Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/26/2022

The gunman in Paris who killed three Kurds and wounded three others has been identified as William Mallet, who told police that he hated all migrants. He was beaten by angry bystanders after his shooting rampage. Meanwhile, Parisian Kurds staged a march to mourn their slain comrades.

In other news, the South Korean Air Force scrambled jets after a North Korean drone was detected near the capital Seoul.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, JW, LP, Reader from Chicago, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

Financial Crisis
» Britain’s House Price Rollercoaster: How Prices Have Risen by Up to 20 Per Cent Since COVID But Could Plunge Nine Per Cent by 2024… So How Much Have They Changed in Your Area?
» Budget Deficit Hits Monthly Record Due to Biden’s Policies
» Holiday Sales Up 7.6% in 2022 — But Outpaced by 8.5% Inflation
» Report: Sam Bankman-Fried Had Deep Ties to Current, Former Regulators, Emails Show
» What Cost of Living Crisis? Aussies Desperate for a Boxing Day Bargain Queue for Kilometres and Wait Outside Stores Hours Before Opening as Expert Predict $23.5billion Sale Bonanza
 
USA
» “Full-Blown Meltdown”: Southwest Cancels Nearly 3,000 Flights as Holiday Travel Hits Perfect Storm
» A Dem-Linked Dark Money Network is Quietly Funding the ‘Misinformation’ Research Industry
» ABC Producer, 37, Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack
» Arizona Gov.-Elect Katie Hobbs Demands Legal Sanctions Against Kari Lake for Election Lawsuit
» Biden-Buttigieg DOT Fails to Track Aviation Imports While Prioritizing Equity, Climate Justice
» Biden Admin Was “Very Angry” Twitter Wouldn’t Censor More Aggressively — Twitter Files
» California Residents Flee State for Third Year in a Row: Census Bureau
» DNC Staffer Fumed to Twitter, “These Rules Need Revision,” After it Declined to Censor Biden Video
» Double-Vaxxed, Double-Boosted Woman Tests Positive for COVID 12 Times, Misses 3rd Xmas With Family
» Dubious But Unresolved: Newly Declassified CIA Memo Takes on Claim Agency Employed JFK Assassin
» Durham Probe Costs Nearly Five Times Less Than Mueller Probe, Data Shows
» Elon Musk Turns Tables on Ted Lieu, Catches Dem Rep “Linking to Misleading Data” on Twitter and Calls Him Out
» Exclusive: Kash Patel Says GOP Needs to Embrace Mail-in Voting to Win
» Ex-FBI General Counsel Tried to Get Trump Tweet ‘Don’t be Afraid of Covid’ Censored: Twitter Files
» Footage Shows “Looting Across Buffalo” As City Plunged Into Chaos After Blizzard
» Hall of Famer for UFC Stephan Bonnar Dies at Age 45
» Hollywood Celebrity Backed Bail Fund Sued for Freeing Career Criminal Who Shot Waiter Six Days After Release
» How CIA Chief Bill Burns Became Joe Biden’s Top Diplomat, Leading Crisis Talks and Blurring the Line Between Spycraft and Statecraft
» Hundreds of Felony Cases Dismissed in Portland From Public Defender Shortage
» Loudoun County Parents Slam Effort to Ban ‘Hate Speech’ From School Board Meetings
» Major Journalist Org Demands US Drop All Charges Against Julian Assange
» Man Dies on NYC Subway Tracks After Trying to Retrieve Phone He Dropped: Report
» Nancy Pelosi Mocked for Wishing Americans a ‘Happy Shwanza’ In Flub of Kwanzaa
» NYC Mayor Eric Adams: “Big Brother is Protecting You”
» NYPD: Roland Codrington Arrested in Violent Spree That Includes 2 Stabbing Deaths, 3 Assaults
» Seattle County Prohibits Employees From Showing Religious Holiday Imagery in Virtual Backgrounds, Wins ‘Ebenezer Award’
» Shock: 10-Inch Clot Removed From LIVE Person Who Was Vaxxed
» Sikh Marine Corps Recruits Can Keep Their Beards During Basic Training, Court Rules
» Trump Says He ‘Specifically Asked’ Jared and Ivanka to Bow Out of 2024
» Trump Tech Advisor Reportedly Urged Twitter, Facebook, Google, And Microsoft to “Combat Misinformation”
» Twitter Censored Accurate COVID Information That Conflicted With Federal Sentiments, New Files Show
» University of Idaho Professor Sues TikTok User Who Accused Her of Murdering Students
» Video: D.C. Whole Foods Imposes QR Code System to Shop
» Walmart Launches Drone Delivery Service in Several States
 
Canada
» Alberta Social Services Minister Says Feds Must Consult With Province Before Investing
» Campus Watch: Concordia Scholars Plan to Counter Colonialism in Physics
 
Europe and the EU
» Hungary: EU’s 22 Billion Euros Are on Hold
» Poll: 7 Out of 10 French Want Peace Talks Over Ukraine
» Swedish Court Closes Muslim Schools Over Islamist Ideology
» UK: NHS Demands Written Explanation if White Candidate Hired Over Ethnic Minority
» Vice President of German Parliament Calls for Autopsies of People Who Died Following COVID Jab
 
Russia
» Another Putin Critic ‘Falls Out a Window’ to His Death: Sausage Tycoon Plummets From Luxury Hotel — Two Days After His Male Friend Died of a ‘Heart Attack’ on Their Trip to India
» Russia Shoots Down Ukrainian Drone Near Its Engels Airbase
» Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Says Kyiv Wants a Peace Summit by the End of February While Doing ‘Whatever it Takes to Win the War in 2023’ — 24 Hours After Putin Said He is Also Ready for Negotiation Talks
» Ukraine Demands ‘War Crimes Tribunal’ for Russia as Condition of ‘Peace’ Summit
» Ukrainian Drone Shot Down Deep Inside Russia
 
South Asia
» India: Tunisha Sharma’s ‘Ali Baba’ Co-Star Sheezan Khan Held for Abatement to Suicide
 
Far East
» South Korea Scrambles Jets, Fires Shots After North Korean Drone Flies Near Seoul
 
