Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/17/2020

The California government announced that it will remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from the state capitol, and schools near San Francisco named for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson will be renamed. Meanwhile, Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben will join the Land O’ Lakes Indian girl in the oblivion of commercial extinction, due to their “racism”.

In other news, a man in Austria has been fined for farting at the police “with full intent”.

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Thanks to Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Applications for New Home Sales Jumped 26% in May
» It All Comes Back to the Federal Reserve: The NWO is Being Shoved Down Our Throats
» Millions of Jobs Lost From COVID-19 Are Never Coming Back
» Rick Rule: “What We Are Seeing is an Inter-Generational Transfer of Wealth on a Massive Scale”
 
USA
» 17 Arrested for Child Pornography Include 2 Disney Employees
» 71 Percent of Americans Reject Privacy Killing Contact Tracing Apps
» Activists Push for New Police Oversight Board in Chicago
» Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother: Trump Was “Very Compassionate” During White House Meeting
» Anti-Intellectualism at Cornell Law School: Student Groups Organize Boycott of My Course
» Beverly Hills Safe From ‘Autonomous Zones’ And Protests After Emergency Order Passed
» Brute Accused of Shoving Elderly NYC Woman Has Been Arrested Over 100 Times
» CA School District Approves Plan to Rename Schools Named After Washington, Jefferson
» California to Remove Columbus Statue From State Capitol
» CHAZ Demands ‘Race-Based’ Healthcare, Which is Illegal in the U.S.
» Crackdown: Feds Have Indicted More Than 50 Individuals for Rioting During George Floyd Protests
» DOJ Seeks to Scale Back Immunity for Internet, Social Media Companies
» Ex-Officer Charged With Felony Murder in Shooting Death of Rayshard Brooks; Could Face Death Penalty
» Facebook Will Now Allow Users to Turn Off Political Ads
» Foreign Interference: UK Govt-Linked Group Attempts to Ban Conservative Websites From Google Ads
» Former Bush, Trump Alums Start Pro-Biden Super PAC
» Google Claims it Never Punished Conservative Website
» Group Viciously Attacks Customer Outside TX Store: “Kicked Me in the Face and Said, ‘Black Lives Matter’“
» Houston Protesters Begin to Fall Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd
» Iowa Grandma Promotes Trick to Get Trump to Speak to Empty Room
» Josh Hawley Announces Bill Targeting Bad-Acting Big Tech
» Kente Cloth Worn by Democrats Originated With African Leaders Who Sold Their People as Slaves
» Man Beaten by Gang Says One of Them Shouted “Black Lives Matter”
» Masks No Longer Required in West Wing
» Medical School Sorry for ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Question on Quiz
» Minnesota Freedom Fund Slammed After Revealing Less Than 1% of Donations Have Been Used to Bail People Out of Jail
» Multiple “CIA Failures” Led to Theft of Agency’s Top-Secret Hacking Tools
» Nebraska Democrats Call for Their Senate Nominee to Drop Out of Race
» Northrop Grumman Accused of Fueling False ‘Revenge Porn’ Allegations Against CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou
» On Vote-by-Mail
» Only 20% of People Trust Big Tech to Decide What People Are Allowed to Talk About
» Pelosi Calls on Advertisers to Use Their “Position of Power”, Get Social Media to Censor More “Misinformation”
» Popular Mechanics Publishes Advice on ‘How to Topple Statues’
» Seattle Adds Concrete Barricades to CHOP
» Sen. Tim Kaine Claims America “Didn’t Inherit Slavery” But “Created It”
» Senator Hawley’s Bill Aims to End Big Tech Censorship, But is Likely to be Challenged
» Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Pushing 92-Year-Old Woman Into Fire Hydrant
» Suspect Wanted for Burning of 3rd Minneapolis Police Precinct Arrested in Colorado
» The Long Awaited Tet Offensive Designed to Destroy America is Underway
» Trump Brands Antifa Anarchists Behind Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Terrorists
» Trump: Colin Kaepernick Should Get Another Shot in the NFL
» Tucker Carlson Leads Cable News Ratings Amid George Floyd Protests
» Twitter Mob Attacks ‘Officer Karen’ For Being Concerned About Hatred Towards Police
» Twitter Tried to Ban Tom Cotton for Demanding Rule of Law During Riots
» U.S. Fighter Jets Intercept 8 Russian Warplanes Just Miles From Alaska
» University of Virginia Changes Athletics Logo Linked to Slavery
» You Couldnt Make This Stuff Up
 
Europe and the EU
» “Embarrassing”: UK Football Players ‘Take a Knee’ Before Kick-Off
» Arab Clans Threaten to Kill German Police Entering Their No-Go Area
» At Least 24 Arrested as Antifa Militants Attack French Police During Health Worker Demonstration
» Austria: Man Fined for Farting ‘With Full Intent’ At Police
» Berlin Authorities Placed Children With Pedophiles for 30 Years
» Count Dankula Considers Taking Wrongful Conviction After “Offensive Joke” To European Court of Human Rights
» Denmark: Rasmus Paludan to Stop Demonstrating After He Loses Police Protection
» France: Marine Le Pen’s Convoy Attacked by Left-Wing Extremists in Dijon (Video)
» Germany: Left-Wing Extremist Arrested for Making Fake Right-Wing Death Threat
» Hungarian Government Lifts State of Emergency Over Coronavirus Pandemic
» Study: German Authorities Placed Homeless Children With Known Pedophiles for 30 Years
» Sweden Sees 75 Per Cent Surge in Rape Convictions in Two Years
» Sweden: Muslim Group Forced to Repay Grants for Not Respecting Democracy
» Swedish Mayor Refuses to Tear Down Statue of Belgian-Dutch Industrialist
» UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Car Wreck After Convoy “Targeted by a Protester”
» UK: Boris Looking at New Ways to Punish War Memorial Vandals
» UK: Heavyweight Champ Tyson Fury Responds to Anthony Joshua: “If I Said Don’t Shop in Any Black-Owned Stores, I’d be Crucified”
» UK: Petition Launched to Uncover the Winston Churchill Statue
» UK: Police Call for Ban on Protests
» UK: Thousands Sign Petition to Shut Down Guardian Over Links to Slavery, Anti-Lincoln Propaganda
» UK: Video: Peter Hitchens Followed by Mob of Protesters Exudes Pure Chad Energy
 
Middle East
» 2 Al-Qaeda Leaders Killed With New, Non-Explosive “Ninja Bomb”
 
South Asia
» BLM is a Political Party for a Globalist System to Destroy America
» Indians Demand Revenge on China After Soldiers of Nuclear-Armed Nations Fought to the Death With Nail-Studded Clubs in Brutal Hand-to-Hand Brawl That Killed Up to 70 on Disputed Border
 
Far East
» Another COVID Cover Up in China? BBC Reporter Says Numbers Don’t Add Up in New Outbreak
» Cambodia Requiring All Tourists to Pay $3,000 Deposit to Cover Coronavirus Testing, Any Possible Medical Costs
» Rumors of Wars: China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Israel and Turkey All Move Toward War
 
