A series of explosions occurred at an ammunition depot in the Dzhankoi area of the Crimea, forcing the evacuation of 3,000 people. The Russian government blamed the blasts on “sabotage”.
In other news, in West London a man in his 80s was stabbed to death in broad daylight while driving a mobility scooter.
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Electricity Prices Reach Record High in Europe, Experts Warn it Could be the New Normal
Electricity prices in Europe have climbed to another record high, sparking fears that the continent’s ongoing energy crisis may only worsen. According to analysts, rising electricity prices are primarily the result of soaring natural gas prices.
The price of the key electricity futures contract in Germany increased by more than 3 percent to €475 per megawatt-hour (MWh) on Monday on the European Energy Exchange (EEX). Prices have roughly doubled in the past two months and are nearly six times higher than a year ago.
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How Do Canadians Feel About the Rising Cost of Living in 2022?
It’s obvious that consumer prices have been rising lately. Here is a chart from Statistics Canada showing the rise of inflation from July 2021 onwards.
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UK Food Inflation Hits New Peak — Study
UK food prices have spiked at the highest rate in fourteen years, London-based consulting company Kantar said in a study published on Tuesday.
“Grocery price inflation hit 11.6% over the past four weeks, the highest level since we first started tracking the data this way in 2008. As predicted, we’ve now hit a new peak in grocery price inflation, with products like butter, milk and poultry in particular seeing some of the biggest jumps,” Kantar analysts say.
According to the consulting firm, this means the average annual grocery bill will increase by £533 ($640), or £10.25 ($12.32) per week.
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2nd Suspect Connected to Miami-Dade Officer Shooting Dead: Sources
The scene unfolded at the Extended Stay America hotel in Miami Springs, where there was a large presence of law enforcement.
A second armed robbery suspect connected to a shooting that left his accomplice dead and a Miami-Dade detective critically injured was fatally shot by officers Tuesday in Miami Springs, sources said.
The suspect was with Jeremy Horton, who was fatally shot Monday night in Miami while fleeing police during an armed robbery. Horton was staying at the Extended Stay America hotel in Miami Springs, sources said.
Officers arrived at the hotel Tuesday morning on a search warrant for the second suspect of that robbery, sources said.
Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez said officers with a Special Response Team and the suspect, armed with an AK-47, got into a confrontation, during which shots were fired and the suspect died at the scene.
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‘Black Menaces’ Chapters Launch Across US to Make College Students Feel ‘Uncomfortable’
An organization of black students known for asking white classmates questions about identity politics is expanding across America.
The Black Menaces originated in Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where they amassed 725,000 followers on TikTok since launching their account in February, according to NBC.
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Incumbent Republican Rep. Liz Cheney has been defeated by Harriet Hageman in the GOP primary for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district.
Decision Desk HQ has projected Hageman as the victor in the widely-watched contest.
Cheney, who was one of the 10 House Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching then-President Donald Trump last year in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was ousted from her role as House Republican conference chair last year. She is one of the two Republican lawmakers sitting on the House select committee established to investigate the Jan. 6 episode.
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In a joint intelligence brief obtained by Project Veritas, it revealed that the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have begun to paint conservatives that have taken issue with the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago as “domestic violent extremists,” warning of future violence from the group.
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California Church That Was Fined Over $200k for Defying COVID-19 Restrictions Gets Fines Dropped
FIRST ON FOX — A California church that continued to hold services in defiance of county health orders that it close down during the COVID-19 pandemic has had its fines dropped after a nearly two-year battle.
“This is a significant victory for churches and pastors across this country,” Robert Tyler, president of Advocates for Faith & Freedom, said in a press release after the California Court of Appeal reversed an injunction against Calvary Chapel San Jose. “We are honored to represent pastors and churches who are willing to take the heat in defense of liberty because it benefits everyone.”
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College Faces 1A Lawsuit After Tearing Down Anti-Communist Posters
Three Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) students at Clovis Community College filed a First Amendment lawsuit on Aug. 11 against college president Lori Bennett after the group’s anti-communist flyers were removed from campus bulletin boards.
