A 41-year-old man in North Dakota deliberately pursued and ran over an 18-year-old boy with his car, killing him. The driver acknowledged to police that he had targeted the youth because he was a Republican.
In other news, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is reportedly planning to fly a planeload of migrants to Georgetown, Delaware, near the home of President Biden.
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Atlanta Fed Cuts Q3 GDP Estimate to Just +0.3% After Housing Data
The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2022 is just 0.3 percent now, down from 0.5 percent on September 15, down from 1.4 percent on September 7, and down from 2.6 percent on September 1.
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Household food bills across the EU have been rising dramatically in recent months, as galloping inflation keeps fueling the prices for important staple foods, with bread now costing more than ever.
In August, the price of bread in the bloc was on average 18% higher compared to the same period a year ago, according to data released by the EU’s statistical office Eurostat on Monday.
“This is a huge increase compared with August 2021, when the price of bread was on average 3% higher than in August 2020,” Eurostat said.
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Gap Slashes Hundreds of Jobs as Inflation Squeezes the Struggling Giant
Gap will eliminate nearly 500 corporate jobs, joining other struggling retailers as the industry sees a post-pandemic slump and battles high inflation, a Gap spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The layoffs will occur primarily at the retail giant’s corporate offices in New York, San Francisco and Asia, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal, who originally reported on the layoffs. Gap’s cuts follow a string of corporate layoffs across all sectors of the economy: in July, 7— Eleven cut 880 corporate employees and online retailer Shopify laid off around 1,000 employees, in August, Walmart let go 200 corporate employees and Ford announced plans to let go nearly 2000 white-collar workers, while Goldman Sachs is expected to fire around 500 employees this fall.
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Majority of Hungarian Gas Stations to Run Dry Next Week
Hungarian gas and oil giant MOL will only be able to deliver a quarter of the needed fuel from 19 September, Hungarian media reported.
According to Daily News Hungary. Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu acquired a letter in which MOL informed its partners that they could only deliver 25% of the contracted fuel amount. The cited reason for shortfall is “to maintain the predictability of fuel orders and the supply in Hungary, MOL explaned. The oil and gas giant’s announcement concerns gasoline and diesel deliveries, too.”
Similar to other European countries, the Hungarian government decided to maintain price caps on fuel and essential foodstuffs until the end of this year. Regarding the possible fuel shortage, Gergely Gulyas, the prime minister’s chief of staff, said on yesterday’s government info that “there might be problems at the petrol stations.”
However, they trust in the sustainability of their decisions. Gulyas added that people could thank MOL that the government can maintain the fuel price cap scheme. As a result, gasoline and diesel prices will remain at HUF 480 per litre (EUR 1.19/l) in Hungary until 31 December. Of course, the trade off is that soon there will be no gasoline and diesel.
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On Tuesday, Statistics Canada released the latest Consumer Price Index numbers, revealing that the cost of living remains unaffordable for many Canadians.
In response, MP and recently elected Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre slammed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government over their handling of the situation.
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Sweden Shocks Markets With a Record 100bps Rate Hike, As it Rushes to Hit Its Terminal Rate
Another day, another shock from a raging hawk of a central bank which until just a year ago was one of the world’s biggest doves.
Not that long after the Swedish central bank appeared lock into NIRP for ever, this morning the Swedish central bank surprised markets with a full percentage-point hike (consensus looked for “only” 75bps), the biggest ever under the current monetary-policy regime.
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Truss: New British Govt Hints Real Tax Cuts Coming to Ease Cost of Living Crisis
Speaking from New York where she is attending the United Nations, new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss heavily hinted there would be tax cuts coming this week, and that these were being done to grow the economy, not please people with ideological opposition to tax cuts.
Tax cuts help generate economic growth, the Prime Minister said on Tuesday, as she makes her first official trip abroad as leader to the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York. Speaking about the government’s emergency budget being presented to the Commons on Friday, PM Liz Truss strongly implied that tax cuts would be coming and while some would disapprove of them, the government did not care for their opinion on economics.
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9 Key Cases Supreme Court Will Hear in 2022-23 Session
It will be tough—if not impossible—for the Supreme Court to top the 2021-22 term when it comes to both drama and results that pleased the conservative legal community (not to mention conservatives in general).
As I wrote elsewhere in July at the end of the term, “[t]he three words that best describe the Supreme Court’s decisions this term are text, history, and tradition. If that’s one word too many, try this: Originalism Rules! And that’s a good thing.”
But for SCOTUS fans—and who isn’t one?—there will be plenty of excitement during the term that begins on Oct. 3.
On Sept. 27, my Heritage Foundation colleague Zack Smith will host our Supreme Court preview of the 2022-23 term with former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement and former acting U.S. Solicitor General Jeff Wall. You can register for the event here. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
Although the Supreme Court will no doubt agree to hear more cases following its “long conference” when it considers the certiorari petitions that were filed during the summer, there are already several big cases on its docket for what promises to be another blockbuster term. Here’s a brief description of a few of them.
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Andy Ngo Reports: Infamous Portland Antifa Rioter Believed to be Dead
A transgender far-left protester who gained infamy for multiple arrests during the 2020 Black Lives Matter-Antifa riots in Portland, Ore. is believed to be dead.
