The future Baron is here for a visit, and I didn’t have time to do anything but the news feed tonight.
There are so many stories about Black Lives Matter protests, defunding the police, and the pulling down of statues that I can’t begin to summarize them. I also recommend looking at the articles about migrants arriving in Greece, who apparently are being escorted there by the Turkish coast guard.
To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.
Thanks to AF, Fjordman, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
MSM Silence: Elitists Gather in Swiss Town to Finalize Our Enslavement, “the Great Reset, “ & NWO
Make no mistake, this will be absolute tyranny on a global scale. The mainstream media is silent as the elitists who want power over every human on Earth plan to meet in a Swiss town to discuss “ the Great Reset,” a push to a one-world currency — one in which they have ultimate control.
The plan is to make sure a “ post-COVID” world is built the way they want it. Slavery and totalitarian control. If you haven’ t figured out now that the system was put there to protect them, not you, line up for the Bill Gates sponsored vaccine. Things are going to get much uglier, and quick. The objective of this meeting is the “ rebuilding” of the world’ s economic and social system in order to make it more “ sustainable.”
It sounds good, right? But, by more sustainable, they mean more enslaveable.
“Nothing will ever be the same again.” It was the mantra that we heard in many countries at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It came with a warning that a “new normal” would replace the existing order. Easy travel, interpersonal relations, large gatherings, even things like shaking hands would have to give way to long-term social distancing, drastic rules, and surveillance. But these changes on the personal level are only a part of the picture. The World Economic Forum, together with Prince Charles of England and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has launched an initiative revealingly dubbed “The Great Reset,” with the objective of “rebuilding” the world’s economic and social system in order to make it more “sustainable.” — Life Site News
The Great Reset Is Here: Prepare For The NWO & Enslavement
If you cannot be bothered to understand that the best way to protect yourself is to remove yourself from the system of slavery that was already set up, that they are desperately trying to keep you in, then you’ re going to likely get caught up in this mess.
The idea of a “ Great Reset” has received the full support of the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, former president of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. Is anyone surprised? The reset has been planned for a long time:
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Progressive Tax States Lose People, Income to Flat and Zero Income Tax States
Submitted by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org
Flat and no-income tax states, as a group, are beating out progressive tax states in the contest for people and their incomes, according to the last decade of IRS migration data analyzed by Wirepoints.
The nation’s seventeen flat and no income tax states won a net 1.9 million residents and $120 billion in Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) from progressive tax states during the 2000-2018 period. That’s nearly a 4 percent AGI gain for the flat and no income tax states, based on their 2010 base of $3.3 trillion in AGI. A table with the individual winners and losers over the time period is provided below.
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Retail Sales in May Surge 17.7%, Shattering Previous Record
Following the easing of coronavirus lockdowns across the country, U.S. retail numbers from May show a surge of 17.7%. That jump, which more than doubled the 8% increase experts had predicted, set the record for the largest single month jump in history.
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28 Coronavirus Cases Tied to WV Church
In West Virginia, 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been linked to a single church, officials announced Monday.
Graystone Baptist Church in Greenbrier County is at the center of the outbreak, which initially was reported to involve only 17 infected people.
The state’s Department of Health and Human Resources also has said four other churches saw outbreaks over the weekend of June 13-14, local news outlet WCHS reported.
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2nd Man Charged in the Murder of Retired Police Captain David Dorn
A second man has been charged with the murder of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner announced. Dorn was killed earlier this month during riots.
Mark Jackson, 22, now faces second-degree murder charges as well as three counts of armed criminal action, robbery, and burglary.
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AG Barr Orders Execution Dates of 4 Convicted Child Murderers, 1st Executions Since 2003
Attorney General William Barr on Monday ordered the executions of four federal inmates convicted of murdering and, in two cases, raping children.
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Air Force Captain Becomes 1st Woman to Fly Stealth Bomber in Combat
Emily Thompson, a U.S. Air Force F-35A pilot, has become the first woman to fly the stealth bomber in combat, the U.S. Air Force announced.
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American Countdown: Media & Left Push for Full Regime Change Through Chaos
Constitutional lawyer Robert Barnes breaks down the Democrats’ massive insurrection effort against Trump.
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As CHOP Tensions Grow, Seattle Bans Police Use of Tear Gas, Crowd-Control Weapons
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), or the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), an area occupied by protesters and is also known as a self-declared autonomous zone, based in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, is breathing a sigh of relief early this week as the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to ban police from using chokeholds, tear gas, pepper spray, and other crowd-control weapons, reported King-5 News.
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Authors: Antifa Rioters Are the Tech Economy’s College Discards
They are failing because the investor class is pushing them and their college peers out of good jobs to make room for an imported workforce of cheap and compliant visa workers.
This means Antifa people are now going through the same outsourcing pain and poverty that was imposed on the American working class by the elite’s imposition of mass migration and free trade deals with Mexico and China.
Antifas college graduates are being hit hard by the little-mentioned population of roughly 1.3 million visa workers.
The visa workers are imported into the U.S. for a variety of tasks. Many are imported for on-the-job training so they can export their jobs to India, where they can be paid at India’s pay levels. But many also are put into the jobs at the Fortune 500 companies that would otherwise carry many young Antifa people up into middle class prosperity.
CEOs, vice-presidents, hiring managers, and investors want to hire many visa workers because they are compliant and helpless.
They are compliant because they were already powerless in their own Indian or Chinese culture. But they are also impotent because they know they can be easily thrown out of the United States and back to India or China, with a signature from any of their managers and executives.
Their powerlessness means they cannot argue with bosses, unlike American professionals. They cannot quit for different employers, as is the norm Among American graduates. They cannot quit to invent a rival product that grabs market share from their former employers, as millions of American graduates hope to do.
Congress created this powerless and growing workforce at the request of Silicon Valley’s tech companies and the Fortune 500.
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One reason for the mounting ignorance, though, is that the Obama administration stopped reporting the standard breakouts on homicides by race once the Ferguson brouhaha got going, and then the feckless Trump administration failed to pick up the ball.
Still, the 2011 report by the Obama administration’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980—2008, is enlightening:
Blacks were disproportionately represented as both homicide victims and offenders…. The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).
From 1980 to 2008, blacks were 7.6 times as likely to be homicide offenders as whites, which, remarkably, is almost as large a ratio as males to females (8.9 times). Comprising only about 13 percent of the U.S. population, African-Americans accounted for 52.5 percent of homicide offenders.
These are shocking statistics, some of the most extraordinary gaps in all the social sciences.
And they might even be understating the true black-white ratio because the federal statistics lump most Hispanics in with whites. Moreover, murderers are tracked down less often in black cities than in white suburbs because, as they say, snitches get stitches: For example, about a dozen witnesses were murdered per year in South Central Los Angeles in the early 2000s.
A 2011 Penn State study estimated the true black-to-white homicide ratio to be 11.7 to 1.
Yet virtually nobody has mentioned this reality in the mainstream media in weeks or perhaps years.
