The mayor of Broward County in Florida was caught on tape violating his own order mandating the wearing of face masks indoors. Meanwhile, a recent poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Black Lives Matter movement.
In other news, Greta Thunberg won the coveted Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, which comes with a cash award of €1 million.
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Could Poland’s Economy be Recovering? Surprise Data Shows Industrial Production Up in June
Despite dire predictions, the Polish economy got a measure of good news as figures from Poland’s Office of Statistics (GUS) showed that industrial product was 0.5 percent higher in June this year than in June 2019.
This is a surprisingly good result as the Ministry of Development had forecast production to be 5 percent lower than last year’s figures for June and analysts had expected the fall to be in the region of 7 percent.
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The Dark Past of the Bank for International Settlements
In reality, the World Bank carries its weight, along with the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements, to forcibly integrate minor countries of the world into its own brand of capitalistic democracy.
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11-Year-Old Black Child Made $1K Selling ‘N-Word Passes’ To White Friends at School
The woke white parents of an adopted 11-year-old black child were shocked to discover that he had made over a thousand dollars selling ‘n-word passes’ to white kids at school.
A woman going by the name of ‘Mortified Mom’ told Slate that she and her husband, who are both white, adopted a 5-year-old girl called Taylor and an infant boy called Martin. The children, who are both black, are now 11 and 16-years-old.
The mother relates how “we’ve done our best to have honest, age-appropriate discussions on race, our privilege, and how messed up the systematic oppression and racism in our country is.”
Apparently, they failed.
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A large crowd of anti-cop demonstrators descended on a Back the Blue event in Denver on Sunday afternoon, blowing whistles, banging drums and, in some instances, throwing punches, forcing police to intervene before the gathering was effectively shut down early, according to reports.
The sixth annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day event was scheduled to be held Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the amphitheater in Civic Center Park in Denver. It was advertised by the Pro Police Rally Colorado Facebook page.
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At Least 14 Hospitalized After Shootout at Funeral in Chicago: Police
At least 14 people were wounded following a shootout during a funeral in Chicago’s Gresham neighborhood Tuesday evening, police said.
The shooting happened just before 7:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of West 79th Street, according to authorities.
One person of interest was in custody shortly after the incident, police said, but they noted that the shooters weren’t immediately known.
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Biden Says He Wishes Schools Would Teach About ‘Islamic Faith’
Meanwhile, leftists oppose teaching God in school.
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Bill Gates Funded Digital Identity Based on Your Vaccination History
Trust Stamp is a vaccination based digital identity program funded by Bill Gates and implemented by Mastercard and GAVI, that will soon link your biometric digital identity to your vaccination records. The program said to “evolve as you evolve” is part of the Global War on Cash and has the potential dual use for the purposes of surveillance and “predictive policing” based on your vaccination history. Those who may not wish to be vaccinated may be locked out of the system based on their trust score.
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Bizarre: “Obey” Message Appears in Kentucky Sky Following Mask Mandate
Eerie skywriting tells Kentuckians to do what they’re told.
[Comment: See movie “They Live”.]
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Bombshell: FBI Investigated Joe Biden’s Campaign for Corruption
On Tuesday, Politico published an in-depth interview with Christopher Tigani, a wealthy beer distributor who bundled cash for former Senator Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign. Tigani later confessed to violating campaign-finance laws during that campaign by reimbursing employees for contributions made in their names. Before his confession and sentencing, however, Tigani helped the FBI investigate the inner circle of Biden’s campaign. The story raises questions about the former vice president’s corruption — questions that accentuate the Hunter Biden scandals with Ukraine and China.
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A California church is suing the state over its restrictions on houses of worship, claiming the ban against in-person religious gatherings unlawfully targets “in-home Bible studies.”
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit Saturday on behalf of Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena and its associated organization, Harvest International Ministry.
The suit contends that even though the church requires masks, takes temperatures, and requires social distancing, the state has violated the church’s constitutionally protected freedoms by imposing a “total prohibition” on religious activities.
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A large Black Lives Matter street mural has been removed from the Courthouse Square of Redwood City, California, after the city received a legal request for a separate mural to be painted that read “MAGA 2020.”
As part of a Fourth of July art celebration, Daniel Pease had received permission from Redwood City officials to paint the BLM title on the Courthouse Square. In fact, the city even purchased him the paint to complete the work.
Noting that the city’s actions had effectively rendered the Courthouse Square a public forum, resident attorney Maria Rutenberg made the legal request to paint a pro-Trump message on a different nearby street.
