Three more people have been arrested in Manitoba for violating the province’s restrictions intended to slow the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Danish government has shut down access to BitChute to prevent the spread of “misinformation” about COVID-19.
In other news, a summer accounting course for high school students sponsored by several colleges does not allow white students to apply.
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Big Employment Gaps for EU Natives vs. Non-EU Workers in Many Member States
Not only has the employment rate in the EU fallen in 2020, but immigrants from outside the EU are also a growing challenge in the EU labor market, news and opinion portal Mandiner writes.
In 2020, the employment rate for the age cohort of 20 to 64 among those born outside the EU was 61.9 percent, while for intra-EU workers and indigenous nationals it was already 73.5 percent, according to Eurostat.
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Hungary Q1 GDP Shows Decline But Exceeds Expectations
Hungary’s upwardly revised first-quarter GDP data showed surprisingly positive developments, analysts told national news agency MTI on Tuesday.
In the second estimate issued by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), Hungary improved its GDP indicators for the first quarter upwards compared to its first estimate, which were published two weeks ago and were already a pleasant surprise. The volume of gross domestic product was 2.1 percent lower than in the first quarter of last year, which is 0.2 percent less than in the first estimate.
According to seasonally and workday-adjusted data, the performance of the economy increased by 2 percent in the previous quarter from 1.6 percent in the previous quarter, decreasing by 1.6 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year, which is 0.4 percentage points less than in the previous quarter. Analysts expected a 0.3 percent decline from the previous quarter and a 3.7 percent decline from a year earlier before the first estimate was published.
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Following revelations of rampant malarkey and doublespeak from Dr. Anthony Fauci — the nation’s highest-paid government employee — Amazon and Barnes & Noble appear to have ‘canceled’ the top virologist’s upcoming book amid criticism that he’s profiting from the COVID-19 pandemic — the tone-deaf response to which he played a significant role in, according to Just The News.
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Authored by Jonathan Turley
We have seen in recent years that public attestations of being a racist have become more common among academics. Last year, we discussed the controversy over the acting Northwestern Law Dean declaring publicly to “I am James Speta and I am a racist.” He was followed by Emily Mullin, executive director of major gifts, who announced, “I am a racist and a gatekeeper of white supremacy. I will work to be better.” Recently, Brandeis’ Assistant Deans, Kate Slater, has triggered a similar controversy after declaring “all white people are racists.” Some have gone further. At CUNY, the Law Dean Mary Lou Bilek cancelled herself for once referring to herself as a “slaveholder” in a meeting jn arguing for greater protections for minority students. Now, an Oklahoma State PhD student and teacher Jessica Bridges has cancelled herself from teaching Spanish because she is white.
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Breaking: Andy Ngo Speaks Out After Being Brutally Assaulted by Antifa in Portland Streets
Prominent journalist Andy Ngo, an expert on the Antifa movement, is speaking out after he was chased and assaulted by black-clad Antifa extremists Friday night while covering the latest far-left protest in Portland. The recent assault is the second time Ngo was brutalized by Antifa militants in the Rose City.
“No journalist in America should ever face violence for doing his or her job,” Ngo tweeted Wednesday following the attack. “Yet on Friday, May 28, Antifa tried to kill me again while I was reporting on the ongoing protests and riots in Portland…”
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Change: Majority of Americans, Plurality of Dems Now Believe Lab-Leak Theory is Probably True
Here’s another reason why Leana Wen, however well-meaning, probably shouldn’t worry about what might happen if Americans come around to believing that the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab.
Most already believe it. And a near-majority believed it right from the start.
Republicans were all-in on the lab-leak possibility since 2020 but Democrats and especially independents have come around lately now that the expert class has grown newly credulous about it.
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City on Fire: Over Half of LA County Blazes Caused by Homeless
Authored by Jamie Joseph via The Epoch Times
Los Angeles is set ablaze up to 24 times a day. The cause? Thousands of homeless encampments…
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CNN Bleeds Viewers as Fox News Dominates
As CNN falls below a million average viewers during prime time hours, Fox News dominated ratings as the only cable TV channel with more than 2 million viewers.
