Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler joined the “mostly peaceful” BLM rioters, got tear-gassed, and then was chased away by his fellow rioters. Meanwhile, the Washington Redskins announced that they would change the name of the team to “Washington Football Team” until such time as a more suitable name could be chosen.
In other news, the Greek coast guard announced that it had completely sealed the country’s maritime borders.
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Hungary: Finance Minister: GDP Expected to Fall 5 Percent in 2020
Hungary’s GDP is expected to fall 5 percent in 2020, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga told public Kossuth Radio on Thursday.
The economy strengthened somewhat in June, but GDP in the second quarter is still expected to fall by 10 percent annually, Varga said.
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Amazon Delivery Robot Scout Expands to Georgia, Tennessee
Scout, Amazon’s six-wheel delivery robot whose prototype has been utilized effectively in California to deliver customer packages autonomously, is being sent south.
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Antifa Likely Permanently Blinded Federal Officers With Lasers, Officials Say
But don’t worry, the media says these left-wing ‘protests’ are ‘mostly peaceful.’
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called for enhancing Islam studies in schools in the United States, as he appealed on Muslims to vote for him in the upcoming presidential election.
“One of the things that I think is important: I wish, I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith,” said Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s former vice president on Monday during the online Million Muslim Votes Summit.
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Bill Gates Says Multiple Coronavirus Vaccine Doses May Be Required
Vaccine fanatic claims elderly may receive three or more doses.
[Comment: If they don’t die after the first dose’s side effects, more doses will be administered? ]
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Bill Gates: Multiple Vaccine Doses Might be Necessary to Protect From Virus
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, said people might need multiple doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine to immunize themselves from the virus.
“None of the vaccines at this point appear like they’ll work with a single dose,” Gates said. “That was the hope at the very beginning.”
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Boston Red Sox Reveal Massive Black Lives Matter Billboard Next to Fenway Park
Fenway Park — home to Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and best known for the 37-foot high left-field fence known as the “green monster” — now has a new wall drawing people’s attention. The team unveiled a giant, 250-foot Black Lives Matter billboard next to the stadium on Wednesday.
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Corruption at All Levels: A $52 Million COVID-19 Hospital Treated 79 Patients
New York City spent $52 million on a hospital for patients with the coronavirus. The hospital treated only 79 patients and say unused even as nearby hospitals were overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.
According to a report Tuesday by The New York Times, the temporary hospital set up at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center treated just 79 patients in the month it was in operation, while staff reported being paid to do nothing all day amid the height of the city’ s coronavirus outbreak. “I basically got paid $2,000 a day to sit on my phone and look at Facebook,” Katie Capano, a nurse practitioner from Baltimore who worked at the center, told the Times. “We all felt guilty. I felt really ashamed, to be honest.”
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In Portland, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Atlanta and elsewhere, children are not merely being blocked from the schoolhouse door — they’re being killed. They’re being maimed. Citizens are having their property looted and their public spaces destroyed, all with the connivance of local Democratic officials.
And once again, the Democrats are championing states’ rights to protect domestic terrorists…
When reporting on the “protests,” MSNBC and CNN invariably feature some area of Portland far from the carnage, showing people strolling, the sun shining, and not a single building on fire!
You’ll never see the part of the city — a little area called “downtown Portland” — where thousands of black-clad antifa have been laying waste to everything in sight.
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After nearly nine months since the Washington Nationals won the 2019 World Series at the end of October, Major League Baseball is set to begin its 2020 season Thursday night as the league champions host the New York Yankees.
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Facebook Plans to Announce QAnon Content Crackdown Next Month
Facebook is reportedly preparing to follow in the footsteps of Twitter and getting ready to purge QAnon content from its platform.
Followers of QAnon generally support President Trump and believe that an anonymous user account named “Q” shares information online about the plans of a high-level government insider or group of insiders who are working to take down the Deep State (a group inside the government that operates independently of elected officials to promote its own interests).
The New York Times reports that two Facebook employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Facebook will be taking similar steps to those taken by Twitter in order to limit the reach of QAnon content and the that it will be announcing its plans next month.
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Former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Accused of Running Child Sex Ring Out of NJ Beach House
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in New Jersey accuses disgraced former Catholic archbishop Theodore McCarrick of running a child sex ring out of a New Jersey beach home in the 1980s.
The suit, which an attorney filed on behalf of an unnamed plaintiff, names McCarrick, several former priests, the diocese of Metuchen and the archdiocese of Newark as defendants. It alleges one count of sexual battery and six counts of negligence. McCarrick was the bishop of Metuchen from 1981-1986, the archbishop of Metuchen from 1986-2000, and the archbishop of Washington, D.C., from 2000-2006. The Catholic Church defrocked him in 2019.