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Caught on Tape: Broward County Mayor Breaks His Own Coronavirus Order
Democrat Broward County mayor Dale Holness violated the order that he announced limiting private parties to 10 people. Broward County has also ordered that residents obey mask rules while in their own homes. American Freedom protester Chris Nelson provided NATIONAL FILE a video of him catching Holness at a private fundraiser in Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday with more than 10 people.
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Dems Announce Illegal Plan to Forcefully Remove Trump From Office to Declare Martial Law
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Emergency Alert: Pelosi Announces Plan to Remove Trump, Make Herself President Under Cog Martial Law
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Exposed: Next Deep State Plan to Fake a Pandemic and Keep America Locked Down
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Facebook Removes Video That Roasts Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Facebook removed a video where a top YouTube comedian roasted recently-arrested alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to Facebook, the video violated the community standards on harassment and bullying.
The video was the work of Andrew Schulz’s, a popular YouTube comedian, who uploaded it on July 12, the same day Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Maxwell was arrested. Maxwell is being accused of having helped Epstein groom minors.
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FBI Arrests Ohio House Speaker, Former GOP Chairman in Alleged $60M Bribery Scheme
After an FBI raid this morning at the farm owned by Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, federal officials arrested Householder and several other prominent Ohio Republicans, including Matt Borges, former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party.
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Google Search Blacklists Major Conservative Websites in New Censorship Purge
Google search has blacklisted numerous major conservative websites by removing them from results in what appears to be a major new censorship purge.
Breitbart, the Daily Caller, Infowars, Human Events and Red State are all missing when a user searches directly for those websites on Google.com.
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GOP House member Ted Yoho (FL) lashed out at Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) on Monday in front of the Capitol.
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Republicans on Monday appeared to soundly defeat a Democratic-led legal effort to force taxpayers in Florida to fund mail-in ballot postage fees, eliminate ballot-return deadlines and strike down laws restricting the practice of “ballot harvesting” — which allows political operatives to retrieve vote-by-mail ballots en masse and return them to polling places.
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High School Teacher/Coach Fired for Tweeting, “Donald Trump is Our President”
Stating facts can now get you fired.
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Horror on Tape: Social Worker Coaches Girl Not to Tell Mom About Alleged Abuse in Foster Care
The mother who is suing the state of California and Contra Costa County for allegedly improperly removing her daughter from her custody, is moving forward with her lawsuit taking on Child Protective Services (CPS) even though her lawyer Marc Angelucci, who was taking on the case, was recently murdered. (READ: Angelucci’s Murder And The Effort To Take on CPS). Now, NATIONAL FILE has obtained a video of the mother having a call with her child. An employee with the official title “Social Worker III” coaches the girl not to discuss with her mother the alleged abuse she received from another child. The conversation also involves discussion of the child’s drugging while in foster care.
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John Lewis and the “Spiritual Children” of Communism
President Trump is running out of time to save his presidency. The last thing he wants to do is go down in history as the last Republican president, followed by a socialist one-party state. But these are the stakes, as he replaces his campaign manager, a move that reflects his desperation as the November 3 election approaches.
The Washington Examiner says this effectively means that Trump’s liberal son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is in charge. The paper said, “The president’s senior adviser and son-in-law has attracted the ire of the more conservative wings and the Bannonite, America First cadre of the Trump coalition. They believe he has dragged the president into more liberal positions — pushing through criminal justice reform, for example — while failing to understand the base of ‘deplorables’ who elected Trump in 2016.”
Kushner was a former business partner with George Soros and brought “former” communist Van Jones into the White House to work on “criminal justice reform” and “police reform.” Jones, who had been deeply involved in a Marxist group, Standing Together To Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), had resigned under fire from his White House job in the Obama Administration.
The new “official” Trump campaign manager is Bill Stepien, whose dubious credentials include serving as the national director for John McCain’s failed 2008 presidential campaign. McCain lost to Barack Hussein Obama because he failed to expose Obama’s Marxist and Muslim sympathies…
How the China virus has become a vehicle for socialism has been revealed by the South African Communist Party, in the new issue of their journal, African Communist, in an article about exercising total government control over peoples’ lives. The title is, “We welcome decisive state power on Covid-19!”
The South African Communists, who rule South Africa through a coalition government led by the African National Congress, make some important observations, such as that the coronavirus gives the state the ability “to restrict travel and other personal freedoms, and still receive widespread social support…”
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Kanye West Collects Enough Signatures to Make Illinois Presidential Ballot
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — Chicago native, rapper, and now presidential candidate Kanye West has enough signatures to make it onto the Illinois ballot.
