A judge in Michigan dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign concerning ballot counting in the recent election. Meanwhile, the alleged President-elect Joe Biden said that he will order the US to rejoin the Paris climate pact when he takes office.
In other news, the Orthodox priest who was shot outside his church in Lyon last Saturday has reportedly regained consciousness.
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“Don’t Say Socialism Ever Again”: House Dems Fear Being “F****** Torn Apart in 2022”
House Democrats are apparently furious about their election performance, with Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger reportedly telling a conference call “if we run this race again we will get f — — — torn apart again in 2022.”
Democrats did not expand their majority and ended up losing numerous seats that pre-election polling said they’d win.
With the final results not yet finalized, some are even speculating that Democrats could lose the House in a shock last minute swing.
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Biden Launches ‘Transition Team’ Website
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday launched a “transition team” website after securing projected wins in several key battleground states.
The website, which currently consists of just a landing page, says that the “American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States.”
“Votes are still being counted in several states around the country. The crises facing the country are severe — from a pandemic to an economic recession, climate change to racial injustice — and the transition team will continue preparing at full speed so that the Biden-Harris administration can hit the ground running on Day One,” the site adds
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Biden’s Strategy Was Always to Create Confusion & Chaos
A striking feature of the 2016 presidential election cycle was Hillary Clinton’s disappearance from the campaign trail for long stretches of time and her infrequent interviews. Her campaign was largely conducted by surrogates and relied heavily on major media to attack and harass Donald Trump on he r behalf. Overconfidence in her inevitable victory is generally blamed for this strategy.
The Biden campaign’s repeat of Hillary’s hide-the-candidate approach showed that Democrats had a strategy to win back the White House that did not involve their candidate exposing himself to gaffes, missteps or challenging voter questions. The Biden campaign’s strategy is now on display.
The 2020 presidential campaign was always going to come down to fraud.
Besides the Biden campaign’s telegraphing its plans by hiding the candidate from the public and the media for extended periods in the middle of a presidential campaign, much of their strategy was out in the open. Democrats pushed a full-court press in every state possible to open as many avenues fo r fraud as possible to give the greatest possible chance of overcoming Trump’s incredible voter enthusiasm and actual voter turnout. Democrats have been on the offensive across America all year to: 1) Create as many new ways to vote as possible; 2) Extend early voting as long as possible before Ele ction Day; 3) Continue counting votes after Election Day; 4) Create as much chaos as possible; and 5) Prepare an army of attorneys to file lawsuits casting GOP efforts to ensure election integrity as “voter suppression” or otherwise run interference to allow as many of their myriad voting and vote— counting schemes as possible to produce the maximum impact for Biden and Democrats.
To make a football analogy, it would be like extending the sidelines as wide as possible and giving the offense several more footballs. Eventually, it becomes impossible for any defense to keep the other team out of the end zone.
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Biden Says He Will Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement on His First Day as President
On Wednesday, the Trump administration formally withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, even as former Vice President Joe Biden pledged he would re-enter the agreement as a top priority of his administration.
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Big Tech’s Election Night Censorship Shows Why Trump Should Have Embraced Alternative Tech
In August, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ominously stated that Facebook is “getting people ready for the fact that there’s a high likelihood that it takes days or weeks to count this — and there’s nothing wrong or illegitimate about that.” He also warned that the platform would be introducing “new rules regarding premature claims of victory or other statements about the results.”
Since that moment, Facebook and the other Big Tech companies have been grooming US voters to accept the unprecedented level of uncertainty that’s now unfolding around the 2020 US presidential election results and normalized the notion that anyone who questions this uncertainty should be censored.
From election night, the Big Tech companies followed through on this election night narrative that they have been crafting for months by mass censoring President Trump and many other users who attempted to discuss and share their opinion on election developments.
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Brandon Smith: It’s Clear Where This is All Headed
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us
Just as I successfully predicted the outcome of the 2016 election months in advance, my predictions on the 2020 election are now coming to pass. In July of this year in my article ‘Election 2020: The Worst Case Scenario Is The Most Likely One’, after I outlined the strange factors surrounding Biden and Trump, I stated that:
“These factors and more lead me to predict that Election 2020 will be a contested election which ends with Trump staying in office but accused of usurping the democratic process. This outcome is the worst possible outcome and also the most advantageous for the globalist establishment.”
I also noted the predictive programming campaign by the media and members of the Council On Foreign Relations like Max Boot to acclimated the public to the idea of a contested election while also “wargaming” (planning) that exact outcome. I stated:
“…Boot is back again, this time writing about how he thinks Donald Trump will try to “hijack” the presidency in 2020.
In an article for the Washington post titled ‘What If Trump Loses But Insists He Won’, Boot outlines a scenario that was “war gamed” by a group called the Transition Integrity Project. The group played out a scenario in which there is a razor thin victory for Joe Biden, followed by actions by Trump to keep control of the presidency through lies and legal wrangling. The group also predicted civil unrest leading to potential “civil war” as the fight over the White House expands.
