A fuel tanker exploded after colliding with another vehicle in a suburb of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Nearly 100 people were killed in the resulting inferno, and another 100 injured. Many of the victims had flocked to the site of the crash in an attempt to obtain some of the fuel gushing from the ruptured tanker.
In other news, in an attempt to deter migrants, Lithuania has begun constructing an 11-foot high fence along its border with Belarus.
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The Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers tested positive for Covid and revealed to the world he was unvaccinated this week, despite previously leading on that he had been immunized.
Rodgers, who appeared on the Pat McAfee show to talk about his decision to not get vaccinated, said he was already feeling better and that he was following the same path for treatment that got Joe Rogan better within days: monoclonal antibodies, vitamins and ivermectin.
“I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now so before my final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I’d like to set the record straight on so many of the blatant lies out there,” he says at the onset of defending himself.
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Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Temporarily Halted by Federal Court
A federal appeals court has halted President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for larger businesses, marking a temporary victory for the Right’s resistance to the measure.
A three-judge panel issued the ruling Saturday, saying petitioners offered significant cause to believe there are “grave statutory and constitutional issues” with the federal order.
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Bombshell: New York Times, FBI Confirm Legitimacy of Ashley Biden Diary Published by National File
Entries in the diary include the author revealing she believes she was sexually molested as a child and shared “probably not appropriate” showers with her father, some that detail the author’s struggle with drug abuse and the author’s crumbling marriage with multiple affairs, along with entries showing the family’s fears of a potential scandal due to her brother’s new home, and those that show a deep resentment for her father due to his money, control, and emotional manipulation.
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Boston Principal Beaten Unconscious During Rise of Violence in Schools
The principal of a Boston public school in Dorchester was beaten until she was unconscious for four minutes or more during an increase in violence in the school district.
Henderson K-12 Inclusion School Principal Patricia Lampron was pummeled in the head until she was unconscious Wednesday, the Boston Herald reported.
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Breaking: FBI Raids Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe’s Home
The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched through the home of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe two days after they searched the homes of his associates in the Southern District of New York’s inquiry into the theft of Ashley Biden’s diary.
As detailed by the New York Times on Friday, the FBI raided the homes of two people linked to Project Veritas. Sources told the Times that the search warrants were executed on Thursday at one location on East 25th Street and another on Mamaroneck.
On Saturday, the FBI searched the home of James O’Keefe, according to witnesses who spoke to the New York Times. O’Keefe had acknowledged that Project Veritas was under investigation by the Justice Department in connection to the diary.
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Chicago Closing Public Schools November 12 for ‘Vaccination Awareness Day’
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced it will be canceling school on November 12 for “Vaccination Awareness Day,” so children five and older have the chance to receive their coronavirus vaccinations.
In a Thursday night email, Chief Executive Officer of CPS Pedro Martinez stated the day off will be an “opportunity for parents and guardians to take their children five years of age and older to get vaccinated at their pediatrician’s office, at a healthcare provider, or at a CPS school-based site or community vaccination event,” according to Chalkbeat.
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Child Wounded in Broad Daylight Freeway Shooting on I-880 in Oakland
Freeway shooting investigation prompts lane closures on I-880 in Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif. — The California Highway Patrol confirms a young child was injured during a freeway shooting on I-880 in Oakland Saturday afternoon. All lanes of traffic were reopened, as of 5:40 p.m.
According to the California Highway Patrol Oakland Division, the shooting occurred around 2:15 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-880 just before the Broadway exit in Oakland. The victim was able to stop their vehicle around the Broadway exit.
The child who was injured in the shooting was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The condition of the child was not made public…
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Do Not Comply Under Any Circumstances
OSHA is a small agency. They have 1850 inspectors responsible for 130 million workers. They do not have the manpower to come after every business who refuses to comply with this tyranny. Business owners need to stand strong. Do not bend the knee, do not comply. They literally do not have the power to come after all of us.
If they fine you, ignore it. Don’t pay it. What are they going to do? Nothing. It will be one big ball of chaos and legal battles stretched out for years to come, but at least your employees with have their bodily autonomy and you will have your workforce to continue producing goods and services.