In the newly released Nielsen ratings for the month of May, Fox dominated above every other all cable news channel. Fox News has 14 programs with higher ratings than CNN’s top rated show. Fox was the only channel with more than 2 million viewers in the 8pm — 11pm slot. MSNBC finished second with an average of 1.5 million and TNT, ESPN and HGTV rounded out the top five.
While Fox News surges, CNN saw two thirds of viewers leave from their three most popular programs: Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. CNN’s total day viewers is down more than 70% from January. Fox News also dominates total day viewers with 1.2 million viewers while No. 2 MSNBC settled for only 835,000.
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Media outlets who previously reported that violent unrest in Portland, Oregon, was exaggerated are facing criticism after a new report on how the city’s minority communities are reeling from crime.
“Anarchists and an increase in violent crime hijack Portland’s social justice movement,” a Washington Post headline read on Monday.
“After months of social-justice activism that made Portland a vivid, sometimes violent focal point for a nation debating the same issues around police accountability and reform, the movement here has splintered into bickering groups, at odds over tactics, goals and an overall direction for how to make the city safer, with the police force still at the debate’s bitter center,” reporter Scott Wilson wrote.
At least 30 homicides had been committed by May and by the end of the year, the Post reported, Portland “could see more slayings … than in the past four decades.”
New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait encouraged his followers to read the “very upsetting” report about the crime wave’s disproportionate impact on the city’s Black community. The piece also delved into the effects of anarchists and anti-police reform efforts in the liberal city
But those who have followed the media coverage of Portland over the past year shared tweets from reporters last year that suggested that the city was largely peaceful. Pundits carried that narrative despite over 100 consecutive days of riots in the city last year following high-profile police-involved deaths, including the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Those riots devastated the city’s reputation and led to a sharp decrease in morale among its police officers.
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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the NCAA during a Fox News interview on Tuesday night that highlighted a bill that DeSantis signed earlier in the day that protected girl’s sports in the state.
“I think as these bills were going through various legislatures, I remember the NCAA put out a statement saying any state that enacts this, we’re not going to hold events there,” DeSantis said. “And so I called the Speaker of the House in Florida and I said, ‘did you hear what they said?’ And he’s like, ‘yeah,’ I said, we definitely got to get this done.”
“You can’t be cowed by these organizations, or particularly by woke corporations from doing the right thing. And so my view was throughout this whole time, we have to protect our girls, it is discriminatory to force them to compete against biological males,” DeSantis continued. “And so if the price of having a tournament is that I have to deny equal opportunity to hundreds of thousands of young girl and women athletes throughout Florida, I am much more willing to stand with the girls. And to hell with these events.”
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A Seattle park that houses homeless people has become so dangerous that the Seattle Police Department will now be protecting Seattle Fire with a Rescue Task Force when they are forced to respond to life-threatening emergencies at the park. City Hall Park in Pioneer Square, also known as Courthouse Park, sits at the height of violence and criminal activity in the city.
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George Soros Gets a COVID Loan
Authored by Chris Farrell via The Gatestone Institute
In March, the Small Business Administration gave a $234,548 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) “loan” to George Soros’s East-West Management Institute (EWMI).
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Google Bans Dr. Vladimir Zelenko From Sharing Google Docs
Google has been expanding censorship around Covid topics and users it disapproves of from the public-facing platforms like YouTube and Search — to Google Docs.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko — a Westchester, New York-based US physician who became known last year for proposing alternative Covid treatments that was endorsed by then President Donald Trump — is on the receiving end.
After Facebook and YouTube restricted Zelenko’s presence on the social networks and Twitter suspended his account, the doctor is now prevented from sharing documents — six in all — using Google Docs.
The documents once again concern the Covid pandemic, discussing Zelenko’s own approach to the outbreak that included the use of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc, which he says played a significant role in preventing the need to hospitalize patients, Newsbusters reported.
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High School Program Sponsored by Several NY Colleges Does Not Allow White Students to Apply
A summer accounting program for high school students sponsored by several New York universities does not permit white students to apply. After Campus Reform reached out to the universities for comment, one began second-guessing its sponsorship of the program.
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In February 2020 Email, Fauci Wrote Face Masks “Not Effective in Keeping Out Virus”
In an email from February 2020 released under the Freedom of Information Act, Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote that a typical store-bought face mask “is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.”
