The New York city council has approved a proposal that would cut a billion dollars from the funding of the city’s police department. In somewhat related news, massive demonstrations in support of “Black Trans Lives Matter” took place in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
In other news, two migrants were rescued when they attempted to cross the English Channel from France to England in a canoe.
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Numbers Higher Than 2019 Due to Coronavirus
Art Van Furniture, Bar Louie and True Religion all sell different products, but they all have one thing in common: Each has gone bankrupt this year, as the coronavirus-induced recession that started in February flattens businesses large and small.
Recent data show 722 companies sought bankruptcy protection around the U.S. last month, a 48% increase from the year-ago period. Chapter 11 filings also jumped in April and March, as states started imposing business restrictions amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Decimated Small Businesses, But Big Tech is Booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis.
There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small businesses to massive conglomerates during the lockdowns. Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft all reporting record-high values of their stock (except Google, whose stock reached 5 percent below record high.)
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Donald’s Economy: Where it is Now and Where it is Heading
It didn’t take long for the President to figure out what was going on and the day Trump said “hydroxychloroquine” and Dr. Fauci said “Oh, no… untrustworthy drug” and the rest of the medical community disagreed with Fauci, that story began its downhill slide. Then we found out about the patents Fauci owned involving HIV (which is part of coronavirus) and the old rule about “follow the money” was proved true once again…
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This is Why We Are Facing a 6 Week Countdown to Immense Economic Despair…
Many of the emergency economic measures that were put into place to support the American people financially throughout this pandemic are about to disappear, and that means that big trouble is on the horizon. Right now, we are in the midst of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Economic activity has fallen dramatically, more than 100,000 businesses have permanently closed, and more than 44 million Americans have lost a job so far in 2020. But up to this point most Americans are not feeling too much economic pain thanks to unprecedented intervention by the federal government. Unfortunately, that short-term boost of artificial relief is about to wear off, and that is going to cause some major problems as we approach the end of this calendar year.
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“Slave Owner”: Thomas Jefferson Statue Torn Down, Defaced at Portland High School
A statue of Thomas Jefferson — the third US president, author of Declaration of Independence, who thought banks “are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies,” and whose portrait graced the doors of Bear Stearns during its historic implosion — was torn down Sunday night at a Portland, Oregon high school by a group of mostly white kids using ropes.
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“Trumptillas” Across Florida and Throughout the Country Celebrate the President’s Birthday
Florida waterways and highways were full of pro-Trump flotillas, caravans, and parades on Sunday as supporters took to land and sea to celebrate the president’s 74th birthday. Organizers arranged the events as part of Trump’s reelection campaign.
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18 Atlanta Cops Quit, LAPD Can’t Pay $40 Million Overtime as Police Morale Hits “Rock Bottom”
As protests against police brutality continue to rage across major US cities, cops across the country have reached their breaking point.
On Monday, the Atlanta Police Foundation some 19 Atlanta police officers have resigned amid the growing civil unrest. And according to Foundation CEO Dave Wilkinson, “Morale is at an all-time low.”
“We are now going into the third consecutive week of unabated protests in which officers have worked 12-hour shifts seven days per week. As you can imagine, their stress levels are exacerbated by physical and emotional exhaustion,” Wilkinson told CBS46.
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‘Anonymous’ Hackers Claim Responsibility for Crashing Atlanta Police Dept. Website
U.S. law enforcement under siege from many angles.
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Antifa ‘Autonomous Zones’ Springing Up Across Country as Dems Order Police to Stand Down
The globalists fear this network above all others — share this important link to bypass the censorship!
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Before They Tear Down America’s Founders’ Statues
It seems our society has gone toppling tipsy in wanting to tear down every statue that causes anyone offense. From a Texas Ranger in a Dallas airport to Christopher Columbus in multiple cities, dethroning statues is en vogue. Eyes are in fact fixated on toppling 1,700 across the U.S.
If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has her way, 11 statues of soldiers and statesmen of the Confederacy will face their last stand in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this is going: America’s founders’statues are next. Before they are toppled, I want to educate Americans on the real truths of those who secured our freedoms in the founding of our republic, which are not taught in the public classrooms of liberal academia.
First, if you didn’t read my last column, I want to encourage you to do so as I gave a solution to America’s divisions that is far more powerful than protests or even law and order, because it works from inside of us. It’s about reappraising the value of all human beings and returning to the reasons America’s founders established our republic.
I need to reiterate one thing I said in my last column in order to launch into what I need to say here: The value of human life has not always fluctuated from person to person like it does today. Most early Americans believed humans were the highest creation of God.
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Bill Gates’ Hand in COVID-19, Part 6
Our culture needs to be protected with everything we have. If we don’t protect it, we will never see this America again. “The side effect of treason is lead poisoning or rope burn, but not usually both,” joked one Big League Politics commenter in reference to Bill Gates. John the Baptist paved the way for Jesus,” wrote another. “Bill Gates is paving the way for the antichrist.”…
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Black Lives Matter Just a Slogan While Americans Miss the Bigger Picture
“By “defund the police,” the left means replacing the police with Sharia patrol, Black Panthers, La Raza and other anti-Christian, anti-white social justice enforcers…The police reform bill introduced by Democrat lawmakers this week empowers radical left-wing groups such as La Raza (The Race), a Communist brown supremacist group, to monitor police officers across the country.”
