Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/8/2020

Law enforcement agencies have cracked down on illegal parties that violate COVID-19 regulations in Belgium, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other locations. Meanwhile, a 90-year-old woman was the first to receive the new coronavirus vaccination in the UK.

In other news, Turin Cathedral has come under criticism for putting masks on the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the Wise Men, and other figures in its annual Nativity scene.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Canada Employment Growth Slows in November
» Democrat Proposes Tying $1,500 Stimulus Checks to COVID Vaccinations
 
USA
» 400 Michigan Restaurants Push Back on Gov. Whitmer’s COVID-19 Restrictions
» 91% of US Mainstream News About Coronavirus Has Negative Spin, Compared to Just 54% in Other Countries
» Americans Prepare to Revolt Against Election Fraud and Completely Corrupted Democrats While Progressives Work to Transform Entire Country Into a Decrepit H*ll Hole
» Bush-Appointed Georgia Judge Dismisses Sidney Powell Lawsuit: “We Can’t Turn Back the Clock…”
» City Shuts Down Illegal 142-Person Party in Wicker Park for Violating COVID-19 Restrictions
» CNN: ‘Don’t be Alarmed’ if People Start Dying After Taking the Vaccine
» Congressman Asks AG Barr to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Hunter Biden
» Elections Undecided by Midnight Are Void & Preempted by Federal Law — Foster V Love (1997; 9-0 Decision)
» Federal Judge Who Dismissed Sidney Powell’s Michigan Lawsuit is Far-Left, Anti-Cop, Pro-Affirmative Action Obama Appointee
» Florida Man Seeks Plea Deal After Being Charged With Backing Terror Group ISIS
» Gov. Whitmer Extends Michigan COVID-19 Lockdown Through Dec. 20
» Goya Names Ocasio-Cortez “Employee of the Month” Following Boycott Call That Caused Sales Surge
» Judge Sullivan Folds: Flynn Case Finally Dismissed Following Trump Pardon
» Longtime Democrat Strategist Masterminding the 2020 Election Steal
» Louisiana Joins Texas in Motion Against GA, MI, PA, & WI After SCOTUS Denies Emergency Injunctive Relief in PA Case
» Major National Security Issue Identified Related to China’s Connection to Dominion Voting Machines
» New York Sends “Mask Squads” to Enforce Social Distancing in Two Counties
» Police Arrest 158 at Los Angeles Teenager’s Pandemic Party
» President Trump: “The Case Has Been Made — You’ll See a Lot of Big Things Happening Over the Next Couple of Days” (Video)
» Rand Paul: No Scientific Evidence ‘Tyrannical’ Lockdowns Work
» Restaurant Industry Warns of “Economic Free Fall” As 110,000 Eateries and Counting Are Permanently Shuttered
» Rules for Revolutionaries: A Guide to Understanding the Radical Left’s Plan to Reimagine America
» Seattle is About to Go Unthinkably Left as Liberal Mayor Announces She Won’t Seek Reelection
» Seeking Release From COVID Restrictions, Illegal Speakeasies Are Popping Up in Northeast Philly
» Sick Lefty Celebs Celebrate Giuliani Getting COVID
» Sidney Powell’s Election Challenge Hearing Streamed on YouTube But Court Tells People Not to Replay it
» Soros-Funded L.A. District Attorney Legalizes Trespassing and Resisting Arrest
» Study Reveals That Twitter Has Censored Trump and His Campaign 436 Times, Biden 0 Times
» Suspected Honey Trap Chinese Spy Targeted Swalwell and Ro Khanna, Seduced Multiple Mayors
» Ted Cruz to Argue PA Election Case Before Supreme Court, If Court Takes it Up
» The Science Cult
» Tucker Exposes Scrubbed Video of Chinese Professor Saying They Have People at Top of America
» Udemy Abuses DMCA System to Take Down YouTube Video That Showed Viewers How to Legally Access Free Courses
 
Canada
» Canadian Church Fined Over $32,000 for Holding Drive-in Services, Denied Relief From Shut Down Orders
 
Europe and the EU
» 90-Year-Old Woman is First to Receive Coronavirus Vaccine in UK
» Austria: Activists Cover Up BLM Statue With Memorial for Victims of Terror Attacks
» Austria: Vienna Terror Attack Memorial Trashed by ‘Turkish Woman’
» Belgium: Lockdown Partygoers in Wallonia Busted After Setting Off Fireworks
» EU’s Attempt to Drive a Wedge Between Poland and Hungary Falls Flat
» Facebook Apologizes After Banning UK War Re-Enactment Group as a “Militia”
» France and Turkey Brace for Clash Ahead of European Council Meeting
» France: Macron Calls for List of 300 to 500 Black or Arab Historical Figures to Name After Streets and Statues
» Hungary May Not Remain in the EU, Hints Politico in Its New Power Ranking
» Italy: Turin Cathedral Criticized for Putting Face Masks on Nativity
» Poland Gains Control of Polish News Outlet Owned by German Firm
» ‘Polexit’ Is Fake News, Says Spanish European Affairs Minister
» Romanian PM Orban Resigns After Election Result But Still May Head the Next Government
» Tusk is Merkel’s Messenger Boy Serving German Interests, Says Polish MP
» UK: ‘Thousands’ of Petrolheads Ignore Tier 3 COVID Lockdown to Show Off Their Motors and Drag Race Through Red Lights in Illegal Car Meet
» UK: “Diversity Grove”: Birmingham Street Names Get Woke
» UK: Google and Facebook Could be Forced to Pay News Publishers for Their Content as Part of Government’s Bid to Rein in Power of Tech Giants
» UK: More Corona Cases in London at the End of Lockdown Than Before it Started
» UK: Warning After Police Break Up Illegal Gathering at House
» Woke Olympics: Breakdancing Added to 2024 Paris Games
 
Middle East
» Erdogan Gifts a Plaque With Verses From the Quran to Hagia Sophia
» Erdogan’s Atrocities Against Christians: Turks Chained to Fanaticism
 
Far East
» Chinese Professor Says Country Has People “At the Top of America’s Core Inner Circle”
» Huawei Tested Facial Recognition That ID’d Uighur Muslims, Set Off Alarm: Report
» Numerous Protestant Venues Shut Down Across China
» Trump Tweets Video of Chinese Professor Claiming That Beijing Can Swing US Policy Because it Has ‘People at the Top of America’s Core Inner Circle of Power’ In Clip That Has Been Deleted From Social Media in China
» Video Showing Chinese Professor Alleging Infiltration at Highest Levels of US Government Censored in China
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Passes New Laws That Will Infuriate China and Make it Easier to Get Out of Bad Trade Deals — as Expert Makes Chilling Warning About ‘Weak Link’ Threatening Our National Security
» China’s Trade Hit List: Even More Australian Industries Are Put on ‘High Alert’ As Businesses ‘Feel Very Real Fear’ Over Crippling Beijing Sanctions That Could be Imposed at Any Time
» Now China Puts Australian Coal in the Firing Line as it Warns of ‘Economic Pain’ For Workers and Households if Canberra ‘Refuses to Mend Ties’
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» 33 Farm Attacks and 10 Farm Murders in South Africa — November 2020
 
