Brahim Aouissaoui, the Tunisian who allegedly killed three people at a church in Nice, was a boat migrant who landed at Lampedusa. He then entered France illegally, and was unknown to French security services.
In other news, a 16-year-old Tatar in Russia shouted “Allahu Akhbar” at police and called them the “enemies of Allah”. When he attacked them with a knife, the officers shot him dead.
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“Remdesivir for COVID-19” Study Accidentally Proved Effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine
The use of Remdesivir for COVID-19 was authorized by the FDA based on a single RCT, conducted by NIAID with the participation of Gilead Sciences, the exclusive manufacturer of Remdesivir. A final report from this study was published on October 8, five months after the drug’s authorization.
The final report shows that at least 35% of the patients were treated with Hydroxychloroquine, probably with Azithromycin. The data in the final report suggests that Hydroxychloroquine, not Remdesivir, was the main factor benefitting the patients in this study.
Nothing in the study supports the hypothesis that Remdesivir is an effective antiviral for SARS-COV-2.
The study’s own numbers show an association between RDV and increased mortality in the most severe patients. It is also possible to conclude that RDV is net harmful for most hospitalized patients.
- The trial was conducted and reported with multiple defects, including:
- The study was not double blind, but was reported as such
- The pre-registered protocol was changed multiple times over the course of the trial
- The primary outcome was changed in the middle of the trial, apparently because the researchers noticed a lack of effectiveness of their drug as tried
- The outcome measures were subjective and not reliable
The study was marred with conflicts of interest, aggravated by the design giving NIAID and Gilead leverage over the hospitals and physicians treating patients
At least three of the study researchers-authors failed to report grants and/or personal fees received from Gilead recently…
[Fauci puts profits before people.]
— Hat tip: MC | [Return to headlines] |
10-Foot Python Found Under Hood of Ford Mustang in Florida
A Burmese python was found underneath the hood of a Ford Mustang in Florida, authorities announced Thursday.
The 10-foot snake was captured by officers from Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission without any reports of injuries in the city of Dania Beach, the agency wrote on Facebook.
Burmese pythons, which are not native to Florida, prey on native mammals, reptiles and birds in the southern part of the state, FWC said.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
2 Florida Men Allegedly Used Device to Fish Out Mail, Mail-in Ballots: Report
Two suspects in Florida have been arrested after being accused of stealing mail and mail-in ballots earlier this week by using an apparent homemade device capable of lifting letters out of a dropbox, reports said.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
A Texas Mayor Defends the Constitution From Sharia Law
Despite a great deal of pushback and non-stop attacks from the leftist media in Texas, Beth Van Duyne, a woman of great courage managed to push the envelope off the table on Sharia’s implementation in her own U.S. city: Irving, Texas. The Mayor wasn’t aware of the extent of Sharia practiced by the Islamic Tribunal. So, she asked lawmakers at the Texas Homeland Security Forum to investigate the legality of this group in North Texas.
In a direct and powerful response, she refuted that it was authorized or approved by her office. The Islamic Tribunal was the first of its kind in the nation. Its members had begun deciding “non-criminal” cases, even though none of the tribunal members was an attorney. On her Facebook page, the mayor wrote:
“Sharia Law Court was NOT approved or enacted by the City of Irving. Recently, there have been rumors suggesting that the City of Irving has somehow condoned, approved or enacted the implementation of a Sharia Law Court in our City. Let me be clear, neither the City of Irving, our elected officials or city staff have anything to do with the decision of the mosque that has been identified as starting a Sharia Court.”
In the hope that this issue would be put to rest, the Irving City Council, headed by Mayor Van Duyne, supported a bill in Texas Legislature, HB 562, to reaffirm people would be protected from the use of foreign laws. If passed, it prohibits Texas judges or justices from the use of any foreign law in any cases where there was a possibility that a person could lose his or her Constitutional rights.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Biden Uses Images of Hitler and Nazis in Campaign Ad
Joe Biden has used images of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler in a campaign ad against President Trump.
The ad once again repeats the fake claim Biden has been using for two years, that Trump called neo Nazis in Charlottesville ‘very fine people’, when in reality he said they should be “condemned totally.”
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson commented on the media’s refusal to acknowledge accusations of potential wrongdoing by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his family in which the Biden family allegedly peddled influence given Biden’s position of power.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Cop Roasts Leftist Protester After She Demands to Deal With Female Police Officer
A cop hilariously roasted a leftist protester during recent unrest in Seattle after the demonstrator demanded to deal with a female officer, to which the cop responded, “How do you know they don’t identify as female?”
The video clip begins with a confrontation between what appears to be two female protesters and two male officers.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Do Americans Love Their Country More Than They Hate Trump?
What Joe Biden plans to do to the United States should be enough to have even NeverTrumps running to the polls to re-elect the president.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Early Voting Data in Florida Favor Trump Victory
With just days to go before the presidential election, early voting data out of the swing state of Florida bear good news for President Trump’s campaign.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A leaked confidential document obtained by Breitbart News reveals that a coalition of left-wing groups in Minnesota, fearing a possible Trump win, is preparing for post-election mass unrest while planning to execute wide scale “strategic disruption.”
