President Biden’s approval rating has hit an all-time low of 37.4%. Meanwhile, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she fears that Donald Trump will throw her in jail if he wins the election in November.
In other news, four instructors affiliated with Cornell College in Iowa were stabbed yesterday during a visit to a park in northeastern China.
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Euro, French Stocks Hit by Shock Macron Snap Election Announcement
The euro fell broadly, while French bonds and stocks were hit hard on June 10 following French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call a snap parliamentary election after being trounced in a European Union vote by the far right.
The euro fell 0.5 per cent in early European trade to a one-month low of $1.0764 and slumped to a 21-month trough against sterling of 84.53 pence.
French bond prices also fell, pushing yields to their highest in two weeks, around 3.17 per cent, while Paris blue-chip stocks dropped 2 per cent, led by steep losses in the likes of lenders such as BNP Paribas and Societe Generale.
Europe’s benchmark STOXX 600 fell 0.7 per cent.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fears Trump Will Throw Her in Jail if He Wins
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fears that former President Donald Trump will throw her in jail if he wins the election in November.
The Congresswoman voiced her concern to Kara Swisher on her podcast On with Kara Swisher.
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A depraved mob of anti-Israel protesters lit flares and chanted “Long Live the Intifada” outside a downtown Manhattan exhibit on Monday that memorializes the victims of the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival massacre.
The crowd of demonstrators clashed with police during the rally in front of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street during a “citywide day of rage for Gaza,” according to video from the scene.
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Biden Leads Trump by Four Percent in Minnesota — But Lacks Voters’ Enthusiasm in Gopher State: Poll
President Biden is leading former President Donald Trump in the blue-leaning Minnesota by four percentage points — but Trump voters reported having far more enthusiasm for their candidate, a poll released Monday showed.
Biden’s lead over Trump came in at 45%-41%, according to the Star Tribune/MPR News/KARE 11 Minnesota poll. Seven percent of surveyed voters were undecided and 6% supported independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Thirty-one percent said they were “very” excited about voting for Biden, and another 36% said they were “somewhat” excited.
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Breaking: Joe Biden Approval Rating Hits All Time Low of 37.4%
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has hit an all-time low of 37.4 percent. The low number comes as the president is facing Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 election in November.
According to 538’s senior editor and senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich, 538’s average approval rating for Biden hit the all-time low of 37.4 percent on Monday.
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Climate Activists Try to Blockade NYC Citi Bank HQ in ‘Summer of Heat on Wall Street’
Nearly two dozen people were cuffed by late Monday morning as climate protesters blockaded Citi Headquarters in Lower Manhattan, police said.
A group of 150 activists crowded in front of the financial giant’s building on Greenwich Street near North Moore Street in Tribeca during the morning rush, organizers said.
Twenty-three people were taken into custody during the first of a series of planned protests that organizers are calling the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, according to an early NYPD count.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s, D-Calif., proposal to restrict gun rights through a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution has failed to gain national traction since it was unveiled one year ago.
Despite the Democratic governor’s enthusiasm in 2023, exactly zero states have agreed to his call for the constitutional convention necessary to amend the U.S. Constitution.
Newsom claimed Sunday that this lack of progress was expected and the amendment could take decades to gain momentum.
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Google Pays to Sidestep a Jury in Major Antitrust Trial
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has decided that Google’s ongoing antitrust lawsuit (separate from the lawsuit targeting its search engine monopoly) will proceed without a jury, an outcome that some critics view as favorable for Google. This follows Google’s strategic move to settle the government’s demand for financial restitution by paying just $2.3 million, precisely the amount the lawsuit sought in damages. This payment effectively eliminated the requirement for a jury to adjudicate the matter, aligning with Google’s preference for a bench trial—a decision that raises questions about the transparency and impartiality of the proceedings.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — Federal prosecutors told the jury in first son Hunter Biden’s felony gun trial Monday not to let themselves be swayed by the presence of the president’s family — including first lady Jill Biden — throughout the proceedings.
The six-man, six-woman panel began deliberations at 3:33 p.m. and continued for one hour before breaking for the day, to return Tuesday at 9 a.m.
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In Shocking Litmus Test, FBI Security Inquiry Tried to Unmask Employee’s Trump Support, Memos Show
FBI officials conducting a top-secret security clearance review for a longtime employee asked witnesses whether that employee was known to support former President Donald Trump, if he had expressed concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine or had attended a Second Amendment rally, according to internal memos that prompted a complaint to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog alleging political bias inside the bureau.
The employee’s security clearance was revoked months after the interviews, which confirmed his support for Trump and gun rights and his concerns about the COVID vaccine, according to the documents obtained by Just the News.
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Judge Declines to Dismiss Trump Classified Documents Case
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon rejected attempts to dismiss more than half a dozen charges against former President Donald Trump Monday, related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Trump has been accused of mishandling classified documents that were stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the Oval Office. An FBI raid in August of 2022 seized roughly 100 documents that bared various classified markings.
The defense sought to dismiss charges related to false statements and obstruction of justice. But Cannon claimed the defense’s arguments did not warrant a dismissal of the charges.
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Just in: John Fetterman and Wife Involved in Maryland Car Crash
Senator John Fetterman and his wife Gisele were involved in a car crash over the weekend in Maryland. The Democratic Senator and his wife were taken to the hospital directly afterward to be treated for minor injuries.
According to a report from Fox 29, John and Gisele Fetterman were involved in a car crash just before 8 am on Sunday morning. State police responded to the crash location in the area of I-70 and I-68 in Hancock, Maryland. Police told the outlet that the Senator had been behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Traverse when he struck the rear of a Chevrolet Impala.
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Key Bridge Collapse: Baltimore Shipping Channel Fully Reopens After More Than 2 Months
The Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel, in its entirety, opened for business as of Monday evening.
The navigable waterway had been at least partially blocked since March 26, when the 984-foot container ship Dali lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s support piers, knocking it over and killing six men who were filling potholes on the span. The ship itself was lodged in the channel for nearly two months, in addition to 50,000 tons of debris from the bridge that had carried Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River since 1977.
