Hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters marched through London today, and more than 150 of them were arrested. Meanwhile, anti-lockdown protesters are planning multiple rallies in Alberta this weekend.
In other news, in a bid to circumvent new coronavirus lockdown rules, the owner of a bar in New York City has issued a public announcement declaring his business to be an “autonomous zone”.
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The economic consequences of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, and they aren’t good. The number of Russians in poverty is projected to grow by about a million by the end of 2020, with the overall economy due to fall as much as 4.5%.
That’s according to the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber and former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin, who revealed on Saturday the current projections for the state of the country’s finances.
“Poverty will increase by about a million people,” he told the All-Russian Civil Forum on Saturday. “Unfortunately, we won’t bounce back as much in the coming years. This means that we need to focus on those people who need support.”
Kudrin also noted that the standard of living has significantly decreased over the past five years, and Covid-19 will accelerate this further.
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Illinois to Borrow Another $2 Billion From the Fed, Only State to Do So
By Ted Dabrowski of Wirepoints
Illinois has announced $2 billion more in additional borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank’s Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF). Gov. J.B. Pritzker has informed the Fed of the state’s intention to borrow the funds before the facility expires at the end of December. The facility was put in place by the CARES act as a backstop for governments hit by financial market disruptions due to COVID.
While the presence of the Fed facility is credited with bringing stability to the municipal markets, the reality is only one state or city in the entire country has borrowed from the facility since its inception: the state of Illinois. All others have successfully raised billions from the traditional markets during the pandemic (New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is the only other government in the country to borrow from the MLF.)
Illinois’ increased reliance on borrowing follows the public’s rejection of a $3.1 billion tax hike referendum on Nov. 3. More debt, in the absence of major spending reforms, means a junk rating is increasingly likely for Illinois. No state in modern history has ever been rated junk.
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An Outdoor Kitchen in Downtown Portland Was Robbed at Gunpoint and Heavily Vandalized.
On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 2:33a.m., Central Precinct officers were dispatched to a report of a disturbance involving a weapon in the 1000 block of Southwest 3rd Avenue. When officers arrived they saw that an outdoor kitchen was heavily damaged (photos). An adult male victim reported that he was working in the kitchen when he was robbed by a group of about a dozen suspects. According to the victim, one suspect was armed with a shotgun. The victim said that some of his cooking equipment was stolen and other equipment was damaged. The suspects also heavily damaged the victim’s car parked next to his canopy (photo).
The suspects left in multiple vehicles before police were called. No suspect or suspect vehicle information is being released at this time.
[Comment: Andy Ngo says, “The BLM-themed outdoor ‘kitchen’ outside the federal courthouse in Portland was robbed & ransacked overnight. The street kitchen feeds protesters, rioters & vagrants.”]
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Conservative commentator Candace Owens is celebrating forcing PolitiFact, a third-party fact-checker for Facebook, to issue a correction to a previous ‘fact-check’ of her post stating Joe Biden is not technically president-elect.
“Weeks ago, Facebook censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that Joe Biden is NOT the President-elect,” Owens tweeted on Saturday.
After PolitiFact, which works with Facebook to police misinformation on the social media platform, ‘corrected’ her original post — a video explaining Biden is not the official president-elect until all state votes have been certified and Trump’s various lawsuits have played out — Owens said she got lawyers involved, and PolitiFact ultimately issued a correction to their original post.
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Sen. Amanda Chase, a Republican candidate for governor, says Virginia’s Democratic Party hates white people and that the party is seeking the Richmond voter registrar’s ouster because she is white.
On Friday night, Chase posted on Facebook in response to a Richmond Times-Dispatch story about state Democrats asking for Richmond voter registrar Kirk Showalter’s resignation or removal.
“Make no mistake. The Virginia Democratic Party is racist to its core,” Chase wrote.
“The Democratic Party of Virginia has asked for Richmond’s voter registrar to quit or be fired. They hate white people. They want the Richmond registrar to resign because she’s white.”
Grant Fox, a spokesman for the Democratic Party of Virginia, called Chase’s post “just another laughable conspiracy theory from Republicans’ leading candidate for governor.”
Showalter said in a telephone interview Saturday: “Goodness, I would hope that it’s not because of my race.”
The registrar said she has long had good working relationships with African American and Hispanic people in the Richmond community.
Susan Swecker, chair of the state Democratic Party since 2015, is white. She has worked in Virginia politics for 40 years. Showalter, a former state budget analyst, has been Richmond’s registrar since 1995.
In a telephone interview Saturday, Chase asserted that “this has become a race issue” because of what she termed “a blatant double standard.” She said Democrats are not holding accountable voter registrars in Henrico and Chesterfield counties.