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Former UC Researcher, Alleged Chinese Military Spy Harbored by San Francisco Consulate, FBI Says
The FBI believes the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring Juan Tang, a former University of California-Davis researcher who allegedly lied about her connection to the Chinese military to obtain a visa.
On June 20, the FBI found and questioned Tang. According to a court filing, she “denied serving in the Chinese military” and “claimed she did not know the meaning of the insignia on her uniform.” Later that day, the FBI executed a search warrant and found other evidence of Tang’s alleged affiliation with the People’s Liberation Army.
However, federal investigators concluded that after the interview, Tang went to and still remains in the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.
The court filing came just hours before a fire broke out at the Chinese consulate in Houston after the U.S. ordered it to close.
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House Votes to Remove Robert E. Lee, Other Statues From Capitol
The House voted on Wednesday to remove statues inside the Capitol that have been deemed racially insensitive, including a statue of former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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Hulu’s ‘Rodham’ Series: What if Hillary Never Married Bill?
Alternative history stories have been a staple of science fiction for decades, and they can make for some entertaining television. You’ve got Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle, which depicts a version of the 1960s in which the Nazis and the Japanese won WWII and have divvied up the United States. HBO’s The Plot Against America is set in an alternate 1940s in which Charles Lindbergh is elected president and becomes an anti-Semitic fascist. And everybody loves The West Wing, which shows us a fantasy world where a Democrat was elected POTUS in the ‘90s and did a really good job and never even thought about banging an intern.
Now there’s a new show for the “liberal, but still embarrassed by Bill Clinton” demographic. And it features America’s favorite runner-up!
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Lightning Strikes Just Behind Statue of Liberty in Dramatic Video
A stunning video captured during Wednesday’s thunderstorms in New York CIty shows the moment a massive lightning strike hits just behind the Statue of Liberty.
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Man Arrested After Viral Photo Shows Him Kneeling on White Toddler’s Neck in Support of BLM
Ohio man Isaiah Jackson has been arrested after sharing a disturbing photo on social media, which went viral, showing him kneeling on the neck of a white toddler in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Mathematician Predicted Violent Upheaval in 2020 All the Way Back in 2012
In 2012, University of Connecticut ecologist, evolutionary biologist and mathematician Peter Turchin made a bold prediction: The United States was on track for a chaotic, violent 2020.
Well, here we are.
The year so far has been full of “upheaval” events, from a pandemic that seems to be further polarizing Americans along party lines, to the police killing of George Floyd and other Black individuals, which have led to Black Lives Matter protests worldwide and riots in some cities.
Turchin wasn’t just spitballing when he foresaw trouble in the 2020s. In his 2012 article, published in the Journal of Peace Research, he analyzed political violence, including riots, lynchings and terrorism, in the United States between 1780 and 2010. He found two patterns: First, a long trend of peace followed by rising violence that seems to span about 200 or 300 years, marked in this case by relative peace in the early 1800s, major upheaval in the mid— to late-1800s, and then peace again in the mid-1900s. Superimposed upon this long-term curve were oscillations that seemed to repeat approximately every 50 years. Violence peaked around 1870, 1920 and 1970. Extrapolate another 50 years and you land right smack on 2020.
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Miami Creates 39-Cop Mask Enforcement Team, Fines and Jail Time for Offenders
Anthony Fauci says government should be as ‘forceful as possible’ to get people to put masks on their faces.
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Minneapolis Police Experiencing “Significant Staffing Losses”
Nearly 200 police officers, about 20% of the Minneapolis Police Department, have applied to quit their jobs recently. About 65 officers have already left the department this year.
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MLB to Feature Black Lives Matter Stencil on Pitcher’s Mounds During Opening Weekend Games
Major League Baseball will feature a Black Lives Matter stencil on pitcher’s mounds during opening weekend games, the Washington Nationals announced on Wednesday.
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New Report Shows One-Third of NYC Businesses May Never Reopen
A new report commissioned by a non-profit called the Partnership for New York City has revealed that up to a third of the Big Apple’s 230,000 small businesses may never reopen after the economic devastation wrought by coronavirus.
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NIH Admits 5G Can Actually Create Coronavirus Within Human Cells
‘New generation mobile technology, like 5G, could have the main role in constructing various types of viruses, such as Coronaviruses, within a cell,’ says study.
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Northwestern Student Gov Supports Using Excess Funds to Bail Out Alleged Criminals
The Associated Student Government at Northwestern University unanimously passed legislation in response to concern for the black community following George Floyd’s death.
