New York Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened to shut down indoor restaurant dining again if hospitalizations for the Wuhan Coronavirus continue to increase. Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors in Campbell County, Virginia voted to declare the county a First Amendment sanctuary, and ordered the sheriff’s department not to enforce Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam’s latest lockdown edicts.
In other news, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading off to Brussels for the final, honest-this-is-the-last, I-swear-there-won’t-be-any-more round of talks before a clean Brexit.
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OECD: Czech Economy Will Return to Pre-Crisis Levels in Two Years
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expects the Czech economic recovery to be slow and to reach pre-crisis levels by the end of 2022, stated the Secretary-General Ángel Gurria during a regular presentation evaluating the Czech economy.
In early December, the OECD said that the Czech economy would fall by 6.8 percent this year due to the spread of coronavirus. Next year, gross domestic product (GDP) should increase by 1.5 percent, and in 2022 its growth should accelerate to 3.3 percent.
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“I’m Not an A**hole, The Governor is”: CA Chef Blasts Gov. Newsom’s Outdoor Dining Ban
Citing a lack of scientific evidence linking the spread of COVID-19 to outdoor dining, Chef Andrew Gruel blasted California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent ban on the practice, saying that he will keep his Los Angeles eateries, Slapfish and Big Parm, open.
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40 Shot, 6 Killed, During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
Forty people were shot, six fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
On December 6, 2020, Breitbart News reported that the weekend unfolded with 30 people shot Friday into Sunday morning alone. Four of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
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Actress Letitia Wright has decided to “cancel herself” on Twitter after facing outrage on this social media platform for sharing a video that is said to be “problematic” for multiple reasons, being interpreted as anti-vaxx and transphobic, among other things.
Wright, who rose to fame thanks to her role in the movie Black Panther, deleted her Twitter account after coming under fire from angry Twitter users but also, it seems, from some fellow actors of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.
In the end, the pile-on appeared to be too much for Wright who tried to fight back but eventually left the social network that has become the prime tool and weapon used by those out to administer cancelations against those they disagree with.
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After Deep State Sabotaged Bernie Sanders, He Now Mocks Those Who Believe it Exists: Greenwald
At what would be the peak of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, the U.S. intelligence community, using anonymous leaks to The Washington Post, dropped a devastating bomb on the Vermont Senator. “U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest,” the paper announced, citing “people familiar with the matter” whom the paper allowed to speak “on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.”
At the time of this perfectly timed leak, Sanders was on a major roll. He had effectively tied Pete Buttigieg for first place in the scandal-plagued Iowa caucus, in which an app developed and sold by Democratic Party operatives made it impossible to reliably count the votes, and then won the first primary in New Hampshire (Joe Biden finished fourth and fifth, respectively, declared all but dead by the punditocracy and Democratic donors).
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Americans’ Mental Health Rating Falls to 20-Year Low
The number of Americans who rate their mental health positively has dropped nine points in the last year, falling to its lowest point in two decades according to new poll results released Monday by Gallup.
The poll showed 76% of American adults say they have healthy mental and emotional wellbeing, compared to 85% in 2019. Only 34% of respondents said their mental health was “excellent,” down from 42% last year. Eighteen percent said their mental health is “fair,” while 5% said it was “poor.”
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American Pipeline Opponents Charged With Terrorism After Tampering With Railway
Two American women who allegedly tried to tamper with rail tracks in opposition to the BC Coastal Gaslink LNG pipeline have been arrested on terrorism charges.
According to Seattle police, the two were attempting to destroy train tracks that connect BC with the state of Washington.
27-year-old Samantha Frances Brooks, and 23-year-old Ellen Brennan Reiche of Bellingham, WA, are being charged for allegedly tampering with electrical train signaling systems through the use of shunts. Shunts are a kind of wire that when placed on train tracks it tricks the signalling system to think there’s an incoming train.
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Chicago City Council Member Accused of Running ‘COVID Speakeasy’ At His Dine-in Restaurant
As Chicago slaps restaurants with fines and shutdowns for violating Democratic Gov. Pritzker’s order against dine-in eating, Chicago City Council Alderman Tom Tunney (D) has been accused of running a “COVID speakeasy” after photos emerged on a local blog of people eating inside one of his three restaurants.
According to Second City Cop — a blog devoted to police issues, a tipster sent photos of themselves dining in at Tunney’s restaurant, Ann Sather. The photo includes a placemat menu for the restaurant, a copy of the New York Times from December 3, and clearly shows people dining in.
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Church That is Home to New York’s Liberty Bell Destroyed by Fire
The church that houses New York’s Liberty Bell has been destroyed by an inferno that began in a vacant building next door.
