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'This is lunacy': Frustrated border patrol agents take pictures of overcrowded detention facilities

Julio Rosas
Townhall
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:47 UTC
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The Biden administration's handling of the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues to flounder as the massive influx of people illegally crossing into the U.S. remains at an all-time high, leading to overcrowding at holding facilities with COVID-19 still being an issue.

Video taken this week by a source in the Rio Grande Valley Sector shows immigrants in a holding facility packed in tightly, with some not wearing masks. This has lead to Border Patrol having to take people apprehended elsewhere in the sector to the temporary holding site underneath the Anzalduas International Bridge in Mission, Texas, where outside temperatures reach above 100 degrees on a daily basis.
"They are way past capacity - so aliens sit outside because where do you take them? Logistically it's a nightmare - people want to go to the bathroom, need to eat, women need to breastfeed, and the list goes on...

This has surpassed the point of sustainability - this is lunacy."

Comment: A whole lot of hot summer to go and no relief in sight...this is human torture - a catastrophe on an international scale. Where are the sanctions on the Biden administration?

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Chicago police official skipped 'sacred' ritual at slain cop's send-off, infuriating the rank-and-file police

Yaron Steinbuch
NY Post
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:45 UTC
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An officer pays respect to Ella French at a memorial in Chicago
The second-in-command of the Chicago police force ignored a "sacred" ritual by skipping the playing of bagpipes during the final send-off for slain Officer Ella French - impatiently declaring, "We don't have 20 minutes for this s — ."

First Deputy Police Superintendent Eric Carter enraged cops who gathered Saturday night to bid farewell to the late officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

"We don't have 20 minutes for this s — ," said Carter, who demanded that the ambulance bearing her body be taken directly to the medical examiner's office without waiting for the Emerald Society's tradition, according to the paper.

"We're not waiting on the bagpipes. Go ahead and get the vehicle inside. Take it all the way inside. Do not stop," Carter is heard saying in a recording, the Sun-Times reported.
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'Utter woke insanity': Social media users blast 'sick' new Scottish rules that allow FOUR-YEAR OLDS to declare 'gender identity'


RT
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:41 UTC
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The Scottish government has kicked off a storm on social media after issuing "deeply disturbing" LGBT inclusivity guidelines that allow children as young as four to change their gender and name at school without parental consent.

In the 70-page document, issued to schools across the country on Thursday, teachers are instructed not to question students who declare that they are transgender or tell them "it's just a phase". Instead, they are urged to "be affirming" of the students' feelings.

Other "tips" for teachers include asking these students "what name and pronoun" they would prefer to be addressed by and to check if that is "all the time or in certain circumstances".

As well, teachers are encouraged to "ask reflective questions that allow young people to express themselves, explore their gender identity and identify their needs".
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French anti-health pass protesters double in number in a month, at least 250,000 expected to hit streets this weekend


RT
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:39 UTC
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At least a quarter of a million people in France are expected to take to the streets over the weekend to protest controversial anti-Covid measures, local media have said, citing a police intelligence note sent to the government.

The number of French nationals openly disagreeing with the recent introduction of a so-called 'health pass' in the country has doubled since mid-July, with the movement showing no signs of running out of steam, police intelligence services have reportedly warned the government. In a note sent on Thursday, France's central territorial intelligence said it estimates that at least 250,000 people will rally over the weekend, Franceinfo's Radio France reports.

Many families are set to participate, intelligence analysis has shown, with parents being "generally fed up" with school closures during the pandemic and uncertain of health rules at educational institutions at the start of the new school year.
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Moscow Metro system begins trials of 'FacePay', a new cutting-edge facial recognition biometric payment technology

Jonny Tickle
RT
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:36 UTC
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The iconic Moscow Metro has begun the testing of a contactless fare payment system using facial recognition tech that would allow residents of Russia's capital to use public transport without the need to carry a card or cash.

That's according to Anna Lapushkina, the head of the press service of the Moscow transport department, who noted that the payment innovation should be the next step in speeding up passenger traffic through the busy transport network.

Earlier this year, Metro security head Andrey Kichigin revealed that passengers would be able to pay for rides with their faces before the end of 2021.

Now, according to Lapushkina, testing for the service has sampled up, with one line of the Metro now accepting facial payments.
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Growing censorship may lead to mass exodus: Glenn Greenwald & Tulsi Gabbard ditch YouTube for 'free speech platform' Rumble


RT
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:57 UTC
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Glenn Greenwald has urged internet users to leave behind YouTube's ceaseless content-policing and migrate to Rumble, after he and a group of prominent pundits set up shop at the laissez-faire video platform.

