Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/23/2020

In BLM news, the FBI investigated the purported “noose” found in the garage of the NASCAR race driver Bubba Wallace, and determined that it was part of a pull-down rope, and was not a hate crime. Meanwhile, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem vowed that the sculptures on Mt. Rushmore will not be blown up as long as she is governor.

In other news, 64 Bangladeshi migrants were discovered in a truck in North Macedonia near the border with Greece.

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

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Financial Crisis
» Foreclosures Continued to Fall in May as Mortgage Delinquency Rate Spiked
» Hungarian Economy May See Strong Rebound This Year, Central Bank Head Says
» Italy Approves New Guidelines for Central Bank Digital Currency
 
USA
» “We Are Looking at Long Term Jail Sentences” — President Trump Says He Will Seek Long Term Sentences for Rioters Who Attempted to Demolish Andrew Jackson Statue (Video)
» “We Will Defend Our Values, Our Voices, Our Faith, Our Heritage, Our Borders Our Rights and Our God Given Freedoms” — President Trump at Turning Point Action Rally (Video)
» 75% of US Workers Can’t Work Exclusively From Home, Face Greater Risks During Pandemic
» A Brief History of Antifa: Part II
» Adult Film Star Ron Jeremy Accused of Raping 3 Women, Sexually Assaulting Another
» After Declaring “Summer of Love, “ Seattle Mayor Tells Police to Dismantle CHOP Following Two Shootings
» America Under Siege by Rabid Communist BLM Revolutionaries
» Anti-White Activist Follows Terrified White Woman Home, Films Her — Leftists Celebrate Harassment
» As Chicago Crime Skyrockets, Students Demand Police Divestment
» Bayer Pays $10BN to Settle Thousands of Monsanto Glyphosate Lawsuits
» Billion Dollar Firm Leaving Seattle for Phoenix Due to Unrest in the City
» Black Lives Matter is the New KKK
» Black Man Allegedly Jumped for Wearing “White Lives Matter Too” Shirt
» BLM at War With America
» Clean-Up Operation: DC Police Clear Out Vermin From Streets North of White House Where Squatters Set Up “Autonomous Zone”
» Cuomo: We Had High Number of Nursing Home Deaths Because Feds Didn’t Tell US Virus Was Coming From Europe
» Daily Caller Reporter Accused of Being a Cop and Assaulted While Covering DC ‘Protest’
» DC Police Tear Gas BLM Rioters Attempting to Topple Andrew Jackson Statue
» Den of Thieves: MSM Death Case Propaganda
» Despite Media Onslaught Trump Approval Bests Barack Obama’s at Same Point in His Presidency
» DOJ Releases “Totally Exculpatory” Strzok Notes to Michael Flynn’s Lawyers
» Facebook Moderators Say Removing Pro-Trump Posts is “Revenge” And “More Impactful”
» Facebook Mods Were Told Not to Censor Don Lemon’s “Hate Speech”
» Facebook Moderator Whistleblower Raises the Alarm on Biased Algorithms
» Facebook Moderator Reveals Violent Anti-Trump Meme Allowed, Cartoon Anti-Democrat Meme Banned
» Federal Judge Blasts Whitmer’s Lockdown Defense
» Gun Rights Activists Sue to Block Virginia’s Universal Background Checks Law
» Horrifying Video: Degenerate Scumbag Throws Exploding Firework at Sleeping Homeless Man in NYC
» Huge! Twitter Suspends Carpe Donktum After Trump Retweet — Top Pro-Trump Meme Maker!
» Idiot Criminals Announce They Will Tear Down Lincoln Statue in DC on Thursday at 7 P.M.
» Instagram is Preparing to Request Government-Issued ID From Users
» Jack Dorsey’s Square Holds Up to 30% of Businesses’ Income, Blocks Them on Twitter When They Complain
» Just Awful: Nikki Haley Believes Garbage Bubba Wallace Noose Story — Now a Confirmed Hate Hoax
» Just in: DOJ Reveals Discovery of New Peter Strzok Notes That Are “Highly Exculpatory” To General Mike Flynn
» LAPD Officer Says He Found a Tampon Halfway Through Drinking His Starbucks Frappuccino
» Left Now Calls for Statues of Jesus, Churches to be Destroyed
» Lock Them Up: Veterans’ Memorial Preservation Act Cited by Trump Makes Destruction of National Memorials and Statues Punishable by Up to 10 Years in Prison
» Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar Arrested on Federal RICO Charge That Alleges He Agreed to Accept at Least $1.5 Million in Illicit Benefits
» Mainstream Media & BLM Working Together to Terrorize Innocent Americans
» MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Dem Rep. Nearly Assaulted by Male Pervert in Pink Lingerie at DC ‘Autonomous Zone’ (Video)
» Nearly 100 Percent of Democratic College Students Support Defunding the Police: Poll
» NYT is Threatening my Safety by Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting the Blog
» Oregon County Imposes Race-Based Face Mask Ordinance
» Oregon County Issues Face Mask Order That Exempts Non-White People
» Project Veritas Undercover Video: Facebook Content Moderator: ‘if Someone is Wearing a MAGA Hat, I Am Going to Delete Them for Terrorism’
» S.D. Governor Weighs in on Idea of Blowing Up Mount Rushmore
» Text Message Urges Chicago Police Officers to Call in Sick, Limit Arrests in a ‘Blue Flu’
» That’s Weird? Clinton Pal, Philanthropist and Multi-Millionaire Steve Bing Jumps From High Rise to His Death
» The American Public is Being Played — What’s it All About?
» The Black Dilemma in America: Culture, Conflict, No Solutions
» The Look on Obama’s Face Says it All — Biden Makes Absolutely No Sense During Virtual Fundraiser, “We’re Talking About a Peaceful Cold War” (Video)
» To US Attorney General: Hydroxychloroquine Clinical Trials Intentionally Murdering People?
» Top Dem Donor and Pal to Epstein/Clinton/Gates Leaps to Death From 27th Floor Apt
» Trending Now on Twitter: #BubbaSmollett and #FakeNoose after Bubba Wallace Hate Hoax Exposed
» Twice as Many Americans Support Inclusive “All Lives Matter” Over “Black Lives Matter” Slogan
» Twitter Puts Red-Flag Warning on President Trump’s Tweet Asserting He Would Use Force Against Radical Leftists Trying to Set Up “Autonomous Zone” In DC
» U. Chicago Activists Occupy Campus Police HQ, Upset Pizza They Ordered Not Allowed in
» Veritas Bombshell: Facebook Content Moderator Says ‘If Someone’s Wearing MAGA Hat, I’M Going to Delete Them for Terrorism’
» Video: The Truth About Tulsa
» Waking a Sleeping Giant
» Watch Live: Coronavirus a Proven Hoax, But Democrats and Fauci Call for Shutdown and Masks to Continue
» We Were Right! FBI Confirms ‘Noose’ Found in Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR Stall Was Garage Door Pull Rope — it Was Just Another Hate Hoax
» Wendy’s Arsonist Natalie White Arrested in Atlanta — Faces First Degree Arson Charges
 
