Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/28/2020

As rioting continued in Philadelphia, the city imposed a 9pm curfew in an effort to stem the violence. Police said that looters had turned the shopping area in the Port Richmond neighborhood into a “total loss”. Meanwhile, hundreds of rioters took to the streets in Brooklyn, vandalizing police vehicles and businesses and doing battle with police.

In other news, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is threatening legal action after the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon depicting him in his underwear.

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Thanks to Insubria, JD, JM, Reader from Chicago, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Greg Mannarino: “They Want People Desperate. People Aren’t Desperate Enough”
» Hungary: Finance Minister: GDP Could be Down by 6.4% in 2020
 
USA
» “Antifa” Sympathizer Linked to Dayton Shooter Gets Job at NATO
» “Who is Miles Taylor?” — Trump Assails White House Mole: “They Should Fire, Shame & Punish Everybody Associated With This Fraud”
» 1,000 Looters Turn Philly Retail Zone Into “Total Loss”
» 32 Arrested as NYC Protests Erupt Over Police Killing of Black Man in Philadelphia
» 5 Alleged Chinese Government Agents Arrested by FBI for Harassing, Stalking U.S. Citizens
» Amid Riot Over Police Shooting, Philly Hits 400 Murders
» Bar-Code Error in Texas County Causes More Than 22,000 Mail-in Ballots to be Rejected
» Biden Family Stays Quiet on Allegations That Bobulinski Met With Former Vice President
» Biden Whistleblower Says He Has Former Navy Seal Team Protecting His Family
» Celebrations After Dodgers’ World Series Win Turn Unruly, Violent in Downtown La; 8 Arrested Amid Looting, Vandalism
» Chicago Sisters Accused of Stabbing Employee 27 Times After Being Asked to Wear a Mask
» Chick-fil-A Looted Despite CEO Shining Boots for BLM
» Cringe the Clown: Oregon Health Official Announces COVID Death Toll in Halloween Outfit
» Democrat Sponsors Amnesty Bill for Monument Vandals, While Herself Facing Felony for Monument Attack
» Dorsey Admits to Mob-Driven Censorship on Twitter During Heated Section 230 Hearing
» Facing Out-of-Control Wildfires, Tens of Thousands of Californians Forced to Flee Their Homes
» First Suspect Charged Over Assault of a Deputized Portland Police Officer
» Heads Up, Liberal Jews — Don’t be Jews With Trembling Knees
» Highest-Rated Cable Show in History: Tucker Carlson Crushes Competition
» Idaho Leftists Shutter BSU Campus Coffeeshop Owned by Fiancé of Paralyzed Cop, Cite Anti-Cop Sentiment
» Joe Biden: Through the Eyes of World Leaders
» Joe Biden Calls Himself “Kamala’s Running Mate” At Georgia Campaign Stop
» Leftists Cry and Moan to Spotify as Alex Jones Appears on Joe Rogan Podcast
» Liberal Colleges Across America Begin Teaching Courses Linking a Belief in Jesus Christ to White Supremacy
» Liberty is the Key Issue of the US 2020 Election
» Marianne Williamson Justifies Philly Looting by Claiming Bible Says Nothing About Stealing Being Bad
» Meet Walter Wallace Jr, The Career Criminal Whose Shooting by Police Triggered Riots in Philly
» Mother Jones Says Facebook Censorship Has Cost it $400,000, Asks for Donations
» NBA Braces for Record 40% Drop in Revenue in 2020-2021 Season
» Philly Imposes Wednesday Night Curfew to Try and Prevent 3rd Night of Chaos
» The Mobilization of the Mob — Including ‘Deep-Staters’
» Tony Bobulinski Reveals Recorded Conversation With Biden Aide Pleading, “You’re Just Going to Bury All of US, Man”
» Trump: “Biden is Soft and Weak and Too Scared to be President”
» Trump Says Police Were Told to “Stand Back” During Philly Riots
» Tucker Carlson Averages 5.4 Million Viewers in October, The Largest Audience in Cable News History
» Twitter Apologizes After Flagging Tweet of Former Attorney General Eric Holder
» Two Videos Reveal Major Differences Between Biden, Trump
» Watch: Oregon Health Official Announces COVID-19 Death Toll Dressed as Clown
» When the Media Lies, The Constitution Dies!
» YouTube to Add Election Results Label, Continue to Boost “Authoritative Sources”
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgium: Boy Thrown Down Stairs During Brutal Beating by ‘Foreign’ Suspect
» Belgium: Police Take Down Muhammad Cartoon Posters, Check CCTV Cameras to Find Those Responsible
» Conservatives Must Defend Poland’s Churches From Violent Protestors, Says PiS Leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski
» France: Arc de Triomphe Area in Paris Evacuated Over Bomb Threat
» France to Re-Enter Lockdown From Friday
» France: Finance Minister Accuses Mayors of Giving in to ‘Political Islam’ With Women-Only Hours at Pools
» France: Court Approves Closure of Controversial Paris No-Go Suburb Mosque
» French Interior Minister Warns of Terrorist Threat Amid Nation’s ‘Battle Against an Islamist Ideology’
» French Police Chief Warns of Heightened Islamic Terror Threats
» Hungary: PM Orban Unveils George H.W. Bush Statue in Downtown Budapest
» Hungary is Rooting for a Trump Victory, Says PM Orban
» Italy: Use of Psychotropic Drugs Rises in Post-Lockdown
» Macron Declares Second National Lockdown in France
» Muslim World Condemns Macron Over Cartoons, Iran’s Zarif Says ‘Muslims Are Primary Victims of Cult of Hatred’
» Scottish Hate Crime Bill Would Criminalize Offensive Dinner Table Conversations
» Scottish Govt Tells Children to Stay Home on Halloween
» Spanish Doctors Stage First Strike in 25 Years to Protest Government’s New COVID-19 Order
» Sweden: Police Try to Stop People From Burning Qur’an in Honor of Teacher Beheaded Over Muhammad Cartoon
» UK Police Force Says it Will Break Up Christmas Gatherings to Enforce COVID Rules
» UK Police Confirmed They Stopped Drivers Leaving Lockdown Wales
» UK: ‘Too Early to Say’ if Christmas is Cancelled, Says Minister
» UK: Security Guard Ignored Ariana Grande Concert Bomber ‘For Fear of Being Branded a Racist’
» Watch: Palestinian Islamic Scholar Warns Muslim Armies Coming to ‘Crush Paris’
 
Middle East
» Egypt’s Sisi: Erdogan ‘Now Openly Uses the Islamic Factor, ‘ Warns of ‘Wave of Terrorists in Greece in the Future’
» Indignant: Turkey on Warpath Over New Charlie Hebdo Erdogan Cartoon
» Saudi Arabia Condemns Cartoons in Wake of French Schoolteacher Beheading
» Submit and Obey: Iran’s Rouhani Warns Freedom of Speech Ends on Contact With Islam
 
South Asia
» 4 Muslims Arrested in Delhi for Killing a Hindu Man for Loud Music or in an Issue to Stop Molestation
 
Far East
» Escaped Inmate of Chinese Re-Education Camp Testifies Inmates Are Told “There is No God”
» Independence Activists Rearrested in Hong Kong Under National Security Law
 
