In the English city of Reading a man went on a rampage with a knife, stabbing three people to death. The suspect, who is Libyan, was arrested at the scene. Authorities believe that the incident may be related to terrorism.
In BLM news, one man was shot to death and another seriously wounded in the CHOP autonomous zone in Seattle. Meanwhile, protesters in San Francisco pulled down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant. Also, the latest commercial brand to be retired is the Eskimo Pie, which features a picture of an Inuit urchin in a frigid milieu.
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Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via Forbes.com
Local politicians in Washington, D.C. claim a $1.5 billion budget deficit due to the coronavirus pandemic. So, they’re lobbying Congress for a two-year $3.15 billion bailout.
But the city’s financial woes aren’t stopping nearly 8,000 city government employees — including the mayor and city council — from bringing home six-figure salaries and higher.
Washington’s leaders try and fail each year in their application for statehood, but they’re already out-earning their state counterparts.
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1 Person Killed, Another Wounded During Shooting in Seattle’s Autonomous Zone
One person was killed and another wounded during a shooting incident early Saturday morning in Seattle’s “cop-free” zone, according to reports.
Seattle police confirmed that the shooting took place at 10th Ave. and East Pine within the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) at approximately 2:30 a.m.
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America’s Own Color Revolution
Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, “democracy” NGOs and other groups since the 1980’s. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order.
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Austin Protesters Storm Police HQ, Haul Down American, Texas Flags. They Also Burned Them.
This incident happened in Austin, Texas Friday evening.
KXAN TV frames this story with the following headline:
“APD officer says protesters pulled down and burned US, Texas flags”
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BLM Co-Founder Admits: “Our Goal is to Get Trump Out”
While massive protests continue to rage across the country (and beyond) in the name of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors admitted during a Friday night interview with CNN that “our goal is to get Trump out.”
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California Rioters Tear Down Statue of Ulysses S. Grant, Who Defeated Confederacy, Battled KKK
Rioters in San Francisco on Friday tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant — the Republican Union general responsible for defeating the Confederacy in the American Civil War, who also served as the 18th president of the United States.
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Climate Statistics 101: See the Slide Show AOC Tried, And Failed, To Censor
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How about hurricanes? If you just look at the trend from 1970 to 2010, you’d see a rise. But from 1940 to 2010, you’d see a drop. And from 1850 to 2010, you’d see no trend at all. It’s the same for floods, wildfires, and droughts: no long-term, statistically significant increases from the CO2 effect. “Detection and Attribution” studies claim to detect a rise in some extreme weather variable like hurricanes and then they attribute that rise to increased temperature from human activity. These studies lie in the realm of politics, not science, because there’s no way to tell if the increase in temperature was natural or based on industrial emissions. …
The global models, though, use average data for very large blocks of air, land, and sea, then add in carbon dioxide emissions and run for decades into the future, where there can be no comparison to actual conditions. The models also use thousands of estimates, called parameters, to represent with just one number the effect of many complex and chaotic physical processes, like the Hadley cells, wind systems that move heat from the lower latitudes to the poles.
Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson dismissed such parameters as “fudge factors.” They’re all just guesses, like the Medieval warming graph, which are twiddled and tweaked until the temperature output in past decades is “tuned” to match the surface temperature record then. …
You can understand models’ weaknesses from a cautionary tale about an elephant. John von Neumann was a legendary mathematician and atomic bomb maker who tried to build a climate model after World War II. He wanted to use it as a weapon, to create a drought in the Soviet Union.
When von Neumann gave up, he laughed that: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” Recently, though, three mathematicians wrote this paper showing how it could be done with functions of complex numbers. See https://publications.mpi-cbg.de/Mayer_2010_4314.pdf
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Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters
https://publications.mpi-cbg.de/Mayer_2010_4314.pdf
A Winking Pink Elephant
https://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2011/06/winking-pink-elephant.html
Movie of four parameter elephant with the fifth parameter wiggling it’s trunk
https://github.com/QuantLet/FittingElephant/raw/master/elephant_trunk_wiggle.mp4
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Eskimo Pie ICE Cream Drops “Derogatory” Name, Cartoon Image
The maker of Eskimo Pie ice cream bars will be changing the 99-year-old brand’s name and removing the cartoon image of an Alaska Native child, the company announced Friday.
