Two megachurches in California have reopened as “family-friendly strip clubs”. The joke is a reference to the fact that churches have been ordered closed under the latest COVID rules, but strip clubs remain open.
In other news, a British scientist warned that kissing one’s grandparents over Christmas would be a bad idea, since it might spread a lethal dose of the Wuhan Coronavirus to the old folks.
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21 More Seattle-Area Restaurants and Bars Close Permanently During COVID-19 Fall Surge
Any list of restaurant and bar closures is incomplete, and this one is likely particularly, woefully so. Even in better times, such an accounting is lacking, reliant on announcements, tips and seeing places dark when they should be aglow. With recent day upon day of record-breaking new cases of COVID-19 locally and a new dining-in shutdown in effect until Dec. 14, many restaurants and bars have closed temporarily, while many others are still making food to go, trying to hang on. (Get takeout to help get them through this!) Meanwhile, there are tense negotiations with landlords and calls for more governmental aid for an industry on the brink.
We can sadly add award-winning, all-organic Tilth and beloved Boeing Field diner Randy’s to this tally, both commemorated in previous stories. And there are certainly more temporary closures that have already become permanent than those listed here. And, doubtless, many more to come.
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American Governors — COVID Crisis Actors
Crisis actors are actors (or role players) portraying a victim during emergency training exercises for first responders. Their purpose is to simulate a real crisis, a dress rehearsal for the real thing where victims will be covered with real blood rather than red stage blood.
American governors, and other politicians, are a new version of crisis actors, proclaiming a crisis and offering draconian solutions and mandates, but when not acting, after removing their costumes and make up, they are contradicting the dictates of their contrived crises.
Ahead of the holidays, as President Trump is digging out from under an avalanche of election fraud and fake news, another crisis is brewing, seemingly to punish Americans for electing Trump not once, but twice, as is likely to be demonstrated in the weeks ahead.
The crisis is the COVID “surge”, leading to lockdowns, closed businesses, travel restrictions, and other manners of punishment heaped upon Americans who simply want to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas with their families. Is this a real or contrived crisis?
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In the wake of the pandemic currently wreaking havoc on our society and cultural norms, we have our federal government scrambling for the right response and the various states and territories doing the same. Right now, here in the United States of America in the year 2020, we have governors and oth er elected officials (I will never refer to them as leaders!) encouraging and even urging the citizenry to spy on itself and report to the state those who transgress the various orders, mandates, edicts and requirements handed down by them. To call the police if there are too many people in the sam e place at the same time, in the eyes of the person making the dreaded call. To be, in effect, tattletales and snitches for “the state.”
Folks, whatever the rationale behind those orders may be and whatever reasoning you or they might employ to justify them, actions like that by our political office holders smacks of state overbearing. Of repression. Of intimidation and fear. Of tyranny. I chose that word deliberately, and I did not do so lightl
The resemblance to the tactics used by the Stasi, however cleverly camouflaged here and couched in whatever innocent sounding terms they like to use, justified by whatever seemingly compassionate motivations those officials tout, is inherently and incredibly dangerous. Far more dangerous than any g erm, virus or microbe.
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American Woman Charged With Transferring Money to Syria-Based Terrorists
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a New Jersey woman with concealing multiple efforts to transfer money to Islamist militants in Syria connected to the Nusra Front, a onetime al Qaeda affiliate based in Syria’s Idlib province.
Maria Bell, 53, of Hopatcong, New Jersey, was accused in a criminal complaint of knowingly concealing her involvement in providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely al-Nusra.
Bell was scheduled to appear by video conference on Wednesday afternoon before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Newark. Rahul Sharma, a public defender expected to represent her, declined to comment.
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Anti-Thanksgiving Protests Erupt in Several US States Overnight
Vandals went on an anti-Thanksgiving and anti-colonial crime spree in several US states, smashing and defacing storefronts and toppling a war memorial overnight Thursday.
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Two megachurches decided to open Sunday services with some safe-for-work joke stripteases, in a cheeky protest against California’s closing down of churches due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while letting strip clubs stay open.
Before the start of Sunday’s sermon, pastors at two churches opened with short burlesque dance routines, taking off their jackets and even throwing their ties into the cheering audience.