At 128 years old, Middle Collegiate Church in New York City’s East Village is one of the city’s oldest. It is home to a woman’s shelter in addition to the state’s Liberty Bell. The bell was rung in the city originally in 1776 to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and, unlike its namesake in Philadelphia, is still rung to celebrate each inauguration and commemorate the death of every U.S. president.
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Columbia University in New York City failed to disclose a $1 million gift from the Communist Party of China (CCP) for its Confucius Institute, according to a new report by the Washington Free Beacon.
Columbia reached an agreement with Hanban, a CCP-controlled organization that manages the Confucius Institute, in 2010 and received the funds over the following five years.
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Cuomo Threatens to Shutdown NYC Indoor Dining Again if COVID-19 Hospitalizations Keep Rising
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he would severely restrict or ban indoor dining in New York City again if area hospitalizations due to COVID-19 did not stabilize.
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Dan Rather Creates Graphic Novel to Unite Us
In March 2019, First Second Books launched a new line of political graphic novels, World Citizen Comics, to bring in names such as Dan Rather, Seth Abramson, Jennifer L. Pozner, and more.
Two years later, Dan Rather’s book is being published in February, a graphic novel adaptation of his collection of essays, What Unites Us: Reflections Of Patriotism, by Elliot Kirschner and adapted by Tim Foley.
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Dramatic Video Shows Bomb Attack on Michigan Trump Supporter’s House
A Michigan homeowner says he was targeted in a middle of the night bomb attack which left a hole in his living room likely because he is a well-known Trump supporter. He also has multiple pro-Trump signs and banners on his front yard.
Police and media have interviewed the St. Clair Shores resident, just outside of Detroit, after the bombing was caught on tape. He wishes to remain anonymous for fear of further reprisal as police investigate.
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A former researcher for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has pleaded guilty in federal court to lying to customs officers about smuggling cancer research to China.
In December 2019, Zaosong Zheng allegedly stole 21 vials of biological research and attempted to smuggle them out of the United States aboard a flight destined for China. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, customs officers found the vials hidden in a sock inside one of Zheng’s bags, without being properly stored.
Zheng initially lied to officers about the contents of his bags, but later admitted to stealing the vials from Beth Israel, which is affiliated with Harvard University.
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Georgia Sheriffs Offer Help Investigating Claims of Voter Fraud
Georgia sheriffs have stepped forward to offer help investigating claims of voter fraud in the state, which has been caught up in several controversies over the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election.
In a post on Facebook, Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said he and other sheriffs are ready to offer the support of their offices’ investigators to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. His office claims it is looking into more than 200 alleged incidents of voter fraud across the state.
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Giuliani Hospitalized After Testing Positive for Coronavirus
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and the face of his longshot legal challenges to overturn the presidential election results, has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19.
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Liberal Santa Claus Makes Kid Cry by Refusing to Give Him a Nerf Gun for Christmas
A viral video shows a liberal pro-gun control Santa Claus making a small child cry by refusing to give him a toy nerf gun for Christmas.
The boy asks Santa for a nerf gun, to which he responds, “No, no guns.”
The boy’s mother then tries to interject by clarifying, “A nerf gun.”
“No, not even a nerf gun,” replies Santa.
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Matthew McConaughey Savaged by Woke Idiots for Daring to Say Liberals Are “Condescending”
Actor Matthew McConaughey was savaged by woke idiots on Twitter merely for daring to say that Hollywood liberals “condescend” to and “patronize” conservatives.
McConaughey, who describes himself politically as an “aggressive centrist,” made the comments during an appearance on Russell Brand’s podcast.
Brand asked McConaughey if he thought there was a pattern of “condemnation and criticism of ordinary working people” in the entertainment industry when it came to political issues.
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Missing Spook and Vaccination Cards. Is the CIA Director MIA and Has the Government Lost Its Mind?
As America waits for 538 Electoral College members to meet on December 14, heartlanders held heated discussions on the fringe and more curious elements of Election 2020. On the tips of tongues is the absence of top spook CIA Director Gina Haspel and how the government will be tracking people who receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Ghosting Of America’s Top Spook
Gina Haspel is cloistered somewhere in the big bad world, and no one seems to have seen her in weeks. That being said, who knows if she’s lounging on the beach, pina colada in hand, trying to forget the weirdest year on record for an entire planet, or holed up in a CIA black site. Yes, the chatter varies that much. But the inconvenient fact of missing the latest intelligence briefing has tongues wagging and folks wondering, where is Miss Gina?
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Oregon Doctor Who Discouraged Face Coverings at ‘Stop the Steal’ Rally Has His License Revoked
The Oregon Medical Board has indefinitely revoked a doctor’s license after finding that he and his staff refused to wear face coverings during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and encouraged patients visiting his clinic to remove theirs, concluding he is “a serious danger” to public health.
