A gunman (or gunmen) staged an attack today outside (or inside) the headquarters of the FSB, the Russian security service, in Moscow. Various reports say that up to three gunmen penetrated the building and killed an FSB employee. Some reports say only one attacker was involved, while others say there were three.
In other news, the Indonesian government has banned Christmas celebrations on the island of Sumatra, even in private homes.
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Activists Jump Off Tracks When Coal Train Rolls Through Their Blockade
About a dozen climate activists attempting to stop a coal resupply train near Worcester were forced from the tracks when the train failed to stop Monday night.
No one was injured or arrested.
The activists — some of whom were affiliated with groups like the Climate Disobedience Center, 350 New Hampshire Action and 350 Mass Action — said in a press release that the action was part of their campaign to shut down the Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, N.H., one of the last remaining coal plants in New England.
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Bias? Washington Post Reporters Celebrate Impeachment of Trump
Washington Post reporters buried any doubt over their raging bias by appearing to celebrate the impeachment of President Trump in a tweet that was subsequently deleted.
The Post’s Congressional reporter Rachael Bade posted an image of herself and four other colleagues enjoying snacks and beers with the caption, “Merry Impeachmas from the WaPo team!”
The photograph was taken at the Dubliner, a local Washington, D.C. bar.
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“We are the ones that ultimately have the power”
President Trump was “impeached” in the House Wednesday in a fruitless and cynical political move that will simply be thrown out by the Senate. However, Democrats acted like they were liberating the country from the grip of a Nazi dictatorship and freeing millions of slaves.
Nancy Pelosi compared the Democrats’ struggle to remove Trump from office to the Battle of the Bulge against Hitler in World War II, the largest battle US forces have ever been involved in, and one that liberated Europe from Nazi-ism.
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Hamden Man Charged With Attempting to Join ISIS
HAMDEN — A Hamden man was charged on October 30 with attempting to travel to fight for the terrorist group ISIS.
The affidavit in support of the criminal complaint was unsealed December 19.
Kevin McCormick,26, of Hamden, was arrested on October 21.
According to court documents and statements made in court, McCormick allegedly made several statements in October, saying that he wanted to travel to Syria and fight for ISIS.
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The outburst came as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy brought up a fellow “Squad” member’s prior comments about impeachment.
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It’s Official: House Dems Close Up Shop Without Sending Articles of Impeachment to Senate
On Thursday, the House of Representatives adjourned before voting to send the articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate for a trial. This made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stall-tactic official — Democrats are refusing to forward the impeachment to the Senate until they receive assurances the trial will be fair in their eyes. Yet this arguably violates the Constitution.
“Hoyer announces no more votes until January 7. Big cheer goes up in House chamber. This means the House won’t approve a resolution on impeachment [managers] & to send impeachment [package] to Senate until at least January, 2020,” Fox News reporter Chad Pergram tweeted.
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James Comey is a Pathological Liar
Before the first FISA application was signed and submitted mired by the pompous, self-serving serial liar James Comey, who signed three of them, Carter Page wrote Comey a letter telling him he was a government asset working with the CIA and the FBI. If that letter had been presented to the FISA court by Comey, as it should have been, the FISA court never would have approved the Obama administration surveillance of Carter Page and Team Trump. As Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett points out:
“If you don’t have a legal foundation to surveil somebody and you keep doing it, is that bad?” Sen. Graham asked Horowitz.
“Absolutely,” replied Horowitz, adding that “it’s illegal surveillance.”
Beyond Steele’s fictitious document, the FBI hid from the FISA Court exculpatory evidence that Page was not a Russian spy, which is how the initial warrant application boldly described him.
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Levin: Dems Impeached Trump to Prevent Him Making Another Supreme Court Pick
Radio host Mark Levin says that one of the real reasons why the Democrats impeached President Trump is to prevent him making another Supreme Court pick.
Levin relayed a conversation he had with his neighbor in which the two discussed how Democrats would refuse to vote for any justice selected by an “impeached president.”
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 40.1-55 through 40.1-57.1 and 40.1-58.1 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:…
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New York Post Savages “Swamp Mistress” Pelosi After Trump Impeachment Vote
The New York Post savaged House Speaker Pelosi on Wednesday evening calling her a “Swamp Mistress.”