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Fauci: Widespread Lockdowns to Curb Coronavirus No Longer Necessary in U.S.
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said that the United States will not need any kind of return to widespread lockdowns to curb the spread of coronavirus, despite the fact that national daily numbers have remained flat as more states reopen.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Responds to Laid-Off Health Care Worker: ‘Can I Buy You a Hot Dog?’
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was serving hot dogs in Detroit on Thursday when she was approached by a man who said he had lost his job as a health care worker.
The man told Whitmer that he had not received any unemployment benefits from the state. The governor responded by saying she’d “check in on it,” then asked him if she could buy him a hot dog.
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How to Check if Your iPhone is Secretly a Coronavirus Tracker
If you downloaded the latest iOS update back in May, and any following updates, then congratulations…your COVID-19 infection status will likely soon be tracked by state health officials as part of each state’s contact tracing efforts.
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Judge Slams Bolton for ‘Gambling With National Security’ But Declines to Block Book
A federal judge on Saturday declined to block the publication of former national security adviser John Bolton’s tell-all book about the Trump White House, dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to halt what they claimed was a book full of classified information.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in a decision issued Saturday declared that the government “failed to establish that an injunction will prevent irreparable harm,” noting that the book was already in widespread circulation even prior to formal publication.
But Lamberth also slammed Bolton for “gambl[ing] with the national security of the United States” and “expos[ing] his country to harm” by ordering the publication of the book “without written authorization and without notice to the government.”
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Leftists carrying out cultural revolution to destroy American history.
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Liberal Media Has ‘Completely Ignored’ Biden Cognitive Decline: Rogan
Bernie Sanders fan Joe Rogan — who admitted in April that he’d rather vote for President Trump Trump over former Vice President Joe Biden — says the left-wing media is ignoring Biden’s cognitive decline.
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Majority of Americans Oppose Renaming Military Bases & Reparations: ABC/Ipsos Poll
The recent George Floyd protests and riots have triggered broader debates of everything ranging from removal of Confederate monuments and statues, to renaming Confederate military bases and even memorials to American founding fathers, especially ones that had connections to slavery.
In the latest controvery, for examples, New York City council members are pushing to remove a long-standing Thomas Jeffeson statue from city hall. As statues across the country continue to be subject to vandalism and in some cases toppling, there’s yet to be little public debate or surveying of the American people.
One new poll conducted by ABC News and Ipos released Friday, however, suggests the wave of removals and ‘renamings’ remains unpopular on a national level. At a moment iconic base names like Fort Bragg and Fort Hood could be on the chopping block with enough political momentum gained, a majority of Americans oppose the renaming initiative. The Pentagon is said to actually be considering it.
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“A majority of” Atlanta police officers scheduled to work in two of the city’s six police districts on Friday did not report for duty again, law enforcement told CNN.
This marks the third straight day officers have refused to work after the Fulton County district attorney brought charges against officers Garrett Rolfe — who was charged with felony murder and 11 other counts — and Devin Brosnan, both of whom were both involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks last week.
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Muhammad Ali’s Son Says He Would’ve Hated Black Lives Matter
On the fourth anniversary of his death, Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says that his father would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement “racist” and the protesters “devils.”…
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Political Instability May be a Contributor in the Coming Decade
Very long ‘secular cycles’ interact with shorter-term processes. In the United States, 50-year instability spikes occurred around 1870, 1920 and 1970, so another could be due around 2020. We are also entering a dip in the so-called Kondratiev wave, which traces 40-60-year economic-growth cycles. This could mean that future recessions will be severe. In addition, the next decade will see a rapid growth in the number of people in their twenties, like the youth bulge that accompanied the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s. All these cycles look set to peak in the years around 2020.