This article is, I believe, an attempt at predictive programming by the establishment. They are TELLING US exactly what is about to happen. A contested election, civil war, martial law, economic collapse and the US will be destroyed from within.”
The bizarre behavior of vote counters in swing states, including PA where they stopped the count altogether overnight, indicates a program to incite national tensions and rage. The media refusing to call certain states for Trump even though he held clear leads while rushing to call states for Biden even though the count was far from unfinished will only exacerbate people’s suspicions that the election is being rigged or stolen.
Trump has said he will take the results to the Supreme Court and there is no doubt that recounts will be held in states like Michigan and Arizona. I continue to predict that Trump will stay in office despite the close election. I also predict that numerous fake ballots will be discovered during rec ounts only throwing gasoline on the fire and implicating Democrats in certain districts with fraud. Social justice leftists will surely try to riot in response, and Trump will call for martial law if the current scenario plays out as I expect.
The leftists will NOT accept the results of a Supreme Court decision in favor of Trump. Conservatives WILL NOT accept a Biden presidency.
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Count and Recount Every ‘Vote’ Until You Win
Democrats’ favorite election cheating strategy is out in full force this week. Will the president be able to overcome it?
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Facebook Shuts Down Stop the Steal Group After it Gains Over 360,000 Members in 24 Hours
The mass uncertainty surrounding the 2020 US presidential election result has led to a huge push for poll watchers to be given access to vote-counting centers so that they can observe the process and report any irregularities.
This movement has quickly gained momentum online and the Facebook group Stop the Steal was one of the most popular groups leading the charge with its members organizing protests across the country.
The group was created by Women for America First — a pro-Trump, not for profit social welfare organization.
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Farage Predicts UK-Style Postal Voting Fraud Will be Found, Trump Will be Back in 2024 if he Loses
Nigel Farage has predicted evidence of UK-style postal voting fraud will be found in the U.S., but that Donald Trump will fight again in 2024 even if Biden takes the White House.
Mr Farage had been “following the Trump train” for much of the climax of the 2020 campaign, being invited to speak by the President at a rally in Pheonix, Arizona, but is now set to return to “Lockdown UK” with the election still in chaos.
“Now, to accuse people of electoral fraud is one thing, but you have to prove it,” said the leader of the Brexit Party, currently in the process of relaunching as the Reform Party.
“What we know from 20 years of bitter experience, ever since the great Tony Blair introduced wide-scale postal voting in Britain, is that it’s open to fraud, it’s open to intimidation, there are massive problems with verification,” the British political heavyweight recalled.
“Just last year the Brexit Party fought a by-election in Peterborough. We lost by 600 votes. We saw things like, on polling day, somebody with a carrier bag bringing a thousand ballots into a polling station,” he alleged.
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Leftist ‘Count Every Vote’ Protests Descend Into Antifa Violence
‘Count every vote’ protests in Portland and New York City descended into ‘widespread violence’ Wednesday as Antifa thugs smashed windows, set fires and attacked police.
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Liberal California Emigrants Are Toxic
Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.
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MI Judge Dismisses Trump Campaign’s Lawsuit in the State
Judge Cynthia Stevens of the Michigan Court of Appeals dismissed the Trump campaign’s lawsuit regarding ballot counting in the state on Thursday.
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Michigan Votes to Require Warrants for Police to Seize and Search Digital Devices
Voters in the US state of Michigan have decided that searches of laptop, phones, and associated electronic data will require a search warrant going forward.
Michigan Proposal 20-2 to require a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data and electronic communications passed overwhelmingly, with 88.7 percent (nearly four million people) voting “yes,” and only 11.3 percent voting “no.”
At the same time, the proposal amends the Michigan Constitution to bring the existing protections from unlawful and unreasonable searches of homes, documents, and other personal possessions up to date, and include electronic data and communications on people’s devices.
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National Guard Responds to Rioting in Portland, About 50 Protestors Arrested in NYC
Rioting and violent or disruptive demonstrations broke out in several U.S. cities Wednesday night, including Minneapolis, Portland, and New York.
Extensive violence in Portland, including the smashing of windows in downtown businesses, led local police to declare a riot. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown activated the National Guard to respond. At least 11 people were arrested, and at least one American flag was burned.
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A New York Times opinion piece claims that President Trump is deliberately inserting typos into his tweets in order to send a secret “code” to his supporters.
Remind me, who are the conspiracy theorists again?
“One of Trump’s tweets looked like it had a typo. In fact, it was probably code to his most extreme supporters,” tweeted the NYT, with a link to the article by Emily Dreyfuss.
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North Dakota Candidate Who Died From COVID-19 on October 5 Wins Election
North Dakota businessman David Andahl appears to have been elected to the state House of Representatives, an accomplishment complicated by his death on October 5 of COVID-19.
The state’s 8th district holds two house seats, and Andahl and fellow Republican Dave Nehring have secured them.
