An Emmy award-winning stylist has died of COVID-19, despite having been double-vaxed. Meanwhile, a second person has been arrested in New Zealand for organizing an anti-lockdown demonstration in Auckland.
In other news, the Polish government is notifying potential migrants on local media and social networks in African and Middle Eastern countries that its border with Belarus is not open for migration.
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It’s Visibly Crooked All the Way — And the Insiders Don’t Care That it Shows
Even more interesting is how some of our leading politicians are getting rich through stock market trades. If anyone has inside information about how legislative developments are going to affect companies, it’s them.
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The crash is coming as a result of multiple mutually reinforcing dynamics, the first being that no “serious person” believes a crash is possible, much less imminent. In no particular order, here are a raft of other causally consequential triggers of a cascading market crash:
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“I Tested Someone… After the 2nd Jab” And “His Adaptive Immune System Has Absolutely Tanked.”
A doctor at a Chiropractic and wellness practice in Yorkville, Illinois, had the opportunity to compare blood work and immune response before and after the first and second Jab.
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Anti-Vaccine Protesters Tear Down COVID-19 Testing Site in New York City
A group of people demonstrating against the coronavirus vaccine tore down a COVID-19 testing site in New York City during a protest Monday.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest the coronavirus vaccine mandate for public school employees, according to a report from The Washington Post.
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Biden Administration Appoints Critical Race Theory Activist to Education Department
The Biden administration has appointed a pro-critical race theory activist to join the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday, marking the latest development as parents, educators, and lawmakers debate what role the controversial theory should play in classrooms.
Precious McKesson was selected as a special assistant in the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Education’s Office of Communication and Outreach, a position not subject to Senate confirmation. McKesson, a vocal advocate of CRT that teaches U.S. institutions are inherently racist, has criticized the Right for opposing the theory.
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Breaking: Marine Lt. Col. Who Spoke Out Against Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Released From Jail
On Tuesday, Marine Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was released from the brig at Camp Leugene after being arrested last week for violating a gag order.
According to Fox News, “Scheller [was] released as part of an agreement between his attorney and the commanding general.”
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California to Let “Violence Prevention” Researchers Access Data of Gun Owners in the State
California has come up with another way to expose personal information of people thanks to a new law, A.B. 173, adopted under the guise of the need to “prevent violence” by allowing researchers access to names, addresses and other private information of gun owners in this US state.
Observers worry that the law, signed last week by Governor Newsom, introduces a type of conflict of interest, since the researchers and academics who will be granted access will be affiliated with the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis and other “bona fide” outfits whom the state authorities pick, at their discretion, as dedicated to the “prevention of violence.”
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CDC Recommends ‘Virtual’ Thanksgiving— Backtracks, Claims ‘Mishap’ After Backlash
The CDC published a recommendation on its website Tuesday recommending Americans celebrate a “virtual” Thanksgiving for a second year in a row. This information was later changed, and the CDC insists that it was a “mishap.”
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COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-ups of Resistors in Our Future?
It’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when.
This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.
It’s just a matter of time.
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Creepy Video Shows Teacher Making Toddlers Sing Pro-Mask Nursery Rhyme
A creepy video shows a teacher making a class of toddlers, all of whom are wearing face coverings, sing a re-purposed nursery rhyme praising the efficacy of masks.
Yes, really.
The teacher, who just by her voice alone you can tell is the ultimate ‘Karen’, tried to get the kids to join in with a version of ‘The Farmer in the Dell,’ but with the words changed to venerate face muzzles.
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A website that features a database of information on critical race theory (CRT) curricula and training in higher education unveiled a new study Monday focusing on the controversial ideology infiltrating the top 25 most elite K-12 private schools in America.
The project indicated that some schools openly admit to teaching CRT, while others are more subtle. Of the top 25 private schools, the database found that seven had some form of mandatory anti-racism training for students and a staggering 20 of 25 schools had some sort of curricular requirement change based off of anti-racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), or critical race theory.
William Jacobson, the Cornell Law School professor who founded the conservative-leaning site Legal Insurrection, created CriticalRace.org earlier this year to track how the widely debated concept is permeating U.S. institutions. His new initiative covers the same information as the higher education database, with a focus on K-12 learning.
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DePaul Student’s Online Support for ISIS Was ‘Puffing,’ His Lawyer Tells Jury
A DePaul University student’s online bragging about his computer skills and support for the Islamic State was nothing more than “puffing” and is protected free speech, the student’s lawyer told a federal jury Tuesday.
“It’s like someone going on their dating profile and saying they’re 6-foot-3 with abs of steel when they look like me,” attorney Steve Greenberg said in his opening statement in the terrorism-related trial of his client, Thomas Osadzinski. “He’s puffing … he’s saying stuff, but it’s not enough.”
Osadzinski, 22, is accused in a federal indictment with using the computer skills he was learning at DePaul to craft a first-of-its-kind code designed to spread violent propaganda for the Islamic State terrorist group online.
