A judge in Massachusetts denied a lawsuit by a police union that asked him to stay the governor’s vaccination mandate. Shortly after his decision dozens of state troopers filed their paperwork to resign from the force.
In other news, in the Afghan city of Herat, the Taliban killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies from cranes in the city’s squares.
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“Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Mandates Have to Go!” IRS Employees Protest Vaccine Mandates
“We the people are p…… off,” read the sweater of one protester gathered in front of the James V. Hansen Federal Building Thursday in response to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.
Federal employees were reportedly told they had to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 1 — or risk being fired. According to the National Treasury Employees Union, most of the employees participating in the protest have been vaccinated because of the mandate. “They have a right to be upset,” said Robert Lawrence, the president of NTEU Chapter 67. “They should have a choice.”
Chapter 67 represents the employees of the IRS in Ogden. Protesters lined the sidewalk chanting “freedom not force” as they flew American flags and hoisted various signs of discontent.
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3,000 NYC Teachers Asked for Vaccination Exemptions, Union Says
By Peter Svab of Epoch Times
Around 3,000 New York City teachers have asked for medical and religious exemptions from the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to the city’s teachers union.
The city requires all school staff to be vaccinated or exempted by midnight on Sept. 27. The union, United Federation of Teachers (UFT) said on Sept. 24 that 90-95 percent of teachers have received the vaccine. That would leave about 4,000-8,000 unvaccinated, including those who have asked for the exemption.
The exemptions are largely medical, UFT President Michael Mulgrew told reporters during a Sept. 24 teleconference. He didn’t specify how many have been granted. Those rejected have an option to appeal, but Mulgrew said he didn’t know how many have done so.
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A group in Wisconsin that goes by the name of Wisconsin HOT (Honest Open and Transparent) released a telegram where they ask Wisconsin election officials why over 23,000 individuals in Wisconsin’s voter roles have the same phone number? Here is their note.
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Court Workers Protest Vaccine Mandate Outside Chief Judge’s Home
More than 300 court employees protested outside New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s Westchester County home Saturday demanding she scrap a COVID-19 vaccination mandate set for Monday.
They chanted “What do we want? No mandate. What do we want? Choice.”
“We want to have a choice, get a vaccine or weekly testing like the NYPD,” Dennis Quirk, president of New York State Court Officers Association, said. “If it is good enough for the cops, it should be good enough for court employees. She is a dictator, she won’t even talk to us.”
Quirk received a 30-day suspension in August for posting DiFiore’s home addresses on social media in order to encourage protests outside of her residences.
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This week, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge refused to allow any delay of the state’s vaccine mandate that is set to begin on October 17th. The decision has already caused a wave of state troopers to file their paperwork to quit the force and even more are expected to resign before the mandate kicks in.
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Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Thursday he not only supports mandatory Chinese coronavirus vaccines for eligible schoolchildren, he expects states to “make sure it happens.”
“Not only do I support it, but I’m encouraging states to come up with a plan to make sure it happens,” Cardona told Politico during a multistate tour of schools and child care centers. “I would like governors who hold those decisions to make those decisions now that [vaccines] are FDA-approved.”
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FBI Had Informant Inside the Capitol During Jan 6 Riot: Report
According to obtained confidential records, the FBI had an informant inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. TheNew York Times reported that the documents did not reveal the informant’s name, though it acknowledged he was affiliated with a Midwest chapter of the controversial group Proud Boys.
The informant described meeting up with men from other Proud Boys chapters at 10 am at the Washington Monument before entering the Capitol. The informant debated whether to join. But after police told him someone had been shot—likely slain Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt—he left through a window.
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G.W. Bush Appointed Judge Says Individual Who Took Selfie in Capital on Jan 6 Should be Locked Up
The Daily Caller reported on the insanity going on in DC:
Federal judge Reggie Walton ripped a Capitol riot defendant’s actions as “outrageous” during a Friday hearing in which the man pleaded guilty to parading or protesting in the Capitol.