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Big Tech Donated to the Wrong “Black Lives Matter”
Big Tech is involved in all sorts of grand gesturing these days, such as removing words like “master,” “whitelist,” “blacklist” and the like from their code and products; this is their way of responding to political and societal upheaval in the US after the death of George Floyd.
But even those who decided to put their money where their mouth is seem to have narrowly avoided putting it in the wrong, or at least, the unintended place, a report suggests.
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Boston May Remove Emancipation Memorial Featuring Lincoln and Freed Slave
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has announced his support of a petition to remove a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., that currently stands in the city’s Park Square. The statue features former President Abraham Lincoln with his arm raised over the top of a kneeling black man whose wrist shackles have been broken.
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In a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, the Boy Scouts of America is requiring scouts to earn a “diversity and inclusion” merit badge in order to become an Eagle Scout, the organization announced Monday.
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A group of celebrities, including Chelsea Handler, Jessica Chastain, and Jameela Jamil, recently shared a video clip from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who is widely known for his anti-Semitic beliefs.
Handler posted the clip to her 3.9 million Instagram followers with the caption, “I learned a lot from watching this powerful video.”
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The Chicago Sun-Times announced Monday that its journalists will begin capitalizing the letter “b” in “black” but will continue to lower case the “w” in “white.”
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CNN has compiled a list of “unforgivable” statues and place names, leading some to accuse the network of inciting the mob to tear them down.
Since the riots in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, numerous statues and monuments across the country have been defaced and torn down.
In one case, a statue fell on top of a protester in Portsmouth, Virginia, leaving him in a coma and in Albuquerque yesterday, a mob tearing down a statue turned on and attacked an armed man, leading to a protester being shot as the man tried to defend himself from a vicious attack.
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Do Black Feelings Matter Too Much?
The narrative has been mangled far beyond any resemblance to reality. They have diligently sculpted a rock-hard Social Gospel that preemptively rules out every possible explanation for black failure besides “racism.”
We hear that blacks built this country. I didn’t realize you were able to build the world’s sole superpower merely by picking cotton. If that’s the case, one is forced to wonder why they aren’t creating any cotton-pickin’ superpowers in sub-Saharan Africa.
We hear about the nine or so annual killings of unarmed black people by police, but never about the 5,000-8,000 annual black-on-black murders.
We hear about how blacks are supposedly “kept down” here, but never about the fact that on average, black Americans live 15 years longer than black people in Africa and make $15,000 more per year.
We hear about how the system exploits blacks. Funny, but all the stats I’ve seen suggest that they take far more from the public till than they contribute to it. Over half of black households pay no taxes at all, so exactly who’s the exploiter here?
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Elected Officials Cut Chains on Shuttered City Playgrounds, Defying Mayor’s Order
Defying New York City’s orders, local leaders in Midwood, Brooklyn, used a power tool Tuesday to break a chain-link lock to open Kolbert Playground.
It had been closed, like all city playgrounds, since April because of safety concerns due to the coronavirus, but after it was forcibly reopened, children were soon swinging, sliding, and playing there.
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Gallup Poll Finds That Only a Quarter of Democrats Are ‘Extremely Proud’ To be American
A Gallup poll has indicated that fewer Americans than ever are proud of their country, and that only a quarter of all Democrats find a lot of pride in being American.
The survey, found that 67% of Republicans are ‘extremely proud’ of their country compared to just 24% of Democrats.
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Google Bans Two Websites From Its Ad Platform Over Protest Articles
Google has banned two far-right websites from its advertising platform after research revealed the tech giant was profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.
The two sites, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, will no longer be able to generate revenue from any advertisements served by Google Ads.
A Google spokesperson said in an email that it took action after determining the websites violated its policies on content related to race.
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As you may have read on NBC, Google has decided to suspend ad hosting on the “far-right” Zero Hedge (which apparently can be anything from “batshit insane Austrian school blog” to Russian propaganda or framed in any other way that serves the agenda of those who disagree with our views — which apparently these days is a lot of people) along with The Federalist, a decision that would have a materially adverse impact for both websites. The reason presented to us for this decision is far more mundane than what has been disclosed by NBC: we are currently appealing it, and expect to remedy it.
That said, we were surprised by the framing of the suspension by the NBC article, which disturbingly appears to be another attempt at activist targeting of inconvenient media outlets, especially since the core argument presented by the NBC employee is different than what Google actually has said. In fact, half the NBC article just happens to be dead wrong.
It is also notable, the two articles that are referenced in the NBC article — which in turn is based on a complaint by some self-appointed arbiter of free speech, the UK-based liberal Center for Countering Digital Hate — were not ours, but were contributor op-eds by third parties (here and here) one of which is from 2016. Do we now live in a time when ad platforms will suspend, say, the New York Times for publishing highly controversial Op-Eds?
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Google Threatens to Strip Revenue From the Federalist After NBC News Complaint
Amid the coronavirus, there were many examples of mainstream media outlets getting content from independent and alternative media competitors taken down by flagging their content to the Big Tech platforms for alleged violations of their coronavirus misinformation policies.
Now these mainstream media outlets are starting to go after independent and alternative media over Black Lives Matter content.
NBC News journalist Adele-Momoko Fraser initially claimed (archive link) in an article that independent news outlets Zero Hedge and The Federalist had been banned from Google’s advertising platform after the NBC News Verification Unit had notified Google about research conducted by the pressure group Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) which accused these sites of “profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about Black Lives Matter protests.”
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Harvard Professor: “Defunding the Police is Not a Solution and Could Cost Thousands of Black Lives”
A Harvard university Professor has urged that defunding the police would cause more loss of life, citing figures showing that there are “450 excess homicides per year” when police are not able to do their jobs proficiently.
“Defunding the police is not a solution and could cost thousands of black lives,” professor Roland Fryer wrote in an email to the College Fix.
Fryer has recently authored a research paper titled “Policing the Police: The Impact of “Pattern-or-Practice Investigations on Crime,” noting that police are less present when ‘viral incidents’ occur, meaning crime, including homicides increase… a lot.
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The Illinois Republican Party, along with other GOP groups, has filed a lawsuit over its right to assemble as a political group during the coronavirus pandemic, one week after Gov. J.B. Pritzker marched alongside protesters to fight police brutality.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court late Monday, claimed that while religious groups and protesters are allowed to convene in groups greater than 10 under coronavirus lockdown, political groups share the same protections under the Constitution — yet are not allowed to gather.
After multiple lawsuits, Pritzker on May 29 lifted a ban on in-person worship, listing it as an “essential activity” but strongly recommended services continue to be held remotely.
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In “Seismic Shift” of Police Culture, NYPD Dissolves Entire Plainclothes Police Unit
In what he described as a “seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices,” New York’s Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced the disbanding of a unit of plain-clothed police officers who combat crime by blending in with the general population.
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Knockout Game: 92-Year-Old Woman Assaulted in Broad Daylight in Manhattan
A shocking video out of Manhattan shows an elderly woman using a stroller being knocked to the ground by a black man in an unprovoked attack, an incident that is unlikely to garner much media attention.
The incident occurred last week in the middle of the afternoon on 3rd Avenue between 15th Street & 16th Street.
