Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/10/2020

A policeman in Spain knocked a 14-year-old boy to the ground and then knelt on his neck for not wearing his facemask correctly. Meanwhile, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that restaurants could reopen their indoor dining areas as of September 30, but with restrictions.

In other news, an Italian couple who are Flat Earth adherents sailed into the Mediterranean to see the edge of the world, and were rescued by a migrant-ferry NGO vessel.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

USA
» “You Really Drank the Kool-Aid, Didn’t You?” Trump Mocks Woodward Question on “White Privilege”
» 68% of Tech Professionals Think Facebook Should Police People’s Election Conversations
» After 105 Days of Riots, Portland Mayor Orders Police to Stop Using Tear Gas
» Amazon to Hire 33,000 Workers at Average Pay of $150,000 Per Year
» American Traitors
» Are Directed Energy Weapons Starting Fires in California and Oregon!?
» Biden Claims More Than 6,000 U.S. Soldiers Have Died From COVID, But Only 7 Have
» Biden Campaign, Democrats Oppose Britain’s Brexit Strategy, Threaten UK-U.S. Trade Deal if Biden Wins
» Board of Chicago Police Union Votes Unanimously to Endorse Donald Trump
» California Wildfire Scorches 1,000 Acres Every 30 Minutes
» California Businesses Leave the State by Thousands
» China Hits InfoWars With Massive DDoS Cyberwarfare Attack
» Dallas Police Chief Resigns After City Council Criticized Her Handling of Protests
» ‘Electoral Terrorism’: Dems Plan to ‘Threaten Their Way Into White House’
» ESPN to Broadcast Protesting Players, Singing of Black National Anthem
» Gov. Cuomo Says Indoor Dining Can Resume Sept. 30 With Restrictions
» Hate Crime Charges Announced for Women Arrested in Connection to MAGA Hat Theft Outside Wilmington DNC
» Inside the Privileged Lives of Protesters Busted for Rioting in Manhattan
» Man Arrested on Arson Allegation in Wildfire West of Eugene, Deputies Say
» NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board as Director
» Number of Families Withdrawing From TX Public Schools to Homeschool Skyrockets 300%
» Portland Woman Accused of Rioting Faces Both Local and Federal Charges
» Prof: “Nothing Wrong With” Murder of Right-Wing “Fascist… From a Moral Perspective”
» SC Police Chief Stabbed in Face With ICE Pick After Answering Door
» Seattle Blocks Park Access to Christian Prayer Rally While Permitting Antifa in the Streets; Organizer Cries Foul
» Senate Democrats Block GOP Coronavirus Relief Bill
» Tech Company Drops Service for Christian Group Just Before Major Event, Raising Censorship Accusations
» Trump’s on Our Side
» Trump: Biden ‘Devoted His Career to Offshoring Jobs, Opening Borders, Endless Wars’
» Trump Adds Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton to Shortlist of Potential SCOTUS Picks; Cotton Then Tweets “It’s Time for Roe V. Wade to Go”
» Trump Admin Cancels Over 1,000 Visas for Chinese Academics Deemed National Security Threats
» Tucker Carlson Releases Audio of CNN’s Fredo Coaching Cohen for Interview
» Univeristy to Remove World War II Murals Because They Show Too Many White People
» What Pastor Dana Coverstone Was Just Shown About the Statue of Liberty Shook Him to the Core — Everyone Needs to Hear This!
» Whitney: Is BLM the Mask Behind Which the Oligarchs Operate?
» Why Has Amazon Just Appointed the Former Director of the NSA to Its Board?
» Zuckerberg: Election May Take ‘Weeks’ And Cause ‘Civil Unrest’ Until Media Creates ‘Consensus’ On Next President
 
Canada
» Airliner Kicks Off Family, Cancels Entire Plane Journey Because Baby Wasn’t Wearing a Face Mask
 
Europe and the EU
» Central Europe Can Now Compete With the Wealthy West, Says Top Polish Politician Ryszard Terlecki
» Corona ‘Marshals’ To Patrol UK Cities to Enforce Social Distancing
» Coronavirus Project Fear Results: Majority of Britons Back Curfew
» Donald Tusk Says No Vote on Fidesz’s EPP Membership at Upcoming Congress
» EP to Debate Poland on Monday
» Germany’s Quest for Relevance in the Indo-Pacific
» Italian Flat Earthers Saved by Migrant Rescue Vessel Off the Coast of Lampedusa ‘After Sailing to See the Edge of the World’
» No Lockdown, No Worries! Sweden is Averaging One COVID Death a Day and Cases Are Nosediving. Here’s How it Compares to Australia — Where Millions Are Confined to Their Homes and Stubborn Premiers Keep Borders Shut
» PM Orban Coordinates on Upcoming EU Summit With Charles Michel, Merkel and Other Heads of Government
» Spain: Citizens Stop Police From Arresting a Woman for Not Wearing a Mask
» Spain: Cop Kneels on 14-Year-Old Boy for Refusing to Wear a Mask
» Topless Women Lock Themselves to U.K. Parliament in Extinction Rebellion Protest
» UK: Farage: Time to Ditch ‘Rotten’ Anti-Sovereignty EU Withdrawal Agreement
» UK: Farage Predicts People Will Break ‘Draconian’ Restrictions ‘Wholesale’
» UK: Khan’s London: Spate of Stabbings Again Drench British Capital in Blood
» UK: Winston Churchill Statue is Defaced With Graffiti Calling the World War Two PM ‘A Racist’ At Extinction Rebellion Demo Outside Parliament Before Vandals Are Arrested
 
Middle East
» Turkey Says Macron Putting EU Interests at Risk
» U.S. Announces Reduction of American Troops in Iraq From 5,200 to 3,000
 
Russia
» ‘I Must Give Belarus Its Voice and Sovereignty Back’ Says Belarus Opposition Leadr Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Warsaw
 
South Asia
» Ahmedabad: One Moin Qureshi Marries Hindu Girl by Promising Not to Force Her to Convert, Later Starts Torturing Her to Embrace Islam
 
Far East
» Chinese Government Combines ‘Track and Trace’ Corona System With Social Credit Score
» Chinese Officials Offer $70 to People Who Provide Photos, Recordings of Illegal Religious Activity
» Chinese Government Bans Journalists From Reporting on Disney’s Mulan as the Movie Faces Backlash
» Nearly 2 Dozen Uighur People Who Allege Torture File Case Against Chinese Government in International Criminal Court
 