Democrats voted in a straight party line vote to impeach President Trump for abuse of power on Wednesday night.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wore black at her funeral Wednesday night after she walked her caucus off the cliff.
Pelosi may have won the impeachment vote, but she lost 2020.
The Post’s Michael Goodwin wrote, “Pelosi’s stomach-churning impeachment charade damages America.”
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Pete Buttigieg Kicks Off His Latino Outreach Campaign With a Slogan Popularized by Communists
Struggling with low poll numbers among Latino voters, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign launched a Hispanic outreach effort on Monday that included a series of policy plans, websites, and online videos in English and Spanish.
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Surveillance Footage Outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell During Suicide Attempt is Missing
Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” —Cicero 42 BC
The music has certainly died in America. No matter how painful it is to admit this nation is but a shadow of its former self. Webster’s defined shadow as “An imperfect and faint representation.” This is not your grandfather’s America
Perhaps that is why American Pie was so poignant and why it hit a nerve with America. Released in 1971, the year I graduated from high school, there was an eeriness to the song that none of us could put a finger on. But yes, something about the song did “touch us deep inside.” The decade of the 70’s certainly left a mark on the soul of all who lived through those times.
It was as if we had been traumatized by the social revolution we had just lived through including 4-dead-in Ohio, the murder of the Kennedy’s, King, and Christian morality, causing a slow bleed-out of the American dream most of us had grown up in. We couldn’t really put our fingers on it because it wasn’t a single sniper shot that did it, but a slow agonizing cancer that took years to suck the life out.
But we felt the wound, we knew something had changed. We couldn’t put our finger on it but we sensed the drip, drip, drip, of normalcy leaving us as the reality of our wounding slowly sucked the Truth out of us. Maybe it was disenchantment, maybe it was the realization that this wasn’t Kansas anymore or simply the dread in the heart when you know that you can’t go home again.
America didn’t die. America was murdered. Yes, America was murdered and we had been eye witnesses to the assassination. Although the corpse was still warm, we sensed that a body-double had been inserted in its place. The Baby Boom generation watched it happen. In fact, we participated in it. We joined our parents on the Sea of Forgetfulness as we paddled our way out into the deep. A nation without a moral standard is a ship without a rudder. We were smiling broadly as the ship began to sink. Self indulgence ran the Good Ship America aground.
[Comment: lyrics to the song “American Pie” by Don McLean — www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/donmclean/americanpie.html]
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Monday morning, Law Enforcement Today reported on how Tazewell County, Virginia is crafting a militia to defend the Constitution in the state. And within hours, we were flooded with thousands of emails from people across the state — police officers, veterans, and patriotic Americans — who said they are joining.
And it’s a movement that’s gaining traction across the state.
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Why Pelosi Plans to Delay Sending Impeachment Articles to the Senate
Nancy Pelosi has suggested she will delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate in order for Democrats to build up more evidence against Trump and delay a swift acquittal.
Last night, the House voted along party lines to impeach Trump, a partisan move that enables Democrats to continually undermine and discredit Trump as the “impeached President.”
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ATM Bombings Force Dutch Banks to Impose Curfew on Cash Machines
Thieves targeting ATMs with explosives nearly doubles in 2019.
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Boris Johnson’s Victory Heralds a Golden Era in US-UK Relations
Boris Johnson has only been back in Downing Street a few days following his stunning victory in Britain’s general election, but there are already early signs that his premiership will preside over a dramatic revival in transatlantic relations not seen since the heyday of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
First and foremost, the British prime minister has made it abundantly clear that his first priority will be to break the Brexit deadlock that has effectively paralysed British politics, and the country’s ability to make its voice heard on the international stage, at the earliest possible opportunity, thus opening the way for a trade deal with Washington.
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Boris May Give British Courts Powers to Overrule EU Judges
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to give more British courts the power to challenge and overturn decisions by European Union judges.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is the EU’s supreme court and rules on matters related to the EU’s legislation and ensures that those laws are applied across the bloc. It is part of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and covers areas including employment and environmental laws, taxation, trade, fisheries, and agriculture.
