An extra 6,600 police are being deployed in Paris this weekend to enforce the new coronavirus rules. Meanwhile, the Italian government is expected to deploy up to 70,000 police officers to enforce the lockdown over the Easter holiday.
In other news, personal data for 533 million Facebook users was hacked and published on the Internet. The data included users’ email addresses and phone numbers.
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Peter Schiff: Biden Infrastructure Plan Will Weaken the Economy and Destroy Opportunity
Joe Biden unveiled details of his $2 trillion-plus infrastructure plan complete with tax hikes. The claim is that this is going to strengthen the economy and create opportunity. Peter broke down the spending plan in his podcast and said it will do the exact opposite. It’s going to weaken the economy and destroy opportunity.
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6000% Increase in Reported Vaccine Deaths 1st Quarter 2021 Compared to 1st Quarter 2020
As can be expected when new experimental “vaccines” that are not approved by the FDA are given emergency use authorization to fight a “pandemic” that is now over a year old, reported deaths following the injections of these shots have now skyrocketed in the U.S. population by over 6000% here at the end of the first quarter of 2021, as compared to recorded deaths following FDA-approved vaccines at the end of the first quarter of 2020.
These new products, which many doctors and scientists claim do not even meet the legal definition of a “vaccine,” are described by the manufacturers themselves as “operating systems” called the “software of life,” and prior to COVID they have never been approved to be used on human populations.
There are literally thousands of doctors and scientists around the world who have spoken out against these experimental injections, some even calling them “biological weapons of mass destruction.”
Their voices are censored in the pharma-controlled corporate media and by Big Tech, so the people dying and becoming injured by these injections are the pro-vaccine people who primarily only get their information from these censored sources that are funded by Wall Street corporate billionaires, such as Bill Gates.
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A Virginia Student Was Suspended Over a Snapchat Post. Now Her Case is Going to the Supreme Court.
A high school cheerleader who was suspended from school in 2017 for writing “f**k cheer” on social media will have her case heard by the Supreme Court. The teenager argues that, by punishing her, the school violated her First Amendment free speech rights.
Back in 2017, Brandi Levy, then 14, did not make the varsity cheerleading team in her freshman year. Frustrated, she went to her Snapchat and uploaded a picture of herself holding up the middle finger. The photo had the statement “f**k school f**k softball f**k cheer f**k everything,” written across it.
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Anti-Capitalist Scales Bank Wall and Falls Hard During Protest
An anti-capitalist protester climbed the ladder … but it was not the ladder of success, because he plummeted to the ground during a demonstration, injuring himself as the sidewalk oozed with a black substance.
It went down Friday on Madison Avenue, as 32-year-old Kevin Clarke tried scaling a grid at Chase Bank. The higher he got, the more he struggled until he lost his grip and fell around 30 feet to the ground, injuring his hip.
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Joe Biden is at it again with the spending. This time his administration is looking into the legal authority to cancel student debt. Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain said that the Education Secretary is preparing a memo about Biden’s legal authority to cancel student debt.
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Bronx Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, Bystander Hurt; 2 Arrested
NEW YORK (AP) — Officers in the Bronx came upon the scene of a fatal shooting Saturday night and arrested two gunmen, police said. One male was fatally shot and an innocent bystander was injured, authorities said.
The shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. near 165th St. and Findlay Ave. in the Concourse Village neighborhood.
Three officers responding to gunshots witnessed the two suspects shoot a male victim multiple times before fleeing down the street as officers fired their weapons, police said at a news conference. The suspects, one of whom was shot, were captured nearby by other responding officers.
Police said the person who was shot by the gunmen succumbed to his wounds.
The gunman who was shot was hospitalized and listed as stable, officials said. A bystander was also shot in the arm and underwent surgery.
Authorities did not immediately release the names or ages of those involved.
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Busted: NPR Forced to Issue Huge Correction After US Intelligence Debunks Their Hunter Biden Story
On Thursday, NPR was forced to issue a correction because they had previously falsely reported that the famous Hunter Biden laptop story and investigation had been dropped and discredited by US intelligence.