Henrico County registrar Mark J. Coakley is white. Chesterfield County registrar Constance L. Hargrove is African American.
Chase said Virginia Democrats need to hold Coakley accountable over the report that on Wednesday, Nov. 4, the day after the election, county election officials discovered a cache of early votes in the 7th District that had not been reported. Coakley said they were among roughly 15,000 votes on a mislabeled computer memory stick that inadvertently were not included in the county’s initial absentee totals.
Chase said state Democrats should hold Hargrove accountable for not allowing a Republican to observe a meeting to consider the validity of provisional ballots.
The Chesterfield County Republican Committee alleged in a court complaint that Hargrove failed to comply with statutorily mandated post-election procedures by excluding a representative of the Republican Party during a Nov. 6 meeting to consider the validity of provisional ballots…
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CNN: There Are “Legal & Constitutional” Ways for Trump to Stay in Office
In a video released before the election but attracting fresh attention, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria explained the “legal and constitutional” case by which President Trump could stay in office even if he loses the election.
In a moment of actual journalistic integrity, which is incredibly rare these days for CNN, Zakaria outlined how Trump could retain the presidency “without actually winning the vote.”
Explaining how the system worked, Zakaria said electors are determined by that state’s popular vote, but that this is “not a constitutional obligation.”
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The study, published in the Climatic Change journal last week, surveyed 607 Americans aged between 27 and 45 about global warming and the impacts it would have on their decision to start families.
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First, They Came for Thanksgiving; Now They Are Coming for Christmas
Kate Brown, the Governor of Oregon, was rather ambivalent in her approach to violence during the time Portland was torched by radical mobs. In fact, she thanked “Oregonians for expressing their free speech rights largely through joyful celebrations…”
But Gov. Brown apparently did some soul searching since the election. She found a joyful celebration about to be held by unquestionable enemies of the people. It turns out actual domestic terrorists are Oregonians who wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s extremists who wished to dine on turkey and all the trimmings who are dangerous, as they are potential super-spreaders of disease and destruction. Therefore, it’s Thanksgiving celebrations that need to be tightly regulated. It’s Thanksgiving celebrants who need to be fined and sent to jail if they transgress the regulations the governor has established by executive order.
Among those regulations?
Private social events are to be limited to two households or six individuals in a closed group (including Thanksgiving); masks are to be worn in your own home on Thanksgiving, only removing them when eating; and you are not to leave your home during the two-week shutdown. Consequences include a fine of $1,250 and possible jail time. Neighbors should report non-compliance.
It is hard to avoid the suspicion the Governor wants the bulk of citizens locked within their domiciles while radicals once again roam free to wreak havoc.
The tight regulations during the holidays do make one think about the examples of the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China.
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If Trump Has Evidence of Mass Voter Fraud, He Himself Must Act
Exclusive: Larry Klayman says a Biden-Harris administration would ‘crush’ patriotic Americans
What counts now is the court of public opinion, as there surely will be no justice coming from our bad joke of a legal system. As I chronicle in my latest book, “It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry!” which I will abbreviate as “Revolution,” the present-day courts, both federal and state, have been compromised and are effectively corrupt. This is particularly true of the federal courts, which Thomas Jefferson predicted would come to be presided over by unelected and unaccountable despots and tyrants, such that the American people would have to, about every 20 years or so, clean house, that is, wage another revolution and spill the blood of patriots.
Of course, our greatest, most learned, most insightful and most revolutionary of our Founding Fathers did not want to see blood spilled, and neither does one of his disciples, meaning yours truly. But if We the People do not now rise up, as I outline in “Revolution,” then this will surely be our sad and bloody destiny. It is not an accident of history that Jefferson was in on the ground floor of the bloody and brutal French Revolution, of which he was also an architect.
And, if and when the radical left takes total control of a new Biden-Harris administration, there will be a purge, an inquisition the likes of which have not been experienced since the aftermath of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. In our case, the left will empower not just its Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation, but also the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Deep State in other executive branch departments and agencies, to eradicate all those who oppose them by so-called government action and any other convenient felonious means. We conservatives, people of faith and all of us who believe and advocate for the vision and creation of our Founding Fathers, like Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, will be crushed.
The goal of the left is clearly and most assuredly to rid the nation of any vestige of resistance and to consolidate total government power such that We the People cannot rise up and defeat them either at the ballot box or through avenues of last resort. Leftist government will be substituted for our Judeo-Christian God, and we will be forced to worship at the altar of their tyranny and despotism.
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Johns Hopkins Retracts Report Finding COVID Death Count ‘Not Alarming’
“Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19,” she found, according to the News-Letter report.
“Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups,” the report said.
