The Swedish government has called on citizens to reduce their use of electricity to forestall blackouts this winter. Meanwhile, Sweden is promoting nuclear energy as an alternative to dependence on Russian natural gas.
In other news, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is reportedly planning to quit Twitter due to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform.
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Animal Shelters Overwhelmed as High Cost of Living Forcing Many to Give Up Their Pets
Animal shelters are reporting an overwhelming number of surrendered pets this year.
Dean Daubert, chief operations officer at Anderson Humane in South Elgin, Ill., said the shelter has handled 3,000 more pets this year than it did in 2021.
Daubert said he does not buy the widely held belief that a lot of people were too quick to adopt pets during the pandemic and now they are giving them up.
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Canada’s Food Prices Rose Over 10% in 2022. Does This Mean More Food Inflation Next Year?
Food prices in Canada skyrocketed in 2022 owing to runaway inflation. Record numbers have accessed food banks to feed their families — a trend that will continue next year as food prices are projected to rise again.
Canada’s Food Price Report 2023 predicts a 5% to 7% food price increase in 2023 following 10% increases this year, where the most substantial increases occurred in vegetables, dairy, and meat.
The report also forecasts that an average family of four, including a man (age 31-50), woman (age 31-50), boy (age 14-18), and girl (age 9-13), will spend up to $16,288.41 per year on food, an increase of up to $1,065.60 from 2022.
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Netherlands: Rabobank: Supermarket Prices Will Rise Further in the Coming Months
There is currently no end in sight to the price increases at Dutch supermarkets, with producers continuing to increase their wholesale prices, research from Rabobank showed. Pricing negotiations during the winter months has been tense, just like last year, said the Sebastiaan Schreijen, a senior analyst focusing on the food and beverages sector for Rabobank.
Manufacturers have indicated that they have to increase their sales prices by 10 to 20 percent to cover all costs. The cause of this increase is largely due to the expensive dollar and rising personnel costs. Indirect energy costs also play a role. Packaging material such as glass and cardboard, but also semi-refined products such as flour and salt are made with a significant amount of energy. These products are purchased by food companies on a contractual basis, so the higher energy costs are still passed on to them.
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Apple is Split on Decision to Fire Executive Over Joke Posted to TikTok
Colleagues and fellow employees at Apple have mixed feelings over the firing of Apple’s former vice president of procurement Tony Blevins. He was fired over a humorous comment on TikTok.
Blevins, who had worked at Apple for 22 years, was fired over a 25-second viral TikTok video. As he was exiting his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, a luxury vehicle, he was asked by creator Daniel Mac what he does for a living. Mac has a series where he asks people with expensive cars what they do for a living.
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Arizona Largely Cuts Ties With BlackRock Investment Firm in ESG Backlash
Arizona state treasurer Kimberly Yee says the state began phasing out any investment management ties with BlackRock in February.
Yee said in a statement Thursday that her office faced numerous questions about its ties with the investing firm, as other states began to publicly divest funds from the increasingly politically active investment advisor.
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‘Black People Are the Real Jews’
by Daniel Greenfield
Black Hebrew Israelites are getting the attention that they didn’t when they spent decades screaming antisemitic and racist slurs in urban centers, killed four people in two separate attacks in New York and New Jersey (one that took place on Chanukah) and provoked the Covington Catholic incident.
That last one led to the New York Times defending the racist hate group as “sidewalk ministers” who practice “tough love” in “blunt and sometimes offensive language.” Examples of that include, “The Holocaust is a damn joke! Heil Hitler!” and “The messiah, who is a black man, is going to kill you”.
Going on ‘The Breakfast Club’, hosted by Charlamagne, a rapper who is a fan of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt referred to BHIs as “the guys in Times Square who observe in a way that’s not so traditional.”
Screaming antisemitic slurs is a less traditional of observing Judaism, but who can question such things…
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Court Orders Philadelphia Columbus Statue to be Uncovered
A Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that Philadelphia must uncover a statue of Christopher Columbus that the city has been attempting to remove from a park due to racial injustice demonstrations.
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Election Integrity Volunteers ‘Afraid’ to Attend Recount After Michigan AG Threatens Prosecution
An apparent threat by Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel to arrest and prosecute local activists promoting election integrity and anti-voter fraud efforts caused many of them to steer clear of a contentious monitoring effort out of fear of being targeted by the government, according to a Michigan attorney deeply involved in the situation.
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Elon Musk: ‘My Pronouns Are Prosecute/Fauci’
Twitter boss Elon Musk has put Dr. Anthony Fauci on notice with a cryptic warning.
In a Sunday morning post on Twitter, Musk declared: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”
Musk has continued to take shots at Fauci, the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
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Elon Musk to Sue ‘Woke’ Twitter Staff Who Leak Information to Media
Elon Musk has warned Twitter’s remaining “woke” employees that he will sue any staff members who leak confidential information to the corporate media.
The move comes as secret leftists still appear to be working at the company and are leaking info to the liberal press in violation of their non-disclosure agreements (NDA).
Musk responded by sending a legal threat to all employees this week.
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Florida County is New Focal Point of Election Integrity Complaints in Pro-Election Security State
Orange County, Fla., has become a focal point for election security complaints — from alleged ballot harvesting to unauthorized exposure of protected voter information — despite the state’s new emphasis on election integrity.
