President Trump’s doctors say he has shown no coronavirus symptoms since returning to the White House. However, various members of the media and Democrat politicians have asserted that Mr. Trump and his doctors are in fact covering up his serious respiratory symptoms.
In other news, Silvia Sardone, an Italian MEP for the Lega, has been threatened with death and/or rape for opposing the construction of a mosque in Milan.
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The government’s second women’s economic security statement will be released on Tuesday night in Canberra.
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Nearly two thirds of Americans believe the US is on course for civil war. One third now support political violence. The first Civil War’s death toll won’t be beaten, but the second’s nation-destroying potential will be unequalled.
The American left and right no longer inhabit a common moral universe. In fact, that imagined universe does not exist. The old, cherished political notions no longer apply, if they ever did. Not only are the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ complete misnomers under the current configuration, but the players are not as they seem, or as they are made out to seem.
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Biden Says He Will Make “Roe the Law of the Land” If Amy Coney Barrett Helps to Overturn Roe V. Wade
Joe Biden said during an NBC televised event Monday that if Judge Amy Coney Barrett receives a seat on the Supreme Court and joins with four other Supreme Court justices to successfully overturn Roe v. Wade, the “only responsible response to that is to pass legislation making Roe the law of the land.”
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Christian Crowdfunding Site Raises $500k for Rittenhouse Legal Defense
A Christian crowdfunding website raised more than $520,000 to help pay the legal fees of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of shooting and killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wis.
The funds were raised on GiveSendGo, a page created after Rittenhouse allegedly shot three people who were protesting over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the New York Post reported.
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A CNN reporter angrily whined about President Trump triumphantly removing his mask outside the White House Monday night, leading the President’s campaign staff to release video of the very same reporter casually removing her own mask inside the White House after cameras had stopped rolling.
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Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines Against SARS-Cov-2.
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The need to build public trust requires that state officials implement vaccination policy through a transparent and inclusive process, working closely with stakeholder groups such as local health officers, health professional and hospital associations, representatives of high-risk population groups, and groups concerned about vaccine safety. States’ experience with HPV vaccination mandates offers another process tip: vaccine manufacturers should stay on the sidelines. The HPV vaccine manufacturer’s direct involvement in crafting and lobbying for mandate legislation raised suspicion that profit rather than public health motives lay behind such proposals, undercutting support for vaccination even without a mandatory regime…
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Mayor Ted Wheeler has instructed the city attorney to challenge the federal deputization of 56 Portland police officers in court, adding he will take it all the way to the Supreme Court if need be.
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A new Facebook policy will see all profiles linked to the QAnon conspiracy community wiped from the platform whether or not they promote violence, the company’s latest crackdown on what it claims is a dangerous movement.
Facebook announced the new measures on Tuesday, explaining that the decision updates a policy imposed in Augusttargeting QAnon accounts “containing discussions of potential violence,” broadening the ban to any profiles affiliated with the movement. The policy will also apply to Instagram.
“Starting today, we will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content,” the company said, arguing that the group is tied to other types of “real world harm.”
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Facebook Suppresses Mark Levin
Political commentator Mark Levin is the latest to be censored by Big Tech.
Levin shared the message he received from Facebook and expressed that it was a “clear effort at censorship.”
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FBI Background Checks Blow Past Annual Record as Guns Fly Off Shelves
As civil unrest continues to sweep the country, more background checks for guns were conducted in the first nine months of the year than during all of 2019, according to data from the FBI.
A total of 2.89 million background checks were conducted in September, bringing the YTD total to 28.82 million, and surpassing the previous record set in 2019 of 28.36 million. And while September was the weakest month this year since the pandemic started, it was the strongest September since the FBI began background checks over 20 years ago.
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Florida’s Desantis Mocks Lockdowners as “Flat Earthers of Our Day”
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that closing school campuses in the spring as the coronavirus pandemic took hold might have been one of the nation’s biggest “public health mistakes.”
And, while appearing on the Drew Steele radio show, DeSantis equated people fighting the return of students to classrooms as the “flat earthers of our day.”
Florida shut down school and college campuses in March, with students shifted to online learning. DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran have pushed heavily to reopen classrooms for the new school year.
“In March we may not have had all the information, but in hindsight, knowing what we know now, the closure of schools was one of the biggest public health mistakes in modern American history,” DeSantis said. “And I think even Europe has said we shouldn’t have closed up.” [There has been some of that in Scandinavia as it was revealed the Danish and Norwegian health officials had not made such recommendations.]
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Likely Next Mayor of Portland Proudly Wears Chairman Mao Skirt
The woman who is likely to become the next Mayor of Portland was caught on camera proudly wearing a skirt featuring images of Chairman Mao, the Chinese dictator responsible for around 50 million deaths.
Latest polling of likely voters shows that Sarah Iannarone is leading current Mayor Ted Wheeler by 11 points.
Wheeler has faced intense criticism for months over his failure to deal with nightly riots, looting and mayhem courtesy of Antifa and Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
However, far from offering a different approach, Iannarone is seen as even more pro-Antifa than Wheeler.
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Marbles, Liquid Lead to Federal Arson Charge for Portland Protester
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland man faces a federal arson charge in connection with a protest on September 23, after a Multnomah County judge tossed out charges in connection with the same event.
Police arrested 21-year-old Cyan Waters Bass after demonstrators descended on the Justice Center in downtown Portland.
Three police officers were hurt and 13 people were arrested that night as the Justice Center was set on fire, Central Precinct windows were shattered and Molotov cocktails went flying in the streets. The riot came amid national unrest over the ruling in the case of Breonna Taylor’s death, which was announced earlier in the day.
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Mises: The Absurdity of COVID ‘Cases’
“Casedemic” is the proper term for second phase of the global Technocrat takeover. Death counts and hospitalizations are not rising, but increased testing with highly unreliable test kits are fanning the flames of panic as people test “positive”. This is a false narrative but wildly promoted by media and Technocrat scientists alike.
