Police in France broke up a secret network that organized large parties, in violation of coronavirus restrictions. Meanwhile, a member of the New York State legislature has introduced a bill that would make a COVID-19 vaccination mandatory.
In other news, Virginia Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam announced new lockdown rules that will go into effect on Monday, limiting private gatherings to ten people or fewer and imposing a curfew from midnight to 5am.
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First Week of December Sees 853,000 New Unemployment Claims, More Than Expected
In the week ending December 5, Americans filed 853,000 new unemployment claims, as coronavirus cases increase nationwide and governments introduce stricter shutdown orders.
The number of first-time claims filed exceeds the 725,000 anticipated by a group of analysts who responded to a survey. In March, unemployment claims peaked at 7 million. Since the pandemic began, Americans have filed 69 million claims.
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“Free Speech is Being Weaponized”: Columbia Dean and New Yorker Writer Urges More
Authored by Jonathan Turley
We have been discussing how reporters, editors, commentators, and academics have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including President-elect Joe Biden and key advisers.
This includes academics rejecting the very concept of objectivity in journalism in favor of open advocacy. Now, Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll has denounced how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being “weaponized” to protect disinformation.
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Amazon Using Social Distancing Technology to Warn Staffers Who Get Too Close
Amazon is using social distancing technology that informs warehouse workers when they are getting too close to each other, a system that could subsequently be rolled out in airports and other venues.
A video posted by an Amazon staffer shows him pointing out how a sensor is tracking the movement of employees via colored circles that form a 6 foot perimeter around each person.
When two people violate ‘social distancing’ the circle turns red and an alarm sounds.
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Colin Kaepernick, former NFL quarterback and social justice activist, has teamed up with Ben & Jerry’s to create a new vegan ice cream flavor to support defunding the police.
All proceeds from Ben & Jerry’s new “Change the Whirled” vegan ice cream will benefit Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, which is a program for black children that teaches them community activism and how to combat “systemic” racism.
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Breaking: Project Veritas Documents Democrats Hidden Plan to Pack the Supreme Court
Despite accusations of packing the court being a pivotal issue in the 2020 election, neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris would comment on the matter publicly, and new comments from the Ossoff campaign may shine light as to the real point of view within the wider Democrat Party.
In an undercover video released by Project Veritas on Thursday, an undercover reporter catches Georgia Democrat senatorial hopeful Jon Ossoff’s Deputy Political Director admitting that the plan — which apparently is common knowledge among the Democrat and Progressive political class — is to pack at least three additional justices to the High Court.
The undercover sting catches Ossoff Deputy Political Director Max Harris saying, “If Biden gets elected, maybe we’ll add three justices to the Supreme (Court)…The official position of the party right now in not ‘aggressively pack the court.’“
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Breaking: Trump Files Motion to Intervene in Texas SCOTUS Lawsuit
President Donald Trump has filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by 17 other states which alleges fraud after Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia altered election laws without obtaining proper authorization from their respective legislatures.
The motion was filed by the President within his personal capacity as a presidential candidate seeking re-election.
“The violations of state election law, which is the ‘manner’ the Legislatures of the States have established for choosing presidential electors, violates the Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution and thus this matter arises under federal law,” the motion reads.
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China Launches Influence Campaign, Targeting Biden Team
It doesn’t really matter who prevails in the 2020 presidential race when you are the Communist Chinese government. The United States is still the target. The fact of the matter is this. Targeting a Biden administration will be much easier for the ChiComs than it was targeting the Trump administration.
In a recent speech to the Aspen Institute, National Counterintelligence & Security Center Director William Evanina said China has launched an influence campaign “on steroids” targeting Biden and a potential Biden administration.
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Chinese Money Launderer Called James Biden After FBI Arrest, Was Trying to Reach
With Politico reporting on Wednesday that Hunter Biden’s criminal investigation covers potential money laundering, and CNN‘s Simon Prokupecz reporting that the feds are looking into a 2017 gift to Hunter from CEFC China Energy Co. founder Ye Jianming — a 2.8-carat diamond, let’s revisit a prime example of what one Chinese professor described as ‘friends in high places’ within the Democratic party.
In November, 2017, Joe Biden’s brother James received a surprise call on his cellphone from Patrick Ho, Ye Jianming’s lieutenant who was arrested by the FBI (and is now serving a 36-month sentence for bribery and money laundering), according to a December, 2018 report by the New York Times. According to James, the call was meant for Hunter.
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Democrat Lawmaker Booted From Committees After ‘Intimidation’ Caught on Camera
A state lawmaker who called on “soldiers” to confront supporters of President Donald Trump was just handed some devastating news after legislature leaders saw her videotaped rant.
Along with procedural punishment, authorities are also conducting independent investigations into the matter.
The punishment was handed down by Michigan Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield on Wednesday after a vulgar anti-American rant from state Rep. Cynthia Johnson went viral.
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Mark Davis, the president of Data Productions, who testified before the Georgia Senate last week regarding potential election irregularities and fraud he discovered while examining the Georgia voter rolls, exclusively told National File how the Trump campaign can use his analysis in court and in the Georgia legislature to overturn the 2020 presidential election’s potentially fraudulent results.