Australia — Pacific
» Controversial Report on Daniel Andrews’ Failed Quarantine Program is Delayed by Six Weeks Risking Important Findings Being Buried Over the Christmas Holidays
» Sydney Venues Put on High Alert and a Huge Islamic School is Shut as New South Wales Records Another Four Coronavirus Infections Linked to a Worrying Mystery Cluster
» Urgent Health Warning as a Student at Australia’s Biggest Islamic School Tests Positive for Coronavirus — With Another Alert Issued for a Busy Westfield and Several Restaurants
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Young American Missionary Abducted by Gunmen in West Africa
 
Immigration
» Illegal Immigrants Entering From Turkey to the EU Dropped by 70 Percent
» ‘Send Them Back!’ — Migration Watch UK Calls for the Deportation of Suspected Nigerian Hijackers
 
Culture Wars
» 13 Year-Old ‘Gender-Creative’ Boy: ‘Gender is Over’
» Ban on Gender Identity Education on Romania to be Reviewed by Top Court
» Forced Gender Equality in Politics? German Courts Say it is Unconstitutional
» ‘If You’ve Got a Penis, You’re a Bloke’: Newly-Elected Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is Blasted for ‘Repugnant’ Comments on Transgender People
» Polish PM Morawiecki Urges Pro-Abortion Protestors to Cease Aggression
 

Greg Mannarino: “They Want People Desperate. People Aren’t Desperate Enough”

Greg Mannarino says the stock market will continue to rise for now and expect more debt after the election to spur inflation. The big goal now is to destroy the middle class and make people desperate. And they aren’t yet desperate enough.

Another lockdown that impoverishes more and takes the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more people could very well be coming down the pike. Already, “more Americans are going hungry today than we have seen in the last 75 years. That’s pretty profound,” says Mannarino.

That says a lot about the current financial state of affairs in this country right now. But unless people get more desperate, they won’t be taking the central bank’s new digital dollar, which will be tracked, traced, taxed, and tied to a social credit score. You can be eliminated at will and prevented from spending money if the powers-that-shouldn’t-be decide it.

This should honestly horrify everyone. Our permanent enslavement is around the corner if we don’t wake up and stop letting political psychopaths and central banks dictate our lives. If you want a clear picture of what the establishment ruling class wants, it’s the New World Order and can be summed up by reading this article:

If America had any sense, we would be locking down again now

Poverty must occur to create dependence on the system in order for this to work in the elitists’ factor. Once you understand the end game, you should know their next moves, at least to some extent.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary: Finance Minister: GDP Could be Down by 6.4% in 2020

The GDP of Hungary could fall by 6.4 percent this year and economic trends could start to change from the second quarter of 2021 with a vaccine against the coronavirus possibly available by that time, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga said at an annual hearing before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

The finance ministry is working to restore the country’s growth momentum and a proposal covering the years 2020 to 2023 is being drawn up for financial restructuring, the minister said, adding that it is clear the economy will only recover at a slow pace from the coronavirus pandemic.

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

“Antifa” Sympathizer Linked to Dayton Shooter Gets Job at NATO

A far left activist who came to be known for his work at Right Wing Watch is now a researcher at the Atlantic Council, a prominent NATO think-tank.

Jared Holt, who extremism researchers such as Dr Eoin Lenihan have previously linked to the “antifa” movement — a group of loosely organized anarchists and communists who believe in the use of violence and institutional censorship to silence opposing political views — is featured as a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.

While Holt has never publicly confirmed or denied his links to the anarchist movement, he found himself immersed in controversy last year when it emerged that self-described “antifa” activist Connor Betts, who killed 10 people in a shooting spree at a Dayton, Ohio bar, repeatedly interacted with him on social media.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“Who is Miles Taylor?” — Trump Assails White House Mole: “They Should Fire, Shame & Punish Everybody Associated With This Fraud”

Update (1850ET): More criticism of the NYT’s characterization of Taylor’s status as a “senior” administration official is rolling in.

Digging back through Internet history, several twitter users pointed out that Taylor’s name wasn’t listed on the DHS’s “leadership” page — which included dozens of names — on the day the NYT report was published. At the time, he hadn’t yet achieved his most-senior rank as chief of staff.

And just like that — all the NYT’s reporting sourcing “senior” administration officials has been possibly called into question.

Another point: If Taylor was so ‘senior’ how come nobody knows who he is?

Update (1745ET): President Trump just took a minute away from the campaign trail to weigh in on the ‘coming out’ of Miles Taylor, the formerly “anonymous” op-ed writer and self-proclaimed leader of the internal White House #resistance.

[Comment: Seen on Twitter: Nobody had any clue who that lowel-level idiot is or was, which is why “Who is Miles Taylor” is one of the top searches on Google right now.]

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

1,000 Looters Turn Philly Retail Zone Into “Total Loss”

In the second night of unrest in Philadelphia after the Monday shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. by police, police say 1,000 looters descended on retail stores in the Port Richmond neighborhood.

Police told CBS Philly that the area was “a total loss.”

Looters also hit stores in other parts of the city.

Philadelphia County’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has reportedly charged dozens of suspect with felony burglary related to Monday’s looting.

Despite the prosecutions a Fox29 reporter tweeted that police were ordered not to arrest looters Tuesday night.

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

32 Arrested as NYC Protests Erupt Over Police Killing of Black Man in Philadelphia

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Brooklyn Tuesday night, marching in response to a police shooting in Philadelphia that left a Black man dead following a domestic dispute call earlier this week.

Nearly 40 commercial properties and nine NYPD vehicles damaged by vandals over the course of the night, NYPD officials said, with the damage including broken store windows and small fires set. Five department members suffered minor injuries, mostly while effecting arrests during the protests. Police said that 32 people were arrested and five sumonses were issued throughout the evening. The most serious charges included assaulting a police officer, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct and graffiti-related activities.

One NYPD spokesperson said a car attempted to drive through a group of cops at one point, causing some minor injuries.

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

5 Alleged Chinese Government Agents Arrested by FBI for Harassing, Stalking U.S. Citizens

Eight Chinese agents were charged on Wednesday by the FBI for stalking and harassing U.S. citizens as a way to coerce them to return to China.

Five defendants were arrested Wednesday morning, while three remain at large. Those arrested were found in New Jersey, New York, and California.

Upon the arrests, acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme told reporters that “those charged in China” should “stay out” of the U.S

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

Amid Riot Over Police Shooting, Philly Hits 400 Murders

We interrupt the rioting, looting and political pandering over the fatal police shooting yesterday of Walter Wallace Jr., a 27 year-old black man armed with a knife, to make an important announcement — the city of Philadelphia just hit 400 murders!

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Bar-Code Error in Texas County Causes More Than 22,000 Mail-in Ballots to be Rejected

More than a third of mail-in ballots have been rejected by scanning machines in Tarrant County, Texas, affecting over 22,000 votes so far.

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

Biden Family Stays Quiet on Allegations That Bobulinski Met With Former Vice President

Hunter Biden’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski went public this week, saying he met twice in the past with the former vice president Joe Biden. Biden and his campaign have remained silent about Bobulinski’s claims, and Biden has maintained his lack of involvement or discussions about his family’s overseas business ventures with Bobulinski.