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CHAZ Occupier Suggests ‘Rounding Up All the White People’ Into Work Brigades
A post that appeared on the subreddit for the Seattle ‘CHAZ’ autonomous zone that has been taken over by left-wing extremists suggests rounding up all the white people and organizing them into forced work brigades.
That’s right. Some of the very same people protesting against racism and slavery want to enslave people based on their skin color.
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Learn the truth about BLM.
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Danger Coming, Know Your Rights and Know Your Sheriff
by Mary Tocco
I have five grown children, their spouses and now nine grandchildren. As a Christian, I cherish our country and my religious freedom. It grieves me to see what has happened to the last two generations of children and now I see the huge divide in society. We are running out of time to make something happen in an effort to regain some sanity.
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De Blasio Orders Gates Welded Shut at Jewish Park While Approving Mass BLM Gatherings
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered gates at a park in a Jewish area welded shut to keep people out despite simultaneously approving numerous mass gatherings of BLM protesters.
“Bill de Blasio is Welding the gates at the biggest park in the Jewish community, (Borough Park, Brooklyn) So your child shouldn’t try to break in,” tweeted Joel Fischer. “While Hundreds of thousands of people gathered yesterday at Brooklyn Museum.”
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The elite are turning to extreme measures as they lose control over the American people.
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Devin Nunes’ Attempt to Censor “Cow” Parody Account, Instead Gave it 700,000 More Followers
Congressman Devin Nunes has sued a number of media companies and other entities, including CNN and the Washington Post, for publishing articles he says damaged his reputation, and also Twitter, the home of several anonymous accounts who mock the former dairy farmer and Trump ally as “treasonous cowpoke.”
But this may not have been the best strategy, as one of the parody accounts he sued “Devin Nunes’ Cow” had only 1,000 followers before the lawsuit and now has more than 700,000 due to the attention it received during the lawsuit.
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eBay Executives Sent Bloody Pig Mask to Intimidate Critics, Feds Allege
(CNBC) — Federal prosecutors charged six former eBay employees with cyberstalking, alleging the defendants attempted to “stifle” a couple who published an online newsletter about e-commerce companies.
“Among other things, several of the defendants ordered anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home, including a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath, a book on surviving the loss of a spouse, and pornography — the last of these addressed to the newsletter’s publisher but sent to his neighbors’ homes,” the Department of Justice said Monday.
Defendants also posted on Craigslist that the couple were swingers and were looking for sexual partners, according to the Justice Department’s criminal complaint.
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Fifty-Four Scientists Have Lost Their Jobs as a Result of NIH Probe Into Foreign Ties
Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments. In 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution.
The new numbers come from Michael Lauer, NIH’s head of extramural research. Lauer had previously provided some information on the scope of NIH’s investigation, which had targeted 189 scientists at 87 institutions. But his presentation today to a senior advisory panel offered by far the most detailed breakout of an effort NIH launched in August 2018 that has roiled the U.S. biomedical community, and resulted in criminal charges against some prominent researchers, including Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s department of chemistry and chemical biology.
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Gallup Poll: U.S. National Pride Falls to Record Low
American pride has hit a record low, a continuation of the downward trend tracked by Gallup over two decades.
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House GOP Finds W.H.O Complicit in China Coronavirus Cover-Up, Calls for Removal of Director General
The House Foreign Affairs Committee allege in a new report that China violated the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak. The 50-page report also accuses of the W.H.O in being complicit in China’s cover-up and calls for the removal of W.H.O Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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Ilhan Omar on Defunding Minneapolis Police: ‘Can’t Reform’ Because it’s ‘Rotten to the Root’
Far-left congresswoman continues pushing radical Democrat agenda of lawlessness.
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Melinda Gates: After Health Care Workers, Vaccinate Black People Next
Well, at least they’re consistent.
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Middle School Social Studies Teacher Arrested for Vandalizing Christopher Columbus Statue
Three people were arrested for vandalizing a Christopher Columbus statue in Rhode Island on Saturday, including a middle school social studies teacher.
“Around 1:25 a.m., they saw a gray Honda Accord with Massachusetts plates driving in the area with its lights off and three people inside,” a Providence Police Department news release said. “After making a couple of passes, the car drove away, but a few minutes later, a man and a woman ran across Elmwood Avenue and, when they reached a fence protecting the statue, hurled unknown objects toward it.”
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Minneapolis Police Resigning in Unusually Large Numbers
Citing a lack of support from Democrat politicians leading their city and state, an increasing number of Minneapolis police officers are resigning in protest.
At least seven Minneapolis officers have officially resigned since protests over the death of George Floyd began and more than half a dozen are in the process of resigning, according to department officials.
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MLB Commissioner Says 2020 Baseball Season Will Likely be Canceled Amid Labor Dispute
Talk about a bitter irony. During an ESPN program entitled “the Return of Sports”, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Monday evening that the league is on the verge of scrapping the 2020 MLB season, a 180-degree reversal from his promise made last Wednesday that a season would “100%” happen, even if players had to perform in empty stadiums to TV-only audiences.