Included in the trove of emails, which were obtained by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News, is Fauci’s response to former health and human services secretary Sylvia Burwell when she asked him for advice about wearing face masks while traveling.
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Judge Rules Against Noem in Fireworks Lawsuit; Noem Vows to Appeal for 2022
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A federal court has ruled there will be no Fourth of July fireworks at Mount Rushmore.
Judge Roberto A. Lange said today in the ruling that while fireworks on July 3 “at first blush” seems like a good idea, the “Court is not called upon to determine whether such a fireworks display is a good idea.”
In short, Lange said that the state did not meet requirements for him to rule in Noem and the state’s favor.
In a post on her Governor’s Twitter Account, Noem said “The Biden Administration cancelled South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration on completely arbitrary grounds. I am disappointed the court gave cover to this unlawful action with today’s decision.”
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Major News Outlets Start to Embrace YouTube Alternative Rumble
Creator-focused video sharing platform Rumble’s record growth is starting to attract a growing number of major news brands to its platform.
Digital Trends, KMGH, Newsy, OutKick, Page Six, Reuters, The New York Post, WPTV, and Fox News host Sean Hannity are some of the news outlets and hosts that now regularly post their content to Rumble.
One of Hannity’s videos has racked up more than a million total views while many of his other videos have garnered hundreds of thousands of views.
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Man-Monkey Hybrid Sparks Fears of ‘Frankenstein’ Creatures
Researchers conducting human-animal hybrid experiments struck fear into federal lawmakers worried that nightmare scenarios of Frankenstein creatures have become a reality.
Earlier this year, researchers announced a blending of man and monkey.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, said in April that it participated with a China-led research team in an experiment by injecting human stem cells into monkey embryos. They allowed the resulting creature to live and grow for 19 days before terminating it. The researchers responsible for the technology used in the experiment said their work aided the study of embryonic development.
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Pat Buchanan: The Thinking Man’s Principled Conservative
Pat Buchanan continues to be a conservative icon for generations in the United States, holding the line on conservative issues at a time when conventional wisdom said that it was time to give up the ship. While many on the right hate the very idea of journalism today, Pat Buchanan is a journalist through and through — he received his training in journalism and continues to work in it to this very day.
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Princeton Removes Greek, Latin for Classics Majors to Combat Racism
Princeton University decided recently to remove Greek and Latin for Classics majors to combat — what it called— institutional racism.
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Princeton Removes Greek, Latin Requirement for Classics Majors to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’
Classics majors at Princeton University will no longer be required to learn Greek or Latin in a push to create a more inclusive and equitable program, an effort that was given “new urgency” by the “events around race that occurred last summer,” according to faculty.
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Rand Paul Calls for Fauci to be Fired After Shocking Email Revelations
Sen. Rand Paul, who grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci in Senate hearings, and others are calling for Fauci to be removed after thousands of pages of emails were released as a result of a FOIA request from Buzzfeed and Washington Post.
Rand Paul tweeted “told you. #firefauci Can’t wait to see the media try to spin the Fauci FOIA emails.”
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Note that while Coleman Thomas Blevins’ Qur’an and Saudi flag (which features the Islamic profession of faith, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet”) feature prominently in the photo of his paraphernalia, the execrable New York Post doesn’t mention them, while making sure to note that he had a “swastika and other Nazi symbols and extremist books like The Turner Diaries.’“
I’m not saying he is a jihadi. He seems like a nut, with a smorgasbord of subversive material of all kinds. But why does the Post not deign to mention that some of that material was Islamic? Why does the establishment media always consider it a duty to cover up for Islam and the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings?
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The Jaw Dropping Dr. Fauci Emails
The doctor who thanked Dr. Fauci for dismissing the Wuhan lab leak theory is the same guy who gave $600k to the lab, “investigated” it for the WHO and then acted as a Facebook fact checker censoring info on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
You couldn’t make this up.
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TL; DR: Fauci’s Response to Physicist Who Warned China Was Covering Up COVID
A physicist who warned Dr. Anthony Fauci that China was covering up its coronavirus death toll numbers in the early days of the pandemic was told by Fauci that his email was “too long…to read.”