Immigration
» Another 111 Boat Migrants Land in Britain Despite £28 Million Deal With France
» Greece Accuses Turkey of Facilitating Somali Migration to the Country
» State Aid for Homeless Germans Pales in Comparison to That Given to Immigrants
» UK: Now 23 Channel Migrants Block Bid to Kick Them Out: Group Who Arrived on Small Boats Are Given 11th-Hour Reprieve After Lodging Appeals Against Plan to Put Them on Flight to Poland
» ‘What About My Daughter?’ 1,000 Pop. English Village Braces for 500-Man Migrant Camp
 
Culture Wars
» Biden Health Secretary Pick Supports at Birth Abortion, Has Radical Anti-Pro Life Agenda
» Odysee Positions Itself as a YouTube Successor
 

Canada Employment Growth Slows in November

Although Canada’s labour market still saw improvements in November, the rate of recovery is continuing to slow.

Statistics Canada’s recently released Labour Force Survey looked at Canada’s labour market conditions during the week of November 8 to 14. Overall findings reveal that employment rose 0.3 per cent in November, which followed an increase of 0.5 per cent in October. Employment growth was dragged down by declines in information, culture and recreation as well as accommodation and food services. Growth in the public sector was lead by increased employment in hospitals and schools.

Unemployment is still falling from peak levels in May, when unemployment was 13.7 per cent. In November, unemployment was at 8.5 per cent, which is down 0.4 percentage points from October levels.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Proposes Tying $1,500 Stimulus Checks to COVID Vaccinations

With Democrats and Republicans still stuck at an impasse on stimulus negotiations, one Maryland Congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate named John Delaney has engineered a novel strategy for killing two birds with one stone: dispersing another round of stimulus funds, while ensuring that enough Americans consent to receiving the vaccine that the US can quickly top the roughly 70% immunity threshold at which point scientists believe the vaccine will stop propagating.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

400 Michigan Restaurants Push Back on Gov. Whitmer’s COVID-19 Restrictions

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is receiving major pushback from hundreds of restaurants who have banded together in opposition of her recent coronavirus mandates.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

91% of US Mainstream News About Coronavirus Has Negative Spin, Compared to Just 54% in Other Countries

Mainstream media in the US prefers negative coronavirus stories, according to research for a working paper.

In a paper titled “Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published its findings from research it conducted. The research organization found out that the US media coverage of the pandemic saga has been more negative compared to other English-speaking countries across the globe.

Researchers at NBER found out that about 54 percent of news articles from other parts of the world had a negative tone, compared to 91 percent in the US.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Americans Prepare to Revolt Against Election Fraud and Completely Corrupted Democrats While Progressives Work to Transform Entire Country Into a Decrepit H*ll Hole

These nasty and corrupt public officials who are paid to work for us have shown that the classlessness they have demonstrated to Republican poll watchers, including closing these poll watchers out and counting millions of votes nationwide in the dead of night without poll watchers being there. In a free America, any question about whether this is constitutional is valid, but is being pushed through by state government officials with lies that the mainstream media will not cover for the American people. Rather than investigating the most important rights that American citizens have, the globalist socialists continue to tamp down any questions, mock those that question the narrative they are trying to push on the American people, calling them evil.

Social media has a hand in this theft as well. Perceiving themselves to be the overseers of what the American citizens are allowed to see is of paramount importance to the Leftists will continue to be used to shape the national discussion of lies that the American people are force-fed. The focus of the MSM, social media, Never Trumpers, globalists and entertainment are intent on destroying the progress that our free country has made over the first four years of President Trump, but also to destroy the underpinnings of the fundamental protections that the American people have enjoyed for the past 200 years.

Contrary to the bleatings of all these leftists who have been condescending to the American people, the election is not completed. Joe Biden is NOT the president-elect at this time. The talking point now being used about how the evidence of voter fraud, which the leftists had refused to admit to until recently, isn’t enough to change the election is also a lie. I explained the fraud that has been proven in parts one and two, and there is still more to be found.

The U.S. Constitution and state constitutions give the formation of election protocol to the state legislatures, not the governor or Democrats party election officials. In many cases election protocol was mandated by those with no authority to do so weeks before the election. These changes were made in signature verification, election deadlines, citizenship, and other areas that have been shown to lead to massive fraud.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bush-Appointed Georgia Judge Dismisses Sidney Powell Lawsuit: “We Can’t Turn Back the Clock…”

Another lawsuit brought by Sidney Powell has been shot down in Georgia. Earlier today, an Obama-appointed judge also dismissed a lawsuit brought by Powell. An appeal to the 11th Circuit Court is next and then on to the Supreme Court.

The legal system continues to dismiss lawsuits not based on the evidence of fraud but based on legal technicalities. Judge Batten said that even if the evidence were true, he would dismiss the case.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

City Shuts Down Illegal 142-Person Party in Wicker Park for Violating COVID-19 Restrictions

CHICAGO (CBS) — For the second weekend in a row, city officials have shut down an illegal party in Wicker Park, this time after more than 140 people packed the second floor of an apartment building without wearing masks or observing social distancing.

The city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) said a task force formed to crack down on large gatherings prohibited by the state’s and city’s COVID-19 restrictions responded to a complaint about an illegal party at 1257 N. Milwaukee Av. early Saturday morning.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

CNN: ‘Don’t be Alarmed’ if People Start Dying After Taking the Vaccine

In an article on the COVID vaccine rollout, CNN says that Americans shouldn’t be alarmed if people start dying after taking the vaccine because “deaths may occur that won’t necessarily have anything to do with the vaccine.”

The advisory appeared in an article titled ‘Why vaccinate our most frail? Odd vote out shows the dilemma’ in which Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the Immunization Action Coalition, cautions that vaccines don’t work as well on the frail and elderly compared to healthy people.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Congressman Asks AG Barr to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Hunter Biden

Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) has asked U.S. Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations swirling around Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Elections Undecided by Midnight Are Void & Preempted by Federal Law — Foster V Love (1997; 9-0 Decision)

We will take a closer at this binding precedent below, but in preview, please understand that it emanates from a 9-0 decision of the United States Supreme Court, wherein the entire Court joined, not just the outcome, but also the opinion on this very point.

The voters vote. The officials count. These combined actions form “the election,” and the election must be decided on the day. States that failed to make a final selection of officeholder by midnight after Election Day have violated the statute, subjecting the nation at large to the very evils Congressionally mandated deadlines were drafted to prevent.

