Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot to death while campaigning for legislative office in Japan. His assassin shot him from behind at close range with a homemade gun.
In other news, Elon Musk has announced that he is terminating his deal to buy Twitter, due to the latter’s failure to provide analyzable data about fake and spam accounts. Twitter officials reacted by saying that they will sue Mr. Musk to force him to honor his contract.
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A Biden Tax Hike Kicked in That Affects Everything From Soap to Lightbulbs
An excise tax hike on household items that was buried in President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package last year went into effect on July 1, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
A roughly $13 billion tax increase on 42 chemicals, metallic elements and critical minerals was included in Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Common household items like rubber, soap, concrete, plastics, lightbulbs and electronics will be impacted…
The tax impacts Americans who import, produce or manufacture qualified chemicals, Bloomberg Law reported…
“The fake infrastructure bill was drafted to raise taxes on and kill jobs in Louisiana specifically,” Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said last year upon introducing a bill with other Republicans to eliminate the Superfund taxes. “Its Superfund Tax will increase taxes on our petrochemical industry by $1.3 billion, and that’s going to endanger good jobs at a time when inflation is already ravaging Louisiana families.”
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Hungary Makes Surprise Hike of One-Week Deposit Rate to Prop Up Currency
In order to prop up the country’s embattled currency, the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) increased its one-week deposit rate by 200 basis points to 9.75 percent on Thursday, surprising markets but lending much needed support to the forint.
“In accordance with the strategy defined in June, the Monetary Council considers it necessary that the increase in the one-week deposit interest rate be integrated into the base rate hike cycle as soon as possible,” the MNB said in a statement.
The MNB traditionally holds meetings of its Monetary Council twice a month, where interest rates and monetary policy changes are announced. At its last meeting on June 28, the MNB raised its base overnight deposit rate by 185 basis points to 7.75 percent, the highest rate hike since October 2008.
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Strong Jobs Report Prompts Speculation of Further Interest Rate Hikes
The announcement of stronger-than-expected jobs figures on Friday has prompted speculation that the Federal Reserve will continue imposing interest rate hikes as it seeks to curb record inflation.
The U.S. economy added 372,000 jobs in June, significantly outperforming economist projections of 250,000 new jobs, while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Despite strong employment figures, the economy continues to struggle with inflation. The Consumer Price Index for May showed an annualized 8.6% increase over the year before. The average price of gas, meanwhile, rose above $5 per gallon for the first time in U.S. history in early June.
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U.S. Housing Affordability at Lowest Level Since 2006
As the U.S. grapples with rising gas prices, American housing it witnessing a similar spike in pricing, barring many from becoming homeowners amid the nation’s other economic woes.
The National Association of Realtors announced Friday that its housing-affordability index had fallen to 102.5 in May, marking the lowest figure for the index since July 2006 when it stood at 100.5, the Wall Street Journal reported. The plunge brought the index near the July 1990 low of 100.2 as well.
Mortgage payments rose to an average $1,842 in May from $1,297 in January, assuming a 30-year mortgage and 20% down payment, according to the Journal.
The outlet further noted that active listings declined 34% in June from the same time in 2020 and witnessed a 53% drop from June 2019.
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US Recession is Already Here, According to Wells Fargo Investment Group
There’s no need to fret about the timing of a US recession anymore, according to Wells Fargo Investment Institute — because we’re already in one.
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Video: White House Press Secretary Again Claims Economy is ‘Stronger’ Than Before
that the U.S. economy is in better shape than it has been historically, even as inflation continues to shatter 40 year highs.
Jean-Pierre claimed that unemployment rates and job growth in recent months are more important to focus on than the shrinking economy.
“When we look at where we are economically — and we are stronger economically than we have been in history,” Jean-Pierre said, adding “When you look at the unemployment numbers at 3.6%, when you look at the jobs numbers, more than 8.7 million of new jobs created, that is important.”
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2 Iowa Officers Sue 2020 Protesters, Accuse Them of Assault
Two Iowa police officers are taking the unusual move of suing six people who participated in a 2020 protest in Des Moines after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, accusing them of assault.
All six people were arrested during the July 1, 2020, protest, and five already pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of assault on a police officer and/or interference with official acts. One of them, Indira Sheumaker, was later elected to the Des Moines City Council.
The lawsuit, first reported by Axios Des Moines, was filed by Peter Wilson and Jeffrey George as individuals and not as representatives of the Des Moines Police Department. They are seeking an unspecified amount for actual and punitive damages.
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A New Executive Order Aims to Preserve Abortion Access, But Its Reach is Limited
President Biden will sign an executive order to take some incremental steps to try to preserve access to abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two weeks ago.
At least nine states have banned abortion so far — including Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. A dozen more states are expected to prohibit or restrict the procedure in the coming weeks.
The executive order, which Biden is expected to sign on Friday, pledges to ensure the safety of abortion patients and providers, including setting up mobile clinics near the borders of states restricting abortion access. It also seeks to convene private, pro bono lawyers to offer support to people crossing state lines to get an abortion.