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

Biden Whistleblower Says He Has Former Navy Seal Team Protecting His Family

Hunter Biden’s former business partner says that he has employed a former Navy Seal team to protect him and his family as he continues to reveal details regarding the Bidens’ dodgy foreign business dealings, which he claims Joe Biden was intimately involved with.

Appearing in an exclusive interview with Tucker Carlson Tuesday, Tony Bobulinski noted that he is not at home right now, and that he has called upon his fellow former seal buddies to ensure he and his family remain safe.

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Celebrations After Dodgers’ World Series Win Turn Unruly, Violent in Downtown La; 8 Arrested Amid Looting, Vandalism

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Celebrations for the Dodgers’ World Series win took a chaotic turn overnight in parts of Los Angeles, including in downtown where at least eight people were arrested, multiple officers were injured, a semi-truck was looted and a police vehicle and some businesses were vandalized.

Los Angeles police officers were on tactical alert in the downtown area through 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. They declared an unlawful assembly and ordered the crowd to disperse shortly before 1 a.m. in the area of Eight Street to Pico Boulevard, and Broadway to Figueroa Street.

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

Chicago Sisters Accused of Stabbing Employee 27 Times After Being Asked to Wear a Mask

Two Chicago sisters were denied bail after allegedly stabbing a store clerk 27 times over the request to wear a mask

A man was stabbed multiple times after asking two women to wear masks.

Two sisters entered a small shop in Chicago on Sunday when they were approached by a worker who asked them to wear a mask and to use hand sanitizer to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 according to Karie James who is a police spokesperson, the Chicago Sun Times reported. They refused and began to argue with the man at the store located on the 3200 block of West Roosevelt Road.

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

Chick-fil-A Looted Despite CEO Shining Boots for BLM

People are noting the irony of a Chick-fil-A in Philadelphia being looted by rioters just months after the company’s CEO Dan Cathy shined a black rapper’s shoes in a pro-Black Lives Matter PR stunt.

BLM supporters and other criminal opportunists reacted to the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was killed after advancing towards officers with a knife, by staging violent unrest, attacking police and looting stores.

After targeting a local Walmart and Footlocker, looters turned their attention to Chick-fil-A, smashing into and damaging a branch of the food chain.

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

Cringe the Clown: Oregon Health Official Announces COVID Death Toll in Halloween Outfit

Democrats truly are a joke!

[Comment: Seems like a satanic message from elites being passed off as “Halloween humor” by the “health official”. It is not. Clowns are often used in music videos as a symbol of satan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koy3Ky5SbD4.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Sponsors Amnesty Bill for Monument Vandals, While Herself Facing Felony for Monument Attack

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas, a Democrat, is co-sponsoring a quasi-amnesty bill for monument attackers, while herself facing felony charges stemming from a June 2020 Black Lives Matter attack on the Portsmouth, Virginia Confederate war memorial.

Tacking her own self-interests on to a bill originally intended to expunge the records of those convicted of marijuana possession before the state moved to decriminalize the drug, Lucas hopes to extend the bill’s benefits to those tried and convicted in monument attacks, expunging the convictions from their records after a period of 8 years.

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

Dorsey Admits to Mob-Driven Censorship on Twitter During Heated Section 230 Hearing

Update (1412 ET): It’s clear that Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has perhaps unintentionally acknowledged that Twitter’s unofficial moderating system is based simply on whoever shows the most outrage.

In response to questioning from Sen. Rick Scott, Dorsey replied:

“We don’t have a general policy around misleading information and misinformation… We rely upon people calling that speech out.”

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

Facing Out-of-Control Wildfires, Tens of Thousands of Californians Forced to Flee Their Homes

Two Southern California wildfires are burning out of control, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes for safety.

The powerful Santa Ana winds that pushed the fires through cities in Orange County may have decreased slightly from their earlier force, but they are expected to pick back up soon.

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

First Suspect Charged Over Assault of a Deputized Portland Police Officer

A teen Black Lives Matter activist is the first to be federally charged with assaulting a cross-deputized officer in Portland.

A federal grand jury indicted Skyler Roy Rider, 18, of Hillsboro, Ore., for felony civil disorder and assault of a federal officer following an FBI investigation. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon accuse Rider of ramming the pointed end of an umbrella in the chest of an officer during a riot.

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

Heads Up, Liberal Jews — Don’t be Jews With Trembling Knees

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel.

That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 war-mongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely murdered — tortured and gassed-to-death — six-million Jewish men, women, children and infants, Senator Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the world with his menacing ultimatum.

Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in judgement, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been exhaustively documented, most recently by Shmuel Klatzkin (Biden’s Hostility to Israel — read the whole article) and Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?).

EXAMPLES ABOUND

Levy reports a number of the Obama-Biden regime’s consistent anti-Israel policies:…

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Highest-Rated Cable Show in History: Tucker Carlson Crushes Competition

“Tucker Carlson Tonight has achieved a new record in October, posting the most-watched month of any program in the history of cable news: 5.3 million viewers tuning into his show during the 8 p.m. hour,” A.J Katz, senior editor and TV business reporter for Adweek, said in a tweet.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Idaho Leftists Shutter BSU Campus Coffeeshop Owned by Fiancé of Paralyzed Cop, Cite Anti-Cop Sentiment

The Marxist-based cancel culture was on the move again, this time blindly causing the closure of a popular campus coffee shop that provided 20 students with employment simply because the shop’s owner openly supported law enforcement.

The Big City Coffee recently opened a second location in Boise, Idaho, located in Albertsons Library on the campus of Boise State University. But last Thursday, woke student government activists bullied the small business into shutting its doors because they didn’t execute due diligence to fully understand the owners’ support for law enforcement. As a result, more than 20 female students who were employed by Big City Coffee found themselves without jobs.

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

Joe Biden: Through the Eyes of World Leaders

Elected Democrats as well as their media are trying to convince voters they should vote for Biden over Trump because of Trump’s personality, his tweets, he’s the orange man.

But what about world leaders? You know, the ones the next president will have to deal with at summits and other events where world leaders gather?

What do they see watching Joe Biden?

Some might call Biden’s gaffes funny. They are not funny when considering electing the next leader of the free world. What’s also NOT funny is watching an old man with advanced dementia struggle to try and sound coherent when he’s not. When Biden can’t unscramble his thoughts, desperately searching to speak without breaking down.

A frail old man with the power to order a nuclear attack on a foreign country. To send our men and women into war which we all hope will not happen any time soon. An individual who should be in a nursing home, not being dragged out of his basement by his wife and handlers to make a fool of himself to the world.

Imagine Putin, Macron, Merkel, Xi Jinping, Trudeau and other world leaders watching the two videos below. What are they to think? That the American people would be so stupid as to elect someone staring at potential criminal charges (son’s computer and influence peddling, perhaps trouble with the IRS and more) who is unable to concentrate or sound coherent enough to cite even half the alphabet.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Joe Biden Calls Himself “Kamala’s Running Mate” At Georgia Campaign Stop

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden referred to himself as the “running mate” of his own vice presidential candidate during a Tuesday drive-in campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia.

