A supporter of Donald Trump was shot to death in downtown Portland by a self-proclaimed Antifa activist, who fired at his victim at point-blank range. BLM and Antifa supporters hailed the execution on social media, saying, “We took out the trash.”
In other news, according to a new poll, President Trump is leading former Vice President Biden by three percentage points.
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Mayor Bill De Blasio Plans 22,000 Layoffs, As People Flee New York City in Droves
New York City may lay off tens of thousands of municipal workers. Even with this massive downsizing, it won’t be enough to stem the financial hemorrhaging plaguing the city.
The Wall Street Journal reported that roughly 22,000 government workers need to be let go to close a $9 billion deficit that continues to grow.
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New Jersey Hikes Gas Tax by 22.5%, Bringing Total Increase Since 2016 to 250%
Not content with driving out its wealthiest with yet another tax hike on millionaires, New Jersey just made life for all of its residents, including lower and middle classes, more expensive when it quietly decided on Friday to hike the state’s fuel tax.
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Antifa and Black Lives Matter March Through Oakland Chanting ‘Death to America’
Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters in Oakland marched through the streets chanting “death to America” overnight on Saturday.
This chant is becoming more and more common at these deadly riots.
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Are Austin Officials Playing Questionable Number Games to Keep the City Shut Down?
Local officials are using questionable information—and changing their own rules—to keep the city shut down, prohibiting countless Austinites from making a living.
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Arrest Announced in Mugging of Chicago Woman, 85, Caught on Video
Chicago police say the man seen on video viciously mugging an 85-year-old has been arrested.
The victim wound up in the hospital after the attack. The video shows her being pulled to the ground and striking her head on the ground, rendering her unconscious. It happened Tueday morning as she was approaching her apartment building downtown, near the Magnificent Mile.
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Bill Gates Threatens the World With “Pandemic 2”
Note the “duper’s delight” smiles of the evil Bill and Melinda Gates as they openly threaten us with a “more deadly pathogen” the “next time”
[Comment: “a pathogen with a high death rate would be picked”. Openly warning public about plandemic 2.0.]
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Black Georgia Man Who Stabbed Stranger Says He ‘Felt the Need to Find a White Male to Kill’
A man arrested for stabbing a stranger on Tuesday said that he “felt the need to find a white man to kill” after watching videos of “police brutality.”
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Black Lives Matter Mob Harasses Diners at DC Restaurants — Blares Bullhorns in Their Faces
Black Lives Matter protesters screamed at diners again on Saturday night in Washington DC.
The BLM used bullhorns to scream at diners about their racism.
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An as-yet identified Black Lives Matter activist and leader has called for the death of police officers as well as for action to burn down the White House.
The incident took place in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night at a Black Lives Matter event as tensions continue to grow across America over police brutality.
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Comorbidities
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. The number of deaths with each condition or cause is shown for all deaths and by age groups.
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Chicago Gun Violence: 10 Dead, At Least 36 Wounded in Shootings Across City
Chicago police say 10 people have been killed and at least 36 others, including two Chicago police officers, have been wounded in shootings across the city this weekend.
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Confessions of a Voter Fraud: I Was a Master at Fixing Mail-in Ballots
A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.
Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded.
But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.
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C-Span Had So Many Democrats Calling in Support for Trump That They Had to Change Their Protocol
C-SPAN changed their open phone line labels after an overwhelming number of Democratic viewers called on Wednesday night proclaiming their support for President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
“I’m a longtime Democrat, born and raised … After watching tonight … I have made up my mind. I am definitely gonna vote for Donald Trump,” said one of the many voters who dialed in.
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Donald Trump is Heading for Second Presidential Victory, Poll Shows
DONALD TRUMP is on course to win the US presidential election with a three-point lead over Joe Biden, a shock poll suggests.
In the latest monthly Democracy Institute (DI)/Sunday Express poll President Trump has 48 per cent of the popular support over the former vice president’s 45 per cent. In the key swing states the gap is even bigger, with 49 per cent for Trump to 42 per cent for Biden giving the President a seven-point lead. The DI polls have consistently shown more positive results for the President than other surveys. While most suggest a Democrat lead, the monthly DI polls have been more favourable to Trump.
DI showed him ahead last month and even further ahead now. It carried out its poll by contacting a weighted sample of 1,500 people and playing them a series of recorded questions. They answered via their telephone keypads.
