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Latvia Strained by Belarus Allowing Iraqi Immigrants Through

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

Latvia And Lithuania Struggle With Iraqi Migrants At Belarus Border – NPR

From www.npr.org
2021-08-29 12:03:00

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Latvia and Lithuania are struggling to deal with thousands of Iraqis entering illegally from Belarus with the help of the Minsk government. Belarus sees this as revenge for EU sanctions.

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TikTok Accused of Allowing Racist, Phobic Content by Social Non-Profits

Ivo Fysic August 30, 2021

China’s favorit American data harvester, TikTok, has largely slid under the radar these past few years as its risen to be one of the major social media players in America alone.

Well, with success comes big targets, and , it would seem, the honeymoon is over for TikTok. Now, the Cancel Culture world is coming for TikTok. Soon, there will be articles talking about TikTok funnels leading to people literally becoming the evil of whatever the worst evils you could ever imagine a people to be.

This should be very amusing to watch, the uneasy dance of the frenemies, DNC America and CCP China, jabbing here and helping there. How TikTok is given protection or not given protection in the DNC controlled media will be another bellweather to determine where the DNC understands its power relevant to the CCP really is.

TikTok Has a Serious Racism Problem According to This Study / Digital Information World

From www.digitalinformationworld.com
2021-08-27 21:00:00

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While social media has provided a lot of benefits to people’s lives, it has also given some truly unsavory characters a platform that they would not have otherwise been able to take advantage of. A good example of this can be seen on TikTok which ended up becoming a bit of a haven for various people that wanted to spew racist rhetoric and created content that propagated more of the same.TikTok pledged to make it so that hate speech and other related forms of content would not be given the same kind of platform that they have had previously, but with all of that having been said and now out of the way it is important to note that things are not really going all that successfully on that particular front. A study by Institute for Strategic Dialogue looked at over a thousand TikTok videos, and the researchers noted that a third of them contained content that promoted white supremacy or some other kind of racist and hate filled ideology that the world would most definitely be…

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City Council Wants to Declare “Health Misinformation a Public Health Crisis”

Paul Collier August 30, 2021

A San Diego School Board is attempting to create social media monitoring power for a city council to assure that all posts of their citizens are not health information. They are even attempting to declara a ‘health misinformation a public health crisis,’ hoping to get more draconian emergency powers to assure that only one narrative is allowed to exist in the ‘public square.’

Liberal-dominated San Diego County Board floats COVID declaration conservative critics say impedes free speech

From www.foxnews.com
2021-08-29 01:45:02

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San Diego’s Democrat-controlled county board of supervisors will consider an agenda item Wednesday that would declare “health misinformation a public health crisis” and enact measures to try to “combat” posts that counter the county’s official positions on the coronavirus.

A summary of the proposal claims that “health misinformation now presents a greater threat to public health than a variant of COVID-19.”

“In response, the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Diego recognizes the vaccine hesitancy, that stands in the way of the County moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, is being fueled by the spread of health misinformation and commits to developing strategies to actively combat health misinformation.”

SAN DIEGO STUDENTS TOLD TO MASK UP OUTDOORS AT SCHOOL AND WHILE WATING AT BUS STOPS

Residents say they’re concerned that giving the country the right to determine what counts as “information” and “misinformation” could infringe on their rights to free speech.

Jim Desmond, a…

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Even Mother Jones Admits it, No One is Buying Their Faux Voter Rights Narrative

Ivo Fysic August 30, 2021

Voting Rights Marches Draw Crowds, But They’re Losing the War – Mother Jones

From www.motherjones.com
2021-08-28 20:27:22
Tim Murphy
Excerpt:

On Saturday, the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, thousands of supporters of voting rights held major marches on Saturday in Atlanta, DC, Phoenix, and dozens of other locations across the country. On the National Mall, King’s son, Martin Luther King III, was among the marchers advocating for the Senate to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which advanced through the House on Tuesday:

John Lewis’s work is still unfinished and my father’s dream is still unrealized, and so today we march for the John Lewis #VRAA and the #ForThePeopleAct. #VotingRightsMarch pic.twitter.com/cHcEpCfZDn

— Martin Luther King III (@OfficialMLK3) August 28, 2021

It was an impressive showing, and a demonstration of…

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Taliban and Haqqani Network Not Actually “Separate Entities”

Paul Collier August 30, 2021

Taliban and Haqqani Network have close relationship despite State Department claiming otherwise

From www.washingtonexaminer.com
2021-08-28 00:56:07
Jerry Dunleavy
Excerpt:

The Taliban and the Haqqani Network are “separate entities,” the State Department insisted on Friday, arguing the United States providing information with the former did not mean it was doing the same with the latter.

