More than 350 “rescued” migrants were off-loaded in Palermo by the Sea Watch 4 migrant-ferry. Meanwhile, the Greek shipping minister said that the coast guard has prevented the landing of more than 10,000 migrants in his country so far this year.
In other news, Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis was vandalized with Black Lives Matter graffiti.
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Australia’s first recession in almost 30 years was confirmed on Wednesday, with the economy shrinking seven per cent in the June quarter.
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Australia’s most dramatic economic slump ever is set to push unemployment into the double digits. The Reserve Bank said a 40 per cent plunge in house prices was also plausible.
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Poland’s Economy Cannot Afford Another Coronavirus Lockdown
Like many countries across the world, Poland can ill afford a second lockdown. If not for the positive results the country saw in foreign trade, the drop in Polish GDP would have been much more severe than 8.2 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the newest report of Statistics Poland.
There has never been such bad data released concerning consumption and investments.
In both cases, there was a 10.9 percent decrease in the second quarter. Only so-called net exports helped the GDP grow — not because Polish companies sold more to foreign markets, but because imports to Poland decreased more slowly than exports.
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Wall Street Kicks Off September With Record Highs for Both S&P and Nasdaq
Paced by tech shares, the stock market kicked off the historically difficult month of September with a surge that pushed both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to record highs at close.
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“Dark Art Operatives” Trying to Steal Election From Trump, Nigel Farage Warns
Mail-in ballots could be abused to “reverse” election results, Farage says
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“It Happened So Fast” — Baltimore Man Smashed by Brick, Disturbing Video Shows
by Tyler Durden
A disturbing video has surfaced on social media showing a man striking another unsuspecting man with an apparent brick in Baltimore City.
The short video shows a man running up with a brick in hand and then smashing it over the head of an older white man on Sunday afternoon around the 100 block of West Hamburg Street in South Baltimore.
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3,100 Pounds of Meth Confiscated, 33 Arrested in Largest Drug Bust in Santa Barbara County History
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office confiscated more than a ton and a half of methamphetamine at a South Coast beach on Wednesday, marking the largest drug bust in the county’s history.
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AT&T Supports Trump’s Executive Order, Says Social Media Platforms Should be Politically Neutral
The telecommunications giant AT&T has shown its support for President Donald Trump’s proposal to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that would force platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google to remain politically neutral in order to maintain their liability protections. For the company, this proposal is the “true net neutrality” that must be achieved.
Trump has found an unlikely ally to back his proposal to revise Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: telecommunications giant AT&T. The ISP executives’ opinion was published in a web statement.
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Kyle Rittenhouse made his first public remarks via phone during a call with attorney John Piece on Tuesday, in which he thanked supporters for having his back during the ongoing legal saga.
Speaking directly from county jail, Rittenhouse said, “I just want to thank every single one of you from the bottom of my heart” for the support he has received from American citizens who are outraged at the decision of two female prosecutors to charge him with first degree homicide, despite exculpatory video evidence.
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Buy Lots of Food and Store it Some Place Safe, Because Very Difficult Times Are Approaching
I’m just going to be very blunt with you. Things have already gotten quite crazy, but they are going to get even crazier. Global food supplies have already gotten tight, but they are going to get even tighter. When even the UN starts using the word “biblical” to describe the famine that the world is facing, that is a sign that the hour is very late. Thankfully, we are not facing famine in the short-term here in the United States, but “temporary shortages” of certain items have already been popping up, and food prices are aggressively shooting higher. Earlier today my wife stopped by the grocery store to pick up a couple of things, and one particular item that used to cost about 12 dollars was now 20 dollars instead. But thanks to the Federal Reserve, this is about as low as food prices are going to get. The Fed seems absolutely determined to crank up inflation, and that is going to have very serious implications during the times that are ahead. Right now we have a window of opportunity before the next wave of trouble comes along, and I would greatly encourage you to use this window of opportunity to buy lots of food and store it some place safe.
Some people seem to think that if they have stored up a couple months worth of food that they will be just fine.
Unfortunately, that is not the reality of what we are facing. The truth is that you should have enough food to feed every single person in your household for an extended period of time, and many of you will need much more than that. Because when things get really crazy, many of the friends, neighbors and extended family members that neglected to prepare will come knocking on your door asking for help.
There are some people that would turn away those friends, neighbors and extended family members, but I couldn’t do that. Yes, they are at fault for refusing to get prepared, but I just couldn’t turn them out into the street.
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Chris Cuomo Admits He Has Been Accused of Sexual Harassment in Michael Cohen Recording
On Tuesday night, Fox New’s Tucker Carlson played a secret recording of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo discussing allegations of sexual misconduct to Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer.
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CNN’s April Ryan: “Donald Trump Has Instigated a Race War in America”
A CNN contributor made waves Sunday when she declared on CNN Newsroom that President Trump has initiated a “race war in America.”
April Ryan, who has served as the Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks for several years, was invited onto the cable news channel to participate in discussions about Black Lives Matter protests and violence.
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Created Crisis: They Have Lost the Coronavirus Narrative
Now Yale University Is Attempting To Manipulate People Into Taking The Vaccinations
“You never let a good crisis go to waste. And what do I mean by that; it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” —Rahm Emanuel
For anyone that is paying attention to the perpetuated fear and fraud that is being pushed on the American people by special interest groups operating through corrupt politicians in American government today, you can see clearly that they have lost the narrative no matter how hard they push their propaganda through the “useful idiots” found in the mainstream media (Luke 22:48).
It took a little bit for the people to begin to put the pieces together in exposing this preplanned agenda (Isaiah 28:18).
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Former Portland Police Chief Derrick Foxworth Sr. is critical of elected officials for not publicly condemning violent protests in the city.
Foxworth grew up in Portland and worked as a city cop from 1981 until 2008, serving as the chief of police from 2003 to 2006.
“I have been reluctant to come out and to talk about this,” Foxworth said. “Because I didn’t want it to be a distraction. But the only reason I have done so is because I see what is happening to the Black community. My heart was broken to see a 16-year-old boy, young man, shot and killed. And there is no one out there saying anything about it.”
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Democrat Mayor Calls Out National Guard; Tells Police to Shoot to Kill Any Arsonists or Looters
by Kelleigh Nelson
The “Rule of Law” and public safety are the driving forces of what forges a safe and prosperous nation. The majority of “blue city” mayors have refused to do their jobs to keep property and citizens safe. Whether you’re talking about Seattle, Kenosha, Chicago (whose Magnificent Mile is in shambles), Portland, Minneapolis, Richmond, Virginia, or Manhattan where all the high end stores are boarded up, citizens are astounded that these mayors are not supporting local law enforcement and helping stem the tide of burning, looting and murder (BLM). Many retailers will not come back after the double whammy of Covid-19 closures and destruction by communist revolutionaries. All because the “Rule of Law” is ignored.