“Strip clubs (Not Churches) are exempt from the Covid lockdowns, and are deemed essential by our governor!” said senior pastor of Awaken Church Jurgen Matthesius on Instagram. “So we decided we are NOW Awaken family friendly strip club!” he quipped.
The pastor then rolled with the joke, clarifying, “we strip the devil of his hold, power & authority over people’s lives!”
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Caroline Glick: A Call for Late Justice for Col. Larry Franklin
Last month, in a small town in West Virginia, a 74-year-old husband and his invalid wife were hospitalized for several days after eating rotten food the husband fished out of a dumpster.
For the past decade and a half, former Pentagon intelligence analyst and operative Col. (retired) Lawrence (Larry) Franklin and his wife Patricia have lived in utter destitution. During his 35 years of service, Col. Franklin was celebrated as a brilliant, fearless intelligence officer by his colleagues and bosses at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), in the U.S. Air Force and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Now, the aging hero who saved countless U.S. servicemen lives in war zones is a broken man. Col. Franklin subsists on the meager wages he earns from washing dishes, cleaning septic tanks and parking cars, while also taking care of his invalid wife.
Col. Franklin’s fall from grace is a tale that cries out for justice.
In 2003, Col. Franklin, a survivor of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, was working as the Iran desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld needed constant information on Iran: namely, its efforts to undermine the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, its sprawling terror networks and its burgeoning nuclear weapons program.
In the framework of his duties, Col. Franklin was authorized to share intelligence with U.S. allies, including Israel. He had a long-standing, warm relationship with Israeli military and intelligence officers dating back to his tenure as Air Force Defense Attaché in Israel during the 1990s. Col. Franklin also had close contacts with officials who worked on Iran-related issues for the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.
Throughout his presidency, George W. Bush’s Iran policy was a bundle of contradictions. The State Department and the CIA supported appeasing Iran and wishing away the threat it posed to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as growing evidence of its nuclear program. Rumsfeld, then-Vice President Dick Cheney and some members of the National Security Council believed Iran could not be appeased, that its threat needed to be confronted head-on.
Facing a split among his top advisors, Bush opted for incoherence, refusing to issue clear guidance that would put him on one side against the other…
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Carter Page Sues Comey, DOJ and Others for $75 Million Over Crossfire Hurricane Abuse
Former 2016 Trump Campaign aide Carter Page has filed an eight-count complaint against the Department of Justice, the FBI, former FBI Director James Comey and others.
Filed in the DC District Court, Page seeks at least $75 million in damages over, amongst other things, obtaining four illegal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against him.
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Landback Campaign Supporters Vandalize Statues in “National Decolonial Day of Action”
Several statues and monuments were destroyed on Thursday as part of a “national decolonial day of action.”
In Washington state, a statue of Abraham Lincoln was vandalized with red paint while other colonial statues, including one of George Washington, in Minneapolis were defaced and toppled.
Red graffiti on the historical works read “No more genocide” and “all colonizers are bastards.”
The Pan-Indigenous People’s Liberation (PIPL) network explained that the move was partially in response to a callout for a “national decolonial day of action.”
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Biden’s foreign policy team vehemently supported every single disastrous military intervention over the past 2 decades.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen.
The military-industrial complex is back.
Another stunning victory for the Resistance!
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Pennsylvania Appeals Court Tosses Trump Lawsuit, Setting Stage for Supreme Court Showdown
A federal appeals court has tossed an attempt by the Trump campaign to revive a lawsuit seeking to undo Pennsylvania’s certification of Joe Biden’s irregularity-plagued victory in the state.
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Pennsylvania Republican Lawmakers Introduce Resolution Disputing 2020 Election Results
HARRISBURG (KDKA) — Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers have introduced a resolution intending to dispute the 2020 election results on Friday.
The resolution intends to declare the 2020 election results as being “in dispute,” delay the certification of votes from Pennsylvania for both the state and presidential races and asks for the U.S. Congress to also declare the 2020 presidential race to be in dispute.
The legislators contend that a multitude of factors put the election results in dispute, including the extension of the mail-in ballot deadline and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling that loosened restrictions regarding signature authentication. They also accuse Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar of certifying the results of the election “prematurely… despite ongoing litigation.”