Another part of the order directs the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue a report in the next 30 days outlining additional actions to protect medication abortion, expand access on emergency contraception and IUDs, and increase public education around reproductive rights…
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Biden Admin-Funded Clinic Distributing Crack Pipes Across Street From Pre-School
Earlier this year, news broke that the Biden administration was funding a drug prevention initiative that included the distribution of crack pipes.
A new report found that the drug paraphernalia is being handed out at a clinic in New York City right across the street from a pre-school.
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Biden’s HHS Funds Study to Understand Why Children View ‘White Males as Default People’
New York University has received a $40,000 grant from Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services to study why children have come to view “white males as default people.”
The project, as detailed by the grant summary on USASpending.gov, is titled “Societal assumptions regarding typical personhood and their effects on reasoning“ and seeks to research the developmental processes of children, by which they “acquire the belief that White males represent the default person — a pattern rooted in the ideologies of androcentrism (centering the experiences of men) and ethnocentrism (centering the experiences of White people) prevalent in the United States.”
The project, which runs for three years, began in February and ends on Jan. 31, 2025.
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Bill Gates Tells Governments to Invest in Technologies for “Payment and ID Systems”
Account ownership and digital payments have increased, so has the gender gap in account ownership, according to the World Bank, after it analyzed the Global Findex 2021 database.
The World Bank attributed the improvement on financial inclusion by controversial modern digital ID systems, and called for more investment in the technology.
“The world has a crucial opportunity to build a more inclusive and resilient economy and provide a gateway to prosperity for billions of people,” said Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a non-profit that supports the Global Findex database.
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Breaking: Elon Musk Terminates Twitter Deal
Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly terminated his deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire reportedly sent a letter to terminate the deal on Friday.
The deal has been on hold since May, after Musk demanded that the social media giant prove that bots are less than five percent of users.
In the SEC letter from Musk’s team, it alleges that Twitter has not “complied with its contractual obligations.”
The letter states that Musk has sought data and information necessary to “make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform” for nearly two months.
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Breaking: Steve Bannon Swatted While Live on Air
Armed police responded to a false report of a shooting and flooded former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon’s Capital Hill row house Friday morning around 10:45am.
The Washington Post reports that police shut down streets near the Supreme Court and the Capitol Building for about one hour.
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Breaking: Twitter Vows to Sue Elon Musk Over Termination of Buyout Deal
Shortly after it was announced that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk would be terminating his buyout deal with Twitter, the social media giant’s board announced that they would be suing Musk.
In a tweet from Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor, he announced that the company’s board would be suing the billionaire, and that the board is still “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk.”
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We’ve all followed the story of the mass shooting that took place in Highland Park on the 4th of July. Suspect Robert Crimo has been arrested and charged with seven counts of murder. His social media history and motives are still being argued over even as tributes to his victims are being published.
The focus on one shocking act of violence is understandable but the city of Chicago saw many acts of violence over the July 4th weekend. In fact, more people were shot and killed over the 3-day weekend than died in the mass shooting in Highland Park. Local residents wonder why the violence they see every day doesn’t seem to attract much attention or resources.
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Department of Homeland Security Employees Charged in Chinese Spying and Harassment Operation
Two men with ties to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been charged by US prosecutors for participating in a “transnational repression scheme” as described by federal officials, that include harassing and spying on political dissidents in the United States on behalf of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).
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Elon Musk Says He’s Terminating Twitter Deal, Board to Fight
Elon Musk announced he will walk away from his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter, leaving the deal on the verge of collapse. The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition.
But Twitter isn’t accepting Musk’s declaration. The chair of Twitter’s board, Bret Taylor, tweeted in response that the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”
Twitter could have pushed for a $1 billion breakup fee that Musk agreed to pay under these circumstances. Instead, it looks ready to fight to complete the deal, which the company’s board has approved and CEO Parag Agrawal has insisted he wants to consummate…
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Grand Forks police and the FBI on Thursday visited the home of Jodi Carlson, a leading opponent of a new corn mill to be owned by the China-based Fufeng Group, following up on a social media post quoting the Declaration of Independence that mentioned the overthrow of the government.
The authorities ultimately found no cause for concern, a police report states.
The incident has provoked an angry response from opponents of the corn mill project, many of whom are part of the “Concerned Citizens of Fufeng Project in Grand Forks” group where the activity took place.
“This is a group that is fighting against government overreach, and promoting the voices of the people who live in the community,” Carlson later wrote in a post to the group. “We are not here to be censored, nor harassed by the local police department.”
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Florida Governor DeSantis Takes Serious Action to Lower Prescription Drug Prices for Floridians
Executive Order 22-164 has the goal of driving transparency in prescription costs for Floridians. This order will ensure reforms are in place to hold Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs) accountable when managing prescription drug benefits for insurance companies.
DeSantis also expressed condolences to the people of Japan over the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. “The world lost a really, really great leader,” stated DeSantis.
