More than a thousand illegal migrants crossed the English Channel into the UK in the space of just ten days. Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, described the migration crisis as a “national humiliation”.
In other news, rioting and gun violence continued in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Memphis, New York, and other major cities across the USA.
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Hungary Q2 GDP Drop Worse Than Expected
The Hungarian economy shrank by 13.6 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of the year, but the country still fared better than the European Union average, conservative daily Magyar Nemzet reports.
While the raw figure was —13.6 percent, the seasonally and working-day adjusted figure was —13.5 percent, still well under analysts’ expectations of a 10 to 11 percent drop.
Due to the coronavirus restrictions introduced in March, all sectors of the economy suffered a serious decline, with services and the manufacturing sector the worst hit. Given that the first quarter of the year the economy grew by 2 percent, the decline for the first six months of the year is 6.1 percent.
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“You Are Being Watched”: Masseur Describes “Wall of Prosthetic Eyeballs” At Epstein’s Mansion
A famous masseur who was hired by Jeffrey Epstein says the billionaire sex trafficker told him “you are being watched at all times” and that there was a “wall of prosthetic eyeballs” inside Epstein’s New York mansion.
Gypsy Gita, a well known masseur to the stars who caters for many Hollywood actors, worked for Epstein between 2001 and 2005.
Claiming that he also performed two or three massages on Prince Andrew at the property, Gita described the eerie atmosphere inside Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse as a “weird, warped world.”
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58% of Biden Voters Claim Vote is “Against” Trump Rather Than “For” Biden: Poll
Fifty-eight percent of registered U.S. voters who support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the November election say their vote is more in opposition to President Trump than in favor of Biden, according to a joint poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News.
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64 Shot, 5 Fatally, Across Chicago This Weekend
Five people were killed and 59 others were injured by gunfire across Chicago over the weekend.
A 12-year-old boy and six teenagers were among those wounded.
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A Mass Exodus Away From Big Cities on Both Coasts
In all of U.S. history, we have never seen anything like “the mass exodus of 2020”. Hundreds of thousands of people are leaving the major cities on both coasts in search of a better life. Homelessness, crime and drug use were already on the rise in many of our large cities prior to 2020, but many big city residents were willing to put up with a certain amount of chaos in order to maintain their lifestyles. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and months of civil unrest have finally pushed a lot of people over the edge. Moving companies on both coasts are doing a booming business as wealthy and middle class families flee at a blistering pace, and most of those families do not plan to ever return.
Los Angeles is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Once upon a time it attracted wealthy and famous people from all over the globe, but in 2020 it is “a city on the brink”…
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Arizona School District Forced to Cancel Reopening After Teachers Stage “Sickout”
An Arizona school district had to cancel its planned reopening on Monday after more than 100 teachers staged a “sickout,” calling in sick for the day.
“We received an overwhelming response from staff indicating that they do not feel safe returning to classrooms with students,” J.O. Combs Unified School District Superintendent Gregory Wyman said in a statement. “In response, we have received a high volume of staff absences for Monday citing health and safety concerns. Due to these insufficient staffing levels, schools will not be able to re-open on Monday as planned.”
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Over 100 Black Lives Matter protesters converged in Hugo, Minnesota over the weekend where John Thompson, a Democratic candidate who just won his primary in House District 67A in St. Paul, shouted obscenities outside of Minneapolis Police Union Leader Bob Kroll’s home and threatened to burn down the town of Hugo.
In a video that has been seen nearly 3 million times, Thompson launched into rant filled with expletives in front of young teenage girls and children in front of Kroll’s house located in Hugo, where he lives with his wife WCCO reporter Liz Collin.
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California’s Death Valley May Have Set New Global Temperature Record
An automated observation system in California’s Death Valley operated by the U.S. National Weather Service reported an air temperature of 130 Fahrenheit on Sunday, a reading that may be the hottest global temperature ever recorded in Earth’s history.
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Champaign Gun Violence Continues to Increase
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCCU) — It’s been nearly a month since Champaign city officials addressed gun violence in the community.
Since then there have been three additional shootings resulting in injury and death; officials say that is one too many.
“We won’t be able to stop every act, every violent act,” said Champaign Police Chief Anthony Cobb on the increase in gun violence.
Now that we are in the month of August, the city of Champaign has now seen more than 100 shooting incidents this year breaking the record of highest number of shootings in a year.
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Chicago Man Whose Store Was Looted Twice in 40 Days Plans to Sue the City
Walid Mouhammad, a Chicago convenience store owner, has announced his intention to sue the city of Chicago for its failure to protect his business from looters twice in the last 40 days.
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City Leaders Respond to Weekend of Violence Across Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) — At least seven people were killed in more than a dozen different shootings over the weekend in Memphis.
From Friday to early Monday morning, WMC Action News 5 counted 14 shootings that the Memphis Police Department said officers were investigating.
The shootings stretched from one end of the city to the other, from Whitehaven to downtown to Cordova.
At least 14 people were shot, and seven people died.
