are reported injured.
London’s Metropolitan Police have said that while they do not yet understand the motive of the knife attack on London Bridge today, they are treating it as a terror incident until they know otherwise. The force has also acknowledged the shooting of a man by officers, although they have not explicitly said the shooting was fatal.
Footage acquired by The Sun newspaper shows members of the public helping detain the knifeman as police arrive at the scene. A man in formal business attire is seen carrying a large kitchen-type knife away from the attacker, while another pins him down. As police pull the member of the public off the alleged terrorist, offers fire twice.
[Comment: London bridge again.]
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UK: London Bridge Terror: A Man and a Woman Were Killed During the Attack
Two members of the public — a man and a woman — were killed in a terror attack at London Bridge on Friday afternoon, police have confirmed.
Three others — a man and two women — were also injured and remain in hospital, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.
One is in a critical but stable condition, another is stable and the third suffered less serious injuries.
Mr Basu said in a statement: “Tragically, two people — a man and a woman — were killed during the attack. Three others — a man and two women — were also injured and remain in hospital.
“The circumstances, as we currently understand them, are that the attacker attended an event earlier on Friday afternoon at Fishmongers’ Hall called ‘Learning Together’.
“We believe that the attack began inside before he left the building and proceeded onto London Bridge, where he was detained and subsequently confronted and shot by armed officers.”
Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick praised the “extraordinary courage”of members of the public who tackled the offender. It has since emerged that one of those who pinned him down was an off duty plain clothes police officer.
The attacker, who has been named by police as 28-year-old Usman Khan, was shot dead at point-blank range by police on London Bridge. He appeared to be wearing a fake suicide vest.
Sky’s Home Affairs correspondent Mark White has been told by sources that Khan was a convicted terrorist who had recently been released from prison and was wearing an electronic tag.
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UK: Riyaz Adam Convicted for Driving Into Men Celebrating Christening, Killing One
Riyaz Adam, who drove into a group of friends in east London and killed a Romanian man celebrating a Christening, has been convicted of manslaughter.
The 25-year-old had been driving to meet co-accused Jack Bush, against whom the jury failed to reach a verdict, on May 5th, arriving to find him “drunk [and] apparently fighting with a group of men.”
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Some people are upset that the London Bridge terrorist who was wearing fake explosives and had stabbed multiple victims was shot dead by police, arguing that he should have been arrested.
The attacker was apprehended by brave citizens who disarmed him of his weapon before police moved in to gun down the assailant.
This disturbed numerous leftists on Twitter who were upset that the terrorist was killed.
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Iraq PM Announces Resignation After 40 Protesters Killed on Single Deadliest Day
After two months of anti-corruption and anti-government protests have rocked Iraq, resulting in a death toll into the hundreds as the unrest turns increasingly sectarian and which has included the burning of two Iranian consulates, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi says he will resign.
He announced in an official statement put out by his office that he will submit his resignation to parliament after the country’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, suddenly pulled support, telling the nation in a Friday sermon that parliament should “reconsider its options” after putting Mahdi in power in the first place.
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Driver Muhammad Pasha and his three other Muslim cleaner-helpers arrested by police in connection with Dr Priyanka Reddy rape & murder and burning the body case.
B Upendran | HENB | Hyderabad | Nov 29, 2019:: The charred body of a woman was found under the culvert at Shadnagar point apparently a Muslim majority area beside Hyderabad-Bengaluru National Highway 44 . On Thursday morning, it was a milk vendor who noticed a burnt body first, alerted the local and police.
The Cyberabad Police reached the spot immediately. On the basis of a missing diary lodged by the father of one veterinary doctor Priyanka Reddy on Wednesday night, the police called the family members of Dr Reddy from Shamshabad to reach the spot. With the help of her clothes, Bhavya, the sister of Dr Reddy identified that it was his elder sister’s body.The body was charred upto cent percent almost, but some parts of her scarf and a ring still put in the charred fingers helped to identify the victim.
Police confirmed that the victim as Dr Priyanka Reddy, a lady Hindu veterinary doctor of 26 yrs practicing in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana.
From the ordeal of her younger sister Bhavya it is derived that on Wednesday evening Dr Priyanka had gone to Gachibowli for some medical treatment. The lady reportedly parked her two-wheeler near a toll plaza at Tondupally and took a cab to Gachibowli. On her return when she reached the toll plaza her bike was found punctured. She then called her younger sister at home and informed that the bike had broke-down. It was then arond 9. 30 PM. Priyanka also told that few ‘unidentified persons’ have approached to help her. On hearing this, her sister advised her to leave the bike and take a cab. But, Priyanka replied: ‘I will call you back.’ She also reported that the strangers gave the scooter to a teen (stranger) and sent him to get it repaired, but the teen came back saying all shops were closed.
