After a brief ceasefire, fighting has resumed between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with Israeli drones being used by Azerbaijan to destroy Armenian artillery batteries. Meanwhile, it has been revealed that officers of the Bundeswehr were guests of the Azerbaijani defense ministry just before the current conflict began.
In other news, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic warned that a great worldwide conflict may well take place within the next two months.
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£Billions: UK Govt Announces Huge Energy Price Bailouts for Businesses This Winter
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Wednesday it will cap wholesale energy bills for businesses this winter to ensure companies don’t go bust amid soaring energy prices.
Authorities said the government will pick up nearly half of all business energy bills for six months starting Oct. 1 to ensure companies “are able to get through this winter.”
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Almost a Quarter of a Million Czechs Cannot Pay for Basic Life Necessities, Survey Shows
According to the analysis of the Neviditelni (Invisibles) project, over a million Czechs are part of low-income households. Previously, they often lived paycheck to paycheck, and their situation has worsened significantly due to rising inflation. However, in many cases, social benefits would help.
Research for the Neviditelni project showed that approximately 1,153,000 people in the Czech Republic live in households that can be described as low-income. A low-income household has an income below 60 percent of the median average income per person. So, if the median income for the 1st quarter of this year is CZK 31,923, the poverty line is CZK 19,153.80.
The joint income in a family usually covers basic daily needs but does not allow you to create a financial reserve and improve your life.
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Producer prices rose 45.8 percent in August compared to the same month last year, with the jump showing the sharpest increase since records started being kept in 1949.
The incredible level of prices that companies are now paying for materials, energy, and logistics is leaving many of them with a bitter choice: Either pass prices on to consumers who can ill afford it or risk ruining their own profit margins and potentially face bankruptcy.
The number of 45.8 percent contains within it the risk of a social and economic explosion in the coming months. While producers may be paying 45.8 percent more, consumers have not yet seen that kind of increase in inflation — yet. Producer prices are generally believed to rise first before those higher costs develop into general inflation.
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Fed Again Hikes Interest Rates by 75 Basis Points in Aggressive Bid to Fight Inflation
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.75% for the third consecutive time as the central bank continues to try to tame multi-decade highs in inflation.
Three 75-basis-point rate hikes in a row is unprecedented since the Fed explicitly started targeting the federal funds rate to conduct monetary policy in the late 1980s.
The rate hike brings the central bank’s benchmark interest rate, the federal funds rate, to a new range of 3.0% to 3.25% — its highest level since 2008 — from a current range between 2.25% and 2.5%.
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Larry Summers, who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton and was a White House economic adviser to President Barack Obama, predicted Wednesday that the economy will experience a “downturn” in the coming months as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to combat inflation.
When asked about the Labor Department’s most recent consumer price index (CPI) data that revealed persistent inflation during an interview on “Bloomberg: Wall Street Week,” Summers said that he was not surprised.
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Swedish Emergency Preparedness Agency Warns Country Not Ready for Energy Crisis
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has warned that the country is not prepared for the looming energy crisis this winter, stating that businesses and vulnerable people are at major risk if electricity shortages and outages occur.
Following reports that the nuclear reactor Ringhals 4 will be offline until at least the end of January next year, the MSB has expressed concern that Sweden may not be able to supply enough energy over the course of the winter as the country will also have problems importing electricity when domestic production is not enough.
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The Biden Administration is Serious About Considering a Digital Dollar
Last week’s US Treasury Department report suggests that the Biden administration is increasingly embracing the idea of moving forward with the Federal Reserve issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) — although the decision has not yet been made.
The report is a part of several documents compiled after Biden signed an executive order in March asking that department and other relevant agencies to come up with a regulatory plan for digital assets.
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An Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs. NASA’s Dart Mission Plans to Stop the Next One
The dinosaurs never had a chance. But as of next week, maybe we will.
A NASA spacecraft moving at 4 miles per second will slam into an asteroid Monday, Sept. 26, a little after 7 p.m. Eastern Time. The pre-planned interception will be the first attempt by humans to shove a space object off its course and demonstrate the ability to deflect an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or the DART mission, led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL, for NASA, will test planetary defense. A NASA press release calls the intercept “kinetic impact deflection,” but picture it this way: They’re going to shoot an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument with a bullet the size of a vending machine.
Dr. Terik Daly, a planetary scientist on the DART mission team at Johns Hopkins APL, talked to Coffee or Die Magazine about the purpose of the mission.
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Breaking: House Invokes Jan 6 to Pass Bill Modifying Electoral College Certification Process
On Wednesday evening, the House passed a bill that aims to modify the process in which the Electoral College certifies its votes during an election season.
The Presidential Election Reform Act, or HR 8873, passed in the house chamber in a 229-203 vote, with nine Republicans voting alongside Democrats in the days, according to the Washington Post.
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Brooklyn Liberals Create Woke Neighborhood Watch in Response to Homeless Man Killing Dog
A group of Brooklyn liberals have created a neighborhood watch group in response to the recent killing of a dog by a homeless man. At their first meeting though, attendees spent less time talking about how to better serve and protect their neighborhood, and more time on expressing discomfort with policing and squabbling over the group’s name.
According to the Daily Mail the group is calling itself the Park Slope Panthers, and says that it wants to follow the model of the Guardian Angels, who guarded the New York City subway system in the 1970s and 80s. Shootings and violent crime are up in the city across the board.
“Do we want to organize a community safety patrol, and take our park back? Think what the Guardian Angels did to take back the subways in the 70s/early 80s,” group organizer Kristian Nammack write in a social media post on August 20. “We may also get to wear cool berets. I’m being serious.”
Nammack organized the group after a golden retriever mix, named Moose, was killed on August 3, after a homeless man chased down him and his owner, Jessica Chrustic, attacking both with a large stick and throwing a container of urine on the dog.
Moose died days later of internal injuries sustained in the attack.
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Chicago Stops Responding to 911 Calls After Surge During Mexican Independence Day Celebrations
On Friday, Chicago police officers from the force’s Central and Near North districts were out in full force patrolling the numerous Mexican Independence Day events being held throughout the downtown core.
With fewer people available to man the call center, as the night progressed, the number of 911 calls became overwhelming to a point where Chief Angel Novalez instructed a dispatcher to deal with a portion of the backlog.