WSJ explains that an increasingly fraught labor dispute between the league, the owners and the player’s union has jeopardized an abbreviated 50-game season that had been set to start as soon as July 4th Weekend, getting a jump on other American sports. That jump could have maybe helped baseball recapture the interest of fans who have started to abandon the sport. Instead, the problem of how owners can profitably run a business without a critical pillar of revenue — ie ticket sales and sales of food, beverages and merchandise from live game attendfance — has reared its ugly head.
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Mon. 10:06 A.M.: Supreme Court Rejects Several Gun Rights Cases for Next Term
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court this morning passed up several challenges to federal and state gun control laws, over the dissent of two conservative justices.
Gun rights advocates had hoped the court would expand the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms” beyond the home.
Instead, the justices left in place restrictions on the right to carry weapons in public in Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey. They also declined to review Massachusetts’ ban on some semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity ammunition magazines, a California handgun control law and a half-century-old federal law banning interstate handgun sales.
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a dissent in the court’s denial of a New Jersey resident’s appeal seeking the right to carry a gun in public for self-defense. Rather than take on the constitutional issue, Thomas wrote, “the Court simply looks the other way.”
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New Bill Could Get Big Tech to Support Free Speech and Privacy or Lose Liability Protections
Senator Josh Hawley is reportedly working on a new bill that, if passed, could see social media companies losing their Section 230 liability protections if they 1) fail to support freedom of speech and 2) use data profiling of users to display targeted ads.
Social media sites use online activity and browsing history to display targeted ads and they’re a significant source of revenue for tech giants such as Facebook and Google.
That’s the price users pay for using the services for free.
The bill is likely to be the same one that we mentioned last week, but these added details about personalized ads is a new detail.
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New York City Council Backs Proposal to Cut $1 Billion From NYPD Budget
Declaring it to be a goal “that the time we are in calls for,” leaders of the New York City Council have issued a statement announcing their intent to cut $1 billion in funding from the 2021 New York Police Department budget.
“There is no doubt that this is an ambitious goal, but it is one that the time we are in calls for — both here in New York City and nationwide,” read the statement, posted on the council’s website.
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NBC News is NBC Newsing again.
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NYC Tells COVID Contact Tracers Not to Ask People if They Attended BLM Protests
New York City health authorities are telling COVID-19 tracers to not ask potential coronavirus carriers if they have attended a Black Lives Matter protest.
“The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio’s new “test and trace” campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who’s tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration,” reports The City.
“No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest,” said Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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NYPD Eliminates Entire Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit in ‘Seismic Cultural Shift’
If you want to be a criminal right now, NYC is the place.
After City Hall moved to strip $1 billion from the NYPD budget in the coming years, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced Monday afternoon what he described as “a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this city.” To wit, the largest police force in the country will eliminate its plainclothes anti-crime unit.
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Police Officers All Over America Are Quitting Their Jobs Because of the George Floyd Protests
The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted every day is rapidly disintegrating, and all that stands between us and complete anarchy is a very narrow blue line.
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Police Misconduct Claims Fall to 10-Year Low in New York City
Protesters, BLM advocates ignoring facts about U.S. policing.
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Police Officer Shot in the Head During BLM ‘Protest’ Is Paralyzed From the Neck Down
A police officer who was shot in the head during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Las Vegas is paralysed from the neck down, according to a statement released to police by his family.
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Poll: More People See Confederate Flag as Sign of Southern Pride Than Racist Symbol
A recent poll shows that nearly half of Americans consider the Confederate flag to be a symbol of Southern pride, compared to the little more than one-third who said it was a symbol of racism.
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Portland Rioters Rip Down Statue of Thomas Jefferson
Marxist radicals waging war on American history.
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Ron Paul: Is the ‘Second Wave’ Another Coronavirus Hoax?
It’s funny that they don’t dare mention Georgia, which has also opened its economy and has seen no “spike” at all.
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Ruminations of a Baby Boomer: Why Not Separate the Races in America?
Two weeks ago, Muslim students at San Francisco State University charged a student-run Republican voting table. They knocked it over and threatened to blow up the place. One Muslim woman vowed to become a bomber martyr. They did not respect our Republican form of government where each of us is afforded our rights to free speech.
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Black Lives Matter and Antifa burned down Minneapolis — if they didn’t burn it, they defaced it or stole it. The Useless mayor watched it happen, and now this Leftist mayor (Jacob Frey) wants Trump to bail his city out after these lawless hoodlums used George Floyd as an excuse to loot and burn. Protests yes — looting, burning, defacing, and attacking police, etc.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenges to Qualified Immunity, Only Clarence Thomas Dissents
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear eight separate cases involving “qualified immunity,” a doctrine that lets government officials avoid legal liability for violating someone’s constitutional rights, so long as those rights weren’t “clearly established.” By declining those cert petitions, the Supreme Court won’t reconsider lower court rulings that upheld qualified immunity to Idaho police who bombarded an innocent mom’s home with teargas grenades, Texas medical regulators who searched confidential patient records without a warrant, and a Georgia deputy who accidentally shot a 10-year-old boy while aiming at the family’s dog.
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A 14-year-old who admitted taking part in a robbery that led to the brutal stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors was hit with the maximum sentence of 18 months in custody Monday.
