A car carrying six illegal immigrants from Syria fled from a police checkpoint in Hungary and crashed on a highway with police in pursuit. No one was killed, but all six culture-enrichers were injured.
In other news, according to a new poll, almost two-thirds of British citizens support a strict new coronavirus lockdown.
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Goodbye Middle Class: Half of All American Workers Made Less Than $34,248.45 Last Year
If you are making less than $3,000 a month, you have plenty of company, because about half of the country is in the exact same boat. The Social Security Administration just released new wage statistics for 2019, and they are pretty startling. To me, the most alarming thing in the entire report is the fact that the median yearly wage was just $34,248.45 last year. In other words, half of all American workers made less than $34,248.45 in 2019, and half of all American workers made more than $34,248.45. That isn’t a whole lot of money. In fact, when you divide $34,248.45 by 12 you get just $2,854.05. Needless to say, it is not easy to survive in America today on just $2,854.05 a month, and this may help to explain why we have been seeing so many people fall out of the middle class in recent years.
And of course all of the figures that I am sharing with you in this article are just for 2019. This year, we have seen more than 63 million Americans file new claims for unemployment benefits as the U.S. economy has imploded during this pandemic, and so the final wage numbers for 2020 could be quite a bit worse than the numbers for 2019 were. Please keep that in mind as you go through the rest of this article.
Once upon a time in America, a single income could easily support a middle class household in most cases, but those days are long gone.
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IMF: Unemployment Will Reach Nearly 20% in Greece
A new report by the International Monetary Funds (IMF) has shown that Greece’s economic prospects in 2020 and 2021 remain bleak because of the COVID-19 pandemic after affects.
“The poor are getting poorer with over 90 million people expected to fall into extreme poverty just this year,” said IMF chief economist, who warned of unequal and highly uncertain reorganization.
The Greek and world economy are black according to the estimates in the IMF report on the World Economic Outlook published in the framework of the Organization’s Annual Meeting.
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The Delaware computer repair shop owner who turned over the Apple Macbook Pro containing Hunter Biden’s emails, photos and (according to Rudy Giuliani) a sex tape featuring Hunter Biden and another woman has come out to the public in an interview with Fox News.
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“I’m Really Impressed”: Sen. Dianne Feinstein Praises Amy Coney Barrett’s Answer on Severability
During her final day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett managed to impress one of her most outspoken detractors.
In an exchange over the Affordable Care Act, Democrat senator and ranking member Dianne Feinstein asked Barrett what she thought about the legal concept of severability. Severability is the provision within a law that allows for a portion of the legislation to remain in effect even if other parts are struck down by a court or rendered unenforceable.
[Comment: Senator Feinstein (D-Commiefornia) will still vote against Barrett.]
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Additional Suspect Charged in Alleged Kidnapping Plot of Michigan Governor
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed charges against an eighth person in a scheme to kidnap officials, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Seven members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a paramilitary group, were charged in state court last week with providing material support for terrorist acts and possession of a firearm while committing a felony.
A spokesperson for the attorney general said an additional person had been charged, but provided no further details.
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Amazon has blocked a documentary covering the death of Michael Brown and racial injustice in general, according to the producer of the film. It seems the film is too “politically incorrect” to be distributed on Amazon.
“What Killed Michael Brown?” is described as a documentary with everything going for it. The film is directed by Eli Steele and written and narrated by his father, who is also a renowned scholar, Shelby Steele.
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Are the Big Social Media Companies Literally Trying to Determine Who Wins the Presidential Election?
In 2016, the big social media companies were criticized for allowing others to influence the outcome of the election, but in 2020 the big social media companies are directly interfering in the election more than anyone else is by a very wide margin. They insist that they have a duty to prevent the flow of “harmful information”, but whenever they act it always seems to help Democrats and hurt Republicans. It has become obvious that Facebook, Twitter and other large social media companies are trying to help Democrats win, and that is especially true when it comes to the presidential election. No matter what you think of Joe Biden and no matter what you think of Donald Trump, all Americans should want the election to be fair. Unfortunately, the big social media companies have discovered that they have the ability to sway public opinion on a massive scale, and this is the first election in which they are really flexing those muscles. But if we allow those that control the levers of power on the Internet to determine the outcomes of our elections from now on, our system is doomed and the American experiment will be over.
On Thursday, the New York Post published a bombshell article about Hunter Biden that included some really shocking new revelations. As soon as I read the article I recognized that it was very newsworthy and I immediately linked to it on The Most Important News, and other conservative websites did the same thing.
Meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter were working aggressively to limit the spread of the article…
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Biden Campaign Staffer Claims Censorship of Foreign Lobbying Story Proves it’s Untrue
According to Joe Biden’s Press Secretary Jamal Brown, social media companies censoring the New York Post story about Biden’s alleged foreign lobbying scandal is prove itself that the story is untrue.
