Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/23/2021

Police shut down illegal lockdown-violating parties and raves in Singapore, Scotland, and England. Meanwhile, health officials in England announced that no cases of influenza have been detected so far this winter.

In other news, in December unemployment in the UK rose for the sixth consecutive month.

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

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Financial Crisis
» Hungary GDP Down 5.1 % in 2020, Gov’t Expects Quick Return to Growth Path
» Millions of American Jobs Under Biden Regime Won’t Come Back…democrat Officials Warn of Consequences as Biden Prepares to Give Unearned Amnesty to Millions
» UK Unemployment Rises for 6th Consecutive Month
 
USA
» American Airlines Pilot Reports a “Cruise Missile Type of Thing” Flew Right Over His Commercial Flight Near Iowa
» Assault of an Elderly Asian American Man in San Francisco is Being Blamed on White Nationalism by Left-Wing Activists.
» At What Point Do We Realize Bill Gates is Dangerously Insane?
» Banned Documentary — Why Bill Gates Switched From Microsoft to Vaccines
» Biden Falsely Labels Police, Military Veterans as ‘White Supremacists’
» Biden Administration Wants Standardized Testing Restarted, Many Virtual Learning States to Demand Waiver
» Black Teen Travels to White Suburb to Commit Mass Shooting, Mainstream Media Remains Silent
» Breaking: Medical Workers Warn COVID-19 Vaccine is Hurting and Killing Innocent People
» Christian Science Monitor: If You Don’t Like Public Schools Proselytizing for Islam, You’re a Racist
» Cop Executes Unarmed Woman on Her Way to Work Over a Speeding Ticket
» COVID-19 Vaccine to be Tested on 6-Year-Olds
» COVID Lockdowns Will Never Stop — Unless the People Wake Up
» Democrats Demand to Know Why Cable Companies Don’t Censor Conservative Media
» Dr. Fauci Advises Americans to Avoid Dining Out or Going to Movies Even After Full Vaccination
» Effort Growing to Cancel Fox News From Cable TV
» Ex-Bill Clinton Advisor and Author Naomi Wolf Warns of Totalitarian State Under Biden (Video)
» Feds Offer Plea Deal to Brooklyn Lawyers Charged in NYPD Molotov Attack
» Former Clinton Adviser: America Becoming ‘Totalitarian State’ Under Biden
» Former CIA Chief’s New Book Claims Oswald Was KGB Agent, Killed JFK on Order From Then-Soviet Leader Khrushchev
» Ghislaine Maxwell Offers to Give Up UK, French Citizenship to Get Out of Jail
» Governor Cuomo Faces Numerous Allegations of Abuse, Cover-ups, And ‘Gangster Stuff’
» Hero Cop Rescues Missing 13-Year-Old Girl From Motel With Man She Met Online
» Hillary Clinton Penning Novel to be Titled “State of Terror”
» How to Fight Back Against Racist Attacks on White Americans
» It’s Official! World Leaders Say COVID-19 is Permanenent
» Justice Thomas Blasts Supreme Court for Dismissing Election Fraud Lawsuit in Scathing Dissent
» Nearly 3 in 4 Trump Voters Say Biden an Illegitimate President
» Now That Trump is Out of Office — Far-Left Women’s National Soccer Team Stands for US National Anthem
» Parent Slams New Social Studies Curriculum in Wisconsin as “Left Agenda Talking Points”
» Pennsylvania — How the State Officially Became a Third-World Banana Republic After the Stolen 2020 Election
» Poll Finds 44 Per Cent of Liberals Think Cops Killed 40 Times More Unarmed Black Men Than Actual Number
» Sacramento Man Accused of Trying to Provide Financial Support to Terrorist Group
» San Francisco School Board Postpones Plan to Rename 44 Schools, Pledges to Focus on Reopening
» Satan’s Minions, The Financiers of Michael R. Pence, Part 3
» Sen. Cruz Says Media is Suffering “Trump Withdrawal” As They Obsess Over His Beach Trip
» Slate Indefinitely Suspends Mike Pesca After He Argued the N-Word is Valid to be Used When Discussing Racism
» Smoking Gun: Fauci States COVID PCR Test Has Fatal Flaw; Confession From the “Beloved” Expert of Experts
» Streamlabs Deletes YouTuber Matt Christiansen’s Paid Account Without Warning, Refuses to Issue Refund
» Study: Homicide Rate Spiked After Death of George Floyd
» U.S. Government Diligently Working With Big Tech to Censor Anything That Could Cause “Vaccine Hesitancy”
» Understanding Political Sleight of Hand
» Virginia Set to Abolish Death Penalty
» Why We All Should Hate Communism
 
Canada
» Alberta Church Rebellion Succeeding, No Tickets Issued at Calgary Church Service
» Video: Man Flying Back Into Canada Refuses Airport COVID Test
 
Europe and the EU
» Antifa Extremists Hospitalise Populist German Politician at Campaign Stall
» Czechia Tightens Coronavirus Measures, Introduces Mandatory Respirators and Double-Masking
» England: Health Authorities Announce Not a Single Case of Flu Detected This Year
» Germany: Far-Left Extremists Viciously Attack Political Candidate in the Street
» Germany: Jesus Figure Beheaded, Several Fingers Cut Off
» Greek Authorities Reject Demands for a Mosque in Thessaloniki
» Hungary’s Decision to Use Russian Vaccine is Paying Off, PM Orban Says
» Hungary: Orban: Conservative Ex-Communist States Must Bring ‘Anti-Communist Tradition’ To West
» ISIS Women Go on Hunger Strike Demanding to be Let Back Into France
» Scotland: Glasgow Railway Tunnel Party Busted by Police After Alarm Raised Over ‘Illegal Large Gathering’
» Sweden: Antisemitism Report Claims Arab Students Had ‘Passion for Hitler’
» Sweden: Muslim Migrant Who Taught Other Muslim Migrants ‘How to Behave’ Toward Women Rapes a Colleague
» UK Considering ‘Australia-Style’ Legislation to Force Facebook to Pay for News Content
» UK: COVID Cops Snare Strangers in the Night: Officers Fine Woman £200 After She Travelled 80 Miles for Moonlit Meet-Up — as Essex Police Crack Down on Canvey Island Doggers
» UK: Extinction Rebellion Erect HS2 Protest Banner on Multi-Storey Car Park in Berkhamsted
» Youths Throwing Illegal Raves ‘Until Early Hours’ And Smashing Buildings at Historic Scots Estate
 
North Africa
» The Perils of Non-Violent Islamism
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Palestinian Islamic Scholar Mraweh Nassar: If Muslims Want to Live in Peace and Security, They Must Get Rid of the Jews
 
Middle East
» Yazidis Denounce Syrian Ruling Requiring Them to Follow Islamic Law
 
South Asia
» Malaysia: Police Investigating Case of Non-Muslim Man in Apostasy Case, Says Minister
» Singapore: 65 People Found Drinking in Office Among 88 Caught for Allegedly Flouting COVID-19 Rules
 
Far East
» Bill Gates Applauds World’s Worst Polluter China for ‘Making Climate a Priority’
» UK Calls for U.N. Investigation Into Uyghur Genocide in China
 