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Facebook Bans Kids Charity Page Oathkeepers Causeplay
Two months ago, Facebook removed a group of a nonprofit volunteer organization and the personal accounts of its administrators. The founder of the group claims Facebook has not responded to multiple appeals to reinstate the pages.
Vinessa Olp founded Oathkeepers Causeplay together with her late son Veron, who was a retired Combat Medic. Oathkeepers Causeplay is a nonprofit volunteer group based in Colorado that “brings smiles to those who need them” in an effort to “make a positive difference in our world” while dressed up as popular movie characters from Disney, Marvel, and DC films.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Fauci’s Treacherous Ties to China and Globalists
Story at-a-glance
A report by Dr. Peter Breggin reveals Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and globalists who have profited from the pandemic measures promoted by him as the leader of the U.S. Coronavirus Task Force.
Fauci has been the major force behind research activities that enabled the Chinese Communist Party to manufacture lethal SARS coronaviruses, which in turn led to the release — whether accidental or not — of SARS-CoV-2 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In collaboration with the CCP and the World Health Organization, Fauci initially suppressed the truth about the origins and dangers of the pandemic, thereby enabling the spread of the virus from China to the rest of the world.
Fauci has supported and praised Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a member of a Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian political party with a corrupt past and terrorist ties who has also been accused of covering up cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia.
Fauci recently published a paper in which he dismisses the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was created in and released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, arguing instead for natural mutation. He also uses the pandemic to justify the “green new deal” and the globalist movement known as “the Great Reset”…
— Hat tip: MC | [Return to headlines] |
FBI Confirms it Has Been Investigating Hunter Biden for Money Laundering
A Justice Department official has confirmed the FBI opened an investigation on Hunter Biden in 2019 on suspicion of money laundering.
The official indicated that the investigation is ongoing and active.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Florida Man Mauled by Leopard After Paying for ‘Full-Contact Experience’ With Big Cat
A Florida man was mauled by a black leopard after paying the owner of a private animal sanctuary for a “full-contact experience” with the rare cat, a report said.
Dwight Turner, 50, had to undergo several surgeries from the Aug. 31 attack in an enclosure behind the home of Michael Poggi in the town of Davie, WPLG reported, citing a report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Turner had paid $150 to “play with” the black leopard and “rub its belly” behind Poggi’s home, according to an FWC report.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Forensic Analysis: Hunter Biden ‘Smoking Gun’ Email 100% Authentic
An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation, is unquestionably authentic, a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Former Dem Dave Rubin Reveals He Voted for Trump: Trump is the Only Way to Stop the Radical Left
Although Rubin doesn’t necessarily see Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as a radical himself, he sees the Biden-Harris campaign as a Trojan horse for the radical doctrine spouted by the likes of liberals like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
And Trump is “the last bulwark” to stop it, he said.
“I see Trump as basically the last bulwark to stop the radical left,” Rubin said. “Joe Biden himself may not be radically left — it’s a little unclear what Joe Biden is and what he stands for at this point — but what’s coming behind him, what the future of the Democratic Party is, is this progressivist left, this collectivist left, the AOC-Ilhan Omar Democrats, and [Biden’s] just the guy that they’re smuggling it in with and I think that is the worst set of ideas possible.
“It’s counter to everything America is all about.”
But Rubin’s vote for Trump isn’t simply a “counter-vote” against radical Democrats, he said. He also believes the president is indeed the right person for the preservation and prosperity of America.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Glenn Greenwald Reflects on Leaving the Intercept Over Censorship
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald has revealed why he quit the news outlet he helped create. He claimed the news outlet now has liberal editors who censored an article he wrote that was critical of Joe Biden.
In a severely critical blog post, Greenwald announced his decision to quit The Intercept, a news outlet he co-founded. In the post, he claims that the outlet is now “completely unrecognizable” as it does not welcome unpopular perspectives and marginalized voices anymore.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Here’s the ‘Censored’ Biden Story That Forced Glenn Greenwald to Quit the Firm He Founded
Via Glenn Greenwald’s substack,
I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets. I will also, in a separate post, publish all communications I had with Intercept editors surrounding this article so you can see the censorship in action and, given the Intercept’s denials, decide for yourselves (this is the kind of transparency responsible journalists provide, and which the Intercept refuses to this day to provide regarding their conduct in the Reality Winner story). This draft obviously would have gone through one more round of proof-reading and editing by me — to shorten it, fix typos, etc — but it’s important for the integrity of the claims to publish the draft in unchanged form that Intercept editors last saw, and announced that they would not “edit” but completely gut as a condition to publication:
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Hillary: Pelosi Set to Unleash Liberal Agenda After Biden Win
If Joe Biden is elected president and the Democrats retake the Senate, a wave of liberal programs drawn up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to launch, says the Democrat’s 2016 presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
[Comment: Looks like they are banking on massive, massive election fraud to “win”.]
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
How Tweet it is: Twitter Backs Down, Unlocks Post’s Account
Twitter backed down Friday in its battle with The Post and unlocked its main account after a two-week stalemate over the Hunter Biden exposé.
The move came after The Post refused Twitter’s demand that it delete six tweets that linked to stories that the company claimed — without any evidence — were based on hacked information.
