Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/5/2020

After meeting or exceeding medical targets for being discharged, President Trump left Walter Reed Hospital and will continue his recovery from the coronavirus in the White House. Meanwhile, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and two members of her staff tested positive for COVID-19.

In other news, two illegal migrants were arrested on a highway in Czechia, and one of them tested positive for COVID-19.

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

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

Financial Crisis
» 15 Signs That America’s Economic Depression is Accelerating as We Head Toward the Holiday Season
 
USA
» 14 Absolutely Horrible Things That Were Said About Trump After He Was Diagnosed
» 37 Shot, 5 Fatally, In Chicago This Weekend
» All Russiagate Did Was Advance Pre-Existing Agendas of the Same Spy Agencies Who Started it
» ASU Student to Sue After Being Fired Over Jacob Blake Tweet
» AU Receives $1.1 Million From Bill Gates Foundation, Others for ‘Antiracist’ Learning
» BLM Ties to Marxist Groups Spotlighted in New Video
» Bokhari: Critical Race Theorists Control the Big Tech Algorithms That Control Us
» California Wildfires Scorch Record 4 Million Acres
» CDC Revises Coronavirus Guidance Again, Now Says it Spreads Through Airborne Transmission
» CNN Claims Trump Doctors Are ‘Purposely Misleading’ And ‘Hiding Things’
» Cop Shows Up to Aftermath of Mass Shooting, Kills the Hero Who Stopped it — No Charges
» DARPA Biochip to “Save” US From COVID Can Control Human DNA
» Department of Justice Defends Capitol Hill Baptist Church Against D.C. Mayor’s COVID-19 Restrictions
» Facebook Apologizes for Banning Fallout 76 Militia Group
» Is Donald Trump Being Murdered Right Before Our Eyes — Best to Consider the Reality of What’s Happening
» Man Shatters Portland Police Cruiser’s Window and Pepper Sprays Officer Inside, Ppb Says
» Michigan AG’s Office Will No Longer Enforce Gov. Whitmer’s COVID-19 Restrictions
» NBA Finals Game 2 Ratings Dip
» New York City Has Already Eclipsed Last Year’s Murder Total
» NFL Ratings: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Takes Another Hit for Eagles-49ers Game
» Nunes: Shut Down Intel Agencies Until They Declassify ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence Against Hillary Clinton
» Police Make Six Arrests After Protesters Gather in Downtown Portland
» Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Trails Challenger Sarah Iannarone by 11 Points, According to Dhm Poll
» Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tests Positive for COVID
» Prof Says She’d ‘Restrain’ Trump, Force Psych Test if She Were His Doctor
» Rantz: Video Shows Tacoma Teacher Scold 10-Year-Old for Admiring Trump
» Tens Turn Out for NH Biden Rally Hosted by Bernie Sanders
» The Idiotic Claim That Other Nations Are “Disrupting the Public Conversation” On US Politics
» The Truth About Trump Getting Corona
» Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis Came From a Research Tool
» Trump to Leave Hospital at 6:30 P.M. Monday; Tweets “Don’t be Afraid of COVID. Don’t Let it Dominate Your Life.”
» Trump’s in Hospital With COVID, Yet He Still Managed One More Public Appearance Than Biden on Sunday
» Viral Video Reportedly Shows Antifa Members Trying to Rip American Flag From Woman’s Hands in Portland
» Voter Fraud the Only Issue in 2020 Election
» Who Wants President Trump Dead?
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgium Ends Two-Year Government Crisis With Fresh PM
» Daniel Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board
» Dutch Govt: “Wear a Mask!”; Chief ‘Scientist’ — Don’t Bother!
» Germany: Jewish Student Attacked Outside Hamburg Synagogue With Infantry Shovel
» Italy: Ex-Turin Mayor Indicted Over Book Fair
» Nord Stream 2: Berlin Offered the US 1bn to Avoid Sanctions
» PM Babis’ Center-Right ANO Movement Dominates Czech Regional Elections
» Poland: Conservative Ruling Party PiS Maintains Strong Lead in Polls
» Poll: Majority of Britons Unwilling to Pay More for Energy to Meet Climate Goals
» ‘Resentment’: Anti-Trump Former UK Ambassador Predicts a Biden Presidency Would Not be Friendly to Boris
» Three Regions in Eastern Europe at High Risk of Poverty
» UK Home Secretary Condemns ‘Hooliganism and Thuggery’ of BLM Supporters Who Target Police, Statues
» UK: Woke Lancet Denounces ‘Medical Racism’ In United States
» Woman Beaten With Scooter After Rejecting Man’s Advances in Latest Assault on French Streets
 
Middle East
» Turkey Slams Macron’s Law Seeking to Create ‘French Islam’
 
Russia
» A Dozen Facts About the Bolsheviks Everyone Should Know, But No One Does
» The EU Embraces Poland’s ‘Marshall Plan’ For Belarus
 
Caucasus
» Death Toll Rises as Azeris, Armenians Say Civilian Areas Are Under Fire
» Israel May Halt Its Weapons Sale to Azerbaijan, Armenian Ambassador Says
 
South Asia
» Durga Puja Idols Vandalised in Patuakhali District of Islamic Bangladesh
» New Technology Refuses Entrance to Shops if You’re Not Wearing a Face Mask
 
Far East
» China Surveilled Religious Minorities in Their Private Residences
» COVID Whistleblower’s Mother Reportedly Arrested in China
 
Australia — Pacific
» How Lockdown Ruined Trust Between Victorians and the Boys in Blue: Confidence in Police Plummets After Videos Emerge of Heavy-Handed Arrests During the Pandemic
 
Immigration
» Germany Plans to Spend €64.5 Billion on Migrants Over Next Four Years
» Italy: Salvini Appears in Court Over ‘Kidnapping’ Charges, Warns He Will Stop Migrants Once Again
» ‘No More Migrants’ — Sweden Changes Its Asylum Policy
» Pope Francis: ‘Each Country Also Belongs to the Foreigner’
» Two Illegal Migrants Arrested on Czech Motorway, One Infected With COVID-19
» UK Government Importing Asylum Seekers Directly From Greece Under ‘Family Reunification’
» UK: Patel Criticises Illegals ‘Shopping Around’ For Asylum, Vows ‘Firm and Fair’ Refugee System
 
