A woman who was running for mayor of Sumter, South Carolina faked her own live-streamed kidnapping and beating to gain sympathy and votes. She and an accomplice are now facing criminal charges.
In other news, the per-capita incidence of tuberculosis in the city of Brussels is between three and four times as high as in the rest of Belgium.
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2020 is an Economic Nightmare — And Things Just Got Even Worse
More than a million Americans were not supposed to be losing their jobs every week by the time we got to the middle of August. By now, vast hordes of unemployed Americans were supposed to be returning to their old jobs and economic activity was supposed to be returning to normal levels. But it hasn’t happened that way. Instead, the U.S. economy continues to unravel at a steady pace. Every week more businesses go under, more layoffs are announced and more people get behind on their bills. What we have already been through has been far worse than anything that we experienced during the last recession, and it appears that this new economic downturn is entering yet another new phase. On Thursday, we learned that another 1.106 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week…
The number of people filing for unemployment benefits last week was greater than expected, raising concern about the state of the economy as lawmakers struggle to move forward on a new pandemic stimulus package.
The Labor Department said Thursday that initial jobless claims for the week ended Aug. 15 came in at 1.106 million. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a total of 923,000. Initial claims for the previous week were also revised higher by 8,000 to 971,000.
Instead of going down as most analysts were anticipating, the number of initial claims shot way back above a million.
And this means that we have now gotten a number that is above a million for 21 of the last 22 weeks.
Prior to 2020, the worst weekly number in all of U.S. history was 695,000. To absolutely dwarf that old record for 22 weeks in a row should be almost theoretically impossible. If you would have asked me last year what it would take to have the kind of unemployment numbers that we are seeing now, I would have probably suggested that it would take something like a world war or a major asteroid strike to produce such figures. The numbers that we keep getting week after week are simply absurd, but they just keep coming.
[Comment: This is the goal of globalist’s feardemic — to destroy western civilization.]
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The Prime Minster said the unemployment rate is expected to hover around seven per cent as the economy recovers from the recession caused by the response to coronavirus.
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EU: Portugal Sees Largest Drop in Industrial Production
Industrial production decreased 12.3 percent in the euro area and 11.6 percent in the European Union in June, compared to the same month in 2019, according to Eurostat. With 14.8 percent, Portugal registered the biggest decline among member states, followed by Germany and Spain (-14.1 percent each), then Italy (-13.7 percent). As the only country of the EU, Ireland saw an increase of it industrial production with 4.5 percent.
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There is No Recovery in Sight, And it’s All Engineered This Way
This economic crash was designed, and the purpose of the lockdowns worked perfectly: to kill small businesses and impoverish the masses. It was all engineered this way by the political puppets and there is not going to be a recovery.
There may be a “new system” if Americans are stupid enough to allow it, however, there will be no recovery. If we are smart, once this system crashes and burns, we won’t replace it with another system at all. “We know the agenda and we understand what they are trying to pull off here,” says Gregory Mannarino in his latest video. “These subhuman individuals must lie,” he says of the Federal Reserve banking cartel hellbent on world domination as they intentionally destroy as many people as possible.
“It’s insulting because [The Federal Reserve] believes that we are stupid,” adds Mannarino. Some are, as we have been dumbed down on purpose, but Americans are waking up at an alarming rate. The more the bankers try to control and crash the dollar, the more people will awaken to the chains around their necks and begin to live freely away from this rigged slave system.
“They’re trying to manipulate your mind because they think you’re stupid,” said Mannarino. This is what happens when things are this sick and this twisted. “These characters are going to continue to lie to you on an epic scale. It’s just the norm these days, the lies, the corruption, the propaganda, the misinformation, the misleading of the people on a scale that I don’t think we’ve ever seen before. And that just plays right into the New World Order, this New America.”
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“I’m Not Gonna Back Down”: Bannon Responds to ‘Total Political Hit Job’ Following Arrest
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon appeared no worse for wear during his “War Room Pandemic“ podcast on Friday — just one day after posting $5 million bail after his arrest on charges of wire fraud and money laundering related to his involvement with Build the Wall — a nonprofit organized by wounded Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, which raised over $25 million via crowdfunding and built a half-mile section of border wall in Hidalgo County, Texas.
Bannon pleaded not guilty, and was in full fight mode during Friday’s podcast.
“This fiasco is a total political hit-job. The timing is exquisite” in the run-up to the 2020 election, said Bannon, adding “I think it is probably the most important election of our time because the stakes now are so high.”
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“Wake Up, Motherf****r Wake Up!” BLM Harasses Home Occupants on Residential Street
A new video out of Portland shows Black Lives Matter activists chanting “wake up, motherf*cker wake up!” as they shine a light into people’s homes on a residential street at night.
This is sure to enlist support for their cause.
“Wake up, mother f—ker wake up!” chant BLM in Portland tonight as they go through residential areas and shut down the streets,” tweeted journalist Andy Ngo.