Canada
» Canadian College Exec Apologizes, Resigns After ‘Liking’ Conservative Tweets
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria: Green Party Says Taxing the Rich is Necessary to Pay for Coronavirus Crisis
» Brexit Leader Farage Backs Trump 2020 to ‘Face Up to the Radical Left’
» British PM Wants Bar Owners to Collect Personal Info of Customers During Reopening
» Brutally Beaten French Officers Refuse to Fight Back Due to Concerns of Police Brutality
» English Football Club Responds With Anger After ‘White Lives Matter’ Banner Flown Above Stadium During Match
» France: Tensions Rising Between Gangs in Paris No-Go Suburbs
» German City Spirals Out of Control as Antifa, Migrants Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Run Wild
» German Security Agency Warns Far-Left Political Assasinations by Antifa Groups ‘No Longer Unthinkable’
» Hungary, Poland, Czechia, And Slovakia Are Island of Peace as Violence Spreads in Western Europe
» New Fort Trump Details Revealed Ahead of Polish President’s Visit to the White House
» Poland: President Duda May Still Win in the First Round of Elections
» President Duda is Key to Poland Exiting Crisis Says PM Morawiecki
» UK: ‘Offensive’ Imagery of St Michael Defeating Satan is ‘Reminiscent of George Floyd’
» UK: Belief in 5G Conspiracy Theories Goes Hand-in-Hand With Small Explosions of Rage, Paranoia and Violence, Researchers Claim
» UK: Police: ‘White Lives Matter’ Banner Flight Not a Criminal Matter
» UK: Tory Rebels Block Boris’s Attempt to Extend Sunday Trading to Save What’s Left of ‘Common Day of Rest’
 
South Asia
» ISIS ‘Lockdown’ Magazine Urges Using Kids to Spread COVID-19, Attacks With Scissors
» Pakistan: Minor Hindu Girl in Jacobabad Abducted, Converted to Islam and Married Off to Kidnapper Wazir Hussain
 
Far East
» UK and Japan to Push for Free Trade Agreement by End of July
» US Government Declares China’s Global Times, People’s Daily and Two Other Outlets as ‘Foreign Missions’, Calls Them CCP Mouthpieces Controlled by Chinese Govt
» Whistleblower Claims Chinese Communists Pay Vatican $2 Billion in Bribes
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘I’m 100 Per Cent Right’: Sam Newman Doubles Down Over Outrageous ‘George Floyd is a Piece of S**t’ Rant That Cost Him His 35-Year Career at Channel Nine
» The Second Wipe: Panic Buying of Toilet Paper in COVID-19 Hot Spots Flares Up Again as Melbourne Shoppers Strip Supermarket Shelves of Dunny Roll — and it Could be About to Get Worse
» Why Are They Hiding This Violent Attack From You
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» ‘Extremely Alarming’ Swarms of Locusts Plague Eastern Africa, Western Asia Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
 
Immigration
» Greece: Lesbos Island Residents Grow Fearful of Migrants Over Looting and Property Destruction
» North Macedonia: 64 Bangladeshi Migrants Found in Truck
» Pope Francis Names Virgin Mary ‘Comfort of Migrants’
» US Expands Work Visa Ban to Protect American Jobs From ‘Millions of Aliens’
 
Culture Wars
» Destruction of America Through the Education of Our Children, Part 1
» Facebook Oversight Board Loaded With Leftist Law Profs
» Initial COVID-19 Trials: The World’s Deadliest Vaccine?
» Media Demonization of Parler Begins After Free Speech Network Attracts Flood of New Users
» Shame: Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes if He ‘Hurt or Offended’ Anyone With Blackface Skits, Repeated Use of N-Word
» The Ends Justify the Means
» Transhumanism: The New Religion of the Coming Technocracy
» Woke Authors Quit JK Rowling’s Agency After it Refuses to Cave to Trans Mob
 

Foreclosures Continued to Fall in May as Mortgage Delinquency Rate Spiked

As was expected due to the COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. mortgage delinquency rate jumped 20% in May compared with April and was up 131% compared with May 2019, according to Black Knight’s First Look report.

As of the end of the month about 7.76% of all mortgages were 30 days or more past due.

That’s about 4.1 million mortgages — an increase of about 723,000 compared with April and an increase of about 2.4 million compared with May 2019.

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

Hungarian Economy May See Strong Rebound This Year, Central Bank Head Says

Boosted by an extensive investment drive of the government, the Hungarian economy will likely experience a strong rebound from the coronavirus crisis in the third quarter of 2020, Central Bank governor György Matolcsy told weekly Mandiner in an interview.

“In the first quarter of the year, with a 2.2 percent economic growth compared with the same period of the previous year kept [Hungary] among the leading pack in Europe, having had exceeded the eurozone average by five percentage points,” Matolcsy said. “We still think that the economy will experience a strong rebound beginning with the third quarter of the year. The key element and necessary condition for this is an increase in investment. Revving up government investments in an economic environment that shows a lack of demand can quickly create new jobs and generate further positive effects by its spillover effect.”

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

Italy Approves New Guidelines for Central Bank Digital Currency

Governments & banking elites seizing more power from the people.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“We Are Looking at Long Term Jail Sentences” — President Trump Says He Will Seek Long Term Sentences for Rioters Who Attempted to Demolish Andrew Jackson Statue (Video)

President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Tuesday before he left for his rally in Arizona later today.

The Trump campaign will celebrate 200 completed miles of border wall with Mexico at the rally tonight.

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

“We Will Defend Our Values, Our Voices, Our Faith, Our Heritage, Our Borders Our Rights and Our God Given Freedoms” — President Trump at Turning Point Action Rally (Video)

PHOENIX AZ — Thousands of Trump supporters, both college students and other adults, waited hours in scorching Arizona heat that reached 109 degrees to see President Donald Trump at the Turning Points USA “Students For Trump” Convention.

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

75% of US Workers Can’t Work Exclusively From Home, Face Greater Risks During Pandemic

Crisis exacerbating existing vulnerabilities in American society .

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A Brief History of Antifa: Part II

Antifa in the United States

U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced that the American government would designate Antifa — a militant “anti-fascist” movement — as a terrorist organization due to the violence that erupted at George Floyd protests across the United States.

The Code of Federal Regulations (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”

American media outlets sympathetic to Antifa have jumped to its defense. They argue that the group cannot be classified as a terrorist organization because, they claim, it is a vaguely-defined protest movement that lacks a centralized structure.

As the following report shows, Antifa is, in fact, highly networked, well-funded and has a clear ideological agenda: to subvert, often with extreme violence, the American political system, with the ultimate aim of replacing capitalism with communism. In the United States, Antifa’s immediate aim is to remove President Trump from office.

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

Adult Film Star Ron Jeremy Accused of Raping 3 Women, Sexually Assaulting Another

LOS ANGELES — Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with forcibly raping three women and sexually assaulting another, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Tuesday.

The four separate incidents date back to 2014, the DA’s office said.

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

After Declaring “Summer of Love, “ Seattle Mayor Tells Police to Dismantle CHOP Following Two Shootings

After expressing her view that the Seattle protest zone represented a “summer of love,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has ordered police to dismantle CHOP following two shootings in the area.