Culture Wars
» Belgian Milestone: A First Trans Minister and Nobody Cares
» Hungarian Politician Shreds Book That Turns Traditional Fairy Tale Heroes Into LGBT Characters
» New Polish Education Minister Rejects Sex Education Specialists in Schools Warns He Has Legal Tools to Fight Revolution Against Traditional Values
» Reddit Blasted as the Late Aaron Swartz is Omitted From the Founders Page
 
General
» COVID-19 Updates: One in 10 Worldwide May Have Had Virus, Who Says
 

15 Signs That America’s Economic Depression is Accelerating as We Head Toward the Holiday Season

Hardly anyone expected that things would get this bad in 2020. Once the pandemic hit and states all over the country started instituting lockdowns, economic activity collapsed dramatically. U.S. GDP was down 31.4 percent during the second quarter of 2020, and that was a drop without parallel in all of U.S. history. In fact, that decline was more than three times as large as the previous record. But eventually states started to “reopen” their economies, and U.S. GDP for the third quarter is expected to show a significant rebound when the numbers are finally released. Of course we still aren’t even close to where we used to be, but at least things weren’t as bad as they were in the second quarter. But now as the fourth quarter begins, it appears that economic conditions are heading back in the wrong direction again. The following are 15 signs that America’s economic depression is accelerating as we head toward the holiday season…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

14 Absolutely Horrible Things That Were Said About Trump After He Was Diagnosed

There was a time when a moment like this would have brought the entire nation together in unity. Decades ago, news that the president of the United States was the victim of a deadly virus and had been rushed to the hospital would have been received with grave seriousness. But in 2020, much of the population responded to the news that President Trump had been infected by the coronavirus with jokes, sarcasm and death wishes. In fact, there were so many death wishes for Trump on Facebook and Twitter that major news outlets all over the U.S. were doing news stories about it. We have never seen anything like this before, and it says a lot about where we are headed as a nation.

And it just wasn’t random Internet trolls that were reacting this way. Activists, celebrities and well known campaign officials all decided that this was an appropriate moment to say some absolutely horrible things about Trump. Here are 14 examples…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

37 Shot, 5 Fatally, In Chicago This Weekend

CHICAGO — Five people were killed and 32 others, including four teenagers, were wounded in shootings over the weekend across Chicago.

The first weekend in October followed a September that saw violence in the city decline as cooler weather moved in, although shootings and murders were still up 50% compared to September 2019.

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

All Russiagate Did Was Advance Pre-Existing Agendas of the Same Spy Agencies Who Started it

One of the many interesting stories that has gotten lost in the shuffle over the controversy over the horrible Trump-Biden debate and the president’s recent Covid-19 diagnosis is the recent allegation by The Federalist’s Sean Davis that CIA director Gina Haspel has been personally blocking the declassification of incriminating documents pertaining to the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory known as Russiagate.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ASU Student to Sue After Being Fired Over Jacob Blake Tweet

An Arizona State University student is to sue the school and its radio station for violating her First Amendment rights. The journalism student was fired from the university’s radio station after pointing out that Jacob Blake had sexual assault charges.

Just as we said at the time of the incident, Arizona State University is a publically funded facility and is therefore bound by the First Amendment.

In August, Rae’Lee Klein shared a New York Post article on Blake’s arrest and wrote: “Please read this article to get the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be disgusted.”

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

AU Receives $1.1 Million From Bill Gates Foundation, Others for ‘Antiracist’ Learning

American University received over $1.1 million from left-wing nonprofits to decolonize its curriculum.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

BLM Ties to Marxist Groups Spotlighted in New Video

‘Anyone who takes a knee … is bowing to Chinese communism and terrorism’

A new video by researcher Trevor Loudon presents evidence that Black Lives Matter is tied to foreign communist and terrorist organizations through its three co-founders.

Patrisse Cullors has boasted in an interview of being a “trained Marxist,” along with Alicia Garza. The third co-founder, Opel Tometi, is a known supporter of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Tometi and Garza are involved with a German revolutionary organization called Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, which was established by former East German communist leaders to build a new wave of international socialist revolutions.

All three co-founders, points out the video presentation by an initiative called Choose Freedom, are part of a socialist organization called Liberation Road.

TRENDING: MAGA crowd outside Walter Reed surprised with shipment of pizza from mystery buyer

Loudon’s video notes that a group with direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Progressive Association, is the main funder of Garza’s Black Futures Lab, a voter turnout group.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bokhari: Critical Race Theorists Control the Big Tech Algorithms That Control Us

Breitbart News senior technology correspondent Allum Bokhari appeared on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday, where he discussed the new reality of digital totalitarianism described in his new book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.

Bokhari explained some of the material his inside sources in Facebook, Google, and Twitter have told him — in particular Silicon Valley’s little-known development of the field known as “Machine Learning Fairness,” which aims to blend computer science with the racist, far-left ideology of Critical Race Theory.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

California Wildfires Scorch Record 4 Million Acres

California wildfires have now burned a record-breaking 4 million acres, even as the fires continue to rage.

The figure is more than double the previous record for land burned in a single year in California, which was set in 2018 at 1.67 million acres burned.

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

CDC Revises Coronavirus Guidance Again, Now Says it Spreads Through Airborne Transmission

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidelines on Monday to say that the coronavirus can sometimes spread through airborne particles that linger in the air.

“These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation,” the CDC’s new guidance says. “Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.”

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

CNN Claims Trump Doctors Are ‘Purposely Misleading’ And ‘Hiding Things’

Without providing any evidence whatsoever, CNN, which should hence forth be called the conspiracy news network, declared Sunday that President Trump’s doctors are ‘purposely misleading’ the public and ‘hiding things’.

The comments were made by CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, after host Jake Tapper declared that White House physician Dr. Sean Conley “before this episode had an impeccable reputation.”