But no such increase was seen in the CDC data. “These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States,” the report said. “This comes as a shock to many people. How is it that the data lie so far from our perception?”
The editor’s note posted Friday explained that the News-Letter is an editorially and financially independent, student-run publication and its content is not endorsed by the university or the School of Medicine.
The decision to retract the article was made “independently.”…
Briand found in her analysis that there naturally was a sudden increase in deaths early in 2020 compared to previous years that was due to COVID-19.
But she also noticed a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease and all other causes.
“This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading,” the report said. “Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.”
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L.A. County Issues New, Stricter Lockdown Orders
Los Angeles County health officials issued new “safer-at-home” orders on Friday with stricter limits for November 30 through December 20.
“With the recent surge of COVID-19 across our community, we must take additional safety measures to reduce the risk of illness and death from this terrible virus and protect our health care system,” said Barbara Ferrer, the county health director.
Residents have been ordered to stay home “as much as possible.” Face coverings are required outside, including for all recreational activities, except swimming.
Gathering with anyone outside one’s household is prohibited. Religious services and protests are exempt from restrictions.
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MIT Accepted Over $51 Million From Russian Foundation Later Deemed Security Risk by U.S. Government
Since 2014, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has accepted over $51 million in monetary gifts from the Skolkovo Foundation, a relationship the Department of Education recently deemed a national security risk.
In a recent report, the Education Department criticized the partnership between MIT and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, saying it amounted to “conducting sensitive research in conjunction with an adversarial government.”
“While the Department does not police subject matter, the public should be aware of such partnerships that concern national security,” the report reads.
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NY Gym Owner Rips Up $15,000 Lockdown Fine on Live TV: “We Will Not Comply”
Submitted by Rusty Weiss of The Mental Recession
Robby Dinero, the owner of Athletes Unleashed gym located in Orchard Park, New York, tore up a $15,000 fine from the Erie County Health Department during a live Fox News interview.
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NYC Pub Borrows a Page From Leftists in Lockdown Dispute
A clever bar owner in New York City is borrowing a tactic from left-wing anarchists in an ongoing spat with the government over coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The pub, located in Staten Island, declared itself an “autonomous zone” as a new ban on indoor dining at bars and restaurants took effect on Wednesday.
The New York Post reported on Saturday that a sign outside Mac’s Public House in Grant City read, “!ATTENTION! We hereby declare this establishment an !!!AUTONOMOUS ZONE!!!”
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Pennsylvania Judge Backs Trump Claims Over Mail-in Ballots, Says ‘Unlikely Constitutional
After a Pennsylvania Judge blocked the state from ‘taking any further steps’ to complete the certification of the presidential race on Wednesday — she dropped a detailed opinion on Friday justifying her decision, which concludes that the state’s changes to mail-in balloting procedures were likely illegal.
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Report: Joe Biden Plans to Pick Cindy McCain as U.K. Ambassador
Former Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to pick Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), to be the U.S. Ambassador to the U.K.
McCain, 66, a lifelong Republican and Anglophile, is credited with delivering the state of Arizona during the 2020 elections to the Democrats in the state where her husband served as Arizona’s senator from 1987 until his death from cancer in 2018, the Times of Londonreported.
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The Sanford Health Systems Chief Executive has been pressured to step down after sending employees a controversial email about his coronavirus status. It appears that it was deemed too controversial for the head of a hospital chain to recommend that masks are unnecessary.
The Board of Trustees of Sanford Health announced that they had “mutually agreed to part ways” with Kelby Krabbenhoft, the company’s CEO since 1996.
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Wears BLM Jackets During Friday Exhibition
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team wore jackets with “Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on the front in an exhibition match against the Netherlands on Friday.
Kelley O’Hara and Julie Ertz stood during the pre-game national anthem, while the other nine starting players for the U.S. knelt.
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United Airlines Begins Flying Pfizer Vaccine on Charter Planes to Position for Distribution
United Airlines reportedly began operating charter flights on Friday to position Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for distribution, pending its approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
United is flying chartered planes full of the vaccine between Brussels International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
Other airlines have also reportedly begun preparation for vaccine shipments.
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The amended rule was entered into the Federal Register on Friday, permitting the government “greater flexibility” to carry out capital punishment using any method “prescribed by the law of the state in which [a] sentence was imposed.” While lethal injection remains the most common means of execution — and previously the only one permitted under federal regulations — the new rule will accommodate states that allow for alternative methods, including death by electrocution, nitrogen gas, hanging or firing squad.
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Wayne County Jail COVID-19 Releases Include Violent Criminals
Detroit — When a Wayne County judge announced eight months ago that he would begin releasing jail inmates in response to the coronavirus outbreak, he said people accused of violent crimes likely would stay behind bars.