The office of the Orange County Supervisor of Elections (SOE), which has been led by Democrat Bill Cowles since he was first elected to his position in 1996, has come under scrutiny as whistleblowers have come forward in recent months to reveal an array of alleged election irregularities occurring on his watch.
Last year, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis created the Office of Election Crimes and Security to investigate election crimes full-time. Since then, two whistleblowers in Orange County have filed affidavits alleging unauthorized and potentially illegal election activity they witnessed.
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Identical Twins Awarded $1.5 Million Over Med School Cheating Accusations
Identical twin sisters who were accused of cheating on their year-end medical school exams have been awarded $1.5 million in a defamation case against the Medical University of South Carolina.
Kayla and Kellie Bingham were accused of “academic dishonesty” in May 2016 after test proctors deemed their exam performance to be too close to be a coincidence — with identical answers to 296 out of 307 questions, including 54 wrong answers. University officials launched an investigation, and a school “honor council” alleged the sisters were “signaling one another and passing notes,” according to court documents. The school ultimately ruled they had cheated on the exam.
“It was an eight-hour exam during which we exhibited normal test-taking behavior,” Kayla Bingham told CBS MoneyWatch.
The Binghams successfully appealed the decision and filed a lawsuit against the university, arguing that for years they had behaved and performed similarly academically and in athletics. After a four-day trial in November, a South Carolina jury decided the school had defamed the sisters and awarded them a total of $1.5 million in damages.
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy responded to Elon Musk’s release of the “Twitter Files” by warning that subpoenas loom for all 51 intelligence agents who tried to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story.
When the “Laptop from Hell” story first emerged in the run-up to the 2020 election, 51 intel officials signed a letter falsely claiming the reports were part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign.
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LA City Councilmember Assaulted by Far-Left ‘Activist’ at Family-Friendly Holiday Event
During the annual Lincoln Heights Holiday Celebration on Friday evening, Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León was allegedly assaulted by far-left activist Jason Reedy.
Reedy, who belongs to the extremist group People’s City Council, physically confronted de León at the event, headbutting him before being taken to the ground.
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Lax Grades? Teachers Say Nevada School District ‘Allowing Students to Pass With Very Little Effort’
A Nevada teacher’s union criticized the Clark County School District’s lax grading system, “restorative justice” policies, and excessive teacher workload during a school board meeting Thursday.
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Hollywood and sports celebrities that President Joe Biden’s controversial prisoner swap with Russia for WNBA star Brittney Griner will make it “more likely” for celebrities and other rich and famous people to be taken hostage.
Pompeo said: “The Trump administration was always very clear. We weren’t going to trade bad guys for celebrities because it creates the wrong incentives for the bad guys as we go forward. It’s not good for American national security.
“It’s not good for people who are traveling across the world. My mission was always to get every American back but at the same time not create the risk that more Americans would be taken in.
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Narcan Could be Required by California in Gas Stations, Schools Following Rise in Fentanyl Deaths
California could move to require opioid antagonist kits, which can be used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, in public spaces like libraries, gas stations and schools under new measures introduced by California lawmakers this week.
California saw over 6,800 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2021, up from more than 5,500 opioid-related overdose deaths reported in 2020, according to the state’s Overdose Surveillance Dashboard. The state estimates 5,722 overdose deaths in California are attributable to fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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NASA’s Orion Capsule Lands in Pacific Ocean After Test Flight to Moon
NASA’s Orion space capsule landed Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after traveling 1.4 million miles through space and orbiting the moon during a test flight that is expected to clear the way for a manned lunar flyby mission.
“Orion has splashed down off the coast of Baja, California. Our spacecraft is home,” NASA tweeted on its page for the mission.
The space agency posted a video of the capsule parachuting into the ocean. Orion collected data that NASA plans on using to send astronauts to space and eventually to the moon on Artemis missions in the future.
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NYC Health Officials Urge Residents to Mask Up Amid ‘Tridemic’
A ‘tridemic’ of flu, RSV, and Covid-19 cases have led New York City health officials to ‘strongly’ recommend that people wear “a high-quality mask, such as a KN95 or KF94, or an N95 respirator” indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.
On Friday, the city’s health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, recommended that New Yorkers get vaccinated and boosted, and wear a mask whenever ‘inside stores, lobbies, hallways, elevators, public transportation, schools, child care facilities and other shared spaces.”
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Prominent Conservatives Launch Patriotic Bank That Will ‘Never Cancel Law-Abiding Customers’
A group of prominent conservative figures has joined forces to launch a patriotic bank that vows to “never cancel law-abiding customers.”
Country music legend John Rich, conservative commentator Larry Elder, and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson purchased a bank and are seeking to push back against cancel culture.
They say their new bank will promote American values and oppose political bias in the financial system.
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the current House Minority Leader, has called for an investigation into Google, Facebook, and other Big Tech platforms following revelations by Elon Musk about Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. McCarthy also suggested that security clearances of intelligence officials should be removed.
“Through coercion, coordination, and influence, the federal government has used Twitter and other big tech as its stick to silence speech it doesn’t like,” McCarthy tweeted. “We will bring accountability. And Americans’ free speech will be protected.”
