I didn’t return home early enough to do any other posts, but at least there’s a news feed.
The most significant story is that Senator Rand Paul and his police escort were violently attacked by a BLM mob outside the RNC convention location in Washington D.C.
To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.
Thanks to Caroline Glick, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
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17 Facts That Prove the U.S. Economy is a Complete and Total Disaster Zone at This Point
If you know people that actually believe that the U.S. economy is moving in a positive direction, just show them this article. In all the years that I have been writing about the economy, I have never seen anything that even comes close to what we are experiencing now. More than 100,000 businesses have permanently failed, and tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs. If you still have a good job you should cling to it with all of your might, because there are so many families that have no idea how they are going to pay the bills next month, or the month after that, or that month after that. When it gets to the point where you can’t even pay the rent or the mortgage, financial worries can absolutely consume your life. If you have been there, you know exactly what I am talking about. And if you have children, that just makes things even worse. How do you explain to them that “home” is no longer “home”?
Another group of people that I feel really badly for are all the business owners that have had their dreams absolutely shattered. Starting a small business from nothing and building it into a success takes a massive amount of work, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for anyone that is able to do that.
Unfortunately, so many once thriving small businesses have now been destroyed by the events of 2020. For a lot of those small business owners, it isn’t just time and energy that have been lost. When you make your small business your passion, it becomes a part of who you are, and a lot of small business owners will never be the same again after this.
So please keep in mind that there are real people and real dreams behind each of the numbers that I am about to share with you. The following are 17 facts that prove the U.S. economy is a complete and total disaster zone at this point…
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Stocks rallied on Friday, powering both the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to new record closes and allowing the Dow to reverse all of the year’s losses, with investors encouraged by an accomodative Federal Reserve and a coronavirus crisis that hasn’t grown much worse.
In spite of stubbornly high unemployment data and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, traders have snapped up major technology stocks which continue to set the tone for a bullish market. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s pledged to try and nudge inflation higher, as part of a way to help normalize growth.
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“Off With His Head”: Protesters Put Trump Effigy in Guillotine Outside White House During RNC Speech
During President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, protesters just outside the White House placed a likeness of the president inside a guillotine to simulate executing him by beheading.
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Armies of lawyers have already been recruited, reasons to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election results are already being floated, and top politicians on both sides are already urging a fight to the bitter end. Initially, it appeared that we might avoid this sort of a scenario. For several months Joe Biden had a large lead in all of the major national polls, and some people were even discussing the possibility of a “landslide”. But now the polls are tightening up, and this is especially true in the swing states which will ultimately decide the outcome of the election. If the race is quite tight once we get to election night, it is likely that neither side will be willing to concede until every conceivable legal challenge is completely exhausted. That could mean an extended legal battle lasting for months, and that is something that none of us should want to see.
But it appears that such an outcome could be quite likely. In fact, former FEC chair Michael Toner is warning that the 2020 election could potentially be “Bush v. Gore on steroids”…
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America’s Insanity and Mistake Trap
When people hear the word “insanity,” they conjure up the image of someone out of touch with reality and out of control; a dysfunctional person fit to be tied. Yet, insanity comes in numerous types as well as degrees. It is also widely prevalent in groups, even in the nations as a whole. One common and troubling form of insanity is, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” warned Albert Einstein. When individuals make mistakes, the consequences are limited. But when nations make mistakes, the results can be catastrophic. It is disheartening to see the world’s best hope for freedom and democracy, the United States of America, repeatedly making the same mistake at crucial junctures. Once again, America is at a critical point and facing troubles in several hotspots both at home and abroad.
I believe this rather unique definition applies in many respects to the 2008 general election and has been proven once again to the American people when taken in retrospect, we seem to forget the history of electing socialist Democrats into the Oval Office after the disaster that was Jimmy Carter in the mid-70’s with all too unintended consequences and negative results and again voted for an even more radical socialist in the person of Barack Obama in November 2008.
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A large group of white protesters can be seen crowding around the table of a white woman at a Washington DC restaurant and demanding that she raise her fist to comply.
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Arrests Made After ‘Suspicious Vehicles With Out-of-State Plates’ Stopped in Kenosha
As officers closed in, the driver of the minivan attempted to pull away.
[Comment: Likely Commie agitators.]
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As Kenosha Burns, CNN Continues “Mostly Peaceful” Riots Propaganda
A CNN reporter described the mayhem in Kenosha as “mostly peaceful” even as cars set on fire by rioters burned behind him.
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Biden Says President Trump is “Rooting for More Violence, Not Less”
In an interview on MSNBC Thursday amid ongoing protests and riots around the nation, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused President Trump of “rooting for more violence, not less.”
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Black Lives Matter Mob Tries to Attack Rand Paul Outside RNC
An angry Black Lives Matter mob tried to attack Senator Rand Paul outside the Republican National Convention in DC during yet another night of mayhem.
“Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob,” tweeted the Senator.
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Black Man Stabbed ‘Random’ White Autozone Employee in the Neck After Watching Police Shooting Videos
On Tuesday morning, a 19-year-old black man in Columbus, Ga., allegedly entered an AutoZone and stabbed a white employee in the neck. Police arrested the suspect, Jayvon Hatchett, on Wednesday. At his arraignment Thursday morning, Hatchett reportedly said he decided to stab a “random” white man after watching videos of police shootings.
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Local police said ID found by the body indicates it may be Sergeant Fernandes. He had transferred units after reporting sexual abuse, officials said on Sunday. The disappearance of Fernandes shed light on a string of tragedies that have plagued the Texas Army base; 15 soldiers connected to base have died this year
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The real explanation behind hate crime hoaxes.
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Chicago Business Owners Get Ready for Weekend Protests: ‘I’M Nervous’
CHICAGO (CBS) — As Chicago police are planning for some protests Saturday in the downtown area, local businesses are bracing for them.
Some stores were looted twice this summer and warn they won’t survive if that happens again.
CBS 2’s Jeremy Ross reports from the Loop with more on how stores are preparing.
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Climate Activist: Deaths From Hurricanes Are ‘Lower Than Ever’
Well-known climate activist Michael Shellenberger reported Thursday that hurricanes are not increasing in frequency and “deaths from natural disasters are at their lowest point in 120 years.”
Contrary to the fabricated hype from climate change alarmists, Mr. Shellenberger — a Time magazine Hero of the Environment and winner of the 2008 Green Book Award — writes in Forbes that “hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters aren’t getting worse. They’re getting better. Much better.”
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CNN Describes “Mostly Peaceful” Riots as Kenosha Burns
A CNN reporter described the mayhem in Kenosha as “mostly peaceful” even as cars set on fire by rioters burned behind him.
Omar Jimenez describes “multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the course of the night” before characterizing the unrest as “largely peaceful.”
The CNN chyron below Jimenez described the events as “fiery but mostly peaceful.”
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CNN Political Analyst Claims “There’s Very Little Rioting”
CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers reacted to President Trump’s RNC speech last night by absurdly claiming “there’s very little rioting.”
Yes, really.
“Let’s be honest Don and you do make this point over and over,” said Powers, addressing host Don Lemon.
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Cold Weather Kills More People Than Heat, Illinois Study Finds
Extreme weather days have been on the rise worldwide since the advent of global warming. But a new U.S. study finds that cold weather is responsible for most temperature-related deaths in Illinois.
Researchers analyzed data on heat— and cold-related injuries that required a hospital visit in the state between 2011 and 2018. They identified around 24,000 cases each related to the cold and to heat.
