German police found eleven migrants stowed away in a truck after the driver heard knocking sounds coming from inside the cargo compartment. The truck originated in Turkey, and was carrying fruit. The migrants, all Afghans, reportedly boarded the truck in Serbia.
In other news, after nearly four years, the House of Commons finally voted to approve the prime minister’s Brexit agreement.
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Canadian Economy Shrinks 0.1% in October
Canada’s national economy made a step backwards to the tune of a tenth of a percent in October, as real gross domestic product shrank for the first time in eight months.
According to figures by Statistics Canada, several sectors made marginal declines, with manufacturing down for the fourth time in five months dropping by 1.4 percent, and transportation equipment manufacturing slipping at a hefty 2.5 percent.
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Stocks Kick Off Christmas Week With Record Highs
All three major U.S. averages closed at record highs Monday, kicking off the last week of trading for 2019. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the only major index not to hit an intraday peak.
The gains gave the Nasdaq Composite its eighth straight close at all-time highs, making for the longest stretch of consecutive record closes since July 1998.
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AG Barr Calls Out George Soros, Plus Dem Plan to Trigger Race War Discovered
Alex Jones explains bombshell new revelations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and other sensational news on this live Sunday edition of The Alex Jones Show. It’s critical to spread this! Matt Bracken, who nailed the plan to use a false flag to push for gun control all the way back in 2003, joins the show:
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Christianity Today Editor Says His Call for Impeachment Was ‘Hyperbole’
He admitted “the pro-life issue is just one of many” where President Donald Trump is in sync with evangelicals.
[Comment: Christianity Today is getting money from Soros — www.nowtheendbegins.com/progressive-laodicean-evangelicals-kay-warren-beth-moore-attack-president-trump-george-soros/]
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Christianity Today Doubles Down in Call for Trump Impeachment
The CEO of the evangelical journal Christianity Today (CT) published an editorial Sunday defending the magazine’s call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
In his essay, CT president and CEO Timothy Dalrymple defends the magazine’s decision to side with those demanding Trump’s removal, saying that CT has received “countless notes of encouragement from readers who were profoundly moved” by its editorial and insisting that the journal is beholden to God alone and not the Democrat party.
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Clinton Impeachment Judge: Trump Impeachment is ‘Phony’
Starr slams Pelosi; “There is an abuse of House power”; It is wrong constitutionally.”
The judge who investigated Bill Clinton, leading to his impeachment after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, declared this past weekend that the Democrats’ impeachment of President Trump is ‘phony’.
Judge Ken Starr told Fox News that the process against Trump will be remembered in the history books with a “footnote” or an “asterisk.”
“There was a debate and there was a recorded vote. And that goes down in history. However… it’s an impeachment with a footnote or with an asterisk. By the way it never went over to the Senate, which I think means it’s a bit of a phony impeachment.” Starr noted.
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A dramatic cellphone video recorded by bystanders shows a California father and several Good Samaritans drag a carjacker from a family’s SUV carrying three children and tackle him.
According to a press release form the Stockton Police Department, at around 5pm on Sunday, officers were called to the 7900 block of North El Dorado Street for a report of an attempted carjacking.
Responding officers arrived to find a group of people holding down the suspect, identified as 22-year-old Elijah Cervantes, and took him into custody.
Cervantes was arrested on a charge of attempted carjacking, and he was also found to be on parole for robbery.
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Hunter Biden is the Subject of a Criminal Investigation Involving Burisma, Legal Filing Claims
Hunter Biden is the subject of multiple criminal investigations regarding “fraud, money laundering, and a counterfeiting scheme” according to documents filed in an Arkansas paternity case. The documents, filed Monday by the Florida-based private-eye firm D&A Investigations, specifically name Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that hired Biden to the board while his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, was the Obama administration point person on Ukraine.