According to CWB Chicago, at around 3 am on Saturday, staff was finally able to take new calls, at which point Novalex told the dispatcher to “code out” any that were over two hours old and didn’t involve a situation with a physical injury.
In audio obtained by CrimeIsDown.com, the dispatcher can be heard telling Novalez that “most everything” on his call-board was over three hours old.
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Cowboys for Trump Cofounder Appeals Ruling Removing Him From Office Over Jan 6 Participation
A New Mexico county commissioner who was removed from office by a judge for attending the January 6 Capitol Hill riot is appealing the decision to the state Supreme Court.
Cowboys for Trump co-founder and former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin notified the high court on Tuesday of his intent to appeal a ruling earlier this month that removed him from his position as an elected official in Southern New Mexico.
New Mexico State District Court Judge Francis Mathew issued the original ruling that bars Griffin from holding office or running for future office, claiming that he participated in an “insurrection after taking his oath” at the U.S. Capitol which violates Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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Fauci Laughed in Private Over His Own Mask Guidance According to New Book
Top health advisor to President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, privately mocked the public for listening to his advice on mask-wearing, according to a new book by former White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern.
“[Fauci] went on to laugh about how ‘ass-backward’ it was that people entered a restaurant wearing a mask, then sat down and conversed with people without a mask. [Yet] he wasn’t saying things to that effect publicly, just laughing privately at the American rubes he was fooling,” Morgenstern wrote in an excerpt for an upcoming book, according to Outkick.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Federal School Mask and Vaccine Mandate for Head Start Program
A federal judge in Louisiana on Wednesday struck down a federal school mask and vaccine mandate.
U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty in Lafeyette, Louisiana ruled that the federal government cannot push a COVID-19 vaccine or mask mandate for Head Start program teachers, staff, and volunteers as well as all students and adults.
“The public has a liberty interest in not being required to take a vaccine or be fired from their jobs. The public interest must be taken into account before allowing Agency Defendants to mandate vaccines,” Doughty said.
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Florida officials announced they shut down a major fentanyl trafficking operation, seizing enough fentanyl to kill 4 million people, the Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday.
State Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Office of Statewide Prosecution and Clay County’s Sheriff’s Office cooperated on an investigation that led to two arrests, collecting 8.35 kilograms of fentanyl,1.36 kilograms of cocaine and 2.38 kilograms of methamphetamine. The two suspects appear to have been at the top of the distribution chain as they “ordered and then distributed large quantities of fentanyl to other dealers in Clay and Duval counties,” according to a press release.
Police arrested Alvin “AJ” Mercado and Jason Setzer on Sept. 10.
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Houston Suspect Tells Fast-Food Employees it’s His First Robbery, Leaves Empty-Handed, Police Say
A man walked into a Houston fast-food restaurant and told employees it was his first robbery and ended up leaving empty-handed, police said.
The bizarre incident happened Sunday after 6 p.m. in the 8000 block of Howard, Houston police said in a press release.
An unknown individual entered the restaurant, walked up to an employee standing behind the counter and asked for change for $100. As the employee turned around to ask his manager, the wannabe robber displayed a handgun, told the employees it was his first robbery and demanded money from the register.
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Hundreds of Workers Left Twitter in the Weeks Following Elon Musk’s Meeting With Employees
If you’re interesting in knowing how the snowflakes employees at Twitter have been handling the Elon Musk takeover drama over the last few months, the answer appears to be… not well.
While the drama of the Twitter vs. Elon Musk trial continues to play out in Delaware Chancery Court, a new report dropped this weekend that “hundreds” of Twitter employees have reportedly left the company since June, about the time that the Musk drama began to hit a fever pitch.
June marked the point in the saga where Elon Musk, two months after he announced his plans to acquire the company, spoke directly to employees, according to Insider. Topics at the meeting included everything from aliens to potential layoffs, the report says.
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‘I’m Not Moving, And I’ve Got Guns’: Drug Dealer Stakes Claim to Seattle Business
Robert, the owner of Yellow Butterfly Coffee in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, feared for his life last Monday and again Thursday when a suspected drug dealer refused to move from his preferred spot on 3rd Ave.
The man sold drugs outside the coffee shop for about five years. Robert finally had enough and asked him to move someplace else.
“He says, ‘I’m not moving, and I got guns.’ Today, the same guy, he threatens me with a gun,” Robert told KTTH.
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Man Convicted of Shooting 2 Indiana Judges in Street Dispute
A man who shot and wounded two southern Indiana judges outside an Indianapolis fast food restaurant in 2019 has been convicted on seven of eight felonies and one misdemeanor
INDIANAPOLIS — A man who shot and wounded two southern Indiana judges outside an Indianapolis fast food restaurant in 2019 was convicted Wednesday on seven of eight felonies and one misdemeanor after a three-day trial.
A jury convicted Brandon Kaiser of aggravated battery, multiple battery-related charges and carrying a handgun without a license. He was acquitted on one count of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury.
David Margerum, Kaiser’s attorney, told WRTV-TV that Kaiser was taken into custody after the verdict. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 21.
Clark County Circuit judges Brad Jacobs and Andrew Adams were shot during the early morning hours of May 1, 2019 in the parking lot of a downtown White Castle restaurant. Another judge, Sabrina Bell of Crawford County, was with Jacobs and Adams at the time.
Kaiser claimed he was acting in self-defense against the group of judges, who were in town for a conference, and court documents claimed Bell flipped off Kaiser and his nephew.
Adams accepted a plea agreement to plead guilty to battery resulting in bodily injury in September 2019. Under the plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to dismiss six additional charges against the judge. He received a suspended sentence of 365 days.
The Indiana Commission of Judicial Qualifications filed disciplinary charges against the three judges involved. Jacobs and Bell were reinstated to the bench in December of that year after serving 30-day suspensions. Adams was ordered to serve a 60-day suspension.
Bell resigned from the bench on July 15 after the Indiana Supreme Court suspended her when a special prosecutor filed felony charges against her related to a domestic dispute.
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MSNBC, CNN Guest Roasted After Calling Evangelical Prayer-Hands ‘Nazi Salute’
A lawyer and recurring guest on MSNBC and CNN has come under fire after claiming in a viral tweet that Doug Mastriano supporters were giving ‘a Nazi salute’ during a Sunday campaign rally in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Evangelical leader Lance Wallnau asked the crowd to rise, and asked them “if a proclamation can be a spiritual thing,” before asking them to raise their hands for a prayer rally in support of Mastriano’s run for PA Governor.
