German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans to subsidize home heating bills and bail out natural gas suppliers in anticipation of an energy crisis during the coming winter. Meanwhile, the new government in Sri Lanka has announced a plan to ration fuel through the use of customers’ QR codes.
In other news, a woman was stabbed in the groin by a leaping sailfish while on a fishing trip off the coast of Florida. There’s no word on whether the alleged sailfish had recently been released from custody by a Soros-affiliated DA.
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About 45% of Small US Businesses Are Freezing Hiring Amid Soaring Inflation, Labor Costs
Authored by Bryan Jung via The Epoch Times
About 45 percent of small business owners in the United States are freezing the hiring of new workers because of high labor costs and skyrocketing inflation, according to the Alignable July Hiring Report.
A competing survey came up with similar results, interviewing 4,739 small business owners, conducted from late June through mid-July.
This is despite 51 percent of small employers still trying to find workers to fill important posts, but the shift in the labor situation this summer has made things more difficult.
The report, released July 21, followed the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed consumer prices rose 9.1 percent in the past year, the highest in more than 40 years. Meanwhile, the BLS producer price index rose nearly the highest ever at 11.3 percent in the previous 12 months.
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Ford to Lay Off Thousands to Bankroll ‘Green’ Transition: Report
Ford is moving to lay off thousands of workers in order to fund its electric vehicles (EVs) program that supports the Biden administration’s climate goals, according to Bloomberg.
The automaker is planning to lay off 8,000 of its employees to raise profits and pay for its ramp-up of EV production, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Ford will spend roughly $50 billion, according to Reuters, to make 2 million EVs annually by 2026 after selling 27,140 in 2021.
“These ‘green’ energy boondoggles are throwing gasoline on the fire and are the last thing we need in a recession,” Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni told the Daily Caller News Foundation…
“Manufacturers will produce fewer traditional, reliable engines here in America, and will shift to overseas battery production,” Antoni told the DCNF.
“It also means that new vehicles will be more expensive, further hurting America’s poor and middle class who will be forced to continue driving older vehicles, while they are still available, or shift entirely to less desirable alternatives like public transportation,” he said.
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German Chancellor Proposes Heating Subsidies and Bailouts to Ease Winter Energy Crisis
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has introduced a new plan to help ease the ongoing energy crisis for the upcoming winter, including subsidies for home heating and a bailout of a major gas supplier.
Chancellor Scholz announced on Friday that his government would be introducing a large relief package to ease the burden for Germans going into the winter as gas supplies from Russia have become limited.
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Al Gore Says Climate Deniers Are Like Uvalde Cops Who Did Nothing to Rescue Children
In a Meet The Press interview Gore said “You know the climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots and nobody stepped forward”
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Al Gore Compares Climate Critics to Uvalde Cops
Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday compared people who question climate change to the nearly 400 police officers who waited for more than an hour in the hallway of a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school before stopping the gunman who killed 21 people, including 19 children.
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Army Approves 20 Out of 8,000 COVID Vaccine Religious Exemption Requests
The U.S. Army has approved just 20 COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption requests out of 8,000 servicemembers who applied.
This means that the Army has approved just 0.25% of permanent religious exemption requests, data show.
The Army approved permanent medical exemptions at a slightly better rate. Of the 1,100 medical exemption requests, 34 have been approved, meaning that the Army has approved about 3% of all requests as of Friday.
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As Americans Continue to Suffer, One Industry is Raking in Massive Profits: DC Lobbyists
Federal lobbyists have made huge profits in the second quarter of 2022, according to financial disclosures reviewed by Politico, while many Americans continue to feel the effects of inflation and the ongoing energy crisis.
Of the top twenty lobbying firms by revenue, just two saw revenue decreases when compared with the first three months of the year, Politico reported. The lobbying boom was largely attributable to reconciliation negotiations between Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, as well hotly contested deliberations on whether to dole out subsidies to domestic semiconductor companies…
The top spenders included the Chamber of Commerce, a trade organization representing U.S. businesses, and the National Association of Realtors, who spent $15.8 million and $14.8 million respectively, according to Politico.
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Backlash Against Progressive, Soros-Backed DAs Continues as Violent Crime Soars
In the wake of last month’s recall vote ousting San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office, left-wing prosecutors in Democrat-run cities from Los Angeles to Philadelphia are facing growing backlash for soft-on-crime policies as violent crime spikes devastate local communities.
Many of these progressive prosecutors are funded by left-wing megadonor George Soros, who has spent the last several years injecting tens of millions of dollars into local DA races nationwide, backing candidates who support policies such as abolishing bail, defunding the police, and decriminalizing or deprioritizing certain offenses.
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Biden Touts Northeast’s Climate Progress — They Now Face Energy Shortages Every Winter
President Joe Biden touted New England’s transition away from fossil fuel plants to renewable in his speech on Wednesday. However, the region routinely experiences energy shortages as renewable energy alternatives like offshore wind fail the grid during the region’s severe winters, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation…
“Biden did not acknowledge that wind turbines only work when the wind is blowing, and therefore, they do not supply the steady power that the coal plant supplies,” said Meredith Angwin, author of “Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid,” told the DCNF.
