Despite the coronavirus stay-at-home order in California, thousands of people thronged the beaches of the state to take advantage of the warm weather. Meanwhile, in Italy, for the first time the number of coronavirus recoveries exceeded the number of new cases. Also, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that in the wake of the Wuhan Coronavirus crisis, the United States should no longer issue visas to Chinese university students who come to the country to study sciences.
In other news, 400 illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel to the UK during April.
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A 1993 clip of “Larry King Live” which recently resurfaced and in which the mother of Tara Reade appears to affirm her sexual assault allegations against 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden is no longer listed in Google Play’s catalog as of late Saturday.
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Federal Judge Slams UMich Policy Over Due Process Concerns… Again
The University of Michigan has once again been slammed by a federal court due to its sexual misconduct policy.
The decision echoes a 2018 case wherein a student at the University of Michigan was accused of sexual assault. In this case, the university enforced a policy that allowed the accuser a fair hearing. However, such a hearing was denied to the accused, and the student was immediately sanctioned before having the right to defend himself. The defendant was also denied cross-examination.
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Harvard and Arizona Law Professors Lay Out the Case for Online “Speech Control”
Just a few months after it was revealed that doctors and whistleblowers in China were detained for posting on the Weibo social network that a viral outbreak was taking place, and that social media posts raising the alarm were getting people’s accounts banned, and their messages were being censored in real-time, a Harvard University professor is suggesting that China has the right approach to regulating speech on the internet and that the US should follow the same principles.
It’s not reasonable to expect that online speech might be able to go “back to normal” after being reined in and constrained to the extreme in some extraordinary instances of surveillance and censorship accompanying the coronavirus pandemic, and justified by it, an article published by the Atlantic is incredibly suggesting.
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Media Caught on Video Staging “Healthcare Worker” vs Protestors Photos
The veil is being lifted around how easy it is to stage a viral photo that lights social media on fire and gets reported by most major mainstream outlets without verification.
At least some of the viral photographs of “health workers” protesting in response to those against lockdowns appear to be staged as a new video recorded by a passerby shows.
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Oregon Man Part of Radical Left-Wing Antifascist Group Sues His Grandmother Over Rent Disagreement
Alleged screenshots between an Oregon renter who refused to pay rent and his landlord who tracked his coronavirus stimulus check went viral. It led to an outpouring of support and now a lawsuit. But new details have emerged which call into question the original story.
A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, April 22 by tenant Austin Goodrich, 22, of Forest Grove, Ore., nearby Portland, against his property manager and landlord. The lawsuit seeks damages for Goodrich “feeling overwhelmingly violated and vulnerable.” When the story first made national and international headlines, reporters and Goodrich did not disclose that the landlord, Lois Ranstead, is also his grandmother and tax preparer.
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Pastor Tony Spell Defies House Arrest, Leads Sunday Church Service Wearing Ankle Monitor
Baton Rouge Pastor Tony Spell, who has made a name for himself by holding packed in-person church services in defiance of Louisiana lockdown orders, led another service on Sunday morning even though he was ordered on house arrest Friday and fitted with an ankle monitor.
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Swing Voters Approve of Trump’s Virus Effort, 75% Want End of China Reliance
The nation’s focus during the coronavirus on its economic reliance on China has prompted a big majority of swing state voters to back a “Made in the USA” agenda as they turn from worrying about their health to switching the economy back on, according to a new survey.
Some 75% told Heritage Action for America’s new Project 2020 that they want manufacturing returned to America, as President Trump has often called for. Said the group, swing voters “support bringing manufacturing back home to end our reliance on Chinese and foreign factories for essential supplies such as masks and medication.”
In the survey of over 8,000 swing and “persuadable” voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Iowa provided to Secrets this morning, 63% said that they approve of Trump’s handling of the crisis. Just 21% disapproved.
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Tara Reade: “Shocking” Media Not Asking Biden About Alleged Assault, Blames “Political Agenda”
Tara Reade, who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, said Saturday that it is “shocking” that the mainstream media has not asked the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee about the allegations over a month and nearly a dozen Biden interviews since she went public with her claims.
