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Rod Blagojevich on the cheating in the election:
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1324783608909844480
When the city of Detroit needed workers to staff its election center this fall, it turned to a familiar figure in city politics: lawyer and entrepreneur William A. Phillips, whose name a few years earlier appeared often in the corruption case of disgraced and still-imprisoned ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
On Sept. 22, the city council approved a $1 million contract for Phillips’ staffing firm P.I.E. Management, LLC to hire up to 2,000 workers to work the polls and staff the ballot counting machines. “They will provide up to 2,000 employees (Detroit Residents) the ability to operate election equipment on Election Day as poll workers under the MiDeal Cooperative Agreement with the State,” the city council boasted about P.I.E.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/fridetroit-department-elections-granted-million-dollar-contracts-firms
Yahoo Finance
Biden coronavirus task force doctor says 4 to 6 week lockdown could control the pandemic
Zack Guzman
Zack Guzman·Senior Writer
Thu, November 12, 2020, 9:16 AM EST·3 min read
As the U.S. continues to set new daily record highs of coronavirus cases, at least one doctor on President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force is floating the idea of shutting down businesses in a lockdown that could last four to six weeks to control the spread of the pandemic.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/biden-coronavirus-task-force-doctor-says-4-to-6-week-lockdown-could-control-the-pandemic-141642095.html
Justice Alito criticizes COVID-19 restrictions and ‘rule by experts’
Detroit official testifies she & others were instructed to backdate thousands of ballots in Michigan
Five Swedish Mosques Receive Letters With Threats, White Powder (sputniknews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202011131081149095-five-swedish-mosques-receive-letters-with-threats-white-powder/
“According to the Swedish police, threats against mosques are uncommon in Sweden, but may be linked to the recent series of Islamist attacks in France.
Eskilstuna Grand Mosque has received a threatening letter containing white powder, along with four other mosques across Sweden, national broadcaster SVT reported.
The mosques affected by what was reported as harassment are the ones in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Luleå and Malmö.
“As we understand, it was both a similar message and a powder that the other mosques received,” Anas Deneche, communications manager at Eskilstuna Grand Mosque told SVT, stressing the worshippers’ concern.
“People remember Christchurch, when a man went inside a mosque and executed 51 worshippers. Of course, it is in people’s memory and they think that this may be a warning that something bigger may happen in the future,” Deneche emphasised.
The police said that hate crimes are prioritised in their work, regardless of their nature, whether it’s vandalism, harassment or threats, and expressed hope that the culprit will be caught.
Thomas Bergqvist of Eskilstuna police emphasised the “good coordination” and intelligence cooperation between police districts across the country. So far, technical investigations of the letters are still underway.
Bergqvist ventured that the events in Sweden may be somehow linked to the spree of Islamist attacks in France. Earlier in October, France saw several terrorist attacks with religious undertones, including the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty over Prophet Muhammad cartoons he had used to illustrate the idea of free speech, followed by church stabbings in the city of Nice, where three people were killed.
“One can draw a conclusion that things like this happen with regard to what is happening in our world. Some things have happened down in France, and such things echo,” Bergqvist mused.
According to Eskilstuna Grand Mosque, it has previously received a number of threatening messages, via post, messengers or telephone calls. The typical message is that Muslims should leave the country, that they don’t fit in and that they are murderers and terrorists.
The Eskilstuna police described similar threats against mosques as uncommon, yet admitted that there may be a number of unreported cases. This assessment was confirmed by Eskilstuna Grand Mosque. Anas Deneche described a “fear of publicity”. According to her, being featured in the media may “draw the attention of people with even more violent ideas”, which is why people tend to not always report the hate crimes.
At over 8 percent of Sweden’s population of 10 million, Islam is the nation’s second-largest religion. The Nordic country’s Islamic community has experienced avalanche-like growth starting from the 1960s. The Muslims’ share of the Swedish population continues to grow through both continued mass immigration and demographic trends that include lower birthrates among ethnic Swedes.”
About MOSQUES: AUSTRIA
Islamists Threaten Austrian Interior Minister’s Family After Crackdown
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/13/islamists-threaten-austrian-interior-ministers-family-after-crackdown/
France says it has killed senior al Qaeda operative in Mali (france24, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20201113-france-says-it-has-killed-senior-al-qaeda-operative-in-mali
“French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda’s North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.
The former Malian army colonel, also known as Bamoussa Diarra, was a right-hand man of Iyad Ag Ghali, the leader of Mali’s most prominent jihadi group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM).
The jihadist outfit has repeatedly attacked soldiers and civilians in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso.
“A historic figure of the jihadist movement in the Sahel, Bah ag Moussa is considered responsible for several attacks against Malian and international forces,” Parly said in a statement.
Moussa, who was on the US terrorism list, was killed on Tuesday after an operation involving ground troops and helicopters and comes after a series of operations that have seen French forces kill dozens of Islamist fighters in recent weeks.
“This is a major success in the fight against terrorism,” Parly said.
Former colonial power France has more than 5,100 personnel spread across the region with a large portion in Mali operating against rising militancy.”
Taliban threatened Afghan reporter killed in car bomb: HRW (france24, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201113-taliban-threatened-afghan-reporter-killed-in-car-bomb-hrw
“The Taliban had threatened an Afghan reporter who was killed in a car bomb attack this week for investigating their attacks, Human Rights Watch said.
Radio Liberty reporter Aliyas Dayee, 33, was killed on Thursday when a sticky bomb attached to his car exploded in the southern city of Lashkar Gah, the scene of intense fighting in recent months.
Dozens of other journalists had also been threatened by the group, the US-based rights group said in a statement late Thursday.
Targeted killings of prominent figures, including journalists, clerics, politicians and rights activists, have become more common in recent months as violence surges in Afghanistan, despite ongoing peace talks between the government and the Taliban.
No group has so far claimed the killing of Dayee…”
VIDEO Stabbing of peace in broad daylight (3:30PM) by “youngsters” in Groningen, the Netherlands:
https://www.dumpert.nl/item/8014033_a25a4226
Article in Dutch, with (uneventful) photos:
https://noordernieuws.nl/groningen/gewonde-bij-steekpartij-aan-de-nieuwe-ebbingestraat-drie-verdachten-aangehouden-97032/
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If one dead voter is discovered why not look for more?
If Dominion vote machines are rigged with Chinese software we must know.
If turning on every radio and tv makes us feel like we’ve just stepped into a parallel universe where the polarity of truth and lies is reversed, we must ask why.
When billionaires in-the-know tell us in advance with unwavering certainty that we will have a pandemic, or allege that PT will be gone, we must examine them, and why they said what they said with conspicuous timing and accuracy.
When the United Nations publishes not one, but two, documents blueprinting world-wide communist revolution in Agendas 21 & 30, we should pay attention.