Polling by the institute has previously accurately predicted both the 2016 US election result and Brexit…
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Forced COVID-19 Testing at Highway Checkpoints Announced by Dems
Following the W.H.O. directive, Hawaii follows Australia and Spain’s lead on imposing medical martial law.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, “best friend” of Jeffrey Epstein, charged with abetting Epstein’s sexual abuse of young girls, was allowed a jail visit on Friday, despite coronvirus-related restrictions.
“During the pandemic, access to legal counsel remains a paramount requirement, but the BOP needs to reduce the risk of exposure created by external visitors,” spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. “As such, while in general legal visits are suspended, case-by-case accommodations will be accomplished at the local level and confidential legal calls will be allowed in order to ensure inmates maintain access to counsel. We are facilitating attorney client-visitation, as well as judicial proceedings, via video conference, primarily at our detention centers.”
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‘Our community held its own and took out the trash.’
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Jim Hoft is Right — Fauci Has Been Mass Murdering for Decades and Needs to Go Prison
New study finds countries with early access to hydroxychloroquine reduced mortality rate by 79% .
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Kenosha or Kosovo? Shocking Images Reveal Destruction After Race Riots Leave Buildings in Ruins
Harrowing scenes of destruction have emerged from Kenosha, where several nights of BLM riots have left the Wisconsin town looking like it’s been through war.
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The Kenosha Professional Police Association released a statement on Friday, detailing the timeline and key details of the Jacob Blake shooting. Wisconsin State Senator Steve Nass released the information through KPPA’s attorney Brendan Matthews.
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Killing Them Softly, With a Mask
I keep waiting for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or World Health Organization (WHO) to make the huge — necessary — correction that people should not be wearing masks unless they are in a room with supplemental oxygen pumped in TO PROVIDE ENOUGH OXYGEN TO PROTECT THEIR BRAINS. Have I missed that bulletin? Medical personnel in operating rooms must wear masks to provide the necessary sterile environment for the patient who has been cut open and is at risk for infection, thus the extra oxygen that is pumped into every operating room. MASKS WERE NEVER DESIGNED FOR LONG-TERM USE! In fact, the studies show that, in many cases, short-term use is very dangerous. Why would we be encouraged, even ordered, to wear masks in that case?
For anyone, an hour of wearing masks can cause headaches — yes, even to the healthy, those without respiratory conditions. The headache tells you that something is wrong. Dr. Russell Blaylock has stated that mask wearing causes hypoxia (a diminished availability of oxygen to the body tissues), and hypocapnia (a deficiency of carbon dioxide in the blood, which eventually leads to alkalosis — a decrease in the hydrogen ion concentration of arterial blood below the normal level).
What about other people who don’t have respiratory conditions, but those with conditions that are not related to lung conditions? Blaylock says, people with obesity have poor oxygen intake to begin with; wearing a mask could cause it to drop precipitously, causing a crisis. And there are tens of millions of diabetics and they should not be wearing masks because the build-up of CO2 could damage the brain. Anyone who has seizures is particularly at risk.
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UN Police Training Center is in… China! Police Services can be replaced by UN Police!
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Man Shot While Sleeping in His Car in Central Fresno
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — First responders rushed a man to the hospital Sunday morning after he was shot while sleeping in his car in central Fresno.
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Michael Moore Warns Dems of 2016 Repeat, Says Trump Voters’ Enthusiasm is “Off the Charts!”
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore warned Democrats of growing momentum in favor of President Trump in a Facebook post on Friday, citing recent CNN polling in swing states.
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New CDC Report Says 94% of COVID Deaths Had Underlying Conditions, Only 6% Died From COVID Alone
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new report detailing how many COVID-19 deaths in America also involved other underlying health conditions.
According to the report, only 6% of the COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. list COVID-19 as the only cause of death. 94% of COVID-19 deaths involved at least one other underlying health condition, and on average involved “2.6 additional conditions or causes of death.”
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NYC Leaders Hold ‘Stop the Violence’ March Sunday Following 2 Triple Shootings Overnight
Community leaders and elected officials plan to hold a “Stop the Violence” march Sunday afternoon following the latest surge in violent crime across New York City.
At least four people were killed and many more injured in overnight violence, according to reports from the NYPD.
