Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/21/2020

Rachel Johnson, the sister of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, suggested that alcohol should be banned until a vaccine for COVID-19 is found. Meanwhile, a borough council in West London banned its employees who work from home from smoking on the job, even at home.

In other news, a 102-year-old woman in New Hampshire has survived both the Spanish Flu and the Wuhan Coronavirus. She contracted the Spanish flu in 1918, when she was an infant, and COVID-19 earlier this year. She recovered from both, and is now feeling fine.

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

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Financial Crisis
» 2020 Has Been a “Nightmare Year” For America, And the Economic Fallout is Just Getting Started
» NAB Boss Reveals the Warnings Aussie Banks Are Facing Huge Numbers of Loan Defaults — and Why Those Under Pressure Should Sell Up Now
 
USA
» 102-Year-Old NH Woman Survives COVID-19 and 1918 Spanish Flu
» 11 Arrested at Violent Antifa Protest Outside Portland ICE Facility
» 45 Shot, 10 Fatally, Across Chicago This Weekend
» A Telling Sign? Vaccine Top Executives Dump Their Stock
» Auburn Man Gets Federal Prison Time for Lying to FBI About Disseminating ISIS Videos
» Black Lives Matter Removes Controversial “What We Believe” Page From Website
» California Church Crushed by $112,000 Worth of County COVID-19 Fines Has Agreed to Move Outdoors
» CDC Adds ‘Breathing’ To Ways Coronavirus Spreads
» CDC Admits to Erroneously Posting Guidelines That Say COVID-19 Spreads Through Air and Beyond 6 Feet
» Chicago Postal Workers Threaten to Stop Delivering Mail After Another Mail Carrier Shot, Injured
» Coca-Cola Paid Scientists to Downplay How Sugary Beverages Fueled the Obesity Crisis
» Democrats Threaten to Burn America to the Ground if Trump Replaces Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Watch Live!
» Democrat Fundraising Site Brings in $100 Million After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death
» Dialogues With the Devil
» DOJ Designates New York City as an ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’
» Emmy Viewership Falls to New Low of 6.1 Million as ‘Schitt’s Creek’ & HBO Rule COVID-19-Dominated Ceremony — Update
» FBI Agents Identify Cuban-American Man in Florida as Prolific ISIS Propagandist
» FBI Agent Who Uncovered Weiner Laptop With Hillary’s Emails Says FBI Leadership Told Him to Erase All of His Findings
» Full Epstein Flight Logs Set for Release, Sparking Panic Among Elites
» Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists
» Growing List of White Liberals Caught Pretending to be Black
» Joe Biden Botches Pledge: “I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of America. One Nation, Indivisible, Under God, For Real” (Video)
» Likely Timeline of Events to Take Place From Sep. 20 to Jan. 20, Covering Vaccines, SCOTUS, Election Day, Markets, Terrorism & Insurrection
» Names of Every Passenger to Have Flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s Aircraft ‘To be Revealed “Sparking Panic Among the Pedophile’s Wealthy Friends”‘
» NYPD Officer Accused of Spying, Arrested for Allegedly Acting as Agent of China
» Omaha Bar Owner Charged for Killing Rioter Who Attacked Him Commits Suicide
» Op-Ed Reaffirms That Critics of Smart Meters Were Right About Utility Companies Wanting to Ration Energy — Activist Post
» Pelosi Confuses Viewers During Interview on SCOTUS Controversy
» Prof Under Investigation After Allegedly Launching Into Anti-Trump Tirade in Class
» Public Health “Experts” Suggest Mask Wearing is Permanent
» Rush Limbaugh Encourages Senate to Skip Hearings So Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee Doesn’t Get “Kavanaughed”
» Seattle Hires Ex-Pimp to be ‘Street Czar’
» Some Storefront Windows Smashed During Protest March in Downtown Portland Saturday Night
» The BLM Mob Hits Rural America — BLM Blocks Entrance to Bigfoot School in Rural Wisconsin
» Trump Doubtful of Alleged Ginsburg Wish to Not be Replaced While He is President, Claims Democrats Fabricated it
» Update: Far Left DC Mob Harasses Senator Lindsey Graham at 6 Am — Blast Bullhorns, Flash Strobe Lights and Try to Enter His Yard
» What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
 
Canada
» Breaking: Police Raid Home in Quebec Relating to Suspect Who Allegedly Sent Trump Ricin-Laced Letter
» Canadian Constitutional Law Professor After RBG’s Death: ‘Burn Congress Down Before Letting Trump Try to Appoint Anyone to SCOTUS’
 
Europe and the EU
» Far-Right Brothers of Italy Close to Snatching Marche Region From Left
» Germany: A Few Thousand March Against Corona Measures in Dusselfdorf
» Hungary’s Orban: ‘We Are Rooting for Another Victory for Donald Trump’
» Joe Biden Joins Globalist Pile-on Against Conservative Poland
» Polish President Duda: The Livelihoods of Farmers and Their Families Should Come Before That of Animals
» Reducing Emissions by 55% is Unrealistic for Czechia, Says Minister Havlicek in Response to EU Proposal
» The EU Wants to Give Itself Greater Powers to Punish Tech Companies That Don’t Censor Enough
» The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today’s America
» UK Council Bans Workers From Smoking at Home During Lockdowns
» UK Prime Minister’s Sister Calls for Booze Ban Until Virus Vaccine Found
» UK: BBC Asks Whether Climate Change Activism is Too White and Middle Class
» UK: Coronavirus: Minister Doubles Down on Snitching, Police Will ‘Come Down Hard’
» UK: Farage: ‘Say No!’ to Second National Lockdown, Reject Boris Johnson’s ‘Elective Dictatorship’
» UK: Oxford Researchers Call for Facebook to Fact-Check Even More “Coronavirus Misinformation”
» UK: School Assistant Christie Higgs Fired for Opposing “Gender Fluidity” Being Taught to Young Kids Seeks Damages
» UK: Scrooge to Offer Extra Lump of Coal: Boris Could Lift Coronavirus Restrictions for Christmas Day
 