Yes, really.
The email is one of a trove that BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request.
In the email, the scientists, who isn’t named, alerts Fauci to his assertion that China stopped counting its COVID dead in early January and had “fabricated data” in order to “(mislead) the world into a false sense of security.”
“China wanted the world to believed that their Herculean quarantining efforts contained the outbreak,” the physicist wrote, adding, “However, I don’t think this is true.”
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Trump Scraps Blog One Month After Rollout
Former President Donald Trump has scrapped his blog, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” less than 30 days after launching it, according to CNBC.
In a Wednesday statement, spokesman Jason Miller said that the page “will not be returning,” and that “It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on.”
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Twitter Sued, Accused of Being “Deputized” To Carry Out Censorship on Behalf of Biden Administration
The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) is suing Twitter and the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as US President Joe Biden, for colluding to impose online censorship of criticism of the government’s policy on COVID, the vaccination-related issues in particular.
The lawsuit alleges that the current US administration is using major social networks to work around the fact that the constitution prohibits it from censoring speech critical of its policies; instead, as AFLC Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi put it, privately owned platforms have been “deputized” to carry out that work.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit complaint for you here.
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Twitter Censors and Locks Out mRNA Expert
Twitter deleted a tweet by a pioneer of mRNA technology about viral shedding, a concept referring to the process of the body releasing viral particles due to a vaccine and potentially causing a risk of infection to others. The platform did not provide a reason for deleting the tweet and restricting the mRNA technology expert.
“I believe the ‘shedding’ idea is that the vaccinated shed spike protein, not virus. And, it’s certainly true that people vaccinated with mRNA vaccines shed spike protein, but in miniscule amounts that almost certainly can’t cause disease/malaise in others,” Luigi Warren wrote on Twitter on May 26.
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Two Men From Portland Area Facing Charges for Crimes During Protests
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced on Tuesday that two men from the Portland area are facing charges in connection with two separate riots near federal facilities.
Richard Timothy Hernandez, 56, of Portland, has been charged with three counts of destruction of government property. Rowan McManigal, 19, of Lake Oswego, Oregon, has been charged with conveying false or misleading information about possessing incendiary chemical agents on federal property.
According to court documents, federal investigators obtained evidence showing that, during three separate riots, Hernandez broke more than a dozen windows at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and ICE Portland Field Office. In the early morning hours of March 14, Hernandez and others threw 13 objects at Hatfield Courthouse windows, causing more than $143,000 in damage. On March 20 and April 29, 2021, Hernandez threw a total of 74 rocks at ICE Portland Field Office windows, causing more than $21,000 in damage.
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Watch: Dallas Man Holds Burglar at Gunpoint After Home Invasion
A good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy. Miami Houstan of Texas shared a video on Instagram that shows him encountering a burglar when he returned home Memorial Day weekend. When Houstan returned home he can be seen knocking on his own door to which the robber complies and opens it. Houstan then order the robber to “get down” and proceeds to hold him at gunpoint.
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3 More People Arrested, Charged With Repeat Violations of Manitoba’s Pandemic Health Orders
Three more people accused of repeatedly violating Manitoba’s public health orders have been arrested and charged, the province’s justice minister says.
Cameron Friesen announced the additional arrests at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. Last Friday, Winnipeg police announced the province’s first arrest of someone accused of breaking rules intended to stop the spread of COVID-19.
At the time, police said there were five outstanding warrants for other alleged repeat offenders.
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79-Year-Old Woman Found Eaten by Her Cats in Spain
A 79-year-old woman was found eaten from the waist up by her pet cats after she died in her apartment in Madrid, Spain, from what neighbors believe was coronavirus.
Police discovered the decomposing body of a Colombian woman, Clara Ines Tobon, on Monday, who was said to have been partially eaten by her pet cats, according to a report by the Daily Mail.
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Czech MPs Initiate No-Confidence Vote for Ruling Government
On Thursday, the Czech government will face a vote of no confidence. The members of the Spolu coalition (ODS, KDU-CSL, TOP 09), and the Pirates and STAN coalition handed over the necessary number of signatures to the chairman of the lower house to convene the special meeting.