But since the COVID-related releases began in March, concerns about the virus have prompted Wayne Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny to free at least 35 Wayne County Jail inmates who were accused or convicted of violent crimes, according to a Detroit News review of jail records.
Among those released: four men who were convicted of criminal sexual assault, and 14 others who were convicted of assault. One of the convicted sex offenders is back in jail after prosecutors say he got out and raped three women at knifepoint.
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Why Democrats Will Try to Revive ‘Russia Collusion’ Story & Imprison Trump Once He Steps Down
by Ekaterina Blinova
Donald Trump’s executive grant of clemency for General Michael Flynn provoked rage among the Democrats, as they continue to stick to the groundless “Trump-Russia” collusion story and will try to imprison the President once he vacates the Oval Office, according to former Ronald Reagan administration official, Dr Paul Craig Roberts.
On 25 November, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to retired three-star General Michael Flynn who had served less than a month in the capacity of national security adviser in the Trump administration.
“The President has pardoned General Flynn because he should never have been prosecuted,” the White House statement concerning the executive grant of clemency reads. “In fact, the Department of Justice has firmly concluded that the charges against General Flynn should be dropped. This Full Pardon achieves that objective, finally bringing to an end the relentless, partisan pursuit of an innocent man…
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Protesters from NC Born, ReOpenNC, the Proud Boys and other groups from across the political spectrum clashed for hours in downtown Raleigh on Saturday.
The energy between the groups was aggressive, with outraged remarks slung between speakers and chanters. The groups shouted back and forth, arguing over ideas like police violence, the mask mandate and the presidential election.
“Y’all are gonna kill each other!” shouted one protester.
A man speaking to the crowd said, “We’re going to reinstate the constitution. We’re going to reinstate the Bill of Rights.”
“I don’t understand the words that are coming out of your mouth,” responded another protester.
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‘Walk for Freedom’ Rallies Throughout Alberta Protest Pandemic Health Measures
CALGARY — Protesters will gather in several Alberta cities this weekend to protest what organizers call an infringement of Charter rights and freedoms.
The group protests any type of shutdowns and mask-wearing as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Premier Jason Kenney on Tuesday said a big reason for not locking down the province was due to an infringement of everyday Albertan’s rights and freedoms.
“Since when should governments, start with an impairment of fundamental Charter-protected rights and freedoms rather than engage in such an impairment as a last and final resort,” he said.
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Black Nationalist Instagram Page Actually Owned by White British Female, BLM Absolutely Livid
A popular black separatist Instagram page called “Independent Black Businesses” became embroiled in controversy this week after black followers learned that the account — which has routinely solicited PayPal and Patreon donations — is actually not managed by a black person, but a middle-aged white female from Brighton and Hove, U.K.
“Independent Black Businesses” was created this year and routinely posts photos of “black-owned businesses” accompanied by emojis and phraseology associated with black media activists, while soliciting PayPal and Patreon donations from followers.
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Coronavirus: German Anti-Lockdown Protests Shift to Polish Border
Anti-lockdown protesters picked Germany’s Frankfurt-an-der-Oder on the border with Poland as their venue Saturday, mostly not wearing masks, despite appeals from police and advice from epidemiologists.
Among the some 2,000 “Querdenker” (lateral thinkers) professing “freedom and peace” were several hundred people from the adjacent Polish town of Slubice.
Police speaking German and Polish urged objectors to observe coronavirus hygiene rules, and offered protestors masks, while the university town’s administration urged residents to stay at home.
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Farmers Criticize EU’s Environmental Ambitions, Warn That Food Prices Could Grow
The European Union’s new environmental policies — which are designed to reduce pesticides, cut greenhouse gases, and support biodiversity — could harm farmers’ incomes and make food more expensive by almost a fifth, according to the chairman of the Czech Agricultural Association Martin Pýcha.
Pýcha said the European Commission should publish impact studies of new agricultural policy as soon as possible.
So far, only the United States has published impact studies on the new European targets. According to US data, the current proposals of the European Commission would reduce agricultural production in the EU by up to 15 percent, food exports by a fifth, farmers’ gross income by 16 percent, and increase food prices by 17 percent, explained Pýcha.
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Violent clashes and arson have erupted in Paris amid mass protests against police brutality and a draft law that would ban filming officers “in certain circumstances,” after a video emerged of cops beating a black music producer.
Thousands of people rallied against the controversial bill in more than 70 French cities on Saturday, with the organizers claiming over half a million participants and authorities estimating the number at around 150,000. The daytime rallies went rather peacefully, but by early evening clashes erupted in multiple cities, including Rennes, Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon.