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Taylor Swift Slams Soros Family for ‘Shameless Greed’
American pop star Taylor Swift is drawing criticism from Hollywood leftists and globalist journalists for a social media post where she slammed the Soros family for their “shameless greed”.
In a post on Twitter, Swift criticized her former record label, Big Machine Records, for releasing an “album” of her live performance without first seeking her approval.
After accusing talent manager Scooter Braun and his financial backers — 23 Capital, Alex Soros, the Soros family, and the Carlyle Group — of being strapped for cash because they had paid $330 million for the rights to her music, Swift slammed the move as another brazen instance of profit seeking amid the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
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Tens of Thousands Swarm California Beaches Despite Governor’s Stay-at-Home Orders
This week, tens of thousands of people flocked to beaches in California despite the state’s stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic.
Warm weather enticed Californians to swarm beaches in Orange County that were still open during the COVID-19 outbreak. Surfers, joggers, and sunbathers were seen gathering at the California coastline over the past few days, many not following social distancing guidelines.
Thousands went to Huntington Beach, where one group played a football game on the sand.
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Tom Cotton Suggests Chinese Students Shouldn’t be Allowed to Study Sciences in the US
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that it was a “scandal” that the United States has trained some Chinese nationals to “go back to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business, and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American people.”
Cotton, who has vowed that China will “pay” for what he has called its deliberate choice to unleash the coronavirus on the world, went on to say that the U.S. should take a “hard look at the visas” awarded to Chinese nationals.
“If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America,” Cotton said. “They don’t need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America.”
Left-wing commenators quickly accused Cotton of racism, and noted that Shakespeare was not an American.
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TX Man Gets 18 Months in Prison for Threatening to Assassinate President Trump
36-year-old Texas man Mickael Gedlu was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in federal prison for threatening to assassinate President Trump.
According to plea documents, Gedlu admitted that he stated on YouTube: “I am waiting for Trump to visit Dallas before I attempt to assassinate him.”
Then, on May 31, 2018, Gedlu was observed across the street from Dallas’ Adolphus Hotel just 30 minutes before Trump arrived there for a fundraiser. Dallas police officers noticed Gedlu holding a “Kill Trump” sign and detained him as he screamed “kill the president.”
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YouTube and Twitter Censor Medical Research Center’s UV Therapy After NY Times Journalist Probe
While the rest of the world might be struggling in the darkness of a global health saga, with livelihoods and even lives under threat — this is turning into Big Tech’s moment to “shine.”
After years of media and political elites trying to whip these powerful tools of data collection and mass surveillance into just the “right” shape — the coronavirus pandemic has given tech giants a guise under which to do their thing unchecked by anyone except some independent media outlets and blogs, and incredulous social media users.
One such incident involves Aytu BioScience, which on Aril 20 announced it had entered an exclusive worldwide partnership with Cedars-Sinai to develop the Healight Platform Technology.
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Canada’s Far-Left Activists Plan to Use Coronavirus to Further Violent Aims
Canadian far-left extremist groups are hoping to take advantage of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to further their radical views through direct violence.
Montreal Counter-Information and North Shore Counter-Info are encouraging their supporters to issue death threats, engage in vandalism, and assault police officers and prison guards.
Montreal Counter-Information published a post on April 13 titled “In May, Let’s Play: A Call to Conflict” that said the COVID-19 pandemic has created conditions “favourable for attack.”
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Trudeau Government Claims China Will Replace One Million Faulty Masks
Chinese suppliers have said they will replace the shoddy medical equipment they sent Canada in one of their “mask diplomacy” missions, according to Global News.
These Chinese companies originally sent a million defective masks and a sizeable amount of contaminated swabs. Fortunately enough, this will come as no extra cost to Canada.
The Trudeau government is spending a great deal of money attempting to get medical equipment from China to Canada.
