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Barricades in Madrid, clashes in Barcelona, looting in Logrono as anti-lockdown protests grip Spain


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 03:18 UTC
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© Reuters / Javier Barbancho
Overturned trash bins are seen on the road during a protest against the closure of bars and gyms, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain, November 1, 2020.
Spain has been gripped by violence as anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in multiple cities, including Madrid and Barcelona, over the state and regional governments' move to toughen Covid-19 restrictions.

Protesters torched garbage containers and erected makeshift barricades on Gran Via, and reportedly smashed several store fronts elsewhere in central Madrid on Saturday night.

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Bad Guys

Two reported dead and five wounded in sword attack in Quebec

Evgeny Mikhaylov
Sputnik
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 17:14 UTC
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Quebec police on site
According to preliminary reports from police in Quebec City, they are searching for a man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with a bladed weapon after he attacked multiple people.

Police have said that the deadly assault happened near the National Assembly of Quebec building. Radio Canada reported that at least two people are dead and at least five injured. The suspect, who is now in custody, is "a man in his mid-20s". He was armed with a sword and dressed in "medieval clothing", a Quebec City police spokesman said.

Comment: The BBC reports:
Carl Girouard, 24, was also charged with five counts of attempted murder.

Police said an initial probe found that Mr Girouard, who wore medieval clothes during the attack, was not affiliated with any extremist groups.

The two victims were named as François Duchesne, 56, and Suzanne Clermont, 61. Five people were injured.

The attack took place in the historic Old Quebec neighbourhood of the French-speaking capital of the Quebec province.

Police chief Robert Pigeon said the attack was thought to have been premeditated, adding that the suspect, from the Montreal suburbs, came to the city with "the intention of doing the most damage possible".

"Dressed in medieval costume and armed with a Japanese sword, everything leads us to believe he chose his victims at random," Mr Pigeon said.

Police offered only a handful of details about the late-night attack that played out in the cobblestone streets of Old Quebec, a popular tourist destination packed with historic buildings and landmarks.

Quebec City police chief Robert Pigeon said the suspect had been dressed in "medieval" garb and swung a katana-like sword at randomly chosen victims in an attack that stretched into the early hours of Sunday morning.

The suspect was arrested near the Espace 400e business park.

Quebec's Le Soleil newspaper reported he was lying on the ground, barefoot and hypothermic, when he was arrested. He surrendered to police without any resistance, it said.
Canadian news outlet The Star gives some background on the victims:
Residents of Quebec's picturesque capital grappled with grief and shock on Sunday as they mourned the deaths of a beloved neighbourhood hairdresser and a well-respected museum employee slain in what police describe as a deliberate sword attack targeting random strangers.

Impromptu vigils and makeshift memorials sprang up near the stretch of Old Quebec City where police allege a young man went on a 2.5-hour rampage wielding a long, curved sword. Hairdresser Suzanne Clermont, 61, and 56-year-old museum employee Francois Duchesne died in the Halloween-night attack that also left five others injured.

Condolences poured in from across Canada for the victims and their families, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying in a tweet that his "heart breaks" for them.



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Biohazard

'Paradise lost': How Israel turned the West Bank into a sewage dump for its settlements

Shatha Hammad
Middle East Eye
Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:30 UTC
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Residents and farmers say increasing quantities of sewage are being pumped onto their lands from the illegal settlements
Untreated wastewater has destroyed the soil of Palestinian villages, causing often ancient olive trees to die and livelihoods to be lost

Abdullah Maarouf typically tends to his olive grove at this time of year, the start of the olive harvest season in Palestine.

This year, however, 55-year-old Maarouf is forced to sit at home.

Maarouf lives in the village of Deir Ballut, in the northern governorate of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.

He says his land was once "a paradise". Today, it has become a wastewater swamp, due to the sewage that runs from the illegal settlement of Leshem nearby.

Maarouf and his family of 50 members own 20 dunams (two hectares), home to about 400 olive trees, some of which date back to the Roman period. Their trees produce some two tonnes of olive oil each year.

Comment: Another dire snapshot of the abject misery and persecution Israel subjects the Palestinian population to. And here are just a few (of many) more:

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Family

US Marshals find 27 missing children in Virginia

Alaa Elassar
CNN
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 02:27 UTC
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The Justice Department building in Washington, DC.
A rescue operation in Virginia resulted in the recovery of 27 missing children, according to the US Department of Justice.

Deputy US Marshals led the five-day effort dubbed "Operation Find Our Children." They collaborated with the agency's Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state and local agencies.

The operation resulted in the rescue of 27 children and safe location of six others who were reported missing but found in the custody of their legal guardian, US Marshals said in a news release on Friday.

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USA

Pro and anti-Trump protesters clash in Beverly Hills


ABC
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:47 UTC
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Beverly Hills police declared an unlawful assembly at the site of a rally supporting President Donald Trump.

An unlawful assembly was declared by Beverly Hills police after a counter-protester reportedly got into a fight with a pro-Trump demonstrator near the Beverly Hills sign in Beverly Gardens Park, but no one was arrested, authorities said Saturday.

"Unlawful assembly has been declared near the Beverly Hills Sign. Avoid the area," BHPD announced shortly before 2:40 p.m. "Traffic is impacted. BHPD and mutual aid resources are on scene."

