The never-ending saga of Gates of Vienna’s site migration has taken a new, dismaying twist: the new mail server won’t send SMTP email under the same settings as used in the old server.
New emails have been arriving, which is good. They include some of the missing messages from yesterday. However, I can’t reply to anybody at this point.
To make matters even worse, my phone service went out on Friday. The phone and the Internet arrive at Schloss Bodissey on the same skinny little copper wire, but for some reason voice quit working. There was no thunder and lightning, and no power outage. The phone just decided to quit.
I opened a repair ticket via the Internet. The phone company has promised to send a technician no later than 5pm on Tuesday July 21. They don’t care. They don’t have to care. They’re the phone company.
So the situation is now Murphy Squared. I had been communicating with the hosting company by email. The only way I can send communications to the outside world now is via skype or carrier pigeon. Neither of those helps me deal with the hosting service, and my bandwidth is too limited for their “chat” to work properly. So I have to wait for the phone company droid to get here.
Oy vey.
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Bank of England Governor Signals Central Bank Digital Currency is Coming
As confirmed by several economic outlets, including Bloomberg, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey took part in a VTALK with students this past Monday for Speakers for Schools. When the subject of digital currency came up, Bailey said:
“We are looking at the question of, should we create a Bank of England digital currency. We’ll go on looking at it, as it does have huge implications on the nature of payments and society. I think in a few years time, we will be heading toward some sort of digital currency.
“The digital currency issue will be a very big issue. I hope it is, because that means Covid will be behind us.”
Whilst only a short quote, there are several strands to pick up on here.
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In the months ahead, millions of Americans will fall so far behind on their rent payments that they will be facing eviction.
And millions of other Americans will fall so far behind on their mortgages that they will be in serious danger of losing their homes.
According to Emily Benfer, we could potentially see a total of “20 million to 28 million people” get kicked out of their homes in the months ahead…
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“F*** the Peaceful Protests” Shouts Angry BLM Leader at Portland Rally (Video)
The emboldened terrorists are no longer hiding their true feelings. What used to be kept behind a PR friendly veil of “we don’t condone violence” is now out in the open. Not only are they openly saying they want to abolish the United States, but they are now calling for violent protests, shouting “F*** THE PEACEFUL PROTESTS!”
At the same rally where they called for abolishing the U.S.A., president of “non profit” Don’t Shoot Portland, Tai Carpenter, took to the microphone to go on her own deranged rant, and repeatedly condemned peaceful protesting, essentially saying her protests need to be violent. She explains that calling for peaceful protest is “an exercise in All Lives Matter bulls***!”
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A group of protesters gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday for a protest calling on prison officials to keep Epstein pimp Ghislaine Maxwell alive.
Maxwell was moved to the facility from New Hampshire in early July.
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“They Just Take and Take” — AOC Aims to “Soak the Rich” With Proposed New York Wealth Tax
Despite the critical role she played in dissuading Amazon from bringing its “HQ2” to Queens (it was one of two sites chosen by the company after more than a year of searching), AOC triumphed over all of her Democratic primary opponents, including former CNBC reporter Michele Caruso-Cabrera.
And earlier this week, a progressive Democrat successfully primary-ed longtime Democratic incumbent in a district that encompasses parts of the Bronx and Westchester.
Although not every AOC-approved candidate in NYC has achieved this much, the city’s outsize community of mostly white college-educated “socialist organizers” has emerged as a political force capable of outmatching NYC’s ossified Democratic machine (shriveled after nearly 8 years of de Blasio’s ineptitude) Mayor De Blasio might be a committed progressive, but he’s not down for the revolution, man. The rose-emoji crew want to ensure that city offices are occupied by candidates that they approve. Which is why mayor-in-waiting Scott Stringer shouldn’t count his chickens before they hatch.
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“They Don’t Care About Black Lives!”: 2 Black Women Spread Paint Over BLM Mural Outside Trump Tower
Two black women dumped and spread paint on the Black Lives Matter mural which has been painted in front of Trump Tower in New York City, attempting to cover it up, while yelling at bystanders, “They don’t care about black lives!” “Re-fund our police!” “Jesus matters!” and “We will never support it!”
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Lawyer covers for pedophile but says Stone is ‘assaulting Constitution.’
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Baltimore Violence: More Than a Dozen Shot Since Thursday Night, Multiple Killed
More than a dozen people have been shot throughout Baltimore City since Thursday night, five people have been killed.
“We all should be upset about it, but I don’t know if we should be shocked.” former FBI agent Dr. Tyrone Powers told FOX45. “This crime that we’re seeing, it’s only going to increase and we shouldn’t be surprised that it increases unless we do something to stop it.”