Federal Election Day statutes were designed to curtail fraud, and to infuse a prima facie sense of integrity in our electoral process. But these States — in failing to obey Congressional deadlines — have flagrantly attempted to preempt federal law. This is certainly prohibited, and this is why the late election results are void.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Federal Judge Who Dismissed Sidney Powell’s Michigan Lawsuit is Far-Left, Anti-Cop, Pro-Affirmative Action Obama Appointee

Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker dismissed a Michigan vote fraud lawsuit filed by attorney Sidney Powell while spitting in the face of every whistleblower who has bravely emerged to expose the grotesque cheating that occurred in the city of Detroit and other Democrat-dominated inner city slums on election day.

Parker dismissed Powell’s lawsuit on Monday as a “an amalgamation of theories, conjecture, and speculation,” and opined that investigating voter fraud cannot be done because it would undermine “faith in the democratic process.”

“For these reasons, the Court finds that Plaintiffs are far from likely to succeed in this matter,” she wrote in her conclusion.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Man Seeks Plea Deal After Being Charged With Backing Terror Group ISIS

A Cuban-born man accused of supporting a foreign terrorist group by distributing propaganda videos on social media is being held in a Miami federal lockup, according to court records.

Jonathan Guerra Blanco, 23, who lives near Fort Myers, was denied bail and charged this past week in Miami with providing material support to ISIS, a spin-off of al-Qaida that has gained notoriety through its Middle East conflicts and decapitations of Western hostages. He was arrested in Miami in September while visiting an undercover FBI operative.

Guerra, a naturalized U.S. citizen who faces up to 20 years in prison on the single terrorism charge, has an arraignment set for Jan. 7. His defense attorney, Ana Davide, said Guerra plans to work out a plea deal with the prosecutors in the counter-terrorism section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office to limit his potential punishment.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Gov. Whitmer Extends Michigan COVID-19 Lockdown Through Dec. 20

During a Monday afternoon press briefing, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a 12-day extension of her administration’s “Pause to Save Lives” policy. Many Michigan businesses, all indoor dining, and in-person instruction at all high schools are now closed until at least December 20.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Goya Names Ocasio-Cortez “Employee of the Month” Following Boycott Call That Caused Sales Surge

Food manufacturer Goya named Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) honorary “employee of the month” after her social media calls for a boycott of the Latin brand led to an enormous spike in company sales earlier this year.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Judge Sullivan Folds: Flynn Case Finally Dismissed Following Trump Pardon

The case against Gen. Michael Flynn has finally been dismissed by Judge Emmet Sullivan as Moot, less than two weeks after President Trump pardoned his former National Security Adviser — and several months after the Justice Department filed to dismiss the case in light of FBI misconduct.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Longtime Democrat Strategist Masterminding the 2020 Election Steal

Mail-in voting is said to be particularly susceptible to fraud

The Epoch Times reports:

“‘The consensus among people who study fraud carefully is that voting by mail is a much more fertile area for fraud than voting in person,’ Charles Stewart, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told National Public Radio (NPR) in 2018.”

The lawyer who is spearheading the legal push? Marc Elias. Recognize the name?

This is none other than the attorney of record who works for the high-powered Democratic law firm Perkins Coie. The same lawyer who hired Fusion GPS — who hired former British spy Christopher Steele, who in turn wrote the infamous Steele dossier. Elias was also an attorney for the DNC and Hillary Clinton — both of which financed the spurious Steele dossier. Is it coming into focus now?

Elias is out to implement some changes in voting, changes that could have serious repercussions.

These changes are called the Four Pillars — which consist of:

  • Postage for mail-in ballots must be paid for by the government
  • All ballots mailed out on or before Election Day must be counted
  • Signature matching laws must be changed in order to protect voters
  • Community organizations are to be allowed to collect and deliver “voted” and sealed ballots

Does anyone else see the ENORMOUS potential for fraud here, or is it just me? Stacey Abrams (who thinks she is the governor of Georgia) calls these Pillars “the Gold Standard.”

Did you know that these pillars have already been included in legislation?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Louisiana Joins Texas in Motion Against GA, MI, PA, & WI After SCOTUS Denies Emergency Injunctive Relief in PA Case

Update (2005ET): Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis attempted to minimize the significance of the Supreme Court order, saying the underlying appeal by the Kelly and the other lawmakers was still pending.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Major National Security Issue Identified Related to China’s Connection to Dominion Voting Machines

Huge National Security Issue — Devices manufactured by a China owned company are attached to Dominion machines! American modern day minute men and women are saving our country!

According to another Internet hero, Edevice CellGo cellular modems are used by Dominion. The cost for the cellular modems is listed in a inventory of equipment needed for Calhoun County Michigan:

The devices allow an individual remotely to access, monitor and perhaps manipulate the voting machines and data on a real-time basis:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New York Sends “Mask Squads” to Enforce Social Distancing in Two Counties

In another page right out of the gestapo playbook, the Health Department of New York state — which is now losing thousands of people every day due to its high taxes, draconian rules and coercive regulations — has put out an urgent appeal for what the NY Post called “Mask squad” staffers to go to Rockland and Orange counties “to perform COVID-19 community outreach and enforce mask and social distancing safety protocols amid fears of a second wave of the virus.”

“The DOH is responsible for community outreach and enforcement of Executive Orders and regulations related to the use of face-coverings/masks and social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” the department said in a Monday email to employees in its office of health insurance programs.

“Staff is needed for immediate URGENT deployment to Orange and Rockland counties to assist with this critical public health and community enforcement effort,” the recruitment pitch to staffers in the agency’s office of health insurance programs obtained by the Post said.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Police Arrest 158 at Los Angeles Teenager’s Pandemic Party

More than 150 people were arrested Saturday night just outside of Los Angeles at a massive “super spreader” house party thrown by a 17-year-old boy, just a week after a new stay-home order was placed over Los Angeles as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations surge in California.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

President Trump: “The Case Has Been Made — You’ll See a Lot of Big Things Happening Over the Next Couple of Days” (Video)

President Trump told reporters, “It’s a disgrace to our country. It’s like a third world country. These ballots pouring in from everywhere using machinery that nobody knows ownership, nobody knows anything about. They have glitches that aren’t glitches. They got caught sending out thousands of votes. All against me by the way. You know this was like from a third world nation. And I think the case has been made and now we find out what we can do about it. But you’ll see a lot of big things happening over the next couple of days.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rand Paul: No Scientific Evidence ‘Tyrannical’ Lockdowns Work

Senator Rand Paul spoke out Monday against the policy of lockdowns and restrictions, declaring that there is no evidence they are having any impact on the spread of coronavirus, and that those who say they do are not paying attention.