Australia — Pacific
» Exclusive: Mum is Murdered During Late-Night Home Invasion: Photos Show Her Celebrating Christmas Just Hours Before Tragedy — as Cops Hunt Two Intruders and Shattered Loved Ones Speak Out
» Inside Story of Glamorous Mum With Kardashian-Style Clothes Who Was a Key Member of Fraud Gang Ripping Off Vulnerable Australians, Some Aged in Their 90s
» Tradie Who Fought Off a Gang of Knife-Wielding Thieves Wearing Nothing But His Underwear Reveals How He Used One of the Attackers as a ‘Human Shield’ While Another Swung a Baseball Bat — and a Knife — at Him
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Boksburg Tanker Explosion: Calls Mount for Transport Companies to Check Routes and Ensure Drivers Are Qualified
 
Immigration
» Across Europe Attitudes Towards Globalism and Open Borders Are Hardening, Major Research Finds
» Border Patrol Reported 500% Increase in Apprehensions in Miami Sector During Fiscal 2022
» Donald Trump Scolds Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: “Our Border is the Worst in History and Getting Worse”
» Elderly Paris Gunman Born in Migrant Ghetto Developed ‘Hatred of Foreigners’ After Home Invasion
» France: Kurds March in Mourning After Paris Shooting Kills 3
» ‘I Always Wanted to Assassinate Migrants and Foreigners’: Bloodied Paris Race-Hate Gunman, 69, Who Killed Three in Paris Rampage is Pictured After Being Beaten by Bystanders — as He Tells Police He Was Radicalised After His House Was Burgled
» ‘It’s Unsustainable’: Arizona Border Hospital Hit With $20 Million Bill for Treating Invading Illegal Aliens
» Meloni Postpones Migrant Taxi NGO Regulations Until 2023 as Landings Continue
» UK: Migrant Smugglers Don’t Take Christmas Off: Another 90 Crossed Channel on Christmas Day in Two Small Boats as 2022 Final Crossings Total Heads Towards 50,000
» White House Slams Migrant Buses to Veep’s Residence Despite Releasing 1.4 Million Border Crossers
 
Culture Wars
» 1969 Memo of Tyrannical Population Control Ideas That Are Now in Place
» Breaking: Trans Against Groomers Director Suspended From Twitter After Saying Trans is a ‘Mental Disorder’
» ‘Cleaner Information Environment’: Trans Federal Health Official Calls for Big Tech Censorship
» WEF Proposes Surveillance Tech to Track Individuals’ Climate Impact
 

Britain’s House Price Rollercoaster: How Prices Have Risen by Up to 20 Per Cent Since COVID But Could Plunge Nine Per Cent by 2024… So How Much Have They Changed in Your Area?

House prices rocketed by up to 20 per cent in some areas of the UK since 2019 — with the biggest increases seen in the south east and south west of England.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Budget Deficit Hits Monthly Record Due to Biden’s Policies

America’s “monthly federal deficit hit a record $249 billion in November—$57 billion more than the same month last year—with federal spending also hitting new heights in consecutive months, while tax revenues dropped,” reports the London Daily Mail.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Holiday Sales Up 7.6% in 2022 — But Outpaced by 8.5% Inflation

NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday sales rose this year as American spending remained resilient during the critical shopping season despite surging prices on everything from food to rent, according to one measure.

Holiday sales rose 7.6, a slower pace than the 8.5% increase from a year earlier when shoppers began spending the money they had saved during the early part of the pandemic, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks all kinds of payments including cash and debit cards.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Sam Bankman-Fried Had Deep Ties to Current, Former Regulators, Emails Show

Disgraced former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried developed deep ties with regulators he wanted to oversee the crypto industry, emails reportedly show.

Bankman-Fried hired multiple former regulators at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to staff his legal team at FTX, his Bahamas-based crypto exchange. They helped him develop relationships with top CFTC officials and other regulators, according to the LA Times.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

What Cost of Living Crisis? Aussies Desperate for a Boxing Day Bargain Queue for Kilometres and Wait Outside Stores Hours Before Opening as Expert Predict $23.5billion Sale Bonanza

The worst cost of living crisis in more than three decades has hardly dented shopper enthusiasm, with crowds in city malls and a kilometre-long queue outside a DFO outlet in western Sydney.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

“Full-Blown Meltdown”: Southwest Cancels Nearly 3,000 Flights as Holiday Travel Hits Perfect Storm

Southwest Airlines canceled nearly 3,000 flights on Monday, as a historic winter storm and inadequate staffing made for a perfect storm of holiday chaos the day after Christmas.

As of 9PM on Monday, Southwest had canceled 2,882 flights — or 70% of its schedule, according to flightaware.com. Overall, 82% of Southwest flights were either canceled or delayed. By airport, Denver International saw 24% of flights canceled, while 29% were delayed.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

A Dem-Linked Dark Money Network is Quietly Funding the ‘Misinformation’ Research Industry

Several funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a Democrat-linked consultant firm, are quietly bankrolling research by universities and non-profits into how online “misinformation” and “disinformation” spreads, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the networks’ grants.

Arabella Advisors, run by former Bill Clinton official Eric Kessler, manages certain administrative, legal and philanthropic functions of several non-profits including the Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, North Fund and New Venture Fund, which donate to a variety of left-leaning groups, causes and Democratic candidates, according to tax filings and statements on the funds’ and Arabella’s websites. Several funds within the network are also sponsoring research into the effects of, and how best to mitigate, misinformation and disinformation, according to a DCNF review of public grants.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

ABC Producer, 37, Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack

A young healthy ABC News producer died suddenly after suffering a heart attack, according to reports.

ABC News executive producer Dax Tejera, 37, died suddenly Friday “just a few weeks shy of his 38th birthday,” Mediaite reports.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Arizona Gov.-Elect Katie Hobbs Demands Legal Sanctions Against Kari Lake for Election Lawsuit

The incoming Democratic governor of Arizona filed legal papers in Maricopa County’s Superior Court of Arizona seeking sanctions against her Republican rival Kari Lake and Lake’s lawyers for making false claims about a stolen election in the state’s most populous county in her lawsuit alleging election fraud.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Biden-Buttigieg DOT Fails to Track Aviation Imports While Prioritizing Equity, Climate Justice

The Transportation Department and the Federal Aviation Administration do not track imports of plane parts, creating serious vulnerabilities that could increase the risk of supply chain disruptions, according to a new report by the department’s internal watchdog.

