Police in Ireland have issued more than 10,000 fines for non-essential travel and more than 400 fines for holding illegal house parties since new COVID rules were instituted earlier this year. Meanwhile, police in the English city of Birmingham busted an illegal lockdown-violating poker party in a pub.
In other news, the UK is debating a 6pm curfew for men.
To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.
Thanks to CT, Fjordman, JD, JM, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
“George Floyd Square” Has Descended Into a Deadly, “Police-Free” Autonomous Zone
“George Floyd Square,” a citizen-constructed memorial for the black man who died after a confrontation with Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last May, has been overtaken by a group of radical leftists who have declared it a “police-free” “autonomous zone.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Another Windows 10 Patch That Breaks Printers Ups Ante to Full-on Blue Screen of Death
Microsoft’s rigorous testing at work
Microsoft’s near-legendary approach to quality in Windows has struck again, with customers complaining of blue screens rather than print-outs following a recent patch.
The problem appears to stem from changes introduced with the 9 March patch, KB5000802, which brought OS builds 19041.867 and 19042.867 for Windows 20H1 and 20H2 respectively.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
In October 2019, shortly before the COVID outbreak, Gates and other powerful individuals began planning how to censor vaccine safety advocates from social media during a table-top simulation of a worldwide pandemic, known as Event 201.
The attached document shows that a cabal of powerful individuals did indeed begin planning the mass eviction of vaccine skeptics from social media in October 2019, a week or two before COVID began circulating. That month, Microsoft founder Bill Gates organized an exercise of four “table-top” simulations of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic with other high-ranking “Deep State” panjandrums. The exercise was referred to as Event 201.
Gates’ co-conspirators included representatives from the World Bank, the World Economic Forum (Great Reset), Bloomberg/Johns Hopkins University Populations Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, various media powerhouses, the Chinese government, a former Central Intelligence Agency/National Security Agency director (there is no such thing as a former CIA officer), vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson, the finance and biosecurity industries and Edelman, the world’s leading corporate PR firm.
At Gates’ direction, these eminences role-played members of a Pandemic Control Council, wargaming government strategies for controlling the pandemic, the narrative and the population. Needless to say, there was little talk of building immune systems, off-the-shelf remedies or off-patent therapeutic drugs and vitamins, but lots of chatter about promoting uptake of new patentable antiviral drugs and vaccines.
But the participants primarily focused on planning industry-centric, fear-mongering, police-state strategies for managing an imaginary global coronavirus contagion culminating in mass censorship of social media.
Oddly, Gates now claims that the simulation didn’t occur. On April 12, 2020, Gates told BBC, “Now here we are. We didn’t simulate this, we didn’t practice, so both the health policies and economic policies, we find ourselves in uncharted territory.”
Unfortunately for that whopper, the videos of the event are still available across the internet. They show that Gates and team did indeed simulate health and economic policies. It’s hard to swallow that Gates has forgotten.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Bill to Increase Penalties for Unlawful Protests in Iowa Passes
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A new bill to increase penalties for unlawful protests in Iowa will move forward to the House.
Senate File 534 increases penalties for assaulting police officers, rioting, or unlawful assembly. It passed through the Senate last night on a strict party-line vote.
KCCI reports the bill also makes blocking streets or highways a misdemeanor and requires those arrested for certain crimes to be held in jail for at least 24-hours.
One amendment adds penalties for people who bring objects to fight crowd control measures.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Bill to Undo Right-to-Work Laws in 27 States Passes House of Representatives
In what is being called the largest effort to expand labor union rights since the New Deal of the 1930s, the Democrat-led House of Representatives passed the “Protecting the Right to Organize Act” Tuesday.
The bill is described as an effort to halt right-to-work laws in 27 states which protect workers from being compelled to pay union dues as a condition of employment.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Did the FBI make off with ‘seven to nine tons’ of Civil War-era gold in a Pennsylvania forest after a treasure hunting duo led them to its long-hidden location?
A father-son team wants to know, and has successfully sued for access to government emails about the dig.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Farmer Bill and the Great Reset
Story at-a-glance:
- Bill Gates has been buying up farmland across the U.S. He currently owns 242,000 acres of farmland, plus another 27,000 acres of nonagricultural land
- His sizeable land ownership further strengthens Gates’ already enormous influence over agriculture and food policy
- In 2006, Gates launched AGRA together with the Rockefeller Foundation. After 14 years, AGRA’s influence has significantly worsened the situation in the 18 African nations targeted by this “philanthropic” endeavor. Hunger under AGRA’s direction increased by 30% and rural poverty rose dramatically
- Gates’ philanthropy creates several new problems for each one he promises to solve, and can best be described as “philanthrocapitalism.” Rarely do his initiatives actually help the local community. The only ones benefiting are his corporate allies and Gates himself
- Gates’ globalist approach to farming has had devastating consequences for food and environmental sustainability in general and local food security in particular. We must dismantle the globalist machine and transition into regenerative agricultural methods that have been proven successful
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
House Democrats Pass “First Step” To Creating a National Gun Registry
The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that Republicans warn is the first step towards creating a national gun registry, giving the federal government information on exactly who owns guns, and how many.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Journalist Suing Michigan Governor Says COVID-Infected Seniors Treated Like ‘Bags of Laundry’
Investigative journalist Charlie LeDuff sounded off Thursday following his filing of a lawsuit against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, telling “The Story” that the state still refuses to provide relevant data on coronavirus-related nursing home deaths.
