A man who had just received his COVID “vaccination” in Lynn, Massachusetts was driving his pickup truck home afterwards when he suddenly felt faint and passed out. While he was unconscious his vehicle ran into an SUV and a boat trailer being pulled by another truck. Two men narrowly escaped being pinned between the pickup and the trailer. Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident.
In other news, Greek police are planning to use drones to catch revelers holding illegal lockdown-violating parties on private estates on the island of Mykonos.
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A New York parent brought the heat to members of the Carmel Central School District board for ‘emotionally abusing’ children by ‘indoctrinating them with communist values.’
In comments at a school board business meeting in Putnam County, NY on Thursday, parent Tatiyana Ibrahim — whose child is a student, slammed the educators for promoting Critical Race Theory (CRT), Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and anti-police ideologies both on and off campus.
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Billboards Protest Woke Indoctrination Outside Elite NYC Schools
Last week, stories about critical race theory surfaced from both ends. Minnesota’s teacher of the year went on a podcast and swore by critical race theory as being the way forward, yet all the meanwhile a TikTok influencer and his daughter went viral standing up against critical race theory.
This week the woke indoctrination war continues heating up.
As reported via the New York Post, a group called Prep School Accountability spent $10,000 to station mobile billboard trucks outside six different elite private schools in the Manhattan area. Those included were the Brearley School, Trinity School, the Dalton School, and Spence School.
Dalton School is in hot water last week for teaching sex-ed classes to first graders.
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Brawl Breaks Out Between Antifa and Conservatives at Ashli Babbitt Memorial in California (Video)
A brawl broke out at between Antifa and conservatives at a memorial for Ashli Babbitt in Sacramento, California on Saturday.
Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed veteran, was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer on January 6.
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The family of a little girl who was slain in Atlanta a year ago is suing the city. Secoriea Turner was only 8-years-old was shot in a Wendy’s parking lot while armed vigilantes joined with protestors after Rayshard Brooks’ death.
The complaint filed by the Turner family in Fulton County State Court said that it was the many failures of elected leaders, “including that they were negligent in their duties by failing to remove armed vigilantes who had gathered alongside peaceful protestors at the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed.”
Named in the complaint are Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as well as Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant, City Councilmember Joyce Sheperd and Wendy’s International. The family is being represented by The Cochran Firm, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After Turner’s shooting in July, Bottoms said that “enough is enough,” and demanded that the protestors vacate the parking lot. Bottoms declared that protestors would no longer be permitted at the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed in June.
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Driver Passes Out After Getting COVID Shot, Narrowly Misses Hitting 2 People
The pickup hit a parked SUV and then smashed into a boat on a trailer attached to a truck in front of Top Shop Automotive and Marine in Lynn
The video is startling. Two men barely escaping as a pickup smashes into a boat on a trailer attached to a truck in front of Top Shop Automotive and Marine on Eastern Avenue in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Monday.
One of them is the owner, Ken Brassard, who said he’s never moved faster in his life. The truck first hits an SUV parked maybe 30 feet away. That may have saved Brassard’s life. He said it sounded like an explosion.
“When I heard the explosion from behind me I turned around,” he said. “That’s when he was just clearing the white car, and I jumped out of the way as quickly as I could and the customer was running as fast as he could.”
The whole thing was captured on surveillance video. In slow motion, you can see how narrowly the two men escaped disaster.
The truck was still running after the crash, with the driver unconscious behind the wheel.
Several people, including a UPS driver who had stopped nearby, were able to smash the window with a hammer and get the keys. At that point, the driver woke up and got out.
The driver was dazed but not hurt and said he was headed home from getting his COVID vaccination and thinks that’s what caused him to pass out.
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It was last Friday that Project Veritas shared an internal meeting hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and executive Heidi Swartz. The topic itself being leadership’s response to recent leaks from Project Veritas about Facebook’s internal effort to censor vaccine-related content.
Swartz serves as Facebook’s VP Deputy General Counsel for Employment Law and Investigations. She responded to the release by asserting the intent of the leaker was because he didn’t like the direction the company chose to go in. Swartz says personal information about employees and “org charts” were released as well.
Zuckerberg publicly boasted about finding the source of the leak in this case, being Facebook whistleblower Morgan Kahmann, and firing the young father.
