In order to avoid detection by British surveillance drones, French fishing boats are being used to smuggle illegal migrants across the English Channel. Once the boats are in the middle of the Channel, dinghies hidden aboard are released, with migrants as passengers.
In other news, earlier this evening a man was seen dangling by a rope from the 16th floor of Trump Tower in Chicago. The man refused to pull himself up, and demanded to speak with President Trump.
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Republicans Blame Democrats for Aid Delay When They’re to Blame
by Daniel Davis
Despite having completed three phases of economic relief, the US government is eager to pass another stimulus package. However, Republicans in the Senate are at odds with President Donald Trump and Democrats who desire over $2 trillion in bailout money. On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin declared that a fourth phase of emergency spending will likely not come before the Nov. 3 elections.
Trump No Longer Controls the Party on Coronavirus Relief
Since the last relief measure was approved in August, both parties seemed to agree that more would be needed for everything from COVID-19 testing to bolstering infrastructure, state and local governments, and the wellbeing of American families. For the most part, the struggle to get Washington to loosen its purse strings has been between Democrats and Republicans, with Trump usually going along with his party if not leading it.
During this round of stimulus talks, however, the president has proven to be a wild card with his views all over the board and constantly changing, sometimes from one day to the next. Shortly after he returned to the White House after being hospitalized with coronavirus, Trump announced he had called off talks until after the election, causing American stock markets to nosedive. At the same time, he tweeted that he would be willing to immediately sign a bill providing $1,200 to Americans if Congress would have delivered it to his desk.
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“A Truly Orwellian Culture” — Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book for Violating Content Guidelines
Around the time Twitter purged New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden from its platform, late last week, Amazon was busy censoring any criticism against the “official” COVID-19 narrative, with the banning of at least one book from its Amazon Books store.
Political writer James Perloff’s latest book, “Covid-19 and the Agendas to Come: Red-Pilled,” was removed from Amazon on Thursday, he tweeted.
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On Wednesday The New York Post released shocking emails that prove Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at the Burisma Ukrainian energy firm. This was a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
Hunter Biden left his laptop at a computer shop and then neglected to pick it up after several calls. The owner of the computer repair company handed over Hunter’s laptop to the FBI last December. The FBI hid this evidence from congress and the executive branch during the bogus Ukraine impeachment hearings. But before the computer store owner turned over the computer to the FBI he first downloaded much of its contents. The store owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, later gave this information to Rudy Giuliani’s attorney who then worked with Steve Bannon to deliver the information to the New York Post.
The contents from the computer include photos of Hunter Biden with prostitutes and a photo of Hunter sleeping with his crack pipe (or meth pipe) like a pacifier. There is much more to come.
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Claims from users on the anonymous messageboard 4Chan went viral on Saturday evening, as people said they discovered a way that ballots can be cancelled online in Washington — and that an Oregon voter’s registration can be changed, using just the voter’s name and date of birth.
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90 Street Thugs Sued for Damage Done to Local Cincinnati Businesses During BLM Riots in May (Video)
A Cincinnati real-estate company is suing 90 violent street thugs who were arrested during the May 30th Black Lives Matter riots in downtown Cincinnati.
The plaintiffs claim the 90 rioters arrested should pay for damages to dozens of businesses that were vandalized in the BLM rioting.
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Kiara Dudley, 34, of Douglas, was arrested after becoming violent with the couple on Saturday afternoon.
“Officers arrested 34-year-old Kiara R. Dudley, of 1 SW Main Street in Douglas. Dudley is being charged with Assault and Battery on an Elderly Person Causing Injury. Dudley was released on $250.00 cash bail and will be arraigned in Uxbridge District Court on Monday, October 19th at 9:00 AM,” the Boston Herald reports.
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Amazon’s Attempt to Muzzle Shelby Steele Speaks Volumes About Race in America: Wirepoints
By Mark Glennon, founder of Wirepoints
It’s tempting to dismiss this as just another instance of media censoring views it doesn’t like, but it’s about far more. It’s about the entire “conversation” we supposedly are having on race in America, and why it’s no conversation at all.
