A gang of “youths” attacked a group of firemen in the heavily culturally enriched district of Molenbeek in Brussels. The firefighters were reportedly deliberately lured into an ambush when the mischievous youngsters set fire to a dumpster.
In other news, a 20-year-old man in Uganda was beaten to death by members of his family as punishment for his conversion to Christianity.
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New Bill Would Strip Arrested Rioters of Federal Unemployment Benefits
A new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would make people convicted of crimes associated with rioting and looting ineligible to receive federal unemployment benefits, including those related to the coronavirus pandemic.
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“I Hate Brussels Sprouts” — Jacob Blake’s Father Stuns CNN Host With Incoherent Responses
As Jacob Blake Jr. remains handcuffed in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot seven times by Kenosha police last week, his father, Jacob Blake Sr., joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday for an interview.
Cooper asked Blake Sr. a series of questions during the interview about the incident, which involved his son and police officers. Some of Blake Sr.’s responses stunned the liberal-leaning news host.
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While mayor Lori Lightfoot continues to try and assure the public that she has everything under control, the exodus from Chicago as a result of the looting and riots is continuing. Citizens of Chicago are literally starting to pour out of the city, citing safety and the Mayor’s ineptitude as their key reasons for leaving.
Hilariously, in liberal politicians’ attempt to show the world they don’t need Federal assistance and that they don’t need to rely on President Trump’s help, they are inadvertently likely creating more Trump voters, as residents who seek law and order may find no other choice than to vote Republican come November.
And even though residents understand the looting and riots in some cases, they are not waiting around for it to get better on its own, nor are they waiting around for it to make its way to their house, their families or their neighborhoods.
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Chicago Gun Violence: 5 Dead, At Least 14 Wounded in Shootings Across City
Chicago police say five people have been killed and at least 14 others have been wounded in shootings across the city this weekend.
The city’s first fatal shooting was reported at approximately 7 p.m. in the 4600 block of North Kasson. According to police, an 18-year-old man was standing on a sidewalk when a person got out of a dark-colored SUV and began firing shots at him.
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Chicago Protest: Hundreds Aiming to ‘Shut Down the Mag Mile’ March From Michigan Avenue to Loop
CHICAGO (WLS) — Hundreds of people gathered in Chicago along Michigan Avenue and marched into the Loop Saturday, calling for for an end to police brutality.
Protesters wanted to shut down the Mag Mile, but many businesses there were already closed.
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Don Lemon: “I Don’t Really Understand How People Say CNN is Biased”
CNN’s Don Lemon, who is billed as an objective news anchor and not an opinion host, did an interview with Mediaite in which he claimed that CNN is not biased, is not negative on Trump, and merely reports the facts.
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Frustration Mounts as Violent 2020 Continues in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Some Philadelphia residents are expressing their frustration, and taking action, as a violent year continues.
The city is closing in on 300 homicides for the year so far, with 298 people killed as of Friday afternoon.
At this point in 2019, 224 people were killed. The total amount of homicides for that year was 356.
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Gun Rights Group Fundraising for Legal Defense of 17-Year-Old Charged in Deadly Kenosha Shooting
A conservative gun rights group earlier this week announced that it is fundraising to support the legal defense fees of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois 17-year-old charged in the shooting deaths of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday.
On the same day Rittenhouse was charged, the National Foundation for Gun Rights released a statement announcing its campaign to assist him, saying he was ambushed by “an angry mob of rioters, and tackled to the ground.”
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Instagram Starts Hiding Hashtag Results for QAnon
Instagram is now hiding results for #QAnon — the main hashtag for the popular movement that has been suppressed across most of the mainstream social media platforms.
Instagram users that attempt to view the hashtag are presented with a message that states: “Posts for #qanon have been limited because the community has reported some content that may not meet Instagram’s community guidelines.”
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Jacob Blake March in Kenosha: Thousands March With Blake Family
Jacob Blake Jr., who’s 29, was shot seven times by a Kenosha police officer who was responding to a domestic situation. The incident is now under investigation…
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Lawyer of Accused 17-Year-Old Kenosha Shooter Claims Self-Defense Amid New Video
The lawyer representing 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who’s been charged in two shooting deaths amid violent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, claims his client was acting in self-defense and has done “nothing wrong.”