Records show that societies can avert disaster. We need to find ways to ameliorate the negative effects of globalization on people’s well-being. Economic inequality, accompanied by burgeoning public debt, can be addressed by making tax rates more progressive. And we should not expand our system of higher education beyond the ability of the economy to absorb university graduates. An excess of young people with advanced degrees has been one of the chief causes of instability in the past.
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Protesters Gather Outside McConnell’s Home: “No Justice, No Sleep”
Protesters gathered outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky home early Friday, made loud noises, and held signs reading sayings such as, “No justice, no sleep,” “Look us in the eyes,” “Wake up, Mitch,” and, “Breonna couldn’t sleep, neither should Mitch.”
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Researcher Who Predicted 2020 Turmoil Says Social Upheaval Could Escalate to a Civil War
Turchin’s forecast was based on an analysis of anti-government demonstrations from 18th century to 2010. He determined United States experienced spikes in instability approximately every 50 years, around 1870, 1920, and 1970. He predicted the pattern would continue in 2020, as the country was expected to enter “a dip in the so-called Kondratiev wave, which traces 40-60-year economic-growth cycles.”
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San Francisco Protesters Go on Anti-Statue Rampage, Tear Down U.S. Grant, Cervantes, Catholic Saint
Rioters and activists in San Francisco went on a multi-statue rampage last night, defacing and ripping down numerous monuments around the city as part of an anti-statue fever currently sweeping the country.
Depictions of Union general and former President Ulysses S. Grant, the Catholic saint Junipero Serra, the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, and “Star Spangled Banner” author Francis Scott Key were all vandalized or torn down yesterday.
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Shock Video: Gunfight Erupts in Atlanta Streets, Bystander Shot
Armed gangs roving streets unchallenged amid collapse of Atlanta police.
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Stealing the Election: Get Ready — Fraud Will be Epic!
The government is about to approve an infrastructure program as well. It is BIPARTISAN, which means its chief aim is to win Trump more votes from the swing voters. That’s valued at $1,000,000,000 and it will go towards roads, bridges, and crumbling pavement but will also be siphoned into 5G and Internet infrastructure.
It will not stop there. Before the elections, I expect to hear about more tax cuts for individuals, which are an additional way of spending money the government doesn’t have. At the end of the day, these are ways in which both parties intend to SECURE YOUR VOTE…
Remember that COVID-19 death cases are SIMPLY NOT ACCURATE.
We aren’t counting people dying FROM it, but WITH IT.
On the same token, during the time of someone’s death, he/she also has a variety of other viruses in their system, all of which are not listed as the CAUSE OF DEATH.
The medical industry IS INCENTIVIZED to list COVID-19 as the cause of death, especially with ventilators since the funding for each case reaches as high as $39k for the hospital itself.
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The Destructive Coronavirus Agenda
It is quite evident that the forces behind the drive for global control, or world government, for some time, have planned to use something like the coronavirus to advance their plans for establishing a Global one World Government…
Dr. Fauci was vaulted into prominence at the White House by Covid-19 Task Force leader, Mike Pence. He was made our infectious disease specialist in charge of our defense against the pandemic that he knew was going to happen, and quite possibly, because of the NIH’s grants to the Wuhan Lab, had been in on the planning… The John Birch Bulletin reports that there are many examples of seminars, reports, and studies by globalists in the last few years that indicate they meant to use a pandemic to start the process of permanent control on a worldwide basis. It includes many of the people within the American government health community, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who has been seen daily at White House briefings and on the mainstream media.
The Birch bulletin stated, “Some of these studies have been in partnership with the Chinese Communists. The Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Scholarship Council, and the Natural Science Foundation of China have been cooperating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Health in studies connected to pandemics.” Dr. Fauci sits on the boards of many of these American organizations.