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North Dakota Man Who Ran Down ‘Republican’ Teen Says He Doesn’t Want His Own Life, Job Jeopardized
The North Dakota man accused of killing a teenage boy with his car following a “political argument” said he didn’t understand the charges against him during a recent court appearance.
Shannon Brandt, 41, spent just days in a Stutsman County Jail on criminal charges related to the death of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson before he posted his $50,000 bond and was released, according to county jail records.
He is charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident.
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PayPal Bans the Free Speech Union, The Daily Sceptic, And Toby Young
US tech giant PayPal has shut down multiple accounts associated with the Free Speech Union (FSU), a UK group that protects those who are at risk of being penalized for exercising their right to free speech, and its founder, Toby Young.
Young said PayPal started “initiating closure” of his personal account, the account for his news website the Daily Sceptic, and the Free Speech Union last Thursday.
The FSU founder added that PayPal claimed the accounts had violated its “Acceptable Use Policy” but provided “no further details” on the alleged violations. When he tried appealing to PayPal’s customer services, Young said he “got nowhere.”
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Police Identify 15 Arrested in Connection With Climate Protests That Blocked Boston Streets
BOSTON — A group of climate activists in Boston blocked several major traffic routes in the city on Wednesday in an effort to raise attention to the “climate emergency” and to pressure Massachusetts lawmakers to ban new fossil-fuel infrastructure.
Boston and state police took at least 15 people into custody after demonstrations throughout the city during the morning commute.
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Polls: Americans Oppose Increasing Ukraine Aid, Defending Global Democracy
Authored by Kyle Anzalone & Connor Freeman via The Libertarian Institute
Two new polls from Morning Consult and Concerned Veterans for America show at least a plurality of Americans are tired of interventionism. The results show twice as many Americans want to send less aid to Ukraine than those who would support sending more. Meanwhile, only 17% of Americans are concerned about defending democracy around the globe.
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Rantz: Democrats Quietly Releasing Murderers From Jail, Showing No Concern
Through a series of laws, Washington Democrats have given the state’s most dangerous criminals a chance at freedom. They are effectively releasing murderers without any remorse.
The latest degenerate to get out of jail early is a man who murdered a 14-year-old girl after she fought his attempted rape. Democrats passed a bill knowing it would help this monster. It will be the second time he’s escaped a life sentence.
But Democrats don’t want to speak about what they’re doing ahead of the midterms. Indeed, one lawmaker’s communications director asked a reporter to check back after the election for a comment.
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Rantz: Parents Say School ‘Totally Duped’ Son Into Radical CRT History Class
One Bellevue High School student was ready for his U.S. history class, but he soon discovered the class wasn’t what he signed up for. Instead, it was a radical history course taught through critical race theory, identity, and socialist lenses.
“Totally duped. And I worry about other parents who didn’t do the research that I did to get a real-life understanding of what ‘U.S. history’ class they’re taking,” the student’s mother, Michelle, told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
The student’s history teacher sent home a course syllabus. It names the course “Decolonizing U.S. History.” But the student’s schedule, provided to the Jason Rantz Show, labels it “U.S. American History.”
Michelle and her husband Cal took a deeper look at what was taught in this class. They were livid. And now, their son must take a course outside the school in order to graduate.
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Rantz: Seattle Police Department ‘Screwed’ as ‘Catastrophic’ Losses Continue
As the city of Seattle experiences historically high crime, its police department continues to dwindle and recruitment efforts continue to fail. One former King County Sheriff puts it bluntly: “we’re screwed.”
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) lost six officers in August, according to a police source, bringing the year’s total separations to 122 and nearly 500 since the city council opted to defund the police department in 2020. What’s more alarming is the 350 officers that will be eligible for retirement at the end of the year. If even a fraction leaves the department, Seattle may not have a fully functioning police department.
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Republican Representing Waukesha Introduces Bill Targeting ‘Pro-Criminal, Weak Bail Laws’
FIRST ON FOX: The House Republican who represents the district where a man with a criminal history allegedly drove his car through a Waukesha, Wisconsin, parade last year introduced bail reform legislation Wednesday.
The Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act, introduced by Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., would punish jurisdictions — like New York City, Los Angeles and Baltimore — that have eliminated or restricted the use of monetary bail systems. The bill would aim to prevent future crimes committed by individuals who have been released without bail for previous crimes.
“Nearly a year ago, the Waukesha community experienced the devastating impact of pro-criminal, weak bail laws,” Fitzgerald told Fox News Digital. “Our community lost 6 lives, including an eight-year-old child, in a Christmas parade attack that could have been prevented.”
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Study Says Nuclear War Would Cause Apocalyptic New Ice Age
A new study says that a nuclear war would cause global temperatures to plunge by about 13 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius), triggering a ‘Nuclear Little Ice Age’ that would lead to mass starvation.
The study, conducted by researchers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, cautioned that a nuclear conflict would devastate the world’s oceans, with the effects being felt for thousands of years.
Whether through a deliberate act of war, an accidental detonation, or a hacking breach, the detonation of a nuclear arsenal anywhere in the world would spread into the upper atmosphere and impact everyone on the planet.
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They’re Not Making Minnesotans Like They Used to. (They’re Making Somalis)
You know, in this century it often seems like fraud rings tend to be heavy on the Diverse.
But now federal prosecutors in Minnesota have filed United States v. Aimee Marie Bock, et al. for stealing $240 million of COVID relief by making up the names of vast numbers of children their purported charities supposedly fed 125 million meals. Ms. Bock, however, looks like the boring old Minnesotans I used to know back when Minnesota wasn’t battling Wisconsin for the title of iSteve Content Generator State of the Year.
