Ghislaine Maxwell, the one-time girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, has been put on suicide watch in her jail cell. Perhaps the process is like bird-watching, with eager enthusiasts on site carrying binoculars and cameras, waiting for the long-expected event.
In other news, the newly-inaugurated Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, said that Jesus was a black man. Mr. Cottrell is white.
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Tech Leads U.S. Stock Rally, Sends Nasdaq to High: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks jumped, with gains in tech shares pushing the Nasdaq Composite to a record high. The dollar fell for a fifth day and Treasuries dipped.
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A racist black lives matter thug was recently filmed harassing, screaming at and threatening white children on a trip to Washington DC.
This was absolutely disgusting.
So will the left defend this too?
Or will they ignore it like the rest of the rioting, looting and beatings?
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“You Killed a Child”: Father of 8-Year-Old Shot During BLM Protest Speaks Out
The father of an 8-year-old girl who was shot during a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta told BLM demonstrators “you killed your own…you killed a child” during an emotional press conference.
The shooting happened on July 4 near the same Wendys that was torched by BLM protesters in response to the police killing of Rayshard Brooks less than a month ago.
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“You’ve Shot and Killed a Baby!” Atlanta Mayor Decries Black on Black Violence During BLM March
An 8-year-old black girl was shot dead inside a car during a Black Lives Matter protest, leading the Mayor of Atlanta to proclaim, “We are shooting each other on our streets.”
The shooting happened on July 4 near the same Wendys that was torched by BLM protesters in response to the police killing of Rayshard Brooks less than a month ago.
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A few weeks ago, hardly anyone in America had ever heard of Pastor Dana Coverstone, but now hundreds of thousands of people all over the country are buzzing about him. He leads a very small church in Burkesville, Kentucky and on June 25th he posted a video on Facebook about some remarkable things that he had seen in some of his dreams. He probably thought that only a handful of his friends would see the video, but it quickly went viral. At this point it has been watched by more than a million people on Facebook, and a copy that was posted to YouTube has now been viewed more than 600,000 times. Personally, I have had countless people share his video with me over the past week, and it still hasn’t stopped. But even though this video is spreading like wildfire, the mainstream media has been completely silent about it. In fact, if you do a search on Google News for “Pastor Dana Coverstone”, you won’t find a single news story about his video. What he was shown definitely does not fit their agenda, and so I expect that they will continue to generally ignore this phenomenon.
So what is it about his video that has people so excited?
Well, it is because he saw the catastrophic events of 2020 in advance, and he was also shown that more catastrophic events are coming.
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Ann Coulter Warns: ‘Get Ghislaine Maxwell on Tape’ Before She Dies Like Epstein
Previously warned Jeffrey Epstein would be suicided weeks before he was found dead in prison cell last year.
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Army of Morons: Media Out of Control — USA Going Down!
Yesterday and today, for the first time in my life, I watched the mainstream media in order to understand what people, who are clearly INCAPABLE OF CRITICAL THINKING, allow CNN to brainwash them with. I was an experiment in tapping into the intellect of the average voter.
I have to say that, at different times, I thought LONG AND HARD about the contempt of the editors and script writers, who come up with the narrative for the news, towards the viewers. Clearly, they must be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that they are speaking to people with the understanding of a three-year-old.
I sat there and thought this was a prank.
Two conclusions that any self-respecting American needs to draw in 2020:
The media has NO RESPECT for its audience. They are literally engaged in dumbing down people that already probably do NO READING, NO THINKING AND NO STUDYING and are susceptible to propaganda and mind manipulation.
The media is not media at all. What I saw from CNN borders on a lawsuit that ought to be filed against them for irresponsibly spreading junk around.
I had to laugh, since it was so awkward. It was troubling to view the words they chose to deliver their propaganda, and my biggest concern is that America is TOO DIVIDED and TOO MISPLACED to come back from this into the realm of real debate. There are millions of people who are TRULY SUFFERING and I don’t think that there’s any REAL INTENTION to come together.
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Barack Hussein Obama is Running for a Third Term
One thing is clear: Obama and his people are calling the shots, literally, behind the Biden for President campaign. He wants a third term in office, and he may get it, using Biden as his front man. He will then reinstate his China-friendly policies.
Why, President Trump has to ask, did U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seize a shipment from China that contained over 10,000 assault weapons parts being smuggled into the country? The parts were seized at Express Consignment Operations hub in Louisville, Kentucky, in a parcel described as containing 100 Steel Pin Samples. On a separate occasion, more than 5,000 counterfeit driver’s licenses and 2,909 counterfeit IDs were seized there. They also came from China and were headed to New York.
All of this looks like China is outfitting a communist insurgency on American soil. The Red Chinese are already killing our people through exports of fentanyl.
Looking at their political operations, Trump said, “One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and to our values and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America.”…
Analyst Trevor Loudon has done a very good job of analyzing this problem in his latest piece, “‘People’s War:’ Pro-China Communists Claim Credit For ‘Sparking’ US Riots.” He names the names and identifies their foreign connections. He explains, “Developed by Chairman Mao, the ‘people’s war’ was a strategy whereby Maoist insurgents could use attrition and unconventional warfare to defeat much more powerful conventional armies.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently said, “…we are looking carefully at the prospect of foreign influence or foreign interference in all the protest activities (that’s) occurred over the last few weeks.” If they really don’t have that data, let them call Trevor Loudon and consult his KeyWiki online encyclopedia on the left.
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Biden Vows to “Transform” Nation if Elected President, Doesn’t Reveal How
Democratic nominee Joe Biden vowed on Twitter Sunday that if he is elected president, his administration “won’t just rebuild the nation — we’ll transform it,” raising questions from critics about what exactly will be transformed and how he plans on accomplishing it.
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Two boys were street dancing Friday night in Cape Girardeau, MO with their instructor Michael ‘Crank’ Curry.
That’s when a car pulled over, a black man jumped out and he sucker-punched the 12-year-old child.
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Leftist Samantha Shader and her sister Darian Shader were arrested in May riots after hurling a Molotov cocktail through a NYPD window with four police officers inside.
Her sister Darian was then arrested for attempting to prevent Samantha’s arrest.
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This past weekend a violent BLM mob targeted a Troy, New York Church.
The BLM mob attacked Christians on the steps of the church and interrupted the sermon screaming profanities.
The BLM mob was screaming “We’re not here for violence!” as they dragged parishioners from the church steps!
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A couple in Martinez, California, peacefully painted over the city-sanctioned giant yellow “Black Lives Matter” lettering in the middle of the road on the Fourth of July.