When you are cooking up a big mulligan stew, it attracts many participants. The high-sounding titles of the many entities shield the character and proclivities of many of those involved. For example, in studies connected to pandemics,why would the National Science Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Health be interested and involved in the studies of interest to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese Communists? The answer is revealing.
Following is a video of Bill Gates being charged with crimes against humanity in a session of the Italian Parliament. The legislator is speaking in Italian but subtitles are in English.
[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]
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The Traitors, Dopes, Dupes, And Globalists Around Trump
We know President Trump is a target of the Deep State. But that alone doesn’t explain why so many of his former allies, nominees, and appointees have turned against him or his policies. Could it be that the president, who once starred in a TV show about firing incompetent people, has been hiring too many incompetent (or worse) people as president? Or is something else going on? Is somebody or something getting to those around the president?
The list of bad hires includes Neil Gorsuch, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, and John Bolton, among others…
But the failure to oust Harvard-trained Mark Esper is perhaps the most ominous. It suggests Trump fears a coup from the military brass around him. Such a scenario was the subject of the famous film, “Seven Days in May.” In the film, however, the rogue military members are leading a coup against a globalist president. Today, Esper and the brass are the globalists.
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‘They’re f**king up businesses, beating up innocent people in the neighborhood, smashing up police stations and shops — they’re terrorists,’ says Ali Jr.
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Trump Makes Triumphant Return to Campaign Rallies, Slams Dems for Surrendering to Anarchists
After months of coronavirus, racial strife and economic calamity, President Trump returned Saturday night to the campaign trail with a extravagant stadium event in Tulsa, Okla., vowing to win re-election on behalf of a “silent majority” of Americans drowned out by polls, media pundits and protesters.
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President Trump designated group as domestic terror organization because of its consistent political violence.
[Comment: UN should be booted out of the US.]
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Video Surfaces of Black Lives Matter Founder Saying, “We Are Trained Marxists”
A 2015 video clip has surfaced of an interview with Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors in which she assures her interviewer that the group has an underlying ideology, saying, “We’re trained Marxists.”
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Belgium: Bruges Mayor Hospitalised After Being Stabbed in the Neck in Unclear Circumstances
The mayor of Bruges, Belgium’s Western Flanders capital city, was stabbed in the neck on Saturday.
A man has been arrested, the city’s prosecutor told the press.
The 62-year-old mayor and lawyer Dirk De fauw, of the Flemish Christian Democratic Party (CD&V), was taken to hospital for an operation.
His condition is now “stable”, prosecutor’s spokeswoman Céline D’havé said, without giving further details.
She confirmed that an investigation had been opened for “attempted murder” and entrusted to an investigating judge…
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Betrayal and Programming Behind COVID 19 — A UK Perspective, Part 3
The current demonstrations taking place within the UK have not been peaceful. There were many police officers who were injured attempting to control the crowds who were taking it upon themselves to deface property and harm others.
It is also shocking that thousands can attend a rally in London to protest about a man who was sadly killed thousands of miles away in another country, but that they cannot see their own enslavement to a form of dictatorship which is currently taking place today in the UK under Covid —19 and how they are being used.
The incitement towards the hatred of white people (because of the color of their skin) plays perfectly into the hands of the puppeteers who are currently using it as a distraction, whilst at the same time creating a further sense of fear by the lawlessness which is currently taking place. The separation from loved ones which many people are suffering from is being further enhanced. Mental health issues are naturally increasing. The puppeteers care nothing for black or white people. Fear and confusion is their missile.
Elites see us all as ‘feeble minded’.
Unfortunately, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby recently emerged from his own self-isolation, also decrying the ongoing evil of ‘white’ supremacy and systemic racism. Thank you Mr Welby for dividing the races and putting lives at further risk.
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Coronavirus Was Found in Italy’s Sewage as Early as Last December
There are still several huge key unknown questions related to the coronavirus. For example, how many asymptomatic cases have already occurred worldwide? How long do antibodies last?
And finally, when the hell did the virus actually start to make its rounds across the world?