The panel voted on Thursday to issue an emergency suspension, determining that Dr. Steven LaTulippe “engaged in unprofessional conduct or dishonorable conduct.”
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Pandemic Lie #1: COVID-19 is a Global Pandemic
False!
Due to the rapid abuse of American freedoms and laws caused by the Covid pandemic, along with the open public sources of information which detail the plans of a pre-planned pandemic (click on The Great Reset (Agenda 2030) at the top of the page for more details or click here to read the Federal 2012 German Pandemic, starting on page 55, that proves this pandemic already had a blueprint in place), I have concluded that there is a 99.99% probability that this pandemic has nothing to do with a virus, but everything to do with restructuring and globalizing world governments…
Though CDC is a puppet on the strings for our corrupt politicians and will create conflicting reports concerning this pandemic (example, reversing their long-held and scientific-backed stance that face masks do not stop the spread of Covid-19), the CDC is not hiking up the data beyond what they receive from doctors and hospitals. But, this is where the fraud comes in by CDC. They have initiated unsettling regulations which allows for gross error on the positive cases that are reported, such as allowing hospitals and doctors to report Covid-19 patients and deaths based only on symptoms and not actual affirmation that the patient was ill with Covid-19, or that a patient actually died from Covid-19 and not another underlying medical condition. Since flu and other respiratory illnesses have similar symptoms it is easy for doctors to misdiagnose and report patients with influenza or colds or pnuemonia as having Covid-19. These unethical tactics are not an American thing. Similar fraud is occurring worldwide by health organizations in other nations too. Another sinful action by CDC to exploit this pandemic is their recent ploy to stop tracking flu data for the 20/21 influenza season!
And yet, despite CDC’s nefarious actions to misconstrue this mild virus out of proportion, their data shows total recovery and mortality rates still remain low. If we were in a real pandemic, these numbers would not be low, especially on their mortality surveillance graph. As well, CDC has not switched their previous narrative that 2019-nCoV is a mild virus, is similar to the flu, spreads like the flu, most people recover at home, elderly folk are at higher risk, and the majority of deaths are those aged 85 years or older. The globalists running our government, along with their controlled media goons, manipulates the masses away from CDC’s recovery/mortality rate data and only rattles on about the new number of cases, which is derived from faulty PCR and Antibody tests, and include all peoples who are asymptomatic (those who are not sick, have no present symptoms, and are not contagious). Unfortunately, the majority of people will choose to plop in front of the television and believe the fear-mongering tales that ‘millions are going to die,’ rather than look up the actual data online, which completely contradicts those media lies…
Pandemic Lie #2: The PCR and Covid Antibody (Nasal Swabbing) Tests used to Detect SARS-2-CoV are Reliable and Prove a Person has Covid-19
False!
The PCR and Nasal Swabbing tests do not prove anyone has the 2019-nCoV virus, and that is the great ruse with which our government is fooling the people into accepting this fake pandemic. Those in power know they can keep this pandemic alive by convincing the population the cases are legitimate, when in fact, they are flawed. First, let’s talk about the RT-PCR tests (Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Test). This test should never be used to diagnose Covid-19 because the PCR test was never developed to be used as diagnostic tool for any whole virus. The inventor of the PCR test, Dr. Kary Mullis (who unexpectedly died right before the pandemic started), also never intended his PCR discovery to be used to identify a virus. It was only supposed to be used to detect segments of nucleic acid, just tiny bits or pieces of viral particles, not the virus as a whole. This means the PCR test does NOT detect the 2019-nCoV strain, only fragments of ‘a coronavirus’ from any of the coronavirus family. Therefore, for example, if the PCR test is done on an immune person the results will come back positive because the PCR test amplifies that small fragmented genetic material enough to bring a positive result. A fragmented piece of the viral genome is detected, not the actual 2019-nCoV virus, and this explains why the PCR test does not accurately detect or identify the 2019-nCoV virus, and why the PCR test will show positive almost 100% of the time.
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‘They’re coming after all of us’ as Democrats push ‘concentration camps’ to ‘deprogram’ Republicans
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President Trump: Take Kraken to the American People Live on TV
As someone who has been exposing electronic vote fraud in all forms since 1993, to say this is the most in-your-face, massive proven vote fraud I’ve ever seen in my life to cheat President Trump out of a second term is the understatement of the century.
I knew who Sidney Powell was before she began fighting the steal because of her representation of Gen. Michael Flynn. I had also read her book, Licensed to Lie which is also available on audio, exposing the rot and corruption inside the Federal Department of Justice.