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“White Flight is Real”: Publicist Says Middle Class & Wealthy Are Fleeing Los Angeles
Veteran publicist Ed Lozzi says that the middle class and wealthy are fleeing Los Angeles, noting that whereas the town once smelled of orange blossoms, it now smells of urine.
Lozzi noted that coronavirus was just the final blow to a city already reeling as a result of its progressive attitude towards homelessness.
“Hollywood has always been the wokest of the woke, so politicians have done nothing to stop people sleeping on the streets. It’s not illegal and the weather’s nice, so they keep coming,” he said, adding that, “there is insufficient housing, inadequate mental health care. Add in Covid and it’s a perfect storm.”
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11 Shootings Leave 3 More Dead in New York City
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — The surge in gun violence continues across New York City, as there have been 11 shootings with 15 victims Thursday into Friday.
Three of those shootings were fatal.
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5 Killed: Dog Park, Gas Station, Porch Are Scenes for Philly’s Latest Deadly Shootings
PHILADELPHIA — Five more people were killed in the city of Philadelphia within a matter of hours Thursday night, including a father leaving a park with his dog and children, a man sitting on his porch, and two people at a gas station.
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A Kristallnacht for White Americans?
Those who are working overtime to delegitimize white Americans have coined a term that they use as a weapon—”white privilege.” The propaganda is that being white is a racial privilege that elevates white Americans above other Americans and enables white people to oppress blacks. It doesn’t strike those who use the term as a weapon that these same “racist white people” are the ones who elected Obama president and put Kamala Harris in the Senate.
“White privilege” conveys the idea that white people have impunity. They can abuse, even kill, people of color without consequence. Yet, it is white officer Chauvin who is in jail charged with the murder of black George Floyd, while the two black Maryland teenagers who murdered 59-year old white John Weed at the county fair for not giving them a dollar were sentenced by white female judge Julie Stevenson Solt to “anger management training” and “behavior modification” but otherwise unpunished. Here is the report— www.revolver.news/2020/08/black-teens-kill-white-man-county-fair/ . The story was covered locally (for example, aminerdetail.com/outrage-over-frederick-fair-murder-sentencing/ ) but kept out of national news while white Americans were pumped full of guilt for their “racism.”
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Local police and the US Army are searching for 23-year-old Sgt. Elder Fernandes after a missing soldier alert was issued on Thursday night Fernandes was last seen on Monday afternoon when his staff sergeant dropped him off at his home in Killeen — just four miles from the Fort Hood base. His disappearance follows the deaths of 11 Fort Hood soldiers this year alone. Of the 11 deaths, foul play is suspected in five of those An independent investigation is currently underway into the embattled army base following the string of deaths and disappearances.
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As COVID Hospitalizations Disappear, Authoritarians Refuse to Give Up
As the “Sun Belt” wave of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations burns itself out — as is always the case with a virus — those authoritarian politicians still clinging to the ability to push their citizens around refuse to give up.
As in the Lord of the Rings, they cannot bear letting go of the ring of power. But what will it take for them to finally relinquish their stranglehold on our lives? Many hospitals are now suffering from a lack of patients and deaths among those under 50 years of age remain nearly non-existent. When is this over? What’s the end game? Watch today’s Liberty Report:…
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As Murders Soar in Chicago, Judges Are Freeing More Violent-Crime Suspects on Electronic Monitoring
Judges in Chicago have increasingly ordered criminal defendants placed into an electronic-monitoring program in lieu of jail, a move police officials blame for the surge in gun violence plaguing the city.
On Aug. 9, 43 people facing murder charges were enrolled in Cook County’s electronic-monitoring program, a 40% increase from the same day last year. In addition, 160 people charged with robbery and 1,000 people charged with illegal gun possession are enrolled as of Aug. 9, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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At Least 5 Killed, 30 Injured in Northern California Wildfires
Dozens of wildfires searing through Northern and Central California have reportedly killed at least five people and injured another 30 civilians and firefighters.
A series of lightning strikes on Monday sparked multiple fires in Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Lake, and Yolo Counties. The wildfires scorched hundreds of structures and forced thousands of residents to evacuate.
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California Threatens Fines and Incarceration for Preachers and Worshippers Who Defy COVID Mandates
Newsom edict moved most of state back to Phase 1 — a complete ban on businesses and churches from operating indoors…
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Call of Duty Features Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov in New Trailer for ‘Black Ops: Cold War’
The trailer was clearly a not-so-veiled reference to the destabilization occurring right now in the US.
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Cashill’s Unmasking Obama Book is a Warning
As the major media work to elect Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden, and sink Donald J. Trump’s bid for a second president term. Obama’s August 19, 2020, address, at the Democratic National Convention, on behalf of Biden, was the clearest indication yet that Obama is working for a third presidential term. He wants vindication for his failed presidency and wants to use Biden as a front for the ultimate capture of state power for revolutionary purposes.
In addition to saving political face, Obama represents those here and abroad determined to reduce America to the status of third-rate power, unable or unwilling to stop Red China’s advance.