“You’ve disgraced this country in the eyes of the world and my inclination would be to lock you up, but since the government isn’t asking me to do that … I won’t,” Walton, who sits on the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., told Anthony Mariotto. Prosecutors dismissed four other charges against Mariotto in exchange for his guilty plea, Politico reported.
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Health Care Workers Protest NYS COVID Vaccine Mandate at Niagara Square
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A large group of health care workers gathered in Niagara Square on Saturday afternoon, protesting New York State’s vaccine mandate for medical professionals that goes into effect on Monday.
The group carried signs calling for medical freedom, religious exemptions, and their right to choose whether or not to get the vaccine.
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‘It’s a Choice’: Boardman Group Protests Mask, Vaccine Mandates
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) — On Saturday, a group gathered in Boardman to protest mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
They were protesting on the corner of Market Street and Route 224.
Many drivers were honking their horns in support of the protest.
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JetBlue Flight Diverted After Passenger Storms Cockpit, Strangles Flight Attendant
The number of in-air incidents that have taken place in 2021 seems to be continuing to rise.
But, unlike many other disturbances that have been happening on flights, the most recent one didn’t have anything to do with a mask mandate.
Instead, a recent JetBlue flight from Boston to San Juan had to be diverted on Wednesday of last week after a passenger “became angry” about being unable to make a cell phone call toward the end of a flight, according to The Daily Beast.
The report, which cited an FBI affidavit, said that a passenger named Khalil El Dahr had to be restrained to a chair with “multiple seatbelt extenders” after an “insane” altercation during a flight.
El Dahr reportedly pulled himself out of his seat and “rushed toward the cockpit” with about 45 minutes left in his flight. He yelled in both Spanish and Arabic that “someone should shoot and kill him”, the Daily Beast reported.
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Judge Denies Police Union’s Effort to Delay Vaccine Mandate in Massachusetts
Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times
A Massachusetts judge has denied a bid by the state police union to delay mandatory vaccinations for all state employees.
The State Police Association of Massachusetts, a union representing about 1,800 state police officers, filed a lawsuit (pdf) last week asking the judge to put the mandate on hold to give the union time to “negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment” before a deadline of Oct. 17.
“The public interest is, unquestionably, best served by stopping the spread of the virus, in order to protect people from becoming ill, ensure adequate supply of medical services, and curtail the emergence of new, deadlier variants of the virus,” Judge Jackie Cowin said in the decision, reported The Associated Press.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, issued an executive order last month that would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all executive department employees by Oct. 17.
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Marco Rubio Introduces Legislation to Help Shareholders Fight Back Against Woke Corporations
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has introduced legislation that would allow shareholders to sue corporations for prioritizing political ideology over their fiduciary duty to maximize long-term shareholder value.
In an op-ed submitted to Fox News on Thursday, Rubio says: “American companies used to be proud of their country. But today, many spend more time apologizing for, or mocking it, than they do running their own businesses.” Rubio refers to the culture of wokeness creeping into a number of American companies.
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‘Medical Freedom’ Crowd Gathers at Riverfront Park to Protest Coronavirus Mandates
Some 4,000 protesters gathered Saturday at Riverfront Park to advocate for “medical freedom” in the face of coronavirus mandates before marching through downtown Spokane.
Most were not wearing masks.
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As should have been expected, the Democrat-media complex published complete lies and inaccuracies on Friday morning in anticipation of the Arizona Senate forensic audit results that were to be released on Friday afternoon.
The media purposely ran dishonest and fake news reports to divert attention from the actual results.
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An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after taking one of Nancy Pelosi’s beers from her office on January 6.
Andrew Craig Ericson, 24, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Prosecutors will drop three related misdemeanor charges in exchange for his plea. Ericson said in a signed statement that he is pleading guilty because he is in fact guilty.
He will face six months in federal prison and a $5,000 fine after he was tipped off to the FBI by someone who had known him since high school.
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Protest Against Vaccine Mandates Held in Walnut Creek
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KRON) — Protesters showed up in front of Walnut Creek’s City Hall on Friday, demanding an end to Contra Costa County’s new vaccine mandate.
