Ukrainian beaches on the Black Sea coast in the Odessa area have been cordoned off and marked with warning signs since the war with Russia began, due to the threat of mines and other explosive objects in the water. Several bathers ignored the barriers and signs and went swimming near Odessa. An unknown objected exploded, killing three of them and wounding two others.
In other news, the Department of Justice has acknowledged that FBI agents confiscated Donald Trump’s passports when they raided his home in Florida.
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Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Will Raise Taxes on the Middle Class: CBO
President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which passed Congress on Friday, will significantly raise taxes on American middle and lower classes.
The New York Post reports that an early analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that Americans earning less than $400,000 will pay roughly $20 billion more than they currently are across the next decade.
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Inflation in Slovakia Accelerated to 13.6 Percent
The year-over-year inflation rate in Slovakia rose to 13.6 percent in July, accelerating from 13.2 percent in June, the Slovak Statistical Office reported, as consumer prices in the country grew at the fastest rate in more than 22 years.
Inflation in Slovakia was mainly influenced by the higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, on which Slovaks spend the most money along with housing and energy costs.
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“He’s Not Running Again”: Top Democrat Lawmaker Predicts One Term for Biden
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, told the NY Times Editorial Board in a weekend interview that President Joe Biden won’t run for office a second time.
“Off the record, he’s not running again,” Maloney said, when asked — to which the Times responded, “Not off the record. On the record.”
“On the record?” She replied. “No, he should not run again.”
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5 Arrested: Multiple People Stabbed After Argument Over Open Car Door at Massachusetts Beach
WINCHESTER, Mass. (WWLP) — A large fight over an open car door resulted in several people stabbed and five people arrested Sunday night at a beach in Winchester.
According to Massachusetts State Police, around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday troopers were called to the DCR parking lot for Shannon Beach in Winchester. A fight began after an argument of an open door to a pickup truck while the vehicle was parked. Several men began throwing punches until one suspect, 29-year-old Juan Hernandez of Chelsea, grabbed a knife from his car and began stabbing people involved in the argument.
Several people ran into the woods after the fight but troopers later found them. One person was taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries. Hernandez was arrested and arraigned on the following charges:…
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A$AP Rocky Charged With Assault With Semiautomatic Firearm Following 2021 Hollywood Shooting
A$AP Rocky has been charged with assault with a firearm for allegedly firing a semi-automatic handgun against a former friend in Hollywood, California in November 2021.
In a news release posted online Monday, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced the 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm with allegations of personally using a firearm.
“Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with tragic consequences not only for the person targeted but also for innocent bystanders visiting Hollywood,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. “My office conducted a thorough review of the evidence in this case and determined that the addition of a special firearm allegation was warranted.”
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Bing is Censoring Search Results for Alex Berenson’s “Unreported Truths” Substack
Bing, a search engine owned by Microsoft, is censoring search results for journalist and author Alex Berenson’s “Unreported Truths” website and newsletter that he hosts on the free speech publishing platform Substack.
Reclaim The Net tested multiple Bing queries with the search operator “site:alexberenson.substack.com.”
“site:alexberenson.substack.com” is a search operator that is supposed to return search results from Berenson’s Unreported Truths Substack which lives on a subdomain. If a website returns no results when the “site:” operator is used, it means that the domain isn’t indexed at all by Bing’s search engine.
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BLM-Aligned Coalition Demands Release of Convicted Cop Killers
A coalition of left-wing racial justice groups that includes the Black Lives Matter national organization has launched an initiative calling for the abolition of the U.S. prison system and the release of all prisoners, including multiple convicted cop killers.
The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 50 groups, including the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, issued a blog post Thursday commemorating Black August, a controversial prison-based holiday founded in the 1960s by the Black Guerrilla Family.
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Brother of Marine Killed in Botched Afghan Pullout Commits Suicide at 1-Year Memorial Service
Monday August 15 marks the one year anniversary since the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan — which kicked off weeks of a botched US scramble to evacuate the remaining military, State Department, and US civilians from the Afghan capital. Tens of thousands of translators and other Afghans arrived at the airport in waves, desperate to get out amid the Taliban onslaught.
As the US-propped up president Ashraf Ghani was among the first officials to flee the country, reportedly with some $169 million raided from state coffers, local Afghan troops also melted away, allowing the Taliban to march into Kabul with ease. From there a chain of events saw what was then known as Hamid Karzai International Airport descend into chaos as a poorly prepared US and international coalition security perimeter struggled to prevent the flood of people desperate to escape the war-torn country from overwhelming the runways.