Here are the Minnesota defendants:
Aimee Marie Bock, Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, Salim Ahmed Said, Abdulkadir Nur Salah, Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim, Abdi Nur Salah, Abdihakim Ali Ahmed, Ahmed Mohamed Artan, Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud, Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, Asad Mohamed Abshir, Hamdi Hussein Omar, Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi, Abdirahman Mohamud Ahmed, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, Mohamed Jama Ismail, Mahad Ibrahim, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, Said Shafii Farah, Abdiwahab Maalim Aftin, Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff, Hayat Mohamed Nur, Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud, Filsan Mumin Hassan, Guhaad Hashi Said, Abdullahe Nur Jesow, Abdul Abubakar Ali, Yusuf Bashir Ali, Haji Osman Salad, Fahad Nur, Anab Artan, Awad Farhiya Mohamud, Liban Yasin Alishire, Ahmed Yasin Ali, Khadar Jigre Adan, Sharmake Jama, Ayan Jama, Asha Jama, Fartun Jama, Mustafa Jama, Zamzam Jama, Bekam Addissu Merdassa, Hadith Yusuf Ahmed, and Hanna Marekegn.
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A man in Minnesota allegedly attacked a train engineer, who bit the man’s hand before jumping off the moving locomotive.
Police charged Samuel David Hohman with second-degree assault and criminal property damage for allegedly pulling a knife on the engineer, FOX 9 reported.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump slammed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against him as “ridiculous,” maintaining he and his family have done nothing wrong. Trump added that crime in New York is at the “highest level it has ever been” because the attorney general has spent her time in office “fighting Trump” and urged officials to “focus on people who kill people.”
James’ office on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Trump and his children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, as well as his associates and businesses, alleging “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” regarding financial statements.
James alleged Trump “inflated his net worth by billions of dollars” and said his children helped him to do so.
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Video: Rand Paul Blasts Biden as ‘Not in Charge of White House or His Own Wits’
GOP Senator Rand Paul noted Tuesday that Joe Biden’s own officials are directly contradicting him after Biden declared the COVID pandemic to be over.
“This may come as a surprise to you, but I am not sure that Joe Biden is fully in charge of the government — or fully in charge of his wits, for that matter,” Paul said during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters
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Ottawa Cop Charged With Donating to Civil Liberties Protests
An officer of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) is facing discreditable conduct charges because she donated to the Freedom Convoy protest in February. If found guilty, Constable Kristina Neilson could be demoted or fired.
According to a report by the CBC, the OPS claims that on February 5 Neilson donated to the Freedom Convoy, a protest against Covid mandates in February. According to the OPS, the donation was an act of “disorderly manner,” and that she did it knowing that the OPS was against the “illegal occupation.”
In March, the OPS announced that it would investigate any member of the force who contributed to the protest.
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Trudeau is Missing as Parliament Officially Resumes
Parliament has finally resumed in Canada, and Justin Trudeau is missing in action while he attends the UN General Assembly in New York.
After that, he’ll travel to Japan to attend the funeral of assassinated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Canadian MPs gathered in Parliament today for the first time since they broke for summer in late June. Additionally, it was the first time Pierre Poilievre attended Parliament since he was elected the Conservative party leader on September 10.
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EU Sends €5 Billion to Ukraine While Threatening to Block €7.5 Billion From Hungary
While threatening to withhold €7.5 billion in funding from member state Hungary over corruption and “rule of law” concerns, the European Council has just approved a €5 billion installment to Ukraine despite the country being labeled one of the most corrupt nations in the entire world even before the war.
The latest batch of funds to Ukraine represents the second tranche of a total of €9 billion in planned assistance, with the €5 billion representing the largest installment of the macro-level financial support approved in June for the reconstruction of Ukraine and the repayment of its international loans.
In contrast, Hungary, which is an actual European Union member that is well-integrated into the European economy and manufacturing chain, has been frozen out of the EU Recovery Funds meant to help nations recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Member states of the European Union have revived the debate on whether to introduce majority voting on some issues of foreign or security policy instead of the current need for the unanimous consent of all members.
Several ministers responsible for European affairs made it clear at the meeting in Brussels that, for example, the new system would simplify the acceptance of sanctions. However, Hungary and some other countries have consistently refused to support such an amendment to the rules, the introduction of which still requires unanimous consent.
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Germany’s Conservative AfD Party Receives Electoral Boost With Anti-Sanctions Policy
Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been given a substantial boost by its anti-sanctions policy while also condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, daily Magyar Nemzet writes.
AfD, which won 10 percent of the vote in last September’s German elections, now stands at 14 percent in recent polls.
“Even if the gas tanks are full, we will only have enough gas for three months. What comes next? Instead of ideology, a real policy based on facts should be pursued,” AfD MP Steffen Kotré told the Russian news agency TASS, referring to the fact that Germany, like other EU countries, may face an energy shortage in the winter due to the sanctions.
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Le Pen Party Mayor Forced to Attend Wedding Under Police Protection Due to Threats
A French mayor and member of populist Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) has expressed anger after requiring police protection to attend a wedding due to threats from an individual recently released from prison.
National Rally politician Julien Sanchez, the mayor of Beaucaire, denounced French “judicial laxity” on social media, claiming that he required a police escort comprising of around 15 officers in order to safely attend a recent wedding after he had received threats from an individual released from prison at the start of the summer.
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Orban: ‘Dwarfs Want to Put Pressure on an Energy Giant’
The EU is targeting Hungary again. Brussels has now cleared the way for massive financial sanctions against Budapest as a tit-for-tat for Hungarian foreign policy, which includes strict neutrality on the issue of Russia sanctions and continuous gas supply contracts with Gazprom.
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Poland’s Industrial Output Growth ‘Exceeded Expectations’ Of Economists
Industrial sales in Poland in August increased by 10.9 percent compared to August a year before and rose 0.7 percent compared to July, according to Statistics Poland (GUS) data. Experts believe this indicates that a technical recession in the coming months in Poland is becoming less likely.
Mariusz Zielonka, economic expert at the Leviathan Confederation, said that “the result surprised economists and exceeded their expectations,” adding that Polish industry managed to adapt to the changing conditions of the market and decreasing demand.
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Scotland: Monarchy Protest Incident to be Reviewed
At least one incident during protests following the death of the Queen in Scotland is to be reviewed, the justice secretary has confirmed.
Police Scotland has faced criticism over arrests during events in Edinburgh to commemorate the late monarch.
Keith Brown was asked at Holyrood whether the force’s response was “heavy-handed”.
He said he would discuss the matter with the chief constable, and said officers had done a “superb job”.
