The death toll from the Wuhan Coronavirus continues to rise in China, with more than 17,000 cases officially reported. Meanwhile, the Chinese stock market plunged in reaction to the epidemic. Also, two additional cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed in California.
In other news, after he voted with Democrats in favor of more impeachment witnesses at the trial in the Senate, Sen. Mitt Romney has been notified that he is no longer invited to the conservative CPAC conference later this month.
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Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Cause a Massive Stock Market Crash?
Could it be possible that this coronavirus outbreak will be the trigger that finally bursts the biggest stock market bubble in U.S. history? As I have discussed previously, stock prices in the United States were the most overvalued that they have ever been during the month of January, and our stock market has never been more perfectly primed for a huge meltdown. But stock prices are all about what investors believe will happen in the future, and if they remain convinced that the future is bright then perhaps this stock market bubble could persist for a while longer. Unfortunately for Wall Street, this coronavirus outbreak is starting to create a wave of fear in the financial community. In fact, concern about the coronavirus pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 600 points on Friday, and that represented the worst day for the Dow since last August…
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Antifa Vandalizes Posters, Replaces With ‘Threatening’ Imagery Involving Trump Voter
A conservative student group at an Illinois college says a student worker “who identified herself as an Antifa member…is responsible for” vandalizing posters promoting the group’s upcoming events.
“Our posters promoted a speech by former Antifa member turned conservative commentator, Gabriel Nadales, and a speaking event/dinner by Turning Point USA’s Founder and President, Charlie Kirk, in Crystal Lake, Illinois hosted by the McHenry County Republican Party,” the McHenry County College Turning Point USA chapter shared in a recent Facebook post.
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There’s a very good reason that Virginia wants to disarm civilians with a rash of new, unconstitutional laws. That’s because they seem to be modeling themselves after one of those countries where the government cannot be publicly criticized without great risk to the critic.
Yet another new bill is on the table and this one criminalizes criticism of certain government officials. The summary of HB1627, proposed by Delegate Jeffrey M. Bourne, reads:…
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CPAC Snubs Mitt Romney Over Siding With Dems on Impeachment Witnesses
Conservative gathering finally realizes Romney a RINO.
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Des Moines Register Poll Scrapped After Apparent Mishap
The widely anticipated Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers was scrapped shortly before it was set to be released Saturday night after complaints from Pete Buttigieg’s campaign about how it was conducted.
The stunning announcement by the media sponsors and West Des Moines-based pollster Selzer & Co. means the results of the historically accurate survey won’t be released before Monday caucuses. The decision left the campaign and political media universe, which has descended on Des Moines, dumbfounded.
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Health Officials Confirm 6 Cases of Novel Coronavirus in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif — According to the California Department of Public Health, they have confirmed a new case of novel coronavirus 2019 in Santa Clara County on Sunday.
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IAN BIRRELL: One fed-up resident showed me Hondurans handing out socks filled with wraps of drugs in front of a building being turned into an upmarket Whole Foods store.
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Missouri School Buses Students to Iowa to Campaign for Dems
A public high school in Missouri recently touted taking its students to Iowa to “canvas” with 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
Clayton High School in St. Louis took 21 of its social studies students to Iowa in January, just days before the all-important Iowa Democratic caucuses, to met with Democratic candidates for president such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and businessman Andrew Yang.
A private entity called the Clayton Education Foundation funded the trip, according to KTVI-TV.
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Rahm to Bernie Backers: Democrats Can Win Without You
Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that Democrats are better off appealing to swing voters with a reasonable candidate than committing to a strategy of turning out progressive voters by nominating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).
“Here’s what I think is a real challenge for Democrats on the eve of Iowa: What is the bigger threat for our party? Are we going to nominate somebody that can’t win, or are we going to risk a rupture in the party that is irreparable?” he said. “In 1992, ‘96, 2008, 2012, and in 2018, the Democrats showed a formula for winning nationally. The question is are we going to follow that formula or throw the playbook out and try something different?”
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Trump’s First Super Bowl Commercial Features Alice Johnson Discussing Her Clemency
Donald Trump aired the first of two 30-second ads in the first quarter of the Super Bowl, the first of which featured Alice Johnson, who was granted clemency in 2018 after pressure from celebrity Kim Kardashian West.