That’s a question that today we may finally have a better answer to. In the latest example of scientists finding evidence of the virus weeks, or months, earlier than previously known, Covid-19 was found in sewage in Milan and Turin as early as December, according to a new study. This was two months before the first cases were officially detected in Italy, according to Bloomberg.
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ECJ Rules Against Hungary’s Law Mandating Financial Transparency for NGOs
The restrictions imposed by Hungary on the financing of civil organisations by persons established outside that Member State do not comply with EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday.
The European Commission referred Hungary to the CJEU over the legislation, which requires NGOs to make full disclosure of foreign funding over 7.2 million forints (EUR 208,700), late in 2017.
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England: 14-Year-Old Boy From Hampshire Charged With Plotting Islamic Terror Attack
The law enforcement officials in Britain’s Hampshire have booked a 14-year-old minor boy for plotting an Islamic terror attack in England.
The juvenile who hailed from Eastleigh, Hampshire, was due to appear before Westminster Magistrate’s court on Thursday, the Counter-Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said. The boy was charged on Wednesday on one count of preparation of terrorist acts in gross violation of section 5(1)(a) of the Terrorism Act 2006 connected to Islamist terrorism.
The police officials arrested the boy last week Friday from Hampshire Constabulary and the juvenile was later held under custody section 41 of the Terrorism Act by CTPSE sleuths.
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EU to Impose Full Customs Checks on UK Post-Brexit to ‘Protect Single Market’
The European Union will not reciprocate the United Kingdom’s pledge to treat goods crossing the British-EU border with a light touch customs check, saying it will impose full controls “to protect the Single Market”.
Speaking during a Chatham House webinar on Thursday, the EU’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joao Vale de Almeida, said: “You can count on us to be forcible and systematic in implementing the deal, and in doing so certainly protecting the Single Market.”
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French Human Rights Commission: ‘Decolonise Minds’ To End Discrimination
The French National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) has released a report claiming French people need to “decolonise” their minds to end discrimination against black people.
The Commission handed the report to French prime minister Edouard Philippe earlier this week and included a list of recommendations to combat racism, xenophobia, and discrimination.
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German Special Forces Soldier Sacked for Alleged Islamist Sympathies
A member of Germany’s Special Forces Command (KSK) has been sacked after the soldier in question was alleged to have sympathies with radical Islamic extremism.
The German Military Counter-intelligence Service (MAD) labelled the solider as an Islamic extremist last year, placing him in the “red category” for those recognised as extremists. After being subjected to a military disciplinary procedure he was removed from his role in the armed forces earlier this year.
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A disturbing study has revealed that German authorities allowed homeless children to be routinely placed under the care of pedophile foster parents for decades.
A study carried out by academics at the University of Hildesheim has brought to light that homeless children in West Berlin were knowingly placed under the “care” of pedophile men. The so-called experiment, which Berlin politicians allowed to take place over a period of 30 years, was conducted by psychology professor Helmut Kentler, a man who argued that the pedophile men would make ideal foster parents for troubled children.
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Pope Launches Transparency Code for Vatican Tenders
Legislation cuts risk of corruption says Francis
(ANSA) — Vatican City, June 1 — Pope Francis on Monday launched a new code for contracts and tenders in the Vatican aimed at introducing greater transparency.
The new 98-article legislation assumes the principles of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and replaces all other laws in the sector.
The new norms “will enable us to significantly reduce the danger of corruption by those responsible for managing the Agencies and Bodies of the Holy See and the Vatican City State, Francis said.
He said that fair competition and transparency will also enable “a better management of the resources that the Holy See runs in order to achieve the ends that are proper to the Church”.
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Romania: Wanted Iranian Judge Under Police Protection Found Dead
Gholamreza Mansouri, an Iranian judge wanted for numerous crimes, died yesterday after falling from his hotel room window. He had been under police protection at a Bucharest hotel while waiting to learn if he would be extradited back to his home country.