Biden “is the subject of more than one criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering, and a counterfeiting scheme,” the filing alleges, according to The New York Post. Biden and a group of business associates “established bank and financial accounts with Morgan Stanley … for Burisma Holdings Limited … for the money laundering scheme,” the filing alleges.
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Is College Necessary? Half Say ‘Yes’
Only 51 percent of U.S. adults say a college education is “very important,” down from 70 percent in 2013, reports Gallup.
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San Fransisco is Losing the Battle Despite Spending 94 Mil to Clean it Up
Mayor London Breed is beginning to feel the harmful effects of San Fransisco’s liberal homeless policies.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “San Francisco spent $94 million — or about $257,534 a day this year — trying to keep the city clean.” Despite this amount of money, they are losing this battle.
A tourism study conducted in SF showed that 33% of the 1,282 tourists questioned said that it was the conditions of the streets and the amount of homelessness to be the biggest problem with visiting the city.
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Soros’ Meddling in Prosecutors’ Elections May Worsen Crime in the US, AG Barr Reportedly Warns
The attorney general reportedly claimed that Soros relies on a combination of low voter turnout and sizeable financial contributions to the candidates of his choice to achieve his goals.
US Attorney General William Barr warned that the influence exerted by George Soros in prosecutor elections across the United States may have a detrimental effect on law enforcement in the states where candidates bankrolled by the billionaire prevail, Fox News reports.
As the media outlet points out, the attorney general’s warning comes after two prosecutorial candidates in Virginia managed to prevail in local Democratic primaries after receiving generous contributions to their election campaigns from Soros’ Justice and Public Safety PAC, with said financial aid size vastly surpassing the amount of money raised by their opponents.
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Teachers at U.S. School Threatened to Tell Muslim Girl’s Parents After She Removed Her Hijab
Progressives attempt to enforce Islamic modesty culture, which has led to girls being abused and killed.
Teachers at a school in the United States threatened to tell a Muslim girl’s parents that she had removed her hijab, arguing that it was part of her “culture.”
In a Reddit thread entitled ‘My teacher almost outed me for taking off the hijab’, the student explains what happened…
By attempting to enforce their deluded, progressive perception of Islam, the teachers almost put the girl at very real risk of abuse.
The story illustrates how befuddled leftists have no idea about how the modesty culture within Islam operates to the extent where girls and women are beaten and sometimes killed for not wearing their hijab.
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The Plan to Cause Martial Law in Virginia
Matt Bracken nailed it in 2003.
[Comment: Laws that violate the Constitution are what are known as “pretend laws”. Democrats in Virginia are acting like tyrants, making pretend laws they know violate the Constituion, and acting as if those laws have legitimacy.]
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We have a lot to thank Trump for, but among the most important is the idea that Trump has caused the corrupt, fraudulent, lying specter of “Big Government” to fully reveal itself for what it truly is.
Does anyone trust the FBI after reading the shocking findings of the Horowitz (IG) report? Not on your life.
Does anyone believe the Democrats are pursuing legitimate “impeachment” based on legitimate “high crimes?” Not a chance.
Does any rational person think that high-level lawmakers and bureaucrats aren’t on the take, receiving kickbacks from billions in foreign aid?
It’s quite stunning, actually, how the mass awakening has accelerated over the last three years as Trump has succeeded as President. In their desperate attempt to destroy Trump, the deep state swamp creatures and corrupt, lawless Democrats have been forced to reveal the truth about their corruption, fraud and malicious abuse of power.
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This is America: 10 Examples That Show How Dramatically the U.S. Has Changed as We Approach 2020
One thing that you can count on in life is that things are going to change. And these days the pace of change in America is absolutely breathtaking. Our culture is in the process of being radically transformed, and the direction of that change has not altered very much at all no matter which political party has been in power in Washington. Many of the values that are now embraced by a solid majority of the population run directly counter to the values that once dominated our society, but only a small minority of Americans seem alarmed by that fact. It appears to be exceedingly unlikely that there will be any deviating from the path that our nation has chosen, because at this point the American people seem quite satisfied with the dramatic “progress” that is taking place.
