Italian politicians will be required to show a vaccine passport in order to enter the parliament building. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is considering mandating proof of vaccination for all airline passengers.
In other news, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a series of explosions in the Afghan city of Jalalabad that killed three people and wounded dozens more.
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BLM Protest Planned at New York Restaurant Where Brawl Over Vaccination Proof Occurred
A Black Lives Matter protest is reportedly set to take place on Monday outside the Italian restaurant Carmine’s in New York City, where a physical dispute erupted on Thursday over COVID vaccination proof cards.
Hawk Newsome, co-founder and chairman of BLM Greater New York, told The New York Times on Saturday that the group will protest against the treatment of Black patrons. The plan to protest comes after new details reportedly reveal that the restaurant hostess said a racial slur to a group of five Black women trying to enter.
“Restaurants are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and excluding Black patrons,” Newsome said.
On Thursday, a group of five Texas women physically assaulted the restaurant hostess after she said that their vaccination proof cards were fake, but an attorney for one of the women, Kaeita Nkeenge Rankin, described the fight as a “mutual combat.”
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Claremont Institute and J.D. Vance File Amicus Brief in Ohio vs Google Antitrust Lawsuit
The Republican Party’s Senate candidate JD Vance, State Rep. Douglas Swearingen, and the Claremont Institute have filed an amicus brief in the State Ohio vs. Google lawsuit, supporting the state’s accusation against the tech giant of anti-competitive practices.
The state of Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit against Google, asking the court to declare Google a public utility because of its dominance in the search market and “discriminatory and anti-competitive behavior.”
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“The Facebook Files” is an in-depth series based on leaked internal documents that expose the way social media giant Facebook views its platform and its social impact. It was released earlier this week.
Several factors are raised in The Journal’s reporting, including Instagram’s negative impact on minors, the implications of algorithmic changes on political discourse, and Facebook’s protection of influential users. Facebook’s internal research opposes its public assertions, and the company has internalized its societal ills while publicizing its positives in the report.
The Journal also highlighted that their decisions may not be as impartial as they appear on the surface and that “Facebook has asked fact-checking partners to retroactively change their findings on posts from high-profile accounts.”
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Hilo Freedom Rally Draws Hundreds: Protesters Object to Vaccine, Mask Mandates
About 250 people lined the sidewalks Saturday on Kamehameha Avenue to express dissent and opposition to vaccine and mask mandates set by the state and county government.
Groups from across the state put together a Freedom Rally that was run in conjunction with World Wide Demonstration Day, which involved 100 cities around the world.
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Man Killed, 11-Year-Old Injured in Shooting at Bronx Barbecue
Police said about 200 people were at the barbecue in Claremont Park around 11:15 p.m. when a fight broke out among some of the attendees.
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More White Voters Support Replacing Police in Minneapolis Than Black Voters: Poll
A poll conducted in Minneapolis among registered voters showed that more white voters support replacing the police department in Minneapolis than black voters.
The poll conducted from Sept. 9 through Sept. 13 found that more white voters, 51 percent, support replacing the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety, “which may include police officers and will focus on public health,” while just 42 percent of black voters support the measure.
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OpenSea Launches Mobile App, But is Limited by Apple and Google’s Oppressive Rules
There’s a lot of recent excitement about OpenSea, the marketplace for those who are interested in decentralized finance and collectibles. But, up until now they’ve had no apps available on either iPhone or Android.
OpenSea, this weekend, launched a new app for both platforms.
However, it’s not going to be the app that the developers would have ultimately wanted in a perfect world — that’s because it has to be limited for viewing digital collectibles/NFTs only, in order to comply with Apple and Google’s rules.
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School Superintendent Resigns After Parents Disagree With Critical Race Theory in Curriculum
Dr. Martin Cox resigned as superintendent of Clarkstown Central School in Rockland County, New York, following parent concerns over Critical Race Theory being used in curriculum.
In a statement, Cox cited “personal reasons” for his resignation, News 12 the Bronx reported Wednesday.
