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Over 3 million people displaced due to man-made conflicts in 2020, largely due to US wars abroad - UN

Jamey Keaten
Associated Press
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:55 UTC
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© AP Photo/Tsvangirayi MukwazhiIn this Saturday, March 23, 2019 file photo, displaced families arrive after being rescued by boat from a flooded area of Buzi district, 200 kilometers (120 miles) outside Beira, Mozambique. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said Friday June 17, 2021, that conflicts and the impact of climate change in places like Mozambique were among the leading sources of new flows of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.
War, violence, persecution, human rights violations and other factors caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement worldwide, the U.N. refugee agency said in a report Friday.

In its latest Global Trends report, UNHCR said the world's cumulative number of displaced people rose to 82.4 million — roughly the population of Germany and a new post-World War II record.

Filippo Grandi, the United Nations' high commissioner for refugees, said conflict and the fallout from climate change in places such as Mozambique, Ethiopia's Tigray region and Africa's Sahel area were key drivers of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.


Comment: Whilst the shifting and cooling climate surely will have an impact on how and where we live, it's man's inability to adapt - and even acknowledge - what's happening that is problematic.


Comment: Russia and China aren't starting these wars, fomenting these coups or supplying these terrorists, the West and its allies are; in some cases it's only because of Russia and China's response that the situation isn't even more dire than it already is:

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Georgia investigator's notes reveal 'massive' election integrity problems in Atlanta

John Solomon and Daniel Payne
Just the News
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:54 UTC
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In a nationally televised interview in January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rattled off an impressive list of measures his state used to ensure the November election count was accurate.
"We had safe, secure, honest elections," he declared to "60 Minutes."
That rosy assessment, however, masked an ugly truth inside his agency's own files: A contractor handpicked to monitor election counting in Fulton County wrote a 29-page memo back in November outlining the "massive" election integrity failures and mismanagement that he witnessed in the Atlanta-area's election centers.

The bombshell report, constructed like a minute-by-minute diary, cited a litany of high-risk problems such as the double-counting of votes, insecure storage of ballots, possible violations of voter privacy, the mysterious removal of election materials at a vote collection warehouse, and the suspicious movement of "too many" ballots on Election Day.
"This seems like a massive chain of custody problem," the contractor Carter Jones warned in the memo delivered by his firm Seven Hill Strategies to Raffensperger's office shortly after the election.

Comment: This is another proof that the 2020 controversial elections in Georgia and in the US, in general, were set up in favor of Biden.
Nothing that we already didn't know. Just more fresh pieces of information supporting the suspicion that the elections were rigged.

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Rep. Higgins condemns the extension of the closure of the US-Canada border, 'another month's delay is 'bulls**t'

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:11 UTC
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Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) communicated once again on Friday his inconformity with the fact that the US/Canada land border closure has once again been extended, this time to Jul. 21 2021.

"There's no other way to say it: another month's delay is bullshit. #LetUsReunite," tweeted Higgins.
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The Israel hasbara machine is attempting to sanitize Naftali Bennett's "I killed many Arabs" quote

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:01 UTC
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© spokesperson of the Ministry of EconomyNaftali Bennett, new Prime Minister in Israel.
Not only did new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett say "I've killed many Arabs in my life, and there's no problem with that," but it was actually even worse than it appears.

Israel just got its most right-wing Prime Minister ever, in the form of Naftali Bennett. We have already seen the signs that Israeli pundits were trying to sanitize his racist history, to make him a better sell than Netanyahu.

But what do you do with phrases such as "I've killed many Arabs in my life, and there's no problem with that"? I mean, that's one of the singularly most racist things he's said, it's often quoted, and it's not only racist but has a genocidal hint to it?

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80+ students abducted in attack on Nigerian school


Reuters
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:33 UTC
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Nigerian police.
Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher said.

Comment: For insight into just what is driving destabilization in the region, check out SOTT's: Western-backed Boko Haram and 'Patriotic' Militants Efforts to Counter China-Nigeria Relations

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Horowitz: 'Religious liberty' in the Supreme Court: If this is a victory, what would a loss look like?

