A 13-year-old boy in Detroit has been charged with yesterday’s fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl. Meanwhile, also in Detroit, a 14-year-old boy is being charged with shooting and wounding a 12-year-old boy with a gun pulled out from under the seat of a go-kart.
In other news, the city of Los Angeles is considering a ban on the construction of new gas stations.
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Hungarian Inflation Hits 24-Year Record in June
Annual inflation in Hungary was 11.7 percent in June, a level not seen in the country since 1998, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) announced on Friday.
The rise in the cost of living is steadily moving towards the 14-16 percent level predicted by the Hungarian Central Bank (MNB) for September.
Seasonally adjusted core inflation was even higher at 13.8 percent in June. This does not include products with rapidly changing prices such as fuel, energy, and medicine.
According to KSH, in the last 12 months, food and durable consumer goods rose in price the most, while the price increase for household energy and clothing was less pronounced.
Food prices rose by 22.1 percent compared to last June, while alcoholic beverages and tobacco products cost an average of 7.3 percent more. Durable consumer goods cost 12.4 percent more, while the price of services increased by 5.6 percent, within which taxi fares showed the highest increase of 26.1 percent.
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Illinois Economy, Jobs Suffer Under Potential Presidential Candidate J.B. Pritzker
By Ted Dabrowski of Wirepoints
With rumors heating up about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s potential run for president and the federal governments’ recent release of GDP numbers for the first quarter of 2022, it’s a good moment to review the governor’s economic performance since he took office in 2019. Polls today consistently show economic issues as the biggest concern for Americans.
Illinois’ growth and jobs numbers aren’t pretty for Gov. Pritzker and they’re dwarfed by the much better numbers coming from Illinois’ neighboring states.
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Nearly Half of Canadians Say They’re ‘Cutting Back’ on Non-Essentials: Poll
Canadians across the country have been hit hard by the rising cost of living, with inflation and geopolitical events causing the price of just about everything to go up.
A recent poll found that many Canadians have taken measures to cut costs by swapping products or cutting down on certain sectors of their budget.
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Poland Under Pressure to Join Eurozone, Says Central Bank’s Head
Poland’s head of its central bank (NBP), Adam Glapinski, spoke at a press conference over the weekend where he revealed that there is intense pressure for Poland to join the eurozone but that he would resist. “As long as I am the head of the NBP, Poland will not enter the eurozone,” he declared.
“There is huge pressure from one of our neighbors to introduce the euro and for Poland to participate in the creation of a European state,” said the central bank head, adding that “this country seems willing to lobby hard” among Polish politicians to that effect. Commentators agreed that Glapinski mentioned Germany.
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Sweden’s National Institute of Economic Research Notes a Recession Which Politicians Ignore
Olle Felten, a former member of the Swedish Riksdag’s tax committee and the Riksbank’s General Council, analyses the state of the Swedish economy. Felten also noted the complete lack of political will to address the crisis.
The National Institute of Economic Research’s latest report on 21 June states that Sweden is now heading into a recession. The forecast for Sweden’s GDP growth was significantly lowered for 2022 and 2023, from 3,3 and 2,1 percent respectively in March to 1,9 and 1,2 percent respectively in the June report.
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World Economic Forum: Gas Prices Must Go Even Higher — to Save Democracy
The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a position paper Monday that inexorably links two claimed global crises as one — “climate change” and the “decline of democracy.”
It says fighting the former can save the latter as long as consumers stop burning coal, oil, and gas in exchange for green renewables.
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14-Year-Old Accused of Shooting 12-Year-Old With Gun Pulled From Under Go-Kart Seat in Detroit
Child treated for non-life-threatening injuries, officials say
DETROIT — A 14-year-old boy is accused of shooting a 12-year-old boy with a gun he pulled from underneath a go-kart seat in Detroit, police said.
Officials said the two boys, both from Detroit, were playing with a go-kart around 2:25 p.m. Sunday (July 10) in the area of Alcoy Avenue and Fairmount Drive on the city’s east side.
The 14-year-old was pushing the 12-year-old in the go-kart when he tried to retrieve a handgun from underneath the seat, according to authorities.
While he was grabbing the gun, the teenager fired it once, striking the other boy in the calf, police said.
The 12-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials.
On Monday, the 14-year-old was charged as a juvenile with one count of carrying a concealed weapon and one count of careless discharge of a firearm causing injury.
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AG Merrick Garland Shows ‘Little Urgency’ in Protecting SCOTUS Justices: Ted Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz has asked for Attorney General Merrick Garland to come to Capitol Hill and explain why the Justice Department isn’t enforcing a federal law banning protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
In a July 7 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Cruz wrote that Garland “has shown little urgency to protect Supreme Court Justices despite calls from the Supreme Court Marshal and multiple governors to do so.”
“[D]espite clear evidence that federal law was violated by mobs of protestors at the Justices’ homes, the head of the Department of Justice, and chief law enforcement officer of the United States, flatly refused to enforce federal law,” he added.
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Arizona Law Will Restrict Close Recordings of Police Officers
Starting in September, recording police officers will be illegal in some cases in Arizona.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2319 into law last week, making it illegal to knowingly record law enforcement activity without the permission of a law enforcement officer within eight feet of where the activity is taking place.