He also condemned the Food and Drug Administration over their rushed clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine for infants. “They (FDA) rush through, with very little evidence, COVID vaccines for infants,” stated DeSantis. He also ensured that the state of Florida would not see any vaccine mandates. “As long as I’m governor, there will be no mandates for COVID vaccines for schoolchildren or anybody else,” stated DeSantis.
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GBI Releases New Video of Possible Georgia Guidestones Explosion Suspect
ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — A new video was released Thursday by the Georgia Burea of Investigation related to the explosion at the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County.
The video shows someone running up to the Guidestones and then running away.
The GBI says they recognize that this case has drawn high public interest and questions. They also said that their EOD unit made the call to demolish the entire structure since someone destroyed one of the slabs.
Elberton is known as the “Granite Capital of the World” and the monument was made from granite that was mined locally.
He monument was built by a man using the pseudonym of “Robert C. Christian” in 1980. The slabs were inscribed in multiple languages with a message for current and future generations…
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Ever wonder why there seems to be a limitless supply of Antifa terrorists in Portland, Ore., year after year, riot after riot, conflagration after conflagration? Why there’s no shortage of purple-haired screamers willing to toss Molotov cocktails, tag buildings with old-timey revolutionary slogans, set GOP headquarters on fire, firebomb pregnancy clinics, punch people they don’t like, loot stores, and point lasers into the eyes of police officers? Wonder no more. The Antifa summer camp for kids is back this summer for the first time since their fellow travelers in communist China unleashed the COVID-19 virus on the world.
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How Alex Berenson’s Settlement With Twitter Could Pave the Way for More Censorship Lawsuits
Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who got kicked off Twitter for violating its “five strikes” policy around Covid “misinformation,” and then sued — has settled with the social media company. He has also been reinstated on Twitter.
The details of the settlement remain unknown, causing disappointment among many in Berenson’s audience on Substack, given that he previously explained the lawsuit’s purpose as a way to, in essence, disclose the level of collusion between Twitter and the government around censorship.
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Justice Kavanaugh Forced to Leave Steakhouse After Leftist ShutDownDC Group Protests Outside
Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to make a hasty exit from the back of a Morton’s Wednesday night after activists descended on the steakhouse to protest.
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‘Let Them Eat Bugs’: Nicole Kidman Tells Americans to Eat Insects
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has joined the ranks of the elite who are pushing humanity to stop eating steak and start eating bugs and insects. Filming a promotional video for Vanity Fair, Kidman attempts to convince the masses that insects such as hornworms, crickets and grasshoppers are delicious.
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Mosquitoes Testing Positive to Rare, Deadly Viruses in US After Bill Gates Released Millions
Months after a Bill Gates tech start-up released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in to the wild, mosquitoes across the US are testing positive to extremely rare and deadly viruses, some of which have never before been reported in the United States.
Various states across the country have reported a sharp increase in mosquito-borne viruses. In the Midwest, cases of the mosquito-borne Jamestown Canyon Virus are on the rise. Jamestown Canyon virus can cause severe disease, including infection of the brain (encephalitis) or the membranes around the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).
Health officials say two mosquito pools in South Georgia have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis which has a 30% fatality rate in humans.
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Movie on the 2020 Election Set for Release
Selection Code is scheduled to come out on August 20, 2022… Was 2020 stolen? It’s deeper than that.
You’ve heard it said “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
What about those who code the vote?
What if our leaders aren’t actually being elected by us, but instead… selected?
[S]ELECTION CODE follows world renown investigative journalist Lara Logan on her most important assignment to date. For over 35 years investigative journalist Lara Logan has been on the front lines of history’s deadliest conflicts. Yet no assignment to date has put her career and life in more danger than this one. Her investigation goes to the heart of the current Information War, revealing yet another facet in the ever-unfolding saga of election fraud, demonstrating the role of the machines in stealing our vote.
The documentary follows the story of Tina Peters the County Clerk in Mesa Colorado, who made a backup of her counties Dominion Voting System server, only to stumble across evidence of manipulation in a recent local city council election…. and also the 2020 general election. Tina’s discovery ignites a chain reaction upending her life. And upending the world.
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New San Francisco DA Was Vocal Critic of Chesa Boudin, Joined Efforts to Recall the Former DA
Brooke Jenkins has been named the new San Francisco District Attorney by Mayor London Breed and will be sworn in on Friday after the city’s former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a far left progressive, was recalled in June.
Fox News reported that Jenkins was a former prosecutor for Boudin’s office but eventually resigned last year after disagreements with her boss. She became a vocal critic of Boudin and joined the campaign calling for his removal.
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Northern Virginia Town Adopts Gun Buyback Ordinance
A town in northern Virginia has adopted a gun buyback ordinance, which will allow residents to receive compensation for giving unwanted firearms to the town.
The Dumfries Town Council approved the gun buyback program at a meeting this week. The ordinance the council adopted authorizes the town manager to contract an individual or entity to manage the firearm buyback program. The contract would be administered by the police department.
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Odysee Launches Roku Smart TV App
Free speech video sharing platform Odysee has launched a Roku app that makes it easy for users to watch videos and follow creators on their smart TV.