The DOT and FAA are not required to track aviation imports, but the “COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions in the aviation supply chain and highlighted the need for Federal intervention to address associated vulnerabilities,” the Transportation Department Inspector General wrote in a report published last week.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Biden Admin Was “Very Angry” Twitter Wouldn’t Censor More Aggressively — Twitter Files

After President Joe Biden was inaugurated as President, Twitter banned many critics of the federal government’s Covid policy. It also suspended thousands of accounts for spreading what it called “COVID-19 misinformation.”

But according to a recently released “Twitter Files,” which was published by journalist David Zweig, the Biden admin wasn’t satisfied with this level of censorship and was “very angry” that Twitter wouldn’t censor even more aggressively.

One internal Twitter document showcases how the Biden admin started pressuring Twitter to censor so-called “COVID misinformation” almost immediately after taking the reigns at the White House. The document describes how the Biden White House’s first meeting request was about “COVID misinformation” and claims that during this meeting, “Biden’s staff focused on vaccines and high-profile anti-vaxxer accounts, including Alex Berenson.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

California Residents Flee State for Third Year in a Row: Census Bureau

300,000 California residents left the state in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau. This departure is more than any other state during that time period, per estimates tracked from July 2021 to July 2022. Those fleeing California included Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s own in-laws.

This was the third consecutive annual decline for the Golden State, even with births outnumbering deaths. In 2020, California’s population contracted so badly that the drop, the first in state history, contributed to the state losing a seat in the House of Representatives.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

DNC Staffer Fumed to Twitter, “These Rules Need Revision,” After it Declined to Censor Biden Video

The “Twitter Files” continue to provide new revelations that confirm some of the social network users’ biggest fears over the years, regarding the role of US authorities (i.e., politicians and agencies) in “all that censorship” — and the way they directly meddled to effectively shape the platform as a vehicle of propagating their narratives.

Not only that, but some former “conspiracy theories” are now being upgraded to just former theories that are being proven to be facts, thanks to the documents originating at Twitter, now made public.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Double-Vaxxed, Double-Boosted Woman Tests Positive for COVID 12 Times, Misses 3rd Xmas With Family

A woman who was fully vaccinated and received two boosters is missing her third Christmas with family after testing positive for Covid-19 for a 12th time.

Lorraine Hemingway of Carver, Mass., says she’s tired of being apart from her family, but Covid tests keep coming back positive forcing her to quarantine from them.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Dubious But Unresolved: Newly Declassified CIA Memo Takes on Claim Agency Employed JFK Assassin

A recent release of declassified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration pertaining to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy includes an internal CIA memo that skeptically relays — without ruling out completely — a report that the intelligence agency employed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Officially, Oswald acted alone in the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination, firing at the presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas, from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. At the time, Kennedy was riding in an open-top convertible and sustained fatal gunshot wounds.

Oswald was apprehended shortly thereafter, but not before he also killed police officer J.D. Tippit while attempting to flee the scene. He was killed two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, whom authorities then arrested. Ruby was later convicted of Oswald’s murder.

Various conspiracy theories involving Kennedy’s death have persisted for decades, with many permeating popular culture. Sitcoms and video games such as “Seinfeld” and Call of Duty have alluded to claims that Oswald may not have acted alone.

Prominent among such theories is a notion that the CIA orchestrated Kennedy’s death in retaliation for his removal of CIA Director Allen Dulles following the botched Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Though the claim of CIA involvement is commonly dismissed as a conspiracy theory, NARA’s declassification of documents has shed light on some potential links between Oswald and the CIA.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Durham Probe Costs Nearly Five Times Less Than Mueller Probe, Data Shows

Special counsel John Durham’s probe into the FBI’s investigation into ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia has cost the Justice Department less than $10,000 a day on average, nearly five times less than the daily cost of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the discredited Trump-Russia collusion allegations.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Elon Musk Turns Tables on Ted Lieu, Catches Dem Rep “Linking to Misleading Data” on Twitter and Calls Him Out

Elon Musk busted Dem Rep Ted Lieu “linking to misleading data” on Twitter while trying to refute the latest installment of the Twitter suppression files. Musk released the Twitter Files about the virus and the lockdowns via David Zweig from The Free Press who said:

“The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: Kash Patel Says GOP Needs to Embrace Mail-in Voting to Win

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Former Trump administration official Kash Patel said the Republican Party needs to “go big” on mail-in ballots if they want to win future elections, and that the lack of attention to mail-in voting was a factor in the disappointing midterm results.

“If we want to get back and change the rules, we have to go big on mail-in ballots,” Patel, who served as chief of staff to former Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, told the Daily Caller. “If you want to change the rules later, that’s fine, but you can’t change if you lose.”

The Caller interviewed Patel at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, asking the former Trump official what led Republicans to underperform in the midterms.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Ex-FBI General Counsel Tried to Get Trump Tweet ‘Don’t be Afraid of Covid’ Censored: Twitter Files

President Trump’s enthusiasm about beating a COVID-19 infection in fall 2020 so upset Twitter’s then-deputy general counsel that he unsuccessfully tried to get the tweet removed, according to the latest Twitter Files release.

It was analyzed by reporter David Zweig, who called the exchange between Twitter’s Jim Baker, a former FBI general counsel, and then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth “surreal.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Footage Shows “Looting Across Buffalo” As City Plunged Into Chaos After Blizzard

A winter storm barreled through Buffalo, New York, over the weekend and ended Christmas morning, but the emergency was far from over, as claims across social media indicate widespread looting.

“Looting in Buffalo being significantly downplayed by local media,” said one Twitter user. Local media outlet WGRZ reported, “New York State Police confirm reports of 2 looting incidents.” But judging by the footage posted on Twitter, looting appears to be widespread.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hall of Famer for UFC Stephan Bonnar Dies at Age 45

UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar died Thursday at the age of 45 from what is assumed to be heart complications, according to an official statement.

Bonnar was at work at the time of this death, UFC wrote. “Stephan Bonnar was one of the most important fighters to ever compete in the Octagon,” UFC President Dana White said. “His fight with Forrest Griffin changed the sport forever, and he will never be forgotten. The fans loved him, related to him and he always gave them his best. He will be missed.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hollywood Celebrity Backed Bail Fund Sued for Freeing Career Criminal Who Shot Waiter Six Days After Release

A celebrity-backed bail fund has shut down after being sued for freeing a career criminal who tried to murder an Asian waiter just six days after the Bail Project secured his release.