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Biden Administration is Sued Over DHS Social Media Surveillance Allegations
The Oversight Project, run by conservative think tank Heritage, has sued the Biden administration over surveillance of people through social media.
The lawsuit demands the release of documents related to the DHS’ contract with Babel Street, a Virginia-based company that provides surveillance and data mining technologies.
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Boy, 13, Charged in Fatal Shooting of 14-Year-Old in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — A 13-year-old boy has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in an apartment complex along Detroit’s riverfront.
A preliminary hearing was held Monday in the Lincoln Hall of Justice where a judge set a $10,000 cash bond for the youth, the Wayne County prosecutor’s office said.
Police say a handgun was pointed and fired at the girl about 4 a.m. Sunday as it was being passed around. She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the prosecutor’s office.
The boy later was arrested and is charged with manslaughter—aimed with intent but without malice. He also is charged with using a firearm during a felony…
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CNBC Host Says Elon Musk Could End Up in Jail After Telling Twitter He Was Backing Out of Deal
CNBC host David Faber suggested on Monday that billionaire Elon Musk could end up in jail after telling Twitter that he was backing out of his deal to buy the social media company.
Faber, while discussing Musk’s move during CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Monday, noted that Twitter would likely file a complaint and the case would end up in court in Delaware.
“One would imagine Delaware would be anxious to see the parties in court as soon as possible,” he said.
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Elon Musk Responds to Twitter Lawsuit Threat
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk reacted with a series of memes to Twitter’s preparations to sue him in a bid to force him to buy the social media platform for $44 billion.
In a late-night Twitter post on Sunday, Musk shared a meme featuring with images of himself laughing, along with captions that marked several key developments in his buyout bid saga.
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Exclusive: Seattle Jail Closes Booking Area Due to Staffing Shortage
The King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) in Washington state closed the booking area at their Seattle jail on Sunday night due to a lack of staff.
Two months ago, DAJD decided to close the Regional Justice Center (RJC) booking area due to staffing shortages. As a result, the booking area at the RJC will remain closed for the remainder of the year. Due to the closure of the RJC booking, the King County Jail in Seattle is the only operational booking facility for all of the King County Jail system.
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Explosive Device Targeting New York Mosque is Being Treated as a Hate Crime
After the incident, hundreds of people showed up outside the mosque in solidarity with the community to show there is “no hate”
ust days before the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Adha, two people threw something resembling a molotov cocktail at a large metallic crescent moon symbol outside the Fatima al-Zahra Mosque in Long Island, New York. Local authorities are now treating the incident as a hate crime.
On 3 July, the mosque’s imam, Ahmed Ibrahim, heard a big explosion and then saw flames. A neighbour came running to help put out the fire.
No one was injured but it was later determined that an ignited device was deliberately thrown at either the general vicinity of the mosque or specifically at the crescent moon symbol.
“They did not achieve anything but they expressed hate. Why?” Ibrahim said at a press conference days after the incident.
Asiya, who only wanted to use her first name, is a resident in Ronkonkoma, the hamlet where the incident took place. She said that firebombing has left the community on edge…
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Fallout NYC? New York City Releases PSA on What to Do in Nuclear Attack or Incident
New York City launched a public service announcement Monday over what to do after a nuclear weapon incident, despite the low likelihood of such a catastrophic event occurring in America’s largest city.
The 1.5-minute PSA outlines three steps New Yorkers can take to mitigate the threats of nuclear exposure.
“While the likelihood of a nuclear weapon incident occurring in/near New York City is very low, it is important New Yorkers know the steps to stay safe,” the city’s Emergency Management Department said in a news release. “The new PSA encourages New Yorkers to take key, simple steps in the event of such an incident.”
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Genomics Expert Censored Over Concerns About Vaccine Stability
Kevin McKernan holds a bachelor of science with training in pharmacology, toxicology and biomedical engineering. He was previously involved in the Human Genome Project and has pioneered work in the fields of genome sequencing for 30 years.
Recently, he partnered with renowned COVID dissenter Peter McCullough and Anthony Kyriakopoulos to author a paper titled, Differences in Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Replication Derived mRNA: Implications for Cell Biology and Future Disease. They sought publication in the open-access publisher, Hindawi.
McKernan refers to this “vaccine” as familiar technology as the mRNA modifications that go into the vaccines is similar to what he used in DNA sequencers.
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George Soros, Hollywood Megadonors Bankroll Stacey Abrams’ Leadership PAC
Stacey Abrams’ second gubernatorial bid in Georgia is enjoying massive donations from Democratic mega donors outside the state like billionaire George Soros and Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, filings reviewed by Fox News Digital shows.
One Georgia Inc., an Abrams-associated leadership committee that is able to collect unlimited donations under new Georgia law, filed its contribution disclosure report with the state Friday afternoon, showing that wealthy progressives from across the country are pouring money into Abrams’ second attempt to unseat Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
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Host at Leftist Portland Radio Station Arrested for Trafficking and Rape of Canadian Child
Following the disappearance of a Canadian child last month, a 40-year-old Portland-area man and radio host on the left-wing station, KBOO, has been arrested for child trafficking and child rape.
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LA Considering Ban on New Gas Stations After Bay Area City Starts the Trend
A small Sonoma Valley city in California prohibited the creation of new gas stations and started a trend now spreading across The Golden State.