“A previous version of this story said U.S. intelligence had discredited the laptop story. U.S. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect,” read the correction.
According to Fox News, the original text of the article was, “The laptop story was discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations.” The changed text now reads, “Numerous news organizations cast doubt on the credibility of the laptop story.”
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Can mRNA Gene Therapy Jabs Permanently Alter Your DNA?
A 2006 study shows that exogenous RNA molecules can be reverse-transcribed in the body into cDNA copies. It’s already known that “mature spermatozoa of most animal species can spontaneously take up foreign DNA molecules which can be delivered to embryos upon fertilization,” the study begins. And then, “These cDNA copies are transferred to embryos at fertilization … [and] the reverse-transcribed sequences behave as functional genes.”
So what does that mean in plain language? What this study says is that sperm can take up foreign messenger RNA, convert it into DNA and release it as plasmids in the medium around the fertilized egg.
What’s most concerning when it comes to the mRNA vaccines is that the study also found that the embryo then takes up these plasmids and carries them (sustains and clones them into many of the daughter cells) throughout its life, even passing them on to future generations. So, the real answer as to whether or not mRNA gene therapy can permanently alter your DNA is a definite yes — and it’s something scientists have been aware for years.
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CBS News Blasted for Issuing Brazenly Partisan Tweet
The Twitter feed of CBS News posted an openly partisan tweet Friday night that took a posture of advocacy regarding the state of Georgia’s new voter-integrity law, rather than honestly reporting the news.
The bio line for CBS’s feed reads, “Your source for original reporting and trusted news.” But this post struck many as neither original nor objective news.
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CNN ‘Medical Expert’ & CDC Suggest Americans’ “Freedoms” Be Restricted Until They Are Vaccinated
With nearly every state having opened vaccinations to all adults, the CDC on Friday announced the second loosening of certain federal guidelines by declaring that all Americans who are “fully vaccinated” — a status obtained two weeks after the second dose (for Moderna and Pfizer) or the one and only dose (for JNJ) can travel “at low risk to themselves” both with the US and abroad, and won’t need to be tested for COVID before boarding a plane.
However, the CDC advised that they should continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public, avoiding crowds, maintaining social distancing and washing one’s hands frequently.
While the press celebrated the advisory as a milestone in the road back to “normalcy”, some wondered whether the CDC got the memo about packed seats on airplanes and the virtually completely reopened Florida that’s attracting tourists from around the country.
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Cornell University Mandates Vaccine Requirement for Both Staff and Students
NY State’s Cornell University will be insisting on students and staff being vaccinated in order for them to return to the campus, according to a statement released on Friday.
This comes on the heels of a similar announcement by Rutgers University in neighboring NJ from Mar. 25. It is considered very probable that other universities will enact similar measures in the near future.
According to the NY Post, Cornell also expressed that they expect in-person classes to return completely by the start of the 2021 fall semester.
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Facebook Leaks Full Names, Phone Numbers, Email Addresses, And Other Info on Half a Billion Users
The personal data, including phone numbers and emails, of more than 500 million Facebook users has been leaked online. The social media company claims that the data was obtained through a vulnerability that has since been fixed.
A user in a low-level hacking forum published the personal data of over 533 million Facebook users. The leaked data includes Facebook IDs, full names, phone numbers, email address, and other personal identifiable information. It affects Facebook users from 106 countries, including data on over 33 million users in the US and 11 million users in the UK.
Business Insider verified the authenticity of the leaked data by matching several of known user’s phone numbers to the Facebook IDs listed.
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Former President Donald Trump Calls for Boycott of Major League Baseball
Former President Donald Trump issued a statement late Friday evening, calling on his supporters to boycott Major League Baseball after the league caved to demands from left-wing activists upset about the state of Georgia’s new voter integrity law.
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Fourth Circuit Upholds FBI Terrorist Watch List
WASHINGTON (CN) — Three conservative judges on the Fourth Circuit upheld the FBI’s terror watch list Tuesday, unanimously overturning a federal judge’s ruling which deemed it unconstitutional.
“We have such imperfect comprehension of the consequences of our interventions as to raise the prospect here of doing far more harm than good,” U.S. Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee, penned in the opinion.