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Pennsylvania County Says it Won’t Resume Counting Votes Until Friday Due to “Administrative Work”
A county in Pennsylvania says it won’t begin counting over 35,000 ballots until Friday due to the need to perform “administrative work.”
“Allegheny County, PA still has 35,413 uncounted mail-in ballots, but elections staff is taking today off for “administrative work” and will not resume count until Friday. “I can’t get an answer as to why,” says @bethanyhallam, a member of county elections board,” tweeted the New York Times’ Trip Gabriel.
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The Democrats know President Trump is doing well in the battleground state of Pennsylvania which is why they are fighting to count ballots for up to three days after Election Day.
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President Trump’s Engagement Tanks After Twitter Censorship
It’s highly unlikely that Twitter will itself be in hot water or amid a storm of criticism for allowing Donald Trump to freely express himself now — as had been the case before and after the 2016 US presidential election.
This time around, Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) analysis is depicting an effective creeping censorship on the social media platform, put in place before and during election night, that managed to cripple Trump’s engagement statistics.
According to EIP’s data, Twitter’s move to label as misleading or disputed a number of Trump’s posts meant that the previous rate of shares or replies to his tweets that would reach 827 times per minute was reduced to only 151 times per minute.
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Rudy Giuliani ‘En Route’ To Philadelphia With Legal Team, Alleges ‘Massive Cheating’
Attorney Rudy Giuliani traveled to Philadelphia, alleging “massive cheating” as more votes are counted in the battleground state Wednesday.
“En route to Philadelphia with legal team. Massive cheating,” the personal lawyer to President Donald Trump tweeted.
He added: “@realDonaldTrump up by 550,000 with 75% counted. Will not let Philly Democrat hacks steal it!”
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“So I never issued a shelter-in-place, I never closed a business. I didn’t even define an essential business … because I don’t have the authority to do that.” Governor Kristi Noem, 9 Governors of states within our union have refused to play games with the likes of the federal government, Bill Gates and his little …
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The Incredible Never-Ending Election Continues
As of this writing, the 2020 presidential election is still not finished. Many Americans are dumbfounded.
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Trump Supporters Question Why Absentee Ballots Were Filed for People Up to 120 Years Old
Trump supporters are questioning why absentee ballot votes in the swing state of Michigan were apparently sent in by people aged up to 120 years old.
On election night, President Trump was ahead in Michigan but his lead was wiped out after huge numbers of late mail in ballots went for Biden.
In addition to numerous other claims of vote fraud, attention is now focused on why people are almost certainly dead had ballots filed in their name.
Trump supporter Austin Fletcher posted screenshots of the information from Michigan’s voter database.
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Trump Supporters Question Why Biden Has So Many More Votes Than Democratic Senators in Swing States
Trump supporters are questioning why Joe Biden has so many more votes, in the case of Georgia nearly 96,000, in key swing states compared to the number of people who voted for Democratic Senators on the same ticket.
Usually, voters will choose both their preferred president and that president’s corresponding political party when it comes to choosing their Congressional candidate.
“Overwhelming shares of voters who are supporting Trump and Biden say they are also supporting the same-party candidate for Senate,” reported Pew before the election.
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USPS Inspector General Contacts Project Veritas Over Backdated Ballots Allegation in Michigan
Update 0958ET: The USPS Inspector General’s office has contacted Project Veritas following their report from a postal employee who says he was instructed to collect ballots after the election cutoff so they could be backdated.
“They’re aware of this, it falls under their jurisdiction, they’re assessing whether to investigate,” said James O’Keefe, founder of PV.
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Videos: Trump Supporters Demand Access at Arizona Counting Station
A large group of President Trump’s supporters have gathered to protest outside the Maricopa County Elections Department office, where some 600,000 votes are still to be counted, with the media painting them up as a violent mob.
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Video: Unmarked Containers Rolled Into Secure Detroit Voting Center at 4 Am
A lawyer working with the group Lawyers for Trump captured video of some highly suspicious activity at one Detroit vote-counting center. Under the cover of darkness, vans and cars delivered unidentified boxes into the secured vote-counting rooms.
In the wee hours of November 5, 2020, the morning after Election Day, Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer from Texas working with the group Lawyers for Trump, witnessed a person in a white van loading up a red wagon with what appears to be a ballot box and delivering it to the secured vote-counting room at a Detroit vote-counting location.
SoRelle released the video to the publishers of Texas Scorecard saying she wanted to raise “alarms that the box may have been a ballot box that arrived long after all ballots were expected to have been received at the counting facility.”
The watchdog website also reports that “other images appear to show suitcases and coolers moving in and out of the secure area where mail-in ballots were being counted during a shift change at 4 am.”
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Blanchet Seeks to Drive Values Wedge Between Quebec and Trudeau Government
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is doubling down on efforts to draw a line separating his party’s values from those of the Trudeau Liberals — particularly on the fraught ground of free speech.
Blanchet posted a tweet Sunday suggesting Justin Trudeau’s response to attacks in France that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists did not go far enough, and highlighted what the Bloc leader called a “disturbing gap” in values that he chalked up to possible “weakness” or “ideology” on the prime minister’s part.