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CNN Poll: Biden’s Lead on Trump Shrinks by 10 Points After Two Months of Rioting
A new CNN poll has found that Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump has shrunk by 10 points after over two months of unrest and rioting in major American cities.
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Connecticut Now Requires Doctor’s Note to Go Mask-Free in Public
Connecticut residents now have to show a doctor’s note to go mask-free in public, according to an executive order signed by Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz on Friday. The note must show that they are exempt from wearing a mask due to a medical condition.
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Despite the California Court of Appeal’s eleventh-hour ruling to set aside a lower court’s decision to allow Grace Community Church to hold in-person worship services, Pastor John MacArthur defended the church’s Sunday gathering, saying “We are holding church… because our Lord commands it.”
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Democratic National Convention Day One: Live Updates
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday evening. Speakers include Michelle Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Former FBI Director James Comey knew Carter Page was a CIA asset when he signed multiple FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page and candidate and President Trump. He knew this because Carter Page told him.
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Former CIA Officer Accused of Selling State Secrets to China
A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has been charged with spying on the US and selling state secrets to China, the Department of Justice said Monday.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was arrested Friday after a sting operation in which he allegedly accepted cash from an undercover FBI agent and said he wanted the “motherland” to succeed, prosecutors said.
Ma, a naturalized US citizen born in Hong Kong, had Top Secret clearance while working for the CIA from 1982 to 1989. Following his retirement, he lived and worked in Shanghai before settling in Hawaii in 2001.
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GoFundMe for Slain 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant Surpasses $750,000
Over the weekend, the GoFundMe page for 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant, who was brutally murdered while riding his bike, nearly doubled its Friday total, surpassing $750,000 on Monday
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Good News: Fauci’s Out and Common Sense Might be Returning
With Fauci out of the driver’s seat we finally have a chance of turning things around.
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Historic Exodus From San Francisco
A new report confirms what many have been talking about for weeks: There is an exodus out of San Francisco, and the numbers are staggering.
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‘Justice for Darius Sessoms’ Facebook Group Set Up by Troll Attracts Thousands of Actual Supporters
A ‘justice for Darius Sessoms’ Facebook group that was apparently started by a troll to bait BLM supporters was shut down after numerous members began actually expressing sympathy with the African-American man charged with shooting a 5-year-old boy in the head.
Earlier this month, Cannon Hinnant was gunned down at point blank range by Sessoms for the ‘crime’ of riding his bike on the convicted felon’s property.
The story was ignored by every national media outlet bar Fox News for almost a week, with CNN finally reporting on it after massive pressure.
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Little Trust in Government’s COVID-19 Vaccine
The tyrants who want to vaccinate the world with a coronavirus vaccine have one big problem on their hands: trust. The public is rapidly losing trust in government, the banking cartel, and big pharma. This could be a big problem when it comes to trying to manipulate people into taking this vaccine.
One of the biggest problems the government is having when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine is that many don’t trust those pushing and creating the vaccine. But those who think they own you, are going to try their hardest to get you to comply.
Their biggest concern is not the safety of a vaccine, but that people will not take the shot once it’s available. That should be a sign that maybe your best interest is not theirs. The mainstream media continues their propaganda push for big pharma and the government however, doing their best to convince you that the vaccine is the only solution. Those wide awake already know better.
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Millie Weaver’s ShadowGate Documentary Deleted by Facebook and YouTube
Facebook and YouTube have taken down Millie Weaver’s Shadowgate documentary two days after it went live.
The documentary claims that a small group of government contractors were hired by government officials to frame the Trump campaign and set President Trump up for the Russia collusion investigation, while also providing witnesses for the impeachment hearings and providing administrative support services to the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the Mueller investigation.
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NBA Photographer Fired After Posting Kamala Harris Meme
An independent photographer who has been covering Houston Rockets games for several years has been fired after he posted a meme about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris online.
After Democratic Presidential candidate Biden recently announced that Harris was going to be his running mate, there was all kinds of reaction across social media networks. Bill Baptist, much like any other Facebook user, shared a popular meme related to Biden and Harris online. But Baptist’s “JOE AND THE HOE” meme drew some criticism.
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Networks ‘150 Times’More Negative About Trump Than Biden
Those who watch ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts saw “150 TIMES” more negative comments about President Trump than Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee in this year’s presidential election, according to officials with the Media Research Center.
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New Studies Reveal Lasting Immunity in People Who Contract a Mild Coronavirus Infection
A set of new studies have revealed encouraging signs of strong and lasting immunity in people who developed a mild coronavirus infection.
Researchers who have been meticulously monitoring immune responses to COVID-19, discovered that antibodies and immune cells (B cells and T cells) that have the ability to recognize the virus were still present months after the infection subsided.
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Obama: “Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F**k Things Up”
Despite Biden leading in the polls, former President Barack Obama expressed doubts about his chances, telling a Democratic source, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”
According to Politico, Obama fears that Biden has little understanding for “much of the Democratic electorate” in places like Iowa.
“And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden,” Obama is believed to have remarked.