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Diversity Cop Among Alleged ‘Asian’ Groomers Charged in Halifax, England
Sixteen men including a police officer have been charged with multiple offences related to three girls aged between 13 and 16 in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
The men, almost all of whom have names indicating a South Asian background, are charged with a swathe of crimes, from multiple counts of rape to trafficking and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, which they allegedly carried out between 2006 and 2009.
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Finland’s Millennial Govt Dismissed as ‘Sales Girl’ Prime Minister With ‘Street Activist’ Ministers
Remarks by Estonia’s interior minister towards Finland’s new millennial, female-led government have provoked a leftist backlash, including a confidence vote in the Estonian parliament.
Interior Minister Mart Helme labelled Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her new cabinet as non-educated “street activists” and called Prime Minister Marin a “sales girl”, provoking a wave of left-liberal condemnation, the BBC reports.
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French Leftists Label Children in Nativity Play ‘Fascists’
The mob of leftist extremists interrupted the nativity play at around 4 pm at the Place Saint-Georges and yelled, “stop the fascists!”
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Greta Thunberg Doc Reveals Cameras Were Rolling From Day One of Her ‘Viral’ Rise
Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg is the subject of a forthcoming documentary film — made by a crew that has followed her since the early days of her school strike. Still, believe her rise to fame was an accident?
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Instagram ‘Fact Checked’ A Greta Thunberg Meme That Was Obviously Satirical
Instagram is now ‘fact-checking’ and removing memes, including one that sought to make fun out of climate activist Greta Thunberg’s hypocrisy.
Back in May, Instagram announced that it would begin “fact checking” and removing memes.
The Facebook-owned platform said it would rely on 52 global “fact checking partners” to censor “false photos and memes on its platform,” according to Poynter.
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Italian Police Make 334 Mafia Arrests, Including Politicians
About 2,500 police officers were deployed in raids in the Italian province Calabria and have arrested 334 people on suspicion of membership of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, thel Corriere della Sera reports. The newspaper called it a “maxi-blitz” as it is the second-largest alleged mafia bust in the history of the country. One colonel, one former senator, a local mayor and one local police commander are among those detained.
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London Rejects Demand for Fresh Scottish Referendum
The UK government rejected on Thursday the demands of Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, to hold a new independence referendum in 2020, Reuters writes. “A second independence referendum next year would be a damaging distraction,” Britain’s government said in a statement, adding that it would undermine the result of the last vote five years ago when 55 percent of Scots chose to remain in the UK.
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Netherlands: Banks Impose Cash Machine Curfews Following Uptick in Explosion Thefts
Following a massive uptick in ATM bombings, the Dutch Banking Association (NVB) said Monday that most cash machines operating in the country would be switched off between 11 pm and 7 am.
Increasingly, criminals are setting off incendiary devices inside cash machines in an attempt to break them open and access the heaps of cash inside. Banks will attempt to limit the number of these incidents by switching off the machines during the hours these incidents generally occur, NL Times reports.
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Poland Risks Leaving EU With New Judges Law, Tusk Warns
Poland risked blundering out of the EU with a new gagging law on judges, former EU Council president Donald Tusk and others have warned.
And its rejection of EU energy policy was a form of treason, Tusk added.
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Report: Over 20 Former French Soldiers Have Become Jihadists
The Centre for Analysis of Terrorism (CAT) has released a report claiming that as many as 23 former French soldiers have joined radical Islamic terror groups such as the Islamic state.
Manon Chemel, the author of the report, said that most of the former soldiers have joined the Islamic State and that nearly half of them had been Islamic converts, while 10 had been members of elite units such as the Foreign Legion or Air Commandos, Le Figaro reports.
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Surprise! Greta Thunberg Biopic Reveals Cameras Were Rolling From Day One of Her ‘Viral’ Rise
Why was a documentary crew already present to film her sitting alone on the pavement?
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Sweden: The Wages of Self-Loathing is Civil War
The Danes have put extra resources into controlling the country’s links to Sweden because of bombs going off in Denmark due to people coming from Sweden. The people from Sweden are Islamist criminals. The Swedish government reacted to the Danish move by calling the Danes Nazis. Swedish society has changed for the worse, and the Swedish people are aware of what they have lost.
