Deputy sheriffs in New York City busted three illegal lockdown-violating parties that involved hundreds of guests. Meanwhile, Scottish police fined five protesters who took part in an anti-lockdown demonstration in Edinburgh.
In other news, a man was killed when a cannon exploded at a baby shower in Genesee County, Michigan.
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Doubleline Warns Events Are in Motion to Remove Dollar as Reserve Currency
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the case of international trade and global payments, the U.S. made aggressive use of sanctions and tariffs. With some merit, Washington has argued that these actions level the playing field for global trade or punish bad global actors. But a series of equal and opposite reactions are occurring as nations move to remove the role of the U.S. dollar at the center of global trade and finance.
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How vicious!
On Wednesday night Republican lawmakers rallied around Liz Cheney and voted 145-61 to keep Cheney in a House leadership position.
This was after she joined Nancy Pelosi and Democrats and voted to impeach President Trump in a slapdash impeachment earlier in the month.
91% of Republican voters would vote for President Trump again today.
Only 13% of Wyoming Republicans would vote for Liz Cheney again.
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Anthony Fauci: We’ve Got to Get the ‘Entire World Vaccinated’
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has insisted people should continue to adhere to stringent public health measures even after getting vaccinated, said the Chinese coronavirus will remain a threat, which is why officials need to ultimately get the “entire world vaccinated.”
[Comment: Read the comments. Globalists underestimate the intelligence of the public.]
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We warned on November 2, 2020, the day before the 2020 Election, that the nightmare scenario created by the Democrats starring Sleepy Joe Biden was about to begin.
We reported on the ‘Color Revolution’ earlier in the 2020 Presidential campaign — In September Tucker Carlson discussed the ‘color revolution’ and Norm Eisen, ironically Obama’s Ethics Czar, was reportedly behind the resistance and the efforts to remove President Trump from office. Like other Democrat lies, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) didn’t make health care more affordable and Norm Eisen was not someone who cared about ethics.
Below is a video from Tucker Carlson’s show regarding this topic — at the time we didn’t know much about Norm Eisen:
Under Eisen the plan was hatched and the coup to steal the election from President Trump began.
The elites, liberal media, the Justice Department, the courts, and Trump-haters were all involved. Facebook, Google and Twitter warned us when they announced that starting on Election day they would not report the winner of the election and would block people who tried to do it. This led to their actions later to purge President Trump and his supporters from their site:
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Super Bowl LV: Kansas City Chiefs v. Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off Sunday at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
According to reports, 22,000 fans attended the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The Bidens barged in and made a creepy video appearance before kickoff to lecture Americans about “social distancing.”
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Dodging the Biden Bullet, Part 1
I will start this off by saying that I still believe that Trump won AND will be seated despite the circus that we are seeing in D.C. at this time. As you have probably seen the Democrats are going to attempt to shove their socialist agenda down our throats all the while demanding unity. Notice that they are now going to try to install a fence all around the capital building to protect them from the people. Why do they need protection unless they are going to try to do something that is going to really tick us off? I’ll discuss some of those things in this series. Keep in mind when the government is afraid of the people there is freedom but when the people are afraid of the government there is tyranny. I’m going to go out on a limb and venture that the government is going for the tyranny thing.
Some of the proposed legislation that we see coming from the Democrats is what you usually find only in dictatorships. Biden has issued over forty Executive Orders in the first ten days in “office” so you can kind of see which direction the Democrats want to go, totalitarian rule. Keep in mind that when it is proven that Trump actually won and he is seated all those Eos will be reversed in about an hour.
I think one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation the Democrats has brought forth is HR 1. The biggest joke about the bill is the description of it. To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy, and for other purposes.[1] This bill no more to “strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures” than Biden is innocent of 48 years of corruption. The provisions they have in the bill will allow for Democrat voter fraud to be done on a massive scale legally!
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Electoral Politics Use the Same Containment Strategies as Alzheimer’s Facilities
In a high-quality dementia care facility, confused residents who are at risk of unsafe wandering are skillfully redirected away from exit doors by staff members who are trained to provide them with the illusion of freedom while still keeping them in the safety of the care home. A propaganda-addled populace wandering around trying to find an escape from its oppressors is redirected in very much the same way.
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Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft Suspended From Twitter After Posting Shocking Voter Fraud Footage
Twitter has banned The Gateway Pundit and its founder, Jim Hoft, from the platform.
The ban comes one day after The Gateway Pundit published never-before-seen footage that appeared to show election officials in Michigan receiving truckloads of ballots long past the deadline. The footage coincides perfectly with the late night surges that pushed Joe Biden over the top after most Americans went to bed on November 3, believing President Donald Trump had been reelected.
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Genesee County Man Killed After Cannon Explodes at Baby Shower
A man died in an explosion at a baby shower in Genesee County.