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Man Swings Sword at Crowd During Police Brutality Protest in Downtown Sacramento
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Updates from the protests in Downtown Sacramento:
11:10 p.m. Update
It appears crowds were less destructive Friday night, but CBS13 crews witnessed several instances of graffiti and some damage to buildings. Some windows at the Sacramento Music Circus were broken.
At one point, a man started swinging a sword at some members of the crowd. It’s unclear who the man was affiliated with. No one was hurt in the incident. Police quickly subdued the man and he was taken away in an ambulance.
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Minnesota College Student Pleads Guity to Offering Support to Terrorists
Minneapolis college student Tnuza Jamal Hassan pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to the foreign terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda.
According to the defendant’s guilty plea and court documents, Hassan, while a student at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, drafted and anonymously delivered a letter encouraging two other students to join al-Qaeda.
However, she denied involvement with the letter in a later interview with FBI agents.
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Neuralink: Elon Musk Unveils Pig With Chip in Its Brain
Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.
“It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” the billionaire entrepreneur said on a webcast.
His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials last year.
The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their mind.
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New Jersey Town Bills Teenage BLM Protest Organizer $2,500 for Police Overtime
In what appears a case of epic trolling by a local New Jersey police department (or more seriously a severe violation of 1st Amendment rights), a teen organizer behind a Black Lives Matters rally was billed by local police for $2,500 for their overtime pay.
In the town of Englewood Cliffs, which sits across the river from Upper Manhattan, an eighteen-year old girl and recent high school graduate named Emily Gil organized a protest on July 25. It turns out to have been relatively small and peaceful, with a mere 30 to 40 people gathered in front of the town’s administration offices on a single day.
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Officials Blame Sacramento Antifa for Vandalism After Jacob Blake Protest, Call in National Guard
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — As they prepare for more planned protests on Friday, authorities are vowing to stop and prosecute the people behind the unrest that took place in Downtown Sacramento on Thursday night after demonstrations over the police shooting of Wisconsin man Jacob Blake.
Crews were boarding up windows and cleaning up broken glass outside the Sacramento County district attorney’s office overnight.
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert had harsh words for the group who appeared to be behind the destruction.
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler sent a letter to President Trump on Friday, which he then posted to Twitter, declining the president’s offer to send federal assistance to help quell months-long unrest in the city.
In the letter, Wheeler blasted Trump’s offer as a “cynical attempt to stoke fear and distract us from the real work of our city,” saying, “There is no room here for racist violence or those who wish to bring their ideology of hate into our community.”
Wheeler concluded the letter with “Stay away, please.”
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Sandia Labs Goes Nuclear on Employee Who Sparked Internal Revolt Over Critical Race Theory
Sandia Labs — America’s premiere government-funded nuclear weapons design lab, has taken aggressive action against an employee, Casey Peterson, who produced a viral video “pushing back on the narrative of modern systemic racism and white privilege.”
Here’s the long and short of it via Christopher Rufo — director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty, who has directed four documentaries for PBS, Netflix and international television — and has declared ‘war’ on critical race theory.
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The Georgetown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has demanded the resignation of Mayor Brian Henry of Pawleys Island, South Carolina after he posted that the Black Lives Matter and Antifa movements must be “treated like the terror organizations that they are” on his personal Facebook page.
In the now-deleted post, Henry wrote that he was “sickened by the senseless killings” of Charles Nicholas Wall and his stepdaughter Laura Ashlee Anderson who were gunned down on Monday in an apparent road rage attack in Georgetown. Ty Sheem Ha Sheem Walters III has been arrested and charged with their murders.
“2 white people defenselessly gunned down by a black man. Tell me, where is the outrage?” Henry wrote.
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Trump Campaign Rakes in $76m During RNC
The Trump Campaign, Republican National Committee, and their joint-fundraising committees raised $76 million during the Republican National Convention this week, officials told Fox News.