Tabitha Wilson Curtis, who was known under the activist alias “Tabitha Poppins,” disappeared while paddleboarding on the Columbia River north of Portland on Monday. The 42-year-old was previously known as Peter Wilson Curtis.
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Beyond Meat Boss Arrested After Allegedly Biting Man’s Nose in Parking Garage
The chief operating officer of popular vegan food company Beyond Meat was arrested on Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas after an incident at a parking garage following a university football game.
Doug Ramsey — who has worked for the company since December 2021, it says on its website — is now facing charges of of terroristic threatening and third-degree battery, according to news outlet KNWA.
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While Ramsey was driving out of Razorback Stadium near Gate 15, a Subaru “inched his way in front” and made contact with Ramsey’s vehicle, according to a report obtained by the outlet.
Ramsey allegedly got out of his vehicle and “punched through the back windshield of the Subaru.” The man got out of the Subaru and he told police that Ramsey then starting punching him.
The report also states that Ramsey “bit the owner’s nose, ripping the flesh on the tip of the nose.”
The other passengers from both vehicles attempted to separate the two, police were told. Witnesses and the victim said they heard Ramsey “threaten to kill” the Subaru owner.
When a police officer arrived at the scene, he found two men with “bloody faces.”
Ramsey was arrested just before 10:30 p.m. He was taken to Washington County Jail.
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Early Sunday morning, 41-year-old Shannon Brandt allegedly ran over 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his car following a political dispute in McHenry, North Dakota.
After being charged on Monday with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly accident, Brandt admitted that his actions were politically motivated.
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On Tuesday, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake revealed that her Democrat counterpart Katie Hobbs fought to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance, national anthem, and Constitution from being taught in elementary schools across the state.
Lake slammed Hobbs for her voting record, and warned Arizonans of the consequences a Hobbs government would have for their children.
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Danielle Anderson, a virologist often cited as a “biosafety expert” by journalists seeking to debunk the lab-leak theory, never disclosed she had worked on dangerous coronavirus research while fact-checking COVID-19 origin theories, resurfaced documents reveal.
Anderson played a key role in suppressing a New York Post story which posited that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, published in Feb. 2020, according to The Disinformation Chronicle. While she conducted that, and other, work, she failed to disclose she was involved in a grant for manipulating coronaviruses from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance.
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DoD Investigates Diversity Chief Who Ridicules White People for Their Race
The Department of Defense has said that they are launching a review into a self-proclaimed “woke” diversity chief after social media posts ridiculing white people began receiving backlash on social media.
According to Fox News, the chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Kelisa Wing, who calls herself a “woke administrator” posted a number of tweets spanning years on social media disparaging white people.
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Driver Admitted to Intentionally Killing Teen at North Dakota Street Dance After Political Dispute
Court papers say 41-year-old Shannon Brandt confessed to a 911 dispatcher and police that he killed 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson due to a political dispute.
McHENRY, N.D. — According to court papers, it was not an accident but apparently a politically motivated attack.
The fatal vehicle-pedestrian incident happened early Sunday morning, Sept. 18, in McHenry, North Dakota, about 120 miles northwest of Fargo and 54 miles north of Jamestown.
Prosecutors allege moments before he was killed, 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson called his mom to come rescue him because 41-year-old Shannon Brandt was chasing him in the city of McHenry, where the street dance had just wrapped up.
By the time she could get there, her son was dead.
Brandt was officially charged Monday with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly accident.
“He was the one who called 911 to report the crash,” said North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind.
Court papers show Brandt called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and told the 911 dispatcher that he just hit Ellingson, claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument.
Ellingson’s mom told police her son called her just before the crash, asking if she knew Brandt, which she does. She does not believe her son knew him.
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Fact-Checkers Complain They’re Constantly Hit With Lawsuits
Online fact checkers have great authority over what speech gets suppressed on mainstream social media platforms and a fact-check of a post on Facebook can result in that post being suppressed by as much as 95%.
Yet, despite their great power over what people can say, fact checkers are also increasingly frustrated at calls for more transparency about the way they operate and say they are being bombarded with freedom of information act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits.
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It’s Crazy on Many Levels, But Cook County Has Launched Its ‘Free Money’ UBI Program
Authored by Mark Glennon, co-founder of Wirepoints.org
“Teach a man to fish and he will still just eat the fish given away free.”
—Socrates
Socrates didn’t really say that. I just made it up.
I made it up because some wise man should have famously said it for the sake of those who seem oblivious to that fundamental aspect of human nature.
Among the oblivious are Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle and the rest of her board. Last week she announced the county’s version of what’s often called UBI — universal basic income. Under the program, the county will send monthly payments of $500 to $3,250 to its residents who successfully apply for two years. At $42 million, it’s “the largest publicly-funded guaranteed income initiative in American history,” Preckwinkle says.
UBI programs are sometimes called “free money” programs, as in this column describing 13 similar programs in certain cities around the nation. “Free money” is a fair label because that’s exactly the point — to make cash handouts with no strings attached: no work, disability or training enrollment requirements, no regard for how much the recipient is getting from other assistance program and no real questions other than household income.
Eligibility is open to anybody 18 or older with a household income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level — or about $58,000 for a family of three. About 36% of all Cook County residents will therefore be eligible, Preckwinkle says.
