Government officials in Quebec and Jamaica have cracked down on illegal parties that violate Wuhan Coronavirus restrictions. A nightclub in Columbus, Ohio was shut down after a performance by a rap artist broke COVID rules. Meanwhile, police in St. Petersburg, Russia entered a bar that remained open after the lockdown curfew and beat patrons with clubs.
In other news, seventeen states have joined Texas in its lawsuit — or, more properly, its motion for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order — filed with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn election results in four battleground states where the local executive officials or judges violated state election laws passed by the state legislatures.
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48 States, FTC Unveil Anti-Trust Push to Break Up Facebook
Facebook shares are extending their losses today as US antitrust officials and a coalition of a states sued the social media company for allegedly abusing its dominance to crush competition.
The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general led by New York filed an antitrust complaint against Facebook Wednesday, alleging a litany of actions to thwart rivals and protect its monopoly. The lawsuit also sought a permanent injunction to the unwinding of the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions.
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Alleged Sexual Abuse Occurred in Antifa Supply Van in Denver
A van being used as a far-left operations base to protect a homeless encampment in Denver became the site of an alleged sexual abuse incident
In a confession thread posted to Twitter, an anonymously-run account admits engaging in sexual activity with several people in front of a “non-participating and non-consenting comrade” on Nov. 30. The alleged incident occurred inside an RV used by far-left activists who were patrolling the camp as volunteer security.
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California Church, Pastor Fined, Found in Contempt for Breaking Coronavirus Restrictions
Calvary Chapel in northern California and its pastor were found in contempt on Tuesday and fined for repeatedly defying a court order to stop holding unmasked, indoor gatherings, officials said.
“I respect the judge, I understand what the laws are, but there’s a bigger law,” said Mike McClure, head pastor of Calvary Chapel San Jose.
The church was fined $55,000.
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California Sends Text Alert Asking Millions to Stay Home
LOS ANGELES — California authorities sent a cellphone text alert Tuesday to two major regions of the nation’s most populous state to tell millions that the coronavirus is spreading rapidly and asking them to stay home except for essential activities.
The noon blast to the state-designated 11-county Southern California region and 12-county San Joaquin Valley region was sent by the state Office of Emergency Services.
The text also urged people to wear masks and physically distance.
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Chinese Spy Compromised Several U.S. Politicians, Including Rep. Swalwell, Investigation Reveals
A year-long investigation into Chinese espionage in the United States revealed that a Chinese spy managed to forge several strong, well-connected ties to multiple state and national politicians, including Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, used personal charm, campaign fundraising efforts, extensive networks of associates, and even sexual relationships with two Midwestern mayors to gain information and influence.
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Columbus Nightclub Shuttered After Packed Trey Songz Gig Breaks Coronavirus Protocols
A Columbus, Ohio, nightclub has been temporarily closed after officials say R&B singer Trey Songz held a show with more than 500 people over the weekend, according to CNN.
Plainclothes officers from the Ohio Investigative Unit — a division of the state’s Dept. of Public Safety — found hundreds of unmasked and not socially distanced people inside the Aftermath nightclub on Saturday night (Dec. 5), according to a release about the incident.
“Agents arrived at 9:30 p.m. and observed egregious violations of health orders as approximately 500 people inside attended a concert,” reads the statement.
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Cornell U. Offers Exemption to Mandatory Flu Vaccine Policy for ‘BIPOC’ Students
Cornell University recently offered an exemption on its mandatory flu vaccine policy to minority students. A page on the university’s website suggests that “students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color (BIPOC)” can apply to be exempt from the mandatory vaccine rule if it makes them uncomfortable for reasons that most may find perplexing.
According to a report by Campus Reform, minority students at Cornell University may be permitted to excuse themselves from a mandatory flu vaccine policy.
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According to retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding, the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “pandemic” is a weapon that was hatched by communist China as part of its “stealth war” against the United States. While traditional weapons of war include things like guns and bombs, COVID-19 is “novel” in the sense that it achieves a number of different goals, not the least of which include the destruction of the economy, people’s minds, and national stability. From a health perspective, COVID-19 is pretty much a non-issue…
Whether or not COVID-19 is even a real virus is unimportant, it turns out. Simply convincing enough people that it exists — and convincing them that the only cure is mass compliance with communist-style “public health” dictates such as masks and vaccines — is apparently enough to bring about the total destruction of national sovereignty, which is exactly what is now taking place. Public health measures also do not have to make any sense whatsoever — which they clearly do not — just so long as enough people believe that they help. Spinning narratives like “masks only work if everyone wears them,” which is exactly the same as “vaccines only work if everyone gets them,” also program the masses to demand communist-style adherence to the “rules” as a replacement for freedom and individual liberty. If you really stop to think about it, everything the government is telling us about COVID-19 in terms of how to supposedly eradicate it predicates upon individuals giving up their sovereignty and coalescing to the “herd.” There is no more room for freedom of choice or even freedom of thought, which is exactly how society works in communist China.