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Our President and the Constitution Share the Same Enemies
The Constitution of the United States, and the constitutions of the various states, set forth what is essentially the compact or contract that defines and limits the powers granted by the people to elected and appointed officials, along with civil servants to serve the ends, and perform the terms, of that contract.
I have always considered it a blessing to be born and live in a country founded on biblical principles, and I have made it my life’s work to study and share what I learn.
One of the many things I have learned is that there are some people who do not share this view. In fact, there are some who detest it. They include not only looters and rioters and brick-throwing thugs, but also mayors and governors and county executives who make excuses for this lawlessness rather than arresting and prosecuting these criminals.
I also observe that these enemies of America are united in their hatred for Donald Trump.
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Pentagon Exposes Dem Coup Plot Against Trump
Meanwhile, blue states announce COVID-19 checkpoints and forced testing — watch now and spread the live link!
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Return of the Dust Bowl? The “Megadrought” In the Southwest is Really Starting to Escalate
Much of the southwestern portion of the United States has been gripped by a drought that never seems to end, and there is a tremendous amount of concern that patterns that we witnessed back during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s may be starting to repeat. In a previous article, I discussed the extreme heat that we have been seeing in the region lately. Phoenix has never had more days in a year when the high temperature has hit at least 115 degrees, and other southwestern cities have been smashing records as well. At the same time, precipitation levels have been very low, and the combination of these two factors is starting to cause some major problems.
A couple of weeks ago, NASA posted an article on their official website about the horrible drought conditions that we are now witnessing…
As the United States moves into the last weeks of climatological summer, one-third of the country is experiencing at least a moderate level of drought. Much of the West is approaching severe drought, and New England has been unusually dry and hot. An estimated 53 million people are living in drought-affected areas.
Since NASA posted that article, things have gotten even worse. If you go to the U.S. Drought Monitor website, you will instantly see why so many experts are deeply concerned. The latest map shows that nearly the entire southwestern quadrant of the country is now gripped by either “severe” or “extreme” drought. Needless to say, this is not good news at all for farmers and ranchers in the region.
Colorado is one of the states that is being hit the hardest. At this point, more than 93 percent of the entire state is experiencing very serious drought conditions…
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Gun shots were fired at a pro-Trump caravan driving on Ventura Boulevard in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles Sunday afternoon.
Police report a tire was possibly blown out by the alleged gunfire but that no one was injured.
Police also report three suspects are holed up in an nearby apartment building.
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St. Louis Police Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon passed away on Sunday after he was shot on Saturday during a police call in South St. Louis.
Bohannon was shot in the head. Another officer was shot in the leg and later discharged from the hospital.
The shooter a 43-year-old man from Florida with a long criminal history was later arrested after a standoff with police.
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Supreme Court Justice Roberts is/Was Being Blackmailed.
Supreme Court Justice Roberts was on Epstein’s island and was handpicked as Chief Justice because he could be blackmailed for “improper things” he allegedly did to his adopted children. Now you know how Obamacare went through and how he votes.
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Suspect in Murder of Trump Supporter: “I’m 100% Antifa All the Way”
The suspect in the murder of a Trump supporter on the streets of Portland last night posted “I’m 100% Antifa” on his personal Instagram page.
A member of the Patriot Prayer group, which was involved in counter-protests against Black Lives Matter and Antifa last night, was gunned down at 8:45pm near Southwest Third Avenue and Alder Street.
A man is heard on camera yelling “we’ve got a Trumper here” before two gunshots blast out.
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Texas Salon Owner Previously Jailed for Opening Shop During Lockdown is Running for State Senate
Shelley Luther, the Texas salon owner who was jailed for defying lockdown orders, is now running for state Senate. She said she has received praise and donations from many people since her act of civil disobedience, prompting her to run.
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The Mask is Falling Off Joe Biden
The fascinating Joe Biden book, Yesterday’s Man, is written from the perspective of a socialist doubtful that the career politician can usher in a Marxist utopia. The subtitle, “The Case Against Joe Biden,” reflects the failure of the Bernie Sanders campaign and the fact that the hard-core Marxists are now stuck with Obama’s former vice-president, a convicted plagiarist with brain problems, as their 2020 presidential nominee.
Appearing desperate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she doesn’t want Biden to debate President Trump. She knows something many people suspect.
The selection of Biden as a front man for the socialist cause reminds people of the old saying, “He’ll do anything for the workers except become one.” His political career has included several episodes of plagiarism, demonstrating that he is incapable of original thought and/or serves as a mouthpiece for others.