“We ought to at least still use logic to try to figure out how we stop this …,” Paul said in an appearance on Fox News, adding “I don’t see any evidence that crowd control, hand washing, standing six feet apart, all of these things they tell you to do — closing down the restaurants, closing down the schools — there’s no real evidence that they are changing the trajectory of the disease.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Restaurant Industry Warns of “Economic Free Fall” As 110,000 Eateries and Counting Are Permanently Shuttered

The National Restaurant Association (NRA) sent a damning letter to Congress today (Dec. 7) addressing the collapse of more than one hundred thousand restaurants across the country this year because of the virus pandemic. In just the last three months, the letter said more than 10,000 eateries have closed, and thousands of others are in “economic freefall.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Rules for Revolutionaries: A Guide to Understanding the Radical Left’s Plan to Reimagine America

Since the horrific death of George Floyd, events seem to be spiraling out of control. The American public is being bombarded, almost on a daily basis, with reports of large protests in major cities, accompanied by rioting, looting, burning, assaults, and even murders.

Observing these events unfold, the average U.S. citizen, watching tv from the purported safety of their home might seem bewildered by these transformative events, the purpose of which is nothing less than a “re-imagining” of America. To better understand exactly what is happening, let’s take a cue from my Revolutionary Handbook. There are ten rules to explain what the radical left is planning. It is nothing less than an overthrow of the American political and economic system and its replacement with a Socialist/Marxist government, which will mean the end of the United States of America.

#1: Inertia is fatal to a Revolutionary Movement

What does a great white shark have in common with a Revolutionary Movement? Both must continue to move forward or die. The overtures of the late 60s movement are eerily similar to what is happening today. The problem was that back then, the revolution was centered around the anti-Vietnam War Movement. Once peace came, the impetus of the revolution died out. The 2008 Occupy Wall St Movement had the zeal, but cold winter months in NY were not conducive for this type of protest. The lesson: choose your cause carefully. Today’s cause celebre is “systemic racism” and its offshoots. Recently, the Mayor of Louisville, KY declared racism to be a public health crisis.

#2: Do not identify your ideology by name, nor state exactly what you will do after you are in power. Speak only in vague generalities and use simple 2— or 3-word phrases the public can identify with

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Seattle is About to Go Unthinkably Left as Liberal Mayor Announces She Won’t Seek Reelection

Any mayoral hopeful must now bow to the will of the activist class.

Seattle’s first-term Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that she won’t seek reelection. This almost ensures the unthinkable: Seattle will drift even further to the left.

The news didn’t come to me as a shock. I have been hearing rumors for the last couple weeks that Durkan was reconsidering reelection after being rendered powerless by a City Council that repeatedly stands in her way. After the last Council election, she was left with a majority of members who would never be her political allies.

At the same time, the mayor faced daily political pressure from the city’s most vocal and fringe activists, pressuring her to adopt their dangerous plans, including defunding the police.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Seeking Release From COVID Restrictions, Illegal Speakeasies Are Popping Up in Northeast Philly

NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA — Music, dancing, alcohol — illegal gatherings taking place in the Roaring 20s.

No, not the 1920s. It’s happening in 2020, while people are supposed to be social distancing because of COVID.

Police say the gatherings are becoming increasingly dangerous. They aren’t trendy speakeasies that are actual bars. They are 100 percent against the law.

“The parties start at, maybe, 12:30 at night,” stated Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum with Northeast Detectives.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Sick Lefty Celebs Celebrate Giuliani Getting COVID

Just as they did when President Trump was diagnosed with the coronavirus two months ago, leftist celebrities are celebrating at the announcement that Rudy Giuliani has the virus.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Sidney Powell’s Election Challenge Hearing Streamed on YouTube But Court Tells People Not to Replay it

On Monday, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia had a hearing for a filing by an election vote challenger.

This was one of the legal challenges to the election outcome launched independently by lawyer Sidney Powell, amid President Trump’s battle to prove that irregularities happened during and after the November vote.

And the court in Georgia that considered the lawsuit decided to livestream the audio from the hearing on YouTube, announcing it on its website along with a link.

However, the notice contained one curious provision: once the proceedings were over, YouTube users would not be able to play the audio back. The court’s channel also cautions them that recording, broadcasting, posting or reproducing all of the material or any part of it is prohibited.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Soros-Funded L.A. District Attorney Legalizes Trespassing and Resisting Arrest

Los Angeles County has been a haven of moderate crime rates in recent years, in part due to black lady district attorney Jackie Lacey not liking crime or criminals.

But all good things must come to an end, so she was defeated in November by the Soros-funded pro-crime white man George Gascon.

Grand Theft Auto: Los Santos, here we come…

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Study Reveals That Twitter Has Censored Trump and His Campaign 436 Times, Biden 0 Times

A fresh study into Twitter’s mass censorship of President Trump over the last couple of years has revealed that tweets from Trump and his campaign have been restricted a staggering 436 times between May 31, 2018 and December 7, 2020.

The study was conducted by media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC) and found that 111 of these censored tweets (around 25% of the total tweets) were flagged between November 30, 2020 and December 7, 2020.

Some of the labeled tweets were simply live streams of Trump’s December 5 rally in Georgia and a Breitbart News write up of this same rally.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Suspected Honey Trap Chinese Spy Targeted Swalwell and Ro Khanna, Seduced Multiple Mayors

The alleged spy was an Eric Swalwell fundraiser and Ro Khanna volunteer, but some Midwestern mayors are likely more nervous because the FBI has footage of her having sex with them.

A few Bay Area rising political stars had a very sticky and difficult scandal dropped on them in the wee hours Tuesday morning, and this could just be the beginning of their headaches. The website Axios, which normally specializes in quick-hit, short bullet point articles, has a very thoroughly researched exposé on the exploits of an alleged Chinese ‘honey trap’ spy operative who worked out of the Bay Area from 2011 to 2015, as a bundler fundraiser for East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell, and as a volunteer for Rep. Ro Khanna. She is also linked to several former Bay Area mayors

We will get to the sex stuff first, because it is the most interesting aspect of this, but it does not appear that the accused spy Fang Fang (a.k.a. Christine Fang) seduced any of the Bay Area political figures. That action apparently took place with two unnamed Midwestern mayors. “At a 2014 conference in Washington, an older Midwestern mayor ‘from an obscure city’ referred to Fang as his ‘girlfriend’ and insisted the relationship was genuine despite the clear age difference between Fang and himself,” Axios reports. “Fang also had a sexual encounter with an Ohio mayor in a car that was under electronic FBI surveillance, said one current U.S. official.”

Swalwell appears to be Fang’s highest-level target in the reported information. She worked as a contribution “bundler” in Swalwell’s 2012 upset win over Pete Stark (foreign nationals cannot directly contribute to campaigns, but they can solicit other people’s contributions), and per Axios, she got an intern placed Swalwell’s office. The FBI did not find any illegal activity that we know of yet, and when the FBI privately warned Swalwell of Fang’s alleged espionage ties, he did cut off contact.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Ted Cruz to Argue PA Election Case Before Supreme Court, If Court Takes it Up

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says he stands “ready to present the oral argument” on behalf of Pennsylvania Republicans who have appealed their case regarding the 2020 election to the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), congressional candidate Sean Parnell, and others filed suit in November on the grounds that mail-in balloting had been unconstitutionally expanded in the state. The state Supreme Court rejected the case, saying that the plaintiffs had filed it too late. Following that rejection, the plaintiffs noted that the same court has ruled in previous election-related cases that such suits are not valid until after an election has occurred.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

The Science Cult

The current Coronavirus PsyOp, thinly disguised as true science, is a new phenomenon. Never before in the history of mankind has an evident lie been forced as true science down the throats of the people of the world. Never before in the history of mankind have qualified dissenters and critics been maligned and censored the way they currently are.