“Now we need to start looking at Facebook, at Google. These now have become arms of the Democratic Party, arms of the Biden administration,” McCarthy said last week in an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
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Texas Republican Introduces Bill to Force Platforms to Receive ID Documents From Users
Republican State Rep. Jared Patterson, from Denton County, Texas, has introduced a bill that would ban minors from having social media accounts. Paterson argues that social media is not safe for minors, citing, among other things, self-harm content.
Patterson proposed a new law that would force social platforms to perform age verification on users.
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West African Terrorist Charged With Death of American Citizen and Supporting Al-Qaeda
The Justice Department announced the arraignment of a Mauritanian man in New York federal court on six counts related to terrorism, including an attack that killed an American citizen.
Fawaz Ould Ahmed Ould Ahemeid, 44, arrived in the United States on Friday and was arraigned the next day in the New York Eastern District Federal Court for his roles in three terrorist attacks in Mali in 2015 that killed 38 people, including five United Nations workers and a U.S. citizen, officials announced.
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Woman Fatally Stabbed in Neck in NYC After Alleged Fight With Boyfriend: Sources
A woman was fatally stabbed in the neck in a Manhattan apartment Sunday night after allegedly getting into a fight with her boyfriend, sources said.
The victim, aged in her 20s, was discovered just after 5.30 p.m. after cops responded to reports of the stabbing inside the apartment on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd in Harlem, according to law enforcement sources.
The woman was allegedly stabbed by her partner after they got into an argument in the apartment, law enforcement sources told The Post.
She was rushed to Harlem Hospital but was pronounced dead just after 6.30 p.m., according to cops.
The boyfriend fled the scene before police arrived.
Sources said he was wearing a black jacket, black pants and black and green sneakers at the time.
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Crown Drops All Charges Against Freedom Convoy Protester
Federal prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Freedom Convoy protester accused of interfering with the property of downtown Ottawa residents, among other violations.
A press release by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) explains that the charges were dropped against the individual, known in court-documents only as J.W., after the Crown agreed a provincial declaration of emergency to deal with the Windsor blockades did not apply to this matter.
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Double Standards Are Clear in Media Treatment of Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Protesters vs. Tamara Lich
On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra discussed a recent story from Castanet about anti-pipeline protesters being found guilty of criminal contempt, and the hypocrisy it reveals regarding the media’s treatment of the pro-freedom protesters in the trucker protests.
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U of C to Hire 45 Professors From ‘Equity-Deserving Groups’ Over the Next Three Years
The University of Calgary is hiring — but identity characteristics will determine who can even apply.
The first hiring post went up on November 16 and is a tenured role at the Haskayne School of Business as a professor. It is “only open to qualified women candidates.”
The second job posting went live the next day from the university’s business school, which is hiring for an assistant, associate or full-time professor, with or without tenure. Notably, the description said, “only open to qualified Black scholars,” including “Black Pioneer,” “African,” or “Caribbean.”
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A Libyan man charged with making a bomb in the terrorist attack that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 — killing 270 people — is in United States custody, the Justice Department announced Sunday.
Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi allegedly made the explosive that brought the airliner down as it traveled from London to New York.
The explosion over Lockerbie killed 259 people in the air, as well as 11 on the ground, officials say. The victims included 190 Americans, 35 of whom were Syracuse University students returning home for Christmas after studying abroad.
Mas’ud faces two criminal charges, which were announced in 2020. He will appear in a Washington federal court, the Justice Department said.
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Dozens of Arrests in Several Dutch Cities After Morocco Win at the World Cup
Police arrested people in several cities during riots following Morocco’s victory over Portugal in the World Cup quarterfinals. In Rotterdam, the police arrested 14 people, in Amsterdam there were 13 arrests. In The Hague there were four, as well as in Utrecht.
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Dutch State Defends Decision to Impose Entry Ban on Conspiracy Theorist David Icke
There were more than enough concrete indications that the British conspiracy theorist, David Icke, was a potential threat to public order. As such, the Dutch immigration service, IND, was within its rights to impose an entry ban on him, said the State Attorney in court in Haarlem on Friday. Icke filed suit against the Netherlands hoping the court would strike down the ban during summary proceedings.
Icke was assisted in court by his legal aide, Jeroen Pols. He argued that the entry ban constitutes “an intolerable interference with the right to demonstrate and freedom of expression.” The legal advisor said the entry ban was only aimed at preventing Icke from speaking at a demonstration on Dam Square in Amsterdam in November. Pols also said it was “disproportionate” that the British man was denied access to the 26 countries in the Schengen Area for two years.
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FBI Arrests Libyan Operative Charged in 1988 Airline Bombing Over Lockerbie, Scotland
The FBI has arrested a Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 in one of the deadliest terror attacks in history, Scottish authorities announced Sunday.
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France: Macron Announces Minors Will be Provided With Condoms for Free
Condoms will be provided for free to children in French pharmacies, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Twitter on Friday.
Following a decision to make condoms free for all people aged between 18 and 25 on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he would extend the handout to minors as well.
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German Chancellor to Quit Twitter Over Musk
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company has caused a political stir. Chancellor Scholz is apparently considering retiring there. The reason is “problematic developments” on the platform. It’s not the first negative reaction to the new Twitter boss.