North Africa
» Aussie Tradie Has Spent Eight Months in Hellish Egyptian Jail for Liking a Facebook Post in 2012 — After Being Arrested on a Family Holiday in January
 
Middle East
» COUP 53 Sheds New Light on How CIA and MI6 Brought Tyranny to Iran
» New Documents Reveal Secret British Efforts to Arm, Assist and Propagandize ‘Moderate Rebels’ In Syria
 
Russia
» Police Detain Over 400 During Sunday Protests in Belarus
» US, Russia in War of Words Over Who Has the Fastest Missiles
 
Far East
» Beam of Light Aimed at West Coast Fires as Pentagon Warns That China Has Weaponized Space
» China’s Air Force Posts Clip of Simulated Attack on US Airbase
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australian Roads Are Busier Than Ever as People Refuse to Take Buses and Trains Because of COVID-19 — Except for Melbourne Where the Streets Are Empty
» Confronting Moment Hysterical Mother-of-Four, 69, Is Arrested by Six Police Officers While Walking Her Dog During a Melbourne Anti-Lockdown Protest
» Dire Warning ‘Hardly Anyone’ Will be Eligible for Jobkeeper 2.0 When the Coronavirus Subsidy is Slashed Next Week — as Expert Reveals Why it’s a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ For Australia
» How the COVID-19 Pandemic Will Cause Australia’s Population to Plunge for the First Time Since World War I — Sparking Fears of a 40 Per Cent Collapse in House Prices
» How the Cost of Fruit and Vegetables Could Double by Christmas as Jobless Australians Refuse to Fill Backpacker Farm Labour Shortage Because They Make Almost as Much on Jobseeker
» More Than 3,000 Millionaires Are Caught Claiming Jobseeker But Are Set to be Kicked Off as Tough New Rules Come Into Effect
» The Real Reason Daniel Andrews Imposed a Curfew in Melbourne — and Why He Sees the Economy as ‘Collateral Damage’ Following the Hotel Quarantine Disaster
» The Sneaky Theory Behind Why Victorian Premier ‘Chairman’ Dan Andrews Changed the Start Time of His Daily Press Conferences to be an Hour Earlier This Week
» Young Irish Tradies Accused of Bludgeoning a Homeless Grandfather, 66, To Death After a 12-Hour Drinking Bender in Sydney Are Found Not Guilty of Murder
 
Immigration
» Analysis: Biden Plan Could Bring 52 Million Immigrants to U.S.
» Changes to Australia’s Citizenship Test
» Hungarian Police Find Another Migrant Tunnel at Serbian Border (Video)
» Hungary’s PM Orban: George Soros Wants to Create Mixed Ethnic Societies, Dismantle Nationalism, And Hand Power to the Global Elite
» North Macedonia: 61 Migrants Held Following Police Raids
» Number of Illegal Migrants in Austria Increased in July & August
» PM Orban: 20% of Europe’s Population Will be Muslim by 2050 But Central Europe is Choosing a Different Path on Migration
» Report: Illegal Boat Migrants Sign Slave Labour ‘Pact’ With Traffickers to Reach UK
» Thousands March in Berlin in Support of Migrants in Greece
» Two Illegal Migrants Arrested for Stabbing 20-Year-Old in Lyon to Death, But French Media Keeps Quite on Their Foreign Background
» UK: ‘Will Anybody Lift a Finger?’ Farage Predicts Hundreds of Boat Migrants Will Set Off on Tuesday
 
Culture Wars
» Facebook Letting Users Claim Images, Issue Copyright Takedown Notices, Could Have Big Impact on Memes
» ‘The 21st Century’s Greatest Battle Will be the Battle for the Family’ — March for Life and Family in Warsaw Attracts Over 1,000 Supporters
 

2020 Has Been a “Nightmare Year” For America, And the Economic Fallout is Just Getting Started

Most of us have never experienced a year that has been as tough as 2020 has been for our nation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NAB Boss Reveals the Warnings Aussie Banks Are Facing Huge Numbers of Loan Defaults — and Why Those Under Pressure Should Sell Up Now

National Australia Bank chief executive Ross McEwan has revealed customers are refusing to return calls from his bank as 450,000 borrowers on mortgage repayment holidays are audited.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

102-Year-Old NH Woman Survives COVID-19 and 1918 Spanish Flu

A 102-year-old woman from New Hampshire survived the 1918 Spanish flu and COVID-19 after contracting both viruses during their respective pandemics.

Mildred Geraldine “Gerri” Schappals was infected with the Spanish flu in 1918 while living in Worcester, Massachusetts, and also tested positive in May for coronavirus at her assisted living facility in Nashua, New Hampshire. She has overcome both viruses and is feeling fine, her daughter Julia Schappals said on Friday.

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

11 Arrested at Violent Antifa Protest Outside Portland ICE Facility

Antifa activists resumed rioting in Portland on Friday night after a brief hiatus due to the wildfires ravaging the West Coast. 11 arrests were made by Portland Police.

“It’s been a hot second PDX so y’all better show the f— up,” the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Youth Liberation Front posted in a since-deleted tweet to mobilize the Antifa mob. “Meet: 7 pm. Move: 8 pm. Be water, Spread fire, Melt ice.”

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

45 Shot, 10 Fatally, Across Chicago This Weekend

Ten people were killed and 35 others, including a 16-year-old boy, were injured by gunfire this weekend across Chicago.

The weekend, which lasted from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, was less deadly than the previous weekend, which saw 12 killed and 42 wounded during the same timeframe.

But, overall, shootings and murders are up 50% compared to last year, according to Chicago Police Department statistics. Through Sept. 13, police have recorded 544 murders in 2020 compared to 364 murders during the same time in 2019.

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

A Telling Sign? Vaccine Top Executives Dump Their Stock

After cashing in stock options and raking in tens of millions of dollars in personal profit, top executives at Moderna have now dumped all or nearly all of their stock holdings. What do these executives know that we don’t as their COVID-19 vaccine enters Phase 3 trials?…

Early warning signs that something might be amiss have already started emerging. As detailed in “Gates Tries to Justify Side Effects of Fast-Tracked Vaccine,” results7 from Moderna’s Phase 1 human trial revealed 100% of volunteers in the high-dose group suffered systemic side effects. Side effects included fatigue, chills, headache and myalgia (muscle pain); 21% suffered “one or more severe events.”