Australia — Pacific
» Big Tech Backflip: Facebook Drops Australian News Ban, Bows to Government Regulation
» Extinction Rebellion Activists Dress Up as Zombies to Protest Climate Inaction
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Gunmen Kidnap ‘Hundreds’ of Boys From School in Nigeria, Shooting One Student Dead During Raid
 
Immigration
» Biden Attempting ‘Administrative Abolishment’ of ICE, Termination of Thousands of Jobs at Agency
» Frontex Border Control Agency Sued by Pro-Migration Activists
» Greek Shepherd Desperate as Migrants Steal, Butcher His Animals
» Italy: Rome: Muslim Migrant Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Threatens Tram Passengers With Fire Extinguisher and Iron Rod
» The Pandemic Barely Slowed Migration to Europe
» What Border Crisis? Obama DHS Official Predicts 1 Million Immigrants Could Hit U.S. Border in 2021
 
Culture Wars
» Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Drops Co-Founder From the Tinkerpop Project Over “Offensive Tweets”
» Catholic League: Pro-Trans ‘Equality Act’ The ‘Most Comprehensive Assault on Christianity Ever Written Into Law’
» Lancet: Young Gay Men Risk HIV Because ‘Less Developed’ Impulse Control
» Twitter Asks Users to Check Their Language
 

Hungary GDP Down 5.1 % in 2020, Gov’t Expects Quick Return to Growth Path

Hungary’s economy in 2020 declined by an annual 5.1 percent, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Tuesday, based on a first estimate.

GDP grew by 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter last year compared with the previous quarter and fell by 3.7 percent compared with the same period of the previous year.

According to seasonally and calendar-adjusted data, the economy’s performance declined by an annual 4.3 percent in the fourth quarter.

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

Millions of American Jobs Under Biden Regime Won’t Come Back…democrat Officials Warn of Consequences as Biden Prepares to Give Unearned Amnesty to Millions

The far-left, Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post published an article today warning that millions of jobs will not be coming back once the Chinese virus pandemic is no longer a threat.

Conservative Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) mocked the Democrats and their plan to offer unearned amnesty to millions of non-citizens living in the United States, “Millions of working-class jobs lost. Nothing that a giant amnesty can’t solve!” he tweeted.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK Unemployment Rises for 6th Consecutive Month

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. unemployment rate rose for a six straight month in December as renewed coronavirus restrictions shut down most businesses across the country.

The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that unemployment rose to 5.1% in December, up 0.1% from the previous month and 1.3% from a year earlier. The number of people on company payrolls has dropped by 726,000 since the pandemic began last February, with 58.5% of the decline coming among people under 25.

[Comment: End the lockdowns!]

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

American Airlines Pilot Reports a “Cruise Missile Type of Thing” Flew Right Over His Commercial Flight Near Iowa

The pilot of an American Airlines flight bound for Phoenix Sunday reported an alarming sight while cruising over an area near Des Moines, Iowa. Flying at about 37,000 feet, the pilot radioed air traffic controllers to inform them what he had just seen.

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

Assault of an Elderly Asian American Man in San Francisco is Being Blamed on White Nationalism by Left-Wing Activists.

The deadly assault of an elderly Asian American man in San Francisco is being blamed on white nationalism by left-wing activists. Antoine Watson, the suspect arrested over the homicide, is black.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

At What Point Do We Realize Bill Gates is Dangerously Insane?

“What this comes down to, though, is that Bill Gates has been so rich for so long that he’s spent the bulk of his adult life without anyone telling him he’s wrong”

This isn’t an overreaction to Gates’ latest foray into the news cycle. It’s an observation based on a long pattern of statements and behavior by the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men who has ever lived which, were any of us normal people guilty of them, would result in our being institutionalized.

Bill Gates is crazy. And he’s dangerous, because he’s willing to put untold sums of money toward making the insane things he believes a reality — and all of those insane things hurt people.

The most recent idiocy? Impossible Burgers for all the white people.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Banned Documentary — Why Bill Gates Switched From Microsoft to Vaccines

Why Bill Gates switched from Microsoft to Vaccines is a hard hitting documentary on the untold history of the tech mogul.

The documentary starts with a long suppressed 90s case of Bill Gates bribing to sabotage his rivals and to impose his policy on sovereign nations.

The 90s case is a pivotal moment from where Gates switches to philanthropy with a damage-control makeover with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The documentary also shows Bill Gates agenda in India and how his Polio vaccines resulted in thousands of deaths of tribal girls in India.

It also details various global projects undertaken by Bill Gates which will have a bigger impact in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis.

One of the project is Trust Stamp — a vaccination based digital identity program funded by Bill Gates and implemented by Mastercard and GAVI.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Biden Falsely Labels Police, Military Veterans as ‘White Supremacists’

Joe Biden has accused military veterans and retired police officers of so-called “white supremacy” in a grievous insult to servicemen and women.

“The impact of former military, former police officers, on the growth of white supremacy in some of these groups…it is a bane on our existence…these guys and woman are, in fact, demented,” he stated during a CNN Town Hall.

Biden’s remarks sparked fury among veteran and police groups who said they didn’t serve and protect this country to become subject to a political smear campaign.

In that same interview, Biden falsely labeled patriotic groups as “domestic terrorists” while ignoring the threats posed by groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Biden Administration Wants Standardized Testing Restarted, Many Virtual Learning States to Demand Waiver

As teachers unions around the country object to various state and local government plans to “return to school,” the Biden administration has just issued an order that is unlikely to make them happy.

The U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance to states on Monday that they must restart standardized testing of their students this spring. Due to the coronavirus pandemic closures last spring, the country suspended standardized tests, something that several school districts anticipated would be the case again in 2021 given that so many are yet to return to in-person learning.

[Comment: A rare good idea from Biden.]

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

Black Teen Travels to White Suburb to Commit Mass Shooting, Mainstream Media Remains Silent

Was this racially motivated?

On Saturday evening at roughly 6:45 PM, Jamel Barnwell, a 17 year old black male from West Philadelphia, shot up a bowling alley in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. One man was killed and four other people were injured during the attack. While the shooter is still on the run and the motive remains unknown, what is known is that Jamel Barnwell travelled from inner-city West Philly to the overwhelmingly white suburb of East Norton in order to perpetrate a random mass shooting at the town’s local popular hangout, Our Town Alley.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Medical Workers Warn COVID-19 Vaccine is Hurting and Killing Innocent People

Alex Jones takes calls from medical industry workers detailing their encounters with the medical tyranny and push for mandatory vaccines.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Christian Science Monitor: If You Don’t Like Public Schools Proselytizing for Islam, You’re a Racist

My latest in PJ Media:

The Christian Science Monitor did its bit Friday for the left’s propaganda barrage, reminding us all that America is a benighted, sinister land full of racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, such that only Old Joe and his henchmen can save us. The Monitor painted a picture of an innocent World Cultures and Geography class in a New Jersey public school teaching about Islam and getting accused by racist redneck yahoos of proselytizing for Islam. As far as the Monitor is concerned, it’s a story of evil Trump followers hating the sainted Other; in reality, however, it reveals how Islamic indoctrination is becoming increasingly common and accepted in public schools.