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Eight Confirmed Dead at Travis Scott Concert in Houston
Eight people are dead and several others were injured after an incident at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, on Friday night, authorities said.
At around 9 p.m. or 9:15 p.m., the crowd “began to compress toward the front of the stage and that caused panic and people were getting injured,” Houston Fire Chief Sam Peña said at a press conference early Saturday morning.
Seventeen people were transported to hospitals, Peña said, adding 11 of these individuals were experiencing cardiac arrest.
He later said authorities transported 23 people throughout the day, including before the “mass casualty incident,” for “various medical issues,” and more than 300 patients were seen at the on-site field hospital throughout the day.
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After Friday night’s 11th-hour vote in the House resulted in the passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill — thanks to 13 uniparty Republicans who joined the Congressional Black Caucus in short-sheeting House Progressives — the Wall Street Journal and Forbes have published refreshers of what what America is supposedly getting out of the largest investment in infrastructure in more than a decade.
From 10,000 feet, investments span refurbishing aging roads, bridges and ports, replacing lead pipes, upgrading and hardening the nation’s power grid, and of course — a healthy investment in ‘infrastructure’ to battle the ever-looming man-made climate change disaster that we’re told will turn coastal cities into a modern Atlantis.
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Incumbent NJ Senate Pres. Still Refuses to Concede to Truck Driver, Claims ‘Missing Ballots’
Steve Sweeney, the sitting President of the New Jersey Senate, has stated that we will not concede the election he almost certainly lost until the last ballot has been counted.
Sweeney told the press, “The results from Tuesday’s election continue to come in, for instance there were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county. While I am currently trailing in the race, we want to make sure every vote is counted. Our voters deserve that, and we will wait for the final results.”
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Yes, there’s a senile, incoherent stooge in the Oval Office. And many have hoped that he doesn’t understand the consequences of his regime’s energy policies. But when attempting to assess the level of comprehension of members of the Regime, Biden included, it’s not the way to bet.
They do understand. The policies were instituted to produce exactly the results we’ve seen, are seeing, and will see much more of. Villainy, not ignorance and not stupidity.
What, did you expect the villains who openly stole the White House not to impose villainous policies upon us?
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Liberal Reporter’s Thread Hurls a Brick in the Face of CNN and Their Anti-Misinformation Crusade
“CNN specializes in putting known liars on the air: not to grill them but to deliver the news. After James Clapper got caught lying to the Senate about the NSA, CNN hired him. The same day the Lincoln Project caused a racist lie to spread, CNN welcomed them onto a panel,” he tweeted.
“If you work at CNN and are genuinely baffled why a) nobody trusts you, b) you are widely hated, and c) your audience is gone, wonder no more. Just look in the mirror,” he added.
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Man Stands on Brooklyn Bridge Waving ‘F*** Biden’ Flag, Starts ‘F*** Joe Biden’ Chant
A man stood atop the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday with a flag reading, “F*** Biden,” initiating chants from protesters.
The man led protesters in chanting, “F*** Joe Biden ,” as the crowd, holding American flags and signs, marched over the bridge during a demonstration against vaccine mandates, a tweet containing a video of the event says.
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One of the two protestors allegedly killed by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was reportedly seen acting aggressive and repeatedly asking an armed group to shoot him, a witness testified on Friday, Reuters reported.
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Massive ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Banner Flies Over the Georgia/Missouri Game
A “Let’s Go Brandon” banner made an appearance at the Georgia/Missouri game Saturday.
In a video tweeted by Old Row, a massive “Let’s Go Brandon” banner was flown over the stadium during the SEC matchup.
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Virginia’s newly elected Attorney General, Jason Miyares, has announced his intention to investigate the sexual assault incidents in the school district at the forefront of the culture war against transgender ideology and critical race theory in the state.
According to NBC Washington‘s Drew Wilder, Miyares and Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin will look to change Virginia law to give the Attorney General the authority to step in when local officials lose confidence in the commonwealth’s attorney to do an adequate job.
