New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed President Trump for the coronavirus outbreak in his state. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has banned trick-or-treating on Halloween due to COVID-19.
In other news, police in Seattle distracted Antifa rioters by playing loud country music before moving in en masse to make arrests.
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We´re Headed Toward Stagnation — Unless the Fed Reins in Its Money Printing
Eventually, loose monetary policy will damage real savings to the point that the economy can no longer sustain sufficient economic growth. At that point, it will become clear that money printing can’t create economic growth.
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“Dead” Virus Cells Frequently Trigger “False Positives” In Most Common COVID Test, New Study Finds
In the past, our reports raising questions about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests have been met with accusations of ‘fearmongering’ and spreading ‘misinformation’.
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“Second Wave” News Intensifies: MSM Pushes the Fear
The news of a “second wave” of coronavirus infections is making its rounds in the mainstream media once again. Are we on the verge of becoming a totalitarian regime like Australia? Will we be facing a second draconian lockdown?
Infectious-disease experts are warning of a potential cold-weather surge of coronavirus cases — a long-feared “second wave” of infections and deaths, possibly at a catastrophic scale, according to The Washington Post. A few months ago, the mainstream media attempted to ramp up the fear of a second wave, but since not many were getting sick and the death toll began to drop astronomically there was no way that narrative was going to stick. It sure looks like they are trying it once again.
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100 Rabbis: The SPLC Makes Life More Dangerous for Jews by Covering for Radical Islam
Last week, a coalition of 100 Orthodox Jewish rabbis sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, warning that Amazon Smile relies on a deceptive and dangerous “hate map” to exclude mainstream conservative and Christian organizations from the company’s charity program. They insisted that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) actually makes America more dangerous for the Jewish community by downplaying the very real threat of radical Islamic organizations connected to terrorist groups.
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2 Dead, 6 Wounded in Overnight Shootings Across Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Authorities are investigating multiple shootings overnight in Philadelphia that left two people dead and several wounded.
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Antifa Militants Brutally Assault Independent Journalist in Portland
Last night, Antifa black bloc militants assaulted a journalist in Portland, Ore. Tayler Hansen reported that he was beaten by four people wearing Antifa Black Bloc.
Hansen was reporting undercover when he was spotted and recognized. He left the area to change his appearance.
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Residents of the City of Roses aren’t looking at their mayor with rose-colored glasses.
Sixty-three percent of Portland, Oregon, respondents to a poll have an unfavorable view of Mayor Ted Wheeler. Only 6% of respondents had a very favorable view of the mayor.
The poll also found that Wheeler is more unpopular than the Portland Police Bureau and the city’s police union.
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Attorney General Barr Says New York Violence Spike Due to Bail Reform
Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday blamed soaring gun violence and murder in New York City on the state’s bail reform law, which he said allows the near-instantaneous release of suspects who then seek retribution.
Barr blamed the reform law, which passed last year and was amended this year, as he celebrated a one-month halving of Chicago’s murder rate following the deployment of federal agents in the multi-city Operation Legend.
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Chicago Murder Rate Cut ‘Roughly in Half’ Since Before Operation Legend: AG Barr
The federal government through Operation Legend has “reversed” Chicago’s surge in violence, making more than 500 arrests and charging 124 people with federal criminal charges since it started, officials announced.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said during a Wednesday morning press conference in the Windy City that the federal program had helped decrease Chicago’s murder rate to the lowest it’s been “at any time” since April, cutting the rate “roughly in half since before the operation.”
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Congressional contender Marjorie Taylor Greene was banned by Twitter for 12 hours after she posted tweets opposing mandatory face masks. What’s more, she was also asked to delete the post to regain access to her account.
“Time to UN-Mask America! Healthy people and children should NOT be wearing masks. Children need to see parents, teachers, and care givers faces in order to learn. Mask shaming needs to end now. Re-Open America! Re-Open Schools!” read the tweet that was censored by Twitter.
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Deaths by Suicide Continue to Rise. Mental Health Workers Worry About the 2020 Effect.
Not every person who plans to jump from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is the same, said Sgt. Kevin Briggs, a former California Highway Patrol officer who helped people experiencing mental crisis come away from the bridge alive.
In the decade he was assigned the bridge detail, Briggs typically rode a motorcycle, and he would stop 10-15 yards away from the person, and gently walk toward them on the 4-foot pedestrian lane. He would first raise his right hand and ask their permission to talk. “Hi, I’m Kevin,” he’d say. “Is it OK if I come up to talk to you for a while?”
He’d wait for an answer.
“It really sets a good tone for the event; you can’t try to grab them, but you want to go up there and develop a rapport,” he said. “Find out what’s going on with them. Ask how did they get to this point today; why do they want to end their life? See if you can get their story.”