The Post never budged, and kept the tweets on the account during the standoff — even as Twitter obscured them from view.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Idaho Congressman Chad Christensen Banned From Facebook
Facebook suspended the page of a Republican congressman, calling his page “spam.” The conservative legislator has been sharing COVID-19 posts, promoting opinions that are against the CDC and WHO guidelines and so Facebook has retaliated against the lawmaker.
On Wednesday, Rep. Chad Christensen tried to log into his personal page only to find out he had been suspended. Although his campaign page, Chad Christensen for Idaho, is still available, he cannot access or manage it because it is linked to his personal page.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Instagram Suppresses “Recent” Hashtags During the Election to Combat “Misinformation”
To curb the spread of “misleading” information ahead of the election, Instagram announced that it would remove the Recent tab from the hashtag pages. The move is among several Facebook is taking in preparation for the election next week.
Instagram hopes that removing the Recent hashtags will “make it harder for people to come across possible misinformation.”
The site announced the move today on Twitter.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Joe Biden Uses Adolf Hitler in Campaign Ad
Former Vice President Joe Biden has used footage of Nazi dictator and mass murderer Adolf Hitler in a new campaign ad.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Kyle Rittenhouse Ordered to be Extradited to Wisconsin for Kenosha Shooting
An Illinois judge Friday ordered local teen Kyle Rittenhouse — who is charged in the shooting deaths of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisc. — to be extradited across the border to stand trial on homicide charges.
Lake County Circuit Court Paul Novak denied the 17-year-old suspect’s request for release and ruled that his claims of self-defense in connection with the Aug. 25 incident must be raised in a Wisconsin court.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Lil Wayne Endorses Trump for Reelection, Leftists Spew Racist Hate at Him
Rapper Lil Wayne caused waves Thursday night after meeting with President Trump and endorsing him for election, touting the President’s plan to provide more financial support for black Americans.
Wayne, real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., posted a photo of himself with Trump, tweeting “Just had a great meeting with [President Donald Trump]”.
“Besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform,” Wayne continued, “the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done.”
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Make No Mistake — The Left Plans to Steal the Election
We are watching those plans being implemented already.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Man in Alleged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Plot Wanted to ‘Hang’ Trump, Obama, Clintons
One of the men charged in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer previously made threatening online comments about wanting to “hang” President Trump and his predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, according to a federal court filing.
Barry Croft, 44, of Delaware made the comments in a series of Facebook posts, FBI special agent Kristopher Long said in the court document, which was obtained by the Associated Press.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Nolte: NBC Creates Decoy Disinformation Story to Protect Hunter and Joe Biden
Less than a week before Election Day, far-left NBC News created a decoy story to make it seem as though the increasingly credible scandal involving Joe and Hunter Biden has been debunked as a fake document.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Pelosi: ‘I Feel Very Confident Joe Biden Will be Elected President on Tuesday’
Joe Biden will win the White House and Democrats stand ready to work with him on a transition agenda to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, address the economy and pass an ambitious infrastructure plan, a confident House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted Thursday.
[Comment: Likely ballot riggers told her it’s in the bag.]
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Professor of African American History Accused of Faking Mexican Heritage
An assistant professor of African American history resigned from her post after she was outed for allegedly passing herself off as Mexican — in yet another instance of someone faking their race.
An anonymous essay posted Wednesday on Medium accused Kelly Kean Sharp, who taught at Furman University, of faking her heritage by describing herself as a Chicana, or an American woman of Mexican descent.
Sharp allegedly told others that her paternal grandmother was from Mexico.
The post, written by someone who said they had “distantly known” Sharp when she was a doctoral student at the University of California, Davis, said genealogical records proved none of Sharp’s grandparents were “born outside of the US or had Hispanic names.”
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Report: Forensic Analysis Shows ‘Smoking Gun’ Hunter Biden Email is ‘Unquestionably’ Legit
A forensic analysis reportedly concluded this week that an April 2015 email suggesting Hunter Biden introduced his then-vice president father to an executive at the corruption-linked Ukrainian gas conglomerate Burisma is authentic.
The April 2015 message — which lies at the heart of the bombshell emails obtained by the New York Post, purportedly from a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter — suggests Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden likely lied about not being involved with his son’s overseas business dealings, described as shady by critics.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Sports Reporter Calls Jack Nicklaus’ Endorsement of President Trump ‘Divisive’
Sports reporter Darren Rovell called golf legend Jack Nicklaus’ endorsement of Donald Trump, “the most divisive thing [Jack] has ever done.”
[Comment: Another communist spouts off…]
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
The Cult of Woke: 30 Years of Inaction (Indifference?) by “Establishment Conservatives”
It is common knowledge that the Cult of Woke has conquered academia except for STEM subjects. Its minions are hard at work finding “evidence” of “systemic racism” in those. The Cult of Woke has also conquered mainstream media, Big Tech, and large portions of the business world generally. Its minions believe they’ll have one of their own in the White House soon (I’m thinking more of Kamala Harris than Joe Biden who is too white and too male, and in the early stages of dementia).
Trump isn’t doing much to stop the Cult’s advances. But at this point, what can he do? These people are good at mass mobilization, intimidation, and force. Only retaliatory force will stop them at this point. I can’t blame Trump for not wanting, say, to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop the canceling of history. To the Cult of Woke, Trump epitomizes racism and fascism. He’d be playing right into their hands. Maybe he will invoke it if he wins a second term and the Cult sets about canceling him.