Prosecutors alleged Osadzinski converted to Islam while a teen, expressing his devotion to the Islamic State in online forums that included undercover FBI employees he believed were terrorist sympathizers.
[Comment: DePaul University is located in Chicago.]
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Domestic Violence: Murders in Ohio Up 62% Through the Pandemic; Record 15 Children Killed
Domestic violence murders in Ohio have exploded 62% during the pandemic, and last year, a record 15 children were among the victims, a statewide advocacy organization announced Tuesday.
The nonprofit Ohio Domestic Violence Network reported that among the dead children were two minors killed by older male partners. Two men with histories of domestic violence each shot and killed the young child of a girlfriend. In three cases, a father shot and killed his wife and all their children in the home. Children were at the scene in 16 more cases.
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Emmy Award Winning Stylist Dies of COVID Despite Being Fully Vaccinated
Emmy-winning stylist Marc Pilcher has died of COVID despite having no underlying health condition and being double vaccinated.
Pilcher died on Sunday just weeks after receiving the award in Los Angeles for outstanding hairstyling on the period drama Bridgerton.
His family announced that he had succumbed to the virus despite having had both shots of the jab.
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Harris County Saw Startling Increase in Deadly Domestic Violence Cases, Report Shows
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A new report shows how much deadly domestic violence cases rose statewide, and in southeast Texas during the pandemic.
Report Shows Highest Number of Domestic Violence Homicides in 20 Years
From 2019 to 2020, the Texas Council on Family Violence discovered there was a 23% increase in the number of domestic violence homicides across Texas.
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So-called Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen is testifying before the U.S. Senate this week calling on Congress to take action on what information Americans are allowed to share on social media.
Human Events can exclusively reveal from a verified individual with direct knowledge that Haugen is also planning to travel to Europe for several weeks to testify to EU Parliament.
In addition, during her 60 Minutes interview, Haugen mentioned losing a friend to ‘conspiracy theories.’
Human Events has learned that the ‘conspiracy theories’ Haugen was referring to was that her friend became involved with the Men’s Rights Advocate/Red Pill movement.
The term ‘red pill’ is a reference to the Matrix, and is the title of a 2016 documentary about the Men’s Rights movement by filmmaker Cassie Jaye.
In addition, Human Events has learned that according to her personal advocacy website, Haugen states that in 2020 she was a member of Facebook’s internal Civic Integrity team. That means in all likelihood she was part of the team that made the controversial decision to ban the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story by the New York Post from Facebook in October 2020, a crucial point of the election. This was one of the most significant October Surprises in U.S. political history, and Facebook and Twitter made the decision to ban it without evidence amid rumors that the laptop was tied to Russian intelligence. Those rumors ended up being disinformation, and were all proved false.
For now, Haugen continues to be represented by Jen Psaki’s PR firm and Eric Ciaramella’s legal team.
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Legislator Accuses Facebook of Bearing Responsibility for Death of Alaskans
Rep. Zack Fields, who represents downtown Anchorage, has a beef with local news sites, such as the Alaska Watchman. Fields has written to Facebook’s CEO, accusing him of the rise of COVID-19 cases in Alaska, which he attributes to blogs like Must Read Alaska.
Ignoring the First Amendment, Fields spent most of last week writing a heated letter to Mark Zuckerberg, requesting that he alter Facebook’s algorithms to hide Alaska news that he considers to be COVID-19 “misinformation” spreaders.
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Those much-maligned single-use plastics had a brief reprieve during the pandemic, when an unfounded fear of COVID’s surface transmitting powers prompted jurisdictions to suspend their bans on bags and straws. One unfortunate consequence of our halting return to normality is that those items are back in officials’ sights.
Come November, a straw law passed by New York City in May 2021 will go into effect, leaving businesses open to fines for any number of straw-related infractions. That includes the grievous offense of providing a patron with a single-use, non-compostable plastic straw when the customer has not first requested one.
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No Jen Psaki, Trump Never Told People to Inject Bleach
The truth is that Trump did not say we should inject ourselves with bleach or a disinfectant. He said the opposite. But the MSM lied about what was said, and Lyin Biden’s team is using it as a weapon today.
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Ohio Human Trafficking Sting Ends With Record-Breaking 161 Arrests
Ohio arrested 161 people last week in a widespread sting operation meant to crack down on human trafficking and prostitution. According to The Columbus Dispatch, this was one of the biggest human trafficking stings in the state’s history.
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Parents Take a Stand Against FBI Crackdown on CRT Opponents
Parents and politicians are slamming the Department of Justice’s decision to bring in the FBI to investigate a spike in “threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” saying the Biden administration is likening their protests of “woke” policies such as Critical Race Theory — as well as mandatory mask wearing — to “domestic terrorism.”
