An explosion ripped through a Russian pipeline supplying natural gas for Europe, killing three people. Gazprom said the flow of gas for the damaged pipeline was diverted to parallel pipelines, leaving the supply for Europe unaffected.
In other news, gun murders hit another record high in Sweden during 2022.
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6 Undisputed Facts About Arizona Election: Election Day Issues, Ballot Counts, Legal Threats
Following a judge’s ruling that 2022 GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake’s lawsuit challenging the outcome of the Arizona election will proceed to trial, opposing lawyers will continue to spar over contested facts, such as the number of vote centers affected by machine errors on Election Day. But amid the impassioned arguments about the Arizona election, six key facts aren’t in dispute.
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Actor Tim Robbins Expresses Regret for His Support of COVID Authoritarianism
With multiple peer-reviewed studies showing the potential danger from autoimmune side effects associated with covid mRNA vaccines (the more doses the higher the risk), along with numerous studies debunking the notion that lockdowns, mandates and masks are effective at stopping the spread of the virus, more and more public figures are beginning to speak out about their initial support of the authoritarian measures.
Actor Tim Robbins recently expressed his regret on Russell Brand’s podcast for blindly following government mandates and he admonished tyrannical attitudes that led lockdown supporters to call for the deaths of their political opponents.
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Arizona AG Candidate Hamadeh’s Election Challenge Will Proceed to Trial
Arizona Republican Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge will proceed to trial, after an Arizona judge denied Democratic Attorney General-elect Kris Mayes’ motion for dismissal.
In the Tuesday ruling, Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee F. Jantzen did dismiss five of Hamadeh’s counts, but allowed his other claims to proceed to an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Dec. 23. Presently Hamadeh trails Mayes by 511 votes.
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Arizona Judge Rules Two of Kari Lake’s Election Challenge Claims Can Go to Trial
An Arizona judge ruled that two out of 10 claims, brought by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, challenging Democrat Governor-elect Katie Hobbs’ election victory can go to trial.
Maricopa County Superior Judge Peter Thompson dismissed eight out of 10 counts in Lake’s election lawsuit — ruling they did not fall under the proper criteria to bring election challenges under Arizona law.
The two counts that Judge Thompson ruled can go to trial involve printers malfunctioning on Election Day and ballot chain of custody. Lake claimed printers that malfunctioned were not certified and had “vulnerabilities” that made them “susceptible to hacking.” She also claimed the printers malfunctioned because of “intentional action.”
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In the run-up to the 2020 election, Twitter, Facebook, corporate media representatives, and a George Soros-funded propaganda organization all participated in a “training exercise” to prepare for a possible “data leak” exposing then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s “crimes” and links to his son Hunter’s shady business dealings.
The “training exercise” took place in September 2020, roughly one month before the New York Post first broke the story on Hunter Biden’s notorious “Laptop from Hell.”
The drill was organized by the leftist Washington D.C. think tank the Aspen Institute, according to the Daily Caller and journalist Michael Shellenberger.
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk challenged Rep. Adam Schiff whether he approved “hidden state censorship in direct violation of the Constitution.” The comment comes in the wake of the most recent round of Twitter Files, which show that Twitter was used as a vassal of the FBI.
Those Twitter Files were released on December 19 in a lengthy thread by author Michael Shellenberger.
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CDC: Miscarriages and Stillbirths Spiked 4070% Since 2020
Bombshell data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that a staggering 4,070 percent increase in miscarriages and stillbirths has been recorded in the United States since 2020.
The disturbing spike is revealed in data from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).
VAERS is the federal government’s vaccine safety surveillance program that helps to detect unusual or unexpected reporting patterns of adverse events for vaccines.
The system stores records of any reactions to vaccines through real-time reporting
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Chicago Man Gets 26 Months in Prison for Torching CTA Van During George Floyd Protest
A man who torched a Chicago Transit Authority van downtown during the May 2020 protests after the murder of George Floyd and livestreamed his plans for mayhem was sentenced to 26 months in prison Tuesday.
Lamar Taylor buried his face in his hands and sobbed upon hearing U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman’s sentence at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Taylor could be released soon from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he’s been held for the last 22 months. Inmates are typically entitled to a 15% sentence reduction for good behavior.
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Georgia police said crime hit a “new low” after someone stole expensive Nativity scene statues from outside a Catholic Church.
“We know that many in our community are shocked and disgusted over the theft of nativity scene pieces from St. Michael Catholic Church,” the Tybee Island Police Department posted to its Facebook page on Monday. “We’re equally disappointed that someone would steal from one of our local houses of worship, especially during the holidays.”
“Stealing the baby Jesus right before Christmas is a new low,” the department added in another Facebook post.
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DEA Says Agency Seized Enough Fentanyl to Kill Every American in 2022
The Drug Enforcement Agency on Tuesday announced that in 2022, it had seized quantities of the highly lethal narcotic fentanyl sufficient to kill more than the entire American population.
The agency seized more than 379 million doses of the drug this year, up 94% from 2019, indicating the trafficking of the relatively new narcotic is on the rise, according to the Washington Post.
Included in that figure are more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder and more than 50 million illegal fentanyl pills. Fentanyl, the outlet asserts, has become the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-49. The drug is 50 times more potent than heroin. Federal authorities believe they have only seized between 5 and 10 percent of the shipments entering the country.
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Elon Musk Endorses Church-Style Committee to Probe FBI’s Engagement in Social Media Censorship
New Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday endorsed the idea of creating a commission, similar to the historic Church Committee, to probe why the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community are involved in online censorship.