Michigan State Police Flint Post is investigating a fatal explosion that happened Saturday around 7:30 p.m.
People were gathered for a baby shower in Gaines Township when the homeowner fired a small cannon-type device.
Troopers said the cannon blew up causing metal shrapnel to hit three parked cars, the garage where the baby shower was being held and a 26-year-old Hartland man standing nearby.
The man had serious injuries and was rushed to Hurley Medical Center where he later died.
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This is the face of a modern-day leftist.
Hateful, humorless and intolerant.
Los Angeles Times columnist wrote a screed this week for the paper trashing her pro-Trump neighbors after they helped plow her driveway following a snow storm.
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House Sergeant at Arms Says Pelosi Will Not be Fined for Violating Her Own Security Rules
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fined two Republican lawmakers, Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA), $5,000 each for violating the House metal detector rule, Republicans from the Committee on House Administration demanded that Pelosi be held accountable herself for the same offense.
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It’s Been One Month to the Day and Americans Still Don’t Know Who Shot and Killed Ashli Babbitt
The Democrats and Liz Cheney claim President Trump caused the riot on the Capitol one month ago on January 6th. Yet we don’t know definitely how the four Trump supporters died that day since we’ve seen no investigative reports. And, we haven’t seen an autopsy for Ashli Babbitt and so we don’t definitely know how she died. In addition, we have no idea who shot Ashli Babbitt.
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Mainstream Media Outlets Misreported the Circumstances of Officer Brian Sicknick’s Death
Multiple media outlets are under fire after recent evidence has emerged that the January 6th death of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick likely wasn’t caused by blunt force trauma from a fire extinguisher, as many have been reporting for weeks.
A recent story from CNN revealed that medical examiners “did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma.” That has led investigators to believe that his death was not the result of bludgeoning with a fire extinguisher after all.
The report suggests that Sicknick may have fallen ill due to a pepper spray or bear spray that was utilized against the rioters. It also postulates that the officer may have had a preexisting medical condition.
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Microsoft said its political action committee will bar all donations to Republican lawmakers who refused to certify Joe Biden’s election win, while announcing a change in focus to the “promotion of democracy.”
The tech giant said on Friday that it will modify a policy change introduced last month freezing all political contributions, retaining the ban for GOP election skeptics, as well as those with affiliated organizations echoing claims of widespread voter fraud, until at least 2022.
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Donald Trump and other fans are expressing support for Lou Dobbs after the sudden cancellation of his “number one news program” on Fox News, but liberals are so giddy they want other conservatives like Sean Hannity pulled.
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Organized Cancel Group Seeks to Financially Damage News Channel GB News Before it Even Launched
A UK pressure group operating on social media and unironically called Stop Funding Hate has set its sights on a new target: a broadcaster that has not yet launched.
The group, that critics say is ideologically far-left, focuses on “defunding” those media outlets it disagrees with by driving advertisers away, in this way stripping these outlets of their revenue in an attempt to damage them.
Critics say the ultimate goal is to influence what content newspapers and others dare publish for fear of losing advertising money, which in effect means the campaign that says it’s there to remove “hatred, toxicity and divisions” from the media is in reality canceling freedom of the press.
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Same Publishing Company That Axed Sen. Josh Hawley Will Publish Hunter Biden Book
Publishing house Simon & Schuster has raised eyebrows after announcing that one of their imprints, Gallery Books, will be publishing the upcoming memoir of Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden.
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Sheriffs Shut Down Three Illegal NYC Parties Packing in Hundreds of Revelers
New York City sheriff’s deputies busted up three large illegal parties over the weekend that included hundreds of boozy revelers packed together in violation of COVID-19 restrictions.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Psychological Coup D’etat
David Martin has released his “The Fauci/Covid-19 Dossier,” a 205 page document citing specific charges against the CDC, Dr. Anthony Fauci and his National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, and individuals engaged in coronavirus “gain of function” research for funding and allegedly conspiring to commit acts of terror, lying to Congress, conspiring to engage in criminal commercial activity, illegal clinical trials and market manipulation and allocation. These are serious charges and the data Martin has collated is near conclusive and deeply disturbing. The Dossier has been filed with the US Attorney General, and is essential reading for everyone to understand the details about how the current pandemic may be an orchestrated strategy unraveling over the course of twenty years.
During a recent video appearance, Dr. Martin condensed the background of alleged corruption, illegal patents and preparatory planning for the pandemic long before the outbreak. Speaking at the February 2016 Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Daszak stated,
“… until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored. To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, we need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs [Medical Counter Measures] such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of process.”