Wait, what?
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Burn Your Masks: Attorney Katherine Henry Wins Over Michigan Tyrant Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Fox 2 Detroit: [VIDEO] reported: Attorney says “burn your masks” following Supreme Court decision
Newsweek also reported:
Attorney Katherine Henry, who argued before the Michigan Supreme Court against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive emergency orders regarding the coronavirus pandemic, social distancing and masks, has urged Michigan residents to “burn your masks.”
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled this past Friday that Whitmer, a Democrat, had no lawful authority to extend the state of emergency and require social distancing measures beyond April 30. Henry, who founded the Restore Freedom Initiative, told WJBK (Fox 2 Detroit) that this meant the executive orders were overturned as of Friday afternoon.
“That means burn your masks right now if you didn’t already. Open your gym and movie theater and open whatever business you have,” Henry said. “Go on and frequent whatever business you would like to go to, if you have a church that’s limited your services because of how you’re reading the EOs, forget that. All of those executive orders, based on COVID-19 circumstances, from 2020, they’re out, they’re gone, they’re done.”
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Cornell’s English Department Proposes a Name Change to Distinguish English Language From Nationality
Cornell University’s English department has voted to change its name to “the department of literatures in English” to better distinguish English the language from English the nationality.
The decision to change the name is to help eliminate the “conflation of English as a language and English as a nationality,” said English professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Kate McCullough.
According to English professor Carole Boyce-Davies, the proposal was brought about by the racial and political unrest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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C-Span Suspends Anti-Trump Debate Moderator Steve Scully “Indefinitely” For Lying About Twitter Hack
Update 1645ET: President Trump was quick to note that this is exactly what he had warned about with regard to Scully and the Debate Commsission:
C-SPAN has suspended anti-Trump debate moderator Steve Scully indefinitely after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked following an awkward incident in which he appeared to accidentally tweet an intended private message to former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci.
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Does the Coronavirus Make Our Constitutional Freedom of Assembly Obsolete?
Over the past couple of weeks, a trend has become apparent in the state of Idaho, specifically in Moscow, Idaho in Latah County. The city council of Moscow has issued a mandatory mask order, and they are using police to enforce it. Bizarrely, the city had ZERO deaths from Covid at the time the mask order was instituted, meaning their action was in response to…nothing.
Idaho has had a total of 500 deaths from Covid since the beginning of the outbreak. To put this in perspective, the state also has around 400 deaths from diabetes every year, and 250 deaths from the flu/pneumonia according to the CDC. Perhaps they should ban sugar, and make masks mandatory for the flu as well, just to be safe…
The residents of Moscow are not too happy with the city council’s attempt to unilaterally enforce such mandates. Church congregations in particular are fighting back by holding outdoor services without masks. The city has responded by ARRESTING the pastors of any church that dare to defy mask laws.
I bring up this specific instance of coronavirus enforcement because the circumstances surrounding it are disturbing…
First, it is not surprising that Latah County is one of the ONLY counties in Idaho that leans to the far-left politically, and the majority of the city council of Moscow is made up of leftists. Moscow is also the home of the University of Idaho. It seems wherever the political left sets up shop, constitution violating mandates on the coronavirus is prevalent. Even if a state government is predominantly more conservative and less antagonistic on lockdowns, left-leaning city and county officials have decided they are going to enforce their own restrictions anyway.
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Dr. Fauci Warns of Winter Once Again: “I Think We’re Facing a Whole Lot of Trouble”
Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning yet again of a troublesome winter. The “authorities” don’t seem to want to stop talking about how bad things are going to get in the coming months. Especially when it comes to this scamdemic.
Winter is approaching and so is the prospect of a “twindemic” if you believe the fear mongers in the mainstream media and the government authoritarians. It almost seem like they are signaling to us that there will be another lockdown for any reason they can come up with.
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Facial Recognition is Coming for Hospital Patients
Privacy invasions have now become a part and parcel of the internet-driven, digital world of ours. Starting from social media platforms to hospitals, personal data is being collected virtually everywhere.
What we have now is hospitals relying on facial recognition cameras for identifying and keeping track of patients. Facial data is the most invasive personal information there ever is. And naturally, the concerns around the reliance on facial data are also rising.
VA clinics and Massachusetts area hospitals are now installing XECAN cameras, a company known for providing “touchless clinic technology” to healthcare facilities for nearly a decade. The company is also known for making cameras that can recognise the faces of patients, even if they are wearing a mask.
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An FBI informant was “one of the most active leaders” in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer, according to a defense attorney for one of the accused.