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Furious boxing fans have accused Floyd Mayweather of throwing his fight with Logan Paul after footage of the legendary boxer appearing to hold up his opponent — rather than letting him slump to the canvas — emerged.
Mayweather, who could pocket $100m from the bout depending on TV revenues, dominated the contest at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami but was surprisingly unable to stop Paul, with the rookie surviving the full eight rounds of their exhibition bout.
But fight fans — who paid up £17 each to watch the fight in the UK and about $50 to watch in the US — have now hit out at Mayweather. They claim the undefeated 44-year-old deliberately stopped Paul from collapsing in order to extend the fight — despite landing a flurry of punches which looked to have ended the YouTuber’s challenge.
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The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively this past year on the effects of hydroxychloroquine in treating the COVID-19 virus.
We knew that the Dr. Tony Fauci and the medical elites conspired to ban the use of this very successful drug.
We reported earlier on how Dr. Fauci used bogus studies to disqualify HCQ in treating coronavirus.
Now this… There is proof that Dr. Fauci and top US medical experts all conspired using obviously false information to disqualify hydroxychloroquine and MILLIONS DIED as a result of their action.
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Judge Orders Lightfoot to Clarify Policy That Only Granted Interviews to Journalists of Color
A judge told lawyers for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, D., Monday to provide a declaration by the end of the week as to whether her policy of only granting interviews to journalists of color was still in effect or would be in the future.
Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch asked the court for an injunction against Lightfoot’s policy last week, saying it was unconstitutional, but Lightfoot’s attorneys said at a remote hearing Monday that the policy was not in effect and the request was unnecessary, according to reports.
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Lightfoot on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation last month, alleging Lightfoot violated White reporter Thomas Catenacci’s equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when she didn’t respond to multiple requests for interviews, as well as his First Amendment rights.
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Mattie Parker is Next Fort Worth Mayor in Win for GOP
FORT WORTH, Texas — Mattie Parker declared victory Saturday as the next mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, keeping it one of America’s biggest cities with a GOP mayor.
The 37-year-old Parker was in a runoff with Deborah Peoples, a former Democratic county chairwoman who would have been the city’s first Black mayor. Peoples conceded defeat as Parker had more than 53% of the vote with ballots still being counted.
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Minneapolis Sees More Protests After Man Killed by Deputies
MINNEAPOLIS — Protesters took to the streets for a fourth consecutive night in Minneapolis over the shooting death of a Black man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force.
Crowds marched Sunday evening in response to Thursday’s fatal shooting of 32-year-old Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood. Officers stood watch during the demonstrations.
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NYPD Hunting for Gunman Who Killed Boy, 10, Over Weekend of Citywide Violence, Protests
The New York City police department responded to 16 shootings over the weekend that wounded to 19 victims citywide, including a 10-year-old boy who died from his injuries, officials said, as officers were also out in droves to enforce a newly instituted curfew at one of Manhattan’s popular parks.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) reported 19 people were wounded in 16 shootings from Friday through Sunday. Four people were killed, including a sixth grader who was gunned down in Queens on Saturday, just days before his birthday, according to officials and reports.
Justin Wallace, 10, was shot once in the torso shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Sunday in the driveway of his aunt’s Far Rockaway home, according to police and the New York Post.
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It’s still hard to believe that as one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, killing thousands of good American jobs in the process.
Just think of all the American families whose lives came to a halt instantly, wondering how they would pay for their homes, cars and education for their children.
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Pipeline Protesters Seize Minnesota Construction Site in Bid to Stop $4 Billion Project
MAHNOMEN, Minn. — The young climate activists met at the windmill shortly after sunrise. There were several missions underway on Monday morning but “marmalade” and “peanut butter” were particularly high risk. Protesters using those code names planned to descend on an undisclosed location along a pipeline route known as Line 3. They were ready for arrests.
Dozens of cars were soon caravanning down dusty dirt roads amid corn and soybean fields in the largest salvo yet in an ongoing civil disobedience campaign to try to stop a border-crossing oil pipeline running from Canada across the wetlands and forests of northern Minnesota.
By midmorning, hundreds of protesters, led by Native American women and joined by celebrities such as Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, had marched into a construction site operated by Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the pipeline, and strapped themselves to bulldozers and other heavy machinery.
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Poll: Majority of Americans No Longer Trust Mainstream Media, Ad Revenues Plummet
For the first time in the history of the modern world, a poll is showing a majority of Americans no longer trust the mainstream legacy media.