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California Man Arrested for Second Time Within 30 Days Over Rape Allegations: Police
A California man who was arrested in July for alleged possession of child pornography but who bailed out and was released has been arrested again — this time for allegations of rape, police say.
The Covina Police Department announced that Ramon Elias-Zavala was arrested on Aug. 9 over rape allegations and remains in custody.
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CDC Hides Removal of COVID Vaccine Claim: MRNA, Spike Protein ‘Do Not Last Long in the Body’
The CDC removed language from a page explaining how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines work without telling the public the page had been updated, much less what had been changed, according to Just the News’ review of archived pages.
One of three headings under the “facts” section was completely removed between July 22 and July 23. It said:
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Chicago Weekend Violence: 8 Murdered, 44 Shot, Including 5 Teenagers Shot in a Single Incident
Between Friday and Sunday in Chicago, eight people were killed out of 44 total victims shot in 35 separate incidents, according to the Chicago Police Department.
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CIA Spying on Assange “Illegally” Swept Up US Lawyers, Journalists: Lawsuit
CIA surveillance of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange while he was sheltering in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London included recording his conversations with American lawyers, journalists and doctors, and copying private data from visitors’ phones and other devices, violating constitutional protections, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
The suit — filed on behalf of four Americans who visited Assange — seeks damages personally from then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo for violating the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. The suit also seeks damages against a Spanish security firm contracted to protect the embassy, and its CEO, alleging that they abused their position to illegally spy on visitors and passed on the surveillance data they collected to the CIA, which is also named a defendant in the suit.
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DOJ Admits Taking Trump’s Passports, Offers to Return Them
In an acknowledgment the FBI over-collected evidence during the Mar-a-Lago raid, the Justice Department informed Donald Trump’s team Monday that agents seized the former president’s passports and are obligated to return them, Just the News has learned.
The department was making plans Monday evening to return the passports and has also alerted defense lawyers the FBI may have obtained materials covered by various privileges that will be returned in the next two weeks, two sources told Just the News.
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The distraught mother of the alleged Iranian sympathizer accused of trying to murder Salman Rushdie revealed how her outgoing, American-raised son took a month-long trip to the Middle East — and came back a religious zealot.
Silvana Fardos revealed in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com that she expected her son Hadi Matar to come back from the 2018 trip ‘motivated,’ but instead, her once outgoing and popular son returned a ‘moody introvert’ and would locked himself in the basement, refusing to speak to his family for months.
As FBI agents raided her Fairview, New Jersey home on Friday afternoon, it was the first she was learning of the frenzied stabbing of acclaimed author Rushdie.
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GOP Rep. Jordan Says 14 FBI Whistleblowers Have Come Forward Since Trump Raid
Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on Sunday told Fox News that 14 whistleblowers from within the FBI have come forward with concerns about the Department of Justice’s alleged political bias following the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week.
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Los Angeles Gascon Recall Effort Fails to Make Ballot, DA’s Opponents Say Fight Not Over
A petition to recall Los Angeles County’s District Attorney George Gascón failed to qualify for a ballot, but opponents of the progressive prosecutor say their work is not over.
Kathy Cady, a former Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney and co-chair of the Recall DA George Gascón Campaign, told Fox News the group plans to “exercise its full statutory and legal authority to review the rejected signatures and verification process that took place, and will ultimately seek to ensure no voter was disenfranchised.”
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An agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union and the school district states that White teachers will be laid off before teachers of color, regardless of their seniority.
The agreement, which was reached to end a two-week teacher strike last spring, says that starting this school year, “if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the district shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population.”
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Potato Shortage Emerges in Idaho as Prices Surge at Supermarkets
The next food insecurity problem that may impact the way Americans eat could be an emerging potato shortage that began last year when yields were depressed due to a heatwave, according to Boise State Public Radio.
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Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley was blocked from a Twitter account run by the University of Oregon for saying “all men are created equal.” He has filed a First Amendment lawsuit to get his account unblocked.
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Quadruple-Vaccinated Pfizer CEO Catchers COVID, Shills Paxlovid
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla unironically tweeted that, despite catching COVID, he was grateful for getting jabbed four times and still requiring another one of his products to treat the infection.