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These People Want to Convince Everyone That Looting is A-Okay
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog
As an American, most of us strongly support the concept of peaceful protests. However, when things turn violent, when property gets destroyed, when buildings and cars are set on fire, and when businesses are looted, rational people can agree that this is wrong.
Unfortunately, a whole bunch of irrational people are being given microphones and they’re trying to tell us all why looting is not just okay, but actually awesome.
Looting is okay because it’s “reparations”
First, there was the woman who spoke after the Magnificent Mile in Chicago was looted so ferociously that Mayor Lori Lightfoot pulled the drawbridge open to keep people out of the downtown area. I recently wrote:
According to a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer, Ariel Atkins, it was just “reparations.” Atkins believes that anything the looters wish to damage or steal is owed to them. She made the radical statement at a solidarity rally in front of a Chicago police station, where people were gathered to support those who had been arrested.
“I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci’s or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats. That makes sure that that person has clothes,” Ariel Atkins said at a rally outside the South Loop police station Monday, local outlets reported.
“That’s a reparation,” Atkins said. “Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance.” (source)
At a time when more people than ever in the United States were willing to get on board and protest police brutality and racial violence, entitled statements like the one made by Atkins have served to return us to a place of absolute division. (source)
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Trump Supporter Shot Dead in the Street During Pro-Trump Rally in Portland
A member of the pro-Trump “Patriot Prayer” group was reportedly shot dead in the street during a pro-Trump rally in downtown Portland on Saturday night.
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Virginia Democrats Move Closer to Removing Penalties for Assaulting Police
As law currently stands, assaults considered felonies and carry mandatory minimum six-month jail sentence.
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The Dems want to muck-up this election so badly that the Electoral College is unable to meet and declare a winner.
How will it go? Here’s my prediction…
Wayne Dupree: Hillary’s advice to Biden to not concede even if you lose shows the Democrats intend to win by hook or by crook.
The Dems will demand that Trump/Pence leave the White House until the election results can be sorted out. They’ll have Rep. Nancy Pelosi sworn in as a “placeholder” president until the vote count can be officially verified, which, not surprisingly, will never happen as long as Trump is winning.
Trump will refuse to step down and leave the White House, claiming that as the election results have not yet been verified, how can he be declared the loser?
President Pelosi (from her temporary “Oval Office” in a room in the basement of the House of Representatives) will declare Trump and all his supporters as “enemies of the state” (oh wait… she already DID THAT!) and order the military to evict Trump from the real Oval Office forcibly. Some military brass comply. Other military brass do not comply. This fractures the military hierarchy into competing factions, resulting in chaos (which is the whole point).
Democratic Party leaders order their supporters, who have already been besieging the White House en-masse since before the election, to storm the building by force and remove Trump, or to burn the place to the ground.
Republicans take up arms and head to Washington to “peacefully” protect Trump and prevent the White House from being overrun by rabid Leftists intent on burning-looting-murder.
And when those two opposing groups clash in DC, shots will be fired, and Civil War number two will begin. Leftist minions in every major metropolitan area in America will come out of their basements and make the current riots seem like a practice run. It will go badly for anyone unable to protect their home and family.
I hope I’m wrong about all this, but I worry deeply that it may well just play out this way.
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We Are Democrats: The Most Truthful Democrat Ad You Will Ever See
The unvarnished truth about the Democrats and what they actually stand for (value). It ain’t pretty, but it’s true.
This kind of stuff just can’t be made up. The Democrats and their lamestream allies are absolute masters of deception, spin, dishonesty, misdirection, and outright lies couched as truth.
Our schools are nothing less than Democrat indoctrination centers according to Michael Snyder and I agree 100% — hencethe attitude and the ideals of the younger generation, if they can even be called such. The younger generations are taught (socialism) to see America as the enemy, the flag as a symbol of evil, and the military as oppressors. Government is supposed to function as the giver of gifts: “free” money, college, insurance etc. — but no law enforcement.
The Democrat socialists have taught them well, and the media has deceived We the People like Hitler deceived Germany until it was far too late to stop him. It’s almost too late for America to stop the Democrats.
Just look at what America has become in large part, all due to the guidance of the Democrats.