Apparently, much of the rest of the world finds itself in similar circumstances, as people everywhere have lost trust in the traditional media institutions that have informed and shaped societies for decades.
Traditional leagcy media has been suffering lately, losing ratings, and, consequently, losing advertiser dollars, which have been massively shifting to entities such as Facebook and Google. Fox News has been showing strongly, as people migrate away more and more from mainstream media.
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News released about a Chinese defector who had been protected from FBI leadership indicates there was a split at the FBI between the leadership and the agents.
We reported late last week that a Chinese defector confirmed that COVID-19 was man-made in a laboratory. This led to the Obama/Biden administration changing its narrative about the origin of the China coronavirus.
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Republicans Celebrate Mayoral Win in Majority-Hispanic McAllen, Texas
Republicans celebrated Javier Villalobos’ narrow win in the mayor’s race in McAllen, Texas, on Saturday even though the race is technically nonpartisan.
“Javier Villalobos is a proven leader who cares deeply about the people of the Rio Grande Valley. Congratulations on becoming the next Mayor of McAllen!” Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on Facebook.
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Romanian Tycoon Hired Hunter Biden, Ex-FBI Chief to Help Him Avoid Jail: Emails
Hunter Biden and his colleagues at a high-powered law firm tried to leverage their government connections in the final months of the Obama administration in a failed bid to help a Romanian real estate tycoon avoid a conviction on bribery charges.
Emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the younger Biden — then working as a counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP — reached out to former FBI Director Louis Freeh in June 2016 about the case of Gabriel Popoviciu, who was accused of acquiring land to build a Bucharest mall at a below-market price, the Daily Mail reported.
In a June 18, 2016, email, Hunter Biden told Freeh — then a partner at the Delaware-based law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan — that he believed Popoviciu was “a good man that’s being very badly treated by a suspect Romanian justice system … Time is of the essence and my client has never balked at bringing whatever team it takes together at whatever cost to obtain justice.”
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Ross Declares Victory in Runoff Election for Arlington Mayor
Businessman Jim Ross declared victory Saturday night in the runoff election to replace term-limited Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams.
In the May 1 general election, Ross received 47% of the vote and Glaspie received 21% of the vote. A candidate needed to reach 50% to win the election outright.
Ross, a lawyer and former Arlington police officer, received an endorsement from Williams, as well as former mayor Richard Greene, the Arlington Police Association and three other police unions. He previously served on the board of the Arlington Police Foundation but has not served in public office.
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Soros backed Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone begged the Arizona Senate to end their audit of the 2020 Election in Maricopa County. Now it looks like he will soon be charged with contempt in a different case where he has delayed providing data to the court.
We’ve recently reported on the Sheriff of Maricopa County who was backed by George Soros in the 2016 election. Sheriff Paul Penzone was with the Maricopa Board of Supervisors when they begged the Arizona Senate to stop the audit they were in the process of executing in the County.
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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to All-Male Military Draft
The Supreme Court on Monday said it won’t hear an appeal challenging the all-male military draft requirement.
The National Coalition for Men challenged the male-only military draft arguing it discriminates against men.
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday morning to discuss Facebook’s roll in suppressing the true information that did not coincide with what Dr. Fauci was telling the public.
We now know that Fauci was misleading the public for over a year on the coronavirus, where it came from and how to treat it. Millions died following Fauci’s dishonest and misleading reports and advice.
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Twitter Mocks Kamala Harris for Passing Out Cookies of Her Faceless Head to Reporters
Let them eat cookies.
Users on Twitter roasted Vice President Harris for passing out cookies made in her likeness to reporters on a plane while traveling to meet with the president of Guatemala.
The vice president traveled to the Central American country on Sunday to meet with the Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei in her first trip after being appointed by President Biden to lead diplomatic efforts in the region amid the border crisis.
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Twitter Bans Florida’s Fake Whistleblower Rebekah Jones for Spam and ‘Platform Manipulation’
On Monday, Twitter suspended the account of Rebekah Jones, the Florida “whistleblower” who repeatedly claimed that the Florida Department of Health pressured her to manipulate data to polish the appearance of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ COVID-19 response.
Jones, a dashboard manager who presented herself as a “data scientist,” claimed that Florida’s COVID numbers were worse than presented. As detailed by Charles C.W. Cooke for the New York Post, Jones is a “fake whistleblower who peddled lies about Florida’s COVID deaths.”
