Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/25/2020

A trade association in Tuscany announced that Tuscan businesses will go on a tax strike if the Italian government shuts them down again in a new lockdown. Meanwhile, six women in the English city of Hull were arrested for holding a dinner party, which violated Wuhan Coronavirus restrictions.

In other news, President Donald Trump has pardoned General Michael Flynn.

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Thanks to Dean, Fjordman, JD, JM, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Airlines on Track to Lose $157 Billion as Global Slump Worsens; IATA Chief Negative on ‘Immunity Passports’
» British Economy Shrinks by Most in 300 Years Thanks to COVID, Chancellor Warns
» Q3 GDP Unchanged at Record 33.1% in First Revision; Profits Soar 27.1%
» Victoria Will Take Decades to Pay Off $155 Billion Debt as Dan Andrews Doles Out Cash to Get 400,000 People Who Lost Their Jobs During the Crushing Lockdown Back to Work
 
USA
» “Pandemic of Crime” — LA Homicides Hit Decade Highs
» Bribed: Subverting American Universities
» Cancel Culture, Part 3: Asymmetrical Warfare
» CNN Silent After Investigation Finds Nurse’s Claims Dying Patients Do Not Believe in Coronavirus is a “Massive Exaggeration”
» Convicted Killer Scott Peterson Among Death Row Inmates Who Scammed Over $400,000 in Fraudulent COVID Benefits
» Delaware Computer Repair Shop Owner Behind Hunter Biden Laptop Received Death Threats, Closed Shop After Election
» Doctor Who Demanded Mandatory Mask Law Pictured Partying Maskless on Boat Surrounded by Bikini-Clad Women
» Facebook Comments Likely to be the Next Censorship Target of Corporate Media
» Feces Complaints in San Francisco Drop to Lowest Level in 3 Years Amid Pandemic
» Food Deemed Non-Essential as New Mexico Governor Shuts Down Grocery Stores.
» Former Pfizer Science Officer Reveals Great COVID-19 Scam
» Giuliani, Trump Pull Off ‘One Hell of a Hearing’ On Pennsylvania Election Fraud
» Huge Court Win Lets Trump Present Ballot Evidence, Could Overturn Nevada Result
» Judge Blocks Certification of ‘Remaining’ Pennsylvania Election Results; Boockvar Appeals to PA Supreme Court
» Leftists Clamour for President Trump to be ‘Dragged Out of White House in Handcuffs’
» Parler CEO Slams “Disinformation Campaign” Saying the Platform Had Been Hacked
» President Trump Pardons Michael Flynn
» Sidney Powell Promises “Biblical” Lawsuit Coming in Vote Fraud Cases as She Accused Georgia Governor of Corrupt Deal With Dominion
» South Carolina Man Convicted in Plot to Attack White House & Trump Tower
» Tucker: Democrats, Big Tech Rigged Election for Joe Biden in Plain Sight
» Vermont Schools to Question, Quarantine Children Upon Return From Thanksgiving Break
» Video: Biden Tells Americans it is Their ‘Patriotic Responsibility’ To Mask Up
» Witch Hunt: Democrats Intimidate 7 of Trump’s ‘Thousands of Attorneys’ To Withdraw With Death Threats, Harassment
» Your Conservative Vote Won’t Save America From Socialism!
» YouTube Suspends Pro-Trump News Network OANN, Completely Demonetizes Channel Over Unlisted Video
» YouTube Removes Tom Woods’ “The COVID Cult” Video for Violating Its “Medical Misinformation” Rules
» YouTube Censors NLE Choppa’s Paradise, Reportedly Over Coronavirus Claims
 
Canada
» Cops Swarm Toronto BBQ for Defying COVID Lockdown, Shut it Down
» Penguin Random House Staff Melts Down After Learning They’re Publishing Jordan Peterson’s New Book
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘2021, Islam, We’re Going to Kill You All’: Quran-Carrying Man Arrested After Threats Made on French Tram
» Assailant in Swiss Knife Attack Was Jihadist, Say Police
» Attack of the Establishment: All Living UK Former Prime Ministers Demand Continued Foreign Aid Spending
» Europe Must Stand Up to Hungary and Poland
» European Parliament Plans to Impose Resolution on Polish Abortion Laws in Another Strike at Country’s Sovereignty
» France: Muslim Stabs Man and Repeatedly Screams ‘Allahu Akbar’ While Resisting Arrest
» Hungary’s Orban: George Soros is ‘The Most Corrupt Man in the World’
» Italian Businesses Threaten Tax Strike if Closed Under Lockdown
» Negative Mask Study Finally Gets Published
» Poland Needs to be Prepared for Polexit, Warns Top Conservative Editor
» Police Head Accused of Racism for Saying Foreign Criminals ‘Do Not Belong’ In Sweden
» Switzerland: Knife-Wielding Muslima Known to Police for Jihad Sentiments Stabs Two People in Department Store
» Think Tank Proposes UK Free Speech Act
» UK COVID Cops Bust Women’s Dinner Party
» UK: ‘You Don’t Need to Obey an Illegal Order!’: Tory MP Stands Up to Cops Arresting Elderly Lockdown Protester
» UK: Black Lives Matter Protester Who Spat in Cop’s Face Walks Free Because She Apologised
» UK: Jihadi Bride’s Lawyer Admits ‘There’s Always a Possibility’ She’s a Terror Threat
» UK: Muslim Jailed for Jihad Terror Offenses Asks of People Killed by ISIS, ‘Why Didn’t They Just Accept Sharia?’
» UK: Tory MP Rages as Police Bundle an Old Woman into a Van Protesting Outside Parliament
 
Middle East
» Breaking: An All-Out Assault on Baha’is Across Iran
 
South Asia
» Bangladeshi Catholics Attacked, Church Demolished
» India Bans 43 More Chinese Apps in Latest Salvo at Beijing
 
Far East
» China Proposes a Global Cyberspace Community, While Chinese Citizens Are Still Heavily Censored
» Korean Air: “Real Possibility” That Airlines Will Mandate Passengers be Vaccinated Before Travel
 
Australia — Pacific
» Algerian-Born Muslim Cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika Stripped of His Citizenship by Australia After Convicted of Terrorism
» Australian Intelligence Agencies Scooped Up Coronavirus Tracing Data
» Gay Penguin ‘Fathers’ Successfully Hatch Surrogate Egg for the Second Time at Sydney Aquarium
» Man Who Raped His Little Sister for Seven Years is Jailed and Could be Deported Back to New Zealand
» Melbourne’s Bourke St Killer Was a Drug-Addled Junkie and Thief Who No-One Thought Could be a Radicalised Muslim Terrorist — Until it Was Too Late
» Relocation of the Nation: Removalist Business Reveals Why Australians Are Moving to Brisbane and Perth — and the Capital Cities They’re Turning Away From in Droves
» What Took So Long? Australia’s First Convicted Terrorist Cell Leader Has His Citizenship Cancelled as Will be Deported to Algeria
 