“Dear @TheJusticeDept Merrick Garland and @FBI Director Christopher Wray,” Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education, posted on Twitter. “This is what a domestic terrorist looks like? You are criminalizing parenting, and you owe the people of America a swift apology.”
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Photos: Protest Against “Medical Tyranny” Takes Place Across Midland Memorial
A protest against “medical tyranny” took place Tuesday across from Midland Memorial Hospital.
Leiken Finch, an event promoter, said the protest was for people to express viewpoints on medical freedoms.
Finch stated in an opinion article to the Reporter-Telegram that the location was picked because it is a “high traffic area” and that the rally “is not to protest the hospital or its employees, but to raise awareness about freedom of choice and the tyranny happening globally.”
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Professor Blames Left-Wing ‘Outrage Mob’ For Cancellation of MIT Lecture on Climate Science
A University of Chicago associate geophysics professor spoke out against Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday after the university cancelled his guest lecture amid criticism from campus activist groups.
During an appearance on “America’s Newsroom,” Dorian Abbot said that after hearing the news about his cancelled event, his wife, who was born in Ukraine and had to be baptized in secret, likened the situation to her time living under the Soviet Union.
“When she heard about what was happening on campus when I first told her she said ‘it sounds like what my mother told me about Soviet times,’“ Abbot said.
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Report: Southwest Airlines to ‘Comply’ With Biden Vaccine Mandate for All Employees
Reuters reports that Southwest Airlines has announced that it will introduce COVID vaccine mandates for all its employees by early December, in order to ‘comply’ with the federal mandate set out by the Biden administration.
“Southwest Airlines must join our industry peers in complying with the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination directive,” said Southwest CEO Gary Kelly, further noting that in order “to continue employment with the airline,” employees must submit to the mandate.
Reuters notes that an internal memo to staff instructs them to submit their vaccination status with relevant documentation by Nov. 24, advising workers “If you’re not yet fully vaccinated, plan accordingly to meet the deadline.”
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Seattle ‘Anti-Racist’ Training Teaches City Employees Whites Are ‘Oppressors’
Non-White employees for the City of Seattle were invited to an anti-racist training to explore their internalized racism and given tools on how to free themselves from White supremacy influence, new documents show.
Employees “who identify as people of color” were sent an invite to a three-hour optional training, “Internalized Racial Inferiority,” in August that excluded White people. It was conducted on Sept. 3 by the city’s Race and Social Justice Initiative, radio host Jason Rantz on KTTH reported Monday after filing a public disclosure request for the lesson materials.
The lesson was described as having employees explore “the process which American conditioning, socialization and history leads People of Color to internalize racialized beliefs, ideas and behaviors about themselves, undergirding the power of White Supremacy.”
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Tacoma Man Sentenced to Two Years for Setting Fire to Police Building During 2020 CHOP Protest
Tacoma-native, Isaiah Thomas Willoughby, received a two-year prison sentence in conjunction with three years of supervised release for starting a fire outside the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct building last year. Willoughby recently entered a plea agreement for arson charges.
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Twitter Reverses Block of Gabby Petito Foundation
Twitter’s inability to properly serve its users has been showcased once again this week when an account set up by the murder victim Gabby Petito’s family was temporarily disabled.
The account was soon reinstated, but it laid bare some of the problems the social media platform is consistently facing, and presenting to its users: clumsy enforcement of its own rules, and unwillingness to demonstrate transparency around those incidents.
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The story of what happened to Mr. Caldwell is shocking. He was in solitary confinement for 49 days and is now going broke paying for his defense against trumped-up charges. This is how far our nation has gone off the rails.
This should send shivers down the spine of every American.
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James O’Keefe and Project Veritas has struck again and this time, it looks like undercover honey pots took some Pfizer nerds out for dinner and got them talking about stuff The Man doesn’t want you to know—specifically, that natural immunity is better than the COVID vaccine. Duh. We all know this. But the Ministry of Truth is trying to bury knowledge we’ve all had since birth and pretend that none of our grandparents knew how to treat a respiratory virus.
Project Veritas’s new undercover video exposes Pfizer scientists admitting what we all already know. Get ready for this one. It’s illuminating. (I can’t be the only one who feels a little bad for these lab geeks who think they’re out on a date with a pretty girl. They’re never going to trust women again. And I hope they don’t get fired. They seem like decent dudes.)
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Video: Professor Charges UCLA Suspended Him to “Rehabilitate Their Own (Racist) Image”
A professor who claims he was suspended for refusing to grade black students more leniently has charged that UCLA sidelined him in an effort to offset its own “horrible reputation for racism.”
As we reported last year, Accounting lecturer Gordon Klein was placed on leave after he rejected requests to allow black students to take final exams at a later date as a response to the death of George Floyd and black lives matter protests.
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Video: Loudest ‘F**k Joe Biden’ Chant Yet Breaks Out at Titans-Jets Game
The “F*ck Joe Biden” chants have transitioned from college football stadiums to the National Football League as a thunderous anti-Biden chant was heard Sunday at the Titans-Jets game.