“Priyanka Akka in conversation with me, said that some persons are trying to help her, but she is feeling ‘scared’, she asked me to keep talking to her. I told her to leave the vehicle and come home. I also told her to go to the toll booth instead and wait until the vehicle is repaired. Priyanka Akka told me that she would return my call,” said her sister…
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[Video] Hong Kong Protesters Sing American National Anthem to Thank Trump for Signing China Bills
On Thanksgiving Day (in the evening, actually) Hong Kong protesters decided to sing the American national anthem as a gesture of thanks for President Trump signing two bills into law Wednesday that condemned China. When they were done with “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the protesters chanted “USA, USA, USA.”
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Go Master Quits Because AI ‘Cannot be Defeated’
A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial intelligence that “cannot be defeated”.
Lee Se-dol is the only human to ever beat the AlphaGo software developed by Google’s sister company Deepmind.
In 2016, he took part in a five-match showdown against AlphaGo, losing four times but beating the computer once.
The South Korean said he had decided to retire after realising: “I’m not at the top even if I become the number one.”
“There is an entity that cannot be defeated,” the 18-time world Go champion told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
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Goodbye to Hong Kong? Final Message From the Protesters: This Government is Evil
The fight to free Hong Kong is far from over. They may have won a symbolic election, but the threat of police violence, tear gas, and oppression remains.
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The Jewish granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor says she has been traumatised after seeing a man wearing a Nazi swastika in a suburban Melbourne shopping centre.
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Sudanese-Australian Adau Mornyang, 25, escaped jail for a drunken plane rampage in January, but has spent the past two months in jail after a ‘surprise ambush’ in LA on September 17.
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Terrorists who planned to blow up Melbourne’s Federation Square in a Christmas Day massacre have been jailed.
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Czech Prime Minister: “We Strongly Reject the Redistribution of Migrants”
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis once again reiterated that the Czech Republic strongly rejects the redistribution of migrants and will refuse any further initiatives to enact a migrant quota system for EU member states.
Earlier this month, Germany proposed another plan to reform asylum procedures for so-called ‘irregular migrants’ arriving in Europe. The plan would allow migrants to be registered and distributed among EU member states while they’re still outside the borders of the bloc, daily Czech newspaper Lidovky reports.
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France: “We Want to Regain Control of Our Migration Policy”
French police recently cleared more than 2,000 migrants from makeshift encampments in northern Paris. The crackdown comes after the government announced a series of measures to curb illegal immigration.
The migration crackdown appears to be aimed at blunting the rising popularity of the anti-mass-migration party National Rally and its leader Marine Le Pen. She has dismissed the government’s actions as a “political swindle” that will increase, not decrease, immigration.
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Hungarian Police Find 2 Tunnels Used by Migrants on Border
Hungarian police said Friday that they discovered two tunnels used by migrants to enter the country from Serbia.
Police said that a tunnel 34 meters (37 yards) long was discovered near the southern village of Asotthalom, where they also detained 44 migrants who had used the precarious passageway.
Police Col. Jeno Szilassi-Horvath said a Serbian citizen suspected of human trafficking had been detained along with the migrants.
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Italy: Migrants Riot and Set Asylum Center Ablaze
Angry, entitled migrants rioted and set fire to an asylum center in the northern Italian city of Turin after far-left Antifa members declared a hunger strike.
The mayhem broke out at migrant repatriation center (CPR) in Turin when migrants housed in the facility began protesting against what they perceive to be ‘inhumane conditions’, Italian broadcaster TGCOM24 reports.
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Switzerland: ISIS Militant Posing as an Asylum Seeker Arrested
Swiss police on Saturday arrested an alleged ISIS militant who is believed to have been living in the country as an asylum seeker for about six months.
Police said that the Islamic State militant had been living in a home for asylum seekers in the small town of Altstätten before he was transferred to another facility in Kreuzlingen, 20 Minutes reports.
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Taking Back Control? Non-EU Immigration Rises to Near-Record Levels
Non-EU immigration — the only type of immigration the Government can control — has risen to near-record levels.
Immigration from European Union member-states, as well as the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, is almost entirely outside the British government’s control, as they are part of the Free Movement regime which the United Kingdom remains subject, despite the fact that more than three years have passed since the British people voted to leave the bloc.