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Trudeau Government Looking to Force News Outlets to Get Government Licences
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault suggested news media in Canada should be regulated, requiring news outlets in Canada to be licenced.
“If you’re a distributor of content in Canada and obviously if you’re a very small media organization the requirement probably wouldn’t be the same if you’re Facebook, or Google. There would have to be some proportionality embedded into this,” Guilbeault told Evan Solomon an interview on CTV’s Question Period.
“We would ask that they have a licence, yes,” Guilbeault continued.
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Belgian Bicycle Thief Gets Three Years in Prison for ‘Ecological Crime’
A Belgian man who is accused of multiple bicycle thefts has been sentenced to three years in prison by a Belgian court after being found guilty of “ecological crime”.
The Brussels Criminal Court sentenced the man for the crime which took place back in October of last year, Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure reports.
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Boris Govt to Irish Prime Minister WHO Insulted ‘Small’ UK: Stay Out of British Politics
Boris Johnson’s foreign affairs chief Dominic Raab has advised Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister who insulted Britain as a “small country” which the European Union will roll over, to stay out of British politics.
Mr Varadkar, who serves as the prime minister — or “taoiseach” — of the Republic of Ireland, population 4.8 million, said of the United Kingdom, population 63.2 million: “The United Kingdom has yet to come to terms with the fact it’s now a small country… The EU’s got a population and market much bigger than the UK’s, so if these were two teams up against each other playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?”
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Brexit: The Unquenchable Fire Spanning the Globe
It took three Prime Ministers, two General Elections, and three and a half years of arguments from either side of this political divide since the public voted to leave. It was a campaign that was being fought even after the votes were counted. This may seem familiar to our American audience. President Trump won in 2016, and yet there are swathes of the political and media class who just do not accept the reality: This is Brexit country.
As Britain prepares to bid a not-so-fond farewell to the E.U., I want to walk you through the timeline of events from Britain joining what was billed as little more than a simple trade arrangement. And we’ll go all the way through to the E.U. becoming a monolithic government that commanded nations in what laws they must implement and what border controls, if any, they were permitted. Finally, we’ll see how Britain broke free of an organization that would be a country. The Back Story: Clashes And Confrontations
In 1973, Britain joined the European Communities (E.C.), which was a fairly simple trade organization made up of just eight other countries, including France and Germany. Then, in 1975, the E.C. developed to become what is today known as the Common Market or ECC. Membership of the ECC would require certain laws and regulations to be made in the E.U. and not in Westminster, in order to have regulatory alignment political capital. A referendum was held to see if the people of Britain wished to continue. The result was an overwhelming yes.
However, as the years went on, more and more changes to the structure of this trading organization took place that required a handing over of national sovereignty. The trading block grew, adding new European countries to its ranks. Treaties were signed by the governments of the day each time they arose that handed power to Brussels and took it away from the British parliament. Many thought this was a price worth paying to be part of a large trading block.
But not everyone.
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France: Hate Case Dropped Against Teen Who Criticised Islam and Got Death Threats
French prosecutors have dropped a potential hate crime case against a French teen named Mila who received death threats after she criticised Islam online.
The Vienne public prosecutor dropped the investigation for “hate provocation” against the 16-year-old, stating that the investigation into the motive and context of her words “revealed no element likely to characterize this as a criminal offence”, France Info reports.
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French Bishop Concerned Over Anti-Christian Attacks in His Diocese
Jean-Claude Boulanger, the bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, has expressed concern over the rise in violence and hatred toward Christians within his own diocese in recent months.
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Hungary: Coronavirus: Operative Board Set Up
Commenting on preventive measures against the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that an “operative board” — a coordination committee headed by Interior Minister Sandor Pintér — had been set up.
Steps must be coordinated between, for instance, the immigration police and the border guard, the prime minister said in his regular Friday morning interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio.
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Italian Schoolchildren Labelled Fascists if They Refuse to Sing Marxist Song
A middle school teacher in the Italian city of Prato is alleged to have threatened pupils and labelled them “fascists” if they refused to sing the Marxist song “Bella Ciao” in class.
The teacher allegedly told the students to sing the song, which is largely associated with the left-wing partisan movement during the Second World War, and not only threatened to label them “fascists” for not singing but also to harm their grades, Il Giornale reports.