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Denmark: Fake Bible Must be Revoked
With the authorized 1992 Danish Bible translation in place, the Danish Bible Society (DBS), nevertheless, issued a revised New Testament in 2012 completely omitting the word “Israel” or replacing it with “Jews” or “us”. The strange reason for this extraordinary action was, as Danes recall, to prevent Danish Lutheran Christians from confusing biblical Israel with the modern State of Israel. Danish Christians protested vehemently. Unperturbed, in 2020 DBS published a complete and revised Bible with the same anti-Israel New Testament version intact, plus a translation of the Old Testament, replacing the word “Israel” with “us”, as in Psalm 121:4 (“He who watches over Israel [DBS: ‘us’] will neither slumber nor sleep”), as Jan Frost reports.
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France: Man Charged With Selling Molotov Cocktails to ‘Youths’
A man has been arrested by police for selling and distributing Molotov cocktails to rioters in the suburbs of Paris.
There has been a sharp uptick in violence in France in recent weeks, particularly in areas where migrant communities reside, as residents rebel against the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown measures. French first responders have been the target of many of these attacks, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.
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Italy: Coronavirus Recoveries Outpace Infections for First Time
The number of new coronavirus cases continued on a downward trend in Italy after its first day in which more people recovered from the disease than were infected.
The number of new coronavirus cases dropped by 851 cases Thursday. 464 people were confirmed to have died of the Chinese virus, while 3,033 people were confirmed to have recovered from the disease.
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Leftist Groups Claim Anger of Rioters Across France ‘Legitimate’
A number of leftist groups, including political parties and trade unions, have signed a letter declaring the anger that led to the widespread riots over the last week in France is “legitimate.”
The letter, which is signed by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) trade union, the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, Revolutionary Feminists, the Communist Party of Workers of France, and many others, claims the riots are an expression of “legitimate anger”.
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Merkel Crisis: Fury Erupts Across EU as Thousands Join Anti-Lockdown Protests in Germany
Angela Merkel is under fire after thousands of Germans turned out for rallies taking place across the country to protest against the Chancellor’s lockdown orders. German police arrested dozens in Berlin on Saturday after the protesters there flouted the lockdown measures they were demonstrating against. Both left-wing and right-wing protesters criticised Mrs Merkel’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with slogans accusing Chancellor Angela Merkel of “banning life”.
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Pope Francis Prays for Those Who Can No Longer Support Their Families
ROME — Pope Francis prayed Sunday for people who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus lockdowns and can no longer support their families.
In his video-streamed Mass at his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican, the pope prayedfor those who are overcome by sadness because they are alone, fearful of the future, or economically strapped.
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UK PM Boris Johnson Returns to Face Growing Virus Divisions
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to work after recovering from a coronavirus infection that put him in intensive care, with his government facing growing criticism over the deaths and disruption the virus has caused.
Johnson’s office said he would be back at his desk in 10 Downing St. on Monday, two weeks after he was released from a London hospital. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been standing in for the prime minister, said Sunday that Johnson was “raring to go.”
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UK: Home of Couple Celebrating St George’s Day Defaced With Dog Dirt and ‘Nazi’ Graffiti
The home of a middle-aged couple in who put up a display featuring England’s patron saint for St George’s Day was defaced with “NAZI” graffiti and fouled with 50 bags of dog faeces in Milton Keynes.
The couple’s model showed St George, a Cappodician Greek officer in the Roman army who, according to legend, slew a great serpent at Dragon Hill in Oxfordshire — or, alternatively, at a city-state named Silene in modern-day Libya — and later became a Christian martyr, dressed in the Crusader-style garb he has been associated with in the popular imagination and carrying a sign saying “The NHS will slay Covid-19”.
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There are so many quotes to choose from to express ourselves in this, or any other time of great turmoil, authored by our long-time friend, George Orwell.
We all probably know by now that oppressors of free-thinking people will eagerly try to mess up with their perception of reality, hoping to make slavery look like freedom, ignorance like strength, and of course, war like peace.
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UK: Lib Dem Leader Fasting for ‘Holy Month of Ramadan’ In ‘Solidarity’ With Muslims
Sir Edward ‘Ed’ Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, has received criticism after revealing that he is fasting “for the holy month of Ramadan” in “solidarity with Muslims” affected by the coronavirus lockdown.
“It’s an early rise for me today, as I prepare for my first ever fast for the holy month of Ramadan,” said the dishevelled 54-year-old in a video message shared on social media.
