Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/8/2022

A large contingent of FBI agents raided the home of former President Donald Trump today in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. It is not clear what evidence the agents were seeking, or what potential charges are being pursued against Mr. Trump.

In other news, for the first time ever, the Chinese military launched missiles over the island of Taiwan.

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Thanks to Dean, DV, JAS, JW, LP, Reader from Chicago, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Poll: Americans Haven’t Been This Pessimistic About the Economy Since the Housing Crisis
 
USA
» 40% Increase in Deaths After COVID Vaccine — San Diego TV Reports
» After 12 Shot in Two Shootings, Police Arrest One Suspect, Searching for Another
» Biden’s Mask Mandate for Travelers Was Unauthorized, Argues the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) on Appeal
» CBS News Censors Its Own Documentary Exposing How 70% of US Funding of Ukraine is Wasted
» Chairman of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission ‘Pretty Convinced’ Pandemic’ Origin From ‘US Lab Biotechnology, ‘ Suggests Governments Aren’t Investigating Because Even More ‘Dangerous Research Underway Right Now’
» Chicago Police Release Video of Suspects in Fatal Shooting on Red Line Train
» Demand for Grocery Delivery Cools as Food Costs Rise
» DeSantis to Headline Turning Point Action’s ‘Unite and Win’ Rallies for Trump-Backed Candidates
» Ex-Court Mediator Charged With Sending Poop-Laced Letters to Ohio GOP Pols
» Fatal Shooting in George Floyd Square Marks 55 Homicides in Minneapolis in 2022
» FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home
» Feds Drug Tested Elon Musk After Joe Rogan Episode Featuring Marijuana Toke
» Georgia Couple Charged With Using Their Adopted Children to Make Child Porn
» GOP Slams ‘Weaponization’ of DOJ After Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Raided by FBI; Dems Call it ‘Accountability’
» House Dems Say Gun Company Ads Emphasize Masculinity, Make Veiled References to ‘White Supremacist’ Groups
» Joe Kent Pulls Ahead of Jaime Herrera Beutler in the Race for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District
» Liz Cheney’s Chances of Beating Hageman With 10 Days to Primary: Polls
» Locals Launches Live Tipping Feature
» Man Charged in Stevenson Expressway Shooting Pointed Laser-Sighted Automatic Pistol at Off-Duty Cop: Prosecutors
» Member of GOP Leadership Says IRS Could ‘Bully the Middle Class, ‘ Target Conservatives, if Manchin Bill Passes
» MTA Stops Tracking NYC Mask-Wearing as Kathy Hochul’s Mandate Remains
» Nearly 950 Flights Cancelled, 7,700 Delayed Sunday as Travel Turmoil Continues
» New Orleans Woman Charged With Stabbing Two Toddlers, Leaving One Dead
» ‘Orwellian’: School District Encourages Entire Town to Report Violations of ‘Anti-Racism’ Policy
» Rep. Liz Cheney ‘Would Find it Very Difficult’ To Back Ron DeSantis
» San Bernardino County Board Approves Measure of Possible Secession on November Ballot
» San Diego State University Will Implement a Mask Mandate Starting August 15
» What Happened to the State of Jefferson?
 
Canada
» A Rematch is Coming in the Battle Between Trudeau and the Truckers
» Masks Will Not be Mandatory in Ontario Schools Next Semester
 
Europe and the EU
» Choose Your Path: As Germany Trips Over Itself to Close Nuclear Plants, France Bends Rules to Keep Theirs Open
» Doctors Press Government to ‘Vaccinate Faster’ As Monkeypox Spreads Across UK
» Hampshire UK Police End Re-Education Classes as a Punishment for Tweets
» Norwegian Cruises Ends COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
» Paris Climate Agreement Causing Global Protests
» Poland: Von Der Leyen Broke the Deal, Now We Have Nowhere to Retreat to and We Must Act, Say Kaczynski
» Scotland’s New Libel Laws Are on the Side of Free Speech
» UK: If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry
» UK: What Energy Crisis? Climate Crazies Hit Plan for New Nuclear Power Plant With Legal Challenge
» UK: You’ll Shower Less, And You’ll be Happy
» ‘With a War Going on at Its Border, The EU is Engaged in Attacks on Its Member Countries,’ Says Former Polish Sejm Speaker Marek Jurek
 
Russia
» Amnesty ‘Sorry, Not Sorry’ For Revealing Ukraine is Violating International Law
» Breaking: Biden Admin to Send Additional $4.5 Billion to Ukraine
 
South Asia
» India: Idgah Maidan Row: Hindutva Organisations Celebrate Over BBMP Order
» With the Support of OIC, Pakistan Raises Jihadi Voice to Take Away J&K From India
 
Far East
» Chinese Military Fires Missiles Over Taiwan for First Time Ever
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Blasted for Fielding Cricket Player Infected With COVID to Help Team Win Gold
 
Latin America
» Actor James Franco Attacked Over ‘Cultural Appropriation’ For Taking on Role as Fidel Castro
 
Immigration
» American Woman Raped in Paris Cafe by African Suspect
» California Judge Rules That Only Citizens Have the Right to Vote
» Canadians Are Seeking Asylum in US Due to Trudeau’s COVID Policies
» French Police Foil Migrants Attempting to Cross English Channel by Puncturing Boat and Destroying Engine
» Italian Navy Should Blockade Libya to Stop Migrants Crossing the Med by Boat, Says Far-Right Favourite to Become Country’s Next PM as Critics Accuse Her of Promoting ‘Act of War’
» Migration Split the EU Into Two Halves, Says Hungarian Justice Minister
» More Americans Want Fewer Immigrants in US for First Time Since 2014, Poll Reveals
» ‘Not One Albanian Man Crossing From France Would Ever Qualify as a Refugee’ — Nigel Farage Reacts to Latest Channel Migrant Figures
» Two Moroccan Jihadists Arrested After Entering Europe Alongside Economic Migrants Via the Balkan Route
» UK: Another 150 Migrants Are Picked Up in Dover Today After Being Rescued From the Channel…
 