The ASG had $15,000 in leftover operating budget funds from the academic year. These excess funds come at least in part from a mandatory student activity fee which all university students must pay.
The first bill passed by the student government approved using $13,000 in excess funds the Chicago Community Bond Fund, an organization which “pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois.”
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Joins Riots, Gets Tear-Gassed, Is Chased Off by Fellow Protesters
On the 56th straight night of rioting in the city, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler joined the violent protests late Wednesday. However, in a scene reminiscent of what Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey faced when he attempted the same thing in early June, Wheeler’s presence did not sit well with the crowd.
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President Trump Orders “Surge” of Federal Agents to Put Down Violence in Chicago and Other Cities
Just as he has done in other cities experiencing a surge in violent crime, President Trump is deploying 100 federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security to the city of Chicago to assist in quelling the recent explosion of social unrest.
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President Trump Announces Cancellation of RNC Convention in Jacksonville
In a press conference on Thursday afternoon, President Trump announced the cancellation of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Jacksonville. The nominating convention for the Republican National Committee had previously been moved from Charlotte, N.C., after Democratic Governor Roy Cooper resisted the long-planned event, ostensibly due to concerns over COVID-19.
President Trump said,
People elected me to help and protect. So I told my team it’s time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida component of the convention. We’ll be starting in North Carolina. That has always been planned. We were never taking that off. It’s remaining as it is. The delegates are going to get together where they do their nomination. We’re going to do some other things with tele-rallies and online the week that we’re discussing which will be really good. I think we’re going to do it really well. I’ll still do a convention speech, in a different form. But we won’t do a big, crowded convention, per se. It’s just not the right time for that.
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Rational thought, hard work, and intact families—according to a “portal” put up by the Smithsonian Institution, and quickly taken down again, that’s all white people’s stuff, and Persons Of Color (POCs) have only, well, borrowed and internalized them because that bad ol’ white culture is dominant…gates
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‘Some White People May Have to Die, ‘ Says Black University of Georgia Teaching Assistant
Despite a Black male University of Georgia philosophy graduate student employed as a teacher’s assistant writing in a Facebook post that “some white people may have to die for Black communities to be made whole”, the university says he violated none of their policies.
Race and equality are both topics Irami Osei-Frampong — the man at the center of the controversy — discusses frequently, but many people considered his post that, “Some hite people may have to die for black communities to be made whole” to be racist. Another controversial post, for example, stated, “Fighting white people is a skill”.
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Stanford Researcher Faces Charges Over Alleged Ties to Chinese Military
A visiting scholar at Stanford University’s neurology department has been charged with visa fraud after the FBI discovered that she allegedly worked for the Chinese military and lied about her employment on her visa application.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release, Chen Song entered the United States in 2018 through a J-1 nonimmigrant visa. Song claimed that she was employed by Xi Diaoyutai Hospital in Beijing. However, the Department of Justice found open-source versions of four research articles that she allegedly submitted along with her application to Stanford, which revealed that she was employed by a People’s Liberation Army Air Force hospital in Xi’an, China.
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Teen Arrested in Worcester Broad Daylight Shooting
A Worcester, Massachusetts teen is under arrest in connection with a shooting in the city that left two people injured.
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The COVID Panic is a Lesson in Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics
As with most government interventions, the public is only interested in the easily seen “benefits” of government intervention. All the unseen costs of that intervention are simply ignored.
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The Military is the Latest Target of Online Cancel Culture
The military in the United States seems to be one of those institutions that is increasingly getting in the cross-hairs of online campaigns.
At least on Twitch, the presence of the US Army doesn’t look to be welcome, and the military will suspend activities on Amazon’s streaming giant, writes IGN.
It was the Army’s attempts to use the platform to direct users towards its recruitment pages — in other words, promote its business, like many others do — that has led to the negative reaction, which eventually convinced it to step down.
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Trump: Joe Biden Has “Obligation” To Take Cognitive Test
President Trump said Wednesday that former Vice President Joe Biden should take a cognitive test to prove he is mentally fit for the role of president.
Trump said he took such a test last year.
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Twitter Looking at Subscription Options as Ad Revenue Drops Sharply
SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) — Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as San Francisco-based Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.
“You will likely see some tests this year” of various approaches, Dorsey told analysts on an investor call held to discuss the company’s second quarter earnings results. Dorsey said he has “a really high bar for when we would ask consumers to pay for aspects of Twitter,” but confirmed that the company is seeking to diversify its sources of revenue in what are “very, very early phases of exploring.”