[Comment: It is Government over-reaaction, pushed by “Great Reset” traitors within the government, that is destroying western economies.]
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Deep State Threat? Gov. Kemp Daughter’s Boyfriend Killed in Fiery, Explosive Wreck
A staffer and close family friend of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp died in a tragic car wreck Friday morning, hours after the governor called for a signature audit of 2020 election votes.
Local media reported 20-year-old Harrison Deal, an aide to Sen. Kelly Loeffler, former intern to Sen. David Perdue and boyfriend of Kemp’s daughter Lucy, was the only person who died in a fiery three-car wreck on I-16 in Pooler.
Witnesses reportedly heard explosions from the crash over a mile away.
Witnesses near the Harrison Deal car crash reported hearing “loud explosion.”
Some claimed to have heard multiple explosions that lasted until first responders arrived…
#HarrisonDeal car exploded (witnesses heard the explosion over a mile away). Vehicle left as molten metal, engine block ejected 50-60 yards away. That’s not an accident. That’s a car bomb disguised as an accident…
Investigative journalist Michael Hastings met a similar fate.
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Facebook Fact-Checker USA Today is Using College Kids to Censor News and Social Media Posts
USA Today, one of Facebook’s third-party fact-checking partners, is using college interns to create fact-checks that sometimes result in posts being suppressed and hidden behind a “False Information” notice.
In one of these fact-checks, Camille Caldera, a summer intern at USA Today, fact-checked a viral photo of Jen Psaki, who was recently named as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s press secretary.
The viral photo shows Psaki wearing a hammer and sickle hat while posing with officials from Russia. The fact-check admits “the image is real” but somehow still gives it a final rating of “missing context.”
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Hunter Biden Reveals he is Facing Tax Fraud Investigation
In a surprise move, Hunter Biden, the controversial son of former Vice President Joe Biden whose business dealings in China and Ukraine were exposed in a series of stunning exposes in the runup to the Nov. 3 election, has just revealed that he is under federal investigation for potential tax-related malfeasance.
Investigators are said to have been examining multiple financial crimes involving Hunter, including whether he and/or his associates violated tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China. Some of those transactions involved individuals whom the FBI believed could pose counterintelligence concerns.
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A Los Angeles judge has tentatively struck down the county’s ban on outdoor dining after the Public Health Department — led by Director Barbara Ferrer — failed to provide a scientific basis for the order.
According to The Real Deal, LA County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant overturned the county’s outdoor dining ban which went into effect on Nov. 25, calling it an “abuse” of powers that are “unsupported by any findings.”
“The Restaurant Closure Order is an abuse of the Department’s emergency powers, is not grounded in science, evidence, or logic, and should be adjudicated to be unenforceable as a matter of law,” wrote Chalfant in a 73-page assessment which found that the county failed to perform a required risk-benefit analysis about the restriction.
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Jake Paul Asked if Knocking Out Black Man in a Boxing Match Was Racist
YouTuber Jake Paul, who beat former NBA star Nate Robinson in a boxing match last month, was asked by a VICE host if knocking out Robinson was racist.
Yes, really.
Paul, who previously fought another black opponent in YouTuber Deji, achieved a second round knockout victory over Robinson in a fight that was part of the undercard for the Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. exhibition match.
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In a Wednesday statement, Michigan Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield said that Rep. Cynthia Johnson has been stripped of her committees and faces ‘further disciplinary action.’
“Threats to either Democrats or Republicans are unacceptable and un-American,” wrote Chatfield in a statement. “They’re even more unbecoming of an elected official,” he added.
“Rep. Johnson has been removed from her committee assignments, and we are looking into further disciplanary action as the proper authorities conduct their own investigations.”
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New York State Assembly Introduces Bill Mandating COVID-19 Vaccine
Authored by Meiling Lee via The Epoch Times
New Yorkers will no longer have to decide if they will receive a COVID-19 vaccine if a bill calling for a mandatory vaccine gets approved.
New York State Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents New York’s 67th Assembly District, quietly introduced a bill on Dec. 4 that would require “COVID-19 vaccine to be administered in accordance with the department of health’s COVID-19 vaccination administration program and mandates vaccination in certain situations.”
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Newsmax Ratings Surge, Surpass Fox for First Time
Before Nov. 3, neither OAN nor Newsmax could come anywhere close to matching, or surpassing, the ratings from America’s reigning king of cable: Fox News, the conservative-leaning news and opinion network that helped cultivate the base of GOP voters which Trump rallied to victory in 2016, has finally lost its crown.