It is important to observe how Daszak lays out a strategy for a coronavirus or influenza pandemic to be framed as a commercial opportunity for the benefit of corporations and their investors, and the role the media will play in maximizing such profit. In retrospect, Daszak’s scenario has played out accurately according to plan. Worse, the pandemic is now being manipulated by the World Economic Forum, the IMF, Bill Gates and the transnational class of corporate and banking elites, as well as the Biden administration and the Chinese, British, Canadian and German governments, as an opportunity to completely restructure the global economy. This will necessitate a thorough overall of the entire economic system thereby strengthening the global institutionalization of commercial oversight that will eventually nullify the independence of the modern nation state.
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It’s not easy to keep an entire population at the brink of hysteria, but the supposed figures of authority in this pandemic are doing a pretty good job, with flip-flops that almost seem designed to keep us confused and scared.
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The 2020 US presidential elections wasn’t “rigged,” oh no, but “fortified” by a conspiracy of activists united in saving “Our Democracy” from the Bad Orange Man, now proud to share their story in a friendly tell-all piece in TIME.
“There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” writes Molly Ball — a biographer of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by the way — in TIME magazine this week, describing it as a “vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election — an extraordinary shadow effort.”
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Twitter Banned Gateway Pundit Founder Jim Hoft
Jim Hoft, the founder and editor-in-chief of far-right news site Gateway Pundit, was permanently suspended from Twitter Saturday after he violated the social media platform’s “civic integrity policy.”
Hoft joins a list of other right-wing accounts that have recently been banned for promoting falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election.
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Two More Men Involved With Netflix’s “Cheer” Arrested for Sexual Misconduct With Children
Two men associated with Netflix’s documentary series “Cheer” have been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with minors.
Mitchel Ryan, 23, a member of the Navarro College cheer team, was arrested near Dallas on Wednesday on suspicion of aggravated assault of a minor.
“Mitch and his family were surprised at his arrested,” Ryan’s lawyer said. “There are two sides to every story, and we are confident Mitch’s name will be cleared.”
Robert Joseph Scianna Jr., 25, a cheer coach and choreographer, was arrested on Wednesday on allegations of indecency with a child and “use of an electronic communication device to solicit sex.”
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University of Tennessee Sued for Expelling Student Over Cardi-B-Style Social Media Posts
Schools in the US are struggling in finding ways to align with the prevalent climate of strictly policed and suppressed online free speech, and at times find themselves involved in lawsuits.
Many of these cases involve educational institutions — high schools and universities alike — trying to control and punish off campus online behavior of students, and sometimes even public colleges fail to live up to their obligations to respect the First Amendment speech protections.
Many times these incidents involve politics, identity politics and other heavier issues, but this time, it’s about a student reportedly using “vulgar” language and posting “sex positive” content on Twitter and Instagram — images and rap lyrics. Regardless of the nature of content, the underlying problem remains the same.
Kimberly Diei, who is a pharmacy graduate student at the University of Tennessee, thought she was minding her own business while posting on social media under a pseudonym, and was no doubt emboldened to continue expressing herself in the vein of her favorite rapper, Cardi B, famous for her raunchy material, once those accounts started gaining followers.
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Vaccination’s Dilemma: Unsafe at Any Dose
This incisive article first published in May 2016 analyses the issue of mandatory vaccination.
As we have noted, environmental medicine is diligently pursuing epigenetic investigations to better understand how exogenous chemicals and toxins affect the body’s immune system and genetic disposition. Simultaneously epigenetics remains an anathema within the vaccine industry. This is because epigenetics is the vaccine industry’s greatest threat and may well be the harbinger of vaccination’s collapse in the future. For that reason we increasingly observe the pro-vaccine community aggressively associating vaccine-injury illnesses with parental gene inheritance. Seeming vaccine injuries, the CDC informs us, are all due to inherited genes and are not stimulated by vaccine interference. More recently we are being told that genes associated with autism have always been present in the human genome. Yet, no one references the other body of research, such as a University of Montreal analysis, that has discovered the majority of these so-called autism genes are de novo. De novo genes are genetic mutations that appear for the first time in a parent’s germ cell or during the development of the fertilized egg itself. The most likely causal candidates accounting for de novo mutations are epigenetic. Consequently, a woman who is vaccinated during pregnancy will have her unborn child at a higher risk of de novo mutations due to the toxic stew of chemicals, additives and viruses she was injected with. In order to skirt the evidence supporting this scientifically plausible hypothesis, the CDC and its minions in the vaccine industry must continue to rely upon an older, determinist, and regressive view of genetics that denies epigenetic activity. Fortunately this outdated genetic paradigm is rapidly being deconstructed and proven unsound by other scientific disciplines.
Other examples are Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or EDS (a connective tissue disorder) and Osteogenesis Imperfecta (a disorder characterized by brittle bones). Both conditions are known inherited genetic disorders and associated with a series of identifiable gene mutations. And both illnesses are increasing at an alarming rate among young children and adolescents.