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Brexit leader Nigel Farage told Breitbart News that while new UK Prime Minister doesn’t on paper look like an obvious candidate for his support, he wants to give the leader a chance to actually deliver on her Thatcherite rhetoric.
While Prime Minister Liz Truss has a deeply questionable past politically and comparatively speaking has a very low public profile even inside the United Kingdom, Brexit leader Nigel Farage says he believes it is right to give people another chance if they genuinely change their minds, and he is enthusiastic about what Truss now claims to believe.
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UK: Just Stop Oil ‘Sorry’ For Leaving Plastic Rubbish Near Protest Site on Farm
Campaign group Just Stop Oil have apologised for leaving plastic rubbish near a protest site on a farm, prompting accusations of hypocrisy.
Charles Goadby, a farmer, said he had found a pile of plastic bottles, chairs and other rubbish near a tunnel dug by a group of protesters in an effort to block the Kingsbury Oil Terminal in Warwickshire.
Mr Goadby accused the group of “destroying the countryside and putting our wildlife at risk with rubbish” in a video on Twitter.
“What I want to know from somebody senior at Just Stop Oil is, how is this acceptable?” he said. “How can you justify this?”
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UK: Man, 90, Spared Jail for Stabbing Unwell Wife
A 90-year-old man who repeatedly stabbed his blind ailing wife after she woke him up one night has been given a suspended prison sentence.
Edward Turpin, of Orpington, south-east London, got a carving knife from the kitchen and attacked Joan Turpin, 90, in bed at their home in September 2021.
He was previously cleared of attempted murder and wounding with intent, but convicted of reckless wounding.
Turpin was jailed at the Old Bailey for two years, suspended for two years.
The pair had been married for more than 60 years and Joan Turpin had become increasingly dependent on her husband.
The retired butcher told the court he had stabbed her in an attempt to calm her down and make her stop screaming.
Turpin, who also injured himself with the carving knife, told jurors “the last thing” he would ever want to do was harm his wife, who is blind and needs a catheter.
“I just love my wife and when you get married, for better or for worse, OK, if it turns out it’s a bit worse, I’ll carry on,” he said.
Turpin was sentenced in his absence after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection and pneumonia.
His wife has been in a care home since the knife attack and is only able to speak to her husband over the telephone.
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Serbian President Warns of “Great World Conflict” Within Two Months
The President of Serbia has warned that the planet is entering into a “great world conflict” that could take place within the next two months.
Aleksandar Vucic made the alarming comments during the first day of the UN General Assembly session in New York.
“You see a crisis in every part of the world,” Vucic told the Serbian state broadcaster RTS.
“I think realistic predictions ought to be even darker,” he added. “Our position is even worse, since the UN has been weakened and the great powers have taken over and practically destroyed the UN order over the past several decades.”
The Serbian leader cautioned that the war between Russia and Ukraine had moved on to a far deadlier phase.
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Internet Restricted in Iran as Anti-Government Protests Intensify
Protests over the death of a woman in police custody in Iran last week intensified on Wednesday as unrest spread to dozens of cities.
Driving the news: Mahsa Amini, 22, died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating a religious law requiring women to wear a headscarf.
Police claimed Amini was not mistreated and that she died of a heart attack. Her family has expressed doubts over that claim, AP reports.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who was in New York on Wednesday for the UN General Assembly, has ordered an investigation into Amini’s death.
The big picture Hengaw, a Kurdish human rights group, said Wednesday seven protesters have been killed and hundreds of others injured since the demonstrations began last Friday. Hundreds have also been arrested, the group added.
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Putin Announces Partial Mobilization in Ukraine War Escalation, Says West Wants to “Destroy Russia”
In a nationwide address that was delayed from its prime-time Tuesday delivery and ahead of votes in four Ukraine regions to join Russia, on Wednesday morning Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization, while vowing to use all means necessary to defend Russia and pledged to annex the territories already occupied by Russia, raising the stakes in the seven-month-old conflict.
Calling the moves “urgent, necessary steps to defend the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Russia,” Putin said that Russia is fighting the full might of NATO. The US and its allies, he said, are seeking to “destroy” Russia.
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Putin at War With All of EU — Spanish PM
Russia is not just fighting Ukraine, but the entire European Union, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proclaimed in an interview with Politico on Tuesday.
He added that Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine is failing and has only managed to make the bloc stronger.
Speaking ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Spanish premier stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin was using “energy as a war tool,” because he is “threatened by the EU’s Values,” Politico reports.
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Ukraine Conflict: Russia Arrests Hundreds at Anti-War Protests
Russian police are reported to have arrested hundreds of protesters rallying against the Kremlin’s decision to call up thousands of extra troops to fight in Ukraine.
Russian human rights group OVD-Info put the total at more than 1,000. The largest numbers arrested were in St Petersburg and Moscow.
Dozens were held in Irkutsk and other Siberian cities, and Yekaterinburg.
Flights out of Russia sold out fast after Vladimir Putin’s announcement.
Russia’s president ordered a partial mobilisation, meaning some 300,000 military reservists — but not conscripts — will be drafted to bolster Russia’s forces who have suffered recent battlefield reverses in Ukraine.
The move came a day after occupied areas of Ukraine announced snap referendums on joining Russia.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy Lays Out Peace Formula as Arrests at Russia Anti-War Protests Pass 1,000
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is speaking virtually to the UN general assembly in New York.
“Ukraine wants peace. Europe wants peace. The world wants peace. And we have seen who is the only one who wants war. There is only one entity among all UN member states who would say now if he could interrupt my speech that he is happy with this war, with his war,” he said.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan Resume Fighting: Watch the Israeli Harop Destroy Armenian S-300 Batteries
Armenia and Azerbaijan have recently experienced, once again, a round of fighting along the border between them. And as usual, the Azeri army was the first to pull out its loitering munition, manufactured by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) — the Harop drone. This loitering munition is designed to destroy mostly radars, and videos which have surfaced across the web show the Harop drones…
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Bundeswehr Officers in Azerbaijan
A few days ago, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh became “hot” again. A ceasefire agreed on Thursday could prove fragile. The flare-up of the military conflict is particularly explosive in view of the most recent developments in the Ukraine war.