President Trump has said that he wouldn’t have won in 2016 had it not been for Obama’s failed presidency. Cashill’s book is important to understanding why the American people were so desperate for an alternative such as Trump. People were fooled by Obama, his lies, agents and apologists, but they eventually came to understand there was something sinister, even un-American, in the Obama presidency. This was the result not only of Obama’s failed policies but the facts about his real agenda that slowly but surely came to the public’s attention through alternative media, described as “samizdat” by Cashill. This is a reference to the unofficial and frowned-upon journalism that served as a channel for freedom fighters in the old Soviet Union. Indeed, he dedicates the book to his fellow “Lilliputians,” who dared to take on the Gulliver-type powers that be.
It gets to the point, and we have arrived at this point today in the United States, where the “official” outlets for the establishment are not believed anymore, and people are desperate and hungry for “alternative” voices. Hence, the major media and the Big Tech censors will want to destroy the Cashill book and, if that is not successful, censor any mention of it.
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Chicago Aldermen Delay Decision to Declare State of Emergency at Special Council Meeting
CHICAGO (WLS) — City Council voted to send a resolution to declare a state of emergency and deploy the National Guard to the Committee on Public Safety Friday, delaying any concrete decisions.
A small group of aldermen called a rare special meeting Friday to discuss the guard and other public safety issues, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her allies pushed the issues into the committee, which will meet at a later time.
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Delta Bans Bin Laden Shooter After He Refused to Wear Face Mask During Flight
The former Navy SEAL who claims he shot and killed Osama bin Laden was banned by Delta Air Lines after he allegedly failed to wear a face mask during a recent flight.
Special warfare operator Robert O’Neill, 44, posted a mask-less selfie on Twitter on board a Newark-bound Delta flight Wednesday, with the caption, “I’m not a [expletive].”
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DNC “Impactful Community Leader” A Convicted Rapist, Murderer
Speaker ‘squeezed victim’s testicles with pliers’ & shoved a three-foot metal bar up his rear.
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Entrepreneur: New York City is Dead and it’s Not Coming Back
Former hedge fund manager and entrepreneur James Altucher says New York City is dead and it’s not coming back.
Born and bred in New York, Altucher took his family and fled to Florida after the Black Lives Matter riots in June when someone tried to break into his apartment.
Since then, the city has continued to suffer a huge surge in shootings and violent crime as well as an anemic financial recovery from the coronavirus lockdown.
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FBI Investigates Car Bomb Threat That Closed Federal Buildings in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal buildings in Portland are closed Friday citing a “threat of violence in the area.” The FBI of Oregon is investigating the credibility of a car bomb threat was made against federal offices in Portland.
Two law enforcement officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. They said the threat was received Thursday and warned of the intention to use a car bomb to target federal property.
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Florida Man Friday: You’ll be in Your Bunk
Florida Man Friday isn’t just a time to sit back with a cocktail while letting your mind settle down into weekend mode.
It’s also a time of thanksgiving — for Florida’s best-in-the-nation sunshine law that requires practically every government document be made available to the public.
As State Attorney General Ashley Moody describes it, the law “provides that any records made or received by any public agency in the course of its official business are available for inspection, unless specifically exempted by the Florida Legislature. Over the years, the definition of what constitutes ‘public records’ has come to include not just traditional written documents such as papers, maps and books, but also tapes, photographs, film, sound recordings and records stored in computers.”
Plus mugshots of the criminally deranged, more than a few shocking police records of the high and mighty, and everything else in between — all in a state whose warm weather and gorgeous beaches and major theme parks attract a broad selection of humanity unlike almost anywhere else on Earth.
Two cheers — with a strong drink in hand — for open government.
With all that in mind, join me now on another thrill-a-minute…
Florida Man Friday!
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Fly Repeatedly Lands on Bloomberg’s Face During DNC Speech
A fly landed on Michael Bloomberg’s face twice during a pre-recorded speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night.
The fly first landed on his eyebrow at the 2:25 mark.
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Franklin Graham Decries Total ‘Absence of God’ In Democrat Convention
Celebrated Christian pastor Franklin Graham denounced the total absence of God in this week’s Democratic National Convention, calling on Americans to bring God back into public life.
“In watching some of the Democratic National Convention on television this week, it has been interesting to see the absence of God,” Rev. Graham wrote on his Facebook page early Friday. “I don’t believe America’s finest hours will be in front of us if we take God out of government and public life.”
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Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo Sentenced to Life in Prison for 26 Rapes, Murders
A former California police officer nicknamed the Golden State Killer was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a decade-long series of 26 rapes and murders that terrorized the state.
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Hillary Clinton Gave Ghislaine Maxwell’s Nephew “Very Powerful” Position at State Department: Report
Hillary Clinton “gifted” a prestigious job in the Obama State Department to the nephew of accused pedophile and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, according to OK!Magazine — and whose employment was confirmed by the Daily Beast.
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In the evening hours of August 20, 2020, two events took place in Portland. One group gathered at Kenton Park located on the 8400 block of North Brandon Avenue. The group left the park around 7 p.m. and began marching throughout neighborhoods in North Portland. While the group marched, streets were blocked. The group stopped briefly outside of the Portland Police Association office on the 1800 block of North Lombard Street. For a couple hours, the group marched through North Portland and later dispersed after returning to Kenton Park.