On Monday night, the Illinois Board of Elections confirmed with CBS 2 that West filed 412 petition sheets around 5 p.m.
West needed 2,500 Illinois registered voters’ signatures. In a typical year, 25,000 signatures are needed, but because of the pandemic, independent and new-party candidates need fewer signatures this year.
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Major League Baseball Offers Full Support to National Anthem Kneeling
As the abbreviated Major League Baseball season is poised to get underway Thursday, the league has made it clear it will take an affirming stance toward the practice of kneeling for the national anthem by Black Lives Matter advocates.
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Mayor Pete Gets Hired by Notre Dame to ‘Restore Trust’ In Politics
Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s run for president of the United States propelled him to a role as a major figure in Democratic politics. Now, he has been tapped by the University of Notre Dame as a faculty fellow for research on “how to restore trust in political institutions.”
Buttigieg dropped out of the presidential race in February 2020. With the campaign in the past, Buttigieg has embraced a new role in the world of academia by recently joining the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study as a fellow for the 2020-21 academic year.
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Michigan School Fires Popular Teacher, Varsity Baseball Coach for Tweeting “Trump is Our President”
A Michigan school district is facing serious questions after it dismissed a popular teacher and coach for tweeting “Donald Trump is our president,” as well as retweeting a post from the president expressing his desire to open schools in the fall.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons on Monday said he will “without a doubt” pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey after the couple was charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon for brandishing firearms against protesters in defense of their property last month.
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New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Now Oppose Black Lives Matter
fter enjoying a surge in support following the death of George Floyd, a new polls reveals that a majority of Americans now oppose the Black Lives Matter movement.
The survey, conducted by Civiqs, shows that in early June, 44 per cent of Americans supported BLM and 34 per cent opposed it.
However, those numbers have now changed, with 41 per cent supporting BLM and 44 per cent opposing the movement.
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NFL to Allow Players to Wear Helmet Decals Featuring Names of People Killed by Police: Report
The National Football League is reportedly going to allow its players to wear helmet decals featuring the initials of people killed by police, sources told Front Office Sports.
The NFL is currently working with members of the league’s Players Association to compose a list of names that players wish to honor while in uniform.
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One of the Most Secretive Surveillance Companies Just Teamed Up With the CDC
When it comes to the way the US government powers its mass surveillance and similar efforts, it would appear that much of it depends on a research and development outfit called Mitre Corp.
Although one would expect a very thick veil of secrecy to surround the company and its activities, not to mention products and services, Forbes goes into quite a bit of detail regarding all those.
We learn that Mitre’s annual budget is $1-2 billion a year, funded by taxpayers, that it has been operating for 60 years, as well as its address in Virginia.
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Pizza Shop Owner Fends Off Machete-Wielding Robber by Throwing Pizza at Him
The owner of Stargate Pizza in Greenwood, Delaware was closing down his store for the night recently when he was accosted by a robber wielding a machete and demanding money.
Thinking fast and using the resources he had available to him, the owner said that he had no money, and then hurled a pizza at the would-be robber, causing him to run away and flee in a car.
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Portland Violence Between Protesters and Federal Agents Escalates Overnight
Ongoing unrest in the city of Portland showed no signs of improving as groups of self-proclaimed parents joined protesters for a march and demonstration Monday evening.
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Red Bull Fires ‘Woke’ Diversity Directors Who Tried to Push for BLM Support
Based and Red Bull pilled.
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The English Department at Rutgers University recently announced a list of “anti-racist” directives and initiatives for the upcoming fall and spring semesters, including an effort to deemphasize traditional grammar rules.
The initiatives were spelled out by Rebecca Walkowitz, the English Department chair at Rutgers University, and sent to faculty, staff and students in an email, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.
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SF Giants’ Alyssa Nakken Becomes 1st Woman to Coach on Field During MLB Game
San Francisco Giants’ Alyssa Nakken on Monday night became the first woman to coach in an on-field capacity during a MLB game.
Nakken took over as first base coach during the last three innings of the team’s exhibition against the Oakland Athletics.
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The St. Louis couple who confronted Black Lives Matter protesters with firearms after they breached a gated community have been hit with weapons charges, with a city attorney insisting the demonstration was peaceful.
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Suspect Who Allegedly Shot Family of Judge Salas ‘Commits Suicide’; Worked for Kroll Associates
No loose ends.