The unlawful assembly was declared about half an hour after police reported another demonstration at Roxbury Memorial Park at Roxbury Drive and Olympic Boulevard.

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Light Saber

Google whistleblower & conservative influencers file lawsuit to punch Google & restore free speech

Maryam Henein
Activist Post
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:04 UTC
punch google
The unprecedented censorship we are facing is the biggest threat to democracy in our history. Imagine waking up to find that, without any notice, you have been deplatformed and deleted off YouTube; years of your work — poof — gone in an instant. When someone violates someone's right to speak, they violate your right to listen. This type of digital assassination is enough to make you want to punch Google in the kisser.

Censorship In An Age Of Technofascism

On October 26th, 15 YouTube content creators filed an emergency injunction against Google-owned YouTube. The federal lawsuit, which is being led by Google Whistleblower Zach Vorhies and filed by Cris Armenta and Credence Sol of ARMENTA & SOL, is seeking a temporary restraining order to restore the Plaintiffs' accounts. Vorhies was a software engineer for Google/YouTube for eight and a half years, and both Ms. Armenta and Ms. Sol have experience litigating against Google.

The suit alleges 17 claims for relief, and accuses Google of breaching the Terms of Service (TOS) and violating their First Amendment rights. The courts have now assigned Judge Beth Freeman, an Obama appointee and Berkeley undergrad, to the case.

The hearing of We The People vs Google has been set for Monday morning, November 2nd, at 9 AM PST, 11 AM CDT, and it's open to the public to listen in, but recording it is a violation of federal law. Plaintiffs invite the public to listen in.

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Bizarro Earth

Lord Sumption: 'This is how freedom dies' - The folly of Britain's coercive Covid strategy

Jonathan Sumption
The Spectator
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:17 UTC
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the British state has exercised coercive powers over its citizens on a scale never previously attempted. It has taken effective legal control, enforced by the police, over the personal lives of the entire population: where they could go, whom they could meet, what they could do even within their own homes. For three months it placed everybody under a form of house arrest, qualified only by their right to do a limited number of things approved by ministers. All of this has been authorised by ministerial decree with minimal Parliamentary involvement. It has been the most significant interference with personal freedom in the history of our country. We have never sought to do such a thing before, even in wartime and even when faced with health crises far more serious than this one.

It is customary for those who doubt the legality or constitutional propriety of the government's acts to start with a hand-wringing declaration that they do so with a heavy heart, not doubting for a moment the need for the measures taken. I shall not follow that tradition. I do not doubt the seriousness of the epidemic, but I believe that history will look back on the measures taken to contain it as a monument of collective hysteria and governmental folly. This evening, however, I am not concerned with the wisdom of this policy, but only with its implications for the government of our country. So remarkable a departure from our liberal traditions surely calls for some consideration of its legal and constitutional basis.

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NPC

When SNL gives up on you: Host scolded for 'irresponsibly' joking that not much will change under Biden


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 21:31 UTC
Joe biden alone
© REUTERS / Brendan McDermid
Joe Biden
The Daily Beast pounced on comedian John Mulaney for 'inexplicably' and 'irresponsibly' joking that a Biden win won't change much in America. Apparently even comedy now has to toe the party line and speak no ill about Joe.

Mulaney, who hosted this week's Saturday Night Live episode, drew an angry rebuke from the Daily Beast for his opening monologue, or rather the specific part that compared the upcoming presidential election to an elderly man contest. Depending on the results, he said, "we might have the same elderly man or we might have a new elderly man."
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Arrow Down

Keith Ellison wields power to restrict freedom of assembly of political opponents at Minnesota Trump rally

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Keith Ellison
© Alex Wong/Getty Images
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison
The venue for President Donald Trump's political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations.

The rally was initially planned at the Rochester airport, but Ellison's office demanded a "COVID preparedness plan" from officials from the City of Rochester, Olmsted County, and the Rochester airport, as well as the Republican National Committee to ensure the event was safe.

The event was then moved to Dodge Center, prompting Ellison's office to ask the Trump campaign and the owner of the building McNeilus Steel for their "COVID Preparedness Plan."

That prompted the Trump campaign to move the event again, back to the airport.

The campaign said in a statement sent late Thursday night:
"Thanks to the free speech-stifling dictates of Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, only the first 250 people will be admitted. Without question, Minnesota Democrats had hoped that the President would simply cancel the event, but he will not allow partisan politicians to deprive people of their First Amendment rights to gather peacefully to hear directly from the President of the United States."
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Footprints

Cartel-linked Mexican governor calls on immigrants in US to vote for Biden

Ildefonso Ortiz
Breitbart
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles
© Aureoles Michoacán Government
Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles
A Mexican governor took to social media to ask people originating from his state who live in the U.S. to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in what he called an opportunity to end "a long night of racism and hate." The governor was previously accused by a top cartel boss for exchanging money for votes in his own election.

Through a video posted on Twitter, Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles asked "paisanas and paisanos" in the U.S. to vote in support of Biden, claiming that President Donald Trump hates migrants.
"This November 3, the U.S. is having elections that are determining for you who live and work and have family on the other side. You have an opportunity to choose a humanitarian government with a different approach that knows and understands the needs of migrants."

Comment: Biden's only 'vision' is to garner immigrant votes with empty promises.

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