Seattle’s police chief said that her officers are unable to enter the BLM-controlled “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” and cannot respond to calls about rapes and violent crimes there. However, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan celebrated the CHAZ, likening it to a block party.
In coronanews, Republican state senators in Pennsylvania are suing Governor Tom Wolf for refusing to lift the COVID-19 state of emergency.
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“The $700 Billion Gorilla in the Room”
Earlier this week, we observed that as a direct result of a flood of Bill issuance in the past two months, the Treasury’s cash balance which it will use to fund various stimulus programs and other fiscal initiatives, has exploded since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, hitting a record $1.5 trillion last Friday. This, we said, “is notable because in the Treasury’s latest quarterly borrowing needs forecast which projected a funding need of $3 trillion for the current quarter, the Treasury also projected that the cash balance at the end of the quarter would be $800 billion.”
This also means that if indeed the Treasury’s forecast is accurate, then over the next two weeks, the Treasury’s cash balance has to drop by a record $700 billion to hit the $800 billion target!
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Hertz Wins Court Approval to Sell Worthless Stock in World’s First Initial Bankruptcy Offering
Bringing us one stop closer to what we called “The Most Absurd Moment In The History Of Capital Markets”, Hertz just won bankruptcy court approval to sell (or at least try) up to $1 billion in worthless stock to maniac daytraders. Not even Enron tried this.
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Are you ready for the next wave of COVID-19? Actually, the mainstream media is telling us that it is already here, and that has sparked another round of fear and panic on Wall Street. But the fact that the number of confirmed cases is rising again should not surprise anyone. As restrictions were lifted, it was inevitable that the virus would begin spreading more rapidly, and that is precisely what we have witnessed. During the 24 hour period that just ended, there were more than 136,000 new cases reported around the globe, and that is the highest one day total that I have seen so far. Here in the United States, there were 23,300 newly confirmed cases, and that represented an increase of over 2,000 from the previous 24 hour period. Concern that this could be the dreaded “second wave” that the mainstream media keeps talking about pushed stock prices dramatically lower on Thursday…
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A Brief History of Antifa: Part I
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has blamed Antifa — a militant “anti-fascist” movement — for the violence that has erupted at George Floyd protests across the United States. “The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly,” he said.
Barr also said that the federal government has evidence that Antifa “hijacked” legitimate protests around the country to “engage in lawlessness, violent rioting, arson, looting of businesses, and public property assaults on law enforcement officers and innocent people, and even the murder of a federal agent.” Earlier, U.S. President Donald J. Trump had instructed the U.S. Justice Department to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.
Academics and media outlets sympathetic to Antifa have argued that the group cannot be classified as a terrorist organization because, they claim, it is a vaguely-defined protest movement that lacks a centralized structure. Mark Bray, a vocal apologist for Antifa in America and author of the book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” asserts that Antifa “is not an overarching organization with a chain of command.”
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that Antifa is, in fact, highly networked, well-funded and has a global presence.
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After Tweet Supporting ‘Good Police Officers, ‘ Arizona State Revokes Journalism Dean Offer
Arizona State University has rescinded a job offer to the new dean of its journalism school after students complained of past microaggressions and other insensitive comments.
Sonya Forte Duhé, who was set to take over as dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and CEO of Arizona PBS, has had the offer revoked after nearly two dozen past students complained that she frequently encouraged them to, among other things, dress appropriately, wear makeup while on air, and speak with a more standard journalistic voice.
The complaining students found these actions to be “racist” and “homophobic.”
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Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative
An anonymous history professor at U.C. Berkeley has penned an open letter against the current narratives of racial injustice underpinning the BLM movement and ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd.
Its authenticity was confirmed by Kentucky State University Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wilfred Reilley, who says he was sent a copy of the letter along with Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell.
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California Man Who Ambushed Police Dead After Manhunt Ending in Shootout
The man who sparked a massive manhunt after he allegedly shot a California deputy in the head and wounded three others, is dead following a shootout with police.
The sheriff of San Luis Obispo County announced Thursday that 26-year-old Mason Lira, who reportedly has a history of mental illness, had been taken into custody “secured and unresponsive.”
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The attorney representing political commentator Carl Benjamin in his legal battle with YouTuber Akilah Hughes has written to the judge to “apprise the Court of new developments” that support Benjamin’s motion to reclaim his legal fees.
Benjamin is asking to be awarded $39,000 to cover the cost of his legal fees resulting from a copyright infringement lawsuit that was brought by Hughes and that he won.
His motion accuses Hughes of weaponizing copyright law in an “attempt to muzzle an ideological opponent” and of using the lawsuit to “generate valuable attention and celebrity” and promote her book.
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Caroline Glick: Time for Trump to be Trump at Home and Abroad
Donald Trump was elected four years ago because Americans wanted to save their country. Both in domestic and foreign policy, in the eighth year of Barack Obama’s presidency, America was going off the rails. At home, Obama’s identity politics were tearing the country apart. As is now graphically apparent, identity politics are not about expanding justice. They are geared towards tearing Americans away from one another and undermining the very idea of America.