According to Wilder, Miyares, who was accompanied by Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman, says he intends to investigate sexual assault incidents in Loudoun County public schools.
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One Unconscious Houston Concertgoer Had Neck Prick ‘Similar’ To Injection: Police Chief
At least one attendee found unconscious at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival Friday night had a neck prick “similar” to that left by an injection, according to the Houston police chief, who cautioned against misinformation as authorities investigate.
While officials warned that rumors circulating on social media should not all be taken at face value, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said the unconscious male concertgoer was given Narcan, an emergency narcotic overdose treatment, after which he was revived.
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Protesters Gather in Jeffersontown to Oppose Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements
More than 100 people gathered in Jeffersontown Saturday afternoon to protest impending federal guidelines that require larger employers to mandate vaccinations or regular testing for their workers.
“Don’t stop fighting,” Andrew Cooperrider, a Republican candidate for Kentucky Senate District 12, told the crowd at Veterans Memorial Park. “Don’t just comply. Make them fire you. Don’t even quit; make them fire you.”
On Jan. 4, new federal guidelines by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are set to go into place, requiring employees at companies with over 100 people to either get vaccinated or tested every week.
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Senators Klobuchar and Cotton Team Up on Bill to Curb Big Tech’s Acquisition Spree
A duo of senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would limit Big Tech’s ability to buy other companies. Big Tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook have been accused of engaging in anti-competitive behavior by buying out their competition.
On Friday, the office of Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who heads the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that together with Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, they had introduced a bill targeting Big Tech’s ability to make acquisitions.
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Small Group Protests Vaccine Mandate Outside Bath Shipyard
Nearly 30 people gathered outside Bath Iron Works and the Local S6 union hall on Washington Street in Bath Saturday to protest the president’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors like BIW’s shipbuilders.
About 60% of the protesters were not BIW employees. Many of the protesters said they’re not against the vaccine itself and don’t care if others get it, but they dislike the government making them choose between getting the vaccine or leaving their jobs.
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Study Shows Dramatic Decline in Effectiveness of All Three COVID-19 Vaccines Over Time
Researchers who scoured the records of nearly 800,000 U.S. veterans found that in early March, just as the Delta variant was gaining a toehold across American communities, the three vaccines were roughly equal in their ability to prevent infections.
But over the next six months, that changed dramatically.
By the end of September, Moderna’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, measured as 89% effective in March, was only 58% effective.
The effectiveness of shots made by Pfizer and BioNTech, which also employed two doses, fell from 87% to 45% in the same period.
And most strikingly, the protective power of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine plunged from 86% to just 13% over those six months.
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The clandestine Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), created under the Foreign Intelligence Service Act, determines the individuals that federal agencies can surveil. This week, the US Supreme Court refused to hear a case seeking to have the FISC explain the justifications for providing federal agencies with enormous amounts of people’s data.
The ACLU filed a case arguing that the First Amendment gave Americans the right to know the legal justifications for the bulk data collection by federal agencies. Lower courts ruled against the rights group, and the group brought the case to the Supreme Court after the High Court refused to review the rulings by the lower courts.
Seven out of the nine members of the Supreme Court’s bench refused to review the case.
The seven who refused to review the case did not explain their decision.
The two dissenting justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch did not understand why the court declined to review a case that has “profound implications for American’s privacy and their rights to speak and associate freely.”
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Texas Parents Vote for School Board Members Opposed to Woke ‘Diversity’ Plan
In Southlake Texas, parents opposing the school district’s polarizing diversity plan have thrown a wrench in the plan’s implementation by voting in a majority of school board members who stand against it.
Andrew Yeager, who campaigned against the Carroll Independent School District’s plan for new diversity training programs and diversity curriculum, beat former teacher Stephanie Williams by a landslide, according to NBC News.
Yeager received 65.4 percent of votes cast, while Williams received just 34.6 percent.