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Thank You, Mr. President, For Being “Divisive.”
Could the blowback be because, for the first time since President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the danger to our country from the military-industrial complex, a sitting President advised Americans of the coup happening in our country?
Using the powerful symbols of our proud heritage as a backstop, Trump called the “racial justice” protestors what they are:
“Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing.”
“The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal
Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains.”
Trump’s statements implied the mobs are agents of the “Cancel Culture” and tools in the left’s war to overthrow America as we know it:
“Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.”
“To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage.”
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Trump Hit With Facebook’s First Info Panel Disclaimer Notice With Mail-in Voting Post
Facebook has added a notice to President Trump’s latest post about mail-in voting.
The President’s post warned against what he says are the dangers of mail-in voting, suggesting that it’s open to corruption.
“Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History! #RIGGEDELECTION,” the President posted to Facebook and Twitter.
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Trump Tweets Photo of Himself in a Face Mask, Calls it “Patriotic”
President Trump shared a photo of himself on Monday wearing a face mask, saying that the action was “patriotic.”
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Trump Says He Will Not Watch Any Sports Events in Which a Player Kneels for the National Anthem
President Trump said in a tweet early Tuesday morning that although he is excited about the return of professional sports, he would stop watching a game if he sees any player kneel during the national anthem.
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Tucker Carlson: N.Y. Times to Reveal My Home Location
Returning to his top-rated show from vacation, Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson addressed reports that the New York Times is preparing a story that would reveal the location of his home.
Carlson, in the concluding moments of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Monday, said he doesn’t like to talk about himself but made an exception because the Times “began working on a story about where my family and I live.”
“As a matter of journalism, there is no conceivable justification for a story like that,” he said. “The paper is not alleging we’ve done anything wrong, and we haven’t. We pay our taxes. We like our neighbors. We’ve never had a dispute with anyone. So why is the New York Times doing a story on the location of my family’s house?”
Carlson said the answer is obvious: “To hurt us, to injure my wife and kids so that I will shut up and stop disagreeing with them.”
He said the Times’ editors, who plan to publish the story this week, “know exactly what will happen to my family when it does run.”
“I called them today and I told them. But they didn’t care. They hate my politics,” he said. “They want this show off the air.”
If any harm comes to his children because of the story, “they won’t consider it collateral damage.”
“They know it’s the whole point of the exercise: to inflict pain on our family, to terrorize us, to control what we say,” he said.
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Tucker Carlson Accuses NY Times of Plans to Reveal His Home Address ‘To Injure My Wife and Kids’
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday said The New York Times is prepping an upcoming story that includes his home address, saying the news outlet is planning to share the information in an attempt to silence him.
The Times issued a response to The Hill saying that they have no intention of publishing Carlson’s address.
Carlson, in his broadcast, accused the Times of wanting him to be taken off the air and said that the publication of such information could lead to threats against him and his family, adding that when a previous address was shared publicly it led to his family having to move.
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Twitter Blacklists QAnon Content, Purges Over 7,000 Accounts, And Suppresses 150,000 Others
Twitter has announced sweeping changes that will essentially blacklist QAnon content from the platform.
QAnon followers are largely pro-Trump and believe that a high-level government insider or group of insiders named “Q” are working to bring down the Deep State (a group inside the government that operates independently of elected officials to promote its own interests) and sharing their plans via online posts.
Under these changes, content and accounts associated with QAnon will be blocked from Twitter trends, recommendations, search, and conversations.
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A Black Lives Matter activist and University of Georgia PhD candidate who currently works at the university as a teaching assistant was cleared by the university following controversial anti-white remarks in which he seemed to advocate political violence.
Irami Osei-Frimpong, a University of Georgia Ph. D. candidate in philosophy and Black Lives Matter activist, said that he was under investigation after making an inflammatory social media post where he stated that “Some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole,” and “To pretend that’s not the case is ahistorical and generally naive.”
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On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals with allegedly hacking hundreds of organizations and individuals in America and elsewhere to steal confidential corporate secrets on behalf of Beijing for more than a decade.…
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US Indicts Chinese Nationals for Stealing Data From Companies —Some Working on COVID-19
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday accused two “prolific” Chinese hackers of stealing terabytes of data in a global computer intrusion campaign that allegedly targeted domestic and international companies, including American companies working on COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccines.
In a virtual press conference with reporters, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced the charges —originally filed on July 7 — against defendants Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi.