“I would like to let you know that I have tested positive for COVID-19,” he tweeted. “I am thankful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. I am isolating and have started a course of Paxlovid.”
Following his statement, the ridicule via Twitter ratio came on quickly.
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Rand Paul Calls for Repeal of “Egregious” Espionage Act
Senator Rand Paul called for doing away with the Espionage Act this past weekend, urging that it has been routinely abused since its inception over 100 years ago.
“The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,” Paul tweeted.
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Rumble Sets New Record, 76% Year-on-Year Growth in Active Users
Neutral video sharing platform Rumble reported record monthly active users and a record for uploaded content in Q2 2022 along with a strong user engagement growth trajectory.
Monthly active users increased by 76% year-on-year to an average of 44 million monthly active users while content uploaded increased by 283% year-on-year to 8,948 video hours per day.
User engagement increased by 62% year-on-year with Rumble users watching an average of 8.1 billion minutes per month.
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The Truth About the Attack on Salman Rushdie
Biden defending Salman Rushdie’s right to “free expression” on the same day it was revealed his administration schemed with Big Tech to censor and ban journalist Alex Berenson is quite something.
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Thousands of MPS Students Return to Class With Face Masks
MILWAUKEE — Thousands of Milwaukee Public Schools students on Monday made their way back to the classroom for their first day of school.
Forty-two MPS schools follow an early start calendar, including all high schools, middle schools, K-through-12 schools and seven elementary schools.
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Twitter Locks Account of User Who Posted Former Epstein Lawyer Meme
Twitter locked out the user @WhatIMemeToSay for sharing a meme featuring Judge Bruce Reinhart and Ghislaine Maxwell. The meme was flagged for violating Twitter’s policy on sharing “synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm.”
Judge Bruce Reinhart, the judge who signed the warrant on the President Trump Mar-A-Lago raid, had previously switched from his job as a federal prosecutor to working as a defense attorney on behalf of individuals connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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UCLA Launches Database to Track ‘Attacks on CRT’
The University of California Los Angeles has created a database to monitor schools’ anti-critical race theory activity, according to a press release.
University of California Los Angeles School of Law faculty have created the “CRT Forward Tracking Project” as a part of UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies Program which is dedicated to keep “critical race theory in legal scholarship,” according to a UCLA press release. The database compiles information on institutions, bills and programs that promote “anti-critical race theory.”
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Video: ABC Host Tells WH Press Secretary Biden Admin is Acting “Orwellian”
In a rare moment, ABC host Jonathan Karl told White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that the Biden Administration is using “Orwellian” language by referring to the “Inflation Reduction Act”.
Karl asked Jean-Pierre “Isn’t it almost Orwellian? How can you call it the Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it’s not gonna bring inflation down?”
Jean-Pierre responded by telling Karl “I appreciate the question.”
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Video: MSNBC Suggests Trump is “Trafficking” Nuclear Secrets to Putin and Saudis
Following the FBI raid on President Trump’s estate last week, and the suggestion that Trump could be indicted under the Espionage Act, an MSNBC panel claimed that Trump could be “trafficking” nuclear secrets to Vladimir Putin or Saudi Arabia.
Host Tiffany Cross asked guest Andy Weber, a former Department of Defense official, “who on the world stage would have the most to gain from this information?”
“You think about Donald Trump’s relationships with the Saudis, his relationships with the Russians, and the fact that he really appears to have no allegiance to America,” Cross added.
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Watch Restaurant Owner Chase, Tackle Suspect Who Sucker Punched Old Man
A California restaurant owner chased after a suspect who sucker punched an old man before tackling him to the ground in dramatic video footage.
Video footage taken earlier this month shows an elderly man being punched in the face while sitting at a table outside Rafallo’s Pizza at the intersection of La Brea and Hollywood, according to CBS News. The suspect robbed the victim’s phone and wallet, but was chased by business owner Tim Ratcliff, who eventually tackled the suspect into the street, Fox LA reported.
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Canada’s Digital ID Plans “Uncomfortably Close” To Chinese Social Credit: Report
A constitutional rights group has blasted the federal government’s plan to create a Digital ID infrastructure as a threat to Charter rights and a step towards implementing a Communist China-style social credit system.
In the report titled Canada’s Road to Beijing, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) outlines how China’s mass surveillance system operates and in what ways a national Digital ID system is a step towards authoritarianism.