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

Cop Shows Up to Aftermath of Mass Shooting, Kills the Hero Who Stopped it — No Charges

Early on a Sunday morning back in November 2018, a tragedy took place in Illinois after a hero security guard stopped what was quickly becoming a deadly mass shooting. Instead of being honored for his heroism, he would be shot by police moments later. Jemel Roberson, 26, was working security at Manny’s Blue Room when his heroism got him killed. Now, two years after the Roberson’s tragedy has fallen out of the news cycle, police announced that the cop who killed him, will not face charges.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

DARPA Biochip to “Save” US From COVID Can Control Human DNA

While half of the American voting public is no doubt waiting in earnest for the announcement of a release of the COVID vaccine and as totalitarian states and governments the world over attempt to require proof of negative tests before travel, a new tool in the shed of government surveillance and control is revealing itself.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Department of Justice Defends Capitol Hill Baptist Church Against D.C. Mayor’s COVID-19 Restrictions

Attorney General William Barr and the U.S. Department of Justice have filed an official “statement of interest” backing the Capitol Hill Baptist Church lawsuit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The lawsuit alleges that Bowser has acted unfairly in the application of a ban on outdoor church services that exceed 100 people. The DOJ sided with the church, writing that the actions of D.C. officials have violated the 1st and 5th Amendments, as well as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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

Facebook Apologizes for Banning Fallout 76 Militia Group

Facebook mistakenly removed a Fallout 76 group by The Free States Militia, one of the most popular roleplaying entities. The group received no warning, and Facebook admitted it was a mistake and reinstated the group.

The Free States Militia creator noticed the removal when he could not log on to Facebook to check on a lore piece he had uploaded earlier. He even restarted his phone thinking it was an issue with the mobile app.

He tried contacting the other group members only to realize their names were unsearchable. When they all got in touch through PSN, it became clear that their group had been removed along with their personal accounts.

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

Is Donald Trump Being Murdered Right Before Our Eyes — Best to Consider the Reality of What’s Happening

If media reports are correct, the president is receiving 2 experimental drugs: the antibody cocktail, Regeneron, and the antiviral, Remdesivir. Aside from their individual adverse effects…

These drugs have never been studied for their combined effects on a patient. And now that patient…the first patient receiving them…is the President of the United States.

You know the adverse effects of Remdesivir, Scott. They’re more than worrisome. Acute kidney injury, for example. And this drug has only emergency authorization, and it’s explicitly for patients who are SEVERE COVID cases. Trump is not a severe case. What’s going on? Why are the Walter Reed doctors piling on?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man Shatters Portland Police Cruiser’s Window and Pepper Sprays Officer Inside, Ppb Says

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A 41-year-old is facing several charges, accused of breaking out the window of a Portland Police cruiser Sunday morning and spraying pepper spray inside the vehicle.

John Russell is facing charges of assaulting a public safety officer, aggravated harassment, and first-degree criminal mischief.

According to police, an officer was doing paperwork inside of their marked patrol vehicle near South Corbett Avenue and Lane Street when about 9:40 a.m. someone walked up to the SUV, shattered the glass of the rear hatch, and pepper sprayed the interior.

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

Michigan AG’s Office Will No Longer Enforce Gov. Whitmer’s COVID-19 Restrictions

The Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Sunday that she will no longer enforce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown restrictions following a court ruling that such mandates are unconstitutional.

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

NBA Finals Game 2 Ratings Dip

Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat was watched by 6.07 million viewers, according to Nielsen data, which was still down from Game 1 of the series.

Previously reported data that showed a 4.5 million viewership was from Fast Affiliate data, an NBA official clarified to Fox News on Monday.

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

New York City Has Already Eclipsed Last Year’s Murder Total

With still three months remaining in the year, New York City has now experienced more murders to this point in 2020 than the entirety of 2019. Last month alone, New York City recorded 51 murders, almost double the city’s September total a year ago.

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

NFL Ratings: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Takes Another Hit for Eagles-49ers Game

The NFL ratings have been one of the biggest stories in sports this fall and the dip in viewership continued for NBC’s Sunday Night Football in Week 4 with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers game taking a hit.

A week after the Sunday Night Football clash between the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints drew nearly 15 million viewers, still a sizable drop from the 2019 season, the NFL drew even fewer viewers on Sunday night.

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

Nunes: Shut Down Intel Agencies Until They Declassify ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence Against Hillary Clinton

Representative Devin Nunes declared Sunday that US Intelligence agencies should be forced to release so called ‘smoking gun’ documents that are said to contain details of Russian intelligence referring to an authorization given by Hillary Clinton to link President Trump to efforts by the Kremlin to interfere in the 2016 election.

In a Fox News interview, Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said “Every Republican senator and member of Congress should be saying… we want every damn bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it’s maybe time to shut those agencies down.”

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

Police Make Six Arrests After Protesters Gather in Downtown Portland

PORTLAND, Ore — Police made six arrests after protesters marched Sunday night from Tom McCall Waterfront Park to the new Multnomah County Courthouse and then to the Central Precinct in downtown Portland.

Police said some protesters vandalized some buildings and officers made targeted arrests. The group left the area by 12:30 a.m.

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

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Trails Challenger Sarah Iannarone by 11 Points, According to Dhm Poll

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler trails his challenger Sarah Iannarone by 11 points, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by DHM Research on behalf of the Portland Business Alliance.

The results were presented at a PBA meeting last week.

Wheeler polled at 30% to Iannarone’s 41%, with the remaining 29% of surveyed voters split between writing in a candidate (16%) or remaining undecided (13%). It’s an especially notable result given that the poll was not conducted by either campaign, though PBA is supporting the mayor. (The poll has a four percentage point margin of error.)

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

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tests Positive for COVID

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning, she announced on Twitter.

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

Prof Says She’d ‘Restrain’ Trump, Force Psych Test if She Were His Doctor

Visiting George Washington University Professor and medical doctor, Leana Wen, tweeted in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to leave Walter Reed Medical Center to greet his supporters from the presidential motorcade, saying that she would have had security physically “restrain” him and force him to undergo a “psychiatric evaluation.”