The Bail Project, whose backers include Richard Branson, Danny Glover and John Legend, announced it was shutting down its Las Vegas chapter over the case of Rashawn Gaston-Anderson.

Rashawn was arrested in November 2021 for burglary and theft but was released after The Bail Project paid his $3,000 bail. Less than one week after he was released, Gaston-Anderson went into a restaurant and opened fire on an Asian waiter named Chengyan Wang.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

How CIA Chief Bill Burns Became Joe Biden’s Top Diplomat, Leading Crisis Talks and Blurring the Line Between Spycraft and Statecraft

Although he now heads the C.I.A., Bill Burns is a career diplomat who has become Biden’s international fixer, dispatched to handle the trickiest geopolitical issues.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Hundreds of Felony Cases Dismissed in Portland From Public Defender Shortage

A lack of public defenders in Portland, Oregon has caused Multnomah County judges to dismiss hundreds of felony cases including cases involving robbery, assault, and harassment.

According to the District Attorney’s office, 300 cases have been dismissed in 2022 through December 9 because of the public defender shortage, two-thirds of which were felony cases.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Loudoun County Parents Slam Effort to Ban ‘Hate Speech’ From School Board Meetings

Loudoun County parents are speaking out against a resident’s petition that calls to ban hate speech from school board meetings following a school board meeting in which parents lambasted school officials over their handling of a sexual assault case.

The petition, signed by several hundred county residents and started by 19-year-old Andrew Pihonak, a Loudoun County resident and member of the LGTBTQ community, calls to “ban hate speech in Loudoun School Board meetings” after a man called homosexuality “immoral” and quoted a violent Bible verse during the public comment period of the Dec. 13 board meeting. Parents present at the meeting and seeking accountability from the school board for a special grand jury report, which found the district failed to alert the community of multiple sexual assaults within the district, told the Daily Caller News Foundation the one comment is not representative of their efforts and that their demands have nothing to do with the LGBTQ community.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Major Journalist Org Demands US Drop All Charges Against Julian Assange

The United Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have launched the “Free Assange Now” campaign on their website calling for the United States to drop all charges, including those involving espionage, against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

On Monday, Wikileaks tweeted out that the “The International Federation of Journalists, representing more than 600,000 journalists worldwide, calls for Julian Assange’s immediate release.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Man Dies on NYC Subway Tracks After Trying to Retrieve Phone He Dropped: Report

A train struck and killed a man after he jumped onto the subway tracks Christmas Day in New York City to retrieve his phone, the New York Post reported.

The 46-year-old was at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue subway station in Queens when he dropped his phone on the tracks at about 11:30 p.m., the NY Post reported, citing police.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Nancy Pelosi Mocked for Wishing Americans a ‘Happy Shwanza’ In Flub of Kwanzaa

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being mocked on social media for wishing Americans a “happy shwanza,” seemingly botching the pronunciation of Kwanzaa, a seven-day holiday after Christmas to celebrate African American culture.

“I yield back the balance of my time and wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe New Year. Happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy Shwanza, happy Hanukkah. Whatever it is you celebrate, be safe,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Friday at the end of her remarks urging her colleagues to vote for the $1.7 trillion spending bill, which ultimately passed.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

NYC Mayor Eric Adams: “Big Brother is Protecting You”

In New York City, political rather than professional considerations seem to be dictating the way the police will proceed in fighting crime, including the degree to which this will include the use of invasive technology.

And Mayor Eric Adams must not have read the book, because, in dystopian form, he has just declared that “Big Brother” is actually the good guy.

Namely, reports suggest the mayor, now a year in office, is well aware of how the city has spiraled into crime — there’s been a whopping increase of 23.5 percent during the past year alone.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

NYPD: Roland Codrington Arrested in Violent Spree That Includes 2 Stabbing Deaths, 3 Assaults

NEW YORK — A man accused of a deadly New York City crime spree is under arrest.

The NYPD says 35-year-old Roland Codrington of Manhattan is responsible for the murder of a doctor he came across at Marcus Garvey Park and a man found dead on a Lower East Side street.

He’s also accused of attacking three people inside a Harlem bar.

The incidents all took place within the last several days.

In what the NYPD calls a random attack, 60-year-old pediatrician Dr. Bruce Maurice Henry was found dead inside Marcus Garvey Park the day before Christmas Eve at 2 a.m.

Police say Codrington was walking through the park to “cool off” after assaulting three people nearby when he got into an argument and allegedly stabbed him in the back, torso, eye and hands.

“Earlier on December 24, detectives were able to track down our decedent’s auto, a black Mercedes Benz. It was in the vicinity of the park,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.

Police found Codrington driving the victim’s Mercedes Benz the next night in the Bronx, arresting him not only for one murder, but two, and multiple assaults.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Seattle County Prohibits Employees From Showing Religious Holiday Imagery in Virtual Backgrounds, Wins ‘Ebenezer Award’

The most populous county in Washington state has been awarded an “Ebenezer Award” from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty because of its strict “Guidelines for Holiday Decorations” which banned holiday decorations, even from online spaces.

“Before adding any decorations to your workspace (including your virtual workspace), consider the likely effect of such decorations on all of the employees in and outside your work group,” reads the memo.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Shock: 10-Inch Clot Removed From LIVE Person Who Was Vaxxed

A massive 10-inch blood clot was removed from a live person who had received a Covid-19 vaccine.

The startling discovery was reported Christmas Day by renowned entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who indicated the specimen was sent to a lab for further research.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Sikh Marine Corps Recruits Can Keep Their Beards During Basic Training, Court Rules

Two Sikh men starting basic training with the U.S. Marine Corps, Jaskirat Singh and Milaap Singh Chahal, will not have to shave their beards after a federal appeals court granted a preliminary injunction Friday, court documents show.

The two men, along with Capt. Sukhbir Singh Toor, filed a lawsuit against the Marine Corps in April. A third recruit, Aekash Singh, was also involved in the April suit. The ruling states the U.S. District Court should reconsider Aekash’s related case, since he adjusted the timing of when he plans to enlist, The Hill reported.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Says He ‘Specifically Asked’ Jared and Ivanka to Bow Out of 2024

Former President Donald Trump said he “specifically asked” his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, to stay out of his 2024 presidential campaign.