Democrat mayors are doing nothing. Portland’s Mayor Wheeler says, “Let it burn out.” What? How many more businesses will be lost? Burn, Loot, Murder, and defund the police; crime has already escalated exponentially in these cities. Wheeler has abandoned the city’s residents. When Antifa and BLM launched explosives at the federal building with federal agents barricaded inside, nothing was done. In June of 2001, Timothy McVeigh was put to death in a federal prison for the 1995 bombing of the federal Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Why are there no consequences for criminal behavior today?
The anarchists want to destroy our culture, traditions and heritage; they want our form of government demolished. But we have laws on the books. Advocating the overthrow of Government (18 U.S. Code § 2385) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following conviction…
The three founders of BLM have openly stated they are trained Marxists. Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza were taught by none other than Bill Ayers and Eric Mann of the Weather Underground,the communist revolutionaries from Chicago, whose shared objective was to launch a race war against the “white” United States on behalf of the non-white Third World. Opal Tometi is no slouch in the communist rhetoric either.
The Weathermen were very active in Chicago in the 60s and 70s. Ayers characterized the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) splinter group as the “Red Army.” Ayers said, “Kill all the rich people.Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.” He participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.
Ayers was an active participant in the 1969 “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago. In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows. Thus, began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen.
In the mayhem, nearly 300 members of the organization engaged in vandalism, arson, and vicious attacks against police and civilians alike. Their immediate objective was to spread their anti-war, anti-American message. Their long-term goal, however, was to cause the collapse of the United States and to create, in its stead, a new communist society over which they themselves would rule. Any resisters would be sent to re-education camps or killed, a number they believed was 25 million…
In March 2008 Ayers was elected (by a large majority of his peers) as Vice President for Curriculum Studies at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), putting him in a position to exert great influence over what is taught in America’s teacher-training colleges and its public schools. Specifically, Ayers seeks to inculcate teachers-in-training with a “social commitment” to the values of “Marx,” and with a desire to become agents of social change in K-12 classrooms. Whereas “capitalism promotes racism and militarism,” Ayers explains, “teaching invites transformations” and is “the motor-force of revolution.” According to a former AERA employee, ‘Ayers’ radical worldview, which depicts America as “the main source of the world’s racism and oppression,” thoroughly “permeates” AERA.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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DHS Chief: Feds May Have “No Choice” But to Intervene in Portland
Chad Wolf warns Portland mayor to bring order to city.
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DHS Head: DOJ is Investigating Leaders of BLM, Antifa, And Financers
Homeland Security head admits “we know that there is organization”, as videos of agitators chanting ‘Death to America’ emerge.
The acting head of the Department of Homeland Security declared Monday night that the Department of Justice is “targeting and investigating” the leaders of Black Lives Matter and Antifa over violence and rioting in US cities.
Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show, Chad Wolf also claimed that the feds are going after those paying for the organisation of the rioting.
When asked by Carlson “Why haven’t we seen the leaders of Antifa and BLM arrested and charged with conspiracy under RICO?”, Wolf said he had spoken to the Attorney General personally about the matter.
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Elvis Presley’s Graceland Vandalized With BLM, Anti-Trump Spray Paint
Graceland, the estate of famed musician Elvis Presley, was found vandalized on Tuesday with spray paint.
The wall and sidewalk surrounding Graceland had graffiti with slogans like “Defund the Police,” “Abolish ICE,” and “Black Lives Matter.”
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Exclusive: Minnesota Plans to Put Kids in Foster Care if Parents Get Coronavirus
The state of Minnesota Department of Human Services, in coordination with the Minnesota governor’s “Children’s Cabinet,” quietly sent a form to child care providers informing them that parents who contract Coronavirus might have their children placed in “foster care.” Considering the widespread epidemic of false positive Coronavirus tests, this document obtained by NATIONAL FILE presents the potential for a disturbing new precedent.
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Facebook is threatening to delete Mark Dice’s account with over 800,000 followers because he shared a video of accused shooter Kyle Rittenhouse offering medical aid to protesters during the Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha last week.
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Facebook Censors CDC Data Showing Low COVID-19 Death Rate
Big Tech now censoring an entire branch of government!
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Facebook Censors Christian Crowdfunding Site Raising Money for Kyle Rittenhouse
Big Tech waging war on conservatives while hosting violent extremists.
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Facebook Censors Rittenhouse Defenders, Citing ‘Nudity or Sexual Activity’
Facebook censored a post by Stanford University’s College Republicans that featured an article from conservative commentator Wayne Dupree’s website defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the pro-police activist who shot three far-left assailants last week in Kenosha, WI, on the grounds that the link constituted “nudity or sexual activity”.
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Facebook Threatens to Ban Mark Dice for Video Showing Kyle Rittenhouse Offering Help to Protesters
Conservative author and media analyst Mark Dice has announced on Twitter, and to his 1.6 million YouTube subscribers, that Facebook may be planning to ban his account, i.e., unpublish his page.
The posts that Facebook found offensive as continued violations of the social media giant’s community standards have to do with the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been charged with killing two people during riots in Kenosha.
Dice explained that Facebook deleted a video he had posted of Rittenhouse offering to help one of the wounded protesters.
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Facebook Blocks Links to Fundraising Campaigns for Kyle Rittenhouse Legal Defense
Facebook is preventing its users from sharing and linking to a fundraising campaign for Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense on the fundraising site GiveSendGo and others.
The GiveSendGo campaign states that donations will be transferred to the #FightBack Foundation — a 501(c)(4) foundation which was set up by defense attorney Lin Wood to fund Rittenhouse’s legal defense.
When Facebook users attempt to link to or share the campaign, they’re presented with a message stating that the link “goes against our Community Standards.”
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Federal Court Rules Geofence Warrants Are Unconstitutional
In another round of increasingly rare good news in the realm of privacy, individual rights and freedom, two separate US federal judges have found geofence warrants to be unconstitutional.
Geofence warrants have been around for some time now. Essentially, it’s a new investigative technique wherein law enforcement, rather than surveilling a suspect to discover if they had been at the scene of a crime, they work backwards by identifying everyone that’s been at a particular location and surveilling them until they discover which one of them is a possible suspect.
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Claims he wasn’t planning to incite a riot.
