Reader’s Links for October 4th, 2020

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  1. Involuntary discharge by immigrant video blogger in the Netherlands (not sure what language he speaks, but his followers comment in Dutch).

  2. https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/12833608/gucci-sells-dress-for-men/

    Gucci sells £1,700 dress with ribbon waist for men to fight ‘toxic masculinity stereotypes’

    And there’s a floral print creation for £1,150 in its latest range of gender-fluid clobber.

    The Italian firm says of its pricey check creation: “Inspired by grunge looks from the ‘90s and styled over ripped denim pants, this tartan smock in delicate colours reflects the idea of fluidity explored for the Fall Winter 2020 fashion show, disrupting the toxic stereotypes that mold masculine gender identity.

    “The contrast Peter Pan collar and smock embroidery on the front add a childhood inspired element, which ties to a recurrent theme of the collection.

    “Pieces with versatile ways to wear and style embrace each person who is part of the House’s individual spirit.”

    • Misleading headline though. In reality it is, Gucci makes dress they charge 1,700.00 UK pounds for to get a headline about how woke they are. I doubt they sell one or even intend to.

  3. Last night we went out for dinner for our special occasion. It was the first time since before the Wuhan Wiggiflobber. I call it a silly name not to minimize its potential danger to the small percentage of its unlucky recipients, but for the utterly silly effects it has on government, which then confers regulation on the populace ad minutia of a degree not understood until one ventures back out into our brave new world.

    We ate in a tent on paper plates with plastic utensils. I didn’t know what to expect, really, of our dining experience, but I know I wasn’t expecting my whiskey in a plastic cup, too. The Wiggiflobber hasn’t killed the world’s dishwashers, has it?

    In fact I hadn’t given the outing much thought at all until we got to the front door of this favourite downtown spot of ours, a little stand-alone building in the shadow of Dystopia’s Peace Tower. It isn’t swank but it isn’t cheap, either, and the food is top-notch central European. The first thing we saw was a sign saying “Do Not Enter”. We waited for the waitress to come out. She wore a heavy wool sweater. She seated us in the tent they had set up in their parking lot.

    We sat on folding metal chairs at folding wooden tables. Infrared lamps blazed for warmth. We were warm enough, yet we didn’t take off our jackets. At this time of year here evenings are beginning to cool quite a bit, so we were on the edge of comfort. What will you do in winter, I asked the waitress. She was a sweet young woman in her twenties. She said that when they closed all the flaps on the tent it warmed up quite nicely in here. They hadn’t yet figured out how the winter to-ing and fro-ing of the meals from the kitchen to this new outside-inside, but they would, she assured us. Good luck with this when it’s 30-below out, I thought. “But if you close all the flaps with all the patrons inside you’ve just recreated what you’ve already got,” I said nodding towards the building. She could only acknowledge with a shrug and tell us our food was coming shortly.

    The patrons of the place were mostly younger than us, of an age that still wanted to get out more. The tent allowed for the requisite distancing. Only the servers were obliged to wear masks. I had trouble understanding our waitress when she spoke. I heard her words but could not see her mouth, which makes me wonder if we are all subconscious lip readers to a degree. There would be little difference between holding one’s hand to one’s mouth while speaking, and wearing a mask. One’s breath molecules would be deflected to the side, but I suppose such a requirement of the staff would be, uh, silly.

    There were no longer hard-copy menus. We had to put our phones up to the thingy to download it. Mine wouldn’t do it, for some reason. Maybe cell phones take on the characteristics of their owners. Wouldn’t this be a hoot? Let the AI geniuses make a phone that absorbs its owner’s personality. My phone would make progressively fewer calls and would laugh at its own stupid jokes.

    We ate and left. The conditions were not conducive to lingering. The portions seemed to have shrunken on these paper plates since last we came. It cost $180 with the twenty-percent tip. We pitied the young waitress who said she was just happy to be back working. She also said she had heard rumors there would be more regulations coming or else another full shutdown if the numbers kept rising. We pitied the owners of this place for the expense of this ridiculous tent, these heating lamps, all the other things they went through–and all for little return. From what I understand the restaurant business is a big gamble on a good day. It was nice to see people out, and to be out. It was nice to take a kick at normal again despite the wanton weight of cruel, distant know-betters having the time of their lives because of this amplified bug.

    Afterwards we walked around the block. It was dark off the main street. We looked at the little old houses in this oldest part of town. Twenty years ago this area was full of hookers and drug dealers. Gentrification had pushed them a few miles east of here. As we strolled by an old stone house my wife said it looked gay–as in the immaculate, tasteful care taken in its renovation. The oval window on the porch was from the end of the Victorian era. There was heavy wrought-iron fencing around the tiny front yard. The little garden was perfect.

    Before we got back to the car, in the distant darkness, I heard a deep thrumming sound. I didn’t know if it was my imagination, but it was like heavy construction equipment digging, or doing something very big far away. My wife heard it, too. Now, in the early tomorrow, miles from where we were for dinner, I still hear something going on. It is deep, dark, massive and ominous, and I think it’s getting louder.

  4. Fuel-Starved Venezuela Reportedly Receives Third Shipment of Gasoline From Iran (sputniknews, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202010041080659830-fuel-starved-venezuela-reportedly-receives-third-shipment-of-gasoline-from-iran/

    :Two out of a flotilla of three Iranian-flagged tankers arrived in fuel-starved Venezuela on 29 and 30 September, as the South American state boasting the world’s largest oil reserves, was forced to close gas stations across the country due to shortages, triggering protests among the population.

    Venezuela has received a fresh shipment of much-needed fuel as the final vessel in a flotilla of three Iranian tankers entered the South American nation’s waters on Saturday.

    The tanker Faxon, carrying around 234,000 barrels of fuel, was shown to be directly north of Venezuela’s Sucre state as of 9:37 a.m. local time (1:37 p.m. GMT) on Saturday, according to Refinitiv Eikon data, cited by Reuters.

    Earlier, on 29 and 30 of September, the tanker Forest with 275,000 barrels of gasoline on board and the Fortune entered Venezuelan waters, Russ Dallen, the head of the Miami-based investment firm Caracas Capital Markets, who tracks Venezuela shipments, was cited by the AP news agency as saying.