Davis, who analyzed the voter rolls and testified that 40,000 Georgia residents may have voted illegally due to changes in residence, in some cases moving out of state, explained to National File that the Trump campaign’s legal team can fight to remove these potentially fraudulent votes from the state’s official vote count both in court and through the Georgia legislature.
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National File can exclusively reveal that top Arizona Democrats and mainstream media reporters have strong ties to Riley Behrens, a transgender man arrested multiple times for Antifa-related riots and accused of gang activity.
Behrens garnered fawning national and international media coverage last week after allegedly suffering a “ministroke” after testing positive for COVID-19.
At only 23 years old, Behrens told local and national media that their COVID-19 “ministroke” is proof that young people should take the disease seriously.
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FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID Vaccine
After an unprecedentedly short period from inception to trial to results, Pfizer/BioNTech’s mRNA COVID vaccine has just been approved (after an all-day meeting) by the Food and Drug Administration Advisory panel for emergency use in the US.
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While the “speech codes” of most colleges and universities have improved, virtual learning is increasing the threat to free speech in institutions, according to a new report. Since education resumed in the summer, there has been an increase in cases of free speech violations — particularly as much of the learning has moved online.
The Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) published the annual report on college speech codes. The civil rights organization claimed that there has been a significant increase in cases of free speech violations in the past few months. The organization has reviewed “287 cases of alleged violations of student and faculty rights, while the previous two years saw an average of just 49 cases each June.”
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Georgia: Coffee County Says it Couldn’t ‘Duplicate’ Election Results, Won’t Certify Election
One south central county in Georgia has executed the recounts and audits that Georgia’s Secretary of State has mandated only to find that they cannot duplicate the results with fidelity. Of course, this inability to replicate the election results raises some questions.
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Secretary of State and that state’s ultimate Executive Branch authority on elections, received a letter from the chairwoman of the Coffee County Elections and Registration, Ernestine Thomas-Clark, saying her office “cannot certify the electronic recount numbers given its inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results.”
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Man Convicted of Nonviolent Marijuana Crime Released After Serving 31 Years of 90-Year Sentence
On Tuesday, Richard DeLisi was released from the Florida prison that had been his home since 1989.
He had served 31 years of a 90-year prison sentence after being convicted of selling marijuana. There was no violence involved, but DeLisi’s nine decade sentence was much heavier than the 12 to 17 years typically handed down for the crime. No one is known to have served more time in the U.S. for a nonviolent marijuana offense than DeLisi did, said nonprofit organization The Last Prisoner Project, which fought for DeLisi to be released.
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Melinda Gates Admits “We Hadn’t Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts”
In a wide-ranging interview in the New York Times, Melinda Gates made the following remarkable statement:
“What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.”
A cynic might observe that one is disinclined to think much about matters than do not affect one personally.
It’s a maddening statement, to be sure, as if “economics” is somehow a peripheral concern to the rest of human life and public health. The larger context of the interview reveals the statement to be even more confused. She is somehow under the impression that it is the pandemic and not the lockdowns that are the cause of the economic devastation that includes perhaps 30% of restaurants going under, among many other terrible effects.
She doesn’t say that outright but, like many articles in the mainstream press over this year, she very carefully crafts her words to avoid the crucial subject of lockdowns as the primary cause of economic disaster. It’s possible that she actually believes this virus is what tanked the world economy on its own but that is a completely unsustainable proposition.
[Comment: Claiming ignorance as public rage grows.]
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Minneapolis City Council Approves $8 Million Cut to Police Funding as Violent Crime Skyrockets
The Minneapolis City Council approved a budget on Thursday that will reduce funding to the city’s police department by $8 million, even as the number of violent crimes in the city is at a five-year high.
Shootings, homicides, car jackings, and robberies are all surging, with twice as many people shot in 2020 as in 2019 and murders increasing by 50%.
The council initially proposed a cap on the number of officers the police department could employ, but scrapped that proposal after Mayor Jacob Frey threatened to veto the budget. The cap would have reduced the maximum number of officers from 888 to 750.
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NY Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Make Vaccination MANDATORY
A State Assemblymember for Manhattan’s west side has introduced legislation that would make it compulsory for residents to get vaccinated against coronavirus, reasoning that there has been a “concerning uptick in dangerous anti-science, anti-vax rhetoric.”
Fox 5 NY reports that Linda Rosenthal has brought the bill, Assembly Bill A11179, that would allow the state’s Department of Health to mandate New Yorkers to get the COVID shot.
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PCR Inventor Attacked Fauci’s Lies & Ignorance Before He Died
On this Thursday edition of The David Knight Show, viewers will learn about the inventor of the PCR tests currently being used to identify coronavirus, and how he tried to get the truth out before his death.
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Pelosi Says She “Has Full Confidence” In Swalwell Despite Report Linking Him to Chinese Spy
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded Thursday to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) calls for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to be removed from the House Intelligence Committee and to resign from Congress.
McCarthy’s remarks follow a recent report by Axios that Swalwell had ties to a Chinese spy, who had had placed an intern in Swalwell’s Congressional office.
“I don’t have any concern about Mr. Swalwell,” Pelosi said at a press conference.
Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hammill also communicated the speaker’s support for Swalwell.
