It’s not the science that is settled. What appears to be ‘settled is the impulse to silence anyone who asks ‘why’? In the Soviet Union it was forbidden to dispute the wisdom of the “party line.” That’s because Marxian communism was viewed as the scientifically inevitable progression of mankind. For Marx and Lenin, the “science was settled.” Therefore anyone speaking out against “the... 

A disturbing video was released by Scotland Yard, showing an unruly passenger attacking and leaving unconscious an NHS test-and-trace worker after an argument over wearing the mandatory face mask erupted on a bus in north London. Metropolitan Police have asked the public for information on the suspect who violently punched the 63-year-old victim – who happened to work for the NHS – on August 23,... 

According to new evidence, George Floyd did not die of knee on his neck asphyxiation, he died because he was suffering of multiple diseases. Floyd was reported to have a suffered from hypertensive heart disease and arteriosclerosis and hypertension. And lastly, Floyd was allegedly positive for COVID-19 at the time of his death. Nelson added that the Minneapolis Police Department had approved training... 

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) this week released a report that shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the latest update, the CDC pointed out that only 6% of deaths related to COVID-19 listed COVID-19 as the only cause of death. The vast majority of patients that were listed as COVID-19... 

Legal groups have warned against Victoria’s plan to extend its state of emergency by 12 months, arguing that to comply with human rights obligations parliament should favour the “most limited possible option” when granting extraordinary powers. Victorian law currently allows the government to declare a state of emergency for four weeks at a time and to extend that declaration for up to six months. The... 

The Covid-19 pandemic may lead to a calamity of epic scale, with millions facing starvation worldwide, the head of the UN’s hunger-fighting body has warned. “All the data we have, including WFP forecast that the number of people experiencing malnutrition will grow by 80 percent by the end of the year, … points to a real disaster,” David Beasley, Executive Director of the UN World Food Program... 

“When I first arrived in LA 40 years ago, the town smelled of orange blossoms. Now the streets stink of urine.” Veteran publicist Ed Lozzi says that the middle class and wealthy are fleeing Los Angeles, noting that whereas the town once smelled of orange blossoms, it now smells of urine. Lozzi noted that coronavirus was just the final blow to a city already reeling as a result of its progressive... 

In a troubling incident captured on video, a woman in Melbourne faced a violent arrest by a male police officer after being found not wearing a face mask, a breach of public health orders. The footage, filmed by an onlooker, revealed a confrontation that escalated when the officer appeared to place his hands around the woman’s neck. The incident unfolded on Wellington Street, Collingwood, during... 

A multicampus church has filed a complaint in federal court against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 executive order that it believes effectively bans church members from holding Bible studies and other small group meetings in their homes. The new lawsuit was filed last Saturday on behalf of the Pasadena-based Harvest Rock Church, which has campuses throughout the state, and Harvest International... 

The wealth of the top 1% has soared during lockdown, but the booming fortunes of tech billionaires like Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos reveal deep faultlines in society. The coronavirus pandemic has directly cost some 500,000 lives. But the damage it has wreaked on the world economy will cost many more. In America, the unemployment rate in April was 14.7%, up from just... 

In a violent incident, residents of a tower block in Göttingen, Germany, clashed with police in an attempt to escape quarantine imposed due to a new spike in coronavirus cases. The lockdown was initiated after two people in the complex tested positive, with 120 cases confirmed by Friday. The clashes involved 200 residents trying to breach a metal barrier keeping 700 people in quarantine. Eight police... 

Following the brief lull in illegal migration into Europe that was seen in March and April as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the number of migrants illegally entering Europe has risen dramatically once again. In the month of May, authorities recorded some 4,300 illegal border crossings on Europe’s main migration routes, nearly three times as many as were recorded in the previous month,... 

Manfred Weber, the Leader of the European People’s Party (EPP), discussed the European Union’s plan to blackmail member states that don’t toe the bloc’s line on issues like migration, such as Hungary and Poland. This will be done by making their share of the EU’s budget contingent on how well they meet the bloc’s vague “rule of law” standards, Weber says, especially now that many countries... 

Over the past year, I’ve written extensively about the initially creeping — and then sweeping — censorship occurring online. Initially, the censorship vortex was on vaccines. Social media platforms and Google all started suppressing and then outright banning content raising questions about vaccine safety. I warned everyone that this would eventually spread to other topics that might threaten... 

Thousands of Africans took to the streets of Paris over the weekend to call for the regularization of illegal migrants in France. The demonstration, despite being banned by the Paris police prefecture to protect against the further spread of the Chinese coronavirus, went ahead anyway, with several thousand people showing up to march in the streets, Valeurs Actuelles reports. In the region of Île-de-France,...