Migrants at an asylum reception center in the city of Agrigento in Sicily staged a revolt, burning mattresses and throwing things at police. The uprising was evidently held to protest being placed in COVID quarantine. Some of the rioters managed to escape the facility.
In other news, the European Court of Justice ruled against the Hungarian government, which had acted to force George Soros’ Central European University out of the country.
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Breaking: Trump Wants to Immediately Sign Stand-Alone Bill for $1,200 Stimulus Checks
President Donald Trump said in a tweet Tuesday night that he is willing to sign a stand alone bill authorizing stimulus check payments of $1,200 for American citizens if the House can deliver such a bill to his desk.
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Despite everything that we have already been through in 2020, the dominant narrative in our society right now is that everything is going to be just fine once we get past our temporary problems. So many people that I hear from can’t understand why I am so “negative” about the future, because they are completely convinced that really great days are just around the corner. As odd as this may sound, we are seeing this sort of wild optimism among both Democrats and Republicans, Christians and atheists, capitalists and communists. Of course about half the country will have their optimistic hopes for the future brutally crushed by the results of the upcoming election, but we aren’t there yet. For now, both sides are absolutely convinced that they are going to win, and both sides are envisioning a wonderful new era for our nation in which their values reign triumphant.
If only things were that easy.
The truth is that many of our largest problems have been steadily growing for decades, and they aren’t going to magically disappear just because a particular candidate wins an election. Our debt levels are absolutely exploding, our economy has plunged into a depression, there is widespread civil unrest in our streets, our nation is more divided than it has ever been in my entire lifetime, and our society is literally coming apart at the seams as just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is growing rapidly all around us.
But there are a whole lot of people out there that want to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that everything is going to be just fine.
If you would like to be just like them, the following are 20 things that you must believe in order to convince yourself that everything is going to turn out okay somehow…
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21 Scholars Call for Pulitzer Board to Revoke “1619 Project” Author’s Prize
Twenty-one distinguished scholars in higher education and research published a letter calling for New York Times editor Nikole Hannah-Jones to lose her 2020 prize for her controversial “1619 Project” series that many have deemed revisionist history.
In the letter, the scholars assert that the Pulitzer board awarded Hannah-Jones the prize in Literature with a celebration of its alternative view of history, which asserts that America’s “true founding” was in 1619 with the arrival of African slaves at Jamestown, rather than 1776.
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Passengers on United Airlines and Cathay Pacific traveling out of Heathrow Airport will begin testing a new ‘COVID passport’ that in the future will check if someone has been vaccinated before they travel.
The technology is called CommonPass and will let people travel without being quarantined if they download an app to their phone which contains a negative COVID test or a vaccine certificate.
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Alleged Owner of Popular QAnon Site QMap Fired After Fact-Checker Contacted His Employer
The alleged owner of QMap, a popular QAnon site that received millions of visits per month when it was live, has been fired by investment bank and financial services company Citigroup.
The firing comes less than a month after fact-checker Logically published an in-depth report on the alleged owner which included his name, registered business address, current employer, employment history, email addresses, photo, approximate age, the town where he lives, and details of his last remaining social media profile.
When the investigation was published, Logically’s editor also contacted Citigroup to make the company “aware of his activities.”
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Anthony Fauci: The Most Despised Con-Man on the Planet is Being Hailed by Time Magazine
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own:” — John 15:19
Time Magazine has once again outdone themselves by playing a very dangerous game with American freedoms from praising Transgenders, lesbians and sodomites to the likes of Black Lives Matter founders, to criminal Kamala Harris, treasonous Joe Biden, activist from the bench John Roberts to the loony and psychotic Nancy Pelosi. And who do you suppose they put on the front cover on the latest issue of Time’s 100 most influential? None other than the despised Anthony Fauci. You cannot make this up (Leviticus 18:22; Exodus 22:18; 1 Kings 13:33; Amos 5:7; Luke 22:48).
How can anyone with even the smallest sense of morality not see what is taking place here? They are clearly advocating what God clearly condemns. Yet, this is nothing new (Deuteronomy 25:1).
Anthony Fauci: The Most Despised Con-man On The Planet Is Being Hailed By Time Magazine As One Of The Most Influential…See How This Works:
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Biden: Second Debate Should be Canceled if Trump Still Has Coronavirus
Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Tuesday that he and President Trump “shouldn’t have a debate” if Trump is still positive for COVID-19 by the day of the debate, October 15.
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Bill Gates Says Life Will Only Return to “Normal” At the End of 2021 When There’s a Corona Vaccine
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says that life will only return to “normal” once there is widespread adoption of a coronavirus vaccine and that this will not happen until the end of 2021 at the earliest.
Gates said that the end of 2021 is a “best case scenario” and that it remains unknown whether a successful vaccine will even be produced.
“We still don’t know whether these vaccines will succeed,” said the Microsoft founder. “Now the capacity will take time to ramp up. And so the allocation within the US, and between the US and other countries will be a very top point of contention.”
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Black Appraisals of Black Lives Matter — Part III
This multi-part series (Part I here, Part II here) focuses on the perspectives of blacks — conservative, liberal or libertarian — who appraise BLM and its agenda. The following selection of commentary by blacks from all walks of life — actors, athletes, businesspeople, civil rights activists, clergy, commentators, physicians and politicians — demonstrates that black public opinion is not monolithic and that BLM does not speak for all African Americans.
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British ISIS Terrorists to Face Charges in America for Capture, Murder of U.S. Citizens
Two ISIS terrorists are on their way to America to face charges in the capture and murders of four U.S. citizens in Syria from 2012 to 2015.
The Justice Department announced that Alexanda Kotey, 36, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 32, will make their initial appearance in court on Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia. The former British citizens were part of a group of four ISIS guards known as “The Beatles.” According to the Justice Department, the men grew up in the United Kingdom, where they became radicalized.
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Catholic League Decries Andrew Cuomo’s ‘Tyrannical Edict’ Targeting Orthodox Jews
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has censured New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his malicious targeting of Orthodox Jews in a recent edict against the coronavirus.
In a new autocratic move, Mr. Cuomo plans to “shut down all churches, synagogues and schools — private, religious, and public — in an attempt to quell the spread of the disease,” Dr. Donohue notes.