    While no information was offered regarding how much gasoline the Fortune and the Faxon were carrying, Dallen was cited as saying the flotilla would deliver a total of 815,000 barrels of fuel to Venezuela.

    Dallen suggested that the Iranian shipments will likely provide only short respite from the nation’s shortages.

    “Ultimately, Venezuela cannot continue buying all the gasoline needed as it doesn’t have enough money. So, Venezuela gets gas temporarily and Iran gets a little money or gold – it is not yet a sustainable business,” said Dallen.
    The flotilla is the second group of fuel tankers Iran has sent this year to the once-prosperous OPEC nation that is struggling to deal with gasoline shortages.

    Between May and June, five Iranian tankers are said to have delivered more than a million barrels of oil to Venezuela.

    While the country whose proven oil reserves are recognized as the largest in the world still produces crude, it needs to import gasoline as its own production is a form of heavy sulphur oil.

    Venezuela, due to US sanctions on state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and ensuing underinvestment and lack of maintenance at its refineries, does not have the capacity to refine it.

    The shortages of fuel have resulted in sometimes days-long lines outside PDVSA gas stations, prompting a fresh wave of discontent among the population.

    Around 100 street demonstrations flared up in remote towns over the last week, according to The Associated Press.

    US Sanctions Target Venezuela, Iran
    The arrival of the tankers is seen as the latest sign of cooperation between two countries struggling under US-imposed sanctions….”

  5. Armenian Defence Ministry Claims Karabakh Forces Destroyed Three Azerbaijani Jets (sputniknews, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202010041080660873-armenian-defence-ministry-claims-karabakh-forces-destroyed-three-azerbaijani-jets/

    “Sunday marks the seventh day of intense fighting in the contested South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijani and Armenian Karabakh defence forces. The conflict started after both sides accused one another of shelling and air attacks starting September 27.

    Nagorno Karabakh’s defence forces have destroyed three Azerbaijani jet fighters and two tanks, a spokesperson from the Armenian Defence Ministry has said.

    “At about 12:00 pm [local time] units of Karabakh’s Defence Army destroyed three enemy aircraft and two tanks in the southern direction of the front,” spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan reported in a post on her Facebook page.

    Later in the day, Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence press secretary Anar Eyvazov dismissed the Armenian side’s statement, saying “not a single Azerbaijani Armed Forces plane has been shot down.” Eyvazov accused Armenia of spreading ‘false’ information in an attempt to hide its own losses on the front.

    Earlier Sunday, Nagorno Karabakh forces also reported the destruction of a military airfield in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja. Eyewitnesses on the Azeri side responded by accusing Armenia of carrying out missile attacks “against dense residential areas.”

    Results of Armenia’s massive missile attacks against dense residential areas in Ganja city. Azerbaijan retains its right to take adequate measures against legitimate military targets to defend civilians and enforce Armenia to peace. 4 new missile just hit Ganja.

    Early Sunday morning, a Sputnik correspondent reported that air raid sirens had gone off in the capital of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (the Armenian side’s name for Nagorno-Karabakh), with multiple artillery shells said to have landed outside the city.

    The same day, Yerevan also denied reports by the Azerbaijani side that rocket attacks on Azerbaijani cities were coming from Armenia proper.

    The latest flare-up of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh began on September 27, with both sides accusing one another of starting the aggression. At least 36 civilians, and as many as 3,600 troops from both sides have been killed, with Armenian and Azeri forces also claiming the destruction of dozens of tanks, aircraft, helicopters, drones, and entrenchments…”

  6. Asylum system crackdown: Endless ‘legal bids will end’ in huge immigration shake-up (express, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1343433/Immigration-asylum-system-reform-priti-patel

    “BRITAIN will see the “biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades”, Home Secretary Priti Patel will say today.

    Illegal arrivals will be prevented from making “endless legal claims to remain” and the removal of people with no right to live in the UK will be speeded up, Ms Patel is expected to say in her speech to the Conservative conference.

    She will argue Britain’s system is “fundamentally broken” and costs taxpayers more than £1billion a year.

    She will also claim present arrangements let down people who have genuinely fled danger overseas by leaving them “stuck” in a failing system.

    When she takes the stage for the Conservatives’ online conference, Ms Patel will say: “A fair asylum system should provide safe haven to those fleeing persecution, oppression or tyranny.

    “But ours doesn’t, because our asylum system is fundamentally broken and we have a responsibility to act. “Right now, the most vulnerable are stuck in this broken system, with over 40,000 other people.

    “Almost half of these claims take a year or more to reach a decision, costing UK taxpayers over £1billion each year – the highest amount in almost two decades.”

    She will both describe the plight of a young person who legally claimed asylum but was left “languishing in the broken system” and detail the case of a “dangerous foreign national offender” who committed an “abhorrent crime” and is using “meritless” claims to stay in the UK.

    Ms Patel will also give an example of someone who reached Britain in a small boat having first “passed through numerous safe countries” where it would have been possible to claim asylum.

    She is expected to say: “From the expulsion of Ugandan Asians [by] a repressive regime, to proudly resettling more Syrian refugees than any other EU country, to supporting campaigners fleeing political persecution in Hong Kong, under Conservative leadership the United Kingdom has and always will provide sanctuary when the lights are being switched off on people’s liberties.

    “So, I will introduce a new system that is firm and fair. Fair and compassionate towards those who need help; fair by welcoming people through safe and legal routes; but firm because we will stop the abuse of the broken system.

    “Firm, because we will stop those who come here illegally making endless legal claims to remain; and firm, because we will expedite the removal of those who have no claim for protection.

    “After decades of inaction by successive governments we will address the moral, legal, practical problems with this broken system. Because what exists now is neither firm nor fair.

    “And I will bring forward legislation to deliver on that commitment. I will take every necessary step to fix this broken system, amounting to the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades.”

    The Home Secretary will also promise to crack down on gangs that bring people to the UK illegally.”

    “I will accelerate our operational response to illegal migration,” she will say. “We will continue to hunt down the criminal gangs who traffic people into our country.

    “I will continue to use the full force of our outstanding National Crime Agency and intelligence agencies to go after them.