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, Council Member Faces Calls to Resign Over Kenosha Facebook Post
Chris Wery, the City Council member of Green Bay, faced a huge backlash after expressing his personal thoughts about the violence in Kenosha and what his city should be doing. Many were under the opinion that Wery was encouraging violence and vigilante activity and called for his resignation.
“This has to stop. If this vile destruction creeps into Green Bay, I call upon all our patriots to protect our great city. Our governor doesn’t care. Our mayor is silent. I won’t be. Kenosha has been left to fend for itself. The Governor had better call up more guardsmen to protect his citizens and their property. Does he really expect us to do it ourselves? Nobody wants that.”
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Gun Sales This Year Have Outpaced 2019 Sales, Reaching Nearly 15 Million by End of August
Gun sales reached nearly 15 million by the end of August, outpacing the total number of sales made in 2019 by 1 million.
Sales are also expected to surge in the fall with the beginning of deer season and growing concern for what a Joe Biden presidency could mean for gun control.
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In the Human Species, All Roads Lead to Insanity
On January 1, 1958 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong announced his new “Great Leap Forward” for the people of China. The net result of Chairman Mao’s plans for improving the economy of China resulted in the deaths of between 20 to 46 million Chinese, mostly from starvation due to a massive, government-created famine. Mao accomplished this feat by confiscating all the agricultural crops from the nation’s farmers, leaving nothing for the farmers to eat. The people couldn’t resist, even if they wanted to, because Mao owned all the guns and controlled the military.
The current Chinese Communist Party under its leader Xi Jinping, is forcing millions of Chinese Uighur Muslims in western China into labor camps, requiring them to listen to lectures and sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party. Nothing has changed in 13 Chinese dynasties since 2070 BC when the first Chinese dynasty was inaugurated. Chinese oppression of its people is alive and well and has been for 4,000 years. There have been many uprising in China but none of them stuck for long.
In 1932 — 1933, Joseph Stalin did roughly the same thing to the people of Ukraine. Stalin imposed what was called collectivization, which replaced individually owned and operated farms with large state-run collectives. The farmers resisted and in retaliation Stalin confiscated their crops and deported over 50,000 Ukraine’s to the Siberian gulags. Most Ukraine-produced farm products ended up in the big cities of the Soviet Union, leaving around 7,000,000 Ukraine’s to starve. One observer wrote that “you could see the people walking about, and one would drop, and then another, and then another.” Many Ukraine’s were so emaciated that their bodies began to swell and stink. Hospital staff were seen carrying bodies out of hospitals, to be thrown into giant pits.
Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, communist leader of Romania, (1965 to 1969) did the same thing to his farmers when he assumed power. Nicolae and his peasant wife were so cruel to the people of Romania, he was summarily executed by his own military guards. Once again, the people couldn’t resist, even if they wanted to, because Ceausescu owned all the guns and controlled the military…
There is only one free nation, America that stands in the way of perpetual wars, perpetual enslavement and starvation, perpetual crime and perpetual misery, on all continents save one. That is if Americans can prevent being sucked into the swirling vortex of utopian socialism and world government that socialist Democrats seem want to pull us.
America has become hopelessly divided by two opposing ideologies that are like oil and water to each other. Neither ideology can exist with the other in peace, much like the Islamic Sunni and Shia Moslems of the Middle East that are in constant conflict.
One of the American ideologies believes in individual freedom, God-given natural rights and Constitutional representative government. The other ideology believes in a strong central government and total dependency on government by the people, led by an Absolute Democrat Monarchy. The former leads to freedom. The latter leads to total enslavement and is truly insane…
The conservative ideology is not going quietly into the night without a whimper and in contrast to the people under dictatorships and politburos, Americans own guns, millions upon millions of them. Many of those people are trained military and have already been through several tours of war. They would rather live in peace but if war comes to them they won’t shrink from it.
One ex-military marine put it this way: (We cleaned it up a little)
“All you young and naive kids on both sides of this equation who think that having a Civil War will advance your agenda or restore your vision of what you think is America, just remember this … Those of us older generations aren’t [putting up with your crap.] And if you jump off, you better be prepared to deal with us. We don’t care what color clothes you’re wearing, or what sign you’re holding, or the color of your skin. If you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., we will kill you.”
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Joe Biden Raises Record-Breaking $364 Million in August
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden raised more than $364 million in August for his campaign and his joint committees with the Democratic Party, a record-breaking sum that far exceeds any single month fundraising in presidential general election history.
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Judge Lets Family Sue Social Worker Who Strip-Searched Kids
A federal judge is allowing a Kentucky family to sue a social worker who allegedly forced her way into their home and strip-searched several of their children on an unfounded suspicion of child abuse.
U.S. District Judge Justin Walker said the worker “lacked even a shadow of probable cause,” removing the immunity normally accorded government employees.
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Judge Bans UC System From Use of ACT and SAT Scores in Admissions
CALIFORNIA — The University of California system will no longer be able to use ACT and SAT tests to determine admissions, a superior court judge ruled Tuesday, removing a significant barrier for disabled students.
While the university system previously waived the standardized testing requirements and preserved them as “optional” for some campuses, a judge sided with disabled students Tuesday to do away with them entirely.
The lawsuit, comprised of five student plaintiffs from the system, argued that disabled students have not been able to access testing locations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kennedy Dynasty Suffers First-Ever Election Loss in Massachusetts
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) defeated incoming challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III in a contentious primary battle Tuesday night.
Relying on support from young voters and the Democratic party’s most progressive wing, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and fellow Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D), the 74-year-old Markey defeated the 39-year-old Kennedy with 55% of the vote.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Lawyer Lin Wood Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Censorship
Lin Wood, one of the lawyers representing Kyle Rittenhouse, plans to sue Twitter and CEO Jack Dorsey after his account was temporarily locked following him advocating for his client on Twitter.
Twitter claimed his account “glorified violence” then later reinstated it and admitted it was mistakenly suspended.
17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse is in jail in Illinois, charged as an adult with two counts of first-degree murder.
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Legal Team for Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Releases Full Statement
The legal team for Kyle Rittenhouse has released a statement regarding his defense.
The 17-year-old was among a group protecting private properties during the ongoing riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. During an altercation with the rioters, he shot three people, two of them fatally. He has been charged with First Degree Intentional Homicide, Reckless Homicide, Attempted Intentional Homicide, Recklessly Endangering Safety, and Possession of a Dangerous Weapon While Under the Age of 18.
Rittenhouse is being represented by Pierce Bainbridge, who also represented Representative and former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard in her suit against Hillary Clinton. Bainbridge is also joined by Nicholas Sandmann attorney L. Lin Wood, and several other prominent criminal defense lawyers.