Eight people were shot between Friday morning and Saturday morning.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
BLM Organizer Charged on Six Counts of Child Sex Abuse, Possession of Images of Underage Girls
DeVries, a resident of Jackson, New Hampshire, served on the Municipal Budget Committee for the town of Conway in the Granite State. In addition to child abuse charges, he was also charged for falsifying physical evidence after he threw his cellphone from his porch when law enforcement arrived.
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Portland Antifa and Black Lives Matter launched explosives at the Federal Courthouse and Justice Center while attempting to barricade agents inside on the 50th night of riots in the ultra liberal city.
There was also severe violence against random citizens that they disagree with politically during Friday night’s chaos.
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Cisco Fires Employees That Question Black Lives Matter During Company-Wide Racism Discussion
In early June, dutifully doing its part to virtue signal along with the rest of the world, Cisco Systems hosted an “all hands on deck” meeting on race, hosted via videoconference. In the comments of the online forum, visible to everyone, some workers questioned the Black Lives Matter movement and were subsequently fired from their jobs, proving once again that you can have an opinion, as long as it’s the right opinion.
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Cisco Employees Fired for “All Lives Matter” Posts
An undetermined number of employees from tech giant Cisco have been fired after comments made about the Black Lives Matter movement during a video conference involving the company’s CEO and other top executives.
In recent times, support of the Black Lives Matter movement has been suggested from the biggest corporations in the United States and beyond — including Cisco, the world’s largest networking company.
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A crazed Portland rioter stripped completely naked at the police line on the 50th night of violent riots in the city.
The nudity came after police began to disperse a crowd that was attempting to barricade officers inside of the Federal Courthouse and Justice Center late Friday evening and into Saturday morning.
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Ignored by Liberal Media: CDC Confirms 12th Straight Week of Declining Coronavirus Deaths
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed this week that coronavirus deaths declined again for the 12th straight week.
Via the CDC:
Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 8.1% during week 27 to 6.4% during week 28, representing the twelfth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC. The percentage is currently above the epidemic threshold and will likely change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks.
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Juniata College Calls Cops on Student for Sending Email That Mocked Diversity Demands
A Pennsylvania liberal arts college suspended a student and reported him to police for sending an email that mocked demands for a stronger bias response team and required classes on systemic racism, among others.
Colin Daly also said students can’t blame “skin color” for their problems, which could stem from “a lack of personal responsibility, lack of growing up in a stable two-parent household, or a general disinclination for learning of the college variety.”
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Lawsuit: L.A. County Forced Teen to Take Estrogen Injections to Combat Mental Illness
(NATIONAL FILE) A lawsuit alleges that male 16-year-old was forcibly given the female hormone estrogen to combat a mild behavioral disorder during his time at at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall. It is claimed that hormone ultimately led the male teen to experience hormonal issues and develop breast tissue.
The teenager, who has his identity withheld due to his age, reportedly had up to 30 doses of Estradiol administered to combat a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in June of 2019, reports the LA Times.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
In the wake of the George Floyd death, the protests and riots in most cities ground to a halt after a week so. But not in Portland. Portland has been protesting literally every night since late May. Many of these protests devolve into unlawful assemblies as violent leftists start to throw rocks and other debris at police, and it’s not uncommon for the police to declare these riots.
But mayor Ted Wheeler, governor Kate Brown, and the Portland police command staff seemingly let the rioters take the city, as police are told to stand down and not impede the mob as businesses are destroyed and looted, fires are started in the streets, random bystanders are assaulted, and government buildings are vandalized and set on fire.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Legally Armed Driver Shoots, Kills Gunman, Stopping Shooting Spree in Indiana
A legally armed driver in Brownsburg, Indiana shot and killed a gunman this week after an unprovoked fatal shooting, saving at least one more victim’s life and preventing a potential further shooting spree.
Two men were working at the Brownsburg Cemetery Tuesday afternoon, when Joshua Christopher Hayes, 22, allegedly attacked them without provocation.
Hayes chased a 36-year-old worker, Seth Robertson, out into an intersection where he shot and killed him, according to a local news station.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Removing Indian Head Logo
OMAHA, Neb. — Mutual of Omaha plans to replace its longtime corporate logo, which for 70 years has featured a depiction of a Native American chief, the insurance company announced Friday.
The move comes as corporations and sports teams around the country face increasing pressure to dump nicknames and depictions that reference American Indians amid a nationwide movement calling for racial justice.