When you see a person driving alone in his car with half his face covered by a pointless mask you must ask if he has been brainwashed out of his right mind, and who did it.
When all around you businesses are going down and unemployment is skyrocketing, and governments say it is to save you, you must be suspicious.
When the new POTUS of 2016 was the avowed target of removal from office even before he was in office, you must remember that when watching events today.
When broad questions like this are asked by a nobody on a blog on the periphery of the internet universe and not by the likes of George Stephanopoulus, you have to ask why.
USA Watchdog:
https://youtu.be/99KKG7SfZW0
Have a listen on WPFW/WPFA/KPFK
Trump owes $70M to the IRS
His businesses are failing
There is a dress with dried semen to counteract his defamation claim against rape
The future holds him :
— attempting to pardon himself
— making use of money from dictators he has cozied up to during his office as President
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Also the voting Florida released felons are now “returning citizens.”
Gaza – Muslim terrorists commemorate the killing of commander
Do you know Donald Trump can still be the president of the United States? Here is how
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New USPS Whistleblower in Philly suburb Elkins Park Details Orders To Stop Delivering Pro-Trump Mail
Indian Army Demolishes Pakistani Posts At LoC Over Unprovoked Ceasefire Violation
Its too cold and wet for China to harass India in the Mountains so they are having Pakistan shell Indian positions in Kashmir this keeps India busy moving troops and equipment but also costs India money.
This year it also tests the Next American President, if it is trump they aren’t in anymore trouble, he will increase the tariffs that are killing China. If it is Biden he will drop the tariffs and will do what China wants.the Indian news media that thinks he will maintain the current policy about the fighting between India and China are smoking something they shouldn’t.
Two Buddhist priests and a Zen Master, all friends, were walking through the gardens, discussing philosophy.
They came upon a boulder that the path split around. The 2 priests debated, and determined that the boulder could not possibly exist, as it disturbed the harmony of the path.
The Zen Master merely shook his head, patted the boulder and walked away.
India Hits Back At Pakistan: Heavy Exchange Of Fire In Uri Area Between Forces
President Trump signs executive order to block investment in businesses benefiting China’s military
The order prohibits such investments beginning on Jan. 11
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to block investment in Chinese businesses that the administration says benefit China’s military.
The order prohibits such investments beginning Jan. 11, 2021, but allows divestment from investments that include the Chinese securities through Nov. 11, 2021.
“Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect American investors from funding Communist Chinese military companies, including those designated by the Department of Defense in June and August of 2020,” National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said in a statement.
O’Brien also argued in the statement that many of targeted companies are publicly traded on stock exchanges around the world, and individual U.S. investors can unknowingly provide funds to them through passive institutional investment vehicles such as mutual funds and retirement plans.
“The president’s action serves to protect American investors from unintentionally providing capital that goes to enhancing the capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army and People’s Republic of China intelligence services, which routinely target American citizens and businesses through cyber operations, and directly threaten the critical infrastructure, economy, and military of America and its allies and partners around the world,” he wrote.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/president-trump-signs-executive-order-block-investment-businesses
United States threatens fresh sanctions against China | World News | WION News
Associated Press – Fauci: ‘US in very, very difficult situation’
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Justice Alito criticizes COVID-19 restrictions and ‘rule by experts’
Cars line up at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium testing site as Covid-19 cases rise
People line up for Covid-19 testing in New York as infections rise
Greg Hunter – Weekly News Wrap-Up 11.13.2020
Greg Hunter – November 12, 2020
On the lighter side:
Parents received word from the kids’ school district that ‘Snow days will be a thing of the past.”
Seriously, one of the barriers to school re-starting is that buses can no longer carry students to fill every seat, so there will need to be staggered start times. Parents also heard that the district lost 1 of every 40 students to private schools, which the state allows to operate in person. Parents were told that classes will in cold classrooms indoors.
Here is why students mask during remote learning: to help them become comfortable with wearing masks throughout the day.
French Teen Hospitalised With Multiple Stabbing Injuries Near School in Angers, Reports Say (sputniknews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202011131081155326-french-teen-hospitalised-with-multiple-stabbing-injuries-near-school-in-angers-reports-say/
“A 16-year-old boy was stabbed several times near a school in the southern French city of Angers, Maine-et-Loire region, media in France reported on Friday.
The BFMTV broadcaster said that the incident had unfolded around 11:30 a.m. local time (10:30 GMT) and the boy had been urgently hospitalised.
According to the report, three individuals, supposedly linked to the incident, are currently at large.”
Yup. Parallel universe, but all dark matter.
(meant in reply to Malca way up under my USA Watchdog comment.
India, Pakistan Engage in Mortar Firefight on Border After Infiltration Bid Thwarted in Kashmir (sputniknews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202011131081150732-india-pakistan-engage-in-mortar-firefight-on-border-after-infiltration-bid-thwarted-in-kashmir/
“Security officials in India have recently revealed that alleged attempts by Pakistan to smuggle terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir will probably increase before heavy snowfall in the valley when mountain passes are blocked, restricts movement. India has accused Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism in Kashmir, an allegation Islamabad denies.
India’s and Pakistan’s armies have exchanged heavy mortar firefight along the Line of Control (LoC) at three places in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Army officials confirmed on Friday.
According to the army, the exchange of fire took place after India thwarted a botched bid to infiltrate the Keran sector of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
“Suspicious movement was observed by our troops at the forward posts along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector on Friday. The suspected infiltration bid was foiled by our alert troops. This was accompanied by the initiation of an unprovoked Ceasefire Violation by Pakistan along the LoC in Keran Sector by firing mortars and other weapons. We are giving an appropriate response,” Indian Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said in a statement.
He added that the firing is taking place at various posts on the border between India and Pakistan from the Keran to Uri sectors.
This was the second attempt by unidentified people to cross the border illegally. Earlier, three reported terrorists were killed after the infiltration bid was foiled in the Machhal sector between 7 and 8 November.
Meanwhile, internet services have been blocked in Kupwara, near the Keran sector, as a precautionary measure.
On Friday morning, Pakistan’s army claimed that one civilian had been killed and three others injured in cross-border fire by Indian troops in the Rakhchikri and Khanjar sectors. A Pakistan Army spokesman claimed that Indian troops targeted the civilian population with rockets and mortars.
India and Pakistan have accused each other of violating the ceasefire and targeting civilians in the cross-border firefight. The two countries have fought two wars over Jammu and Kashmir, an area claimed by both fully but controlled in part. Both have accusations the other side of sponsoring terrorism. Diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Islamabad deteriorated when India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019.”