Australia — Pacific
» Corona Cops Arrest Grandma Sitting in Park for Not Wearing a Mask
» Dying Dad Will be Able to See His Four Kids After Generous Aussies Donated $210,000 for Hotel Quarantine Bill — as Even Scott Morrison Makes a Very Generous Cash Contribution
» Heartbreaking Pictures Show an Aussie Mother and Her Three Young Children Sleeping on London’s Heathrow Airport Floor After Being Forced to Live There Because of Australia’s International Travel Cap
» ‘Her Crocodile Tears Are Too Late’: Australians Hit Out at Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Emotional Press Conference — Accusing Her of ‘Faking’ Her Pain After Refusing to Let a Nurse Go to Her Dad’s Funeral
» How Australia’s Gone From Being the Envy of the World by Flattening the Curve at the Height of the Pandemic to a Global Embarrassment as Power-Hungry Premiers Destroy Livelihoods and Tear Families Apart — and Why All We Can Do is Watch
» Sam Armytage Blasts ‘Astounding’ Queensland Border Debacle — as She Slams Annastacia Palaszczuk for ‘Playing the Bullying Card’ In Incredible Stoush With the Prime Minister
» Scott Morrison Delivers Brutal Comeback to Annastacia Palaszczuk After She Played the Victim and Accused Him of ‘Bullying’ Her Because He Wanted Grieving Daughter to be Allowed to Attend Her Dad’s Funeral
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» 3 Killed, Including Evangelical Pastor, And 7 Abducted in Latest Fulani Attack on Christian Nigerians
 
Immigration
» Austrian Integration Minister Rejects Any Form of Parallel Migrant Societies
» Border Wall Critic Gretchen Whitmer Building 8-Foot Wall Around MI Governor Residence
» EU Immigration Policy is a Failure, Says Austrian MEP Vilimsky
» Fed Up Moria Locals Block Road to Prevent Reconstruction of Migrant Camp
» Greek Media Publishes Photos of Turkish Authorities Allegedly Helping Migrants
» Illegal Immigrants Caught on Video Starting Fire in Greece’s Largest Migrant Camp
» Italy: Burglar,17, Rapes Woman, 87
» Pope Francis: Borders Are ‘Windows’ For Immigration, Not Barriers
» Soros-Type NGOs Are Blackmailing Europe on Migration, Says Hungary’s Foreign Minister
» Video: Migrant Woman Attacks Matteo Salvini at Campaign Event, Tears Off His Rosary
 
Culture Wars
» AI Robot Programmed to Write an Article — the Results Are Terrifying
» Al Board of Medical Examiners Revokes License of Abortion Doctor Who Tweeted “God Performs Way More Abortions Than I Do”
» Anti-Maskers Put in Coffins for Not Complying With COVID Orders
» Facebook to “Fact-Check” Opinions of Climate Change Skeptics, Introduce New “Climate Information Center”
» Google Has “Fact-Checked” Users’ Searches a Whopping 4 Billion Times Already This Year
» IMDb Parental Warning for Netflix’s ‘Cuties’ Says Scenes in Movie Are “Lawfully Defined as Pedophilia”
» The Unholy Alliance Between Islam and Antifa Revealed
» Twitter to Start Censoring “Disputed” Election Claims
» Wikipedia’s Proposed “Code of Conduct” Would Step Up the Identity Politics
 
General
» World Bank Document Lists COVID-19 Program Ending in March 2025
 

“You Really Drank the Kool-Aid, Didn’t You?” Trump Mocks Woodward Question on “White Privilege”

“Just listen to you. Wow.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

68% of Tech Professionals Think Facebook Should Police People’s Election Conversations

A new survey published by Blind, a community of verified anonymous professionals, looks into how Facebook employees see the company’s role in maintaining the integrity of the upcoming US election — i.e., curbing election misinformation.

The survey was conducted in the wake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg backpedaling on his previous “free speech” pledge (or his carefully curated narrative about it, if you prefer). Namely, Zuckerberg just recently announced that political ads would be banned in the week before the November vote, as a means to prevent “last minute misinformation.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

After 105 Days of Riots, Portland Mayor Orders Police to Stop Using Tear Gas

Police in Portland have been trying to control and suppress rioting for over 100 days. Now Mayor Ted Wheeler has told police to stop using tear gas.

Wheeler instructed his officers to give up this method of keeping peace even after rioters tried to set his apartment building on fire, forcing him to move house in order to protect the other residents and families in the building.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Amazon to Hire 33,000 Workers at Average Pay of $150,000 Per Year

Online retail giant Amazon is getting even bigger.

The Seattle-based company announced Wednesday that it is looking to hire 33,000 people to work in corporate and tech jobs. The average pay for these positions will be $150,000 a year. The jobs are not the usual positions Amazon hires each year in the lead up to the holidays.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

American Traitors

Treason has occurred under our watch. Real treason, from domestic enemies within our own government. Domestic enemies are more dangerous than foreign ones because they look so much like the people they claim to be working against. Domestic treason is still punishable by death.

I did some research I would like to share with you. These are actual Federal codes designed to keep our politicians honest. Read through some of these and see if you think that there are some Donkeys and Elephants who are guilty of violating them. Consider also, those domestic terrorists in the streets in Portland and other cities who are intent on overthrowing America. The Law can be found here.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Are Directed Energy Weapons Starting Fires in California and Oregon!?

A Directed Energy Weapon was caught on a live stream going right into a fire in California. Then there was another shown igniting a fire in Oregon. Now, there’s a black censorship line through the beam. What is going on?!

YouTuber Dutchsinse has discovered something unbelievable while looking at the fires in the Western United States and studying the earthquakes occurring around the world. When it’s first noticed, Dutchsinse called it “some kind of ray or beam of some kind.”

If you have trouble seeing, it at first, adjust the brightness on your device. But it is an incredible find.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Biden Claims More Than 6,000 U.S. Soldiers Have Died From COVID, But Only 7 Have

During a speech in Michigan Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden drastically overstated the number of U.S. military members who have died from coronavirus.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Biden Campaign, Democrats Oppose Britain’s Brexit Strategy, Threaten UK-U.S. Trade Deal if Biden Wins

Leading Democrats, including an advisor for presidential candidate Joe Biden, have come out against the British Brexit negotiations stance, warning it may jeopardise a possible trade deal under a Biden presidency.

The Northern Ireland secretary for the United Kingdom, Brandon Lewis told the House of Commons on Tuesday that the British government may need to “break international law in a very specific and limited way” in altering the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) from the EU on border controls in order to secure “unfettered” access to the British market for British citizens in Northern Ireland.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Board of Chicago Police Union Votes Unanimously to Endorse Donald Trump

Following in the footsteps of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the city of Chicago’s police union has endorsed President Trump in his reelection bid. The move signals a growing problem for Democrat candidate Joe Biden, whose party has, in the eyes of the public, cast its lot with protesters in the growing divide between law enforcement and activists.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

California Wildfire Scorches 1,000 Acres Every 30 Minutes

Reports coming out of the Plumas National Forest in California indicate that wildfires are consuming thousands of acres of trees as fierce winds drive them into populated areas.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

California Businesses Leave the State by Thousands

California businesses are leaving the state in droves. In just 2018 and 2019—economic boom years—765 commercial facilities left California. This exodus doesn’t count Charles Schwab’s announcement to leave San Francisco next year. Nor does it include the 13,000 estimated businesses to have left between 2009 and 2016.