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Pennsylvania School District Mandates “Anti-Racism” Lessons for Elementary Students
Children at Gladwyne Elementary School in Pennsylvania, one of the richest districts in the country, will be required to undergo extensive “anti-racist” curriculum training this year in order to combat racism and privilege.
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Police Investigate Shootings in Brooklyn, Manhattan as Weekend Gun Violence Continues Into Workweek
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It has been a violent and deadly weekend for New York City.
The NYPD says seven people were killed and 51 injured in shootings since Friday.
President Donald Trump is hinting at possible federal intervention.
As CBS2’s John Dias reports, the weekend of gun violence spilled into the workweek Monday morning when four men were shot in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.
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Portland Protest Turns Violent, Brutal Assault Caught on Video
Violence erupted in Portland late Sunday just blocks from the federal courthouse after the driver of a pickup truck crashed, was reportedly pulled from the vehicle and then brutally beaten by a mob after a confrontation with protesters.
Videos that emerged from the scene were chilling. The man identified as the driver could be seen getting punched, kicked and ordered not to leave in the middle of a city street. The man in the video, at one point, appeared dazed after the initial assault, but suffered the worst blow when he absorbed a roundhouse kick to the side of the head.
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President Trump Joins Triller, But Ignores Free Speech Platforms
President Donald Trump’s campaign seems to be willing to put the currency of its political credibility where its mouth is — at least when it comes to the attempt to oust the China-owned TikTok viral video platform from the US market — or integrate it, by means of acquisition, into one of the existing US giants.
The concerns raised about TikTok — the “good” twin of ByteDance’s mainland China app Douyin, primed and said to be separated specifically to serve foreign markets — is that is still might be sharing and thus compromising data of US users with China’s authorities, whose internet censorship zeal and techniques have by now become as “legendary” as they are unpredictable and opaque. (The company behind the app, ByteDance, has consistently denied this.)
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Seattle Defunded Police. Now Businesses Are Leaving, And Rioters Still Aim Explosives at Cops
Last week, the Seattle City Council voted to slash funding for the police department, leading the city’s first black female police chief to resign. The council defunded the police even after antifa rioters had wreaked havoc on the city in the name of racial justice. In one particularly memorable case, rioters used a van loaded with explosives to blow open a police station. On Sunday, rioters fired explosives at police, wounding at least three of them. Some businesses in the city have had enough.
“What [the] city council has done has been more detrimental to our business than a global pandemic, by far, absolutely,” Joe Raetzer, co-owner of Steepologie Teas with his wife Andrea, told the Fox affiliate Q13 last week. His wife said there are “only so many times you can hire people and lay them off because they don’t want to be in this location, they already didn’t feel safe pre-COVID, pre-riots.”
Steepologie Teas boasted more than 300 loose-leaf teas on 4th Avenue. Seattle Apartments Magazine rated the tea shop “hands down the best tea in Seattle.” Now, the tea store has closed down permanently.
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Social Media Celebrates Child Murder
Shocking murder of white 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant goes relatively unnoticed.
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Students Demand University Offer ‘Safe’ Rides Home at Night After Defunding Police
Binghamton University announced in June that they are reallocating a portion of the campus police department’s budget to other campus services such as “mental health.” Just two months later, students are now petitioning the university to provide them with car rides home at night to make them “feel safe.”
Specifically, students at Binghamton are calling for the school to resume its “Safe Ride” program.
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The Attempted COVID Coup of 2020
What history will record as the great COVID coup of 2020 is based on lies and fear manufactured by America’s ruling class—led by the Democratic Party and aided by the complaisance of most Republican politicians.
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Trump: Kamala is ‘Nastiest in Senate’; ‘More Liberal Than Bernie Sanders’
In an interview broadcast over the weekend, President Trump labelled Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris as the “nastiest” Senator in America and warned that she is more of an extremist leftist than Bernie Sanders.
Speaking to Eric Bolling, Trump warned “She’s the nastiest of anybody in the Senate. She was the worst, meanest person to Judge Kavanaugh who became Justice Kavanaugh, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
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Trump Approves Emergency Funding for Iowa After Wind Storm Damages Towns, Farms
President Trump on Monday announced he approved federal disaster relief funding for the state of Iowa after severe wind storms caused significant damage to towns and farms early last week.
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Twitter Suspends the Babylon Bee, Then Reinstates With 0 Followers
Update 8:12 p.m. ET: The Babylon Bee’s Twitter account has been reinstated and now has 581.4K followers.
Twitter suspended the account of popular conservative Christian satire site The Babylon Bee on Monday, claiming they “violated our rules against platform manipulation and spam.”
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US Universities Are Asking Students to Report Anyone Not Following COVID Guidelines
Several universities in the US have set up systems so students can report on each other if they see anyone breaking the Covid ‘rules’.
Campus Reform notes that universities in Miami, Texas, and New Orleans have all encouraged students to play campus stasi when it comes to the Covid guidelines.