Culture Wars
» 80-Year-Old Washington State Woman Banned From YMCA After Demanding Trans Employee Leave Locker
» Every Single Senate Democrat Just Voted Against Defining Pregnancy as a Biologically Female Process
» German Greens Minister Wants to Establish Centers for Neighbors to Report Each Other for Political Incorrectness
» ‘Trans’ Patients Encouraged to Withhold Mental Health History From Doctors to Access Hormones
» UK: Male ‘Transgender’ Prisoners Will No Longer be Housed With Women, Minister to Promise
 
General
» Roger Waters Rips ‘War Criminal’ Biden Over Ukraine, Declares ‘Taiwan is Part of China, ‘ Lauds Russia for ‘Almost’ Winning World War II
 

Poll: Americans Haven’t Been This Pessimistic About the Economy Since the Housing Crisis

Pessimism about the economy has reached its highest point since 2008, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday, with an overwhelming majority of Americans believing the economy is getting worse.

Only 12% of Americans believe the economy is improving, ABC reported, with 69% believing the economy is getting worse and 18% saying things would stay the same. The figures represent Americans’ worst collective outlook on the economy since the middle of the 2008 housing crisis, when 82% of Americans believed the economy was getting worse.

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

40% Increase in Deaths After COVID Vaccine — San Diego TV Reports

“Unexplainable” deaths in American adults aged 18-49 have life insurance companies sounding the alarm.

A local San Diego, California news report looked into what could be causing this mysterious uptick in overall deaths.

Dr. Kelly Victory appeared on “Good Morning San Diego” to relay information gathered from a recent Senate hearing where a military database was used to examine five years worth of data.

Blood clots, miscarriages, Bell’s palsy, myocarditis and deaths were all found to have been sharply increased in 2021.

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

After 12 Shot in Two Shootings, Police Arrest One Suspect, Searching for Another

Third victim dies after 12 shot in two Detroit shootings

After two separate shootings left 10 people injured and two killed in Detroit over the weekend, police on Monday said another victim has since died, and while an arrest has been made in one of the incidents, the gunman in the other remained at large.

The shootings, which appear unrelated, occurred about 12 hours apart.

           — Hat tip: JW [Return to headlines]
 

Biden’s Mask Mandate for Travelers Was Unauthorized, Argues the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) on Appeal

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed its amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Friday against the Biden Administration’s mask mandate on airplanes and other public transportation. The court is hearing Biden’s appeal from the April federal district court decision that invalidated his mask mandate.

“Mask mandates are tyrannical, and Congress never authorized the CDC to require travelers to wear masks,” stated Andrew Schlafly, General Counsel of AAPS. “Mask mandates infringe on two fundamental rights: freedom of speech and freedom of travel,” he argued in AAPS’s amicus brief.

The Biden Administration did not attempt to reinstate its mask mandate for travelers after it was blocked by a federal judge, amid widespread public opposition to the mandate. But Biden appealed to the 11th Circuit to seek authority to reinstate the mask mandate at any time, Mr. Schlafly explains.

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

CBS News Censors Its Own Documentary Exposing How 70% of US Funding of Ukraine is Wasted

CBS News has sensationally censored its own documentary after the film exposed how only 30% of weapons funding provided by the US makes it to the front lines.

A tweeted posted by CBS on Friday promoted its new film ‘Arming Ukraine’ by explaining that the documentary “explores why much of the billions of dollars of military aid that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine doesn’t make it to the front lines: “Like 30% of it reaches its final destination.”

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

Chairman of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission ‘Pretty Convinced’ Pandemic’ Origin From ‘US Lab Biotechnology, ‘ Suggests Governments Aren’t Investigating Because Even More ‘Dangerous Research Underway Right Now’

The chairman of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission has come forward to say that he is “pretty convinced” that the pandemic’s origin is from “U.S. lab biotechnology.” He also warns that even more dangerous research is happening right now — which could be why governments don’t seem to be interested in investigating the origins of COVID-19.

Jeffrey Sachs is the director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, the president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, winner of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, a best-selling author, and a Chairman of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission.

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

Chicago Police Release Video of Suspects in Fatal Shooting on Red Line Train

A 29-year-old man was riding the train near Chatham when he was killed Saturday.

Chicago police have released video of two suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a man on a CTA Red Line train on the South Side over the weekend.

The man, 29, was riding the train in the first block of West 79th Street when one of the suspects walked up and shot him after a brief conversation, police said.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Demand for Grocery Delivery Cools as Food Costs Rise

Karen Raschke, a retired attorney in New York, started getting her groceries delivered early in the pandemic. Each delivery cost $30 in fees and tips, but it was worth it to avoid the store.

Then earlier this spring, Raschke learned her rent was increasing by $617 per month. Delivery was one of the first things she cut from her budget. Now, the 75-year-old walks four blocks to the grocery several times a week. She only uses delivery on rare occasions, like a recent heat wave.

“To do it every week is not sustainable,” she said.

Raschke isn’t alone. U.S. demand for grocery delivery is cooling as prices for food and other necessities rise.