Australia — Pacific
» Closer Together Than Ever Before: Aussie-UK Deal Could be Signed ‘Soon’
» Fury as Australian Politician Demands States of Queensland and Victoria Are Renamed Because They Honour Britain’s Former Monarch and Head of Empire Who ‘Murdered People’
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Islamic Jihadists Massacre Dozens of Nigerians in Separate Weekend Attacks
 
Immigration
» Channel Migrants: Border Force and RNLI Intercept Boats
» Germany: Berlin Plans to Take 300 More Migrants From Greece
» Greece: Nearly 100 Illegal Migrants Have Landed on Lesvos in Less Than a Week
» Italy: 14 Arrested for Trafficking Young Nigerians Into Sex Work
» Major University Announces All Students Can Enroll ‘Regardless of Citizenship’
» Mass Amnesty for Illegal Migrants in Italy Has Been a Failure, Interior Ministry Data Shows
 
Culture Wars
» Aunt Jemima Brand to be Discontinued After 131 Years Over “Racial Stereotype”
» Limbaugh: Supreme Court Justices “Sellout” In Recent LGBT Decision
» Planned Parenthood Pledges to Triple Election Spending in 2020 Over 2016
» Sen. Hawley Reveals D.C.’s Dirty Little Secret— And the Real Reason SCOTUS ‘Super-Legislators’ Redefined ‘Sex’ In Federal Law
» They Don’t Want You to Read the Comments
» U.N. And W.H.O. Say Green Agenda Necessary to Prevent Future Pandemics
» Uncle Ben’s Vows to “Evolve” Brand Following Aunt Jemima’s Removal
 

Applications for New Home Sales Jumped 26% in May

What pandemic?

Applications for mortgages for new home purchases increased 26% in May compared with April and were up 10.9% compared with May 2019, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Builder Application Survey(BAS).

The 26% month-over-month increase follows a 12% decrease in April.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

It All Comes Back to the Federal Reserve: The NWO is Being Shoved Down Our Throats

The coronavirus was a heck of a cover for the Federal Reserve’s failings, and the riots are laying even more cover for what’s to come. While the masses focus on what’s happening on the surface, the real criminals laugh at our ignorance from their metaphorical ivory towers.

As we fight amongst ourselves and try to figure out which violence is more acceptable looting or police brutality, the ruling class is tightening the chains of our enslavement. With the help of the mainstream media, we are distracted from the core of the problem while dividing ourselves as the masters command.

“We need to direct our attention and our fury at the Federal Reserve,” says Brian of the YouTube channel High Impact Vlogs. This channel is being heavily censored by YouTube for speaking truth to power. But Brian keeps on making videos to try to wake people up. Watch this one before it’s removed. The video starts at 6:30.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Millions of Jobs Lost From COVID-19 Are Never Coming Back

As the world makes its way through the coronavirus pandemic together, questions are starting to surface about what the post-coronavirus global economy is going to look like. Among those questions is an obvious one: how many jobs that were lost due to the virus are going to remain permanently lost and, conversely, how many people will recover the jobs they once had?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rick Rule: “What We Are Seeing is an Inter-Generational Transfer of Wealth on a Massive Scale”

Rick Rule has dedicated his entire adult life to many aspects of natural resources securities investing. Recently, he sat down with Lior Gantz of the Wealth Research Group to discuss the big problems with the federal reserve. The central bank is counterfeiting trillions of dollars, and the outcome for everyday people will be catastrophically negative.

What the Fed is doing, when it creates money out of thin air is nothing less than counterfeiting. Rule says we will be the ones paying for it in the end too. What this amounts to is an “intergenerational transfer of wealth on a massive scale.” People who have voted themselves all of these benefits of counterfeiting are happily collecting. They are then leaving the bill for younger generations.

Watch Rule’s take on the current state of the Federal Reserve:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

17 Arrested for Child Pornography Include 2 Disney Employees

Seventeen suspects accused of downloading or distributing child pornography have been arrested and charged, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Department in Florida.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd on Tuesday detailed a number of the arrests, including two Disney World employees, a nurse, an undocumented immigrant, and an IT specialist who Judd said liked to buy and digest soiled underwear.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

71 Percent of Americans Reject Privacy Killing Contact Tracing Apps

Almost three quarters of Americans say they will not submit their privacy to contact tracing apps, with Europeans also rejecting the notion outright because they do not trust government to keep their information safe and refrain from misusing it.

A study from Avira reveals that the vast majority of Americans are against contact tracing apps, with 71 percent saying they will not download them, and 75% believing their digital privacy is at risk from the technology.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Activists Push for New Police Oversight Board in Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) — A couple hundred activists gathered outside of Chicago City Hall on Wednesday to call on the mayor and City Council to create a new elected board that would have the power to investigate and fire police officers.

The activists hope to persuade Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the council, who were meeting at City Hall during the protest, to support what is called the Civilian Police Accountability Commission, or CPAC, ordinance, though they have been trying for months without gaining much ground.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother: Trump Was “Very Compassionate” During White House Meeting

The mother of Ahmaud Arbery said President Trump was “very compassionate” during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

Prior to signing an executive order on law enforcement reform, the president met with numerous families behind closed doors, including Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Intellectualism at Cornell Law School: Student Groups Organize Boycott of My Course

I have been chronicling the saga of efforts to get me fired and denounced at Cornell Law School because of blog posts I wrote critical of the Black Lives Matter Movement as it originated, developed, and plays out now:

There’s an effort to get me fired at Cornell for criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement

Cornell campus climate “so far beyond political correctness”

Jonathan Turley rips Cornell Law faculty letter against me: “It is the antipathy of the intellectual foundations for higher education”

Thank you for your support in this time of cultural purge

But I have not yet covered an effort to boycott my class.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Beverly Hills Safe From ‘Autonomous Zones’ And Protests After Emergency Order Passed

While celebrities and wealthy virtue signallers are all too eager to rally behind leftist mobs with support and donations, they will be assuredly safe in their gated mansions as the city of Beverly Hills issued an emergency order to ban all protests in the area, ensuring there will be no lawless ‘autonomous zones’ springing up on their doorstep.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Brute Accused of Shoving Elderly NYC Woman Has Been Arrested Over 100 Times

Yet another no-bail success story.

A career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name was busted for cruelly shoving a 92-year-old woman into a Manhattan fire hydrant — leaving his victim too scared to walk alone in her own neighborhood.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CA School District Approves Plan to Rename Schools Named After Washington, Jefferson

Two elementary schools in the San Francisco area, one named for George Washington and one named for Thomas Jefferson, will be renamed after the local school board unanimously passed a “Black Lives Matter” resolution.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

California to Remove Columbus Statue From State Capitol

The California state legislature announced Tuesday that the statues of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella would be removed from the Capitol rotunda, where it was installed in 1883.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

CHAZ Demands ‘Race-Based’ Healthcare, Which is Illegal in the U.S.