It requires customers at indoor businesses, like gyms, bars, and restaurants, to show proof of being vaccinated or a negative COVID test in order to enter.
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Racial-Justice Advocate Who Organized Peaceful S.I. Protests Charged in Ax Attack
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 22-year-old racial-justice advocate who helped organize peaceful protests against police brutality on Staten Island last year stands accused of wielding an ax against another man in Port Richmond.
Isaiah Buffong was arrested about a half-hour after an alleged attack on a 46-year-old man near the defendant’s home on the 200 block of Nicholas Avenue on Sept. 17 at 8:12 a.m., according to the criminal complaint and police.
The incident triggered a shelter-in protocol at nearby Port Richmond High School.
The complaint alleges that Buffong struck another man in the hands and arms with an ax.
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Reasons to Decertify AZ — The List
70,000 Duplicated, Fraudulent, Illegal or Ghost Ballots (7 Times Biden’s Margin of Victory), Devices Missing, Data Deleted, Criminal Acts Referred to Authorities
The result of yesterday’s presentation of the audit results from the audit of the 2020 Election results in Maricopa County is clear — the 2020 Election results in Maricopa County should never have been certified with Joe Biden as the winner.
When you step back and look at the results of the audit of Maricopa County in Arizona regarding the 2020 Election, the answer is clear.
The current results should never have been certified — period.
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TikTok Deletes Video of Student Documenting Myocarditis Following COVID-19 Vaccine
TikTok removed a video posted by a 21-year-old student athlete who, from a hospital bed, documented an adverse reaction after getting the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The platform did not explain exactly what guidelines the video violated and denied his appeal for the video to be reinstated.
John Stokes, a student at Tennessee State University, posted a video earlier this month, explaining that he had been hospitalized with myocarditis (inflammation of the heart tissue) shortly after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Before TikTok removed the video, it had more than 4.5 million views and had received hundreds of thousands of likes.
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Twitter Introduces Bitcoin Tipping
Twitter started the roll-out of Bitcoin-based payments features on Thursday, which will allow users to tip their favorite content creators. The company also announced it would bring verified NFTs.
Twitter announced the new features in a call to reporters, saying that “bitcoin operates without global barriers.” The social media company further said that the new features would help it take part in the “evolving decentralized news.”
Users will have two Bitcoin-based options to tip creators. They can use Strike, a crypto-payments application based on the Lightning Network. Alternatively, they can use the payments option menu, which will now have an option to send tips to a Bitcoin address.
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Garland Favorito’s VoterGA identified another impossible happening in Fulton County, Georgia. David Cross from the team reportedly identified that more people are registered to vote in Georgia than are eligible.
This morning at VoterGA’s website GABallots.com, David Cross, who leads the efforts to find duplicate ballots for Garland Favorito’s VoterGA, posted this on his website.
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BC Steps Up Enforcement of COVID Rules Against Non-Compliant Businesses
According to Ian Tostenson, President & CEO of the BC Restaurant & Foodservices Association, one percent of licensed, table-service restaurants ordered to check for proof of vaccination is choosing to defy the rules.
“They need to be fined, they need to be shut down,” said Tostenson, generally speaking to companies who choose to dismiss public health orders.
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Kingston Hospitals Place 136 Employees on Unpaid Leave for Not Receiving COVID Vaccine
The Kingston Health Science Centre (KHSC) placed 136 employees on two-week, unpaid leave for failure to comply with its vaccine mandate. All staff, physicians and students needed to prove they received at least one Health Canada approved COVID-19 vaccine or proof of a medical exemption by September 22.
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Ontario Residents Could Face Fines Up to $100,000 for Violating COVID Public Health Orders
The consequences for non-compliance in Ontario’s pandemic response have gotten more severe as authorities ramp up enforcement to combat the province’s Delta variant-driven case surge.
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Watch: Extinction Rebellion Leads Climate Protest Down Vancouver’s Main Street
One person has been arrested after Extinction Rebellion blocked the intersection of Main Street and E Broadway during a climate protest in Vancouver.