In September 2019, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Alexandria, a Bush appointee, ruled that the government’s justifications for placing people in their Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), which consists of over 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists,” were too vague and violated constitutional rights.
Government lawyers have insisted that the program is vital to national security, and urged the judges during oral arguments not to intervene with the executive branch’s administration of the list and its national security judgments. But the nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who brought the lawsuit said the list has created significant and unconstitutional burdens for them.
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Protesters Pound on Windows at Balthazar’s Outdoor Dining Area in NYC
A crowd of protesters pounded on the windows of the outdoor dining area at upscale Soho French restaurant Balthazar as people dined there Thursday night, video shows.
Dozens of demonstrators crowded the restaurant’s outdoor space — some repeatedly banging on the windows in support — as one of them, identified as Qween Jean, delivered a speech, video originally tweeted by the Protest_NYC page shows.
“So many black and brown indigenous community members are often left out,” Qween Jean can be heard saying. “They are often neglected, left out, unhoused, without food, without medication, without medical care, without mental health access. And we’re here with the message because we believe that black lives matter.”
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Rep. Gaetz’s Communications Director Steps Down Amid Federal Investigation
Luke Ball, the now-former communications director for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), resigned from his position on Friday.
“The Office of Congressman Matt Gaetz and Luke Ball have agreed that it would be best to part ways,” Gaetz’s office said. “We thank [Ball] for his time in our office, and we wish him the best moving forward.”
Gaetz is currently under federal investigation for alleged sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl.
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Republicans Call to Remove MLB Antitrust Exemption After All-Star Relocation
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) said on Friday he plans to introduce legislation that would remove Major League Baseball’s (MLB) antitrust exemption.
“In light of MLB’s stance to undermine election integrity laws, I have instructed my staff to begin drafting legislation to remove Major League Baseball’s federal antitrust exception,” Duncan said.
“An overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans support requiring an ID to vote, and any organization that abuses its power to oppose secure elections deserves increased scrutiny under the law.”
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Students Protest Plan to Stage Sartre’s Classic ‘No Exit’ Play: ‘It Doesn’t Allow Us to Feel Safe’
A petition has been launched against Western Washington University Department of Theatre’s decision to showcase the existentialist play “No Exit” this fall.
The petition argues the script is problematic because it gender stereotypes women and lesbians and puts a man in a quasi-leadership role, which perpetuates patriarchy.
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Trump Was Right: Sunlight Destroys COVID 8x Faster Than Scientists Believed, Study Shows
As it turns out, President Trump might have been on to something last spring when he rambled during a press conference about the possibility that “sunlight” could be leveraged to destroy the virus.
Research recently published by a team of academics at UC Santa Barbara found that the coronavirus is “inactivated” by sunlight as much as 8x faster than “current theoretical modelling” had anticipated.
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Twitter Shadowbans Gina Carano
Twitter is currently hiding the profile of actress Gina Carano behind a “sensitive content” warning for users who aren’t logged in.
“Caution: This profile may include potentially sensitive content. You’re seeing this warning because they Tweet potentially sensitive images or language. Do you still want to view it?” Twitter asks.
This form of shadowban allows Twitter to suppress content and accounts without the accountability of letting the user know that they’re being suppressed — meaning that the account owner likely wouldn’t even know they were being censored unless someone detects it.
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Vermont Offers Vaccines for Non-Whites of Any Age, Restricts White People to be Over 50
The state of Vermont as of Thursday has allowed anybody identifying as a person of color and any member of said person’s household to be eligible for the COVID vaccine at any age.
People who identify as white and their households will still have to wait for now, as the vaccine is otherwise only available to people 50 years old or older.
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Why Property Rights Matter: Part 4 — How to Fight Back
In an interview with the New American Magazine’s Senior Editor, Alex Newman, famous Rockstar-turned-Pastor Casper McCloud explains how the Bible relates to the issue of the day — in particular the COVID pandemic, the vaccination campaign, and the push towards transhumanism. According to McCloud, the prophetic of this is huge, and this is the time for believers to shine. McCloud also shows how Bill Gates is a key player in the transforming of society and mankind, including in the ongoing development of technologies that may be linked to the infamous “mark of the beast” described in the book of Revelation. For details watch the amazing 11 minutes of video.