This is Odysee’s first smart TV app and the video sharing platform said that more TV apps will be coming. Before the launch of this app, Odysee was available on the web and it had launched mobile apps.
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Scientists Have Begun Major Search for Universal ‘Dark Matter’ In Mile-Deep Abandoned Gold Mine
Scientists announced this week the launch of experiments in the deepest laboratory in the United States, investigations which experts hope will reveal answers to some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe.
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Twice as Many Vaccine Deaths as COVID Deaths in U.S. Households, Poll Finds
More than twice as many Americans have lost a household member to a Covid vaccine injury as have lost one to Covid.
That’s the shocking finding of a new poll of 1,500 Americans carried out by the polling company Pollfish.
While 3.6% of respondents said someone in their household had died from COVID-19, 7.9% said one had died as a result of Covid vaccination.
The poll also found that 8.5% said they had been injured by their vaccination, 5% that they had sought medical help and 3.3% that they had been hospitalised, the same proportion who said that as a result of vaccination they were no longer able to work a full day or at all. These are percentages of all respondents. If we look only at the 74.3% vaccinated with at least one dose then the figures, as a proportion of vaccinated persons, are 11.5% injured, 6.8% needing medical help, 4.5% hospitalised and 4.5% unable to work.
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Video: Greenwald Slams Hunter Biden Laptop Coverup as “Biggest Media Fraud” In a Decade
As yet more evidence of potentially illegal business practices (in addition to debauchery) has emerged from the Hunter Biden laptop debacle, journalist Glenn Greenwald described the saga as “the single biggest media fraud” in the past decade.
Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Greenwald discussed the topic, noting that any information that comes to light through the Hunter Biden story is tightly controlled.
“The media deploys information to conceal it or divulge it for the interest of their sources inside the democratic party and the U.S. Security state and I just want to emphasize because I can’t talk about the Hunter Biden situation without doing so,” Greenwald asserted.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Bans the Use of Ballot Drop Boxes
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday in a 4-3 vote to ban the use of unmanned drop boxes for collecting election ballots.
According to The Daily Wire, the court ruled that Wisconsin voters would not “be allowed to give their ballots to others to drop off for them” but would be allowed to “turn their ballots in-person or mail them in.”
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Breaking: Freedom Convoy Organizer Tamara Lich Denied Bail
Earlier this week, Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich appeared virtually in an Ottawa court for a hearing, where she was ultimately denied bail. She will remain in custody until trial.
Video captured by The Post Millennial’s Beth Baisch shows supporters of Lichs gathered outside of the courthouse, with some heard yelling “shame!”
[Comment: Tamara Lich is one of the great enemies of the globalists. The farmers in the Netherlands probably got the idea of using vehicles in protest from her.]
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Exclusive: James Topp Corrects Media Misinformation on Pending Court-Martial
Despite the onerous task ahead of him at that time, the veteran’s confident and calm demeanour left little doubt in my mind that he was going to complete this mission and that he had certainly zero doubts on that front.
A few months passed and Topp reached his destination, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa, and on Canada Day no less. The moment when he knelt, touched the monument, and wept will be in the history books of this nation and was undoubtedly seared into the minds of many in attendance and many watching at home.
Though Topp has shied away from the comparison, for many his actions brought to mind another Canadian hero, Terry Fox. Topp acquitted himself with civility, stated the basis for this march when asked and got the job done, plain and simple. Those who disagreed with his opposition to vaccine mandates were hellbent on destroying his reputation.
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In an exclusive interview this past weekend, Pastor Artur Pawlowski spoke with Pat King from jail on Canada Day.
In the long-form, unedited interview, King speaks on life in a maximum security facility in Ottawa where he has been held since his arrest on Feb. 18 for his involvement with the Freedom Convoy. King faces several charges for mischief and counselling to commit mischief, among others.
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Trudeau Seeking to Implement Policy Similar to That Protested by Dutch Farmers
Over the past few weeks, farmers across the Netherlands have vehemently turned up in droves to protest the government’s plan to reduce nitrous oxide emissions, arguing it would have disastrous consequences for their business, and eventually, consumers.
The source of their anger is a policy that is not unlike one which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking to implement in Canada.
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16-Year-Old Dutch Protester Shot at by Police Under Investigation for Manslaughter
The 16-year-old demonstrator who was shot at by police during a farmers protest in the Netherlands says he is under investigation for manslaughter.
The incident occurred on Tuesday night in the northern town of Heerenveen when Jouke Hospes had live rounds fired at his tractor during the protest.
Authorities immediately claimed that Hospes had deliberately tried to drive his vehicle into officers, but video footage of the confrontation shows this did not happen.
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A New Prime Minister Without an Election? How Top Job in UK is Decided by Political Cabal
The British constitution says there doesn’t have to be a fresh national election if the Prime Minister resigns, but recent convention suggests there should be anyway.
Sir Keir Starmer, leader of Parliament’s opposition Labour party, has demanded fresh elections in the wake of Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing he was to be stepping down this week.