“What Canadians need today is not more unmitigated government access to private information but, instead, a renewed commitment to Charter rights and freedoms. We are on the road to Beijing, and Canadians should be apprehensive,” said JCCF President John Carpay in a news release on the report.
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Dalhousie U Med School Offers “White Fragility Clinic”
Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine is offering an online “white fragility clinic” for faculty and staff as part of its continuing professional development program.
The clinic, which is being hosted by Dr. Gaynor Watson Creed and Dr. Eli Manning, professes to teach future physicians about “the concept of whiteness and its role in racism.”
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Euthanasia Made Up 3.3% of All Deaths in Canada in 2021
According to a report from Health Canada, euthanasia, referred to by the government as “medical assistance in dying,” accounted for 3.3% of all deaths in the country last year.
The 3.3% figure represents the euthanization of 10,064 people in 2021. The average age of those euthanized was 76.3 years old, with a slightly larger proportion of men (52.3%) than women (47.7%) choosing to accept medical assistance in dying (MAID).
Notably, the number of people requesting and receiving MAID has been steadily rising year over year.
In 2018, 4,480 people received MAID. In 2019, 5,661 received MAID. In 2020, 7,630 people received MAID. And in 2021, 10,064 people received MAID.
Since MAID was made legal in 2016, 31,664 Canadians have been euthanized.
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Fight the Fines Victory: $7,000 in Quarantine Tickets Withdrawn for Sask Family
The Cormacks tried to do everything right when they returned to Canada from the Philippines, where they do business. Kevin and his wife Erlinda had to make their way back to Saskatchewan, where they grow specialty grains for export to Erlinda’s native Philippines, to deal with some equipment issues. The travel restrictions early in the pandemic had already kiboshed their travel plans several times and cost them thousands of dollars.
The Cormacks were extra careful, not wanting any problems when they landed in Canada. They self-isolated for two weeks before their flights to Vancouver. They tested for COVID. They had a detailed plan to further quarantine in the middle of nowhere, Saskatchewan. But when they got to Canada, all the steps the family took to prove they were safe, healthy and not a risk weren’t enough when they were met with a prickly border guard. The family was slapped with nearly $7,000 in fines.
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Greenpeace is Calling on the Liberals to Cut Fertilizer Emissions Even Further
The Trudeau Liberal government recently announced plans to force a major reduction of greenhouse gas emissions associated with fertilizer use in Canada, in a similar manner to the policies that sparked nationwide protests from farmers in the Netherlands. The Hill Times reports that according to the environmental group Greenpeace, that isn’t enough.
On a recent Rebel News DAILY Livestream, Sheila Gunn Reid and Adam Soos discussed Greenpeace calling on the federal government to cut fertilizer emissions even further.
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Public Inquiry Into Use of Emergencies Act During Convoy Protests to Start Sept. 19
The public inquiry that will analyze the federal government’s rationale for using emergency measures to quell last winter’s Freedom Convoy protests will kick off on Sept. 19 — the same day MPs return for the fall sitting of the House of Commons — the commission created to hold the hearings has announced.
A “wide variety” of witnesses is expected to testify up to Oct. 28, the Public Order Emergency Commission said in a news release Monday.
Protest participants, police representatives, officials from federal, provincial and municipal governments, and businesses and people affected by the protests are all expected to testify about the events that led to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history.
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Study Shows Higher Rate of Re-Infection for Vaccinated Persons
A new study indicates that the rate of re-infection of COVID is higher for those who are considered fully vaccinated.
“Surprisingly, two or more doses of vaccine were associated with a slightly higher probability of re-infection compared with one dose or less,” researchers concluded.
In fact, they found the highest rate of re-infection was for 18 to 29-year-olds who’d received two or more vaccines.
However, researchers advised the variance between the groups to be interpreted “with caution” due to the limitations of the study.
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The Democracy Fund is Taking U of T to Court for Vaccine Booster Mandate
The Democracy Fund (TDF) is representing students who are taking the University of Toronto to court for recently announcing a new booster mandate that will be implemented for all students living in residence this fall.
On July 28, U of T announced the reinstatement of their Covid vaccine mandate requiring students to have both shots and at least one booster dose before moving into residence. The university is still going ahead with the mandate despite the lack of recommendations from public health officials.
“The right to bodily autonomy, medical privacy and equal treatment under the law are fundamental rights in our democracy,” said TDF Senior Litigator Mark Joseph.
