A crematorium in Wales has banned the Lord’s Prayer at memorial services, saying that it constitutes “chanting”, which is forbidden under COVID regulations. Meanwhile, women are being forced to wear masks during childbirth in French hospitals.
In other news, two out-of-state activists are facing charges in Portland for overturning statues of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
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Billionaires’ Combined Wealth Has Reached a Record $10.2 Trillion, Thanks to COVID-19
Covid-19 has decimated many economies and several industries, costing millions of people their jobs. For the world’s billionaires, however, the pandemic has helped their fortunes grow, up by more than a quarter to a record high of over $10 trillion.
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The Commonwealth Bank’s chief executive Matt Comyn has revealed 300,000 calls were made to borrowers with Australia’s biggest home lender on their deferred mortgage repayments.
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UK Facing Massive Tax Hikes Following COVID Spending Spree, Warns Think Tank, As Unemployment Rises
The British government may need to increase taxes by over £40 billion per year in order to prevent the debt accrued during the China virus lockdowns from “spiralling upwards”, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned in a report.
The think tank’s report suggested that a decrease in tax revenue combined with record peacetime spending will force the government to either decrease spending — an unlikely proposition — or increase taxes, in a move that would fly in the face of the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto.
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Joe Biden traveled to the battleground state of Florida on Tuesday since he’s up by 16 points in the polls.
Sleepy Joe Biden spoke to an audience of 10 community leaders and TWO DOZEN members of the press at a senior center in Pembroke Pines.
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‘1619 Project’ Founder Loses Her Mind After Valid Criticism of Her Project by Her Colleague
The Washington Post has revealed that Hannah-Jones, the founder of the “1619 Project” became furious when faced with criticism from one of her colleagues over the revisionist project that attempts to link the founding of America to slavery, and suggests that the “true” founding in America was in 1619. Bret Stephens wrote about his dismay with the “1619 Project” in the paper of record that ran the essays in the first place, The New York Times.
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American Bar Association Rates Barrett as “Well Qualified” To Serve on U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is “well qualified” to sit on the nation’s highest court, says a letter from the American Bar Association’s Committee on the Federal Judiciary.
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Virginia’s entire voter registration system has been felled by a rogue cable, according to the state’s info-tech agency, which blamed an “accidentally-cut” line for an outage that may stop procrastinators from voting altogether.
The ‘Citizen Portal’ that allows Virginian residents to register online to vote in the 2020 election was knocked out on Tuesday morning — the last day state residents were allowed to register, the Virginia Board of Elections has revealed, posting notices to its website and Twitter account.
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Antifa Rioters Who Targeted Portland Cafe ‘Solidified’ His Trump Vote, Military Veteran Says
A cafe owned by a military veteran was shot at during a chaotic demonstration in Portlandover the weekend after being deemed by rioters as unfriendly to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Heroes American Cafe was targeted for being an “unfriendly business” by so-called Antifa-linked Twitter accounts, owner John Jackson told Fox News.
Two windows in the cafe’s downtown location were shot at and another was struck with a blunt object — possibly a baseball bat — said Jackson, a Black man who served in the Army and Marine Corps.
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Biden Says ‘Chicanery’ At Polls is the Only Way He Could Lose US Election
[The usual confusion prevails. Chicanery is the only hope that Biden has of winning the election. More likely, this is a dog whistle to promote violence when he loses by a wide margin.]
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Former Vice President Joe Biden disagrees with the 56% of Gallup poll respondentswho said recently that they are better off now than they were four years ago.
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Bill Gates Says World Won’t Return to Normal Until “A Lot of People” Take a Second COVID Vaccine
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says the world won’t return to normal until “a lot of people” take a second “super-effective” coronavirus vaccine that could be years away.
Gates told NBC that the situation will not be reversed until we reach ‘Zero COVID’ — totally eliminating the virus worldwide, a goal that represents a higher bar than for any other disease in history.
“The only way we’ll get completely back to normal is by having, maybe not the first generation of vaccines, but eventually a vaccine that is super-effective, and that a lot of the people take, and that we get the disease eliminated on a global basis,” said Gates.
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Project Veritas on Tuesday dropped another undercover video bombshell.
A Denver area Democrat staffer and chairman of non-profit “Our Revolution” Kristopher Jacks was caught on video admitting 2020 is a political revolution and the Democrats will do anything to seize power.
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California Teacher Tells Ninth-Graders MAGA Means Make America “Kinda Racist and Sexist Again”
A public-school teacher in California is under fire for a now-viral video clip of him telling his freshman honors English class what he thinks the Trump slogan “MAGA” actually means.
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CO Seniors Protest Outside Their Nursing Home: “Rather Die From COVID Than Loneliness”
Residents of a rehab facility and nursing home in Colorado protested outside their building Thursday, saying they do not want to be restricted from visiting with or getting a hug from loved ones.
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Cook County Democrats Drop Two Judges From Retention Endorsement
Updated 2:15 p.m. with a statement from Judge Michael Toomin.
The Cook County Democratic Committee voted Monday not to endorse two judges running for retention in November, Michael Toomin and Mauricio Araujo.
Toomin, the presiding judge of the juvenile justice division, recently came under fire for making it harder for juveniles seeking release from detention during the coronavirus pandemic. Araujo is currently on administrative duty, pending a disciplinary hearing into accusations of sexual harassment.
[Comment: The party’s vote is retaliation for the judge’s appointment of special prosecutor Dan Webb, who has criticized how Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office handled the case against former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. Also, from what I can tell, the judge is not soft on criminals.]
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Authored by ‘sundance’ via TheConservativeTreehouse.com
CBS News Catherine Herridge has obtained a 94-page spread sheet (pdf here) showing dates of media reports, dates of Steele reports on the same material, and the FBI effort to verify or validate the circular process. In essence this is evidence of the process we initially shared almost three years ago; only now we know the names.
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Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono Asks Amy Coney Barrett if She Has Ever Committed Rape (Video)
The Senate Judiciary Committee began day two of their confirmation hearing for Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
As expected, Democrat Senators are using this hearing as an opportunity to abuse Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic and mother of seven who is already a vetted judge.
There’s stupid, and then there’s Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono (HI).
Hirono on Tuesday asked Amy Coney Barrett if she has ever committed rape.
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Facebook and Instagram Suspend Account of Marine Corps Veteran John Tiegen
Facebook, and its subsidiary Instagram, has suspended the account of former Marine Corps Sergeant John Tiegen. The veteran is known for his bravery when the US consulate in Libya was attacked in 2012.