What the German left-wing politician and member of parliament Sevim Dagdelen has now announced to the public is even more explosive: Just a few days before the start of hostilities, a group of Bundeswehr officers were guests of the Azerbaijani defense ministry.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
India: Neighbor Ruby Bibi Arrested for Murdering Child Shuvam Thakur in Shantiniketan (West Bengal)
5-year-old Shuvam’s dead body found throat slit on the roof top of neighbour Ruby Bibi’s house in Shantiniketan (WB). Police arrested Ruby, public set fire to Ruby’s house.
Moldanga (Shantiniketan) | Sept 21, 2022:: The situation in Santiniketan is as on fire. A Muslim neighbor accused of kidnapping and murdering a five-year-old Hindu child. Agitated local residents vandalized the house of the accused and set it on fire. Locals claim that the child went missing after leaving the house on Sunday. His body was recovered from the roof of the accused neighbor’s house on Tuesday. Allegedly, the woman neighbor killed the Hindu child out of a family feud. After that the situation became fiery. The accused neighbor named Ruby Bibi was arrested by Birbhum Police.
The situation is just unbelievable that the Islamic mentality for the neighbors reached such a heinous level for which even a Muslim women couldn’t hesitate to murder a child of 5 yrs after a throat silt and put that body on the house roof covering under gunny bags.
The role of the police in the case of the recovery of the child’s body from the roof of the neighbor’s house in Shantiniketan is obviously to face many questions. The locals are questioning why it took 52 hours for the police to recover the body of the victim child named Shuvam Thakur from the neighboring house. They claimed that the police already knew that the body was in Ruby Bibi’s house. They didn’t reveal it because of the public outrage.
A 5-year-old child, Shuvam Thakur, a resident of Moldanga village in Shantiniketan, went missing around 10 am last Sunday. Shuvam went to a nearby shop to buy some biscuit. Shivam’s family approached the police station complaining of the kidnapping of their son against the neighbor Ruby Bibi. After that, the police started searching. Police dogs were brought and searched the area.
The police are interrogating the accused to know why he killed the child. On the other hand, local residents who were protesting demanded to hand over the culprit lady to the mob.
BJP Locket Chatterjee faced a protest while she was heading towards Moldanga in Shantiniketan to meet the parents of Shuvam Thakur. Chatterjee told the media persons that the TMC cadres created chaos to prevent her entry into the village. The BJP leader started protesting in front of Shantiniketan police station expressing his anger against the administration under TMC control. She also hinted at the nexus between Police and TMC to delay the recovery of the body of Shuvam from next door neighbor’s house.
In assembly, BJP walked out demanding resignation of Police Minister for the murder of Shuvam Thakur. Leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari expressed his concerned stating, ‘the Mamata Banerjee Govt in West Bengal is siding with the murderer of Shuvam, Rubi Bibi for TMC’s appeasement policy for Muslim Vote bank ‘.
| — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari | [Return to headlines] |
Japan Makes Big Steps Towards a Cashless Society
If all goes to plan, by the spring of next year, companies in Japan will be able to use a system to pay salaries digitally, bypassing bank accounts and using payment apps instead.
This is the Japanese government’s plan that shows the country is trying to catch up with others in Asia when it comes to moving towards a cashless society, says a piece published on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website.
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50 More Illegal Immigrants Arrive at ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris’ Home
Another 50 illegal immigrants arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence, near the US Naval Observatory on Saturday, courtesy of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
In an effort to curb the negative impact of the masses of migrants that pour over the US-Mexico border into his state, the Republican governor has bussed groups of them to sanctuary cities, namely New York City and Washington, DC. Lately, however, he’s been specifically targeting the vice president’s home, highlighting her inaction in the border crisis.
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The activist group at the center of a class-action lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials for migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard has received nearly $1.4 million from George Soros’ Open Society network.
Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas, according to a press release Tuesday that described the latter group as “a network of migrant-led organizations supporting immigrants across the United States.”
Alianza Americas has received a total of $1,383,947 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2016 and 2020, OSF’s records show.
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The former Democratic mayor of Del Rio, Texas stressed Wednesday the importance of immigration reform as migrants continue to flood the southern border in record numbers.
“It’s hard to believe that a year ago to the day, we had about 17,000 people underneath the international border crossing here in Del Rio, Texas. And it was then that I was calling an urgent call to the administration. And we still call an urgent call now,” Bruno Lozano told “Fox & Friends First,” calling it “heartbreaking” that the crisis facing border communities isn’t receiving more attention.
The number of migrant encounters at the southern border rose to over 200,000 in August, as the border faced an increase in migrants coming from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, which officials said was driving a “new wave of migration” across the Hemisphere.
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He Can’t Keep Getting Away With It
Diversity is a strength, refugees welcome!…unless they get anywhere near wealthy, elitist, leftist-run luxury islands.
Then they’re swiftly deported within 48 hours.
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Homeland Security Has Been Secretly Copying Phones for Nearly 2 Decades
Entering the US illegally and without scrutiny has become as easy as a short walk across the border.
But legally entering the country means that your basic constitutional rights are circumscribed. That legal loophole is what allows the Customs and Border Protection service to elude 4th Amendment protections against illegal searches and seizures.
Law enforcement agencies must show probable cause and persuade a judge to approve a search warrant before searching Americans’ phones. But courts have long granted an exception to border authorities, allowing them to search people’s devices without a warrant or suspicion of a crime.
CBP officials have relied on that exception to support their collection of data from travelers’ phones. Sens. Wyden and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill last year that would require border officials to get a warrant before searching a traveler’s device.
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A suspected migrant smiled and gave the cameras a double-thumbs up as he was one of dozens of people brought to shore in Dungeness this morning.
Groups of young men, women and children — including babies — were pictured being transported to land on the Kent coast by the RNLI on Wednesday morning, as the total number to arrive by small boats this year nears 30,000.
People wearing winter coats, some carrying youngsters, climbed down a ladder from a packed RNLI lifeboat and on to the beach. They then boarded buses and were taken to be processed.
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Now Congress Wants to Investigate Ron Desantis’ Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Flight
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson drafting letter to Homeland Security to urge them to look into whether Florida Gov. broke the law
Democrats in Congress are considering opening at least two investigations into Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sending a migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard as the battle heats up over the transportation of asylum-seekers away from border states to sanctuary states.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson is drafting a letter seeking information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about DeSantis’ transportation of migrants by plane, according to a Politico reporter.
