San Bernardino County in California will have a question on the ballot next month that will ask citizens whether they want the county to secede and become a separate state. If the proposal is successful, San Bernardino, the largest county in the nation, will become the 51st state, and will be named Empire.
In other news, the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands has banned advertisements for meat from public spaces in order to help save the planet.
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Bank of England Hikes by 50 Basis Points, Says UK May Already be in Recession
LONDON — The Bank of England voted to raise its base rate to 2.25% from 1.75% on Thursday, lower than the 0.75 percentage point increase that had been expected by many traders.
Inflation in the U.K. dipped slightly in August but at 9.9% year-on-year remained well above the bank’s 2% target. Energy and food have seen the biggest price rises, but core inflation, which strips out those components, is still at 6.3% on an annual basis.
The BOE now expects inflation to peak at just under 11% in October, down from a previous forecast of 13%.
The smaller-than-expected hike came as the bank said it believed the U.K. economy was already in a recession, as it forecast GDP would contract by 0.1% in the third quarter, down from a previous forecast of 0.4% growth. It would follow a 0.1% decline in the second quarter.
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Turkey Cuts Interest Rates Again as Country Struggles Under 80% Inflation
Turkey’s central bank surprised markets once again with its decision Thursday to cut its key interest rate, despite inflation in the country surging beyond 80%.
The country’s monetary policymakers opted for a 100 basis point cut, bringing the key one-week repurchase rate from 13% to 12%. In August, Turkish inflation rate was recorded at 80.2%, quickening for the 15th consecutive month and the highest level in 24 years.
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1000% Spike in Anti-Hindu Hate, Attacks Across World: US Research Report
Washington: There has been a 1,000 per cent rise in anti-Hindu hate and attacks on the members of the community across the world, including the US, a US-based scientific research organisation has said.
It has observed that there is dangerous hybridisation of hate against the Hindu community, citing the increasing attacks on them in the US country and other parts of the world.
“We’ve seen that there’s been a growth of over 1,000 per cent and anti-Hindu slurs are stoking fears of replacement mixing with anti-semitic memes, with other forms of narratives, and hatred shared by white supremacists, by Islamists, and others, and creating a toxic atmosphere of hostility,” said Joel Finkelstein, chief science officer and co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute.
Coalition of Hindus of North America
Finkelstein was speaking at Building Representation and Education on Hindu American Lived Experiences organised by the Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) at the US Capitol.
“In recent months vandalisation against Hindu temples has increased in the US, and in Canada; it is going through the roof, Finkelstein said.
“And now we see what amounts to a low-grade pogrom occurring in England,” Finkelstein told members of the Hindu American community, referring to the ongoing violence against Hindus in the United Kingdom.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A man inspired by ISIS who attacked and shot NYPD officers in Brooklyn during the 2020 George Floyd protests was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday, it has been announced.
Dzenan Camovic, 22, is accused of stabbing a police officer in the neck, then stealing his gun to shoot two other cops, US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York says. Camovic pleaded guilty in March to charges related to the attack, CNN reported.
Camovic, a Bosnian national, was living in Brooklyn illegally, and was inspired by ISIS, prosecutors said. He will be deported after completing his sentence.
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Accountability: DeSantis Suspends Another Public Official From Office
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended another public official from office, this time Jose Angel Martinez, Miami-Dade County Commissioner-District 11, after he was arrested Aug. 30.
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Apple Found to be Major Funder Behind Group Supposed to Represent Developers
The App Association, aka ACT, promotes itself as a lobby group for thousands of app developers. However, it receives more than half of its funding from Apple and its policy positions are suspiciously aligned with the tech giant’s stances, according to a new report about former employees of the association.
Apple is not a member of the association but the group did acknowledge it receives more than half of its funding from Apple. Although, it denied being beholden to the company.
According to critics, however, ACT’s lobbying agendas are closely aligned with Apple’s, even when developers are opposing Apple’s policies.
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President Joe Biden posted a video to his official Twitter on Wednesday telling Democrats to “fight back against extreme MAGA Republicans” days after a North Dakota man deliberately ran over and slaughtered a teen he deemed part of a “Republican extremist group.”
Biden brags of passing the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act, the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan before claiming “the extreme MAGA Republicans want to take it all back.”
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Carjackings Spike Higher Than 2020 Levels in Cities Across Country: ‘Perfect Storm’
Carjacking crimes erupted in cities across the country in 2020 as society was upended by coronavirus lockdowns and calls to defund the police echoed across the nation. Two years later, some cities are seeing even more drastic surges in the crimes.
“Police departments are absolutely decimated right now. They don’t have the resources or the manpower. And they’re essentially doing triage as it is with the increase in homicides and shootings. You can bind sort of all these things together and you have this really perfect storm,” Heritage Foundation legal fellow Amy Swearer told Fox News Digital, who noted progressive prosecutors in some cities are contributing to this “perfect storm.”
Carjackings in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore have skyrocketed in recent years, with all the cities continuing to see an upward trend in the crimes this year.
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Don’t Use Conditioner on Your Hair in Event of Nuclear War. Here’s Why
On normal days, shampoo and conditioners protect your hair. In the event of a nuclear explosion, one can be life-saving while the other is lethal. Here’s why you should avoid conditioners after a nuclear explosion.
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The US issued dos and don’ts for citizens in case of a nuclear explosion, and it specifically mentions not using conditioner on that day. Bigger things might occupy your mind during such an apocalyptic nuclear event, but make sure it’s not a good hair day.
If a nuclear bomb explodes, throwing clouds of radioactive dust into the air, make sure you hop into a shower as soon as possible. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has instructed people to seal off contaminated clothes and take a shower. Then comes the crucial part.
Use shampoo since it is designed to cling to oil and dirt in your hair and carry away any dirty particles when you rinse the shampoo out. Conditioners also contain surfactants (that attract water at one end and oil at the other), but theirs have different properties.
A shampoo can save your life, but a conditioner can be deadly. According to the advisory, avoid using conditioner on your hair to prevent significant radiation exposure. Conditioner can act like a glue between your hair and radioactive material.
