The officially acknowledged death total in China from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 425, with more than 20,000 reported cases. Hong Kong has reported its first death from the disease. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed infections with the coronavirus in the USA has risen to eleven.
In other news, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for yesterday’s terror attack by Sudesh Amman, the late culture-enricher who stabbed several people on the street in South London.
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Climate Hypocrite: Bernie Leads 2020 Field in Private Jet Spending
The Bernie Sanders campaign spent just under $1.2 million on private jet travel last quarter, outpacing the entire 2020 Democratic presidential primary field.
The most recent filing from Sanders reveals $1,199,579 in spending during the final three months of 2019 to Apollo Jets, LLC, a “luxury private jet charter service.”
The campaign spent an additional $23,941 for transportation to Virginia-based Advanced Aviation Team.
The candidate who comes closest to matching Sanders in private jet spending was former vice president Joe Biden, whose campaign spent $1,040,698 to Advanced Aviation Team last quarter.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Summit County man was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in federal prison for mailing a threatening letter to the Akron Municipal Court and putting his own blood on the paper.
Shawn Marshall, 39, of Akron wrote the letter to the court while serving a 16-year prison sentence for rape and kidnapping at the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Marshall wrote in the letter delivered April 18, 2016 that “After I get out shortly, I look forward to strapping a bomb to my body and walking into your municipal courthouse and being America’s first suicide bomber.”
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Possibly Moving to L.A.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may be moving to L.A. after only having been in Canada for a short time according to E! News.
The couple announced that they would be leaving their royal family duties last month. Since then they have moved to B.C. where they have been seen on hiking trails close to North Saanich.
Reports are stating that the couple hope to spend part of the summer in Markle’s hometown of L.A. Some are thinking the move is so Meghan can continue on with her acting career. She made her name while acting on the television series Suits. She starred on the show from 2011-17.
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Rush Limbaugh Has Advanced Lung Cancer
American broadcasting legend and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh has just announced on his radio program that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
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Shocking Truth Revealed About Downfall of Portland Antifa Pub
In November 2019, an antifa pub in Portland linked to a homicide and a violent riot shut its doors for good. Cider Riot closed on Nov. 10 following a series of violent events at or near the establishment that brought scrutiny to its alleged ties with violent far-left extremists.
Cider Riot, stylized as “Cider Riot!,” first opened its storefront location in 2016 after a successful kickstarter campaign that raised more than $20,000. It quickly became known as a popular left-wing hang-out due to the outspoken political views of one of its owners, 41-year-old Abram Goldman-Armstrong. But the pub also embraced a far-left political identity by producing products featuring antifa-inspired names and images.
“Our Black Bloc Series ciders are our most hardcore and intense, and apt to disappear into the crowd before you know it,” read the advertisement on the website for a series of drinks, nodding to the antifa tactic of wearing black masks and outfits in order to commit crimes anonymously. Beyond branding and marketing however, evidence suggests the pub openly operated as a meeting and organizing space for far-left, violent extremists in Portland.
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Trump: Bernie Sanders is a Communist
President jokes that Bloomberg needs a box to stand on for debates; media fact checks the claim
During a special pre-super bowl interview, President Trump proclaimed that his Democratic rival Bernie Sanders is a Communist, while slamming other Democrats by saying that at least Sanders sticks to what he believes.
“I think he’s a communist. I mean you know, look. I think of communism when I think of Bernie. Now you could say socialist, but didn’t he get married in Moscow?” Trump stated, during the appearance with Sean Hannity.
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U.S. Announces More Coronavirus Cases, Details Quarantine Plans for Returning Travelers
CHICAGO (Reuters) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday announced a second case of transmission of the new coronavirus within the United States and provided more detailed plans on how it will handle travelers returning from China as the country works to limit the outbreak.
“We expect to see more cases of person-to-person spread,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a conference call that included confirmation of a handful of new cases, bringing the U.S. total to 11.