According to Bill Gates, those side effects are largely due to the high dosages Moderna had to use in order to achieve desired antibody levels. But, if high dosages are required to create a robust-enough immune response, and higher dosages also cause systemic side effects in nearly all people, just how safe will this vaccination campaign be?

In the 20 years that vaccine makers have tried to develop a coronavirus vaccine, efforts have failed due to dangerous, many times lethal, side effects.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Auburn Man Gets Federal Prison Time for Lying to FBI About Disseminating ISIS Videos

An Auburn, Alabama, man who lied to the FBI about distributing terrorist propaganda and tried to go to Syria to join ISIS has been sentenced to federal prison.

Authorities announced Monday that 26-year-old Nayef Amjad Qashou is to serve 57 months in prison for making false statements to federal agents during a 2018 terrorism probe.

Authorities said the FBI started monitoring Qashou after getting tips that his “erratic behavior” indicated he might be interested in joining the terrorist group ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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

Black Lives Matter Removes Controversial “What We Believe” Page From Website

The Black Lives Matter organization has reportedly removed the “What We Believe” portion of its website, which was widely criticized for language deemed anti-family and pro-socialism.

On the now-deleted page, Black Lives Matter (BLM) had several statements that drew regular ire from conservative politicians and public figures. In several places, BLM directly attacked traditional family structures. While promoting “family-friendly” spaces, it argued against “patriarchal practices.”

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

California Church Crushed by $112,000 Worth of County COVID-19 Fines Has Agreed to Move Outdoors

Pastor Jack Trieber of North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California, has announced that his church will cease holding indoor services and move their worship time outdoors after fines from the county for the violation of its COVID-19 regulations rose above $112,000.

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

CDC Adds ‘Breathing’ To Ways Coronavirus Spreads

Government agency lays groundwork for expanded mask mandates.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CDC Admits to Erroneously Posting Guidelines That Say COVID-19 Spreads Through Air and Beyond 6 Feet

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that it erroneously posted guidance on its website that said COVID-19 can remain suspended in the air and travel beyond six feet.

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

Chicago Postal Workers Threaten to Stop Delivering Mail After Another Mail Carrier Shot, Injured

Chicago south and west side postal workers are making it clear that they will stop delivering mail to trouble areas unless the city takes a more aggressive and effective position in combating violent crime.

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

Coca-Cola Paid Scientists to Downplay How Sugary Beverages Fueled the Obesity Crisis

Coca-Cola’s work with scientists to downplay the role sugar plays in contributing to obesity has been called a ‘low point in this history of public health.’

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Threaten to Burn America to the Ground if Trump Replaces Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Watch Live!

Left has officially launched the civil war against America and the Constitution as Trump readies to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Fundraising Site Brings in $100 Million After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death

More than $100 million worth of small-donor donations have come in to ActBlue, a major online Democratic Party fundraising website, since the death of progressive Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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

Dialogues With the Devil

I’m going to mention the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as it’s germane to this column. Her death has thrown the Democrat/Communist Party USA into indescribable shock, although it shouldn’t. Ginsburg spent the last several years battling cancer and other serious health issues not to mention sleeping on the bench. Their panic is reverberating across this country like a massive tsunami.

Her death isn’t just a shock because she died but rather because of when she went.

Our voting system, because of the usual electronic and human vote fraud is now even worse with the massive mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. Both parties know it and both parties are preparing their legal teams for a show down with the expectation it likely will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. Unless, it’s such a landslide for Trump the Democrats have no choice but to accept defeat. Which they won’t, of course, just as when Hildebeast was declared the loser.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

DOJ Designates New York City as an ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’

New York City is one of three places that “have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities,” leading to its designation as an “anarchist jurisdiction,” the Justice Department said Monday.

Rather than idle words, the designation has potential financial consequences. President Trump issued a memo earlier this month directing the DOJ to identify jurisdictions that, in its view, were not enforcing the law appropriately. Designated cities could lose their federal funding.

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

Emmy Viewership Falls to New Low of 6.1 Million as ‘Schitt’s Creek’ & HBO Rule COVID-19-Dominated Ceremony — Update

UPDATED, 10:24 PM: Despite going virtual across the globe, the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards went off without a significant technical glitch Sunday night. After setting up over 100 cameras in nominees’ homes to cover 23 categories, the final numbers are in for the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted show, and they remain a record low for the small screen’s biggest night.

With 6.1 million viewers and a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 in time adjusted results, the 8-11:06 PM ET show managed to prove host Kimmel right and beat last year’s previous low.

On a ceremony dominated by a Schitt’s Creek sweep, plus HBO’s Succession and Watchmen, the 2020 Emmys were down a hard 25% in the demo and 12% in total audience from Game of Thrones-winning and host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.

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

FBI Agents Identify Cuban-American Man in Florida as Prolific ISIS Propagandist

MIAMI — Jonathan Guerra thought that he was communicating with a romantic interest who he could involve in his efforts to promote multilingual ISIS propaganda, but the person in Miami who he was really sending information to was a covert FBI employee, according to the FBI.

Guerra, who was born in Cuba and is a U.S. naturalized citizen, is also known as Abu Zahra Al-Andalusi, federal prosecutors said. While he enjoyed the safety of a home in Lee County’s Lehigh Acres community and vacationed with his family in Cancun, Mexico, Guerra was promoting suicide bombing, prosecutors said.

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

FBI Agent Who Uncovered Weiner Laptop With Hillary’s Emails Says FBI Leadership Told Him to Erase All of His Findings

John Robertson, was an FBI Agent who investigated crimes against children. This is how he stumbled upon Hillary Clinton’s emails.

We first reported on Robertson in August of 2018 when the mainstream media was focused on the Trump Russia Mueller sham investigation.