Another health authority interviewed by Alex Newman was internationally renowned physician, Carrie Madej. In this interview she explains the enormous unknown risks of the mRNA COVID “vaccines” being injected into people all across the globe. She says this is a giant global experiment, and everyone who takes the experimental jabs, is participating in something unprecedented in human history. Dr. Madej also warns that these shots include code and nanotechnology that will have drastic effects on the functioning of the human body, the immune system, and even human cells. “You will literally be making part of this virus in your body.” She said “This has never happened in the history of humanity.”
She also warned that because these shots are not approved by the FDA, people should consult their life-insurance policy before taking a shot, since it may not pay out if you die. There is also a risk of infertility as the immune system is trained to target particular elements of the reproductive system. “We need to put a moratorium on this,” she said. Download and share this 15-minute video everywhere.
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YouTube Deletes More Than 2.5m Dislikes From Joe Biden’s White House Channel
About 2.5 million dislikes have been removed from Biden videos on the official White House channel since Biden became president, according to an analysis.
YouTube allows users to like or dislike videos. However, on some occasions and for some channels for the past two years it has had a policy for removing likes and dislikes it deems spam.
“We have policies and systems in place to ensure that the engagement on YouTube is authentic, and remove any fraudulent metrics,” a spokesperson for the platform told Reclaim The Net, but did not provide details on the criteria used to conclude a like or dislike is spam.
It appears YouTube is using the policy on videos posted by the White House. However, it’s not a balance of both likes and dislikes being removed — only the dislikes are disappearing.
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“Alienated” From Alberta Health: New Dimension Tattoos Followed Mask Bylaw, Ticketed Anyway
A Calgary Tattoo shop received a lockdown ticket for not letting the Alberta Health Service inspectors storm their shop to snoop for COVID infractions.
Dimension Tattoos in Calgary is meticulously clean, run by two people who take matters of public health very seriously. Sarah Ken and Peel Smith have to.
In the tattoo industry, one must be highly trained — and then re-trained — in preventing infectious disease transmission and the spread of blood borne illnesses.
Peel has been in the business for three decades. In fact, he is a second generation tattoo artist and he is at the top of his game. However, Peel has complex health issues that make wearing a mask impossible for him, especially for the long periods of time he would be working on a client.
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Edmonton’s Grace Life Church Breaks Lockdown Rules to Hold Good Friday Service
Grace Life Church in Edmonton went against an order to close issued in January of 2021 by authorities in order to hold another church service on Good Friday.
Parishioners passed RCMP cruisers in their cars as they filled up the parking lot in order to attend the 11am church service on what many Christians consider to be the holiest day of the year.
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Lockdown Protest Draws Large Crowd to Brantford
BRANTFORD — Anger and frustration over a year of shutdowns, lockdowns and curtailed civil liberties boiled over into a series of fiery speeches this weekend at a pandemic protest in Brantford.
Ostensibly, more than 1,000 gathered in the parking lot of a shopping centre at 195 Henry Street for the unveiling of “the largest anti-lockdown billboard” in Canada.
However, the two-hour event was also a platform for a slate of speakers, all of whom delivered a uniform message: It’s time, they said, to tune out the politicians, public-health authorities and the “fear-mongering” media and accept COVID-19 as just another illness humanity has to contend with.
“This billboard is the beginning — the beginning of the end of these lockdowns,” said keynote speaker Randy Hillier, the outspoken independent MPP from the riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston.
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North Vancouver Residents to Hold Drive-Thru Vigil After Stabbings at Library
VANCOUVER — Residents of North Vancouver are planning a candlelight vigil tonight to honour a young woman who was fatally stabbed at a local library along with six others who were injured there.
The drive-thru event a week after the stabbings is being held at a park in the tightly knit community of Lynn Valley and was organized by the local Lions Club.
Club President Eric Miura says it’s important for residents to heal and express their solidarity for the families of those who’ve been affected by the violence, especially while everyone is already dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
He says the District of North Vancouver approached the group to host the vigil that will feature 2,000 pieces of art by students at a high school and five elementary schools.