The CHOP (originally named CHAZ) was established in a 6 block area of downtown Seattle after Black Lives Matter demonstrators ransacked a police station earlier this month, causing cops to flee, leaving armed leftists to patrol the zone.

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

America Under Siege by Rabid Communist BLM Revolutionaries

Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa are only two of over 20 communist organizations who are looting and destroying private property throughout America on the pretense of protests against police for the murder of a career criminal black man. Corporations, food outlets, beauty supply houses, politicians, Hollywood elites, sports figures and others are caving to the totalitarian Marxists.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-White Activist Follows Terrified White Woman Home, Films Her — Leftists Celebrate Harassment

A Seattle-based Black Lives Matter activist with the Twitter handle “wypipo-h8,” slang for “white people hate,” followed a terrified white woman home, harassed her, filmed her address and license plate, and is attempting to ruin her life for some social media clout.

Karlos Dillard describes himself as an “author, entrainer, and public speaker.” He is also a racist woman abuser.

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

As Chicago Crime Skyrockets, Students Demand Police Divestment

As the crime rate in Chicago skyrockets, students at one Windy City university are demanding fewer police officers.

Students from the DePaul Socialists and Students Against Incarceration-SAI DePaul co-hosted the event ‘DEFUND THE POLICE: DIVEST DEPAUL’. The event was held to protest the university’s relationship with the Chicago Police Department.

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

Bayer Pays $10BN to Settle Thousands of Monsanto Glyphosate Lawsuits

After decades of widespread use as company scientists played down research showing a definitive link between the product and growing rates of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Monsanto parent company Bayer has agreed to pay up to $10 billion to settle claims that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes cancer.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Billion Dollar Firm Leaving Seattle for Phoenix Due to Unrest in the City

Billion dollar investment firm Smead Capitol Management announced they are moving their headquarters from Seattle to Phoenix.

According to FOX Business Network the CEO says there is no downtown business community in Seattle where they are located and recruitment is harder in Seattle. The cost of living inside the city is higher than Phoenix.

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

Black Lives Matter is the New KKK

The Ku Klux Klan was the militant arm of the Democrat Party. It was used to terrorize those who disagreed with the Democrat Party’s radical agenda. Members of the KKK targeted blacks and white Republicans, doing what they could to use fear and terror to silence the Democrat Party’s opposition. The hated Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who the Democrats and the KKK despised, was reason enough for them, in their own minds, to target the voting booths, and use fraud to try to change the outcome of the next election. To criticize the KKK was to place yourself in grave jeopardy, for they were merciless, and extremely violent in their attempt to influence the system, and to overthrow the constitutional amendments that were ratified during the Reconstruction Period, because they felt they gave blacks too many benefits and privileges. As far as they were concerned, the death of their opposition would be a good start.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Black Man Allegedly Jumped for Wearing “White Lives Matter Too” Shirt

Says group of black men attacked him in a parking lot.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

BLM at War With America

Another thing causing my head to explode is all of the pandering to BLM, an evil and demonic hate group. In compliance to BLM, pastors are telling their white congregations to own-up to their white privilege. My response is, “Stop it! Stop falling for leftists’ bogus guilt-trip.” For crying out loud! America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to purse their dreams. Anything else is a lie!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Clean-Up Operation: DC Police Clear Out Vermin From Streets North of White House Where Squatters Set Up “Autonomous Zone”

Time to go kids.

DC Police on Tuesday swept out the leftist vermin in the street attempting an autonomous zone in the nation’s capital.

The squatters wanted an autonomous zone blocks from the White House.

They want a revolution.

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

Cuomo: We Had High Number of Nursing Home Deaths Because Feds Didn’t Tell US Virus Was Coming From Europe

‘Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else. Because we had more people die.’

[Comment: Cuomo’s Europe lie again. Virus transitioned to US through Europe. Virus did not originate in Europe. People died in nursing homes because Cuomo criminally and intentionally forced nursing homes to take in COVID19 patients. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Daily Caller Reporter Accused of Being a Cop and Assaulted While Covering DC ‘Protest’

Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott was accused of being an undercover cop and assaulted by the “peaceful protesters” in DC on Monday evening.

In a video of the incident, filmed by her colleague Matthew Miller, Talcott is surrounded by the Black Lives Matter activists and interrogated about who she is and why she was filming.

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

DC Police Tear Gas BLM Rioters Attempting to Topple Andrew Jackson Statue

BLM, Antifa tried and failed to establish a ‘Black House Autonomous Zone.’

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Den of Thieves: MSM Death Case Propaganda

This article was contributed by Tom Beck of Portfolio Wealth Global.

The media has been running what could ONLY BE CALLED a giant psychological experiment on the American public in the last few days, INCITING FEARS of a 2nd wave of the coronavirus. For a while, the public bought into it, investors were STRESS EATING over it, and gold GOT DUMPED because of it!

But it looks like Wall Street isn’t too quick to rush to conclusions like mainstream media would like it to.

I find that it can’t JUST BE A COINCIDENCE that on the day President Trump announces that he wants to bring back election rallies, the overflow of news about a 2nd wave arrives out of nowhere, even while death cases are DROPPING FAST.

The media in this country will become even MORE POLITICAL as we approach elections.

I expect this to be the most BLATANTLY CORRUPT coverage of a presidential election in this country’s history. The real battleground will be on social media platforms, as well as on alternative media.

The Democrats will not repeat the mistakes of old, and I expect Joe Biden to appear on shows that Hillary Clinton passed on, thinking that they’re not THE BEST USE of her time.

With less than five months to go, we will begin to highlight what the DATA is revealing from the ground level, but I can tell you that markets are STILL BETTING on a Republican win since there’s been no discounting yet for AN UPSET.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Despite Media Onslaught Trump Approval Bests Barack Obama’s at Same Point in His Presidency

President Trump’s Rasmussen approval rating stood at 45% on Tuesday.

This is despite the continued media onslaught over the coronavirus panic-porn and the nasty attacks on the president for holding a campaign rally.

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

DOJ Releases “Totally Exculpatory” Strzok Notes to Michael Flynn’s Lawyers

The Department of Justice on Tuesday released handwritten notes from the Michael Flynn case taken by former FBI official Peter Strzok, which the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports to be “totally exculpatory” for the former national security adviser.

The notes, likely taken between January 3-5 of 2017, were released to Flynn’s lawyers under seal by Michael R. Sherwin — acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — and are “very significant,” according to the Caller’s source. They were discovered by a federal prosecutor appointed to review the Flynn case. [Comment: Watch for Strzok to be “suicided” to protect his deep state masters. Strzok should reveal all for leniency and witness protection.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Moderators Say Removing Pro-Trump Posts is “Revenge” And “More Impactful”

Earlier this month, concerns about the anti-conservative bias of Facebook’s moderators were amplified when these moderators called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to censor President Trump.

Now new undercover video from investigative reporting unit Project Veritas has shone fresh light on the anti-Trump bias of some of Facebook’s moderators.