“We’ve cleared the Fort McHenry Federal Channel for safe transit,” said Col. Estee Pinchasin, Baltimore district commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, in a statement about 6:30 p.m. Monday. “USACE will maintain this critical waterway as we have for the last 107 years.”
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Multiple Studies Confirm COVID Shots Cause Cancer
Oncologists around the world are continuing the raise the alarm as a growing number of new studies confirm that Covid mRNA shots cause cancer.
Two more new studies have just added to the swelling body of evidence showing that the injections trigger the rapid development and spread of cancer.
According to a report from Infowars, one study revealed that the spike protein from Covid mRNA shots elicits gene-interrupting activity.
This, in turn, inhibits a crucial protein that is used for tumor suppression.
This gene-interrupting causes the cancer cells to flourish.
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New York Passes Online Age Verification Digital ID Law
Lawmakers in New York have passed the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and the Child Data Protection Act.
Assembly Bill A8148A and Senate Bill S7694A (that became the SAFE Act) were introduced as aiming to prevent social platforms from showing minors “addictive” (i.e., algorithmically manipulated) feeds, among a host of other provisions.
Parental consent is now required for children to have access to the latter versions of the feeds — which in turn means that the controversial age verification for adults must be introduced into the mix.
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Opponents Raise Integrity Concerns About Illinois Legalizing Permanent Nursing Home Mail-in Voting
Opponents of a measure on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk are concerned poll watchers won’t be able to verify vote-by-mail procedures conducted in nursing homes where voters may be physically and mentally incapacitated.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, under emergency order, nursing home voters were legally able to cast ballots through vote-by-mail procedures. Now, state Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford, wants to codify the temporary procedures in statute with House Bill 4488.
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Pelosi Declared in Video Shot by Daughter ‘I Take Responsibility’ for Jan. 6 Security Failures
Moments after being whisked away from the U.S. Capitol after it was breached on Jan. 6, 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was captured on videotape declaring “I take responsibility” for failing to have a better security plan for the complex that fateful day, according to footage released Monday by House GOP investigators.
“We have responsibility, Terri,” Pelosi is heard saying on the videotape to her chief of staff, Terri McCullough. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous.”
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The ex-assistant city attorney of Atlanta who was jailed for defrauding the federal government out of $15 million in COVID relief loans also made a donation to the local DA.
Shelitha Robertson, 62, donated $1,000 to Fani Willis’s Democratic primary election campaign around the time she got the massive payouts — obtained after declaring inflated businesses to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), filings show.
A few years later, the Georgia jurist would charge former President Donald Trumpwith racketeering following a 13-count indictment accused him of trying to illegally overturn the 2020 election.
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San Francisco Opens Taxpayer-Funded ‘Free’ Grocery Store
Democrat-controlled San Francisco has opened a new store that offers residents “free” groceries.
However, despite the best efforts of socialist Democrats to gaslight us into believing otherwise, nothing is “free.”
The “Food Empowerment Market” is, of course, funded by taxpayers.
The grand opening of the District 10 Community Market in Bayview-Hunters Point was announced in a press release from Democrat Mayor London Breed’s office.
The 4,000-square-foot store is part of a pilot program providing “free” food to those who want it.
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The Government is Creating Jobs. Literally.
“Today’s report marks a milestone in America’s comeback,” Joe Biden bragged in March. “With today’s report of 303,000 new jobs in March, we have passed the milestone of 15 million jobs created since I took office.” Milestone or a millstone though might be a matter of opinion.
Politicians like to brag about “creating jobs” and for once it was literally true.
Of those 300,000 jobs, 71,000 or 1 in 4 were government jobs. Another 72,000 jobs came out of the healthcare industry which is heavily government funded. And 9,000 came from “employment in social assistance” or welfare. About 1 in 2 of Biden’s jobs were funded by taxpayers in one form or another. The only non-government industry showing significant job growth was the hospitality industry which was prepping temporary employment for vacation season.
An even more absurd story of government job growth came out of New York City where city officials boasted of having recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic. But aBloomberg article revealed that “virtually all of the jobs added in the 12 months ended in March were in home health care, a low-paying but rapidly swelling field. It’s technically classified as private employment, but home health care is actually paid for primarily through publicly funded health programs like Medicaid.” Meanwhile actual private sector jobs were vanishing in New York.
“It’s giving us this sense that our economy is growing when in fact it’s really just Medicaid that’s growing,” Bill Hammond, a senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy, pointed out.
While the Education and Health and the Government job sectors boomed in New York, mostly everything else was contracting or struggling.
And it’s not just New York City.
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Watch: Mob Loots AutoZone in South LA During Chaotic Street Takeover
The latest chaotic example of California’s criminal and social justice reforms backfiring erupted in South Los Angeles early Monday morning, where a street takeover resulted in a mob of looters ransacking an AutoZone store.
Local media outlet KTLA reported that the Los Angeles Police Department received multiple calls of a street takeover at the intersection of Century Boulevard and Hoover Street around 0400 local time. Then, minutes later, a mob of 50 people looted a nearby AutoZone. Officials believe other stores in the area were hit as well.
“At least three businesses were hit within a four-mile radius and authorities were working to determine if the crimes were connected,” Fox 11 said.
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Weekend LA Mayhem Includes E-Bike Thugs Shooting Fireworks Into Crowds of Families
Los Angeles continued its headlong descent into lawlessness over the weekend as a mob ransacked an auto-parts store and a gang of e-bike riding teens terrorized vacationing families with illegal fireworks.
Hermosa Beach Pier was teeming with young families enjoying their Saturday night when a group of unruly teens rolled in and turned the entertainment district into a warzone, launching several powerful fireworks into the crowd, video shows.
Several bystanders received minor injuries, including a woman who was struck in the face and a man who got hit in the head.
Several young children narrowly escaped flaming sparks propelled from the rocket’s explosion.