In a movement dubbed the “National Day of Rebellion”, which organizers admit fell short of a national movement, protesters are calling on all levels of government for action to address the climate crisis.
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“War Criminal!” — Hillary Clinton Booed, Heckled Outside Queen’s University Belfast (Video)
Northern Ireland — Hillary Clinton was booed and heckled outside of Queen’s University Belfast on Friday.
Recall, Hillary Clinton was appointed the first female chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast in January 2020, but because of Covid restrictions, she wasn’t formally inaugurated until this week.
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Dutch Protesters March Through the Hague Against ‘Corona Pass’
Protesters gathered to march against the introduction of a “corona pass” in the Netherlands on Saturday as proof of Covid-19 vaccination became compulsory to get into bars, restaurants, theatres and other venues.
Hours after the requirement to show the pass or a recent negative coronavirus test took effect, the government of caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte sacked a cabinet minister who had publicly questioned the measure.
Rutte’s office said deputy economic affairs minister Mona Keijzer had been dismissed because her comments went against cabinet policy on an issue “of such importance and weight”.
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Ex-Islamic Radical Says Extremists Are Present in Every Swedish Mosque
A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people.
Anas Khalifa, who had been a radical Salafist preacher for around 20 years, was once one of the most prominent radical Muslims in the country but is said to have turned his back on fundamentalist ideology.
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Netherlands Now Requires Coronavirus Admission Passes for Hospitality and Events
Everyone aged 13 and over must have a coronavirus access pass with them to enter bars, cafes, restaurants, events and venues for the arts and culture. The new rule takes effect in the Netherlands on Saturday along with the elimination of most social distancing and face mask requirements.
This means that visitors must be able to demonstrate that they have tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus no more than 24 hours before their visit, or that they have either recovered from the infection or have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Norwegian Government Announces Lifting of Final COVID-19 Measures
By Frazer Norwell of The Local
On Friday, the Norwegian government announced that most of the last remaining coronavirus restrictions would be scrapped from Saturday, and life would return to normal with “increased preparedness”.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg announced on Friday that from tomorrow 4pm, most of the final remaining national Covid-19 measures in Norway would be dropped.
“Now we can live almost as we did before the pandemic hit us. I do not think everything will be as before. I think the coronavirus will affect us for the rest of our lives, for better or worse. We have learned how vulnerable we are and how much we can achieve when we stand together,” Solberg told a press conference on Friday.
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UK: In Pictures: Crowds in Newcastle Protest Against Vaccine Passports and Jabs for Children
Protests against Covid vaccinations for children, vaccine passports and future lockdowns have attracted huge crowds in Newcastle city centre.
From around 1pm on Saturday, crowds of people started gathering at Haymarket, before marching to Newcastle’s quayside waving placards and banners.
Many held signs opposing vaccinations for children, with one sign reading “Please don’t jab kids” and another reading “Standing up for the bairns we love”.
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Unvaxed Austrian Populist Leader Could be Barred From Large Events
Unvaccinated Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl could be banned from attending large political events as the city of Vienna tightens its Wuhan virus rules.
Vienna mayor Michael Ludwig of the left-wing Social Democrats (SPÖ) announced that, starting in October, large events exceeding 500 people, both indoor and outdoor, will require full vaccination or proof that an individual has recovered from the coronavirus and has antibodies.
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Wealthy Germans Fearing Leftist Victory in Sunday’s Vote Scramble to Move Fortunes to Switzerland
With Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign set to conclude following this weekend’s German federal election, the broader German political landscape is about to change for the first time in two decades.
And with Merkel’s dynastic CDU/CSU continuing to slide in the polls, a situation that we first sketched out four weeks ago remains likely: a party that has ruled Germany for 50 of the past 70 years and began to see the chancellery as its natural birthright is now facing the real prospect of being booted out of power.
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Israel Bars School Entry to Unvaccinated, Untested Teachers, Denies Pay
Israel on Thursday announced teachers who are unvaccinated or who fail to provide a negative corona test will be barred from entering schools and will not be paid a salary.