Some gullible Americans keep blaming the Covid19 virus for the current calamity we are suffering. But the Coronavirus may not only prove to be just as lethal, or maybe even less lethal, than the flu virus that hits us almost every year and makes us miserable for a week or two,[1] but it may not even exist.[2]

So, these gullible Americans are wrong. The Coronavirus, even if it truly existed, is not destroying our economy, our mental and physical health, our institutions, our lives. We cannot blame the Coronavirus for the cancellation, seemingly forever, of the freedoms we wrongly believed were protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

No. The real culprit is not the virus but the draconian measures forced upon us under the pretext of protecting our health. And these counterproductive measures —wearing face masks, maintaining social distancing, disinfecting all surfaces, lockdowns— are not enforced to protect us from the virus but to make us more vulnerable to it.

The true purpose of this worldwide ongoing PsyOp is depopulation. The so-called Great Reset they are talking about is actually the final phase of the implementation of the globalists’ New World Order.

It is not a coincidence that the same people who love eugenics are the ones pushing the draconian measures enforced allegedly to protect our health. These are the same people who have publicly advanced the theory that the Earth is overpopulated and it is necessary to kill no less than 85 percent of the current population and reduce the survivors to preindustrial levels of consumption. Currently they are working hard creating a vaccine that will help them change their depopulation dream into a reality.

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Tucker Exposes Scrubbed Video of Chinese Professor Saying They Have People at Top of America

Tucker Carlson exposed a video tonight that was scrubbed by the Chinese government of a professor admitting that they have people at the “top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence”:

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Udemy Abuses DMCA System to Take Down YouTube Video That Showed Viewers How to Legally Access Free Courses

In a somewhat rare display of benevolence toward its users and creators targeted by false DMCA strikes, YouTube has decided to restore a video posted by ShareLearn, an online learning group, which it had previously swiftly deleted for alleged copyright infringement.

But this remains a cautionary tale of how US copyright law is being abused online by large companies and entities to all too often prevent, or at least disrupt, the flow of perfectly legal content and information on YouTube.

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Canadian Church Fined Over $32,000 for Holding Drive-in Services, Denied Relief From Shut Down Orders

A Canadian church, which was fined more than $32,000 for holding drive-in services, has been denied relief from the public health orders that shut down its activities.

“These orders necessarily restrict rights … in order to prevent death, illness and the overwhelming of the public health system in Manitoba,” ruled Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal. “I do not believe that the applicants meet their burden of showing that [the church] will suffer irreparable harm if the injunction is not granted.”

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90-Year-Old Woman is First to Receive Coronavirus Vaccine in UK

The United Kingdom began vaccinating people against COVID-19 Tuesday, first vaccinating a 90-year-old woman at University Hospital Coventry.

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Austria: Activists Cover Up BLM Statue With Memorial for Victims of Terror Attacks

Activists in Vienna, Austria covered up a Black Lives Matter statue with a memorial for victims of Islamic terror attacks.

“Activists in Vienna covered a BLM statue in the city with a memorial for European women and children killed in terror attacks during the past few years, from Paris 2015, Stockholm and London 2017 and Vienna 2020. We remember them, WLM!” states the tweet accompanying the video.

The clip shows activists clad in red and white masks erecting 10 foot billboards bearing the names and likeness of the victims and using them to cover up the BLM monument.

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Austria: Vienna Terror Attack Memorial Trashed by ‘Turkish Woman’

A memorial to last month’s radical Islamic terrorist attack in the Austrian capital of Vienna was vandalised by a 56-year-old Turkish woman over the weekend.

The memorial, which is located in the first district of Vienna where the terror attack took place, was vandalised by the woman who kicked candles and flowers that had been left by those mourning the four people killed by Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzullai on November 2nd.

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Belgium: Lockdown Partygoers in Wallonia Busted After Setting Off Fireworks

Police in Wallonia caught attendants of a lockdown birthday party red-handed after they effectively gave themselves away by setting off fireworks.

Local police in the town of Colfontaine, near Mons, said that a patrol making rounds in the area only noticed the illegal gathering as the fireworks cracked and sizzled above the location.

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EU’s Attempt to Drive a Wedge Between Poland and Hungary Falls Flat

Recent reports about a rift between Hungary and Poland concerning their united stance against the EU’s budget and post-pandemic recovery funds being tied to the rule-of-law mechanism have proved to be a media scuttlebutt. For those hoping that the European Parliament’s recent recommendation to reign in some EU members opposed to mass migration and multiculturalism via financial incentives or sanctions will come to fruition, a statement made by Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin offered a glimmer of hope. Some news outlets have even announced that “Poland [is] ready to drop EU budget veto for EU summit declaration on rule of law.”

Deputy Prime Minister Gowin had recently stated that “it is in the interest of all… to find a good compromise. Such a compromise is possible… through a binding declaration interpreting [the rule of law]… The interpretative declaration could be… a clear statement from the European Council that the conditionality rule would not be used to exert unjustified pressure on individual member states in areas other than the proper use of EU funds”.

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Facebook Apologizes After Banning UK War Re-Enactment Group as a “Militia”

Facebook removed the accounts of members of a historical re-enactment group in the UK after mistaking it for a US militia group. A few members of the Wimborne Militia, which re-enacts historical battles from the 17th century, had their accounts suspended.

One of the affected members, Chris Brown, said:

“The first we knew something was wrong was last week when none of us could access our Facebook accounts.”

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France and Turkey Brace for Clash Ahead of European Council Meeting

by Alex Kassidiaris

The European Council is meeting again from December 10 to 11 and tensions with Turkey will be at the top of the agenda. In particular, the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the European policy towards Turkey can be found at the top of the External Relations agenda of the summit.

EU leaders will discuss possible responses against Turkish provocative actions in the East Mediterranean region over the last few months, as per the conclusions of the previous European Council in October. Despite speculation about the potential EU reaction, what has been gathering even more attention lately is the ongoing escalation between France and Turkey.

Tensions between France and Turkey have not only come via traditional diplomatic means, but also on a personal level between Emmanuel Macron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The harsh rhetoric lobbed between Erdogan and Macron and personal verbal attacks indicate that Ankara and Paris are bracing for a clash, with potential domestic and international impacts on the political and security landscape.

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France: Macron Calls for List of 300 to 500 Black or Arab Historical Figures to Name After Streets and Statues

French President Emmanuel Macron’s Friday interview with online media Brut, in which he spoke against alleged discriminatory police interventions against immigrants and called for the creation of a list of 300 to 500 “Black or Arab historical figures” who should have public places, monuments and streets named after them.