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Texas: Iranian National Heading to Prison for Illegally Exporting Military Equipment to Iran
He should have been patient. Old Joe Biden’s handlers will give the mullahs everything they want soon enough.
“Iranian National In Texas Heading To Prison For Illegally Exporting Military Equipment,” CBSDFW, September 15, 2021.
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Times Square Swarmed by Hundreds Protesting COVID Vaccine Mandate, Chanting ‘F*** Joe Biden’
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in New York City’s Times Square Saturday to protest coronavirus vaccine mandate requirements.
Protesters could be seen waving flags and signs on Saturday with many of them chanting against mandatory vaccines.
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Two of Gov. Newsom’s Children Test Positive for COVID-19
Two of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)’s four children on Thursday received positive test results for COVID-19, the governor’s office confirmed to the public Saturday.
At the time of publication, Newsom himself, who has recently survived an effort to recall him as governor of California, along with the other two of his four children and his wife, have received negative coronavirus test results.
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University Shuts Down Anti-Racism Training That Separated Students by Race
Texas Tech University has reportedly shut down an anti-racism diversity training that separated students, faculty and other participants by skin color.
“Upon reviewing materials from the ‘Deeply Rooted Conversations’ discussion series, we learned that some of the content does not align with our university values, and we have discontinued this program,” Matt Dewey, a spokesman for Texas Tech University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The racially segregated session, part of the “Deeply Rooted Conversation Series,” was first brought to light by Young America’s Foundation through a public records act request.
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Vaccine Mandate Protesters Prepare for Recall Effort Against Orange County Mayor
ORLANDO, Fla. — The deadline is approaching for Orange County employees to get vaccinated or risk termination.
Firefighters and other employees gathered Saturday in downtown Orlando to protest the mandate.
Another group gathered at Lake Eola on Sunday and threatened a recall effort against the Orange County mayor.
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Video: More ‘F***’ Joe Biden Chants Rings Out at College Football Games
For the third straight week, college football fans have been heard breaking out in chants of “F*** Joe Biden” as Biden’s presidency continues to spiral downward in the polls with a wave of crises and scandals such as the crisis on the border, unpopular forced vaccine mandates, a worsening economy, and out of control spending, not to mention the debacle in Afghanistan.
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Washington, DC Imam: ‘May Allah Allow All of Us to Enter Paradise Through the Gates of Jihad’
“If Islam is under attack, then we should make sure that all of us are preparing and readying ourselves to be able to defend Islam in the way that it is being attacked. If there is a physical attack, then we should all be ready with martial training and self-defense training so that we can stand up for our rights and our dignity.”
He should be asked what he would consider to constitute an attack on Islam in the United States. But he won’t be.
“Washington D.C. Shi’ite Imam Dr. Sulayman Ali Hassan: May Allah Allow All Of Us To Enter Paradise Through The Gates Of Jihad — Jihad Can Be Physical, Intellectual, Financial, Or Martial,” MEMRI, August 27, 2021
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White House Debating Vaccines for Air Travel After Fauci Said He’d Support a Mandate
According to The Hill on Sunday, the Biden administration is currently debating whether or not to implement a policy to require that passengers for all commercial air travel in the United States show proof of a Covid-19 vaccine:
The Biden administration is facing an internal debate over whether to impose vaccine mandates for air travel, with President Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci saying he would support a mandate but the White House claiming a new policy isn’t forthcoming.
In began with Fauci’s comments on theSkimm podcast days ago wherein he was asked about the possibility. “I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be vaccinated,” Fauci said.
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On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down minutes after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. All 176 passengers and crew on board were killed. Fifty-five Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents were among the 176. A significant number of victims were young people, including children. According to a BBC report at the time: “The deaths have cast a pall over university campuses across the country [Canada].” Eight days later, Canada and its International Coordination and Response Group partners created a legal subcommittee to coordinate and collaborate on efforts to hold Iran accountable for its violations of international law.