Riots that have destroyed whole sections of cities, looting, burning, etc. Groups (Antifa, Black Lives Matter) that do not hesitate to use extreme violence Right is wrong, and wrong is right Morals are a thing of the past God is steadily being removed from society Schools do not allow teaching on Jesus, but do allow teaching on Islam, homosexuality, masturbation, America as the enemy, whites are bad because they are white etc. Extreme corruption to the point that almost all major cities (Democrat managed) are severely economically depressed and crime rates are high and rising Police are seen as the enemy and Democrats are calling for them to be defunded and eliminated
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Weekend Gun Violence Pushes Philadelphia Over 300 Homicides for the Year
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Weekend gun violence has pushed Philadelphia over 300 homicides for the year, and there are no signs of it slowing down.
Two early morning shootings are just some of the latest violent incidents to claim the lives of Philadelphia residents.
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British Library Boss Claims ‘Racism is a Creation of White People’, Demands ‘Decolonisation’
The chief librarian of the British Library said “racism is a creation of white people” while pushing for “decolonisation” of the Library as Black Lives Matter activists continue their long march through British institutions.
Liz Jolly, the chief librarian, is backing a so-called “Anti-Racism Project” to develop and deliver “major cultural change” within the taxpayer-funded institution in order to reflect the “diversity” of modern Britain.
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Britons Can be Fined Up to 10,000 Pounds for Organizing Illegal Parties
The UK government this week announced tougher measures against organizers of “dangerous” parties, whom the Home Secretary said showed “a blatant disregard for the safety of others.”
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Foibe: Istrian Union: 250 Remains Discovered in Slovenia
‘Almost all civilians with an average age of twenty.’
(ANSA) — TRIESTE, 28 AGO — “The remains of about 250 victims, people murdered and inflicted, almost all civilians with an average age of twenty,” have been identified in a natural cavity in the Kocevski area Rog in Slovenia. The Union of Istrians reported on its Facebook page, specifying that the news broke during a press conference by the “State Commission that deals with the killings carried out by the communists in 1945.” “The chasm lies in the area between Veliki Rog and Stari Trg in the neighborhood of an old partisan hospital, and the investigators found the remains at a depth of 14 meters,” said the coordinator of the recovery operation, archaeologist Uroš Košir, the Union of Istrians reported. “Zdravko Bucar, president of the caving club, explained that the authorities gave their permit to excavation inside the cavity at the end of May, the first descent occurred at the beginning of July.” The anthropological analysis, the Union of Istrians added, showed that “more than a hundred children between the age of 15 and 17 were murdered, and at least 5 are women. According to Košir, those investigating found a large amount of ammunition in the chasm and along the outer edges, which was proof that the killings occurred on the spot. The analysis of the incoming and outgoing wounds found on the skulls showed that the killers used automatic rifles.” The head of the police investigation, Pavel Jamnik — the post reads — said that by crossing data and testimonies on the partisan activity in that area, the Ozna, the Yugoslav secret police, and in particular its “operational” arm, the Knoj (Korpus narodne obrambe Jugoslavije), or the People’s Defense Corps of Yugoslavia, should be held responsible for the massacre.
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France: Hostage Describes Islamist Elements of Armed Bank Robbery
A bank employee who was taken hostage along with five others has revealed that the man who took them prisoner showed signs of Islamic radicalism, preaching and reciting Qur’an verses.
The hostage-taking incident took place earlier this month on the 6th of August in the French city of Le Havre when a 34-year-old man with a firearm entered a bank and took the six employees working hostage.
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French No-Go Zone Residents Organise to Force Govt to Act Against Violent ‘Youths’
Residents in so-called “vulnerable” neighbourhoods in French cities are organising to put pressure on the government to act against urban violence and disruption from local “youths”.
Collectives of local residents have been formed in several cities including Marseilles, where a group took the government to the administrative court over their inaction in dealing with local delinquents and won a €10,000 settlement as a result.
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German COVID Civil Rights Protestors Appeal to Donald Trump: “Help Us!”
Guest post by Collin McMahon
Tens of thousands of protestors gathered in Berlin today outside the U.S. Embassy to protest the COVID lockdown and demand civil rights and call for a restoration of national sovereignty, liberty and democracy.
At least 20,000 people defied a threatened government ban and COVID restrictions today to gather at Berlin’s Brandenburg gate. Despite attempts by state-run and mainstream media to demonize the protestors as dangerous, violent extremists, the demonstration was peaceful, crossed party lines from left to right, and even featured a piano rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
[Comment: This worthwhile protest was marred by a terrible song.]
