VILE: German Carnival Parade Features Dead Trump Float

A carnival in Duesseldorf, Germany, featured a float of former President Donald Trump hog-tied over a fire.

The fire had the words “Make America Great Again” painted across it.

A photo of the vile exhibit was sent to Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans Club.

“This was being paraded around 3 days ago through Duesseldorf, Germany as part of the official carnival festivites. Vile and nauseating. Sent to me from a friend there,” Wax tweeted. “Why do we bother defending these EuroTrash countries and picking up the NATO bill?”

The Rose Monday parade also took jabs at Russian President Vladimir Putin and the fight against coronavirus.

Normally, the streets would be packed for the festivities, but was largely empty this year due to the pandemic.

“One of Germany’s first superspreader events stemmed from a Carnival celebration in a town west of Cologne in February 2020, where many people came into contact with an infected man. This year authorities are taking no chances, with public consumption of alcohol banned in some places,” the Star Advertiser reports.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/vile-german-carnival-parade-features-dead-trump-float/

NATO to Increase Troops in Iraq From 500 to 4,000 Amid Daesh Resurgence, (((Stoltenberg))) Says

In January 2020, the Iraqi Parliament voted to demand that US forces leave the country. Instead, Washington threatened to freeze the country’s bank account at the US Federal Reserve, where billions of dollars in oil wealth are stored.

The head of the North Atlantic alliance announced on Thursday that the number of troops from NATO countries in Iraq would increase eightfold, from 500 to 4,000, ostensibly in an attempt to keep a lid on Daesh*.

“Training activities will now include more Iraqi security institutions, and areas beyond Baghdad,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a Thursday press conference, noting the increase was “to support the Iraqi forces as they fight terrorism and ensure that ISIS does not return.”

“Our presence is conditions-based, and increases in troop numbers will be incremental,” he said, adding, “Our mission is at the request of the Iraqi government. It is carried out with full respect for Iraq’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. I spoke with Prime Minister al-Kadhimi this week and assured him that everything will be done in full consultation with the Iraqi authorities.”

It’s unclear how Stoltenberg’s statement affects the 2,500 US troops already stationed in Iraq.

A joint effort that included Iraq, Iran, and the US pushed Daesh out of Iraq in 2017. Its caliphate crumbled the following year in eastern Syria until the terrorist group controlled no more territory, becoming a mobile guerrilla force. However, the militia remains able to mount devastating attacks, such as the bombing of a Baghdad market last month that killed 32 people and injured more than 100.

In fact, Daesh has suffered serious losses in 2021, including the group’s deputy leader and supposed “governor of Iraq,” and the Washington Post reported recently that Iraqi forces had arrested 350 accused Daesh fighters in the past six months.

However, a rocket attack on a military base used by US forces in the northern city of Erbil on Monday killed at least 10 people, including a US military contractor and a US soldier. A Shiite militia named “Saraya Awliya al-Dam” claimed responsibility for the attack, but Washington has blamed Iran; Tehran has denied responsibility.

US forces have long been considered unwelcome in Iraq by a larger sector of the population, but after a US drone assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani outside Baghdad in January 2020, the Iraqi Parliament passed a resolution demanding that all US forces withdraw from the country - a suggestion that was mocked by then-US President Donald Trump.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202102181082119099-nato-to-increase-troops-in-iraq-from-500-to-4000-amid-daesh-resurgence—stoltenberg/

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Dirty habits of Australian politicians revealed by insider

The dirty, “creepy” and illegal conduct of senior figures in Canberra has been revealed by an insider who says everyone knows the worst offenders.

A current serving Senator has a nickname in Parliament House which speaks to the number of women he ogles, another Senator has actively tried to pick off any LGBTIQ+ candidates, and a third would stare at my colleague’s breasts in every single meeting.

While harassment in one party is currently front of mind, each of the above examples were from different parties – Liberal, Labor and Crossbench.

In all of those situations, you feel powerless to do anything about it.

With the creepy Senator who would eye off my female colleague, we made sure she was never alone during meetings.

For the Senator who has spent years digging dirt on LGBTI members of her party, a promotion was in order, so who do you report the actions to? Will they care if you do?