“Dominion Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and SECURITY Eric Coomer Admitted in 2016 Vendors and Election Officials Have Access to Manipulate the Vote” by Jim Hoft – November 13, 2020
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominion-voting-systems-officer-strategy-security-eric-coomer-admitted-2016-vendors-election-officials-access-manipulate-vote/
Article Link: “Critical Flaws in Election Security Confirmed by Dominion Voting Executive”
by Sharon Meroni – September 1, 2016
https://www.thepostemail.com/2016/09/01/critical-flaws-in-election-security-confirmed-by-dominion-voting-executive/
Related:
“Why is “The Hammer” Resurfacing Now?”
by Sharon Rondeau – November 11, 2020
https://www.thepostemail.com/2020/11/11/why-is-the-hammer-resurfacing-now/
‘Smug’ Sadiq Khan left speechless as fuming Londoner calls him ‘worst mayor in history’ (express, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1359755/Sadiq-Khan-London-Mayor-LBC-clash-phone-in-Croydon-latest-news-vn
“SADIQ KHAN accused a caller, who described him as the “worst Mayor of London in history,” of being a Conservative Party plant in a shocking clash on-air.
A fuming Londoner condemned Sadiq Khan as the “worst London Mayor in history” in a furious rant. Danny from Croydon called LBC’s Speak to Sadiq phone-in this morning to question why Labour had “bankrupted” Transport for London and Croydon council. This comes after local MP Chris Philp admitted Croydon Council has “gone bust” after “running up £1.5 billion in debt”.
The Council issued a Section 114 notice on Wednesday afternoon “due to the severe ongoing financial challenges facing the authority.”
Danny asked Mr Khan: “I live in Croydon, I want to ask the Mayor on his opinion on another Labour-run council going bankrupt?
“TfL has gone bankrupt while that man has been running it.”
Mr Khan responded: “Danny, don’t make the mistake of reading Tory propaganda.”
He continued: “It will make you go blind and say stupid things.
“TfL hasn’t been made bankrupt by me. I managed to reduce the deficit by more than 71 percent and increase our cash balances.
“Read decent stuff and find out your facts.”
Danny fired back: “I just want to say you’re the worst London Mayor in history.”
The caller abruptly ended the call, leaving a stunned Mr Khan speechless in the studio…”
London stabbing horror: Teenager killed in attack in park near Wembley in broad daylight (express, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1359533/London-news-stabbing-death-met-police-wembley-northwick-park-harrow-latest
“The Met Police were called shortly before 4pm to Northwick Park in Harrow following reports of a stabbing. Officers at the scene found a male, believed to be 17-years-old, suffering from stab injuries. The victim was treated by officers before emergency crews from the London Ambulance Service arrived.
Footage also showed an air ambulance being deployed to the incident.
Despite the best efforts of emergency services the victim was sadly pronounced dead at 4.31pm.
His next of kin have been informed.
A spokesman for the Met Police has confirmed no arrests have been made…”
German minister to stop using doctor title in thesis flap (abcnews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-minister-stop-doctor-title-thesis-flap-74191766
“A prominent German government minister said Friday that she will stop using the academic title “doctor” after a Berlin university decided to revisit a controversy over plagiarism allegations involving her doctoral thesis.
Franziska Giffey, a center-left Social Democrat who has been widely expected to run in the election for Berlin mayor next year, has been the minister for women and families in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet since 2018.
Allegations of plagiarism prompted Berlin’s Free University to review Giffey’s 2010 dissertation on the policy of the European Union’s executive commission. Giffey said last year that she would resign from the government if her PhD was revoked. The university decided to issue a reprimand but not to revoke her title.
Last week, the university said it would reconsider the decision after an expert’s report raised questions about whether it was entitled only to issue a reprimand.
Giffey again stressed in a statement Friday that she had written the thesis in good faith. She cited the university’s original decision that described her work, despite some shortcomings, as an “independent academic effort” and concluded that revoking the doctorate would be disproportionate.
“I am not willing to continue allowing my dissertation, and the proceedings that have now been reopened, to be the object of political disputes,” Giffey said. She added that “to avert further damage to my family, my political work and my party,” she would stop using her academic title immediately.
“What I am and what I can do is not dependent on this title,” she said.
Giffey said she plans to stay in her ministerial post and to go ahead with running for the leadership of her party’s Berlin branch later this month.
Doctorates are highly prized in Germany and have caused senior politicians trouble before.
In 2011, then-Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg lost his doctorate and quit when it emerged that large parts of his thesis were not his original work. Two years later, then-Education Minister Annette Schavan resigned after a university withdrew her doctorate.”
Turkey fines Google for abusing market dominance (abcnews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-fines-google-abusing-market-dominance-74191365
“Turkish regulators have fined Google 196.7 million Turkish liras ($25.5 million) for allegedly abusing its market dominance in online searches.
In a statement released Friday, the Competition Authority said Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc had made it difficult for companies to show up in searches if they did not generate advertisement revenue for Google.
The Turkish authority said Google would have to ensure “active competition in the market” by taking remedial measures within six months. Google will have to present compliance measures and annual reports for five years.
The move comes as regulators in Europe and the U.S. have also taken aim at Google’s dominance in some online markets, such as searches. Google has rejected wrongdoing.”
Humanitarian group: 20 migrants drown off coast of Libya (abcnews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/humanitarian-group-20-migrants-drown-off-coast-libya-74186869
“A wooden boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized off the coast of Libya and 20 of them drowned, an international humanitarian group said.
The statement from Doctors Without Borders late Thursday came just hours after it was revealed that another shipwreck had claimed the lives of at least 74 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
Only three women could be rescued by local fishermen, the group said on Twitter.
“They were in shock and terrified; they saw loved ones disappear beneath the waves, dying in front of their eyes,” the statement said.
The wooden boat was carrying 23 migrants who had departed from the Libyan coastal town of Sorman, said Anais Deprade, a spokesperson for MSF, the abbreviation for the French name of the group, Medecins Sans Frontieres.
One of the three survivors lost her husband, her sister and her sister’s 1-year-old child, Deprade said.
Alarm Phone, an independent group that supports rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, tweeted that the boat had called them for rescue before it sank. The group said it “repeatedly” requested a search-and-rescue operation by EU authorities. “In vain. They decided to let them drown. Our hearts are broken,” the group tweeted.
Earlier on Thursday, the U.N. migration agency said at least 74 migrants had drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of the Libyan port of al-Khums. Only 47 people were rescued by the Libyan coast guard and fishermen and brought to shore. As of late Thursday, 31 bodies were retrieved as the search for the remaining victims continued, the International Organization for Migration said.
In the years since the 2011 uprising that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, war-torn Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants hoping to get to Europe from Africa and the Middle East. Smugglers often pack desperate families into ill-equipped rubber boats that stall and founder along the perilous Central Mediterranean route. At least 20,000 people have died in those waters since 2014, according to the IOM.