    “We will make more immediate returns of those who come here illegally and break our rules, every single week.”

    Esther McVey, a former Cabinet minister and a leading figure in the Blue Collar Conservatism movement, welcomed Ms Patel’s tough message.

    She said: “I am delighted we have a Home Secretary who is so in tune with the Blue Collar Conservatism agenda of clamping down on illegal immigration and being tough on crime.

    “We must deliver on this agenda and we will fully support Priti Patel in doing so.”

    Ms Patel’s attack on the asylum system comes on the heels of Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab using his conference speech yesterday to fire a warning shot at the EU.

    The former Brexit secretary said: “Yes, we want a free trade deal with the EU. But any deal must be fair. The days of being held over a barrel by Brussels are long gone. Under the Conservatives, there is no question: Our Government will control our fisheries, our Parliament will pass our laws, and our courts will judge them.””

  7. Father who abducted his three sons, six, five and three from foster home days before they were due to be adopted ‘smuggled them out of the UK in back of van’ (dailymail, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8803123/Father-abducted-three-sons-smuggled-UK-van.html

    “A father who abducted his three children from their foster home ‘smuggled them out of the UK in the back of a van’, police believe.

    Imran Safi, 26, snatched Bilal, 6, Ebrar, 5, and Yaseen, 3, from a foster home in south London, just before they were due to be adopted before taking them to his red Nissan car and driving off on August 20.

    Detectives now believe the father received support from a group of relatives in order to escape the police and smuggle his kidnapped children out of the country.

    A total of 16 people have since been arrested and released in connection with the abduction, including Safi’s wife Lubna, 25.

    However this weekend, the father’s brother-in-law Ali Safi refuted the claims that the family knew of his plans and said he last heard from Imran Safi on the morning of the abduction.

    He told The Times: ‘He said, ”Look after yourself and look after Lubna.” We had no idea what he was planning.’

    The brother-in-law went on to say that Safi ‘did the wrong thing by taking the law into his own hands’.

    He added: ‘He did the wrong thing by taking the law into his own hands, but in his eyes the law and everyone else had failed him, so he could not stop what he was doing out of love for his children.’

    The three boys’ disappearance has sparked a major investigation involving more than 100 police officers.

    It is understood that the boys were due to be formally adopted by a new family -which detectives believe could be a motive for the abduction- when they were taken from their foster home.

    Safi, who is originally from Afghanistan, is suspected of threatening the children’s foster carer at knifepoint before taking the three boys to his red Nissan car and driving off.

    Neighbours told last month how the children’s foster mother had moved out of her home out of fear Safi might return following the harrowing abduction.

    Detectives fear the children may already be abroad, despite having circulated their father’s mugshot and details to all ports and borders as they attempt to close off escape routes.

    In September, police released an image of a man who was the passenger in the red Nissan Qashqai, registration PK13 WFO, at the time of the children were taken, who they would like to speak to.

    They also offered a £20,000 reward for any information in their search for the three boys.

    Met Police Commander Bas Javid, said: ‘I can’t imagine how distressing this whole situation has been for the three young boys, who have been taken away from their safe environment, and our efforts to locate Imran Safi continues.

    ‘We are now offering a £20,000 reward for any information that will help us to bring the children home safely.

    ‘We also need the public’s help to identify a man who was the passenger in the red Nissan at the time the children were taken. He may hold valuable information as to where the children and Imran Safi are.

    ‘We appreciate that the image is not the clearest quality but we still need people to really study it and see if the man in the picture is one that they may recognise.’

    Commander Javid, continued: ‘The investigative team has been working tirelessly on this case and we are appealing again because someone reading or seeing this knows the whereabouts of these innocent children and I need them to contact us urgently and provide that knowledge.

    ‘We believe that Safi and the children have most likely left the UK, but our investigation continues and we will continue to do everything we can to locate the children and arrest Safi.

    ‘Our working theory is that they have left via a clandestine route, but to where? We remain unsure, and that is why we need people across the country, and abroad to share this appeal for information.

    ‘The focus of this operation is returning these innocent children to the UK which is our top priority. We hope that offering this reward will lead to some significant information being passed to us.'”

  8. Ex Equality Tsar Criticises Prince Harry for Using ‘Empty Jargon’ Like ‘Structural Racism’ (breitbart, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/04/ex-equality-tsar-criticises-prince-harry-using-phrases-he-doesnt-understand-like-structural-racism/

    “Britain’s former equality tsar Trevor Phillips has criticised Meghan Markle for her ignorance of Britain’s Black History Month and Prince Harry for using “empty jargon” like “structural racism”.

    The woke royals gave a video interview to London’s Evening Standard on Thursday, where they called for the end of “structural racism” in the UK. During the interview, Prince Harry commented that London does not feel “diverse”, despite being one of the most multicultural cities in the world.

    Mr Phillips criticised Prince Harry for the remark, implying that if Harry had spent less time in the more exclusive parts of the capital, he would see more “diversity”.

    “Seriously? Two out of every five Londoners are non-white. Diversity isn’t so easy to miss in the capital. Thirty years ago I filmed Harry on a clandestine visit with his mother and brother to meet the homeless near Waterloo. What happened to that boy? Perhaps a stroll down the less fashionable streets of London would, in the words of Ralph McTell’s song, show the couple something to make them change their minds,” Mr Phillips wrote in The Times on Friday.

    The former head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) went on to say that Harry was using “empty jargon” like phrases such as “structural racism” that “he doesn’t appear to understand and which make him sound like a 1980s polytechnic lecturer”.

    Phillips also criticised American former television actress Meghan Markle for her lack of knowledge of life in Britain, in assuming that the country did not mark Black History Month, pointing out that every year for the past two decades, the government and the Royal Family celebrated it.

    “Meghan simply reminded us how little she learnt about Britain and, in particular, that she was unaware of the one moment in the year when Black Britain is acknowledged by Establishment Britain,” he said.

    He also criticised the lack of diversity in the pair’s list “next-generation trailblazers” from the black community, remarking that they had reverted to the stereotype of black Britons being activists, athletes, or entertainers, rather than representing all walks of professional life.