Tiegen shared a screenshot showing that his Facebook account has been suspended. According to the screenshot, the account was suspended because it violated “community standards.”
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Failing Liberal Comedians Beg YouTube, Twitter to Censor Their Competition
Seething left-wing activists call for violence against IRL livestreamer Baked Alaska over differing political views.
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FBI Agent Says Men Accused of Plotting to Kidnap Whitmer Also Mentioned Abducting VA Governor
The men who allegedly schemed to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation property also mentioned targeting Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, an FBI agent says.
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The FBI sought to ‘verify’ information in the notorious dossier at the heart of Russiagate by using media articles seeded by the actual dossier author, British spy Christopher Steele, the newly released evidence has shown.
The so-called Steele Dossier is the centerpiece of ‘Russiagate,’ the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump “colluded” with Moscow in the 2016 US presidential election. The dossier’s most bombastic claim was that Russia had “kompromat” on him in the form of sex tapes from a Moscow hotel involving urinating prostitutes.
Steele compiled the dossier for Fusion GPS, a DC-based firm paid by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign through the DNC. The FBI then used it to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page in October 2016, and extended it three times well into 2017.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s sworn testimony on her ties with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein must remain sealed to ensure she receives a fair hearing in her own criminal case, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.
Attorney Adam Mueller urged the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to reverse an earlier federal court ruling to unseal Maxwell’s deposition. The British socialite is charged with enabling Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls — some allegedly as young as 14 years old — but denies any wrongdoing.
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Google is Giving Data to Police Based on Your Search Keywords
If you think your internet searches are private and you’re using Google, think again. A recent court document reveals that Google has been releasing data to police based on keywords used in searches.
In this instance, police sent a search warrant to Google asking for information on “users who had searched the address” of a residence involved in an arson. Police then used the IP address information they got from Google to find a suspect’s name, phone number and phone records, allowing them to pinpoint the suspect’s whereabouts at the time of the arson.
“This ‘keyword warrant’ evades the Fourth Amendment checks on police surveillance,” Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told CNET. “When a court authorizes a data dump of every person who searched for a specific term or address, it’s likely unconstitutional.”
Google told CNET it “works to protect the privacy of its users,” by requiring a warrant, but still supports law enforcement. However, CNET points out that innocent people who are simply looking things up out of curiosity could be arrested “for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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Homeless Man Donates $1 to Oregon Historical Society After Antifa Rioters Destroy Museum
After the predominantly white crowd of antifa terrorists toppled Lincoln and Roosevelt statues and destroyed the Oregon Historical Society in the name of equality and racial justice, an unsuspecting donor rose up to help the Oregon Historical Society repair their museum. A homeless man by the name of Oscar left a handwritten note and a $1 bill for the Society.
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If You’re Harmed by a COVID-19 Vaccine, You Have Little Recourse
While the FDA and other government officials continue to try to reassure people that any COVID-19 vaccine that comes out will be safe, the truth is if you’re injured by it, there’s not much you can do about it.
Even with regular vaccines, the vaccine companies themselves have no personal liability. So, if you or your child are harmed by a vaccine, your only recourse is to petition through a special vaccine court called VICP. VICP is a “no-fault” alternative to the traditional civil court lawsuit and was established in 1986 after a string of high-profile lawsuits by parents of vaccine injured children had hauled vaccine manufacturers into court to have their cases heard in front of juries.
With the COVID-19 vaccines, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has established a special COVID fund for people injured by the vaccines.
This “countermeasures injury” compensation fund, set up in 2010 for potential harm from anthrax, Ebola or flu pandemic vaccines, has paid out $6 million on just 29 cases. And, as The Wall Street Journal points out, so far this fund has paid out less per person than the VICP does — most likely because it has a stricter threshold for proving you’re injured, as well as a shorter statute of limitations.
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Build Back Better is a dog whistle for the Green New Deal of AOC and the Democratic Socialist, for Climate Activism, for defunding the police called for by Black Lives Matter, and for the call to ‘radically reimagine’ what life would like like in a post-capitalistic, post-America, post-law and order brave new world. Still think your vote doesn’t count this year? Think again.
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Johnson & Johnson, one of the companies working on developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, announced Monday that it has put a temporary hold on the phase 3 trial of one possible vaccine.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Won’t be Charged for Gun Offense in Illinois: Prosecutors
The Lake County state’s attorney’s office says it will not file additional charges against Kyle Rittenhouse in connection to the gun he allegedly used to fatally shoot two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Antioch police determined that his rifle was purchased, stored and used in Wisconsin — not in violation of Illinois law, the state’s attorney’s office said Tuesday in a statement.
Also, there is no evidence the gun was ever possessed by Rittenhouse, 17, in Illinois, prosecutors said.
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Left-Wing Group Publishes Guide to “Disrupting” Country if Election is Close
Left-wing activist group ShutDownDC has posted a plan to shut down the country and force President Trump from power if the presidential election is too close to call.
The guide is called “Stopping the Coup” and is billed as an action plan in response to an imagined “coup” by the president.
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Mayoral Candidate Charged With Over 100 Counts of Voter Fraud
When police arrested Zul Mirza Mohamed on suspicion of voter fraud Wednesday night, prosecutors say, the candidate for mayor in Carrollton, Texas, was stuffing envelopes with mail-in ballot applications to send to Dallas County.
However, Texas state and local law enforcement officials allege that Mohamed’s illicit activities ran far deeper than what he was caught in the act doing.
Prosecutors charged Mohamed, 39, with 84 counts of mail ballot application fraud and 25 counts of unlawful possession of an official mail ballot, the Texas Attorney General’s Office said.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.
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Members of Black Delaware Church Joe Biden Claims to Have Attended Say They Don’t Remember Him
One of the central claims Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made about his ties to the civil rights movement is coming under close scrutiny. Biden’s consistent assertion that he regularly attended a black church in Wilmington, Delaware, where he participated in civil rights training sessions, is now being contested by people who were there.
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Ocasio-Cortez Said Republicans Would Reject Jesus if He Came to Congress Today
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said after the first day of the Supreme Court hearings to confirm nominee Amy Coney Barrett that Republicans would not recognize Jesus if he came to Congress.
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Pelosi’s Left Are Unhinged: They Are Censoring Trump for Telling the Truth to Americas
The Silicon Valley elites (executives at Facebook, Twitter, Google) and the fake news media (CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, etc.) are visibly trying to silence President Donald Trump just weeks before the 2020 Election, during a critical moment in the era of the Chinese Coronavirus, according to members of the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
A large part of their plan is intensifying Americans’ fear of the Coronavirus, because that’s how they entice the U.S. population to vote for their socialist puppets: they use fear and hopelessness.