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RSBN Will Stop Streaming Most Trump Events on YouTube Due to Recent Rule Change on Election Content
Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), an independent news network that has built an audience of over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, has announced that it will no longer be streaming most events on YouTube due to a recent controversial rule change that prohibits videos alleging “widespread voter fraud or errors” changed the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election.
Over the last five years, RSBN has become one of the go-to sources for live, on the grounds coverage of President Trump’s rallies and speeches and other conservative events. But because of this YouTube rule change, simply broadcasting Trump’s rallies or covering the ongoing legal challenges to the election results puts RSBN’s content at risk of being deleted.
[Comment: RSBN should be streaming on alternative to YouTube, such as Bitchute.]
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Setting Up a Siege? Antifa Has Armed Guards, Stockpiled Weapons at Portland Autonomous Zone
The antifa occupiers at the autonomous zone that sprung up in Portland this week appear to be preparing for a siege. As PJ Media’s Victoria Taft reported, antifa squatters took over a house in Portland and when the government rightly evicted them, they set up an autonomous zone.
On Wednesday, Portland’s police chief reported that antifa has fortified barricades, stockpiled weapons, set up armed guards, and threatened to kill police officers. Both the police chief and the mayor have urged the rebels to lay down their arms, but it appears they are refusing to do so.
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A Republican lawmaker from Texas released a statement on social media this week announcing his plans to “file legislation that will allow a referendum to give Texans a vote for the State of Texas to reassert its status as an independent nation.”
State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, who represents Texas’ 73rd district, cited constituents’ concerns that the “federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans.”
Bidermann made the announcement on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts on Tuesday.
[Comment: This is the beginning of the breakup of the United States.]
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Update: 21 States Now Support Texas SCOTUS Lawsuit, 42% of America to Sue 8% of America
With today’s additions of Wyoming and Ohio, a total of 21 states — including Texas — are signed on or seek to be signed on to the Supreme Court lawsuit challenging the elections in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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The Arizona Senate will hold an official legislative hearing on election integrity complete with subpoena power on Friday morning, National File understands.
Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem made the announcement regarding the legislative hearing to be held in the Senate on Thursday morning.
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Vindicated: Rudy Giuliani Identifies Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Calls for Them to be Subpoenaed
Trump Campaign Attorney Rudy Giuliani name dropped Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, in a virtual hearing with Georgia lawmakers. Freeman and Moss were caught counting ballots after observers were told to leave in a viral video.
“How can they say there is no fraud? Look at that woman. Look at her taking those ballots out. Look at them scurrying around with the ballots, nobody in the room, hiding around. They look like they’re passing out dope, not just ballots. It is quite clear that they are stealing votes,” said Giuliani before the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday.
Giuliani then showed Georgia lawmakers the video of Ruby Freeman and four other individuals pulling out cases of ballots after observers left. “Unbelievable,” said Giuliani.
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Virginia School District to Rename Thomas Jefferson and George Mason Schools
A unanimous vote from the Falls Church, Virginia, school board on Tuesday officially declared that Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and George Mason High School would have their names changed due to concerns over racial justice.
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Virginia: Blackface Northam Orders Statewide Curfew, Bans Gatherings of More Than 10
Virginia Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam ordered a statewide curfew Thursday, doubling down on his New York-style shutdown while also acting to further limit private gatherings just ahead of Christmas.
At a Thursday afternoon press conference, the Governor announced that effective December 14th, Virginians will not be permitted to leave their homes between the hours of 12 midnight and 5 AM. Mask mandates have been further expanded and now apply to all settings when a prescribed 6 feet of “social distancing” is not possible.
Additionally — and just in time for Christmas — the Governor’s orders will further limit the size of private gatherings in Virginians’ own homes, reducing the permitted number of guests from 25 to 10.
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Witness Says Dominion Remotely Accessed Georgia Voting Machines
During a December 3rd Georgia Senate hearing on the 2020 election, a poll manager detailed how Dominion workers remotely accessed her poll pad and ballot marking devices.
During the hearing, poll manager Susan Boyles described Dominion employees taking over her poll pad to fix an error.
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YouTube has released fresh stats that highlight just how difficult YouTube’s push to promote “authoritative” mainstream media sources has made it for smaller creators to get traction on the platform.
According to YouTube’s blog post, 70% of recommendations on election-related content now come from “authoritative” sources and the top 10 mainstream news channels were recommended over 14x more than the top 10 “non-authoritative channels” on election-related content.
While this 14x divide is significant, the divide between these top 10 legacy news channels and independent channels that don’t make the top 10 will be even larger.
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Alert: Chinese Military Sends Troops to Canada, PLA Training With Caf, Documents Show
The Canadian government released documents confirming that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has been actively working with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). This comes 19 months after Rebel News inquired about reports which indicated that Canada sent a delegation to China for the 75th anniversary of the PLA Navy in 2019.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau not only sent troops to China, but actively encouraged PLA and CAF military coordination on Canadian soil, even after the Chinese detainment of Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in 2018.
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Canadian Health Ministry Exploring “Immunity Passports,” Vaccine “Tracking and Surveillance”
The Health Minister of Ontario in Canada has stoked controversy by suggesting that people who do not take the coronavirus vaccine will face restrictions on where they can travel and spend time.
When asked by reporters about how the government intends to go about convincing people to get the vaccine, Health Minister Christine Elliott warned that those who refuse it will face difficulties reintegrating into society.