However, President Milos Zeman said several times that even if the government loses confidence, the minority cabinet of ANO and CSSD (Social Democratic Party) will stay until the October elections.
If KSCM (Communist Party) decides to no longer support the government, the possibility of Prime Minister Andrej Babis losing the no-confidence vote would be real.
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Danish Authorities Shut Down Access to Bitchute Over “Dangerous” COVID-19 Information
Authorities in Denmark have shut down much of the country’s access to video platform Bitchute in the name of preventing the spread of “dangerous information” about COVID.
Denmark’s National Police Cyber Crime Center (NC3) petitioned for a court order to block the site and ISPs followed suit by blocking access to users.
“The National Police Cyber Crime Center (NC3) has blocked the homepage that your browser has tried to access contact as there is reason to assume that from the website commits a violation of criminal law, which has a background in or connection with the covid-19 epidemic in Denmark,” states a message users see when trying to access Bitchute.
It then advises the owner of the website that they will have to contact the authorities in order to try to get the website back online.
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The National Rally (RN) has never won a regional election before, although it did well in the first round of the 2015 elections. You are the number one candidate on your party’s list in Normandy. How do you rate your chances in this region?
In Normandy, the game is quite open even if it is not the easiest region to win for the RN. In 2015, the list I led was nevertheless neck and neck with Hervé Morin’s list in the first round. In the second round, we were slightly behind but the left was quite strong in Normandy at the time. We were the first and only real opposition force on the regional council for those five years.
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Hungary Won’t Join European Public Prosecutor’s Office
Following the preliminary ruling of the National Assembly, the Hungarian Government decided to participate in neither the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office nor in the cooperation strengthening process, Justice Minister Judit Varga announced in a Facebook post.
“This is a matter of sovereignty. With the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, Brussels wants even more power to the detriment of the member states,” Varga wrote. “The document establishing the EPPO does not meet the basic, principled and professional requirements such as national self-determination and full respect of the constitutional structure.”
Together with Hungary, five countries — Poland, Denmark, Sweden, and Ireland — decided not to join but indicating their absence from the organization.
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It is an ‘Accursed Sect’: Archbishop Viganò Strongly Denounces the Promoters of the ‘Great Reset’
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., unmasked once again, at the Venice Summit, the plan of a group of billionaires to impose a world tyranny, in his speech “Great Reset: the last great lie.”
Viganò relates the Great Reset to the so-called New World Order and explains its action: “to spread the infernal chaos, in which everything that civilization has laboriously built over the millennia, under the inspiration of [Divine] Grace, will be overturned and perverted, corrupted and erased,” he said on May 30.
He further explains that this is the continuation of ancient combat led by “a few tyrants,” and the Great Reset is the last stage.
He adds, “And to achieve this end, the last step is the establishment of a synarchy in which a few faceless tyrants, thirsty for power, dedicated to the cult of death and sin, to the hatred of life, of virtue and of beauty, rule.”
He also specifies the names of some powerful family members who for centuries have secretly hatched the destructive plan, now also availing themselves of the controversial worldwide vaccination plan.
“The members of this cursed sect are not only Bill Gates, George Soros or Klaus Schwab, but those who have been plotting in the shadows for centuries to overthrow the Kingdom of Christ: the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Warburgs …”.
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Massive Mosque in France Sparks Worry Over Influence of ‘Political Islam’
The construction of a new mosque in the French city of Strasbourg is causing considerable controversy on the French political scene. While Muslim faithful with have difficulties getting into the crowded existing prayer houses are looking forward to the new mosque, lawmakers fear the threat of foreign influence.
The new mosque will accommodate 2,500 Muslim believers. The annex will house a school, a restaurant, a library, and 14 shops. Furthermore, there will be two 36-meters-high minarets, a cultural hall, and a tearoom. The new Eyüpa Sultan Mosque will become one of the largest in Europe.
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Papers Please! Faced With Freedom, Britons Want Domestic Vax Passports
The United Kingdom is on the verge of emerging from lockdown, but faced with the prospect of greater freedom in the coming weeks a poll claims a strong majority of Britons want to keep the movements of unvaccinated countrymen restricted.
