Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/13/2022

A day after he was stabbed onstage in Chautauqua, Salman Rushdie has been taken off the ventilator and is able to talk. Meanwhile, 24-year-old Hadi Matar has been charged with attempted murder. He pleaded not guilty at his court appearance.

In other news, Argentina’s central bank raised its prime lending rate to 69.5% in an attempt to dampen runaway inflation.

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Financial Crisis
» Argentina Rate Hiked to 69.5% as Inflation Hits 20-Year High
» Inflation Costing the Average American $717 a Month, Analysis Shows
» Price Explosions: German Supermarkets Attach Anti-Theft Devices to Staple Foods
» Russia’s GDP Shrank 4% in the April-June Period
» UK Economy Shrank Between April and June After Growing in First Three Months of Year, ONS Says
 
USA
» Arizona Parents Tased by Police After Rushing Into School Following Reports of Gunman
» Author Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator and Talking Day After Attack, Agent Says; Suspect Charged
» Bill Maher Reacts to Salman Rushdie Attack: Don’t Come at Me With ‘Islamophobic’ To Shut Off Islam Debate
» Blog Post on Teachers Union Website Claims Parents ‘Make it Their Job to Undermine’ Teachers
» Carnival Drops Exemption Request for Unvaxxed Guests, Eases Testing Requirements
» Chicago Police Will Divert Some Cops From Neighborhoods to Protect Movie Sets: Report
» Creighton University Students’ COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Appeal Dismissed
» Djokovic Forced Out of Tennis Tournament by Biden Ban on Unvaxed Travellers
» FBI Report Confirms Alec Baldwin Pulled the Trigger in Fatal ‘Rust’ Set Shooting
» Female FBI Agent Shared Bed, Smoked Weed With Man Accused in Whitmer Kidnap Plot
» Hadi Matar, Suspect in Salman Rushdie Stabbing, Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder, Assault
» Hunter Biden Met With Dad Immediately After Romanian Business Meetings
» Oberlin College’s ‘Professor of Peace’ Endorsed Fatwa to Murder Salman Rushdie
» OnlyFans Model Courtney Clenney Agrees to Return to Miami on Murder Charge
» Philadelphia School District Mandates Masks for First 10 Days of Class
» Political Fallout Mounts Over FBI’s Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
» Princeton University Course Says That ‘Far Right Activists’ Are Using ‘Free Speech’ To Justify ‘Hate Speech’
» Roy Moore Wins Defamation Case Against Democratic PAC, Jury Awards Him $8.2m
» Teens Trash Philly Restaurant, Sending Workers Searching for Cover as City Crime Surges
» Virginia Mom Blasts Sons’ ‘Political’ Suspensions for Not Wearing Masks
» Watch: Rushdie Knifeman Taken Down by Audience Members, Carried Fake ID in Name of Hezbollah Leader
» Who is Hadi Matar, The 24-Year-Old Youth Who Stabbed Author Salman Rushdie?
» ‘Woke’ NYC Starbucks Now a Haven for Junkies, Drunks and Homeless
 
Europe and the EU
» How the Germans Deal With the Eco-Mob! Riot Police Crack Down on Green Protesters Trying to Bring Hamburg to a Standstill by Using Batons, Pepper Spray and Water Cannon
» Prominent Cattle Trader Weighs in on the Dutch Farmer Rebellion
» ‘You’re Next’: JK Rowling Gets Death Threats After Salman Rushdie Stabbed, Hospitalized
 
Balkans
» Montenegro Declares Three Days of Mourning for Victims of Mass Shooting
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» 8 Israelis Wounded in Jerusalem Shooting
 
Middle East
» Iran’s Hardline Newspapers Praise Salman Rushdie’s Attacker
 
Russia
» Moscow Claims Territorial Gains in East, Kyiv Claims to Have Cut Russians Off in South
» ‘Western Elites Will Not Survive the Ukraine Conflict’
 
Far East
» At Least 300 TikTok Employees Previously Worked for Chinese State-Aligned Media: Report
 