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Columbia Journalism Review Explains How the Gates Foundation Manipulates the Media Narrative
Most of the feature stories published by the Columbia Journalism Review, a mostly-digital biannual “magazine” published and edited by the Columbia School of Journalism and its staff, is sanctimonious media naval-gazing filtered through a lens of cryptomarxist propaganda, written by a seemingly endless procession of washed-up magazine writers.
But every once in a while, just like the NYT, Washington Post and CNN, even CJR gets it (mostly) right. And fortunately for us, one of those days arrived earlier this month, when the website published this insightful piece outlining the influence of the Gates Foundation on the media that covers it.
Most readers probably didn’t realize how much money the Gates Foundation spends backing even for-profit media companies like the New York Times and the Financial Times, some of the most financially successful legacy media products, thanks to their dedicated readerships. For most media companies, which don’t have the financial wherewithal of the two named above, the financial links go even deeper. Schwab opens with his strongest example: NPR.
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Daycare Worker Arrested After Allegedly Hitting, Throwing Child
Suspect reportedly put food on floor for kids to ‘eat like dogs’
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Cuomo, Whitmer, Murphy, Wolf given two weeks to comply.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to the governors of four states requesting data on COVID-19 numbers and public nursing homes, as well as copies of state guidance about public nursing homes and coronavirus.
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“They make you suggestible; they make you more likely to follow someone else’s direction and do things you wouldn’t otherwise do”
As Theodore Dalrymple wrote, “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
The point of face masks is not to protect humans, but to diminish humanity — to rob people of their ego, their identity, and their autonomy. Masks are worn by disposable horror movie villains and ignorable background dancers; they make people less-than-human.
Dehumanisation is rarely followed by anything good.
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Facebook Removes Kenosha Militia Group That Had Given “Call to Arms” To Protect Against Protests
Shortly after the shooting deaths of two Kenosha protesters, Facebook acted to take down a militia group called “Kenosha Guard” that had formed to promote resistance to the demonstrations.
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Fake Trump Put in the Guillotine Outside the White House While Crowd is Screaming & Chanting
Outside the RNC 2020 area near the White House demonstrators placed a fake Donald J. Trump in a guillotine. Meanwhile crowds of protesters, a blend of Black Lives Matter agitators and general anti-Trump was screaming and chanting. Others participated in harassing and yelling at RNC guests.
“Someone just put a fake Trump on the guillotine in front of the White House. There’s a piece of paper on him that says Ticket — Fascist, Rapist, Criminal” [Twitter @ShelbyTalcott]
This video contains clip with Democrat Vice President Candidate Kamala Harris: Back in June (2020) she was in the Stephen Colbert show saying that protests will not stop, “and they should not let go” she added.
[Comment: These rabid commies won’t stop until all opposition is dead — literally.]
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SEATTLE — The father of a man shot and killed inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone in June has filed three claims against local government amounting to $3 billion.
Horace Anderson, the father of 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson, filed claims Thursday against the city of Seattle, King County, and Washington state over the death of his son inside the CHOP zone.
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Flock Safety National License Plate Tracking Program is Built on Fear
Flock Safety has turned fear and suspicion into a national business model, where anyone and everyone is a suspect.
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Florida Man Friday: Mutant Mosquitos Bring Armageddon to Key West
Is it Florida Man Friday already?
It’s been a crazy-busy couple of weeks, liveblogging eight nights of conventions over just 11 days.
So instead of wasting your time with a witty intro, how about we just get straight to the titillating action on another thrill-a-minute…
Florida Man Friday!
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Free Speech Org Launches Public Push to Change Law Protecting Big Tech Censorship
August 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The conservative Media Research Center (MRC) is calling on concerned Americans to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging it to review a contentious portion of federal law at the heart of the battle over free speech online.
Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act immunizes websites from being held liable for the third-party content they host, such as posts or tweets by social media users. This provision has been credited with helping the internet thrive, and in recent years, it has been seen as a potential means of addressing the increasing control internet platforms exert over right-of-center content.
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Rioters enjoy privilege of collecting bail donations while 17-year-old’s legal defense fund is instantly banned.
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GoFundMe Removes Campaigns for Kyle Rittenhouse
GoFundMe and rival site Fundly have both removed funding campaigns for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with first degree homicide after shooting three rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night.
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Gun Owners of America Comes to Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense
On August 27, 2020, Gun Owners of America (GOA) Senior Vice President Erich Pratt issued a statement regarding Kyle Rittenhouse’s decision to act in self-defense.
It read as follows:
Based upon publicly available video evidence, it appears that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. And despite fake news media reports, it is clear that Kyle was not firing indiscriminately into a crowd.
Trending: 17-Year-Old Kyle Rittenhouse Shot ANTIFA Pedophile and Domestic Abuser Dead in Kenosha
GOA has reached out to Rittenhouse’s attorneys and the Lake County Public Defender’s office, and we have our own attorneys and use of force experts looking into this case, as well. In the meantime, we demand fair treatment from the media, because up till now, their coverage has been horrific. With no evidence, they have labeled Kyle as a racist and a vigilante, but that just indicates how the media elites view all gun owners.
More to the point, the media has given more favorable coverage to rioters and looters over the past several months than to gun owners who appear to be protecting their lives from violent attackers. The media excuses the violent torching of American cities as ‘mostly peaceful’ protests. And they now minimize the hatefulness of Kyle’s attackers, calling them mere ‘protestors.’
But if Leftists want to question why Kyle Rittenhouse was in Kenosha, then they should begin by asking that question to the ‘protestors’ who have criminal records and who have come from out of town to terrorize business owners.
The bottom line is this: every human being has a God-given right to protect themselves. And when a person’s life is under attack, the Constitution protects their ability to use firearms without ‘infringement’ in the defense of that life.
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Footage from Kenosha does not support first-degree murder charges for 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.
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It is Live or Die Time America
The result of the leftists iron grip on the education of American students has resulted in a precipitous decrease in Judeo/Christian ethics. That development has led to a decline in almost every single sector of society. Over twenty years ago, I told certain Christian ministers that because they and many other Christian leaders proudly turned their backs on America, evil individuals and organizations would cause our republic to turn away from Christianity. It pains me to realize that to a certain degree I was correct. Today, many cities including Detroit have large satanic statues. Yet statues of Christian American heroes like Frederick Douglas have been ripped down by cancel culture goons. They have been unleashed onto the streets of our great cities to literally destroy our exceptional way of life.
The time has come for those of us who love this republic to push back against the evil political darkness being promoted by the democrats. They and their RINO and never Trump allies, would rather see the USA destroyed than experience a second Donald Trump presidency with prosperity and liberty. The reason they most often state is that they do not like Donald Trump’s personality. When I read about my fellow Christians who find President Trump to be harsh, I shake my head and pray for their addled brains. Either they do not know, or they refuse to recognize that it is a “harsh” personality that is needed during these turbulent times. By the way, throughout history God favored men with chutzpah, be they King David of ancient Israel, General George Patton, Gideon, General Douglas MacArthur, Frederick Douglas and Ulysses S. Grant, just to name a few.
Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is one generation from extinction,” unfortunately, his words have never rung truer. In fact, our precious liberty may be one election from extinction. If there is a Democrat victory in 2020, we will be forced upon a path that will literally lead America deep into the hell of socialism. The radical Democrats will shackle our economy with a Green New Deal, force us to give up our unalienable rights, while granting special rights to criminals like illegal border crossers and American street thugs. Under Democrat dominance, there would be even more economic dysfunction and permanent social strife. Black Lives Matter cretins will be even more emboldened to wreak havoc and try to force sovereign citizens to live in the misery they are hoping to inflict everywhere throughout our nation.
My fellow Americans, it is all hands on deck in the effort to save our republic from the Democrats and to restore the principles that made the United States the envy of the world.
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Jacob Blake Had Outstanding Arrest Warrant for Sexual Assault Facing Upto 8-1/2 Years in Prison
Jacob Blake had an outstanding arrest warrant for sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse. Police were responding to a domestic incident at a home in the area when Blake was shot, though nature of the dispute is unclear. Although viral video showed a cop shooting Blake while reaching for something in the car, another video from a different angle showed him brawling with the cops on the pavement. In 2015, Jacob Blake was charged with resisting arrest causing a soft tissue injury to a police officer while pulling a gun at the bar for which he was facing upto 8-1/2 years in prison.
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Judge Gives EPA One More Chance to Do Its Job and Halt Fluoridation of Drinking Water
In August, a landmark David-versus-Goliath federal lawsuit brought by citizens against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to end fluoridation of drinking water took another giant step forward.
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Judge Rules 50,000 Iowa Absentee Ballot Applications Invalid
A state judge has invalidated more than 50,000 absentee ballot application forms sent to voters in Linn County, Iowa, the second-largest county in the state.
The county auditor’s office almost completely filled out the ballot applications, despite the secretary of state’s directions that only the election date be included. The auditor’s actions may have also been against a state law that forbids government workers from filling out the forms.
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Kenosha Rioter Allegedly Shot in Head by Kyle Rittenhouse Was Convicted Pedophile
Man fatally shot by 17-year-old has sex offense with a minor.
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Kenosha Police Stop 3 Out-of-State Vehicles, Arrest 9 People on Suspicions of Inciting Violence
Kenosha police stopped three suspicious vehicles on Wednesday night and arrested their occupants on suspicion of what police said was “preparing for criminal activity related to civil unrest.”
A citizen tip notified police that the occupants of a black school bus, bread truck, and tan minivan — all with out-of-state plates — were planning to meet in a remote lot outside of town. Assisted by U.S. Marshals, police followed the vehicles to a gas station, where the suspects were seen attempting to fill several fuel cans.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Did Nothing Wrong
He was charged with 1st degree murder to satiate the Black Lives Matter mob.
Kyle clearly acted in self-defense.
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Lawsuit Filed Against Merck for Lying to Doctors & Moms About the HPV Gardasil Vaccine
Apparently, Merck failed to properly test Gardasil before the HPV vaccine was fast-tracked and then administered to millions of young girls and boys throughout the world. Furthermore, Merck knew or had reason to know that its vaccine was not even effective but did not warm the medical community nor the public. “The company wrongfully concealed information and further made false statements concerning the safety and efficacy of Gardasil.”
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Leftists Hurl Racist Abuse at Black, Naturalized RNC Speakers
In a telling display, Hollywood and media leftists engaged in a tirade of attacks on black and naturalised speakers at the RNC, ironically charging that the GOP is attempting to hide its own racism behind a display of diversity.
The speakers who were the target of the abuse included First Lady Melania Trump, Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former professional football player Herschel Walker, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
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Man Killed by Kyle Rittenhouse Used N-Word, Provoked People to “Shoot Me”
The convicted child molester who was killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a confrontation in Kenosha repeatedly used the n-word and tried to provoke other people to shoot him, a video from the evening of the incident shows.
36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum was one of two men killed by Rittenhouse, who was not the first to discharge his gun and was clearly acting in self-defense.
Following the shooting, it was revealed that Rosenbaum was on Wisconsin’s sex offender registry and was convicted for “sexual conduct with a minor.”
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Man Shot in the Arm by Kyle Rittenhouse Says His Only Regret Was “Not Killing the Kid”
The Black Lives Matter protester in Kenosha who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse says that his only regret was “not killing the kid,” a statement that will do wonders to help Rittenhouse’s self-defense argument.
Gaige Grosskreutz, who was caught on camera pointing a gun at Rittenhouse before the teenager shot him in the arm, made the comments after doctors were able to save the limb from being amputated.
According to his friend Jacob Marshall, who is pictured with Grosskreutz, the BLM supporter’s “only regret was not killing the kid and hesitating to pull the gun before emptying the entire mag into him.”
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Man Who Attacked Kyle Rittenhouse With Skateboard Convicted for Domestic Abuse, Twice
Alleged Rittenhouse victim convicted of strangling a domestic partner.
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Mets, Marlins Walk Off Field After 42-Second Moment of Silence
As team after team announced they would refuse to play games in protest of Jacob Blake’s shooting, the New York Mets and Miami Marlins still decided to take the field on Thursday.
And then they walked off.
After rumblings of a potential player protest, the Mets took their places on the field as scheduled. However, starting pitcher Michael Wacha did not throw a warm-up pitch, and the teams did not exchange lineup cards.
Marlins outfielder Lewis Brinson stepped into the box and both teams seemed in position to start playing, but only 42 seconds of silence, likely in honor of Jackie Robinson, followed. Both teams then exited the field, with Brinson leaving a “Black Lives Matter” shirt at home plate.
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Michelle Obama sharply criticized white Americans on her latest podcast episode published on Thursday, saying that even when she was first lady, white people would treat her like she “doesn’t exist.”
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Minneapolis: Rioters Loot Stores in Response to Black Man Shooting Himself
Rioters in Minneapolis looted stores in response to a black man shooting himself in the head in an incident that had nothing whatsoever to do with police brutality.
Wow.
Almost as if people who attach themselves to Black Lives Matter have nothing to do with seeking “justice” and everything to do with wanton, opportunistic criminality.
“Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo dispelled rumors on social media about the death of the unidentified Black man suspected in a Wednesday afternoon homicide who later fatally shot himself on the Nicollet Mall as officers approached,” reports CBS Minnestoa.
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New York Times Must Face Sarah Palin’s Defamation Claim: Court Ruling
NEW YORK (Reuters) — A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times’ bid to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit over an editorial she said wrongly linked her to a 2011 mass shooting.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said there was “sufficient evidence to allow a rational finder of fact to find actual malice by clear and convincing evidence.”
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NFL Legend Brian Urlacher Mocks NBA for Boycotting Over Sex Offender, Supports Kyle Rittenhouse
‘NBA players boycott the playoffs because a dude reaching for a knife, wanted on a felony sexual assault warrant, was shot by police.’
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NHL Calls Off Thursday and Friday Playoff Games in Social Justice Protest
Following a similar move by the NBA, the NHL announced Thursday that it will postpone all of Thursday and Friday’s playoff games in a show of protest on behalf of the cause of social justice.
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NPR Claims That Calling a Riot a “Riot” Is Racist
NPR published an article claiming that calling a riot a “riot” is offensive because it’s “rooted in racism.”
Yes, really.
The article was written by Jonathan Levinson for Oregon Public Broadcasting, the Portland NPR affiliate.
Portland has experienced 93 days of continuous rioting — last night was the first time in that entire period that the city has not seen unrest — but according to Levinson, merely calling a spade a spade is a racist dog whistle.
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Poll: Biden Popularity Tanks Following DNC
Following the complete snooze fest that was the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden has actually managed to get LESS popular.