“The only sure thing is that more and more steadily operating plants are shut down, and more and more intermittent plants are built,” Angwin said…
Although Angwin promoted nuclear power as an alternative to coal, nuclear power is declining in New England. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, a nuclear plant in Plymouth, was shut down in 2019, leaving the region with only two nuclear power facilities, according to information provided by the EIA.
“Unfortunately, the same people who hate coal also hate nuclear, even though nuclear makes steady power without greenhouse gases,” Angwin stated.
With an over-reliance on renewables combined with a lack of nuclear power, insufficient gas pipelines and only Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to make up the difference, New England is one severe winter away from an energy catastrophe, according to OilPrice.
“The Massachusetts LNG terminal is the only one that in recent years has been importing LNG from Russia,” IER Senior Vice President Dan Kish told theDCNF.
“If people in New England want expensive and part-time energy they’ll love Biden’s new plans,” Kish stated. “People should remember that Europe’s energy crisis began before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when their offshore windmills ran out of wind.”
New England is only a few hundred miles from the Appalachian Basin, an area that would be the third-largest natural gas producer in the world in 2021 if it were independent, according to the EIA.
Environmental activist groups helped block natural gas infrastructure in New England, arguing that gas shortages are made irrelevant by “clean energy” sources from offshore wind farms that keep prices down and meet winter demand.
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Child Rapist Who Groomed Kids Over the Internet Now Asking for Pen Pals Via TikTok
Miriah Vanlith, a 43-year-old child rapist, has posted a TikTok video online asking for people to reach out to her if they would “like to talk” and become pen pals. TikTok reportedly has 18 million users that are 14 years old or younger.
According to the Idaho Statesman, Vanlith ended her 15 second video by blowing a kiss at the camera. The TikTok went online July 8 and by Friday had gone viral after accumulating 3.7 million views.
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Embarrassing: White House Doctor Praises Biden for Being a Good Boy & Eating All His Food
If you needed any further evidence that Joe Biden’s inner circle are treating him like a child, nursing him through his cognitive decline, then Biden’s Covid czar Dr. Ashish Jha’s appearance at the press briefing on Friday should clear things up for you. This may be the most embarrassing video to come out of this White House yet.
Joe Biden is currently sick with Covid and hiding out at the White House. Biden’s advisors are running the show and Kamala Harris is taking the reins while Joe is kept in the basement. Biden’s Covid czar Dr. Ashish Jha joined White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for Friday’s press briefing.
“The President is doing better. He slept well last night. He ate his breakfast and lunch — fully,” Dr. Jha said as pool reporters laughed.
“He actually showed me his plate!” Dr. Jha exclaimed making a gesture with his hands.
Just like a proud 3-year-old boy…
Joe Biden’s cognitive function was so far gone that he was fed pills by staff supervised by his wife Jill to be able to function during the 2020 presidential campaign—and still is to this day, according to a report last Friday by Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson said according to his source, Joe Biden was “Like a small child” before dosing.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Took Fall for Sexual Blackmail Operation Run by Western Intelligence Agencies
Evidence suggests that Epstein and his paramour Ghislaine Maxwell were working for U.S., British and Israeli intelligence agencies to build a video database of sexually compromised political leaders, oligarchs and influential celebrities who could be manipulated and controlled by blackmail.
The really intriguing question is what happened to the tens of thousands of hours of videos seized by the FBI, which may show global affluentials engaging in illegal sex with underage girls.
Ghislaine Maxwell claims that she has copies of the Epstein sex videos and now threatens to use as bargaining chips to save herself—or take them all down with her.
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House Republicans Demand Answers on NPR’s ‘Disinformation Team’ After ‘Misleading Reporting’
Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde led 13 of his House colleagues in a letter demanding answers from the president and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR) about the launch of its disinformation team given the taxpayer-funded outlet’s denial of the verified Hunter Biden laptop story, among other stories.
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Lawmakers Coordinate Effort to Stop Blacklisted Chinese Firms From Receiving U.S. Tax Dollars
Several Republican senators introduced new legislation this week that would prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to certain Chinese firms.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced the Turn Off the Tap Act along with Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. The bill would stop any federal funds from going to companies that have been blacklisted by the Department of Commerce’s Entity List and the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List.
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Lawmaker Says Private DNA Databases Could be Hacked to Produce Bioweapons to Target Specific People
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, has warned people against sharing their DNA with genealogy companies, claiming that it could allegedly be used to make bio-weapons targeted to kill a specific person only.
“You can actually take someone’s DNA, take — you know — their medical profile and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable,” Crow said at the Aspen Security Forum.
A recent report explained how DNA databases owned by private companies can be used to make bio-weapons like the ones Crow warned about. The DNA databases could be hacked and the data used to create a weapon targeting one person only.
Crow noted that the development of such weapons is cause for concern, given people willingly share their DNA with DNA testing companies.
