Thousands of demonstrators marched in Vienna to protest the Austrian government’s lockdown measures. Meanwhile, eleven people were arrested in an anti-lockdown protest in the British city of Birmingham. Lockdown protesters were also arrested in Toronto.
In other news, more than 15,000 illegal migrants attempted to cross the English Channel into the UK during 2020.
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“655 People Have $4 Trillion in Wealth. 200 Million Can’t Cover a $1000 Expense.”
The COVID pandemic has caused the gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us to grow larger than it ever has been before. Thanks to the hyperinflationary policies of the Federal Reserve and our politicians in Washington, stock prices have soared to unprecedented heights in recent months. This pushed the wealth of the uber-rich to dizzying heights, but for the rest of the country, 2020 was an unmitigated nightmare.
As I have discussed previously, one survey found that 2020 was a “personal financial disaster” for 55 percent of all Americans. More than 110,000 restaurants shut down permanently last year, Americans filed more than 70 million claims for unemployment benefits, and tens of millions are potentially facing eviction in 2021. But even though we are mired in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, those at the very top of the economic pyramid are laughing all the way to the bank.
Earlier today, I came across a tweet from Sven Heinrich that really struck an emotional chord with me…
655 people have $4 trillion in wealth.
200 million can’t cover a $1000 expense.
I certainly don’t have any problem with people gaining wealth by working extremely hard and making society a better place in the process.
But most of the people at the very top of the economic pyramid only increased their wealth in 2020 because the powers that be decided to open up the firehoses and rain obscene amounts of money on them.
That isn’t right.
As a result of the deeply flawed policies that were implemented because of the COVID pandemic, the gap between “gains in financial assets and the health of the economy” was the largest ever recorded last year…
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Alex Jones Calls on Trump Supporters to Avoid Dangerous Inauguration Protests
In this edition of Newsmakers, Alex Jones calls for de-escalation and for Trump supporters to avoid attending potentially dangerous protests before and during the inauguration.
He also slams QAnon as a delusional and discrediting movement that has led many well-meaning people astray.
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By nixing Parler, Amazon has exposed itself to an impressive spectrum of risks, both legal and business.
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Amazon Bans Parler for “Violence” But Allows Kill Trump Merchandise
Always Remember: The Left is projecting on you what they are doing in spades.
Last week the tech giants colluded together in an attempt to destroy social media alternative Parler.
The final straw came when far left Amazon banned Parler from using its cloud service.
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Amidst the Pandemic, Women Rush to Sell Explicit Photos of Themselves on OnlyFans
Perhaps someone needs to ask Jerome Powell during his next congressional testimony: What kind of a recession are we in when women can’t even successfully sell nude photos online anymore?
Such is the case for a number of women who, the midst of trying to earn money during the pandemic, have turned to OnlyFans to try and sell explicit photos of themselves. Many of these women are still struggling, despite their extra “efforts”, according to the New York Times, who profiled several new creators who have taken to the platform to “provide for themselves and their families”.
The NYT claims the pandemic has taken “a particularly devastating toll on women and mothers” because the pandemic has “wiped out” industries like restaurants and healthcare, where women “dominate”.
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Andy NGO’s Antifa Book No. 1 Weeks Before Release
Andy Ngo, the chronicler of violent antifa and Black Lives Matter riots, has broken the code on selling books.
A full three weeks before its Feb. 2 release, his Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy spent much of this week on Amazon as the No. 1 bestseller, a rarity for books not written by longtime authors and presidents.
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Army Vet Arrested After Allegedly Calling for Attack on Florida Protesters
A former airborne infantryman was arrested Friday on charges he issued a call to attack protesters Sunday at Florida’s state Capitol.
Daniel Alan Baker, 33, of Tallahassee, Florida, faces a federal charge involving transmitting a threat to kidnap or injure, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Prosecutors described Baker as a “hard-core leftist” who was angry about the January 6. siege of the U.S. Capitol.
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In the days leading up to the Biden inaugural, the nation’s capital has been turned into an occupied military zone like Baghdad. Armed troops authorized to use lethal force are manning checkpoints to enter and leave downtown Washington, D.C. Green Zone and and Red Zone perimeters have been established. Several bridges into the city from neighboring Virginia are scheduled to be closed next week for the inaugural.