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Dutch Police Arrest 19 Farmer Protesters After 3 Day Blockade
After three days of blocking local supermarkets in the city of Bleiswijk in the Dutch province of South Holland, 19 protesting farmers were arrested, including nine minors. Farmers blocked the road for freight traffic but allowed passenger cars to pass along during the protest.
Police had originally asked for them to move their vehicles prior to their arrests.
According to Ad.nl, dozens of riot police and officers were involved in the arrest, forcibly removing farmers from their tractors before they were transferred in vans.
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EU Will be Held Responsible for Starving the World — Billionaire
Sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian fertilizer producers are akin to weapons of mass destruction in the scale of the damage they will likely cause over the next few years, the founder of chemical giant EuroChem has claimed.
“The EU sanctions mean suffering, famine and migration flows for many hundreds of millions of people,” Andrey Melnichenko said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche on Thursday.
“Sanctions targeting food and energy are economic weapons of mass destruction. They hit innocent people the worst. I have no doubt that billions of people will feel its effects,” he warned.
Suffering people will want to hold those responsible accountable, and the EU won’t be able to shift its culpability, the businessman added.
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Favorite to Replace Boris Johnson Believes WW2 Was Fought for BLM
According to Britain’s Defence Secretary, the Second World War was fought to advance the notion that Black Lives Matter.
The country’s defence chief Ben Wallace, appears to be the Conservative party favorite to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. British daily The Guardian reported on Thursday that Wallace was “emerging as a favourite among Conservative party members” and has become “a bookmakers’ favourite based on polling of party members by ConservativeHome”.
Wallace tweeted his support for Black Lives Matter rioters after they had defaced the Cenotaph war memorial in London. He said Allied soldiers had landed on the beaches of Normandy “so that Black lives would matter”.
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France Spied on Nearly 23,000 People in 2021 Using Technical Tools
France’s National Commission for the Control of Intelligence Techniques has claimed that nearly 23,000 people were spied on by French authorities last year using ‘technical tools’ like geolocation and recording conversations.
The National Commission for the Control of Intelligence Techniques (CNCTR), an independent administrative authority, stated that in total, 22,958 people were targetted by authorities using various technological methods, including eavesdropping and geolocation last year, an increase of three per cent compared to the period before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
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Germany’s Largest Residential Landlord to Impose Heating Rationing for Tenants
Germany’s largest residential landlord which owns around 490,000 properties is set to impose energy rationing that will cut heating to tenants at night in response to falling gas imports from Russia.
Vonovia “will cut the heating output between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. to 17 degrees Celsius,” reports Reuters, adding that the company hopes the measures will save up to 8% of heating costs.
Residents have already been informed that they will face huge spikes in heating bills as a result of Germany being forced to respond to Russia restricting supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
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July 8 Live Updates From the Dutch Farmer Rebellion
Rebel News reporters Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) and Lewis Brackpool (@Lewis_Brackpool) have arrived in the Netherlands to cover farmers protesting new environmental rules regarding nitrogen and carbon emissions.
They have also been joined by Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) from The Post Millennial, who is freelancing for Rebel News.
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Leased LNG Terminals in the Netherlands Will Cover Up to a Third of Czechia’s Annual Gas Consumption
The leased capacity in liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the Netherlands should cover up to a third of the annual gas consumption in the Czech Republic, roughly 3 billion cubic meters of gas, the Dutch ambassador to the Czech Republic Daan Husinga confirmed on Thursday; these reserves will help reduce the dependence of the Czech Republic on Russian gas.
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MEP Slams ‘EU Empire’ Scheme to Implement ‘Taxation Without Representation’
A German MEP has denounced a proposed EU scheme of “taxation without representation” that would leave Germany a “tax colony” of an “EU empire”.
Dr. Gunnar Beck, a German member of the European Parliament, has slammed an attempt by Eurocrats to remove each individual EU member state’s national veto on tax matters, instead leaving the issue up to a simple “qualified majority” vote.
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Montage: The Dutch Prime Minister’s Plan to Apply the Great Reset to the Netherlands
Farmers have been protesting across the Netherlands over the past week due to the Dutch government’s climate policy aimed at reducing nitrogen emissions.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is at the forefront of these policies, ideas he has touted for the past decade as the most important issue facing the world.
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Netherlands: Farmer Protests on Nitrogen Reduction Continue With Blockade at Woerden
Farmers have once more blockaded a Jumbo food distribution centre in Woerden, rolling in around with 30 tractors at 3AM, a sofa, coffee and a table, reports the AD.
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Netherlands: Eight Arrested After Violent Farmers’ Protest at Nature Minister’s Home
Police have made eight arrests following a demonstration by farmers outside the home of nature minister Christianne van der Wal.
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Polish and Lithuanian Presidents Visit Troops in Suwalki Gap
Polish President Andrzej Duda met with his Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda on Thursday at the mobile command point of the multinational North Eastern Division in Szypliszki in the Suwalki Gap. The rendezvous was a clear demonstration by both leaders that the area between Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation remains secure.