Rasmussen confirmed the findings Wednesday, highlighting that Sleepy Joe is now at 46 percent support, while a week ago, the same poll had Biden at 48 percent.
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President Trump Wants Drug Tests Before Presidential Debates Against Joe Biden
President Trump has announced he will seek drug tests for both himself and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ahead of the first presidential debate next month.
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Protesters Build Guillotine in Front of Jeff Bezos’ House
The day after the fortune of Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and world’s richest man, reached $200 billion, a group of people protesting for higher pay constructed a guillotine in front of his Washington home.
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Public Coronavirus Fears Wane, So What’s Next?
It sure looks like Americans can only be lied to for so long before they wake up and realize they were scammed. As the fears over the coronavirus wane, it’s important to remember that the elites need you in fear to submit to their New World Order system of control, so another crisis could be incoming.
We already know the election is going to be an ugly mess; the mainstream media has done their job of using predictive programming so the elites can model the most destructive scenario. It’s all a rigged game, and past time for us to say en masse: “we’re not playing anymore.”
But could something be in the works even before the election since the public is becoming less fearful of the coronavirus? Without fear, people won’t willingly submit to their own slavery. The ruling class (government puppets) and the elitists (Federal Reserve banking cartel) need you to be afraid so that you will need them. We need to send a bold message that we DON’T need masters and are unafraid of their manufactured crises.
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Roger Stone Exclusive: Senate Intelligence Report on Russia a Criminal Fraud
Their motive is to damage and defame President Trump and his associates by any means necessary, until he is driven from office.
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Seattle Antifa Group Arrested in Kenosha With Riot Gear, Controlled Substances
Members of Riot Kitchen 206, “a no charge kitchen serving protestors, activists, movements and those in need in Seattle WA” have been arrested by authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin after police suspected that they were “…preparing for criminal activity related to the civil unrest.”
Kenosha police released a statement following the arrests that acting on a tip, they had surveilled the vehicles with out of state plates fuelling gas cans. The vehicles contained gas masks, helmets, protective vests, illegal fireworks and suspected controlled substances.
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Support for Black Lives Matter Plummets in Wisconsin Amidst Kenosha Riots
Support for Black Lives Matter in the key swing state of Wisconsin has plummeted from +25 approval to zero amidst the riots in Kenosha.
The city has been plagued by rioting, looting, violence and arson all week following the police killing of Jacob Blake, culminating in the Tuesday night shooting of three BLM protesters, two fatally, by a 17-year-old who acted in self-defense.
A new poll suggests that the bedlam is turning people against Black Lives Matter, and by proxy Joe Biden, who has endorsed BLM on numerous occasions.
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Suspected Teen Gunman Kyle Rittenhouse Spotted Cleaning Kenosha Graffiti Before Shooting
The suspected teen shooter who killed two Kenosha protesters and injured a third Tuesday night was photographed cleaning graffiti in the city just hours before the violence.
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, Illinois, allegedly traveled into Kenosha and affiliated himself with a small but heavily armed militia that claimed to be helping law enforcement protect the city after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Before allegedly being filmed shooting protesters during a tense confrontation, Rittenhouse was spotted joining other volunteers in cleaning graffiti from a high school nearby the Kenosha County Courthouse.
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Texas County Drops From 4600+ Active COVID Cases to Under 100 After Audit
Coronavirus impact has been politically exploited and grossly overstated
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Trump: Biden Now Condemning Rioting ‘Because His Poll Numbers Are Going Down Like a Rock’
President Trump mocked Joe Biden and the Democrats in his RNC speech last night, saying that it’s ‘too late’ to start finally addressing violence and rioting throughout America’s cities now their ‘poll numbers are going down like a rock’.
“Joe Biden and his supporters remained completely silent about the rioters and criminals spreading mayhem in Democrat-run cities. They never even mentioned it during their entire convention,” Trump urged.
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Trump Lands Major Endorsements From Democrat Mayors in Minnesota
A number of Democrat mayors from Minnesota endorsed President Donald Trump for a second term on Friday as Vice President Mike Pence campaigns in the state.
“Like many in our region, we have voted for Democrats over many decades. We have watched as our constituents’ jobs left not only the Iron Range, but our country. By putting tariffs on our products and supporting bad trade deals, politicians like Joe Biden did nothing to help the working class. We lost thousands of jobs, and generations of young people have left the Iron Range in order to provide for their families with good-paying jobs elsewhere. Today, we don’t recognize the Democratic Party. It has been moved so far to the left it can no longer claim to be advocates of the working class. The hard-working Minnesotans that built their lives and supported their families here on the Range have been abandoned by radical Democrats. We didn’t choose to leave the Democratic Party, the party left us,” the letter, signed by Virginia Mayor Larry Cuffe, Chisholm Mayor John Champa, Ely Mayor Chuck Novak, Two Harbors Mayor Chris Swanson, Eveleth Mayor Robert Vlaisavljevich and Babbitt Mayor Andrea Zupancich, states.
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Twitter Locks Ann Coulter’s Account Over Kyle Rittenhouse Praise
Twitter locked the account of bestselling conservative author Ann Coulter over a tweet praising Kyle Rittenhouse, despite the fact that the platform initially informed her that her tweet did not violate the rules.
Coulter says the platform also deleted the tweet on her behalf, not giving her a chance to appeal the decision.
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Betrays President Trump’s GOP, Plans to Endorse Many Democrats This Year
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is turning its back on the Republican Party with President Trump as GOP figurehead and is increasingly backing Democrats, as the blue team becomes the establishment party for globalism and corporate dominance.
The Chamber is getting ready to endorse nearly a dozen House Democrats for re-election to U.S. Congress, as they use their lobbying muscle to re-fortify the Washington D.C. swamp. Some of the group’s conservatives donors are reportedly enraged as a result.
Chamber President Suzanne Clark, Chief Executive Officer Tom Donahue and Executive Vice President Neil Bradley hope that their hand-picked slate of candidate endorsements will be approved on Thursday at a committee meeting. As a result of this betrayal, donors are threatening to pull their money and board members are expected to quit the organization entirely.
Big League Politics has reported frequently on the U.S. Chamber being one of the most powerful interests lobbying to subvert President Trump’s “America First” trade and immigration policies:
[Comment: CoC is an organ of the Deep State. Many of its decisions are invariably against the interests of the USA.]
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U.S. Marshals Find 39 Missing Children During “Operation Not Forgotten” In Georgia
More than three dozen children have been found in Georgia as part of a two-week search and rescue operation spearheaded by the United States Marshals Service.
“Operation Not Forgotten” resulted in the rescue of 26 children, the location of another 13 children, and the arrest of nine associated criminals.
Those arrested had a combination of 26 warrants out for them, including 19 arrest warrants, investigators with the USMS reported.
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Video: Gun Toting Couple Warn if Democrats Win, They Will Enable the Mob
“Democrats no longer view the government’s job as protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.”
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Video: Violent Leftist Mob Attacks Rand Paul, Trump Convention Speech Attendees in D.C
Republicans leaving the White House following President Donald Trump’s historic convention speech were assailed by a vicious mob of Black Lives Matter leftist rioters, with the crowds attacking Senator Rand Paul.
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Video Analysis Proves Kyle Rittenhouse Did Not Shoot First
New video analysis of the incident in Kenosha during which two people were shot dead proves that Kyle Rittenhouse did not shoot first and acted in self-defense.