According to the lawsuit, the flyers were approved by college administrators in November 2021 and highlighted the death and destruction caused by communist regimes.
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Congressman: “Tyranny” Is Coming “Right Into Everyone’s Living Room Very Very Shortly”
GOP Pennsylvania Representative Scott Perry warned Sunday that everyday Americans should now plan for “tyranny” to enter their homes in the form of federal agents if they refuse to play nice with the authorities.
Perry, the House Freedom Caucus chair, revealed how the FBI recently seized his phone, just hours after the feds raided President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago complex.
“A day after the raid on the president’s home FBI agents showed up when I was traveling with my family, my wife and our two small children, my in-laws, extended family,” Perry stated in an appearance on Fox News.
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First Lady Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID
First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House stated.
President Joe Biden recovered from COVID earlier this month.
The first lady’s communications director Elizabeth Alexander on Tuesday said that Jill Biden tested positive after developing “cold-like symptoms” Monday evening.
She tested negative twice on Monday but a PCR test came back positive, Alexander said.
The first lady, who is double vaccinated and twice boosted, plans on isolating for at least five days in a private home in South Carolina.
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Former Mayo Clinic Researcher Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Join ISIS Overseas
A former Mayo Clinic research coordinator pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to provide support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), more than two years after the FBI stopped him from attempting to travel to Syria to join the terror group.
Muhammad Masood, 30, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization during a 30-minute court hearing on Tuesday. Masood was a licensed medical doctor in Pakistan and worked for the Rochester-based Mayo Clinic under an H-1B Visa before his arrest.
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson will schedule a sentencing date at a later time, according to court records.
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Health Care Workers Fired Over Vaccine Mandate Awarded $10 Million in Settlement
Some plaintiffs will be eligible for $45,000 if they were fired as a result of the vaccine mandate
Illinois health care workers who were fired or otherwise impacted by their hospitals’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate will receive a $10 million settlement after filing a lawsuit challenging the rule.
“Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the group behind the lawsuit, told the Washington Examiner. “It is especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects healthcare workers.”
The case centers around workers at NorthShore University HealthSystem, who filed a lawsuit in October 2021 claiming their employer illegally refused to grant any religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The settlement approved in the Illinois Northern District Court will result in 473 employees of the system becoming eligible for compensation for being denied a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate, with any of those fired as a result of the rules being eligible for $25,000. The 13 plaintiffs involved in the suit will be eligible for an additional $20,000, while those who complied with the mandate to keep their jobs despite having religious objections will be eligible for $3,000.
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Los Angeles DA George Gascon Recall Effort Shined Light on His Radical Policies, Deputy DA Says
The effort to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon may have failed, but the movement brought attention to the prosecutor’s radical policies, a deputy DA told Fox News.
The petition to recall Gascon was about 46,000 verified signatures short of the nearly 567,000 needed, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorded/County Clerk Dean C. Logan announced Monday.
“I think us fighting has really got a lot of media involved, and a lot of people have seen the rogue and radical policies of George Gascon,” Jon Hatami, a Los Angeles deputy DA and a leader of the recall campaign, told Fox News. “I think he’s made some changes as a result of that.”
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Neocon Gone? Liz Cheney Battles for Seat in Wyoming Primary
If recent polls are any indication, neocon Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is about to lose her seat in today’s primaries, after going on a poorly-received crusade against former President Donald Trump.
In one recent poll, Cheney challenger Harriet Hageman — who disputed the legitimacy of the 2020 US election — was leading Cheney by nearly 30 points. Of note, 70% of Wyoming voters chose Trump in 2020 — the highest percentage of any state in the nation.
Cheney, 56, sparked conservative backlash against her by choosing to die on hill of election fraud and the January 6th committee, of which she’s the vice chair. Unsurprisingly, her warmongering father’s laughable campaign ad in which he said there’s ‘never been a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump’ didn’t do Liz any favors.