At Chatham Middle School in New Jersey, students were shown “a five-minute video introduction to Islam that included statements like ‘Allah is the one God,’ The Quran is a ‘Perfect guide for Humanity,’ and ‘May God help us all find the true faith, Islam.’“ Now just imagine what would have happened if a public school had been found to be teaching that “Jesus is the Son of God,” “the Bible is a perfect guide for humanity,” and “May God help us all find the true faith, Christianity.” But when it comes to the left’s favored religion, it’s a different situation altogether.

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

Cop Executes Unarmed Woman on Her Way to Work Over a Speeding Ticket

Last June, family and friends of Hannah Fizer, 25, were shocked to learn that their beloved daughter and friend had been killed during a stop over an alleged speeding violation. Then, four months later, they learned there would be no justice and the officer who killed the unarmed woman as she sat in her vehicle — was back on the job.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

COVID-19 Vaccine to be Tested on 6-Year-Olds

As of February 4, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received 12,697 injury reports and 653 deaths following COVID-19 vaccination.

Of the cases reported between December 14, 2020, and February 4, 2021, 3.69% were life threatening and the number of deaths account for 5.14% of the total reports. The Pfizer vaccine accounted for 58% of deaths; Moderna’s accounted for 41%.

What’s more, when you look at vaccine-related deaths between January 2020 and January 2021, you find that COVID-19 vaccines account for a staggering 70% of the annual vaccine deaths, and that’s while having been available for less than two months. The first doses of Pfizer vaccine were given in mid-December 2020,2 while Moderna’s vaccine rolled out during the last week of December 2020.3…

[Healthy children are not at risk from Covid — but they are from the ‘vaccine’ — read the article it gets worse]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

COVID Lockdowns Will Never Stop — Unless the People Wake Up

Despite taking the experimental mRNA vaccine, Americans are told to continue masking, social distancing, etc.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Demand to Know Why Cable Companies Don’t Censor Conservative Media

In a blatant attempt to pressure cable providers to censor conservative media, Democrats have penned a letter demanding to know what they intend to do about certain channels, including Fox and Newsmax, spreading ‘disinformation’.

The letter sent Monday by California Democrats Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney also asked satellite and digital TV providers “Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax on your platform both now and beyond the renewal date? If so, why?”

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

Dr. Fauci Advises Americans to Avoid Dining Out or Going to Movies Even After Full Vaccination

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci advised Americans who have received the coronavirus vaccine to still be very wary about dining out or going to the movies. This is true even if the individual has received both injections of the vaccine, he said.

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

Effort Growing to Cancel Fox News From Cable TV

The campaign by the left-wing watchdog Media Matters to remove Fox News from cable and satellite TV systems is getting a boost from a prominent New York Times columnist and a hearing in Congress this week.

The House Democrat-led hearing on Wednesday, which also targets Newsmax TV and OANN, is based on the charge that the networks broadcast disinformation about the COVID pandemic and the 2020 presidential election, reported the Gateway Pundit blog.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ex-Bill Clinton Advisor and Author Naomi Wolf Warns of Totalitarian State Under Biden (Video)

“We’re Really Moving Into a Coup Situation, a Police State Situation”

Former advisor to Bill Clinton and author, Naomi Wolf, was on Tucker Carlson’s Show on FOX News on Monday night. Naomi warned that under Biden America was becoming a ‘totalitarian state before our eyes’.

Of course, this is true, even a Bill Clinton advisor can see it. Wolf shared:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Feds Offer Plea Deal to Brooklyn Lawyers Charged in NYPD Molotov Attack

Federal prosecutors filed paperwork confirming that the two attorneys who allegedly threw a “molotov cocktail” into a squad car have been offered deals to reduce their sentences.

Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis were facing potential life sentences for seven charges; among them use of explosives, arson, and conspiracy. On May 29, the pair allegedly made an incendiary device from a bottle of beer, then threw it into a squad car during one of many riots that occurred after the death of George Floyd.

The two were caught on a surveillance camera, with Rahman purportedly holding the bottle in her hand just before the attack. Authorities later say they discovered another unused firebomb in the same vehicle on that video.

The two lawyers were pursued and arrested but pled not guilty. Their plea was not based on innocence but an argument that they were wrongly charged and being used as an example by the same people they were protesting. The details of the February 11 plea deal have not been released.

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

Former Clinton Adviser: America Becoming ‘Totalitarian State’ Under Biden

Author and former Clinton advisor Naomi Wolf warned Monday that the US is devolving into a police state under the Biden administration as endless lockdowns and restrictions show no sign of being lifted.

Appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Wolf urged that the US is “moving into a coup situation,” under Democrat rule, owing to medical mandates being extended under the “guise of a real medical pandemic.”

Wolf emphasised that “lockdowns have never been done in society and really, we are turning into a of totalitarian state before everyone’s eyes.”

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

Former CIA Chief’s New Book Claims Oswald Was KGB Agent, Killed JFK on Order From Then-Soviet Leader Khrushchev

A newly released book written by former CIA chief R. James Woolsey claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Russian KGB agent who killed then-President John F. Kennedy on orders from Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Woolsey headed the CIA from 1993 to 1995. He co-authored the book, “Operation Dragon,” with Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, who served as acting chief of Romania’s spy service under President Nicolae Ceausescu.

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

Ghislaine Maxwell Offers to Give Up UK, French Citizenship to Get Out of Jail

Accused sex-trafficking British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is so desperate to get out of her Brooklyn jail cell that she’s offering to renounce her UK and French citizenships in exchange for her freedom, new court papers show.

In her latest bid for bail, the pal of late pedophile financier Jeffery Epstein and naturalized US citizen offers to give up the two other citizenships in an effort to finally prove to a federal judge that she won’t be a flight risk if freed before trial.

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

Governor Cuomo Faces Numerous Allegations of Abuse, Cover-ups, And ‘Gangster Stuff’

Now that the media is finally waking up to Andrew Cuomo’s games, America is learning a lot about the New York Governor.

First, he let thousands of elderly New Yorkers die in nursing homes.

Then, he worked to cover it up with his staff.

Now, the state legislator is working to take away his emergency powers and possibly impeach him for his wrongdoing and… he’s not really taking it well.

A growing number of allegations from his staff, former rivals, and fellow politicans are flooding in to the media.

Turns out, Cuomo is not a very nice guy. (Who would’ve guessed?)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hero Cop Rescues Missing 13-Year-Old Girl From Motel With Man She Met Online

A Florida sheriff’s deputy found a missing 13-year-old girl with a man in a motel room after searching motels using clues and tips he picked up during his investigation.

Volusia County deputy Royce James’ bodycam footage shows how he went from motel to motel for days asking about the missing girl based on tips he received from her family and friends.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Clinton Penning Novel to be Titled “State of Terror”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is working with bestselling author Louise Penny to create a novel titled “State of Terror.”

Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press will publish the volume jointly in October. The book’s plot centers around a woman who serves as secretary of state in the administration of “her rival” and has to contend with numerous terrorist attacks, according to a press release about the project.