Police are now looking for the couple, likely harder than they are searching for the terrorists who ripped down statues, looted shops, and destroyed large chunks of cities across the nation.
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Breaking: At Least One Protester Injured From Being Struck by Vehicle in Indiana (Videos)
At least one protester has been struck by a vehicle in Indiana.
The incident took place in Bloomington, where protesters were once again playing in the road.
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Chicago: 79 Shot, 15 Killed Over 4th of July Weekend; 11 Victims Were Minors, 2 of Whom Died
Fourth of July weekend in Chicago saw 79 people shot, including 11 minors, and 15 killed in gunfire. Two children were among the dead.
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Democrats never take responsibility for their failures.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday blamed the Coronavirus for her city’s rising murder rate.
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Chris Jacobs Says He’s Won Both NY-27 Special Election and NY-27 Republican Primary
BLASDELL, N.Y. (WKBW) — State Sen. Chris Jacobs (R-Orchard Park) says he has won both the New York 27th Congressional District special election, and the N.Y.-27 Republican Primary.
At a press conference Tuesday night, Jacobs claimed it was mathematically impossible for Democrat Nate McMurray to win the New York 27th special election, and for Republicans Beth Parlato and Stefan Mychajliw to catch up in the Republican Primary.
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Conservative Group Blasts College for Allegedly Helping Leftists ‘Harass’ Students
(CAMPUS REFORM) — A Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Union College was targeted after an Instagram post discussing the recent events surrounding George Floyd’s death.
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Coronavirus Numbers Purposefully Inflated by the CDC
Goal is make pandemic seem as catastrophic as possible to keep economy shut down.
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Court Orders Temporary Shut Down of Dakota Access Pipeline
A district court on Monday ordered the temporary shut down and emptying of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Judge James Boasberg ruled the pipeline must be shut down by August 5 while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepares an environmental impact statement — a report the Corps said would take approximately 13 months to create.
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COVID-19 Close to Losing Its Epidemic Status in the US, According to the CDC
Coronavirus deaths in the country have nearly reached a level where the virus will cease to qualify as an epidemic under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules, the federal agency reported on Friday.
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COVID-19: Rare for Asymptomatic Person to Infect Another Person
What caused such panic? Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx aided by the despicable MSM and political whores. Who unleashed those two incompetent “experts”? VP Mike Pence — NOT Donald Trump. He relied on Pence’s “experience and good judgment”.
Who is incompetent? Try governors and mayors in states that did lock down. They panicked like a herd of cattle during a thunder storm. Governors like to tout about their disaster preparedness teams with your tax dollars but when this virus hit, who was unprepared?
Last week His Lordship, Gov. Abbott, issued another executive order that has been completely distorted by the media and corporations:
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Disney Plus’ Hamilton is the Latest Target of Cancel Culture Complaints
As America is deciding what or who to cancel next, the Broadway musical film Hamilton that just arrived on Disney Plus is now facing backlash as its lead character is the eponymous Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and who was a slave trader.
As a matter of fact, Hamilton, despite not owning any slaves, married into a family that was in the slave trade. He went on to manage the sale of slaves and also did accounting for a trading company that was engaged in slave trade. The Broadway musical, however, shows Hamilton as a “young, scrappy, and hungry” immigrant who wanted to abolish slavery.
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What the hell is going on? Attorney Beth Wilkinson represented Judge Emmet Sullivan in his attempted takeover of the General Flynn case in front of a DC Circuit Court. This occurred only days after Wilkinson represented Cheryl Mills in a deposition related to a Sullivan court ruling.
After the US government reviewed the information related to the case the government had against General Michael Flynn, the government made the decision not to proceed with the case. General Flynn’s attorneys agreed and they all went to the court to have the case dismissed.
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Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Admits “We Knew” About Ghislaine Maxwell Sex Trafficking Underage Girls
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao admitted in a tweet “we knew” about Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking underage girls but attended a party where Maxwell was present anyway.
“Pao, a former partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, said Maxwell was at the firm’s holiday party in 2011, more than two years after Epstein was first convicted of soliciting sex from a 14 year old,” reports Business Insider.
“[Maxwell] was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011, but I had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her,” Pao tweeted last night. “We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the ‘cool’ people who managed the tightly controlled guest list.”
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Democrat Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones called on his political party Friday to “disband and change the Democratic Party” because it is associated with “racism, bigotry, and the Confederacy.”
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As was reported earlier — there was a triple shooting in Atlanta Sunday that killed one person that took place at the same location as the deadly shooting of an 8-year-old black girl by Black Lives Matter protesters Saturday night. The area of the shootings is near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by police last month as he attacked and fled officers.
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Ghislaine Maxwell on Suicide Watch Behind Bars
A lawyer representing the victims of Jeffrey Epstein said he believes Ghislaine Maxwell will die in prison. Maxwell was reported on Friday to have been placed on suicide watch.
Maxwell was arrested on Thursday on six charges of sex trafficking and perjury.
Spencer Kuvin, who represents several of Epstein’s victims in Florida, said he believes Maxwell will either take her own life or be silenced by powerful people.
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We’re now witnessing the next wave of the destruction and breakdown of US society—
Christian churches are the latest target by the godless left.
This is very disturbing.
The mob targeted a Catholic prayer rally and beat several Catholics in St. Louis a week ago.
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Harvard to Charge Full Tuition of Nearly $50k for Completely Online Classes
Harvard University announced Monday that it will implement online learning for all students and courses during the 2020-21 academic year, while still charging full tuition of nearly $50,000.
The school will allow up to 40% of undergraduate students to live on campus this fall, including all freshmen. Seniors will return to campus in the spring semester, as first-year students return home to finish the school year through distance education.
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How ‘Elementary Truth’ Is Verboten for BLM
We have arrived at the unthinkable: “America’s Jacobin moment,” as an editorial in the Wall Street Journal aptly put it. What has happened to our republic?
Our talking heads, the so-called “chattering classes,” pretend that this eruption of insanity has something to do with the quest for racial justice. That could not be further from the truth. Black Lives Matter — the movement, not the slogan — is in fact a racialist and ideological organization that denies common humanity and a morality applicable to all human beings. Professed enemies of decency and restraint, these Maoists and para-Marxists demonize all white people and anyone of any race or religion who challenges their bizarre and fanatical worldview, as well as the police (whose immediate abolition they demand). Of course, they do not believe that all black lives matter: Those black people, including children, cut down by urban violence in Chicago or Baltimore every weekend, or aborted at higher numbers than they are born in New York City, don’t pass ideological muster. Black lives matter, of course, because all lives matter, but that elementary truth is now verboten. All races are equal, but in BLM’s universe, some are more equal than others. This is a recipe for hatred and perpetual social conflict.