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More than 550 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made over 8,000 contributions totaling more than $285,000 to Democratic causes since 2015. In that time, only five contributions have been made toward Republican causes, Federal Election Commission records indicate.
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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Marsupial in Brule Formation
STARK COUNTY, N.D. — Paleontologists unearthed five species of ancient marsupials, including one brand new, previously undiscovered species, in the Brule Formation on two ranches near Dickinson.
These marsupials from the oligocene — roughly 30-32 million years ago — are similar to tiny opossums, about the size of a field mouse or a pocket-sized tree possum native to modern South America, North Dakota Paleontology Society senior paleontologist Clint Boyd said.
The new species is distinct from previously discovered species because of the shape of its teeth, which are only about 1-2 millimeters in size. The difference between what they observe of one species to the next can come down to an extra cusp on a tooth.
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Poll: Less Than 30 Percent of Americans Say Redskins Should Change Their Name
Nearly half of respondents of a national poll conducted by Morning Consult are just fine with the name of NFL team The Washington Redskins. The football team, which has been for years accused of racism against Native Americans despite polls finding Native American majorities support the name, has been slated for change to placate a small group of online leftist agitators.
However, it turns out that far more Americans believe the name ought to remain than those who prefer a more culturally sensitive name. According to the poll, 49 percent of respondents believe the Redskins should keep their nickname, with only 29 percent in favor of the upcoming change and 22 percent unsure.
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Portland Riot Organizer Claims Mission is the ‘Abolition of the United States as We Know it’
A Portland riot organizer gained massive applause after saying that their mission is the “abolition of the United States as we know it” and referred to our nation as “stolen land.”
Lilth Sinclair could barely contain her excitement at the cheers when she announced herself as an “Afro indigenous non-binary” protest organizer on Friday.
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Sailors Who Fought USS Bonhomme Richard Fire Test Positive for Coronavirus, Navy Confirms
At least two sailors who helped fight the extensive fire that raged on for days aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard last week off the coast of San Diego have since tested positive for the coronavirus, U.S. Navy officials confirmed on Friday…
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Satanic Symbol Painted at Church in Parish Where Knights of Columbus Began
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A church in the New Haven, Connecticut parish at which the Knights of Columbus was founded was vandalized this week, with a satanic symbol painted on the door.
Fr. Michael McGivney, who will soon be beatified, began his priestly ministry at St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, the city’s first parish, in 1877. The priest founded the Knights of Columbus there in 1882.
In 2018, nearby St. Joseph Church became part of St. Mary’s Parish during a diocesan consolidation process. Dominican Fr. John Paul Walker, the parish pastor said in a Facebook post Thursday that vandalism at St. Joseph Church had taken place overnight.
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Sesame Street’s New Muppet Karli Has a Mother That’s Addicted to Opiates
There’s nothing that says happy childhood more than “Sesame Street” and everything that the show stands for. Not only is it one of the longest-running children’s television shows in the United States, but characters like Elmo, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus are names that you just can’t seem to forget, right?
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SF Police Commission Orders Police Stations to “Prominently Display” Black Lives Matter Posters
The San Francisco Police Commission unanimously approved a measure that requires all police stations across the city to display Black Lives Matter posters, despite resistance from union members.
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U.N. Pushes Permanent COVID-19 Lockdown! Emergency Saturday Report
Meanwhile, President Trump prepares to tell the world that America is at war with China.
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US Army Accused of Breaching First Amendment by Banning Users on Twitch
In the past week, the US Army has been facing criticism for banning users who asked about war crimes on its Twitch esports channel. Now, civil rights activists claim the US military might have violated the First Amendment.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) feels by banning users from its Twitch channel because of viewpoint the US Army violated the constitution.
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Video: Rioters Hurl Bottles, Shoot Fireworks at Officers Protecting Columbus Statue
Protesters attempting to topple a statue of Christopher Columbus at Chicago’s Grant Park on Friday night were thwarted by a handful of police officers, at whom they launched fireworks and hurled bottles, cans, and other projectiles.
The rioters, of whom there were reportedly at least 1,000, used ropes in an attempt to bring down the statue that has stood in the park since 1933.
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Blue Jays Can’t Play Home Games in Toronto After Federal Government Rejects Plan
TORONTO — The Blue Jays are turning to a backup plan after finding out they wouldn’t be allowed to play any games at Toronto’s Rogers Centre this season.
They just don’t know what the plan is yet.
“I’m 100 per cent confident we’ll have clarity in the next couple days,” Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro said Saturday in a conference call hours after the federal government rejected the club’s plan to use their home stadium, citing concerns about the back-and-forth travel over the United States border.
