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Legal Battle Brews over LGBT Rainbow Street Crossing in Lithuania

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The police in Vilnius, Lithuania, have insisted a rainbow street crossing in the city should be repainted to conform with existing street regulations despite LGBT protestations to the contrary.

The city council, which supports the Pylimo Street rainbow, is prepared for a court battle with police and legal proceedings are set to get underway in November, according to a spokesman for the regional court, who said that all required supporting documentation had been submitted.

Police argue that the intentions behind the rainbow crossing does not justify running roughshod over Lithuanian laws and regulations, which are established according to a code to guarantee uniformity as well as civilian safety.

“Pedestrian crossings on streets must be installed in accordance with the rules on pedestrian crossings on the roads and streets, approved by the Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania in 2020,” said Julija Samorokovskaja, head of communications at Vilnius County Chief Police Commissariat (VCCPC).

Lithuanian road law stipulates the type of paint and other materials to be used on street markings as well as exact dimensions of the stripes and the distances between them, she noted.

People with flags and banners walking along Liberty Avenue (Laisves Aleja) during Pride March on September 4, 2021 in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)

The Pylimo Street crossing was first painted in rainbow colors in 2018 as a project of the National LGBT Rights Organization and the Vilnius city council said the artwork sends an important message and therefore deserves an exception to the law.

The crossing “reflects Vilnius’ positioning as a tolerant city and the colorful element does not hinder or pose any threat,” said Paulius Vaitekenas, a city council member.

Vaitekenas added that similar rainbow symbols are common on streets across Europe and elsewhere.

Last June, four individuals used black spray-paint to cover up the rainbow at the beginning of “Pride month,” after which police say two people had been fined over the vandalism.

Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, a liberal MP, shared a video of the incident, declaring that the perpetrators “are simply terrorists.”

In May, Lithuanian pro-family group organized a “Great Family Defense March” in Vilnius, which drew some ten thousand participants. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda prepared a pre-recorded speech to personally show his support for the demonstrators.

People take part in the protest campaign “The Great Family Defence March” protesting against laws that threaten the institution of a traditional family at Vingis Park in Vilnius. Thousands rallied in Vilnius on May 15, 2021 against draft legislation allowing civil unions for same-sex couples, a controversial move in predominantly Catholic Lithuania. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty)

A family is the union of a man and a woman, as stated in the Lithuanian constitution, Nausėda noted in his address.

“As a president of the Lithuanian Republic, I will use my powers to make sure it is so,” he said.

The protesters rallied against “genderist propaganda” and the event’s manifesto decried “extremist minorities intent on imposing an unacceptable lifestyle on society and defiling national traditions and values.”

'It's a Nightmare': Climate Extremists Glue Themselves to Roads, Shut Down Central London

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Eco-warriors brought Central London to a standstill on Monday morning, with radicals glueing themselves to the roads around Southwark Bridge and Canary Warf to protest climate change.

Members of Insulate Britain, an Extinction Rebellion splinter group, have once again enraged the public, shutting down traffic in a busy area of the British capital.

At around 8 a.m. during Monday morning rush hour the far-left radicals began blockading roads from Upper Thames Street to Bishopsgate in the Liverpool Street area of London, resulting in at least 51 arrests, the Daily Mail reported.

A City of London Police spokesman said: “Bishopsgate is currently closed at the junction with Wormwood Street due to protest activity. Police are at the scene but please avoid the area if possible as this is causing disruption to traffic.

“Police are also at Southwark Bridge at the junction with Upper Thames Street, which is also closed in both directions, due to protest activity. Please avoid the area if possible.”

Footage shared on social media showed police officers trying to remove them from the scene, however many had glued parts of their bodies to the road in order to prevent swift action from being taken.

The group, which demands that the government fund insulation for state housing by 2025 and “decarbonise” the economy, had mostly focused on shutting down highways prior to Monday morning’s action, which may be seen as an escalation ahead of the upcoming COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland next week.

Over the past few weeks, Insulate Britain has staged motorway protests across the country in an attempt to blackmail the government into succumbing to its climate change demands.

The tactics of the group have not won many admirers among the public, with drivers being seen forcefully confronting the group on multiple occasions.

On Monday, several drivers attempted to clear the protesters by slowly driving their vehicles at the blockade, but police officers were seen defending the so-called protesters by stopping these efforts.

Mohammed, a taxi driver who was stuck behind the eco-blockade, told LBC that it is a “nightmare” for him and other workers just trying to earn a living.