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Long Island Bar Slammed for Taking Bets on NYC, Chicago Shootings: Report
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A bar on Long Island is in hot water after it reportedly took bets on shooting deaths in New York City and Chicago.
The Cliffton on East Main Street in Patchogue created a gambling pool on which city would see the most shooting deaths over the Labor Day holiday weekend, with the winner offered a cash prize, according to Newsday.
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Medical Center Owner Says Michigan Sent CPS to His Home After He Sued Gretchen Whitmer
Wellston Medical Center owner Jordan Warnsholz is speaking out about the persecution he is enduring at the hands of the state of Michigan after he and others sued Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer and her attorney general and human services director for imposing tyrannical Coronavirus orders this spring that negatively impacted his patients and his own business.
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More Than 40% of American Voters Won’t Trust Election Result if Everyone Can Vote by Mail: Poll
More than 40% of Americans said they would not trust the integrity of the 2020 presidential election result if state election officials sent mail-in ballots to every registered voter this November, a new poll revealed.
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Official: Gretchen Whitmer Will Face a Recall Effort in Michigan
The Michigan Board of State Canvassers approved two recall petitions Wednesday seeking to drive Democrat governor Gretchen Whitmer out of office over her Coronavirus emergency orders, including her “shelter-in-place” lockdown and her effort to ban elective medical procedures in the state. Some functions in Michigan are still shut down as Whitmer prolongs her unilateral control. Activists Michael Garabelli and James Makowski now have the ability to force a recall election if they put together a little more than a million signatures — which is possible if the anti-Whitmer patriot movement comes out strong to reject a governor that smeared anti-lockdown protesters at their own State Capitol as white racists.
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Protests continued outside the White House for a second night Sunday, with videos emerging online of protesters clashing with police in the street and shining lights into the homes of residents chanting: ‘Out of your homes and into the streets.’
Washington DC saw violent protests in the weeks following police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota back in May, and the chaos re-erupted on Thursday, the final night of the Republican National convention, when six officers were hospitalized in demonstrations across the city.
The unrest continued into Sunday night, with a group of heavily armored officers seen moving in on a hundred-strong crowd of protesters gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza shortly before midnight.
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The day after rioters attacked his residence, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has announced he is planning to move elsewhere.
On Monday, the mayor’s 58th birthday, a group of more than 200 rioters set fire to the mayor’s condo building, broke windows, and set off fireworks as they called for his resignation.
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Portland rioter Phillip Lawrence Nelson is now a suspect in a double-stabbing murder that occurred just one week after he was caught and let go by local law enforcement.
The original charges against Nelson of interfering with a peace officer were dropped the day after his first arrest in early June, and he was released.
Cassy Leaton and Najaf “Nate” Hobbs were found stabbed to death in Portland on June 16 after an apparent dispute over the building Nelson had been squatting in. Nelson faces two murder charges and is being held without bail.
Nelson is hardly the first — or last — left-wing rioter to be freed under an unofficial “catch-and-release” program by district attorneys in some of America’s most violent Democrat-run cities.
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Ruling class would hurt Americans for “daring to reject their mastery.”
Professor Angelo M. Codevilla warns that if the Democrats win the 2020 elections, it would be “virtually impossible for conservatives ever to win again.”
Codevilla, who is professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University, made the prediction in a review published by the Claremont Review of Books for Michael Anton’s new book The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return.
The book makes the argument that although some Americans may be disappointed in Trump’s performance, voting for him again is absolutely crucial for the republic’s survival because “this country’s ruling class would use control of the presidency to hurt us in our private and public lives for having dared to reject their mastery.”
Importing non-citizens who are then given the vote, as well as institutionalizing elections by mail, which would give those who count the votes the power, would ‘guarantee disaster’ for the country, according to Codevilla.
He then issues a stark warning; It’s game over permanently for Republicans if Trump loses in 2020.
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Researcher Suspected of Transferring Info to China Arrested for Destroying Hard Drive
(THE COLLEGE FIX) — UCLA researcher Guan Lei has been arrested for destroying a hard drive during an FBI investigation into Chinese theft of sensitive software and technical data, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Lei is being charged with throwing a hard drive into a dumpster near his residence on July 25, days after initially being interviewed by investigators.
Later, Guan attempted to board a flight to China and was detained by the FBI, who asked to see his computer. When he refused, the hard drive was recovered. According to the complaint, the drive was “irreparably damaged” and “all previous data associated with the hard drive appears to have been removed deliberately and by force.”
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Suspect in Killing of Trump Supporter Was Arrested and Released on Weapons Charge in July Riot
The slaying of a man linked to a pro-Trump rally Saturday in Portland, Oregon, might have been prevented had the city’s leaders chosen to prosecute rioters and followed their own gun laws, according to reports…
Indeed, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced just three weeks ago, on Aug. 11, that protesters who had recently been arrested in the city would not be prosecuted.
“As prosecutors, we acknowledge the depth of emotion that motivates these demonstrations and support those who are civically engaged through peaceful protesting,” Schmidt said of the decision, The Oregonian reported.
“We will undermine public safety, not promote it, if we do not take action to bring about immediate change,” the DA added.
Less than three weeks after reportedly being cleared for allegedly bringing a loaded gun and a knife to a violent riot, Reinoehl has become a suspect in the investigation of Danielson’s shooting death.
It’s a tragic outcome and one that, if reports are true, could have been avoided.
Portland’s leaders might be among the worst in the country; that much is established.
But the decision by the city’s very liberal leadership to selectively enforce their own gun control ordinances for people suspected of partaking in violent behavior is yet another stain on Portland’s terrible record regarding protecting its citizens from mayhem.
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Suspected ISIS Fighter From Dallas Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charge, Faces 20 Years
A 23-year-old from Dallas accused of providing communication support for front-line troops fighting in Syria pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide material support to terrorism.
Omer Kuzu faces up to 20 years in prison and is scheduled for sentencing in January, according to a U. S. Department of Justice news release.
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Target Employee Fired for Pouring Bleach Into Starbucks “Blue Lives Matter” Drink
Poisoning cops is trendy to the left.
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The Corona Virus, An Emergency or No?
In the current Covid-19 hysteria, businesses are not taken, but millions of peoples’ lives and property have been diminished by the actions of government actors and the use of emergency powers during a non-emergency. It is my opinion, because these “takings” occurred as a result of emergency measures imposed without a real emergency, that the government actors who created this situation are personally liable for the effects.
Oh, we have a lot of people proclaiming there is an emergency. But where is the beef? All of this Covid-19 hype constitutes “form over substance.” The virus is real (I know, I got sick from it), but the response is a hoax.