“Contrary to Fake News reporting, I never asked Jared or Ivanka to be part of the 2024 Campaign for President and, in fact, specifically asked them not to do it — too mean and nasty with the Fake & Corrupt News and having to deal with some absolutely horrendous SleazeBags in the world of politics, and beyond,” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.

“There has never been anything like this ‘ride’ before, and they should not be further subjected to it. I ran twice, getting millions more Votes the second time (RIGGED), & am doing it again!” he added.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Tech Advisor Reportedly Urged Twitter, Facebook, Google, And Microsoft to “Combat Misinformation”

Internal Twitter documents released by journalist David Zweig claim that the Trump administration met with tech companies and asked them to help “combat misinformation” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Zweig published several internal Twitter documents that describe meetings between “the Trump White House, specifically Michael Kratsios,” and several tech companies.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Twitter Censored Accurate COVID Information That Conflicted With Federal Sentiments, New Files Show

Twitter altered the COVID conversation by censoring information that was true but not in line with U.S. government policy, discrediting public health experts who disagreed and suppressing contrarian users, the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” showed Monday.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

University of Idaho Professor Sues TikTok User Who Accused Her of Murdering Students

University of Idaho History Professor Rebecca Scofield filed a defamation lawsuit against a TikTok poster who published videos accusing her of murdering four students last month.

With more than 100,000 TikTok followers, Ashley Guillard has made dozens of videos accusing Scofield, the Idaho history department chair, of working with Jack DuCoeur, the ex-boyfriend of murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, to kill the students. Guillard said the allegations are based on Tarot card readings.

Police have not identified a suspect in the stabbing deaths of Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Xana Kernodle, 20. No known evidence links Scofield to the homicides.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Video: D.C. Whole Foods Imposes QR Code System to Shop

Eerie footage out of Washington, D.C. foreshadows what is soon coming to all of America: a social credit system that will require shoppers to scan their QR code to shop for goods.

A concerned shopper showed an array of QR code scanners lining the entrance of the Whole Foods in D.C., lamenting that she doesn’t want a QR code to shop for necessities.

“So, basically you cannot go into the Whole Foods Market in Washington, D.C. unless you scan your own QR code, and they track everything you’re doing. This is the future of all grocery stores,” she said, adding “I’m going to have to boycott Whole Foods.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Walmart Launches Drone Delivery Service in Several States

Walmart has announced a new drone delivery service in Florida, Texas, and Arizona to expand its delivery operations.

Walmart has partnered with tech company DroneUp to deliver groceries after previously working together to distribute COVID-19 test kits.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Alberta Social Services Minister Says Feds Must Consult With Province Before Investing

Alberta Seniors, Community and Social Services Minister Jeremy Nixon says the federal government’s efforts to invest in supports for vulnerable communities fall short when Ottawa doesn’t consult with the province first.

In a year-end interview with True North, Nixon said the Trudeau Liberals have “bypassed” consultation with the provincial government.

“(They) tried to directly apply these things in ways that don’t always make sense with what the government is trying to do, or in ways that doesn’t align with the needs that are in our community,” he told True North.

“To address issues and supports for vulnerable Canadians they need to work with the provincial governments and allow us to do what we do best.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Campus Watch: Concordia Scholars Plan to Counter Colonialism in Physics

Scholars at Montreal’s Concordia University are planning to trace and counter what they say is colonialism in physics, which they describe as a “social field” rather than one of “pure knowledge.”

The project’s website says the initiative “explores ways and approaches to decolonize science, such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledge, and capacity building.” It also aims to develop “a culture of critical reflection and investigation of the relation of science and colonialism.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary: EU’s 22 Billion Euros Are on Hold

When it comes to corruption, the EU has enough on its plate, but instead it prefers to deal with the subject in Hungary. Brussels has now imposed 27 conditions on Viktor Orban’s government so that 22 billion euros can flow from the cohesion fund. Until then, the money will be withheld.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Poll: 7 Out of 10 French Want Peace Talks Over Ukraine

French people overwhelmingly favor arming Ukraine while promoting a negotiated peace solution, as opposed to simply giving Kiev weapons until it can defeat Russia, an opinion poll released on Sunday has shown.

Seven out of ten people in France told the pollster Ifop that they wanted their government and the EU as a whole to pursue peace talks while keeping up military aid to Ukraine. Details of the December survey were published by Le Journal du Dimanche.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish Court Closes Muslim Schools Over Islamist Ideology

A Swedish Administrative Court has closed two independent Muslim schools in Stockholm and Uppsala after security police warned of the spreading of Islamist ideology and possible radicalisation.

The Administrative Court in Stockholm closed the two Muslim schools this week after ruling that neither met the requirements for suitability under the Swedish Education Act.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

UK: NHS Demands Written Explanation if White Candidate Hired Over Ethnic Minority

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is forcing interview panels to justify their reasoning behind hiring white applicants over applicants who are ethnic minorities.

The Daily Mail reports that the Royal Free in north London is asking staff to compile reports justifying why the successful candidate was “more suitable for the position” if the candidate is white. If the candidate is an ethnic minority this justification is not required.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Vice President of German Parliament Calls for Autopsies of People Who Died Following COVID Jab

The vice president of the German Bundestag has called for immediate investigations into deaths that occur within two weeks of receiving a Covid vaccination.

“I think it is essential that every unexplained death that occurs within 14 days after a vaccination is automatically registered as a suspected case with the Paul Ehrlich Institute,” Bundestag VP Wolfgang Kubicki told German newspaper Die Welt last week. “This is obviously not the case yet.”