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Verified Leftists Celebrate Rush Limbaugh’s Cancer on Twitter
Numerous verified leftists on Twitter reacted to Rush Limbaugh’s announcement that he was suffering from “advanced lung cancer” by celebrating the news.
The veteran radio host broke the news earlier today on his show, telling his viewers, “I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with. The upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.”
Blue check marks on Twitter couldn’t contain their delight.
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Trudeau Minister Proposes Forcing News Websites to Have Govt Licence
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has stated that news websites, along with social media companies, could be forced to obtain government licences to operate in Canada.
The minister, who has been tasked with updating Canada’s broadcasting laws using the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), stated that internet news sites will be “asked” to obtain a government-approved licence, broadcaster CTV reports.
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Boris Tells ‘Juvenile Anti-Americans’ in Britain to ‘Grow Up and Get a Grip’
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson equated claims that Britain’s National Health Service was going to be sold to the United States with conspiracy theories like Elvis being alive on Mars in a Brexit speech emphasising the benefits of global trade.
The comments were part of Boris Johnson’s first speech on trade since the United Kingdom left the European Union on Friday in which he sung the praises of free trade deals but noted a virulent strain of anti-Americanism that runs through certain parts of British society — particularly on the old left see can see support for Europe or the United States as a binary choice — which he derided as “mumbo-jumbo”.
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Boris: UK Will Not Accept EU Rules in Bargain for Trade Deal
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a Canada-style free trade agreement with the EU and has said that he would rather accept tariffs than restrictive Brussels regulations.
In the deal, 98 per cent of tariffs between the EU and Canada are lifted but there are still Value Added Tax (VAT) and customs checks. The Times reports that Downing Street is prepared to fall back an “Australian”-style deal; Australia does not have an EU FTA, but does have a partnership arrangement that includes other tariffs.
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Coronavirus Prevention: Wuhan Hungarians Feel Healthy After Return, Says Chief Medical Officer
Hungarians who have returned home from Wuhan in China feel healthy but for the sake of safety they will remain quarantined for two weeks, the chief medical officer said on Monday.
No one in Hungary is carrying coronavirus, but the seven people quarantined will undergo several tests, Cecilia Müller told public news channel M1.
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EU Holds Trade Deal Ransom for Access to UK Fishing Waters
The EU’s chief negotiator on a UK trade agreement, Michel Barnier, has said there will be no trade deal without continued EU access to British territorial fishing waters.
On the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson lays out his plans for a Canada-style free trade agreement, Mr Barnier has said that the UK must cross one of its own red lines by linking a deal to access to fishing waters.
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Farage: EU ‘Terrified’ of UK Being Competitor on Doorstep
Leave campaigner Nigel Farage has said that the European Union is “terrified” of having a competitor on its doorstep.
Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday, Mr Farage said of his last day in the European Parliament chamber: “I got the sense in that debate that, for the first time since 2016, they are a little bit more frightened of us than we are of them.”
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French Mathematician and Spider Aficionado Cédric Villani Honoured With a New Orb-Weaver
Despite being considered as one of the best studied spiders in the Palearctic, the orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) remain poorly known in the central parts of the ecozone. To bridge the knowledge gaps, an international research team of researchers took to the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia to study two of those genera: Araniella and Neoscona.
As a result, in their article, recently published in the open-access scientific journal ZooKeys, arachnologists Alireza Zamani (University of Turku, Finland), Yuri M. Marusik (Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Russia) and Anna Šestakova (The Western Slovakian Museum, Slovakia) describe three new to science species, where one: Araniella villanii—carries the name of the flamboyant French mathematician and spider aficionado Cédric Villani, dubbed the “Lady Gaga of Mathematics”. Even if unknown until now, the species turned out to have a wide distribution ranging from southwestern Iran to eastern Kazakhstan and northern India.
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German Power Companies Reveal More Rate Hikes Averaging 8.1%
Leading dailies in Germany are reporting today that power companies across the country will be hiking electricity prices once again in the February to April period, affecting millions of households.
This comes at the heels of a January price hike.
