British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen decided to extend what had been thought to be the absolutely final deadline for a Brexit agreement. Mr. Johnson said that the UK and the EU were still so far apart on some of the issues that they needed more time.
In other news, almost 20% of Seattle’s restaurants closed permanently during the first six months of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.
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33 Arrested, 4 Stabbed During MAGA March in DC: Cops
More than 30 people were arrested in the Washington, DC, protests over the weekend.
The arrests stemmed from clashes with cops, as well as incidents between supporters of President Trump and counter-protesters in the nation’s capital, authorities said.
The Metropolitan Police Department said 33 people were arrested on charges ranging from assaulting a cop to general assault, illegal weapons possession and resisting arrest.
Eight police officers were hurt while trying to quell the unrest, WTTG-TV reported.
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Chinese Spy Got Her Start as Cal State Student, Report Says
Christine Fang, the alleged Chinese political operative who gained influence among several California politicians, including Rep. Eric Swalwell, used her status as a California State University student to her advantage.
According to an Axios story published Monday, Fang enrolled as a California State University-East Bay student in 2011 — the same year she began her work as a political operative.
Fang reportedly utilized her positions as president of the school’s Chinese Student Association and president of the campus chapter of Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs as a means by which to gain political access, according to the report.
As a student, she was able to invite politicians and executives to campus as the leader of these organizations. Her first known contact with Swalwell reportedly occurred during this period.
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Exclusive: Antifa Militant Arrested Following Domestic Terrorism Investigation
Federal authorities have arrested and charged a militant Antifa activist following a months-long domestic terrorism investigation into the attempting bombing of an occupied Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Atlanta.
Richard Tyler Hunsinger, 28, was arrested early last month and charged with damaging or attempting to damage U.S. government property using fire, intimidation of a federal officer and depredation against U.S. property.
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Facebook Threatens Comedian JP Sears With Page Deletion
Comedian JP Sears has announced that his presence on Facebook may soon come to an end, having received a warning from the social media giant that his page is at risk of being “unpublished.”
Facebook said Sears was guilty of unspecified continued community standards violations. The comedian invited his followers to join him on Parler where he said he intends to continue to post uncensored.
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Gallup: Churchgoers Only U.S. Group That Avoided 2020 Mental Health Decline
According to a Gallup Poll released on Monday, frequent church attendees were the only group in the U.S. that did not experience a mental health decline in 2020.
Gallup has conducted its November Health and Healthcare Survey annually since 2001. The 2020 results show 34% of Americans consider their mental health “excellent,” and 76% consider their mental health “excellent/good,” both are all-time lows.
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Ghislaine Maxwell to Offer $30m Bail, Will Finally Admit She’s Married: Reports
Ghislaine Maxwell will propose a nearly $30 million bail package in hopes of getting sprung from a Brooklyn lockup — and will finally admit she’s a married woman, according to reports.
The accused Jeffrey Epstein madam is expected to go to court in the coming days in a bid to be freed before Christmas, the Telegraph first reported.
Roughly $25 million of the hefty package will be backed by Maxwell’s rumored husband, tech CEO Scott Borgerson — whose identity the British heiress refused to reveal at an initial bail hearing over the summer.
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Hunt Still on for Suspects in Ransacking of Chicago Stores
CHICAGO — The summer night when crowds descended on downtown Chicago, shattered store windows and poured inside the gaping holes to grab as much merchandise as they could carry away is a distant memory to many in the city.
Even as the coronavirus crisis, the presidential election and the city’s gun violence epidemic pushed other news aside, detectives and prosecutors kept at one of the biggest investigations in Chicago history to find and arrest those who from late Aug. 9 into the early hours of Aug. 10 turned block after block into the largest crime scene the nation’s third-largest city has ever seen.
Four months later, detectives on a special task force are still poring over thousands of hours of surveillance videos and running down the more than 1,100 tips they’ve received. They keep adding to the nearly 100 video clips they’ve posted online in the hopes someone might identify suspects. And they monitor online sales sites to see if someone suddenly has some Gucci bags or electronics for sale.
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Hunter Biden Failed to Disclose $400K in Burisma Income in 2014 Tax Return
Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, failed to disclose $400,000 in payments from Ukrainian energy company Burisma on his tax returns in 2014.
Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma from 2014 to 2019, while his father was finishing his second term as U.S. Vice President (2013-2017).
“In 2014 you joined the Burisma board and we still need to amend your 2014 returns to reflect the unreported Burisma income,” wrote Eric Schwerin, a business partner of Hunter Biden, in a 2017 email.
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According to a recent survey by the Washington Hospitality Association circulated to the press, around 2,400 restaurants and bars in the state closed permanently during the first six months that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the region. Of that total, around 624 closures were in Seattle alone, representing about 20 percent of all restaurants in the city based on early 2020 data. There were also 1,023 closures in King County out of an estimated 5,920 restaurants. And this could be just the tip of the iceberg.
Seattle was by far the hardest hit area of the state, but the numbers cited could be even higher, the industry group warns. The survey was conducted earlier this fall, and many more restaurants have decided to closeduring the latest restrictions implemented by Gov. Jay Inslee, with indoor service banned until at least January 4.
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NIH Director Begs Americans to Swallow Vaccine Skepticism as Bill Gates Eyes Unofficial Role
The director of the National Institutes of Health begged Americans to “hit the reset button” on their concerns over whether the COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed faster than any vaccine in the history of Western medicine, will be safe.
“I would like to plead to people who are listening to this this morning to really hit the reset button on whatever they think they knew about this vaccine that might cause them to be so skeptical,” Dr. Francis Collins told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
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NJ Gym Facing Over $1.2M Fines for Defying Lockdown Orders
The Atilis Gym in New Jersey is facing over $1.2 million in fines for defying Governor Phil Murphy’s coronavirus lockdown orders.
“Governor Murphy has thrown everything he possibly could to shut us down,” Atilis Gym co-owner Ian Smith said. “He has arrested my partner and [me], given us over 60 citations, some of them criminal. He fines us $15,497.76 per day for every day that we’re in operation … but every single day, [co-owner Frank Trumbetti] and I open our gym, and no less than 500 people come and work out…
“What’s happening to the middle class and small businesses in America is nothing short of a complete tragedy. I would go so far as to call it criminal. You are putting people out of business for good. You are making them reliant on big government. You are taking away their civil liberties under the guise of pretending like you care about public health.”
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Northwestern Wipes Ex-Lecturer From Website After Criticizing Jill Biden’s ‘Dr.’ Title
Northwestern University wiped one of its former lecturers from the school’s website after he penned a controversial Wall Street Journal editorial arguing First Lady-elect Jill Biden shouldn’t use the title of “Dr.” before her name.
Joseph Epstein had been listed as an “emeritus lecturer of English” on the school’s website earlier Saturday, but the page had vanished later in the day,journalist David Gura noted.
The college also issued a statement saying it “strongly disagrees” with Epstein, who argued Biden should drop the title as she’s not a medical doctor.
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Our Chinese Sister Cities: “Use the Countryside to Surround the City”
On November 17, four US Senators introduced legislation to investigate the “sister city” partnerships between communities in United States and China. According to Senator Marco Rubio:
“The Chinese government and Communist Party has a history of exploiting cultural and economic partnerships to conduct malign activities, and it’s clear that opaque, sister-city partnerships deserve increased scrutiny. We must do more to better understand, and then counter, Chinese influence operations at the state and local level, which are often conducted under the benign auspices of sister city relationships.”
In February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned:
“Chinese Communist Party officials… are cultivating relationships with county school board members and local politicians — often through what are known as sister cities programs… Last year, a high school — a high school, a high school in Chicago — disinvited a Taiwanese representative to serve on a climate panel after Chinese pressure.”
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Rantz: Seattle Police Face Critical Shortage as 33 More Officers Leave in Mass Exodus
The Seattle Police Department saw another 33 officers leave the force as the mass exodus continues, the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH has learned.
The newest data is the all-inclusive number from November and some days in December. Though we’re only a little over a week into December, the trend looks to be continuing.
There’s now growing alarm from command staff that Seattle doesn’t have nearly enough officers to keep citizens safe. If something doesn’t change soon, the situation will become critical.