The governor of Idaho must agree as he suddenly thinks that Idaho needs a law on the books giving Idaho government officials immunity from their “Covid-19 actions.” He just called a special session of the Legislature in the hopes the Legislature will pass such a bill.
However, the whole idea of sovereign immunity should be foreign to our American system as it is based on the concept that “the King can do no wrong.” In the old European system, the one we fought a war to throw off, the King claimed he was God’s representative to the people and that he had a “divine right to rule.” Gosh, who could argue with the king when he spoke for God?
In his well written article entitled “Against Sovereign Immunity,” Erwin Chemerinsky’s first sentence in this article states “Sovereign immunity is an anachronistic relic and the entire doctrine should be eliminated from American law.” Chemerinsky goes on to say,
“Sovereign immunity is inconsistent with a central maxim of American government: no one, not even the government, is above the law. The effect of sovereign immunity is to place the government above the law and to ensure that some individuals who have suffered egregious harms will be unable to receive redress for their injuries.” Against Sovereign Immunity, 53 Stanford Law Review 1201, 1202 (2001).
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At 79 years old, Dr. Anthony Fauci — who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 — has yet to come out with the “Big One” — a vaccine or infectious disease treatment that will allow him to retire with a victory under his belt.
He failed to create a successful vaccine for AIDS, SARS, MERS and Ebola. A COVID-19 vaccine is essentially his last chance to go out in a blaze of glory. As evidenced by his history, he will stop at nothing to protect Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and Gilead’s antiviral Remdesivir.
He even threw tried and true pandemic protocols out the window when COVID-19 hit, turning into an unquestioning spokesman for draconian liberty-stripping measures instead. To echo a question asked by Dr. Sal Martingano in his article,1 “Dr. Fauci: ‘Expert’ or Co-Conspirator,” why are we not questioning this so-called expert?
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The New Normal: UNC Develops “Health Greeter Kiosk” To Enforce Mask Wearing
In a story that flew under the radar last month, the University of North Carolina unveiled a system that will enforce the wearing of face masks by using facial recognition cameras to track all students entering campus facilities.
CBS News reported that the UNC developed the “Health Greeter Kiosk” to display an alert every time a student passed through without wearing a mask and ask them to comply with the mandate.
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The Silent Majority: The Impact of Hidden Trump Voters
by Thomas O. Falk
The current consensus among most pollsters is that Donald Trump will lose the 2020 election — just as they claimed in 2016. However they were wrong then: could they be wrong again? Can hidden Trump voters can make the difference in pulling the President to victory once again?
What the Polls Say
The opinion polls are clear: Trump is trailing Joe Biden significantly, including in many decisive swing states (for example in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan). FiveThirtyEight gives Biden a lead of 8.4 percent at the national level. RealClearPolitics, which evaluates the nation’s main polls’ averages, sees Biden ahead of Trump by 7.1 percent.
Thus, the assumption is that Trump will lose the election and then speak of manipulation; the fear is that he will not recognize defeat and somehow steal it.
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Trump: ‘Stupid Rich People in the Dark Shadows’ Flew in ‘Thugs’ to Disrupt RNC
Says plot by powerful interests to fly in terrorists to derail the presidential election process under investigation.
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Trump Chides Media for Misreporting Murder of Aaron Danielson
President Donald Trump accused the media of misreporting the murder of Aaron J. Danielson in Portland and failing completely to highlight how Antifa leftists celebrated his killing.
Trump made the comments before boarding Air Force One on the way to visit Kenosha, Georgia, which saw massive Black Lives Matter riots last week.
Danielson was targeted and gunned down in cold blood on Saturday by a suspect who is still at large and proclaimed on his Instagram page that he was “100% Antifa.”
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‘Unconscionable’: County Retaliates Against Church That Got Green Light to Worship
When officials in Los Angeles County were prevented by a judge from shutting down worship at Grace Community Church, by a ruling that is effective until a full court hearing later, they didn’t wait.
They struck back by issuing a notice to the church that they were canceling a lease the church has had for not quite 50 years to use a bit of county land for parking.
“This is harassment, abusive, and unconscionable,” said a statement from, Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who has been working on behalf of the church.
“Los Angeles County is retaliating against Grace Community Church for simply exercising their constitutionally protected right to hold church and challenging an unreasonable, unlawful healthy order,” she continued. “In America, we have a judicial system to ensure that the executive branch does not abuse its power, and Grace Community Church has every right to be heard without fear of reprisal.”
The statement, provided to Gateway Pundit, continued, “The Democrats’message to Americans is clear — if you do not bow to every whim of tyranny, government will come after you. The church has peacefully held this lease for 45 years and the only reason the county is attempting eviction is because John MacArthur stood up to their unconstitutional power grab.”
The essence of the problem is that the county — and other city, county and state officials across the nation — have banned events like church services claiming there is danger from coronavirus. But at the same time they have allowed — even promoted — riots in which thousands have gathered. They also have called abortion businesses and marijuana stores “essential” and said they can remain open, but ordered churches closed.
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Vandalism of San Jose Mayor’s Homes Takes Protests to a New Level
Recent protests sparked by police killings of Black people across the country have escalated to a level that has put big-city mayors in the crosshairs of protesters who don’t think they’re doing enough to forge change and others — including President Donald Trump — who say they should be cracking down on the unrest.
And for some of them, the strife has hit close to home in the form of vandalism.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who has largely defended the city’s police department and advocated against the defunding police movement in recent months, became the latest target of protesters this weekend when about 100 of them marched to his home sparked by the recent Wisconsin police shooting of Black resident Jacob Blake.
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Video: Seattle Antifa Rioters Throw Molotov Cocktails at Police Near CHAZ Site
Amid escalating violence in the Pacific Northwest, and continuing civil unrest throughout the United States, video was captured on Monday night appearing to show Antifa rioters in Seattle, Washington hurl Molotov cocktails over a defensive barrier and at police officers standing on the other side.
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Video: Black Trump Supporters Speak Out; “We’re the Rebels!”
Video of a group of black conservatives has gone viral, with them vowing support for President Trump and urging that others need to wake up to the duplicity of the black lives matter movement.
“As you can see, black conservatism is the new punk rock,” commented Nick Cunningham, one of the group seen recently at a protest in California.
Another, who goes by the moniker MAGA Hulk added “We’re the rebels! You wanna be cool, come join our cause.”
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Video: Trump Supporter Kicked in the Head, Chased Down Street by BLM Mob
Video from Kenosha, Wisconsin shows a Trump supporter being viciously kicked in the head and then chased down the street by a Black Lives Matter mob in yet another example of political violence.