The 5-foot-5 defendant — nabbed a day after Majors’ murder — admitted participating in the robbery and picking up the murder weapon off the ground shortly before it was used in the horrifying murder.
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Things are going great in the Communist utopia of CHAZ.
- Rapes & violent crime skyrocketing.
- Everyone stealing from each other.
- Violent mob justice.
- Constant fights & bickering.
Media says it’s “peaceful” and “friendly”! Mayor says it’s a “summer of love”!
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“That is the message we need to send. We are serious. This is not a joke.”
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Tomlinson: Seattle’s CHAZ is Straight From the European Antifa Playbook
Antifa’s newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle is straight from the playbook of their European counterparts who have established anti-police no-go squatter areas in European cities for decades.
The tactic of declaring an area “autonomous” and outside of police and government authority is relatively new to the United States hard-left, but has a deep history among Antifa extremists in Europe and has led to pitched battles and scenes of massive violence when police have tried to enforce government authority in Antifa strongholds.
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Trump’s Birthday Marks RNC, Trump Campaign’s Single Best Online Fundraising Day Ever
EXCLUSIVE: The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign posted their largest online fundraising day ever on Sunday, bringing in $14 million across three entities on the president’s birthday — smashing their previous online fundraising record of $10 million on Oct. 19, 2016.
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Trump Campaign Slams ‘Sexist’ Stelter for CNN Rant at Legal Adviser
The Trump 2020 campaign slammed CNN blowhard Brian Stelter as a ‘sexist’ Sunday, following a car crash ‘interview’ with campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis during which Stelter blasted that her children and grandchildren would one day be ashamed of her.
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Trump Campaign Receives More Than 1M Ticket Requests for Tulsa Rally
Trump’s reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted Monday that the campaign has received more than 1 million ticket requests for the president’s first rally since the coronavirus lockdowns, which is scheduled to take place in Tulsa on Saturday.
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United Nations Openly Hijacks U.S. Police Departments
Democrat ‘Strong Cities Network’ initiative relinquishes U.S. control of law enforcement to global body.
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University Employee Loses Job Due to Killing a Black Teen as a Cop 26 Years Ago
(THE COLLEGE FIX) — The politically correct, Maoist-style cultural revolution rolls on across America as yet another college employee has fallen victim to “the mob.”
Peter Amico was let go from his job at New Jersey’s Rowan University on June 8 where he had served for ten years as director of the university’s emergency management office.
The reason? According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, twenty-six years ago as a police officer for the Glassboro Police Department, Amico shot and killed a (black) teenager who, according to the official report, had attacked him with a knife.
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Watch: Hilarious Music Video Mocks Contact Tracing & Globalist Spy Grid
Globalist proposals to track the movements of every human being were already in preparation before coronavirus pandemic.
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White America, Black America, The Set-Up, And the Con
The current riots are an operation designed to produce more top-down control in America.
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Black Lives Matter Invades Small Alberta Town, Can’t Explain Why — But Locals Push Back
On Saturday, hoards of Antifa and Black Lives Matter radicals descended on the small town of Innisfail to “re-educate” them out of their supposed racist ways.
Earlier this week, I spoke with minorities in town, and not one allegation of racism (much less racialized police brutality) could be found. By all accounts, the town is delightful and welcoming.
That isn’t going to cut it for BLM: They want to intimidate small town Alberta. It has nothing to do with racism — that is just their excuse, it has to do with their demographics. BLM and Antifa hate Innisfailers not because the town is racist, but because they are largely white. In Canada — that is not allowed. Diversity must be enforced. Militantly.
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Meghan and Harry Cost RCMP Over $50,000 Over Two Month Stay
Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation show the security costs for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry exceeded $50,000 during the two months the couple used Canada as a launching pad for their Hollywood aspirations.
According to the CTF, the Access to Information documents show the RCMP spent $56,384 between November 18, 2019, to January 19, 2020, providing a private security detail for the royal couple after they broke ranks with the monarchy and abandoned their official duties.
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“Offensive” Gravestones at UK Cemetery Covered Up With Wooden Pallets
The headstones of two music hall singers at a cemetery in the UK have been covered up with wooden pallets and trash bags to hide “offensive” language.
“The gravestones of G H Elliott and Alice Banford, who both wore blackface, are now covered at St Margaret’s Church in Rottingdean,” reports BBC News.
The Archdeacon for Brighton said efforts were underway to contact family members in order to have the inscriptions changed.
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Arsonists Attempt to Torch Rennes Cathedral in France
Unidentified arsonists placed a large trash bin against a side door of the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Rennes late last week and set the contents on fire, in an apparent attempt to torch the church.
Rennes firefighters arrived in time to put out the fire, which they believe to have been intentionally set since the bin was brought from an adjacent street and deliberately placed outside the door. The incident took place during the night from the 11th to 12th of June.
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Belgium: Algerian Who Stabbed and Left Woman for Dead Faces 13 Years in Prison
An Algerian migrant who is suspected of having stabbed a 48-year-old Belgian woman multiple times with a kitchen knife in her own home is now facing 13 years in prison.
The incident, which took place on December 14th, 2019 in Knokke-Heist in West Flanders, saw the Algerian perpetrator break into the woman’s home when she was out. The perpetrator then waited until the victim arrived back at her home before grabbing her, knocking her to the ground, and then stabbing repeatedly with a large kitchen knife, Het Nieuwsblad reports.