Miura says the response from residents, schools and businesses has been overwhelming as people hunger for love and kindness after what he called a tragic attack that traumatized witnesses, including young children…
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Quebec: Tickets for Illegal Gathering Didn’t Deter Revellers in Shawinigan, SQ Says
The Sûreté du Québec broke up at least two illegal gatherings heading into the long weekend.
Around 30 people gathered Friday morning in Sainte-Béatrix, in the Lanaudière region, the Sûreté du Québec said. That evening, the SQ intervened at the scene of another private gathering, in Shawinigan, at a location the police had visited the day before — and the day before that.
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Denmark last month commissioned a company called Netcompany to develop a “coronavirus passport app”, and it will be available to the general public for use in screening people.
The app, which will cost Danish taxpayers more than 3 million Euros, will allow individuals. for example, to track at their own private parties, whether in their homes or in a venue, who has been vaccinated, who has had a recent PCR test etc.
According to the Telegraph, the Danish government (and possibly other governments in the region) is planning to use the app to track people at major events as well.
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France: Paris Youth Flout COVID-19 Rules With Illegal, Secret Parties
Paris, Apr 3 (efe-epa).— Young residents of Paris have turned to secret gatherings and parties to escape the pandemic, despite a surge in coronavirus cases that has led to a third lockdown in a year.
The city’s tunnels and disused underground railway tracks have provided an ideal, albeit clandestine, stage for hundreds of young people — the vast majority not wearing masks — to dance the night away to electronic music at events that have been known to go on for days until police intervene to shut them down.
Outside the capital, chateaus in the suburbs provide another pricier alternative: 50 euros per person for entry, transport and accommodation as well as dinner, a 21-year-old woman tells Efe.
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France: Paris Deploys 6,600 Police to Enforce New Coronavirus Rules
PARIS — French hospitals brought in extra staff for the Easter holiday weekend to cope with more coronavirus patients.
With a new virus variant spreading fast and French intensive care units as full as they were last April, the government closed all schools and imposed new rules taking effect nationwide on Sunday.
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Islamo-Leftism and Decolonialism, Two Facets of the Woke Wave in France
The controversy sparked by Higher Education Minister Frédérique Vidal’s February reference to the problem of Islamo-leftism in French universities was further heightened in the second half of March by the announcement of a €2.5 million grant from Strasbourg’s Green mayor’s office to the Turkish Islamist association Millî Görüs for the construction of Europe’s largest mosque.
To justify such a grant from the city led by Mayor Jeanne Barseghian, of the party Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV), the Alsatian Greens brandished the Concordat between the public authorities and the Catholic Church in their department, which has exixted since the Napoleonic era. In the name of secularism, the Greens believe that the city should finance the construction of mosques in the same way as the maintenance of Catholic churches, even though the Millî Görüs association, known for its links with the Turkish government, professes political Islam and refuses to sign the Charter of the Principles of Islam in France, by which several other Muslim organizations recently affirmed their commitment to the principles of the French Republic and their rejection of radical Islam.
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Italy to Deploy 70,000 Officers to Enforce Restrictions Over Easter
The Italian government is expected to deploy up to 70,000 police and carabinieri over Easter weekend to prevent large gatherings and enforce lockdown restrictions.
From April 3rd to the 5th, beaches, vaccination centres, nightlife areas, public parks, and other spaces will see a heightened presence of law enforcement across Italy.
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Protests Across UK Against New Law That Would Give Police Extra Powers to Curb Protests
Hundreds of demonstrators joined marches and rallies across Britain on Saturday as part of a “national weekend of action” against a proposed new law that would give police extra powers to curb protests.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill would toughen measures officers can take to disperse demonstrations, such as imposing time and noise limits, which campaigners and activists fear would be used to curb dissent.
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COPS have been pelted with bottles, fights and some injured according to eyewitnesses as thousands of rowdy youths “turn an Edinburgh park into Glastonbury”.
Footage tonight shows shocking scenes in the city’s Meadows packed with thousands of people.
