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OF THE WEB: Woman decapitated, two others killed in Islamist knife
attack in French church - killer shot, arrested - arrests made in other
cities
Comment:
The church where this atrocity occurred in Nice is the city's 'Notre
Dame' (and it even looks like the bigger one in Paris). This is not
coincidental. Islamists/jihadists/patsies/whatever carrying out such
attacks in lockstep with the French government's major announcements of
ever-encroaching lockdown measures is also not coincidental. There is
indeed science and methodology to the 'Covi
Coming
off the worst quarter in history, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest
pace ever in the third quarter as a nation battered by an unprecedented
pandemic started to put itself back together, the Commerce Department
reported Thursday. Third-quarter gross domestic product, a measure of
the total goods and services produced in the July-to-September period,
expanded at a 33.1% annualized pace, ac
"Boris
Johnson? Who is he?" asked Lucy. "Why, it is he that has got all
Covidia under his thumb," said Mr Tumnus. "It's he that makes it always
Covid. Always Covid and never Christmas; think of that!" - The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (with a few changes) Were he around
today, I have no doubt that C.S. Lewis, one of the 20th Century's
greatest intellects, would be utterly scathing o
Protests
erupted across Europe last night as thousands of angry demonstrators
called on their governments to reconsider a second-round of lockdown
restrictions. In Italy, violence was reported in at least two major
northern cities, Milan and Turin, as vast crowds protested
freedom-limiting restrictions enforced to tackle a second surge in
coronavirus cases. Witnesses said a number of luxury stores
Born
in Ravensburg in 1938, Klaus Schwab is a child of Adolf Hitler's
Germany, a police-state regime built on fear and violence, on
brainwashing and control, on propaganda and lies, on industrialism and
eugenics, on dehumanisation and "disinfection", on a chilling and
grandiose vision of a "new order" that would last a thousand years.
Schwab seems to have dedicated his life to reinventing that nig
Yesterday
So,
according to the corporate media, this is it for Russian-backed Hitler.
Game over. The walls are closing in. It's the last days of the Trumpian
Reich. Get those vuvuzelas ready! Yes, apparently, the American people,
who were all a bunch of Putin-worshipping, white-supremacist neo-Nazis
when they elected Trump in 2016, have come to their senses and are going
to deliver a landslide victory to "S
Stoic
philosopher Epictetus believed that honorable character and a life of
wisdom begin with a clear understanding of one basic principle: "some
things are within our control, and some things are not." How we are
perceived by others — our popularity — is ultimately outside our
control; we should focus on character, not reputation, because "trying
to control or change what we can't only results in
Biden
family business partner-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski told Fox
News' Tucker Carlson Tuesday night that Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden is "compromised" by communist China. "If Joe Biden is elected
president, which could very well happen," Carlson said, "how does this
constrain his ability to deal with China?" "So I think Joe Biden and the
Biden family is compromised," Bobuli
Oct 27
Singapore
has temporarily halted the use of two influenza vaccines as a
precaution after some people who received them in South Korea died,
becoming among the first countries to publicly announce a halt of the
vaccines' use. South Korea reported that 48 have died as of Saturday
after getting flu shots but said it would carry on with the state-run
vaccination programme as they found no direct link
Thousands
of protesters descended on the British capital on Saturday to call for
an end to coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on businesses in the
UK, which they described as a form of "tyranny". In a Breitbart London
exclusive video, protesters were seen singing: "I would rather be a
human than a slave", "We are the 99 per cent", and "You can shove your
New World Order up your ass". The 'Stop
The
whole planet has every reason to be terminally puzzled at how all those
lofty Enlightenment ideals Thomas Jefferson embedded in the 1776
Declaration of Independence ended up with... Trump vs. Biden. Jefferson
borrowed freely from Locke, Rousseau, Hume to come up with an eminently
quotable Greatest Hits, featuring "self-evident" truths such as "all men
are created equal", "unalienable rights",
Oct 26
A
major study out of Denmark that sought to examine the efficacy of face
masks at limiting the spread of COVID-19 has reportedly been rejected by
multiple academic journals amid hints that the study found face
coverings are not effective in protecting individuals from the
coronavirus. Masks have been among the most persistent and controversial
flashpoints of the COVID-19 epidemic for months. Healt
First
rains of the season in Lebanon bring along frightening whirlwinds to
the destroyed Beirut port area. Some viral videos are circulating on the
web of the whirlwind/tornado at the site of the explosion at Beirut
Port. On 4 August 2020, a massive amount of ammonium nitrate stored at
Beirut port city, the capital of Lebanon, exploded, causing at least 203
deaths, and around 6,500 injuries.
