A new wave of Russian drone attacks has done further damage to Ukraine’s already precarious energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian attack using US-supplied HIMARS missiles killed at least 63 Russians at a barracks in Donetsk.
In other news, four culture-enriching “youths” were hospitalized after a mass stabbing incident at a migrant facility in Ireland.
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2023 Spells Big Trouble for US Economy, Majority of Big Banks Warn: Reports
The vast majority of economists at 23 large financial institutions surveyed by The Wall Street Journal predict that the United States will fall into the grips of a recession in 2023 and millions of Americans lose their jobs.
More than two-thirds of the nearly two dozen institutions—which include trading firms and investment banks that do business directly with the Federal Reserve—expect the U.S. economy to contract in 2023, according to the report.
Two of the 23 institutions expect the recession to come later—in 2024—while the following five believe the United States will manage to avoid a downturn altogether: Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley.
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Analysts at insurer Allianz Trade predicted the UK economy will shrink by 0.9 per cent this year compared with a 0.7 per cent in Germany, 0.4 per cent in France and 0.3 per cent for the US.
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Millions of Americans Get Bigger Social Security Payments as Cost-of-Living Adjustment Kicks in
More than 7 million Americans were slated to begin receiving bigger government benefit payments on Dec. 30 after soaring inflation prompted a near-record high 8.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) which, as the year progresses, will ultimately see nearly 70 million people getting a benefit boost.
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits were slated to increase by around $140 per month on average after the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced earlier in 2022 that the cost-of-living adjustment for 2023 would be the biggest since the 1980s.
The 8.7-percent adjustment was due to decades-high inflation squeezing the budgets of American families.
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A study by the Office for National Statistics revealed only Colombia, Chile and Switzerland had seen a larger increase in their rates of economic inactivity since the end of 2019.
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7 Dead, 21 Injured in Bloody Chicago Weekend to End 2022
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago ended 2022 with a total of 695 homicides and brought in the New Year over the weekend with a string of violent crimes that saw seven people murdered and another 21 injured.
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9 Shootings in Single Day, New Orleans Becomes ‘America’s Murder Capital’ Of 2022
The city of New Orleans has seen nine shooting incidents in a span of just 24 hours that has left three people dead, a tragedy that comes at a time when the number of homicides happening in the city is at a level unseen in over a quarter century.
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Following a fire at a Portland Bank of America branch on Saturday, an anonymous person has taken credit for starting the fire, saying that the fire was started in retaliation for domestic terrorism charges brought against five militants that were a part of a violent occupation of land in south Atlanta.
“Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish,” the statement, posted to Abolition Media, said.
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Biden’s ‘Infrastructure’ Bill Installs Kill Switches in All New Vehicles
Buried in Democrat President Joe Biden’s recently passed “infrastructure” bill is a law that mandates the installation of remotely-accessed kill switches to all new vehicles.
The move allows government authorities to shut down or remotely operate any car, truck, or SUV produced after August 2026.
The disturbing new rule was reported automotive news outlet Motorious.
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According to a new book, President Joe Biden has stopped speaking freely in the presence of Secret Service agents tasked with protecting him because they are white Southerners.
Yes, really.
The sensational claim was made in The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House by author Chris Whipple.
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Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin Collapses on Field, Game Suspended
Buffalo Bills cornerback Damar Hamlin on Monday collapsed in the middle of a game with the Cincinnati Bengals and had to be hospitalized after receiving CPR on scene.
Hamlin appears to have sustained the injury after tackling player Tee Higgins, according to CBS News. Play has been suspended.
Hamlin is currently at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after an ambulance took him from the stadium.
He is in his second season with the Bills.
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Denver Airport Cancels or Delays Hundreds of Flights: Reports
Travel issues continued to snowball at Denver International Airport on Monday after over 600 flights were canceled or delayed because icy conditions and poor visibility plagued the runway, according to reports.
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Disney Suffers Worst Year Since 1974 as $123 Billion Wiped From Market Value in 2022
Disney suffered its worst year since 1974 in 2022 as tens of billions of dollars were wiped from the “woke” company’s market value.
According to Discern Report, Disney lost 44% of its market value in 2022 and is showing no signs of changing its corporate direction, despite recent changes in management.
The losses resulted in a staggering $123 billion being wiped from Disney’s market value in 2022 alone.
Share prices for Disney ended 2022 at $86.88, the culmination of a downward trend spanning the last week, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Disney’s controversial “woke” political agenda, a shocking and sudden CEO change, costly streaming strategies, and a slow start for “Avatar: The Way of Water” all contributed to a dramatic decline in the stock, leading to the company’s worst year in almost 50 years.
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Eastern Oregon County Sets Vote to Secede, Becoming 12th to Join of “Greater Idaho” Movement
The last time I reported on the Greater Idaho movement—whose goal is to obtain enough signatures and election success to persuade Oregon, Idaho, and the federal government to allow 15 counties to leave a blue state for a red one without having to move—two counties were slated to vote on the issue Nov. 8th.
The votes were tallied, and the Greater Idaho movement has expanded.
Two more eastern Oregon counties have reportedly voted in favor of the Greater Idaho movement.
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Elon Musk Has Lost More Net Worth Than Anyone in History
Amid falling Tesla share prices and his tumultuous takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has become the first man in history to lose $200 billion.
Now the second richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of $137 billion, Musk’s fortune has fallen far since its November 2021 high of $340 billion when he sat at the top of the world’s richest list, according to CNN.
Musk announced in April 2022 that he had negotiated a bid to purchase social media platform Twitter for $44 billion and, despite some legal bickering, ultimately followed through. His management of the platform, however, has received mixed reviews as his rollout of controversial new features and rollback of the platform’s censorship policies has drawn scrutiny.
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Colorado lawyer Kevin Evans sued the Department of Justice in March after it failed to comply with his request for records on the Bidens’ business dealings.