Abroad, America had become the laughingstock of its enemies and the worst nightmare of its friends as Obama and his merry band of foreign policy “experts” abandoned and denigrated allies and reorganized America’s foreign policy around a commitment to appeasing and kowtowing to America’s worst foes, first and foremost, Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Trump rose to the top of a crowded field of Republican candidates because voters believed that the iconoclast who made good deals because he cared about the result and didn’t care what people thought of him, would make America great again. They believed they could trust him to tell the truth and do what needed to be done, no matter how many inbred “experts” told him differently.
And America needed a leader who wouldn’t shy away from controversy.
In 2016, with Obama’s backing the radical, anti-American, anti-police #BlackLivesMatter group was ascendant. Police had targets on their heads. Two weeks before the Republican Convention in July 2016, five police officers were massacred in Dallas after anti-police protests in the city. Days before the convention, three policemen were murdered and four were wounded in another massacre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Defending law enforcement officers and pledging to restore safety to America’s cities was a major theme of Trump’s convention address and a major pledge of his campaign. And he delivered…
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Colorado Bill Requires “Re-Education” For Parents Who Refuse the Coronavirus Vaccine
Are you ready for re-education camps in the United States? Colorado has introduced a bill that would “re-educate” parents who refuse to vaccinate their child with the coronavirus vaccine.
The bill forces all doctors and medical staff to give vaccinations with no exemptions, even if they are in a situation where they believe it would not be in that child’s best interest. The bill’s current version, however, does not list any sanctions or punishments for medical staff that refuse, according to Life News.
The bill just passed through a committee in Colorado (20-14) to reduce available exemptions on vaccinations for school-age children (making vaccines mandatory). This bill offers “online education modules” for parents who want a different vaccination schedule than what the state demands. Submitting a “certificate of completion” from the re-education classes is one way to receive the state-sanctioned vaccine exemption.
This plandemic was never about health, it was about forcing everyone to get a vaccine: an injection of whatever the hell the ruling class decided to put in the vaccine.
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Confirmed: Vandal Behind Racist Graffiti at Salisbury University … is Black
Salisbury University experienced massive racial unrest after a series of racist graffiti was discovered on campus over the course of the 2019-20 school year.
The public, Maryland-based university canceled classes for a “day of healing” and hired a new associate vice president for diversity and inclusion at a cost of $140,000 annually
Authorities have had a suspect since February but refused comment to The College Fix on details. Turns out, the vandal is black.
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COVID-19 Political Risk — Dems Say ‘Yes’ To Antifa Protests, ‘No’ To Trump Rallies
As hundreds of thousands of Americans take to the streets in protest at systemic racism, capitalism, rich people, Trump supporters, white people, straight people, and civilized people (we are sure we are missing some instigators of violence here), politicians, leaders, and the liberal intelligentsia went out of their way to explain how COVID-19 had become a ‘woke’ virus of sorts.
On June 4, more than 1,200 public-health experts signed a letter saying the protests were “vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of black people in the United States…
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During Rioting, 13 Chicago Police Officers Lounged in Congressman’s Office
While looters and rioters were pillaging the city of Chicago the night of June 1, video surveillance cameras show that 13 police officers, including three supervisors, decided to lounge in Rep. Bobby Rush’s office.
The Democrat representative’s Chicago headquarters had already been burglarized when the officers decided to enter and spend time sleeping on couches and eating snacks.
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Florida Man Friday Challenge: Why Don’t We Do it in the Road?
Is it time for Florida Man Friday already?
I almost never open with a Beatles reference, but with this week’s news, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” was an irresistible pick.
Look, if you were to ask me which was the more important ‘60s British rock band, The Beatles or the Rolling Stones, I’d have to admit that the honor goes to John and Paul and George and Ringo.
Sorry, Glimmer Twins.
On the other hand, nine times out of ten, guess which band I’d rather listen to?
Get off of my cloud if you can’t guess the answer: The Stones, almost every single time.
Regardless, it’s with a Beatles headline and no small amount of satisfaction that I bring to you another fab edition of…
Florida Man Friday!
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Franklin Graham: ‘Irresponsible Progressives’ Are Destroying Their Cities
Prominent evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has called on Americans to reject politicians who support anarchy and to vote in those who will guarantee law and order.
“The Pacific Northwest has been controlled by progressive Democrats for yrs & now anarchists have taken the center of Seattle, calling it a ‘cop-free zone,’“ Rev. Graham tweeted Friday. “The Seattle mayor says that the people doing this are ‘patriotic’ & this is like a ‘block party.’“
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Gospel Radio Host Shot and Killed in Baltimore
A Gospel radio show host Wednesday night was shot and killed in Northeast Baltimore, local law enforcement reported.