Macron’s new proposal has sparked controversy in France and further discredits claims that he believes that the demographic replacement of the ethnic French is a negative trend for the country.

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Hungary May Not Remain in the EU, Hints Politico in Its New Power Ranking

The European iteration of US political website Politico ranked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban fourth among Europe’s “doers”, but the capsule about his achievements is short on praise and long on criticism.

In its “class of 2021” list, Politico ranks nine public figures each in three categories: doers, disrupters, and the dreamers which equals 27 picks, topping it with the overall most influential person in Europe to make it 28 in total. That last one is of course German Chancellor Merkel, in a class of her own within the class of 2021.

Politico, while acknowledging Merkel’s huge influence on European politics for the 16 years she has been leading Germany, is mostly critical of her lack of initiative.

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Italy: Turin Cathedral Criticized for Putting Face Masks on Nativity

The Cathedral of Turin has been criticised by some after putting facemasks on the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men and others in its annual nativity scene.

Augusta Montaruli, a member of the national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) and an MP for Turin, slammed the Christmas move by the Cathedral saying, “The decision to put masks on the characters of the nativity scene set up in the Cathedral of Turin lacks common sense.”

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Poland Gains Control of Polish News Outlet Owned by German Firm

Poland’s state-controlled fuel giant, PKN Orlen, is purchasing the Polska Press publishing house, which is currently owned by a German media company.

Daniel Obajtek, the CEO of PKN Orlen, announced on Monday on social media, that “we are taking over the Polska Press publishing house. Thanks to the transaction, we will gain access to 17.4 million website users.”

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‘Polexit’ Is Fake News, Says Spanish European Affairs Minister

Juan Gonzalez-Barba, the Spanish minister for European affairs told Poland’s Rzeczpospolita daily that he believes a compromise can be reached with Hungary and Poland, but asserts that linking of rule of law to funding will remain in what could remain a dealbreaker for the two countries.

“Polexit is a mirage, it’s fake news. Spain hopes that it will never happen because Poland for us is a key partner in the EU, and both our countries are united by friendship,” said Gonzalez-Barba.

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Romanian PM Orban Resigns After Election Result But Still May Head the Next Government

Despite coming in second at Sunday’s Romanian elections, incumbent Prime Minister Ludovic Orban still looks the best positioned to form the country’s next government, conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD), which has been in opposition so far, won the extremely low 32 percent turnout in the Romanian parliamentary elections by nearly 30 percent of the vote, based on Monday’s partial results. In second place was Orban’s National Liberal Party (PNL) with 25 percent, and in third place was the Liberal Save the Romania Alliance (USR-PLUS) with 15 percent support.

The biggest surprise of the election was caused by the ultra-nationalist, radical Association for the Unification of Romanians (AUR) with its result of almost 9 percent. RMDSZ, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, the ethnic minority’s biggest political representative body, placed fifth with 6.2 percent, a result that will ensure the Hungarian minority’s continued presence in legislation.

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Tusk is Merkel’s Messenger Boy Serving German Interests, Says Polish MP

Donald Tusk, the former president of the European Council and ex-prime minister of Poland, serves German interests, says the deputy chair of Law and Justice’s (PiS) parliamentary caucus, Marek Suski, while commenting on Tusk’s interview this week for Newsweek.

In the interview, Tusk argues that Poland is in a “dramatically dangerous place” and that he does not want “[Jaroslaw] Kaczynski to take Poland out of the EU, so he must be stopped”.

According to Tusk, the present Polish government will take Poland out of the EU if “we allow them to govern for much longer” and he believes that Kaczynski is “anti-European to the core in a cultural sense”.

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UK: ‘Thousands’ of Petrolheads Ignore Tier 3 COVID Lockdown to Show Off Their Motors and Drag Race Through Red Lights in Illegal Car Meet

‘Thousands’ of petrolheads have ignored Tier 3 Covid lockdown to show off their motors and drag race through red lights in an illegal car meet.

Police issued £700 in fines after hundreds of drivers gathered in a Tesco car park in Hucknell, Nottinghamshire, on Sunday night.

Footage from the meet showed cars’ engines revving as people defied social distancing to walk around in large groups, despite an organiser claiming it was a ‘drive-in’ event.

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UK: “Diversity Grove”: Birmingham Street Names Get Woke

After Birmingham City Council invited members of the public to come up with new street names for a regeneration scheme, winners included “Diversity Grove” and “Equality Road”.

According to the council, the names were selected “based on the theme of cohesion and shared values.”

Louise Kilbride, the woman whose suggested street names were chosen by a panel of judges, said she wanted them to “reflect the diversity of the Perry Barr area.”

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UK: Google and Facebook Could be Forced to Pay News Publishers for Their Content as Part of Government’s Bid to Rein in Power of Tech Giants

A group led by the UK’s competitions watchdog believes British publishers are victims of the tech giants’ extraordinary market dominance and payments for stories and videos could address this.

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UK: More Corona Cases in London at the End of Lockdown Than Before it Started

Health experts tracking the effectiveness of the UK’s latest lockdown say there were more COVID cases in London when the lockdown ended compared to when it started.

Their solution? Another lockdown. Because that makes perfect sense.

England entered a second national lockdown on November 5 before that was lifted and the three tier system reintroduced on December 2.

However, it appears to have had no impact whatsoever.

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UK: Warning After Police Break Up Illegal Gathering at House

Police have warned the occupant of a house where a gathering was being held in breach of coronavirus restrictions.

Officers with Norfolk constabulary went to an address on Northgate Street in Great Yarmouth at 8.15pm on Sunday, December 6, following reports of a gathering at a property.

A number of people who did not live at the address were advised to leave and the occupant was given a warning.

Tier 2 restrictions, imposed last week, mean there can be no mixing of households indoors, apart from suport bubbles.

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Woke Olympics: Breakdancing Added to 2024 Paris Games

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Monday breakdancing will join the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games as part of its desire to make the global event “fit for the post-corona world.”

It will join surfing, skateboarding and climbing, which will be retained after debuts at the postponed Tokyo Games in 2021.

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Erdogan Gifts a Plaque With Verses From the Quran to Hagia Sophia

Despite international condemnation over the decision to change Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his provocative actions.

He recently gifted a plaque with verses from the Quran to the museum turned mosque.

The plaque which was made by Turkish artist Mehmet Özçay, was placed on a wall near the pulpit.

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Erdogan’s Atrocities Against Christians: Turks Chained to Fanaticism

The protesting by the Recep Tayyip Erdogan regime against Greece’s so-called violations of religious freedoms because of the racist slogans written against Turks in the elevator of the apartment building where the Pomak (Bulgarian Muslim) pseudo-mufti Ahmet Mete lives in Thrace, goes beyond that.

This is because in contrast to Greece, where the rights of Muslims are fully respected (the mosque that was recently built in Athens was funded by the Greek State), the rights of religious minorities in Turkey are a bad tasting anecdote.