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NIH Failed to Ensure All Clinical Trials it Funded Complied With Federal Reporting Rule, Watchdog
The National Institutes of Health failed to insure that all clinical trials funded by the agency and required to be reported in 2019 and 2020 met federal requirements, according to an inspector general report released Tuesday.
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Podcast host Joe Rogan speculated Tuesday that the purpose of the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate last week was to “knock him out” of contention in 2024.
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast host spoke to Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon about a variety of political topics, including the possible motivations behind the FBI raid, during the latest episode of the show.
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Stacey Abrams Co-Chaired Organization That Paid Thousands to Police Abolition Activists
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams co-chaired an organization that gave away tens of thousands of dollars to “defund the police” activists.
According to Fox News, Abrams co-chaired the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund (BVBJ) starting in April of last year. She said the group put “black leaders in the driver’s seat with Black activists on the ground who understand how racism plays out in their community defining both the problem and the solutions.”
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Supreme Court Sets Date for UNC, Harvard Affirmative Action Cases
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday it would hear oral arguments for two high-profile affirmative action cases on October 31 that could challenge how universities use affirmative action in the admission process.
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a non-profit that supports litigation against affirmative action policies, will lead the arguments against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) on the premise that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian and White students
The full bench will hear Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina first at 10:00 am. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, however, will not rule in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College due to her affiliation with the Ivy League school.
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Youngkin Blasts Virginia Education Proposals Seeking to Strike George Washington as ‘Father’ of US
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin blasted the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) proposals seeking to strike President George Washington as the “Father of our Country” on statewide tests.
Washington and fellow Founding Father President James Madison were facing the epithetical chopping block according to two VDOE proposals.
The proposals would have struck Washington’s title of “Father of our Country” and Madison’s dub of “Father of the Constitution” from the state’s standard of learning exams.
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ArriveCAN: Border Cities Call for End of Trudeau’s Travel App
Since its inception, the Trudeau Liberals’ ArriveCAN app has garnered criticism from across the country, however, pushback has been strongest from areas along the 49th parallel.
On Monday, a coalition of border city Chambers of Commerce called on the federal government to nix the app and lift all remaining restrictions put in place to combat Covid.
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From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. Many Canadian farmers are protesting in solidarity with farmers in the Netherlands over government targets to reduce nitrogen emissions.
Ontario farmer, Lyle De Boer worries Canadian emission targets will escalate, but says Dutch mandates will force farmers in the Netherlands out of business …
PROTESTS … “They want to cap nitrogen emissions by a significant amount. And the result of that is reduction of livestock and reduction of fertilizers and things of that nature. Ultimately, what that means is small farmers going out of business and it means big farms producing less food.”
Saskatchewan farmer Norman Smith says the Dutch mandates are too severe …
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Democracy Fund Pressures U of T to Drop Booster Mandate
The University of Toronto is getting pushback from the Democracy Fund to drop its COVID booster mandate for staff and students living in residence.
“The Democracy Fund (TDF) legal team is representing a group of students and their parents who are opposed to the University’s recently announced booster mandate that will be implemented for all students living in residence this fall,” their website reads.
U of T announced the booster requirement in late July, giving many students who’ve already paid tuition and expect to live in residence an unwelcomed ultimatum.
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Freedom Fighter Kicked From West Lincoln Council and Forced to Return Gifts
Harold Jonker is an elected municipal council member in West Lincoln who is also one of the owners/operators of Jonker Trucking, a family business started by his father in 1993. He participated in the freedom convoy because, in the early times of the pandemic, he was getting concerned about certain employees being deemed “essential” while others were forced out of work.
Originally, the council voted not to investigate Jonker for his participation in the convoy, but that was disregarded by the anonymous complaint filed against him to the OIC. Finally, after the investigation, not only he was suspended from the Niagara-area council without pay for 30 days but they required him to pay back to the community all of the food and gifts received during his participation in the anti-mandate protest around Parliament Hill.