    Phillip said: “This list has no doctors, scientists, lawyers, business leaders, or teachers. The Harry and Meghan Show has fallen straight into the oldest trap in the book: showing black folk as interesting but not important, prominent but not powerful.

    “Sadly this may say less about black Britain and more about a couple who could have changed the world but have settled for pleading, ‘Let me entertain you.’”

    Harry and Meghan have been persistent figures in the media since leaving the United Kingdom and the Royal Family in pursuit of a more private life. They were reported to have struck a deal with Netflix to star in a reality television show, a rumour the spokesman for the couple denied.

    The couple has also faced criticism for offering advice on the U.S. election, which reportedly was deemed a violation of their Megxit agreement with the Queen. Members of the Royal Family must appear apolitical, with the couple still loosely tied to the British monarchy, particularly through Prince Harry’s links to the military.”

  9. Pope Francis Rails Against Building ‘Walls’ in New Teaching Letter (breitbart, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/10/04/pope-francis-rails-against-building-walls-in-new-teaching-letter/

    “Pope Francis has called on Christians to break down walls and embrace a love without borders in a new encyclical letter released on Sunday.

    “We achieve fulfilment when we break down walls,” wrote the pope, who ironically rules the world’s only completely walled-in sovereign territory, the Vatican City State.

    The pope referred to walls a remarkable 14 times in his letter titled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All), insisting that the Church wants “to build bridges, to break down walls, to sow seeds of reconciliation.”

    “Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace,” Francis said, “by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths of dialogue and not by constructing new walls.”

    The pope said that his new letter was inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi who lived in a world “bristling with watchtowers and defensive walls” where “cities were a theatre of brutal wars between powerful families, even as poverty was spreading through the countryside.”

    Building walls reveals a deep-seated fear of others and fear of the unknown, the pontiff wrote, and a desire for security in one’s own little world.

    “There is a kind of ‘local’ narcissism unrelated to a healthy love of one’s own people and culture,” Francis said. “It is born of a certain insecurity and fear of the other that leads to rejection and the desire to erect walls for self-defence.”

    “Today too, outside the ancient town walls lies the abyss, the territory of the unknown, the wilderness,” he wrote. “Whatever comes from there cannot be trusted, for it is unknown, unfamiliar, not part of the village. It is the territory of the ‘barbarian,’ from whom we must defend ourselves at all costs.”

    “As a result, new walls are erected for self-preservation, the outside world ceases to exist and leaves only ‘my’ world, to the point that others, no longer considered human beings possessed of an inalienable dignity, become only ‘them,’” he said.

    This in turn yields to “the temptation to build a culture of walls, to raise walls, walls in the heart, walls on the land, in order to prevent this encounter with other cultures, with other people,” he added. “And those who raise walls will end up as slaves within the very walls they have built. They are left without horizons, for they lack this interchange with others.”

    “If only we might rediscover once for all that we need one another, and that in this way our human family can experience a rebirth, with all its faces, all its hands and all its voices, beyond the walls that we have erected,” he wrote.

    The massive, 40-foot high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by an earlier pope, Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846 AD.

    The original wall encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding what came to be known as the Leonine City, but was later reduced to circumscribe the 110-acre Vatican City that exists today.”

  10. Ottoman Empire Redux: Turkey’s Erdogan Tells the World ‘Jerusalem Is Ours’ (breitbart, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/10/04/turkeys-erdogan-tells-the-world-jerusalem-is-our-city/

    “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has warned the world Jerusalem “belongs” to Turkey, harking back to the Ottoman Empire’s control over the city for hundreds of years up until it was ejected in 1917.

    Erdogan made his public claim Thursday as he addressed Turkish lawmakers during a major policy speech in Ankara. He said:

    In this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come across traces of the Ottoman resistance. So Jerusalem is our city, a city from us. Our first qibla [direction of prayer in Islam] al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of Christianity and Judaism.

    As the Times of Israel reported, the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem from 1516 to 1917. Modern Turkey, its successor state, has long claimed a connection to the holy city, regularly condemning Israel for alleged attemtps to “Judaize” it and the U.S. administration’s December 2017 recognition of it as Israel’s capital.

    Turkey’s claim to ownership and an Islamic proprietary interest in the city defies thousands of years of accepted wisdom that confirms some of Judaism’s holiest sites are located in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

    These include the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem; the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron; and Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.

    That did not stop Erdo?an during his lengthy speech to the Turkish parliament lamenting the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinians and reaffirming his embrace of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, and is deemed a terrorist group by Israel, the E.U. and the U.S.

    “Another crisis that our country and our nation carefully follow is the oppression of Israel against the Palestinians and the indifferent practices that disregard the privacy of Jerusalem,” he said toward the end of his address.

    “The issue of Jerusalem is not an ordinary geopolitical problem for us. First of all, the current physical appearance of the Old City, which is the heart of Jerusalem, was built by Suleiman the Magnificent, with its walls, bazaar, and many buildings. Our ancestors showed their respect for centuries by keeping this city in high esteem.”

    The Palestinian people have been living in the holy city “for thousands of years,” but they were occupied and had their rights violated, the Turkish leader further alleged, as the Times reported.

    Calls by Turkey for intervention in Israel are not new.

    As Breitbart News reported, back in June Turkey’s top religious official vowed to continue Islam’s global struggle for dominance “until Jerusalem is completely free” and called on the Muslim world to rally against Israel.

    “It is never possible for Muslims to give up on the blessed city,” President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbas said in Turkish-language comments carried by T24 media and translated by the Jerusalem Post.

    According to Erbas, Israel and its capital share “universal value” for the Islamic world.

    His views echo those of Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who recently said, “The ummah [Islamic community] will never give up on a sovereign Palestinian state with Quds al-Sharif as its capital.””

  11. Swedish Police: New Gang Culture Emerged from Second-Generation Migrants (breitbart, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/04/swedish-police-claim-new-gang-culture-emerged-second-generation-migrants/

    “The head of the intelligence unit of the National Operational Department (NOA) of the Swedish police force said that many of the gangs in no-go vulnerable areas consist of second-generation migrants who have formed a new type of gang culture.