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France: Rapper Arrested for Song Praising Beheading of Teacher Samuel Paty
Police arrested an 18-year-old rapper in Seine-et-Marne this week for publishing a music video featuring lyrics that allegedly praised the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.
Rapper Maka initially released the song, entitled ‘Samuel Paty’, earlier this month on several social media platforms including YouTube before it was taken down.
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Scottish fishermen have slammed the EU behaving “like the bully who steals your lunch every day and expects you to be grateful for the few crumbs he hands back” as it continues to push for control over Britain’s fisheries.
The European Economic Community, as the European Union then was, changed its rules to give Brussels control over national fishing waters shortly before the United Kingdom joined in the 1970s, bringing the richest fishing waters in western Europe with it.
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UK MP Khalid Mahmood Calls for Censorship of “Misinformation” About Coronavirus and Politicians
The UK MP and Shadow Defense Minister for procurement, Khalid Mahmood, has said that there is rampant “misinformation” going around in the country and wants it silenced.
Mahmood joins the league of several other politicians in wanting to censor what they deem to be misinformation. Speaking at the Speaking during the Westminster Forum Conference, he also added that “misinformation about politicians” was also being widely shared and that responsibility “is totally negated from platforms where someone can put whatever they want and move forward.”
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UK: “This is No Free Country”: Anti-Lockdown Protests Rage in London, Dozens Arrested
Over 60 protesters were arrested in anti-lockdown demonstrations on Saturday, as activists clashed with police who sought to break it up.
If only it was a BLM demonstration.
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UK: 155 Arrested in London Amid Anti-Lockdown Protests
Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protesters joined forces to march through London Saturday in defiance of the nationwide lockdown, prompting 155 arrests.
About 400 demonstrators led by the group Save Our Rights UK carried signs saying “Defend Freedom, Defend Humanity,” and “No more lies, no more masks, no more lockdowns,” as they marched through central London’s West End shopping district and in St James’s Park, near Westminster.
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UK: Cardiff Terrorist Who Has Worked for ISIS for Seven Years Begs to Come Home
A former Cardiff teenager who has worked for seven hate-filled years as a recruiter for terror-group Isis has broken cover to plead to come home.
Butetown boy Aseel Muthana was 17 years old when he fled Wales to join his elder brother Nasser, then 21, in Syria fighting with the Islamic State monsters.
The Sunday Mirror tracked him down to Rojava state in north east Syria where he gave them a chilling insight into his life as a terror recruiter —describing crucifixions, beheadings, bodies hanging from posts and homosexuals being thrown off rooftops.
Now 24, he confessed he had “seen so much blood” that casual ISIS executions and limb-chopping punishments became like mere entertainment.
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UK: Rotherham Groomer Kamir Khan Gets Short Sentence for Abusing 11-Year-Old Girl
South Asian heritage predator Kamir Khan has been imprisoned for grooming and abusing an 11-year-old girl in Rotherham.
31-year-old Khan is the latest in a long line of abusers to be convicted for abusing girls and young women in Rotherham, where South Asian heritage gangs once preyed upon mostly white, working-class victims in untold numbers with near-impunity for years, due to the authorities’ reluctance to intervene in case they were accused of “racism”.
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Bless your hand, O Chechen
You’ve refreshed me, helped me to forget my sorrows
They thought you are cold like Turbans [this refers to sheikhs]
Who have high positions with tyrants
You slaughtered them with your unbinding belief
And you have slaughtered this culprit with Takbeer [Allah Akbar]
When you meed Ahmed [another name for the Islamic prophet Muhammad]
You would say, Master I haven’t sold your honor for free.
With these words, Mahmoud Daoud, a prominent Muslim Facebook influencer, mourned the jihadi Abdoullakh Anzorov, who beheaded the French teacher Samuel Paty.
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Backlash as Brennan Blasts Killing of Iranian Nuclear Scientist: ‘Always on the Side of Our Enemies’
Brennan, an ardent defender of the Obama Iran nuclear agreement, also referred to the assassination as “an act of state-sponsored terrorism” which he claimed was “a flagrant violation of international law.”
Brennan’s comments received fierce backlash.
“It’s bizarre to see a former head of the CIA consistently side with Iranian zealots who chant ‘Death to America’ and reflexively condemn Israel,” wrote Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). “Does Joe Biden agree?”
“An operation to prevent an enemy from advancing nuclear weapons tech is ‘terrorism’,” wrote investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel. “Again, Brennan is on the other side. There is no other way to say it.”
“In case anyone was wondering what side he’s really on at this point,” wrote Donald Trump Jr. “It’s insane.”
“There goes John Brennan, advising the Iranian mullahs again,” wrote Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy, J. Michael Waller.