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For YouTube creators, it’s bad enough to have their channels receive strikes or videos removed and being informed about it with a few generic sentences that don’t offer any useful explanation or justification. But what about being told that they can appeal the decision, be provided a link to do that — only to find out that “appealing this violation is not available”?
YouTuber Ben Burgis had this happen to him when a thumbnail to one of the videos published on his channel was removed for “sex and nudity” policy violation.
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YouTube Deletes Reposted Video of Michigan Democrat State Rep. Cynthia Johnson’s Threats of Violence
Democrat Michigan State Representative Cynthia Johnson posted a video on social media earlier in the week, appearing to make threats against who she referred to “Trumpers” that would be carried out by “soldiers.”
But an attempt by Tom Elliott, who owns Grabien Media, to repost this on YouTube ended up in Google’s video platform removing his video.
Johnson’s comments, that included her saying, “We ain’t playing with you” and “be careful” came amid the post-election controversy in the US over the regularity of the presidential vote, and was made in a tone and posture that caused the speaker of the Michigan House, Lee Chatfield, to issue a statement announcing that Johnson could be facing disciplinary action and has in the meanwhile been stripped of her committees.
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Bad Weather Continues to Sweep Italy
Red alert in Campania;orange in Veneto, Friuli, Umbria, Calabria
(ANSA) — ROME, DEC 9 — Bad weather is continuing to sweep Italy with torrential rain causing flooding in many parts.
There is a weather red alert in place Wednesday in Alto Adige and Campania.
An orange alert has been called in Basilicata, Calabria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Umbria and Veneto.
The alert level is yellow in Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Molise, Sardinia, Sicily and Tuscany.
In Friuli some 10,000 people are without electricity and many schools have been closed.
The railway through the Brenner Pass was interrupted again.
In Veneto there was a landslide on the Staulanza Pass and the town of Zoldano was cut off.
In Tuscany, state highway 12 was also hit by a mudslide and a 2.4km stretch of road was closed.
In Versilia on the Tuscan coast, the carcass of a wild boar was washed up on the shoreline, having drowned in recent floods.
Pelting rain also enlarged a sink hole at Giugliano near Naples.
A 20-metre tall pine tree was toppled by a gale in Rome, crushing an empty parked car with no one hurt.
In Venice, flood damage was said to be “immense” in St Mark’s Square.
The lagoon city’s MOSE flood-barrier system was lifted to protect the city on Wednesday after a miscalculation meant it was not raised in time to prevent flooding on Tuesday.
The system was not activated on Tuesday as the ‘acqua alta’ tide peak was not forecast to be as bad as it turned out to be.
MOSE takes some time to be activated and, by the time the authorities realised their forecasts were off the mark on Tuesday, it was too late.
Cinzia Zincone, the head of the public works department in the area, told ANSA on Wednesday that “we are trying to calibrate the opening and closing (of MOSE) in the best way”.
She said a meeting would be held later on Wednesday to “analyse what happened yesterday and, if necessary, make significant changes to the procedures applied up to now for MOSE”.
After some corruption scandals and many years of work and delays, the system finally came into use this year. It was not ready in time to stop the floods that devastated the city in 2019.
Zincone said the flood barriers would stay up for three days with more high tides forecast up until Friday.
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Elite English Girls’ School Goes Woke, Rewrites ‘White Western Narrative’ Of History Lessons
England’s elite, all-girls Roedean School is “decolonising” its history curriculum to take on the “white Western narrative” to appease the Black Lives Matter movement.
The clifftop school, founded in the 1800s as Wimbledon House, which charges pupils’ parents up to £40,000, will insert lessons on “black Tudors, Queen Victoria’s black goddaughter and how Africans helped to resist the slave trade” into its syllabus, accordingto The Times, as well as teaching its wards about the Song dynasty which reigned in China from 960 to 1279.
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EU Supertrawlers Ravage British Waters Ahead of Brexit, Kill Dolphins, Porpoises, Seals
A surge of industrial supertrawlers from the EU are devastating Britain’s territorial waters, including marine protected areas, as a ‘no-deal’ Brexit which would see the country reclaim its fisheries looms.
While Britain technically left the European Union at the beginning of 2020, it has for all practical purposes remained a member — minus its voting rights — during a year-long “transition” period in which a UK-EU trade agreement was supposed to be negotiated.