Jones, who is currently facing criminal charges for illegally accessing a state database, was banned on Twitter for platform manipulation and spam—the platform’s way of saying that she bought fake followers and used bots to promote herself. According to observers on social media, Jones posted dozens of links in replies over a span of several minutes.
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Two New Hampshire Cops Suspended Over TikTok Videos Mocking Critics of Police
Two officers in Bedford, New Hampshire, have been suspended over TikTok videos. At least one of the videos was made in response to criticism of the police due to shootings at traffic stops.
The investigations into the “inappropriate” TikTok videos by the officers began in April. The verdict was announced on Saturday by the Bedford Police Chief John Bryfonski. One of the officers was placed on an unpaid eight-day suspension, while the other was placed on an unpaid suspension for 22 working days. Additionally, both officers will have to satisfactorily complete training on implicit bias, cultural awareness, and diversity.
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Virginia Sheriff Chip Shuler Leaves Dem Party Over ‘Relentless Attack on Law Enforcement’
An elected Virginia sheriff is quitting the Democratic Party, citing its “relentless attack on law enforcement.”
Smyth County Sheriff Chip Shuler, who has been twice elected as a Democrat, said he filed Monday to join the GOP — which unanimously accepted his application, according to WJHL-TV.
“I am changing to the Republican Party because of the relentless attack on law enforcement by Democrats in Richmond and Washington,” Shuler said in a press release.
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Watch: Trump Responds to Social Media Ban: ‘Crazy People Don’t Want to Hear a Sane Voice’
Donald Trump talked about his being barred from many major social media platforms while being interviewed on Fox Business on Sunday morning, and he made it clear just how biased Big Tech can be.
Pointing out how Big Tech is trying to silence his voice and “should be stopped”, Trump ripped into Big Tech’s failure (or perhaps willful negligence) in doing anything about voices actually inciting violence on their platforms:
“You know, they allow dictators to say ‘Death to America’, that’s OK … ‘Death to Israel’, that’s OK.”
“But with me, they take me off, because they are radical-left crazy people, and they’re destroying our country, and they don’t wanna hear a sane voice.”
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Watch: Anti-Woke Rapper Tom McDonald Goes Mega-Viral With Video Featuring Blaire White
You’ve seen Blaire White write for The Post Millennial. But now you can see her dancing and singing alongside Tom MacDonald in his newest song “Snowflakes.”
The music video embedded here below is at number four in YouTube’s trending for music. Over 3.5 million views in the last three days alone. What’s so special about this song? Why is it appealing to the public right now in the current year 2021?
As of today, “Snowflakes” by Tom MacDonald is at the top of the iTunes charts for all genres. It’ll make better sense why once you hear the lyrics.
[Comment: Rap music is not my genre. The music video has a right-wing message.]
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Watch: Ron DeSantis Gets Standing Ovation at Rock Festival as He Slams Fauci, Celebrates Freedom
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attended the Gulf Coast Jam on the music festival’s last day. He was greeted with applause and cheers from the Panama City crowd.
DeSantis tweeted about the festival, saying that it was “the largest music festival since the pandemic began.” It was the first big outdoor music festival since the beginning of the pandemic.
Once on stage, DeSantis slammed Fauci, lockdowns, and said that Florida’s approach to the pandemic was the one that wins.
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Watch: Chicago Police Investigating Viral Video of Women Twerking on Police SUV Cruiser
Meanwhile in Chicago…
Police are investigating a viral video of women twerking on a police SUV cruiser
It is unclear where or when the video was taken.
Three women were on top of a police cruiser twerking while onlookers cheered and took cell phone video.
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Winston Smith Shooting: Marchers Take to the Street for 4th Night in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) — For the fourth night in a row, marchers took to the streets of Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood as protesters rally against the shooting of Winston Smith by law enforcement.
Rallygoers gathered along Lake Street near Girard Avenue, near the parking ramp where Smith was killed, as part of a protest at 7 p.m.
The group moved down Lake Street and around the block before being moved back onto the sidewalk by a brigade of Minneapolis police officers. The march then turned into a temproraily standoff with protesters on the sidewalk while police kept the street clear for traffic on Lake.
Around 10:15 p.m., the protest group went back on the move to march down side streets in the neighborhood.