The Los Angeles Times reports that in 2021 the city of Petaluma became the first in America to ban the creation of new gas stations as part of the battle to “combat climate change.” Petaluma City Councilwoman D’Lynda Fischer said, “We didn’t know what we were doing, actually” and “We didn’t know we were the first in the world when we banned gas stations.”
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Nurse, Paramedic Stabbed at SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton
BRIDGETON — A nurse and a paramedic were stabbed and seriously injured Monday morning at SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, officials said.
Prosecutors charged Jimissa Rivers, 30, of Dellwood, with two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action.
Court documents said Rivers was captured on video stabbing the two victims before multiple bystanders restrained her. A knife was recovered from the scene.
Officials at SSM Health wrote in a statement Monday evening that the system was “deeply saddened and shaken” by the incident…
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NY State GOP Senators Win Case Against State on Quarantining, Isolation
New York state GOP Sen. George Borrello and fellow plaintiffs have won a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state Department of Health regulation.
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Oberlin College Facing $4 Million in Interest After Not Paying Bakery They Defamed as ‘Racist’
In 2016, three black Oberlin College students were caught trying to shoplift from Gibson’s Bakery. When the bakery owners sought justice, they were hit with boycotts and protestors calling them “racist.”
The bakery filed, and won, a defamation suit against Oberlin College in 2019, however the school has not yet paid up. As a result, they’ve accumulated over $4 million in interest on top of the more than $30 million owed in the original settlement.
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Olympian Kim Glass Violently Attacked by Homeless Man in Los Angeles
Olympic volleyball silver medalist and model Kim Glass has posted a video of her brutal injuries online after being randomly attacked by a homeless man in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Glass, a 6’3” former America’s Next Top Model contestant and trainer, explained that she had been leaving lunch in the city and saying goodbye to her friend before the horrific assault.
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Philadelphia Juvenile Brothers, 10 and 14, Turn Themselves in for Beating Death of 73-Year-Old Man
Two juvenile brothers, aged 10 and 14, turned themselves into the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit on Monday for their alleged involvement in the murder of 73-year-old James Lambert, who was beat to death by a group of teens on June 24.
No formal charges have been filed against the boys yet and their identities have not been released by police.
Disturbing surveillance footage of the incident released by police shows the group pursuing the man on a street in northwest Philadelphia before striking him with traffic cones shortly before 3:00 a.m.
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Rep. Gohmert: “Violations of American Rights” of Jan. 6 Prisoners “Mind Blowing”
Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
At a press conference in Washington, three GOP representatives joined forces with the Patriot Freedom Project and family members of Jan. 6 prisoners to call out the injustice and denial of due process rights for those incarcerated. According to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), the “violations of American rights” is “mind-blowing.”
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Salon Website Corrects Year-Old Headline Saying DeSantis Forces Students to Register Political Views
Authored by Rita Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Left-wing outlet Salon changed a year-old headline, after falsely stating Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 2021 bill that forces Florida’s students and professors to register their political views with the state.
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Six Protesters Arrested After Failing to Block Wealthy Fliers From East Hampton Airport
Six protesters were arrested outside the East Hampton Airport on Monday after they blockaded the entrance to the tarmac and demanded that East End elites “pay up.”
The group, part of New York Communities for Change, chanted “Tax the rich” as passengers arrived to the airport in their luxury vehicles to take private jet and helicopter rides.
But sources told The Post the protest turned out to be a “dud” as no flights were cancelled — with one noting the airport has a private entrance for the richest of the rich that the group wasn’t blockading.
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Texas Dad Shoots Carjackers to Save Infant Children, Wife
A Texas father shot two teenage would-be robbers Sunday night after the pair tried to carjack his SUV with his wife and two infant children inside.
Local news reports that “The father, who happened to be armed, fired several rounds through a rear window and hit both suspects, according to deputies. His wife then continued driving to get away.”
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Despite Novak Djokovic winning Wimbledon for the 7th time, he’ll be banned from competing at the US Open because he is unvaccinated.
What an outrage that Americans will be denied the opportunity to witness a living legend of the game due to the punitive political agenda of the Biden administration
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Up to 500,000 Dead From a Headache Pill: The Pharmaceutical Mafia and Merck’s Drug of Death
In an interview with Maria Zeee, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. harped on the pharmaceutical industry’s long history of prioritizing profits over people.
“Big Pharma is as corrupt as the mafia. Since 1980, the pharmaceutical industry has paid $86 billion in criminal penalties for lying to regulators, defrauding government officials and doctors, falsifying the science, lying to the public, for killing hundreds of thousands of Americans with products that they knew were lethal.
“For example, Vioxx, which was Merck’s blockbuster drug until 2006, killed between 100,000 and 500,000 Americans. It was a drug that Merck marketed as a headache pill, knowing that it caused heart attacks, fatal heart attacks. They knew it from their clinical trials, and they hid that fact from the public.
“Most people who took that drug, if they knew that it could kill them, would have said,’ You know what. I think I’ll take an aspirin.’ But they weren’t given that choice because Merck lied to them and knowingly lied to them.”
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Video: The Only Plan Democrats, RINOs Have Against Trump 2024 is “Hoping He Dies”
A panel on Chuck Todd’s NBC show Sunday declared that Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans have no plan to combat the former President running again in 2024 other than to hope he dies.