It may be the loudest example yet of the chant springing up at a sports venue.
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Watch: Josh Hawley Slams Biden’s Deputy AG Over the FBI’s Targeting of Concerned and Angry Parents
On Tuesday, the day following Attorney General Merrick Garland’s announcement that the Department of Justice would me mobilizing the FBI to investigate threats against school board members by concerned parents, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco was grilled by Senator Josh Hawley regarding the proposed actions.
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Well, Duh. This is Why it Was Stupid
A vaccine that is not sterilizing permits the virus to infect you and replicate and as a result you can infect others. Technically it is not a vaccine at all (which by definition prevents infection); it is a prophylactic therapy. Such a “vaccine” instead acts to reduce or eliminate symptomatic disease. You don’t know you’re sick and you don’t get sick. You don’t go to the hospital and you don’t die. Unfortunately since you don’t know you’re sick but are infected and the virus is both replicating in you and shedding you are more-likely to spread the infection to others. All of the current Covid jabs are in this category and so is, for that matter IPV (injected polio vaccine — the original Salk discovery.)
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Had we done with polio what we’re doing now with Covid — IPV (non-sterilizing) use only with virus circulating in the United States — it is very likely the virus would have mutated, escaped the vaccine and killed millions in America. Every single so-called expert knows damn well why we didn’t do that with polio and how dangerous it is to attempt it. Indeed where polio still circulates but money is scarce they use OPV only (which is sterilizing) and accept the risk of the rare but possible active case it can cause for this exact reason.
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Wisconsin Judge Refuses to Toss Weapons Charge Against Kyle Rittenhouse
Kyle Rittenhouse returned to a Kenosha, Wisconsin, courtroom Tuesday, where a judge refused to dismiss a weapons charge and weighed several motions, including one requesting that a self-defense expert be allowed to testify during the criminal trial that’s scheduled to begin in November.
Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder was expected to consider several outstanding motions Tuesday in an effort to establish the final ground rules for the trial. He refused to dismiss a weapons charge against the Illinois resident, who is accused of killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz during an August 2020 protest in Kenosha.
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‘You Don’t Own Your Body’: NBA Player Andrew Wiggins After Getting Vaccine
Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins has decided to get vaccinated, but continues to speak out against the coercion of fellow NBA players.
Wiggins, who, along with several other high-profile players, has been outspoken when it comes to vaccine requirements for both NBA teams and the cities they play in, has appeared to have reluctantly gotten the vaccine.
“It’s not something that I wanted to do. I was kind of forced to,” the 26-year-old told reporters.
“You don’t own your body, that’s what it comes down to,” he continued.
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Breaking: Alberta Announces Third COVID Shot Requirements, No Gatherings for Unvaccinated
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday that starting Wednesday, all Albertans 75 and up, plus all Indigenous Albertans, will be eligible for third COVID shots six months after second doses. Kenney said he’s awaiting further guidance on “broadening” booster shots to other segments of the population.
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Documents: Federal Government Advised it Could Force All Canadian Workers to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Senior federal officials were told in the spring that the government could make it mandatory for all workers across Canada to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the Canadian Press reports.
Internal documents obtained by the Canadian Press using the Access to Information law say that the federal government could consider making the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory as “a national interest item.”
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Freedom Activist Arrested for Not Wearing a Mask During His Trial
François Amalega, an activist for liberty in the province of Quebec, was arrested for not agreeing to wear a mask during his trial.
François takes full responsibility for his actions and continues to claim that this mask demand goes against his values.
He says he is ready to do anything to assert them.
Now, François Amalega is being held until his next trial date, which is supposedly this Friday, at the Bordeaux prison in Montreal.
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Lockdown Ticket Withdrawn for Nova Scotia Fight the Fines Client
Brian Landru was in a Stellarton, Nova Scotia grocery store doing his weekly cupboard restock when he suddenly discovered himself on the wrong side of the law for doing something he’s done for years: shopping without his face covered.
Brian is medically exempt from wearing a mask. It’s none of anyone’s business why, but that wasn’t good enough for the COVID busybody who alerted the local authorities that a major crime was going down at the Sobeys. The cops came promptly, issued Brian a ticket for $1,000 and told him he needed to provide a note from his doctor to prove his medical exemption to nosy strangers at the grocery store in the future, to avoid problems and tickets. But the ticket they gave Brian was going to stick.
Thankfully, Brian reached out to Rebel News through our civil liberties project, Fight The Fines.
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Police Decided Not to Break Up Massive Party of 500 People at Quebec Airbnb Due to Safety Concerns
MONTREAL — Police responded to a rowdy party at an Airbnb in western Quebec on the weekend that was in violation of public health regulations, but the gathering was so big they say they couldn’t break it up.
Nine busloads of people descended onto a newly built rental cottage in the quiet city of La Pêche along the Gatineau River.