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No Joke: Leftist Org Puts on ‘Critical Race Theory Summer School’ Conference
The African American Policy Forum is hosting a “Critical Race Theory Summer School” conference, which will teach children how to become activists and malign parents’ rights as a form of racism and sexism.
Taking place from July 18th to the 22nd, the virtual conference will feature various sessions hosted by critical race theorists and leftwing activists.
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Oak Fire: Fast-Moving Flames Force Thousands of Mariposa County Residents to Evacuate
The fire is burning near Yosemite National Park and threatens thousands of homes
MIDPINES, Calif. —
A fire that sparked Friday afternoon in Mariposa County has forced immediate evacuations for nearby residents and is threatening thousands of homes, officials said. The state’s fire agency said the fire activity is “extreme with frequent runs, spot fires and group torching.”
The Oak Fire started sometime after 2:30 p.m. near Highway 140 and Carstens Road by the community of Midpines, which is about 75 miles east of Modesto. Highway 140 is one of the main roads drivers use from the Central Coast to travel into Yosemite Valley.
Cal Fire said the blaze remained active through the night, “moving toward the communities of Jerseydale, Darrah, and Bootjack.” By Sunday morning it had burned at least 14,281 acres, according to Cal Fire. That is about 22 square miles.
At least 10 structures have been destroyed and five have been damaged in the blaze, according to Cal Fire. Another 2,000 structures are currently being threatened. Damage inspection teams are starting their assessments on Sunday of some of the areas impacted by the fire, Cal Fire said…
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One America News Network Dropped by Verizon, Throwing Network’s Future in Doubt
Conservative pro-Trump television channel One America News has been dropped by Verizon, the second major distributor to abandon the network and a troubling sign for the channel as it struggles to maintain viability.
Verizon said in a statement this week that OAN “failed to agree to fair terms” during a “business as usual carriage negotiation,” and that the company would thus drop the news network from its lineup of offerings at the end of this month.
The drop comes just several months after DirecTV similarly dropped OAN, with the network’s presence on the distributor ending in early April of this year.
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Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Monkeypox Primarily Transmitted Sexually by Men
The first major peer-reviewed study of monkeypox infections has found that the virus is primarily being transmitted through the sexual activity of gay and bisexual men in the United States and around the world.
The Journal of New England Medicine on Thursday published a study that looked at monkeypox infection across 16 countries between April and June, when cases began to emerge in countries outside of Africa.
The study reported on 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, of which 98 percent were in gay or bisexual men with a median age of 38. Of these cases, 95 percent of the infections were suspected to have been transmitted through sexual activity—41 percent also had HIV.
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Police: 2 Dead in Colorado Shooting; Suspect Kills Self
Authorities say a man and a woman were found dead in a shooting in southeastern Colorado and the suspected gunman later shot and killed himself after a chase
LAMAR, Colo. (AP) — A man and a woman were found dead in a shooting in southeastern Colorado and the suspected gunman later shot and killed himself after a chase, authorities said Sunday.
The man and woman were shot along with a second woman who survived Saturday afternoon in an apartment building in Lamar, a city of about 8,000 people that is a commercial hub for the surrounding ranching and farming area, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. The woman was hospitalized but her condition was not known.
Officers from several agencies chased a vehicle the suspected shooter was driving, the CBI said. He eventually stopped in a field near Holly — a town near the Kansas border about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Lamar — got out and shot and killed himself, it said. Law enforcement officers did not fire any shots, the CBI said.
The shooting is being investigated by Lamar police with help from the CBI, the statement said.
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POSO at TPUSA’s SAS: ‘You Will Not Defeat the American People’
Addressing the crowd at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit Sunday morning, Human Event’s Jack Posobiec slammed the Biden administration as well as international organizations like the World Economic Forum.
“We’re gonna take our country back from the likes of President — I don’t even know if he’s awake right now. President Joe Biden. We’re gonna take our country back from the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization. We’re gonna take our country back from the liberal world order,” Posobiec began.
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Five years ago, Greitens was a rising star of the Trump era. He had a glittering academic resume: Summa cum laude from Duke, a Rhodes Scholarship (back when that wasn’t a sick joke), and an Oxford Ph.D. He was a Navy SEAL who served four overseas deployments and received a Purple Heart. He founded The Mission Continues, a veterans non-profit that is still active and has a near-perfect rating on Charity Navigator. He wrote three books, including The Heart and the Fist, a bestselling memoir. In 2015, Greitens switched from the Democratic Party of his upbringing to the GOP, and in 2016 he was swept into the Missouri governor’s office on the same tide that brought America President Trump.
Greitens was, and is, a great American. But no level of heroism would be enough to keep the left at bay. In 2018, Missouri Democrats used a prior personal issue, which Greitens had fully owned up to, to conjure up completely bogus criminal charges. They then hounded him relentlessly until they drove him from office, leaving his career and reputation for dead.
But Greitens didn’t give in to the cancellation machine. The criminal case against him was a sham, one of the worst political frauds in American history. An exhaustive ethics review cleared Greitens of all wrongdoing. A key investigator in the case was initially charged with perjury, and in March pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of tampering with evidence. Kim Gardner, the same repugnant prosecutor who persecuted the McCloskeys for defending their home, may be disbarred for her conduct.