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

How to Fight Back Against Racist Attacks on White Americans

Looks like Jim Hoft’s piece from Sunday (Sounds Racist: McDonald’s Will Punish Executives if They Hire Too Many White Men) is not an isolated example of a new form of corporate racism. Gone to hell is Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of seeing people judged by the content of their heart and their conduct rather than by the color of their skin. That dream is now as dead as Dr. King. Instead, we have a real nightmare of actual racism. People of European and Russian descent are now, by definition, racists. Why? Because of the color of their skin.

The latest corporation being exposed for trafficking in this racist crap is Coca Cola. TGP’s Cristina Laila reported this a few days back:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

It’s Official! World Leaders Say COVID-19 is Permanenent

Meanwhile, Democrats task Gen. Honoré with developing a plan for national gun confiscation and “re-education” of conservatives. As predicted, Supreme Court shots down Trump voter integrity lawsuit, backstabbing America.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Justice Thomas Blasts Supreme Court for Dismissing Election Fraud Lawsuit in Scathing Dissent

Justices Thomas and Alito issued scathing dissents over the Court’s decision not to settle the dispute about mail-in ballots, especially to avoid more allegations of fraud in future elections.

“One wonders what this Court waits for. We failed to settle this dispute before the election, and thus provide clear rules. Now we again fail to provide clear rules for future elections,” Thomas wrote.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Nearly 3 in 4 Trump Voters Say Biden an Illegitimate President

A recent USA Today/Suffolk poll revealed that 73% of Trump voters in the 2020 presidential election believe that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected to office.

Viewing Biden’s administration as an unlawful one, those same voters say by a six in 10 margin that Republicans in Congress should “stand up to Biden on major policies, even if it means little gets passed.” The numbers reveal that 62% of them would prefer legislative gridlock for the next four years over compromising with what they regard as an illegitimate presidency.

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

Now That Trump is Out of Office — Far-Left Women’s National Soccer Team Stands for US National Anthem

US women’s soccer player and radical leftist Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016. She said it was a protest against “white supremacy” and in support of the black lives matter movement. She later said it was a protest against the treatment of gays in the US.

Then in 2019 Rapinoe said her protesting during the anthem is her f*** you to Trump and all of his racism.

Megan Rapinoe is a captain of the US women’s soccer team.

Rapinoe later told reporters she was “not going to the f***ing White House” if the US women won the world championship.

Megan Rapinoe and the US women’s soccer team saw their ratings sink by 43% in 2019.

But now that Joe Biden is president the US women’s soccer team is standing for the anthem again. What a disgusting bunch.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Parent Slams New Social Studies Curriculum in Wisconsin as “Left Agenda Talking Points”

As Elmbrook School District in Brookfield, Wisconsin, re-evaluates its social studies curriculum, local activists have begun advocating that the new curriculum include teaching children that “white feminism” failed racial minorities.

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

Pennsylvania — How the State Officially Became a Third-World Banana Republic After the Stolen 2020 Election

Today we officially know that Pennsylvania is for sure and without a doubt a ‘banana republic’. Led by corrupt Democrats in the Executive Branch, corrupt politicians in leadership, and corrupt judges, there is no way a free and fair election will ever be held in that state ever again. And, the US Supreme Court on Monday made it official.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Poll Finds 44 Per Cent of Liberals Think Cops Killed 40 Times More Unarmed Black Men Than Actual Number

A new poll highlighting the gulf between what people believe and reality has found that 44 per cent of liberals think cops kill almost 40 times more unarmed black men than the actual figure.

According to a database called “Mapping Police Violence” compiled by data experts and activists, police officers in the United States killed 27 unarmed black men by any means in 2019. 13 unarmed black men were fatally shot in the same year by cops.

However, according to a nationally representative survey commissioned by Skeptic Mag, people who describe themselves as “very liberal” or “liberal” think that the actual number of unarmed black men killed by police per year is “about 1,000.”

The 1,000 figure is just under 40 times the actual figure of 27 unarmed deaths.

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

Sacramento Man Accused of Trying to Provide Financial Support to Terrorist Group

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Sacramento man is accused of attempting to provide financial support to a foreign terrorist organization, the United States Department of Justice announced on Friday.

A federal grand jury on Thursday returned a single-count indictment against Murat Kurashev, 34, who is also a Russian national, according to Attorney McGregor W. Scott of the DOJ’s Eastern District of California.

Kurashev allegedly tried to provide financial support to terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is based in Syria.

Kurashev was arrested by FBI agents and awaits his next court appearance. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

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

San Francisco School Board Postpones Plan to Rename 44 Schools, Pledges to Focus on Reopening

The San Francisco Board of Education has announced it will set aside its plan to rename 44 public schools for now and focus instead on reopening schools.

The announcement comes after the board has faced backlash for the plan, which sought to eliminate the names of people who were slave owners people considered to be connected to human rights violations, and people who are “known racists and/or white supremacists,” according to school board guidelines for the renaming plan.

A few of the names slated for elimination under the plan were those of former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as current U.S. Senator and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. The process for executing the plan has been widely criticized, as has the timing.

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

Satan’s Minions, The Financiers of Michael R. Pence, Part 3

Motivated mainly by ego, Mike Pence and his wife Karen craved the upper echelons of political power. Pence always looked to those with money and power who could advance his political goals. One of them was his good friend, David McIntosh, a well-known Trump hater who served as executive director of Vice President Dan Quayle’s and Bush’s Council for Competitiveness. But McIntosh was only the beginning, the DeVos and Koch organizations were the financiers with serious money.

Club for Growth

McIntosh, the pro-amnesty president of Club for Growth (CFG), left his congressional seat to seek the governorship of Indiana in 2000 which opened the door for Pence to run for Indiana’s 6th district. McIntosh introduced Pence to the chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Van Smith, who ran a manufacturing and real estate empire from headquarters in Muncie and could help fund Pence. After years of being on Indiana radio, Pence was well-known and Van Smith encouraged his run. Smith worked with Pence and even helped him achieve the gubernatorial nomination.

Vice Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Kelly Stanley was Pence’s fund raiser for his 2000 election to Congress. (As Lou Dobbs often stated, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce promotes globalism.)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sen. Cruz Says Media is Suffering “Trump Withdrawal” As They Obsess Over His Beach Trip

While appearing on Fox News to discuss the recent energy crisis in Texas, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a swipe at the media’s “obsessed” coverage of his family’s vacation to Cancun, Mexico.

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Slate Indefinitely Suspends Mike Pesca After He Argued the N-Word is Valid to be Used When Discussing Racism

Slate has suspended Mike Pesca and his podcast, “The Gist,” after he argued that non-blacks can use the n-word in certain contexts during a Slack chat with other employees. The left-leaning online magazine suspended Pesca because his remarks were allegedly insensitive to “the lived experience of colleagues whose experience is different from ours.”

Last week, Slate employees were discussing Donald G McNeil Jr’s resignation from The New York Times for using the N-word during a talk about race while guiding a high school student’s trip to Peru in 2019.

According to the Times, McNeil used the word “in the context of a conversation about racist language.” However, the paper did formally discipline McNeil for using the term in 2019. However, McNeil felt obliged to leave the paper after The Daily Beast published a story about the trip last week.