John was assigned to the Anthony Weiner case, a top Democrat married to Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. During his investigation of Weiner’s computer John discovered thousands of Hillary Clinton emails and blew the whistle on the Comey-McCabe and Strzok cover-up of evidence.

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

Full Epstein Flight Logs Set for Release, Sparking Panic Among Elites

Global pedophile network now in full panic mode.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Google Pushes Conservative News Sites Far Down Search Lists

It has long been feared that Google, which controls almost 90% of U.S. Internet search traffic, could sway an election by altering the search results it shows users. New data indicate that may be happening, as conservative news sites including Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and the Federalist have seen their Google search listings dramatically reduced.

The data come from the search consultancy Sistrix, which tracks a million different Google search keywords and keeps track of how highly different sites rank across all the search terms.

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

Growing List of White Liberals Caught Pretending to be Black

Three different white liberals in authority roles within universities and activist movements have apologized this month for pretending to be black — and they aren’t the only ones to get caught lying about their racial identities.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Joe Biden Botches Pledge: “I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of America. One Nation, Indivisible, Under God, For Real” (Video)

You know, the thing!

Joe Biden bungled the Pledge of Allegiance during his Wisconsin speech on Monday.

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

Likely Timeline of Events to Take Place From Sep. 20 to Jan. 20, Covering Vaccines, SCOTUS, Election Day, Markets, Terrorism & Insurrection

This extensive list thoroughly outlines how the Democrats and domestic terrorists plan to ascend to power and overthrow America by 2021.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Names of Every Passenger to Have Flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s Aircraft ‘To be Revealed “Sparking Panic Among the Pedophile’s Wealthy Friends”‘

Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs on his aircraft, including his ‘Lolita Express’ jet, have been subpoenaed, sparking fear among the rich and famous who partied with the pedophile.

The Attorney General in the US Virgin Islands, where the billionaire had a home and is said to have carried out many of his horrific crimes, has demanded to see the logs which document the passengers on his aircraft.

The logs on his four helicopters and three planes span from 1998 until his suicide in prison last year.

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

NYPD Officer Accused of Spying, Arrested for Allegedly Acting as Agent of China

NEW YORK (WABC) — NYPD officer Baimadajie Angwang, a community affairs officer in the 111 precinct in Queens and a US Army Reservist at Fort Dix, has been arrested for allegedly acting as an agent of China.

According to the criminal complaint, Angwang acted “at the direction and control” of Chinese government officials at the consulate in New York to report on the activities of ethnic Tibetans, assess potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources and use his official position at the police department to give consulate officials access to senior NYPD officials.

He is also accused of committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding.

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

Omaha Bar Owner Charged for Killing Rioter Who Attacked Him Commits Suicide

Faced charges of manslaughter, attempted first-degree assault, more

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Op-Ed Reaffirms That Critics of Smart Meters Were Right About Utility Companies Wanting to Ration Energy — Activist Post

Utility companies worldwide have benefited at customers’ expense with the deployment of “Smart” Meters — electric, gas, and water. Tens of millions have already been installed and millions more are planned despite all their problems — including fires, explosions, and serious cybersecurity risks

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pelosi Confuses Viewers During Interview on SCOTUS Controversy

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday confused some viewers after what appeared to be a communications issue during a morning news program.

During an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked Pelosi whether House Democrats would attempt to impeach President Trump in order to prevent him from filling the bench after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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

Prof Under Investigation After Allegedly Launching Into Anti-Trump Tirade in Class

In a 45 second recorded video, Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) Professor of Women Studies Janet Gulla appears to tell students to not vote for President Donald Trump.

“For four years because that’s what people say, ‘Give him a chance, give him a chance’ Well he’s had four freaking years of a chance and he’s done a crap job and he’s really ruining our country,” she appears to say. She continues by saying that she’s sorry for those students who are voting for the first time this year because they’re being “thrust” into a “contentious situation.”

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

Public Health “Experts” Suggest Mask Wearing is Permanent

Many public health officials have stated that the “new normal” of muzzling oneself in public could be permanent, meaning we’ll be wearing masks forever. Even with a vaccine, the rulers want the faces of the public masked and dehumanized.

Even with a vaccine, certain political puppets want humans to be wearing masks for the foreseeable future.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rush Limbaugh Encourages Senate to Skip Hearings So Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee Doesn’t Get “Kavanaughed”

Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh on Monday urged the Senate to completely skip the confirmation hearing process for President Trump’s imminent Supreme Court nominee and head straight to a floor vote.

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

Seattle Hires Ex-Pimp to be ‘Street Czar’

The city of Seattle has hired an ex-pimp at a $150,000 a year salary as the new “Street Czar,” Andre Taylor. Before Taylor was contracted by the city to provide “expertise and support services in de-escalation, community engagement, and alternatives to policing,” he was engaged in prostitution.

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

Some Storefront Windows Smashed During Protest March in Downtown Portland Saturday Night

A group of 100 to 200 demonstrators marched through downtown Portland as they continued their nightly protestsagainst racial injustice.

Portland police said an unspecified number of individuals broke the storefront windows of some businesses — and that included U.S. Bank at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Harrison Street, Chipotle Mexican Grill at Southwest Broadway and College Street and a Starbucks coffee shop at Southwest Sixth Avenue and Salmon Street. Police also said some individuals sprayed graffiti.

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

The BLM Mob Hits Rural America — BLM Blocks Entrance to Bigfoot School in Rural Wisconsin

Don’t be fooled.

No one is safe from the BLM mob.

On Monday morning rural Bigfoot High School in rural Wisconsin woke up to a BLM assault on their school.

The Black Lives Matter mob TP’d the school grounds and blocked the entrance to the high school.

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

Trump Doubtful of Alleged Ginsburg Wish to Not be Replaced While He is President, Claims Democrats Fabricated it

On Monday, President Trump cast doubt on the claim that former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s last wish was to not have her replacement picked by Trump.

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

Update: Far Left DC Mob Harasses Senator Lindsey Graham at 6 Am — Blast Bullhorns, Flash Strobe Lights and Try to Enter His Yard

The DC Sunrise Movement, a far left group pushing the consumption of foreign energy sources in America, is training agitators for a potential riot at Senator Lindsey Graham’s home on Monday morning.