Blanchet said in French that Trudeau is threatening Quebec’s friendship with France. He’s sought to align his province with that country’s “republican and secular” principles, contrasting them with what he called an “Anglo-Saxon multiculturalist doctrine.”
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Toronto Mayor Tory Wants Diners to Mask Up Between Bites When Restaurants Reopen
2020 has to rank as perhaps the most insane year in living memory thanks to the Wuhan virus and the way in which governments and bureaucracies are reacting to it.
But the question arises: are we at peak insanity yet? Perhaps.
Just check out Toronto Mayor John Tory’s cockamamie idea when it comes to dining etiquette once Hogtown restaurants get to reopen their doors for sit-down patrons. Currently, restaurant customers are freezing their arses off on as they chomp down on entrees while seated in those makeshift outdoor patios.
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Denmark, one of the world’s major exporters of mink fur products, will kill all 15-million-plus of its farmed mink in an effort to stop the spread of a mutated version of coronavirus that has infected some of the animals.
The head of the nation’s State Serum Institute, which deals with public health, said at a Wednesday press conference that the mutated virus found in minks may disrupt effectiveness of a human vaccine against COVID-19.
Twelve people in Denmark’s Jutland region have already contracted the mutated virus, which is less affected by antibodies.
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Germany is once again setting the tone in Europe with a series of raids carried out by the European police agency Europol against people suspected of engaging in so-called “hate speech” online.
Although the coordinated police operation took place in seven countries, the initiative to launch the raids came from German prosecutors.
A total of 83 apartments have been searched in that country alone, with 93 suspects questioned and people’s phones and computers seized.
The suspects are said to have expressed “racist” and “xenophobic” sentiments on the internet, while one is accused of “insulting a politician.” According to Reuters, the unnamed politician is a woman who has been insulted online.
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Anti-Semitic Motive Cannot be Ruled Out in Vienna Terrorist Attack
The Jewish community in the Austrian city of Vienna — formerly one of the safest places in Europe for Jews — is worried that there might also be an anti-Semitic component behind the Monday terrorist attackwhich killed four, as it happened near the downtown synagogue, reports Zsido.com, the news portal of the Hungarian Chabad Lubavitch community.
“For many years, Vienna has been one of the safest cities in the world. This case came as a surprise to us and to the law enforcement forces as well,” said Yaakov Frenkel, one of the leaders of the local Jewish community and member of the city council, adding that it was not the Jewish community that was the primary target, but at the same time there was unease among the Jews.
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Austria: Where Did the Vienna Terrorist’s AK-47 Come From?
The Vienna Islamic terrorist who killed four people in a shooting rampage Monday evening was — in addition to a machete and a pistol — armed with the most common assault rifle in existence: the Soviet-origin AK-47. Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet looks at the sources where this particular weapon could have come from.
The Austrian authorities are looking for a needle in the haystack to find out where the 20-year-old radical ISIS sympathizer Kujtim Fejzulai got his AK-47 assault rifle from, which he used in the massacre in downtown Vienna.
The Vienna-born son of Albanian parents in northern Macedonia is most likely posing on his own Instagram page with the AK-47 he used on Monday.
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British Woman Threatened With Police Visit for Not Downloading NHS Corona Tracking App
A British woman says she was threatened with police visiting her home if she did not download the NHS coronavirus ‘track and trace’ app.
LockdownSkeptics.org features the story of a woman from Skipton who tested positive for COVID-19 and immediately self-isolated.
“This was followed by “in excess” of 20 text messages demanding that she download the NHS App. She did not do so since she doesn’t want to be followed round by it and she’s self-isolating anyway. She was then telephoned by the Test and Trace system and the caller threatened her with a “police check at your address if you do not download the app.” Utterly furious, she ended the phone call and is waiting to see what happens next.”
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European Police in Coordinated Raids Against Online Hate Speech
The European Union police agency coordinated raids against online hate speech that promote racism and xenophobia in seven countries in Europe, according to a report.
German prosecutors said 96 suspects are being investigated for posts of hate, after cops searched 83 buildings to seize smartphones and laptops.
One suspect is charged with making anti-Semitic comments online and another suspect is charged with insulting a politician online.
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France is Not Fighting Islam, Only Islamist Extremism, Macron Says
French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country is fighting “Islamist separatism, never Islam”, responding to a Financial Times article that he claimed misquoted him and has since been removed from the newspaper’s website.
In a letter to the editor published Wednesday, Macron said the British paper had accused him of “stigmatising French Muslims for electoral purposes and of fostering a climate of fear and suspicion towards them”.
“I will not allow anybody to claim that France, or its government, is fostering racism against Muslims,” he said.
An opinion article written by a Financial Times correspondent published Tuesday alleged that Macron’s condemnation of “Islamic separatism” risked fostering a “hostile environment” for French Muslims.