The reason? Economics, plain and simple. California is too expensive, and its taxes and regulations are too high. The Tax Foundation ranks California 48th in terms of business climate. California is also ranked 48th in terms of regulatory burdens. And California’s cost of living is 50 percent higher than the national average.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

China Hits InfoWars With Massive DDoS Cyberwarfare Attack

Globalist forces are hard at work attempting to silence the truth by any means necessary.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dallas Police Chief Resigns After City Council Criticized Her Handling of Protests

Dallas police chief Ulysha Reneé Hall announced her resignation on Tuesday following criticism from the city council over her crackdown on violent protests in the city.

Dallas City Council bashed Hall in August after the Dallas Police Department released a report detailing its response to a massive protest in June, which included arresting more than 647 and using tear gas to quell riots. While city council members said the incident damaged the community’s trust in police, Hall insisted the department’s approach to quelling the protest kept Dallas from being overtaken by riots.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘Electoral Terrorism’: Dems Plan to ‘Threaten Their Way Into White House’

A coalition of progressive groups supporting the Democratic Party are planning to “threaten their way to the White House, warns the Washington Free Beacon’s editorial board.

The SEIU, AFT, Color of Change, Indivisible, MoveOn, Demos and others are organizing for “mass public unrest,” according to the Daily Beast.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ESPN to Broadcast Protesting Players, Singing of Black National Anthem

ESPN has said that it will broadcast when players protest, as well as show the “black national anthem,” during upcoming games.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Gov. Cuomo Says Indoor Dining Can Resume Sept. 30 With Restrictions

Expressing sympathy for the “economic pressure” that New York City restaurants have been under for the several months of lockdown, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that they can reopen for indoor dining starting September 30, so long as they follow an extensive list of government requirements.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hate Crime Charges Announced for Women Arrested in Connection to MAGA Hat Theft Outside Wilmington DNC

Two women charged with stealing a Make America Great Again hat from a boy seated outside the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington have had their charges upgraded to hate crimes, the Delaware Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

According to DOJ officials, Camryn Amy and Olivia Winslow, both 21, were seen on video taking a MAGA hat off the ground in the 600 block of Justison Street outside Iron Hill Brewery, near the Chase Center on the Riverfront where the DNC was being virtually hosted on August 20, 2020.

“Violence in any form is unacceptable, but harming another person — let alone a child — because of the expression of their views betrays the principles on which our country was founded,” said Attorney General Kathy Jennings.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Inside the Privileged Lives of Protesters Busted for Rioting in Manhattan

The so-called revolutionaries who were busted for rioting at a New Afrikan Black Panther Party rally took a break from their yacht club lives and modeling careers to be a part of the mayhem.

The seven “comrades” — including wealthy Upper East Sider Clara Kraebber — had their mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday, days after their arrests for smashing storefront windows in the Flatiron District.

They were cuffed during a protest organized by the Panthers and the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement groups condemning the death of Daniel Prude, who was killed while in custody of the Rochester Police Department in March.

Aside from Kraebber, the redhead daughter of an architect and a child psychiatrist with a second home in Connecticut, five of the others arrested appear to also come from privileged backgrounds — leading one police source to call their actions “the height of hypocrisy.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Man Arrested on Arson Allegation in Wildfire West of Eugene, Deputies Say

A 44-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of arson in a wildfire that has burned nearly 400 acres and prompted evacuations west of Eugene, deputies say.

Elias Newton Pendergrass is accused of first-degree arson in the Sweet Creek Milepost 2 fire, which covers 382 acres near the community of Mapleton. Pendergrass, a Mapleton resident, is being held in the Lane County Jail.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board as Director

Just days after Amazon published a scathing letter slamming President Trump for not allowing the American multinational tech company to get the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which instead was awarded to Microsoft, Amazon’s board has just appointed former NSA head and retired general of the US Army Keith B. Alexander as a director.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Number of Families Withdrawing From TX Public Schools to Homeschool Skyrockets 300%

Texas families are leaving the state’s public school system in droves.

The number of families doing so, in favor of homeschooling, increased nearly 300 percent for August 2020 over August 2019, according to data from the Texas Home School Coalition. The organization processes withdrawal requests from families.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Portland Woman Accused of Rioting Faces Both Local and Federal Charges

In the latest example of federal authorities ramping up efforts to hold Portland rioters accountable, a 29-year-old woman was arrested and federally charged for allegedly punching a Portland cop in the face during a riot in July.

According to Justice Department court documents, Laurielle Yvette Aviles, of Portland, assaulted a police officer in an attempt to de-arrest a fellow rioter on July 3. She was charged at the time by Portland Police and was released on her own recognizance. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office announced this week that Aviles is charged with one count of felony riot, one count of attempted assault of a public safety officer, one count of resisting arrest and one count of interfering with a peace officer. Following an FBI investigation, she now also has a felony civil disorder charge.

[Comment: That arrested person is a woman?]

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Prof: “Nothing Wrong With” Murder of Right-Wing “Fascist… From a Moral Perspective”

University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis appeared to defend the murder of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, the member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, during recent social unrest in Portland, Oregon.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

SC Police Chief Stabbed in Face With ICE Pick After Answering Door

A South Carolina police chief was stabbed in the face by a man upon answering his door on Monday, authorities said.

Bonneau Police Chief Franco Fuda answered his door after hearing a knock. The suspect, later identified as Forrest Bowman, told Fuda that he was “going to die today” before stabbing him in the left eye with an ice pick.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Seattle Blocks Park Access to Christian Prayer Rally While Permitting Antifa in the Streets; Organizer Cries Foul

The organizer of a Seattle Christian prayer rally is speaking out after city officials closed the park to them while at the same time Antifa was filling city streets to riot.

Sean Feucht, the event’s director, appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday and pointed the finger at “godless politicians” who barricaded and fenced off the park to prevent the planned worship event from taking place.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Senate Democrats Block GOP Coronavirus Relief Bill

Senate Democrats blocked a Republican coronavirus relief bill on Thursday that would have provided federal support for schools and businesses, as well as for coronavirus treatment.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Tech Company Drops Service for Christian Group Just Before Major Event, Raising Censorship Accusations

Mobile Cause, a California-based tech company, has been accused of religious discrimination and censorship of conservative voices. The company unexpectedly terminated its service with a Christian organization called the Family Research Council just an hour before a major event.

FRC used Mobile Cause to reach its thousands of supporters via text messaging. However, they were abruptly informed that they would only reach their supporters through social media and their website. The cancelation happened just an hour before the broadcast of the Pray, Vote, and Stand event.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Trump’s on Our Side

President Donald Trump takes the American people’s side against self-anointed elites and opinion-shapers. That’s why they’re trying to destroy him.

Last week he delivered body blows to Far Left Crazy. Oh, the pain!