Immigration
» Empty Hotels on Canary Islands Fill With Migrants After Massive Influx From Africa
» France: Migrant Sentenced to Four Years for Drugging and Raping His Young Landlady
» Japanese Foreign Minister Announces Plan to “Transform Japan Into a Diverse Multiethnic Society”
» Major Channel Migrant Human Trafficking Network Busted in France
» Migrant Surge Gains Momentum Via Czechia as Many Try to Reach the West Before Winter Hits
» Migrant-Smuggling German NGOs Are Trying to Silence Free Press
» Video: Biden Promises Amnesty for 11 Million Illegals in First 100 Days
» Watch — Joe Biden: Amnesty for Over 11 Million Illegal Aliens Going to Senate in My First 100 Days
 
Culture Wars
» Columnist Suzanne Moore Reveals She Left the Guardian Because She Was ‘Betrayed and Bullied’ For Standing Up for Women Amid ‘Transphobia’ Row and Claims ‘A Lot of People’ Backed Her But ‘Were Afraid of Losing Their Jobs’
» Peterson Book Publisher Crying
» Starbucks Barista Says She Was Fired Refusing to Wear Pride Shirt
» Yaniv Back in Court Over Assault on Rebel News Journalist!
 

Airlines on Track to Lose $157 Billion as Global Slump Worsens; IATA Chief Negative on ‘Immunity Passports’

Airlines are on track to lose up to $157 billion between this year and next year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) — a sharp increase over their June projection of $100 billion in losses they made in June for the same period.

The new projection includes a $118.5 billion deficit for 2020, and at least $38.7 billion for 2021, according to Reuters, which suggests that the bleak outlook “underscores challenges still facing the sector despite upbeat news on development of COVID-19 vaccines, whose global deployment will continue throughout next year.”

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

British Economy Shrinks by Most in 300 Years Thanks to COVID, Chancellor Warns

Just days after UK Prime MInister Boris Johnson confirmed that the 2nd English COVID-19 lockdown would soon come to an end (as England is expected to revert back to the tiered system of restrictions that preceded it), Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday shared some grim numbers about the state of the British economy with Parliament.

With global stocks on track to clinch their strongest monthly performance in modern history, Sunak warned that the British economy is set to contract by by more than 11% in 2020, the biggest annual contraction in 300 years — a period that has included at least one other global pandemic, and many, many wars.

It’s no secret that the UK has been one of the hardest-hit developed nations. With one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in the world, British leaders have imposed some of the harshest restrictions on movement and businesses in all of Europe.

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

Q3 GDP Unchanged at Record 33.1% in First Revision; Profits Soar 27.1%

With traders’ eyes looking beyond Q4 GDP and to Q1 2021, where some banks such as GDP are already expecting a double dip with a —1.0% contraction forecast, few will care how or why the BEA revised its estimate of the record Q3 GDP, but for the record, moments ago the Dept of Commerce announced that in the third quarter, GDP rose an annualized 33.1%, unchanged from the first estimate released in October, and on top of consensus expectations.

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

Victoria Will Take Decades to Pay Off $155 Billion Debt as Dan Andrews Doles Out Cash to Get 400,000 People Who Lost Their Jobs During the Crushing Lockdown Back to Work

Record debt in Victoria’s big-spending budget will take decades to pay off but is ‘eminently manageable’, according to Treasurer Tim Pallas, as it will triple by 2023/24.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

“Pandemic of Crime” — LA Homicides Hit Decade Highs

This past weekend, a surge in violent crime resulted in Los Angeles’ 300th homicide for 2020, a bloody benchmark not seen since the dark days of the 2009 financial crisis, reported LA Times.

Killings have risen 25% over last year, and shootings climbed by more than 32%, reflecting a similar trend across many other US metro areas (read: here & here) as defunding the police and socio-economic implosions and the virus-pandemic have left urban areas in chaos.

LAPD Police Chief Michel Moore said, “with the health pandemic, we don’t just cross our arms and say, ‘It is what it is.’ We’re taking all types of efforts to flatten the curve, to lower the impact, to save lives. And that’s what I’m asking for us to do with this violent crime. We have a pandemic of crime right now.”

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

Bribed: Subverting American Universities

A recent governmental report exposes the “purchased” influence foreign nations have on America’s most prestigious universities and, as a result, on what America’s current and upcoming generations of analysts and policymakers will think and believe.

More than one-third of the nearly $20 billion in foreign donations and contracts made to American universities between just 2014 and 2020 were never disclosed as required by federal law, according to “Institutional Compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965,” a Department of Education report released on October 20, 2020.

Among those “gifts” were more than $3 billion from the Muslim Brotherhood’s number one state backer, Qatar; more than $1.1 billion from the chief disseminator of “radical” Islamic ideology, Saudi Arabia; and nearly $1.5 billion from China.

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

Cancel Culture, Part 3: Asymmetrical Warfare

Asymmetrical warfare is exactly what is being perpetrated on America today — except the ‘formal military’ of that definition is absent. We watch television, we see people attacked and killed, buildings destroyed, parts of cities taken over by ignorant dregs of society. And we don’t see many officials doing anything to stop it. Instead, many are abetting these scumbags. Mayors are telling police to stand down; many are defunding their police departments. And now, we are seeing the brazen attempt to steal an election.

One of the most up-front examples of asymmetrical warfare is this election with:

some states not requiring voter ID, with thousands of ballots sent to the dead, who then voted — early and often, with the counting in many key places stopped at night and the watchers sent away while truckloads of ballots were brought in, and with machines moving ballots from one candidate to the other.

This was brazen, in-your-face asymmetrical warfare.

We are looking at a coup being staged via asymmetrical warfare. And watching how even intelligent people are accepting the lie that the election is so very close that we have to wait for days or longer to know the outcome.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Silent After Investigation Finds Nurse’s Claims Dying Patients Do Not Believe in Coronavirus is a “Massive Exaggeration”

CNN has remained silent after a nurse’s story during a CNN interview ends up being a “massive exaggeration.”

During the interview, Jodi Doering, who works as an emergency room nurse in South Dakota, claimed that patients who are dying from coronavirus often do not believe it.

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

Convicted Killer Scott Peterson Among Death Row Inmates Who Scammed Over $400,000 in Fraudulent COVID Benefits

Today in “why the Federal government and the state of California should not be in the business of capital management” news…

The infamous Scott Peterson was among other death row inmates who were able to fraudulently receive Covid unemployment benefits administered by California, according to analysis released Tuesday.

Prosecutors in California say they uncovered a “massive scam” that allowed more than $400,000 in California state benefits to be paid to inmates at San Quentin State Prison. This includes Peterson, who is famously in prison for the killing of his wife, Laci Peterson, and his unborn son.

The Los Angeles Times was the first to report the fraud, which is being called by nine local DA’s “the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.”

