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Paris police station stormed by dozens of people armed with fireworks and metal bars

Liam James
The Independent
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 20:19 UTC
Champigny
Video still shows barrage of fireworks aimed at Champigny police station
Around 40 people armed with metal bars and fireworks tried to storm a police station in a Paris suburb on Saturday night, officials said.

Police shared a video showing a barrage of fireworks going off in the direction of the police station around midnight on Saturday in Champigny-sur-Marne, about nine miles southeast of central Paris.

The assailants tried to force entry into the station, but failed to do so. Police said eight mortars were found nearby.

"Violent attack last night on the police station of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police officer was injured," the Paris police headquarters said on Sunday.

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Yes, We Are Headed for Violent Civil War

Jef Costello
Counter-Currents
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
The Disasters of War
Franciso Goya, The Disasters of War, Plate 39: Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (A heroic feat! With dead men!).
On October 1st, with little fanfare, Politico published an extraordinary opinion piece that may be the most important thing I've read all year. Titled "Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins," the essay was penned by three "senior fellows" at the Hoover Institution, New America, and the Hudson Institute, as well as a professor of "political communication" at Louisiana State University and a professor of government at the University of Maryland (that's five authors, in case you lost count).

The major takeaway is presented in the graph that appears below:

political violence
Way back in November of 2017 (my, how long ago that seems . . . ) a mere 8% of both Democrats and Republicans held that it is legitimate to use violence to advance their political goals. Actually, there's nothing "mere" about it. It ought to surprise us that such a sizeable percentage of both parties could hold such a radical view. Also surprising is Republicans running neck and neck with Democrats. Contrary to how they are perceived by Leftists, conservatives are slow to embrace the idea of violence, or any sort of punitive measures against their opponents. Their Achilles heel, in fact, is commitment to "fair play."
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Facebook responsible for 94% of 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms

Tom Gillespie
Sky News
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 06:28 UTC
F and silhouette
© Facebook/qanon/skynews
Facebook was responsible for 94% of the 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US technology companies last year. The figures emerged as seven countries, including the UK, published a statement on Sunday warning of the impact of end-to-end encryption on public safety online.

Facebook has previously announced plans to fully encrypt communications in its Messenger app, as well as its Instagram Direct service - on top of WhatsApp, which is already encrypted - meaning no one apart from the sender and recipient can read or modify messages. The social media site said the changes are designed to improve user privacy on all of its platforms.

But law enforcement agencies fear the move will have a devastating impact on their ability to target paedophiles and protect children online.

Some 16.9 million referrals were made by US tech firms to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year, including 69 million images of children being abused - up 50% on the previous year. 94% of the reports, which include the worst category of images, came from Facebook, Home Office officials said.

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Facebook's privacy changes might jeopardise unmasking of sexual predators, warns law enforcement

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Florida: No spike in coronavirus cases despite lack of enforceable mask mandate

Hannah Bleau
Breitbart
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
shoppers
© MPI10/MediaPunch/IPX via APSmiling shoppers at Publix in Florida
There has been no spike in cases of the Chinese coronavirus in Florida over the last two weeks, despite Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) lifting key coronavirus restrictions and nixing the enforcement of local mask mandates across the Sunshine State last month.

On September 25, Gov. DeSantis took a major step, lifting key coronavirus restrictions at the state level. The order allowed businesses, such as restaurants, to operate at full capacity at the state level and required local governments to "justify" any restrictions on capacity moving forward. Additionally, DeSantis suspended all penalties related to local mask mandates, as he never issued a statewide mandate despite mounting criticisms from the left. DeSantis announced:
"Just as an act of executive grace, all outstanding fines and penalties that have been applied against individuals are suspended. I think we need to get away from trying to penalize people for not social distancing and work with people constructively."
While critics have battered the Florida governor for his approach to the virus in the state — particularly his initial refusal to quickly implement drastic lockdown orders — the state of the coronavirus in Florida has remained relatively unchanged since the governor lifted key restrictions and removed the mask mandate penalties.

Comment: Fauci is among several leaders who have been spotted in public places without masks.
The list includes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), as well as Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden (D), both of whom have passionately pressed for the widespread use of masks:

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Twitter imposes new limits on politicians and public ahead of election

Lucas Nolan
Breitbart
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Dorsey
© Eric Thayer/The New York Times/KJNTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Social media giant Twitter has announced a number of new restrictions for both politicians and ordinary users ahead of November's presidential election.

The Washington Post reports that Twitter is imposing new warnings on politicians' tweets, restricting "premature declarations of victory," and will block calls for polling violence or disruptions. The new initiatives were announced on Friday as it rolled out the changes in an attempt to protect the platform from abuse and manipulation leading up to the November 3 election.

The moves will temporarily alter the look of Twitter also. Twitter has announced that retweeting will now require an extra step that is designed to encourage users to add their own thoughts before posting, a move that appears to go against Twitter's general design of quick short messages being tweeted and retweeted.

Twitter's recommendations and trends features will also get new designs intended to prevent abuse. These changes are similar to those recently announced by Facebook and appear to be mainly aimed at combating what Twitter considers to be efforts to manipulate the political landscape.

Comment: By pre-empting the lessons of discernment, we become weaker and more susceptible to manipulation.

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About 50,000 Ohio voters receive wrong absentee ballots

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 05:09 UTC
voters queue
© AP/Julie Carr SmythLineup at Franklin County Board of Elections for early voting
About 50,000 voters in Ohio received inaccurate absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 general election, according to election officials.

