The United States Navy has begun to discharge sailors who refuse to be “vaccinated” against COVID-19. Meanwhile, the western portion of the Canadian Freedom Convoy is said to have broken a world record for the longest parade of trucks ever assembled.
In other news, a stewardess on a Spirit Airlines flight forced a passenger to remove his “Let’s Go Brandon” mask.
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“What Have You Guys Been Right About?” Adam Carolla Slams Media Over Joe Rogan Controversy
Comedian Adam Carolla slammed the media over their demand that Joe Rogan be censored for pushing “misinformation,” asking them, “What have you guys been right about?”
Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Carolla why people demanding for Rogan to be censored couldn’t just choose not to listen to him.
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Bridge Collapses in Pittsburgh Before Biden is Set to Visit to Talk About Infrastructure
A bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed Friday morning hours before President Joe Biden is set to visit the city to give remarks about infrastructure.
Pittsburgh Public Safety confirmed the bridge collapse, tweeting a photo of the snow-covered structure and warning residents of “a strong smell of natural gas in the area.”
The president heads to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Friday to visit Carnegie Mellon University’s Mill 19, a research and development hub incorporated into the bipartisan infrastructure plan passed in 2021.
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CHAZ’s Rapping BLM Warlord Has a New Side Hustle — Fighting Sexual Assault Lawsuits in Seattle
It looks like the “War Lord” of CHAZ/CHOP during Seattle’s “Summer of Love” is a megalomaniacal legend in his own mind. But here’s the part you didn’t know: Raz Simone, the dapper rapper who handed out an AR-15 to a fellow Black Lives Matter activist who then took over part of the city of Seattle, is also suspected of being a pimp. Worse, several women have reportedly filed a lawsuit against him, claiming Simone convinced them to become part of his creepy, Manson-like sex slave “family” — minus the mass murders.
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Court Finds Pennsylvania Mail-in Voting Law Unconstitutional
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on Friday found the state’s mail-in voting law unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed by Doug McLinko, vice chairman of the Bradford County Board of Commissioners in Pennsylvania. His argument was that he was unable to perform his duties as commissioner and certify the 2020 election because Pennsylvania’s 2019 election reform law is unconstitutional.
McLinko describes the Trump-Biden election after this law as a “mess” and told Just the News, “Our votes were just thrown away.”
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DeSantis Says SCOTUS Nominee Should be ‘Faithful to the Constitution’
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said President Joe Biden’s future Supreme Court nominee should “be faithful to the law and the Constitution” at a Friday press conference in Broward County.
“When you’re dealing with picks for the Supreme Court, you want people who are going to be faithful to the law and the Constitution, and understand how our constitutional system was designed to have separate powers,” DeSantis began. “The job of the judicial branch is to apply the law and Constitution. It’s not to rewrite the law and Constitution.”
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Joe Rogan Appears to Take a Shot at Neil Young
Joe Rogan appeared to take a shot at Neil Young after he threatened to remove his music from Spotify over the podcast host’s comments about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Judge: Gun Used by Kyle Rittenhouse Will be Destroyed
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Friday approved an agreement by lawyers to destroy the assault-style rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during a 2020 street protest.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said the state crime lab would destroy the gun, probably in April. Judge Bruce Schroeder, the Kenosha County judge who presided over Rittenhouse’s trial, approved the agreement. Rittenhouse was not in court for Friday’s hearing.
Rittenhouse shot the men during the protest in Kenosha in 2020. He killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz in the arm. Rittenhouse argued he fired in self-defense after each of the men attacked him. A jury last year acquitted him of multiple charges, including homicide.
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Liberal Megadonor Soros Pumps $125 Million Into Super PAC to Help Democrats in 2022 Midterms
Billionaire megadonor George Soros has poured $125 million into a super PAC this election cycle, with the money already being distributed to political action committees backing Democrat candidates and causes.
Soros has used the super PAC, known as Democracy PAC, since 2019 to support political campaigns.
He says the group’s money will support “causes and candidates, regardless of political party” committed to “strengthening the infrastructure of American democracy: voting rights and civic participation, civil rights and liberties and the rule of law,” Politico reports.
However, the money is so far going to Democrat-leaning groups, including $2.5 million to Senate Majority PAC, $1 million to the House Majority PAC, and $1 million to the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, a group fighting to elect Democrats to the formerly obscure posts that became a well-known and heavily politicized after the 2020 election, according to Politico.
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‘Lunacy’: Virginia Mom Rips Into School Board Over Hypocritical Mask Rules
A Virginia mother addressed her children’s school board Thursday night regarding the district’s mask mandate, which subverts Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order allowing parents to choose whether or not to mask their children in school.
A Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) mother, Carrie Lukas, condemned the school board for requiring children to mask up for school while “across Virginia, right now, adults are gathering in gyms, bars and clubs and laughing together maskless.”
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Marvel Star Evangeline Lilly Protests Vax Mandates: “This is Not Healthy”
The 43-year-old star posted on Instagram that she attended a rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend to support “bodily sovereignty” — i.e., protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. It was apparently the same Sunday rally where speaker and devout anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made headlines by comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
“This is not the way,” Lilly wrote Thursday. “This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems. I was pro choice before COVID and I am still pro choice today.”
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Michael Avenatti Presses Stormy Daniels About Prison Rape, Paranormal Comments in Trial
Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti confronted former client Stormy Daniels on the stand Friday during his trial at a federal court in Manhattan.