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Pro-EU ‘Thatcher Slayer’ Heseltine Gloats: ‘If Boris Goes, Brexit Goes’
Arch-Remainer Michael Heseltine, best known for bringing down Margaret Thatcher, is gloating that “if Boris goes, Brexit goes” now the Prime Minister’s departure has been confirmed.
The 89-year-old media darling, who was appointed Deputy Prime Minister by John Major in the 1990s as reward for aiding a coup against Margaret Thatcher for her turn towards euroscepticism, said that the “critical thing here is that Boris is associated with one major policy, and that is Brexit,” adding: “I coined the phrase: ‘If Boris goes, Brexit goes.’“
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Rebel News Arrives in Leeuwarden, Where Dutch Farmers Protest Outside Government Building
After the Dutch government pandered to the radical demands of the World Economic Forum (WEF), farmers and protesters all across the nation have decided that they have had enough of Schwab’s plans to eradicate their agricultural sector.
According to protesters that were interviewed, Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s policies would absolutely destroy the Dutch economy and the farming industry. However, Rutte continues to allege that his focus is on climate change, and that his plan will tackle just that.
Farmers across the country are now rebelling against these government actions.
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Rebel News’ Lincoln Jay Joins Laura Ingraham to Discuss the Dutch Farmer Rebellion
On Thursday evening, Rebel News‘ Lincoln Jay joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News live from the Netherlands to discuss the ongoing farmers’ rebellion aimed at taking a stand against potentially crippling government overreach.
Farmers in the country are protesting against the government’s ‘climate change’ policies that would force many to give up their farmland to dramatically reduce fertilizer use and livestock production.
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The favorites to replace Boris are all even worse than Boris.
Shat on by Tories, shoveled up by Labour.
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‘Without Hungary, Europe Would Already be Lost, ‘ Says Austrian MEP
Europe is more concerned with gender ideology and the welfare of illegal immigrants than the issues of its own citizens, Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) MEP Harald Vilimsky told Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap in an interview.
“We are facing an increasingly ideological EU that cares more about gender ideology and the welfare of illegal immigrants than its own citizens. We also have to face a huge economic and energy crisis, for which the European Union only offers its green propaganda as an answer, but this does not pay citizens’ bills and does not keep the heat on in the winter,” Vilimsky said.
[Comment: Poland saved Europe once, and arguably two additional times.]
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Russia Ban on U.K. Flights Sends British Airways Off Course
Russia banned U.K. airlines from its territory, a move meant to punish London for imposing sanctions on Aeroflot over the attack on Ukraine.
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Ukraine War Round-Up: Russia Jails Critic, US Trains Fighters
Russia has handed down what is believed to be the first full jail term to somebody for criticising the war in Ukraine.
Alexei Gorinov, a Moscow councillor, was jailed for seven years after he was filmed speaking out against the invasion in a city council meeting.
Under the post-invasion law, anyone who spreads “fake news” about the military faces up to 15 years in jail.
In eastern Ukraine, there were reports of shelling by both sides. The governor of Luhansk said Russian forces had indiscriminately bombarded populated areas, while separatist authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said that they evacuated some residents from the town of Shakhtarsk after shelling by Ukrainian troops.
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Sri Lanka Imposes Curfew as Cops Fire Tear Gas at Protesters
COLOMBO — Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding the resignations of the country’s president and prime minister because of the economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential goods and disrupted people’s livelihoods.
Hours before the curfew announcement, police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesting students wearing black clothes, holding black flags, shouting anti-government slogans and carrying banners saying “Enough — now go.”
The protesters and other critics have said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is responsible for the economic crisis, the worst since the country’s independence in 1948. They also blame Ranil Wickremesinghe, who became prime minister two months ago, for not delivering on promises to end the shortages.
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Assassination of Japan’s Shinzo Abe Stuns World Leaders
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Friday’s shocking assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in one of the world’s safest countries stunned leaders and drew condemnation, with Iran calling it an “act of terrorism” while European leaders slammed the “despicable” attack.
Tributes poured in as governments expressed sorrow and solidarity with Japan over the loss of Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader before stepping down in 2020 for health reasons.
Abe, 67, was shot from behind in Nara in western Japan while giving a campaign speech. He was airlifted to a hospital and later pronounced dead.
U.S. President Joe Biden said he was “stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened” and offered his condolences to Abe’s family…
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Does Assassination of Shinzo Abe Signal Strategic Shift for Japan?
Abe Shinzo, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated during a campaign speech on Friday. Abe had continued to exert political influence, heading a powerful faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Under Abe, Tokyo had faced considerable US pressure to end almost a decade of outreach to Russia.
It seems increasingly clear that more than any particular policy achievement, Abe’s greatest legacy was a more substantial global leadership for Japan and peace with Russia and China.
One focus of Abe’s foreign policy was to secure a treaty with Russia on their territorial dispute. Abe had pursued this initiative even after some of his closest foreign policy advisers tried to scupper his efforts. The operation in Ukraine gave current PM Kishida Fumio room to join US sanctions targeting Moscow — marking a changed course from Abe’s foreign policy legacy.