The Canadian government responded with appropriate compassion, with promises of justice for the victims’ families, but quite abruptly, the tide has turned, forcing the families to use every legal means to pursue justice on their own, and the interests of all potential victims of terror. This is peculiar, given that only two months ago, Canada reiterated its unwavering support.
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Twelve People Fined $2,000 Each After Kingston Police Break Up a House Party in University District
Twelve people are facing $2,000 fines each after Kingston police and Kingston Bylaw Enforcement broke up an illegal house party in Kingston’s University District.
Police and Bylaw Officers spent Friday night in the University District, enforcing the University District Safety Initiative imposed by the city of Kingston. The new emergency order includes increased penalties for attending illegal gatherings and new enforcement powers to discourage violations of social gathering limits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At approximately 11:30 p.m. Friday, police and Bylaw Enforcement officers responded to a build-up of people at the intersection of University Avenue and Earl Street. The crowd was quickly dispersed, but officers heard “extremely loud music” and what appeared to be a large indoor party in one of the corner residences.
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Antifa Demands Release of Members Facing Trial, Starts Street Fires in Massive Germany Riot
On Saturday, Antifa took over the streets of Leipzig, Germany, in the largest Antifa demonstration in the city in a year-and-a-half, demanding the release of fellow comrades as the members face trial for attacks on right-wing protestors.
According to Zeit Online, as many as 4,000 protesters were in attendance, with most wearing black bloc and carrying umbrellas or signs.
As the group marched across the city to what Zeit calls the “left-wing alternative neighborhood” of Connewitz, the Antifa activists deployed numerous pyrotechnics, with the outlet saying that the demonstration was “relatively calm” until later in the afternoon, where the group began their destructive actions.
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Facebook Blocks All Mention of English Beauty Spot Cockshoot Dyke
Facebook banned mentions of a waterway in Norfolk, England, called Cockshoot Dyke. The platform has previously banned names of other places in the UK.
Cockshoot Dyke is a popular Norfolk Broads tourist attraction. Its name, however, was deemed too rude by Facebook’s content moderation systems.
The administrator of the Facebook page Love the Norfolk Broads, Steve Burgess, said the first instance of censorship was when a member wrote that she was stuck in the dyke. The post was immediately removed, for containing the words “cock,” shoot,” and “dyke.”
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France: Court Acquits Imam Who Quoted Muhammad Commanding Muslims to Kill Jews
This acquittal will have reverberations for generations to come. There is nothing this imam says that is “extremist”; it is all mainstream Islam. The genocidal hadith he quotes, about the rocks and trees calling on Muslims to kill Jews, is at Sahih Muslim 6985 and elsewhere. Will some “moderate Muslim” spokesman explain exactly how Mohamed Tatai is “hijacking” Islam? Don’t hold your breath. And what will the future of France, and the West in general, be like as a result of inviting in such people, and never confronting them on their beliefs and activities that are at variance with Western social norms and principles?
“French court acquits imam who quoted text commanding Muslims to kill Jews,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, September 17, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace).
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Any action against jihad violence and Sharia oppression is denounced as an “Islamophobic” exercise in victimizing Muslims. This is true all over the West, and the Leftist establishment eagerly aids and abets this.
“France closes Muslim publishing house for ‘legitimising jihad,’“ 5PillarsUK, September 18, 2021.
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German Green Party Releases Advertisement Featuring Antifa Propaganda
Days ahead of when thousands of Antifa rioters descended on Leipzig, Germany, and caused destruction to city structures on Saturday, the Green Party’s chapter for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough in Berlin released advertising featuring Antifa propaganda.
The stylized poster features numerous left-wing demands, with one woman bearing a sickle and hammer tattoo on her chest, one person wearing a shirt bearing the Antifa flag symbol, and a building door stating “Antifa area.”
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Italian Politicians Will Need COVID Passport to Enter Parliament
Starting on October 15th all members of the Italian parliament, as well as parliamentary staff, will be required to present a Covid passport to enter parliament.
The requirement to present the passport, known as the Green Pass in Italy, will be mandatory for both members so the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the parliament, as well as Italian senators, and all of their staff.