Avenatti faces allegations that he swindled the adult film star out of almost $300,000 in revenue from book sales, the New York Post reported. Avenatti had represented Daniels starting in 2018. Daniels attempted to free herself from a nondisclosure agreement and go public on the details of an affair she allegedly had with former President Donald Trump in 2006.
“On Sept. 27, 2019 … You stated that I was ‘f—ing myself pretty nice and hard and that when I go to prison, there will be a long line of people to ass-rape me,” Avenatti asked Daniels, who neither denied making the statement nor recalled every saying it, during the trial Friday.
Avenatti also confronted Daniels about a social media statement she had made concerning a brand of sex lubricant he could use while in prison. “You suggested you could put Tabasco sauce in the lube and bring it to me in prison, so I could be anally raped,” Avenatti said, according to the New York Post.
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New Scientific Paper Claims Octopuses Are Actually Aliens From Outer Space
Octopuses are from space. I know, that sounds like the opening line of a cheesy science fiction movie from the black and white days of Hollywood. But it’s actually the main part of the argument behind a research paper published in an actual peer-reviewed journal. The paper was published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Titled Cause of the Cambrian Explosion — Terrestrial or Cosmic?, the paper digs deep into the origin of life on Earth.
As a result, it posits that life began thanks to a rain of retroviruses, which literally fell from space. Those retroviruses then added new DNA sequences to terrestrial genomes, which the paper says further drove mutagenic change
Paper claims octopuses are from space
Where things start to get really interesting, though, is when the paper starts to discuss the arrival of cephalopods. The paper itself claims that certain cephalopods like octopuses, squid, and others arrived on the planet by falling from space, frozen in a kind of stasis.
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Noem Bill Would Allow Employees to Sue Over COVID Vaccination Mandates
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is proposing a bill that would allow employees to sue employers if they are denied an exemption from a COVID-19 vaccination.
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Parents, Students Protest Mask Mandate at Northern NY School
ELLENBURG DEPOT, N.Y. (WCAX) — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday extended New York’s mask mandate as an appeals court determines whether it’s legal.
Hochul says the state’s mask mandate is now in effect until at least Feb. 10. It was set to expire on Feb. 1.
In the meantime, an appeals court is hearing arguments about the mandate after a state Supreme Court judge declared it unconstitutional earlier this week.
All of this highlights the politics of masking, and that played out Friday in the North Country, where protesting families pushed school officials to let their maskless children inside.
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Parents Protest Masking Requirements Before School Friday
MALONE — Parents from the social media group “Unmask Malone & Surrounding Schools” protested in front of Franklin Academy High School, 42 Huskie Lane, Friday morning.
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Parents’ Group Hit With Facebook Ban for Benign Posts
An anti-critical race theory parents group has written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to address the censorship of harmless posts by its members.
Speaking to the Daily Caller, the founders of Moms 4 Liberty Tiffanny Justice and Tina Descovich said that they noticed a spike in flagged posts after the National Education Association (NEA) wrote a letter to social media companies to address critical race theory propaganda by “radicalized parents.”
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Philadelphia Delivery Driver Thwarts Attempted Carjacking by Shooting Armed Suspect
On Thursday night, a Philadelphia pizza delivery driver thwarted a carjacking attempt by shooting the armed suspect multiple times.
Investigators say the 39-year-old delivery driver was dropping off food at around 7:30 pm on the 3300 block of H Street when he was approached by the armed suspect, according to Fox 29.
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Project Veritas Reveals Homeless People Getting Excess Vaccinations in Exchange for Gift-Cards
On Thursday, Project Veritas released Part 2 of their series illustrating how homeless and lower-income populations are receiving excessive vaccinations just to get a taxpayer funded $100 gift card.
The new video showed how Project Veritas investigated DocGo/Ambulnz screeners and obtained undercover footage of employees giving advice on how to circumvent rules to obtain gift cards in exchange for excessive vaccinations.
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Exploring some interesting connections in terms of who owns Neil Young’s music.
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
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Restaurant later received threatening phone calls, owner says
The owner of a kosher Chinese restaurant in Silver Spring is speaking out after an incident, captured on viral video, in which a visitor vehemently refused to follow Montgomery County’s indoor mask mandate, berated the staff and compared the mandate to the Holocaust.
Another person with her filmed the outburst and sometimes chimed in, in agreement.
The incident took place Sunday night at Holy Chow in the Kemp Mill neighborhood of Silver Spring, which has a large Orthodox Jewish population. Two of the would-be customers featured in the video have been vocal online and elsewhere about opposition to vaccine and mask mandates. The video comes as Montgomery County officials consider whether to enact a vaccine mandate at restaurants and other sites and as officials have extended the mask mandate to Feb. 21.
In the video, nearly three minutes long, a female employee tells the female visitor that she can’t serve customers who aren’t wearing masks, due to the county’s mask mandate that has been in place to protect against the spread of COVID-19.
“I’m not trying to argue with you right now. … Because we have a mandate in the county,” the employee says.
The employee asks the woman to go outside and order, to which the customer — who is animated and abusive throughout the video — responds that the mask order is akin to examples of historical oppression.
“Segregation was legal. Jim Crow law was legal. The Holocaust was legal. … I’m irritated. I’m annoyed,” the woman says. “You’re telling me to stand in the cold like I’m not human.”…
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Spirit Airlines Forces Man to Remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Mask
A Spirit Airlines passenger was told to remove his “Let’s Go Brandon” mask on a Friday flight because the flight attendant considered it offensive.