There are less than four weeks until Election Day and the GOP must win this fight or we risk being silenced forever by the likes of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the far-left members of the Democratic Party. President Trump is the only one who will fight for the American people and fight for the truth, something America’s newsrooms gave up when they decided to turn professional journalism into the socialist propaganda machine.
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Proof Home-Based Treatment Trumps the Failed Fauci Model
SARS-CoV-2 virus was virtually unknown when it hit in early 2020. COVID-19, as the disease is known, now has more than 60,000 National Library of Medicine citations, as the internet disseminates information at the speed of light. Recently, President Trump was treated early for COVID-19, with rapid success.
What are the lessons learned from the scientific research?
Lesson 1: COVID-19 is not the death sentence we had at first thought. For healthy 74-year-olds who do not smoke tobacco, don’t drink alcohol and have no serious medical conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, kidney disease, or morbid obesity, recovery rate is better than 95%.
Lesson 2: Early treatment at first sign of symptoms is critical. Thousands of front-line physicians in the U.S. and around the world have been saying this from the beginning. Early treatment is the principle that guides almost all medical practice — from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. In viral diseases, early treatment is critical. Patients need antiviral medicines, vitamins, minerals, known immune boosters, fresh air and sunshine.
Studies confirm early treatment for COVID-19. In more than 130 studies compiled at c19study.com, the early-treatment studies using hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) showed a favorable effect of HCQ with other antivirals, with a median improvement of 64%. We accept 30-40 percent as a “success” with flu vaccine. Why wouldn’t 64% improvement with antiviral medicines be considered a huge success? Even the majority of late treatment studies in very sick hospitalized patients showed around 25% improvement with HCQ.
Lesson 3: Doctors have now learned what medicines work and when to use them. Many physicians across America — myself included — are using a combination approach to early treatment for COVID, keeping patients at home for treatment with family and loved ones around them helping to implement the physicians’recommendations.
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Regulators Pause Eli Lilly Trial of COVID-19 Antibody Treatment, Cite Safety Concerns
Health regulators overseeing trials of a potential antibody treatment for use in COVID-19 patients have pressed pause on the late-stage trial of the treatment due to concerns over its safety.
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Scoop: Man Who Fired First Shots Behind Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha Has Been Charged
The man who fired the first shots from behind Kyle Rittenhouse during the fatal incident in Kenosha has been charged.
Joshua Ziminski, 35, has been charged with disorderly conduct and use of a dangerous weapon for firing his weapon during the incident on August 25.
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Secession Group Meets in Grass Valley, Says New State “Weeks Away”
A rally to secede from California and make a new state based on conservative values drew dozens to Valentina’s Bistro and Bakery.
Nearly 50 mostly maskless residents gathered inside Sunday afternoon to hear New California State president Paul Preston describe the movement’s goals and motivations.
Preston, formerly involved with the State of Jefferson movement, said he left that group after losing confidence in its tactic to use the judicial process to make the state recognize its claims.
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Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten: “Of Course I’m Voting for Trump”
Calls Biden “delinquently senile”; Slams Democrats as having “no answers”
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Subjugation, Psychological Terror and Destruction of Freedom
The surge of new coronavirus positives in the White House and Republican Congress has renewed the ongoing and ever-intensifying debate on face masks. Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Schumer are pushing for forced masking requirements in the Senate. If the liberal senators get their way, Senate members will have to test negative for the virus prior to voting on the body’s floor. Likewise, senators exposed to positive virus persons will have to quarantine for two weeks, before a return to Congress; avery easy way to keep Senators from being able to vote for Amy Coney Barrett.
Supposedly a free country…yes well that’s the question isn’t it? California Governor Gavin Newsom, Pelosi’s nephew by marriage, is so concerned for the safety of California residents that he tells them to wear a mask between bites at restaurants. The sad thing is, there will be dumbed down Americans who will follow these orders despite the fact that masks do nothing to save you from any flu virus. Every time you touch that mask, you infect it with bacteria. Every time you take a breath through that mask, you breathe in what your body hoped to expel. More and more evidence has come to the fore regarding the very dangers of this shutdown and the subjugation and separation of face masking and social distancing.
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The Artemis Program: NASA Gears Up to Send First Woman Astronaut to the Moon
The US space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that for the first time in almost 50 years, they are gearing up to send astronauts to the Moon once again.
The Name NASA has chosen for this new program is ‘Artemis’. In Greek mythology, Artemis is the sister of Apollo and the daughter of Zeus. She was the Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, and the Moon.
The first woman astronaut to the Moon will also leave her footprints on the lunar surface.
The program aims to land on the Moon as a preparation for the next giant leap, the exploration of Mars.
NASA, through its Artemis Plan Program, is planning to sustainably explore the lunar surface using innovative technologies. Reportedly, NASA also plans to extract the valuable deposits of water-ice from the Moon’s south pole. In the future, these deposits could serve as rocket fuel on the lunar surface—at a much lower cost than carrying the fuel from the earth.
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Authored by Frank Furedi via The Gatestone Institute
From Europe, the culture war raging in the United States is disturbing. In the presidential election, it seems that radical anti-American forces are questioning the very foundation on which Western civilisation was built.
The New York Times seems too similar to the propaganda we were fed by the Hungarian Stalinist Pravda during the days of communist tyranny.
In the Western world, the past has become the target of an ideological crusade. Many of its historic monuments and symbols are being vandalised, defaced or destroyed altogether. In the United States, the national flag has been treated with derision and denounced by leading members of its cultural institutions as a symbol of racism, oppression and discrimination. Commentators have been regularly condemning their nation’s past and portraying it as a source of irredeemable shame.
In recent times, hostility towards the very foundation on which different Western nations rest has acquired a systematic form. This trend is most strikingly articulated by The New York Times’ 1619 Project — to devalue and criminalise the founding of the United States.
[Comment: Recommended reading. ]
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‘Unauthorized access to elections support systems’ detected tho ‘no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised’
If you’re wondering which bugs in particular miscreants are exploiting to break into, or attempt to break into, US government networks, wonder no more. And then make sure you’ve patched them…
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Thousands March in Washington for Candace Owens’s Blexit Event
Thousands of people participated in a BLEXIT march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, many of them wearing shirts that read “We the Free” and holding signs with messages that supported police and denounced the Black Lives Matter organization.