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

DeSantis to Headline Turning Point Action’s ‘Unite and Win’ Rallies for Trump-Backed Candidates

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to headline Turning Point Action’s “Unite and Win” rallies ahead of November’s midterm election to coalesce and galvanize Republican support and voter turnout.

Turning Point Action President Charlie Kirk told Fox News Monday that “Governor DeSantis is America’s governor and one of the most popular leaders in America. He has become the model for a new conservative movement that is willing to stand on principle and to actually fight on behalf of the values of his voters.”

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

Ex-Court Mediator Charged With Sending Poop-Laced Letters to Ohio GOP Pols

An ex-court mediator in Ohio was arrested for allegedly sending three dozen feces-laced letters to Republican politicians in his state, including Rep. Jim Jordan.

Richard Steinle, who worked for an Ohio county court, allegedly mailed the poop-contaminated correspondence to all 25 Republican state senators in early July before he was caught later that month, authorities said.

He was charged in federal court with sending “injurious articles as nonmailable,” which breaks a federal law that prohibits mailing hazardous material, according to court records.

Some of the letters included words like “pig and “racist,” court records stated.

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

Fatal Shooting in George Floyd Square Marks 55 Homicides in Minneapolis in 2022

Minneapolis Police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred near George Floyd Square early Saturday morning.

According to Fox 9, the Minneapolis Police Department said officers responded to reports of a shooting with a possible victim at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue around 3:20 am. When officers arrived, they found an adult male with fatal gunshot wounds lying in the street.

Police also found a vehicle still idling in a nearby parking lot with gunshot damage they believe belonged to the victim.

According to police, this is the 55th death that the department has investigated as a homicide this year.

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

FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home

(Reuters)—Former President Donald Trump said his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was raided by FBI agents on Monday, which came amid a U.S. Justice Department investigation of Trump’s removal of official presidential records to the Palm Beach estate.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the raid, which Trump in a statement said involved a “large group of FBI agents.”

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Feds Drug Tested Elon Musk After Joe Rogan Episode Featuring Marijuana Toke

On Friday’s episode of The Full Send Podcast, guest Elon Musk said that the Federal Government made him take random drug tests after he smoked marijuana with podcaster Joe Rogan on a 2018 episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.

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

Georgia Couple Charged With Using Their Adopted Children to Make Child Porn

A Georgia couple has been charged with using their two adopted children to record child pornography, police said.

Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home in Loganville July 27 on reports that a man there was downloading child porn.

After interviewing the suspect, who was not identified, police said they learned there was another suspect in the county who was “producing homemade child sexual abuse material with at least one child who lived in the home,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday.

Around 11:30 p.m. that same night, executed a search warrant in Oxford at the home of William Dale Zulock, 32, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35.

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

GOP Slams ‘Weaponization’ of DOJ After Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Raided by FBI; Dems Call it ‘Accountability’

After former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida was raided by FBI agents, Republicans are slamming the Biden administration and accusing the Department of Justice of “political weaponization,” while Democrats are lauding the agency for holding Trump accountable for “wrongdoing.”

“The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” said Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”

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

House Dems Say Gun Company Ads Emphasize Masculinity, Make Veiled References to ‘White Supremacist’ Groups

A new report from the House Oversight Committee says that leading gunmakers use “aggressive marketing tactics” which emphasize masculinity, and make ‘veiled references’ to white supremacist groups “like the Boogaloo Bois” (which isn’t a ‘far-right’ group at all) in order to sell guns. In short, a massive gaslighting campaign.

“The business practices of these gun manufacturers are deeply disturbing, exploitative, and reckless,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who chairs the committee.

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

Joe Kent Pulls Ahead of Jaime Herrera Beutler in the Race for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Republican challenger Joe Kent has overtaken incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler following Monday night’s ballot count update in the race for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, likely ousting the six-term GOP congresswoman in the primary election.

As of Monday night, Kent had 22.8% of the vote and Herrera Beutler has 22.3%, a gap of 960 votes. Herrera Beutler held a narrow lead going into Monday, and her lead increased slightly when Cowlitz County updated its results at about 3 p.m., but then disappeared when Clark County updated just after 5 p.m.

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Liz Cheney’s Chances of Beating Hageman With 10 Days to Primary: Polls

Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, aims to fend off a challenge from GOP opponent Harriet Hageman, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, but with just 10 days until the primary election, polls show the incumbent Republican in a difficult position.

Cheney drew Trump’s anger after she led nine other House Republicans in voting to impeach him last year for inciting his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Since then, the congresswoman has been one of the ex-president’s harshest critics, while also condemning fellow Republicans who continue to align with him.

Last September, Trump endorsed Hageman, an attorney and former Republican National Committee (RNC) member, in her bid to unseat Cheney, who has represented Wyoming’s at-large district since 2017. Although the incumbent Republican managed to rake in nearly $3 million in campaign contributions during the most recent fundraising quarter alone, Hageman appears to have a strong advantage, according to recent polls.

[Comment: Article dated August 8, 2022.]

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

Locals Launches Live Tipping Feature

Locals, a membership platform that’s owned by the neutral video sharing platform Rumble, has introduced Live Tipping — a feature that lets supporters pay to boost their message in live chats.

Supporters can use Locals coins, an in-app currency that can be used to support Locals creators, to make a Live Tip. After submitting a Live Tip, it will be displayed and highlighted in a message tray above the live chat box.

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

Man Charged in Stevenson Expressway Shooting Pointed Laser-Sighted Automatic Pistol at Off-Duty Cop: Prosecutors

A man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly exchanging gunfire with an off-duty Chicago police officer on the Stevenson Expressway last week.