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Tourists in Gran Canaria were left stunned today when 24 migrants including three children and a pregnant woman landed in a rickety boat on a popular beach.
Sunbathers in the Canary Islands joined forces with emergency workers to give water, food and clothes to migrants who arrived unexpectedly on the rocky shores of Aguila beach, in San Bartolome de Tirajana.
Exhausted, cold and some seemingly in a state of shock after weathering the Atlantic, the two dozen migrants were given thermal blankets and towels by rescue workers as they were finally able to rest on the beach.
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‘Desmond is Amazing’ Appears in Front of Painting With ‘Rohypnol’ Written on it
A new video has emerged showing ‘Desmond is Amazing’ — the 12-year-old “drag queen kid” — appearing in front of a poster with the word ‘Rohypnol’ written on it.
In the video, Desmond appears alongside Michael Alig, a 53-year-old former club promoter who served 17 years in prison for manslaughter for killing his drug dealer and then chopping up his dead body.
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‘Pedophile’ Culture Approved in Texas Schools
(warning: graphic content) A Texas school board has voted to implement a sex education curriculum that will teach children various sex acts, including anal sex.
The Austin Independent School District (AISD) Board of Trustees voted October 28 for a “sex education” program which exposes 3rd—8th grade children to content that a number of parents are objecting to as inappropriate and harmful.
Protesters gathered to “Stand Up for Children” at the meeting, gathering to address the crowd, but were interrupted by pro-curriculum advocates, including a black transgender who screamed in front of the podium, harrassing the crowd.
Other protestors used loudspeakers and instruments to drown out the speakers, one waving a rainbow flag and another wearing a shirt saying, “I MET GOD. THEY’RE QUEER Y’ALL.”
As many as 126 citizens came to the board meeting to voice their concerns. But the Board of Trustees was undeterred, and at the end of the meeting, which ran over five hours, the school board voted unanimously to pass the curriculum — to the applause of LGBT advocates…
Another concerned citizen, Gary Moore, observed that the program is a “dream scenario for pedophiles” as it encourages children to roleplay sexual activities for an academic grade at the discretion of their educator.
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A preschool has cancelled its yearly Christmas pageant over ‘cultural sensitivities’ after one parent complained, a radio station has confirmed.
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Social Justice Program Says Teachers Should ‘Reject and Resist’ Parents Who Disagree With it
A social justice schooling program meant to train teachers in eliminating racial disparities between students also instructs them how to treat individuals who disagree with the program’s ideas, ordering them to “explicitly reject and resist” parents and other outsiders who take issue with the curriculum’s content.
A spokesperson for the company refused to directly address this mandate even after being asked about it multiple times.
The program, called “Deep Equity,” is offered by Corwin Press, a subsidiary of SAGE. According to its website, the program was developed by Gary Howard, a self-proclaimed civil rights activist with experience in “social justice, equity, education, and diversity.”
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“Some of you don’t know what is best for your kids.”
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The Left Hates Thanksgiving, Gratitude, And Coexistence
That’s why it wants to destroy Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving brings with it three things: turkey, family, and guides on how to win political fights with family members. The latest entry in this popular proggie pastime is Lauren Duca of Teen Vogue who not only offers a guide to fighting with your family members, but urges future lonely proggies like her who face a future of hookups followed by cat hoarding, that refusing to fight at the dinner table is racist.
“The crisis of white politeness will persist so long as we ‘keep it nice’ and avoid talking about politics. Breaking the spell requires us to actively unlearn the stories and patterns of the white supremacist patriarchy,” Duca rants.
Not picking fights at the dinner table is a conspiracy by the white supremacist patriarchy which wants you to be nice to people. The woke crowd understands that niceness is racism. Now enjoy your turkey.
When lefties aren’t ruining Thanksgiving by being ‘Ducas’: they’re attacking the existence of the holiday.
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UN Summit to Hear Call for Rich Nations to Pay Climate Reparations
Officials at the United Nations COP25 climate change conference in Madrid next week must consider implementing taxes on developed countries to transfer wealth to nations dealing with “the cost of drought, floods, and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures,” more than 150 environmental groups said Friday.
The financial impositions being considered include U.N.-administered taxes on financial transactions, international air travel, and fossil fuels.
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The BBC website’s coverage of the stabber overpowered on London Bridge describes him as a “former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences”. Nowhere in the article is there any mention of Islam, muslim, or jihad. The only clue is the name of the stabber, Usman Khan.
Apart from the name the reader could suppose this was a “far right extremist”.
Except that if it were a “right-wing extremist”, that fact would be blazoned in all the headlines.