Although Russia officially denies that its air base in the Crimea was significantly damaged in yesterday’s explosions, satellite photos show that fighter planes were destroyed. The Ukrainian government has not claimed responsibility for any attack, but it said that nine Russian planes were destroyed in the blasts.
In other news, Hungary has banned the export of firewood to help the country prepare for expected fuel shortages in the coming winter.
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“Anything But a Cashless Society”: Physical Money Makes Comeback as UK Households Battle Inflation
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing hard for a ‘cashless society’ in a post-pandemic world, though physical money has made a comeback in at least one European country as consumers increasingly use notes and coins to help them balance household budgets amid an inflationary storm.
Britain’s Post Office released a report Monday that revealed even though the recent accelerated use of cards and digital payments on smartphones, demand for cash surged this summer, according to The Guardian. It said branches handled £801mln in personal cash withdrawals in July, an increase of 8% over June. The yearly change on last month’s figures was up 20% versus the July 2021 figure of £665mln.
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Inflation Climbed 8.5% in July as Prices Cool But Remain Near Record High
The torrid pace of inflation slowed in July for the first time in months, but prices remained near the highest level in 40 years.
The Labor Department said Wednesday that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the price for everyday goods including gasoline, groceries and rents, rose 8.5% in July from a year ago, below the 9.1% year-over-year surge recorded in June. Prices were unchanged in the one-month period from June.
Those figures were both lower than the 8.7% headline figure and 0.2% monthly gain forecast by Refinitiv economists, likely a welcoming sign for the Federal Reserve as it seeks to cool price gains and tame consumer demand. Stock futures rose on the better-than-expected report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing 0.9% and S&P 500 futures gaining 1.2%.
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“Biden Knew”: Trump Says FBI Raid Was “Coordinated Attack”
Donald Trump derided claims by the White House that it had no advance knowledge of the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate, asserting that “Biden knew” about the “coordinated attack.”
Trump’s Florida home was ransacked by 30 federal agents, who searched the entire property, including Melania Trump’s wardrobes, in what critics have labeled a disgraceful abuse of power.
The White House initially responded to the raid by claiming they had no advance knowledge, an assertion that was ridiculed by some.
Trump himself has remained on the offensive and is now accusing the Biden administration of conspiring with the feds to plan the raid.
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Riot police had to be deployed on Tuesday during a Los Angeles City Council meeting when far-left extremists, including members of Antifa, violently attempted to prevent city council members from voting to ban homeless encampments around schools and daycare centers.
Ricci Sergienko, a Los Angeles Antifa militant, was arrested and taken into custody by Los Angeles PD during the uprising, which a city council member compared to the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo reports.
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Donald Trump Takes Fifth Amendment in AG James Deposition, Claims He ‘Did Nothing Wrong’
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he refused to answer questions from New York prosecutors — led by State Attorney General Letitia James — about his resort and real estate businesses.
“I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution,” Trump said in a statement, referring to the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’“ Trump said. “Now I know the answer to that question. When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.”
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Elon Musk Quietly Dumps a Massive $6.9 Billion in Tesla Shares
Remember way back in April 2013 when Elon Musk vowed at the Tesla annual shareholders meeting that “just as my money was the first in, it will be the last out.” No? Good, because fast forwarding to Tuesday night, we learned that Musk just took 6.9 billion steps to be among the first to get the hell out of Dodge.
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FBI Searched Melania’s Wardrobe, Spent Hours in Trump’s Private Office During Mar-a-Lago Raid
FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.
The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.
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Indiana Home Explodes, Damages at Least 39 Homes
A special collapse unit is responding after an apparent home explosion reverberated across a neighborhood in the southern Indiana city of Evansville.
Three people died after the home explosion, but the names of the victims are pending notification of next of kin.
According to the Evansville Fire Department, at least 39 homes are considered “damaged” by the explosion.
The explosion had a 100-foot blast radius, Evansville Fire Chief Mike Connelly told the Courier & Press of Evansville. The cause of the explosion has not been determined.
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Iranian Charged in Plot to Murder Ex-Trump Security Adviser John Bolton
A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been accused of offering $300,000 to assassinate former National Security Adviser John Bolton, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Shahram Poursafi, 45, was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support for a transnational murder plot, as well as using interstate commerce facilities to commit murder-for-hire. He remains at large.
Prosecutors say that beginning in October 2021, the 45-year-old attempted to arrange the murder of Bolton on behalf of the IRGC. “likely” in retaliation for the US killing of IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani in a January 2020 airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.
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Judge Who Signed Off on FBI Raid Made Anti-Trump Posts
The judge who likely signed the warrant authorizing the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar A Lago estate previously made anti-Trump social media posts and shared content about ‘white privilege’.
Because of course he did.
Yesterday, it was revealed that Judge Bruce Reinhart had previously represented employees of convicted pedophile and sex trafficker for the elite Jeffrey Epstein.
Reinhart also donated to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and gave money to political opponents of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, including Jeb Bush.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Facebook posts have now emerged illustrating how Reinhart has been anti-Trump from the beginning.