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Investigation Launched After St. Anne’s Anglican Church Burns to the Ground in Toronto
On Sunday morning, firefighters in Toronto were called to the site of a beloved church in the Little Portugal neighborhood. By the time they arrived, however, St. Anne’s Anglican Church was all but gone, with only some of the outer walls left intact.
Beyond being a community staple and popular place of worship, the 160-year-old church was home to a collection of pieces painted by the Group of Seven, which Father Don Beyers described as “priceless.” The paintings are believed to have perished alongside nearly everything else inside the building.
According to the Toronto Police Service, the fire broke out shortly before 8 am on Sunday. When first responders pulled up to 270 Gladstone Avenue, they “observed thick black smoke coming from the church,” which was “fully engulfed in flames.”
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Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill to “Protect” People From “Misinformation”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week complained that governments have allegedly been left without the necessary tools to “protect people from misinformation.”
This “dire” warning came as part of Trudeau’s effort to have the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) — one of the most controversial of its kind pieces of censorship legislation in Canada of late — pushed across the finish line in the country’s parliament.
C-63 has gained notoriety among civil rights and privacy advocates because of some of its provisions around “hate speech,” “hate propaganda,” and “hate crime.”
Under the first two, people would be punished before they commit any transgression, but also retroactively.
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Antifa Activist Accused of Hammer Attack Elected to EU Parliament
A radical Italian Antifa activist accused of attacking people with a hammer in Budapest has been elected to the European Parliament, potentially paving the way for her to be freed from custody in Hungary.
Ilaria Salis, a 39-year-old schoolteacher and “anti-fascist” activist currently under house arrest in Hungary, has won a seat in the EU parliament on behalf of the Green-Left Alliance (AVS) in Italy, ANSA reports.
Salis has been accused of being part of a leftist group of mostly Germans who allegedly attacked a group of supposed “neo-Nazis” on February 11th in 2023 as they honoured the Nazi Waffen SS soldiers and Hungarian allied troops who fought the Red Army during the Siege of Budapest by the Soviets during World War II.
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Belgian National Elections: Flemish Nationalist Parties Reign Supreme
Belgian politics witnessed a seachange last night after voters went to the ballot box to elect new regional and federal parliaments, in addition to selecting their representatives in the European parliament.
“Friends, we have won these elections,” man of the hour, center-right nationalist N-VA leader Bart De Wever told jubilant supporters. “And admit it: you didn’t expect that. The polls were bad, the comments in the press were damning, but you never gave up.”
On both the regional and federal level, Flemish nationalist parties dominated, while the francophone side of the country—which traditionally leans left—saw the meteoric rise of the liberal-conservative Mouvement Reformateur party and the center-right Christian Democrats, while the socialist Parti Socialiste and the Greens had to swallow serious losses.
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Centre Right Bags Victory in Bulgaria National and EU Elections
But the results could spell more political instability for the EU’s poorest member state.
Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party has received the most votes in parliamentary elections marked by voter apathy and low turnout.
The results have produced yet another fragmented parliament, which will likely be unable to end a long-running period of political turmoil.
Many observers predict another snap parliamentary election later this year.
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Czechia’s Average Wage Sees Slowest Growth of All V4 Countries
According to a recent cross-European study, the average private sector wage in the Czech Republic increased by 6 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2024, to CZK 43,716 (EUR 1,779)—the slowest growth out of all Visegrad Group (V4) countries. Polish wages were higher on average than those in Czechia.
Consulting company Forvis Mazars found that real wages in Czechia grew by almost 5 percent in the first quarter of this year — the first time real wages have grown in the country in around two years.
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Czech Republic Believes Russia Was Behind Arson Attack on Buses
The Czech Republic is accusing Russia of being behind an attempted arson attack following the arrest of a terrorist suspect in Prague.
“It is not only possible, but very likely that Russia is involved in this case,” Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on television on Monday after a meeting of the National Security Council. “Everything points to the fact that this was organized and financed from abroad,” the liberal-conservative politician said.
Last Thursday’s arson attack targeted buses belonging to Prague’s public transport company. It was unsuccessful, due to the quick reaction of company staff.
Fiala thanked the secret services and the police for their “extraordinarily good and professional work.” The investigation was continuing, he said.
The police said the suspect, who was arrested at the weekend following a public manhunt, is a 26-year-old foreigner. The man had only entered the country a few days previously.
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East-West Split in Germany Cemented Following EP Elections
An East-West split has been cemented in Germany following the European Parliament elections.
While there was a shift to the political Right across the nation on June 9, a plurality of those in the former territories of West Germany opted to vote for the centre-right “Union” parties — the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU)
The populist-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), by contrast, became the strongest electoral force overall in the country’s formerly Communist East.
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Elon Musk Defends Germany’s Anti-Immigration AfD Party Following EU Election Results
Elon Musk took to his platform X following the German election results in support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. In his post, which is a reply to pro-AfD activist Naomi Seibt, he asks why there is such a negative reaction to the party and states his belief that the party has sound policies.
“Why is there such a negative reaction from some about AfD? wrote Musk, adding: “They keep saying ‘far right,’ but the policies of AfD that I’ve read about don’t sound extremist. Maybe I’m missing something.”
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Entire Leadership of Flemish Liberals Resigns Over Crushing Election Defeat
The entire leadership of one of Belgium’s premier Liberal parties have announced their resignation following their defeat in the country’s regional, national and European elections.
Tom Ongena, President of Flanders’ Open VLD party — which had been in government at the federal level in the country — announced that the group’s entire board would resign over the failure.
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Europe’s Establishment Press Rattled by Successes of the Right
Mainstream newspapers are doing all they can today, on June 10th, to echo Ursula von der Leyen’s triumphant message that “the centre is holding.” But reporters and pundits are unable to hide their concerns surrounding the shift to the Right which, however much they try to downplay it, they accept will raise serious difficulties for the establishment parties.