LeDuff told host Martha MacCallum that while embattled New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo stopped co-mingling coronavirus-positive patients in Empire State nursing homes after some time, the Great Lakes State is allegedly “still doing it.”
Republicans in Lansing are threatening a subpoena against Whitmer’s Department of Health for the public records data being sought by LeDuff and a prosecutor in Macomb County within the Detroit metro says he’s heard outcry from dozens of families, Fox News correspondent Garrett Tenney reported earlier in the hour.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Journalists Call for Censorship of Substack
Substack, a publishing platform that incorporates payments, analytics, and subscription newsletters, is becoming more and more popular among independent journalists and writers.
One of them is Glenn Greenwald of the Snowden revelations fame, who several months ago decided to leave the website he co-founded, the Intercept, when it didn’t want to take any critical approach to Biden.
Now, he is seeing mainstream corporate journalists abandoning their role of free speech proponents to start coming for their colleagues who have chosen the independent route on platforms like Substack. They are doing this by ramping up pressure on the company to engage in censorship.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
The Democrat-led House on Thursday passed a gun control bill to expand background checks with a vote of 227-203.
8 Republican lawmakers voted with the Democrats to pass the “Background Checks Act” that prohibits private firearms transfers without having a background check:
Vern Buchanan (FL) Brian Fitzpatrick (PA) Maria Salazar (FL) Andrew Garbarino (NY) Chris Smith (NJ) Fred Upton (MI) Carlos Gimenez (FL) Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Jared Golden (ME) was the one Democrat who voted against the bill according to a preliminary tally of votes.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Kentucky College Hosting Event Comparing “White Citizenship, “ “Trumpism” To Terrorism
A Kentucky college is scheduled to host an event comparing former President Donald Trump and “white citizenship” with terrorism, according to a flyer obtained by the Young America’s Foundation.
The event will take place at Berea College on March 17 via Zoom and will be co-sponsored by the Women’s and Non-Gender Non-Conforming Center and the Law, Ethics, and Society program.
The event, titled “White citizenship as terrorism: Make America Great Again, Again,” describes itself as a way to “resituate Trumpism and white citizenship as forms of white terrorism enacted against the majority of people living within the borders of the U.S. and beyond.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Oklahoma Drops Coronavirus Restrictions for State Buildings, Events
Oklahoma will lift coronavirus restrictions in the state, including the capacity limits on gatherings and mandated masks in government buildings, Gov. Ken Stitt announced on Thursday.
“Because of the progress we have made, I will be issuing a new executive order tomorrow. There will be no statewide restrictions on events, or Oklahomans,” Stitt said during a news conference. “I’m also removing the requirements to wear a mask in state buildings.”
Stitt said that the coronavirus is still a threat in the state and encouraged people to continue to wear masks.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
One P*ssed Off Doctor — Masks Are Killing You — Take Them Off Now! — Please Share This Video
This U.S. Doctor is telling you the TRUTH about how wearing masks is literally killing you and this is what they hope will happen to all of us.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Oregon Democrats Introduce Legislation That Would Pay Black Residents $123k in Slavery Reparations
Democrats in Oregon have introduced legislation that would see $123,000 given in reparations to black people residing in the state over the span of their lives.
According to the bill, the money will be paid to anyone who can demonstrate that they are a descendant of slaves and are identified as African-American on legal documentation.
The bill states that the state Department of Revenue is to establish a reparations payment program for African-Americans “who can demonstrate heritage in slavery” and provide legal documentation that identifies them as “African-American” for at least 10 years. Those eligible for the reparations must reside in the state for a minimum of two years.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Poll: Almost Half of Trump Supporters Will Not Take COVID Vaccine
A NPR, PBS and Marist poll has found that almost half of President Trump supporters have no plans to take a coronavirus shot.
The survey found that 47% who identified as supporters of the former President say they will not choose to be vaccinated when the jab is made available to them.
Broadened out to Republicans on the whole, 41% said they wouldn’t take a vaccine, while only 11% of Democrats said they do on plan to get a shot.
Altogether, almost two-thirds of Americans say they have either already taken a vaccine, or plan to get one when they can.
The poll also provided some data on lockdowns, with around three-quarters of Republicans expressing the opinion that it is time for states to open up for the sake of the economy.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Protests, Planned ‘Criminal Activity’ Puts Portland on Edge
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Downtown Portland is once again on alert after about 5 dozen protesters spray painted graffiti, broke windows, set fires and taunted federal officers who responded with tear gas and other munitions outside the Hatfield Federal Courthouse Thursday night.