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Trump: ‘I Was Right About Damaging Lockdowns’
During his first rally since swiftly defeating coronavirus, President Trump again slammed lockdown policies, and declared that he was right about resisting them all along, after the World Health Organisation admitted that countries should not be using lockdowns as a way of controlling the virus.
“The World Health Organisation came out a little while ago and admitted that Donald Trump was right. The lockdowns are doing tremendous damage to these Democrat-run states where they are in lockdown,” Trump told the huge crowd in Florida Monday night.
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Two Charged Over Statue-Toppling Riot in Portland
Two out-of-state suspects are facing local charges after a night of violent rioting where Black Lives Matter-Antifa activists toppled the statues of former presidents and vandalized numerous buildings.
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Washington State Blows Away Wind Fantasies
by Ronald Stein
The Northwest has spoken loudly as the Benton Public Utility District (BPUD) has documented their actual battleground experiences with intermittent electricity from wind farms that should be a wake-up call to our policy makers. Their message is “no more wind”.
The Washington state utility 16-page report titled “Wind Power and Clean Energy Policy Perspectives” of July 14, 2020 provides a devastating counter attack to the wind lobbyists that they question the efficacy of wind farms for power generation and resulted in the utility’s commissioners saying they “do not support further wind power development in the Northwest.”
Kudos to this Washington state public utility for speaking up after seeing the costs and dangers of California’s experience with an overreliance on intermittent electricity from wind and solar. In a statement and report, the utility said overly aggressive clean energy policies bring about an unacceptably high risk of power grid blackouts. They go on to say the development of wind farms may be “politically fashionable” and appeal to many in the general public, but science and economics show that attempting to power modern civilization with intermittent electricity from wind and solar will come at a high financial and environmental cost.
The report is consistent with what has happened in Germany and Australia, as power prices in Germany are among the highest in Europe. Today, German households pay almost 50% more for electricity than they did in 2006. Shockingly, America, from California to New York, continues to take giant steps toward following Germany’s failed climate goals which should be a wake-up call for governments everywhere…
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Watch: Trump Dances to Gay Anthem; Expresses Desire to Kiss Men Now He’s ‘Immune’
President Trump was in an energetic mood during a Florida Rally Monday night, dancing and vowing to kiss everyone in the crowd, even the men.
“I went through it, now they say I’m immune — I feel so powerful,” Trump told the crowd in Sanford, referring to his recovery from coronavirus.
“I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women, and everyone. I’ll just give you a big, fat kiss,” Trump roared.
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What Can We Do to Get a Reasonably Honest Election?
Since we know that Trump ballots have been tossed into dumpsters, and election offices have been flooded with fake Biden ballots; the best course of action would be for Congress to make a law which reschedules the November 3 election to a later date; and cancels everything which has been done so far respecting the election (at least since the primaries).
Congress could then exercise its constitutional authority to establish common sense procedures respecting the “Time, Place and Manner” of voting in the upcoming elections. For example, Congress could pass a law providing that:
Every registered voter who wants to vote must physically appear at his officially designated place of voting and produce proof of identity. Election Day should be one day — not weeks and months before & after the date set for the election. Absentee voting should be restricted to those who are out of the Country or out of State due to military service, service in the diplomatic corps, missionaries stationed overseas, businessmen stationed overseas, etc.
We used to do it this way.
But the Marxists came in with their hard luck stories about how these requirements were harsh, unfair, discriminatory, and so forth; and so our side [as usual] caved in and went along with the demands which stripped us of the ability to have even reasonably honest elections.
However, because Marxists now control the House, Congress lacks the ability to act as suggested above…
State governments may be the only way salvage, at least to some extent, the upcoming election. Since the Judicial Branches of the State and federal governments have no constitutional authority to change the decisions of the Legislative Branches respecting the “Times, Places and Manner” of federal elections; State Governments should instruct the Election Officials for their State that they must obey & enforce the election laws passed by their State legislature and not the usurpatious orders of judges. Judges have no constitutional authority to change what the State Legislatures do on this issue!
Election officials should also be shown that judges have no power to enforce their orders & judgments — that they depend on the Executive Branches of the federal or State governments to enforce them. We are doomed if Americans remain unable to grasp this simple concept.
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Canadian Woman Returns Stolen Items From Lost City of Pompeii After They Bring Her Bad Luck
Claiming that they are giving her “bad luck,” a 36-year-old Canadian woman has returned historical artifacts she lifted from the ancient city of Pompeii in 2005.
In a letter to a local travel agent in Italy, the woman frantically pleads, “Take them back, please.”
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Premier Ford Urges Everyone to Order Take-Out Food to Save Local Restaurants
The Ontario government is working on a $300 million emergency fund to help pandemic-wary restaurants keep afloat as the province moves into the second wave, said Premier Doug Ford.
And to further help community favourite local Mom-and-Pop eateries beat the COVID-19 pandemic, the premier is urging residents to order take-out after banning indoor dining at restaurants and bars last week in hot spots Toronto, Ottawa and Peel due to a record spike of 939 cases Friday.
Ford told reporters in his daily briefing Tuesday banning indoor eating was one of the hardest decisions he has made as premier knowing some family eateries may not survive.
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Thermal Imaging in Grocery Stores is Here
Toronto Galleria Supermarket is profiling shoppers
A supermarket in Toronto is utilizing thermal imaging technology on all patrons entering their store. In this interview, I catch up with May Cheung about her experience at Galleria Supermarket.
At first, she thought it was “neat” to see technological advances such as this, but when she thought more about it, she wondered: are we heading into dangerous territory? Are our privacy rights being violated?
May is originally from Hong Kong and is increasingly concerned about advanced pandemic measures as she sees a lot of similarities to how civil liberty violations began there.
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Czechia on Verge on Health Care System Collapse as PM Babis Negotiates for Hospital Beds Abroad
Czechs infected with COVID-19 could go to hospitals in neighboring countries, specifically Germany, Poland, or Hungary, stated Prime Minister Andrej Babis. At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamacek warned that there could be a health care collapse due to the epidemic comiong as early as in two weeks.
“I asked the prime ministers of Poland, Hungary, and Saxony whether, if the situation in the Czech Republic required it, they would have a capacity for our patients in their hospitals. I was told that there would be some vacant hospital beds, but I do not want to say how many exactly. I would rather believe that we will not need their help and that we will manage it on our own,” Babis told the Pravo daily.
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EU Dismisses Boris Johnson’s Brexit Negotiations Deadline
The European Union’s top Brexit negotiator has rejected Boris Johnson’s Brexit deadline, set to expire this week, remarking of the seemingly endless rounds of deal talks “we still have time”.