Tyra Womack, 57, an announcer on WEAA-FM’s weekly “Gospel Grace” program for more than 30 years, was fatally shot following a neighborhood dispute.
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In New Filing, Flynn’s Lawyers Say Judge ‘Exceeded His Power’ In Not Dismissing Case
Lawyers for Michael Flynn argued in a brief filed Thursday that Judge Emmet Sullivan “exceeded his power” when he refused to dismiss a case per a Justice Department request, arguing that the judge is legally compelled to follow federal prosecutors’ desire to end prosecution against the former Trump national security adviser.
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Irony Overload: Autonomous Zone ‘Warlord’ May Soon be Canceled After Old Homophobic Tweets Surface
As we’ve previously reported, the Democrat/media-driven rush to “cancel” anyone who decides to think for themselves instead of participating in left-wing groupthink in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd is at a fever pitch, with professors, media figures, and pro-sports icons among those being tossed into the fire left and right.
But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the “warlord” of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit based on various web archive websites (language warning).
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John Bolton Book to ‘Go Beyond Ukraine’ — Accuse Trump of ‘Misconduct With Other Countries’
Failed Trump handler John Bolton may not have gotten his Iran war — yet, but he’ll have his revenge on Donald J. Trump if it’s the last thing he does.
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Memorial to Slain Virginia Officers Temporarily Removed
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue honoring police officers killed in the line of duty was removed from a park in Virginia’s capital city Thursday morning after it was covered in red paint.
Video obtained by news outlets showed a truck hauling the Richmond Police Memorial away from Byrd Park, the same place where a statue of Christopher Columbus was torn down, set on fire and thrown into a lake Wednesday.
The bronze memorial was placed at the location in 2016 and lists the names of 39 fallen Richmond police officers, news outlets said.
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More Businesses Fearing Property Damage Hire Private Security Guards in Wake of Protests
Private security contractor Denise Bamba remembers the point last week when she couldn’t get off the telephone.
It was the Monday after weekend protests occurred in downtown Seattle over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Fortress Security Services, co-owned by Bamba and her husband, Deschamps, was besieged by local businesses seeking armed guards to protect their property.
“My phone shows I logged more than 200 calls that day,’’ said Denise Bamba, adding the couple turned down numerous requests because the company didn’t have enough guards.
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NYPD Lieutenant Says He Regrets Taking a Knee to Pacify Protesters
Declaring that “the cop in me wants to kick my own a — ,” NYPD Lieutenant Robert Cattani has apologized to his fellow officers for submitting to the demands of protesters to kneel.
On May 29 in Foley Square, a large crowd of protesters chanted “NYPD, take a knee,” prompting Cattani and a handful of other officers to comply.
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Pennsylvania Senate Republicans Sue Gov. Wolf Over Refusal to End Coronavirus Lockdown
Pennsylvania Senate Republicans are suing Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf over his refusal to issue an executive order to end the state’s coronavirus emergency, a move they say the governor must make after the state’s General Assembly passed a resolution to that effect late Tuesday.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday afternoon, seeks a judgment “against Governor Wolf commanding him to issue an executive order or proclamation ending the state of disaster emergency related to COVID-19.” The resolution in question was passed through the Pennsylvania House and Senate, which are both controlled by Republicans.
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Pete Carroll Says He Received Call From Team Interested in Kaepernick
Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll said Thursday he received a call from an NFL team inquiring about Colin Kaepernick.
“So I know somebody’s interested, and we’ll see what happens with that,” Carroll told reporters during a video conference.
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Philadelphia Woman Who Allegedly Ran Over Police Officer is Charged With Attempted Murder
A Philadelphia woman is facing multiple felony charges, including attempted murder, after running over a police officer while fleeing the scene during rioting last month, authorities said.
Angela Hall, 41, was arrested Monday in connection with the May 30 incident in which she ran over bike patrol officer Tony Nieves, who was trying to stop her, Philadelphia County District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a Tuesday announcement. She is charged with the attempted murder of a police officer, two counts of aggravated assault of a police officer and other crimes.
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Poll: Majority of Voters Said They Believe Trump Will Win Election
A recent poll found that a little more than half of voters, regardless of personal preference and political affiliation, believe President Trump will win reelection.
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Pre-Filled COVID-19 Vaccine Syringes May Have RFID Chip
While pharmaceutical companies worldwide test an estimated 70 possible coronavirus vaccines, the US government is making plans to get the vaccine to the American public as quickly as possible.
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San Francisco Mayor Says Police Will Stop Responding to Non-Criminal Calls
San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday said police will no longer respond to non-criminal calls as part of a major reform of the department.
Breed said in a news release that for calls that don’t involve a threat to public safety, police would be replaced by trained, unarmed professionals to limit unnecessary confrontation between the police department and the community.
The non-criminal calls will include neighbor disputes, reports on homeless people and school discipline interventions, among other activities.