[Comment: Get woke, go broke.]
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U.S. Space Force Unveils Official Logo and Motto
The Space Force branch of the United States military on Wednesday unveiled its official logo and motto, American Military News reported.
The new service logo features a delta shape with the North Star at its center that serves as a “guiding light as we build a new Service to secure the space domain,” the Space Force document reads.
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Untested Man Informed by State Health Department That He’s COVID-19 Positive
Now a Tennessee man is reporting erroneous as well as troubling actions being taken by another state health department.
From WSMV:
Mt. Juliet man says even with no test, he’s informed he is COVID-19 positive by state
MOUNT JULIET, TN (WSMV) — Brock Ballou expected the first call.
After all, his co-worker had tested positive for COVID-19, so he expected a call from a contact tracer.
He didn’t anticipate, however, what the tracer would tell him.
“She specifically said — I’m looking at it right here — you tested positive — this is a follow up call to see how your symptoms are,” Ballou said.
There was just one major problem — because he hadn’t experienced any symptoms, Ballou hadn’t been tested yet.
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UT Austin Faces Lawsuit Alleging 2 White Applicants Were Unfairly Rejected Because of Race
The national nonprofit group Students for Fair Admissions filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court against the University of Texas at Austin, alleging the university unfairly refused admission to two students because they are white.
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Washington’s NFL Franchise to Call Itself “Washington Football Team, “ Pending New Team Name
The Washington NFL franchise announced Thursday that it will change its team name to the Washington Football Team until the organization can agree upon a suitable replacement, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
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Breaking: Protestors Crash Toronto Groundbreaking Ceremony, Forcing Mayor John Tory to Flee
Mayor John Tory was forced to leave a ground-breaking ceremony at the Toronto waterfront on Thursday morning after a group of protestors heckled him until the event could no longer continue.
The protestors, who demanded that Tory take action on legislation that would prevent renters from being evicted during the pandemic, flanked the ceremony, demanding that Tory call on the Ford government to reverse Bill 184, which protestors say would allow landlords to evict tenants.
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Ontario Nurse Investigated After Anti-Mask and Vaccine-Skeptic Comments on Facebook
Kristal Pitter, a nurse practitioner from Ontario, is now being investigated after she made vaccine-skeptical claims on Facebook and questioned the official death count of the coronavirus.
“Mandating masks is irresponsible, negligent, and dangerous,” said Pitter, while sharing a link to a YouTube video that discussed the “health risks” of wearing masks.
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Toronto Mayor Slams ‘Chair Girl’— Says She Should Have Gone to Jail
Toronto Mayor John Tory made it known that he believes Marcella Zoia, aka “chair girl,” should have gone to jail for throwing a chair over the balcony of a high-rise onto a busy highway, according to CP24.
Zoia pleaded guilty in February of 2019 for mischief endangering life, with Tory saying that “she should have gone to jail,” adding that “she should’ve gone to jail for enough time to send a message to her and everyone else.”
Zoia will not spend any time in jail, but received two years of probation, 150 hours of community service, and a fine of $2,000.
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A DMCA-Style System Could be Coming to Europe
There are some worrying signs that something akin to the loathed US Digital Millennium Copyright Act might be coming to Europe. At least, that is, to the 27-member-states of the European Union (EU).
We can glean this from a press release by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the EU, that said that, “when a film is unlawfully uploaded onto an online platform, such as YouTube, the rightsholder may, under the directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, require the operator to provide only the postal address of the user concerned, but not his or her email, IP address or telephone number.”
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Analysis: EU Funding Isn’t Tied to Rule of Law Issues Despite Claims Otherwise
As a result of European Union summit, Poland is set to receive €160 billion in grants and loans, however, some opposition politicians and commentators have argued that this money will be tied to rule of law compliance.
The resolution of the summit does refer to the issue in clauses 22 and 23 of the text. The two clause read:
Clause: 22: The Union’s financial interests shall be protected in accordance with the general principles embedded in the Union Treaties, in particular the values of Article 2 TEU.
The European Council underlines the importance of the protection of the Union’s financial interests. The European Council underlines the importance of the rule of law.
Clause 23: Based on this background, a regime of conditionality to protect the budget and Next Generation EU will be introduced. In this context, the Commission will propose measure in case of breaches for adoption by the Council by qualified majority.
The European Council will revert rapidly in the matter.
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Black Lives Matter is an Extreme Left, Anti-Christian Movement: Hungarian Official
Black Lives Matter is an extreme left, anti-Christian movement, State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians Tristan Azbej said Tuesday morning on national television channel M1’s morning news program.