David C. Abarca, 22, is accused of pointing a fully automatic pistol with a laser sight at the officer on the inbound lanes near Ashland Avenue Thursday night, according to a police report.

Abarca was in the passenger seat and was not hit by gunfire. But a 24-year-old woman driving the car was shot in the head, according to the report. It’s unclear from the report whose gun shot her.

The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, the Illinois State Police said.

Abarca was charged with attempted murder, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated discharge of a weapon. He appeared in court Sunday and was held without bail. His private attorney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

During an unrelated news conference Monday, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the off-duty officer was driving on the expressway when someone fired at him with a gun equipped with a laser sight.

The officer returned fire and drove to “the closest police district,” Brown said.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Member of GOP Leadership Says IRS Could ‘Bully the Middle Class, ‘ Target Conservatives, if Manchin Bill Passes

The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) fired back against President Biden over a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that would spend billions of dollars to hire thousands of new IRS agents, and cautioned that the new bureaucrats could be used to target conservative groups.

If passed, tens of billions of dollars from the bill would go toward hiring 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents. The bill passed in the Senate on Sunday with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. It now heads to the House for a likely vote at the end of the week.

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

MTA Stops Tracking NYC Mask-Wearing as Kathy Hochul’s Mandate Remains

The MTA quietly stopped keeping track of whether riders are wearing masks on the subways, even as Gov. Kathy Hochul doubled down on her mask mandate for public transit just a few weeks ago.

The agency hasn’t taken a straphanger mask survey since April, and after being asked about it by The Post on Tuesday, updated its site to say officials “are no longer maintaining recurring statistics on compliance.”

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

Nearly 950 Flights Cancelled, 7,700 Delayed Sunday as Travel Turmoil Continues

The number of flights being canceled and delayed continues to soar sky high.

Nearly 950 flights were canceled and 7,700 were delayed Sunday, as travel disruptions continue to wreak havoc within US airports.

There were 949 canceled flights across, into, and out of the US as well as 7,746 flights being delayed due to lingering effects of staffing shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Flight Aware.

Southwest Airlines led the cancellations with nearly 180 planes being put out of commission and 1,532 being delayed.

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

New Orleans Woman Charged With Stabbing Two Toddlers, Leaving One Dead

Janee Pedescleaux, 31, is charged with 2nd-degree murder and other charges, police say

A 4-year-old girl died and a 2-year-old is in critical condition after a New Orleans woman allegedly stabbed the two toddlers repeatedly on Sunday.

Janee Pedescleaux, 31, is facing charges of 2nd-degree murder, attempted 2nd-degree murder and 2nd-degree cruelty to a juvenile, according to the New Orleans Police Department. The attack took place inside Pedescleaux’s home, and neighbors say she posted a video to her Instagram shortly after the stabbings, according to Fox 8.

“I’m dying. My children is dead. I’m done. I’m done with life,” she said in the video, adding “It’s all Jermaine’s fault.”

The father, Jermaine Roberts, soon learned of the incident and surveillance footage shows him pulling up to the house and rushing inside from his vehicle. He then leaves the house carrying both toddlers to take them to the hospital.

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‘Orwellian’: School District Encourages Entire Town to Report Violations of ‘Anti-Racism’ Policy

A Rhode Island school district is encouraging its community to report anyone who violates the district’s anti-racism policy.

The “Anti-racism, Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy” at South Kingstown school district in Rhode Island says anyone in the educational community is “personally responsible” and must “immediately report” different kinds of racism including, “cyber racism,” “interpersonal racism” and “institutional racism,” according to the district policy. The policy states that “any member of South Kingstown is encouraged to report incidents or allegations of incidents” that break anti-racism policy guidelines.

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

Rep. Liz Cheney ‘Would Find it Very Difficult’ To Back Ron DeSantis

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has said that she could back a Republican for the White House in 2024, but that she “would find it very difficult” to back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a general election, according to the New York Times.

“I think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that’s very dangerous,” Cheney said.

Cheney was one of the 10 House Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last year. She was later ousted from her role as House Republican conference chair. The lawmaker is one of the two Republicans serving on the House select committee established to investigate the Jan. 6 episode.

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

San Bernardino County Board Approves Measure of Possible Secession on November Ballot

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 on Wednesday to place a measure on the November 2022 ballot asking residents if they wish to possibly secede from California.

In the past, many Californian counties, as well as the state itself, have looked into splitting up the state due to cultural, monetary, and other differences, including some measures simply saying that the state was too big. A failed 2016 measure that would have split California into 6 states and Proposition 9, a proposed proposition that would have split California into 3 states in 2018 that was stopped before a vote by the state Supreme Court, have been among the most recent noteworthy attempts.

However, in recent years, the question has come up in many counties across the state once again. Many have been upset with state laws and measures that have raised taxes for programs they would not benefit from, started hurting many businesses with increased regulations, and that have unfairly divided and allotted money between different counties.

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

San Diego State University Will Implement a Mask Mandate Starting August 15

SAN DIEGO — In light of rising COVID-19 cases around San Diego County, San Diego State University is implementing a mask mandate as students gear up for the fall semester.

“I think it will give a lot of people a sense of comfort because cases are rising, and because masks are going to be required, I think it’s going to be really good for the school and the germs. We don’t want those,” said graduate student Naomi Trader. “I’m actually kind of happy that the mask policy is coming back and I just think it’s going to add a little bit of layer of more protection on my part.”

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What Happened to the State of Jefferson?