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UCLA Researcher Arrested, Charged With Destroying Evidence in China Espionage Probe
Authored by Jon Street via Campus Reform
Chinese national and University of California-Los Angeles researcher has been arrested for allegedly throwing away a damaged hard drive while the FBI was investigating him for transferring sensitive U.S. data to China’s National University of Defense Technology.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that 29-year-old Guan Lei “falsely den[ied] his association with the Chinese military” during interviews with federal law enforcement officials. Lei has since admitted that he participated in Chinese military training.
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Breaking: Mob Tears Down Statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Downtown Montreal
The John A. Macdonald statue at Place du Canada in Montreal was torn down on Saturday afternoon by anonymous “Defund the Police” protestors.
Video posted to Twitter shows the toppling of the bronze statue, which was erected in 1895.
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Victoria Police Ticket 20-Year-Old Man $2,300 for Hosting a Party
A 20-year-old BC man was fined $2,300 by Victoria police for hosting a party at his residence in alleged violation of coronavirus restrictions.
The youth spoke out against the police’s decision to fine him for the get-together, claiming that he had followed some protocols to ensure everyone’s safety.
“I had a party man. It wasn’t even a party, it was like a hangout. I gave everybody hand sanitizer, I took everyone’s name down, I showed the cops that and they did not care, they said ‘whatever, you are getting the ticket,’“ said the host Nate Christian.
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On Friday, riots broke out in the city of Malmo in Sweden after a member of the ‘Stram Kurs’ group burnt a copy of the Quran.
The burning of the Quran was a part of an anti-Islam protest which took place in the city, following the arrest of one Rasmus Paludan. He is the leader of a Danish anti-immigration political party ‘Hard-Line’ and was supposed to hold a meeting in the city.
Authorities have informed that Paludanone had been banned from Sweden for two years due to concerns about him breaking the Swedish law. As such, he was stopped at the border and was denied entry into Malmo. Last year, Paludan had set a Quran on fire after wrapping the book with a piece of bacon.
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Attack on Polish Church Highlights Disturbing Growth in Anti-Catholic Crimes
Acts of hatred towards the Catholic Church, Catholics and anything associated with Catholicism are increasing throughout the world, including in Poland.
This time, the Salesian Church in Przemysl, located in southeast Poland, was the victim of an act of vandalism that occurred right in the middle of mass.
A man attending church, Dariusz Lasek, described the incident on his Facebook account. According to him, a young man entered the church during the mass and destroyed an antique statue of an angel.
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Horses Being Killed, Ritually Mutilated, ‘Emptied of Blood’ Across France
PARIS (AP) — Armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, attackers are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations.
Police are stymied by the macabre attacks that include slashings and worse. Most often, an ear — usually the right one — has been cut off, recalling the matador’s trophy in a bullring.
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New Rule of Law Attack Launched Against Hungary and Poland
The European Parliament is again part of the problem, not the solution, Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga said in a social media post on Thursday.
She was reacting to the fact that four European Union factions sent a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country currently holds the rotating European Union presidency as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, also from Germany, demanding that EU budget payments to rule of law criteria.
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Poland: Leftist Militias Are Being Trained in Warsaw’s City Center: Report
In the last few months, several crimes — called “incidents” by the media — associated with intensifying LGBT protests have occurred in Poland. Some commentators have pointed out that in place of peaceful protests, acts of violence have occurred, including attacks on police officers and religious symbols being vandalized.
Just as in the West, Poland has seen the appearance of “anti-fascist” groups in the country, which are radicalized to the extent that they have created their own militias.
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Protest Against Koran-Burning Turns Violent in Sweden
Protesters against the burning of a Koran by far-right supporters in Sweden have clashed with police during several hours of rioting.
Cars were set on fire and shop fronts were damaged in the clashes in the southern city of Malmö which have now been brought under control. There were several arrests.
Earlier on Friday, police barred far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan from attending the Koran-burning rally.
His supporters went ahead regardless.
Swedish police turned Mr Paludan back at the border, saying there was a two-year entry ban for him.