Now, Greitens is reclaiming the status that his enemies stole from him through lies, malice, and criminal behavior. He’s running to replace the retiring Roy Blunt in the U.S. Senate in 2022. And despite half a decade of radical left efforts to destroy him, Greitens is the favorite, polling at the top of the pack with the primary just a month and a half away.
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Three Doctors Die Within Four Days of Each Other Soon After Hospital Gives Them Fourth COVID Shot
There are no coincidences.
Three young and otherwise healthy doctors died last week. They were all working for the same hospital system. Their deaths came days after their hospital started injecting staff with the fourth Covid shots. Someone at the hospital has started anonymously blowing the whistle.
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Trump Urges School Restrictions on Radical Ideologies, Rehiring Troops Ousted Over Vaccines
Former President Donald Trump is calling for the reinstatement of troops ousted from the military over vaccine mandates as well as new restrictions to keep teachers from exposing students to extreme race, gender and sexual ideologies.
“Across the United States, we need to implement strict prohibitions on teaching inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material to America’s children in any form,” Trump declared in a speech Saturday night in Florida to young conservatives at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
Trump also said that troops ousted from the military services for refusing to be vaccinated should be restored with back pay.
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Trump Easily Wins Straw Poll at Turning Point USA Summit
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday easily won the Turning Point USA straw poll, outdistancing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a 4-to-1 margin among young conservatives attending the event.
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Various US Cities Are Pushing for the Introduction of Public Facial Recognition Technology
The New Orleans City Council overturned a ban on the use of facial recognition by the police.
Celebrating the move, Mayor LaToya Cantrell gave a statement, saying that facial recognition “represents a tremendous stride towards greater public safety,” and that the technology will “take dangerous criminals off our streets.”
The city council overturned the ban, rejecting arguments by critics that the technology is biased and that denies people anonymity in public.
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Woman Stabbed by Leaping Sailfish in Florida
STUART, Fla. — A 70-year-old woman was stabbed by the bill of a 100-pound sailfish that leapt out of the water and attacked her as her companions were trying to reel it in on a boat near the Florida coast, authorities said.
The sailfish stabbed the woman from Arnold, Maryland, in the groin area with its pointed bill on Tuesday while she was standing in the boat as two companions tried to bring it in on a fishing line about two miles offshore from Stuart, Florida, according to a report from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
The companions applied pressure to the wound, and the woman was taken to Stuart for medical treatment.
The woman told deputies that the attack happened so fast that she didn’t have time to react, according to the sheriff’s office report.
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Canadian Govt Admits Travelers Incorrectly Quarantined Due to App Error
The Canadian government has admitted that some travellers were erroneously told to go into quarantine upon arriving in Canada due to glitches in the Trudeau government’s ArriveCAN app.
The federal government admitted that some travellers were told to go into quarantine by the app despite not actually being required to do so due to a glitch in the ArriveCAN app, a mobile phone app that is required to be used when entering Canada to confirm vaccination against the Wuhan virus.
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No More Organ Transplants for the Unvaccinated in Canada — JCCF Lawyer Weighs In
Here at Rebel News, we’ve spoken with many individuals who are now facing the post-COVID ‘health care’ system head on. Recently, we interviewed Sheila Annette Lewis, who suffers from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and has been advised that she will not survive unless she receives an organ transplant. A recent court ruling has led to Lewis now being denied this life-saving surgery for her terminal condition, because she is unvaccinated.
Below are excerpts from Justice R. Paul Belzil’s ruling. (This case is under a publication ban which means that Rebel News is unable to publish the name of the organ Lewis needs.)
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Pope Francis Embarks on ‘Penitential’ Journey to Canada
ROME — Pope Francis left early Sunday on a week-long “penitential” trip to Canada aimed at “reconciliation and healing” with the country’s indigenous peoples.
In a press release, the Vatican specified that this is Francis’ 37th international trip, flown on the newly reconstituted ITA Airways bound from Rome to Edmonton, Alberta.
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Trudeau Moves Ahead on WEF’s Nitrogen Reduction Plan That Sparked Dutch Farmer Uprising
The Canadian government is moving ahead on the World Economic Forum-inspired plan to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer use in the name of fighting climate change.
Following a meeting of federal and provincial officials on Friday, the Alberta and Saskatchewan Ministers of Agriculture expressed “profound disappointment” over Trudeau’s decision to attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer.
“We’re really concerned with this arbitrary goal,” Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture David Marit said. “The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers.”
“This has been the most expensive crop anyone has put in, following a very difficult year on the prairies,” Alberta Minister of Agriculture Nate Horner said. “The world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The Federal government needs to display that they understand this. They owe it to our producers.”
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Trudeau Moves Ahead With WEF’s Plan to Abolish Many Farms by 2030
Young Global Leader Justin Trudeau has announced plans to move ahead with the WEF’s plan to abolish farms by the year 2030…
Farm groups, like the Western Canadian Wheat Growers, have said the federal plan will reduce crop output, reduce income for farm families and increase food prices in Canadian grocery stores.