Israel’s Health Ministry instructed school principals that beginning on October 3, they would be required to block entry to any teachers without a Green Pass proving they have either recovered from COVID-19 or have received vaccination, or a recent negative test result.
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Afghanistan: Taliban Hang Bodies as Warning in City of Herat
The Taliban say they have shot dead four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies in public squares in the Afghan city of Herat.
The gruesome display came a day after a notorious Taliban official warned that extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume.
The men were killed in a gun battle after allegedly seizing a businessman and his son, a local official said.
Local residents said a body was hung from a crane in the city centre.
Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, a local shopkeeper, told the Associated Press news agency that four bodies were brought to the square, one was hung there and the three other bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed.
The deputy governor of Herat, Maulwai Shair, said displaying the bodies was done to deter further abductions. He said the men were killed in a gun battle after the Taliban learnt that they had kidnapped a businessman and his son — who were both freed.
The BBC has not independently confirmed the circumstances under which the men were killed.
However, graphic images shared on social media appeared to show bloody bodies on the back of a pick-up truck with a crane hoisting one man up…
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Taliban Hangs 4 Bodies in Public Square — Says Will Resume “Cutting Off of Hands”
The Associated Press reports on Saturday that the Taliban has begun hanging dead bodies of executed criminals from the main square in Herat city in western Afghanistan, as a gruesome message to the public in order to deter crime and ensure conformity to Islam.
The AP report cited eyewitnesses, including “Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square” who told the agency that “that four bodies were brought to the main square and three bodies were moved to other parts of the city for public display.”
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Taliban Hang Body in Public; Signal Return to Past Tactics
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past.
Taliban officials initially brought four bodies to the central square in the western city of Herat, then moved three of them to other parts of the city for public display, said Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the edge of the square.
Taliban officials announced that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping earlier Saturday and were killed by police, Seddiqi said. Ziaulhaq Jalali, a Taliban-appointed district police chief in Herat, said later that Taliban members rescued a father and son who had been abducted by four kidnappers after an exchange of gunfire. He said a Taliban fighter and a civilian were wounded by the kidnappers, and that the kidnappers were killed in crossfire.
An Associated Press video showed crowds gathering around the crane and peering up at the body as some men chanted.
“The aim of this action is to alert all criminals that they are not safe,” a Taliban commander who did not identify himself told the AP in an on-camera interview conducted in the square…
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Is China Using Wokeism to Erode American Democracy?
Authored by Frank Fang and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times
The communist regime in China is using “wokeism” as a geopolitical tool to undermine U.S. democracy, said Vivek Ramaswamy, author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.”
“They [China] are using that to divide us, to use that as a kink in our armor to divide us from within, by getting corporations to criticize injustice here, without saying a peep about injustice over there and deflecting accountability for their human rights abuses,” Ramaswamy said in a recent interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”
He said U.S. companies like NBA and Disney—who criticize social issues in the United States but remain silent on China’s human rights abuses such as those in Xinjiang—are in fact empowering communist China.
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Dozens Arrested on Sixth Day of Melbourne Lockdown Protests
Police have arrested 94 people in the Melbourne CBD and St Kilda areas after anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination protesters took to the streets for a sixth day.
The demonstration today was significantly smaller than previous protests in the city earlier in the week.
Officers shut the demonstration within an hour of the group gathering.
[Comment: Article dated September 25, 2021.]
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Trinidad: Teens Among 25 Held at Party in Marabella
Two days after Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh denounced the hosting of house parties that encourage illegal gatherings which can promote the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the T&T Police Service (TTPS) had cause to arrest 25 people at a party in Marabella.
This latest incident occurred at a house on Ninth Street, Gopaul Lands, Marabella around 11.30 on Thursday night.
Of the 25 arrested — three are teenagers aged 13, 14 and 16.
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Abandoned IDs Found at US Border Show Haitian Migrants Held Chilean Refugee Status: Report
Amid the Biden administration’s ongoing border crisis, it appears a number of Haitian migrants held Chilean refugee status, according to abandoned ID cards found at the United States-Mexico border near where more than 15,000 migrants camped under the Del Rio bridge in Texas.