The veteran journalist, along with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and several other well-known commentators, have joined Rumble's "deep pool of content talent," the company said in a press release on Thursday. As part of the agreement, Rumble will provide the all-star content creators with resources to help them produce videos that will be exclusive to the site for a limited time.

The platform's popularity has skyrocketed, experiencing a 25-fold increase in viewership over the past year.

Comment: YouTube seems bent on killing its golden geese. Will they be able to survive on cat videos?

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Even Russia isn't safe from leftist indoctrination: Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ activism hit Russia over "white supremacy"

Richard Abelson
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:18 UTC
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In 2012, the Pussy Riot feminist rock band provoked a scandal within Russia's community after it staged an unsanctioned performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
The shock troops of the leftist NGO network are attacking the last bastions of conservatism all over the world - Brazil, Hungary, India. This week "Extinction Rebellion" attacked the Parliament in Canberra, Australia, to date one of the last remaining bastions of sanity in the world. And even Russia, which banned Open Society and other foreign NGOs 2015, is under attack for "white supremacy", "racism" and "colonialism", writes Edvard Chesnokov

As a journalist of a large Russian publication, I often interview Western politicians. Technically, though, most of these people are marginal, political outsiders, and have zero access to mainstream media due to their "right-wing" views.

When I talk to them, one thing always amazes me - How many of my Western friends see Russia as a conservative paradise, a wonderful land with ultraconservative values, happy heterosexual families like out of a '50s TV commercial, and pure unadulterated Orthodox Christianity. It reminds me of the way European adventurers used to believe there was an El Dorado somewhere in Peru, where the streets were paved in gold.
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Western media proves it only cares about refugees if they serve the right political purpose

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:29 UTC
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Lithuanian army soldiers install razor wire on border with Belarus in Druskininkai, Lithuania July 9, 2021
The Guardian, the mouthpiece of Britain's well-meaning, mildly left-of-center mainstream media, has published a piece on refugees. Or, at least, it should be about refugees. Instead, it is about governments, not desperate people.

The governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, and behind them, the European Union, are feeling pressure from Belarus, which they claim has been pushing refugees across the border, flown in from the Middle East for the purpose. Ostensibly, such a policy is in retaliation for Western sanctions, as Minsk's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has in effect already admitted.

In The Guardian piece, the refugees are not innocent human beings fleeing for their lives. On the contrary, they aren't even people at all, having been entirely reduced to numbers - except for one non-descript picture that seemed to serve only decorative purposes. I, for one, was, literally, rubbing my eyes: here it was, a long text about sons, daughters, brothers and mothers in distress - and not one sentence giving them a name or a voice. Impossible. Yet true. Whether the work of authors or editors, the effect was drastically revealing if, certainly, unintended.

Comment: Compassion for refugees is well and good, but many of the migrants don't come under that category. The composition of the various groups have been described as overwhelmingly "fighting-age males". Many have moved for economic reasons. The author has also ignored the tremendous social dislocation that unchecked numbers of migrants have brought to Europe. It apparently has been an intended consequence.

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US health secretary mandates COVID-19 shots for tens of thousands of federal health employees

Aishwarya Nair
Reuters
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:04 UTC
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Medical staff member receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, U.S., December 15, 2020.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has mandated its health care workforce to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Health Secretary Xavier Becerra announced on Thursday.

Staff at the Indian Health Service (IHS), focused on American Indians, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be impacted by this decision, according to an HHS statement.

Those affected include over 25,000 employees, contractors, trainees, and volunteers whose duties put them in contact or potential contact with patients at an HHS medical or clinical research facility.

Comment: See also:

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French vaccination centres vandalised as health pass is introduced

Geert Clercq
Reuters
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:59 UTC
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A coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health pass poster is seen in a restaurant as France brings on tougher restrictions where a proof of immunity will now be required to access most public spaces and to travel by inter-city train, in Nice, France, August 9, 2021.
Vandals have attacked more than 20 vaccination centres and other health facilities, daubing some with Nazi-themed slogans, as the French government steps up its COVID-19 vaccination drive.


Comment: Apparently it's been one per day since mid-July!


Anger has been fueled by the introduction of a health pass showing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test which is now mandatory for entering restaurants, trains and other public places.

Over the past four weekends protesters have marched against the health pass, saying it restricts individual freedom.

Comment: The pressure continues to build in France and the people are showing their righteous anger. One wonders how long it will take for the pushback to push beyond the level of vandalism.

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