According to media reports, Newsmax beat Fox News among the coveted 25— to 54-year-old demographic for the first time ever on Monday evening. The ratings win comes amid a breakthrough in the Trump Administration’s push to challenge the election results in the court of public opinion to try and “delegitimize” Biden’s presidency (just like how many on the left refused to accept Donald Trump as their president 4 yeas ago).
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One Third of US States Have Now Joined Texas SCOTUS Bid to Overturn Election
Update (1555ET): A total of seventeen US states filed a brief at the US Supreme Court on Wednesday in support of Texas’s bid to overturn the election results.
First it was Louisiana, then late on Tuesday Eric Schmitt, the Attorney General for Missouri, announced he will join Texas in the battle to Supreme Court.
“Election integrity is central to our republic,” said in a tweet Schmitt. “And I will defend it at every turn. As I have in other cases — I will help lead the effort in support of Texas’ #SCOTUS filing today. Missouri is in the fight.”
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Portland Police Attacked in Broad Daylight After Antifa Erects New ‘Autonomous Zone’
Though already long tolerating such brazenly threatening actions and city section ‘takeovers’ by Antifa, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Tuesday: “There will be no autonomous zone in Portland.”
But it yet again appears too late as according to the Associated Press:
A group of activists for months have camped at the home dubbed “Red House on Mississippi” because it is on North Mississippi Avenue — to express their outrage against gentrification and the eviction of the Black and Indigenous family in September.
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A Pennsylvania elementary school principal has filed a lawsuit against the school district that fired her after she shared on her Facebook page conservative memes, including one that read it is better to vote for a potato than Joe Biden.
Veteran educator Amy Sacks, principal of Evergreen Elementary School in the Perkiomen Valley School District, where she has worked for 20 years, posted a number of conservative memes to her Facebook page, which can be viewed in the report at the Daily Mail.
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Rep. Swalwell Alleges Trump Colluded With Axios on Report Detailing His Connection to Chinese Spy
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) implied Tuesday that President Trump was behind Axios’s bombshell report showing he was one of several California politicians targeted by a Chinese spy.
Swalwell, who was one of the most ardent proponents of investigating the president over allegations of collusion with Russia, said the timing of the report was suspicious.
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Update (1345ET): Fox News contributor, and ex-Congressman, Jason Chaffetz said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., should be kicked off the intelligence committee after a report he was caught up in an expansive Chinese spying operation.
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Senate Confirms Big Tech Critic Nate Simington to the FCC
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a new member: Nathan Simington, nominated by President Trump and now confirmed by the Senate.
Simington, who will become one of the two Republican commissioners in this independent body that also has two Democrats and a chairperson (currently Ajit Pai, who is about to leave the post in January) was previously greeted with suspicion because of how little Washington lobbyists knew about him.
Another reason might have been the fact he was nominated by Trump, who is also trying to enlist FCC’s help in curbing the right of Big Tech to apply widespread censorship, particularly on social media, with no legal consequences.
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U.S. elections have been rigged by a conspiracy among the CIA, the mainstream media and “globalist interests” who have turned the United States into a Third World nation, warns attorney Sidney Powell. Here’s how she explained it in a recent interview:
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Twitter Won’t Say Why it Censored Independent News Outlet, The Center Square
Twitter blocked The Center Square, a news watchdog website, for over ten days. While the platform did not explain why it seems the problems started when the news website published a story related to a bribery case involving an energy company.
Twitter and other social media companies can control what people can and can’t post. The Center Square learned that the hard way. For the past ten days, its stories have been blocked by the platform. Unsurprisingly, the platform did not explain why they were restricting the news website.
However, according to an Op-ed on Daily-Journal, a local newspaper based in Kankakee County, Illinois, by The Center Square’s journalist Chris Krug, Twitter is punishing the news website for being good at reporting news.
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Video: Another Travel Company Executive Says Vaccine Passports Are Coming
Yet another travel industry executive has stated that he believes so called ‘COVID passports’ will be introduced, requiring anyone who wishes to board a plane to be vaccinated.
The president of travel company Acendas, Brent Blake, told Fox 4 News that “Traveler safety, to me, is top-of-the-line for everybody. And in order to do that, there’s going to be some requirements to be able to travel.”
Blake said that he believes that “until the government comes up with a standardised process, it’s going to be a little bit of a wild west show.”
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YouTube Bans Videos Claiming 2020 Presidential Election Fraud
YouTube says it will no longer allow users to upload videos claiming that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to fraud.