The only meaningful statistics show the incidence of serious illness, hospitalizations, and deaths. The single most important statistic among these is the infection fatality rate (IFR). Data collected through July shows that the IFR for those under age forty-five is actually lower than that of the common flu. The covid-19 IFR rises for those over fifty, but it is hardly a death sentence. And the data does not segregate those with preexisting health issues caused by obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. If we could see data only for reasonably healthy people under fifty, the numbers would be even more reassuring.
From day one the focus should have been on boosting immunity through exercise, fresh air, sunlight, proper dietary supplementation, and the promotion of general well-being. Instead our politicians, bureaucrats, and media insisted on business lockdowns, school closures, distancing, isolation, masks, and the mirage of a fast, effective vaccine. As with almost everything in life, state intervention made the situation worse. We can only hope many governors are removed from office, either by impeachment or at the next election. Several, including Andrew Cuomo in New York and Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, should face criminal charges for their lawless edicts. There is no due process exception for “public health.”
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims (Without Evidence) That Trump is “Clearly Having Trouble Breathing”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid has claimed, with no evidence whatsoever, that President Trump is lying about his quick recovery from COVID and is “clearly having trouble breathing.”
The host reacted to the now notorious footage of Trump whipping off his mask outside the White House, a spectacle described by Democrats as Trump’s “Mussolini moment.”
Reid claimed that Trump had orchestrated his quick recovery in order to hoodwink Americans into relinquishing their fear of coronavirus (apparently living in constant fear of a virus with a significantly high survival rate is a good thing).
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NBC-WSJ Poll Gives Biden 14 Point Lead… by Massively Oversampling Democrats
A new Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll released on Sunday gave former Vice President Joe Biden a 14-point lead over President Trump, suggesting that “the debate — is having a material effect on Mr. Trump’s political standing.”
Another factor having a ‘material effect’ is the poll’s egregious oversampling of Democrats — with 45% of those asked identifying as either “Strong Democrat” , “Not very strong Democrat” , “Independent/lean Democrat” — vs. the 36% of those asked identifying as the same degrees of Republican.
Last month, the same poll ‘only’ oversampled Democrats by +3, which The Journal uses to illustrate Biden’s lead ‘jumping’ from an 8-point advantage last month.
This has happened over and over during the election.
Meanwhile, as The National Pulse notes, polls which don’t oversample Democrats have Trump in the lead, such as a Sunday Express/Democracy Institute poll:
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US President Donald Trump says he has authorized the release of “any and all” documents related to the Russiagate conspiracy theory and the Hillary Clinton email scandal, noting the material would be completely free of redactions.
“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any and all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax,” the president said in a tweet on Tuesday night.
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Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took specific aim at religious groups Monday, specifically warning them that he would close them if they failed to obey his guidelines for public gatherings. He notably took aim at Jewish synagogues.
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Our Society is in the Process of Breaking Down All Around Us
Have you noticed that people don’t treat one another with the same level of respect and civility that they once did? Everywhere I look, people are treating one another badly, and this should greatly alarm all of us. Perhaps we can blame some of this on the pandemic, because the restrictions that authorities have implemented around the nation have definitely put people in a bad mood. And of course the fact that this is an election year is certainly not helping things. But I am seeing people that are supposedly on the same side treating each other with extreme contempt. Conservatives are fighting with conservatives, liberals are fighting with liberals, Christians are fighting with Christians, and over the past year I have been seeing families break up all over the place. Hearts are growing so cold, and all of the strife and discord that we are witnessing makes me wonder what things will be like when economic conditions in this nation really start falling apart.
There is so much anger and frustration in the air right now, and we are definitely seeing this being reflected in the crime numbers. For example, it is being reported that burglaries in San Francisco have risen 42 percent so far this year…
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A Harvard lecturer, who moonlights as an “analyst” on CNN, has been busy pushing a crazy conspiracy theory that Russia has spies in Walter Reed military hospital, where US President Donald Trump received treatment for Covid-19.
Juliette Kayyem claimed on Twitter that it is “very likely” that Russian agents infiltrated the hospital and gained access to information about Trump’s medical condition.
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Philadelphia Reports More Than 360 Homicides So Far This Year
PHILADELPHIA — The gun violence continued on Monday as the number of homicides this year in the city grew to more than 360, making it the deadliest year since 2007 when 391 murders were reported.
Philadelphia police say a 29-year-old man and 48-year-old woman were found shot to death inside a home on North Lambert Street in West Oak Lane Monday night. So far, no arrests have been made but a weapon was recovered on the scene.
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House Democrats urged an overhaul of antitrust laws to break up Silicon Valley, comparing them to Gilded Age monopolies, even as tech giants backed their calls for increased speech policing ahead of the November election.
That’s the main thrust of the 449-page report released on Tuesday by the majority on the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee. It found that Google has an unfair monopoly on online search, Facebook rules online advertising and social networking, Apple controls all software on iOS devices, and Amazon effectively monopolizes third-party sellers and many suppliers.
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President Trump Disavows Proud Boys
Even after they disavow racism
During the first presidential debate, Chris Wallace asked President Trump to “condemn white supremacists and militia groups.” President Trump replied that he would, but wanted specifics. Mr. Wallace identified “white supremacist and right-wing militia” and Joe Biden named the Proud Boys. President Trump rather confusingly responded that the Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by.” Many journalists and politicians criticized him. Kamala Harris said it was a “dog whistle through a bullhorn.” Charles Schumer called it a “national disgrace.”
The Proud Boys were initially thrilled. They tried to sell merchandise reading “stand back and stand by.” Amazon and eBay blocked it. However, the Proud Boys also wanted to show they were not white supremacists. Enrique Tarrio, a black man and the international chairman, issued a statement: “I denounce white supremacy. I denounce anti-Semitism. I denounce racism. I denounce fascism. I denounce communism and any other -ism that is prejudiced toward people because of their race, religion, culture, tone of skin.”
It did not save the Proud Boys. On the Sean Hannity program, President Trump said: “I’ve said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys.” However, President Trump added, “I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn them.”
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US President Donald Trump was censored by Facebook and Twitter again, after posting that the seasonal flu is more deadly to certain populations than the coronavirus. The social networks called his post harmful and misleading.