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Feudalism makes a roaring comeback in the name of progress.
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Comrade De Blasio: New York Will “Terminate” Doing Business With “Insurrectionists”
It’s started. The communist mayor of New York City, who was profiting handily from contracts with the Trump Organization, has canceled all of them.
The incredible hypocrisy of the ruling class being upset that the peons are finally demanding their freedom is insanity. The veil has been lifted. They are warring against all of us.
In a display of complete irony and hubris, writes Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — singlehandedly responsible for turning NYC into a ghost town over the last 12 months — took to Twitter yesterday to boast about the city ending its business relationships with the Trump Organization.
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Former Buzzfeed employee Tim Gionet, better known online as ‘Baked Alaska,’ was arrested Friday for illegally entering the US Capitol building on January 6th.
Baked Alaska was charged by the FBI for “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority” and “violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds,” according to criminal complaint obtained by The Scoop.
The former Buzzfeed video creator live-streamed himself inside the Capitol on DLive, a popular streaming platform.
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Fox News Trails Both CNN and MSNBC in Ratings for the First Time Since 2000
For the first time since 2000, Fox News is trailing both CNN and MSNBC in cable news viewership ratings.
CNN topped cable news with 2.8 million viewers per day from January 4 to January 10, with an average of 4.2 million viewers during primetime. Just behind them, MSNBC averaged 2.3 million viewers per day and 3.8 million during primetime.
Coming in third, Fox News averaged just 1.7 million viewers per day and 3.2 million during primetime.
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Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, has been revealed as the biggest private owner of farmland in the US, after buying up 242,000 acres in 18 states.
The tech mogul, who is the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of $121billion, according to Forbes, has quietly built up a massive agriculture portfolio.
The 65-year-old’s largest holdings include 69,071 acres in Louisiana, 47,927 acres in Arkansas, 25,750 acres in Arizona, 20,588 acres in Nebraska and 16,097 in Washington state.
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Health Experts Call for Suspension of Pfizer Vaccination Among Elderly After Norway Deaths
Update (1630ET): In what can only be described as a somewhat concerning turn of events, health experts from Wuhan, China, called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people (following the surge in deaths in Norway described below)
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How Bill Gates Buys Mainstream Outlets, Journalists and ‘Fact-Checkers’
Over the last decade, a small group of billionaire philanthropists have quietly moved into to seize control of key nodes of media, government policy, and education. They claim that they are merely trying to ‘fill in the funding gaps at struggling news organizations’ — especially in the wake of the coronavirus ‘pandemic.’ By far, the biggest player in this network is the Gates Foundation.
In short, Gates has long used his foundation’s charitable veneer to steer and shape the public discourse on global health. In the case of COVID and vaccines, it is believed that Gates is using his billions to parlay both access and favorable news coverage.
A recent investigation conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) reveals a number of disturbing findings which point to a multibillion dollar network of information control and narrative management — with Bill Gates squarely at the center.
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Microsoft, Big Tech Coalition Developing Rockefeller Funded COVID Passports
A coalition of big tech companies, including Microsoft is developing a COVID passport, with the expectation that a digital document linked to vaccination status will be required to travel and get access to basic services.
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Over 40 Million People Flock to Gab After Big Tech Censorship Spree
Gab.com, a censorship-free social network, claims traffic has increased by over 750% over the past few days, following Trump’s permanent or indefinite suspension from most mainstream social media platforms. Despite the multiple suppression attempts, Gab.com is thriving.
“Our traffic is up 753% in the past 24 hours. Tens of millions of visits,” Gab.com said after being asked about the slow loading speed. The company is adding more servers to handle the increased traffic.
Gab says it has received over 40 million visits in the last week.
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Portland to Lobby Feds on Reparations for Black, Indigenous Communities
The city of Portland plans to lobby the federal government this year to provide reparations for Black and Indigenous communities.
Financial payments or other aid to the descendants of enslaved Black Americans and Native Americans harmed by the U.S. government was the top racial justice measure listed in Portland’s annual federal policy agenda, which the City Council approved last week.