CALIFORNIA (KTXL) — In Northern California and Southern Oregon there is a place not officially recognized by the United States, but felt in the hearts of many people who live there: the State of Jefferson.

For those who live in the Sacramento area, Jefferson may not be an unfamiliar name, as homes in nearby northern counties can be seen flying the State of Jefferson flag or sporting lawn signs with the would-be state’s seal.

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A Rematch is Coming in the Battle Between Trudeau and the Truckers

This fall, an independent commission of inquiry is being held into Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, a form of martial law he deployed to counter the peaceful truckers’ protests in Ottawa and across the country.

You can see more about that commission of inquiry here — Trudeau has tried to rig the rules of the commission to investigate the truckers, rather than his own misconduct.

This commission of inquiry is very important, which is exactly why Trudeau wants to hijack it. He wants to revise history, blame his peaceful critics, and whitewash his own authoritarian misconduct.

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Masks Will Not be Mandatory in Ontario Schools Next Semester

Students in Ontario schools will not be required to wear masks come the fall semester, the Ministry of Education confirmed Monday.

Instead, usage will be voluntary and masks will be available to students upon request.

Rapid tests will also remain available to school boards.

Mask mandates ended in most settings in Ontario on March 21, making masks optional for students in classroom settings.

The 2022 fall semester will be the first full term since the onset of the pandemic that Ontario students will not be required to wear masks

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Choose Your Path: As Germany Trips Over Itself to Close Nuclear Plants, France Bends Rules to Keep Theirs Open

Germany can’t close its nuclear plants quick enough despite the surging energy crisis gripping Europe, but France is working hard to keep theirs online, temporarily setting aside green rules to keep the reactors working.

France has given exemptions to some nuclear plants to avoid heat-related environmental restrictions that would entail load reductions in the present summer season weather in a bid to keep electricity production as high as possible as Europe plunges into an energy crisis.

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Doctors Press Government to ‘Vaccinate Faster’ As Monkeypox Spreads Across UK

Doctors are pressing the British government, still led by Boris Johnson until September, to “vaccinate faster” against monkeypox, as cases are recorded in every region of the United Kingdom.

2,800 monkeypox cases have now been confirmed in Britain, according to The Mail on Sunday, with around two-thirds concentrated in London, but the proportion of diagnoses outside Britain’s super-diverse capital is increasing.

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Hampshire UK Police End Re-Education Classes as a Punishment for Tweets

The police in the UK continue to struggle with (re)defining their role in society, specifically as to whether or not it includes figuratively, but also at times literally, policing online free speech.

And that includes making sure people are investigated, and even prosecuted and fined for including such “crimes” as sharing memes on social networks.

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Norwegian Cruises Ends COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings will no longer require customers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and will loosen its testing rules beginning in September, the company announced Monday.

Beginning on Sept. 3, vaccinated guests aged 12 and older will no longer have to abide by any pre-cruise COVID-19 related protocols. Unvaccinated guests will be permitted to embark once they have provided a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours prior to departure, the company said.

Children under 12 will have no testing or vaccination requirements.

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Paris Climate Agreement Causing Global Protests

The United Nations Paris Climate Agreement is already being put into action around the world, as the global elite use governments to capitalize on their controlling visions and monopolistic investments. In their pursuit for total control, the global elite look to play ‘god’ with the Earth’s resources and environment, while micromanaging human activity, destroying farms, threatening sovereignty, and reducing the population.

In the Netherlands, the Dutch government must submit a plan to cut greenhouse gas nitrogen by 70 percent in 131 areas. This is just one of the climate goals that the country must achieve by the year 2030. The Netherlands is the world’s second largest agricultural exporter; consequentially, they are also one of the top greenhouse gas emitters in Europe.

           — Hat tip: JAS [Return to headlines]
 

Poland: Von Der Leyen Broke the Deal, Now We Have Nowhere to Retreat to and We Must Act, Say Kaczynski

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has gone back on a deal struck between the Polish government and Brussels over the release of EU funds, and it is time for Poland to respond, the leader of the country’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, told Poland’s Sieci magazine.

Kaczynski believes that the Commission is not acting in good faith and has broken an agreement that had been reached with the Polish government over the release of funds.

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Scotland’s New Libel Laws Are on the Side of Free Speech

A newly-passed libel law in Scotland represents the most radical changes to defamation law in over three decades.

The Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 is set to address defamation cases in Scotland, which have been misused to a great extent by individuals and companies that threatened lawsuits against their critics.

As detailed by the Times, Scotland has seen a greater than usual number of high-profile defamation cases “but the real mischief of our unreformed defamation law often went unseen.”

“Lawyered-up people did not need to push their threats to a full hearing to exert pressure on publishers and social media critics: a lawyer’s letter often did the trick,” the Times reported. “Even if they are sure their story is substantially true, the media are often less confident that they can bear the cost of proving it in court. This way truth is repressed, stories spiked and reporting agendas altered, not because of the public interest but due to private muscle.”

The newly-passed law is designed to address the chilling effect on free speech through threats of defamation.

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UK: If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry

New investigation reveals theft in the UK has “effectively been decriminalized” due to shockingly low prosecution rates.

Prosecution rates of people who post offensive memes or engage in wrongthink, however, remain first rate.

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UK: What Energy Crisis? Climate Crazies Hit Plan for New Nuclear Power Plant With Legal Challenge

Despite the ongoing energy crisis, climate crazies have launched a legal challenge aimed at preventing the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the UK.

Legal proceedings have been launched against the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the United Kingdom by a number of climate crazy activists who do not see the project as being green enough.

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UK: You’ll Shower Less, And You’ll be Happy

The UK, a country wetter than an otter’s pocket, is now imposing water rationing.