“Very worrying phenomena have appeared in the Western world as well, and we experience that the previously mainly intellectual opposition to Christianity is displaying an increasingly violent nature,” Azbej said. He pointed out that last week alone, Black Lives Matter activists set ablaze five churches in the United States within a space of just two days.
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Brexit Talks: Trade Deal ‘Unlikely’ As British Will Not Submit to EU Demands
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator has said that a trade deal with Britain is currently “unlikely”, as the country will not submit to the bloc’s demands on regulations and fisheries.
“By its current refusal to commit to open and fair competition and to a balanced agreement on fisheries, the UK makes a trade agreement, at this point, unlikely,” declared Michel Barnier, the Frenchman leading the negotiations with the British for the supranational bloc.
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Central Europe is the Guardian of Christian Europe Once Again: Hungarian State Minister
As was the case more than half a millennium ago, the defense of Christian Europe again falls on Central Europe, State Minister for Parliament at the Ministry of Defense Szilard Németh said at a commemoration of the 1456 Battle of Belgrade, in which the army of the Hungarian Kingdom lifted the Muslim siege of Belgrade, thereby halting the expansion of the Ottoman Empire for 70 years.
On July 22, 1456, Hungarian troops led by one of the era’s greatest military commanders, Janos Hunyadi, lifted the three-week siege of Belgrade (Nandorfehérvar in Hungarian) and drove back the Islamic troops of Sultan Mehmed II, who before the battle boasted that he will “breakfast in Belgrade, have lunch in Buda and dinner in Vienna.”
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Czech Health Ministry Plans New Coronavirus Measures as Epidemic Gains Momentum
After a meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babis, the Minister of Health Adam Vojtech stated that if the daily growth of newly infected people with coronavirus does not improve by Friday, he is ready to introduce new restrictions at the national level.
“We will evaluate the data, and if the number of infected people continues to increase, we would have to take some preventive measures,” said Vojtech.
The Czech Health Minister stated that the epidemiological situation is not good right now. According to him, indoor mass events pose an especially great risk.
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French Police Claim No Evidence of Arson in Cathedral Fire
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday that there were no traces of arson found in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes and that the blaze might have erupted accidentally.
“At the moment, there is nothing that would indicate criminal actions”, Darmanin said, speaking at the National Assembly.
The minister noted that the investigation was still underway.
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French Study Finds Jihadist Terrorists Very Likely to Re-Offend
A study released by the French Centre for Terrorism Analysis (CAT) has revealed that 60 per cent of Islamic radicals who left France to fight abroad between 1986 to 2006 have gone on to commit terrorist offences.
The study looked at French Muslims who had fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The researchers found that the majority of those who returned to France later went on to engage in terrorism.
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Greenland Statue Referendum: Given Direct Say, People Vote #AGAINST a Removal
People in Nuuk, Greenland, have voted overwhelmingly against removing a statue vandalised by activists.
In June, the clifftop statue of Norwegian missionary Hans Egede, who founded Nuuk — then known as Godthåb — and became Bishop of Greenland in the 1700s, was smeared with red paint and the slogan “DECOLONIZE”, prompting the authorities to organise a referendum on the monument’s fate.
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Hungary: Nézopont Survey: Orban’s Approval Rating Highest in Five Years
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has garnered the highest approval rating in five years this month, showed a poll published by the pro-government Nézopont Research Institute on Thursday.
In the poll conducted between July 14-16, 57 percent of respondents said they would like to see Orban in a leading political role in the future, the institute said. Only one-third of respondents were dissatisfied with Orban’s performance, Nezopont said, the lowest ratio since October 2015.
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Italy: Driver Jailed for Hijacking Bus With 51 Children on Board and Setting it on Fire
An Italian driver who hijacked a bus with 51 schoolchildren on board and set it alight has been jailed.
A Milan court sentenced Ousseynou Sy to 24 years in prison after he was found guilty of forced confinement with terrorist intent, local media reported yesterday.
Sy, 48, drove his school bus with 51 students on board towards Milan airport in March last year as he was transporting the 12— and 13-year-olds to school in Crema, which is east of Milan.
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Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Convicted of 5,232 Counts of Accessory to Murder
A German court on Wednesday convicted a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard of being an accessory to murder of 5,232 people from 1944 to 1945, toward the end of World War II.
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Poland: Far-Right Party Accuses Ruling PiS of Euro-Federalism
Leader of the Poland’s far-right Confederation party, Krzysztof Bosak, accused the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) of being a party ready to realize a Euro-federalist scenario.