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Breaking: John A. Macdonald Statue Vandalized Again in Queen’s Park
Demonstrators vandalized a John A. Macdonald statue in Queen’s Park during a Black Lives Matter march in Toronto, calling for the defunding of the city’s law enforcement.
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Edmonton Eskimos to Change Name Despite Opposition From Inuit
The Edmonton Eskimos football team has reportedly decided to change its name to remove the reference to Canada’s Inuit people.
According to TSN, the 71-year-old football team has already made an internal decision to change its name, with a public announcement coming as early as next week.
Eskimo was a name historically used to refer to the indigenous people of the Arctic. In Canada, Inuit has replaced the word Eskimo, with some believing Eskimo to be derogatory.
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Full Story: How ‘China Virus’ Was Banned, Unbanned and Banned by Amazon
Why was my book about China banned, un-banned and banned again from Amazon? I don’t know — they won’t tell me.
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, we went over the months-long story of getting my book to market.
The full title of my book is China Virus: How Justin Trudeau’s Pro-Communist Ideology is Putting Canadians in Danger.
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Watch: Montreal Police Tackle and Arrest Man in Tim Hortons for Not Wearing a Mask
As masks become mandatory in Quebec, many are having a hard time adjusting to the new rules. On Saturday afternoon, a man who refused to wear a mask was tackled to the ground and arrested by police in a Montreal Tim Hortons.
A video of the incident was posted on Facebook by user Sandra Bourgoin and has since gone viral.
Montreal police confirmed that the incident took place at a Tim Hortons on Papineau Avenue in Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension just after noon.
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Criminal Case Launched After 15th Century French Cathedral Catches on Fire
Comes as churches across world being destroyed by left-wing extremists.
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Fire Ravages 15th-Century Cathedral in France; Arson Suspected
A fire ripped through the 15th-century Nantes Cathedral in France early Saturday morning, blowing out stained-glass windows and destroying its famed grand organ.
Prosecutor Pierre Sennes said three different fires had been set at the cathedral and that French authorities were treating the incident as a criminal act on suspicion of arson.
Regional fire chief General Laurent Ferlay reported that the fire was contained by more than 100 firefighters after a two-hour battle.
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As cancel culture mobs roam the internet and tear down anything in their path, online anonymity and pseudonymity are becoming increasingly necessary for those that want to share their opinion without having their entire career, reputation, or livelihood destroyed.
Yet in an interview with Le Parisien, French Prime Minister Jean Castex described online anonymity as “something shocking” and warned that “this is a subject that we will have to take over.”
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French Firefighter Hit by Gunshot While Responding to Blaze
A firefighter was rushed to hospital earlier this week after being shot in the leg by an unknown assailant while attempting to put out a car fire on Bastille Day.
The incident took place in the commune of Etampes in a small car park near the Jean-Laloyeau stadium at around 11:30 p.m. A car had been set on fire, and when firefighters entered the area, they were met with gunfire and were forced to flee.
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[Comment: Right wing extremism — leftist derogatory term for patriots.]
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Germany: Black Forest Shack-Dwelling ‘Rambo’ Who Disarmed Police Caught After 2,500-Officer Manhunt
BERLIN (AP) — A man arrested following a five-day manhunt in Germany’s Black Forest that started when he disarmed four officers at gunpoint appears to have had no support from anyone else during his time in hiding, police said Saturday.
The 31-year-old suspect, Yves Rausch, was captured on Friday after police received tips from two witnesses. A judge on Saturday ordered him kept in custody pending possible charges of robbery by extortion and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
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Hans Egede: Greenland Votes on Colonial Danish Statue
Citizens in Greenland are voting on whether to keep a controversial statue of a Danish-Norwegian missionary, seen as a symbol of Danish colonialism.
The Hans Egede statue is in Nuuk, the tiny capital of the vast Arctic island where just 56,000 people live.
Last month red paint was daubed on the statue, with the word “decolonize” — apparently linked to the global anti-colonial protests.
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Italian Cemetery Workers Caught Dismembering Bodies as Part of Scam
Italian cemetery workers were caught on CCTV dismembering bodies of the recently deceased as part of a scam that offered a supposed cheap alternative to cremation.
The macabre footage was taken at the Prima Porta cemetery in Rome and shows workers of the AMA SpA corporation, an environmental management service company contracted by the Rome city government, dismembering corpses in order to throw them into a mass grave.