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YouTube Will Remove Videos Questioning Biden Election Victory Even as Legal Challenges Continue
Google-owned video platform YouTube has announced plans to remove any content that questions Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.S. presidential election despite the fact that legal challenges involving multiple states continue. YouTube also announced it will be promoting “authoritative news sources,” such as NBC and CBS in video recommendations.
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YouTube announced Wednesday that the Google-owned video platform would outright remove content critical of the 2020 election results and would only promote videos from corporate media.
YouTube will also still feature bogus claims that Russia stole the 2016 presidential election with a couple hundred thousand dollars in Facebook ads, a favorite narrative of the corporate media even after a more than two-year investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller made no such conclusion.
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In one of its most flagrant election-related censorship moves to date, YouTube has announced that from today, it will start removing any videos alleging that “widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of any past US presidential election.”
For the 2020 US presidential election, YouTube is applying this policy to all videos uploaded on or after December 9. It will then start issuing strikes to videos that are uploaded after Inauguration Day (January 20, 2021) and then removed under this policy.
YouTube also revealed that it has already removed more than 8,000 channels and thousands of “harmful and misleading elections-related videos” under its existing policies.
This change means that any videos sharing or agreeing with President Trump’s official legal argument, which alleges that Trump won the election and that there is evidence of widespread voter fraud that changed the result of the election, will now be purged from the platform.
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Canadian Health Ministry Exploring “Immunity Passports, “ Vaccine “Tracking and Surveillance”
The Health Minister of Ontario in Canada has stoked controversy by suggesting that people who do not take the coronavirus vaccine will face restrictions on where they can travel and spend time.
When asked by reporters about how the government intends to go about convincing people to get the vaccine, Health Minister Christine Elliott warned that those who refuse it will face difficulties reintegrating into society.
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The premier of Canada’s oil-rich province Alberta, Jason Kenney, has sounded the alarm over the so-called Great Reset, describing it as a “grab bag of left-wing ideas, for less freedom, and more government.”
In a four-minute long explainer video on his social media channels, Kenney says the Great Reset is “not a conspiracy theory, but an actual set of concrete proposals” based on a book of the same name by Klaus Schwab.
Schwab is the president and founder of the World Economic Forum, aka Davos, or as Kenney describes it, the “biggest gathering of global hypocrites in history.”
The premier claims Schwab sent a copy to every government leader around the world, detailing his thesis that governments and societies should seize the opportunity of the public health and economic crisis wreaked by the Covid-19 pandemic to reimagine the world and radically change policies.
Clearly no fan of globalist leadership, Kenney lambastes the Davos elites who presume to “lecture working men and women about how they should reduce their carbon footprint” with “hypocrisy so thick, you can’t even cut it with a knife.”
Throughout the video, Kenney decries the proposed policies that would, in his estimation, create massive poverty, particularly the energy policies advocated by some very influential people, including Canada’s own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
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Partygoers Purposely Flouting COVID-19 Rules Face $1K
At least 15 people who attended a house party aimed at flouting COVID-19 restrictions in a community in western Quebec last weekend will receive $1,000 fines, Quebec provincial police say.
Officers arrived at the party in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge — a municipality between Montreal and Ottawa — around 10 p.m. Saturday after receiving complaints.
Party host Steeve Charland told Radio-Canada in French that four officers took down his identification and licence plate numbers from cars parked outside. He described the police visit as a “courtesy call” and said officers didn’t try to break up the party.
But police say it was no courtesy call.
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The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetuated on an Unsuspecting Public
Story at-a-glance:
According to Dr. Roger Hodkinson, one of Canada’s top pathologists and an expert in virology, the COVID-19 pandemic is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public”
Hodkinson stressed that PCR tests cannot diagnose infection and mass testing should therefore cease immediately. He also pointed out that social distancing and universal mask wearing are useless measures
Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., former vice-president and chief scientific adviser for Pfizer and founder and CEO of the biotech company Ziarco, has also spoken out about how fraudulent PCR testing is being used to manufacture the appearance of a pandemic that doesn’t really exist
Others who have identified the COVID-19 pandemic as a global hoax of unprecedented proportions include a group of German lawyers who founded the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee and are now laying the foundation for mass class-action lawsuits
Included are suggestions for how you can resist and defend against the global power grab and be part of the solution
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Austria: Turkish-Led Gang Made Millions in European Fake Police Scam
An organised gang led by a Turkish national are said to have made millions of euros by disguising themselves as police officers and robbing the elderly in Vienna.
The gang, which has been in operation since 2018, is said to have been led by a 25-year-old Turkish man who is currently wanted on a European-wide arrest warrant.
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Close to 400 Incidents of Terrorism Glorification Reported in French Schools Last Month
There were nearly 400 incidents relating to the glorification of terrorism reported in educational institutions across France last month, according to the country’s education ministry.