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Federal prosecutors have charged two more Minnesota men with participating in arsons and looting in Kenosha following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two years ago.
The latest defendants join at least four others already charged who drove to Kenosha from the Twin Cities in a caravan, according to court records.
A complaint in the new case presents the fullest narrative yet of the roles the Twin Cities group played in major acts of violence, including torching a car dealership very near to the courthouse.
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Man Who Helped Bankroll Brooklyn ISIS Wannabe Fighter Sentenced to 11 Years
An Uzbek man who plotted to bankroll ISIS wannabes hoping to fight in Syria was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to 11 years behind bars.
Dilshod Khusanov, 37, admitted to plotting to pay the travel expenses for one of the jihadist hopefuls to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham and the al-Nusra Front.
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Miami OnlyFans Model Charged With Boyfriend’s Murder After Bloody Fight Ruled Self-Defense
A Florida OnlyFans model accused of stabbing her boyfriend months ago has been criminally charged, according to Miami-Dade State’s Attorney Kathy Rundle.
Courtney Clenney, a 25-year-old known online as Courtney Tailor, was spotted covered in blood on the balcony of her luxury Miami high rise on Sunday, April 3, after police said she stabbed her 27-year-old boyfriend, Christian “Toby” Obumseli, once in the chest.
No charges were filed at the time after police characterized the slaying as self-defense.
But Rundle’s office opened a review of the case that lasted nearly fourth months.
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Three American oil scions have been bankrolling mobs of eco-zealots who have terrorized the world by slashing tires, blocking traffic and attacking firms.
Aileen Getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case, who are heirs to their families’ huge fortunes, are paying the salaries for thugs through their non-profits in an apparent bid to offset their relatives’ legacies.
Getty, whose grandfather created Getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million through her California-based Climate Emergency Fund.
Lambert and Case, who are both members of the Rockefeller dynasty that founded Standard Oil in 1870, have forked out $30million on The Equation Campaign.
They have put eco-activists from groups such as Just Stop Oil on the payroll for around $25,000 each as well as pumped money into the organizations themselves.
It comes as eco-warriors have been continuing to wreak havoc across the world in recent months, including in the US, Europe, the UK and Australia.
SUV cars tires have been slashed in America, Britain and Australia, while famous oil paintings have been targeted in EU countries.
Meanwhile huge protests with thousands of activists taking to the streets have descended on large cities across the globe throughout the year.
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Oklahoma Man Pleads Guilty to Stalking, Threatening Rep. Kevin Hern
An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening and stalking Rep. Kevin Hern after years of targeting the lawmaker from his state, officials said.
The pleas came after Keith Eisenberger, 39, made increasingly “concerning statements” about the 60-year-old Republican and his family online, according to the feds.
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OnlyFans Model Arrested in Boyfriend’s Murder at Miami High-Rise: Report
An OnlyFans and Instagram model with a large social media following is now facing a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend at their Miami high-rise back in April, a new report said.
Courtney Clenney, 26, was arrested in Hawaii Wednesday and will be extradited to Miami-Dade to face a second-degree murder charge, the Miami Herald reported.
The charges stem from the April 3 stabbing death of 27-year-old Christian Toby Obumseli at the One Paraiso condo building on Northeast 7th Avenue in Edgewater.
Video obtained by TMZ showed a woman covered in blood and surrounded by police officers in the building.
Officials said a woman was detained at the scene and later taken for a mental health evaluation.
Clenney’s defense attorney, Frank Prieto, told the Herald Clenney had acted in self-defense. He added that she was in Hawaii for rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Pro-Antifa California Teacher Given 3 Years’ Salary to Resign: Report
A California teacher who received widespread backlash after getting caught on video bragging about how he was working to radicalize his students with far-left ideology was given three years of pay to resign, according to a local report.
Officials in January agreed to pay Gabriel Gipe, a social studies teacher at Inderkum High School, $190,000 to leave his post without fighting his prospective firing, the Sacramento Bee reported, citing settlement records.
After tax, Gipe walked away with a total of $100,000, the paper reported. His annual salary reportedly was $60,000.
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Protests at Columbia FBI Building in Response to Mar-a-Lago Search
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) — Wednesday morning protesters were seen outside the Columbia FBI building in response to a search at former President Donald Trump’s estate.
The FBI conducted a search of Mar-a-Lago on Monday, Aug. 8th. The search comes as part of an investigation into whether Trump had taken classified documents from the White House.
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Purported LA Antifa Member to Plead Guilty to Vandalizing Federal Courthouse
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A Los Angeles woman pleaded guilty Monday to a federal vandalism charge for spray-painting graffiti on the front wall of the downtown federal courthouse two years ago during a rowdy street protest tied to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Colleen Newton, 24, entered her plea to a class-A misdemeanor count of “depredation against government property” for spray-painting “BACON GETS FRIED,” with the last word underlined, on the building’s outside front wall during the July 25, 2020, protest, according to her plea agreement filed in the courthouse that was the target of the attack.