A significant 71 per cent of Britons support “requiring COVID-19 passports for admission to large events in the UK”, a poll claimed, with just 20 per cent against apparently banning the unvaccinated from some public places.
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Poll: Poland’s Leading Conservative Party is Surging Among Voters
If parliamentary elections were held last Sunday, the Untied Right would emerge victorious. The government would receive 40.3 percent of votes which is a significant increase compared to the results from the last several months.
Szymon Holownia’s Poland 2050 has also solidified its lead of the opposition with 22.9 percent of the vote. Holownia’s party is far ahead of the Civic Platform (PO) which can expect only 15.9 percent of support.
The Left Party would also pass the election threshold and receive 9.4 percent of the vote, as would the right-wing Confederation with 7.3 percent.
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Sinister: EU Proposes Post-Pandemic ‘Digital Identity’, as Vaccine Passport System Goes Live
The European Union will introduce a government-controlled and cross border “digital identity” app for EU citizens as a part of the bloc’s post-pandemic “transition”.
In a speech given to the EU’s 2021 Digital Assembly on Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that Brussels is planning to develop a government digital wallet, saying: “We want to offer to Europeans a new digital identity.”
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Top German Green Party Leaders Favor Proxy War Against Russia
In a recent interview for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reaffirmed his country’s intention to purchase military equipment from Germany. The US and European NATO members were thus far reluctant to sell state-of-the-art equipment to Ukraine in fear of this leading to further escalation in the region, and of retaliatory measures from Russia.
In 2019, an agreement was signed for the purchase of US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles, and the Biden administration has pledged more for 2021, namely some patrol boats and counter-artillery radars. However, the amount of defense equipment that trickles through to Ukraine from the West is little more than a political than a statement of intent from NATO members, and can hardly make a dent in the amount of equipment needed to defend against a possible threat from Russian-backed separatists. According to Zelensky, his country is facing a new threat from Belarus as well, since its totalitarian regime is entirely dependent on Russian support for its survival and could engage in provocations at Moscow’s behest.
During a visit to Ukraine, the leader of the German Green Party, Robert Habeck, had signaled to Zelensky that his party would be willing to support the export of state-of-the-art German defense equipment to Ukraine. Although Habeck himself did not specify what kind of military gear would he be willing to sell to Ukraine, sources listed assault rifles, missile patrol boats and counter-artillery radar as the ones being on their shopping list.
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UK May Extend Length of School Days to Make Up for Lessons Lost to Lockdown
Britain’s education minister has said the government is mulling whether the school day should be extended as part of a £1.4 billion project to ensure kids don’t lose out on education due to school closures during the pandemic.
Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government would be working with schools, teachers, and parents to deliver the best outcome for Britain’s kids.
He noted there was “a debate to be had as to whether children should be exiting the school gate — as they do in some schools — at 2.45pm, or whether they should be in school later.”
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UK: Leading Immunologist: ‘We Can’t Hide Down a Hole Every Time There’s a New Variant’
A leading immunologist has advised the UK government to “move on” with reopening society, warning that coronavirus is “here to stay” and that it makes no sense trying to hide every time a new variant emerges.
The BBC reports the comments by Sir John Bell, a Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford, member of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR), and a leading member of the government’s vaccine taskforce.
In an interview with BBC Radio Four, Bell urged that “If we scamper down a rabbit hole every time we see a new variant, we’re going to spend a long time huddled away.”
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UK: Liberties Groups Warn People Being Convicted Without Trial for Lockdown Breaches
A coalition of liberties rights groups has warned that people in the UK are being convicted of breaking coronavirus “laws” without being provided the means to plead innocent.
The London Independent reports that cases are being processed under a system known as the ‘Single Justice Procedure’ where one magistrate decides the outcome of a case based solely on evidence supplied by police.
This means that anyone accused of breaching lockdown restrictions could be found guilty and notified by letter without even getting a court hearing.
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UK: London Bridge Terrorist Shot at 20 Times After Stabbing Attack
Usman Khan laid on the floor for ten minutes after being shot before sitting up, declaring “no, Allah hu Akbar!” and being shot several more times until the terrorist stopped moving, an inquest has heard.
The jury of the inquest into Khan’s death heard on Tuesday how the events surrounding the Islamist’s death had unfolded.