Because of the new Twitter boss Elon Musk, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is considering withdrawing from the online platform. “The Federal Chancellor and the Federal Press Office are watching the development of Twitter very closely since it was taken over by Elon Musk,” government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland.
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Greece: Far Left Takes Credit for Firebombing Italian Diplomat Vehicles
A group of far-left anarchist extremists in Greece have taken credit for the firebombing of vehicles outside of the home of an Italian diplomat in Athens that took place earlier this month.
A group of far-left anarchists took credit for the firebombing of vehicles belonging to Italy’s Deputy Ambassador Susanna Schlein on December 2nd, which saw one destroyed and another damaged.
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Over Half of French Teachers Censor Themselves to Avoid Religious Backlash
Over half of French teachers practice self-censorship when discussing issues of secularism, according to a newly released poll, in order to avoid possible religious backlash and protests.
The poll, taken by the French firm Ifop, revealed that 52 per cent of teachers in France practice some form of self-censorship on the topic of secularism as France celebrated the anniversary of 1905 secularism laws on Friday, December 9th.
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Shooting in Rome Leaves Three People Killed
Iran Press/ Europe: According to authorities and witnesses, a man opened fire Sunday during a condominium board meeting in a coffee shop in northern Rome, killing three people and injuring others.
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri called an emergency security meeting for Monday after what he called “the grave episode of violence that has struck our city.” In a tweet, he confirmed three people were killed in the shooting in the working-class neighborhood of Fidene.
“The shooting occurred in an enclosed outdoor seating area of the bar, called “Il Posto Giusto,” or “The Right Place.”
La Repubblica daily quoted witness Luciana Ciorba, vice president of the condo board, as saying the man entered the bar shouting “I’ll kill you all,” and then opened fire. Participants managed to disarm him until Carabinieri police arrived.
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Sweden Sees Deadliest Year With 60 Deaths in Shootings: Media
The previous record was set in 2020 with 47 deaths, police statistics showed
With 60 people killed in shootings in Sweden so far this year, 2022 will become the deadliest year since these statistics were compiled in 2016, Swedish Television (SVT) quoted police statistics.
“This year, we have seen a massive increase,” Magnus Gerell, an associate professor and criminologist at Malmo University, told SVT on Sunday.
“It is an extremely high number and a very large increase compared to recent years. The development is also driven by the fact that more of the victims (of shootings) die,” Gerell said.
He added that the vast majority of shootings happened in a criminal environment, and the modus operandi and the demographics of criminal gangs had changed over the years, Xinhua news agency reported.
“Today it is more common that there is more than one shooter and that more shots are fired. It seems as if the killings have become more meticulously planned, which leads to more deaths,” Gerell said.
“A trend we have seen for quite a while is that the victims and the shooters are becoming younger. Today it is often teenagers shooting other teenagers.”
He also added that research had shown that the impact on society had become more severe.
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Sweden Touts Nuclear Energy as Remedy to Russian Dependence, High Prices: ‘a Dire Situation’
Nuclear energy is a key tool to reduce dependence on Russian oil and gas while also helping provide a cheaper alternative as Europe faces a heating crisis this winter, according to Sweden’s minister for foreign affairs.
Tobias Billström, who assumed his role in October as minister of foreign affairs told Fox News Digital his government believes it needs “to step up when it comes to building more nuclear power” because Sweden is a small nation and needs “safe, clean, secure energy” that is “cheap.”
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Swedish Govt Calls on Citizens to Cut Electricity Use Due to Outage Risks
The Swedish government has called on Swedes to save electricity, citing the risk of power disconnections, saying the energy situation in the country has become “acute”.
The government in Greta Thunberg’s homeland called on Swedes to save electricity on Friday, with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Minister of Energy and Industry Ebba Busch, and Minister of Labour and Integration Johan Pehrson holding a joint press conference on the state of energy security.
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Swiss Doctor Launches First COVID-19 mRNA-Free Blood Bank
A Swiss naturopath has discovered a gap in the market that is growing every day and is directly related to the Corona vaccination: a growing number of vaccination victims who cannot be cured with conventional therapies want the spike protein that entered the body with the mRNA vaccination, “leaked out” again and they therefore undergo lengthy and expensive blood purification procedures.
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‘Thank God We’re Out’ — Farage Responds to EU Parliament Corruption Arrests
Brexit champion Nigel Farage has responded to news of high-level corruption arrests in the European Parliament, suggesting they prove Britain made the right choice by breaking with the bloc.
“Major corruption alert in Brussels,” Farage said in a short video posted to social media after news of the arrests in the Belgian capital, which is also the European Union’s main centre of power, continued to develop on Sunday.
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A campaign to restore Conservative (Tory) Party democracy including a top donor and former Cabinet minister has been launched following the coup that installed tax-hiking Rishi Sunak as premier without consulting members.
The Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) boasts Peter Cruddas, a member of the House of Lords, former party treasurer, and major donor as President, and aims to “take back control” from the party’s parliamentary elite and empower party activists and members, who have frequently found themselves at odds the MPs who represent them on key issues such as Brexit and especially immigration in recent years.