In recent years, the EU has partnered with Libya’s coast guard and other local groups to stem the dangerous sea crossings. Rights groups, however, say those policies leave migrants at the mercy of armed groups or confined in squalid detention centers rife with abuses.”
Suicide car bomb in Afghan capital kills 3 troops, wounds 4 (abcnews, Nov 13, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-car-bomb-afghan-capital-kills-wounds-74186502
“A suicide car bomb exploded at the western entry gate of the Afghan capital Friday killing at least three government security troops and wounding four others, an Afghan official said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the explosion targeted a government forces checkpoint near the gate.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, though suspicion immediately fell on the Taliban…”
Tony Blair Rejoices: Joe Biden Can Unite the World (breitbart, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/13/tony-blair-rejoices-joe-biden-can-unite-the-world/
“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair rejoiced Thursday at the prospect of Joe Biden gaining the White House, championing his fellow globalist as just the person to unite the world while waving away any doubts he will take office…”
They’ve both had such extensive, repeated bouts of plastic surgery, they look alike. Nancy Pelosi could be their sister.
Deutsche Bank Wants ‘Privilege Tax’ Imposed on People Who Work from Home (breitbart, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/13/deutsche-bank-wants-privilege-tax-imposed-on-people-who-work-from-home/
“German banking giant Deutsche Bank is calling for a “privilege tax” to be imposed on people who work from home, to erase their savings from not having to commute or pay for food on their lunch breaks.
Writing in a paper for the bank titled What Must We Do to Rebuild? analyst Luke Templeman lamented the fact that “remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits.”
“That is a big problem for the economy,” he complained — as if spending much of one’s pay on commuting, dry-cleaning work clothes, and so on to boost the GDP is something of a civic duty — and proposed a 5 per cent “privilege tax” to recoup the economy’s imagined “loss”.
“Working from home will be part of the ‘new normal’ well after the pandemic has passed,” explained Jim Reid, Global Head of Fundamental Credit Strategy and Thematic Research at the German banking corporation.
“Our calculations suggest the amounts raised [from taxing home workers] could fund material income subsidies for low-income earners who are unable to work remotely and thus assume more ‘old economy’ and health risks,” he suggested.
Their estimated tax take from the scheme in Britain stands is £7 billion, with the potential to grab €20 billion (£17.8 billion) in Germany and $49 billion (£37 billion) in America.
How far the rationale for Deutsche Bank’s scheme could be pushed is unclear. People who walk or bicycle to work instead of driving or taking the train are also generating less economic output than they might be, as are people who pack their own lunch rather eating out — but a tax punishing such people for their failure to contribute to the GDP with sufficient abandon might be difficult to implement.
“This is just nuts,” commented Dan Eberharton, CEO of Canary, on the proposed tax on home working.
“The left will tax anything they can,” he added– hinting at the strange confluence between the objectives of tax-and-spend leftists and the multinational corporate interests which has emerged in the era of “woke capital”.
The Tax Foundation issued a more measured but equally scathing critique of the proposal, it “doesn’t fix a problem; it doesn’t even identify a problem worth fixing” — but instead “simply enacts a penalty on those able to work remotely.”
“Remote work has both advantages and disadvantages, but it certainly isn’t hurting the federal government,” wrote the foundation’s Vice President of State Projects, Jared Walczak, appraising Deutsche Bank’s “privilege tax” from an American perspective.
“And there is no particular reason why those working from home, either by their choice or their employer’s, should be responsible for supplementing the income of those who remain in offices, however deserving they may be,” he added, questioning why “a low-income remote worker [should] be taxed to write checks to people who make the same or more than them”…”
Turkish Ultranationalist Grey Wolves Protest in Malmö After Being Banned in France (breitbart, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/13/ultranationalist-turkish-grey-wolves-protested-malmo-french-ban/
“The Turkish ultranationalist Grey Wolves attended a protest in the multicultural city of Malmö, Sweden after the group was banned in France.
The Turkish group showed up at a pro-Azerbaijan protest in Malmö last weekend, which was supporting the country in its recent conflict with Armenia.
According to a report by Swedish newspaper Expressen, the Grey Wolves invited supporters to the protest through their Facebook account to show solidarity with their “blood brothers in Azerbaijan”.
The paper added that pictures from the protest also depicted demonstrators making the wolf’s head hand gesture commonly associated with the group.
Swedish-Kurdish author Kurdo Baksi commented on the presence of the Grey Wolves at the event, saying: “I’ve checked and I don’t know that it’s ever happened before. It’s unusual. This is an organisation that in the ’80s hid in laundromats because they did not want to expose themselves.”
Baski added that the group was given a “direct order” to attend the protest by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and said: “They are now using the conflict in Azerbaijan and the beheading of the teacher in France to justify Erdogan’s criticism of Europe.”
The Grey Wolves have had a presence in Sweden for years, with former Centre Party politician Mikail Yüksel being expelled from the party because of his association with them.
Earlier this year, Yüksel and others announced the formation of a new Islamic political party, the Nyans Party, that demands Muslims in Sweden be granted special minority status.
Following tensions between France and Turkey in the aftermath of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, Emmanuel Macron’s government last week banned the Grey Wolves from operating in France.
The ban came after Grey Wolves held an anti-Armenian march in the streets of Dijon yelling “Allahu Akbar” and chanting various anti-Armenia and anti-Macron slogans.
The 60 or so members of the Turkish group ultimately clashed with police, who used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
A memorial to the Armenian genocide near Lyon was also vandalised with pro-Grey Wolf slogans and the initials of President Erdogan before the French government ban.”
Islamists Threaten Austrian Interior Minister’s Family After Crackdown (breitbart, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/13/islamists-threaten-austrian-interior-ministers-family-after-crackdown/
“Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer and his family have received death threats from radical Islamic extremists after the government raided and shut down mosques in the aftermath of the Vienna terror attack.
Nehammer told Austrian media that his wife and children were now under 24-hour police protection due to the death threats and were being guarded by the elite anti-terrorist Cobra unit.
According to Nehammer, the threats were nothing new to him as he had received many in the past, but threats against his family members were, tabloid Kronen Zeitung reports.
On Wednesday, the Austrian government announced it would be seeking new measures to prevent future terrorist attacks and presented a new proposal that will include preventative detention of those deemed to be at risk of conducting a terrorist attack.
The anti-terror package will also include powers for the government to strip the citizenship of those convicted of terrorist offences, withdraw driving licences, and impose stricter controls on the purchase of firearms.
“Our country mourns the victims, mourns with the bereaved, and that alone is not enough,” Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said following a meeting with France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Paris earlier this week.
Both leaders have vowed to tackle the issue of political Islamist ideologies, with President Macron calling for a reform of the European Union’s internal open borders Schengen agreement after noting the connections between terrorism and illegal migration.