The Canadian government is planning to implement a 30% reduction in nitrogen emissions by 2030, the same proposal as the Dutch government that has resulted in ongoing mass protests by Dutch farmers.
In response, the Canadian farmers are beginning to mobilize to support Dutch farmers and protest of Canada’s upcoming Great Reset scheme.
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Dutch Language Requirement at Dutch University of Applied Sciences is ‘Racist’
The Institute for Human Rights (IHR) has ruled in favor of two teachers who protested against a language requirement for a post at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The university of applied sciences wrongly made an indirect distinction based on race, according to the IHR.
In the advertisement for a position in the International Public Management program, lecturers had to be able to speak excellent Dutch and English, but the language of instruction in the program was English. Non-Dutch teachers feel discriminated against because of this, the IHR argued.
The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights maintain that it has not been proven that the language requirement is necessary for this position. An employer may not directly or indirectly discriminate on the basis of race in appointing staff. According to the Institute, a Dutch language requirement in the Dutch-speaking Netherlands is such an indirect distinction. The university is funded by the Dutch taxpayer.
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French Town Imposes Curfew on Children Under 16 to Tackle Ongoing ‘Delinquency’
The French town of Joinville has imposed a curfew for all unaccompanied minors under the age of 16 in an effort to reduce the level of delinquency and urban violence on the streets of the town.
Bertrand Ollivier, the mayor of Joinville, announced that the curfew would be in effect until August 15th and will see all minors required to stay off the streets of the town between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. every day unless accompanied by an adult.
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Ireland: Great Reset: Government to Target Farmers With Carbon Emissions Cuts of Around 28 Per Cent
Ireland’s green agenda-loving government is set to impose an emissions cut of around 28 per cent on farmers, a report has claimed.
Farmers in Ireland may soon be forced to make potentially damaging changes to their businesses as climate alarmist ministers within Ireland’s government look set to cut the sector’s emissions by around 28 per cent.
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It feels like we can’t go a single week without hearing about the re-emergence, or emergence of a disease or ailment at the moment.
We’ve had a mysterious outbreak of hepatitis among children, a rise in “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome”, and the UK Government declaring a ‘national incident’ after allegedly discovering the polio virus in England.
And now, the Director General of the World Health Organization has overruled the World Health Organization to single-handedly declare the alleged monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
All of these outbreaks follow an alleged Covid-19 pandemic, and all of them are “coincidentally” occurring after millions of people worldwide have been injected with an experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
But this is precisely why we shouldn’t really be that surprised. Because all we’re witnessing is the consequences of the damage done to millions of immune systems around the world by these experimental vaccines.
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Monkeypox is Being Driven Overwhelming by Sex Between Men, Major Study Finds
The global monkeypox outbreak is primarily being driven by sex between men, according to the first major peer-reviewed paper to analyze a large set of cases of the virus.
The outbreak, which epidemiologists believe initially began in mid-spring gatherings of gay and bisexual men in Europe, has since alarmed such experts by ballooning to nearly 16,000 cases worldwide.
Now infectious disease specialists are developing an increasingly refined understanding of the predominant conduits of monkeypox transmission, as well as the typical disease course patterns.
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Poland: New Poll Shows Opposition Party Would Win General Election
The centrist Civic Coalition (KO), Poland’s main opposition party, would win the vote by a narrow margin over the ruling conservative party Law and Justice (PiS), a Kantar Public poll has shown.
If the elections were held in mid-July, KO would take 27 percent of votes, while PiS would place second on 26 percent.
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For many conservatives, while Hungary represents a window into what is possible, the country nevertheless remains an enigma. Despite non-stop negative international media coverage, pressure from Brussels and international NGOs, and a difficult geographical position between the East and the West, the country continues to thrive. But why? Now, a new book from a key player in the country’s government is giving an international audience a window into how Hungary continues to serve as a bastion for pro-family policies, traditional values, and a strong nation-state.
Balazs Orban, who serves as the political director to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, presents an alternative vision of Europe in his book “The Hungarian Way of Strategy,” one that runs counter to the left-liberal establishment that increasinlgy seems to call all the shots nearly everywhere but Hungary. Balazs Orban explains how Hungary has and will continue to play an outsized role in the continent’s future direction, explaining in detail that Europe can only survive as a union of sovereign nation-states.
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Tour de France fans took matters into their own hands yesterday as they angrily removed a gang of eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the historic bike race by sitting in the middle of the road to block oncoming riders.
Eight climate activists from French campaign group Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) sporting T-shirts emblazoned with the message ‘we have 978 days left’ to tackle environmental decline tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadouron on Saturday.
But their attempts to wreak havoc at the stage were thwarted by spectators, who stormed onto the road and dragged them out of the path of the oncoming bikes even before the police arrived on the scene to make arrests.
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UK Government Implementing Plan to Replace Farmers With “New Entrants” In Transformed, Green System
Following Brexit, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payment system, which British farmers have become accustomed to for 40 years, is being phased out. Downing Street came up with a new plan — The Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) that will roll out in full in 2024 with a trio of payments for sustainable farming, local nature recovery, and landscape recovery. ?