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Federal Judge Grants Marines Class Action Status in Challenge to COVID Vaccine Requirement
A federal judge has granted class action status for U.S. Marines in their fight against Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The ruling is another blow to the Biden administration and consistent with other court rulings that have found military branches are violating federal law.
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Florida Democrat Backs DeSantis: ‘Too Much is on the Line’
A top Florida Democrat has come out in support of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his reelection bid, citing policies of his opponent with which he does not agree.
In a Tweet this week, Palm Beach County commissioner Dave Kerner, who was previously the mayor of Palm Beach County, called DeSantis “the obvious choice this election cycle.” The governor faces a challenge from Democrat Charlie Crist, a former Republican governor himself.
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Former Los Alamos Nuclear Scientists Aiding Chinese Weapons Project, Study Says
More than 160 former researchers with the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico have joined Chinese advanced weapons programs over the past several decades, according to a recent study from the private security firm Strider Technologies.
Between 1987 and 2021, the communist government in Beijing enticed 162 scientists who at some point worked at the New Mexico lab to work on a range of nuclear and weapons research programs, Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reported. Of these, 15 worked in the section of Los Alamos that designs nuclear weapons.
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GOP Sen. Johnson Seeks Answers From YouTube on COVID-19 Censorship
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson wants YouTube to explain the origins of its COVID-19 disinformation policies after the video giant twice censored him for his positions on pandemic policy.
In a letter to to CEO Susan Wojcicki, Johnson asserted that the company had “suspended [him] twice for advocating for the early treatment of COVID-19, opposing vaccine mandates for children and workers, and advocating for the vaccine injured.”
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed legislation Thursday prohibiting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from continuing its “nefarious” policy of land buyouts near U.S military bases in the state.
The measure limits companies affiliated with China and other countries of concern, including Russia, Iran and North Korea, from purchasing sensitive land around the 21 U.S. military bases in Florida. Chinese purchases of land at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, reported by CNBC in July, and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana triggered worries that the CCP would use the land to surveil goings-on at the bases, potentially giving the CCP a conflict advantage and provide insight to U.S. defense technology.
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Meta Mulls Restoring Trump to Facebook With ‘Great Caution’
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is currently deciding whether to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account on the social media platform as its initial suspension’s end date approaches.
“We’ve been very open. That temporary suspension is a two-year period through till early January,” Meta CEO Nick Clegg said, per The Hill. “We’ll look at all the signals that we should do about what we think may or may not affect the risks of real-world harm.” Should the company opt in favor of Trump’s return, he could be back on the platform by early January of 2023.
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New York City Man and Alabama Woman Plead Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS
Today in the Southern District of New York, Arwa Muthana, 30, of Hoover, Alabama, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. On Friday, her husband James Bradley, aka Abdullah, 21, of the Bronx, entered a guilty plea to the same charge.
According to court documents, Bradley and Muthana are ISIS supporters who attempted to travel to the Middle East to join and fight for ISIS. Bradley expressed violent extremist views since at least 2019, including his desire to support ISIS by traveling overseas to join the group or committing a terrorist attack in the United States. In May 2020, Bradley stated to an undercover law enforcement officer (UC-1) that he believed that ISIS may be good for Muslims because ISIS was establishing a caliphate. Bradley further expressed his desire to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States and discussed potentially attacking the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Bradley explained that if he could not leave the United States, he would do “something” in the United States instead, referring to carrying out an attack.
In June 2020, Bradley reaffirmed his interest to UC-1 in attacking a military base, and that doing so would be his contribution to the cause of jihad.
[Comment: Article dated September 12, 2022.]
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Pennsylvania County Sues Dominion Voting Systems Over Alleged ‘Severe Anomalies’ In 2020 Voter Data
Fulton County, Pa., has filed a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems over what it claims are “severe” issues with voting data discovered after the 2020 election.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday claims that the county at about the time of the 2020 election “became aware of severe anomalies in the Dominion Voting Systems due to the inaccuracy and/or inability to reconcile voter data with votes actually cast and counted” by the company’s proprietary system.
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Plan to Let Media Form Cartels to Negotiate With Big Tech Clears Senate Committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced a plan to let media outlets jointly negotiate with Big Tech companies, in spite of existing anti-trust laws.
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) would create a temporary, four-year window during which news outlets may work with one another to secure better deals with social media giants and other content platforms, according to the Epoch Times.
The measure would allow groups of media outlets to “collectively withhold content from, or negotiate with, an online content distributor regarding the terms on which the news content of the news content creator may be distributed by the online content distributor.”
The JCPA specifically bars outlet coalitions from excluding organizations based on size or political leaning. However, many Republicans fear the plan would benefit legacy media groups to the detriment of smaller and anti-establishment outlets. The JCPA does allow these hypothetical media unions to exclude groups over hate speech, misinformation, extremism or misinformation, among an array of other nebulous exceptions with the potential for broad interpretation.
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Possible ‘Antique Explosive’ Causes Evacuation in Harrisonville
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — The Harrisonville Police Department has evacuated an area in downtown after they found what they are calling a possible antique explosive inside a building.
Businesses near South Main Street between Mechanic Street and Wall Street were evacuated and the roads have been closed as Kansas City Police Department Bomb and Arson are called to the scene.
Police urge people to avoid the area.
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San Bernardino County Voting to Leave California; Establish 51st State
(CBM) — On November 8, San Bernardino County voters will be presented with a choice on their ballot — leave the state of California and create the 51st state or remain the largest county in the nation.
A consortium in San Bernardino is the latest group of people proposing to alter the boundaries of the state of California. The group wants the county to secede from California and create a 51st state that would be called Empire.
According to real estate developer Jeff Burum, a member of the group, San Bernardino County is not getting its fair share from the state of California. The movement is supported by some local mayors such as Acquanetta Warren, mayor of Fontana, and Bill Velto, mayor of Upland.