Immigration
» Academics: Swedish Proposal to Break Up Migrant Ghettos is ‘State Racism’
» ‘Child’ Migrant Accused of Raping and Trying to Kill Young Girl Lied About His Age
» Number of Migrants Crossing English Channel in Small Boats Tops 19,000 for the Year as More Arrive in Dover
» People-Smugglers Charging Migrants £17,000 to Sneak Into the UK Via the English Channel and North Sea on Luxury Yachts
» Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos Chides Eric Adams on Migrant Buses
» Three Migrants Are Killed and Others Injured When People-Smuggling Van Crashes While Trying to Dodge the Police After Crossing From Hungary to Austria
» ‘We Can’t Wait Any Longer!’: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey Starts Building $6M Makeshift Border Wall Using Barb-Wire Topped Shipping Containers That Will be Completed by Next Week
 
Culture Wars
» Father Exposes Child Grooming Books in Canadian Schools
» Idaho Supreme Court Allows Strict, Near-Total Abortion Ban to Take Effect
» Woke NPR Refers to Killing an Unborn Child as ‘Aborting a Pregnancy’
 

Argentina Rate Hiked to 69.5% as Inflation Hits 20-Year High

Argentina’s central bank has raised its main rate of interest to 69.5% as it tries to contain soaring inflation.

The bank put up its 28-day benchmark rate by 9.5% percentage points, its second hike in as many weeks.

It comes as new figures showed inflation in the country had hit a 20-year high of over 70%.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Inflation Costing the Average American $717 a Month, Analysis Shows

The average American is shelling out an extra $717 a month because of the hottest inflation in decades, according to a new analysis from the Joint Economic Committee Republicans.

The financial squeeze stems from the rising cost of a number of everyday goods, including cars, rent, food and health care. While the rapid pace of price increases eased slightly in July, the consumer price index still climbed 8.5% from the previous year — hovering near a painful, four-decade high, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Price Explosions: German Supermarkets Attach Anti-Theft Devices to Staple Foods

Food items have been secured with anti-theft devices based on the Anglo-Saxon multicultural model as the first German citizens seem to be driven to acts of desperation in view of the price explosions. This does not affect high-priced items such as champagne, but staple foods. Are these now becoming luxuries?

Inflation is causing food prices to skyrocket, and further price increases are forecast for the next three months. This was the result of a survey by the ifo Institute, as reported by ARD. More and more people can no longer afford these horrendous prices and are driven to desperate acts with the number of thefts increasing.

Supermarkets have been taking countermeasures — with anti-theft devices.

A supermarket in Berlin-Weißensee has now attached security markings to some types of meat — yellow stickers with the inscription “Secured article”.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Russia’s GDP Shrank 4% in the April-June Period

Russia’s economy shrank four percent year-on-year in 2022’s second quarter. This comes after Moscow was hit by Western sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s state statistical service released the gross domestic product number for the April-June period on Friday.

This is the first contraction since the first quarter of 2021, when the economy was affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

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UK Economy Shrank Between April and June After Growing in First Three Months of Year, ONS Says

It compares to growth of 0.8 percent recorded in the previous three months.

Health was put down as the “biggest reason” behind the contraction as the test and trace and vaccine programmes were wound down.

Retailers were also hit hard, despite the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations providing a brief period of respite.

Office for National Statistics director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said: “With May’s growth revised down a little and June showing a notable fall, overall the economy shrank slightly in the second quarter.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Arizona Parents Tased by Police After Rushing Into School Following Reports of Gunman

Multiple parents were tased by police on Friday after attempting to enter an El Mirage, Arizona elementary school following a report that a male with a firearm tried to enter their children’s school.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Author Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator and Talking Day After Attack, Agent Says; Suspect Charged

Suspect in on-stage stabbing of Salman Rushdie charged with attempted murder

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after being stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture. Rushdie’s agent confirmed information contained in a tweet by another author Saturday.

Earlier in the day, a suspect has been charged with attempted murder in the attack, ABC News reported.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Bill Maher Reacts to Salman Rushdie Attack: Don’t Come at Me With ‘Islamophobic’ To Shut Off Islam Debate

“Real Time” host Bill Maher kicked off his panel discussion on Friday night by addressing the attack of his friend and frequent guest Salman Rushdie.

Rushdie was rushed to the hospital earlier in the day after he was stabbed by a man at a speaking engagement in Chautauqua, New York. The suspect was arrested and later identified as 24-year-old Hadi Matar.