Having spent the weekend receiving treatment for Covid-19 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Tuesday Trump posted on both platforms that the US doesn’t shut down for the seasonal flu, though the illness kills many people every year even with a vaccine.
“Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!” he argued.
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Billionaire software tycoon Bill Gates has urged the US to prepare for a 2021 Covid-19 vaccine rollout by deputizing trusted community leaders to “reduce vaccine hesitancy,” bemoaning rapid spread of “conspiracy theories” online.
The Microsoft founder-turned-vaccine-evangelist painted a mostly rosy picture of a vaccine rollout getting “rich countries“ back to normal by the end of 2021 in an interview during the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council on Tuesday.
However, with less than half of Americans saying they’d get a Covid jab — even if paid $100 for it — in a recent survey, Gates then focused his talk on enlisting the nation’s “trust network“ to overcome the skeptics.
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SCOTUS Reinstates South Carolina Witness Requirement for Absentee Ballots
There have been a series of district court and appeals court decisions (plus a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision), in which the judiciary substitutes its judgment in place of state legislatures as to voting requirements for absentee and mail-in ballots. Extending ballot deadlines and waiting procedural safeguards have been part of the Democrat push to alter the rules by judicial fiat.
Those cases are working their way to the Supreme Court.
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Seattle Businesses Plead for Public Safety Amid Break-Ins, Vandalism, Attacks
Amid the novel coronavirus, wildfires and incoming autumn showers, Seattle businesses and restaurants have just about seen it all in 2020 as they battle to keep afloat.
But this past September, local businesses also reached a breaking point as they battled a year of break-ins, vandalism and attacks across the Emerald City, eventually pleading for an increase in public safety.
In mid-September, many had enough of the ongoing assaults.
Around 300 Seattle businesses joined together this past month, issuing a letter and pledge to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and the Seattle City Council, pleading for an increase of public safety.
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Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who brandished guns after protesters allegedly broke through the gates of their private street and threatened to kill them, have been indicted by a grand jury.
Jurors agreed to indict the McCloskeys Tuesday for unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, citing the couple’s lawyer. The felony indictments essentially mean that jurors found probable cause that the McCloskeys were guilty of the weapons violations, as charged by St. Louis Circuit Court Attorney Kimberly Gardner in July, and expanded the case to also include evidence tampering.
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Student Kicked Out After Attending Virtual Class With Trump Flag in Background
A student at high school in Waterboro, Maine, was kicked off a virtual class for having a Trump flag in the background. The student claims the teacher violated her right to her own opinion.
On Thursday last week, Mollie Woodbury, a student at Massabesic High School, was kicked out of a math class held on Zoom. The teacher asked her to remove the Trump flag that was on the wall behind her. She told her teacher that it is in her bedroom and it was not offensive.
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Tara Reade Demolishes the Central Argument for Joe Biden’s Candidacy
On Sunday, Tara Reade again recounted the details of her sexual assault claim against Democratic nominee Joe Biden, arguing that since Biden is running for the presidency “on a platform of character,” his assault against her proves that he “doesn’t deserve the presidency.” Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that many Americans saw the interview since it ran on 60 Minutes Australia, not 60 Minutes in the United States.
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The CIA Has Never Worked for the American People, Part 4
Many books have been written about the CIA, some of them painting it with the most dismal colors, others with the most bright and patriotic ones. To some authors, the CIA is a haven for heroes, to others, a dark cave full of traitors. How come, one may ask, based on the same information these authors have arrived at so diametrically opposed conclusions?
Logical positivist philosophers believed that most disagreements among people come out either of using two different names to designate the same thing, or of using a single name to designate two different entities. According to them, the cause for most disagreements is semantic. Though I don’t fully subscribe to their theory, I have to recognize that there is some truth to it.
The reason for the otherwise unexplainable duality of the CIA is because, contrary to what most people believe, the CIA is not a single entity. Actually, behind the common fac¸ade, almost since its very creation there have been two CIAs, totally different and working hard to attain quite different goals. Therefore, both CIA critics and apologists are right. The confusion arises from the fact that, unknowingly, they are talking about two quite different CIAs.
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Disparaging conservatives and republicans didn’t just start with the Trump presidency. It’s been around a long time, but it escalated when Obama took office in 2008, and he ultimately set it on fire in a January 5th, 2017 Oval Office meeting. Newly declassified documents, including an FD-302 FBI witness report, revealed that on Jan. 5, 2017, Yates, Comey, Biden, then-CIA Director John Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with National Security Adviser Susan Rice and other members of the National Security Council, attended the Oval Office meeting.
Mollie Hemingway wrote in the Federalist, that the “Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting on January 5th, was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation.” Fox News reported, “Information released in the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a Jan. 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House.”
“It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.”
And that dear readers, is what set aflame the democrats’ verbal abuse and personal attacks against anyone who supported President Donald J. Trump.
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These 24 Planets May be More ‘Habitable’ Than Earth, Astronomers Say
Who needs to flee to Canada when there are 24 planets more suitable for life than planet Earth?
Astronomers have discovered two dozen planets, all more than 100 light-years away, that are perfectly capable of sustaining human life as 2020 continues to rear its ugly head in our end of space.
These “super-habitable” worlds are older, bigger, warmer and have more moisture than Earth, according to the study, led by Washington State University geobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch and published in the journal Astrobiology.
There’s no confirmation that life exists on these planets, but the study used those characteristics to search for super-habitable potentials across 4,500 exoplanets, simply defined as planets that orbit stars outside of our own solar system.
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Trump’s Doctor Says President Reports “No Symptoms” of Coronavirus After Return to White House
Dr. Sean Conley, President Trump’s physician, said on Tuesday that the president “reports no symptoms” of the coronavirus, adding that he had “a restful first night at home.”
Doctors discharged Trump from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday. He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 early on Friday and began exhibiting symptoms the same day.
White House Physician Jesse Schonau said Vice President Pence continues to test negative for COVID-19 and “does not need to quarantine.”
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Trump Says No More Negotiation on Coronavirus Relief Before Election
President Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he has told his representatives to stop negotiating with Democrats on further coronavirus relief spending until after the election.
He made the decision to end negotiations for now because, he said, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi “is not negotiating in good faith.”
