Violent protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright continued for a fourth night. Meanwhile, the Capitol Police officer who shot the unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt to death will not be charged.
In other news, the migrant-rescue ship Mare Jonio is accused of demanding €10,000 per migrant that it took on board from a commercial Danish tanker, which had rescued the “refugees” from the Mediterranean.
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4.2% Growth for Greece in 2021, Says Finance Minister
The Greek economy will experience a 4.2% growth this year, recovering half of its 2020 losses, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday.
In comments made to Parapolitika FM radio, Staikouras said that the government’s economic team operates not only with a base scenario in mind, but also the adverse scenario.
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The economies in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular the Visegrad Group (V4) of Slovakia, Hungary, Czechia, and Poland, have proven to be relatively resilient to restrictions aimed at curbing the coronavirus epidemic, confirming the expectation that these economies will start to grow strongly this year despite the current third wave of epidemics, according to a recent forecast by Fitch Ratings in London on Tuesday.
The international credit rating agency highlighted its expectation that investments in the region will be given additional impetus by the financing of the €750 billion recovery fund announced by the European Union to mitigate the economic effects of the coronavirus epidemic (NGEU). However, according to Fitch, most of the stimulating effects of this will be felt in 2022.
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Adam Toledo: Chicago Police Release Video of Officer Shooting Boy
Chicago police have released footage of the moment one of their officers shot dead a 13-year-old boy in a dark alley.
Bodycam video shows the policeman shouting “Drop it” before shooting Adam Toledo once in the chest on 29 March.
The boy does not appear to be holding a weapon in the split second he was shot, but police video shows a handgun near the spot where he fell.
The city mayor appealed for calm before the release of the footage, as some businesses boarded up their windows.
The incident follows the fatal police shooting on 11 April of Daunte Wright by an officer in a Minneapolis suburb.
That incident has sparked violent protests as the city awaits the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer accused in the death of George Floyd.
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Anissa Weier, one of two women institutionalized for her part in the Slender Man stabbing, should be released from a state mental hospital because she doesn’t have any violent tendencies or delusions and has “extraordinary compliance” to treatment, her attorneys recently said.
Weier is seeking conditional release nearly seven years after she and her friend — Morgan Geyser — nearly stabbed a middle school classmate to death in a Waukesha park so they could gain favor with a fictional internet horror character named Slender Man. The girls, who were 12 years old at the time, said they believed Slender Man would harm them or their families if they didn’t kill someone.
Weier, now 19 years old, is serving a 25-year commitment after a jury in 2017 found her not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. Weier wrote to a judge in March that she has “exhausted” all the resources available to her at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. She’s asking for a chance to be “a productive member of society…
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Bizarre Video Shows Man Swimming Underwater Wearing Face Mask
A bizarre video shows a man swimming underwater in a plunge pool while continuing to wear a face mask.
Yes, really.
The clip shows a middle aged African-American man submerged in the pool. When he comes up for air, he is wearing a face mask and adjusts it to fit properly.
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BLM Protesters Rally Outside Home of Jonathan Pentland After Viral Video
Black Lives Matter protesters vandalized the South Carolina home of a soldier charged with assaulting a black man in a now-viral video — forcing his family to move to a safe house, officials said.
Videos showed a large group holding BLM signs and shouting through a megaphone Wednesday as they stood in the street outside 42-year-old drill sergeant Jonathan Pentland’s home just outside Columbia.
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BLM Threatens Legal Action Against One of Their Own Activists After Call for Finances Investigation
The National Black Lives Matter organisation is threatening legal action against one of its own activists after he called for an independent investigation into how finances are being spent, following revelations concerning co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ property spending binge, and further money raking activities.
As we highlighted yesterday, Hawk Newsome, who heads up a Black Lives Matter group in Greater New York City, made the call for an investigation, telling the New York Post “If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes.”
Newsome said “black firms and black accountants” should conduct an audit on BLM Global Network Foundation to “find out where the money is going.”
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Breaking: James O’Keefe to Sue Twitter Over Suspension Following CNN Sting Videos
On Thursday, after Project Veritas released the third in a series of CNN sting videos, Twitter suspended the account of Project Veritas’ founder, James O’Keefe III. In a statement to PJ Media, O’Keefe announced he would sue Twitter over the suspension.