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Italy Declares State of Emergency Over Wuhan Coronavirus
The Italian Council of Ministers has declared a state of emergency due to the risk to public health posed by the spread of the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.
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Knife Attacker Shot After Stabbings in Ghent, Belgium
Belgian police have reportedly shot a woman who was attacking people with a knife in Ghent, Belgium.
Details of the incident, which has happened more or less in parallel with a radical Islamic terrorist attack in Streatham, London, which also involved multiple stabbings, are scant, with the public prosecutor’s office having declined to comment as of the time of publication.
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Orban: Positions on EU Budget Still Far Apart
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said stands on the European Union’s next seven-year budget are still far apart after a meeting of the heads of government of the “Friends of Cohesion” group in Beja, Portugal, on Saturday.
“We’re at the start of the debate, and the stands are still far apart,” Orban said. He said European economic policy had been “ruined” in Brussels in recent years, the results of which will soon become apparent. He predicted that growth in the eurozone would stall this year and cautioned that bad economic policy could have an impact outside of the eurozone, such as in central Europe, too.
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Pope Francis: Every Baptized Christian is Called to be a Missionary
ROME — Every baptized Christian is called to actively proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, Pope Francis said Sunday in his weekly Angelus address.
The pope underscored the importance of missionary activity in his address to the thousands of pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square, noting that “passivity is not becoming to the Christian witness and the mission of the Church.”
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Sweden: Children Find Explosive Material Hidden in Sandbox
Several children at a school in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö discovered explosive material in a sandbox — the latest discovery of explosives in the city in recent years.
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UK: Man Shot Dead After ‘Terrorist-Related’ Stabbings in Streatham, London
A man has been shot following multiple stabbings in Streatham, South London, in an incident which has been declared “terrorist-related”.
The man, said to have been shot by Metropolitan Police officers, is confirmed dead.
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UK: Streatham Shooting: Police Kill ‘Suicide Bomber’ With Three Shots in London High Street
A TERRORIST wearing a fake suicide vest was shot dead by police marksmen this afternoon as he ran down Streatham High Street stabbing terrified Sunday shoppers
Scotland Yard confirmed at least three people were injured in the attack and have been taken to hospital. They include one person who is in a life-threatening condition. The Metropolitan Police tweeted: “Three people are known to have been injured in the Streatham attack earlier this afternoon. One person is at hospital in a life-threatening condition. We are in the process of informing their family.
“A second victim was treated for minor injuries at the scene before being taken to hospital.
“A third victim has been taken to hospital — their condition is not life-threatening.”
The man shot by police was under active surveillance by anti-terror police, according to Sky News…
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UK: Streatham Knifeman Named, Was Convicted Terrorist Released From Prison Early
Reports indicate the suspected Islamist terrorist who stabbed people in Streatham, London, had been convicted of terrorism offences previously but was freed from prison early.
Sudesh Amman, 20, who wounded two people — one of whom is in life-threatening condition — “had been released from prison at the end of January, after serving half of his three year sentence” according to a BBC report.
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2016 Redux: Kremlin Warns ‘Chemical Provocation’ Coming as New Fighting Erupts in Aleppo
Amid the ongoing Russian-Syrian military offensive to liberate Idlib province from the al-Qaeda linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, suburbs near Aleppo have been scene of intense fighting in recent days, despite government forces liberating the major northern city in December 2016, which marked a turning point in the war.
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have in recent days and weeks mounted new insurgent attacks on the outskirts of the provincial capital city at a moment the Syrian Army has made huge gains into neighboring Idlib. A key reason Damascus has vowed to retake every inch of Idlib is that for years al-Qaeda has launched terrorist attacks on suburbs of Aleppo from there as civilians and the government attempt to rebuild the largely destroyed urban center.
This latest renewed fighting in Aleppo appears a concerted effort by Turkey to use its proxy forces to repel and distract the brunt of the Syrian Army offensive on Idlib, considering on Friday President Erdogan warned he’s ready to use military force if Assad doesn’t halt Idlib operations.
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Prominent Hindu Leader Shot Dead by Suspect Jihadis in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Hindu Mahasabha’s UP president Ranjeet Bachchan shot dead, out on morning walk.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Lucknow | February 2, 2020:: Another Hindutvawadi leader was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne men in the heart of Lucknow’s Hazratganj area on Sunday morning, officials said. The victim is believed as in the position of the president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha’s Uttar Pradesh unit.