“You can’t argue with them, you can’t fight them. The worst thing is they are destroying people’s lives, they don’t care about anyone else,” he lamented.

The taxi driver also complained about the slow response from the police, claiming it took them “thirty-five minutes to show up,” adding: “they could move a bit faster.

“I don’t blame the officers, it’s frustrating for them as well, there could be an emergency call, there’s a lot of people getting stabbed and murdered, lots of people need help and we have officers here dealing with nonsense,” he said.

An Insulate Britain spokesman, Liam Norton, has previously defended the disruption and harm their actions have caused to the public, by saying that it is similar to damage during the Second World War.

On Monday, Nortan said: “We know that the public is frustrated and annoyed at the disruption we have caused. They should know that one way or another this country will have to stop emitting carbon.

“We can do that now in an orderly, planned way, insulating homes and preventing thousands of deaths from fuel poverty or we can wait until millions have lost their homes and are fighting for water or starving to death.”

Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who has said that the group should be treated like terrorists, has warned that if the government and police fail to stop the group from disrupting society “it’s going to turn quite nasty on the streets,” with people taking justice into their own hands.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Admits She Wants to Create Two Classes of Citizens Based on Vaccination Status

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted she wants to create two classes of citizens based on Chinese coronavirus vaccination status. 

During an interview with the NZ Herald on Friday, a reporter asked Ardern if her goal is to create two classes of citizens with New Zealand’s “traffic light” system, which Ardern unveiled Friday morning. 

“So you’ve basically said, you probably don’t see it like this, but two different classes of people — if you’re vaccinated or unvaccinated. You have all these rights if you are vaccinated —” NZ Herald‘s deputy political editor Derek Cheng asked Ardern. 

“That is what it is, yep,” Ardern replied. 

Under New Zealand’s new “traffic light” system, the government said it will end lockdowns when 90 percent of the eligible population is vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus. Vaccine certificates are expected to be widely used under the new system as well.

“With vaccine certificates at red, orange and green business will be able to continue to open and operate,” Ardern said, according to Newshub.

If certificates have been implemented at marae, places of worship, events, gyms and hospitality venues, “they will be able to operate without limits or restrictions under green or orange. There will be some restrictions under red,” the report states. Venues that opt out of the certificates will be subject to “heavy restrictions.”

The report continued:

Under green level, these restrictions will be

  • Hospitality — up to 100 people, based on 1m physical distancing, seated and separated
  • Gatherings (for example weddings, places of worship, marae) — up to 100 people, based on 1m physical distancing
  • Events (indoor/outdoor) — up to 100 people, based on 1m physical distancing, seated and separated
  • Close contact businesses — face coverings for staff, 1m distancing between customers
  • Gyms — up to 100 people, based on 1m physical distancing

Under orange level, these restrictions will be

  • Hospitality — contactless only
  • Gatherings (for example weddings, places of worship, marae) — up to 50 people, based on 1m distancing
  • Events (indoor/outdoor), gyms and close contact businesses will not be able to operate at all

“If you want summer, if you want to go to bars and restaurants get vaccinated, if you want to get a hair cut – get vaccinated,” the prime minister said.

Ardern told the Herald the use of vaccine certificates is designed to make vaccinated people feel safe, even though vaccinated people are reportedly protected against severe illness.

“Actually, what has become clear to me, is that [vaccine certificates] are not just a tool to drive up vaccines. They’re a tool for confidence,” Ardern said, without mentioning that vaccinated people can also carry and spread the virus.  “People who have been vaccinated will want to know that they are around other vaccinated people. They’ll want to know that they are in a safe environment.” 

New Zealand, which has only reported 28 Chinese coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, has enforced some of the “tightest pandemic restrictions among OECD nations,” Reuters reported. Despite that fact, the country has been experiencing an outbreak, with nearly 2,500 cases reported out of a population of 5 million.

In mid-October, the New Zealand government imposed a “no jab, no job” vaccine policy for most healthcare workers and teachers, though most government workers are already required to be vaccinated. As of October 23, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health reported that 59 percent of the total population and 70 percent of the eligible population was fully vaccinated.

The country also uses an “MIQ facility” which is a “managed isolation and quarantine” site run by New Zealand’s government. Federal officials require “every single person entering New Zealand” to enter an MIQ facility for “14 days of managed isolation.”

“If someone refuses in our facilities to be tested, they have to keep staying,” Ardern said when describing protocol in the state-run MIQ facilities during a Facebook Live stream in June 2020.

Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on Twitter.

Pope Francis: Christians ‘Called to a Love that Transcends Borders’

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ROME — Pope Francis returned to one of his favorite themes this weekend, calling Christians to transcend “borders” and tear down “walls.”