The mob action was planned for 6:00 AM on Monday morning.

Investigate reporter Millie Weaver released video on Sunday night of the radical group’s members practicing kicks on his front door and more.

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

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

“James Kirkpatrick presents several possibilities in the September 15, 2020 V-Dare article, “Dems Planning To Enslave White America If Trump Loses,” said Elbel. “I hadn’t expected to see a heading like that for another 20 years when White Americans become a minority in the country that their ancestors founded. But with the escalation of racial conflict and divisive identity politics, things have changed over the course of months.”

Here are possibilities as listed in the article:

Eliminate the Electoral College [It’s time to abolish the Electoral College, by Darrell West, Brookings Institute, October 15, 2019] (Which means California and New York would control who becomes president.) Make Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. states[that will give them four Democrat senators in perpetuity.] — plus possibly the Virgin Islands — thus allowing coastal elites to rule Middle America like a conquered territory [Journalist: Dems should push for Puerto Rico, DC statehood after 2020, The Hill, July 30, 2018] Auto-registering Americans to vote, making Election Day a holiday and thus making it easier for uninformed people to vote Eliminate the Senate filibuster [The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy| Tear it down,by David Litt, Atlantic, June 27, 2020] Packthe Supreme Court [Democrats’’hunger to break the old political system grows ahead of 2020 election, by Sahil Kapur, NBC News, August 16, 2020] Increase legal immigration (Dems doubled it to 2,000,000 (million) annually in the 2013 Senate Bill 744 that passed the senate, but failed in the house.) Drastically increase the refugee inflow now virtually cut off under Trump Enact Amnesty, providing the Democrats with tens of millions of new voters, especially as amnestied illegals begin sponsoring their relatives under our absurd (and unreformed by Trump) “family reunification” laws Another proposal: an “anti-racist amendment” to the Constitution that would allow the government to punish any racial inequality, which would automatically be evidence of “racist policy.” Given that we never have equal outcomes in multiracial societies, this would mean virtually every social interaction would become a potential federal case.

Elbel continued, “I would add the virtual abolishment of the Second Amendment. The fact that millions of Americans own firearms will not matter.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Police Raid Home in Quebec Relating to Suspect Who Allegedly Sent Trump Ricin-Laced Letter

Quebec RCMP confirm that there is an ongoing police operation taking place on Vauquelin Blvd. in St-Hubert, Quebec. The operation is related to the recent contaminated letters sent to the White House.

Ongoing police operation on Vauquelin blvd in St-Hubert, related to the contaminated letter sent to the White House. More details to come. A media relations officer is on site to answer questions. #rcmppic.twitter.com/Ms4uQakYBo

The suspect in the ricin-letter case was taken into custody this morning, she is a native of St-Hubert. According to the Daily Mail, the woman was arrested trying to enter the US from Canada at a New York state border crossing. According to a law enforcement official, she was allegedly armed with a gun when detained.

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

Canadian Constitutional Law Professor After RBG’s Death: ‘Burn Congress Down Before Letting Trump Try to Appoint Anyone to SCOTUS’

A constitutional law professor in Canada called for burning the U.S. Congress to the ground in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

“Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS,” Emmett Macfarlane, a Canadian professor of political science at the University of Waterloo, tweeted within an hour of Ginsburg’s passing.

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

Far-Right Brothers of Italy Close to Snatching Marche Region From Left

A candidate for the far-right Brothers of Italy has ended 25 years of leftwing rule in the eastern Marche region, giving the party its second regional presidency, according to incomplete results.

However, the centre-left managed to retain its stronghold of Tuscany, in what the region’s centre-left candidate Eugenio Giani called “an extraordinary victory”.

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Germany: A Few Thousand March Against Corona Measures in Dusselfdorf

housands of people attended a protest on Sunday in the western German city of Dusseldorf against government restrictions imposed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Deutsche Welle reports. The organisers had expected as many as 50,000 people would attend, but only a few thousand joined the protest. There were banners with slogans such as “End to panic, coronavirus is a lie.”

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Hungary’s Orban: ‘We Are Rooting for Another Victory for Donald Trump’

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban publicly endorsed Donald Trump Monday, underscoring the need for right-thinking politicians and academics to reject cancel culture and groupthink.

Hungary is “very familiar” with the foreign policy of U.S. administrations under the Democrats, “built as it is on moral imperialism,” Mr. Orban said in a bracing essay in the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet. “We have tasted it — albeit under duress. We didn’t like it, and we don’t want a second helping.”

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Joe Biden Joins Globalist Pile-on Against Conservative Poland

Joe Biden has again distanced himself from a key U.S. and NATO ally, taking the side of the EU establishment in a long-running dispute between the globalist bloc and conservative Poland.

The 77-year-old former U.S. vice president tweeted on Monday: “Let me be clear: LGBTQ+ rights are human rights — and ‘LGBT-free zones’ have no place in the European Union or anywhere in the world”, quoting as he did so an ABC News report dealing with the ongoing disagreements between the European Union and Poland.

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Polish President Duda: The Livelihoods of Farmers and Their Families Should Come Before That of Animals

During the harvest festival in Warsaw, in a speech delivered by Polish President Andrezj Duda, he emphasized that while it is important to treat animals in a humanitarian way, the well-being of Polish farmers must come first.

The president was referring to a new bill concerning animal rights passed on Friday in the Polish Parliament. The new bill foresees a ban on breeding animals for fur and restricts ritual killings of animals.

The amendment is now being debated over by the upper chamber of the Polish parliament, but the issue has triggered a political crisis that is a threat to the stability of ruling coalition of Law and Justice (PiS), United Poland and Agreement.

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Reducing Emissions by 55% is Unrealistic for Czechia, Says Minister Havlicek in Response to EU Proposal

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, as requested by the European Commission, is unrealistic for Czechia, said Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlicek, who further pointed out that the Commission should first discuss its objectives with the member states and only then draw conclusions.

According to Minister Havlicek, achieving this goal this will be only possible later if the country is to maintain energy self-sufficiency, not destroy industry in the coming years and work with real numbers in pure mobility.