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Vandals Desecrate Catholic Church in Northern France
The village church of Saint-Remy in northern France was found vandalized on Friday despite a coronavirus lockdown confining people to their homes.
The mayor of the town of Marly-Gomont, Dominique Delache, posted a message on his Facebook page to say he was “very angry” to have discovered the church vandalized, in which he notes that “the door was broken, the Easter candle destroyed, the microphone torn off and a fire extinguisher struck and sprayed throughout the church.”
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Serbian Politician ‘Arrested and Poisoned’ Is ‘Making Recovery’ Following Ordeal
Serbian Leader of the Opposition Nikola Sandulovic is making a slow recovery following his alleged arrest by Serbian Police amid the Coronavirus crisis.
Last week Politicalite revealed that Republican leader Sandulovic was ‘arrested and poisoned’ by Serbian Police after he spoke out about faulty Chinese Coronavirus tests.
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As the Narendra Modi-led central government is putting all its effort to fight against the Chinese pandemic coronavirus, 91 per cent citizens of the country have expressed that Modi government is doing well to combat the coronavirus crisis. This was revealed in a snap poll conducted by Gallup International Association, a Switzerland based polling organisation. The snap poll was conducted in 28 countries around the world
This was the second round of polls conducted by the agency to gauge people’s reaction to the efforts of their governments in combating Coronavirus. In the earlier poll conducted in Mid March, 83% India had said that the think Government is handling the Coronavirus crisis well, which means the number of people has gone up by 8% in a month.
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Bill Gates Calls Question About Whether China Covered Up the Coronavirus a ‘Distraction’
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said it is not the right time to question China’s response to the onset of the coronavirus.
China has been accused of trying to cover up and spread misinformation about its COVID-19 virus outbreak in a way that escalated the global pandemic. When asked to “respond to the charge” that China covered up the virus during a Sunday interview on CNN, Gates argued that it is not time to be questioning the country.
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Coronavirus Crisis: China Isn’t Going to Win
“Is China Winning?” This was the cover headline that the British weekly The Economist unfurled earlier this month for a lengthy report on how the major powers might emerge out of the current coronavirus crisis.
This is not the first time that a section of Western media, often including The Economist, pronounce the Western democracies, especially the United States, as losers in comparison with rivals and/or enemies.
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As the rumours about death of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un after a possible botched up heart surgery gains momentum on social media, netizens flooded the Internet with memes and jokes over his sister Kim Yo Jong as possible new Supreme Leader of North Korea.
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Panic-Buying Grips North Korea Amid Rumors of Kim Jong UN’s Demise
Residents in the North Korean capital have resorted to panic-buying amid reports that controversial leader Kim Jong Un is gravely ill or dead, according to a report.
Store shelves in Pyongyang were being cleaned out of everything from liquor to laundry detergent, canned fish to cigarettes in recent days — as conflicting reports continue to surface about the portly dictator’s possible demise, the Washington Post wrote Sunday.
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Man Shot as Protesters Loot Shops in Venezuela Food Crisis
A 29-year old man was shot dead on Thursday during protests over food and gas shortages in Venezuela, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict.
The rights group, which did not name the suspected killer, said that the man was shot twice in the head. Two people were also injured by gunfire during the protests, according to a report by the AFP news agency.
General Adolfo Rodriguez, the military head of Bolivar state, told Reuters news agency that 10 people were arrested during what he called “riots.” However, he did not provide any details on deaths at the protests.
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Italy: 56 Illegal Boat Migrants Land in Lampedusa Amid Pandemic
Italian authorities brought 59 illegal boat migrants to shore in Lampedusa on Saturday night, despite claiming to have closed Italy’s ports to migrants earlier this month.
After spotting a wooden boat a mile from the coast of the Pelagie Islands, the Italian Coast Guard and the Guardia di Finanza intercepted the 59 illegal migrants and escorted them back to Favaloro Pier in Lampedusa where the migrants were immediately disembarked, Italian newspaper La Stampa reports.
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Sweden: Court Overturns Ruling That Offers Free Transit Cards to Migrant Students
The district court in Sweden’s Järfälla Municipality has overruled an earlier decision which made it possible for migrant children to receive free public transit cards so that they can attend schools farther away from home. The program’s goal is to better integrate the migrant and native communities.