Coverage of Viktor Orban’s performance in the European Parliament (EP) elections is indicative of this, with his 44% share of the Hungarian vote—a proportion that most other European political leaders can only dream of—dismissed as a “stumble” or a loss because it is lower than that achieved in previous polls. Reuters in particular framed Orban’s smaller-than-expected lead as an example of “strong performances by centrist parties” in eastern Europe.
The Guardian in Britain was also keen to highlight that the “pro-European centre holds” the “far-Right” back. But its underlying fears became apparent when it accepted that
The narrowing overall majorities for mainstream pro-European parties could endanger the passing of ambitious laws on climate action.
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European Parliament’s ‘Grand Coalition’ Likely to Survive, Von Der Leyen Says
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has suggested that the EU’s so-called Grand Coalition will survive for another five years following her European People’s Party (EPP) election win on June 9.
Despite a surge in hard-right support, parliament data shows that the EPP, Renew and the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) are likely to cumulatively hold onto a majority of seats in the parliament, boding well for the German politician’s chances of reappointment.
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Exit Poll Latest: Netherlands Sending Three New Parties to European Parliament
The European election results will mean quite a bit of shuffling for the Dutch representatives in the European Parliament. Three Dutch parties will enter the European Parliament for the first time, and three are disappearing. The PVV will also delegate significantly more MEPs.
GroenLiks-PvdA will be the biggest Dutch parity in the European Parliament with eight seats, down one from what the two left-wing parties won in the 2019 elections. The PVV goes from one seat to six, according to ANP’s prognosis based on the results submitted by the Dutch municipalities.
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Finland Admits to Using Ukraine as Testing Ground for Its New Weapons
While Finland has consistently concealed details of arms shipments to Ukraine, Deputy Chief of General Staff Mikko Heiskanen has admitted that state-of-the-art weapons have been sent to Kyiv, Hungarian business news portal Portfolio reported, citing the Finnish news site Helsingin Sanomat.
Heiskanen admitted in an interview that Finland has not only handed over old equipment to Ukraine but also new weaponry, insisting that “Ukraine has been a testing ground for Finnish defense industry innovations.”
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French Left Calls for Unity Ahead of Snap Elections
In the wake of French President Emmanuel Macron’s late-night announcement of a snap election, leaders and key figures from France’s left-wing parties have rallied for a unified “Front populaire” to take on the hard-right.
Manuel Bompard, the national co-ordinator of the French hard-left party La France Insoumise, has called for a meeting of the left-wing political groups on June 10, urging “unity”.
“Today, the situation requires working for unity and clarity to defeat the National Rally [RN] and govern the country,” Bompard stated.
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Germany’s SPD Leader Claims His Party Lost EP Election to ‘Nazis’
The co-leader of Germany’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) has claimed his group lost to “Nazis” in the European Elections.
During a live television event, Lars Klingbeil claimed that Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel — who was in the studio at the time — was a “Nazi” shortly after it was confirmed her populist group outperformed his.
“The result of the European elections is a wake-up call for many people to realise that the Nazis have become stronger in this election,” he told the programme.
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German business leaders are coming out against the ruling left-liberal government, and one of the biggest, the CEO of Deutsche Börse AG, a multinational corporation that operates the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, one of the biggest stock exchanges in the world, is now labeling the current government’s policy as “a disaster” on a range of issues, including migration and economic policy.
Theodor Weimer issued the scathing rebuke against the ruling government at an event organized by the Bavarian Economic Advisory Council.
During his speech at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Weimer said, “I have now had my 18th meeting with our Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck, and I can tell you, it’s a sheer catastrophe.”
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Germany: AfD Are the Big Winners — Especially Among Workers and Youth
Voters have sent a clear message to the German coalition to “drastically change [its] politics on migration, on the economy and on climate protection,” wrote Germany’s daily Bild after the European elections held on Sunday.
The three parties of the left-liberal government suffered a humiliating defeat, with the Social Democrats suffering their worst result ever. The party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz came third with 13.9%, which translates to 14 seats in the European Parliament (out of the 96 allocated to Germany).
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Germany: Maximilian Krah Ousted From AfD EU Delegation
Less than a day after a solid electoral performance for the AfD in EU elections media sources broke the news that its leading candidate Maximillian Krah will not be part of the party’s Brussels delegation after months of public scandal and backroom fighting. The party’s 15-member delegation voted on Monday to exclude the former top name. Eight MEPs voted not to accept Krah, three abstained and four voted against.
During a break in the discussions, before the vote, Krah said an exclusion “would not stop me from continuing to work loudly and successfully for this party in the European Parliament.”
In a social media video posted an hour after the news broke, Krah said that “this approach is wrong” and sent a bad message to the party youth base in particular. The MEP is noted for his prolific use of social media and radical stances on NATO foreign policy.
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Giorgia Invictus: Meloni Dominates Italy’s EU Election
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) party dominated the 2024 European parliamentary election in Italy, a feat that on Sunday no other governing party in the European Union’s largest member states —Germany, France, Spain—could replicate.
The national conservative FdI, with its heavily anti-immigration platform, bagged 28.8% of the votes nationwide. That exceeds the psychological threshold of the party’s result in the 2022 national elections (26%), meaning it is seen as a strong expression of approval of Meloni’s governance.
This result translates to 24 seats out of Italy’s total of 76 in the European Parliament, which is 14 more than what the party received in 2019, and makes FdI the largest delegation in the sovereigntist European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) group.
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Historic Defeat for Social Democrats in Denmark
Denmark’s Social Democrats suffered a seismic loss in the European Parliament elections, being overtaken by its rival Socialist People’s Party for the first time in history
The Socialists People’s Party (SF) rose to 17.4 per cent in the June 9 vote, growing almost 4 per cent compared to the previous elections, while the Social Democrats dropped from 21.5 per cent to 15.6 per cent.
In terms of vote share, the outcome was the weakest result for the Social Democrats since 1898.
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Meloni: ‘The Left Was Unable to Stop the Rise of the Right’
During Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s victory speech, she said that the left is falling to the wayside while the right is ascendant in Italy and across Europe.