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

Leftists Cry and Moan to Spotify as Alex Jones Appears on Joe Rogan Podcast

Leftists were triggered Tuesday as Infowars guru Alex Jones was able to appear on a big tech platform without being censored or banned.

Jones was once again a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, however, it was the first time Jones has appeared since Rogan moved to Spotify, prompting scores of butthurt leftists to immediately begin lobbying the streaming service to take down the episode.

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

Liberal Colleges Across America Begin Teaching Courses Linking a Belief in Jesus Christ to White Supremacy

Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania is currently advertising a course titled “Is God a White Supremacist?” within its religion department. According to the college’s website, the course will primarily focus on “representations of race in religious discourses and social practice,” however, “particular attention will be given to discussion of the interpretive practices that are foundational to the process of ‘whiteness-making’ and the construction of white identity.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Liberty is the Key Issue of the US 2020 Election

By Col. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.) | CCNS

Over many decades, the United States has become an oligarchy, a government in which a small group exercises control…

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Marianne Williamson Justifies Philly Looting by Claiming Bible Says Nothing About Stealing Being Bad

Former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson justified another night of riots and looting in Philadelphia by claiming that there’s nothing in the Bible which tells people not to steal.

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

Meet Walter Wallace Jr, The Career Criminal Whose Shooting by Police Triggered Riots in Philly

The media reported on this story as though Wallace was a mentally disabled person shot by police just because he was Black.

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Mother Jones Says Facebook Censorship Has Cost it $400,000, Asks for Donations

Leftist investigative news outlet Mother Jones claims that Facebook implemented “Big Brother” tactics that resulted in it losing about $400,000 in revenue.

Somewhat ironically, since the outlet has in the past supported and praised Big Tech censorship, in a post, Mother Jones’ editor Patrick Caldwell claimed that the Big Tech company implemented news censorship policies that resulted in the publication losing about $400,000 in revenue over the last three years.

The article came shortly after a report by the Wall Street Journal that claimed Facebook changed its algorithms to limit traffic to left-wing publications. This policy was implemented in 2017.

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

NBA Braces for Record 40% Drop in Revenue in 2020-2021 Season

Amid crashing NBA viewership now that basketball has become a venue for “in your face” (whether you asked for it or not) political activism, it will not come as a surprise that NBA revenues are also slumping and according to financial numbers shared with teams and obtained by ESPN, NBA’s revenues dropped 10% to $8.3 billion for the 2019-20 season.

Among the biggest reasons for the revenue loss were an $800 million loss in gate receipts and a $400 million loss in sponsorships and merchandise, and in a “surprise” twist, the NBA’s losses also included $200 million “net negative impact” from the loss of a partnership with China following Daryl Morey tweet promoting Hong Kong freedom a year ago.

This explains why some of the NBA’s most vocal domestic social justice warriors are also so bizarrely mute when it comes to China’s trampling of basic human rights: all players have a vested financial interest and incentive to keep their mouths shut when it comes to any China criticism. Which may also explain why said SJWs are so much more vocal when it comes to bashing injustices in their own country as a diversion for their hypocrisy.

But if the 2019-2020 disaster was bad, 2020-2021 is shaping up to be nothing short of horrific: as the NBA and National Basketball Players Association discuss start dates and financial amendments to the collective bargaining agreement, ESPN writes that “the potential for a grim financial landscape without fans in the 2020-21 season looms over the league.”

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Philly Imposes Wednesday Night Curfew to Try and Prevent 3rd Night of Chaos

Update (1500ET): As Philly braces for a 3rd night of unrest following another police shooting of a black man, the city is imposing a curfew at 2100.

National guard were called in last night, though Trump has offered federal assistance as well.

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The Mobilization of the Mob — Including ‘Deep-Staters’

Ready or not, here they come. The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance aren’t just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin’ Joe Biden. Hell no. They’re making their direct action checklists and checking them twice. They’re training for instigating.

No matter the outcome at the ballot box, the left-wing mob is prepared to disrupt and destroy nationwide in the name of preserving “democracy.”

Four weeks ago, I exposed the pot-bangers and lawn-crashers of the Sunrise Movement. That’s the constantly morphing, full-time front group for the Sierra Club that nurtures rent-a-rioters to agitate for everything from the “Green New Deal,” to Black Lives Matter and the “defund the police” movement, to the attacks at private homes of Senate Republicans — who just delivered the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Another key social justice player, ShutDown D.C., is teaming with Sunrise Movement guerrilla warriors to mobilize students, community organizers and even federal employees to take to the streets on Nov. 3.

[Comment: Seize funds of those who are financing the mob.]

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Tony Bobulinski Reveals Recorded Conversation With Biden Aide Pleading, “You’re Just Going to Bury All of US, Man”

In a bombshell interview with host Tucker Carlson, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Lt. Tony Bobulinski provided corroborating evidence, including a voicemail, indicating that his claims about Hunter’s corrupt dealings and Joe Biden’s complicit involvement are true.

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Trump: “Biden is Soft and Weak and Too Scared to be President”

Speaking in the key state of Wisconsin Tuesday, President Trump addressed the ongoing rioting and looting in Philadelphia, declaring that the city is being “torn up by Biden-supporting radicals.”

After almost 100 people were arrested Monday night, the chaos continued Tuesday, with wide spread criminality and violence.

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Trump Says Police Were Told to “Stand Back” During Philly Riots

President Trump responded to two nights of violent unrest in Philadelphia by claiming police were told to “stand back” and not stop looting and rioting.

The city has seen consecutive nights of mayhem in response to the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was killed after advancing towards officers with a knife.

A female sergeant suffered a broken leg after BLM rioters ran her down with a vehicle while numerous stores have been vandalized and looted.

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Tucker Carlson Averages 5.4 Million Viewers in October, The Largest Audience in Cable News History

Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” program averaged 5.4 million nightly viewers in October, setting a new record for cable news ratings.

Fox’s “Hannity” came in second for cable news ratings with an average of 5.1 million viewers on his nightly show. Fox programs “The Five” and “The Ingraham Angle” finished third and fourth in ratings respectively.

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Twitter Apologizes After Flagging Tweet of Former Attorney General Eric Holder

Twitter “mistakenly” flagged a tweet about voting by former Attorney General Eric Holder. It seems even Democrats are on now the wrong side of Twitter’s censorship system on the subject of voting.

“It’s too late to use the mails. Given Supreme Court rulings, I urge everyone to now vote in person; early vote, or use drop boxes. Protect your health, but don’t let the Court and the deliberately crippled Postal Service deprive you of your most precious civil right. Plan your vote,” Holder wrote on Twitter yesterday.

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Two Videos Reveal Major Differences Between Biden, Trump

Roger Stone uses his expertise to break down the biggest election in history

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Watch: Oregon Health Official Announces COVID-19 Death Toll Dressed as Clown

A senior Oregon health official donned a clown costume prior to announcing the daily death toll from coronavirus.

Claire Poche, a senior official of the Oregon Health Authority, made the announcement dressed in a red tie, polka dot shirt, bright yellow pants, and a full face of clown makeup.

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When the Media Lies, The Constitution Dies!