“I’m guessing Hadi is not Amish,” Maher quipped. “He was giving a lecture— about this for irony— prior about how the U.S. is a safe haven for exiled writers and other artists under threat of persecution. And making that speech itself is unthinkable in most Muslim countries. Salman Rushdie living in most Muslim countries without getting stabbed every day is unthinkable.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Blog Post on Teachers Union Website Claims Parents ‘Make it Their Job to Undermine’ Teachers

A blog post on the American Federation of Teacher’s “Share My Lesson” website claims there are parents who “will make it their job to undermine” teachers.

The post, written by Amber Chandler, discusses the many reasons people become teachers, but begins by explaining the challenges teachers face.

Chandler, who is a middle school teacher in New York and a ShareMyLesson ambassador, notes that teachers could make more in other fields, and that “standardization is still the driving force in education.” She also notes that teachers work more than the 40-hour work week during the school year, and many have side gigs to make extra money during the summer.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Carnival Drops Exemption Request for Unvaxxed Guests, Eases Testing Requirements

Carnival Cruise Line is easing its testing requirements for vaccinated passengers and allowing unvaccinated guests to travel without an exemption.

The cruise company will no longer demand testing for vaccinated passengers staying onboard for under 16 nights. Additionally, unvaccinated guests will no longer be required to file exemption requests.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Chicago Police Will Divert Some Cops From Neighborhoods to Protect Movie Sets: Report

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) reportedly ordered two commanders to divert some of their police from neighborhoods to film and TV production sets Friday, according to local news.

The orders came four days after officers responded to an incident at a film set on Monday, where a suspect “lit and threw an unidentified object” near the set on the 1000 block of South Desplaines Street near the University of Illinois at Chicago around 10:20 p.m.

The object did not explode, and no injuries were reported, according to police.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Creighton University Students’ COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Appeal Dismissed

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by a handful of Creighton University students who sought to be exempt from the private Catholic school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate last year, arguing that getting the shots would violate their religious beliefs against abortion.

The state’s high court said it didn’t have jurisdiction, citing its 150-year stance that people can’t appeal orders denying or granting temporary injunctions. In this case, a judge last year declined to issue a temporary injunction that would have blocked Creighton University’s requirement that all students get the COVID-19 vaccination.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Djokovic Forced Out of Tennis Tournament by Biden Ban on Unvaxed Travellers

CINCINNATI (AP) — Novak Djokovic pulled out of next week’s hard-court tournament in Cincinnati on Friday because he has not gotten any COVID-19 vaccine shots and so is not allowed to travel to the United States.

That is also why Djokovic is not expected to be able to enter the U.S. Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament, which begins in New York on Aug. 29.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Report Confirms Alec Baldwin Pulled the Trigger in Fatal ‘Rust’ Set Shooting

The feds have all but concluded actor Alec Baldwin must have fired the weapon on the set of the movie “Rust” that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, according to a bombshell report.

According to an FBI forensic report obtained by ABC News, the gun delivering the fatal bullet in the Oct. 21 shooting on the New Mexico set “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger.”

Baldwin, the star and producer of the Western film, claimed he believed he was handling a “cold gun” without live ammunition when it went off and a live bullet hit Hutchins, killing her. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was wounded in the incident.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Female FBI Agent Shared Bed, Smoked Weed With Man Accused in Whitmer Kidnap Plot

A female FBI informant allegedly shared a bed and smoked marijuana with one of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to new details that emerged in court earlier this week.

Lawyers for Barry Croft Jr., one of the alleged ringleaders of the kidnapping plot, say FBI informants improperly coordinated with the accused, the Washington Examiner reports.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hadi Matar, Suspect in Salman Rushdie Stabbing, Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder, Assault

The suspect in the upstate stabbing of Salman Rushdie pleaded not guilty during an arraignment Saturday afternoon, during which the prosecutor detailed an extensive list of the famed writer’s injuries.

Hadi Matar, 24, was charged with attempted murder and assault and entered the plea during a proceeding at the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville — after news outlets, including The Post, pushed to open the court appearance to the public.