Around 10 p.m., a separate group of about 100 people began gathering outside of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building located on the 4300 block of Southwest Macadam Avenue. While the group was outside the ICE building they began blocking vehicular traffic at Southwest Bancroft Street and South Moody Avenue. The group was also supported by several support-type vehicles. At times, these vehicles were seen blocking vehicular traffic. Several people in the crowd were seen carrying shields and wearing helmets and gas masks.
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Jetblue Doubles Down on Kicking Family Off Plane Because 2-Year-Old Wasn’t Wearing a Mask
JetBlue kicked an entire family off one of its flights this week because one 2-year-old child wasn’t wearing a face mask, and the airline doubled down on the decision even after intense criticism.
Even after the mother of the family of six vowed to force the child to put on a mask, they were all still asked to leave the plane.
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Joe Biden Vows National Mask Mandate if Elected President
“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they are outside for the next three months at a minimum,” Biden said.
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July Home Sales See Record Spike of 24.7%
Sales from existing homes rose 24.7% from June to July, the highest monthly gain in the history of the survey since 1968, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Kalamity Kamala a Calamity for America
Calamity Jane was a frontier heroine in the mid-19th century who during an uprising in 1872, saved a Captain Egan from certain death, whereupon he told her: “I name you Calamity Jane, the heroine of the plains.”
This is in stark contrast to Kalamity Kamala of 21st century America, who would accelerate the downfall of our Democratic Republic in the unlikely event of a Biden-Kalamity win on November 3rd.
Why? Because Biden and Kalamity are promising to resurrect the failed policies of the Obama years, and inflict even more damage on America the Beautiful.
According to author and television host Mark Levin, although the media are rushing to portray California’s junior senator as a moderate, nothing could be further from the truth.
She is the “most extremist radical politician ever to run for high office” in the U.S.A., Levin states, even “farther left than 97% of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate,” even “left of avowed Marxist Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.”
Levin and his guest attorney Mark Pulliam provided several examples. Kalamity Kamala, they said:…
When it comes to support for Jewish issues in America as well as support for Israel, the estimable Daniel Greenfield in his powerful article, The Democrat Party is Getting Rid of Jews, has a warning:
“Obama and Harris both signed off on Iran’s nuclear program and the flow of money to terrorists.” In addition, “While Harris has been depicted as a moderate, her chief of staff, Karine Jean-Pierre, was the national spokeswoman and senior adviser for MoveOn, the radical group [with] a long history of trafficking in anti-Semitism and attacking the Jewish State.”
And, Greenfield reminds us, Kalamity Kamala is a full-throated supporter of the virulently anti-Semitic members of the so-called “Squad”—Cong. Ihlan Omar (D-MN), Cong. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cong. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and all the others who avidly support both the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement to destroy Israel economically and to deny foreign aid to America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East.
In a chilling but all-too-credible warning, Greenfield says that “Jewish Democrats who imagine that Israel is the problem are about to learn they’re the problem.”
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Kansas City Chiefs Ban Headdresses, War Paint for Fans Attending Games
The NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs are instituting a new dress code for fans attending their games this season in an effort to be more sensitive to concerns over Native American imagery.
All face-painting that seems to imitate native cultures and wearing traditional native headdresses will be prohibited.
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Lawsuit: Epstein Cited Friendship With Bill Clinton to Carry Out “Vicious, Prolonged Sexual Assault”
Documents made public as part of a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have alleged that the billionaire cited his ‘friendship’ with Bill Clinton as a way of intimidating a fifteen year old girl into sleeping with him.
The Documents, identifying the victim only as ‘Jane Doe’ claim that Epstein carried out a “vicious, prolonged sexual assault” on her in 2004 after trafficking her on the infamous ‘Lolita express’ to his New Mexico ranch.
“Epstein made clear to Jane Doe 15 how powerful he was. He made a point of mentioning that he was close with Bill Clinton,” the documents note.
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More Chicago Looting Suspect Photos Released by Chicago Police Department
CHICAGO (WLS) — As an alleged looter appeared in a courtroom today, the Chicago Police Department’s task force to track down looters released six more surveillance photos of people they want to arrest.
Pictures of six alleged looters were taken at the Huron Nails & Spa the morning of August 10th, according to Khoa Tran, the store’s owner.
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PA Lawsuit Claims Chipotle is Keeping the Change of Customers Paying in Cash
A lawsuit claims that Chipotle stores in Pennsylvania have been rounding off customer’s purchases and keeping the change.
The complaint, filed Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, alleges that the Tex-Mex restaurant chain has amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer losses.
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Pence Clashes With CNN Host, Says Outlet Was “Wrong About a Lot” Earlier in the Year
Vice President Mike Pence clashed with a CNN host on Friday morning, saying the outlet was “wrong a lot” earlier in the year.