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Famous Author Slams ‘Progressive Left’ For Attacking Free Speech of the American People
Noted author Heather Mac Donald has slammed the “progressive Left” for attacking the free speech rights of the American people.
After receiving the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom at the 2022 Encounter Books Gala, Donald scolded the “‘blame America first’ instinct” and “mob rule” of the Left.
She said this “blame America” mentality is behind the “war on free speech” that is destroying “our civilization.”
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90-year-old biologist and Ecoscience author Paul Ehrlich fearmongered about global warming during a recent appearance on CBS‘s “60 Minutes.”
Ehrlich, a known eugenicist who incorrectly predicted millions of deaths from famine by the 1980s, warned “humanity is not sustainable” and that “The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
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U.S. House Rep Bob Good (R-VA) broke his silence on Fox News and doomed Kevin McCarthy’s attempt to be Speaker of the House. He said he won’t vote for the House Minority Leader for House Speaker because he is ‘part of the swamp cartel.’
Good said: “I won’t vote for Kevin McCarthy tomorrow. He’s part of the problem. He’s not part of the solution. I’ll be following the will of my constituents, the voters from Virginia’s Fifth District, hundreds of which have told me over the past couple of years not to support Kevin McCarthy.”
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GOP Reps Fire First Shot in Oversight War, Accuse Biden of Obstruction
Republicans in the House are accusing Democrat President Joe Biden and his administration of obstructing Congressional oversight.
The shot from the GOP is likely a preview of the battles to come now that Biden finally faces some accountability.
White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber sent a letter to Republican Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) to warn the lawmakers that the WH will ignore the long list of investigative requests sent by the GOP.
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Suspected Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger is convicting himself while he is in jail acting guilty as all get out according to 50-year-old Valerie Cipollina who was in a cell near Kohberger.
Cipollina was held at the Monroe County Jail for six hours on a New Year’s domestic violence charge. She said Kohberger was ranting, singing lyrics from violent rap songs, and threatening jail guards. She said he repeatedly threatened the guards with:
“I cut them, I’ll cut you. You come in here and I’ll cut you. I’m going to pee on your face. Do what you want with me, I don’t give a sh*t.” At one point Cipollina said a jail guard told the quadruple murder suspect to shut up and calm down.
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Idaho Murder Suspect’s Former Student Says Behavior Changed After Slayings: ‘He Seemed Preoccupied’
Bryan Kohberger was on the tail end of his first semester as a PhD student in Washington State University’s criminal justice program when he allegedly broke into a house in Moscow, Idaho, and stabbed four college students to death on Nov. 13.
The brutal slayings reportedly didn’t stop Kohberger from attending class at WSU’s Pullman campus, where he worked as a TA and was described as a tough grader whose disposition and teaching style changed in recent weeks.
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In mid-December, the father of Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old man accused of slaughtering four University of Idaho students in the early morning on November 13, joined his son for a cross country drive from Idaho to their home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.
NewsNation Correspondent Brian Entin tweeted on Monday, “The public defender representing Bryan Kohberger told me Bryan’s dad went out to Idaho and drove back with him to Pennsylvania in the white Hyunda Elantra in mid December.”
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Illinois Supreme Court Stops Law That Would Abolish Cash Bail in the State
Hours before the new law was to be implemented, the Illinois Supreme Court halted a law that would end cash bail for criminal defendants in the state.
Kankakee County Circuit Judge Thomas Cunnington had ruled earlier in the week that Illinois’ Democrat-controlled General Assembly violated the constitution’s separation of powers clause and that the end or continuation of cash bail should be the judiciary branch’s decision.
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Kari Lake Files Petition to Take Appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court
Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed a petition to transfer her appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court after her election fraud lawsuit was dismissed.
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Knoxville Restaurant Owner, Employee Subdue Rice King Robbery Suspect
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Two people were able to subdue a man attempting the rob a Knox County restaurant.
According to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, there was a robbery attempt at Rice King on Kingston Pike Friday night. The owner of the restaurant along with an employee were able to subdue the suspect until law enforcement arrived. KSCO said that the suspect fired a shot that struck both the employee and owner in their hand. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office adds that the same round struck the suspect in the knee.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Viral After Asking if Twitter Files Will Reveal ‘Hidden Censoring’ Against Him
Kyle Rittenhouse said he was hopeful that what he described as Twitter’s censorship campaign against him would be exposed just days after CEO Elon Musk released the “Twitter Files.”
“Learning about the twitter files and @elonmusk releasing the truth is making me more and more curious to find out if there was hidden censoring regarding my story and case on twitter. I am hoping, one day soon, I will be able to find out and the truth will be shown to all of us,” he wrote.
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Lawsuit Alleges DOJ Concealing Documents on Hunter, Jim Biden Foreign Payoffs
The Department of Justice has allegedly attempted to thwart the release of 400 pages of documents on Hunter and Jim Biden’s dealings with China, Russia, and Ukraine, says a lawyer seeking their release under the Freedom of Information Act.
Kevin Evans, a lawyer suing the DOJ, has contended that the agency did not comply with his FOIA request, but that it had admitted in court that the documents he sought existed and is now trying to deny that fact, according to the Daily Mail. Evans had sought documents addressing “any relationship, communication, gift(s), and/or remuneration in any form” between either Biden and the aforementioned countries.
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Little Girl Tells Klaus Schwab That She Will Not Eat the Bugs
Smart kids know when they see a globalist message, Alex Jones’ young daughter proclaims that she will not eat the bugs despite all the New World Order propaganda.
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Man Arrested on Attempted Murder Charges in New York Machete Attack
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on attempted murder charges, New York City authorities said on Jan. 2.
Trevor Bickford of Wells, Maine, was taken into custody and charged with attempted murder of a police officer and attempted assault, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Jan. 2.
Bickford couldn’t be reached for comment, and it was unclear whether he’d retained a lawyer.