So what do you think?
Are we on the right track as a nation?
As you ponder that question, here are 10 examples for you to consider that show how dramatically the U.S. has changed as we approach 2020…
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Trump Applauds Gabbard for Voting ‘Present’ On Impeachment: ‘I Give Her a Lot of Respect’
President Donald Trump applauded Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a Democratic presidential candidate, for voting “present” on impeachment.
Trump criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for suggesting Gabbard might be a Russian plant in the 2020 Democratic presidential field.
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‘I Miss it’: Don Cherry Reminisces About Coach’s Corner, Doesn’t Mention Ron Maclean
Cherry wrapped up another edition of his podcast Grapevine 2.0 Monday. His son Tim was alongside him and they talked all things hockey, until towards the end when Cherry got a little wistful about his time as the nation’s Saturday night coach. Cherry began to reminisce about his days at Coach’s Corner near the end of the podcast, and how he misses it.
“Well Tim, it’s been seven weeks since I was let go, well let’s say let go [from Coach’s Corner] and a lot of people ask me do you miss it? And I say, ‘Well if you do something for close to 40 years of course you miss it. I thought I was gonna go on and do it forever. And you know, it was fun this year. I was on a roll. I really felt good this year. And to be honest with you, I do miss it on Saturday nights.”
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Sharia Law is Compatible With Canadian Law? David Menzies Speaks With Islamic Event Attendees
The annual Reviving the Islamic Spirit convention was back in Toronto this weekend. It featured such components as a Quran Competition and a Grand Bazaar.
But among the convention’s “distinguished scholars and presenters” are those individuals who have expressed repugnant views toward such identifiable groups as women, Jews, and homosexuals.
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British Lawmakers Finally Approve Brexit After Nearly 4 Years
After nearly four years, MPs in the British parliament on Friday voted overwhelmingly to approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan for the UK to leave the European Union on January 31st, 2020.
In a 358 to 234 vote, the House of Commons passed the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which will now be examined further and possibly amended before it’s sent to the House of Lords next month, the BBC reports.
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France: Pictures: Riot Police on the Streets of Paris as Anti-Macron Reform Protests Continue
Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to reform state pensions into a single scheme are in their 19th day with riot police deployed in Paris as tensions continue to flare.
Nationwide strikes, including that of railway workers which has caused enormous disruption in Paris and other major cities over the past near-four weeks, continued Monday, with scenes at the French capital’s Gare Du Lyon station associated with holiday traffic. Ski trains depart from the station for France’s mountainous south, and it is used by many holidaymakers at Christmas time escaping the city.
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France: Four “Youths” Arrested for Forcing Underage Girls Into Prostitution
French police last weekend arrested four ‘youths’ in the city of Rouen who are believed to have forced four young girls into prostitution.
The suspects, whose ages range between 16 and 22, were arrested last Sunday and are suspected of having kidnapped and forced several underage girls to engage in prostitution with as many as 15 men per day, Le Figaro reports.
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Germany Prevented Nine Terror Attacks Since 2016 Killings
The German federal criminal police office said on Sunday that the country has prevented nine potential terrorist attacks since the Berlin Christmas market atrocity in 2016, in which a truck driver killed 12 people and left 56 others injured. “After the death of the IS [Islamic State] leader, there was an increasing call for terror in the West in radical Islamist circles,” authorities told German daily Welt am Sonntag.
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German Rail Service in Hot Water Over ‘Greta’ Tweets
A spat on Twitter between climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg and Deutsche Bahn has resulted in Germany’s state-run rail service being hauled before authorities for allegedly infringing on the sixteen-year-old’s data privacy.
In the ongoing scandal over a Twitter exchange between Greta Thunberg, the Berlin Data Protection Office has announced that it will haul in representatives from Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway company, over concerns about data privacy after Deutsche Bahn tweeted out the train number that Thunberg was traveling on.
