Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/12/2023

The BlackRock investment firm has increased its holding of stock in Fox News, and now owns 15.1% of the company. Meanwhile, a family of French tourists was attacked by “teens” in New York City.

In other news, Pope Francis encouraged young Italians to have more babies to prevent further demographic decline in Italy.

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Thanks to Daniel Greenfield, Dean, DV, Fjordman, JW, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Bank of England Fintech Director Says Anonymity is “A Public Policy Problem and Something That Should Not be Allowed to Continue”
» Millions Are Set to Pay £10,200 More for Their Mortgages Than 18 Months Ago as Bank of England Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 15 Years
 
USA
» 13-Year-Old ‘Hardened Criminal’ on Probation Shoots Cop During Gun Battle: Police
» Biden to Turn Over 10% of America’s Land to the Left
» BlackRock Increases Position in Fox Corporation (FOXA)
» Breaking: Trump Says He Will Suspend Talk of Election Fraud Unless He Sees Election Fraud
» Breaking: Steve Bannon Swatted While on Air With War Room, Says ‘Honey Badger Don’t Give a S***’
» Breaking: AOC Melts Down Over Trump CNN Town Hall
» Breaking: Elon Musk Announces He’s Hired New Twitter CEO
» Deep State Technocrats Convene in D.C. Spy Museum, Collude to Rig 2024 Election
» Elon Musk Challenges Don Lemon: Bring Your Show to Twitter — ‘Audience is Much Bigger’
» Family of French Tourists Attacked by Gang of Teens in NYC
» Florida Mom Whose Teen Son Stabbed Cheerleader 114 Times Sentenced for Evidence Tampering After Washing Blood From His Jeans
» Former Disinformation Board Chief Nina Jankowicz Sues Fox News for “Defamation”
» GOP Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Says Voting Age Should be Raised to 25
» Jordan Neely: Daniel Penny to be Charged Over New York Subway Death
» Libel Suit Against Rep. Maxine Waters Can Go Forward
» Likely New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is a WEF Executive Chair That Suggested Elon Musk Limit His Tweets
» Major Retailer to Close Flagship San Francisco Store After Less Than a Year
» Nearly Every U.S. State Has Introduced Measures to Combat Critical Race Theory: Report
» Prime Suspect in Natalee Holloway Murder to be Extradited to US 18 Years After Her Disappearance
» Report: CNN’s Donald Trump Town Hall Yields Ratings 5x Higher Than Typical Night
» Seattle-Area Blood Banks Can’t Keep Up With Demand Amid Increased Shootings
» Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Bill That Would End Private Messaging
» Teachers Union Pres Promotes Service to Scrub Teachers’ Social Media History
» ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Do Stop Mass Shootings
» Trans Activists, Socialists, and ‘Chronically Homeless’ Sit on Board to Oversee Recommendations for Seattle’s Housing Crisis
» US Prohibition Against 18-to-20-Year-Olds Buying Handguns Tossed
 
Canada
» Jordan Peterson Attacks Media ‘Scumrats’ for ‘Lying’ About Slavery
 
Europe and the EU
» Despite Nature Study Showing COVID-19 Vaccinated People Suffer 2X as Many ‘Mini-Strokes’ in the Eye Than Unvaccinated People, the EU is Jumping Into New mRNA Therapies
» EU Trains More Than 17,000 Ukrainian Soldiers — Borrell
» Exclusive — Pictured: Finnish PM Sanna Marin’s Husband With His Arm Around Mystery Woman ‘Who Rejected His Advances’ Just Weeks Before He and His Wife Announced Their Divorce
» Finland’s Party-Loving PM Sanna Marin, 37, Announces She is Divorcing Her Husband After 19 Years Together
» Italy: Watch: Cars and Building Burns as Milan Rocked by Exploding Gas Truck
» Italy Looking to Leave China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Global Domination Scheme
» Low Birth Rate Risks Costing Italy 18% of GDP —giorgetti
» Poland is a Provider and Not Just a Recipient of Security, Says Polish PM
» Poland Replaces Russian ‘Kaliningrad’ With Polish ‘Królewiec’ on Maps in Effort to ‘Reclaim Historical Heritage’
» Polish Ambassador Accuses Hungarian Army Chief of Rewriting History Over WWII Remarks
» Pope Begs Young Italians to Have More Babies as He Warned Country Faces a ‘Demographic Winter’ Due to Falling Birth Rates
» ‘Teens’ Arrested for Kidnapping, Torturing Homeless Man in France
» Two Killed in Shooting at Mercedes-Benz Factory in Germany
» UK: ‘Brits Are Dying in Their Tens of Thousands — and We Don’t Really Have Any Idea Why’
» UK: We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday… to ALBANIA! Stunning Resort in the Balkans Joins the Isle of Wight in Tripadvisor’s List of the 20 Most Sought-After Destinations for Brits
 