If “Establishment conservatives” — most of whom aren’t conservative at all as I understand that term (here and here) — ever wonder how on Earth we got into this mess, all they have to do is look in the mirror. This is assuming they haven’t gone over to the other side! “Establishment conservatives” include anti-Trumpists like George Will, Max Boot, Erick Erickson, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Scarborough, and other well-connected and well-heeled types you’ll find on the pages of the Washington Post and other Establishment rags, or on mainstream TV networks.
One might add Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich and Lindsey Graham as Establishment Republicans who have never displayed any stable core values, which is why the Republican Party fell so easily to Trump.
Just over 30 years ago, I began sounding warnings that the then-almost-unknown cultural Marxist left was dangerous.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
The Post’s Twitter Account Gained About 190,000 Followers During Blackout
The Post gained about 190,000 Twitter followers while it was locked out of its primary account by the social media giant, data shows.
That number represents a 10.6 percent increase in just about two weeks, according to analytics tool Social Blade.
The spike came as Twitter blocked the news organization from posting during that time period.
A tweet announcing The Post’s return to the social media site on Friday evening quickly went viral, racking up more than 17,000 retweets and close to 50,000 likes in about an hour.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Awards Presidential Unit Citation to Special Forces That Killed ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi
President Trump made a quiet visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Thursday to honor the special forces unit that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last year.
The president awarded the unit with the Presidential Unit Citation for their bravery in the raid, which ended with Baghdadi detonating a suicide vest.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Twitter Shares Plummet After User Growth Falls Short
Twitter’s stock price plunged in premarket trading Friday as the social network added far fewer users than Wall Street expected in the third quarter.
The San Francisco-based tech giant’s shares were down 15.5 percent at $44.30 as of 7:35 a.m. a day after it reported having 187 million average monetizable daily active users from July to September, an increase of just 1 million from the prior quarter.
[Comment: Twitter’s stock price closed down 21.11% for the day.]
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Two Men Charged After Van Filled With Explosives is Discovered in Philadelphia
Two men in Philadelphia were charged on Thursday with possessing explosives that were found in a vanin the heart of the city, prosecutors said.
Brian Larue and Eric Murra are accused of transporting “quarter or half sticks of dynamite,” a handheld propane tank torch and other tools in the van they ditched near Logan Circle on Wednesday night, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office.
Authorities said the contents found inside the van are commonly used to steal money from ATM machines. Over the last four days, Philadelphia has seen at least 30 such crimes, prosecutors said.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UPS Suddenly Locates “Lost” Biden Evidence, Returning Docs to Tucker Carlson
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times
Delivery giant UPS confirmed Thursday it found a lost trove of documents that Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said would provide revelations in the ever-growing scandal involving Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his overseas business dealings.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Video: CNN’s Lemon Says Trump Supporters Are Like Drug Addicts
CNN clown Don Lemon directly compared supporters of President Trump to drug addicts during a live broadcast Thursday.
Lemon also laboured on the point that he has “had to get rid of” friends because of their support for Trump, particularly on the issue of not living in fear of COVID-19.
“I have many people who I love in my life. I come from a red state, and I’ve lived in several red states,” Lemon ranted.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Walmart Brings Back Gun Displays Day After Ordering Them Hidden
Walmart has begun returning firearms and ammo to the selling floors of its stores nationwide — just one day after yanking them from merchandise displays for fear of imminent “civil unrest.”
The retail giant, which sells firearms at around half of its 5,000 US outlets, had removed the items from public view, saying it would only supply them upon request — before announcing it has now changed its mind after seeing that “current incidents” resulting in damage to some stores have remained “geographically isolated.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Yikes! Can You Translate Biden’s Latest Gibberish?
It’s happened again.
While campaigning in Pennsylvania on Friday, Joe Biden seemed to start mumbling gibberish in the middle of a talking point.
“I’ll lead an effective strategy to mobilize trunalimunumaprzure,” he said.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
“Violence Works”: Danish Newspaper Refuses to Publish Mohammad Cartoons
The Danish newspaper that provoked violent worldwide protests after publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in 2005 has refused to do so again, with its editor-in-chief commenting, “Violence works.”
The decision follows the beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty in Paris for showing similar cartoons to pupils in his class and another attack yesterday in Nice during which three people were killed near a church, including a woman who was decapitated.
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Details Revealed About Brahim Aouissaoui’s Actions Before Alleged France Attack
The terror suspect in the horrific knife attack in France arrived in Nice by train, changed his clothes at the station and walked over to the nearby Notre Dame Basilica with a Quran and three knives, officials said.
France’s anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, a Tunisian migrant who entered the country illegally via Italy, was unknown to security services, according to Sky News.
Surveillance cameras captured him entering the Nice train station, where he changed his shoes and turned his coat inside out before walking to the church, about 1,300 feet away, just before 8:30 a.m.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France Terror Suspect Brahim Aoussaoui Seen in Smiling Photo
Nice terror suspect Brahim Aouissaoui is seen smiling in a photo taken in the Italian port city of Bari, where he arrived three weeks before his alleged attack at a French basilica, according to a report.