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At Least 24 in Iran Face Execution for Involvement in Protests
At least 24 people arrested in Iran face execution for their involvement in the anti-government protests that have swept the nation as demonstrators demand women’s rights.
Iranian daily news outlet Etemad reportedly posted a list Friday complied by judicial authorities that accused 25 demonstrators of “waging war against God” — a charge that 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari was found guilty of before he was hung Thursday.
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Nobel Ceremony Returns to Full Glamour Since COVID; Peace Prize Winners Blast Putin
Dec. 10 (UPI) — The ceremony to award new Nobel laureates in Stockholm returned to its pre-pandemic glamour on Saturday as Peace Prize winners blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin for his war in Ukraine during a separate award ceremony in Oslo.
The famed awards ceremony in Sweden has given out annual prizes for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and economic sciences since its foundation in 1901 but was scaled back for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Viktor Bout, the arms dealer who was returned to Russia in a prisoner swap for U.S. citizen Brittney Griner, praised his country’s invasion of Ukraine and said it should have happened earlier, according to state television.
During an interview on Russian propaganda outlet Russia Today (RT), Bout said, “any Russian person” should approve of Russia’s “special military operation” and that he would have joined the fighting if he was able.
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Ukraine War: Millions Without Power, ‘Merchant of Death’ Interview, Hunt for ‘Collaborators’
1. Russia boosting production of ‘powerful’ weapons, says Medvedev
Russia is producing more destructive weapons to counter western countries that support Kyiv, said Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday.
“Our enemy is entrenched … in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a whole number of other places that have sworn allegiance to today’s Nazis,” the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council wrote on Telegram.
“That is why we are boosting the production of the most powerful means of destruction, including those based on new principles,” he said.
Russian officials often refer to Ukraine’s leadership as “Nazis”, using this as a justification for their invasion. This claim that Ukraine is ruled by the far-right has been dismissed as a “plain and simple lie” by experts.
Medvedev said the weapons would be based on “new physical principles”, without detailing exactly what these were.
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The Hateful Pakistan Against Hindus and India
Uproar over anti-Hindu web series ‘Sevak’ made in Pakistan. In another video Pakistan’s children and teenagers make hateful comments towards India insulting Hinduism. The venomous trend in Pakistan.
Zakia Rehman | HENB | Karachi | Dec 11, 2022:: The hatred of the fundamentalists living in Pakistan towards Hindus and Sikhs can be perceived from a web series which has been made recently in Pakistan. The available slots of the series named “Sevak” in youtube platform transpire the amount of contempt and derogation in depicting Hindus and Sikhs in a very bad light. Anyone can watch the trailers of the series that will make you understand how much poison is filled for India in the whole series.
Again a recent video on YouTube reflects the anti-India hatred seeping through educational institutes in Pakistan and among parents who feel no qualms about drilling hate into the minds of their impressionable children against India and Hinduism at random.
Pakistani YouTuber Sana Amjad shared a video from her YouTube channel on 8th December 2022, where she interviewed several children who were attending a fair and speaking unbelievable things against Indian and Hindus on camera. She asked them what they feel like whenever they listen to the word ‘India’ or ‘what they think about India’. Most of them replied that they hate India while some of them also expressed their hatred towards Hinduism and said that religious difference is the prime reason for the hatred. The children expressed their hate against India as ‘Indians torture in Kashmir’ and ‘India caused the harm for Pakistan’. One of the girl said in interview that Islam does not permit to make friendship with enemy like India.
In Pakistan where fundamentalism is at its peak, the perilous condition of Hindus and Sikh minorities here is not hidden from anyone. The news of atrocities on Hindus and Sikhs keep coming to the fore in alternative days. Along with them the news of forced conversion and marriage is also seen. Apart from this, the work of spreading hatred against Hindus and Sikhs always goes here at random. Meanwhile, such a web series has been made in Pakistan, in which venom has been spewed against India in the name of ‘Sevak-The Confession’ for the entertainment of the hateful people of Pakistan against Hindus, Sikh and India. And the effect of such hate mongering is quite evident from the video uploaded in YouTube by Sana Amjad.
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Vietnam to Ban Online Ads Being Shown Near “Toxic” Anti-Government Content
Vietnam is creating a blacklist of websites, including individual accounts on Facebook and YouTube, that will not be allowed to receive ad revenue if the government determines they have posted “toxic” or anti-government content. Advocates fear the new rule will worsen the free speech situation in the country.
Companies will not be allowed to place ads on content that is “toxic, against the state, or infringing copyrights,” the information ministry said in a post on its website, as reported by Nikkei Asia. The government is also working on a whitelist of safe websites that will be released in early 2023.
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Australian Territories Now Free to Legalise Euthanasia
The Northern Territory and ACT are free to legalise euthanasia after the federal parliament lifted a ban that prevented them from doing so.
The Senate voted last week to reverse a 25-year-old ban that stopped the territories from enacting assisted dying laws.
The ban was put in place in 1997 after the NT had established the world’s first legal euthanasia program two years earlier.
Progressive politicians have been trying to reverse the ban ever since.
Last week’s successful vote was the fourth attempt to do so in the past 15 years.
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Halls Creek, in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, has descended into chaos with a group of boys terrorising locals and bragging about their antics on TikTok.