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Hundreds of ‘Justice’ Protesters Return to Armed Couple’s Home
After a couple gained notoriety last week for taking up arms to defend their home in St Louis from protesters who broke into the private property, hundreds returned to the scene this past weekend, vowing that the couple shouldn’t be allowed to live in peace.
The AP reported that “Protesters marched along the busy public boulevard called Kingshighway, which intersects with Portland Place, a private street that is the site of the Renaissance palazzo-style home of Mark McCloskey, 61, and his 63-year-old wife, Patricia.”
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In Addition to Everything Else, Now “Bunny Ebola” Is Spreading Rapidly in the United States
In 2020, it has just been one thing after another. The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed countries all over the globe, there has been tremendous rioting, looting and civil unrest in major U.S. cities, and millions of Americans have lost their jobs as we have plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has been such a challenging year, and we certainly don’t need any more problems, but now there is one more crisis that we can add to the list. An outbreak of a virus that is known as “bunny ebola” erupted in the southwestern United States in April, and since that time it has “moved like mad” from one location to another. At this point, cases have been confirmed at 146 different locations in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. The good news is that this virus does not infect humans, but it is absolutely deadly for rabbits, hares, and pikas. Thousands have already died, and it appears that this pandemic is just getting started.
Once rabbits start exhibiting symptoms, it is usually already too late to do anything. According to one expert in New York, the cases that he personally witnessed earlier this year all ended horribly…
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Indiana Bishop Suspends Priest for Criticizing Black Lives Matter
The bishop of Lafayette, Indiana, has suspended a priest from public ministry for penning an essay saying that Black Lives Matter had betrayed the civil rights legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass.
Last week, Lafayette Bishop Timothy Doherty suspended Father Theodore Rothrock, the pastor of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic parish “in the wake of Father Rothrock’s June 28 bulletin article” noting that even if he is eventually allowed to continue in priestly ministry “he will no longer be assigned as Pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel” for his next mission.
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Justices Rule States Can Bind Presidential Electors’ Votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a decision flavored with references to “Hamilton” and “Veep,” the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College.
The ruling, in cases in Washington state and Colorado just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner, as electors almost always do anyway.
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In early April Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota went on The Ingraham Angle to discuss how the CDC is encouraging American doctors to over-count coronavirus deathsacross the US.
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President Trump on Monday blasted NASCAR hate hoaxer Bubba Wallace.
“Has Bubba Wallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!” Trump said in a tweet Monday morning.
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Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan Says He “Asked God” To Make Florida the Epicenter of Pandemic
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Saturday admitted that he asked God to make the state of Florida the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.
During his three-hour address on July 4 titled “The Criterion,” Farrakhan explained that he asked God to “bring down the virus heavily on Florida” because the state “has stood in the way of a better relationship with our government with Cuba.”
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According to records released Monday, Plumpjack Winery, a company founded and partly owned by California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), received a loan worth $150,000 to $350,000 from the COVID relief loan program dubbed “Paycheck Protection Program.”
The crazed Democrat governor however was not too happy when a mere prole asked him about PPP money going to at least one of his businesses.
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NYC Shootings Up 205% Since Plainclothes Unit Dropped
(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) — After making the decision to disband its plainclothes “anti-crime” unit, New York City has seen a 205% increase in shootings in comparison to the same time period last year.
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Ob/Gyn Docs in U.S. Want COVID-19 Vaccines Tested on Pregnant Women
Pregnant women, breastfeeding moms to be test subjects in COVID-19 vaccine trials and will be among first to get vaccinated…
[Comment: This is bad.]
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Odds on Kanye Becoming President Slashed From 500/1 to 50/1
Odds on Kanye West becoming president after he announced he was running in a tweet have been slashed from 500/1 to 50/1.
The rapper made the announcement on Saturday night, tweeting, “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION.”
This prompted a big move in the UK betting markets, with Casino.org reporting, “The consensus on West becoming the 46th president of the United States was slashed from 500/1 to 50/1 on his tweet. The reduction alters his odds from 0.2 percent to 1.96 percent.”
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Portland Rioters Target Federal Courthouse in Consecutive Nights as Protests Stretch Into Sixth Week
While most cities have either gotten back to mostly normal or have at least seen a dramatic decrease in protest and riot activity, the jobless cretins who infest Portland have been at it every night for over six weeks now. At best, these “protests” devolve into “unlawful assemblies” before police clear them. At worst, they are declared riots and police end up making several arrests.
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Protesters Burn American Flag Outside White House on 4th of July
Members of the Revolutionary Communist Party hosted flag burnings across the U.S. on July 4 to protest America and President Trump, as well as to exercise their right to burn an American flag.
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San Francisco Police to Stop Publishing Mugshots to Reduce “Implicit Bias”
The San Francisco Police Department announced on Wednesday that it would no longer release mugshots, a move described as an effort to reduce bias.
The department will now only release booking photos if it is “necessary to warn the public of imminent danger” or to ask the public for help locating a suspect or “at-risk persons.”
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Statue of Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Torn Down in Rochester
A statue of black anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass was torn down overnight in Rochester, New York.
“Rochester Police are investigating damage done to a statue of Frederick Douglass in Maplewood Park. It happened over the weekend, and police say that the statue was torn off its base, and left about 50 feet from its pedestal. The statue had been placed over the fence to Genesee River gorge and was leaning against the fence,” reports WXXI News.
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Study Reveals That Easily Offended People Are Less Productive, Bad Employees
A study conducted by a Professor at San Diego State University has discovered that people who are easily offended make terrible employees because they never get anything done.
The study, conducted by Dr. Jeremy Berneth, involved asking almost 400 employees, aged 25.9 on average, across seven US colleges about different events that have recently gotten “substantial media attention”.
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The people of South Carolina held a boat rally for President Trump this past weekend with a parade on July 5th, with 2,500 to 3,000 boats in attendance.
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Supreme Ruling on ‘Faithless’ Electors Tampering With Presidential Vote
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled 9-0 that states can require Electoral College voters to select the presidential candidate they pledged to support and be punished for not complying.
“The Constitution’s text and the nation’s history both support allowing a state to enforce an elector’s pledge to support his party’s nominee — and the state voters’ choice — for President,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court.
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TN Church Gives $1,000 Each to Employees of Local Police Department
A Tennessee church has donated $1,000 each to the employees of its local police department, presenting the total $23,000 in a ceremony on Saturday.
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Trump Offered Condolences to Father of Young Man Killed in CHOP, While Seattle Mayor Stays Silent
How about this: President Trump called the father of a black 19-year-old killed in CHOP, but the mayor of Seattle hadn’t bothered as of Friday.