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EU: Terrorism-Related Posts Online Must be Deleted Within an Hour
Brussels (dpa) — Companies such as Facebook and Youtube will have to remove terrorist content within an hour of it being flagged — or risk massive fines, according to a new agreement reached by negotiators for EU institutions.
The European People’s Party — the largest group in the European Parliament, tweeted that a deal had been struck on Thursday.
“Ever since the Paris Attacks, we have been putting the security of Europeans at the top of the EU agenda. To protect our borders and prevent terrorism. Now we have added another piece to the puzzle: get terrorist content offline!”
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‘Final’ Deadline for Brexit Deal Extended Yet Again as Year End Looms
The British and European Union negotiating teams have agreed to push back the latest in a long line of “final” deadlines for a Brexit deal to be done yet again, with both European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and British prime minister Boris Johnson pledging to “go the extra mile”.
“As things stand, and this was basically what Ursula and I agreed, we are still very far apart on some key things,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Sky News.
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Germany Tightens COVID-19 Lockdown Rules Ahead of Christmas
Germany will close most of its shops Wednesday through the new year — bringing its Christmas shopping season to a halt in implementing tougher COVID-19 lockdown measures.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that nonessential stores will close until at least Jan. 10 as part of the nationwide lockdown.
“I would have wished for lighter measures. But due to Christmas shopping the number of social contacts has risen considerably,” Merkel told reporters.
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Italy: Virus Has Widened Gaps Between Rich and Poor — CENSIS
Italian system is like ‘square wheel’ says report
(ANSA) — ROME, DEC 4 — The gap between Italy’s rich and poor has widened further during the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual report of the CENSIS research agency said on Friday.
It said that there was a rise of 582,485 (22.8%) in the number of people on benefits between March and September 2020, while 1.46 million people have wealth of over $1 million (around 840,000 euros).
It said 40 of those people are billionaires, adding that the number of billionaires here and the total quantity of wealth they possess increased during the first wave of the pandemic.
CENSIS added that 90.2% of the Italian people it surveyed “are convinced the coronavirus emergency and the lockdown damaged the vulnerable more, amplifying existing social inequality”.
The report was critical of the way Italy is run at various levels.
“System Italy is a square wheel that does not roll,” it read.
“It struggles to move forward, splitting every rotation into four parts with a huge effort for every quarter turn made.
“The virus hit a society that was already tired”.
The report said the results of the use of distance learning in Italy during the pandemic have been disappointing.
It reported that almost three-quarters of school principals said distance learning has increased learning gaps between pupils.
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Italy: COVID: 18,727 New Cases, 761 Deaths in 24 Hours
Infections up but fatalities down says health ministry
(ANSA) — ROME, DEC 11 — The health ministry said Friday that 18,727 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Italy in the last 24 hours and 761 coronavirus sufferers have died.
That compares to 16,999 new cases and 887 deaths on Thursday.
Italy’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 63,387 while a total of 1,805,873 cases have been registered here.
The ministry said 190,416 swabs had been taken in the last 24 hours, up by almost 20,000 on Thursday.
It said the ratio of positive tests was 9.8%, stable with respect to Thursday’s rate of 9.9%.
It said 3,265 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care, down 26 on Thursday.
The ministry said 28,562 coronavirus sufferers were being treated in other hospital departments, down 526 on Thursday.
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Poland Becomes EU El Dorado for Jobs
Just 10 years ago, Poland was responsible for 3.3 percent of the EU’s GDP. Today, that figure is close to 4 percent, meaning Poland is growing faster than most of the EU and catching up fast with the older member states.
Apart from the smallest countries of Malta and Luxembourg, Poland is the only country in the EU where employment actually increased (by 0.5 percent) in the third quarter of this year, and it also recorded a relatively low drop in GDP versus last year.
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Police Break Up Illegal Parties in Noord-Brabant and Noord-Holland
Police in Rosmalen in Noord-Brabant put an end to an illegal party in the night from Saturday to Sunday. The organizers were arrested. Elsewhere, in Noord-Holland, police also ended a party.
More than fifteen visitors were present at the party in Rosmalen, who did not adhere to corona measures. All partygoers received a fine, after which they left quietly.