Mansouri, 52, was arrested by the Romanian authorities earlier this month at the request of the Iranian government, which was demanding his extradition on charges that he took bribes worth approximately half a million US dollars while serving as a judge in Iran’s Culture and Media Court.
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UK: 5 Facts BBC’s “The Salisbury Poisonings” Forgot to Mention
The BBC’s new drama “The Salisbury Poisonings” concluded over the weekend. A three-part story “based on actual events”, claiming to tell the story of the alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2018. It’s exactly what you’d expect. Schlocky tat. Poorly researched, badly written and woefully factually inaccurate.
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UK: London Mayor: Mandatory Masks Will be the “New Normal” For at Least Another Year
Via 21stCenturyWire.com
One of the great impending disasters of the COVID crisis is that despite the fact that the Coronavirus is rapidly disappearing and its true Infection Fatality Rate is in the exact same range as the seasonal flu, politicians and government health officials seem determined to roll-out the globalist “New Normal” regime.
We’re continually told by health officials and the media that the primary reason for requiring face masks is to protect people from the COVID-19 airborne pathogen. There are numerous problems with this government belief system, not least of all because it assumes that every person is equally at risk of illness due to COVID-19, which is false.
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UK: Reading Stabbings: Police Launch Murder Investigation After Three People Killed — Latest News
Police have arrested a man at the scene of stabbings in Reading in which three people were killed and three were seriously injured.
Armed police carrying shields were seen entering a block of flats in Basingstoke Road and counter-terrorism police are at the scene.
A 25-year-old man, who is understood to be Libyan, was detained at the scene and has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A source told the Telegraph there were three individuals declared dead at the scene and two transferred to the emergency department of Royal Berkshire Hospital, where they are receiving resuscitation.
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Caroline Glick: No Going Wobbly Now, Bibi
Over the past week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has changed his mind countless times regarding how and when he will implement Israel’s sovereignty plan in Judea and Samaria in consonance with President Donald Trump’s vision for peace. Netanyahu’s vacillations are clearly a product of the immense pressure being exerted on him to cancel the plan to apply Israeli law to the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and to the Jordan Valley and turn his back on President Trump’s Middle East peace plan.
This is a shame. It is also absurd. When we consider the source of much of the pressure — and the reasons it is being exerted — it becomes glaringly clear that the critics and opponents must be ignored. Their actions are not being taken out of conviction so much as hostility or distress. Israel must cast aside their hectoring and pressure and implement the sovereignty plan with all due haste.
Consider one of the most talked-about recent efforts to pressure the Israeli public and Netanyahu to set aside the sovereignty plan and spurn Trump.
Last Friday, United Arab Emirates Ambassador in Washington Yousef al-Otaiba published an article in Yedioth Ahronoth. Otaiba threatened that if Israel implements its sovereignty plan in Judea and Samaria, the prospect of normalized ties with the Sunni Arab states in the Persian Gulf will fly by the wayside.
The media played up the author. But it quickly became clear that the idea of publishing the article in Hebrew in an Israeli newspaper didn’t come from Otaiba. Hours after the morning papers arrived, the media reported that it was Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban’s idea to have Otaiba publish his threatening article in Yedioth Ahronoth…
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Turkey: Erdogan Wishes “Many More Happy Conquests”
In Turkey, every May 29 brings up the country’s “conquest fetish.” Turks are proud that their Ottoman ancestors, in 1453, “conquered” (not “invaded”) then-Constantinople, today’s Istanbul. It is bizarre enough that a proud nation is commemorating, every year, the capture from another nation of its biggest city by the “force of sword.” This year’s 567th anniversary was no exception: The celebrations euphemistically referred to the fall of Constantinople as “conquest” — not “invasion.”
In Turkish jargon the difference is simple: it is “conquest” when we do it and “invasion” when others do it. In this year’s celebrations, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the stakes when he spoke of the conquest prospectively not just retrospectively. “I am wishing that God grant this nation many more happy conquests,” he said at a celebration where he recited from the Quran.