On Friday, Portland police and the Multnomah County DA said they are aware of other planned “criminal activity” through the weekend in downtown and in the Pearl District.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Reporter Exposes How Democrats Defied National Guard Chief to Keep DC Under Military Occupation
The Biden Administration overruled a request from the head of the National Guard to remove troops from the nation’s capital, instead ordering that the military occupation around the centre of government must continue.
Fox News reporter Gillian Turner revealed Thursday that Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, penned a letter opposing a further stay of thousands of his National Guard troops in DC, yet was ignored by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, referred to as ‘the guy that runs that outfit over there’ by a president who cannot remember his name or that of the building he works in.
Austin instead decided that almost 3000 National Guard troops will stay at the Capitol at least into May.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Stalin Would be Proud: USDA’s Transformation of Food System & Racial Equity
Stalin would be proud: USDA calls for a “transformation of our food system” (echoing Rockefeller words) and forgives loans ONLY to black farmers. The grain crisis will justify this transformation of the world food supply as a global communist superstate is unveiled. Christian breaks it down in this Ice Age Farmer broadcast.
[Comment: Recommended.]
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
The Great Reset: IBM and Moderna Team Up to Produce ‘Digital Health Pass’
IBM has partnered with Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna to track vaccine administration in real time using Artificial Intelligence technology
According to a press release, the partnership will “focus on exploring the utility of IBM capabilities in the U.S.,” such as a recently unveiled pilot program for a Covid-19 Digital Health Pass in New York, which mandates private businesses to enforce unconstitutional Covid-19 regulations.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
The first time Aaron Kindsvatter, a professor of counseling at the University of Vermont, heard the term “whiteness,” it was “when a faculty member offered to help me with it, like it was some kind of disease.”
Fast-forward to today, and Kindsvatter has had enough.
He posted a video March 8 titled “Racism and the Secular Religion at the University of Vermont” in which he suggests his employers are close to if not outright in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits work-based discrimination on the basis of race.
“There is a new kind of discrimination on campus that’s going on that I really feel that we need to talk about, and I feel everyone is afraid to talk about, and this discrimination is against whiteness — it is today,” he said in his nine-minute video, which is quickly racking up thousands of views.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Then in September in the midst of the war game, actual Chinese combat aircraft intentionally flew over the rarely crossed median line in the Taiwan Strait in the direction of Taipei an unprecedented 40 times and conducted simulated attacks on the island that Taiwan’s premier called “disturbing.” Amid those provocations, China’s air force released a video showing a bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons carrying out a simulated attack on Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam. The title of the Hollywood-like propaganda video was “The god of war H-6K [bomber] goes on the attack!”
In case the new U.S. administration failed to get the intended message behind all that provocative military activity, four days after President Biden took office, a large force of Chinese bombers and fighters flew past Taiwan and launched simulated missile attacks on the USS Roosevelt carrier strike group as it was sailing in international waters in the South China Sea.
Little wonder that many foreign affairs and national security experts believe the global pandemic has accelerated trends that were already pushing the United States and China toward a potential confrontation as the world’s leading status quo and rising power, respectively.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
White Law Professor Fired From Georgetown After Discussing Black Students on a Zoom Video
A white professor at Georgetown Law has been fired and another was placed on administrative leave after a zoom video of their discussion about a black student was realized by other students on social media.
Professor Sandra Sellers was seen complaining on Zoom that black students were predominantly at the bottom of her class, prompting the school to end its relationship with her.
Sellers was speaking to Professor David Batson on the zoom call, who has since been placed on leave for not correcting Sellers.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
They gave him an incredible amount of platelet infusions, I’m told all the platelets in Miami Dade County
The grieving wife of a leading Florida doctor has told DailyMail.com how her ‘perfect’ husband died from a mystery blood disorder — just days after getting the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
Heidi Neckelmann says obstetrician Gregory Michael, 56 — her ‘best friend’ and partner of 28 years — was active, healthy and had no pre-existing conditions before getting the jab on December 18.
However he died from a stroke Sunday morning after suddenly developing a rare autoimmune illness that causes the body to destroy its own platelets, the tiny fragments that help blood to clot.
Distraught Heidi, 58, thinks the groundbreaking Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine may have somehow been the trigger.
‘In my mind his death was 100 percent linked to the vaccine. There is no other explanation,’ she told DailyMail.com, fighting back tears.
Dad-of-one Gregory suffered no immediate reaction to the injection but three days later he was taking a shower and noticed petechiae — spots of red that indicate bleeding beneath the skin — on his feet and hands.
When he checked himself into Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, the hospital where he works and had the groundbreaking vaccine, medics discovered he was suffering from an acute lack of platelets.
‘All the blood results came back normal except for the platelets which came back as zero,’ Heidi said.
‘At first they thought it must be a mistake. So they did the test again and this time did a manual count which is supposed to be more accurate. This time it showed just one platelet.
‘He felt 100 percent, he was normal, energetic, happy. But they said you cannot go home, this is incredibly dangerous, you could suffer a brain bleed and die.’
Normally doctors would expect a range of between 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood.
Their primary function is to help the blood clot and prevent bleeding.