The Meet The Press host asked his guests how would Trump accept losing if he ran again, to which National Review editor Rich Lowry began to respond that there is only a 15% chance that Trump will not run.
Todd then suggested that “the only answer [to that question] is death.”
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Canadian Farmers Warn of Netherlands Scenario Over Emissions Targets
As farmers protests rage in the Netherlands and beyond, the head of one of Canada’s premier agricultural groups is warning that strict domestic emissions targets could spur a similar reaction from the industry.
Strict nitrogen and ammonia emissions caps by the Dutch government have sparked nationwide protests. Tens of thousands of farmers and their supporters have formed convoys throughout the country demanding a referendum on government measures. As a result of the chaos, farmers have even been fired upon by police.
According to President of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Gunter Jochum, Canadian farmers could also soon have their backs against the wall as a result of emission targets.
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Canada’s Heritage Minister Panel: Unregulated Speech “Erodes the Foundations of Democracy”
According to the Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety appointed by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, “misleading political communications” should be regulated because unregulated political disinformation and discussion “erodes the foundations of democracy.”
Rodriguez has insisted multiple times that censorship bill, Bill C-11, also known as the Online Streaming Act, would not regulate user-generated content.
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Conservatives Call on Privacy Watchdog to Investigate Convoy Account Freezing
The Conservatives are demanding that the federal privacy watchdog investigate the Liberal government’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protestors.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Conservative MP Adam Chambers wrote a letter to Privacy Commissioner Philipe Dufresne after a damning testimony by bank officials which indicated that the order might have violated the Privacy Act.
“Institutions received no instruction on how to properly store, keep or use the data received from the RCMP,” explained Chambers.
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Court Delays Trudeau Government Having to Answer for Forced COVID Vaccine Passports
A federal court in Canada has postponed the trial date for the Justice Center for Constitutional Affairs’ case against the government to remove the mandatory Covid vaccine passports for air travel.
The trial date was postponed from September 19 to October 31.
Last October, the Canadian government introduced the Covid vaccine passport prohibiting anyone who could not produce one from flying within or leaving Canada.
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Free Speech a ‘Rallying Call for the Far-Right,’ Says Canadian ‘Expert’
An “expert on hate crime and right-wing extremism” said that free speech is a “rallying call for the far-right” that has been “amplified by the emergence of the alt-right” in Canada.
The comment came after the findings of a survey that polled Canadians on their beliefs around free speech. The survey, which was conducted nationally via phone calls by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan, found that there was a strong corelation between a person’s political leanings and their views on the state of free speech. Those who lean right had a higher likelihood of believing there should be no limits on speech, (which would make it “free”) including the right to express opinions considered offensive.
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Trudeau Confronted Again by Protesters in Montreal: ‘Free Tamara!’
Justin Trudeau, after attending several photo ops in Quebec, has been found at a restaurant in the residential borough of Outremont, a predominated Jewish neighborhood.
Rebel News‘ Quebec-based reporter, Alexa Lavoie, was on the scene and began to document the crowd of protesters who began to ask questions of Trudeau.
Lavoie asks Trudeau from the sidewalk in French:
“Mr. Trudeau, what other agreement, besides the Known Travellers Digital Identity, have you signed with the World Economic Forum?”
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Victory! Legal Win for Persecuted New Brunswick Pastor Who Says Canada’s Best Days Are Ahead
We recently flew out to St. John, New Brunswick to bring you an update on the legal battle and court appeal win that Rebel News supporters helped make happen, for two pastors who have been persecuted for standing in the gap for religious freedoms in Canada.
Pastor Phil Hutchings and Pastor Cody Butler, from St. John’s His Tabernacle Family Church, were both arrested last year after the province of New Brunswick was unable to compel them to follow all COVID-19 regulations. Pastor Cody, the church’s youth pastor, was apprehended on Thanksgiving Sunday, and while he was later released, the same couldn’t be said for the church’s lead pastor, Phil, who ended up being imprisoned and trapped in solitary confinement for seven days.
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After Swedish Study Reveals Pfizer Vaccine Changes Human DNA, Doctors Discuss Liability and Lawsuits
In a roundtable discussion featuring the likes of doctors Peter McCullough and Richard Bartlett, a study coming out of Sweden was discussed that revealed the COVID shots from Pfizer have the propensity to modify human DNA.
The study in question was conducted by the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University, where the authors “investigated the effect of BNT162b2 on the human liver cell line Huh7 in vitro.”
According to the results of the study, during which the tests were run in a petri dish and not inside of a living human body, the DNA contained within the human liver could change within hours of exposure to the Pfizer jab.
“Our results indicate a fast up-take of BNT162b2 into human liver cell line Huh7, leading to changes in LINE-1 expression and distribution. We also show that BNT162b2 mRNA is reverse transcribed intracellularly into DNA in as fast as six h upon BNT162b2 exposure.”
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BBC Claimed 8% of the UK Unvaccinated (It’s 30%)
BBC’s Prof Hannah Fry claims 8% of the UK’s population is unvaccinated. But this is a lie. UK Health Security Agency’s (“UKHSA’s”) latest report shows that almost 30% of the population, of all ages, has not had even one dose of Covid injections, with 20% of the population over the age of 18 being vaccine free.