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Twitter Deletes Trump COVID Victory Meme After Copyright Complaint
The US President Donald Trump has recently been released after spending nearly three days in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Although still under treatment, Trump has been making several claims about how COVID-19 wasn’t as bad as expected and comparing it to the flu.
Trump’s campaign account, TeamTrump recently tweeted a video featuring San Francisco 49ers’ Brandon Aiyuk scoring a touchdown after leaping over a Philadelphia Eagles’ defender.
The meme involved superimposing Trump’s face in the place of Aiyuk’s and COVID-19 in the place of the defender from Philadelphia Eagles.
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A Vanderbilt University assignment asked students whether the U.S. Constitution was “designed to perpetuate white supremacy,” and the “correct” answer to that question was “true.”
According to screenshots obtained by Young America’s Foundation, students were asked, “Was the Constitution designed to perpetuate white supremacy and protect the institution of slavery?” According to YAF, one student in the class lost points after answering “false.”
The screenshot of the online assignment shows that the correct answer was “true.”
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Woke Oregon Professor Blames ‘White Christians’ For West Coast Wildfires
An Oregon State University professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has alleged “white Christians” are to blame for West Coast wildfires because of their “denial of climate science.”
As revealed by the attentive folks at Campus Reform in an October 2 essay, Prof. Susan Shaw has insisted that “the West is burning while most white Christians turn away from the root causes of the devastation.”
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Army Should Guard Austria’s Border With Czechia and Slovakia, Says Right-Wing Freedom Party
Austria’s army should guard the southern border that the country shares with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and also provide guarantees that no police stations will close in the region, according to a proposal from the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
The FPÖ is currently looking to work on a deal with the turquoise-green government program at a meeting in Langenlois in the Krems district.
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A shocking new inquiry has found that, not only did the Church of England forgive some 400 pedophiles, but it allowed them to continue working with children.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found that between 1940 and 2018, some 390 people employed by the church, as clergymen or in trusted positions, were convicted of child sex abuse.
They were ‘forgiven’ for their crimes by the church and allowed to continue their duties, often in close proximity to children, the IICSA found.
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Former Cardinal ‘Stole Funds to Bribe Witnesses’ In Rival’s Sex-Abuse Case
A former top Catholic cardinal is suspected of using Vatican funds to bribe witnesses in the sex-abuse trial of his rival, Cardinal George Pell, whose conviction was recently overturned.
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, 72, former secretariat of state for the Vatican, was forced to resign on Sept. 24.
He is accused in a dossier of evidence compiled by Vatican prosecutors of wiring more than $800,000 to help sway the testimony against Pell’s case.
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French schools should give priority to teach the Arabic language and the state will support the promotion of Islamic culture to the tune of €10 million a year, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, when announcing his new plan to combat Islamic separatism in French society, daily Le Figaro reports.
“What we have to tackle is Islamist separatism,” which “often results in the constitution of a counter-society,” Macron said in an hour-long speech. “We should not let ourselves be drawn into the trap of amalgamation set by polemicists and extremes which would result in the stigmatization of all Muslims.”
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France: Bars, Cafes Closed in Paris Due to ‘Rising COVID Numbers’
Bars and cafes were shuttered in Paris on Tuesday for two weeks under new measures to fight the rapid spread of the epidemic, although restaurants have been allowed to remain open.
With the rate of new infections, hospitalisations and deaths accelerating months after the lifting of a nationwide lockdown, new rules on social distancing entered into force on Tuesday.
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France: Macron Faces Islamophobia Claims Over Homeschooling Ban ‘To Protect Children From Religion’
Emmanuel Macron has been attacked for “Islamophobia” by the Turkish government in the wake of his announcement that France will ban homeschooling to ‘protect children from religion’, as part of plans to combat so-called “separatism” in the country.
In a speech highlighting some of the problems France has had with “radical Islamists” in recent years, the French president cited the example of an unregistered religious school where Muslim children were taught mostly just prayers and the Koran, by women wearing niqabs.
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French Presidential Election 2022: Le Pen and Macron in Dead Heat in First Round, Poll Finds
new Ifop poll released over the weekend by Le Journal du Dimanche and Sud Radio has revealed that National Rally’s Marine Le Pen and President Macron would be neck and neck in the first round of the presidential election, well ahead of the other candidates, if the vote had taken place on Sunday.
The survey, which was released Sunday, gave Marine Le Pen between 24 and 27 percent of the vote in the first round, depending on the performance of the other potential candidates on the left and right.
President Macron, on the other hand, would’ve garnered between 23 and 26 percent of the vote in the eleven scenarios that the survey mapped out.
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Health Passports for Ireland, Who’s Next?
Ireland began a national trial of their new Health Passport Ireland initiative, which uses an app to track and display results of COVID-19 testing, plus COVID-19 vaccination status, when one becomes available
It’s being touted as a measure that increases freedom, but one day, when you head out the door, you may not be able to simply walk into a shop, restaurant or even a doctor’s office or your place of work like you used to, unless you can prove you don’t have COVID-19 and have been vaccinated via your “green” health passport app
Expansion plans are underway, and the system will likely soon be rolled out globally, in countries such as Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Kenya, with other locations following
Apps that started out to track your COVID-19 test results and vaccination status could turn into tools of control and power, making it impossible for you to attend school, work or travel unless you have the right color or results
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Criminals in the United Kingdom, including violent offenders, are receiving reduced sentences due to courts taking into account strict coronavirus regimes in the country’s prisons, The Times has revealed.
British judges have shown leniency since April, after a court ruled that measures implemented to prevent the spread of coronavirus at detention facilities, including extended periods of isolation, could be considered when handing down a sentence. The case involved a man who sexually abused a schoolgirl, the paper reported.
Mercy was also given to a sex offender who was caught trying to groom an underage girl. In July he was jailed for a mere 20 months, apparently because the judge had concerns about the restrictive coronavirus policies adopted by prisons.
Lighter sentences are also being given to violent criminals. In September, two masked burglars who broke into a home and terrorized a family received reduced prison terms because the judge acknowledged that the thugs would have to spend 23 hours a day in their cells due to Covid-19 rules.