“Hear, hear!!” Musk tweeted in response to a tweet from venture capitalist David Sacks, who said: “We need a new Church Commission to investigate why the FBI and Intelligence Community are engaged in social media censorship, including the suppression of the Hunter Biden story.”
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Elon Musk Will Resign as Twitter CEO Once He Finds a Successor
In a Tuesday evening post on the site, Musk announced his plans, saying he would retain responsibilities for maintaining much of the platform’s supporting technologies after resigning as CEO.
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams,” he wrote in reply to an earlier poll he conducted as to whether he should resign from his position with company.
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Elon Musk Says Only Twitter Blue Subscribers Will be Allowed to Vote in Policy-Related Polls
Elon Musk on Monday said Twitter will only allow its Blue subscribers to vote in policy-related polls.
Musk mentioned the change while commenting on a Twitter user who made the suggestion in response to Musk’s poll asking whether he should step down as CEO.
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Elon Musk Puts Liz Warren in Her Place: ‘The U.S Has Been Harmed by Having Her as Senator’
Elon Musk has publicly blasted Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) by tweeting to his 122.3 million Twitter followers that the “United States has definitely been harmed by having her as a senator.”
Warren, who claimed she was Native American so she could game the system to rise to the top of her profession, has been targeting Musk for some time now.
She frequently makes false claims about his taxes and business operations on social media and during television appearances.
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COCOA, Fla. (WFLA) — New details have emerged after a 17-year-old boy was accused of brutally attacking his mother last month.
According to WESH, a report from the Cocoa Police Department said the teen, now charged with attempted murder, stabbed his mother several times before hitting her in the face with a frying pan.
When police arrived, “the victim took a breath and stated [her son] did this,” the outlet reported.
During the attack, the suspect’s friend tried to get him to stop. Later, the teen left in his mother’s Kia and picked up his girlfriend.
WESH stated that the friend who witnessed the attack and another teen followed the suspect and his girlfriend in a Jeep that also belonged to the victim.
After police tracked the suspect by pinging his cell phone, investigators said he refused to stop and led police on a high-speed chase before eventually crashing on Interstate 95.
According to the station, detectives said that while they were interviewing the teen, “he admitted to stabbing the victim multiple times with a pocketknife he carried around…He struck the victim in the head until the frying pan broke.”
When asked why he did it, he told officials he was upset that his mother was constantly on him about cleaning his room.
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Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger released a new batch of Twitter Files that showed how the FBI convinced Twitter that the Hunter Biden laptop story was misinformation.
At the center of Twitter’s decision to suppress the story was Jim Baker, the former deputy legal counsel at Twitter, who held a similar role at the FBI before joining Twitter. Baker and the FBI worked together to convince Twitter that the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop story were hacked from another source by Russian agents and put on the laptop that the New York Post reported on.
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Georgia Supreme Court Sends 2020 Fulton County Election Lawsuit Back to Appeals Court to Reconsider
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a 2020 election lawsuit regarding Fulton County back to a lower court for reconsideration, adding another layer to the suit’s twisting saga through the court system.
The lawsuit, Caroline Jeffords, et al. v. Fulton County, et al., alleges that the plaintiffs’ votes in the 2020 election were “diluted by the inclusion of allegedly unlawful ballots in Fulton County.” Jeffords also alleged that Fulton County violated the Georgia Open Records Act.
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‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan Catches Intruder in His Home, Holds Him at Gunpoint
A man got a lot more than he bargained for when he broke into a South Carolina home and got caught by the armed homeowner, who turned out to be pro wrestling legend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan.
Duggan, one of the most recognizable names in pro wrestling, revealed that he needed to put some of his famous moves to good use when he came face-to-face with an intruder in his home earlier this month.
“Hacksaw” revealed in a new interview with Wrestling Inc. that his home was broken into on December 8 and that he dealt with the uninvited guest himself.
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House Committee Votes to Release Trump’s Tax Returns
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted to release former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, ending a lengthy bid from Democrats to make public the 45th president’s personal finances.
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Kankakee County Judge Hears Arguments in Lawsuit Challenging SAFE-T Act
KANKAKEE COUNTY — With less than two weeks until it’s implementation, dozens of counties are challenging the Illinois SAFE-T Act.
On Tuesday, a hearing was underway in Kankakee County where a judge listened to arguments in a combined lawsuit brought on by prosecutors and sheriffs from more than 60 counties.
Part of the controversial SAFE-T Act — signed by Governor JB Pritzker and set to take effect on January 1 — would eliminate cash bail unless a defendant is facing life in prison.
Supporters of the law say it’s wrong to keep people in jail simply because they can’t afford bail.
Those opposed to the legislation argue it will cause a spike in crime, and that it improperly amends the state constitution.
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McConnell Declares Ukraine Funding GOP’s Top Priority Ahead of Zelensky Visit
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday told reporters that the GOP’s top priority would be to secure assistance for Ukraine in prosecuting its war against Russia.
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One of the main ways Facebook gathered data in its early days was by encouraging new users to share their contacts with the platform. This resulted in many people having their phone numbers and email addresses shared with the tech giant, even if they never signed up to use Facebook or its other services.
For many years, there was no easy way for people to determine whether their data had been harvested in this way and to delete any phone numbers or email addresses that had been collected without their consent. But earlier this year, Facebook’s parent company Meta quietly rolled out a tool that lets you check whether Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger has a copy of your phone number or email address, delete this information from Meta’s “address book database”, and block it from being uploaded to this database in the future.