The French Ministry of National Education reported 393 of such incidents taking place between the Nov. 4 and Nov. 30, with most of them relating to provocations, protests, or apologies for terrorism, 20 Minutes France reports.
The ministry also noted that from Oct. 16 — the day French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded outside of his school by a Chechen Islamist migrant after showing a cartoon of the Islamic Prophet Mohammad — to Nov. 3, 400 incidents relating to the glorification of terrorism were recorded.
While nearly half (48 percent) of the recorded incidents taking place at middle schools, 23 percent occurred at primary schools, 18 percent at high schools, and 11 percent at vocational colleges.
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French Former Top General Says He Fears Civil War Due to ‘Crisis of Authority’
French General Pierre de Villiers, the former chief of staff of the French armed forces, has warned that France could be heading for civil conflict, due to Islamist radicals and growing urban violence.
General de Villiers, who made headlines by quitting as armed forces chief of staff in 2017 over clashes on army budget cuts with President Emmanuel Macron, warned of a variety of factors that could see France heading to potential civil conflict.
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German Intelligence Places Coronavirus Protesters Under Observation
BERLIN — German intelligence agents have placed under observation a group of protesters against coronavirus restrictions, citing the influence of radicals including far-right Nazi admirers.
The domestic intelligence service in the southwestern Baden-Wuerttemberg region put the “Querdenken 711” group on a watch-list due to its increasing radicalisation, the state’s interior ministry said on Wednesday.
“Querdenken 711” was founded early in the pandemic by IT entrepreneur Michael Ballweg in the affluent city of Stuttgart and helped begin a nationwide movement.
Its name loosely translates as thinking out of the box, while 0711 is the telephone area code. Members range from left to right to esoteric on the political spectrum, united by their opposition to COVID-19 regulations.
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Hungary Won’t Lose EU Finds Due to Its Veto, Justice Minister Varga Says
Hungary does not have to worry about losing EU funds due to the veto, Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga told Magyar Nemzet in an interview. She said it is no longer a secret in the European Union that they would force the majority position on those states that do not join their ranks.
The justice minister also spoke that seizing power is more important to the Hungarian opposition parties than patriotism, and shows the moral crisis of the left and proof that leftist rule would not be good for the country.
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Media Expert: PKN Orlen’s ‘Repolonization’ Could Signal Rebirth of Regional Media in Poland
Fuel and energy conglomerate PKN Orlen’s decision to purchase Polska Press, a group of regional papers and media outlets, could lead to increased competition on the market that drives better quality of coverage for consumers, said Dr. Piotr Luczuk, a media expert of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, in an interview Polish news portal Dorzeczy.
Dr. Luczuk said he believed that the decision by the state-owned PKN Orlen will have revolutionary implications for the whole of the media market in Poland.
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Netherlands: Three Polish Supermarkets Bombed in Two Days
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An explosion damaged a Polish supermarket in a Dutch town near Amsterdam early Wednesday morning, the third such blast in two days.
Police said the explosion happened at a store in the town of Beverwijk, 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of Amsterdam. Nobody was injured, but the store was badly damaged in the explosion at 5:15 a.m. (0415 GMT).
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Poland & Hungary Accept German Proposal on $2.2 Trillion EU Stimulus
Germany has mediated a way through the blocked 1.8 trillion euros ($2.18 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus relief package proposal that Poland and Hungary were jointly blocking due to clauses linking the funds with rule of law and conditioned but vaguely defined democratic standards.
While some member states remain skeptical, the two countries are said to have preliminarily accepted it. Thursday’s European Council summit is set to take up the matter.
One official with knowledge of the negotiations told Reuters that “We are preliminarily in agreement but there is some pressure…the aim is to have this done before the EU summit (on Thursday).”
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A sex party in Belgium has been broken up by police — days after a Hungarian anti-LGBT MEP was caught at an all-male orgy in Brussels.
In the latest raid, a private party of ten people was interrupted by officers at a house in Paal, in the province of Limburg.
All of the people at the sex party were fined €250 (£225) for breaking coronavirusregulations, according to Derniere Heure.
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Sweden Limits Store Hours and Sports as Cases Climb, But Insists Lockdowns “Not Possible”
Jubilant journalists from London, to New York, to Brussels and seemingly everywhere in between were almost jubilant a little over a month ago when headlines pronounced that even Sweden, the lone European holdouts who kept schools open and the economy running as normal for the bulk of the pandemic, would impose some mandatory restrictions as cases, hospitalizations and deaths were once again on the rise.