If President Trump really wants to clean out the FBI and DOJ, the only two people he should consider is Dr. Edwin Vieira to replace Bagpipe Bill Barr and Sidney Powell as the new Director of the FBI. The American people are fed up with no one ever held accountable. The ring leaders simply leave the CIA, the WH, DOJ & FBI and go on to fat fees for speaking appearances and very lucrative book deals. They are rewarded for their treachery and crimes.
There would be indictments under Edwin and Ms. Powell. Mark my words: Those two uber qualified patriotic Americans have the courage and will not back down.
When Ms. Powell said last month, the Kraken has been released, it ignited a raging inferno across the Internet and some talk radio shows. Ms. Powell has remarked on several occasions that when she says something, she means it. So, when she elaborated on a raid that took place in Frankfort, Germany where servers had been seized, I was shocked.
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On Friday, Kristina Karamo, host of the Kristina Karamo Project, Dr. Linda Lee Tarver a 29-year former Secretary of State election integrity liaison, and Angelic Johnson, went to Lansing, Michigan to put Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on notice after it was discovered by Phil Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, that Benson had given the far-left Rock The Vote group full “front door access” to Michigan voter rolls.
According to Karamo, the information provided to Rock The Vote, a far-left activist group that identifies as “non-partisan,” included sensitive data like social security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and eye color of Michigan residents. According to Amistad’s Phil Kline, Rock the Vote was also given the ability to add names to the MI voter rolls.
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San Diego Schools Forcing Teachers to Take “White Privilege” Training
According to leaked documents obtained by independent journalist Christopher F. Rufo, San Diego Unified School District is forcing teachers to take “white privilege” training in order to become sensitive to their unconscious bias.
The report says that as part of the training, teachers are forced to acknowledge they are living on stolen land that rightfully belongs to Native Americans. The sessions also feature clips of provocative race authors Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” and Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How to be an Antiracist.”
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Sidney Powell Suspects CIA Helped Rig the Election
Sidney Powell began this interview with former Governor Huckabee by asking about her statement that Georgians shouldn’t vote for the two senators if the governor doesn’t ask for a special session of the legislature. She explained that wasn’t what they meant. They were just making a point.
They discussed the hundreds of affidavits in support of her cases of voter fraud. She suspects the CIA is involved in rigging this election.
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Sidney Powell to Appeal Dismissal of Georgia Lawsuit
Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The legal team led by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell will appeal the dismissal of the election lawsuit tossed by a federal judge on Monday.
Powell told The Epoch Times in an email that they “will proceed as fast as possible to the Supreme Court.”
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten dismissed Powell’s lawsuit on Dec. 7, opining that the plaintiffs have no standing to sue, should have brought the lawsuit to a state court, and had filed the case too late.
“There’s no question that Georgia has a statute that explicitly directs that elections contests be filed in Georgia Superior Court,” Batten, an appointee of President George Bush, said in explaining his decision following an hour of oral arguments in court on Monday. “They are state elections. State courts should evaluate these proceedings from start to finish.”
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The Federalist Destroys Attempted Debunking of Late-Night Ballot Malarkey in Georgia
After explosive video was presented during a Georgia state Senate hearing which clearly shows a handful of election workers in Atlanta waiting for observers and the press to leave, before producing several containers of ballots for a late-night vote-counting party, a group called Lead Stories published a “hoax alert” which falsely claims to have debunked the footage.
The “hoax alert” was peddled by the Washington Post, Newsweek and others — and among other things states that government officials told them that the ballots were in “containers — not suitcases,” and that “party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night.”
Nevermind the fact that Lead Stories breathlessly believes claims made by government officials — The Federalist‘s Mollie Hemingway just obliterated the entire ‘fact check,’ proving that the video hasn’t been debunked whatsoever.
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Top Biden COVID Adviser Cheered George Floyd Protests Despite Pandemic
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead a task force that will address racial disparities in the coronavirus response, suggested earlier this year that advising protesters to stay home in the wake of George Floyd’s police custody death would undermine the fight against police brutality — even though the country was experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
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Trump to Sign Executive Order Ensuring Americans Have Priority Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that will mandate priority access of COVID-19 vaccines to American citizens before the U.S. government provides aid to other nations.
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Video: Teacher Goes on Unhinged Rant Telling Lockdown Protesters “Kill Yourself!”
A video clip out of Oregon shows a teacher screaming at lockdown protesters concerned about business closures, telling them, “kill yourself!”
The incident occurred during a demonstration in Bend, Oregon yesterday at which protesters expressed their opposition to COVID-19 restrictions which continue to see small businesses go to the wall while giant transnationals like Walmart and Amazon make record profits.
The woman is seen leaning out of her car window hurling abuse at rally attendees, yelling at one of them, “Bitch! Kill yourself!”
