State troopers and University of Texas at Austin police cleared the tents of pro-Palestinian protesters on the UT Austin campus today, arresting dozens of people. Meanwhile, anti-Israel protesters at UCLA violently attacked a Jewish Native American woman who opposed Hamas.
In other news, a 10-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old girl at a home in the town of Boolaroo in New South Wales.
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Europe’s Debt is Rising Again as Politics Erodes Budget Resolve
Some of Europe’s most indebted governments are heading for a painful reckoning this year as their ambitions to cut down on borrowing collide with political reality.
After years of a no-limits approach to spending when the continent navigated pandemic shutdowns and surging energy prices, 2024 was meant to mark a milestone in repairing public finances from France to the UK.
But while most will make progress reining in deficits by phasing out energy support measures, pressures from both new and existing commitments, and the impact of rising interest rates, are now set to keep national debt high or even rising in much of the region. Italy’s borrowings, for example, could soon exceed 140 per cent of output again.
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Australian home borrowers are paying 59 per cent more on their monthly mortgage than they did three years ago. But by Christmas, they could be paying 80 per cent more compared with late 2021.
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WEF Report Supports CBDC and Digital ID, Urges Public-Private Collaboration in Finance
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is clearly championing the introduction not only of (retail) central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for the general public but also the wholesale version, wCBDC, geared toward interbank payments and securities transactions.
It is not uncommon to come across leading financial institutions and banks linking to WEF reports while explaining and promoting their own activities in this space.
And yet, a new WEF report (a collaborative effort with Accenture) titled, “Modernizing Financial Markets with Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC),” states that the group does not actually explicitly “advocate” for issuance of wCBDCs.
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2 Women Face Murder Charges in Fatal Shooting of Car Burglary Suspect in Wynwood
Two Miami women are facing murder charges in the fatal shooting of a suspected car burglar in Wynwood last month.
Antwoinse Lachaveia Clark, 36, and Fredericka Sherice Pickett-Wilson, 29, were arrested Friday and face second-degree murder charges, jail records showed.
Clark also faces charges of grand theft and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The incident happened around 11:30 p.m. back on March 30 at Northeast 2nd Avenue and Northeast 16th Street, arrest reports said.
According to the reports, Officers responded to the area after receiving reports of a man who’d been shot and found the man on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds.
The man was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition and died from his injuries on April 24. His identity wasn’t released.
Investigators later discovered that the man was allegedly burglarizing a vehicle when he was confronted by Clark and Pickett-Wilson, who had four children between the ages of 13 and 5 with them, the reports said.
Clark told police they surprised the man as he was rummaging through their parked car, and a verbal and physical altercation ensued, the reports said.
The man allegedly punched Pickett-Wilson in the face and started to flee with a blue bookbag that Clark said had contained her cash rent payment, the reports said.
The two women pursued the man and Pickett-Wilson pepper-sprayed him before the man ended up shot three times, allegedly by Clark, the reports said.
The exact details about how the man ended up shot weren’t clear, as sections of the reports are redacted, though they note that Clark and Pickett-Wilson claimed they didn’t know there was a firearm in the blue bookbag.
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Anti-Israel Protesters at UCLA Attack Native American Woman Opposing Hamas
Lani Dawn, a Jewish Native American woman, posted that she was attacked by anti-Israel protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Thursday night after holding a sign reading, “Hamas supporters are not welcome on native land.”
“Last night I was violently assaulted by @UCLA ‘pro-Palestine’ students,” wrote Dawn on Instagram, posting a video showing the protesters attacking her and other pro-Israel protesters.
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Arizona Republicans Officially Declare COVID Shots ‘Biological Weapons’
The Arizona Republican Party has passed a “Ban the Jab” resolution and officially declared Covid mRNA shots “biological and technological bioweapons.”
The “Ban the Jab” resolution was submitted to Arizona Republicans by Dan Schultz of Precinct Strategy.
On Sunday, the state’s GOP almost unanimously voted to pass the resolution.
The resolution, which passed with approximately 96% of the vote, declares the Covid mRNA injections to be “biological and technological weapons.”
It also calls on the governor to prohibit their distribution.
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Congressional Republicans are further investigating claims that at least 13 major US banks collaborated with federal agencies to monitor private transactions for signs of “extremism” following the January 6 Capitol events. The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, led by Republican Jim Jordan from Ohio, is delving further into the alleged cooperation between these financial institutions and federal agencies without proper warrants.
These banks, including Bank of America, Chase, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank, and more, are among those scrutinized for their roles in the reported surveillance. We previously reported about how Bank of America was found to be handing over data of everyone in the area during the events of January 6, whether they were suspect or not — and whether they had a warrant or not. But now, investigations suggest that the transfer of data was more systematic, potentially involving multiple financial institutions and the Biden administration itself.
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Biden Looks to Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War With 10-Year Agreement
Soon on the heels of President Biden last week signing into law a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine’s defense, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday indicated that he’s working with Washington on a bilateral security agreement which would last ten years.
“We are already working on a specific text,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “Our goal is to make this agreement the strongest of all.”
“We are discussing the specific foundations of our security and cooperation. We are also working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and the next 10 years.”
He indicated it will likely include agreements on long-term support centering on military hardware and joint arms production, as well as continuing reconstruction aid. “The agreement should be truly exemplary and reflect the strength of American leadership,” Zelensky added.
But ultimately a key purpose in locking such a long-term deal in would be to keep it immune from potential interference by a future Trump administration.
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A man has been charged with murder after allegedly killing a man and eating his face at a Las Vegas bus stop.
According to KLAS, 29-year-old Colin Czech has been charged with open murder.
Police were called to the area at around 5 am Sunday to a report of a man who allegedly tackled another man to the ground near Las Vegas Boulevard near Charleston Boulevard.
Another person called the police around 45 minutes later to report that they saw a man on top of another man at a bus stop “eating” the other man’s face.
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On Monday, Donald Trump confirmed that he had, in fact, met with Ron DeSantis in Florida over the weekend, and that the governor had offered his “full and enthusiastic support.”
The former president said that together, he and his former GOP primary rival would “make America great again.”
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Breaking: SCOTUS Denies Peter Navarro’s Bid to Stay Out of Prison Pending Appeal
On Monday, the Supreme Court denied former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while he appeals his conviction.
This is the second time the Supreme Court has denied Navarro’s request to remain out of prison as he appeals his conviction on two contempt of Congress counts. Chief Justice John Roberts, to whom the first emergency request went by default, in March said the court would not pause his sentence.
According to The Hill, Navarro renewed his motion to Justice Neil Gorsuch, who referred the matter to the full court for a vote. The request was denied.