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Florida Likely to be First State to Get Digital Driving Licenses, Raising Privacy Concerns
Florida might become the first state in the US to offer digital driving licenses.
A digital license is the same as a standard license, only it is accessible digitally, via a phone or tablet. The company behind Florida’s digital licenses is Thales, which has previously collaborated with companies and governments in the security, defense, transportation, and aerospace on different digital systems.
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Hollywood is Dying, And the Elites Don’t Care…
I don’t write much about the entertainment industry because, frankly, I see it as mostly irrelevant to the bigger picture. Geopolitics and economics are the great driving force in our society, and the elitist groups that influence these elements should be our primary focus. That said, I have to admit that pop culture is a pervasive element of American public psychology, or at least it was until recently, and for decades the masters of pop culture all reside in Hollywood.
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He may have been born in the USA, but Bruce Springsteen has joked that he’ll move to Australia if Donald Trump is re-elected.
The 20-time Grammy winner made the lighthearted comment on Wednesday during a virtual press conference promoting his new album, Letter to You.
Springsteen, a longtime critic of the president, was asked by an Australian reporter if he would consider moving Down Under in the event of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden losing the election on November 3.
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Kamala Harris has announced that she will suspend traveling for just two days after one of her staffers tested positive for coronavirus, despite official CDC guidance saying those exposed should self-isolate for 14 days.
“Campaign announces Kamala Harris is suspending her travel until Sunday, Oct.18, after her communications director, Liz Allen, and a non-staff flight crew member tested positive for coronavirus,” tweeted CNN’s Sarah Mucha.
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Kayleigh McEnany Returns to Twitter After Ban Over Post Article
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday regained control of her personal Twitter account — but only after acceding to the platform’s demand that she delete a link to The Post’s Wednesday cover story describing emails from an alleged Hunter Biden hard drive.
“All Twitter did was succeed in drawing more attention to the Biden corruption — well done! I will now tweet more about Biden than ever before,” McEnany tweeted to her 1 million followers.
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Latest Cache of Emails Detail How Hunter Biden Earned Millions in China “For Introductions”
Update (1000ET): Donald Trump Jr. has just raised an interesting question in a tweet: Is Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden stories from the NY Post at the behest of the Communist Party of China?
“There needs to be an immediate government investigation into @twitter/@jack. Not just because of their blatant election interference to protect Biden, but to find out if they’re censoring these NY Post stories at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party. Put Jack under oath!!!” Don Jr. tweeted.
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Man in Trump Gear Booted From Southwest Flight for Removing Mask to Eat
A black man wearing a “Trump 2020” mask was kicked off a Southwest Airlines after lowering it to eat a snack, a video appears to show.
The passenger — who was also sporting a “Black Voices for Trump” hat — is seen talking to a crew member while holding a bag of mixed nuts and wearing a face mask under his chin.
“Tell us the policy that says he cannot eat with his mask off?” a woman filming the video can be heard asking in the footage shared by SV News. “It’s the hat and the mask — it’s not the eating.”
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Nearly 29,000 Voters Received Incorrect Ballots in PA County
Nearly 29,000 incorrect ballots were sent to voters in a Pennsylvania county, according to local election officials.
Election officials in Allegheny County said new ballots are being sent out after 28,879 voters received ballots that had their individual information matched to the next voter’s.
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A major provider of oncology services in the United States reports increased levels of advanced cancer cases among its patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer and lung cancer.
The two forms of cancer are among the most common in the United States, and experts say coronavirus-related delays in screenings and regular medical care have led to more dangerous situations for people just learning they have these and other forms of cancer.
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Pamela Anderson Calls for President Trump to Pardon Julian Assange
Pamela Anderson is calling on President Trump to pardon Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website who was charged with conspiracy in trying to access a classified U.S. government computer with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010.
The former “Baywatch” actress appeared on “Mornings with Maria” where she chatted with Maria Bartiromo about Assange’s case in addition to her latest business partnerships.
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Promoter for Portland’s ‘Day of Rage’ Wants to ‘Abolish Colonial Systems, ‘ Report Says
The Twitter handle Generational Resistance, which promoted Sunday night’s “Day of Rage”in Portland that resulted in the toppling of two statues and damage to several buildings, said its ultimate goal is to “decolonize society by working to abolish colonial systems rooted in racism,” a report said.
The Oregonian newspaper wrote a lengthy article about the group that started mentioning the protest a day earlier. The paper said the city is having difficulty getting a grip on protesters because social media allows them to organize quickly and coordinate. The report said one of the instructions on Sunday was that videos and photos were not allowed.
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Rep. Doug Collins Introduces Resolution to Remove Nancy Pelosi for Lack of Mental Fitness
Is octogenarian Nancy Pelosi fit to lead the House?