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Explosive Documents! Canadian Prime Minister Requested Chinese Troops be Stationed in Canada
Owen Shroyer reacts to breaking news from Rebel News about Justin Trudeau’s capitulation to the communist Chinese government.
According to Rebel News, “Justin Trudeau invited China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to send its troops for cold-weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario — and Trudeau raged at the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for canceling the training after China kidnapped Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.”
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Secret Military Documents: Trudeau Invited Chinese Troops to Train at Canadian Military Bases
Justin Trudeau invited China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to send its troops for cold weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario — and Trudeau raged at the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for cancelling the training after China kidnapped Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.
This is only one of many bombshell revelations in The China Files, a 34-page access to information document released by the Trudeau government to Rebel News, seen below.
Documents that normally would have been completely blacked out by government censors were instead greyed out — the documents remain completely readable. Rebel News has chosen to black out a very small portion that would otherwise compromise the safety of an individual.
[Comment: Training in cold weather was supposedly the reason. China is huge with plenty of cold weather regions.]
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Here is still more of the global outbreak of mental illness. Might there be a Muslim who sympathizes with a jihad massacre and regards a memorial to the victims with contempt? Inconceivable!
“Turkish woman devastates terror memorial: ‘Mentally ill’ again,” translated from “Türkin verwüstet Terror-Gedenkstätte: Schon wieder ‘psychisch krank,’“ Wochenblick, December 7, 2020 (thanks to Medforth).
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Czech President Zeman Supports Poland and Hungary in Dispute With EU Over Rule of Law
According to Czech President Milos Zeman, the Visegrad Four countries should be united in supporting Poland and Hungary in their dispute with the European Commission over the EU budget. Zeman made these remarks after yesterday’s meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
After the meeting, which lasted about an hour, the Polish president said that discussions on an agreement are taking place. He introduced the first drafts of the agreement to Zeman and, according to Duda, the Czech president reacted very positively to the Polish and Hungarian proposals.
Poland and Hungary are threatening to veto next year’s EU budget over conditionality in drawing EU money on the rule of law.
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Czech Industry Grows for First Time Since May 2019
Industrial production in the Czech Republic grew by 1.3 percent year-on-year in October, marking the first time the country has seen growth since May 2019.
According to the Czech Statistical Office, car production helped pull the Czech industry out of more than a year of decline.
The industry has been declining year-on-year for 16 months in a row. It was about t2 percent in September, but in April, during the first wave of coronavirus, the decline was more than a third.
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EU Should Strive for Diversity Among Nation States, Argues PM Morawiecki
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has written in several European newspapers and portals explaining Poland’s stance in its dispute with the EU over the block’s budget, where he has defended the value of diversity within nation states.
“A crisis such as this happens once in a century, and although a vaccine has appeared on the horizon, our concerns are not going to cease soon. Europeans have not seen a glimmer of hope just yet — something they have been waiting for. It is up to the EU, its strength, joint endeavors and the efficacy of [member] states whether Europeans will regain their faith in the future,” Morawiecki wrote in a Facebook post which pointed to a series of articles he wrote in the international media.
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Football Official Given 10 Match Ban for Referring to a Black Guy as a “Black Guy”
Another ‘racism’ scandal in football erupted after a match official referred to a black guy as a “black guy,” and was punished with a 10 match ban.
Yes, really.
The incident happened during a Champions League game between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir on Tuesday night.
Romanian official Sebastian Coltescu was accused of racially abusing Basaksehir coach Pierre Webo by referring to him as the “black guy” or “ala negru” in Romanian.
Coltescu used the term “black guy” to single out Webo because all the other coaches were white.
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France: Police Break Up Secret Party Network in Paris
The Paris police force has dismantled a network of secret party organisers that has been operating in the Ile-de-France region throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
The illegal gatherings brought together groups of up to 800 people to dance, drink and take drugs in secret locations around the French capital, with disregard for social distancing, curfew and confinement measures.
Three suspects have been taken into police custody, including the alleged organiser of the events and the manager of an online ticket sales website. They each face being charged with endangering the lives of others, punishable by one year in prison, and a €15,000 fine.
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The French government unveiled a draft law Wednesday aimed at better arming France against Islamist radicalism, a project promoted by President Emmanuel Macron.
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France: “We Are All Teachers”? Revealing the School Emails Preceding Paty’s Beheading
“Je suis enseignant”, we are all teachers, says the slogan brandished after the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine for showing the cartoons of Mohammed during a course on freedom of expression.
A Le Monde investigation revealed a less edifying reality.
The newspaper accessed Paty’s and the school’s emails. Reading them, the life of a middle school on the outskirts of Paris emerges, traumatized by a story that everyone believed would soon be forgotten.
These are the emails from the week before the murder. There is the support of the principal and many parents, but also the many criticisms by the teachers who attacked Paty.
It is the story of Western cowardice in facing Islam.
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Yet the French government is staking the future of the nation on these migrants becoming loyal citizens of France, fully accepting French values. But this incident suggests that France’s future is much more likely to be marked by civil strife than by intercultural harmony.
“Integration in France is not a matter of signing a paper,” translated by Walid Berksieh, AlModonOnline, November 23, 2020.