As reported previously by The Post Millennial, the mass congregation of Haitian migrants previously lived and worked in Latin American countries as refugees, mainly Chile and Brazil. The migrants generally had access to housing and gainful employment, but decided to move to the United States for opportunity there. According to immigration experts, the Haitian migrants believed President Joe Biden “opened the border so we decided we could upgrade our lifestyle.”
According to the Daily Caller, the Haitians migrants arrived in South American countriies during the past decade or so, following natural disasters such as earthquakes or government unrest. In nations such as Brazil or Chile, the Haitian migrants “were granted refugee and residence status in large numbers.”
Under immigration law, individuals are not eligible for refugee status in the US if they’re “firmly resettled in a third country,” according to what Citizenship and Immigration Services states in its code.
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Female American Soldier Allegedly Assaulted by Afghan Refugees at Fort Bliss Camp
A group of Afghan evacuees have allegedly assaulted a female American soldier at a refugee camp at New Mexico’s Fort Bliss in what appears to be the first incident of Afghan refugees (most of whom were rescued by American forces during the chaotic final weeks before the Taliban assumed complete control of Kabul) attacking an American soldier on US soil.
Republicans slammed the Biden Administration over the incident, claiming it represents a failure of the Administration to properly vet the Afghan nationals who were rescued during a mission that cost the lives of 13 Marines.
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Sicily: Tunisian Illegals Escape Reception Centre to Sexually Harass Girls
A pair of Tunisian illegal aliens have been accused of sexually harassing a pair of sisters aged 18 and 15 after they managed to escape a migrant reception facility.
The two Tunisians escaped a reception centre in the town of Siculiana and managed to get to the city of Agrigento, which lies about 14 miles away, where they appeared at a bus stop at the Piazzale Rosselli.
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UK: Boris to Bring in Foreign Drivers by the Thousands, Tory MP Suggests Using Afghans
Boris Johnson’s government plans visas for 5,000 foreign drivers to meet demand, despite coronavirus lockdowns having put many British people out of work — with a senior Tory MP suggesting Afghans be used.
Driver shortages have led to shortages at petrol stations and a round of panic-buying, but rather than pressing employers to increase pay and establish training programmes for unemployed Britons — whose ranks have been significantly swelled by anti-coronavirus lockdown policies — Britain’s governing Conservative Party is, as ever, looking to bring in more foreign workers.
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UK: Hotel Migrants Accused of Harassing Girls as Young as 12, Filming Through School Fences
Parents in Wigan, England, have been left fearful as male migrants hosted in a local hotel are accused of roaming the community harassing underage girls and filming them through schoolyard fences.
Migrants put up in the Britannia Hotel by Serco, one of a small number of scandal—ridden private corporations who earn big money accommodating and monitoring illegal migrants for the government, arguably not very well, are hanging around outside the entrances to schools, leering at and recording schoolgirls during PE (Physical Education) workouts through schoolyard fences, and harassing young girls at a local landmark called The Line, according to Wigan Today.
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Swiss Hold Referendum on Gay Marriage, Lesbian Access to Sperm Donations
GENEVA (AP) — Voters in Switzerland will decide Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriage in the rich Alpine country, one of the few in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.
Switzerland has authorized same-sex civil partnerships since 2007. The Swiss government, which has endorsed the “Marriage for All” referendum, says passage would put same-sex partners on equal legal footing with heterosexual couples by allowing them to adopt children together and to sponsor a spouse for citizenship.
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“A judge in Massachusetts denied a lawsuit by a police union that asked him to stay the governor’s vaccination mandate. Shortly after his decision dozens of state troopers filed their paperwork to resign from the force.”
To be honest is resigning better than being kicked off for not adhering to some particular law or rule that “We” openly disagree with?
“As long as I am king, they shall not pass!” – kind of souvereignity is what I see missing from the picture: Everyone is walking around rules and regulations on eggshells as if every government mandate was the word of God – which is a system that I am well used to from Central Europe, but I would always expect Americans to step up over and above mere “mortal human laws” and uphold the higher principle of morality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Principle