The indictment, filed in the Eastern District of Washington, alleges that the hackers’ illegal activity spanned over a decade, from September 2009 to July 2020, and was supported by the Chinese government.
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Virginia Sheriff Prepares to Deputize Citizens, Calls for Retired Police to Sign Up to Serve
Sheriff Scott Jenkins of Culpeper County Virginia appears ready to make good on his promise to deputize “thousands of law-abiding citizens” in order to preserve that county’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The move comes ahead of the 2021 session of the Virginia General Assembly, where Democrats are promising another attempt at ramming previously unsuccessful gun control and confiscation bills through the state legislature.
According to a Monday afternoon announcement made via Facebook post, the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications from current and former law enforcement officers to serve as background investigators tasked with screening volunteer deputy applicants, should the Bloomberg-endorsed legislation make its way to Governor Northam’s desk for rubber-stamp approval.
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Wikipedia Blacklists Zero Hedge
Independent news outlet Zero Hedge has been targeted by the media several times this year with various outlets flagging alleged policy violations to Big Tech companies.
The outlet was temporarily suspended from Google’s advertising program, which allows publishers to monetize their content via display ads, and also had its Twitter account with more than 670,000 followers suspended.
But Zero Hedge was ultimately vindicated with both its Twitter and Google advertising accounts being restored over the last couple of months.
However, despite the recent reinstatements, Zero Hedge hasn’t come out unscathed with Wikipedia recently blacklisting the outlet after this negative mainstream media coverage.
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Will Routine Spike in Deaths Due to New Doctors be Blamed on Coronavirus?
New medical residents become doctors every July, which results in a spike in patient deaths.
Will this routine spike be blamed on coronavirus?
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Black Lives Matter Protesters REFUSE to Leave Jail After Arrest
Black Lives Matter protesters in Toronto staged an event over the weekend, in which they pretended their members were being unlawfully held by police.
It all started when they went on a march to deface some statues, as you will on a regular Saturday afternoon. Included in their crusade against statues, was a statue of Egerton Ryerson, on the campus of university that bears his name, who they claim is an architect of residential schools.
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Interview: Alberta Man Dies After “Non-Essential” Surgery Cancelled Due to COVID-19
The former wife of an Albertan man who died when the “non-essential” treatment for his heart condition was postponed due to COVID-19 gives an exclusive interview to Rebel News.
During the height of the pandemic, just two months ago, a much-loved Albertan father was denied life-saving treatment for his heart condition. The decision to deny his treatments, was because the surgery was deemed non-essential.
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Czech PM Babis is Happy With Results of EU Summit
In the next seven years, Czechia will draw €35.7 billion (960 billion korunas) from the European Union budget, which has been increased by the recovery fund designed to help Europe cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus.
The country will also be able to borrow another €15.4 billion on favorable terms within the fund, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis told reporters today at the end of the summit. The flexibility of money transfers between funds will increase compared to the current budget, which is crucial for the Czech Republic, he further stressed.
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EU Reaches Historic Deal on Pandemic Recovery After Fractious Summit
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — European Union leaders clinched an historic deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-throttled economies in the early hours of Tuesday, after a fractious summit lasting almost five days.
The agreement paves the way for the European Commission, the EU’s executive, to raise billions of euros on capital markets on behalf of all 27 states, an unprecedented act of solidarity in almost seven decades of European integration.
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France: Good Guy With a Car: ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ Attack Stopped After Passer-by Runs Gunman Over
Police arrested a 32-year-old man in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis after a failed attempt to attack party-goers while he was armed with a blade and a semi-automatic rifle.
The attempted attack took place at around 7 am on Sunday in the commune of Blanc-Mesnil as several people were leaving a party.
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Greta Thunberg Wins 1 Million Euro ‘Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity’
Climate icon Greta Thunberg has taken yet another prize for her woke climate activism, banking the one million euro Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for her “contributions to mitigation and adaptation to climate change.”
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was established in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1956 “to improve the quality of life through art, charity, science and education” but 2020 marks its first ever Prize for Humanity, an award created to stimulate climate change activism.
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Hungarians in Transylvania Decry Facebook’s Move to Abolish Hungarian Town Names
A group of Transylvanian Facebook users are up in arms about the latest update of Facebook’s algorithm which automatically changes the name of their place of residence from Hungarian to Romanian, Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reports.
Users of a local group in the central Transylvanian town of Marosvasarhely (Targu Mures in Romanian) began noticing that they could no longer enter the Hungarian name of the town as their place of residence, as Facebook would automatically show the Romanian version.