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

Rantz: Video Shows Tacoma Teacher Scold 10-Year-Old for Admiring Trump

The morning after the world learned President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus, a Seattle-area teacher went on a rant about the president to sixth graders. When a mom complained, he misled her about what happened. Luckily, the mom recorded the incident on her cell phone.

Brendan Stanton, a middle school teacher at P.G. Keithley Middle School in Tacoma, asked students who they admired and why. One student answered President Trump. That triggered Stanton.

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

Tens Turn Out for NH Biden Rally Hosted by Bernie Sanders

Only a handful of supporters turned out for a New Hampshire campaign rally hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Sanders was campaigning for Biden in the town of Lebanon.

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

The Idiotic Claim That Other Nations Are “Disrupting the Public Conversation” On US Politics

This evidence-free claim aligns with the narrative popularized by the Russiagate conspiracy theory that foreign governments seek to “sow discord” in the United States by amplifying controversial political opinions from both sides of mainstream US discourse, and it is idiotic for a number of reasons.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Truth About Trump Getting Corona

The same people who lectured us for the past 6 months about taking COVID seriously and not engaging in ‘conspiracy theories’ are now, after Trump caught it, not taking COVID seriously and engaging in conspiracy theories.

“It’s OK when we do it!”

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

Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis Came From a Research Tool

I find it very strange and convenient that so far only Republicans have allegedly come down with COVID-19 as a result of the debate or the Rose Garden reception for Supreme Court nominee, Barrett. Despite shrieking from the useful fools out there Trump “deserves it” for not wearing a face diaper at the debate, consider this: President Trump and Top Republicans (But No Democrats) Contract COVID — Now Cleveland Announces Outbreak Connected to Presidential Debate

I want to point out that Sen. Mike Lee who has allegedly tested positive sent a tweet which stated: “Yesterday morning I was experiencing symptoms consistent with long time allergies…” He’s “tested” and it’s supposedly COVID-19.

The ‘look at me’ jackasses of the Hollywood crowd are all screeching Trump is lying about having COVID-19 on purpose for political reasons. No, you useful idiots, he was given a test that wasn’t meant for diagnostic medical purposes.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump to Leave Hospital at 6:30 P.M. Monday; Tweets “Don’t be Afraid of COVID. Don’t Let it Dominate Your Life.”

President Trump tweeted Monday at 2:37 p.m. that he would be leaving Walter Reed Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. and added, “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life … I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”:

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

Trump’s in Hospital With COVID, Yet He Still Managed One More Public Appearance Than Biden on Sunday

President Trump surprised supporters gathered outside the Walter Reed Medical Facility by going out for a short drive to wave and give thanks. This constituted one more public appearance than his rival Joe Biden made Sunday.

Trump announced the surprise visit moments before on Twitter.

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

Viral Video Reportedly Shows Antifa Members Trying to Rip American Flag From Woman’s Hands in Portland

A viral video out of Portland shows a woman holding on to an American flag while reported antifa members try to rip it from her hands.

“There was a conservative protest today in downtown Portland. Antifa came to attack the attendees. As they were leaving, antifa tried to steal a woman’s US flag (she’s a person of color). She refused to let go & they pulled her to ground by her hair. She still didn’t let go,” journalist Andy Ngo tweeted, accompanied by video of the incident.

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

Voter Fraud the Only Issue in 2020 Election

Dozens of books have spelled out in scandalous detail how Democrats have stolen elections over the past many decades by enlisting the votes of illegal aliens, absentee voters who simply don’t exist, and of course dead voters.

Among the most riveting are:

  • John Fund’s Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
  • Eric Eggers’ Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election
  • Tracy Campbell’s Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition-1742-2004

Then there is Ballot Harvesting, a scheme exclusively used by Democrats to, ahem, win elections. How does it work? According to CA political commentator Stephan Frank, anyone — campaign workers, minors, illegals, et al — go door to door to “help” people fill out ballots that strangely favor Democrats, and refuse to collect ballots from anyone they suspect of voting the “wrong” way. They even pay them to vote the “right way.”

Intimidation is common and nothing stops them from altering ballots or throwing out ballots for the undesired candidate.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, currently 26 states allow this fraudulence, a practice being aggressively and successfully challenged by Tom Fitton of electionintegrity@judicialwatch.org.

Not to omit the now-defunct ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a massive group of over 500,000 members which operated nationwide since 1970, registering voters and helping people sign up for government-financed programs.

ACORN was exposed for its criminal activities in 2009 by James O’Keefe, founder of The Veritas Project, resulting in multiple convictions for massive voter fraud in several states, and it closed its doors in 2010, although it is believed that splinter groups formed and are active to this day.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Who Wants President Trump Dead?

Cleveland Clinic, the sponsor of the presidential debate, admits that at least 11 positive coronavirus tests can be traced to members of the media or organizers of the event. This is either gross incompetence or malfeasance for a federally-funded organization supposedly specializing in health and welfare.

These mysterious people were “scheduled to work logistics/set-up in the days prior to the event,” the clinic says. Is it too outlandish to suggest that one or more could have been tasked with spreading the virus in such a way as to threaten the life of President Trump?

If there is a lesson the American people have learned about Trump in the more than three years he has been in office, it is that he has challenged the power of the Deep State. Nobody knows this better than Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, who once questioned why Trump would fight the intelligence agencies, since “they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”…

Despite alternative theories, it seems likely that the president and First lady were infected at that presidential debate on Tuesday, September 29, where those 11 still-unidentified people with the virus were involved in debate preparation. Trump came down with symptoms later in the week and was whisked away to the Bethesda Naval Hospital, a place where some high-profile people such as anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy met their demise. He went in with a knee problem and died of hepatitis.

Like McCarthy, Trump is a sworn enemy of those in charge of the “national security” establishment.

It appears that Trump was in worse shape than previously believed, and that he may have been given a hefty amount of the virus. But by whom? And how?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgium Ends Two-Year Government Crisis With Fresh PM

Many Belgians plus those living and working in the country breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday (1 October), as after two years of government crisis the country finally announced a new government, with full powers.