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Cardiologists Confirm COVID Shots Caused Sudden Heart Attack in ‘Healthy’ 29-Year-Old
Cardiologists investigating the sudden heart attack of a “healthy” 29-year-old have concluded that the Covid mRNA vaccine she was forced to take for her job is the cause of her cardiac failure.
International marketing executive Florencia Tarque is speaking out after finally discovering the cause of the heart problems.
Tarque, who leads an athletic lifestyle centered around wellness, suffered an unexpected heart attack on April 16.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Three officers from a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force were killed, and five other officers were wounded after a suspect opened fire after being served a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday afternoon, according to police.
The shooting began when a U.S. Marshals Task Force attempted to serve a warrant for firearm possession by a convicted felon. During a Monday evening press briefing, authorities said the suspect officers were serving the warrant on was the one who initially opened fire. That suspect, police said, was found dead.
Police believe two shooters may have been involved. They said two persons of interest were taken to the police station for further investigation. One person of interest is a 17-year-old juvenile, police said. The other is a woman.
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Columbia Begins to Suspend Student Protesters
Columbia University announced Monday evening that it had begun to suspend students who had failed to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment by a 2 p.m. deadline.
After a day of protest and confusion on the Manhattan campus, the measure reflected the difficult balance Columbia administrators are seeking to strike as they try to avoid bringing the Police Department back to arrest those in the encampment, but also commit to the stance that the protest must end.
Students in the encampment, along with hundreds of supporters, had spent a tense afternoon rallying around the site in a show of force meant to deter the removal of its tents. But by 4 p.m., with no sign of police action, most of the protesters had begun to disperse, leaving what appeared to be several dozen students and about 80 tents inside the encampment.
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First Container Ship Arrives at Port of Baltimore Since Key Bridge Collapse: “Another Milestone”
BALTIMORE — The first container ship arrived at the Port of Baltimore since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed more than a month ago.
The MSC Cargo Passion III made it through the 35-foot temporary channel on Sunday, carrying nearly 1,000 containers.
“Another milestone today! First container ship to arrive at Seagirt Terminal since the crisis began,” the Port of Baltimore said on social media.
Four temporary channels have been opened since the bridge’s collapse on March 26.
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First Student Arraigned in Boston Area Pro-Palestine Student Protests Receives Community Service
A Boston Municipal Court judge dismissed a request for charges Monday against a 23-year-old Northeastern University student involved in pro-Palestine protests, the first of more than 200 protesters from local colleges facing court hearings over the next two weeks.
Northeastern Police had sought criminal trespassing charges against Kyler Shinkle-Stolar. On Monday, First Justice David Breen of the Boston Municipal Court’s Roxbury District dismissed that request and instead ordered Shinkle-Stolar to complete 20 hours of community service.
His attorney, Carl Williams of the National Lawyers Guild, told GBH News his client would easily comply with the judge’s order.
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Ford Reveals Staggering Losses From Electric Vehicle Production
Ford Motor Company has revealed the massive losses that the American automaker has suffered from electric vehicle (EV) production.
In a new report, Ford admitted losing over a hundred thousand dollars for every EV the company sold during the first quarter of 2024.
Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported a whopping $1.3 billion loss, CNN reported.
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Four Out of Five Americans Favor Israel Over Hamas, Most Back Rafah Operation: Poll
Americans favor Israel in its war against Hamas by a margin of four-to-one and nearly three-quarters support a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Four out of five voters (80%) back the Jewish state in its nearly seven-month-old war against the Islamic terrorist group, with the highest levels of support concentrated among older age groups, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris survey released Monday.
Meanwhile, 72% of voters say they back an Israel Defense Forces military operation in Rafah to “finish the war,” with 28% saying Israel should “back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza.”
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Georgia Governor Kemp Signs Law to Protect Financial Data of Gun Buyers
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law HB 1018, the Second Amendment Privacy Act. This NSSF-supported law protects the privacy and sensitive financial information of people purchasing firearms and ammunition in the Peach State. With Georgia, there are now 14 states with laws that protect the Second Amendment financial privacy of their citizens.
The law prohibits financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearm code, also known as a Merchant Category Code (MCC), from being assigned to firearm and ammunition purchases at retail when using a credit card. The law also forbids discriminating against a firearm retailer as a result of the assigned or non-assignment of a firearm code and disclosing the protected financial information. Additionally, the law prohibits keeping or causing to be kept any list, record or registry of private firearm ownership.
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GOP Senators Air ‘Deep Concerns’ Over NPR Bias, Urge CEO to ‘Start a Course Correction’
FIRST ON FOX: A group of Republican senators shared concerns over ideological bias at National Public Radio (NPR), with the organization’s controversial CEO Katherine Maher following high-profile criticism from former senior editor Uri Berliner, who recently resigned from his role citing her “divisive views.”
“We have deep concerns regarding the editorial direction under NPR’s national leadership,” wrote a group of Republicans in a letter on Monday led by Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.
In the letter, also signed by Republican conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Bill Cassidy, R-La., Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Eric Shmitt, R-Mo., they stressed that NPR’s “National leadership has allowed and cultivated an environment where ideological bias not only creeps in but takes center stage.”
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House to Vote on Antisemitism Bill Amid Campus Protests Over the War in Gaza
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a bipartisan bill aimed at cracking down on antisemitism on college campuses amid a wave of pro-Palestinian protests. While it’s expected to pass, the resolution will likely expose the split between moderate and progressive Democrats over the war in Gaza.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act would require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism when determining if an act of discrimination against students violates federal statutes.
According to the organization, examples that fit the definition of antisemitism include:
“Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination.”
“Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.”
And “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
[Comment: This proposed legislation violates the First Amendment, in my opinion.]
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Hunter Biden Lawyers Threaten Fox News With Lawsuit Over ‘Intimate’ Photos
Hunter Biden is pursing a different kind of cover-up.
Lawyers for the first son have demanded Fox News take down “intimate” photos of the disgraced middle-aged presidential offspring or face a lawsuit.
In a letter dated April 23 and made public Monday, attorneys for the scandal-scarred Hunter, 54, accused Fox of making “reprehensible” use of “salacious” and “hacked” photos.
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Israel Compared to Nazis and ISIS in Dearborn Sermon: ‘You Need to Reeducate the Jews’
A religious leader in Dearborn, Michigan, compared Israel to Nazi Germany and ISIS in a sermon at the local Islamic Institute of Knowledge.
“Zionism is the ISIS of today. If there was an ISIS for the Muslims, there is also an ISIS for the Jews,” Dr. Baqir Berry, the leader of the Dearborn-area mosque, said in the sermon, according to a translation by the Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI). “This (Jewish) ISIS is a million times worse than the ISIS of the Muslims. We should know this. A million times (worse). The members of ISIS did not commit the kind of crimes perpetrated by the Zionists.”