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., with more than 43,000 Americans dying by suicide in 2018, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. That same year, there was an estimated 1.4 million attempted suicides.
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Democrats Confess to 2020 Election Theft
Every American needs to hear this warning.
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Democrats Panic: Admit They Are Losing the Election, Call for End of the Electoral College
‘Trump could pull this off…the Electoral College is an issue and a problem,’ says Joy Behar.
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Georgia: 1,000 People Illegally Voted Twice During Primary Elections Using Absentee Ballots
Americans brace for a general election fraught with accusations of fraud and mismanagement.
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On Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer decried an upcoming Trump rally in the state as “very distressing,” implying it would be a public health risk due to possible COVID-19 transmission.
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Gov. Cuomo: “Donald Trump Caused the COVID Outbreak in New York”
At a Tuesday press conference, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo placed the blame for the state’s deadly COVID-19 outbreak on President Trump.
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How does one ensure their political allies are ideologically synchronized, and know exactly how to disrupt a presidential election? What about the “journalists” in the news media and the babblers on social media — how does one get them onboard with the planned nationwide revolutionary disruption? Easy! Publish a report titled: “Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election.”
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L.A. Trick-or-Treating Canceled to Curb Spread of COVID-19
Trick-or-treating has been canceled in Los Angeles, adding to the ever-growing list of events that have been nixed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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L.A. County Fines John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church $1,000 for Incomplete Signage
In ongoing efforts to halt indoor worship services at Grace Community Church, Los Angeles County has reportedly handed Pastor John MacArthur’s church a $1,000 fine for violating a signage ordinance.
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L.A. Protest Includes Chant of “Blue Lives Don’t Matter Here”
The third night of demonstrations in Los Angeles over the shooting of Dijon Kizzee brought a crowd of protesters chanting “blue lives don’t matter here” outside the South L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple “Deserves Scrutiny”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added his criticism to long-standing accusations targeting Apple’s App Store policies.
Apple has some rigorous rules in place in its store, allowing it to exercise a great deal of control over apps and their developers, and collect a 30% cut from all in-app purchases that must be implemented via the store.
Apple, that is one of the world’s largest companies, is in a position to dictate how and if smaller entities can do business, and another common criticism is that it abuses this near-monopoly status to stifle competition and limit user choice by banning apps that compete with its own.
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Mayor, NYPD Tout Uptick in Gun Arrests as Shootings Continue Citywide
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There were more shootings across New York City on Wednesday as the NYPD continues to combat rising gun violence.
An NYPD chopper circled overhead Wednesday afternoon after there was more gunfire in Brooklyn. A bullet hole pierced a storefront window on Marcy Avenue.
Tuesday night, nearby on Marcy Avenue, police say around 10:30 p.m., a 42-year-old man was shot in the hand and a 46-year-old woman was shot in the leg after a man started firing a gun at someone else. That person was also hit. The couple was out walking their dogs.
Just after 9 a.m. Wednesday in Red Hook in the area of Bay and Clinton streets, police sources say a 50-year-old woman who had just completed a motorcycle road test was walking back to her car when she heard shots and felt pain.
The woman, a nurse at a hospital on Staten Island, sources say, was struck in the shoulder by a 9mm bullet fired from about half a mile away.
They say she was hit after two men fired at another man. All three took off.
It’s believed to be gang related.
In the 24-hour period Tuesday, police say there were seven shooting incidents and 12 victims.
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Ohio: Get Ready for COVID-19 FEMA Camps
Don´t blame Democrats for Republican Governor Mike DeWine´s dystopian partnering with FEMA to set up isolation camps throughout Ohio to fight COVID-19. DeWine is undeterred by multiple court orders striking down parts of his unconstitutional mandates.
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Portsmouth, Virginia Police Chief Angela Greene has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation just weeks after announcing felony charges against Democrat State Senator Louise Lucas, local NAACP President James Boyd, and 12 others in connection with a June 10th attack on the city’s 144-year-old Confederate monument.
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Portland Antifa Rioters Accused of Assaulting Cops With Weapons Face Federal Charges
After more than 100 days of Black Lives Matter-Antifa riots in Portland, the federal government is stepping in where local officials have failed to enforce the law. Following the announcement of numerous federal arrests of accused rioters last week, three more Portlanders have been named and charged.
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President Donald Trump dealt a huge blow to Bill Gates this September by renouncing US support for COVAX, a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative aimed at pushing an experimental coronavirus vaccine on the world.
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University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis reacted to the execution of Trump supporter Aaron “Jay” Danielson on the streets of Portland by an Antifa extremist by commenting, “He killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it.”
In an article entitled ‘Why was Michael Reinoehl killed?’ Loomis laments the fact that Danielson’s murderer died at the hands of police officers after brandishing a weapon.