“We cannot continue to beg, and crawl … to get resources for our county… Let’s step out and be bold about it and let the people decide what they want to do.” Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren told the San Bernadino Board of Supervisors.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday a plan that would allow police to access private security cameras without a warrant.
The board voted 7-4 to approve Democratic Mayor London Breed’s plan which allows police to access up to 24 hours of live outdoor video footage from private surveillance cameras without a warrant as long as the camera owner gives police permission, according to SF Gate. To access video footage without a warrant, police must be either responding to a life-threatening emergency, conducting a criminal investigation with written approval from a captain or higher-ranking official, or deciding how to deploy officers to a large public event, according to the report.
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SteveWillDoIt Joins Rumble After YouTube Censorship
A popular creator who’s a member of the popular channel NELK Boys and is known for uploading viral game challenge videos under the SteveWillDoIt brand, has joined the free speech video sharing platform Rumble.
Steve made the announcement alongside Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski and financial commentator Matt Kohrs during a live stream from the Nasdaq.
“I’m excited to be on Rumble,” Steve said. “I’m excited to not be afraid of getting canceled for random reasons and I’m excited to make videos again, help people, and just do my shit and it’s gonna be…an amazing thing.”
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Taco Bell to Test Meatless Carne Asada Steak at Several Locations Next Month
Sept. 21 (UPI) — Taco Bell is the newest mega restaurant chain to go for a meatless option for health-conscious customers, and will test that option at several Ohio locations next month.
The chain announced on Wednesday that it will introduce plant-based carne asada steak from Beyond Meat at dozens of locations in Dayton, Ohio, beginning Oct. 13.
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Video: Rand Paul Promises to ‘Find the Paper Trail’ For Lab Leak COVID Origin
Senator Rand Paul vowed this week to continue to expose the origins of the COVID pandemic and uncover a paper trail that he is positive will lead back to the Wuhan lab research funded by Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health.
“The entire pandemic, if it came from a lab, the fact that he approved the research and funded the lab would draw culpability to himself.” Paul said of Fauci during an appearance on Fox Business.
“Culpability to all of these people who made the unwise decision to send money to China to do dangerous research. That’s why they steadfastly resist this,” the Senator added referring to his efforts in the Senate.
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Video: Trump Claims ‘POTUS Can Declassify Documents by Just Thinking It’
Appearing on Hannity Wednesday night, President Trump declared that he doesn’t see how the Justice Department could prosecute him because as President he had the power to declassify documents by just thinking about it.
Hannity asked Trump “is there a process” to declassifying material and “what was your process?” to Which Trump replied “There doesn’t have to be a process as I understand it.”
“Different people say different things. If I understand, there doesn’t have to be,” Trump continued, adding “If you’re the president of the United States you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it because you are sending it to Mar-a-Lago or wherever you’re sending it.”
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Wisconsin Agent Charged in Nonfatal Shooting of Unarmed Man
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor charged a Wisconsin Department of Justice agent Thursday with reckless endangerment in the nonfatal shooting of an unarmed man during a traffic stop in February.
Dane County District Attorney Ishmael Ozanne charged DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Mark Wagner with second-degree reckless endangerment using a dangerous weapon, according to online court records.
Wagner would face up to 10-and-a-half years in prison if convicted. His attorney, listed in online court records as Michael Steinle, didn’t immediately reply to a phone message seeking comment that was left at his office.
The charge stems from the shooting of Quadren Wilson in Madison on Feb. 3.
Wilson, 38, was released on extended supervision in February 2020 after serving a little more than a year in prison for second-degree reckless endangerment. The state Department of Corrections issued a warrant for Wilson on the morning he was shot for violating the conditions of his release. He was wanted for allegedly dealing fentanyl to a man found dead in a restaurant bathroom in Blooming Grove in April 2021.
Wilson was driving on the outskirts of Madison when officers from multiple jurisdictions slammed their vehicles into his car and opened fire on him as he sat behind the wheel, according to the sheriff’s office and Wilson’s family.
Wilson’s brother, Mane Morris, said authorities shot his brother five times in the back as his brother was raising his hands and offering no resistance. Authorities contend that he was resisting arrest.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett, whose agency led the investigation into the shooting, said two weeks after the incident that investigators hadn’t found any evidence suggesting Wilson was armed…
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Hero Veteran James Topp Sues Legacy Media Journalist for Slander
Canadian hero and veteran James Topp has sent Global News a libel notice for calling him a white supremacist in an article published in August.
The notice mentions journalist Rachel Gilmore, Global News and Corus Entertainment Inc. as defendants.
“The defamatory article, inclusive of the URL tag, referred to Mr. Topp as a white supremacist, among other things,” wrote lawyer David Elmaleh.
“(It was published) without providing any evidence supporting their statements.”
Topp marched across Canada beginning in Vancouver to protest government vaccine mandates. On his journey he met with several prominent politicians including Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
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Trudeau Set to Finally End Vaccine Coercion and ArriveCAN App
Reports indicate Justin Trudeau will finally end vaccination restrictions and the mandatory use of ArriveCan for travellers.
“Global News can confirm that Prime Minister Trudeau has signed off on an end to vaccination restrictions to enter Canada, and with that ArriveCan becomes optional when current public health restrictions expire Sept 30th. Cabinet will discuss masking on trains and planes today,” tweeted Mercedes Stephenson of Global News.
Unvaccinated individuals will no longer have to quarantine for 14 days following flying, and no one will have to use the invasive ArriveCan app.
This news confirms the Globe’s story on Monday on account of anonymous Liberal MPs who said the app and the vaccine requirement would become optional by October.
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Vaccine-Injured and Coerced Join #TrudeauMustGo Trend
As #TrudeauMustGo continues to trend on Twitter, vaccine-injured and coerced Canadians have found inspiration to speak up.
Across the country, Canadians are posting “According to Trudeau, I’m an extremist” to their timelines, followed by a description of themselves.
The quote references Trudeau slandering unvaccinated Canadians as likely to be racists, sexists, extremists, and people who don’t believe in science.
But many vaccine-injured individuals have joined the trend.