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

Delaware Computer Repair Shop Owner Behind Hunter Biden Laptop Received Death Threats, Closed Shop After Election

The owner of the computer repair shop that reportedly gave a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has closed the shop after receiving death threats.

John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of The Mac Shop, closed the repair store after the 2020 election after receiving death threats, according to his attorney. An unidentified neighbor of Mac Isaac also told local media that he had left town.

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

Doctor Who Demanded Mandatory Mask Law Pictured Partying Maskless on Boat Surrounded by Bikini-Clad Women

The world’s so-called “hottest doctor,” who has repeatedly called for mandatory mask laws and social distancing, was pictured maskless partying on a boat in Miami while surrounded by bikini-clad women.

Mikhail Varshavski, known as ‘Dr. Mike’ online, completely contradicted his own advice by throwing a ‘super-spreader’ 31st birthday party for himself on November 12.

“A picture of Varshavski on a boat in Sunset Harbor surrounded by 14 other people — most of them bikini-clad women — has since done the rounds with his fans calling him out for hypocrisy,” reports the Daily Mail.

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

Facebook Comments Likely to be the Next Censorship Target of Corporate Media

Facebook is coming under a fresh round of fire from corporate media, and this time not only for content published on the world’s biggest social network and allowing users’ to have varied political and other affiliations — but also because of comments that are viewed as problematic, yet left outside of reach of fact-checkers and censorship otherwise happening on the platform.

A lengthy opinion piece in the New York Times is based on the author “borrowing” access to their Facebook accounts from two persons whom he describes as “boomers” whose conservative views changed because of Donald Trump, turning them into Biden voters, who think that having political and ideological differences and expressing them on social networks means US politics is toxic, while those platforms are polarizing.

The author’s mission was to discover what these unnamed boomers’ Facebook feeds looked, and felt like, and the verdict is that it was “a nightmare:” they are able to see posts from family and friends’ domestic life, but also pro-Trump and anti-Biden memes, “conspiratorial misinformation,” and content that doesn’t have “context.” (But that’s because they’re social media posts, rather than news articles or academic papers, and even those are hard to trust these days.)

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

Feces Complaints in San Francisco Drop to Lowest Level in 3 Years Amid Pandemic

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit analyzed 311 complaint data from April 1 to Nov. 13 and compared it to the same time period in previous years to gain insight into how the global health emergency may be impacting the cleanliness of San Francisco’s infamously dirty streets.

The data shows more calls for help to clear trash from San Francisco streets than in the previous year, but fewer concerns about feces and needles. The changes come as stay-at-home orders have reduced the total number of people on the streets, coupled with a migration out of the city by renters. In addition, ongoing services provided to the homeless may also play a role in the decreasing number of complaints, according to city officials.

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

Food Deemed Non-Essential as New Mexico Governor Shuts Down Grocery Stores.

Not all of them mind you, just the ones that meet a wholly arbitrary standard that the governor plucked out of thin air because power is fun!

Look at the common people scampering to find someplace to buy a turkey they can eat alone in their house.

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

Former Pfizer Science Officer Reveals Great COVID-19 Scam

Story at a glance:

There are currently no excess deaths while cases increase.

Data show many deaths — primarily people aged 45 to 65, with equal distribution between the sexes — are mainly due to heart disease, stroke and cancer, which suggests they are excess deaths caused by lack of routine medical care due to the pandemic restrictions

The PCR test is not a valid diagnostic tool and should not be done on the scale we’re now doing it. The high rate of false positives is only fodder for needless fearmongering

Virtually no one who is asymptomatic has the live virus, but when you run the test at a cycle threshold over 30, meaning you amplify the viral RNA more than 30 times, you end up with a positive test even if the virus is inactive and noninfectious

According to Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a former vice-president and chief scientific adviser of the drug company Pfizer, very few people will need the COVID-19 vaccine as the mortality rate is so low and the illness is clearly not causing excess deaths

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Giuliani, Trump Pull Off ‘One Hell of a Hearing’ On Pennsylvania Election Fraud

Update (1747ET): With the hearing concluded, people are commenting on how credible and well spoken the witnesses were in describing election fraud in Pennsylvania.

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

Huge Court Win Lets Trump Present Ballot Evidence, Could Overturn Nevada Result

In its first court victory, a Nevada judge has agreed to let the Trump campaign present its evidence that fraud and illegalities plagued the state’s election, enough to reverse Joe Biden’s win and set an example for other state challenges.

According to Trump officials, the judge set a Dec. 3 hearing date and is allowing 15 depositions. What’s more, the campaign plans to present its evidence that could result in the rejection of tens of thousands of mail-in ballots in Democratic Clark County where Biden ballots outnumbered Trump ballots by 91,000 in unofficial results.

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

Judge Blocks Certification of ‘Remaining’ Pennsylvania Election Results; Boockvar Appeals to PA Supreme Court

Update (1430ET): The defendants have filed a notice of appeal, while Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro said in a statement that “This order does not impact yesterday’s appointment of electors.”

Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via the Epoch Times (Updated 1240ET)

A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday ordered state officials to not certify the results of the 2020 election until her court holds a hearing on an election contest on Friday.

Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough ordered the state to not take any further steps to complete the certification of the presidential race, which the state announced on Tuesday. She also blocked the certification of all the other election results.

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

Leftists Clamour for President Trump to be ‘Dragged Out of White House in Handcuffs’

After the Boston Globe suggested that it would not be good for the nation to have to see President Trump forcefully removed from the White House, scores of leftists responded by arguing that they would love to see that exact scenario come to fruition.

The Globe tweeted Tuesday “Even a nation hooked on drama does not want to see a US president dragged out the front door of the White House on Jan. 20.”

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

Parler CEO Slams “Disinformation Campaign” Saying the Platform Had Been Hacked

The anti-censorship social media platform, Parler, says that it’s facing a disinformation campaign insinuating that the platform has been hacked. John Matze, the company’s CEO, has released a statement in an effort to quash the accusations against the platform, stating that the company’s “databases are hidden behind multiple layers of security and are not accessible via the web.”

The rumors about Parler originated after a screenshot from a WordPress site started making the rounds six months ago. Since then, the company has kept reiterating the fact that it does not use WordPress products or databases. The company CEO Matze commented that the conspiracy is “irresponsible” and is based on a “techie” looking WordPress configuration file that is “only capable of confusing a journalistic hack, not an actual hacker.”

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

President Trump Pardons Michael Flynn

Update (1730ET): The White House Press Secretary’s office has released a lengthy statement setting out the reasons for pardoning Gen. Flynn. The statement read that Flynn shouldn’t require a pardon because “he is an innocent man”.

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

Sidney Powell Promises “Biblical” Lawsuit Coming in Vote Fraud Cases as She Accused Georgia Governor of Corrupt Deal With Dominion

Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell has been dropping bombshells like a boss over the past several days as she prepares to file what she described as a lawsuit of “biblical” proportions in Georgia, alleging massive electronic vote fraud that flipped several states from President Trump to Joe Biden.