Heidi says doctors tried frantically to reverse what they diagnosed as an acute immune disorder known as ITP — idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
In people with ITP, also known as severe thrombocytopenia, the immune system mistakes platelets for foreign objects and instructs the spleen to destroy them.
After two weeks of infusions and experimental treatments that failed to raise Gregory’s platelet count, doctors decided they had no choice.
However he died from a hemorrhagic stroke — when blood from an artery bleeds into the brain — before he could undergo the surgery.
‘They gave him medicine. They gave him an incredible amount of platelet infusions, I’m told all the platelets in Miami Dade County,’ Heidi said.
‘But no matter what they did, nothing helped. The blood tests came back with zero platelets every time.
‘My husband had conversations with the doctors who said it was highly probable that the vaccine was the cause.’
[Comment: Look like the immune system acted to kill cells producing virus fragments produced as a result of mRNA gene therapy.]
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Wisconsin Protest Shootings Trial Delayed at Least 7 Months
The trial for an 18-year-old from Illinois accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin was pushed back Wednesday by seven months and could be delayed even longer.
Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial was scheduled to begin March 29, but both sides told a judge that they needed more time to prepare. Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder set a Nov. 1 trial start date, with a May 17 status hearing.
Rittenhouse faces multiple felony counts, including reckless homicide and reckless endangerment. He also faces a misdemeanor count of being a minor in possession of a firearm.
Rittenhouse appeared with his attorney during the court hearing broadcast over Zoom. He only spoke when the judge asked him if he had any problem with the delay, which would push his trial start to more than a year after the shootings.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Quarantine Hotel Protesters Visit Premier Ford’s Family Biz, Deco Labels
As per usual, patriotic protesters showed up at the Radisson quarantine hotel near the Toronto airport to hopefully shuttle inmates — er, I mean, “guests” — to their homes. Alas, there were no takers on this day.
And so it was that the demonstrators decided on a whim to move their protest five minutes east to the Toronto HQ of Deco Labels, which happens to be owned by none other than Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
But as we pondered last week in a report about this company: is Premier Ford in a conflict-of-interest position?
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
In an open letter published this week, a group of 12 prominent scientists and doctors questioned “whether cardinal issues regarding the safety of the vaccines were adequately addressed prior to their approval” by the European Medicines Agency.
The authors, led by Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, professor emeritus of medical microbiology and immunology, and former chair, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, have not yet received a response from the EMA.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Belgium: Brussels Police to Patrol ‘Sexual Harassment Hotspots’ Where Woman Fear Leaving Home
Brussels will use undercover officers as part of an initiative to crack down on sexual harassment in the streets of the de facto EU capital.
The move comes after activists called on police to do more to protect women in the city.
Announcing the move, Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne revealed that in some areas of the Belgian metropolis, almost 80 percent of women do not go out for fear of being harassed or attacked.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
British Baroness Suggests 6 PM Curfew for Men to Make ‘Women a Lot Safer’
Green Party member Jenny Jones said she was responding to police suggesting that women not go out alone at night.
| — Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
European Parliament Attacks Poland’s ‘Charters of Family Rights’
ROME — The European Parliament (EP) has attacked Poland over its “Regional Charters of Family Rights,” asserting that they represent “discrimination and attacks against the LGBTIQ community.”
Charters that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman “use a very narrow definition of the family,” the EP stated in a formal resolution Thursday declaring the European Union (EU) an “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France: Woman Doused in Fuel, Set Ablaze on Bus in Paris Suburbs
A 54-year-old woman suffered severe burns after a male suspect ‘known to police’ sprayed her with flammable fluids and set her on fire aboard a bus in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, according to reports.
The victim was riding public transport with her husband in the commune of Noisy-le-Sec on Saturday evening when the attack occurred.
A 41-year-old man identified by authorities as ‘Adil M.’ is suspected of dousing the woman with an accelerant believed to be petrol and setting her ablaze, Le Parisienreports.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
German States Will Go to Polls This Weekend, Major Test of Merkel Legacy
BERLIN (AP) — Two German states choose new legislatures on Sunday, the first major political test of a year in which a national election will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel. The weekend votes come at a challenging time for the longtime leader’s party.
They also are expected to highlight the increased popularity of the environmentalist Green party, which could hold the key to forming Germany’s next government and is expected to make its own first bid for the chancellery.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Ireland: More Than 400 Fines Issued for Organising a House Party
Gardai have issued more than 10,000 fines for non-essential travel while more than 400 fines for organising a house party have been issued, as of Thursday.
New figures show that gardai have issued around 13,600 fines for Covid-19 breaches since new powers were introduced earlier this year.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Mob Attacks French Police Patrols, Headquarters
Attacks on French police led to at least fifteen arrests during three separate incidents this week, according to reports.
Four officers are recovering from injuries sustained during ambushes by mobs armed with projectiles and blunt objects.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Norway: Woman Brutally Kicked to the Ground at Train Station After Being Called ‘Racist’
Footage of a young woman being viciously kicked in the back by an assailant at a train station in Norway has gone viral in Scandinavia, according to reports.