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SC Man Charged With Ambush Against Cops Insults Prosecutor in Court, As Officials Seek Death Penalty
Prosecutors in South Carolina plan to seek the death penalty against a disbarred lawyer accused of shooting seven police officers — killing two of them — in a 2018 ambush attack.
Appearing in a Florence County court, Frederick Hopkins complained that deputies wanted to harm him, insulted a prosecutor and took up eight minutes to complain about not being given a preliminary hearing in a suitable time frame.
The 74-year-old will stand trial for allegedly ambushing three Florence County deputies who came to his home to conduct a search warrant after his son was accused of sexually abusing children. He shot four more officers who responded to the residence after hearing a barrage of gunfire, authorities said.
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Schumer Blocks Cruz-Cotton Bill Condemning Calls to Defund Police
A Senate resolution opposing efforts to defund police departments was blocked by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Wednesday, who called the Republican-sponsored measure “an empty field of rhetoric.”
Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced the resolution in response to calls to defund police agencies amid protests over the death of George Floyd. Cotton tried passing the measure by unanimous consent, meaning any one senator could block it.
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Seattle Mayor Celebrates “Summer of Love” As Rape and Violent Crime Soars in ‘Chaz’ Communist Utopia
The Mayor of Seattle celebrated a “summer of love” even as rape and violent crime soared in the new “autonomous zone” Communist utopia set up by left-wing extremists in a 6 block area of the city.
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, is a police-free district of Seattle that has been overrun by Black Lives Matter protesters since Monday.
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Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best told her fellow officers that it was “not my decision” to abandon the city’s Third Precinct to activists and that the decision has prevented the department from responding to emergency calls inside the “autonomous zone.”
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Seattle Mayor Durkan Blasts Trump, Calls Protester-Occupied Zone “Patriotism”
Just a day after President Trump threatened to use the military in order to restore order in Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan has praised the protesters who have taken over a six-block perimeter they are calling “CHAZ,” or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
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Starbucks to Allow Workers to Wear Black Lives Matter Attire, Accessories
Starbucks announced Friday that it would allow all workers to wear attire and accessories supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, walking back its previous stance, which received criticism across social media.
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A Baltimore County, Md., fifth-grader got a visit from the police after his teacher called to report that she had seen a BB gun on the wall behind the student during a class video call.
The boy’s mother, Courtney Lancaster Sperry, a Navy veteran, is warning other parents about a lack of privacy during virtual classes after her son was targeted by a teacher who saw what she thought was a scary-looking gun hanging on the wall of the boy’s bedroom.
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Truck Drivers Say They Won’t Deliver to Cities With Defunded Police Departments
As cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments, truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety. Seventy-seven percent of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.
Truck driving is historically ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. In 2018, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported truck driving as the most deadly job in the country.
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Virginia Senator Told Police to Stand Down Before Statue Collapse That Left Man in a Coma
Virginia Senator Louise Lucas told Portsmouth City police officers to stand down and urged Black Lives Matter protesters to “wreck” a statue that was later toppled and struck a man in the head, leaving him in a coma.
Shocking video footage of the incident shows one of the four bronze soldiers on the Confederate monument being torn down by an angry mob, only to immediately strike a man in the head, leaving his skull split open.
The victim was later named as BLM protester Chris Greene, who remains critically ill in a coma.
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Virginia’s Supreme Court Decision Favors Franklin County Home School Family
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) — Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled in favor this week of a home school family in Franklin County.
As we first reported in 2018, the Sosebee family filed a legal complaint against the Franklin County school board.
It was over a policy implemented in July 2017 that required home school families to submit to the school board a copy of their child’s birth certificate and proof of residency.
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When Will “Enough is Enough” Become “This is Too Much”?
The “covid-19” panic has emphasized in an unique manner the necessity for Americans to ask themselves the perennially relevant question: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”—”Who is to watch the watchmen?”—or, more colloquially descriptive of this country’s present dilemma, “Who is to govern the governors?”….
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Meghan Markle’s best friend Jessica Mulroney has had her reality TV show cancelled and been fired as a bridal marketing specialist after ‘threatening’ a black social media influencer in a row over white privilege.
Mulroney admitted last night that ‘I was wrong’ after clashing with lifestyle blogger Sasha Exeter in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
Exeter says Mulroney ‘took offense’ to a ‘generic call to action’ that she posted on her Instagram story weeks ago and that the pair then started arguing.
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France: Public Officials in No-Go Paris Suburbs Offered ‘Loyalty Bonus’ For Staying Five Years
The government of French President Emmanuel Macron has offered public officials in Paris’s no-go suburbs a €10,000 bonus if they stay in the troubled area for at least five years.
Public officials in Seine-Saint-Denis will be given the £9,000/$11,000 cash bonus as a part of a plan by the government to improve the suburbs, which have been long plagued by poverty, high crime, and high unemployment rates.
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Hungary: Pro-Family Policies Increase Birthrate by 5.5 Percent
A Hungarian MP on Thursday announced that the country’s birthrate had increased 5.5 percent from last year following the government’s implementation of pro-family policies.