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Politicians Listen to Feedback on Twitter But Twitter Bubbles Almost Never Represent Wider Community
A handful of Twitter users can make so much noise on public debates that they influence real-world decisions, according to Jimmy Tidey, an expert in Twitter tribes and social media analysis. While Twitter is a tool that leaders can use to know people’s views on important issues, they should realize that Twitter users do not usually represent the larger community.
Tidey’s latest research involved Twitter and the controversial public debate in London about low traffic neighborhoods (LTNs). Using graphics, the social media expert analyzed how a small group of Twitter users can influence others, including local governments, that their views are the majority’s views when they’re actually in the minority.
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UK Police Admit Mistake in Shutting Down Online Church Broadcast
A church operating in the UK has had its online broadcast disrupted by the police and its leader threatened with legal action for allegedly violating coronavirus rules — that apparently also prohibit playing music loudly.
But in the end, Thames Valley Police was forced to apologize for what its chief superintendent called “a mistake” and a failure of his officers to properly understand the regulations governing the work of online churches during the pandemic.
The incident happened on November 20, as the Kingdom Faith Ministries International Church was broadcasting its service from Milton Keynes. This was necessary since churches in the UK have been effectively closed by the government which is prohibiting believers from physically gathering.
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UK: More £10,000 Fines Issued After Two Huge Northampton House Parties
Police have handed out more £10,000 fines after breaking up two house parties in Northampton this morning (Sunday).
In total between 150 and 200 people attended the separate parties, with a live DJ performing at one of them.
More than a dozen police officers wearing bodyworn video were deployed after reports of a house party in Forfar Street, St James, at around midnight.
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UK: Police to Fine Seven Men Who Travel From Tier 3 Into Tier 2 Rutland to Eat and Drink
Police are handing out Covid-19 fines to seven men after they left a Tier 3 area to eat and drink in a Tier 2 restaurant.
Leicestershire Police are fining the diners who were at a business in Rutland — and not keeping a low profile.
The party were causing ‘strife’ say officers and later found to have drugs on them.
They are also referring the restaurant, which they have not named, to trading standards officials over the incident.
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Woman Badly Beaten by Masked Men in Swedish No-Go Zone
A woman was hospitalised after a vicious beating by a group of masked men in one of Sweden’s so-called “vulnerable” areas, or no-go zones, while out with friends.
The woman, who was accompanied by two of her friends, was out walking in the area of Norrby when several masked men approached them in a car, got out of the vehicle, and began to chase them.
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Pakistan: Christian Girl Killed for Rejecting Marriage Proposal of Muslim Man
ISLAMABAD: A Christian girl was reported to have been killed in Rawalpindi after her parents rejected a marriage proposal sent by a Muslim man, named Shehzad.
Officers from the Koral Police Station claimed on Sunday to have arrested an accused named Faizan, whereas raids were being carried out to arrest the prime suspect, Shehzad.
[Comment: Article dated December 6, 2020.]
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Leak Confirmed: Chinese Communists Have Infiltrated Top Companies, Governments, In US, UK, Australia
Multiple top international news outlets confirm that a list of 1.95 million Chinese Communist Party members has been leaked, and in it are the names of potentially thousands of individuals who live and work in the West, including at major financial institutions, medical research and pharmaceutical companies, and foreign governments.
A document containing 1.95 million names of CCP members was provided to The Daily Mail in the United Kingdom, The Australian in Australia, De Standaard in Belgium, and a yet unnamed Swedish editor, who apparently has not published the story. Inside the list are potentially thousands of names of CCP members who have infiltrated top corporations and high levels of government across the West.
According to The Australian journalist Sharri Markson, “Some of its members — who swear a solemn oath to ‘guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life…and never betray the Party’ — are understood to have secured jobs in British consulates.”
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Leak: Chinese Communist Party Members Employed at Boeing, HSBC, Airbus, Pfizer, Astrazeneca, More
Multiple international news outlet today have confirmed the existence of a list of nearly 2 million Chinese Communist Party members that contains many hundreds of thousands of names of individuals who live and work in the West, including at top defense contractors, medical research and supply companies, financial institutions, and other critical roles throughout the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
In the United Kingdom, and potentially the United States, The Daily Mail confirmed that Rolls Royce, HSBC, Jaguar Land Rover, Boeing, Airbus, French defense contractor Thales, HSBC, Standard Chartere, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline all employ members of the CCP.