“We must not confuse the fight against illegal immigration with terrorism, but we must look clearly at the links between these two phenomena,” Macron said.
On Wednesday, Chancellor Kurz also stated that his government would be looking to outlaw political Islam entirely.
“In the fight against political Islam, we will create a criminal offence called ‘political Islam’ in order to be able to take action against those who are not terrorists themselves, but who create the breeding ground for it,” Kurz said on Twitter.”
Only Eight Migrants on Deportation Flight After 28 Lodge Last-Minute Legal Challenges (breitbart, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/13/only-eight-migrants-removal-flight-after-28-lodge-last-minute-human-rights-appeals/
“Yet another attempted deportation flight has ended in fiasco after judges allowed 28 to escape removal following last-minute legal challenges.
Just eight migrants ended up being removed after 18 put forward human rights appeals for the first time, seven claimed to be modern slavery victims, and three first-time human rights claims, seven said they were victims of modern slavery, and three had their lawyers move to subject their deportation orders to judicial review, according to the Daily Mail.
“I don’t know whose interests these lawyers think they are acting in, but it is certainly not the law-abiding British taxpayer”, complained Tim Loughton MP, a member of the influential Home Affairs select committee.
“It is incomprehensible that we are paying for people to be in the country when they have no case to be here and our hospitality is being abused even further by lawyers using questionable last-minute tactics to take people off planes, adding even more expense with unused flights and further legal wrangles.
“We do the right thing and support genuine asylum seekers with grounds to stay in the UK, but the system is far too open to abuse,” added the Tory parliamentarian — although with his party having been in government since 2010, with a substantial parliamentary majority since the 2019 election, it is should be well within Prime Minister Johnson’s power to have changed “the system” some time ago.
The legal challenges follow a consistent pattern of court action blocking or whittling down the already small number of illegal aliens and foreign national offenders the Home Office attempts to deport, with another 37 migrants having had their removal from the country prevented last week.
In October, one expensive charter flight ended up leaving Britain with just passenger on board, after everyone else — some 29 migrants — mounted legal challenges to their removal, for example.
The previous month a flurry of eleventh-hour legal action was even more successful, blocking the deportation of every single migrant due to be put on a particular removal flight.”
Migrants Complain Taxpayer-Funded Housing Is Like ‘Prison’ (breitbart, Nov 13, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/13/migrants-complain-taxpayer-funded-housing-barracks-is-like-prison/
“Migrants who came to Britain seeking asylum have complained that their tax-payer funded open accommodation at a former military base is like a “prison”.
Following a massive increase in the number of illegals crossing the English Channel by boat, authorities were forced to turn two disused military bases that had housed British soldiers into camps for migrants, with one opening in Folkestone, England, and another in Wales.
The latter facility is just outside the small Welsh village of Penally and houses some 250 migrants. Locals raised concern when it was reported that all of those residing on their doorstep would be young men.
Local newspaper the Western Telegraph reported on Wednesday that the migrants were protesting outside of the former Ministry of Defence (MoD) accommodation, claiming that the buildings they were staying in were old, the toilets were too far away, they had no privacy, and they had to wait too long in line to be fed.
The asylum seekers, almost all of whom will have passed through France and other safe countries en route to Britain, claim to be fleeing “war”.
They described the accommodation as “not intended for asylum seekers and refugees” and that their “large number” was preventing social distancing — something migrants seem unconcerned by when illegally crossing the Channel on crowded boats.
“Facilities like showers and toilets are far away, and we need to walk long distances in the rain and stormy weather to reach them. We wait for a long time in line to get meals in the rain, and there is a lack of access to health care. The problem was exacerbated by the recent lockdown.
“We demand that we be moved to housing. Refugees should not be placed in old military camps,” the migrants complained.
Some protesting outside the facility were seen holding pieces of cardboard reading: “We escaped from war to prison”, “the refgee [sic] has right to stay in a home”, and “where are the human rights!”
While the men may leave the facility between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m., Stand Up to Racism West Wales claimed that the barracks were “effectively being used as a detention centre or, as the men call it, a prison”.
The leftist open borders activists have protested before that migrants living in the Welsh base were deserving of a more luxurious living standard, having claimed in September that their living arrangements were “degrading” — despite the conditions being hitherto suitable for serving soldiers, who did not have the right to complain about having to share rooms, waiting to eat, or walking to the head in the rain, and had to perform work duties on top of it…”
A. F. Branco November 13, 2020
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/11/13/cartoon-of-the-day-slip-sliding-away/
The Dan Greenfield article you posted yesterday says all we need to know about the corporate media. It has to be chopped up into tiny pieces, some of them ground to dust.
Report: Biden’s team worried his inauguration will descend into a ‘MAGA rally’
By Rusty Weiss November 13, 2020
Reports have surfaced that officials involved in the planning of Joe Biden’s inauguration are concerned his supporters won’t show and they’ll be “left with a mass gathering” of “chumps” and “ugly people.” Those are the names the man who claims to be all Americans’ president conferred on Trump supporters who heckled him at campaign stops.
Daily Beast politics editor Sam Stein published a column in which he discusses the tiptoeing necessary to conduct an inauguration in the age of COVID.
Stein notes that Biden’s previous campaign events were made sparse by design, something that could cause logistical nightmares on January 20th.
The report cites one “official” who is concerned that a “MAGA rally” could break out, which very well could happen: A recent poll found that only 56% of Biden voters say they were voting for him rather than against Donald Trump.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/11/13/report-bidens-team-worried-his-inauguration-will-descend-into-a-maga-rally/
(Richard: Biden’s team should be more worried about Federal Cops showing up with arrest warrants for all of them. All of them are deeply involved in a soft coup against the United States Government.
fevered imaginations
That he is going to be President.
Pro-Biden Bug Also Suspected in Georgia’s Vote-Counting Software
A curious thing happened as Fulton County, Ga., election officials counted mail-in ballots at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena in the days after the election. In the early hours of Nov. 5, a surge of some 20,000 mail-in votes suddenly appeared for Joe Biden, while approximately 1,000 votes for President Trump mysteriously disappeared from his own totals in the critical swing state, where Biden holds a razor-thin lead.
A poll watcher noticed the suspicious shift in votes while monitoring the interim election results on the Georgia secretary of state website.
“I concluded from looking at these results that this was an irregularity, since there was no obvious reason for President Trump’s totals to have decreased while former Vice President Biden’s totals increased dramatically,” Voter GA co-founder Garland Favorito swore in an affidavit he filed this week with the secretary of state’s office.
Favorito suspects a variety of factors, including that votes were “artificially inflated” for Biden while using the same Dominion Voting system used by Antrim County, Mich., which erroneously transferred 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden. Last year, Georgia contracted with Dominion to automate vote tabulations in all 159 of its counties.