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Campbell County, Virginia has rejected Democratic Governor Ralph Northam’s coronavirus restrictions — declaring itself a “First Amendment sanctuary” in a resolution which makes it the first locality in the state to openly resist Northam’s orders.
The County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the measure last week in response to Northam’s pre-Thanksgiving limits on public gatherings to 25 people or fewer, as well as an extension on the state’s mask mandate to include children over the age of five. Restaurants are also prohibited from selling alcohol after 10 p.m.
Campbell County’s resolution requests that the sheriff’s department refuse to assist any official — state or federal — in “attempting to enforce the unconstitutional order of the Governor.”
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Ware County, GA Has Broken the Dominion Algorithm
Using sequestered Dominion Equipment, Ware County ran a equal number of Trump votes and Biden votes through the Tabulator and the Tabulator reported a 26% lead for Biden.
Those conducting the test were so shocked that they ran the same ballots again. The same results appeared.
Dominion Tabulators could have been configured with different algorithms in different Counties or States.) The point is there is now hard evidence of electronic manipulation of the Election.
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A Wyoming Department of Health official involved in the state’s response to the coronavirus questioned the legitimacy of the pandemic and described a forthcoming vaccine as a biological weapon at a recent event.
The ‘so-called pandemic’ and efforts to develop a vaccine are plots by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide, department readiness and countermeasures manager Igor Shepherd said at the Nov. 10 event held by the group Keep Colorado Free and Open.
[comment: Note how the article insinuates this health official is conspiracy nut, when in reality his warning is true.]
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Canadian Icon Fired for Taking Part in Anti-Lockdown Protest
Former Vancouver Canucks national anthem singer Mark Donnelly went ahead with his appearance at an anti-lockdown protest after being fired via Twitter by the team’s owner.
At Vancouver’s Freedom Rally on the weekend, Donnelly said he was standing up against “tyranny.”
“What was originally sold as a 15-day hunkering down sprint for the common good has turned into a 10-month marathon from hell, where the finish line is constantly being moved further into the distance,” he said.
[Comment: He’s not wrong.]
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Belgium: Antwerp Warns of Tougher Crackdown on Lockdown Gatherings
Authorities in Antwerp have warned that they will step up the fight against lockdown gatherings after local police broke up nine illegal gatherings over the weekend.
“The time for administrative sanctions is over,” Kristof Aerts of Antwerp’s public prosecutor’s office said. “Whoever gets caught by police in any [lockdown gathering] will immediately get a summons to appear before a judge.”
Aerts’ warning follows a weekend during which police were kept busy in the Flemish city and its surroundings, breaking up lockdown parties, including some with over 40 attendees, including children.
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Belgium: Police Shut Down Two Lockdown Parties With College of Europe Students
The police have stopped two separate lockdown parties in violation of the federal coronavirus measures at the College of Europe in Bruges last weekend.
On Friday evening, several people, including College of Europe students, were caught during a Sinterklaas party. “The students present were not wearing face masks and social distance was not respected,” police spokesperson Lien Depoorter told Het Laatste Nieuws.
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Brexit: Farage Warns Boris Will Cave, As EU Won’t Give the UK ‘Anything’
The European Union won’t offer the UK “anything”, warns Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who predicted on Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ultimately cave to EU demands in favour of securing a trade deal.
As the end of the Brexit transition period quickly approaches, Nigel Farage said that French President Emmanuel Macron and EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will offer “nothing” but forecast that Mr Johnson will ultimately sign a deal with the bloc regardless.
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Burkini Ban in Dutch City of Antwerp Upheld in Court
The court of appeal in Antwerp — one of Belgium’s five such courts — has ruled that the prohibition of burkinis in swimming pools is not discriminatory and that the Antwerp burkini prohibition may therefore remain in force. Two Muslim women had lodged complaints against the burkini ban, which has been deemed unjustified in the second instance, Dutch news portal Sceptr reports.
In urban Antwerp swimming pools it is mandatory to wear appropriate swimming clothes. In concrete terms, this means that men must wear a fitting swimsuit, women a bathing suit or bikini. The wearing of a burkini is therefore prohibited, but two Muslim women claimed this was a form of discrimination.
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EC Opens Procedure Against Italy Over Beach Concessions
Automatic extensions of permits ‘discourages investment’
(ANSA) — ROME, DEC 3 — The European Commission said Thursday that it was opening an infringement procedure against Italy for breaching EU law in its handling of beach concessions.
The EC said it was taking issue with the fact that concessions to beach establishments are automatically extended.
In Italy privately run beach establishments rent out loungers and provide life guards and services such as showers.
They usually have a bar or a restaurant.
Much of the best areas of Italy’s coastline are taken up by such establishments, which limits options for people who just want to throw down a towel on the sand and have a day at the beach for free.