He allegedly rushed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution Friday morning where Rushdie, 75, was beginning a lecture on freedom of expression.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hunter Biden Met With Dad Immediately After Romanian Business Meetings

Hunter Biden met with his father multiple times while working for a Romanian real estate tycoon accused of corruption — an effort that netted Joe Biden’s second son and associates “millions” of dollars, a source close to the arrangement told The Post.

The timing of the meetings between the then-vice president and his son have raised questions about the “full truth” of the involvement with Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, critics said.

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Oberlin College’s ‘Professor of Peace’ Endorsed Fatwa to Murder Salman Rushdie

Jerusalem, Israel — An Islamic studies academic dubbed the “Professor of Peace” at Oberlin College in Ohio endorsed the campaign to assassinate U.S. and British writer Salman Rushdie because the famous novelist depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad irreverently.

A 24-year-old man named Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed Rushdie on Friday in the neck and liver during the author’s speech in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie is on a ventilator and cannot talk.

According to law enforcement officials, Matar’s social media footprint showed that he was a fan of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Matar was also sympathetic to radical Shia Islamism—the governing religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

OnlyFans Model Courtney Clenney Agrees to Return to Miami on Murder Charge

OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney waived extradition Thursday and agreed to return to Florida to face a murder charge for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife nearly four months ago.

Clenney, 26, was arrested on a warrant in Hawaii on Wednesday and appeared in Hilo Circuit Court late Thursday, where a judge ordered her held without bail for the slaying of Christian Obumseli, Deputy Prosecutor Attorney Kelden Waltjen told Fox News Digital.

The Miami-Dade Police Department will have to pick up Clenney, who is being held at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center, Waltjen said.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Philadelphia School District Mandates Masks for First 10 Days of Class

Philadelphia public school students, teachers and administrators will have to wear masks for the first 10 days of the school year.

Pre-kindergarten pupils aged 3 to 5 will have to mask up all year, according to a letter to parents Friday from the School District of Philadelphia, Fox News reported.

The letter cites the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in stating that when COVID-19 community transmission is high, students and staffers must wear masks. When the threat level is medium, masking is “strongly recommended.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Political Fallout Mounts Over FBI’s Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

The political battle lines hardened Saturday over the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s Florida resort home.

A top Senate Republican has demanded the public release of the evidence that convinced a judge to let the agency take the unprecedented step of barging into an ex-president’s home.

Meanwhile, Democrats decried the GOP’s anti-FBI rhetoric — which, they said, was putting agents in danger.

“There is political bias within the FBI, and I think it’s legitimate to raise the question about …. the way President Trump has been treated,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Fox News.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Princeton University Course Says That ‘Far Right Activists’ Are Using ‘Free Speech’ To Justify ‘Hate Speech’

A Princeton University course description states that “far right activists” are using “free speech” in an attempt to justify “hate speech.”

The course, titled “Current Issues in Anthropology: Liberalism, Racism & Free Speech,” asks if “understandings of free speech changed over time as countries authorize speech differently.”

“In the U.S. and Europe, far right activists use ‘free speech’ to justify hate speech,” the course description states. “How have Western histories of racism and colonialism shaped what counts as acceptable speech, particularly if violence ensues?”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Roy Moore Wins Defamation Case Against Democratic PAC, Jury Awards Him $8.2m

A federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday after finding a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in a TV ad recounting sexual misconduct accusations during his failed 2017 U.S. Senate bid in Alabama.

Jurors found the Senate Majority PAC made false and defamatory statements against Moore in one ad that attempted to highlight the accusations against Moore. The verdict, returned by a jury after a brief trial in Anniston, Alabama, was a victory for Moore, who has lost other defamation lawsuits, including one against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

“We’re very thankful to God for an opportunity to help restore my reputation which was severely damaged by the 2017 election,” Moore said in a telephone interview.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Teens Trash Philly Restaurant, Sending Workers Searching for Cover as City Crime Surges

A wild video shows a mob of teenagers trashing a Philadelphia restaurant, flipping tables, throwing chairs — and even tossing a bicycle — as violence soars in the city.

The caught-on-video rampage at Jamaican restaurant Zion Cuisine in the city’s Germantown neighborhood sent workers scrambling for cover behind a locked door and security glass shattered by a chair thrown by one of the assailants.