The confrontation began with loud arguments between the two sides but soon spiraled into physical attacks.
A short clip shows a man on the ground before he is booted in the head by a leftist. Thankfully, the man only sustained relatively minor injuries, but the force of the blow could have caused brain damage or even death in another instance.
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Video footage shows a clergyman at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York City demanding the congregation affirm that “white privilege is unfair and harmful” and pledge to fight for “racial justice,” as parishioners pass by an altar adorned with photos of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd.
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France: Mob of Moroccan Youths Hunt Down Victim in Brutal Attack in Paris Restaurant
A young victim is recovering from serious injuries sustained after a large mob of ‘unaccompanied Moroccan minors’ launched a brutal attack in Paris that one eyewitness described as a “lynching.”
During a recent brawl, a young person managed to escape and attempted to hide on the covered terrace of the Corso restaurant on Quai de la Seine in the 19th arrondissement of the French capital.
Moments later, a group of roughly 20 people identified as ‘Moroccan youths’ by Le Parisien laid siege to the restaurant, attacking the victim and a security guard.
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France Has Foiled at Least Six Terror Attacks in Recent Months
Jean-François Ricard, who heads the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has said French security services have foiled at least six terror plots in recent months.
Ricard spoke to French media on Monday, stating that the terrorist threat, particularly from radical Islamic extremists, remains high in France. He said that several French members of Islamic State remain free in Syria or have crossed the border into Turkey.
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Germany: Police Detain Over 300 Protestors During Rallies Against COVID-19 Restrictions in Berlin
The German police said 33 officers were injured during massive demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions in Berlin on Saturday.
A live broadcast shows another day of major demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions in Berlin.
At the beginning of August, a major protest against coronavirus restrictions was organised by Stuttgart’s Querdenken 711 initiative, attracting around 20,000 demonstrators. The protest was stopped short by police because the participants of the mass rally refused to follow the required health precautions.
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Germany: Berlin Makes Masks Obligatory for Larger Rallies
In Berlin, anybody taking part in a rally of over 100 people would soon be required to wear a face mask, the city’s mayor Michael Müller confirmed on Tuesday.
Face masks also have to be worn at smaller demonstrations if the protesters chant slogans or sing.
The decision followed a dispute between local authorities and coronavirus skeptics who were allowed to demonstrate on Saturday, August 29, despite attempts by the city to ban the march. The lawmakers made the changes due to the rising infection numbers and “the non-observance of distancing rules and hygiene regulations at the protests.”
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GoFundMe Deletes Fundraising Campaign for British Lockdown Skeptic Piers Corbyn
Declaring yourself as liberal, yet censoring any opposing point of view at the drop of the hat like some olden regime behind the Iron Curtain way back when — is that really acceptable these days?
Apparently yes, because it’s no longer obligatory to be truly democratic while also “liberal.” It must help tremendously that it’s also not unlawful to act in this way, at least online, thanks in part to some severely outdated legislation regulating the digital space in the US.
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Greta Thunberg is Compared to Joan of Arc in Polish Textbook for Public Schools
Photos of a new high school textbook for Polish literature have generated controversy after they appeared on the Internet, with one lesson in the book dedicated to the “phenomenon of the miraculous child” Greta Thunberg, who is compared to Catholic Saint Joan of Arc, the national hero of France.
Saint Joan of Arc, who has been seen as a symbol of strength, purity and chivalry for centuries, is compared to what the textbook describes as the “hero of our times”, Greta Thunberg.
Polish parents of school-age children who see Thunberg in a different like object to her being evaluated through the prism of the French heroine.
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Finland’s largest daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat used a photograph of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to in its article on the nature of dictatorships, prompting government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs to push back against the extreme case of media bias.
“The style the Finnish paper, which, incidentally, is on its way of swallowing the Finnish media market, thereby acquiring a quasi-monopoloy in the country, is simply outrageous,” Kovacs wrote in a Facebook post.
Orban, who was democratically elected as prime minister with a two-thirds majority, was included in the long-form article with the likes of brutal dictators such as the Soviet Union’s Josef Stalin and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
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Is Macron Losing His Strategic Battle With Erdogan?
by Matt Snape
Tensions between French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been escalating since June following an incident involving a French frigate near the coast of Libya. The ship was there to enforce a NATO arms embargo and tried to search a cargo ship. However, it was targeted by Turkish naval vessels which escorted the ship away, according to Paris. Ankara said the cargo ship was carrying humanitarian aid.
The situation has only gotten worse since the incident, as Macron has sent warships to the Aegean Sea in case Erdogan does not withdraw his naval forces from the Eastern Mediterranean.
Greece is also planning to double its western territorial waters with Italy to 12 nautical miles, a right provided under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, an agreement which Turkey has not signed up to.
Erdogan Calls Macron ‘Greedy and Incompetent’
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Poll: Czechs Are Divided About the EU With Trust Still Slightly Outweighing Distrust
According to the research conducted by the Czech Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM), more Czechs trust the European Union than thsoe who do not, however, when it comes to individual EU institutions, such as the European Parliament or the European Commission, distrust prevails among people.
Compared to the same research from last April, this year’s result does not differ significantly.
In July, 50 percent of Czechs trusted the European Union and 45 percent did not. The rest of the respondents were unable to decide on a single answer in the survey.
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Sweden: 11-Year-Old Beaten by Gang for Wearing Cross
An 11-year-old boy was beaten by a gang in Sweden because he was wearing a cross and declared he was a Christian, according to local media.
The child was playing football in a Malmö park Monday afternoon when an unknown number of boys approached him and asked if his cross “was due to his religion.”
After confirming it was, the gang asked if he “ate pig.”
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The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
Four months ago, I wrote a column titled “The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History.” I explained that “‘mistake’ and ‘evil’ are not synonyms. The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.”
Regarding the economic catastrophe in America and around the world — especially among the world’s poor who are dependent upon America and other first-world countries for their income through exports and tourism — I wrote, “It is panic and hysteria, not the coronavirus, that created this catastrophe.”
Unfortunately, I was right.
The world should have followed Sweden’s example. That country never locked down and has even kept children under 16 in school the entire time. As Reuters reported on July 15, the number of Swedish children between 1 and 19 years of age who have died of COVID-19 is zero. And the percentage of children who contracted the illness was the exact same in Sweden as it was in Finland, which locked down its schools.
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At Extinction Rebellion’s protest outside the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police officers struggled to carry a protester who was arrested alongside over one hundred other activists for blocking the roads of London.