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Israeli Embassies on ‘High Alert’ Globally as Iran Vows Revenge for Covert Hit
After Iran’s leaders on Friday accused Israeli and United States intelligence agencies of being behind the killing of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Israel has put its embassies and diplomatic compounds across the globe on ‘high alert’.
A series of statements from Iran had laid clear blame on Israel, which has been known for assassinating Iranian scientists in the past as part of efforts to curb and derail the Islamic Republic’s alleged pursuit of an atomic bomb. “Once again, the evil hands of global arrogance were stained with the blood of the mercenary usurper Zionist regime,” President Hassan Rouhani said in a statement.
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The law prohibits conversion from one religion to another by “misrepresentation, force, fraud, undue influence, coercion, allurement or marriage” including using false name of Hindus hiding an actual Muslim name!
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Lucknow | Nov 28, 2020:: All the Hindutvawadis who were struggling for a legal measure against the menace of Love Jihad and its fatal consequences on the Hindu girls, are obviously in a mood of thanks-giving to the BJP led Yogi Govt in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel Saturday gave her assent to an Ordinance promulgated by the state government against forcible or “dishonest” religious conversions.
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Ordinance, 2020 (Uttar Pradesh Vidhi Virudh Dharm Samparivartan Pratishad Adyadesh, 2020), comes into effect immediately across the state. The law prohibits conversion from one religion to another by “misrepresentation, force, fraud, undue influence, coercion, allurement or marriage”.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hinted a strong measure against the Love Jihad menace in a meeting after Nikita Tomar, a college student was murdered by a Love Jihadi outside her college+ in Haryana’s Ballabgarh on 26 October 2020.
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet had cleared the Ordinance earlier this week to check “unlawful religious conversions” and “inter-faith marriages with the sole intention of changing a girl’s religion.
According to the law, a marriage will be declared “shunya” (null and void) if the “sole intention” was to “change a girl’s religion”…
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Indonesia: Muslims Raid Village, Murder Four Christians, Burn Church and Six Christian Homes
Here at Jihad Watch we have posted innumerable stories like this one over the years, and never once have posted a story about Christians raiding a Muslim village, killing Muslims and burning down a mosque. That would never happen and should never happen. But it is evidence of the prevailing madness in the world today that despite the recurrence of attacks like this one, and the non-existence of attacks in which the perpetrators and victims are reversed, the global “human rights” apparatuses are focused not on the persecution of Christians, but on “Islamophobia.”
International Christian Concern states that the attackers targeted “the Salvation Army’s service post in central Sulawesi, before burning six houses of church members. Four Christians were murdered, with three being butchered.
“Indonesia police say suspected militants kill 4 villagers,” by Edna Tarigan, Associated Press, November 28, 2020.
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Pakistan: Surge in Jihad Murders of Ahmadis, Who Are Deemed Apostates
Most people in Pakistan, among other mainstream Muslims, do not view Ahmadis as Muslim at all. Only in India are they recognized as Muslims by law. In 1970, in a landmark ruling, an Indian court determined that Ahmadis cannot be declared apostates by other Muslim sects because they believe in the two fundamental beliefs of Islam: that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is a messenger of Allah. But in Islamic Pakistan, it’s a different story is told.
Ahmadis are forbidden from calling themselves Muslims or using Islamic symbols in their religious practices. They face discrimination and violence over accusations their faith insults Islam and community leaders say that open vitriol and calls for violence against the community intensified in 2017.
The punishment in Islam for apostasy is death, and as the world saw with when French teacher Samuel Paty was killed for “blasphemy,” this punishment can in the view of many Muslims be carried out by an individual, a village/mob lynching, or by government authority.
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Brisbane man Alan Phan has been privately donating sperm to would-be parents as well as through registered fertility clinics but his generosity has put him under the microscope.
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A glamorous businesswoman has been charged after allegedly swindling millions in a daycare centre fraud scheme that used ‘phantom children’ to rip off taxpayers.
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Australia is currently the hottest country in the world, taking all of the top ten spots for global towns and cities in the last 24 hours.
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EU Demands Italy Pay for Migrant Dependents Living Outside EU
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has determined that Italy must pay for the dependents of migrants even if they do not live in the European Union.
EU judges stated that Italian legislation which allows Italians to claim benefits for dependents living abroad but which bars non-EU migrants from doing so was contrary to EU law. The court, therefore, ruled that non-EU citizens with residency permits or who are long-term residents are entitled to allowances for their families living outside of the bloc.
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EU Wants Member-States to Keep Ethnic Stats for Its ‘Integration and Inclusion’ Plan
The European Union has recommended member states record statistics on ethnicity to assess the effectiveness of the integration of migrants and monitor discrimination.