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Poland, Hungary, Czechia, And Slovakia Are Strengthening Their Armies With These Defense Purchases
Tens of billions of dollars have exchanged hands and the number of signed defence contracts have been steadily increasing in the former Soviet bloc countries that have since joined the European Union and NATO. The breakneck speed at which virtually all Eastern European countries have started modernizing their armed forces can be attributed to two main factors.
Firstly, the shelf life of Russian-made hardware, which many Eastern bloc countries received as a compensation for decades of Soviet occupation, is rapidly coming to an end. Secondly, President Donald Trump’s rebuke to America’s NATO allies for not meeting their obligations of spending 2 percent of their GDP on defense had found a more attentive audience in Eastern Europe than in the West.
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The senior Polish ruling coalition party Law and Justice (PiS) will call on Tuesday in the European Parliament for resignation of German MEP Katarina Barley, who also as one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, after her statement in German radio interview asking the European Union for the “financial starvation” of Hungary and Poland, conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reports.
“The rule of law is constantly broken and EU funds are an efficient way to exact pressure. States such as Poland and Hungary must be financially starved. Funds are an efficient lever,” Barley told German radio last week.
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Prominent Norwegian Critic of Islam Found Dead, Police Suspect Foul Play
Dan-Eivind Lid, 48, one of the centrepieces of the anti-Islam organisation Stop Islamisation of Noway (SIAN), has been found dead. The police suspect foul play, the Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported.
Lid was found dead in his apartment in Suldalen in Kristiansand, with what has been reported as “visible damage to the body.”
Both the security service PST and the National Criminal Police Kripos have joined in investigating the incident. Dan-Eivind Lid was last seen alive on Friday.
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Salvini Ally Threatened With Rape After Opposing Mosque
A female colleague from populist Senator Matteo Salvini’s League has received death and rape threats, many allegedly from migrants, after opposing the construction of a temporary mosque.
Silvia Sardone, who serves in the European Parliament for the League, received a torrent of threats after coming out against a proposal to build a temporary mosque in the Via Novara area of the city of Milan.
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Swiss City Geneva Votes for World-Record $25 Hourly Minimum Wage
Debate over the minimum wage has been at the forefront of American politics in recent years. Progressives argue that we need to mandate a “living wage” of $15 an hour under federal law, and this is now the official position of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Meanwhile, most Republicans argue against increasing the minimum wage. Conservative critics point to studies and real-world examples showing how wage floors backfire and hurt workers.
Yet the American debate over a $15 minimum wage looks rather quaint compared to the extreme minimum wage policies being implemented across the Atlantic. In the latest example of Europe’s embrace of progressive economic policy, the Swiss city of Geneva just voted to implement a minimum wage that translates to $25 an hour, or $4,100 a month.
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Top Italian Epidemiologist Says Outdoor Mask Law is ‘Wrong’
ROME — The president of the Italian Society of Anti-infection Therapy (SITA) said Tuesday Italy’s new decree mandating outdoor mask-wearing is a mistake.
Dr. Matteo Bassetti, who is also the director of Infectious Diseases at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, said that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s decision to impose outdoor masks on the national level has no basis in science.
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‘Traffic-Light-Style’ Tougher COVID-19 Restrictions Mulled for UK, Claims Leaked Document
After a decline since the first peak in April, confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK have registered an uptick since July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply from the end of August, forcing approximately a quarter of the country to live under a patchwork of localised restrictions.
Leaked documents suggest that a potentially harsher degree of coronavirus restrictions are planning to be introduced across the country, writes The Guardian.
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UK: Man Scolded for Cuddling Grieving Elderly Mother at Social-Distanced Funeral
A man was left “heartbroken” after a funeral director interrupted his father’s funeral to tell him to stop comforting his grieving elderly mother because of coronavirus social distancing rules.
Video of the socially-distanced funeral on Friday was shared on the Milton Keynes Community Hub Facebook page and showed the beginning of the service with the widow sitting just a few feet away from the coffin of Alan Wright, who had died two weeks ago of a heart attack.
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UK: Tory Rebels to Vote Against Boris Over Coronavirus Curfew, Social Distancing Rule
Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face two party rebellions on the House of Commons over his coronavirus laws, with Tory rebels threatening to lodge a protest vote against the ‘rule of six’ on Tuesday and voting against the curfew on Wednesday.
After pressure from a reported 100 Conservative MPs last week over the extension of the emergency coronavirus laws, the government agreed that it would allow votes on new coronavirus measures “wherever possible”.
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UK: Video: Mourners Admonished for Moving Chairs Closer Together at Funeral
Video from the UK shows a worker at a crematorium scolding mourners during a funeral because they moved their chairs to be closer to each other during the service.
Under draconian covid rules, funerals services are limited to 30 people, and they must all wear masks and sit 2 metres apart from each other.
The Daily Mail reports that Craig Bicknell, attending his father’s funeral last week, was chided during the ceremony for attempting to comfort his mother.
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Economic and Political Ramifications of the Saudi Ban on Turkish Imports
by Nidal Kabalan
In a surprise move by Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s government has imposed a total ban on importing goods and a freeze on bilateral trade exchanges with Turkey. Although the real reason behind this Saudi step is totally clear, it also reflects a high degree of dissatisfaction with a major regional trade partner and is bound to have some serious economic as well as political ramifications on Turkey’s ailing economy and on President Recep Erdogan’s internal posture.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey have often described their economic ties and trade exchanges as being strong and steadfast, as reflected by the magnitude of their $8 billion USD annual trade relationship. This is bolstered by huge bilateral investments and the sheer numbers of Saudi tourists who flock to Turkish resorts every year, as well as the large Turkish workforce operating on some key Saudi projects. Leaders of both nations often exchange visits and a number of economic and trade agreements were signed during King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s visit to Turkey in April 2016, and Erdogan’s visit to Riyadh in July 2017.
What Happened Since 2017 That Led to the Saudi Ban?
A number of incidents took place over the past few years that have influenced relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, both politically as well as economically. Most notable of those incidents were the failed coup attempt against Erdogan in 2016 — Ankara accused some Arab Gulf regimes, mainly the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, of supporting the coup attempt.