Despite State’s denials there are strong links between the groups, Haqqanis even help fill the Taliban’s leadership ranks.

Ned Price, the State Department’s spokesman, was asked if U.S. coordination on security with the Taliban extended to the Haqqani Network, and he replied, “No, it does not. The Taliban and the Haqqani Network are separate entities.”

He went on to argue the U.S. had “developed and implemented effective tactics to be in a position to facilitate the safe passage of individuals to the Kabul airport” and that “the idea that we are providing names or personally identifiable information to the Taliban in a way that exposes anyone to additional risk — that is simply wrong.”

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Tensions High After Venezuelan Troops Violate Columbia’s Borders

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

Colombia denounces border violation by Venezuelan military, after meeting between troops from both countries, and Caracas responds

From marketresearchtelecast.com
2021-08-30 03:14:23

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Colombia denounced this Sunday a border violation by the Venezuelan military who boarded a boat that remained on its shore in front of a bordering river, in an action that President Iván Duque described as “provocation” by Caracas.

The events were recorded on August 24 on the Negro River, which delimits the department of Guainía in Colombia with the Amazonas state of Venezuela.

In a release, the Colombian Foreign Ministry indicated that “two armed Venezuelan soldiers arbitrarily occupied a Colombian civilian vessel named ‘El Guainiano’, with Colombian citizens on board and that it was moored to the Colombian bank of the Negro river.”

The Foreign Ministry assured that the timely intervention of the Colombian Navy prevented “outrages against national citizens and the loss of the vessel and merchandise, as has already occurred in the past in similar events.”

The Colombian government assured that there was a violation of the right to free navigation and of…

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Chinese Imprison Two Tibetans for Speaking Tibetan

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

Two Tibetans detained for protesting against use of Chinese language | Indiablooms

From www.indiablooms.com
2021-08-30 13:14:19

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Police in China’s Qinghai province have arrested two Tibetan youth for allegedly opposing the use of the Chinese language as the only medium of instruction in Tibetan schools, media reports said.

Identified as Gyuldrak and Yangrik, the two 19-year-old residents of Darlag county in Qinghai’s Golog (in Chinese, Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture were taken into custody on Tuesday by Chinese police, a Tibetan living in the region told Radio Free Asia.

The two Middle School students are believed to have drawn police attention by speaking on the WeChat social media platform against a Chinese policy mandating, beginning in September, that all classes in local schools be taught only in Chinese, reports RFA.

Tibetan parents are being instructed to pick up the new Chinese-language textbooks in place of the older Tibetan texts when they go for COVID-19 testing, RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The new language policy has already earned criticisms from…

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UK Prepares to Pull Out of Kabul for Good

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

UK Armed Forces enter final stages of evacuation in Kabul

From www.army-technology.com
2021-08-30 14:36:12
Himaja
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced that British Armed Forces have reached the final evacuation stages at Hamid Karzai Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, Afghanistan.

As per the UK’s planned schedule, processing facilities inside the Baron Hotel in Kabul have been closed now.

This will allow the UK Armed Forces to focus on evacuating the British nationals and others who are awaiting departure at the airport.

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Another US School District Bans Homeschoolers from Sports

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

It appears that another school district in America has decided that it just doesn’t want to let children that are homeschooled play sports with with the schools even though the parents pay school taxes to the school. That school district is the Middle Township School District in New jersey, which recently ruled that homeschool children can no longer participate in sports with the schools in the district.

Our view: Biased Middle Township district bans homeschool kids from sports | Latest Headlines

From pressofatlanticcity.com
2021-08-26 11:30:00

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Left to their own devices, kids will engage in athletic games that are as much fun as they are rewarding. Better still is when parents and school officials help them organize to experience team dynamics and develop their skills.

But what can be said about adults who won’t let some kids play, who reject their presence and participation because they’re the wrong kind of kids?

For a dwindling number of school officials, the wrong kind is homeschooled children.

Middle Township recently showed that this needless, damaging prejudice continues in some places. It, like Buena Regional High School, prohibits homeschooled students from district athletics under any circumstances. Many districts sensibly give homeschoolers a path to play sports, including Ocean City, Lower Township, Vineland and Pleasantville. Across America, 20 states recognize the right of homeschoolers to access public sports programs, which like the schools they don’t attend, are funded by their families’ tax dollars.