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BLM-Branded ‘Kill a White on Sight’ Posters Found in Scotland
The racist posters were found plastered on a pavilion in Baxter Park in Dundee by a dogwalker, who said there “has been a lot of signs [in the area recently] but nothing this bad”.
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Coronavirus: France Announces Significant Lifting of Restrictions
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a number of coronavirus restrictions are being lifted.
Cafes and restaurants are reopening across France and travel to other European countries will be allowed.
People will also be able to visit family members in retirement homes, which have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 outbreak.
Germany, Belgium, Croatia and Switzerland are fully reopening borders with EU countries on Monday.
Travellers from the UK will be able to visit these four countries without quarantine or restrictions upon arrival, though they still face mandatory quarantine on return to the UK.
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EU Threatens to Blackmail Illiberal Countries’ Budgets
Manfred Weber, the Leader of the European People’s Party (EPP), discussed the European Union’s plan to blackmail member states that don’t toe the bloc’s line on issues like migration, such as Hungary and Poland. This will be done by making their share of the EU’s budget contingent on how well they meet the bloc’s vague “rule of law” standards, Weber says, especially now that many countries have been hit hard by the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.
Weber, who leads the European Parliament’s largest party, made the remarks in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung last week.
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Hungary, Croatia Bust Major Darknet Drug Network
In a joint operation, Hungarian and Croatian police took into custody ten members of a criminal group that distributed online designer drugs and made an estimated 400 million forint (€1.15 million) in illicit profits over the past two years, Hungarian police announced on its website.
Police said that in a coordinated raid on June 11, the two countries’ police forces took into custody seven people in Hungary, including a 36-year-old man only identified as Vilmos Z. (Hungarian law does not allow the release of full names before conviction) and six of his accomplices in the country, while three other members of the group were apprehended in Croatia and an extradition procedure for the three is underway.
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Italy: Di Maio Calls for Common EU Rules on Tourist Flows
Greece to lift travel restrictions on Italians by end of June
(ANSA) — Rome, June 9 — Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on a visit to Athens Tuesday called for common EU rules on tourist flows.
“We need uniform rules and criteria for mobility”, he said at a press conference with Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.
These were required, he said, so as “not to break up the tourism market”.
Dendias said he had been satisfied with Di Maio’s update on Italy’s good COVID epidemic stats and that Greece would gradually lift all restrictions on Italian tourists starting on Monday and ending at the end of June.
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Italy: M5S Denies Venezuela Funding Report
Venezuelan embassy rejects story in Spain’s ABC too
(ANSA) — Rome, June 15 — The 5-Star Movement (M5S) on Monday denied a report in Spanish daily ABC that it took funding from Venezuela in 2010.
Sources at the Venezuelan embassy in Rome also dismissed the report as “false and absurd” adding that the Venezuelan authorities would take legal action.
The sources said that the movement was “totally unknown in Venezuela” in 2010.
The M5S was founded in 2009.
According to the report, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who at the time was foreign minister under Hugo Chávez, sent 3.5 million euros to the late Gianroberto Casaleggio, who co-founded the M5S with comedian-cum-politician Beppe Grillo, via the country’s consulate in Milan. The embassy sources said that was implausible because, at the time, the Venezuelan Consul to Milan had only just taken up the post.
M5S political leader Vito Crimi said the story was “ridiculous fake news” adding that “we’ll consider taking legal action”.
Casaleggio’s son Davide said “I will not allow the name of my father to be covered in mud.
“He founded the M5S in a transparent way and never had public funding”. The M5S Senators said the report was a “dirty political operation”.
The report is set to cause further tension for the M5S after a clash at the weekend between Grillo, who has now taken a backseat, and M5S bigwig Alessandro Di Battista.
The M5S has performed badly in local and regional elections since winning over 32% of the vote in the 2018 general election after which it supported two coalition governments led by Premier Giuseppe Conte — the first an alliance with the rightwing Northern League and since last year the current coalition featuring the centre left Democratic Party (PD) and other smaller groups. The M5S’s support has shrunk to well below 20%, according to opinion polls, and, in the light of this, on Sunday Di Battista proposed that the movement should hold a “constituent assembly”.
Grillo dismissed that idea, saying it came from people with a sense of timing like a character from the film Groundhog Day.
The row has led to speculation that the M5S could split.
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UK Police Officers Told to ‘Take a Knee’ For BLM Protesters
Police officers in the UK have been advised by their superiors to ‘take a knee’ in front of Black Lives Matter protesters and warned there’ll be drawbacks if they refused to do so.
Yes, really.
Following footage of officers doing precisely that at numerous BLM protests around the country, it has been confirmed that the suggestion came from above.
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UK: Activist Asked if Churchill’s Statue Should be Removed, Says ‘I Haven’t Personally Met Him’
Chair of Lambeth Independent Police Advisory Group and community activist Lorraine Jones said she wasn’t sure if the statue of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill should be removed because she hasn’t ‘personally met him.’
Lorraine Jones appeared on Channel 4 News yesterday to speak with presenter Cathy Newman about the recent protests and counter-protests across London.