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Portland Antifa Attack BLM-Supporting Grocery, War Memorial: ‘F**k Thanksgiving’
An Antifa group in Portland, Oregon, called for a Thanksgiving Eve attack on “symbols and structures of colonialism and capitalism.” The incited direct action led to the destruction and vandalism of a veterans’ war memorial and downtown businesses.
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Portland Rioters Cause Thousands of Dollars in Damage on Thanksgiving Night
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
Rioters in Oregon’s largest city on Thanksgiving caused thousands of dollars in damage, authorities said.
A group of people dressed in black clothing were witnessed smashing windows along Hawthorne Street in the early hours of Nov. 26, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Officers canvassed the area and found that damage had been inflicted upon at least 10 businesses in the area.
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Seattle Police Union Leader Blasts City Law Enforcement Cuts, Warns ‘Public Safety on the Line’
Seattle’s crime increase will only get worse if the city’s leadership continues to hamstring its police force, Seattle Police Officers Guild president Mike Solan told Fox News Wednesday.
“Clearly this is the result of the city council conducting activism via their governance, listening to the loud socialist mob that is calling for more reform, taking away budgeted money from public safety, which to me is unfortunate because regardless of your politics, we know that Seattle is very progressive,” Solan told “Outnumbered Overtime.”
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The Civil War Has Already Begun
With both encouraging and heartily discouraging information relating to the outcome of the Nov. 3 general election being disseminated on an hourly basis, many Americans remain hopeful that President Donald Trump will be able to establish that there was sufficient voter fraud and/or tampering to sway the election in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket, thus retaining his office.
With dwindling support for Trump amongst GOP lawmakers and politicos (if it ever truly existed), the tacit acceptance of tainted election results on the part of elected officials, the establishment press and news outlets that once at least attempted to appear objective and the entreaties of citizens who believe that any decisive result will represent the return to a semblance of normalcy, it becomes more probable that the president will be forced to concede the election with each passing day.
The contention over the results of this election may appear similar to that surrounding the 2000 general election, but the circumstances are of course quite different. When the George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigns fought it out in court over hanging chads in the election’s wake, it had not yet been made apparent that the Democratic Party represented wholesale radical leftism, with the Democratic national leadership and state governors willing to countenance treason, mayhem and murder in order to secure their political objectives.
Unfortunately, at this juncture, it has become quite apparent that this is the case.
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International travel will soon look far different than it once did. Now that multiple vaccines for COVID-19 have been rushed through the development process, it is just a matter of time before they start being widely distributed. In fact, we are being told that the rollout for COVID-19 vaccines h ere in the United States will likely begin some time in the middle of December. There will be millions of people that will be quite eager to rush out and get injected, but of course there will be millions of others that never intend to get vaccinated under any circumstances. Unfortunately, those that choose not to get vaccinated could soon find themselves being unable to travel internationally…
But if the federal government ultimately decides to order the airlines to go along with this new program, you know that they will fall in line.
And once “COVID passports” are in place for international travel, how long will it be before they start being required for domestic travel?
Prior to the pandemic, talking about such a thing would have been unimaginable, but at this point we are seeing unimaginable measures being instituted all over the world.
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Trump Accuses Twitter of ‘Discrimination,’ Suggests Section 230 is National Security Threat
Donald Trump today accused Twitter of “conservative discrimination” while once again criticizing how topics trend on the platform.
In a series of tweets, the outgoing president also suggested a law that gives the social media companies a degree of legal immunity against illegal content uploaded by their users—Section 230—should be revoked on grounds of national security.
“Twitter is sending out totally false ‘Trends’ that have absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world,” Trump wrote on Friday.
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Trump Says Deliveries of COVID-19 Vaccine to Start Next Week
President Trump said deliveries of coronavirus vaccines will begin next week, with front-line workers, medical personnel, and senior citizens receiving the first doses.
“We are rounding the curve,” the president said. “The vaccines are being delivered literally — it’ll start next week and the week after.”
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Tucker: Election ‘Rigged’ by Media Letting Biden Hide
Tucker Carlson slammed the leftist media Thursday for ‘rigging’ the election by letting Joe Biden hide throughout the entire campaign without asking any meaningful questions about his policies or intentions.
Declaring it as possibly “the single most dishonest thing that has ever happened in American politics,” Tucker charged that the media, driven by its hatred for President Trump, enabled Biden to go an entire year without answering basic questions.