“The software appears to have thrown votes from Trump to Biden here too,” he said in a RealClearInvestigations interview. “Or Biden ballots were manufactured.”
The large disparity of gains between the two candidates “was something I had never witnessed before in my years of election monitoring,” said Favorito, a career IT professional who has been a leading advocate for election integrity in the state over the past two decades. He says he is not a Republican or Trump supporter.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/11/13/pro-biden_bug_also_suspected_in_georgias_vote-counting_software__125995.html?utm_source=RC+Investigations+Today&utm_campaign=a00853abed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_11_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d042379c8d-a00853abed-85695671&mc_cid=a00853abed&mc_eid=c4a952ab77
(Richard: Be sure and read the rest of the article, if these claims can be backed up Georgia is going to Trump and probably other states using Dominion Soft Ware.
‘Slow leak’: Text messages cast doubt on Georgia officials’ ‘burst pipe’ excuse for pause in counting
An “unprecedented” decision on election night caused outrage – and now texts have blown apart the official story, raising more questions.
Officials in Georgia have not been able to produce any invoices or work orders related to a “burst pipe” at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena that was blamed for an abrupt pause in vote counting on election night.
The only evidence for the burst pipe, released under freedom-of-information laws, was a text message exchange in which one senior employee at the stadium described it as “highly exaggerated … a slow leak that caused about an hour and a half delay” and that “we contained it quickly – it did not spread”.
“Beyond the lack of documentary evidence of the inspection or repair of a ruptured pipe, we are being asked to believe that there is not one single picture of this allegedly ruptured pipe, at a time and in a place where virtually everything is recorded and documented,” Georgia lawyer Paul Dzikowski, who obtained the text messages, told news.com.au in an email on Wednesday night.
The right-wing Gateway Pundit website first reported the story on Wednesday.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/slow-leak-text-messages-cast-doubt-on-georgia-officials-burst-pipe-excuse-for-pause-in-counting/news-story/19176f5113512210517c82debe684392?utm_source=RC+Investigations+Today&utm_campaign=a00853abed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_11_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d042379c8d-a00853abed-85695671&mc_cid=a00853abed&mc_eid=c4a952ab77
Warnock’s Spiritual Mentor Called for the ‘Destruction of Everything White’
Raphael Warnock’s mentor argued white Christians are ‘satanic’
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock has praised his religious mentor, Dr. James Hal Cone, as a “poignant and powerful voice” of high “spiritual magnitude.”
Cone, however, was a controversial theologian who argued that white Christians are “satanic” and advocated for the “destruction of everything white” in society.
Warnock has described Cone, who served as his academic adviser at the Union Theological Seminary, as his “mentor.”
The candidate’s ties to radical theologians, including Rev. Jeremiah Wright, now threaten to complicate his candidacy in a hotly contested Senate race that could tip the balance of the upper chamber. Cone’s divisive rhetoric, and Warnock’s subsequent praise for him, may pose new challenges for Warnock, a political unknown until earlier this year. Warnock’s public defense of Wright’s “God Damn America” speech in 2008—which President Obama denounced as offensive after his own ties to Wright came to light—has also come under scrutiny. Wright has also credited Cone’s work for inspiring his own religious philosophy.
First in his 2013 book and later in a 2018 eulogy, Warnock lavished praise on Cone. “How blessed we are that someone of the spiritual magnitude and power and commitment of Dr. James Hal Cone passed our way,” Warnock said in the eulogy.
Warnock’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/warnocks-spiritual-mentor-called-for-the-destruction-of-everything-white/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email&utm_source=RC+Investigations+Today&utm_campaign=a00853abed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_11_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d042379c8d-a00853abed-85695671&mc_cid=a00853abed&mc_eid=c4a952ab77
EU says fight against terror not directed at religion
‘Our fight not directed against religious beliefs but against violent extremism,’ EU interior ministers say in statement
EU interior ministers Friday held a virtual meeting to discuss recent attacks in France and Austria.
Ministers released a joint statement after the meeting underlining their “fight against terrorism is not directed against any religious or political beliefs.”
Ahead of Friday’s meeting, France and Austria released drafts, calling for stronger efforts in “combating Islamism” but other member states opposed linking Islam with the fight against terrorism, according to Brussels-based news portal Politico.
The joint statement said: “Our fight against terrorism is not directed against any religious or political beliefs but against fanatical and violent extremism.”
The statement also stressed the importance of inclusion, social cohesion, and integration in the battle against radicalization and extremism.
“The sense of belonging and equality is of central importance for the social cohesion of our modern, pluralist and open societies,” the statement said. “Successful integration is of key importance in this regard. Integration is a two-way street.”
“This means that migrants are expected to make an active effort to become integrated, while help in this regard is important.”
French President Emmanuel Macron has drawn widespread criticism recently for his anti-Muslim stance, describing Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide, and pledging a crackdown against what he called “Islamist separatism” in France.
Critics accused Macron of politically exploiting recent terror attacks, adopting a populist far-right discourse about Muslims in an attempt to appeal to right-wing voters.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz also sparked criticism this week by linking Islam with fight against terrorism. He proposed making “political Islam” a criminal offense, to shut down various Muslim organizations in the country.
Tightening border controls
Ministers of the EU member countries also agreed to strengthen border controls in Europe.
Speaking at a news conference after the meeting, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said it is essential to protect the EU’s external borders.
“In a study that Frontex carried out last year, there was obvious that 22% of those entering into the Schengen area will not checked towards the Schengen information system,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said at the same conference.
“The use of an analysis of passenger name records data is an essential tool to detect known and previously unknown terrorist suspects,” she also added.
The statement noted that the EU should “consider matter of data encryption so that digital evidence can be lawfully collected”.
Seehofer added: “It was clear there are data protection issues here, fundamental rights issues that have to be respected.”
Whenever an attack is carried out, security authorities and politicians are criticized, he said.
“So, there are plenty of possibilities to improve how we can avoid such barbaric acts, and we need to consider them all and look into them all in depth.”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/eu-says-fight-against-terror-not-directed-at-religion/2043053
Joint statement by the EU home affairs ministers on the recent terrorist attacks in Europe
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Today 13 November 2020, on the fifth anniversary of the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris, in the Bataclan theatre and outside the Stade de France, the victims of those attacks remain present in our thoughts, as do all victims of terrorism over the years.
We must recall that victims of terrorism are the targets of an attack that affects in the gravest way the fundamental principles of the Union. Therefore, democratic societies in general, and EU Member States in particular, have to ensure that a comprehensive response to their needs, including the adoption of protection, support and assistance measures, is provided.
The attacks we have seen, not only in recent weeks, have shown the extent of the threat we face from all forms of terrorism. Only together we can put a stop to the terrorists and their backers.