Bickford is accused of attacking three officers in Times Square as crowds gathered on New Year’s Eve for the ball drop.
The male tried striking an officer in the head with a machete before successfully hitting two other officers with the weapon.
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Man Found Guilty of Stabbing 16-Year-Old Girl Over 100 Times in Palatka Will be Sentenced This Week
Robert Belton, Ayana’s father, says he found her body about a 100 yards away from the front door.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Palatka man found guilty of fatally stabbing a 16-year-old girl over a hundred times in 2020 will be sentenced Tuesday.
Anthony Maurice Foxx, 21, faces life in prison for stabbing his then-girlfriend Ayana Belton. An autopsy report indicates that she had at least 124 “sharp force” injuries from some sort of weapon.
Family members told police that Foxx, who was 19 at the time, and Belton had been arguing because Belton was dating another person.
On March 26, The Palatka Police Department was called to the area of Husson Avenue and Pink Orchard Way around 8:35 p.m. where they found Belton unresponsive outside a home with multiple stab wounds to her body.
She was rushed to the hospital and later died, police say.
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McCarthy Caves to Boebert With Key Concession But it May Not be Enough to Make Him Speaker
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has caved to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to make a key concession as he battles to win the votes for the speakership from the GOP caucus.
One of the biggest concessions that Boebert and others want from McCarthy is to change a rule Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made that blocks votes of no confidence in the speaker.
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Missouri Man Accused of Shooting at State Trooper Found Dead in Florida
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) — A Missouri man who opened fire at a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper in December 2022, has been found dead in Florida.
According to Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop G, Christopher Storlie was found dead in the Seminole Hard Rock Casino near Hollywood, Florida, Friday.
On 12/30/22, a deceased male, identified as Christopher Storlie was located by Tribal Police Officers at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino, near Hollywood, FL. Preliminary information indicates the cause of death to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. t.co/XuR9El1vtW pic.twitter.com/x0MpuEpq8f
— MSHP Troop G (@MSHPTrooperG) January 2, 2023
According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol release, a trooper tried to stop a white 2006 Cadillac Escalade around 1:19 a.m. on Sunday, December 18, for failing to signal on Parsons Road, north of U.S. Highway 60, in Carter County.
After a short chase, they said the suspect stopped the vehicle, got out, and shot at the trooper.
The patrol car was hit several times, but the trooper was uninjured.
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Police Chief Killed, Another Officer Injured in Brackenridge Shooting; Suspect Shot and Killed
BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. — Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire was shot and killed Monday afternoon, according to multiple Pennsylvania officials. Another officer was also shot and injured in Brackenridge following an hours-long search that crossed throughout Allegheny County.
A suspect in the double shooting was shot and killed by Pittsburgh police around 7 p.m. near the intersection of Brushton Avenue and Mohler Street, Allegheny County Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns said in a briefing Monday evening.
Around 2 p.m., police encountered a wanted suspect in the Brackenridge-Tarentum area, Kearns said in an earlier briefing. Police chased the suspect on foot for several hours in the vicinity. Around 4:15 p.m., a Brackenridge officer encountered the suspect in the 800 block of Third Street.
Two shootings followed this foot chase, one where the suspect was encountered on Third Street and the other several blocks over on Brackenridge Avenue, Kearns said. One officer was shot in the head and died at the scene. Another officer was injured from a shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital. The second officer is now in stable condition.
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Nearly half of Americans believe it is at least somewhat likely that coronavirus vaccines have caused a “significant number of unexplained deaths,” and over a quarter said they know someone whose death may have been caused by side effects of the vaccines, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.
The survey asked respondents, “How likely is it that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths?”
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Quake Prediction Says “Signal Just Hit,” Warns of Potential Big Earthquake From San Francisco to LA
An earthquake rattled parts of Northern California on Sunday for the second time in two weeks. The 5.4-magnitude quake was centered about 30 miles south of Eureka. On Dec. 20, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake also struck near Eureka.
Now one quake prediction research firm warned that the next big one could be imminent.
On Monday morning, Quake Predictions published a warning that read for the next two days — there is a “dangerous situation” of the likelihood of a 7.0-magnitude “in the San Francisco Bay to NW of Los Angeles area.”
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Rapper Gangsta Boo Dies Suddenly at 43
American rapper Gangsta Boo has died suddenly at the age of 43, according to reports.
Three 6 Mafia’s female rap pioneer, real name Lola Chantrell Mitchell, was found dead on Sunday afternoon around 4 pm in Memphis, Tennessee, FOX affiliate FOX13 reported.
Mitchell’s former label mate DJ Paul appeared to confirm that she had passed away, according to a report from the entertainment website TMZ.
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See it: Kyle Rittenhouse Raises $40k Toward Legal Defense Fund for Kenosha Civil Suits
Kyle Rittenhouse thanked his followers on Christmas Eve for donating to his legal defense fund against civil action suits stemming from the 2020 incident in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in which he shot three men, killing two.
The 19-year-old was acquitted of all charges in last year’s shooting deaths. “Today’s verdict means there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son,” the family of Anthony Huber, one of the men killed by Rittenhouse, said at the time. “It sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”
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Senator Klobuchar Wants to Allow Platforms to be Sued for Promoting Misinformation
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) expressed support for legislation to regulate Big Tech. The lawmakers expressed their opinions on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Sen. Klobuchar, who has served as chair of the Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, complained that Big Tech is “so powerful” that it can block legislation that has passed the Judiciary Committee.
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‘South Park’ Episodes Banned From HBO for Depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad
Five episodes of “South Park” have been banned from HBO Max for depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad, reminding fans that virtually every other religion is considered fair game for making fun of — except for Islam.
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Suit Accusing YouTube of Tracking Children is Back on After Appeal
An appeals court has revived a lawsuit that accuses Google, YouTube, DreamWorks, and a handful of toymakers of tracking the activity on YouTube of children under 13. In an opinion released Wednesday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act does not bar lawsuits based on individual state privacy laws.