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Tulsi Gabbard Calls on Trump to Pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard renewed her bid for President Trump to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, saying the two whistleblowers should be rewarded for exposing “the deception and criminality of those in the deep state.”
On Thursday, the former presidential candidate retweeted an Oct. 6 video pushing legislation to drop the criminal charges against the former National Security Agency contractor and WikiLeaks founder.
“@realDonaldTrump Since you’re giving pardons to people, please consider pardoning those who, at great personal sacrifice, exposed the deception and criminality of those in the deep state,” the Hawaii congresswoman tweeted.
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Twitter Temporarily Suspended Account of the Plot Against the President Documentary
Twitter has emerged as one of the most radical social media platforms when it comes to suppressing and censoring information favorable to, or even coming from, President Trump.
This started in the months leading up to the 2020 election, and continues now with what looks like a purge of accounts of those associated with the documentary, The Plot Against the President.
The account for the film, @PATPmovie, had been suspended indefinitely, while according to a statement from its producers, accounts of several of their crew have also been blocked, including those that are inactive.
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Video: COVID Cops Try to Break Into Gym as Owner Continues to Use it During Lockdown
Owner vows to take legal action.
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What the Election Will Come Down To
We need to begin with what most people almost surely know, despite the predictable disclaimers and pro forma expressions of doubt emerging all over the infoscape, namely, the 2020 election is in process of being stolen in what amounts to an insidiously deceptive coup d’état. It is fair to assume th at this is common knowledge.
The circumstantial evidence is dispositive.
Biden was rarely able to manage a rally of more than a dozen or two stalwarts while Trump’s rallies could top 50,000; Biden garnered more votes than even Obama did, a sublime unlikelihood; the media called for Biden when Trump was comfortably ahead in the ballot count; a sudden and nigh-miraculous manna drop of late-arriving ballots in the wee hours tilted the scale for Biden; the virtual expulsion of Republican scrutineers at the voting booths and the obstruction by State authorities of monitored recounts; and the use of Dominion voting systems allegedly calibrated to favor Biden and erase Trump.
Veteran lawyer Robert Kirk is convinced that the facts are “…the kind and quality of substantial evidence, which, if presented to a jury, would easily result in a unanimous verdict by all twelve jurors, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the re-election of Donald J. Trump was stolen through the use of the Dominion voting software systems installed in stat es throughout our country.” The so-called system “glitches” privileging Biden turn out to constitute an unmistakable pattern, a veritable constellation of effects. Moreover, the contest is far from over and the kraken has yet to be released.
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YouTube Gets Brutally Ratioed After Attempting Woke Takedown of Thanksgiving
YouTube found out that Americans are in no mood for yet another woke lecture about their holidays this week when it received overwhelming backlash for posts slating Thanksgiving.
The Google owned company took the opportunity to ‘educate’ Americans on the history of indigenous people, an an alternative day of ‘activism and resistance’ called Unthanksgiving.
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CBC: “Completely Overwhelming” Emergency Room Report — Except it is Fake!
Unlike other nurses and doctors reporting declining COVID deaths, the CBC reports that a nurse in Manitoba is coping with a dire situation at Bethesda Regional Health Centre in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. A local reporter goes to the scene to video the situation and finds a completely different situation.
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A group of climate activists is promising a nonviolent and peaceful action in two Canadian cities in solidarity with Indigenous land defenders.
Extinction Rebellion says it will block rail lines in Burnaby and Montreal at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time to express opposition to continued construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
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GoFundMe for Adam Skelly Legal Defence Raises Over $180,000!
A GoFundMe launched to provide legal support to embattled restaurant owner Adam Skelly has raised over $180,000 at the time of this publication.
Skelly, the owner and operator of Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke, Ontario, made headlines this week when he definitely chose to re-open his business for dine-in service despite his region entering a stage one lockdown where that was prohibited.
He continued to open his business daily, despite angry calls from politicians and health officials demanding he be shut down.
On Thursday, Skelly was arrested for ‘trespassing’ on the property of his restaurant while attempting to reopen it for the fourth day.