Footage of the incident was posted to TikTok by Adam Radogna, who has been an avid supporter of the anti-Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” phrase.
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Spotify is Not a Free Speech Platform
Spotify has been censoring content on its platform for a while now — including deleting dozens of episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. That is one of the reasons why any claim that their decision not to kick Rogan out now has anything to do with Spotify supporting free speech should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
In fact, as the company just announced via a spokesperson, over 20,000 various podcast episodes about Covid have been deleted since the start of the pandemic.
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U.S. Navy Begins Discharging Sailors Who Refuse Coronavirus Vaccine
The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it has discharged 45 service members who refused to accept inoculation with the coronavirus vaccine.
The personnel were released after failing to meet the November 28 deadline set by the Pentagon for the injection. Twenty-three active duty sailors were amongst those let go.
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Virginia Attorney General Says Commonwealth Colleges Cannot Make Students Get COVID-19 Vaccines
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyareson Friday issued a legal opinion stating colleges in the state cannot require their students to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
The opinion by Miyares is just the latest challenge by new GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his administration to the concept of state-imposed vaccine mandates.
Most private and public colleges in Virginia began instituting vaccine mandates last summer, following the point at which the jabs became widely available to all Americans.
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The widow of slain New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Jason Rivera slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday for not keeping the city safe.
Dominique Luzuriaga spoke about her husband, Rivera, during his funeral service. “You have the whole nation on gridlock,” a distraught Luzuriaga said about Rivera. “And although you won’t be here anymore, I want you to live through me.”
“The system continues to fail us. We are not safe anymore, not even the members of the service. I know you were tired of these new laws, especially the ones from the new DA. I hope he’s watching you speak through me right now,” she said, followed by a loud round of applause and a standing ovation.
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West Virginia Gov. Justice Holds Up Dog During Speech, Suggests Bette Midler, ‘Kiss Her Heinie’
West Virginia GOP Gov. Jim Justice has given an unusual response to Bette Midler’s recent criticism of his state — bringing his pet dog to a public event this week and suggesting the entertainer “kiss her heinie.”
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Convoy Truckers, Supporters Show Up Early to Tomorrow’s Parliament Hill Demonstration
Truckers from across Canada are currently making their way to Ottawa, Ontario to protest the cross-border vaccine mandate that has been put in place for them. With the official demonstration taking place on January 29, many supporters and some truckers have shown up early to the Parliament buildings. The protest has quickly turned into a demand to end all vaccine mandates across Canada.
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Convoys Headed to Regina Saturday to Support Truckers Driving to Ottawa
Two convoys are set to roll into Regina on Saturday for a rally in front of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in support of truckers making their way to Ottawa to oppose vaccine mandates.
The group Action 4 Canada, which is helping organize the event, says the rally is against “government tyranny,” according to promotional material on social media, and calls for all vaccine passes and mandates to be ended.
Organizers say one group of vehicles will meet in Saskatoon and head down Highway 11, while another will meet outside Regina at the Global Transportation Hub before making their way into the city, with plans to arrive at the Legislative Building at 1 p.m.
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Florida Trucker in Canada Convoy: ‘We’re Here to Join a Movement’
VAUGHAN, Ontario — Florida-based owner-operator DeAndre Mahadeo, like other truckers who rolled past throngs of supporters just outside Toronto, got a rousing send-off on Thursday as he prepared to head to the capital, Ottawa, in a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the border.
Hundreds of people of all ages called them heroes and even freedom fighters as 15 to 20 trucks and a few hundred passenger vehicles paraded through a mall parking lot in Vaughan. Some handed over boxes of cookies, brownies and other snacks.
“We’re here to join a movement,” said Mahadeo, 30, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen who regularly moves freight in both countries. “We need to end these restrictions once and for all.”
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‘Freedom Convoy’ In Canada Accesses $1M From Once-Frozen Viral Fundraiser
GoFundMe has distributed CA$1 million (US$783,315) to a trucker convoy in Canada protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Funds for the “Freedom Rally” or “Freedom Convoy” viral campaign — which has raised more than CA$7.3 million — were frozen Tuesday after GoFundMe said it needed to see a plan for how the funds would be disbursed.
Tamara Lich, who set up the Freedom Convoy 2022 campaign on GoFundMe, said funds will be used to reimburse Canadians for gas and food expenses incurred while participating in a rally set to take place in Ottawa, the nation’s capital, on Saturday.
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Freedom Convoy Through Virden This Morning
Unbelievable! There’s one huge convoy of big trucks headed through on Highway One.
A movement said to be a record-breaking event will be passing by Virden this morning, Tuesday, Jan. 25 on its way to Brandon where it expects to arrive about 11 a.m.
Just what kind of record it will break is not yet confirmed.
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the current record for the Largest parade of trucks is 480 and was achieved by Tahya Misr Fund in 2020…
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Hamilton Pit Stop Pours Their Support for Freedom Convoy
On January 27, near Barton St. in Hamilton, Ontario, there was large turnout for the Freedom Convoy that ranged from all ages.
The Freedom Convoy consists of truckers from all over Canada taking to the roads for Ottawa against the mandates. Families and friends lined and set up stations that had supplies, food, presents and even drawings from children to hand to the truckers headed to Ottawa.
Everyone present on the sidewalks and on the side of the streets were braving the cold weather to display the Hamilton spirit for freedom.