“The left saw the rise of the right but was unable to stop it,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in the early hours of Monday as her FdI (Brothers of Italy) party went from 6 percent of the votes to 28 percent in the European elections, a statement that also applies to the wider European context.
She recalled that she and her party celebrated their victory in the Italian parliamentary elections in the same place in September 2022.
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Most Want Stronger Europe, Timmermans Says; PVV the “Biggest Winner, “ Says Wilders
The provisional results of the European Parliament elections show that most people want a stronger Europe, GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans said. His party’s European faction has become the largest in the European Parliament with 8 seats. The PVV got 6 seats and is the “biggest winner,” leader Geert Wilders said.
GroenLinks-PvdA has become the largest party “by a clear margin,” Timmermans said to ANP. “Together with the excellent performances of the other pro-European parties, this shows that a majority in the Netherlands wants to strengthen Europe and certainly not destroy it.”
GroenLinks-PvdA lost 1 seat, but with 8 seats, it is still the largest Dutch party in the European Parliament. The PVV gained significant ground but ended with 6 seats.
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Netherlands: No Decision on Many Cabinet Posts After Two Weeks of New Coalition Talks
Almost two weeks after Dick Schoof was presented as the new coalition’s nominee for prime minister, the parties forming a coalition have not yet reached an agreement on the distribution of the remaining Cabinet posts. Several sources close to the talks in The Hague said that the ministerial posts have already been divided between the parties, and that the discussions are now about the state secretaries that serve below the ministers.
It is unusual for the distribution of Cabinet posts to be debated for weeks. On Monday, after the coalition parties discussed the issue, neither the party leaders nor the incoming prime minister were willing to comment on the matter.
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The Civic Coalition (KO) emerged victorious in the European Parliament elections in Poland, garnering 37.06 percent of the votes and securing 21 seats. The opposition Law and Justice (PiS) came in a close second with 36.16 percent of the vote, translating to 20 seats.
The right-wing Confederation Party claimed a strong third place with 12.08 percent of the vote and scoring 6 seats.
The Third Way alliance, which forms the ruling coalition, achieved 6.91 percent (3 seats), while the Left Party, also in a government coalition with KO, received 6.3 percent of the vote, also gaining 3 seats. Voter turnout was reported at 40.65 percent.
The KO’s victory was most pronounced in Warsaw and its surrounding areas, as well as in western and northern Poland. Among the newly elected MEPs from KO are notable figures form the Tusk government, such as Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, the former minister of culture known for his public media purges, as well as the former Justice Minister Marcin Kierwinskiand former Minister of State Assets Borys Budka.
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Polish MP Who Extinguished Hanukkah Menorah Elected to European Parliament
A Polish MP who recently doused a Hanukkah menorah in the Polish Parliament with a fire extinguisher has been elected to the European Parliament.
Grzegorz Braun, of the hard-right Confederation party, drew international criticism following the stunt, with many condemning the act as antisemitic.
The politician only played into the scandal during his EP election campaign, with Braun said to have taken part in mass rallies at which children lined up to have their own fire extinguishers signed by the politician.
He also took down a Ukrainian flag from a landmark in Kraków to protest the alleged “Ukrainisation of Poland”.
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Polish Liberal’s EU Election Victory Was ‘Very Bad’ for the Country, Says Former Speaker
Following the vote tally by Poland’s State Electoral Commission, former conservative speaker of the Parliament, Marek Jurek, has labeled the election results as “very bad” for the country. With all votes counted, the difference between the Civic Coalition (KO), which secured first place, and the second-ranked Law and Justice (PiS) party, was notably slim.
The Civic Coalition (KO) garnered 37.06 percent of the votes, winning 21 seats, while Law and Justice (PiS) received 36.16 percent and 20 seats. The right-wing Confederation partygained 12.08 percent (6 seats), the Third Way alliance (PSL and Poland 2050) scored 6.91 percent (3 seats), and the Left got 6.3 percent (3 seats).
Jurek expressed concern over what he perceives as a national crisis, stating, “A large part of society effectively agrees to an unprotected Poland, submissive to the desires of the European Union and careless about the family crisis.”
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Populist ANO Party Tops Czech EP Elections Amid Right-Wing EU Wave
The populist opposition ANO movement scored the highest amount of votes after Czechia went to the polls for the 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections, fitting in with the trend of right-wing parties performing well at the multi-state elections on the continent. Czechs wanted to make their voices heard, posting a record turnout at the EP elections.
Right-wing parties do well
ANO won with 26.14 percent, claiming seven seats in the EP — one more than in the 2019 selection. The Spolu (Together) coalition — featuring the Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats, and Top 09 — that currently rules the Czech government came closely behind, with 22.2 percent of the vote and six members of European Parliament (MEPs).
In third place came Prisaha and Motorists, a populist, right-wing to far-right party that has in the past faced accusations of neo-Nazism. This electoral alliance gained two seats in the EP (and 10 percent of the common Czech vote). The left-wing to far-left Stacilo! (Enough!) political coalition also gained around 10 percent of the vote and elected two MEPs.
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Spain: Sumar Leader Steps Down After EU Election Failure
Yolanda Diaz, Spain’s Minister for Labour and Social Economy, is stepping down as leader of the Left-wing electoral alliance Sumar after the group’s poor performance during the European elections.
Diaz, one of the Sumar’s founders, took the decision despite having been elected as its general co-ordinator just a few months ago.
“I feel like I haven’t done the things I was supposed to do and the things I know how to do best. The citizens have perceived it,” she said on June 10.
The politician added that “many people” had been telling her that she had not been performing at the level she should be, something that she now wants to take “responsibility” for.
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Spain’s Centre-Right Deals Blow to Sanchez
Spain’s centre-right Partido Popular (PP) has won the European Elections in the country, significantly increasing its vote share and piling pressure on the country’s left-wing government.
With 99% of votes counted, the PP won 34.2%, an increase of 14% over the last European Elections in 2019. The result gives them 22 seats in the European Parliament, up nine.