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One America News Network (OANN) reporter Chanel Rion, who claims to have seen the contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive, noted that she uncovered “underage obsessions”.
“Just saw for myself a behind the scenes look at the #HunterBiden hard drive: Drugs, underage obsessions, power deals…,” she wrote on Twitter. “Druggie Hunter makes Anthony Weiner’s down under selfie addiction look normal.”
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Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Ted Cruz (TX) and Josh Hawley (MO) have called for the CEOS of social media platforms Facebook and Twitter to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee amid the companies’ moves to limit distribution of New York Post articles about incriminating emails purportedly involving Hunter Biden.
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Security Guard in ‘Patriot Rally’ Shooting to Face Second-Degree Murder Charge
The security guard caught on video gunning down a US Navy veteran at a Denver right-wing rally will be hit with a second-degree murder charge in the viral incident, prosecutors said Thursday.
Matthew Dolloff, 30, has been held without bail on suspicion of first-degree murder since shooting Lee Keltner following the demonstration at Denver’s Civic Center Park on Saturday.
The city medical examiner ruled Keltner’s death a homicide two days later.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter Wednesday to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, calling the social media giant’s censorship of a New York Post piece about Hunter Biden “an obvious and transparent attempt by Twitter to influence the upcoming Presidential election.”
The New York Post article Cruz referenced reported on an email indicating Hunter Biden introduced his father, Joe Biden, to a Ukrainian businessman while the elder Biden was vice president of the United States. Twitter prevented users from sharing the article Wednesday, as well as blocked the New York Post’s Twitter account.
Cruz wrote to Dorsey that the emails described in the article, if “authentic … would demonstrate definitively that now-candidate Biden lied when he said in 2016 that he had ‘never spoken to [his] son about his overseas business dealings.’“
Cruz also wrote that the company recognizes “its incredible ability to influence public dialogue by promoting some stories while suppressing others, and it has plainly decided that the American people should not be seeing or discussing this particular story, which could significantly influence voters’ views of candidate Biden.”
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Senior U.S. Army Official Says There’ll Never be a Return to “Normal” Post-COVID
A senior U.S. Army official says that there’ll probably never be a return to “normal” post-COVID and that rules such as social distancing and mask wearing will likely become permanent.
During a speech at the U.S. Army’s annual conference, Bruce Jette, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said that measures implemented across the country will remain in place across the defense industry to protect against the shut down of production facilities.
He also suggested that the restrictions should remain in place for the general public.
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Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Setting Fire to Seattle Police Car With Cops Inside
Seattle police have arrested someone who allegedly set fire to a police car with cops inside, the department said.
It was not immediately clear what events led up to the alleged arson or when it took place.
At least two people have now been arrested in connection to burning police vehicles during the unrest in the West Coast city.
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The Washington Post, Which Endorsed Biden, Says Biden Did Nothing Wrong
The Washington Post, which endorsed Joe Biden for president, has investigated his alleged foreign lobbying scandal and concluded that Biden did nothing wrong.
Well, that’s that then.
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Trump on Biden Scandal: “This is a Big Smoking Gun”; He’s “Blatantly Lying”
President Trump addressed the bombshell findings revealed by the New York post Thursday, which prompted Twitter and Facebook to initiate a massive coverup effort.
Minutes into his rally in Iowa, Trump declared that his rival Joe Biden “has been blatantly lying about his involvement in his son’s corrupt business dealings.”
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Twitter Suffers Embarrassing Outage Amid Post Censorship Controversy
Maybe they censored themselves.
Twitter suffered a major crash on Thursday evening — telling users “something went wrong” when they attempted to open their feeds.
For more than an hour, thousands of users reported experiencing issues sending tweets or refreshing their timelines.
Service appeared to have been at least partially restored for some accounts shortly after 7 p.m.
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Twitter Locks Accounts of Media, Celebrities, Gov. Officials for Sharing Biden Scandal Story
Twitter has locked the accounts of anyone who shared the New York Post story regarding Joe Biden’s foreign lobbying scandal, including media organisations, reporters, celebrities, and even government officials.
The story, which has been met with denials from the Biden campaign, claims that Hunter Biden had introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive in a Ukrainian energy firm a year before Biden pressured the government of Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
After following Facebook’s crackdown, Twitter prevented anyone from sharing the “potentially harmful” story.
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Twitter Blocks Link to Republican Judiciary Website in Another Attempt to Censor Biden Scandal
After blocking links to the New York Post story about Joe Biden’s foreign lobbying scandal, Twitter has now followed up by blocking a link to the official Republican Judiciary website at house.gov.