Balkans
» Serbians Turn in Guns, Ammo, After ‘Almost Total Disarmament’ Enacted
» The EU Needs Serbia More Than the Other Way Around, Says Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto
 
Russia
» Breaking: Trump on Russia/Ukraine War: ‘I Want Everybody to Stop Dying’
» Russia Resorts to ‘Scarce and Expensive’ Weapons as Ukraine War Drags on, UK Says
» Ukraine Reconstruction Aid Will Focus on Decarbonisation, EU Bigwigs Say
» Zelensky: Russians to Get an ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ in Near Future
 
South Asia
» Imran Khan: Pakistan’s Supreme Court Rules Arrest Was Illegal
» India: E-Rick Battery Explosion Kills Woman, 2 Kids
 
Australia — Pacific
» ABC’s Medical Expert Norman Swan is Caught Out Making an Embarrassing Blunder About COVID Deaths
» Big Reason Aussies Are Fleeing the City as ‘Sea Change’ Moves to Regional Areas Continues to Rise After COVID-19
» Cheers, Centrelink! ‘Struggling’ Dad on Welfare Spends Two Hours Relaxing in a Café as He ‘Doesn’t Have the Energy’ to Work Full-Time — and Mum Drops Daughter at $8,375-a-Year Private School
» Five-Metre Saltwater Crocodile Called Leo Tears Flesh Off Woman, 34, in Horror Mauling at Crocosaurus Cove Reptile Park: ‘There Was a Lot of Blood’
» Homeless People Removed From City Park Ahead of Two-Day Festival — as Push Grows for White Elephant Quarantine Facility to be Used as Emergency Housing
» Pauline Hanson is Brutally Shut Down When She Attempts to Introduce a Bill to Parliament to Tighten Up Who Can Identify as Aboriginal: ‘Things Could Get Messy’
» Penny Wong’s Brutal Attack on Greens MP as the Minor Party Joins With the Coalition to Oppose the Government’s $10 Billion Housing Package
» Tiny Apartment is Slammed as an ‘Inner City Prison Cell’ by Renters Furious Over the Asking Price: ‘Barely Fits a Single Bed’
» Two Locals Who Joined Angry Protest Against Crime in Their Neighbourhood Are Charged Over Heated Clash With Police — as Cops Issue Warning About ‘Vigilante’ Justice
» We Make $100K But Have to Live in a Tent Because We Can’t Afford Anywhere to Rent — it’s So Cold at Night We’ve Had to Send Our Children to Live With Relatives and There’s No End in Sight
» Why 40,000 Aussies Have Been Stuck on JobSeeker for Ten or More Years Despite a Labour Shortage — After Recruiter Exposed Dole Bludgers for Deliberately Handing in Bogus Resumes to Rort Centrelink
» Why Chinese Students in Australia Are Faking Being Kidnapped With Bizarre Trend on the Rise
» Why Waleed Aly is Worried About Australia and Does Not Think it’s the Lucky Country Anymore: ‘It’s Such a Tragedy’
 
Latin America
» Brazilian Justice Will Punish Tech Companies That Criticize Government’s Censorship Law
 