Katalin Novak, Hungary’s State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs, took to Twitter to announce the exciting news.
“Good news again! Compared to last year’s same period, in the first 4 months of 2020: Birth rate increased by 5.5 percent, Fertility rate increased 5.7 percent, and one and a half times more marriages were concluded,” Novak wrote.
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Italy: Judges Rule That Steve Bannon’s Academy for Populists Can’t be Evicted
Italian judges have ruled that Italy’s Ministry of Culture cannot evict former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s academy for Right-wing populists from the 800-year-old monastery that he had leased for the purpose.
Steve Bannon, who has become renowned throughout the world as a voice for populism since he led Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign in 2016, signed a 19-year lease for the monastery in 2018 along with his partner in the venture, Benjamin Harnwell. The thirteenth-century monastery sits on a mountaintop south of Rome.
Bannon’s stated intention for the monastery is to use it to host what he has named The Academy for the Judeo-Christian West, which falls under the purview of his Dignitatis Humanae Institute. The Academy’s purpose is to serve as a training ground for Right-wing populists, offering courses in history, philosophy, politics, and theology for up to 300 students per semester.
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Report Sounds Alarm Over ‘Diversity’ Clause of European Cultural Heritage Treaty
An Italian newspaper has warned that a “diversity” clause in a Council of Europe cultural heritage treaty could “erase the true identity” of Italy as it demands “respect for the diversity of interpretations”.
The Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society was initially passed in 2005, but so far only ten nations have ratified the treaty into national law. Italy has not been one of them, so far, along with France, Sweden, Germany, and Spain.
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UK: Boris Says Churchill ‘Expressed Opinions Unacceptable to us Today’
Boris Johnson insisted Winston Churchill’s statue should be a “permanent reminder” of his wartime achievements — even as it was hidden within a grey box — but added that the wartime leader did hold “unacceptable” opinions.
Prime Minister Johnson has been largely silent through the unlawful and frequently violent Black Lives Matter protests which have been taking place across the country in recent weeks, despite the coronavirus lockdown, but was forced to pipe up on Friday morning in response to growing disquiet over the vandalisation of historic monuments — particularly the Cenotaph and Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square.
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UK: Churchill, Washington Statues and Cenotaph War Memorial Boarded Up in London
The statue of Winston Churchill, as well as the Cenotaph war memorial in Central London have been boarded up ‘for their own protection’, even though Black Lives Matter have canceled demonstrations scheduled for this weekend.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan ordered the boarding up of the monuments, along with a host of others throughout the city, claiming that it is ‘to make sure they are protected’. Khan is pushing an ongoing effort to ‘diversify’ the landmarks of London.
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UK: Farage Warns of ‘First Brexit Betrayal’ As Govt U-Turns on EU Border Customs Checks
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned of the “first betrayal” of Brexit, following reports that the government has reversed a decision to impose border customs controls after the UK leaves the EU’s Customs Union.
Businesses have reportedly pressured the government into abandoning plans for full border checks on January 1st, 2021, after the Brexit transition period has expired.
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John Cleese has slammed BBC-owned UKTV for removing an episode of Fawlty Towers which featured racist language.
The actor, 80, who played Basil Fawlty, branded the channel ‘stupid’ for not realising The Germans was mocking the Major’s use of the ‘n-word’.
The 1975 episode, fondly remembered for the line ‘don’t mention the War’, is the latest in a series of British programmes to be culled from streaming sites.
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A Labour MP has been slammed for accepting ‘thousands’ in Bribes and Freebies to attend glitzy events whilst claiming to represent the Welsh working-class.
Kevin Brennan MP for Cardiff West attended glitzy events and ‘partied with the stars’ sipping champagne and enjoying boozy sessions according to sources.
Brennan even accepted free tickets to attend Glastonbury festival in 2019 worth £776 pounds.
He also accepted free tickets to attend a glitzy perfomance at the Royal Opera House — worth £450 in January 2020.
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UK: Nigel Farage Quits Radio Programme After BLM Controversy (Video)
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage abruptly quit his regular radio programme at LBC yesterday after he was informed that his show would be ended soon. This followed controversial remarks he made about Black Lives Matter earlier this week. His departure left the station scrambling to find a replacement for his show, which was supposed to air yesterday evening at 6 PM.
Farage had been hosting The Nigel Farage Show five evenings a week (initially four), as well as on Sunday mornings, since January 2017. More than two million listeners were tuning in to the programme each week, and Farage had brought on some distinguished guests, including US President Donald Trump.
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UK: Police Officer Violently Assaulted in London (Video)
Video footage of a London policeman being assaulted by an out of control assailant has surfaced and is circulating on social media.
At one point during the clip, a passerby takes a selfie as the officer is getting pummeled on the ground.