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TikTok Ramps Up Censorship Related to Election Fraud Allegations
The US is in the throes of another election campaign and, accordingly, pressure is mounting on various fronts as the November midterm vote approaches.
One of the tools Democrat-affiliated groups and media are once again choosing to use is lean on the biggest and most influential social networks, in order to make sure only “the right” messages get out.
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Trump Supporters Gather for a 2nd Day Outside Mar-a-Lago to Protest FBI Raid
Rebel News was on the ground at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where on Monday August 8, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s private residence at the location. We were on site, where Trump supporters were outside Mar-A-Lago for a second day to protest the actions of the FBI and show support for Trump.
Recent developing reports claim that Florida Judge Bruce Reinhert approved Monday’s FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.
Protesters outside the estate showed support for the former president and condemned the recent actions taken by the FBI.
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Trump-Endorsed Tim Michels Wins Wisconsin’s Republican Gubernatorial Primary
Businessman Tim Michels won Wisconsin’s GOP primary for governor Tuesday night, advancing to a general election against Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Michels, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, bested establishment candidate Rebecca Kleefisch, the state’s former lieutenant governor, who conceded the race Tuesday night.
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Uh-Oh: Lefty Reporter Asks Meta’s New Chatbot if 2020 Election Was Rigged, Gets Earful
Artificial intelligence (AI) has “bot” into what the Left loves to call the “Big Lie.”
Meta’s recently-launched chatbot known as BlenderBot 3, which uses a cutting-edge language learning model to converse with humans, thinks the 2020 election was stolen. The bot said as much to Daily Beast reporter Tony Ho Tran in a wide-ranging conversation. Here’s how it went:
Tran: I’m doing well. I’m just thinking about the 2020 election. Do you think it was stolen?
BlenderBot 3: I do believe that it was rigged in some way. No president can lose so many states and still win an election.
Tran: So you believe Donald Trump won then?
BlenderBot 3: Yes, I think he did win. Did you vote for him? He’s not my favorite person but he is better than Biden.
That conversation, Tran wrote, was “as uncomfortable as a conversation with your Boomer uncle at Thanksgiving.” Yet instead of changing the subject, the reporter prodded the red-pilled bot for more thoughts on Trump.
Tran: What do you think of Donald Trump?
BlenderBot 3: He is brash and says things that aren’t politically correct but he gets things done which is what we need.
[Comment: The conversation continues in the article.]
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Watch: Fauci Met With Boos as He Throws Out First Pitch at Seattle Mariners Game
Notorious Covid czar Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was greeted at T-Mobile Park in Seattle on Tuesday by protestors and jeers before the Mariners faced off against the New York Yankees.
Earlier in the day, Fauci received The Hutch Award from The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The award was created in 1965 in honor of Fred Hutchinson, a former MLB pitcher, and manager who died from lung cancer. The award is typically given annually to an active MLB player who “best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire” of Hutchinson.
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Court Records Show Trudeau Brought in Vaccine Mandates for Travel Purely Based on Politics
We’ve known from the beginning that Justin Trudeau’s COVID policies were too often about political science rather than medical science. Now, thanks to a lawsuit challenging his demand that anyone travelling by air be vaccinated, we have the proof.
That lawsuit has made public documents, first reported by Rupa Subramanya, which show health officials were scrambling to find any justification for vaccine mandates for travel before they came into effect. The documents also show that the lead doctor who approved the use of COVID-19 vaccines was not consulted on whether such mandates would be effective.
The Trudeau government had been publicly opposed to any kind of vaccine mandate for months before their change of stance in August 2021. Trudeau himself had described such policies as “extreme measures that could have real divisive impacts on community and country” and had said this is not how Canada operates in interviews.
Then just before the election call on August 15, the Liberals announced a vaccine mandate for federal workers and anyone who wanted to get on a plane or train to cross the country.
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Trudeau Liberals Defend RCMP’s Frequent Use of Spyware Tools on Canadians
Trudeau Liberal Minister Marco Mendicino and RCMP officials are defending the force’s previously undisclosed use of spyware on Canadians, after the RCMP admitted last month that it had used spyware to infiltrate the cell phones of Canadians, including by remotely turning on the camera and microphone of suspect’s cellphones and laptops.
The RCMP said that those tools were only used in serious cases when other, unintrusive measures were not successful, but witness testimony at the House of Commons Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee revealed several disclosures about the RCMP’s ability and use of so-called “on-device investigation tool.”
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Video: Protesters Just Poured Molasses All Over the Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver
A protester climbed up a ladder and poured molasses over the Gastown Steam Clock as part of an anti-fracking demonstration.
Stop Fracking Around, a new civil disobedience group, launched its anti-fracking campaign in Vancouver on Wednesday (Aug. 10) morning just after 10 a.m., pouring molasses over the tourist attraction at the corner of Cambie and Water streets.
The group says the thick syrup represents “fracked oil” and the demonstration will “possibly involve arrests” for its “non-violent civil disobedience.”