The press in all forms (and social media) didn’t become socialist Democrat propagandists by accident. It has been a centuries-long effort, dating back to the early 1900’s, to brainwash an entire culture in the flawed, anti-American ideology of Progressivism. All that was necessary to complete the transformation was to infiltrate socialist policies (and later added, environmental, one-world policies) into the public school system and then into academia. Generation after generation of America’s school children have been immersed in socialist swill until the body politic has become socialists in their thinking, socialists in their actions and socialists in their politics.

The products of this purposeful indoctrination became journalists, educators, teachers, professors, union workers, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, psychologists, psychiatrists, engineers, code writers, technicians and even housewives, until one day, there was ONLY ONE frame of thought …. Progressivism. Those graduates of the public schools and colleges eventually occupied the halls of the now all-powerful Social Media. All other thoughts, ideas and policies that did not agree with the ONE frame of thought, were demeaned, maligned, squelched and rendered irrelevant, or silenced by censorship, or sometimes threatened by violence, or violence itself…

Besides the financial interests of the billionaires that own the news outlets, a fatal disease has infected journalism throughout the entire industry. Journalists now want to change the world with their power, in other words “make” the news, instead of reporting the news accurately.

Besides the inherent bias, now predominantly liberal, the success or failure of the news media is driven by five factors: advertising revenues, paid subscriptions, ratings, the 24-hour news cycle and the impact of the internet and social media. No business model allows success without sufficient revenues to support all of the activities of the news outlet. Print media is suffering from lower advertising and subscription revenues and many have folded, or are on the brink of bankruptcy because of TV, the Internet and social media. Radio, which offers a combination of music and talk, appears to be healthy but only from a local perspective. National talk radio is not doing all that well, unless merged with TV, Rush Limbaugh being the exception. The TV media requires a little more detail.

National television has become talk radio, only in video form, with endless debate and analysis, camouflaged as news. No TV platform is immune from this malady. Turn on any TV news program and instead of the all-around broad news we were expecting, we get endless opinions and analysis by so-called experts, reporters and correspondents, better suited for the newspaper opinion page. If you are looking for national and international news reported accurately, you will be hard pressed to find it. And the analysis and opinions are heavily slanted towards the left side of the political aisle with just a pointless token segment from the other side.

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YouTube to Add Election Results Label, Continue to Boost “Authoritative Sources”

YouTube has announced that from election day it will be displaying information panels that push one of Big Tech’s favorite election talking points — that election results “may not be final.”

The panels will appear at the top of election-related search results and below videos about the election. They will direct users to Google’s election results feature which will display “authoritative election results” from The Associated Press.

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Belgium: Boy Thrown Down Stairs During Brutal Beating by ‘Foreign’ Suspect

Latest attack on Flemish youth by foreign suspect.

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Belgium: Police Take Down Muhammad Cartoon Posters, Check CCTV Cameras to Find Those Responsible

“The police denied they were infringing the right to freedom of expression….’The caricatures themselves are absolutely not punishable, but the infringement here is illegal posting,’ the police spokesperson said.”

Yeah, sure, that’s it. Meanwhile, it would be interesting to see how Brussels police would react if posters attacking Trump (who is widely hated all over Western Europe) went up in the same places. Maybe the cops really aren’t infringing upon the freedom of expression, and it’s just a coincidence that all over Europe and North America, more and more people are counseling submission and surrender in the face of threats of violence from some Muslims over the Muhammad cartoons. Maybe.

“Brussels police take down Mohammed caricatures,” by Alan Hope, Brussels Times, October 25, 2020 (thanks to Henry).

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Conservatives Must Defend Poland’s Churches From Violent Protestors, Says PiS Leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The leader of Law and Justice (PiS) and current Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is calling on conservatives to defend the Church against radical left-wing and pro-abortion protesters who have rioted over the Polish Constitutional Court’s verdict outlawing eugenic abortion.

The recent verdict, which has sparked violent protests from left-wing and pro-abortion groups, has now made it illegal to abort babies who may be born with disabilities such as Down’s syndrome.

“These events also have a different aspect. Attacks on churches are being carried out. This is a terrible and new event on this scale in Polish history,” Kaczynski said about the protests.

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France: Arc de Triomphe Area in Paris Evacuated Over Bomb Threat

Police in Paris, France temporarily cordoned off an area around the iconic Arc de Triomphe monument after a bomb alert on Tuesday. Metro lines in the area were also evacuated while police carried out security checks.

The alert was raised over a suspicious bag found on the nearby Champ de Mars, which local media reported as containing different kinds of ammunition.

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France to Re-Enter Lockdown From Friday

France is to be placed under a second national lockdown that will come into effect overnight this Thursday (October 29) — Friday. This is being widely interpreted as meaning from midnight on Thursday. President Emmanuel Macron made the announcement in a televised address to the nation from the Élysée Palace on Wednesday evening.

Schools, however, and essential shops will remain open but bars, restaurants, cafe’s and other public places (cinemas, theatres, etc.) will close. Universities will close.

Everyone will need to carry justification forms (attestations de déplacement) when they leave the house.

Travel between regions in France will no longer be allowed, except for those travelling back home from holiday this weekend.

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France: Finance Minister Accuses Mayors of Giving in to ‘Political Islam’ With Women-Only Hours at Pools

Bruno Le Maire stated:

“There is terrorism, yes — the crime that must be judged and condemned….And there is the ideology that is at the root of terrorism and which is more insidious — political Islam, which has had its accomplices for years in France.’“

And that is precisely the same ideology that declares women to be inferior; yet those who seek to advance the Sharia present female coverings or segregation in the West as merely a matter of modesty.

In Islam, women are commanded to be fully covered….

(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

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France: Court Approves Closure of Controversial Paris No-Go Suburb Mosque

A French court has approved the six-month closure of the Pantin mosque in Paris’s no-go suburbs after its members were accused of spreading messages that led to a radical Islamic terrorist murdering teacher Samuel Paty.

The administrative court in Montreuil approved a government move to close the controversial mosque for six months last week after it shared a video on Facebook of the father of a student at the school where Mr Paty taught.

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French Interior Minister Warns of Terrorist Threat Amid Nation’s ‘Battle Against an Islamist Ideology’

The terrorist threat in France is “very high” and police protection at religious sites will be stepped up as the government continues its crackdown on radical Islam, the country’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

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French Police Chief Warns of Heightened Islamic Terror Threats

The Director-General of the National Police has warned the government and other police services that France faces a heightened terror threat from radical Islamic groups.

Frédéric Veaux warned that memos had been sent through the Al-Qaeda affiliated Thabat news agency that directly threatened terrorist attacks against the French Republic.

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Hungary: PM Orban Unveils George H.W. Bush Statue in Downtown Budapest

Hungarians have always thought of the United States as the homeland of freedom, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the inauguration of the statue of the late US President George H. W. Bush on Freedom Square in Budapest on Tuesday.

“Every Hungarian knows that America is the land of freedom, which welcomed Lajos Kossuth [the exiled leader of the 1848 revolution] with sincere love, and the building of the US Embassy in Budapest’s Freedom square provided refuge for Cardinal József Mindszenty for 15 years [after the failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising],” Orban said.