"Treason
doth never prosper; what is the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare
call it treason." - Sir John Harrington. As Shakespeare would state in
his play Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," like a
fish that rots from head to tail, so do corrupt government systems rot
from top to bottom. This is a reference to the ruling system of Denmark
and not just the foul murder that Ki
Introduction
The British public's widespread compliance with the Government's
draconian diktats has arguably been the most remarkable aspect of the
coronavirus crisis. The unprecedented restrictions on our basic freedoms
- in the form of lockdowns, travel bans and mandatory mask wearing -
have been passively accepted by the large majority of people. Despite
the lack of evidence for effectiveness o
Oct 25
Yes,
you are right. We have gone quite mad. I know that many people are
thinking this, but dare not say so. I will be accused of all kinds of
terrible things for taking this view - but that is another aspect of how
crazy things are. Yes, coronavirus poses a risk. No, our response to it
is not intelligent or useful. In fact, I think it is increasingly
damaging and will soon become more so. The key
"People
like the Bidens — and the Clintons for that matter — they don't have to
take formal bribes," explained "The Ingraham Angle" host. "There is no
need for any smoking gun. They simply do everything possible while in
office to help rich people and to fight off movements ... that would
force big business to pay higher wages." "During the years between 2000
and 2016, a lot of middle-class folks
Oct 24
In
a day when half the US population remained transfixed by the ongoing
revelations about the contents of Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell" and
the other half was doing everything in its power to ignore the news
which the socials have conveniently been desperate to censor, a far less
noticed but perhaps just as important investigative report authored by
the unknown Typhoon Investigations, was rele
Former
Vice President Joe Biden used his son Hunter Biden as a "bag man" and
got 50% of the "bribe money" from foreign entities, Rudy Giuliani told
Newsmax TV. Appearing Tuesday on "Greg Kelly Reports," Giuliani, who
says he is in possession of a copy of a hard drive purportedly belonging
to Hunter Biden, said the current Democrat presidential nominee could
have used several "flunkies" as a "bag m
Oct 23
The
story I will tell my grandchildren someday will go something like this:
A totalitarian regime — China — flipped out and locked down an entire
city when they discovered a new virus. Most of the world's leaders,
throwing out a century of hard-earned knowledge about how to manage
through infectious disease outbreaks, ended up doing the same thing in a
panicky week fueled by trumped-up death model
The
harm caused by lockdowns is much worse than the disease of COVID-19.
That's the argument from numerous public health officials and economists
around the world, including an Alberta expert in infectious disease and
critical care, Dr. Ari Joffe of the Stollery Children's Hospital and
the University of Alberta. "I'm truly worried the (lockdown) approach is
going to devastate economies and the fut
On
December 6, 2015, Joe Biden ordered Ukraine President Petr Poroshenko
to fire Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, threatening to
withhold $1 billion in US aid to the Poroshenko government if he did not
do so. Newly revealed evidence taken from Hunter Biden's laptop, in the
form of an email dated November 2, 2015, from Vadym Pozharskyi to Devon
Archer and Hunter Biden at their Rosemont Sen
The
story I will tell my grandchildren someday will go something like this:
A totalitarian regime — China — flipped out and locked down an entire
city when they discovered a new virus. Most of the world's leaders,
throwing out a century of hard-earned knowledge about how to manage
through infectious disease outbreaks, ended up doing the same thing in a
panicky week fueled by trumped-up death model
Wait
until Scranton hears about this. One of Joe Biden's ways of contrasting
himself with President Trump has been to declare the election a battle
of Park Avenue values vs. Scranton, Pa., values. Now we learn that Biden
has secretly been playing footsie with China. The statement Wednesday
night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager
participant in a family scheme to make
Brazilian
health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a
clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca AZN.L
and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue.