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UK: Boris Talks Tough: Will Threaten WTO Exit Unless EU Agrees Deal by Autumn
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell the European Union that the UK will pull out of negotiations and prepare to deal with the bloc on World Trade Organization (WTO) terms unless Brussels backs a free trade agreement by the autumn.
Mr Johnson is set to hold high-level meetings with Brussels leaders on Monday — speaking with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President David Sassoli, and European Council President Charles Michel — to demand “renewed energy and commitment” in talks which have so far resulted in a deadlock.
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UK: Farage to Breitbart: ‘I Have Never Seen So Many People Scared to Say What They Think’
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has spoken to Breitbart about the “Marxist, Anarchic” threat to free speech and free thought in the United Kingdom, saying that fear is “dominating absolutely everything”.
Mr Farage made the remarks to Alex Marlow on the Breitbart News Daily Show on Sirius XM Patriot on Monday, when he was asked about his recent break with Global Radio’s LBC, where until last week he had a daily political talk show.
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English Heritage will review all 950 of the blue plaques it maintains across London for “problematic connotations”.
The body maintains London’s ‘blue plaques’ on the exterior of buildings were famous and historical figures have lived or worked. The scheme was started in 1866 and is believed to be the oldest of its kind in the world.
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UK: Patriots, Passersby Assaulted by “Anti-Racist” Thugs After Demonstration (Video)
Patriots who assembled in London on Saturday to protect historical landmarks were assaulted by “anti-racist” thugs as they attempted to peacefully leave the area. Some were severely injured. Some passersby who were said to not even be involved in the demonstration were violently attacked by rioters as well.
Thousands of British patriots, who had received official permission for their demonstration, assembled on Saturday to protect historical landmarks from suffering the same fate as the statue of Edward Colston that was destroyed by rioters in Bristol earlier in the week while police stood by and did nothing. Football fans, war veterans, and some conservative groups such as Britain First joined in the effort.
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USAF Pilot Missing After F-15C Crashes Into Ocean Off British Coast
A search and rescue operation is underway in the North Sea, off the north-east coast of England after U.S. jet fighter crashed on Monday morning during a routine training mission, its pilot reported missing.
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VoE Needs Your Support Now More Than Ever!
Europe is currently undergoing a time of unprecedented change. The very existence of Europe as it has been known for thousands of years is now in doubt. We at Voice of Europe work seven days a week, 365 days a year to bring you the news stories that mainstream outlets overlook or downplay so that you can get a clearer picture of what’s really happening in Europe today.
There are very powerful forces that don’t want these stories to get out, however. They want to control the narrative to suit their own ends. Voice of Europe has been experiencing this first-hand. Since the most recent “protest” violence in Europe’s cities broke out, we’ve seen traffic to our site suddenly drop dramatically. Our only explanation for this is that we have been shadowbanned by social media sites, meaning that our posts are being deemphasized so that they don’t appear as often in users’ feeds.
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Military General Proposes Erecting Bridge Between Sicily and Tunisia
ROME — The controversial Sicilian General Antonio Pappalardo has proposed building a bridge spanning the Strait of Sicily to join the Italian island to north Africa.
The 73-year-old former brigadier general suggested at a rally of antiestablishment Orange Vests this weekend the bridge could begin in the Sicilian town of Mazara and stretch across to Tunisia, a distance of some 150 kilometers (94 miles).
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Leaked Document Reveals Secret Turkish Plan to Invade Greece
A leaked high-level Turkish military document has revealed the existence of secret Turkish plans to invade Greece and Armenia. The plan for an invasion of Greece is particularly baffling considering that both countries are members of the NATO alliance, and allegedly allies, but unsurprising given an escalation in Turkey’s provocative moves against its European neighbor recently.
The documents were revealed and republished in a report by Nordic Monitor.
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Chinese Activists Detained for Archiving Censored Coronavirus Articles to be Tried as Criminals
While the coronavirus news first broke out in China, the country tried its best to suppress the news from reaching the world. In the early days of saga, the country tried suppressing the news from reaching international waters. Two Chinese activists, Chen Mei and Cai Wei, however, shared censored material that showed the early days of coronavirus in China.
The two activists were taken into custody by Chinese law enforcement authorities and are now facing criminal charges. They were initially arrested in April for publishing articles on GitHub that were originally banned in China.
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Report: Wuhan Lab Took Delivery of World’s Deadliest Viruses’ Months Prior to Coronavirus Outbreak
A report out of Canada confirms that the Wuhan Institute of Virology took a shipment of some of the world’s deadliest pathogens just weeks before the outbreak of the coronavirus.
With speculation still rife that the lab was responsible for the current pandemic, the report has prompted more concerns.
CBC News reports that newly-released documents show that a shipment from the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Canada, was sent to the Wuhan Institute in early 2019.
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Sex Organs Reveal New Jumping Spider Species in the Philippines
MANILA — It took a closer look at the male jumping spiders’ reproductive organ — the shape of it, to be precise — for two Filipino scientists to declare three new species in the Philippines.
The father-and-daughter team of Alberto Barrion, an entomologist, and Aimee Lynn Barrion-Dupo, an arachnologist, described the three new species from the main island of Luzon and published their findings in the Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology.