Die Welt reports the parliamentary vice president, elected to office in 2017 and re-elected in 2021, referenced a study conducted by Peter Schirmacher, chief pathologist at the Heidelberg University Clinic, in which researchers found 30 percent of deaths examined happened “shortly after the vaccination,” and “that vaccination was the cause of death.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Another Putin Critic ‘Falls Out a Window’ to His Death: Sausage Tycoon Plummets From Luxury Hotel — Two Days After His Male Friend Died of a ‘Heart Attack’ on Their Trip to India

Sausage multi-millionaire Pavel Antov (pictured), from the main pro-Putin party United Russia, had been on a trip to celebrate his upcoming 66th birthday.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Russia Shoots Down Ukrainian Drone Near Its Engels Airbase

The country´s Baza news outlet said four people were hurt and a fire broke out, with explosions, sirens and flashes seen on a video.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Says Kyiv Wants a Peace Summit by the End of February While Doing ‘Whatever it Takes to Win the War in 2023’ — 24 Hours After Putin Said He is Also Ready for Negotiation Talks

Ukraine is aiming to hold a peace summit by the end of February, the Ukrainian foreign minister said.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Ukraine Demands ‘War Crimes Tribunal’ for Russia as Condition of ‘Peace’ Summit

Ukraine wants a “peace” summit to end the war with Russia but won’t talk directly to its adversary until Russia has faced a “war crimes tribunal” before an international court, foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Associated Press.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Ukrainian Drone Shot Down Deep Inside Russia

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian military reported on Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia, the second time the airbase has been targeted this month, raising questions about the effectiveness of Russia’s air defences if drones can fly that far into the country.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said the incident took place in the early hours of Monday, and three servicemen were killed by debris at the Engels airbase that houses the Tu-95 and Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bombers that have been involved in launching strikes on Ukraine.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

India: Tunisha Sharma’s ‘Ali Baba’ Co-Star Sheezan Khan Held for Abatement to Suicide

Hindu girls must realize what will be the end result for their choice for a Muslim boy…

Heena Munim | HENB | Mumbai | Dec 26, 2022:: Since Hindu Actress Tunisha Sharma died in suicide on December 24, her family has levelled several allegations against the actress’ Ali Baba co-star Sheezan Khan. Now, a report by Hindustan Times has cited a police inspector has shared that Tunisha’s mother claimed her daughter was in depression because her beau Sheezan denied marrying her. Earlier, she also alleged that Tunisha dated Sheezan but the two broke up 15 days before her death.

“Nothing came out in the postmortem report. While the media was questioning if she was pregnant, nothing like that came in the reports. Her mother said that Sheezan provoked her to commit suicide. They had an affair, but he denied marrying her, which is why she was in depression. He (Sheezan) admitted that they were in a relationship. They had a breakup in November, but they continued working on the set,” senior police inspector Kailas Barve from Waliv police station in Maharashtra’s Vasai area, Palghar district said.

The recent break-up between film and TV actor Tunisha Sharma and her boyfriend Sheezan Khan could have been one of the reasons for her to end her life, said Valiv police. Police on Sunday arrested Khan (27) and booked him under IPC Section 306 for abetement to suicide.

Sharma allegedly died by hanging on the sets of her serial on Saturday, weeks before turning 21. A preliminary post-mortem report showed her cause of death due to hanging. Police are awaiting details of the final report.

Assistant commissioner of police Chandrakant Jadhav, who is supervising the case, said no ‘love-jihad’ angle has come to light in the investigation conducted so far. Also, there is no sign of coercion with Sharma in the post-mortem report, he added.

Meanwhile, Tunisha’s mother also issued a video statement on Monday alleging Sheezan ‘used’ her daughter for three to four months even when he was involved with some other girl. ANI tweeted the same as, “Actress Tunisha Sharma death case | Sheezan cheated Tunisha, he was involved with some other girl but despite that, he was with Tunisha. Sheezan should not be spared, he should be punished: Vanita Sharma, Tunisha Sharma’s mother.”

Now, the investigating Police team have sought the call details reports of Sharma’s and Khan’s phones to examine the WhatsApp messages exchanged between the two and what could have triggered her to take the extreme step.

Sharma and Khan had met after working together in the serial ‘Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul’ that went on air on August 22. On Saturday morning, Sharma reported to the sets of ‘Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul’ at Bhajanlal Studios on Kaman-Bhiwandi Link Road. During lunch break at 3pm, she reportedly went to use the toilet in Khan’s make-up room. When she did not return till an hour later, staff went to call her for the shoot. She was found hanging inside the toilet. Police questioned the staffers and co-stars, including Khan, on the sets. Police sources said Sharma used the crepe bandage that was on her sprained hand to end her life.

The series of such tragic end of ‘Love Jihad’ truce as came to surface as in Shraddha Walkar murder case or Rubika Paharia murder Case or Urvashi Vaishnav murder case the culprits Aftab Ponawala, Dildar Ansari or Riyaz Samad Khan proved their Islamic agenda to kill their live-in-partner or wife or girl-friend in highest brutality. The case of Tunisha Sharma is now hanging with the involvement of Sheezan Khan in abatement to suicide. Hindu girls and women must realize what will be the end result for their choice for a Muslim boy or counterpart for satiating some instinct only to depart from this world in a very dangerous condition out of Islamic brutality in ultimate level.

           — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari [Return to headlines]
 

South Korea Scrambles Jets, Fires Shots After North Korean Drone Flies Near Seoul

South Korea deployed jets and attack helicopters on Monday after five North Korean drones crossed into its airspace, including one that made it to the northern edge of the capital, Seoul.

The military fired 100 rounds from helicopters but did not shoot the drones down, the BBC reported. One of the attack planes involved later crashed, but its two pilots were unharmed.

A South Korean official said the military had lost track of the unmanned vehicles, but they are not in flight.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: Mum is Murdered During Late-Night Home Invasion: Photos Show Her Celebrating Christmas Just Hours Before Tragedy — as Cops Hunt Two Intruders and Shattered Loved Ones Speak Out

Emma Lovell, 41, and her husband Lee, 43, were inside their North Lakes home, north of Brisbane, on Monday night when intruders allegedly forced their way inside.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Inside Story of Glamorous Mum With Kardashian-Style Clothes Who Was a Key Member of Fraud Gang Ripping Off Vulnerable Australians, Some Aged in Their 90s

Jasmine Vella-Arpaci has been jailed for her role in a cyber crime syndicate that stole millions of dollars from innocent Australians, swapping her Kadashian-esque wardrobe for prison greens.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Tradie Who Fought Off a Gang of Knife-Wielding Thieves Wearing Nothing But His Underwear Reveals How He Used One of the Attackers as a ‘Human Shield’ While Another Swung a Baseball Bat — and a Knife — at Him

Footage shows construction worker Steve Middleton, 50, in his briefs, rushing outside to confront the men before stubbornly gripping the shirt of a thug.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Boksburg Tanker Explosion: Calls Mount for Transport Companies to Check Routes and Ensure Drivers Are Qualified

Johannesburg — South Africa is still reeling after 15 people died and 30 were injured when a gas tanker exploded in Boksburg on Christmas Eve.