In an interview with Newsmax TV, Powell also accused Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of making a deal to purchase Dominion Voting Systems that included some kind of kickback on the $100 million price tag.

Asked about the state’s election results being certified for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden over the weekend, Powell blew it off.

“That’s a total farce. Georgia’s probably going to be the first state I’m gonna blow up, and Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it because they’re in on the Dominion [Voting Systems] scam with their last-minute purchase or reward of a contract to Dominion of $100 million,” she said, going on to suggest that Georgia law enforcement officials should be investigating that.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

South Carolina Man Convicted in Plot to Attack White House & Trump Tower

A South Carolina man who was radicalized by ISIS — possibly via materials spread over the Internet (it sometimes seems like social media companies like Twitter have dedicated more resources to suppressing conservative voices than ISIS recruiters) — has just been convicted over plotting to attack the White House, and a few other locations including Trump Tower.

Kristopher Sean Matthews, 34, pleaded guilty to conspiracy over his plan to provide material support to ISIS in a hearing before a US magistrate judge in San Antonio.

Matthews acknowledged at the hearing that he had conspired with 22-year-old Jaylyn Christopher Molina of Cost, Texas, to share bomb-making information, starting in May 2019. The two also conspired to radicalize and recruit other individuals to support the international ISIS organization.

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

Tucker: Democrats, Big Tech Rigged Election for Joe Biden in Plain Sight

“They rigged the election in front of all of us and nobody did anything about it.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Vermont Schools to Question, Quarantine Children Upon Return From Thanksgiving Break

Schoolchildren and their parents will be questioned in Vermont about their Thanksgiving gatherings upon the kids’ return to school. Kids in families who violated the state’s rule against celebrating with another household will be banned from the classroom and must participate in remote learning for two weeks. If the child can present a negative COVID-19 test, then they will only need to stay home for one week.

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

Video: Biden Tells Americans it is Their ‘Patriotic Responsibility’ To Mask Up

Joe Biden announced in an interview Tuesday that it is the duty of Americans to wear masks and abide by social distancing rules, and that doing so is ‘patriotic’.

During the appearance with NBC News, Biden said “I hope that we’re going to be able to have a united voice on the need to mask, socially distance, testing and tracing.”

“They’re critical, critical pieces to dealing with bringing down this virus in a more manageable place,” Biden added.

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

Witch Hunt: Democrats Intimidate 7 of Trump’s ‘Thousands of Attorneys’ To Withdraw With Death Threats, Harassment

Since the November 3 election, Democrats have been conducting a concerted campaign to doxx, harass and intimidate lawyers who work with President Donald Trump’s campaign or other Republicans on election integrity.

In total, 7 lawyers in five separate firms have successfully withdrawn as legal counsel from contentious 2020 election cases.

November 8th: Snell & Wilmer partners Brett Johnson and Eric Spencer November 12th: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP’s Ronald Hicks and Carolyn McGee November 16th: Linda Kerns, John Scott and Douglas Bryan Hughes

Linda Kerns’ withdrawal came after a barrage of death threats put her under protection by U.S. Marshals.

One of the abusive calls Kerns received was from a lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, the firm representing the opposing side. The judge in the case declined to sanction Kirkland & Ellis but admitted the call was “really bad form”.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Your Conservative Vote Won’t Save America From Socialism!

How are the free people of America going to stop the onslaught of socialism, radical environmentalism and the move towards one-world government? If the brainwashed socialists and the radical environmentalists have the majority vote, or if they cheat to make it appear that they have the majority vote, your conservative vote can’t override their majority vote and their radical agenda prevails. Unless, the judicial system can expose the cheating and correct the vote, nothing will change. If those who count the vote are not honorable, the cheating will go on without interruption and the judicial system will be unable to expose or stop it. At that point all integrity in the American voting system will have been lost and the “good faith and credit” of the American government will have evaporated. In such event the socialist colluders and racketeers will rule.

Now that America has been fully immersed in socialism, radical environmentalism and the one-world-order for five score and ten, is there any hope of undoing what has been done, when so many American citizens have forsaken freedom and liberty in exchange for the phantom veil of government-provided security and comfort? How can we turn back the clock to a time when Americans were self-reliant instead of dependent? How do we return to a time when we took responsibility for our actions instead of being excused for them because someone convinced us that we are victims of society’s ills? What makes us think we can re-invent the past when the rule of law meant something; or when there were individuals with individual rights; or the justice system administered true justice? Why did we let America morph into a collective where only the collective has rights? That IS socialism!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

YouTube Suspends Pro-Trump News Network OANN, Completely Demonetizes Channel Over Unlisted Video

YouTube has suspended the One America News Network from posting new content for one week and has completely demonetized the channel, after the pro-Trump news network reportedly uploaded a video touting a non-approved ‘cure’ for COVID-19.

According to Axios, “YouTube has been criticized for allowing OANN to spread misinformation using its platform, particularly around coronavirus and the election,” adding “This marks the Google-owned service’s first crackdown against OANN.”

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

YouTube Removes Tom Woods’ “The COVID Cult” Video for Violating Its “Medical Misinformation” Rules

YouTube has removed New York Times best-selling author and libertarian podcast host Tom Woods’ “The COVID Cult” video for violating its increasingly strict “medical misinformation” rules.

The video featured a talk Woods gave at the Mises Institute’s November 7 Symposium with Ron Paul. Woods said that it had racked up almost 1.5 million views before it was purged by YouTube.

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

YouTube Censors NLE Choppa’s Paradise, Reportedly Over Coronavirus Claims

The genre of hip hop is traditionally replete with controversial topics and language but what YouTube appears to have decided to censor here is — coronavirus skepticism.

Finding misinformation in music and censoring artistic expression might in the long run prove to be a tricky task even for a platform so practiced at it.

What’s obvious right now and has been for a while is that any messages or opinions that stray from YouTube’s declared position on coronavirus are getting removed, regardless of what context they are expressed in and who they’re coming from — musicians and scientists alike.

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

Cops Swarm Toronto BBQ for Defying COVID Lockdown, Shut it Down

A popular Toronto restaurant, Adamson Barbecue, had a swarm of cops show up after owner Adam Skellyfought back against COVID lockdown restrictions and reopened both indoor and outdoor dining in defiance of Ontario’s new ‘Gray zone’ restrictions.

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

Penguin Random House Staff Melts Down After Learning They’re Publishing Jordan Peterson’s New Book

The staff at Penguin Random House Canada had a meltdown at an “emotional town hall” over the company’s decision to publish psychologist Jordan Peterson’s latest book, according to Vice. Dozens of additional employees have filed “anonymous complaints”, the report notes.