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The EU Wants to Give Itself Greater Powers to Punish Tech Companies That Don’t Censor Enough

The European Union (EU) wants more powers to apply stricter policies on US Big Tech companies if they don’t do enough to censor what the EU decides is “misinformation.” These companies could soon be forced to sell or break up operations in Europe if they don’t police content effectively.

Speaking to the Financial Times, EU commissioner Thierry Breton said the new powers the union is fighting for are in the interest of reducing the market dominance of these Big Tech companies.

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The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today’s America

America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare in the United States. Another example of how things might play out in the United States is the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Civil War is known to historians, amateur and professional alike, as the “dress rehearsal for the Second World War.” It is so termed because it pitted one side — which was equipped, armed and funded by Europe’s fascist regimes (Germany and Italy) — against a government largely funded and propped up by the Soviet Union. However, it is worth noting that General Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces were not themselves fascist (though there were fascists within their ranks) and that Spain remained neutral during the Second World War, later becoming a close ally of the United States in the fight against Communism internationally. While there are few perfect analogs to be found anywhere in world history, there are parallels between the contemporary domestic political situation in the United States and the period immediately before and during the Spanish Civil War. And while the situation in the United States might play out in a much similar way to the Spanish Civil War, it is worth noting that our previous Civil War was the bloodiest in human history. There is little doubt that a Second American Civil War would not be significantly more destructive.

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UK Council Bans Workers From Smoking at Home During Lockdowns

The Hammersmith and Fulham Council in West London has banned employees from smoking at working desks even when working online from home. Campaigners call the move a “moral crusade” and accused the council of “waging a war on choice.”

The Hammersmith and Fulham council, run by The left-wing Labor Party, announced that “any part of a private dwelling used solely for work purposes will be required to be smoke-free.”

This news comes just as a report dubbed “Smokefree Ideology — How local authorities are waging war on choice and personal freedom” is about to be released. The report reveals that councils are imposing strict policies on employees.

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UK Prime Minister’s Sister Calls for Booze Ban Until Virus Vaccine Found

Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel has suggested a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in Britain until a coronavirus vaccine is produced.

“Do you know I had a thought on the way here on the Tube. Do you know what it was?” Johnson said to a woman calling into her LBC radio show, slightly patronisingly.

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UK: BBC Asks Whether Climate Change Activism is Too White and Middle Class

The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is asking if the left-wing climate change movement is “too white and middle-class”.

The broadcaster, which offered no criticisms of the climate change protest movements beyond its lack of diversity in its video report, explored the supposed problem through a Muslim called Fatimah, a co-founder of the “New Green Deal UK” group.

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UK: Coronavirus: Minister Doubles Down on Snitching, Police Will ‘Come Down Hard’

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has hardened the government’s tone over those breaking the coronavirus laws, saying police will “come down hard on people who do the wrong thing”.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced over the weekend that those who receive a positive test for coronavirus, or have been in close contact with someone known to have the Chinese virus, must self-isolate. Failure to do so will result in the first fine of £1,000 increasing up to a capped £10,000 for “repeat offences”.

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UK: Farage: ‘Say No!’ to Second National Lockdown, Reject Boris Johnson’s ‘Elective Dictatorship’

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the UK must reject a second national lockdown, warning of a “complete and utter catastrophe” if Prime Minister Boris Johnson implements another.

Mr Farage admitted that self-isolation might make some sense for vulnerable people, such as the elderly, chronically ill, or the very obese, but said: “It does not make sense for the whole of the country to isolate and I think we’re at a point now where the cure is becoming worse than the disease itself.”

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UK: Oxford Researchers Call for Facebook to Fact-Check Even More “Coronavirus Misinformation”

A new study from The Oxford Internet Institute and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford has blamed a “failure of fact-checking” on Facebook for amplifying what they deem to be “coronavirus misinformation” videos on YouTube and is calling for more aggressive fact-checking to ensure that users receive “accurate and trustworthy” information.

The study looked at over one million coronavirus YouTube videos that had been shared on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter between October 2019 and June 2020 and found that 8,105 of those videos had been removed for violating YouTube’s community guidelines. It then found that Facebook placed warning labels on 55 of these videos (0.7%) before they were removed by YouTube.

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UK: School Assistant Christie Higgs Fired for Opposing “Gender Fluidity” Being Taught to Young Kids Seeks Damages

A Christian school teaching assistant who was fired from Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire last year after she shared concerns about plans to teach that gender is a matter of choice to young school children is seeking £56,000 ($71,560) in damages at a UK employment tribunal.

Christie Higgs had worked at the school for seven years before being fired over two Facebook posts which didn’t mention her employer and were shared under her maiden name to around 100 of her friends. The investigation that ultimately resulted in Higgs being terminated was triggered by a single anonymous complaint.

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UK: Scrooge to Offer Extra Lump of Coal: Boris Could Lift Coronavirus Restrictions for Christmas Day

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to throw Britons trapped under coronavirus laws a little “sweetener” in advance of announcing further restrictions, in the form of letting families have Christmas dinner together.

Just last week, the ‘rule of six’ came into effect which makes it illegal for more than six people together outside or inside, in public or private spaces, with the maximum enforcement resulting in being arrested by police.

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Aussie Tradie Has Spent Eight Months in Hellish Egyptian Jail for Liking a Facebook Post in 2012 — After Being Arrested on a Family Holiday in January

A Sydney man who was arrested while taking his family on a holiday to Egypt in January is being held in prison for liking a Facebook post almost a decade ago.

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COUP 53 Sheds New Light on How CIA and MI6 Brought Tyranny to Iran

Trailer for COUP 53, a new documentary on the joint CIA-MI6 operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran. The coup that toppled a democratically elected government in Iran in August 1953 and replaced it with a tyrannical monarchy that lasted 25 years was an intelligence operations whose effects are still felt to this day.

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New Documents Reveal Secret British Efforts to Arm, Assist and Propagandize ‘Moderate Rebels’ In Syria

In November 2018 some anonymous people published a number of documents that had been liberated from a clandestine British propaganda organization, the Integrity Initiative.