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Jilted France Accuses Australia of ‘Treason’, Calls Britain a U.S. ‘Vassal’
The French government is seething over Australia’s decision to drop a troubled multi-billion French submarine deal in favour of collaboration with Britain and America, describing it as “treason”.
“Our British friends explained to us that they were leaving the EU to create Global Britain. As you can see, it is a return to the American fold and accepting a form of vassal status,” France’s minister for Europe, Clément Beaune, seethed in comments to state broadcaster Public Sénat reported by The Times — as if Britain being an EU member and the French getting the submarine contract would have meant the British were more sovereign, somehow.
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Blocking the M25 motorway is a “legitimate” and “reasonable” means of demonstrating about climate issues, the Green Party’s MP has told Sky News.
Government ministers have urged police to take “swift” action to clear roads of protesters, after the London orbital motorway was blocked repeatedly in a week.
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Working in a London hospital, you get used to dealing with the after-effects of gang fights. But you don’t expect to see them.
Of the many horrible things you might witness as a junior doctor in the capital, among the worst must be watching a teenage gang trying to break into the ward you work on, hoping to finish off a victim, punching your colleagues out of the way to get to him.
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UK: Nigel Farage Declares He ‘Won’t Obey’ Any New Lockdowns From Boris
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said that he will not “obey” any future coronavirus lockdowns if Prime Minister Boris Johnson once again backtracks on his promise to return freedom to Britain.
Mr Farage predicted that there will be “mass disobedience” seen in Britain if the nominally Conservative government attempts to impose another lockdown, saying that he would join the ranks of those refusing to abide by government diktats.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the British government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports in order to supposedly prevent another lockdown in the winter.
In written comments in the foreword to a coronavirus report from the Tony Blair Institute, which has been attempting to steer decision-making in the United Kingdom and across the world from the outset of the pandemic, the former Prime Minister argued children are becoming a significant source of the spread of the virus.
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If Steven Greer had been critical of Christianity or Christians, would there have been a campaign to get him fired? Would he have been investigated? Would his course have been canceled? You know the answer to all those questions. While the establishment media works hard to portray Muslims as victims since 9/11, in reality, they’ve become a privileged class, as this sorry incident illustrates.
“University clears don of being anti-Islam but then cancels his course anyway after students launched ‘vicious and militant’ campaign,” by Jake Ryan, Mail On Sunday, September 13, 2021.
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UK: Worcester People in Court After Breaking Lockdown Rules
THESE are the people from Worcester who were in court for breaking covid lockdown rules.
People were found to have held illegal gatherings or caught out and about without a good reason when the stay at home rules were in place.
They were prosecuted under the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) regulations.
The cases were heard in August at Worcester Magistrates Court but relate to incidents earlier this year when the country was under tier 4 lockdown because of covid.
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Welsh Pensioner, 82, Arrested in London as Part of Extinction Rebellion Climate Change Protests
A Gower pensioner is bracing herself for jail by returning to traffic-stopping climate change protests on the M25 — after already being arrested twice in three days.
Retired teacher Judy Bruce was one of scores activists arrested last week following sit-down demonstrations on the busy London orbital motorway.
The protests have been organised by Insulate Britain, an off-shoot of climate change group Extinction Rebellion, aiming to make the government better insulate properties to reduce emissions.
Hours after her release from custody, the 82-year-old returned to the protests, and was promptly arrested for a second time.
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A case of assault and kidnapping of a Dalit Hindu man, identified as Vivek, by five Muslim men has come to light from Nizamabad district, Telangana. Notably, Nizamabad is a Muslim-majority region in the state. As per the reports, the incident took place on September 8 and came to the notice of the police on September 11. The police have registered the case under various sections and arrested four men, members of so-called ‘Sharia Police’. Two prime accused are still at large.