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Capitol Police Sue Trump for Allegedly Trying to Stage a Coup

Parker Davis August 30, 2021

Seven U.S. Capitol Officers have brought suit against pretty much anyone and everyone that they imagine are associated with Donald Trump, including Donald Trump. The suit alleges that Donald Trump was working with white supremacists to overthrow the government and stop the election certification. This is the heart and soul of the suit and, while that information is in most of the articles you will see covering this suit, it’s not, on the main, the lead-in these outelts are using right now.

“worked with white supremacists, violent extremist groups, and campaign supporters to violate the Ku Klux Klan Act, and commit acts of domestic terrorism in an unlawful effort to stay in power.”

A few weeks after the election, the lawsuit says, a key organizer of the Stop the Steal movement that promoted false claims of election fraud, Ali Alexander, appeared at rally outside the State Capitol in Georgia with the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio. “We’re going to stop the steal,” the suit quotes Mr. Alexander as saying. “But first we’re going to stop the certification.”

U.S. Capitol Police Officers who were working during the storming of Capitol Hill on January 6 sued former President Donald Trump, his allies and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Thursday. The officers allege the defendants intentionally sent a mob of violent demonstrators to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden as then-president-elect.

From americanmilitarynews.com

The Associated Press reported that the suit claims Trump “worked with white supremacists, violent extremist groups, and campaign supporters to violate the Ku Klux Klan Act, and commit acts of domestic terrorism in an unlawful effort to stay in power.”

Here are some of the main headlines covering this lawsuit:

7 Capitol cops sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 Capitol storming

From americanmilitarynews.com
2021-08-26 19:00:00

Excerpt:

U.S. Capitol Police Officers who were working during the storming of Capitol Hill on January 6 sued former President Donald Trump, his allies and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Thursday. The officers allege the defendants intentionally sent a mob of violent demonstrators to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden as then-president-elect.

The Associated Press reported that the suit claims Trump “worked with white supremacists, violent extremist groups, and campaign supporters to violate the Ku Klux Klan Act, and commit acts of domestic terrorism in an unlawful effort to stay in power.”

The suit was filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of seven officers by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and names Trump, the Trump campaign, Roger Stone and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

The lawsuit includes detailed descriptions of the events on January 6, as well as the injuries the officers sustained while working at the Capitol….

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Capitol Cops Sue Trump, Roger Stone, Proud Boys in Sweeping Jan. 6 Civil Suit

From www.thedailybeast.com
2021-08-26 17:49:01

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A group of Capitol Police officers have sued former President Donald Trump and some of his associates in a sweeping civil suit that alleges he worked together with far-right activists and extremists to promote the election lies that underpinned the Jan. 6 insurrection. Associates like Roger Stone Jr. and groups like the Proud Boys are among the defendants. “This is probably the most comprehensive account of Jan. 6 in terms of civil cases,” said Edward Casper, the lawyer leading the suit, which alleges that Trump and the other defendants violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by interfering with Congress’ constitutional duties.

Read it at The New York Times

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Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump and Allies Over Election Lies and Jan. 6

From www.nytimes.com
2021-08-26 15:00:09

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A few weeks after the election, the lawsuit says, a key organizer of the Stop the Steal movement that promoted false claims of election fraud, Ali Alexander, appeared at rally outside the State Capitol in Georgia with the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio. “We’re going to stop the steal,” the suit quotes Mr. Alexander as saying. “But first we’re going to stop the certification.”

Mr. Alexander’s lawyer, Baron Coleman, has repeatedly said his client is not under investigation in connection with the riot. Mr. Tarrio was not in Washington on Jan. 6 but was sentenced this week to five months in prison for possessing illegal weapons and burning a Black Lives Matter flag stolen from a historic Black church in Washington after a separate pro-Trump rally in December that also descended into violence.

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Capitol Police Officer Said He Shot Ashli Babbitt as ‘Last Resort’

From www.wsj.com
2021-08-27 00:24:00

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WASHINGTON—The police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said he opened fire as a “last resort” as a crowd of rioters smashed through a door of the Speaker’s Lobby and approached the lawmakers he said he was trying to protect.

“I tried to wait as long as I could,” Lt. Michael Byrd told “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt, revealing his face and identity on national television despite what he said has been a flood of death threats since the shooting.

“I hoped and prayed no one tried to enter through those doors. But their failure to comply required me to take the appropriate action to save the lives of members of Congress and myself and my fellow officers,” NBC quoted Lt. Byrd as telling Mr. Holt.

Those and other comments from Lt. Byrd weren’t included in the brief televised segment of the interview that aired Thursday night but were posted on the network’s website.

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