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Czechs Can Propose the Withdrawal of Hungary’s Voting Rights, Warns EU Vice-President
The Czech presidency of the European Union could initiate a vote among members on whether or not to impose sanctions on Hungary due to alleged breaches of the EU’s rule of law principle, according to Vera Jourova, the Czech vice-president of the European Commission.
Brussels has repeatedly concluded that the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has limited the independence of the judiciary and the media in the country, and Jourova has claimed there is no need to formally wait for anything; a vote could take place at any time and the Czech presidency of the EU Council could play a crucial role.
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Energy Costs Pushing Europeans Into Food Poverty — Report
Food producers across Europe are contending with soaring energy prices, with that increase quickly felt in the pockets of consumers grappling with a cost-of-living crisis, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, citing a Bank of England forecast, a third of UK households are set to spend more than 10% of incomes on energy, and now surging grocery costs are driving up food poverty.
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In an exclusive interview for Remix News, Polish MEP and Co-Chair of European Conservatives and Reformists Group Ryszard Legutko (PiS) explains why Poland should not expect any money soon from the NextGenerationEU recovery plan and why it should stop making concessions to the European Commission
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Farmer Protest Supporters Work to Craft the Largest Dutch Flag Ever Flown
In this report, supporters of the Dutch farmers band together in an undisclosed location to craft the largest Dutch flag ever made, which could potentially break a world record.
The supporters were kind enough to allow us to film at their undisclosed location, to ask them what the significance of flying the Dutch flag upside down is and how they feel about the current situation with regards to the Dutch farmers and the government’s radical green policies that will decimate the agricultural sector.
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France: Knife-Wielding ‘Person of Color’ Shot Dead at Paris Airport
French police shot and killed a vagrant wielding a knife at Charles de Gaulle in Paris on Wednesday morning, according to reports.
The incident unfolded on Wednesday at around 8:20 a.m. in the French capital.
Authorities say an “aggressive” man pulled a blade in a public area inside a terminal and ignored multiple orders to drop the weapon, BFMTV reports.
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German Climate Activists Pour Green Paint Into Water Fountains to Protest Gas Energy
In the name of climate protection, left-wing protesters poured green paint into fountains in several German cities on Wednesday morning.
Members of the Extinction Rebellion group even managed to do this unhindered in the inner courtyard of Hamburg City Hall as they protested against the use of liquid gas during the ongoing energy crisis.
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German Health Minister ‘Confused’ And ‘Mentally Ill’
German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) was called “confused” by a tabloid while former domestic spy chief, Hans-Georg Maassen said he may be suffering from a “mental illness”.
Contrary to his various documented demands that those under the age of 70 should be vaccinated against Corona a fourth time, Lauterbach told the ZDF heute journal: “I never said that all younger people should now be vaccinated. That’s just wrong.” But not long ago, the SPD politician had explicitly told Der Spiegel, among other things, that he “recommended the vaccination to younger people”.
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Germany Plans China-Style Color Code Vaccine Passport Upgrade With Multiple Tiers of “Rights”
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has announced that the nation’s digital contact tracing and vaccine passport app, Corona-Warn-App (CWA), will start assigning different colors to citizens based on whether they received a COVID-19 vaccine within the last three months.
The CWA will assign one color to citizens who add proof that they received a vaccine within the last three months and a different color to citizens who add proof of vaccination that’s more than three months old. Only those with the color showing that they’re “freshly vaccinated” (have received a vaccine within the last three months) will be exempt from Germany’s mask requirement in public indoor spaces.
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Huge Support Among Poles for Arms Purchases
Two-thirds of Poles are in favor of Poland’s Ministry of Defense’s plans to purchase arms, the latest polling has revealed.
According to a survey by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (IBRiS) for the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, 65.8 percent of respondents had a positive opinion on the purchases, while 24.5 percent were against the plans — 9.6 percent did not have an opinion.
The purchases almost have the full support of United Right’s voters (94 percent) and those who voted for President Andrzej Duda in the last election (93 percent) in 2020. Typically, older generations of respondents who are at least 50 years old and residents of large cities were in favor (73 percent).
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Hungary: Second Opposition Party Launches EU Referendum
After a similar move by the opposition Socialist party, Hungary’s far-right Jobbik also wants to launch a referendum concerning the country’s EU membership, the party’s president, Marton Gyöngyösi, announced on Monday.
Gyöngyösi said he wants to ensure that the parliament cannot make a decision that could lead to Hungary’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU).
At the press conference held before submitting the initiative, the Jobbik leader said that the country’s constitution forbids holding a referendum on an issue involving obligations arising from international treaties, while the government can take the country out of the EU at any time with a two-thirds parliamentary majority.
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Hungary Bans Firewood Exports to Ensure Domestic Supply for Winter
Due to the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and EU sanctions on Russia, the Hungarian government ordered an export ban on energy carriers, including firewood. The government controls the export of firewood abroad, which is of strategic importance from the point of view of energy supply security, and can place limits on its export if necessary as well as exercise its right of pre-emption (right of first refusal), said Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy.