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Greta, Boomers and Witchcraft: The Hidden Agendas of 2019
A look at the underlying agenda behind the top stories of 2019.
In 2019, the agenda-setting was blatantly obvious. In fact, there’s a clear constellation of agendas being simultaneously promoted, all emerging from elite think tanks and expertly calculated to generate a specific response. Here are some of them.
After a year of protests and touring the world, one can ask: What was truly accomplished by Greta and the machine behind her? No concrete actions were taken to crack down on the world’s biggest polluters which are transportation, industry and electric power — all owned by major corporations.
The fact is: The Greta agenda is not about action, it is about emotions. It is about instilling fear, panic and even hopelessness to the youth. Here’s a recent headline that sums up the true effect of the Greta agenda on the world…
This article explains how a group of 2nd graders was shown one of Greta’s speeches, alongside a clock ticking down to their imminent death. This is nothing less than psychological torment meant to scar minds that are too young to deal with this kind of distress.
This campaign of fear and panic orchestrated by mass media is so effective that it is actually causing mental health issues in pre-teens, teens and adults.
The underlying agenda behind Greta is not the environment: It is creating a generation of anxious and depressed people that are easily manipulated through fear-mongering. Who profits from this? Those who control mass media. The elite.
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Hungary: Christianity and Christmas ‘Under Attack Worldwide’, Says Gov’t Official
Christianity and Christmas “are under attack worldwide” but the Hungarian government is committed to protecting Christian culture, the state secretary responsible for aid to persecuted Christians said on Monday.
Counting the Orthodox community, there are about one billion Christians in the world, Tristan Azbej told journalists in Budapest. Christians face persecution in many countries to the east and south of Hungary, “and in the West we’re seeing displays of anti-Christianity”, he added.
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Poland: Supreme Court Declares Election Results Valid
The Polish Supreme Court’s Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber recognised the election results of October 13 as valid on Monday.
“After analysing the PKW (State Electoral Commission — PAP) report and opinions expressed, in particular the shortcomings claimed in them, the Supreme Court considers that none of those shortcomings, as well as all of them combined, do not give grounds to question the validity of elections to the Sejm (lower house — PAP) and Senate of the Republic of Poland conducted on October 13, 2019,” Judge Joanna Lemanska of the Supreme Court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Control stated in the justification of the resolution.
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Swedish Journalist Visited No-Go Zone, Guess What Happened?
The response from the establishment in Sweden is mindblowing
Swedish freelance journalist Joakim Lamotte visited a migrant neighborhood that’s been in the news a lot lately, and the response he got from the establishment in Sweden is mindblowing.
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Three French Executives Convicted in the Suicides of 35 of Their Workers
The company, France Telecom — which used to be state-owned and is now known as Orange, one of France’s largest corporations — was fined $120,000, the maximum penalty. Its ex-chief executive, Didier Lombard, was sentenced to four months in prison and fined $23,000, along with his former second-in-command and head of human resources…
The spate of suicides, which happened more than a decade ago, came as the company underwent a massive restructuring. Then France’s national telephone company, France Telecom embarked on an aggressive plan to cut 22,000 workers and shift another 10,000 into new jobs — all between 2006 and 2008. Most of the employees, because they were civil servants, could not be fired.
So, prosecutors said, the company’s executives tried to make workers’ lives so miserable they would leave voluntarily. Lombard, speaking to senior managers in 2007, reportedly vowed, “I’ll get them out one way or another, through the window or through the door.”…
In many cases, suicide notes blaming the company accompanied them. In court, the Associated Press reported, one was projected on a large screen, reading: “I am committing suicide because of my work at France Telecom, it’s the only cause.”
For years, however, the company downplayed the suicides, calling them not statistically surprising for a workforce so large.