“What Killed Michael Brown?” is a new documentary written by impeccably credentialed Shelby Steele, who has long been among the most prominent voices challenging orthodox thinking on race.
The film isn’t another look at the facts surrounding the shooting of a black man, Michael Brown, by a white cop in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. That shooting sparked riots and gave life to the entire Black Lives Matter movement as well as the “hands up, don’t shoot” meme.
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Bags Full of Stolen Ballots Found in Seattle Suburb
Another example of “safe and secure vote-by-mail” is playing out in Sammamish, Washington, a few miles east of Seattle.
Garbage bags full of stolen ballots have been discovered on opposite ends of the town.
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Biden in MI: “There’s Not a Better Governor in the United States of America Than Gretchen Whitmer”
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said “there’s not a better governor” in the U.S. than Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at a campaign event in Michigan on Saturday.
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Chicago Violence: 29 Shot, 6 Fatally in Weekend Shootings
CHICAGO (WLS) — Six people are dead and 23 others were wounded so far this weekend in shootings across Chicago, according to police.
Last weekend Chicago police reported 50 people shot, four fatally. Five of those wounded were teenagers.
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Dozens who have lost loved ones after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial Covid-19 nursing home order gathered in Brooklyn to protest the politician, who recently wrote a book on his leadership during the pandemic.
The protesters gathered in front of the Cobble Hill Health Center, a nursing facility, and demanded an apology from Cuomo for his highly controversial March 25 order forcing nursing homes to accept Covid-positive cases, a decision many critics feel was a large factor in the 6500 deaths in nursing homes during the pandemic.
Holding signs with such messages as “Cuomo killed my parents” and “Cuomo writes books rather than apologizing,” the demonstrators filled a casket with 6500 covers to Cuomo’s recently released book ‘American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.’
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There ARE studies that have already determined 5G is NOT safe. Cities AND entire countries have taken action to ban, delay, halt,… Doctors and Scientists Request Evaluation of Health…
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Donald Trump in Georgia: ‘Lock Up the Bidens’
“Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary. Lock them up.”
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Doublespeak: New York Times Magazine Says the Biggest Threat to Free Speech… is Free Speech
In another showing of proof that the fake news is in fact the enemy of the people, the New York Times Magazine has published an article arguing that the biggest threat to free speech…is free speech itself.
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Does anyone really believe Facebook is going to be remotely fair and unpartisan in the upcoming election?
Certainly not anyone who’s been paying attention.
Facebook has been censoring conservative voices since 2017.
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On Saturday hundreds of black Donald Trump supporters marched in the Freedom Rally and March in Washington DC.
It was a major blow to the “Trump is a racist” lie.
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Free Speech Rally Marred by Violence as Counterprotesters Storm Event, Beat Pro-Trump Demonstrators
A rally called to promote free speech and denounce big tech censorship turned ugly Saturday in San Francisco, when hundreds of alleged Antifa counterprotesters showed up and berated and attacked demonstrators, leaving one missing a tooth.
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Joe Biden Ridiculed Online as Clip of His Teleprompter Speech to Supporters in Detroit Emerges
Democratic candidate Joe Biden used his speech in Novi, Michigan to accuse President Trump of pandering to the right. But Twitter users ridiculed his apparent dependence on a teleprompter and the small turnout at the big city drive-in rally.
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A man was seen dangling from a rope reportedly off the 16th floor balcony of Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday evening.
Photos and videos emerged on social media showing the figure scaling the tower in Chicago’s downtown as frightened onlookers peered down.
Police officers and firefighters were on the scene. Officers were seen on a terrace above the man, seemingly urging him to climb up, but he refused to move.
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NBC Taps Major Democrat ‘Activist’ Disguised as Reporter to Moderate Next Presidential Debate
NBC News has slated yet another Democrat operative as a presidential debate moderator for the upcoming and final round between President Trump and Joe Biden.
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Earlier this week The New York Post released shocking emails that prove Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at the Burisma Ukrainian energy firm. This was a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
Hunter Biden left his laptop at a computer shop and then neglected to pick it up after several calls. The owner of the computer repair company handed over Hunter’s laptop to the FBI last December. The FBI hid this evidence from congress and the executive branch during the Pelosi impeachment hearings. But before the computer store owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, turned over the computer to the FBI he first downloaded much of its contents. He later gave this information to Rudy Giuliani’s attorney who then worked with Steve Bannon to deliver the information to the New York Post.