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Police Detain Over 400 During Sunday Protests in Belarus

KYIV, Ukraine — Police in Belarus said they detained more than 400 protesters who took part in a weekend demonstration demanding the resignation of the nation’s authoritarian president following a disputed vote.

With protests rocking the country for more than six weeks, tens of thousands of Belarusians marched through Minsk, the capital, on Sunday, calling for President Alexander Lukashenko to step down after 26 years in power.

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US, Russia in War of Words Over Who Has the Fastest Missiles

An announcement made by U.S. President Donald Trump at a Friday campaign event in Bemidji, Minnesota, prompted a war of words between the United States and Russia over which country has the fastest missiles, Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports.

“They [Russia] have the missile, the super-duper hypersonic missile […]. It goes five times faster than a normal missile,” Trump said. “We have one that goes much faster, much faster than that.”

“Russia got that information from the Obama administration, Russia stole that information. You knew that, you knew that. Russia got the information, and then they built it,” he added.

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Beam of Light Aimed at West Coast Fires as Pentagon Warns That China Has Weaponized Space

DOD announces directed energy weapons being used by Russia and China.

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China’s Air Force Posts Clip of Simulated Attack on US Airbase

Video released amid escalating tensions over Taiwan.

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Australian Roads Are Busier Than Ever as People Refuse to Take Buses and Trains Because of COVID-19 — Except for Melbourne Where the Streets Are Empty

Apple Data, which tracks mobility trends around the world, revealed public transport and foot and car traffic figures significantly plunged in all Australian cities in March.

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Confronting Moment Hysterical Mother-of-Four, 69, Is Arrested by Six Police Officers While Walking Her Dog During a Melbourne Anti-Lockdown Protest

The video shows a mother-of-four being arrested during anti-lockdown protests in Elsternwick Park, 10km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, on Saturday.

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Dire Warning ‘Hardly Anyone’ Will be Eligible for Jobkeeper 2.0 When the Coronavirus Subsidy is Slashed Next Week — as Expert Reveals Why it’s a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ For Australia

From next week, payments for full-time staff are being cut from $1,500 to $1,200 per fortnight, while people who worked less than 20 hours a week before the pandemic will receive $750.

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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Will Cause Australia’s Population to Plunge for the First Time Since World War I — Sparking Fears of a 40 Per Cent Collapse in House Prices

The federal government’s National Housing Finance is forecasting Australia’s population will plunge by 214,000 people, or by 0.8 per cent, over two years as a result of the COVID-19 border closure.

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How the Cost of Fruit and Vegetables Could Double by Christmas as Jobless Australians Refuse to Fill Backpacker Farm Labour Shortage Because They Make Almost as Much on Jobseeker

The Relocation Assistance allowance pays unemployed Aussies $6,000 to move to a regional area, but only 233 have signed up for it in the past year.

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More Than 3,000 Millionaires Are Caught Claiming Jobseeker But Are Set to be Kicked Off as Tough New Rules Come Into Effect

Thousands of millionaires were able to legally receive the $1,115 fortnightly payment because the asset test was waived when the coronavirus crisis swept Australia six months ago.

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The Real Reason Daniel Andrews Imposed a Curfew in Melbourne — and Why He Sees the Economy as ‘Collateral Damage’ Following the Hotel Quarantine Disaster

Adem Somyurek, a former minister in Daniel Andrews’ Labor government, has slammed the Premier’s 8pm to 5am curfew as an example of middle class ignorance.

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The Sneaky Theory Behind Why Victorian Premier ‘Chairman’ Dan Andrews Changed the Start Time of His Daily Press Conferences to be an Hour Earlier This Week

The inquiry into the quarantine scheme, which failed to contain the virus and sparked the state’s deadly second wave, begins at 10am each day when key witnesses are questioned.

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Young Irish Tradies Accused of Bludgeoning a Homeless Grandfather, 66, To Death After a 12-Hour Drinking Bender in Sydney Are Found Not Guilty of Murder

Nathan Kelly, 23, and Christopher McLaughlin, 25, pleaded not guilty to murdering Paul Tavelardis, who died nine days after an altercation with them in Summer Hill on December 29, 2018.

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Analysis: Biden Plan Could Bring 52 Million Immigrants to U.S.

The Biden-Harris immigration plan could allow up to 52 million new immigrants to settle in the U.S., according to a Federation for American Immigration Reform analysis provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Changes to Australia’s Citizenship Test

Acting Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs Alan Tudge, last week announced that the government has decided to revamp the Australian citizenship test, adding questions that address “national values”.

Candidates will be required to pass all the questions on national values.

It is the first upgrade to the test in more than a decade.

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Hungarian Police Find Another Migrant Tunnel at Serbian Border (Video)

Since Hungary built a fence on its border with Serbia in the autumn of 2015 to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants, numerous tunnels dug by migrants had been uncovered, with the the latest one discovered on Sunday afternoon near the village of Mórahalom, the Hungarian National Police report.

Csongrad County police spokeswoman Szilvia Szabó told daily Magyar Hirlap that the discovery came after police apprehended 26 illegal immigrants near the border claiming to be Afghan and Syrian nationals, which prompted a search of the adjacent region. During the search, police uncovered a 16-meter long tunnel under the border.

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Hungary’s PM Orban: George Soros Wants to Create Mixed Ethnic Societies, Dismantle Nationalism, And Hand Power to the Global Elite

Billionaire financier George Soros is seeking to accelerate migration in order to destroy nationalism and hand power over to the global elite, writes Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a long-form article for Magyar Nemzet where he also discussed topics such as political correctness, liberal democracy, and Hungary’s upcoming 2022 election battle.

“The greatest threat to national self-determination today is the global network of open society advocates which seek to abolish national governance. The goals of George Soros’s network with unlimited financial and human resources are clear. By accelerating migration, they will create mixed-ethnicity, open societies in order to dismantle national decision-making and put it in the hands of the global elite,” writes Orban.