The new species belong to the genus Lepidemathis; before the publication of their paper, there were only four known species from the genus, all of them found only in the Philippines. Though these spiders are common in agricultural and natural ecosystems, only a few people study them, researchers say.
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Lessons telling students as young as eight to study climate activist Greta Thunberg and spread her message have been found on the NSW Education Department website.
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Incredible photos taken just eight months apart show how a drought-stricken farm in central NSW has been transformed into an unrecognisable sea of green.
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Frontex: Illegal Migration Into Europe Increased Dramatically in May
Following the brief lull in illegal migration into Europe that was seen in March and April as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the number of migrants illegally entering Europe has risen dramatically once again.
In the month of May, authorities recorded some 4,300 illegal border crossings on Europe’s main migration routes, nearly three times as many as were recorded in the previous month, reports the Funke Media group, citing the Frontex — the EU border protection agency.
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Dozens more migrants have today been picked up crossing the English Channel in five boats — taking the total to arrive this year past a record 2,000.
Around 70 refugees were taken into the Port of Dover in Kent this morning following a rescue mission involving the Border Force vessels Hunter and Seeker.
Two migrants, intercepted by the HMC Speedwell, had attempted to make the dangerous crossing from France in a fibreglass canoe.
[Comment: Article dated June 15, 2020.]
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A group of neighbours in Spain got together to physically and verbally confront a flat of young migrants in hopes of expelling them from the apartment and out of town. THIS incident quickly became tense when more than a dozen neighbours in Premia de Mar, Barcelona, went to a flat full of young migrants and physically tried to get them out.
The Mossos d’Esquadra were alerted of a fight in the Avenida Luis Companys which involved stone-throwing and tried to intervene.
The Mossos confirmed that the group of neighbours had managed to enter the flat and cause significant damage, however, the police presence did little to intimidate the neighbours who were rallied up.
All this commotion led to various clashes between the group of assailants and the police, as five officers were left injured.
This chaotic confrontation calmed down at around 1.30am.
The Mossos helped move the three young occupants from the assaulted flat to another location, although no arrests were made, the police have opened an investigation in order to identify the attackers.
According to local sources, this group of neighbours considered themselves to be a sort of vigilante watch group in the area. Their intention was to hold the migrants accountable for the increase of robberies and assaults on the elderly in the area.
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Alito: Court’s ‘Preposterous’ Trans Ruling Threatens Religion, Speech, Privacy, And Safety
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County (2020). In a powerful dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito condemned the ruling as “preposterous” and betraying “breathtaking” arrogance. He noted that Congress has tried and repeatedly failed to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in just this fashion and that no one interpreted the law this way until 2017. In this decision, as in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the Supreme Court usurped the power of Congress by creating “legislation.”
Perhaps most importantly, however, Alito warns that the decision will have wide-ranging destructive impacts on key freedoms Americans hold dear, and he predicts that “the entire Federal Judiciary will be mired for years in disputes about the reach of the Court’s reasoning.”
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Don’t Just Blindly Trust! Verify!
Don’t just blindly swallow what the media is feeding you; because they’re experts at deception. That’s their job. Learn to discern — take the time to stop and think, ask questions, pay attention to the “man behind the curtain,” and dig for the truth on your own. My advice: DON’T just TRUST. Verify…
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During Massive Protests, Two Pro-Life Women Arrested for Violating Social Distancing in NYC
Two pro-life women have been arrested in New York City (NYC) for violating social distancing guidelines while protesting abortion on a public sidewalk.
Pro-life advocates Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes were arrested on May 30 outside of Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood Center in Manhattan for allegedly violating NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s social distancing guidelines, according to Fox News.
“This is a clear statement of their bias now. It’s blatant now,” Beatty told Fox News. “It’s really truly biased against Christians, against pro-life abolitionists.”
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Facebook Censors, Threatens Disrn for Sharing W.H.O. Official’s Exact Words
Facebook censored a news post from Disrn on Monday and threatened us with having our “overall distribution reduced,” our “ability to monetize and advertise removed,” and our “ability to register as a news Page removed.”
The post flagged by Facebook linked to this Disrn story reporting the words of a World Health Organization official, who said on June 8 that asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus was “very rare.” Almost all mainstream news outlets reported this story on June 8, and so did Disrn.
The next day, W.H.O. walked back the comments, and Disrn reported the retraction on that very same day.
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Nickelodeon Celebrates Pride Month by Revealing Spongebob Squarepants as Gay
In celebration of LGBT Pride Month, the cable network Nickelodeon seemed to suggest in a tweet that one of its most beloved children’s cartoon characters, SpongeBob SquarePants, is gay.
Before his death in 2018, the show’s creator Stephen Hillenburg had been asked often about SpongeBob’s sexuality. He claimed the sea sponge working as a fry cook for the Krusty Krab restaurant was asexual, indicating that sexuality was not part of the cartoon’s storyline.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “The Murder of Black Trans Women is an Epidemic”
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday claimed that “the murder of black trans women is an epidemic” and that “too many black LGBT Americans” experience “poverty and violence” every day.
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Supreme Court Redefines ‘Sex’ In Federal Law in Orwellian Ruling
Redefining ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender identity’ will create chaos
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Thousands Gather in New York City, Chicago, L.A. For “Black Trans” Protests
Massive crowds packed the streets of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago on Sunday to join demonstrations in support of the Black Trans Lives Matter movement.