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Majority of Greeks Unhappy With EU Response to Hagia Sofia Mosque Conversion
A majority of Greeks have expressed dissatisfaction with the international response to the Turkish regime announcing it would be converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
A poll, released by the Thessaloniki-based Vergina television station, has revealed that 87 per cent of Greeks are disappointed in the European Union’s reaction to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s move to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
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Student Bikes 48 Days to Make it Home After Flights Canceled
Just like other college students all across the United States and Europe, Kleon Papadimitriou was forced to return home when college classes were canceled this spring due to the coronavirus.
But Papadimitriou faced a few extra complications in addition to the mass cancellation of flights that snarled everyone’s travel plans, according to CNN. He was attending the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, which is a long way from his home in Athens, Greece.
Although Europe does boast of such things as rental cars and trains, Papadimitriou did not want to spend time in quarantine, and with the logic that only an adventuresome 20-year-old can supply, he came up with a different option — a 2,175-mile bike ride.
It took 48 days, but he made it.
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UK Knife Crime Hits Record High, Murder Surges in Khan’s London
Knife crime in England and Wales reached a historic high in the year leading up to the end of March, as murders climb again in Sadiq Khan’s London.
Crimes committed with knives in Britain jumped 6 per cent over the previous year, with some 46,265 knife crimes being recorded in the year to March 2020 — when the British government locked down the nation in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
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UK: Countess Who Took 30 Flights on Paedophile’s ‘Lolita Express’ Quits NSPCC
Lady Iveagh flew with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on trip to private island.
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UK: London’s Khan Told Black Lives Matter Rioters Targeted Black Police Officers
Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told that far-left Black Lives Matter UK rioters had verbally abused and physically attacked London’s black police officers in recent protests.
Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives on the Greater London Authority (GLA), said at Mayor’s Question Time on Thursday that she had been informed of the attacks on black officers by Scotland Yard deputy commissioner Sir Stephen House.
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Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, has lead a demonstration in Milan calling for Italy to cut funding to Turkey over its decision to transform the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque.
Turkish authorities have announced the monument, originally built as a Christian basilica 1,500 years ago, will now function as a mosque, and Christian symbols will be concealed with curtains during prayer.
Standing outside the Turkish consulate in Milan with around 60 protesters, Salvini said, “ It is not possible that Islamic extremism wipes out centuries of history, of rights, of freedom, of conquests and it is not possible that the Turkish regime allows itself to transform churches into mosques with nobody saying anything.”
[Comment: Article dated July 14, 2020]
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Kuwait: Man Drinking Camel Urine Stirs Controversy
KUWAIT CITY, July 19: A widely circulated video clip, showing a man drinking camel urine has sparked widespread controversy between two teams, the first being a supporter which talked about its benefits, especially medicinal value, while the opponents look at it as uncivilized behavior saying health benefits cannot be verified, reports Al-Rai daily.
While the camel urine is being promoted as treatment for hair loss and related problems, the medical and legal debate continues about the feasibility of using this urine and allowing its sale, after the price of two-in-one packages reached 30 dinars, amid severe medical warnings that its use may lead to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
Medically, family medicine specialist Dr. Ahmad Muhammad Abdul-Malik told Al-Rai that “the ads claiming this urine softens the hair are all false allegations and wishful thinking.
There is no scientific evidence, he said, that the camels urine softens hair, and whoever suffers from dry or brittle hair should treat it in the correct manner through scientific diagnosis by the doctor, because it may be caused due to a certain vitamins deficiency, minerals or infections of the scalp.
Preventive medicine health doctor, Dr. Abdullah Behbehani, expressed his reservation regarding using the camel’s urine, based on WHO’s warnings that it might transmit of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Corona MERS)”, stressing that there are no scientific studies which prove benefits of the urine of camels compared to modern drug treatments although there are some separate studies and researches here and there.
As for Sharia point of view, the former Dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Ghaffar Al- Sharif, affirmed in a statement to Al-Rai that “the majority of scholars said about the purity of camel urine. Scientific researcher in the jurisprudence encyclopedia, scholar Abdullah Najib Salem said the use of camel urine is an old habit, not new to recover from some diseases.
He concluded by saying it is rumored among the people in folk medicine to use this urine, but many doctors deny this, therefore selling or using it depends on the opinion of doctors
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Russian Spies ‘Target COVID-19 Research’
State security services have accused Russian spies of trying to steal Covid-19 vaccine research, targeting Canada, the UK and the US. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre said the hackers “almost certainly” operated as “part of Russian intelligence services”. It said a group known as APT29 was behind the attacks. It is unclear if their efforts were successful.
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In yet another shocking incident, a recently discovered Buddha statue was smashed into pieces by local construction workers and a Muslim cleric on Saturday in Pakistan. The relic was discovered while digging the foundation for a house in the Pashtun-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Mardan district in Pakistan.