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone has made a lot of incoherent demands since they took over the city of Seattle, but their demand for “race-based’ healthcare might be the most laughable.

They don’t just want more blacks as doctors and nurses. They want those black doctors and nurses to only treat black people.

This is illegal in so many ways it’s hard to count.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Crackdown: Feds Have Indicted More Than 50 Individuals for Rioting During George Floyd Protests

At least 50 people are facing Federal riot charges for inciting or committing violent acts during national anti-racism protests, according to the Department of Justice, and more arrests are yet to come. So far, however, none of the individuals taken into DOJ custody have official ties to any “Antifa-type” organization.

“The federal charges cover a variety of alleged criminal behavior — including impersonating a US Marshal in Florida, aiming a laser at a police aircraft in Wisconsin and inciting a riot in Illinois that caused damage to more than 50 businesses,” the New York Post reported Friday, based on a cache of documents released to CBS reporter Catherine Herridge.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

DOJ Seeks to Scale Back Immunity for Internet, Social Media Companies

The U.S. Department of Justice will release a proposed legislative plan to curb legal protections that have existed for more than two decades and that shield internet platforms such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, an official in the Trump administration has said.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Ex-Officer Charged With Felony Murder in Shooting Death of Rayshard Brooks; Could Face Death Penalty

Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe was charged Wednesday with 11 counts, including felony murder, in the death of Rayshard Brooks, whom Rolfe shot to death during an altercation in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Will Now Allow Users to Turn Off Political Ads

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the social media platform would now allow users to turn off political ads.

“Everyone wants to see politicians held accountable for what they say — and I know many people want us to moderate and remove more of their content,” Zuckerberg wrote in a USA Today op-ed article. “For those of you who’ve already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you — so we’re also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political ads.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Foreign Interference: UK Govt-Linked Group Attempts to Ban Conservative Websites From Google Ads

A group with direct links to the government of the United Kingdom and to senior members of the UK Labour Party has taken credit for having websites ZeroHedge and The Federalist threatened with suspension of service by Google ads.

Research conducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK “anti-hate” non-profit, is stated to be behind the bans, according to NBC which reported that The Federalist had been banned by tech giant Google after the “NBC News Verification Unit” brought the CCDH research to their attention.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Former Bush, Trump Alums Start Pro-Biden Super PAC

“The Right Side PAC,” a group comprised of fired and former operatives within the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations, are launching an effort to encourage Republican voters to support Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Google Claims it Never Punished Conservative Website

After NBC News quoted a Google spokesman declaring it had demonetized the conservative website The Federalist, the tech giant is denying the report.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Group Viciously Attacks Customer Outside TX Store: “Kicked Me in the Face and Said, ‘Black Lives Matter’“

Police are searching for multiple suspects involved in a “brutal attack” on a man outside a gas station convenience store in Texas on Sunday.

Footage shows a man carrying grocery bags out of a Harris County store around 7 p.m., when a group of five men attacked, punched him to the ground, and continued striking and kicking him before dispersing, according to local authorities.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Houston Protesters Begin to Fall Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd

Increasing numbers of Houston residents have reportedly been diagnosed with COVID-19 after attending protests against the death of George Floyd.

Large protests began in the city days after the death of Houston native Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. Texas has been experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases. Harris County, which encompasses Houston, has been adding hundreds of new cases each day to the more than 17,000 total confirmed cases reported as of Monday.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Iowa Grandma Promotes Trick to Get Trump to Speak to Empty Room

A 51-year-old Iowa woman has led an effort get President Donald Trump to address an empty auditorium when he speaks at a campaign rally next week.

Mary Jo Laupp posted a video on video sharing platform TikTok last week encouraging her followers to register for Trump’s campaign rally in Oklahoma and then not attend. The plan is designed to purchase as many tickets as possible, forcing the president to address a largely empty auditorium on June 20.

“All of those of us that want to see this 19,000 seat auditorium barely filled or completely empty go reserve tickets now and leave him standing alone there on the stage,” Laupp told her TikTok followers. The platform is known more for dancing teenagers than a stage for people to engage in political advocacy.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Josh Hawley Announces Bill Targeting Bad-Acting Big Tech

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley announced Wednesday that he is introducing a bill aimed at fighting bad acting tech companies hours after Google threatened a conservative publication with demonetization.

The Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act, cosponsored by Republican Representatives Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, would prevent big tech companies from receiving Section 230 immunities unless the companies updated their terms of service, promised to operate in good faith, and promised pay a $5,000 fine if they violated their promise.

“For too long, Big Tech companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook have used their power to silence political speech from conservatives without any recourse for users,” Hawley said in a statement. “Section 230 has been stretched and rewritten by courts to give these companies outlandish power over speech without accountability. Congress should act to ensure bad actors are not given a free pass to censor and silence their opponents.”

Hawley’s announcement comes only a day after Google threatened to ban The Federalist and Zero Hedge from its ad platform, Google Ads, after NBC News published a story claiming that Google had banned both The Federalist and Zero Hedge.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Kente Cloth Worn by Democrats Originated With African Leaders Who Sold Their People as Slaves

Kente cloths donned recently by Congressional Democrats in what seemed to be a show of solidarity with African-Americans originated with an African slave-trading empire, fact checkers have noted.

Following the Democrats wearing the colorful cloths across their shoulders and kneeling in the U.S. Capitol building on June 8, Facebook user Dave Brandon posted this statement on the social media platform:

“Yesterday the Democrats wore kente scarfs and knelt down for their photo op. So check this out, Kente cloth was worn by the Ashanti. It’s made of silk so the affluent wore it. The Ashanti were also known as slave owners and traders. Huh? … This makes me wonder why they chose to wear this particular tribe’s garb.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Man Beaten by Gang Says One of Them Shouted “Black Lives Matter”

A man viciously beaten by a gang of young black men in Spring, Texas claimed one of them shouted “black lives matter” after kicking him in the face.

Video of the incident shows the victim leaving a gas station convenience store carrying two bags.

The 24-year-old man claims the gang of six black men confronted him inside the store after he told them, “There’s a line for a reason” when they tried to cut in.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Masks No Longer Required in West Wing

West Wing employees are no longer required to wear masks, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Wednesday.

The new policy is a reversal of a May 11 memo requiring staffers to wear masks. McEnany confirmed on Wednesday that the policy had changed.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Medical School Sorry for ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Question on Quiz

(THE COLLEGE FIX) — Before “I can’t breathe” became the rallying cry of the Black Lives Matter movement, the phrase was simply a direct way for patients to tell medical personnel that they couldn’t breathe.

Medical patients may want to find a new way to convey their pulmonary distress, lest they be accused of triggering someone.