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Trump Says Bubba Wallace Should Apologize for Noose “Hoax”
President Trump on Monday slammed NASCAR and called for Bubba Wallace to apologize after federal investigators determined the alleged noose hanging from his garage stall was just a pull rope that had been there since last fall.
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Americans are getting frustrated. For years the Deep State from the Obama Administration has been getting away with criminal acts while those connected to President Trump are set up, framed, lied to, indicted, harassed and imprisoned. Americans want action NOW.
It’s hard to believe that the Durham investigation could not up till today identify any crimes that the Obama and Mueller gangs committed over the past decade. Actually, it’s not possible.
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Virginia state officials ordered the removal of a large American flag from a Richmond construction site ahead of the Fourth of July, fearing it would be a “target” for protesters and rioters.
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Video: Black Armed Militia Holds Up White Drivers for Reparations
One white driver scoffs and says, ‘what did I do to you?’
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Video: Baltimore Mob Pulls Down Columbus Statue and Slings it in Harbor
A statue of Christopher Columbus that has stood in the Little Italy neighborhood of Baltimore for 36 years was torn down by a mob Sunday and thrown into the nearby harbor.
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Nike Spokesman Colin Kaepernick crapped all over America again this Independence Day.
On the Fourth of July in 2019, millionaire African-American Nike brand ambassador and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick posted a pre-Civil War quote by Frederick Douglass, accompanied by a graphic video, that attacks the United States as the worst nation in the history of the world.
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Watch: Black Thug Sucker Punches Dancing 12-Year-Old White Boy
Innocent child unwitting victim of knock-out game.
[Comment: Put him in the same room with the adult male relatives of the boy.]
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Was the COVID-19 Test Meant to Detect a Virus?
We’ve been hijacked by our technologies, but left illiterate about what they actually mean. In this case, I am in the rare position of having known, spent time with, and interviewed the inventor of the method used in the presently available Covid-19 tests, which is called PCR, (Polymerase Chain Reaction.)
His name was Kary B. Mullis, and he was one of the warmest, funniest, most eclectic-minded people I ever met, in addition to being a staunch critic of HIV “science,” and an unlikely Nobel Laureate, i.e. a “genius.”
One time, in 1994, when I called to talk to him about how PCR was being weaponized to “prove,” almost a decade after it was asserted, that HIV caused AIDS, he actually came to tears.
The people who have taken all your freedoms away in recent weeks, they’re social engineers, politicians, globalist thought leaders, bankers, WHO fanatics, and the like. Their army is composed of “mainstream media,” which is now literally a round-the-clock perfect propaganda machine for the Gates-led Pandemic Reich…
I conducted a two-hour interview with David Crowe— Canadian researcher, with a degree in biology and mathematics, host of The Infectious Myth podcast, and President of the think-tank Rethinking AIDS. He broke down the problems with the PCR based Corona test in great detail, revealing a world of unimaginable complexity, as well as trickery.
“The first thing to know is that the test is not binary,” he said. “In fact, I don’t think there are any tests for infectious disease that are positive or negative.”
The next part of his explanation is lengthy and detailed, but let’s push through:
“What they do is they take some kind of a continuum and they arbitrarily say this point is the difference between positive and negative.”
“Wow,” I said. “That’s so important. I think people envision it as one of two things: Positive or negative, like a pregnancy test. You “have it” or you don’t.”
“PCR is really a manufacturing technique,” Crowe explained. “You start with one molecule. You start with a small amount of DNA and on each cycle the amount doubles, which doesn’t sound like that much, but if you, if you double 30 times, you get approximately a billion times more material than you started with. So as a manufacturing technique, it’s great. What they do is they attach a fluorescent molecule to the RNA as they produce it. You shine a light at one wavelength, and you get a response, you get light sent back at a different wavelength. So, they measure the amount of light that comes back and that’s their surrogate for how much DNA there is. I’m using the word DNA. There’s a step in RT— PCR test which is where you convert the RNA to DNA. So, the PCR test is actually not using the viral RNA. It’s using DNA, but it’s like the complimentary RNA. So logically it’s the same thing, but it can be confusing. Like why am I suddenly talking about DNA? Basically, there’s a certain number of cycles.”
This is where it gets wild.
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Calls to Get Europe to Join in the Facebook Boycott Are Unfounded
It’s never a bad idea to try to have Facebook’s actual advertising business model questioned and explained, wherever in the world its tentacles might currently reach — but when the likes of UK’s Guardian newspaper say that Europe should join in “an advertising boycott of Facebook in the US” — trust and believe, meaningful protection of user rights is not on this news outlet’s agenda.
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Companies Are Boycotting Facebook Ads But Tracking and Profiling You With Facebook Anyway
It doesn’t take particularly deep insight into how tech, advertising, corporations, and mainstream media work to draw some very simple lines between these four obvious dots, and conclude: the current “advertising boycott” of Facebook is a bit of sham.
And that’s putting it mildly.
But it is refreshing to see at least some media outlets — albeit in the UK — try to do some real reporting and at least mention what is actually happening here, as big corporations try to capitalize on the current sentiment in the US, prompted by political and racial controversy.
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Duda: Fakt’s Front Page Will Go Down in the Dark History of Poland’s Press
Friday’s edition of Fakt was devoted to Andrzej Duda pardoning a man sentenced for sex crimes against a child.
The paper’s front page used an image of the president subtitled in large, bold letters: “He held his daughter, hit her across the face, shoved his hand in her crotch”. It was followed by much smaller print: “Mr. President, how could you pardon someone like that?”
The front page has caused a massive scandal in Poland, as the subtitles appeared to refer to Duda himself.
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Expert: The V4 Speaks With One Voice on Many Issues
The Visegrad Group summit was held in Warsaw on Friday, on the occasion of Poland taking over its presidency. The V4 PMs were greeted by President Andrzej Duda and PM Mateusz Morawiecki.
President Duda highlighted that the V4 achieved political success concerning mandatory migrant relocation after presenting a united front and being assertive despite massive pressure from other parts of the European Union. He added that the alliance between the four countries can indeed impact EU policies.
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Huawei Could be Locked Out of UK’s 5G Network by Christmas: Reports
Reports have circulated that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call for Chinese-controlled Huawei to be locked out from Britain’s 5G by the end of this year, after the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) concluded that the products are not secure.
The NCSC made the ruling that Huawei’s technology was not safe to use, in light of U.S. sanctions that block the Chinese tech firm from using American components. The prospect of Huawei using alternative components, certainly Chinese, “fundamentally changes” the situation, according to a Whitehall source speaking to The Times.