A video of the act, which has since gone viral on social media, showed the construction workers, along with a Muslim cleric, smashing the Buddha statue using a sledgehammer. They are seen walking over and destroying the life-sized Buddha status while expressing their acrimony against Buddhism, which they consider anti-Islam.
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Huma Younus, a Christian girl who was kidnapped from her home in Karachi on October 10 last year, has become pregnant due to the incessant sexual violence perpetrated by her abductor Abdul Jabbar, reported ACT International. As per the report, she has been confined to the four walls of one room in the abductor’s house. Younus is not allowed to leave that house or return to her parents.
Following her abduction, she was reportedly taken to Dera Ghazi Khan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan, about 600 Kms from her home. A few days after her conversion, the family of the girl had received conversion papers and a marriage certificate. However, her mother Nagina Younas had claimed that the papers were fake, as it took several hours to reach where she was taken but the date of conversion on the papers was the same as the day of her abduction.
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Hindu Mob torches vehicles, attacks police in Bengal after teenager’s alleged ‘rape and murder’’by a Jihadi goon, ‘Feroze Ali.
Sandhya Bista | HENB | Siliguri | July 19, 2020:: Chopra in Muslim majority North Dinajpur district in north Bengal turned into a battleground on Sunday afternoon, hours after a 15-year-old Hindu girl was allegedly raped and murdered by a ‘TMC goon’ named Feroze Ali with his some suspected associates. But police under the control of Jihadi Didi WB CM Mamta Banu is trying to paint the gang rape & murder in another way by saying the post mortem revealed that she died of poisoning.
The girl, Mumpi Singh, sister of a BJP booth president had appeared for the class 10 state board examination and passed successfully this year. The victim went away from without anybody’s notice and found unconscious, 700 meters away from her home under a tree at road side, where bicycles and some mobile phones were also found. Police told that a bottle of poison was also found there.
Local people torched three government buses and two police vehicles and vandalised a number of other vehicles. Shouting “we want justice,” the mob also attacked policemen while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders took up the issue alleging that the girl belonged to a family of BJP supporters and thus became a target of goons backed by the ruling Trinamool Congress party.
At least 30 people, including some police personnel, were injured in the pitched battles. Tension was palpable in the area till late evening.
The area where the alleged rape and murder took place comes under the Chaturagaj at Sonapur gram panchayat area of Chopra block in North Dinajpur under Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency. She was found by the roadside early in the morning, around 700 metres away from her home, and taken to Chopra hospital and subsequently to Islampur sub-divisional hospital where doctors pronounced her dead.
The family of the victim claimed that some mobile phone and two cycle of the suspected murderers, Feroze Ali and his associates, were recovered from the spot but a police officer who requested anonymity said “A bottle of poison was also found.”
Mysterious that police was not interested to get the antecedents of the owners of the recovered two bicycle and some mobile phones at the spot of the ‘rape & murder’ but tried to implicate the case with a finding a poison bottle. But, Police was not sure whether it is a case of suicide by taking poison or a cold blooded murder after rape by poising!…
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BBC Grills Chinese Ambassador on Video of People Being Herded Onto Trains in Blindfolds
The Chinese Communist Party’s ambassador to Britain has been quizzed on drone footage which appears to show people in blindfolds being herded onto trains in Xinjiang.
Speaking to BBC broadcaster Andrew Marr on his Sunday morning show, Liu Xiaoming was asked if could “tell us what is happening here” as the alleged drone footage played on screen behind him.
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Former Chinese Web Censor Exposes How TikTok Staff in China Censor American Users
Much of the recent debate over Chinese social media app TikTok has been related to the data it collects and the potential national security risks of this data collection.
But the ability to censor ideas and the influence this can have over users of the app in western nations is another major concern.
Now Liu Lipeng, a former Chinese censor, who defected to America after learning the value of free speech, has spoken about his decade’s long experience working as a Chinese internet censor and how the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) complex system of internet censorship is infiltrating the free world.
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Global Times’ Editor-in-Chief Answers if “There Will be a War Between China and the US”
In addition to occasionally provocative but mostly dreadfully unimaginative propaganda tweets, the editor in chief of China’s Global Times Hu Xijing represents a useful barometer of sentiment among Beijing’s top power echelons, which in a time when a new cold war has broken out between the US and China, can prove rather valuable.