Both Facebook and Twitter prompted a censorship firestorm yesterday after they attempted to censor a New York Post article that claimed Hunter Biden had introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive in a Ukrainian energy firm a year before Biden pressured the government of Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
Twitter also locked many prominent users out of their accounts for tweeting links to or screenshots from the article, including media organizations, reporters, celebrities and government organizations.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey released a statement Wednesday night admitting the social media giant should have done some things differently in its handling of tweets about a New York Post article exposing an incriminating email from a Ukrainian executive to Hunter Biden.
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Watch: UFC Fighter Endorses Trump, Urges Fellow Latinos to Join Him in Viral Speech
Professional athlete emerges as anti-communist firebrand/
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Wolf Blitzer Forced to End Pelosi Interview as She Refuses to Stop Attacking Him
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday, accusing the longtime network host of being in the tank for President Donald Trump.
The California Democrat, who has dangled the thought of a coronavirus relief bill over the heads of voters now for months, was perturbed when she walked into a line of serious questioning from CNN.
The network, which is actually not in the tank for Trump — and fact, far from it — was oddly enough somewhat of a lion’s den for Pelosi on Tuesday.
[Comment: Watch the video if you have not seen it already.]
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Delingpole: Study Confirms Donald Trump is Right — ‘Clean’ Energy is the Worst
Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive, hopelessly unreliable, massacres wildlife, destroys landscapes, destabilises the grid, harms indigenous peoples, and causes climate change. But apart from that it’s great, says a meticulous review published in the scientific journal Energies by a team of Irish and U.S.-based researchers.
Actually, the part about renewable energy being ‘great’ is a joke but the rest is true. The scholarly review — Energy and Climate Policy — An Evaluation of Climate Change Expenditure 2011-2018 — is probably the most thorough meta-analysis published on the so-called ‘clean energy’ sector. Its conclusion, though neutrally expressed, could scarcely be more damning:…The reader may wonder whether the current proposed “zero-carbon” energy transition policies based predominantly on wind— and solar-generated electricity are truly the panacea that promoters of these technologies indicate.
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Despite Pandemic, Poland Has 2nd Fastest Housing Price Growth in EU
The price of housing in Poland has grown by 10.9 percent compared to 2019, the second highest annual growth rate in all of the European Union, according to data from Eurostat.
In the second quarter of 2020, the price of houses in the eurozone overall grew by five percent and by 5.2 percent in the entire EU compared to the second quarter of 2019. The price growth was measured using the House Price Index. In the first quarter of 2020, prices increased by 5.1 percent in the Eurozone and 5.6 percent in the EU as a whole.
The highest annual growth in prices for property in the second quarter was recorded in Luxembourg, where the price of houses increased by 13.3 percent. The second highest increase was seen in Poland at 10.9 percent. Slovakia came third with a 9.7 percent increase.
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Facebook Censors Poland Forever Page Owner, Company Won’t Comment on Ban
After a months-long battle to reinstate his account, 83-year-old Edward Willamowicz said he was shutting down his Poland Forever page due to censorship pressure from Facebook.
The popular page, which was featured in a televized interview with Polish media outlet PolandIn, and known for sharing articles and photos about Polish history, culture, and politics, was not banned in the typical way but instead its creator, Willamowicz, was banned from using his personal account to administer the page.
“As of 13 May, I have been banned and cannot enable my original Facebook account to carry out my duties on this page. Except for commenting from a new account, I cannot post, remove spam, etc. nor even delete the Poland Forever page. All this despite my many appeals to Facebook about re-enabling my account,” Willamowicz wrote in a post on Facebook.
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France: Suspect Confesses to Murdering 18-Year-Old Victorine Dartois, Reports Say
The man suspected of murdering 18-year-old Victorine Dartois has allegedly confessed to having strangled the young girl to death before attempting to rape her in the commune of Villefontaine, not far from Lyon, at the end of September.
The 25-year-old suspect, identified as Ludovic Bertin, who has ten previous convictions and happens to be the father of a family, was arrested by the Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie (GIGN) on Tuesday afternoon as a part of the investigation into the murder of teenage girl, Le Point reports.
According to the deputy prosecutor of Grenoble, Bertin has been charged with kidnapping, murder and attempted rape.
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Hungary and Poland, two legitimate democracies, are now the targets of blackmail from the European Union over their stance on migration and LGBT issues, warned French philosopher and writer Éric Zemmour said on Wednesday on French news channel CNews.
Zemmour also believes that the Hungarian and Polish concepts of democracy might be different from the one generally accepted in the Western world, but they are no less viable.
“It is very simple. There are two democracy concepts — the traditional one is that of Lincoln, ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’“ Zemmour said. “And there is the concept of the constitutional state. It says that all the actions of the power must be authorized and controlled by a judge… Hungary and Poland have a noble conception of democracy, not a conception based on the power of judges. They don’t want the multiculturalism the EU wants to impose on them.”