The gathering comes despite a Scots police chief warning the public about illegal gatherings over the Easter weekend and calling for people to adhere to the “stay local” rule.
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Spain: Beach Crowds Defy COVID-19 Restrictions Across Catalonia
ARCELONA, April 3 (Reuters) — Beaches were packed across Catalonia on Saturday as fine spring weather attracted sunseekers despite government warnings to avoid breaching COVID-19 restrictions.
In Barcelona, Tarragona and other popular cities along the coast of the northeastern Spanish region, crowds gathered on the beaches, some lacking masks or ignoring social distancing.
On a popular beach near central Barcelona dozens of partygoers had danced on Friday, some flouting regulations designed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police said on Saturday.
The impromptu party took place on Barceloneta beach and police said they had advised revellers they were breaking health regulations.
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Swedish Green Party: White Women Must ‘Move’ For Foreigners to Take Power
Swedish Green Party spokeswoman Märta Stenevi has claimed that in order for foreign minority women to get power in Sweden, native-born white Swedish women must move aside.
Stenevi made her statements during a podcast interview after being asked about the differences between the voting patterns of male and female voters in the country.
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When Spahn encouraged fellow cabinet members to take the vaccine, at least one of them not only rejected it, but did so in a very public way. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, 71, made his feelings about the vaccine clear when speaking to the tabloid Bild.
The answer to Jens Spahn’s request is: No! I will not be patronized.
He said his problem was about not liking to be bossed around, and refrained from giving his evaluation of the controversial medicine.
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The Takedown of the Union Jack is a Lesson in the Moral Cowardice of Britain’s Cultural Elite
The UK’s culture war is at a stage where respecting your flag is equated to racism and xenophobia. The Union Jack is ridiculed on national airwaves, and even schoolchildren are allowed to shame their teachers into taking it down.
Britain is one of the few places in the world where schoolchildren have permission to express contempt for their nation’s flag. So it is hardly surprising that pupils at Pimlico Academy in South London protested against their school’s policy of flying the Union Jack.
Nor is it surprising that the school swiftly caved in to the children’s demand to take down the ‘racist’ Union flag.
What is truly remarkable is not merely the moral cowardice of the school leaders, who refused to uphold and defend their nation’s principal symbol, but also that the headteacher apologised and actually praised the students’ behaviour!
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UK Police Bust Good Friday Church Service, Threaten to Fine Worshippers
Footage widely shared on social media shows London police interrupting a Good Friday service at a Polish church in London and threatening Christians with fines unless they dispersed.
Metropolitan Police Service officers had interrupted Friday evening’s Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion service at Christ the King Polish Roman Catholic Church in Balham, Wandsworth, for being “unlawful” under current coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
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UK Refuses to Suspend AstraZeneca COVID Shots as Other Nations Have
95 New Deaths Recorded this Week in the UK Following AZ COVID Shots
The UK Government’s reporting system for COVID vaccine adverse reactions from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency released their latest report today, April 1, 2021.
The report covers data collected from December 9, 2020, through March 21, 2021, for the two experimental COVID vaccines currently in use in the U.K. from Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
They report a total of 713 deaths and 495,345 injuries recorded following the experimental vaccines.
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The union representing the teacher who allegedly showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad had donated money to the charity that went on to oust him.
The National Education Union’s (NEU) Kirklees branch, in West Yorkshire, which represents the Batley Grammar School teacher, had donated £3,000 to the charity Purpose of Life who went on to publish the teacher’s name online.
The Islamic charity, which has now removed the teacher’s name from its online post, has since been accused of ‘endangering his safety’ and acting in a ‘reckless’ manner and have been reported to the Charity Commission.
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Two hundred partying students have been slammed for turning the millionaires’ resort of Sandbanks into the ‘Wild West’ as they spat and bottled police officers.
Brawls broke out and police officers were assaulted during the illegal beach party attended by sixth form students in Poole Harbour, Dorset, on Thursday night.
One 19-year-old reveller who suffered head injuries after being struck with a bottle turned on two female police officers who were helping him.