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When Armenia and Azerbaijan resumed Europe’s oldest “frozen war” over the breakaway territory of Nagorno Karabakh on Sept 27, the intimate nature of the fighting—between trenches so close that soldiers on opposing sides could shout to each other in some places—gave the false impression of a bitter but parochial skirmish.
In fact, the battle already threatens to bleed beyond the mountainous 1700-square mile enclave in the South Caucasus to engulf Azerbaijan and Armenia in all-out war, and risks provoking an even wider conflagration. In an interview with TIME, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan doubled down on accusations that its bitter rival Turkey is already intervening militarily on behalf of Azerbaijan, claiming President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is vying to extend his influence in the region.
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Now We Can Add “A Major War” To the List of Things That Have Happened in 2020
While almost everyone’s attention was diverted, a major war erupted on the other side of the world. It has been more than a week since Azerbaijan launched their invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, although the mainstream media in the western world will never use the word “invasion” to describe what is happening. At most, they will use terms such as “attack” or “offensive”, but without a doubt what is taking place is an invasion. The population of Nagorno-Karabakh is primarily made up of Armenians, and the region has been self-governing since separatists won an extremely violent war against Azerbaijan in 1994 in which tens of thousands of people died. Now Azerbaijan is attempting to reassert control over Nagorno-Karabakh, and neighboring Armenia has stepped up to help defend Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately, this could easily escalate into a much wider war. Russia has a defense pact with Armenia and a military base inside their territory, Iran has threatened to get involved in the conflict, and Turkey has already sent proxy forces into the region to aid the offensive by Azerbaijan.
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Christian Man Originally Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy in Pakistan Has Been Released
After six years in prison, Lahore High Court has acquitted Sawan Masih, who was sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
In March of 2013, Sawan Masih’s Muslim friend, Muhammad Shahid, accused Masih of insulting the Prophet Muhammad when he allegedly said, “My Jesus is genuine. He is the Son of Allah. He will return while your Prophet is false. My Jesus is true and will give salvation.”
After local mosques recounted the accusation over their PA systems, mob violence broke loose. A mob of more than 3,000 enraged Muslims attacked Joseph Colony, which is where Masih allegedly made the offensive comments. The attacks resulted in looting and burning approximately 180 Christian homes, 75 shops, and at least two churches. Masih was handed over to the police and was charged for blasphemy. He was later sentenced to death.
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Indian Government Puts NGOs Under Electronic Control ‘To Avoid Forced Conversions’
by Nirmala Carvalho
NGOs will need an Aadhaar card to conduct financial transactions with abroad. To justify the bill, its proponents cite “forced conversions” by missionary Graham Staines, who was murdered with his two sons by Hindu radicals in 1999. Data by the Supreme Court show instead that conversions are incidental. For Sajan George, “citing the horrific murder of Staines and his children is a new low in humanity’s conscience.”
New Delhi (AsiaNews) — The Lower House of the Indian parliament, the Lok Sabha, yesterday passed the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment (FCRA) bill 2020 that imposes additional controls on NGOs’ finances.
Under the legislation, NGOs must use an Aadhaar card, a biometric electronic document, in order to conduct financial transactions with foreign sources.
The decision to impose the card stems from the belief that “forced conversions” have been taking place in India in the past 50 years.
The case of Anglican missionary Graham Staines, killed with his two sons in a fire started by Hindu radicals on 22 January 1999 (family picture), came up during the discussions in the house…
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More than 500,000 Tibetans have been transferred to Chinese training centers since the beginning of 2020, as an existing mass labor initiative expanded in the region. The figure accounts for roughly 15 percent of Tibet’s total population. According to a new Reuters report, published Tuesday, the militaristic recruitment program primarily targets rural farmers who are then trained to support Chinese industries.
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Are the Global Scientific Elite Trying to Bury the Truth About the Origin of COVID-19?
If it would be determined that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a laboratory leak of a genetically engineered virus, it would not only disrupt the flow of huge sums of research funding, but adversely affect the investments of those vehemently opposed to President Donald Trump’s efforts to make the U.S. economy less dependent on China and, therefore, make the U.S. less vulnerable to Chinese geopolitical blackmail.
There is growing scientific evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted from a vaccine development project gone wrong.
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Ms Ardern blundered on the price of a 2kg leg of lamb — offering $20 to rival Judith Collins’ $28 — when the actual price in New Zealand is $42.
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Women will benefit from $25.1 million towards new cadetships and apprenticeships in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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The 2020 Budget overseas travel will ‘remain low’ until the whole nation is vaccinated against COVID-19 and social distancing will remain in place.
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Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett appeared on former footballer Sam Newman’s You Cannot Be Serious podcast, where the pair slammed the current premier.
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Coronavirus fragments were found at wastewater treatment plants in North Richmond and in West Camden.
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Shocking Video Shows White Australian Teen Brutally Beaten by Black Girls
A hideous assault on a teenage girl in Melbourne sparked outrage, as footage of the stomach-churning attack spread across social media. The victim is reportedly too afraid to press charges against her assailants.
The 15-year-old was waiting for a train at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station when she was ambushed by a group of around eight young people. Video of the attack shows the young white girl sitting on a bench as a group of black teens repeatedly punch and kick her head. The victim tries to block the blows with her hand, but never retaliates.
Warning: This video contains disturbing images
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Farmers fired shots and carried ‘Boer Lives Matter’ signs as they stormed a court in eastern South Africa on Tuesday where two suspects were to appear before a judge over the brutal murder of a young farm manager.
Sekwetje Isaiah Mahlamba, 32, and Sekola Piet Matlaletsa, 44, who were arrested on Saturday, were at the Senekal Magistrate’s Court in the Free State on Tuesday morning for a pre-trial hearing.
The two men are accused of killing Brendin Horner, 21, whose body was found on Friday at about 6am local time, tied to a pole at the farm he managed in the town of Paul Roux. He had sustained multiple wounds, and a knife was discovered nearby.