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UK: BBC Accuses Boris Govt of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics Amidst Impartiality Row
A BBC editor has complained that Number 10’s boycott of Radio 4’s Today programme is a “Trumpian” plot to “delegitimise” the broadcaster.
Ministers in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet have been noted for their conspicuous absence from the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme. Sources speaking to The Telegraph shortly after the Conservatives won their biggest majority since 1987 accused the BBC of biased coverage during the election and called on the taxpayer-funded broadcaster to launch an internal investigation into its coverage.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s former chaplain converted to Catholicism in response to the Church of England’s failure to stand up to “political correctness”, which he said has instead “swallowed it wholesale”.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Dr Gavin Ashenden recalled his years in the 1980s smuggling Bibles into Czechoslovakia for ordaining Catholic priests — an act banned by the Marxist government — and observed that “in some important respects Britain is starting to resemble Soviet-era Eastern Europe”.
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UK: New Speaker Says Anti-Brexit Bercow Should be Elevated to House of Lords
The new speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, has said that his predecessor John Bercow should be given a seat in the House of Lords because it is a tradition.
“My view is every speaker has been offered a peerage. So custom and practice says that’s what’s always happened — I wouldn’t break that custom and practice,” he told Pienaar’s Politics on BBC Radio 5 on Sunday.
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A 15-year-old boy who was part of a gang that harassed a lesbian couple on a bus by pelting them with coins and asking them to perform sex acts apologised as he was told to attend diversity classes by a judge today.
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Erdogan Questions Sovereignty of Some Greek Islands
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned on Sunday the sovereignty of certain Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, restating a 1990s theory of so-called “grey zones” in the region, Ekathimerini reports. “Those who make plans on disputed sovereignty of islands in the Aegean should know that the coast is not clear,” Erdogan said, adding that he would protect Turkey’s economic rights. “We do not intend to start conflicts,” he added.
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Saudi Arabia Sentences Five to Death Over Khashoggi Murder, U.N. Official Decries ‘Mockery’
RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but a U.N. investigator accused it of making a “mockery” of justice by allowing the masterminds of last year’s killing to go free.
A Saudi court rejected the findings of a U.N. inquiry by ruling that the killing was not premeditated, but carried out “at the spur of the moment”. Saudi Deputy Public Prosecutor and spokesman Shalaan al-Shalaan said the court dismissed charges against three of the 11 people tried, finding them not guilty.
A senior official of the Trump administration, which critics say has been too soft on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Khashoggi, called the verdicts “an important step” in holding those responsible accountable.
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Special Report: Iran’s Leader Ordered Crackdown on Unrest — ‘Do Whatever it Takes to End it’
(Reuters) — After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them.
That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader’s inner circle and a fourth official, set in motion the bloodiest crackdown on protesters since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
About 1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks of unrest that started on Nov. 15. The toll, provided to Reuters by three Iranian interior ministry officials, included at least 17 teenagers and about 400 women as well as some members of the security forces and police.
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China Announces Tariff Cuts on 850+ Imported Products
BEIJING (AP) — China said Monday it will reduce tariffs Jan. 1 on more than 850 foreign products including frozen pork, asthma medications and some high-tech components to spur economic development.
The announcement followed an interim trade agreement with Washington in a tariff war that has rattled financial markets.
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Plea for Help Found in Christmas Card Manufactured in China
“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organization.”
That was a message found inside of a Tesco Christmas card. It was discovered by a six-year-old girl in London, England according to the Sunday Times.
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Just when you think the fake news media can’t get any more slimy, they do something so disgusting and outrageous.
We know our mainstream media are propaganda artists for the progressive agenda — basically they behave like a SuperPAC for globalists — taking their marching orders from the DNC and intel communities.
However, it looks like they now have a new boss to report to.
Communist China.
An investigation revealed that the Washington Post and New York Times (and many others) accepted millions from Communist China to publish Chinese propaganda that was designed to look like legit articles.