Pence joined CNN’s “New Day” with co-host John Berman, who pressed the president on projections for how many Americans would die from COVID-19. The vice president was saying that his task force was continuing to work on the problem when Berman interrupted Pence, saying that there had been roughly 1,000 deaths the day before.
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Reports of Domestic Violence on the Rise During Pandemic, Study Finds
The conditions created by COVID-19—unexpected time at home, unemployment and financial insecurity, anxiety and stress—are the same conditions known to aggravate domestic violence.
Recent research from two BYU economists, published in the Journal of Public Economics, confirmed that reports of domestic violence have risen sharply since the start of the pandemic.
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Sumter Mayoral Candidate Accused of Faking Her Own Kidnapping, Beating for Publicity
SUMTER, S.C. (WIS) — A woman running for mayor in Sumter now faces criminal charges after police say she staged her own kidnapping and beating to get “publicity, sympathy and votes in the November election.”
Sabrina Belcher, 29, carried out the stunt on Facebook live, police say, with help from 34-year-old Christopher Eaddy.
Around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Belcher reported to police that she was assaulted and kidnapped by a man she didn’t know, who also tried to rob her.
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Suspect in Violent Portland Assault Caught on Video Turns Himself In
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The man accused of violently attacking a man in downtown Portland last Sunday was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on Friday morning, several days after he was identified as a suspect in the assault.
Marquise Love, 25, turned himself in on Friday morning, police said. Love is facing a felony charges of 2nd-degree assault, coercion, and a count of riot.
Love was named a suspect in an assault in downtown Portland on August 16 that was captured on video and widely circulated online.
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Tennessee School District Making Parents Sign Agreement to Not Monitor Virtual Class
Rutherford County Schools in Tennessee has asked parents to sign an agreement not to monitor their children’s virtual classrooms, warning that “violation of this agreement may result in RCS removing my child from the virtual meeting.”
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Trump Unleashes Hell on Child Sex Traffickers
This is why the elite are coming after POTUS.
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University of California Professor Claims “Fat-Phobia is Rooted in Anti-Blackness”
A sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine on Thursday said that the ever-increasing stigma surrounding obesity is connected to racism.
Sabrina Strings, who regularly covers topics related to race and health issues, told CBS News that the medical community’s outlook on weight issues originates from the oppression of African-Americans.
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Video: Joe Biden Supporters Steal 7-Year-Old Boy’s MAGA Hat, Attack His Mother
A video from outside of last night’s DNC Convention in Milwaukee shows two Joe Biden supporters stealing a MAGA hat from a 7-year-old boy before physically attacking his mother.
The mother Abbey and her son Riley were waiting for a table at a restaurant across the road from the Wisconsin Center when they were approached by two female Biden supporters.
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Video: DNC Uses Duplicate ‘Fans’ During Kamala Harris Livestream
In a bizarre move, the DNC appeared to duplicate members of a livestream audience to fill out the screen during Kamala Harris’ speech.
Following Harris’ speech, which leftist talking heads gushed over, dropping any pretence of bipartisanship, admitting that it ‘made them cry’, The DNC cut to a shot of individuals watching online.
However, critics noted that some of the individuals seen clapping like sealions were duplicated, apparently in an effort to make it appear that there were more excited Democrat voters watching.
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A study published Friday in the journal Cell suggests that everyone who gets COVID-19 — even people with mild or asymptomatic cases — develops T cells that can hunt down the coronavirus if they get exposed again later.
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Woke Capitalism: How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political Radicalism
It’s a rather strange claim of the American far left that their interests are opposed to that of corporate America, because there’s virtually no evidence to support it. Quite the contrary: During the wave of Black Lives Matter rioting that took place during the early summer of 2020, American corporations marched in lockstep. Not only did they use social media to swear fealty to this political movement, but they also made massive internal changes in conformity with BLM propaganda. It’s called “woke capitalism” and while it’s not necessarily new, it’s certainly more prevalent than it ever has been. The term itself was coined by conservative editorial writer Ross Douthat in 2018. He succinctly summed up what woke capitalism is: superficial nods toward cultural leftism that allow the company to do what it really exists to do — make money. You might be confused or think that there’s something ironic or askew about major corporations backing supposed “rebel” ideologies. However, this stems from a very surface understanding of the topic. When we delve deeper into it, the motivation for large corporations siding with ostensibly “anti-capitalist” groups will come clearly into focus.
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Doctors Urge Families to Wear Masks at Home as Belgians Tire of COVID Rules
Growing number of Belgians suspect coronavirus rules are power grab.
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EU Rejects Post-Brexit Deal on Returning Illegals, Trade Talks Deadlocked
European Union negotiators have reportedly rejected a British offer of a bilateral pact to return illegal migrants, while a seventh round of Brexit trade negotiations has again ended in deadlock.
Under the EU’s Dublin III regulations, migrants can be returned to the EU member-state where an asylum claim was first made. This covers some of the migrants currently crossing the English Channel from France in small boats, but once the United Kingdom leaves the EU’s institutions at the end of the present transition period on December 31st, 2020, that arrangement comes to an end — meaning that there may be no structure to return the thousands of illegals who have left French shores for Britain.