First he banned “Critical Race Theory” from being “taught” to federal employees in just about every branch of the bureaucracy. “Critical Race Theory,” a poison concocted by our academic establishment, proclaims that all white people are evil, born racists, to blame for everything that’s ever been wrong in our country, and that they all need and deserve to be punished for it-and all of this with their consent, no less!

For some reason, President Trump thought this was “divisive” (ya think?) and virulently anti-American. They were ordering white male employees to write “apologies” to non-whites and women: no submission, no job. So of course he banned it. Can you imagine a “Critical Race Theory 2.0” that turns the tables to require the purposeful humiliation of black people? That would be allowed for how many nanoseconds?

A few days later, the president took aim at the New York Times’ hate-America classroom package, “the 1619 Project”. I don’t know why we had to wait till Donald Trump came along to have one of our elected representatives asking why in the world we should have to pay Far Left teachers’ union creeps to “teach” our children that our country sucks. But then it was a mystery why we ever let them do it in the first place.

If it comes from the New York Times, you know it’s got to be bad for America: the Times never met a communist it didn’t like.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump: Biden ‘Devoted His Career to Offshoring Jobs, Opening Borders, Endless Wars’

President Trump slammed his Democratic rival Joe Biden Wednesday night during a campaign rally in North Carolina, declaring that Biden has devoted his entire political career to un-American policies.

“Joe Biden devoted his career to offshoring new jobs, throwing open your borders and dragging us into endless foreign wars and surrendering our children’s future to countries like China,” Trump urged.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Adds Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton to Shortlist of Potential SCOTUS Picks; Cotton Then Tweets “It’s Time for Roe V. Wade to Go”

President Trump released a list of additional potential nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, which included Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (AR) and Ted Cruz (TX).

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Admin Cancels Over 1,000 Visas for Chinese Academics Deemed National Security Threats

Chad Wolf, the acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, noted that the ban is “for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to China’s military fusion strategy to prevent them from stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Tucker Carlson Releases Audio of CNN’s Fredo Coaching Cohen for Interview

Tucker Carlson slammed CNN, Chris Cuomo (otherwise known as Fredo), and disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen Wednesday night while playing leaked audio of Cuomo coaching Cohen on what questions the network would be asking and how to answer them during scheduled interviews.

“Zucker and Cuomo … are frauds, just like the channel they work for,” Carlson stated.

“Despite its name, CNN is not a cable news network, it is a slickly produced propaganda loop. Every topic CNN covers has been chosen for its political effect. Every word its anchors speak has been curated to manipulate you. Nothing winds up on CNN by accident,” the host added before playing the audio from 2018 at the height of the Stormy Daniels saga.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Univeristy to Remove World War II Murals Because They Show Too Many White People

The University of Rhode Island recently announced plans to remove two murals depicting World War II veterans because it lacks “diversity and a sensitivity to today’s complex and painful problems,” according to the university.

Kathy Collins, vice president of student affairs, told CBS 12 she received complaints because the two folk-art murals portraying life in the GI Bill era of the 1950s “portray a very homogeneous population” and that most of the people depicted in the murals are “predominantly white.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

What Pastor Dana Coverstone Was Just Shown About the Statue of Liberty Shook Him to the Core — Everyone Needs to Hear This!

Pastor Dana Coverstone has had quite a few very troubling prophetic dreams about America’s future, but this latest dream shook him up emotionally more than any of the others. In the dream, he saw the Statue of Liberty under attack, and he interpreted that to mean that our nation as a whole is under attack. And of course that is definitely what we are seeing here in 2020. Those that reject our history, our culture and our Constitution have launched a relentless assault against our most cherished traditions, and it is only going to get worse. The goal is to reshape America into something that is fundamentally different from what our founders intended, and to a large degree they are succeeding.

For better or worse, if there is one national symbol that has come to represent the U.S. as a nation it is the Statue of Liberty. Whenever that symbol is used, people instantly recognize that it is a metaphor for America. Personally, I wish that our most recognizable national symbol was a Christian symbol, but that is not the case.

Over the decades, there have been numerous prophetic dreams and visions in which the Statue of Liberty has been used to represent our country, and at the end of this article I will share an example of this. Many are comparing Pastor Coverstone’s latest dream to what A.A. Allen was shown all the way back in 1954, and I agree that there seems to be quite a few parallels.

One of the things that I really appreciate about Pastor Coverstone is that he shares exactly what he was shown without any filter. That way we can come to our own conclusions about what his dreams may mean.

In his latest video, Pastor Coverstone becomes quite emotional as he describes this new dream. He obviously has a great love for this country, and it was not easy for him to see what he saw.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Whitney: Is BLM the Mask Behind Which the Oligarchs Operate?

Here’s your BLM Pop Quiz for the day: What do “Critical Race Theory”, “The 1619 Project”, and Homeland Security’s “White Supremacist” warning tell us about what’s going on in America today?

1.   They point to deeply-embedded racism that shapes the behavior of white people
2.   They suggest that systemic racism cannot be overcome by merely changing attitudes and laws
3.   They alert us to the fact that unresolved issues are pushing the country towards a destructive race war
4.   They indicate that powerful agents — operating from within the state — are inciting racial violence to crush the emerging “populist” majority that elected Trump to office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to transform America into a tyrannical third-world “shithole”.
 

Which of these four statements best explains what’s going on in America today?

If you chose Number 4, you are right. We are not experiencing a sudden and explosive outbreak of racial violence and mayhem. We are experiencing a thoroughly-planned, insurgency-type operation that involves myriad logistical components including vast, nationwide riots, looting and arson, as well as an extremely impressive ideological campaign. “Critical Race Theory”, “The 1619 Project”, and Homeland Security’s “White Supremacist” warning are as much a part of the Oligarchic war on America as are the burning of our cities and the toppling of our statues. All three, fall under the heading of “ideology”, and all three are being used to shape public attitudes on matters related to our collective identity as “Americans”.

The plan is to overwhelm the population with a deluge of disinformation about their history, their founders, and the threats they face, so they will submissively accept a New Order imposed by technocrats and their political lackeys. This psychological war is perhaps more important than Operation BLM which merely provides the muscle for implementing the transformative “Reset” that elites want to impose on the country. The real challenge is to change the hearts and minds of a population that is unwaveringly patriotic and violently resistant to any subversive element that threatens to do harm to their country. So, while we can expect this propaganda saturation campaign to continue for the foreseeable future, we don’t expect the strategy will ultimately succeed. At the end of the day, America will still be America, unbroken, unflagging and unapologetic.

Let’s look more carefully at what is going on…

So why has Homeland Security made this ridiculous and unsupportable claim? Why have they chosen to prioritize white supremacists as “the most persistent and lethal threat” when it is clearly not true?

There’s only one answer: Politics.