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During her Monday visit to Poland Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga discussed with her Polish counterpart Zbigniew Ziobro how the countries could better highlight the historically different development of Central European legal and constitutional systems to those in Western Europe by building a joint legal institute, news and opinion portal Mandiner reports.
“At the talk we discussed the establishment of a future V4 Institute of Comparative Law, the aim of which is to provide a technical support for the parliaments and governments of the V4 countries in international law issues,” Varga wrote on her Facebook page.
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Hungarian Press: PM Orban Reached His Goals With EU Deal
The second-longest European Union Summit in history ended with an agreement on both the bloc’s seven-year budget and the more highly debated economic recovery program a, Hungarian news portal Origo reported in the early hours of Tuesday.
“After unprecedentedly long, four-day negotiations the agreement was born: Prime Minister Viktor Orban got what he wanted,” Origo wrote. From Hungary’s perspective, the country will get an additional €3 billion from the recovery package than earlier expected and German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised that by the end of the year, which also coincides with the end of the German presidency of the European Council, that the EU will close the rule of law proceedings against Hungary.
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Poland’s Foreign Minister Says it’s Time for Him to Step Down
Jacek Czaputowicz, Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, told daily ‘Rzeczpospolita” that he had agreed with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a few months ago that he would continue in his post as foreign minister until the presidential election.
Now that the election is over, he feels it is the right time for someone else to head Poland’s diplomatic efforts.
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Poland Intends to Limit Foreign-Owned Media
Poland is planning new rules limiting the concentration of foreign-owned media outlets well before the ruling nationalist party finish its term in power, Poland’s de facto leader said on Sunday. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has long accused foreign-owned media outlets of meddling in Poland’s affairs. Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he hopes the reforms will be carried out soon, Reuters reported. The next elections are in 2023.
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Radical Islam Must be Stopped or it Will Take Control of France, Warns French Parliamentary Report
All of France, with the exception of the Western part of the country, is affected by radical Islam, warns a commission of French politicians in a report about the spread of radical Islam and the effects of Islam on how society functions.
“Radical Islamism is multi-faceted and influences all aspects of social life to the point where it asserts itself at the expense of individual freedom,” said Republican Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio.
“We must react now or never,” the senator said. If the French state does nothing, she estimates that in a few years, districts and entire territories will break out of the French Republic and radical Islamism will take control of them, according to the report.
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UK Admits COVID Tracing Program is Operating Illegally
A UK privacy group says there is now proof for its suspicion that the government unlawfully launched and operated the COVID-19 Test and Trace program of the country’s healthcare service, NHS.
The program was launched on May 28, but as the Open Rights Group has now learned from the Department of Health and Social Care, the authorities never carried out the legal obligation to perform a Data Protection Impact Assessment that should be submitted to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
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A UK parliamentary intelligence committee report on Russian “disinformation and influence” has called for the UK Government to establish a protocol with social media companies to remove covert hostile state material and to commit to “clear timescales” for removal.
The report also calls for the UK Government to “name and shame” the social media companies that fail to act.
Additionally, the report suggests that “such a protocol could, usefully, be expanded to encompass the other areas in which action is required from the social media companies, since this issue is not unique to Hostile State Activity.”
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UK Police May Change “Islamist Terrorism” To “Faith Claimed Terrorism”
After request from a Muslim interest organisation.
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UK: BLM Speaker: “There is One Common Enemy: The White Man … We Need to Get Rid of Them”
At a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Sunday, a speaker who is a self-described mixed-race member of the LGBT community declared that “there is one common enemy: the white man,” and “once we’ve realized that we’re all fighting the same fight, it just strengthens the army,” before finally saying, “all of these groups of people, the issues they face, it all comes from the same people: white men — so we need to get rid of them.”
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The Independent Security Committee has said that it “saw no evidence” of Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum. The crux of the report, however, criticised the government for failing to task intelligence agencies to look into the possibility, advising the Boris Johnson administration to undertake a review — a claim the government has rejected.
On Tuesday, the ISC, the body responsible for the oversight of the UK’s intelligence community, released its report on Russian interference in Britain’s democratic processes.
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UK: Farage: ‘Some Serious Apologies Are Due’ After Russia Report Reveals No Brexit Interference
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that “some serious apologies are due” after a preview of a report found there was no Russian interference in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
A preview of the report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee reportedly seen by The Telegraph has found that the Kremlin did not attempt to interfere in the Brexit vote.