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Video: Democrat Rep. Says Gun Owners All Have “Small Genitals”
A Democratic Congressman prompted backlash this week after he claimed that anyone owning a gun in America has small genitals.
Illinois Rep. Sean Casten made the comments during a Zoom call with college students last week.
“If you are a constitutionalist, unless you’re a member of well-regulated militia, tell me why you need to own a gun, right? Having small genitals is not a sufficient reason to own a gun,” Casten declared.
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Violent Clashes in DC Between Protesters, Police After RNC
Violent clashes erupted in Washington, D.C., between protesters and police after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Thursday night.
The protests started as a “noise demonstration and dance party” and seemed to intensify as the night continued. Videos emerged on social media that appeared to show city police clashing with protesters throughout city streets.
Protesters yelled and threw water bottles at police at the historic St. John’s Church, which is near Black Lives Matter Plaza. Police made a string of arrests.
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Virginia Requires Student Vaccination for Online Learning
There are many factors to consider when deciding whether in-person or online education should be used. One of the most obvious is that classmates are not exposed to any viruses their peers may be carrying.
That’s why it’s such a shock to see that Virginia and some other states are now requiring vaccinations for students to even register for school: Why should shots be mandated if school is totally online and conducted at home? This is the latest in a long line of efforts to remove the rights of parents and children to refuse vaccines.
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Virginia Senate Democrats Pass Bill to Reduce Assaulting Police Officers to a Misdemeanor
The Virginia Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that would reduce the penalty for assaulting law enforcement officers from a felony to a misdemeanor, as long as the officer is not injured. Senate Bill 5032, if enacted, would also remove the mandatory six-month jail sentence for assaulting police officers.
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White House to Release ‘Dossier’ Of Fake News Reporters
The Washington Post reports that The White House has been prompted to compile a dossier of ‘false’ claims by reporters about President Trump, after the Post itself published a story with the headline “Room rentals, resort fees and furniture removal: How Trump’s company charged the U.S. government more than $900,000.”
“The Washington Post is blatantly interfering with the business relationships of the Trump Organization, and it must stop,” said Deputy White House press secretary Judd Deere.
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Wisconsin Store Owner Weeps After 40-Year Business is Burned Down During Kenosha Riots
A business owner broke down in tears after seeing her furniture store torched during riots sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Linda Carpenter and her son Scott told Town Hall reporter Julio Rosas Tuesday that their B & L Office Furniture store had been in business for 40 years. They were completely disheartened to find it reduced to ashes.
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Wisconsin Mom’s Support of ISIS Terror Group Gets Her 7 Years in Prison
A Wisconsin mother of seven accused of hacking Facebook accounts to provide support to the Islamic State was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Waheba Issa Dais, 48, of the Milwaukee suburb of Cudahy, was convicted of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. Prosecutors said Dais admitted to hacking Facebook accounts to pledge her allegiance to the terror group and to communicating with other supporters.
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Wow, Joe Biden Confused Jacob Blake With Kyle Rittenhouse
This is the kind of stuff that makes Nancy Pelosi scared of Joe Biden debating Donald Trump.
On Thursday, Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, appeared to confuse Jacob Blake, who was shot by police while reaching into his car, and 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot rioters in what appears to be self-defense in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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1000 German Doctors Say COVID-19 is 100% a Scam
Close to 1000 German doctors speaking out against their governments and WHOs official narrative. Doctors around the world joining their movement. Must watch and share!
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Banksy-Funded Ship Rescues 89 Migrants From Mediterranean
Aug. 28 (UPI) — A rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy pulled 89 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea this week, the operation announced Friday.
The boat, the Louise Michel, is splashed with bright pink paint and features reproductions of the artist’s famous artworks, including one of a girl holding a heart-shaped life preserver. The vessel is named after a 19th century French feminist anarchist.
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Berlin Bans Protest Against Pandemic Restrictions, Deploys Thousands of Police
“The Senate is trampling on fundamental rights.”
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‘British FBI’ Bust Pakistan Heroin Ring, Seize 59 Properties Worth £17m
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized some 59 properties worth an estimated £17 million after busting an organised crime ring importing massive quantities of heroin into Britain from Pakistan.
The serious and organised crime focused law enforcement agency, roughly equivalent to America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), got ringleader Ameran Zeb Khan and seven other men in the dock for sentencing in July 2017 after a years-long investigation kicked off by UK Border Force discovering a 165 kilos (over 360 pounds) of uncut heroin concealed in a shipment of industrial lathes.
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British Government Issued Blanket DNR Order for Elder-Care Homes
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, officials for the British government’s National Health Service ordered care homes for the elderly to implement blanket “Do Not Resuscitate” orders, a report has found.
Ten percent of home-care staff complied with the DNR order without consultation with family members, nursing staff or the residents themselves, according to the report by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, the London Telegraph reported.
The report’s author, Professor Alison Leary, has called for an investigation.
Deborah Alsina, chief executive of the Independent Age charity, said, “Do not
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Construction Firm Accused of Using Foreign Workers in Slave-Like Conditions
A Swedish construction firm has been accused of exploiting foreign workers, with one union representative accusing the company of engaging in modern slavery-like practices.
A lawsuit has been brought against the concrete firm Formbetong by the Swedish building workers’ union Bynggnads and alleges that the company has exploited foreign workers paying as little as 96 Swedish kronor (£8.34/$10.96) on average for over 337,000 hours.
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Germany Imposes Fine for All Non-Mask Wearers in New National Crackdown
It should surprise nobody that this happens first within the EU. While much of the world takes to mask-wearing more out of a social and health consciousness “most people are on board” type attitude, the government of Germany has announced fines as punishment for people not wearing them.
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German Study: Lockdowns Led to 31% Drop in Treatment of Heart Attacks
BERLIN, Germany, August 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — During the German coronavirus lockdown in March and April, hospitals treated 31 percent fewer cases of heart attacks and 18 percent fewer cases of strokes than at the same time last year, a recently released study found.
The study was commissioned by Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK), a union of 11 regional health insurance agencies in Germany. While the study did not take into account all people living in Germany, it is nonetheless indicative of the situation in the country, given that roughly 27 million people — about one third of the German population — have health insurance through AOK.
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Handful of Deportations Go Ahead as Illegal Migrants Hunger Strike
The British Home Office has managed to deport a small group of illegal migrants despite a hunger strike by detainees at Brook House.
Two small groups of six migrants each were removed to France and Germany, with another 15 being removed in the last week, according to the BBC — but these numbers are dwarfed by the more than 5,000 known to have crossed the English Channel illegally in small boats since the beginning of 2020.
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Italy: Govt Summit OKs Path to Single TLC Network
CDP CEO Palermo explains plan
(ANSA) — ROME, 27 AGO — A government summit on Thursday gave the green light to TIM and CDP’s plan to set up a company to create a single telecoms network in Italy.
The planned new company will manage the infrastructure of the single broadband network, sources said.
CDP CEO Fabrizio Palermo illustrated the contents of the deal to the ministers and majority leaders present at the summit.
At the meeting, Premier Giuseppe Conte, Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri, Industry Minister Stefano Patuanelli, Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede and other ministers met delegation chiefs from the ruling majority including the 5-Star Movement (M5S), the Democratic Party (PD), Italia Viva (IV) and Free and Equal (LeU).
Phone company TIM Managing Director Luigi Gubitosi met with the managing director of government bank CDP, Palermo, on Wednesday.
CDP owns 50% of the Open Fiber network infrastructure firm.