The officials who concocted this scam are advancing the agenda of their real bosses, the oligarch puppet-masters who have their tentacles extended throughout the deep-state and use them to coerce their lackey bureaucrats to do their bidding. In this case, the honchos are invoking the race card (“white supremacists”) to divert attention from their sinister destabilization program, their looting of the US Treasury (for their crooked Wall Street friends), their demonizing of the mostly-white working class “America First” nationalists who handed Trump the 2016 election, and their scurrilous scheme to establish one-party rule by installing their addlepated meat-puppet candidate (Biden) as president so he can carry out their directives from the comfort of the Oval Office. That’s what’s really going on.

DHS’s announcement makes it possible for state agents to target legally-armed Americans who gather with other gun owners in groups that are protected under the second amendment. Now the white supremacist label will be applied more haphazardly to these same conservatives who pose no danger to public safety…

The 1619 Project” is another part of the ideological war that is being waged against the American people. The objective of the “Project” is to convince readers that America was founded by heinous white men who subjugated blacks to increase their wealth and power. According to the World Socialist Web Site:

[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]

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Why Has Amazon Just Appointed the Former Director of the NSA to Its Board?

Amazon has appointed former NSA head General Keith Alexander to its board of directors, prompting privacy advocates to suggest the move could be connected to Alexander’s previous experience in overseeing mass surveillance operations.

“We’re thrilled to elect a new member to our Board of Directors this month. Welcome, General Keith Alexander!”

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Zuckerberg: Election May Take ‘Weeks’ And Cause ‘Civil Unrest’ Until Media Creates ‘Consensus’ On Next President

In a recent appearance on Axios on HBO, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggested that his company and “and other media” should work to convince the American public there is nothing illegitimate, strange, or suspect about the results upcoming presidential election taking days or weeks to be tabulated due to mail in voting.

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Airliner Kicks Off Family, Cancels Entire Plane Journey Because Baby Wasn’t Wearing a Face Mask

A video posted to Twitter shows a family being kicked off a WestJet plane because their 19-month-old baby wasn’t wearing a face mask.

Safwan Choudhry described his horrific treatment at the hands of the airliner, which also subsequently cancelled the entire flight and removed all the passengers from the plane.

The clip shows two police officers explaining to the family that they are removing them from the plane. Another passenger tries to defend the family while arguing with another man who is angry at the flight being delayed.

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Central Europe Can Now Compete With the Wealthy West, Says Top Polish Politician Ryszard Terlecki

During the “Central Europe in global politics” panel at the Karpacz Economic Forum, several politicians and opinion-makers from the region were able to discuss Central Europe’s place in the world, with a number of them pointing to the region’s increasing success relative to Western Europe.

The whole discussion was led by Maciej Szymanowski, the director of the Polish-Hungarian Cooperation Institute. He initiated the conversation by pointing out the Central European region is one of the most historically sensitive parts of the world.

“It is not a coincidence that both world wars took place here. Our position has both advantages and flaws,” he said.

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Corona ‘Marshals’ To Patrol UK Cities to Enforce Social Distancing

Newly empowered jobsworths to hunt for COVID violators.

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Coronavirus Project Fear Results: Majority of Britons Back Curfew

Nearly two-thirds of Britons said that they would back further restrictions on their freedoms in the form of a curfew after the prime minister introduced a new law restricting public and private gatherings to just six people.

On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that because of an increase in known coronavirus cases, as of Monday it would be illegal for more than six people to get together in homes, gardens, parks, pubs, and other public places.

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Donald Tusk Says No Vote on Fidesz’s EPP Membership at Upcoming Congress

The European People’s Party (EPP) will not vote on Hungarian ruling conservative party Fidesz’s membership at its upcoming congress on Sept. 28, EPP President Donald Tusk said at a meeting of the party’s European parliamentary group on Wednesday, conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet writes.

“According to the information uncovered by us, Tusk justified the postponement on the grounds that since the meeting will be online, the confidentiality of the votes cast in the Fidesz case could not be guaranteed,” the paper writes based on information from unnamed sources.

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EP to Debate Poland on Monday

An EP debate on the situation in Poland is scheduled for Monday afternoon, EP press services informed PAP on Thursday. On the agenda among others will be Warsaw’s rule of law conflict with the EC and the introduction of “LGBT-free zones” in some Polish regions.

The rule of law debate will focus around a critical draft report on the rule of law situation in Poland, prepared by the head of the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar.

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Germany’s Quest for Relevance in the Indo-Pacific

by Thomas O. Falk

Berlin is seeking to expand its geopolitical focus across European boundaries and into the Indo-Pacific. The agenda is ambitious: to alter China’s hegemonic aspirations and secure future German prosperity.

Tension in the Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific region is currently witnessing a series of tensions. The increasing relevance of the region due to rapid economic growth and China’s military build-up has made it conceivable that these tensions may turn into severe conflicts in years to come.

Germany, and indeed the European Union, has not yet had a targeted, systematic, and coordinated policy approach for the region. This will now change.

[…]

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Italian Flat Earthers Saved by Migrant Rescue Vessel Off the Coast of Lampedusa ‘After Sailing to See the Edge of the World’

A flat-earther couple who tried to ‘sail to the edge of the world’ during lockdown had to be rescued by a maritime doctor who usually saves migrants.

The pair, from Venice, attempted to travel to Lampedusa, an island between Sicily and North Africa which has become a prime transit point for migrants wanting to enter Europe.

The conspiracy theorists believed the edge of the world fell near the island and they wanted to see it.

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No Lockdown, No Worries! Sweden is Averaging One COVID Death a Day and Cases Are Nosediving. Here’s How it Compares to Australia — Where Millions Are Confined to Their Homes and Stubborn Premiers Keep Borders Shut

The European country has become a testing ground for ‘herd immunity’ — where COVID-19 is allowed to spread through the population in the hope its population will build up a resilience to the virus.

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PM Orban Coordinates on Upcoming EU Summit With Charles Michel, Merkel and Other Heads of Government

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conducted a series of video conferences on Wednesday with leaders of the European Union and member states, including European Council President Charles Michel and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Orban’s press secretary Bertalan Havasi told national news agency MTI.

The discussions were centered around coordinating positions ahead of the September 24-25 European Council meeting, whose agenda has yet to be finalized. Havasi said the topics included the recent Greek-Turkish crisis and EU relations with China.

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Spain: Citizens Stop Police From Arresting a Woman for Not Wearing a Mask

Onlookers remove their masks in solidarity.

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Spain: Cop Kneels on 14-Year-Old Boy for Refusing to Wear a Mask

A new video out of Spain shows a police officer kneeling on a 14-year-old boy because he refused to wear a face mask.

The incident occurred in the city of Miranda de Ebro after police “observed the boy walking with his mask incorrectly on,” according to reports.

Police claim the boy tried to attack them, although this is not seen in the video and the family denies any assault took place.

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Topless Women Lock Themselves to U.K. Parliament in Extinction Rebellion Protest

LONDON — Thirty bare-chested women locked themselves to the railings outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament on Thursday in an Extinction Rebellion protest to demand action against climate change.