On Monday, the publisher said they would publish Peterson’s new book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Peterson, which is going to be out in March 2021. We’re guessing none of these additional 12 rules includes setting fire to a Wendy’s or throwing a brick through a Target window to steal T-shirts. Hopefully instead, the book offers up a take on how to conduct yourself as an employee of a company without throwing an emotional temper tantrum anytime the boss makes a decision you don’t like.

One “junior employee” at PRH said of Peterson: “He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him.”

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

‘2021, Islam, We’re Going to Kill You All’: Quran-Carrying Man Arrested After Threats Made on French Tram

Police arrested an intoxicated man in Montpellier after he made death threats aboard a tram, telling passengers that in 2021, Islam would kill them all.

The incident occurred at around 5:30 pm on Friday, November 20th, aboard a line two tram. The 33-year-old man, who was carrying a copy of the Quran, threatened people around him.

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

Assailant in Swiss Knife Attack Was Jihadist, Say Police

A Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a department store in the Swiss city of Lugano on Tuesday was a known jihadist who fell in love with a militant online and tried to meet him in Syria, say police.

Federal prosecutors have called the incident in the Italian-speaking southern canton of Ticino a suspected terrorist attack and taken charge of the investigation.

“Police investigations in 2017 revealed that the woman had formed a relationship via social media with a jihadist fighter from Syria,” the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) tweeted on Wednesday.

Turkish authorities turned her back from the border to Syria when she tried to travel there to meet the man and returned her to Switzerland at the time, it said.

“The woman was suffering from mental health problems at this time. After returning to Switzerland, she was admitted to a psychiatric clinic,” Fedpol said, adding that she had not come to Fedpol’s attention in any terror-related investigation since 2017…

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Attack of the Establishment: All Living UK Former Prime Ministers Demand Continued Foreign Aid Spending

Five former globalism-backing prime ministers are putting pressure on Boris Johnson to ditch plans to lower the UK’s aid commitment to divert taxpayer money back into the country to counteract the devastation to the British economy caused by the Chinese coronavirus.

It was under Tory David Cameron’s rule that Britain became legally obliged to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid, which was followed by years of reports of misspending of British taxpayers’ money. Cameron had enacted the measures into law in 2015, but it was the fulfilment of the pledge by Tony Blair ten years earlier, based on the target set by the United Nations.

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Europe Must Stand Up to Hungary and Poland

by George Soros

The European Union cannot afford to compromise on the rule-of-law provisions it applies to the funds it allocates to member states. How the EU responds to the challenge to those provisions now posed by Hungary and Poland will determine whether it survives as an open society true to the values upon which it was founded.

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European Parliament Plans to Impose Resolution on Polish Abortion Laws in Another Strike at Country’s Sovereignty

On Wednesday, the European Parliament will hold a debate concerning abortion law in Poland in response to the Polish Constitutional Court decreeing that eugenic abortion is incompatible with the Polish constitution. MEPs are also to pass a resolution about Poland’s abortion laws during the deliberations.

Polish Law and Justice party (PiS) MEP Patryk Jaki points out that the debate and resolution coincides with the discussions surrounding the EU budget and the rule of law mechanism. He believes that, in the future, accusations from the EU concerning breaking rule of law in terms of reproduction rights will be launched against Poland, putting the country’s conservative position on the issue at threat.

Jaki explained that there is a worry that such an approach from the European Parliament may carry over to stripping Poland of EU funds.

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France: Muslim Stabs Man and Repeatedly Screams ‘Allahu Akbar’ While Resisting Arrest

Celebrate diversity! Anyone who opposes mass Muslim migration into the West is clearly racist, and that’s all there is to it open and shut, end of story. What’s that? Violence against Infidels is encouraged in numerous Qur’an passages, and this fellow linked his attack to Islam by screaming “Allahu akbar”? Shut up, you greasy Islamophobe.

“Saint-Ouen: He refuses to give his phone away and receives several stab wounds,” translated from “Saint-Ouen : Il refuse de donner son téléphone et reçoit plusieurs coups de couteau,” ACTUPenit.com, November 23, 2020 (thanks to Mason).

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Hungary’s Orban: George Soros is ‘The Most Corrupt Man in the World’

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blasted billionaire disrupter George Soros Wednesday, denouncing his efforts to create a “European empire” under the banner of a global open society.

In his written statement, Mr. Orban replies to a November 18 article by George Soros published in Project Syndicate in which Mr. Soros attacks Hungary and Poland for vetoing the European Union’s proposed €1.15 trillion seven-year budget.

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Italian Businesses Threaten Tax Strike if Closed Under Lockdown

A Tuscan group representing small and medium-sized enterprises has threatened the government with a tax strike if businesses are forced to close due to Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures.

Confcommercio Toscana said that it would support any of its 50,000 members across Tuscany in their tax strike. The group’s president, Anna Lapini, stated that “those who govern us have not bothered to stop the costs to our companies, which instead continue to run”. She added that businesses would not have the cash needed to make tax payments.

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Negative Mask Study Finally Gets Published

A new study showing that the recommendation to wear masks “did not reduce the infection rate among wearers by more than 50%” has finally been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study, which followed 4,800 Danish citizens in spring and early summer 2020, appeared in preprint several weeks ago, but had been largely ignored by medical journals until now. In a commentary for MedPageToday, Dr. Vinay Prasad, a physician and associate professor at UC San Francisco, said the study was most likely shunned at first because “we have such strong emotions toward masks.”

In other words, the world has become sold on the idea that masks are what make the difference in the pandemic’s spread that emotions have gotten in the way of true science and the topic has turned political. However, he added that this study is “well done, thoughtful, useful and what we need more of.”

What the study shows, he said, is that in places like Denmark with moderate transmission, “there is insufficient evidence to suggest wearing a mask as you go about daily errands will protect you from infection.

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Poland Needs to be Prepared for Polexit, Warns Top Conservative Editor

Although Poland leaving the European Union is not desirable, given the tense current political climate, the country needs to prepare for that scenario, the editor-in-chief of conservative weekly Do Rzeczy, Pawel Lisicki, said in an interview.

Do Rzeczy came under fire for bringing up the issue of Polexit on the cover of its most recent publication, prompting Lisicki to respond to his critics.

Lisicki said he believes that for the last few years Poland has been experiencing an EU which has increasingly looked to subject Poland to Western Europe’s political ideology.

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Police Head Accused of Racism for Saying Foreign Criminals ‘Do Not Belong’ In Sweden

Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord has been labelled a “racist” for commenting on social media that foreign criminals do not belong in Sweden.

Nord made his comments on Twitter last Friday, saying: “Yesterday, we arrested two young men who do not belong in Sweden on suspicion of theft from cyclists (bags, computers from bicycle baskets, and package holders).”

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Switzerland: Knife-Wielding Muslima Known to Police for Jihad Sentiments Stabs Two People in Department Store

There are just too many people like this for authorities to keep track of, and that has been the Islamic State’s explicit strategy for years: to overwhelm Western law enforcement and intelligence officials with so many attacks and plots that they can’t keep up and ultimately collapse under the pressure. This strategy is detailed in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS. And it’s working beautifully.