The European Commission recommended the move as part of its “integration and inclusion action plan” that was released on Tuesday.
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EU: New Pact on Migration and Asylum
The European Commission has proposed a new Pact on Migration and Asylum for the European Union in the hope that it will solve the deep-seated political crisis that the issue of migration continues to pose in the EU.
The European Union remains fundamentally divided over the question of migration into the continent and has been so for years. During the 2015 migration crisis, when EU leaders agreed to relocate 160,000 migrants and refugees from camps in Italy and Greece, assigning each EU member state a fixed quota, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic refused to receive migrants. The refusal prompted the European Commission, in 2017, to start proceedings against the three countries at the Court of Justice of the European Union. In April 2020, the Court ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic had broken EU law by refusing to participate in the EU’s relocation agreement.
Migration into the continent continues apace and has even increased.
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France: Is Macron Privately Concerned About the ‘Great Replacement’?
French author and journalist Marc Endeweld, in a recent interview about his book “The Great Manipulator: Investigation of Macron’s Secret Networks”, said that French President Emmanuel Macron is “obsessed with what he himself calls the Great Replacement”.
During his interview with the online news portal QG — Free Media, Endeweld claims that while Macron goes to great lengths to cultivate the public image of a moderate-centrist, in private he thinks more like someone who belongs to the radical right.
The journalist said Macron frequently expresses ideas in private borrowed from French thinkers like Eric Zemmour and Renaud Camus. Zemmour, seen as one of the most influential conservatives in France, is known for his opposition to immigration. He said, for example, on CNews in September that “immigration changes the makeup of a people. It is a crime against the European peoples, it will end in bloodshed.”
Camus, a prolific right-wing writer and novelist, is perhaps best known for coining the phrase “The Great Replacement”, which refers broadly to the colonization of Western Europe by immigrants from the Middle East and Africa.
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Swedish Stats Agency to Investigate Link Between Migration and Rising Youth Robberies
The National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) will investigate the possible connection between migration and a recent trend of youth robberies across Sweden.
The council, which collects and publishes crime statistics, announced it will be conducting a survey focusing on whether victims and perpetrators of youth robberies come from Swedish or foreign backgrounds.
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UK: Balding Migrant School Pupil Who Looked 40 Disappears From UK School
A balding migrant who claimed to be 15 but appeared 40 has disappeared from his school after the Home Office launched an investigation following an uproar from parents and pupils.
Reports circulated last month that an ‘unaccompanied child migrant’, believed to be from the Gambia, was attending a school in Coventry, England. Unredacted images on social media showed a balding individual with a lined face, dark circles under his eyes and other signs of ageing.
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has agreed to pay France £28 million to double the number of officers stopping migrants crossing the Channel.
The deal was signed during a virtual meeting between the Secretary of State and France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin yesterday with a pledge to make the route ‘completely unviable’ for people smuggling gangs.
Miss Patel has faced criticism for the Government’s failure to tackle a wave of migrants in small boats crossing from northern France. So far this year more than 8,500 migrants have landed in Britain, up from 1,850 in 2019.
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Unlimited Migration Threatens the Demographic Future of Europe, Says French MEP
Migrants should be provided with accommodations but in their home countries instead of in Europe, said Jordan Bardella, the vice-president and spokesman of the right-wing French National Rally, in an interviewon news channel CNews.
Bardella, who also serves as an MEP in the European Parliament, said if immigration is not halted, it represents a serious demographic threat to France and Europe.
“The borderless ideology of unlimited and unrestricted reception calls into question the demographic, economic and social balance of our countries,” Bardella said. “The EU’s Migration Pact is a new stage in this ‘rush for Europe’“.
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Andy Samberg: “F*** Off” If You Don’t Like Oscars Diversity Quotas
Actor Andy Samberg said “[p]eople who have problems with [the Academy Awards’ new diversity requirements] can f*** off.”
“The parameters, if you look at them closely … can have the whitest cast in the history of cinema and still very easily meet them by just doing a few key roles behind the camera. People who problems with it can f*** off,” Samberg said on Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.
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In what is definitely some type of Karmic payback for social media companies now appending some type of label to what seems like every other post nowadays, Facebook just found out that its super-duper censoring algorithm also banned advertisements from some struggling businesses, mistaking them as hate speech.
We love it when a plan comes together.
One woman, Ruth Harrigan, who advertises on Facebook to sell her honey and beeswax-based products, told Bloombergshe thought she missed out on an estimated $5,000 in revenue after Facebook mistakenly banned her ads right before black Friday.