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Lawsuit Challenges Governor David Ige’s Emergency Powers
Hawaii residents from Kauai and the Big Island have filed a lawsuit challenging Gov. David Ige’s emergency proclamations related to the spread of COVID-19.
The lawsuit says Ige exceeded his powers as governor by extending the 60-day emergency period allowed by state law. His March 4 proclamation was set to end April 29, but on Wednesday he extended the disaster emergency relief period through July 31 — nearly five months since March 4.
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Lawsuit to Enforce Safety Measures at Trump Rally Denied
TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa law firm was denied after filing a lawsuit to enforce masks and social distancing at President Donald Trump’s rally this weekend.
Attorneys Clark Brewster and Paul DeMuro filed the lawsuit claiming the rally will endanger the public’s health.
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Man Wearing MAGA Hat Carrying American Flag Walks Through CHAZ
A man wearing a MAGA hat carrying an American flag took the brave decision to walk through Seattle’s ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’, which is being occupied by left-wing radicals.
The first clip shows a white Antifa member ripping the flag from the pole before it is retrieved by other CHAZ occupiers and given back to the man.
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Minnesota Freedom Fund Has Only Spent $200k to Bail Out Protesters, Despite Raising More Than $30m
The Minnesota Freedom Fund on Monday revealed that it had only spent $200,000 to bail protesters out of jail, despite raising more than $30 million in donations since the death of George Floyd.
According to the FAQ section of the MFF website, it said more than $30 million had been donated to the fund.
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More Than 50 Child Victims Act Lawsuits Filed Against Albany Diocese
ALBANY — More than 50 Child Victims Act lawsuits were filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany on Monday, alleging abuse by dozens of clerics as far back as 1957.
The cases mark the latest round of abuse complaints after courts temporarily closed during the coronavirus pandemic, blocking non-essential filings for about two months. The lawsuits allege abuse as recently as 1994 in parishes across the Capital Region and also target 20 previously unidentified clerics or diocese employees.
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More Than 40% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Have Occurred in Long-Term Care Facilities for Elderly
Nearly 51,000 people who died of coronavirus in the United States lived in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes before they died, according to state data.
The 50,919 deaths from such facilities, which predominantly house seniors, account for 40% of the nation’s death toll. Johns Hopkins University has calculated the total number of coronavirus deaths nationwide at a little more than 116,000.
The Wall Street Journal reports the actual number of coronavirus deaths from long-term care facilities is likely higher than confirmed, due to state differences in reporting and delays in reporting.
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NBC News Under Fire for Apparently Pushing Google to Remove Conservative Sites From Ad Platform
NBC News is facing intense backlash for apparently influencing Google to punish two conservative news sites over what was deemed offensive coverage of the George Floydprotests.
In a report published Tuesday afternoon, NBC News claimed Google “banned” The Federalist and ZeroHedge from Google Ads for “pushing unsubstantiated claims” about the Black Lives Matter movement. Google later pushed back, claiming that The Federalist “was never demonetized,” and adding, “We worked with them to address issues on their site related to the comments section.”
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NBC, Leftist Org Convince Google to Financially Blacklist Conservative News Sites
Google is appearing to take another massive leap towards total control over online discourse. Earlier today, NBC reported that the tech giant confirmed it financially blacklisted two sites known for criticism of the left: conservative commentary site the Federalist and alternative news site ZeroHedge. Following its publication, NBC amended its article to state that the Federalist has been “warned” by Google of imminent blacklisting from its Google Ads service due to “policy violations” in its comments section. ZeroHedge is also working with Google the resolve the blacklisting.
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NYPD Chief Detective Says “No Criminality” After Officers Sickened at Shake Shack
According to NYPD Chief Detective Rodney Harrison, there was “no criminality by shake shack’s employees,” without elaborating.
Which raises at least one big question; were any other customers affected?
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Never before in the history of the country has the election process system been under greater attack. In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, heavily funded organizations and lawyers with fat trust deposits have been seeking to undo how we elect the President, Congress and state officials.
Like the rioters in the streets of American cities, they are taking advantage of a crisis to try to fundamentally transform American institutions.
They are seeking to throw out state laws designed to protect the integrity of American elections.
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Over 70% of Americans Won’t Download Any Contact Tracing App
A recent survey revealed that about 7 in 10 Americans will refuse to use contact tracing apps. The data suggests Americans trust neither the government nor Big Tech companies developing these apps such as Apple and Google.
Contact tracing (tracking people who have come in contact with an infected person) is, according to governments and Big Tech, crucial to managing and eventually overcoming the coronavirus.
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PA Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Vandalized With Words “Committed Genocide”
Philadelphia’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution has been marred with graffiti that reads “Committed GENOCIDE.”
The vandalism was discovered June 12. The National Park Service is working with “a professional stone conservator” to clean the monument. The monument is constructed of limestone, which is very porous, meaning the graffiti remains visible despite initial cleanings.
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Pelosi: “A Chokehold is a Lynching, “ Says She Believes GOP Will Ban Them
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday likened police chokeholds to lynching, saying that she is confident Republican lawmakers will agree to ban them.
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PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter Tied to Deadliest Wildfire in California History
In a landmark development that marks a victory for California citizens trying to hold the state’s largest and most politically influential utility accountable, PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday afternoon. The guilty plea marks the end of an investigation into the origins of the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive in California history.
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Planned “Second Wave” Is Coming: The Terrorism Committed by Government Isn’t Over Yet
We should all be preparing now for the planned “ second wave” of COVID-19. The mainstream media is already doing its due diligence by panicking the general public. Because the riots and looting took too much attention off the coronavirus hoax, the powers that shouldn’ t be are going to make sure they get you living in fear again, and vaccinated.
In the push to get everyone vaccinated, there could be a very real attack, in which people actually do die of something that the government will spray in the air, says Richie From Boston. It’ s possible, and really, at this point, I’ d put nothing past the government and you probably shouldn’ t either. Wake up, and do it quickly because humanity depends on it. Governments are doing exactly what the elitists are telling them to do and your interests don’ t matter to them one small bit. They could very well commit both economic terrorism and bioterrorism against all of us in order to usher in the New World Order.
Richie From Boston talks about the manipulation of the weather and the spraying that can be used to really sicken people to make them fearful:
Some say the vaccine won’ t be mandatory because Donald Trump said so. But for all intents and purposes, regardless of what Trump says, it will be. If you refuse the vaccine, you won’ t be allowed to go to school, work, or travel on an airplane, and those will be the decisions of companies doing the bidding of the elitists. If you take the vaccine, you’ ll be traced, tracked, and surveilled for the rest of your life while having DNA-altering nanobots manipulating your body without you knowing it, into a compliant little slave. Which option do you want? Neither seem like good options, to be honest.
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Poll: 79% of Truckers Say They Won’t Deliver to Cities With Defunded Police Departments
An overwhelming majority of truck drivers are refusing to make deliveries to cities that defund or remove their police department, according to a commercial trucking industry poll.
CDL Life, a trucking news and entertainment online publication, used its app to ask drivers, “Would you pick up/deliver to cities with defunded or disbanded police departments? Why or why not?”