The comments, which were made during last week’s Friday sermon, come as Dearborn has entered the national spotlight as a center of resistance against President Biden’scampaign for re-election over his handling of the conflict in Gaza.
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Kaiser Data Breach Exposes 13.4 Million Users’ Info to Google, Microsoft, and Others
According to the US-based healthcare colossus, Kaiser Permanente, an extensive amount of customer information was likely shared with companies like Microsoft and Google, among others. A whopping 13.4 million existing and former members were notified of the situation, in which potentially personal information may have been unwittingly passed to these third-party vendors via Kaiser’s own web and mobile platforms.
The Kaiser corporation revealed that it was the implementation of third-party tracking and analytics tools that led to the unforeseen information leak. It’s only recently that they have understood the full scope of data delivered by this embedded tech to third-party entities whenever users were active on their digital interfaces.
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Local Illinois Residents Turn Out Against Controversial Democratic Mayor
Residents in a town outside of Chicago made their fury against Democratic Mayor Tiffany Henyard known on Saturday.
Dozens of people from the 17 villages in Thornton Township organized in protest against Henyard for refusing to disclose details on township finances and declining infrastructure and town services.
“This is a call to action to state representatives to do something,” Mary Avent told the Chicago Tribune. “Our taxes are outrageous — have some of the highest taxes. And why are we paying these high taxes? We’re not getting anything.”
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New Round of Arrests at University of Texas as Protesters Defy Governor
Police officers from the University of Texas at Austin and state troopers in riot gear swept in on Monday to clear a small number of tents erected on campus by pro-Palestinian protesters, arresting dozens of people and briefly deploying pepper spray against demonstrators who were chanting “Off our campus!” and trying to block law enforcement vehicles.
Officers cleared the small encampment within three hours, arresting about 50 people, but then found themselves confronting an even larger crowd near the edge of the university’s central mall, where the tents had been erected.
After a brief standoff, the police backed up and allowed the crowd to pass back onto the mall. Some students returned to the spot where the short-lived encampment had been reduced to a tangled pile of tarps, trash and folding tables.
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New York DA Bragg Pushes for Ghost Gun YouTube Content Removal
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has widened his campaign against untraceable “ghost guns,” by pushing for YouTube to remove videos about such topics.
According to Bragg, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm paves a path from shooter-style video game guides to homemade firearm assembly via 3D printing instructions.
We obtained a copy of Bragg’s letter to YouTube here.
“We are seeing actual cases with actual people with ghost guns who are telling us they got the ghost gun because of YouTube,” Bragg alleged, causing him to set his sights on the video giant.
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OnlyFans Creator Farha Khalidi Claims She Was Paid to Spread ‘Political Propaganda’ for Biden Admin
An OnlyFans creator and TikTok star has claimed she was paid to spread “political propaganda” for the Biden administration on social media — and that she was asked to hide the fact it was advertising.
Farha Khalidi said she’d been asked to help boast about then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to her tens of thousands of social media followers after Brown Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Biden.
“I was doing full-on political propaganda,” the social media personality said during a recent podcast interview with commentator Richard Hanania.
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Portland State University ‘Pauses’ Boeing Donations Amid Student Protests
A university in Portland, Oregon will “pause” accepting donations from Boeing after students called on the school to cut ties with the manufacturer amid the war in Gaza.
In addition to setting up an encampment on campus, students also addressed a letter to Ann Cudd, the president of Portland State University (PSU), demanding the university cut ties with Boeing.
In a campus-wide message, Cudd said she had been motivated by “the passion with which these demands are being repeatedly expressed by some in our community”.
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A judge has approved a class action lawsuit after a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) allegedly forced students into participating in Hindu rituals.
CPS and the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace previously paid a Christian student $150,000 last fall due to the student allegedly being subject to a “Quiet Time” program at the center of the class action lawsuit. The suit calls this program a “Hinduistic religious program” led by “transcendental meditation” (TM) teachers.
The foundation was set up to teach TM according to the lawsuit, brought by the lead plaintiff in the case, Kaya Hudgins. US District Judge Matthew Kennelly granted class certification for the lawsuit, according to Just the News.
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Trump Slams Biden for ‘Zero Leadership’ in Gaza, Says ‘Many’ Hostages Are Already Dead
On Monday, Donald Trump warned that more hostages may have already been killed by Hamas than previously thought, thus making it harder for the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization to make a deal with Israel and Western allies.
The former president reiterated his claim that the current war, and the massacre that sparked it on October 7, would not have happened had he been in charge.
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University of California San Diego announced changes to university policy regarding students hoping to switch to “selective majors” in the fields of science, technology, and engineering, namely, factors having nothing to do with merit.
Beginning in Summer 2025, in addition to GPA, administrators will adopt a point system, taking students’ socioeconomic status and their parents’ education history into consideration when deciding who gets to fill the highly coveted spots.
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Universities Were Always Extreme
The Nazi cheers of Sieg Heil didn’t start out in Munich, but in Massachusetts.
The Nazi chant was borrowed from Harvard football cheers and imported to Germany by Ernst “Putzy” Hanfstaengl, a Harvard man in good standing who befriended Hitler and helped build a more respectable brand for the National Socialists.
“Putzy” was one of a number of Ivy League elites who were enchanted by the Third Reich.
Socialism forcefully implemented by great men, whether it was FDR, Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler, was the great obsession of America elites of the era who were convinced that it was the only answer to the chaos of capitalism and the hurly burly of democracy and technology.
Columbia University, whose Hamas occupation fills the front pages of every newspaper in the country while driving Jewish students off campus, has changed little in some ways. A hundred years ago, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler was laboring to keep Jewish students out while celebrating Mussolini’s fascism. Butler’s admiration for fascism was common among university presidents, leaders of society and even in the FDR administration.
Not just remastered football cheers, but eugenics, another obsession of Ivy League elites, made its way over to Germany where it was implemented in a far deadlier fashion, not only against Jews, but against German disabled and others deemed to be “life unworthy of life” in keeping with the ideology whose adherents included Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
Peeling back the layers of the dominant ideologies that Ivy Leaguers hold today leads to National Socialist or Communist ideologies. The Ivy League elites who were environmentalists, socialists, globalists and population control advocates a century ago were strongly influenced by these totalitarian ideologies that called for tyranny and mass murder.
They weren’t liberals then and they’re not liberals now.
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Victims Were Stabbed Before Their Body Parts Were Found in Babylon: DA
BABYLON, N.Y. (PIX11) — Two alleged killers “violently stabbed” their victims before scattering their body parts around Babylon, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney.