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An alcoholic killer monkey has left one man dead and 250 injured after going on the rampage when his booze supply dried up in India.
The inebriated imp, known as Kalua, was formerly the pet of an occultist who fed him hard liquor at his home in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh.
But after his owner died, the bereft animal stopped getting his supply of spirits and began prowling the streets in a furious rage.
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Chinese Virus: Squashing the Curve and Heading for Gibraltar Town
by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
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It is worth contrasting countries such as Britain, with a fierce lockdown, the United States, with a less fierce lockdown, and Sweden, with no lockdown at all. Increasingly, there is soul-searching in Sweden about the no-lockdown policy, for Sweden now has just about the highest daily number of new cases and of new deaths per head of population in the world.
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The former Geelong AFL great announced on Friday night he was ending his 35-year partnership with the network.
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Germany: Figures Reveal Most Migrants Have No Will to Integrate
Statistics from mandatory language courses offered to migrants in Germany show a dismal success rate. Representatives of the Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party say that this demonstrates that migrants have little will to integrate into German society.
Asylum-seekers who come to Germany are required to complete a “German integration course” which includes lessons in the German language. The statistics for this year show that 45.7% of migrants who took the language test — equivalent to approximately 62,000 students — failed to reach the B1 level, which is the ability to hold a simple conversation in German, on their first attempt, according to a report by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
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Survey Shows That Majority of Europeans Welcome Migrants
A new survey conducted by the market research and consulting firm Ipsos claims that a majority of Europeans from all countries studied have welcoming attitudes towards migrants. At the same time, however, most do not believe that migrants can integrate into European societies or that they come to Europe as genuine refugees.
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by Peter Turchin
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This forecast was not simply a projection of the contemporary (in 2010) trend in social instability into the future. Social instability in major Western countries had been, in fact, declining prior to 2010 (see the graphic below). Rather, the basis for this forecast was a quantitative model that took as inputs the major structural drivers for instability (immiseration, intraelite competition, and state (in)capacity) and translated them into the Political Stress Index (PSI), which is strongly correlated with socio-political instability. The rising PSI curve, calculated in 2010, then, suggested growing socio-political instability over the next decade.
Recently, Andrey Korotayev and I revisited my 2010 forecast (in a manuscript in review in a scientific journal). We analyzed the data on a variety of instability indicators and found that, indeed, the trends for almost all of them went up after 2010 (our data series stops in 2018, but the numbers for 2019 should be available soon). Here’s the result for the incidence of riots in six major Western countries:
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Activist Firm Driving Climate Lawsuits Covers Its Tracks on Wikipedia
A consulting firm with dark money ties to the climate litigation campaign has taken the unusual and blatant step of editing its Wikipedia page in order to scrub away criticism and block transparency of its finances.
Arabella Advisors bills itself as a consulting firm that helps clients “increase their philanthropic impact” but has come under some scrutiny in recent years for setting up “dark money” non-profits that go beyond the realm of charitable giving and into political activism that benefits Democratic candidates and left-leaning causes.
Now it’s attempting to cover its tracks on the internet, as The Daily Beast reports.
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COVID, Identity Politics, And the Global Ruling Elite
The following is my opinion based on more than a decade and a half of research into ruling elites. Please be aware this sort of commentary is now considered domestic terrorism by the FBI, the national security state, and its propaganda media.
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DOJ Says Allowing Males to Compete in Female Sports ‘Fundamentally Unfair to Female Athletes’
The Department of Justice is intervening in an Idaho transgender rights case, siding with the state’s efforts to prevent males from competing in female-only sports.
At issue is a federal court case involving Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which forbids males who identify as females from participating in female sports competitions. The ACLU in a federal lawsuit is arguing that the law violates the U.S. Constitution and federal Title IX statute.
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The UN Declares Its Support for Antifa on Social Media
On Friday, the United Nations, on its Geneva social media account, declared its unwavering support for members Antifascist Action, a violent Marxist-Leninist organization which US president Donald Trump said would soon be labelled as a terrorist organization.