Passed in 1998 and amended in 2012, COPPA requires websites to obtain parental consent for the collection and dissemination of personally identifiable information of children under the age of 13. COPPA gives the FTC and state attorneys general the ability to investigate and levy fines for violations of the law.
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Trump Slams McConnell for Midterm Setback
Donald Trump took to social media on Sunday to insist that he wasn’t to blame for the GOP not living up to “expectations in the MidTerms,” instead pointing the blame at Mitch McConnell, as well as the party’s mishandling of the “abortion issue.”
“It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” the former president began his post on the conservative social media site Truth Social.
“I was 233-20!” relating to the success rate of Trump-backed candidates during the election.
“It was the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters.”
“Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again. Plus, Mitch stupid $’s!” he added, referring to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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The attorney general of the US Virgin Islands has been fired by the territory’s governor just days after filing a lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase of ‘turning a blind eye’ to Jeffrey Epstein’s prolific sex crimes.
USVI Governor Albert Bryan Jr confirmed in a statement on Sunday that he had ‘relieved Denise George of her duties as attorney general this weekend’ without offering further details.
George, who had served as the territory’s attorney general for four years, on Tuesday filed a massive lawsuit against JPMorgan, accusing the bank of ‘knowingly providing and pulling the levers through which [Epstein’s] recruiters and victims were paid.’
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Vaccine-Pushing Former NFL Player Uche Nwaneri, 38, Dies Suddenly From Heart Attack
Former NFL player Uchechukwu Nwaneri, who vociferously advocated for mandatory vaccines, died suddenly last Friday, with a coroner reporting he likely suffered a heart attack.
Nwanaeri, 38, was reportedly found dead at his home in West Lafayette, Ind., according to the Lafayette Journal & Courier.
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Virginia School District Pays Almost $500k for ‘Equal Outcomes’ Consultant
Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools reportedly paid almost half a million dollars to a firm whose “Equity Imperative” is that all students’ academic performance result in equal outcomes.
Documents obtained by Asra Nomani show the district paid $455,000 to Oakland, California’s Performance Fact to “analyze student data to identify trends and recommendations in support of the development of strategic goals,” among (many) other things.
It also “facilitated” school board “work sessions/retreats” which allegedly were “focused on the development of the [district] strategic plan.”
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Canadian Gov Funds Islamophobia Report Defending Antisemitism
by Daniel Greenfield
An imam prayed, “O Allah! Count their number; slay them one by one and spare not one of them”. A new report funded by the Canadian government claims that his critics are Islamophobes. The targets of the report include the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, was set up to “create profiles of key public, media and political figures as well as organizations who produce and distribute Islamophobic ideologies and propaganda”.
A government funding a project to create “profiles” of political opponents is bad enough, but this project also includes antisemitic conspiracy theories and defenses of calls to kill Jews.
The “Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North” report is out and its unhinged claims tie Jews, Christians, Hindus, and even “Muslim dissidents” together as part of a vast Islamophobic conspiracy aligned with white nationalists.
The report slurs David Horowitz as an “Islamophobia kingpin” and the “godfather of the anti-Muslim movement”, Daniel Pipes as the “grandfather of Islamophobia” and Gatestone founder Nina Rosenwald as the mother of “anti-Muslim hate”. Not only are these despicable lies, but the report unintentionally demonstrates how the entire concept of Islamophobia had been invented by Islamists to silence critics who point out their violence and hate…
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The law, which went into effect Sunday, seeks to quell the country’s housing crisis by prohibiting outsiders from purchasing property in its 10 provinces.
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Brussels Paramedics Hit With Fireworks, Stones While Treating Victim Who Fell From Building
Emergency responders were forced to flee when they were targeted with fireworks and projectiles while tending to a fatally-injured person who fell four stories on New Year’s Eve in Brussels, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded during a night of chaos in the Belgian capital, as authorities were stretched thin by nearly double the number of calls of years past.
Paramedics were summoned to a gruesome scene in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, where a male had fallen from a balcony on the fourth floor.
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Hungary Exempts Mothers Under 30 From Income Tax, Seeks to Boost Births Instead of Migration
Hungary has exempted young mothers from paying income tax as it continues to expand the package of pro-family formation policies it has introduced as an alternative to mass migration.
With most Western and particularly post-communist societies experiencing low birth rates, the consensus among governments of both the left and the supposed “centre-right” has been to try and replenish ageing communities and fill gaps in the labour market through ever-increasing mass legal immigration and a lax approach to controlling illegal immigration.
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Netherlands: Slogans on Rotterdam Bridge During New Year’s Eve Cause Alarm
In bright letters, the slogans “White lives matter” (a counterpoint to the anti-racist “Black lives matter” movement founded in 2013 and which in 2020 had a major breakthrough in the United States in reaction to several cases of alleged police violence, ed.) and “Zwarte Piet deed niets verkeerd” [Zwarte Piet has done nothing wrong, transl.] (referring to the controversial black-clad folk character) were displayed on the bridge, according to Dutch media RTL Nieuws.
The texts appear to have been projected from a boat, police said. An investigation has been launched. Due to windy weather, the New Year’s Eve fireworks display in Rotterdam was cancelled on Saturday.
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New Year’s Eve in France: ‘No Notable Incident’?
The night of Saturday 31 December to Sunday 1 January was marked by urban violence in several housing estates in Nantes. Cars were set on fire, at least twenty according to our information, and mobile police cars were the target of Molotov cocktails and fireworks in the Malakoff district, reported Ouest-France.
In Séchilienne, the gendarmes saved a retired couple from the flames. A car fire had spread to another vehicle and then to houses in the early hours of Sunday morning. The gendarmes entered the house as the entrance was on fire. A criminal investigation was opened.
It was a heroic act since the entrance was already in flames, but they extracted the elderly couple. A tragedy was narrowly avoided thanks to the courage of the soldiers extracting the bedridden husband.