Tunisia native Aouissaoui, 21, arrived Oct. 8 after spending 20 days in coronavirus quarantine — first on the Italian island of Lampedusa and then aboard a quarantine cruise ship, the Daily Mail reported.
Aouissaoui spent most of his 15 days aboard the Rhapsody on the phone, talking about how he wanted to go to France, according to fellow migrants on the vessel, which was moored off the Bari coast, the outlet reported.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France Dissolves Islamist Group, Founder Requests Political Asylum in Erdogan’s Turkey
The former head of the Islamist NGO Barakacity, which was dissolved by the French government, has requested political asylum from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The founder and former head of the now-defunct Islamist NGO, Idriss Sihamedi, took to Twitter to speak about the aftermath of the government ban.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
The victims of Thursday’s Islamist terror attack at the Basilica of Notre-Dame of Nice have been identified as a 60-year-old woman, a mother, and a church sacristan.
The assailant has also been identified as a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant, named, according to multiple sources speaking to French media, as Brahim Aouissaoui. Italian Red Cross documents also name the man as Aouissaoui. However, judicial sources have toldL’Express that his identity has not been formally confirmed.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Man Sentenced to Six Months for Endorsing Murder of French Teacher
A 42-year-old man in the French commune of Colmar is the latest to be sentenced by a court for praising or making apologies for the terrorist beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.
The unidentified man was handed a sentence of six months in prison on Monday for his comments, which he made to his probation officer on Thursday the 22nd of October and led to his arrest the next day.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Poland: Massive Field Hospital in Warsaw Stadium Completed as COVID-19 Cases Hit New Record High
A major field hospital has been completed at the Polish National Stadium in Warsaw, with the hospital erected to bolster Poland’s health care system and deal with surging coronavirus cases in the country.
The hospital will have a target capacity of 1,200 beds, of which 300 are immediately available, stated Michal Dworczyk, the chief of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.
With 20,156 new infections recorded on Thursday along with 46 deaths from the virus and another 255 who died due to complications with other diseases, the situation is seen as dire.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Portuguese Bishop Blames European ‘Prejudices’ For Islamist Terror Attack in France
ROME — The bishop of Porto in Portugal, Manuel Linda, said Friday that Thursday’s lethal Islamist terror attack in Nice, France, was not due to Islamic animosity toward Christians but to European prejudice.
“Yesterday’s attack on the cathedral in Nice is not Islam’s fight against Christianity,” Bishop Linda wrote on Twitter. “It is the result of the prejudices of those Europeans who not only do not foster intercultural and interreligious dialogue but are always at the ready to accuse religions.”
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‘Respect Our Prophet’ Image of Emmanuel Macron Burnt Outside London French Embassy
Police broke up an illegal protest outside the French embassy Friday, citing coronavirus restrictions, after a Muslim prayer meeting threatened to get carried away.
Over 100 protesters rolled out rugs to pray and listen to speeches at the demonstration on Friday afternoon, before the crowd surged towards the doors of the embassy and London’s Metropolitan Police moved to intervene.
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UK Police Chief Warns Lockdown Could Spark Riots, Civil Unrest
A police chief in the UK has warned that lockdown is a “time bomb” that could eventually explode into riots and mass civil unrest.
The United Kingdom has placed its citizens under different ‘tiers’ of lockdowns depending where they are in the country, although anecdotal evidence suggests there is now mass non-compliance with the rules.
This could force authorities to become more draconian in enforcing the measures, which could in turn spark a violent backlash.
According to West Midlands commissioner David Jamieson, “We’re sitting on a time bomb here.”
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UK ‘Stands in Solidarity With France, ‘ Calls on NATO to Defend the Freedom of Speech
Some welcome and surprise news from the UK. “Britain has called on its NATO allies to stay united in defending the values of tolerance and free speech,” as well as to challenge Turkey. The starting point of challenging Turkey should be to throw Turkey out of NATO.
A chorus of Islamic countries has been justifying Paty’s murder on grounds that the Muhammad cartoons constitute an intolerable “offense”; meanwhile, they present Islam as having nothing to do with terrorism. In the minds of Sharia-adherent Muslims, it is actually not terrorism to murder for a range of “offenses” including blasphemy and apostasy.
In calling for solidarity among NATO members, the UK also needs to prepare itself for Muslim outrage and possible violence, particularly if it does seriously pursue the protection of its free society and freedom of speech. However, whether Britain actually does anything remains to be seen: avoiding the label of “Islamophobia” has become the top priority in Western countries, which has provided fertile soil for Islamization and the violence associated with it, whenever Muhammad is offended.
“UK Urges NATO Allies to Defend Free Speech as France, Turkey Spar Over Cartoons”, by Alexander Zhang, Epoch Times, October 28, 2020.
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UK: Ambulance Callouts to Suicides and Attempted Suicides Increased in Lockdown London
London Ambulance Service callouts to suicides or suicide attempts have almost doubled in a year, with the organisation saying it had seen a rise in the number of visits related to mental health issues since the start of the pandemic.
On Wednesday, LAS revealed that it is seeing an average of 37 callouts to suicide or suicide attempts a day, compared to 22 in the same period last year and 17 just five years ago.