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The Injection Toll: November 5, 2021
Here are the latest numbers from VAERS, current as of October 29, 2021. The CDC admits that CoVID injections have caused 18,078 deaths. That is:
96% more than the number of deaths caused by all non-CoVID vaccines, 1988-2021;
6 times the number of people murdered on 9/11;
37 times the average annual number of deaths from vaccines 2017-2020.
In addition, there have been 28,112 permanent disabilities. Added to the deaths, that is a total of 46,190 devastating adverse events.
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Do the Big Pharma companies want to submit the vaccines to independent analysis? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies want to disclose all the ingredients? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies have any liability for lying to the public about the proprietary ingredients in their vaccines? They do not.
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That’s why the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to force everyone to get the new vaccines. That’s why natural immunity doesn’t count to anyone in the medical community. That’s why religious exemptions have disappeared at your work, along with medical exemptions. That’s why Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (and every other therapeutic drug) were swiftly outlawed. That’s why your 5 year old child will be “encouraged” and then coerced and then forced to take the jab, just as you were “encouraged” and then coerced and then forced to take the jab. That’s why the global vaccination campaign never stops when the already vaccinated start to get sick with COVID, or young boys suddenly die from heart inflammation, or world famous soccer players collapse on TV in the middle of games. That’s why health data (whether from Israel or Sweden or Florida or your local hospital) is totally irrelevant. The vaccine is being forced on everyone because the vaccine and the vaccine passport are the essential tools of a global surveillance system that will end everyone’s basic human freedom.
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When Democrats Say ‘Our Children’
Never trust a Democrat, especially when they start speaking in first-person plural pronouns…
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Why Kirsten Gillibrand’s UFO Amendment Deserves Bipartisan Support
On Thursday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand submitted an important amendment for inclusion in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act requiring the government to strengthen its investigations of unidentified aerial phenomena , otherwise known as UFOs.
As reported by the researcher Douglas Dean Johnson, the amendment would center on the establishment of an “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office.” This office would assume the responsibilities of the Navy-led Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
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Even Censorship-Loving Google Opposes Canada’s Mass Censorship Plans
Google, despite being a company that has been devoted to censorship in recent years, has become the first Big Tech company to criticize the Canadian government’s plan to fight harmful content online. According to YouTube’s owner, Canada’s proposal could result in increased removal of legitimate content.
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8,000 Expected at Anti-Vaccine Passport Protest in Italian City That Banned Protests in Major Square
As many as 8,000 people are expected to participate in an anti-vaccine passport protest on Saturday in Trieste, Italy, which banned protests in a major square until the end of the year.
The estimated crowd of 8,000 will be expected to wear masks and socially distance or they could face fines, with Trieste Mayor Roberto Dipiazza issuing an ordinance this week to attempt to convince people not to take part in the anti-vaccine passport demonstrations.
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Alarmist, EU Commission President Von Der Leyen Emits 1.1 Tonnes CO2 in Private Jet for Just 47 km!
It’s been revealed that on June 21, 2021, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Germany) used a private jet to travel the puny 47 kilometers distance from Vienna to Bratislava.
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Climate activists demanded an end to capitalism, “black liberation”, and the abolition of police at a demonstration outside the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
Gathering in George Square in central Glasgow on Saturday, an array of climate activists, including those from indigenous communities in South America, Asia, and Africa, came together to denounce Western imperialism and the alleged racism inherent in climate change.
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Finland’s Female-Led Millennial Government Plummets in Popularity
The female-led largely millennial government of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has sunk to a new polling low this week, with barely half of the country believing the government is doing a good job.
The results come from a new poll published by the firm Kantar TNS which states that 52 per cent of Finns have a favourable view of the government, down from March of this year when 62 per cent of Finns supported the government’s actions.
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Latvia: Employers Can Suspend, Dismiss Unvaccinated Workers
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latvian parliament has given employers the go-ahead to dismiss employees who are required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus but refuse to do so.
The Seimas assembly voted 52 —27, with two abstentions and 60 lawmakers absent, to authorize employers to suspend workers without required vaccination certificates for whom they are unable to make accommodations.