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‘Accept More Refugees’ — Germany’s Left Places New Demand on the Government
In Germany, for the first time since 2011, the number of people living in a country with refugee status decreased year-on-year. Some politicians welcome this trend, while the parliamentary left (Die Linke) is criticizing it.
According to the left-wing party, it is proof that Germany could accept more refugees.
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New South Wales will suffer a drop of about 2,000 people by the end of the 2021 financial year, according to predictions in the federal budget on Tuesday.
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German NGOs Accused of Spying on Greek Border Authorities to Help Smuggle Migrants
Four German NGOs have been accused of using covert methods to mislead Greek and European Union border forces to help smuggle migrants into Greece.
Mare Liberum, Sea Watch, FFM, and Josoor International Solidarity are all mentioned in the police investigation as having members or volunteers who have helped people smugglers in Turkey. They have been operating in Greece since the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, newspaper Proto Thema reports.
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New details are emerging from an investigation into the activities of dozens of non-governmental organization (NGO) operatives arrested by Greek authorities in late September, indicating they may have engaged in espionage and attacks on national security.
A total of 35 foreign nationals, including 33 people working for NGOs, were rounded upamid an extensive probe conducted by Greek intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies, as Infowars Europe reported last week.
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Left-Wing Berlin Wants to Ban Words Such as ‘Foreigner’ And ‘Asylum Seeker’
Officials in Berlin’s left-wing government have a new handbook which states that they can no longer label people as “foreigners” or “asylum seekers”, with both of them allegedly discriminatory.
Words such as foreigners (Ausländer), black passengers (Schwarzfahrer) and asylum seekers (Asylbewerber) should no longer exist in Berlin.
The term “Schwarzfahren” means to “ride black” and refers to riding a train without a paid ticket. In English, it would be the equivalent of disallowing the term “black market”. There is no evidence that the German term “Schwarzfahren” was ever meant to refer to Black people in any manner or intended to be used for any derogatory purpose.
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Massive Migrant Battle Leaves Two Dead, 18 Wounded in Bosnia
A large fight between rival groups of migrants passing through Bosnia ended with two dead and 18 wounded, according to reports.
The battle unfolded in the town of Bihac, near the Croatian border, where thousands of migrants stay at any given time as they work their way towards the European Union.
An armed faction of Afghans ambushed a band of Pakistanis who were staying in a makeshift camp near the cantonal hospital, Balkan Insight reports.
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NGO Attempted to Fly Plane to Lesvos in Order to Transport Illegal Immigrants
According to information from Iefimerida, Dutch members of an NGO chartered a plane and departed from the Netherlands to Lesvos in order to take with them any refugees and illegal immigrant who wished.
The flight did not have a special permit and when Athens was informed, they contacted their colleagues in Amsterdam where they were oblivious to the fact. It was realized that this was a private initiative by members of an NGO and the aircraft was blocked in the air.
The Dutch plane was forced to land at “Eleftherios Venizelos Airport” in Athens and will return to Amsterdam, without making a stop in Lesvos and carrying out their plan.
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The planned deportation of 30 migrants from Great Britain to France ended on Thursday last week in a fiasco. Only one of them ended up on a plane as lawyers managed to at least delay the deportation of the others at the last minute.
According to sources from the British Home Office, lawyers waited until the last possible moment to prevent the deportation of migrants back to France, which is where they entered the UK via the English Channel. In 18 cases, for example, the lawyers raised the issue of human rights.
The dispatched plane, which flew from an unspecified British airport to France, cost taxpayers about 100,000 pounds (€110,000). Onboard, there was only one passenger, who was originally from Sudan, according to Czech news portal Novinky.cz.
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UK: Report: Law Firm Which Stops Deportations Got £55m in Taxpayer Legal Aid
A law firm which has helped to block a number of deportations has received tens of millions in taxpayer-funded legal aid over the last three years, according to reports.
Amarpal Singh Gupta’s firm, Duncan Lewis Solicitors, is said to have taken £17.6 million in taxpayer-funded civil legal aid in 2017, £15.8 million in 2018, and £11.3 million in 2019 — causing him to be hailed as “Britain’s legal aid king’“, according to the Mail on Sunday.
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Conservative MP: We Are Losing the Culture War in Poland
Conservatives are losing the culture war in Poland and the country’s government needs to a strategy to stop this, argues Bartlomiej Wróblewskiruling, MP for the Law and Justice (PiS) party, in an interview with news portal DoRzeczy.pl.
Wróblewskiruling says that conservatives being too passive in the clash of civilizations and culture that is taking place and argues that although the government his party formed in 2015 has succeeded in social and economic terms, it now needs a wider strategy to tackle cultural controversies.
Wróblewski feels that the first rule for action should not be to weaken family rights, parental rights and religious freedom. This is why Wróblewski has doubts over banning ritual slaughter, which is part of a new animal right protection bill sponsored by PiS. Wróblewski believes it is a restriction on religious freedom — the same freedom which also protects Christians.
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Netflix is facing criminal prosecution over the controversial French film ‘Cuties,’ after a Texas grand jury indicted the entertainment streaming service for lewd depiction of children.
The indictment was filed September 23 in Tyler County but was shared Tuesday on Twitter by Republican state Representative Matt Schaefer. It accuses Netflix of knowingly promoting visual material that depicts “lewd exhibition” of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was under 18 when the content was created. Further, the prosecution alleges that the material “appeals to the prurient interest in sex and has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.”
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Senior Polish Archbishop: Poland in Danger of Losing Its Christianity
The archbishop of Kraków, Marek Jedraszewski, in his latest sermon in Pabianice, compared the events taking place lately in Poland to those which happened in earlier years in France, according to a report from Radiomaryja.
Jedraszewski wondered what the former Polish pontiff, Saint John Paul II, would have made of developments in Poland and whether he would see any echoes of the loss of Christianity in France with what is happening in Poland today.
When Saint John Paul II visited France in 1985, he asked France — considered the “oldest daughter” of Christianity — what it had done with its Christian roots, saying at the time, “France, what have you done with your Christianity?”
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Twitter’s Proposal for Community Policing of Conversations Could End Up Being Weaponized
In a bid to “do better” in terms of content moderation and censorship, Twitter has confirmed that it is working on a new, crowdsourcing tool.