The new prime minister, Alexander De Croo, a 44 year-old Flemish liberal, presented the government programme in a speech in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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

Daniel Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board

As a futuristic, hi-tech dystopia increasingly takes shape around us, the concept of the Panopticon is more relevant than ever as it functions as the underpinning of the ever-growing mass surveillance grid.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dutch Govt: “Wear a Mask!”; Chief ‘Scientist’ — Don’t Bother!

Though I don’t follow the news in the Netherlands much, I happened to see something the other day that I think is a “beautiful” example of why so many countries get their “measures” wrong, their lockdowns, facemasks etc.

First of all, they all screwed up their initial lockdowns, which pretty much were March-June all over. And second lockdowns are more something they like to threaten people with than actually considered options. Unless things really get out of hand, if for instance numbers of deaths suddenly increase a lot, but given the change towards infections occurring in much younger people than before, that is not likely. Plus, of course, no-one wants even more economic damage.

And now what you see is the politicians don’t know what to do anymore. They turn to “their scientists” again, but many have before given advice that is different from what they say now, that hasn’t worked, and that often contradicts what their colleagues in other countries say. And so everyone starts blaming “the people”.

But the people have mostly obeyed the lockdowns and become experts themselves, or so they think, and seen them go nowhere. That makes the positions of politicians and “experts” much weaker than it was 6-7 months ago. It’s about credibility, and they’ve squandered it. Why “must we listen to the scientists” if that does us no good?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Jewish Student Attacked Outside Hamburg Synagogue With Infantry Shovel

A 29-year-old man clad in military fatigues attacked and severely injured on Sunday a Jewish student outside a Hamburg in what police say was a clearly anti-Semitic attack, according to a report from Tagesshau, the news program of German television channel ARD.

The attack coincided with a major Jewish religious holiday.

The perpetrator allegedly hit the student with a shovel and injured him before security forces of the Jewish community were able to overpower him, arrest him and bring the many visitors to the synagogue to safety.

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

Italy: Ex-Turin Mayor Indicted Over Book Fair

Graft charges over former management of famed event

(ANSA) — TURIN, OCT 2 — Former Turin mayor Piero Fassino (Democrat) was indicted Friday over the management of the northern city’s famed book fair when he was first citizen from 2011 to 2016.

The trial will start on May 17 next year.

In all, 17 people have been sent to trial over alleged corruption and abuse of office.

They include the region’s former culture councillor, Antonella Parigi, and the former book fair chief Rolando Picchioni.

Twelve people under investigation were not indicted.

The probe began in 2015 and allegedly turned up hundreds of thousands of euros that were allegedly embezzled by those accused.

Prosecutors say they skimmed off some 850,000 euro for personal expenses that had nothing to do with the running of the fair.

The accused have been charged with embezzlement, false accounting and bid rigging, among other graft charges.

They deny all wrongdoing.

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Nord Stream 2: Berlin Offered the US 1bn to Avoid Sanctions

Zeit, through public construction of terminals for American gas.

(ANSA) — BERLIN, 16 SET — At the beginning of August, the German government promised the US public funding of around 1 billion euros to waiver the potential sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Die Zeit reported, anticipating tomorrow’s edition. According to the German weekly newspaper, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz had promised — first verbally and later in writing — to his counterpart Steven Mnuchin funding of up to one billion euros to construct two ports to import US liquid gas.

Through the terminals of Brunsbuettel and Wilhelmshaven, Zeit reported, American companies want to transport gas to Germany.

In a written message dating back to August 7, the German government made itself available to raise the “public support for the construction” of the ports up to 1 billion, to avoid the sanctions threatened by Donald Trump, who wants to sell the US gas in Europe. Meanwhile, the Nord Stream 2 is currently back in the spotlight. After Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s poisoning with a nerve agent from Novichok in Russia, Angela Merkel has not yet ruled out the project’s interruption to bring gas from Russia to Germany and Europe: an issue that will be on the table at the next European council.

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PM Babis’ Center-Right ANO Movement Dominates Czech Regional Elections

The ANO movement of Prime Minister Andrej Babis dominated Czech regional elections, which took place on Friday and Saturday, winning in ten out of the 13 regions.

In total, the center-right ANO movement received 21.83 percent of the vote and will have 178 seats in regional councils, which equals two more than Babis’ party previously had.

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Poland: Conservative Ruling Party PiS Maintains Strong Lead in Polls

Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party has retained the support of the electorate despite the dispute within the ruling bloc, according to a poll taken for news portal Wp.pl, published on the weekend, which shows the 40 percent of voters would cast their ballot for PiS.

The poll also shows that Poland’s opposition parties are not making any headway with voters.

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Poll: Majority of Britons Unwilling to Pay More for Energy to Meet Climate Goals

More than half of British people are unwilling to pay more for their energy bills in order to meet the UK’s climate goals, new polling shows.

Polling from think tank Bright Blue showed 52 percent of people are unwilling to pay more for household electricity and 51 percent for home heating.

The figures reveal the uphill struggle the Government may face when it comes to decarbonizing some of the trickiest sectors as it strives to become carbon neutral by 2050.

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‘Resentment’: Anti-Trump Former UK Ambassador Predicts a Biden Presidency Would Not be Friendly to Boris

Britain’s former ambassador to the U.S. has said there is “resentment and unhappiness” towards Boris Johnson on Joe Biden’s team, and that a Biden presidency might not give him a “warm, welcoming embrace”.

“I think they are rather torn,” said Kim Darroch, when asked which U.S. presidential candidate the British prime minister’s team would rather see in the White House next year.