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City of Seattle Paying Antifa Militants to Write F**k Police on BLM Mural
The city of Seattle is literally paying Antifa militants to write “f**k police” and “all cops are bastards” (ACAB) on Black Lives Matter murals near the infamous CHOP zone, according to a far-left live streamer.
Kitty Shackleford shared clips from the individual’s live stream which went out on Monday, which show the mural tagged with phrases like “abolish capitalism,” “ACAB,” “no good cops in a racist system,” & “abolish ICE”.
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CNN Analyst Labels President Trump “A Biological Terrorist”
A CNN analyst tweeted Tuesday that President Donald Trump is “a biological terrorist,” later doubling down and adding “I mean that literally”.
Asha Rangappa made the post after Trump triumphantly returned to the White House on Monday and ripped off his face mask in front of the press, much to their disdain.
“Trump’s own AG says that COVID meets the statutory definition of a ‘biological agent’ and that intentionally passing it to others can constitute an act of terrorism,” Rangappa whined on Twitter.
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“CNN reporters like Kaitlin Collins obsess over masks when the cameras are on, but when they think they’re off, off comes their masks!”
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Congress Releases Blockbuster Tech Antitrust Report
But political infighting fractured the committee
The House Judiciary Committee has released its conclusions on whether Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google are violating antitrust law. Its 449-page report criticizes these companies for buying competitors, preferencing their own services, and holding outsized power over smaller businesses that use their platforms. “Our investigation revealed an alarming pattern of business practices that degrade competition and stifle innovation,” said committee member Val Demings (D-FL). “Competition must reward the best idea, not the biggest corporate account. We will take steps necessary to hold rulebreakers accountable.”
The majority’s report lays out a number of concrete policy recommendations, which, taken together, would drastically change how the tech industry operates. It urges Congress to consider passing commercial nondiscrimination rules that would make large companies offer equal terms to companies selling products and services on their platforms. It recommends barring certain dominant platforms from competing in “adjacent lines of business” where they’d have a huge advantage.
“To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons,” the report says. “By controlling access to markets, these giants can pick winners and losers throughout our economy. They not only wield tremendous power, but they also abuse it by charging exorbitant fees, imposing oppressive contract terms, and extracting valuable data from the people and businesses that rely on them.”
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Correctional Officer Allegedly Pulls Knife on Trump Supporters
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A political rally in Hillsboro turned ugly over the weekend when a man pulled out a knife and threatened Trump supporters.
Families gathered in Hillsboro on Sunday to wave at a caravan of “Oregon Women for Trump” event as it drove through the town.
Janira Brannigan organized the caravan and the route through Hillsboro. She said the event took a dark turn when a man blocked the caravan with his car at an intersection and, at one point, got out of his car and charged her vehicle.
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Declassified Documents Suggest Obama Was Briefed on Clinton’s Plan to Smear Trump
Documents declassified Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe show that former President Barack Obama was briefed by his CIA Director John Brennan about Hillary Clinton’s alleged plan to smear President Trump with a Russia collusion narrative.
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Shootings have spiked 127% in New York City this year, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for Mayor Bill de Blasio to get it under control, but city officials say liberal pushes to “defund the police” have hindered the NYPD’s ability to keep the city safe.
“Defunding the police is perhaps the worst idea in NYC government history,” Democrat Councilman Robert Holden told Fox News. “We can’t legislate using fashionable slogans that fit on protest signs. It hurts every New Yorker. The NYPD are the gold standard for law enforcement around the world. Any issues that need to be addressed require more training, which costs money.”
The city, however, disagrees, with de Blasio backing a city council vote in July to slash the police budget by $1 billion. Crime has only worsened in recent months and police response times have grown.
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Derek Chauvin, Cop Charged in George Floyd’s Death, Released on $1 Million Bond
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis ex-cop charged in the death of George Floyd, was released from prison Wednesday on a $1 million bond. Chauvin faces murder and manslaughter charges in Floyd’s death.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
“America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse.”
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Earth Grows Fine Gems in Minutes
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but some of Earth’s finest gemstones were, according to new research from Rice University
Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain both large crystals and hard-to-find elements like tantalum and niobium. Another common find is lithium, a vital component of electric car batteries.
“This is one step towards understanding how Earth concentrates lithium in certain places and minerals,” said Rice graduate student Patrick Phelps, co-author of a study published online in Nature Communications. “If we can understand the basics of pegmatite growth rates, it’s one step in the direction of understanding the whole picture of how and where they form.”
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Children at an elementary school in Virginia are being taught that traits such as “objectivity” and “perfectionism” are ‘racist’ characteristics of “white supremacy.”
Yes, really.
Author James Lindsay posted a screenshot of the lesson outline, which is apparently taken from a 2001 Dismantling Racism Workbook by authors Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones and is being taught to kids aged 6-11 at the Belvedere Elementary School in Virginia.
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Facebook Rolls Out Ban on ‘Militarized Language’ After Trump Calls Poll Watchers ‘Army’
Within days of President Donald Trump launching an ‘Army for Trump’ website to recruit poll watchers, Facebook declared it would ban “militarized language” and add additional labels to posts about voting results.
Explaining that Facebook wants to help more Americans register and vote while also protecting the “integrity of the election by fighting foreign interference, misinformation and voter suppression,” vice president of integrity Guy Rosen announced on Wednesday that “calls for people to engage in poll watching when those calls use militarized language or suggest that the goal is to intimidate, exert control, or display power over election officials or voters” will be removed from the platform.
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Facebook Threatens to Delete Steven Crowder’s Page
Facebook has restricted the page of conservative comedian Steven Crowder and threatened to delete it permanently after accusing it of “repeated sharing of clickbait.”
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Fake News Tweet Suggesting Trump Will Resign to Avoid Prison Goes Viral on TikTok
A fake news tweet alleged to come from a “GOP source” suggesting Trump would resign before the election to avoid prison has gone viral on TikTok.
Liberal journalist Yashar Ali called out the issue, tweeting, “Jon Cooper’s false tweet is spreading on TikTok. This is the fifth TikTok I’ve seen with his tweet. Jon has no sources and makes stuff up for resistance retweets.”
Cooper, who is National Finance Chair for Draft Biden 2016, claimed, “Trump is being advised to resign in honor rather than leave in defeat. He fears prison.” The tweet was subsequently deleted.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Hires ‘Super Lawyer’ Who Represented Bin Laden’s Henchman
Suspected child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has hired Bobbi Sternheim to join her legal defense team ahead of her 2021 trial. The so-called “New York Super Lawyer” once represented one of Osama bin Laden’s henchmen.