The Indiana University School of Medicine apologized to students for a question on a cardiovascular exam that included the phrase “I can’t breath[e],” according to screenshots of the question (above) and message to seniors in “All Sections” (below) that were forwarded to The College Fix. The question reads:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Minnesota Freedom Fund Slammed After Revealing Less Than 1% of Donations Have Been Used to Bail People Out of Jail

The Minnesota Freedom Fund received backlash Tuesday after admitting that only $200,000 out of the more than $30 million raised by the organization has been used to bail out protesters.

Nationwide protests, some of which escalated into violent riots, began May 25 after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. As of June 8, over 10,000 people had been arrested while protesting, according to The Guardian.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Multiple “CIA Failures” Led to Theft of Agency’s Top-Secret Hacking Tools

In early 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing details of top-secret CIA hacking tools that researchers soon confirmed were part of a large tranche of confidential documents stolen from one of the agency’s isolated, high-security networks. The leak—comprising as much as 34 terabytes of information and representing the CIA’s biggest data loss in history—was the result of “woefully lax” practices, according to portions of a report that were published on Tuesday.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Nebraska Democrats Call for Their Senate Nominee to Drop Out of Race

The Nebraska Democratic Party (NDP) on Tuesday called on its nominee in the state’s Senate race to suspend his campaign after he made sexually offensive comments about a staffer in a text message sent to her and other employees.

The NDP said in a statement that Democrat Chris Janicek on Monday declined to comply with a request it made Thursday to suspend his campaign. The NDP’s State Executive Committee later voted unanimously to withdraw all party resources from the Janicek campaign.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Northrop Grumman Accused of Fueling False ‘Revenge Porn’ Allegations Against CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou

Northrop Grumman, the third largest military contractor in the world, was allegedly involved in falsely accusing CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou of “revenge porn.” The false accusation allegedly resulted in his arrest, improper charges, and a police raid that violated his privacy rights.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

On Vote-by-Mail

Authored by J. Christian Adamas via The Gatestone Institute

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.

The first target of the election transformation was Congress. Soon after the pandemic reached our shores, House Democrats passed emergency legislation that would have federalized election process rules.

The Constitution decentralizes how we run elections because decentralization promotes individual liberty. When elections are decentralized, no single malevolent actor can manipulate or control the outcome.

During both the Bush and Obama administrations, I worked in the Voting Section at the United States Department of Justice. I witnessed firsthand how federal bureaucrats could manipulate, coerce and threaten state officials who did not conform to the bureaucrat’s sensibilities about how elections should be run.

Naturally the federal government has a role in ensuring that elections are conducted in a way that complies with federal laws and the Constitution. For example, the 15th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do not allow discrimination on the basis of race.

But apart from these limited federal carve-outs, the Constitution vests states with the power to run their own elections and set the qualifications to vote.

The bill that passed the House would have mandated automatic vote by mail in every state. It would have mandated same-day voter registration as well as weeks of early voting. It would have banished voter photo identification laws. It would have legalized vote harvesting in every state. Other proposals in Congress would have allowed mail ballots to be counted even if they were not postmarked by election day.

What the bills would actually do is foment chaos. The election would not be decided on election day. Millions of mail ballots would keep appearing, keep rolling in, until there were enough votes to make the difference. If there was a dispute, lawyers would steal the show, subjecting America to weeks of post-election court contests to force a particular outcome.

Making all of this even worse are the hundreds of millions of dollars that leftist foundations dedicate to this process fight. There is money for media outlets to publish stories that voter fraud is a myth. They even lend struggling newspapers foundation-funded “reporters” to work for free, as long as they publish stories saying voter fraud is a myth.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Only 20% of People Trust Big Tech to Decide What People Are Allowed to Talk About

A poll by the Gallup and the Knight Foundation revealed that 80% of the American population don’t trust social media companies with deciding what’s right to appear and what is to be taken down.

At a juncture where Big Tech social media platforms are facing backlash over censorship, polls such as this echo the public opinion about how social media platforms are growing biased.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Pelosi Calls on Advertisers to Use Their “Position of Power”, Get Social Media to Censor More “Misinformation”

Social media platforms are again receiving backlash from politicians for profiting from coronavirus-related “misinformation”. While platforms such as Facebook and YouTube have actively pledged that they would put misinformation on a tight leash and have been censoring heavily, their efforts seem to have not been up to the mark, at least according to Democrats who want them to censor more.

In a forum organized by George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics (IDDP) on the topic of “misinformation negligence” on social media platforms and its consequences, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made several critical comments over how non-mainstream narrative has become a huge problem in recent times.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Popular Mechanics Publishes Advice on ‘How to Topple Statues’

Article explains best ways to destroy monuments.

[Comment: Perhaps someone will write an article on how to destroy a publishing company.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Seattle Adds Concrete Barricades to CHOP

The City of Seattle isn’t quite as big as it was a month ago. Well, technically, it’s the same size, but the among of real estate answerable to the local government is smaller by about six blocks.

The CHOP, formerly the CHAZ—which I was partial to myself—takes up a fair bit of real estate and claims that it doesn’t answer to any government except themselves. Signs on the border make that very clear.

Still, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan continues to try and sell a line of BS that this is just some protest and it actually a wonderful thing to watch. She’s complicit in an attempt to succeed from the country.

More than that, though, she’s officially giving her government’s approval by essentially legitimizing the CHOP.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Sen. Tim Kaine Claims America “Didn’t Inherit Slavery” But “Created It”

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed Tuesday that the United States “didn’t inherit slavery from anybody,” but rather “created” the institution itself.

In a speech from the Senate floor, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate called for the destruction of the “structures of racism” intentionally created and sustained by U.S. lawmakers over the last few centuries.

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Senator Hawley’s Bill Aims to End Big Tech Censorship, But is Likely to be Challenged

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has been working closely with the White House to prepare a bill targeting social media companies. Today he unveiled the proposal, which promises to empower Americans to sue Big Tech companies when they censor speech in “bad faith” — but if you were looking for an easy solution to end social media censorship, this probably isn’t going to be it, as there are some easy points on which it will be challenged.

The bill is dubbed “Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act” and we have a copy of it for you here.

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Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Pushing 92-Year-Old Woman Into Fire Hydrant

The New York Police Department has arrested a suspect who allegedly pushed a 92-year-old woman into a fire hydrant on Friday.

Video shows a man walking toward the woman before shoving her on the ground as she walks past. The man continues to walk away while looking back at the woman, who had hit her head on a nearby fire hydrant.

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Suspect Wanted for Burning of 3rd Minneapolis Police Precinct Arrested in Colorado

On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service, alongside with the ATF, announced a 22-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection to the fire set at the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct last month.

According to a tweet, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson was arrested in Breckenridge, Colorado. He is one of several suspects wanted for the burning of the police station on May 28.