Shocking video shows the victim standing while looking at her phone near a train platform in Sørumsand, a small town in the municipality of Lillestrøm that has reportedly been plagued by a recent surge of ‘youth violence.’
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Norway’s Fertility Rate Plummets to All-Time Low
Norwegian fertility has fallen every single year since 2009, breaking several annual records in a row and reaching an all-time nadir at 1.48 children per woman in 2020 — despite a record low number of abortions.
In 2020, 53,000 children were born in Norway. That is 1,500 fewer than the year before and 8,800 fewer than in 2009, Statistics Norway reported, emphasising a prolonged decade-long slump.
Fertility in Norway has been on the decline since 2009, breaking anti-records every single year since 2017. At 1.48 children per woman, 2020 saw an all-time low.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Scientists Unlock Mysteries of World’s Oldest ‘Computer’
A 2,000-year-old device often referred to as the world’s oldest “computer” has been recreated by scientists trying to understand how it worked.
The Antikythera Mechanism has baffled experts since it was found on a Roman-era shipwreck in Greece in 1901.
The hand-powered Ancient Greek device is thought to have been used to predict eclipses and other astronomical events.
But only a third of the device survived, leaving researchers pondering how it worked and what it looked like.
The back of the mechanism was solved by earlier studies, but the nature of its complex gearing system at the front has remained a mystery.
Scientists from University College London (UCL) believe they have finally cracked the puzzle using 3D computer modelling. They have recreated the entire front panel, and now hope to build a full-scale replica of the Antikythera using modern materials.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Scotland’s highly controversial Hate Crime and Public Order Bill has passed with 82 votes in favor, 32 against, and four abstained.
The bill, that has been hotly contested by freedom of speech advocates, builds on the already existing legislation criminalizing what’s termed as “stirring up” hatred against people based on race. But this time, Scotland has made it a crime to “stir up hatred against protected groups.”
Reports say that few laws adopted by the Scottish Parliament in the 20 years of its existence have been more disputed. According to them, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf from the ruling SNP, who tabled the bill, had to make several concessions and introduce changes to the original draft in order to try to reassure those who think freedom of speech is now in serious jeopardy in Scotland.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
This is How Many Czechs Now Work From Home
Due to current coronavirus measures, up to 30 percent of Czechs are now working from home, according to a study conducted by the Research Institute of Labor and Social Affairs based on initiatives from the Union of Employers’ Associations of the Czech Republic.
The study reports that the main benefits of working from home for employers are reduced operating costs per job (rent, energy, and equipment), reduced absenteeism and incapacity for work, increased employee loyalty, and thus reduced turnover and expanded employability of highly-qualified workers residing further from their employer.
The biggest benefits for employees, on the other hand, include minimizing the time spent commuting to the employer’s workplace and a better way to reconcile personal, family, and work life. Another advantage is the expansion of opportunities to get a job for people with disabilities or those who provide care for other members of the household.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK Debating a 6pm Curfew for Men
An idea that started out as a crude joke is now gaining traction.
After the murder of a woman in London, the UK is now debating whether all men should be put under a 6pm curfew.
Strange how there was no moral panic, hashtag campaigns or calls for curfew from feminists after thousands of young girls were abducted in towns and cities across the UK.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Police broke up an illegal poker party at one of Birmingham’s best-known pubs — and threatened to arrest everyone inside.
In body-worn video footage, officers were heard telling those inside The Station at Kings Heath to hand over their details or face being detained.
Police broke up the gathering at around 11.20pm last Saturday, March 6 after a member of the public urged: “It really needs to be stopped. It’s a joke.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Dreadful TV Show Gets Axed, Leftists Cry “Cancel Culture!”
After a dreadful ‘woke’ television comedy show in the UK with terrible ratings which repeated the same two insipid jokes over and over again got axed, leftists claimed it was an example of “cancel culture.”
Twitter was in meltdown after it was revealed that the BBC wouldn’t be commissioning a new series of The Mash Report, a programme which for almost its entire output relied on stale quips about ‘Orange Man Bad’ and ‘Brexit voters racist’ that haven’t been original for over 4 years, before the show even started
“We are very proud of The Mash Report but in order to make room for new comedy shows we sometimes have to make difficult decisions, and it won’t be returning,” a BBC spokesperson said.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Freed Prisoner From Jihadist-Packed Family Convicted of Sword Attack Terror Plot
A man from a family of several jihadists who plotted a radical Islamic terror attack after his release from prison has been convicted at the Old Bailey in London.
27-year-old Sahayb Abu, who wrote that “Islam is for war, hostage-taking, killing infidels, fighting tyranny, taking war booty, taking women of the enemy as concubines” online, had purchased balaclavas, a combat vest, fingerless gloves, a knife, and an 18-inch (46cm) sword, which he paid to have specially sharpened, according to a BBC report which avoided mentioning his nationality or any migration background.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Home Office Teams Up With Police and Internet Firms to Spy on People’s Web Browsing History
- Two UK internet providers have been tracking the websites visited by customers
- Companies are working with the Home Office and National Crime Agency
- Trial of new ‘snooping’ powers were granted by Investigatory Powers Act 2016
- Privacy groups slammed the government for a ‘staggering lack of transparency’
Privacy rights groups have slammed the government for testing out ‘draconian’ snooping powers by teaming up with two internet providers to track websites visited by their customers.