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet handed over management of Wollumbin National Park and Mt Warning to an Indigenous authority who promptly banned visitors to the once popular hiking spot.
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Arizona Sheriff Demands Governor Stop Sending Shipping Containers for Makeshift Border Wall
An Arizona county sheriff is siding with protesters and demanding that Gov. Doug Ducey (R) stop sending shipping containers to the border for a makeshift wall.
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Facebook Scraps Policy That Allowed Users to Seek Human Smuggling Services
Social media company Facebook this week said it was scrapping a controversial policy that allowed users to seek out and request human smuggling services.
The company said in a policy memo that it was “remov[ing] content that facilitates or coordinates the exploitation of humans, including human trafficking,” a decision that comes nearly a year after the company’s permittance of such services first came to light.
The Washington Free Beacon first reported on Facebook’s allowance of human smuggling services in February of this year. The company at the time said it was permitting such requests in order to help individuals “to seek safety or exercise their human rights.”
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First Pictures of British Flights Sending Criminals Back to Albania
A group of drug dealers and illegal migrants — sentenced to 26 years between them in UK jails — was returned to Tirana last week as the Home Office ramps up deportation flights
Eleven Albanian men disembark from a deportation flight at Tirana airport, flanked by British border guards and immigration officials.
These exclusive pictures show — for the first time — Albanians being returned home, despite their best efforts to avoid deportation.
Among those on the plane landing at Tirana’s Mother Teresa airport last Thursday morning were men who had been convicted of drug crimes in Britain. Others had illegally crossed the Channel by boat before disappearing into the shadowy black market.
Incredibly, this unsavoury bunch had chalked up UK prison sentences of more than 26 years between them before their deportation.
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Hungary: Police Chase SUV Carrying 13 Illegal Migrants
On Wednesday morning, police officers were tailing a black SUV with Bulgarian plates on the M1 motorway in Hungary. Footage of the chase shows the vehicles moving at a slow speed.
The SUV was carrying 14 people instead of the usual five, as the critically overloaded car made sluggish progress on the motorway.
As none of them could prove their legal residence in the country, they were taken to the county police station. The Bulgarian driver has been charged with human smuggling.
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Preliminary Border Data Shows Record Number of Apprehensions, Gotaways in November
Preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by The Center Square from a border agent shows record numbers of apprehensions and gotaways at the southern border in November.
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Rescue Ships Carrying Some 500 Migrants Arrive in Italy After Difficult Crossing
Two humanitarian boats, carrying a total of 509 migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean, have arrived at Italian ports, after days at sea in adverse weather conditions.
The Geo Barents, chartered by Médecins Sans Frontières, arrived at the port of Salerno, south of Naples, with 248 migrants on board, after a mother who gave birth to a baby and a 14-year-old boy with severe abdominal pains were evacuated.
Humanity 1, which belongs to Germany’s SOS Humanity, entered the port of Bari with another 261 migrants who were rescued at sea.
Until Friday, the two humanitarian vessels were off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily, awaiting a safe port.
The Italian government granted them two ports which are on the mainland, forcing the vessels and the 509 rescued migrants to sail for another day in rough weather conditions.
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The father, whom we are legally obligated to refer to only as C.D. and who has suffered tremendously during his fight for parental rights and free speech, surrendered himself to Vancouver Supreme courthouse sheriffs bright and early Wednesday morning. As explained in a recent report, C.D. who was originally granted bail after serving 2 months of his 6-month sentence, was granted 2 bail extensions while awaiting his appeal to his conviction.
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Breaking: Journalist Katie Daviscourt Attacked by Antifa Outside Drag Queen Story Hour in WA
Katie Daviscourt was attacked by Antifa protestors in Renton, Wash. Saturday night, as she documented a Drag Queen Story Hour.
The event was going on at the Brewmaster’s Taproom in Renton, where she was reporting for Rebel News.
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Global Health Official Admits Lockdowns Were Political: ‘Not Backed by Science’
A global health official has gone on record to admit that Covid pandemic lockdowns and related measures were political and “not backed by science.”
During the pandemic, varying degrees of lockdown measures around the world ruined the lives of millions of people, particularly the most vulnerable.
Schools and businesses were shut down and, in the worst cases, people were forced to stay inside their homes for weeks on end.
Now the health officials behind the “science” of lockdowns are admitting they issued their decrees solely on the basis of politics.
In October, the World Health Summit held a three-day conference with the World Health Organization (WHO).
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In an age of ugliness, a work of beauty is an act of defiance.
Let’s check in on modern architecture.
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‘Non-binary’ head of US nuclear fuel disposal suspected of new theft – could face 10 years in prison
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The deputy head of the US nuclear fuel disposal facility, transvestite Sam Brinton, was recently charged with stealing a suitcase full of women’s clothing at an airport. Now he is suspected of another aggravated theft of a female passenger’s luggage.
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It was in June that Sam Brinton took up the prestigious and well-paid post of head of the US Department of Energy. According to Wikipedia, the appointment meant that Brinton became the first openly “genderfluid” person in a senior executive position in the US government.
Brinton has flaunted his sexual orientation in many contexts. Among other things, he has said that he engages in so-called “pup play”, which involves men dressing up as dogs and being dominated by their “pussies”. In a photograph featured in a Metro Weekly story, Brinton poses as the “master” of a leather-clad man with a dog mask, tail and naked tail.