The Franklin County Board of Elections said in a statement on Friday that 49,669 voters received inaccurate ballots out of the 237,498 that were sent through the United States Postal Service.

The board said Friday that it has already begun the process of printing replacement ballots which will be sent to the Postal Service within 72 hours for delivery.

"Every voter who received an inaccurate ballot will receive a corrected ballot," the board said. In addition, the board will send out postcards to all impacted voters to explain what happened, and their options for voting moving forward.


Comment: Luckily this discovery was early enough to correct the errors and resend new ballots. Others may not be so timely to rectify.




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Around 29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery, report shows


Daily Sabah
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:16 UTC
Indian women hold placards protesting against the alleged gang rape
© APIndian women hold placards protesting against the alleged gang rape and killing of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh state, in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020.
A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labor, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.

Grace Forrest, the co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organization, said Friday that one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.

"The reality is that there are more people living in slavery today than any other time in human history," she told a U.N. news conference. Walk Free defines modern slavery "as the systematic removal of a person's freedom, where one person is exploited by another for personal or financial gain," she said. Forrest said the global estimate of one in 130 women and girls living in modern slavery was made based on work by Walk Free, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), both U.N. agencies.

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Police disperse protest rally in Russia's Far East after attempt to set up tent camp in central Khabarovsk square


RT
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 10:08 UTC
Khabarovsk protest
© ReutersThere have been months of protests in Khabarovsk.
Supporters of the former governor of Far Eastern Khabarovsk have been prevented from putting up tents in front of the region's government building, marking the first forced dispersal of a rally after three months of protests.

Locals unhappy with the circumstances around the arrest and sacking of Sergey Furgal, a member of the far-right opposition LDPR party, have been staging protests in the city since July. They began after his career as a popular governor was torpedoed by a criminal investigation. Each Saturday a progressively larger gathering was held, with smaller protests organized during workdays.

The protests, which were unauthorized from the start, eventually petered out, and in recent weeks they have attracted a fraction of the initial crowds. Rather than a broad coalition of various factions, the movement seems to have been hijacked by Soviet-nostalgists and patriots of the region.

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Suspect charged in Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot had anarchist flag, hates police

Kyle Olson
Breitbart
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:01 UTC
Brandon Caserta antifa
© Facebook
United States attorneys in Michigan charged six individuals on Thursday with an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and overthrow the state's government.

The feds have charged Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta, the Detroit News reported. Twelve individuals were charged in all.

Via the News:
The investigation dates to early 2020 when the FBI learned through social media that individuals were discussing the violent overthrow of several state governments and law enforcement.

In June, Croft, Fox and 13 others from multiple states held a meeting in Dublin, Ohio, near Columbus, according to the government.

Comment: These people are clearly not Trump supporters. But that won't stop the MSM from trying to spin it that way.

This from RT:
MSNBC sets off Twitter after pundit compares Trump to ISIS leader, blaming president for Michigan governor kidnapping plot
10 Oct, 2020 16:21

Anti-Trump author and MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance has labeled the anti-government extremists who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer "VanillaISIS" and claim they follow "their al-Baghdadi," Donald Trump.

"These people were radicalized by the very fact that a black man could sit in the Oval Office," Nance said of the recently-arrested Michigan would-be kidnappers and other radical groups in the US.

"Where they are now," he continued, "is a state of readiness to support Donald Trump."

"He is their al-Baghdadi," Nance added, comparing the US president to the late Iraqi terrorist and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) leader.

Nance then deemed the Michigan extremists and others "VanillaISIS," in reference to the '90s white rapper Vanilla Ice and the terrorist organization.

"And this particular strain of VanillaISIS, if you want to call it that, they are arming themselves," the author said.

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The term "VanillaISIS" has begun trending on social media where mostly liberals have capitalized on the comparison.

"VanillaIsis are Terrorists - pure and simple - and they should be treated as such," North Carolina politician Mark Judson tweeted.

"Donald Trump incites Domestic Terrorism. Donald Trump incites #VanillaISIS,"wrote journalist David Leavitt.

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Though Nance and numerous Democrats have at least partly blamed Trump's controversial rhetoric for the Michigan kidnapping plot, at least one of the men arrested, Brandon Caserta, has now been revealed to be a critic of the president, posting a video blasting him as part of the "enemy" in government.

Caserta and others accused of wanting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer reportedly wanted to incite a civil war in Michigan through the kidnapping and other acts of violence.
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Being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Osama bin Laden's niece

Noor bin Ladin
The Spectator
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:37 UTC
Noor bin Laden Osama niece
Noor bin Ladin in a picture from her website
Americans are, in my experience, the warmest, most kind-hearted and open-minded people in the world. I have found this to be true for my whole life, despite being the niece of Osama bin Laden and sharing the same last name (albeit spelled slightly differently — bin Ladin is the original translation). Americans base their judgment on the content of someone's character and actions, not on the color of their skin — or their last name. This was reaffirmed last month, after I voiced my love for America and support for President Trump. The response to 'My Letter to America' has been overwhelmingly wonderful, and I am most thankful to all those who took the time to read it and send kind messages, including Spectator readers. But in my private life, I have lost a few so-called friends for backing Donald Trump over the past five years. Coming out publicly was a step too far for some, and the vitriol I received for stating my political beliefs revealed unflattering sides to certain characters. From a sociological standpoint, it is quite interesting that in some elitist circles being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than carrying the name bin Ladin.
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