“Act of terrorism: woman with knife stabs two people in Swiss department store,” translated from “Terreurdaad: vrouw met mes steekt twee mensen neer in Zwitsers warenhuis,” De Telegraaf, November 24, 2020 (thanks to RB).

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Think Tank Proposes UK Free Speech Act

A new paper authored by Adam Smith Institute’s legal fellow and technology lawyer Preston J. Byrne explores the state of freedom of speech in the UK and suggests that current problems the country is facing in this area could be solved by adopting rules protecting free speech modeled after the First Amendment of the US Constitution. )

As things stand, UK citizens can accuse others and even send them to prison for “crimes” like feeling offended by their speech, or finding that speech distressing or uncomfortable. But proper free speech protections should extend all the way to things that may be understood as “loathsome and hateful,” Byrne notes.

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UK COVID Cops Bust Women’s Dinner Party

British police busted a woman and five of her friends for having an illegal coronavirus dinner party at her house.

The six women live in the so-called coronavirus ‘hotspot’ of Hull. They were inspired to host the dinner party by the Channel 4 television series Come Dine with Me, where a group of people take it in turns to host a dinner party.

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UK: ‘You Don’t Need to Obey an Illegal Order!’: Tory MP Stands Up to Cops Arresting Elderly Lockdown Protester

A Member of Parliament from the ruling Conservative Party was seen shouting, “You don’t need to obey an illegal order!” at police as they arrested an elderly woman at a peaceful anti-lockdown protest in London on Tuesday.

Metropolitan Police were filmed hauling the elderly woman “spread eagle” into the back of a police van, arresting her for alleged breaches of the Chinese coronavirus restrictions. Shocked at what he was witnessing, Sir Charles Walker MP shouted at the officers, calling their actions an “absolute disgrace”.

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UK: Black Lives Matter Protester Who Spat in Cop’s Face Walks Free Because She Apologised

A Black Lives Matter protester who spat in the face of a police officer in London was set free by Westminster Magistrates’ court because she “apologised”.

Halina Kaszycka-Williams, 31, pleaded guilty to spitting in the face of PC Sam Franks during a Black Lives Matter march on May 31st in Notting Hill. She was also found to be in possession of cocaine at the time.

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UK: Jihadi Bride’s Lawyer Admits ‘There’s Always a Possibility’ She’s a Terror Threat

Lawyer Tasnime Akunjee admits that “there is always a possibility” that his client Shamima Begum is a terror threat, but maintains the jihadi bride should be allowed to return to the UK to contest the deprivation of her British citizenship.

The remarks were made on the second day of hearings in the UK’s Supreme Court on whether the 21-year-old Islamic State member can return.

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UK: Muslim Jailed for Jihad Terror Offenses Asks of People Killed by ISIS, ‘Why Didn’t They Just Accept Sharia?’

Judge Philip Katz QC said that Yanaouri “had opted to listen to ‘notorious terrorist loudmouths’ instead of genuine clerics, and was ‘brainwashed by their propaganda.’“

It would be helpful if the imam Katz would provide us with a list of these “genuine clerics,” but he won’t, of course, any more than he will explain from Islamic texts and teachings how he has come to be so sure that the Islam of the “notorious terrorist loudmouths” is a false, twisted version of the real, peaceful thing, and why this is so clear to him while it continues to elude people such as Zakaria Yanaouri, and so many others.

“West Sussex extremist jailed for Islamist-related terror offences,” by Helen William, Press Association, November 23, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace).

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UK: Tory MP Rages as Police Bundle an Old Woman into a Van Protesting Outside Parliament

Tory MP Sir Charles Walker has raged at ‘disgraceful and un-British’ police officers as they bundled an elderly woman into a van for protesting outside Parliament.

Various reports said that the 72-year-old woman was participating either in an anti-lockdown protest or an anti-vaccine demonstration.

Raising the incident (in the House of Commons) as a point of order, Sir Charles told the Commons: ‘I have just witnessed an elderly lady peacefully protesting with a handful of other people be arrested and carried spread-eagle to a police van just outside the precinct of the House of Commons.

‘This is a disgrace. This is un-British. It is unconstitutional and this Government, our Prime Minister needs to end these injustices now.’

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Breaking: An All-Out Assault on Baha’is Across Iran

On the morning of Sunday, November 22, in simultaneous operations in various cities across Iran, security agents ransacked the homes of tens of Baha’is. Their personal effects, mobile phones, computers, laptops and religious books and pictures were all confiscated, and in a number of cases, the agents also reportedly took away any cash they found, along with national ID cards.

The reason for this wave of raids is not yet known. According to two Baha’is whose homes were searched, the warrant only specified that it was for “searching the home and workplace and seizure of equipment.” As of now, there have been no reports of any arrests.

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Bangladeshi Catholics Attacked, Church Demolished

MOULVIBAZAR, Bangladesh (ChurchMilitant.com) — Armed Muslim militants attacked Catholics in the village of Ichhachhara in northeastern Bangladesh earlier this month, wounding faithful and desecrating their church — smashing windows and destroying books and other religious items.

Sources tell Church Militant the assault stems from a Sept. 21 incident in which Muslim Rafiq Ali, using fake documents, illegally seized farmland from local Catholic Josper Amlorong.

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India Bans 43 More Chinese Apps in Latest Salvo at Beijing

India banned 43 more Chinese apps on Tuesday including some from e-commerce giant Alibaba, saying they threatened its “sovereignty and integrity” as tensions remain high between the nuclear-armed neighbours following a deadly border clash.

New Delhi previously pulled 59 Chinese apps — including the wildly popular video-sharing platform TikTok — from its huge domestic market, weeks after the high-altitude battle in the Ladakh region in June when 20 Indian soldiers were killed.

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China Proposes a Global Cyberspace Community, While Chinese Citizens Are Still Heavily Censored

Simultaneously as it is keeping much of the outside internet out of the bounds of its Great Firewall, China is prepared to cooperate with other countries in order to create a common, global cyberspace community that would focus on the underlying infrastructure — which China’s leading tech companies can serve well.

The idea to build this “community” was floated in a letter penned by President Xi Jinping and read at this year’s Wuzhen World Internet Conference, reports are saying.

Now in its seventh iteration, the conference, which Beijing uses to promote and “export” its model of restricted and controlled internet, in the past saw participation from Apple and Google CEOs Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai. This year, along with representatives of Chinese giants Alibaba and ZTE, Qualcomm and Cisco CEOs Steve Mollenkopf and Chuck Robbins are also taking part via video.

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Korean Air: “Real Possibility” That Airlines Will Mandate Passengers be Vaccinated Before Travel

Mirroring rhetoric from others in the industry, a spokesperson for Korean Air has said there’s a “real possibility” airlines will mandate passengers take a COVID-19 vaccine before being allowed to travel.