    Linda Staaf spoke to broadcaster Sveriges Radio on Thursday about the current state of gang crime in Sweden. She that there are three types of criminal gang structures, of which migrant-background gangs are the newest to emerge in the country.

    “Overall, we have three types of criminal structures: criminal organisations, such as criminal motorcycle gangs; family-based criminal networks in clan structures; and a new type of culture and network – that is, loose networks that are mainly gang criminals in vulnerable areas,” Staaf said.

    “The loosely composed networks often consist of second-generation immigrants. Parts of the clan structure are brought with them like honour and blood vengeance,” she added.

    According to Staaf, many of the second-generation migrants may have grown up feeling alienated from Swedish society and turned to gangs. She added that “too few have put their foot down against the provocative behaviour and in some cases, it has been allowed to grow into mindless power struggles”.

    “Their parents would never behave like this in their home countries, but this is a culture that has emerged in Sweden,” she said.

    The comments come just weeks after senior police officer Mats Löfving stated there was a direct link between mass migration and rising levels of gang violence in Sweden.

    “These clans come to Sweden solely with the purpose of organising and systematising crime. They work to create power, they have a great capacity for violence, and they want to make money. And they do that with drugs, violent crimes, and extortion,” Löfving said and claimed there were at least 40 criminal clan gangs active in the country.

    Prior reports have also indicated that many gangs have migrant-background leaders and members, including a February report that stated all of the leaders of violent street gangs in Stockholm had migrant backgrounds and over half were not born in Sweden.”

  12. Azerbaijan’s No. 2 city targeted in fighting with Armenia (abcnews, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/azerbaijans-city-targeted-fighting-armenia-73414542

    “The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continued on Sunday over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan’s second-largest city coming under attack.

    Azerbaijani officials said Sunday that Armenian forces attacked Ganja, the country’s second largest city. Hikmet Hajiyev, an aide to the Azerbaijani president, tweeted a video depicting damaged buildings, and called it the result of “Armenia’s massive missile attacks against dense residential areas” in Ganja.

    It wasn’t immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the video. Hajiyev said in another tweet that attacks on Ganja and other areas in Azerbaijan were launched “from territory of Armenia.”

    Armenia’s Defense Ministry said that “no fire of any kind is being opened from the territory of Armenia in Azerbaijan’s direction.” But Nagorno-Karabakh’s leader, Arayik Harutyunyan, confirmed on Facebook he ordered “rocket attacks to neutralize military objects” in Ganja. His spokesman, Vahram Poghosyan, said the territory’s army destroyed a military airport in Ganja, a claim Azerbaijani officials denied…”

  13. Live Updates: Series of Explosions Reportedly Heard in Nagorno-Karabakh Capital of Stepanakert

    The decades old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region sparked into life again at the end of last month.

    The President of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh) Arayik Harutyunyan says that his troops have improved their positions after heavy fighting on Saturday.

    Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh have all reported dozens of casualties since the flare-up of hostilities.

    The international community, including the co-chairs of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the United States – have called on all parties in the conflict to agree to a ceasefire and begin peace talks.

    https://sputniknews.com/world/202010041080659432-live-updates-air-raid-siren-sounds-in-stepanakert/

  14. Hathras Turns Battleground: Uttar Pradesh Police Resort To Lathicharge On Samajwadi Party Workers
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  15. The (Evil) EU still supports Iran and it’s despicable human rights record.

    “One day I heard screams, shouting, and pleas for help in the police department….I witnessed two officers who were dressed in unofficial uniforms cursing and hitting Navi’s with batons and metal pipes with no mercy. They would tell him “ the truth is whatever we say, will you write what we are saying or not”? Navi’s was begging “please, stop, please don’t hit me, I didn’t do anything”. He covered his head with his arms. One of the officers, hit Navid with such strength that Navid fell unconscious “……the witness to the torture of Iran’s, young, wrestling champion, Navid Afkari, who was reported tortured into a false confession, never allowed to see his family, then hanged.

    I can’t help but wonder if Jimmy Carter and all the “brilliant” decision makers who changed the lives of so many Iranians, read the report of Navid’s death.

  16. – His use of the word ‘magic’ is a direct hit on hospitalized-Trump –

    “Pope Francis says the coronavirus pandemic has proven that the ‘magic theories’ of market capitalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that promotes dialogue and solidarity.

    “Francis on Sunday laid out his vision for a post-COVID world by uniting the core elements of his social teachings into a new encyclical, ‘Fratelli Tutti’ (Brothers All), which was released on the feast day of his namesake, the peace-loving St. Francis of Assisi.

    More: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8803479/Pope-says-coronavirus-pandemic-proven-world-needs-new-type-politics.html

    • The Pope’s spitting on miracles.

      PT was expressing gratitude at therapeutics so great they’re like “magic”. A beautiful thing.

      Unless you’re so trapped in the material world, you’re consumed by it. Redistribution of STUFF, even who gets the right carry a child till born.

  17. https://emerging-europe.com/news/croatias-work-free-sunday-aims-to-improve-emerging-europes-work-life-balance/

    Croatia last week announced a new law that would regulate Sunday work. Government spokesperson Marko Milic said that new legislation would significantly limit the number and type of workplaces allowed to stay open on Sundays, in order to improve the balance between work, spare time, and family obligations for the country’s residents. It follows similar legislation in Poland, introduced in 2018 and subsequently expanded since then, most recently earlier this year when the number of Sundays that shops are allowed to stay open each year was halves from 14 to seven.

    The new work-free Sunday law aims to address these issues and is in line with the Directive of Work-Life Balance adopted by the European Parliament last year and is expected to be incorporated into the national legislation of EU countries by 2022. The directive seeks to improve the working rights of Europeans

  18. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/28/professor-floats-idea-climate-lockdown-bans-red-me/

    Professor floats idea of ‘climate lockdown’ with bans on red meat, ‘extreme’ energy limits
    Mariana Mazzucato warns that shutdown may be needed unless we ‘do capitalism differently’

    By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Monday, September 28, 2020
    The novel coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions are slowly being lifted in most areas, but already warnings of a “climate shutdown” have begun reverberating on the environmental left.

    A leading U.N. economist who advises European governments last week sent up a trial balloon via an article titled “Avoiding a Climate Lockdown,” arguing that in “the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again — this time to tackle a climate emergency.”