Oxford confirmed the plan to keep testing, saying in a statement that
after careful assessment "there have been no concerns about safety of
the clinical trial." Comment: Actually, vacc
The
gong sounds for Round Two of The Great VIRAL Debate. Track this
debate's progress in our Coronavirus Debate Section. Dr Piers Robinson
is our chair. Off-Guardian is your host. The proposition under debate
is: SARS-COV-2 merits suppression measures in order to combat the virus
rather than the herd/community immunity approach Dr Rancourt, arguing
against the proposition, responds to Tim Anderson
Oct 22
Unless
you've been living under a rock, you're likely already very aware of
the scandal going down in the Biden family. No, not the one about Joe
not being able to remember what state he's in or what office he's
running for. The Hunter Biden scandal. The big one. On October 14, 2020,
the New York Post published a story titled, 'Smoking-gun email reveals
how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian busine
Comment:
...and the names of every 'elite' scumbag in it have been redacted.
Hence 'unsealed' is in quotes... A deposition detailing the seamy
relationship between Ghislaine Maxwell and the late pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein was released Thursday just before a court-imposed deadline,
after months of wrangling by her defense lawyers to keep the sordid
documents from the public eye. The newly unsealed t
I've
been suspicious from the start. Back in March, when this novel virus
first swept in from the East and countries across Europe started bolting
their doors even before cases mounted, I remember saying to people,
'Blimey, what aren't they telling us yet?' It was clearly killing
people, but not in numbers that warranted the complete shutdown of
society, I mused, as I cleared my desk and left the
Oct 21
Kemi
Badenoch tells Commons debate on Black History Month that schools must
offer opposing views. Schools which teach pupils that "white privilege"
is an uncontested fact are breaking the law, the women and equalities
minister has said. Addressing MPs during a Commons debate on Black
History Month, Kemi Badenoch said the government does not want children
being taught about "white privilege and the
Oct 20
Alexei
Navalny has opened his US media campaign on Sunday with interviews on
CBS Television and the New Yorker magazine. Wearing a new white shirt,
he has also opened a new version of the attempted assassination. In
Navalny's fresh plot, he now says he was poisoned when he was putting on
clothes in his hotel room in Tomsk, and then touched a water bottle.
"We know that I was poisoned in the hotel
A
teacher beheaded on a street near Paris on Friday afternoon has been
named as Samuel Paty by French Education MinisterJean-Michel Blanquer.
The suspected killer, who was armed with a knife and a plastic pellet
gun, was later shot dead by officers in a nearby town, police said.