All this is known, but what is interesting is that a former head of the Swedish truck-maker Scania, a Mr. Leif Ostling, has said Sweden is headed for civil war because of the problem of its violent migrants who have no inclination to integrate into Swedish society. As a successful businessman, his views can’t be dismissed as being from some sort of antisocial loon living in his mother’s basement.
This raises the question: how do you have a civil war in this day and age? Having a civil war is aspirational, but is it achievable?
The population of Sweden is now 10.1 million, of which 8% are of the Islamist persuasion. The first question is, who owns the guns, and how many are there?
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Swedish Government Told Country’s Crime Authority to Censor “Politically Sensitive” Data
Scandinavian country’s problems with migrant crime being buried.
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The Incredible Story of the Polish Bear That Went to War
A short film by Stefan Tompson.
This is the incredible, endearing and heartwarming true story of Wojtek, the Polish bear that went to War.
As I was growing up in London, surrounded by Polish émigre’s, I repeatedly heard this wonderful story about Wojtek, a Bear soldier who fought alongside the Polish II Corps.
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Four men have been jailed for more than 22 years in total after sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl who was ‘passed around like a piece of meat’, sold for sex and raped.
The Asian grooming gang from Telford forced their victim to perform sex acts in a churchyard, raped her above a shop on a filthy mattress, and violently abused her when she tried to refuse their advances, a court heard.
In all, five men went on trial at Birmingham Crown Court, leading to convictions for four of the defendants while another was cleared.
[Comment: The word “Asian” is being used intentionally to hide the truth.]
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Families in Yorkshire, England are incensed after kids were given homework asking them to imagine they were the parents of Manchester suicide bombing victims and to write an essay on whether “all terrorists should be forgiven.”
Twelve-year-old pupils at the Bridlington High School were given an assignment on the school’s online homework app on Friday in which they were asked: “Imagine that you are a parent of one of the Manchester bombing victims. Write a response to the point of view that: ‘All terrorists should be forgiven’.”
The exercise was set following an in-class discussion of the Manchester Arena attack in which Salman Ramadam Abedi detonated an explosive device during an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017 which killed 22 concert-goers, including children.
“There are children at the school who attended the concert and were there when the attack happened. There is even a cousin of one of the victims at the school,” one mother told Hull Live.
“I think this assignment is absolutely disgusting for all sorts of different reasons,” said Tracey Turner, whose granddaughter studies at the school.
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UK: Iranian Asset? Serious Questions Raised About Liberal MP’s Ties to Islamic Regime
Iranian-born Liberal MP Majid Jowhari’s history of a cozy stance toward his home country took a dark turn last week after he was accused of being a paid agent of the Khamenei regime on Farsi television in the United Kingdom.
The allegation was made by Alireza Sassanian, a freelance journalist and close associate of the late-Iranian intelligence dissident Masoud Molavi who was murdered this past November in Istanbul.
“Masoud talked to me about someone by the name of Majid Jowhari. He’s a member of the Parliament of Canada. He’s from the Liberal Party, representing Richmond Hill,” Sassanian told the programme’s host Alireza Nourizadeh.
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UK: Jury Convicts Extinction Rebellion Activists Over Train Glue Protest
Three Extinction Rebellion activists who glued themselves to a train have been found guilty of obstructing the railway.
Cathy Eastburn, Mark Ovland and Luke Watson were charged after a protest halted Docklands Light Railway services at Canary Wharf station on 17 April.
A jury at Inner London Crown Court unanimously found the trio guilty.
Judge Silas Reid said most defendants do not come to court “for such noble purposes”.
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UK: Watch: Queen’s Speech Unveils Pledges on Brexit, Crime, ‘Zero Carbon’ UK
Queen Elizabeth II has unveiled her Government’s legislative programme at the State Opening of Parliament, revealing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ambitions to deliver Brexit, invest in public services, and “lead the way in tackling global climate change”.
“My Lords, and Members of the House of Commons, my government’s priority is to deliver the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union on the 31st of January,” the 93-year-old monarch began in her second Queen’s Speech of the year, a relatively modest affair stripped of much of the usual pomp and circumstance.