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Hungary is Rooting for a Trump Victory, Says PM Orban

Hungary is rooting for the victory of US President Donald Trump in next week’s American presidential elections, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday in Budapest.

“With the election of Donald Trump and the arrival of David B. Cornstein, everything changed, and Hungary felt an openness, honesty, and friendly approach on the part of the United States. Thanks to the ambassador’s work, Hungarian-American relations are once again evoking their old shine,” Orban said, according to Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet.

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Italy: Use of Psychotropic Drugs Rises in Post-Lockdown

Triple compared to last year says ISS?s SNAP alert system

(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 22 — The recreational use of psychotropic drugs has risen in Italy in the post-lockdown period, the Higher Health Institute’s SNAP early alert system said Thursday.

SNAP detected 33 new substances being used in the five months from May to October.

This was triple the data from the same period last year.

There were no reports during lockdown.

Among the new drugs are two new synthetic cannabinoids, Mdmb-4en-Pinaca and 4F-Mdmb-Pinaca, which have been subjected to intense monitoring in Europe because of their elevated public health risks.

They are currently being evaluated by the Expert Commitee on Drug Dependence in view of possible international controls.

The anti-poisons centre of the Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri in Pavia has also reported a growing number of drug intoxications, linked to the circulation of the new substances in Italy.

From March to today there have been 16 cases of intoxication, compared to four in the same period last year.

SNAP has found 16 cases of acute intoxication or death since 2016.

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Macron Declares Second National Lockdown in France

The tough new curbs on travel, businesses and gatherings are aimed at tackling a Covid surge.

President Macron has just appeared on TV.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a second national lockdown, banning travel between regions.

Mr Macron said under the new measures, starting on Friday, people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work or medical reasons.

Non-essential businesses, such as restaurants and bars, will close.

Covid daily deaths have risen above 500 there and officials say everything must be done so it “does not overwhelm us”.

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Muslim World Condemns Macron Over Cartoons, Iran’s Zarif Says ‘Muslims Are Primary Victims of Cult of Hatred’

France is experiencing backlash from across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iran, for standing up for the freedom of speech. And once again, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is discussing the pain Muslims feel when Muhammad is insulted, just as he did when he was first elected in August 2018. This time, Imran Khan absurdly compared the pain Muslims feel over insults to Muhammad to the pain suffered by Jews during the Holocaust.

Complaints were also heard from Muslims in the U.S. Hamas-linked CAIR demanded that France be investigated for “collective punishment” of Muslims for the measures it has taken after the jihad beheading of Samuel Paty.

Amid all this, note that there have been no significant protests against the actual abuse of Uighur Muslims by China. It is also stunning that Muslim victimology continues and even intensifies in the wake of the beheading of a man for offending Islam. The ruthless attack against France that is proceeding now is what any country can expect if it stands up against Islamic supremacism.

“Muslim world condemns Macron, France over treatment of Islam,” Al Jazeera, October 26, 2020.

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Scottish Hate Crime Bill Would Criminalize Offensive Dinner Table Conversations

Scotland’s new odious hate crime bill would go so far as to criminalize dinner table conversations if their ‘offensive’ content is reported to police.

“Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law,” reports the Times.

Such conversations were previously protected under the Public Order Act 1986, which includes a “dwelling defense” that shields conversations that take place in private homes from being prosecuted, however that would be removed under the new law.

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Scottish Govt Tells Children to Stay Home on Halloween

Scotland’s left-separatist devolved government has said children should not be allowed to go door-to-door this Halloween, in case they somehow spread the Chinese coronavirus to their neighbours.

The Scottish government, headed by the Scottish National Party (SNP), is roughly equivalent to a U.S. state government, and has the power to impose coronavirus restrictions distinct from those set by the central government in London.

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Spanish Doctors Stage First Strike in 25 Years to Protest Government’s New COVID-19 Order

Doctors, nurses now required to carry out all state-mandated medical assignments.

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Sweden: Police Try to Stop People From Burning Qur’an in Honor of Teacher Beheaded Over Muhammad Cartoon

The two policemen who tried to snatch the Qur’an away from the burner said that they were trying to “keep order in the square.” Would they have been so anxious to do so if the man had been trying to burn a Bible? Or is this yet another example of Western authorities bowing to violent intimidation and enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws because they’re too weak and cowardly to stand up for the freedom of expression?

“VIDEO: Here, the police intervene against Koran burners at the Riksdag,” translated from “VIDEO: Här ingriper polisen mot koranbrännare vid riksdagen,” Samhällsnyt, October 23, 2020 (thanks to Kevin).

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UK Police Force Says it Will Break Up Christmas Gatherings to Enforce COVID Rules

A police force in the UK has vowed to break up Christmas family gatherings that violate coronavirus ‘social distancing’ restrictions.

The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said the force wouldn’t hesitate to intervene in situations where the rules were being broken.

“If we think there’s large groups of people gathering where they shouldn’t be, then police will have to intervene. If, again, there’s flagrant breaking of the rules, then the police would have to enforce,” Jamieson remarked.

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UK Police Confirmed They Stopped Drivers Leaving Lockdown Wales

An English police force confirmed that during an operation near the Forest of Dean, it had pulled over 20 drivers including three who had come from Wales to remind them of coronavirus rules, “including travel restrictions”.

The stops occurred on Friday on the first day of Wales’s “fire-break” lockdown which banned so-called unnecessary travel, after Gloucester and West Mercia police forces said last week they would be setting up roadblocks questioning travellers from Wales they believe could be breaking the regulations.

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UK: ‘Too Early to Say’ if Christmas is Cancelled, Says Minister

It is “too early to say” whether strict lockdown rules will mean that Britons cannot spend a normal Christmas together, a senior minister has said.

When asked about the prospect of Britons being under strict social distancing rules during the festive period, Environment Secretary George Eustice told Sky News on Wednesday: “The prime minister has been very clear, as we all are, that we want people to celebrate Christmas in a way that is as close to normal as possible.

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UK: Security Guard Ignored Ariana Grande Concert Bomber ‘For Fear of Being Branded a Racist’

A security guard who had “a bad feeling” about Manchester Arena terror bomber Salman Abedi has admitted that he ignored him because he was “scared” he would be “branded a racist”.

“I felt unsure about what to do,” said Kyle Lawler, who was 18 at the time of radical Islamic terror attack, describing the bomber as “fidgety and sweating”.

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Watch: Palestinian Islamic Scholar Warns Muslim Armies Coming to ‘Crush Paris’

Palestinian Islamic scholar Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad used an address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to warn French President Emmanuel Macron and all the “infidels who have acted with insolence against Muslims” to get ready for holy war.

Sheikh Ahmad said boycotts of French products “do not change a thing” and the only solution is the reestablishment of the caliphate, according to footage obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institite (MEMRI), which specializes in translating media in the Middle East.