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Tesco Halts Christmas Cards From China After ‘Slave’ Laborer in Prison Factory Begs for Help
Ahead of the holidays, a young girl in London opened a Tesco supermarket Christmas card last week, was shocked to find a depressing note from a Chinese gulag, reported Sky News.
“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China,” the note read. “Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify the human rights organization.” The girl had accidentally uncovered the chilling connection between British Christmas festivities and how Chinese prisoners are working in factories to supply Western countries with holiday goods.
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Aussie PM Rebukes Greta Thunberg’s Climate Advice
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison [pictured] on Monday rejected Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg and her gratuitous advice, declaring he was “not here to impress people overseas.”
Thunberg retweeted a video from Australian media outlet 9 News on Sunday, adding politicians had failed to connect “increased extreme weather events and natural disasters.”
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Firebugs Behind Destructive Queensland Fires
Almost 100 firebugs have deliberately started blazes across Queensland that have destroyed homes and consumed thousands of hectares of bushland.
Some 65 fires continue to burn across the state on Friday, jumping from 55 reported on Thursday, as the fire threat deepens heading into the weekend.
As firefighters remain on high alert, police revealed 103 of the destructive fires that have lashed Queensland since September were deliberately lit.
Figures obtained by AAP reveal 98 people — 31 adults and 67 juveniles — have been dealt with by Queensland police for deliberately setting fires.
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An Australian winemaker has made the selfless donation of 24,000 litres of water after realising the struggles faced by communities in regional Australia.
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School leavers in New South Wales, some of who scored as low as 48.30 in the HSC, are being accepted into uni courses to become the nation’s future school teachers.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has hit back at claims from climate activist Greta Thunberg that the government has shown inaction in the face of the bushfire crisis.
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The 17-year-old has two collapsed lungs, a severed artery and a pierced liver after a knife was pulled on him outside the Meriton Apartments in Parramatta.
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Scott Morrison has rejected calls to ban Australia’s $52billion a year coal export industry — four days after climate change protesters stormed Kirribilli House in Sydney as he holidayed in Hawaii.
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6 Nigerian Migrants Convicted in Gang Rape Case in Italy
Six Nigerian migrants have been convicted of gang raping a 25-year-old woman at the CARA asylum center in the southern Italian city of Bari in 2017.
Olatunde Opaleye, 38 Uche Oliver, 22, Henry Sule, 26, Semiu Oguntade, 22, Emmanuel Ohenhen, 23, and Otaniyen Sunday, 35, were all handed prison terms ranging from five to nine years by an Italian court earlier this month, ANSA news reports.
Bari police officers who conducted investigations alongside prosecutors say the 25-year-old victim was raped and trafficked while she was still in Libya and then again once she made it to Italy, where the perpetrators threated to kill her if she didn’t follow their commands.
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Erdogan Warns Europe of New Migration Crisis
Turkey cannot handle “another refugee wave” from Syria, the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Sunday (22 December).
Talking at an award ceremony in Istanbul, he said more than 80,000 people had fled the Syrian city of Idlib to the Turkish border amid intensified Syrian and Russian bombardments.
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EU Citizens Most Worried by Migration
Immigration (34%), climate change (24%), and the economy (18%) were EU citizens’ top concerns in a year-end survey published by the European Commission. More than two thirds wanted the EU to press ahead with a common asylum system, gender equality rules, and monetary union. The EU’s overall approval rating was 42 percent, a slight dip, with Ireland the most EU-friendly country, but with approval falling in the Netherlands and Austria.
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France Capitulates to Illegal Migrants Demanding Residence Permits After Protests
Residence permits have been granted to a group of illegal migrants who’ve camped out in front of a Chronopost sorting center in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) for the last six months in protest.
So far, the French prefecture of the department has issued residence permits to five of the protesters while thirty more are currently said to be under review to receive theirs, Ouest-France reports.
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Germany: 11 Migrants Found in Refrigerated Truck on Highway
BERLIN (AP) — German police say 11 migrants have been freed from a refrigerated truck on a highway in Bavaria.