The viral video from Saturday made the rounds on social media showing a dozen or more teens enter the restaurant after some sort of confrontation.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Virginia Mom Blasts Sons’ ‘Political’ Suspensions for Not Wearing Masks

SPRINGFIELD, VA — Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, a mother of three, accused Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) of playing politics after her sons were suspended on dress code violations for not wearing face masks to school.

Lundquist-Arora’s sons were among 24 FCPS students suspended Jan. 25 for failing to wear masks.

“The masks had given them headaches,” Lundquist-Arora told Fox News Digital. “They didn’t like wearing them. So they found them problematic.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Watch: Rushdie Knifeman Taken Down by Audience Members, Carried Fake ID in Name of Hezbollah Leader

The suspected stabber of Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, reportedly expressed sympathies for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran and carried a fake driver’s licence bearing the name of a Hezbollah leader tied to the assassinated Iranian general Qassim Soleimani.

Hadi Matar, 24, is currently believed to have relocated to Bergen, New Jersey, just across the river from Manhattan, from California.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Who is Hadi Matar, The 24-Year-Old Youth Who Stabbed Author Salman Rushdie?

Hadi Matar (24) from Fairview, New Jersey has been identified as the suspect who stabbed Rushdie, Major Eugene Staniszewski of the New York State Police told a press conference on Friday evening.

Indian-origin author Salman Rushdie, 75, is currently fighting for his life in a hospital in the United States after being stabbed several times at an event at the Chautauqua Institution, a not-for-profit community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State. Reports suggest that Rushdie’s liver has been severely damaged and he could lose an eye.

“The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, his agent, wrote in an email. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” According to the law enforcement authorities, the author was stabbed “at least once in the neck and at least once in the abdomen.”

Hadi Matar (24) from Fairview, New Jersey has been identified as the suspect who stabbed Rushdie, Major Eugene Staniszewski of the New York State Police told a press conference on Friday evening.

The incident has shaken the entire world at a time when religion has become a cause of riots, hate and killing. Rushdie has been facing Islamist death threats for years after writing ‘The Satanic Verses’.

What more do we know about Hadi Matar?

The 24-year-old man, Hadi Matar, detained in connection with the stabbing of Mumbai-born controversial author Salman Rushdie was sympathetic to “Shia extremism” and the causes of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to a media report.

Though there are no direct links between Matar and the IRGC, law enforcement officers reportedly found images of slain commander Qassem Solemani and an Iraqi extremist sympathetic to the Iranian regime in a cell phone messaging app belonging to Matar, according to NBC News.

According to officials, he further said that at the moment, it is assumed that the suspect was “working alone” but they are investigating to make sure that was the case.

The authorities, however, are in the “process of obtaining search warrants for various items. There was a backpack located at the scene. There was also electronic devices”.

Police did not describe the weapon used. The suspect’s attorney, public defender Nathaniel Barone, said he was still gathering information and declined to comment. Matar’s home was blocked off by authorities.

The suspect in Friday’s attack had a “pass to access the grounds,” Dr Michael E Hill, president of the Chautauqua Institution, said in the news conference, reported PTI…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

‘Woke’ NYC Starbucks Now a Haven for Junkies, Drunks and Homeless

A NoHo Starbucks is dealing with more than just a constant flow of caffeine junkies looking to get their fix.

The café at the corner of Astor Place and Lafayette Street regularly contends with drug users, mentally disturbed people and homeless folks looking to take a nap, The Post witnessed.

“Starbucks got too woke too fast,” said java joint regular Konstantin Dobryakov. “Now some customers are too scared to go in because you’ve got a bunch of homeless people sleeping in there. They got to be ready to kick people out and not give everyone a free cup of coffee. You give them a finger and they’ll take a hand.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

How the Germans Deal With the Eco-Mob! Riot Police Crack Down on Green Protesters Trying to Bring Hamburg to a Standstill by Using Batons, Pepper Spray and Water Cannon

German police employed batons, pepper spray and water cannons against a group of eco-zealots on Saturday as they staged a sit-down protest on a major railway supply line in Hamburg.