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European Scientists Empowering China’s Military
New research done by Follow the Money, a Dutch platform for investigative journalism, and ten other European media outlets, found that European scientists have “shared militarily sensitive knowledge with the Chinese army on a large scale.”
The project, known as the China Science Investigation, collected a staggering 353,000 scientific collaborations between Europe and China and found that, of these, 2,994 have taken place with the Chinese military, defined as, “studies where scientists from Western European universities collaborated with Chinese colleagues directly linked to an institute that is part of the Chinese army.”
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Fmr PM Abe Assassinated With ‘Improvised Handgun’ in ‘Gun Free Japan’
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is showing no vital signs after being shot from behind with an improvised double-barrel handgun during a speech in Nara, Japan.
Abe, who served two terms as prime minister of Japan and remained hugely influential in global politics, has suffered from cardiac arrest after being taken to the hospital, according to police and fire officials, reports Kyodo News.
The 67-year-old was shot from approximately 10 feet away. The suspect, 41-year-old Yamagami Tatsuya, did not attempt to flee, but reportedly crouched down after firing two shots and stayed on the scene until his arrest on an attempted murder charge.
Japan has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, with almost zero tolerance for personal ownership of firearms.
Shinzo Abe was a critic of the New World Order and was re-elected for a rare second term in 2012 with a mandate to defend his country from the Chinese Communist Party and their friends in the highest echelons of the United Nations.
Abe was never afraid of speaking his mind, recently criticizing the Western response to the war in Ukraine, pointing out that Ukraine Prime Minister Zelensky was responsible for the conflict.
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Japan’s Ex-Leader Shinzo Abe Assassinated During Speech
NARA, Japan (AP) — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned a nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.
The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Nara, although he was not breathing and his heart had stopped. He was later pronounced dead after receiving massive blood transfusions, officials said.
Nara Medical University emergency department chief Hidetada Fukushima said Abe suffered major damage to his heart, along with two neck wounds that damaged an artery. He never regained his vital signs, Fukushima said.
Police at the shooting scene arrested Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a former member of Japan’s navy, on suspicion of murder. Police said he used a gun that was obviously homemade — about 15 inches (40 centimeters) long — and they confiscated similar weapons and his personal computer when they raided his nearby one-room apartment.
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NPR Denigrates Slain Shinzo Abe as “Divisive Arch Conservative”
PR reacted to the shocking assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe by denigrating him as a “divisive arch conservative” and an “ultranationalist.”
Abe was shot dead by 41-year-old gunman Yamagami Tetsuya while giving a speech at a campaign rally in the western city of Nara.
Tetsuya used a homemade weapon to shoot Abe twice. The former president died after sustaining two deep neck wounds that damaged an artery.
Government-funded NPR reacted to the news by referring to Abe as a “divisive arch conservative,” a description many found derogatory.
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Trudeau ‘Incredibly Shocked and Deeply Saddened’ By Assassination of Shinzo Abe
On Friday, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering a speech in Nara. He was taken to hospital, but succumbed to his injuries.
Hours later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a statement on the matter, expressing his sorrow.
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Trump Praises ‘Great Man and Leader’ Abe After Assassination
Former President Trump expressed his sadness over the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a statement on Friday.
Trump called the news of his death “really BAD NEWS FOR THE WORLD!”
His killer was captured and will hopefully be dealt with swiftly and harshly,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
Trump, who shared a warm relationship with the former Japanese leader, called Abe “a unifier like no other” and wrote that he was a man who loved and cherished his “magnificent country” more than anything else.
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Australia Pauses COVID Travel App After Negative Reviews. But It’ll Likely Return in Some Form.
Australia has retired the Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD) app, which had lots of bad reviews. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the app “needs a lot more work.”
Earlier this week, O’Neil announced that people traveling to Australia will no longer be required to complete a DPD to declare their vaccination status starting July 7, 2022.
The app, launched in March to replace the Australia Travel Declaration, collected passport information, contact information, vaccination status, and travel history. It was also serving as a test as the government planned for it to be used across government services.
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A group of 20 migrants — including young children — were intercepted trying to cross the English Channel in a small boat today, despite choppy summer sea conditions.
Small children wearing orange life jackets were among more than a dozen asylum seekers being escorted off of the small boats this morning as they arrived in Dover, Kent.
A group of men were taken off a dinghy and transferred onto the Border Force vessel Typhoon at sea before being brought into the harbour and handed over to immigration officials.
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Customs and Border Protection has referred four horseback agents accused of whipping Haitian migrants in September 2021 for disciplinary action.
A 500-page report released by the agency on Friday said the agents acted unprofessionally, unsafely and used unnecessary force — but concluded they did not strike the migrants with their reins.
The results of the investigation came as the U.S. still grapples with a surge in migrants across the border and reports of law enforcement morale declining.
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France: ‘Allahu Akbar’ Afghan Illegal Arrested While Trying to Stab Multiple People
An Afghan illegal immigrant was arrested in the French city of Bordeaux last Friday after attempting to stab several people on the street while yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
The 22-year-old Afghan national living in France illegally was arrested shortly after 2 pm on Friday by police after being accused of trying to stab several people.