Jeffrey Mackey and Alexis Nieves on Monday were charged with murder related to the premeditated slaying of their acquaintances, Malcolm “Craig” Brown, 53, and Donna Conneely, 59, according to Tierney.
Now, investigators say the two victims were stabbed in their necks, back and torsos at a home on Railroad Avenue in Amityville, according to the district attorney’s office.
Then, the two alleged killers dismembered the bodies in a bathroom of the home and dumped the remains in Southards Pond Park, Bethpage State Park and West Babylon, according to the district attorney’s office.
Mackey and Nieves are not suspected to have worked alone — their accomplices, Steven Brown and Amanda Wallace, have been charged with concealment of a human corpse, robbery and tampering with evidence but not murder, according to Tierney.
The crime has caught Long Island’s attention since Feb. 29, when a girl found the first body part on her way to school, police said.
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Pro-Palestinian protestors removed barriers around an encampment at George Washington University on Monday as demonstrations continued for a fifth day, according to the D.C. university.
It carries on at a time when colleges around the U.S. are working to clear out encampments of pro-Palestinian student protesters with no end in sight to the war in Gaza.
Protesters next to the encampment at George Washington University’s University Yard “breached and dismantled” barriers used to secure the area early Monday, the university said.
The metal barriers were stacked in a pile in the center of University Yard, according to WTOP’s Linh Bui. She said “the entire Yard” was covered in tents — about 100 of them — on Monday morning. One protester told Bui: “We call ourselves a liberated zone.”
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Youngkin Says No Encampments on Virginia Campuses; Supports ‘Peaceful’ Protests
Amid the unrest over actions in the Gaza War, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Sunday that the commonwealth will permit “peaceful” protests, but will not tolerate intimidation and encampments on college campuses.
Since Saturday, protestors have been arrested at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg and in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech.
During CNN’s “State of the Union” television show on Sunday, Youngkin said that the First Amendment encompasses freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration. Still, he added it does not allow for intimidating Jewish students, preventing them from attending class and using annihilation speech to express deeply antisemitic views.
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Canadian Anti-Israel Activist Charged for Assault During Ottawa Protest
An Ottawa anti-Israel activist was arrested and charged with assault and hate-motivated harassment during an April 15 protest in the Canadian capital, local law enforcement announced on Saturday.
Deana Sherif, 47, is alleged to have assaulted a person with a “handheld sound amplifier” after the victim had walked near an anti-Israel demonstration and argued with her. Sherif used the device at a different location later in the day against another victim.
Sherif allegedly verbally abused both victims, shouting “hateful messages” at her target at the later event.
A litany of charges
In addition to charges for intimidation by disorderly following, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, and two charges for assault with a weapon and hate-motivated harassment by threatening conduct, Sherif allegedly assaulted a police officer to prevent them from arrest.
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‘Long Live October 7’: Vancouver Protesters Praise Terrorist Groups
Anti-Israel protesters praised the October 7 massacre and several terrorist organizations at a Vancouver rally on Friday according to a video published by Free Palestine Tri-cities British Columbia, demanding that the groups be removed from Canada’s list of terrorist entities.
Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator for the allegedly Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-affiliated (PFLP) Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, led demonstrators in a chant proclaiming “Long live October 7.”
“We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic brave action on October 7,” Kates said in her speech on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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Man Released on Bail Multiple Times Re-Arrested for Home Invasion, Carjacking
A Victoria, B.C. man repeatedly arrested after posting bail multiple timeshas once again been apprehended on home invasion and carjacking charges.
Seth Packer was arrested and released on bail three times in a row, according to the Victoria Police Department.
Packer’s latest arrest comes on the heels of a string of incidents, with each alleged offense occurring while he was out on bail for previous charges.
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Young Canadians Least Happy Among Peers in G7 Nations
Young Canadians reported the second-largest decline in life satisfaction according to a new survey, making Canadians under 30-years-old the least happy cohort of their peers among other G7 nations.
Canadians’ life satisfaction has remained in a steady decline since 2013, with happiness making a sharp downward trend since 2017, according to a recent survey conducted by the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
They released their annual World Happiness Report last month, which evaluates the happiness of residents in 143 countries.
Participants are asked to report their happiness on a scale of zero to 10.
Accounting for all age groups worldwide, Canada ranked as the 15th happiest country globally and first in the G7 for 2023.
However, if the oldest cohort of Canadians is excluded, the country falls to second last in the G7 and globally, it trails behind countries like Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
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“Conservatives Have to Fight and Take Back the EU”
The Western world is facing a myriad of dangers, from economic challenges to mass migration and geopolitical conflicts and wars, while traditional values are being threatened by the globalist Left, making a deeper cooperation of conservative forces is more vital than ever.
This was the main message of the Transatlantic Patriot Summit held in Budapest on Saturday, April 27th. The conference was hosted by the Danube Institute in Budapest, and jointly organised by a host of conservative youth organisations from around the world.
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9 on Trial in Germany for Terrorism Over Alleged Far-Right Coup Plot to Revive Reich
BERLIN (AP) — Nine people charged with terrorism in connection with an alleged far-right plot to topple the German government went on trial Monday in one of three linked cases.
The trial opening in Stuttgart is the first to open in relation to the purported conspiracy, which came to light in late 2022. It is focused on those defendants of the Reich Citizens group who allegedly were part of its so-called military arm, German news agency dpa reported.
Federal prosecutors in December filed terrorism charges against a total of 27 people, one of whom has since died.
Nine other suspects, among them a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, will go on trial on May 21 at a Frankfurt state court in the most prominent of the three cases. The other eight will go on trial in Munich on June 18.
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Another Anti-White Pakistani May Replace Humza Yousaf as Scotland’s First Minister — Video
Anti-white Scottish First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf’sreplacement may end up being just as anti-white as he is, as Anas Sarwar, the leader of the Labour Party, who is more popular than Yousaf, has called for new elections.
STV News reported that although the prospects of Sarwar becoming First Minister are unlikely, the odds become more likely if a Scottish Parliament election is held.
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‘Bigger Than the Holocaust’: British MP Says 10-20 Million People Were Killed by COVID Vaccines
British Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen said other MPs have “blood on their hands” for pushing the experimental COVID mRNA vaccines that have likely killed “between 10 and 20 million people.”
“The evidence was pretty considerable 18 months ago when I first spoke out. It’s overwhelming now. Every week there’s more evidence,” he told GB News, citing a recent Japanese research paper that found “a clear link between people who’ve had the boosters and increased cancer.”