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The Long Awaited Tet Offensive Designed to Destroy America is Underway

What is happening all across the country with regard to the George Soros response to the Floyd murder is a well-coordinated terrorist plot that was lying in wait for the right event to unleash holy hell on America. As I have stated in a previous article, the Floyd riots are well-orchestrated and involve people other than outraged Minneapolis citizens. In a recent article, I documented how Candace Owens was reporting that the Minneapolis Police Chief stated that the people apprehended for arson, violence, etc., were not from Minneapolis. They agents of domestic terror. Later this morning, I am interviewing a media person who has information which states that the among the George Soros thugs present in riots all across the country, Soros has paid prisoners, released from Illinois prisons while using the convenient excuse that they were being protected from the COVID-19 virus. Why is nobody asking the question about who is now protecting us from these terrorist thugs?

This article will skip to the end of this TET Offensive plot and focus on ISIS as they will prove to be the driving force prior to the United States being invaded by China. Later articles will backtrack and expose other groups involved as well (eg Muslim Brotherhood, MS-13, HAMAS, etc).

I have written about this before in that I have believed for a long time that covert terrorist forces, both foreign and domestic, would launch a massive wave of terror across America which is designed to enhance America’s downfall. I previously stated that I was convinced, that on a predetermined signal similar to the Viet Cong Tet Offensive, a coordinated and massive phased attack would be launched against the United States. What we have been witnessing up to this point, for the last several years are probing actions. ISIS and friends are testing our response times, the nature of our first response, etc. The Floyd murder is that predetermined signal which has set off the 2020 version of the TET Offensive.

In a couple of conversations spanning two weeks, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has encouraged me to recycle some of the investigative work I was doing 5-7 years ago regarding the terrorist forces that are going to be brought into play as a result of the Floyd murder. In a future article, I will be dealing the various phases that are and will be brought to bear against the American people. The pattern is distinctive and matches my prognostications from 5-7 years. In this article, I am going to review the very dangerous, national-security-threatening forces present in our country that are being put into play against the American people as I write these words. Make no mistake about it, we are at war. China, the Deep State and their partners in crime, the Democratic Party leadership (eg Obama, Feinstein, Pelosi, Schiff, Biden, etc) are all behind this massive coup against America. Over the next several articles, the chain of custody over these terrorists, both foreign and domestic, will once-again, reveal that the Communist Chinese and their elitist partners (eg George Soros) are behind this attack and will be behind future attacks against America.

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Trump Brands Antifa Anarchists Behind Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Terrorists

It has been called a ‘nation within a nation’. A six-bloc zone in Seattle has been taken over by Antifa and its cohorts in Seattle and renamed the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Consecutive nights of violent protest led Mayor Jenny Durkan (Democrat) to effectively abandon the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct building, barricades were removed along with items of value and the officers defending it.

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Trump: Colin Kaepernick Should Get Another Shot in the NFL

President Trump — who famously said NFL owners should fire any “son of a bitch” who knelt during the national anthem — now says Colin Kaepernick should get another shot in the league.

“If he deserves it, he should. If he has the playing ability. He started off great, and then he didn’t end up very great … as a player,” Trump told WABC TV’s Scott Thuman, who tweeted part of the conversation.

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Tucker Carlson Leads Cable News Ratings Amid George Floyd Protests

Fox News host Tucker Carlson led all of cable news during the week of June 8 as coverage of protests and riots continue across the country.

Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged approximately four million viewers, slipping by fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity, who averaged roughly 3.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

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Twitter Mob Attacks ‘Officer Karen’ For Being Concerned About Hatred Towards Police

A female cop who expressed anxiety about her McDonalds order being poisoned given the vitriolic hatred of police that has gripped America was turned into the butt of a joke by a Twitter mob who declared her “Officer Karen.”

In a clip uploaded to social media, the officer describes how she visited McDonalds on the way home from work but that she was made to wait a long time to receive her food order.

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Twitter Tried to Ban Tom Cotton for Demanding Rule of Law During Riots

Twitter tried to give Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton the boot after the senator and combat veteran went on cable television to advocate the use of the federal military to quell violent riots engulfing the nation.

“First on television, then on Twitter, I noted that the National Guard and active-duty troops could be called out to support local police if necessary, as happened during the 1992 Los Angeles riots,” Cotton wrote in a Fox News op-ed Tuesday. “‘No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters,’ I wrote.”

Twitter however, Cotton said, took “no quarter” to mean “no prisoners.” In other words, Twitter tried to claim Cotton was calling on the U.S. military to shoot citizen protestors.

“Never mind that the phrase today is a common metaphor for a tough or merely unkind approach to a situation,” Cotton wrote.

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U.S. Fighter Jets Intercept 8 Russian Warplanes Just Miles From Alaska

United States fighter jets intercepted eight Russian warplanes on Wednesday within 32 miles of Alaskan shores in two separate incidents, military officials reported.

NORAD Commander Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy reported that with the latest incursion, Russian military aircraft “have penetrated our Canadian or Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zones” for the eighth time this year.

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University of Virginia Changes Athletics Logo Linked to Slavery

The University of Virginia has decided to change the logos it uses for its athletic programs after criticism that the new design linked the school’s history with slavery. The design was unveiled just two months ago.

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You Couldnt Make This Stuff Up

You couldn’t make this stuff up. A black high school principal in Chicago is under pressure to resign for asking students who join the protests not to participate in violence or looting.

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“Embarrassing”: UK Football Players ‘Take a Knee’ Before Kick-Off

Footballers in the UK’s first Premier League game since the coronavirus lockdown took a knee before kick off, the first of what will undoubtedly by many examples of cringe virtue signaling about a “problem” that literally doesn’t exist.

“After the whistle for kick-off, every player and official inside Villa Park took the knee. Powerful stuff,” tweeted BBC Sport.

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Arab Clans Threaten to Kill German Police Entering Their No-Go Area

Arab clan gangs have threatened to kill police officers who attempt to enforce the law in the troubled area of Marxloh in the city of Duisburg, claiming only sharia applies to them.

The Marxloh area has become a hub for Arab clan gangs in recent years. Last month, police faced down a mob of around 200 residents when attempting to arrest a local teen. After using tear gas and calling for reinforcements, it took 36 police to finally detain the youth who had hidden in a residential building.

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At Least 24 Arrested as Antifa Militants Attack French Police During Health Worker Demonstration

At least 24 people were arrested on Tuesday after black bloc Antifa militants clashed with police, attacking officers in Paris on the fringes of a demonstration for healthcare workers.

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Austria: Man Fined for Farting ‘With Full Intent’ At Police

BERLIN (AP) — A man in Vienna has been fined 500 euros ($565) for breaking wind loudly in front of police — a move that the Austrian capital’s police force was at pains to defend on Tuesday.

The Oesterreich newspaper reported that the fine stemmed from an incident on June 5 and that the offender was fined for “offending public decency.”

City police wrote on Twitter that “of course no one is reported for accidentally ‘letting one go.’“ They added that the man had behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers that preceded the incident.

He got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent,” they said. “And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”

Police noted that the decision could be appealed.