The governing socialist PSOE party finished second with 30.2%, down 2.7% on its 2019 performance and losing one seat.
Meanwhile, the right-wing VOX party increased its vote share by 3.4%, winning six seats, an increase of two. New anti-establishment party Se Acabó La Fiesta (The Party Is Over, SALF), founded by social media personality Alvise Pérez, also won 4.6% of the vote and three seats. Pérez was a prominent anti-lockdown campaigner and regularly rails against the “deep state.” He has been compared to El Salvador’s populist president Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei.
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UK: Tory Election Campaign Goes From Bad to Worse After D-Day Blunder
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s general election campaign got off to a poor start towards the end of last month but did briefly appear to be looking up following his June 4th head-to-head debatewith Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Very briefly, in fact, now that a catastrophic D-Day gaffe just two days later, on June 6th, has left the Conservatives in arguably their worst position yet and has turned the political discussion to whether Sunak could lose his own (typically safe Tory) Parliamentary seat.
The British political scene exploded on Thursday when the prime minister left D-Day commemorations in Normandy early to take part in an interview with ITV, while senior Labour figures and Reform UK’s Nigel Farage stayed for the full stretch.
Cue four days of blasting rhetoric from all sides (Tories included) about Sunak caring more about his career than the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
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Viktor Orban’s Victory Streak Continues in EU Elections
Hungarian ruling party Fidesz scored another resounding victory in the European elections on Sunday, continuing its uninterrupted series of wins in national, local, and EU elections dating back to 2009. The conservative party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, received 44.7% of the votes, and 11 of the 21 seats allocated to Hungary in the European Parliament (EP).
Though the percentage of the vote was not as high as five years ago, when Fidesz finished with 52.6%, high voter turnout meant that the party got almost 200,000 more votes than last time.
Referring to the results, Viktor Orban said voters backed his government’s pro-peace policy. Fidesz had been campaigning on an anti-war platform, urging the EU to stop sending weapons to Ukraine and start focusing on peace talks instead, emphasising that the war was harming the EU’s economy. He also vowed that his government would represent an anti-immigration, anti-gender ideology and an anti-federalist stance at the EU level. “To sum up the results of the European elections, we can send it as a telegram to Brussels as the following: Migration, stop. Gender, stop. War, stop. Soros, stop. Brussels, stop,” he said.
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Von Der Leyen Triumphant — But Nobody Voted for Her
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the lead candidate for the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) triumphantly declared in Brussels last night that “no majority can be formed without the EPP.” This comes after exit polls show that the EPP is set to remain the largest group within the European Parliament.
“We are the strongest party. We are the anchors of stability and voters acknowledge our leadership in the last five years,” she said, adding that she had sensed “a lot of confidence and trust” in the EPP and the European Union during her re-election campaign.
Though the EPP may well be the largest group and her words triumphant—she even thanked her campaign team—nobody actually voted for von der Leyen. In addition, her re-election as Commission president is not at all that sure.
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Wilders Criticizes Commander of Dutch Army for Calling Israel Hostage Rescue Complicated
PVV leader Geert Wilders criticized Onno Eichelsheim, the Commander of the Dutch Armed Forces, because he called Israel’s rescue of four hostages in Gaza “very complicated” given the high number of deaths the Israeli army inflicted during the rescue. Wilders said on X that Eichelsheim’s statements were “incomprehensible, inappropriate, incorrect.”
On Saturday, Israel freed four hostages who had been held in Gaza since October. The Palestinian government reported that the Israeli army killed 274 people in the operation, including three Israeli hostages.
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‘Halt the Killing’: UN Security Council Adopts a Gaza War Ceasefire Resolution
New York: The United Nations Security Council has backed a proposal outlined by US President Joe Biden for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and urged the Palestinian militants to accept the deal aimed at ending the eight-month-long war.
Hamas has welcomed the adoption of the US-drafted resolution and said in a statement that it was ready to co-operate with mediators over implementing the principles of the plan.
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A journalist in Gaza was holding three Israeli hostages in his family home when he was killed during the operation to rescue them on Saturday, according to the Israel Defense Forces military. Abdallah Aljamal was killed when soldiers raided his home in central Gaza to rescue Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andri Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41. According to the IDF, the hostages were held by Aljamal and his family. It was previously revealed that Hamas has been paying Palestinians to hold hostages in Gaza.
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On June 10, UK Defence Intelligence said that Russia is intensifying efforts to recruit fighters from African countries to bolster its military in the ongoing Ukraine war.
This move is seen as a clear indication that Moscow is grappling with a significant shortage of mobilization resources, particularly prisoners, a group it has heavily relied upon to mitigate public dissatisfaction with the war.
The UK Ministry of Defence, in its latest intelligence update, highlighted that on May 28, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence reported an uptick in Russian recruitment activities targeting Central African nations, including Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, and Uganda.
Russia is offering attractive incentives to these potential recruits, including a $2,000 registration bonus, a $2,200 monthly salary, and the promise of a Russian passport.
British intelligence assesses that this aggressive recruitment drive is aimed at compensating for the severe losses suffered by the Russian military on the battlefield and sustaining offensive operations on multiple fronts.
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Ukrainian Air Force Hits First Target on Russian Territory as War Continues to Escalate
A Ukrainian military aircraft has hit a target on Russian territory for the first time, a Kyiv military source announced, in the latest sign that Ukraine and the West are willing to bring the war to Russian soil.
According to the Ukrainian source, a “Russian command center” was reportedly attacked on Sunday, June 9, near Belgorod in western Russia.
It is not yet clear what type of ammunition was used in the attack, including whether it was a Western weapon. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the military source told Sky News, “The Ukrainian air force hit a Russian command center in Belgorod. Although damage assessment is still ongoing, the attack resulted in a direct hit. This is the first Ukrainian airstrike on a target on Russian territory.”