Yale has also got in on the act with a hotline, along with The University of North Georgia, whose plea for students to police each other prompted the Southeastern Legal Foundation to pen a letter warning that the system may violate students’ privacy and freedom of speech.
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Viral ShadowGate Documentary Deleted by Facebook and YouTube After Film Maker’s Arrest
Movie was going viral with millions of views.
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Woman Barrels Car Straight Into Home Depot to Shoplift in Alabama
A female thief drove to a Home Depot in Alabama — and then barreled her car straight through its doors and down the aisles to swipe goods before zooming off again, shocking video shows.
The shoplifter-on-wheels used her black 2000 Pontiac Sunfire to commit her crime around 9 a.m. at the store in Trussville, northeast of Birmingham, on Friday, cops told the Trussville Tribune.
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YouTube Joins Twitter in Banning Content Around “Hacked” Material in the Run Up to the Election
With the amount of intense censorship as a way to editorialize and control what information is available to billions of users, social media giants have never before came as close to becoming true publishers, instead of being what most people perceive them to be — as merely platforms that host user-generated, third-party content.
Two events combined in 2020 to produce this “perfect storm” of censorship, whose silver lining is that it at least forced these companies out in the open to reveal their true nature. And these events are the pandemic, and the US election.
On the latter front, YouTube is introducing another limitation to what creators can cover, and that’s information about candidates for public office that emerges thanks to “hacking.”
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German Brand Renames ‘Gypsy Sauce’ To ‘Hungarian Paprika Sauce’ Due to Claims of Racism
Knorr, the German food and beverage brand of British-Dutch food and consumer goods multinational Unilever, will change the name of its “Gypsy Sauce” (Zigenuersauce) to “Hungarian-Style Paprika Sauce” due to a spate of discussions about racism on social media.
“Since the term ‘Gypsy sauce’ can be interpreted negatively, we decided to give our Knorr Sauce a new name. In a few weeks you will find this on the shelf as ‘Hungarian Style Paprika Sauce’“, the company said in a statement, as reported by Bild.
German brands have gone on a spate of name changes of late due to perceived racism, often due to pressure from a vocal minority of social media users, but most Germans are opposed to the changes.
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PM Morawiecki: Poland Needs More Modern Events That Teach Young People About Their Country’s Past
n an extensive post on social media on the occasion of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw centenary, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote that Poles fought not only to maintain their own freshly achieved independence on the fields in front of Warsaw — they also fought for the freedom of all of Europe.
The battle, which saw Poles defeat the Soviet Red Army, is seen as a major event in Polish history.
The prime minister stressed that Poland needs more modern and attractive events, such as the “1920: Grateful to our Heroes” historical reenactment, in order to teach young generations about the ideals and history which helped Poland survive.
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Switzerland is Set to Allow Live Events Once Again
Starting October 1st, Switzerland will allow events with over 1,000 people to take place. Under strict measures, people will be allowed to return to some sort of “normal.” Europe’s eighth-largest live music market will be a test to see if the live-music industry can return.
Any live music event that is set to occur in Switzerland needs to be approved by its 26 semi-autonomous member states (cantons). Depending on where the event takes place, local leaders will have to evaluate and take into consideration local infection rates. Switzerland’s Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) is tasked with working alongside the states provide a set guideline for approving major events by September 2. The head of the FDHA stated,
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Thousands Attend Illegal Outdoor Rave in France Defying Lockdown Rules
Approximately 10,000 people attended an illegal rave in Lozère, France last weekend as coronavirus numbers are back on the rise in the country.
his specific event violated current lockdown rules as a ban on social gatherings of over 5,000 people was severely neglected in one of France’s least populated regions. Party-goers arrived in hundreds of cars as thousands gathered in a national park on Saturday night, drawing attention from furious local residents who eventually complained to the authorities due to the risks it could bring with it.
[Comment: Article dated August 14, 2020]
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UK: Huge Crowds Ignore Lockdowns to Celebrate Pakistan Independence Day, Attack Police
Huge crowds defied lockdowns and attacked police officers to celebrate Pakistan Independence Day on English streets on Friday and Saturday.
Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said the behaviour of the revellers was “beyond comprehension”, adding: “I can honestly say that, in 30 years of policing, I have never seen anything quite as outrageous as this behaviour.”
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US, Poland Sign Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement in Warsaw
The United States and Poland have signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement in Warsaw, which entails increasing US troop levels in Poland from 4,500 to 5,500 and centralizing command for all US units on NATO’s Eastern flank within Poland.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the declaration was a “historic agreement” and that “Poland and America have proudly carried out the responsibilities stemming from this new and expanded defense agreement.”
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YouTube Censors Video on 1944 Warsaw Uprising
A YouTube has censored a video on the 1944 Warsaw Uprising created and directed by Mira Lykosia Raghavachayra because the video allegedly “violates community standards” promoting “dangerous and aggressive” content.
The 3-minute video in question appears to have been restored to YouTube, but was censored at a key time when Poles were commemorating the Warsaw Uprising.
Set during the time of the Warsaw Uprising it depicts a short yet tragic story of young Poles who took part in the battle for the city. It is unclear how the video originally “violated community standards”.