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New Doorbell Technology Can Deny Access to COVID-Positive People
An invention that is yet to be patented, is marketed by its author as “the world’s first Covid-19 doorbell” — a multi-biometric device called Pulse Secure Doorbell, the intellectual property (IP) of which has been offered for sale or licensing with a price tag in excess of a million dollars.
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NYC Ends Private Sector Vaccine Mandate
New York City will be ending its private sector vaccine mandate starting Nov. 1 as the city continues to lift pandemic-related restrictions.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday the mandate will end Nov. 1 for private employees but will remain in place for public employees, according to NBC 4 New York.
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Panel Splits Decision on Parole for Heath High School Shooter Michael Carneal
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will have to wait another week to learn his fate in a high-stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison.
Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. He opened fire on a prayer group killing three students and injuring five others.
Carneal was given the maximum sentence possible at the time for someone his age — life in prison but with the possibility of parole. Now at age 39, Carneal is trying to convince the parole board he deserves to be freed.
At a hearing on Tuesday, a two-person panel of the Kentucky Parole Board said they were referring his case to the full board, which meets on Monday, Sept. 26. Only the full board has the power to order Carneal to serve out his full sentence without another chance at parole.
During the hearing, Carneal pleaded his case for release. “I’ve had 25 years to prepare for today, and it still doesn’t seem like it’s happening.”
Carneal said he has been diagnosed with several mental health issues, and he admits he has long heard voices in his head — including the day of the shooting in 1997.
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Pennsylvania County Sued Over Illegal Ballot Drop Box Usage Captured on Camera
Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A conservative legal group is suing the board of elections in Pennsylvania’s Chester County, citing surveillance camera footage that captured the illegal use of ballot drop boxes.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by America First Legal (AFL) on behalf of registered voters in Chester County. The group, founded by longtime Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, said this is meant to ensure that the board adheres to Pennsylvania’s election law regarding ballot drop boxes prior to this November’s election.
Under Pennsylvania’s election code, mailed and absentee ballots have to be returned either by mail or in person by the person to whom the ballot belongs, meaning one person cannot drop more than one ballot in a drop box.
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Protesters Plan to Block Boston-Area Traffic During Wednesday Morning Commute
BOSTON — WBZ-TV has learned about a protest that could impact your Wednesday morning commute.
An environmental group claims it plans to block five major traffic routes around the greater Boston area.
The group did not say which spots it plans to block.
No further information is currently available.
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Residential Building Explodes in Chicago, Authorities Send ‘Mass Casualty Bus’
At least eight people were hospitalized Tuesday as a residential building in Chicago collapsed after a massive explosion.
Law enforcement and first responders were sent to the four-story apartment building in the city’s South Austin neighborhood shortly before 9:30am on Tuesday morning after an explosion caused the roof to collapse, ABC News reported. Three of those involved in the “mass casualty” event are in serious condition. One of the injured was in a building on the opposite side of the street when the explosion occurred, WGN9 noted.
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Rights Holders End Legal Demands for ISPs to Ban Movie Pirates From the Internet
In a surprise and for now, mysterious move by the plaintiffs, three lawsuits filed in the US based on alleged copyright violations against three telecommunications industry giants have been dismissed.
The filings, whose wording had been near-identical, wanted the courts to order AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast to cut a greater number of those identified as repeat infringers off the internet and also block more torrent sites.
But on Friday district courts in Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania received a new set of filings: this time for voluntary dismissal by the plaintiffs.
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‘Severely Decomposed’ Bodies Found in Home of Former Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Mayor: Report
Police reportedly discovered the decomposing bodies of an elderly man and woman in the home of former Woonsocket, Rhode Island, mayor Susan Menard.
The deceased were “severely decomposed” when they were discovered in the Woonsocket home Monday, according to WJAR. Authorities entered the premises in full hazmat suits, with neighbors telling WJAR there was a strong stench emanating from the home as soon as law enforcement opened the front door.
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Trump’s Truth Social is Considering Lawsuit Against SEC Over Blocked Merger
Four months ago, alternative tech platform Truth Social’s parent company Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) filed for a merger approval with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a special purpose acquisition company. According to Breitbart News, TMTG is considering taking legal action against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over delays of approval of the merger.
In its statement to Breitbart News, TMTG alleges that the delay is a result of political bias in the SEC.
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UC Berkeley Quietly Funded a Deep-Pocketed Liberal Dark Money Group Tied to ‘Defund Police’ Movement
The University of California, Berkeley sent tens of thousands of dollars in 2021 to a well-funded left wing dark money group with ties to the “defund police” movement, according to California financial records.
Berkeley gave $50,000 to Tides Advocacy Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit “committed to advancing social justice,” records obtained by the transparency watchdog OpenTheBooks show. The grant-maker, which is a pass-through for left-leaning causes, has sponsored and partnered with groups that have supported defunding police.
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Uncool: Biden Pushes Senate to Ratify Treaty That Would Raise Cost of Air Conditioning
After a hot summer with utility bills rising, reasonable people would think that President Joe Biden would want to keep air conditioning costs low for Americans.
But the Senate is poised to vote on a climate treaty that would raise those costs and put yet another notch in the belt of Biden’s whole-of-government, whole-of-the-economy climate agenda.
In his first week as president, Biden issued Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” Among the many regulatory actions it initiated, Biden’s order also directed his administration to pursue the Senate’s ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the U.N. Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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US is Set to Audit Its Online Manipulation Campaigns
Last week, Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, ordered a report of the online influence operations by the military for a review by the White House by October, in what appears to be an effort by the Biden administration to stop or, at the very least, account for the extent of such operations — according to a report by The Washington Post.