“I am suing Twitter for defamation because they said I, James O’Keefe, ‘operated fake accounts.’ This is false, this is defamatory, and they will pay,” O’Keefe told PJ Media. “Section 230 may have protected them before, but it will not protect them from me. The complaint will be filed Monday. Please follow me on Telegram https://t.me/JamesOKeefeIII.”
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Chicago Police Release Body Cam Video of Adam Toledo Shooting
Chicago’s police review board on Thursday released videos, 911 calls and other materials related to the officer-involved fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo while responding to a report of shots fired in late March.
Extremely graphic police body camera footage shows a Chicago police officer pulling up to the location in the city’s West Side on March 29 and immediately encountering two people, one of whom appears to be Toledo, running away from the area.
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CNN Director Privately Reveals How CNN Thrives on Amping Up COVID Narratives
A new exposé by non-profit journalism group Project Veritas reveals how CNN uses COVID-19 fear to boost its ratings. The revelations give a good look at how the media operates and thrives on amping up the sense of danger.
The network has been leveraging the fact that humans naturally have an appetite for news concerning danger because of self-preservation.
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Daunte Wright Shooting Protests Continue for 5th Night in Brooklyn Center
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) — For a fifth consecutive night, demonstrators are gathering outside the Brooklyn Center to protest the deadly police shooting of Daunte Wright.
Wright, 20, was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer on Sunday during a traffic stop. The officer resigned and has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.
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Derek Chauvin Trial: Chauvin Doesn’t Testify, Closing Arguments Set for Monday
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) — Witness testimony is now complete in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd. Closing arguments will begin at 9 a.m. Monday. The trial is being broadcast live, gavel to gavel, on FOX 9 and streaming live at fox9.com/live.
Chauvin chose not to testify in his own defense. Out of the hearing of the jury Thursday, Chauvin informed the court he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to self-incriminate and would not testify in the trial.
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Ex-California Mayor Who Advocated for Defunding Police Arrested for Child Sex Crimes
The former mayor of Sebastopol, Cal., a progressive Democrat who voiced support for Black Lives Matter rioters and defunding police, was arrested Saturday morning over multiple felony child sex crimes.
Sebastopol Police booked 44-year-old Robert Emmanuel Jacob on 11 felony counts related to sexual assault crimes against a minor aged 14 or 15.
The charges against Jacob, who is openly gay and married as of 2019, include transportation of a child for lewd and lascivious acts, arranging a meeting for sexual purposes with a person believed to be underage, sexual penetration of a child under 16-years-old and harmful material sent with the intent to seduce a minor.
According to law enforcement, the child sex abuse may have begun in December 2019 and continued through March 2021.
[Comment: This ex-mayor might have had ulterior motives in advocating reduced law enforcement.]
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Facebook Censors Link to NY Post Story Exposing BLM Founder’s Home Buying Spree
Facebook is blocking links to a New York Post story that exposes Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ controversial recent home buying spree, preventing users from sharing the link publicly or via private message.
The Post article from April 10 is headlined ‘Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge’ and reveals how Khan-Cullors, a self-described Marxist, recently purchased four high-end homes for a total of $3.2 million.
As we previously highlighted, one of the homes, a $1.4 million dollar property, is located in Topanga Canyon, California, where the black population is just 1.6 per cent.
Another of the homes, a “custom ranch” located in Georgia, is surrounded by “3.2 rural acres” and features a “private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it” in addition to an indoor swimming pool.
After one BLM activist called for an investigation into how finances were being used, other prominent figures within BLM threatened legal action against him.
Now Facebook is completely blocking users from posting a link to the original NY Post story in yet another brazen act of partisan censorship.
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Florida Senate Passes Controversial ‘Anti-Riot’ Bill Pushed in Wake of Black Lives Matter Protests
The Florida Senate on Thursday passed, largely along party lines, a controversial anti-riot bill that was pushed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
The bill aims to increase criminal penalties for assault against law enforcement while engaging in a “riot” and defacing monuments and other public property during riots. It would also penalize local governments that interfere with law enforcement attempting to contain riots and would provide a citizen’s appeal process when cities and counties attempt to reduce police budgets in response to riots.
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JD Vance Exits AppHarvest Board Over “Controversial” Tweets
Author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a New York Times Bestseller, JD Vance, exited the board of directors of indoor agriculture company AppHarvest, following “controversial” statements made on social media.
AppHarvest is an agriculture company based in Kentucky that recently went public. The company announced Vance’s departure after being contacted about his tweets by Bloomberg News.