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

Facebook Mods Were Told Not to Censor Don Lemon’s “Hate Speech”

A Facebook/Cognizant insider who has decided to speak about what he sees as controversial and biased moderation practices deployed by Cognizant, a contractor, on behalf of the social media giant, suggest that content coming from liberal corporate media receives preferential treatment — even when it breaks Facebook’s own rules.

Zack McElroy produced evidence sent in November 2018 by Facebook to Cognizant, with the subject line reading, “[POLICY EXCEPTION] Don Lemon’s Quote About White Males Being Terror Threats.”

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

Facebook Moderator Whistleblower Raises the Alarm on Biased Algorithms

In April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the US Congress that his company did not have a political bias in the way it was programming its machine learning-powered algorithms to flag content.

In a testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, responding to Republican lawmakers, Zuckerberg said that algorithms produced by his company to determine which content was allowed and which banned on the giant platform were not “directed” in any way to enforce political or other bias.

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

Facebook Moderator Reveals Violent Anti-Trump Meme Allowed, Cartoon Anti-Democrat Meme Banned

In 2018, a gallery in Portland displayed a Trump cartoon that depicted a faceless executioner holding up his battered head with one hand, a bloodied knife in the other, seemingly about to behead the President. The image has the words “ Trump” written in bold letters and images signed by the artist, Compton Creep.

The piece was fairly quickly removed from its physical display at the gallery, after causing criticism and protests.

But it proved much less controversial for Facebook, who, according to an insider involved in the moderation process at the social media giant, distributed an internal memo saying that the picture did not break any internal rules dealing with violence and incitement.

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

Federal Judge Blasts Whitmer’s Lockdown Defense

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s assertion that her COVID-19 executive orders are based on the “best science” came under attack when a federal judge wrote that her lawyers could provide no factual basis for keeping the state’s gyms shut down.

United States District Judge Paul Maloney gave his June 19 rebuke of Whitmer and her legal team’s response to a lawsuit brought by several gym businesses.

Eighteen days earlier, Whitmer had announced the state’s gyms would remain under epidemic emergency lockdown, while other businesses, including restaurants and bars, were permitted to reopen.

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

Gun Rights Activists Sue to Block Virginia’s Universal Background Checks Law

Gun rights activists have filed another lawsuit challenging Virginia’s soon-to-become-law gun control measures, this time challenging expanded background checks.

The lawsuit from the Virginia Citizens Defense League and five other plaintiffs was filed late Monday afternoon in Lynchburg Circuit Court. It argues that the law, which is set to take effect July 1, violates residents’ constitutional rights by making them subject to background checks.

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

Horrifying Video: Degenerate Scumbag Throws Exploding Firework at Sleeping Homeless Man in NYC

A man was filmed throwing a lit firework at a sleeping homeless man in Harlem.

“It’s unclear exactly when the horrifying incident occurred, but cop sources told the Post it occurred on Lenox Avenue near West 113th Street in Harlem,” the New York Post reports.

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

Huge! Twitter Suspends Carpe Donktum After Trump Retweet — Top Pro-Trump Meme Maker!

MORE ELECTIONEERING FROM BIG TECH —

WHEN WILL REPUBLICANS GET OFF THEIR A** AND ACT?!!

Twitter sensation and MAGA-meme maker Carpe Donktum was suspended from Twitter today.

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

Idiot Criminals Announce They Will Tear Down Lincoln Statue in DC on Thursday at 7 P.M.

Idiot criminal vandals have announced their intent to tear down a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, on Thursday at 7 p.m.

The statue was paid for and erected by freed slaves to honor the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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

Instagram is Preparing to Request Government-Issued ID From Users

Instagram is working on the implementation of an account verification system for users — which could be for users who go viral on the platform — and which will require a photo of official identification and a video from various angles of the account owner’s face.

You may remember when we reported that Facebook was increasing its efforts to collect government ID from users who go viral on the platform. It raised massive privacy concerns as Facebook and the proper handling of user-data don’t often go hand in hand — and the idea of having to present your government-issued ID to not be suppressed on a platform was concerning to our readers.

Facebook decided that users whose accounts have a large number of followers must offer the app some identification document issued by the country’s government, be it their ID, driving license, passport, or any other legal document in which account administrator’s real name appears — or else it could be suppressed.

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

Jack Dorsey’s Square Holds Up to 30% of Businesses’ Income, Blocks Them on Twitter When They Complain

Square’s digital payment platform is accused of withholding a significant chunk of money from some of the businesses that use its services. Square says it’s to protect customers. Businesses, however, disagree with this retention policy of up to 30% for four months — especially at a time when many small businesses are at risk from going under.

Various companies have started to complain that the Square mobile and digital payment platform has recently been withholding between 20% and 30% of their income, depriving them of the ability to pay for salaries and supplies.

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

Just Awful: Nikki Haley Believes Garbage Bubba Wallace Noose Story — Now a Confirmed Hate Hoax

Another Hate Hoax—

The FBI on Tuesday released a statement on its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.

NASCAR on Sunday released a statement revealing that a noose was reportedly found in top driver Bubba Wallace’s Talladega garage stall.

As The Gateway Pundit suspected, there was no noose.

“The FBI learned that garage 4, where the noose was found, was assigned to Bubba Wallace last week. The investigation also revealed evidence, including authentic video confirmed by NASCAR, that the noose found in garage number 4 was in that garage as early as October 2019,” the FBI said in a statement.

In other words, the garage door pull rope wasn’t imagined as a noose until a racist narrative needed to be pushed out to the public.

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

Just in: DOJ Reveals Discovery of New Peter Strzok Notes That Are “Highly Exculpatory” To General Mike Flynn

The Justice Department on Tuesday revealed in a court filing a single page of notes from former FBI counter-intel chief Peter Strzok that are exculpatory to General Mike Flynn.

The content of the notes was not revealed because it is under protective order.

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

LAPD Officer Says He Found a Tampon Halfway Through Drinking His Starbucks Frappuccino

An off duty LAPD officer allegedly found a tampon halfway through drinking his Frappuccino from a Starbucks in Diamond Bar, California, on Friday.

Bill Melugin of Fox LA reports that the officer used his police credit union debit card to pay for his order.

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

Left Now Calls for Statues of Jesus, Churches to be Destroyed

Not content with pulling down statues of former Presidents, and attempts to erase history, the left now has a new target… Jesus.

Notorious race baiter and BLM agitator Shaun King, demanded Monday that all statues, as well as murals and stained glass windows depicting Jesus as a “white European,” should be destroyed because they “are a form of white supremacy.”

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Lock Them Up: Veterans’ Memorial Preservation Act Cited by Trump Makes Destruction of National Memorials and Statues Punishable by Up to 10 Years in Prison

Earlier today President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House before he left for his rally in Arizona later today.

President Trump told reporters he will use the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation Act to go after the jailed hoodlums who attempted to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue last night in Lafayette Square.