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Italy Smashes Smuggling Network Offering ‘Luxury’ Services to Migrants
Authorities in Italy busted a human smuggling network offering “luxury trips” for migrants hoping to reach Europe from Africa, according to reports.
The international syndicate consisted of suspects operating in Tunisia as well as the Italian island of Sicily, specifically in the cities of Canicattì and Marsala, officials say.
The group reportedly organized crossings of the Mediterranean Sea via high-speed dinghies typically traveling from Tunisia to Sicilian coastal areas, while “guaranteeing the security and confidentiality of people fleeing North African authorities,” ANSA reports, citing police in Agrigento.
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Opposition leader Geert Wilders released a bombshell letter showing the Dutch government intends to use expropriated agricultural land for asylum centers.
The Netherlands will host the “Global Coordinating Secretariat of the World Economic Forum Global Food Innovation Hubs”, Rutte said at Davos on Jan. 27, 2021.
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Biden’s Woke Military: Female Soldiers Must Now Shower With Men
President Biden has announced plans to force female soldiers serving in the U.S. military to shower with men under new, ‘progressive’ far-left rules.
Any biological male recruit in the US army who identifies as female without having surgery will now be allowed to shower with women, according to an Army training slide.
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Breaking: Biden Signs Executive Order to Protect Abortion Access, Calls for Roe to be Codified
On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order titled “Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care,” which aims to protect access to “safe and legal abortion” across the country.
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Maybe This is Why They’re Pushing Eating Bugs: UN Praises World Hunger as Way to Benefit Globalists
The United Nations was caught quietly scrubbing an article in which they admitted world hunger was a necessary evil in implementing the WEF’s ‘Great Reset’ agenda.
It’s 2008 op-ed, “The Benefits of World Hunger”, was quickly deleted hours after the article was discovered by internet sleuths this week.
In the op-ed, the UN touts the “benefits of world hunger:”
“We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people… For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.
No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work… For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster… Who would clean our toilets? … For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.”
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UN Deletes Weird ‘Satirical’ Article Celebrating Benefits of World Hunger After Backlash
The United Nations was forced to delete a weird ‘satirical’ article which celebrated the ‘benefits’ of world hunger after an online backlash.
Originally published in 2008, the article, titled ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’, was recently reposted to the UN’s Chronicle magazine.
“We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished,” wrote the author, Professor George Kent from the University of Hawaii.
Kent added that hunger was actually, “A great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world’s economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.”
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Video: Dem Rep. Says it’s ‘Racist’ Not to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion
Missouri representative Cori Bush declared Thursday that not forcing taxpayers to fund abortions throughout America is “racist”.
Bush, who like to call pregnant women “birthing persons,” railed against the Hyde amendment during a press conference, declaring that it is “racist, draconian, and discriminatory” for the federal government not to use tax dollars to fund abortion.
Flanked by masked attendants, Bush stated that “The House is ready to finally repeal the Hyde amendment,” and that “the Senate must step up.”
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Woke Lancet Warns of ‘Chaos’ In America From Reversal of Roe v. Wade
The once venerable Lancet medical journal has lauded Democrat-run U.S. states that are functioning as abortion sanctuaries for “health-care refugees” traveling from states where abortions are restricted or banned.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, “16 states have severely restricted or banned the procedure and bans in ten more states are likely to take effect in a matter of weeks,” the UK-based Lancet laments in its July 9 issue.
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The bugs can eat Nicole Kidman. This push for us to do this is disgusting in the extreme.
Gill Bates invested $600 million into the online market that is owned by the brother of the Dutch minister pushing the nitrogen bill.
“Biden’s HHS Funds Study to Understand Why Children View ‘White Males as Default People’”
Our cat had 4 kittens a year ago: She is a tiger pattern grey cat, two of the kittens are also little grey tigers, one is white with black and brown spots, and the fourth kitten is black as black cat can be: After his father, the big black tomcat from across the village.
Now I would also like to receive a 40,000 Dollars to study why the tiger cats stick together, why they don’t mind the black and brown spotted white cat, but why the little black tomcat has the hardest time of them all, because the tiger cats don’t want him eating from the same bowl when there is not enough food?
It is a mystery: Maybe even 40 grand won’t cut it, maybe I need 80,000 Dollars to figure this out 🙁
World peace and a stronger Japan lost out when former Prime Minister Abe was assasinated.
Communist China is very happy, however. Things that make you go hmmmm.
Dutch children showing their support for the farmers protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZTBYFzo74
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Inside Video Of Sri Lanka President’s House: Protestors Rampage Through, Vandalise Rooms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGYVpoJAezo
Can’t get into the Saker. Anyone know what’s going on?
Sekur? In Canada there was widespread outages of Rogers wireless Thursday and Friday. Don’t know about today. Before that for 3 days my cable service (US) would not work properly, it would play for 3 seconds and freeze. You could change channels and go back and forth for 3 second intervals. It was kind of weird.