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Over 10,000 Drug Deaths in BC Since Public Health Emergency Declared
In 2016, British Columbia declared a public health emergency in response to an alarming rise in deaths from drug overdoses.
In the years since, very little has changed, and over 10,000 people have lost their lives to illicit substance use.
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Trailer: Trucker Rebellion: The Story of the Coutts Blockade (Out August 19)
You’ve heard of the Canadian ‘freedom truckers,’ who protested discriminatory vaccine mandates this past winter. But they didn’t all go to Ottawa.
Many truckers decided to take a stand at a small border crossing in Coutts, Alberta.
This is their story.
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Czechia Accepts First Group of Severely Wounded Ukrainian Soldiers
Czechia has received its first batch of wounded Ukrainian soldiers as the country works to alleviate the massively overburdened Ukrainian medical system. The first two patients will complete their injury treatment and rehabilitation at the Darkov spa in the Karvina region, with both expected to spend at least a month at the facility, according to the commercial director of the spa, Lenka Krótka, who announced the news on Monday.
According to her, the spa will eventually treat more wounded Ukrainian soldiers.
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France: Thief Rams Car Into Luxury Shop, Jumps Into Paris River to Escape Police
A suspect threw himself into the Seine River in an attempt to escape French police after smashing a car through a storefront and stealing designer goods this week, according to reports.
The wild incident unfolded just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
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France: Church Robbed in the Middle of a Baptism, Priest Threatened With Handgun
A French church was targeted for robbery during a baptism ceremony, with three armed assailants entering the place of worship and threatening a priest with a handgun.
The incident occurred at 1 p.m. on Saturday at a church at Carbon-Blanc which is on the right bank of Bordeaux. Three masked individuals forced up a door to the presbytery located at the back of the church, which is where the priests live. Once inside, the three men began to tear off the door of the safe.
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Germany Could Face Power Grid Collapse Due to Soaring Demand for Electric Heaters
Germany could be facing blackouts and the collapse of the power grid this winter after citizens began panic buying electric heaters over fears gas supplies could be cut off.
Having previously exhausted supplies of firewood and stoves, Germans are now turning to electric heaters as a back up option to prevent them freezing when the temperatures drop.
However, Peter Lautz, the boss of the Stadtwerke Wiesbaden Netz utility company, told public broadcaster ZDF that this would place massive strain on the country’s electricity grid.
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German Media Ignore the Growing AfD Elephant in the Room
The current reporting in the German mainstream press is surprisingly calm if one looks at the current poll numbers of the various parties. If any loss of percentage points is otherwise celebrated when it concerns the AfD, there is now total silence from mainstream parties.
The current election polls for the Bundestag election see a strengthening of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). In some cases, the young opposition force reaches the same numbers as two-and-a-half years ago.
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Germany: One Dead, Nine Injured After Self-Driving Car Veers Into Traffic
BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany said Tuesday that one person has died and nine were seriously injured after a self-driving test car veered into oncoming traffic, triggering a series of collisions involving four vehicles Monday afternoon.
A spokesman for police in the southwestern town of Reutlingen said the electric BMW iX with five people on board, including a young child, swerved out of its lane at a bend in the road and into incoming traffic, brushing an oncoming Citroen.
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More than half of Poles agreed the country should make an effort to ensure the payment of reparations for damages incurred by Germany during World War II, a new poll revealed.
In a survey conducted by pollster Estymator for portal dorzeczy.pl, 50.3 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, while 43.1 percent disagreed — 6.6 percent didn’t know whether they agreed or not.
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‘Hunger Stones’ Once Again Exposed
The situation in Europe continues to deteriorate. Due to the persistent drought, the water levels in numerous rivers and lakes are falling. Researchers have now rediscovered the “hunger stones” in some river beds. These warn of an impending emergency.
Centuries-old warning messages have reappeared in the dry river beds in Germany and neighbouring Czechia, several research teams reported. These rocks are known as “hunger stones”. When they lie exposed, they warn of a bad harvest, a lack of food or high prices.