The Mississippi Democrat also said that another unidentified committee could open a probe into the financing of Desantis’ flight to the wealthy island off the coast of Massachusetts.
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Video: Even the Democrat Sheriff ‘Investigating’ DeSantis Agrees the Border is Not Secure
The Democrat sheriff of Bexar County in Texas who claims to be criminally investigating Florida governor Ron DeSantis admitted Tuesday that assertions made by Biden officials that the border is secure are patently false.
As we highlighted yesterday, Javier Salazar announced that he has opened an investigation into DeSantis sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, prompting DeSantis and his office to respond that “Immigrants have been more than willing to leave Bexar County after being abandoned, homeless, and ‘left to fend for themselves.’ Florida gave them an opportunity to seek greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them, as we expected.”
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Author of the newspaper comic strip “Dilbert” Scott Adams has revealed that his work has been removed from nearly 80 markets.
Speaking with Fox News, Adams revealed that “Dilbert,” a comic that he has written and illustrated since 1989, is no longer being printed by Lee Enterprises, which owns nearly 100 papers across the country.
“It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess,” Adams told Fox News.
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Nurse Faces Trial in BC for Saying Biological Sex is Real
The disciplinary hearing of a Canadian nurse under investigation for allegedly transphobic social media activity got underway today in British Columbia.
Amy Hamm is a nurse in Vancouver, a single mother of two children, founding member of the Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) group, and frequent contributor to The Post Millennial. Over the past six years, she has written and spoken about what she believes to be the harmful impact of gender-identity ideology on women and children.
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Seattle-Area School Tries to Ban Saying “Biological Male”
In case nobody sent you a greeting card to remind you, March 31st was “Transgender Visibility Day.” (Don’t feel too bad. I didn’t get a card either.) While it’s difficult to imagine transgender activists and their cult being any less visible than they are on every cable news channel in the country, some public schools set aside special times and activities to commemorate the occasion. That included Lynnwood High School in the greater Seattle area. But simply putting up some signs or posters and having a parade wasn’t enough at Lynnwood. The “counseling secretary” for the school wanted to ensure that the faculty altered their language to avoid inadvertently giving offense to anyone. So she sent out a memo warning the staff that there are certain words and phrases they were no longer allowed to use. These included “biological male” and “biological female,” but there were many more entries on the list.
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Transgender Historical Revisionism
by Daniel Greenfield
Social media users ridiculed a recent Scientific American documentary claiming that, “before the late 18th century, Western science recognized only one sex—the male” and that “the two-sex model served mainly to reinforce gender and racial divisions.”
The contention that women didn’t exist until the 18th century is absurd and is also being taught in classrooms at both the most advanced and the most basic levels. Like critical race theory, it’s based on academic works that steadily gained influence during the last three decades while few outside academia noticed the normalization of their presence.
Now at Johns Hopkins you can find a class on “The Gender Binary and American Empire” which contends that “the sex and gender binary was produced out of colonialism and statecraft in Americas and particularly through US imperialism” while PBS tells school students that “on nearly every continent, and for all of recorded history, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders.”
This historical revisionism isn’t isolated to the classroom, textbooks or social media. Anthropologists are being pressured to stop identifying bodies in tombs as male or female. Historical figures like Joan of Arc are being posthumously redefined as transgender. The overriding goal is to reimagine a history in which men and women didn’t exist until being “invented” by imperialistic westerners to repress the non-westerners they were colonizing…
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(LifeSiteNews) — Fox News host Tucker Carlson exposed the claim that transgender surgeries prevent suicidality, arguing that those who have obtained the destructive operations are actually far more likely to commit suicide than those who don’t.
In a clip posted to social media by The Daily Caller on Monday, Carlson said activists “with a sexual agenda, not a political agenda, have pushed so hard to make” transgender surgery “legal and then fashionable that we’ve ignored it. But the numbers have been there.”
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has deleted the website of their Transgender Clinic after journalist Matt Walsh detailed a doctor’s promotion of transgender surgeries as a “big money maker” for the institution.
Videos obtained by Walsh also show apparent threats made against VUMC medical professionals who objected to the procedures, even for religious reasons.
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Re: “After a brief ceasefire, fighting has resumed between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with Israeli drones being used by Azerbaijan to destroy Armenian artillery batteries. ”
It is a stain upon the moral standing of Israel in the international community that it is siding with the Turks and Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The Israelis know – or ought to – more than any other people what it is like for a people to be victimized by genocidal acts, since so many Israelis emigrated there from Europe after WWII.
The Turks are guilty of committing one of modern history’s worst genocides, the Armenian genocide of 1915-1921, in which more than a million Greek and Armenian Christians perished. The Turks deny it, but it is factual and a matter of historical record. Photos still survive of young Armenian girls crucified upon large wooden crosses and left to die in the heat of the desert.
There is documentary evidence, too, on film of events such as the Turkish sacking of the Greek city of Smyrna, which was torched in September 1922. Many western eyewitnesses looked on in horror from small vessels in the harbor, which is how film and still photos were taken in the first place.
Magdalena Andersson, former Prime Minister of Sweden,
receives fine globalist prize
Published 20 September 2022
Former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S) is one of the recipients of this year’s Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards. The S-top receives the award for her efforts to get Sweden into NATO.
The Atlantic Council, a Washington-based NATO lobbying organisation that describes itself as an independent think tank, writes in its citation that Sweden and Finland’s historic decision to apply for NATO membership “contributes to the security and capabilities of the alliance and to greater transatlantic unity”.
The award ceremony took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Monday. Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt presented the award to Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, who were represented by Foreign Minister Ann Linde (S) and Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto respectively.
The award is presented annually to individuals who have worked for “increased transatlantic cooperation” which, according to the government, “plays an important role in increasing freedom, peace and prosperity for all people in Europe and North America”.
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Magdalena Andersson and Klaus Schwab
Photo collage Indica News and Wikipedia
Magdalena Andersson – the next Social Democrat to join the globalist elite
21 September 2022 at 10.28
Because of a Social Democratic prime minister, Sweden has now definitely been made available as a battleground in a possible war between the US and Russia. This is worth a price, says the US government and the arms industry. But there is more in it for Andersson – Björn Rosengren, Göran Persson and others have shown the way.