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Report: Leftist Groups Form Alliance to Prepare for ‘Mass Public Unrest’ After Election
A coalition of leftist groups are planning a ‘resistance’ strategy in preparation for violent confrontation with Trump supporters after the election in November, according to a report.
The Daily Beast reported that over 50 groups, including MoveOn, Color of Change and the American Federation of Teachers, have formed a ‘Democracy Defense Nerve Center’.
The coalition, dubbing itself the ‘Fight Back Table’, is reportedly planning to counter claims of election victory by Trump and his supporters.
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Republicans Pressure Platforms With New 230 Bill
A group of Senate Republicans introduced a new bill Tuesday aimed at chipping away some of the protections provided to social media companies through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
The Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act, introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), would strip away the liability protection provided by Section 230 if a platform restricted access to content without providing specific rules that it violated. The bill would require platforms to have an “objectively reasonable belief” that content violated a specific policy in order for it to be removed, or they could be held liable for their moderation actions.
The bill would also amend language in the original law, changing vague terms like “objectionable” with “promoting terrorism” and “unlawful” as guidance for moderating content.
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‘Transforming’ The U.S. — Into What?
At least 13 US cities “have cut funding from police department budgets or decreased officer numbers with several more in the process,” according to a recent report by Forbes. Austin, Texas, one of the recent additions to the list of cities defunding police, cut $150 million, nearly a third of its police budget.
Austin joined a list of major cities that have already voted to defund police. New York and Los Angeles made cuts mere weeks after the current wave of protests began, and in Seattle, the first black police chief of the city, Carmen Best, resignedafter the city council “voted to strip the police department of some resources, including cutting around 100 jobs.”
Several cities however, voted in recent months to increase funding for their police departments, according to a July report by the Wall Street Journal.
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‘Cameras on, masks on — cameras off, masks off.´
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Trump: ‘If Biden Wins Second Amendment is Gone’
During a campaign stop in Florida Tuesday, President Trump warned that if Joe Biden is elected in November it will spell the end for the Second Amendment.
“If Joe Biden gets in your Second Amendment is gone,” Trump ominously commented.
The President added that the right to bear arms would be “obliterated to the point to the point of being gone” or will truly be “gone itself.”
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Trump Campaign Distributes “Peaceful Protester” Signs at Campaign Rally
Playing on an emerging theme of opposition to the street riots roiling major American cities, President Trump’s campaign debuted campaign signs at his Tuesday rally in North Carolina reading, “Peaceful Protester.”
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Trump: It “Would be an Insult to Our Country” If Kamala Harris Became President
President Trump told voters during a North Carolina rally that Kalama Harris could never come the first female president because American voters would not allow it.
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A teacher from the University of Southern California has been placed on leave after a group of black students threatened to drop his class following him saying a Chinese word that sounded like a racial slur while teaching.
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Vandals Target Michigan Republican Party Headquarters With Profane Anti-Law Enforcement Messages
Sometime on Sunday night, the Michigan Republican Party headquarters in Lansing was targeted by vandals who spray-painted profane graffiti onto its exterior. According to party officials, the words “f*** ICE, f*** police, f*** you” were found on the brick walls and glass doorway.
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Video: Young Americans Say Rioting and Looting is ‘Justified’
Canvassing the campus of George Washington University, Campus Reform found that the vast majority of college students believe that the nation-wide rioting and looting being carried out by black lives matter agitators is ‘justified’.
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Video: White BLM Protester Uses N-Word, Claims He’s Allowed to Because of Rap Music
A video clip shows a white Black Lives Matter protester using the n-word and then claiming he’s allowed to because of rap music.
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Video: Biden Slurs Way Through Latest Speech, ‘Diffi-Deficit, ‘ ‘Indusse’ And ‘Prescription Jugs’
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is 77-years-old, appeared to have difficulty speaking throughout his latest speech in Michigan on Wednesday, with the septuagenarian especially struggling to pronounce the words “deficit,” “industry,” and “drugs.”
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Multiple angles show members of the Seattle Police Department playing Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) by Big And Rich to apparently distract Antifa rioters while additional officers arrived from another direction to confront the rioters and begin making arrests.
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Will the Bureaucracy be the Downfall of American Freedom?
Most Americans have no idea as to the scope and power of the federal, state and local bureaucracies. Although all bureaucracies grow by their vary nature, local government has grown the most. From 1990 to 2010 federal government employment has stayed relatively steady. In the same period, state government has grown by about 1,000,000 employees, or a growth rate of almost 24%. Local government on the other hand has grown by 3,700,000 employees, or a whopping 34.3%. The growth rate is directly related to the passage of more laws and the explosive growth in social services.
In the Open the Books Oversight Report entitled “Mapping the Swamp” that analyzed federal employment in 2016, the following observations were made/
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Quebec City Says it Will Isolate “Uncooperative” Citizens in Secret Corona Facility
Authorities in Quebec City, Canada have announced they will isolate “uncooperative” citizens in a coronavirus facility, the location of which remains a secret.