Meanwhile, The Australian confirmed that the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), the second largest bank in Australia, has at least 23 CCP employees.
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The unprecedented leak, believed to be the first of its kind, has revealed how Beijing’s influence has stretched into every corner of Western governments, defence firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants.
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Beijing’s decision to slap tariffs on Aussie wine and barley and block several other exports including wood, coal and seafood has badly affected some producers. But mining companies are thriving.
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The supermarket chain is supporting domestic fishers who have been impacted by the Chinese government’s ban on live lobster imports — and it’s good news for your bank balance.
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He was just under stress, you greasy Islamophobe. It could happen to anyone. It won’t happen again. It couldn’t possibly happen again, right? All will be well and all manner of thing shall be well. Go back to sleep.
“Saint-Leu-la-Forêt: the Chechen student changed to defending terrorism,” translated from “Saint-Leu-la-Forêt : l’étudiant tchétchène avait basculé dans l’apologie du terrorisme,” by Frédéric Naizot, Le Parisien, December 10, 2020 (thanks to Mason):
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Italy: Judge Gives Residency to Migrant Who Set Village on Fire, Killing Multiple People
A judge has granted humanitarian residency to a Gambian migrant who admitted to having started fires in his native village, killing several people.
The migrant arrived in Italy in 2016 but was initially denied asylum by the Bologna Territorial Commission in September of 2018. He then appealed the decision to the Bologna court, which granted him a residency permit on humanitarian grounds late last month.
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Swedish Politician: Only 68 of 7,000 ‘High School Amnesty’ Migrants Have Jobs
Swedish Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali has claimed that of 7,000 Afghan “high school amnesty” migrants in Sweden, just 68 have full-time work.
Bali, a noted critic of mass migration, pushed back against those who support the so-called “high school amnesty” for around 7,000 Afghan migrants that was passed in 2018 despite indications that 78 per cent of the supposedly underage migrants eligible were actually adults.
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Tulsi Gabbard Rips Critics Calling Her ‘Transphobic’ Amid Congressional Exit
Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard hit back at critics of legislation she’s introduced to prevent transgender women from competing in female sports and for the care of infant survivors of late-term abortion, calling them “hypocrites.”
A number of people called Gabbard, who leaves Congress this month, “transphobic” and a “right wing s—t heel” on Twitter, among other invectives.
“I welcome real criticism and debate,” Gabbard (D-Hawaii) told The Post Saturday. “But my so-called critics don’t want to debate the issues. They just want to engage in smears and slurs and name-calling and innuendo.”
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As much as I disagree with Congresswoman Gabbard on many issues, she is still a patriot and a veteran. The fascists don’t deserve someone like her to belong to their party.
French language news round up —
182 police officers from the Isère department asked to leave the police. Further resignations could follow throughout France. A symbolic or serious gesture?
