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Israel begins construction corridors, elevator at Ibrahimi Mosque

MEMO
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 04:23 UTC

The Israeli occupation authorities have begun renovating the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron today, implementing the Judaisation project that includes building corridors and the installation of an elevator to facilitate access for Jewish settlers.

The Israeli soldiers aim to seize approximately 300 square metres of the mosque's courtyards and facilities, with two million shekels ($0.62 million) having been allocated to fund the project so far, reported Arab48.

Last May, then Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett issued an expropriation order for a portion of the Ibrahimi Mosque as part of a project to build an elevator to facilitate settlers' access to the Muslim house of worship.

The municipality has been demanding that the project be stopped because the construction will be on land it owns together with the Palestinian Waqf (Religious Endowment) Islamic Trust. However, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by the Hebron Municipality earlier this year in March.

Israel's plan to seize the Ibrahimi Mosque goes against international laws. In 2017, UNESCO included the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Old City of Hebron as a Palestinian heritage site.

EuroMOMO analysis indicates that Europe's third wave was a blip

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:12 UTC

Has Europe seen two mortality peaks or three? According to many news outlets, the continent experienced a deadly third wave of COVID-19 during the spring of 2021.

"Europe is enduring a grim spring", says an FT article dated 4th April. "Covid-19 infections, hospitalisations and deaths are rising in many countries", it goes on to claim. The article presents data suggesting that March saw elevated COVID-19 death rates in a number of European countries.

This characterisation is borne out by Our World in Data's chart of the daily number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths for the European Union - which is shown below. (The chart for Europe as a whole is highly similar.)

Hong Kong's largest teachers' union to disband following pressure from gov't and Chinese state media

Candice Chau
Hong Kong Free Press
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:37 UTC

The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU) announced their disbandment on Tuesday.

The HKPTU, with over 95,000 members, was the city's largest teachers' union, representing over 90 per cent of the profession. It comes after the Education Bureau announced its decision to scrap all links with the union on July 31 - hours after the group came under fire in Chinese state media.

The state-run People's Daily and news wire Xinhua slammed the union as a "poisonous tumour" that must be "eradicated." A Hong Kong government spokesperson then accused it of "dragging schools into politics," making reference to their organisation of a teacher's strike during the city's 2014 Umbrella Movement and the publication of teaching materials promoting civil disobedience.

Covid fascism: Sydney police to step up enforcement of its draconian policies

Renju Jose and Byron Kaye
Reuters
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:40 UTC

Personnel from the Australian Defence Force and New South Wales patrol the streets looking for people daring to breathe

Australian authorities on Tuesday vowed to crank up policing of anti-COVID lockdown rules in Sydney, but dismissed suggestions that tougher measures, including a curfew, were needed after the city reported its biggest single-day new case number yet.

With more than five million residents of Australia's biggest city now in lockdown for more than six weeks, Sydney reported 343 new infections in an outbreak stoked by the spread of the highly transmissible Delta strain of COVID-19, up 66 from the day before and topping the last one-day peak set on Saturday.

Tougher policing in the most-affected areas has divided Sydney and stoked resentment in some of Australia's most migrant-heavy neighbourhoods.

Parole allowed for man who buried California victim alive

Fox News
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:46 UTC

© California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP
A photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows convicted murderer David Weidert on Jan. 18, 2017.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has allowed the release of a killer who served four decades in prison for the murder of a developmentally disabled California man who was buried alive, officials said Monday.

Newsom took no action last Friday on the state parole board's latest decision granting parole to David Weidert, his office said Monday, meaning that Weidert, 58, is now eligible for release.

Weidert received a life sentence for killing 20-year-old Fresno-area resident Michael Morganti in 1980 to cover up a $500 burglary.

Newsom blocked Weidert's parole last year, saying then that he "currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time." Then-Gov. Jerry Brown similarly reversed release recommendations for Weidert in 2016 and 2018.

Stunning data from Israel: 95% of severely ill Covid patients are VACCINATED

B.K. House
100percentfedup.com
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:31 UTC

It's shocking to come across information that shows that it's vaccinated individuals who make up the majority of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to covid. Finding the information is the shocking part since anything contrary to the left's agenda is being filtered, censored, and silenced.

At some point though, the truth was bound to seep out and it appears as though the levy is about to break on the truth of the "break-through" cases.

Finally: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns over sexual harassment accusations

Marina Villeneuve
Associated Press
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:38 UTC

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed daily briefings and leadership during some of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By turns defiant and chastened, the 63-year-old Democrat emphatically denied intentionally mistreating women and called the attacks on him politically motivated. But he said that fighting back in this "too hot" political climate would subject the state to months of turmoil.

"The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing," Cuomo said in a televised address.

Comment: It's good that he's gone, but for the wrong reasons. He's been #MeToo'd, but that isn't the real reason the system turned on one of its own.

Russian prosecutors asked to probe children's summer camp over 'LGBT propaganda' after boys 'forced' to dress up in girls' clothes

RT
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:04 UTC

A family values group has urged authorities to investigate claims that a kids' camp in the country's Ural region pushed and coerced young attendees into cross-dressing, with the local children's ombudsman agreeing to open a case.

Vyacheslav Baltsevich, the head of the Council of Fathers for the Sverdlovsk Region, centred around Russia's fourth-largest city Ekaterinburg, made the request on Tuesday. According to him, organizers of the 'Salute' camp hosted an event branded "Reverse Day," in which boys dressed up in girls' clothes and vice versa. The activist alleges that those who didn't want to participate were "harassed and ridiculed" into taking part and filmed on a camera phone.

Comment: It sounds like Mr. Morokov has a sense of proportion. Good luck to him in navigating the tricky local waters.

What will segregated society look like for the unvaxxed?

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

In 2020, the proposition that COVID-19 countermeasures would come to include forced vaccination and vaccine passports, resulting in a segregated society where only those participating in the COVID injection experiment have human rights, was labeled a wild conspiracy theory unworthy of discussion.

Fast-forward to August 2, 2021, and Forbes announces, "No Vax, No Service: Here's Where Bars and Restaurants Across U.S. Are Requiring Proof of Vaccination."¹

Comment: See also:

Vogue magazine claims fighting RT 'propaganda campaign' was 'character-building' for Psaki, citing series of gaffes as evidence

RT
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:09 UTC

A profile of Joe Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki published by Vogue magazine has accused RT of waging a 'propaganda campaign' against her back in 2014. The story in question reads like a testament to how much the US has changed.

There has been no shortage of adoration poured on President Biden and members of his administration by the sympathetic US mainstream media. One of the most recent examples of the genre is its gushing ode to Psaki, published this week.

Comment: Comparing this puff piece on Psaki to the inaugural Vogue Scandanavian issue featuring Greta Thunberg who called out the fashion industry for contributing to climate change while being on the cover for a leading fashion industry magazine, we're not quite sure which is more pathetically propagandistic.

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Society's Child

Israel begins construction corridors, elevator at Ibrahimi Mosque

EuroMOMO analysis indicates that Europe's third wave was a blip

Hong Kong's largest teachers' union to disband following pressure from gov't and Chinese state media

Covid fascism: Sydney police to step up enforcement of its draconian policies

Parole allowed for man who buried California victim alive

Stunning data from Israel: 95% of severely ill Covid patients are VACCINATED

Finally: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns over sexual harassment accusations

Russian prosecutors asked to probe children's summer camp over 'LGBT propaganda' after boys 'forced' to dress up in girls' clothes

What will segregated society look like for the unvaxxed?

Vogue magazine claims fighting RT 'propaganda campaign' was 'character-building' for Psaki, citing series of gaffes as evidence

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