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Smoking Gun: Fauci States COVID PCR Test Has Fatal Flaw; Confession From the “Beloved” Expert of Experts

by Jon Rappoport

The COVID PCR test is a complete fraud

This article is part of my current series on the COVID PCR test. These articles prove that the test is fatally flawed, gives rise to hugely inflated and false case numbers, which in turn lead to the unnecessary and brutal lockdowns.

I’m hoping readers will spread this information far and wide.

OK, here we go. Smoking gun. Jackpot.

Right from the horse’s mouth. Right from the man we’re told is the number-one COVID expert in the nation. What Fauci says is golden truth.

Well, how about THIS?

July 16, 2020, podcast, “This Week In Virology”: Tony Fauci makes a point of saying the PCR COVID test is useless and misleading when the test is run at “35 cycles or higher.” A positive result, indicating infection, cannot be accepted or believed.

Here, in techno-speak, is an excerpt from Fauci’s key quote (starting at the 3m50s mark): “…If you get [perform the test at] a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it being replication-competent [aka accurate] are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus [detect a true positive result] from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…”

Each “cycle” of the test is a quantum leap in amplification and magnification of the test specimen taken from the patient.

Too many cycles, and the test will turn up all sorts of irrelevant material that will be wrongly interpreted as relevant.

That’s called a false positive.

What Fauci failed to say on the video is: the FDA, which authorizes the test for public use, recommends the test should be run up to 40 cycles. Not 35.

Therefore, all labs in the US that follow the FDA guideline are knowingly or unknowingly participating in fraud. Fraud on a monstrous level, because…

Millions of Americans are being told they are infected with the virus on the basis of a false positive result, and…

The total number of COVID cases in America-which is based on the test-is a gross falsity.

The lockdowns and other restraining measures are based on these fraudulent case numbers.

Let me back up and run that by you again. Fauci says the test is useless when it’s run at 35 cycles or higher. The FDA says run the test up to 40 cycles, in order to determine whether the virus is there. This is the crime in a nutshell.

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Streamlabs Deletes YouTuber Matt Christiansen’s Paid Account Without Warning, Refuses to Issue Refund

Live streaming software company Streamlabs has terminated the account of popular YouTuber and podcaster Matt Christiansen without notice and refused to refund his payment for a year of service that he will no longer receive.

Christiansen had been using Streamlabs Prime, a paid version of the software, to accept donations on the live stream of his politics and culture podcast, Matt & Blonde Show, which he co-hosts with YouTuber Blonde in the Belly of the Beast.

But days before his most recent live stream, Christiansen tweeted that Streamlabs had deleted his account without notice. He added that Streamlabs cited “terms of service violations” as the reason for the account closure but provided no explanation of how he violated the terms.

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Study: Homicide Rate Spiked After Death of George Floyd

A chart of homicide data compiled from 19 cities shows a spike in murders immediately after the death of George Floyd, confirming analysts who attribute the record homicide rate to the “Minneapolis Effect.”

The homicide rate was flat until the unrest and the subsequent defund-the-police movement that followed the death of a black man in police custody, according to the chart compiled by Steve Sailer and highlighted by Powerline blogger John Hinderaker.

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U.S. Government Diligently Working With Big Tech to Censor Anything That Could Cause “Vaccine Hesitancy”

The ruling class desperately needs as many people as possible to take the COVID-19 vaccine. This push to get an mRNA vaccine in the veins of everyone is resulting in a diligent effort to censor ANYTHING that could cause “vaccine hesitancy.”

The United States government, Joe Biden’s White House, has “hands-on” involvement in censoring any information that could result in someone thinking for themselves and rejecting the vaccine.

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Understanding Political Sleight of Hand

Political sleight-of-hand is actually a conman’s game. No one does it better than modern politicians today, not even the best of street conmen. In fact, pretty much all of politics is a carefully crafted and well-rehearsed con. The trick is to catch the “magic” or “con” as it’s happening…in real-time.

Just like learning to watch and catch how the magician does their trick, you can learn to recognize how the political con artist does their magic as well. It’s simply a matter of proper training.

STEP 1 — Wanting to catch the trick — many people don’t want to know how the magician’s trick works, because it will forever destroy their belief in magic. Likewise, in political magic, many don’t want to know they are being conned, because it will forever change how they look at politicians and the promises they make when seeking power. But if you want to know, you can know.

STEP 2 — Learning to detect the diversion — Once you know how the diversionary tactics work and how to recognize them as they are used in real-time, the only thing left is to know where to focus your attention in order to see the trick. The purpose of the diversion is to make you look away from where the trick is taking place.

In 2020, the diversion was COVID19, otherwise known as SARS2, or one of many viral strains of the common cold and flu. According to the magician, COVID19 is the deadliest virus and pandemic to strike the entire world since the black plague. However, ironically, the sudden number of “COVID19” deaths matches almost exactly, the number of annual deaths from cold and flu each year. In fact, the number of total deaths in 2020 was lower than the number in previous years. Coincidentally, the number of annual cold and flu deaths vanished in 2020, instead labeled COVID19 deaths.

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Virginia Set to Abolish Death Penalty

Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation that would abolish the death penalty. The bill now goes to Gov. Ralph Northam, who has said he will sign into law.

If signed, Virginia would become the first southern state and 23rd state nationwide to get rid of the death penalty.

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Why We All Should Hate Communism

by Dennis Prager

One of the most highly regarded books of the 20th century was Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death.” Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, the book is regarded as a classic for its analysis of how human beings deny their mortality.

But there is something people deny more than mortality: evil. Someone should write a book on the denial of evil; that would be much more important because while we cannot prevent death, we can prevent evil.

The most glaring example of the denial of evil is communism, an ideology that, within a period of only 60 years, created modern totalitarianism and deprived of human rights, tortured, starved and killed more people than any other ideology in history.

Why people ignore, or even deny, communist evil is the subject of a previous column as well as a Prager University video, “Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism?” I will, therefore, not address that question here.

I will simply lay out the facts.

But before I do, I need to address another question: Why is it important that everyone know what communism did?

Here are three reasons:…

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Alberta Church Rebellion Succeeding, No Tickets Issued at Calgary Church Service

The Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary participated in a show of Christian civil disobedience last Sunday in protest of Premier Jason Kenney’s refusal to lift restrictions on Alberta churches.

It wasn’t just the lockdown law that brought congregants out, but also the recent arrest of Pastor James Coates from the GraceLife Church near Edmonton.

Coates was arrested for holding a church service in contravention of standing health regulations that restrict religious services, which courts have still not determined are constitutional.

Bylaw enforcement attended the scene at the Fairview Church on Sunday, but when Rebel News approached them to inquire as to what brought law enforcement to the church — the officers fled.

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Video: Man Flying Back Into Canada Refuses Airport COVID Test

After a new policy mandating Canadians take an airport COVID test to determine whether they will have to undergo quarantine at a government facility was introduced yesterday, a viral video clip shows a man refusing to take the test before being issued with a fine.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau outlined the details of the new policy in a tweet yesterday afternoon.

“Update: If you’re flying back into Canada, you’ll need to show a negative PCR test result before you board the plane — and as of today, you’ll need to take another PCR test when you land. You’ll then have to wait at an approved hotel, at your own expense, for your test results,” Trudeau tweeted.

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Antifa Extremists Hospitalise Populist German Politician at Campaign Stall

Stephan Schwarz was hospitalised after a brutal attack by Antifa militants while campaigning for this year’s regional election.