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Musk Says Twitter Will ‘Absolutely’ Refuse Payments to Censor After Platform Took $3.4m From FBI
New Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday pledged to “absolutely” not accept payments to censor stories after revelations in the so-called “Twitter Files” showed that the social media company had received more than $3.4 million from the FBI.
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Nashville’s city council will consider a $450,000 settlement to a firefighter who was suspended for a social media post that accused most council members of being “white supremacists.” Firefighter Joshua Lipscomb was suspended for 16 days over his comments.
Lipscomb has a comedy YouTube channel called “JoshuaBlackComedy.” On the channel’s Twitter account, he wrote: “I hate feeding into the illusion that America’s government and existence is legitimate so I’m no fan of voting.
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Nunes Accuses DOJ of Seeking Blackmail Material During Russia Probe After Bombshell Revelation
The former House Intelligence Committee chairman is suggesting the Justice Department illegally spied on him and possibly sought blackmail material after a bombshell revelation that federal prosecutors used grand jury subpoenas five years ago to get the phone and email records of his top investigators during the congressional probe that unraveled the now-disproven Russia collusion narrative.
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Philadelphia Reached 500 Homicides as Gun Violence Continues to Plague City Streets
Philadelphia reached 500 homicides this week amid concerns from elected officials about how to respond to violent crime playing out in city streets.
Despite the milestone, the murder rate for 2022 is slightly lower than last year, according to police data. In 2021, the city reported 562 killings. Aside from last year, the number of slayings this year is the highest the city has seen in years.
“As of today, 500 people’s lives have been cut short by senseless violence in our city,” Mayor Jim Kenney said during a Monday news conference. “That’s 500 of our friends, neighbors, colleagues and family members. As we enter this holiday season, I can’t help but think of all the incredible potential that has been extinguished by this loss of life.”
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Millions of Americans have had packages stolen from their front doors by “porch pirates” this year and one retired police officer told Fox News Digital the best solutions to ensure that your holiday gifts make it safely into your home.
Dennis Farris, who served as a police officer in Austin, Texas, for 25 years and serves now as president of the Austin Police Retired Officer’s Association, told Fox News Digital that the first way to deter porch pirates is the “Amazon Key” system, which allows an Amazon delivery person to drop a package inside the garage.
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Queens Man Sentenced to Prison After Attempting to Help ISIS
QUEENS — A man from Ozone Park was sentenced to prison after he attempted to travel to Syria and help a foreign terrorist organization in 2017, according to Breon Peace, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Parveg Ahmed, 27, was sentenced to over 12 years in prison after the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force found Ahmed attempted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) after flying to Saudi Arabia in June 2017, prosecutors said.
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Radio Stars Criticize George Soros-Backed Move to ‘Silence Conservative Hispanic Voices’
The recent George Soros-backed takeover of 18 Hispanic radio stations, including Miami’s flagship conservative Radio Mambi, is doomed to fail, according to two hosts who quit the station as a result of the planned new progressive agenda.
“This is going to be a failure — I am 100 percent sure of that,” Venezuelan-born former Radio Mambi host Lourdes Ubieta told The Post she believes. She quit the station after she learned of the takeover during the summer. “They did this to silence conservative Hispanic voices but it’s not going to work.”
In June, the Soros-backed Latino Media Network bought Mambi — a mainstay of Miami’s hardline anti-Communist Cuban exile community for decades — and 17 other Spanish-language radio stations from TelevisaUnivision in an estimated $60 million deal. The newly-formed network is run by two former Democratic operatives, Stephanie Valencia and Jess Morales Rocketto, who worked on Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns. Valencia also worked in the Obama White House.
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be repealed if social media companies do not do more to censor “hate and loathing.”
Section 230 protects online platforms from liability over content posted by users. Democrats want the provision repealed because they say platforms are not doing enough to censor hate speech and misinformation, while Republicans argue that the provision should be repealed because of censorship of free speech.
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RNC Asks Federal Election Commission to Examine Twitter for ‘False Statements’ to Agency
The Republican National Committee is asking the Federal Election Commission to “re-examine Twitter’s response” to the agency about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in light of new revelations from the so-called “Twitter Files.”
The RNC originally brought a complaint against Twitter to the FEC in October 2020 about Twitter’s censorship of the story involving now-President Joe Biden’s son’s laptop. The federal agency dismissed the complaint nearly a year later, but RNC Chief Counsel Matthew Raymer said in a letter Monday that the Twitter Files show the social media company may have “may have made false representations to the Commission in violation” of federal law.
Raymer wrote how the Twitter Files showed that the Biden campaign forwarded specific tweets to remove or suppress. On Tuesday, the seventh edition of the Twitter Files showed that U.S. intelligence contacted Twitter to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story before it was published by The New York Post.
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Trump Responds to Jan 6 Committee’s Criminal Referral: ‘What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger’
President Donald Trump has fired back in response to the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution.
On Monday, the House Committee of Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, assembled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), concluded its “investigation” with a vote recommending Trump be criminally charged by the DOJ.
The vote came despite the Committee failing to produce any evidence that Trump committed any crimes.
However, the Committee still recommends that the 45th president is charged with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection.
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‘Twitter Files’ Reveal Platform Aided Pentagon Propaganda Efforts Abroad
The most recent release of Twitter’s internal documents, dubbed the “Twitter Files,” details the platform’s cooperation with the Pentagon to promote propaganda materials in line with the military’s strategic geopolitical interests.