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UK: Senior London Cop ‘Probably’ Would Have Joined BLM Protests if He Wasn’t an Officer
London’s assistant commissioner for police Neil Basu said he would “probably” have joined Black Lives Matter protests if he was not a police officer, despite activists having already injured at least 60 of his officers.
Assistant Commissioner Basu is the highest-ranking officer in the UK from an ethnic-minority background, one of the top six officers in the Metropolitan Police Service, and one of 50 senior officers across the country.
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UK: Vandals and Violent Protesters to be Jailed Within 24-Hours
The home and justice secretaries have drawn up plans to fast-track the judicial system so that Black Lives Matter vandals and violent far-left protesters can be jailed within 24 hours.
Home secretary Priti Patel and justice secretary Robert Buckland drew up the plans in response to recent civil unrest that has seen Antifa and BLM demonstrators attack police officers and vandalise national memorials.
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Vatican Bank More Than Doubles Profit in 2019
Customer base stable at 5.1 bn
(ANSA) — Vatican City, June 8 — The Vatican bank, the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), on Monday posted 2019 profits of 38 million euros, more than double 2018’s 17.5 million. The IOR’s net assets as of December 31 was 630.3 million euros before distribution of profits.
Its customer base was stable at 5.1 billion euros.
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China Says Twitter Should Ban People Who Smear China
China claims that Twitter should close accounts of people that spread anti-China sentiment on the platform. The Chinese Communist Party says that China is the largest victim of smear campaigns online.
In a press briefing on Friday, the spokesperson for the foreign ministry, Hua Chunying, said that multiple platforms spread false information about China. The announcement was made hours after Twitter blocked thousands of pro-china propaganda accounts linked to the Chinese regime. These accounts were part of a network spreading coordinated and manipulative falsehoods around topics that make the country look good.
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New Species of Deep-Water Dogfish Shark Discovered
Marine biologists have discovered a new species of the shark genus Squalus in the tropical waters off southern Japan.
Squalus is a genus of dogfish sharks in the family Squalidae, which is part of the order Squaliformes.
Commonly known as spurdogs, these sharks are commercially important species within the world fish trade, in which individuals are caught through direct or indirect fisheries and traded for consumption of meat, fins and liver oil as primary products.
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Zoom Says it Will Continue to Censor for China, (But Only Against Citizens in Mainland China)
The California-based online video conferencing platform Zoom openly admits developing features to promote censorship, in an effort to cater to requests from China. As a matter of fact, Zoom is developing a feature that will allow it to block Chinese individuals from video calls.
The company announced that it was “developing technology over the next several days that will enable us to remove or block at the participant level based on geography,” as if it was a good thing.
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Victorian Labor MP Danny Pearson told the Legislative Assembly in March the country had acted rapidly during the early days of the virus and slowed its spread to Australia.
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The gesture has proved divisive among footy fans and AFL commentator Sam Newman has slammed the move.
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The three-year-old was found with bruises on his scalp, head, neck, chest, abdomen, genitals, back, buttocks, arms and legs.
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Shoppers took to social media to voice their outrage at the lack of products and share pictures of the empty shelves at the Australian stores.
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State-controlled media on Wednesday claimed Australia has a ‘chronic’ problem with racism and quoted Chinese students who said they had been abused and vilified.
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Farok Shaik, who owned six restaurants in Victoria, pleaded guilty to causing a person to enter into or remain in forced labour.
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Her father, Mark James Dunn, 43, and his girlfriend Shannon White, 43, were both charged with murder since the four-year-old’s death in Brisbane, but police are investigating the entire complex family.
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The WA Government are seeking to rename the range of hills in the western Kimberley region of the state amid the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Hundreds of police officers in face masks have congregated at a banned Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney — and have warned they won’t hesitate to arrest protesters.
Demonstrators will gather in Sydney and Melbourne this weekend for a second round of rallies after 90,000 took to the streets in solidarity with the global movement a week ago.
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Police Protect Captain Cook Statue While London Hides Winston Churchill
Police in Sydney, Australia were deployed to form a ring of protection around a statue of Captain Cook, putting to shame Boris Johnson’s UK government, which capitulated by hiding Winston Churchill inside a box.
“Heavy police presence protecting the Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park after a last minute change of location to tonight’s Black Lives Matter protest,” tweeted journalist Emily Ritchie. “About 400 peaceful protestors marched, surrounded by a significant number of police.”
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The Sunrise star is being sued for racial vilification over what was slammed as an ‘abhorrent’ TV segment about a ‘second stolen generation’.
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Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein announced that Australia’s island state had zero cases of coronavirus on Friday afternoon.
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Report: Coronavirus Lockdown Fuels Child Rape in Uganda
Reports of child abuse in Uganda have spiked since lockdowns were imposed to curb the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, according to local Catholic relief workers.
“The most commonly reported violations are child neglect and child rape,” said Michelle Ell, project director in Uganda for the 4Children Project at Catholic Relief Services (CRS), who noted that social workers handled nearly three times as many cases in just the first three weeks of the lockdown as they did during a three-month period in late 2019.