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MPP Randy Hillier Ticketed Following Anti-Lockdown “Pots and Pans Protest”
Approximately 1,000-1,500 protesters took to the lawns of Ontario’s legislature in Toronto for what was known as the “Pots and Pans Rally” for what was an audibly deafening protest at some points, to say the least.
An array of speakers took their turns on the microphone, including the singing of the national anthem; however, most notable was former-Conservative, now-Independent MPP Randy Hillier who continue his objection to the lockdowns.
Hillier also gave his remarks on the Adamson Barbecue fiasco taking place in Toronto, which has seen authorities not only arrest owner Adam Skelly, but seize the property and bar others from entry under the authority of health officials and the Trespass Act.
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Windsor Mayor Breaks COVID Restrictions at Restaurant, Just Hours After Urging Zero Tolerance
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens broke COVID-19 regulations Wednesday last week when he dined at the Nico Taverna restaurant with seven other people at the table.
Just hours earlier, Dilkens was among mayors from the region who called for a “zero tolerance approach” when it comes to enforcement of COVID-19 regulations.
At the time, Windsor-Essex was under yellow “protect” status on Ontario’s COVID-19 response framework — and the maximum number of people allowed to be at a table together was six.
CBC News was made aware of the incident after it was sent a photo of the dinner group that was posted to Instagram.
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Hungary and Poland have essentially reiterated their positions that neither country is willing to accept tying the distribution of European Union funds to rule of law criteria after their two prime ministers, Mateusz Morawieckzi and Viktor Orban, met in Budapest on Nov. 26.
In a one-page joint declaration signed by them, the two heads of government spelled out their common position regarding the current debate in six points, followed by a proposal to establish a two-track process, in which the budgetary discussions should “limit the scope of any additional budgetary conditionality”, while the possibility of linking the rule of law and financial interests should be discussed separately in the European Council.
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Austria: Knife-Wielding Woman Threatened Rabbi in Vienna
In an anti-Semitic incident targeting a rabbi, a woman threatened himi with a knife and tore the kippah off his head on Thursday in Vienna-Landstrasse, Austrian tabloid Kurier reports. The woman is said to have shouted anti-Semitic slogans and then fled. The Interior Ministry confirmed the incident to Austrian news agency APA.
According to the police, no one was injured.
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“The man allegedly left laughing.” Maybe this is all he was up to:
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (8:60)
“When your Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers; so strike the necks, and strike every finger of them!” (Qur’an 8:12)
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)
“A child named Bin Laden claimed, threats, a pointed weapon: concern at the Souricette nursery, in Nevers,” translated from “Un enfant nommé Ben Laden réclamé, des menaces, une arme pointée : inquiétude à la crèche Souricette, à Nevers,” by Marlène Martin, Le Journal Du Centre, November 24, 2020 (thanks to Mason):
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Hungarians on ‘Soros Puppet’ George Clooney: ‘Imbecile’ Who Couldn’t Find Their Country on Map
Hungarian politicians and conservative journalists slammed George Clooney as an “imbecile” who could not find their country on a map after he suggested the country’s prime minister spreads “anger and hate”, according to reports.
Speaking ahead of the release of a new post-apocalyptic film on Netflix, Clooney, 59, had said that “We weren’t in the middle of a pandemic when [making the film], but there were still all these other elements, these elements of how much hate and anger all of us are experiencing in this moment of history, all over the world,” adding: “Go to [President Jair] Bolsonaro in Brazil, or [Prime Minister Viktor] Orban in Hungary. Look around: lots of anger and hate. [The film] takes place in 2049. If you played it out this could very well be what our reality is if that kind of hate is allowed to fester.”
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Pope Francis Criticizes Anti-Lockdown Protesters in New Book
While coronavirus lockdowns triggered widespread social unrest and resulted in the worst socio-economic implosion the world has ever seen — Pope Francis is set to reveal his thoughts on what transpired this year in a new book expected to be released next month, according to AP News.
In “Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future,” ghostwritten by biographer Austen Ivereigh, Francis champions anti-racism protesters while demonizing anti-lockdown demonstrators. He said those around the world who demonstrated against lockdown restrictions reacted “as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some political assault on autonomy or personal freedom!”
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Rabbi Attacked by Knife-Wielding Woman in Vienna, Austria
BERLIN (AP) — A rabbi was attacked at knifepoint in Vienna by a woman who ripped the Jewish skullcap from his head and yelled an anti-Semitic threat before fleeing, police in the Austrian capital said Friday.