Back in 2020, The Post reported that Twitter and Facebook employees warned the Pentagon of the existence of fake accounts suspected to be created by the US military. A Facebook executive contacted the Pentagon’s head of influence operations policy, Christopher Miller, about the accounts, noting that foreign adversaries are likely to know the origins of the accounts, given that Facebook employees were able to.
The two social media platforms removed about 150 fake profiles, some masquerading as media outlets, that they suspected were created by the military for psychological operations, aka psyops. The US has long accused Russia and China of such operations.
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Video: Biden Proclaims “There’s a Through Line of Hate” In American History
During comments at the ironically titled “United We Stand” summit last week, Joe Biden declared that “hate” runs throughout American history, and once again singled out those who don’t agree with his politics as ‘violent extremists’.
“There’s a through line of hate from massacres of indigenous people to the original sin of slavery,” Biden declared.
He continued, “The terror of the clan, to anti-immigration violence against the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans. So many of those laced through our history.”
“There’s a through line of violence against religious groups anti semitic, anti Catholic, anti Mormon, anti Muslim, anti Hindu, anti Sikh,” Biden further asserted.
Biden vowed to expose “hate-fueled violence”, directly citing Trump supporters and conservatives in general.
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A watchdog group is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over its failure to release alleged Secret Service records related to a gun incident involving President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Judicial Watch in March 2021 sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Secret Service, a component of DHS, to obtain communications and records having to do with the disposal of Hunter Biden’s gun in a Delaware dumpster in October 2018. Now, the watchdog is suing DHS for not providing any records, according to a complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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‘What is Her Real Name?’: Hostin Accuses Nikki Haley of Hiding Real Name for Political Purposes
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin suggested Monday that former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is attempting to hide her ethnicity by concealing her real name.
The panel discussed potential candidates for 2024 after President Joe Biden did not definitively answer whether he will run for re-election during a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested that Haley or Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney would be qualified candidates to challenge former President Donald Trump in the GOP primary.
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‘Zuckerbucks 2.0’: Lawmakers Eye Private Money to Get Out Vote in Milwaukee Elections
Two dozen states banned the use of private money to finance election operations in response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pouring part of his $400 million fortune into the 2020 election process.
Wisconsin wasn’t one of them.
Now, an initiative to boost voter turnout called Milwaukee Votes 2022 involves some private partners, including a Democrat-aligned political communications company known as GPS Impact.
A spokesman for Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson told The Daily Signal that GPS Impact is “one of several” partners in the initiative, which Johnson announced this week at a press conference.
However, Wisconsin state lawmakers have more questions.
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Brampton Sword Fight Leads to Two Arrests: Police
In late August, a fight broke out in Brampton, Ontario among a group of men, some of whom were seen brandishing swords.
On Sunday, Peel Regional Police made a second arrest in connection with the incident.
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Vaccine Mandate for Travellers Returning From International Travel Dropping This Month
The federal government is reportedly ending vaccine discrimination for unvaccinated individuals entering Canada at the end of the month.
According to the Globe, Ottawa plans to drop COVID-19 vaccine requirement for people who enter Canada as well as use of the controversial ArriveCan app.
Currently, unvaccinated travellers entering Canada are required to quarantine for 14 days.
The changes for arrivals into Canada are planned for September 30. The changes still need to be finalized by Trudeau’s cabinet.
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German Domestic Intelligence is Running Hundreds of Fake Right-Wing Extremist Social Media Accounts
Hundreds of the radical Nazis and right-wing extremists online are actually German domestic intelligence agents, and many of them may even responsible for “inciting hatred” and even violence. These agents, who once needed to drink and directly socialize with members of the extreme right, are now running right-wing extremist accounts online in Germany.
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) argues that these accounts are needed to gather information, but critics say that they may also be promoting and actively encouraging radicalism, according to a report from German newspaper Süddeutshce Zeitung.
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Gun Control Fail: Man Gunned Down With Kalashnikov in Macron’s France
A man in the southern French city of Marseille is just the latest victim of fatal gun violence as the city continues to see gang violence carried out by those wielding illegally owned Kalashnikov-type rifles.
The fatal shooting took place on Sunday afternoon in front of a bakery in the 14th district of the city, as the victim, a 40-year man, was heading to the bakery where he worked.
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Italy Elections: Far-Right Meloni Scents Power in a Divided Country
Elections may be around the corner, but at the Ballarò market in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, the passions are not political but culinary.
Calls ring out from traders slicing fresh calamari or tempting passers-by with the delicious local speciality: arancini, or fried balls of rice and meat.
But there is little appetite for politicians here. Wandering through the narrow stalls, most of those we asked said they would not vote in the election next Sunday: disappointment, disillusionment, and dishonesty were the words we heard repeatedly.
Piling up ripe oranges and pomegranates outside her cafe, Sonia Capizzi was a rare exception: she has boycotted elections until now, but this time is different.
“I can see things are changing and it’s down to Giorgia Meloni,” she says, referencing the leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, who tops the opinion polls.
“She’s drawing me in because she’s a woman, a mum, and has grit and charisma.”