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By B.N. Frank People worldwide DO NOT WANT utility “Smart” Meters — electric, gas, and water. Tens of millions have been installed and millions more… Gov’t Considers Allowing Utilities to Use…
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Hungary and Poland: No Permission to Link EU Funds With Rule of Law Issues
The speakers of parliament in Hungary and Poland said they will not accept European Union funds being tied to rule of law issues during a meeting between the two leading politicians in Wroclaw in southwestern Poland.
The Polish Speaker of the Sejm, Elzbieta Witek, met with Hungarian Speaker of the National Assembly Laszlo Koever both underlined that the countries have veto powers in relation to the multi-annual financial framework and the coronavirus recovery fund.
“We believe this is completely incompatible with the European Union’s treaties,” Witek said.
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Matolcsy: Hungary Could Reach EU’s Average Level of Economic Development by 2030
Given a sufficiently rapid turnaround, by 2030, Hungary could reach the average level of economic development in the European Union at that time, the governor of the Hungarian National Bank György Matolcsy wrote in an article on Növekede’s.hu on Monday.
He emphasized that we need a rapid recovery and strong growth after the dramatic way the 2020s began.
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Merkel Tells EU to be Realistic, Admits UK Needs Good Deal From Brussels
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the European Union must accept the “reality” than a UK-EU trade deal must be beneficial to the United Kingdom as well as the bloc.
Dr Merkel, who currently holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, told a meeting of European mayors on Tuesday that “we have to prepare for the event that there will be no agreement”.
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Papers Please: Macron Announces Curfews in Major French Metropolitan Areas
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced strict 9 pm curfews for several major metropolitan areas, with residents requiring permits to be on the streets at night.
The French leader announced 9 pm to 6 am curfews would be implemented in the Paris region, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Rouen, Toulouse, Montpellier, and Saint-Etienne starting on Saturday at midnight and will last at least four weeks.
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Two-Thirds of Britons Back Being Under Coronavirus House Arrest Again
Nearly two-in-three Britons would support a second national lockdown for two weeks, which could include shutting pubs, banning households mixing, or even ‘stay at home’ orders like the measures put in place in March.
YouGov asked Britons on Wednesday whether they would “support or oppose a two-week nation-wide ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown at the start of the school half-term later this month”.
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New MI5 director-general Ken McCallum has confirmed that Islamist jihadists remain by far the biggest terror threat in Britain — but the mainstream media has chosen to hype his remarks on the comparatively minor threat from the far-right instead.
“Islamist extremist terrorism… by volume remains our largest threat,” the Glasgow born spy boss confirmed in his first public address since taking over Britain’s domestic intelligence agency.
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UK: Cost of Lockdown: Heart Charity Claims Hundreds of Excess Deaths Due to Lockdown
The British Heart Foundation has said that delays in care caused by the coronavirus lockdown resulted in more than 800 “excess” deaths of under-65s by conditions like strokes and cardiac arrests.
Mortality data since March found that in England and Wales, there were 2,800 deaths of those under 65 where the underlying cause was pulmonary or heart disease. This was around 450 more than expected. The charity said that between May and July, there were 3,100 such deaths, 350 more than expected for that time of year.
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Vegans have been filmed in a spat with furious butchers, who chased them out of a meat market in central London.
The fight involving members of the group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) took place at Smithfield Market, which was last year targeted by Animal Rebellion activists.
The group claim butchers ‘threw eggs and frozen animal parts at them’ during the altercation in Farringdon.
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UK: Lockdown: London Goes Into High Alert, Banning Households From Mixing Indoors
British capital London will be entering a tougher lockdown regime from Midnight Friday, and will be advised against using public transport if possible, among other restrictions.
Over ten million people across London and the adjacent county of Essex will wake up under a ‘high alert’ lockdown on Saturday morning, as the government orders the capital to take extra measures against coronavirus.
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Watch: French Fishermen Fire Flares, Throw Frying Pans and Oil at British Boats
French fishermen were filmed firing flares and throwing frying pans at British boats in a revival of the so-called ‘Scollop Wars’ in the English Channel, amid ongoing disputes between the two nations over post-Brexit fishing rights.
Approximately 20 French ships surrounded two British fishing boats, the Girl Macey and the Golden Promise, at around 1:30 am on Monday, off the coast of Normandy. Members of the French crews were caught on film throwing objects, oil, and firing the flares at the British.
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Victoria’s coronavirus restrictions will ease to be ‘closer to the NSW position than it has been for months’ on Sunday, according to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt.
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Victoria has recorded just six new coronavirus cases and no deaths as a former economist for the Victorian Treasury lifts the lid on the ‘police state’ lockdown.