For the Senator whose nickname refers to his regular actions towards women, who do you report that to? The party will try to cover it up, evidence is scant and hard to come by, and the victim never believed.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/dirty-habits-of-australian-government-senators-revealed/news-story/0d7f5adb767fdecc4b1e956a73a28af9

Fox News’ Parent Company Strikes Lucrative Deal With China-Adjacent Google To Profit Off Australia’s Big Tech Ban

NewsCorp strikes a 3-year deal to profit off Internet behemoth that facilitates censorship in China

NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News, has struck a wide-ranging three-year deal with internet giant Google to provide news content from several of its heavyweight news organizations.

The announcement indicated that NewsCorp would provide content from its premium content providers, including the US entities The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, as well as the Times and the Sun in the UK, and The Australian and Sky News down under.

The deal between NewsCorp and Google covers both audio and video products. News Corp will also get a share of ad revenue generated by Google’s market dominating AdSense.

The move suggests that the parent company to Fox News joined with Google to prematurely submit to increasing pressure from Australian lawmakers who believe Big Tech giants like Facebook and Google are profiting off the journalistic work of outside news organizations without paying for the content that draws users.

The News Corp-Google content partnership comes on the heels of Australian government introducing legislation that introduces a framework for Australian news outlets to enter binding negotiations with organizations like Google, Twitter, and Facebook. In response to the legislation from Australian, Facebook banned Australians from reading news on their platform.

The News Media Bargaining Code, introduced in July, gives eligible news outlets and the social media giants a three-month period to negotiate. If negotiations stall, the legislation mandates the matter be taken to an independent arbitrator.

The arbitrator – just as in binding arbitration in American baseball – would have the authority to impose an agreement, meaning both parties would submit their best offers, and one will be selected by the independent arbitrator.

https://nationalfile.com/fox-news-parent-company-strikes-lucrative-deal-with-china-adjacent-google-to-profit-off-australias-big-tech-ban/

SUSPICIOUS: Late Night VA Ballot Drop Accounts for 73% Of All Biden Votes In Fairfax County

Months after the 2020 US election, Americans continue to learn about the questionable nature of the vote tabulation in their states.

In Virginia on election day of last year, 300,000 Biden votes were counted in a series of five suspicious late-night ballot drops. One of those dumps accounted for 73% of all Biden votes in that Fairfax County.

As Americans reel from the unanswered questions regarding the credible accusations of widespread voter fraud that many believe led to the theft of the 2020 US election, as well as the first month of Joe Biden’s regime in the White House, Virginians have more questions than answers about what occurred, in the dead of night, on election day in their state.

The Gateway Pundit has uncovered a pattern in Virginia, among other states, which they have named the “Drop and Roll.” Fairfax County, Virginia was one of the counties that received one of the five suspicious 300,000 vote late-night ballot drops, according to the report.

“After some more work, we have located the Congressional Districts that include Fairfax County in their results. This is where more than 300,000 votes were recorded for Biden late that night. There were actually 5 entries – in and out and in and out and in – netting to more than 308,000 votes for Biden and only 79,000 votes for President Trump – an 80/20 ratio.”

Amid countless other examples of evidence of widespread mass voter fraud in the 2020 US election, Americans are questioning where these late-night votes came from, and why there haven’t been calls for a forensic review of the ballots.

https://nationalfile.com/suspicious-late-night-va-ballot-drop-accounts-for-73-of-all-biden-votes-in-fairfax-county/

Small Brokers Saw Massive Windfall From Robinhood's GameStop SNAFU

The lockdown in trading in volatile names over at Robinhood - i.e. the big reason for the outrage that spurred today's House hearing - has also had another effect: it has been a massive windfall for small brokerages.

Frustrated Robinhood customers wound up seeking out offerings from some of the smaller firms in the brokerage industry, steering away from the top 25 largest broker dealers in the U.S. by customers and/or assets, following the chaos.

In the 3 days after Robinhood limited trading of heavily shorted stocks, Acorns Advisers gained 100,000 new customers and M1 Finance LLC was adding 20,000 customers a day at one point, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The Acorns numbers dwarf its previous rate of accounts added, which stood at 258,000 for the entire month of January. M1's rate of adding new customers was triple that of its average.