[Comment: Seems like they are the modern day brown shirts of the globalist German goverment.]

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Czechia Tightens Coronavirus Measures, Introduces Mandatory Respirators and Double-Masking

Starting Thursday, Czechs will have to wear respirators or double face masks in heavily frequented places, Czech Minister of Health Jan Blatný announced.

People will have to wear them in shops, service establishments, on public transport, and at airports. They will also be mandatory in medical facilities where outpatient care is provided or in cars unless people in the vehicle are members of one household.

Children from two to 15 years of age do not have to wear a respirator, because according to Minister Blatný, children’s sizes are not available. However, they will have to wear a regular medical face mask.

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England: Health Authorities Announce Not a Single Case of Flu Detected This Year

Health authorities in England have announced that not a single case of influenza has been detected this year, with one professor suggesting that mask wearing should be kept in place during winter to drive down flu deaths to “zero.”

“The social restrictions brought in to curb transmission of coronavirus, combined with an increased uptake of flu vaccine, have both been credited with driving down infections,” reports the Independent.

Of the 685,243 samples tested at the PHE’s laboratories since the first week of January, not a single flu infection was discovered.

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Germany: Far-Left Extremists Viciously Attack Political Candidate in the Street

Far-left extremists in Germany viciously attacked a populist political candidate who was campaigning for this year’s regional election on the street.

Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Stephan Schwarz was left hospitalized following the beating, which took place in the town of Schorndorf over the weekend.

According to the city prosecutor, Schwarz was manning an information booth when he was approached by around 15-20 individuals carrying Antifa flags and banners.

36-year-old Schwarz was dragged to the ground and beaten by the mob before having his mobile phone stolen as he attempted to call the police.

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Germany: Jesus Figure Beheaded, Several Fingers Cut Off

There is no telling who did this. It could have had nothing to do with Islam. Or, in light of the curious fact that the head and fingers were severed, the perpetrators could have been Muslims acting upon this Qur’an verse: “When your Lord inspired to the angels, ‘I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.’“ (Qur’an 8:12)

“POL-PDNR: Jesus figure damaged,” translated from “POL-PDNR: Jesusfigur beschädigt,” PressePortal, February 18, 2021 (thanks to Medforth).

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Greek Authorities Reject Demands for a Mosque in Thessaloniki

A demand by Thessaloniki’s Muslim community for a mosque was rejected by Greek authorities.

An application by the Macedonia-Thrace Muslims Education Culture Foundation to build a mosque in the northern port city was two years in the making, but was ultimately denied by Greece’s Education and Religion Ministry.

The ministry’s authorities cited a lack of documents and technical details.

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Hungary’s Decision to Use Russian Vaccine is Paying Off, PM Orban Says

Hungary made an early commitment to using Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, and the strategy is paying off, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with German magazine Focus Online published on Monday.

Orban said that in the midst of a pandemic, it is the job of a politician to protect the health of citizens by fulfilling the trust placed in him and taking responsibility. Therefore, as many vaccines as possible need to be obtained as soon as possible, as he who gains time gains life and regains his freedom.

He stressed that there are no Eastern and Western vaccines — only good and bad vaccines exist — and when the Hungarian authorities determine that a product is safe and effective, they are licensed.

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Hungary: Orban: Conservative Ex-Communist States Must Bring ‘Anti-Communist Tradition’ To West

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban believes it is the “calling” of Europe’s conservative former Soviet satellite states to bring their “uncompromising” tradition of anti-communism into the “common store” of Western values.

Orban issued the calling to mark 30th anniversary of the formation of the Visegrad group of socially conservative countries in Central Europe — not Eastern European, as commonly thought Britain, given their place in the continent’s geographical centre between Western Europe and the nations of the former Soviet Union — namely Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia.

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ISIS Women Go on Hunger Strike Demanding to be Let Back Into France

A group of Islamic State-affiliated women have gone on a hunger strike in a prison camp in Syria after demanding the French government let them back into France.

The radicals began their hunger strike on Sunday according to an announcement by their lawyers Marie Dosé and Ludovic Rivière, who stated that the women wanted themselves and their children to be allowed to return to France, after having deserted it for the Islamic State.

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Scotland: Glasgow Railway Tunnel Party Busted by Police After Alarm Raised Over ‘Illegal Large Gathering’

AN illegal party in an abandoned railway tunnel was busted by cops after the alarm was raised about a “large gathering”.

Officers were called to the bash near Kelvindale Road, in the city’s west end, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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Sweden: Antisemitism Report Claims Arab Students Had ‘Passion for Hitler’

A report on antisemitism in schools in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmo has made the claim that much of the hatred toward Jewish students comes from students of Arab and Middle Eastern backgrounds.

The February report “Schoolyard racism, conspiracy theories and exclusion,” looked specifically at antisemitism and discrimination toward Jewish people in the city’s school system and found that issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict played a large role.

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Sweden: Muslim Migrant Who Taught Other Muslim Migrants ‘How to Behave’ Toward Women Rapes a Colleague

“He was featured in a local tenant magazine in 2016 and spoke of how he was responsible for teaching other Afghans about how it works in Sweden, what rules apply and “how to behave” towards women. He explained that for many it came as a shock to come to Sweden and realize that women have rights.”

But his expertise about how to behave toward Swedish women failed him when it counted. What won out were more deeply ingrained imperatives. A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. In India, a Muslim gave a Qur’an and a prayer rug to the woman he was holding captive and repeatedly raping. And the victim of an Islamic State jihadi rapist recalled: “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God…He said that raping me is his prayer to God.” In India, a Muslim kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old Hindu girl, and forced her to read the Qur’an and Islamic prayers.

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UK Considering ‘Australia-Style’ Legislation to Force Facebook to Pay for News Content

The United Kingdom may follow the lead of Australia and Canada in forcing Facebook to pay news publishers for hosting their content, government officials have suggested.

A Downing Street spokesman said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “obviously concerned” about Facebook’s decision to censor news content on its platform in Australia, and may introduce legislation to take on Big Tech platforms “later this year”.

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UK: COVID Cops Snare Strangers in the Night: Officers Fine Woman £200 After She Travelled 80 Miles for Moonlit Meet-Up — as Essex Police Crack Down on Canvey Island Doggers

Police have dampened the flames of desire for a lovestruck woman who travelled 80 miles for an ‘after-dark encounter’, only for them both to be hit with £200 Covid fines.

The woman had made the journey from Batley, West Yorks, to a beauty spot in south Derbyshire to meet her male suitor on Sunday.

But they were spotted meeting up by police and both parties were hit with £200 fines for breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.

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UK: Extinction Rebellion Erect HS2 Protest Banner on Multi-Storey Car Park in Berkhamsted

Activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Dacorum dropped a banner in protest against HS2 — the high speed railway linking London, the Midlands, the North and the South — on Monday.

The group lowered a banner against the backdrop of the green wall on the multi-storey car park in Berkhamsted, with the message ‘NHS not HS2 and STOP HS2’.

A XR Dacorum spokesman said: “We are just some of many concerned citizens calling on the government to abandon a hugely expensive project that is destroying many ancient woodlands and sites of Special Scientific Interest and biodiversity.