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Terrorist Shot Dead After Stabbing Israeli Officer in Jerusalem Attack
On Monday night, an Israel Police spokesperson announced that a terrorist committed a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Czech PM Babis: We Must Encourage Belarusians to Start a Velvet Revolution
According to Prime Minister Andrej Babis, the European Union must encourage the Belarusians not to be afraid to carry out a Velvet Revolution similar to the one that took place in Czechia in November 1989 that brought an end to Soviet rule. He also added that the Visegrad Four countries, which include Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland, together with Baltic States, must play their part.
In his appeal, the Czech prime minister also referred to the 2014 Russian annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, according to a report from Aktualine.cz.
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More Than 200,000 at Minsk Opposition Rally
Some 220,000 people gathered in central Minsk in opposition to rigged elections last Sunday, the BBC reported. “We are in the majority. We are power,” Maria Kolesnikova, an opposition leader said. About 30,000 people also gathered at a rival rally in the city by president Aleksander Lukashenko, who called protesters “rats”. Russia has offered to help impose security, with Russian propaganda comparing events to ‘Western plots’ Ukraine in 2014.
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Pet Dogs Confiscated for Food in North Korea Due to Shortages
North Korean authorities are reportedly raiding homes of residents that own dogs to forcefully confiscate them and slaughter the pets for food.
Although the so-called Hermit Kingdom maintains secrecy about its internal goings-on, North Korean sources suggest that its economy has been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic following the shutdown of the Chinese border.
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Popular Notepad App Notepad ++ Banned in China After Developer Supported Hong Kong
China has blocked the popular Notepad alternative called Notepad ++ after the developer has openly criticized the Chinese regime and supported the Free Hong Kong movement.
Notepad ++ is a free-to-use text editor created in 2003 by Don Ho. The app is available on Windows and available in 90 languages.
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Wall Street Wants More Frauds From China
Investors dumped the shares of Nasdaq-listed iQiyi late last week after the Chinese company announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had initiated an investigation into it for fraud.
In April, short-seller Wolfpack Research accused iQiyi of inflating revenue and user numbers by double-digit margins. The “fraud,” as Wolfpack termed it, dated back before iQiyi’s initial public offering in March 2018.
iQiyi, known as the “Netflix of China,” is no fly-by-night operation. It is owned by blue-chip Baidu, “China’s Google.”
The iQiyi scandal follows a series of Chinese frauds, most notably Luckin Coffee, which admitted fabricating sales and was delisted from Nasdaq at the end of June.
Want someone to blame? Of course, you should be angry at dishonest Chinese company execs, but rapacious Wall Street dealmakers and complicit American regulators deserve the tar and feather too.
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New Zealand to Put COVID-19 Patients Into Mandatory Quarantine Camps
In a move right out of George Orwell’s 1984, New Zealand has announced it would put all COVID-19 patients into mandatory quarantine camps. The Prime Minister of New Zealand has said that your each and every activity will be monitored in these camps and those that refuse to be tested would be forced to stay in the camps for a longer duration.
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NZ Prime Minister Delays Election Due to Coronavirus
While President Trump was labeled a “fascist” for suggesting the election should be delayed due to coronavirus, New Zealand’s Prime Minister just did exactly that with barely a whimper of dissent.
At the end of last month, Trump tweeted, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
The Washington Post said the tweet “checks all 8 rules for fascist propaganda,” while the New York Times asserted that Trump should be removed from office if he attempted to to delay the election.
Now New Zealand Prime Minister and globalist darling Jacinda Ardern has delayed the national election for a month because the country experienced just 58 new coronavirus cases.
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Last week, a video went viral of a group of migrant youths beating two victims in Leuven, Belgium, after which they forced a White teenage boy to apologize and lick their shoes. In the video, the word ‘Zemmel’ is heard, which is a slur that Moroccans commonly use for gay people.
An investigation by Het Laatste Nieuws found that the video is a connected to a gang of youths called “Criminal Justice” or “Criminal System”, which the paper says is hunting young LGBT people in Belgium.
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A 15-year-old girl has claimed she was raped on a beach by two underage boys, thought to be migrants.
The girl, from Venice, was reportedly sitting alone on Lignano beach, north-east Italy, waiting for some friends when she was approached by three boys.
Two of them raped her, according to local media, while the third stood by and watched.
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Italy Wants No More Illegal Migrants, Minister Tells Tunisia
Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a visit to Tunisia, from where many of them cross the Mediterranean Sea.
After a meeting with the Tunisian President Kais Saied, Italy’s top diplomat said Rome “is ready to present all the necessary aid to Tunisia” to combat illegal immigration.
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Over 1,000 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel in small rubber dinghies in just 10 days this month, as Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage brands the growing crisis a “national humiliation”.
Between the 4th and 13th of August, some 1,004 illegal migrants were brought ashore by UK Border Force. This is over half the total number of migrants recorded to make the illegal journey during the entirety of 2019.