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Police Groups Slam Biden’s Advice to Shoot Suspects “In the Leg”
Multiple law enforcement groups and officers recently criticized Joe Biden for advising cops to shoot suspects “in the leg” instead of “shoot to kill.”
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If the indicators are accurate, what is coming is not going to be pleasant.
What you do about it and whether you will come through it will be largely dependent on two things: your attitude and knowledge of what is happening, why it is happening and what to do about it.
There is a reality the middle class needs to deal with: You are the target of all of the attacks that have occurred since the Kennedy assassination. The reason you are the target is that an oligarchy like communism, socialism or a monarchy requires a social order made up of two classes: The elite and the workers. These forms of government cannot function with a middle class that has upward mobility. Thus, as long as there is a middle class, there can be no world government.
You can blame anyone you want for what has, is, and will be happening to American citizens in the near future… what is yet to come will be a first for all of us. The truth is, the problems we now face have been brewing for over 100 years. It is like a pimple that, when filled with puss, finally bursts. The question is, who do you want as President of the United States to clean up the poison?
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Earlier this week The New York Post released shocking emails that prove Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at the Burisma Ukrainian energy firm. This was a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
Hunter Biden left his laptop at a computer shop and then neglected to pick it up after several calls. The owner of the computer repair company handed over Hunter’s laptop to the FBI last December. The FBI hid this evidence from congress and the executive branch during the Pelosi impeachment hearings. But before the computer store owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, turned over the computer to the FBI he first downloaded much of its contents. He later gave this information to Rudy Giuliani’s attorney who then worked with Steve Bannon to deliver the information to the New York Post.
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Study Finds Nearly 400K CA Ballots Were Sent to Non-Residents or Dead People
A new study from the Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) found that nearly 400,000 California ballots were sent to non-residents or dead people.
“The fear is that people who are dishonest could vote those ballots and attempt to get them counted,” said Evelyn Swenson from EIPCa. “What kind of confidence to the people of California have in the system when they’re getting ballots from their deceased loved one 10 years ago or someone who never lived there or someone who moved 10 years ago? That hurts the confidence in the election.”
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The FBI is at it again!
The New York Post on Wednesday dropped an October surprise on Joe Biden when they began releasing damning emails found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
The New York Post reported that a laptop computer abandoned at a Delaware repair shop contains emails between Hunter Biden and various foreign actors offering him money to have access to his VP daddy Joe.
According to The Post, the computer repair shop owner contacted the FBI and gave them Hunter Biden’s laptop in December of 2019.
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The first Presidential debate was a mess with FOX News Chris Wallace destroying his career by being not just obscenely biased but a complete liar. Wallace has always been a Never-Trumper but his showing at the first debate was an obvious attempt to take down President Trump and prop up corrupt career politician Joe Biden.
The second debate moderator Steve Skully was fired for lying about his Twitter page being hacked with anti-Trump text messages. Of course, this was a lie and his employer CSPAN fired his ass last week.
Then a week ago the third official anti-Trump debate moderator Kristen Welker deleted her Twitter account.
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Tom Cotton to Big Tech After Censorship of Biden-Burisma Report: ‘Winter is Coming’
“You have big tech oligarchs declaring war on Donald Trump, on the Republican Party, on conservatives across America.”
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Trump Supporter Hospitalized by Black Lives Matter Thugs at Women’s March
Isabella DeLuca was assaulted while holding a Trump flag.
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Trump Releases Devastating New Ad Highlighting Biden’s Deep Ties to Communist China
President Trump is slamming his opponent, Joe Biden, in a devastating new campaign ad highlighting his deep ties to Communist China.
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Trump Says He Won’t Force Americans to Take COVID-19 Vaccine
It’s not every day that President Trump outflanks his progressive critics on the issue of ‘consent’.
But according to some recent comments from the president, skeptics worried about the prospect of mandatory vaccination orders in the US and in the UK have rallied to voice their opposition.