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High Energy, Large Crowds Await Freedom Convoy in Ottawa
After a jam-packed week full of international attention (both good and bad), the final stage of the great Freedom Convoy is upon us.
As we have the whole way, Rebel News has reporters on the ground to capture the events as they happen!
Lincoln Jay arrived in Ottawa last night. Dakota Christensen will also be joining in to help cover the events on the ground, as well as our Montreal-based reporter Alexa Lavoie. More Rebels are on their way, including a surprise special guest.
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Hundreds Welcome Convoy in the Sault (14 Photos)
Hundreds of people lined the snowbanks along Great Northern Road for hours on Thursday in support of a convoy making its way to Ottawa in protest of vaccine mandates for truck drivers.
The western contingent of what’s been called the Freedom Convoy 2022 rolled into Sault Ste. Marie after 9 p.m. on Thursday after some weather delays. A separate southern Ontario group arrived in Toronto on Thursday, also on its way to Ottawa.
The western convoy was not at its full capacity when it arrived in the Sault after a decision was made earlier Thursday to split it into two groups, one making its way to Ottawa through the Sault, the other through Highway 11. The two groups plan to reunite in North Bay.
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Pastor Art Pawlowski joins us today to talk about the new Solidarity movement and support for the truckers convoy.
[Comment: Post dated 1/27/2022.]
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A federally-funded, federally-recognized group claiming to be the national voice of Métis women in Canada is warning women, girls and the “gender diverse” to stay clear of the trucker Freedom Convoy, citing the 2011 murder of an Indigenous woman by a truck driver.
The following release, Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak Advocates for the Safety of Women, Girls and Gender Diverse People During 2022 Trucker Convoy, was published January 27.
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Protest Convoy Moves Through Thunder Bay. In North Bay Friday Afternoon
THUNDER BAY — A convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions headed to Ottawa made an overnight stop in the Thunder Bay area.
Plans are for it to arrive in North Bay tomorrow afternoon.
Organizers refused to speak with Thunder Bay media and when asked, threatened reporters with trespassing charges, on land they did not own, after calling the reporters “dirty communists” and telling them to “go find a new country” in a verbal confrontation.
The convoy, which is reported to be over 17 kilometres long, began in protest of vaccine mandates for truckers returning to Canada, and grew to include protesters of a wide range of COVID-19 restrictions.
It was funded in part by a GoFundMe started by Tamara Lich, the secretary of the western separatist Maverick Party, though the party has denied involvement, stating Lich is operating on her own.
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Supporters Show Up to Back Truckers
Bentley, Hunter and Tate Lavigne were joined by thousands of supporters Friday afternoon as the Freedom Convoy 2022 convoy rolled through North Bay.
The three kids — out of school because Friday was a professional development day — held their homemade signs along Pinewood Park Drive.
And they knew exactly why they were there and who they were supporting.
“We’re supporting the truckers,” said 11-year-old Bentley. “I hate wearing masks. You can’t breathe and I don’t like how they rub on your face.”
Supporters started to arrive and position themselves along Pinewood Park Drive by 10 a.m. — four hours before the convoy was expected to arrive at 2 p.m. but which was pushed back to 3 or maybe even 4 p.m.
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‘Thousands of People on Almost Every Overpass’: Freedom Convoy Rolls Across Canada
Rebel News Chief Videographer has been embedded with the Freedom Convoy as it travels across Canada, set to converge on Parliament Hill this weekend in Ottawa. During the long trek across the country, Mocha has seen a tremendous, virtually unheard of, support for this movement.
Perhaps the most stunning display has been the sheer number of Canadians that have gathered at overpasses across the country, from the biggest cities to the smallest towns.
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Trucker Convoy Makes Its Way to the Sudbury Area
The cross-Canada trucker convoy protesting vaccine mandates made its way through northeastern Ontario on Friday.
Greater Sudbury Police said early Friday evening the front of the convoy was headed to Wahnapitae along Highway 17, while the remainder was still gassing up at a service station on Regent Street.
CTV News caught up with the convoy in Nairn Centre, just west of Sudbury. A few hundred supporters lined the highway to greet them.
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After hours on the road, the first of several convoys of trucks and vehicles protesting vaccine mandates entered downtown Ottawa amid the din of air horns on Friday, where some drivers said they would stay until the government caved to their demands.
It was the first wave of a potential multi-day protest intended to fill the city’s streets with trucks, with officials estimating the bulk of what could be several thousand vehicles would arrive on Saturday.
Downtown Ottawa was jammed as a couple hundred vehicles decked out in Canadian flags arrived along Wellington and Queen streets to demonstrate against the federal vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.
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The Trudeau Liberals announced that the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge connecting Gatineau, Quebec with Ottawa, Ontario will close lanes until further notice starting on January 28, 8pm ET due to a “planned protest taking place this weekend in Ottawa.”
Only two lanes will remain open to traffic. The announcement was made this evening by Public Services and Procurement Canada.
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Watch: ‘Freedom Convoy’ Spokesman Discusses Trucker Protest With Tucker Carlson
Fox News host Tucker Carlson sat down with “Freedom Convoy” spokesman Benjamin Dichter to discuss the massive trucker protest making headlines after thousands of Canadian truckers decided to descend on Ottawa.
Truckers from across Canada have been making their way to Ottawa over the past few days and are expected to reach the nation’s capital shortly. To better understand the motives behind the movement, Carlson spoke with Dichter.