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Woke Police: UK Cops Considering Dropping ‘Islamist’ Term When Describing Terror Attacks
Police in the United Kingdom are considering dropping the terms “Islamist terrorism” and “jihadis” out of fearing to appear Islamophobic, in the latest politically correct push in British institutions.
British police are reportedly looking to use the Doublespeak-Esque terms such as “terrorists abusing religious motivations”, “faith-claimed terrorism”, and “adherents of Osama bin Laden’s ideology”.
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The New Geopolitics of the Balkans
by Luka Ivan Jukic
They thought the pandemic had ended. Then, a second wave. Not just a second wave, but one much stronger than the first. Rather than being instructed to hunker down in their homes, the people of Croatia and Serbia were asked to do something else by their respective governments: go to the polls.
In both cases the deeply entrenched ruling parties won huge victories. Beyond the fates of these two small but regionally important countries, many were left wondering, what do these results mean for the future of the Balkans?
Political Stability in the Balkans?
Political stability certainly sounded like the answer after the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won over sixty percent of the vote on the June 21. That overwhelming victory gave the party 188 seats in the 250 seat Parliament, with close to fifty more being won by its allies. The man giving the victory speech on election night — Aleksandar Vucic. Serbia’s most personally powerful President since notorious dictator Slobodan MiloÅ¡evic, and the SNS’ unchallenged leader.
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Erdogan Invites Pope Francis to Visit Hagia Sophia Ahead of First Muslim Prayers
ROME — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited Pope Francis to visit Hagia Sophia, which will revert to being a full-time mosque on July 24.
Turkish Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said on Sunday that Pope Francis is among the guests invited to attend Hagia Sophia’s reopening ceremony as a mosque this coming Friday.
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China ‘Orders Christians to Smash Crosses on Their Churches’
Chinese officials have reportedly ordered some Christians to smash the crosses on their churches and remove images of Jesus from their homes.
Authorities have recently destroyed religious symbols by force in churches in multiple provinces, including Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei and Zhejiang, according to US-based news site Radio Free Asia.
Furthermore, officials of Shanxi, another region, demanded religious images be taken down and replaced with pictures of Communist leaders at the homes of impoverished believers, said independent outlet Bitter Winter.
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Farage: ‘The Chinese State Has Conducted Murder on a Vast Scale’
Nigel Farage said that it is time for Western nations to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the horrors the regime is committing against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, which he described as a “stain on the world”.
The Brexit Party leader said that he, alongside other Sino-skeptics, may have focussed too much on the economic and security risks posed by the Chinese state, rather than the humanitarian atrocities committed against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and the Falun Gong spiritual movement at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
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TikTok Allowed Child Groomers Back on the Platform After a One-Week Ban
TikTok is often accused of censoring political opinions, comments critical of China, ethnic minorities, and even disabled people. But there’s one thing that it’s accused of not proactively cracking down on — and that’s child groomers.
TikTok is a convenient hunting ground for pedophiles and child abusers, according to leaked documents of the platform’s policies and ex-employees working as moderators for the fast-growing social media app. There have been growing concerns about the video-sharing app being used by perverts to target underage children.
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African Cardinal: BLM Seeks ‘Destruction of the Nuclear Family’
The formidable archbishop of Durban, South Africa, said that the goals and methods of Black Lives Matter in the United States have little in common with the anti-Apartheid movement he was a part of in the late 80s and early 90s.
“Fighting apartheid racism meant fighting a political system that could be identified, of which it was easy to show the circumstances in which it hurt people,” declared Cardinal Wilfrid Napier in an interview last week with La Bussola Quotidiana. “The claims of Black Lives Matter, however, are so general that I’m not sure I understand how it intends to fight racism.”
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First Migrant ‘Push-Back’ Trial in Italy
AFP reports Italy will put the captain of an Italian-flagged vessel on trial for allegedly pushing back migrants to Libya. The Asso 28 supply ship in July 2018 picked up 101 migrants in international waters and returned them to Libya’s capital city Tripoli. Libya is not considered a safe port under international law. The push-back case marks a first in Italy.
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PM Orban: Hungary Reject Western Society’s Embrace of Mass Migration and Multiculturalism
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told journalists on Sunday that the issue of migration has created a fundamental rift between the East and West and raised questions about to what extent Hungary wants to embrace Western society.
Orban made the remark following a presser outside the EU summit after one reporter asked him whether Hungary still wants to have a Western society in Hungary.