Released by The Intercept’s Lee Fang, the latest release detailed Pentagon requests that the platform either verify or “whitelist” a plethora of accounts it used to “amplify certain messages.” Whitelisting an account exempts it from spam and abuse flags while also making it more likely to trend.
Various accounts from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) often tweeted about American military interests in the Middle East. Some espoused support for U.S.-backed Saudi operations in Yemen while others frequently posted anti-Iran material.
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The Pentagon handed Twitter a list of 52 accounts they wished to be protected and promoted, which they had created to bolster U.S. policy in the Middle East, it has emerged.
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Unborn Baby Dies Following Overnight Shooting in Greenwood
GREENWOOD, S.C. (FOX Carolina) — The Greenwood Police Department said officers are investigating a shooting that injured two people injured and killed an unborn child on Tuesday morning.
Officers said they responded to the Gardens at Parkway apartments in Greenwood after someone reported gunshots.
According to officers, two victims had already been taken to the hospital with gunshot injuries before they arrived. One of the victims was shot in the leg and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers said the other victim was a woman who was nine months pregnant that was shot in the back. She survived, but sadly her unborn child died following the incident.
The suspect, Javier Williams, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and charged with murder. Officers added that other charges could come later.
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Wells Fargo Ordered to Pay $3.7 Billion for ‘Illegal Activity’, Including Mismanaging Accounts
Federal regulators on Tuesday ordered Wells Fargo Bank to pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty and more than $2 billion in compensation to customers for what they say was “illegal activity affecting over 16 million consumer accounts.”
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Why Was the FBI Paying Twitter Millions of Dollars?
The latest batch of Twitter Files, released by independent journalist Michael Shellenberger on December 19, revealed that the FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to process the bureau’s requests.
“I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” wrote an employee at Twitter’s Safety, Content, & Law Enforcement (SCALE) team, in an email sent in February 2021.
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‘Woke’ Non-Binary Artist Caught Trying to Rape 9-Year-Old Boy
A prominent “woke” New York City artist, who “identifies” as “non-binary queer,” has been caught trying to rape a 9-year-old boy, according to police.
35-year-old Efrem Zelony-Mindell was arrested on Friday for trying to arrange sexual intercourse with a 9-year-old boy in NYC.
Zelony-Mindell was arrested and charged with attempted enticement of a minor and possession and distribution of child pornography.
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Zelenskyy to Address Congress Wednesday as Lawmakers Debate $45B in Ukraine Aid
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will pay an in-person visit to Congress on Wednesday as lawmakers prepare to pass a budget that includes more than $45 billion in new military and humanitarian aid for his country.
Zelenskyy is set to address Members of Congress on Wednesday. The Ukrainian president is expected to praise lawmakers for their support as his nation fights off an unprovoked invasion by Russia. Zelenskyy is also expected to argue that the war is by no means won and that more help is needed.
The visit comes as the Senate is slated to take up President Biden’s $1.7 trillion spending bill this week. The legislation includes more than $45 billion in additional aid to Ukraine.
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8 Teen Girls Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder in Swarming Death of Man in Toronto: Police
Eight teenage girls have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 59-year-old man in Toronto, police say.
Police have not released the man’s name because his next of kin is still being notified.
Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 years old and two are 16 years old, according to Det.-Sgt. Terry Browne of Toronto police’s homicide unit. None of the girls’ identities can be released under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The girls appeared in court at Old City Hall on Sunday, were remanded into custody and are due in court again on Dec. 29.
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Alberta’s New Civil Liberties Parliamentary Secretary Tasked With Taking on Bill C-18
Alberta’s new parliamentary secretary for civil liberties has been tasked with fighting the federal government’s proposed Bill C-18, legislation that has been dubbed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “online censorship” bill.
The new role will be filled by United Conservative Party MLA Tracy Allard, who was appointed to the position last week.
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office, Allard will report to Justice Minister Tyler Shandro as she determines what steps can be taken to challenge C-18. The province says the bill will “limit the Charter Rights and Freedoms of Canadians by affecting independent news outlets, content creators, and every Canadian who uses online media.”
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Canada Condo Killer Faced Possible Eviction Before Shooting
TORONTO (AP) — A suburban Toronto man who was killed by police after authorities say he fatally shot five people in his condominium building, including three members of the condo board, had a court hearing scheduled for the next day to determine if the building’s management could evict him.
Francesco Villi, 73, attacked neighbors on three floors of his building on Sunday night, killing three men and two women and wounding a sixth person, a 66-year-old woman who is expected to survive, according to police. One of the officers who responded to a call about an active shooter inside the building in the suburb of Vaughan shot and killed Villi, authorities said.
The attack happened the day before a scheduled online court hearing in which lawyers for the condominium corporation were set to argue that it should be allowed to evict Villi because he had spent years harassing building employees, board members and other neighbors. In court documents, the building’s lawyers said Villi ignored court orders to end the harassment and stop posting online about a longstanding dispute he had with the condo’s management.
Villi long claimed in videos posted on social media and in court documents that vibrations, noises and emissions from the building’s electrical room under his unit were making him sick, and that board members and the building’s developer were to blame.
According to court documents, at least two condominium managers quit because of him, and security guards quit or changed shifts to avoid him. Residents also said Villi would swear at them and film them.
“The Condominium submits that a penalty directing Villi to sell and vacate his unit within 90 days of the resolution of this matter is the only meaningful punishment that will serve the dual purposes of a finding of contempt,” lawyers for the building wrote to the court. “While this is an extreme penalty, the Condominium submits that it is proportional to Villi’s offence. He has proven himself to be ungovernable.”