During a press conference, Dr. Jacques Girard, who heads the Quebec City public health authority, drew attention to a case where patrons at a bar were ordered to wait until their COVID-19 tests came back, but disregarded the command and left the premises before the results came back positive.
This led to them being deemed “uncooperative” and forcibly interned in a quarantine facility.
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Corona ‘Marshals’ To Patrol UK Cities to Enforce Social Distancing
A new enforcement team of ‘Coronavirus Marshals’ will be employed by the government to patrol cities in order to police social distancing, the UK government has announced.
Last night Downing Street unveiled new lockdown measures making it illegal for people to gather in groups of more than six from Monday onwards.
The rise in COVID-19 cases has been blamed on young people gathering for social events.
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Geert Wilders: Dutch Far-Right Leader Cleared of Inciting Hatred
A Dutch court has cleared far-right politician Geert Wilders of inciting hatred and discrimination, but upheld his conviction for insulting a racial group.
Mr Wilders was accused of leading calls for “fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands at a rally in 2014.
In 2016 he was convicted of insulting a group and inciting discrimination.
But the 56-year-old anti-Islam politician called the case a political show-trial and challenged the verdicts.
He argued his comments should be protected by his right to freedom of speech.
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Hungarian PM Orban ‘Moonlights’ As a Tractor Driver in His Childhood Village
We have already seen Hungary’s conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban posing in a street fighter alongside Chuck Norris and kicking a football from the terrace of his office, but he has surprised his more than one million Facebook followers with yet another unique image that showed him driving a John Deere tractor in his childhood village of Felcsút.
“Afternoon moonlighting. Here at the Puskas Academy everyone has to know a bit of everything,” he wrote in his post.
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Italian Far-Left Terrorist Goes on Hunger Strike Over Prison Conditions
Far-left extremist terrorist Cesare Battisti has gone on hunger strike over prison conditions after earlier this year demanding release due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Battisti, who was extradited from Brazil by President Jair Bolsonaro in 2019, made his announcement this week through his lawyer Davide Steccanella. He said: “Having exhausted all other means to assert my rights, I find myself forced to resort to total hunger strike and refusal of therapy.”
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Italy: Black Woman Rips Salvini’s Shirt and Rosary Off
At election rally near Florence
(ANSA) — PONTASSIEVE, SEP 9 — A 20-year-old woman from Congo on Wednesday pushed and shoved rightwing League leader Matteo Salvini, ripping his shirt and breaking off the rosary around his neck, as he arrived for an election rally at Pontassieve near Florence.
The young woman was in “a clear state of psycho-physical excitation”, police said.
They said her actions did not appear to have been premeditated.
They said she found herself alongside Salvini as she was returning from work.
Separately, a group of young leftists and anarchists protested Salvini’s visit.
The woman was part of a crowd that had gathered for the League leader’s arrival.
The League is a populist and nationalist anti-migrant and Euroskeptic party.
Salvini said his assailant “should be ashamed of herself”.
He said “anyone can have political, footballing, and religious ideas that are different, but violence no: I can buy another shirt, but ripping from my neck a rosary that a priest gave to me is something out of this world”.
The League leader often kisses his rosary in public, and has been criticised by Italian bishops for making political capital out of his professions of faith.
“The nice thing I take away from Pontassieve,” Salvini went on, “is not that poor woman, but a lady who told me ‘Matteo, I don’t think like you, but I apologise on behalf of that idiot, if you want I’ll buy you a coffee’.” Tuscany is one of seven Italian regions going to the polls to elect new governors and a new government on September 20-21.
Elections will also take place in Val d’Aosta, Campania, Liguria, Marche, Puglia and Veneto.
Elections will also be held in 1,137 out of 7,904 Italian municipalities, including 18 provincial capitals.
They are: Agrigento, Andria, Aosta, Arezzo, Bolzano, Chieti, Crotone, Enna, Fermo, Lecco, Macerata, Mantua, Matera, Nuoro, Reggio Calabria, Trani, Trento and Venice.
Three of these are also regional capitals: Aosta, Trento and Venice.
In a referendum over the same two days, Italians will be asked whether they approve a law that amends the Italian Constitution to reduce the number of MPs in parliament, from 630 to 400 in the Chamber of Deputies and from 315 to 200 in the Senate.
Parties are divided on the reduction in MPs, which will bring their numbers down from 945 to 600.
Some, like government partners the 5-Star Movement and the Democratic Party, see it as a necessary streamlining and cost-cutting of politics.
Others say democratic representation is at risk.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid out the future for the nation the government is working towards, where daily coronavirus testing becomes a fact of life for millions and failing a test means being banned from social spaces and the workplace.