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Indian intelligence officials, in association with Delhi police’s special cell, have arrested six alleged jihad terror operatives, foiling a series of planned jihad attacks on six major cities during the upcoming Hindu festive season. Reportedly, the sinister attacks were planned jointly by Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the infamous underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s D Company. The suspects in custody have been identified as Jaan Mohammad Sheikh aka Sameer (47), Osama (22), Moolchand (47), Zeeshan (28), Mohammad Abu Bakar (23), and Mohammad Amir Javed (31). Police have also recovered grenades, IEDs containing RDX, Beretta pistols and other ammunition that had been set aside to be used on the huge crowds that will gather in Indian cities during the major Hindu occasions of Dussehra, Durga Puja and Diwali, starting next month.
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India: Married Muslim Man Lures Two Hindu Women Into Relationship, Kills Both
We have reported on numerous accounts of Hindu women being deceived into relationships by Muslim men and subsequently forced into religious conversions, condemned to living a hellish life, if not to being brutally murdered by the “beloved.” But the case of the double murders that we are covering today will send chills down your spine.
On August 31, police found a dead body of a woman lying near the rail gate of Matigara, a rural area in Siliguri, West Bengal. It appeared to be a case of homicide; following investigations, the police identified the diseased as a local married woman, Ankita Maity. Not surprisingly, the husband and his family became the first suspects in the murder case, and were detained by the police. But during the investigation, the police discovered that Ankita had recently been in a relationship with a local Muslim man, Mohammed Akhtar Hussain. Reportedly, Hussain is married and has children.
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Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Afghanistan Attacks
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, the group’s Amaaq News Agency said on its Telegram channel on Sunday.
“More than 35 Taliban militia members were killed or wounded, in a series of explosions that took place,” the militant group said, referring to blasts on Saturday and Sunday. There was no immediate comment from the Taliban about the death toll…
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Hong Kong Orders Pro-Democracy Group to Scrub Its Online Presence
Authorities in Hong Kong have forced one of the city’s largest pro-democracy groups to delete its entire online presence. The deletion is so far the most high-profile incident of censorship justified by the new national security law.
For decades, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China has organized an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, a government-sanctioned mass murder that Beijing would like to be forgotten.
The group also criticized the government on its social media pages.
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The Lancet medical journal has bowed to pressure over its heavily-criticised coverage of the disputed origins of the Covid pandemic by publishing an ‘alternative view’ from 16 scientists — calling for an ‘objective, open and transparent debate’ about whether the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
It was revealed earlier this year that Peter Daszak — a British scientist with long-standing links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology — had secretly orchestrated a landmark statement in The Lancet in February 2020 which attacked ‘conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin’.
The now-infamous letter, signed by 27 leading public health experts, said they stood together to ‘strongly condemn’ the theories which they said ‘do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice’.
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An elderly woman believed to be in her 70s was attacked by Melbourne police and pepper-sprayed while she was on the ground during a protest against Covid-19 lockdowns on Saturday.
As she held an Australian flag and stood on the road facing toward a group of approaching police, one officer shoved the woman, sending her tumbling to the ground. Another officer then pepper-sprayed the woman as she laid motionless and unable to protect herself.
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One of the chief voices of the Christians in Nigeria has just been murdered.
“Twelve Christians killed in attacks by suspected Fulani militants in Kaduna State, Nigeria,” Barnabas Fund, September 17, 2021.
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Biden’s Border Blunder: 15,000 Migrants Under Texas Bridge Forces Gov. Abbott to Send in Troopers
Update (1120ET): Fox News’ Bill Melugin tweets a new aerial visual of the 15,000 migrants under Anzalduas Bridge in Mission, Texas.
Update (0958ET): The utter failure of the Biden administration to take control of the border crisis unfolding under the Anzalduas Bridge in Mission, Texas, resulted in Governor Greg Abbott sending State Troopers and National Guard members to secure the area.
New figures from Fox News’ Bill Melugin estimate nearly 15,000 migrants are currently under the Anzalduas Bridge as they wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents. Melugin has flown his drone over the area to show an aerial view of the increasing migrants, mostly Haitians, crossing the Mexico-US border and gathering under the bridge.