A highly respected and seasoned trial lawyer, Sternheim has had a long career representing defendants in numerous high-profile, federal and international court cases. According to her firm’s website, the New York-based lawyer specializes in ‘litigating difficult and complex cases.’
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Guard Activated in Wisconsin Before Police Shooting Decision
Wisconsin’s governor on Wednesday called in the National Guard ahead of an expected announcement about whether a police officer would face charges in the fatal shooting of a Black teenager in February.
Gov. Tony Evers said in a news release that he activated the National Guard to help police protect the public and infrastructure in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa. He didn’t say how many troops were being sent to the city, citing security reasons.
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Former Secretary of State and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently said that young people are leaving the church because Christianity has become “judgmental” and “alienating” on an episode of her podcast, “You and Me Both.”
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Instagram Bans QAnon Accounts, But Refuses to Remove ISIS Accounts Celebrating 9/11
Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that will ban all QAnon accounts, including ones that don’t promote violence, while refusing to remove ISIS propaganda accounts that celebrate 9/11 under the justification that “people may express themselves differently.”
In an update to its policy announced yesterday, Facebook said that it was moving beyond a measure taken back in August that removed QAnon accounts which contained “discussions of potential violence.”
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John MacArthur Says in New Video, “This is a Watershed Moment in America … Open Your Church”
Pastor of Grace Community Church John MacArthur posted a new video on his Twitter account calling for the opening of churches. In the video, MacArther says “this is a watershed moment in America.”
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Likely Next Mayor of Portland Proudly Wears Chairman Mao Skirt
Dictator responsible for around 50 million deaths.
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Los Angeles County Sends Out More Than 2,000 Ballots Missing Section to Vote for President
Around 2,100 Los Angeles County voters received faulty mail-in ballots that omitted the section that would allow them to vote for president. The ballots were distributed as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to send all 21 million registered voters in the state an absentee ballot for the November 3 election.
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Michigan Gov. Whitmer Scores Failing Grade on Fiscal Policy Report
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been assigned an “F” for her fiscal policy in a new report on the nation’s governors.
The “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2020” — released by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. — highlighted the reasons for Whitmer’s failing grade.
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Missouri Governor Says He Will Pardon St. Louis Couple Who Waved Guns at Protesters
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said he would pardon the St. Louis couple who sparked a national debate after they waved guns at protesters this summer, if they’re convicted.
Parson had previously said he would pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey — who were indicted this week for unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence for the caught-on-camera confrontation where the couple pointed a rifle and handgun at protesters in front of their house in a private section of the city.
“We’ll let it play out and see how this all comes out in the courts, but I stand by what I said,” Parson said at a news conference Wednesday.
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More Trash, Homeless Camping as Portland Performs Fewer Sweeps
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — If you feel like you’ve seen an increase in homeless camping and trash around the City of Portland, you’re not alone.
Mayor Wheeler’s office says the COVID-19 pandemic in Portland has forced more people in the streets as they’ve lost their jobs, with homeless camps becoming more established as fewer sweeps are performed.
City of Portland staff say on average, they remove 550,000 pounds of trash and debris from various camps around the city, working 7 days a week to pick up garbage and bio hazards.
Portland’s Office of Management and Finance says more camps and garbage are present because they’ve stopped sweeping homeless camps.
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NBA to Drop ‘Social Justice’ Messaging Following Ratings Collapse
The National Basketball Association will no longer promote social justice messaging in its games following record-low ratings.
Amid declining viewership and increasing criticism of its “wokeness,” from an audience disinclined to being lectured to by millionaire athletes like LeBron James, the NBA intends to leave social justice activism “off the floor” next season.
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New Explicit Texts: Cal Cunningham’s Mistress Has Nudes of Cal, Slept With Him in His Family Home
Text messages obtained by NATIONAL FILE show that North Carolina Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham’s mistress Arlene Guzman Todd has naked photos of Cunningham, and that Cunningham and Guzman Todd had sex in Cunningham’s family home.
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NYC Orthodox Community Holds Large Protest Over New Coronavirus Restrictions
Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community took to the streets Tuesday night, defying orders to disperse and lighting a fire in protest of new state-mandated restrictions imposed on area synagogues, schools and non-essential businesses over a COVID-19 surge.
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Over 2,000 LA County Voters Received ‘Faulty’ Ballots With No Way to Vote for the President
Over 2,000 voters in Los Angeles County received “faulty” ballots which lacked a section to vote for the President of the United States, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office confirmed on Monday.
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Over 100 Shootings, 12 Murders in Single Month Prompts Fresno Crime Crackdown
Citing a rise in violent crime, Fresno police chief Andy Hall announced on Wednesday the formation of a city-wide violent crime suppression task force.
Posting on Facebook, Fresno police said, “In the month of September alone, our community has suffered 104 shooting incidents and 12 murders.” The department pointed to changes in criminal justice policy as the key factor.
“The implementation of $0 bail, state-wide early release from prisons, and revolving doors at our local jail has caused this city’s violent crime to more than double from previous years.” the department’s message said. “This lack of accountability has caused a surge in gang activity in our City.”
The post also noted, “Since $0 bail and early releases were implemented in April, Fresno has seen a 126 % increase in shootings and 55 % increase in murders.”
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Billionaire software tycoon Bill Gates has urged the US to prepare for a Covid-19 vaccine rollout by deputizing trusted community leaders to “reduce vaccine hesitancy,” bemoaning the rapid spread of “conspiracy theories” online.
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Subleases Spike as Pandemic Takes Toll on Downtown Portland
Businesses want out of downtown Portland, as soon as possible.
The amount of space available for sublease in downtown jumped by 36% in the spring as tenants sought to vacate offices and storefronts in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data provided by real estate firm CBRE. Other firms have also reported an increase in the number of downtown businesses looking to leave.
“From all the uncertainty that COVID-19 has created, the downtown market has suffered the most,” said Craig Sweitzer, a landlord and the founder of commercial real estate firm, Urban Works Real Estate.
[Comment: Look, when the mayoral election in your town is between a lefty and a communist, your town has no future.]