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Man Accused of Striking Officer With Wood Club During Columbus Police HQ Protest Arrested
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the protest at Columbus Police Headquarters Tuesday night.
Hunter Mattin is accused of striking an officer in the chest and face with a wood club. Court documents say Sgt. J. Coleman, son of former Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman, received a cut lip from the assault.
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Mayor Removes “Thin Blue Line” Flag Following Death of Daunte Wright
Mayor Mike Elliott asked for the removal of a pro-law-enforcement flag that was flying outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, in an effort to mitigate escalating tensions after the death of Daunte Wright.
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Minnesota Protesters, Police Clash for Fourth Straight Night After Daunte Wright Shooting
Tempers flared on Wednesday during a fourth straight night of protests outside a Minnesota police station in response to the cop-killing of Daunte Wright.
Police declared an unlawful assembly and ordered hundreds of demonstrators to disperse from the Brooklyn Center precinct ahead of the city’s 10 p.m. curfew, according to footage posted to Twitter by journalist Max Nesterak.
Officers fired flash bangs and protesters launched fireworks at them, Nesterak said.
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MSNBC Analyst Mocked for Saying Vaccine Felt Like a “Wave of Euphoria”
An MSNBC analyst was mocked on Twitter after he bizarrely commented that taking the COVID-19 vaccine felt like a “wave of euphoria.”
Matthew Miller became the latest public figure to aggressively signal his virtue with the apparent belief that having a jab is some kind of Mother Theresa-level act of public service.
“Did not quite anticipate the wave of euphoria and emotion that comes with that first shot. Go get your vaccine, folks. Best feeling you’ll have had in a year,” tweeted Miller.
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Officer Who Shot and Killed Woman During Capitol Riots Will Not be Charged
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a press releaseWednesday that it would not be bringing any charges against the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed a rioter on January 6, during the Capitol Hill riot.
The rioter, Ashli Babbitt, was a military veteran and staunch Trump supporter who was shot in the left shoulder while attempting to breach the Speaker’s Lobby by climbing through busted glass doors.
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Oklahoma Bill Granting Immunity to Drivers Fleeing Riots Heads to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Desk
Oklahoma’s Legislature on Wednesday gave final passage to bills that seek to crack down on protests and prevent outbursts in local public meetings.
Several bills, including a measure that would grant civil and criminal immunity for drivers who unintentionally injure or kill protesters while “fleeing from a riot” now head to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk.
The Senate gave final passage to House Bill 1674 by Rep. Kevin West, R-Moore, and Sen. Rob Standridge, R-Norman, that protects drivers if they feel fleeing from a riot is necessary to escape serious injury or death.
Standridge said lawmakers support the right to protest, but there are concerns when protests turn into riots.
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Person Arrested at PPA Protest Will Faces Arson, Felony Riot Charges
PORTLAND, Ore — The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Offices is filing charges against a protester that was arrested at the Portland Police Association building on Tuesday night.
According to the DA’s office, Alma Raven-Guido is facing arson and felony riot charges, among others.
Authorities allege that Raven-Guido caused at least $25,000 in damages to the police union building in North Portland. Law enforcement said they received a tip that identified Raven-Guido as one of the people pouring flammable liquid on the PPA building.
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Private Funeral for Rock Hill Shooting Suspect Phillip Adams Thursday
ROCK HILL, S.C. — The funeral for Phillip Adams, the suspected gunman in a shooting that killed six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina, last week, is scheduled for Thursday.
According to an online obituary, Adams’ family had a private service at Robinson Funeral Home after receiving friends and family.
York County detectives said Adams shot six people before taking his own life at his father’s home following an hours-long standoff with deputies. His motive behind the shootings is still unknown.
York County officials announced last week they received approval from Adams’ family to test his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more commonly known as CTE, has been shown to cause violent mood swings and other cognitive disorders.
Alonzo Adams, the father of Phillip Adams, told WCNC Charlotte’s Richard Devayne, “I think the football messed him up…
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Protesters Chase, Toss Eggs at CNN Crew Covering Daunte Wright Unrest
Protesters in Minnesota chased away a CNN crew while they were attempting to cover the fourth night of demonstrations over the police killing of Daunte Wright, a report said.
One member of the crew got hit in the head with a water bottle, falling to the ground, outside the Brooklyn Center police station on Thursday night, according to the Washington Examiner, which had a reporter on the ground.