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Report: £100 Million of Swedish Taxpayer Cash Went to Radical Islamic Groups
A study has revealed that 49 companies and groups run by Islamic radicals have done businesses with local and national Swedish authorities and have been paid 1.2 billion Swedish kronor (£104,136,000/$137,400,000).
The taxpayer cash has been paid to the groups and companies over the last five years, with some of the people involved in the companies being open radical Salafists while others are said to have been violent Islamic radicals who fought abroad for terrorist groups like the Islamic State.
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Report: Northern Ireland Suffers Attacks on Places of Worship Every Three Days
Northern Ireland has registered over 600 attacks on churches and other places of worship over the past five years for an average of one attack every three days, a new report reveals.
CARE NI, a Christian charity, made a Freedom of Information request and found that there have been 601 crimes recorded as criminal damage to religious buildings, churchyards, or cemeteries in Northern Ireland since 2014/15.
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Twitter Censors News Outlet Poland Daily and Conservative Commentator @BasedPoland
Twitter has ramped up censorship of Polish conservative voices and censored the account of Poland Daily, which published the English-language version of conservative television station TV Republika.
The tech giant also censored the account of popular conservative commentator Adam Starzynski, who posted under the @BasedPoland handle. His highly influential account launched a conservative movement of conservative “Based” accounts such as BasedSpain, BasedBelgium, and BasedHungary.
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UK: 4,500 Extra Police to Fight Climate Protests, Raves Across London
More than 4,500 extra officers will be deployed on London’s streets over the bank holiday weekend to police a fresh wave of environmental protests and dozens of illegal raves to replace Notting Hill Carnival.
The Extinction Rebellion group plans to target airports and block roads with rallies, marches, and sit-ins as it renews its campaign of “non-violent direct action” which last year brought central London to a standstill.
Anneka Sutcliffe, from XR Actions Circle, said a “few thousand” people had indicated they would join the protests, with marches starting from Tate Britain, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Cathedral and Smithfield Market to converge at a central location.
Meanwhile, Met chiefs have urged people to stay away from the traditional carnival route and watch this year’s festivities online. Officers have intelligence that up to 80 unlicensed music events are being planned across the city.
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UK: Report: Paedophiles on Twitter and Instagram Using Cheese and Pizza Emojis to Share Images
A London-based group of over 100 parents have begun campaigning to have social media sites like Instagram and Twitter remove the accounts of paedophiles who are reportedly using cheese and pizza emojis as code to share images.
The group — operating under the moniker PDProtect — warned that paedophiles are taking and sharing seemingly innocent pictures of children uploaded by parents in order to pass them around to predators on social media.
[Comment: And that was dismissed as a ‘conspiracy theory’ a few years ago.]
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Violence Erupts in Swedish Town of Malmo After Anti-Islam Actions, Police Say
TOCKHOLM (Reuters) — A riot broke out on Friday in the southern Swedish town of Malmo, where at least 300 people had gathered to protest against anti-Islam activities, police said.
Protesters were throwing objects at police officers and car tyres had been set on fire, a police spokesman said. Earlier in the day, a copy of the Quran had been burned in Malmo by right-wing extremists.
[Comment: This is an example of the legacy media lying by omission. The article does not state who were throwing objects at police officers and setting car tyres on fire.]
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UAE Presidential Decree Formally Ends Israel Boycott Amid U.S.-Brokered Deal
President Sheikh Khalifa of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal — a pact President Trump called a “Historic Peace Agreement.”
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Tools Behind Belarus Internet Censorship Potentially Revealed
According to a Bloomberg report, the technology used to block much of the internet access during the recent presidential elections in Belarus has come from a US-based company.
The report states that Sandvine Inc., had supplied the necessary equipment to the Lukashenko government a few months earlier through an intermediary.
On August 9, Belarus held the presidential elections where Alexander Lukashenko was elected for the sixth consecutive time. However, the Election Day was marked by irregularities that cast doubt on the transparency of the elections.
In addition to the barricades built by security forces that prevented the passage of civilians to Minsk, Belarus’ capital, the internet services in the country had a major disruption that affected access to websites such as social networks, news pages, and messaging applications.