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Berlin Authorities Placed Children With Pedophiles for 30 Years

The ‘Kentler Project’ in West Berlin routinely placed homeless children with pedophile men, assuming they’d make ideal foster parents. A study has found the practice went on for decades

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Count Dankula Considers Taking Wrongful Conviction After “Offensive Joke” To European Court of Human Rights

Scottish comedian Mark Meechan, better known as Count Dankula, has posted a video on his demonetized YouTube channel, describing the multi-year legal saga he has been going through for making a joke that some people found offensive.

And this legal path he has been following in an attempt to clear his name has now reached a fork in the road, with the YouTuber asking his audience to help him decide which way to go.

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Denmark: Rasmus Paludan to Stop Demonstrating After He Loses Police Protection

Infamous anti-migration politician and provocateur Rasmus Paludan has said that he will no longer hold public demonstrations because the police have stopped offering him protection.

Paludan made the announcement in a video posted to the Facebook page of his political party, Stram Kurs (Hard Line), on Tuesday.

Paludan had been receiving regular protection from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) for years. He says that he made the decision to suspend his demonstrations after the PET made continuing to protect him conditional on him refusing to appear in certain places. Paludan said that he considers this a threat from the PET and refused to accept such conditions, according to a report by Ekstra Bladet.

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France: Marine Le Pen’s Convoy Attacked by Left-Wing Extremists in Dijon (Video)

The convoy of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the populist National Rally party, was attacked on Tuesday by a mob of left-wing extremists in Dijon. The attack occurred just after Le Pen had given a press conference at a local hotel.

In a video clip, which was captured by French media company CNews, a mob of hooded individuals can be seen kicking and throwing projectiles at the procession of cars. At one point, an occupant inside of one of the vehicles in the convoy can be seen praying the rabid attackers with what appears to be large canister of pepper spray.

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Germany: Left-Wing Extremist Arrested for Making Fake Right-Wing Death Threat

Police in Germany have arrested a suspect in a case where a death threat was sent to politicians from Die Linke (The Left), one of the country’s main liberal parties, in Landau. The suspect is a former member of Die Linke who wrote the threat to seem as if it had come from a Right-winger in the hope of getting publicity for the party.

The Prosecutor’s Office in Koblenz announced that police arrested the suspect after searching his home in the nearby town of Kandel on Monday. The man, 63, confessed to the crime during the search. He is a former member of Die Linke himself, according to a report by Die Welt.

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Hungarian Government Lifts State of Emergency Over Coronavirus Pandemic

The Hungarian government announced Tuesday that parliament has voted to end the extraordinary legal order conferring special powers on government during the coronavirus pandemic.

Belying panicked reports that Hungary was trying to establish a “dictatorship,” the government will end its self-imposed state of emergency peacefully as early as Wednesday at midnight.

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Study: German Authorities Placed Homeless Children With Known Pedophiles for 30 Years

Psychology professor was empowered by state to deliver helpless children to predators [Comment: Those involved in allowing happen should get a life sentence.]

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Sweden Sees 75 Per Cent Surge in Rape Convictions in Two Years

Sweden has seen a dramatic rise in the number of convictions for rape from the period between 2017 and 2019, according to figures released by the Crime Prevention Council (Brå).

In 2019, the country saw 333 convictions for rape compared to 190 in 2017, with some Swedish publications noting that changes in Sweden’s laws in 2018 may have had an impact on the number of convictions.

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Sweden: Muslim Group Forced to Repay Grants for Not Respecting Democracy

Sweden’s supreme administrative court has upheld an order for a Muslim youth group to repay government grants after it was ruled to not “respect the ideas of democracy”.

The group Sveriges Unga Muslimer (SUM/Sweden’s Young Muslims) had initially been rejected for state grants in 2017. The authority for youth and civil society ruled that the group failed to respect the ideals of democracy and went further, demanding the SUM repay money previously given by the government.

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Swedish Mayor Refuses to Tear Down Statue of Belgian-Dutch Industrialist

The mayor of Norrköping, a small town in eastern Sweden, has refused demands from the mob to tear down a statue of Louis De Geer — a Belgian-Dutch industrialist who worked in Sweden in the 17th century. The statue of De Geer has been standing in the town’s center since 1945.

De Geer, who lived from 1587 to 1652, was a part of the “African company”, which was involved in Sweden’s slave trade in Western Africa during the period when Swedish Queen Kristina created the Swedish colony “Cabo Corso” in present day Ghana.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Car Wreck After Convoy “Targeted by a Protester”

Given the world beheld scenes last week of Black Lives Matters protesters overrunning parliament square in London while vandalizing and defacing statues and monuments ranging from war memorials to Winston Churchill to even an Abraham Lincoln statue, with police appearing at times to sit back at let the destruction happen, it was only a matter of time before something like the below.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was involved in a car wreck when a protester ran out in front of the convoy as it departed Westminster on Wednesday.

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UK: Boris Looking at New Ways to Punish War Memorial Vandals

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that his government is looking at new ways to punish protesters who desecrate war memorials, after far-left Black Lives Matter agitators defiled London icons, including the Cenotaph.

Speaking during Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Prime Minister Johnson said: “I can tell the House any incident of vandalism or attack on public property will be met with the full force of the law and perpetrators will be prosecuted.

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UK: Heavyweight Champ Tyson Fury Responds to Anthony Joshua: “If I Said Don’t Shop in Any Black-Owned Stores, I’d be Crucified”

Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury responded to fellow fighter Anthony Joshua’s statements at a recent Black Lives Matter event, in which Joshua said of whites, “Show them where it hurts. Abstain from spending your money in their shops and economies and invest in black-owned businesses.”

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UK: Petition Launched to Uncover the Winston Churchill Statue

A petition has been launched to demand Boris Johnson uncover the Winston Churchill statue in London, which is still hidden inside a grey box, handing a victory to the mob who want to see it removed.

The monument of Britain’s greatest icon has now been boxed up for almost two weeks in response to violent Black Lives Matter protests which now appear to be winding down.

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UK: Police Call for Ban on Protests

The Police Federation of England and Wales is calling on the United Kingdom’s Home Office to temporarily ban protests due to the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The call comes after weeks of riots in which police officers have come under frequent attack, despite the fact that large gatherings are still officially banned as a social distancing measure. The Home Office says that the police have not filed the proper applications for such a ban, however.

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UK: Thousands Sign Petition to Shut Down Guardian Over Links to Slavery, Anti-Lincoln Propaganda

The British left’s flagship newspaper is facing the call to eat its own tail, after more than 12,000 people have signed a petition calling for the liberal, pro-Black Lives Matter Guardian to be shut down over its historical links to slavery and for siding with the Confederate states during the American Civil War.

The Change.org petition to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) already has more than 12,000 signatures with the number growing hourly, spurred on by accusations against the newspaper of hypocrisy for backing the far-left BLM while having a history connected to slavery.

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UK: Video: Peter Hitchens Followed by Mob of Protesters Exudes Pure Chad Energy

A video of author Peter Hitchens casually strolling away from a mob of protesters following him as he exudes pure chad energy is going viral.