Immigration
» Breaking: Yuma, Arizona Mayor Announces First Release of Migrants Into Community as Title 42 Expires
» Breaking: House Votes YES on Secure Border Act in 219-213 Vote, Includes E-Verify Requirement, With 2 Republicans Joining Democrats to Vote Against Border Security
» Democrats Admit They Want Illegal Immigrants in Order to Fill Low-Paid Labor Jobs in the US
» Exclusive: Brothers of Italy MEP Vincenzo Sofo Says the Meloni Government is Determined to Fight Illegal Immigration
» Florida AG Sues Biden to Block Migrant Influx After Title 42 Ends
» Germany’s Elderly at Increasingly Higher Risk of Poverty as Country Spends €36 Billion on Migrants in 2023 Alone
» Migrant Bus Arrives at Kamala Harris’ Doorstep Hours Before End of Title 42
» Migration Crackdowns More Popular in Europe, UK Than Anywhere Else on Earth, NGO Finds
» Poland Leads EU in Denying Entry to Non-EU Migrants
» Ron DeSantis Supports Federal Reform to Deputize States, Allowing Them to Deport Illegal Aliens
» Salvini Says France Cannot Lecture Italy on Migration Policy
» Savanah Hernandez Reports: Border Crossers Seeking Asylum Given Court Date to Appear as Far Off as 2027
 
Culture Wars
» ACLU Sues Montana to Demand They Allow Child Sex Changes
» Actress Charlize Theron Threatens to ‘F*** Up’ People Who Criticize Drag Queens at LGBTQ Telethon Opposing Laws Attempting to Prevent Performances in Front of Children
» Anheuser-Busch’s Stock Downgraded Following Tanking Sales and Branding ‘Crisis’
» Breaking: Trans Activist Who Attacked Anti-Child Sex Change Activist ‘Billboard Chris’ Identified as PSU Faculty Member
» Canada: School Board Trustee Resigns in Protest of Policies Violating Parental Rights in Prince Edward Island
» Colorado Mom Sues School After Secret Trans Group Recruits Her Daughter and Does ‘Unthinkable Things’
» Female Field Hockey Player Sustains Neck Injuries After Playing Against Trans-Identified Male in Scotland
» Gay California Prof Investigated by Madera Community College for Distributing Jeremy Boreing’s Gendered Chocolate Bars
» Homeless Man Charged With Hate Crimes for Defecating on Pride Flags at Manhattan Eatery
» Leading Trans Doctor Insists Non-Verbal, Autistic Minors Can Consent to Sex Change, Can ‘Draw Their Feelings’
» Missouri Becomes Latest State to Ban Child Sex Changes, Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports
» Record Complaints Over Netflix Star Calling Royal Family ‘Terribly White’
» ‘Target Deserves the Bud Light Treatment’: Retailer Faces Backlash for Promoting Trans-Friendly Slogans on T-Shirts for Kids and Gender-Neutral Clothing in Its Pride Collection
» UK: Sacked Christian Primary School Teacher Taking Legal Action Against Council After She Was Dismissed for Refusing to Use Eight-Year-Old Pupil’s Trans Pronouns
» ‘We’re All Grown-ups!’ Tom Hanks Tells Publishers to Stop Literary Censorship by Rewriting Classic Novels
» Will Gender Reassignment Surgeries for Minors be Banned in Poland? Catholic Think Tank Proposes New Legislation to Imprison Doctors for Up to 3 Years
» Woke Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones Accused of Covering Up Sexual Assaults by Homeless Man
 

Bank of England Fintech Director Says Anonymity is “A Public Policy Problem and Something That Should Not be Allowed to Continue”

During the Financial Times’ Crypto and Digital Assets Conference, the director of fintech at the Bank of England (BOE), Tom Mutton, downplayed privacy concerns over a digital pound. He argued that “privacy and anonymity are used synonymously in a way they shouldn’t be.”

Mutton’s word salad appears to be an attempt to push the idea that CBDCs can actually be “private,” by defining privacy in a different way than the general population would.

To him, “privacy” means individuals somewhat have control over their personal data while “anonymity” means no data is available.