The Turkish Constitution indeed proclaims religious freedom, allowing free conduct of religious ceremonies if they do not turn against the integrity of the State.

But the notion of respect for religious freedom in the Turkish conscience is, in practice, an interpretation of religious tolerance as their Ottoman ancestors once understood — the supremacy of Islam is taken for granted.

In their view, Muslims have primacy and can impose their conditions on non-Muslims, while the use of violence (physical or psychological, direct or indirect) is not excluded, which is why unspeakable savagery often occurs against religious minorities in Turkey.

It is an indisputable historical fact that the non-Muslim element in Turkey has always been under informal persecution, which is why non-Muslims are now only 0.4% of the total Turkish population!

A typical example is the Greek Orthodox community, which during the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923 numbered 200,000 people, but today is only 1,800 because the Turkish state engaged in a systematic campaign of extermination and expulsion of Greeks for decades. They used heavy taxation, confiscated estates, and banned the teaching of the Greek language.

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Chinese Professor Says Country Has People “At the Top of America’s Core Inner Circle”

After being censored in China, a recorded lecture of a Chinese Communist Party expert explaining how Beijing had “people at the top of America’s core inner circle” has made it on to the internet in the United States.

The lecture was given by Di Dongsheng, vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University, and included references to presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his business dealings in China. He also mentioned that Beijing had an advantage in working with the U.S. prior to the Trump administration.

“We know that the Trump administration is in a trade war with us, so why can’t we fix the Trump administration? Why did China and the US used to be able to settle all kinds of issues between 1992 and 2016?” asked Di before answering the question himself. “I’m going to throw out something maybe a little bit explosive here. It’s just because we have people at the top. We have our old friends who are at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence.”

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Huawei Tested Facial Recognition That ID’d Uighur Muslims, Set Off Alarm: Report

The Chinese tech giant Huawei and artificial intelligence company Megvii developed and tested facial recognition software that triggered alerts whenever the technology detected Uighur Muslims, according to an internal document obtained by researcher IPVM and provided to The Washington Post.

The document dates back to January 2018, when Huawei tested Megvii’s Face++ facial recognition on its network of cameras and gave a passing grade to its ability to recognize people’s age, gender and ethnicity. The test report also highlighted a passing grade for a “Uyghur Alarm” — an alert designed specifically to identify members of the oppressed minority population in China.

The Chinese government has used surveillance technology including facial recognition in a myriad of ways to oppress Uighur Muslims. The government’s actions against Uighur Muslims include what’s been described by US lawmakers as “the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today,” with an estimated 1 million people detained by the Chinese government.

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Numerous Protestant Venues Shut Down Across China

Local authorities raid and close places of worship using various pretexts, from poverty alleviation to epidemic prevention.

100+ venues shut down in Anhui Province’s four cities

According to preliminary data, over 100 Three-Self and house churches were shut down this year in four prefecture-level cities in the eastern province of Anhui this year: 43 in Suzhou, 24 in Huaibei, 20 in Fuyang, and 16 in Xuancheng.

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Trump Tweets Video of Chinese Professor Claiming That Beijing Can Swing US Policy Because it Has ‘People at the Top of America’s Core Inner Circle of Power’ In Clip That Has Been Deleted From Social Media in China

Di Dongsheng, a professor at Renmin University in Beijing, appeared on a Chinese television show speaking about Wall Street and the relationships that exist between China and the United States.

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Video Showing Chinese Professor Alleging Infiltration at Highest Levels of US Government Censored in China

It’s no secret that there is little love lost between the Trump administration and China and that Beijing, which has already congratulated Joe Biden as the winner in the US presidential election, prefers to see Trump leave the White House.

Human Rights activist Jennifer Zeng has explored the reasons behind this and has shown a video recently banned on Chinese social media that claims Beijing’s preference of a US president is based on concrete ties it has with anti-Trump power centers in the US.

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Australia Passes New Laws That Will Infuriate China and Make it Easier to Get Out of Bad Trade Deals — as Expert Makes Chilling Warning About ‘Weak Link’ Threatening Our National Security

A leading academic has labelled Australian states and territories a ‘weak link’ in rebuffing foreign interference and called for the establishment of state-based national security units.

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China’s Trade Hit List: Even More Australian Industries Are Put on ‘High Alert’ As Businesses ‘Feel Very Real Fear’ Over Crippling Beijing Sanctions That Could be Imposed at Any Time

Panic is setting in among Australian businesses who fear their industry may be next on the chopping block as Beijing ramps up its unrelenting campaign of economic coercion by introducing tariffs.

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Now China Puts Australian Coal in the Firing Line as it Warns of ‘Economic Pain’ For Workers and Households if Canberra ‘Refuses to Mend Ties’

Coal is Australia’s second-biggest export after iron-ore, bringing in $70billion last year — and China is the second-biggest customer after Japan.

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33 Farm Attacks and 10 Farm Murders in South Africa — November 2020

During November 2020 there were thirty three farm attacks and ten farm murders in South Africa, whilst three farm attacks were successfully averted. During October 2020 there were 42 farm attacks and 7 farm murders in South Africa, whilst 5 farm attacks were successfully averted. The onslaught against the white minority, especially farmers, continues unabated with no action from government.

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Another 111 Boat Migrants Land in Britain Despite £28 Million Deal With France

Another 111 illegal boat migrants landed on British shores on Monday, a daily record for the number of illegal crossings for the month of December.

Despite Britain agreeing to pay the French another £28 million to step up patrols of the Calais coast, migrants continue to flow across the English Channel.

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Greece Accuses Turkey of Facilitating Somali Migration to the Country

The Greek government yesterday accused Turkey of encouraging Somali migration through promotion campaigns and visa offers, and then allowing the migrants to continue to Greece.

Athens has long accused Ankara of weaponising migration to pile pressure on the European Union.

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State Aid for Homeless Germans Pales in Comparison to That Given to Immigrants

With winter quickly approaching, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has started preparing an aid package for the homeless. Oddly, however, the minuscule amount of state aid set aside for Germany’s homeless population pales in comparison to that which is given to migrants living in the country.

The federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located in northwest region of the country, has allocated a measly €340,000 to help its homeless population make it through Germany’s icy winter as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. According to a report from the national weekly newspaper Die Zeit, the small amount of money will be used to provide those who are sleeping rough with sleeping bags, non-perishable food, disinfectants, and backpacks.

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UK: Now 23 Channel Migrants Block Bid to Kick Them Out: Group Who Arrived on Small Boats Are Given 11th-Hour Reprieve After Lodging Appeals Against Plan to Put Them on Flight to Poland

The row over deporting foreign nationals deepened last night after more than 20 were pulled off a Home Office charter flight.

Lawyers for 23 migrants who arrived in Britain on small boats across the Channel successfully blocked their removal from this country by submitting new legal challenges.