French authorities have launched an anti-terror investigation. President
Emmanuel Macron called it an "assassination" an
Oct 17
It
started with smoking. The 1960s and 1970s saw little popular objection
to legislation restricting advertisements by private companies purveying
a legal product. Little objection was raised thereafter when these same
companies were banned from promoting their wares at all. Broadly
shamed, even smokers have mutely accepted confiscatory taxes on
cigarettes. As laws to protect the public from passi
Moncef
Slaoui, the official head of Operation Warp Speed, told the Wall Street
Journal last week that all Warp Speed vaccine recipients in the US will
be monitored by "incredibly precise . . . tracking systems" for up to
two years and that tech giants Google and Oracle would be involved. Last
week, a rare media interview given by the Trump administration's
"Vaccine Czar" offered a brief glimpse in
Oct 16
Hamodia
has exclusively obtained a full recording of a conference call New York
Gov. Andrew Cumo had with Jewish leaders last Tuesday, in which he said
he would limit houses of worship to 50% occupancy in areas seeing a
COVID-19 uptick, just hours before a public press conference in which he
limited it to 10 attendees. "The current rule ... in any indoor
gathering ... it's 50% of capacity," the go
Oct 15
[But
concern may be in order] I suppose most people believe the trials on
vaccines for COVID19 will be looking to demonstrate that they reduce the
risk of infection, death, or serious illness - or suchlike. Also, you
may have heard that several vaccines could be ready for use early next
year 2021. Maybe even later this year. As Dilbert may retort:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, let me pause and wip
Facebook
announced on Wednesday they will be "reducing" the spread of the new
New York Post story about Hunter Biden, which claims new emails and
photos shed light on his foreign business dealings, as it undergoes a
review by "third-party fact checking partners." Comment: See the article
on Sott: Smoking-gun email in forgotten laptop reveals Hunter Biden
introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Comment:
And that may be a conservative estimate... The World Bank said on
Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 150
million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, wiping out more
than three years of progress in poverty reduction. Releasing its
flagship biennial report on poverty and shared prosperity, the
multilateral development lender said that an additional 88
Who
benefits from lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our
society? Look no further than the emerging global oligarchy. In October
2019, a pandemic simulation exercise called Event 201 - a collaborative
effort between Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World
Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - concluded
that a hypothetical new coronavirus may end up kill
Oct 14
Comment:
Twitter and Facebook are censoring this report... from one of the
largest US media outlets. In any other year, such revelations as these
would force a candidate out of the race. But this is 2020, so the rest
of the media is just ignoring the Post's reports... Hunter Biden
introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive
at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year b
French
president Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday a nighttime curfew
would be imposed in the greater Paris region as well as in eight other
cities around France hard-hit by the second wave of Covid-19 infections.
As virus numbers continue to rise in France, the president announced
that nine cities and surrounding areas will be subject for a curfew from
9pm to 6am for at least four weeks. Mac
In
the city's Barkas area, a man was washed away by the turbulent
floodwater. Heavy rain disrupted life in Hyderabad on Wednesday, causing
severe waterlogging in several areas and submerging low-lying places.
Traffic was also disrupted in several parts of the city. At least nine
people, including children, were killed in Hyderabad late on Tuesday
after a wall collapsed due to the rain. The city ha
Prominent
Colorado Democrat Khristopher Jacks, who sits on the executive
committee for the state's Democratic party and chairman of leftist
organization "Our Revolution" was caught on undercover footage by
Project Veritas promoting a violent agenda for far-left Democrats if
President Trump wins in November.. "I am going to do everything morally
acceptable to win. I will lie. I will cheat. I will s
Oct 13
A
Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that
masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of
COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them. A study
conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154
"case-patients," who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group
of 160 participants from the same health care fa
It
seems that this election is not just about which candidate gets elected
-- it is ultimately about America's commitment to empirical facts, its
extraordinary Constitution and its determination to maintain its
leadership role in the world by refusing to allow cheating and
corruption, in either its elections or its governmental institutions.
One can only hope that the ideals of the Founding Founde
One
of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic
official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the "Cold
War" or the "War on Terror" narratives. A totally delusional official
narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is
contradicted by a preponderance of facts. Nazism and Stalinism are the
classic examples, but the phenomenon is better obs
Oct 12
A
pledge by Biden to support the Great Reset would pose a grave threat to
liberty and free markets in the United States A radical movement called
the Great Reset embraced by some Democrats poses a grave threat to
liberty and free markets in the United States and around the world.