Some people in the crowd called for a medic for the crew member, but he insisted “it’s all good.”
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Racist Messages Sent to Students of Colour Revealed to be Hoax
Threatening and racist social media posts targeting students of colour in a Minnesota school district were revealed to be a hoax, KSTP reports.
Superintendent of White Beak Lake Area Schools Wayne Kazmierczak said that a student confessed to sending messages on a fake Instagram account they created.
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Rumble Offers Another Reason to Quit YouTube With New Live Streaming Feature
Rumble, a popular YouTube alternative, has launched one of its biggest new features to date — live streaming.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Canadian news outlet Rebel News, conservative commentator Wayne Dupree, Trump White House advisor Sebastian Gorka, and several other creators have already used the feature to go live on the platform.
Live streams are promoted in a “Live” section on the Rumble homepage and you can click or tap any of the streams to start watching live.
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The Independent Retracts Claims That Andy Ngo Associated With Nazis and Supported Capitol Riot
In response to an article published earlier in March regarding a now former Mumford & Sons band member voicing support for journalist Andy Ngo, The Independent has published corrections including changing wording that originally placed Ngo as having “past associations” with new-fascist white nationalist organizations.
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Tucker Carlson Responds to Fauci Labelling His Basic Questions ‘Crazy Conspiracy Theory’
Tucker Carlson responded to Anthony Fauci’s accusation that it is “a typical crazy conspiracy theory” to question why restrictions must remain in place even with a COVID vaccine by asking “If this stuff works, why can’t you live like it works?”
Fauci has refused to appear on Carlson’s show, but instead appears daily on CNN, where Wednesday he said “I don’t have any idea of what [Carlson] is talking about,” and called the Fox host a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for questioning why masks and distancing still need to be in place if the vaccine works.
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Twitter Bans James O’Keefe After Major CNN Bias Exposé
Following a string of undercover expose’s into how CNN injects bias into narratives, Twitter has suspended Project Veritas’s founder, James O’Keefe.
Project Veritas has, for several years, been releasing exclusive undercover video footage that exposes the biases of TV networks, the media, and Big Tech.
The Project Veritas account had already been suspended by Twitterearlier this year for a video confronting Facebook’s Vice President of Integrity about political bias the platform had been partaking in. Twitter said the confrontation video showed “private information.”
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Vandals Erase Message of Nonviolence on Billboard at George Floyd Square
A billboard promoting nonviolence at the site of George Floyd’s death has been transformed by vandals into a pro-violence message.
Designed by Minneapolis artist Xavier Tavera, the billboard at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue shows a tear-gas canister used by police during protests last spring with the words “Don’t let anyone convince you that non-violence is ineffective.”
Someone this week covered up the “non-.”
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Video: Biden Takes Credit for Bin Laden Raid When in Reality He Opposed it
Announcing a troop drawdown in Afghanistan (which was scheduled to happen much sooner under President Trump anyway) Joe Biden claimed credit for the 2011 Navy Seal raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound, even though at the time he OPPOSED it.
As a whopping 1,530 people tuned into Biden’s announcement, he squinted at the teleprompter which claimed that he said in the past that he would “follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell.”
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the Black Lives Matter co-founder who became the subject of controversy in the past week after her purchasing of various properties totally over $3 million surfaced, told college students last summer that capitalism is “more tragic” than the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. She also praised both rioters for their “righteous rage” and business owners who were willing to “take that L” after having their stores looted and destroyed in BLM riots.
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Watch: Protestors Invade Dallas Restaurant, Chant Profanity-Laden Threats of Arson
Yessir, electing Joe Biden as our President has truly restored peace and brought a sense of calm to our nation.
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What We Know About the Knoxville High-School Shooting
Police shot and killed a teenager at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Monday, after officers responded to reports that a student potentially had a gun on campus. One of those officers was wounded in the confrontation, but contrary to what authorities said at the time, not by the student: “Preliminary examinations indicate the bullet that struck the KPD officer was not fired from the student’s handgun,” according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s updated statement.
The TBI has identified the teenager as 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson, Jr. According to the TBI, two officers — school resource officer Adam Wilson, a “20-year veteran” of the department, per the KPD, and one other — located Thompson, who was Black, in a bathroom at Austin-East. They reportedly ordered him to come out, but he refused. “During a subsequent struggle, the student’s gun was fired,” the TBI statement says. “This was followed by law enforcement firing twice.”