“I’m a healthy 47 year old Mom & entrepreneur. My sister got heart damage from the jab, a friend died. My daughter has Autism, I couldn’t risk not being here to care for her. According to Trudeau I’m an extremist and need to be dealt with #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada” tweeted one user named Robyn.
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At 4% of UK’s Population, Muslims Make Up 18% of Criminals in Jail
New Delhi: The Muslim population in the United Kingdom is mere 4 per cent of the total people living in the country, however, as per the report in House of Commons, UK, 18 per cent of prison inmates are from the religious community, which is highest after prisoners from the Christian community behind the jails in the country.
As per the report, there are 13,724 Muslims residing in England and Wales. “The proportion of Muslim prisoners has increased from 8 per cent in 2002 to 18 per cent in 2021,” the report stated.
The report shows that there has been a remarkable increase in number of criminal activities by Muslims in the UK.
Meanwhile, there are 329 Hindus residing in England and Wales which has 2 per cent share of the general population and no one from the community has been caught and prosecuted, or sentenced.
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EU Agency Contradicts Biden: Claims Pandemic is Not Over
A senior official from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has contradicted United States President Joe Biden, stating that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is not over and expects European Union (EU) members to continue vaccine rollouts.
European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Chief Medical Officer Steffen Thirstrup spoke out on Tuesday, stating that the agency did not believe the pandemic had come to an end and that it was still needed for EU members to continue to push vaccines, particularly new vaccines adapted to new strains of the virus.
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Kaczynski Accuses Poland’s Opposition of Having Supported Russia
The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said the Polish opposition and previous Civic Platform (PO) government had bent the knee to Russia and supported Germany’s appeasement of Putin.
Speaking at a rally in Siedlce in eastern Poland, Kaczynski accused the opposition of “lying through their teeth on Russia.” He dubbed it the “lie offensive of the opposition” and an attempt by the liberal politicians to change their colors.
Kaczynski told his audience about the previous government’s record on Russia.
“They bent the knee to Russia, they backed German policies all the way. Policies that were disastrous for Poland, Ukraine, and the whole of Europe. Now, they are pretending this never happened. Today, they pretend that black was white and that they are good patriots,” said Kaczynski.
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Meat Ads Banned in Dutch City to Fight ‘Climate Change’
The city of Haarlem in the Netherlands has taken the radical decision to become the first city in the world to ban meat advertising in public places from 2024, due to its “climate impact”, according to a decision drawn up by the environmental party GroenLinks.
Right-wing politicians are calling it a “quasi-dictatorial” ban. The idea is similar to those put forward by Bill Gates: he has recommended a transition to the consumption of synthetic meat to fight climate change.
The city of Haarlem near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, with a population of 160 000, wants to ban advertisements for meat from meat producers displayed in places controlled by the municipality, such as buses, bus shelters and advertising screens, but the legal framework for the measure remains to be defined, The Guardian reported.
The measure, put forward by the green party GroenLinks, was adopted by the Haarlem city council at the end of 2021. It has gone unnoticed until last week, after advertising firms were notified of the upcoming ban.
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Meet the Politicians Vying to Lead Italy’s Next Government
Rome: The main candidates in Italy’s general election Sunday to elect a new Parliament and determine who next governs the country include some familiar names and some lesser-known ones. They range from from three-time Premier Silvio Berlusconi to far-right Opposition leader Giorgia Meloni, who is ahead in opinion polls and intent on becoming Italy’s first woman to hold the premiership.
Here are the main players in the 25 September election.
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On Sunday, Italians will choose the new members of both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Being credited with almost 50 percent of the vote by the last opinion polls that could legally be published up to 15 days before the election, the right-wing bloc looks set to have an absolute majority in both houses of parliament and possibly even — thanks to an electoral reform pushed through by the left — a constitutional majority.
Such a result would amount to a political earthquake in the European Union.
The prospect of Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the right-wing, liberal-conservative Fratelli d’Italia party, becoming Italy’s next prime minister is raising alarm in the most left-leaning European capitals and across Western Europe’s mostly left-wing mainstream media. And with Italy now having a Hungarian-like mixed electoral system — with 37 percent of MPs elected by a majority vote in constituencies and the remaining MPs being elected by a proportional vote on party lists — the right-wing coalition could even enjoy a two-third constitutional majority just as Viktor Orban has for most of the last 12 years, much to the distress of the left-liberal establishment in Brussels.
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Polish PM: ‘In Response to Russia’s Mobilization, NATO Must Support Ukraine’
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday that NATO should react to Russia’s partial mobilization by offering even more support to Ukraine. Morawiecki was responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement ordering a partial mobilization in his country, which was to start on the very same day. The partial mobilization is to include reservists, which are people who already served in the Russian military.
“Russia will continue its work of destruction, and it will try to destroy Ukraine and take a part of its territory,” said Morawiecki, who watched over the joint Polish, U.K., and U.S. military exercise Bear-22 in Nowa Deba, southeastern Poland.
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Proton Drive is Now Open to All Users
Privacy-focused Switzerland-based tech company Proton has officially released Proton Drive, a cloud storage service, to all users. Proton Drive has been available in beta to Proton Unlimited users for a while.
The free version of Proton Drive comes with 1GB of storage. With Drive Plus, users get 200GB of storage at a monthly fee of $4.
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Spanish Socialists to Slap Temporary Two-Year Tax on Country’s Wealthiest
Spain’s socialist government plans to impose a temporary two-year tax on the richest 1 percent of the country’s population in an attempt to alleviate the current crisis, Budget Minister Maria Jesus Montero said on Thursday.
Speaking to La Sexta television channel, Montero revealed she was in negotiation with left-wing Podemos, her party’s junior coalition partner, over how best to implement the scheme.
Despite providing no insight into how the proposal would be enforced, Montero confirmed it would be a tax on “millionaires, those who are in the top 1 percent income bracket.”
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Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden.
My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it.
Paulina Neuding
Yesterday morning, Swedes woke up to news of a kind that has become all-too familiar: During the night, powerful bombs exploded at apartment buildings in two different towns in southern Sweden.