Ranjeet Bachchan, an actual resident of Gorakhpur district who has been residing in OCR Building — ‘B’ Block since 2012, was on a morning walk along with another person when the men fired at them near the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) building in Hazratganj.
Ranjeet was earlier associated with Samajwadi Party and then allotted with a quarter in OCR Building.
Bachchan died on the spot and the other person was critically injured. He is undergoing treatment at the trauma centre of King George’s Medical University (KGMU).
A sub-inspector of police, who is a member of the investigation team, said the assailants tried to snatch Ranjeet Bachchan’s gold chain and cell phone during the attack.
“In the scuffle, the assailants fired on Ranjeet Bachchan’s head multiply, who died on the spot. In the firing, Ranjeet was injured and was rushed to Trauma Centre,” he said.
However, this could be a ploy of the assailants to make the crime look like a loot attempt rather a planned murder, the officer said…
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Bird Flu is Back — China Faces Yet Another Viral Plague
Avian influenza is deadly to most birds, and it’s deadly to humans and to other mammals that catch the virus from birds.
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Li spoke to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on the phone, a statement said. It revealed he is hoping to buy the medical supplies from EU member countries.
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Coronavirus: China Death Toll Rises, Evacuations Continue
The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in China has surged, with more than 17,200 infected. The updated figures came as authorities prepared to open a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of the new virus.
The number of confirmed deaths from China’s coronavirus outbreak has risen to 361, with Hubei province — the center of the outbreak — reporting 57 new deaths on Monday, according to the National Health Commission.
The death toll exceeds that of the 2002-03 SARS outbreak, which killed 349 people in mainland China. The commission also confirmed 2,829 new cases of the virus nationwide on Sunday, bringing the total number of people infected within China to 17,205. The total number globally is 17,300.
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Coronavirus: Chinese Stocks Plunge as Markets Reopen
Fears over the coronavirus have triggered a sharp fall in Chinese shares as markets reopened after the Lunar New Year holiday.
The Shanghai Composite index fell nearly 9% before recovering slightly, while commodity prices also slumped.
Manufacturing, materials, and consumer goods companies are among the hardest hit, as healthcare shares soar.
It comes despite China’s central bank announcing new measures to ease the impact of the outbreak.
The People’s Bank of China unexpectedly lowered short term interest rates as part of its attempts to relieve pressure on the economy from the rapidly spreading virus.
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Coronavirus Updates: Chinese Stocks Plunge on Return From Holiday, Two More US Cases Confirmed
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.
All times below in Beijing time.
11:10 am: Huawei resumes production
Chinese tech giant Huawei said Monday it has resumed production of goods, including consumer devices and other telecoms equipment.
The move was in line with a government directive that allows certain critical industries to remain in operation, amid the government’s decision to extend a shutdown in more than half of China’s provinces and regions in a bid to control the outbreak.
10:40 am: Vietnam confirms three new cases
Vietnam confirmed three new coronavirus cases, according to Reuters citing the country’s ministry of health. That brings its total to eight cases. The country had declared a public health emergency on Saturday and suspended all flights to and from mainland China.
9:50 am: US reports two more cases
Two more cases — a couple — were confirmed in San Benito in California late on Sunday. The husband recently traveled to Wuhan, while the wife did not. That made the total number of cases in the U.S. at 11.
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Evacuation of Poles From Coronavirus-Hit Wuhan Underway
Thirty Poles evacuated from coronavirus-hit Wuhan, in the province of Hubei, central China, were scheduled to arrive in the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw late on Sunday, Poland’s Foreign Ministry said earlier on Sunday.
On Saturday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on social media that due to the epidemiological situation in the Chinese province of Hubei, he had decided that Polish citizens would be evacuated from there.
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MSM Tries to Suppress Evidence That HIV Delivery System is Embedded in Coronavirus
Scientific study finds virus doesn’t come from bats.
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Senator Tom Cotton Shreds China’s Official Virus Story, Warns of “Super Laboratory” Proximity
A United States senator is casting major doubt on the Chinese government’s official story on the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak, instead hinting that a biosafety laboratory working with the deadliest pathogens in the world could be the true source.