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Viewers React: Outrageous Privacy Breach as BC Walmart Security Cam Displays View Up Woman’s Skirt
Have you ever visited a Walmart store and experienced a heinous breach of your privacy?
On the latest episode of Rebel Roundup, we shared some of your letters about the shocking incident that occurred to Linda Todd of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
Linda went to a Walmart store in nearby Maple Ridge and was shocked to discover that the store was using a security camera to film up her skirt and was displaying that image on a monitor for all to see. Even worse, Walmart doesn’t seem to care about this outrageous breach of her personal privacy.
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Cost of Germany’s New Gas Tax Revealed
Germany’s new gas tax will reportedly cost end-consumers up to €600 ($600) annually, Reuters reports, citing industry and government sources.
According to the report, the tax will be set between two and three euro cents per kilowatt hour, which, according to calculations, will represent between €400 and €600 in additional expenses for the average family of four per year.
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EU Promotes “Yellow Mealworm” As Food Substitute
The European Commission is facing backlash for a tweet promoting the consumption of yellow mealworm and other “novel foods.”
In the August 12 tweet, the Commission describes how three types of insects are already authorized for human consumption in the EU.
“Whether a snack or a food ingredient, did you know there are currently three insects authorised in the EU’ novel food’? ‘House cricket,’ ‘yellow mealworm,’ and ‘migratory locus’ are the three types of insects authorised as ‘novel food’ in the EU market,” the Commission wrote.
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Finnish Tank Tourists Accused of Treason
The price of petrol in Finland is becoming increasingly prohibitive for ordinary people, with many driving to neighboring Russia to fill up cheaper there. In their home country, they are labeled as “traitors”.
Fuel trips to Russia to fill up on cheaper petrol are gradually being equated with high treason in public opinion, reported the Finnish television station YLE .
With fuel becoming more expensive in the country, many solve the problem by driving to gas stations in neighboring Russia, often saving up to a few hundred euros.
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France: First Dog Infected With Monkeypox After “Sharing Bed” With Gay Couple
A dog has been infected with monkeypox for the first time ever after sharing a bed with a gay couple in Paris and subsequently being found suffering from an “anal ulceration.”
Well, this is awkward.
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France: Man Shouting “Allahu Akbar” Arrested for Beheading Own Father in Parking Lot
Police arrested a Moroccan suspect who allegedly decapitated his own father and carried the head around a park in France while shouting “Allahu akbar” over the weekend, according to reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded at around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning in Saint-Priest, a commune in the culturally-enriched metropolis of Lyon.
Witnesses notified authorities they had seen a man armed with a kitchen knife chasing another man down the street, Actu 17 reports.
Arriving officers discovered the body of a headless victim lying in a parking lot and searched the area for a suspect.
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Monkeypox: UK Running Low on Vaccines After Pride Parade
Britain is running low on monkeypox vaccine doses, with one city in particular seeing jab appointments dry up shortly after it hosted a Pride parade.
The United Kingdom is due to run out of monkeypox vaccination doses before being restocked in September, with the city of Brighton in particular reportedly suspending walk-in jabs shortly after the city’s Pride parade due to its supplies running chronically low.
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Nature Organizations Also Won’t Budge in Nitrogen Negotiations With Dutch Gov’t
Nature organizations also do not intend to give the Cabinet any leeway on Monday in their consultations on the nitrogen policy, led by mediator Johan Remkes. Earlier this month, the farmers demanded that the government significantly lower its ambitions to cut nitrogen emissions. The nature organizations will demand that no adjustments be made, NOS reports.
[Comment: Food is a necessity; tree hugging is a luxury.]
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Netherlands: Community Service for Rioters at Zwolle Farmers’ Protest
The police judge in Zwolle on Friday imposed a community service order of 120 hours and a month’s suspended prison sentence for their involvement in riots at an Albert Heijn distribution center in Zwolle.
On July 4, protesting farmers blocked the distribution center. The protest ended in a confrontation with the riot police. A fourth man, the only farmer among the five suspects, was acquitted for lack of evidence, as demanded by the prosecutor.
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Netherlands: Another ATM Explosion Rocks Amsterdam Overnight; Sixth This Month
Robbers attempting to steal money from a cash machine reportedly triggered several explosions at around 5 a.m. on Sunday in Amsterdam’s Osdorp neighborhood. As a result, 20 homes had to be evacuated, AT5 reports. Additionally, a similar incident took place in Schiedam, Zuid-Holland at about the same time.