Sweden’s approach came with a cost, of course: For months, it had one of the higher death tolls in Europe (though still not the highest — that title belongs to the UK). And some have questioned whether Sweden’s laissez faire approach, engineered by chief virologist Anders Tegnell, might have been misguided — even though data show most Swedes voluntarily obeyed all the social distancing and mask related ‘recommendations.”
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UK Govt Warning After Two Suffer ‘Adverse’ Reaction on First Day of Coronavirus Vaccine
A British government advisory committee has advised against people with a “significant” history of allergic reactions from taking the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, after two National Health Service (NHS) staff members suffered allergic reactions to the vaccine.
The two healthcare workers developed symptoms of an “anaphylactoid reaction” shortly after being injected with the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, the first day of coronavirus vaccinations in the UK.
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UK Requires ‘Resuscitation Facilities’ At Corona Vaccine Centres After Allergic Reactions
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) confirmed on Wednesday that it is deploying “resuscitation facilities” in coronavirus vaccination centres following the revelation that two healthcare workers suffered anaphylactoid reactions after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on the first day of rollout.
Following the adverse reactions experienced by the two healthcare workers, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued “precautionary advice” which said that people who have a “history of a significant reaction” to medicines, foods, or vaccines should avoid taking the coronavirus vaccine.
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UK: ‘Expect a Sell Out’: Warning as Boris Heads to Last-Minute Brussels Brexit Talks
The European Union is pushing for a “partnership agreement” in the dying hours of talks, Brexit leader Nigel Farage warns as PM Boris Johnson prepares to head to Brussels for dinner with the European Commission President.
Boris Johnson will travel to Brussels on Wednesday afternoon to have a working dinner with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, a meeting of “principles” — otherwise known as leaders — billed as being the final make-or-break talks in a Brexit process that has taken over four years.
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UK: Manchester Arena Bomber’s Brother ‘Admits Terror Attack Was for ISIS’
The Manchester bomber’s brother said they launched the terror attack in support of Isis, an inquiry has heard.
Hashem Abedi denied involvement in the plot until October this year, after he was jailed for life for his part in the murders of the 22 victims.
Further details from his admissions, which came in an interview inside prison with the public inquiry’s legal team, were revealed on Wednesday.
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UK: Poll: Majority Want Travel Bans for the Unvaccinated
A majority of people in Britain are in favour of completely banning air travel for people who refuse to take the COVID vaccine, according to a Sky News/YouGov poll.
The survey found that 54 percent of people believe that those who have not taken the shot should not be allowed to board any airplane.
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What’s Next Following Romania’s Parliamentary Election?
by Matt Snape
It looks as if Romania’s National Liberal Party (PNL) has suffered an unexpected defeat following the country’s recent parliamentary election. The opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) was just short of 30 percent of votes in the nation’s general election on Sunday, according to preliminary results published on Monday after over 90 percent of votes had been counted.
Surprise Result Overturns Expectations
This was not the result that the PNL expected. In September, activist Nicusor Dan defeated the Social Democratic incumbent mayor of Bucharest, Gabriela Firea, which gave the PNL the boost that they needed for last Sunday’s poll. At the time, the Liberal Party said it won the most mandates in its history and it gained control of approximately half of Romania’s local-county heads, as well as of the mayors of the biggest cities, including Cluj-Napoca and Iasi.
In normal circumstances, this would provide any governing party with confidence ahead of a national election, but like with many elections in recent years, the opinion polls got their predictions horribly wrong.
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Another Missing British Teen Girl Found in Syrian Camp for ISIS Brides
Nasra Abukar, who went missing from her London home aged 18, has been found at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp for Islamic State family members in Syria, the same location where Shamima Begum was tracked down last year.
Ms Abukar had been persuaded to travel to Syria to marry jihadist Aseel Muthana six years ago, according to information obtained by The Times — the same newspaper that found Ms Begum in February 2019.
Abukar had two sons with the Muthana, Faris and Talha, with the former being killed in a coalition airstrike that also injured her husband. The Somali-heritage 24-year-old wants to return to the United Kingdom with her three-year-old surviving son; however, like Begum, she, too, has reportedly been stripped of her British citizenship after authorities deemed her a security risk.
The newspaper reports that social media posts allegedly attributed to the young woman showed her promoting life in the Caliphate and sneering at the 2015 Bataclan terror attacks, typing the word “Paris” followed by a “crying with laughter” emoji shortly after jihadists slaughtered 130 people.
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Russian Cops Pound Bar Patrons With Clubs for Flouting COVID-19 Rules
Russia isn’t playing around with bars that flout COVID-19 rules.
A team of Russian police beat partiers at one St. Petersburg watering hole with clubs Wednesday for failing to close at 11 p.m. due to the pandemic.
Surveillance footage showed more than a dozen officers storming into The Commode bar and forcing patrons onto the floor, some of whom were pounded with truncheons.