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Finland: Facebook Group Plans Helsinki Traffic Blockade, Protesting COVID Restrictions, Fuel Prices
Opponents of restrictions aimed at stemming the spread of Covid infections are planning a demonstration in downtown Helsinki that will include protesters blocking traffic on the capital city’s streets.
The action also aims to highlight opposition to rising fuel prices.
The planned demonstration has been inspired by similar action elsewhere in the world. A convoy of trucks staged a protest(siirryt toiseen palveluun) against Covid vaccine mandates earlier this week in Canada.
Yle understands that the event in Finland is still only in the planning stages, and no date for the protest has been announced. However, groups set up on Facebook and the messaging app Telegram for the event have garnered tens of thousands of new members over the past two days.
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Majority of Women Remain Childless at Thirty for First Time Ever in Britain
A majority of women have remained childless in Britain past their thirtieth birthday for the first time in recorded history, according to the country’s official statistician.
A report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published on Thursday found that 50.1 per cent of women born in 1990 — the latest age bracket to reach 30 years old — have not had a child, a record high.
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Poland: Doubts Raised Over New Pegasus Hacking Claims
Michal Kolodziejczak has shown a report which he received from the Canadian Citizen Lab organization. According to the document, Kolodziejczak’s phone had been surveilled in May 16, 2019 by Pegasus spyware. Citizen Lab had supplied the serial number of the phone. The issue is, however, that this number belongs to an iPhone 11 Pro model which was released on Sept. 10, 2019 — three months after the alleged surveillance attack had taken place.
Moreover, the report emphasizes that the device which was subjected to Pegasus activity was the exact model in question with that serial number, according to a report from Polish state news network TVP.
Polish Twitter users question the credibility of the report.
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Reiner Füllmich: ‘We, The People, Are Going to Put an End to This’
“We have an international group of lawyers who will soon — probably by the end of next week — start legal proceedings,” lawyer Reiner Füllmich said at a press conference in Brussels at the beginning of this week.
The media briefing was called by Children’s Health Defense Europe. “There will be a real judge, there will be real lawyers, real expert witnesses and real witnesses, who will talk about the damage they have suffered from the measures, especially the jabs,” Füllmich said.
He said he was convinced that the testimonies would lead to indictments of “dangerous war criminals”. More importantly, the truth about what is happening to the people of the world will come out, he added. “We, the people, are going to put an end to this. No one else.”
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Shock Video: Belgian Cop Stabbed by 12-Year-Old Suspect
A police officer was stabbed multiple times by a pre-teen suspect outside a school in Belgium this week, authorities say.
The shocking incident unfolded at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday in the city of Peer.
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The Pope is Being an Idiot Again
Another day, another braindead statement from Pope Francis.
During a meeting with a Catholic fact checking group, the Pope said that people who push corona jab disinformation are violating the human rights of others.
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Breaking: Biden to Deploy U.S. Soldiers to Eastern Europe as Tensions With Russia Escalate
Democrat President Joe Biden put the U.S. one step closer to having a potential military conflict with Russia on Friday when he told reporters that he is moving U.S. soldiers to Eastern Europe.
“I’ll be moving troops to Eastern Europe in the NATO countries in the near term,” Biden told reporters. “Not too many.”
Biden’s remarks come after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley warned on Friday that a Russian invasion into Ukraine would yield “horrific” results as the administration believes that Russia has amassed approximately 100,000 soldiers near the Ukrainian border.
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Caroline Glick: Ukraine and the American Crack-Up
From Washington to Berlin to Warsaw to Kyiv, everyone says that only Russian President Vladimir Putin knows what he plans to do with the 120,000 troops he has deployed to the Ukrainian border. But at this point, even if Putin decides not to invade, even if he withdraws all of his forces from the border zone he has already won a strategic victory of historic proportions against the United States.
Without firing a bullet, Putin and his 120,000 soldiers have fomented the unofficial — but very real — break-up of the NATO alliance. NATO is rightly considered one of the most successful military alliances in history. It was founded in 1949 at the outset of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Its purpose was to deter the Soviets from trying to expand their empire from Eastern and Central Europe into Western Europe. NATO’s success derived from two main factors. First, NATO member states were by and large agreed that their common interest in preventing Soviet expansion outweighed their separate national interests, and so required collective action under the U.S. strategic umbrella. Second, the Soviets and America’s NATO allies all believed that the U.S. was strategically credible. The Soviets believed that the U.S. was serious about fulfilling its commitments to its NATO partners. And NATO members believed that the U.S. would make them pay a very severe price if they opted to blow off the alliance and cut a separate deal with the Soviet Union.
Today, NATO cannot act collectively against Putin in a coherent way because Germany no longer views Russia as a strategic threat, and no longer views the U.S. has a leader it needs to follow.
How has this situation come about?…
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Lost Almost $500 Million to Biden War Hype: ‘We Don’t Need This Panic’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned international corporate media and world leaders like President Joe Biden for publicly predicting imminent war with Russia on Friday, stating that the panic caused by these statements cost Ukraine 12.5 billion hryvnia (about $437 million) in foreign investment.
Zelensky spent nearly an hour and a half with reporters at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday following what has become a controversial phone conversation with President Biden on Thursday night. While the official readouts from both Washington and Kyiv depicted the call as productive and friendly, a CNN report based on anonymous sources described the call as frustrating and tedious, featuring harried warnings from Biden that Kyiv would be “sacked” and exasperated requests from Zelensky for the president to “calm down.”