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Netherlands: Video: American Truck Dealership Torched in Brabant; Extinction Rebellion Denounces Act
A fire broke out early Monday morning at the Millbrooks car company in Nuland, Noord-Brabant. The symbol of the environmental group Extinction Rebellion was painted on one of the vehicles, Omroep Brabant reports. Millbrooks specializes in large American pick-up trucks.
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Sales of ‘The Satanic Verses’ Have Skyrocketed Since the Attack on Salman Rushdie
Sales of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book The Satanic Verses have skyrocketed since the India-born-British novelist was stabbed on stage in New York on Friday.
The 75-year-old wrote the surrealist book in 1988 but was immediately hit with criticism as some Muslim nations, most notably Iran, deemed the book to be blasphemous against their religion. As a result, a ‘fatwa’ calling for Rushdie’s death was placed and the author has been facing death threats ever since.
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Trial Begins for Chechen Attackers Who Brutally Beat Belgian Teen for Dating Chechen Girl
In what prosecutors are describing as a hate crime, on Oct. 11, 2021, in the Belgian city of Namur, a 15-year-old Belgian named Ethan was beaten to within an inch of his life by three young adults and two minors. The perpetrators, who were of Chechen origin, filmed the attack in which they beat the teen for nearly an hour, hitting him approximately 50 times until his face was “deformed.” Now, a court trial is underway to hold the perpetrators accountable for the attack, with prosecutors seeking between seven and 10 years in prison for those responsible.
The reason behind the assault had to do with Ethan’s relationship with a Chechen girl, with the group issuing warnings to Ethan weeks before the attack.
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UK: So Much for Privilege: White Working Class Boys to Fall Even Further Behind in Education
The post-lockdown British education system will likely see white working-class boys falling even further behind compared to children from other backgrounds, one expert has said.
In the wake of two years of on-and-off Wuhan virus lockdowns, white working-class boys are likely to be the biggest losers when it comes to education, with one expert predicting that this year’s state exam results will show the demographic falling even further behind when it comes to university admissions.
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Iranian Regime Blames Rushdie and Supporters for NYC Attack
The Iranian regime officially reacted to the attack on renowned author Salman Rushdie on Monday, denying any link to the incident and blaming the writer and his supporters instead.
Rushdie was the target of a 1989 fatwa — a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader — by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following the release of his book The Satanic Verses. The fatwa forced the author into hiding for nearly 10 years.
On Friday, a man rushed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York and stabbed Rushdie 15 times as he was delivering a talk.
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Explosive Item Kills Three Swimmers Off Ukrainian Black Sea Beach
KYIV, Aug 15 (Reuters) — Three civilians have been killed and two wounded by an explosive device while swimming in the Black Sea in the Ukrainian southern region of Odesa, local police said on Monday.
It said the accident happened on Sunday when several people working on a construction site ignored barriers and warning signs on the beach and went swimming in the sea in the Belhorod-Dnistrovskyi district.
“In the water, as a result of an explosion of an unknown object, three men aged 25, 32 and 53 years old … were killed,” the police said in a written statement…
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Russia Says it May Sever US Relations if Declared Terrorism Sponsor
A Russian diplomat warned that if his country is declared a state sponsor of terrorism, it could not only harm US-Russo relations but potentially sever them completely.
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Russia Claims to Have Killed and Wounded Dozens of Western ‘Mercenaries’ In Kharkiv Strike
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least three Ukrainian civilians have been killed and nearly 20 others wounded in the latest artillery barrages from the Russian military, Ukrainian officials said Monday.
The eastern region of Donetsk, one of the two provinces making up the country’s industrial heartland of Donbas that has been the focus of a Russian offensive, has faced the most intense shelling.
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Ukraine War: Russia Detains 50 Ukrainian ‘Nationalists’ In Effort to Crush Underground Resistance
Russia’s National Guard says it has detained 50 suspected Ukrainian nationalists in the occupied south in a clear attempt to showcase to the Kremlin their efforts to stamp out underground resistance.
The National Guard, which typically dealt with protest rallies at home before the war, said in a statement on Monday that the unidentified 50 people were detained in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and some of them had weapons caches with two dozen grenade launchers, 12 portable surface-to-surface missile systems, rifles and ammunition.
Authorities did not say if the arrested people were facing any charges but merely said they were “suspected members of Ukrainian nationalist groups”.