The article was later removed from the paper’s website, replaced with a notice saying it had “contained factual errors”…
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France: 12-Year-Olds Investigated for Praising Teacher Beheading
A pair of 12-year-old pupils in Strasbourg have been placed under investigation after allegedly claiming that Samuel Paty deserved to be murdered for showing his class cartoons of Mohammed.
According to the Strasbourg prosecutor’s office, the pupils are said to have agreed with the murder of the teacher, who was killed on October 16th by a Chechen radical Islamic terrorist refugee in the street and beheaded.
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Greek Orthodox Priest Shot in Lyon Has Woken From His Coma
The Greek Orthodox priest based in the French city of Lyon has woken from a coma after Monday’s successful surgery.
Although fake news spread on Sunday that Father Nikolaos Kakavelakis, who was shot twice in the stomach on Saturday, had died, Greek City Times confirmed with a family contact that the priest was “doing well” after Monday’s surgery.
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Negotiators from the European Parliament and Council have today reached a principal agreement that would tie the distribution of the European budget and recovery funds to a country’s respect for the rule-of-law, which would allow the EU to judge a country’s abidance by certain democratic principles.
The agreement is yet to be formally voted on by the two European institutions, yet given the distribution of power in both, the new funding mechanism is likely to be accepted by a large majority.
The timing of the new rule of law proceedings against Hungary announced on Oct.30 and that of the budgetary distribution agreement, also raises suspicions that Europe’s dominant left has created a punitive mechanism meant to reign in countries like Hungary and Poland that do not share its vision for open societies, mass migration or multiculturalism.
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Man Arrested After Threatening French Teachers to ‘Avenge the Prophet’
French police in Essonne have arrested a man who was overheard threatening teachers at a school, stating he wanted to “avenge” the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
The incident took place on Wednesday outside a primary school in the commune of Athis-Mons, some 14 miles outside of Paris.
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More Czechs Support Right-Wing Parties Than Left-Wing Ones: Survey
A new Czech survey shows that 38.4 percent of Czechs support right-wing parties compared to 22.1 percent who support left-wing ones, with the share of left-wing support declining since 2013.
The survey, conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM), showed that 27.8 percent of respondents belong in the middle of the political spectrum.
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Muslims Demand ‘Provocative’ Borat Posters be Removed From French Buses
Muslims in France have demanded that posters for Sacha Baron Cohen’s sequel to Borat be removed from buses, claiming that the poster, in which a nearly naked Cohen is seen wearing a ring inscribed with the word ‘Allah’ in Arabic, is a “provocation”.
Buses across Paris have been featuring large posters to promote the Amazon Prime original film, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
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Nearly £100,000 in COVID Fines for Halloween Celebrations in UK Region
Police gave out nearly £100,000 in fines to people for having “illegal gatherings” in celebration of Halloween in the English region of South Yorkshire over the weekend.
Police issued nine £10,000 fines over Halloween weekend after being tipped off by neighbours about people holding Halloween parties.
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Nexhip Vrenezi (pictured), 21, was one of the four people killed by gunman Kujtim Fejzulai, 20, in Vienna, Austria, on Monday night.
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Poland Enters Lockdown as Infections Rise to New Record High
At a Wednesday press conference, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced a series of new restrictions which essentially bring the country into a lockdown. He warned that November might turn out to be the most difficult month in the entire pandemic, which is why the response must be decisive.
The new restrictions will be in place starting Saturday and Monday for schools and will last until Nov. 29.
The prime minister informed that every class in primary schools will now move to online teaching and promised financial aid to help teachers purchase accessories for working from home. Kindergartens will remain open and available to children without any further changes.
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Scotland: Facebook Bans Fighting for Our Children “QAnon” Groups
Facebook’s crackdown on “QAnon” is continuing as the social media platform has suspended several Scottish groups based on the report by The Ferret.
The Ferret recently launched an “investigation” into QAnon activity in Scotland and found several Facebook pages and groups that were actively engaging in conversations about QAnon. The outlet decided to report the group to Facebook.
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Swedish Police Investigate Alleged Rape at Middle School
Swedish police in the municipality of Vindeln are investigating an alleged rape at a middle school.
The school, which has pupils from grades six through nine, reported the alleged rape took place on Tuesday, but so far police say they have not identified any possible suspects.
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UK Police Record Darren Grimes Podcast Investigation as “Non-Crime Hate Crime”
After dropping its investigation into British political commentator Darren Grimes and admitting the response was not “proportionate,” the UK’s Metropolitan Police force (the Met) has now recorded the investigation as a “non-crime hate crime.”
The Met launched its investigation into Grimes last month after one of his podcast guests, historian David Starkey, said during an interview that slavery was not similar to genocide because there are “so many damn blacks.”