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Hungary’s Orban: Trump ‘Only One’ Who Can Fix U.S. Economy Post-Pandemic
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said he is backing President Donald Trump because he is “the only one” who can get the American economy back up and running after the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking at a meeting of Visegrad Four (Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia) leaders in Warsaw, the national conservative leader said that, with the threat of the Chinese virus beginning to subside, national leaders are now “ facing the second battle: the one to safeguard jobs and to launch economic growth.”
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Italy: Silvia Romano Says Islam Comforted Her During Captivity
Began to accept fate with serenity says former hostage
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 6 — Silvia Romano, an aid worker who converted to Islam during an 18-month detention by Somali Islamist militants,, said Monday her new faith had comforted her during her ordeal.
Speaking to online daily La Luce two months after being freed, Romano said “after accepting the Islamic faith, I began to look on my destiny with serenity in my soul”.
Romano was crticised by rightwingers after converting, and a nationalist opposition League MP called her a “neo-terrorist” in parliament.
In the interview with La Luce, Romano said “I was desperate because I was living with the certainty of my destiny”.
She added: “faith has different gradations, and mine developed over time”.
Prosecutors have opened a probe into a campaign of Web-based hate against 25-year-old Milan native Romano, and police cars are patrolling the street where she lives.
Romano was freed at the weekend after 18 months in captivity by the Somali Al-Shabaab group, to whom she was handed over by a kidnapping gang who snatched her in Kenya in November 2018.
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has denied an Al-Shabaab spokesman’s statement that the militants had received a four-million-euro ransom for Romano.
Hatred on social media has been directed against Romano’s conversion to Islam, the fact that has did not overtly criticise Al-Shabaab, her alleged naivety in travelling to a hotspot without proper protection, and the fact that her case has allegedly ended up funding terrorism.
A former League councillor in Veneto said she should be hanged, and League MP Alessandro Pagano spurred a row with his “neo-terrorist” remark.
Di Maio, former leader of the ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), said “spine-chilling things have been said about Silvia, they have gone beyond any acceptable limit.” Romano has responded to the criticism by saying she adopted Islam freely and intends to remain in the faith.
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Italy: Coronavirus: Testing for Rome’s Bangladeshi Community
Several positive cases within the community in recent days
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 3 — Lazio Health Chief Alessio D’Amato said Friday that the region is launching a drive for blanket testing of Rome’s Bangladeshi community after several positive coronavirus cases were registered in recent days.
Bangladeshi nationals are being called on to go to a drive-in test centre in via Nicolo’ Forteguerri, in southern Rome, for swabs as of Monday.
The positive cases involving the community have led to the closure of two outlets at Fiumicino, near Rome.
A man who recently returned to Italy from Bangladesh is being treated for COVID-19 in a Rome hospital The city has also registered a case linked to Pakistan, with a 10-year-old baby who arrived from the Asian country testing positive.
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New French Prime Minister Jean Castex, A Low-Profile Functionary
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had to go, now Jean Castex will step in as his replacement. President Emmanuel Macron is under pressure and has only two years to create a new political profile for himself.
Politics is brutal in France: The movers were lugging boxes out of the Hotel Matignon, the prime minister’s residence, at 10 a.m. Edouard Philppe had been ditched for all of Paris to see.
President Emmanuel Macron had warm words for the departing deputy, and then two hours later the name of his replacement began to leak: Jean Castex. Thus, a high-ranking political functionary with a low-profile will now take his place in the government’s ejection seat.
French presidents come and go — a lot
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New German Tanks Represent 50 Year Leap in Military Technology for Hungary
The Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks for training purposes will propel the Hungarian ground forces twenty years in time, while the combat duty Lepoard 2 A7+ variants will add another thirty years to that, putting Hungarian armor at the top of the world, an army general told conservative news portal Origo on taking delivery of the first training tanks.
“With the Leopard 2 A7+ variant we will reach world class, and the very top of that,” brigardier-general Gabor Lorincz said. Lorincz is the commander of Hungary’s tank brigade in Tata, central Hungary, where the new tanks will be stationed. Hungary currently has 30 Soviet T72 tanks, which have received some upgrades during their lifetime, but have been in service since 1978.
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Salvini: Hugarian Economic and Family Policies Are a Model for Italy
The economic and social policies of the Hungarian government could serve as a model for Italy, League party leader Matteo Salvini told Hungarian conservative daily Magyar Hirlap during a Rome rally of the opposition right parties on Saturday.
“Italy needs stability, competent politicians and jobs. The model implemented by Hungary is good and serves as a model for Italy. Job creation, family subsidies, a flat tax and encouraging childbirth has been successful in Hungary and Italy could learn from them,” Salvini told Magyar Hirlap. “I much appreciate Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and I find his economic and social measures enviable.”
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Switzerland: Siberian Tiger Kills Zookeeper in Enclosure as Visitors Watch
(FOX NEWS) — A Siberian tiger killed a Swiss zookeeper inside an enclosure on Saturday as horrified visitors watched, officials said.
Onlookers called for help after the big cat began attacking the keeper around 1 p.m. local time, the Zurich zoo said in a statement. Staff rushed to their colleague’s aid and lured the Siberian tiger, named Irina, out of the enclosure. First responders tried to revive the keeper.
“Sadly, all help came too late. The woman died at the scene,” Zurich police spokeswoman Judith Hoedl said.
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Three Czechs Invited to Join Oscars Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the annual Academy Awards, has offered membership to cameraman Vladimir Smutný, animator Daria Kashcheeva and artist Nora Sopkova.
Overall, the institution offered membership to 819 creators from 68 countries, as every filmmaker who participated in an Oscar-nominated film receives an invitation to join the Academy.
The first Czech invited, Vladimir Smutný, is a cinematographer who shot Painted Bird by director Vaclav Marhoul. The movie, which was a dream of Marhoul for more than a decade, made it to an Oscar shortlist of the ten best foreign films. The American Academy also commemorated Smutný’s work on the Oscar-winning movie Kolja by director Jan Sverak in 1996.
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Top Anglican Archbishop Claims ‘Jesus Was a Black Man’
The Church of England is “too white” while “Jesus was a black man”, according to the new Archbishop of York.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Stephen Cottrell praised the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and said his inauguration this week as a white man replacing outgoing Archbishop John Sentamu — who is black — is “awkward” for the church.
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UK Estate Agents to Drop Term “Master Bedroom” To Placate Politically Correct Millennials
Estate agents across the UK are set to stop using the term “master bedroom” in order to placate politically correct millennials who think such language is racist.