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UK: Shock Video: Machete-Wielding Men Battle in London Park
Police are searching for suspects after a mob of males wielding large blades battled in a busy park in London, according to reports.
One man was pursued through a crowd in Hyde Park at around 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
Both the wounded man and his assailants appeared to be armed with weapons resembling machetes and rods.
Witnesses described the weapons as “swords” and “machetes,” according to the Daily Mail.
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Keir Starmer has said that Labour must be “patriotic and proud about it”, months after leftists in the party disavowed a similar proposal as “Fatherland-ism”.
Mr Starmer, who took over as party leader from socialist Jeremy Corbyn in April 2020, told former Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan that he would take the advice of globalist-centrist former party leader Tony Blair, who had said that Labour needs a “total deconstruction and reconstruction”.
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Bibi Finally Out as “Change Coalition” Moves Fast on Knesset Approval
It’s official: just before midnight local time Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid party notified President Reuven Rivlin that he’s successfully formed a power-sharing government, which means the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is out.
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Health Ministry: COVID Vaccine Linked to Heart Muscle Inflammation
As Israel prepares mass vaccination of teenagers, Health Ministry report finds vaccine likely the cause of hundreds of cases of myocarditis.
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Iran’s Largest Warship Mysteriously Catches Fire and Sinks in Gulf of Oman
Just as negotiators were preparing to meet in Vienna on Wednesday to wrap up the latest round of talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, Iran’s largest warship caught fire Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman and sank under unclear circumstances.
The Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported that efforts to save the support warship, named Kharg (after the island where Iran’s main oil terminal sits), were a failure. The fire started around 0225 local time roughly 1,270 kilometers (790 miles) southeast of Tehran in the Gulf of Oman, not far from the Strait of Hormuz, where several Saudi oil tankers have been attacked in recent years (the US Navy accused the Iranians of using limpet mines to carry out these attacks).
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China’s Belt and Road Being Built With Forced Labor
“The entire Belt and Road initiative is based on forced labor,” according to Li Qiang, director of China Labor Watch. “Chinese authorities want the Belt and Road projects for political gain and need to use these workers.”
A new report, “Silent Victims of Labor Trafficking: China’s Belt and Road workers stranded overseas amid Covid-19 pandemic” by China Labor Watch, published on April 30, details the conditions of some of those overseas Chinese workers, who are building China’s Belt and Road infrastructure projects across the world. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forms a crucial part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) foreign policy and is a key tool in China’s ambition to become a global superpower.
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Chinese Blogger Qiu Ziming Arrested for Questioning Official Death Toll in China-India Conflict
38-year-old Chinese blogger Qiu Ziming was sentenced to eight months in prison for contradicting the government’s narrative of the death toll of last year’s clash with India. China had long denied casualties during the clash, only admitting to four casualties in February (eight months after the clash).
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Chinese Games Start Restricting Social Features Ahead of Tiananmen Square Anniversary
With the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre just a few days away, Chinese games and servers for Chinese players are starting to lock down in-game chats, account signatures, and other social features — a move that prevents players from referencing the events of Tiananmen Square where thousands of pro-democracy protestors were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Genshin Impact, a popular online open-world game which is published by the Chinese video game developer miHoYo and has an estimated 40 million players worldwide, recently removed the ability to change account signatures and nicknames.
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Dr Fauci’s emails have been released via a Freedom of Information Act request, and there is some pretty interesting stuff in them, particularly one email where a researcher who funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology thanks Fauci for publicly dismissing the lab leak theory early on during the pandemic.
The email from Dr. Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance, a group that has extensive ties to the Wuhan lab gain of function research, sent the email to Fauci on April 18, 2020, roughly six weeks after the outbreak had taken hold.
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Hong Kong Prepares 3,000 Policemen to Prevent Tiananmen Vigils, Shuts Museum
Beijing, Jun 2 (EFE).— Hong Kong Police plan to have 3,000 anti-riot officers on duty to prevent illegal gatherings Thursday in memory of the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, according to Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post.
The newspaper said Wednesday it will be the largest preventive deployment of agents so far this year.