    “Under a ‘climate lockdown,’ governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling,” wrote Mariana Mazzucato, a University College London economics professor who is a member of the U.N. Committee on Development Policy. “To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.”

    Climate change skeptics immediately flagged her article on Project-Syndicate.org, which warned that the COVID-19 shutdowns have provided a blueprint for how to reduce emissions in a “climate emergency.”

    “When COVID came along and the entire world went into a grip of fear and immediately started locking down, everything the climate activists had been demanding almost happened almost overnight,” said Marc Morano, founder of the anti-climate change website ClimateDepot.com. “In short, the COVID lockdown is a trial run for the climate lockdown.”

    Climate change and the coronavirus pandemic have been linked repeatedly by prominent figures such as former Vice President Al Gore and billionaire Bill Gates, who said in an Aug. 4 op-ed, “As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse.”

    In July, the World Economic Forum launched the Great Reset Initiative to “jointly and urgently build the foundations of our economic and social system for a fairer, sustainable and more resilient post-COVID future.”

    “They are not letting a crisis go to waste,” said Mr. Morano, who last week released the documentary “Climate Hustle 2.” “They’re calling for a socialist great reset against capitalism. They’re going to try to morph climate and COVID together and you’re going to go from a COVID lockdown to a climate lockdown.”

    The conservative Media Research Center noted that Ms. Mazzucato‘s, article appeared on Project Syndicate, billed as “the world’s opinion page” and funded by, among others, billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros.

    “George Orwell is turning over violently in his grave,” said Joseph Vazquez on NewsBusters. “Tracking PS’s funding explained the tyrannical radicalism. Three groups within Soros’s Open Society Network ($1,242,105), along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($5,280,186), have given PS at least $6,522,291 between 2012-2019.”

    The pandemic lockdowns wound up reducing global emissions by about 5% from 2019 levels by mid-June, but climate activists have argued that greater reductions are needed to avoid a “climate crisis.”

    “You think that one-month lockdown was bad in spring 2020?” tweeted University of Colorado Boulder professor Roger Pielke Jr. “So imagine 20x, non-stop for the next 50 years.”

    Ms. Mazzucatocriticized granting COVID-19 recovery funds to oil-and-gas companies during a Friday interview on Bloomberg television.

    “Last year, the International Panel on Climate Change argued that we just have 10 years left, 10 years left until climate breakdown basically is irreversible, but in 2019, so just last year, subsidies for fossil-fuel companies were estimated at something like $20 billion a year in the U.S. and $55 billion a year in the European Union,” she said. “What we actually need is a new social compact.”

    Ms. Mazzucato founded the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and wrote “The Value of Everything” (2017) and “The Entrepreneurial State” (2013). She has served as an adviser to the Scottish and Italian governments, and European Commissioner Carlos Moedas.

  19. Devin Nunes UNLOADS on FBI, Intel and DOJ over Corrupt Actions and Lies on Trump Russia Hoax

  20. Trump releases new video on his health; China claims ‘4 new inventions’ but none came from China

  21. Pope Francis Denounces Rise of Populist Nationalism (breitbart, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/04/pope-francis-denounces-rise-of-populist-nationalism/

    “Pope Francis has decried the resurgence of populism and nationalism on the world stage, calling instead for greater multilateralism.

    Our own days seem to be showing “signs of a certain regression,” the pope writes in a new encyclical letter titled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All). “Ancient conflicts thought long buried are breaking out anew, while instances of a myopic, extremist, resentful and aggressive nationalism are on the rise.”

    “In some countries, a concept of popular and national unity influenced by various ideologies is creating new forms of selfishness and a loss of the social sense under the guise of defending national interests,” the pontiff writes in the 43,000-word letter, which was released on Sunday.

    As he has done on other occasions, Francis attributes renewed nationalist sentiment to growing xenophobia, narrowmindedness, and selfishness.

    There are those “who appear to feel encouraged or at least permitted by their faith to support varieties of narrow and violent nationalism, xenophobia and contempt, and even the mistreatment of those who are different,” the pope laments. “Faith, and the humanism it inspires, must maintain a critical sense in the face of these tendencies, and prompt an immediate response whenever they rear their head.”

    “Narrow forms of nationalism are an extreme expression of an inability to grasp the meaning of… gratuitousness,” Francis writes. “They err in thinking that they can develop on their own, heedless of the ruin of others, that by closing their doors to others they will be better protected.”

    “Immigrants are seen as usurpers who have nothing to offer,” he adds. “This leads to the simplistic belief that the poor are dangerous and useless, while the powerful are generous benefactors.”

    “Sadly, politics today often takes forms that hinder progress towards a different world,” namely, populism.

    “Lack of concern for the vulnerable can hide behind a populism that exploits them demagogically for its own purposes, or a liberalism that serves the economic interests of the powerful,” he writes.

    The attempt to see populism as a key for interpreting social reality is “problematic,” Francis asserts, because it “disregards the legitimate meaning of the word ‘people,’” which necessarily entails “communitarian aspirations” and “shared goals that transcend their differences.”

    The promotion of “popular” leaders “can degenerate into an unhealthy ‘populism’ when individuals are able to exploit politically a people’s culture, under whatever ideological banner, for their own personal advantage or continuing grip on power,” he states. “Or when, at other times, they seek popularity by appealing to the basest and most selfish inclinations of certain sectors of the population.”

    “This becomes all the more serious when, whether in cruder or more subtle forms, it leads to the usurpation of institutions and laws,” he warns.

    While the pope does not name names in his denunciation of the rise of an “aggressive nationalism,” recent years have witnessed a resurgence of nationalism in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and elsewhere.

    “Over the past years, rising nationalism is seen everywhere and in everything,” declared a 2018 essay in the Journal Ethnopolitics.

    “From the election of Donald Trump to Brexit, the nationalist policies of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinz? Abe, his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, the success of far-right parties in Italian, German and Austrian elections in 2017 and 2018, nationalism appears to be on rise globally,” it declared.”