The nearby OR Tambo Memorial Hospital was damaged and patients were moved to other facilities.

The driver of the tanker survived the incident and has been arrested. He faces multiple culpable homicide charges.

The tragedy has lead to discussions on social media and in homes about safety management of transport for dangerous goods and the routes taken by drivers.

The explosion is still being investigated.

           — Hat tip: JW [Return to headlines]
 

Across Europe Attitudes Towards Globalism and Open Borders Are Hardening, Major Research Finds

Approval rates for welcoming refugees and support for globalism are low across Europe, with soaring numbers of respondents believing they are being personally harmed by the globalisation process, research shows.

The number of Britons who believe they are being personally harmed by globalisation has increased near-three-fold in one year, the number of Swedes who believe that has doubled, and in Germany, it has gone up nearly 90 per cent. Meanwhile, less than a third of Danes are happy about refugees fleeing to their country, and under half of all European nations surveyed say the same. This has been revealed in a partial dataset of research into the state of globalism in the West reported by Germany’s Die Welt newspaper.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Border Patrol Reported 500% Increase in Apprehensions in Miami Sector During Fiscal 2022

Border Patrol agents in the Miami Sector have reported a 500% increase in apprehensions in fiscal year 2022.

From Sept. 1, 2021, to Oct. 31, 2022, agents apprehended 2,350 foreign nationals attempting to illegally enter Florida by sea. The majority were Cubans.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Donald Trump Scolds Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: “Our Border is the Worst in History and Getting Worse”

Former President Donald Trump overruled Joe Biden and border czar Kamala Harris saying the crisis at our southern border is the worst in history after shocking new numbers were released by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP).

Trump said: “Two years ago we had the strongest and safest Border in U.S. history. Hundreds of miles of Walls were built, my ‘Stay In Mexico’ Policy was working fantastically, Title 42 was in full force and effect, Border Patrol and ICE were doing an incredible, tough, yet compassionate, job, and our Southern Border was, for the first time in decades, being spoken of in glowing terms.

“People weren’t even making the long hard journey up through Mexico. NOW OUR BORDER IS THE WORST IN HISTORY, & GETTING WORSE!”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Elderly Paris Gunman Born in Migrant Ghetto Developed ‘Hatred of Foreigners’ After Home Invasion

The elderly suspect in a Paris mass shooting that sparked violent riots before Christmas developed a “hatred of foreigners” after a home invasion in 2016, according to reports.

The 69-year-old, named only as William M. as of the time of publication, told police he wanted to die but that “before committing suicide, I always wanted to assassinate migrants, foreigners, ever since [a burglary in his home in 2016],” according to an account by Paris state prosecutor Laure Beccuau reported by The Times.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

France: Kurds March in Mourning After Paris Shooting Kills 3

Officials say suspect was motivated by racism, hatred

PARIS — Members of France’s Kurdish community and others held a silent march Monday to honor three people killed in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris that prosecutors say was motivated by racism.

Turkey summoned France’s ambassador Monday over what it called “black propaganda” by Kurdish activists after the shooting. Some have marched in Paris with flags of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), or suggested that Turkey was linked to the shooting.

A 69-year-old Frenchman was handed preliminary charges Monday of racially motivated murder and weapons violations over Friday’s shooting, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The suspect told investigators that he had wanted to kill migrants or foreigners and then had planned to kill himself, and said he had a “pathological” hatred of non-European foreigners, according to prosecutors.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

‘I Always Wanted to Assassinate Migrants and Foreigners’: Bloodied Paris Race-Hate Gunman, 69, Who Killed Three in Paris Rampage is Pictured After Being Beaten by Bystanders — as He Tells Police He Was Radicalised After His House Was Burgled

Excerpts from William Mallet’s pre-trial interviews emerged on Monday along with his full name and a picture of the 69-year-old.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘It’s Unsustainable’: Arizona Border Hospital Hit With $20 Million Bill for Treating Invading Illegal Aliens

A hospital in Yuma, Arizona is left with $20 million in unpaid medical bills after treating a massive influx of illegal aliens who streamed across the U.S. southern border over the past 6 months.

Yuma Regional Medical President Dr. Robert Transchel joined “Fox & Friends” on Friday to reveal how burdened the hospital has become by providing thousands of illegal aliens free medical care.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Meloni Postpones Migrant Taxi NGO Regulations Until 2023 as Landings Continue

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that the new security decree to regulate the activities of migrant taxi NGOs will not come into force until early next year, as over 100,000 migrants have entered illegally this year.

Prime Minister Meloni announced that the new decree would not be discussed on December 28th as originally planned in the Council of Ministers but would be postponed until the beginning of next year.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Migrant Smugglers Don’t Take Christmas Off: Another 90 Crossed Channel on Christmas Day in Two Small Boats as 2022 Final Crossings Total Heads Towards 50,000

There was no sign of people smugglers taking a break for the festive holidays after another 90 migrants crossed the Channel on Christmas Day.

The migrants arrived on two small boats yesterday, according to the Ministry of Defence, which keeps track of the number of people who have made the journey.

It comes as the final number of crossings for 2022 heads towards 50,000 in a year that has seen a record-breaking number of migrants make the perilous crossing from France to Britain.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

White House Slams Migrant Buses to Veep’s Residence Despite Releasing 1.4 Million Border Crossers

The Biden administration slammed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for sending three busloads of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’s official residence without acknowledging the role that the president’s policy played in the political just desserts.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

1969 Memo of Tyrannical Population Control Ideas That Are Now in Place

Planned Parenthood produced a controversial memo in 1969 that compiled strategies for population control that were being proposed at the time.

At the time it was produced, the ideas were written off as utter tyranny under the assumption that a free society would never submit to such extremes.

The proposals included plans for “restructuring the family,” encouraging homosexuality, tax-funded abortion, and sterilization.