M1 said it saw about $150 million in assets transferred from other exchanges. This was due to "people fleeing Robinhood," the company's CEO said. “But we’re still small relative to

the other places.”

M1 now has over 500,000 accounts. Similarly, Public Holdings Inc.'s app clients were up 20x over the same period of time, the report notes. Public's app focuses more on financial literacy, while the M1 app focuses on long-term investing.

One customer who left Robinhood for Public's app was 51 year old Navy veteran Chris Beaty, who said he left because Robinhood was "really, really corporate" and that it was a "morality issue". He was trying to buy stock in AMC in late January when Robinhood restricted trade, and had previously used the app to "to trade stocks like Fulgent Genetics Inc., Coty Inc. and the digital cryptocurrency Dogecoin," according to Bloomberg.

“Next to Robinhood, they seemed to have the next best app and platform,” he said of his move to Public.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/small-brokers-saw-massive-windfall-robinhoods-gamestop-snafu

Bristol Man Charged with Attempting to Sex Traffic Minor, Distributing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/bristol-man-charged-attempting-sex-traffic-minor-distributing-child-pornography

Planned Parenthood sues as South Carolina gov’t signs fetal heartbeat bill into law

South Carolina joins Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, and North Dakota in enacting laws to limit abortions as early as a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

With an impending signature from Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, South Carolina becomes the latest state to ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, though the new law already faces a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood.

The bill requires anyone committing an abortion to first perform an ultrasound to test for a fetal heartbeat. If one is found, aborting the baby anyway would be a felony for which an abortionist could lose his medical license. It contains exceptions for rape, incest, medical threat to the mother, or fetal anomalies deemed “incompatible with life.”

The state Senate passed the bill 30-13 and the House 79-35, and McMaster is scheduled to sign it into law today in a ceremony at the state house:

The House passing the Heartbeat Bill is a major step forward in the pro-life movement here in South Carolina. Join me today at 12:30 p.m. on the second floor lobby of the South Carolina State House as I sign this legislation into law!

Read more: https://t.co/hTCtby1VpL pic.twitter.com/SAU8BZl247

— Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) February 18, 2021

Planned Parenthood quickly moved to file a lawsuit against the law, calling it “in flagrant violation of nearly five decades of settled Supreme Court precedent.”

Heartbeat laws, which ban abortion well before the Supreme Court’s “fetal viability” threshold, are generally not expected to ban abortion in the near term, but instead are enacted in hopes of provoking a legal battle that would hopefully reach the nation’s highest court and instigate a review of Roe v. Wade, thereby potentially overturning decades of pro-abortion legal precedent and freeing the states to set their own abortion laws.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-sues-as-south-carolina-gov-signs-fetal-heartbeat-bill-into-law?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

Arbiter of truth: Facebook plans to flag and debunk misinformation about climate change

CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously said social media companies shouldn't be the 'arbiter of truth'

After debunking misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election results, Facebook will now be the arbiter of truth about climate change. The social network will begin flagging and debunking climate change myths.

Facebook released a statement Thursday stating that the social media platform will "add informational labels to some posts on climate," and direct users to the Facebook Climate Science Information Center, a resource that provides "science-based news, approachable information and actionable resources from the world's leading climate change organizations."

Previously, Facebook rolled out its Voting Information Center in August and the Coronavirus Information Center in March to combat news the company deemed to be misinformation.

"To debunk the myths with current and specific facts, we've brought in climate communication experts from the George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the University of Cambridge," Facebook said.

"The spread of damaging falsehoods endangers the level of international cooperation required to prevent catastrophic global warming," said Sander van der Linden of the University of Cambridge. "Facebook is in a unique position to counter the circulation of online misinformation, and the new climate 'mythbusting' section is an important step toward debunking dangerous falsehoods."

"Developing rebuttals based on the best-practices from communication research is an important step toward countering online misinformation," said Dr. John Cook of George Mason University.

Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication said, "Misinformation about climate change long predates the internet, but has been greatly amplified in our new digital world. This new mythbusting section of the Facebook Climate Science Information Center can help raise public climate change awareness and understanding worldwide."