That’s a different version of events than the one the Knoxville Police Department and the TBI initially presented. Per NBC, TBI director David Rausch first said Thompson fired his gun twice, hitting Wilson and prompting one officer to return fire. It’s still not clear whether or not Thompson brought the gun to school with the intention of using it.
On Monday, as police and school officials declined to answer questions from reporters, Knoxville mayor Indya Kincannon said the officer was “conscious” and “going to be okay.” He reportedly underwent surgery on his hip at UT Medical Center and is recovering…
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Who is Jonathan Pentland? Army Sergeant Charged With Shoving a Black Man
The South Carolina soldier who was caught on video shoving and threatening a young black man for being “in the wrong neighborhood” is Jonathan Pentland, a high-ranking sergeant in the US Army and father of two, according to reports.
What is he accused of?
Cellphone video that has since gone viral shows the heated confrontation between Pentland and the unidentified victim in a subdivision in Columbia called The Lakes at Barony Place.
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Climate Action Disruptors Set to Walk Through Richmond and Massey Tunnel
Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion is preparing for a disruptive, four-day protest walk from Vancouver to Victoria — via Richmond and the Massey Tunnel.
The Vancouver wing of the global group — whose aim is to cause peaceful disruption to force governments to take action against tipping points in the climate system — will set off this Friday morning around 9 a.m. from the Olympic Flame in Downtown Vancouver.
The group’s latest protest blocked the Cambie Street Bridge in Vancouver last month.
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Instagram Bans Viral Anti-COVID-Restriction Campaigner Chris Sky
Chris Sky, a prominent anti-lockdown campaigner from Canada has had his Instagram account banned. A spokesperson of the Big Tech company had confirmed the same.
“We removed Chris [Sky] from Instagram for multiple violations of our Community Standards. We will not tolerate content on our platform about COVID-19 that could lead to harm, including harmful vaccine misinformation and content promoting widely debunked hoaxes.”
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4.7 Million Britons Waiting for Routine Operations, Highest Number Since 2007
Nearly five million people in England were waiting for a routine operation in February, the highest level in 14 years.
According to NHS England figures, pressure on the NHS treating Chinese coronavirus patients was at its highest in January and February of this year.
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Austria: Imam and Other Mosque Preacher Accused of Supporting the Islamic State
This is the Age of Absurdity, and one of the foremost absurdities of it is that we are all commanded to believe that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, and that properly understood, it’s a religion of peace. Never mind the numerous exhortations to violence against unbelievers in the Qur’an. Never mind the numerous Muslim clerics, men who have devoted their lives to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively, who have been involved in jihad activity. No, none of that is relevant, and only “racist,” “bigoted” “Islamophobes” think otherwise. It’s a funhouse world, run by clowns who think they’re professors (well, in many cases they are professors): half-wits, cowards, trimmers and liars accepted and honored as “experts,” while those who tell the truth are vilified and will soon be completely silenced. Stories like the one below would be funny if the consequences weren’t so lethal: here is a Muslim cleric who is acting on the teachings of Islam, and is telling the tallest tales and most obvious lies to prosecutors, knowing that they’re so eager to be fooled, it just might work. And indeed it might. Austrian authorities, like authorities all over the West, are so eager to believe that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism that they will swallow the wildest implausibilities to avoid facing the prospect of a man versed in his religion acting upon his religion’s violent tenets, tenets which they steadfastly deny exist at all.
“Other defendants questioned in the Linz jihadist trial,” translated from “Weitere Angeklagte im Linzer Jihadisten-Prozess befragt,” Salzburger Nachtrichten, April 13, 2021 (thanks to Medforth).
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Germany: Muslim Mother Kills Her Four-Year-Old Son to Keep Him From Being Raised as a Christian
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
The mother in this case was likewise afraid that her son would grow up in “transgression and disbelief,” and she acted as Khidr did.
“4-year-old drowned in Rotenburg: accused mother collapses,” translated from “4-Jähriger in Rotenburg ertrunken: Angeklagte Mutter bricht zusammen,” Buten un Binnen, April 13, 2021 (thanks to Medforth).