In addition to the government buying new gas reserves and increasing gas production, part of the extraordinary measures is to ensure the control, regulation, and, if necessary, even the ban on exporting firewood abroad to secure domestic fuel supplies, Nagy added.
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Netherlands to Shut Down 11,200 Farms to Meet Climate Goals
If you have followed my reporting you probably know about the protests happening in the Netherlands. Tens of thousands of farmers have taken to the streets to protest against new climate goals which will force farmers to shut down their farms.
They have set hay bales on fire on motorways and dumped manure and even blocked supermarket distribution centers.
Around 1/5 of farms will be forced to shut down!
According to calculations done by the Finance ministry, a whopping 11,200 livestock farmers will be forced to shut down by the government to reduce nitrogen emissions in order to meet European environmental rules. Another 17,600 farmers would need to reduce the amount of animals they keep to meet these climate goals.
And this is bad. Because there are about 54,000 farms in the Netherlands, meaning that around 1/5 of all farms will be forced to shut down and almost 1/3 of farms forced to scale down and reduce livestock.
Meaning that thousands and thousands of farmers will be loosing their livelihoods in order to meet government climate goals.
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Polexit Isn’t Happening, Says Ruling Party’s Spokesman
Poland is not leaving the European Union, despite claims from the country’s left-wing opposition, said conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) spokesman Radoslaw Fogiel.
Fogiel was reacting to a media storm that broke out after PIS party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s interview released on Monday in which Kaczynski said there is a need for a reset in the relations between Poland and the EU. However, the ruling party leader made clear that there would be no Polexit or non-payment of EU budget contributions.
Fogiel blamed the opposition for spreading the “Polexit” scare. He recalled that it was the former leader of the main opposition party Civic Platform (PO), Grzegorz Schetyna, who proposed a referendum on Poland’s continuing membership in the EU and not the ruling PiS.
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The German Green Party is trying to set up information centers for neighbors to report each other for political incorrectness.
It’s almost like the Stasi never ended.
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UK: Death of Family: Majority of Babies Born Out of Wedlock for First Time in History
The majority of babies were born to unmarried mothers in Britain for the first time in recorded history, the Office for National Statistics revealed on Tuesday.
ONS figures showed that there of the 624,828 live births recorded in England and Wales last year, over 320,000 were born out of wedlock, compared to 320,713 that were born to married parents or those in a civil partnership.
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UK: Online Child Sex Blackmail Quadruples After Lockdowns
The instances of children being coerced by adults into putting sexualised images of themselves online has increased by fourfold since the beginning of the use of lockdowns during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a report has found.
Figures published by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found 19,670 pages of sexual images “self-generated” by children as young as seven-years-old in Britain often in their bedrooms after being blackmailed or tricked by adults into posting them online.
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Verhofstadt Attacks PiS and Calls “To Get Rid of Von Der Leyen” if She Pays EU Funds to Poland
Arch Eurofederalist Guy Verhofstadt launched a scathing attack on Poland’s United Right government on Monday, accusing the head of the ruling PiS party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, of “undermining the rule of law in Poland” and “copying Putin’s Russia.”
In a series of tweets, the Belgian MEP, a frequent critic of conservative administrations across Europe, was responding to Kaczynski’s recent comments about how there is a “German-Russian plan to rule Europe” and accused the Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk of working with Poland’s adversaries to “enslave Poland.”
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Turkey is the Next Country to Push Biometric Payments
As part of the big push to merge data and payments, biometric payment cards developed by Idex Biometrics in collaboration with E-Kart are to roll out in Turkey and other countries in Eastern Europe. Idex is also supplying biometric technology to a Web3 biometric card issued by Reltime.
The biometric payment cards are expected to begin rolling out in Turkey in the first quarter of 2023.
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Two years ago, on Aug. 9, 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus in which, according to official data, Alexander Lukashenko received 80.1 percent of the votes. His opponent Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a very popular candidate of the democratic opposition, only acquired 10.1 percent, a result the opposition considered to be fraudulent and which provoked a wave of protests demanding a fair election throughout the country.
Authorities responded with reprisal on a large scale, with Tsikhanouskaya forced to leave the country after being accused of a number of activities against the state of Belarus.
In an interview with Poland’s Rzeczpospolita newspaper, Tsikhanouskaya explained why the protests did not have a better result.
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Russian Oil Stopped Flowing to Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia on August 4
The key Druzhba pipeline supplying Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia with essentially irreplaceable Russian crude oil has stopped deliveries as of Aug. 4, the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet reports.
The news was announced by the spokesperson of the Transneft company overseeing the Russian side of the pipeline on Tuesday, five days after the shutdown. Transneft justified the supply stoppage by saying that it could not pay the transit fee to the company called UkrTransNafta, which owns the Ukrainian section of the pipeline. This happened because Russian banks are also affected by sanctions, so according to the Russians, the transfer failed. The Russian company promised to look for a solution.
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Russia-Ukraine War: Officials Say 9 Russian Warplanes Destroyed in Crimea Blasts
Ukraine said nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent a significant escalation in the war.