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Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar Arrested on Federal RICO Charge That Alleges He Agreed to Accept at Least $1.5 Million in Illicit Benefits

Case Alleges the Politician Operated a ‘Pay-to-Play’ Scheme in Which Real Estate Developers Funneled Cash and Other Benefits to Secure Favorable Treatment

LOS ANGELES — Special agents with the FBI this morning arrested Jose Huizar, an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, on a federal racketeering charge that alleges he led a criminal enterprise that used his powerful position at City Hall to solicit and accept lucrative bribes and other financial benefits to enrich himself and his close associates in exchange for Huizar taking official actions favorable to the developers and others who financed and facilitated the bribes.

Huizar, 51, of Boyle Heights, was taken into custody at his home without incident and is expected to make his initial appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles.

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Mainstream Media & BLM Working Together to Terrorize Innocent Americans

NPR and Black Lives Matter working together to destroy America.

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MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Dem Rep. Nearly Assaulted by Male Pervert in Pink Lingerie at DC ‘Autonomous Zone’ (Video)

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton were nearly assaulted by a man in pink lingerie and a blonde wig at DC’s failed “Black House Autonomous Zone” on Tuesday.

Security for one of the women promptly jumped in and pulled the pervert away.

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Nearly 100 Percent of Democratic College Students Support Defunding the Police: Poll

A whopping 94 percent of Democratic college students surveyed recently responded that they support defunding the police, according to a recent online College Fix poll of 1,500 college students nationwide.

What’s more, 61 percent of Democratic college students polled responded that rioting and looting are legitimate forms of protest against racial discrimination and police brutality in America today, the results show.

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NYT is Threatening my Safety by Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting the Blog

So, I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here’s my explanation.

Last week I talked to a New York Times technology reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex. He told me it would be a mostly positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech, and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation. It probably would have been a very nice article.

Unfortunately, he told me he had discovered my real name and would reveal it in the article, ie doxx me. “Scott Alexander” is my real first and middle name, but I’ve tried to keep my last name secret. I haven’t always done great at this, but I’ve done better than “have it get printed in the New York Times“.

I have a lot of reasons for staying pseudonymous.

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Oregon County Imposes Race-Based Face Mask Ordinance

Lincoln County makes mask exception for ‘people of color.’

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Oregon County Issues Face Mask Order That Exempts Non-White People

Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.

Health officials announced last week residents must wear face coverings in public settings where they may come within six feet of another individual who is not from the same household.

But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” over wearing the masks, officials said.

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Project Veritas Undercover Video: Facebook Content Moderator: ‘if Someone is Wearing a MAGA Hat, I Am Going to Delete Them for Terrorism’

James O’Keefe strikes again!

Project Veritas on Tuesday released undercover videos documenting rampant anti-Trump bias at Facebook.

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S.D. Governor Weighs in on Idea of Blowing Up Mount Rushmore

As protests over the horrific police killing of George Floyd devolved into the looting, vandalism, and arson across America that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments, Cancel Culture iconoclasts have vandalized and toppled statues of Confederate generals and Union generals, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. They even vandalized statues of Mahatma Gandhi and the first black Union volunteers. This raises the question of whether or not the rioters will target one of America’s most iconic monuments — Mount Rushmore.

“So, when is our woke historical revisionist priesthood going to insist on blowing up Mount Rushmore?” best-selling author Ben Shapiro mused on Twitter.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) powerfully shot down the idea. “Not on my watch,” she tweeted.

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Text Message Urges Chicago Police Officers to Call in Sick, Limit Arrests in a ‘Blue Flu’

CHICAGO (CBS) — Along with a spike in violence in Chicago this past weekend comes with a new push by members of the police union to get officers on the street to stand down — and even stay home.

As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported Monday night, it all started with a text message.

The text told officers not to volunteer to work on days off, to limit arrests, and to call in sick to make a statement to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council about how much officers are needed.

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That’s Weird? Clinton Pal, Philanthropist and Multi-Millionaire Steve Bing Jumps From High Rise to His Death

Clinton friend, philanthropist, film financier and multi-millionaire, Steve Bing, 55, jumped from a Century City building on Monday and was found dead at the scene.

Steve Bing was a longtime friend of the Clintons.

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The American Public is Being Played — What’s it All About?

The American public is being played. Played, not by virtuosi, but by those who want to bring, not just America down, but the whole of Western Culture. Now that there has been enough time for people to dig deeper into the Wuhan flu, the shutdown of the economy to ‘protect lives’, the protests/riots, and the corruption in the Swamp and Deep State, bright minds and conscientious people are exposing the lies — lies that are meant to bring down a nation.

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The Black Dilemma in America: Culture, Conflict, No Solutions

One unknown writer said, “You can’t legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government doesn’t first take from somebody else.

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The Look on Obama’s Face Says it All — Biden Makes Absolutely No Sense During Virtual Fundraiser, “We’re Talking About a Peaceful Cold War” (Video)

This is why Obama told Joe Biden he didn’t have to run for president.

The look on Obama’s face said it all.

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To US Attorney General: Hydroxychloroquine Clinical Trials Intentionally Murdering People?

Mr Barr: You must look into this one. Yesterday. Set your hounds loose.

Summary: Several clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) have been administering huge doses of the drug to COVID patients—doses that can easily be lethal.

[Comment: Intentionally murdering people with overdoses to “prove” HCQ is “useless”. Seems like Fauci wants his vaccine as the “only” solution for his NIH funded COVID19.]

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Top Dem Donor and Pal to Epstein/Clinton/Gates Leaps to Death From 27th Floor Apt

Millionaire Hollywood producer Steve Bing, 55, reportedly committed suicide Monday.

[Comment: Another one suicided.]

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Trending Now on Twitter: #BubbaSmollett and #FakeNoose after Bubba Wallace Hate Hoax Exposed

Another Hate Hoax exposed.

The FBI on Tuesday released a statement on its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.

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Twice as Many Americans Support Inclusive “All Lives Matter” Over “Black Lives Matter” Slogan

Despite the massive support from the far left mainstream media, more Americans support the more inclusive slogan “All lives Matter” over the “Black Lives Matter” slogans.

After weeks of violence, looting, destruction and mass chaos more Americans are likely to support the country over the Marxist BLM movement.

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Twitter Puts Red-Flag Warning on President Trump’s Tweet Asserting He Would Use Force Against Radical Leftists Trying to Set Up “Autonomous Zone” In DC

Twitter put a red-flag warning on one of President Trump’s tweet Tuesday afternoon.

This is the fourth time Twitter has censored one of President Trump’s tweets.

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U. Chicago Activists Occupy Campus Police HQ, Upset Pizza They Ordered Not Allowed in

University of Chicago student activists occupied the campus police headquarters Friday night, with about 20 of them remaining until morning because they wanted a meeting with the provost and UCPD chief.

According to The Chicago Maroon, demonstrators numbered around 100 at the start of the sit-in, with “around 40 stay[ing] for at least part of the night.”

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Veritas Bombshell: Facebook Content Moderator Says ‘If Someone’s Wearing MAGA Hat, I’M Going to Delete Them for Terrorism’

Half a dozen other moderators caught admitting in undercover video that they censor Trump supporters on a whim.

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Video: The Truth About Tulsa

Was Trump’s rally a major flop or is the media lying again?