Sunday’s rally followed a mostly peaceful night on Saturday after two straight nights of arrests on Thursday and Friday…
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The snowflakes at Worldcon are having a very bad weekend. On Friday, the San Francisco chapter of Worldcon settled a lawsuit and agreed to pay restitution and to issue a public apology for banning conservative author Jon Del Arroz from their convention in 2018 and for besmirching him as a “racist.” Del Arroz is the most dangerous Hispanic voice in science fiction because he refuses to back down in the face of political bullies. He has also written an amazing series, The Saga of the Nano Templar, that my teen daughter is reading for the second time—that’s how good it is and I don’t have to worry about garbage culture or leftist politics sullying her mind. The Adventures of Baron Von Monacle, a steampunk series, is also highly entertaining. (Always support freedom-loving artists!)
At the time of the banning, Del Arroz was under serious mob attack from social justice warriors trying to drive him out of the sci-fi community. SJWs even sent a spring-loaded exploding can of penis-shaped glitter to his home, which scared his wife and children. The ban resulted when Del Arroz asked Worldcon for security measures because he feared for his safety due to the mob-like attacks on him and his family from the industry insiders. Instead of helping him, Worldcon banned him and made public statements claiming the author was a “racist” and a “bully,” with no substantiated evidence to back those statements up.
[Comment: Worldcon is the World Science Fiction Convention.]
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Additional Charges Laid Following Old Colony Mennonite Church Gatherings
CHATHAM-KENT, ONT. — More charges have been laid for the Old Colony Mennonite Church’s in Wheatley and Charing Cross.
Chatham-Kent Police reported to the location on Wheatley Road where they witnessed 128 vehicles in the parking lot. Officials say no one inside the church was wearing a mask.
A 51-year-old Merlin man was charged under the Reopening Ontario Act. He is required to attend Provincial Offences Court on June 23, 2021.
Police also attended the church on Cundle Line in Charing Cross.
Officers observed 40 vehicles in the parking lot
More than 100 people left the church with no one wearing masks.
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Protesters Persist as Province Readies to Launch Step One
As the provincial government gets set to begin its three-step reopening process, protesters continue to gather illegally at Bellevue Park and protest the lockdown.
City police responded to an illegal gathering at the city’s premier greenspace on June 5 to ensure it remained peaceful.
They were also investigating the gathering.
Police say the investigation identified one person as having organized the illegal gathering.
One person from Spring Water Township, Ontario was charged under the Reopening Ontario Act for organizing the gathering.
It’s the organizer’s fifth charge under the act. The illegal gatherings have been ongoing weekly since April 30.
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Austria: Young People in Vienna Attack Police Officers, Goaded by Left-Wing Extremists
The Austrian capital Vienna experienced a dramatic night on Saturday. Crowds of young people with ample supplies of alcohol gathered in the city center at Karlsplatz and refused to heed police orders to leave the area for violating the curfew. Moments later, they then attacked the police by throwing stones, bottles, petards at them, the Krone.at daily reported.
Eight police officers were injured, and four people were detained.
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England Cricketer Gets International Ban for Edgy Tweets He Posted When He Was a Teenager
England cricketer Ollie Robinson has now been suspended from all international matches over some edgy tweets he posted when he was a teenager in yet another foul example of cancel culture.
“England and Sussex bowler Ollie Robinson has been suspended from all international cricket pending the outcome of a disciplinary investigation following historical tweets he posted in 2012 and 2013,” reports Sky News.
The tweets originally posted by Robinson nearly a decade ago when he was 18 can be viewed below. They’re a mixture of offensive words and lads’ banter. Such rhetoric was commonplace on the platform before the world went mad from around 2015 onwards.
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Exposé: Communist China’s Propaganda Infiltration of Italian Media Revealed
Since becoming the first country of the G7 nations to sign onto China’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2019, Italy has seen the communist nation infiltrate its mainstream media, including Italy’s news wire service, a national business newspaper, and a tabloid owned by the family of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
“Wherever the readers are, wherever the viewers are, that is where propaganda reports must extend their tentacles.” — Xi Jinping, February 2016
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Fans Boo But England ‘Determined to Take the Knee’ Throughout Euro Championship
England’s national football (soccer) team remains “totally united” on kneeling for Black Lives Matter going into the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, but are being met with boos by fans.