One person was severely injured in Åstorp, where a witness told the press: “People screamed and cried. It felt so unreal.” A resident told Radio Sweden that his 7-year-old had come running into his bedroom screaming, as the blast made their apartment shake.
In Helsingborg, the explosion was so powerful that, according to the police, cars parked nearby were destroyed. It is still unclear if the bombings are connected to each other, or who is behind them.
Since 2018, there have been almost 500 bombings—yes, bombings—in what is known as one of the most stable societies in the world.
There’s not just a bombing problem. There are shootings, too.
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UK ‘Black Studies’ Prof: Queen ‘Wanted to be a Figurehead for White Supremacy’
Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth II “wanted to be a figurehead for white supremacy and reap all the rewards”, according to the country’s inaugural professor of “Black Studies”.
Kehinde Andrews, who has branded the publicly-funded university which created his position institutionally racist, has carved out a niche for himself in Britain’s public discourse as the go-to source for the mainstream media when it needs someone to brand some aspect of Western and especially British culture or history — the British flag, the English flag, the song Rule, Britannia, wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, the Enlightenment, and so on — racist.
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UK Lifts Ban on Shale Gas Fracking in Response to Energy Crisis
Opponents of ‘fracking’ — high-pressure fracturing of bedrock to extract trapped oil and gas — fear it will release potentially harmful substances or even cause earth tremors. The government of former PM Boris Johnson imposed a moratorium on the practice in November 2019.
The British government has lifted a moratorium on ‘fracking’ for shale gas — as a solution to the self-inflicted energy crisis.Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced the long-expected move on Thursday morning.
He claimed the cancellation of the ban — imposed in November 2019 by Prime Minister Liz Truss predecessor and Conservative party-mate Boris Johnson — was made necessary by soaring gas and oil prices in the wake of Russia’s military operation in the Ukraine in February.
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Murder of 15-year-old in Huddersfield outside school gates has left parents shocked and fearful for their children
Cassie Wheatley was spending a normal Saturday afternoon with her nine-year-old son at a local playground in Huddersfield.
He was playing in a clump of bushes when he suddenly shouted back to his mother with a chilling discovery.
“He’s gone playing hide-and-seek with his little friend and then shouted, ‘Mum I’ve found a machete’,” Mrs Wheatley told i.
“I thought it was just boys being boys but I went round and, lo and behold, there it was.”
The machete, around a metre long, was in a sheath and had been hidden in the bushes close to where the children were playing…
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UK: Muhammad Khan: Man Accused of Attacking Queen’s Coffin Thought Monarch ‘Was Still Alive’
Muhammad Khan, the man who is thought to have attacked the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II, reportedly did so as he thought the late monarch “was still alive”.
A court in Britain has heard that Muhammad Khan, the man alleged to have attacked the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II, allegedly acted with the belief that the British monarch was still alive.
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UK: PayPal Shuts Account of Group Who Fought to Keep Schools Open During Pandemic
UsForThem, a UK parents’ group that campaigned to keep schools open during the pandemic, has been banned from PayPal because of “the nature of its activities.” The group says that after the ban, it is unable to access thousands of pounds in donations.
“We were completely taken aback to learn that PayPal was discontinuing our services ‘due to the nature of [our] activities’. No prior warning or meaningful explanation was given, and despite them saying we could withdraw our remaining balance, we cannot,” said the group’s co-founder Molly Kingsley to The Telegraph.
“UsForThem has only ever been fully transparent about the organization’s aims, and our mission statement is on a prominent page of our website for all to read. That makes clear that our core focus is campaigning for children to be prioritized in public decision-making.
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UK: Video Shows 200-Strong Mob Surrounding Hindu Temple in Birmingham, ‘Allahu Akbar’ Chants Heard
Birmingham: Violence between Muslims and Hindus spread from Leicester to Birmingham after 200 masked men gathered outside a Hindu temple to protest against a planned event, media reports said.
Footage from Smethwick showed police on the scene as a large group of masked and hooded young men gathered at the Durga Bhawan Hindu temple, with witnesses claiming bottles and firecrackers were thrown, Daily Mail reported.
The police were seen with riot helmets and shields confronting the crowd, believed to be predominantly Muslim men, and attempting to move them away from the temple wile protesters climbed the surrounding boundary fence.
As per the footage, many were heard raising slogans of ‘Allahu Akbar’.
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In recent years, those who made claims about American influence on Hungary’s domestic political scene were often smeared as “paranoid” or prone to falling for “disinformation.” However, such fears appear to be well-founded after it was revealed that the campaign organization of Péter Marki-Zay, the Hungarian left’s candidate in April’s parliamentary elections, said his campaign received 1.8 billion forints (€4.48 million) in mostly U.S. donations through an NGO with close ties to billionaire oligarch George Soros, officials connected with Hillary Clinton and a number of leading transatlantic organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations.
The enormous sum of money, at least by the standards of Hungarian elections, reportedly came from the U.S.-based Action for Democracy NGO, which Marki-Zay said was given to his campaign organization MMM, according to an investigative article on news portal Index.
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Iran Police Battle Protesters in Tehran as Unrest Over Woman’s Death Spirals
There have been running battles between Iranian police and anti-government protesters in Tehran in the worst unrest there for years.
One person told BBC Persian that her neighbourhood resembled a battlefield.
The protests, now in their seventh day, have reached 80 other cities and towns. A human rights group said at least 31 civilians had been killed, while state television put the death toll at 17.
The unrest was sparked by the death of a woman detained by morality police.
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After Russia Announces Mobilization of 300,000 Troops, The Baltic States Prepare for the Worst
The Baltic states have reacted to the partial mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin by putting their armies on high alert and issuing bans on Russians entering their territories.
Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said that although he did not expect any immediate territorial threat from the Russian mobilization, his country had to be prepared for Russians attempting to claim asylum in order to avoid the draft.
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Dutch D66 Party Bashes Referendums in Ukrainian Regions on Joining Russia
In the liberated parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, referendums will soon be held among residents on whether their region should join Russia. This will take place between 23 and 27 September, according to Russian media.