In 2014, Dr. Lloyd Phillips conducted independent research to determine why so many young adolescent and teenage girls were rapidly coming down with more serious expressions of EDS. His findings concluded that these otherwise healthy girls carried an EDS genetic marker which remained dormant until shortly after receiving the HPV vaccine or Gardasil.
A similar discovery was made by Dr. Robert Kendall Endres in 2009 who noted in 1962 there were approximately 10,000 cases of brittle bone syndrome worldwide. By 1978 there were 836,000 cases and over 4 million in 2000. This increase parallels the rapid increase in the number of vaccinations recommended in the CDC’s vaccine schedule and the WHO’s global vaccination initiatives. Although both disorders are associated with certain inherited gene mutations, the plausibility of vaccination as the triggering culprit responsible for their expression and activation cannot be ruled out.
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What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”?
First published on December 25, 2020
Bill Gates is actively financing and promoting new untested vaccines supposed to keep us at least somewhat safe from a ‘ghastly” death from the novel coronavirus and supposedly allow us to resume somewhat “normal” lives. The Pharma giant Pfizer has now announced what they claim were spectacular results in initial human tests. They use an experimental technology known as gene editing, specifically mRNA gene-editing, something never before used in vaccines. Before we rush to get jabbed in hopes of some immunity, we should know more about the radical experimental technology and its lack of precision…
The experimental technology is based on a rather new gene manipulation known as gene editing. In a major article in the 2018 New York Council on Foreign Relations magazine, Foreign Affairs, Bill Gates effusively promoted the novel gene editing CRISPR technology as being able to “transform global development.” He noted that his Gates Foundation had been financing gene editing developments for vaccines and other applications for a decade.
But is the technology for breaking and splicing of human genes so absolutely safe that it is worth risking on a novel experimental vaccine never before used on humans? Contrary to what Bill Gates claims, the scientific answer is no, it is not proven so safe.
In a peer reviewed article in the October, 2020 journal Trends in Genetics, the authors conclude that “the range of possible molecular events resulting from genome editing has been underestimated and the technology remains unpredictable on, and away from, the target locus.”
Dr. Romeo Quijano, retired professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, noted some of the dangers of the experimental gene editing when applied to human vaccines. Quijano warns of,
“the danger that the vaccine might actually “enhance” the pathogenicity of the virus, or make it more aggressive possibly due to antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), as what happened with previous studies on test vaccines in animals. If that should happen in a major human trial the outcome could be disastrous. This serious adverse effect may not even be detected by a clinical trial especially in highly biased clinical trials laden with conflicts of interest involving vaccine companies. Even when a serious adverse event is detected, this is usually swept under the rug.”
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Anti-Lockdown Demonstrations Continue in Europe
Anti-lockdown protests and demonstrations have continued in some European countries as citizens grew tired of necessary by inconvenient coronavirus restrictions. While this is the case in some countries, others are witnessing bad weather forcing citizens to stay at home.
Here’s a look at situation…
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Economist Study Ranks France as ‘Failing Democracy’
The Economist ranked France as a “failing democracy” due to the restrictions on freedoms Emmanuel Macron’s government imposed during the Wuhan virus pandemic.
According to a study conducted by the British magazine, basic democratic freedoms have fallen by as much as 70 per cent in 2020 due to the restrictions imposed by many states to stop the Chinese coronavirus.
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France: Far-Left Activists Raise Cash for Antifa Terror Suspects’ Court Costs
Far-left radicals in France have crowdfunded thousands of euros to pay the court costs of seven far-left militants who were arrested in December and have been charged with plotting a terrorist attack.
The money was raised on the website “CotizUp”, a French web platform that allows users to raise funds for various causes. The far-left militants, who advertised their campaign as directly helping those arrested in December, raised nearly €2,500 within 20 days.
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German Chemicals Giant Bayer Says to Produce Curevac Vaccine
160 million doses in the first 12 months
(ANSA-AFP) — BERLIN, FEB 1 — Chemicals giant Bayer announced Monday that it will produce from 2022 a coronavirus vaccine that fellow German pharmaceuticals company CureVac is developing. “I am happy to tell you that we have the necessary capacities to produce CureVac’s mRNA-based vaccine,” Bayer’s head of pharmaceuticals Stefan Oelrich told reporters, adding that the company aimed to produce 160 million doses in the first 12 months.
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Globalisation Can’t Impose New Colonialism — Pope Tells IFAD
Deploy new forms of solidarity Francis tells indigenous peoples
(ANSA) — VATICAN CITY, FEB 2 — Globalisation must not impose a new form of colonialism, Pope Francis said in a message to participants in the Fifth International Forum of Indigenous Peoples hosted by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome Tuesday.
“Globalisation cannot mean a uniformity that ignores diversity and imposes a new type of colonialism,” Francis told the forum, which takes place from 2-4 February and on 15 February.