In a Breitbart London exclusive video, an Extinction Rebellion protester was heard sardonically asking the police officers for a “coffee and a hamburger” as they stood around her waiting for more officers to assist in carrying the protester, who was under arrest for obstructing the road by Parliament Square.
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UK: BBC Backs Down: Patriotic Lyrics Will be Sung at Last Night of the Proms
The BBC has been forced into a massive U-turn after a public backlash and will now feature the patriotic lyrics to Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms.
The broadcaster announced last week that the lyrics to the songs would be absent after concerns were raised about their supposed historical links with “colonialism and slavery.”
The infamously woke corporation appeared to have been railroaded by a small vocal minority into the decision following months of Black Lives Matter protests.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Founder: MPs, Business Owners Should be Shot
A British co-founder of Extinction Rebellion sparked fury after suggesting MPs and business owners “should have a bullet through their heads.”
Ex-organic farmer Roger Hallam (pictured) criticized the people “who run society” — saying they were “culpable” for the climate catastrophe.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Crazies Arrested After Blockading Parliament
Dozens of environmental activists have been arrested as they attempted to block MPs from entering parliament on the first day back after the summer recess.
Thousands of protesters from Extinction Rebellion, the climate action group, descended on Westminster today where they aimed to blockade parliament by setting up camp on the roads immediately in front of it.
Activists gathered at sites including Tate Britain, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, and Westminster Cathedral, before marching on Parliament Square.
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UK: Farage, Douglas Murray Slam Govt for Failing to Defend Monuments During BLM Protests
Nigel Farage and Douglas Murray have criticised the notionally ‘conservative’ government for failing to defend monuments that were vandalised by Marxist Black Lives Matter activists.
“When the Churchill statue and Cenotaph were defaced, this government didn’t say a word. We expect better than that from our leaders,” Mr Farage said on Tuesday.
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UK: School Threatens to Exclude Students Who Make Jokes About Coronavirus
A school in the UK has vowed to exclude students who make jokes about coronavirus.
Yes, really.
Pupils at the Ark Alexandra Academy in Hastings, East Sussex, “could be excluded for “malicious coughing or sneezing” or making “inappropriate” jokes about the coronavirus pandemic,” reports the Independent.
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New Book Showcases Saudi Crown Prince’s Blatant Hypocrisy
by Paul R. Brian
A new book by Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck exposes the blatant hypocrisy and corruption of Saudi politics and its crown prince, deputy prime minister and minister of defense Mohammad bin Salman (MBS).
Welcome to the Party
Bin Salman’s over the top behavior and ruthless actions are part of a wider pattern of many Gulf elites who act out their hard-partying fantasies in lavish playgrounds around the world and pursue money and power at any cost.
Hope and Scheck’s book Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power details some jaw-dropping incidents of corruption and bin Salman’s partying, such as a 2015 trip to the Maldives with a small group of other friends and colleagues where the entire island of Velaa was rented out for $50 million for a month-long celebration. Bin Salman insisted that no modern smartphones be used and took extra precautions that the time on the island would be private and would not leak to the press.
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Turkey Condemns Quran Burning in Sween’s Malmo But is Silent on Muslim Riots
When a handful of right-wing activists burned a copy of Quran in the Swedish city of Malmö last Friday, it made headlines around the world, whereas the subsequent destructive riots during which hundreds of Muslims threw stones at police and burned tires did not receive the same condemnation, Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports.
After the riots in Sweden, Turkish President’s Reycep Erdogan’s spokesman described those who burned the Quran and threw it to the cobblestones as “modern barbarians,” and “primitives,” but had no words for the Muslim men who rioted in the city in response.
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Broadcaster Cheng Lei Detained in China
Australian television anchor Cheng Lei has been detained without a charge in China, the Australian government has confirmed. However, her arrest doesn’t seem to be about anything she’s done, rather the strained relationship between China and Australia.
Lei has been in custody for more than two weeks.
“Australian officials had an initial consular visit with Cheng at a detention facility via video link on (Thursday) and will continue to provide assistance and support to her and her family,” said Marise Payne, the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Cheng Lei is a high-profile journalist who hosted a business show at the Chinese state-run broadcaster CGTN. She had worked there for eight years, but her journalist profile is no longer available on CGTN’s website. She had previously worked at CCTV (now known as CGTN) and CNBC Asia.
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Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil’s visit to Taiwan with a 90-person delegation “crossed a red line”, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang I, who met with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Berlin on Tuesday.
“Taiwan is Chinese territory,” Wang said. “And countries that have diplomatic relations with China must acknowledge this,” the minister added, pointing out that Vystrcil’s trip to Taiwan violates the so-called One-China policy which views Taiwan and as communist China’s territory.
“He crossed a red line. China must defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” continued Wang.
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How China Uses Its Trading Clout to Bully Nations Like Australia — and Why This is Set to Get Worse
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has analysed how China bullies smaller nations like Australia, and predicts the Communist power’s wolf warrior tactics are set to intensify.
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Daniel Andrews has gone toe to toe with a journalist who questioned him over the immense press he has done amid Victoria’s second COVID-19 wave.
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Frederick Fadi Elrezz, from Lakemba in Sydney’s south west, was arrested and charged with attempted murder about 12.20am on Wednesday.
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Australia: Pregnant Woman Arrested in Her Home Over Anti-Lockdown Facebook Post
Shocking video footage out of Melbourne, Australia shows a pregnant woman being arrested in front of her children in her own home for the ‘crime’ of organizing an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook.
The clip shows police entering the woman’s house and presenting her and her husband with a search warrant.
The woman is then told she is under arrest in relation to “incitement” before being handcuffed.
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Australia’s top grain exporter has been banned from sending barley to China after disputed claims pests were found in multiple shipments.
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Zoe Lee, 28, was handcuffed in her lounge room in in Ballarat, Victoria, in front of her children and charged with incitement over her anti-lockdown protest she promoted on Facebook.
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A Lakemba man, 32, allegedly stabbed a police officer (pictured), 40, on the left side of his head and shoulder on York Street in the Sydney CBD at 12:20am on Wednesday.
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Megan Kira, 27, called on Melburnians to go for their hour of exercise at 5pm every day in their local park, which police worried was incitement to gather in groups against lockdown rules.
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Victorian Greens upper house MP Samantha Ratnam returned from maternity leave to vote for the government’s amended bill during a marathon parliament session on Wednesday.
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Police were called to a home on Runcorn Street in St Johns Park at about 11.35 on Tuesday night after reports the residence was ambushed by gun fire.
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Dutch Police Urge Government to Deport Criminal Illegals
Police in the Netherlands are calling on the government to increase deportations of illegal aliens who commit repeated crimes in the country, according to reports.