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Three Regions in Eastern Europe at High Risk of Poverty

Two in Romania, one in Bulgaria, according to Eurostat data

(ANSA) — BELGRADE, 18 SET — Three Central- and Eastern European regions in the European Union are currently among the first ten at EU level with the largest share of the population at risk of poverty, data from the Eurostat regional yearbook show. According to Eurostat, Campania and Sicilia (Italy) have the largest share of population at risk of poverty, respectively 41.4% and 40.7%, followed by Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta (Spain, 38.3%), Extremadura (Spain, 37.6%), Nord-Est (Romania, 35.6%), Severozapaden (Bulgaria, 35.1%), Sud-Vest Oltenia (Romania, 34.3%), Calabria (Italy, 32.7%), Canarias (Spain, 32.1%) and Andalucia (Spain, 32.0%).

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UK Home Secretary Condemns ‘Hooliganism and Thuggery’ of BLM Supporters Who Target Police, Statues

Home Secretary Priti Patel has condemned the “hooliganism and thuggery” of Black Lives Matter supporters who have assaulted police officers and attacked statues and war memorials in recent months.

“This Government will always defend the right to protest,” said the Conservative MP, who heads the Home Office — the government department which is responsible, broadly speaking, for border control, law enforcement, and national security — at the Conservative Party conference.

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UK: Woke Lancet Denounces ‘Medical Racism’ In United States

The U.K.-based Lancet medical journal has denounced “medical racism” in the United States as part of purported ongoing “structural violence” present in the country.

“While much public health research has shown that racism is a fundamental determinant of health outcomes and disparities, racist policy and practice have also been integral to the historical formation of the medical academy in the USA,” states the once prestigious journal in an October 3 article coauthored by Ayah Nuriddin, Graham Mooney, and Alexandre R. White.

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Woman Beaten With Scooter After Rejecting Man’s Advances in Latest Assault on French Streets

A 30-year-old woman was beaten by a man on the streets of the French city of Montpellier after refusing his sexual advances in the latest act of random violence against women in France.

The incident took place Thursday at around midnight in the Figuerolles district of the city and saw the woman approached by a man on a scooter who attempted to engage her in conversation. When the woman ignored the man, who was intoxicated at the time, he began insulting and physically grabbing her.

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Turkey Slams Macron’s Law Seeking to Create ‘French Islam’

A draft bill announced by French President Emmanuel Macron for the creation of “Islam of the Enlightenment” will only bring about attempts to further fuel growing xenophobia, racism, discrimination and Islamophobia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has said, urging Paris to adopt more constructive ways to tackle the issue.

“Nobody should try to subject our sacred religion, which means ‘peace,’ to wrong and distorted approaches under the pretext of ‘enlightenment.’ We think that the mentality that forms the basis of this bill will lead to dire consequences rather than bringing solutions to France’s problems,” read the statement released by the ministry late Oct. 5.

The statement recalled that Macron announced that an “Islam of the Enlightenment will be created” in France with the draft bill on the “fight against separatism” to be submitted to the Council of Ministers on Dec. 9.

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A Dozen Facts About the Bolsheviks Everyone Should Know, But No One Does

Within a year of seizing power in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks, Lenin’s bloody Marxist revolutionaries, established the CheKa, the “political police” of the new communist government. The CheKa was in charge of administering The Red Terror-the unbelievably brutal policy of state-sanctioned murder-terror as a policy goal-by which tens of millions of innocent Russians lost their lives. Here are a baker’s dozen verifiable facts to give you an idea of what it was like in Russia while the Bolsheviks held power:

1.   Under Bolshevik law, anyone caught putting up a flyer was executed on the spot.
2.   One of the Bolsheviks’ first laws made anti-Semitism a capital offense.
3.   The Bolsheviks were explicitly dysgenic, selecting entire professions-the ones deemed to comprise the most intelligent Russians-for liquidation. Russian engineers, Russian university professors, Russian college students, Russian writers, Russian artists, Russian engineers, Russian doctors, Russian lawyers, and, especially, the Christian clergy, were all targeted.
4.   Their children were executed, too. Sometimes, the Bolsheviks executed the children in front of the parents before executing the parents, and sometimes the parents in front of the children before executing the children.
 

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The EU Embraces Poland’s ‘Marshall Plan’ For Belarus

European Union leaders at a special summit in Brussels approved a Polish economic aid plan for Belarus that aims to support democratic changes in that country.

“I am pleased to say that the European Council, after a very long debate, approved the economic plan for a democratic Belarus that we championed,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said, adding that “the plan is to support democratic changes, any changes that serve a free, sovereign Belarus.”

The Polish proposal, described as a “Marshall Plan for Belarus”, had been approved by the Visegrad Group of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Poland had been lobbying for a firm response by the EU to the crisis in Belarus and Morawiecki was satisfied that in the end the EU agreed with Poland on the issue.

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Death Toll Rises as Azeris, Armenians Say Civilian Areas Are Under Fire

YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) — Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas and said the death toll was rising from the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians.

But prospects for a ceasefire appeared remote after fighting intensified at the weekend, with hundreds killed in clashes involving artillery, tanks and fighter planes since Sept. 27.

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Israel May Halt Its Weapons Sale to Azerbaijan, Armenian Ambassador Says

Israel may halt commercial weapon sales to Azerbaijan, Armenian Ambassador to Israel Armen Smbatyan told the media, as fighting intensified for the ninth day between the two countries.

“In two or three days, they [Israel] seem to be on the way to stopping the supply of weapons,” Smbatyan told the Armenian news site Factor. He added that he had received a verbal promise that this would occur.

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Durga Puja Idols Vandalised in Patuakhali District of Islamic Bangladesh

Nine idols of Durga Puja vandalized in Patuakhali in Islamic Bangladesh by suspected Jihadi miscreants.

Priya Das | HENB | Patuakhali | Oct 5, 2020:: At least nine idols of Hindu goddess Durga have been vandalized at a village temple in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila, where the idols were being made for ensuing Durga puja festival.

A gang of suspected criminals belonging to Jihadi groups vandalized the idols at the temple in Mominpur village last night, our Patuakhali correspondent reports. The heads of Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati and Kartik were broken along with their carriers. The idol making was almost completed but the perpetrators wanted a destruction of idols to stop the Puja anyway.

The Durga Puja has been being continued for a long time in the house of Haralal Howlader in Mominpur village of Keshabpur Union.