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UK:Muslim Police Officer Hired to Promote Diversity Ends Up Being Part of Grooming Gang
A Muslim police officer in the United Kingdom who was hired to promote diversity ended up being part of a grooming gang that sex trafficked children.
West Yorkshire PC Amjad Ditta, also known as Amjad Hussain, was charged with sex offences against children aged between 13 and 16.
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Yellow Vests Destroy Freemasonic Temple in France, Expose it How it Looks Inside
The wave of the Yellow Vests rallies, which have been marked by clashes between protesters and law enforcement agents and public disorder, started in France in mid-November of last year. Some 450 protesters reportedly gathered in Tarbes on 9 March for the 17th straight weekend of anti-government demonstrations.
On the night of 9-10 March, Yellow Vests protesters raided the Grand Orient de France Masonic lodge in the French city of Tarbes, La Depeche reported, posting an alleged video of the ransacked lodge.
According to the report, several people wearing yellow vests and masks approached the lodge’s building and began to throw rocks at the facade. Later, one of the protesters allegedly climbed over the fence and opened the gate from the inside.
Having gotten into the building, the protesters overthrew furniture and trashed the esoteric art hanging on the walls. One of the rioters even carried out of a box four swords that he later put on the window sill of a neighbouring building, La Depeche reported.
A video of the consequences of the raid has been published online.
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You Won’t Believe Why Norwegian Government Awarded This Guy 3.7 Million Euros
A Norwegian “artist” who’s best known for spray-painting from his butt, throwing feces at audiences, and peeing on stage, has received an exceptional amount of money from Norway’s public coffers.
Vegard Vinge, alongside his co-host Ida Muller, are said to have received NOK 37 million or 3.7 million euro from the Norwegian Cultural Council — a taxpayer-funded institution — over a span of twelve years, Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen reports.
The money, which equates to about 300,000 euros per year, is said to have been used to cover wages, production costs, and several other things.
Norway’s Cultural Council has justified the use of funds on the ‘global impact of the foundation’s artists’. Others in the Norwegian government couldn’t disagree more vehemently, however, with some describing the allocation of funds as “cultural psychosis” and as “madness”.
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One Staff Killed in FSB Shooting That Authorities Are Treating as ‘Act of Terrorism’
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is considering the attack on its Moscow headquarters that killed one employee an “act of terrorism,” Russian media reported.
The shooting was committed by a lone gunman, the FSB press service has said, dismissing media reports that the attacker managed to penetrate the premises of the FSB building.
Earlier reports of at least three attackers, storming into the FSB office and engaging into a firefight with the security operatives, turned out to be inaccurate as well.
The FSB confirmed that one of its operatives was killed in the attack. Earlier, Russia’s Health Ministry said two officers were “critically injured” during the shooting — yet it remained unclear whether the deceased is one of them. A total of five people are being treated for injuries following the incident.
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Christmas Celebrations Banned in Muslim West Sumatra
Governments on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have banned Christians from celebrating Christmas in private homes, according to a report Thursday from International Christian Concern (ICC).
This year, authorities have barred Christians from holding worship services and Christmas celebrations in Sungai Tambang, Sijunjung Regency and Jorong Kampung Baru, Dharmasraya Regency in West Sumatra, ICC said.
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Australia has been vocal in opposing China’s mass detention of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities and of the detention of Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun, sparking tensions.
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Issy, 13, and her father joined hundreds of protesters camped outside Kirribilli House to demand Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the federal government to take action on climate change.
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The rocketing mercury levels on Friday could mean Friday’s national average maximum temperature is even higher than Tuesday’s record-breaking 40.7C and Wednesday’s 41.9C.
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The couple booked an Uber to take them home after winning a ham in a raffle at the Seaford RSL, in Melbourne’s south, on Tuesday night.
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Norwegian company Equinor has been given its second approval for a drilling well in the Great Australian Bight that could start as early as November next year
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More than 700 officers from the public order response team and stations in Geelong, Ballarat, Morwell and Shepparton will be trained to use the rifles from March.
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The accused was ganged up on and viciously thrown onto a car and the floor as he tried to escape the scene in Sydney’s west.