“The wave of electricity price increases in Germany is not abating. According to figures from the comparison and brokerage portal Verivox, 86 utilities have announced average price increases of 8.1 percent for the months February to April,” writes Germany’s flagship Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) here.
“For a family with an annual consumption of 4000-kilowatt hours, this would mean additional costs of around 100 euros per year.”
Already in January, “543 basic utilities had already increased their electricity prices,” according to the FAZ. “The average increase was 5.4 percent.”
The price hikes come just as Germany’s electricity rates have become among the world’s highest. Annually tens of thousands of German households see their power cut off because they are unable to pay their bills.
A large portion of the rate hike is due to the feed-in tariffs for green energies such as wind and sun.
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Hundreds of Convicted Terrorists Roaming British Streets After Being Granted Early Release
HUNDREDS of convicted terrorists are roaming the streets of Britain after being released early from jail like the Streatham knife attacker, the Daily Express can reveal. The alarming statistics emerged as a former Scotland Yard chief described the hordes of extremists as a greater danger to Britain than jihadists returning from war-torn Syria.
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Hungary: Orban Calls for EU Budget to be Put on ‘Fair Footing’
Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday called for the European Union budget to be put on a “fair footing”, adding that the current concept includes amendments that shift monies from poorer countries to richer ones.
After meeting European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels, Orban told Hungarian journalists that he foresaw a busy schedule for the next six months, with several unresolved issues to be discussed, including the post-2020 seven-year EU budget, migration, digitalisation and EU enlargement.
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Hungary: Coronavirus: Passengers From China to be Tested at Airport
All passengers arriving from China at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport will be tested for symptoms of the coronavirus from Friday evening, the airport operator Budapest Airport told MTI.
The passengers will have their temperatures taken, the statement said. Should the coronavirus suspicion arise, the patient will be referred to a hospital equipped to receive them, it said.
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Hungary Drafts Action Plan for Coronavirus Response
A body established by the government to manage measures against infection by the coronavirus has drafted an action plan.
The 28-point action plan, sent to MTI by the Interior Ministry late Friday, directs the police to scrutinise people entering the country from China as well as those who travelled in China in the previous 14 days or who came into contact with people infected with the coronavirus.
It also instructs the police to start using heat cameras and buy or rent more of the devices.
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the terror attack in London, U.K. on Sunday.
“The perpetrator of the attack in Streatham district in south London yesterday is a fighter of Islamic State, and carried out the attack in response to calls to attack the citizens of coalition countries,” a statement carried by the group’s Amaq news agency said, according to Reuters.
Sudesh Amman, 20, the suspect in the attack, had previously praised the terror group, shared an online al-Qaeda magazine and encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents.
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London: UK Police Say Man Shot, Several Injured in Terrorist-Related Incident
Witness says police ran from attacker after he was shot dead because he had a device strapped to him.
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Marine Le Pen: Brexit is a ‘Terrifying Failure’ For the European Union
Marine Le Pen, the president of the French populist right-wing party Rassemblement National (National Rally), congratulated the United Kingdom for regaining its “freedom” but went on to say that Brexit was a “terrifying failure” for the European Union.
“After multiple twist and turns, the UK has finally regained its freedom. But this is a terrifying failure for the EU”, said Ms Le Pen.
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UK: Boris Admits ‘Really Very Few’ Islamists Can be Rehabilitated, ‘We Need to be Frank About That’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that “really very few” Islamists can be successfully rehabilitated, and says it’s time to emphasise “the custodial option” to protect the public.
The Tory leader was speaking after Sudesh Amman stabbed multiple people in Streatham, London, just days after he received automatic early release from a short prison sentence for terror offences.
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UK: ISIS Claims Streatham Terror Attack, Govt Considers Ways to Contain Other Islamist Prisoners
Boris Johnson’s government is considering new measures to contain terror convicts after an Islamist freed from prison early stabbed civilians in Streatham, London.
Sudesh Amman, 20, was under active surveillance when he began stabbing people in Streatham, having been released on licence automatically halfway through an already short three-year sentence for terrorism offences.