“The federal government has to be a partner in any type of reparations conversation,” said Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty.
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Commissioner Dan Ryan said Wednesday that his home has been vandalized seven times since late October, when the North Portland dwelling he shares with his fiance was first targeted by protesters who wanted him to support cutting millions of dollars from the city’s police budget.
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Protest Forms Around Officers Helping Person in Crisis
A protest that formed around a crisis call involving a man holding a knife downtown prompted a call for help citywide.
On Friday, January 15, 2021 at about 1:00p.m., Central Precinct officers responded to a welfare check call outside an apartment building in the 300 block of Southwest 4th Avenue. The call indicated that a man had jumped from a second story window of the building, pulled out a knife, and began waving it around at people and cars going by.
The 30-year-old man showed arriving officers his knife, held it to his neck, and said he would kill himself if they came any closer. An Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team (ECIT) officer began a dialogue with the man in crisis, while other officers attempted to clear the area hoping to reduce the stress of the situation. The officers learned that the man was schizophrenic and extremely paranoid. He not only threatened to kill himself, he said he would hurt others as well. Rather than rush in, exacerbating a dangerous situation, officers slowed down, kept their distance, and exercised patience and de-escalation.
The negotiation lasted for about 90 minutes before two separate crowds of protesters began showing up to the north and south.
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‘Q-Anon’ Bears Striking Resemblance to Bolshevik Psy-Op From 1920s Known as ‘Operation Trust’
Soviet psy-op was conducted to pacify resistance to the communist takeover in the 1920s.
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Reporter Emerald Robinson: Trump is Focused on Primarying Those Who Didn’t Stand Behind Him (Video)
Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson joined Greg Kelley last night to talk about President Trump’s next moves when he is expected to leave office next week.
Emerald says Trump is “out for blood” and ready to help primary the anti-Trump haters from the party.
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Surprise! Chicago Mayor Pushes to Loosen Lockdowns Days Before Biden Inauguration
A second Democratic leader is pushing for loosening COVID-19 restrictions, just days before President-elect Biden is set to be sworn in.
Following on the heels of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s call to “reopen the economy,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now of the opinion that bars and restaurants need to reopen for indoor dining “as quickly as possible.”
“I am very, very focused on getting our restaurants reopened. If we look at the various criteria that the state has set, we are meeting most if not all of those. So that’s a conversation that I will have with the governor,” she said at a Thursday press conference. “But I want to get our restaurants and our bars reopened as quickly as possible.”
[Comment: One of my favorite restaurants went out of business because of the lockdowns.]
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Suspect Charged With Several Offenses After Committing Crimes During Civil Unrest in Portland
From December 31st, 2020 to January, 1, 2021, a period of civil unrest occurred in Downtown Portland. A juvenile suspect was arrested by Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response team, and lodged on an existing warrant. Central Precinct’s Neighborhood Response Team, with the assistance of Central Precinct Patrol, were able to gather video surveillance from several locations which showed the juvenile suspect committing several criminal acts at many different locations. The juvenile suspect was ultimately identified as being responsible for over $46,000.00 in damage at multiple locations in Downtown Portland.
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The mRNA COVID Vaccine is Not a Vaccine
It’s NOT a vaccine. The mRNA COVID vaccine now being militarily deployed in many nations around the world, is NOT a vaccine. I repeat: it is not a vaccine. It is many things indeed, but a vaccine is not one of them. We have to awaken to the fact that the COVID scamdemic has rapidly accelerated the technocratic and transhumanistic aspects of the New World Order (NWO) to the point where people are blindly lining up to get injected with a “treatment” which is also a chemical device, an operating system, a synthetic pathogen and chemical pathogen production device. As covered in previous articles, this new COVID vax is a completely new kind of technology, potentially even more dangerous than your average toxic vaccine. In this article, we will explore in more depth what this mRNA vaccine is.
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The Totalitarian Left Moves to Silence All Dissent
The left and its propaganda arm, the establishment media, is now working hard to make it illegal, and get you banned from social media, to state the obvious fact that the election was stolen.