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Migrants crossing the Channel from France to Britain should be held in military bases or even aboard cruise ships to ensure they quarantine properly, a senior Tory MP has suggested.
Tim Loughton, whose East Worthing and Shoreham constituency is on the south coast, suggested stricter measures were needed to prevent an influx of coronavirus.
He said it ‘made a nonsense’ of the quarantine facing British tourists returning from France if migrants were not facing a strict regime.
And he called for those trying to cross the Channel to be immediately handed back to the French authorities.
His comments came as yet more migrants arrived in Britain this morning, the day after 112 refugees crossed the Channel.
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Nigel Farage has criticised Priti Patel for failing to tackle the English Channel migrant crisis, releasing footage that appeared to show another hotel completely occupied by illegal boat migrants in the home secretary’s own constituency of Witham in Essex.
The episode is the latest in a series of Farage Investigates. In one report last month, the Brexit Party leader had uncovered a hotel in the north of England turning away British tourist staycationers because the government was using it to house the increasing number of illegal aliens arriving on Britain’s shores from France.
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The Home Office has booked 4,000 hotel rooms for asylum seekers amid pressure from a surge of cross-Channel migration and the coronavirus pandemic.
Hotels in Hull, Birmingham, Nottingham, Southport and Glasgow have been used amid a shortage of permanent accommodation for newcomers to live while their asylum claims are assessed.
Companies who provide accommodation for migrants had also been permitted to find rooms in places that were not part of the scheme that oversees where the newcomers are dispersed across Britain.
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UN Tells UK: Don’t Use Navy to Stop Illegals, Migrant Numbers Are ‘Low and Manageable’
Last week, the British government announced that it had asked the military to aid UK Border Force and is considering an Australian-style push-back programme to force boats of illegal migrants back to France.
[Comment: UN is lying. They seek to continue mass migration.]
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YouGov Poll: Hungarians Trust Their Government on Immigration Unlike Other Europeans
Hungary is the only country in a major new survey of 13 European countries that has a majority of citizens trusting their government on the issue of immigration, with the survey also showing that most Europeans are “insecure” about immigration and deeply distrust the EU to improve immigration policy, according to the British polling firm YouGov.
Hungary, which is known for its strict immigration stance, saw 53 percent of citizens saying they trust Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government and 41 percent saying they do not trust the national government.
This contrasts greatly with the rest of Europe, with an average of 61 percent of respondents saying they do not trust their national governments on immigration and only 31 percent saying they do. The survey polled 1,000 people in each of 12 different European Union countries and Great Britain.
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Disney Introduces First Bisexual Lead Character
The Walt Disney Company recently announced that it has included a bisexual lead character on its Disney Channel. The 14-year-old character “Luz” from the animated series “The Owl House” is attracted to both men and women.
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GIFCT is the Big Tech Alliance That Censors Online Content Without Oversight
One way the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) has been implemented across the online industry is by stopping videos showing a Nazi attack on a synagogue — and that’s how Slate chooses to go about “introducing” its power.
But the synagogue attack in Germany that killed two people last fall, and the GIFCT’s role in preventing dissemination of the content showing this act, seems to be as positive as the story gets. “The GIFCT is making some of the most consequential decisions in online speech governance without the scrutiny of the public,” the report asserts.
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Hungarian Right-Wing Politician Removes LGBT Flag From Budapest City Hall, Throws it in the Trash
Elod Novak, vice-president of the far-right Hungarian Our Homeland Movement, removed a rainbow-colored LGBT flag from the Budapest City Hall building in the early hours of Sunday, national news agency MTI reports.
He used a 15-meter (50-ft) ladder to climb to the three flags, which included an LGBT, a Hungarian and a Budapest flag, and removed the one he found offensive and threw it into a nearby trash can.
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Trump Stopped the FDA From Trafficking Aborted Fetal Tissue for “Humanized Mice, “ Documents Reveal
Unsealed documents obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal that the Trump administration recently stopped a series of Obama-era contracts between the Planned Parenthood-affiliated group Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which were being used to supply aborted baby parts for experimentation into “humanized mice (HM)”.
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UK Police Reject Job Applications From Candidate Who Says Biological Gender Cannot be Changed
Her opinions would not meet “the behaviours expected” of a member of the police force.
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UK Police Reject Job Applications From Candidate Who Says Biological Gender Cannot be Changed
Police forces in the UK have been criticised after they rejected an application in which the candidate admitted they do not believe human beings can biologically alter their gender.
The London Telegraph reports that a woman who applied for a job at Norfolk Constabulary was refused on the grounds of her “gender critical” opinions.
The police force told her that her views would “not be something we could uphold within the constabulary”.
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New COVID-19 data from Sweden shows why the left stopped talking about it
https://noqreport.com/2020/08/17/new-covid-19-data-from-sweden-shows-why-the-left-stopped-talking-about-it/
Ned, contrary to posting rules, SORRY, I’m posting this long translated piece as a comment. You may want to publish this instead?