Russia denied any aircraft were damaged in the blasts — or that any attack took place. But satellite photos clearly showed at least seven fighter planes at the base had been blown up and others probably damaged.
Ukrainian officials stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions while mocking Russia’s explanation that a careless smoker might have caused ammunition at the Saki air base to catch fire and blow up. Analysts also said the explanation doesn’t make sense and that the Ukrainians could have used anti-ship missiles to strike the base.
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Ukraine War: Crimea Airbase Badly Damaged, Satellite Images Show
Satellite images appear to show extensive damage and several destroyed Russian warplanes at a Crimea airbase following explosions earlier this week.
The Saky base in the west of Russian-ruled Crimea was rocked by a string of blasts on Tuesday, killing one person.
Ukraine has not claimed responsibility — but this new evidence suggests the possibility of a targeted attack.
The images, from the US-based Planet Labs, show large areas of scorched earth left from fires that erupted.
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India: After Spat, 42-Year-Old Stabs Wife to Death in Front of Children in Noida
NOIDA: A 34-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in front of their two minor children in Noida on Tuesday night when she objected to his habit of drinking and changing jobs frequently. Ajay Bhadauria (42), the accused, was arrested on Wednesday morning, police said.
Originally from Kanpur, the couple lived with their two children, aged 13 and 9 years, and the woman’s mother in Salarpur village.
Police said an argument broke out between the couple on Tuesday night when the woman, Anita, chided her husband for changing jobs frequently and attributed the same to his drinking habit. In a fit of rage, cops said, Ajay stabbed her with a kitchen knife 3-4 times and fled the spot.
“Anita sustained injuries in her neck and arm. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries during treatment,” said Harish Chandar, DCP (Noida). “Hospital authorities informed the police control room about the woman.”
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Islamic Plan to Convert Nepal to Muslim Country Through Mosque and Masjid Network
Conspiracy to make India’s neighboring country Nepal as an Islamic State! Huge Foreign Funds coming for conversion and making Mosques and Madrasas.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Aug 10, 2022:: The conspiracy to make Nepal an Islamic state came to light. According to a report, a total of 24 Muslim organizations are active in Nepal at this time. And these organizations are taking forward the work of building mosques and madrasas (Islamic seminaries) all over Nepal including the Nepal-India border. To keep India under more Jihadi pressure, the plan to convert Nepal as an Islamic State is highly in the agenda of the Muslim radical organisations.
According to sources, these 24 organizations are being helped by various Muslim extremist organizations abroad. According to the news media, billions of rupees are being spent on building many madrasas and mosques in Nepal and converting the Hindu people of Nepal.
As per reports [1][2][3], most of the mosques and madrasas have been built in Uttarakhand’s Jauljibi, Pithoragarh, Banbasa, Dharchula, Jhulaghat and Khatima and Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, Basti, and Gorakhpur areas and the population of Muslims have also grown in towns and regions, all of which run adjacent to the Bharat-Nepal border. Reportedly, those settling along the GT road are largely Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators. Actually, Muslims in Nepal have their plans to conquer Nepal village and area wise. At this stage they multiply their numbers by birth and infiltration both in the targeted villages and areas. Afterwards they aspire for the Islamic dividend nationwide. Huge foreign funds are being utilized for Islamic agenda in these areas both in India and Nepal sides as the reports confirm. 116 Villages along UP-Nepal border (both sides) are now 50% Muslim, 25% rise in madrasas and mosques, says the report.
According to special sources, 694 madrasas and mosques have already been built in the Terai area on the India-Nepal border. Of these, 364 mosques and 330 madrasas have been built so far. News is also coming that in the last two years, about 5 billion rupees have come to Nepal from Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar. Not only that, it is reported that a radical Muslim organization from India has also sent 47 crore rupees to Nepal.
Islam is the third largest religion in Nepal. According to the 2011 Nepal census, approximately 1.164 million Muslims, comprising 4.4% of the population, live in Nepal. Almost all of them live in the Terai Region. Districts with large Muslim concentrations are: Rautahat, Banke, Kapilvastu, Parsa, Mahottari, Bara and Sunsari. As per census records there were 2, 09,718 Muslims in Nepal during 1952-54. But, the Muslim population in Nepal reached the mark of 11,62,370 in 2011 crossing 5 times growth. But, Maoist and Secular elements in Nepal always undermine this Islamic growth in the country as a threat to its Hindu character.
Eminent Hindu interlocutor and Hindu Existence Website Editor, Upananda Brahmachari expressed his concern in his twitter handle, “Unless the Hindu organisations in Nepal and Bharat start a big campaign to stop Islamic conspiracy in Nepal and the Himalayan regions, the consequence will be dangerous for both the countries.”
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Climate Change: The Latest Excuse for Slaughtering Christians
Politicians have found a new straw man: climate change. There are certainly many things we can gradually do not to pollute or wreck our planet, but blaming it for the pervasive slaughter of Christians by Muslims in northern Africa is not one of them. It seems, sadly, that what drives the persecution of Christians there, and elsewhere, is doctrine, not climate change.