The Jihadi forces have been threatening the minority Hindus in Islamic Bangladesh to stop Durga Puja in public places as it violets the norms of Islam. Durga Puja is the greatest religious and social festival of Bengali Hindus. Once more than 50000 Durgapuja was held in Bangladesh, but the count of which now goes down around 25000 or less due to oppression on Hindus, violating the religious rights of minorities.

Senior officials including Baufal Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Zakir Hossain and Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Baufal police station Mostafizur Rahman visited the spot around noon today…

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New Technology Refuses Entrance to Shops if You’re Not Wearing a Face Mask

A new technology being used in shops in Thailand and other countries to enforce coronavirus restrictions conducts a face scan to check if the customer is wearing a mask and refuses entry if they don’t have one.

“My local shops in Thailand. In 2 seconds scans my temperature and to see if wearing mask. Doors don’t open if not. 3 cases in 100+ days here. Removes awkward mask arguments for staff as well,” tweeted Niall Harbison.

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China Surveilled Religious Minorities in Their Private Residences

A new report reveals the extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crackdown on religious minorities.

According to Bitter Winter, a magazine devoted to religious freedom in China, CCP authorities surveyed the private residences of members of the new religious movement the Church of Almighty God (CAG).

A CAG member in Zhejiang claims that in 2018, cameras were installed near the entrance to her home and that her mother also reported discovering a listening device installed behind her washing machine and an additional camera positioned in her garage.

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COVID Whistleblower’s Mother Reportedly Arrested in China

The mother of Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese MD/PhD virologist who fled China and published evidence that COVID-19 was created in a lab, says that the Chinese Communist Party has arrested her mother.

“According to Mr. Miles Guo, the CCP arrested Dr. Limeng Yan’s mother in mainland China, allegedly as a retribution on Dr. Yan, the Hong Kong virologist, Chinese Whistleblower and CCP COVID-cover-up debunker,” reports gnews.org — which has been described as “Guo’s media outlet.”

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How Lockdown Ruined Trust Between Victorians and the Boys in Blue: Confidence in Police Plummets After Videos Emerge of Heavy-Handed Arrests During the Pandemic

Victorians have lost faith in Victoria Police in record numbers during Melbourne’s never-ending Stage Four lockdown, a new poll has revealed.

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Germany Plans to Spend €64.5 Billion on Migrants Over Next Four Years

The German federal government will offer €64.5 billion over the next four years to deal with the consequences of the influx of migrants since 2015, with the money focused on integrating migrants and stopping the sources of flight, according to data from the German Finance Ministry.

For the year 2021 alone, the German Ministry of Finance is planning to spend €20.1 billion, reported Der Spiegel.

The majority of the financial resources will be used to combat the reasons why people migrant from their countries of origin, with €25.4 billion directed towards this purpose by 2024. This money could be used, for example, to build schools, infrastructure, and programs to reduce corruption in Third World countries, in order to encourage people to have less reason to flee.

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Italy: Salvini Appears in Court Over ‘Kidnapping’ Charges, Warns He Will Stop Migrants Once Again

Senator Matteo Salvini, the leader of the populist League party, appeared in court over the weekend for preventing a ship filled with illegal migrants from docking at an Italian port when his party was in power.

The former interior minister is accused of “abuse of power and kidnapping” for denying the Gregoretti — a coastguard ship that had been carrying 116 illegal migrants — permission to dock at a port in Lampedusa back in July of 2019.

“I’ll head to the court with peace of mind and a clear conscience to have saved lives and defended my country,” Salvini told the press before attending his trial. “I will plead guilty to defending Italy and the Italians.”

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‘No More Migrants’ — Sweden Changes Its Asylum Policy

Sweden, a country with one of the most liberal asylum policies in the world, is drastically changing its attitude towards migrants.

Although the country will provide material aid to Greece, it has decided not to accept any refugees from the burned Moria camp or other Greek islands, unlike Germany, which has agreed to take in 1,500. Sweden has thus joined Austria and the Visegrad Four countries of Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia, which refuse to accept migrants from the camp, writes Czech news portal Novinky.

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Pope Francis: ‘Each Country Also Belongs to the Foreigner’

ROME — Pope Francis has proposed “a different way of understanding relations and exchanges between countries” that minimizes the idea of citizenship in a particular nation and emphasizes the common humanity of all people.

In a new encyclical letter titled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All), the pope asserts that the common destination of the earth’s goods “requires that this principle also be applied to nations, their territories and their resources.”

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Two Illegal Migrants Arrested on Czech Motorway, One Infected With COVID-19

Customs officers reported that they found two undocumented men from Libya and Algeria by the D1 motorway at the end of September. One of the detainees later tested positive for COVID-19.

On Sept. 25, around 10:15 p.m., a customs officers’ patrol came to check ta selected vehicle at a gas station on the D1 motorway in the direction of Prague, according to Idnez.cz.

“During the inspection of the vehicle, the patrol was approached by the service station operator who told them that two people behaving suspiciously were moving in the immediate vicinity. Immediately after inspecting the vehicle, the patrol began looking for these individuals, finding them shortly after near the gas station,” said Yvona Matejkova from the Customs Office for the Central Bohemian Region.

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UK Government Importing Asylum Seekers Directly From Greece Under ‘Family Reunification’

The British government has revealed it is flying in asylum seekers directly from Greece, while record numbers of illegal immigrants continue to arrive on UK shores in boats.

On Friday, the government announced that 28 more people had been imported to Britain, as “the latest in a series of flights which has brought asylum seekers to the UK from Greece to reunite with family”.

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UK: Patel Criticises Illegals ‘Shopping Around’ For Asylum, Vows ‘Firm and Fair’ Refugee System

Home Secretary Priti Patel has vowed to reform the UK’s “fundamentally broken” asylum system, including refusing asylum to migrants who arrive in the UK illegally.

The Home Secretary promised “the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades” at Conservative Party conference on Sunday. She said a major problem of the current system is that it does not differentiate between asylum seekers who go through the proper channels to apply for refugee status and others such as criminal migrants trying to game the asylum system by filing “repeated legal challenges to stop their deportation, followed by numerous meritless asylum claims so they could stay in our country”.