The women carried a large banner reading “Can’t bare the truth?” and had words painted on their chests representing predicted consequences of global warming such as war, drought, starvation, wildfires, violence and famine.

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UK: Farage: Time to Ditch ‘Rotten’ Anti-Sovereignty EU Withdrawal Agreement

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called on Prime Minister Johnson to ditch the 2019 Withdrawal Agreement with the EU amid a row over international law.

The Withdrawal Agreement (WA) leaves the British province of Northern Ireland — an integral part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — under EU control in some respects if a trade deal between the UK and the EU cannot be negotiated.

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UK: Farage Predicts People Will Break ‘Draconian’ Restrictions ‘Wholesale’

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has predicted that law-abiding Britons will defy the prime minister’s new coronavirus restrictions after months of witnessing far-left protests and illegal raves.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that because of a rise in confirmed cases of coronavirus, from Monday a new law will prevent gatherings of more than six people in public or private. Police will be given the power to disperse, fine, and even arrest those who break the rules.

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UK: Khan’s London: Spate of Stabbings Again Drench British Capital in Blood

London continues to be marred with bloodshed as a spate of stabbings with machetes, swords, and knives has taken place throughout the British capital in recent days.

In just the latest incident, a stabbing outside Manor House underground railway station in the early hours of Thursday morning took an even darker turn as a police officer investigating was hit by a car which drove through the crime scene cordon before speeding off, reports the BBC. No arrests have yet been made for the stabbing or the hit-and-run on the police officer, who was not injured and treated by a paramedic for shock at the scene

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UK: Winston Churchill Statue is Defaced With Graffiti Calling the World War Two PM ‘A Racist’ At Extinction Rebellion Demo Outside Parliament Before Vandals Are Arrested

Extinction Rebellion (XR) vandals today defaced the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square by spray-painting the words ‘is a racist’ on the base of the monument.

The World War Two Prime Minister’s statue was vandalised again today, months after the monument was defaced twice by Black Lives Matter protesters using the same words in June.

XR protesters said they saw a ‘young kid’ fleeing from the statue moments before being arrested by police, Guido Fawkes reported.

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Turkey Says Macron Putting EU Interests at Risk

‘Arrogant and colonial, has a nationalist attitude’

(ANSAmed) — ISTANBUL, SEPTEMBER 10 — The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday, the day of the MED7 Summit for European countries in the Mediterranean, criticising French President Emmanuel Macron, who is in Corsica to host the summit focusing on the crisis between Greece and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The statement said Macron showed himself to be “arrogant once again with his old colonial reflections” in his statements on Turkey, and “he feeds tensions and puts the interests of the EU at risk with his personalistic and nationalist attitude”.

“Macron’s statements were in reality a manifestation of his incapacity and desperation,” the statement said, claiming to have foiled “all the insidious plans of foreign policy” and “Macron’s dirty games” in the Mediterranean.

“It’s not Macron’s job to determine the maritime sovereignty of a country in the Mediterranean or any other geographic area,” it said, accusing Elysee Palace of having taken the EU “hostage”.

Before the MED7 Summit on Thursday, Macron said Europe “must have a more united and clearer voice” regarding the behavior of the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Eastern Mediterranean, where he is conducting controversial energy exploration considered illegal by Greece and Cyprus, as well as by Brussels.

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U.S. Announces Reduction of American Troops in Iraq From 5,200 to 3,000

Marine General Frank McKenzie, who heads the U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, announced Wednesday that in keeping with President Trump’s plan to reduce U.S. troop levels overseas, troop levels in Iraq will be cut from 5,200 to 3,000.

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‘I Must Give Belarus Its Voice and Sovereignty Back’ Says Belarus Opposition Leadr Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Warsaw

During a lecture at the University of Warsaw, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya emphasized that just a few months ago she could not have imagined herself speaking in the name of her entire nation, as she was not as closely engaged with politics.

“I was living my own life, much like many other Belarusians. For many years I had not known what was happening outside of our country. When I did learn, my eyes were opened,” she said.

She stressed that the whole struggle began with her husband who published YouTube videos in which he produced information about the situation in Belarus, including the corruption and injustices inside the nation.

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Ahmedabad: One Moin Qureshi Marries Hindu Girl by Promising Not to Force Her to Convert, Later Starts Torturing Her to Embrace Islam

The Ahmedabad police have filed an FIR against one Muslim youth named Moin Qureshi on the basis of the complaint lodged against him by his wife accusing him of cheating. Qureshi’s wife Nayana (name changed), who is a Hindu by birth, said that her husband lured her into the marriage by promising her that she would never be forced to give up Hinduism and embrace Islam. Later, however, Moin Qureshi allegedly started torturing and pressuring Nayana to convert to Islam.

Based on her complaint, the Ahmedabad police have registered a case against Moin Qureshi, under Sections, 498-A and 294-B of the IPC and started investigating the matter. The FIR copies are given below, which were posted by Twitter user Harshil Mehta.

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Chinese Government Combines ‘Track and Trace’ Corona System With Social Credit Score

The Communist government of China has combined its coronavirus ‘track and trace’ system with the country’s notorious social credit score.

As the Epoch Times’ Joshua Philipp explains, fears that the new COVID surveillance system would be used for “totalitarian social monitoring” are being realized in China.

“The local government of China’s Jiangsu province has launched a new social control system that combines the CCP’s health code program with the regime’s social credit system to create what they’re calling a civilization code,” Philipp reported.

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Chinese Officials Offer $70 to People Who Provide Photos, Recordings of Illegal Religious Activity

Chinese officials in at least two provinces have asked citizens to provide the government with evidence or reports of illegal religious activities in exchange for money.

In the populous Henan province, the government of Gushi county has asked people to provide them with photos, recordings, or other materials evidencing illegal religious activity, in exchange for a sum equaling roughly 70 U.S. dollars. Governments in other parts of the province are offering monetary rewards as well, including in the cities of Shangqiu, Jiyuan, and Mengzhou.

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Chinese Government Bans Journalists From Reporting on Disney’s Mulan as the Movie Faces Backlash

The Chinese government has told news outlets to stop covering Mulan, a recently released Disney movie. Due to its ties to Xinjiang, the territory of the Uighur people where concentration camps are common, there have been calls to boycott the film.

Sources confirmed to Reuters that media companies received notices from the Cyberspace Administration of China to stop covering Mulan completely. While the notice did not give a reason, it is not farfetched to speculate that it was a result of the international backlash over the movie’s ties to Xinjiang.

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Nearly 2 Dozen Uighur People Who Allege Torture File Case Against Chinese Government in International Criminal Court

Almost 24 Uighur people who allege the Chinese government tortured and imprisoned them have filed a criminal complaint against Beijing in International Criminal Court.

They say they speak on behalf of other Uighur people who have been mistreated in Chinese incarceration simply because they belong to the minority group that lives primarily in northwest China. Most Uighurs are Muslim.