That’s right — Twitter wants its users to get involved in mass flagging each other’s tweets as misinformation, make these complaints publicly visible — in theory allowing for every tweet to be editorialized with other users’ opinions — while at the same time reporting these posts to moderators for possible removal.
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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics for Research on Black Holes
Three scientists, including an American woman, share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the topic of black holes.
Andrea Ghez, 55, shares half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel, 68, “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy,” the Nobel Committee said. Ghez works at University of California Los Angeles. Genzel works at the University of California at Berkeley and at Max Planck Institute in Germany.
Ghez joins three other women who have ever received the lauded prize in physics.
British scientist Roger Penrose, 89, received half of the prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction” of the general theory of relativity espoused by Albert Einstein, the committee said.
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ONly BLACK LIVES MATTER has been the case in Dan Andrews communist state of
Victoria. They never get held in jail even when people are dead and no one has been charged over the bashing death of the Mooroolbark man last Christmas. People die and the media,public forget about them. That’s why I started looking overseas for places to live. It’s not safe to be near Africans in public. They can accuse me of anything and I would be the one locked up.
The jungle only wise savage predator is roaming free. The stupid educated naive posh and their tools see nothing or refuse to do anything. Instead of lashing out with a ferocity that leaves no doubts the “tolerant” citizenry embrace black and the Devil marked Muslim’s racism. “Beware the risen indigenous people” as our ancestors used to remind the invaders. Be they Nazis or otherwise.
Sara, there is nowhere left to run too! All western countries are suffering this 3rd world plague, I would suggest you arm up and protect yourself and forget about calling the police about anything, you and your western folk are on your own.
‘In other news, Silvia Sardone, an Italian MEP for the Lega, has been threatened with death and/or rape for opposing the construction of a mosque in Milan.’
Photos of Silvia Sardone:
https://www.instagram.com/silviasardone/?hl=en
“Mosque is the place of war.
Out of mosques wars should proceed.”
Ayatollah Khomeini
However, various members of the media and Democrat politicians have asserted that Mr. Trump and his doctors are in fact covering up his serious respiratory symptoms.”
I mean thanks heaven My hero Trump is healthy again. He seems a little tired. The fake media and muslim-worshipper democratic party are disappointed because he beat the virus.
No one is hiding his symptoms. Are his enemies blind? Can’t they see? Goodness! So much hatred. This hatred even exceeds hatred of Muslims towards Jews/Israel, in absolute terms. Incomparable. Eternal.
This type of hatred is contagious as it is spreading to lower ordinary middle class or upper class people. Hatred based on perverted brains of nonsensical people/lefties. It is not based on something bad Trump and republicans are doing.
1- Is it bad to save USA from invaders. It has been turned into a dumping ground for jihadis/criminals of the planet.
2. Is giving due respect to law enforcers bad?
3. Is sending rapists to the hell they came from bad?
4. Is having common sense bad?
5. Must we not think deeply when freaky demons like Rachida, Ilhan, and their ilks reach the congress and setup their opposing USA interests agenda and not stop and think what type of congress is this?
In ruling a country what matters is common sense not self-interest and certainly not policies that facilitate establishing Caliphate.
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Italian member of parliament threatened to be raped or killed. Muslims mean it. Opposing building a den of jihadi scorpions also known as mosquito. Merkel and her ilk put those honorable MPs in dire danger.
What’s the remedy to this horribly conducted suicidal democracy? pooooooo
System does not make people behave honestly. It’s the people who create and make the system the way it appears. And it appears jihadist in goal.
Dishonest politicians cause death of native citizens and put an end to civilization.
We see them die a “Strange Death.” Bless you Douglass Murray.
“Strange death of Europe “ , everybody should read that book , oh God save Us and Our children from this evil Merkel&CO, Macron / politicians, …
Doubtless, those on the Left will be demanding that Walter Reed be de-funded because its doctors didn’t kill Trump while they had him under the knife.
Yeesh! This mishmash doesn’t even rise to Ian Fleming’s level.
Charles Martel would not be happy.
“What we have to tackle is Islamist separatism,” which “often results in the constitution of a counter-society,” Macron said……
Memo to Macron:
Islam commands separatism – merciful to each other, ruthless to non-muslims.
Islam defines itself as a counter-society – the Caliphate.
These are basic doctrine.
Those enemedia comrades know what is best with their Google medical degrees.
The system is the revolution and Trump is the lone counter revolutionary.
Society and its institutions are infiltrated at every level with revolutionaries full of zeal.
The Long March Through the Institutions is complete and the comrades have grown arrogant and cocky.
Pride goeth before a fall.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRU3RFZWY8I
I thought readers of GoV might appreciate this article from American Thinker about the Battle of Lepanto
” Today in history, on October 7, 1571, one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West — one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former — took place. ”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/the_battle_of_lepanto_when_turks_skinned_christians_alive_for_refusing_islam.html
Thank you for posting that, even on its own naval history is very interesting to me.
Greek court rules neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn guilty of acting as criminal group.
https://www.france24.com/en/20201007-greece-braces-for-landmark-neo-nazi-golden-dawn-trial-verdict
https://twitter.com/JakeHepple1/status/1312323439420682240
Welcome to England
https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray/status/1313885221775986688
https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray/status/1313248642304749580
If you needed further proof British media is propaganda trash.
Stockholm: A young woman lynched in the metro by a “band of immigrants”. “This is Sweden today (…) because of all these foreigners (…) You can call me a racist, I don’t care”, said the victim
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/10/07/stockholm-une-jeune-femme-tabassee-et-menacee-de-viol-par-une-bande-dimmigres-cest-la-suede-daujourdhui-a-cause-de-tous-ces-etrangers-vous-pouvez-me-traiter-de-raciste-p/
Nearly half of US voters believe the election will not be ‘fair or honest’ and 61% are worried the outcome could spark a civil war, surveys find
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8815833/Nearly-half-voters-believe-election-not-fair-honest.html
remember that daily mail is a leftist ‘news’ source. and they literally hate our President.