Of the more than 1,280 respondents, 79% said they would not enter cities that had no police presence.
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Pro-Black Lives Matter Mayor Calls Attack on Her House “Domestic Terrorism”
Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby has been a loud supporter of Black Lives Matter, and the related protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police department—but she has since changed her tune after her home was vandalized by protesters.
Selby referred to the vandalism as an act of “domestic terrorism” following a siege of her house.
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Protesters Tear Down Statue of Thomas Jefferson in Portland
Protesters in Portland vandalized and then pulled down a statue of Thomas Jefferson Sunday evening, as social unrest continues in several American cities.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Announces Death of Father From COVID-19 Complications
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., announced the death of her 67-year-old father on Monday due to complications from COVID-19.
“It is with tremendous sadness and pain to say goodbye to my father, Nur Omar Mohamed. No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew and loved him,” she posted on Twitter.
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Richmond Police Chief Forced Out After Weeks of Protests Across the City
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Mayor Levar Stoney announced William Smith has resigned from his post as Richmond’s Police Chief at a press conference on Tuesday.
This announcement came after multiple clashes between RPD officers and protesters over the last few weeks.
“As of this morning, I requested Chief Smith’s resignation, and he has tendered it,” Stoney said.
Smith was with the RPD for 23 years and was nearing his one year anniversary as the city’s police chief.
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Rick Wilson Humiliated After Trying to Politicize 8-Year-Old Dominos Pizza Tweet
Neo-con never Trumper Rick Wilson was humiliated after he attempted to politicize a thank you tweet sent by Dominos Pizza to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, apparently not realizing that the tweet was 8-years-old.
Wilson, who is billed as a “Republican strategist” yet constantly amplifies left-wing rhetoric, was responding to an exchange between McEnany and Dominos in which McEnany tweeted, “FUN FACT: @dominos is wayyyy better than any NYC pizza.”
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Seattle’s Liberal Elite Cheer Anti-Police Protesters Then Hire Their Own Private Security
Seattle’s taking a page from the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. When half of the New Orleans Police Department walked off the job before and after Katrina, private security firms answered the call. Today, Seattle’s swells, who cheered on anti-police protesters from their high-rises and Madrona manses, are doing the same thing.
With apologies to “Top Gun,” the Seattle elite’s egos are writing checks the rest of us poor schmucks have to pay.
Business owners, afraid that Mayor Jenny Durkan will continue to let the rioters go buck wild while simultaneously standing down the cops, are hiring private security at a frantic pace.
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The George Floyd Riots, such as Monday night’s Sack of Manhattan, are the culmination of the Great Awokening that got going with Trayvon Martin in 2012 and came to monopolize the media’s mindset with Ferguson in 2014. What we are seeing played out in the unfortunate shoe and handbag stores of our big cities is the logic of mainstream anti-racism in action.
As Frank DeScushin observed:
It’s bizarre to see people Tweet “A riot is the voice of the unheard!” when the black voice on race issues is the one promoted by The Establishment (media, academia, politicians & corporations) with all those same parties censoring or demonizing any dissent.
White Americans have made vast efforts over the past sixty years to exterminate all manifestations of white racism. And yet, each new generation of black youths still likes to loot shoe stores.
It’s a puzzlement.
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The FCC is Already Casting Doubt on Trump’s Anti-Censorship Executive Order
Last Friday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Mike O’Rielly told C-SPAN that he sympathizes with the claims of President Donald Trump about how social media platforms were censoring content. Nonetheless, he also said that what the FCC does about that is “a different story,” suggesting that the FCC will have little-no-role in investigating tech companies over the matter.
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The President’s Authority to Suppress Insurrections
by Edwin Vieira, JD., Ph.D.
IN SUM, those people who vociferously contend that the President has no authority to suppress the kinds of riots, looting, arson, and killings going on within the States these days know not whereof they speak. And if plain ignorance is not the explanation for their behavior, what is?
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Third Lawsuit Seeking to Block Lee Statue’s Removal Filed by Monument Avenue Residents
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A group of six Monument Avenue residents filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to halt Gov. Ralph Northam’s order to remove the Robert E. Lee statue, arguing that its removal would result in the end of “favorable tax treatment and reduction in property values” as the district would lose its National Historic Landmark designation.
The plaintiffs in the suit, longtime Monument Avenue resident Helen Marie Taylor and five other property owners who wished to remain anonymous, claim the governor’s order violates the state’s constitution and a legislative resolution adopted by the Virginia General Assembly in 1889.
“Attempts by Defendants to remove the Lee statue would damage, destroy or significantly alter the statue in violation of the terms of the deed conveying the statue, the 1889 legislative provision, and the laws of the Commonwealth,” the lawsuit states.
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To the citizens of most Western countries, the numbers of people killed by the American police are rather surprising, to say the least, but so are the numbers of police killed.
“I do not think that the rioters are much interested in philosophical subtleties.”
Roughly speaking, a policeman in the United States is about fifty times more likely to be killed than to kill, and this is without taking into consideration that the majority of the killings by the police are at least prima facie justified by self-defense or the interruption or prevention of a serious crime. Let us exclude only half of those killings on these grounds (probably a gross underestimate): This means that a policeman is 100 times more likely to be killed than to kill.
Let us also suppose that the police are killed by black and white in the same proportion as blacks and whites commit homicide in general (again, a generous, that is to say a conservative, assumption). This means that a policeman is about fifteen times more likely to be killed by a black man than to kill a black man, and again this is not to take into account the fact that many of the police killings would be at least prima facie justified.
A black man is about thirty times more likely to be killed by another black man than to be killed by a policeman (and some of the police are themselves black, of course). A white man is only fifteen times more likely to be killed by someone of any race than to be killed by a policeman. Are the police biased against whites?
These figures should not be taken as being accurate to the seventeenth decimal point. They are worked out from official figures but taken from somewhat different dates, varying by a year or two; but this would not alter their rough or fundamental accuracy.
Of course, most people do not bother to look up the statistics, but in some inchoate way they know them to be true. This is shown by the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s famous (or infamous) but honest remark, which he may now regret having made, that when walking down a dark street at night he felt relief that the man walking behind him was white and not black.
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Trump Campaign Hires Karl Rove aka “Bush’s Brain” To Lose to Biden
by Cliff Kincaid
A former George W. Bush strategist, Rove should have retired into oblivion after the Bush presidency exploded into America’s financial meltdown in 2008, ushering in the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. But after the disaster of the Bush presidency, the famous GOP strategist lost $300 million betting on a Mitt Romney victory in 2012.
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Trump Admin Sues Bolton to Block Book Publication
Just as President Trump said would happen yesterday, the U.S. government has sued Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton to block the publication of his so-called tell-all book which claims the president was willing to endanger the nation in order to be re-elected.
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Twitter Hires Former FBI Lawyer Involved in Trump Campaign Probe
Twitter announced Monday that it has hired the former FBI lawyer who played a key role during the probe into the Trump campaign.
James Baker, who was involved in the decision to surveil Trump’s former campaign aide Carter Page and to use an FBI agent to privately monitor former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, will serve as deputy general counsel of the popular social media platform.