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Here is yet another illustration of the prevailing insanity. You don’t have to be in Sweden to know that the Swedish press was full of stories insisting that Issa El Chaer’s crime had nothing to do with his religion, and that only “bigots” and “racists” would dare consider the possibility that their might be a connection. Then he goes on Flashback and mocks “infidels” while trusting his ability to elude the cops to Allah. The Western world, in its denial and willful ignorance, is collectively insane. Why does it matter whether or not Issa El Chaer was at least in part motivated by Islam’s contempt for infidels and exhortations to do them physical harm? Because there might be others in like him, in Sweden and elsewhere in the West. This really isn’t hard. It’s just that the truth is covered over with a thick fog of misinformation and disinformation.
“Murderer on the run in the Arab world mocks ‘infidel’ Swedes,” translated from “Mördare på flykt i arabvärlden hånar ‘otrogna’ svenskar,” Fria Tider, April 11, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace).
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Nearly 25% of UK ‘COVID Deaths’ Were Not Directly Caused by Virus
As the people of England and Wales celebrate the end — or at least the beginning of the end — of the COVID restrictions that have stifled the economy for more than a year, new data from the Office of National Statistics have illustrated a startling conclusion: nearly 25% of registered COVID-19 deaths actually aren’t being killed by the virus, something that we have been discussing here at Zero Hedge since we first pointed out that motorcycle accident deaths were being labeled “COVID deaths” in Florida.
This time, it’s not just accident deaths, but deaths of all kinds, that have been unduly counted in Britain’s COVID death numbers. As the Daily Mail put it, many of the coronavirus deaths which are registered are now people who have died “with” the disease rather than “from” an infection. Dying “with” COVID can land somebody’s death counted in the official data even if COVID isn’t listed as the primary cause of death on their death certificate.
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Poland: Court Blocks PKM Orlen’s Acquisition of Regional Press in Blow to United Right
On March 5, the courts in Poland permitted state energy giant PKN Orlen to acquire Polska Press, the largest regional press group in the country, which previously belonged to the German holding Verlagsgruppe Passau until March 2021 before it was bought by PKN Orlen.
PKN Orlen’s purchase of the publisher was also confirmed by decision of the antitrust body Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK).
Earlier this week, the office of the Polish Ombudsman or Human Rights Commissioner Adam Bodnar suddenly announced that the Warsaw District Court has considered his office’s motion against the acquisition and halted the takeover of the media group.
PKN Orlen has a number of options to move forward with the acquisition, but even if the halt proves to only be temporarily, it will serve as a roadblock in the government’s efforts to ensure a higher share of Polish ownership of the country’s press. The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) had expressed concern for years that the country’s press was in the hands of foreign owners, particularly German companies, while at the same time, Germany’s own laws tightly restricted foreign ownership of its own press.
[Comment: Globalist judges are everywhere.]
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Pope Francis: The Antidote to Populism is ‘A Politics of Brotherhood’
ROME — Pope Francis criticized populism as “political paternalism” Thursday, asserting it deprives the people of self-rule.
Populism — consciously or unconsciously — follows the inspiration of the motto: “Everything for the people, nothing with the people,” or “political paternalism,” the pope declared in a video message transmitted to participants in an international conference on “A Politics Rooted in the People.”
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UK Councils Bring Back ‘COVID Marshals’ To Report People for Not Social Distancing
UK council authorities are putting more ‘COVID marshals’ onto the streets to report people to the police for not properly social distancing.
After the government lifted some lockdown restrictions on Monday, bars and restaurants were allowed to open outside.
This prompted the media to once again hysterically point to footage of people daring to enjoy themselves in order to whip up another contrived panic over a ‘4th wave’ of the virus returning despite Britain having one of the lowest case rates in the world amongst major countries.
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UK: ‘London Uprising!’ Extinction Rebellion Plans Huge Protest Days After Lockdown Ends
EXTINCTION REBELLION has announced plans for an “uprising” in London that could see thousands of protestors descend on the capital — just days after the country finally exits lockdown.
The protest will take place from June 26-27 — the first weekend after all coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted in England. Extinction Rebellion will join a “cross movement national demonstration” on June 26 which will be hosted by People’s Assembly Against Austerity and set to be attended by NGOs, unions, grassroots movements and more. This will see several groups come together “to turn their back on a return to business as usual after Covid-19 and demand a new normal”.
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A former soldier who used his training and experience to help coordinate survivors and first aid in the crucial first moments after a suicide bombing targeting children at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England in 2017, has been hailed as a hero by the public inquiry into the attack.