Police, who were called after 911 calls about noise, estimate there were 500 people at the party Saturday night.
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Senior Citizen Violently Arrested for Protest at Vancouver Restaurant
67-year-old Vancouver resident Drew Truebits alleges that he incurred injuries after a violent takedown by a police officer and an alleged Earls restaurant employee.
On September 24, Drew and Dan Johnston went to an Earls location to protest against the vaccination requirement for dining at restaurants. But things didn’t go according to the plan when Drew stepped inside.
The Vancouver police say they were flagged down by staff to deal with a group of men who refused to display their vaccination status upon entry. The police allege that “When staff had asked the group to leave the business, the men became verbally aggressive, belligerent, and physically resisted staff.”
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Update: Calgary Pizzeria Continues to Defy Vaccine Passport Mandate
Calgary restaurant Without Papers Pizza is open for business and serving everyone who walks through their doors. They don’t care whether you’ve gotten the jab or not.
The Alberta government disagrees, however. The province has recently implemented a vaccine passport program, which Without Papers Pizza has decided not to abide by.
This local restaurant is choosing not to segregate their clientele as the government demands, instead deciding to respect all those who wish to dine in.
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Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek has asked the British Ambassador to the Czech Republic Nick Archer to pass on a request for the Scottish Football Association to apologize or distance itself from its Equality and Diversity Advisor Marvin Bartley, who described the Czechs as “rotten fruit.”
Kulhanek summoned Archer to discuss the insults of Czech children in the British media and on the internet in connection with Thursday’s Sparta Prague football match with the Glasgow Rangers, according to a report from Czech news outlet Echo24. The sporting event has spawned now spawned a diplomatic conflict after some UK media outlets described Czech children as “racist,” a claim that was met with fierce resistance from Czech politicians as well as top football clubs in the country.
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Five ‘Anarchists’ Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Top UK Conservative Sir Iain Duncan Smith
Five “anarchists” were arrested after the former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith was allegedly hit over the head with a road cone while on his way to a Tory conference meeting in Manchester on Monday afternoon.
While on his way to the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel shortly before 4 pm, Sir Iain Duncan Smith was allegedly attacked by a group of left-wing agitators with a traffic cone.
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A protester stormed a Louis Vuitton fashion show at Paris Fashion Weektoday, walking down the catwalk to condemn the impact of excessive consumption on the planet,.
The activist from the Amis de la Terre France [Friends of the Earth] campaign group carried a banner reading ‘Overconsumption = extinction’.
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France Scales Back Mask Usage in Schools
France is scaling back its mandate on facemasks in schools due to the declining case rates of COVID-19.
From October 4, students in some primary schools will not be required to wear protective face masks in areas with a low COVID-19 infection rate, according to a government decree on Thursday.
Reuters reports that although the decree is nationwide, Paris and its surrounding suburbs are not included in the 47 areas where masking in schools will no longer be required, according to France’s health ministry.
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France Blames America’s Export of “Woke” Culture for Erosion of Free Speech
Emmanuel Macron, the French President, has claimed that a new trend of “woke culture” from the United States is “racializing” his country and causing a suppression of free speech.
Macron, along with other prominent French figures, has denounced the “woke” culture, according to Elle Magazine.
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French City Marseille Described as Like ‘War’ As Police Targeted by Kalashnikov Fire
Police officers in Marseille, France, were targetted by alleged Kalashnikov rifle fire over the weekend as a union official described part of the city as being like a warzone.
Police officers were conducting an anti-drug operation in the area of La Bricarde in the 15th arrondissement (district) of the southern French port city on Sunday at around 4 pm when they were met with a hail of gunfire.
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Germany Registers More Than 500 Islamist Terror Threats
Islamists continue to constitute by far the biggest group of people threatening security in Germany despite people who practice Islam being a small minority in the country. In August, the Federal Criminal Police Office registered 554 people in connection with “Politically motivated crime — religious ideology” (PMK category), according to a response from the federal government to a request from the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
In addition, there were also 527 so-called people of concern. While the number of people at risk decreased compared to a year ago, the number of “relevant people” increased slightly.
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Insulate Britain Invokes WW2 Collateral Damage to Justify Deaths Caused by Protests
The spokesman for Insulate Britain implicitly stated that deaths caused by ambulances forced to wait in traffic because of one of his protests was like allowing soldiers in World War Two to die in order to keep secret from Nazi Germany that the UK had cracked the code for the Enigma machine, per his interpretation of historical events he had seen in the 2014 film The Imitation Game.
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Ireland: TV Show Weirdly Celebrates Decline of White People
A guest on a TV show in Ireland made bizarre comments in which he appeared to celebrate the demographic decline of white people.
Can’t we all just get along?
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Italy: Salvini Admits Mistakes After Poor Centre-Right Showing in Local Elections
Centre-left won Milan, Naples, Bologna in 1st round
(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 5 — League leader Matteo Salvini admitted on Tuesday that the centre-right coalition had made mistakes after its disappointing showing in an important round of local elections on Sunday and Monday.