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French Police Investigate Suspicious ‘Allahu Akbar’ Letters Sent to Priests
French investigators in the department of Vaucluse have launched an inquiry after seven priests in the department received suspicious letters simply containing the words “Allahu Akbar.”
All seven priests received the hand-written letters on December 9th and reported the suspicious letters to the local police who have stated they are taking the matter very seriously.
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Today in “news that’s going to give conspiracy theorists a full-on stroke”…
It was announced this week that a “historic new partnership” between the Vatican and “some of the world’s largest investment and business leaders” called the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism” has officially launched. Oh, and did we mention it is being helped along by a member of the Rothschild family, Lynn Forester de Rothschild?
The “council” says its formation “signifies the urgency of joining moral and market imperatives to reform capitalism into a powerful force for the good of humanity”, according to a release published Tuesday.
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How Changing the Definition of Pandemic Altered Our World
Story at-a-glance:
Had it not been for the World Health Organization changing the definition of “pandemic,” COVID-19 would no longer be an issue. The WHO’s original definition of a pandemic specified simultaneous epidemics worldwide “with enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses”
This definition was changed in the month leading up to the 2009 swine flu pandemic. The WHO removed the severity and high mortality criteria, leaving the definition of a pandemic as “a worldwide epidemic of a disease”
This is how COVID-19 is still promoted as a pandemic even though it has caused no excess mortality in nine months
In 1976, fear of an impending swine flu pandemic led to the deployment of a fast-tracked vaccine that injured thousands and killed at least 300. In the end, the pandemic never materialized. The 1976 swine flu vaccine program has been cited as the origin of the anti-vaccine movement
Other hyped pandemics that were predicted to become global killers — but didn’t — include the 2005 bird flu outbreak and the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009, a vaccine for which caused narcolepsy in thousands of European children
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Tributes to slain teacher, Samuel Paty, have been marred by nearly 800 incidents ranging from threats to the outright justification of terrorism, the French education ministry has said.
The murder of the schoolteacher continues to send shockwaves through France. The killing that took place in mid-October has given rise to a whole series of disturbing incidents in various French education facilities throughout November, the nation’s education ministry revealed in a recent report.
Minutes of silence held in honor of the teacher were disrupted almost 800 times in various incidents in November, the report says. More than half of all cases took place during the initial commemorative ceremonies held on November 2 and 3.
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Hungary and Poland Claim Victory in Rule-of-Law Negotiations
Following crunch talks, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki celebrated what they said was a victory in negotations over the rule-of-law conditionarly mechanism, which both governments feared would give Brussels control over policies regarding migration, abortion rights, gender issues, judicial reform, and much more in member states.
Although the exact details of the agreement have not been finalized, Orban said that both Hungary and Poland had what they wanted.
“We’ve won. In a difficult period of pandemic, economic crisis, there’s no time to continue political and ideological debates that prevent us from acting,” said Orban.
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Hungarian Press Hails Joint Victory With Poland in Budget Over Rule-of-Law Battle
Hungary, Poland and the German presidency of the European Council have hammered out a compromise document in the two sides’ debate with regard to linking budget and recovery fund payments to rule of law conditions.
Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet, which has obtained the draft of the Hungarian-Polish-German agreement, claims it contains significantly more legal and less political criteria than a previous pact between the European Parliament and the German presidency.
A clause has been added to the rule-of-law regulation, which explicitly states that the possible withdrawal of resources can only happen on the basis of certain criteria.
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‘Last Minute’ Brexit Summit Fails to be Last Minute: No End of Talks in Sight
An “11th-hour” dinner meeting between Boris Johnson and EU boss Ursula von der Leyen trailed as the last-chance opportunity to get a Brexit deal turned out to be anything but, with both sides merely agreeing that talks could go on.
Crunch European Union talks have a long-held — and well deserved — reputation of going ‘to the wire’, with discussions frequently going on all-night until the very last possible moment to come to an agreement. Despite repeated — literally dozens — of imposed deadlines and warnings from both sides, Brexit negotiations seem perfectly likely to conform to that stereotype after a supposed crunch summit proved to be anything but.
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Macron on Turkey: Sovereignty of EU Nations Must be Defended
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on other European Union states upon arriving for an EU summit in Brussels to defend their sovereignty in the face of actions of Turkey.
EU states have repeatedly criticised Turkey over its attempts to unilaterally start oil drilling operations in Cyprus’ off-shore regions, which Ankara resumed in August 2020. Turkey insists that it has a right to survey for and extract resources in the area, which it deems as its Exclusive Economic Zone.
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Rising poverty in the UK is expected to get far worse due to economy-crippling policies billed as necessary to stop the spread of Covid-19, a new study has found, predicting that two million families will soon lack essentials.
More than a million households totalling 2.4 million people were destitute in the UK at some point over the course of 2019, the research, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), concluded. The sobering data marks a 35 percent rise in impoverished households compared with 2017. Some 550,000 children were deprived of basic necessities in 2019, a shocking increase of 54 percent when compared to figures from 2017.
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New Lithuanian Foreign Minister Wants Poland to Lead the Region
Gabrielius Landsbergis, the foreign minster nominee in the new cabinet of Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte, assured that Lithuania’s foreign policy would not change under the new government.