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Footage Shows Belgian Police Laughing and Giving Alleged Nazi Salute as Slovak Man Died in Jail Cell
Belgian police are investigating the death of a Slovak man who died two years ago in the hospital after being arrested at Charleroi airport. His family claims that he has been a victim of police violence and complains about the slow progress of the Belgian judiciary.
The 39-year-old Jozef Chovanec, who often traveled between Slovakia and Belgium for work, was detained on Feb. 23, 2018, at Charleroi Airport after a conflict with police officers. He was taken out of the plane, where, according to the police, he behaved violently. The captain of the plane thus refused to take off until he was removed, the BBC reported.
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The German Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt), which claims to promote the welfare of children, has taken away two children of a Polish mother, Klaudia Majewska, causing outrage in Poland and prompting press inquiries that the German office refuses to answer.
The Jugendamt separated the children, a 3-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy, and put them under the care of Muslim families from Turkey. In response, the Polish Association Against Child Discrimination in Germany has taken action, and a court hearing concerning the fate of the children is scheduled for Friday.
Majewska went to a social agency in Germany in 2018 to help find a home for herself and her family. She had been living at her mother’s home in the meantime. The Jugendamt instead decided to take her 6-month-old baby away from her, and later her young daughter. The children were put into Turkish Muslim families.
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Greta Thunberg Scolds Angela Merkel Over Ecocide
In a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg called on her, along with other world politicians, to treat the climate crisis like any other crisis. In an article published before the meeting, Thunberg and other activists labeled what Merkel and other EU leaders is doing as “ecocide”.
Belgian activist Adélaïde Charlier, who also attended the meeting, added at a press conference that Merkel had promised to be “braver”. The chancellor does not plan any press release related to her meeting with the activists.
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How Sweden Faced Reality and Did the Right Thing
Is “Sweden” a banned word now?
I’ll guess we’ll find out.
Why Sweden succeeded and the rest of the world failed — and how you are not being told about it.
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ISIS ‘Beatles’ Executioners Saved From Death Penalty by British Judges
U.S. Attorney-General William Barr has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel promising not to seek the death penalty against the so-called “Beatles” terrorists after British judges ruled the UK government could not provide the Americans with evidence against them if a conviction might result in their execution.
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Multicultural Brussels Has 3-4 Times More Tuberculosis Than Rest of Belgium
According to figures from Brussels ministers Alain Maron and Elke Van den Brandt, the Belgian capital has three to four times more new cases of tuberculosis than the rest of the country, with asylum seekers especially affected.
Belgium’s average rate of the disease is 8.6 per 100,000 people but in Brussels, the rate is 29.5 cases per 100,000, with the city representing 36 per cent of all new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the country that year. The numbers have been steadily rising since 2014.
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One Rule for Me: Irish and EU Politicians Caught Breaking Lockdown Rules at Party
Several prominent politicians in the Republic of Ireland were caught at a party a day after the Irish government announced large gatherings would be banned, prompting resignations and a police investigation.
On Tuesday, Ireland’s government tightened social distancing rules, including imposing a limit of six people for indoor gatherings — a reduction from 50.
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UK: Khan’s London: Robber Bit 75-Year-Old Woman’s Hand to Steal Wedding Ring
A robber who bit a 75-year-old woman on the hand to steal her wedding ring has in Hackney, London, has been imprisoned.
24-year-old Monique Roach, of no fixed abode, showed up at her elderly victim’s home in March and asked for £10. When the pensioner tried to close the door, Roach blocked it, “bit the victim’s left hand, took her wedding ring and ran off,” according to an official statement from the Metropolitan Police.
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UK: Social Distancing Sign Says: “Look Away When Passing Other People”
A coronavirus alert sign in the United Kingdom reminding people to maintain social distancing also tells them, “Look away when passing other people.”
The sign was seen in the northern market town of Stockton-on-Tees.
It says:
“CORONAVIRUS BE ALERT — NARROW WALKWAY AHEAD. Please ensure you keep your distance, pass others quickly, look away when passing other people.”
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What Happened in Sweden: Economist Notes Massive Surge in Severe Crime
Swedish economist Tino Sanandaji has revealed that while the number of reported crimes in Sweden has remained fairly steady, the severity of crimes and criminal violence has surged in the 21st century.
Sanandaji posted the statistics on his Facebook page, stating that while Swedes have seen a rise in newspaper headlines on violent crime, the government has pointed out that the rate of crimes overall is only slightly higher than the 1990s.
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‘What Are You Planning to Say?’ Pope Quizzed Whistleblower Priest, Book Claims
A low-ranking parish priest who agreed to give evidence against an archbishop accused of concealing child sexual abuse was mysteriously summoned to the Vatican before he was due to testify and allegedly quizzed by the Pope about what he was planning to say in court.
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Fears in Europe Grown as Turkey Reportedly Secures Naval Base in Libya for 99 Years
Turkey has reportedly secured a major naval base in the Libyan port of Misrata for the next 99 years, which is raising fears in Europe that Turkey could use the base to project military force and control migrant routes into Europe into North Africa.