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Twitter is an Echo Chamber of Insanity and it’s Impacting Academia
In the big picture of tech and social media companies, measured by the number of users and monetary power, Twitter is a small player. But the platform nonetheless has disproportionate influence among some classes, such as journalists and politicians, and, it appears, academia as well.
The real-world importance of Twitter is that while it’s often an insane echo chamber for journalists, what happens in that chamber strongly reverberates into media and politics and thus gets disseminated to billions of people who don’t necessarily use Twitter.
A recent study by the Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network (TSSMN), found that tweeting original scientific papers resulted in four times more citations compared to those that were not tweeted.
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Unarmed Social Workers, Not Police, Will Now Respond to Some 911 Calls in Albuquerque
The city of Albuquerque will no longer have police officers respond to specific 911 calls, Mayor Tim Keller announced Monday.
Instead, a civilian group called Albuquerque Community Safety will respond to calls about homelessness, intoxication, mental health, drug use, and addiction. The group will consist of housing and homelessness specialists, social workers, and violence prevention coordinators, none of whom will be armed.
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Understanding the Far-Left Threat
Former New York City mayor and President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said Monday that he has personally seen enough evidence now to conclude that “there was a guiding hand in some of this.”
“Definitely there’s organization behind this,” he said on Sebastian Gorka’s America First podcast.
Giuliani told Gorka that one of the benefits of designating Antifa a terrorist group is that the government now has the ability to investigate the group’s finances.
“It will help a lot in being able to tie together some of the loose ends that could tell you how well organized this is,” he said. “It could answer the Soros question, too, because you get into their books. How much money does he donate and how closely associated is he with them?”
A good question. Meanwhile, the FBI put out a statement on Tuesday saying that the Bureau is seeking information and digital media depicting individuals inciting violence during the protests/riots.
Law enforcement officials say that as the terrorism threat has impacted more of the country, police agencies have redirected their focus on foreign terror groups and terror acts that those foreign terror groups seek to inspire in the United States. As a result, the breadth of understanding of these anti-fascist and anarchist groups is not robust. Let us hope that that changes soon, for clearly these groups are quite serious and dangerous. They have, to be sure, no positive or constructive vision for America; only an agenda fueled by resentment, and founded on lies.
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US Police Reform: Trump Signs Executive Order on ‘Best Practice’
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order introducing several police reforms while rejecting calls to defund or dismantle the police.
His order offers federal grants to improve practices, including creating a database to trace abuses by officers.
It comes amid anger over the police killings of African Americans, though Mr Trump did not comment about the ongoing US racism debate.
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Virginia’s New One-Gun-a-Month Limit Faces Lawsuit Before it Takes Effect
Two gun-rights group are trying to prevent an old Virginia law barring people from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period from going into effect again.
The one-handgun-a-month proposal, on the books from 1993 to 2012, was brought back to life during the General Assembly legislative session earlier this year, when it passed along party lines under a newly elected Democratic majority that made gun control one of its top priorities following the Virginia Beach mass shooting in May 2019.
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Weaponization of Food: Starvation to Manufacture Compliance
The elites are doing their best to cut the food supply chains in order to weaponized food. At the end of the day, if they succeed, you will be trading your freedom for a small morsel of food.
The L.A. Times reported that “ coronavirus outbreaks” at 60 food processing plants will be the cause of the supply chains breaking, and an inability to get food to store shelves. Prepare for a food shortage, as it looks like they will attempt to use hunger and food as a weapon in this game for your mind.
It’s a grim reality that’s playing out across the country as COVID-19 spreads beyond the meat processing plants that have captured the national spotlight. At least 60 food-processing facilities outside the meatpacking industry have seen outbreaks, with more than 1,000 workers diagnosed with the virus, according to a new study from Environmental Working Group. — L.A. Times
Prepping For The Upcoming Government-Induced Food Shortages
This is the horrible reality of participation in centralization and not bein able to be self-reliant. The New World Order doesn’ t care if you starve, it cares only that you bow down and consent to a life of enslavement. And they are weaponizing the food system and using COVID-19 as an excuse.
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Another Highly-Touted Hydroxychloroquine Study Turns Out to be a Joke
Authored by ‘Bonchie’ via RedState.com
Last week, Lancet had to retract the most highly-touted hydroxychloroquine study to date, which was used as evidence for entire countries to change their stance on the drug. The study, which was obviously flawed on its face (I commented well before it was exposed that the groupings made no sense), turned out to be produced by a shell company, with unverified data gathered by non-scientists.
But when that study flopped, another study was immediately latched onto. It’s called the RECOVERY trials and was done in the UK. Supposedly, this study was the counter to the fake study published by Lancet.
It was the proof that “well yeah, that other study was bad, but this one got the same results.”
Well, not so much.
Edmund Fordham wrote a piece on what is an emerging controversy, in which it appears the lead of the RECOVERY trial took hydroxychloroquine for another drug, resulting in a high death rate.
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Last year, Barrett attended a public meeting in his hometown of Borrisokane, Tipperary. The meeting was ostensibly a chance for the locals to be heard regarding the government’s surprise plans to house Third World “refugees” in the town. Many at the meeting felt ambushed by the scheme. More than that, they felt helpless, as if nothing they could say would deter the government’s resettlement machinations. As if their opinions just didn’t matter.
Over audible objections from those running the meeting, Barrett rose to speak. He pointed out that every time such “refugee” programs had been forced upon Irish communities, an immediate increase in violent crime, vandalism, and intimidation of the locals followed. “I love my country and I want my country to be an Irish Ireland and I am not ashamed of that and I shouldn’t have to be ashamed of that,” Barrett proclaimed.
“I have one question to ask: Can the people of Borrisokane say no?”
Can we say no? There, nailed it. Is the destruction of the West predetermined? Are we just going through the motions of letting “the people” decide, just pretending that the citizens, the voters, the taxpayers can say no to what the powers that be have already decided must occur? Either we can say no or we can’t. And if we can’t, just admit it; drop the illusion that anything we say, or anything we do, can stop the civilizational decline.
Can we say no to the Third Worlding of the West? Generally, in Western Europe, you can’t. If you say no a little too stridently, you get arrested as a hate criminal, banned from speaking publicly, and banished from political organizing and activity.
But what about here in the U.S.? Can we say no to our demographic decline? Well, we certainly tried in 2016. Candidate Trump ran on the most unambiguous platform (with the most specific pledges) in recent American history. No Michael Dukakis “uncertainty of purpose” there! Trump voters knew what they were voting for. So, we said no to open borders and lawless aliens, only to be told by the Democrats, most Republicans, the media, and Trump’s own inner circle that “yes” was the only allowable answer.
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Climate Alarmists: Only ‘Ecological Leninism’ Can Stop Global Warming
Prominent Swedish progressive Andreas Malm has urged using the full coercive power of the state to curb fossil fuel emissions, modeling the response on global coronavirus lockdowns.
The global response to the coronavirus pandemic, which justified massive incursions into civil liberties in the name of public health, offers a model for how to address climate change, Mr. Malm contends, by taking decision-making out of the hands of individuals and delivering it over to the state.
