Streatham terror attacker Sudesh Amman: Concern over ‘extremist’ knifeman before release from prison

A terrorist who stabbed two people in Streatham had been released from prison just days before the attack despite concerns he “retained extremist views”, an inquest has heard.

Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by surveillance officers after the attack in Streatham High Road, south London, on 2 February 2020.

His two victims, a man and a woman, survived their injuries.

Police had asked the prison governor not to release Amman, an inquest heard.

Coroner Mr Justice Hilliard said Amman was arrested in May 2018 on suspicion of terror offences and was later jailed for 40 months.

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The truth is up there: how the Pentagon gave hope to Britain’s UFO spotters

People arrive at the Golden Lion in Todmorden and, rather than heading for the bar, walk upstairs to the attic room — haunted, I’m warned — and sit in a circle. This is not a seance: in the middle of the room stands Oscar, the group’s mascot, an 18in silver alien figure with black oval eyes. This is a meeting, convened by Colin Lyall, 63, secretary of the local UFO club, to discuss extraordinary events. After seven decades of discrediting sightings, the US military has recently confirmed that UFOs are a subject of concern. Its report did not find proof of alien visits to Earth but — this is the important bit for believers — nor did it rule them out.

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Academics of Chinese origin warn new national security screening for research funding could lead to ‘racial profiling’

Two organizations representing academics of Chinese origin in Canada are warning that new mandatory national security assessments for federal funding of university research could lead to “racial profiling Chinese researchers as foreign agents.”

The Canadian Academy of Chinese Professors and the Canadian Association of Chinese Professors recently released a statement, addressed to administrators at this country’s universities, saying they strongly oppose the new risk assessment process laid out in national security guidelines for research partnerships unveiled by Ottawa last month.

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How Canadian tourism sustains Cuba’s army and one-party state

Standing on a street corner in Montreal, Reinaldo Rodriguez has a message for Canadians.

“Canadian tourists are feeding the Cuban regime,” he told CBC News.

Rodriguez was part of a wave of protests that have swept Canada’s 30,000-strong Cuban community since unrest spread across the island on July 11.

“The people don’t see (the money),” he said. “The same as happens with the money the government makes from its doctors who work overseas. The Cuban hospitals are unsanitary, people don’t have medicines.”

Is the NDP still making their annual pilgrimage to the Cuban slave state? The Socialist Caucus used to send a crew every year.

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Rantz: 7-year-old’s lemonade stand shuttered while nearby encampment remains

A park ranger shut down a 7-year-old girl’s lemonade stand in Everett. Yet, the city refuses to clear the nearby homeless encampments that neighbors have been complaining about.

It’s become a tradition for Elsa LaMaine to operate her lemonade stand at Rucker Hill Park. She even gives a portion of her profits to local nonprofit Everett Gospel Mission. So it was disappointing when a ranger came by to shutter her business and stomp on her entrepreneurial spirit.

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CDC: 11,940 DEAD 618,648 Injuries and 1,175 Unborn Babies DEAD Following COVID-19 Shots

According to the most recent stats released by the CDC this past Friday, their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) now has recorded twice as many deaths following the non-FDA approved experimental COVID-19 shots during the past 8 months, than deaths recorded following ALL FDA approved vaccines for the past 30 years.

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Tokyo Olympics: That guy who calls himself Laurel Hubbard out of women’s weightlifting after failing to register successful lift

Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard made Olympic history but failed to record a successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting.

She became the first openly transgender athlete to compete at a Games in a different gender category to the one in which they were born.

But after a failed attempt to lift 120kg and two failed efforts at 125kg in the snatch, her competition ended.

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It’s the Liberalism, Stupid

In this telling, the history of the past 30 or so years in America goes something like this: Once upon a time, back in the halcyon days of the 1990s, America was great, because Americans all observed a shared creed called liberalism. This relaxed civil religion nurtured our individual liberties and kept us honest, hardworking, and good. It gave us civil rights and gay marriage, Tom Hanks and Sesame Street, bipartisanship and Teach for America. And it would have bloomed eternal if the barbarians hadn’t shown up one day to sack our glittering Rome.

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Team Tranada Beats Purple Haired Harpy Squad

Canadian women’s soccer team beats U.S., will play for gold

It took nine years, but Canada got its revenge on the United States at the Olympics.

Jessie Fleming scored from the penalty spot to give Canada a 1-0 win against the United States in the semifinal of the Tokyo Olympics at the Ibaraki Kashima Stadium on Monday.

Suiting up for Team Tranada – Quinn the non-binary whatever.

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Canadian priest claims abuse of indigenous children is ‘fake news’

A Canadian priest has been banned by the Manitoba archdiocese from “publicly teaching” after making outrageous claims during sermons, saying that the well-documented abuse of children at residential schools is “fake news” and survivors are only saying they were abused to get money.

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