The comments from Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, come two days before a crunch deadline which PM Boris Johnson previously said would be the cut-off point for reaching an agreement.
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Germany Demands UK Submit Over Fishing, Competition Rules for Brexit Deal
Germany’s Europe minister has told the United Kingdom it must compromise on the ‘level playing field’ and fishing to secure a free trade agreement with the European Union.
Ministers from the bloc’s 27 member states are meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday to discuss a UK-EU trade deal ahead of the crunch European summit on Thursday.
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Leftist Politician Claims Swedish City Govt Too White
A municipal politician for the Left Party in the Swedish city of Umeå has claimed the local city council is too white due to restrictions put in place during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I walked into a room that before the pandemic used to contain a broader representation, but which was now completely white,” Left Party politician Nasteho Osman Lander said of an August 31st meeting she attended.
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Massive Mural Honoring Polish-Czech Dissent Against Communism Unveiled in Prague and Warsaw
On Friday, a Polish-Czech mural was unveiled in a ceremony in Prague and Warsaw, with the large-scale piece of art commemorating the beginning of the Solidarity movement in 1980, the cooperation of Polish and Czechoslovak dissenters against communism, and Central Europe’s path to freedom in 1989.
The creators of the graphic design, with one half located in Prague and the other half in Warsaw, are young Czech and Polish artists from the Good Looking studio, according to Czech news portal Echo24.
Hana Trestikova, deputy mayor of Prague 7, Maciej Ruczaj, director of the Polish Institute in Prague, Bartek Lesniewski, Director of the Good Looking Studio, and artists Marek Kulhavý and Martina Fischmeister met at the Prague unveiling of the mural. The idea for the mural arose during a Polish-Czech study tour.
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Paris Police Protest Violence in France
French law enforcement officers have picketed outside their stations around Paris after cops were ambushed by an armed mob. The demonstration comes amid longstanding tensions between the police and the French government.
The police station in Champigny-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb, was targeted by a mob of around 40 people armed with metal bars and firecrackers on Saturday night. Two officers standing outside the building during the attack managed to quickly run inside and barricade the doors before the armed group was able to assault them. The mob attacked the station’s entrance and damaged five police vehicles. The station was also subjected to a barrage of powerful fireworks.
[Note: It was not only Paris police that protested. There were many other protests all over France.]
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Polish Leftist Activist Sentenced for Extortion and Fraud is Given Asylum in Norway
Left-wing activist Rafal Gawel escaped justice in Poland by fleeing the country without a legal passport and with the help of unspecified “diplomatic connections” in 2019, but now Norway has offered him asylum.
Gawel arrived in Norway with his family on Jan. 7, 2019. According to him, he escaped Poland by car and while crossing the Norwegian border and did not have a legal passport.
“Polish authorities stripped me of my passport, but thanks to my diplomatic connections which I cannot reveal, we were able to reach Norway,” he told the Norwegian press.
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Sweden: Report: Boy Told to Remove Cross for School Photo, Muslim Students Allowed to Keep Hijabs
A Swedish teen claims to have been forced to remove his cross necklace for a school photograph in case it offended others, while Muslim students were allowed to wear their hijabs.
A report in Swedish media site Nyheter Idag claims a report was made to the Discrimination Ombudsman and to the Child and Student Representative (BEO) which advocates for children who may have been the victims of abuse or other forms of ill-treatment, after a teen was asked to remove a symbol of faith for a class photo.
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Sweden: Restaurant Removes ‘Racist’ Xi Jinping ‘Bat Man’ Art After Woke Backlash
A portrait of Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping cast as ‘BAT MAN’ has been removed from a Swedish restaurant after users on social media complained that the satirical jab at Xi’s role in the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus was racist.
On Saturday, local fashion blogger Bryan Gray Yambao, who goes by ‘Bryanboy’ on social media, visited the Riche restaurant in central Stockholm with a friend of his from Hong Kong. The pair noticed the bat-like portrayal of the Chinese dictator, which adorned Xi Jinping with two pronounced bat ears.
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Swedish Student Banned From Wearing Christian Cross for School Photograph
Other students allowed to wear their religious symbols.
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Swedish Health Chief Said Country Avoided Lockdown to Prevent “Pandemic Fatigue”
Swedish health chief Olivia Wigzell explained that her country didn’t impose the kind of draconian coronavirus lockdown seen in other European countries in order to prevent the public from developing “pandemic fatigue.”
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden chose to go for herd immunity by refusing to impose a hard lockdown, meaning bars, restaurants, gyms, workplaces and schools remained open and vulnerable people were told to shield while mandatory mask rules were avoided.
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The Illusion of Safety: UK Commuter Trains Will Leave Windows Open in Winter to Fight COVID-19
As Boris Johnson forces hundreds of bars to close as COVID-19 cases come roaring back, with hot spots in northern England leading the charge, the Telegraph reports that commuter train operators are instituting questionable new safety measures like keeping all train windows open during the winter cold to try and ‘COVID-19 proof’ their trains and make commuters more comfortable with the safety risk.
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Hospitals in France are requiring expectant mothers to wear face masks during childbirth, allegedly causing complications during labor. Now an activist group is leading a wave of angry backlash over the practice.
The anti-masked-birth campaigners and some doctors say that mothers are finding themselves unnecessarily stressed out and having trouble breathing, which can lead to weakness and an inability to push during labor.
There have been multiple instances of hospital staff threatening to refuse medical service to maskless women reported in the French media. Some mothers have revealed that they were forced to keep their face masks on even when they were struggling to breathe while giving birth.
“I had the feeling that I was suffocating, I was very hot, I was sweating profusely under my mask, I wasn’t managing it,” the Daily Mail reported one French mother as saying.
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UK Begins Investigation Into Blanket ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Orders After Claims Elderly Targeted
The UK’s health and social care watchdog has opened an inquiry into claims that seniors’ care homes were placing blanket do not resuscitate (DNR) orders on residents during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said that it was initiating the investigate “at pace” and that the review “builds on the concerns we reported earlier in the year”.
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UK Labour Party Refuses to Back Free Speech in Darren Grimes Investigation
The police in the UK have been known over the years for taking a curiously active role — at least by a functioning democracy’s standards — in policing speech on the internet, all the way to showing up at people’s homes for their social media posts.
And it seems that their actions are supported, and likely stemming from, both political and ideological camps in the country, basically agreeing that this is the right way to go.
The latest example arrived on Friday when news broke that conservative commentator and campaigner Darren Grimes was being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for the statements made by a guest on his podcast, historian David Starkey.