Orban laughed in response to the question and then said, “Because of the migration, now it’s more complicated. Migration changed our understanding of the West because we would not like to have multicultural, parallel societies based on migration, so we don’t have that approach.”
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Somali Migrant Who Raped 9-Year Old Swedish Girl Won’t be Deported
Despite a 39-year-old Somali migrant being convicted for raping both a 9-year-old girl and another 12-year-old girl in the small Swedish town of Norrköping, he will not face deportation because he already became a Swedish citizen in 2015.
In the most recent rape case on April 15 of this year, Ahmed M. targeted a 9-year-old girl as she walked on her way home from school, according to Swedish news portal Nyheter Idag.
The Somali migrant dragged the underage girl into a bush, forced her to take off her clothes at knife point, smeared her face and mouth with mud, and then raped her. The perpetrator also tied up and strangled his 9-year-old victim with plastic gloves. After the assault, he threatened to kill the girl and her family if she spoke out about the rape.
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Swedish Writer Admits Media Purposely Labelled Those Against Mass Migration as Fascists
Swedish writer Åsa Linderborg, who served as the cultural editor for newspaper Aftonbladet, has admitted the paper would label those against mass migration as fascists to stifle debate.
Linderborg, who is now a senior reporter at the same newspaper, served as the cultural editor from 2009 to 2019 and acknowledged that the newspaper contributed to creating a small window of acceptable opinions in which anyone who disagreed with leftist-liberal ideology would be branded a fascist.
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President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to exclude illegal immigrantsfrom being counted when congressional voting districts are redrawn next year.
“I have accordingly determined that respect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the President’s discretion under the law,” the executive order reads.
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14th Texas City Outlaws Abortion, Declares Itself a “Sanctuary for the Unborn”
East Mountain, Texas, became the state’s 14th city to outlaw abortion, declaring itself a “Sanctuary for the Unborn.”
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‘Anti-Fascist’ Rioter Will be Main Protagonist of Far Cry 6
The main playable protagonist of newly announced video game Far Cry 6 will be an Antifa activist, the game’s narrative director has announced.
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Facebook Begins Deleting Anti-Mask Groups
Unmasking America!, which was one of the largest anti-mask groups on Facebook, has been removed by the platform after a complaint from digital media outlet The Verge.
According to The Verge’s, Facebook took down Unmasking America! “after an inquiry about the group from The Verge.”
In a statement, Facebook said the group had been removed for violating its policies against “promoting harmful misinformation about COVID 19” and added that it was reviewing other groups that had been flagged by The Verge.
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In a barrage of now-deleted tweets posted Monday night, rapper and fashion designer Kanye West took aim at his own family, accusing wife Kim Kardashian of attempting to have him involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
West compared his wife’s efforts to the plot of the movie Get Out, which he claimed was about him.
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Planned Parenthood’s NY Chapter Renounces Founder Margaret Sanger Over Racist Eugenics
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced on Tuesday that it would be removing the name of Margaret Sanger, the founder of the country’s largest abortion provider, from its Manhattan Health Center due to her “harmful connection to the eugenics movement.”
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Social Media Algorithms Fuel Cancel Culture, Researcher Says
The cancel culture phenomenon in the West is not only the result of aggressive online activism, as it has a powerful ally in tech companies.
That’s the gist of a report that looks at how activists and groups are able to surface their grievances and accusations to a large enough audience, which then brings about “canceling” of anything from humans to companies to statues.
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Study: Heavy Social Media Use Linked to Callous and Cruel Personalities…
Researchers found that users displaying addictive behavior were also more likely to be motivated to be cruel and callous and to use others for personal gain.
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The Global Satanic Spiritual Attack
This special report exposes the elitist agenda.
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WHO and UN Act to Censor Social Media to Stop an “Infodemic”
Globalist agencies promoting news that fits their agenda, censoring dissenters.
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has been taken over by Marxists. They sold their Oil business last year, and now awarded 1M€ to one of their own.
I heard rumours one of the members of the panel that awarded her the prize is a former socialist Portuguese President.
It’s not a rumour, it’s true. And he headed the panel btw.
“All of France…. affected by radical Islam …radical Islamism will take control”
Memo to French Parliament:
Translations:
radical Islam …………….Islam (ordinary, basic)
radical Islamism………..Islam (ordinary, basic)
The Burn Loot and Murder tribe are terrorists in every country they riot. The movement began on a lie when Michael Brown tried to kill Officer Darren Wilson who is a true hero.