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The Big Brother host, 54, has been dropped from a popular podcast.
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Belgium: African Migrant Defrauds Elderly Woman of 20,000 Euros
Belgian police are asking for the public’s help in gathering information about an African migrant who defrauded an elderly woman of approximately 20,000 euros. He used the ill-gotten funds to gamble at a casino.
The woman, who is 70 and lives in Dilbeek, had ordered a new credit card from her bank which was to be delivered by post. The man, who is described as being of African origin, intercepted the envelope and then sent an e-mail to the woman, posing as a staff member from the bank. In this way he was able to obtain the woman’s PIN (personal identification number), according to a report by SCEPTR.
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Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski assured Polish citizens that the Law and Justice (PiS) government will oppose the relocation of illegal migrants to Poland and that this view was clear and “non-negotiable”.
“The Polish government will not accept mandatory illegal migrant relocations,” he said, according to TVP Info.
Kaminski pointed out that the government is taking these actions not due to “xenophobia” but rather “common sense”.
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Apple’s Siri is supporting the Black Lives Matter movement by providing users who say ‘All Lives Matter’ with a statement and a link to learn more about human rights initiative.
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Baptist Group, 2 Businesses Sue Illinois Over Law Forcing Them to Cover Abortions
A Baptist group and two local businesses on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois over a law that requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for abortion procedures.
The Illinois Baptist State Association; Southland Smiles, Ltd.; and Rock River Cartage, Inc. claim the Reproductive Health Act violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act due to the plaintiffs’ religious convictions.
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Cartoon Network Celebrates Pride Month With Videos of LGBT Kid Activists
Cartoon Network is celebrating the LGBT community’s Pride Month with social media advertising and videos featuring LGBT child activists.
The network is currently hosting a Pride campaign with videos centered on kids talking about LGBT issues, individuality, and inclusivity. Its website is also featuring a Pride Month playlist, with videos from “Steven Universe” and “Craig of the Creek.”
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Christianity Today Calls for Churches to Pay Reparations to Black People: “Repentance is Not Enough”
Christianity Today is calling on churches to “lead the way in biblical restitution” for racial sin, claiming that “repentance is not enough.”
In a new editorial published Wednesday, Christianity Today’s President and CEO Timothy Dalrymple labeled slavery one of America’s “original sins,” adding that the Christian church was “silent in the face of slavery or even complicit in it.”
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Court Dismisses Satanist Challenge to Abortion Law Over Informed Consent Booklet
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit from a member of the Satanic Temple over a Missouri abortion law that requires abortion clinics to give women booklets about their abortion and the conception of life.
“Judy Doe” claimed in the lawsuit — dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in a 3-0 decision on Tuesday — that a state law requiring abortion clinics to present women with a booklet that states life begins at conception violates her religious beliefs.
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Cringe Celebrity ‘I Take Responsibility’ Video Relentlessly Mocked
A host of Hollywood celebrities have once again come together to pretentiously lecture everyone else with a cringe video in which they declare they ‘take responsibility’ for a host of previous sins including ‘remaining silent’ and ‘turning a blind eye’ to ‘unfair stereotypes’ and ‘police brutality’.
The video, produced by leftist group Campaign Zero, features Aaron Paul, Kristen Bell, and Sarah Paulson, along with a host of other virtue signalling TV actors you’ve probably seen but don’t really know the names of.
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England and Wales See Record-Setting Year for Abortions
Abortions in England and Wales spiked dramatically last year, with a significant increase among those aged 30 to 34.
In what pro-life groups call “a national tragedy,” official data revealed that 207,384 abortion procedures were carried out in the country during 2019. That marks the highest number of yearly abortions since the act became legal in Britain in 1967.
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Facebook Employees Balk at the Idea of Internal Workplace Tool Blacklisting the Word “Unionize”
Facebook employees have been known for their pressuring of the company to support more censorship in recent times. But there’s at least one thing that employees don’t want to be censored: conversations about unionizing.
Facebook Workplace is a collaboration tool for companies that serves as an internal communication platform where employees of a company can communicate with one another and share a common feed.
What’s different about Facebook Workplace when compared to the general social media platform is the fact that Workplace allows organizations to set their rules and better customize the platform to suit their company policies. Based on the contents of an internal discussion in Facebook, it was found that the company was going to introduce features that will allow administrators to block certain topics and keywords among employees.
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Former Advisor to Steve Jobs Says Facebook is “Destroying the Very Fabric of Human Relationships”
A former advisor to Steve Jobs warns that Facebook is “destroying the very fabric of human relationships” by making its users become addicted to anger.
During a question and answer session at the 2020 CogX conference, Joanna Hoffman was asked about the cult of leadership within Silicon Valley.
“As I look at Facebook, for example, I keep thinking are they really that ignorant or is this motivated by something … darker than what appears?” she said.