Police on Monday said the Afghans, aged 14 to 31, apparently boarded the Turkish truck loaded with fruit in Serbia, news agency dpa reported.
They were found on Saturday after the truck’s driver heard knocking noises from the truck at a highway rest area near Passau, close to the Austrian border. Police opened the truck and found the migrants, who complained about breathing problems.
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Immigration to Redistribute 26 Congressional Seats to Blue States for 2022 Election
The nation’s illegal and legal immigration system will help shift 26 congressional seats, primarily from red states, and redistribute them to mostly blue states next year, according to new analysis.
Every year, the United States imports about 1.2 million legal immigrants who largely arrive to reunite with foreign relatives already in the country. This level of annual legal immigration is in addition to the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who arrive on work visas every year and nearly a million illegal aliens who successfully enter the U.S.
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Netherlands: Two Arrested at Asylum Center After Stabbing
Police have arrested two men following a stabbing that occurred Friday morning at the asylum center in Oisterwijk, Netherlands that has a history of violent incidents.
According to police, one of the men is a 20-year-old resident at the asylum center while the other suspect isn’t believed to live there. Following the attack, the 20-year-old was transported to the hospital under the supervision of police, Dutch broadcaster NOS reports.
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After the Norwegian government spent €6.6 billion over ten years on a scheme to integrate 37,000 migrants into the country’s workforce, just over half of those who went through the program currently have jobs.
Between 2005 and 2016, the Norwegian government spent NOK 65.8 billion (€6.6 billion) on a so-called introduction scheme designed to “strengthen the ability of groups of newly arrived immigrants to quickly get into work or education”. In 2017, just 55 percent of the migrants who went through the programs were currently employed, Aftenposten reports.
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‘Christian Church’ Helps Prosecutors Jail Man for 16 Years for Burning Their Gay Flag
A gay ‘Christian church’ has helped prosecutors jail a 30 year old man named Adolfo Martinez to 16 years for stealing a gay flag from the heretical “Ames United Church of Christ” and setting it on fire and the story of this gross miscarriage of justice is barely to be found on mainstream media.
Martinez admitted to burning the flag and was found guilty last month. He was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 years behind bars. The harsh sentence is mostly due to the hate crime charge, which is a class D felony.
Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said the hate crime charge stemmed from the fact that authorities believe Martinez burned the flag because of “what it represents as far as sexual orientation.”
Martinez had previously admitted to media outlets after being arrested that he “opposed homosexuality” and he was “guilty as charged.”
“I burned down their pride, plain and simple,” he said. The quote was later used against him by prosecutors. Reynolds said Martinez is the first person in the county’s history to be convicted of a hate crime.
Ironically, had Martinez chosen to steal and burn the American flag, he would have been treated far less harshly. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning the Old Glory is a protected act under the First Amendment.
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More Than 80 Polish Towns Have Declared Themselves ‘LGBTQ-Free Zones’
There are still many communist-era apparatchiks and young sympathetic Bolsheviks causing problems in Poland, but they are so far being kept in check because Poland has refused to accept Muslim ‘refugees’ who, they know, become the foot soldiers for these socialist revolutionaries still lurking in the shadows.
And the Poles fully understand that the LGBT agenda is merely a tool of the neo-Bolsheviks to bring Poland back under the boot heel of the nation-wreckers who dominate the West.
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Pan-African Reparations Coalition: ‘British Electorate is Poisoned by Toxins of White Supremacy’
A spokesman for a Pan-African Reparations Coalition has condemned the British voting public as being “poisoned” by “the toxins of white supremacy” following Boris Johnson’s election victory.
Kofi Mawuli Klu, who is also on the international solidarity team of the Extinction Rebellion climate alarmist movement, told LBC radio that Britain “is a racist society, made worse by the recent General Election result with Boris Johnson, imagine, as the Prime Minister.”