“South Korea’s largest airline has a similar message,” reports ABC News. “Jill Chung, a spokesperson for Korean Air, said Tuesday there’s a real possibility that airlines will require that passengers be vaccinated. She said that’s because governments are likely to require vaccinations as a condition for lifting quarantine requirements for new arrivals.”

Air New Zealand also issued a statement asserting that it would ultimately be “up to governments to determine when and how it is safe to reopen borders.”

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Algerian-Born Muslim Cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika Stripped of His Citizenship by Australia After Convicted of Terrorism

Australia has cancelled the citizenship of Abdul Nacer Benbrika, an Algerian-born Muslim cleric, after he was held guilty of three charges of terrorism in 2005. Benbrika will be the first person to be stripped of his citizenship by the Australian government.

We will do whatever is possible to protect Australians: Australian Minister for Home Affairs

The Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said that Benbrika posed a significant terrorist threat to the country and that the Australian government would do everything possible to protect Australians. “It is a person who’s posing a significant terrorist threat to our country, then we’ll do whatever is possible within Australian law to protect Australians”, said Dutton today. “I cancelled the Australian citizenship of convicted terrorist Benbrika, (making him) the first individual to have lost citizenship onshore”, he added.

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Australian Intelligence Agencies Scooped Up Coronavirus Tracing Data

Based on what the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) has found, Australia’s intelligence and security agencies may have “incidentally” collected COVIDSafe contact tracing app’s data during the first six months after its launch. These findings were all a part of the report IGIS submitted to the Australian Information Commissioner.

The report furnished by IGIS stated that the data collection may have occurred “in the course of lawful collection of other data” which also makes it permissible under the country’s Privacy Act. One of the spokespeople for IGIS told a local news outlet that “execution of warrants” could be a possible reason why COVID app data collection could have occurred.

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Gay Penguin ‘Fathers’ Successfully Hatch Surrogate Egg for the Second Time at Sydney Aquarium

Australia’s first gay penguin couple have become fathers for the second time after adopting an egg that was rejected by a straight couple.

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Man Who Raped His Little Sister for Seven Years is Jailed and Could be Deported Back to New Zealand

A Queensland man has been jailed for six years and could be deported for the historic sexual abuse of his younger sister over a seven-year period.

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Melbourne’s Bourke St Killer Was a Drug-Addled Junkie and Thief Who No-One Thought Could be a Radicalised Muslim Terrorist — Until it Was Too Late

The man who killed beloved Melbourne identity Sisto Malaspina was a known junkie with an extensive criminal history.

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Relocation of the Nation: Removalist Business Reveals Why Australians Are Moving to Brisbane and Perth — and the Capital Cities They’re Turning Away From in Droves

Since April, the amount of people looking for help to move across the country has jumped by 52 per cent, according to data from online removalist platform Muval.

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What Took So Long? Australia’s First Convicted Terrorist Cell Leader Has His Citizenship Cancelled as Will be Deported to Algeria

Australia has cancelled the citizenship Abdul Nacer Benbrika — a notorious terror cell leader who once plotted to blow up the MCG on AFL Grand Final day.

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Empty Hotels on Canary Islands Fill With Migrants After Massive Influx From Africa

The Canary Islands, which belong to Spain, are bearing the brunt of a migrant wave that is ten times larger this year than last year. In the last month alone, 8,000 migrants have arrived from Africa. Now, Madrid is under pressure to negotiate the issue of illegal migration with Morocco and other African states but refuses to move the migrants to mainland Spain.

The Canary Islands are a popular tourist destination, even during the pandemic. The disease spread much more slowly on the islands than in the rest of Spain, which was hit hard by the first and second waves of coronavirus.

In recent weeks, however, migrants have been filling accommodation capacity instead of tourists, resulting in hotels and apartments hosting about 4,000 migrants. The owners of the lodgings have been calling for the expulsion of the migrants from the islands for two weeks.

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France: Migrant Sentenced to Four Years for Drugging and Raping His Young Landlady

A young migrant was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for drugging and abusing the young woman hosting him in the village of Douarnenez in the northwestern French region of Brittany, regional news portal Le Télégramme reports.

The unnamed victim insisted that the hearing take place behind closed doors on Nov. 20 at the Quimper court. The first hearing on Oct. 20 was public because of the defendant’s request for referrals and to carry out expert evaluations, including a psychiatric one.

For three hours, behind the closed doors of the courtroom, the magistrates of the bench, the prosecution, the lawyers, but also the victim and the defendant, named as Plamedi Odinga Mbala Mungadi, recounted the events of Sept. 12, 2020, in Douarnenez inside the home ofthe young woman.

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Japanese Foreign Minister Announces Plan to “Transform Japan Into a Diverse Multiethnic Society”

The Japanese foreign minister has announced a plan to “transform Japan into a diversified multiethnic society” by encouraging mass immigration and giving foreign residents the right to vote.

Toshimitsu Motegi is a politician for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and has served as the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs since September 2019.

During a Q and A session, Motegi said his “national vision” meant “transforming Japan in the 21st century into a “diversified multiethnic society” by way of mass immigration from all over the world.

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Major Channel Migrant Human Trafficking Network Busted in France

French police have arrested what is being characterised as a major people-smuggling operation behind many of the small rubber boats that have carried illegal migrants across the English Channel to the UK.

Police arrested six Iraqi and Syrian men during raids in the city of Sin-le-Noble in northern France. The alleged human traffickers are said to have played a “crucial” role in facilitating dozens of illegal boat crossings since at least May.

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Migrant Surge Gains Momentum Via Czechia as Many Try to Reach the West Before Winter Hits

The state of emergency in spring closed borders and slowed the transit of migrants through the Czech Republic to the West of Europe. But in autumn, authorities are reporting the “usual” numbers of migrants being detained in Czechia.

Police reports flowing in reveal a surge in migrants in November. In the Ústi nad Labem region in the northwest of the country, authorities detained eight Afghans hidden in a truck in mid-November, and is the type of incident that highlights what police are facing at the moment.

“In November, we recorded an increase in the number of migrants,” confirmed Milan Mayer from the Prague directorate of the Foreign Police Service.

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Migrant-Smuggling German NGOs Are Trying to Silence Free Press

The silencing of independent media critical of NGOs based in Germany is raising fears about freedom of the press in the country.

The censorship case has to do with dozens of NGO volunteers and employees who were arrested by Greek authorities in September, which were accused of espionage, ties to organized crime and people smuggling networks. As Remix New previously reported, the NGOs, some of them based in Germany and Norway, have allegedly co-ordinated their operations with Turkish people-smuggling gangs to bring over 3,000 illegal migrants to European shores, mostly to Greek and Italian ports.

Members of the pro-migrant NGOs were reportedly illegally monitoring the radio traffic of Frontex and Greek coastguard ships in order to avoid detection. In critical moments, they may have also flooded Coast Guard ship radios with false signals in order to confuse authorities. These messages must have either come from a ship or from the Island of Lesbos. There are also accusations that Greek Coast Guard communications were monitored.