The Forum will focus on the value of indigenous food systems: resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In his message, the pope underlines that an alternative to globalisation needs to be created “based on solidarity so that no one feels ignored, but neither does it overbearingly impose its own direction.” On the contrary, he says, “when diversities are articulated and mutually enriched, communion between peoples flourishes and is enlivened.” Pope Francis goes on to say that development needs to be promoted in a way that does not have “consumption as its means and end, but that truly watches over the environment, listens, learns and ennobles.” “This is what integral ecology consists of, in which social justice is combined with the protection of the planet,” the Pope underlines.
“Only with this humility of spirit,” he writes, “will we be able to see the total defeat of hunger and a society based on lasting values, which are not the fruit of passing fads and partiality, but of justice and goodness.” Concluding his message, Pope Francis expresses the hope that the Forum’s work will produce “abundant fruits”.
In order to hand over to the next generation a world that is “a treasure”, says the Pope, “let us pay attention to what benefits everyone and that will be precisely what will allow us to pass through this world leaving a furrow of altruism and generosity.”
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Poll: French Have Most Confidence in Marine Le Pen to Tackle Islamist Separatism
As the French government moves to counter Islamist separatism within French society, a poll has shown that French have the most confidence in populist leader Marine Le Pen to tackle the issue, not Emmanuel Macron.
On Thursday, the French parliament unanimously adopted a bill which makes “separatism” an offence under French law as part of President Emmanuel Macron’s push to strengthen republican values in France.
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Pope Francis Urges Italians to End the ‘Demographic Winter’ By Having Kids
ROME — Pope Francis urged Italians to halt the nation’s “demographic winter” by having more children, in an appeal for Italy’s Day for Life Sunday.
“Today the Day for Life is celebrated in Italy with the theme of ‘Freedom and life,’“ the pope said following his weekly Angelus prayer on Sunday. “I join the Italian Bishops in remembering that freedom is the great gift that God has given us to seek and achieve our own good and that of others, starting with the primary good of life.”
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Scotland: Lockdown Ignored as 60 Rule Breakers Discovered at Beauty Spot
Up to 60 people were discovered breaking lockdown rules in just three hours after police were repeatedly called to a beauty spot.
Officers found dozens of cars at Gleniffer Braes in Paisley after multiple reports of illegal gatherings.
The problem became so bad that Renfrewshire Council stepped in to close Robertson car park — better know as the carpark in the sky — amid reports of continued breaches of restrictions.
However, they were forced to reopen it over road safety concerns as drivers then opted to park on the road, despite repeated warnings, the Paisley Daily Express reports.
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Scotland: Five Protesters Slapped With Fines After Anti-Lockdown Protest in Edinburgh
Five protesters have been hit with fines after an anti-lockdown rally in Edinburgh earlier today.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Scottish Parliament to protest over the current coronavirus restrictions, reports the Sun.
Under the current rules, Scots have been told to “stat at home” and are only allowed to leave for essential reasons in a bid to get the virus under control after cases soared.
However, this didn’t stop a number of people gathering at Holyrood for the rally. Police have confirmed that five of them were issued with fixed penalty notices by officers.
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UK: 14-Year-Old Kidnapped, Stripped, Tortured With Stun Gun for Refusing to Deal Drugs
Hamzah Ahmed, Clinton Prowell, and Cameron Wynne kidnapped a 14-year-old boy, stripped him naked, and tortured him with a stun gun for refusing to sell drugs for them in Hull, England.
The three men, aged 26, 21, and 18, snatched the boy from the street in 2019 after he had briefly committed to selling cannabis for them before backing out.
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UK: Cambridge Extinction Rebellion Activist in Court Over Public ‘Art Installation’
A Cambridge Extinction Rebellion (XR) activist appeared in court for a hearing on Friday (05/02) on charges of criminal damages, after attempting to create a piece of “inspiring public artwork.”
The local Cambridge artist and activist was arrested in May 2020 for painting onto an empty billboard under the railway bridge on Barnwell Road, with the move taken independently of XR Cambridge.
A press release from XR Cambridge to Varsity states that the completed artwork was intended to carry the message:”Whose city? Our city! Make Cambridge cleaner, safer, and more equal. We have the power to create a better future, cleaner air and water, quieter roads and skies, more equality and understanding, more kindness, more love. Only we can do it. No change. No Future.”
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UK: Furious Reaction as Police Called to Break Up Illegal 18th Birthday Party Twice
Nottinghamshire Live readers are calling on house party rule breakers to spend a day on Covid wards to properly grasp their ‘selfish’ behaviour.
More than 600 readers have responded to news the police had to break up an 18th birthday party in Exeter Road, Forest Fields, twice on Friday, February 5.
Police were first called to the property at around 7pm following reports more than 15 people were having a party with music, alcohol, and no social distancing.
Officers said it was an ‘organised 18th birthday party’ with extended family across Nottinghamshire invited.