Mawuli Klu said the election result “exposes the fundamentally racist global appetite, white supremacist, fascist orientation and mindsets of the British establishment.”
He further argued that “the British electorate is poisoned by the toxins of white supremacy and racism” and “chooses to disappoint the world” by not electing politicians “like [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn”.
[Comment: Comrade Klu sounds like a racist.]
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Parents Stand up to Indoctrination, Get Catholic School Board to Postpone Visit by ‘2SLGBTQ+’ Group
A parental rights advocacy group is claiming victory after an Ontario Catholic school board postponed a visit by a blatantly pro-homosexual activist group to one of its elementary schools.
Parents As First Educators (PAFE) mobilized supporters to call the principal of St. Anthony of Padua Elementary School in the York Catholic school board after learning earlier this month the group Get REAL was presenting Monday.
Get REAL describes itself as “a Canadian non-profit focused on combatting 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination and promoting acceptance in schools, summer camps, and workplaces,” and gives presentations in schools to Grades 4 to 12, noted executive director Teresa Pierre on the PAFE website.
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Whitney Cummings Claims She Was Reported to Human Resources for Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ To Intern
Whitney Cummings claims she was reported to a television show’s human resources department after wishing the staff a “Merry Christmas.”
During a recent episode of Conan, the 37-year-old comedian shared the story with host Conan O’Brien while explaining that part of what stresses her out during the holiday season is the “terminology around all of it.”
“Last year, I was working on a TV show [and I] got in trouble with human resources for saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to an intern,” Cummings claimed.
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Virus-based vaccines are made in living cells (cell substrates). Some manufacturers are investigating the use of new cell lines to make vaccines. The continual growth of cell lines ensures that there is a consistent supply of the same cells that can yield high quantities of the vaccine.
In some cases the cell lines that are used might be tumorigenic, that is, they form tumors when injected into rodents. Some of these tumor-forming cell lines may contain cancer-causing viruses that are not actively reproducing. Such viruses are hard to detect using standard methods. These latent, or “quiet,” viruses pose a potential threat, since they might become active under vaccine manufacturing conditions. Therefore, to ensure the safety of vaccines, our laboratory is investigating ways to activate latent viruses in cell lines and to detect the activated viruses, as well as other unknown viruses, using new technologies. We will then adapt our findings to detect viruses in the same types of cell substrates that are used to produce vaccines. We are also trying to identify specific biological processes that reflect virus activity.
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Snowden Says Don’t Use Wifi — Here’s Why
Snowden said this:
I wouldn’t use WiFi at home, because global maps of every wireless access point’s unique ID—including yours—are free and constantly updated. I would use ethernet; yes, ethernet on a phone.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/brussels-calls-on-germany-to-take-children-from-greek-migrants-camps/a-51786883
Funny how the emphasis is put on how it’s CHRISTMAS eve…the sheer Nazism
Yeah, just imagine when it is ramadan; they will have a whole month to take “children” from the invader beachheads.
Great news about the Germans finding two legged rats where they are usually found. These pcs seem blind to the occupation and pre-occupation of the rest of their country by shrunken koran heads determined to convert or destroy the rest of the country. As it’s similar across the western EU apply this comment to all – right now. Our ancestors should be showing up soon ladies – in a fiery rage . I imagine.
This omnipresent Kadyrov!
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Ramzan Kadyrov visited the central Christmas tree in Grozny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlWBjVZnjcE&feature=emb_logo
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Kadyrov called for polygamy and lied about the 30 percent superiority of women in the republic
https://www.kavkazr.com/a/30341887.html
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“If we need to kill, then we will kill.” Kadyrov spoke again about people who “offend honor and dignity”
https://www.kavkazr.com/a/30341672.html
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And at the end, news from post-Soviet Bantustan.
A resident of Kulyab (Tajikistan) was detained for trying to set fire to the New Year tree
https://rus.ozodi.org/a/30342591.html