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Shocking Footage Inside China’s Newly-Constructed Hospitals, ‘Like Jail Cells Where You Go to Die’
China has gone from constructing ghost cities to now erecting hospitals to treat coronavirus patients. As we’ve reported, China could be hiding the true number of confirmed cases and deaths, and in some cases, not reporting the deaths at all, and “immediately” hauling the bodies down the street to a local crematorium, effectively burning the evidence.
The government’s official death toll on Saturday night topped 300, with more than 14,550 cases reported globally.
China is attempting to show the world, it has been proactive and responsible during the outbreak, and in one way that it can optically please everyone that it has everything under control, is to build a hospital in Wuhan, the epicenter of where the deadly virus supposedly began.
UK researchers have warned upwards of 75,000 could be infected in Wuhan, as more than 137,600 have been placed under observation across China.
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AP: Only 24 People Charged Over ‘Deliberately-Lit Bushfires’ In NSW, Australia
The Associated Press reported Friday that “only” 24 people have been arrested for deliberately starting fires in New South Wales this season in an article weighing the relative impact of arson on the Australian bushfire crisis.
The article stated that AP FactCheck had investigated “misinformation on Facebook and Instagram” regarding a statement by police in New South Wales that said “legal action” had been taken against 183 people since November for “bushfire-related offenses.”
Of these 183 cases, only 24 people had been charged over “deliberately-lit bushfires,” AP stated, while legal action had also been taken against another 100 people for “conduct that could be described as being careless during a fire ban.”
Yet AP also cited “arson expert” Troy McEwan of Swinburne University of Technology as saying that “a significant proportion of bushfires are deliberately lit in Australia.”
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Catholic Seminarian Executed in Nigeria by Presumed Islamists
One of the four Catholic seminarians abducted by unidentified gunmen last month in Nigeria was found dead Saturday afternoon.
The other three kidnapped seminarians were set free last week, while the body of their companion, 18-year-old Michael Nnadi, was discovered dead Saturday. Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto, issued a statement confirming the death late Saturday.
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Catholic Church in Nigeria Appeals to the West: ‘Make Known the Atrocities’
The president of the Nigerian bishops’ conference has launched an appeal to the West to “make known the atrocities” being suffered by Christians throughout the country.
Nigeria is living in an unprecedented climate of insecurity not seen since the civil war of 1967-1970, which is particularly affecting Christians, said the President of the Bishops’ Conference, Augustine Obiora Akubeze, Archbishop of Benin City.
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Border Wall to Include ‘Hundreds’ Of Flood Gates, Left Open ‘For Months’
The situation provides easy access for drug smugglers.
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Mike Bloomberg Offers ‘60 Million’ Latinos: $15 Per Hour Plus Mass Migration
“I believe we can once again be a country that welcomes immigrants, values immigrants, respects immigrants, and empowers them to pursue the American Dream.”
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U.N. Palestinian ‘Refugee’ Agency Seeks $1.4 Billion Funding Boost
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the special U.N. agency that deals specifically with so-called Palestinian “refugees,” appealed to the world Friday for a massive budget boost.
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Breaking: Jessica Yaniv Sues More Immigrant Salon Workers—tribunal Says ‘Enough’
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has announced that Jessica Yaniv is pursuing yet another immigrant-woman owned salon at the B.C Human Rights Tribunals. Despite this, Yaniv is now being penalized by the BCHRT for refusing to pay outstanding fines.
Yaniv approached Top Touch, a Vancouver— area salon, on August 1 2019—just five days after the hearings had concluded on the initial complaints at the BCHRT. Yaniv demanded a Brazilian wax, a genital wax that would require the handling of Yaniv’s scrotum, and leg wax.
Top Touch aestheticians declined and eventually told Yaniv they would call the police if Yaniv continued to call.
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Explosive Leaked Confession of Domestic Abuse of Johnny Depp Turns #MeToo Upside Down
A leaked audio conversation between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard is blowing up Hollywood. The audio reveals Heard confessing to committing physical violence against Depp. After BuzzFeed published photos of Heard with bruises and accusations of abuse against Depp, his life fell apart. Depp was implicated in the #MeToo movement and branded as a wife-abuser. He was dropped from “Pirates of the Caribbean” in 2018 and many speculate it was because of the allegations.