Yes, really.
Some property agents have decided to follow in the footsteps of US realtors, who are dropping the term “master” in listings as a sop to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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UK: Starmer U-Turns Again: Will Take ‘Unconscious Bias Training’ After Distancing Himself From BLM
The leader of the UK’s main left-wing opposition Sir Keir Starmer has said “everybody should have unconscious bias training” as he committed to taking such a course himself after being criticised for distancing himself from the Black Likes Matter UK movement.
Newly installed Labour party leader Sir Keir had initially welcomed the BLMUK movement with open arms, speaking in support of the organisation and even posting an image to social media of himself taking a knee on the carpet of the official opposition offices inside parliament.
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Croatia Conservatives Hail ‘Great’ Re-Election Victory
Third place for right-wing Homeland Movement
(ANSA-AFP) — ZAGREB, JULY 6 — Croatia’s conservatives scored a re-election victory in a parliamentary vote on Sunday, official results showed, putting them in a strong position to build a government that will inherit the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. The vote was held under the shadow of the global health crisis, with the Adriatic country’s tourism-dependent economy on course for its steepest decline in decades.
The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which has dominated the country for most of its nearly 30-year independence, fell short of an absolute majority but outperformed its main rival by a longshot. The party took 68 seats in the 151-member house, followed by 42 for the centre-left coalition led by the Social Democrats (SDP), according to official results with nearly 90 percent of the ballots counted. In third place with 15 seats was the new ‘Homeland Movement’ party led by a folk singer who appealed to hardliners on the right with nationalist rhetoric.
“Our victory is not only great but binding,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said of his HDZ party’s task to “work with all our hearts for Croatia”. “We had a difficult mandate full of challenges behind us and the challenges ahead of us are even greater,” he said. The ruling party had campaigned on its relatively successful containment of the country’s virus outbreak so far, reporting some 110 deaths and 3,000 infections in the country of 4.2 million. Plenkovic, a former MEP with strong backing from Brussels, was cast as a safe pair of hands to navigate the coming economic downturn. The SDP-led opposition had accused their right-wing rivals of endangering citizens by “rushing” to hold the elections even as the country logged a new uptick in infections in recent weeks. They had also highlighted HDZ’s history of corruption, which was brought back to the spotlight by a recent scandal involving a top official. But despite polls putting the two camps neck-and-neck, the conservatives prevailed with a resounding lead. After the results came in Social Democrat leader Davor Bernardic said he was ready to step down and congratulated the “electoral winner which is HDZ and Andrej Plenkovic”. Their camp was also hurt by the rise of a new green-leftist group, Mozemo, who garnered some seven seats in its parliamentary debut. — Corruption, emigration — The HDZ’s outgoing environment minister Tomislav Coric said he expected the party to find coalition partners in the coming days. There are “political options that are close to us from both ideological and program point of view”, he told local television. One path to the 76-seat majority would be to ally with eight ethnic minority MPs. In that case HDZ would not need the votes of the ‘Homeland Movement’ led folk singer Miroslav Skoro, who lured away traditional HDZ voters disappointed with Plenkovic’s more moderate stance. The singer founded the party after he finished third in the country’s presidential election in December. “We are on a good path and voters have recognised that,” Skoro said of his third-place ranking. During the campaign the 57-year-old drew sharp criticism from the left for sexist remarks, an anti-migrant stance and tolerance of Croatia’s pro-Nazi past. While the coronavirus crisis dominated the campaign, older problems like corruption and high emigration were also on the minds of some voters. “There is not enough focus on Croatians leaving for abroad, unemployment and poor salaries of young people,” retired teacher Branka Tekavec told AFP. Voters were advised to wear masks and bring their own pens to polling stations while officials paid home visits to collect the ballots of 500 people — some 10 percent of those in self-isolation — who requested to vote. Others infected with the virus were able to cast ballots through a proxy.
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Croatia’s Center-Right HDZ Wins Election
Incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s center-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) has won the elections in Croatia, securing between 61 and 65 seats in the 151-seat single chamber legislation, with the opposition Social-Democrats second with 44 seats.
The election — normally due in autumn of every fourth year — was brought forward to early July at the proposal of the governing HDZ, which argued that the uncertainties regarding the coronavirus pandemic and more specifically a potential second wave in autumn could severely reduce attendance. While the opposition parties reluctantly agreed to the move, most political analysts said Plenkovic brought forward the elections to capitalize on his government’s good handling of the pandemic: Croatia, with a population of just over four million so far had only 3,151 confirmed coronavirus cases and 113 casualties.
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Italy Gives Lebanese Army €500,000 of Risk Equipment
Italy has gifted 500,000 euros of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risk equipment to the Lebanese Armed Forces, part of which can be used to contain COVID-19, the Italian embassy tweeted on Friday
“Ambassador (Nicoletta) Bombardiere stressed the value of bilateral cooperation between armed forces combining training with equipment and enhancing capacities to protect people’s safety and security,” read the tweet.
The equipment includes “digital anemometers, SCBA rebreathers, decontamination systems, test accessories for closed circuit breathing apparatus,” read a second tweet.
“Part of the equipment can be used within COVID-19 containment activity,” the tweet added.
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Suicides and Violence Rising in Lebanon Amid Crisis
Beirut roads blocked and workers protesting
BEIRUT — Streets were blocked once more Monday in the Lebanese capital and other cities in the country by protests amid a severe economic crisis and social tensions.
Local media report that three people committed suicide in a 48-hour period in Beirut and the southern part of the country, “due to worsening economic conditions”.
There has also been a rise in organised crime, which local media attribute to the “desperation” of much of the population among surging living costs.
The local currency, the lira, has lost over 75% of its value and the steep rise in the price of basic necessities has surpassed 50% in some cases.
Workers in Beirut on Monday morning who had been laid off by Lebanon’s main cement factory staged a protest in the center of the capital, bringing their mixers to Martyrs’ Square.
The Al-Sabeh Cement company, the largest in the country, had announced that it would be laying off 95% of its employees.
Alongside the workers were their counterparts from stone quarries, whose activities have been suspended for months due to restrictions brought in to counter the spread of COVID-19.
Protesting on Monday morning in front of the interior ministry offices in the Hamra area were members of the national taxi drivers union, who are urging the government to update transportation fees in line with the devaluation of the local currency and to get rid of several direct taxes on taxi drivers.
Over the weekend there were clashes on Mount Lebanon between anti-government protestors and followers of government parties in the Chouf, as well as between activists and the military in Metn. About a dozen people were reportedly injured.