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Chinese Communists Remove Over 900 Crosses From Christian Churches
Officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forcibly removed more than 900 crosses from Christian churches in the eastern province of Anhui during the first half of 2020, Bitter Winter reported Friday.
In June, it was reported that authorities had already removed crosses from over 250 state-controlled Three-Self churches in the Anhui province during the first four months of the year. Updated information reveals that officials eliminated crosses from an additional 656 Christian churches in the province over the first half of this year, bringing the total to over 900.
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Researchers Develop Algorithm to Scan for “Misogynistic” Tweets
With the Orwellian race to police online speech becoming a popular one, private companies and researchers are keen to develop ways to speed that process along.
In Australia, scientists at the Queensland University of Technology have created a system that says it can identify “misogyny” in tweets. The team hopes social media platforms could adopt the technology.
After mining one million tweets, they started developing the system by searching three abusive phrases that could indicate misogyny — rape, whore, and slut. From one million, there then remained 5,000 tweets.
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South Africa’s Internet Censorship Bill Will Deal a Massive Blow to Free Speech
South Africa is joining a growing number of countries struggling with new legislation being introduced to regulate the internet, that might easily hinder freedom of speech and content distribution online.
The Amendment Regulations (FPAA) to the Films and Publications Amendment Act (FPA) that now await South African president’s signature to become law, are known by critics as the Internet Censorship Bill.
What FPA wants to do is regulate the films, games, and publications market, while the amendments that have now been adopted by the country’s parliament seek to adjust to the new reality of online content availability, social media, and electronic communications.
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Uganda: Muslim Family Beats Son to Death for Converting to Christianity
A 20-year-old Christian man was beaten to death in eastern Uganda by family members for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, Morning Star News reported Thursday.
Muslim family members beat Jalilu Kamutono along with his 23-year-old cousin Ahmad Waisana in late July with sticks and blunt instruments, leaving the two young men semi-conscious on a pile of banana plantation leaves. On August 5 Kamutono succumbed to his injuries while Waisana is still in critical condition, with injuries to his head and a kidney.
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21 Police Injured After 200 Migrants Riot in Spanish City
At least 33 migrants housed in a temporary reception centre in the Spanish city of Melilla were arrested after a riot broke out that led to 21 police officers becoming injured.
The riot came after a second day of protests by migrants over positive cases of the Chinese coronavirus among some of the reception centre’s residents.
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Banksy’s Rescue Ship, Packed With 219 Migrants, Flounders in Mediterranean
A rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy issued a series of urgent calls for help Saturday, saying it was stranded in the Mediterranean, overloaded with migrants it has been unable to bring ashore.
The former French customs ship, covered in a pink painting done by the artist, including a modified version of his famous “Girl With Balloon” in which the child now wears a life jacket and holds a heart-shaped buoy, sent multiple tweets Friday and Saturday begging for help, Reuters reported.
“#LouiseMichel is unable to move, she is no longer the master of her manoeuver, due to her overcrowded deck and a liferaft deployed at her side, but above all due to Europe ignoring our emergency calls for immediate assistance. The responsible authorities remain unresponsive,” the boat’s Twitter feed said Saturday morning.
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Belgian Firefighters Lured Into No-Go Zone and Attacked
A group of firefighters was attacked in the multicultural Brussels no-go zone of Molenbeek after allegedly being lured to the area for a deliberate ambush.
The alleged ambush took place late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning after the firefighters were called to deal with an incident of a large dumpster that had been set on fire on the Mahatma Gandhi Avenue.
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Germany: Radical Islamist Asylum Seeker Costing Taxpayers €4,000 Per Day
A Syrian asylum seeker who is recognised as a terrorist threat due to his Islamic State sympathies costs German taxpayers 4,000 euros a day to monitor but has never been placed on trial.
In all, Ayman N. has cost the German taxpayer around five million euros in the three years he has been under strict observation by German security services, and even has four plainclothes police officers escort him when he goes to the shop to buy food.