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Scotland: Climate Activists Block Major Glasgow Bridge as Mass Protests Get Underway
CLIMATE activists have blocked a major bridge in Glasgow this afternoon as mass protests get underway in the city.
Police have closed the King George V Bridge in Broomielaw to both pedestrians and vehicles due to the protest activity.
One social media post said campaigners from Scientist Rebellion are currently occupying the crossing.
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Those Annoying Consent Popups Are Useless and Illegal, Court Rules
A European data regulator might rule that the pop-ups asking for user consent to track data using cookies are illegal because they are not in line with Europe’s GDPR.
Privacy activists in Europe, including the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) launched a complaint with the Belgian Data Authority (APD) claiming that IAB Europe breached Europe’s GDPR through its Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). According to ICCL, APD has found that to be true.
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Three People Injured in Knife Attack on Train in Germany
Three people were seriously injured in a knife attack on a train in Germany on Saturday, police said.
The attack took place on a high-speed ICE train in Bavaria, close to the city of Nuremberg.
The alleged attacker, a man, has been arrested, police said, but other details about him, including motive, have not yet been revealed.
[Comment: I have my suspicions.]
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‘V for Vendetta’ In Real-Life? Masked-Protesters Clash With UK Cops in Central London; 8 Injured
Authored by Alexander Zhang via The Epoch Times
Eight British police officers were injured and 12 people were arrested on Friday evening as hundreds of protesters clashed with police in central London on Bonfire Night.
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks gathered at Trafalgar Square and burned an effigy of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has implied that the West owes a “historical debt” to countries in the Global South to drastically reduce carbon emissions due to the legacy of colonialism.
Speaking at a Fridays for Future youth protest in Glasgow, Scotland, on the fringes of the United Nations COP26 climate conference, 18-year-old Thunberg said: “The climate and ecological crisis, of course, does not exist in a vacuum. It is directly tied to other crises and injustices that date back to colonialism and beyond.
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A Review and Autopsy of Two COVID Immunity Studies
Based on the solid evidence from the Israeli study, the Covid recovered have stronger and longer-lasting immunity against Covid disease than the vaccinated. Hence, there is no reason to prevent them from activities that are permitted to the vaccinated. In fact, it is discriminatory.
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Another Contribution From Lawdog
I agree with Lawdog. By accelerating the ongoing collapse of Afghanistan and making its fall inevitable, the Biden administration has condemned millions of Afghan girls to this fate, because their families will have no alternative. Afghanistan has always been a hotbed of tribalism, primitive superstition and ideological perversity. It was broken long before the USA conquered it, but we made little or no practical, fundamental, effective effort to change it. Now we’ve abandoned it pell-mell to fall back into its original state — and out of that will come new terrorist challenges to threaten the rest of the world.
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Would Your Government Lie to You?
Extremely important: “Dr Mike Yeadon — “The findings that 100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths have been caused by just 5% of the batches produced are unprecedented”“ Look at the graphics. The violations of quality control are so extreme they could not have gone undetected — unless this was the plan all along. Mrs. Surak says that Chinese bloggers are reporting that the batches are intentionally different: some are placebos, some have ten times as much active ingredient as other batches. That is: the phase 3 trial is still on, and you’re the test subject.
[Link compilation with comments. ~N]
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This is because the cure is quite literally worse than the disease. It’s just more noticeable in Australia and New Zealand because they had so few Covid cases from the start. A German site has chronicled 75 athlete collapses, most of them fatal, since June 2021. That’s 75 more athletes than collapsed and died of Covid.
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‘Kill the Bill’: Largest Protest in Melbourne So Far
Thousands have marched through the streets of Melbourne towards Parliament in a major protest event.
The crowd gathered on the steps of Parliament to protest the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021 put forward by the Daniel Andrews government.
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New Earth Café in Coolum Beach, Queensland Harrased by Police 12 Times and Counting
Sarah and Ben Parsons, owners of The New Earth Café in Coolum Beach, Queensland, are learning the hard way how petty the police can be when it comes to enforcing mask mandates.