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The Mullah’s Spies and Assassinations in the West
Another spy from the Iranian regime, Mohammad Davoudzadeh Loloei, 40, has been sentenced to prison in a European court — this time, Denmark — for being an accessory to the attempted murder of one or more individuals who are opponents of the Iranian regime. What is unusual is that this is all taking place while Europe’s leaders continue to pursue a policy of appeasement with the ruling mullahs of Iran.
According to Roskilde District Court, in Denmark, Loloei had collected information on a dissident, so far unnamed, and given it to Iran’s intelligence service, who planned to murder the man. The information included photos of the target’s house, street and surroundings. “The court found that the information was collected and passed on to a person working for an Iranian intelligence service, for use by the intelligence service’s plans to kill the exile,” the court’s statement read.
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Countries agree to a ‘mutual disengagement’ of troops along the de facto border as soon as possible
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India Launches Elyments, A Sovereign Social Media App, After Banning Chinese Apps
In what has been speeded up by India’s pushback against Chinese technology, the Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, launched Elyments, a new social media app for the nation.
The world is growing increasingly skeptical of China in recent times, and India has been the loudest critic, especially after a border dispute with the Chinese military showing force in the Himalayan territory of Ladakh.
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Cases of Bubonic Plague Confirmed in Inner Mongolia
A case of the bubonic plague has been reported at a hospital in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China.
Authorities in the city of Bayan Nur have issued a ban on hunting and eating animals that could carry the plague and asked people to report any suspected cases.
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The discovery of a strain, made seven years ago at the copper mine in south west China, is said to be the strongest lead yet in the hunt for where the pandemic began. [Comment: That strain received gain of function “research” at Wuhan. Funded by NIH where Fauci was in charge.]
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In China, the government allowed some churches to reopen last month after coronavirus lockdowns, but only if church leaders raised the Chinese flag, declared stories of government success fighting the pandemic, and sang the national anthem, reports news outlet Bitter Winter.
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Yet another stunning revelation about the true origin of COVID-19 — China Lied People Died!
Guest post by Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
In 2013, Zheng-Li Shi, the “bat woman,” and her team from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were asked to investigate the virus profile of a mine shaft in Yunnan Province after six miners contracted pneumonia with symptoms similar to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). [We were the first to report on Dr. Shi back in April.]
After sampling the mine shaft for a year, the researchers identified a diverse group of bat coronaviruses, one of which was designated RaBtCoV/4991 (GenBank KP876546) and partially sequenced as a 440-base pair fragment targeting the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene (RdRp).
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Facebook, Google, Twitter to Block Law Enforcement Requests on Hong Kong User Data
HONG KONG — Social media platforms and messaging apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and Twitter will deny law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong as they assess the effect of a new national security law enacted last week.
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Former UK Spy Chief Tells Security Services: Don’t Dismiss Theory Coronavirus Came From Chinese Lab
The former head of MI6 has warned his former colleagues in the intelligence service and the scientific community not to dismiss the theory that the Chinese coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan, after last month revealing that a study claimed COVID-19 had elements “inserted” into it.
Sir Richard Dearlove, head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service from 1999 to 2004, doubled down this week on his assessment that coronavirus may have been manufactured in a lab in Wuhan and had accidentally escaped.
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Hong Kong: Police Allowed Warrantless Searches, Internet Control, And Communication Interception
It seems that the trouble with China’s new National Security Law (NSL) has just began, especially when it comes to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has made a decision to invoke the law, which came into force in late June, in order to allow the territory’s police to enter premises without warrant, restrict movement, and freeze or forfeit assets — but also intercept communication, and request ISPs or platforms to remove information online.
Hong Kong has until now enjoyed a special status within China, including being left out of some of the most restrictive online censorship rules applying to the mainland, like the Great Firewall.
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Japan: A Bright Fireball Over Tokyo Explodes With the Force of 165 Tons of TNT
The skies over Tokyo were lit up by an explosive extraterrestrial object early Thursday morning that also came with a sonic boom, according to some reports.
Videos of the event show a spectacular light with green and purplish hues flying across the sky for just a few seconds at around 2:30 a.m. local time, before the light fizzles out.
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If the elite really do intend to use COVID-19 to fundamentally transform our society, they are going to need to continue to find ways to make it sound a lot more scary than it really is. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been endlessly barraged with news stories that boldly declare that “the second wave” is here, and now we are being told that this coronavirus is “10 times more infectious” than it was when it first started spreading in China. And we are also being told that COVID-19 “causes infected human cells to sprout tentacles loaded with viral venom to help it spread around the body”. All of that definitely sounds quite frightening, and over the past couple of weeks a lot of people have really been freaking out as the number of confirmed cases has surged.
But it has become clear that this virus is not going to kill more than 50 million people like the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 did.
So far, the death toll from this virus has surpassed half a million, and more will keep dying every day. However, we need to keep in mind that millions of people die from various diseases every single year. According to the WHO, the flu kills between 290,000 and 650,000 people each year, but we don’t shut down everything because of that.
Yes, COVID-19 is more serious than the flu. But there is absolutely no reason that it should be paralyzing our society at this point.
If millions upon millions of people were suddenly dropping dead all over the globe, avoiding this virus would be a matter of survival. That is not the scenario that we are currently facing, and we need people to understand that.
Someday a pandemic will come along which will be that serious, but as far as COVID-19 is concerned, fear of the virus has been even worse than the virus itself.
[Comment: Re: 10X — this sounds like another lie to cover up the first lie.]
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WHO Quietly Admits Chinese Communist Party Never Reported Coronavirus Outbreak
China has also quietly dropped its claims that it told the WHO about the virus.
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Videos from inside the nine high-rise public housing towers show residents receiving information over loud speakers and talking to police through locked security doors.
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Police have nabbed a masked man who attempted to escape a high rise commission flat at the centre of Melbourne’s lastest COVID-19 outbreak.
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African Cardinal Blasts BLM for Betraying Black Community
A South African cardinal has denounced the hijacking of Black Lives Matter (BLM), which is now “committed to dismantling the very values, structure and institutions” central to a healthy society.
Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the archbishop of Durban, South Africa, tweeted this weekend that a brief study of the founding statement of Black Lives Matter “indicates the movement is being hijacked by the interests and parties committed to dismantling the very values, structure and institutions which have over the centuries undergird the best civilisations and cultures!”
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Nigeria: Over Fifty Boko Haram Attacks on Christians in Six Months Go Unreported
Boko Haram Islamic terrorists carried out over “fifty different attacks on different communities between the end of 2019 to June 2020,” the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) has revealed, most of which were “unreported or underreported” by the media.