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Thieves Steal 300,000 Litres of Water From a Farm in a Drought-Hit Community
A farmer in Evans Plains, about 10km south west of Bathurst in New South Wales, reported the huge load of water missing from two tanks on his property on Sunday.
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Residents of a bayside Melbourne town in the grip of drunken violence have warned of a ‘Cronulla-style’ riot if police do not deal with the problem.
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Channel Migrants: People-Smugglers Jailed After Woman Dies
Two men have been jailed over a people-smuggling operation that led to the death of an Iranian woman in the Channel as she tried to reach the UK.
The 31-year-old was among three who went overboard from an inflatable boat which ended up without fuel and oars before it was rescued, AFP reported.
The woman, who investigators called Mitra M, had a masters in psychology.
The men behind the operation were jailed in France for three and six years for manslaughter and smuggling.
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German Green Party Urges Allowing 140 Million ‘Climate Refugees’ To Migrate to the West
The Green Party in Germany is urging that up to 140 million “climate refugees” should be allowed to migrate to the west and given citizenship.
Political leaders like Claudia Roth are claiming that island states in the Pacific could “completely disappear” and that entire population groups should be allowed to re-locate to the west as a result.
“Citizenship in the receiving country can be an option,” for people existentially threatened by global warming, said Roth
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Migrant Arrivals in Europe From Turkey Nearly Double in 2019
70,000 migrants have made it to the European Union from Turkey this year, according to a confidential EU report, prompting some to question whether the EU-Turkey refugee deal has fallen apart completely.
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Pope Francis Has Migrant Crucifix Installed in Vatican
ROME — Pope Francis presided over the installation of a migrant crucifix in the Vatican Thursday, on which he had a migrant life vest placed on the cross in place of the body of Jesus.
The ceremony of the hanging of the new cross took place at the end of a meeting between the pope and a group of 33 migrants that the pontiff had flown over from the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Sweden: Migrant Gang Beat, Urinate on Teenager
More cultural enrichment from everyone’s favorite progressive utopia.
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Boris Johnson has been warned his new points-based immigration system must be ‘simple’ as he vowed to bring EU freedom of movement to an end by 2021.
Mr Johnson today used the Queen’s Speech to commit to bringing forward laws which will finally deliver on pledges he made during the 2016 Brexit referendum to allow Britain to take full control of its borders.
The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill will formally stop free movement and allow the government to replace existing border control measures with Australian-style arrangements.
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The Diversity Council of Australia doesn’t just seek to ban Christmas parties so non-Christians aren’t offended. It has also previously campaigned to ban the words ‘mum’ and ‘guys’ in the workplace.
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Fifteen Years in Iowa Jail for Burning Pride Flag
A US judge has handed down a sentence of at least 15 years to a man who stole an LGBT pride flag from a church and burned it outside a strip club.
Adolfo Martinez, 30, admitted to the media that he took the flag from Ames United Church of Christ due to his animosity towards homosexuals.
He was found guilty last month of hate crime harassment, reckless use of fire and being
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Former Nike Contractor Sues Company for Not Using the Right Pronouns
A computer engineer and employee of Nike’s has filed an official civil rights lawsuit against the company for what the disgruntled employee says is gender identity-based discrimination.
Jazz Lyles, who uses the pronouns “they/them/their,” worked for the company out their Beaverton, Oregon headquarters. Lyles’ lawsuit, which was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, claims that Nike and Mainz Brady, California-based IT staffing firm, put her through discrimination, harassment, and retaliation for dismissing her request to use her they/them pronouns.
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JK Rowling Cancelled by Woke Outrage Mob for Saying Biological Sex is Real
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been cancelled by the very ‘woke’ outrage mob she helped create after tweeting her support for a woman who was fired for saying “men cannot change into women.”
Rowling returned to Twitter for the first time in months to show solidarity with Maya Forstater, who lost her job at the Centre for Global Development, a think tank that campaigns against inequality, over a tweet that’s more than a year old.
“What I am so surprised at is that smart people I admire, who are absolutely pro-science in other areas, and champion human rights & womens rights are tying themselves in knots to avoid saying the truth that men cannot change into women (because that might hurt mens feelings),” tweeted Forstater in September 2018.