Some of Starkey’s comments have been condemned as racist, but it is Grimes who is investigated on hate speech grounds — a probe that, if it holds and possibly produces an indictment, could set a grave precedent and have a chilling effect on freedom of expression exercised by new media like podcasts, and perhaps traditional media as well.
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UK: Boris to Give Veto Power Over Statue Removals to Minister to Protect Against ‘Marxist Militants’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to empower a government minister with the ability to veto the removal of Britain’s historical statues in an effort to combat against the BLM inspired iconoclastic movement sweeping through large sections of the political left in the UK.
Under the proposed provisions, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick would be given the final say on the removal or dismantling of statues or other monuments, instead of the current order in which local councils are allowed to make the decision.
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United Kingdom is “Outlining” Harsher Lockdown Restrictions
Get ready. This could still happen again here: a second lockdown. The United Kingdom is outlining new harsher and more restrictive lockdown measures as cases of coronavirus continue to skyrocket amind this scamdemic.
The British government is set to outline further restrictive measures for England on Monday, including stricter local lockdowns, as it attempts to curb a rapid increase in coronavirus infections, according to a report by CNBC. It would be wise to not assume this couldn’t happen in the United States again, even though support for lockdowns has warned. The ruling class does not care what the public wants.
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Wales: Crematorium Bans Lord’s Prayer Because ‘Chanting’ Is Forbidden Under Coronavirus Laws
A crematorium employee told a minister and mourners they could not say the Lord’s Prayer at a funeral because it is “chanting” which is banned under coronavirus laws.
The minister, 53-year-old Alison Davies, said that when mourners joined her in reciting the prayer during the funeral of a 94-year-old woman at Coychurch Crematorium, in Bridgend, Wales, that the chapel superintendent “wagged her finger” at her and told her that not more than one person could recite it as it would count as “chanting”.
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WHO Europe Director Says Governments Should Stop Enforcing Lockdowns
The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge says governments should stop enforcing lockdowns, unless as a “last resort,” because the impact on other areas of health and mental well-being is more damaging.
In an interview with Euro News, Kluge cautioned against the imposition of more lockdowns unless they are “absolutely necessary.”
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Egypt Continues to Arrest Women for Posting TikTok Videos
Of late, Egypt has made the rounds for arresting women who were popular on social media for the content they posted online. While one among the two arrested women is a social media influencer, the other is a dancer. These two women were charged with “debauchery” and “inciting immorality.”
After arresting Haneen Hossam, the 20-year-old social media influencer and the dancer Sama el-Masry, Egyptian lawmakers have declared that they would intensify their surveillance efforts on women across social media platforms. Both Hossam and el-Masry are facing a 15-day detention as the content they posted was “indecent.”
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Archaeology News: Israel Discovery of 6,500-Year ‘High Tech’ Workshop Could Change History
Talia Abulafia, director of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said: “The excavation revealed evidence for domestic production from the Chalcolithic period, about 6,500 years ago.
“The surprising finds include a small workshop for smelting copper with shards of a furnace — a small installation made of tin in which copper ore was smelted — as well as a lot of copper slag.”
The Chalcolithic or Copper Age describes a period between the fourth and third centuries BC in the Near East and parts of southeast Europe.
Although this archaeological period shows signs of copper tools being produced, it is still considered to be part of the Neolithic or Stone Age.
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Netanyahu Builds New Alliances With Visegrad Four Countries
The recent letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has struck an unusually cordial note that has relatively few parallels in recent examples of formal diplomatic correspondence. In September, Orban had congratulated the people of Israel on the occasion of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, just as he does every year. In his reply published yesterday, Mr. Netanyahu writes in a language that he only uses with a select few other world leaders:
“Your personal friendship and your long-standing commitment to the Hungarian-Israeli partnership had brought our governments and people ever closer. I am sure that our continuously improving cooperation will result in tangible benefits for the next generation of our people. I sincerely wish you a new year spent in health, prosperity and peace. I thank you for many years of friendship and for your good wishes.”
[Comment: This gives the lie to the claim that the Hungarian government’s opposition to George Soros is anti-Semitic.]
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Slowest Part of COVID Tests ‘Eliminated’ With Israeli Single-Molecule Method
Israeli nanotechnologists say that they have found a way to examine molecules one by one for coronavirus, and eliminate the most time-consuming process in COVID-19 test analysis
In regular virus testing, lab teams need to massively increase the number of molecules they have from each patient’s sample, through a process known as amplification. That typically takes between one and two hours, and requires special chemicals. Millions of molecules are needed before a sample can be analyzed
But the method just developed in Haifa, tested, and outlined in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Nano, requires just 100 molecules, eliminating all need for amplification, bio-engineer and nanotechnology expert Amit Meller told The Times of Israel Monday
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Western Allies Block Ex-OPCW Chief’s Explosive Testimony on Syria Chemical Weapons
Since the OPCW released its final report on the alleged Douma attack in March 2019, a trove of leaked documents have surfaced. The leaks, along with whistleblower testimony, suggest the OPCW suppressed evidence and ignored the findings of senior inspectors to fit the narrative that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack in Douma.
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Pakistan: Report: Epidemic of Muslims Kidnapping, Raping Christian Girls
The Christian parents of a 6-year-old girl in Pakistan who was beaten and raped by a Muslim have been threatend by local imams with the rape of their other daughters and with financial ruin if they proceed with a legal case, according to the advocacy group British Pakistani Christians,
It’s one of many such cases cited in a report highlighted by Raymond Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Middle East Forum.
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China Fines Tech Company Netease for Not Censoring Comments Enough
NetEase, a China-based tech firm, has been fined and ordered to suspend its news platform’s comments feature for allowing comments and views deemed inappropriate by the government. The censorship is justifiable under a new internet censorship law that took effect in March.
Internet censorship by the Chinese government continues to get worse. A law that was passed in December last year, which took effect in March, gave the government more power to crack down on content that goes against the public interest. The legislation also puts the pressure of content moderation not only on websites but also on users, content creators, and even service providers.
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Hong Kong’s financial sector could soon find itself back in the middle of an uncomfortable tug of war between China and the United States over Beijing’s imposition of a controversial national security law for the city in late June.
The Trump administration is facing a deadline on Monday to identify, in a report to the US Congress, individuals who facilitated the “erosion” of Beijing’s obligations under the Basic Law . Critics argue the sweeping powers under the national security law impinge on long-held freedoms guaranteed in the city’s mini-constitution.