When Brinton got the job at the Department of Energy, many wondered if it was wise to entrust such an important post to a man who dresses up in women’s clothes and engages in “dog play.” It was also questioned whether Brinton had the formal qualifications for the job. In a complaint about the appointment, a Department of Energy employee claimed that Brinton was unqualified and that he had been given the job for political reasons.
The critics were given a wake-up call in late November when it emerged that Brinton had recently been charged with grand larceny. According to the indictment, the theft took place at an airport in Minneapolis on 16 September this year. Brinton allegedly stole a suitcase belonging to a female passenger. According to the indictment, surveillance footage from the airport shows Brinton, who had no checked luggage of her own, walking up to a conveyor belt in the arrivals hall, taking a blue suitcase from the belt, ripping off the luggage tag and hurrying away.
The suitcase contained women’s clothing. The clothes and the bag are estimated to have been worth USD 2 325, which is equivalent to approximately EUR 24 000. The British Daily Mail has reported extensively on the theft charge.
Now Brinton has found himself in trouble with the law all over again. On Thursday, a Las Vegas court ruled that he should be arrested. The new criminal charges against Brinton relate to yet another bag theft, Fox News reports.
According to a police report obtained by Fox News, Brinton stole a suitcase from a conveyor belt at a Las Vegas airport on July 6 this year. The bag contained women’s clothing, jewelry and makeup with a total value (including the bag) of $3,670, about $38,000. This robbery was also caught on airport surveillance cameras.
“Brinton exhibited several signs of abnormal behavior when he took the victim’s bag, typical things suspects often do when stealing luggage,” police wrote in the report after reviewing the surveillance footage.
According to the report, Brinton lifted the suitcase off the conveyor belt and looked at the name tag. He then put the bag back on the belt and looked around in all directions. He then picked up the bag again, looked around again and quickly left.
“Brinton had only checked in one bag that he had already retrieved from the conveyor belt, and had no reason to examine or take any other bags,” the police report states.
The reason Brinton has only now been prosecuted in connection with the Las Vegas theft, which took place back in July, was that police initially could not identify the man on the surveillance footage. However, when the Minneapolis airport robbery received media attention and pictures of Brinton were published, Las Vegas police investigators immediately saw that Brinton was the man they were looking for.
Brinton is scheduled for a court hearing in Minneapolis on December 19. Along with the Minneapolis trial, he may face charges for the Las Vegas theft. The maximum sentences that could be imposed are five years in prison for the Minneapolis theft and ten years in prison for the Las Vegas theft.
Many wonder why the high-profile transvestite Brinton, who according to media reports has an annual salary of $178,000 – more than $1.8 million – and can reasonably afford to buy women’s clothing himself, seems to have risked his career to commit seemingly senseless thefts.
“He’s a transvestite who gets off on dressing in stolen women’s clothes. He is mentally unstable and unable to control his sick tendencies. Despite this, he has still not been dismissed from his security-classified post in the civil service,” writes author and commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter.
According to the New York Post, the Department of Energy has announced that Brinton is on leave until further notice, but has not responded to questions about whether he will continue to receive pay while on leave.
Two Republican congressmen, Andrew Clyde and Troy Nehls, have called for Brinton to be fired.
The Department of Energy has declined to comment on the demands, citing confidentiality of personnel matters. The White House has stated that it considers the matter to be a non-political issue on which it will not comment.
I have always been of the opinion that putting that 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 as the head of the US Department of Energy was a deliberate act of contempt of Americans as well as a demonstration of our impotence to do anything about it; either through our (allegedly) elected officials or through protests.
The security clearance required for the position combined with the extreme perversion and sexual deviance of the creature occupying the post is meant to make a bad joke of security requirements and security clearances as well as mainstreaming perverts.
As always, that creature isn’t the problem or even part of the problem. It is a symptom of the real problem, which is the complete and utter contempt the political elites of both parties have for normal Americans. And this isn’t something that gets fixed by voating more harder. There can only be one answer to what to do about an entire class of uberwealthy political, financial, and cultural elites who have nothing but the deepest contempt and loathing for anyone of the mainstream culture and middle class and would kill us off or enslave us if they thought they could do it without harm to themselves. A solution requiring a Robispierre, Stalin, Pol Pot, Beria and a wee little class war to exchange one set of problems for another…
What do you think of sending those Elites to some logging camps in Alaska or Canada?
No stret to those camps, just a see for the first plane to land.
Give them some axes and let them build their own houses and then send in the guards who take over these first houses and they have to build more.
And then let them log some trees and replant them.
Or send them to a place close to a mountain with some sledgehammers. And tell them that they get their position, luxuries and money back, when the entire mountain is reduced to dust.
It is a more humanitarian way of dealing with the problem, but the logistics are daunting. The total numbers in the USA who cannot be reconciled with a civilized society probably number in the millions or tens of millions. The elites and their families are a small fraction of this total, but the vast majority are the hopelessly overeducated, the city dwellers who are rabidly leftist or socialist, the rentier class who have a financial stake in the current status quo, the grievance hustlers, and the militant alphabet perverts who refuse to get back in the closet.