Further talks are expected ahead of a TIM board meeting on Monday.
TIM shares soared over 5% on the Milan bourse Wednesday.
Telecoms trade unions Slc Cgil, Fistel Cisl and Uilcom Uil have asked Premier Conte to table talks with them too.
They voiced opposition to a public network on the Open Fiber model.
“A strong subject is needed,” they said.
“This task can be carried out by TIM”, they said, with CDP taking a bigger stake in the telecoms group.
TIM on Thursday reached a deal with Tiscali on Fibercop.
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While persistently insisting it deserves to be funded by a compulsory tax because it serves the whole nation, Britain’s state broadcaster, the BBC, seems to have disastrously misread the public mood when it announced changes to the Last Night of the Proms concert, with only a small minority backing them.
An increasingly political to-and-fro that has lasted all week started on Sunday when reports emerged that the BBC was planning to drop Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory from the Last Night of the Proms, a live annual broadcast of patriotic music that over the past half-century has become a firm part of the British summer season calendar.
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Frankfurt am Main (AFP) — A verdict is expected Friday in the trial of an Eritrean man who fatally threw a boy under a train in Germany, with the suspect likely to be placed in psychiatric care.
Habte Araya, 41, stands accused of pushing the eight-year-old boy and his mother onto the tracks in an apparently random attack at Frankfurt’s main station in July 2019.
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Outgoing BBC Boss: In Future, TV Tax Could be Compulsory for All
The outgoing boss of Britain’s state broadcaster the BBC has discussed the future of the increasingly unpopular television licence fee, eyeing a new universal system paid even by people who don’t own televisions or radios.
The BBC is presently paid for through a so-called licence — in reality a tax on anyone who operates a television or digital device to receive live programmes from any broadcaster, or who watches BBC programming on-demand.
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Swiss Townsfolk Tell Authorities: Sort Out Migrant Crime or We Will
Locals in the Swiss town of Neuchtel have offered an ultimatum to local authorities, saying they must deal with the growing problem with migrant crime or the residents will take matters into their own hands.
The ultimatum was spread across the Swiss town on dozens of posters that called on police to act against the problem of delinquency committed by mainly North African migrants.
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Revolutionism is fundamentally Jacobin. What does this mean? Who were the original Jacobins?
They were a group of far left activists and political operatives who came of age in Revolution-era France. They drew inspiration from Enlightenment thought, especially the strain that led from Rousseau to Robespierre, through whom they enacted the Terror.
The Jacobins believed it possible to place all of a society’s institutions under the microscope of an abstract “Reason,” raze them to the ground if they didn’t measure up to “rational” ideals of liberty, equality, and the fraternity or brotherhood of [all] men, and build up a new society on an Enlightenment-based, “rational” footing.
For those who didn’t measure up, the original Jacobins’ favorite device for dispatch was the guillotine.
Historically, what results from revolutions is always tyranny, since the old “irrational” order must be purged. Everything that would threaten the new order must be gotten rid of. This means all independent thought and writing must be crushed. Those unwilling to get with the program may be guillotined as in France, or with the strains of Jacobin revolutionism to come, shot, set to gulags, or otherwise destroyed. Entire populations that don’t fit the “rational” plan become nonpersons and may be “canceled.”
Thus the elimination not just of the French monarchy but the ousted king’s entire family.
Thus the Soviets’ elimination of all opponents of collective farming, with Stalin adding a new wrinkle: deliberate policies that resulted in mass starvation.
Thus the fate of Jews who didn’t flee Nazi Germany.
Is America falling prey to the “virus” of Jacobian revolutionism? You better believe it!
I’m not referring just to Antifa anarchists and Black Lives Matter cultural Marxists. They are just tools — agents of chaos, one might say, whose primary targets are conservative white people (liberal whites, as fellow Jacobin fellow travelers, get a pass, for now).
These movements are bankrolled by a powerful Jacobin globalist named George Soros, probably among others of the revolutionist power elite.
The forces behind the planned Great Reset, scheduled to be the main topic of next January’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland,are Jacobin to the core.
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The boys were set upon allegedly by a 21-year-old and an 18-year-old at around 11pm on Saturday evening in Solna, Sweden.
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UK Govt Scientist Admits Lockdown Was a “Monumental Mistake on a Global Scale”
Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think of anything better to do.”
“Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease,” said Woolhouse, who is now calling on the government to unlock society before more damage is done.
“I never want to see national lockdown again,” he added.
“It was always a temporary measure that simply delayed the stage of the epidemic we see now. It was never going to change anything fundamentally.”
The professor asserts that the impact of the response to coronavirus will be worse than the virus itself.
“I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by COVID-19,” said Woolhouse.
Richard Sullivan, professor of cancer at King’s College London, previously warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths over the next 5 years than the number of people who die from coronavirus in the UK due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdown, which is preventing cancer victims from getting treatment.
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UK: ‘Activist Lawyers’ Block Deportation of Every Single Migrant on Planned Removal Flight
Lawyers have successfully frustrated the government’s efforts to deport every single illegal migrant on a planned return flight to Spain.
Dozens, sometimes hundreds of illegal migrants have been crossing the English Channel from France in small boats in recent months, with none being turned back by the Border Force, very few being turned back by the French authorities, and only a small minoritybeing deported at a later date.
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Vatican: Coronavirus ‘Harbinger of Future Crises Relating to Climate Change’
ROME — The Vatican released a joint document with the World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursday calling for greater attention to the environment in “a post-COVID-19 world.”
“The human misery associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is taking place amid the broader context of the suffering of this planet,” notes the text, which bears the title “Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19.”
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Caroline Glick: The JCPOA and the Demise of the Post-Cold War Order
Many eulogies of Brent Scowcroft, president George H.W. Bush’s national security advisor who died on August 6, have referred to him as a foreign policy realist. Whereas the question of his putative realism boils down to how you define the term, it is very clear that Scowcroft was an institutionalist.
His institutionalism passed away at the UN Security Council last Thursday.
As one of the chief architects of the United States’ post-Cold War foreign policy, Scowcroft believed the end of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry ushered in a new period of great power comity that would enable international institutions—first and foremost, the United Nations—to replace states as the primary actors on the world stage.
In a 1999 interview, Scowcroft explained that he reached this conclusion after the Soviets supported U.S. condemnations of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
In his words, “I hypothesized that the fact of the Soviets standing up beside us and denouncing [Iraq’s] aggression in Kuwait was a seminal event in the world. We had set up the United Nations in ‘45 with the notion that the Great Powers would really have responsibility for security around the world. It had never worked. We [the U.S. and the USSR] came up on the opposite sides of every crisis. Maybe that was ending. If that was ending, could we look forward to a world where the kind of naked aggression that had been the bane of mankind could be ended, that the Great Powers could actually act as the framers of the U.N. had in mind?”
The Soviet support for the U.S. at the UN in the lead-up to the 1991 Persian Gulf War fed the hopes of Scowcroft and his colleagues that we were indeed witness to the UN’s emergence as the central instrument of a cooperative post-Cold War “New World Order.”
But far from a seminal event in world history, the Kremlin’s support was an expression of profound, albeit momentary, weakness. Months after the Gulf War, the Soviet Union collapsed and was replaced by the Russian Federation. As Russia emerged on the world stage, like the Soviet Union before it, it built its power and position as a superpower in opposition to the U.S.