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Another Hindu Temple Destroyed by Fanatic Muslim People in Pakistan
Islamist radicals in Pakistan destroy a Hinglaj Mata Temple in Sindh province.
Suneeta Kohli | HENB | New Delhi | January 26, 2022:: Pakistani Islamist radicals on Sunday (Jan 16) demolished a Hinglaj Mata Mandir located in Khatri Mohalla, Teh Mithi, Tharparker district of Sindh province. It’s a local temple was being renovated by the Hindu residents of the area. The News is highlighted by the news-agency ANI+, a bit later.
This is the 11th attack on Hindu shrines in the past 22 months in Pakistan.
The charges are serious enough as Lal Malhi, a Member National Assembly of Pakistan and a parliamentary secretary for Human rights (as claimed in his Twitter handle) alleged that a “under construction Hinglaj Mata temple in Hindu community neighbourhood (Khatri Mohalla) Mithi- Tharparkar rzaed to ground by administration . The so called champion of minority rights, PPP, is ruling Sindh whilst minorities suffering.” This tweet+ proves that there are so many Islamists inside the Pak adminstration to destroy the interests of the minority people in the country.
Krishen Sharma, President, Pakistan Hindu Mandir Management reached the spot and in interaction with media told them that Islamist radicals are not even afraid of Pakistan Supreme Court and the Pakistani Government.
Meanwhile, the local Hindu leaders took out a protest rally on the issue.
As per report, Pakistan set up a first-ever body of Hindu leaders to take care of minority community’s temples at the end of last year. Sharma was declared as the head of that committee.
Pakistan has been repeatedly slammed by the international community for not taking stringent measures to protect its minority communities, despite the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan vowing to protect them on numerous occasions.
In 2020 December, a mob of over a hundred people led by local Muslim clerics had destroyed and set on fire the temple in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A video clip that went viral on social media showed a violent mob destroying the walls and roof of the temple.
Pakistan is a well-known perpetrator of human rights violations of minorities in the country. On several occasions, it has promised to safeguard the interest of minority communities in the nation. However, continuing attacks on minorities narrate a different story.
As a matter of fact, Islamabad has been discriminating against its religious minorities. But, sometimes they pretend as saviour of minorities through their deceptive statements.
This is manifested in various forms of targeted violence, mass murders, extrajudicial killings, abduction, rapes, forced conversion to Islam, etc., making Pakistani Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Ahmadiyyas, and Shias the most persecuted minorities in the region.
A recent report by a minorities’ rights commission in Pakistan has revealed a “dismal” picture of the most revered Hindu sites in the country and slammed the statutory board responsible to maintain the ancient sites of the minority community.
The report submitted to the country’s Supreme Court last month presents a “general picture of decay and obliteration” of two of the four most revered evacuee sites in Pakistan, Dawn reported.
The report states that the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), a statutory board of the Pakistan government, has failed to maintain ancient and holy sites of the minority community.
Out of 365 temples, only 13 were being managed by them, leaving 65 with the Hindu community, and “abandoning the rest of temples,” Dawn reported, citing the statutory board ETPB.
The Islamists in Pakistan are gradually destroying Hindu minorities and any sign of them with the help of like-minded rackets in Pak administration and police.
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China’s Mandatory Olympics App Sends Audio Data Back to China
China has an Olympics app for Covid contact tracing that is compulsory for all athletes and attendees. However, it has been revealed that both the Android and iOS app are collecting audio and sending to servers based in China.
Tech researcher Jonathan Scott reverse-engineered the MY2022 Olympics app.
On Thursday, he posted his findings, revealing that the app could be used to spy on athletes and attendees as it can non-consensually record audio and send it to China-based servers for analysis.
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The Bush family has cashed in on friendship with former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the architect of the Tiananmen Square massacre, for generations, Peter Schweizer documents in his new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.
Schweizer, a veteran journalist documenting corruption in the U.S. government, has dedicated his new book to the sprawling financial ties between American elites and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — ties that have strengthened America’s most powerful geopolitical foe while undermining its top industries and threatening free speech and democracy.
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Australian State of Victoria Demands Removal of Online Police Body Cam Footage
Rebel News journalist Avi Yemini is having to defend himself after deciding not to remove an online video the police in Australia’s state of Victoria want taken down.
Yemini revealed that he had a letter, signed by a Victoria Police Crime Squad detective sergeant, sent to his home, threatening that unless he complied and deleted the video, he could end up serving two years in prison.
The journalist published photos of the letter, which notified him of committing an “apparent” breach of the Surveillance Devices Act.
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France: Presidential Candidate Zemmour Under Fire for Linking Migrants and Crime
French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has come under fire after stating that reducing immigration to zero would decrease levels of crime, stating most criminals were migrants or from migrant backgrounds.
The “anti-hate” association SOS Racisme has stated they will file a police complaint against the conservative writer and television pundit over his remarks this week during a television interview on the programme Public Senat.
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‘No Go Zone’: Journalist Attacked While Reporting From Diverse Swedish Neighbourhood
A reporter for Swedish television broadcaster SVT was attacked while filming a programme in the heavily Somali-heritage populated Tjärna Ängar neighbourhood of Borlänge which aired this week.
A clip from the programme “Uppdrag Granskning” shows locals reacting with anger to the reporter and television crew filming in the area, which has a high population of migrants originally from Somalia.