While these ideas may sound like the Democratic Party’s agenda today, they were put forward at the time as methods of keeping population numbers down.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Trans Against Groomers Director Suspended From Twitter After Saying Trans is a ‘Mental Disorder’

UPDATE: Twitter notified Sara Higdon that her appeal request is under review. Higdon has no plans to delete the tweet, and is launching a second appeal.

The Trans Against Groomers group’s Director of Communication Sara Higdon had her Twitter account locked on Monday.

A tweet from the group to Twitter owner Elon Musk reads, “our Director of Communications was just locked out of her Twitter account for saying that we shouldn’t stigmatize mental illness?”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘Cleaner Information Environment’: Trans Federal Health Official Calls for Big Tech Censorship

The first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate is facing a new round of criticism for a months-old video calling on state medical regulators to pressure Big Tech to censor purported misinformation on so-called gender affirming care.

Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, with the Department of Health and Human Services, falsely claimed in the May 27 presentation to the Federation of State Medical Boards that the “positive value of gender-affirming care for youth and adults is not in scientific or medical dispute,” ignoring heavy restrictions on such treatments for minors in Scandinavia among other regions and widespread debate among doctors.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

WEF Proposes Surveillance Tech to Track Individuals’ Climate Impact

Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) is pushing a new idea that uses tech to track individuals and record their impact on “climate change.”

The WEF is publishing ideas about how to deploy such surveillance technology.

The organization argues that it can tackle climate change by monitoring the carbon emissions of every person so that their “impact” can be addressed on an individual level.

According to a post on the WEF’s website, this idea is generally referred to as “My Carbon initiatives.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

8 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/26/2022

  1. All those old Nazi Vampires like Schwabenklaaus, Soros and True-dope should put their money where their mouth is and commit suicide.

    • Those traitors are not naxi’s, they are communist hell bent on destroying western civilization by any means necessary.

    • I agree.

      The kind of suicide that I would prefer to see from those vampire scum is where they manage to kill themselves by multiple gunshots to the backs of their heads.

  2. .

    Medvedev:
    The West are thieving impostors – can’t have normal relations with them

    December 26, 2022, Social media, Foreign Affairs

    The world has changed forever and it could take decades for normal relations between Russia and the West to resume. That won’t happen until the West gets rid of its unreasonable leaders, writes Dmitry Medvedev in a long article setting out his thoughts on what the future will look like. Among other things, he sees the weakening of established international structures. A distinctly new world is taking shape.

    That’s hardline former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, now rejecting normal relations with the West.

    The West is led by thieving impostors who cannot be trusted, he argues.

    “The sanctions against us and our allies were imposed with the stroke of a pen by narrow-minded Washington officials and their European vassals. All this is the final warning to all nations: from now on, it is impossible to do business with the Anglo-Saxon world. It is a thief, a fraud, a cheat who can behave in any way,” Medvedev writes in his article.

    And it may take a long time for relations to return to normal.

    A very long time.

    “For years, maybe decades to come, we can forget about normal relations with the West. We are not the ones who made that choice. From now on, we will do without them until a new generation of sensible politicians comes to power there. Let us be careful and vigilant. We will develop relations with the rest of the world. Fortunately, it is very extensive,” he continues.

    Moreover, the West is “destroying the basic principles of the market economy” with “endless bans and exceptions to generally accepted rules”, which, among other things, has the effect of destroying Western countries’ own opportunities to develop.

    “Today, the West can offer the world no new ideas at all that can advance humanity, solve global problems or ensure collective security. An interesting metamorphosis is taking place… It is clear that the West is gradually turning into a fortress under siege,” he writes.

    The world will change fundamentally in the future, according to Medvedev:

    “The most likely scenario is the formation of several macro-regions in the world – each with its own internal rules and development logic, but on the whole geared towards partnership and dialogue, not confrontation. And the whole system of international relations will be not only multipolar, but also multi-structural, based on principles of benign non-intervention. This will significantly weaken the influence of leading international structures.”

    “An inevitable transformation awaits most of the international institutions created over many decades. They are quite dilapidated and do not perform their tasks. Some of them have become purely decorative, others are trying to retain their former influence, but not very successfully… Our world has changed, and it is forever,” Dmitry Medvedev points out.

  3. “Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) is pushing a new idea that uses tech to track individuals and record their impact on “climate change.”

    He should not be pushing a new idea. Rather he should shove all of his earlier ones.

    • I would like to chain him to a coal mine cart and let him work the rest of his life digging for coal in some reactivated russian gulag in the middle of nowhere..

    • You Brits and your civilized responses to uncivilized savages hell bent on destroying our western lands really does vex me.

  4. .

    Trump: I would have ended the war in a day

    December 27th, 2022 Main News, Social media, Foreign Affairs

    Photo: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead/Public domain

    If Donald Trump had been president of the United States, none of the things that have sunk the world in recent years would have happened. Not inflation. Not the skyrocketing energy prices and electricity bills. Not the war in Ukraine. Instead, all the bad things that have happened would have been the opposite. The US would have “made a fortune” by now, at least he claims himself in an interview.

    It is in an interview with One America News Network that former US President Donald Trump says he could have ended the Ukraine war immediately.

    In one day.

    According to Trump, none of the deeply negative things that have happened in recent years, and that have hurt much of the world, would have happened if he had still been president.

    – Ukraine would not be at war with Russia right now, he tells OANN. Everything you see happening. Inflation would not have happened. We would still have been energy dependent, and we would have made a fortune today instead of, as we are doing now, losing everything.

    – And look at people’s energy bills,” he says, pointing out that bills have doubled or tripled across the US.

    All of this would “be the opposite” if Trump were still running the country, he believes himself.

    – We would have made electricity bills much lower, he says.

    According to the ex-president, what is happening in the US right now is an unprecedented total disaster.

    And the carnage and destruction in Ukraine is horrific.

    – I could have ended that war in a day. But I can’t tell you how, because then I won’t be able to do it.

    – But you can end it very quickly. You get both sides to the negotiating table. They both have things they want.

    So the war wouldn’t even have started if Trump hadn’t lost the presidency, he claims.

    – But you’re not going to get what you could have gotten. Then it was a country with cities standing up, now it’s a country with so many dead. Many, many more dead than anyone could have imagined.

    – I could have solved that war in a day, he repeats.
    ———-
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1606323389227900930

Comments are closed.