[Comment: According to the article, there was property damage done besides damage to vehicles. This article is more than a rehash of the article from yesterday’s news feed.]
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A Norwegian clinical psychologist who admittedly received two Covid jabs has disavowed the vaccines and is calling for unity between unvaccinated and vaccinated people, who she says were motivated by fear and false reassurances the vaccines were safe and effective.
In a video message wishing for kindness between vaxxers and anti-vaxxers in the new year, Dr. Silje Schevig admits she received two jabs after trusting the reassurances of federal governments, however the jabs have since been shown by Dr. Aseem Malhotra and others to be ineffective.
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Pics: German Police Subjected to ‘Massive Assaults’ With Fireworks on New Year’s Eve
BERLIN — The German government on Monday condemned incidents on New Year’s Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked, mostly with fireworks.
People across Germany on Saturday resumed their tradition of setting off large numbers of fireworks in public places to see in the new year.
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Pics: Pope Benedict XVI Lies in State at Vatican, Meloni Pays Respects
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ‘s body is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica as thousands of people lined up hours before dawn on Monday to pay their respects.
The doors of the basilica were swung open so the public, who had in some cases waited for hours in the dampness before dawn, could pay their respects to the late pontiff, who shocked the world in 2013 by retiring from the papacy, the first to do so in 600 years.
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In his New Year’s message to the nation, Polish president Andrzej Duda appealed to Poland’s political class to exclude issues regarding security from political discourse. He stressed that Poland’s membership in NATO and the EU are the reasons the Polish state exists.
The president referred to the Russian invasion against Ukraine and stressed that the conflict was brutally waged on a scale unprecedented since World War II. He noted that the war is still far from over, adding that more than any other country, Poland is witnessing the human tragedies resulting from the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
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Polish Politician Slams Croatia’s Decision to Join Euro Currency Zone
Croatia’s decision to give up its currency in favor of the euro and join the EU’s border-free Schengen zone already has its critics, including right-wing Confederation Party leader Krzysztof Bosak.
“Today, another European country has lost the basic attribute of sovereignty: the ability to conduct monetary policy and influence its financial market. The Croatian government renounced its own currency, adopted the euro and thus brought the country under the authority of the central bank from Frankfurt am Main,” said Confederation Party leader Krzysztof Bosak.
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Poll: More Poles Believe Conservative PiS Party Will Win Next Parliamentary Elections
A new poll found that 33 percent of Poles believe the ruling party in Poland, Law and Justice (PiS), and its coalition partners will win the next parliamentary elections, which are planned for the autumn of 2023.
The survey, conducted by Kantar Public for Polityka weekly, also reveals that 29 percent of Poles believe the opposition will win.
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Protests Near German Village Vacated to Expand Coal Mine
BERLIN (AP) — Scuffles broke out on Monday outside a village in western Germany that is to be razed to allow the expansion of a coal mine, a plan that is drawing resistance from climate activists.
Activists threw fireworks, bottles and stones at police outside the village of Luetzerath before the situation calmed down and officers pulled back, German news agency dpa reported.
Protesters previously had set up a burning barricade, and one glued his hand to the access road.
The hamlet is to be demolished to expand the Garzweiler lignite mine, despite protests from environmentalists who fear millions more tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere.
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Influential regulators from the UK and the European Commission (EC), the executive branch of the European Union (EU), and the CEO of TikTok will discuss how to “tackle online harms” via “evolving regulation and industry technological innovations” at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2023 annual meeting.
The WEF’s annual meetings are often attended by powerful business leaders and government officials who have the power to push the ideas that are discussed at these meetings onto the mass population and this panel is no exception.
[Comment: I wonder why the UK and the EU does not seek to ban TikTok from their lands.]
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TikTok Says it Will Curb Andrew Tate “Misinformation” After Media Complaints of Conspiracy Theories
TikTok says it will begin a systematic review of flagged content and remove anything violative after The Guardian/The Observer criticized the platform for allowing “misinformation” about Andrew Tate to spread.
Social media platforms are being criticized by media outlets for allowing Andrew Tate’s fans to spread what they say is misinformation following the influencer’s arrest last week. The “king of masculinity” was arrested as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation in Romania.
Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested and are being held for at least 30 days concerning the investigation.
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UK to Invest in Nuclear Energy to Help End Russian Oil Dependency
The United Kingdom announced in a press release on Monday that it will be bolstering the country’s nuclear fuel production in order to lessen their reliance on Russian fuel.
The nation’s Energy and Climate Minister Graham Stuart announced that the government would be committing up to £75 million (approximately $90 million) to support alternatives to Russian fuel imports and strengthen UK energy security.
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UK: Revealed: Rotherham Rape Gangs Cover-Up Councillor Holds Senior Diversity and Inclusion NHS Role
A former Labour Party politician who resigned his cabinet position at Rotherham Council in 2015 amid reports that he ‘pushed back’ discussions on the ethnicity of grooming gangs now works as a senior diversity and inclusion manager in a major NHS body, GB News can reveal.
Mahroof Hussain was embroiled in the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal in 2015 when Dame Louise Casey’s review into the council named him and went on to conclude that the authority was in ‘denial’ and warped by a culture of bullying, sexism and cover-ups.
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UK: Their Desperation is Funny
New Years fireworks celebrations in London?
Another chance to reinforce “THE MESSAGE”.
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Up to 500 Dying Every Week Because of UK Hospital Delays — Physician
Delays in British emergency departments could be causing between 300 and 500 deaths each week, Royal College of Emergency Medicine President Dr Adrian Boyle has told Times Radio.
According to data from NHS England, 37,837 patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to emergency departments in November, up from 10,646 in November 2021. Although figures for December have yet to be released, Boyle told the Times that he’d be “amazed” if they weren’t the worst on record.