But if President Trump is reelected, Americans who are concerned about what some ‘experts’ have characterized as a ‘rushed’ approval process for the COVID-19 vaccine won’t need to worry about being forced to accept the vaccine and vaccinate their children. Because President Trump says he will not issue a mandate requiring that individuals receive the coronavirus vaccine once one becomes widely available.
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Twitter Locks Charlie Kirk’s Account for Sharing Story About Pennsylvania Mail-in Voter Fraud
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has been locked out of his Twitter account for tweeting out the details of a story about voter fraud in Pennsylvania and asking the question “what’s going on?”
In the tweet, Kirk wrote:
“Pennsylvania just rejected 372,000 mail-in ballots One voter was said to have submitted 11 duplicate ballots Pennsylvania might be the key to winning the White House What’s going on?”
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Last year Activist Post reported extensively about Sacramento children who became sick after Verizon installed a 5G tower next to their family’s… Uncle Of Children Sick From Verizon…
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This didn’t make any headlines.
The ring leader in the plot to kidnap wretched Governor Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI informant.
He was planted into the group and was the one who pushed the entire plan.
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Victory: Michigan Court Denies Absentee Ballot Deadline Extension
The Michigan Court of Appeals has reinstated the legislated absentee ballot deadline in a brutal loss for Governor Whitmer and Democrats
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Visualizing the Relative Size of Particles (Like COVID-19)
Lately, the world’s biggest threats have been microscopic in size.
From the global COVID-19 pandemic to wildfires ripping through the U.S. West Coast, it seems as though our lungs can’t catch a break, or more aptly, a breath.
But, as Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang asks, just how small are the particles we’re currently battling? And how does their size compare to other tiny molecules?
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Media outlets are reporting that pictures of a man snorting cocaine off of a young girl’s bare bottom are of Hunter Biden — BUT THEY ARE NOT!
The pictures are being used to insert false information into the Hunter Biden drug and corruption stories leaked this past week. This started so the left wing mainstream media and the Democrats can claim the Biden corruption story is a conspiracy — IT IS NOT!
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Another peaceful protest.
Several hundred women marched for women’s rights and abortions in Washington DC on Saturday.
Trump supporter Isabella DeLuca, the Outreach Director for the pro-Trump organization Republicans for National Renewal, also attended the rally in Washington DC.
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Czechia: Protest Against COVID-19 Rules in Prague Escalates Into Clashes With Police (Videos)
Czech riot police deployed tear gas, flashbang grenades, and a water cannon to disperse a crowd of protesters who refused to leave Prague’s Old Town Square after a rally against government measures to fight the coronavirus.
The defiant demonstrators, who were identified by the local media as radical fans of various sport teams, clashed with the police, pelting the officers with stones and firecrackers. Several dozen people were reported injured in the skirmish, including members of the police force.
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Around two-and-a-half million coins emblazoned with the words ‘DIVERSITY BUILT BRITAIN’ will be released into circulation on Monday to celebrate the “contribution made by ethnic minority communities to Britain’s history”.
As well as the slogan, the coins also feature a geodome design, which according to the British treasury “represents a community of connection and strength, with each section working together to build something greater”.
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Pfizer’s UK boss Ben Osborn said: It was great to see the first vial coming off the manufacturing line. It just brought a tremendous smile to my face to see all of this work actually result in a product’
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Paris, October 16. A history teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and had spoken with them about freedom of speechwas beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a small town in the suburbs of Paris. The murderer, who tried to attack the police attempting to arrest him, was shotand killed while shouting “Allahu Akbar”. According to the public prosecutor, he was a family member of one of the students. The facts are still unfolding…
A few weeks before that, on September 25, Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, a 25-year-old Pakistani man, attacked and seriously injured two people with a cleaver. When he tried to escape, he was arrested by police. He had entered France illegally in 2018, had appeared before a judge to ask for asylum and to benefit from the status of an “isolated minor”. The information he gave the judge was false: he had said he was 18 years old. The judge accepted his request and refused any method of determining his real age. Since then, Mehmood has been financially supported by the French government. It gave him housing, training and a monthly allowance.
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France Teacher Attack: Rallies Held to Support Beheaded Samuel Paty
Thousands have attended rallies across France in support of Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.