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UK Clinics Offering ‘Virginity Tests’ And ‘Virginity Repair’ Exposed
Another form of abuse imported from the third world and forced on ethnic minority women has been exposed, after an investigation revealed British medical clinics are conducting “virginity tests” and “virginity repairs”.
The BBC identified 21 clinics that said they would conduct ‘hymen repair’ surgery, costing between £1,500 and £3,000, with seven confirming “virginity testing” for between £150 and £300.
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UK: Christian Bookstore Forced to Close, Police Arrest Customers Amid Lockdown
(CBN NEWS) — Police in England have launched a COVID crackdown against a Christian bookstore and tea room, arresting two men for attending a gathering despite lockdown restrictions.
According to the BBC, the incident occurred on Nov. 14 at the Mustard Seed in Gedling, Nottingham.
Officers detained the men and fined them the equivalent of $267 after they refused to provide details about themselves following reports that “40 to 50 people” were inside the shop.
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A LAKE District-based Extinction Rebellion activist who climbed Big Ben dressed as Boris Johnson has been told to pay nearly £1,000.
Benjamin Atkinson, from Ambleside, scaled scaffolding the Queen Elizabeth Tower wearing a costume and blonde wig mimicking the prime minister as part of widescale protesting by the group.
The 44-year-old was up on the scaffolding for a number of hours while specialist police units from the protest removal team negotiated his removal.
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UK: Government Scientist: Kissing Grandma at Christmas Could Deliver ‘Deadly Dose’ of Coronavirus
More government scientists have sought to frighten Britons over the prospect of getting too close to their loved ones at Christmas, including telling people that kissing their grandparents could deliver “a deadly dose” of coronavirus.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that restrictions will be relaxed for five days over the holiday period so that Britons may enjoy family Christmases. However, multiple rules have been attached to the festivities, namely related to the order that no more than three families can interact in a “Christmas bubble” during that time.
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The UK expert, who wished to remain anonymous, said there was ‘nothing unusual’ or worrying about studies of the jab despite other scientists voicing concerns about their methods.
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UK: Terrorist Friend of Ariana Grande Concert Bomber Being Released From Prison
Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was friends with Salman Abedi and was communicating with him in the months leading up to the Manchester Arena terror attack, is due to be released from prison this week.
The inquiry into the Manchester bombing has heard in recent months the details of the two terrorists’ close relationship. Abedi had been friends with Abdallah since 2014, and they had “conversed about martyrdom” between July and November of that year. When Abdallah was on bail, Abedi took him to mosques.
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UK: Video: COVID Cops Try to Break Into Gym as Owner Continues to Use it During Lockdown
Pathetic police attempted to raid a CLOSED gym in London after they received reports that people were still using it. Now the owner is vowing to take legal action after it emerged that only he was inside.
Under draconian lockdown restrictions, gyms have all had to close for a second time in the UK, so James Cooper, who owns Body Transformation in Hampstead, north London was the only person using the facilities.
He was amazed when he looked remotely at the security cameras and saw that police had showed up outside and attempted to gain entry for around one hour.
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Iran Accuses Israel of Seeking to Provoke “Full-Blown War” With Brazen Assassination
Since news broke hours ago of the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, on the streets in a city just east of Tehran, Iranian leaders have blamed an Israeli assassination plot.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said there were “Serious indications of Israeli role” in killing of Fakhrizadeh, who subsequently died of his wounds in a hospital. What Iran has dubbed a terrorist attack reportedly involved a hail of machine gun fire and a suicide bomber explosion.
And a top military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader and former IRGC general issued a similar allegation on Twitter.
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Syria: Facebook Censorship Covers Up Evidence of War Crimes
War-torn Syria is figuratively and literally being picked apart: not only has it seen physical destruction at the hands of Islamic State and other terrorist groups of its historic sites, that are major world heritage monuments, but there’s also been widespread looting of its ancient treasures.
Facebook is then often used as the place where looters and black marketers set up groups that help them find their buyers, reports said.
While Facebook is busy trying to find an efficient way to suppress political speech and content, this type of criminal activity reportedly all too often slips through the giant’s censorship cracks, although the platform prohibited the sale of such items back in June.