As Breitbart News reported, EYN — the largest indigenous Christian denomination in the Northeast of Nigeria — has reported the slaughter of more than 8,370 of its members, including 8 pastors, by militants of the Boko Haram Islamic terror group.
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27 Undocumented Migrants Cross From Turkey to Lesvos
Authorities on the Aegean island of Lesvos have put 27 undocumented migrants who reached the island on Sunday in a dinghy from Turkey, into quarantine.
The boat reached the village of Thermis on the eastern side of the island.
All the migrants are being hosted at a special quarantine facility at the Kara Tepe camp which was set up to prevent a potential outbreak of the coronavirus at the island’s overcrowded reception centre near the village of Moria.
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A young asylum seeker from Africa died after a fight broke out with another group at the Greek camp of Moira on Lesbos island.
The brawl was with a rival Afghan group that left three Africans with knife wounds and one beaten with a club, local police said.
One of the three with knife wounds was the young victim who died early on Monday morning.
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ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite Pandemic
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementannounced Monday that international students “may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States” during the fall 2020 semester, as schools and universities across the country consider how to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Italy: 5 Arrests in Migrant Fake Wedding Scam
In Milan
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 3 — Italian police on Friday arrested five people in a suspected fake immigrant wedding scam based in Milan.
Some 78 people were placed under investigation.
Police said the alleged gang set up bogus marriages for migrants.
The gang also fraudulently got them to pass Italian language tests in order to favour the clandestine immigration, police said.
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Somali Migrant Arrested for Fatally Stabbing Afghan Roommate in Asylum Housing
Victim stabbed 15 times during dispute over bathroom access.
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Trump Administration to Renew Attempt to End DACA This Week: Report
The Trump administration will re-up its attempt to end President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program this week after the Supreme Court blocked its latest effort last month, multiple sources told The Hill.
One source who briefed The Hill on the latest developments said the White House had initially slated the renewed effort for last week, but pushed it back to this week. Speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday morning, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows signaled action was coming, saying “starting this week, you’ll see executive orders, you’ll see business that actually goes forward from the Oval Office when Congress doesn’t act.”
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Author Gillian Philip Loses Job After Hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling
The cancel culture movement does it again. Gillian Philip, who authors kids’ books, has been dropped from the Erin Hunter book series after adding a hashtag to her Twitter profile in support of fellow-author JK Rowling, who herself has been facing an online mob over her opinions.
Gillian Philip writes fictional book series and short stories primarily focused on kids, tweens, and teens. Her book series and novels include Rebel Angels, The Opposite of Amber, and Crossing The Line. She is also one of the authors writing as Erin Hunter for kids’ fantasy book series such as Bravelands, Survivors, and Warrior Cats.
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Boeing’s communications chief Niel Golightly has resigned over an article he wrote more than three decades ago arguing women should not serve in combat.
The former U.S. military pilot’s exit leaves Boeing trying to fill the crucial role for the fourth time in less than three years, just as it is battling to shore up its brand after the prolonged safety grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX jetliner.
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Harry Potter author Joanne ‘JK’ Rowling has again been targeted by trans activists for warning that children believed to be “trans” should not necessarily be “shunted towards hormones and surgery”.
“I’ve ignored fake tweets attributed to me and [retweeted] widely. I’ve ignored porn tweeted at children on a thread about their art. I’ve ignored death and rape threats. I’m not going to ignore this,” wrote the Scotland-based author in the first tweet of an 11-part thread responding to an individual who accused her of “pivoting to supporting those who call people who take mental health medication ‘lazy’.
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Planned Parenthood Employees, Supporters Claim the Abortion Clinic is “Steeped in White Supremacy”
Planned Parenthood employees and supporters have charged the largest abortion provider in America with being “steeped in white supremacy.”
A June 18 open letter signed by more than 350 current and former staffers — including 800 donors, supporters, and volunteers — of Planned Parenthood in Greater New York claimed that the organization suffers from “institutional racism.”
“We know that Planned Parenthood has a history and a present steeped in white supremacy and we, the staff, are motivated to do the difficult work needed to improve,” said the open letter from Save PPGNY.
The letter also said Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was “a racist, white woman.”
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Putin Mocks U.S. Embassy for Flying LGBT Pride Flag
“Let them celebrate. They’ve shown a certain something about the people who work there.”
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Shock Videos: BLM Harasses Christians Attending Church
Mother and children accosted while attempting to enter church.
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United Nations: There Needs to be “No Place for Misinformation on Social Media Platforms”
he United Nations (UN) has expressed its enormous concern regarding the proliferation of what it says is false information about COVID-19 found on the internet, saying that its spread has been faster and more extensive than that of the virus.
According to the statement released by the UN, erroneous or false information has been spreading alarmingly.
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Woke: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Blast the “Uncomfortable” Past of the Commonwealth (Video)
This was awkward.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle blasted the “uncomfortable” history of the Commonwealth in a newly released July 1 video call with the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust about the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement taking the world by storm.
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“In other news, the newly-inaugurated Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, said that Jesus was a black man. Mr. Cottrell is white.”
This is getting weirder every day…
If only we could get away with “weirder”. Mad. At least one deepLy conservative Irish Christian city has huge paintings of extremely radical looking African and Middle eastern Muslim females “watching” everyone from what might otherwise be prime advertising space. Reminds one of those Hitler shots at height of Nazi power in Germany. Whatever is going on here I hope I can get out in time.
Jesus was a Galilaean and Galilaea was inhabited mainly by Greeks who became Jews by force.It is said that he was a Grecojew.
Now if this is true or not i do not know,but Julian the Apostate never called him a Jew but he called him contemptuously ,Galilaean.
The whole story about blacks and whites is becoming ridiculous and dangerous.
“Galilean”? Now I’m no expert on the Bible, but I’m pretty sure it says Jesus was descended from King David on his mother’s side.
He has two genealogies in the New Testament and both make it clear he was of the tribe of Judah and a descendant of David.
Can’t say never, but I would be very surprised if Chislane Mawxwell was to take her own life-on the contary that, someone else might endeavour to kill her, they knowing what she knows. The beans she will spill, will rock many a loaded boat-but I doubt she will say much about Prince Andrew that would throw certain evidence the prosecutors way.
Kabuki theater of the absurd. Nothing will happen to anyone affiliated with the deep state.
The one world government will happen whether we like it or not.
“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”. ~ James Paul Warburg.
What if Putin is Rasputin! How dare he criticize Globohomo.
We need WWIII with Russia right now so we can improvementate them with cultural enrichment.
Our elite 69th rump ranger units will smash those SPEZNAZIS with force and fury.
Forward (shouted from a safe space in the rear with the gear)!