Tacked on to the end of his announcement on Wednesday on the introduction of new, harsher restrictions on personal freedoms as the number of new infections — if not deaths — starts to rise, the prime minister said the way tests are used would change in the “near future”.
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Poland’s Conservative Government Launches Bill to Improve Animal Rights Protections
A new bill from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) includes a ban on breeding fur animals, more involvement of social organizations in animal protection, safer animal shelters, and a ban on tying dogs with chains.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski emphasized that a new legal order concerning animal protection must be introduced. He added that his party is counting on cross-party support for the new bill.
Michal Moskal, the head of the PiS Youth Forum, explained that the bill will include the so-called “five for animals”, which include humanitarian treatment; social control over animal protection, more precise legislation, more protection protocols, and secure shelters with a ban on chains.
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Slovakia Bans Mosques Nationwide, Effectively Banning Islam From Country
Slovak legislation forbids Islamic mosques being established in country
Slovakia has banned mosques from being established anywhere in the country, effectively banning Islam from the Central European nation.
Slovak legislation, established in 2016, makes it impossible for Islam to be a state-recognized religion.
Slovakia has introduced measures making it the country with the toughest laws against Islam in all of Europe.
In 2016, two-thirds of deputies, including opposition ones, voted in favor of legislation submitted by the governmental Slovak National Party (SNS).
The laws required religious groups in the country to have 50,000 followers to run their schools, open religious establishments or qualify for government subsidies.
Previously, the law only required 20,000 signatures.
According to official sources, Islam, which was primarily targeted by the law, has less than 5,000 followers and zero mosques in the landlocked country in the center of Europe.
In 2016, then Prime Minister Robert Fico said in an interview, “I’m sorry, Islam has no place in Slovakia.
“It is the duty of politicians to talk about these things very clearly and openly.
“I do not wish there were tens of thousands of Muslims.”…
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Spain: Locals Ordered Off Beach by Police Helicopter Loudspeaker
Video footage shows a Spanish police helicopter hovering low above a beach ordering families via a loudspeaker to leave due to coronavirus rules.
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Spain: Citizens Stop Police From Arresting a Woman for Not Wearing a Mask
A video out of Spain shows citizens preventing police from arresting a woman for not wearing a face mask.
The clip shows officers attempting to pull the older woman away from the crowd, but they manage to wrestle her away from the cops.
“In Spain, police tried to arrest a woman for not wearing a mask. Dozens of people took off their masks and then helped the woman,” states the description accompanying the video.
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Remarkable footage has revealed the moment police officers — dressed head-to-toe in hazmat suits — frogmarched a young woman up a beach in handcuffs after she went surfing after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
A professional lifeguard was reported to police by her own colleagues in San Sebastian, in the Bay of Biscay in Spain’s Basque country on Monday after she was spotted surfing while placed on medical leave by her employer following a positive coronavirus test.
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Sweden Close to Victory Over Coronavirus; Never Had a Lockdown or Mask Mandate
As the rest of Europe and the world remains under the grip of draconian rules and the threat of new lockdowns, Sweden, which allowed its citizens to remain free throughout the entire pandemic, has pretty much declared victory over the coronavirus.
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UK: Farage Slams ‘Draconian’ Lockdown Laws Which He Claims Won’t be Respected by BLM Protesters
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has slammed the government’s new “draconian” lockdown laws, saying that it is hard to justify law-abiding citizens following the new rules when police fail to stop protests and illegal raves.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday a ban on public and private get-togethers of more than six people in England after a rise in the number of coronavirus cases. The government is also reportedly considering a nationwide curfew.
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UK: Gatherings of More Than Six Banned as Govt Reportedly Mulls Curfew
The British government is set to reimpose strict legal limitations on public gatherings, and it is reportedly considering a draconian national curfew.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce today that from Monday, social gatherings of more than six will be banned in England following a rise in confirmed coronavirus cases. Ministers blamed the increase on families interacting and young people having social lives, with the government predicting a ‘second wave’.
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A victim of Birmingham and Telford grooming gang rapists has waived her anonymity to shed light on the horrors of she experienced at the hands of Shahmeel Khan and Mohammed Ali Sultan and to raise awareness about the impact of England’s predominantly Muslim grooming gangs.
Lauren Elysia Priddey has gone public about the traumatic experiences she went through as an 18-year-old, saying that she does not “want to keep what happened to me a secret any more”.
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UK: Political Correctness Kills
At least three eyewitnesses tried to report the Manchester suicide bomber to police and security before he blew himself up.
All three were ignored.
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UK: You Could be Arrested for Breaking New Coronavirus Rules, Says Boris
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that you could be arrested if you break the new social distancing rules which prohibit gatherings of more than six people in public or private.
Mr Johnson made the announcement on Wednesday after earlier reports that suggested the maximum penalty would be fines of £3,200.