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UK: Streatham Terrorist Released Early Despite Pledging Allegiance to ISIS
20-year-old Islamic terrorist Sudesh Amman, who was shot dead after trying to stab people in Streatham, south London yesterday, was released halfway through his prison sentence despite pledging allegiance to ISIS, encouraging his girlfriend to behead her parents and sharing a tutorial on homemade bombs.
Amman stabbed two people during the attack in broad daylight on Sunday afternoon before he was quickly neutralized by plain clothed anti-terror police who had been monitoring him.
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Varadkar on the Brink: Irish Voters Abandon PM’s Party as Sinn Fein Leads Latest Poll
LEO VARADKAR has been dealt a massive blow after rival political party Sinn Fein established a clear lead in a major opinion poll just days before the Irish general election.
The Ipsos MRBI survey for the Irish Times had support for left-wing Sinn Fein up four percent from the previous poll last month to 25 percent. SimIlar polls over recent weeks had suggested the party would finish third with the backing of just a fifth of the electorate. The latest survey shows support for centre-right Fianna Fail has slipped two percent to 23 percent, while Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael party are languishing in third position with 20 percent of the vote.
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Russia May Deport Any Foreigners Found With Coronavirus, Prime Minister Says
Foreigners could be deported from Russia if they test positive for the coronavirus, the prime minister said Monday, according to country’s media outlets.
Newly appointed Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said a national plan to prevent the spread of the infection in Russia has been signed.
“It will allow us to deport foreigners if they are diagnosed with this disease and introduce special restrictions, including isolation and quarantine,” the prime minister said in comments reported by the Tass news agency and Interfax.
Mishustin added that Russia has “all the necessary medications, protective means to counter the coronavirus spread.”
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Pope Francis Plans Trip to Most Populous Muslim Country
ROME — Pope Francis is looking to travel to Indonesia later this year, the nation with the highest Muslim population in the world, Reuters reported Monday.
On January 15, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Nadhlatul Ulama (NU), Yahya Cholil Staquf, met with Pope Francis in the Vatican along with other religious leaders to discuss ways of dealing with interfaith conflict.
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The coronavirus outbreak that is raging all over China right now has been making headlines on a daily basis all over the globe, and rightly so. At this point we don’t know if it will ultimately become a horrifying global pandemic that will affect tens of millions of people, but what we do know is that the virus spreads very easily and the number of cases has been rising at an exponential rate. Meanwhile, three other plagues have also been marching across Asia, and most people in the western world don’t even realize that this is happening. What I am about to share with you in this article is quite chilling, and the months ahead will be very dark if these plagues continue to spread.
Long before we ever heard of this new coronavirus, African Swine Fever was devastating pork farms from one end of China to the other. There is no vaccine for “pig ebola”, there is no cure, and once it hits a farm the only thing that can be done is to kill every single pig so that it won’t spread anywhere else. But even though draconian measures have been implemented, it has just kept spreading, and at this point “about two-thirds of China’s swine herd has been lost”…
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Experts believe may be Chinese vaccine experiment gone wrong — watch live!
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Coronavirus Cases Hit 20,000 as First Death Reported Outside of China
Three more cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed in the U.S. on Sunday, all in California, bringing the total number of people in the country with the disease to 11. The weekend also saw the first death blamed on the flu-like illness outside of China.
As of Monday evening there were more than 20,000 confirmed cases in more than two dozen countries, the vast majority of them in China, according to the World Health Organization. There have been at least 425 deaths in China, and one in the Philippines.
U.S. officials declared a public health emergency last week and, as a result, foreign nationals who have traveled to China in the last two weeks and aren’t immediate family members of U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be temporarily banned from entering the U.S. Under the orders of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, anyone entering the U.S. who has been in China’s Hubei province in the last two weeks will be subject to a two-week quarantine…
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Coronavirus Updates: Hong Kong Reports First Death as Mainland China Cases Cross 20,000
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.
All times below are in Beijing time.