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Trump is Back in the Fight After Conquering the China Virus
The China virus had reportedly affected him with a fever, mild cough, some nasal congestion and fatigue. These are mostly symptoms of the common cold or flu. So why was he subjected to experimental drugs and procedures? And why was hydroxychloroquine taken off the table?
For the record, the CDC says symptoms of a cold usually peak within 2 to 3 days and can include sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose, sore throat, coughing, mucus dripping down your throat (post-nasal drip), watery eyes, and fever (although most people with colds do not have fever). The flu can include some of these factors plus fatigue.
Based on his own experience with the disease, Trump issued a statement comparing coronavirus to the flu. That was significant. But Big Tech companies Twitter and Facebook immediately censored him.
As if we needed more evidence, it should be clear by now that Big Tech and certain political forces are determined to convince the public that COVID-19 is not a flu-like illness. Taking guidance from the World Health Organization, a Chinese puppet, they want people to be scared. By contrast, Trump wanted to reassure people that they can fight and beat the disease, like he did.
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The Trump campaign has left a ticket for dead rapper Tupac Shakur at Wednesday night’s Vice Presidential debate, in reference to Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ bizarre statement that Tupac is her “favorite rapper alive.”
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Video: Biden Makes Racist Gaffe About ‘Black Women Stocking Grocery Shelves’
Democratic candidate Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth once again recently, this time making a comment that had it come from President Trump’s mouth would have sent leftists into a frothing meltdown, given that it was straight up racist.
During an NBC News “Roundtable with Veterans” discussion, Biden bizarrely thanked “black women” for stocking supermarket shelves, and enabling him to stay at home in his basement.
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While Good Americans Dither, Rioters Are Taking Over
The Democrat rioters, looters and arsonists have taken over our public schools and teach socialism, radical environmentalism and critical race theory while poisoning the minds of our children and teaching them to hate America … while good Americans do nothing! Why aren’t good Americans at school board meetings demanding objective teaching in our schools? Why aren’t parents pouring through textbooks to see what public education is teaching their children and demanding the textbooks be re-written to fit reality and truth. If the parents started reading textbooks they will be shocked and demand change. What price a child’s mind?
They have taken over our colleges where free thought, new ideas and thoughtful debate are supposed to be the hallmarks of a good education. But instead, college deans, boards, professors and staff limit all ideas and all curriculums to only Progressive (socialist) ideas while censoring any other ideas, sometimes with violence. Meanwhile, good Americans that send their kids to these dens of socialism seem oblivious to the mindset shift to Progressivism that has been taking place before their very eyes, for several generations. How can public education be any better than the teachers being taught at our liberal colleges? In fact, where did Common Core State Standards come from but from the graduates of our one-sided liberal colleges? Who writes the textbooks for public education but those educated idiots that come out of America’s liberal academia? If only God would spare Americans the utterances and expert advice of over-educated aristocrats of higher education that throw common sense and logic to the far winds.
They’re allowing hordes of illegal aliens to swarm our country, take our jobs and burn up billions of our social service dollars with no consequences … and good Americans watch and do nothing. It turns out that the law only applies to the good people of America. Criminals, corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and illegal aliens are exempt from the law. Why aren’t Hillary Clinton and James Comey in jail? Why do good Americans stand for this injustice?
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Facebook Bans Alternative Media Outlet Radio-Québec
Facebook has started deleting pages and groups on the platform that were supporting QAnon. One of the first casualties has been Radio-Québec, one of Quebec’s most noteworthy alternative media outlets.
The move follows Facebook’s announcement that it would take down groups or pages associated with QAnon. Radio-Québec’s Facebook page had more than 75,000 followers at the time it was suspended.
“We’re now eradicating Pages, Teams and Instagram accounts representing QAnon together with Radio-Québec. It should take time to implement this coverage and we might be prioritizing this work over the approaching days and weeks,” said Facebook to CBC.
The media outlet Radio-Québec is run by Alexis Cossette-Trudel from Montreal. For the past few months, Radio-Québec’s focus has made suggestions that the severity of the coronavirus was being overplayed to undermine President Donald Trump, making the outlet a prime target for censors.
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Winnipeg Family Accused of Faking Hate Crime Leave Canada to Avoid Trial
A Winnipeg family who allegedly staged a hate crime at their Winnipeg restaurant has moved to the United States before their trial.
Alexander and Oxana Berent, and their son, Maxim, have been charged with public mischief after police alleged they spraypainted anti-Semitic graffiti on their restuarant and claimed they were the victims of a hate crime.
At a hearing on Friday, provincial court Associate Chief Judge Anne Krahn heard that the Berents had recently left for Los Angeles. The trial was scheduled to begin on October 13.
Krahn concluded that the Berents were not going to return to Canada.
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EU Court Sides With Soros University in Case vs. Hungarian State
In a judgement published on Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Hungary broke several international conventions when it amended the higher education bill in 2017, which it claims forced the Central European University (CEU) founded by billionaire financier George Soros to leave the country.
“Hungary… has failed to fulfill its obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) with regard to national treatment,” the ECJ ruling said, while the other point in which it found Hungary in breach was that the new requirement of the law “infringes the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on the freedom of scientific life, the freedom of establishment of higher education institutions and the freedom of establishment.”
[Comment: The judiciary in Europe is globalist.]
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The leaders of the European Parliament factions who called in a joint statement the linking of European Union funds to rule of law criteria are only trying to “create confusion” and endanger the approval of the seven-year budget of the group, Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote in a Facebook post.
“Regrettably, some member states and the European Parliament try to reopen the July conclusions of the European Council and jeopardize the adoption of the legislative package,” Varga wrote. “Those who never really supported the economic recovery of Europe are now using rule of law conditionality, completely absent from the European Council conclusions, as a pretext to dismantle the agreement.”
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German Power Prices Soar; Taxes, Green Fees Make Up 54% of Cost
Thanks to the Energiewende (transition to green energies), which is tantamount to a vegan energy diet, Germany’s electricity prices have soared 27% over the past decade to become the most expensive in Europe, if not the world, according to the STROM-REPORT.
Taxes, surcharges, and a catalog of other fees make up 53.6% of Germany’s electricity price, only Denmark has a higher share at 67.8%.
Only five European countries have seen electricity prices drop over the last 10 years.