Retired Royal Military Police Staff Sergeant Darron Coster, who worked as a truck driver at the time of the May 22nd 2017 bombing had travelled to the Manchester Arena to pick up his son, who had attended the Ariana Grande concert with his girlfriend. Coster is one of the hundreds of witnesses in the process of being called by the Manchester Arena Enquiry, which has been hearing evidence for almost a year.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Host Kill the Bill Protest Through Bristol City Centre
Bristol’s branch of the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) marched through the City Centre today in protest against the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
The city has now seen over seven individual protests against the Bill, as well as one riot where the windows of Bridewell police station were smashed and a police van was set on fire.
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A convicted terrorist calmly chatted to a Cambridge graduate at a prisoner rehabilitation conference held by Learning Together who were celebrating their 5 year anniversary, before stabbing her in the neck, an inquest heard yesterday.
Jihadi Usman Khan was photographed sitting one seat away from Saskia Jones, 23, in the banqueting hall at Fishmongers’ Hall in central London in November 2019.
Video footage showed Khan enjoying brunch and mingling with delegates in conference rooms which are lined with royal crests and a portrait of the Queen.
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Watch: Medical Official Collapses While Announcing Suspension of AstraZeneca Vaccine in Denmark
A prominent Danish medical official collapsed during a press conference in which she announced the government’s indefinite suspension of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.
Tanja Erichsen, head of the Danish Medicines Agency, was delivering the news alongside Health and Medicines Authority Director Søren Brostrøm on Thursday when she suddenly fainted.
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Biden Sanctions Russia for Election Interference, Cyberattacks
President Biden announced sanctions against Russia on Thursday, saying that the country had attempted to undermine U.S. elections and launch cyberattacks against the U.S. government and businesses.
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For more than a week, Muslim hardliners in various cities have been protesting against Dasna Devi Temple’s head priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati for his statements against Muhammad. Endless calls for the beheading of the priest have been made by several Muslim groups and even mainstream political parties for his alleged ‘blasphemy’.
Yesterday, the Kanpur unit of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) had put up incendiary ‘sar tan se juda’ posters with gory images, calling for the beheading of Narsinghanand Saraswati and Wasim Rizvi. Another despicable poster had a dog and a child urinating on Narsinghanand Saraswati. Similarly, videos surfaced where young Muslim children could be seen calling for the beheading of the priest on open streets.
Enraged by the Islamic fanatics openly calling for murder under religious and political sanction, Hindus from various corners of the country are now coming together in large numbers to voice their support for Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati.
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India: Muslim Mob Beats Police Officer to Death
Where is the international media? Silent on this. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
“Bihar police officer mob-lynched in West Bengal where he was chasing criminals, Firoze Alam, Abuzar Alam and Sahinur Khan arrested,” OpIndia, April 10, 2021.
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Pics: Anti-French Riots Sweep Swathes of Pakistan
Swathes of Pakistan have been swept by anti-French riots and French citizens advised to leave the country after an Islamist politician was arrested for saying their ambassador should be expelled from the South Asian country.
There has been simmering anger against the French government and people in Pakistan since President Emmanuel Macron defended his citizens’ freedom to make and share images of the Islamic prophet following the public beheading of history and geography teacher Samuel Paty in 2020.
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Three people arrested during an anti-government protest in 2019 have been convicted of rioting, despite a lack of evidence pointing to any violent act, after the judge found their presence and attire had “abetted” others and made it difficult for police to enforce the law.
Judge Ernest Michael Lin Kam-hung found the trio guilty on Thursday by citing a Court of Appeal ruling last month, which upheld prosecutors’ wide power of indicting suspects who did not directly take part in a riot under the legal principle of “joint enterprise”.
Lin also convicted a fourth defendant of rioting and arson after identifying him as the man captured on camera hurling objects at police and burning a banner on the street on the day in question.
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Hong Kong Journalist Who Embarrassed the Who Over Its CCP-Bias Quits After Harassment and Doxing
Yvonne Tong, a Hong Kong journalist who rose to sudden fame after questioning the WHO about Taiwanese independence and, in the process, proving the extent of control China has over the international organization, has now quit her job from RTHK.
The Hong Kong Free Press is under the impression that Tong may have quit her job as she grew unsure of the broadcaster’s editorial independence, especially after being reprimanded by the Chinese government.
What’s more, she even came under attack as people doxxed her and harassed her online, with most activity happening across pro-Beijing websites.