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UK: Liberal Elites Bemoan Loss of ‘Cheap Labour’ Au Pairs After Brexit
‘Remoaner’ elites have complained that they will no longer be able to afford their au pairs following Brexit, as immigration laws now mandate that migrants must receive a living wage.
A columnist for the Financial Times, Peter Foster, took to social media to express his “despair” that “Brexit will just continue to retard relations with the EU on a personal/cultural level, it’s inevitable.”
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UK: Police Hand Out Nearly £30,000 in Fines After Shisha Bar COVID-19 Breach
Nearly £30,000 in fines have been handed out to people who broke Covid-19 rules by gathering at an illegal pop-up shisha bar.
West Midlands Police (WMP) said officers who were clamping down on lockdown breaches found 36 people crammed above a food shop on Stratford Road in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, on Saturday night.
The floor had been turned into an open plan shisha lounge, with beer and soft drinks on offer, card games being played and football on the TV.
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Three gang members have been given short sentences for participating in an “unprovoked” attack which saw a teenager hacked and stabbed with machetes and knives in the middle of a crowded McDonald’s in Northampton, England.
The trio, as teenagers aged 17 and 16 themselves have not been named for legal reasons, were part of a gang of six who surrounded two victims outside the fast food restaurant in Northampton town centre before pursuing them inside, the Northampton Chronicle and Echo reports.
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Woke Outrage as Few Scotland Players Kneel to BLM Before Historic Rugby Win Over England
Few Scotland players chose to kneel to Black Lives Matter ahead of a historic victory over England in the Six Nations rugby tournament, triggering a woke backlash.
The Scots won the Calcutta Cup from England on their much larger neighbour’s home soil for the first time since 1983 — in a stadium which was largely empty, thanks to the anti-coronavirus lockdown — but the win has been somewhat marred by a furore over what the BBC has dubbed “kneegate”.
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The Biden administration on Friday announced that it would no longer designate Yemen’s Iran-supported Houthi movement as a terror group, despite the fact the group’s slogan calls for the death of Americans and Jews.
The terrorist designation was made just last month by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to NBC News. It was slated to take effect by the State Department on Jan. 19, the day before President Joe Biden was inaugurated.
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Greek PM Unhappy With German Sale of Attack Submarines to Turkey
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has spoken out against Germany’s plans to export Type 214 Class submarines to Turkey as tensions between the two NATO members are heightened.
Prime Minister Mitsotakis spoke out about the sale of the submarines by the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel after noting that the United States had brought sanctions against Turkey last year after it purchased the Russian-made S-400 missile system.
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Saudi Arabia: Social Gathering Norms Violations: Four Groups to Face Penalty
RIYADH — The Public Prosecution has warned workers against the violation of social gathering protocols that were introduced to stem the spread of coronavirus. Four groups are to be subjected to stringent penalties for their criminal accountability.
They are workers who gathered in violation of the social gathering norms; those who made invitations for the gathering; those who had a role in perpetrating the illegal gathering; and the official of the facility where the gathering was held.
The Public Prosecution emphasized that the gathering of five or more workers inside homes or buildings under construction, rest houses, farms, and similar facilities other than their accommodation has been prohibited.
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Syria: Brit ISIS Jihadi Boasts About ‘Outwitting’ MI5 and His Brother Joined Group
A GRINNING Brit jihadi laughs as he explains how he fled to Syria right under the noses of MI5 after his brother had joined ISIS.
Aseel Muthana, 24, claims he left his home in Cardiff, Wales, to become a member of the Islamic State despite “weekly” visits from the UK security services.
The terrorist, who allegedly acted as a “recruiter” for the death cult, is currently being held in a Syrian jail after being captured during the group’s last stand in Bargouz in 2019.
Speaking with documentary filmmaker Alan Duncan, he explained how the intelligence cops visited his home regularly after his brother Nasser had joined ISIS in 2012 and appeared in their propaganda videos.
The extremist laughs as he explains how he applied for a new passport and fled to Syria in 2014 after his mum had confiscated his travel document — insisting “it was too easy”.
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Turkey: ‘I Won’t Resign’, Pro-Erdogan Dean Says After Demos
Over 170 arrested during protests in Istanbul, Ankara
ISTANBUL — The dean of the prestigious Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Melih Bulu said he has “no intention” of resigning after hundreds of students protested against his appointment, which was decided a month ago by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“The students have assumed an attitude that limits the freedom of others”, the appointed dean said. “It was necessary to take measures”, he added, commenting with journalists the police crackdown on demonstrations over the past few days in which protesters demanded his resignation.
According to authorities, over 170 people were arrested during demonstrations organized in Istanbul and Ankara. At least 30 university members are still detained. New protests have been announced over the next few hours.