[Some 90% of foreign direct investment (FDI) reaches the Mainland through Hong Kong. Choking off that capital influx spigot is one sure way of crashing Communist China’s already tottering economy. Another four years will give Trump the elbow room necessary to destroy Xi’s “mandate of heaven”. The Berlin Wall’s fall will pale in comparison to crushing Red China. No other single modern geopolitical event could benefit the entire planet more than removing Beijing from the chessboard.]
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Nick Searcy to Launch New Hollywood-Alternative Streaming Platform That Doesn’t Censor for China
Actor and director Nick Searcy is working to provide a Hollywood alternative that is free from gatekeepers and censorship. In the current polarized world where everything is tainted by identity politics and mass censorship is taking place on behalf of China, Searcy and his partners are working on CE Studios.
CE Studios, branded Créado, is an American media and entertainment company supporting artistic freedom and traditional American values. The company, which will provide an alternative to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, will launch in three stages. Créado Cinema, set to launch in March 2021, will be a streaming service distributing pro-American films and general family entertainment.
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Public Humiliation: Hitachi Develops ‘Fish Bubble’ To Enforce Social Distancing
Tech company Hitachi has developed a ‘fish bubble’ that enforces social distancing by essentially humiliating anyone who gets too close to another person in public.
“Japanese tech firms step in to help prevent coronavirus infections,” reports NHK News, with a clip of the ‘fish bubble’ in action.
To “ensure people keep their distance,” the system uses sensors to detect people’s location and then projects a 2 meter circle around their body which depicts cartoon fish swimming around inside the bubble.
If a person violates the 2 meter rule, the fish “escape” the bubble and presumably the person is warned to change their behavior.
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Australian Media Finally Calls Out Davos “Great Reset” Agenda
This week, Sky News Australia contributor and former Australian Senator Cory Bernardi, tore open the debate on COVID after calling out a globalist agenda which few in mainstream media have dared to mention so far.
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Daniel Andrews has ruled out easing restrictions as planned as Victoria’s coronavirus cases remain in the double digits.
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Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has survived a vote of no confidence in parliament.
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A bus plastered with signs calling on Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to be sacked is motoring about Melbourne in protest of Stage Four lockdown.
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Former Australian Senator Claims “Great Reset” Is Real Agenda Behind COVID Panic
Former Australian Senator Cory Bernardi presented a piece for Sky News Australia in which he claimed that the agenda behind the COVID panic was for elite Davos billionaires to bring about a “great reset” that would see permanent social and economic changes.
Noting that there is “something unusual about the continuing pandemic panic,” Bernardi cited medical experts who “now acknowledge that lockdowns don’t work” and asked viewers to “consider if there is another agenda at work.”
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Survey Shows One in Four West Aussies Want to Split From the Rest of Australia
First there was Brexit — now there’s WAxit.
One in four West Australians wants to secede from the rest of the country, according to a new survey from market research group Utting.
The research showed that 28 per cent of the 3,500 West Australians surveyed wanted to see the state become its own country.
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South African President Insists Farm Murders ‘Are Not Ethnic Cleansing’
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has insisted that farm murders are not “ethnic cleansing” after a grisly torture-murder in Free State led to ‘Boer Lives Matter’ protesters marching on a courthouse to get at the suspects.
“The claim that violent crime on farms is part of an orchestrated campaign by blacks to drive white farmers off their land is simply not borne out by fact,” claimed the president, who is himself pursuing a policy of land grabs — or “land expropriation without compensation” — against landowners.
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21 of 57 Newly Arrived Migrants Landing in Italy Test Positive for Coronavirus
21 out of 57 migrants who arrived illegally in the Italian town of Roccella Ionica in Calabria have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
The migrants landed in Italy on Saturday night and consisted mostly of Iranian and Iraqi nationals, some of them underage. They were tested for the Wuhan coronavirus, and at least 21 were found to be positive.
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Danish PM Vows to Stop ‘Non-Western’ Young Men Who Harass Danish Women and Participate in Crime
In a speech at the opening of the new year in the Danish Parliament, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen took a firm stance against young men of a non-Western origin who create insecurity in the country.
Girls and women are increasingly harassed just because they are Danish, she stated in her speech to the country.
“You are not allowed to take our freedom,” Frederiksen said when addressing the growing insecurity in society caused by migrants.
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Éric Zemmour, the French philosopher and essayist, has once again found himself the target of the ethics committee of Canal + Group, which is the network owner of CNews, for comments he recently made about so-called ‘unaccompanied minors’ during one of his frequent appearances on the channel.
Five members of the ethics committee will speak with Christine Kelly, a French journalist who’s often featured on the same programs as Zemmour as well as CNews chief Serge Nedjar and several magistrates to determine whether additional airtime will be granted to the writer and polemicist.
The review of Zemmour’s place on the CNews program as well as an investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “incitement of racial hatred” and “racist public insults” come just days after the right-wing thinker was fined $10,000 euros for allegedly ‘inciting religious hatred’ during a speech he gave last September on Islam and migration.
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Greece: Illegal Immigrant Licks Yogurt Package and Puts in Back in the Fridge of Samos Supermarket
Strong reactions were provoked by a video that was uploaded on social media where an illegal immigrant appears in a supermarket on Samos island licking a package of dairy product from a refrigerator and returning it from where he got it laughing.
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They say that immigrant mafia clans from the Middle East, north Africa and the Balkans are behind the surging crime rates in the urban centres and suburbs, with 257 bombings last year.
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Italy’s New Left-Wing Immigration Rules Could Bring Back Chaos
Italy is in danger due to a new escalation in migration chaos, but the left-wing government would rather attack Matteo Salvini than deal with the issue of illegal migrant camps in the heart of the capital of Rome, League senator Simone Pillon told conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap.
Barely a week has passed since the government abolished most of former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s security and migration ordinances and already the number of newly arrived immigrants has skyrocketed. In 30 hours, 725 more illegal immigrants reached the shores of Sicily, the right-wing daily Il Giornale reported on Monday.
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Migrant ‘Mafia’ Gangs Terrorise Sweden
Migrant mafia gangs are terrorising Sweden’s streets with a surge of bombings and murders, forcing police chiefs in one of Europe’s most liberal countries to admit they are losing their grip on law and order.
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UK Wants to Stop Migrant Boats by Using Nets, But Farage Labels it an Idiotic Plan
According to Dan O’Mahoney, whose task is to end illegal travel across the English Channel, the United Kingdom’s Home Office is considering using nets to stop the propellers of boats carrying migrants to prevent migrants from sailing dangerously through the Strait of Dover on small rubber dinghies.