Why is this important? Because accurate estimates of the proportion of people who are unvaccinated is critical in determining both vaccine efficacy and vaccine safety. BBC’s lie clearly has a major impact in exaggerating claims about “vaccine” safety and efficacy.
“Within 2 hours of me posting this article and tweeting it, the BBC updated the article (see below) so it’s just as well I grabbed a screenshot of the original,” wrote Professor Norman Fenton.
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Brussels: Capital of Europe or Eurabia?
While Lieven Verstraete, an acclaimed Belgian journalist who hosts the program, “De Zevende Dag” (“The Seventh Day”), was recently interviewing two members of the Green Party, he raised the issue of immigration and called Brussels “the perfect example of a city whose neighborhoods are conquered one by one by newcomers”.
Newcomers? Conquered?
“How?” replied Nadia Naji, a politician of Molenbeek’s Green party.
“Well,” Verstraete, visibly uncomfortable, tried to explain, “more and more people with immigrant origins come to live there and claim their place. Do you feel Belgian in Molenbeek?”
A few hours after the broadcast, he apologized.
“In twenty years”, the French newspaper Le Figaro predicted about Brussels, “the European capital will be Muslim”.
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Do People in Amsterdam Support the Dutch Farmers Rebellion?
Do the Dutch people support the farmers protesting against radical climate policies? Katie Daviscourt, a reporter from the Post Millennial, is working alongside our Rebel News team covering the Farmer Rebellion, and she wanted to find out the answer to that very important question.
Taking to the streets of Amsterdam, Daviscourt interviewed the locals to hear their thoughts on the ongoing farmer protests happening across the country.
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‘The Netherlands is the proud host of the Global Co-ordination Secretariat (“GCS”) for the worldwide network of Food Innovation Hubs’, wrote Foodvalley; the leading European innovation hub in this network.
“It was great to have support for the initiative by Foodvalley members Mengniu Dairy, DSM and Unilever this week at the online WEF Davos panel session on the transformation of food systems,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on 26 January.
Foodvalley’s article continued: “More than 20 organisations are already working together as Food Innovation Hubs in Colombia, India, Europe, South-East Asia and several countries in Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided multi-year support for the development of a Food Innovation Hub in India and several public and private sector partners have committed in-kind resources to support the development of hubs in various regions.”
What Foodvalley did not mention is that the Netherlands was host to the GCS because the Dutch government was planning to fund it.
Foodvalley also avoids pointing out that the initiative has “special attention for development and implementation of key enabling technologies e.g., Digitalisation…
The Dutch government wrote a letter to WEF “on behalf of the Dutch Ministers of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and Agriculture, Nature and Food quality together with the Regional Food Agency Oost NL” prior to the official signing of the letter of intent.
“We strongly believe that establishing the GCS in the Netherlands will be mutually beneficial and proof of great benefit to the efficacy and impact of the global network of Food Innovation Hubs,” the letter stated.
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Dutch Boaters in Urk React to Nationwide Farmer Protests
Rebel News is on the ground in the Netherlands covering the Dutch farmer uprisings that have been occurring across the country. The protests were launched due to what the farmers describe as potentially devastating policies centred around climate change that are being forcibly enacted on them by their government.
As reported by the Telegraph,
Huge protests have swept the Netherlands triggered by the introduction of new laws designed to cut nitrogen and ammonia emissions by up to 95 percent in certain areas from its agricultural sector.
For the Dutch farmers, it is solely about protecting their centuries-old way of life as Western governments impose tough climate targets. Under the proposed laws, the green transition will force many of them to make massive cuts to their livestock herds.
The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt is freelancing with the Rebel News team in the Netherlands and recently spoke to a number of individuals in the fishing town of Urk to hear their perspectives on the farmer protests.
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Exclusive: British Govt Has No Idea How Much it Owes Russia, China, Other Foreign Govts
The British government has insisted it has no idea how much debt it owes to foreign states, including basically hostile powers such as Russia and Communist China.
The Cabinet Office, which supports the Prime Minister and acts as “the corporate headquarters for government, in partnership with HM Treasury”, according to its website, was asked by Breitbart London to disclose “any complete or partial estimates of foreign official holdings (holdings by foreign governments and central banks) of British government and/or Bank of England debt”, as well as debt owed to foreign Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and foreign State/Government-Owned Enterprises (SOEs/GOEs), under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Farmers Blockade Highway Connecting Netherlands-Germany
The government of the Netherlands is imposing very extreme green policies, and it’s affecting the country’s agriculture industry. We know that the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, is part of the World Economic Forum and appears to be using the organization’s playbook to impose Agenda 2030 policies.
And of course, the working-class people have had enough. That’s why they’re protesting against these ridiculous mandates, policies and the like.
As the Dutch Farmer Rebellion continues, the protesters developed a plan to block the border between the Netherlands and Germany.
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Germany Plans ‘Warm Up Spaces’ In Response to Gas Shortages
Cities across Germany are planning to use sports arenas and exhibition halls as ‘warm up spaces’ this winter to help freezing citizens who are unable to afford skyrocketing energy costs.
Bild newspaper reveals how the the nation’s Cities and Municipalities Association has urged local authorities to set aside public spaces to help vulnerable citizens in the colder months.
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German Police Investigate Drugging Claims at Ruling Social Democrats Summer Party
German police have launched an investigation into allegations by several women who claimed to have been drugged at a summer party of Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) in Berlin last week.