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Sweden ‘Loses Control’ As Over 10,000 Deportees Stay Illegally Each Year
Despite political promises made for deportations to be carried out, Sweden has been struggling to clear up its growing shadow society.
2021 became at least the fifth year in a row when over 10,000 people with rejected resident permits avoided deportation and are wanted by the police, according to national broadcaster SVT.
“We have people in our society that we don’t know and that no one has control over,” Cajsa Velden, the head of the National Border Police told SVT.
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UK: The Party of Law and Order
We are seeing record numbers of teenagers slain on our streets and if there is a “new normal” following the Covid lockdowns, it’s machete crime. London is becoming Soweto on Thames. Or rather it would be if London schools could boast literacy rates as impressive as Soweto in recent years.
Another unwholesome trend over the last couple of years has been violent antisemitic attacks carried out not by the far right, but by those we are told are enriching diversity. Britain is increasingly an unsafe country for Jews thanks to our open borders. We were told by Priti Patel that our immigration policy would be geared to attract the “brightest and best”. This is clearly not the case. Something is going badly wrong, we let virtually anyone in — and seemingly every week, the NGOcracy creates a new legal barrier to deportation.
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An adult biological male child molester will be housed in a juvenile detention facility for girls because he began identifying as a woman after being taken into custody, according to Fox News.
William Tubbs, a 26-year old who now goes by “Hannah,” pled guilty to molesting a 10-year-old girl when he was two weeks shy of 18, Fox News reported. Prosecutors said that Tubbs grabbed the 10-year-old victim by the throat, locked her in a bathroom stall and put his hands down her pants, Fox News reported.
Tubbs did not claim to be a woman until after he was taken into custody for the attack, prosecutors told Fox News. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon refused to prosecute Tubbs as an adult.
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British University Puts Trigger Warning on ‘Harry Potter’ Book
The British University of Chester has placed a trigger warning on J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
The University of Chester’s English Department lists Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as one of the three set literary texts on their “Approaches to Literature” module, but have found it necessary to include the trigger warning that these books could lead to “difficult conversations about gender, race, sexuality, class, and identity”.
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A female swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania said the school brushed off her and her teammates’ concerns about sharing locker rooms with a male swimmer, the Daily Mail reported.
She and her teammates felt uncomfortable sharing locker rooms with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who has male body parts and is reportedly “attracted to women,” according to the Daily Mail.
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Pro-Life Truck Driver Brutally Assaulted in Warsaw in Attack Caught on Camera
The driver of a pro-life vehicle was subjected to a physical assault by an unknown assailant in disturbing footage caught on camera in the residential area of Wilanów in Warsaw on Wednesday.
The footage shows the driver taking a telephone call in his truck when an object is hurled at the driver side window. His attacker then opened the driver’s door and assaulted him, also damaging his phone.
As the driver attempted to defend himself, his attacker can be seen slamming the door against the driver on multiple occasions before fleeing the scene.
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Sean Penn: “Cowardly” Men Are Surrendering Their Masculinity
Actor Sean Penn has commented on the perilous state of masculinity in the west, remarking that men shouldn’t have to become ‘feminized’ in order to show respect for women.
The movie star made the comments during a sit down interview with The Independent.
Penn was quizzed on a previous statement in which he asserted, “I don’t think that being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women has anything to do with masculinity, or ever did. But I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.”
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“Majority of Women Remain Childless at Thirty for First Time Ever in Britain”
Just this week I started to read Plato again, so here is a quote from Timaeus that might be relevant: If old Timmy was correct in 400BC, then Britain is in for very discontented and angry future.
“Wherefore also in men the organ of generation becoming rebellious and masterful, like an animal disobedient to reason, and maddened with the sting of lust, seeks to gain absolute sway ; and the same is the case with the so-called womb or matrix of women ; the animal within them is desirous of procreating children, and when remaining unfruitful long beyond its proper time, gets discontented and angry”
Oh well
Strange words
So boring
You are a patient man
@ Baron
Re: “The United States Navy has begun to discharge sailors who refuse to be “vaccinated” against COVID-19.”
There is plenty of evidence that Joe Biden and company are “owned” by Chinese President Xi Xinping and the government of the PRC, but Biden’s actions vis-a-vis the U.S. military and the vaxx are among the strongest signals that he doesn’t work for us, the people of the United States, but instead for the People’s Republic of China.
What better way to degrade the heretofore high level of readiness and professionalism of the armed forces than to “require” that active-duty personnel take an experimental “vaccine” known to inflict harm – perhaps even fatal harm – on those taking it?
The Chinese military have been waging unconventional warfare – “Unrestricted Warfare” as their 1999 book is entitled – against the U.S. since the 1990s. Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher (whom you can bet is being studied hard by the PLAN, the armed forces of communist China), wrote of “defeating the enemy” before he even takes the field of battle. Weakening the U.S.Navy via biological weapons is just the sort of gambit the Chinese might be expected to try… the sort of thing you would expect the enemies of this nation to do, prior to taking us on in an actual “hot” war.
Deniable yet effective. Large return on investment, vis-a-vis the cost of creating such weapons and their effects. Second and third-order effects in the U.S. healthcare system, both military and civilian, as well as imposing the strain of using undermanned or inadequately-manned crews for men-of-war, as well as other U.S. Navy commitments, ashore ad afloat alike, which would suffer from the loss of highly-trained personnel.
In sacking the army and navy personnel, Biden is creating an angry group of highly trained strong young men and women. Is he, and his minders, not see that this can be a big danger? There is a possibility of civil war with this action.