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World Economic Forum Will Plot How to Counter “Misinformation” at Its 2023 Annual Meeting
The World Economic Forum (WEF), an unelected global organization that seeks to “shape global, regional and industry agendas,” has announced the schedule for its 2023 annual meeting which includes a panel on countering “misinformation.”
The panel is titled “Countering Threats in the Age of Black Swans” and will take place on January 18, 2023 at 9 am Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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Russian forces have just suffered what may be their single biggest loss of the war in an attack, after a Ukrainian strike killed multiple dozens, or possibly hundreds, of newly mobilized troops in the east of the country. Moscow is now pointing to a US role in the devastating attack.
“Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that Ukrainian forces used a U.S.-supplied Himars rocket system to destroy a facility used as a base for mobilized troops in the city of Makiivka,” The Wall Street Journal reports of the attack in Russian-occupied Donbas.
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NATO Secretary General Says Ukraine Needs More Weapons
NATO needs to keep up its weapons deliveries to Ukraine this year, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German news agency dpa.
“It is in all our security interests that Ukraine prevails and the Russian president does not win,” Stoltenberg told dpa, adding that that he expects members of the alliance system to supply Ukraine with more weapons.
The NATO secretary-general said it was now even more important for Ukraine to receive enough ammunition for the systems it already had, adding that the ammunition and spare parts needs of Ukraine were currently “enormous.”
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Dozens and perhaps hundreds of Putin’s mobilised troops were killed in a Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a barracks in Russian-occupied Makiivka in the eastern Donbas region.
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Ukraine ‘Downs 40 Drones’ As Russia Targets Civilian Infrastructure
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said 22 drones were destroyed over the capital, three in the outlying region and 15 in neighbouring provinces.
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Wave of Drones Causes Further Damage to Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 40 drones “headed for Kyiv” overnight, according to air defence forces, and all of them were destroyed.
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India: Jihadi Terrorism Unleashed Again to Kill Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir
Rajouri attack: Islamist Terrorists barged into Hindu homes, opened fire after confirming identity. 5 died including a minor girl.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Jammu | Jan 2, 2023:: Four Hindu civilians were killed after Jihadi gunmen barged into the houses of a particular community in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri on Sunday.
Sources have revealed that two terrorists were involved in the attack.
The incident took place at nearly 7 pm, when the two Jihadi militants made their way through the forests and barged into three houses of the Hindu community, they said. Such terrorist activities in the valley have been supported by the Pakistani Intelligence agencies like ISI and Islamist outfits like Lashkar e Taiba or Hizbul Mujahideen, for a long time.
The terrorists opened fire at those residing inside.
Sources said the terrorists had first confirmed the Hindu identity of the victims, through their Aadhaar cards and killed them mercilessly.
The attack was the first such attack in the past many years in the otherwise peaceful Jammu region and coincided with the first day of the New Year…
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Hindus living a hellish life in Pakistan and Bangladesh as a minority in those countries have been killed by the Islamists before and are still being killed.
Hindu Lives MatterJayesh Rane | Guwahati | Sentinel Digital Desk | Jan 1, 2023:: Daya Bhel (Hindu), a 40-year-old widowed mother of four children was brutally murdered in Sijoro in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Along with beheading the woman her breasts were cut off and the skin was peeled off from her body and face, including the entire head. The flesh of the entire head was removed. Pakistan’s first female Hindu MP Krishna Kumari has given this information on Twitter. She is the leader of Pakistan People’s Party. It would be wrong to ignore this bad incident. Because doing so means thinking casually. It may be due to “We are safe in India so this incident will not be taken seriously”.
But only the one who is harmed knows how big that sorrow is. How painful is a simple scratch? We have felt this. Here the bad condition of the woman is heart-wrenching as a human being. How much pain must have happened to that woman? A woman is brutally murdered in Pakistan. This confirms that minority women and girls are vulnerable there.
Many Hindu men, women, boys and girls have been brutally murdered in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Hindus living a hellish life as a minority in those countries have been killed before and are still being killed. When will it stop? The governments of both the countries have no concrete answer to this. Till now no government there has had the answer. Special attention is always paid to where there is attachment — for instance, there are reports that underworld don Dawood might be in Karachi, while Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, is safe in Pakistan. There are many such thugs who are in that country.
It is impossible for that country to have affection for the Hindus who are in the minority. The name of this country Pak means holy but they are killing humanity. The level of inhumanity is increasing day by day. A vivid example of this is the murder of a mother of four children in Pakistan. It is not at all likely that there will be a human rights commission at the government level in that country, because only the language of bombs, weapons and anarchy is prevalent there. Also, there is never any positive news from there on the level of social, research, agriculture, health etc. Either there has been a bomb blast somewhere or there has been unrest or atrocities on minorities. This fact indicates that nothing good is happening in that country and also shows how dangerous the environment is…
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Do Not Fall for the China-TikTok ‘Strategic Ploy’
TikTok, the extremely popular video-sharing app, is in the midst of another round of negotiations with the U.S. federal government over data security.
The Biden administration should terminate the seemingly endless discussions and either require TikTok to stop operations in the U.S. or force its Chinese owner to sell the app lock, stock and barrel to American parties. No other solution is acceptable from national security and First Amendment points of view.
President Joe Biden’s failure to counter the known threat of the TikTok platform is a prime example of Washington’s bipartisan inability to recognize the comprehensive nature of the Communist Party’s assault on America. China wants to tap TikTok data for, among other purposes, blackmailing and intimidating American
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Leading Voice to Parliament campaigner Megan Davis claimed moving the date would only be ‘symbolic’ and give people a ‘warm and fuzzy notion of reconciliation’.
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Fred Schebesta, 42, who founded the comparison site Finder, and is estimated to be worth about $200million, celebrated the first day of the year in style.
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Death Toll From South Africa Gas Truck Explosion Rises to 34
THE DEATH TOLL from an explosion of a tanker truck on Christmas Eve near eastern Johannesburg has risen to 34, including 10 health workers at a nearby hospital.