The Atlantic Council in Washington, an “independent think tank”, has awarded Magdalena Andersson a prize. Andersson, who has never had a job outside politics, receives an unknown amount of money from Washington. The report from Fria Tider does not say how much the sum is.
According to press reports, the Atlantic Council has an annual budget for its prizes of at least $20 million. Among the regular contributors, various parts of the US government and the arms industry, as well as global banks and oil companies, dominate, according to Belgian CADTM.
“The price of shame”
The prize awarded to Magdalena Andersson has been called “the price of shame” by critics. This is partly after Argentine Prime Minister Mauricio Macri – who was so hated that he had to flee the country to the US – received the prize as a reward for far-reaching concessions to the International Monetary Fund banking organisation, which serves as a shadow government in a large number of countries.
Another incident that had repercussions in the alternative media was when Gabon’s then president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was nominated for the prize for reasons that are unclear. The foundation’s chairman, Fredrik Kempe, speaks out on the matter in Foreign Policy magazine, emphatically denying statements by the Human Rights Foundation that the president of the manganese- and oil-rich country would be rewarded under the US “pay-to-play” method.
On the contrary, it has been about Bongo’s efforts on behalf of wildlife on land and at sea, not least sea turtles.
Magdalena towards the top of the WEF – but who owns who?
Magdalena Andersson is already well versed in the globalist operation WEF where she serves as “Agenda Contributor”.
According to Fria Tider, the Atlantic Council is a front organisation for NATO – but given the many ties between the Atlantic Council, the financial elite, the WEF, NATO and others, observers wonder whether it is not NATO that is the front organisation for the Atlantic Council. At previous awards ceremonies, the prize has been presented by none other than WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab.
Rosengren a pioneer in pay-to-play
It is well known that Swedish senior politicians see their political careers as a stepping stone to more lucrative and even less labour-intensive commitments. Back in 2016, the communist magazine Riktpunkt published a list of “socialists” who switched providers from the state to the financial elite.
Facsimile hemtrevligt.se
Probably the best known is the former Minister of Economic Affairs Björn Rosengren, who likes to appear as a celebrity and regularly announces that he is “not ashamed of his millions” – the magazine Hemtrevligt reported.
In his case, his post-political career began with an engagement without duties at Kinnevik, just a few years after he had allowed Sveaskog, a state-owned company whose real task is to sell off the state’s large forest holdings, to invest in forests that Kinnevik in particular was keen to get rid of for liquidity reasons.
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Social democrats cutting gold with a carving knife
2016-04-04Lars Lundberg11 comments
There was once a time when Social Democratic ministers, after their active time as politicians, devoted themselves to public education and disarmament issues.
There are many examples of this, former culture minister Bengt Göransson is one example, Thage G Pettersson another, Maj-Britt Theorin another example yes even former prime minister Ingvar Carlsson whose ministerial period we can have many views on, the fact remains however that he never allowed himself to be sold.
This happened before the new and modern Social Democrats took over the “Labour Party” and turned it into a social liberal party fighting for the same voters as the Moderates and the Sweden Democrats.
What distinguishes the new and modern social democrats from the social democrats of the past is that they invest a relatively short period of their lives in politics and then quickly make a comet career in business. In other words, they immediately sell themselves to whoever pays the most.
On 3 April 2016, Expressen did a survey of where the modern social democrats now reside and to whom they have sold their drone services. It is a breathtaking read or how about the following:
1. Thomas Östros 51 former Minister of Finance and Minister of Economic Affairs. Now executive director of the International Monetary Fund with a tax-free income of SEK 2,355,500 per year.
2. Stefan Stern 46 former head of planning in the Persson government, now head of communications in the Wallenberg family. Annual income 2 SEK 102 300
3. Erik Åsbrink 69 former Minister of Finance, now member of the Board of Directors of the real estate company Wallenstam, Alecta pension insurance. Also spent three years as advisor to the US investment bank Goldman Sachs. Current annual salary SEK 2 82100
4. Anitra Steen 66 Former State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, now Chairman of the Board of Svenska Spel AB, Postnord AB, and AFA Insurance. Current annual salary SEK 3 865701
5. Göran Persson 67 former Prime Minister, now landowner and consultant at the advertising agency JKL. Current annual income SEK 1 362 167
6. Jan Emanuel Johansson 41, former Member of Parliament and member of the Social Affairs Committee, the Justice Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. Now active in the privatised care sector with own companies. Has also been convicted of, inter alia, accounting offences. Current annual income SEK 2 069 014
Jan Larsson 49. Former expert in Göran Persson’s government. Now PR consultant and head of communications at Nordea. Current income SEK 1 935400
7. Jens Henriksson 49, former State Secretary in Göran Persson’s Ministry of Finance, now President and CEO of Folksam Annual income SEK 5 715 500
Per Nuder 53, former Minister of Finance, now board member of Beijerinvest, among others. Current annual salary SEK 2 122 596
9. Anders Sundström 63 Former Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, recently resigned as Chairman of Swedbank. He is now chairman of COOP. Current annual salary SEK 5 019 875
10. Jan Nygren 65, Former Coordinating Minister with responsibility for Arms Exports. Until 2007 CEO of the Wallenberg-owned arms company SAAB, now a board member and partner in the lobbying firm Consillo International AB. Current annual income SEK 2 104 336.
11. Sebastian Navah 44, former media coordinator for the Persson government, now owner of the advertising firm Nav International AB. Current annual income SEK 871 842.
12. Björn Rosengren Former chairman of TCO and Minister for Economic Affairs. Now a professional board member with 23 board memberships. In 2015 he bought a villa in Saltsjöbaden outside Stockholm for SEK 31 million.
Footnote: All income figures are based on 2014 declared income. Any company profits are therefore not included.
The conclusion of this survey by Expressen on 3 April 2016 can only be that for those who want to achieve a real springboard into the service of the bourgeoisie, one should first spend a few years in the Social Democratic Party, then one can wait for the golden era. The only thing that can put an end in the long run to these overlaps between politics and business is a very strong SKP.
Lars Lundberg
https://riktpunkt.nu/2016/04/socialdemokrater-som-skar-guld-med-taljkniv/
When the Troubles begin, I want a front row seat to see the expressions on their faces as they are dragged out of their million dollar hovels for what awaits them, namely a gallows, ditch or lamp post.