  22. Egypt’s Al-Azhar hits back at Macron’s ‘racist’ remarks on Islam

    Scholars at Egypt’s prestigious Sunni Islamic institution, Al-Azhar, have denounced remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron on “Islamist separatism” as “racist” and spreading “hate speech”.

    Macron on Friday unveiled plans to defend France’s secular values against radical Islam, describing Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide.

    “He made false accusations against Islam, that have nothing to do with the true essence of this religion,” Al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy said in statement late Saturday.

    […]”Such racist statements will inflame the feelings of two billion Muslim followers” around the world, and block the path to constructive dialogue, the statement added.

    Macron also warned against the creation of a “counter-society” holding its own laws among France’s Muslims.

    Al-Azhar said making “false accusations about Islam or other religions, such separatism and isolationism” went against the actual “reality of what these religions call for.”

    […]On Thursday, Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb voiced “immense anger” at the use by some Western officials of the term “Islamist terrorism”, without heeding its ramifications.

    He said in a Tweet that such terms constitute “an insult” to the religion and its followers, and warned against their use by officials, public figures and intellects.

    https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/10/4/egypts-al-azhar-hits-back-at-macrons-racist-islam-remarks

    • They could put a stop to it by just stating Islam is not incapable with democracy. Shari’ah law does not supercede all laws of any land. Just go a head and say it.

      Killing apostates is wrong.
      Stoning is wrong.
      Wife beating is wrong
      Having four wives and sex slaves is wrong.
      FGM is wrong.
      Cutting off limbs is wrong.
      honour killing is wrong.
      Child marriage is wrong.
      Muta marriage is wrong.
      Qur’an 62:2 Jews should long for death is wrong.
      98.6 Unbelievers are the worst of creatures is wrong.
      8:12 Allah will terrorize unbelievers; Muslim’s should behead them.
      Is wrong.

  23. Pope Francis Calls for Giving United Nations Organization ‘Real Teeth’ (breitbart, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/04/pope-francis-calls-for-giving-united-nations-organization-real-teeth/

    “Pope Francis makes his best case for multilateralism in a new teaching letter, calling for more authority for supranational organizations like the United Nations.

    “The twenty-first century is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tend to prevail over the political,” the pope writes in the encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All), released on Sunday.

    “Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions,” the pope advises in the 43,000-word text.

    “When we talk about the possibility of some form of world authority regulated by law, we need not necessarily think of a personal authority,” the pontiff asserts. “Still, such an authority ought at least to promote more effective world organizations, equipped with the power to provide for the global common good, the elimination of hunger and poverty and the sure defence of fundamental human rights.”

    Among the possible candidates for such a role, the pope turns his attention to the United Nations Organization, with which he enjoys close ties.

    “In this regard, I would also note the need for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth,” Francis declares, citing a text from his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.

    “Needless to say, this calls for clear legal limits to avoid power being co-opted only by a few countries and to prevent cultural impositions or a restriction of the basic freedoms of weaker nations on the basis of ideological differences,” he writes.

    The work of the United Nations, the pope insists, “can be seen as the development and promotion of the rule of law, based on the realization that justice is an essential condition for achieving the ideal of universal fraternity.”

    “There is need to prevent this Organization from being delegitimized, since its problems and shortcomings are capable of being jointly addressed and resolved,” he adds.

    “The seventy-five years since the establishment of the United Nations and the experience of the first twenty years of this millennium have shown that the full application of international norms proves truly effective, and that failure to comply with them is detrimental,” Francis states.

    The Charter of the United Nations is “an obligatory reference point of justice and a channel of peace,” he declares, and thus “there can be no room for disguising false intentions or placing the partisan interests of one country or group above the global common good.”

    Among the normative instruments for the peaceful resolution of controversies, “preference should be given to multilateral agreements between states, because, more than bilateral agreements, they guarantee the promotion of a truly universal common good and the protection of weaker states,” he declares.

    At the same time, Pope Francis notes certain “shortcomings” of the international community, including “its lack of coordination in complex situations, its lack of attention to fundamental human rights and to the critical needs of certain groups.””

  24. Austria: Anti-immigration rally met with Antifa counter-protest in Vienna

    An anti-immigration rally in Vienna was met by an anti-fascist counter-protesters on Saturday.

    Co-founder of ‘The Austrians’ (‘Die Osterreicher’) group and Identitarian activist Martin Sellner said that Austria should give up on the “population exchange” policy.

    “It has gone too far. We see integration was a complete failure in the city of Vienna, everywhere in Austria”, he said.

    Activists of Antifa and the Black Block groups and their sympathizers held a counter-protest considering the protesters going against the human rights and advocating for fascism.

    “They should not be here in Vienna. Vienna is open for everybody, who is living here, independent of religions, origin or skin colour,” said a counter-protester.

    Police reinforcement was deployed across the city to avoid clashes between protesters.

    According to national statistics office data for 2018, roughly 16 percent of Austria’s population has foreign citizenship. During the migration crisis in Europe, Austria took in about one percent of its population in asylum seekers.

    ====================
    SOT, Martin Sellner, ‘The Austrians’ organisation: “I think that we should immediately stop the policy of replacement migration because it has gone too far. We see integration was a complete failure in the city of Vienna, everywhere in Austria.”

    SOT, Martin Sellner, ‘The Austrians’ organisation: “This organisation here is called ‘The Austrians’, because we want together all patriotic Austrians. So we can offer to everybody whether he is young – GI [Generation Identitaire] was a youth movement – or older to join on the streets with us and to protest for the values.”

    SOT, Martin Sellner, ‘The Austrians’ organisation: “But with this demonstration we also want to show to Austrian patriots, and to make them an offer that the real resistance and the real change does not start with elections and ballot boxes but on the street with peaceful protest.”

    SOT, Counter-protester (German): “Fascists have only one thing in mind: the hate on other people, against democracy, free speech and free press. That is the only motivation, why fascists exists, because they want to intimidate other people, and to abolish democracy.”

    SOT, Counter protester (German): “They should not been here in Vienna. Vienna is open for everybody, who is living here, independent of religions, origin or skin colour. And they should not bee here.”

  25. Pakistani military kills 2 militants in North Waziristan (abcnews, Oct 4, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistani-military-kills-militants-north-waziristan-73414548

    “Pakistan’s military said it killed two militants on Sunday in a shootout in the country’s northwest, a former militant stronghold.