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India: Bihar: Tension in Katihar District After Islamist Mob Desecrate, Vandalise Chhath Puja Ghat
Amidst the Chhath Puja festivities on Friday, the Hindu community in the Katihar district of Seemanchal division in Bihar was subjected to consistent harassment by Islamists.
As per locals, a Muslim mob disrupted the Chhath Puja celebrations, and vandalised the ghats, leading to a communally-surcharged atmosphere in the area. Although the Hindus were able to observe Chhath Puja in the evening, there were terrified by the events of the morning when a group of Islamists had stopped them from conducting the rituals. The Muslim mob had initially objected to the use of firecrackers but later resorted to vandalising the Chhath ghat, destroying the paraphernalia, urinating and defecating on the site.
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The Pentagon Has Closed Ten Bases in Afghanistan Amid Hastened Draw Down
Amid ongoing US negotiations with the Taliban which are aimed at reaching terms that would allow for a complete American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is Washington’s longest running war in history, at least ten US military bases have been closed since last February, The Washington Post reports.
This also comes after President Trump controversially ordered the Pentagon earlier this month to initiate a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq of up to 2,500 from each nation.
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China is set to impose significant anti-dumping duties on Australian wine from Saturday.
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Chinese Rights Activist Who Opposed Hong Kong Security Law ‘Tortured’
Guangzhou-based rights activist Zhang Wuzhou has been subjected to torture in detention after she opposed Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, according to her son.
Zhang was held after she posed for photos at Guangdong’s Baiyunshan scenic area on the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, holding up a slogan that read “Withdraw the draconian law!”
She then uploaded the photos to her account on the tightly censored Chinese social media platform WeChat.
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The convicted medics, all ranking high in state-run hospitals, performed illegal organ-obtaining procedures inside a fake ambulance in eastern China between 2017 and 2018, a report said.
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A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai say genetic studies of the virus suggest it did not originate in China, but may have come from India instead.
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The phone records between Mr Andrews and his chief of staff were released on Friday after additional evidence was provided to the inquiry into the state’s doomed hotel quarantine regime.
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One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson called for Australians to boycott Chinese-made products after the country dealt devastating trade blows on Australia’s wine industries.
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David Bullmore lost his last-minute bid against the Federal Court to remain in the country and will not be allowed back into Australia.
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Victoria’s chief medical officer Dr Brett Sutton went into a meltdown after learning he had been cut out of the crucial decision to implement the state’s disastrous hotel quarantine program.
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Christian Preacher, 2 Boys Murdered by Islamists in Uganda
Two separate attacks by Islamists in Uganda have taken the lives of a minister, his son, and another young boy.
In the first attack, the Muslim relatives of a former sheikh named Emmanuel Hamuzah met with the Christian convert of two years to encourage him to renounce Christ. When he refused, Hamuzah’s brothers, sisters, and uncle attacked both Hamuzah and his 6-year-old son, Ibrahim Mohammad.
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Celebrate diversity, you greasy Islamophobes.
“Asylum seekers filmed the execution video posted in Lower Austria,” translated from “Asylwerber drehten in NÖ gestelltes Hinrichtungsvideo,” Salzburger Nachrichten, November 26, 2020 (thanks to Medforth).
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Channel Crossings: Migrants Wrapped in Blankets Reach Dover
Migrants, bundled in blankets and foil, have arrived in Dover after journeying across the Channel.
Temperatures at the Kent port hovered around 7C while a woman and a group of men were seen being helped ashore by Border Force officials,.
Several boats are believed to have made it across the Channel on Friday, with children reported to have arrived earlier in the morning.
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Germany: Migrants Smuggled Between Tree Trunks on Truck
Several Afghan migrants were found after they jumped out of truck carrying tree trunks. The driver was completely unaware that the men were in the truck until he stopped just across the German border.
Five Afghan migrants were detained in southeast Germany after they smuggled themselves across the border in a large truck that was carrying tree trunks from Romania, police said in a statement on Friday.
According to the police statement, the incident took place on Thursday afternoon when the truck driver noticed his truck was shaking, prompting him to pull over at a rest stop at the Samerberg Nord freeway station near the Bavarian town of Rosenheim.