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UK: Police Break Up Good Friday Church Service in London for Breaching COVID Rules
Police broke up a Good Friday church service in south-west London last night for breaching coronavirus regulations.
Footage that emerged on social media on Friday shows two Metropolitan Police officers suspending the pre-Easter service at the Christ the King Polish Roman Catholic Church in Balham.
One of the members of the church invited the officer to the sanctuary to explain to the congregation why the service was being disrupted.
The Met officer outlined that gatherings “with this many people” are unlawful under the government’s coronavirus restrictions.
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UK: Woke Cambridge Professor Compares Black Race Report Author to Goebbels
Infamous Cambridge University professor Priyamvada Gopal has compared the black author of a report on race relations in Britain to Nazi party propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
Gopal, who serves as a professor of postcolonial studies at the university, questioned the credentials of Dr Tony Sewell, one of the lead authors of the 264-page Downing Street report that concluded there is no “institutional racism” in the United Kingdom, asking: “Am I correct in thinking that it’s not, in fact, ‘Dr’ Tony Sewell? I mean, if we are doing to pander to the establishment, then surely the establishment’s rules matter.”
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U.S. And Iran Will Talk in Vienna Next Week — From Separate Rooms
The United States and Iran are planning to hold “proximity talks” next week, meaning that both countries will send diplomats to Vienna but will work towards ending a stalemate between the two sides from different rooms.
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India: Kerala BJP State Chief Says ‘ISIS is Targeting Hindu-Christian Girls Especially Students’
These “love jihad” incidents are motivated by supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community, and that because that is a good outcome, any means, including deception, may be pursued in order to attain it. Also, pressure is brought on Hindu women to convert because of the Qur’an: “And do not marry polytheistic women until they believe. And a believing slave woman is better than a polytheist, even though she might please you. And do not marry polytheistic men until they believe. And a believing slave is better than a polytheist, even though he might please you. Those invite to the fire, but Allah invites to paradise and to forgiveness, by His permission. And he makes clear his verses to the people that perhaps they may remember.” (Qur’an 2:221)
“‘Love jihad’: ISIS targeting Hindu, Christian girls in Kerala, says BJP state chief,” ANI, March 31, 2021 (thanks to Henry).
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AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan called for the beheading of Dasna Devi Temple head priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati for his alleged critical remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
“We can not tolerate such impertinence for our beloved Prophet Muhammad. This hateful insect should be awarded the most severe punishment by slitting his tongue and neck. But the law of the land does not permit us to do this, we have faith in the Indian constitution, and I want Delhi Police to take note of this,” Amanatullah Khan tweeted along with sharing the video of Narsinghanand Saraswati where he criticised the Islamic prophet.
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Two men, Raheem and Taufiq have surrendered as culprits behind the desecration of the Koragajja Katte Temple, Mangalore. Not only have they confessed to their crimes, but they have also named a third accomplice, Nawaz, who was the main culprit. Nawaz, Raheem and Taiufiq would visit Hindu temples often, slide condoms in the donation boxes and defile the sanctity of the temple by urinating inside.
Soon after their latest misadventure, Nawaz started to vomit blood and suffer from dysentery. He was also acting insanely and died by banging his head on a wall. After his passing away, Tausif started vomiting blood. Scared that they may meet a fate like that of Nawaz, they confessed their crime to the temple priest to redeem themselves and seek forgiveness. They were eventually turned in to the police.
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Indian Muslims Describe Their Defiling Attitude to Visit Hindu Temples to Create Utter Nuisance
Muslims confess to visiting Hindu temples in India, urinating on the floor and leaving condoms in the donation boxes.
Krishna Priya | Jihad Watch Online | New Delhi | April 3, 2021:: Two men, Raheem and Taufiq have surrendered as culprits behind the desecration of the Koragajja Katte Temple, Mangalore. Not only have they confessed to their crimes, but they have also named a third accomplice, Nawaz, who was the main culprit. Nawaz, Raheem and Taiufiq would visit Hindu temples often, slide condoms in the donation boxes and defile the sanctity of the temple by urinating inside.