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4 Iowa College Instructors Stabbed in Mainland China
June 10 (UPI) — Four instructors affiliated with Cornell College in Iowa were stabbed during a visit to a park Sunday in northeast Mainland China, the private school said Monday.
A family member of one of the victims told Iowa Public Radio they all survived the attack.
“We have learned that four Cornell instructors teaching as part of a partnership with a university in China were injured in a serious incident during a daytime visit to a public park while accompanied by a faculty member of the partner institution,” President Jonathan Brand wrote to students and staff. “We have been in contact with all four instructors and are assisting them during this time. There were no students taking part in this program.”
The school in China was identified as Beihua University, a state-owned public university in Jilin City, the Des Moines Register reported.
Cornell College is a private liberal arts college founded in 1853 in Mount Vernon, 18 miles east of Cedar Rapids, with 1,074 students in 2022-2023.
State Rep. Adam Zabner said that his brother, David Zabner, was one of the victims.
David Zabner, a doctoral student at Tufts in Massachusetts who previously taught at Cornell, was stabbed in the arm and is recovering at a hospital.
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Australian Senate Launches Major Inquiry Into Soaring Deaths Among Vaxxed
The Australian Senate has just launched a major inquiry into the nation’s soaring numbers of excess deaths among the widely vaccinated population.
The country has suffered staggering losses since the mass vaccination program was launched in 2021.
Australia led the world in tyrannical lockdowns and vaccine mandates during, and after, the pandemic.
The nation has one of the highest rates of Covid mRNA vaccination in the world.
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U.S. Consulate in Sydney Attacked, Smeared With Anti-Israel Graffiti
The U.S. consulate in Sydney, Australia, was attacked early Monday morning by a sledgehammer-wielding suspect who smashed windows and smeared anti-Israel graffiti on its doors.
CCTV footage obtained by police shows a hooded figure with their face obscured smashing nine glass windows of the consulate office with a hammer at around 3am, ABC News reports.
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62% of Registered Voters Support Plans to Deport ALL Illegal Aliens
A new poll has left corporate media talking heads stunned after it showed overwhelming support for mass deportations of illegal aliens.
According to a new CBS News/YouGov poll, 62 percent of all registered U.S. voters would support plans for the federal government to deport all illegals.
The survey found that even one-third of Democrats would back such a policy.
The poll, published on Sunday, asked registered voters if they would support a new national program to deport all illegal immigrants.
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Biden Mulling Plan to Grant ‘Amnesty’ to 1 Million Illegal Aliens
Democrats President Joe Biden’s White House is currently mulling a plan that would give around one million illegal aliens a “pathway” to America’s voter rolls.
Amid mounting pressure from the leftist wing of the Democrats, Biden has hinted that more liberal moves on immigration could be coming in the weeks ahead.
Reports suggest that Biden is considering a deportation shield for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens already living in the U.S.
Last week, Biden announced an executive order to limit the ability of illegals to claim asylum at the Southern Border.
However, the move still allows for an unprecedented flow of foreign nationals to illegally cross the border every day.
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California Owes Feds $53 MILLION for ‘Improperly’ Claimed Medicaid Reimbursements for Noncitizens
California owes the federal government $52.7 million after Gov. Newsom’sadministration improperly claimed Medicaid reimbursements for non-citizens.
A recent inspector general report revealed that California illegally provided services to “noncitizens with unsatisfactory immigration status” through Medicaid reimbursement. Under federal law, states are prohibited from claiming such reimbursements for non-citizens unless in a medical emergency. This applies to all non-citizens, including refugees and asylum seekers.
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Canada: Life Sentence for Syrian Refugee Who Murdered, Raped Burnaby Teen
A Vancouver court handed Syrian refugee Ibrahim Ali a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years after being convicted of the first-degree murder of a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C. girl.
The case has gripped the nation since the girl’s body was discovered discarded in a woodland park in 2017 with signs that she was sexually assaulted before death.
The identity of the young victim remains protected under a publication ban.
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Chicago’s Migrant Crisis Sparks Chaos as Homeless Population Swells by 200% in Just One Year
Chaos has worsened in Chicago as the homeless population has swelled three times the amount in just one year as migrants continue to move to the Windy City.
The city’s annual snapshot, released on Friday, revealed that 18,836 people are homeless in Chicago in 2024, compared to 6,139 in 2023 — amounting to a staggering 200 percent increase in total.
The unhoused population under the term ‘sheltered new arrivals’ was counted on January 25 as 13,679, while there were 212 ‘unsheltered new arrivals’ recorded.
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Coast Guard Intercepts Over 300 Migrants Headed for US and Ships Them Back Home
More than 300 migrants nabbed on the high seas last week while trying to reach American soil have been shipped back to Haiti and the Bahamas, the US Coast Guard announced Monday.
The migrants were intercepted by Coast Guard cutters in separate incidents and sent home over the past week as part of Operation Vigilant Sentry in conjunction with Homeland Security officials, the agency said.
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Two suspects wanted for allegedly brutally beating and mugging a tourist outside a Times Square hotel are believed to be migrants who’d been living in shelters, police sources said.
The two are wanted for attacking the 44-year-old Indiana man outside the four-star Club Quarters Hotel on West 45th Street just before 2:30 a.m. May 10, according to police appeals and sources.
They allegedly punched and kicked the tourist during the savage attack.
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Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents arrested more than 3,000 migrants in May, setting a new record for the Canadian border sector. The arrests bring this fiscal year’s total to more than 10,000 — another sector record.
Unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas revealed that Swanton Sector agents arrested approximately 3,000 migrants in May. This is the largest number of migrant encounters for any month in the sector’s history, which patrols the Canadian border with eastern New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. It actually exceeds the annual total for any fiscal year prior to the Biden administration.
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Over the weekend, large numbers of migrants attempted to cross the Polish-Belarusian border, including 150 on Saturday alone. Authorities are becoming increasingly concerned, as more and more of them are willing to use force against border guards and soldiers, which in turn requires authorities to deploy more forceful measures to stop them.