Which is why the following episode is rather informative in terms of how China views the current tit-for-tat in diplomatic and tech warfare between the two superpowers. In an op-ed in his Global Times, Hu Xijin writes that toward the end of his dialogue with Qiu Zhenhai, a Phoenix TV commentator on Friday night, in a video chat about the current US crackdown on China, a netizen asked: Will there be a war between China and the US?
Here’s what Hu responded:…
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Hong Kong’s ‘Young Democrats’ Hope to Blitz Upcoming Elections
Hong Kong’s so-called “young democrats” are racing to sign up as candidates for a key legislative election despite concerns they could be disqualified because of their anti-China stance, Reuters reportedSaturday.
Also termed “localists,” the young politicians appeal to Hong Kongers upset about the tough new security laws imposed by China last month and who don’t believe veteran lawmakers have done enough to protect them. The young democrats favor a more confrontational position against China. Many of them won big in an unofficial “primary” election earlier this month.
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Londoner Ian Clement learned the hard way not to trust the Chinese regime. He was in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, on an official visit as Deputy Mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s number two, when he was approached by a gorgeous girl at a party.
It was a honey trap, ‘the oldest trick in the book,’ as he later recalled, but he threw caution to the wind and followed her lead.
After a couple of glasses of wine, he asked her back to his hotel room. He later awoke from what he believes was a drugged sleep to find she was on her way out of the door and his room had been ransacked. ‘My wallet was open. She had plainly gone through it but I knew she wasn’t a simple thief because nothing was missing.’ The contents of his BlackBerry had also been downloaded.
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Testing Will Begin in Africa for Biometric ID, “Vaccine Records”, & “Payment Systems”
Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine record. The biometric digital identity platform that “evolves just as you evolve” is backed by none other than the Bill Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance, Mastercard, and the AI-powered “identity authentication” company, Trust Stamp.
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Mexican Government on Damage Control After Cartel Reveals Armored Paramilitary Unit
The unit includes a large contingent of cartel gunmen wearing high-end tactical gear and posing by what appears to be dozens of factory-made armored trucks and SUVs.
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A viral video out of Mexico shows a veritable army of uniformed drug cartel members standing beside a long line of armored vehicles which have been outfitted for war, the men flaunting military-grade weaponry as they cheer Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — the leader of the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who is known as “El Mencho.”
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58 Illegal Immigrants Arrive in Lesvos
Two boats carrying 58 illegal immigrants arrived at the shores of the Aegean island of Lesvos on Saturday.
One boat carrying 20 people came ashore close to the town of Molyvos, in the north of the island, while the second carried 38 people and alighted at Tsonia in the northeast.
Since the start of July, the total number of illegal immigrants who have reached Lesvos now stands at 98.
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Channel Migrants: Nine Boats Arrive With 125 Men and Women on Board
Nine boats carrying 125 migrants have been intercepted on their way to the UK as searches continue for more vessels.
The Home Office said Border Force dealt with several incidents on Friday after being alerted to small boats in the Channel.
Meanwhile, French authorities picked up three migrants in a kayak plus another 15 in a broken down boat and returned them to France.
No nationality details were available at this stage, the Home Office said.
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France: African Migrant Detained After Fire Guts Nantes Cathedral
A Rwandan migrant has been detained after a suspected arson attack gutted the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes, France.
The authorities currently believe the Roman Catholic sanctuary, also known as Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul or simply Nantes Cathedral, was torched deliberately, with an investigation suggesting three fires were lit inside: “one at the level of the great organ and two fire starts to the left and to the right of the nave”.
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French Doctors Blame New Coronavirus Surge on North African Incomers
Doctors have blamed a surge in new coronavirus cases in the southern city of Marseilles on people coming to France from North Africa.
Annie Levy-Mozziconacci and several other doctors at the North Hospital of Marseille put out a press release announcing a doubling of new cases in the last ten days.
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Migrants Arrested for Looting Chapel on Greek Island
A pair of migrants were arrested this week after allegedly breaking into a Christian chapel on the Greek island of Chios and looting it for money and sacred objects.
The two migrants, a 27-year-old and a 30-year-old, are said to have broken into the chapel using some sort of sharp object and then looted it, stealing various liturgical items such as oil and holy water and even plastic chairs they found inside.
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North Macedonia Police Discover 55 Migrants in Truck, Car
SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Police in North Macedonia say they have found 55 migrants in two separate incidents.
One migrant was injured when the truck carrying him and 42 others hit a concrete pillar at a toll station.
Both incidents took place Friday, police announced Saturday, and all the migrants will be deported back to Greece, where they came from.
The truck carrying 43 migrants — 13 from Bangladesh, 11 from Pakistan, 10 from Syria, 5 from Afghanistan and 4 from Turkey — was travelling north to Serbia when the accident happened at a toll booth near the capital of Skopje. The driver fled the scene and is still at large.