It has been revealed that the Home Office and National Crime Agency have for months been trialling surveillance technology that can log and store the search history of web users.
If successful, the system could be rolled out across the UK, creating one of the most powerful mass surveillance tools in any democratic country.
| — Hat tip: JM | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Kew Gardens to Tell Visitors How Racist Its Plants Are
Kew Gardens in London is to change labels on its plants and flowers in order to inform visitors on how racist they are.
Yes, really.
The popular attraction, which welcomes over 2 million visitors a year from all over the world, is set to “change display boards for plants such as sugar cane — previously harvested by slaves — to highlight their ‘imperial legacy’“, reports the Daily Mail.
According to Kew director Richard Deverell, the change is part of an effort to “move quickly to decolonise collections.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Meghan and Harry Told BBC Not to Use ‘Old White Men’ In Oprah Interview Discussions: Report
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and husband Prince Harry had their team contact the BBC to tell them to make sure panels discussing their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey were not populated by “old white men”, according to reports.
A public relations staffer from the couple’s Beverly Hills-based company, Archewell — their earlier ‘Sussex Royal’ brand had to be scrapped after the Queen ruled it could not profit so directly from their royal connections — contacted the British broadcaster telling them to ensure a “broad range of contributors” were used for any post-mortem examination of their sit-down with the talk show host, in which Meghan complained her son was not made a prince and alleged that racially-charged remarks were made about him, among other things.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Number of Young People Seeking Help From Mental Health Charity Trebled Due to COVID Stress
Sam* was a very troubled 23-year-old university graduate when she turned to the unique health and wellbeing charity Body & Soul for help.
“Sam was in a dark place when she came to us in 2018,” recalls Kelsey Hylland, leader of the National Lottery-supported charity’s group therapy for young people aged 16 to 30 who have attempted suicide.
“She had struggled with mental health problems throughout her university career. She was self-harming, had attempted suicide and had got to the point where she found it difficult to find the motivation to get out of bed. She had sought counselling, but found it lacking. She simply couldn’t find a way out.”
Body & Soul supports families struggling with the life-threatening effects of trauma, and is one of many projects being supported by the £1billion raised by National Lottery players to help people across the UK during these unprecedented times.
Thanks to The National Lottery, the charity has been able to enhance its suicide prevention efforts. These include delivering 1,500 support calls helping young people who have attempted suicide in the past six months and 44 therapy skills groups.
[Comment: I would rather say that it is the state’s response to covid that is causing mental health problems.]
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Sarah Everard Vigil Organisers Go to Court After Met Police Said Event Was ‘Unlawful’
Organisers of the vigil for missing Sarah Everard have claimed the Metropolitan Police are trying to stop it going ahead and threaten huge fines.
The group claims the force has u-turned on its position, which had allowed the event in Clapham on Saturday (March 13) to go ahead despite lockdown restrictions.
A spokesperson for Reclaim These Streets said it would seek an order in the High Court on Friday (March 12) challenging the Met Police’s interpretation of coronavirus restrictions against human rights law.
In a statement tweeted on Thursday evening, Reclaim These Streets said it was “organised by a group of women who wanted to channel the collective grief, outrage and sadness in our community”.
Under the current Covid lockdown in England, people are mostly required to stay at home. They can only gather in larger groups for limited reasons, such as funerals or for education.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Sadiq Khan Admits Streets of London ‘Not Safe’ For Women or Girls
Sadiq Khan has conceded that, under his now almost five-year-long mayoralty, the streets of London are “not safe” for women and girls.
Mayor Khan, who under the terms of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 fulfils the role of Police and Crime Commissioner in the British capital — excluding, somewhat confusingly for outsiders, the City of London, or Square Mile, which has its own police force — made the comments in an appearance on LBC radio.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Czechia Opens ‘De Facto’ Embassy in Jerusalem, Reports the Jerusalem Post
At the ceremony on Thursday, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis cut the ribbon of the new Jerusalem office of the Czech Embassy in Israel. The ceremony was also attended by Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, who described the Czech Republic as a close friend of Israel. Some Israeli media outlets, such as the Jerusalem Post, are calling the Jerusalem office a “de facto embassy.”
The Czech Embassy continues to officially remain in Tel Aviv, which most of the international community considers the country’s capital. But Israel considers Jerusalem to be its capital.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Is the Ukraine on the Brink of War (Again)?
Just a few weeks ago I wrote a column entitled “The Ukraine’s Many Ticking Time Bombs” in which I listed a number of developments presenting a major threat to the Ukraine and, in fact, to all the countries of the region…
| — Hat tip: CT | [Return to headlines] |
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Nearly ‘Ended the Japanese State’, Radioactive Waste Specialist Explains
10 years ago, on 11 March 2011, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale triggered a tsunami that crashed into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The effect of the resultant meltdown will continue to be felt for generations to come, although it could easily have been far worse, Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear tells Sputnik.