During the attacks, border guards are being bombarded with projectiles, including stones and tree branches. This comes after migrants murdered a Polish soldier during an attack earlier this month.
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In a case that involved at least 27 victims, a 35-year-old Sudanese man has been convicted for multiple arson attacks across the French city of Pau, which were set over the period of at least two months, between March and May 2022. During one of the attacks, a young female student was forced to jump from her window, 7 meters (22 feet) off the ground, resulting in her breaking both her ankles and leaving her confined to using a cane, even as of today.
The man has now been convicted for his serial arson attacks, but the judge in the case refuses to deport him, saying that being sent back to Sudan would represent too grave a threat to his life.
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Iowa Defends Immigration Law That Allows Local Officials to Arrest People Told to Leave US
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa defended its new immigration law on Monday and argued that the state’s ability to file criminal charges against people did not infringe on federal authority over immigration because local officials would abide by all federal regulations.
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of civil rights groups are seeking a temporary or permanent injunction of the law, which goes into effect July 1 unless it’s blocked by the courts. The law is similar to one in Texas, which has been temporarily blocked, and another in Oklahomathat the DOJ is seeking to stop.
U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Locher said “I’ll do my best” to rule quickly on the injunction request. Locher noted the likelihood his ruling would be appealed, calling it the “first step along this journey.”
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Majority of Jobs Added Under Biden Have Gone to Foreign-Born Workers: Report
The majority of jobs that have been added to the US economy since the pandemic, as well as since President Joe Biden took office, have gone to foreign-born workers in the United States. The country has added millions of jobs since millions were lost during the spring of 2020, however, most of those are not going to native-born American citizens.
According to a report compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), US-born citizens in the US both legal and illegal immigrants into the US have been those who have gotten jobs in Biden’s economy. CIS’s analysis of the government’s household survey shows that only 971,000 jobs have gone to native-US citizens since May 2019 versus 3.2 million going to foreign-born workers in the US.
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States, Farmers File Suit Against Biden Admin Over Rule Allowing Temporary Farm Workers to Unionize
coalition of states, Miles Berry Farm and the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association filed a new lawsuit on Monday challenging the Labor Department’s rule that would require agricultural employers to allow temporary foreign farm workers to form unions without congressional approval.
Southeastern Legal Foundation, which is representing Miles Berry Farm and the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association in the lawsuit, said in a news release the department “claims that it has authority to do so under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, even though that congressional statute — which grants temporary H-2A employment visas to migrant farm workers—never so much as mentions the right to form unions.”
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Venezuelan Gang Tren De Aragua Linked to Violent Crime in U.S. But Not a Designated TCO
The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has been connected to incidents of violent crimes around the country this year, has still not been designated a “Transnational Criminal Organization” by the Biden administration, despite requests from lawmakers.
“Tren de Aragua is an invading criminal army from a prison in Venezuela that has spread their brutality and chaos to U.S. cities and small towns. If left unchecked, they will unleash an unprecedented reign of terror, mirroring the devastation it has already inflicted in communities throughout Central and South America, most prominently in Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., wrote with House colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden in March.
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Elon Musk accused the Biden administration of “voter importation” following the release of an internal memo instructing border patrol agents in San Diego to release single adults from all but six countries. The memo comes after Biden has released an executive order that claims to curb illegal immigration.
The memo, reported by Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, categorized six countries as “mandatory referral” countries, which include Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan. The memo instructs border patrol agents to process single adults from all other countries as “Notice to Appear/Release on Own Recognizance.”
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LGBTQ Agitators Violently Attack Man at South Bend Drag Show for Kids
A man was attacked and bloodied by two Antifa-linked LGBTQ activists on Friday at a South Bend, Indiana drag show for kids. One of the activists swung and hit the man in the head and face with a large brass bell during the incident.
According to a report from Real News Michiana, the attack happened when LGBTQ activists Troy Moss and Tonna Robinson appeared to attack an unidentified man completely unprovoked. The victim did not appear to be violent or provoking those at the drag show according to witnesses who spoke to reporters. The man had to get six stitches in his head and had to get an MRI as a result of the attack.
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“Czechia’s Average Wage Sees Slowest Growth of All V4 Countries”
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in [CZECH CROWNS] and the losses in lives.”
Well – our Ukrainian Prime Minister says we must stand behind Ukraine!
Funny how he had his money saved in a bank that financed the war in Ukraine, and funny how the director of that bank was just found dead…
https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/robert-zelenka-zalozna-smrt.A240608_143849_domaci_pukk
However, our Ukrainian prime minister says that after we defeat the Russians, Ukraine will be paying us big time for all that help. He had it all planned – we the Czechs would get to build hotels and beer gardens around the beaches of Crimea, wouldn’t that be wonderful…
If only we could defeat the russians, the spoils of such victory would prove our prime minister right – it would show to the world that he, the first Ukrainian Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, had chosen the right path for us, Czech worker bees.
It would prove to all who have doubt, that we are paying for the right stuff, when we pay the highest electricity prices though we have Nuclear Plants that make the cheapest electricity in Europe…
We, The Czech Worker Bees are glad that we get to work late into our 70’s and 80’s and then retire on less money – all that without any chance to visit a true Czech Doctor – because all Czech Proffessionals will be gone from the Czech Republic very soon… Greedy bastards, why don’t they help us with the struggle?
If we don’t help Ukraine Ukraine might lose – and prove our Prime Minister wrong!!!
Now we can’t have that can we?
Shoot them.
Just shoot them.
What is the 2nd ammendment for anyway?
A glimmer of hope with the western world on the brink.
https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/585479.html
A typical Swedish story happened in Russia. A student from Tajikistan killed a Russian teacher who was 12 years older than him. Article in English. The only inaccuracy is that the woman taught at Vologda University, and not at Voronezh University, as written in the article.
As for AOC………….her stupid statements and demeanor is why we call her Occasional Cortex.
The problem with Biden’s approval rating is that he actually has one.
Coptic bishop spells out Germany’s (and Europe’s) probable future, bluntly.
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1800610975030116638