“We know why, it’s the SV40, the Simian Virus 40 promoter region that Pfizer didn’t disclose in their vaccines that’s clearly promoting cancer,” he said.
“The MPs have got their hands in blood up to their armpits they put out hundreds if not thousands of letters saying that the vaccines are safe and effective over the last few years,” Bridgen continued.
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European Liberals Refuse to Endorse Von Der Leyen
The leader of the German liberal FDP party Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann has strongly criticised President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Strack-Zimmermann questioned von der Leyen’s suitability for a second term in a speech at a party conference in Berlin on April 27.
She argued that her management had been “extremely poor” and generated distrust among German businesses.
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France: Paris: Sciences Po Institute Yields to Pro-Palestinian Activists
The prestigious Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris has been the scene of blockades and violent demonstrations by pro-Palestinian students for several days. To restore calm, the management gave in to the demonstrators’ demands—concessions widely denounced by a large part of public opinion and the political class, who criticize the institute’s grovelling submission to the far-Left.
Echoing the protests that have shaken American campuses in recent days, the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris—a prestigious university known as Sciences Po—was the scene of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on site from April 24 to 26, prompting the police to intervene to restore calm. Five deputies from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise party were among the demonstrators, including French-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan, who was recently received a judicial summons for “apologia for terrorism.”
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France: Pro-Palestinian Mob Blocks Classes and Exams at Paris’ Prestigious Sorbonne University
Far-left pro-Palestinian student activists blockaded the entrances of the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday following similar attempts last week to shut down the elite Sciences Po research university.
Following the example of activists in the United States at top universities such as Colombia in New York City and Harvard University, pro-Palestinian leftists set up a makeshift blockade of the entrance to the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, preventing other students from attending class and forcing the cancellation of exams.
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G7: 2035 Could be End Date for Coal-Fired Power Plants
Energy ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy countries meeting in Italy are discussing setting a common target date of 2035 to shut down their coal-powered power plants, a source close to the matter told Reuters on April 29.
An agreement on coal would mark a significant step in the direction indicated by the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai last year to transition away from fossil fuels, of which coal is the most polluting.
Diplomatic negotiators for the G7 nations — Italy, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Japan — discussed the issue until late on Sunday, with one country still opposing the move, said the source, who asked not to be named.
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Man Shot in Head as Violence Hits Brussels Again
A man was shot in the head and left for dead on the terrace of a café in Brussels as extreme violence once again broke out in the city.
The shooting took place around 10.30pm in the rue Joseph Brand in Schaerbeek on April 28, leaving the victim fighting for life.
Solice spokeswoman Audrey Dereymaeker said: “When the emergency services arrived at the scene, they found a man injured by gunfire. The victim was in mortal danger.
“The police notified the public prosecutor’s office, which visited the scene with an investigating judge. The investigation is ongoing and the police will not comment further.”
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Marxists on the Rise in Flanders
A poll in Belgium shows the traditional parties are all in self-defence mode with populist parties on both the hard-right and the hard-left on the rise.
In the poll by Walloon newspaper La Libre Belgique and public broadcaster RTBF, the Marxist PVDA party surged to third place in Flanders, scoring 12.2 per cent and overtaking the Christian Democrats (11.6 per cent), the Socialists (11.5 per cent) and the Liberals (10.4 per cent).
The Vlaams Belang again topped the list, as in all other polls over the past couple of years, with 26 per cent, 7 per cent more than it managed in the 2019 Belgian elections.
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New EU Ethics Body Unlikely to Combat Bribery, Critics Argue
Amid allegations of bribery involving MEPs, the European Parliament has voted to join the inter-institutional European Union Ethics Body.
Few seem to believe the new organisation will change much.
The eight signatory European institutions asserted the body was set to “strengthen integrity, transparency and accountability in European decision-making.”
The primary objective of the organisation is to establish updated standards and protocols governing conduct concerning interactions with lobbyists, acceptance of gifts and invitations from third parties, in a bid to pre-empt future allegations of wrongdoing.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk took to Twitter over the weekend, after another Russian air attack on Ukraine, to say that Ukraine was being attacked while former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, of the Law and Justice party (PiS), is attending a conference with “pro-Putin politicians” from the conservative nationalist right.
Tusk was referring to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in Budapest, which was attended by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
In his post, Tusk asks rhetorically whether Morawiecki’s actions are “foolishness, treason or both?”
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Poland and Lithuania ‘Risk Breaking EU Law if They Repatriate Ukrainian Men’
Legal experts have told Brussels Signal that Poland and Lithuania risk breaking both European Union and Ukrainian law if they chose to help Ukraine repatriate men between 18 and 60 for military service.
Ukrainians relying on the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive “have a right to access accommodation, benefits, medical care, education and employment in Poland, Lithuania and other EU countries”, according to Brandi Amiss-Towler, a Lincoln’s Inn scholar who has researched the issue.
“If Poland and Lithuania failed to follow the directive, allowing Ukrainian citizens the right to accommodation, benefits, and so forth, they would be in breach of EU law,” she told Brussels Signal.
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The conservative (PiS) Law and Justice opposition to the Tusk government has begun its European parliamentary election campaign by announcing senior MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski as its candidate for EU commissioner.
Saryusz-Wolski told PiS supporters at the party’s conference in Warsaw there was a need to be aware of the Tusk administration’s attempt to turn Poland and the rest of Europe into a superstate “that will not be ‘super’ but an oligarchy and undemocratic hegemony.”
“If this battle is lost our children and grandchildren will once again have to fight for a free Poland,” he warned.
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The news about Alternative for Germany (AfD) MEP Maximilian Krah’s assistant and his arrest for suspected espionage on behalf of China continues to make national headlines, but as more information comes out, the more German intelligence and the political establishment continue to look worse and worse.
Now, news reports have revealed that Krah’s employee, Chinese-German national Jian G., worked for the German domestic intelligence service for years before joining the AfD politician.
Krah has since commented on the new bombshell information, writing on X: “Remarkable turn of events!”
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Saudi Arabia: Human Rights Abuses Go Unmentioned at EU Green Talks
The European Union’s Estonian energy commissioner, Kadri Simson, advanced plans for a green energy cooperation agreement between Brussels and Saudi Arabia over the weekend, at a bilateral meeting with the Kingdom’s energy minister—devoid of any mention of the Islamic state’s appalling human rights record.
Part of a wider trend of oil-rich Arab countries embracing some degree of environmentalist rhetoric in an apparent move away from fossil fuels, the meeting took place on the sidelines of a regional meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that was being held in Riyadh at the time on Sunday, April 28th. Brussels is confident that a memorandum of understanding between the bloc and the Saudis over the next year will facilitate the flow of investment into green technologies, while weaning Riyadh away from oil and gas. Simson’s liaison comes days after Eurocrats approved visa liberalisation for Saudi Arabia and multiple other Gulf states.