Centre-left candidates won the contests in Milan, Naples and Bologna by getting over 50% of the vote in the first round, meaning there is no need for runoffs in those cities.
There will be runoffs in Rome and Trieste, where the centre-right candidates came top in the first round, and Torino, where the centre-left’s runner did best on Sunday and Monday.
The centre right did win regional elections in Calabria and in some medium-sized cities in a round of elections in which the turnout was very low.
“Reflection is needed without making up excuses,” Salvini said via Facebook.
“If half of the citizens decide not to vote it is certainly not their fault, it is our fault alone.
“It is the fault of our mistakes, rows and delays. This is a lesson for me and a lesson for us”.
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Police in Germany have launched an investigation into individuals belonging to the far-left extremist group Antifa who recently called for the murder of 53 politicians from the national conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The extremist activists also published the residential addresses of the politicians on an internet platform popular with radical leftists.
According to a report from the news portal FOCUS Online, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the security agency that is responsible for ensuring the personal safety of the nation’s politicians, has confirmed that people belonging to left-wing extremist circles have made death threats against 53 Alternative for Germany (AfD) politicians on the online platform Indymedia.
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MEP Calls for Facebook Regulation After “Whistleblower” Leak
It’s been 17 years since Facebook was founded, and its business model, though evolving as the modest startup grew into a global juggernaut, has essentially been the same: collect user data, and then find a way to monetize it, whether or not those users are fully aware of what’s going on with their personal information behind the scenes.
Many years had passed before sporadic attempts to question, contain and correct this behavior started to appear in various jurisdictions — often for reasons far removed from genuine concern for people’s online privacy and security — and now the European Union might be jumping on that bandwagon.
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Pegasus 2.0: Are the Pandora Papers a Hybrid Warfare Operation?
Just when it seemed that the Pegasus spy-software story that erupted in July this year had subsided, another of its kind arises timed to perfection to coincide with parliamentary elections in a country led by an anti-migration, conservative-thinking prime minister.
Despite the promising signs that journalists worldwide are doing what they are supposed to do, that is, unmasking the corrupt dealings of politicians and world leaders, instead the entire effort bears the marks of hybrid information warfare directed by an international consortium of left-wing journalists, and financed by one well-known US billionaire oligarch.
This time the scandal is named “Pandora Papers” and it is supposed to have uncovered a world-wide tax avoidance scandal with hundreds of politicians and well-known businessmen involved. The hallmarks of the Pandora scandal are not dissimilar to the previous Pegasus story, in which an Israeli-made spy software was supposed to have been detected on the phones of journalists and NGO activists, incidentally almost all of them active on the left side of the political spectrum.
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Scottish Venues Rebel Against Vaccine Passport Scheme
Venues in Scotland refused to enforce the country’s newly enshrined vaccine passport scheme after the technology behind the app completely failed at its first attempt.
After the new system went into place on Friday morning last week, venues such as football stadiums and nightclubs were expected to begin mandating proof of vaccination as a condition of entry.
However, problems immediately arose after Aberdeen Football Club fans reported issues with the app as soon as it went live.
The club responded swiftly by announcing it wouldn’t be enforced for that weekend’s match.
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Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus will vote in the parliamentary elections for “those who resist the hopeless push to the left and to piracy [a reference to the Czech Pirate Party].” He said this on Monday in the 360° program on CNN Prima News but was not more specific about his choice. However, he praised the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and Tricolor movement for their attitude towards the European Union.
“I will vote for those who dare to resist the desperate and hopeless shift to the left and the piracy that is taking place in our country,” he said, expressing disapproval of the Pirate Party.
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The former detective who blew the whistle on the grooming gang scandal in Rochdale has condemned the toxic cop culture that led to the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Scotland Yard officer, warning that even if Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick resigns, she would only be replaced by another high-ranking officer who had graduated through the same, self-serving ranks.
Maggie Oliver had quit Greater Manchester Police in 2012 to expose the mass rapes of working-class white girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men, accusing officers in comments made last year of “deliberate acts to bury and ignore the abuse of many, many vulnerable children” which she said was “gross criminal neglect” and “covering up the truth” that went to “the top echelons of Greater Manchester Police”.
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Horrendous: U.S. General Allegedly Abandoned Allies in Afghanistan for Souvenirs
One of the “iconic” images of our catastrophic surrender from Afghanistan was a night-vision photograph of Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, the last American service member to depart the war-torn nation, boarding a C-17 Globemaster.
Mainstream media portrayed him kindly, like any brave U.S. soldier who fought and bled in Afghanistan for nearly two decades.
Our friend Jennifer Van Laar at RedState exclusively reported Sunday, however, that the 1992 West Point graduate erred badly in late August.