While former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't endorsed the movement, his
ties to it are growing as he changes his long-h
The
US military has partnered with more than a dozen companies for
"large-scale experimentation" with 5G technology, including efforts to
enhance the "lethality" of certain systems, in what's slated to be a
$600 million project. Dubbing 5G tech a "foundational enabler for all US
defense modernization," the Pentagon announced the massive research
initiative on Thursday, which will hand hundreds of
The
World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19
stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their
countries and economies. Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to
world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop "using lockdowns as your
primary control method" of the coronavirus. He also claimed that the
only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty - with no men
Oct 11
Russian
President Vladimir Putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance
between Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe
Biden, and Soviet communists in a wide-ranging interview with the
Rossiya TV channel, released Wednesday as the 2020 vice presidential
candidates prepared to debate. The president said the Kremlin would be
open to working with whoever sits in the Oval O
Russian
President Vladimir Putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance
between Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe
Biden, and Soviet communists in a wide-ranging interview with the
Rossiya TV channel, released Wednesday as the 2020 vice presidential
candidates prepared to debate. The president said the Kremlin would be
open to working with whoever sits in the Oval O
Oct 10
The
UK Prime Minister's remote speech to his party conference saw him
dismiss the idea of returning to normality. Is he using Covid-19 to
follow the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' agenda, as many have
warned? 'It's not really about public health or a virus. They have
another agenda.' That's what the so-called 'conspiracy theorists' have
been saying since March, when the first British lockdow
Oct 05
Statement
comes just days after he asked for more help COVID lockdowns were
thrown into chaos today after a mayor declared war on tough new
restrictions - and vowed: "We will defy the government" despite asking
for new measures just days ago. Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston fought
back after Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the latest measures
in a Commons address. A ban on different house
Oct 04
There
is not much special about Logan, Ohio. Sure, there's the Paul A Johnson
Pencil Sharpener Museum in South Logan, and every year musicians strum a
bunch of washboards at the Washboard Music Festival (cancelled this
year because of the Covid apocalypse, of course). But Logan usually has a
pretty relaxed, 'small-town America' vibe. That was until what can only
be described as a violent confronta
Oct 03
Comment:
Whatever is going on here, the timing - weeks before Trump's likely
re-election - is strange... President Donald Trump and first lady
Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president
tweeted early Friday. Trump's positive test comes just hours after the
White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the
virus after traveling with the president severa
Comment:
Whatever is going on here, the timing - weeks before Trump's likely
re-election - is strange... President Donald Trump and first lady
Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president
tweeted early Friday. Trump's positive test comes just hours after the
White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the
virus after traveling with the president severa
General
Stanley McChrystal delighted the left and the war-loving
neoconservatives today by joining his name to the ranks of
military-industrial complex "national security" professionals supporting
Joe Biden. This development should not be surprising. While Trump
enjoys overwhelming support from the military rank and file, the brass
has been largely corrupted for some time. As the President himself
I
was on the bus the other night with my wife. There were only 3 of us
not wearing masks on our public transport, which mandates mask wearing
but with medical exemptions. Across the aisle was an attractive, healthy
looking young woman, perhaps mid 20s wearing a mask. She was pregnant,
I'd guess in the 2nd trimester. According to the US NIOSH (National
Institute for Safety and Health) there are now
Oct 01
Boris
Johnson's effusive response to a tweet from Bill Gates, which the
public couldn't comment on, and the draconian restrictions imposed on
the UK without debate are indicative of the way democracy has been
suspended in 2020. Prime Minister Johnson (or at least the person
operating his account), doesn't respond to ordinary members of the
public raising issues with him on Twitter. He doesn't resp
Victorian
Premier Daniel Andrews' captain's call to maintain a strict mandatory
mask order over summer is ridiculous and could badly backfire, health
experts warn after the Premier revealed his decision goes further than
the health advice. Mr Andrews announced an indefinite crackdown for
mandatory masks on Sunday, including banning face shields, scarfs and
bandannas and requiring a "fitted mask th
Failed
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton OK'ed a plan to smear then-rival
Donald Trump with accusations about Russian election-hacking to
distract from her email scandal, newly-declassified papers appear to
show. Clinton approved an advisor's proposal to "vilify Donald Trump by
stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security
services" in July 2016, according to information dec
In
March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of a flu viral specimen during a
TED Talk and told the audience that it was what the greatest
catastrophe of our time would look like. The real threat to life, he
said, is 'not missiles, but microbes.' When the coronavirus pandemic
swept over the earth like a tsunami five years later, he revived the war
language, describing the pande
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