Kevin Kamps served as a radioactive waste specialist at the Nuclear information and Resource Service in the US for eight years and has worked with the non-profit organisation Beyond Nuclear since 2007.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Breaking: Aussie Navy in COVID Jab Cover Up After Mass Adverse Reactions?
This is a developing story. Mainstream media pulls original story of Australian sailors on HMAS Sydney suffering widespread adverse reactions to COVID19 vaccinations. Sanitized version refers only to “mild side effects” despite the fact the ship’s crew needed hospitalization.
This latest setback for the pro-vaccine lobby follows soon after the Australian government performs a U-turn on mass vaccination policy the day after the Australian Health Minister falls ‘critically ill’ immediately after getting his COVID jab.
So, whenever the mainstream media conspires to quietly ‘disappear’ web pages of a story it has already reported on you can bet something far bigger and worrisome is being covered up.
In this latest case, the UK’s Daily Mail yesterday pulled a story from their pages about adverse COVID jab reactions among the crew of an Australian war ship.
Direct from Australia, a valued contact told us by email:
“Our health minister is still in the hospital from the day after he had his injection! Not a word about the navy hospitalisations. What a way to take out a country’s military… In just one jab!”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Canary Islands: Illegal Migrants Slam Camp Conditions, Demand Transfer to Mainland Europe
A large group of illegal aliens and activists protested on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, demanding the Spanish government move them to mainland Europe, according to reports.
Approximately 1,200 migrants and supporters staged the demonstration on Saturday, marching through the streets of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and ending at the city hall.
The migrants claimed conditions of the camps in which they are currently living are “unbearable” and demanded “departure from the Canary Islands.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Czech Police Find Migrants Hiding in New Cars Loaded on Trucks
A big surprise awaited a police unit inspecting a three-car carrier trailer with newly manufactured cars on the Czech-Polish border after they discovered young men from Afghanistan traveling in one of the transported vehicles. Two migrants were also found hidden in the same manner elsewhere in the Olomouc region of Czechia.
In the first incident, patrol officers inspected a convoy of trucks heading for Poland on the D1 motorway in Bohumin. The driver himself alerted the patrol to the passengers.
“One of the drivers told the police that he suspected that he saw two people in one of the new cars transported in the semi-trailer of the other colleague,” said police spokeswoman Sona Štetinska.
The foreigners got out of the car during a subsequent inspection.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France: Pakistani Migrant Arrested After Sexually Assaulting Off-Duty Female Cop
A 27-year-old Pakistani migrant was arrested in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis after sexually assaulting an off-duty female police officer on an RER express train.
The incident took place at around 6:30 pm on Tuesday when the man boarded a train at the Gare Du Nord railway station and sat next to the female police officer who works in the 13th district of Paris.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A huge line of immigrants was filmed waiting for smugglers to take them across the Rio Grande and into the US in Texas. The video was taken on Wednesday morning. Joe Biden opened the borders and the illegals are FLOODING IN! At the current rate, over three million illegal immigrants will have entered America by the end of Biden’s first term.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) predicted that by the summer there will be “probably somewhere around a million people trying to get into this country illegally.”
McCaul said, “President Biden says he wants us to be humane. He’s actually created a humanitarian crisis. These poor children, they get trafficked all the way up that dangerous route. And now, we don’t have enough detention space to put them in, and then you’ve got the COVID crisis down there as well. I think they have created this Biden border crisis. They need to fix it.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
As the illegal immigrant crisis at the United States border spirals out of control, the Mexican government is raising the alarm about the influx.
Agents from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have reported the apprehensions of over 100,000 illegal migrants along the country’s southern border with Mexico during the month of February. The graph, depicting the number of apprehensions, shows a marked spike of 26 percent from January 2021, and a 170 percent increase from one year ago.
Mexico’s president has highlighted that Biden’s policies are helping drive the dramatic surge.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
US Government Now Simply Highly-Organized Crime, In Bed With Cartels
There is no longer any illusion that the current regime in power in Washington cares at all about the American people. The wall around Washington, D.C. will show you that very clearly. We are simply now being controlled by highly-organized crime, in bed with the human trafficking cartels.
There is no other conclusion that any intellectually honest person can make.
It is no secret that the Biden regime wants to ‘flood the zone’ with illegal immigrants in the United States, to weaken the country, and build a hoped-for future voting base for permanent power. After the election fraud of 2020 and beyond, the Biden regime is an illegitimate power bent on destroying the country for money and control, only concerned for itself.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Amazon has responded to the furor surrounding their decision to remove author Ryan T. Anderson’s heavily researched book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” saying in a letter that they have, “chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.” The letter was signed by Amazon’s vice president of public policy, Brian Huseman.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Biden Signs Executive Order to Make Transgender Surgery Free for Military on Taxpayer Dime
Joe Biden signed an executive order this week that makes transgender surgery free for the military. From now on US taxpayers will pay for the medical procedures and surgery for transgender candidates.