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One Prem Singh was stabbed by Allah ho Akbar shouters.
B Upendran | HENB | Shivamogga | Aug 15, 2022:: Communally-sensitive Shivamogga city in Karnataka is tense again after a group of youths removed the portrait of VD Savarkar kept at Amir Ahmed Circle on the occasion of the Independence Day celebration. The incident forced the authorities to impose Section 144 of CrPC for three days.
Few hours after PM Modi referred Veer Savarkar as a Hero of Freedom Movement in his Independence speech from the ramparts of Red Fort, a section of Muslim youths showed their annoyance over the portrait of Savarkar in Shivamogga.
Two days back, there was a verbal duel over keeping of Savarkar’s portrait among the portraits of several freedom fighters at a shopping mall in the city. The row resurfaced after a group noticed Savarkar’s portrait kept at the junction. This time it took a violent turn.
One group objected to the portrait and tried to place the portrait of Tipu Sultan. This led to verbal duel between two groups associated with two communities. Later, the group removed Savarkar’s portrait after the police reportedly stopped them from keeping Tipu’s portrait. The police resorted to lathi charge to disperse the groups.
The police forces are deployed at the circle. The taluk administration has imposed Section 144 of CrPC for three days to maintain peace. SP BM Laxmi Prasad and other senior officers are monitoring the situation.
Shivamogga SP BM Laxmi Prasad told TOI that the prohibitory orders will be in place till the situation returns to normalcy. He said one youth Prem Singh, who hails from Rajasthan, has been stabbed. He is shifted to the McGann Hospital and undergoing treatment, he stated.
From sources, it is divulged that the Tipu Sultan supporters were wielded with iron rods and sticks etc. It is also reported the protesters against Savarkar portrait were shouting ‘Allah ho Akbar’ and other Islamic slogans. Shivamogga 144 pic 2
Following tension in Shivamogga, prohibitory orders were also clamped in Bhadravathi, the industrial town, which is located 20 kms from Shivamogga as some groups took out a protest rally there.
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Elon Musk Pens Essay Praising Chinese Government for CCP’s Internet Censorship Office
In July, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk penned an op-ed for China Cyberspace, the magazine owned and published by the country’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China. In it, he outlined his vision for the future of technology both on Earth and in space.
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TikTok Owner is Questioned on Large Number of Employees Who Once Worked for Chinese State Media
A new report by Forbes claims that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has employed 300 workers who have previously worked for China’s state-run media organizations, and 15 of them 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 US government has designated these media organizations as “foreign government functionaries.”
A spokesperson for ByteDance insisted that its hiring decisions are “purely on an individual’s professional capability to do the job.”
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Australian Airport Shooter Named as Ali Rachid Ammoun
A man arrested for allegedly opening fire with a handgun inside the Australian capital of Canberra’s main airport has been named as Ali Rachid Ammoun.
Ammoun is described as a 63-year-old “Australian man” from the state of New South Wales by the Associated Press, with no information on any religious affiliation or migration background provided.
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‘Where is the Media?’: Persecution of Christians, June 2022
The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of June 2022:
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Nigeria: On Pentecost Sunday, June 5, terrorists stormed the St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo and massacred about 50 Christians who were peacefully worshipping their God. Videos, according to one report, “showed church worshippers lying in pools of blood while people around them wailed.” Western media presented the attack as a baffling aberration for Nigeria, arguing, as the AP did, that “It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack on the church.” Not once did the AP even mention the words “Muslim,” “Islam,” or “Islamist,” in their determined attempt to ignore the fact that Islamic terrorists have routinely stormed churches and slaughtered many Christians over the years in Nigeria — for instance here, here, and here.
On Sunday, June 19, exactly two weeks after the St. Francis Church attack, motorcycle-riding Muslims raided two other churches in Nigeria: the Maranatha Baptist Church and the St. Moses Catholic Church. According to one report,
“[T]hree worshippers were killed while several others were abducted when the attackers in large numbers swooped on the worship places… [T]he terrorists shot indiscriminately as they approached the various churches, killing three while several others sustained injuries.”
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A luxury hotel in the center of Manhattan is set to become a hub for housing asylum-seeking migrants who have been bussed in from Texas.
The Row, which is based near tourist-packed Times Square, will become a shelter for as many as 600 migrant families in news that first reported by the New York Post.