Speaking in a parliamentary debate on the EU summit, Confederation’s unsuccessful presidential candidate Krzysztof Bosak admitted that the sum negotiated by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was impressive.
But he said that Morawiekci concentrating purely on the financial aspect betrayed what Morawiecki wanted to avoid talking about.
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UK: Advertisers Must Help Nanny State ‘Evolve Society’ With 9pm ‘Junk Food’ Watershed
One of the UK’s leading advertising executives has backed Boris Johnson’s Nanny State assault on “junk food” by pushing for a 9 pm “watershed” of advertising food deemed unhealthy.
Usually reserved for programmes with adult themes such as sex and violence, Sir John Hegarty has said a watershed on “junk food” ads would encourage advertisers to accept that they had “responsibilities beyond just selling us things”. He added it would result in the industry being seen as “a valuable partner in an evolving society”.
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UK: Sheffield Cathedral Sacks Choir, Wants New Music for ‘Mixed Urban Community’
Sheffield Cathedral has announced it will close down its current choir to ready itself “for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work.”
The Anglican cathedral’s oldest sections date back to roughly 1200 AD, and its choral tradition is also centuries old — but, according to a statement on its website, it has now “decided that a completely fresh start is needed.”
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Police are asking for leads in a case involving two black men who not only attacked and threatened a 31-year-old woman in her home on the Zevenkampse Ring in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, but also threatened to kill her 6-week-old baby.
The home invasion occurred on Feb. 18 of this year, but due to the lack of success in apprehending the suspect, the Dutch Opsporing Verzocht weekly crime program’s website has listed the suspects in its “Most-Wanted” section.
A television program from Opsporing Verzocht aired the footage of the home invasion and interviewed a police official who gave details of the case to a national audience on July 7.
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60% of Turkish Citizens Support Hagia Sophia Conversion
The mayor of Constantinople, Ekrem Imamoglu, will be in Ankara on the day of the first Islamic prayer in Hagia Sophia, on July 24.
He will be at an event marking the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, and will not be in Constantinople or at Hagia Sophia for prayer.
Respectively, the leader of the official opposition to Erdogan, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, rejected the invitation addressed to him by the head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ali Erbas, the Hürriyet newspaper revealed yesterday. Kiliçdaroglu’s answer was “I will not come.”
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What is Behind These Explosions and Fires in Iran? Experts Suggest Some Possible Theories
First, it was forest fires.
Then a missile factory.
Next was a heavily fortified, highly restricted, underground nuclear enrichment facility. Then power stations, a port, a health clinic and a petrochemical plant.
For weeks, things have been blowing up or catching fire in Iran.
The two most significant incidents were a June 26 explosion at Khojir, near Tehran — a liquid fuel production site for the country’s missile program — and more recently, a blast deep underground at the Natanz nuclear facility on July 2.
Most of the explosions and fires could be due to Iran’s poor management of infrastructure and its deteriorating economy, which has been squeezed by sanctions and a mishandled coronavirus epidemic.
For example, a medical clinic where gas cylinders exploded on June 30 — killing 19 people — had been warned by the Tehran City Council to upgrade its outdated fire extinguishing system.
There were also prior concerns about its gas storage…
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Russia Secretly Tested Anti-Satellite Weapon in Space, U.S. Space Command Says
The U.S. Space Command reported Thursday that it has “evidence that Russia conducted a non-destructive test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon” designed to disable other satellites and “threaten the peaceful use of space.”
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Russian Media: Poland’s Actions Could Lead to ‘Apocalypse’, Drag Europe Into War
Russian news portal Baltnews, which targets Russian speakers in the Baltic States, has written extensively against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. troops to Poland, and has now cited scholars who warn that such a move could lead to “apocalypse” that could draw all of Europe into war.
One of the articles quoted German political scientist Alexander Rahr as saying that Germany is totally opposed to the move, as the Germans see it as provocation against Russia which harms Germany’s security.
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90 Chinese Nuclear Scientists Resigned; Investigation Underway
The State Council, China’s Cabinet, has sent an investigative team with other government agencies to look into the recent resignation of over 90 nuclear security scientists at an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the academy said on Tuesday.
The mystery surrounding the resignation of half of the employees in that research institute became one of the most talked-about topics in China.
The team consists of officials from the State Council’s general office, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the CAS and other departments. It will head to Hefei, Anhui province, to thoroughly investigate the situation, the academy said.