In a deal with the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), recognized by the United Nations, Turkey would have access to a naval base located just south of Italy and France. Both countries along with others in the European Union, such as Greece, are worried that the base could cement Ankara’s growing power in the Mediterranean, according to Czech news portal Echo24.
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Turkey’s Strategic Plan for Libya
by Alex Kassidiaris
The Turkish and Qatari Defense Ministers recently visited Tripoli to meet the head of the Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj. Specifically, Hulusi Akar and Khalid Bin-Muhammad al-Atiyyah discussed what kind of support Doha and Ankara could provide to the Tripoli-based government. The discussion was held with the Libyan leader and other key figures of the GNA administration.
After examining the trilateral military cooperation agreement that was eventually signed, we can understand more about the long-term Turkish plans increasing their influence in North Africa.
Main Objectives of the Meeting
Akar was accompanied by Turkish Chief of General Staff Yasar Güler. Both played a crucial role in the outcome of the meeting. Libyan Deputy Defense Minister Saladin En-Nemrush also took part in the meetings and provided insights into the current readiness of GNA forces in terms of structure, personnel, equipment, and operational capabilities. The defense ministers of the supporting countries agreed to provide the GNA forces with cross-functional support, from logistics and military equipment to operational planning and training through expat military advisors.
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Caroline Glick: Is the Palestinian Veto Alive or Dead?
Since Israel was established, the Palestinian veto doomed all efforts to forge peace between the Arab world and the Jewish state.
The Palestinian veto rests on a toxic proposition that Israel’s right to exist is contingent on its satisfaction of Palestinian claims against it. So long as the Palestinians say they are unappeased, Israel cannot expect the Arab world to either recognize or live at peace with it.
The very existence of the veto has ensured that the Palestinians will never be satisfied with any Israeli concession and will never agree to peaceful coexistence with the Jewish state. After all, their global and regional importance is a product of the veto. The Arabs, and much of the rest of the world support the Palestinians because they wield the veto. As holders of the veto, the Palestinians are viewed as the key — or the key obstacle — to Middle East peace. If they give up, or lose the veto, they will lose their position and power to enable or block peace and foment war and instability.
As for the Arab leaders, for generations the Palestinian veto was the key to their own power and stability. It enabled them to deflect the attention of their peoples and of the governments of the world away from their corruption, extremism and failure at home and abroad. It enabled them to scapegoat Israel blaming the Jewish state for the suffering and stagnation of their people.
Given its toxic power, abrogating the Palestinian veto has always been Israel’s highest goal. And given its centrality for both the Palestinians and the wider Arab world, for most Israelis, it seemed like a dream so impossible that it wasn’t even worth dreaming.
The peace treaties Israel signed with Egypt and Jordan were concluded while genuflecting to the Palestinian veto. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat signed Egypt’s peace deal with Israel only after he concluded a framework deal for Palestinian autonomy with then Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.
King Hussein of Jordan only agreed to sign a peace deal with the Israeli prime minister Yitzchak Rabin after Rabin signed the Oslo peace deal with PLO chief Yassir Arafat on the White House lawn.
Since signing their peace treaties with Israel, Egypt and Jordan have continuously breached them by refusing to implement the clauses of their deals that require them to normalize their relations with Israel. Both use the Palestinian veto to justify their material breaches, which have reduced both “historic” treaties into little more than long-term ceasefires.
The big news last Thursday that with U.S. President Donald Trump’s mediation, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to develop full diplomatic ties is being presented as a strategic earthquake. This is so not because the announced deal advances commercial ties between the countries, nor is it being presented in this manner because the deal advances the Israeli-Arab campaign to prevent Iran from advancing its nuclear weapons program. While the deal does both of those things, it is being presented as a strategic earthquake because policymakers and commentators proclaim that it abrogated the Palestinian veto.
If these claims are true, then last Thursday Israel’s diplomatic standing was transformed…
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Tribunal Ruling Clears Hezbollah Leadership, But May Backfire
by Daniel Davis
A UN tribunal vindicated Hezbollah leadership of the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The ruling, delivered Tuesday, was the result of a 15-year investigation and deliberation.
Breaking Point
Although the group largely escaped blame, Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash was found guilty in the murder. Despite the fact that the tribunal’s conclusion was undoubtedly a victory for the group, it may do more harm than good. That is because the Lebanese people wanted justice.
“The trial chamber is of the view that Syria and Hezbollah may have had motives to eliminate Mr. Hariri and his political allies, however there is no evidence that the Hezbollah leadership had any involvement in Mr. Hariri’s murder and there is no direct evidence of Syrian involvement,” said Judge David Re, summarizing the 2,600-page verdict.
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Polish Radio Will Start Broadcasting for Belarus
The management of Polskie Radio S.A. (Polish Radio) has decided to modify its current schedule and will introduce special information programs in Belarusian on its First Program. The new information services will be dedicated to informing Belarusians about the current situation in Belarus.