The Dutch Police Union (NPB) issued an appeal to politicians after an officer’s tweet drawing attention to the issue went viral.
Officer Bas Wijnen revealed he had recently encountered a Moroccan man illegally present in the Netherlands who had nearly 600 recorded run-ins with police.
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ICE Arrests Over 2,000 Immigrants in Sweep, Nearly 85% Are Criminal Offenders
Between July 13 and August 20, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested more than 2,000 illegal immigrants, according to a press release from the agency. About 85% of those arrested had criminal convictions and pending criminal charges.
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Italy has allowed 353 migrants aboard the German NGO ship Sea-Watch 4 to disembark at a port in Palermo where they are due to arrive on Wednesday, the DPA agency reported.
The vessel has been sailing in the area, trying to drop off the migrants, however, Malta has banned it from landing, and the overcrowded Italian island of Lampedusa is no longer able to cope with the influx of migrants. Moreover, locals have been demonstrating against migrants.
Nevertheless, the German organization Sea-Watch announced that it would soon launch an even larger ship to transport more migrants.
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Swedish authorities have taken three children away from their parents after the youngsters were locked in their rooms for four months and the door to their house was ‘nailed shut’ over coronavirus fears.
The children, aged 10 to 17, were banned from leaving their apartment and even from seeing each other, according to lawyer Mikael Svegfors.
The parents, who do not speak fluent Swedish, allegedly ‘could not understand the news here’ and relied on information from their home country where strict lockdown measures had been imposed.
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More Than 10,000 Migrants Stopped From Entering Greece This Year, Minister Says
Greek authorities have prevented thousands of migrants from entering Greece clandestinely by sea this year despite a recent lack of co-operation from the Turkish coast guard, the country’s shipping minister said Wednesday.
Giannis Plakiotakis, whose ministry is also in charge of the coast guard, said arrivals were down 84 per cent since March 1, compared to the same period last year, while the reduction in the month of August stood at nearly 95 per cent compared to August 2019.
“Since the start of the year, the entry of more than 10,000 people has been prevented,” Plakiotakis said during a news conference. In August alone, he said, “we had 68 cases of prevention and we succeeded in 3,000 people not entering our country.”
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New Wave of Afghan Migrants Detained Throughout Poland
Poland’s Bieszczady Border Guard detained ten Afghanistan citizens who were trying to secretly cross Poland’s border in different locations this week, bringing the total to 80 illegal migrants who have been detained trying to enter the country this year from the Ukraine and Slovakia.
Two of Afghan migrants were caught at Poland’s southern border while four others were caught trying to pass through Biala Podlaska in northeast Poland. In third instance, border guard detained four other men from Afghanistan who said their goal was to enter France but who were unaware that they were in Poland when stopped by border police.
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Spain: More Than 200 Migrants Stuck in Gran Canaria Dockside Camp
GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) — Spain’s coast guard rescued three boatloads of migrants from waters off Gran Canaria on Wednesday, bringing them ashore to join another 150 people forced to camp on the dockside as officials struggle to cope with a months-long migratory surge.
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UK: Farage Warns the ‘Invasion Continues’, as Record 1,450 Illegals Arrive in August
A monthly record of more than 1,450 illegal aliens crossed the English Channel and landed on British shores in August.
Analysis by the British news wire agency Press Association found that last month’s illegal arrivals were almost as many as June and July combined, at nearly 1,500. The report also revealed August 6th to have had a record-breaking 235 illegal aliens crossing from France to the UK in one day.
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UK: Record 400-Plus Migrants Cross Channel in One Day
More than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats — a record for a single day.
Border Force has intercepted 409 people, including young children, on board 27 boats, with several further vessels still being dealt with.
Some of the migrants were carrying children too young to walk.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier on Wednesday said the UK had become “a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way”.
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How Can a Zippy Mouth EMOJI be Deemed Defamatory?
If our modern Indo-European languages had any reason or incentive to develop as pictographic systems over the ages — surely they would have. Instead, they are alphabetic. And using emoticons (that in turn use letters of the alphabet, and punctuation instead of images) in our digital communication as a means of abbreviating some of it, seemed perfectly sufficient for quite a while.
Then came the pure and unadulterated fad of “emoji” pictographs meant to replace and “enrich” the simple, plain emoticons
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Instagram Purges Several Large QAnon Accounts
Some large QAnon accounts on Instagram have been suspended. The news comes a few weeks after Facebook announced it would apply stricter policies to curb “misinformation,” especially spread by “right-wing conspiracy theorists” on all its platforms, including Instagram.
The movement has been gaining a considerable following, as evidenced by one of the suspended Instagram pages, @little.miss.patriot, which had about 300k followers. The person behind the account claimed that the account had been suspended without prior warning.
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Twitter to Add “Context” To Trending Topics
Twitter will offer its own editorial information on its Trending Topic tab so that users can understand the reasons why content has become popular on the platform. The social network suggests it’s trying to prevent the dissemination of false or harmful information by providing its own context about popular topics.
Twitter is often the preferred social network for those who want to know information instantly due to its short message format with fast spread, which uses hashtags to catalog content. The platform also has a tab called Trending Topics, which orders in a single space the most popular topics of the moment that may be of interest to the user, based on what people are talking about.
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Video: Kanye West Says “Planned Parenthood Was Set Up to Kill Black People”
Kanye West declared this week that Planned Parenthood is engaged in deliberately killing black people, and that its founder Margaret Sanger was a white supremacist.
“In 50 years, there’s been 22 million — over 22,500,000 — black people aborted strategically and on purpose. Planned Parenthood was set up and placed in minority communities to kill black people,” West emphasised while speaking to Nick Cannon on his podcast Cannon’s Class.
West noted that Sanger’s stated goal was to control and contain the black American population.
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Data: New Foreign-Born Voters in Swing States Exceed 2016 Margins of Victory
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/02/data-new-foreign-born-voters-in-swing-states-exceed-2016-margins-of-victory/
Tony Blair: Compulsory Digital IDs for all British Citizens
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54010432
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveLaws19/status/1301634725371695104
Corona madness continues
Insanity beyond, !! What kind of world We are living in ..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2020/09/01/the-uk-invented-the-first-tanks-now-it-may-retire-them-for-good/#22d5d5663633
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/will-british-army-retire-tank-after-105-years-168297
Requiem for Britain’s Armour?
Forces recruiting overseas. Candidates who have never set foot in the UK. Hitler has a go knowing Stalin had done so much self harm to his own leadership that the Soviet left-
overs had practically no officers. Diversity equals doom. Joy to the Islamics world.