Both Sarah and Ben are mask exempt and allow their employees and customers inside their café without donning masks. They don’t care why someone chooses not to wear one and don’t believe it’s their responsibility to enforce this ridiculous mandate.
But their support of mask exemptions and respect for people’s medical privacy has put a target on their back.
Police have already shown up at their café 12 times to harass and intimidate them and their customers and issue fines. They have even arrested Sarah and whisked her away in a police van for refusing to enforce the mask mandate at the café.
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Victoria Police Issued 260+ Mask Fines to #CHILDREN as Young as Ten
Victoria Police have been issuing hundreds of fines to Victorian children for failing to wear a face mask.
Over 260 infringements resulting in a fine have been recorded up until June 2021. At least 29 of these were given to children between the ages of 10 — 14.
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The final and arguably most important “hidden” takeaway from the study is that recovery and fatality rates for Covid-19 cases were not statistically significantly different between Ivermectin countries and non-Ivermectin countries. That means that once a person was tested and officially declared a Covid-19 case, they recovered or died at essentially the same rates across the board.
This tells us that other factors such as medical proficiency, environmental differences, or access to vaccines do not contribute to whether someone lives or dies once they have become sick with the disease. Since overall mortality rates per capita are significantly lower in Ivermectin nations but case fatality rates are the same, Ivermectin is clearly effective as an early treatment and perhaps even as a preventative measure.
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‘Terrible, Terrible Accident’: Nearly 100 People Dead After Sierra Leone Tanker Blast
Nearly 100 people have died and the death toll is expected to rise after a fuel tanker exploded in Sierra Leone’s capital.
At least 99 people have been killed and a further 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities say.
Emergency crews worked to clear the scene on Saturday in the eastern Freetown suburb of Wellington where a burnt human body and the blackened shells of cars and motorbikes blocked the road following the crash, a Reuters reporter said.
The wounded were being treated in hospitals and clinics across the capital, deputy health minister Amara Jambai told Reuters.
Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the port city, said in a post on Facebook, although that post was later edited to remove the reference…
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Biden Sent 70 Secret Night Flights of Migrants From Border to Florida
More than 70 flights transporting migrants from the southern border to Jacksonville have landed in the dark of night in recent months as the Biden administration struggles to empty overflowing border facilities, the office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
It is the first time the state of Florida has disclosed the number of confirmed flights arriving in the state since the summer. The governor’s office has scrambled in recent weeks to uncover who is facilitating the mystery flights landing in northern Florida daily, but the Biden administration has refused to disclose any information, one official said.
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German Girl, 15, Raped by Nearly a Dozen Migration-Background Men for Hours
New details have emerged regarding a gang rape last year in Hamburg that saw a 15-year-old girl raped over a period of two and a half hours by 12 men, ten of whom had a migration background.
The alleged gang rape took place in September of 2020, but more information regarding the case was reported this week by German media.
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Italy Lets 800 Migrants Stuck at Sea Disembark
Italy on Saturday agreed to let 800 migrants including hundreds of minors and five pregnant women disembark after they were stuck at sea aboard an overcrowded vessel.
German charity Sea Eye told AFP it had received permission to dock at Trapani in Sicily, just hours after a fellow charity delivered it urgently needed relief supplies, including food and blankets.
The Sea Eye 4 ship had already been carrying nearly 400 people pulled to safety at sea when it raced to the rescue of another 400 people crowded onto a wooden boat on Thursday.
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Lithuania Starts Building Border Fence
Lithuania, last week, started building a 3.4-metre high steel fence topped with 0.6 metres of razor wire along its shared land border with Belarus, Reuters reports. The fence is aimed at warding off migrants entering from Belarus. Lithuania has set aside some €152m to erect the 500km fence, which it intends to complete by September next year.
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Spain: More Than 20 Suspected Migrants Flee From Plane After it Lands in Mallorca
Police on the Spanish island of Mallorca have rounded up 12 people who fled from a plane after it made an emergency landing.
They included nine who illegally left the plane, the person who was said to be sick, the person’s companion, and a person who was arrested for fighting with an official on the plane.