The migrants had been due to be deported alongside a group of criminals, including rapists, on the flight to Poland.

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‘What About My Daughter?’ 1,000 Pop. English Village Braces for 500-Man Migrant Camp

Local inhabitants of a small village in rural England have raised concerns after Home Office plans revealed that the government is considering the construction of a migrant camp outside the settlement.

Amidst record-breaking waves of illegal boat migration across the English Channel, the British government has been forced to resort to tactics which hitherto have mainly been seen on continental Europe.

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Biden Health Secretary Pick Supports at Birth Abortion, Has Radical Anti-Pro Life Agenda

Senator Rand Paul sounded a warning Monday about Joe Biden’s pick for The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services supporting late term and even at birth or after birth abortions.

Speaking about California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has been tapped up for the role by Biden, Paul said “I’m concerned about the reports that say that he’s been a champion for late-term abortion and at the time of birth abortion, and that’s outside the norm.”

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Odysee Positions Itself as a YouTube Successor

YouTube’s reputation as an open video platform has been declining for years with a series of technical solutions and policy decisions, hitting a new low this year with the pandemic saga and US election year politics.

Things are so dire in many ways for independent creators, especially when it comes to things like freedom of expression and monetization, that even though YouTube’s near-monopoly dominance of the market should discourage it, many alternatives are beginning to crop up. But in order to compete, these new platforms must offer something new that will ensure a departure from the centralized, corporate model.

Odysee is one such platform and its CEO Jeremy Kauffman makes no secret of what drives him to try to compete with the giant: the dwindling freedom and independence on the internet overall, which he describes as having become very corporate, with a handful of gatekeepers deciding on how information is disseminated.

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/8/2020

  1. “Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸
    @iheartmindy
    12h
    Excuse me, but how is the exact same person who’s the “first to get vaccinated” today…also in a CNN photo wearing the exact same clothes, in the exact same chair, and getting a shot back in October? 🤔

    Which one of these lying stories did you want us to pretend is true?”

    https://nitter.net/iheartmindy/status/1336486877507932160

  2. French language news…..

    Bollène: Two municipal police officers attacked with a knife shouting “Allah Akbar”

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/09/deux-policiers-municipaux-de-bollene-attaques-au-couteau/

    Bordeaux: the Sudanese refugee who shouted “Daesh” and “Allah akbar” while rushing at a gendarme given suspended sentence

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/bordeaux-le-refugie-soudanais-qui-avait-crie-daesh-et-allah-akbar-en-se-precipitant-sur-un-gendarme-condamne-a-de-la-prison-avec-sursis/

    Cherbourg: After going to the emergency room, man spits in the face and hits nurses with cries of “Allah Akbar”. The director justifies this gesture by her state of anxiety.

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/cherbourg-50-apres-setre-presente-aus-urgences-il-crache-au-visage-et-frappe-des-infirmieres-aux-cris-d-allah-akbar-la-directrice-justifie-ce-geste-par-son-etat-dangoisse/

    The Yvelines department co-funded a high school in Senegal with the Islamist association Ummah Charity, the founder of which was taken into custody following the attack on Samuel Paty

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/le-departement-des-yvelines-et-la-ville-de-creil-participent-au-financement-dun-lycee-au-senegal-en-partenariat-avec-lassociation-islamiste-ummah-charity-qui-avait-lancee-une-cagnotte-en-soutien-a/

    Bordeaux: gangs of “young people” burst into two high schools to attack students with a knife, a high school student stabbed in the neck

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/bordeaux-des-bandes-de-jeunes-font-irruption-dans-deux-lycees-pour-agresser-des-eleves-au-couteau-un-lyceen-poignarde-au-cou/

    Ouadie Elhamamouchi, CCIF lawyer: “Many Muslims do not understand Macron’s turnaround”

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/09/ouadie-elhamamouchi-avocat-du-ccif-beaucoup-de-musulmans-ne-comprennent-pas-le-retournement-de-macron/

    Bishop Gollnisch denounces OFPRA’s(French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless people) “Muslim culture instructors” who refuse asylum to Christians threatened with death in Iran after their conversion

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/mgr-gollnisch-denonce-les-instructeurs-de-culture-musulmane-de-lofpra-qui-refusent-lasile-a-des-chretiens-menaces-de-mort-en-iran-apres-leur-conversion/

    Zemmour: “You just have to listen to ‘France Inter’ to understand the Cathophobia and Islamophilia of this public radio. These people love ethnic diversity but hate diversity of opinions”

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/zemmour-il-suffit-decouter-france-inter-pour-comprendre-la-cathophobie-et-lislamophilie-de-cette-radio-publique-ces-gens-la-adorent-la-diversite-ethnique-mais-detestent-la-diversite-des-opini/

    Rennes: arrested for the burglary of a pharmacy, the isolated minor migrant starts again the next day

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/rennes-interpelle-pour-le-cambriolage-dun-pharmacie-le-migrant-mineur-isole-recommence-le-lendemain/

    An investigation opened after the sending of letters with the mention “Allah Akbar” to priests of Vaucluse

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/09/une-enquete-ouverte-apres-lenvoi-de-courriers-avec-la-mention-allah-akbar-a-des-pretres-du-vaucluse/

    Lyon: A Colombian student beaten up with a gun butt in the metro. “I was born in Colombia, and even there… I have never experienced such a thing”

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/09/lyon-un-etudiant-colombien-tabasse-a-coups-de-crosse-de-revolver-dans-le-metro-je-suis-ne-en-colombie-et-meme-la-bas-jamais-je-nai-vecu-un-truc-pareil/

    Chechen state television portrays Samuel Paty’s killer as victim of Islamophobic provocation

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/la-television-detat-tchetchene-presente-le-tueur-de-samuel-paty-comme-la-victime-dune-provocation-islamophobe/

    Separatism: the vice-president LR of Ile-de-France proposes to create an offense of clientelism

    https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/08/separatisme-le-vice-president-lr-dile-de-france-propose-de-creer-un-delit-de-clientelisme-2/

  3. The ‘science’ shows lockdowns do not work and do a lot of harm.
    https://thefatemperor.com/published-papers-and-data-on-lockdown-weak-efficacy-and-lockdown-huge-harms/

    If someone had a scientific theory that lockdowns would help they should be able to predict what kind of change would be observed in case and death data before and after lock downs and before and after the end of lock downs.

    I don’t think there is data to show lock downs help. The theory makes sense to me but that data is not there.
    There is lots of data to show lock downs harm people.

    • “Help” is subjective in this instance. If you’re a globalist elite, lock downs are a great help in determining how far the sheeple can be pushed before the slaughter begins. They also are a great help in conditioning the sheeple for their reenserfment.

  4. Search for title below. Lots of papers showing lock downs don’t work. At thefatemperor

    Published Papers and Data on Lockdown Weak Efficacy – and Lockdown Huge Harms

    Search for the video CRUCIAL Viral Update Dec 7th – Europe and USA Explained!

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