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Half of Germans Still Skeptical About Merkel’s Migrant Stance: Poll
Germans are still split over Angela Merkel’s optimism in 2015 about the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants, according to a new poll. However, support for her positive stance has grown in the past three years.
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How One Islamist Migrant Has Cost German Taxpayers Over €5 Million and Counting
The German state has spent over €5 million guarding just one Syrian migrant in the small German village of Bitterfeld, with the man believed to be such a serious terrorist threat that he has required a 24/7 police presence for the last three years.
His presence in the village, located in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, has left inhabitants presented with a bizarre sight almost every day. When the 19-year-old Syrian Ayman N. wants to go shopping in town, four plainclothes police officers must follow him with two vehicles a few meters apart.
He is not allowed to leave his accommodation any further than the supermarket and all his movements are tracked with an electronic ankle cuff on his leg.
According to data obtained by German news outlet Magdeburg Volksstimme, 95,000 man-hours have been accumulated by officers guarding the Syrian man. At an hourly rate of €52 per civil servant, that amounts €5,000 every day and over €5 million in total. The staggering figure does not even include vehicle costs or other material resources, as this data is not yet included in the overall tally.
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Italy: Head of Migrant Center Raped by Nigerian Migrant Residing There
An Italian woman serving as the head of a migrant center in Palermo has testified of how she was raped by a Nigerian migrant who lived at the very center where she worked.
The suspect, Hope Omnolodion, remains on the run from Italian police, according to a report from Italian news outlet Il Giornale.
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Migrant Rescue: UN Urges Help for Banksy Ship and Two Others in Mediterranean
The UN Refugee Agency says more than 400 refugees and migrants on board three rescue ships in the Mediterranean must be allowed to disembark safely.
A joint statement issued with the International Organization for Migration said it was a “humanitarian imperative to save lives”.
Italy’s coastguard has now evacuated 49 people from an overloaded rescue vessel funded by British artist Banksy.
Overnight its crew had tweeted a call for immediate assistance.
European authorities had not responded adequately, they said.
The UNHCR and the IOM said the lack of a deal on a regional landing system could not be an excuse to deny vulnerable people safe harbour.
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A Moroccan migrant convicted for assaulting and robbing at least seven elderly woman in the cities of Ostend and Knokke in Belgium has had his sentence reduced from four years to two years in prison by a Belgian court.
Faical E. along with his companion Hamza Z., were active along the Belgian coast robbing elderly women in May 2017, Belgian news portal HLN reported.
The men targeted women at seaside resort areas, with prosecutors stating that the men also pepper sprayed one woman in the eyes during a brutal robbery.
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Sweden: Two Migrant Background Men Torture and Rape Two Boys in a Cemetery for Nearly 10 Hours
Police say two underage Swedish boys were exposed to almost 10 hours of beatings, torture, and humiliation when they were attacked and dragged to a cemetery by a pair of men with an immigrant background near Stockholm on Saturday night.
A 21-year-old Iranian immigrant and an 18-year-old man born in Sweden to a Tunisian father stripped the victims and raped them, according to police. Throughout the ordeal, they reportedly kept beating them inside Norra Cemetery until Sunday morning when the boys, aged 15 and 17, managed to alert a passer-by who called the police.
Among other things, the perpetrators stabbed the victims in legs to prevent them from escaping, Swedish prosecutor Anders Tordai told SVT Nyheter.
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US Marshals Find 25 Missing Kids in NE Ohio, Including One in Mansfield
MANSFIELD — The U.S. Marshal Service has found 25 missing children in northeast Ohio, including one in Mansfield, during a monthlong investigation, according to Ann Murphy, public affairs officer for the U.S. Marshal Service, Northern District of Ohio.
Of these cases, about one-quarter are confirmed to be related to human trafficking or prostitution, Murphy said in a news release Thursday.
The U.S. Marshal Service has been working with its state and local partners over the past 20 days to find and recover missing juveniles from the Cuyahoga County area.
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Fediverse Apps Promise a Future Free of Censorship and Big Tech, But Google is Threatening Them
Google has put several open-service Fediverse apps on notice and threatened to remove them from the Play Store within seven days unless they prevent their users from connecting to user-generated content that violates their policies.