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Israel, UAE to Sign Historic Deal at White House Next Week
President Trump will host a signing ceremony for a historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on September 15.
The ceremony will be held at the White House, formalizing the 18 months of peace talks between the two nations that led to the announcement of the deal last month and the end of UAE’s boycott on Israel, allowing for formal trade between the countries.
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Third-Party Survey Shows Explosive Church Growth in Iran, Confirming at Least 1 Million Christians
A new survey by a Netherlands-based research group has supported the claims of rapid church growth inside Iran in recent years.
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by Lorenzo Vita
The dangerous waters of the eastern Mediterranean have once again brought Turkey under the spotlight. The succession of events in the quadrant stretching from the Aegean to the seas around Cyprus is still looking murky.
The Current Situation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Ankara has sent the survey ship Oruç Reis with an escort of military craft to explore the seabed. Greece reacted with a series of military maneuvers and opened an anti-Turkish blockade in Mare Nostrum with France as one of its leading partners. The challenge is leading to an increasing deployment of air-sea forces with the risk that the slightest spark could trigger a conflict whose boundaries and effects are hard to predict.
But what matters is to understand why this escalation has come about. Why are tensions rocking the Aegean and the Levant, and why are Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and American ships and UAE fighters scrambling to active duty stations?
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Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Historic Israel-UAE Peace Accord
President Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the peace deal he helped broker between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The president was nominated for the prestigious award by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of the Norwegian Parliament and the chairman of Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
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Polish PM Morawiecki: Very Harsh Sanctions Must be Imposed on Russia for Poisoning Navalny
Recent events in Belarus and the attempt on the life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny should be a red flag for Germany in context of its continued support for the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told Bloomberg TV.
Morawiecki said that due to Russian actions, he would try to convince Germany to abandon its Nord Stream 2 (NS2) construction project.
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ByteDance’s Top App Accused of Being Chinese Propaganda Tool
ByteDance is a Chinese tech unicorn best known in the West for its TikTok viral video app, and recently, the criticism and scrutiny it has come under in the US.
TikTok is under threat of being banned in the US on suspicion that the app is mishandling user data, and for its owner’s ties with China’s authorities that would render it a risk to US national security.
As discussions continue on a possible acquisition of TikTok by a US company that would allow it to continue to be available in that market, reports are exploring the nature and extent of ByteDance’s cooperation with the Chinese government and the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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China’s Internet Censorship Agency Shut Down 179,000 Social Media Accounts in Two Weeks
China’s central internet censorship agency, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), shut down 179,000 social media accounts since late August as part of its latest online crackdown.
The accounts that were shut down include 105,000 live streaming accounts, 74,000 live streaming virtual rooms, and 338 live streaming platforms.
13,600 of the 105,000 live streaming accounts (around 13%) were shut down for streaming “mukbang” — a format where people broadcast themselves eating food.
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Australian MP Craig Kelly Apologizes After Comparing COVID Lockdowns to Nazi Germany
New South Wales Member of Parliament Craig Kelly has apologized for comparing the lockdown situation in Victoria to Nazi Germany. When making the comparison, Kelly was embroiled by the arrest of a pregnant woman in her home over incitement allegations.
On several posts on Facebook, Kelly likened the lockdown to Nazi Germany. The Liberal Party MP made the comparison while condemning the arrest of Zoe Lee Buhler, the pregnant woman who was arrested in her house and in front of her kids for inciting an anti-lockdown protest.
One of the posts read, “No it’s not Nazi Germany, it’s happening in Australia in 2020.”
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Australian Woman Arrested for Anti-Lockdown Facebook Post Demands Apology
A pregnant Australian woman arrested last week for “incitement” is demanding an apology from Dan Andrews, the Premier of Victoria.
Zoe Lee Buhler was arrested in her pajamas in front of her children (and in front of the world when the video went viral) for writing an anti-lockdown Facebook post.
Buhler was also temporarily suspended from Facebook. When her account was reinstated on Sunday, she wrote:
“I want a personal apology from you. You are dooming us all Dan Andrews. Go to hell where you belong. #sackdanandrews.”
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CSL chairman Brian McNamee described the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews ‘map for misery’ put of lockdown as the most crushing policy for a dynamic city such as Melbourne.
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Corona Cops Arrest Grandma Sitting in Park for Not Wearing a Mask
Yet another shock video out of Australia shows police enforcing coronavirus rules by arresting an elderly woman sitting on a park bench for not wearing a mask.
“This is unlawful, on what grounds am I under arrest?” asks the woman.
An officer then walks around the back of the bench and snatches her friend’s phone away, preventing her from filming the encounter.
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Mark Keans’ family applied for a border exemption a month ago after the 39-year-old was diagnosed with stage four terminal cancer in his brain and lungs.
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti over his strict coronavirus lockdown laws.