“We are called to be a sign and witness that it is possible to pass beyond the walls of selfishness and personal and national interest,” the pontiff told a group from the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation at a meeting in the Vatican Saturday.

Christians must be beyond “the power of money that often decides the destiny of peoples; beyond ideological divisions that foster hatred; beyond all historical and cultural barriers and, above all, beyond indifference,” the pope told the gathering.

“As Christians, we are called to a love that transcends borders and limits,” Francis insisted.

We “can and must think and work as ‘brothers and sisters of all,” he declared. “This may seem to be an unrealistic utopia. But we prefer to believe that it is a dream that can come true.”

Pope Francis (R) is greeted by excited worshipers at the end of the general audience at Paul-VI hall in the Vatican on October 20, 2021. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

As he has done on other occasions, the pope denounced “an economic system that continues to discard people’s lives in the name of the god of money, fostering greed and destructive attitudes towards the resources of the earth and fueling various forms of injustice.”

The only response to this injustice is “condemnation of what is wrong, yet promotion of what is good,” he continued.

In “soil contaminated by the predominance of finance, we need to sow many small seeds that can bear fruit in an economy that is equitable and beneficial, humane and people-centered,” he asserted.

Francis said that several years ago he came to the conclusion that finance is “something impractical, something ‘fluid,’ ‘ephemeral that ends up like a chain letter.”

We are called “to commit ourselves freely to the development of a more just and equitable society where forms of selfishness and partisan interests do not prevail,” he said.

Peak 'Virtue Signalling': In-Person Doctor Visits Reduced in Glasgow to Clear Traffic for COP26 Climate Summit

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A National Health Service (NHS) board has been accused of virtue signalling at the cost of lives as health chiefs reduced in-person doctor appointments in order to cut traffic during the upcoming United Nations COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow.

Next Sunday, leaders from around the world will fly on jets to Scotland to hold a summit on alleged man-made climate change. To help facilitate the meeting, local NHS bosses have told some patients they will need to sacrifice seeing their doctors in person to free up the roads for the incoming globalists.

While the devolved government in Scotland has determined that the Chinese coronavirus is still so dangerous that vaccine passports are required, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has sent letters to patients informing them that their appointments will need to be held virtually during the summit, the Herald Scotland reported.

One such patient, suffering from long-COVID symptoms, told the paper that “a two-week postponement of crucial meetings with specialists will delay many vital diagnostic tests and could have calamitous consequences”.

The patient observed that while patients were being forced to hold their appointments over the phone or by video to reduce traffic, the global leaders “really should have held their meetings virtually”.

In a statement, the NHS for Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: “The Glasgow City transport plan for COP26 requires the city to reduce road traffic substantially ahead of and during the event.

“As part of our contribution to that we have moved face to face appointments to different times and increased virtual appointments. All urgent appointments and those for people with cancer will continue.

“Anyone attending any of our hospitals should plan ahead to avoid disruption.”

The local NHS branch said that all hospitals will remain “open and operational” during the climate summit.

The move to cut in-person appointments was lambasted by Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of The Bow Group, Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, who wrote: “Never mind saving lives, there’s some pointless [and] excruciatingly expensive virtue signalling to be done.”

Scottish Labour’s health and Covid recovery spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, said that the decision was a “recipe for disaster”.

“The last thing Scotland’s thinly-stretched health service needs is more disruption,” she said, adding: “This will come as a fresh blow to patients who have already been languishing on waiting lists for months.”

To make matters worse, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has voted to strike to demand more pay during the climate summit, which will likely bring train services in Scotland to a standstill.

An expected 25,000 people, including delegates, activists, and members of the media, will descend on Glasgow next week.

Some high-profile attendees will include President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British Royal Family. The summit has been branded as the “last chance” to stop the alleged climate crisis and will be a chance for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to debut his Build Back Better vision on a global scale.

The actual effectiveness of the summit has been called into question, however, with Russian President Vladimir Putin declining to attend, opting instead for a possible virtual meeting. Xi Jinping, the dictator at the head of the world’s top polluter, is also unlikely to appear.

Despite concerns over the large-scale event possibly triggering a local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, those attending COP26 will be exempt from the vaccine passport system that has been imposed on the people of Scotland.

Quarantine restrictions will also be eased for some officials arriving from ‘red list’ countries with a high percentage of cases of the Wuhan virus, with fully vaccinated delegates only being required to self-isolate for five days, compared to the normal ten-day period.

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