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Italy: Meloni Accuses Leftists of ‘Unprecedented Fake News’ While Declaring Herself Ready to Govern
Social conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni has declared she is ready to govern as Italy’s first female prime minister, but accused the left-wing opposition of publishing “fake news” on an “unprecedented level.”
Just a week before next weekend’s Italian national election, Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni has stated she is ready to become the country’s first female prime minister ever, stating that her first priority as leader of the Italian government will be to tackle the energy crisis driving up costs for Italian consumers and businesses.
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One of the leaders of the Polish right-wing party Confederation and former presidential candidate MP Krzysztof Bosak, blames both the Polish and Hungarian governments for having failed to veto the conditionality mechanism during the debate over the EU budget. This mechanism was activated on Sunday by the European Commission against Hungary. €7.5 billion, equalling 65 percent of the money that was supposed to be allocated to Hungary, will be blocked pending confirmation of the decision in a qualified majority vote in the European Council.
Commenting on the commission’s decision on Hungary, Bosak called it hypocritical but opined that the root of the problem was that Poland and Hungary had allowed the conditionality mechanism through, which basically makes EU funds conditional on following what Brussels wants, giving EU institutions tremendous leverage over conservative governments.
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UK: Arrested for Questioning ‘The Current Thing’
A group of protesters in the UK were arrested and imprisoned for “inciting racial hatred” because they were carrying a Russian flag.
Yes, really.
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UK: Dozens Arrested in Leicester and 16 Officers Injured as Religious Tension Reach Boiling Point
In recent days, authorities in the English city of Leicester have made more than two dozen arrests following the further escalation of violence and growing tension between the resident Hindu and Muslim religious communities, a story now receiving international attention.
The importation of migrants into Britain from South Asia, the majority of whom it is important to say are peaceful, also brings with it the area’s cultural baggage, including rising tensions between Indians and Pakistanis, de facto Hindus and Muslims.
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UK: Video: Doddering Biden Turns Up Late for Queen’s Funeral
Joe Biden and his carer wife embarrassed America on the world stage yet again Monday when they turned up late for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London.
The Bidens reportedly got stuck in traffic after the secret service refused to allow them to travel on buses with all the other heads of state and monarchs in attendance.
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Iran Protests: Women Burn Headscarves in Anti-Hijab Protests
Female protesters have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran and have been burning headscarves, after the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.
Demonstrations have continued for five successive nights, and reached several towns and cities.
Mahsa Amini died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.
In Sari, north of Tehran, large crowds cheered as women set their hijabs alight in defiant acts of protest.
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Occupied Ukrainian Regions Push Votes to Join Russia in Wake of Counteroffensives
Kremlin-controlled areas of southern and eastern Ukraine announced Tuesday they would stage votes this week on formally joining Russia, moves that were cheered in Moscow and dismissed by Kyiv and its allies as a desperate attempt to stem the tide of a successful counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops.
President Vladimir Putin meanwhile urged defense industry chiefs to boost military production and Russia’s parliament approved a bill to toughen punishments for a host of crimes, including desertion, if they are committed during periods of mobilization or martial law.
The sudden flurry of activity signaled that the Kremlin could be preparing to dramatically intensify its efforts in a conflict that has dragged on for nearly seven months and recently tilted away from its forces. Its public backers delighted in the prospect of an “all-out war” and a new confrontation with the West, which warned holding “sham” votes in those areas would represent an illegal escalation.
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Russians Living in Estonia to Have Guns Forcibly Confiscated by the Government
Russian nationals living in Estonia will have their firearms forcibly confiscated by the police if they refuse to hand them over voluntarily under a new law.
The gun confiscation measure will also apply to Belarusians living in the eastern European country.
The government has finalized the details of the bill and it will be put before the legislature, after which it is expected to be voted into law.
Asked if she expected gun owners to comply, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said it was “difficult for her to judge.”
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Ukraine War: Occupied Areas Call Urgent Vote to Join Russia
Four areas of Ukraine under Moscow’s control have announced plans for urgent so-called referendums on joining Russia, which would pave the way for Russian annexation.
Russia’s invasion has stalled in recent months and Ukraine has recaptured swathes of territory in the north-east.
Now Russian-backed officials in the east and south say they want votes on joining Russia starting this week.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, after a vote drew international condemnation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had been expected to give an address to the nation on Tuesday evening but sources close to the Kremlin indicated later that it had been postponed, with no reason given.
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Ukraine War: ‘Kremlin Wants to End’ Conflict, Kyiv Counteroffensive and Russia Referendum Calls
1. ‘Kremlin wants to end the war as soon as possible’, claims Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to exchange 200 prisoners.
Erdogan told PBS that the deal was a “significant” step forward but did not provide any further details about the agreement.
Erdogan, who met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week in Uzbekistan, has said the Kremlin “wants to end the war as soon as possible”.
The Turkish president has managed to maintain ties with Moscow and Kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
Ankara has regularly offered to mediate in the conflict “to find a deal that satisfies everyone” and returns Crimea and occupied territories to Ukraine.
Erdogan is due to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
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Extinction Rebellion is Planning to Disrupt a Major Adelaide Event
“This is serious”
A showdown looms as environmental group Extinction Rebellion prepares to blockade an important industry event, reports David Penberthy.
Penbo said during Tuesday’s Breaking @ 8 segment:
“Extinction Rebellion are cooking up a plan not just to protest at but to shut down a major conference that’s been scheduled to start in Adelaide next month.