The Berlin criminal police began an investigation into the allegations brought by at least five women who claimed they had been drugged at the Social Democrats party, which took place on Wednesday evening in the German capital and was attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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‘Gun-Free’ UK: Four Shootings in Three Days in Multicultural Birmingham
The multicultural city of Birmingham, England, experienced four shooting incidents over a three-day period, one of them fatal.
The city, home to large and often overlapping immigrant heritage populations, saw three people hospitalised by gunfire from Thursday to Saturday and one man killed, BirminghamLive reports.
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Hungary Says US Pressures it to Accept Global Minimum Tax
The United States is reportedly pressuring Hungary to change its position on the global minimum tax by terminating the double taxation agreement between the two nations, Hungary’s Finance Minister Mihaly Varga said in an interview with national news agency MTI on Saturday.
Varga stated that he was not surprised by the decision of the U.S. president to terminate the bilateral agreement on the avoidance of double taxation concluded with Hungary in 1979 because the government had previously received a message from the United States that Hungary should abandon its opposition to the global minimum corporate tax rate.
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BERLIN (AP) — A major gas pipeline from Russia to Germany was shutting down for annual maintenance on Monday amid German concern that Russia may not resume the flow of gas as scheduled.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, Germany’s main source of Russian gas, is scheduled to be out of action until July 21 for routine work that the operator says includes “testing of mechanical elements and automation systems.” The operator said the gas flow was reduced progressively starting at 6 a.m., German news agency dpa reported.
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UK: Fury as Extinction Rebellion Protesters Occupy a Mine for the Second Day
More than 60 activists entered Aberpergwm mine in south Wales on Sunday at around 3pm. They wanted to “highlight the Welsh government’s silence on the decision to allow a licence to extract an additional 42 million tonnes of anthracite coal”.
The protestors wore white overalls and waved black flags as they set off powder flares and climbed onto the office roof, where they stayed overnight into Monday morning.
The XR ecological demonstrators gave no indication on how long they planned to occupy the site, but at just after 11am this morning organisers confirmed that all activists had left the premises.
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UK: Tories Reeling as ‘Brutal’ New Polling Numbers Expose Largest Labour Lead Since 2013
New Westminster Voting Intention figures from Savanta ComRes of 2,168 UK adults from July 8-10 showed Sir Keir Starmer’s party with a massive 15-point lead over the Conservative Party — the biggest gap since 2013. The Labour Party is on 43 percent — up two points from the last poll a week earlier, with the Tories losing four points and languishing on just 28 percent. Savanta ComRes Political Research Director Chris Hopkins said on Twitter that this is the largest lead for any party in a poll since May 2021.
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Vast Majority of Swiss Citizens Don’t Buy Into Vaccine PR
Corona is still dividing society to a considerable extent. This was shown by a recent survey from Switzerland. The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences wanted to find out how the Swiss rate communication regarding the “pandemic” — and to what extent they trust the authorities.
The results make one sit up and take notice: 17 percent of those surveyed were dissatisfied with the government, the media and the communication of the authorities during the “pandemic”.
They believe the campaign had been a targeted control of the population by “powerful people”. Another 24 percent were satisfied with the communication from the federal government and the media, but could imagine that “there was a larger secret plan behind the global events surrounding the pandemic”.
Notably, another 24 percent were not satisfied with the crisis communication of the authorities and the media. They did not rule out the possibility that the government had deliberately concealed information in some cases.
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A report that was quietly published by the UK Government, just hours before Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation, reveals that Covid-19 deaths have risen dramatically among the triple vaccinated population in England over the past couple of months whilst declining drastically among the unvaccinated population.
With the most recent figures showing the vaccinated population in England accounted for a shocking 94% of all Covid-19 Deaths in April and May, and 90% of those deaths were among the triple/quadruple vaccinated population.
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Ukraine Aims to Amass ‘Million-Strong Army’ To Fight Russia, Says Defence Minister
Ukraine has touted plans to amass a “million-strong army” equipped with Nato weapons to fight Russian forces.
However, the comments by Defence minister Oleksii Reznikov are being seen as more of a rallying cry than a concrete plan for a counter offensive.
They come as Russia makes gains in the eastern Donbas region, and continues to pound areas across Ukraine.
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Sri Lanka: Protesters ‘Will Occupy Palace Until Leaders Go’
Protesters have said they will continue to occupy the Sri Lankan presidential and prime ministerial residences until both leaders officially resign.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he would step down on 13 July, according to an announcement made by the parliament’s speaker on Saturday.
But the president has not been seen or made a public statement himself.
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Chinese Cops ‘Beat’ Protesters Outraged at Having Bank Accounts Frozen
Chinese police “beat” citizens who gathered to protest against having their bank accounts frozen due to COVID-19 policies on Sunday, according to protesters.
Protests centered on three banks serving primarily rural communities that have frozen millions of dollars in accounts since April. Roughly 1,000 protesters gathered to call for the release of their funds outside the Zhengzhou branch of the Chinese Central Bank, but they say they were met with violence.
“I feel so aggrieved I can’t even explain it to you,” one protester, going only by the name Zhang, told Reuters.
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Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Japan’s ruling center-right party scored a supermajority in the House of Councillors election on July 10, claiming more than half of the 125 contested seats, in the wake of the assassination of former prime minister and party leader Shinzo Abe.