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Neil Gorsuch Said ‘Merry Christmas’ On Television and People Are Going Crazy
Woke culture attacks Christmas once again.
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The New Far-Left Curriculum Transforming Our Public Schools
Deep Equity: Marxist system of indoctrination where any student can decide what gender and even what race they want to be
“Deep Equity”, developed by the Corwin company, is quickly becoming the new standard curriculum being taught in our public schools. If you’ve never heard of it, you soon will. It’s in San Tan valley in Arizona, Chicago, Illinois, Louisville, Kentucky, the entire Cleveland, Ohio public school district, charter schools in California and many more American cities as well as Canada.
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U.S. Navy to Dedicate New Ship to Gay Pedophile Rapist Harvey Milk
The U.S. Navy is constructing a ship named after jewish LGBT’ rights pioneer’ Harvey Milk, the former San Francisco Mayor who has been turned into a folk hero by the homosexual elite who run Hollywood and LGBT advocates worldwide:
“In the 1950s, Harvey Milk served in the U.S. Navy while stationed in San Diego. Today construction begins on the USNS Harvey Milk. We’re proud of the history Harvey Milk had in SD and that this vessel will represent freedom and acceptance here and abroad,” San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer wrote in a Tweet.
While Milk has been whitewashed as a hero, he — like many LGBT activists have shown in recent years — had a proclivity for young boys while he was alive according to reports.
Milk’s friend and biographer admitted that “Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems.” He was reportedly a statutory rapist who targeted the most vulnerable of children with his predations. One of his alleged victims was a 16-year-old runaway Jack Galen McKinley from Maryland.
Columnist Matt Barber, who called Milk a “demonstrably, categorically an evil man,” described Milk’s alleged illicit relationship with McKinley and other underage boys:…
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US Man Gets 16 Years in Prison for Stealing, Burning LGBT ‘Pride’ Flag
NEVADA, Iowa, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.
Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” — arson — plus reckless use of explosives or fire.
According to the Des Moines Register, Martinez stole the flag, which had been hanging at Ames United Church of Christ. Then, using lighter fluid, he burned it early on June 11, 2019 outside a strip club called Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club.
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YouTube Deletes Viral Yuri Bezmenov Lecture on Communist Subversion for ‘Hate Speech’
Bezmenov’s lecture had well over a million views.
[Comment: more info and link to Yuri’s video here www.naturalnews.com/2017-01-09-communist-subversion-of-america-is-nearly-complete-left-wing-media-soviet-style-overthrow-yuri-bezmenov.html]
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“And its rejection of EU energy policy was a form of treason, Tusk added.” I don’t think you can be a subject of treason towards the EU, as it is not a state or federation (even though it definitely thinks of itself that way). On the other hand Mr. Tusk can definitely be subject of treason towards his homecountry.
“YouTube Deletes Viral Yuri Bezmenov Lecture on Communist Subversion for ‘Hate Speech’” I’m on the fence about this one. On one hand it was an interesting lecturee, on the other there’s no reason to blindly believe anything a KGB agent says and some people on the right were acting as if this lecture was the Bible, so in that light it might be good that it won’t be as readily avaiable anymore. Though I suppose it’s already been uploaded to bitchute anyway.
As for the “hate speech” part, I don’t reckon there was any such thing in the video…
Uh, Bezmenov was a KGB defector. His talks were of huge value because he accurately described how the Left marched through the institutions of the West.
Also, your skepticism of Bezmenov given his background is doubly ironic considering your screenname, AK-47.
AK-47,
I see no particular reason why it be disbelieved on the whole. The pattern of the long march through the institutions is well known, he is just a particularly able expositor.
Sweden. Students were forced to perform Muslim prayer in Arabic – the girls were banished to the back of the room
https://samnytt.se/elever-tvingades-utfora-muslimsk-bon-pa-arabiska-flickorna-forvisades-langst-bak-i-rummet/
“Fifteen Years in Iowa Jail for Burning LGBT Pride Flag”
15 years in prison for burning a piece of paper?! Sorry, I forgot. It’s actually the American Constitution that is “just a piece of paper”. LGBT flag is the law of the land.
Waiting for the day those who said the Constitution is just piece of paper also behind the bars.