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A lewd sculpture depicting President Donald Trump having sex with a mock Miss Universe has been put on display in an art gallery in Central London. The sculpture will be shown at the Soho Revue until election day on November 3rd and was dubbed by the artist the “Official Presidential Send Off”.
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Vatican Cardinal Calls for Battle Against ‘Monstrous’ Islamism
ROME — Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah denounced Islamism Thursday following a lethal terror attack in a French church, calling it a “monstrous fanaticism.”
“Islamism is a monstrous fanaticism which must be battled with force and determination,” wrote the Guinean cardinal, who leads the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship, invoking his own experience as an African.
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War Spillover: Turkish & Azeri Mobs Hit Streets “Looking for Armenians” In France
The latest terrorist killings to rock France as tensions grow centered on the country’s firm free speech traditions as a secular republic vs. Muslim immigrant outrage over negative depictions of Muhammad in French media have grabbed international headlines, but other disturbing trends which have received much less attention suggest the violence looks to grow.
This week there have been reports of clashes between Turkish-Azeri demonstrators and Armenians on the streets of France. On Wednesday multiple videos circulated widely on social media which appear to show Muslim Turks and Azeris “hunting down” Armenian Christians as the war in Nagorno-Karabakh spills over onto the streets of Europe.
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Caroline Glick: The Real Netanyahu (And Trump) Dilemma
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s decision to award the prize to the World Food Program this year assuaged the fears of elitists from New York to Paris and Berlin. The Abraham Accords, which include bilateral peace treaties between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and most recently Sudan, and Israel have fundamentally changed the Middle East. They have upended fifty years of failed peace processing on the part of Western foreign policy elites who seem to fall into deeper and deeper funks with word of each new peace deal.
Newsweek’s cover story on Oct. 2 nicely encapsulated the distress. The cover featured a leering black and white photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a red and white headline, The Netanyahu Dilemma: Can The Nobel Prize Say No to Bibi?
By giving the prize to the World Health Organization, the committee kicked the can down the road. Maybe President Donald Trump will be defeated next week. Maybe Netanyahu will be ousted from power. And then things can return to normal, they console themselves. They will be able to forget all about the unpleasantness.
What is it about the Abraham Accords that makes the foreign policy “experts” so upset?
Three aspects of the deals really get their goat. The first is their authors. For the likes of the British Foreign Office and the Council on Foreign Relations, few are held in greater contempt than Netanyahu and Trump. The Newsweek article, which dealt with Netanyahu specifically, called him “widely loathed.” And of course, there hasn’t been a US President as despised by “the smart set” as Trump since Andrew Jackson…
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How the EU is Trying to Overthrow the Israeli Government
As EU Budget Rapporteur 2019, I have been shocked to find out that the far-left and anarchist organizations protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Balfour Street in Jerusalem are allegedly financed from abroad, mainly by the EU and Germany.
On Sept. 30th, Likud MK and chair of the Caucus on Combating Delegitimization & Anti-Semitism Ariel Kallner wrote to German ambassador Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer to complain about German funding for left-wing Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF), which provides legal defense to the violent protestors.
As Chairman of the Knesset Caucus on Combating Delegitimization, Kallner wrote: “I would like to express my sincere concern about this intervention in Israel’s internal affairs that constitutes an undermining of its sovereignty.”
In her answer of Oct. 5, German Ambassador Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer denied the allegations. She claimed the German Government “does not support or fund any violent or illegal activities of civil society organizations”, and that “any organization or project funded by the Federal German government has successfully passed a thorough and transparent screening process.”
There is actually nothing transparent about German and EU funding of anti-Israel NGOs. The European Court of Auditors stated in 2018 “that the Commission was not sufficiently transparent regarding the implementation of EU funds by NGOs.”
My own party, the pro-Israel Alternative for Germany (AfD), posed a formal query to the German government July 13, asking how much funding Berlin provides to which NGOs in Israel and the PA. In its answer Aug. 7, the German government informed us (and the taxpayers we represent in Parliament) that this funding is Classified, because “organizations of civil society are victims of threats and repression” in Israel. It was not clear who the German government was accusing of “threats and repression” except possibly Israeli authorities.
According to NGO Monitor, Human Rights Defenders Fund received €58,940 from the German government 2018. According to our research on the EU Financial Transparency System, HRDF received €299,988 from the EU 2019.
According to press reports, the NGO HaMoked — Center for the Defense of the Individual is also involved in the legal defense of violent anti-Netanyahu protestors. According to NGO Monitor, HaMoked received €884,164 from the tax-funded church charity Misereor Germany in 2018, and €667,049 from the EU.
This information is not widely known in Germany. When my office contacted several leading German newspapers that usually report fairly on Israel with this explosive information, including “Die Welt” and “Bild”, we were told they were aware of it and were working on it. Still, no one has reported on this in Germany, even one month after Kallner’s letter…
[Anti-Semitism is alive and well in Europe and Germany once more.]
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The former national president of the Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang Moudi Tajjour claims deported underworld figure Hassan ‘Sam’ Ibrahim will ‘live like a king in Lebanon’.
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Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said in statement it was treating the incident as an attempted act of terrorism and had opened a criminal case.