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Netherlands: Over 100 Arrested, 700 Fined for Radical Farmers’ Protests
Over 100 people have been arrested in recent weeks for taking part in the radical farmers protests, police said on Monday evening. In addition, police have issued over 700 fines to participants in the nationwide demonstrations against the government’s plans to cut nitrogen-based pollution.
Arrests have been issued for dumping waste, blocking motorways and arson, but several people have also been charged with attempted murder, police said in their statement.
Some 186 fines have been issued for driving a slow vehicle on a motorway and 212 for stopping on a motorway.
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Netherlands: Another Bill Gates-Funded Picnic Supermarket Set Ablaze
A third fire has broken out in a Bill Gates-funded Picnic supermarket facility in the Netherlands as protests rage on.
According to De Telegraaf, one employee immediately noticed that the Rotterdam building was full of smoke when they arrived at work. Upon further investigation, they found that three of Picnic’s prized electric delivery cars were on fire. The sprinkler system quickly extinguished the fire, with firefighters arriving soon after.
No one was injured in the incident, and the area has been sectioned off while investigations are underway.
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The interior minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Herbert Reul (CDU), has warned of “new enemies of the state” related to possible winter protests over high energy prices.
“You can already tell from those who are out there,” said Reul. “The protesters no longer talk about coronavirus or vaccination. But they are now misusing people’s worries and fears in other fields. […] It’s almost something like new enemies of the state that are establishing themselves.”
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‘Only Poland Managed to Defeat the Soviets in a War, ‘ Says President Duda on Polish Army Day
Speaking on the 102nd anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw where the Polish Army managed to defeat the Red Army, President Andrzej Duda said that Poland was the only country ever to defeat the Soviet Russians in a war
Aug. 15 is a national holiday in Poland commemorating the victory of the Polish Army in a battle in the vicinity of Warsaw that enabled Poland to defeat and drive out the Red Army in 1920. Had the Soviets succeeded, the invasion would have given the communists the opportunity to militarily support potential revolutions in Germany and other Western European nations.
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UK: Khan’s London: Fatal Broad Daylight Knife Attack Follows Weekend of Stabbings and Shop Looting
A man was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Sadiq Khan’s London on Monday following a weekend of stabbings and shop lootings in the capital city.
London police arrested one man after another was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Sadiq Khan’s London on Monday.
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An elderly man, believed to be in his 80s, was seen riding about on his mobility scooter before he was fatally stabbed in broad daylight in Ealing, west London earlier today.
Met police were called just after 4pm today to Cayton Road, Greenford, to reports of a male with stab injuries.
The ambulance and air ambulance rushed to the incident where an elderly man was found, but despite the efforts of paramedics he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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UK: Twitter Finally Suspends Person Who Threatened JK Rowling ‘You’re Next’ Following Rushdie Attack
A person who threatened author JK Rowling with the words “you’re next” following the brutal stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie has finally been suspended from Twitter after the Harry Potter creator appealed to police for help.
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Explosions Rock Ammunition Depot in Crimea in Suspected Ukrainian Attack
Explosions and fires ripped through an ammunition depot in Russia-annexed Crimea on Tuesday in the second suspected Ukrainian attack on the peninsula in just over a week, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.
Russia blamed the blasts in the village of Mayskoye on an “act of sabotage,” without naming the perpetrators.
Separately, the Russian business newspaper Kommersant quoted residents as saying plumes of black smoke also rose over an air base in Crimea’s Gvardeyskoye…
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Nuclear War Between US and Russia Would Wipe Out 5 Billion People
A new study has found that nuclear war between the United States and Russia would cause two-thirds of the planet to starve to death within two years.
The dire prognosis was explained in modeling by Rutgers University, which found that 5 billion people would perish, primarily as a result of nuclear detonations causing huge infernos that inject soot into the atmosphere which blocks out the sun and devastates crops.
“Even a smaller nuclear skirmish — such as between India and Pakistan — would likely lead to 2.5 billion deaths within 24 months,” reports the Telegraph.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Will Soon Have His Own Action Figure
Now you can get an action figure of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
FCTRY, a product design company based in Brooklyn, New York, will be making the action figures.