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Waking a Sleeping Giant

The air is still, but there is a tension. You can feel it. It’s a stillness that makes one nervous, as a sleeping volcano that’s beginning to awaken, showing smoke and ash. For right now, people are quiet, wondering what is around the corner.

Common folk are continuing to be bombarded by the Left, behind their high walls with a self-righteous, phony ‘heart felt’ drone of why the country we all love, having so many of us fought and died for, is a sham, a fraud, illegitimate, irredeemable. Former Secretary of State, John Kerry is even predicting a revolution if Trump wins re-election.

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Watch Live: Coronavirus a Proven Hoax, But Democrats and Fauci Call for Shutdown and Masks to Continue

Meanwhile, Gov. Abbott pushes ‘mask of the beast’ required to buy and sell in Texas cities.

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We Were Right! FBI Confirms ‘Noose’ Found in Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR Stall Was Garage Door Pull Rope — it Was Just Another Hate Hoax

The FBI on Tuesday released a statement on its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.

NASCAR on Sunday released a statement revealing that a noose was reportedly found in top driver Bubba Wallace’s Talladega garage stall.

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Wendy’s Arsonist Natalie White Arrested in Atlanta — Faces First Degree Arson Charges

A week ago on Saturday night protesters torched the Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta following the death of Rayshard Brooks.

One video that went viral online shows a white girl and ally of Black Lives Matter torching the Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta.

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Canadian College Exec Apologizes, Resigns After ‘Liking’ Conservative Tweets

Michael Korenberg was targeted for cancellation.

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Austria: Green Party Says Taxing the Rich is Necessary to Pay for Coronavirus Crisis

The Greens, which are members of Austria’s ruling coalition government, say that the country cannot exit the coronavirus crisis without a significant contribution from wealthy Austrians, who will have to pay extra money into the state treasury in addition to current taxes.

Vice-Chancellor for the Greens, Werner Kogler, is now in the unenviable role of pioneering higher taxes for wealthy Austrians.

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Brexit Leader Farage Backs Trump 2020 to ‘Face Up to the Radical Left’

Brexit leader and veteran campaigner Nigel Farage has voiced his confidence in the election chances of President Trump in 2020, noting the unsavoury alternative of Joe Biden, who he characterised as a “puppet of this new radical left”.

Speaking in a short film released Monday on the eve of the fourth anniversary of his victory in the 2016 Brexit referendum, Nigel Farage voiced his confidence in President Trump’s ability to win this year’s election.

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British PM Wants Bar Owners to Collect Personal Info of Customers During Reopening

Public slams invasion of privacy.

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Brutally Beaten French Officers Refuse to Fight Back Due to Concerns of Police Brutality

Two plainclothes members of the French riot police, the CRS, were brutally beaten at a bar in Le Mans but refused to defend themselves in case their actions provoked allegations of police brutality.

The incident took place in a pub earlier this month when the officers had decided to “lend a hand” to patrons in the pub during an escalating conflict between two parties.

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English Football Club Responds With Anger After ‘White Lives Matter’ Banner Flown Above Stadium During Match

Burnley Football Club has condemned an “offensive” banner saying “White Lives Matter Burnley!” which was flown over a match just days after three white people were stabbed to death in Reading, and vowed to “work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible”.

The banner was flown over an Ethiad Stadium match between Burnley FC and Manchester City, whose manager Pep Guardiola has previously said that “white people should apologise” to black people in response to the civil unrest following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

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France: Tensions Rising Between Gangs in Paris No-Go Suburbs

Tensions, reprisal shooting attacks, and gang violence are boiling over in the Paris no-go suburbs as rival drug-dealing gangs are battling each other in a new wave of conflict.

The commune of Epinay-sur-Seine in the district of Seine-Saint-Denis has become a hotbed for gang violence and tensions in recent weeks with at least two shootings taking place in the area, one of them leading to the death of a 16-year-old boy.

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German City Spirals Out of Control as Antifa, Migrants Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Run Wild

Hundreds of rioters destroy downtown Stuttgart, loot businesses

[Comment: Videos did not show Merkel proudly running with the pack chanting “We can do it”.]

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German Security Agency Warns Far-Left Political Assasinations by Antifa Groups ‘No Longer Unthinkable’

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has sounded the alarm over the increased level of violence from far-left Antifa militants, saying murders of political opponents are now possible.

According to the German security agency, far-left extremists have become more radical to the point that “the development of terrorist structures in left-wing extremism” is now a real possibility.

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Hungary, Poland, Czechia, And Slovakia Are Island of Peace as Violence Spreads in Western Europe

The spread of violence in the Western world shows that their social model is failing while the Visegrad countries are becoming a model for peace and stability, writes Magyar Hirlap columnist Mariann Ory.

“I also see that law enforcement and police are on the streets and yet there is a wave of violence. Statues are being toppled, the conditions are deplorable, and there are gang wars on the beautiful streets of small towns in civilized Western European countries,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Orban said in a radio interview this past Friday. “I look at the countries of those who are advising us how to conduct our lives properly and on good governance, proper operation of democracy, and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”

The day after Orban’s remarks, there was a terrorist attack in Reading, England and mass street violence in Stuttgart, Germany after a drug search conducted by police.

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New Fort Trump Details Revealed Ahead of Polish President’s Visit to the White House

On June 24, in Washington D.C., presidents Donald Trump and Andrzej Duda will confirm the conditions on which a United States military presence in Poland will be increased, with reports indicating that 2,000 U.S. troops instead of the previously announced 1,000 will be brought to Poland.

Additionally, the command of the V Corps of the U.S. Army from Kentucky alongside 30 American F-16s from Germany will be moved to Poland.

The two countries will also sign a Defense Cooperation Act and Poland will receive an additional five used C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, which are still newer than the current machines used by the Polish military.

The purchase of an attack helicopter will also most likely be announced at the upcoming meeting between Trump and Duda, which will either be the Boeing AH-64 or the Bell AH-1Z Viper.

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Poland: President Duda May Still Win in the First Round of Elections

As President Andrzej Duda’s campaign gains speed on the last stretch, his opponent Rafal Trzaskowski is running out of breath, says political scientist Dr. Tomasz Zukowski.

Zukowski says in an interview for wPolityce that Duda’s campaign is becoming more dynamic and is in much better form than it was previously. This showed itself in the last television debate and in Washington’s invitation to Duda at the same election polls are also noting a surge in support for Duda. The political scientist said this new positive energy can be felt at Duda’s rallies.

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President Duda is Key to Poland Exiting Crisis Says PM Morawiecki

In the run-up to Poland’s presidential election, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki emphasized that President Andrzej Duda has taken good care of the Polish economy and will continue doing so.

Morawiecki said that owing to “Duda’s Plan”, the Polish state gave €22.5 billion to save workplaces over the course of 100 days since the coronavirus epidemic started in Poland. He thanked Duda for protecting 5 million workplaces.

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UK: ‘Offensive’ Imagery of St Michael Defeating Satan is ‘Reminiscent of George Floyd’

The Guardian has promoted a petition calling for British honours depicting the victory of St Michael the Archangel over Satan to be redesigned, as the “offensive” imagery is “reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd”.