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Russian Police Kill Teen Who Stabbed Cop, Called Them ‘Enemies of Allah’
Authorities in Russia on Friday shot and killed a teen after he allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station and stabbed an officer — while calling police officers “enemies of Allah,” reports said.
During the chaotic attack in the Republic of Tatarstan, the teen, identified by local media as 16-year-old Vitaly Antipov, tossed at least two Molotov cocktails at the station’s parking lot shortly after midnight in the town of Kukmor, prompting authorities to chase after the suspect, the Moscow Times reported.
The teen then allegedly pulled out a knife and attacked one of the officers before cops opened fire, killing the boy.
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Azerbaijani Forces Target Cathedral in Artsakh, Behead Armenians
Azerbaijan’s jihad war crimes will get little notice, because like the “Palestinians,” Azerbaijan has a well-funded PR machine.
“One Greek killed fighting in Artsakh, Azerbaijan continues to commit war crimes,” by Paul Antonopoulos, Greek City Times, October 28, 2020.
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Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir bin Mohamad’s extraordinary diatribe that “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people” has been removed from Facebook and Twitter.
Mohamad, who led the Muslim-majority country as recently as March 2020, had said that “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” on the same day a gruesome terror attack took place at a church in Nice, which was itself something of an epilogue to the public beheading of teacher Samuel Paty near Paris.
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According to International Christian Concern, the High Court of Sindh, Pakistan, has validated the marriage of a 13-year-old abducted Christian girl and a 44-year-old Muslim man. The Christian parents of Arzoo Raja say she was abducted on October 13. After reporting the incident, they were informed by police two days later that she had willingly converted to Islam and married Ali Azhar.
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Stop Harassment on Hindu Students in Bangladesh in the Name of Blasphemy
Bullying on Hindu Students to doom their career. Six Students Suspended, Arrested in a month.
Rajat Das | Dhaka | HENB | Oct 30, 2020:: In Islamic Bangladesh the Hindu students are now targeted in a new module of blasphemy to doom their career for ever. In Islamic Bangladesh, the fundamental Muslims are trying hard to bring Blasphemy Act as crime of highest count with capital punishment. But, now, the Bangladesh Police is rampantly arresting Hindu students under various sections under Digital Security Act 2018 and as its amended version in 2020 even there are no sections directly upon blasphemy. Even then, minority Hindu students in Bangladesh are continuously being persecuted for alleged Blasphemy against Islam.
These events follow a common pattern. Hackers target Facebook IDs having Hindu names, hack the IDs, and then using the hacked ID comments blasphemous post against Islam in social media. Then the screenshot of the comments is posted in a social media platform to instigate the Muslim students as well as general population especially those with radical Islamic bent of mind. Then the university authority suspends the student and a case is filed against the student in Digital Security Act (DSA). As a part of Cyber Jihad, Islamists now find the clue of blasphemy as another tool of Hindu persecution.
The few recent incidents are narrated below:…
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Mike Pompeo: Communist China is ‘Gravest Threat’ To the Future of Religious Freedom
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Thursday in Indonesia that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a “war” against people of all faiths.
The “gravest threat to the future of religious freedom is the Chinese Communist Party’s war against people of all faiths: Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners alike,” Secretary Pompeo told political and religious leaders gathered in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
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Armed with knives and rocks, the group of children, some as young as just eight, have allegedly been wreaking havoc across Darwin this week.
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Congo: Muslims Murder 18 People ‘In an Atrocious Way, ‘ Torch Church
If Christians had torched a mosque, which would not happen and should not happen, there would be international headlines about it for months, if not years. But you’re likely to hear about this only here.
“Suspected Islamists kill 18, torch church in east Congo,” Reuters, October 29, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace).
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‘Christophobia’: Bolsonaro Mourns Brazilian Victim of France Jihad
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro honored the memory of Simone Barreto Silva, a Brazilian national killed in a church during one of five attempted jihadist attacks in France on Thursday, in remarks warning the world to reject “Christophobia.”
Bolsonaro has risen to become the most prominent head of state campaigning against Christophobia, or the persecution of Christians due to their faith. In his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in September, he warned of growing Christophobia around the world and urged the U.N. to act to protect Christian groups. At the same assembly, the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, demanded the U.N. enforce a global ban on anti-Islamic blasphemy.
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Canada to Increase Immigration Targets After COVID Disruption
Canada is aiming to add 410,000 new permanent residents in 2021, citing a need for more immigration after COVID-19 interrupted the usual process.
The goal is over 50,000 more than the country was planning on adding in 2020, prior to the start of the COVID-10 pandemic.
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A charity boss has been jailed for using the asylum organisation she founded as a front to try and bring illegal immigrants into the UK and force them to work on cannabis farms.
Mother-of-three Pranvera Smith, 47, who set up Freedom to Stay in 2014, previously landed a £10,000 lottery grant for her ‘work’, Birmingham Crown Court heard on Thursday.
She claimed the organisation helped new-arrived Albanian asylum seekers to find their feet by applying for benefits and care money as well as applications to stay in the UK.
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France Beheading Terrorist Revealed to be Boat Migrant Who Arrived Via Italy
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News
The terrorist who beheaded a woman and killed two others near a church in Nice, France has been revealed to be a Tunisian boat migrant who arrived on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa last month.