Your living standards will be crushed, while they live like kings.

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‘With a War Going on at Its Border, The EU is Engaged in Attacks on Its Member Countries,’ Says Former Polish Sejm Speaker Marek Jurek

In an exclusive interview, Marek Jurek explains why Poland should have supported Ukraine in resisting the EU’s cynical wartime pressure for the ratification of the Council of Europe’s “Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence,” which promotes gender ideology and seeks to undermine the traditional family model

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Amnesty ‘Sorry, Not Sorry’ For Revealing Ukraine is Violating International Law

Amnesty International has basically said it is ‘sorry, not sorry’ for revealing that Ukraine is deliberately placing military forces in residential areas in violation of international law.

The organization attracted controversy for accusing Ukrainian armed forces of violating “international humanitarian law and endanger[ing] civilians.”

According to the original report, Amnesty observers have witnessed Ukrainian forces stationed in the vicinity of residential areas and schools in at least 19 towns and villages across the country, thereby endangering civilians who are under increased threat from Russian bombardment.

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Breaking: Biden Admin to Send Additional $4.5 Billion to Ukraine

The Biden White House will provide Ukraine with an additional $4.5 billion, increasing the total budgetary support sent to the country since February’s invasion by Russia to nearly $60 billion. These new funds will go directly to Ukraine’s government.

According to Reuters, the US Agency for International Development made the announcement on Monday: “The funding, coordinated with the U.S. Treasury Department through the World Bank, will go to the Ukraine government in tranches, beginning with a $3 billion disbursement in August, USAID, the Agency for International Development, said,” they report.

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India: Idgah Maidan Row: Hindutva Organisations Celebrate Over BBMP Order

After the end of illegal encroachment of Wakf Board, 75th Independence Day will be celebrated on August 15 at Bengaluru Idgah Maidan, as the land entitled to Karnataka Revenue Department.

Staff Reporter | The Hindu | Bengaluru | Aug 7, 2022:: A day after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stated that the ownership of the Idgah Maidan in Chamarajpet is with Karnataka Revenue Department, various Hindu organisations on Sunday gathered near the maidan to celebrate the order.

The groups gathered near the ground and burst crackers, distributed sweets and announced that they will celebrate Independence Day on August 15 on the ground. S. Bhaskaran, president, Vishwa Sanathana Parishath, said, “This is a big victory for the residents of Chamarajpet. We will host the national flag on August 15 at the ground.”

Chamarajpet Nagareekara Okkuta Vedike member Lahari Velu, said, “After the BBMP order, it is like a festival today for all the residents of Chamarajpet. We were all fighting for the ground for the last decade.”

On Saturday, the city’s civic body dismissed the petition filed by the Karnataka State Board of Auqaf for a khata in its favour for Idgah Maidan at Chamarajpet (Survey number 40, Guttahalli village, 2 acres 5 guntas), and declared Karnataka Revenue Department to be the default owner of the land.

City survey records had recorded the land as a playground of the civic body, a claim that has also been given up now, with the civic body deciding to record ‘Karnataka Revenue Department’ as owner in its records. S.M. Srinivas, Joint Commissioner (West), BBMP, who presided over the proceedings, issued the order.

The decades-old dispute over Idgah Maidan was reignited in May-June, 2022, when a few Hindutva organisations sought permission of the civic body to hold events at the maidan. This brought out two contrary sets of documents — Karnataka State Board of Auqaf presenting a 1965 gazette notifying the land as Wakf property, and 1974 City Survey records and all civic records thereafter showing the land to be a civic playground.

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With the Support of OIC, Pakistan Raises Jihadi Voice to Take Away J&K From India

‘Hindutva…’: Pakistan cries foul after India tore into Islamic nation’s body OIC over J&K with the view ‘Kashmir is not a part of India’.

Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | July 8, 2022:: Days after India issued a sharp retort to the 57-member Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its remarks on the anniversary of the decision to reorganize J&K and amend Article 370, Pakistan categorically rejected the ‘ludicrous comments and fallacious claims’ made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson. Pak Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement that India’s hubris in this regard was deplorable, adding that it was ‘indeed astounding to see an unabashed practitioner of ‘Hindutva’ to accuse others of ‘bigotry’ or ‘communal agenda.’ Equally appalling is the audacity of an established serial violator of human rights and purveyor of state terrorism, pointing accusing fingers toward others.”

OIC is the largest multilateral forum of Islamic countries representing more than 1.7 billion Muslims.

The statement said, “Jammu and Kashmir was never a part of India, and never will be. It is an internationally recognized “disputed” territory between Pakistan and India that has been under forcible and illegal Indian occupation since 1947.”

“The dispute remains on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council for nearly 75 years. The relevant UNSC resolutions pledge to the Kashmiris their inalienable right to self-determination, to be exercised through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations.”

“While perpetuating its tyranny and injustice, India will not succeed in misleading the international community by claiming “socio-economic growth and development” in Jammu and Kashmir. No amount of repetition would turn falsehood into truth,” read the statement.

Such fanatic statements uttered both by OIC and Pakistan are nothing but ulterior propagation of Jihadi agenda to separate J&K from the entity of India.

Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India since eternity and it is described in the history of Kashmir for last 5000 yrs well before Islam came to existence for 1400-1450 yrs range.

The Pakistan sponsored Jihadi terrorists tried to make an insurgency in the valley just after independence , but always they were defeated by India in all wars and proxy wars.