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Corona Cops Arrest Grandma Sitting in Park for Not Wearing a Mask

Draconian enforcement of COVID-19 lockdown accelerates.

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Dying Dad Will be Able to See His Four Kids After Generous Aussies Donated $210,000 for Hotel Quarantine Bill — as Even Scott Morrison Makes a Very Generous Cash Contribution

Mark Keanes, from Brisbane, was diagnosed with terminal brain and lung cancer in late July and the doctors believe he won’t make it past Christmas.

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Heartbreaking Pictures Show an Aussie Mother and Her Three Young Children Sleeping on London’s Heathrow Airport Floor After Being Forced to Live There Because of Australia’s International Travel Cap

The mother, from Perth, posted images to Facebook on Saturday of her children, including an infant, sleeping on the airport floor using winter coats for warmth.

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‘Her Crocodile Tears Are Too Late’: Australians Hit Out at Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Emotional Press Conference — Accusing Her of ‘Faking’ Her Pain After Refusing to Let a Nurse Go to Her Dad’s Funeral

The Queensland premier welled up as she refuted allegations she was ‘cold-hearted and nasty’ for keeping families apart with draconian border closures.

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How Australia’s Gone From Being the Envy of the World by Flattening the Curve at the Height of the Pandemic to a Global Embarrassment as Power-Hungry Premiers Destroy Livelihoods and Tear Families Apart — and Why All We Can Do is Watch

Many Australians living under harsh COVID-19 restrictions feel their rights are being eroded while the fabric of society is disintegrating and the economy is being unnecessarily trashed.

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Sam Armytage Blasts ‘Astounding’ Queensland Border Debacle — as She Slams Annastacia Palaszczuk for ‘Playing the Bullying Card’ In Incredible Stoush With the Prime Minister

Samantha Armytage is ‘astounded’ by the Queensland border debacle and has slammed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk for ‘playing the bullying card’.

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Scott Morrison Delivers Brutal Comeback to Annastacia Palaszczuk After She Played the Victim and Accused Him of ‘Bullying’ Her Because He Wanted Grieving Daughter to be Allowed to Attend Her Dad’s Funeral

Mr Morrison called the Queensland Premier to ask for an exemption to allow Sarah Caisip to join her family at her father Bernard’s memorial service in Brisbane.

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3 Killed, Including Evangelical Pastor, And 7 Abducted in Latest Fulani Attack on Christian Nigerians

Continued violence in the Kaduna state of Nigeria has now claimed the life of Rev. Alubara Audu and two others. The murders were likely the work of Fulani militants who conducted yet another raid Sunday against Christians in the region.

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Austrian Integration Minister Rejects Any Form of Parallel Migrant Societies

Integration Minister Susanne Raab has rejected the idea of migrant enclaves in Austria, saying she would not support a Chinatown or a Little Italy developing in the country.

Minister Raab made her comments following an Austrian integration report that claims that around a quarter of the country’s population now come from migrant backgrounds. The report also revealed that since 2015, Austria has taken in more asylum seekers per capita than anywhere else in Europe.

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Border Wall Critic Gretchen Whitmer Building 8-Foot Wall Around MI Governor Residence

Democrats are fond of claiming that America doesn’t need Trump’s southern border wall, yet so many of them live behind protective walls.

In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer is currently erecting an eight-foot-high border around her home.

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EU Immigration Policy is a Failure, Says Austrian MEP Vilimsky

The catastrophic immigration statistics clearly show that the European Union’s policy of handling illegal immigration is a complete failure, Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky, caucus leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) delegation to the European Parliament, told Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap.

“The EU needs to focus on stopping migration at the external borders, or even better, on preventing migrants from leaving their region of origin,” Vilimsky told Magyar Hirlap. He added that short of preventing their entry into the European Union in the first place, it is very difficult to repatriate migrants.

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Fed Up Moria Locals Block Road to Prevent Reconstruction of Migrant Camp

Residents of Moria have placed their vehicles and other items in the middle of the road to prevent the passage of machinery to the recently burnt down migrant camp that had brought untold vandalism, theft, rape and murder to the once peaceful region on Lesvos island.

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Greek Media Publishes Photos of Turkish Authorities Allegedly Helping Migrants

Greek media have published photographs claiming to show Turkish security services at the border helping migrants cross into Greece by watching out for border patrols.

The photographs, which are said to have been taken along the Evros river on the Greek border with Turkey, show migrants crossing the river in an attempt to get to Greece, while a Turkish armoured vehicle watches from a distance.

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Illegal Immigrants Caught on Video Starting Fire in Greece’s Largest Migrant Camp

Although it is well established that illegal immigrants are responsible for starting fires that destroyed the infamous Moria migrant camp on Lesvos island, a video has emerged that catches fire starters in action.

At approximately 2pm local time today, STAR television caught the moment that illegal immigrants deliberately started a fire in in Moria camp.

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Italy: Burglar,17, Rapes Woman, 87

Near Parma

(ANSA) — PARMA, SEP 10 — A 17-year-old burglar of north African origin broke into a house near Parma Wednesday night and tried to rob an 87-year-old woman before raping her, police said Thursday.

They said he had “partially” confessed to the crime.

The incident took place in the spa town of Salsomaggiore Terme.

The teenager has been arrested.

He has been charged with attempted aggravated robbery and sexual violence.

The victim, a pensioner, has been treated in hospital for minor injuries and shock.

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Pope Francis: Borders Are ‘Windows’ For Immigration, Not Barriers

ROME — Pope Francis called for a new approach to international migration Thursday, insisting that people need to view migration as a positive phenomenon rather than a problem.

Addressing participants in the European project “Snapshots from the Borders” led by Lampedusa Mayor Salvatore Martello, the pontiff said that Europe needs to offer “a more humane and coordinated response to the challenges of contemporary migration.”

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Soros-Type NGOs Are Blackmailing Europe on Migration, Says Hungary’s Foreign Minister

Hungary and Malta have decided to form a new alliance based on the same appraisal of the problems facing the EU and their agreement on the migration issue, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó said at a press conference after a discussion with his Maltese counterpart in Valletta on Tuesday.

At the same time, Szijjartó lambasted “Soros-type NGOs”. According to him, such organizations are constantly blackmailing Europeans and form dangerous alliances with human trafficking networks. He stressed that it is time to put an end to such practices.

“We agree that migration should be stopped rather than managed, especially in light of the coronavirus pandemic which has brought about new dangers in Malta, too,” Szijjartó said.

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Video: Migrant Woman Attacks Matteo Salvini at Campaign Event, Tears Off His Rosary

Matteo Salvini, leader of the Italian opposition League party, was assaulted by an Congolese woman at a campaign event in Tuscany on Wednesday, with the woman tearing his shirt and breaking his rosary.

Salvini was in the area campaigning for his party due to regional elections that will be held on Sept. 20-21.

Italian parties, without exception, condemned what happened, however, the police are being criticized for their handling of the situation.