11:30 am: Hong Kong confirms 39-year-old man died
Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority told CNBC that a 39-year-old man died Tuesday morning in the city’s first death related to the coronavirus outbreak. Details of the case are set to be announced at a briefing held by the Department of Health and Hospital Authority at 4:30 p.m. local time.
This would be the second known death outside of mainland China. On Sunday, officials said a man from Wuhan died in a hospital in Manila, Philippines.
10:59 am: Walmart is cutting rents and fees for its stores in China
Walmart said it is cutting rents and management fees in half for business tenants in community stores and Sam’s Club, a membership-based line of stores selling goods in bulk at wholesale prices, from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8.
The company, which has more than 400 retail locations throughout the country, said last week it donated 1 million yuan to provide medical supplies and increased support to Hubei province.
10:48 am: Former US FDA commissioner says coronavirus will likely become a pandemic
The outbreak has already been declared an epidemic in China. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, told CNBC it “likely will” become a pandemic at this point. The World Health Organization describes a pandemic as the worldwide spread of a new disease.
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong Hospital Staff Strike to Demand Closure of China Border
Hundreds of hospital workers in Hong Kong have gone on strike, demanding the border with mainland China be completely closed to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading.
Hong Kong has suspended cross-border rail and ferry services, but health workers want a total border closure.
Authorities say closing the border completely would go against advice from the World Health Organization.
There have been 15 confirmed cases of the virus in the city.
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Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 425; Total Cases Tops 20,400
The death toll in mainland China from the new coronavirus has risen to 425, with the total number of cases now standing at 20,438, according to The Associated Press.
There are 11 confirmed cases in the United States.
China built a 1,000-bed hospital with prefabricated wards in just 10 days outside Wuhan, China, the city at the epicenter of the outbreak. A second hospital with 1,500 beds is due to open soon, according to AP.
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Hundreds of Canadians Waiting for Flight Out of Wuhan
Hundreds of Canadians are still in China awaiting a flight that will transport them out of Hubei. The province of Hubei has been the centre of the coronavirus outbreak which has killed approximately 360 people and infected over 17,200 people around the world.
About 325 Canadians have requested help getting out of China. Flights out of the province will not be available for Canadians showing symptoms of the virus, according to CTV.
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Is This the Real Reason Why the Coronavirus is Absolutely Devastating China?
Sometimes we overlook the obvious because we don’t like the implications. Right now, China is being hit with plague after plague. As I discussed earlier today, the epicenter for the worst coronavirus outbreak in modern human history is in China, the worst African Swine Fever pandemic ever recorded has wiped out “about two-thirds of China’s swine herd”, and now an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu threatens to decimate Chinese chicken production. The attention of the entire planet is now keenly focused on China, and it appears that things are only going to get worse in the months ahead. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has initiated a campaign that is designed to stamp out the Christian faith throughout the entire nation. If you are under the age of 18, you are no longer allowed to go to church in China. Officials all over the country are forcing churches to replace pictures of Jesus with pictures of President Xi Jinping, hymns are being replaced with patriotic songs praising the communist government, and there has even been talk of rewriting the Bible to bring it more into alignment with communist values.
It has been estimated that the number of Bible-believing Christians in China now exceeds the number of Bible-believing Christians in the United States, and obviously a lot of the underground churches did not want to go along with these deeply repressive measures. So Chinese officials have conducted mass arrests, they have shut down thousands of churches, and Bibles have been publicly burned to send a message to others that may be thinking of attempting to defy the government.
I would use the word “tyranny” to describe what is happening, but it doesn’t seem nearly strong enough. The following is how the New York Post described the current state of affairs in China…
Things have gotten so bad that Chinese officials even continue to persecute some Christians after they have died…
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Muslim Cleric Issues Fatwa Calling for Coronavirus “Annihilation” of Chinese People
While the media continues to fret about “racist” bat soup memes, a Muslim cleric just issued a fatwa celebrating the coronavirus outbreak and calling for the “annihilation” of Chinese people.