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Egypt’s Sisi: Erdogan ‘Now Openly Uses the Islamic Factor, ‘ Warns of ‘Wave of Terrorists in Greece in the Future’

The warning from the Egyptian President should put the EU on alert to not tolerate jihadist expansion by Turkey, which is aiming to revive the Ottoman Empire. Back in 2016, Foreign Policy Magazine warned that “Turkey’s new Maps” were “reclaiming the Ottoman Empire” and that Erdogan’s “aggressive nationalism” was “spilling over Turkey’s borders, grabbing land in Greece and Iraq.” But the Turkish threat has been ignored for years. The EU has been aware for quite some time of the deep threat that Turkey poses not just to the region, but to global security. Nevertheless, it has continually bowed to Turkey, which has already opened the gates for illegal Muslim migrants to enter Europe. Turkey also consistently threatens to release more Muslim migrants to invade Greece and the EU.

Now Erdogan is using Syrian mujahideen and has virtually declared war on Greece. In July, Turkey accused Greece of showing “enmity towards Islam” because of its opposition to the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque; in September, Turkish spy planes violated Greece airspace 45 times.

“Egyptian President’s Warning: Erdogan uses Islam and a wave of terrorists could go to Greece,” by Paul Antonopoulos, Greek City Times, October 24, 2020.

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Indignant: Turkey on Warpath Over New Charlie Hebdo Erdogan Cartoon

A Turkish government minister has called French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo “b*stards” and “sons of b*tches” over a new satirical cartoon showing President Erdogan in his underwear.

The frontpage cartoon of the magazine, which features Erdogan in his underwear looking at the bare bottom of a woman in an Islamic veil and bears the caption “in private he is very funny”, has earned the anger of the Turkish leader, who has now threatened legal action.

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Saudi Arabia Condemns Cartoons in Wake of French Schoolteacher Beheading

Saudi Arabia condemned cartoons on Tuesday in response to the beheading of a French schoolteacher by a radical Islamist for showing students illustrations of Muhammad — The kingdom did not condemn the beheading itself.

The statement in question was published by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and not attributed to any official by name. It asserted that Riyadh “rejects any attempts to link Islam with terrorism.” The largest nations of the Islamic world have united to condemn French President Emmanuel Macron this week for awarding the schoolteacher, Samuel Paty, France’s highest civilian honor for giving his life in the name of free expression and launching a crackdown on radical Islam in France.

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Submit and Obey: Iran’s Rouhani Warns Freedom of Speech Ends on Contact With Islam

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday warned freedom of speech is no defense against insulting Islam because “every single European is in debt to the Prophet.”

Instead he said it may encourage “violence and bloodshed” following Paris’ backing of the publication of cartoons that caused upset and “hurt feelings” in the Muslim community.

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4 Muslims Arrested in Delhi for Killing a Hindu Man for Loud Music or in an Issue to Stop Molestation

Hindu Youth killed by Muslim neighbours in Delhi for opposing molestation against his wife in an issue of Loud Music in a festivity.

Upendra Bharti | New Delhi | HENB | Oct 28, 2020:: It’s an another part of Jihad in the capital of India to subdue the feelings or the activities of the majority Hindus, if not desirable. The Quran followers took the lethal arms to kill the Kaffirs in a very Islamic way.

Four Muslim men were arrested for allegedly killing a Hindu man and injuring two of his brothers after a quarrel broke out between two neighbouring families for playing loud music at Jhuggi Sarai Pipal Thala of the national capital on Tuesday. There was an issue as reported that the Muslim neighbors hurled filth to the Hindu women and tried to humiliate and molest them which raised the mercury high.

According to Delhi Police, they received a PCR call regarding a quarrel near Adarsh Nagar Metro station Gate No. 4, Jhuggi Sarai Pipal Thala at around 3.15 pm on Tuesday.

When Hindu man Sushil and his two brothers were enjoying DJ Music loudly in this festive season of Dussehra, neighbor Abdul Sattar and his four sons including Chand and Hasin attacked Sushil and his brothers with knives and stabbed them to kill them shouting Allah ho Akbar. It is also told that actually the ruckus started out of slangs and teasing tendered to the women of Sushil’s family including his wife, as reported by Zee News.

“Police reached the spot and came to know that a quarrel took place between two neighbours over playing loud music and the injured people have been brought to Babu Jagjeevan Ram Hospital for treatment. In BJRM Hospital one person namely Sushil (29) was found brought dead,” a statement by police said.

The police said that two brothers of the deceased were also found admitted at BJRM Hospital for treatment…

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Escaped Inmate of Chinese Re-Education Camp Testifies Inmates Are Told “There is No God”

Reports of concentration camps built by China for the “re-education” of religious minorities forcing inmates to renounce their faith has been confirmed in a new report from an escaped Kazakh inmate.

In the report detailed to Christian ministry Barnabas Fund, an ethnic Kazakh ex-detainee described his time in a camp in the western Chinese city of Xinjiang. Previous reports have extensively corroborated claims of forced labor, organ harvesting, sexual assault, and squalid living conditions in nearly 400 camps built over the past few years.

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Independence Activists Rearrested in Hong Kong Under National Security Law

Hong Kong police on Tuesday rearrested pro-independence activist Tony Chung, who faces criminal charges for his views under China’s draconian national security law, outside the U.S. Consulate as he tried to seek political asylum, fellow activists said.

“Former Studentlocalism convener Tony Chung Hon-lam has been missing since 8.00 a.m.,” a statement on the Facebook page of Chung’s now-disbanded Studentlocalism group said.

The group later updated the post to say Chung, 19, had been among three people who were arrested, and that he had hired a lawyer.

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Controversial Report on Daniel Andrews’ Failed Quarantine Program is Delayed by Six Weeks Risking Important Findings Being Buried Over the Christmas Holidays

The report after a four-month inquiry was due to be released on 6 November but has been pushed back to 21 December, just four days before Christmas.

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Sydney Venues Put on High Alert and a Huge Islamic School is Shut as New South Wales Records Another Four Coronavirus Infections Linked to a Worrying Mystery Cluster

Two of the local cases are understood to be pupils of Malek Fahd Islamic School in Hoxton Park, Australia’s biggest Islamic school.

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Urgent Health Warning as a Student at Australia’s Biggest Islamic School Tests Positive for Coronavirus — With Another Alert Issued for a Busy Westfield and Several Restaurants

Students and staff at the Hoxton Park campus of the Malek Fahd Islamic School in Sydney’s west are being urged to isolate after the student was diagnosed on Wednesday.

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Young American Missionary Abducted by Gunmen in West Africa

A 27-year-old American missionary, Philip Walton, was abducted in southern Niger by six gunmen carrying AK-47s in the middle of the night Tuesday. At almost 2 a.m., the six men stormed Walton’s home, demanded money, and tied up his wife, young daughter, and brother, before loading him onto their motorbikes and vanishing.

Local authorities believe that the assailants were from the Fulani ethnic tribe and fled into the neighboring country of Nigeria, where they have been terrorizing Christians for years. Aircraft have been used to search for Walton, but to this point have been unsuccessful in locating him or his captors.

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Illegal Immigrants Entering From Turkey to the EU Dropped by 70 Percent

The European Union saw a 70 percent drop in migrants illegally entering from Turkey in the first nine months of 2020, German daily Welt reported Tuesday.

“The number of arrivals from Turkey in the EU in the year 2020 was 14,579,” according to the newspaper, citing a report from the EU Commission and the European External Action Service.

Of the migrants entering the EU this year, 11,921 went to Greece, 2,334 to Italy, 35 to Bulgaria and 289 went via boat directly to Cyprus, Welt said, citing the EU report.