The players, manager Gareth Southgate, and others employed by the team bent the knee to the politically-charged race movement, as has been their custom ever since the death of George Floyd an ocean away in Minneapolis, ahead of a friendly match against Romania in Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium on Sunday — and were met with a chorus of boos.
The England players were joined on their knees by most of the Romanian team, although two players, named as Ionut Nedelcearu and Nicolae Stanciu by The Sun, defied peer pressure and chose to remain on their feet.
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Germany: AfD in Saxony-Anhalt Ends Up Behind CDU in Regional Elections
Germany’s center-left Christian Democratic Union (CDU) handily won Sunday’s regional elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, receiving 37.1 percent of the vote. In second came Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was considered a possible main challenger to the CDU, receiving 20.8 percent of the vote.
The post-communist Left Party, the Social Democrats (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Greens also entered the state parliament (Landtag). According to interim results, turnout has so far been 57.4 percent while in 2016 it was 61.1 percent.
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Greece Deploys Drones to Stop Partygoers From Breaching COVID Rules
ATHENS — Authorities on Greece’s most popular tourist island, Mykonos, will deploy more than a dozen drones to spot those who defy safety protocols aimed at preventing the spread and resurgence of COVID-19.
The decision, known as “Operation Mykonos,” comes after a string of local so-called “Corona-parties” organized by entrepreneurs at private villas and estates in recent weeks to bypass safety rules banning the operation of nightclubs.
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Hungarian Opposition Protests Against Chinese University Plans, Government Promises Referendum
Supporters of Budapest’s liberal mayor Gergely Karacsony and Hungarian left-wing opposition parties have taken to the streets of the Hungarian capital on Saturday, protesting against the planned Fudan University campus.
As Remix News reported earlier, the Hungarian and Chinese government have signed a joint memorandum about their intention to build a large campus for the Fudan University in Budapest’s 9th district. The plans have garnered criticism from student and opposition groups quoting China’s human rights records as well as concerns that the project would come about at the expense of a student city for Hungarian universities that was planned for the same site.
Although the Hungarian government had repeatedly reaffirmed their intention to continue with their original plans for the student city, opposition parties have seized upon the issue to mobilize their student base against the government of Viktor Orban. Saturday’s demonstration was also organized by a student movement calling for a stop to a cooperation with the Chinese government, citing fears that the university could be a Trojan Horse for Chinese influence in the country. Over 20,000 people have signaled via social media channels that they would attend the demonstration, yet estimates of the real attendance vary wildly, some quoting half that number.
[Comment: Why in the world does Viktor Orban want the ChiComs in his country?]
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Hungarian MEP: EU Wants to Turn European Parliament Into ‘Political Police’
Once again, liberal MEPs are threatening legal action against the European Commission in order to punish conservative governments, Fidesz MEP Tamas Deutsch told daily Magyar Hirlap, adding that the left wants to make the European Parliament a “political police”.
A group of MEPs want to take legal action against the European Commission (EC) for failing to enforce the so-called rule-of-law mechanism against Hungary and Poland, which also involves the withdrawal of EU funds, according to a draft resolution that came into the possession of Politico.
The Brussels paper recalled that in an earlier document, MEPs had set June 1 as the deadline, but the European Commission is awaiting a ruling by the European Court of Justice, in line with a decision by member state leaders last December. MEPs who support the current proposal say they should move forward.
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UK: Cricketing Authorities Considering Exposing Another Player for Tweets He Posted When He Was 15
Following the international suspension of cricketer Ollie Robinson for tweets he posted when he was 18, the ECB is now considering whether to expose the identity of another player for posting “offensive” tweets when he was 15.
Yes, really.
As we previously highlighted, Robinson was “made an example of” by cricketing authorities after his teenage tweets, which largely consisted of a few “racist” words and some lads’ banter, were uncovered by offense archeologists.
Now another cricketer could be about to face cancellation.
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UK: Dating Apps Allow Users to Reject the Unvaccinated
Dating apps in the UK have made it easier for users to reject those who haven’t taken the COVID-19 vaccination.
You’re meeting people off a dating app, it’s a virtual meat market.
You should be worried about infection, but not COVID.
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UK: More Than 2,500 COVID Fines Issued by West Mercia Police
WEST Mercia Police has issued more than 2,500 fines for breaches of Covid-19-related laws — but far fewer have been handed out since restrictions eased.