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UK: 400 Illegal Boat Migrants Reached British Shores in April
The UK Border Force last week brought dozens of Middle Eastern boat migrants to Britain after agents intercepted five boats in the English Channel.
On Friday, after intercepting 76 illegal migrants attempting to cross the Channel, the UK’s border authority transported the migrants — 55 men and 21 women claiming to nationals from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and Kuwait — to Dover, England, The Daily Mail reports.
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Jeff Goldblum Faces Backlash for Questioning the ‘Anti-Homosexuality and Anti-Woman’ Nature of Islam
Jeff Goldblum is facing left-wing backlash on social media after the actor questioned the “anti-homosexuality and anti-woman” nature of Islam while serving as a guest judge on VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The Jurassic Park star made the comments during Friday’s episode in which contestants created patriotic drag wear for a “Stars & Stripes”-themed runway show. Contestant Darius Rose — drag name, Jackie Cox — wore a flag-inspired ensemble featuring a blue hijab adorned with fifty stars.
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Norway: YouTuber Expresses Disappointment at Being ‘So White’ (Video)
Cornelia Grimsmo, a popular Norwegian podcaster, recently made a video of herself receiving DNA test results regarding her ancestry, and expressed disappointment that she’s “so white.”
Grimsmo, who currently has more than 200,000 followers on YouTube, has been making videos about being Norwegian and life in Norway, as well as other topics such as meditation and relationships, for several years. In the video she says that foreigners see her as typically Norwegian, but that other Norwegians see her as “out there” since she has spent several years living in other countries, such as America.
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“Jeff Goldblum Faces Backlash for Questioning the ‘Anti-Homosexuality and Anti-Woman’ Nature of Islam”
It’s ridiculous because he was trying to learn about the topic and the dragqueen in question actually agreed with him.
Well, at least now he knows what social justice is about, haha.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland
On and on it goes
errr wrong link
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1254717391847788547
Cornelia Grimsmo. What a tedious and self focused person. What difference does it make how foreigners see her. What’s key is how she sees herself. She seems afraid to be herself.
Ancestry is about DNA, not skin color. Everything’s not about race. We are all persons of color. White’s just another shade of color, and if you look closely, caucasians are actually various shades of pink to dark tan. White is the color of a Klu Ku Klansman’s hood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMbxmQmo94
Remember when Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Austria/Hungary, Russia and Japan all teamed up against China? Or how Lefties think its okay for China to defend itself against invading foreigners, but not okay for Europeans? Really makes you think….
Pakistani man, aged 39, who brutally abused his Danish wife for decade before murdering her, was sentenced to detention and deportation last week by a court in Roskilde.
Kamran Khan was sentenced last Friday after being convicted of beating his 34-year-wife Aya Bonde Jensen – an ex-beauty queen – to death in their home in Osted, south of Roskilde, in October of 2018.
The 39-year-old Pakistani was found guilty of subjecting his wife to “severe violence, incarceration, surveillance, and humiliation” for ten years leading up to her death. Khan is also convicted of systematic, crude and brutal abuse of his three children, Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet reports.
https://ekstrabladet.dk/112/lige-nu-familiefar-faar-forvaring-for-konedrab/8100045
>No go zones chimpout since then, ambushing police and firemans with molotovs, guns are starting to be shown.
Source: https://www.ladepeche.fr/2020/04/24/info-la-depeche-policiers-pris-pour-cible-des-tensions-en-cours-dans-le-quartier-du-mirail,8861506.php
>Cops seems to be pissed of, alot of police violence have been published, increasing the chimpout.
https://twitter.com/CerveauxNon/status/1254037999429586944
>A group of cops caused outrage being filmed making racist joke and supposedly beating a migrant after he fled them by jumping in the river
https://twitter.com/loran076/status/1254500027109724162
>Last hour a potential terrorist hit moto cops with a german car, wanting to kill them and die as martyr, pic related
https://twitter.com/Dz__Power92/status/1254820193571950595
What do you think about it guys, is it escalating?
I have many friends in France, and one in Austria that email me this news, and I am quoting verbatim here.