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In other words, this was no inquiry at all, but an expensive process engineered to exonerate Muslim rape gangs. The probe was expected to “look at the mostly Pakistani grooming gangs which have struck in towns across Britain including Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and Telford, while police, social services and local councils turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse.” Instead, the probe avoided these areas, and “looked at six areas of England and Wales — Bristol, Durham, St Helens, Swansea, Tower Hamlets and Warwickshire ‘because they represent a range of sizes, demographics and institutional practices.’“
The vast majority of rape gangs were made up of Pakistani men, who are often referred to as “Asian” in the British media to obscure who they are and what motivates them. The Timesreported:
A large gang of paedophiles identified in a report into how dozens of children in care were failed by authorities ‘may still be at large and offending’……A report told how up to 100 members of the gang, mainly of Pakistani heritage and operating in south Manchester, were able to abuse children under the noses of police and council workers.
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UK: NHS Nurse Publicly Resigns, Blasts COVID Lockdown Policy
An NHS nurse in Britain publicly resigned while wearing her uniform before releasing the real numbers of COVID patients in her hospital and denouncing the government’s disastrous lockdown policy.
The whole of England officially entered lockdown 2.0 today despite numerous experts warning that lockdowns will eventually end up killing more people than coronavirus itself.
A video out of Cornwall shows a nurse in uniform giving a speech explaining why she decided to resign from her job.
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UK: Woman Threatened With Police Visit After Refusing to Download NHS Corona Tracking App
A British woman has been threatened with a visit from police for refusing to download the NHS coronavirus tracking app on her smartphone and allowing herself to be tracked. This the latest story in how the coronavirus is leading to an erosion of civil liberties in many countries.
The woman recently tested positive for COVID and is in self-isolation at home.
She received more than 20 text messages ordering her to download the app. She argues the app is a privacy issue for her. Besides, she is self-isolating at home, meaning she is not a risk to anyone.
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A Biden Administration Would Keep a Military Presence in Syria
Advisor said Biden would prevent reconstruction in Syria until political reform was made
According to a report from Asharq Al-Awsat, a senior Biden advisor met with a group of Syrians to go over what a Biden administration’s Syria policy would look like. The advisor said Biden would keep a US military presence in northeast Syria to counter Russia and keep reconstruction funds from the country unless “meaningful” political reform occurs.
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A Syrian terrorist was captured fighting in Artsakh and gave a shocking testimony, including how Syrian mercenaries were promised a bonus $100 for chopping the heads of Armenians.
El Haji was born in the village of Ziendie in Syria’s Idlib province. He did not attend school and is illiterate. He has a wife and five children.
“They told me I would receive a monthly salary of $2,000 and that I would only participate in military exercises. Both my father and my wife were against me going to Azerbaijan but when I heard that others from neighboring areas were going, so I decided to join them,” he said to Armenian authorities after being captured fighting in Artsakh.
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India: NIA Arrests Madrasa Teacher Abdul Momin Mondal for Being a Part of Al-Qaeda Module
On 1st October, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 32-year-old Abdul Momin Mondal from Murshidabad in West Bengal. Mondal, who works as a madarsa teacher, was arrested for alleged involvement in an Al-Qaeda module that has been operating in West Bengal and Kerala. As per the reports, he was raising funds and trying to recruit new members for the terrorist organization.
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Chinese Communists Force ‘Dangerous’ Catholic Nuns From Convent
ROME — The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has forced eight Catholic nuns out of their convent in the northern province of Shanxi for their refusal to join the state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
After ongoing harassment, surveillance, and intimidation from local authorities, the nuns finally opted to abandon their convent after officials ordered the removal of the cross and a dozen religious statues from the building and grounds, Bitter Winter reported this week.
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Scott Morrison has announced that manufacturing of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine will begin in Melbourne next week and will be rolled out once approved.
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Nigeria: 12 Christians Killed, Others Kidnapped by Boko Haram
Boko Haram militants under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau have attacked Takulashi village near Chibok, killing 12 and kidnapping others.
Six gun trucks filled with insurgents entered the village and started shooting on Sunday, killing 12 Christians and burning down multiple homes and businesses. As the attack ended, the group kidnapped several women and children.
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Attacker of Religious Sister Arrested Amid Spate of Anti-Catholicism in Austria
CNA Staff, Nov 2, 2020 / 02:02 pm MT (CNA).— After a Catholic religious sister was attacked on a bus, police have arrested a 19-year-old Afghan, according to police in the Austrian state of Styria. The attack came among a spate of anti-Catholic attacks and demonstrations in Austria.
The nun, 76, was attacked on Saturday afternoon on a bus in the Austrian city of Graz. The perpetrator hit the sister in the face and then fled.
Police officers seized video material from the bus, after which the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism arrested the Afghan-born teenager. The suspect, already known to the police for drug offenses and assault, has confessed to the crime; his motive is still unclear, police say.
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Austria: Report: 76-Year-Old Nun Assaulted, Afghan Migrant Arrested
A 76-year-old nun was assaulted on a bus in the multicultural city of Graz, Austria, according to reports. An Afghan migrant has been arrested.
The elderly sister was struck so hard in the head that her hearing aid was knocked to the floor, with the assailant fleeing the bus shortly afterwards.