The Order of St Michael and St George is bestowed at the pleasure of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, and “recognises service in a foreign country, or in relation to foreign and Commonwealth affairs” — typically of a non-military nature — with members holding the rank of Knight Grand Cross (GCMG), Knight Commander (KCMG), or Companion (CMG).

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UK: Belief in 5G Conspiracy Theories Goes Hand-in-Hand With Small Explosions of Rage, Paranoia and Violence, Researchers Claim

Psychologists from Northumbria University have published a research paper examining the connection between beliefs in 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and the willingness to act violently upon them. Surprise surprise, if you believe 5G is part of a Soros-backed depopulation plan, you might be tempted to take up a Super Soaker in arms.…

[Comment: Yawn. Rabid leftist psychologists produce a “paper” demonizing those who question the globalist agenda.]

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UK: Police: ‘White Lives Matter’ Banner Flight Not a Criminal Matter

Lancashire police have said their investigation into the flying of a “White Lives Matter” banner over a football match on Monday has found “no criminal offences”, despite the act causing outrage among top sporting celebrities.

The force released a statement Tuesday afternoon, which followed them announcing an investigation into a single-engine aircraft dragging a message banner over a football match between Burnley and Manchester which read “White Lives Matter Burnley!”.

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UK: Tory Rebels Block Boris’s Attempt to Extend Sunday Trading to Save What’s Left of ‘Common Day of Rest’

A group of 50 Conservative MPs has forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to back down from a proposal to extend Sunday trading hours, with the rebels saying it was essential to maintain the “common day of rest”.

British law currently restricts Sunday trading; however, the government of the instinctively liberal Boris Johnson sought to take to parliament plans to allow large stores to stay open for longer.

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ISIS ‘Lockdown’ Magazine Urges Using Kids to Spread COVID-19, Attacks With Scissors

A “lockdown special” edition of a magazine published by ISIS supporters encouraged steps to “annihilate the disbelievers” including stabbing people with scissors and expending “less effort” by spreading deadly coronavirus.

“The Voice of Hind,” an English-language magazine published and distributed online by ISIS supporters in India, published its fifth edition Monday and its fourth edition in May. Between those two releases, the authors released the 17-page “lockdown special” online, declaring on the cover featuring photos of surgical-masked individuals and a temperature check that “it’s time for kuffar [disbelievers] to fall.”

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Pakistan: Minor Hindu Girl in Jacobabad Abducted, Converted to Islam and Married Off to Kidnapper Wazir Hussain

In another horrifying incident against minorities in Pakistan, a minor Hindu girl was abducted, converted and married off to her abductor in Sindh’s Jacobabad in Pakistan.

Reshaman from Sindh was kidnapped by Wazir Hussain on June 18 and was later converted and forcibly married to him. The minor later came up with a certificate claiming that she is 19-year old and has converted on her own will. According to the certificate, Reshaman’s new name is Beesharan.

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UK and Japan to Push for Free Trade Agreement by End of July

The United Kingdom and Japan are seeking to forge a free trade agreement in six weeks in order to get it passed during the current parliament in Japan.

Set to be one of the fastest-signed deals in trading history, the two parties are aiming for a conclusion by the end of July, two weeks after talks were launched.

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US Government Declares China’s Global Times, People’s Daily and Two Other Outlets as ‘Foreign Missions’, Calls Them CCP Mouthpieces Controlled by Chinese Govt

The United States administration on Monday designated four more Chinese propaganda outlets as ‘foreign missions’, announcing that they are the mouthpieces for the Communist Party of China.

In a move that is likely to increase tensions between the two countries, the Donald Trump administration designated four media outlets — state broadcaster China Central Television, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece newspaper People’s Daily, its tabloid subsidiary the Global Times, and the semiofficial state-run China News Service and reflected their real status as “propaganda outlets” under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Whistleblower Claims Chinese Communists Pay Vatican $2 Billion in Bribes

ROME — Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengui alleged this weekend the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “allocates $2 billion a year” to pay off the Vatican for its silence concerning Chinese atrocities.

In a June 20th interview on The War Room, Mr. Guo said the CCP earmarks massive sums each year to win the allegiance of foreign countries including the Vatican, Italy, and Australia. Among them, the Vatican receives up to 2 billion dollars from the Chinese Communist Party every year, he said.

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‘I’m 100 Per Cent Right’: Sam Newman Doubles Down Over Outrageous ‘George Floyd is a Piece of S**t’ Rant That Cost Him His 35-Year Career at Channel Nine

The former Footy Show host suddenly left the network on Friday following an extraordinary tirade about George Floyd whose death sparked Black Lives Matter protests across the world.

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The Second Wipe: Panic Buying of Toilet Paper in COVID-19 Hot Spots Flares Up Again as Melbourne Shoppers Strip Supermarket Shelves of Dunny Roll — and it Could be About to Get Worse

Panic buying of toilet paper in COVID-19 hot spots across Victoria has ramped-up amid fears of another looming lockdown.

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Why Are They Hiding This Violent Attack From You

I have to warn you, the video you’re about to watch is confronting, it’s graphic, and if you have a heart, it’ll break it to bits.

But I have to show it to you, and you need to pass it on because everyone needs to see what happened to this defenceless 16-yr-old girl on Sunday at Southern Cross Station.

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‘Extremely Alarming’ Swarms of Locusts Plague Eastern Africa, Western Asia Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

ETHIOPIA, Africa — Swarms of locusts are wreaking havoc on crops throughout eastern Africa and western Asia amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

If the swarms continue on their projected path, the FAO says desert locusts can pose a threat to the livelihoods of 10% of the world’s population.

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Greece: Lesbos Island Residents Grow Fearful of Migrants Over Looting and Property Destruction

Inhabitants of the village of Afalonas on the island of Lesbos are at the mercy of illegal immigrants who have looted estates, slaughtered animals, and destroyed properties, according to the head of the small village, Costas Kourogenis.

According to Nea tis Lesvou online daily, in April, the situation has gone so far that one of the locals was injured by illegal migrants who entered his property.

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North Macedonia: 64 Bangladeshi Migrants Found in Truck

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say 64 Bangladeshi migrants have been found in a truck on a highway near the country’s border with Greece.

The driver evaded arrest during the inspection late Monday near Strumica in the country’s southeast. In a statement Tuesday, police gave no other details about the migrants.

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Pope Francis Names Virgin Mary ‘Comfort of Migrants’

ROME — Pope Francis has added “Comfort of Migrants” to the litany of traditional titles by which Catholics invoke the Virgin Mary.

In a letter dated June 20, Cardinal Robert Sarah, who heads the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, declared that the title of “Comfort of Migrants” would be added to the “Litany of Loreto,” along with two other new Marian titles: Mother of Mercy and Mother of Hope.

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US Expands Work Visa Ban to Protect American Jobs From ‘Millions of Aliens’

Trump makes historic move to limit legal immigration.