Hitchens was observing a Black Lives Matter protest in Oxford when the mob turned on him and started pursuing him down the street.

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2 Al-Qaeda Leaders Killed With New, Non-Explosive “Ninja Bomb”

Two al-Qaeda leaders in northwestern Syria were killed on Sunday after their vehicle was struck by a new “ninja bomb” equipped with steel blades that “emerge from the missile moments before impact.”

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BLM is a Political Party for a Globalist System to Destroy America

The movement is being used to deliberately collapse the country.

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Indians Demand Revenge on China After Soldiers of Nuclear-Armed Nations Fought to the Death With Nail-Studded Clubs in Brutal Hand-to-Hand Brawl That Killed Up to 70 on Disputed Border

Indian Defence Ministry spokesman Col. Aman Anand did not respond immediately to queries on the situation Wednesday or whether talks were planned to defuse the tensions.

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Another COVID Cover Up in China? BBC Reporter Says Numbers Don’t Add Up in New Outbreak

The BBC’s correspondent in China has warned that the communist government may be in the midst of a second coronavirus cover up, as a massive police and medical response to a new cluster in Beijing doesn’t tally with the reported number of cases.

The Chinese government has locked down the capital city, instituted travel bans, and is rounding up residents, putting them on buses and placing them in quarantine.

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Cambodia Requiring All Tourists to Pay $3,000 Deposit to Cover Coronavirus Testing, Any Possible Medical Costs

Cambodia isn’t taking any chances on foreign travelers — and it certainly isn’t covering their medical expenses.

The Civil Aviation Department of Cambodia has recently announced a requirement for all foreign visitors to provide a deposit of $3,000 upon arrival in the country, to be used for cover the costs of testing, quarantining, and any medical expenses that may arise amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Rumors of Wars: China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Israel and Turkey All Move Toward War

As if we didn’t have enough already going on in 2020, now we are facing the possibility that several regional wars may erupt. China and India had both been pouring troops into a disputed border region, and now there has been an incident where they were actually killing each other. On the Korean peninsula, North Korea just blew up “a joint liaison office” that it had used for talks with the South Korean government. And in the Middle East, Turkey is warning of grave consequences if Israel goes ahead with a plan to annex portions of Judea and Samaria. If a major regional war erupts at even one of these flashpoints, it will be another devastating blow for a global economy that is already imploding, and there is a very strong probability that the U.S. and other major western powers could be drawn into the conflict.

Right now, most Americans are focused on our internal problems, and so they are paying very little attention to the growing crisis on the border between China and India.

Both nations had sent substantial contingents of troops to an area of the border that has long been disputed, and a meeting that was supposed to defuse tensions actually resulted in soldiers killing one another…

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Closer Together Than Ever Before: Aussie-UK Deal Could be Signed ‘Soon’

The UK has launched post-Brexit trade negotiations with Australia and New Zealand, with the Australian high commissioner saying that a deal is “top priority” for Canberra, which he expects could be signed “fairly soon”.

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss announced the opening of talks on Wednesday. The UK traded £21 billion worth of goods and services to the two Commonwealth countries last year, and free trade agreements could see the value of exports increased by £1 billion.

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Fury as Australian Politician Demands States of Queensland and Victoria Are Renamed Because They Honour Britain’s Former Monarch and Head of Empire Who ‘Murdered People’

Lidia Thorpe, who represented the Greens in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 2017 and 2018, said the territories got their names because of an ‘invasion of this country’.

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Islamic Jihadists Massacre Dozens of Nigerians in Separate Weekend Attacks

After massacring more than 80 people last Tuesday, a group of jihadists linked to the Islamic State killed dozens more Nigerians in attacks on two villages on Saturday.

Following a brief skirmish with armed locals who constituted part of a government-backed militia, jihadist gunmen on motorcycles and in the back of pickup trucks used machine guns and rocket launchers to kill fleeing villagers. Almost 40 people died in the village of Nganzai and an additional 15 were killed in a second attack on the town of Monguno.

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Channel Migrants: Border Force and RNLI Intercept Boats

More than 30 migrants have been brought ashore at Dover after Border Force vessels intercepted three small boats in the Channel.

The Home Office said the alerts came in the early hours between 04:50 BST and about 06:15 BST.

Thirty-four men and women were passed to immigration officials after undergoing medical checks.

A lifeboat intercepted a fourth small boat carrying a further seven men and one woman on Wednesday afternoon.

The fourth migrant boat, intercepted just after 12:10 BST, was taken to Ramsgate, a Home Office spokeswoman said.

She said the 42 people in total who were brought to the Kent ports gave their nationalities as Afghan, Kuwaiti, Iranian, Iraqi, Yemini, Syrian and Turkish.

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Germany: Berlin Plans to Take 300 More Migrants From Greece

A left-wing lawmaker in the Berlin senate has drafted a proposal that, if accepted by the state’s Senate and approved by the federal Interior Ministry would see at least 300 migrants in reception centers across Greece relocated to Germany.

Andreas Geisel, Berlin’s state senator for interior affairs and a member of the Social Democratic Party, tabled a draft of the decree at the state senate on Tuesday. However, even in the case that the Berlin senate does give the decree the green light, Germany’s federal Interior Ministry has to approve of it as well, Der Tagesspiegel reports.

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Greece: Nearly 100 Illegal Migrants Have Landed on Lesvos in Less Than a Week

A boat with 27 illegal migrants landed south of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesvos on Wednesday morning. The landing marks the third batch of thirty or so illegal migrants to arrive in Lesvos in less than a week, and the fifth boat to arrive in the month of June.

The migrants, after disembarking from the boat, underwent medical testing and examination by healthcare personnel from Greece’s National Health Organization. After the tests and examinations were carried out, the migrants were transported to the Kara Tempe were they will be placed in a week-long quarantine, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reports.

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Italy: 14 Arrested for Trafficking Young Nigerians Into Sex Work

Witch doctor used voodoo to persuade girls to leave

(ANSA) — Catania, June 12 — Italian police on Friday arrested 14 people, mostly Nigerians, on charges of trafficking Nigerian girls, some of them minors, into sex work in Italy.

Ten of the arrests took place in Sicily and the northern cities of Verona, Novara and Mondovì.

The gang allegedly used “connection men” in Libya, police said.

Police said the trafficking victims were promised steady jobs and a good life in Italy.

They were then threatened by a “witch doctor” in their home villages who used voodoo rites to get them to promise to pay back the 25,000 euros they each paid to get to Italy, police said.

The young women and girls crossed the Mediterranean from Libya in boats that were picked up by rescue ships, and then re-assembled in Sicily, police said.

They were pressed into prostitution and sent around Italy.

Their earnings were sent back to the witch doctor in Nigeria to be distributed around the gang and pay for more recruits, police said.

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Major University Announces All Students Can Enroll ‘Regardless of Citizenship’

(THE COLLEGE FIX) — The president of the University of Virginia announced on Tuesday that all students — “regardless of citizenship or immigration status” — are eligible to enroll at the school.