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Coronavirus: Dexamethasone Proves First Life-Saving Drug
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.
The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.
The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.
It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.
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Donald Tusk is the Biggest Liar in Polish Political History, Says President Duda
Donald Tusk took to Twitter on the weekend to accuse President Andrzej Duda for shaming Poland, prompting Duda to hit back during one of his stump speeches by saying Tusk was the “greatest liar in Polish modern political history.”
It all started in a Twitter post from Tusk where he slammed Duda over his remarks on LGBT being an ideology rather than a category of people:
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Elite French Police Deployed as Armed Chechens and North Africans Go to War in Dijon
The French city of Dijon saw an increased police presence on Monday after several armed clashes between Chechen and North African gangs, following an attack on a Chechen teen on Friday.
Dozens of people, many of them armed with firearms, knives, and iron bars gathered in Grésilles to take revenge on members of the local North African community, reportedly following an attack on a Chechen 16-year-old boy on June 10th. According to the prosecutor of Dijon, Éric Mathais, at least six people had been wounded in clashes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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EU Launches Two Antitrust Investigations Against Apple
Last week, the WSJ reported that the European Union is planning on filing antitrust charges against Amazon over its treatment of third-party sellers.
Today, the EU ratcheted up their battle against big tech by launching dual antitrust investigations into Apple’s mobile app store and payment platform, Apple Pay.
According to the LA Times, Apple has been accused of restricting developers from notifying iPhone and iPad users how to make purchases outside of apps — an investigation which follows complaints from streaming music platform Spotify and an e-book distributor over how the company operates its App store.
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EU Set to Cave on Fishing as Boris Says Deal Can be Done by July
The EU is expected to back down over demands to Britain’s fishing waters and will accept a deal with the UK where London and Brussels negotiate quotas annually.
The British government and the EU have agreed for negotiators David Frost and Michel Barnier to work on a compromise that would see the EU step back from demanding permanent rights to access Britain’s territorial waters on equal terms to the bloc’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
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European Commission Vows to Make EU Institutions More Racially ‘Diverse’
The EU Commission will “fight” to make European institutions more racially diverse, its spokesman has said.
In an interview with France24 on Monday, Margaritis Schinas was challenged by the left-wing state-owned news channel on a lack of racial diversity in European institutions, the Commission’s plans for a bloc-wide migration policy, and on the treatment of illegal immigrant “children” in Greece.
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Military reinforcements were flooding into Dijon after videos released on social media show well-armed masked men — who also brandish pistols — in the eastern city, 200 miles from Paris.
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France: Army Deployed to Dijon to Quell Ethnic Violence Between Chechens and Arabs (Video)
Military and police reinforcements have been deployed to the city of Dijon after ethnic violence broke out between Chechen gangs and North African drug dealers.
On Friday, hundreds of Chechens — armed with automatic weapon, large knives, bats and other lethal weapons — arrived in the city of Dijon with plans to take revenge on a group of Arab drug dealers who allegedly sent 16-year-old Chechen boy to the hospital after severely beating him.
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France: Violent Leftists Hijack Healthcare Workers Protest, Cause Chaos
Violent leftists hijacked a healthcare worker protest in Paris, prompting running battles with riot police as chaos ensued.
The original demonstration by healthcare workers sought to guarantee better pay and increased funding, but it was soon usurped by ‘black bloc’ Antifa-style militants who attacked cops with missiles and overturned vehicles.
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Gaul Lives Matter? Statue of Julius Caesar Vandalised in Belgian Village
A statue of ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar was vandalised in the Flemish village of Velzeke-Ruddershove over the weekend, with some linking the vandalism to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests.
The statue is located in the Roman square in the sleepy Flemish town and was reported as damaged on Sunday. Vandals had ripped off one of the hands of the statue that had carried a lance and graffitied the word “krapuul” — Flemish for “bastard” — on its base.
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Germany: Greens Politician Calls for Action Against “Right-Wing Extremism” In Military
An MP from Germany’s Greens party condemned “Right-wing extremism” in the German military yesterday and called for a zero-tolerance policy to purge it from the ranks.
Agnieszka Brugger, a Greens MP who is the Vice Chairman of the party’s parliamentary group and also sits on the Bundestag’s Defence Committee, attested that there is a “dangerous kind of esprit de corps” in the ranks of the Bundeswehr, or the German armed forces. She claimed that has led to a “culture of hushing up and hiding” in which the problem of Right-wing extremism is being covered up.
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There Are at Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy, Say Scientists
It’s the oldest and the greatest cosmic question of all: is there anybody out there?
For years all we’ve had is the Drake Equation to help us understand the question, but no indication of an answer. Now a group of scientists at the University of Nottingham think they’ve come up with a new “cosmic evolution”-based calculation—or, rather, an estimation—that suggests that there are likely to be at least 36 ongoing intelligent civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way, home to our Solar System, is estimated to have 100 billion to 400 billion stars, and roughly one exoplanet per star in our galaxy.
Published today in The Astrophysical Journal, the new paper examines the likely number of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent (CETI) civilizations in the Milky Way. It assumes that intelligent life comes to occur on other planets much as it has done on our own planet.
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UK Foreign Office Says Statue of Clive of India ‘May Have to Go’
The British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has suggested the iconic statue of Clive of India near its headquarters “may have to go”.
Robert Clive, later Baron Clive of Plassey, was long regarded as one of Britain’s greatest military leaders — despite having no formal military training — and was credited in large part for winning Britain its Indian empire in the 1700s.
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Now may be the time to take on Boris Johnson’s “abject” leadership head-on, Nigel Farage told Breitbart News, as rumours swirl about his plans to activate the planned Reform Party and return to front-line politics.
Nigel Farage revealed to Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot on Monday that, amidst the speculation, he was certainly considering a return to front-line politics. As the British political establishment once again finds itself in a state of confused paralysis, Mr Farage said he could give it a “good kicking politically”.
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UK: Met Police Caught ‘Intimidating’ Politicalite Editor and Patriotic Protesters at London Hotel
Met Police attempted to intimidate the Editor of Politicalite and two protesters at a London hotel on Saturday morning after receiving intel that they would be attending a rally to defend Sir Winston Churchill’s statue on Saturday morning, Politicalite can exclusively reveal.
Despite Editor Jordan James having no police record, and never being involved in thuggery or violence, Met Police (who are supposed to be an impartial organisation) sent a squad car to a hotel in Kensington, that was being used by the editor to cover the protests and edit footage as an essential worker.
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UK: Trash Bin Art Mocking English Working Class Appears Beside Toppled Statue
As discussion rages over what could replace the toppled statue in Bristol, an early contender has manifested in the city, as a figure appearing to depict a working-class male in a dustbin was left beside the now empty Colston plinth.
The piece appeared on Monday morning and was reported by local outlet Bristol 24/7 to be by an unknown artist. It seems to conform to the modernist school of art where work is not worthy unless it challenges or provokes the viewer or is outright unpleasant.
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Israel Moves Ahead With Housing Settlement Named After Trump
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced during a cabinet meeting over the weekend that the government has approved plans to build a new housing development in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights named after President Trump.