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Youths Throwing Illegal Raves ‘Until Early Hours’ And Smashing Buildings at Historic Scots Estate

Youths have been throwing all-night parties and vandalising buildings at an historic Scots estate amid tough coronavirus restrictions.

Bosses at Newhailes Estate near Musselburgh, East Lothian have hit out at the ‘destruction’ caused at the spot which contains listed buildings dating back hundreds of years.

Youngsters have been descending on the spot and entering derelict buildings to cause mayhem.

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The Perils of Non-Violent Islamism

By Prof. Phyllis Chesler

As the Egyptian-born child of a Yemeni diplomat, Elham Manea and her family traveled widely. But their move from Morocco to Yemen, when Elham was a young teenager, stands out. She compares it to time travel, leaving a free and modern life for a place where women are veiled and public life is gender segregated. She was told that art, music, poetry, and philosophy were forbidden, and that her new, true family of “sisters” and “brothers” were other Muslims who believed all this.

She was taught to “hate,” Jews in particular, and that it was right to deceive infidels. When she was told that a husband is God to his wife, that she would have to sacrifice her blood family in favor of other true believers, she backed away.

She has been backing away ever since.

In The Perils of NonViolent Islamism, her fourth book in English, the University of Zurich political scientist, author, activist, and consultant offers a warning to the West.

In Manea’s view, “nonviolent Islamism,” is the basic building block that leads to violent jihad. And our misreading of that reality can lead to real harm.

If we continue “cancelling” politically incorrect ideas and speech, continue “vilifying dissent,” and “insisting upon the infinite guilt of the West” then, as Russell A. Berman writes in the foreword to this work, “we should expect the real-world consequences of this ideology soon to become clearer and rougher.” Manea believes that repressing dissent can easily turn into repressive practices.

“Cancel culture” may indeed be our “Islamism.”

Nonviolent Islamism’s insidious nature is one of Manea’s most important points. Westerners have been hopelessly gullible in their choice of “smiling and patient” Saudi-funded Muslim Brotherhood/Salafi representatives as their go-to experts on both Islam and Muslims.

“One cannot combat an ideology and fundamentalism by working with the very groups that promote that ideology,” she writes. Further, Western cultural relativism and doctrines of “multiculturalism” has served us and freedom-loving Muslims very, very poorly.

This battle, she writes, is “the global challenge of the 21st century.”

Both hardcore and softcore Islamism must be “challenged and confronted … we need to dismantle the structures and the system that spread(s) this ideology and its radicalized form of Islam.” That means we must adopt significant changes in Islamic schools, mosques, youth groups, and camps; we must retrain paid imams who work in the prison system.[…]

[Ex-Muslims are an under tapped resource]

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Palestinian Islamic Scholar Mraweh Nassar: If Muslims Want to Live in Peace and Security, They Must Get Rid of the Jews

Palestinian Islamic Scholar, Mraweh Nassar, Secretary-General of the Jerusalem Committee of the IUM, said that the Jews are the most dangerous enemies of the Muslims. He made these remarks during a show that aired on Channel 9 (Turkey) on February 10, 2021. Nassar said that if Muslims really want to live in peace and security, they must get rid of this enemy. He explained that the Muslims will experience their “best days” after they kill the Jews, as described in the Hadith, and the world will have been “cleansed” of the Jews. When this happens, the world will be full of abundance, and wolves will graze with sheep.

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Yazidis Denounce Syrian Ruling Requiring Them to Follow Islamic Law

Activists have denounced a Syrian decision requiring Yazidis to use Islamic courts, which declares that their religion is part of Islam.

Murad Ismael, who co-founded the group Yazda, which advocates for the minority’s rights, said the ruling was tantamount to religious persecution and it was wrong to consider the Yazidi faith part of Islam.

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Malaysia: Police Investigating Case of Non-Muslim Man in Apostasy Case, Says Minister

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Seri Zulkifli Mohamad Al Bakri today urged the public to let the relevant authorities to take the necessary action against the non-Muslim man who claimed on video, which has since gone viral, to have got a Muslim woman to apostatise.

He said the police were now investigating the matter.

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Singapore: 65 People Found Drinking in Office Among 88 Caught for Allegedly Flouting COVID-19 Rules

SINGAPORE — The police are investigating 88 people, aged between 17 and 56, for allegedly breaching safe distancing measures in large gatherings involving alcohol and unlicensed karaoke.

On Feb 6, the police found 65 people drinking and socialising in an office unit in Genting Lane in MacPherson. Separately, on Feb 19, a police raid found 23 people drinking, smoking and singing in a residential unit in Emerald Hill Road in the Orchard area.

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Bill Gates Applauds World’s Worst Polluter China for ‘Making Climate a Priority’

In an interview with Chinese state media on Monday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates saluted China — the worst polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet — and its autocratic ruler Xi Jinping for “making climate a priority.”

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UK Calls for U.N. Investigation Into Uyghur Genocide in China

UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab is calling on U.N. investigators to insist on urgent access to Uyghur camps in Xinjiang to ascertain the level of human rights abuses taking place in the Chinese province.

Mr. Raab said this week that Uyghur abuses have reached an “industrial scale,” noting that he plans to press the UN human rights council on Monday to address rights violations in China, Myanmar, Belarus and Russia, urging it to launch an independent investigation into Xinjiang internment camps.

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Big Tech Backflip: Facebook Drops Australian News Ban, Bows to Government Regulation

In an extraordinary backflip, Facebook announced Tuesday it will reverse its block on Australian users sharing news on its site and accept proposed government media bargaining laws that force it to pay for content.

The capitulation came after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called Facebook “arrogant,” warning against “Big Tech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them.”

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Extinction Rebellion Activists Dress Up as Zombies to Protest Climate Inaction

Extinction Rebellion activists demonstrated at Parliament House in Brisbane’s CBD this morning dressed up as zombies in a bid to disrupt the opening of parliament.

Elise Papineau from the group told Scott Emerson more events are planned, and the group dressed as zombies in a symbolic move.

“As zombies, we were representing all of the threats and the consequences we are bound to see if we don’t take action on the climate crisis, so we’re seeing an increase in floods and fires, social collapse, climate refugees, biodiversity laws.

“And on the other hand we also want to highlight the fact that politicians and people of authority have really been sleepwalking on this crisis, they haven’t declared a climate emergency and they haven’t been acting the way they should have.”

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Gunmen Kidnap ‘Hundreds’ of Boys From School in Nigeria, Shooting One Student Dead During Raid

Gunmen last night kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys in Nigeria, shooting one of the pupils dead during the raid.

Armed men raided the Government Science College at around 3am local time in Kagara, Niger state, in the country’s terror-ravaged north.

Secretary to Niger state government Ibrahim Matane confirmed that ‘bandits’ wearing military uniforms had stormed the school and overwhelmed security guards to kidnap the children.

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Biden Attempting ‘Administrative Abolishment’ of ICE, Termination of Thousands of Jobs at Agency

The Biden administration is currently attempting to enact an “administrative abolishment” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Along with essentially rolling out a welcome banner for illegals, the move will also terminate the jobs of thousands of officers who arrest and deport these trespassers.