Calls for a referendum in the regions have been growing. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said on Tuesday that it is up to the regions themselves to decide whether they want to hold a referendum.
Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev called it “essential” to organise a referendum so that the regions are able to join Russia if they wish to do so.
More weapons
The Dutch leftwing D66 has reacted furiously to the plans. “Russia is going to hold referendums in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The only answer to this can be to reject these referendums outright, strengthen sanctions and send more weapons to Ukraine,” MP Sjoerd Sjoerdsma (D66) angrily responded.
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Russia has freed 215 Ukrainian captives in exchange for 55 Russians and key Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk, it was announced on Wednesday. Five Brits have also been freed.
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Ukraine War: Russians Flee to Border After Military Call-Up
Queues have sprung up along Russia’s border as men attempt to leave the country to avoid a military call-up for the war in Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilisation on Wednesday, which could see 300,000 people summoned to serve in the war.
The Kremlin says reports of fighting-age men fleeing are exaggerated.
But on the border with Georgia, miles-long queues of vehicles have formed including men trying to escape the war.
One man, who did not want to be named, told the BBC’s Rayhan Demytrie he had grabbed his passport and headed to the border, without packing anything else, immediately after President’ Putin’s announcement — because he fell into the group that could potentially be sent to the war.
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Ukraine War: Prisoner Swap, Kremlin Denies Russians Are Fleeing and Poland Hands Out Iodine Pills
1. Ukraine and Russia exchange almost 300 people in prisoners swap
More than 200 Ukrainian and foreign citizens captured by Russian troops have been released in a massive prison swap between Kyiv and Moscow, the biggest since the beginning of the war on 24 February.
The swap was brokered by Turkey and announced in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Among the 215 prisoners released by Russia, there were some of those who fought at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and finally surrendered in May, together with Ukrainian border guards, police officers and other soldiers, according to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Among the foreign fighters released by Russia, there are five British citizens and two Americans.
“We have freed 215 of our people from captivity, of whom 124 are officers. Of those we have freed, 108 are Azov fighters”, said Andriy Yermak, Zelenskiy’s chief of staff.
In return, Ukraine released 55 Russian prisoners, including the former Ukrainian MP Viktor Medvedchuk, a close ally of Putin who stands accused of high treason in Ukraine.
Medvedchuk, who for years had played as a Kremlin’s agent of influence in Ukraine, had been arrested in April after escaping house arrest while awaiting trial for treason.
“I am not sad about swapping Medvedchuk for real warriors”, said Zelenskyy about the exchange. “He has gone through all investigative procedures according to the law and Ukraine has got everything from him it needs to determine the truth’
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Two arrested suspected terrorists have revealed that they carried out explosion trials on the banks of Tungabhadra River in Shivamogga district of Karnataka, police sources said on Wednesday.
The team was planning to carry out bomb strikes all over the country once they got the handy explosives ready. One of the accused Syed Yasin, studied Electrical and Electronics along with another suspect Maaz, was trying to develop an improvised explosive device, police said.
The probe has indicated that Syed Yasin and Maaz jointly conducted the trial blasts at isolated locations in various places of the state and police suspect that they have joined hands with others in the state in this connection and chosen a few to train them to make explosives.
Yasin is believed to have conducted about 17 such trail blasts on the banks of Tungabhadra River in Hale Gurupura region of Shivamogga. The police have recovered materials from the spot, according to sources.
The investigations have also shown that the accused used a new app called WireApp to communicate. The police have gathered information that more than hundred persons are using this app and in touch with the accused persons.
The arrest of Jabiulla, who was shot in the leg after trying to attack policemen, was the turning point in the investigation. As soon as his arrest, the accused who are presently in police custody, had left the group.
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Proton Follows Other VPNs in Pulling Servers Out of India Over New Anti-Privacy Laws
Switzerland-based VPN service Proton VPN has become the latest provider to shut down its servers in India, in protest of new rules in India that risk privacy.
Starting September 25, India’s Computer Emergency Response Team, the agency regulating computer security, will require all VPN providers operating in India to collect information from their users’, including names, IP addresses, and email addresses.
Additionally, the companies have to store the data for at least five years and provide it to the government when requested.
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Farage: Commonwealth Most Important Group to Counter the Rise of Chinese Communist Party
In an interview with Breitbart News, Brexit leader Nigel Farage described the Commonwealth as the most important group to counter the rise of the Chinese Communist Party due to shared values of common law and shared culture.
Farage spoke to Breitbart News global editor-in-chief Alex Marlow this week on Breitbart News Daily about the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the future of the British monarchy under King Charles III.
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Watch Wall Street CEOs Dodge When Asked to Condemn China’s Uyghur Genocide
The CEOs of Bank of America and Citi Bank dodged questions about the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide against Uyghur Muslims in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday.
“According to the State Department’s 2021 report, genocide and crimes against humanity occurred in China last year,” Republican Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer said. “Those crimes include arbitrary and unlawful killings by the government, arbitrary imprisonment, forced sterilization, rape, and torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained.”
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Big Brain Moment: Anti-Queen Protesters Accidentally Vandalise Wrong Building
While Australia marked the late Queen’s life in a national day of mourning, anti-monarchy protesters — including a left-wing senator — turned out in Melbourne but inadvertently misdirected their rage with an attack against the long-defunct Portuguese monarchy.
Protests in Melbourne, Australia were in full swing Thursday and taking in a full spectrum of concerns, with placards and signs alluding to BLM, Aboriginal rights, anti-monarchy, imperialism, and police brutality, among others.
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Austria’s Record Influx of Illegal Immigrants Could Swing Presidential Election to the Right
Austria’s government is under pressure to tackle its border crisis after 3,000 illegal immigrants entered the country this week, a new record that already surpassed a fresh record reached in the first week of September this year. The new migrant crisis, which is dominating headlines in Austria, is now posing a challenge to the pro-refugee president, Alexander van der Bellen, who is running for reelection on Oct. 9.