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Facebook Deletes Page of Lockdown-Skeptic NZ Political Party Days Before Election
The Facebook page of a New Zealand political party was suspended days before the election as the page apparently shared what the Big Tech giant says is COVID-19 “misinformation.”
Ever since the coronavirus saga started, social media platforms have been particularly strict on what narratives are allowed and have been flagging content as well as suspending accounts. The same seems to be the case with a lesser-known New Zealand party as well.
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Trish Laban filmed the eerily quiet and empty centre at Karingal in Frankston, Melbourne, on Wednesday.
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Car With Six Migrants Crashes in Hungary While Fleeing Police
A car carrying six illegal immigrants who later declared themselves to be Syrian nationals crashed on Wednesday on the M1 motorway connecting Budapest to Vienna while fleeing a police control, the National Police said on its website.
Acting on information from the Migration Department of the southern Hungarian Csongrad county police, officers stopped the car with a Slovak registration plate with the intent to check the identity of its passengers, but it sped away. In the resulting high-speed chase, the driver lost control of the car and crashed it, injuring all six people inside.
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In a strong-worded seven-part Twitter entry, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas singles out “right-wing extremism” as the greatest danger that his country is currently facing, but the way Germany records hate crime data is so misleading that it calls into question the veracity of Maas’ claims.
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London Brokers ‘Charged £500’ To Help Smuggle Migrants Across Channel
London brokers are charging £500 per person to help people smugglers illegally shift migrants across the Channel, according to an undercover documentary.
Two brokers working at a currency exchange in Central London and a high street office in West London were found to have withheld funds paid by migrants in France, and only released the cash to peop
Akbar Amery and Mohammed Meehan took down payments of £3,500 from people smugglers based in Calais, and skimmed between £300 and £500 each for themselves to facilitate migrant crossings.
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California Will Begin Housing Male Inmates in Women’s Prisons to ‘Respect’ Gender Identities
Biological males who find themselves on the wrong side of the California justice system will now be given the choice to serve their sentence in either a men’s or a women’s prison.
Under a new law, a prisoner’s claimed gender identity will determine what type of facility they end up at.
Prison officials will be forced to address inmates by their chosen pronoun and “honorific” title. Worse yet, authorities will seemingly be stripped of any real power to stop these transfers.
The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act (S.B. 132), which gives state inmates this new power, was signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 26. The provisions of the law go into effect Jan. 1, 2021, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The law allows prisoners to choose from a “broad and inclusive” pool of gender identities, including male, female, “two-spirit,” “mahu” and everything in between.
Incoming inmates will be asked about their identity during processing, and those already behind bars will be allowed to alert corrections officers to their claimed gender at any time.
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Censorship: Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine Ads Ahead of COVID Vaccine Rollout
Facebook announced on Tuesday that the social media giant will ban all ads encouraging people to avoid vaccination. Facebook is now censoring factual information on the adverse health and side effects of getting vaccinated.
Anyone paying attention knows that there will be a COVID-19 vaccine, and it will, for all intents and purposes, be mandated for all and distributed by the military. This is not news to most, however, the propaganda campaign has begun, and Facebook will assist the tyrants with censorship.
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Populist-Controlled Swedish Council Refuses to Fly Pride Flag
The Swedish district of Hörby will no longer fly the LGBT pride flag on municipal property after the populist Sweden Democrats-led local government enforced a new flag policy.
Cecilia Bladh in Zito, the Sweden Democrats mayor of Hörby, explained that the municipality would only fly the Swedish national flag, the local municipal flag, and flags of other countries.
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‘Pro-Life Evangelicals’ For Abortion
Sometimes my fellow Christians — if that’s what they really are — say and do things that are incomprehensible to me.
Recently a group of “pro-life evangelicals, some of them noted biblical scholars” (according to the Christian Post) endorsed abortion-happy Joe Biden for president. We are not given their names, nor told who has “noted” them as, ahem, “biblical scholars.” But we do know that Biden has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood: seems like funny company for “biblical scholars” to be keeping.
If these people actually exist… are they mad? What Bible have they been studying?
The Democrat candidate for president is on record suggesting that the government compile a “national register”-sort of like a terrorist watch list, he explained in 2019-of those naughty Christian churches who are a bit slow to hop aboard Organized Sodomy’s bandwagon. Because, he said, such churches are “like terrorists.”
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Sony to Start Listening to Private Playstation Chat Recordings for “Safety and Moderation”
Sony has revealed that PlayStation 5 (PS5) players will be able to record voice chats for “safety and moderation” and there appears to be no way for players to opt-out.