“October 17-19 the Adelaide Convention Centre is playing host to the Asia-Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition. In the eyes of the rebels as they call themselves… this is a red rag to a bull.
“This is serious because these are major industries and as far as Extinction Rebellion is concerned they should cease to exist forthwith. It’s potentially going to be quite the showdown…”
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Brazil to Test Biometric Database for “Election Integrity”
Some of the voting machines that will be part of the integrity test in Brazil ahead of the general elections will feature biometrics, the electoral court announced.
56 of the 641 machines to be used in the test will have biometrics scanning capability, which outlines the basic ideas for a future where the state collects biometric data on every citizen, allegedly for voting purposes.
The integrity tests have been conducted ahead of every election since 2012 to mitigate election fraud.
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Cyprus Govt Picks Up 300 Migrants Put to Sea on ‘Small Wooden Boat’ By Callous People Smugglers
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has assisted in rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was floating adrift 203 kilometers (126 miles) west of the island nation, a Cypriot official said Tuesday.
Cyprus Joint Rescue Coordination Center Commander Andreas Charalambides told the Associated Press that the captain of the 18-meter (60 foot) boat sent out a distress call Monday afternoon after experiencing engine trouble.
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Exclusive: Number of Fugitives on Terror Watch List Apprehended at Border Soars 400%…
— with experts warning extremists may already be in America plotting a major attack
The number of migrants on the US terror watch list crossing illegally over the southern border has gone up by 400 percent from last year, with an expert warning that a violent extremist may already be in America planning an attack.
US Customs and Border Protection reported that 78 immigrants on the US terror watch list have been apprehended crossing over the border last year, nearly four times as much as the 15 in 2021.
Last year’s report was up from three in 2020, with the US previously reporting zero in 2019, six in 2018, and just two in 2017.
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Delaware’s Governor has said they are ‘preparing’ for any migrants that may be sent to Biden’s home state by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — as the plane which was flown into Martha’s Vineyard heads towards Georgetown airport.
DeSantis last week sparked a spectacular escalation in the ongoing immigration war between the Republican GOP’s in charge of the border states and Democrat officials in so-called ‘sanctuary cities’.
He sent 50 migrants to affluent Martha’s Vineyard, and now appears that he is sending the Ultimate Air Shuttle to Georgetown, close to President Biden’s Rehoboth home.
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Migrants File Class Action Lawsuit in Federal Court Against DeSantis
Three Venezuelan migrants filed a class action lawsuit on Tuesday against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other members of the Florida state government over their flight to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Alianza Americas (a not-for-profit immigration corporation), Yanet Doe, Pablo Doe, and Jesus Doe claim the Venezuelan immigrants were exploited “for the sole purpose of advancing their own personal, financial, and political interests,” according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts.
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Pro-Immigration Democrat Governors Horrified by Migrants in Their Midst
The Republican governor of Florida, Ron De Santis, has had enough. The southern border of the US has been overrun by illegal immigrants since US President Joe Biden took office. De Santis summarily had two migrant groups — mainly from Venezuela — flown out to the luxury island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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Sweden: Iraqi Migrant Arrested for Rape of 12-Year-Old in Stockholm
Swedish authorities arrested a middle-aged man from Iraq who is suspected of raping a pre-teen girl in Stockholm last week, according to reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded at around 4 p.m. in the capital city.
A 12-year-old girl was raped on Södermalm, an island district in central Stockholm.
“It is a girl under the age of fifteen. She belongs to the Stockholm municipality,” prosecutor Frida Vedin told Samnytt.
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The 11,110 Afghan Migrants Born on Jan 1
by Daniel Greenfield
The Biden administration brought tens of thousands of Afghans into our communities who were never properly vetted and who may not have had proper documentation to show who they are.
Last September, Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas claimed that “the federal government has been focused on the screening and vetting of individuals evacuated from Afghanistan” and that the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Defense and the FBI had “established a robust screening and vetting architecture” for the masses of Afghan migrants that Biden had brought to this country.
But the latest report from the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security reveals that the vetting of the migrants was so lacking in even basic information that 36,400 Afghans carried an unidentified document and at least 11,110 had fake birthdays.
659 of the Afghans were either missing a first or a last name. Worse still, even many of the Afghan migrants with recorded names may not be accurate. The report reveals that customs officials “had to rely on translators or interpreters to identify evacuees’ names”. Despite the claims of a robust vetting system, the process was as crude and low tech as it gets with officials using “photographs of handwritten flight manifests” as the basis for entering the names.
It would be hard to imagine a more inaccurate way to obtain any reliable information.
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Group are brought ashore by border Force as numbers landing in UK this year edges closer to 30,000
Dozens of migrants have been plucked out of the English Channel today after their vessel came into trouble while attempting the perilous 21-mile journey across the Dover Straits.
Groups of young men, women and children were pictured being brought to shore in Kent by Border Force on Tuesday morning, as the total number to arrive by small boats this year nears 30,000.
Wearing red life jackets and face masks, the migrants sailed to safety aboard the BF Defender with the help of members of the Armed Forces.
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Ukrainian Refugees Fleeing Sweden Claiming There is No Future for Them
Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion of the country to Sweden are increasingly leaving the Scandinavian country, claiming that barriers to work and language issues are preventing them from supporting themselves.