According to the new foreign minister, the principle of good neighborliness with Poland and the Baltic States will continue because the security of Lithuania depends on it as well as does close integration with the European Union and maintenance of strong transatlantic ties.
Landsbergis told Lithuanian public TV LRT that he wanted Poland to be the leader in the region, and sees it as “a strong influential country that contributes to the strengthening of the economic and military security”.
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New Year’s Peeve? France to Impose Nighttime Curfew on December 31
COVID-19 restrictions across France are to be lifted slower than anticipated because the number of cases remains too high, the French government confirmed on Thursday.
The country will lift its lockdown on December 15, meaning people no longer have to fill out a form to leave their homes.
But the confinement will be replaced by a nighttime curfew across France from 20:00 to 06:00 — an hour earlier than initially planned.
It will be lifted on December 24 but left in place on New Year’s Eve.
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Poll: Large Majority of Hungarians Reject Soros’ Proposal Urging EU to Sanction Hungary
Hungarian think tank Szazadvég’s new opinion poll whose results show that the vast majority of Hungarians reject George Soros’ proposal that Europe must stand up to Hungary and Poland and financially punish the two nations, which were suggestions featured in an article in the billionaire financier’s Open Society Foundation.
Based on the polling research, a majority of the respondents (52 percent) were aware that Soros had suggested in his article that Brussels take action against Hungary and Poland, while 47 percent had no knowledge of it.
According to the US billionaire’s interpretation, the rule of law mechanism in question is already in place, so the veto may result in the European Union’s budget expiring at the end of the year, but violators of the “rule-of-law” criteria will not be eligible for funding. The Hungarian and Polish governments fear that rule of law will be used by Brussels to abolish their national policies on immigration, abortion, traditional values, gender ideology, and a range of other conservative positions rejected by the liberals who dominate the European Union.
However, the survey highlights that nearly two-thirds of respondents (63 percent) believe that Hungary is a free, independent country that Brussels cannot punish, while only 27 percent say Hungary should be sanctioned for violating EU rules and principles.
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A 4-year-old boy in Italy tested positive for the coronavirus in November 2019, according to researchers.
The first reported case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China — the place of origin for the virus — was in December of last year. It was followed in February 2020 by the first official Italian case of the virus.
The COVID-19 infection was detected in a swab taken in early December 2019 from a 4-year-old boy who had developed cold and flu-like symptoms in November followed by a measles-like rash in early December.
A separate study shows that the virus may have been circulating in Italy as early as September 2019.
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UK Labour Party Calls on PM Boris Johnson to Censor Vaccine-Skeptic Conversations Online
The Labour Party wants Prime Minister Boris Johnson to introduce an emergency bill to address the spread of vaccine skeptic content on social media. The party argues that if people are allowed to make critical comments about the vaccine online, it could hamper vaccination efforts which have already started in the UK.
The shadow secretary for culture and media Jo Stevens said the government should introduce an emergency bill in the House of Commons that would force social media companies to promptly remove vaccine “misinformation” within a specified period. She suggested sanctions for the owners of the platforms if the content is not removed within the specified period.
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UK Labour Set Up Parliamentary Group With Far-Left Hope Not Hate
Over 30 Labour Party MPs have joined a new parliamentary group to “support and champion” the work of the far-left George Soros’ Open Society Foundations-cash recipient “anti-hate” group Hope not Hate.
The “Labour Hope not Hate Parliamentary Group” will be chaired by Barnsley East MP Stephanie Peacock, according to an announcement made by the far-left activist group on Twitter Tuesday.
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UK Requires ‘Resuscitation Facilities’ at Corona Vaccine Centres After Allergic Reactions
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) confirmed on Wednesday that it is deploying “resuscitation facilities” in coronavirus vaccination centres following the revelation that two healthcare workers suffered anaphylactoid reactions after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on the first day of rollout.
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UK: Boris Johnson Accused of Retreat on Terrorism as £400m Cut From Fight Against ISIS
Boris Johnson has been accused of making a “secret” retreat in the battle against terrorism.
It follows the revelation £400million is being slashed from a fund that tackles Isis extremism at its roots in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
The cut was buried in the recent Government spending review which boosts military spending by £16.5billion over four years and was hailed by the PM as ending “an era of retreat”.
But Labour ‘s Shadow Foreign Secretary, Lisa Nandy, says Mr Johnson’s boast masked the fact the Conflict Security and Stability Fund budget was being slashed from £1.2bn a year to £800m.
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UK: Police Claim Illegal Goodmayes Party Was ‘Celebrating Murder’
Police want Redbridge Council to revoke the licence of a shisha lounge after an illegal party where customers were allegedly celebrating the murder of an officer.
The owner of the Basement Shisha Lounge in Goodmayes Road, Goodmayes, was ordered to close for 20 days and fined £1,000 after a party for more than 70 people held on September 26.
Officers claimed they were barred from entering by hostile men and had a fire extinguisher sprayed at them when they tried to force their way in.
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Reports suggest that an app used prominently in the UK by people to book doctor and hospital appointments is to implement a vaccination status section that will show whether a person has taken the coronavirus jab or not, and that businesses may use it to refuse entry to those who have not.