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/14/un-tiers-des-policiers-du-departement-de-lisere-demandent-une-rupture-conventionnelle/
Le Havre: 3 young boys assaulted in the middle of the street with a shard of bottle by a Somali migrant, who would not have appreciated their “insistent look”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/14/le-havre-3-jeunes-garcons-agresses-en-pleine-rue-avec-un-tesson-de-bouteille-par-un-somalien-de-26-ans-qui-naurait-pas-apprecie-leur-regard-insistant/
Law: Migration courses open in universities. “40% of administrative law activity concerns foreigners”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/droit-des-cursus-migrations-ouvrent-dans-les-universites-40-de-lactivite-du-droit-administratif-concerne-les-etrangers/
Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (40): women call police officers “dirty whites” after trying to hit them with their car
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/saint-paul-les-dax-40-elles-traitent-les-policiers-de-sales-blancs-apres-avoir-essaye-de-les-percuter-avec-leur-voiture/
Bordeaux: a 21-year-old “young person”, wanted for brandishing a knife and assaulting passengers on a train, arrested after a series of thefts and assaults
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/bordeaux-un-jeune-de-21-ans-recherche-pour-avoir-brandi-un-couteau-et-agresse-les-passagers-dun-train-interpelle-apres-une-serie-de-vols-et-dagressions/
Clermont-Ferrand: an Algerian tried for beating and raping a young woman and sexually assaulting two others
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/clermont-ferrand-un-algerien-juge-pour-avoir-tabasse-et-viole-une-jeune-femme-et-en-avoir-agresse-sexuellement-deux-autres/
Belgium: Flanders wants to investigate the wealth of Moroccans receiving social housing
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/la-belgique-veut-enqueter-sur-le-patrimoine-des-mre-locataires-sociaux/
Switzerland: accused of a multitude of offences, including rape, an Algerian claims to be the victim of a conspiracy
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/suisse-accuse-dune-multitude-dinfractions-dont-des-viols-un-algerien-se-declare-victime-dun-complot/
Didier Leschi: “The main illegal entry route into France is the short-stay visa. France delivers hundreds of thousands of them to people who do not leave afterwards, between 300 and 500,000 per year for Algeria”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/12/didier-leschi-la-principale-voie-dentree-illegale-en-france-est-le-visa-de-court-sejour-la-france-en-delivre-des-centaines-de-milliers-a-des-gens-qui-ne-repartent-pas-ensuite-entre-300-et-500/
Strasbourg: a police office attacked with Molotov cocktails, a dozen police officers targeted by mortar fire
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/11/strasbourg-un-bureau-de-police-attaque-aux-cocktails-molotov-une-dizaine-de-policiers-vises-par-des-tirs-de-mortiers-1-policier-blesse/
Deauville: The man “of North African origin” in a state of reoffending had tried to abduct a young girl. Absent from court, he faced 10 years in prison, he is sentenced to 6 months
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/12/deauville-lauteur-presume-dune-tentative-denlevement-de-mineure-est-remis-en-liberte/
Paris: The (forbidden) demonstration against the “Global Security” law joined in its 3rd week by Muslim associations denouncing Islamophobia (direct video)
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/12/paris-la-manif-interdite-contre-la-loi-securite-globale-rejointe-dans-sa-3eme-semaine-par-des-associations-musulmanes-denoncant-lislamophobie-direct-video/
Paris: at the call of associations, illegal migrants ask for the requisition of empty buildings
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/12/paris-a-lappel-dassociations-des-sans-papiers-et-des-mal-loges-demandent-la-requisition-dimmeubles-vides/
Radicalization: Jewish personalities are worried about reports and legal proceedings against Muslim children (Update: development of a rabbi who refused to sign the tribune)
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/12/radicalisation-des-personnalites-juives-sinquietent-des-signalements-et-des-poursuites-judiciaires-contre-des-enfants-musulmans/
Bobigny (93): social workers in the service of foreign minors threatened with death and accused of “racism” by the migrants they care for
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/12/seine-saint-denis-les-travailleurs-sociaux-du-service-des-mineurs-etrangers-menaces-de-mort-par-les-migrants-dont-ils-soccupent-vous-allez-tous-bruler-en-enfer-ils-font-valoir-leur-droit-de/
Brussels: a humanitarian association asks for the expulsion of 180 to 200 migrants squatting its premises to finalize its sale to a real estate developer
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/bruxelles-une-association-humanitaire-demande-lexpulsion-de-180-a-200-migrants-squattant-son-local-pour-finaliser-sa-vente-a-un-promoteur-immobilier/
Brest: a migrant banned from staying in the territory, whose sole purpose in France is to have surgery, convicted of violence
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/13/brest-un-migrant-interdit-de-sejour-sur-le-territoire-ayant-pour-seul-but-en-france-de-se-faire-operer-condamne-pour-violences/
Pakistani man in Athens held two minors captive, gave them drugs and sexually assaulted them
https://www.google.com/amp/s/greekcitytimes.com/2020/12/15/pakistani-athens-held-two-minors/%3famp
Muslim convert, 30, who stabbed prayer leader in the neck at London mosque is jailed for seven years after asking to be sent to prison so he could learn the Quran ‘from start to finish’
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9051963/amp/Muslim-convert-30-stabbed-prayer-leader-London-mosque-jailed-seven-years.html