Around 45,000 Ukrainians have applied for refugee status in Sweden since the start of the Russian invasion according to the Swedish Migration Agency but already at least 4,000 have either left the country to try and settle elsewhere and seek asylum or have simply returned to their home country despite the ongoing conflict.
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Up to Half of Ukrainian Refugees Plan to Stay in Poland After the War
Nearly 48 percent of Ukrainian refugees in Poland plan to stay in the country for at least a year after the end of the war, a recent survey revealed.
The poll, conducted by the EWL agency in cooperation with the University of Warsaw, showed that 6 percent of respondents planned to stay in Poland permanently, 15 percent for several years after the war ends, and 27 percent for at least a year after the end of the fighting. Another 22 percent declared their intention to return to Ukraine as soon as possible, and 12 percent said they planned to leave Poland for another country.
Last week, Polish authorities registered 1.4 million Ukrainians who applied for temporary protection.
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Video: DeSantis Responds to Dems Deporting Martha’s Migrants; “Give Me a Break”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded Monday to the news that Democrats employed the National Guard to aid them in deporting migrants he sent from the southern border to Martha’s Vineyard.
Appearing on Fox News, DeSantis stated “They said they were a sanctuary destination. These were people who were basically destitute and then put into a situation where they could have succeeded, but that was all virtue signaling.”
DeSantis added of the Democrat leaders in Massachusetts, “not only did they not welcome them, they deported them the next day with the National Guard. Give me a break!”
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15-Year-Old Intruder Continues Stabbing Woman as She Flees Her Home, Utah Cops Say
A Taylorsville couple woke just before 4 a.m. to find a 15-year-old intruder in their home, Utah police told news outlets.
The teen began stabbing the couple before the woman escaped to a neighbor’s house and called 911 on Tuesday, Sept. 20, police told KTVX.
As she fled, the 15-year-old chased her and continued stabbing her, KSL reported. The man also called 911 from inside the home. Police later arrested the 15-year-old nearby.
“At this point, we believe it’s just a completely random act,” Sgt. Jake Hill of Taylorsville police told The Salt Lake Tribune. The teen has no connection to the couple or their home.
The man and woman, in their 30s or 40s, were taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, KSL reported.
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Ad-Blocker Adguard Struggles With Google’s Extension Rules
It was clear even when it was first announced in a paper in 2018 that Google’s Manifest V3, a new extension API for Chrome, would present a big problem for developers of extensions designed to block ads, but also trackers and certain types of malware — and for users who want improved privacy and control over their browsing experience.
Manifest V3 was first incorporated into Chrome 88 and released in January 2021. Since early 2022, new extensions using Manifest V2 are no longer accepted in the Chrome Web Store, and the last part of the phasing out of this API, which will break all extensions based on it, is expected to take place by January 2023.
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Mayor Justin Wilson of Alexandria, Virginia applauded a nearby public school district for bucking state guidelines and vowing to hide a child’s perceived gender identity from parents, according to tweets from the mayor.
Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) vowed to continue developing “gender-affirming policies” for students, according to an email to parents posted to the mayor’s Twitter account. ACPS’ email states that it will not abide by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s newly-announced “model policies” for dealing with transgender students, which asks schools to inform parents about a child’s perceived gender identity.
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Breaking: PayPal, Venmo Permanently Suspend Gays Against Groomers
The Gays Against Groomers (GAG) organization has been permanently suspended from payment processors Paypal and its subsidiary Venmo. Both companies’ reasons state that they did so because the organization’s activities are not in accordance with the processor’s User Agreement.
Posting on their Twitter account at 2:47 am GAG wrote “We have just been BANNED from Venmo and Paypal. (within minutes of each other) for ‘violating’ their user agreements.” They don’t state what in their User Agreement the organization violated. This comes just after they announced on Twitter that the organization officially registered as a non-profit and can now receive tax free donations.
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Facebook Deletes Group That Used Carrot Emojis as Code Words for the Vaccine After BBC Complains
After the War on Memes, the War on Emojis seems to be upon us. Leading the charge for now is Facebook, and the BBC.
The latter has been flagging Facebook groups that use the carrot emoji as “code” to represent the word “(Covid) vaccine,” in the context of posting testimonies about alleged harm from these vaccines. And the emoji is apparently used in a bid to avoid widespread censorship of the topic on the giant platform.
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Flemish Roman Catholic Bishops in Belgium Defy Pope, Announce Plan to Bless Same-Sex Unions
Flemish Roman Catholic bishops issued a document Tuesday allowing the church to hold blessing ceremonies for same-sex unions, in defiance of the Vatican’s ruling in March 2021.
The bishops of Flanders, the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, posted the document titled, “Being pastorally close to homosexual persons — For a welcoming Church that excludes no one,” on the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium website, which suggests a ritual for same-sex unions, including prayers and Scripture readings in order for the couple to “express before God how they are committed to one another,” the Catholic News Agency reported.
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Puberty Blockers Revealed to be Dangerous for Minors: Study
An article recently published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy charts the history of puberty blockers and shows how their use is based upon the scant evidence and how claims they are reversible and safe are “implausible.”
The use of these drugs (Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone agonist or GnRHa) began in the mid-1990s in the Netherlands but quickly caught on and was swiftly adopted by pediatric endocrinologists all over the world.