On January 23rd last month, Syrian jihadi cleric Abd Al-Razzaq Al-Mahdi celebrated the spread of coronavirus in China and urged Muslims to pray for Allah to “annihilate” the people of China.
“Al-Mahdi is a prominent cleric who is well respected by jihadi factions, and who is known for his sermons and fatwas, in which he encourages Muslims to take part in jihad and carry out attacks inside Russia,” reports MEMRI.
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Australia’s ban on travellers from China has sparked fears of a looming recession, given Chinese students and tourists pump $16 billion into the economy each year.
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Archbishop Protests Slaughter of Christians: Nigeria is ‘Drifting Toward Anarchy’
The ongoing killings of Christians in Nigeria indicate that the country is “drifting towards anarchy,” said Lagos Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins following the murder of an 18-year-old seminarian last week.
In a statement on the diocesan website, the archbishop (pictured) lamented the death of the young seminarian, Michael Nnadi, who had been abducted along with three others in Kaduna State. The other three young seminarians were released but Mnadi was executedby his captors.
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Nicaraguan Catholic Church Demands Restoration of Freedom of the Press
The archbishop of Managua demanded Sunday the government of Daniel Ortega lift a block on paper and other raw materials from the opposition newspaper La Prensa.
Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, who is also president of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, said that there has been a public outcry for the release of paper and other materials so that freedom of the press can be restored in the country.
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Dump Truck Towed for a Flat Tire Hid 36 Trapped Migrants, Texas Officials Say
Police in Laredo, Texas, found 36 migrants trapped in a dump truck after the truck had a flat tire and was towed to an impound yard., officials say.
The migrants were trapped in a hidden compartment in the truck that seemed to haul gravel, CNN reported.
When investigators and rescuers responded to the impound lot on Jan. 30, they heard banging, CNN said. Laredo police received a tip that made them go back to the truck, the New York Daily News reported.
“People were hidden inside a dump trailer loaded with dirt with no means of escape,” U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in southern Texas tweeted.
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Government: Some 100,000 Migrants Gathered Along Hungary Southern Border
Around 100,000 migrants have gathered south of Hungary along the border posing a risk at the country’s border, a government official said on Monday.
In January, 3,400 illegal entry attempts were made, Bence Tuzson, the state secretary for public services at the Prime Minister’s Office, told public news broadcaster M1.
He noted an attempt at Röszke on Tuesday morning, adding that it had proved that the Hungarian border defence system functioned properly during the incident.
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Police on the Greek island of Lesbos today fired tear gas at thousands of migrants protesting against tougher new asylum rules.
Brandishing makeshift signs with the word ‘freedom’, some 2,000 men and women walked out of the overpopulated camp of Moria to demonstrate.
Violence broke out near the Kara Tepe camp after hundreds of people marched from the island’s congested migrant camps to the city of Mytilene, according to a police official.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Refuses to Abide by Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Travel Ban
The Democratic Party, especially its leaders in both Houses of the U.S. Congress, has demonstrated time and time again that they place little, if any, interest in protecting American citizens. They’ve also demonstrated that their interest in the U.S. Constitution is how it can be used to actually hurt American people, according to former Chief of Detectives Scott Myers of the Saratoga P.D., and current security director and consulting detective.
A perfect example of their propensity to be an anti-Constitution political movement is being ignored by the news media who prefer to intensify their assistance to the Deep State and the Democratic Party in overthrowing the Donald Trump presidency.
For example, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is angrily refusing to accept a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that confirmed President Trump’s legal right to enforce a travel ban.
Pelosi, in the midst of the Trump Impeachment Trial, revealed that the Democratic-controlled House will vote on a bill to repeal President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which he ordered to counter the arrival in America of individuals from the world’s terrorist havens, especially in the Middle East, Latin America and parts of North Africa.
Following weeks of Democrats accusing the Trump administration of racism and unfairness, the Supreme Court ruled that the president had the legal authority to operate the travel ban, which bars citizens of certain countries with high rates of extremist violence from entering the U.S. on national security grounds.