I’ve been wondering about the same regarding the sudden turning of Canada and Australia toward totalitarianism.
Eric Zemmour associates migration with crime. He is not alone.
“Migration and crime are very much linked.”
— Elif Ozmenek Carmikli,
Head of Turkey’s International Strategic Research Organisation
https://gatesofvienna.net/2016/02/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-232016/
“The previous refugee crisis, which saw over a million migrants from North Africa and the Middle East flood into Europe, led directly to huge spikes in violent crime, sexual assaults and numerous mass casualty terror attacks …”
Paul Joseph Watson
https://summit.news/2021/09/01/germany-interior-minister-warns-of-new-wave-of-migrants-incentivized-to-reach-europe/
It’s a no brainer
Zeimur is a great man , if I where French I would vote for him
I listen to every speech
It give me hope for the French and tells me they are not dead
Napoleon lives in some if them
The rest are truly dead
“The United States Navy has begun to discharge sailors who refuse to be “vaccinated” against COVID-19.”
Well that’s really going to help out with any conflict in the South China Sea.
I have to wonder why the Telford police let Tommy Robinson present the Rape of Britain publicly by the police station. I presume they think they are letting him hang himself. But I have to wonder if he hasn’t come across some sympathetic investigators to assist him or coach him in how to make a case and defend himself for his potential upcoming legal consequences.
The emperor is naked. At the critical moment, Germany has shown itself to be a feckless, unreliable ally, more deeply corrupted & coopted by its “commercial” authoritarian entanglements than many (esp in the US) realized. With friends like these, you don’t need enemies.
It’s time for Biden to stop pussy-footing around Berlin in prostration for his predecessor’s offenses and privileging the bilateral relationship over other allies and the imperatives of transatlantic security – which, indeed, Germany has been consistently sabotaging for years.
Strategic corruption is a disease, and it has weakened the German state to such an extent that it now clearly jeopardizes the global democratic community. US need to respond with tough love and public exposure of the disease.
eg: is it public knowledge in Europe and the US that Matthias Warnig, CEO of Nord Stream AG, is a former Stasi officer whom Putin befriended and recruited for the KGB while in Dresden? (Sanctions against Warnig and Nord Stream AG were lifted by the Biden admin last year!Every time a German official tries to say that NS2 is “just a commercial project”, they should be publicly confronted with this fact by other EU/NATO leaders.
The rot runs deep, and it has been allowed to fester for far too long. Enough is enough.A sincere thank you to all the Germans who have reacted to this thread in good faith. I know it’s never easy to bear criticism of your own country from outsiders. Thank you for your reflection. Tough love is still love
Regards from Poland !
Germany is not an ally. Germany is a country allies defeated in WW2 which harbors revanchist ambitions. We are effectively experiencing the same inter-wars period as the one between WW1 and WW2, except Germany is using China to exact a revanche on the humiliation from WW2.
Once all the Germans, were warlike and mean,
But that couldn’t happen again.
We taught them lesson, in 1918,
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then.
— Tom Lehrer
I don’t think revanchist is the right word. Insanity, or detached from reality fits better.
How hard is it to make a society that your existing citizens want to populate with their children? But German officials will not do that, turning the country into an Islamic outpost.
I/m Pole..
We know Germans by a skin..1100 year to be precise ..
I stay behind my opinion..
..Kohl,Adenaur,Merkel, Hitler, Schroeder ,Scholtz are patsis..
The real power structure in Germany is Pharma-Chemical-Industrial Kartel..Bayer-MG-Farben-Krup..
You mean IG Farben not MG Farben?
Sorry, but that company has been dissolved.
And considering the abysmal state of the german military: If Germany really wanted revenge, dont you think that the Bundeswehr of today would be more like the Wehrmacht than the clown army?
And how do we Germans use China for our revenge? That would be like playing snooker with the ball touching 44 sides before touching another ball.
If I may use the language of a roleplayer: Even a Lasombra vampire (and they are the MASTER plotters of Vampire The Masquerade) would be hardpressed to make such a thing become reality.
The Chinese have a different mentality, different society etc and they even have their own backstabbing and you imagine that there are some Germans using the Chinese like a chess player moving his figures on a board?
I apologize but this is totally unrealistic. (But if there is such a Blofeld, Sun Tzu in Germany capable of such a feat, my hats off to him.)
Germany has a mad streak
Three times tried to destroy Europa
The third is by letting Muslims in
But surprise, the Eastern Europe dies not comply
So Germany is suicidal again
Bravo idiot teutons
https://twitter.com/i/status/1487812481527521284
Jan, The Germans will, with a little nudging, come back to their nationalistic roots.
Ps Germany. Don’t take your eyes off the Muslim leeches in your great country. Otherwise….well you can figure it out.
They did..Germany in some parts already become Khalifat..There are demand to introduce ” german form” of Sharia..
Sad things, those who are responsible for take dawn ,bought properties in Poland. Czechia and run away ..
And in some parts of Germany, it is islam free, and those muslims that try to move their, somehow, mysteriously disappear, tragic really. lol
Though it has been ”in liquidation” since 1952, its securities are still traded on the Frankfurt exchange…So do not b…t people !
Todays successor are : Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Hoechst (now Sanofi) and Monosanti..
You Ubermansch are still in denial , after you lost a War & been subjugated and own by USA , Allies until today ?
Time to bring back the Kaiser and rule!