“We didn’t expect them to break down the doors and kick and beat girls with batons,” Nikita Farbess, Commode’s co-owner, told Reuters.
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30 Christians Slaughtered by Jihadist Attack in Democratic Republic of Congo
A string of horrific terror attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo has resulted in at least 30 Christians killed and multiple young girls raped by jihadi terrorists. The Allied Democratic Forces, an extremist Muslim organization, terrorized villages in the northeastern part of the country during the last two weeks of November.
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U.S. Adds Nigeria to List of Worst Religious Freedom Violators
The U.S. State Department has added Nigeria to a list of “countries of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act.
“The United States is designating Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, the DPRK, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, as amended, for engaging in or tolerating ‘systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom,’“ said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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Jamaica: McKenzie Moves to Shut Down Illegal Parties; Says No Permits Granted
An illegal party titled ‘Shut Yuh Mouth with Yuh Likkle Bit a Money’ that was advertised for Wednesday, December 9 in Bull Bay, St Andrew in clear breach of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), will not take place as scheduled as Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has asked the police to shut it down.
The promoters of the event also claimed that the party was sanctioned by the “Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC)” which the minister noted was both erroneous and a lie as the KSAC has for sometime been renamed the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC). McKenzie also noted that none of the 14 municipal corporations across the country had granted any permits for any entertainment event in the last five months.
McKenzie, who was addressing the House of Representatives on Tuesday, said promoters were using social media to advertise their events in an effort to bypass the proper channels and to keep the police off their track.
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A gang of 15 migrants left a British lorry driver bloodied after smashing the window of his cab with a rock while he waited in a queue in Calais.
Andy Couper, 57, was left with blood pouring down his face after being attacked by the gang while waiting in his vegetable-filled lorry to board a ferry at the French port.
He told The Telegraph how some of the migrants tried to get into his lorry before ‘someone hit the truck’ and the ‘whole passenger window’ was smashed, leaving him injured.
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Spain: Over 8,000 Illegal Migrants Land on the Canary Islands in November
The month of November saw more than 8,000 illegal boat migrants arrive on the Spanish Canary Islands, in what could be an all-time record month, according to figures from the Spanish Interior Ministry.
Spain’s Ministry of the Interior said last Thursday that 8,157 illegal boat migrants were recorded as having landed on the Canary Islands in November, bringing the total number of illegal migrants who have arrived in the Atlantic archipelago so far this year to an estimated 20,000, the French newspaper Le Figaro reports.
The amount of migrants who’ve arrived illegally in 2020 is roughly ten times higher the number seen in the previous year, with the sheer number of arrivals overwhelming the small island chain. Of the total, 75 percent arrived between September and November.
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UK: Blunder Sees Sixty-Nine Fishing Boat Migrants ‘Walk Free’
Albanians caught hiding in trawler off East Anglia are let off illegal entry charges because they were detained BEFORE setting foot on British soil
Criminal charges against 69 Albanian migrants found hiding in a trawler heading for Britain were dropped yesterday after a legal bungle.
The migrants were arrested last month after the fishing boat was intercepted off the coast of East Anglia.
The operation on November 17 involved the National Crime Agency, police and Border Force officers.
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Sweden: New Children’s Bible Features Far-Left Gender and Diversity Ideology; Claims God is Asexual
The Children’s Best Bible, the first Swedish children’s Bible in more than a quarter century to have been translated from Greek and Hebrew texts, contains far-left gender and diversity ideology which, among other things, claims that God is asexual.
The researcher, editor, and writer of the new Bible, Sören Dalevi, a bishop in the ultra-liberal Lutheran Church of Sweden, researched children’s Bibles and translated texts from Greek and Hebrew before producing his own version of the book — something that hasn’t been done since the Bible for Children was published in 1995, Swedish state media reports.
Among other things, Dalevi’s book differs from previously published children’s Bibles in that it wasn’t at all translated from English.
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The ACLU Sells “I Read Banned Books” Merch While Its Lawyers Advocate for Book Burning
In the past, controversy followed the ACLU because of how far the non-profit was willing to go to protect legally guaranteed free speech in the US; but these days, it’s because of how much the group is willing to contradict its own previous policies.
One recent incident that added to that new perception of the ACLU as having abandoned its original purpose and promise was when one of its prominent lawyers joined an online cancel campaign against a book with whose content they disagreed.
Thus the organization that used to defend even the right of Nazis and the KKK to exercise their rights guaranteed in the US under the First Amendment, found itself trying to purge a book exploring transgenderism.
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Breaking breaking;- on Canada’s realignment with the Chinese Communist Party.