The Daily Mirror reports that the ‘MyGP’ app, which is operated by a private company, not the government, will “add the feature which it says would allow pubs and theatres to bar entry to the unvaccinated.”
The app, which is described as “the UK’s largest independent GP booking and healthcare management app” will display a large green check mark (tick if you’re British) within the patient profile page, if a person has been vaccinated.
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Morocco, Israel Agree to Normalize Relations in Deal Brokered by U.S.
Morocco became the fourth country to join President Trump’s Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel, the president announced on Thursday.
To help broker the deal, the United States agreed to a foreign policy shift and will now formally recognize a territory called Western Sahara as belonging to Morocco. Previously, Spain controlled Western Sahara. Aside from the U.S., all Western nations formally recognize Spain as the owner of the territory.
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Haim Eshed, an 87-year-old retired Israeli general and current college professor, said that the governments of both the State of Israel and the United States of America have been in contact with alien lifeforms, but have not gone public because “humanity isn’t ready.”
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Airasia CEO: Asian Nations ‘Won’t Let Anyone in Without a Vaccination’
Yet another airline boss has said that it is fully expected that vaccination against coronavirus will become mandatory in order to travel.
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes told an aviation conference Wednesday that Asian countries may soon demand that anyone crossing their borders has received a Covid-19 jab.
“I foresee in Asia, anyway, I think they won’t let anyone in without a vaccination,” Fernandes said at the CAPA Centre for Aviation event.
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Christian Missionary Faces Charges for Floating Bibles by Balloons Into Atheist North Korea
After more than a decade of floating 30,000 Bibles a year into communist-controlled North Korea by balloons, Dr. Eric Foley and his Christian organization Voice of the Martyrs Korea has been informed he will soon be charged by South Korean officials for breaking the law.
The balloons, equipped with GPS technology that allows them to be tracked by the Christian team, have been a most effective means for smuggling Scripture into the dictatorship. In fact, it has been too effective, causing the North Korean government to pressure South Korea and threaten to ramp up military tensions if the Bible dropping did not stop.
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What if the China Virus Was Just a Warning Shot?
Exclusive: Joseph Farah identifies the epicenter of America’s year of crises: Beijing
I’ve been thinking.
Suppose the China virus wasn’t just a hideous accident. What if, instead, it was the equivalent of a military first strike, a sneak attack on America designed to rid the world of enemy No. 1, President Donald J. Trump?
That was, after all, the conclusion of at least one Chinese virologist, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, in a September interview with Tucker Carlson.
Meanwhile, in a threat assessment published last Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned that officials in China were engaged in a “massive influence campaign” which targeted U.S. lawmakers with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times that of Iran.
“This year China engaged in a massive influence campaign that included targeting several dozen members of Congress and congressional aides,” Ratcliffe wrote.
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Australian University Decides World Needs More Activist Climate Prosecutors
An Australian university is introducing the world’s first undergraduate degree in climate law, predicting a global surge in compensation demands, class actions, grievances, transnational U.N. enforcement and human rights litigation due to “changes in weather patterns.”
The Sydney Morning Herald reports Bond University dean of law, Professor Nick James, said he created the degree after empathizing with high school students worried about the impact of “climate change” on their futures.
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A Beijing-sponsored newspaper declared the only reason Chinese consumers bought Australian wine is because it’s ‘cheap’, and would now look to buy wine from Chile.
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A Chinese student who bought a Sydney mansion as a teenager has sold the seven-bedroom home for less than the initial $14 million asking price as she reportedly wants to downsize.
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Homegrown movie star Chris Hemsworth has revealed why he and a swathe of other Hollywood A-listers are ditching Los Angeles for Byron Bay.
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The idea of Universal basic income — which has critics and supporters on both sides of politics — was first discussed 500 years ago by English philosopher Thomas Moore in his book Utopia.
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An independent review commissioned by the ABC has found the broadcaster ‘favoured Labor’ and lacked conservative voices in some of their coverage leading up to the 2019 election.
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Netball Australia launched the review on how to improve the future and prospect of the game in a post Covid-19 world before releasing eight recommendations on Thursday.
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Czech Customs Officers Find Five Migrants in a Truck, Three of Which Had COVID-19
Five foreigners, including two Afghans and three Pakistanis, entered the Czech Republic illegally, and three of them have tested positive for coronavirus.
Without travel documents, hidden in a Romanian truck that brought goods from Turkey to the Czech Republic, they were discovered by customs officers, who also called the police for reinforcement.
“The goods were transported from the southwest of Turkey via Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia to the Czech Republic and were intended for a domestic consignee based in Nové Mesto nad Metuji,” said customs spokeswoman Jitka Fajstavrova, adding that the cargo space of the truck was secured with a thin cable and customs seal.
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German Pro-Migrant Group Claims Reporting on Arab and Middle-Eastern Clans is ‘Racist’
Germany’s Spiegel TV’s reporting on clan crime in the country has been deemed “racist” by a media group because it focused on Arab and Middle-Eastern criminal groups.
The New German Media Professionals awarded Spiegel TV the “Golden Potato” award for portraying migrants in a negative light, claiming there was too much focus on the groups according to German news outlet Junge Freiheit.
“The bottom line is that the reporting on organized crime in the German media and especially on Spiegel TV is distorted, stigmatized and racist,” the German pro-migrant media group stated.