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Scotland’s Censorship Law Architect Resigns
Drastic events have thrown the Scottish leadership into disarray, as Scotland’s pro-independence party faces tumultuous times. Barely after a year in office, controversial pro-censorship First Minister Humza Yousaf’s term has prematurely ended following the downfall of his coalition government, putting the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) grip on power into jeopardy.
Yousaf’s leadership met an abrupt end after his daring decision to annul his pact with Green Party legislators after climate and gender policy disagreements took a turn. This decision plunged his government into uncertainty when the Greens opted to oppose him in a crucial confidence motion. With Yousaf at the helm since last March, it’s a major setback for the SNP’s aspiration to continue ruling Scottish politics and assert its stance for a new Scottish independence referendum.
One of his most notable missteps was his advocacy for the stringent Hate Crime Act.
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Spain: Sanchez Stays at Helm of Government
In a short and anti-climatic press conference, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced he had decided to remain as leader of his country’s government.
“I share my decision and, I have informed the head of State: I have decided to continue, with more strength if possible, at the head of the Presidency of the Government,” he stated from Moncloa, the prime ministerial residence.
Taking five days of reflection prior to not resigning proved part of a strategy to reinforce his weak premiership. Party and supporters took advantage of the weekend to organize demonstrations in his favor, a “social mobilization” he claimed influenced the decision to stay on.
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Talking to commercial Radio ZET on Friday, the former chief of the prime minister’s office, Michal Dworczyk, expressed a sense of personal and national dissatisfaction with how the crisis in the first months after the Russian aggression on Ukraine was managed by the Polish authorities.
“In some ways, yes, Ukraine deceived us, but it’s difficult to blame them, as every country seeks to advance its interests. I feel a sense of dissatisfaction that we did not fully capitalize on the opportunity before us,” he said, also admitting his personal regrets about how he handled the situation.
Dworczyk clarified that he was not in charge of strategic decisions but influenced many others, admitting that his criticism was also directed towards himself. He believed Poland was perhaps too naive and too accommodating towards their Ukrainian counterparts in several instances.
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UK: “Inept” Governing Means Border Chiefs in the Dark About New EU Checks
The UK will launch what has been described as the “most critical” phase of its post-Brexit border regime with the EU on Tuesday, April 30th. But port bosses say that London officials have left them in the dark about key details of its implementation.
Rishi Sunak’s government can hardly blame timings. Britain voted to leave the EU eight years ago, and three years have passed since it left the bloc’s single market. During this time, various Conservative Party administrations have delayed the introduction of new border checks on food, animal, and plant products on five separate occasions, despite criticism from related industries.
It looks like there won’t be a further delay this time, but trade officials are still angry that certain details of the changeover have not been clarified.
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UK: Three ULEZ Cameras at Same Junction Targeted Overnight
Three Ulez cameras have been cut down at the same junction as part of a suspected targeted attack.
The cameras in the London Borough of Hillingdon were chopped down with what could have been a saw on Sunday night.
Photos show traffic lights strewn over pedestrian crossings of Uxbridge Road, with exposed live wires poking out.
A Saint George’s Cross has been painted on the side of one of the cameras.
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Uranium Deposit Newly Discovered in Poland Could Fuel Future Polish Nuclear Power Plant
The Swietokrzyska Industrial Group Industria (SGP Industria) has confirmed the presence of uranium in a deposit within the Swietokrzyskie Region in southern Poland. The company now plans to undertake further exploratory work to determine the deposit’s size and potential extraction methods. This finding was made during exploratory activities, though the company has chosen not to disclose the exact location at this time. In the coming months, detailed work will be carried out to establish the deposit’s size and potential exploitation methods.
The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that Poland has approximately 100,000 tons of natural uranium, although only 7,000 tons have been confirmed so far. SGP Industria received an exploratory concession from the Ministry of Climate and Environment for a polymetallic deposit containing uranium in the region.
Following the company’s efforts, the presence of uranium in the deposit was verified. Continued exploration over the next few months will aim to precisely determine the content of various elements in the deposit, its size, and potential extraction methods.
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War Economy at Center of EU Commission’s Budget Plans
The EU’s next seven-year financial framework must be much more flexible to be able to finance “unforeseen” events of “historical significance,” EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn stressed as the main message of his keynote speech at the EU’s annual budget conference in Brussels on Monday, April 29th.
Although the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF) won’t start until 2028, EU leaders and officials have convened to discuss reforming the bloc’s budgetary and spending rules to better accommodate a rapidly changing geopolitical environment.
The incoming college of commissioners—set to be established in the months following June’s EU elections—will have until June 2025 to present its first draft proposal for the 2028-3035 MFF, but “preparations start now,” Hahn said.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — U.S. and Arab leaders are expressing concerns that newly revived talks could be the last chance for a cease-fire and hostage release before the war could explode with a threatened Israeli attack on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
As Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Monday, there were urgent calls for a deal between Israel and Hamas that would head off an assault on Rafah where more than 1 million people are sheltering.
Blinken’s visit came after President Joe Biden reiterated U.S. opposition to a Rafah operation in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
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“The Assyrian Nation Lives”: An Interview With Juliana Taimoorazy
The Assyrians, one of the world’s oldest people, have for millennia developed a culture and civilization of their own that have immensely contributed to Western civilization.
Between 900 and 600 BC, for 300 years, Assyrian kings ruled the largest empire the world had yet known. The heartland of the Assyrian homeland is in Northern Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, where the ancient cities of Assur and Nineveh were built.
The Assyrians represent Mesopotamia’s long history of cultural achievement, known to them as Bet-Nahrain, signifying the land “between rivers.”
The ancient Assyrians made remarkable progress in technology and science. The Assyrian art and architecture were ground-breaking. They built grand palaces (such as the great Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad) and produced some of the most marvelous works of sculpture. They collected tablets of literature and studies from previous periods of Mesopotamian history and preserved them in massive libraries. The world’s first organized library was located in ancient Nineveh, today’s Mosul. Many of these oeuvres, debossed on clay tablets, are studied in museums and universities around the world.
Assyria’s legacy in world history and civilization is significant. It was through the Assyrians that the ancient Greeks learned about Mesopotamian science and other knowledge, which had a major impact on Greek intellectual development.
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Turkey Backs Rutte as Next NATO Chief, Ankara Official Says
Turkey has told allies that it will back the candidacy of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to be NATO’s next secretary-general, a Turkish official said on Monday, an important step towards securing him the top job.