Austria has faced a massive influx of refugees this year, registering 47,000 people crossing into the country, which is up from 19,000 in 2021. Most of these illegal immigrants are from the Middle East and Asia, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. With polling consistently showing that Austrians are opposed to mass immigration, and with the memory of horrific gang rapes and terrorist attacks committed by foreigners still fresh in the country’s mind, the population may second-guess awarding van der Bellen with the presidency once again.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is activating the National Guard over 0.01 percent of President Joe Biden’s record-breaking illegal immigration crisis arriving in the sanctuary state via migrant buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
For more than two weeks, Abbott has sent about 500 border crossers and illegal aliens to Chicago, Illinois, which prides itself on being a sanctuary jurisdiction for illegal aliens.
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— despite the ‘millions and millions’ of migrants crossing into America
Donald Trump has launched another blistering attack on Joe Biden for ‘dismantling’ his achievements in the White House.
The former president listed his accomplishments while he was in charge and said he was ‘so proud’ of what his administration did, including tax and regulation cuts, energy independence and the border wall.
He went on to say ‘we did things nobody ever thought possible’ and then tore into Biden and his current administration when they ‘came along and just dismantled that.’
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English Channel Crossings Shatter 30,000 Mark for Year
More than 30,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel so far this year as hundreds more arrived in Britain yesterday, according to reports.
At least 667 migrants in 15 boats launched from France eventually found their way to U.K. soil on Wednesday, many with the help of activists and border authorities.
Nearly 5,500 migrants made the journey during the first three weeks of September alone, the BBC reports.
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Exclusive: Most Americans Believe Migrants Should be Sent to Sanctuary Cities
The majority of Americans believe illegal immigrants should be sent to sanctuary cities, a new poll from Scott Rasmussen and RMG Research Inc found.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent 50 migrants last week to Martha’s Vineyard, which advertises itself as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, last week, sparking widespread backlash. The new poll suggests that ordinary Americans are actually supportive of the decision despite the media’s negative response.
Among registered voters, 51% supported sending migrants to sanctuary cities, 29% did not and 21% were unsure, the poll found. Another 48% strongly or somewhat approve of border state governors sending some illegal immigrants to places like New York, Chicago and Martha’s Vineyard specifically, beating out the 38% who strongly or somewhat disapproved.
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Kushner Critiques DeSantis Migrant Flights: ‘These Are Human Beings’
Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, criticized Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis sending migrants on planes to Martha’s Vineyard in protest of the Biden administration’s lax enforcement of immigration law.
Earlier this month, DeSantis sent two planes full of migrants to the upper crust left-wing stronghold, prompting outrage from Democratic politicians. They were promptly ferried to a nearby military base. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey have also transported migrants to Democratic cities, a ploy which has seen even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell line up in support.
Speaking to Fox News, however, Kushner took a more critical view.
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Majority of Texans, 40 Percent of Hispanics and Latinos Support Migrant Bussing: Poll
A poll released Thursday indicates that a majority of Texas residents and more than 40% of Hispanic and Latino voters in the state support efforts from leaders in the state to bus illegal migrants to other areas of the country.
The poll also shows incumbent GOP Gov. Greg Abbott maintaining a lead with all voters over his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke.
The statewide poll from Spectrum News and Siena College — which surveyed 651 likely Texas voters — revealed that 41% of Hispanics in the state favor efforts by the state to transport illegal migrants to cities like New York and Chicago, while 44% of Hispanics oppose the process.
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A third of vacancies within the city of Hanover will be reserved exclusively for migrant applicants, new proposals praised by the local Green party have revealed.
“A green mayor makes the difference!” wrote Turkish-born Filiz Polat, the managing director of the Greens parliamentary group, in a tweet on Wednesday, which confirmed that “by the end of 2026, a third of all newly advertised positions in the city should be filled by applicants with a migration background.”
The draft resolution proposed by the city’s integration committee, which is currently comprised of Greens, SPD, and CDU politicians, says the “target figure for all new hires is 30 percent” in order to significantly increase the proportion of people with foreign roots within the local administration.
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The cost of housing Channel migrants and other asylum seekers in hotels has rocketed to £1.3billion a year, according to an analysis.
Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, said the accommodation was costing almost £4,300 per head each month — equivalent to one and a half times the average NHS nurse’s monthly wage.
The £1.3billion figure was calculated from official figures released in February which showed 25,000 migrants were in hotels on full board.
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US Drops Charges Against Judge Accused of Helping Illegal Immigrant Avoid ICE Capture
A Massachusetts judge accused of helping an illegal immigrant evade an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer reached an agreement with federal prosecutors more than three years after her indictment.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Zachary Cunha announced Thursday that Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph will refer herself to the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct for discipline rather than face federal prosecution.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has revealed his solution to influx of 13,000 migrants to the Big Apple with nowhere to live — opening two, refugee-style outdoor camps for them.
The mayor revealed the plans on Thursday along with photos of the planned relief sites, which resembled the type of tented landscapes often seen in war zones.
One of the sites will be in Orchard Beach, on the edge of the Bronx, next to waspy Westchester County.
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About a fifth of the migrants being bussed from El Paso to New York allegedly want to travel to the Big Apple and are not being transported against their will.
Blake Barrow, CEO of the El Paso Rescue Mission charity, said his organization has been overwhelmed by the influx of migrants crossing the border illegally, but the immigrants have been more than happy to take up Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s offer to bus them to New York City.
‘About 20% of them want to go to New York,’ Barrow wrote in an open letter on Wednesday. ‘The city has been chartering busses to New York to assist those desiring that destination.
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EXCLUSIVE: A diversity and inclusion training by the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado instructs cadets to use words that “include all genders” and to refrain from saying things like “mom” and “dad.”
The slide presentation titled, “Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do,” advises cadets to use “person-centered” and gender-neutral language when describing individuals.
“Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider ‘parent or caregiver’ instead of ‘mom and dad,’“ the presentation states. “Use words that include all genders: ‘Folks’ or ‘Y’all’ instead of ‘guys’; ‘partner’ vs. ‘boyfriend or girlfriend.’“
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Michigan Senate Passes Resolution Condemning Gender Ideology Trainings in Schools
On Thursday, the Michigan Senate passed a resolution condemning the state’s Department of Education training videos pertaining to gender identity and sexual orientation, and how teachers were instructed to keep changes in a students identity a secret from parents.
“The fundamental right of parents over the upbringing of their children has been unequivocally established in the United States. Parents are in the best position to know their children’s needs and circumstances, and therefore should maintain authority over all information and decisions that could impact the health and all-being of their children,” the legislation begins.
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Revealed: Rochester Children’s Hospital Offers Gender Transition Services for 8-Year-Olds
Hospitals across the country have created gender clinics to facilitate gender transition for both minors and adults. While many have been exposed, many more are operating the same kinds of clinics, giving children puberty blockers to stunt their natural development, and pushing harmful cross-sex hormones and surgeries on minors.
One of these is Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, New York, which offers a promotional video for gender transition, featuring a mother who transitioned her child, as well as providers who claim that trans children know they are in the wrong body for “their whole lives.”
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Stacey Abrams Promotes Conspiracy Theory That Fetal Heartbeats Are ‘Manufactured’ To Control Women
Faltering Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams this week advanced a bizarre conspiracy theory that fetal heartbeats—the detection of early cardiac rhythms in unborn human beings—are “manufactured” sounds meant to help bring about control over women’s bodies.
Abrams, who has been trailing behind her opponent the incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, made the claim during an event at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Atlanta on Wednesday.
“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams said to the audience. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”
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Grocery shopping under the social credit score system: “Sorry, you misgendered a drag queen on Twitter. Your card payment has been declined. Your account has been closed.”
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Watch: Tucker Carlson Exposes Board of Directors of Hospital That ‘Transitions’ Minors for Money
Tucker Carlson on Wednesday named the Board of Directors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after revelations that the hospital has been performing medicalized gender transitions on minors, procedures Carlson and others have described as “mutilating children.”
Carlson first played a 2018 video of Vanderbilt’s Dr. Shayne Taylor speaking of the profitability of performing transgender surgeries on minors and asked “who should be the backstop against this?” Carlson said, “that would be by definition the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Board of Directors. We’re going to name them now in the hope that these people do something to stop these crimes before the lives of more children are destroyed.”
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Poland distributes iodine tablets against radioactive exposure
23 September, 2022 Main News, Social media, International
Poland has distributed iodine tablets to protect people from radioactive exposure. The country’s government confirmed this, Reuters reports.
Authorities in Poland have started distributing iodine tablets to regional fire brigades to be handed out in case of radioactive releases.
The country’s deputy interior minister Blazej Pobozy makes the announcement on Radio Zet.
This as a protective measure following the fighting at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine, which is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Iodine is thought to protect against thyroid cancer.
“If you already have iodine in your body, your thyroid gland will not absorb the radioactive iodine from a release,” reads the Swedish krisinformation.se.
– I want to assure all citizens that these are routine, preventive measures to protect us in the event of a situation that I hope will not occur,” the Polish minister said during the radio interview, according to Reuters.
At the same time, there is a nuclear threat in the war in neighbouring Ukraine, which is not diminishing.
This threat prompted people in former Soviet states to stock up on iodine at home even earlier during the war, Reuters writes.
Yesterday, Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev made it clear that Russia is not ruling out the use of strategic nuclear weapons because of the conflict in Ukraine.
“Referendums will be held and the Donbass republics and other territories will be accepted into Russia. The defense of all territories that joined will be significantly strengthened by the Russian Defense Forces. Russia has announced that not only mobilization capabilities, but also that all Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons and weapons based on new principles, can be used for such protection,” Medvedev writes on Telegram.
‘In other news, the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands has banned advertisements for meat from public spaces in order to help save the planet.’ Meaningless gesture, when one considers the size of Pig industry in Holland-with such silly advertisements, the powers whoever they maybe, are seemingly all out to destroy their economy for some fanciful idea that such a plan can save the planet. Honestly it gets worse everyday-if people would understand that it is the SUN that controls our earth as it always has done, the Sun is the giver for life for us all, its effects on our little planet some 63 million miles away from the Sun, will no matter what we might do, continue to disrupt our weather systems as it may. After billions of years, what we do here on this Planet called Earth, will make no differnece as to how we, as the ants scrabbling about of the surface of this planet continue our senseless scaremongering.
Yes. Astonishing that so many are so delusional.
‘Austria’s Record Influx of Illegal Immigrants Could Swing Presidential Election to the Right’ Wake up Austria and send these illegal immigrants back to the country of their origin-Europe is being overrun by such people and who mostly it appears follow the teachings of Islam. The aim of Islam is to once again occupy Europe and bring its Political Ideology to the idigenous peoples living in the countries of Europe. Having study the situation for some years, the push to involve Islam and the measures of the Quran through our societies is well on the road to their success.
This is what happens when you let tens of thousand of inbred degenerates into a country.
Until, WHAM! The average Austrian or European white indigenous straight male without pronouns goes full on nationalistic with a brutal vengeance. Don’t think it can happen? History and our DNA says otherwise.
COVID complications push Australian deaths to highest numbers in 40 years
The alarm has been sounded about COVID-19’s hidden impact as new data shows that the highest number of people have died in the March quarter of 2022 than in any of the past 41 years.
Australian Bureau of Statistics population data published on Wednesday shows an 18 per cent increase in deaths in the quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, rising from 36,100 to 46,200 deaths.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/covid-complications-push-australian-deaths-to-highest-number-in-40-years-20220921-p5bjtm.html
I was in a Potbelly’s restaurant today–a fast-casual restaurant chain that focuses on submarine sandwiches–and the restaurant’s wifi blocked GatesofVienna when I tried to go to it on my phone.
I did an experiment: when I was on the sidewalk, about 1/2 block away from the restaurant, GatesofVienna was not blocked.