Soon after their latest misadventure, Nawaz started to vomit blood and suffer from dysentery. He was also acting insanely and died by banging his head on a wall. After his passing away, Tausif started vomiting blood. Scared that they may meet a fate like that of Nawaz, they confessed their crime to the temple priest to redeem themselves and seek forgiveness. They were eventually turned in to the police.
Last month, secular media in India and its allies worldwide had suffered a massive meltdown when a Muslim boy caught trespassing a Hindu temple was thrashed by the keepers of the temple. 14-year-old Asif claimed that he had entered the temple to drink water. Journalists who reached the venue to report on the incident have confirmed that there was a drinking water source right outside the temple. This leaves us wondering why Asif chose to walk into a Hindu worship place when he could have quenched his thirst from the water source outside…
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China Will Stamp Out Five “Illegal Social Organizations” Including House Churches
04/03/2021 China (International Christian Concern) — According to China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), China will launch a campaign to toughen its clampdown on five types of illegal social organizations.
The campaign seeks to shut down organizations that are not registered with relevant authorities but have carried out activities in the name of a social organization, private non-enterprise unit or foundation. Organizations who continue with their activities despite their revoked registration are also a target of the campaign, the ministry said.
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Facebook is Trigger-Happy When it Comes to Censorship. But Not With China’s Propaganda.
It is common news that Facebook is blocked in China. However, the Chinese government frequently uses Facebook for spreading propaganda and showing itself in a positive light, while running advertisements on the platform. Of late, Facebook workers are growing concerned over Chinese organizations promoting posts that show Muslims looking happy and thriving.
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Teenager Stabbed in the Buttocks During Sydney Brawl
Police arrived at the scene to find find an 18-year-old man with stab wounds to his buttocks.
He was treated my paramedics at the scene before being taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a stable condition.
A crime scene has been set up and police are appealing for the public to help identify a man who may be able to help with their investigations.
He is described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance and aged in his mid-20s.
He was wearing a black jacket.
Anyone who may have seen the incident should contact Sydney City Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au.
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Catholic Priest and Six Others Killed in Attack on Church in Nigeria
Rome Newsroom, Mar 31, 2021 / 07:25 am MT (CNA).— A Catholic priest and at least six others were killed by gunmen in an attack on St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Benue State, Nigeria, the Diocese of Katsina-Ala confirmed Wednesday.
Fr. Ferdinand Fanen Ngugban had just offered Mass in his parish church of St. Paul Ayetwar in eastern Nigeria and was preparing to leave for the Holy Week Chrism Mass when he was shot in the head by gunmen on March 30.
According to a statement by Fr. Fidelis Phelle Akjmbul, chancellor of the Diocese of Katsina-Ala, the body of the priest and those of six other victims were recovered after “there was pandemonium among the internally displaced persons who took refuge in the parish premises.”
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims Murder at Least 23 Civilians in Overnight Raid on Village
Why, something simply must be done about right-wing extremism.
“Suspected Islamists kill 23 civilians in eastern Congo,” Reuters, April 1, 2021.
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UK: People Smugglers Sending Fleets of Migrant Boats at the Same Time to Overwhelm Patrols
PEOPLE smugglers are sending fleets of small boats across the Channel at the same time hoping to overwhelm patrols.
French coastguards stopped eight boats full of migrants heading to Britain in one day, as criminal gangs changed their tactics.
In the 24 hours to dawn yesterday, 13 vessels, carrying more than 200 migrants heading for Britain, were intercepted.
French authorities have deployed an extra 450 officers to the area.
A source in Calais said: “It appears to be a tactic to try to overwhelm both the French and British authorities so at least some get through.”
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While the state has no problem to deploy thousands of police officers to fight the corona deniers, they are totally helpless against the enrichers of the banlieus (suburbs of Paris).
Anarcho tyranny, anybody?
Sarcelles (95): a Pakistani who is subject to an obligation to leave the territory attacked 3 Jews with a knife. Indicted and released
https://www.fdesouche.com/2021/04/03/sarcelles-95-un-pakistanais-qui-ferait-lobjet-dune-obligation-de-quitter-le-territoire-a-agresse-3-juifs-au-couteau-mis-en-examen-et-libere/