NETHERLANDS : RACE RIOTS / CALLS FOR MILITARY
Marrakech aan Zee: “Race riots”: like war in Dutch cities and seaside resorts
From Syp Wynia
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
First there were fights and riots by young migrants on the North Sea coast, then in many cities in the Netherlands. Was it just the August heat, as some politicians claim? The police react helplessly, and soldiers are called for.
The August 2020 heatwave was accompanied by civil unrest, social tension and a remarkable number of knife fights on the Dutch coast and in Dutch cities. Many young immigrants were involved in the violence. The authorities blame the heat and boredom for the tension, because the Corona measures would have spoiled all the fun for the boys – the Dutch version of the rowdy party scene.
There are other reasons too: parallel migrant societies in the Dutch cities. The fact that a particularly large number of immigrant children were involved in the violence is striking, but not surprising. And the corona measures actually play the role of fire accelerator.
The parallel society shows itself
In the larger Dutch cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht), a large part of the population – especially young people – consists of non-Western immigrants, often from the former “guest worker” countries Morocco and Turkey or the former colonies of Suriname and Curacao. Many of them – especially the Moroccans and, to a lesser extent, Turks – live with large families in small apartments that focus on problem areas.
This environment was already disadvantaged when far-reaching corona measures were also taken in the Netherlands from March. Schools and restaurants were closed, events canceled, companies let their employees work from home as much as possible. Helpers soon reported additional domestic violence, especially in neighborhoods with “vulnerable” families.
From June 1, the Dutch corona measures were relaxed and travel to many holiday countries was possible again. But the very countries of origin in which many Dutch migrant families often take long-term holidays in the summer (Morocco, Turkey) remained closed. Tensions increased in the migrant quarters in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. Many migrant families from Germany who were unable to travel to their country of origin this summer also increased the pressure in the boiler.
At first it led to chaos in Scheveningen, the seaside resort of The Hague. Scheveningen is used to a lot, because the former fishing village has around 14 million tourists every year. But never before have so many been there as on the weekend of August 8th and 9th. They were not necessarily received enthusiastically.
Scheveningen was renamed “Marrakech aan Zee”.
The battle for a place in the sun
The mostly rustic beach life took on a completely different character. The Deputy Mayor of The Hague noted that not only were there twice as many bathers as any other hot day, but also a whole new type of tourist with violence and brawls. In Blankenberge, Belgium, it was even worse: there, the sons of migrants from Brussels provoked fights for a place in the sun or for a parasol. Desperate, the authorities decided to limit train traffic to the entire Belgian coast in order to block reinforcements for the insurgents.
In Scheveningen, a drama took place beneath the surface. Groups of “drill rappers” – hip-hoppers who glorify weapons, often from Surinam or Curaçao – from Amsterdam and Rotterdam challenged each other. On Sunday August 9th, the Amsterdam rappers lost the battle against the Rotterdammers. On a hot Monday, August 10th, a 19-year-old Rotterdammer was stabbed to death at the Scheveningen pier. The Mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen, came back from vacation to manage the crisis.
Not a day too early. Because on Wednesday the 12th, brutal riots broke out in the Schilderswijk, a former working-class district near one of the two main train stations in The Hague. The Schilderswijk was already a troubled area when it was still a working-class Dutch area and remained so when it became an almost complete immigrant area.
As early as 2014, a group of sympathizers of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS marched through the Schilderswijk. Also in 2015 there was brawl and destruction after a migrant from Curacao, Mitch Henriquez, was killed by police in The Hague when he was arrested. Henriquez is still regarded by black activists in the Netherlands as evidence that the Dutch police are allegedly racist and that they follow “ethnic profiles”.
It used to be called “race riots”
But now, in the hot August days of 2020, the Schilderswijk has been the scene of what used to be called “race riots” in the USA for three days in a row. Fire hydrants were opened, fires lit in the streets, a Molotov cocktail thrown into a brand new youth building. Groups of young people, mainly of Moroccan origin, moved from street to street, wrecking cars and defrosting houses and shops.
The police were pelted with eggs and cobblestones, also targeted from the roofs of the houses. Residents experienced it as a war. Hundreds of rioters came on three consecutive evenings – alerted via Snapchat and other social media and often from other districts or cities. Dozens were arrested every night.
On Friday the fire spread over Utrecht; by Snapchat called for the ‘The Hague to excel’. This is where the riots began in the Kanaleneiland immigration district and spread to Overvecht. Here, too, there were riots, destruction and the throwing of stones by young people, accompanied by fireworks. Here, too, dozens of rioters were arrested on both evenings. But the thunderstorm and the downpours had a greater effect than the police operation. The downpours in particular have put an end to the Dutch heatwave riots for the time being. A riot attempt in Rotterdam was nipped in the bud by the police and the rain.
The showers that ended the riots marked the beginning of the debate. The authorities rebuffed by stating that the heat, boredom and the impossibility of vacationing in Morocco were the cause of the unrest. The police in The Hague and Utrecht refuse to reveal the ethnic aspects, but it is an open secret that young Moroccans – some barely 14, 15 – are the hard core of the rioters. This was also confirmed by a single affected Moroccan mosque, which expressed the hope that Allah would still show them the right way.