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Premier Andrews announced on Sunday that the state’s strict shutdown would be extended by two weeks, with retailers barred from reopening until October 26 at the earliest.
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Sex Parties Allowed But Dancing at Weddings Banned Under Queensland’s COVID-19 Restrictions
COVID-19 regulations that prohibit wedding guests from dancing but allow group sex at approved swinger clubs and adult parties should be reviewed, according to a member of the Gold Coast entertainment industry.
Wedding entertainer Nik Edser said “we have had so many bookings cancelled because of the dancing rules” and has called for the State Government to ease the restriction.
“The irony is if I was invited to a wedding this weekend to attend with my wife and I wanted to dance with her there, then I wouldn’t be allowed to,” he said.
“But if we decided to go to a sex club and swap partners with some people who we don’t know where they’re from or who they really are, that’s OK.”
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Daniel Andrews claimed on Wednesday that he only introduced Melbourne’s overnight curfew to make it easier for police to enforce lockdown.
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Research by The Peter Doherty Institute had estimated a peak daily demand of 35,000 intensive care beds would be required in the scenario of an uncontrolled outbreak in Australia.
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Former AFL star Jake King has labelled Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews a ‘dumb arse’ in an emotional and expletive-ridden video posted to social media.
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Report: Muslim Attacks on Nigeria’s Christians Have Increased During Lockdown
Fulani Muslim attacks on Christians in Nigeria have risen significantly since the country imposed a coronavirus lockdown on March 30 and scores of Christian farmers have been killed, according to a September 8 report.
“The middle belt region, which produces a large percentage of the country’s food for domestic consumption and export, has been affected most,” writes Nigerian journalist Patrick Egwu from Johannesburg.
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Czech PM Babis to Der Spiegel: EU Needs Its Own Ellis Island for Migration
In an interview with German Der Spiegel Magazine, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said that the Czech Republic is a role model for other countries, proposed an idea for an Ellis Island for Europe, and discussed how to make the European Union strong again.
“The Czech Republic is a model for the future. Many foreigners — from France and elsewhere — come to us. They live here and feel safe,” said Babis in the interview.
According to him, Czechia was one of the most industrialized countries in the world before the Second World War, and he wants it to be one of the “best” again. To achieve that, Babis believes that country should be run like a family business.
The German magazine presents the Czech prime minister to the readers as a man who “spent most of his life becoming a billionaire.” According to the journalist who interviewed Babis, their meeting was not off to a good start as Babis printed out a list of articles published in the magazine and accused Der Spiegel of lying about him.
In the interview, the Czech Prime Minister admitted that Czechia is one of the most Euroskeptic countries in the EU.
“It will get better — in part because of me: I am pro-EU and criticize just specific aspects,” Babis said.
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Dutch MEP Calls for Hungary to Leave the EU Over Border Closure Decision
After Hungary closed its borders on Sept. 1 in attempt to slow down the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, MEP Sophie In’t Veld of the Dutch Democrats 66 party, which is part of the Renew European Parliament faction, essentially called upon Hungary to leave the European Union or respect its rules.
Hungary’s border closure was a deliberate move to “provoke the EU”, she told Euronews in an interview and said Prime Minister Viktor Orban should “really, really consider whether he wants to be a member of the EU”.
“I don’t know what the justification is for this border closure,” In’t Veld said following the Aug. 28 announcement on Hungary’s border closure. The day before the border closure was implemented on Sept. 1, at a regional forum held in neighboring Slovenia, Orban said his country would exempt nationals of the Visegrad Group, which includes the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, from the ban, which in turn prompted two EU commissioners to complain that the second Hungarian move was discriminatory against other EU citizens.
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Greece: 151 Migrants Rescued From Yacht in Gale Force Winds
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s coast guard says a rescue operation was launched overnight after a yacht carrying more than 150 migrants was found in distress in bad weather northeast of the Aegean island of Amorgos.
The coast guard said Wednesday a nearby cargo ship picked up 151 people from the yacht during the search and rescue operation Tuesday evening, in which coast guard and Greek navy vessels also participated.
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Italy Forced to Quarantine Migrants on Buses Due to Lack of Space
Authorities in Udine and Tricesimo in the northeast of Italy have been forced to use buses as temporary quarantine areas for migrants due to a lack of space.
The temporary solution comes as the local migrant centre, a former barracks, has become full.
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According to Deputy National Police Chief Mats Löfving, at least about 40 criminal clans are now active in Sweden, and these clans have migrated to Sweden for the purpose of obtaining power, making money, and further expanding their criminal syndicates.
“These clans have come to Sweden solely to organize crime. They work to create power, they have a great capacity for violence, and they want to make money. And they do that through drug crimes, violent crimes, and extortion,” said Löfving, who made remarks during an interview on Ekot’s Saturday program on Swedish Radio.