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Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has been classified as a criminal organisation in an historic ruling that leaves the party leadership facing lengthy jail terms for running a gang.
The five-year legal battle was sparked by the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, 34, who performed under the name Killah P, who was stabbed to death by Golden Dawn members in Athens in 2013.
The court found seven of Golden Dawn’s 18 former MPs, including party founder Nikos Michaloliakos, guilty of running the criminal enterprise, leaving them facing up to 15 years each in jail.
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Hungary Vows to ‘Protect Nation’s Interests’ As EU Court Strikes Down Soros Crackdown
Hungary has vowed to ‘protect citizens’ interests’ after a court in Brussels ruled that restrictions on foreign-funded universities were against European Union (EU) law.
Higher education reform passed in 2017 requires foreign-registered universities to provide courses in their home countries as well as in Hungary or else face penalties.
[Comment: Hungary should join the Brexit club.]
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Italy: 19 Ex-Liguria Councillors Convicted in Expenses Case
Bought personal items inc. hotel stays with public money
(ANSA) — GENOA, SEP 29 — A Genoa court on Tuesday found 19 former Liguria regional councillors guilty of using public money for private purchases in an expenses scandal.
The ‘crazy expenses’ case covered the 2005-2010 period.
They were found guilty of using public money, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousands euros a time, to buy DVDS, plants, sweets, brioches, bottles of wine and stays at hotels with wellness spas.
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Oprah Winfrey: America’s Racial ‘Caste System’ Was the ‘Template for Nazi Germany’
Billionaire multimedia mogul Oprah Winfrey described America’s “caste system” as “the template for Nazi Germany” in an interview with Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, for the latest episode of her Apple TV series, Oprah’s Book Club.
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Poland: Reshuffled Government Takes Oath of Office
Ministers appointed to the reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki took their oath of office and received their nominations from President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday.
The ceremony had been delayed from Monday as a result of prof. Przemyslaw Czarnek having tested positive for the coronavirus. The ceremony was held in the gardens of the Polish Presidential Palace.
The list of ministers in the reshuffled government was revealed by Morawiecki last week. The number of ministries has been reduced from 20 to 14. The liquidated ministries are being absorbed by those which remain. The most notable departures from the previous government are Deputy Prime Minister and Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz and Agriculture Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski who opposed the controversial animal protection legislation forced through at the behest of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
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Soros Urges EU to Cut Funding for Hungary, Make Country a Test Case
Progressive billionaire George Soros has called on the EU to cut funding to Hungary over rule of law issues, with his statement released following a decision made by the EU’s top court which favored George Soros’s Central European University over the Hungarian government.
“I call on the EU to make Hungary a test case,” Soros wrote in a statement, urging Brussels to make an example out of Hungary, including attempts to tie EU funding to rule of law conditions.
Near the end of the statement, the liberal billionaire investor urged the European Union, which at the moment is debating on whether or not to make the distribution of EU aid linked to so-called ‘rule of law’ conditions, to cut its funding to Hungary.
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UK: Grooming Gang Trials in Oxford Left Judge Emotionally Exhausted
A COURT judge has stepped down after revealing he had ‘had enough’ of the emotional toll from trying a series of horrifying child grooming gang cases in the city.
Judge Peter Ross officially retired last week after a career presiding over some of the biggest cases at Oxford Crown Court.
The 65-year-old well-known figure on the Oxford circuit said he would spend his retirement with his family out of the area.
Speaking to the Oxford Mail before his final sitting day he said: “I had no intention to go on until 70.
“I have done some major cases over the last three years including the last three Oxford grooming trials.
“They were exhausting [and also] emotional because of what you are listening to.
“And intellectually because the areas are relatively new or novel law is involved, and from a case management perspective particularly they are simply huge.
“I decided I had had enough, because of their sheer size and because one listens not just to the accounts of what happened, awful though they are, but you also see the terrible consequences upon the lives of the young women who have been the victims.
“Their lives are destroyed and that’s quite distressing to observe at close quarters…
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UK: Given Chance to Oppose Drastic Curbs on Freedom, Just 12 Tories Rebel
Just 12 Conservative Members of Parliament rebelled against the Tory government and voted down the controversial ‘rule of six’ coronavirus social distancing law.
While the law is already in force and the motion voted on Tuesday night was purely retrospective, it gave the so-called band of Conservative rebels the opportunity to offer a protest against the government’s rule of six, which limits socialising to no more than six people. Many Tories called for the number to be increased to eight and for children to be omitted from the total count.
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UK: Police Treating Lewd Note, Vandalism, Left at Vegan Cafe as a Hate Crime
A lewd note with a drawing of male genitalia with the words “F*** you vegan bellends” left at a vegan restaurant and other similar acts are being treated as a hate crime by police.
It is believed that male students at one of Nottingham’s two universities may have scrawled the penis and caption on the back of a ‘track and trace’ form — used to collect data of customers in case of a coronavirus outbreak — at the Crocus Cafe in Lenton last month.
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UK: The ‘Landing Zone’ In Sight? Boris Promises Brexit ‘Full Control’ From January First
Britain will regain “full control” over its money and laws from January first 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised, as discussion intensifies over whether a “landing zone” for Brexit deal talks is yet possible.
Discussion in Britain’s mostly abandoned and strictly socially distanced Parliamentary chamber took an unusual turn away from Coronavirus Wednesday afternoon, as Boris Johnson was asked to confirm “categorically” that Britain would be completing Brexit at the end of the year, as ordered by the British people in 2016.
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France, U.S. And Russia to Meet on Nagorno-Karabakh Amid Fears of Regional War
BAKU/YEREVAN/PARIS (Reuters) — France, the United States and Russia will step up efforts to end fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus by holding talks in Geneva on Thursday, as fears of a regional war grow.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Russian, French and U.S. representatives would also meet in Moscow on Monday to look at ways to persuade the warring sides to negotiate a ceasefire.
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Trump Says Remaining US Troops in Afghanistan Should be Home ‘By Christmas’
President Donald Trump has hinted that all US soldiers in Afghanistan could come home by Christmas, seemingly going against his own national security adviser, who said more than 2,000 troops would remain beyond the new year.
“We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!” Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening, exactly 19 years to the day after the US invasion of the country in 2001.
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Global Perception of China Plunges in Democracies Worldwide, Survey Shows
The reputation of China and its President Xi Jinping plummeted in democracies across the globe this year — specifically because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey.