Use of the military?
The “right-wing populist” politicians Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet see themselves confirmed: multicultural societies are more like parallel societies. Wilders advocates using the army against the rioters. Local politicians in The Hague called for “re-education camps” and cuts in benefits for parents who do not prevent their children from unrest.
In the meantime, the police action is also an issue. The police unions argue that they cannot do anything effective because if they act tough they are accused of discrimination and if they don’t they are accused of being too soft. A remarkable maneuver came from the deputy mayor of Utrecht, Lot van Hooijdonk (GroenLinks), who initially did not use the police in the first riots because the police operation was a success for the rioters. Utrecht could not hold out this stance for long in view of the general devastation and eventually deployed the police.
It is also noteworthy that only a few of the rioters were detained in the police stations for more than one night. One can certainly not speak of repressive measures. It appears that the Dutch police are unsettled and on the defensive following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the numerous demonstrations by Black Lives Matter and the still ubiquitous Mitch Henriquez and the allegations of ethnic profiling.
“They are angry with the police for allegedly being racist,” an observer in De Volkskrant said of the Moroccans. And: “They live in overcrowded residential areas, they have a bad reputation and no future.” The fact is that Dutch Moroccans are overrepresented in crime statistics and often do not finish school. The Dutch drug mafia – with numerous murders – also has a markedly high Moroccan share. An expert completes the picture in another newspaper, NRC Handelsblad : “Big families, small houses, raised in an authoritarian way”.
But the newspaper De Telegraaf is less understanding after a week of unrest and is calling for a curfew, mass arrests and wanting to hold parents accountable. The predominantly Moroccan youth have “no respect for authority” and form an underclass in the Dutch cities that is taking on permanent forms. The anthropologist Teun Voeten: “A time bomb is ticking in the working-class neighborhoods. It is a state of lawlessness.”
The author Paul Andersson Toussaint advocates abandoning the gentle welfare policy of the Dutch government (“drinking tea”) and “drawing a very clear line” because “the criminal macho culture must disappear”. “There’s nothing racist about that.” Toussaint: “You’re not afraid of being caught, that doesn’t happen often. They don’t care about Dutch society. There is extreme anger and hatred, especially against whites. ”
Our author Syp Wynia is a well-known Dutch journalist. He is the founder and editor of “Wynia`s Week” , the TE partner magazine in the Netherlands.
Source:
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/aus-aller-welt/rassenunruhen-wie-krieg-in-niederlaendischen-staedten-und-badeorten/
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“Czech PM Babis: We Must Encourage Belarusians to Start a Velvet Revolution”
Please don’t. If Belarus goes the same path us and all other “Iron Courtain” countries went after 1989, there’s nothing to look forward to. And it’s self-evident there’s no other option than be flooded with Western products, being used a an extremely cheap labour force and having the consumist lifestyle force on them.
While the situation over there isn’t ideal, I’m really on the fence whether or not it’s better than the other option.
I heard that Babis babbles the line laid down by Pompeo, but is not in effect doing anything to back up those words. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Pakistan Independence Day
In Manchester
https://youtu.be/UZCwFLDNX4M
In Bradford
https://youtu.be/FW-vM3BqHNo
In Birmingham
https://youtu.be/MbGtA1S_Tt4
Wonderful.
67 year old woman raped in Italian train station by you-know-who
https://www.fdesouche.com/1414255-italie-une-femme-de-67-ans-violee-par-un-migrant-dans-un-train
https://mobile.twitter.com/BrexitBrit/status/1295081892392427525
If they were waving Union Jacks or St. George’s Cross we would be pelted with articles on a horrible gathering of right-wing extremists.
Your daily dose of multicultural vibrancy from across this United Kingdom.
Stabbings all over.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1295421446236274689
https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1295103876081823744
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12430731/highams-park-station-stabbing/amp/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebarweb&__twitter_impression=true
https://mobile.twitter.com/CruellaDeNarm/status/1295470163941306368
No name or description given for man arrested for raping 13 year old girl.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-53749930
Only 15 months jail time for the enrichment giver.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1295662904520388608
Shooting in Londonderry (Northern Ireland)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Gary_Middleton/status/1295432931092180994
Gangs roam the streets looking for native prey.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1295138402732576768
https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1295078152612524033
Asylum seekers decry the sheer racism of their accommodations.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/asylum-seekers-protest-over-living-4433419.amp
BLM Hastings.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1295630749077569538
Enriched love=enriched death
https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1295672938658766848
Ah but you see, disarming the law abiding citizenry even further, that will help!
https://mobile.twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/1295361067049193472
and way many stories of Black gang violence to post.
Fight at a Mosque between Muslims over the question of gender equality.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BrettEverest/status/1295826471387365379
Disgusting.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FDW_VB/status/1293896407343083521
https://europe.infowars.com/armed-youth-gangs-terrorizing-families-in-belgium-neighborhood/
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