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North Macedonia: 61 Migrants Held Following Police Raids

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Police in North Macedonia say they have detained 61 migrants and arrested five suspected traffickers following highway checks and raids on Sunday and Monday.

Thirty migrants from Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia were found hidden in a truck near the central city of Veles. The driver fled the vehicle but was later arrested, police said.

In a separate incident, another 28 migrants, including four children, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan were found after police raided two homes in a northern region near the border with Serbia and arrested three men. Three other migrants of unknown nationality were also found in a car near the border, and the driver was arrested.

The five smuggling suspects, all men, are North Macedonian nationals, police said.

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Number of Illegal Migrants in Austria Increased in July & August

llegal migration in Austria has shown a general decrease in 2019. Yet, since July 2020, the number of irregular migrants heading to Austria has been increasing again, Austria’s smuggling report of 2019 has revealed.

According to the smuggling report, a total of 3,590 persons attempted to enter Austria illegally, between July and August 2019. Compared to the same period this year, the number marks an increase of 800 seizures or 22.28 per cent. The report stressed that in 2020, between July and August, a total of 4,390 persons have attempted to enter Austria in irregular ways, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

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PM Orban: 20% of Europe’s Population Will be Muslim by 2050 But Central Europe is Choosing a Different Path on Migration

In a long-form article for Magyar Nemzet, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warns that by 2050, Europe will have a huge Muslim population as a result of Western Europe’s pursuit of multiculturalism and mass migration — a stance that Hungary and Central Europe continue to reject.

“Another estimate was that by 2050, 20 per cent of the population of Europe — excluding Russia — would be Muslim. Today it seems likely that by 2050 we can expect majority Muslim populations in major Western cities,” Orban wrote “It is not surprising that Central European countries have chosen a different future, free of immigration and migration. Nor is it surprising that the focus of V4 policy is on improving competitiveness, even if Brussels wants to move in precisely the opposite direction: climate goals pursued to the point of absurdity, a social Europe, a common tax system, a multicultural society.”

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Report: Illegal Boat Migrants Sign Slave Labour ‘Pact’ With Traffickers to Reach UK

Illegal boat migrants are reportedly making ‘pacts’ with human trafficking networks to serve as slave labourers in order to pay off the fees charged for crossing the English Channel from France.

Officials in France say that the illegal migrants ultimately become the “property” of human trafficking networks, often working in restaurants, laundrettes, and cannabis farms in the UK to pay off their debt to the people smugglers.

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Thousands March in Berlin in Support of Migrants in Greece

Thousands took to the streets of the German capital on Sunday (September 20) in support of migrants left homeless after a fire destroyed Moria camp, Greece’s largest migrant camp.

[Comment: There will always be fools.]

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Two Illegal Migrants Arrested for Stabbing 20-Year-Old in Lyon to Death, But French Media Keeps Quite on Their Foreign Background

Two illegal migrants were arrested on suspicion of stabbing a man in his twenties to death in the Stade de Gerland metro station, French Le Progrès online daily reported, but larger television news outlets have kept quiet on their foreign backgrounds.

The tragedy occurred on Sunday, 15 minutes after midnight at the Stade de Gerland metro station in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon.

The young man in his twenties was assaulted by two individuals who stabbed him in the chest and hit him with broken bottles. Despite two witnesses of the incident trying to resuscitate him on the spot, the victim died.

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UK: ‘Will Anybody Lift a Finger?’ Farage Predicts Hundreds of Boat Migrants Will Set Off on Tuesday

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said that he has intelligence from sources in Calais, that a massive wave of hundreds of illegal migrants will set sail from the beaches of France on Tuesday, and questioned whether British or French authorities will ‘lift a finger” to stop the “invasion”.

Mr Farage said that based on his intelligence he is predicting that “hundreds” of migrants will attempt to leave the beaches of Northern France to the UK on Tuesday.

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Facebook Letting Users Claim Images, Issue Copyright Takedown Notices, Could Have Big Impact on Memes

Facebook is ramping up copyright control on its platforms, including Instagram, to allow rights holders an easier way to monitor and go after, if they so choose, those they identify as infringing on their images.

The new tool looks like it might be particularly useful in the ongoing “war on memes” as it allows for quick removal of posts containing them and will be a new way to censor.

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‘The 21st Century’s Greatest Battle Will be the Battle for the Family’ — March for Life and Family in Warsaw Attracts Over 1,000 Supporters

The March for Life and Family passed through Warsaw’s historic city center and old town on Sunday, with its participants carrying Polish flags and whole families, including many children, joining the event.

The head of the Center for Life and Family, Pawel Ozdoba, who organized the demonstration, explained that the march is an annual event during which people may peacefully manifest their pro-family values.

He added that this year’s march was meant to be a form of appeal to the government to tighten legislation concerning forbidding the profanation of national and religious symbols.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/21/2020

  1. “The president was referring to a new bill concerning animal rights passed on Friday in the Polish Parliament. The new bill foresees a ban on breeding animals for fur and restricts ritual killings of animals.”
    Furtrade and Jewish/muslim slaughter has hardly anything to do with the wellbeing of farmers…

  2. “The Hammersmith and Fulham Council in West London has banned employees from smoking at working desks even when working online from home. Campaigners call the move a “moral crusade” and accused the council of “waging a war on choice.”

    This comes as no surprise to me. Of all the Local Authorities I ever worked for. LBHF was by far the worst, the very, very worst. Who was the best ? you might ask, CAMDEN.

    • Hi Peter, hope you’re well.

      Were you at Camden when Roy Shaw was running the Council? I knew him as a fellow-record collector, and liked him a lot; sadly he’s no longer with us.

      • Hi Mark, I’m fine. Hope you are too.

        Sadly, Roy Shaw had passed away a few years before I got to Camden but, during the ten or so years that I worked there, his name came up quite frequently. There is even a Roy Shaw Centre in the borough. He is very highly spoken of and is well-remembered by those who knew him.

  3. The 102 year old lady who has survived both the Spanish flu and Covid-19 is a shining testimony to lifelong immunity of a person who must live a very healthy lifestyle. So it’s all about personal health choices nd NOT government-imposed circumstances.

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