In rambling videos he posted on Facebook in the hours and days leading up the attack, Villi talked about the legal dispute. The posts include recordings of phone conversations he had with lawyers about his case. In one video he posted Sunday, the lawyer for the building noted that the condo corporation had asked him to sell his unit and move out.
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Canadians Thought Vaccine Campaign Was “Threatening” And “Bossy, “ Government Survey Found
Canadians surveyed by Health Canada during a series of focus groups reacted negatively to several aspects of a mass campaign to encourage Covid-19 vaccination.
When presented with a series of concept videos on the topics of getting a booster vaccine and vaccinating children, participants raised concerns about federal directives to get a Covid-19 shot because they were too “bossy” and “authoritative.”
The $233,291 survey was conducted by Quorus Consulting Group Inc. on behalf of the department and included 45 focus groups between March 15, 2021 to July 28, 2022.
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Canada Redefined Economic Impact as “Violence” to Justify Freezing Protesters’ Bank Accounts
Last February, Canadian authorities used whatever means they thought they could get away with to put an end to a peaceful political protest against Covid restrictions led by truckers, known as the Freedom Convoy.
Now, in trying to justify the government’s behavior, senior officials appear to be trying to “redefine” the meaning of (physical) violence, to make sure their actions fit within that definition.
The most controversial ones undertaken to stifle the protest — such as deploying riot police and freezing participants’ bank accounts — were done by evoking the Emergencies Act, in itself, a move controversial enough to warrant a commission inquiry.
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Trudeau’s Ban on Single-Use Plastics Begins Tuesday
As of December 20, 2022, Canada’s ban on the manufacture and import of certain plastic items, including straws and grocery bags, has taken effect.
Beginning Tuesday, the list of plastic items that companies will no longer be allowed to produce or bring into the country will include checkout bags, cutlery, some foodservice ware, stir sticks, and straws.
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Trudeau Will Ban ‘Some’ Hunting Guns That Are ‘Too Dangerous in Other Contexts’
Justin Trudeau has stated that his government intends to ban some hunting guns currently used by Canadians, as they may be “too dangerous in other contexts.”
During a wide-ranging end-of-year conversation with Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News, Omar Sachedina, Trudeau sought to clarify some of the aspects of his government’s controversial amendment to Bill C-21.
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Czechia Retains Its High Levels of Gas Reserves Despite Freezing Temperatures
Despite a drop in temperatures across Czechia last week, gas reserves in the country remained at the second-highest level since 2014, the country’s Minister of Industry and Trade Jozef Sikela announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
The Czech government is trying to reduce gas consumption due to supply problems linked to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine; it is aiming to save 15 percent of gas this winter, equivalent to 800 million cubic meters. So far, more than 180 million cubic meters have been saved.
As of Tuesday, domestic reservoirs across the country are holding 2.9 billion cubic meters of gas and are at 84 percent total capacity.
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EU Invites Elon Musk to Testify About Twitter
Twitter’s owner Elon Musk has been invited to testify before the European Parliament.
In a letter, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola invited Musk to Brussels for a “frank exchange in public” with legislators.
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Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary Breaks Record Yet Again, Announces Trade Minister
Hungary has once again broken its record for the level of foreign direct investment in the country in 2022, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó announced on Tuesday.
Speaking from the South Korean capital of Seoul, Szijjartó confirmed that foreign investment into Hungary this year had reached €6.4 billion, surpassing previous records in 2019 and 2021.
The record figures were largely attributed to an increased level of investment from South Korean companies, particularly related to the electric car industry.
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Former Nazi Secretary, 97, Found Guilty in Connection With 10,000 Holocaust Murders
A former secretary for the Nazis during World War II was found guilty this week of complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people, a ruling that may represent one of the last trials of war criminals from Germany’s Third Reich era.
Irmgard Furchner, 97 years old, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence for the work she performed at the Stutthof prison camp from 1943-1945.
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Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Launches Peace Platform
The launch of a remarkable peace initiative has been reported from Austria. The initiator of the “Platform for Peace and Neutrality” is the former FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache. On Monday, a highly acclaimed panel discussion took place in Vienna.
Guests included FPÖ veteran Andreas Mölzer, the former Liberal National Councilor Peter Fichtenbauer, AfD member of parliament Christina Baum, former Baden-Württemberg AfD member of parliament Heinrich Fiechtner and non-aligned Efgani Dönmez.
The motive for the event and the founding of his platform was that there were “no loud and audible peace initiatives,” explained Strache, who moderated the discussion. Russia is not being invited to the negotiating table, he added, blaming Western nations for not taking the initiative.
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French Firefighters Hit With Stones, Explosives in Multiple Ambushes
Firefighters were called to multiple blazes only to be met by assailants armed with projectiles and explosives on the same night in France this week, according to reports.
Two ambushes unfolded minutes apart on Monday night in the department of Yvelines near Paris.
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Great Reset: EU Reduces Gas Consumption by 20.1% From Five-Year Average
The European Union has reduced its natural gas consumption by 20.1% from August to November compared with the same months of 2017-2021 as part of the bloc’s plan to end dependence on Russian energy, the European Statistical Office (Eurostat) said on Tuesday.
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Greeks, Hungarians, Austrians, and Slovaks Are the Most Opposed to Sending Weapons to Ukraine: Poll
While a majority of Europeans are supportive of sending weapons to Ukraine, a number of countries are more opposed to the idea.