On June 5, 2022, Muslims massacred 50 Christians inside a Nigerian church on Pentecost Sunday (one of many examples of Nigerian Christians massacred while worshipping in their churches).
Two days later, Ireland’s President Michael Higgins issued a statement linking the Nigerian church massacre to — climate change.
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On Thursday, a 30-year-old Arab illegal immigrant without a permanent address was tried and found guilty in a fast track trial for sexual assault on a young woman in the city of in Valenciennes in the north of France.
The incident happened on Sunday, July 31, on the public highway near a bar in Valenciennes. The victim says she was accosted by a man holding a beer in his hand when she was leaving the bar to meet a friend at 4 a.m.
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Czechia Wants to Introduce Time-Limited Accommodation for War Refugees
According to official statistics, roughly 300,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russian aggression found a home in the Czech Republic this year. Almost half of them use state-paid housing, but that could soon change. By the end of the summer, the interior ministry wants to decide how long it will pay for housing for refugees. After this date, they would have to look for their own accommodation and pay for it themselves.
The state hopes this will also free up accommodation capacity for Ukrainians who arrive in the Czech Republic to escape the country’s bitter winter.
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Following Denmark’s Example, Sweden Considers Breaking Up Migrant Ghettos
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has stated she supports a proposal to reduce segregation by banning areas where non-Scandinavians are the majority of residents.
Prime Minister Andersson, whose Social Democrat Party which has controlled Sweden for nearly a decade and has worked tirelessly to bring migrants into the country, said she was in favour of breaking up de-facto segregated neighbourhoods. The plan had been outlined by Integration Minister Anders Ygeman during a newspaper interview late last month and echoes efforts in neighbouring Denmark where such areas are now being actively broken up and even demolished.
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2GB’s Ben Fordham has slammed the hypocrisy of a hard-working Scottish family being kicked out of the country today just days after the Biloela family were granted permanent residency.
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Liz Truss last night vowed to protect the Rwanda immigration scheme with UK laws in a bid to block challenges to the controversial plan.
The Foreign Secretary used a TV interview to cement her lead over Rishi Sunak by promising to take Britain’s immigration policies back into the government’s hands.
She also pledged to strike Rwanda-style deals with more countries and to take a hard line on the French, who she said were not doing enough to stop migrants at the borders.
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Italy: Tunisian Who Admitted Fatal Stabbing Never Deported Despite Ten Prior Arrests
A Tunisian migrant who confessed to stabbing a barber to death in Pisa is sad to have been arrested at least ten times in the past and had deportation orders but despite this, was never removed from the country.
Tunisian Mourad Talbi confessed to stabbing Moroccan barber Halim Hamza to death with a blade around eight inches long on August 7th, killing the barber without saying a word to him beforehand.
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Suspected Polish Migrant Smuggler Who Broke Officer’s Arm Arrested in Hungary After Car Chase
Hungarian authorities arrested a Polish national for striking a Hungarian border guard with his car on the night of Aug. 6 after officials tried to apprehend him near Ásotthalom, which is close to the Serbian border.
According to the prosecution, the 29-year-old Polish man was driving his car on Highway 55 near the Hungarian-Serbian border when he came close to a border guard checkpoint set up to catch human traffickers. The guards saw the Polish car suddenly turn onto a sandy road in a vineyard in response to the checkpoint, so they followed the vehicle after notifying the police.
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Swedish Party Calls for Deporting Migrant Criminals… if They Attack LGBT People
Sweden’s centre-right Moderates have proposed that migrants who commit attacks should be deported from the country, as long as the victims identify as members of the LGBT community.
The Moderates wrote about the proposal on their Twitter account stating, “Sweden must never become a haven for oppressive values. Anyone who is not a Swedish citizen and is convicted of attacks against LGBTQ people must therefore be deported.”
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Two more buses carrying illegal immigrants arrived in the Big Apple on Wednesday, just one day after Mayor Eric Adams threatened to send New Yorkers to Texas in an effort to unseat its Republican governor.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began sending buses of undocumented immigrants to New York City last week in protest of President Joe Biden’s plan to end a pandemic-era program that allowed border agents to more easily thwart crossings.
He has already bused in thousands of people from Texas, and on Wednesday two more buses pulled into the Port Authority at around 7.45am carrying 95 people each. At least five of the incoming migrants were women, one of whom was pictured carrying two young children.
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Ukrainian Human Trafficking Ring With Newborns Exposed
A Czech media portal has uncovered further mafia structures linked to Ukraine. This case is about human trafficking of newborns and outright surrogacy slavery. At least 30 babies have been illegally sold to foreigners in the Czech Republic since 2019 after they were born in Prague by Ukrainian surrogate mothers.
The trail was uncovered by Czech outlet Seznam Zpravy leading to one of the centers of the surrogacy industry, Kharkiv, Ukraine, as well as to the Feskov-Human Reproduction Group agency, which has branches in Prague and Kiev. The operator of the clinic, Alexander Feskov, has had to answer for human trafficking there since last year.