The Commission said that Rome had failed to implement a 2016 Court of Justice (CJEU) sentence that ruled the practice “to automatically extend existing authorisations of beach concessions was incompatible with EU law”.
Since then Italy has extended the existing authorisations until the end of 2033 and prohibited local authorities from launching or continuing open public selection procedures for the assignment of concessions that would otherwise have expired, the EC said.
“Member States have an obligation to ensure that authorisations that are limited in number due to a scarcity of available natural resources (e.g. beaches), are granted for a limited duration and through an open, public selection procedure based on non-discriminatory, transparent and objective criteria,” the Commission said .
“The Commission considers that the Italian legislation, in addition to the inconsistency with EU law, contradicts in substance the CJEU’s judgment mentioned above and creates legal uncertainty for beach tourism services, discourages investment in a sector that is key to the Italian economy and already hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic while also causing a potentially significant loss of income for local Italian authorities”.
Italy now has two months to respond to the Commission.
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France: Paris Sees Second Weekend of Protests, Violence Over Controversial Security Law
Violence broke out in Paris for the second consecutive weekend as protesters clashed with police during demonstrations over a proposed security law, according to reports.
Hundreds of rallies were planned across the nation Saturday to protest legislation that would make it illegal to record video or take photos of police officers with “obvious intention to harm their physical and psychological integrity”, the BBC reported.
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France Charges Suspect in Deadly 1982 Terror Attack on Paris Jewish Restaurant
PARIS — A suspect in a 1982 terror attack on a Jewish neighborhood in Paris that killed six people was on Saturday charged and remanded in custody by French authorities after his extradition from Norway, judicial sources said.
Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed was charged with murder and attempted murder by a Paris magistrate specializing in terror crimes, said a judicial source, who asked not to be named.
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Iraqi Man From Czechia Who Fought for ISIS Faces Up to 20 Years in Prison
The Czech Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against an Iraqi citizen with permanent residence in the Czech Republic for flying from Prague to his homeland and participating in the combat and propaganda activities of the Islamic State (iS). The man faces from 12 to 20 years in prison and possibly forfeiture of his property.
The man, a native of Baghdad who had a permanent residence in the Czech Republic, traveled from Vaclav Havel Airport to Istanbul in January 2015. According to the public prosecutor, he left to join the IS fighters, which he succeeded in doing.
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Photos: ‘COVID ID Card’ To be Rolled Out in UK
Reports indicate that the UK National Health Service is to issue everyone vaccinated against coronavirus with an ‘immunisation identity card’, with the government refusing to rule out that the cards will be used like passports to reintegrate into society.
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Poland’s Justice Minister Wants to Ban the Communist Party
Zbigniew Ziobro, Poland’s justice minister and public prosecutor general, has asked the Constitutional Court to ban the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) on grounds that the party’s aims and activities being are inconsistent with the Polish constitution.
“The actions… were undertaken at the request of citizens. In the letters addressed to the prosecutor’s office, they indicated that the KPP, among other things, referred in its program and practices to totalitarian methods and practices of communism, which were inconsistent with the Polish Constitution,” reads the statement by the National Prosecutor’s Office.
Poland’s constitution forbids political parties to aspire to promote totalitarian ideologies such as communism, Nazism and fascism. The constitution also forbids the existence of political parties which promote racial hatred, envisage the use of force in attaining power or which attempt to organize in a clandestine fashion.
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Spain: The National Police Arrest a Madrasa-Teacher Imam in Madrid for His Pro-Daesh Activity
The detainee helped a DESA terrorist returning from Syria, who had no previous links with our country, to settle in Spain and was arrested in December 2018 by agents of the General Information Commissariat. Following the operation he was seized of several hundred files with Jihadist content and military training manuals. The arrested man consumed abundant material praising Jihadist martyrdom.
Agents of the National Police have arrested an individual in the town of Getafe (Madrid) for his alleged participation in the crimes of integration into a terrorist organisation, recruitment and indoctrination of third parties in Jihadist doctrine. The investigators have confirmed how this individual, of Takfiri ideology, was fully adhering to the postulates of the DAESH terrorist organisation and had been carrying out continuous recruitment and indoctrination of third parties through social networks.
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David Manzheley, the man accused of having organized the sex party that led to the arrest and resignation of Hungarian MEP Jozsef Szajer in Brussels, is actually named Przemyslaw P., according to a family member contacted by Polish commercial television channel Polsat News.
The news outlet reached out toManzheley’s family in Wadowice, South Poland, and they confirmed that he is their relative.
“That’s him,” said a family member who identified him as Przemyslaw P., referring to the sex party organizer.
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UK Activist Group Campaigns to Get US Citizen Steve Bannon Banned on Facebook
If a UK group whose goal is to ramp up censorship on social platforms has its way, Steven Bannon will be banned from Facebook.