Human rights campaign groups say rapidly changing rules and “chaotic communications” have led to confusion over the fine system nationally, with some people unaware they were breaking the law.
Figures published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council reveal a total of 2,666 fixed penalty notices were issued by West Mercia Police between March 27 last year and May 16 this year.
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UK: Youth Caught With His Mum’s 1980s Booze, Including Malibu, At Illegal Gathering
A youth admitted to raiding his mum’s alcohol cupboard after he was caught with bottles of booze from the 1980s — and she had given her permission.
Officers visited well-known antisocial behaviour hotspots and found groups of teenagers with bottles of cheap alcohol, including one lad who had “mum’s Malibu”, shockingly with her permission, he told police.
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Malaysian Police Use Heat Drones to Check Temperatures From Above
Malaysian police are using drones which can check temperatures from as high as 20 meters above ground in the latest example of coronavirus population control.
The drones alert authorities if someone has a high temperature reading by emitting a red light, according to Bernama, Malaysia’s state news agency.
“Malaysian police have previously warned they will use drones to enforce earlier travel restrictions, with officers in some areas also stating they would carry out surprise home visits to ensure people were following rules,” reports the Guardian.
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China’s COVID Cover-Up Going on to This Day, Who Adviser Claims
The Chinese government is carrying out a “massive cover-up” of the true origins of the coronavirus and is the biggest obstacle to getting to the bottom of the pandemic, a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory board member said Monday.
“The problem that we face here isn’t the WHO. It’s not even really Dr. [Anthony] Fauci,” Jaime Metzl told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom”. “The problem is the Chinese have engaged in a massive cover-up that is going on until today involving destroying samples, hiding records, placing a universal gag order on Chinese scientists and imprisoning Chinese citizen journalists asking the most basic questions. That’s what we need to get around.”
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The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak
The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus.
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Guatemala’s Prez Blames Biden for Border Crisis as Protesters Tell Kamala Harris ‘Trump Won’
Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted Monday by protesters in Guatemala telling her “Trump won” and “go home” — as the country’s president blamed President Biden for this year’s migrant crisis.
The rally was visible to Harris’ motorcade as she arrived to meet with Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei one day after he blamed the US for luring his constituents north.
“Kamala, Trump won,” read a large sign near the Central American country’s presidential palace.
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Migration Law Changes in Greece — Pakistanis, Somalis & Others Not Able to Apply for Asylum
Greece’s decision to designate Turkey as a safe third country for asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia means radical changes in the management of migratory flows.
Taking into account the recent report by the Asylum Service, Greek authorities have deemed that Turkey meets all the conditions to be considered a safe country.
This is perhaps the most important legal change in migration laws for many years in Greece as it practically means that Turkey should undertake the process of applicants originating in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia.
This is because Greece considers these people not endangered in Turkey for their race, religion, citizenship or political beliefs.
The Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis, stated that “the designation of Turkey as a safe third country is an important step in tackling illegal immigration flows and the criminal activity of smuggling networks.”
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Supreme Court Rules Migrants Who Enter Country Illegally Have No Right to Green Cards
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) — The US Supreme Court has ruled the government can block non-citizens who are in the country under a program that temporarily protects them from deportation in certain situations from applying for a green card if they entered the country unlawfully.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court.
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Watch: Kamala Harris Speaks in Guatemala, Tells Migrants Not to Come to America
It was towards the end of March when President Joe Biden put Vice President Harris in charge of migration. Harris was an outspoken politician that at the onset of the Trump presidency opposed his administration’s policy decisions surrounding the stopping of migration with a “big and beautiful” border wall.
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Hi Baron ,
Do you perhaps have some more conspiracy theories ? I have a problem , namely that I have run out of all the ones I had……….. because they all came true.
Thanks again for GoV.
Greets from Netherlands.
Greece Deploys Drones to Stop Partygoers From Breaching COVID Rules-Shameful effort by the Greek Police-Such duplicity being used to support such disgraceful undemocratic action. Europe and The UK are moving swiftly towards a controling subjugating environment that no free man or woman would want to live within-the platform for such action is Covid19 and it is being used to further implement the rules of the few elite with their plan to have a New World Order and its well on its way.
We are seeing Behavioural scientists and behavioual psychologists now appear to have more political power in the UK than its Government. A member of the Communist party it is claimed sits on the SAGE advisory board.