According to him, the clans have migrated to Sweden to not only to engage in crime but also to raise their children into a life of organized crime.
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Nearly 1 in 4 Austrians Have Foreign Origins With Integration Issues Posing a Major Challenge
Austria is experiencing rapid demographic changes, with almost one in four people in Austria now of foreign origin, according to the APA agency. Over the last ten years, the foreign share in the total population has increased by more than a third.
Currently, 2.07 million people living in the country came to Austria or were born to immigrants out of an overall population of 8.8 million, according to Echo24.
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Swedish PM Rejects Police Chief’s Claim Gang Violence Linked to Migration
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has denied a link between migration and gang activity, after deputy national police chief Mats Löfving claimed gangs move to Sweden just to engage in crime.
Over the weekend, Deputy Police Chief Löfving identified at least 40 criminal clan gangs across Sweden, which he said mostly operate in so-called “vulnerable” areas, often referred to as no-go zones.
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Video: Fire Engulfs Moria Migrant Camp on the Greek Island of Lesbos
A large fire destroyed the overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos in the early hours of Wednesday and its 12,000 occupants have been evacuated.
The camp, originally designed for 2,800 migrants, housed as many as 19,000 in January and 12,600 at the time the fire broke out, According to as yet unconfirmed reports by Greek news agency ANA, several fires broke out in the camp, where last week 35 residents tested positive for coronavirus.
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Academy Lists New “Diversity” Requirement to be Eligible for an Oscar for Best Picture
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday that it will require films to meet a new “diversity” standard in order to be eligible for the Oscar for Best Picture.
Starting in 2024, films must meet diversity standards for on-screen representation, themes, and narratives; creative leadership and project team; industry access and opportunities; and Audience development. Films must meet two of the four standards, which highlight representation for underrepresented groups such as women, members of the LGBT community, people with cognitive or physical disabilities, and members of a racial or ethnic minority.
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A church pastor in England was told by police to not offend the LGBT community after a social media celebration of the cancellation of a LGBT pride event prompted backlash from the community.
Josh Williamson, 34, of Newquay Baptist Church in Cornwall, shared a local news article on Facebook about a LGBT pride event called Rainbow Fest being canceled in August, adding “hallelujah!” to the post.
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Social Media Fact-Checking, Brought to You by the Deep State
In the center of this move toward global discourse control is an organization called the Poynter Institute, home to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a body created to coordinate, promote and train dozens of fact-checkers from around the world.Almost four years of mainstream media hype about “fake news” and “Russian meddling” propaganda has brought to the world exactly what they were intended to bring: an effective mechanism for internet and social media censorship.
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The Persecution of Christians is Escalating Dramatically All Over the World
Hatred of Christians is rapidly rising all over the globe.
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Re: Seattle police distract Antifa with country music.
Reminds me of Tim Burton’s “Mars Attacks!”, where Country is found to make the Martians’ heads explode!
The orcs of Moria have succeeded in burning their filthy lair to the ground as a response to being locked down. Reportedly they threaten to do it again if the camp is rebuilt or they are not allowed into Europe.
It is long past time that these ungrateful invaders of the West were forced back into the sea from whence they arrived at the point of a spear or a muzzle of a gun. Almost as good would be to dump every one of them in the middle of Berlin where they could sell drugs and rape German women and boys to their hearts content, and in so doing be the wedge that finally destroys the fragile coalition of leftists that is keeping Comrade Merkel in power.
Pssst, Moon, the locals are starting to burn them down for them. 😉
How does one donate? I have several boxes of matches to contribute to the cause.
Email me at gatesofvienna {at} chromatism {dot} net, and I’ll send you the snail-mail address.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BaronStrucker/status/1304077439350575105
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Watch and weep
UK: Grooming Gang Rape Victim: Mohammed Ali Sultan and Shahmeel Khan Turned Me Into an Inhuman ‘Sex Thing’. Nothing new here, English women get gang raped by Blacks and Muslims, British men get beaten up, emasculated, and dominated by them. It has been going on for decades even in puny towns like Telford and the police have been actively covering it up, even arresting victims for speaking out. I don’t know what British law has to say about crime statistics broken down by ethnicity, but it’s always young Blacks storming little restaurants and pubs with machetes or a sex slavery underworld headed by immigrants and other things of that nature whenever specific details are exposed. I know in France there actually is a law banning the mere mention of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in any and all official statistics which makes it impossible to expose the perpetrators, French law dictates that there is no such thing as “foreign origin” if you are a French citizen, you are considered French 100% no matter what and the statistics reflect that, there is no such thing as non-white or migration background, in terms of data France’s demography is a dark hole of nothingness we know little about, just vague third party estimates that Maghrebis alone make up about 5 to 6 million or 10% of the population, and a similar number of Black Africans.