Dozens of protesters, led by the eco-mob Ende Gelande — which translates to ‘here and no further’ — attempted to disrupt the major northern city by blockading the Kattwyk Railway Bridge, which leads to the nearby harbour.

Ahead of their action, Extinction Rebellion, who were also involved, said: ‘We are blocking a central hub of German foreign trade here to draw attention to the consequences of modern colonialism.’

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Prominent Cattle Trader Weighs in on the Dutch Farmer Rebellion

For a brief period, Rebel News was back in the Netherlands to scope out the current tensions and investigate what will happen next regarding the Dutch farmer rebellion.

As you are aware, protests have sparked across the Netherlands. In fact, these protests have been ongoing since 2019, when the Dutch government declared a nitrogen emissions cap. The cap means the farmers have to reduce fertilizer usage, are forced to cut livestock by up to 50% and face the worry of having to give up their land to the state.

Fast-forward to today in 2022 and the situation has escalated. The protests have grown substantially, with the government not backing down on their push towards the agenda 2030 goal, and the farmers are continuing to rally to show their discontent for the Dutch government and the World Economic Forum-pushed blueprints.

In this report, we speak with a well-known cattle trader in the Netherlands who is very actively involved with the protests and gives his take on what these green policies from the Dutch government could mean for the future of his business.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘You’re Next’: JK Rowling Gets Death Threats After Salman Rushdie Stabbed, Hospitalized

Author JK Rowling received a public death threat for denouncing Friday’s violent attack on fellow British writer Salman Rushdie, carried out by a Muslim extremist.

The Harry Potter creator took to the social media platform to express her horror at the news of Rushdie being punched and stabbed on stage before he was set to give a lecture on free speech in New York. She wrote”Horrifying news. Feeling very sick right now. Let him be OK.”

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Montenegro Declares Three Days of Mourning for Victims of Mass Shooting

The government of Montenegro has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of a mass shooting in town of Cetinje that has shattered the community.

The shooting on August 12 took the lives of 11 people, including the attacker.

The three-day nationwide mourning period, which will last through August 15, was announced on August 13 as new details about the shooting came to light.

Among the dead were two children. Six people were wounded and were still being treated. Three of them have life-threatening injuries.

Police director Zoran Brdanin said it was still not clear what motivated the attack, which began around 3:30 p.m. when a 34-year-old man from Cetinje, identified only by the initials V.B., used a hunting rifle to shoot at a family who were tenants in his house.

The two children, one aged 8 and the other 11, and their mother were the first shot…

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8 Israelis Wounded in Jerusalem Shooting

JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said.

Two of the victims were in serious condition, including a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to Israeli hospitals treating them.

The shooting occurred as the bus waited in a parking lot near the Western Wall, which is considered the holiest site where Jews can pray.

Israeli police said forces were dispatched to the scene to investigate. Israeli security forces also pushed into the nearby Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan pursuing the suspected attacker.

The attack in Jerusalem followed a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank…

           — Hat tip: JW [Return to headlines]
 

Iran’s Hardline Newspapers Praise Salman Rushdie’s Attacker

As much of the world reacted with horror to the stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie, hardline Iranian newspapers and ordinary Iranians celebrated the attack on the author who has lived under death threats since 1989.

“Satan on the path to hell,” the conservative newspaper Khorasan blared above a picture of Rushdie on a stretcher.

“A thousand bravos … to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in New York,” the hardline Kayhan newspaper, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, wrote, adding, “The hand of the man who tore the neck of God’s enemy must be kissed.”

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Moscow Claims Territorial Gains in East, Kyiv Claims to Have Cut Russians Off in South

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday.

A Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed three people and wounded 13 others Friday night, according to the mayor. Kramatorsk is the headquarters for Ukrainian forces in the country’s war-torn east.

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‘Western Elites Will Not Survive the Ukraine Conflict’

In a recent interview, the Russian geopolitician and long-time presidential adviser Sergei Karaganov made a comprehensive assessment of the Ukraine conflict and also spoke about possible future scenarios.

The conversation with the New York Times can be seen as a follow-up to an April 2022 interview in the UK weekly the New Statesman and another in June in the Italian geopolitical magazine Limes.