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Trump Campaign Selling Baby Lives Matter Onesies
The campaign for President Trump is selling Baby Lives Matter onesies on its website.
The onesies, which are designed in the style of the Black Lives Matter movement logo, were first made available in January prior to the March for Life event in Washington, D.C.
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When YouTube introduced its controversial new “hate speech” and “harassment” rules last year, they quickly caused mass collateral damage on the platform with numerous creators having their content removed, their videos demonetized, and their accounts terminated.
Now more than a year after these new hate speech rules were introduced, YouTube has revealed that these controversial policies are still having a major impact and resulted in more than 100,000 videos and 100 million comments being taken down last quarter.
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I read this article.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/prominent-scientific-journal-accuses-science-of-racism/
How serious is the “scientific community” to address the “problem of diversity”?
In Russia and the Soviet Union, this has always been profanity and a fake sign. They, of course, invested in national personnel from Bantustan, but it was more like cultivating a “wedding general.”
They were caressed by the authorities, they were given awards, titles … but nothing more.
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The wedding general (Russian idiom) is a front man, invited only for representation, possessing imaginary authority and not playing any role in any business.
Elena: Thank you for sharing this link about the editorial in “Cell.” Academia has begun the inevitable process of devouring itself, starting with the purging of scientists guilty of objectivity and intellectual integrity.
“Seattle’s police chief said that her officers are unable to enter the BLM-controlled “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” and cannot respond to calls about rapes and violent crimes there.”
The above statement sums up the decay that is eating away at every Scandinavian or western country. Soros bends western countries to his whims, so does Iran, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. So do individuals and interest groups: Hillary and Huma, CAIR and Southern Poverty, Rachida and Ilhan, ANTIFA and others . . . Chaos is rampant in western “democracies” . Several executive branches direct things except the executive that should direct policies is paralyzed by the enemy within.
Dictators are bad. A nation fragmented with several freely competing powers is disastrous. A few groups, individuals with power neutralises the legitimate power.
But no one tried contending with the president and his ilk, who actually ruined America.
More enrichment.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BrettEverest/status/1271221952980619267
And some are calling for Gandhi statues to go too, I wonder if it’s Pakistanis.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-leicestershire-53025407
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/13/london-blm-supporters-mob-and-seriously-assault-people-suspected-of-being-far-right/
Multiple attacks on “far right hooligans” by BLM.
Pondering who will dominate in the upcoming depression. African BLMagic or European Brown Shirts. African racism is now a serious threat to itself.
African defense league threatens French statues.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/13/french-african-defence-league-threatens-statues-napoleon-de-gaulle/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-53033550
“ Churchill statue ‘may have to be put in museum’, says granddaughter”
I’m speechless.
Why is diversity deemed necessary only in
Europe?
Do Arab nations consider that they have to
Many Arabs?
Do African nations consider that they have to
Many Africans?
Does China consider it may appear to have to
Many Chinese?
Does Japan consider itself to be to Japanese?
Europeans are waking up to the biggest con
Trick in history – the hosts are being engulfed
By the visitors, aided and abetted by duplicitous
Politicians, globalist and Big business.
The useless Johnson full of bluster and little
Else. Not one statue should be defaced or
Removed in the face of this rabid mob!
Why is any young BLM activist given ANY
Publicity when she demands the removal
Of the iconic Churchill statue? No life
Experience, believing she has been oppressed,
Totally ignorant of our history.
This is a pivotal moment in the Union’s history,
Get this wrong and we will become a third world
Cesspit within a generation.
Don’t worry, the Saxon is beginning to hate, and then when unleashed, his fire and fury will be feared and those of his wrath will be horrified at his resolve. The enablers of the left who embrace this insanity will taste the cold steel of their stupidity. We are about to have a civilizational correction of epic proportions. Let it rain!
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Thank you for posting this!
I saw a great cartoon yesterday of Churchills statue in a great box. The voice bubble said “I can’t Breathe”
Part of England will have to be surrendered to a new self governing “bubble”.
In defence of liberalism: resisting a new era of intolerance
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-liberalism-resisting-a-new-era-of-intolerance
https://mobile.twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1271770051541110785
The radio read the demands of the comrades in the glorious people’s collective stain or CHAZ and it was hilarious.
It needs a remix with the Benny Hill music and trombone farts.
Trump should do nothing and let the comrades stew in their golden paradise.
Forward! Yes we can…be Zimbabwe.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1271797339267702787
https://mobile.twitter.com/DawkinsReturns/status/1271795686732959745
https://mobile.twitter.com/DVATW/status/1271798338699038720
Things are heating up again in London. Regardless of what happens, we all know how the media is going to cover it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Tony_McNally_/status/1271540495483916288
https://twitter.com/Aramisunchained/status/1271174017999831040
So they got to Napoleon’s wife.
I saw a great cartoon yesterday of Churchills statue in a great box. The voice bubble said “I can’t Breathe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-071aPTqQ