Concerns about the privacy implications of this voice recording feature started to spread on social media when players installed the PlayStation 4 (PS4) system software update 8.00 and were presented with a notification stating: “Voice chats may be recorded for moderation. By joining, you agree to be recorded.”
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YouTube Mass Purges Popular Channels After Announcing Crackdown on “Harmful Conspiracy Theories”
YouTube has scrubbed many popular “QAnon” and independent news channels from its platform after announcing new rules that prohibit what it deems to be “harmful conspiracy theories.”
The channels collectively had millions of subscribers and some of the many channels that were removed during this purge include:
- X22 Report (952,000 subscribers)
- SGTreport (630,000 subscribers)
- Edge of Wonder (467,000 subscribers)
- Praying Medic (391,000 subscribers)
- And We Know (385,000 subscribers)
- Amazing Polly (375,000 subscribers)
- Joe M (367,000 subscribers)
- Dollar Vigilante (304,000 subscribers)
- Mouthy Buddha (296,000 subscribers)
- JustInformed Talk (281,000 subscribers)
- RedPill78 (269,000 subscribers)
- The Patriot Hour (248,000 subscribers)
- In Pursuit of Truth (242,000 subscribers)
- Destroying the Illusion (238,000 subscribers)
- TRUreporting (215,000 subscribers)
- Alice Down The RabbitHole (174,000 subscribers)
- Spaceshot76 (159,000 subscribers)
- World Alternative Media (154,000 subscribers)
- McAllisterTV (127,000 subscribers)
- Sarah Westall (125,000 subscribers)
- Radio-Québec (120,000 subscribers)
- Truth and Art TV (113,000 subscribers)
- Dustin Nemos (113,000 subscribers)
- Blessed To Teach (109,000 subscribers)
- Woke Societies (108,000 subscribers)
- Stroppy Me (83,400 subscribers)
- Patriots’ Soapbox News Network (80,000 subscribers)
- Angel Wallace (63,000 subscribers)
- Titus Frost (44,400 subscribers)
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Well they have to start somewhere. In the right hands there should be a solid case for a substantial
insurance claim. Otherwise BLM will press to defund borders and armies. Usually these enemies are all set up in four star hotels before their delusions of grandeur really take off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848509/Gunman-shouting-Allahu-Akbar-BEHEADS-man-northern-Paris-shot-police.html
Beheading in the French capital by you-know-who
Just another heartless brainwashed Muslim beheading a nonbeliever. As the Muslims say, “Thanks for refuge and all that. You are next. We almost have enough Muslims to start mass killings and beheadings before taking over your country completely. As Erdogan says, “There is only Muslim”. You are so stupid.”
satanist who claim they are muslim.
“And then when they start beheading your own people in wars to come, then you will know what this is all about.”
Slobodan Milošević
Poor man. Just a day late and a dollar short. R.I.P.
Tory Peer Says Conservatives Turn Blind Eye to ‘Deep-Rooted’ Islamophobia
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/islam-islamophobia-conservatives-boris-johnson-equality-labour-party-ehrc-muslim-1538553%3famp=1
In France, 18-year-old Chechen decapitated school teacher over Charlie Hebdo cartoons
https://www.kavkazr.com/a/30897341.html
The West liked them so much when they decapitated these dirty Russians.
Something went wrong?
Yes. So messed up.
You see Chechens want democracy and liberty in France. Either a Pakistani will shout allahuakbar or a chechen or an afghani or or . . . . nor shortage of democratic stunts: ‘
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848509/Gunman-shouting-Allahu-Akbar-BEHEADS-man-northern-Paris-shot-police.html
Rule Through Law: Nationalist Politicians Are Being Imprisoned for Their Beliefs Across Europe
https://www.unz.com/estriker/rule-through-law-nationalist-politicians-are-being-imprisoned-for-their-beliefs-across-europe/
https://mobile.twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1317206736734810112
Shameless Muslims (or Gypsy)
muslims are different than gypsies. muslims are satans children.
“We Brits aren’t enjoying America’s export of political correctness”
By Douglas Murray
https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/we-brits-arent-enjoying-americas-export-of-political-correctness/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://mobile.twitter.com/EveningStandard/status/1317195239149404161
🤡 🇬🇧
https://mobile.twitter.com/IbrahiimDelic/status/1317239975428169731
Arrogant invaders continue to justify their violence
https://mobile.twitter.com/freedomrideblog/status/1317214515939975172
https://mobile.twitter.com/freedomrideblog/status/1317199090866741248
Why do American Blacks act like kindred spirits to Muslims? Do they really view all in the view of “the darker the skin, the more oppressed”?
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/10/an-important-lesson-in-multiculturalism.html?m=1
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/french-leader-macron-decries-islamist-terror-attack-teacher-13296298
Macrons is saying shouldn’t be divided by this attack…