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Is COVID-19 the Trigger for a ‘New World Order’ of Economic Stagnation & Social Destruction?
Modern man is now entering realms of dystopia only imagined before by the likes of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, with more than a hint of Philip K. Dick. What makes all of this difficult for so many is that the sudden transition has been almost instantaneous, leaving people in a near callow state of bewilderment, wondering what just happened to their old life.
No matter which way this situation goes, it’s almost certain life will never be the same…
It appeared that Johnson’s sudden 180º degree turn was prompted in part by an alarmist report generated by one of the government ‘expert’ teams at Imperial College London, led by controversial computer modeler Neil Ferguson who was previously responsible for the 2001 ‘Foot and Mouth’ crisis, a debacle which ended in the unnecessary culling of some six million livestock in Britain.
This time, Ferguson and his team worked their modelling magic to come up with an estimated half a million coronavirus deaths if the government did not implement “very intense social distancing and other interventions now in place.”
While the figure was completely fictional, the media seized on it, as did government officials, which fuelled fear and panic across Britain’s government-media complex. Frightened and unsure, the public accepted the authoritarian measures, but the government never gave an end date to the quarantine; it was left open-ended at the discretion of the government’s scientific coterie.
Once that bubble of fear had been sufficiently inflated, a medieval-style lockdown was a fait accompli in numerous countries including Australia and New Zealand. The impact of a full national quarantine is yet unknown, but it’s already becoming clear that it will be nothing short of cataclysmic for those countries who agreed to the voluntary self-destruction of their economies and the indefinite suspension of democracy.
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Italian Mayor Outlaws Mask-Wearing in Public Without Serious Need
ROME — The mayor of the Italian town of Sutri north of Rome has established fines for wearing masks except when required by law, insisting that “only thieves and terrorists wear masks.”
The contrarian Italian parliamentarian Vittorio Sgarbi, who is also the mayor of Sutri, has been a vocal critic of mask-wearing and other restrictions imposed by the Italian government to address the coronavirus.
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Satanists Vandalize Statue of Jesus in Northern Italy
ROME — Presumed Satanists disfigured and toppled a wooden statue of Jesus Christ in Cremona, Italy, leaving a piece of cardboard with the inscription “Satan,” La Repubblica newspaper revealed Saturday.
The wooden Christ, bearing the title “Christ of the River Po” was created by Italian artist Mario Spadari and placed by the river along the Lungo Po road in Cremona on the feast of the Assumption, August 15. The damaged statue was discovered on Saturday morning, having been brought down with rocks and severely disfigured during the night.
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Scottish Hate Crime Bill: Atheists Plan to Target Christians for ‘Spreading Hate’
A leading atheist in Scotland has hailed the SNP’s proposed Hate Crime Bill as an opportunity to target Christians for prosecution.
The left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) administration’s proposed Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill is set to criminalise speech that is “likely” to “stir up hatred” against supposedly marginalised groups. As written the law would not require police or prosecutors to demonstrate malicious intent behind the statements.
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UK: Black Staff Claim BBC ‘Institutionally Racist’, Like Working on ‘Plantation’
The BBC is “institutionally racist” claim a number of unidentified black employees, who said working for the publicly-funded broadcaster is like “being on a plantation”.
Speaking to the left-liberal online news outlet The Huffington Post, dozens of current and former black employees of the BBC complained of a hostile work environment and “covert racism” within the organisation — which is seen as “woke” and disproportionately diverse by most right-leaning Britons.
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UK: David Icke Scorches Establishment During Anti-Lockdown Rally in London
Citizens come together at Unite For Freedom rally to protest coronavirus lockdown measures, mandatory vaccine.
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The French Wish List for Lebanon
Does Emmanuel Macron have a plan for helping Lebanon out of its current crisis? Sources close to the French president claim he does.
The plan consists of mobilizing international support for a fund to rebuild the shattered port of Beirut and upgrade the country’s ramshackle infrastructure.
In exchange, it would require a new national consensus that transcends sectarian divides without ignoring them altogether.
If you think all this amounts to little more than a wish list, you are right.
That the French president should take a special interest in Lebanon is not surprising. Leaving aside the romantic version of a past in which Lebanon is cast as a daughter of France and a bastion of Francophilia, the two countries have many objective interests in common.