    A third militant was arrested following the operation in the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan district. The army statement said the militants had been involved in several attacks on civilians and security forces.

    This was the second such operation in North Waziristan in recent days. Two militants were killed by the army some 6 kilometers (4 miles) north of Mir Ali on Friday

    The mountainous areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan served as a base for the Pakistani Taliban and other militants until a few years ago, when the army said it cleared the region of insurgents. Occasional attacks have continued…”

  26. When did we really start to notice the censorship on social media and loss of freedom of speech?

    https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/mark-zuckerberg-gets-facebook-time-pope-francis

    Pope meets with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

    Junno Arocho Esteves – Catholic News Service

    August 29, 2016

    Pope Francis meets Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, during a private audience at the Vatican Aug. 29. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano, handout)

    Continuing his dialogue with leaders in the world of social media and technology, Pope Francis met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg

    Throughout his papacy, the pope has highlighted the importance of social networks as a means to “facilitate relationships” while warning of their ability to “lead to further polarization and division” if used incorrectly.

    “The digital world is a public square, a meeting place where we can either encourage or demean one another, engage in a meaningful discussion or unfair attacks,” the pope wrote Jan. 24 in his message marking the 50th World Communications Day.

    Earlier this year, the pope met with several notable tech-giants in the world of mobile communications, including Google’s Eric Schmidt and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

    He also met with Kevin Systrom, CEO and co-founder of Instagram, two weeks before the Vatican launched the pope’s Instagram account,

  27. Virginia Forces Christian Ministries to Adopt ‘Government Ideology’ or Pay $100K

    https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/09/30/virginia-forces-christian-ministries-to-adopt-government-ideology-or-pay-100k-n985842

    Three Christian schools and a Christian network of pregnancy centers are suing Attorney General Mark Herring (D-Va.) in order to prevent Virginia from implementing two pro-LGBT laws that force “people of faith to adopt a particular government ideology under threat of punishment.” The two laws purport to prevent “discrimination” against LGBT people but, in reality, they force Christian ministries to choose between violating their sincerely held religious beliefs or paying hefty fines, as much as $100,000 per offense.

  28. “Youth” invade homes of the elderly in the Netherlands by posing as nurses, then ransack the place. Photos released, turns out to be the usual suspects (this ha sbeen known for years).

    Photos released of fake nurses using blood pricks to dupe elderly out of debit cards
    https://nltimes.nl/2019/10/25/photos-released-fake-nurses-using-blood-pricks-dupe-elderly-debit-cards
    The police released photos of a man and a woman who posed as nurses and used a story of a prevailing flu epidemic to talk their way into a 90-year-old man’s Eindhoven home, and then robbed him. “The blood test chat-scam, don’t fall for it!”, the police said.
    According ot the police, the woman took the elderly victim’s blood with a finger prick while the man went searching through his home for valuables and money. The victim was told that his blood value was poor, but that a pill could fix it. He had to pay just 1 euro to order the pills – using the a payment machine the “nurse” had handy with her.
    And so the scammers got hold of the victim’s PIN, which they used with his stolen bank card to withdraw 4 thousand euros from his account at Woensel shopping center in Heeze, the police said. The photos of the duo were taken at the ATM.
    According to newspaper AD, similar cases have also been reported in Delft and in Utrecht. Earlier this week the police said that they think a group working in different formations may be behind this scam.
    This chat scam goes further than other typically used methods, because it “compromises physical integrity”, a police spokesperson said to AD. “We are not dealing with a few brutal young people, but with an organized gang.”

    Also see
    Third arrest in fake nurse scam where thousands were stolen from elderly
    https://nltimes.nl/2020/10/01/third-arrest-fake-nurse-scam-thousands-stolen-elderly

  29. MONTREAL – Mentally disturbed North African man with a book and a knife shot by police

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    La Presse – Des policiers du SPVM tirent sur un homme armé d’un couteau

    Les policiers du SPVM ont ouvert le feu sur un homme armé d’un couteau, dimanche matin, dans le secteur Montréal-Nord.

    Selon nos informations, l’homme aurait tenu un livre

    Selon plusieurs informations, il souffrirait de troubles de santé mentale.

    un homme à l’accent maghrébin.

    le suspect aurait d’abord tenté d’entrer dans la caserne de pompier en frappant la porte armé d’un couteau.

    https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2020-10-04/des-policiers-du-spvm-tirent-sur-un-homme-arme-d-un-couteau.php
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    CTV NEWS – Police watchdog investigating after a knife-wielding man was shot in Montreal

    […]Six BEI investigators have been assigned to the case.

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    CBC – Man shot, injured after police open fire in Montréal-Nord

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bei-investigates-man-shot-montreal-nord-fire-station-1.5749888

    • Watchdog investigating after police fire on man in Montreal North

      He may have been armed with a knife.

      […]a media relations officer with the force, declined to provide details on the incident, which started about 6 a.m., when a Black man, armed with a knife and possibly suffering from mental illness, knocked at the door of Fire Station 18 at 12012 Rolland Blvd.

      […]Pascal St. Police were called to the scene and shot at the suspect, wounding him. The man was transported to hospital and there was no information on his condition.

      […]

      https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/police-fire-on-man-in-montreal-north

  30. Turkey has a clear objective of reinstating the Turkish empire’, Armenian PM says

    Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sat down to discuss the crisis embroiling his country.

  31. Rained here all day, but on the good side we do not live under Oppressive Shari’ah law so I could drink wine and listen to Moose radio while making large pot of cabbage rolls. KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE, ALWAYS ON THE SUNNY SIDE.

  32. “#BREAKING: New York just launched COVID Alert NY, an exposure app that will alert you if you were in contact with someone who has COVID.
    The app will never track your location & is completely anonymous.
    Protect your community, yourself & your privacy. Download the app today”
    Andrew Cuomo – October 1, 2020 – Twitter
    https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1311694702924759041

    CGI U 2020 – A conversation between President Clinton and Governor Cuomo on the COVID-19 pandemic
    Clinton Foundation – April 23, 2020
    14:20 – Contact Tracing…