Despite the Supreme Court decision, Pelosi said the House Judiciary Committee will propose and fight for her party’s bill dubbed “The National Origin-Based Anti discrimination for Non immigrants” or “NO BAN Act,” which was penned by Representative Judy Chu, Pelosi’s fellow Democrat from California.
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Your Responses From: Devolving Western Civilization
Ten years ago, my column, “What if 20 million illegal aliens vacated America” published with incredible responses. (Source: NewWithViews.com, October, 29 2007) Over 100 emails landed in my ‘in-box’. Angry Americans, fed-up Americans and really PO’d Americans! Even radio host Michael Savage read the column verbatim on his show. It still makes the rounds on social media, but for some mysterious reason, my byline vanished as the original author. For a cliff note review, that commentary chronicled all the benefits Americans would enjoy if those 20 million border hoppers, anchor baby mothers, welfare recipients and illegal workers and their employers actually followed the rule of law—and were sent back to their countries.
At the time, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo spoke up nationally about closing our borders and obeying our laws. He received white-hot anger from La Rasa, ACLU, CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center—groups that do everything in their power to destroy America’s borders and legal citizenship.
In the past ten years since that commentary, the borders remain as wide open as Maxine Waters’ mouth, immigration added 35 million more people to the USA, net gain, and, not a single person in Congress has succeeded in stopping the endless flow of legal and illegal immigrants. Big corporations like Marriott, Holiday Inn, Hormel Foods, Tyson Chicken, Chipotle and hundreds more, bribe the majority of 535 Congressional critters to make sure they take no action to stop the invasion. Results: our country continues to fracture, polarize and fragment faster than ever. Not to mention our exploding cities, poverty and population hyper-growth.
What few understand in Washington DC: these immigrants could care less about America or about becoming Americans. The liberal elites think they will never be touched by those unwashed and illiterate masses collecting in our cities. They feel immune. Lewiston, Maine or Minneapolis, Minnesota or Miami, Florida or Los Angeles, California? That won’t happen to my city! Unfortunately, it IS happening to every city in America with a welfare office and refugee center.
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BuzzFeed Journo Reportedly Blogged About Pedo Fantasies, Rape Jokes and Doxing
Twitter will likely find all these outlandish public statements, doxes and tweets to be in perfectly good humor.
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Exclusive: Pedophiles Are Using Twitter to Share Child Porn
Statement: All accounts found to have or be soliciting child sex exploitation material during the course of this investigation were immediately reported to Twitter.
A new investigation by The Post Millennial reveals that the distribution of child pornography is happening in plain sight. While many believe the distribution of these illicit materials is relegated to the seedy underbelly of the internet, this belief is far from true.
On Twitter, pedophiles seeking to exchange child pornography and other child sex exploitation images are utilizing secret hashtags to signal their presence and interest to each other. The hashtags #megalinks and #megadump are littered with tweets from otherwise empty accounts offering or soliciting illegal material.
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Prof Wants ‘Social Justice Content’ In Math Books
A Williams College professor said he would advocate for social justice to be included in mathematics textbooks.
Chad Topaz, a self-described “social-justice-oriented” professor of applied math and data science, posted a tweet in January, which read, “I MIGHT be offered to join an editorial board of a particular math book series. If so, I’d accept only to advance #socialjustice. What are your best ideas for how? Free texts? Social justice content? Required ‘inclusive learning’ component of book proposal? Go nuts…”
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University Researchers Develop ‘Safe Sexting’ Tips for Your Kids
A professor at Florida Atlantic University recently published an article arguing that parents should teach their teen children “safe sexting.”
Sameer Hinduja, working with colleague Justin Patchin, published a report in the Journal of Adolescent Health, titled, “It is Time to Teach Safe Sexting.”
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5 Iowa mosques participated in last night’s caucus debacle:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/03/five-mosques-iowa-caucus/
Absolutely disgusting.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/affaire-mila-l-adolescente-ne-regrette-absolument-pas-ses-propos-20200203
French girl who insulted Islam finally interviewed