NATO’s next chief will face the challenge of sustaining allies’ support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion while guarding against any escalation that could draw the military alliance directly into a war with Moscow.
NATO takes decisions by consensus, so any candidate needs the support of all 32 allies.
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4 Killed, 32 Injured in Russian Missile Attack in Ukraine’s Odesa
A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed at least four people and injured 32, local officials said.
Regional governor Oleh Kiper, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that in addition to those killed in the attack, one man died after suffering a stroke attributed to the assault.
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The front lines have deteriorated and “heavy fighting” continues apace, the Commander in Chief of Ukraine’s armed forces said as he gave a digest of over a dozen battles raging against Russian invaders.
Russian forces are enjoying “tactical successes” in some areas, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Sunday, reflecting that “heavy fighting across the front line” continues. Writing a digest of the dozens of battles raging across Ukraine’s internal frontiers against Russian occupation, Syrskyi reflected that “The situation at the front has worsened”.
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Watch: Ukraine Using ‘Ancient’ Soviet Aircraft to Hunt Advanced Russian Drones
In the age of jet fighters, Ukraine is reverting to almost 50-year-old propeller aircraft to combat slow-flying Russian reconnaissance drones, news portal portfolio reports.
The Ukrainians are using an extremely old aircraft, first flown in 1976, which was developed in the Soviet Union by the famous Yakovlev Design Bureau. The two-seat, propeller-driven aircraft has been used for training purposes for most of its history and most certainly few envisaged it would ever be used to hunt unmanned drones.
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China’s Spy Chief Vows to Fight Espionage After Europe Arrests
China’s intelligence chief vows to organize a “powerful offensive” to fight espionage as it faces a flurry of spying accusations from Europe and the US.
The country must “continue to carry out counter-intelligence operations and improve the coordination mechanism for counter-intelligence work,” Minister of State Security Chen Yixin wrote Monday in Study Times, the Communist Party school’s official newspaper. China should “resolutely root out ‘nails’ and eliminate traitors,” he said in the front-page article.
The high-profile piece was published a week after six alleged Chinese spies were arrested in Europe, complicating Beijing’s efforts to reset ties with the European Union. The US and UK have also recently accused state-backed Chinese hackers of targeting politicians, companies and dissidents.
Beijing has itself ratcheted up efforts to crack down on spying and last year adopted a new counter-espionage law. That legislation expands the list of activities that could be considered spying, intensifying the risks for foreign firms.
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Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, a researcher at Macquarie University, held a ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ ‘all ages’ event at Sydney University on Friday to ‘inspire’ children to ‘stand up for justice’.
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The Prime Minister’s entitled act was caught on camera at a rally held in front of Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday.
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Ten-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Teen in NSW
A 10-year-old girl has allegedly been stabbed to death by a teenager in NSW.
Emergency services were called to a home in Boolaroo — about 20km west of Newcastle — over a reported stabbing attack about 3.45pm on Monday.
Paramedics discovered the girl with multiple stab wounds at the home, but she died soon after they arrived.
Police arrested a 17-year-old girl at the home, who they said was known to the dead girl.
The 17-year-old was taken to Belmont Police Station.
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15-Year-Old French Boy Stabbed to Death by Teenage Afghan Migrant
15-year-old Mathis Marchais was stabbed to death in Chteauroux, France by a teenage Afghan migrant who was already known to French police for a series of violent knife crimes.
The attack took place on Saturday afternoon. Mathis was stabbed four times in the throat in the Saint-Denis area of the city and pronounced dead at the hospital a short time after arrival.
At present, the motivation for the attack is unclear, but the perpetrator had already been arrested multiple times for a spate of violent of knife robberies. He had been released from custody for one of these robberies less than a week before he killed Mathis.
It has been reported that the suspect’s mother is also in custody. It is believed she may have played some role in her son’s criminality.
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Arizona Rancher George Alan Kelly Will Not be Retried After Deadlocked Jury, Prosecutors Announce
George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher charged with murder in the shooting of a Mexican national on his border property, will not be retried, prosecutors with the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s office said.
The state charged Kelly, 75, with second degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed a migrant, Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, on his land in January 2023.
The decision not to retry Kelly comes a week after a mistrial was declared following a deadlocked jury.
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Belgian Justice Minister on Migrants: ‘Who Will Clean My Windows?’
Migrants are useful for menial jobs, according top Belgian justice minister Paul Van Tigchelt.
“Who looks after our elderly? Who will lay my water pipe? Who cleans my windows at home?” he told a podcast host.
The minister then apologised for his attempted defence of migration but is still facing criticism.
Asked by the host of podcast Talks With Charly if it was possible to stop migration in a country such as Belgium, Van Tigchelt said: “Of course that is not possible.
“It’s neither necessary nor desirable.”
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A fixed cap on medical school places has resulted in hundreds of British students being denied the chance to train as doctors in the U.K. despite achieving the grades to do so. Meanwhile, foreign doctors continue to be welcomed into Britain to plug the skills shortage.
MailOnline reported that more than 1,550 prospective British doctors were refused a place at a U.K. medical school over the past five years, even though they secured three A* grades at A Level — the highest possible grade attainable in the exams.
It means that hundreds of British-born students who could be trained are missing out on the opportunity to do so while the government prioritizes immigration as an immediate solution, also contributing to the brain-drain of countries around the world.
The Department for Health and Social Care maintains a cap on the number of university medical degree places it funds, which is currently set at 7,500 per year after being increased from 6,000 between 2018 and 2020.
Despite announcing an extra 205 funded places for the new academic year in 2024, hundreds of U.K. students are being prevented from studying to become doctors and supplying the demand of an increasingly overburdened National Health Service (NHS).
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Canada: London Taxpayers Paying $1M a Year as Asylum Seekers Crowd Out Shelter Spaces
The cost of sheltering asylum seekers in London, Ont. has reached a staggering $1 million within a year but the federal government is alleging that the southwestern Ontario city hasn’t been upfront about requesting aid to handle the evolving situation.
London has disputed this, alleging it has been vocal about the need for federal government assistance.
According to the London Free Press, London Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos and federal authorities allege they have not received any communication from London city hall regarding reimbursement for asylum seekers.
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Canada: Libyan Refugee Given Probation for Stabbing; Judge Cites Trauma of Growing Up in War Zone
A British Columbia court sentenced a 24-year-old refugee to probation and a suspended sentence on Wednesday over a violent stabbing incident in Vancouver last November.
Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Elbahloul pleaded guilty to assault in connection with the stabbing and slashing of one man, and a minor charge related to the assault of another.
The incident occurred Nov. 6, 2021 in downtown Vancouver after a night of drinking.