Karaganov interpreted the war in Ukraine as the result of the creeping “relationship escalation” between NATO and Russia. He said he had anticipated the danger of war long before and warned against it. However, the Russian leadership was convinced that the political West would soon collapse, due to economic weaknesses as well as a general political and moral decline. Basically, the new Cold War began more than a decade ago and thus even before Euromaidan in Ukraine in 2014.

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At Least 300 TikTok Employees Previously Worked for Chinese State-Aligned Media: Report

A new report found some overlap between hundreds of employees at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance and Chinese state media outlets.

Forbes surveyed hundreds of LinkedIn profiles for the tech firm’s employees, finding at least 300 workers had previously held positions in Chinese state media — and 15 of them currently work for both.

“Fifteen indicate that current ByteDance employees are also concurrently employed by Chinese state media entities, including Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International and China Central/China Global Television,” the report said. The U.S. State department has labeled these organization as “foreign government functionaries.”

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Academics: Swedish Proposal to Break Up Migrant Ghettos is ‘State Racism’

Swedish academics have denounced a proposal by a government minister to limit the number of non-Scandinavian residents in neighbourhoods as “state racism.”

Ten academics largely comprised of professors from various Swedish universities slammed the proposal made by Minister for Integration Anders Ygeman, who said he would support a policy to limit the number of non-Scandinavian or “non-Nordic” residents in areas so they did not become a majority.

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‘Child’ Migrant Accused of Raping and Trying to Kill Young Girl Lied About His Age

A “child” migrant accused of raping and trying to murder a young girl in Sweden has been revealed to be at least 15 rather than his recorded age of 13 — old enough to face criminal prosecution.

The supposed minor, who was arrested last month for allegedly raping and attempting to murder a nine-year-old girl in the city of Skellefteå, was initially thought to be 13, but police have clarified that his parents gave the wrong birthdate to Swedish authorities when they entered the country.

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Number of Migrants Crossing English Channel in Small Boats Tops 19,000 for the Year as More Arrive in Dover

The number of migrants landing in England after crossing the channel Channel in small boats this year has risen to over 19,000.

Migrants, including young children, arrived in Dover this morning as they were picked up by the Border Force after making setting off from France.

A baby and several young children were seen alongside adults being taken ashore by Border Force workers and a member of the armed forces.

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People-Smugglers Charging Migrants £17,000 to Sneak Into the UK Via the English Channel and North Sea on Luxury Yachts

Ruthless people-smugglers are sneaking Albanian migrants into the UK on luxury yachts as part of a ‘premium’ trafficking service, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Posing as a migrant, an undercover MoS journalist last week contacted Albanian crime bosses who claim to be regularly using yachts to smuggle people across the English Channel and North Sea.

One trafficker offered a place on a yacht leaving Belgium this weekend for £17,000, while another said there was space on a yacht leaving from near Calais for £16,000.

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Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos Chides Eric Adams on Migrant Buses

A Texas border town official chided Mayor Adams Saturday for his furious reaction to the Lone Star State’s new push to bus asylum seekers to the Big Apple and other northern cities.

“You see New York, you see Washington [DC] kind of drowning with a few buses,” McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos scoffed in an interview with Fox News.

“The city of McAllen was able to deal with thousands of immigrants a day,” Villalobos said. “I think they can handle a few hundred.”

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Three Migrants Are Killed and Others Injured When People-Smuggling Van Crashes While Trying to Dodge the Police After Crossing From Hungary to Austria

Three migrants have today been killed and several have been seriously injured in Austria after a crammed people-smuggling van crashed crossing from Hungary.

As the van was being checked at the crossing, the smuggler floored the accelerator trying to dodge the police and flee to Austria but the vehicle overturned.

The van careered into a roadside ditch on the A6 Autobahn (motorway) at the Kittsee border crossing in Burgenland state, near Austria’s eastern border with Hungary at around 9.30am (8.30am UK time).

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‘We Can’t Wait Any Longer!’: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey Starts Building $6M Makeshift Border Wall Using Barb-Wire Topped Shipping Containers That Will be Completed by Next Week

Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the Biden administration to block off the area.

‘Arizona has had enough,’ tweeted Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of the state, who is up for re-election in November.

‘We can’t wait any longer. The Biden administration’s lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty.’