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Greece: Illegal Immigrants in Samos Loot Shops After Devasting Earthquake
For some of the illegal immigrants on Samos, today’s 6.6 Richter earthquake was an opportunity to start looting at the expense of the local people.
At a time when people were running in panic due to an earthquake with buildings collapsing and killing 2 small children, groups of illegal immigrants took the opportunity and enter houses and shops and started robbing whatever they could find.
This provoked the anger of the islanders.
As soon as the tsunami hit after the earthquake and water entered the shops, some people came down from migrant center and snatched from the shops what they could. Some of them were reportedly arrested when they entered an alcohol shop and started stealing.
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Eating disorder activists are complaining to Apple that a popular diet app promoted on the App Store is “harmful” and should be banned.
CARROT Fit promises “to transform your flabby carcass into a Grade A specimen of the human race.” The app encourages users through playful and irreverent humor that’s a similar style to other apps in the range such as CARROT Weather.
But while the app is popular and successful in helping people lose weight in a fun way — as is the case these days, there’s always a group that wants to spoil the fun.
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After Mass Bans, Facebook is Losing Users Faster Than it’s Gaining Them
Here’s what happens when you ban users at a faster rate than are joining.
Facebook is losing users in its best market, North America. According to a third-quarter earnings report, the company’s surge in growth at the beginning of the year is gradually dwindling.
“As expected, in the third quarter of 2020, we saw Facebook DAUs and MAUs in the US & Canada decline slightly from the second quarter 2020 levels, which were elevated due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the company wrote in a press release.
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Black Coalition Accuses Planned Parenthood of Racial Discrimination
Abortion-industry giant Planned Parenthood is engaged in illegal racial discrimination targeting black communities, charges the National Black Pro-Life Coalition in a complaint filed with the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
The group contends Planned Parenthood has “targeted” black woman and babies.
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Cultural Superiority Isn’t Racism: Why Western Values Underpin the World’s Best Countries
Elements of the left and their allies in the media are constantly driving this point home: White people are bad and so is the culture that they have created. Everything we value as a society is bad and, more than that, little more than an ex post facto justification for the subjugation of non-whites. Western culture is white culture, and all things white are bad.
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Mailchimp Will Now Deactivate Accounts Sending ‘False, Inaccurate, Or Misleading’ Emails
Mass mailing service Mailchimp, a US based marketing automation service, has updated its Terms of Use regarding types of content that are prohibited for distribution on the platform. In particular, the service now “does not allow the distribution of content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading, in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances.”
The policy change comes amid reports of Mailchimp summarily deactivating the accounts of independent news outlets SGTreport and Press for Truth, according to Reclaim The Net.
GET THIS: If you think for a SECOND the fascist big tech co’s aren’t all COLLUDING to SILENCE US: On 10-15 @YouTube “suspended” BOTH SGT Report YT channels severing my ability to reach 745K people. Now @Mailchimp just deactivated my account and locked up my email list. @HawleyMO pic.twitter.com/sGBvc5FgoF — SGTreport (@SGTreport) October 19, 2020
Press for Truth’s Dan Dicks says he no longer has access to thousands of emails subscribers he’s accumulated for years, as he can’t access his account.
“I feel like that’s my data,” said Dicks. “I was using it as a hedge against the coming censorship and they just pulled the plug on me there.”
According to SGTreport, their email was “locked up” as a result of the termination.
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Mailchimp Joins Big Tech Censors, Says it Will Ban Accounts That Distribute “Misleading” Content
Mailchimp has joined the Big Tech censorship purge by announcing that it will ban users who distribute “misleading” content, a totally arbitrary definition that will undoubtedly be open to partisan abuse.
The mass mailing service has updated its Terms of Service to state that it “does not allow the distribution of content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading, in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances.”
In other words, if a single far-left Mailchimp employee decides they’re offended by your conservative content, they can ban you entirely and flush your carefully built database of followers down the toilet.
Both Press For Truth and SGT Report said their accounts had been deactivated after the TOS change.
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UW-Madison Spends $12,750 to Host ‘White Fragility’ Author Robin Diangelo
Robin DiAngelo, critical race educator and author of New York Times bestseller “White Fragility,” was the keynote speaker Tuesday at UW-Madison as part of its 2020 Diversity Forum.
The virtual event, held Oct. 27 and 28 and titled “The Pandemic Effect: Exposing Racism and Inequalities,” concluded Wednesday and featured a keynote talk by Austin Channing Brown, author of New York Times bestseller “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.”
DiAngelo was paid $12,750 for her three-hour address, which included her talk and a Q&A session, according to a campus spokesperson.
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As I’m sure most have already heard, Sean Connery died last night in his Nassau home.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824
But of course the BBC couldn’t resist harpooning his James Bond as a sexist “museum piece”.
https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/1322508654634041344
https://mobile.twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1322548119586906118
Bad timing, President Trump. 😆
https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1322641584698003456
We are screwed
Every day
https://twitter.com/Sotiridi1/status/1322625122214227973
The only way to maintain data that can be taken from you by big tech companies is to write them down on a piece of paper or back up or print off. Old fashioned but effective.