On Sunday, a taped conversation between Depp and Heard was posted online. In it, Heard admits to “slapping,” “hitting,” and throwing objects at him. Her biggest frustration with Depp appears to be that he tries to get away from her when she turns violent. Depp is heard saying, “There can be no physical violence,” and Heard replies, “I can’t promise I won’t get physical again.”
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Student Op-Ed Urges Tampons in Men’s Campus Restrooms
A student writer at the University of Texas at Austin recently argued in the campus newspaper that the school should install free tampon dispensers in men’s restrooms on campus, claiming that men are also capable of menstruating.
“Menstrual products need to be two things: accessible to those who want them and free for those who can’t afford them,” writes Abby Springs in The Daily Texan. To that end, she argues, the school “should provide free menstrual products in men’s bathrooms in buildings without gender-neutral facilities.”
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Watch: Arrests Made as Antifa, Trans Protestors Disrupt Free Speech Event in Seattle
On February 1, feminist group Women’s Liberation Front held a panel discussion at the Seattle Public Library on the impact of transgender activism on women’s sex-based rights. Featuring Sabina Malik, Kara Dansky, and Twitter-banned Meghan Murphy, the sold-out talk was met with resounding support, but trans rights activists and antifa made their resentment and hostility clear.
Masked protestors wielding signs and chanting misogynistic slurs were monitored closely by Seattle police, who were out in full force to detail the crowd outside of the library.
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Have you watched the Russian film “Dog Heart” based on the book by Mikhail Bulgakov? Highly recommend. There is a scene in the film as the commissars try to take the apartment from a famous medical professor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ix_hBLMGcU (English captions)
An unusual lawsuit started in Germany, reminiscent of a scene from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “Heart of a Dog”. The City Hall of Neckartailfingen sued a local artist who rents a 6-room apartment. The request of the city hall: “to be compacted for migrants”, that is, to voluntarily give up four rooms where the city administration will settle refugees from the Middle East.
“The city needs space for refugees,” the German media came out with this headline today, January 30. The mayor of Neckartailfingen Gerhard Gerticke appealed to the Nürtingen district court with a lawsuit against the 75-year-old artist Klaus Roth. The mayor proposes to leave the pensioner only two rooms instead of six.
Read more: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2020/01/30/migracionnyy-krizis-v-germanii-nachalos-uplotnenie-po-shvonderu
And here is the story in German
https://www.bild.de/regional/stuttgart/stuttgart-aktuell/neckartailfingen-stadt-braucht-platz-fuer-fluechtlinge-prozess-67643446.bild.html
And the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycorp6VPPCI&feature=youtu.be
Do you know what surprised me? Snout of the mayor. I thought that only Putin officials had such faces.
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Mohammed is second most common name among
newborns in Gothenburg
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“The Quran is awful , boring and unorganized.
To read the Qur an is a penance rather than a
pleasure – actually it is just pain & torment”.
Dr. David Wood — Answering Islam
Video ▶ 1:36:29 • 20 jan. 2018
•Part 01—Why should we learn about Islam?
•Part 02 …
https://youtu.be/kA_vsTciAuw
But you can feel like a hero of the movie “Dark City” (1998). It seems that yesterday the world was completely different, but today there are only “Muhammad” around.
and Mitt Romney is in the process of being recalled by the State of Utah. I suppose that he is not being the good Mormon that he is expected to be. According to some he is, or was, the face of the GOP establishment. The joke in 2008 was how do you tell the candidates apart? I’ll leave the punch line for you to figure.
Well we are are giving so why would the Muslims not take? To the Muslims we seem to be condoning ALL rape and butchery too. I imagine some bright right white sparks will decide to join in the butchery of our own. To survive. It used to be called war against an invader aided by a fifth column of yours and theirs.
Carpetbagger Mittens is still going? These career bureaucrats really do think that they are epic heroes that the neo-feudal technoserfs love and emulate.
The commies in the worker’s paradise of China wouldn’t lie about the virus would they? I know rhetorical questions are fun.
About the metoo Bolshevistas…a lot of local guys are now marrying foreign women because they don’t come with that baggage.
Feminists and racebaiters are so cute acting like it is 1964 forever.
On the proposed mass censorship of internet, All Canadians should give them feedback. The report and feedback form can be found here: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/110.nsf/eng/home
Don’t miss this opportunity to give them a piece of your mind. “The people’s broadcaster” doesn’t care what you think, but your letters will go onto public record.