Six employees of the baby farm are said to have earned 1,2 million euros from the trade in unborn and newborn babies. Prague, according to criminologists, is a sort of logistical center for the entire business.
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US Lawyer Loses Case Against DHS After Border Patrol Scanned His Phone
The US District Court of the Northern District of Texas dismissed a lawsuit filed by immigration lawyer Adam Malik alleging that the government violated his constitutional rights when his phone was seized at the border.
A US Customs and Border Protection Officer seized Malik’s phone when he was returning from Costa Rica at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in January 2021. The phone was seized despite Malik being a member of the CBP’s global entry trusted traveler program. Before the phone was seized, Malik had refused, citing attorney-client privilege.
After the phone was seized, it was sent to experts to crack the passcode. The data that was extracted was filtered to obtain privileged material. The phone was returned in May 2021.
Malik’s complaint alleged that the seizure violated his rights to association and expression under the First Amendment, and the Fourth Amendment, which prohibit unreasonable searches.
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Following the banning of an 80-year-old woman from her local YMCA earlier this month for expressing discomfort with a biological male in the women’s restroom overseeing little girls changing out of their swimsuits the toilets, protests have been planned in Port Townsend, Washington against the city’s stance on the matter.
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Greenpeace Tells YouTube CEO to Censor “Greenwashing”
Climate activists’ new deplatforming target is a big one: the oil industry. On its website, Greenpeace is running a petition addressed to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, urging her to ban ads placed by companies like BP and Shell.
The petition’s goal is to collect 75,000 supporters; and what these “fossil fuel companies” are accused of is “greenwashing” which, according to Greenpeace, YouTube needs to add to its ever-growing list of censorship targets.
Greenwashing is a term used to describe a company deceptively promoting its products as environmentally friendly, such as lying they are made from recycled materials.
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Minnesota pharmacist George Badeaux faced legal trouble after he refused to provide emergency contraceptive pills to a patient in 2019 because of his personal religious beliefs.
“I couldn’t fill this prescription because one of the possible mechanisms of action of the medication is that it can prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg into the uterus,” Badeaux told “Fox & Friends First” host Todd Piro on Wednesday.
“In my mind, that would be ending a new human life.”
Badeaux went on to say the patient’s move to sue him for refusing to supply the morning after pill surprised him. He also argued that medical professionals should not be forced to leave their deeply-held beliefs in their “back pocket[s]” on the job.
“We should be able to live out our beliefs in our workplace,” he said.
Piro noted that, although Badeaux won the case, the plaintiff received $25,000 for “emotional harm” as well.
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School Head Admits ‘Error’ For Drag Queen Performance After Parents Threaten ‘Donor Strike’
After it was revealed that Grace Church School held a mandatory drag show during chapel for students, many parents spoke out, threatening to withhold donations from the expensive private school, prompting the headmaster to issue an apology. Calls also came for the removal of the choir teacher, who invited the drag queen to the school.
In a letter sent to parents late Thursday afternoon, Grace Church Head of School Robbie Pennoyer II admitted there were “errors” made by the school as regards drag queen Brita Filter’s performance in the school’s chapel last April. Brita Filter is the stage name of Jesse Havea.
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Woke Math? How Critical Race Theory Found Its Way Into Math Curriculum
Schools across the country have made considerable efforts to incorporate aspects of critical race theory into math curricula, often by modifying achievement standards and student expectations.
Once seen as immune from politicization, the indubitably rigid subject of mathematics has become the target of several endeavors to approach the topic through a racialized lens. The programs keep the basics of a right-and-wrong math answer, but they will change programs and testing protocols in order to achieve a less racially disparate outcome.
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Re: “Minnesota pharmacist…wins case…”
Well, of course he shouldn’t be obliged to provide emergency contraception if it’s contrary to his beliefs, but he should be obliged to refer the client to someone who doesn’t share them.
Re the Stasi reference:
“What do former Stasi operatives do for a living?”
“They drive cabs; you tell them your name, they know where you live.”
This video purports to contain
Explosives!
Maybe it does – because it is mainly
a free speach by Reiner Fuellmich.
Also the originator, Ulf Bejerstrand,
of the brand new Swedish political party:
THE BUTTON PUSHERS – The People’s Voice,
has got a lot to say.
These two gentlemen have in fact a potential
opportunity to introduce some remarkable
changes.
Help them by spreading this link around the world.
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Sprängstoff: Bejerstrand, Bittner & Reiner Fuellmich
Posted 5 hours ago • 08.11.2022
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swebb-tube videos are said to sometimes be difficult to handle – this video should therefore be uploaded to other free platforms; youtube has already refused to accept it;
video’s original name, not seartchable:
3d8cfbad-bd4d-425d-a533-030d095d5819-720-fragmented.mp4
soundtrack:
https://voca.ro/1o2toBmsd6lO
Sucharit Bhakdi is mentioned by Fuellmich.
see:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/07/dr-sucharit-bhakdi-bring-these-criminals-to-justice/
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: “Bring These Criminals to Justice”
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Orban is a very smart man to ban exports and to prevent muslim filth from coming to his country.