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Europe is facing a huge migration wave from the Middle East and Africa because of the food crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine, the EU has warned.
Ukraine is one of the biggest grain exporters in the world but production and dispatch have been severely affected by Putin’s barbaric invasion.
Around 20million tonnes of grain from last year’s harvest are blocked in Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea.
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A group of forty migrants including young children set out on an inflatable boat bound for Britain from France today — as Channel crossings passed 13,000 this year.
Small children wearing red life jackets were spotted on the French coast near Gravelines before they made the attempt to cross the English Channel.
One migrant even flipped the finger at the photographer documenting the departures.
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Another 100 migrants have arrived by boat at Dover as Border Force officials hand out water bottles amid climbing summer temperatures, as Channel crossings passed 13,000 this year.
It comes after a group of 40 migrants including young children set out on an inflatable boat bound for Britain from France today, with one migrant flipping the finger at the photographer documenting the departures.
The latest arrivals, which included two people who appeared to injured, were escorted into Dover harbour in Kent on board Border Force catamaran Typhoon shortly after 11am.
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Video: Texas AG Demands Biden Apologise to Border Agents Falsely Accused of Whipping Migrants
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has demanded that Joe Biden publicly apologise to four Border Patrol agents who were falsely accused of whipping Haitian migrants last year, and who Biden promised would “pay” for it.
As we highlighted three months ago, the agents were completely cleared of all charges, a fact now confirmed by a 500-page report from Customs and Border Protection.
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Anne Frank is Now Being Accused of Having White Privilege
While the Holocaust led to over six million Jews being killed, the story of a 13-year-old hidden behind a bookcase for two years has given generations a key glimpse into what it was like being hunted by the Nazis. Being forced into hiding at such a young age, Anne Frank documented her time and what it was like to be the subject of such brutality. Sadly, Anne Frank didn’t survive the heinous acts as she was eventually captured and sent to a concentration camp where she died at 15…
On Saturday, one of the top trending topics on Twitter was Anne Frank. And it was due to user Ka1zoku_Qu0d writing, “Hold on I want to make sure I say this carefully. Yeah, Anne Frank had white privilege. Bad things happen to people with white privilege also but don’t tell the whites that.” …
Writer Katherine Brodsky asked, “Somehow a discussion broke out on Twitter today about how Anne Frank, of all people, had ‘white privilege.’ A girl literally murdered for being Jewish… How delusional does this identity politics discourse get?”
Robby Starbuck, who is currently a Congressional candidate, explained, “The woke left is legitimately so insane that they’ve reached the point where they even accuse ANNE FRANK of having white privilege… We’ve ALL had enough of this nonsense!”
The Jerusalem Post even wrote an article about the Twitter rant, noting, “The debate about Anne Frank allegedly spawned out of a series of convoluted unrelated arguments on Twitter over the course of months…”
Clearly, some people (mostly on the far left) have completely lost their common sense, decency, and their minds. This is quite possibly a new low for that deranged portion of society.
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Antifa Approaches Reporter After Leftists Can’t Form Coherent Thoughts on Abortion
“My head, my back, my p***y will fight back,” a woman chose to write on her sign, before arriving late to Parliament Hill to protest abortion.
Indeed, a large number of people that attended the gathering were holding signs on which was written profane language, as it appears on multiple social media posts. Some protesters also came with the LGBT flags and Transgenderism flags, sometimes combining both and adding racism to the equation.
Unfortunately, Rebel News reporter William Diaz-Berthiaume arrived late to the social gathering. Most people had left at that point.
However, two leftist ladies arrived late as well, with two profane signs.
And they agreed to have an interview with Rebel News, who had no gear displayed.
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Duda: ‘There Can be No Poland Without the Family Unit’
The family unit is critical to the survival of the state, nation, and society, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Sunday as he attended the culmination of the family pilgrimage to the shrine of the Black Madonna in Jasna Góra, Czestochowa, organized by Catholic broadcaster Radio Maryja.
He spoke before the main mass and underlined that the traditional family was the primary unit in society and thanked Radio Maryja for its unstinting efforts in defending family values.
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Houston ‘Drag Brunch’ With Minors in Attendance Faces ‘Anti-Grooming’ Protest
A Hamburger Mary’s restaurant in Houston, Tex. is currently at the epicenter of the “grooming” debate, with reports and videos showing costumed men twerking and gyrating in the presence of children going viral. In the video, a drag performer can be heard asking a group in the audience “Who’s the parent in this group? Because y’all look 12.”
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Kansas Police Investigating Vandalism at Church: ‘My Body My Choice’
A Kansas church was spray-painted with apparent pro-abortion messages in an act of vandalism over the weekend, prompting a police investigation, according to local reports.
The incident happened early Sunday at the Church of the Ascension in Overland Park, FOX4 Kansas City reported, citing police reports.
Images from outside the church show a message scrawled with red spray paint across an exterior wall that read, “My body my choice.”
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After previously demanding all fans attending their gigs be fully vaccinated, Rage Against the Machine are now suddenly all in favor of bodily autonomy.
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‘Woke’ Agenda — UK Latin Course Being Revised to Reflect ‘Diversity’ of Roman World
A famous Latin course published by Cambridge University Press is to be reworked to contain more “diversity” despite criticism that it will damage the subject.