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This is What Happens When You Take Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine
A woman from Oakland City, Indiana in the United States warned others to not get the experimental Moderna COVID-19 vaccine after she suffered tongue spasms and whole body convulsions. She posted her videos on Facebook where her entire body is seen shaking uncontrollably. The CDC said such side-effects are “mild” and “normal”.
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Twitter Says Biden Won’t Inherit Trump’s 33M Followers on @POTUS Account
After weeks of quarreling with Donald Trump’s administration following the decision to permanently ban the president from their platform, Twitter executives have angered President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team by announcing he will not be permitted to inherit Trump’s millions of followers on the official @POTUS account.
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Journalism in Toronto’s Public Square is an “Illicit Incursion” According to City Hall
The summer of 2020 in Ontario saw numerous protest occupations pop up in the City of Toronto. When a group began occupying Nathan Phillips Square, the public space right in front city hall. For three long weeks, these demonstrators occupied the town square in Canada’s largest city, violating some 11 sections of the trespassing act.
In the process of covering the developing story, Rebel News sent reporters down to Nathan Phillips Square to see the situation for themselves, and ask the protesters for their side of the story.
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Ticketed for Protesting at Doug Ford’s House
The Doug Ford Government continues to impose harsh restrictions on healthy individuals as small businesses drop like flies and systemic issues in long term care homes and hospitals remain largely unaddressed.
Recently, these restrictions come with an increase in enforcement.
In many instances, these are everyday people simply trying to play shinny on an outdoor rink or are actively protesting and opposing the lack of democratic debate present in parliament.
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Toronto Police Arrest Lockdown Protesters
Early in Spring of 2020, protesters began showing up on the lawns of Ontario’s legislature, Queen’s Park, to protest the lockdown measures enacted by Premier Doug Ford to combat the developing COVID-19 pandemic.
Since those early days of demonstration, the Toronto Police Service has largely been lenient with their enforcement on the protesters as a whole, though a number of individuals, like prominent speakers at the rallies Chris Sky or Aylmer, Ontario Church of God pastor Henry Hildebrandt have received tickets for their involvement.
With Premier Ford’s declaration of a second state of emergency in the province on January 7, speculation surrounded what would occur when the protesters gathered — as they have each Saturday since that first demonstration last Spring — this weekend.
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“I Am Open”: 50,000 Italian Restaurant Owners Plan to Ignore Lockdown
Today — Friday 15th January — over 50,000 restaurants are planning to open, an act of mass civil disobedience against “anti-Covid” lockdown measures which have massively hurt the restaurant business, especially small family-owned businesses.
Spreading through social media under the hashtag #IoOpro (“I am opening”), the movement is largest country-wide act of civil disobedience since lockdowns began.
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23 Dead in Norway After Taking COVID Vaccine
Reports emerging from Norway indicate that at least twenty three people have died after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, yet the government regulator has said they don’t see anything alarming in the cases.
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Austria Drops Probe Into Far-Right Activists Over New Zealand Massacre
Austrian prosecutors said Friday they had dropped an inquiry into far-right activists over possible links with the perpetrator of a massacre of Muslims in New Zealand in 2019.
Martin Sellner, the co-founder of the Identitarian Movement of Austria (IBOe), came under investigation together with some of his associates when it emerged that in 2018 he had received a donation of 1,500 euros ($1,800) from Brenton Tarrant.
Austrian media report that another investigation against Sellner for suspected fraud is however ongoing. The IBOe has been described by Austrian intelligence services as “agents of modern right-wing extremism”.
Sellner and the Identitarians are proponents of the far-right “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory according to which white Europeans are being deliberately supplanted by non-white immigrants.
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France: Paris Residents Threaten Vigilante Justice Amid Rising Criminality
Residents of the 17th district of Paris have threatened to take security matters into their own hands if the police and the government refuse to deal with growing criminality.
Locals living in the Square du Tarn, mostly men in their 40s and 50s, say they have formed a collective to fight back against the growing insecurity in their neighbourhood posed by drug dealing and other delinquency.
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Germany to Put COVID-Rulebreakers in “Detention Camp”
Germany is set to put COVID dissidents who repeatedly fail to properly follow the rules in what is being described as a ‘detention camp’ located in Dresden.