Jim Ryan said it is UVA’s mission to “attract outstanding students who will make our community stronger and the world a better place,” and as such the university “should be open to all qualified applicants.”

UVA Rector James Murray added “[W]e need to acknowledge, regardless of status, that every qualified young adult deserves an education. As an institution that recruits the best and brightest students from around the world, UVA must stand in support of admitting students regardless of their immigration status.”

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Mass Amnesty for Illegal Migrants in Italy Has Been a Failure, Interior Ministry Data Shows

Italy’s amnesty offering to the country’s estimated 600,000 illegal migrants in order to bolster the agricultural sector has been a major failure, according to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior.

For days, the public waited for the first official Interior Ministry data to be published. As there was no press conference or a statement, for several hours, the eyes were turned to the website of the Interior Ministry, where the listed numbers showed the first snapshot of the progress made in the regularization of undocumented foreign workers, which started two weeks ago.

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Aunt Jemima Brand to be Discontinued After 131 Years Over “Racial Stereotype”

The Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mix will be discontinued after 131 years after its parent company, Quaker Oats, said the name and image are “based on a racial stereotype.”

The products will be re-branded with a new name and new image, Quaker said.

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Limbaugh: Supreme Court Justices “Sellout” In Recent LGBT Decision

Conservative Supreme Court justices have sold out their conservative supporters with a recent ruling in favor of the LGBT community, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program Tuesday.

“What happened yesterday at the Supreme Court may be the biggest sellout of conservatism by conservative justices in the history of the Supreme Court … “ the talk show host said.

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Planned Parenthood Pledges to Triple Election Spending in 2020 Over 2016

Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced that it is promising to triple the amount of dollars it spends on the 2020 presidential election.

Planned Parenthood recently launched a $45 million ad campaign in key battleground states ahead of the 2020 election. The campaign’s spending is three times what it spent in the 2016 Trump/Clinton race and eight times what it spent in the congressional midterms of 2018.

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Sen. Hawley Reveals D.C.’s Dirty Little Secret— And the Real Reason SCOTUS ‘Super-Legislators’ Redefined ‘Sex’ In Federal Law

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) took to the floor of the Senate on Tuesday to excoriate the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision, which essentially rewrote federal law, usurping the power of Congress, in order to redefine the meaning of “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Hawley laid the blame squarely at the feed of cowardly lawmakers who prioritize their own political careers above all else.

Hawley called Bostock v. Clayton County a “seismic decision” that changes the scope, meaning, and text of the Civil Rights Act.

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They Don’t Want You to Read the Comments

The comments section is often where people go to get the truth. We all know that media is biased and so heading to the comments section gives us a better feel for the perspectives on what is being discussed and the ability to see the author of an article challenged over their opinion.

It’s the same way with tweets and social media posts — the replies are what make the platforms social and not just broadcasts.

If you read most mainstream articles these days, you might feel that you’re the odd one out, that the world’s gone completely mad, and that you’re a lone voice in the midst of it all. It’s only when you scroll down to the comments that you realize you aren’t alone, you’re not crazy and it’s actually the mainstream media narratives are increasingly the fringe perspective.

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U.N. And W.H.O. Say Green Agenda Necessary to Prevent Future Pandemics

Officials from the United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Wildlife Fund have declared that health crises like the recent coronavirus pandemic are the result of humanity’s poor treatment of nature.

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, head of the U.N. convention on biological diversity, Maria Neira, the World Health Organization director for environment and health, and Marco Lambertini, head of WWF International, have called for an environmentally conscious response to COVID-19, suggesting that agricultural and diet changes are necessary.

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Uncle Ben’s Vows to “Evolve” Brand Following Aunt Jemima’s Removal

Just hours after Quaker Oats announced the discontinuation of its Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mix, the owner of Uncle Ben’s rice said it was following suit with similar changes.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Mars said that “now is the right time to evolve the Uncle Ben’s brand, including its visual brand identity…”

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13 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/17/2020

  1. I am not a flatologist and thus can not assess to what extent the austrian policemen were endangered. However the e-vent reminded me of a comic strip in the National Lampoon of the seventies.: the hero was Fartman ( cape and capital F on his breast)who could transform his emanations into a devastating wall of flames or into jet- propulsion if need was.
    And should it have been a car- fart, the perp must be punished to the full extent of austrian law.

  2. When the great “correction” actually occurs the SJW crowd must always be reminded in the centuries to come that they asked for this, even begged for it.

    • Interestingly Lewis Hamilton the F1 driver on
      A paltry 40 million pound a year salary has gone
      Out of his way to label anybody who is
      Critical of BLM has overlooked one thing.
      His employer, along with many other German
      Companies, used thousands of slave labours
      During WW11!

      Hopefully Lewis, bless his little cotton socks,
      Will now seek to pay back all his earnings
      Immediately whilst seeking to cancel every
      Mercedes dealerships World wide. Oh and
      Also pay reparations to all the mainly Jewish
      Relatives of all the slaves this company
      Worked to death.

      He wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite now
      Would he?

  3. Does everyone see the historic parallel to the Maoist Cultural Revolution that destroyed Chinese culture? The ‘Struggle Sessions’ where people were denigrated, humiliated and made to bow before their Red Guard captors is one and the same to the kneeling to BLM today. All of the eradication of historic cultural icons of today mimics what the CCP did in China. Even the quarantine of healthy populations to mask the rounding up of political dissidents and their elimination has been mimicked in Europe and America where now people are forced to where their symbol, the mask. Because this is nothing but the mask of a war now being waged against us. At what point will all of this be thrown off of us? Can anyone take a guess on that one?

    • I see it as similar to the Cultural Revolution, but also a much greater similarity to the Iconoclasm of the Byzantine Empire where there was a deliberate effort to destroy their icons, images, artwork, and culture. This cultural destruction went on for over a century before it ended. In essence it was a power struggle between religious and political factions for control.

      As to how long the present day mess will last, I would have to guess until the first serious economic downturn where large numbers of blue collar workers are unemployed, at which point there will be little excuse to not go out and defend these monuments, start cracking some antifa skulls, and shoot some rioters and looters.

  4. A full scale uprising would be in order. Eastern Europe can hold the line while the western rabble gets its who own what and which side is up together. Muslims and Arabs guarantee no progress or future for whitey if
    he keeps handing over his women and children as hostages. Why are Arabs, Mohammad and Muslims not getting a mention in the history of slavery and the world right up to the present day. Smash back on the public airwaves for Christ’s sake. Tell the truth.

  5. Greedy Cambodia find another way to force tourists to give them more cash for catching corona virus in Cambodia. Cambodia is getting, nastier as they get richer and greedier. It is time US stop allowing Cambodia to use and misuse US dollars in such a highly corrupt, inhumane, harsh country such as Cambodia.
    Cambodia together with China has been bleeding us dry switch their lies and greed.
    The only way to stop them taking advantage of us is to stop visiting their hellholes.

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