Among the places that will have the greatest surveillance will be Victoria Park (traditional place of congregation for the Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong) and the surroundings of the Museum of the 4th of June, which temporarily closed three days after its reopening.
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In Australia, Google Makes Deal to Pay Mainstream News Outlets
Australian media company Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited has signed multi-year content-supply deals with Facebook and Google, leveraging the new federal government’s media bargaining code to increase profits.
Nine Entertainment, owner of the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Age newspapers, as well as free-to-air TV channel Nine Network and Nine Radio, announced that it signed deals to supply content to Google’s News Showcase platform for five years, and a similar Facebook platform for three years.
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Twitter Censors Nigeria’s President
On Wednesday, Twitter removed a post by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened punishment on a separatist group blamed for recent attacks on police stations and electoral offices in the Biafra region. Twitter claimed the tweet violated its policy on “abusive behavior.”
It’s worth noting that Buhari’s government has in the past also been accused of censorship.
In the tweet, Buhari referenced the 1967-1970 civil war in the nation’s southeastern Biafra region, which killed about one million people. He served in the army at the time, claiming that those now misbehaving in Biafra are too young to recall the death and destruction the previous civil war caused.
“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” he warned in the tweet.
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Austria Busts Romanian Migrant Sex Trafficking Ring That Lured at Least 20 Women
Austrian police have arrested three Romanian nationals after busting a sex trafficking gang that allegedly lured at least 20 women, mainly from Moldova, to Austria and forced them into prostitution.
Police arrested two men aged 31 and 32 and a 37-year-old woman from Romania for operating a human sex trafficking ring in Vienna and Tyrol. Most of the victims came from neighbouring non-EU nation Moldova. Police also are searching for three other Romanian nationals in connection to the case.
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Breaking: Trump Slams Biden for Border Disaster in Blistering New Statement
Former President Trump released a statement on Wednesday slamming President Biden’s handling of the US-Mexico border, which under his watch since taking office in January, has become a humanitarian disaster.
Trump took aim at Biden’s reversal of the “remain in Mexico” policy, which was put together by Trump. In essence, it required those seeking asylum in the US to wait in Mexico until their case was ready to be heard. Biden has offered a reversal of that.
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Britain is braced for a summer of migrant chaos after more than 1,600 arrived across the Channel in the past month — more than double last year’s total for May — and 500 were brought in over the final four days of last month alone.
This is despite Priti Patel’s announcement of an immigration crackdown in March, and following an agreement with the French authorities to crack down and effectively stop migrant crossings by last spring.
But the Home Secretary’s vow lies in tatters this summer as Home Office sources blame the French for not doing enough to stop the crossings and intercept boats before they even set sail, despite being handed a £28million fund of UK taxpayers’ money to do so.
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France: Leftist Activists Organise 300-Migrant Occupation of Paris Park
A pro-migrant group called the Réquisitions collective organised a large occupation of a Paris park involving around 300 migrants who demanded the French government give them housing.
The occupation of the Villemin garden, located in the 10th district of Paris, began on Sunday and continued into Tuesday, with migrants sleeping in small groups in sleeping bags in various parts of the park.
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Swedish Police Chief Links Migration to Surge in Fatal Shootings
Police Commissioner Erik Nord has acknowledged that mass migration is linked to the surge in fatal shootings in Sweden after a report noted Sweden was the only European country seeing a rising trend of fatal gun violence.
Commissioner Nord, who heads the police in the Greater Gothenburg region, commented on the recent report from the Crime Prevention Council (Brå), saying that the trend was linked to gang violence and migrants.
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“We have seen in recent years that public attestations of being a racist have become more common among academics.” – Things may lay deeper. The US can appreciate the enormous progress China has made. And how it started – by the Cultural Revolution, where the teachers had to kneel before the Hunweibin and repent for being… well for everything. Maybe US wants to repeat the same, so that the big leap forward comes to the Land of the Free as well.
But – except for public penitence, those guys in the Cultural Revolution had to go to the “reeducation camps”, to toil on the field, to collect cow dung by hand etc – a lot of other than “quality time”.
So, to believe the likes of Spada, Mullin, and others academics mentioned in the article, I would like to see them not only announcing “I am a racist” but also going to the reeducation brigades…