[Comment: Looks like the camel’s nose. Will those who refuse the DNA altering “vaccine” be placed in detention camps?]
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Germany: Muslim ‘Known to Police’ Screams ‘I’ll Kill You All, Allahu Akbar, ‘ Cops Search for Motive
“So far there is no information about the motivation.”
Yeah, it’s a total mystery. No wonder authorities in the West are getting away with pretending that there is a “far-right” terrorism threat that is greater than the jihad threat. When incidences of jihad happen, authorities pretend not to know what they are.
“Frankfurt International Airport evacuated as armed police swoop on suspect ‘dumping a suitcase and shouting “Allahu Akbar,”‘ by Emily Webber, Mailonline, January 16, 2021 (thanks to Marc).
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After mass riots in Brussels on Wednesday evening that saw frightening scenes in the Belgian capital, police confirmed that 20 police officers were slightly injured and two female officers were taken to hospital, one of them in serious condition. Police also arrested 112 people, of which 30 are minors, SCEPTR reported.
Earlier in the evening, it was already clear that the protest for Ibrahima Barrie, a 23-year-old Black man, who died after collapsing at a police station, was about to escalate. Barrie was arrested with ecstasy pills ins his possession and an initial autopsy indicate that he died due to a heart attack, but protesters with Black Lives Matter banners gathered in the hundreds if not thousands following his death.
For hours, rioters aimed their anger at police officers, police vehicles, and police stations. Car windows got shattered, and several police vehicles were set on fire.
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Men Behind Swedish Mink Farm Arson Linked to Terror Groups
Two young men who are accused of setting fire to a disused mink farm are believed to be connected to terrorist groups, according to the Swedish security police and the FBI.
The two men, aged 18 and 20 at the time, travelled from Stockholm to Sölvesborg on October 2019 intending to release the minks at the farm after discussing their plans on an online forum.
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Nearly 100 People Report Side Effects After Pfizer Vaccine Shots in Netherlands — Report
About 100 people in the Netherlands reported developing side effects after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, the NOS broadcaster reported on Friday, citing pharmacovigilance centre Lareb.
Lareb director Agnes Kant told NOS that severe allergic reactions to the Pfizer shot were identified in two cases in the Netherlands.
“These people had symptoms such as rashes and swelling around the eyes. They received treatment and recovered quickly,” Kant said.
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Thousands March in Vienna Against Coronavirus Restrictions
VIENNA (Reuters) — Thousands of people marched through Vienna on Saturday to protest against restrictions on public life designed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, just as Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government held talks about extending the measures.
Chanting demonstrators — many without masks — held signs including “Kurz Must Go” and “Make Influenza Great Again” during marches through the city centre.
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UK Health Service Trust Repeats ‘Whiteness — A Problem for Our Time’ Seminar
The Tavistock and Portman National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust has repeated a video seminar titled ‘Whiteness — A problem for our time’.
The video seminar, which the NHS trust has shared on YouTube, was originally held in November, with the socialised healthcare provider and the British Psychotherapy Foundation, British Psychoanalytic Council, and Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, which it partnered with for the event, choosing to repeat it on January 14th “to enable a wider audience to attend”.
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UK: Arrests at Birmingham Anti-Lockdown Protest
Eleven people have been arrested after an anti-lockdown protest in Birmingham.
West Midlands Police had warned people against attending the city centre protest, but said “sadly nearly 150 people chose to ignore our pleas”.
Police and crime commissioner David Jamieson said he was “outraged” people had travelled to “protest against lockdown measures that are keeping us safe”.
The force said the 11 people who were arrested remain in custody.
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UK: One Arrested and Dozens Fined as Met Police Break Up Gathering of 100+ People
Police have handed out 42 fines to over 100 people who gathered to mourn the loss of a member of the traveller community.
Officers were called to the scene in Haringey, north London on Thursday after members of the public reported concerns about the number of people at a gathering.
Some were drinking and became aggressive towards the police when told they were breaching coronavirus regulations and needed to disperse.