Greece recorded the highest level of public opposition to sending weapons to Ukraine, with 48 percent of those surveyed fully disapproving, followed by Cyprus with 46 percent.
Slovakia, Bulgaria, Austria, and Hungary also reported high levels of disapproval. The majority of the German public (58 percent) support arming Ukraine, despite the fact that this policy causes much unease among them.
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Gun Murders in Sweden Reach Another Record High in 2022
The number of murders committed with firearms in Sweden has reached a record high this year, the Stockholm government said on Monday.
“The number of fatal shootings has increased and has reached another bloody peak this year,” said Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer. According to the minister, 60 people have been killed by firearms so far in 2022.
The number has already surpassed last year’s previous record of 48. At the time, Reuters reported that there were 61 areas across Sweden, “all with a high proportion of immigrants, listed by police as risk areas for rising gang violence.”
Among other countries in the region, four murders were committed with firearms in Norway, four in Denmark, and two in Finland, according to Hungarian newspaper Magyar Hirlap.
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Liberalization of Czechia’s Cannabis Laws to be Tabled Early Next Year
A bill to liberalize cannabis laws in the Czech Republic will be brought before parliament in mid-January, shortly after the country’s presidential election, National Anti-Drug Coordinator Jindrich Voboril has announced.
Voboril, of the governing ODS party, told Czech newspaper Pravo newspaper that the framework for the new legislation will be ready in the new year, when he expects a public consultation to take place between the coalition partners regarding its implementation.
He explained that working groups are currently seeking to identify the right level of regulation that would attract public support to ensure the bill is successful.
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Poles Enthusiastic About Receiving Basic Military Training
Due to popular demand, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak opened the second edition of the project allowing civilians to receive one-day military training during the winter break. Many Poles see the training as an opportunity to learn basic military skills in the event of an invasion.
“We want to provide basic training to as many people as possible, including the handling of weapons and medical aid, in order to navigate properly in a crisis situation,” Blaszczak said.
The “Train with the army” project is a one-day free course in which participants receive basic knowledge for handling weapons, hand-to-hand combat, field survival, providing first aid, using a gas mask, and how to properly use topography to one’s advantage.
[Comment: Maybe there should something like that in the US.]
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Shortage Fears Return as Germany Rapidly Burns Through Its Gas Reserve
Discussion of fears over possible gas shortages has returned to the German media, with the cold European winter seeing the country burn through its saved-up supply far faster than expected.
After a period of absence due to an abnormally warm late fall and early winter, the issue of possible gas shortages appears to have well and truly returned to the German media sphere, with the country reportedly consuming far more of its gas reserves than expected as a result of a cold snap that has hit northern Europe.
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Spanish Man Arrested for Causing 19 Forest Fires in Two Years
A 54-year-old man in Spain was arrested by police for allegedly causing at least 19 forest fires in the province of Caceres over the last two years that devastated nearly 3,000 acres.
The 54-year-old was arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard and is a resident of the town of Moraleja in Caceres. It is said the suspect drives a vehicle that was identified by witnesses in the vicinity of several forest fires that took place in 2021 and 2022.
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This is the moment Animal Rebellion protesters used bolt cutters to break into a beagle breeding facility and release 18 dogs as police have arrested 14 people.
Officers were called to MBR Acres in Wyton, Cambridgeshire, just before 6am on Tuesday to reports of a break-in and ‘protesters at the front gates’.
Protest group Animal Rebellion said in a statement 12 of its supporters got inside the facility and took 18 beagles.
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Every professionally offended grifter is pretending like the Sun publishing Clarkson’s joke is the outrage of the century.
Where was your outrage when newspapers were publishing weaponized lies and propaganda to justify lockdown?
A genuine outrage that greased the skids for sustained, life-threatening, real world harm?
Oh no, but what about the mean words!
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Explosion Tears Through Russian Gas Pipeline During Repairs
MOSCOW (AP) — Officials say an explosion during repairs on a section of Europe-bound natural gas pipeline in western Russia has killed three people but hasn’t affected export supplies. The explosion ripped through a section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline in the Chuvashia region during repair works on Tuesday. Regional authorities say three repair workers were killed and one was injured by the blast, which sent a huge plume of burning gas high into the air. The regional branch of Russia’s state-controlled natural gas giant, Gazprom, says volumes of gas transit weren’t affected by the blast and that supplies have continued along parallel lines.
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Argentina was one of the first countries to widely use Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine. Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which financed the vaccine said their victory wasn’t a ‘coincidence’.
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Hospitals are struggling and pharmacy shelves have been stripped bare following the Chinese government’s sudden decision to end zero-Covid.
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As Border Chaos Rages, Biden Gives Fake Interviews and Fake Photoshop Smiles
As the Southern border chaos explodes, Joe Biden did his first sit down interview in almost two months, yet it was with a celebrity and nothing he said was about policy.
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Border ‘Czar’ Kamala Harris Surfaces, Blames ‘Republicans in Congress’ For Crisis at Southern Border
Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris (remember her?) has just surfaced to blame the “unwillingness to engage” of “Republicans in Congress” for the crisis at the southern border.
Harris, Democrat President Joe Biden’s “border czar,” passed the buck during a new interview with NPR
The VP refused to take responsibility for the mess at the border and instead tried to blame the Republicans.
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Breaking: Teenage Migrants Being Held in ‘Stash Houses’ By Mexican Cartels: Project Veritas
Mexican cartels have set up stash houses across the border in the United States where they are holding migrants hostage, threatening them and shaking them down for money, according to a new video from Project Veritas.