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Intelligence Report Says China Building “Counterspace” Weapons Meant to Blind U.S. Sensors
China is reportedly working on building “counterspace weapons” that could match or exceed U.S. technology, according to a report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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U.S. Spy Leaders Warn of China’s “Unparalleled Threat”
U.S. spy agency leaders warned the Senate Intelligence Committee of the “unparalleled threat” posted by China, pointing out Beijing’s regional aggression, cyber capabilities, and economic power.
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Nigeria’s Muslim Communications Minister: ‘We Are All Happy Whenever Unbelievers Are Being Killed’
Now we know why the Buhari government has promised to destroy the Boko Haram jihad group many times over the last few years, but has actually done little or nothing to oppose the group or impede its jihad against Christians in any meaningful way.
“We are all happy whenever unbelievers are being killed: Minister Pantami,” by Idris Ibrahim, People’s Gazette, April 14, 2021 (thanks to Imam Tawhidi).
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Church in Haiti Calls for National Strike Following Violence, Kidnappings
MIAMI (CNS) — In response to recent kidnappings of clergy and religious in Haiti and growing anarchy in the Caribbean nation, Catholic schools, churches and other entities called for a national strike April 15.
“The violence has reached a high point — we see that this is the deepest point ever reached in this country and we cannot go deeper,” said Fiammetta Cappellini, Haiti-based country representative for the Milan-based AVSI, told Catholic News Service by phone April 14.
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Economist: Immigration Contribution to French Budget Increasingly Negative
French economist Jacques Sapir has said that immigration is becoming increasingly costly to the French government’s budget, despite some positive effects on economic growth.
Sapir, one of France’s foremost economists, says that while immigration “mechanically stimulates consumption and investment,” it is having an increasingly negative effect on France’s budget and tax system.
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NGO Rescue Ship Caught Demanding €10,000 Per Migrant
Further proof of the increasingly lucrative migrant rescue business and ties between so-called human rights charities and organized people smuggling gangs has been revealed by Italian prosecutors. On March 1, Italian police have launched an investigation against the Italian based NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans (MSH), accusing them of charging large amounts of money for taking 27 boat migrants on board from the Danish-registered ship Maersk Etienne.
According to the Ragusa public prosecutor’s statement, the people smuggling NGO had violated the law by aiding illegal immigration and acted against the maritime navigation code. The rescue ship Mare Jonio allegedly demanded €10,000 from the Danish ship for each passenger taken from onboard their vessel. The Maersk tanker had earlier picked up 27 illegal migrants floating in a boat, and the Maersk tanker’s owners would have been charged a total of €270,000 if they had agreed to these terms. Eventually, the sum of €125,000 was transferred by Maersk onto the NGO’s bank account.
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Argentinian Pro-Abortion Leader Dies During Abortion Procedure
Spanish language media reported last Sunday that radical pro-abortion supporter Maria de Valle Gonzalez Lopez died during what she labeled her “dream” abortion operation. She was 23 years old and was the leader of the Radical Youth in the La Paz municipality in the province of Mendoza. Her death has sparked a fierce debate about abortion in Argentina and led for calls for women to know that the procedure can sometimes carry serious risks.
On April 11, the woman underwent a legal abortion procedure in a local hospital. The operation turned out to be fatal for her. This fact came as a shock to the public as this was the first recorded death following the approval of the country’s controversial pro-abortion bill passed on December 30, 2020, which legalized abortion in some cases. Previously, abortion was illegal in the predominately Catholic country.
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Florida House Passes Bill Prohibiting Transgender Athletes From Playing Girls’ Sports
The Florida House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that bars biologically male, transgender athletes from playing in women’s sports. The bill passed with a 77-40 vote.
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Hungary blocks EU statement criticising China over Hong Kong, diplomats say
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hungary-blocks-eu-statement-criticising-china-over-hong-kong-diplomats-say-2021-04-16/
“Hungary’s argument was that the EU already has too many issues with China,” a senior EU diplomat told Reuters. A second senior diplomat confirmed the blockage and Hungary’s position. An EU official said the statement had been withdrawn from the EU’s approval process.
Ashli Babbits murderer is a black man named David Bailey, a brazilian immigrants and a BLM supporter. this evil guy has a facebook page (now taken down) full of rants about how he hated Trump supporters.
There is a site that is called redpill that put all the pictures about the murder on their page and every picture shows David Bailey with a beaded bracelet on his right writer. The bracelet can be seen in the one that shows his arm holding a gun he used to murder Ashli Babbit in cold blood. the press is covering it up.