The truck was carrying gas when it got stuck under a low-lying bridge in the town of Boksburg, sparking flames. As firefighters tried to extinguish them the tanker exploded, according to emergency services officials.
A “fire bomb” from the explosion substantially damaged Tambo Memorial Hospital, located about 100 metres away, authorities said. Several health workers were in the hospital’s parking lot, some about to leave after their shifts and others trying to move their cars away from the fire.
In addition to the loss of life, the hospital’s emergency unit and X-ray department were badly damaged, Minister of Health Joe Phaahla said.
Other fatalities were residents who had gathered to see the burning truck. At least 321 injured people were taken to the damaged hospital, though some were later transferred to others in the Johannesburg area.
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Catholic Orgs. Receive Billions From Biden Gov’t to House Illegals
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In partnership with the federal government and America’s allegedly Catholic president, Joe Biden, numerous Catholic organizations are receiving federal funding to house huge numbers of illegal immigrants.
During 2008-2021, Catholic “non-governmental organizations” received over $3.1 billion in funding, amounting to $223 million each year, according to the Gateway Pundit
In 2022, Catholic NGOs received $599 million in funding, with $97 million of that being dedicated to the “Unaccompanied Alien Children Program.”
The federal government hands out the earmarked money via grants, which then force the private organizations to comply with certain federal demands; in this case, its demands that Catholic NGOs help aid illegal immigrants.
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Fake News: German Mag Retracts False Reports of Dead Syrian Child at Border
German news magazine Der Spiegel has retracted a number of false reports of a dead Syrian child on the Greek border after the Greek Migration Minister insisted the reports were erroneous.
The magazine published the retraction on Friday, clarifying that several articles published last year by the magazine had contained incorrect information on the alleged death of a Syrian child on an island in the Evros river, which separates Turkey and Greece.
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The first migrants to cross the Channel this year arrived in Dover today — as it emerged Border Force officers have begun patrolling French beaches for the first time.
Pictures showed a Border Force cutter sailing into Dover marina before migrants wearing life jackets came ashore.
The first joint UK-French patrol took place just before Christmas after months of negotiations between officials from both countries.
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Four Hospitalised After Mass Stabbing at Migrant Hotel in Ireland
Four males are said to have been hospitalised after a mass stabbing event at a migrant hotel in Ireland.
Four males have been brought to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries in Ireland after a mass stabbing event at one of the country’s many migrant hotels.
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German youth in migrant-heavy neighborhoods once again turned Berlin and other German cities into war zones on New Year’s Day, but this year, news reports indicate that attacks were especially brutal and targeted rescue services, including ambulance workers.
In Berlin, police and firefighters responded to 3,943 incidents, with 15 firefighters and 18 police officers injured. According to Bild newspaper, there were “particularly bad attacks in the hotspot neighborhoods of Kreuzberg and Neukölln with a high proportion of migrants.”
“There were dozens of attacks,” says Interior Senator Iris Spranger, of the Social Democrats (SPD).
In Kreuzberg, for example, after young men set fire to barricades, firefighters who arrived to extinguish the fire were attacked by 200 hooded men. In Neukölln, which is one of the most multicultural neighborhoods in Germany, 50 perpetrators fired rockets at emergency force services.
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Illegal Aliens Overwhelm Officials in the Florida Keys, Prompt Closure of National Park
Some 500 illegal immigrants have landed on islands in the Florida Keys in the last several days, prompting officials to close the Dry Tortugas National Park on Sunday.
“During the past 72 hours, [Border Patrol] agents have responded to a high volume of migrant landings in the [Florida Keys],” U.S. Border Patrol Chief Agent Walter Slosar said on Twitter Monday.
The most recent wave of illegal immigration is fueled by economic turmoil, food shortages, and soaring inflation in Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean.
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Only 3 percent of Brits have faith in the Government to get a grip on the migrant crisis, a remarkable new poll reveals.
Of the 5,199 people who responded to GB News’ Twitter poll a massive 97 per cent indicated they’d lost faith in Ministers’ ability on the issue.
Less than one in 20 believe Rishi Sunak would effectively deal with the crisis over the coming 12 months.
The findings come as the former Director General of Border Force called on the Government to get far tougher with Channel migrants who are abusing the UK asylum system.
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Watch: First Migrants of 2023 Cross the English Channel After Record Breaking Numbers Last Year
GB can exclusively reveal that the first Channel migrants of 2023 have arrived at Dover harbour in Kent.
Dozens of mainly young men were picked up from a small boat, around 9 miles off the Kent coast.
GB News understands there was more than 40 people onboard the inflatable.
They were transferred to the Border Force vessel Defender, off St Margaret’s beach, east of Dover.
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Crocs Partners With RuPaul’s Drag Race for All-Ages London Event, Advertised as ‘Kids Fashion Show’
Footwear brand Crocs is partnering with RuPaul’s Drag Race UK for an all-ages “Kids Fashion Show” in London, United Kingdom. The event will also feature a “Drag Queen Story Time” in the “kid zone” of the drag convention.
Crocs will sponsor the Main Stage at the event, which will be featured on BBC Three, and will take place at the ExCeL London from January 6 to January 8, according to a report by The Industry Fashion.
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Report: Majority of Content on Mastodon Social Media Site is Child Porn
An investigation conducted by Secjuice has revealed that some of the largest communities within the social media platform Mastodon are communities containing child pornography. Mastodon first experienced a “flood of child porn” being posted in their communities in 2017, and by 2022, the two largest child pornography communities were second and third on the leaderboards, with only mastodon.social having more users.
Mastodon was only a year old when, on April 14, 2017, they experienced a surge in new users. This saw the platform grow from 160,000 to about 300,000. The two communities that contained child exploitation content became the first and second largest communities in the “fediverse,” or a network of interconnected servers and websites based on decentralized networking protocols. These communities overtook the platform’s mastodon.cloud and mastodon.social communities.