O’Mahoney revealed the government’s plan in an interview for the Sunday edition of the British daily The Telegraph. When asked if it was the same method the Royal Navy was testing, using nets to clog ship propellers, he replied, “Yes, this is the type. Thanks to this, we will safely switch off the engine, then take the migrants on board of our ship.”
This is one of the latest tactics that ministers and government officials are reportedly considering. Also being considered is the use of water cannons to redirect boats using waves, creating asylum centers on discarded ferries, or sending migrants to remote islands in the Atlantic Ocean. However, the plan to move migrants to some of the world’s most isolated islands was leaked to the media and protested by human rights groups.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage derided the scheme as the “latest genius idea” from the Home Office, saying: “The props will foul and boats will either drift in the shipping lanes or get dragged under when the tide rips. This will kill people.”
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DNA Denial and the Rights of the Unborn
With pro-abortion media bias all around us, you have to find pro-life messages in unusual places. Watching a rerun of a “Shark Tank” episode, one product was advertised as “Belly Buds” for pregnant women, so the baby in the womb can hear music and voices. You mean a baby is alive? How did the corporate censors let this message slip through?
One of my favorite posters shows an unborn baby inside a tree with the admonition, “Pretend I’m a tree. Save me.” It cuts to the heart of those professing concern for the environment without taking into account whether humans survive in it. After 63 million abortions, perhaps we need a “Human New Deal” for the unborn, recognizing their God-given rights.
The “Green New Deal” is designed for liberals who want to appear compassionate about the earth, not the people who inhabit it. They think stopping cow farts is more important than saving human lives.
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Facebook Bans Ads Discouraging Coronavirus Vaccines
As public trust in a coronavirus vaccine continues to wane, Facebook has ramped up its restrictions on vaccine criticism by banning all ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated.
Ads that advocate for or against legislation and government policies related to vaccines are still allowed but anything else that discourages vaccination will be rejected. While Facebook didn’t go into specifics, this ad ban will presumably prohibit ads that criticize vaccines or question the safety of vaccines.
Not only is Facebook banning ads that discourage people from getting vaccines but it’s also going to be inserting messages on US user’s timelines that tell them to get a flu shot.
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Google’s Nest Thermostat Gets a Redesign and a Bunch of New Features
[Big Brother would blush with utter shame to see how comprehensively Google monitors household customers that use their digital assistant technology. Please watch the full length (T = 01:23:09) presentation on Surveillance Capitalism by Professor Shoshana Zuboff for an in-depth review of just how intrusive all forms of Social Media have become. She did a deep dive into the Google Nest contract and determined that when you sign their agreement, effectively you are agreeing to OVER ONE HUNDRED different data surrender contracts with ancillary partners. Few other modern technologies promise to more thoroughly compromise our most basic liberties and freedoms than the harvesting of Behavioral Surplus by Social Media companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJwf6oLvc2Q]
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How Did People Have Conversations Back Before Tech Oligarchs Were There to Police Them?
Twitter has announced the rollout of even more censorship policies in the lead-up to the November US presidential election.
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Manitoba Approves Non-Binary, Genderless Status on ID Cards
Manitobans now have the ability to display an ‘X’ or no gender at all on their government-issued licences and identification cards.
According to the CBC,
Manitoba joins Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in becoming the only Canadian jurisdictions that offer customers the option to not display a gender marker on their licences and identification cards, while the X has largely been adopted across Canada and by international organizations, Manitoba Public Insurance said on Tuesday.
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Netflix CEO Defends “Cuties” Movie, Says it is “Misunderstood”
Netflix chief executive Ted Sarandos defended controversial film “Cuties” recently after a Texas grand jury indicted Netflix for running the film.
“Cuties,” a French film, follows a young girl joining a dance troupe and features four 11-year-old girls participating in provocative dances. It has been repeatedly criticized for its depiction of minors in suggestive situations.
Sarandos said the film was “misunderstood,” adding that “it’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling.”
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Netflix Uses YouTube Copyright System to Silence Criticism of Controversial Movie Cuties
Video streaming and production powerhouse Netflix has gotten entangled in problems on multiple fronts as it defends its choice to release the controversial French movie “Mignonnes” (“Cuties”) in the US.
On one hand, Netflix is under fire for the film itself, that those critical of making it available on the platform say sexualizes children, while on the other, the giant appears to be engaging in more shady behavior by issuing false copyright takedowns over on YouTube.
Twitter user @SidAlpha shared the news about one of his videos, a critique of “Cuties” — that he referred to as “the giant Netflix bait movie” — getting blocked and demonetized on the Google-owned platform, at the behest of Netflix.
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Pro-life website LifeSiteNews has had access restored to their 60,000-follower Twitter account after a year long saga surrounding an allegedly “offensive” tweet.
The tweet in question was a link to a December 2019 article entitled Trans activist Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv ‘shocked…confused’ gynaecologist won’t see him. This referred to a December 2 tweet by transgender activist Jessica Yaniv, who complained about a gynaecologist in his area allegedly declining him service on the basis of being transgender.
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The United Nations Continues Its Abortion Advocacy
Cooperation between the U.N. and the abortion industry is nothing new, but the coronavirus climate has paved the way for increasingly brazen and bizarre alliances. This is a new direction for UNICEF and the World Bank, for example, both of which traditionally have steered clear of overt abortion activism. Although it’s commonplace, it is essential to underscore that U.N. abortion promotion is fundamentally at odds with its institutional mandate. National governments, not the international bureaucracy, should chart the course for the U.N. system.
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Scientists Find Neurochemicals Have Unexpectedly Profound Roles in the Human Brain
In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals—dopamine and serotonin—are at work at sub-second speeds to shape how people perceive the world and take action based on their perception.
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CANADA PLANNING COVID CONCENTRATION CAMPS
The Government of Canada (GoC) is considering engaging a Third Party Service Provider for Federal Quarantine / Isolation sites that will be used to house and care for people for public health and other related federal requirements associated with the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Service Provider(s) for Federal Quarantine / Isolation sites (6D112-202772/A)
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tender-notice/PW-ZL-105-38463
No mention of the dangers of no fresh air circulation indoors yet? Maybe no masks in the fresh air outdoors? Beards and long hair used to be top of the list – back in February. Never mentioned now. Muslim dated disease spreading rituals – from fourteen hundred years ago. Hygiene as per surfaces as well as self? And so on.
Japanese researchers say air humidity a major risk factor for Covid-19, especially during winter months.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/14/ethnic-pay-gap-data-shows-young-minorities-paid-more-than-young-whites/
So much for ‘muh racism’
“The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.” – Milton Mayer – They Thought They Were Free