“This is an administrative abolishment of ICE as we currently know it,” a source with knowledge of the plan told the Washington Times.

The Washington Examiner reports that “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is understood to have recently introduced a plan to do away with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arm and convert those officers into agents who investigate transnational crime instead of going after illegal immigrants.”

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Frontex Border Control Agency Sued by Pro-Migration Activists

There are few institutions in a less enviable position than the embattled European Border and Coast Guard Agency, better known as Frontex. The agency, established in its present form after the peak of the European migrant invasion in 2016, has been criticized by virtually all sides involved in migration policy and migrant welfare. To compound its recent troubles, Frontex is now facing a lawsuit by well funded migrant friendly NGOs, demanding the head of its executive director, Fabrice Leggeri.

Frontex has been set up to monitor and to report on irregular migration facing Europe from the Middle East and Africa. Countries that have opted to protect their borders against illegal mass migration have accused the EU of using Frontex as a smokescreen for channelling migrants into the European mainland rather than helping to stop illegal border crossings. On the other side of the political spectrum, however, left-wing activist and governments have accused Frontex of violating the human rights of migrants and of failing to prevent others from doing so.

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Greek Shepherd Desperate as Migrants Steal, Butcher His Animals

A shepherd on the Greek island of Lesvos says he is at his wit’s end as illegal migrants have been stealing his livestock and slaughtering them for meat.

Fotis Giounis lives near a large asylum camp in Kara Tepe where over 7,000 ‘refugees’ are currently staying.

Giounis says gangs of migrants have entered his property in recent days, grabbing choice animals and butchering them on tree stumps before hauling the meat back to camp.

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Italy: Rome: Muslim Migrant Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Threatens Tram Passengers With Fire Extinguisher and Iron Rod

The political elites who have inundated European countries with unvetted Muslim migrants are insulated from the consequences of their actions. Only ordinary citizens must pay the price. It is hard to see how the elites can justify menacing their own people in this way, but they’ll certainly think of something.

“Rome, man threatens tram passengers with a bar. Witnesses: ‘he cried out Allah Akbar,’“ translated from “Roma, minaccia passeggeri del tram con una spranga. Testimoni: “Gridava Allah Akbar”,” Il Messaggero, February 19, 2021 (thanks to Mason).

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The Pandemic Barely Slowed Migration to Europe

While the COVID-19 pandemic completely overshadowed the issue of migration to Europe in the media, that does not necessarily mean migration slowed down much. Although the number of migrants decreased year-on-year, the report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Eurostat, and Frontex shows that the number of asylum applications in some EU countries increased.

The key information of the pertinent statistics would probably be that the number of migrants who illegally crossed the EU’s external borders fell by about 13 percent year-on-year in 2020. Instead of migrating from the outside, however, the migration within the continent has become a major problem for some EU countries.

For example, Austria reported even more asylum applications last year than before the pandemic broke out.

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What Border Crisis? Obama DHS Official Predicts 1 Million Immigrants Could Hit U.S. Border in 2021

A former Department of Homeland Security official, and now a senior lecturer for Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic suggesting that the United States could see as many as 1 million migrants trying to make their way through the border in 2021.

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Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Drops Co-Founder From the Tinkerpop Project Over “Offensive Tweets”

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ousted Marko Rodriguez from the TinkerPop project, a project he co-founded, because of his tweets. What Rodriguez sees as him exercising his freedom of expression was viewed as hate speech by ASF in today’s increasingly intolerant world, and a violation of the organization’s code of conduct.

“I was removed from the project I started 11 years ago for ‘publishing offensive humor that borders on hate speech,’“ Rodriguez said in a statement emailed to The Register.

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Catholic League: Pro-Trans ‘Equality Act’ The ‘Most Comprehensive Assault on Christianity Ever Written Into Law’

Catholic League president Bill Donohue warned Monday that the Equality Act would “promote the most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law.”

While its proponents insist that the Equality Act is about “ending discrimination,” it would in fact fundamentally alter the legal definition of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity, Dr. Donohue argues.

The Act would also undermine the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by conferring special status on gay rights, prioritizing them over religious freedom and conscience rights, he added.

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Lancet: Young Gay Men Risk HIV Because ‘Less Developed’ Impulse Control

The UK Lancet medical journal said homosexual men continue to be the most at-risk group for HIV-AIDS, especially younger men with a greater number of partners.

In the United States, “gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) were the first population associated with what came to be known as AIDS,” the Lancet notes in its most recent issue, and “male-to-male anal intercourse remains associated with the largest number of new HIV infections diagnosed annually in the USA.”

Men who have sex with men “continue to be at very high risk of HIV acquisition,” the article states. “Common features of the HIV epidemic in American MSM include role versatility and biological, individual, and social and structural factors.”

“Young MSM have additional risks for HIV because their impulse control is less developed and they are less familiar with serostatus and other risk mitigation discussions,” the article adds.

According to a 2012 study titled “A comparison of sexual behavior patterns among men who have sex with men and heterosexual men and women,” men who have sex with men have higher rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) than women and heterosexual men, despite higher levels of condom use.

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Twitter Asks Users to Check Their Language

In an effort to combat “hateful” content, Twitter has relaunched the test on prompt asking users to revise a potentially hateful reply to a tweet. The relaunch of the experiment furthers the platform’s anti-free-speech policies.

“Say something in the moment you might regret? We’ve relaunched this experiment on iOS that asks you to review a reply that’s potentially harmful or offensive,” the company ominously wrote in a tweet announcing the experiment.

So, when Twitter thinks you are about to tweet something offensive, it will prompt you to rethink your words. Users who get the prompt can either “tweet,” “edit,” or “delete,” the reply. There is also a link a user can use to send feedback if they think they should not have gotten the prompt.

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5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/23/2021

  1. Another article claiming there are no excess deaths in 2020. That is disgusting, Baron. There are plenty of lies out there on the covid theme… does our side have to add to them?

    On seeing the fear-porn staged by the WH occupants: Mr. Biden, you are a liar. There were excess deaths in 2020 at around 455k. Of ALL CAUSES. That includes deaths of despair caused by the lockdowns and the ruination of the economy. It includes murders and higher heart disease deaths. And dementia, and what have you. ALL CAUSES.

    Dammit, I am so effing sick of the LIES everywhere and the sheep believing them!!!

    • Where are your stats from? I have seen reports from a number of countries indicating that 2020 deaths are not remarkably high — more or less in line with a bad flu season. It is very easy and quite common to manipulate statistics. Like you, I feel it is important to know the truth.

  2. Reparations Racket — Commissioners paid highest federal salary allowed by law… https://justthenews.com/government/congress/reparations-bill-pays-commissioners-top-federal-salary-cites-outdated-level

    Illinois eliminates cash bail…
    https://cwbchicago.com/2021/02/new-rules-pritzker-expected-to-sign-criminal-justice-reform-bill-monday-cash-bail-to-end-in-2023.html

    Biden Commits To Forever War On Afghanistan
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/biden-commits-to-forever-war-on-afghanistan.html#more

    When Being Black is White Supremacy: The Difficulty Social Justice Warriors have noting Criminality and Evil has no Race

    https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/when-being-black-is-white-supremacy

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