It launched a Kickstarter campaign two weeks ago to fund production, according to Reuters.
Within just three hours, the campaign hit its $30,000 funding goal, Reuters reported.
As of Friday morning, it has raised $139,931 with 3,646 backers. The campaign ends Friday night.
For every Zelenskyy action figure sold, FCTRY will give $1 in aid to Ukrainian refugees, according to a Facebook post.
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Ukraine War: Russia Blames Sabotage for New Crimea Blasts
A week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, an arms store at another military facility has been hit by a series of explosions.
Blaming “sabotage”, Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts in the Dzhankoi area, another fire hit a power station and a railway was damaged.
A string of blasts last week destroyed Russian warplanes at a Black Sea base on the Crimean coast.
Ukraine has not admitted that attack.
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WEF Uses Drones to Vaccinate Rural Populations
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is currently running trials using drones to deliver vaccines to rural populations in India.
“In India, there is an urgency for the public and private sectors to collaborate on drone applications to improve healthcare equity in rural areas,” an article from the WEF reads. “The World Economic Forum’s Medicine from the Sky initiative is accelerating the transformation from inefficient health supply chains to digital, resilient infrastructure that reduces wastage and improves health outcomes.”
According to the Forum, the organization has made over 300 vaccine delivery trials and now plans to expand the project’s scope. Besides getting more vaccines into the arms of Indians, the Forum also wants to start using drones to deliver more efficacious supplies, such as blood and snake anti-venom, which are commonly needed in rural areas.
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China Begins Discouraging Abortions and Promoting Fertility Treatment as Birth Rate Plummets
China will discourage abortions and take steps to make fertility treatment more accessible as part of efforts to boost one of the world’s lowest birth rates, its National Health Authority said on Tuesday.
Support measures from taxation and insurance to education and housing would be improved and implemented, with local governments encouraged to boost infant care services and family friendly workplaces, according to guidelines published on the authority’s website.
The authority said it would carry out reproductive health promotion to enhance public awareness while “preventing unintended pregnancy and reducing abortions that are not medically necessary.”
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Megan Jayne Somerville: Sister of Mum Who Allegedly Stabbed Kids Speaks Out
The sister of a woman accused of pulling over on an Adelaide highway and stabbing her two children has spoken out for the first time.
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The sister of a woman accused of pulling over on an Adelaide highway and stabbing her two children has spoken out for the first time, telling social media her sister should have had her kids taken from her.
On Monday night, Megan Jayne Somerville, 35, allegedly pulled her silver Honda sedan over on the North-South Motorway, removed her two sons, aged 3 and 8, from the car and stabbed them.
Her sister, Jessica Somerville, on Tuesday took to social media, saying Megan had previously had contact with both SA Police and the Department for Child Protection.
“Despite repeated interactions with SAPOL and the Department of Child Protection, the system has failed to appropriately intervene,” Jessica said.
She said her nephews shouldn’t have been in her sister’s care and other alternatives should have been considered.
Jessica revealed her sister had been struggling with drug addiction and mental health issues over the last eight years.
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Tasmanian Tiger: Scientists Hope to Revive Marsupial From Extinction
Researchers in Australia and the US are embarking on a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction.
The last known one, officially called a thylacine, died in the 1930s.
The team behind the bid say it can be recreated using stem cells and gene-editing technology, and the first thylacine could be reintroduced to the wild in 10 years’ time.
Other experts are sceptical and suggest de-extinction is just science fiction.
The thylacine earned its nickname of Tasmanian tiger for the stripes along its back — but it was actually a marsupial, the type of Australian mammal that raises its young in a pouch.
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10 People on the Terror Watchlist Crossed Border in July
The US Customs and Border Protection agency released a report showing that Border Patrol agents apprehended ten people on a US terror watchlist in July.
The CBP enforcement statistics for the Fiscal Year 2022, which has seen more than 1.8 million total Border Patrol encounters with border crossers, revealed that 66 people have been apprehended so far that were on the Terrorist Screening Dataset used by the FBI, reports Fox News.