Normally I would not take too much notice, read the first link, then take your time to go through the 2nd link and the half hour video, to figure just some of the ramifications.
NO LONGER A RUMOUR— CHINESE TROOPS AMASSED ON US/CANADIAN BORDER
https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/19370/chinese-troops-on-us-canadian-border/
The mainstream press has been silent—or are they simply serving their CCP handlers and Democrat Marxist Comrades, as they prepare for action?
President Trump ordered a redeployment of F-22s and F-35s to Alaska recently, and authorised one million reservists to be ‘called up’ back in the Spring.
Sending America’s latest military aircraft to the hinterlands of Alaska made absolutely no sense when we first read about it. Why did he do that?
I did not connect the dots—until now. Trump has flanked the enemy with the most sophisticated air power on earth.
The Chi-coms move an inch toward America, he can light them up from behind.
Trudeau shows his commitment to the CCP, though he has been hiding that as dirty secret.
Canada seems to have sold out, though I think the news kept out of their main stream media, will be winding up in Canada too. 🙂
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to send its troops for cold weather training at CFB Petawawa in Ontario
https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_december_09_2020
The “China Files”, that probably will get rescinded if Trudeau gets his way.
Read them while you can.
The Chinese must have some dirt on Trudeau and his merry band most definitely in China’s pocket.
This seems to be done in secret.
https://www.rebelnews.com/the_china_files
The video there, the China files, is 31 minutes 25 seconds and as mentioned, well worth reflecting on.
Re aligning Canada to Communist Chinese Party. hmm.
I find it unbelievable!, but then, am I really surprised?
Shocked yes, but not surprised.
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Plenty of cold places up in the Himalayas bordering India too.
Working with Canadian troops, Canadian troop helping train the
Chinese.
What else will those troops be noting, like how Canadian troops also do things.
Anything else they can spy on?
The stinking thing is, keeping it quiet from the rest of who would have been Canadian allies, and keeping it quiet from 5 eyes and NATO.
It is not only Trudeau, but the rest of his government, and then also what looks like to be a lot in the civil service.
Then there has been all the trade pressure, diplomacy nonsense to pressure up Australia.
Plus what is now being revealed in the USA, to destroy “election integrity, plus so many things to actually pull down a country.
Truth, exposure, and plus thanks to Baron.
To know we have done what we can do, look after yourself, allow time to refresh, and steady as it goes.
Also to all other commentators too, God be with you all, as life is to be lived in abundance.
Those Rebel News, China Files are from the Canadian government released under their form of Official Government Information.
Inadvertently or for whatever reason was not redacted by much, as Eliza Levant then explains, only he did fully black out some names, for privacy and security of a person.
One can read the full 32 pages of the or click the “view”
https://www.rebelnews.com/the_china_files
I think the documents need to be recopied, and spread, and same as the video, so it can go on other platforms than Youtube.
It would seem Trump is ahead of the play, but it is the people that need to have information, the truth, that allows them knowledge to figure things more accurately so as to make good decisions.
Trump only gains real power with knowledgeable citizens.
BoJo strikes again!
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/12/uk-johnson-accused-of-secret-retreat-on-battling-jihad-terror-as-538000000-slashed-from-anti-terror-budget
fdsesouche has footage of the machete attack on a mother in Britain
https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/12/10/gb-une-mere-attaquee-a-la-machette-alors-quelle-va-chercher-sa-fille-a-lecole-la-police-ne-se-deplace-pas/
What does Gates of Vienna think of Infowars as a source?
https://europe.infowars.com/
they have very good articles
InfoWars is generally pretty good. I’ve seen Alex Jones shave the truth a little here and there, but mostly the site is reliable, even if it does sensationalize everything.
I usually look for his source, or google more on some of the points so as to use a more credible source.
I eventually thought he was so over the top, that he was more damaging as a loose cannon, so his shots were totally ineffective, and doing a lot a damage around himself.
Alex Jones’s bombastic impulsive ways are a bit too much for me.
A couple of weeks ago I ended up watching an interview with Tim Pool of timcast for a number of hours.
A good balance, as timcast quietly kept fact checking, and so Alex Jones became a bit more thoughtful.
I was intrigued and enjoyed it.
That Utube of Tim’s was booted from Utube, as Alex Jones could not resist by being reckless, uttering just a couple of key words, even after Tim’s warnings. So the damage was done.
What I call an outlier for information, and so can be useful, but can be time consuming as one has to verify so much.
A good tool on some occasions, when needs be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55260166
Disarming the population
Like I said, whatever the so called law says about arms, ignore it. Quite a few of us Americans are going to make boatloads of coin of the realm selling arms to the native Brits soon. Sheep? Or Wolf?
The Russians are finding a heck of a brisk business these days I understand.