Facebook previously set up the Oversight Board as a way to respond to pressure coming from various circles that criticize the giant both for censoring too little, and too much.
It’s clear which camp the group calling itself, “The Real Facebook Oversight Board” — falls into.
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UK: ‘Remaining Significant Differences’: Boris Johnson to Travel to Brussels for Final Brexit Talks
With just weeks left on the clock until Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union for good, both sides in the ongoing negotiations pointed to a potential no-deal outcome on Monday.
European negotiators floated yet another deadline — this coming Wednesday — in an apparent attempt to introduce fresh urgency to talks, as Britain signalled it would be willing to climb down on key measures taken to protect the integrity of the United Kingdom after Brexit.
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UK: Nigel Farage to Field Reform Party Candidates Against BoJo’s Anti-Car ‘Madness’
Nigel Farage said that his new party, Reform UK, will recruit candidates to stand against “any and every” politician who backs Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s green agenda to transform British cities.
Mr Farage described the government’s multi-million-pound push to install more cycle lanes, narrow roads, and convert streets into cul-de-sacs as “madness”.
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UK: Tory MP Admits Locking Up Her Parents Since March So as Not to Burden NHS
A Tory MP admitted to having kept her parents “literally locked up” since March, including parking her car across their driveway so they couldn’t get out, in order to stop them being a “burden” to the NHS.
Caroline Nokes, Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North, made the comments during an appearance on BBC Politics earlier today.
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Footage shows mourners at the ceremony for Abdullakh Anzorov, 18, in his native village of Shalazi in the oil-rich Russian region.
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Another Airline Announces ‘COVID Passports’ Will be “Essential” For Travel
Yet another airline has announced that it sees so called ‘COVID passports’, proof that travellers have been vaccinated and/or tested negative for coronavirus, as “essential” for them to be able to travel.
Lance Gokongwei, President and CEO of Cebu Pacific, the largest budget airline in the Philippines, made the comments to reporters Monday.
“We do think that’s essential, especially as we open up international travel,” Gokongwei said, adding that there are “different vaccines and I think we have to work on a single, global COVID passport so that each country respects the passport.”
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Queensland meat company Meramist was blacklisted by the China’s General Administration of Customs on Monday but no reason for the ban was given by the Chinese authorities.
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Hong Kong National Security Police Arrest Eight Over Slogans at Graduation Protest
Police in Hong Kong on Monday arrested eight people — including two directly elected members of the District Council — over a peaceful graduation protest at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), three of them under the national security law for “inciting secession.”
The eight men aged 16-34 were suspected of involvement in an “illegal assembly” on the CUHK campus on Nov. 19, during which some people chanted and displayed pro-independence slogans, a police spokesman said.
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Extinction Rebellion Protesters Arrested After Brisbane CBD Truck Stunt
Two Extinction Rebellion protesters who parked a rental truck across a Brisbane CBD street before attaching themselves on top of the vehicle have been arrested.
The climate activists caused traffic chaos after blocking Edward Street and Queen Street just after 7am for around two hours.
The protesters — who called themselves as Sergio and Wenzio — refused police requests to come down and used a “sleeping dragon” device to lock themselves together.
“It’s commonly called a sleeping dragon, where they put their arms in each end and lock on,” Queensland Police Inspector Jeffrey Acreman said.
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The Australian government released a draft code in July directing Google and Facebook to negotiate fair payment deals for news content. Now, Google is forming a plan to halt key updates.
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Kimberley Castles, from Melbourne, claimed the single parent payment from Centrelink for six years despite living with her partner Greg Castles, and taking several holidays together.
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3 Nigerian Christians Killed Defending Village From Fulani Herdsmen Attack
Three Nigerian Christians were murdered on Tuesday while attempting to defend their village from an attack by suspected Fulani militants.
The militants, who are also believed to have kidnapped a woman, opened fire on the Christian village of Gura-Pwana, south of the Nigerian city of Jos, Swanta Kumai told the Emancipation Center for Crisis Victims in Nigeria.
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The Home Office is set to deport dozens of Channel migrants to France, Germanyand Spain this week, reports suggest.
Three flights containing asylum seekers who entered Britain by crossing the Channel in small boats will depart in the coming days — and could make stops in other countries.
Under EU rules migrants who have already claimed refugee status in another EU country can be returned there.
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“Sam and Max” Customers Feel Misled After Politically Correct Remaster
A remastered version of Sam & Max Save the World, a game first released a decade ago, has been scrubbed clean of any jokes that these days might come across as offensive in today’s sensitive world.
The list of changes, that includes recasting a voice actor “for not sharing the race of their character” has been compiled by fans who played the remaster, looks extensive and features the removal of jokes about sex change, skinheads, special needs children, and more.