They’ve all been charged with facilitating illegal immigration.
It appeared to be an elaborate scheme to enter Spain by would-be migrants from Morocco.
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Syrian Refugee Wounds Three in Knife Attack on German Train
Police were notified at approximately 9 AM local time of an attack unfolding on a high-speed ICE train traveling between the cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg. A suspect seriously injured three men and so far, one suspect has been arrested.
The 27-year-old Syrian man was arrested by police in Seubersdorf, where the train stopped after the attack, according to Bavarian state police statements to the Associated Press. Some local media sources are reporting the suspect had psychological problems. At the time of writing, police have no discernible motive for the brazen daylight attack near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate.
The Bavarian Red Cross is on-site with 110 first responders and said in a statement that it had processed three “severely injured” men who have all since been taken to hospital. Up to 300 people were removed from the train and taken to a local restaurant for refreshments, according to German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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In separate incidents this week, three migrants died trying to cross the channel.
Priti Patel announced her plan to turn back migrants in a Tory conference last month after she took legal advice, according to the Times.
Border Force has rejected requests to use Ms Patel’s new strategy, citing objections such as weather and size of boats being intercepted.
Officials said they do not think the policy will be implemented because of conditions which have to be met and the agency’s lack of support for it.
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Media Outlets Campaign to Get Facebook to Censor Climate “Misinformation”
A series of articles have been appearing lately in Big Media, piling pressure on Facebook to step up censorship of what’s considered to be “climate misinformation” on the giant platform.
These reports published by the BBC, The Guardian, and The Verge — all citing and giving a lot of space to a study into climate-related content on Facebook produced by several fairly obscure advocacy groups — came shortly after Big Tech declared “climate misinformation” and “climate denial” to be its next censorship target.
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Sworn Video Testimony Describes Infanticide in Fetal Organ Harvesting and Planned Parenthood Clinics
IRVINE, June 30—The Center for Medical Progress released a second video today featuring unsealed video clips from Planned Parenthood and abortion industry officials’ sworn deposition testimony, with disturbing descriptions of infants born alive and either harvested for organs or left to die inside abortion clinics.
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The Left’s Weaponization of Language
The leftists’ strategy to bring about radical change is to create an issue such as systemic racism or transphobia, divide the world into oppressors and oppressed around that issue, and engage in disruptive protests until their demands are met.
Weaponizing language is part and parcel of this strategy. It’s all about controlling the narrative to move the country to the far left.
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Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer discusses the LGBT community’s curious unwillingness to confront the Sharia death penalty for homosexuality or the fact that it is implemented in Sharia states.
[Video, 2:49 ~N]
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Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own. But first, reprising an older cartoon (for shameless self-promotion!):
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In Poland, the Catholic Church is calling for a nationwide fundraising campaign for migrants stranded on the border with Belarus.
The money, which is planned to be collected in all Polish churches by November 21, will be donated to the charitable organization Caritas to ensure in the border region in northeastern Poland the preconditions for the “long-term integration of refugees” who want to stay in Poland, said Archbishop Stanislaw Hadecki, chairing the conference of Polish bishops. during a divine service in Warsaw on the evening of Friday 5 November.
https://www.dw.com/ru/cerkov-nachinaet-sbor-pozhertvovanij-dlja-migrantov-na-vostochnoj-granice-polshi/a-59742809
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I’ve heard a lot about this Caritas. In Italy, there was a high-profile case of how a migrant killed the priest Caritas.
In Austria, the identityists held their protests outside the Caritas office.
A migrant human rights defender who was recently deported from Russia receives grants for her work from Caritas
A pity. I would have thought that Central European religious leaders would be more ‘based’.
Religious organizations supporting migration is not new. I’m old enough to remember the Sanctuary movement in the US in the 1980s.
Wikipedia article on Sanctuary:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement
First Dem governor to oppose jab.
https://teamtuckercarlson.com/news/democratic-governor-defies-biden-comes-out-against-his-tyrannical-covid-vaccine-mandate/