The operation is not cheap and can add up to $200,000 per patient. No doubt, this will drive more trans men and women into the military. It’s not clear how this helps the military. But, whatever.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Dove Soap Maker Unilever to Remove Word ‘Normal’ From Beauty Products
Dove soap maker Unilever will remove the word “normal” from its beauty and personal care products, as well as stop digitally altering images of models used in its advertising, in a push to be more inclusive.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
International Alert Message About COVID-19. United Health Professionals
We bring to the attention of our readers, this important international statement by health professionals, medical doctors and scientists, which has been sent to the governments of thirty countries
Below is the complete text which was sent to the governments.
Link to original document: Very Urgent : International Alert message about COVID-19
See here for list of governments to which the letter was sent.
The text includes quotations from prominent scholars and health professionals
Related Health Professionals Document (pdf version uploaded to GR)
Stay home, save lives “ was a pure lie.
Remove the following illegal, non-scientific and non-sanitary measures : lockdown, mandatory face masks for healthy subjects, social distancing of one or two meters.
The lockdown not only killed many people but also destroyed physical and mental health, economy, education and other aspects of life.
The natural history of the virus [the coronavirus] is not influenced by social measures [lockdown, face masks, closure of restaurants, curfew
When the state knows best and violates human rights, we are on a dangerous course.
Exclude your experts and advisers who have links or conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies :
Stop the vaccination campaigns and refuse the scam of the pseudo-health passport which is in reality a politico-commercial project
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Massive Campaign of Pro-Life Posters in Poland
It’s difficult not to notice the pro-life posters in several Polish towns and cities, as they appear every few hundred meters. In addition to the posters with an image of an unborn child in a uterus in the shape of a heart, there is a second set with slogans in red, such as “Mom and dad love each other,” on a white background.
The Our Children Foundation — Education, Health, Faith is responsible for the first type of poster, and the Sychar Community for Difficult Marriages is responsible for the second type.
There have also been several other posters with different slogans such as: “I have 11 weeks,” “I depend on and trust in you,” “I am eco/Protect life” or just simply “Life.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Swedish Feminist Blogger Demands Volvo Change Its ‘Male Chauvinistic’ Logo
A feminist blogger recently called on Swedish carmaker Volvo to change its ubiquitous circle and upwards-pointing arrow on grounds that she found it a display of male chauvinism, Hungarian women’s automotive blog drivemebaby reports.
“Wake up, Volvo! The world is not the same as it was 90 years ago!” Petra Rees wrote in a Linkedin entry that has since been removed. Rees argued that as it stands, women have to face discrimination from male chauvinistic societies, and she only realized the meaning of the logo while driving her mother’s Volvo.
“How is it possible that in 2021 one of the world’s biggest carmakers still uses the male symbol as its logo?” Rees asked, and even suggested a “gender-neutral” logo to Volvo, which is third logo pictured below.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Twitter Bans Users From Posting Links to Bitchute
Twitter was now blocking all links, shared in tweets, to the BitChute domain.
This is the case as of March 12.
BitChute is an independent video hosting platform that has gained in popularity as an alternative to the centralized giant YouTube, which has been plagued by waves of censorship and demonetization.
Now, instead of allowing users to see the BitChute page they intended to post, Twitter served them with the message, “Something went wrong…”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
https://thehighwire.com/videos/a-coming-covid-catastrophe/
“World renown vaccine specialist, Geert Vanden Bossche, gave a groundbreaking interview this week risking his reputation and his career by bravely speaking out against administration of #Covid19 vaccines.”
https://twitter.com/GVDBossche/status/1367128400863846401
“I am EXTREMELY concerned about the impact current Covid-19 vaccines will have when increasingly deployed in mass vaccination campaigns conducted in the heat of a pandemic. Read my global WARNING & scientific evidence: https://bit.ly/3q89hWZ“
So Sadiq is admitting the UK is now a [sump] becaus of people like him?
COVID-19 is now the core issue stirring voters for the Dutch elections.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khon2.com/international/coronavirus-pandemic-casts-long-shadow-over-dutch-elections/amp/
Every day it seems we are getting good news regarding the Chi Com flu virus.
People are getting vaccinated, cases and deaths are way, way down, gradually even in the Blue Slave States, lockdowns are easing up.
My understanding was, until today, that even in the UK, the people were being allowed out of house arrest to some degree at least. Wrong! Or at least no one told their local Gestapo storm troopers.
This article is about a demonstration that took place today and as you can see from the photos, the women are being particularly brutalized by the deranged, sadistic coppers- all in the name of PUBLIC HEALTH.
COPS stormed tearful mourners tonight after thousands flocked to the Sarah Everard vigil on Clapham Common.
Scenes turned ugly in South London as police dragged people away from a candle-lit shrine around a bandstand, where crowds had gathered to pay their respects.
Police detain a woman as people gather at a memorial site in Clapham Common Bandstand.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14326449/sarah-everard-vigil-news-cancelled-clapham/
I’m surprised that her killer wasn’t a muslim….. Considering their penchant for attacking and raping women (and children) in every country they inhabit.
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1369825866327465984
Thanks Governor Abbott! How tolerant.