However the abolition of Art. 35 A and 370 has finally freed Jammu and Kashmir from all constitutional strictures to remain the state in the territory of India with opening a path to bring Azad Kashmir (Pak Occupied Kashmir-POK) in the mainstream of India discarding the Islamic conspiracy to break India again and again.

The present Govt in the Center led by PM Narendra Modi is determined not to allow any Jihadi excesses in the valley further to keep the territory of Jammu and Kashmir within India at any cost.

The fanatic Islamic forum of OIC (Organisation for Islamic Cooperation) and its vital member Pakistan both are now trying hard to break India in J&K to mature former Pak President and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s plan of “thousand years war” with the ‘bleeding India through a thousand cuts’ doctrine using covert and low-intensity warfare with militancy and infiltration.

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Chinese Military Fires Missiles Over Taiwan for First Time Ever

China launched missiles over Taiwan over the weekend for the first time. The missiles are part of China’s Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), which are believed to be the Chinese version of HIMARS, which the US has sent to Ukraine to battle Russia.

The director of Asia Engagement at the Defense Priorities think tank posted images from CCTV-7, a Chinese TV station, showing the firing of these missiles in the Taiwan Strait. “They might not look as impressive as the missiles shot over Taiwan, but these systems could be the game changer,” Lyle Goldstein said. “This is economical firepower and implies thousands of strikes per day, ranging the whole island.”

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Australia Blasted for Fielding Cricket Player Infected With COVID to Help Team Win Gold

Australia, a country that imposed one of the harshest lockdowns on the planet that included housing their own citizens in COVID isolation camps, has come under fire after fielding a cricket player infected with COVID who helped their women’s team win gold at the Commonwealth Games.

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Actor James Franco Attacked Over ‘Cultural Appropriation’ For Taking on Role as Fidel Castro

Actor James Franco is under fire for “cultural appropriation” after being cast as Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro in an upcoming biopic about the revolutionary leader.

Controversy first surfaced after Hispanic, Colombian-born actor John Leguizamo slammed the casting on account of Franco being too white to take on the role of the Cuban revolutionary.

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American Woman Raped in Paris Cafe by African Suspect

French police arrested an African migrant suspected of raping an American woman in a restaurant bathroom this weekend, according to reports.

The horrifying incident unfolded at around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.

The victim, a 27-year-old woman, went to the restroom at a cafe but never returned.

When her concerned friend went to check on her, she was found under attack in the toilet by a male suspect with his pants down, FDesouche reports.

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California Judge Rules That Only Citizens Have the Right to Vote

On March 14, conservative KABC radio show host and attorney James V. Lacy filed a lawsuit against San Francisco with the aim to prohibit the counting of votes cast by persons who are not American citizens in San Francisco Unified School District elections. The lawsuit targeted a 2016 city ordinance (206-21) comparable to New York’s “Our City, Our Vote” measure passed in December 2021, which enabled 800,000 foreign nationals to participate in local elections.

Lacy’s lawsuit proved successful.

Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer Jr. struck down the law on July 29, just as State Supreme Court Judge Ralph J. Porzio had New York’s noncitizen voting law on June 27.

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Canadians Are Seeking Asylum in US Due to Trudeau’s COVID Policies

Buffalo immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken has filed asylum applications for at least half a dozen Canadians who hope to flee the country permanently due to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pandemic policies.

In an exclusive interview with True North, Kolken, who is a former director of the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, explained that his clients fear being persecuted for being unvaccinated should they return to Canada.

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French Police Foil Migrants Attempting to Cross English Channel by Puncturing Boat and Destroying Engine

French police have been pictured foiling a migrant crossing to the UK by puncturing their boat and destroying the engine.

The intervention from officials took place in Gravelines, a resort between Calais and Dunkirk on Saturday evening.

In several photographs, the officers can be clearly seen puncturing the inflatable with a knife and smashing up the boat’s outboard motor.

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Italian Navy Should Blockade Libya to Stop Migrants Crossing the Med by Boat, Says Far-Right Favourite to Become Country’s Next PM as Critics Accuse Her of Promoting ‘Act of War’

The founder of a far-right Italian party and frontrunner to be the country’s next leader has called for a blockade of Libya to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, wants the Italian navy to blockade the north African coast so that all migrants can be screened before leaving to ascertain whether they are genuine refugees.

Those who can prove their refugee status should be allowed through, Meloni said, while those who cannot should be sent home.

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Migration Split the EU Into Two Halves, Says Hungarian Justice Minister

The first major wave of migration in 2015 already split the European Union into two, and now migrants are massing again at Hungary’s southern borders, Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Varga emphasized that due to the economic challenges facing Europe, there is little talk about immigration, but at the same time, a crisis similar to the migration wave of 2015 is emerging on the southern border.

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More Americans Want Fewer Immigrants in US for First Time Since 2014, Poll Reveals

A plurality of Americans believe the level of immigration into the US should be decreased, according to a new Gallup poll — the first time the survey has shown that in eight years.

The poll found that 38% of Americans want less immigration, while 27% said they want more. Another 31% said they want immigration to remain at its current level.

The last time more Americans wanted immigration reduced was in 2014, when 41% held that opinion, 33% said they wanted present levels maintained, and just 22% said they wanted immigration levels increased.

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‘Not One Albanian Man Crossing From France Would Ever Qualify as a Refugee’ — Nigel Farage Reacts to Latest Channel Migrant Figures

Albania was the source of four in 10 Channel migrants during a six-week period this summer, according to a secret military intelligence report.

More than 1000 men from Albania, a country which is a member of NATO and popular tourist destination, crossed the Channel into Britain during periods of warm weather and calm waters, Mail Plus reported.