You can see the control it gives the government.
In light of that, the Government hopes to buy out older farmers who won’t do their bidding. They claim benevolent reasons — they are helping them out… The scheme is one of many “reforms” by the Agricultural Transition Plan…
In return for their payment, farmers will surrender their entitlements and be expected to rent or sell their land or surrender their tenancy to create opportunities for new entrants and farmers wishing to expand their businesses. The Government has also been working in partnership with industry leaders, local councils, and land owners to design a New Entrants scheme to create real opportunities for new farmers.
Farmers could receive up to around £50,000 to £100,000 under this plan.
He said farmers who won’t accept this have to move on.
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UK: Khan’s London Suffers Most Sex Assaults in Decade, Attacks on Males Up 59 Per Cent
London is experiencing the highest number of sexual assaults for a decade, with attacks on males aged over 13 up by an astonishing 59 per cent.
Some 7,500 women told London’s Metropolitan Police they had been sexually assaulted in 2021, according to Home Office statistics reported by the BBC, with the number of police-recorded sexual assaults against men and boys aged 13 and over standing at 924.
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This is the moment an Italian security guard tears protestors’ hands off a priceless Botticelli painting at a Florence art gallery — in stark contrast to guards at London’s National Gallery, who simply watched on when eco-zealots did the same.
The out-of-patience security official stormed over to the young pair and pulled their superglued hands from the Renaissance masterpiece shortly after they began their short-lived protest in the Uffizi Gallery on Friday morning.
It struck a jarring contrast to the inaction shown by British guards at the Trafalgar Square gallery this month, where Just Stop Oil zealots were allowed to cover over John Constable’s The Hay Wain with their own version.
More than an hour later, Brighton students Hannah Hunt, 23, and Eben Lazarus, 22, were finally arrested.
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Saudi Crown Prince Talks With Putin After Biden Leaves Empty Handed
The Kremlin revealed on Thursday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known commonly as MBS, held a phone conversation with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to discuss “stability” in global oil markets, a week after leftist American President Joe Biden visited Riyadh to, reportedly, request the Saudis consider increasing production.
While Biden denied that asking for more Saudi oil — presumably to help lower gasoline prices at home without allowing American oil companies to drill more — was not the objective of the visit, he left unclear exactly why he was in Riyadh last week in his Washington Post article on the matter, titled “Why I’m Going to Saudi Arabia.”
Biden did claim the visit would in some ways help “counter Russia’s aggression” — a goal MBS appears to be undermining by increasing contact with Putin.
The visit has yet to produce any tangible benefits for the United States and served — via an awkward fist bump between Biden and MBS — to normalize diplomatic friendship with Saudi Arabia, something Biden vowed he would not do on the campaign trail in 2020.
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Ukrainian Forces Launch Counteroffensive in Kherson Oblast
Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive into Kherson Oblast, the first part of the country to fall under Russian control when the invasion began in February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday.
Ukrainian artillery is reportedly targeting bridges in the region, aiming to hinder the delivery of supplies to the Russian occupiers.
Zelensky said his country’s forces are advancing “step by step” into the region, but more detailed information has been scarce. According to an assessment from the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War published Saturday, Kherson officials have “called on Ukrainian civilians to remain silent on the progress of the counteroffensive until Ukrainian authorities release official statements.”
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Fuel Rationing Via QR Code — Sri Lanka Implements ‘National Fuel Pass’
As soon as WEF contributor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, took over as president of Sri Lanka, a QR code for fuel price rationing was announced. This is a blueprint for what many more countries are likely to face.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is the new president of Sri Lanka and also a member and agenda contributor of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF). No wonder, then, that the latter is also helping to implement, step by step, the globalist organisation’s plans for total control and subjugation of countries to the Great Reset agenda.
The president has also found a suitable globalist supporter in Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera, who has now announced the “National Fuel Pass”.
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Hindu organizations blocked the road in protest; Police arrested Imam Qureshi and Devendra’s wife.
Anand Mishra | HENB | Faridabad | July 23, 2022:: A 35-year-old youth, Devendra, a resident of Parvatiya Colony in Faridabad, Haryana, has been murdered by slitting his throat. Police say that Devendra’s wife along with a next door neighbor Imam Qureshi killed Devendra. Local people say that Devendra objected the closeness of his wife with the Muslim guy Imam Qureshi, but Qureshi provoked the wife of Devendra not to stay with her husband and finally they jointly kill the Hindu man to continue their illicit affairs without objection. The local people alleged that Qureshi ‘s provocation matured the murder in final. This was another dangerous end of a ‘Love Jihad’ tangle.
Devendra, a resident of Nagla Village, used to do welding work in Faridabad. Devendra had 3 children and he used to take care of them by doing laborer’s job.
The police had received information about the discovery of a dead body on Thursday night. After getting information, the police reached the spot and found that the dead body of Devendra was lying in a sack stuffed in the bathroom of Imam Qureshi. The Imam was Devendra’s neighbor, and the two houses situated exactly opposite to each other. At present, the police have sealed Imam Qureshi’s house.