People in the Place de la République in Paris carried the slogan “Je suis enseignant” (I am a teacher), with PM Jean Castex saying: “We are France!”
A man named as Abdoulakh A was shot dead by police on Friday after killing Mr Paty close to his school near Paris.
An 11th person has now been arrested as part of the investigation.
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France: Charlie Hebdo Attack Trial Suspect Threatens Policewoman in Court
One of the suspects currently on trial in connection to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January of 2015 is said to have threatened a female police officer in court.
Ali Riza Polat made threats to the female officer who had come to give testimony about the events of the terrorist attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the following attack on a Jewish supermarket by Amédy Coulibaly.
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French Health Minister, ex-PM Have Homes Raided in Coronavirus Investigation
French Health Minister Olivier Veran, former prime minister Edouard Philippe, and several other officials were raided by police as part of an investigation into the handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
The investigation is part of an inquiry into the government’s handling of the Chinese coronavirus this year, as critics have accused officials of taking too long to implement widespread testing for the virus and not stressing the importance of wearing masks.
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Hungarian FM Szijjarto Urges Joe Biden to Address Burisma Corruption Case Involving His Son
Following slanderous comments made by Joe Biden during a town hall event on Thursday where he classified Hungary and Poland as “totalitarian regimes”, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjartó urged Biden to properly address the corruption allegations against he and his son before focusing his attention on Hungary.
“It would be great if Joe Biden could tell us why he put pressure on the Ukrainian government to fire its chief prosecutor, and how all of this related to the investigation into his son’s Ukrainian energy deals grinding to a halt,” Szijjartó said in a video response to Biden’s comments.
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Italy: Leftist Governor Attacks ‘Stupid American Extravagance’ of Halloween Amid Pandemic
ROME (AP) — Americans may love Naples for its most famous export, pizza. But the governor of Italy’s southern region had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging coronavirus infections.
Campania Gov. Vincenzo De Luca blasted the holiday as a “stupid American extravagance” and a “monument to imbecility” in announcing a 10 p.m. curfew in Naples and the surrounding region over Halloween weekend.
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Poles in America Demand Biden Correct ‘Harmful, False Characterisation of Poland’
Poles in America have urged Joe Biden to correct his “false” and “harmful” comments about Poland at a recent town hall, where he appeared to lump it in with Belarus and other “totalitarian regimes”.
“You see what’s happening in everything from Belarus to Poland to Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world, and, as well as, this President embraces all the thugs of the world,” Biden had said on October 15th — causing enormous offence in the latter two countries, both EU democracies and NATO allies.
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Scotland: See a Parent Spanking a Child? Call Police, Government Says
People who see a parent disciplining a child physically should call police immediately and report a “crime in progress,” according to new guidance from the Scottish government.
The Herald Scotland reported the guidance comes ahead of a law change next month that will ban the physical punishment and discipline of children, including “smacking, skelping, spanking and slapping.”
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UK Government Unveils New ‘Diversity Built Britain’ Coin
‘2.5 million “Diversity Built Britain” 50p coins will enter into circulation’.
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UK: Report: Cancer Patients Decry Deadly Delays and Cancellations Due to Focus on COVID
Cancer patients in Britain report their lives are being cut short by delayed diagnoses and treatment pauses due to the “obsession” with COVID-19.
Sharing their stories with the Daily Mail, several patients facing dramatically shortened lifespans — many the parents of young children — said that ‘The NHS should be for everybody, not just Covid patients.”
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UK: Watch: Man Rips Down Cross on London Church in Broad Daylight
A viral video on social media appears to a show a man standing on top of a church and ripping down its cross in broad daylight.
The video shows a young male methodically yanking down the cross on top of the Chadwell Heath Baptist Church, which describes itself as “an informal multinational congregation of around 70 people [who] seek to worship God and pray together, to share the good news of Jesus Christ, to encourage people to be His disciples and serve the local community and wider church family.”