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China Stole at Least $1 Billion in Trade Secrets & Research From US: State Dept
Chinese government of acting like “an organized criminal syndicate”
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TikTok Users Satirically Create Pro-China Content to Help Them Trend
A new strategy has emerged from TikTok users, in which they demonstrate their satirical appreciation for the Chinese government to try to trick the app’s algorithm and avoid bans, or even to become trending by being featured in the For You Page section.
While there’s no suggestion that this type of content alone actually helps with visibility in the algorithm, the satirical content has become popular and thus caused it to become a viral meme, which actually does lead to more visibility.
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Peter Ridd’s Loss Squashes Academic Dissent and Free Speech
On May 2, 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct.
It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy inshore coral reefs were dead from climate change and deteriorating water quality.
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Fulani Militants Suspected of Wedding Attack in Nigeria That Killed 21
More violence in Nigeria has taken the life of 21 citizens and injured an additional 30 as radical Fulani herdsmen opened fire on a wedding party in the Kakum Daji Village of Kaduna Sunday night.
The violence reportedly began about 10:30 at night. Nineteen of the 21 deceased victims were killed on site, with another two dying after being transported to a hospital.
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Islamic Extremists Execute 5 Nigerian Men as Warning to Those Converting Muslims to Christians
Islamic extremists released a video on Wednesday showing the executions of five Nigerian men in Borno state as a warning to “all those being used by infidels to convert Muslims to Christianity,” Morning Star News reported.
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Boatloads of Migrants Leaving Africa for Spain’s Canary Islands
Thousands of migrants have been arriving in the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa this year, and authorities say the surge will likely increase.
Over 3,000 migrants reached the Spanish islands by July 19, according to the UNHCR.
Spanish rescue patrols were deployed to search for nearly 200 migrants who had set out to make the crossing aboard five vessels earlier this week.
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California Has 6 Extra Representatives Because Illegals Are Counted
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted for the purposes of re-drawing congressional districts after the 2020 census.
The order, “Ensuring American Citizens Receive Proper Representation in Congress” comes after the Supreme Court last year blocked a citizenship question from being included in the Census and sent the question back to lower courts, claiming that the administration’s reasoning for the question was insufficient.
President Thomas Jefferson first proposed a citizenship question in 1800, and one was added to the census in 1820 with a question that asked for the number of “foreigners not naturalized” in the household. Census forms including citizenship questions were common until 1950. On a global scale, as the Heritage Foundation notes “even the United Nations recommends that its member countries ask a citizenship question on their census surveys, and countries ranging from Australia to Germany to Indonesia all ask this question.”
According to an analysis from Unbiased America, Blue States with large illegal alien populations like California are benefiting massively in terms of representation due to their non-citizens.
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Czechia to Give Greece €1 Million to Protect EU Border From Illegal Migration
The Czech Republic will donate €1 million to Greece to strengthen the protection of the European Union’s external borders and help combat illegal immigration.
The money should cover buying new technical equipment and helping strengthen the staff capacity of the Greek border police. Klara Dlubalova, a spokeswoman for the Czech Ministry of the Interior, announced the news in a press release, writing that the money will be provided from the Ministry of Interior’s On-Site Assistance program.
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Greek Coastguard: We Have Sealed Our Country’s Maritime Borders
Illegal migratory flows to the Greek islands is down 83% compared to 2019.
Turkey’s escalating aggression against Greece culminates at this stage in the decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque from Friday, in conjunction with the communication war against the Greek Coast Guard that has been going on for the last four months and has created a deplorable situations in the eastern Aegean.
In this context, the arrival in Greece of Fabrice Lezeri, head of the European Border Agency, FRONTEX, sends a message of EU unity regarding the defence of the maritime borders of the eastern Aegean, which are also European borders.
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Refugees who gang-raped an 18-year-old girl after spiking her drink in an attack that sparked far-right protests against foreigners in Germany have today been jailed.
Ten men were handed down sentences at the district court in Freiburg, following the assault on the teenager outside a nightclub in 2018.
The main suspect, named only as Majd H, was jailed for five and a half years, while seven others received between three and four years in prison.
Two others received suspended sentences and one man was acquitted.
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UK: Home Office Staff to be Forced to Take Course on History of Race, Migration
Home Secretary Priti Patel has promised to make the Home Office “more diverse” and “more compassionate”, with department staff set to be forced to takes courses on the history of race and migration.
The Conservative minister made the remarks on Tuesday in response to a report sparked by the ‘Windrush Scandal’, where some migrants from the Caribbean were erroneously deported — however, others were repatriated because they were found to be convicted criminals. The affair had brought down a previous Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, in 2018.
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Will America Survive Another 100 Million Immigrants by 2050?