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‘Send Them Back!’ — Migration Watch UK Calls for the Deportation of Suspected Nigerian Hijackers

Migration Watch UK called for the deportation of the suspected Nigerian illegal migrants — who allegedly seized control of an oil tanker off the coast of the Isle of White on Sunday — after two former British immigration chiefs warned that the migrants may be eligible to apply for asylum after their prospective prison sentences.

“Shockingly, if the experience of dealing with previous hijackers is anything to go by, this latest group of criminals could claim asylum and remain here for years, even if asylum is not granted,” Migration Watch chairman Alp Mehmet told Breitbart London.

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13 Year-Old ‘Gender-Creative’ Boy: ‘Gender is Over’

PinkNews tweeted Tuesday a video of CJ Duron, a 13-year-old California boy who claims to be “gender-creative,” and states, “Gender is over.”

Duron describes himself as having a “gender identity” that is male, but a “gender expression” that is female.

“To me, gender is over,” Duron says in the video, shrugging. “We don’t really need it. It’s kind of unnecessary.”

At age 11, Duron served as grand marshal of the Orange County LGBTQ Pride parade, an experience he describes as “magical” and “powerful.”

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Ban on Gender Identity Education on Romania to be Reviewed by Top Court

The ban on teaching gender identity topics in Romanian schools could be struck down by Romania’s Constitutional Court, which is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the law this Wednesday.

The top court took up the case on the appeal of President Klaus Iohannis, who wants the court to review the constitutionality of the amendment of Article 7 of the National Education Law 1/2011, which prohibits references to gender identity in schools, news portal ziare.com reports.

According to the Presidential Administration, the law contradicts some constitutional provisions regarding the rule of law and the principle of separation of powers in the state.

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Forced Gender Equality in Politics? German Courts Say it is Unconstitutional

German activists and politicians enacted forced gender parity laws in certain German states, which in theory would result in equal numbers of men and women in politics, but now German courts are striking down these laws as unconstitutional.

According to the courts, such laws, which require parties to have both sexes equally represented on lists of candidates, serve as an unjustified interference with the constitutional rights of political parties.

The Supreme Administrative Court in Brandenburg last abolished the so-called “mandatory parity” on lists of candidates. Unlike most politicians in the state parliament, the court did not agree with the opinion that if there are practically the same number of men and women in society, then both sexes should have the same representation in political bodies. The court has therefore struck down the so-called “half and half” goal for gender representation in the management of public and government affairs.

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‘If You’ve Got a Penis, You’re a Bloke’: Newly-Elected Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is Blasted for ‘Repugnant’ Comments on Transgender People

Basil Zempilas, who was elected into office in mid-October, told Perth listeners of his radio show on Wednesday that it was ‘wrong’ for a person to identify as a gender they were not born as.

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Polish PM Morawiecki Urges Pro-Abortion Protestors to Cease Aggression

Since Thursday, protests from pro-abortionists and left-wing supporters have broken out across Poland following the Polish Constitutional Court’s decision to rule that eugenic abortion is incompatible with the Polish constitution.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki referred to the protests and riots, saying that everyone should first answer the question of what the conflict was truly over.

“Is this a conflict about giving the right to life to children with Down’s syndrome? Or is this a conflict over unrestrained abortion? Our reaction to the current situations and to the heated discussion depends on the answer to that question,” he said at his Tuesday press conference.

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    • A character in Ayn Rad’s “Atlas Shrugged”; also the name of a commenter here, as “John Galt III” if I recall correctly.

      • He is the author of the book “Ringan Gilhaize”; a story of three generations of Scotsmen who fought for the right of Scots to follow the reformation teachings and not the imposed Roman Catholic religion of the Stuart kings.
        It is based on the history of that time although John Galt was born a little later in 1779. It is a story of a man burning with a desire for justice after his wife and two daughters are killed by the Dragoons under the command of the General (Bloody) Claverhouse. Finally he gets his justice (and revenge).

    • In the near future they hunt Greeks.You know why?Because no country in Europe did punished the Turks for the Genocide of 3 million Christians(Greeks,Armenians,Assyrians).
      On the contrary,the Germans helped them,the Italians also and when the poor Greeks were trying to climp up the French ships to be saved the french sailors cut their hands.
      I was told many such stories from relatives who came having lost everything and family members,killed and raped in front of their eyes.
      Now every EU country,except France, is supporting Turkey against Armenia and Greece in the Aegean,especially Germany.

      • You know who’s really supporting Azeris against Armenia? As in actually supporting, not simply not attacking them? Israel. Funny, you don’t mention them.

        • For anyone who’s going to foolishly challenge this: go ask the mangled corpses of countless Armenian tankers how they felt under the receiving end of all those Israeli Harpy 2’s

  1. correction to the above^ it appears Vienne (a city in France) is the subject, not Vienna, Austria. My mistake

  2. Looks like I’ll be sending a news tip about more beheadings by the Religion of Peace.

  3. “liberty, equality, fraternity” and the Muslim ideology as set of in that hate rag the so called Koran and practiced is just not possible. Just look at these Muslim creatures and how they are in the world. “liberty, equality, fraternity” is everything this lousy fourteen hundred year rotten Godless abomination stands against. When does the alarm go off? When a Pakistani nukes somewhere? Stupid Merkel! Grrrrr.

    • The bloody turk really has no idea of what naxis are, but what is coming is going to make the naxis look like Sunday school children in comparison. Deo Volente!

      • The sneering cannibalism bullying and pushy savage behaviour everywhere.
        Unfortunately childless Frau Angela has convinced the Muslim other-
        wise. How is it possible that so many millions of Europeans could be so incredibly blind deaf and dumb as to not act to make sure Europe could never turn into another bloody. Balkans. Hope-fully PC will evaporate in the emerging war zones.

        • Why you separate the Balkans from Europe,if this is what you mean?
          The Balkans although orthodox(i know that the west Christians do not like the east Christians) and Serbs had given a very good lesson to Nazis during the war along with the Greeks( battle of Kriti)and they are a part of Europe.
          This year the Greeks have saved Europe,from the vandals trying to come north to you and even now the Turks constantly besiege our borders in the River Evros by using Jihadjists,Pakistanis and Afganis
          We are all the time on alert.Only Austria and France are with us.
          As if God has put us in this part of the continent as a breakwater,to suffer from every attack of the savages from the East.
          Try to understand us and pray for us because we will come to war with these savages.

  4. I know that Israel helps the Azeris by giving them weapons and the reason is that they want to use the numerous Azeris who live in Iran against the Iranians,but what this has to do with the help that the West gave to Turkey during the genocide of the Christians in Pontos and Asia minor?
    I refer to natives who were living there before the invasion of the Ottomans from Mongolia.
    You know something?The Greeks are(only 2 thousand live now in Konstantinople) in Asia Minor since the 8th century BC and in Pontos(Black sea)since the days of the Argonauts,that is,Prehistory.The same applies to Armenians*,until the barbarians came and since then are supported by all the big countries of the West.
    Now the West will experience what we have suffered all those centuries .

    *Armenia took the name of the Thessalian Argonaut Armenos who lived there and ruled the country.

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