Donahue allegedly booted 50-100 American allies off the cargo plane so he could load a Taliban souvenir — an “inoperable Taliban-owned Toyota Hilux with a fully operational Russian ZU-23 anti-aircraft auto cannon mounted in the bed” — to bring home.
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An article in the state-backed Global Times newspaper said that ‘collusion’ between the US and Taiwan was so ‘audacious’ that the situation ‘has almost lost any room for manoeuvre.’
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Mr Abbott — who led Australia from 2013 to 2015 — will on Friday speak at the Yushan forum, a conference organised by the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation.
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Last month, a grant application revealed that an international team of scientists from the US, China and Singapore planned to mix genetic data of similar strains to create a new coronavirus.
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Hundreds of Critical Workers Quit Over Mandatory Vaccination
As various Australian states push forward with their ‘roadmaps to freedom’, hundreds of critical workers have quit in protest against mandatory vaccination.
At least 130 workers in the NSW health industry have resigned along with an unknown amount of Queensland police officers. Both industries have come under mandatory vaccine orders issued by their respective state premiers and handed down through industry leaders.
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Very often in the last year or so, I have seen children for the first time when they have already reached the end stage of brain cancer. These are children whose illness is dreadfully apparent. They are children whose lives we could have saved if they had been diagnosed even six months earlier.
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New Zealand: COVID 19 Delta Outbreak: Second Arrest Over Mass Anti-Lockdown Protest
A second person has been charged over organising a mass anti-lockdown protest led by Destiny Church’s Brian Tamaki.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the gathering illegal and a “slap in the face” for Aucklanders.
Police said a man, 57, has been summonsed to appear in Auckland District Court in relation to organising the gathering at Auckland Domain on Saturday.
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NSW is projected to hit the 70 per cent vaccination target today, triggering an end to the shackles of lockdown on Monday after more than three months. The state also had the fewest cases since August
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Amused Aussies have flocked online to poke fun at the hundreds of Americans who stormed the streets of New York City on Monday to protest against Covid vaccine mandates in Australia.
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Digital ID, Bill Gates Vaccine Record, And Payments System Combo to be Trialed in Africa
With the COVID-19 saga in full swing, Trust Stamp’s authentication system is integrated with Wellness Pass. Once the vaccine for coronavirus is made available, it will be integrated into the whole system to keep track of the vaccinations in West Africa. It is worth noting that the whole biometric digital identity platform is launched with a motivation to bolster the markets for vaccines.
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Asylum Seeker Knifeman Shot Dead at German Asylum Home
Police fatally shot a Sudanese asylum seeker armed with a knife at an asylum home in Lower Saxony, after the man attacked the officers.
Police were first called to the refugee home in the town of Harsefeld on Sunday at around 12 pm as the man was seen with a knife and acting in a threatening manner. Officers were able to calm down the migrant, but were again called to the scene two hours later after he had reportedly been threatening other residents of the asylum home. Believing the migrant to have a mental disorder, police attempted to have him admitted to psychiatric care, but a local court refused.
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Convicted Sex Offender Arrested Alongside 34 Undocumented Migrants in Van Horn, Texas
VAN HORN, Texas (KFOX) — A convicted sex offender was one of 35 undocumented migrants who were arrested for illegally entering the United States in Van Horn, Texas Monday.
The sex offender is a citizen of El Salvador and was convicted for second-degree felony rape in New York, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.
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Fake Bomb Found on Polish-Belarusian Border
Tensions are not dying down on the Polish-Belarusian border, with the discovery of a fake bomb only adding to the ongoing crisis. While patrolling the border region near the village of Nowy Dwór, Polish Border Guard officers found the device with cables and a “clock which had a repeating alarm sound.” According to a post from the Border Guard on social media, they claimed the fake bomb was another provocation from Belarusian intelligence services.
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Hundreds of Migrants Land on the Italian Island of Lampedusa
Hundreds of migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean on Sunday after fleeing Libya and Tunisia.
At least 18 small ships bearing more than 600 people in total arrived on the small island south of Sicily.
In addition, the migrants rescued on Saturday by Italian supply vessel Asso Ventinove were also taken to Lampedusa.
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Hungary’s Migration Policy Should be Respected by Other Countries, Says Foreign Minister at UN
Migration and asylum policy must remain strictly a national competence, and the countries of the world must mutually respect the differing views on immigration, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó said at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
“Hungary does not want to give up any of its national competences regarding migration and asylum policy, but it seeks a constructive dialogue with international partners,” the foreign minister emphasized, according to a Hungarian news outlet MTI.
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Iraqi Citizen in Greece Charged With Links to Daesh/ISIS
The man was arrested in Athens after being informed by a foreign service
A 34-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was charged with being a member of the terrorist group Daesh/ISIS on Tuesday after being arrested Monday.
He was arrested on Monday afternoon in central Athens after authorities were informed by a foreign service that the man is a suspect of being a member of the terrorist group.