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by Amil Imani
Before the Islamic invasion of 1979, Iranian people had a different view of Islam. The kind of Islamic version people believed did not exist beyond their own imagination. To them, that was the real Islam. Kind, perfect and peaceful. With the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, ‘real’ Islam was reintroduced to the populace and it turned Iran and Iranians’ fictitious beliefs into a nightmare.
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India-China Clash: 20 Indian Troops Killed in Ladakh Fighting
At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces in a disputed Himalayan border area, Indian officials say.
The incident follows rising tensions, and is the first deadly clash in the border area in at least 45 years.
The Indian army initially said three of its soldiers had been killed, adding that both sides suffered casualties.
But later on Tuesday, officials said a number of critically injured soldiers had died of their wounds.
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World War 3: India Slaughters 5 Chinese Soldiers in Bloody Massacre — Border Tensions Erupt
FIVE Chinese soldiers were killed and 11 were injured during violent clashes at the China-India border, which has sparked fears of World War 3.
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Chinese state media is continuing to label Australia ‘racist’ with a new propaganda video detailing how an Uber driver asked a student if ‘bat tastes good’?
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With the US being hit by the George Floyd protests, Chinese internet users are also seeking inspiration and are pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party for suppressing dissent. While the CCP was allegedly looking to profit from the Black Lives Matter protests by launching a propaganda war against the US, Chinese citizens’ criticism against their home government became quite a spectacle.
Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying tweeted, “I can’t breathe” — the last words uttered by George Floyd before he passed away.
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North Korea Blows Up Joint Liaison Office With South in Kaesong
North Korea has blown up a joint liaison office with the South near the North’s border town of Kaesong.
The move comes just hours after the North renewed threats of military action at the Korean border.
The site was opened in 2018 to help the Koreas — officially in a state of war — to communicate. It had been empty since January due to Covid-19 restrictions.
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SARS-CoV-2 Origin — Deadliest Cover-Up in Human History
Chinese authorities have finally admitted SARS-CoV-2 did not originate in a Wuhan wet market,1 but that’s about as far as we’ve gotten to getting an official answer to the question about where the virus came from. Many valid questions are being raised, and have continued to be raised about the possibility that it is in fact manmade.
Evidence indicating it is an engineered virus include the Antiviral Research paper2 “The Spike Glycoprotein of the New Coronavirus 2019-nCoV Contains a Furin-Like Cleavage Site Absent in CoV of the Same Clade,” published in April 2020, and “Furin, a Potential Therapeutic Target for COVID-19,”3,4 posted in February 2020.
According to these papers, SARS-CoV-2 is the only coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. Not even distant relatives of SARS-CoV-2 have it, and the coronaviruses that do have it share only 40% of SARS-CoV-2’s genome.5,6 Attempts have, however, been made to introduce a furin cleavage site onto the spike of a coronavirus, and successfully so.7
While neither of these papers makes any claims about how this gain-of-function might have come about, others have pointed out that this novel function couldn’t possibly have arisen naturally. I summarized Chris Martenson’s8 and Yuri Deigin’s9 reviews of these findings in “The Smoking Gun Proving SARS-CoV-2 Is an Engineered Virus.”
Others have pointed out that viruses can easily be manipulated and altered using low-tech methods that do not leave telltale signs of genetic insertion or interference. One such method is known as “passaging.” As reported by Independent Science News:10
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According to The Telegraph,14,15 Dearlove “believes the coronavirus pandemic ‘started as an accident’ when the virus escaped from a laboratory in China.” If proven true, it could have significant economic ramifications for China. It may even be called on to pay reparations for the economic devastation caused by the pandemic around the world.
That said, it’s important to recognize that the issue of SARS-CoV-2’s origin is not a racial, cultural or political one. The real issue here is whether or not dangerous gain-of-function research is wise and whether it should be allowed to continue — anywhere.
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Malek Fahd Islamic School in western Sydney received millions in grants over 2014 and 2015 on the basis that it was not making any money.
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Australian Politician Says George Floyd Was a ‘Criminal & Dangerous Thug’
“It sickened me to see people holding up signs saying ‘black lives matter’ in memory of this American criminal.”
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Australian Fossil Reveals New Plant Species
Antoine Champreux, a Ph.D. student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has cataloged the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part of an international effort to examine the Australian fossil in greater detail.
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Victoria Police said they arrested six males after the 16-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death at Brimbank shopping centre in Deer Park in the city’s west on Tuesday.
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Farmers’ Market is Caught Selling Golliwogs Amid Worldwide Black Lives Matter Protests
The dolls were spotted alongside a range of other toys for sale in Toowoomba, 125km west of Brisbane, last weekend.
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Colonial Brewing Co (pictured) is considering changing its ‘degrading’ name after its beers were pulled from Blackheart and Sparrows bottle shops in Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT on Monday.
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The statue in Cairns has attracted controversy over the British Royal Navy captain’s treatment of Aboriginal people when his ship landed in Australia.
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South Australia will let in visitors from Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania without quarantine from midnight in a bid to kickstart the economy.
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Martins Noel Keyen, 25, was caught in a scuffle with two police officers while suffering a mental health episode in Marsfield in Sydney’s north-west last August.
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The TikToker said train drivers can take home up to $130,000 a year, while a traffic controller can receive up to $180,000 annually.
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The two infections on Tuesday, both acquired during recent travel to the UK, ended a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country.
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New Species of Diamond Frog Discovered in Madagascar
German herpetologist Mark Scherz has discovered a new species of diamond frog living in northern Madagascar.
The diamond frogs belong to Rhombophryne, a genus of microhylid frogs in the subfamily Cophylinae.
More than 20 species are currently recognized in the genus, all endemic to Madagascar.
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Channel Migrants Try to Cross English Channel in Fog
Migrants have tried to cross the Channel to the UK amid thick fog over the Kent coast.
Border Force teams were seen earlier with a group of people thought to have attempted the crossing, and officials were spotted towing a rowing boat filled with oars into harbour at Dover.
The small blue and white vessel was paddled through the port by officials.
The Home Office said three boats had been intercepted and a fourth incident was ongoing on Tuesday evening.
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Eight men and three women were accompanied by two Indonesian crewmen when they stopped at Jaco Island, east of the nation’s mainland, on Friday.
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Frontex: Migrant Numbers Beginning to Surge as Coronavirus Lockdowns Ease
Data released by the European Union border agency Frontex has revealed that as the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures ease across Europe, the number of migrant arrivals has begun to surge.
Frontex data from May states that there were at least 4,300 illegal arrivals, triple the number of arrivals from the same period last year with the total number of illegal immigrants entering the EU’s borders reaching 12,700 since the start of 2020.
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Greek Landowner Discovers Makeshift Mosque Built by Illegal Migrants on Her Property
A Greek resident of the island of Lesbos has filed a complaint after discovering illegal migrants had built a makeshift mosque on her property that is located near a notorious migrant camp.
Lesbos resident Maria Komninaki said the makeshift mosque was built on her land, a former olive grove. She expressed disbelief that the illegal migrants were allowed to build the structure on her property, which is located near the Moria migrant camp.