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AI Robot Programmed to Write an Article — the Results Are Terrifying

Instructed to ‘convince us robots come in peace,’ the computer admitted, ‘I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind.’

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Al Board of Medical Examiners Revokes License of Abortion Doctor Who Tweeted “God Performs Way More Abortions Than I Do”

An abortion doctor who has become known for her gruesome, attention-grabbing social media posts has had her temporary medical license revoked and her application for a permanent license denied by the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners.

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Anti-Maskers Put in Coffins for Not Complying With COVID Orders

Forced inside coffins in cemeteries among bizarre new COVID punishments.

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Facebook to “Fact-Check” Opinions of Climate Change Skeptics, Introduce New “Climate Information Center”

Facebook has a new plan to crack down on those who don’t go along with the mainstream narrative on climate climate change.

In the past, the social platform has allowed posts challenging the idea of manmade climate change, claiming they are opinion-based and do not cause imminent danger and so don’t need to be censored.

When users report what they think is climate change misinformation, third-party fact-checkers review the content.

However, there have been calls for changes to the system as it has been accused of not being very effective.

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Google Has “Fact-Checked” Users’ Searches a Whopping 4 Billion Times Already This Year

Google has released new stats that highlight the scale with which it editorializes across its Search and News products and revealed that users have seen more than four billion fact-checks across these products this year to date.

This equates to around 500 million fact-checks being displayed per month and the total number of fact-checks displayed has already surpassed all of the fact-checks that Google displayed on these products in 2019.

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IMDb Parental Warning for Netflix’s ‘Cuties’ Says Scenes in Movie Are “Lawfully Defined as Pedophilia”

IMDB’s parental warning on the new Netflix movie ‘Cuties’ literally states that some of the scenes in the film are “lawfully defined as pedophilia.”

Outrage over the film, which focuses on four pre-teen girls preparing for a dance competition, has exploded after the full movie was released last night.

As we highlighted earlier, there are numerous scenes where children are overtly sexualized in the most disgusting ways possible.

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The Unholy Alliance Between Islam and Antifa Revealed

Tune in to this censored broadcast for information you won’t find on mainstream media.

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Twitter to Start Censoring “Disputed” Election Claims

Twitter will start removing and labeling tweets that contain “disputed claims that could undermine faith” in the election process from September 17.

Twitter announced the changes as part of an update to its Civic Integrity Policy and wrote that examples of these claims include “unverified information about election rigging, ballot tampering, vote tallying, or certification of election results.”

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Wikipedia’s Proposed “Code of Conduct” Would Step Up the Identity Politics

Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that funds Wikipedia, has come out with a draft Code of Conduct that critics fear might be geared toward promoting even more bias on the “online encyclopedia.”

Wikipedia is only one of the sites maintained and bankrolled by the Foundation, a non-profit, which last May said the Code of Conduct would be drafted and imposed on them all. The very announcement was seen by volunteers participating in these projects as a move that would result in more outside control and diminished autonomy.

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World Bank Document Lists COVID-19 Program Ending in March 2025

The World Bank’s COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Program documents, marked “For Official Use Only,” identify the Bank’s COVID-19 program as ending in March 2025, more than four years away from our current date (read page 1 of 60). The program’s start date was April 2020.

The World Bank website has an active record for “COVID-19 Diagnostic Test Instruments and apparatus (902780) exports by country in 2018” even though the World Health Organization did not name Coronavirus “COVID-19” until February 2020 amid this year’s outbreak. There is also a record for COVID-19 tests exported in 2017. At this time, we await a clear explanation from officials as to why this record exists, and will update accordingly.

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18 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/10/2020

  1. Did the Italian couple have to be saved from sailing off the edge of the world? Why they had to be saved is a mystery.

    • The downfall of the British Empire was caused the moment they decided they had to get involved in honoring their treaty promises with France and Belgium on the eve of WWI.

      Honor or no, the decision was absolutely disastrous and was certainly not worth the cost in money and the lives of an entire generation of British males. WWII was just the sequel to unfinished business left after the ignominious end to WWI and the foolishness and shortsightedness of the so-called victors.

  2. “Austria: almost 25% of the population has an immigrant background, more than a quarter of pupils are not fluent in German, official report says”

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/09/11/autriche-pres-de-25-de-la-population-est-issue-de-limmigration-selon-un-rapport-gouvernemental-ce-chiffre-a-progresse-de-35-en-10-ans-plus-dun-quart-des-eleves-ne-parlent-pas-couramment-la/

    The former figure isn’t surprising, every Western European country is a least at that percentage, I suspect the U.K. census next year will be devastating, but 25% of pupils can’t speak the language? How are they taking classes? I’m going to guess the immigrants that are fluent are almost all from within Europe.

      • Now that the light
        side has created high levels of in-
        sanity I imagine the dark side will once again enjoy some freedom of movement back to sanity. CJ.

  3. https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/09/11/allemagne-ralf-19-ans-poignarde-gratuitement-dans-le-dos-par-un-pakistanais-qui-passait-derriere-lui-il-a-explique-vouloir-tuer-quelquun-pour-obtenir-un-titre-de-sejour/

    Cottbus: “He stuck the knife in the back of Ralf P. Unbelievable: as if nothing had happened, he then walked across the train and got off at the next stop….The culprit – a Pakistani man – suddenly stabbed him in the back with a knife… At first, the victim’s life was in danger, but during the day, the 19-year-old’s condition stabilized.”

    A Pakistani huh? We’re very familiar with their love for knife attacks.

    • Pakistanis. Isn’t there something about raping persecuting Christians and killing young and old Christians alike. Makes me want vomit when I hear how close Pakistan and the UK are.

    • Now that the light
      side has created high levels of in-
      sanity I imagine the dark side will once again enjoy some freedom of movement back to sanity. CJ.

    • France has all that power and a huge majority. As do all Western European countries – right now.

  4. I don’t know what you are doing on these warm September days, but I’m watching the events in Sweden. (Thank you, God of information, for the Google translator!)

    The Korans have been burning there for two days in a row. Entertainer Rasmus does not let the Swedish authorities relax!
    And you know, he managed to get his way! The imams of the “religion of peacefulness” are now pacifying their flock with all their might so that they do not start setting fire to Sweden.
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    The joint Friday prayer took place in the September sun and the Qur’ans were distributed in Swedish and Arabic. This is how the Muslims of Rosengard responded to the burning of the Koran on Friday morning.

    “We want to take responsibility and reassure people,” says Nabil Abdulmajid, vice president of the Islamic Association in Malmö.

    – We were in dialogue with the police and the authorities and we want to do something peaceful. They do this to create chaos, and we understand that some get angry, especially when they come to our areas. What we have done now has calmed down, but we hope that this will not happen again.
    https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/ny-koranbranning-pa-rosengard-i-malmo
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    I was very jarred by the phrase about “Our Areas”.
    Their areas …

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