After interviewing over 14,000 adults in 14 countries with advanced economies — including the US, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, Japan and South Korea — the Pew Research Center found that unfavorable views of the Communist nation and its leader had reached historic highs.
Pew attributed the change to China’s handling of the pandemic, which was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, reporting that 61 percent of all nations surveyed said that the Communist country had done a bad job in responding to the outbreak.
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Stolen Mao Calligraphy Worth $300 Million Torn in Two: Report
A calligraphy scroll by late Chinese leader Mao Zedong worth HK$2.3 billion ($297 million) has been torn in half after being resold to a buyer who thought it was counterfeit, the South China Morning Post reported.
The man cut the piece in half for storage purposes, believing it to be a fake after buying it for a mere HK$500, the Hong Kong newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a police source. The purchaser surrendered himself and the damaged scroll to the police Sept. 22 following a public appeal by authorities, the paper said.
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Breitbart | Over 765 million people, have contracted the Chinese coronavirus.
[Comment: Garbage. These numbers are those who “tested” as positive using PCR test that is not designed for testing for China virus. All the test does is show you have a fragment of a type of corona virus (including common colds) in your body. So if you had a cold and recovered you would test “positive” for China virus. This is the scam. This is what is driving the supposed 2nd wave. The public is being lied to… ]
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More Melbourne Insanity: Mom Arrested at Beach for Traveling ‘Outside Her Permitted 5km Radius’
Aussies are growing sick and tired of essentially being locked indoors and confined to their local areas under tight regulations, even as cases drop and the weather grows better.
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Security guards at Emerald Park in Zetland have been telling women to ‘cover up’ or leave the private pool area because their swimwear is deemed ‘inappropriate’ for ‘pool standards’.
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Uber driver Mohammad Ali Halimi, 25, was in January charged with murdering his 21-year-old wife in Perth after she was allegedly forced to marry him in regional Victoria in November 2019.
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The new cases, confirmed by the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, brings Melbourne’s 14-day case average to 9.7, a slight drop from 9.9 on Wednesday.
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139 Migrant Minors Arrive in Germany, But Government Refuses to Provide Their Age and Gender
Last week, 139 migrants from Greece arrived in Germany, but the Federal Ministry of the Interior refuses to release data about their ages, nationality and gender despite a press request for that information.
The interior ministry did send press release with the title: “Another flight with sick children and unaccompanied minors from Greece landed in Hanover.” In addition to the 51 unaccompanied minors, there were 17 sick children and their core families. What is less clear is the age, gender and nationality of those 51 unaccompanied migrant minors.
With underage and unaccompanied asylum seekers costing around €5,000 per month just for accommodation and the German state planning to spend €64.5 billion on migrants over the next four years, some German taxpayers are curious about where their money is going, prompting the German news outlet Junge Freiheit to request the Federal Ministry of the Interior release gender, age, and nationality information.
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France: NGO Claims Around Half of Migrants on Paris Streets May be Coronavirus Positive
According to NGO Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF), 55 per cent of those living on the streets of the Paris region might be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, the vast majority of them migrants.
MSF said they tested a sample of 818 people in accommodation homes and homeless shelters in the Paris region and that 90 per cent of those tested were migrants.
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Greece Used Migrants as Undercover Agents in NGO Smuggling Bust
Greek authorities recruited migrants to work as “undercover agents” during an investigation into human smuggling networks which culminated in the arrest of dozens of non-governmental organization (NGO) operatives, according to a new report.
A total of 35 foreign nationals, including 33 people working for four NGOs, were rounded up amid an extensive probe conducted by Greek intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies, as Infowars Europe reported last week.
It has now been revealed that the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP) and Hellenic Police (ELAS) sent two undocumented migrants to Izmir, Turkey, to infiltrate the network and report on their findings.
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Italy: Revolt Breaks Out at Agrigento Migrant Centre
Three police officers hurt
(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 7 — Three police officers were hurt in a revolt late on Tuesday at a migrant centre in the Sicilian city of Agrigento, union sources said on Wednesday.
Around 65 migrants, mostly Tunisians, threw fire extinguishers, bed structures, broken glass and other objects at police and set light to mattresses.
Six of the migrants, who were in COVID-19 quarantine at the reception centre, are thought to have managed to flee the facility, sources said.
Valter Mazzetti, the secretary general of the State police union federation, said this was the “umpteenth revolt” of this kind.
“These episodes take place with alarming frequency but they are now taken as if they were normal and this is unacceptable,” Mazzetti said.
“The current situation should force a complete revision of the surveillance systems at these centres, which are ticking bombs, above all on the health level due to the coronavirus emergency, but also in terms of public order”.
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Italy: Cabinet Approves New Security Decree, Rewriting Salvini Legislation
Package overhauls controversial Salvini-drafted legislation
(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 6 — Premier Giuseppe Conte’s cabinet has approved a new package that overhauls former interior minister and League leader Matteo Salvini’s controversial migrant-and-security decrees.
Among other things, the Salvini-drafted legislation featured million-euro fines for NGO migrant-rescue ships defying entry bans The new decree brings those fines down to a maximum of 50,000 euros. and boosts the migrant-reception system, introducing a special protection regime for refugees.
It reduces the maximum period for the processing of citizenship applications from 48 to 36 months too.
The package also introduces the possibility of people being banned from certain areas if they are involved in violence in night-life zones after the case of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old who was beaten to death at Colleferro, near Rome, last month.
“These lot spend their time dismantling things, rather than constructing them,” Salvini said.
“From what I’ve read, I’d call it the ‘illegal immigrants’ decree.
“We are going back to the free-for-all of illegal immigration, permits gifted to anyone walking down the streets and thousand-strong migrant landings”.
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Jews in Malmo Are Fearful of Migrants and Fleeing the City, Says Swedish Writer at the UN
Jewish institutions and Jews are being attacked and harassed in Sweden, according to Swedish writer Paulina Neuding.
At the end of September, she spoke at a conference of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where she described the current coexistence issues facing the Jewish community in the Swedish city of Malmö after migrants who came to the Scandinavian country en masse in 2015, according to Czech news outlet Echo24.
Neuding believes the Swedish government is blind to the issue.