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Italy: Man Stabs Woman to Death in Bar Near Turin
Two other women injured by attacker
(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 5 — A 34-year-old man has been arrested by Carabinieri police after allegedly stabbing to death a woman at a bar in a town near Turin overnight.
The man, who is said to be of Moroccan origin, was sitting at a table with the 44-year-old victim and allegedly stabbed her in the back after she rejected his advances, sources said.
The man also allegedly injured two other women who tried to defend the victim.
The man ran away from the bar, in the town of Luserna San Giovanni, but the police soon tracked him down nearby after customers raised the alarm.
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Poland Warns Potential Migrants Belarus Border is Closed
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The government of Poland is working abroad to warn potential migrants that the country’s border with Belarus is sealed and not a passage into the European Union. A deputy foreign minister said Tuesday that Poland’s diplomats in Middle Eastern and African countries are talking to local media and posting messages on social networks to stop people from trying to illegally enter the EU through Belarus. A number of migrants, mostly from Iraq, have recently died from exhaustion as they tried to get to Poland across an area of woods and swamps. The Polish deputy minister says diplomats are also speaking with government officials in certain countries of origin to urge them to warn their citizens.
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Poland Seeks to Bolster Border With New Tech Amid Migrant Influx
WARSAW, Oct 4 (Reuters) — Poland plans to strengthen its border with a system of motion sensors and cameras, modelling it on the Greek border with Turkey, its interior minister said in comments published on Monday, as it faces a large migrant influx from Belarus.
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Priti Patel Announces UK Military Will ‘Turn Back the Boats’ To Stop Migrant Crisis
Home Secretary Priti Patel confirmed that the British government is working with the armed forces to develop “sea tactics” to “turn back the boats” to France in response to the growing migrant crisis in the English Channel.
Speaking at the Tory party conference in Manchester on Tuesday, Priti Patel said that there is no justification for alleged asylum seekers to travel to the UK from France, which she said is a “safe country, one not riven by war or conflict.”
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Senator Cotton Warns Hundreds of “Unknown Afghans” Escaping Into U.S. From Military Bases
Senator Tom Cotton warned Monday that hundreds of unvetted and undocumented refugees rescued from Afghanistan are fleeing military bases within the U.S.
Cotton detailed the incidents in a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, writing “it is alarming that hundreds of Afghan evacuees have reportedly left U.S. military bases directly into our communities, possibly before completing our vetting and immigration processes.”
Reuters picked up on the fact that that at least 700 Afghans have escaped U.S. bases in Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, Indiana, New Mexico, and New Jersey.
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B.C. Human Rights Tribunal Rules That Refusing to Use Preferred Pronouns is a Human Rights Violation
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled in favour of a non-binary individual, Jessie Nelson, who identifies as “gender fluid” and transgender after Nelson was fired for asking the manager to use they/them pronouns at the Gibsons, B.C. restaurant Bueno Osteria, run by Michael Buono and Ryan Kingsberry.
According to the tribunal, refusing to use someone’s preferred pronouns violates their human rights.
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“Just when it seemed that the Pegasus spy-software story that erupted in July this year had subsided, another of its kind arises timed to perfection to coincide with parliamentary elections in a country led by an anti-migration, conservative-thinking prime minister.” Wait, you think Babiš is conservative and against migration? That gotta be the joke of the year! He’s a leftist through and through and money certainly doesn’t stink to him. The only thing he’s got going for him is a great PR team!
Hi there my Czech friend..
I/m Pole/Canadian living in Poland now
Is worth to let people know, that Babis is former Czech Communist ,high nomenclature party member and secret cooperative for Czech Communist security organization ( Czech KGB) .
Known as a ” Bures”..
His party cooperative and protege is infamous EC commissar Jourova..also Czech Communist party member.
Her carrier is more than spectacular..From jail under major corruption charges , directly to be appointed as a EU Bank executive ..
I have to admit ..Czechs have some unorthodox political punch line and political strategy :-)) to bad that Poland have to face a consequences such as..
Never-less V4 is done and cold dead as a cucumber in my salad..
Thanks to Czechs and Slovaks..
Retaliation will be swift and form already negotiated with Hungary :-))
Regards from Poland..
ps..I would love to write and elaborate more ..but i can’t due to anglo-saxon
censorship regime here..
Today Hungarian govt welcomes Polish Constitutional Tribunal decision..
I wish Czechs and Slovaks did that as well..but Czechs and Slovaks interest is to follow German interest..
Didn’t yours nations learn anything from 1939 History lessen ?
I keep thinking, why did we Russians get along so well with the Germans in the same country? We are peoples on a grand scale – if we f**k with our heads, so to the fullest!
Barking up the wrong tree: Gender for dogs
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/10/06/barking-up-the-wrong-tree-gender-for-dogs/
While we lived with the Germans, the German word “Mushtra”
Muster – “sample”, “template”
But in the English language there is no such page in WIKIpedia.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%88%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0