Polish Radio told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that owing to the station’s transmitters in Central Poland, the First Program of the Polish Radio has coverage on long-waves of a 225 kHz frequency across almost all of Europe and that includes the entire territory of Belarus.
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Pakistani Minister Threatens India With Nuclear Attack “To Save Muslim Lives” on National TV
Tensions for India about to shift right back to its Western border.
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Black Teenager is Kicked and Punched in Sickening ‘George Floyd Challenge’ At a Sydney School
Footage was taken at the Parramatta Marist High School at Westmead, in Sydney’s Western Suburbs.
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Isata Jalloh and Banchi Techana (pictured) narrowly avoided jail time after flying into Western Australia on Monday and escaping hotel quarantine. Now they’ve vowed to return to the city ‘by force’.
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Luke Ashford, a senior employee with Parks Victoria, was seconded on May 25 to work as an authorised officer across seven different quarantine hotels.
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Chanel Bridget held an exclusive viewing of luxury handbags and clothes in her lavish Toorak home in Melbourne’s south-east on last week.
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The embattled state of Victoria has recorded 182 new coronavirus cases overnight, as figures continue to fall.
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Pastor, 16-Year-Old Girl Among 11 Christians Killed by Muslim Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria
A teenage girl, a church pastor, and a father of nine children were among 11 Christians murdered by Muslim Fulani herdsmen this week in southern Kaduna state, according to local sources.
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An Eritrean migrant who pushed a woman and a child at Frankfurt Central Station in front of an arriving train last year will not serve a prison sentence because he has psychiatric issues, but one of his victim’s believes the man knew exactly what he was doing.
The Eritrean man, 41-year-old Habte Araya, who was once used in a 2017 campaign to promote “successful integration” by the Swiss Workers’ Relief Agency, apologized for his actions in court through his lawyer but was not in attendance.
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Illegal Immigrant Featured at DNC Originally Slated for Deportation by Obama Administration
The illegal immigrant mother who was highlighted at the Democratic National Convention this week as an example of cruelty in President Trump’s deportation policies was originally flagged for deportation by both the Clinton and Obama administrations.
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The Deadly Consequences of Tolerating Illegal Immigration
When the Prince William County, Virginia, jail board recently took the unfortunate step of ending their 13-year-old 287(g) agreement with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), one particular statistic stood out. Since 2017, 1,612 out of the 2,639 illegal aliens the county handed over for possible deportation had been convicted of Driving Under the Influence (DUI). That’s an astonishing 61 percent — or more than three out of every five.
Yet that figure isn’t actually all that unusual. In Fiscal Year 2019, ICE deported over 267,000 illegal aliens. More than 74,000 of those deported had been charged or convicted of DUI. That’s over 27 percent, and by far the single largest category of crimes involved.
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Tucker Carlson Blasts Netflix Project for ‘Sexualizing’ Little Girls
Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized an upcoming Netflix film Thursday night for “sexualizing young girls.”
The Tucker Carlson Tonight host discussed “Cuties,” a film scheduled to release Sept. 9 that tells the story of 11-year-old Amy, a French girl who “joins a group of dancers named ‘the cuties’ at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity,” according to the movie’s description.
Carlson drew attention to a now-removed poster for the film that showed four young girls posing on a stage while dressed in tight outfits with exposed midriffs. Netflix apologized for the poster Thursday and updated the images, saying the company was “deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork” in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Take a look at the poster,” Carlson said. “What’s the first thing you think of? It’s sexualizing young girls, really young girls, not 16-year-old girls, like 11-year-old girls. The poster shows them dancing in cropped dance costumes. Some parents are offended — you should be offended by this — they’re trying to get ‘Cuties’removed from Netflix.”
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New Study Finds We May be Entering the Next Grand Solar Minimum
Galactic Cosmic Radiation in Interplanetary Space Through a Modern Secular Minimum” is a new paper just published in the journal Space Weather.
The paper’s abstract opens with: “Recent solar conditions indicate a persistent decline in solar activity — possibly similar to the past solar grand minima. During such periods of low solar activity, the fluxes of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) increase remarkably…”
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re-post because its so pathetic and hilarious
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8650483/Mother-eight-avoids-jail-taking-nearly-100-000-illegal-benefit-claims.html
https://europe.infowars.com/spain-busts-two-rings-smuggling-migrants-to-france/
Spain busts migrant smuggling rings
Philip Dick has a book called Simulacrum (I don’t know how it is called correctly in your country). This is about Putin. He finally turned into an information golem.
The Kremlin decided to limit Putin’s contacts until winter. Meetings with his participation will continue online
https://openmedia.io/news/n3/v-kremle-reshili-do-zimy-ogranichivat-kontakty-putina-soveshhaniya-s-ego-uchastiem-prodolzhatsya-v-onlajn-formate/
NO TRANSLATION SO IT’S USELESS.
Amazing arrogance. I don’t know a single foreign language (a little Polish), but it’s not a problem for me to send interesting news through an online translator. Sometimes even through two different online translators, if something is not clear to me.