DSP Crime Naresh Kadyan while talking to the media said that Devendra’s wife along with her boyfriend (Imam Qureshi) killed Devendra. Both the accused together were trying to take the dead body somewhere else but the police caught both of them on the basis of information…
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Supposedly “Encrypted” App Justtalk Suffers Reported Data Breach
Messaging and video calling app JustTalk, widely used in Asia, claims to be encrypted and secure. However, a large cache of internal data discovered by security researcher Anurag Sen tells a different story, TechCrunch alleges.
JustTalk claims to use end-to-end encryption technology, meaning only the sender and recipient can view messages sent. On its website, it claims that “only you and the person you communicate with can see, read or listen to them: Even the JusTalk team won’t access your data!”
The messaging app has 20 million users globally and its kid-friendly app, JustTalk Kids, has 1 million downloads on Google Play.
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An Eritrean boat migrant who claimed to be a 17-year-old boy was unmasked to UK authorities after his wife shared a wedding photo on Facebook.
The man, known as LS, reached Dover by dinghy and claimed asylum, a tribunal heard.
Originally from the East African country of Eritrea, the migrant made the perilous Channel crossing and told UK authorities upon arrival that he had been born in 2003.
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The UK-based agent for one gang offered a Mail undercover reporter a counterfeit British passport for £3,500 and an EU passport — which could also be used for illegal entry here — for £2,000. He said: ‘A lot of people came this way. Whatever you like. You like French? You like British? You like Italian? Everything.’
One passport forger advertises through videos on TikTok — some with more than 17,000 views — showing a cartoon Queen winking. A message in Albanian says: ‘Anyone interested in European passports suitable for crossing to England get in contact.’
The Mail reporter — posing as someone hoping to get relatives into the UK — contacted the gang boss ‘Nic’ who laughed and gave a thumbs-up during a video call from his home in Albania.
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Northern Virginia County Becomes Latest Jurisdiction to Limit Police Cooperation With ICE
Arlington County is the latest local jurisdiction to prohibit law enforcement from communicating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement about illegal immigrants residing in the county.
The Northern Virginia county’s adoption of its new “Trust Policy” comes after the recent arrest of an illegal immigrant charged with raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl in Ohio.
Immigrant rights advocates have been pushing local lawmakers to stop sharing information with federal immigration authorities. Local news reports have featured photos of demonstrators holding “Melt ICE” and “ICE Out of Arlington” signs at Arlington County Board meetings.
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Poland Accepts 4.99 Mln Refugees Since War in Ukraine Started
Since February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, 4.99 million people have crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border into Poland, the Border Guard (SG) tweeted on Sunday morning.
According to the SG, on Saturday, Border Guard officers carried out around 23,900 border checks on people entering Poland from Ukraine, and by 7:00 a.m. on Sunday the number of arrivals had reached around 6,300 people.
The Border Guard also said that 3.07 million people had left Poland for Ukraine since the beginning of the war. On Saturday, 27,200 people crossed the border from Poland to Ukraine.
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Populist Salvini Demands Tougher Borders as Italian Election Campaign Kicks Off
Italian populist League (Lega) leader Matteo Salvini has called for tougher border control to reduce illegal migrant landings following the collapse of the technocratic “national unity” government earlier this week.
Following the fall of Mario Draghi’s globalist government, Italy is now set to see elections in September, and populist Matteo Salvini is already outlining his priorities for the election campaign.
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Activision Employees Walk Off the Job Seeking Abortion, LGBTQ Support
Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees walked off the job on Thursday in an effort to get company support for employees living in “locations which are passing anti-abortion, anti lgbtq+, or any other discriminatory legislation,” a note from the group said.
Participants in the “Walkout to End Gender Inequity” were demanding that Activision Blizzard provide assistance to employees who want to avoid such legislation by moving to and working from “safe states,” organizers said. That would mean the company allowing fully remote work for nearly all employees and paying for relocation costs and cost-of-living adjustments for employees who move to such “safe states,” among other changes.
The walkout—which had been publicly planned for weeks and was supported by a donation-based strike fund—was joined by 450 employees, according to a Washington Post report. Participants came from multiple Activision Blizzard offices, including the Irvine, California, headquarters of Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Publishing offices in Austin, Texas, among others.
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California College Foots Bill for Penile, Vaginal, Other Surgeries for Trans Students
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) wants to pay for “gender-affirming” treatment for students who identify as transgender, including penile and vaginal surgeries.
And it is likely that Joe Biden’s expansion of the federal Title IX statute that protects females from discrimination based on sex to include “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” could make this happen.
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Families Flee Pennsylvania School After Boys ‘Encouraged to Wear Dresses’ During Pride Month: Report
At least two families have pulled their children out of a Pennsylvania middle school due to its “‘woke’ agenda,” citing how, among numerous things, children are not allowed to wear the American flag, but “boys were encouraged to wear dresses” at the school’s Gay Pride Month celebrations.