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Greek Authorities Intercept Boat Carrying Migrants to Italy
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard towed a boat carrying 65 asylum-seekers to a port on the country’s western coast after it was found to be in distress in the Ionian Sea, authorities said Thursday.
The Migration and Asylum ministry said that 35 of those on board were from Turkey, 15 from Afghanistan, eight from Iraq and seven from Iran.
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Immigrants applying for permanent, provisional or temporary visas now have to sign an updated Australian Values Statement before being allowed into the country.
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Dozens of migrants arrived today after making the treacherous journey across the Channel in small boats in the first crossings since a family of five drowned at sea.
Around 12 people including a woman and young child were on board one boat which was brought into Dover Marina at around 11am.
The youngster, pictured wearing a winter coat under a life jacket to keep warm in the cold conditions, held the hand of a Border Force officer as they walked up the gangway to be processed.
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Netflix has acquired the global distribution rights for the movie Cuties and has been promoting it for a while now. Needless to say, the movie has been at the seat for several controversies, with many people condemning it for sexualizing school-going children. Netflix is also facing a lawsuit in Texas over this.
And ever since Netflix started promoting Cuties, several users have talked about canceling Netflix with the hashtag #cancelnetflix as they shared clips of the movie and poured their personal opinions online.
In a move that seems to be made for suppressing negative reception and backlash, Netflix started sending copyright notices to tweets that featured a clip from the Cuties movie in order to cut criticism against them.
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Small Act of Resistance as Hungary, Poland, And Czechia Reject EU’s Wording on ‘Gender Equality’
At the European Union summit on Oct. 16, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel indicated that the document summarizing the summit’s results mentions “equality between men and women” and that it would be better to have “gender equality” on paper. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen immediately agreed with this, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Hungarians do not use the term “gender equality” because of its ideological implications.
The leaders of the member states remained stuck on the topic, with only two leaders supporting Orban — Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki — with Babis speaking on behalf of Morawiecki because he was at home in quarantine.
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Joe Biden scandalized himself subconsciously when he said, “the process is working.”
What process? The deceptive process that was put in place 2 years ago, planned in advance.
The problem Joe is that if you deceive just plan it in a subtle way. You did it in a way even westerners can discern it easily hands down.
Your promises: restore money Palestinian killers, Restore USA consulate to East Jerusalem, shut USA embassy in Jerusalem. Inshallah.
Now just tell us who are your whistling these signals to?
I thought members from both parties will be , must be present when opening the ballots
to avoid cheating. American observers of elections around the world do that when they go and supervise elections to teach them how democracy works.
Preach others but not yourself. Don as I tell you not as I do.
But none of the Republican Party were allowed in the halls where mail-in were opened.
If the judges do not take that seriously, it means deadly corruption.
No justice no democracy.
Spot on. I am a chief election judge in my state and I play it right down the middle and follow the rules 100%.
What we are seeing now by the Democrats is election fraud on an industrial scale.
It is stopped by the SOTUS right now or we are finished.
John
Can you explain more about what you saw?
True
I have to say, the 2020 US elections are probably the least transparent I’ve ever seen. Definitely less than the recent ones in Belarus, and that’s saying something.
Rotterdam teacher in hiding after online threats in dispute over ‘blasphemous’ cartoon
Police in Rotterdam are investigating online threats made against a teacher who had hung a cartoon commenting on the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 on his classroom notice board.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/11/rotterdam-teacher-in-hiding-after-online-threats-in-dispute-over-blasphemous-cartoon/
James Bond Is Dead | Lashana Lynch Confirms She Is Black Female 007 In No Time To Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwLG97mI8
CANCEL CULTURE, METOO
I see nothing beautiful or stunning about her. She’s just another affirmative action character. Yes, indeed, Bond is dead.
she has also played the role of Juliet Capulet. Disgusting how they are ramming this down our throats.
Meanwhile we are looking forward to a black
Portrayal of Anne Boleyn! (in the UK)
We are told that the actress is so brilliant
That most audiences will not even notice!
At this point Henry V111 is still English.
However he is being understudied by
A disabled, mute, gay, transgender Apache
Descendent who is unfortunately wheelchair
Bound.
Speaking of cultural appropriation I believe
That there is a remake of Zulu in the works,
The Welsh Regiment being played by
West Indians and the Zulus by Welsh men.
absolutely disgusting to replace whites with the melanin enhanced non-entities.
We’ve got ourselves a Bolshevik coup d’ etat, America.
Just announced. Trial to be held in secret. Indigenous people are tried openly.