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YouTube to Demonetize Videos, Including Old Videos, If They Contain Profanity in the First 8 Seconds
YouTube has quietly introduced a policy that demonetizes a video if it contains a curse word within the first 8 seconds, and creators and users are not happy about it because the policy is going to be backdated to older videos, meaning users will be punished for a policy that wasn’t even in place when they uploaded their videos.
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Da Capo:
Time to pause covid mass vaccination
Dr. John Campbell
Published December 28, 2022
https://youtu.be/JYR1wz-Cf_M
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Reanalysis of mRNA trial data
Dr. John Campbell
https://youtu.be/JYR1wz-Cf_M
“A new wave of Russian drone attacks has done further damage to Ukraine’s already precarious energy infrastructure.”
You misspelled “A new wave of Russian drone attacks has been shot down without successfully carrying out any of their attacks.”
It really is remarkable that the Ukrainians have gotten so good at intercepting these things. It is even more remarkable that you seem to be cheering on the people trying to bombard civilians into oblivion.
Also, if by “precarious” you mean “consistently is back online and functioning within a day, usually within hours”, well, normally I would consider “resilient” to be a better word for such a case. But I don’t have the Humpty Dumpty dictionary.
Hope this helps.
I’m sure you don’t mind that your heroes have been randomly shelling Donetsk where there are zero military targets for most of the last decade. Or that the western elites funding the war and the Elensky regime don’t care one way or another over the generation of Ukrainian men getting slaughtered to keep the corruption and the war going. After all, it’ll keep the prices of Ukrainian prostitutes in Europe low, as well as the availability of mail order brides high.
Don’t go jumping off of something high when the inevitable Russian victory over NATO occurs.
Not to excuse the Ukrainians’ previous actions, but do they justify the Russians’?
The average Ukrainian conscript is just as much a victim as those civilians that they were shelling in Donetsk.
I find it very irritating when people can’t see the forest for the trees and realize that this war isn’t about Putin or Ukraine or which Slav did what to whom. The instigators of this war do not reside in Kiev or Moscow. They are to be found in Washington D.C. and Davos.
This was a long-term plan to remove Putin from power once the WEF reptilians realized that he wasn’t just going to be a perpetual drunk giving away the resources of Russia like his predecessor. A plan was hatched to remove the elected leader of Ukraine and replace him with someone more amenable. Eventually Elensky was elevated from a drug snorting cross-dressing second rate actor playing the president of Ukraine on tv to a drug snorting cross-dressing second rate actor emplaced as the actual president of Ukraine. He was a puppet of the Davos creatures whose role was to keep the money laundromat running while maneuvering Ukraine into NATO and the EU for the purpose of allowing western bases right on the borders of Russia. This was calculated to be a provocation that the Putin government could not ignore because to do so would bring down his administration, and to respond militarily would bring Russia into conflict with the West, where it was hoped Ukraine would prevail or at least hold out long enough for the economic and financial trap they were waiting to spring on Russia would lead to the downfall of Putin.
Ultimately, the West made many grave miscalculations regarding the strength of the Russian military, the resilience of the Russian economy, the depth of its alliances with non-western powers, and the abilities of Russia to outproduce the hollowed-out Western military industrial complex.
So to answer your question, yes, Ukraine doesn’t deserve this. It is a country which has been captured by the neocons and the Davos elites and is being used as a pawn and a battering ram in a much bigger struggle between forces that want to destroy Putin in order to destroy Russia because it stands in the way of their New World Order and Build Back Better agendas enroute to realizing a neofeudal wet dream where they are masters of the universe while those of us allowed to survive are forced to live in freezing pod cubicles and eat bug paste and work the fields for the Davos overlords.
Very apt, succinct, and accurate summary of the situation.
I take exception to just one assertion: “…work the fields for the Davos overlords”.
The lumpenproletariat who are permitted to survive won’t be doing much work in the fields or elsewhere, because the Davos grandees expect that all those functions will be performed by robots. Some of those sub-men will be needed as personal servants and so on, but the main function of the remaining hoi polloi who are allowed to survive will be to breed the children that the elites like to use as sexual playthings.
Until, that is, babies can be bred in artificial wombs without any necessity for sexual coupling on the part of the Untermenschen. At that point the overlords will need only a few serfs to satisfy their staffing requirements.
So Putin’s dream of recreating the Tsarist empire isn’t a factor?
Baron, Except that the ruling elites forgot what happened to the Romans and other empires, the people that are their security at some point are not going to settle for the crumbs and take over, as has happened since time immortal. Don’t think that the Praetorian’s armed to the teeth behind Shwab, Soro’s, the rest of the Davos crowd, Bilderbergers and Rockefellers are not thinking the same thing, because that is exactly what I would be thinking in their shoes and I have been in their shoes. For weak and corrupt men always are taken over by the strongmen who are utterly ruthless in their means and goals.
Mark H,
If Putin’s dream was to recreate the Tsarist empire then what of it?
I don’t believe that that is his goal but if it was then why exactly would that be a bad thing?
The empire of the Tsar was a religious empire, and was in the process of modernization and liberalization (in the classical definition) when it was interrupted and ultimately destroyed by the First World War. Of course it wasn’t the only empire destroyed, and it can be argued that the destruction of the German, Ottoman, Russian, and British empires was an unmitigated disaster for the West and the world when one looks at what followed the ends of those empires.
Putin isn’t crazy or on some quixotic quest, and the actions of the Russian military to date reflect the declared goals of the SMO. Perhaps you should honestly ask yourself what would be better for the world; a divided and prostrate former Russia occupied by the corporate toadies of the WEF as they plan the conquest of China, or a Ukraine which has historically been part of the russian lands going back to the Kievan Rus and the introduction of Orthodoxy by Byzantium being rid of it’s western neo-cons and reunited with the rest of the slavic and orthodox world.