According to court documents, Elbahloul became intoxicated during a night out with friends. An altercation erupted inside a club, spilling out onto the street.
Elbahloul was provided with a knife by one of his companions and used it to stab the victim’s stomach and then proceeded to also cut his legs. The victim required medical attention as a result of the fight.
Elbahloul also admitted to kicking another victim who was on the ground during the altercation.
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Clear Majority of US Voters Pick Border Security as Top Issue for Congress to Tackle: Poll
A clear majority of US voters say that border security is the most important thing for Congress to work on with a little more than six months to go before next year’s election.
Nearly six in 10 voters (57%) say that “border reform legislation” is “more important” than “all other things Congress could be working on,” according to a poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Americans for Prosperity released Monday.
A plurality of voters (42%) said they were most in favor of a hypothetical policy to “secure our border and ports,” while another 36% said they most wanted to establish “clear and predictable rules and laws for our immigration system.
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Stark new images have revealed dozens of tents sprawling through Dublin streets — with UK and Irish ministers embroiled in an escalating row over migrants travelling from the UK to Ireland.
The string of makeshift accommodation, seen this morning stretching around the International Protection Office and continuing along the road, has been dubbed a ‘tent city’ by the Irish Examiner, which reported there are roughly 1,700 homeless asylum seekers currently in Ireland.
The tents, packed tightly together with minimal personal space, have no access to sanitary facilities with migrants telling reporters earlier this month they were forced to use an open toilet in the corner of the camp.
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Far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman told a reporter in a recent interview that he supports bringing refugees from Gaza to the US as well as amnesty for all the illegal immigrants in the country.
The interview with a Yonkers Voice reporter took place last week and has since gone viral online with the well-known fire-alarm-pulling congressman.
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Firefighter Dies Suddenly at 36 After Being Fired by FDNY to Fund NYC’s Illegal ‘Newcomers’
A New York City firefighter has tragically died suddenly of a heart attack at just 36 years old, shortly after FDNY fired him as a cost-cutting measure so NYC could fund the illegal alien “newcomer” crisis.
Derek Floyd, a U.S. Marine veteran, husband, and father of two, died leaving his family with nothing after being booted from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
NYC has made major cutbacks to public services as hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have flooded into the “sanctuary city” expecting “free” handouts from taxpayers.
In many cases, they receive thousands of dollars a month in “free” rent from the government.
Despite entering the country illegally, and without ever contributing to American society, they are also eligible for a host of taxpayer-funded services.
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Germany: SPD and CDU Officials Arrested for Illegal Residency Permits Scam
Three politicians from Germany’s establishment CDU and SPD parties have been arrested for allegedly taking part in a smuggling network which is believed to have assisted wealthy foreigners—mainly Chinese and citizens of Arab countries—to obtain permanent residence permits illegally, in most cases for six-figure sums.
North Rhine-Westphalia Justice Minister Benjamin Limbach (Greens), in response to an information request on the case submitted by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) parliamentary group, named Jens Bröke of the center-left SPD and Werner Stump of the center-right CDU as having been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes from the smuggling network.
The accused, Limbach explained, are said to have “helped a large number of nationals from non-EU and non-Schengen countries to enter and permanently reside in Germany over a long period in return for payments, mostly in the six-figure range.”
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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES One of three men accused of beating an elderly woman unconscious in her own home was freed by the High Court ruling against indefinite immigration.
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A boutique hotel boasting a ‘timeless and sophisticated style’ has been quietly turned over to asylum seekers as fears grow over whether New York’s tourist market can ever recover.
Visitors logging onto the website for Hotel Le Jolie in Brooklyn are promised ‘cutting-edge technology to make your stay comfortable and convenient’.
But the 55-room hotel in upmarket Williamsburg is now among 110 across the city providing emergency shelter to some of the 180,000 migrants who have arrived in New York since the spring of 2022.
And hotel bosses have warned that they will struggle to return rooms currently housing migrants in a fit state for the millions of tourists who keep the economy afloat.
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UK: London Asylum Seeker Convicted Over Terror Support for Wearing Hamas Headband
Khaled Hajsaad was found guilty of “arousing suspicion he was supporting a proscribed terrorist group” after he was caught wearing a Hamas headband to a pro-Palestine protest in central London, according to a Crown Prosecution Service statement on Thursday.
He was described by the UK media as an asylum seeker who arrived in the country a year ago.
Hajsaad, a resident of Birmingham, was at a protest in London on November 25, 2023, when he was reported to the police for wearing a green headband with the Islamic profession of faith (Shahada) printed on it.
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UK: Third of Foreign Students Who Later Claimed Asylum Went to Just 6 Institutions
Some of Britain’s lower-grade universities are awarding educational visas to foreign students “indiscriminately” so they can benefit from their higher tuition fees, an immigration expert has claimed.
Robert Bates, who is research director at the Centre for Migration Control think tank, told The European Conservative that “the main function of many British universities now seems to be the distribution of British visas to foreign nationals.” He added:
It has long been known that the business model of several dozen low-quality institutions is predicated on admitting thousands of overseas students each year, who do not come to study, but instead see the tuition fees as a price worth paying for long-term residency in the UK.
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Watch: Thousands of Irish Protesters March Against Globalist Replacement Migration Agenda
Thousands of Irish citizens were seen peacefully marching in the streets to protest the liberal government’s mass migration policy.
Demonstrators were seen marching in the small town of Newtownmountkennedy on Monday as the Irish and UK governments are negotiating on migrant policy.
Banners carried by the demonstrators read, “Ireland is our homeland. We will not be replaced!” and “Irish Lives Matter.”
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Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky, while speaking at CPAC Hungary, said that conservatives were fighting to ensure their homelands remain European and do not become “a second Arabia or Africa.”
“I have the honor to speak before an audience of political friends from all over Europe and the United States. And our common goal is to protect our countries, to protect the Western world from illegal migration and organized abuse of asylum so that Europe does not become a second Arabia or Africa,” said Vilimsky. “We do not want the name Mohammed to become the most popular name for male newborns in our great countries, as is the case in Brussels, where the EU parliament is located.”
During his speech, he praised Hungary and Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, which he said was working to fight against mass immigration.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has warned that new federal transgender rules mean companies could be found liable for harassment if they require an employee to use a bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex.
EEOC published new guidance that details the new rules for employers, sparking a backlash.
In a rogue statement, EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, blasted the new federal rules, saying:
“Women’s sex-based rights in the workplace are under attack—and from the EEOC, the very federal agency charged with protecting women from sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination at work.
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“The Assyrian Nation Lives”: An Interview With Juliana Taimoorazy…
well, great!
Isaiah 10:5
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
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