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The Islamist attack on a teacher in France shows once again how important it is to combat online illegal content, terrorism propaganda, hate speech and disinformation. More generally, social media and other hosting service providers have a responsibility in making sure that their services are not used for illegal activities promoting crime, terrorism or hatred, in full respect of fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and privacy. We therefore aim to successfully complete the negotiations of the Regulation on terrorist content online (TCO) by the end of the year, while maintaining our strong ambition to create a new and effective operational instrument for the cross-border elimination of terrorist content. The aim is to enable issuing removal orders with cross-border effect to create a new and rapid and effective instrument to counter terrorist content online within an hour or less of its being reported, while maintaining effective safeguards for the protection of fundamental rights.
Given the importance of online radicalisation, online gaming and algorithmic amplification should be included in the work of the EU Internet Forum.
We also invite the Commission to present an ambitious Digital Services Act (DSA) with regard to strengthen responsibility of the internet companies to fight illegal content and its amplification, to introduce new penalties and appropriate other measures. This new regulation should define suitable requirements for removing illegal content while respecting fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and opinion.
We will also examine with interest the Commission’s announced proposal to designate hate speech and hate crime and incitement as criminal offences that are provided for and regulated under European Union law.
more :
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/11/13/joint-statement-by-the-eu-home-affairs-ministers-on-the-recent-terrorist-attacks-in-europe/
the guardian – Europe’s Muslims are European. Stop outsourcing their plight to foreign leaders
For EU leaders to seek solutions abroad to end prejudice against millions of their own citizens is insulting and meaningless
Terror attacks in France and Austria have put Europe’s 25 million Muslims back in the spotlight. The unwanted attention is familiar. Discussing Muslims as a security risk invariably reaches fever pitch after an Islamist-inspired terrorist act. This time the attackers came from Chechnya, Tunisia and one had roots in North Macedonia. But never mind: anxiety over the Muslim “enemy within” goes deep.
Anxious debates on the place of Islam in Europe and claims that European Muslims are footsoldiers in an existential confrontation between Europe and Islam and represent an impossible-to-integrate “other” have dogged Muslims across the continent for decades.
There is a dangerous new shrillness to the conversation this time, however.
The rhetoric over the alleged “Islamisation” of Europe is fired up by xenophobic and populist parties including such figures as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, but it has been embraced by too many mainstream European politicians.
EU home affairs ministers are this week discussing measures to block online Islamist propaganda, provide imams with training in “European” values and pay more attention to the integration of Muslims. And given the fears of increased Islamist-related terrorism, some of these steps are justified. But governments must ensure such actions do not fuel an increase in violence, discrimination and hate against their own Muslim citizens.
Amnesty International has warned French authorities not to contribute to a “portrayal of all Muslims as suspects” and to stop “stereotypical, stigmatising and discriminatory comments targeting Muslims and refugees”, although the French president, Emmanuel Macron, denies allegations of fostering racism against Muslims.
The reality is that the relationship between European governments and their Muslim citizens is in dire need of a reset. The climate of mutual suspicion is both a rebuke to the values of inclusion and tolerance that the EU claims to uphold and it lends support to the extremist claim that there can be no coexistence between Islam and the west.
Crafting a new social contract into a constructive conversation requires the transformation of outdated thinking and the acknowledgement of past errors and misperceptions.
As an important first step, the myth of European Muslims as eternal outsiders, with a culture and customs that make them forever “untrue” Europeans, must be challenged.
This means not conflating the actions of a tiny minority of Islamist extremists with the beliefs and conduct of the majority, which abhors such views. It means accepting not only Islam’s historical role and influence in Europe, as Macron has done, but also recognising, as Angela Merkel did in 2018, that Islam is a part of modern Europe.
Crucially, it demands an end to the outsourcing of Europe-Muslim relations to foreign leaders. The war of words between EU leaders and Recip Tayyip Erdo?an of Turkey, and even Macron’s interview with the Arab news channel Al Jazeera in which he explained his respect for Islam as well as his plans to appoint an envoy for the Muslim world, are beside the point.
Worse, they are counterproductive. EU leaders talking to their foreign counterparts over the heads of their own Muslim citizens is insulting and meaningless. All it does is reinforce perceptions of European Muslims as exotic, alien and forever non-citizens.
Neither Erdogan nor Pakistan’s Imran Khan have any real interest in improving lives of European Muslims. Nor do they share their concerns, priorities and values. Truth be told many European Muslims fled these very countries to find shelter here. The last thing they need is counsel from foreign powers.
Anti-Muslim racism and hate must be tackled head on. Discrimination against so-called “third generation migrants”, mainly young men, often results in marginalistion and disaffection, which in turn can lead to radicalisation. European Muslim women who wear the headscarf should not have to fight the perception that they are victims in need of help or a public menace.
The lived reality of many Muslims points in another direction. The large majority of Europeans who follow Islam live fulfilling and productive lives as law-abiding and taxpaying European citizens. Many are in politics (although not at EU level). Across Europe, Muslim entrepreneurs are revitalising impoverished urban neighborhoods, creating jobs and prompting innovation in business. They excel in medicine, sports, art and culture. Their stories need to be told.
As the Open Society Institute has noted, European Muslims and non-Muslims share the same concerns, needs and experiences including “better quality of education, improved housing, cleaner streets and [the tackling of ] antisocial behaviour and crime”.
“There is no evidence supporting the common contention that Muslims are living in a separate, parallel society,” according to Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation.
Finally, it’s important to shift the focus from religion to Europe’s broader equality agenda as articulated in the EU’s anti-racism action plan, adopted in September following the Black Lives Matter protests.
An overwhelming majority of Muslims in France and Germany describe themselves as loyal to their country and see no contradiction between French/German and Muslim values. “There is no evidence supporting the common contention that Muslims are living in a separate, parallel society,” says the Bertelsmann Foundation.
The ambitious blueprint recognises the deep roots of structural racism across Europe and that anti-Muslim hatred is a form of racism. It should be systematically used to tackle the marginalisation of European Muslims.
Empowering national equality bodies in EU states to include anti-Muslim hatred in their anti-racism work is one important step. Changing police culture and conduct another.
The good news is that even as some national politicians step up their anti-Muslim rhetoric, local politicians have adopted a different, more inclusive approach. Additionally, Covid-19 has highlighted the strong presence of Muslims in frontline services across the continent.
Anti-Muslim hatred and prejudice can be seen as a Muslim problem. In truth, it is much more than that. It is a stain on European values, Europe’s internal cohesion and its global reputation. In addition, rebuilding the post-pandemic European economy demands all hands on deck and the contribution of all citizens.