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Public Porn? German Socialist Youth Demands Public Broadcasters Show Pornography
Bizarre: The youth wing of the ruling German Social Democrats (SPD) in Berlin has called on public broadcasters to show pornography in their media catalogues, arguing broadcasters should carry “anti-racist and feminist” pornography films.
The SPD youth wing, known as the Young Socialists or “Jusos”, argues that German public broadcasters such as ARD and ZDF should buy the rights to pornography films that fit with leftist sensibilities and show feminist and anti-racist messages, claiming that normal mainstream pornography often fulfils “sexist and racist stereotypes.”
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Gay rights activist Fred Sargeant was reportedly assaulted at an LGBT event in Burlington, Vermont, for holding signs critical of the transgender movement, the 74-year-old French-American activist said Sunday on Facebook.
“So, I went to Pride to protest their misogyny, homophobia, exclusionary policies and divisiveness. I was met by screaming, multiple assaults, ageist comments, shoving, slaps to the back of my head, pouring coffee on me and repeated attempts to steal my signs,” Sergeant wrote on Facebook.
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There’s an Ideological Grooming Problem on America’s Military Bases
Educators and administrators running K-12 education on America’s military bases are indoctrinating the children of military personnel in radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and left-wing activism. In a new Claremont Institute investigative report, my colleague Scott Yenor and I document this latest evolution in America’s culture war.
This development at military-run schools tracks broader trends in American education. In recent months, Chris Rufo has exposed the rampant woke indoctrination occurring in our nation’s K-12 schools, with striking examples from Los Angeles, Portland, and San Diego. In 2020, Rod Dreher wrote about the creeping woke rot at America’s oldest military academy.
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Unilever CEO Alan Jope declared his company would “not back down” on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues during a Tuesday forum at the Clinton Global Initiative.
“In 1939, George Orwell wrote that we have sunk to such depths that stating the obvious is the first responsibility of every person and he was talking about a book on power written by Bertrand Russell,” Jope told former President Bill Clinton, according to video posted to Twitter by Will Hild of Consumers First. “But it applies to today, because stating the obvious, that we have an emergency, we have a climate emergency, is becoming an unpopular thing to do.”
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Biden’s lateness. Anyone who has been a parent knows how your child having a poo in their nappy/diaper just as you are about to leave the house causes a lot of chaos. Biden may have pooed his diaper?.
Oh what a tangled web we weave….
Concerning the Martha’s Vineyard kerfuffle – One gets the impression, though I haven’t seen it stated explicitly, that these economic sojourners had previous contact with ICE and ergo are lawful residents until adjudication of their “asylum/refugee” claims. That being the case, by what lawful authority were they removed from Martha’s (a white cis-hetero-normative colonizer oppressor) Vineyard? Were they told they were under arrest and “Mirandized”? Was it made clear to them that they 1) did not legally have to leave the Vineyard and 2) they are free to leave the NG facilities they now occupy when ever they want? But not to return to MV.
I understand the ambulance chasers are looking to make bank by suing DeSantis et.al. but it would appear MV and the state of Mass. also have accrued considerable exposer vis-à-vis civil rights violations, something other misery profiteers will hopefully soon sniff out. Do we not have a Civil Rights Division within the DoJ? Where is Saul Alinsky when you need him? hint – out back shootin’ dialectic craps with Karl and Friedrich.
Also, one MV official offered up the excuse that there was no housing or employment for them. The first is laughable, a cursory scan of the internet turns up dozens of rooms available, and their immediate deportation under color of law renders the latter moot in that they were excluded by city/state government from participating in the labor market (is that legal in the U.S.?). As an educated guess I would say at least half would have found employment, by underbidding the locals by $5 to $10 an hour, had they been allowed to compete in the labor market. But, then again, now they’ll be degrading the labor market among deplorables “over there” and so it’s all good.
In Book II, Chp VII of Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities” we find the most superb description of our rulers and their courtiers, their moral foundation – “The earth and the fulness thereof are mine, saith Monseigneur.”, and our place in their world scheme related in Chp VIII, “As to the men and women, their choice on earth was stated in the prospect–Life on the lowest terms that could sustain it, down in the little village under the mill; or captivity and Death in the dominant prison on the crag.” Our betters would forego the “that could sustain it” part, and dehumanize “men and women” to mere “deplorables”; that’s what makes MV virtue more progressive than that of Monsieur the Marquis. The more things change the more they stay the same.
In re the politically motivated assaination by motor vehicle, the driver admitted to police that he had deliberately targeted the 18 y.o. victim for a murderous assault because of his politics. This should be grounds for a charge of intentional (1st degree / capital) murder.
The killer has only been charged with vehicular homicide, which is usually charged in drunk driving cases where death results, and is the equavalent of reckless homicide (a third degree crime in most states, with a 5 to 10 year penalty, less time off), and is already free on bond, having paid $5.000 on a $50.000 bond.
It has become clear that justice for crimes against the right will no longer be had through the law. At some point, justice will be had regardless.
I agree. It seems deeply unfair that he is being charged with an accidental death arising from poor judgement due to alcohol abuse rather than an iteration of premeditated murder. If the victim recognizes the intent to kill well enough in advance to make a phone call for rescue then the perpetrator certainly was aware of his own intentions.
It may just happen that the leftist who killed that conservative boy might get the frontier justice after all, it is North Dakota and they don’t take kindly to someone killing their kid.