Other changes made to the game have been to replace a fake name that might offend the French, in what’s said to be an exaggerated stereotype; removing the slang expression “foo” from the characters’ vocabulary as it is considered a part of the African American vernacular; joking about militant students is also no longer allowed (as in, tear gas “clearing out” a room full of them), and even arms dealers are for some reason now preferable to drug dealers — since one of the alterations has been to change a license plate suggesting a character was a drug dealer to arms dealer.
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Archbishop Chaput: Pro-Abortion Joe Biden ‘Should Not Receive Holy Communion’
Archbishop Charles Chaput has warned of serious scandal if bishops indicate their willingness to give Holy Communion to Joe Biden despite his overt support for abortion.
“Public figures who identify as ‘Catholic’ give scandal to the faithful when receiving Communion by creating the impression that the moral laws of the Church are optional,” Archbishop Chaput wrote in First Things this weekend. “And bishops give similar scandal by not speaking up publicly about the issue and danger of sacrilege.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Eton parents today revealed how pupils as young as 13 have been given pornography ‘workshops’ and taught contested gender theory.
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Twitch Drops Phrase “Blind Playthrough” Over Sensitivity Concerns
Twitch has removed the “Blind Playthrough” tag over disability “insensitivity” in case it offends the blind.
In 2018, games streaming site Twitch introduced a tag system to allow users to classify their streams according to the content, giving viewers a rough idea of what the videos are about.
One of the tags used was “blind playthrough.” It was applied to videos providing a sneak-peek into games for first time users who did not want spoilers from the live chat feature. The tag was used frequently. However, on December 4, the company announced that the tag would no longer be used.
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Twitter Suspends World’s Biggest Commercial Archive Adland
The Twitter account for Adland, the world’s largest and oldest commercial archive, has been suspended after more than 13 years on the platform.
Despite being verified and having an active account on Twitter for over a decade, when Adland’s CEO “Dabitch” attempted to add an age to the account, it was instantly locked.
Twitter requires accounts to add their age when they attempt to follow other accounts that post about certain topics such as alcohol. In this instance, Dabitch was told that she needed to add the age of the Adland account after she attempted to follow an account for a social media marketer of spirits.
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UK: Twitter Users Label Footballer “Homophobic” For Destroying LGBT Corner Flag During Celebration
Some Twitter users reacted to footballer Jamie Vardy breaking an LGBT corner flag after he scored a last minute winner in a game by accusing the Leicester City striker of being “homophobic.”
After Vardy hit the back of the net, he ran to the corner and demolished the stand holding up the rainbow-colored flag, which is currently being displayed at grounds throughout the UK in yet another virtue signaling measure.
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Chuck Yaeger, WWII fighter pilot and man who broke the sound barrier, died last night, he was one of the few WWII vets I knew of personally still alive. According to his Twitter he shot down four Focke-Wulf 190s in one mission.
A rampant Anglophobe I might add.
https://i.4cdn.org/k/1607454066119m.jpg
But ole Chuck wasn’t wrong.
now the usual libtards are complaining that Chuck Yaeger prevented a black man named Ed Dwight from being an astronaut.
Another update to https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/08/update-on-the-cemetery-torture-in-solna/
Hanif Bali, Swedish politician of Iranian descent, started a collection for support of the two boys. Result over this weekend was 2 millions Svenska Kronor, about 236000 US dollar:
https://www.dn.se/sthlm/hanif-bali-samlade-in-tva-miljoner-till-brottsoffer/
Tens of thousands contributed — from a total population of about 10 million. Can’t resist to wonder how solidarity would be if season were opened and people called to take out their moose carbines.
It’s just about there, a few more pushes and it’s going to be open season with no bag limit. Keep the horrors coming muslims, time is rapidly running out on your savagery.
Why does one of the headlines read “Dutch city of Antwerp” yet the subtext acknowledges the city is in fact Belgian?
https://www.financialreporter.co.uk/finance-news/bank-of-england-announces-new-support-for-uk-islamic-banks.html
https://www.financialreporter.co.uk/finance-news/bank-of-england-announces-new-support-for-uk-islamic-banks.html
The Bank says the facility, in which deposits from Islamic banks will be backed by a return-generating fund of high quality Shariah compliant assets, “will further strengthen the United Kingdom’s role as the leading international financial centre for Islamic finance outside the Muslim world”. Wow.
FCPE advised Islamist parents to sue Samuel Paty
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/la-fcpe-a-conseille-aux-parents-islamistes-dattaquer-en-justice-samuel-paty/
now the usual libtards are complaining that Chuck Yaeger prevented a black man named Ed Dwight from being an astronaut.