On its official Twitter account, the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) launched a defense of the anti-police extremist organization, saying that it was worried by recent statements made by senior officials within the Trump administration which described the group’s activists as domestic terrorists.
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UN Deletes Pro-Antifa Tweet After Backlash
Update (1755ET): And just like that, the UN has deleted their tweet professing support for Antifa.
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Mass Spectrometry and Climate Science. Part I: Determining Past Climates
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“The record demonstrates a warming during the Roman Warm Period (~350 BCE-450 CE), variable BWT [bottom water temperatures] during the Dark Ages (~450-850 CE), positive BWT anomalies during the Viking Age/Medieval Climate Anomaly (~850-1350 CE) and a long-term cooling with distinct multidecadal variability during the Little Ice Age (~1350-1850 CE). The fjord BWT record also picks up the contemporary warming of the 20th century (presented here until 1996), which does not stand out in the 2500-year perspective and is of the same magnitude as the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Climate Anomaly.”
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https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/stuttgart-brutale-ausschreitungen-antifa-als-raedelsfuehrer/
Violent rioting in Stuttgart Germany last night, a city I was in not long ago. It was unclear whether it was enrichment or antifa, and now apparently it was anitfa organized but immigrants decided got involved too.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EdBarner/status/1274614030108368896
Antifa attacking shops in Stuttgart. The events in Stuttgart are all over German media right now, from DW to Bild to Die Welt. The suspicious germ “youths” maybe more correct in this case. Enricher involvement but far too many whyte boys smashing store windows up. Left Wing Antifa extremists are dangerous and receive support from another German parties SPD and Greens.
Meanwhile Germany’s own domestic intelligence service sees growing threat of left wing radicalism.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomlinsonCJ/status/1274489506377469952
Soros at it again.
https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2020/06/anarchie-linkse-betogers-rellen-en-plunderen-in-de-duitse-stad-stuttgart-meerdere-agenten-gewond-na-bekogeling-met-straatstenen/
I’m shocked that migrants only come to Germany for free stuff!
I would say they are blaming antifa bc its easier then to blame it on migrants and germans with specific background.
In videos which are all over net is clear who they were.
less clear is the prevalence of white faces participating. Antifa are closely linked to immigrant gangs.
further evidence of antifa involvment, or do these fair haired and pale boys strike you somehow as somehow as anything but leftie punks?
https://i.4cdn.org/wsr/1592769305697.png
The “enrichment” in Reading, England by a Libyan has left three dead.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8444409/amp/Terror-attack-Reading-Suspect-Libyan-asylum-seeker-released-prison.html
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1016478/reading-terror-suspect-khairi-saadallah-prison-violence-libya-killer/
he was known to Mi5
Whoops you already mentioned that at the top of the news feed.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/06/diversity-comes-calling.html
Well, he isn’t wrong, we are getting slaughtered like lambs, meanwhile people are getting offended by cereal.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/06/cereal-is-racist.html
How can ANY Kafir relax anywhere in the current completely lapsed Western Europe? BLMugs and or a Muslim can go off anywhere at any time. Britain is being consumed. Tiny population Ireland catching up fast. Cut the new masters of MCPC ceremonies.
Wow, glad I’m not British, this way I’m far less likely to be stabbed by Muslims
It looking like main street One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest or Star Wars. Ragamuffin scruffy apelike Boris. Lonely little guy Khan. Row row row to Benefit Island on the high seas.
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1274802619580547072
they sure get them young
Churchill must fall…..and he can take his British nationalism with him!
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/churchill-must-fall/
pffft
Wandering around in the banjaxed “I just LOVE everyone!” gets dumber and more stupid by the day. Personally, I am applying social distance – period. Keeping well out of stabbing or any form of attack distance. We are occupied by millions of savages – ladies.
ECJ Rules Against Hungary’s Law Mandating Financial Transparency for NGOs
Funny how the “open society” crowd doesn’t like openness after all!
Hypocrites.