First of all, this series will distress you. It will simply present the facts that are headed your way. You can dismiss them, or, you can take action. This series will give you action items. If you and the rest of America ignore the facts, you and your children will become victims of the facts…
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Bloomsburg Fair’s Facebook Post Earns the Ire of Activist Groups With a List of Demands
The Bloomsburg Fair has received a demand letter from over 50 LGBTQ groups over a Facebook joke that appeared to mock Dr Rachel Levine. The Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary identifies as a transgender woman.
On Monday, the Bloomsburg Fair posted images from The Columbia/Montour Fireman’s Relief Carnival that was held over the weekend. The purpose of the event was to raise money for the fire departments serving the areas around Bloomsburg, PA — especially those who have been hurt by the restrictions posed by Dr Levine.
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Google Glitch That Censored Conservative News Sites Reveals Secret Blacklist CEO Said Didn’t Exist
Google CEO Sundar Pichai claimed to Congress the company does not ‘manually intervene on search results.’
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Hallmark Channel Plans to Promote LGBT Themes
The Hallmark Channel, which long has profited from featuring traditional family stories, especially during the Christmas season, plans to focus to “LGBTQ storylines, characters, and actors.”
The channel, whose corporate owner recently suffered a boycott by conservatives that resulted in laying off hundreds of employees, made the announcement on Twitter.
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Twitter Has Challenged Over 4 Million Accounts for Violating Its Coronavirus Rules
In its Q2 2020 earnings report, Twitter announced that it has removed 15,000 tweets and challenged 4.5 million accounts for violating its coronavirus rules.
Twitter wrote that as part of its health work, it “aggressively targeted misinformation and toxic or abusive content relating to COVID-19.”
The company also stated that it would be “launching additional proactive detection and remediation tools to reduce abuse and hate speech.”
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Twitter Removes Star of David, Marks it “Hateful Imagery”
The newest target of censorship on Twitter seems to be the Star of David used by Jewish users, which is being denounced and banned as hateful imagery.
The way Twitter has gone about enforcing this frankly warped belief means locking users out of their account if they are found to be using this symbol in their profile pictures.
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COVID-19: The Fake Pandemic — David Icke
Globalists using virus to destroy liberty.
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Foreign born women responsible for nearly a third of all British births.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/23/uk-fertility-rate-for-women-under-30-falls-to-lowest-level-since-before-world-war-ii/
Of course there are all of the foreign born fathers that need to be taken into account too, and that’s without even including the many more second generation, third generation, and even fourth generation immigrant descended births as the United Kingdom has be getting invaded for a long time.
Congratulations for commuting suicide.
Unfortunately I am not surprised by this at all. Our dhimmi leaders have been preparing us for the slaughter and subjagation for awhile including supposedly “Christian” Bishops, such as the Bishop of Bradford.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8631059/Christians-should-learn-how-to-be-a-minority-from-Muslims-bishop-says.html
Foreign born I doubt would be the problem eventually Western Europe is confronted with millions of indoctrinated behind the lines seriously deadly enemies. We knew and know that though. Better start to stop feeding muslims women and children together with islamo rock concerts and kafir crush festivals in every neighbourhood at least once a week – or as needed. Like releasing mad things.
France
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1286482057632202753
What is wrong with “Redskins”? Seriously, I don’t know enough about American peculiarities to see the problem. And how can the name of Washington solve any such issue, anyway? Isn’t he supposed to be a bad guy, too, by now?
Islamic and feminist hatred and outright disdain for western society in general could be invaluable if channeled into being the majority in all ranks of all branches of the armed forces. Worth a try. Nothing else has worked. No wait …….
“…the police killing of George Floyd and other Black individuals, which have led to Black Lives Matter protests worldwide and riots in some cities…” Well, no. The Globalists have advanced the pressure to a stage where riots are inevitable, especially so in the USA where a lot seems to depends on the elections that are just few months away… Even if “Big Floyd” didn’t succumb in circumstances not so clear, another incident would be used, or even a false flag operation.
WW1 + 2 = 3. All those Mosley fellas disappeared after the outbreak of ww2. Rubics Cube.
It is more about class than race in the United States of South Africa.
The Kung Flu controlled demolition of the economy has hit the lower classes hard.
The trust fund poseurs already had plenty of time to plan for burning it all down.
It is always the bored idle rich stupid college punks that plot revolutions.
They have it all figured out from their well worn copy of Das Kapital.
The glorious people’s republic of Portland can enjoy the golden utopia.
Just like the mayor of Oakland and Minneapolis found out the Portland Gauleiter (mayor) learned that the crocodile won’t be eating them last.