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In a recent interview, an anonymous whistleblower who works as a “travel youth care worker” for a federally funded contractor, shared that tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children are being bussed and flown throughout the US and being handed off to unvetted adult “sponsors.”
The employee, who works for the government contracted company, MVM Inc., said that the company’s main focus is getting unaccompanied minors from “Point A, shelters,” to “Point B, sponsors,” across the US.
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On Thursday evening, renowned fashion designer Vassilios Kostetsos was attacked by foreigners in the centre of Athens, believed to be Algerians or Pakistanis.
The well-known fashion designer, as he reported in a related post on social media, was with his friend in the Syntagma area, when a group of foreigners headed towards them and attacked them with the intention of robbing them.
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A migrant has been arrested after allegedly launching a frenzied and violent attack on two Border Force officers and a security guard shortly after reaching the UK on a small boat from France.
The 21-year-old bit the guard, punched and kicked a female officer and left her male colleague with severe damage to his shoulder during the latest violent assault on Friday afternoon, it is claimed. He is also accused of trying to attack a coach driver.
The migrant was among a group of 40 who had crossed the English Channel from France in a small boat, landing on a beach near Ramsgate.
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Social Justice: French Mayor Supports Giving Non-EU Foreigners the Vote
The mayor of the French city of Dijon has expressed support for a proposal to allow non-European Union foreigners to vote in local elections and stand for office, claiming the move would facilitate “social justice.”
Mayor of Dijon François Rebsamen said he supported a proposal from French MP Sacha Houlié, a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, which would allow migrants from outside of the European Union to vote and hold office in local elections.
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‘Florida is the Place Where Woke Goes to Die, ‘ DeSantis Says
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Pasco County Tuesday morning to discuss teacher recruitment efforts. While in New Port Richey, he spoke about Florida’s new curriculum and efforts to keep indoctrination and ideology out of the state’s schools, and pushed back on medical board efforts to include gender dysphoria care for minors.
During the news conference, DeSantis spoke about reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, not forcing students to be vaccinated, and the state’s viewpoint that pandemic lockdown efforts should be focused on science and data, not on political ideology and partisan strategies.
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Georgia Court Shuts Down Pro-Abortion Effort to Block Heartbeat Law
A Fulton County Superior Court judge in Georgia declined a request to block the state’s fetal heartbeat law that bans most abortions after six weeks.
In 2019, Georgia lawmakers passed House Bill 481, also known as the Living Infants Fairness Equality Act. The law’s passage was initially blocked by a federal judge due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which conferred protections for elective abortions at a federal level.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ruling earlier this year, prompting lawmakers to ask the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the court’s decision, and a federal appeals judge approved its passage, Just The News reported.
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Government Employee Offered Euthanasia to Veteran Struggling With PTSD
Sources at Veterans Affairs Canada said one employee casually offered euthanasia to a CAF veteran struggling with a brain injury and PTSD.
Speaking to Global News, several sources from VAC say that the offer to provide “medical assistance in dying” (MAID), which is just euthanasia, was entirely unprovoked.
The veteran never brought up MAID, and he and his family “were disgusted by the conversation and feel betrayed by the agency mandated to assist veterans,” reports Global News.
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Following the banning of an 80-year-old woman from her local YMCA for expressing discomfort in sharing the locker room with a biological male who identifies as a woman who had been escorting young girls in a day camp to the restroom where they undressed, YMCA worker Clementine Adams has seen an explosion in donations to a GoFundMe set up to cover Adams’ transition surgery expenses.
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Heritage institutions now exist to desecrate our heritage.
Cultural institutions now exist to re-colonize our culture.
Historical institutions now exist to humiliate our ancestors.
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Non-Binary ‘The Flash’ Star Ezra Miller Claims ‘Complex Mental Health Issues’
Ezra Miller, the “non-binary” star of the Warner Bros. superhero film, The Flash, has reportedly entered treatment for “complex mental health issues,” following his run-ins with the law.