Originally printed in the 1970s, the Cambridge Latin Course (CLC), a series of extremely well known Latin language textbooks printed by Cambridge University Press, is to be revised from its original edition to include more references to ethnic and gender diversity
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124,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Uber Spread “F***ing Illegal” Ride-Sharing Globally
A treasure trove of more than 124,000 confidential documents known as “The Uber Files” reveals the inside story of how Uber aggressively pushed into international markets
The unprecedented leak to The Guardian and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and other media outlets shows how the ride-sharing service wooed prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, and oligarchs for access to their home markets between 2013-17.
The files cover Uber’s operations across 40 countries during a period in which the company became a global behemoth, bulldozing its cab-hailing service into many of the cities in which it still operates today. — The Guardian
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“After Swedish Study Reveals Pfizer Vaccine Changes Human DNA, Doctors Discuss Liability and Lawsuits” sounds like proof the jab was indeed the caise of that new child hepatitis that surged a few months ago to me. Somebody should look into it. Of course, MSM won’t publish that information anyway. In fact, Czech media are now linking anti-covid speech to pro-Russian activism. Imagine that!
Well, what … we can all be congratulated. Against the background of the global rearmament of NATO, Iran is preparing to transfer unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia. Meanwhile, Putin is going to Tehran. Is he going to transfer nuclear technology to Iran?
Well, who needed to stir up Ukraine and organize a Maidan there in 2014? Who is good now?
But someone quite rubs his hands.
That’s funny! World ballet has lost a lot because these guys are not allowed to dance.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z1uB_nk93kE
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) started today in Oslo. On it, Russian schoolchildren have always taken first places. But this year, children from Russia were not only forbidden to perform there under the national flag (what else can be understood) – they were generally forbidden to come. Russian schoolchildren will be able to participate only individually and only in absentia.
In this regard, I want to ask: when the US bombed Belgrade, were American schoolchildren expelled from the MMO? Or for the decisions of politicians can only be asked from Russian children?
It turns out funny: you can pay Putin billions for gas. But to let six bespectacled kids (the standard size of the team) go to the Olympics is already “support for Russian aggression”, this is impossible.
I wonder if the Europeans understand that such actions, aimed at pushing, pinching, pressing ordinary Russians, will not lead to the results they are trying to achieve.
Well, let’s say these children would come, walk around Oslo, talk to their peers. Do you think they would have infected someone with “Putinism”? Rather, on the contrary, they themselves would have brought home completely different mindsets from there.
But you can still remember how universities in the Czech Republic, Estonia and other countries refuse to accept applicants from Russia, how Russians are no longer given visas, cards and accounts are blocked. If during the Cold War the Russians were not allowed to enter the West by their own authorities, now the situation is just the opposite: the West is already trying not to let them in, to cut off all ties, to cover all of us with a lid so that no one gets out from under it.
But what will grow under this cover during the years of autarky and artificial isolation?
https://t.me/khramov_alexander/67
I learned about the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) just a few weeks ago, from political commentator John Derbyshire. The math problems are interesting and difficult!
It’s a shame to be honest. My close family member went from “going to the Olympics in two weeks” to prison, because he didn’t sign the “application to enter the Communist Party”, therefore I find this “western” behaviour on par with the Communists.
But this war was always meant to hurt the little people, I guess…
I am quite terrified of some of the “opinions” that I see coming from some of the Czechs, it looks like 1913 France – the proud “Let there be a war!” cry. But I suspect that large part of it are government trolls (the usual suspects went from corona-witnesses to fighters against Russia in a twinkling of an eye).
The truth is that the “Western Eastern Europeans” really don’t like Russians. It’s the Summer of 1968 heritage. And the powers that be seem to be trying to take this “we don’t like Russia” sentiment to the extreme, but I’d say, their narrative begins to crack, because bad memories from the 1968 occupation, and all out War against Russia – are two quite different things, and I hope the media and all will fail in dividing “Europe” further.
The underachieving Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde’s
nuclear pledge to NATO
12 July 2022
Cretinocratic Sweden is ready to deploy military forces for “all alliance missions” and “accepts the crucial role of nuclear weapons”.
So writes the underachieving Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde
(S) in a letter to NATO, reports SV TV News.
The letter, which SV T V now publishes, was written on 5 July – the same day
that NATO invited Sweden as an applicant country – and was sent to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Among other things, Ann Linde assures the US-led military alliance that Sweden is ready to “assist in all” types of missions. She specifically mentions nuclear weapons.
“Sweden accepts NATO’s approach to security and defence, which includes the crucial role of nuclear weapons, and intends
to participate fully in planning processes for NATO’s military structure and collective defence, and is prepared to deploy forces and capabilities for
all Alliance missions”, writes Ann Linde.
William Alberque, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), tells SV TV that the wording about nuclear weapons can refer to several different things.
– For example, Swedish aircrafts will be directed to take part in the annual NATO exercise “Steadfast Noon”, which concerns support for operations
with nuclear weapons, he says.
It can also be about protecting NATO bases where nuclear weapons are stored, according to William Alberque.
– For example, it could provide extra security for the facilities. There are all kinds of things you can do on the conventional side to ensure that allies who are fully involved in the management of nuclear weapons can carry out their missions, he tells SV TV.
(source Fria Tider)