Stalin deported a huge number of people to Siberia or Central Asia, but ultimately the cost of a bullet is far cheaper than many of the elites are worth. And in the case of Australia, the British used it as a dumping ground for criminals and the poor, Irish, etc, but what started as a penal colony eventually turned into a strong society of real men and women before reverting back into a penal colony.
I think in the long run after the immediate societal issues and the offenders have been dealt with, it will probably be preferable to exile those who cannot live in a civilized society without trying to corrupt it rather than using more harsh remedies.
In the end Moon, it always comes down to harsh remedies and methods, besides, why would you leave you mortal enemies alive to fight another day and be corrosive later?
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‘Non-binary’ head of US nuclear fuel disposal suspected of new theft – could face 10 years in prison
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© Instagram Sam Brinton with “dogs” leads a “kink 101” workshop at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
https://www.friatider.se/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/brinton_med_hundar.jpg
Published 11 December 2022 in Free Times
The deputy head of the US nuclear fuel disposal facility, transvestite Sam Brinton, was recently charged with stealing a suitcase full of women’s clothing at an airport. Now he is suspected of another aggravated theft of a female passenger’s luggage.
Image:
https://www.friatider.se/sites/default/files/styles/w336_scaled/public/sam_brinton_instagram.png?itok=kfZgeUIQ
© Sam Brinton (private image from Instagram)
It was in June that Sam Brinton took up the prestigious and well-paid post of head of the US Department of Energy. According to Wikipedia, the appointment meant that Brinton became the first openly “genderfluid” person in a senior executive position in the US government.
Brinton has flaunted his sexual orientation in many contexts. Among other things, he has said that he engages in so-called “pup play”, which involves men dressing up as dogs and being dominated by their “pussies”. In a photograph featured in a Metro Weekly story, Brinton poses as the “master” of a leather-clad man with a dog mask, tail and naked tail.
When Brinton got the job at the Department of Energy, many wondered if it was wise to entrust such an important post to a man who dresses up in women’s clothes and engages in “dog play.” It was also questioned whether Brinton had the formal qualifications for the job. In a complaint about the appointment, a Department of Energy employee claimed that Brinton was unqualified and that he had been given the job for political reasons.
The critics were given a wake-up call in late November when it emerged that Brinton had recently been charged with grand larceny. According to the indictment, the theft took place at an airport in Minneapolis on 16 September this year. Brinton allegedly stole a suitcase belonging to a female passenger. According to the indictment, surveillance footage from the airport shows Brinton, who had no checked luggage of her own, walking up to a conveyor belt in the arrivals hall, taking a blue suitcase from the belt, ripping off the luggage tag and hurrying away.
The suitcase contained women’s clothing. The clothes and the bag are estimated to have been worth USD 2 325, which is equivalent to approximately EUR 24 000. The British Daily Mail has reported extensively on the theft charge.
Now Brinton has found himself in trouble with the law all over again. On Thursday, a Las Vegas court ruled that he should be arrested. The new criminal charges against Brinton relate to yet another bag theft, Fox News reports.
According to a police report obtained by Fox News, Brinton stole a suitcase from a conveyor belt at a Las Vegas airport on July 6 this year. The bag contained women’s clothing, jewelry and makeup with a total value (including the bag) of $3,670, about $38,000. This robbery was also caught on airport surveillance cameras.
“Brinton exhibited several signs of abnormal behavior when he took the victim’s bag, typical things suspects often do when stealing luggage,” police wrote in the report after reviewing the surveillance footage.
According to the report, Brinton lifted the suitcase off the conveyor belt and looked at the name tag. He then put the bag back on the belt and looked around in all directions. He then picked up the bag again, looked around again and quickly left.
“Brinton had only checked in one bag that he had already retrieved from the conveyor belt, and had no reason to examine or take any other bags,” the police report states.
The reason Brinton has only now been prosecuted in connection with the Las Vegas theft, which took place back in July, was that police initially could not identify the man on the surveillance footage. However, when the Minneapolis airport robbery received media attention and pictures of Brinton were published, Las Vegas police investigators immediately saw that Brinton was the man they were looking for.
Brinton is scheduled for a court hearing in Minneapolis on December 19. Along with the Minneapolis trial, he may face charges for the Las Vegas theft. The maximum sentences that could be imposed are five years in prison for the Minneapolis theft and ten years in prison for the Las Vegas theft.
Many wonder why the high-profile transvestite Brinton, who according to media reports has an annual salary of $178,000 – more than $1.8 million – and can reasonably afford to buy women’s clothing himself, seems to have risked his career to commit seemingly senseless thefts.
“He’s a transvestite who gets off on dressing in stolen women’s clothes. He is mentally unstable and unable to control his sick tendencies. Despite this, he has still not been dismissed from his security-classified post in the civil service,” writes author and commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter.
According to the New York Post, the Department of Energy has announced that Brinton is on leave until further notice, but has not responded to questions about whether he will continue to receive pay while on leave.
Two Republican congressmen, Andrew Clyde and Troy Nehls, have called for Brinton to be fired.
The Department of Energy has declined to comment on the demands, citing confidentiality of personnel matters. The White House has stated that it considers the matter to be a non-political issue on which it will not comment.
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