In the end it is very simple: Europe’s Muslims are not going anywhere. They are here to stay because Europe is home.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/nov/13/europes-muslims-are-european-stop-outsourcing-their-plight-to-foreign-leaders
Ugh
Paradigm shift
We won’t be going “over there” to “free” the “Europeans”.
Not if this idea becomes mainstream.
The Law Is There’s No Presidential Transition Until Congress Certifies the Election
The Democrats made the rules, but they don’t want to live by them.
Fri Nov 13, 2020 Daniel Greenfield
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Even though the votes are still being counted, Joe Biden declared that he is the President-Elect, a shadow government office invented by Obama and invested with a pseudo-government seal, and he has been holding fake briefings and taking phone calls with foreign leaders.
The United States only has one president at a time. Maintaining a fake shadow presidency undermines the sitting administration to the American people and to foreign governments.
It’s illegal and inappropriate. So the Democrats are doing it anyway.
Incoming presidents, since Truman’s day, receive briefings and, since Kennedy’s day, get funding for their transition teams, but, according to the law, only once it’s clear who won. The last time this happened, the Bush transition was blocked by Democrats until December.
But the media is boosting its Biden cable network coup by threatening the head of the GSA.
A week after the election, the media descended on Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), demanding that she release funds to a Biden transition.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/law-theres-no-presidential-transition-until-daniel-greenfield/
Beijing Is Called For Biden
Chinese election interference?
Fri Nov 13, 2020 Joseph Hippolito
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Ever since Americans elected President Donald Trump four years ago, Democrats and progressives have accused him of using Russian influence to win. Now, as Trump makes his legal case for re-election, Americans will learn not only about the steps he took to repel the threat of foreign interference.
Americans also could learn that the cries of “Russian interference” merely diverted attention from another possible foreign player assisting Trump’s opposition.
Defusing such a threat began when Trump gave responsibility for overseeing federal elections to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS defines foreign interference as “malign actions … designed to sow discord, manipulate public discourse, discredit the electoral system, bias the development of policy, or disrupt markets for the purpose of undermining the interests of the United States and its allies.”
In November 2018, Trump signed legislation that created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under DHS’s jurisdiction. CISA’s job is to “defend civilian networks, manage systemic risk to national critical functions” and improve security infrastructure. As part of that job, CISA devised Protect2020, a comprehensive project encouraging society to prevent electoral fraud.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/beijing-called-biden-joseph-hippolito/
FLASHBACK: US Postal Service Confirmed Photographing Every Piece of Mail in 2013 – Can This Detect Potential Ballot Fraud?
The USPS began photographing mail after the Anthrax scare.
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FLASHBACK: US Postal Service Confirmed Photographing Every Piece of Mail in 2013 – Can This Detect Potential Ballot Fraud?
The USPS began photographing mail after the Anthrax scare.
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on Nov 12, 2020
By Richard Moorhead
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The United States Postal Service confirmed that it photographs every letter and package it processes in 2013.
Then-Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahue revealed this in an interview with the Associated Press in 2013, describing a program which photographs mail at 200 processing facilities used by the USPS around the country.
What’s called the Mail Isolation and Tracking system was implemented by the USPS after the Anthrax Scare of 2001, in which five Americans were killed by samples of the toxic substance they received in the mail. No convictions were ever made in the terror plot which targeted members of Congress and the media, although one senior biodefense researcher committed suicide when he learned that he was likely to be charged for involvement in the anthrax-mail terror plot.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/flashback-us-postal-service-confirmed-photographing-every-piece-of-mail-in-2013-can-this-detect-potential-ballot-fraud/
The Left’s Stalinist Purge Attempt Against Trump Supporters
Trump-haters demand a “reckoning”.
Fri Nov 13, 2020 Joseph Klein
President Trump continues to exercise all the rights he is entitled to under the law to challenge the vote counts in key battleground states. Whatever happens, Trump’s extraordinary record of accomplishments on behalf of the American people deserve to be defended against the mass dissemination of crass anti-Trump propaganda. And the more than 70 million Americans who voted to reelect President Trump to a second term should hold their heads up high against all the disgusting ad hominem attacks aimed their way.
Trump-haters did everything they could for four years to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump presidency. They are now lashing out at President Trump and his supporters for daring to question the legitimacy of the mainstream media’s anointment of Joe Biden as president-elect before all recounts and court challenges play out and the states’ electors make the election results official.
According to the New York Times’ Moscow bureau chief Andrew Higgins, President Trump is acting like a dictator by refusing to concede the election after the press decided he lost. There have been no official certifications of the states’ election results. But for Higgins and his media pals, it’s all over because the media say so. Higgins has been in Russia too long where there is no independent judiciary to resolve election disputes. Whatever Putin wants, Putin gets. To remind Higgins, in the United States we do have an independent judiciary under our Constitution’s separation of powers.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/lefts-stalinist-purge-attempt-against-trump-joseph-klein/
‘Never Bet Against Me’: Trump Confident He’ll Get to 270 Electoral College Votes
By Jack Phillips
November 13, 2020 Updated: November 13, 2020
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President Donald Trump, in a new interview, said he is confident that he will get to 270 Electoral College votes when all legal challenges, canvasses, audits, and recounts are resolved.
Trump told the Washington Examiner that he heard many people tell him that he should concede in recent days, but he’s going to continue to fight.
He issued a light-hearted warning to people telling him there is no hope: “Never bet against me.”
“We’re going to win Wisconsin,” Trump told the Examiner. “Arizona—it’ll be down to 8,000 votes, and if we can do an audit of the millions of votes, we’ll find 8,000 votes easy. If we can do an audit, we’ll be in good shape there.”
And in Georgia, he said, “We’re going to win … because now, we’re down to about 10,000, 11,000 votes, and we have hand-counting.” Trump was responding to an announcement made by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office that a full manual recount will be carried out.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/never-bet-against-me-trump-confident-hell-get-to-270-electoral-college-votes_3577769.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-11-13-2
Justice Alito: COVID-19 Pandemic Has Been a ‘Constitutional Stress Test’
By Zachary Stieber
November 13, 2020 Updated: November 13, 2020
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday said the COVID-19 pandemic has served “as a sort of constitutional stress test.”
Alito, 70, told a Federalist Society virtual convention that “we have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced, for most of 2020.”
“Think of all the live events that would otherwise be protected by the right to freedom of speech: live speeches, conferences, lectures, meetings. Think of worship services, churches closed on Easter Sunday, synagogues closed for Passover on Yom Kippur. Think about access to the courts, or the constitutional right to a speedy trial. Trials in federal courts have virtually disappeared in many places. Who could have imagined that?” he said.
“The COVID crisis has served as a sort of constitutional stress test. And in doing so it has highlighted disturbing trends that were already present before the virus struck.”
One trend, according to the justice, is how executive actions have increasingly replaced legislation as a means to enact new laws.
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