Scowcroft’s institutionalist legacy of U.S. action in the framework of the UN Security Council died last Thursday, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that in light of Iran’s substantive breaches of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, (JCPOA, i.e., the Iran nuclear deal), the U.S. is triggering the so-called “snapback” clauses of UN Security Council Resolution 2231…
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U.S. To Reduce Troop Presence in Iraq by Roughly One-Third, Pentagon Reports
The Pentagon is expected to reduce U.S. troop force in Iraq by roughly one-third over the next couple of months, U.S. officials said on Friday.
The United States currently has 5,200 American troops deployed in Iraq to fend off the Islamic State militant group.
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Ukraine Reimposes Ban for Foreigners Over Virus Surge
After record increase in coronavirus infections
(ANSA-AFP) — KIEV, 26 AGO — Ukraine on Wednesday banned foreigners from entering the country for one month after health officials registered a record increase in coronavirus infections. The ex-Soviet country of 42 million people reported a record daily increase in new infections on Saturday with 2,328 positive tests. Officials have repeatedly threatened to reintroduce anti-virus restrictions that were eased in May and June, saying citizens were ignoring social distancing rules and other preventative measures. The government announced on Wednesday it would close its borders to foreigners beginning Saturday until September 28.
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Female Muslim YouTuber Arrested for Making Derogatory Remarks Against Hindu Gods and Goddesses
Fanatic Heer Khan Exposed: Female Muslim YouTuber arrested for making derogatory remarks against Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
Sumitra Singh | HENB | Prayagraj | Aug 27, 2020:: Prayagraj police officials on Tuesday nabbed a Muslim woman YouTuber for making objectionable remarks against Hindu gods and goddesses in her latest videos.
Fanatic content creator, Heer Khan, based out of Khulbad in Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), sparked outrage on social media for making derogatory remarks against Hindu gods and goddesses, after one of her controversial videos went viral. In her video rant, the Youtuber can be heard making objectionable and abusive comments against Hindu deities.
On Tuesday, she uploaded a rant video in which she abused Hindu gods and the video raked over 10,000 views in just a few hours. As people condemned the video, the hashtag #ArrestHeerKhan started trending on Twitter.
Soon after Heer’s videos started gaining attention online, Twitter users trended #ArrestHeerKhan for insulting Hindu gods.
Heer Khan is an exact example of how radical Islamism makes even women call for sex & crimes against ‘Kaafir’ girls and women.
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“Communist Party an Enemy of Humanity”: Chinese Dissident Slams CCP During RNC Speech
‘It is terrorizing its own people, and it is threatening the wellbeing of the world.’
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China has suspended beefs imports from a fifth abattoir in Queensland after Scott Morrison threatened to tear up Victoria’s massive infrastructure deal with China.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Confirms Resignation Due to Health Concerns
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirmed Friday he is resigning from his position due to his health, which started declining in the middle of July.
The 65-year-old official, who suffers from an inflammatory bowel disease, told reporters during a press conference that he did not want his illness contributing to any policy mistakes.
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The prime minister wants new laws to stop states and territories signing deals with foreign powers that go against Australia’s foreign policy and damage the national interest.
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Man Who Killed 51 People in 2019 Christchurch Attacks Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole
A 29-year-old Australian man who pled guilty to killing 51 people in a shooting spree at two Muslim mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been sentenced to life in prison without any possibility for parole.
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The working class suburb of Dandenong has overrun with police again.
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55 Migrants on Crippled Yacht Safely Towed to Greek Island
ATHENS, Greece — A crippled yacht carrying 55 migrants has been safely towed to port on the southeastern Aegean Sea island of Rhodes following an overnight search and rescue operation, Greek authorities said Friday.
Two of the people on the yacht were arrested on suspicions of working with a trafficking ring that arranged for the migrants to illegally enter Greece from nearby Turkey. Officials said everyone on the vessel was in good health.
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Angela Merkel said she would ‘make essentially the same decisions’ when a journalist questioned whether she regrets opening the German border to migrants in 2015.
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The Morrison government will scrap the hours cap and remove time limits on government-provided English classes from Friday.
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Austrian Synagogue Attacker Has Asylum Status Removed
A Syrian asylum seeker believed to be behind the vandalism of a synagogue in the city of Graz has been stripped of his asylum status and is being investigated as a member of a terrorist group.
The 31-year-old Syrian migrant confessed to several crimes while in police custody, including attacks on the Graz synagogue and attacking the president of the local Jewish community Elie Rosen with a chair leg.
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After a couple hundred individuals blocked traffic outside of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building, a couple people in the group vandalized and disabled security cameras affixed to the building. Federal Protection Officers emerged from the building and were struck by projectiles, including a rock which injured one of the officers, prompting an unlawful assembly and several arrests.
The group, roughly 200 people, began a march from Elizabeth Caruthers Park, located in the 3500 block of South Moody Avenue, about 10 p.m. The group walked directly to the ICE building in the 4300 block of South Macadam Avenue. Many in the crowd carried shields, wore helmets, gas masks, and body armor.
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Hungary Closes Its Borders Again
New restrictions has been announced on Friday due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Gergely Gulyas, the head of the prime minister’s office said at his weekly press conference that even today’s relatively high numbers can still be considered good, but the coronavirus epidemic is clearly spreading.
The majority of infections are coming from abroad, and the greatest risk is the threat this poses to the economy, jobs and the start of the school year, Gulyas warned.
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Italian General Proposes Blocking All Ships Suspected of Carrying Illegals
Italian General Vincenzo Santo has proposed that the country’s naval forces work with Libya and Tunisia and block suspicious boats in the Mediterranean that may be carrying illegal migrants.
General Santo, the former head of NATO operations in Afghanistan, has called for a maritime blockade on migrant boats reaching Italy and said that any migrants who are not entitled to asylum in Italy will be repatriated by the navy.
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Migrants: Bosnia: Protests Multiply Against Refugees
In northwest, at border with Croatia. Fears for safety
(ANSAmed) — BELGRADE, 24 AGO — Local residents in Velika Kladusa, in the far northwest of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the border with Croatia, staged new protests against a consistently increasing number of migrants.
Local residents denounced violence, thefts, and intimidation on the part of groups of refugees loitering in the area.
The residents complained of an increasing threat to their safety.
Incidents and fights among rival groups of migrants are also frequent, requiring law enforcement to intervene.
With the resumption in recent weeks of migrants journeying along the Balkan Route, an increasing number of refugees in northwest Bosnia-Herzegovina are trying to cross the border into Croatia and continue on to Western Europe.
Some of the migrants refuse to be hosted in local migrant reception centres, instead preferring to remain free to pursue any chance to cross the border.
Local authorities estimate there are at least 7,000 migrants currently in Velika Kladusa and Bihac.
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Migrant-Background Men Accused of Raping and Torturing Underage Boys in Swedish Cemetery
Two men, allegedly of a migration-background have been accused of raping, robbing and brutally torturing two underage boys over a period of ten hours in a cemetery in the Swedish city of Solna.
A 21-year old and an 18-year old have been accused of torturing the two boys and stabbing both of the boys as well, reports Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
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Police Apprehend Hungarian Smuggling 24 Illegal Migrants in Truck
The police detained a Hungarian driver on his way to Austria early on Thursday after they found that he was transporting 24 migrants without travelling documents in his truck, western Hungary’s local police reported.
The passengers are believed to be Syrian and Afghan nationals, while one person said he was coming from Grande Comore island.
Legal proceedings have been initiated against the smuggler, while the migrants will be returned to the border, the police website said.