Sources claim that they are going to place families and single people who have traveled from Texas after Gov George Abbott unveiled his plan to start transporting people from his southern state.
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‘Ireland is Full’ — Govt Decision to Spend €1 Billion on Migrants Branded ‘Outrageous’
The Irish government’s decision to spend around €1 billion on migrants in 2022 is “outrageous”, a populist leader within the country has said.
The Irish government’s decision to spend around €1 billion (~£844 million/$1.02 billion) on migrants ostensibly from Ukraine has been slammed as “outrageous” and “wrong-headed” by a populist leader, who described the small island nation as no longer having anywhere to house new arrivals.
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Netherlands: Asylum Seekers Clash in Ter Apel; “a Nasty Situation, “ State Secretary Says
Disturbances broke out at the gates of the asylum application center in Ter Apel late on Sunday afternoon. The police responded to the scene and detained one person but ultimately decided not to arrest him, a police spokeswoman said. State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum) spoke of “a nasty situation.”
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The Royal Navy will no longer take charge of the Channel migrant crisis, it was reported last night.
The Ministry of Defence has told ministers that Navy ships will return operational control of rescuing migrants and bringing them ashore to Border Force on January 31.
However, a source said: ‘The Navy would need to continue to be involved. We need to show illegal immigration is being taken seriously. What message would an ending of their involvement send to traffickers?’
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50,000 March in Protest Against Pride Parade in Belgrade, Serbia
ROME — Some fifty thousand protesters took to the streets of the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Sunday, calling for the cancellation of an upcoming EuroPride event scheduled for September 12-18.
Chanting slogans such as “Hands off our children!” and “Stop the parade of shame!” Belgrade residents rallied in support of traditional family values and against LGBT indoctrination, media reported.
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Facebook Reverses Censorship of Post Saying Men Can’t Give Birth
Facebook has overturned its decision to censor an Australian pro-women think tank for sharing a post that said men cannot get pregnant. The decision’s reversal came after Australian media covered the story.
Women’s Forum Australia was censored after sharing a screenshot of a tweet by Sall Grover that stated, “Exactly zero men have ever given birth in any year, in any country.” Grover, founder of women-only app Giggle posted the tweet in response to an article that stated that “each year in Australia, several men give birth to children.”
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Just 29 of 142 NHS Hospitals Refer to Pregnancy as Exclusively Biological Female Issue
A Freedom of Information Act request has revealed that just 29 of the 124 NHS hospitals in England with maternity units still exclusively use the words “woman” or “mother” to refer to pregnancy, while all the others include terms such as “birthing people” or “pregnant people.”
The FOIA request, filed by the Daily Mail, also found that 15 out of that remaining 29 are considering changing their language to pander to woke transgender lobbyists.
That would leave just 14 maternity units in the entire country that still refer to pregnancy by solely referring to biological women.
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After a biological male in his 30’s who identifies as a transgender woman was allowed to compete in a Gaelic soccer final against 16-year-old girls, women who complained about it had their accounts banned by Twitter.
The transgender in question, Giulia Valentino, is a balding man who moved to Dublin from Italy and has previously advocated for women’s sport to allow transgenders to compete as well as complaining about not being able to use female changing rooms.
As the image above shows, Valentino clearly has an unfair physical advantage over the female players yet was allowed to compete anyway for Na Gaeil Aeracha, which describes itself as Ireland’s “first explicitly LGBTQ+ inclusive” football club.
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“Twitter Bans Women Who Complained About ‘Transgender’ Rugby Player Competing Against 16-Year-Old Girls”
I love rugby, because it’s one of the sports I am good at. I am big, so the opponent’s players either run away, or I catch them and then they will not run away – because I am usually the bigger guy. Saying that – one great problem with rugby I had was when we played against the young and small. I can easily hurt someone, if he’s half my weight. And that’s what I think about this – if this is true, the man in his thirties will be double or triple the strength and mass of those 16 year old girls, it’s like going to a “Fiat 500 destruction derby” with Toyota LandCruiser…
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/tavistock-london-sex-change-clinic-kids-shut-down-and-sued-1000-families
This story is popping up on many news aggregators at the moment. Hopefully with the right consequences. You can’t eat as much as you want to throw up over this.
I am surprised some very angry parent didn’t burn the place to the ground.
At what point is any society degenerate? Ripe for rape thirsty Islam?
When the people finally roll up their sleeves and say enough is enough and starts getting their hands dirty.