Daniel Horowitz
Blaze Media
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:01 UTC
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Three years ago, conservatives celebrated the 7-2 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop as a victory for religious liberty. Yet, as I predicted at the time, its extremely narrow ruling mixed with implicit anti-liberty inuendo on behalf of protected groups paved the way for Jack Phillips to continue to be targeted, as he is to this very day. Well, history has repeated itself again in the Philadelphia adoption case, except this time it's after the appointment of two supposedly more conservative justices.

In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the lower court's opinion allowing the city of Philadelphia to discriminate against Catholic Social Services by denying the organization contracts for foster care placement based on their refusal to place kids into homes without a mother and father. A 9-0 victory in favor of religious liberty might sound too good to be true. And in fact, it actually is too good to be true, because this is not much of a victory as it relates to most other cases or likely even for the party in this case. It should have been a much broader 5-4 ruling with all the non-Roberts GOP appointees joining the concurrence written by Justice Alito.

Comment: See also: Supreme Court rules Philadelphia can't force Catholic agency to serve gay foster parents

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Hongkongers queue to buy Apple Daily newspaper copies after editor-in-chief is arrested

Helen Davidson
The Guardian
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 06:05 UTC
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© Kin Cheung/APPhotographers take photos of copies of Apple Daily coming off the printing press on Friday.
Public outpouring of support for tabloid after raid on offices by national security police.

Hongkongers queued at city news stands before dawn on Friday to buy the latest edition of the Apple Daily newspaper, a day after national security police arrested its editor-in-chief and four other directors.

On Thursday morning hundreds of officers from the Hong Kong police national security department raided the homes of the employees, including editor-in-chef Ryan Law, and the Apple Daily newsroom for the second time in less than a year. It froze millions of dollars in company assets.

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Joe Rogan savages CNN's Brian Stelter and his 'f - king terrible' show

Lee Brown
New York Post
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:32 UTC
Joe Rogan
© Youtube"Brian Stelter's show keeps slipping and slipping and slipping in the ratings," Joe Rogan said.
Podcast king Joe Rogan has savaged CNN's Brian Stelter for being under the thumb of the White House — and losing viewers with a "f-king terrible" show.

In the latest episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the podcaster trashed Stelter for having complained about YouTube personalities like him getting more viewers than CNN "as if it was some horrible thing."

"They were describing it as if they're entitled to viewers," Rogan, 53, noted of a panel discussion on Stelter's "Reliable Sources" in January.

"This is because the market has spoken and your show's f — ing terrible," the UFC commentator said, not holding back any punches.

"Brian Stelter's show keeps slipping and slipping and slipping in the ratings," said Rogan, whose show has had hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and regularly leads the podcast charts.

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Moscow hospitals to deny routine treatment to patients who refuse Covid-19 vaccines, as Kremlin warns skepticism is costing lives


RT
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:12 UTC
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© RIAMoscow, Russia.
People waiting for planned operations and other non-urgent medical treatment in Moscow will be denied care in the Russian capital's hospitals if they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, but are eligible to receive a jab.

The rule change, designed to protect patients, came from the city's Department of Health on Friday. Under the new measures, only those with certificates proving they have been immunized will be admitted onto wards for most types of treatment and procedures.


Comment: This doesn't bode well, and similar to other coercive techniques being used to force compliance. Who determines what is 'non-urgent'? Procedures that aren't urgent are often preventative and save lives.


Emergency care, along with anti-cancer therapy and support for those with blood diseases, "will be provided, without exception, to every resident of the city, regardless of their vaccination status," the city administration confirmed.

"A person who is in a hospital because of an injury or illness, by definition, has a weakened immune system. For such patients, coronavirus disease is especially dangerous," officials said in a statement. "Every day, patients are transferred from Moscow clinics to Covid hospitals. If a week ago there were 130 such cases per day, then yesterday it was already almost 200."
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Australia: Police replace cocaine with icing sugar in hollowed-out novel, leading to drug trafficking acquittal


ABC News
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:43 UTC
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© ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt: Laura MeachimCocaine was concealed inside a book in a parcel addressed to a suburban Adelaide unit.
An Adelaide man has been acquitted of trafficking drugs because police secretly replaced cocaine hidden in a hollowed-out novel with icing sugar before the accused collected the item.

Nathan John Ralph was charged after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers detected an "anomaly" in a parcel posted from the UK in January 2019.

The parcel was addressed to a unit owned by the accused but leased to his father on the Esplanade at Seacliff in Adelaide's south, and was intercepted by local police following a tip-off from ABF.
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