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“A Darker Side”: The Persecution of Christians, September 2020
Sexual and Psychological Abuse of Christian Women
Egypt: Once again, a court involved in the case of the unconscionable abuse of an elderly Christian woman recused itself. “The case had been postponed several times and was closed in 2017 due to insufficient evidence,” says the September 3, 2020 report. “However, the woman’s legal representatives filed a grievance reopening it again. Then, in March 2019, the Minya felony court decided to withdraw from hearing the case due to embarrassment.”
After that, in October 2019, the case was postponed again, because a court member was reportedly absent; and now this. The case concerns Soa’d Thabet, a Christian grandmother in her 70s. On May 20, 2016, a mob of some 300 Muslim men, accusing her son of dating a Muslim woman, descended on her home, stripped her completely naked, beat, spit on, and paraded her in the streets of al-Karm village (in Minya governorate) to jeers, whistles, and triumphant shouts of “Allahu Akbar.” Commenting on these ongoing delays, Adel Guindy, founding president of Coptic Solidarity, told Gatestone,
“The judiciary system in Egypt, as well as the rest of the pillars of the state (often referred to as the ‘deep state’) have become impregnated with fundamentalist Islamic ideology, and are thus decidedly biased against Copts. The political leadership of the country takes no concrete corrective measures and, worse still, lets this ideology shape and dominate the society, through education and media.”
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Hillary Clinton’s Finally-Released E-Mails Rattle the Middle East
by Mohamed Sabry
Declassified e-mails from former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have exposed a suspicious relationship between the Obama administration and the Muslim Brotherhood. This revelation has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, where many have accused Washington of instigating the Arab Spring revolts that swept several countries in the region in 2011.
Clinton’s Emails Reveal Meddling and Bribes in Middle Eastern Politics
The declassification of Clinton’s emails was ordered by US President Donald Trump as part of federal investigations into her use of a private server for government emails.
In one of the e-mails, Clinton requested the Gulf state of Qatar to finance the Arab Spring revolts through an account dedicated to the Clinton Foundation. In 2016, the foundation confirmed that it had accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar in 2011 while Clinton was still secretary of state without informing the State Department.
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Backstory: Origins of the COVID-19 Virus
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As Rudi Giuliani said in an interview:
Back in 2014, the Obama administration prohibited the U.S. from giving money to any laboratory, including in the U.S., that was fooling around with these viruses. Prohibited. Despite that, Dr. Fauci gave $3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory. And then even after the State Department issued reports about how unsafe that laboratory was, and how suspicious they were in the way they were developing a virus that could be transmitted to humans, we never pulled that money. …
The virus spread. Zinc is known to inhibit viral replication. Doctors in Wuhan remembered a 2014 paper which showed that chloroquine is a zinc ionophore and found that it worked in treating infected patients. On 22nd May, 2020. medical journal The Lancet joyously published a paper stating that chloroquine doesn’t work. Medical authorities around the world reacted by withdrawing chloroquine from treatment of the Wuhan virus. Death rates spiked up dramatically about two weeks later. This is illustrated by the experience in Switzerland, as shown by the following graphic from France Soir:
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The grey-shaded area is the period of increased deaths in Switzerland due to the study in The Lancet. The death rate jumped 13 days after the administration of chloroquine was withdrawn, it dropped 13 days after the resumption of dispensing chloroquine. That was just Switzerland. The Lancet retracted the paper on June 4th, more over the damage it was doing to its reputation than embarrassment at the number of deaths it caused. Nobody in the media has displayed any interest in who was behind this hit job on chloroquine.
It has been estimated that the media blitz against chloroquine resulted in 80,000 deaths around the world.
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Missing Hong Kong Protester Alexandra Wong ‘Was Held in Mainland China’
A prominent Hong Kong protester has made her first public appearance in 14 months, telling the media she had been held in mainland China.
Alexandra Wong, 64, was nicknamed “Grandma Wong” and was often pictured waving a British flag at protests.
She said she was detained last August in the border city of Shenzhen and forced to renounce her activism in writing.
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Victoria recorded just two new coronavirus cases on Sunday — and no deaths — prompting the embattled premier to ease several of Melbourne’s most hated restrictions.
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Dozens of Migrants Cross English Channel in 12 Boats
Up to 170 migrants in 12 boats have crossed the English Channel after days of choppy sea conditions improved.