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Sweden: Middle Eastern Men Arrested in Rape, Torture of Boys in Cemetery
Both suspects already convicted of crimes before horror attack.
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‘Take Back Control’? — UK Net Immigration Rises to 313,000, Driven by Non-EU Arrivals
Net immigration reached an estimated 313,000 in the year from March 2019, leaving the Conservatives’ pledge to reduce the migrant inflow even further from being realised.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, based on outgoing International Passenger Survey (IPS) estimates which likely understate the true scale of the influx, indicate that “715,000 people moved to the UK (immigration) and around 403,000 people left the UK (emigration)” over the period, with EU migrants down from their peak but arrivals still outstripping departures by 58,000.
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Trump: Biden Will ‘Eliminate America’s Borders in Middle of Global Pandemic’
“They want to open our borders while living in walled-off compounds and communities.”
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COVID Crisis is a Godsend for the Davos Elite Plan to Run Your Life as They Rob You Blind
Have you heard about the ‘Great Reset’? It’s the World Economic Forum’s new plan to reshape the post-Covid world. It’s top of the agenda at the next conference in Davos. You might not like some of the ideas in it, but they are presented as if they have been decided on your behalf. On the Great Reset website, you are blasted with visions of the apocalypse. Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF, shares his views:…
Those behind the Great Reset have decided that ‘capitalism and socialism will need to merge’. It’s hard to know what they mean by this, but you can assume it’s the worst of both worlds — think China, not Sweden. This is also where you meet their doublespeak. They acknowledge that privatisation has delivered poor public services. But the WEF is an organisation full of corporations growing fat on public-sector contracts. So their answer is more of the same, including rip-off public-private financing. You won’t find any articles on the WEF website about what elected governments could achieve with the state, even when it can borrow money at zero per cent interest. Thankfully, the Great Reset has thought of a good way of compensating us for crap public services: Universal Basic Income. We will pay for this by taxing wealth and passive income. But before you celebrate, that means the middle class will eventually be crushed by a double whammy of tax and inflation.
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The world’s leading language experts have noted that young people are ‘fundamentally’ altering written communication based on what they perceive to be aggressive or offensive.
In particular, the use of the full stop, or period, in sentences is diminishing according to linguists because it has come to signify annoyance or offence.
“Full stops are, in my experience, very much the exception and not the norm in [young people’s] instant messages, and have a new role in signifying an abrupt or angry tone of voice,” notes Owen McArdle, a linguist at the University of Cambridge.
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Man Accused of Hate Crime Yelled “Black Lives Matter” Before Stabbing White Victim
An African-American man yelled “black lives matter” before stabbing his white victim and now faces attempted 1st degree murder and hate crime charges, according to police in Aurora, Colorado.
The incident occurred on Tuesday night near East Alameda Avenue and South Sable Boulevard when 30-year-old Steve Sinclair approached 29-year-old Michael Conner and told him, “I’m going to kill you and your dog.”
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The Totalitarian Future Globalists Want for the Entire World is Being Revealed
All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a “police state”; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety. The use of “the law” as a tool for injecting tyranny into a culture is the first tactic of all totalitarians.
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Why the Ruling Class’s Pursuit of the Great Reset is Bad News for Humanity
The great global economic reset is being planned at the current time by World Economic Forum (WEF) members, who include ECB President Christine Lagarde, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and many other State leaders from around the world, in response to the massive global suffering that the banking class initiated through its coordinated economic lock down of 7.8 billion people on planet Earth. Though the great global economic reset is being disguised as humanitarian efforts to help us, I assure you that this is not the real mission of this reset. So, what does the WEF global economic reset initiative really entail, you ask?
To begin, though I’ve been stating that the draconian, non-science based economic lockdowns being implemented around the world in response to the coronavirus is tied to the global financial meltdown that started this year and the narrow avoidance of complete financial collapse this past March (of which I wrote about extensively here), even though the majority of people still fail to make the obvious connection between the lockdowns and the reshaping of the world into a new world economic order with a permanent nobility and serf class and total destruction of the middle class. Consequently, for those unable to see what is quite obvious to the educated, the WEF even spells out the dastardly mission of their global economic reset in plain sight for all to read on their website.
“The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible…Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.”…
Although the above mission sounds beneficent, given the parasites that populate the World Economic Forum that have been so duplicitous in their entire careers up to this point, it would be extremely foolish to believe that the WEF global reset is a humanitarian endeavor instead of a misanthropic one. From experience in observing the dealings of the members of the WEF, we know that this statement only disguises their opportunism and thirst to engage in crisis capitalism — the ability to make rapid significant change in a condensed period of time under emergency conditions that would otherwise be impossible during a normal functioning period of time.
For example, Bill Gates’s desire to vaccinate every single human being on planet Earth with his covid19 endeavor may be an extremely dangerous one given that the development of this vaccine has not only been rushed and may lack the proper timeline of clinical trials to ensure its safety, but also may never even result in the development of an effective vaccine. In any event the WEF has laid out its guidelines, with the Bill Gates funded Gavi Alliance, for the covid1984 vaccine as if it is a given that one will be mandated for the world’s population:
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https://www.meforum.org/61415/gurfinkiel-on-the-reverse-colonization-of-france
“[Muslims] make up 20% of [France’s] younger brackets.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-53959492
“Protest against Koran-burning turns violent in Sweden”
Has it? I thought according to the BBC violent savages rioting was a “mostly peaceful” form of protest?
BBC “Barbarians Before Christians”
That’s how it was during the fall of the western Roman Empire? I’m being silly again.?
At the demonstration in Berlin: Army deployed with Leopold tanks — this is unconstitutional! Scroll down below the Robert Kennedy interview for video:
https://michael-mannheimer.net/2020/08/29/berlin-29-8-2020-lifestream-zu-wichtigsten-demo-der-deutschen-geschichte/
PS: for online translation this is much better than Google (just doesn’t take URLs as conveniently, you have to copy&paste the text into it):
https://www.deepl.com/translator
Footage from the anti-lockdown protest in London, MSM will undoubtedly lie about the number of people.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bob_london/status/1299696653847457792
https://mobile.twitter.com/SlawomirWoznia1/status/1299688907563393025
A British woman in Maldives was manhandled and arrested by Muslims for wearing bikini.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1226997693337067521
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7977671/amp/Bikini-clad-British-woman-manhandled-arrested-Maldives.html?__twitter_impression=true
I wasn’t even aware the Maldives were Islamic.
thats a six month old article
Search your local area if you want something serious and super savage. Gang rapes. Live burials. Fifth column work. Child marriage. Men with four wives and slaves. Koran’s lie and low life. Pay your taxes.
Demonstration in Berlin: Police tried to dissolve it in defiance of earlier court orders, today the Constitutional Court itself orders them to let it be:
https://www.compact-online.de/sensation-verfassungsgericht-in-karlsruhe-erklaert-aufloesung-der-querdenker-demo-fuer-rechtswidrig/
(Translate with https://www.deepl.com/translator)
So Merkel wants a million more? Sure, it isn’t going to affect her. I think this is her revenge for the wall coming down and the collapse of the east.
This whole corrapted government has to go ASASP!!, vote AFD this only and last chance to put this country in the right place really ..
She can’t exactly own up to huge mistakes months before leaving office. Typical political trash covering their [fundament].
What passes for law enforcement these days is a joke.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Marsh4LL1/status/1299723231109287937
Oh and ignore the leftist muppet that tweeted the video.