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Germany: Muslim Migrant Hailed as ‘Model Refugee’ Murders Handicapped Man
Stand up and take a bow, Chancellor Merkel. My latest in FrontPage:
The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. The German-language news outlet Bild reported Monday that “the almost blind and handicapped ex-cook Helmut K. († 50) from Kaufbeuren made an appointment on the gay dating platform ‘Planet Romeo’ on March 14th at 4.30pm with the username wandalalaland.’“ Then “at 9:01 p.m., the heavy metal fan was tied up and gagged in his bedroom, which is above the popular escape room ‘Countdown,” and was “gagged so hard that he choked on his dentures.” Helmut K. ultimately died, and “the man whom prosecutor Andreas Slach suspects to be behind ‘wandalalaland’ is now sitting in the dock at the Kempten Regional Court.” The perpetrator is a Muslim migrant who once won praise as a “model refugee.”
The 29-year-old Karam A., according to Bild, “has lived as a model refugee in Kaufbeuren since 2015, but is said to have killed people in his home country of Syria, according to investigators.” Why was he let in to Germany if he had been known to have killed people in Syria, and if this was not known, why wasn’t he deported when it was discovered? Bild doesn’t bother to take up such questions.
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A London charity has been accused by the Greek government of funding human trafficking gangs who are smuggling migrants into Europe.
The Al-Khair Foundation, based in Croydon, south London, was accused of aiding the smugglers by Notis Mitarachi, the Greek minister for migration.
The charity has vehmently denied the claims against them.
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Migrants today broke into the back of lorry bound for England amid a chaotic day for French authorities who saved 31 from the waves in near-freezing conditions off Calais.
Young men wearing hoods and masks were seen busting open the back doors of a lorry waiting in a long line of freight traffic at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel site.
A group of about a dozen men were seen scurrying across the A16 and then trying to leap aboard the lorry, hurling cardboard boxes out onto the road to make room for themselves.
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Migrants Break Into Back of Lorry Headed for UK as French Rescue 31
Migrants today broke into the back of lorry bound for England amid a chaotic day for French authorities who saved 31 from the waves in near-freezing conditions off Calais.
Young men wearing hoods and masks were seen busting open the back doors of a lorry waiting in a long line of freight traffic at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel site.
A group of about a dozen men were seen scurrying across the A16 and then trying to leap aboard the lorry, hurling cardboard boxes out onto the road to make room for themselves.
Meanwhile 31, including two children, were rescued from the sea after they phoned for help from the French emergency services after trying to cross the world’s busiest shipping lane in three dinghies.
But another 27 migrants did make it to the UK today, detained by Border Force as they arrived in two small vessels in treacherous squally winter weather.
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Real-Life Nightmare for French Woman Attacked by Underage Migrant in Her Home
Back in January, a French violinist was attacked in her sleep by an underage migrant. Since then, she says she is afraid to sleep in her own bed, French daily Le Parisien reports.
On the night of the attack, Emma put violin and cello down in her living room and hung out a bit before going to bed around 1:00 a.m., according to her account to the French newspaper. Since she was tired, she forgot to lock the two doors of her apartment.
It is around 5:00 a.m. when Emma was awoken from her sleep by vibrations on the floor of her bedroom upstairs in her house in Brétigny-sur-Orge in the suburbs of Paris. She heard footsteps and thought they were her cat’s. But when she opened her eyes, she came face-to-face with a young man.
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Seven NGOs Are Coordinating With Human Traffickers to Smuggle Illegal Immigrants Into Greece
Seven non-government organizations have orchestrated with human traffickers to smuggle illegal immigrants into Greece, according to Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis.
The Greek minister told The Times that NGO’s from Somalia, Britain, Turkey and elsewhere assisted in the smuggling of illegal immigrants to Greece.
Mitarachi highlighted that the Norwegian non-governmental organization Aegean Boat Report, and the London-based Al-Khair Foundation assisted human traffickers.
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so Coonman will try to do what Gnusom in California is trying to do. Gnusom is not having much success as the Sheriffs in Orange and Riverside Counties have publicly stated that they will not enforce his edicts. Also, Contra Costa (if I am not mistaken) County’s Board of Supervisors has voted to ignore the edits altogether.
funny how demanding and tyrannical ‘liberals’ can be. weren’t they supposed to be the nice folks as opposed to those self-serving conservatives?
All readers to your collection of reproductions.
Verne Horace: “Arab holding the head of the slain” Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk
https://vsdn.ru/museum/catalogue/exhibit7728.htm
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Vasily Vereshchagin “After the Luck”
https://opisanie-kartin.com/opisanie-kartiny-vasiliya-vereshhagina-posle-udachi/
“After Success” is a vivid example of the military Turkestan theme of Vereshchagin, which depicts the soulless thugs of Asia assessing the head of a white man, separated from a bloody, beaten body.
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Vasily Vereshchagin “After the failure”
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8.jpg
Driver Plows Into Pedestrians in London
https://europe.infowars.com/driver-plows-into-pedestrians-in-london/
those freemasonic sponsored police protect the savages even after they have raped or murdered an indigenous white british human being.
Gates of Vienna readers can expect a news tip about a recent, disappointing Supreme Court decision. 🙁