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Left-Wing Italian Government Relaxes Salvini’s Tough Migration Rules Even as Immigration Surges
The Italian government has approved the relaxation of migration rules implemented by former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, which he originally introduced to reduce illegal immigration to Italy and remove incentives for human smugglers.
The new measures, which will also extend the conditions for granting protection to refugees, were approved by the government late Monday evening, according to Czech news portal Echo24. They will come into force after approval by parliament.
During Salvini’s tenure, he implemented laws that allowed authorities to impose a fine of up to €1 million for unauthorized entry of humanitarian ships with migrants into Italian territorial waters, but now they will only face fines between €10,000 and €50,000.
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The measure was announced on Tuesday as part of Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s 2020 Budget address.
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Sweden: Thousands of 2015 Crisis Migrants Have Allegedly Disappeared
Around 24,000 migrants who arrived during the height of the 2015 crisis are living in Sweden without permission or have disappeared, according to the migration board.
Of the 163,000 migrants who arrived in Sweden five years ago, the vast majority, 98,500, have been granted some form of residency. However, only 31,000 of those without a permit have left Sweden since 2015, leaving thousands of migrants unaccounted for.
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Sweden: Nearly Half of Unemployed Migrants Lack High School Education
The Swedish Public Employment Office has revealed that 43 per cent of foreigners without work lack a high school education, compared to 18 per cent of native-born unemployed.
The agency stated that the current unemployment rate in the country had topped nine per cent. In just one week, 12,790 people signed up as job seekers with the Employment Office.
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Migrants attempting to cross the Channel in a desperate bid to reach Britain could be held on disused ferries under proposals being worked on by Home Office officials.
The idea to use boats to house asylum seekers before they land on British shores formed part of leaked Home Office plans last week.
Government sources earlier insisted that the ideas were only ever considered in brainstorming sessions, and complained that they are being leaked to damage ministers.
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Priti Patel today branded Britain’s asylum system ‘broken’ after 20 migrants were taken off a new deportation flight to Germany.
The Home Secretary sent another handful of migrants back to mainland Europe, but was hit by a flurry of 11th-hour legal challenges.
An immigration enforcement charter flight yesterday flew three Iranians, two Eritreans, an Iraqi and a Kuwaiti back to Germany after they crossed the English Channel. Two of them sailed across the Narrow Sea in September.
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Unlawful Assembly Declared Outside Portland ICE Building
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Four people were arrested Tuesday night in south Portland after a group marched and demonstrated outside the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building.
The Portland Police Bureau said the march began at Elizabeth Caruthers Park, located in the 3500 block of South Moody Avenue. The group then walked to the ICE building, located in the 4300 block of South Macadam Avenue.
The ICE building has been a frequent location for ongoing protests in Portland this year.
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The numbers that I am about to share with you are extremely sobering, and they should be a massive wake up call for all of us. Yesterday, I wrote an article about how our society is breaking down everywhere we look, and nowhere is this more evident than in our marriages and in our families. But without strong marriages and strong families, no society can thrive for long. Recently, the Social Capital Project of the Joint Economic Committee Republicans released a report entitled “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home”, but you probably never heard about it until now because it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media. I have never seen a congressional report document the collapse of marriage and family in American society to such an extent, and to be honest it is quite surprising to see such a quality piece of work come out of Washington.
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Anti-Lockdown Group the Mirror Project Banned From PayPal
The lockdown-skeptic group “The Mirror Project” has recently lost its PayPal account after it was shut down by the company for allegedly spreading “false narratives” about COVID-19. YouTube did not take down the videos uploaded by the group and said that it hadn’t violated any of its platform rules, but PayPal thought otherwise.
The Mirror Project had reportedly raised nearly $30,000 before it got suspended. The group has racked more than 10,000 subscribers and nearly half a million views on YouTube.
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Court Rules in Favor of Christian Adoption Agency Threatened by New York LGBT Law
U.S. District Court Judge Mae D’Agostino, an Obama appointee, told the New York Office of Children and Family Services that it could not shut down a Christian adoption agency simply due to the agency’s policy of only placing children with heterosexual couples.
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Cultural Marxism’s Origins: How the Disciples of an Obscure Italian Linguist Subverted America
You may have heard the terms “Cultural Marxism,” “Critical Theory” or “Frankfurt School” bandied about. And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century, there’s a good chance that you don’t know much about the deep theory, where the ideology comes from and what it has planned for America — and the world. The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism, pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci. Gramscian Marxism is a radical departure from Classical Marxism. One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx, Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two. He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of. Whereas Classical Marxism located what has been called “the revolutionary subject” (the people who will overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism) within the broad working class, primarily in what is now the First World, Gramscism takes a very different approach. This approach underpins most of the social unrest that is gripping America and the West today. In a sense, we are living through the endgame of a Gramscian revolution. There are two important diversions that Gramscism has from more traditional Marxist thought: First, that economics was the base of culture and politics. Second, philosophical materialism in the Marxist sense where reality is effectively formed by the means of economic production. For Gramsci, culture was more important than either economics or politics. This was what needed to be changed for there to be a revolution. As such, the weapon to be used for revolution was not the economic might of an organized working class, but a “long march through the institutions” (a phrase actually coined by German Marxist Rudi Dutschke), whereby every institution in the West would be subverted through penetration and infiltration. Throughout this article, we will use the term “Cultural Marxism” as a catchall to refer to this phenomenon, because it is the most all-encompassing and does not limit us to discussing any one specific variation (Gramsci, the Frankfurt School or what have you). Finally, we should briefly mention that, the claims of Dr. Jordan Peterson notwithstanding, Cultural Marxism is ideologically distinct from postmodernism and deconstruction, both of which are hostile toward Marxism. We will not touch on either postmodernism or deconstruction in this article, though they certainly have been influential on the international left.
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Netflix’s streaming of “Cuties” led to a boycott campaign and calls by members of Congress for federal prosecutors to investigate the movie as child porn.
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Greta Thunberg, W.H.O. Bookies’ Choice for Nobel Peace Prize: Trump Dismissed as ‘Undeserving’
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) stood as the bookies’ favourite Wednesday to win the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, with experts tipping Greta Thunberg as a strong outside contender along with a host of U.N. subsidiaries.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s chances have been dismissed by at least one observer because, “he hasn’t done anything that is deserving of the prize.”