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UK: Three Jailed Jihadis Assault Police Officer at Maximum Security Prison
This is no surprise. Nothing, nothing whatsoever, is being done while they were in prison to challenge their jihadist beliefs. Any such effort would be “Islamophobic.” Instead, these beliefs are being reinforced, as these jihadis have no doubt been given Qur’ans and allowed to pray Islamic prayers together, despite the fact that the Qur’an inspired them to commit or plot jihad violence in the first place. Would Nazi prisoners during World War II have been given copies of Mein Kampf and allowed to congregate to study the words of the Führer?
“Three jailed UK terrorism offenders charged with attacking prison officer,” Reuters, January 13, 2021.
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UK: Tory MP Says Boris’s Leadership Under Threat Unless He Lifts Lockdown
A senior backbench MP has told fellow lockdown sceptics that unless Boris Johnson gives a clear exit strategy for Britain coming out of Chinese coronavirus restrictions, his premiership could be at risk.
Former Brexit minister Steve Baker instructed Conservatives in the Covid Recovery Group of MPs to voice their concerns to Mark Spencer, the party’s chief whip — who is responsible for maintaining parliamentary voting discipline and arranging the business of the House of Commons — and to demand “a guarantee that this strategy [of lockdown] will not be used again next winter”.
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Watch: Poland Unveils Draft Law to Guarantee Free Speech Online
Poland’s government has unveiled a draft law to combat censorship on social media, creating a Freedom of Speech Board with the power to order tech firms to restore online accounts and posts deleted for lawful speech on pain of substantial fines.
Zbigniew Ziobro, the Minister of Justice, and Sebastian Kaleta, the Deputy Minister of Justice and chief architect of the new law, unveiled the new protections in the wake of the mass banning of the still-sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump, from mostmajor social media platforms, along with some key staffers and campaign accounts.
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Police Arrest Moroccan Belly Dancer Chikha Trax During Her Wedding
Police in Marrakech arrested on Thursday evening, January 14, famous Moroccan belly dancer Chikha Trax during her wedding party.
Security services intervened during the party because large gatherings are currently banned under Morocco’s state of health emergency.
Chikha Trax was celebrating her marriage to a foreign man from a Gulf country. According to local reports, 37 guests attended the party.
The Moroccan dancer, with over 500,000 combined followers on her various social media accounts, organized the party at her home in Gueliz, Marrakech.
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13 Israelis Suffer Facial Paralysis After Coronavirus Vaccine — Report
Some 13 people have experienced mild facial paralysis as a side effect after taking the COVID-19 vaccine, the Health Ministry reported, and estimates are that the number of cases could be higher.
Health officials have raised questions about whether or not to administer the second dose to these individuals, but the Health Ministry is recommending that the second dose be given.
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US Media: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’
One of the foremost tasks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping is, at his directive, to “tell stories about China well and spread China’s voice well; enable the world to see a multidimensional and colorful China; present China as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and an upholder of international order”.
When the coronavirus pandemic broke out in December 2019 in Wuhan and the Chinese authorities allowed it to spread to the rest of the world, “telling China’s story well” suddenly became an acute concern. It was necessary to save the regime’s face, deflect blame and seek to portray China as heroically battling the pandemic, instead of the reality of having caused it. China went into an even more energetic propaganda mode than usual, seeking to control the narrative about the virus at every turn.
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Congo: Muslims Murder 46 Civilians in Jihad Attack on Village
The world yawns. This doesn’t fit the universal narrative of Muslim victimhood. Down the Memory Hole it goes.
“Forty-Six Civilians Feared Killed in Eastern Congo Attack, Official Says,” Reuters, January 14, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace).
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Nigeria: Child Protection Bill Exempts Muslim Girls, So That They Can be Married Off as Children
No surprise here. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
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Facebook Censors Mexican Cardinal for Denouncing ‘New World Order’
Facebook has censored a video of Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, for suggesting that globalist leaders are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to bring about a new world order.
In place of the cardinal’s weekly video, Facebook exhibited a greyed-out screenshot emblazoned with the banner “False information.” Underneath, Facebook added, “This publication repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact checkers deemed false.”