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Feds Lost Track of 150k Migrants Due to Biden’s ‘No Processing’ Policy, Training Video Shows
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials lost track of 150,000 migrants that entered the United States due to the Biden administration’s “no processing” immigration policy, a training video from the federal agency shows.
The Biden administration launched “Operation Horizon” in November 2021 to try to locate 150,000 migrants that were released in the summer earlier that year, but the training videos published Tuesday by Fox News show that officials had difficulty tracking down the migrants due to a lack of identifying information.
An ICE official said in a video that the 150,000 migrants “were issued a piece of paper that said, ‘go find somebody in ICE,’ and that was pretty much it. There was no processing.”
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A 23-year-old French woman has been convicted to three months in prison and received a €500 fine for after falsely claiming a White male raped her on Dec. 3, when in fact it was later determined that it was in fact an illegal African immigrant who she had sex with.
At the time, the young woman went to the police station in the northwestern French city of Quimper and filed a complaint for rape, claiming the attack took place the day before in the middle of the afternoon, in the toilets of the local railway station.
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Germany needs to do more to make it easier for foreign nationals to arrive in Germany with their families and fill job vacancies, the country’s Federal Employment Agency director, Andrea Nahles, told the T-Online news portal in an interview published on Monday.
The employment agency chief said the country must evoke a “spirit of immigration” to both attract more foreign nationals to the country and to entice those already living there from leaving.
“The spirit of immigration is not there in Germany yet,” she told the news portal.
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Texas Border Towns Prepare for Migrant Wave With Shipping Containers and Razor Wire
Even with the Supreme Court temporarily extending a Trump-era policy that bars asylum applicants from entering the U.S. to protect the American population from Covid-19, the Federal Government has offered no viable solutions and little to no help to southern border states to stop a growing wave of illegal immigrants.
White House officials continue to deny that there is a legitimate problem while also claiming they have been “doing the work since day one” to secure the border. States and border towns are now left to deal with the threat on their own.
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Nigel Farage was particularly cited as an impediment to Britain preparing for a “new era of high immigration” in a think tank report, prompting the Brexiteer to tell Breitbart that if Britons want to discuss migration policy, they must be allowed to do so.
Monday’s publication of the influential Social Market Foundation think-tank’s paper Routes to Resolution, Finding the Centre Ground in Britain’s Immigration Debates paper floated several radical policies for the United Kingdom to adopt including pre-training future migrants in their home nations before importing them to the UK to take jobs. While a wide group of migration-critical voices were cited in the report itself, only one individual weighed heavily enough on the minds of the report authors to feature both in the paper and the covering press release: Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage.
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Police have swooped on a refrigerated lorry carrying what appears to be illegal immigrants in Hertfordshire this afternoon.
Officers descended on the lorry in a leafy suburb of Potter’s Bar close to the M25 and unloaded young men from inside the trailer in front of shocked residents.
Paramedics and a large police presence remained at the scene as darkness set in this evening.
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Video: Media Blames Border Crisis on Republicans Warning That Border is Wide Open
In lockstep with the White House, elements of the media are claiming that the worsening crisis at the Southern border is the fault of Republicans and conservatives spreading ‘misinformation’ that the border is wide open.
In an interview with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, ABC’s Martha Raddatz stated “I don’t think I’ve ever heard President Biden say, we have an open border, come on over. But people I have heard say it are you, are former president Trump, Ron DeSantis, that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond.”
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Video: Biden Press Secretary Says ‘You’re With the Smugglers if You Claim Border is Open’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre astoundingly asserted Monday that it is ‘misinformation’ to suggest the Southern borer is wide open.
“We know smugglers will try to spread misinformation to take advantage of these vulnerable migrants. But I want to be very clear here. The fact is that the removal of Title 42 does not mean the border is open,” Jean-Pierre stated during a briefing.
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38 Percent of Students at US Liberal Arts Colleges Identify as LGBTQ
A recent study conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology has revealed that 38 percent of students attending liberal arts colleges in the United States identify as LGBTQ.
The data, CSPI suggested, indicate that the student population of several liberal arts colleges could actually be majority LGBTQ.
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Feds Target Texas School District With ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Investigation Into Removal of LGBTQ Books
The federal government is launching an investigation into a Texas school district after the superintendent lobbied for the removal of LGBTQ library books.
Described as a “first-of-its-kind” investigation by the Texas Tribune, the effort by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The Tribune article stated, “The ACLU complaint was based largely on an investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica and the Tribune that revealed that [Granbury Independent School District] superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.”
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Ohio Teacher Sues School for Firing Her for Not Using Student’s Preferred Pronouns
An Ohio teacher filed a lawsuit against her former school after she said she was forced to quit for not using a student’s preferred pronouns, which would have violated her religious beliefs.
Vivian Geraghty was an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon until the district forced her to resign in August because she refused to participate in a student’s social transition to another sex by using different pronouns and a different name than the student had at birth.
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Stanford University locked a “harmful language” guide that outlined words and phrases it planned to eliminate from its website and computer code, limiting access to only people with an internal login.
The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a Stanford University project that was announced in May, and aims to “address harmful language in IT at Stanford,” according to the website.
According to the guide, its goal is to eliminate “many forms of harmful language,” which includes “racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language” that is in the Stanford website and codes, and also aims to educate others on the impacts words can have.