Miller, 29, is accused of robbing a home in Vermont, where he allegedly stole bottles of liquor after breaking into a house, according to a police report last week, BBC reported.
Miller, who also stars in the Fantastic Beasts movie franchise, is also facing charges of assault in Hawaii and allegations of abuse from several women.
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North Dakota School District Recruits Florida Teachers Upset With Desantis’ Parental Rights Law
A letter circulating on social media shows members of the Fargo, North Dakota, public school system recruiting Florida teachers who object to a recently-passed parental rights bill in the state.
“You don’t know us, so we’ll start with this important statement: we are way OK with saying gay or straight, or LGBT,” the letter addressed to “Florida educators” from the Fargo School District and posted by North Dakota Republican State House Candidate Ethan Harsell begins.
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On Monday evening, members of the public gathered outside the Port Townsend, Washington City Hall to voice their concerns in regards to the city’s response in the case of an 80-year-old grandmother who was banned from the local YMCA pool for expressing her discomfort with having a transgender woman in the changing room as she and children were using the facilities, and were met with trans rights activist protestors who tried to disrupt the event before being ushered away by officers.
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Study Claims More Kids Are Fat and Unhealthy Because of Global Warming
A study published in the journal Temperature has claimed that there is a correlation between rising temperatures and children becoming fatter and more unhealthy.
The study claims that climate change is causing more children to stay inside, eat more, and be generally less active.
CBS Mornings covered the “findings” this past weekend, noting that almost a third of kids are less fit than they were a generation ago.
It also notes that fewer children are engaging in physical activity for 60 minutes a day.
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The U.K.’s Royal Air Force (RAF) has been accused of effectively halting the recruitment of White males, and subsequently appearing willing to compromise U.K. security in order to meet diversity quotas, defense sources have told Sky News.
The force’s head of recruitment has reportedly recently resigned in protest at the “impossible” diversity targets expected to be met, amid concerns that a pause to recruitment could impact the force’s effectiveness. Current RAF policy insists that a number of women and people from ethnic minorities are offered employment.
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UK: London Sex Change Clinic for Kids Shut Down and Sued by 1000 Families
Are you a child suffering from gender dysphoria and in need of puberty blocking chemicals?
Well, according to the Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic in London, most little kids need them. And, they operated with impunity from 1983 until this past month. The clinic has recently been shut down by the NHS as investigations mount and public outcry grows over allegations that Tavistock was haphazardly diagnosing children with gender identity disorder even when they were normal.
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Upcoming Courses Include Harry Styles, Tree Climbing, Hand Puppetry
From a former One Direction star to climbing trees, Campus Reform covers a wide variety of courses across the nation each semester.
Below are some classes students can take in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Texas State University: Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity
Texas State University (TSU) is offering a course on Harry Styles, the singer and former One Direction member, that will be taught in spring 2023.
In a recent tweet, Louie Dean Valencia, the professor teaching the course, posted a flyer for the course explaining the class will examine “[t]he cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, and consumerism.”
“This is what tenure looks like. Let’s gooooo!”, Valencia tweeted.
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US Air Force Base Hosts ‘Kid Friendly’ Drag Show
The United States Air Force hosted a “kid friendly” drag show at their Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE) on Saturday as part of their “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summer Festival.”
The drag show was hosted by Joshua Kelley, who performs under the name “Harpy Daniels — The Navy Drag Queen.” Children were encouraged to attend the festival, as the website advertised “bouncy houses and face painting for the children.”
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I read militaristic telegram channels.
Shells, shell fragments and Western-made weapons are displayed here and there.
To this is added a caustic signature that only part of the supplies reaches the front line, and everything else is returned back to Europe, but not to suppliers, but to crime, due to corruption in Ukraine.
For example, Sweden has left its eternal peacekeeping function and recklessly throws firewood into the fire of war. I think their investment will also pay off.
But surely those who started all this, this side effect was also calculated.
Black Menaces? So what else is new?