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Six Traffickers Arrested for Sailing Migrants to Italy
ATHENS, GREECE (AP) — Greek police have arrested six people who were trafficking migrants from Greece to Italy using sailboats and were searching for five more suspects, police said Saturday.
One suspect was arrested Friday offshore from the island of Corfu, the Greek island closest to the Italian mainland, on a sailboat that carried 23 migrants and was headed to Italy. The others were arrested in the Greek capital of Athens.
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Sweden: Afghan Man and Sons Arrested After Man Stabbed to Death on Bus
An Afghan migrant and his two sons have been arrested following an incident on a public transit bus that saw a 21-year-old man stabbed to death.
The alleged murder took place on Wednesday earlier this week in the Swedish town of Kiruna, located in the far north of the Scandinavian country. The man and his sons, who are said to be minors, were arrested a short time later and have claimed they acted in self-defence.
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The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), an alliance of advertisers, media companies, and Big Tech, have decided to find a mutual definition of “hate speech”. Social media companies have been under heavy criticism from politicians and legacy media outlets over their hate speech policies in recent times and GARM hopes that a mutual definition of hate speech across the industry will help address the supposed issue of moderation.
GARM was created in 2019 during the Cannes Lions Festival to help members with brand safety. Members include Big Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, legacy media companies such as NBC, and big advertisers such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble.
Advertising associations such as the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Association of National Advertisers, and executives from ad agencies are also part of the alliance.
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European Court Forces Hungary to Recognise Foreign Transgender People
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Hungary must recognise the gender of an Iranian refugee who fled the country over their transgender identity.
The five-year-long case involved an Iranian national who claimed asylum in Hungary in 2015 who was born a woman but wished to be recognised as a man.
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Facebook Deplatforms Former Employee Who Questioned BLM/Diversity Narrative
Earlier in the week, we posted an interesting video from ex-Google and Facebook employee, Patrick Shyu, who explained why he thought “diversity” policies were creating more problems than solutions.
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Kick the Culture War Off Campus
Colleges and universities have been a bastion of liberalism and progressivism for so long it’s a cliché. But that cliché has led to complacency. Conservatives don’t like that college campuses have always been hotbeds of bad ideas — from communism to anti-Semitism to the so-called “critical theory” behind woke-ism. But the campus left has rarely been more than an irritant. Conservatives on the whole haven’t taken radical professors, brainwashed students and cowardly university administrators seriously because they were unserious people spouting unserious ideas.
Indeed, serious people on the left usually treated the academic left with the same kind of head-patting indulgence as everyone else. Since the 1960s, campus progressives had stopped bombing buildings, and instead spent their time making up words to show off their virtue, like “womyn,” “Latinx,” and “cis-gender.” The scholarship produced by woke academics in nonsense fields like anti-racism, critical gender theory, and ecofeminism never spilled out into broader political or cultural debates. Colleges were dismissed as sandboxes where children played and occasionally fought, but never did any real damage. The expectation was that, however outrageous college woke-ness was getting, no one would ever take it seriously in the real world, so there was no need to pay much attention.
That turned out to be a mistake.
Now we know that at least some of the children and adults steeped in the anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-truth narrative behind the “Awokening” do indeed take it seriously. Some have taken it so seriously they have launched a nationwide crime wave.
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Network-connected gear stuck in boot loop needs replacing
Analysis Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working.…
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Twitter catch-up
Azeris vs Armenians in London
https://mobile.twitter.com/ZartonkMedia/status/1284137971390660608
Viktor Orban laughs at the notion Hungary should be more “western”, as in BLM and immigrant enrichment
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomlinsonCJ/status/1285238985992921091
COVID-migrant zombies attack Spanish police
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1284946416801132545
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1284865817822351360
Nigel Farage on Operation Sealion 2.0
https://mobile.twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1284876670407790592
Police in the UK say they are looking at dropping the term “Islamist terrorism” and replacing it with the term “faith-claimed terrorism” after lobbying from a Muslim organisation.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1285245078282342400
I so wish this was a joke.
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Is it all over and the de-balled police are just bluffing their way as long as they can? Maybe just refer to all white natives at all levels as kafirs?
http://asbarez.com/195430/azeris-instigate-violence-at-londons-armenian-embassy/
article on Azerbaijani on Armenian violence that happened in London.
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1285299948494270464
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1285307453777653760
France.
https://twitter.com/BrettEverest/status/1285293019000975361
Shameful what the city I grew up in has become.