Police officer Amjad Ditta and 15 other men appear at Bradford Magistrates Court over historic child exploitation
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/trial-police-officer-15-others-19047876
Image Gallery
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/yorkshire-news/gallery/police-officer-amjad-ditta-15-17521252
Bradford man jailed for sexually abusing 15-year-old girl
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/bradford-man-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-15-year-old-girl/ar-BB1aEoBY
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/leo-varadkar-a-biden-win-could-spur-better-brexit-deal-for-eu/amp/
If Biden becomes US president there will be an even greater certainty for soft “Brexit” deals. PM Varadkar is over the moon.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AkkadSecretary/status/1324697902116229122
https://summit.news/2020/11/06/police-state-uk-bans-protests/
Police State: UK Bans Protests
Just read that Pima County AZ has 6000 (!) ballots to count this afternoon. They’ll be horribly horribly busy, and will announce the results in the evening. BUT, please note that there are yet other types of ballots (provisional ballots? what the heck is that?) which simply cannot be handled yet and will not be announced till next week. In Pima. This is bureaucratic sabotage in Arizona on a large scale, and the govnr seems powerless to do anything about it. So who really rules?
And Alaska hasn’t been called. I am so sick of this BS…
https://www.ekathimerini.com/258857/article/ekathimerini/news/group-of-unaccompanied-refugee-minors-flies-to-france
I thought they were on lockdown?
Today 7th of November started the lockdown.
The last two days hundreds of Athenians flooded the shops,any shops,and bought what ever you can immagine,and drove out of the capital to their villages,where parents or grandparents live.
You may ask why?
First of all they think that this lockdown will last more than a month.
They are left unemployed.
In the villages life is cheaper since every one has its own food and most important there, no muzzle.
There is freedom outside the big cities.Yesterday there were a protest in Thessaloniki and in other smaller cities up north.
Today i read in the news that if we gather people in our houses more than 6,a district attorney will visit us.
Courage i said to myself,there will be a time when we put them in a life-lockdown,all of them.
France: 57% of young Muslims believe that Sharia law is more important than French law
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/05/france-57-des-jeunes-musulmans-pensent-que-la-charia-est-plus-importante-que-le-droit-francais/
La Rochelle: a Moroccan immigrant, repeat offender, beats up and imposes sexual relations on Marie, who wanted to help her obtain a residence permit, he remains free
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/05/la-rochelle-un-delinquant-marocain-multirecidiviste-tabasse-et-impose-des-relations-sexuelles-a-marie-qui-voulait-laider-a-obtenir-un-titre-de-sejour-il-reste-libre/
Confinement in Toulouse: flashmob of a thousand “non-essential” traders mimicking their burial
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/06/confinement-a-toulouse-flashmob-dun-millier-de-commercants-non-essentiels-mimant-leur-enterrement/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/planning-the-perfect-election-storm_3527953.html
I have no words about this election, really. I mean, not that it isn’t happening in Germany or Sweden as well, in both countries I’ve heard volunteer vote counters openly admitting they’d throw away right-wing votes if given a chance. Probably elsewhere, too. But the dimensions here are sheer mind-boggling.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pa-usps-official-willing-testify-under-oath-over-ballot-backdating
In the weeks before Covid-19, I saw betting markets favor Trump for re-election.
But Covid-19 gave state governors an excuse to crash the economy with lockdowns. The US was in a recession in the first two quarters of 2020. The second quarter’s downturn was severe. I saw the betting odds for Trump plummet. An economic downturn during election time usually hurts an incumbent.
Trump had the bad luck of a Black Swan event happen in election season. A black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, severe impact.
Spain has a higher death rate than the US, but the media is not attacking the government the same way.
Of course, the Spanish government is a coalition between socialists and communists that would make the squad look reasonable.
I don’t want to live in a socialist hellhole. The people who voted for it don’t know it yet, but they don’t REALLY want to live that way, either. Unfortunately, we’re all going to learn about it the hard way together if Trump can’t pull a miracle out of his hat soon. God help him and God help us all.
watch for the lawsuits that Trumps lawyers are filing Monday the 9th. and by the way Pelosi, Feinstein and other Democrats have a stake in the Dominion voting machine experiencing glitches that flip the vote from Trump to Biden.
As I have said on numerous occasions, democracy as we know it is dead, for we can no longer vote our way out of this mess. The corruption runs too deep and too many officials depend upon the taxpayer trough to feed on and too many 3rd worlders who are against our interests. The patriots of all of our western countries have now come to a cross roads, stay the course and live under Marxist globalist insanity to where we all live under Marxist rule as peasants, or stand up and say enough is enough and roll up their sleeves, hoist the black flag and begin Purging these bloody traitors to our way of life. This is the cold stark choice we now live under, if you believe differently, I am afraid you are living in a world of denial, delusion and deceit. Believe one thing though, it will get far worse before it gets better. Take it to the bank.
Democracy died as soon as non tax payers got the vote.
That is not exclusive to the USA. All countries with universal suffrage will be more and more socialist.
Trump’s economic and immigration policies were equal or to the left of Bill Clinton. The middle of the road democrat of the 1990’s is far right today.
When people that have nothing to lose and everything to gain from increasing taxes and spending have the right to vote, that is what happens.
I really am now advocating that only those with military service should allowed to be citizens and vote. You are absolutely correct where letting women vote is concerned, the dumbest idea of all bad ideas, all emotion and no common sense, logic, simple reasoning skills or responsibility.