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Over 6000 Scientists, Doctors Sign Anti-Lockdown Petition
Over six thousand scientists and doctors have signed a petition against coronavirus lockdown measures, urging that those not in the at risk category should be able to get on with their lives as normal, and that lockdown rules in both the US and UK are causing ‘irreparable damage’.
Those who have signed include professors from the world’s leading universities. Oxford University professor Dr Sunetra Gupta was one of the authors of the open letter that was sent with the petition, along with Harvard University’s Dr Martin Kulldorff and Stanford’s Dr Jay Bhattacharya.
It declares that social distancing and mask mandates are causing ‘damaging physical and mental health impacts.’
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YouTube and Vimeo Censor Pro-Life Video, Alleging to Show Hospital Refusing Care
Created Equal, a non-profit organization had uploaded a video on YouTube and Vimeo where newly born twins were allegedly denied treatment in a hospital, resulting in their death. Both of the video-sharing platforms ended up taking the video down, with Vimeo even suspending Created Equal’s account.
YouTube said that the video had violated its community standards, whereas Vimeo stated that it had violated its guidelines. Oddly, Vimeo’s given reason for the ban was, “You cannot upload videos that are hateful, defamatory, or discriminatory.”
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Growing Metallic Crystals in Liquid Metal
Imagine an alien world with oceans of liquid metal
If such a world exists, metallic elements are likely the sources of the dissolved materials and particles in these oceans. Everything would be made of metallic elements, even lifeforms.
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GERMANY: NEWS TIP
Refugees Welcome social worker Myriam, who’s skull was beaten to a pulp with a hammer, whilst protecting her small baby, by her Afghanistan ex-lover, who received an integration prize from Angela Merkel’s CDU Party.
Previously, he had bitten another of her illegal immigrant lovers in the face, scratched their eyes out and tore off a piece of their ear, all with his bare hands.
https://www.tag24.de/leipzig/junger-mutter-aus-rache-schaedel-eingeschlagen-botschafter-sachsens-schweigt-vor-gericht-1675660
Afghanis love Merkel. But so do Germans. Go figure.
Present for 25 years, so much for integration: they were both refugee workers, Myriam does not sound like a German name to me either.
When the Wall came down, cultural Marxists like the Frau entered to create anarchy, a mixed culture, a weak military, and the elimination of cheap fuel needed for an industrial economy. The worst, of course, is Soro$ who hates Christian Hungary and is placing Black Marxists as prosecutors across the USA, as avid persecutors of the status quo. The EU backs him 100% in crushing Christianity, too. He runs a couple dozen prosecutors’ offices in the US now with more on the way. Self defense (recently derided by Pope Francis) is now a felony in parts of the USA. Dark days ahead….
Tens of millions of brain dead Americans (Democrats) voted for Hillary Clinton too.
SWEDEN: NEWS TIP
Stockholm: A young woman attacked 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
“They called me a little whore, they said they were going to [roger] me and they said they would kill me.”
“There were about 50 people in the metro watching the scene. No one, absolutely no one, helped me. ” Later, a Swede walked up and gave Natalie his business card telling her he would testify against the gang at a trial.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=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/&usg=ALkJrhihOrnHC7G5PnN0R-x-y0-7BrKJTw
GERMANY
Illegal immigrant who vandalized three days long in a public swimming pool and threatened to kill the lifeguards is found guilty as charged…
and told to “write an essay about his experience” as punishment.
https://www.bild.de/regional/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-aktuell/urteil-in-duesseldorf-rheinbad-randalierer-muss-aufsatz-schreiben-73294480.bild.html
A Mad magazine loaded with round after round of creatures from the bowels of Hell. Diversity has opened up a cess pool out of which crawls anything. Smirking Kamala Harris.
“Rape in the Sénart forest: 20 years in prison required against Aïssa Z., accused of having committed about thirty rapes and sexual assaults” (Aïssa is an Arab name)
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/10/07/viols-en-foret-de-senart-20-ans-de-prison-requis-contre-le-predateur-sexuel-aissa-z-accuse-davoir-commis-une-trentaine-de-viols-et-dagressions-sexuelles/
“Montpellier : Montpellier: immigrants beat up a 50-year-old who refuses to buy drugs, a local resident who intervenes is stabbed”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/10/08/montpellier-des-migrants-tabassent-un-quinquagenaire-qui-refuse-dacheter-de-la-drogue-un-riverain-qui-sinterpose-est-poignarde/
I lived in Montpellier in the 1970s. No Muslims. Back for a visit this January. Like everywhere in Western Europe. Disgusting Islam and its Muslims very much in evidence. Depressed.
£55million…just for blocking this one deportation flight.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8802225/amp/Taxpayers-foot-55million-bill-lawyer-blocking-deportation-flights-Channel-migrants.html?__twitter_impression=true
It amazes me that ole Shakespeare said it best where lawyers were concerned.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1313889005755400192
https://mobile.twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1314192350688796672
“Dangerous”, “illegal” raves
(reposting) my nomination for idiotic moment of the week. British media peddles the idea America is some sort of Apartheid state and invents a non-existent scandal about supplying American Police with equipment (shields literally used for defense) to use against “peaceful protests against racism”.
Socialist nutter country.
…here’s the link again
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1312988865666461696
The evening ceases to be languid.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1314187538379100169
https://twitter.com/StanM3/status/1314205569708814338
“ UK: Given Chance to Oppose Drastic Curbs on Freedom, Just 12 Tories Rebel”
Can anyone honestly say they were surprised by this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1314235856979406851
“Macron’s measures against separatism: Teaching more Arabic at school, € 10 million to develop Islamic studies, end of home schooling”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/10/02/lutte-contre-le-separatisme-macron-veut-enseigner-davantage-la-langue-arabe-a-lecole-et-annonce-par-ailleurs-10-millions-de-pour-developper-les-etudes-islamiques/
Wow, fight Islamism by funding more Islam and making natives speak Arabic, strong logic
To be a bit Swedish these days is to have a screw loose. Turkey Boris and Arabic Macron. Won’t it be fantastic when Muslims refuse to speak anything but Arabic? The real pandemic is being ignored. Just keep stepping over the diseased and dead bodies.
Of course he would say no one in Sweden likes Trump, as far as he’s concerned it’s just a hive mind
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/03/former-swedish-broadcaster-ceo-no-one-sweden-likes-president-trump/