She said: “I was getting a little anxious thinking, ‘Oh my God, Black Friday is around the corner, most of my sales for the year happen in November and December and that’s it,’. I said, ‘If I’m shut down any longer than this, it’ll cripple me.’“
The company’s “misfiring content-moderation software” was to blame — and it happened in the middle of a pandemic when sellers are more reliant on Facebook and social media advertising to drive business. In fact, Facebook has been censoring so much content this year, it has relied heavily on software to do the job, since they don’t have enough human moderators.
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Pope Francis in a New York Times op-ed on Thanksgiving Day criticized groups that protested coronavirus lockdown restrictions, as Americans gathered to celebrate the holiday.
He praised those governments making “great efforts” to protect people from the virus and criticized “exceptions.” He then criticized groups that protested the restrictions and appeared to dismiss the idea of “personal freedom.
[Comment: Comrade Francis marches in lock step with his fellow travellers.]
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Exclusive: Patrice Lewis warns against our betters’ plans to ‘improve’ the world
An eerie term is trending in the popular lexicon: The Great Reset. What exactly is it, and what will it entail?
The World Economic Forum says, “There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative.”
Hold on just one stinkin’minute. To “improve the state of world”? By whose criteria? To me, “improving” the world would mean greater emphasis on personal responsibility, conservative family values and a flock of chickens in every backyard. To my progressive counterpart, “improving” the world could mean universal basic income, communal child-raising and pulling everyone out of rural lands in an Agenda 30-style roundup. Who’s right?
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Electric Vehicles Will Drive Us to Serf City
Without question, the automotive industry is rapidly shifting to electric vehicle production.
Yes, EVs rely on fossil fuel to generate the electricity used to manufacture them and to charge their batteries. Hence they are not the ‘green’ vehicles that the enviros tout. In fact, EVs are net polluters when you consider the tremendous environmental damage that is done to mine the lithium and rare earth elements needed in their manufacture and transport. And recycling and/or disposal of Li-batteries is another problem waiting a solution. Furthermore a study from the Union of Concerned Scientists found that the assembly of a midsize EV would produce about 15 percent more emissions than the process of building a similar-sized gasoline powered vehicle.
None of that matters. The big money, media, and government are solidly behind electric vehicles. As Bob Dylan sang, “You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” This is rather amazing considering America didn’t vote for EVs nor did the car market demand them. If the projections persist, EVs will be the norm due to manipulations by global elite and their allies in big business and government.
Eric Peters, an automotive expert, has several interesting takes on the EV craze. He never believed EVs were about ‘clean’ transportation. Their goal was always controlled transport. This is why environmental concerns, although used as the pretext for EV mandates, don’t matter. He writes:
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Election fraud headlines focus on Trump as victim.
This misses the point.
We the People are the ones cheated.
Michael Copeland: The MSM is/are the Tokyo Rose, Lord Ha Ha and Axis Sally of our time.
Daily street harassment of women, even minors
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/27/le-harcelement-de-rue-quotidien-des-femmes-meme-mineures/
Abderrahmane Dahmane, former adviser to Sarkozy: “We must see how to allow the five million Franco-Algerians to be in harmony with their country of origin”
“Whatever the caricature, it is unacceptable. The Prophet Mohammad is not an average individual. It is two billion Muslims in the world who worship this Prophet. When you are president, or political leader of any level whatsoever, and you have a Muslim community of 12 to 13 million, the least you can do is respect that community. Even if you are not a believer, you cannot afford the caricature of a prophet of two billion Muslims with whom France has interests. Muslims buy French products and you can’t insult your customers after all. Macron has a great contempt and he will pay dearly for it. I myself am in the process of organizing a large committee. I recall that Nicolas Sarkozy had come to beg me to help him to win the election (from 2007, note). But once he’s won he changed. […]”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/27/abderrahmane-dahmane-ancien-conseiller-de-sarkozy-il-faut-voir-comment-permettre-aux-cinq-millions-de-franco-algeriens-detre-en-harmonie-avec-leur-pays-dorigine/
Cahors (46): a police car set on fire at the police station by Molotov cocktails
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/28/cahors-46-une-voiture-de-police-incendiee-au-commissariat-par-des-tirs-de-cocktails-molotov/
Auchy-les-Mines (62): a policeman seriously injured after being struck by a driver “in an irregular situation in France”, who refused a check
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/27/auchy-les-mines-62-un-policier-grievement-blesse-apres-avoir-ete-percute-par-un-chauffard-en-situation-irreguliere-en-france-qui-refusait-detre-controle/
https://mobile.twitter.com/wordofmyrddin/status/1332837642728247298
There is something very wrong with this country. (Either that or these polls are heavily skewed to people who read The Guardian)
In less than a decade the moo slums have gone from a “1.2 billion possibly to an impossible “almost two billion” now. Believing a Muslim is not possible.