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Video: Biden Promises Amnesty for 11 Million Illegals in First 100 Days

Joe Biden has again promised to rapidly send an amnesty deal to the Senate within the first 100 days of his presidency, should Trump’s legal challenge fail and he be ousted from the White House in January.

In an interview with NBC News, Biden asserted that he will seek to legalise over 11 million immigrants who currently reside in the US without documentation.

“Some of it’s going to depend on the kind of cooperation I can or cannot get from the United States Congress,” Biden stated, referring to his immediate agenda.

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Watch — Joe Biden: Amnesty for Over 11 Million Illegal Aliens Going to Senate in My First 100 Days

Democrat Joe Biden says he will send an amnesty deal for “over 11 million” illegal aliens to the United States Senate in his first 100 days in office.

During an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, Biden reiterated his plan to give amnesty to the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S.

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Columnist Suzanne Moore Reveals She Left the Guardian Because She Was ‘Betrayed and Bullied’ For Standing Up for Women Amid ‘Transphobia’ Row and Claims ‘A Lot of People’ Backed Her But ‘Were Afraid of Losing Their Jobs’

The award-winning British journalist (pictured), 62, said she felt hounded out by the 338 colleagues who rounded on her over an article that caused a ‘transphobia’ row.

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Peterson Book Publisher Crying

Penguin Random House employees were sent into a tizzy by the firm’s decision to publish Canadian professor Jordan Peterson’s new book, prompting a meeting where staffers reportedly cried and demanded that the tome be cancelled.

The emotional in-house “town hall” was held Monday, after it came to light that the publishing giant is handling Peterson’s new book, due out in March 2021. Employees anonymously leaked the controversy to Vice News, which said”people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson had affected their lives.”

Another staffer argued that Peterson is “an icon of hate speech and transphobia, and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him.” The workers also are insisting that if they don’t get their way in canceling the book, all profits from the project should be donated to LGBTQ organizations.

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Starbucks Barista Says She Was Fired Refusing to Wear Pride Shirt

A New Jersey woman has filed suit against Starbucks, claiming she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to wear an official company Pride T-shirt that she says violated her religious beliefs.

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Yaniv Back in Court Over Assault on Rebel News Journalist!

Last Tuesday, a procedural hearing was held in the assault case of Jonathan Yaniv at the Surrey, B.C provincial courthouse.

Yaniv, who now goes by Jessica Simpson, is facing one charge of assault for his January 14 attack on Rebel News reporter Keean Bexte while he was on the scene covering yet another one of the vexatious litigant’s trials.

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25 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/25/2020

  1. Now Japan will have millions of the third worlders and transform into a dhimmi multiculti paradise, because that just worked out so well for the absolute dumpster fire known as Englandistan didn’t it?

    • The Japanese will never let these dregs of the 3rd world in. If they think whitey is racist, you haven’t been around the Japanese. LOL

      • Thank you. When one sees what has already gone down in Western Europe. The great cities of London and Paris. Tokyo already has a very tiny pock mark. How it started everywhere else. We shall see.

  2. Four years for an African drugging and raping a French woman? and here I was thinking the French invented the guillotine that was perfectly suitable for dealing with this kind of enrichment.

    • Hopefully the guillotine will not be brought back for the wrong reasons. i.e. very halal. It will take serious leadership. In France that could be a real man or real woman. .

  3. “Convicted Killer Scott Peterson Among Death Row Inmates Who Scammed Over $400,000 in Fraudulent COVID Benefits”

    Who is running the prisons? Scam artists making fortunes, drug kingpins running their empires, gang lords controlling our streets. We need prison reform now! Every prison official needs to sit down and watch Cool Hand Luke and get on board with the program.

  4. re suspect vote counts:

    “The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; ……
    It will bring an ever lasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” ~ Samuel Adams

  5. Why has this g soros not been arrested? If he’s behind financing of myriad ngos that are set up to support his open society tyranny?

    So these globalist club people, are free to roam the earth, and take over the world,
    And lead the human race into a matrix communist slavery?

    And eussr, unelected gang in Brussels, leading enabling the third world invasion of Europe, creating so called hate speech laws to silence any dissent, we are already living under communist dictatorship as of now, since March.

    Our world is split, we cannot live with the other 47% brainwashed communists, to go out now, it’s a no go to meet strangers in social settings, dangerous to engage in conversation, because there witch hunt going on, who are the leftists, who is on the right,

    Its easy to get into altercations in bars, cafes, or public,
    I reccomend highly to carry weapons at all time, when you go outside, and have u vid cam ready to flick on in an instant,
    To increase or shore up your home security, fencing, gates, cctv, guard dog, and be vigilant now, because there’s millions out of work, lost jobs, businesses, and living on food charity’s, no cash,
    No income,

    Just a few days without food, people will be willing to steal, or rob, to survive,

    The danger right now is real!

    Be careful friends be careful,

  6. Another warning!

    I advise all here who post, use Indy, to at all times use VPN,
    to secure your communications private from isps, and others who may now be monitoring internet, and email comes,

    Do not use free email services,

    Use, paid a email service, that has ssl tls provided in email set up protocols,
    Don’t use, Facebook, Twitter, google, gmail, YouTube, Skype,
    delete completely these commie services from your devices,
    They are spyware, tracking, recording everything you see, say or do,

    Duck duck go, may be better search engine.

  7. Have statues of Merkel gone up anywhere yet? Replace Churchill. He was so wrong about Muslims. The Japanese at last realises like so many western monstrosities.

    • Are you serious? Churchill was very critical of Islam, and compared the Qu’ran to “Mein Kampf”!

      • Mark, read the opposite meaning. Churchill was absolutely right about Muslims. He was the great leader in the right place at the right time to deal with the Hitler horror. You of course are absolutely right on this one. The Billy Bunty PM today comparing himself I imagine has p’d of some folk.

  8. Strasbourg: a bus attacked with a gun in the Cronenbourg district

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/26/strasbourg-un-bus-attaque-a-larme-a-feu-dans-le-quartier-cronenbourg/

    Poll: a third of young people, including 42% of young people living in the Parisian agglomeration, believe that teachers should not show drawings caricaturing religions

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/26/sondage-un-tiers-des-jeunes-dont-42-des-jeunes-vivant-en-agglomeration-parisienne-jugent-que-les-profs-ne-devraient-pas-montrer-des-dessins-caricaturant-les-religions/

    Roubaix: A 15-year-old girl beaten and then raped in an underground car park. The perpetrator, “aged between 16 and 20”, has not yet been found

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/25/roubaix-une-jeune-fille-de-15-ans-frappee-puis-violee-dans-un-parking-souterrain-lagresseur-age-entre-16-et-20-ans-na-pas-encore-ete-retrouve/

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