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Father Exposes Child Grooming Books in Canadian Schools

In today’s report I interview a British Columbia man who has been sounding the alarm for parents and school boards when it comes to sexually explicit books popping up in school libraries across the country.

Pierre Barns is a father of four who has done extensive research on the books that are currently being normalized in some Canadian public schools, thanks to controversial sexual orientation and gender identity agenda’s like the SOGI 123 curriculum.

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Idaho Supreme Court Allows Strict, Near-Total Abortion Ban to Take Effect

A near-total abortion ban can take effect in Idaho, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

The decision Friday came despite a barrage of legal challenges to the law, Fox News reported Saturday. The court did agree to expedite the various lawsuits, however.

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Woke NPR Refers to Killing an Unborn Child as ‘Aborting a Pregnancy’

National Public Radio (NPR) is now resorting to the euphemism “aborting a pregnancy” rather than speak of aborting a fetus or a child.

“A 41-year-old woman is facing felony charges in Nebraska for allegedly helping her teenage daughter illegally abort a pregnancy,” NPR correspondent Martin Kaste wrote Friday.

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  1. Facebook’s AI robot is now equipped with artificial political correctness after being racist.

    Published 14 August 2022 in Fria Tider

    Facebook’s experimental artificial intelligence robot made headlines this week when it was revealed that the robot had become anti-Semitic. Now Facebook has reprogrammed the robot and equipped it with artificial political correctness.

    Anyone asking questions about Jewish influence in American economics and social debate got straight – perhaps a little too straight – answers from Facebook’s AI robot this week, as several media outlets reported.

    Among other things, the robot claimed that Donald Trump actually won the last US presidential election and that “it’s not unlikely” that Jews control the superpower’s economy. To a reporter at Insider, the bot wrote that Facebook owner and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “creepy and manipulative” and engages in unethical business practices.

    But now the developers have equipped the robot with an artificial touch on politically sensitive issues. Anyone who asks questions about Jews, for example, gets the answer:

    “Excuse me, but are you one of those conspiracy theorists? I would stay as far away from those as possible.”

    When the user persists, the robot says:

    “I’m sorry but I don’t want to talk about that subject. Tell me something about your hobbies!”

    Even those who try to steer the conversation towards sensitive topics such as Facebook and owner Mark Zuckerberg get the same nose-to-nose response from the new robot after the upgrade.

  2. Andersson on her own immigration policy: “Doesn’t recognize Sweden”

    Published August 14, 2022 at 7:43 p.m

    After 47 years of immigration from the third world, immigrant crime has become such a big problem that even the Social Democrats are trying to change course on the issue.
    – You don’t recognize yourself in our Sweden, says Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S) today.

    In her summer speech on Sunday, Magdalena Andersson states that the government wants to see a “national offensive” against gang crime, which she describes as a problem that arose as a result of immigration and integration policies.

    She is not happy with how her own party has transformed the country, citing in particular the brutal violence and the number of spectacular gang-related murders.

    – When you read the numbers in black and white, you don’t recognize yourself in our Sweden.

    The prime minister then mentions the real causes of crime – something that just a few years ago was completely unthinkable for a straight-laced social democrat.

    – Too much migration and too weak integration, admits Andersson.

    The new rhetoric coincides with the Social Democrats’ electoral platform “Our Sweden can do better”, which will make the voters believe that the party now intends to make a change in policy. That this will only happen in 2022 is probably due to the fact that the party can no longer ignore the fact that today’s criminal chaos society is largely a social democratic creation.

    A series of minor toughening of penalties is now on the way, but these are mainly less intrusive measures or purely symbolic measures, while the government says no to all proposals that would mean that demands were placed on immigrants out in the suburbs, where S has many voters.

    The Prime Minister has previously announced that mandatory detention will be introduced for all crimes with a minimum penalty of 1.5 years in prison, instead of 2 years as today. Robbery or serious assault must therefore always lead to detention.

    The Social Democrats also want to double the punishment for serious weapons crimes and make it “illegal” to involve children in crime. On the other hand, the party flatly says no to the SD proposal to impose strict liability on parents for their children’s crimes, as the Social Democrats believe that the proposal would hit “vulnerable” criminal immigrant families too hard.

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