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Biden to Offer Pathway to Citizenship for 11-20 Million Illegal Aliens in First Few Days in Office
Goodbye Repub
Joe Biden plans to introduce legislation to Congress that would provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal aliens currently living in the US.
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Massive Migrant Caravan From Honduras Busts Through Guatemala Border En Route to US (Video)
Another migrant caravan has formed in Honduras in anticipation of a Biden Administration.
According to Center for Immigration Studies, the new caravan left San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Friday and is hoping to reach ‘paradise’ (United States) by January 20th.
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Sweden: Afghan Migrants Accused of Filming Child Sex Abuse for Blackmail
Afghan migrants in their twenties have been accused of filming sex acts with minor girls in Sweden and using the videos to blackmail their victims.
The first migrant was arrested in September for child rape offences after police received tips that pictures and videos of underage girls were being circulated on social media.
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A total of 36 migrants have been detained while attempting to cross the Channel by UK authorities, with a further 27 stopped by the French.
A Home Office spokesman said migrants were stopped during two incidents on Saturday.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage posted a video on Saturday which appeared to show some of the migrants being brought to shore on Border Force Boats.
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UK:15,000 Illegals Tried to Cross English Channel in Small Boats in 2020
Some 15,000 illegal aliens attempted to cross the English Channel from Continental Europe in small boats in 2020, according to the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol.
Europol said in figures released on Thursday that from January to mid-December 2020, “law enforcement authorities of concerned countries registered more than 1,300 incidents involving more than 15,000 [illegal aliens] crossing the English Channel in small boats”.
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SARS-Cov-2: The Stitched Together, Frankenstein Virus
SARS-CoV-2 is a stitched together entity that so far appears to exist only in theoretical viral databases rather than in real life. The deeper one goes down the COVID rabbit hole, the more bizarre and surreal the scamdemic becomes, and the more obvious it becomes that the New World Order (NWO) conspirators have conjured up a giant magic trick out of nothing. Well, perhaps not nothing; it would be more accurate to say they are demonizing humanity itself and turning every person into ‘the enemy’, as I alluded to in an earlier article The Eerie Similarities Between the Coronavirus and Climate Change Hoaxes. In that piece I talked about how the NWO is following the Club Of Rome directive to make mankind itself the enemy, and in the case of corona, they are doing that by re-diagnosing and re-classifying part of our immune system as a pathogen (see the article Deep Down the Virus Rabbit Hole — Question Everything for the background on exosomes). It is accurate to say that the dreaded SARS-CoV-2 is, in fact, a stitched-together Frankenstein virus containing sequences of human DNA.
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Woke Elementary: Critical Race Theory & California’s “Inconvenient Minority”
An elementary school in Cupertino, California — a Silicon Valley community with a median home price of $2.3 million — recently forced a class of third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”
Based on whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session, a third-grade teacher at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School began the lesson on “social identities” during a math class. The teacher asked all students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained that the students live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian, English speaker[s],” who, according to the lesson, “created and maintained” this culture in order “to hold power and stay in power.”
Next, reading from This Book Is Antiracist, the students learned that “those with privilege have power over others” and that “folx who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.” As an example, the reading states that “a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman.” In some cases, because of the principle of intersectionality, “there are parts of us that hold some power and other parts that are oppressed,” even within a single individual.
Following this discussion, the teacher had the students deconstruct their own intersectional identities and “circle the identities that hold power and privilege” on their identity maps, ranking their traits according to the hierarchy. In a related assignment, the students were asked to write short essays describing which aspects of their identities “hold power and privilege” and which do not. The students were expected to produce “at least one full page of writing.” As an example, the presentation included a short paragraph about transgenderism and nonbinary sexuality.
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Worth a look.
As of January 2021 Trump Administration Accomplishments
https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/?utm_source=link
Blacklists are back and the Democrats have got ’em
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/blacklists-are-back-and-the-democrats-have-got-em/
Seems the Left’s greatest enemy is “merit”. Of course, those with connections who graduated an Ivy League school with laurels from their Marxist professors are the same actors fighting “merit”? They enjoy the contradiction on their road towards world-wide tyranny.