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Democrat Mayor of Del Rio Slams Biden, Harris Over Absence at Border: ‘Where Are You?’
Bruno Lozano, the Democrat mayor of Del Rio, Texas, tweeted his dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s apparent disregard for the increasingly untenable situation at the border, which directly affects his constituents.
In response to a Saturday tweet from President Joe Biden’s official Twitter account, Lozano asked, “Where is the plan to protect our southern border?”
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Fire Breaks Out at Migrant Camp on Greek Island of Samos
A major fire that erupted Sunday evening at the Vathy migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos was brought under control, the Greek Ministry of Migration said.
“There is no danger for those who are still there because the fire broke out in abandoned sheds in the western side of the camp,” the ministry statement added.
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Of course. We wouldn’t want to be “Islamophobic” by keeping this poor dear in prison too long, now, would we?
“Crazy ride with 18 injured: court overturns sentence against Syrians,” translated from “Wahnsinns-Fahrt mit 18 Verletzten: Gericht hebt Strafmaß gegen Syrer auf,” Exxpress, September 18, 2021 (thanks to Medforth).
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How it’s Done: Hungary Releases Footage of Walls and Guards Stopping Illegal Migrants
The Hungarian government has released footage showing how it protects its borders through the use of fences and quick response teams to prevent migrants from breaking into the country illegally.
While record waves of illegal migrants pour into countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the government of Viktor Orban in Hungary has shown how to effectively maintain a border.
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Italy: Moroccan Who Killed 8 With Car in 2010 Arrested for New Deadly Crash
A 32-year-old Moroccan man who was found guilty of a deadly hit-and-run that left eight dead in 2010 has been arrested after another fatal driving incident as he attempted to flee Italy to Morocco.
Chafik El Ketani was involved in a fatal car crash earlier this month on the evening of September 6th when his rented car crashed against a motorway guardrail, killing passenger Nouredine Fennane and forcing El Ketani to be hospitalised due to injuries sustained in the accident.
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Migrants Cross English Channel for Sixth Consecutive Day Amid Record Numbers
More migrants have arrived in the UK for the sixth consecutive day after making the perilous journey across the English Channel.
At least 650 people have made the dangerous crossing from France through busy shipping lanes to reach English shores this week alone.
Several people, some of whom were with children, were met by officials on Saturday morning after arriving in Dungeness, Kent.
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Senate Parliamentarian Crushes Democrat Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has reportedly ruled that Democrats’ plan to slip a massive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into a budget reconciliation package is outside the scope of budgetary matters, likely crushing the plan.
On Sunday evening, MacDonough ruled the amnesty plan can likely not be included in a budget reconciliation package — a filibuster-proof maneuver that only needs majority support in the Senate.
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Gay Swedish Priest Vows He Will Not Marry Straight Couples
Openly homosexual Church of Sweden priest Lars Gårdfeldt has vowed to refuse marriage ceremonies for straight people in protest of a loophole that allows priests to refuse to marry homosexual couples.
Gårdfeldt, who serves as a priest in the city of Gothenburg, said he will no longer marry heterosexual couples while other priests are able to deny homosexual couples in the Church of Sweden.
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Senator Josh Hawley Questions Google Over Censorship of Pro-Life Groups
Missouri’s Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter to Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai demanding answers on why the company was censoring pro-life groups. The legislator accused the tech giant of politically motivated censorship.
“Your company appears to have taken a page out of the progressive left playbook and has started targeting pregnancy resource centers and pro-life activist organizations for disfavor,” Hawley wrote in the letter.
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**** Joe Biden.
I second that!
I’d rather drive, than fly commercial and private air travel is not an affordable option. Auto designers will continue to make auto travel more and more comfortable, entertaining, and also, productive. Flying has become extremely uncomfortable and inefficient, due, in particular to time consumed simply getting to one’s flight.
Yet, the biggest threat to driving is the risk of restricted freedom of movement, through regulatory limitations and technological throttling of energy, range, speed, and “permitted” times and locations.