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Delhi Prepares for Counter-Offensive as Farmers Set to Block Highways Across India
Thousands of farmers have been camping out on the outskirt of Delhi for over 72 days to protest against a series of new laws adopted by the Narendra Modi government, calling for them to be rolled back. As many as 11 rounds of talks between the government and the farmers have failed to break the deadlock.
As India’s capital New Delhi braces for another round of nationwide protests by farmers, residents have taken to Twitter to express their angst over the United Nations appeal for “maximum restraint” over the agitation.
On Friday, the United Nations called on Indian authorities to protect the rights to peaceful assembly and expression both online and offline.
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Raped and Murdered: Christian Girls in Pakistan
Keeping up with the abuse of Christian girls by Muslims in Pakistan has become exceedingly difficult. Hardly does one story of abduction, enslavement, rape, forced conversion, torture or murder appear, before another follows it — and another, and another. Although of course, needless to say, not all Muslim men regard non-Muslim girls and women this way, unfortunately many there still seem to. Some recent examples include:
The bloated bodies of two Christian sisters who had long rebuffed the advances of their Muslim employers, were found in a sewer in January 2021. Earlier, on November 26, the sisters, Sajida (28) and Abida (26), who were both married and had children, were reported as missing. The two Muslim men for whom they worked had regularly pressured them to convert to Islam and marry them. Even though the young women “made it clear that they were Christian and married, the men threatened them and kept harassing the sisters.”
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China Cracks Down on Site Offering Uncensored Foreign Media to Users
Police in Shanghai have raided a popular video-sharing site that offered foreign films and TV shows to more than eight million registered users, cutting off a key source of uncensored content for Chinese viewers.
Police detained 14 people in a Feb. 3 raid on the offices of the Renren Yingshi video-sharing app and website, on suspicion of copyright piracy linked to more than 20,000 Chinese and foreign-made movies and TV shows.
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The ‘proof of vaccination’ should be available on the MyGov and Express Plus Medicare apps in a matter of weeks.
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Using public health orders, states and territories have the power to mandate vaccinations for certain activities and professions such as aged care workers who can be required to get an up-to-date flu jab.
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“As Sky’s Africa John Sparks reports, the crisis has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.”
Why? Because the perpetrators don’t fit the establishment narrative that Muslims are always victims. But you can see EU foreign minister Josep Borrell Fontalles below doing his best to shoehorn it in.
“Ansar al-Sunna want to establish an Islamic state in the region and claim the Islam practised in Mozambique has been corrupted and no longer follows Muhammad’s teachings. Its members, which have grown to the thousands, have tried preventing people from going to hospitals or schools as they consider them secular and anti-Islamic….The group has become increasingly violent since 2017 and is now calling for Sharia law across Mozambique.”
But, but, how do these fellows not understand that jihad violence has nothing to do with Islam, and that Sharia is entirely peaceful and benign, as well as compatible with Western-style democracy? Pope Francis or Joe Biden or Steve Harvey somebody who knows that Islam is a religion of peace should go over to Mozambique and explain to these good folks how they’re misunderstanding their religion.
“Mozambique conflict: Why have 500,000 people been forced to flee their homes?,” by Alix Culbertson, Sky News, February 5, 2021.
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Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Force Residents to Flee
Residents of Nigeria’s Borno state have fled to neighboring Yobe due to attacks by unknown gunmen believed to be Boko Haram terrorists, police said Thursday.
Yobe State Police Command spokesperson Dungus Abdulkarim said in a statement that gunmen have forced residents of four local government areas in Borno to flee to Yobe.
He listed Gubio, Magumeri, Kaga, and Konduga as the worst affected communities.
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Suspected Islamists Kill 10 in Eastern Congo Machete Attack
Suspected Islamists killed 10 people in a raid on a village in eastern Democractic Republic of Congo and kidnapped several others, local authorities and a witness said.
The attack, in which assailants used machetes, occurred on Friday night in the village of Mabule, around 25 km (16 miles) south east of Beni, the sources said.
‘They killed 10 people here without any reason,’ said Muhindo Mbela, a survivor of the massacre.
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Hundreds of Rescued Migrants Taken to Italian Port, Including Eight With COVID-19
A rescue ship carrying 422 migrants docked in the Sicilian port of Augusta on Sunday. Eight of the passengers tested positive for COVID-19 in health checks by the Italian authorities.
SOS Mediterranee, the humanitarian organisation that operates the vessel Ocean Viking, said Italy had granted permission to dock just as rain and strong winds were forecast.
The migrants had been rescued in separate operations in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on Thursday and Friday.
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Illegal Migrants Unhappy With Free Accommodation in ‘Racist’ UK Want to Return to EU
A group of asylum seekers said that they will leave the United Kingdom to go back to the EU, complaining about the supposed racism of being provided with free taxpayer-funded accommodation at former British Army barracks.