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Tanks Move Into Minsk as Police Hold Back Massive Protest at Gates of Lukashenko Residence
Defying a security services crackdown, tens of thousands of protesters demanding that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko step down engulfed the center of Minsk once again.
This time on the occasion of the now 66-year old leader’s birthday on Sunday, tens of thousands were seen marching on the presidential residence.
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Turkey and France Fighting for Influence in Africa
by Mohamed Sabry
For decades, fostering strong relations with sub-Saharan Africa has been a pillar of France’s foreign policy. Paris has been keen on forging close relations with the countries of this region, arguably making France the most important foreign player south of the Sahara.
France and Turkey Vie for Influence in Sub-Saharan Africa
France maintains a wide range of accords with most sub-Saharan countries in different fields from foreign aid and technical assistance to defense cooperation. This has all helped France to wield considerable power and influence over these countries in the political, economic, social and cultural fields.
This French influence, however, is being challenged by Turkey, an arch rival to Paris. In recent years, Ankara has been seeking to gain a foothold in the former French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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All Migrants Moved Off Stranded Banksy Rescue Boat
All of the migrants on board a rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy have been transferred to other vessels, the team behind the mission said after their pink-and-white ship carrying more than 200 passengers sent an urgent call for help.
An Italian patrol vessel rushed to the stranded MV Louise Michel in the Mediterranean and took in 49 of the most vulnerable people on Saturday, the coastguard said.
The remaining migrants on board, around 150 people, were received by a vessel chartered by German NGO Sea Watch and medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), according to tweets from both organisations and the Louise Michel’s crew.
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Boat Carrying Nearly 370 Migrants Reaches Italy’s Lampedusa
A fishing boat carrying nearly 370 migrants landed overnight on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where the main holding centre is already overcrowded, prompting the local mayor to call for a general strike to push the government take action.
Italy has been struggling in recent months to deal with daily arrivals of hundreds of migrants to its southern shores, a task complicated by security measures imposed by the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
The boat carrying 367 people, which was in danger of sinking due to high winds, was escorted by the Italian coast guard and police to the island’s port, ANSA news agency said.
They were met at the port by a demonstration organised by the far-right, anti-immigrant League party.
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Five Years After 2015 Migrant Crisis, Merkel Tells Press: I Would Do it Again
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has boasted that she would repeat her actions in 2015 which opened the gates to Europe and led to the migrant crisis.
Chancellor Merkel made her statements at an annual summer press conference in Berlin on Friday, saying she would “make essentially the same decisions” after she was asked if she had any sort of regret for opening Germany’s borders in the summer of 2015.
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France: African Migrant Bites Police Officer in Court
An African migrant in court for assaulting a policewoman is said to have assaulted two more police officers while making his court appearance.
A 21-year-old Sudanese migrant was tried in a court in Nantes earlier this week for assaulting a female police officer at a train station on August 20th.
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It takes 10-15 years to demoralize a nation.
The next phase is destabilization.
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Bridgefy is Considered to be a Private App for Protesters But is a Privacy Nightmare
It’s always upsetting to see headlines about an online service getting breached. Sure, by this point, most of us realize that there’s no such thing as perfect security. That it’s a constant cat and mouse game. Most companies employ all sorts of non-tech-savvy folks that may not always abide by best practices. And of course, security is as strong as the weakest link.
When it comes to services focused on privacy, however, it’s particularly unforgivable. Their entire product relies, very directly, on being able to protect their users’ privacy. So when an app that advertised itself as an end-to-end encrypted solution for communicating during protests ends up being riddled with security flaws, public backlash is perfectly justified.
That is the story of Bridgefy, the app that quickly took by storm the world’s populations that are the least satisfied with their respective governments. Places like Lebanon, Iran, Zimbabwe, India, Hong Kong, and even the US have seen a strong surge in Bridgefy downloads lately given the coinciding uptick of protests going on in those regions.
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The wonders of the No-Go-Zone
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Piers Corbyn gets arrested, charged £10,000 for organizing anti-Chinesevirus restrictions protest.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8679509/amp/Jeremy-Corbyns-brother-Piers-gets-10-000-fine-London-illegal-gatherings.html
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Just don’t let it happen again👀
Piers Corbyn gets arrested and a £10,000 fine for organizing anti-Chinavirus restrictions protest.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8679509/amp/Jeremy-Corbyns-brother-Piers-gets-10-000-fine-London-illegal-gatherings.html