A further 222 people were stopped from making the “perilous” journey by French authorities, the Home Office said.
The authorities later confirmed the body of a man in a lifejacket, found on a beach near Calais at 08:00 BST, was that of a migrant.
Six migrants on two kayaks tied together were also rescued by the French navy off the coast of Calais.
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France: Protesters Demand Migrant Amnesty in Paris Day After Migrant Terror Attack
Thousands of pro-migration protesters took to the streets of Paris, demanding that the French government give amnesty to the “undocumented” migrant population just one day after a Chechen migrant is believed to have beheaded a teacher in Paris.
On Saturday, several thousand protesters were seen marching in the French capital — defying the country’s China virus lockdown measures — as a part of the ‘March of Solidarity’ for migrants “without papers” — a left-wing euphemism for illegal aliens.
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Gangs Are Smuggling Migrants Across the Channel Under the Cover of Cod Boats
GANGS are smuggling migrants halfway across the Channel in fishing boats before dumping them in dinghies.
The criminals use the cover of French fishing trips to avoid drones which monitor crossings.
Small boats already inflated are hidden inside the fishing boats with the migrants and released in British waters.
Evidence seen by The Sun shows fishing boats leave Calais in the early hours, make a journey across the Channel, then spend around 15 minutes “still” — before returning back.
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Gal Gadot Fans Slam Haters Saying: ‘Cleopatra Was Greek Not Black or Arab’
Actress Gal Gadot has been under fire after the Israeli actress announced on Twitter that she will play the role of Cleopatra in an upcoming Paramount Pictures project, teaming up with Greek-American screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis.
The casting decision has some social media users riled up, with journalist Sameera Khan calling Gal Gadot a ‘bland’ Israeli and others stating that she is ‘not Black enough’ to play Cleopatra’.
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They Will Learn to Love Their Servitude
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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A pro-life student group has been blocked by the student government of the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), on account of it being “designated” as “a hate group.”
The issue of abortion has been one of the longest standing and most acrimonious debates and divisions in US society, including in universities — so, difference of opinion and passions flaring around the topic would be nothing new. However, reaching for the “hate group” epithet here to justify the ban looks like a fairly new development.
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4D chess, anyone?
On October 2, 2020, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services issued policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to address inadmissibility based on membership in or affiliation with the communist party or any other totalitarian party. It said that unless otherwise exempt, any intending immigrant who was a member or affiliate of a communist or totalitarian party, or subdivision or affiliate, domestic or foreign, was inadmissible to the United States. It also indicated that the communist party or any other totalitarian party was inconsistent and incompatible with the naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States.
Trump 2020. Because &%#$ you again!
The Swedish syndrome threatens the entire western world
Central to Sweden’s problem is that the ruling caste is increasingly disconnected from the population. It has become a group with its own values and projects instead of being linked to the groups of voters who have chosen them, writes Jan Tullberg.
We are returning to a pre-democratic order, with population and government, instead of the citizens of democracy and appointed representatives. This decoupling takes place all over the western world, but especially in Sweden.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.friatider.se/svt-franske-lararen-provocerade-fram-sin-halshuggning
LONDON? – MARBLE ARCH
https://twitter.com/RosinaFrance/status/1317144180259475456
Do you or anyone you know live life according to the Koran? Are you a supporter of………..no wait! Stop! What are you doing here? You are a sworn fanatical enemy of non-shariamist God fearing people. Try Japan. Meanwhile as you must be watched as an enemy of the state – you are under arrest!
Well, can you imagine what kind of “Russians” they were
2 Russian MMA Fighters Praise French Teacher’s Decapitation – Reports
Two Russian MMA fighters, Zelim Imadaev and Albert Duraev, have shown support for the decapitation of a French teacher by a Chechen refugee this weekend, reports said.
in English:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/10/19/2-russian-mma-fighters-praise-french-teachers-decapitation-reports-a71792
Well I clicked on the link for the story on the guy hanging from a rope on the Trump tower. Both the headline and story left ME hanging! He may still be there
Well I clicked on the link for the story on the guy hanging from a rope on the Trump tower. Both the story and the headline left ME hanging! He may still be there.