In May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared that privately owned digital platforms should not act as the "arbiter of truth." The pro-free speech comment was made after Twitter fact-checked a tweet by then-President Donald Trump.

"We have a different policy than, I think, Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told the "Daily Briefing" host Dana Perino. "I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online. Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that."

The climate change fact-checking will begin in the U.K. and will expand into other countries soon. The Facebook Climate Science Information Center is currently available in 16 countries.

Facebook is banned in China, so the Climate Science Information Center will not be available to the world's biggest polluter. China is responsible for nearly a third of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions – over 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions, almost double that of the United States, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/facebook-climate-change-fact-check-misinformation

Did Joe Biden 'Restart Funding' to Shady Wuhan Lab?

Twitter is abuzz with rage this afternoon at reports that President Joe Biden has restarted funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology — the lab in China that still may be a suspect in the origin of the global COVID pandemic.

Upon a closer inspection of the reporting by the Daily Caller, it appears this was a process decision, not a political one. Additionally, only one grant to the Wuhan lab has been halted.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is authorized to receive taxpayer funding for animal research until January 2024, the National Institute of Health told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The WIV is at the center of widespread speculation that COVID-19 could have entered the human population in China due to an accidental lab leak. Researchers at the lab were studying bat-based coronaviruses prior to the outbreak, a project partially backed by $600,000 in U.S. taxpayer funds routed to the lab through the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance.

EcoHealth Alliance’s work researching bat-based coronaviruses in China was funded by a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2014, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The grant was terminated by the National Institutes of Health in April amid criticism over EcoHealth Alliance’s relationship with the WIV. The NIH said in a letter the nonprofit’s work in China did not align with “program goals and agency priorities.”

The NIH further explained to the Daily Caller that while the EcoHealth Alliance “sub-grant was suspended,” the broader NIH grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is still funded.

However, the WIV still has an active Foreign Assurance on file with the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, which enables it to continue receiving taxpayer funds to engage in animal research, according to the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.

A NIH spokeswoman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the WIV’s Foreign Assurance was approved on Jan. 9, 2019, and is currently set to expire on Jan. 31, 2024.

So the Twitter outrage over this “story” is completely unfounded and hysterical. Joe Biden wouldn’t be inaugurated until over two years after that funding approval had already happened.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/brucecarroll/2021/02/18/no-joe-biden-didnt-restart-funding-to-shady-wuhan-lab-n1426603

New York lawmaker recounts threatening phone call from Cuomo, says gov asked 'if I were an honorable man'

Democrat Ron Kim alleges governor covered up nursing home death data to aid donors

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told one of his most prominent Democratic critics that he could "pretty much ruin and finish my career and my livelihood," Assemblyman Ron Kim told "The Story" Thursday in an exclusive interview.

Kim, who has heavily criticized the governor over his administration's decision to withhold data on COVID deaths in nursing homes from lawmakers, told host Martha MacCallum that Cuomo began the call by "asking me if I were an honorable man."

"He continued to yell and let me know that I haven't seen his wrath and his anger …" recounted Kim, who added that Cuomo told him that he "he can go out tomorrow and start telling the world about how bad of a person I am and pretty much ruin and finish my career and my livelihood.

"And he also said, you know, he's been biting his tongue for months about me even before all this happened," Kim contined.

The Queens representative posited that the call was "part of a ploy in retrospect … to pressure me and scare me into issuing a statement that night. He specifically said, 'Do this tonight, not tomorrow,' which is to lie about what I heard in the meeting. He actually asked me and belittled me, and said 'Are you a lawyer?' And I said, 'I'm not.'"

The meeting to which Kim referred was a conference call with Democratic lawmakers earlier this month. On the call, the New York Post reported, top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa said the administration withheld the true nursing home death toll from lawmakers because officials "froze" when confronted by the prospect of a federal investigation into the matter.

Kim went on to accuse the Cuomo administration of allowing "its top donors to dictate policies, writing business-friendly policies like legal immunity for nursing homes … and he orders, the state government to cover up life and death information and took away our ability, the lawmakers, our ability to legislate and change the outcome of this pandemic."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-kim-recounts-andrew-cuomo-threatening-call

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