“The last thing I wanted to do was to transfer my son for his 8th-grade year, but enough is enough,” parent Jim Jacobs told the Delaware Valley Journal about his decision to transfer his son out of Stetson Middle School, located in West Chester, Penn.
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LGBTQNATO: Send Arms to Ukraine to ‘Make Pride in Mariupol Possible’
Protesters at an LGBTQ event in Berlin have demanded that Ukraine is armed in order to allow the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol to host a Pride parade.
Pro-LGBTQIA2S demonstrators at a Pride event in Berlin have demanded that weapons are sent to Ukraine in order to enable the country’s rulers to liberate the port city of Mariupol and host a Pride Parade there.
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Missouri Attorney General Sues St. Louis to Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt is suing the City of St. Louis for using taxpayer dollars through the American Rescue Plan Act to find abortions, including travel expenses and other “logistical support” costs.
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Dr Tedros, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, has overruled the World Health Organization committee’s decision and single-handedly declared Covid-19 vaccine-induced shingles (monkeypox) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
The rogue decision of the Director-General means all member states of the W.H.O. including the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Europe are now legally obliged to respond and act…
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee… have now met twice in one month [under Tedros’ orders], and both times voted against declaring “monkeypox” a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
However, instead of adhering to the democratic and scientific decision of the World Health Organization, its director-general, Dr Tedros, instead decided to declare “monkeypox” a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on the 23rd July 2022…
According to a scientific study published in 1988, it’s virtually impossible to distinguish between monkeypox and chickenpox.
And chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, and just like its close relative the herpes simplex virus, it becomes a lifelong resident in the body.
And like its other cousin, genital herpes, varicella may be silent for many years, hiding out inside nerve cells and can reactivate later, wreaking havoc in the form of the excruciating skin disorder, shingles, which is a blistering, burning skin rash.
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The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI)
One of the most powerful yet unremarked-upon drivers of our current wars over definitions of gender is a concerted push by members of one of the richest families in the United States to transition Americans from a dimorphic definition of sex to the broad acceptance and propagation of synthetic sex identities (SSI). Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, current Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions.
I first wrote about the Pritzkers, whose fortune originated in the Hyatt hotel chain, and their philanthropy directed toward normalizing what people call “transgenderism” in 2018. I have since stopped using the word “transgenderism” as it has no clear boundaries, which makes it useless for communication, and have instead opted for the term SSI, which more clearly defines what some of the Pritzkers and their allies are funding—even as it ignores the biological reality of “male” and “female” and “gay” and “straight.”
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At least 76 churches and pro-life organizations have been targets of arson and vandalism since May when news leaked that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade.
The latest count comes from the Catholic News Agency, which has been keeping track of the incidents targeting pro-life advocates.
The crime wave has many churches and pro-life organizations increasing security and Republican lawmakers demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the growing domestic terrorism.
According to CNA, there have been 76 attacks and counting since early May when someone leaked a draft ruling of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling, which overturned Roe and began allowing states to protect unborn babies from abortion again. The crimes include arson, theft, vulgar graffiti, property damage and threats.
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Virginia Attorney General Urges Google Not to Censor Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants Google not to censor crisis pregnancy centers in search results in a pushback against Democratic lawmakers who have condemned them in recent weeks.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants Google not to censor crisis pregnancy centers in search results in a pushback against Democratic lawmakers who have condemned them in recent weeks.
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If I were a 100 lb fish and you stuck a hook in my mouth I would stab you too.
And don’t mess with my nitrogen emitting garden unless you want to have an intimate conversation with my pitchfork.
RE “sudden adult death syndrome”
What does the OBVIOUS sneaky SUDDEN criminal propagandization with their “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” trickery (just like their prior “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” fabrication), in conjunction with TONS of similar OBVIOUS evidence, mean really? What does it squarely point to — ONCE AGAIN? What is the TRUE FINAL implication of all that?
Here’s the answer, here’s what that ULTIMATELY means…
It means that a mafia network of manipulating PSYCHOPATHS are governing big businesses (eg official medicine), nations and the world (and that Covid is a major planned crime against humanity), the evidence is OVERWHELMING and TOTALLY IRREFUTABLE — read “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon””… https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
Isn’t it about time for anyone to wake up to the ULTIMATE DEPTH of the rabbit hole — rather than remain blissfully willfully ignorant and play victim like a little child?
Only psychopaths can come up with such TOTALLY IMMORAL criminal fabrications AND implement such unethical atrocities to cover up the massive harm done by Covid “vaccines”!!!
And psychopaths are typically NOT how Hollywood propaganda movies have showcased them. And therefore one better RE-learns what a psychopath REALLY is. But global rulership by psychopaths is only ONE part of the equation that makes up the destructive human condition as the article explains because there are TWO pink elephants in the room… and they’re MARRIED (see cited source above).
If you are in the United States and your employer has mandated the toxic/lethal COVID jabs, you can register to receive a “Medical Exemption Certificate” for free at https://drgastonmedicalexemption.com or https://lc.org/exempt