Google’s “User Generated Content (UGC) policy” bans apps that allow users to access posts that “promote violence, or incite hatred against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.”
So far, the Fediverse apps Subway Tooter, Fedilab, and Husky have reportedly been sent these notices. Tens of thousands of users have collectively downloaded these apps via the Play Store.
“Hatred” is a subjective term and many existing Big Tech “hate speech” rules result in the censorship of jokes, opposition, criticism, and more.
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In Facebook’s Virtual World, Horizon, Your Actions Are Recorded in Case You Break the Rules
A rare Big Tech failure story over the past almost a decade has been the numerous attempts by various giants to make virtual and/or augmented reality (VR/AR) devices happen.
Considering the nature of the technology in question, and those who are unfortunately in a position to try to implement it (Google, Microsoft, Facebook…) it might actually be good news for the average consumer that they keep failing.
But since we currently live in a tech dystopia, it’s no wonder critics, and critical thinkers, are taking note of any new outings of the sort, like Facebook’s latest VR project, Horizon (coming hot on the heels of its failed Spaces project).
There is for sure the skin-deep appeal geared towards gamers — but on the dark side of the deal, their privacy is potentially invaded and abused in a whole new way.
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CANADA:
British Columbia with a population of 5.1 million (half in the Greater Vancouver area, and Vancouver Island where Victoria is ) currently has 974 active cases of the C-Virus. It’s up from 629 two weeks ago. Vancouver is requiring mask wearing while travelling on the Sky-Train.
Quebec (8.5 million) has 1,242 cases and Ontario (14.7 million) has 1,148.
Alberta (4.4 million) is worse than B.C. with 1,185 active cases. Most of those are in the city of Calgary.
Manitoba (1.4 million) has seen their cases spike in the last week and the current number is 444.
Saskatchewan (1.2 million) never made mask wearing mandatory. Barbers/Hair Stylists required them but not many stores. The government is saying that school children (grade 5 and up) will be required to wear masks on school buses but not recommending them in the classroom. They are going to leave it up to the individual school districts to decide what is best for their areas when school resumes on Sept. 8. The current active cases in the entire province is at 43.
The four combined Atlantic provinces with a combined population of 2.4 million have only 15 cases now.
It seems that government’s have no concern about the behaviour and
cost of maintenance of migrants. Neither do they concern themselves about the safety of the native populations’ children..
Those that make up the government bureaucracies that caused this to come about and those elites in media, academia, banking, business, and social media who cheerlead the imposition will one day find out that the citizens they forced third world orcs upon also have little regard for the lives of them and their families. Hopefully [justice will prevail].
There is no real government in the New Blue ach aye the who and begommah and begorrah we’ll see y’all tomorah world of man made mess Bumbo and Fatso represent. Politics pushers are keeping an eye on the getaway stash. Imagine. We know that the likelihood of conflict increases during or after a pandemic. Britain is getting rid of all its tanks and local recruiting is being substituted with overseas soldiers of fortune and adventurers. The insanity of it all is hysterical.
The Vatican equally remains silent on it, at least it refuses to acknowledge the perpetrators quote their Islamic texts.http://www.faithfreedom.org/vatican-denies-islamic-aggression-again/
The current mess is so early 1960s African.
‘far right’ is anything corona denial gosh im so sick of this crap
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8679211/amp/Fury-Germany-far-right-protesters-storm-parliament-building.html
https://mobile.twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1300099785848958980
Muslims march in London, something about Muhammad’s grandson.
Pipo the clown makes me laugh. Honk, honk! Thank you. Laughter is food for the soul in interesting times.
I might open evil browser to see the comrade kommissarina Merkel agitprop.
Is she in her East German gear that looks like a WWII Luftwaffe uniform?
A hammer and sickle should be on there somewhere.
I’ll just have to use the evil browser and find out.
Clown World is predestined for failure so the ordo ab chao can come to pass.
Inbred elites have way overestimated their IQ and will go down with the ship while we laugh in their faces and blow clown horns very loudly in their ears.
The agenda is WW3. It’s working.