In the wake of record-breaking illegal boat migration from France across the English Channel, the Home Office was forced to house some migrants in two former military barracks, one in Wales and the other in Folkestone, Kent.
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Immigration and China’s Threat to Our Sovereignty, Part 2
For the past few decades the Communist regime of China has been driving toward world supremacy, both economically and militarily. The regime’s main target has been, and is, the United States of America. China’s plan to grab power has been clever and unprecedented, seeking victory without firing a shot, reducing its targets to mere frogs in a boiling pot.
Pundits and politicians alike, when excusing their strategic dealings with China, are quick to remind their audiences that today’s China is a “centuries old civilization” rich in tradition and ancient religious discipline. A Confucian civilization that is still upset over wrongdoings during the European colonization period.
Such a view is wrong. The China we are confronted with today is nothing like that pre-nineteenth century nation. Since the reign of Mao Tse-tung began in 1949, Communist China, much to the dismay, torture, and death of its own citizens, has been governed by tyrannical thugs, thirsty to expand their dictatorial regime and unrelenting in their hatred of Western Civilization and the United States.
Militarily, China has literally surrounded the US. Once there was a Monroe Doctrine to forbid any foreign power to exert influence in American’s backyard, meaning South, Central, and North America. All nations respected that doctrine as America vigorously imposed it. That is, until China played on the growing weakness of American foreign policy, as when Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal and scuttled all American bases in one of the most strategic locations of American defense. Since then, China has established relationships and bases in several South and Central American nations…
In 2014, Americans were shocked to witness a near massacre in the Nevada desert as rancher Cliven Bundy stood his ground against an army of government agents from the Bureau of Land Management. He was accused of letting his cattle graze on public lands, endangering the Desert Tortoise, even though cattle and the Desert Tortoise have coexisted on the range for 100 years. Was it for this excuse that the federal government amassed an army? Well, not so fast. There is much more to the story. It seems a certain U.S. Senator was involved with EB-5 real estate deals and that issue had close ties to the Bundy situation.
ENN Energy Group wanted to build a 5 billion-dollar solar farm in the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone, on which Bundy’s farm is located. Who were the investors for ENN? The Chinese, using the EB-5 program. Who represented ENN in its negotiations? Rory Reid, former Senator Harry Reid’s son. This little band had already run off 52 other ranchers in the area. Bundy was the last one left. So, was the BLM there in force for turtles or as the private enforcement machine of a corrupt senator seeking to fill his pockets with cash? Senator Reid is the one who said, “This isn’t over yet.” He was apparently in a position to know.
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‘Ultraviolent’ Underage Migrants Causing Havoc in French Prisons
Migrant minors are reportedly causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centres, and some doubt the migrants are the age they claim to be.
For the last several months, the number of brawls, rebellions, and verbal assaults has increased in several French prisons, including an arson incident at the notorious Fleury-Mérogis prison last month.
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Can We Trust the World Health Organization (WHO)?
In 2015, the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops reported its discovery of a polio vaccine laced with estradiol that was manufactured in India and distributed by the WHO. A year earlier, Dr. Wahome Ngare from the Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association uncovered a tetanus vaccine specifically being administered to women, also distributed by the WHO, that contained the HCG hormone. All of the polio vaccine samples tested contained HCG, estrogen-related compounds, follicle stimulating and luteinizing hormones, which will damage sperm formation in the testes. Even more disturbing, this vaccine was going to be administered to children under five years of age.
However, this is not the first time the WHO appears to have made efforts to use vaccination campaigns for depopulation. A decade earlier, in 2004, the WHO, UNICIF and CDC launched a vaccination campaign to immunize 74 million African children during a polio outbreak. The initiative encountered a serious obstacle. In Nigeria, laboratory tests on the WHO’s vaccine samples resulted in the presence of estrogen and other female hormones. And in the mid-1990s, a tetanus vaccine being administered to Nicaraguan and Filipino girls and women in their child-bearing years was discovered to contain HCG, which accounted for a large number of spontaneous abortions that were reported by Catholic health workers.
Illegal Vaccine Experiments
In 2014, The Economic Times of India published a report that provided details of a joint venture between the WHO and the Gates Foundation to test an experimental HPV vaccine on approximately 16,000 tribal girls between the ages of 9 and 15 unwittingly. The experiment was conducted in 2008, and the vaccine is now what we commonly know as Gardasil. Many of the girls, the report states, became ill and some died.
The following year the WHO and Gates Foundation conducted a similar experiment on 14,000 girls with the HPV vaccine Cervarix. Again “scores of teenage girls were hospitalized.” Investigations led by Indian health officials uncovered gross violations in India’s laws regarding medical safety. In numerous cases there was no consent and the children had no idea what they were being vaccinated for. The Indian Supreme Court has taken up a case against the duo for criminal charges.
[Comment: From 2020, but informative.]
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