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Destruction of America Through the Education of Our Children, Part 1

Today Americans are living the results of a deliberately dumbed down education. Our founders had IQ of 120+. The traditional American education was fact based providing the students with the skills to navigate their life’s plan. By learning reading, writing and math students excelled beyond expectations. The products they created set the stage to advance human life beyond expectations. Rather than continue this plan focused on American exceptionalism, greed set in. Those in power Communist/Socialist/Progressive (aka Communists) realized that to keep their power they must destroy competition. “Educated people require more from their government. Poor people depend on their government to exist.” Communists learned quickly that the best way to destroy a country was to destroy the culture starting in school. Dumb the population and the nation will crumble.

In the late 1800’s till today education changed from a fact based curricula to an outcome based value driven hatred filled curricula. Parents trusted schools to provide excellent students and instead they got hate filled victims incapable of thinking on their own. Today we are living the results of those failed plans…

Many things have changed over the years since the Federal government got their hands on the education of our children. Today they are working hard to remove “parental control” and replace the family with the school family. The goal is still the same — New World Order! One World Government!

Results in the first quarter of the 20th century IQ slipped to 110, in the late 20th century the national IQ was around 100. Today after 10 years of Common Core the national IQ is below 100. Shall we give the Education Department more money to fix the problem?

[Comment: Recommended reading. You can see the products of marxist indoctrination rampaging on the streets.]

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Facebook Oversight Board Loaded With Leftist Law Profs

Stanford Law School Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director of the elite institution’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Pamela Karlan, has been named to Facebook’s new oversight board. The board was created to deal with concerns regarding freedom of expression and judging whether the content in question is best suited for Facebook, according to its policy.

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Initial COVID-19 Trials: The World’s Deadliest Vaccine?

1 in 5 phase 1 volunteers suffered severe systemic side effects, suggesting vaccinating the global population would gravely injure at least 1.5 billion people — and likely more, since only exceptionally healthy individuals were included.

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Media Demonization of Parler Begins After Free Speech Network Attracts Flood of New Users

In an entirely expected development, media hit pieces against pro-free speech social network Parler began after the site attracted a ton of new followers.

The website’s engagement levels have skyrocketed in recent weeks as many more people choose to transition away from Twitter, which has become a cesspit of censorship and a platform for left-wing extremists to engage in the mob harassment and doxxing of conservatives.

Numerous members of Congress in the United States and Conservative MPs in the UK have also started signing up to the network, prompting anxiety amongst Silicon Valley that Parler could eventually become a genuine competitor.

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Shame: Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes if He ‘Hurt or Offended’ Anyone With Blackface Skits, Repeated Use of N-Word

Late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel announced this week he’ll be taking the summer off.

Good timing.

Kimmel, host of an ABC show, has been mired in a controversy over dressing in blackface and using the N-word numerous times in skits over the years.

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The Ends Justify the Means

The Deep State’s satanic control is the result of a very well-organized long-term conspiracy with the purpose to establish the New World Order, based on the Luciferian revolution against God and Natures good and common laws. They are identified as the Global Elite or Deep State-cabal, who see us as their slaves and property, to do with us as they please.

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Transhumanism: The New Religion of the Coming Technocracy

In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, “Looking Forward to the End of Humanity”, Adam Kirsch posits a technological push, impelled by the global coronavirus pandemic, that would abolish death:

Eternal life through advanced technology seems like a pipe dream for a society that, until recently, had trouble manufacturing enough masks to save doctors’ and nurses’ lives. Yet Covid-19 may turn out to be just the kind of crisis needed to turbocharge efforts to create what its advocates call a “transhuman” future. With our biological fragility more obvious than ever, many people will be ready to embrace the message of the Transhumanist Declaration, an eight-point program first issued in 1998: “We envision the possibility of broadening human potential by overcoming aging, cognitive shortcomings, involuntary suffering and our confinement to planet Earth.”

There is an abundance of well respected thinkers who believe this is possible, including Google Ventures founder Bill Maris, cited in the article, and Yuval Noah Harari, in his Homo Deus sets the tone early on by declaring:

In the twenty-first century, humans are likely to make a serious bid for immortality…

Humans always die due to some technical glitch…

Nothing metaphysical about it. It is all technical problems.

Then of course, no discussion of techno-utopianism would be complete without Ray Kurzweil, who posits a “technological singularity” which would provide for a personalized and totally controlled universe for every human, one where they would be in complete control to experience whatever they desired, for all eternity, once we all upload our consciousnesses into the cloud.

[Comment: They will end up being the BORG of Star Trek. They will have no idea whether a thought originated with them or from the “cloud”.]

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Woke Authors Quit JK Rowling’s Agency After it Refuses to Cave to Trans Mob

At least four authors have severed ties with the literary agency representing them and JK Rowling, after it refused to distance itself from remarks made by the Harry Potter author on transgender issues.

The authors, all identifying under the LGBTQIA umbrella, issued a joint statement

resigning from The Blair Partnership that said “This decision is not made lightly, and we are saddened and disappointed it has come to this.”

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13 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/23/2020

  1. The west is mentally ill. In tatters. Gone servile. Ripened and going rotten and ready for conquest. Man has the Islamist and his everyday ordinary every day Mosque grovelling racist noticed.

    • Fundamentally destroyed.

      “Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality. The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.”

      — Barack Obama

    • Well, apparently it isn’t (see above, under “Europe and the UK”- I love that distinction- near the end).

  2. After the Chechens, under the patronage of the world liberal community, staged Russian genocide in Chechnya, traditions and spirituality were revived there.

    Articles in Russian about this terrible incident are more extensive, but in English only these were found.
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    https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/51249/

    https://handofmoscow.com/2020/06/24/the-mother-of-the-dead-chechen-apologized-to-kadyrov-for-the-version-of-domestic-violence/

    Many Chechens are very beautiful women and they have a European appearance.
    The deceased woman and her husband.

    https://obzor.io/files/2020/06/obzor-io200620-IMG_3232-1-560×360.jpg

    • The bloody Chechens are the worst of the bloody muslim lot, more vicious than their arab and African counterparts. Every time we ran into them in middle eastern countries, they fought to the last man. You Russians screwed up by not eliminating them all when you had the chance. They are also responsible to the arms, white slavery and heroin trade in Europe.

  3. To noose or not to noose that is the question.
    Noosecar where they drive around in circles for four hours.
    No noose is good noose. Fake Noose is just faux.
    Fifteen FBI agents had to stop trying to overthrow a duly elected president and learn how to work a garage pull.

  4. Many years ago I enjoyed corresponding with bloke named ‘Guy Levens-Torres’ – it was before the Internet as we know it. We lost contact – he appeared to be disillusioned with the world and went into a ‘hole’ to study. He was interested in archeology and in himself I found an interesting person. For some reason this morning I decided to Google his name to see if he was still alive – AND blessings, I think I have found him! I like and enjoy your musings Sir. If indeed, you are the person of years ago it is great to see you are not only living but challenging the ‘politically correct’ whom I loathe. I will share this link with my friends. Best Wishes, Louis.

  5. I just learned a few hours ago that BLM stands for “Burn, Loot and Murder”.

    Fits doesn’t it?

    • Yes it fits. Like Islam has become repulsive. Soon revolting and smelly – like a rat.

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