GB News exclusively revealed last week dozens of Albanian TikTok accounts have been boasting about successfully getting people from France to Britain.

“Little did I know just the extent to which Albanians have started to come”, Nigel said.

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Two Moroccan Jihadists Arrested After Entering Europe Alongside Economic Migrants Via the Balkan Route

Two Moroccan jihadists have been arrested by authorities after infiltrating the Balkan migratory route used by economic migrants to enter Europe, according to counter-terrorism sources reported by the Vozpópuli news outlet.

Both detainees had entered the European Union via the Balkan route before one was captured in Austria, thanks to an international arrest warrant, and the other in Mataró in Barcelona. After being presented to the court on Friday, the latter was imprisoned.

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UK: Another 150 Migrants Are Picked Up in Dover Today After Being Rescued From the Channel…

…as over 18,000 have arrived so far this year and MPs demand Rwanda plan to be restarted as soon as possible

Another 150 migrants including small children and a baby were picked up in Dover after being rescued from the English Channel today — amid calls from MPs to restart the Rwanda plan as soon as possible.

A total of 18,284 people have crossed the Channel so far this year — with 1,885 of those migrants arriving in August alone, according to data released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

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80-Year-Old Washington State Woman Banned From YMCA After Demanding Trans Employee Leave Locker

An 80-year-old Washington state woman was permanently banned from her local YMCA pool after demanding that a transgender employee leave the women’s locker room, she told local media.

“I saw a man in a woman’s bathing suit watching maybe four or five little girls pulling down their suits in order to use the toilet,” Port Townsend resident Julie Jaman recalled of the July incident to Seattle radio show host Dori Monson on Friday. “I asked if he had a penis and he said it was none of my business. I told that man to ‘get out right now.’“

The incident occurred on July 26 at the Mountain View pool, which is a City of Port Townsend facility operated by the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, according to local news outlet Port Townsend Free Press.

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Every Single Senate Democrat Just Voted Against Defining Pregnancy as a Biologically Female Process

During the passage of Joe Biden’s ‘Inflation Increasing Reduction Act’ in the Senate Sunday, all 50 Democrats voted against an amendment that sought to define pregnancy as a uniquely biologically female process.

The amendment was introduced by GOP Senator Marco Rubio, who noted “The only people capable of being pregnant are biological females, and therefore, I think federal pregnancy programs should be limited to biological females, and that’s what this would do.”

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German Greens Minister Wants to Establish Centers for Neighbors to Report Each Other for Political Incorrectness

Josefine Paul, the minister for children, youth, family, equality, refugees, and integration of North Rhine-Westphalia for the Greens, wants to push through a project that encourages Germans to report their fellow citizens, according to the German publication Focus.

Reports suggest that Paul intends to set up four reporting centers where people can anonymously report other people who are behaving politically incorrect through hotlines. For example, “incidents hostile to homosexuals, migrants, Muslims, blacks, and Roma” are to be reported, even those that are not criminal.

The government of the most populous federal state will spend €140,000 to establish each center. Paul, a former teacher, lives with Katja Meier, the Saxon justice minister and also a member of the Green Party.

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‘Trans’ Patients Encouraged to Withhold Mental Health History From Doctors to Access Hormones

Leftist UK-based media organization Novara encourages trans-identifying minors to withhold mental health history from doctors to obtain cross-sex hormones.

O.S. Warren, a trans-identified biological male, wrote an article in December 2021 offering advice on how to game Britain’s healthcare system to obtain hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The article was reconfigured for social media and published last month on the @novaramedia Instagram account. A Twitter user called attention to the alarming medical advice offered from the left-wing news site.

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UK: Male ‘Transgender’ Prisoners Will No Longer be Housed With Women, Minister to Promise

Male prisoners who identify as “transgender” are to be no longer incarcerated with women, a minister is set to promise.

People who identify as ‘transwomen’ will no longer be incarcerated with biological women, the UK minister responsible for the country’s prisons is reportedly set to announce.

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Roger Waters Rips ‘War Criminal’ Biden Over Ukraine, Declares ‘Taiwan is Part of China, ‘ Lauds Russia for ‘Almost’ Winning World War II

In a dizzying and contentious CNN interview focusing on world politics, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters explained why he’s calling President Joe Biden a “war criminal” as part of his current concert tour — and managed to declare that “Taiwan is part of China” and even that Russia “almost” won World War II.

What are the details?

As readers of TheBlaze know by now, Waters arguably has been more of a geo-political pundit in recent years than a musician and performer.

The bass player and songwriter behind iconic albums such as “The Wall” and “The Dark Side of the Moon” previously targeted former President Donald Trump and Israel, but with his current “This Is Not a Drill Tour,” Waters has taken issue with Biden.

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/8/2022

  1. “I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”. ― Harry S. Truman.

    • President Harry Truman commented in his diary: “We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail…. This must stop.”

  2. Claimants at male-to-female transsexualism, if hey are not mental, are legitimately suspicionable of using subtrefuge to gain entry to female-only private space, a nefarious motivation.

  3. Trump’s house was raided. Oh yeah to discover the secret behind that big sin as why he banned muslims from invading USA. Who could ban muslims from his own country unless he is a traitor to his country.

    MObs are in charge in USA. litigations are for anything and everywhere. Chaos prevails. Everyone has an opinion. Futile congress debates ubiquitous, daily and fruitless. No charges or responsibilities. Rachida and Ilhan work for Palestinians and Somalis and cannot be sacked because they are democratically elected therefore they must be excellent. And ignore what harm they do.

    What a great leader for free world of vices.

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