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The Spanish Constitutional Court ruled last week that forcing migrants straight back to Morocco after they have forced their passage through border fences surrounding Ceuta and Melilla is constitutionally legal.
This practice of “hot expulsions”, also called “hot returns”, first became official and legal with the Public Safety Law enacted by the center-right Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy and its People’s Party (PP) in 2015. The law was then heavily criticized and brought to the Constitutional Court by NGOs and a group of socialist MPs headed by today’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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Italy: Statue of Madonna Decapitated Near Venice
Palestinian, 31, charged with offending religion
(ANSA) — VENICE, 26 NOV — A statue of the Madonna at Marghera near Venice had its head and hands lopped off overnight, police aid Thursday.
A 31-year-old Palestinian has been arrested on charges of defacing the statue after being caught on CCTV.
He has been charged with “offending a religious faith via damaging property”.
Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro issued a firm condemnation of a “cowardly act, aimed at wounding our sensibilities”.
The Palestinian is a regular immigrant with a refugee travel document issued by Belgium, police said. (ANSA).
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Most Tunisian Migrants Given Citizenship in Safe Italy Use EU Free Movement to Move to France
Over half of the Tunisian migrants who claimed Italian citizenship between 2012 to 2017, 56 per cent, used EU Free Movement rules to move to France.
Statistics also reveal that of the Tunisians granted asylum in 2011, just 10 per cent remained in Italy by 2018, the lowest level of any nationality.
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The crisis in France shows that Poland was right to oppose Brussels’ migrant policy, said Tomasz Sakiewicz, the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Polska, in an interview with TVP Info.
“We should help migrants but in the places from which they are escaping, encouraging them to stay in their homes. We cannot transfer entire countries,” Sakiewicz said in context of the difficult situation France is facing with migrants from Africa.
Authorities in Paris cleared a camp of 2,000 illegal migrants from the city this week, which sparked protests. The editor-in-chief told TVP Info that if French authorities had permitted these migrants to remain in their camps in Paris, then in the next two to three years, the city would turn into a “grand Mecca for all Islamic, Arabic migrants.”
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A channel migrant has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman weeks after arriving in Britain aboard a small boat.
The alleged sex attack took place at a hotel in London where the man was living at taxpayers’ expense.
The suspect, who is said to be from Sudan, was arrested by police on November 8 and later released on bail.
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CDC Reports Number of Abortions Has Dropped 57% Since Peak in 1990
In 2018, the latest year for which there is data, the CDC reported 619,591 abortions in the United States. That represents a 57% drop from the 1,429,247 abortions in 1990.
The trend has been a consistent decline since the high in 1990, with the last decade showing a 25% drop. Despite a much larger population today, current abortion numbers are almost equal to those recorded in 1973, the year abortion was legalized by the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case.
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Lawsuit: Starbucks Fired Employee for Refusing ‘Pride’ Shirt
(FOX NEWS) — A New Jersey woman was fired by Starbucks for refusing to wear a “Pride” T-shirt because of her religious beliefs, a lawsuit alleges.
Betsy Fresse, a Christian from Newark, who started working as a Starbucks barista in December 2015, alleged in a suit filed last week that she was “assured” by managers that her faith wouldn’t be an issue after transferring to a store in Glen Ridge early last year.
But months later, during a meeting in a manager’s office in June 2019, Fresse noticed a box of Starbucks’ Pride shirts on a desk. She then asked if she’d be required to wear one, which would be “tantamount to forced speech” because she believes marriage is defined by the Bible as between “one man a nd one woman only,” the lawsuit states.
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U.N. Seeks ‘New Social Norms, ‘ Declares Itself a ‘Trusted’ Coronavirus News Source
The United Nations has joined the World Economic Forum (WEF) to announce a global coronavirus news service, declaring the time has come for “new social norms” that seek out and correct “wrong” information.
Observing that social media is a mechanism for driving opinion on a host of issues, the two globalist organizations announced Thursday they want to “combat dangerous misinformation.”
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Land back?
Go tell it to the Mongols. Let”s see what they would say.
Better to the Turks.
And really. If you want to talk about “Land Back”…
I demand that moslems immediately leave Europe, North Africa and the Near East to the River Euphrates.
These lands belong to the ( former) Roman Empire.
These are rightfuly White, Western Lands.
Leave while u still have the chance.