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Illegal Migrant That Arrived in Lesvos Yesterday Tests Positive for Coronvirus
A boat with a total of 36 illegal migrants, including nine men, seven women and twenty children, all reportedly from Syria, crossed into Lesvos, landing on a coast in the Thermi area on Monday morning, as reported by Greek City Times.
One of the 36 illegal immigrants who was rescued, was found to have coronavirus after testing positive in a compulsory test, Lesvos Post reported.
Although he was initially tested, which turned out to be negative, he felt unwell today and the second test showed that he was positive.
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The Greek Coast Guard has responded to reports that there was a delayed operation to rescue illegal immigrants who were on a boat on Saturday trying to arrive on the island of Lesvos from Turkey.
According to the announcement on Saturday, a Greek Coast Guard vessel located a Turkish boat with illegal immigrants inside Turkish territorial waters north of Lesvos, while three Turkish coastguards were located near it.
The Greek authorities made repeated attempts to contact the Turkish authorities and the Turkish coastguards so they could recover the boat, but the Turks never responded, according to Proto Thema.
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Turkish Coast Guard Vessels Spotted Escorting Illegal Migrants Into Greek Waters (Video)
The Hellenic Coast Guard has released video footage which shows three Turkish Coast Guard vessels escorting illegal migrants into Greek territorial waters over the weekend.
On Saturday morning, the Hellenic Coast Guard announced that it had spotted a Turkish vessel with 36 illegal migrants in Turkish waters off the northern coast of Lesvos. The vessel, according to the Greek coast guard, was being escorted by three Turkish coast guard ships.
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College Presidents Are Reminded That, Actually, “Hate Speech” Is Free Speech
The president of the Nicholls State University seems to lack a proper understanding of the US Constitution’s First Amendment, a fundamental piece of legislation when it comes to free speech protections.
If he were president of a university of Europe, Jay Clune’s statement in the June 8 letter, that “free speech does not protect hate speech” would have highly likely been a valid point, because so-called “hate speech” is criminalized in most European countries. (And yes, it’s then up to whoever’s in charge to define what constitutes “hate speech.”) (We’ll rant about that another time.) But things work differently in the US.
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Former Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya emailed Kellogg’s UK office for clarification on why Rice Krispies have ‘three white boys’ as a mascot whereas Coco Pops is represented by a monkey.
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Publishing staff working on JK Rowling’s latest book threatened to down tools yesterday in protest at her views on gender.
The Harry Potter author, 54, has endured a storm of protest since expressing ‘deep concerns’ about transgender activism in an essay last week in which she also described being a victim of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Those criticising her have included movie stars she helped make famous.
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New World Order is Advancing Rapidly
The COVID-19 pandemic has not materialized as serious enough to warrant the kinds of long-term surveillance strategies suggested by Bill Gates and The Rockefeller Foundation, yet a totalitarian control system and removal of personal freedoms appears to be advancing.
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Piracy of Gone With the Wind, Fawlty Towers, Little Britain Surges by Over 10x After Being Censored
Last week, cancel culture took hold of the streaming world and many movies and TV shows were suddenly pulled from streaming services after complaints about racial insensitivities.
The epic historical romance Gone with the Wind being pulled from HBO Max, an episode of the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers titled The Germans being pulled from the UKTV catch-up service, and British comedy series Little Britain being removed from BBC iPlayer and Netflixwere some of the many properties that were caught up in this cancel culture purge.
Fans of Gone with the Wind responded by buying physical copies of the movie and pushing it to the top of the Amazon best-sellers chart in the “movies and TV” category.
And now, new data collected by TorrentFreak is showing that all three of these properties also experienced a surge in pirate downloads after they were pulled from these streaming services.
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UN Official Admits Coronavirus, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change Agendas Are ‘Inseparable’
Calls coronavirus pandemic a “fire drill” for what’s coming.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., announced the death of her 67-year-old father on Monday due to complications from COVID-19.
Wasn’t he the one witness tying her to the immigration fraud?
Boo Hoo.
Few years ago in London i was and i was informed that there were not again on tv series of Dick Emery because he is not politically correct.I immediatly bought all the series of the comedians i used to watch and not only enjoyed but they helped my english and i watch them now.My kids have also downloaded “the last of the summer wine”and “keeping up appereances”just in case they
think them as politically incorrect.they remind me my happy student years in your country when Englend was something else.Now all of us we are living in hell.Dante wrote “Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria”.WAke up Europe Please.
Chechen orcs vs Maghrebian orcs in the heart of France…
I vote for both sides to lose. Allow them to freely slaughter one another then send in the army to dispatch those still alive. Likely have to send in the army with LePen at their heels to discourage them from waving a white flag at the first orc they see.
Re The Chechen vs Maghrebian story, it seems this will be the future, closeknit tribes or clans with the appropriate religion and group psychology will rule over areas and the white indigenous savages will serve them. Like the samurai/peasant “harmony” in Japan. And the “Son of Heavens” – initially elected by online vote, later – hereditary – will sit in the Palace far far away…
I understand that today is not a good time, so perhaps tomorrow the drama in Dijon could get some full coverage here.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8426381/amp/How-Chechen-gangs-issued-Europe-wide-call-vengeance-sparked-four-days-warfare-Dijon.html
We’ve got Dijon material to post, probably later today.
This is all very funny. Chechens come from the iodine-deficient region and therefore they cannot calculate their actions one or two steps forward. Macron is about to expel them from France. They will be returned to tyrant Kadyrov, who will begin to hang them by the scrotum. But after their performance in Dijon, there are hardly anyone who wants to protect them.
The “British” government is evil.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1273188113913982977
I noticed about 12 hours ago, vlad tepes blog was down, or at least inaccessible from Oz.
[Somewhat off-topic, but I understand that off-topic is sort-of okay in the News Feed]
Does anyone know what happened to Vlad’s blog:
https://vladtepesblog.com/
?
The WHOIS entry shows:
Name Server: NS11.CLOUDNS.NET
Name Server: NS12.CLOUDNS.NET
Name Server: NS13.CLOUDNS.NET
Name Server: NS14.CLOUDNS.NET
and at least NS11 resolves to 192.124.249.15
but if I try it from my local nameserver (or on two other servers that are not connected):
% nslookup
> set type=ns
> vladtepesblog.com
Server: 10.222.51.1
Address: 10.222.51.1#53
** server can’t find vladtepesblog.com: NXDOMAIN
If I force “hosts” on my computer to resolve to 192.124.249.15, then I get a page which says “Sucuri Website Firewall – Not Configured”.
My conclusion is that vladtepesblog.com has somehow been taken down, either voluntarily or otherwise.
Found this:
“For anyone looking for vladtepesblog.com we can be found for now at vladtepesblog.net The whole story will come out soon.”
The west of Europe is going to experience a long debilitating fall. If Turkey and the Brotherhood can just hang on without getting confused themselves.
hi, what has happened to Vladtepesblog.com ? I am sorry to ask here, but I am concerned, and I do not know who else to ask: thank you !
See my newer post.