Thousands of people gathered at the courtyard of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City around 1 p.m. to listen to speeches about human rights for black transgender lives before marching their way north of the city.
In Chicago, thousands of protesters marched along Halstead Street in Boystown, a predominantly LGBT region of Lake View, during the city’s “Drag March for Change.”
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US Supreme Court Backs Protection for LGBT Workers
The top court in the US has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country’s civil rights laws.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The ruling is a major win for LGBT workers and their allies.
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YouTube is Automatically Deleting Any Comments About “Black Lives Matter Violence”
In recent times, it’s been discovered that YouTube has automatic filters in place to auto-delete certain phrases and now it has been shown that YouTube is automatically censoring comments that link Black Lives Matter to violence.
At the time of writing, when commenting on a YouTube video, using the phrase “Black Lives Matter violence” will have your comment automatically deleted.
We first received reports from two YouTube users who were trying to comment on a news video that was talking about peaceful protesting. The users wanted to leave a comment to say that there were several incidences of Black Lives Matter protests that had descended into violence. However, after leaving their comment and checking back on it later, they found that it had disappeared.
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“Military General Proposes Erecting Bridge Between Sicily and Tunisia”
“Leaked Document Reveals Secret Turkish Plan to Invade Greece”
A former Maoist friend predicts that the dominant force in Europe this century will be… Turkey. He may be wrong but to be fair, on the present demographic trajectory, the Muslim Brotherhood will have its stranglehold before the century is out.
Not that it’s likely to be built, but a bridge would be easier to defend than the open sea.
This goes to show that maoist ideology can destroy gray matter if ever there was. Turkey in Europe? Gimme a break.Turks can only rule by brute force and this is not working out with nowaday Europeans, particularly not those having experience with osmanic rule. Turks are bigmouthed good- for- nothings, they drive taxis an buses, but can hardly run complex systems. look whom they voted for president.
VoE has no news on youtube since more than a year and have only 6.11k followers . Why are they moaning in the article if they offer no news anymore.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/france-army-deployed-to-dijon-to-quell-ethnic-violence-between-chechens-and-arabs-video/
France.
https://twitter.com/TomlinsonCJ/status/1272909660417339393
To war.
https://twitter.com/TomlinsonCJ/status/1272949285634662401
The $56,000 CDN paid out by the RCMP for private security for Harry and Meghan does NOT include the regular RCMP salaries. This amount is for the extra costs, over and above salaries, if I’m reading the report correctly. The true total would likely be in the hundreds of thousands.
Justin Trudeau’s government is on record telling a wounded Canadian soldier, an Afghan military veteran, who questioned him about improving payments to Canada’s vets, that that wasn’t going to happen because “they are asking for more than we can give.” But the government paid the RCMP to protect these pampered Royals at their secluded Vancouver Island seaside mansion—no problem being able to find funds for this, apparently.
Don’t worry, they also had money for Omar Khadr.
Let’s not kid ourselves. The Trudeau gov’t works for the other side. They only do the strict minimum to keep their most rabid “normal” supporters from realizing how bad they are.
A similar outfit is the United Church of Canada. It’s basically an outlet of wokeness / Communist Party, losing membership due to revulsion and old age, pretty much. They still pretend to run a church, presumably as a way not to get cut out of the wills of these people, but it’s very much a gong show to advance their real atheist and immoral purposes. But make no mistake, it’s no longer a church. I can tell, I’m not even Christian!
The Canadian government wasn’t required to pay Khadr nor for the Royals’ security. They were both choices, whereas money to help our military vets just isn’t seen as important. One’s priorities are revealing.
As for the United Church of Canada, yes, it’s changed drastically over the years. Please don’t get me started . . .
I know about the United Church of Canada. A pastor named Ken Arnett exposed the church for murdering First Nations Children at an orphanage. The Catholic church was also guilty. A nun in THEIR orphanage kicked an innocent First Nations child down the stairs and threw him out the window of a second floor building. Of course, that child died of a broken neck. The two churches destroyed Arnetts marriage and threatened his life and covered up the crime and First Nations are still suffering because a mass grave was dug and bodies of innocent children were tossed in like garbage.
Some United Churches are offering sex-ed in Sunday school. Of course, one of the first lessons explains all the many different genders and couplings. Why do they do this?
“Largely Peaceful”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HBAw3bB2ck
This new religion should work out well for the FUSA. The magic soil will preserve first world status with a third world population and the plandemic fraud has made people oblivious to smoking fiat printing presses churning out the Weimar Wheelbarrow goodness.
The reparations won’t be worth as much due to the shrinking dollar and that is just so…wayciss!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpm4m3ELhvo&feature=emb_logo
Horror, of course. But for Hollywood it would do.
Sorry, I’m an unbeliever and I don’t understand how all this mysticism works (I have something atrophied). Here they are building some kind of huge temple. Do they think that the Deity will settle there like a starling in a birdhouse?
Can you imagine WHICH deity will live there?
Moloch, no less
Some United Churches are offering sex-ed in Sunday school. Of course, one of the first lessons explains all the many different genders and couplings. Why do they do this?