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Belgian Milestone: A First Trans Minister and Nobody Cares

Lack of media frenzy over Petra de Sutter’s gender identity is a powerful sign of progress.

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Hungarian Politician Shreds Book That Turns Traditional Fairy Tale Heroes Into LGBT Characters

An alternative storybook portraying the heroes of traditional Hungarian folk and fairy tales as belonging to minorities such as lesbian or Roma has sparked a major controversy in Hungary after Dóra Dúró, vice-president of the far-right Our Homeland Movement, publicly tore up and shredded a copy of it.

In the book, “Meseorszag mindenkié” (“Wonderland Belongs to Everyone”), a dozen young authors reinterpret classic Hungarian folk tales portraying the protagonists as belonging to “oppressed minorities”. Pöttöm Panna, for example, the Hungarian iteration of Thumbelina, is a Roma servant girl.

“The Our Homeland Movement does not accept that children are being subjected to homosexual propaganda […]. Homosexual princes are not part of Hungarian culture,” Dúró said at a press conference held on Sept. 25, during which she tore out pages of the book and then placed them in a shredder.

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New Polish Education Minister Rejects Sex Education Specialists in Schools Warns He Has Legal Tools to Fight Revolution Against Traditional Values

Prof. Przemyslaw Czarnek, who will take over as minister of education this week, says that he will defend traditional and family values, but denies that he is prejudiced against LGBT people.

Czarnek has gone on the record many times expressing his opposition to LGBT ideology. In his interview with Polish news outlet Onet.pl, he denies that he plans to launch a crusade against LGBT people in education.

At the same time, he warns that he has the legal instruments in hand to ensure that no one can attempt to launch a revolution in schools against traditional and family values.

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Reddit Blasted as the Late Aaron Swartz is Omitted From the Founders Page

Users of Reddit’s “Watch Reddit Die” community have spotted that the social network now excludes Aaron Swartz from the page listing the names of its co-founders.

A graphic available on the website instead declares that Reddit was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman (who continues to serve as CEO) and Alexis Ohanian.

This revelation caused an avalanche of negative comments on the subreddit, r/WatchRedditDie, that says its purpose is to track reddit’s abandonment of free speech and decline into censorship.

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COVID-19 Updates: One in 10 Worldwide May Have Had Virus, Who Says

One in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19, the World Health Organization said, at a special meeting of WHO leaders.

A top official said the estimate meant “the vast majority of the world remains at risk”.

Just over 35m people have been confirmed as being infected with coronavirus — the WHO’s estimate puts the true figure at closer to 800m.

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13 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/5/2020

  1. The COVID hucksters have everybody fooled, but I guarantee we won’t be so patient when the economy folds, as it’s in the process of doing

  2. “PM Babis’ Center-Right ANO Movement Dominates Czech Regional Elections”
    ANO isn’t center-right. They started off as such, but their program is almost entirely left now.
    Their MPs in the European Parliament also vote pro-migration and even against their own country.

  3. Priti Patel talks tough, yet fails over and over again. She won’t do anything, and she’s now allowing not just illegals from the channel but from the Aegean too.

  4. “Germany Plans to Spend €64.5 Billion on Migrants Over Next Four Years”

    The insanity continues: more useless programs courtesy of the ones in charge “know” what’s best.

    • Angela Hitler Merkel. What a nasty bully this wretch is. Hitler wanted to end the Hebrew race while Angela wants to destroy the white race. I think they ARE related.

  5. “Germany: Jewish Student Attacked Outside Hamburg Synagogue With Infantry Shovel“

    Breitbart reported the suspect was a man of “Kazakh roots” which is true and the German speaking press reported this to, I’m surprised remix news did not.

    However the man in question was not a Muslim immigrant: the ex-Soviet Turkic states had until recently very large [Russified] German minorities who had been deported there by Stalin in the 1940s, especially Kazakhstan which had as many as one million Germans in early 2000. The suspect was identified as “Grigoriy K.”, if he had been an ethnic Kazakh he would named “Aisultan” or something like that.

    • Just another criminal black man who wants free stuff but doesn’t want to follow the law. FBI statistics in America say they are 13% of our population but they commit 50% of all homicides annually. They commit an average of 30,000 rapes annually and 65% of violent crime.

  6. On the ongoing Azeri-Armenian conflict: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/j4ya8c/forbidden_cluster_munition_attack_by_azerbaijan/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

    It looks as if Azerbaijan is using cluster bombs against the Armenians. Cluster munitions have been banned since 2008. “The Convention on Cluster Munitions is an international treaty that prohibits the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, a type of explosive weapon which scatters submunitions over an area. The convention was adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin, and was opened for signature on 3 December 2008 in Oslo.” from Wikipedia

    More conventional weapons like Rocket artillery are also being used.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/j58xp8/azerbaijani_rocket_artillery_hitting_stepanakert/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

    The two opposing trench lines
    https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/j27yfs/frontline_footage_of_armenian_troops_on_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

    There are a lot videos going around on r/CombatFootage from this conflict, some quite graphic. It seems that while Armenia is winning the war on the ground the Azeris have a firepower superiority, particularly when it comes to drone strikes. Now both sides are firing ballistics missiles at each other.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/j6arsy/armenia_launching_a_tochkau_towards_azerbaijan/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/j68sks/alleged_video_of_a_missile_launching_from/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/j6a7ox/cctv_captures_missile_attack_on_ganja_azerbaijan/

    I’m not used to seeing missile strikes on European-looking locales: the above footage reminded more of the V-1 and V-2 rocket strikes on London during the Second World War rather than something like the Iraq War.

    Shamefully Israel supplies many of Azerbaijan’s heavy weapons, but that may soon come to an end. “I believe that due to the appeal by the international organizations and many individual states for an immediate de-escalation, Israel may halt its arms sales to Azerbaijan”

    https://www.jpost.com/international/israel-may-halt-its-weapons-sale-to-azerbaijan-armenian-ambassador-says-644602

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