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Two women were reportedly arrested after a group of self-proclaimed “gays against groomers” protesters allegedly targeted the office and apartment building of an openly gay New York City councilman Monday in apparent outage of his support for a recent drag story time session at a Manhattan library.
“Tonight the Drag Story Hour protesters came to my apartment building and gained entry. My super called the cops and two of them were arrested for trespassing,” Erik Bottcher, a Council Member representing District 3, tweeted Monday. “This is pure hate, unmasked. If they think this is going to intimidate us, they’re mistaken. Our resolve is strengthened.”
After protesters allegedly vandalized Bottcher’s office in the Chelsea neighborhood around 3 p.m., they arrived outside his apartment building. Two women were arrested when they breached the building around 5 p.m., N.Y. Daily News reported. Charges against them were pending Monday night.
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Germany now takes on British colonial crimes with repentance
https://unser-mitteleuropa.com/schuld-neurotikerin-bearbock-deutschland-schultert-jetzt-auch-bussfertig-britische-kolonialverbrechen/
Since German colonial history is rather poor compared to the history of the “classical” colonial powers – we don’t even want to talk about the slave trade here – it is only logical that a cabal now at the helm and loving to be a criminal in the past, and now a penitent apostle of morality, is trying to to compensate for this “deficit of guilt” with a lie. In this particular case, it looks like this:
Instead of indicating that Germany, unlike other countries, is willing to return art acquired through trade and not stolen by Germany, a mandatory self-abasement follows. “Today we are taking a long overdue step, even if it “does not heal all the wounds of the past,” the foreign minister said, as if someone was unlawfully late. And then Baerbock continues:
“Together with the federal states, cities and museums, we show that Germany is serious about coming to terms with its dark colonial history.”
“Is this a dark colonial story?” Is it true ? Didn’t the British army plunder the Royal Palace of Benin in 1897 and bring thousands of works of art to Europe? No problem. The main thing is that there you can indulge in the German cult of guilt with pleasure.
LGBTQ is designed to sterilize people. Focus on their own needs all the time and make their gender uncertain so they never become heterosexual, marry and have children.
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The Juan de Fuca Plate is alive again. Its last move wiped out the Pacific Northwest and the Indian tribes who lived there, along with sending a tsunami to Japan that nearly wiped out Okinawa. Now it seems that Portland and Seattle are about to be Fuca-ed over again. Yesterday’s quake was the warning.
No great loss if Portland, Seatle and Vancouver go, they are cesspools anyway.
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Denmark has a creative government
LAST UPDATE: 21/12-22
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2022/12/21/danmark-har-faaet-en-kreativ-
government/
By Lars Hedegaard
“It can be really, really exciting” to be in the government, says Lars Løkke Rasmussen in Jyllands-Posten. It’s about using “our respective creativity and experience for the common good”.
And creativity has already been given free rein, as the three government parties have agreed to introduce a tax of DKK 100 on every airline ticket – for both international and domestic flights. Before the election, the Left wanted no tax at all, while the S said DKK 13 and the Moderates landed on DKK 80. Next year it could be DKK 200 or DKK 500, and eventually air travel will become so expensive that it will be impossible to go on holiday abroad or commute between Rønne and Kastrup. However, the new tax will not affect ministers, civil servants or employees of private companies who have their travel paid for by others. As always, it is the poor who must be picked off.
But it is for the sake of the “climate”, we are told, as the money will go, among other things, to developing “green aviation fuel” – whatever that is. The new miracle fuel can apparently be produced without using energy, or only when the wind blows.
Under the creative government, there are no limits to what the climate can be used for. One futurist is already predicting that by 2035 Danes will have no more than 40 square metres of living space per person. Of course, this does not apply to society’s leaders, who can point to a particular responsibility that requires more space.
Ministers, senior civil servants and CEOs will continue to travel by car, while ordinary people will see their freedom of movement restricted, as it is best for the climate that they do not move too far from their 40 m2.
Meat is the next item on the agenda. Taxes are to be introduced to put an end to people’s consumption of meatballs, chicken and mince pies. Instead, we must move on to mealworms and cockroaches, which will not, of course, apply to people like Mr Løkke and Mr Frederiksen, who have representative duties.
Lars Løkke and Mette Frederiksen probably have more green plans up their sleeves, because there are no limits to what the climate can be used for. Mr Ellemann is not very creative, so he will probably not have much to say.
In fact, the whole of society will have to adapt to climate religion, which has long since replaced outdated Christianity as the path to salvation.
You can’t argue with religions, but you can pay for them
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A TOUCH OF SANITY
https://youtu.be/QULz3YUvXZ4
Zelenskyj has landed in Washington
21 December 2022
. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits US President Joe Biden at the White House today. This after making a US trip under great secrecy.
It is Zelensky’s first foreign trip since Russia invaded Ukraine 300 days ago, CNN reports.
The visit has been organised in secret by US and Ukrainian authorities over the past week. After arriving in Poland by train, the Ukrainian president flew to Washington on a US military plane. He arrived in the US via Andrews Air Force Base just outside Washington DC.
During their meeting at the White House, Zelensky and Biden had a detailed discussion on the way forward for Ukraine.
– It’s good to have you here again,” President Joe Biden said in the Oval Office at the start of the meeting.
– It is an honor to stand with you in the common defense against the brutal war that Putin is waging, he continued.
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Joe Biden announced that he will send nearly $2 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, including a sophisticated new air defense system.
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Zelensky and Biden will hold a joint press conference and later the Ukrainian president will address Congress.