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

Millions Are Set to Pay £10,200 More for Their Mortgages Than 18 Months Ago as Bank of England Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 15 Years

The Bank yesterday hiked rates from 4.25 per cent to 4.5 per cent in a bid to curb runaway inflation. It spells more mortgage misery for around 1.6million homeowners.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

13-Year-Old ‘Hardened Criminal’ on Probation Shoots Cop During Gun Battle: Police

A 13-year-old boy described by authorities as a “hardened criminal” with “no regard for life” shot a police officer during a foot chase in Florida — and was wounded in the exchange of fire.

The gun battle unfolded after 5 p.m. Wednesday in the city of Lakeland as police officer Jamie Smith, formerly of the NYPD, was responding to a 911 call reporting a drive-by shooting a couple of blocks from Simpson Park.

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

Biden to Turn Over 10% of America’s Land to the Left

by Daniel Greenfield

The Bureau of Land Management was formed out of the General Land Office, which sold and distributed public land to settlers, and the Grazing Service, which settled the range wars on the side of the farmers. Its mission under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) is “the management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people”.

Unfortunately BLM became a bastion of environmentalists opposed to any kind of development and, under Biden, even outright eco-terrorists, like Tracy Stone-Manning, his BLM director.

Tracy Stone-Manning had been the spokeswoman for the eco-terrorist group EarthFirst and had sent a threatening letter to the Forest Service warning that the terrorists had rigged a forest with traps and concluding with, “You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt.”

Instead of going to jail, Biden nominated the eco-terrorist to head BLM and Senate Democrats, including Senator Manchin, voted to confirm her into office. Instead of managing national resources for the benefit of the American people, Biden’s BLM has waged a corrupt and dishonest campaign to seize total control of them and prevent them from being utilized.

After Biden and BLM were forced by the court to offer oil and gas leases, they did it with a poison pill by offering poor and played out sites, hiking royalties, and reducing available areas, before pulling the auction due to “lack of interest”. While BLM was sabotaging oil and gas drilling, American workers were being economically devastated by sky-high gas prices.

BLM is now trying for something much more ambitious. The federal agency, which is not a legislative body, is proposing to dramatically modify the Federal Register to redefine conservation, or non-use of the land, as a “primary purpose” and then offer “conservation leases” to leftists to lock up the land and prevent if from being used for grazing or drilling…

           — Hat tip: Daniel Greenfield [Return to headlines]
 

BlackRock Increases Position in Fox Corporation (FOXA)

Fintel reports that BlackRock has filed a 13G/A form with the SEC disclosing ownership of 45.74MM shares of Fox Corporation, Class A (FOXA). This represents 15.1% of the company.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Trump Says He Will Suspend Talk of Election Fraud Unless He Sees Election Fraud

On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump sat down for a town hall event with CNN and was pressed on his stance on the 2020 election results, with a voter asking if he would cease “polarizing” talk of election fraud.

“Will you suspend polarizing talk of election fraud during your run for president?” an undecided voter from Concord, New Hampshire who voted for Trump in 2020 asked.

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

Breaking: Steve Bannon Swatted While on Air With War Room, Says ‘Honey Badger Don’t Give a S***’

Former White House advisor Steve Bannon’s home was swatted on Thursday after reports of a shooting were made to police.

No shooting occurred, and Bannon’s home was cleared by police. The swatting occurred while Bannon was doing a live broadcast of his show, War Room.

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

Breaking: AOC Melts Down Over Trump CNN Town Hall

In response to former President Donald Trump’s town hall event with CNN on Wednesday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that the liberal outlet was “manipulated” into “platforming election disinformation” in their hosting of the leading Republican 20204 presidential candidate.

“CNN should be ashamed of themselves,” Ocasio-Cortez began on Twitter.

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

Breaking: Elon Musk Announces He’s Hired New Twitter CEO

Current Twitter/X Corp CEO Elon Musk announced on his social media platform on Thursday that he has found his replacement, and that she will start at the position in roughly six weeks.

Musk stated in the tweet, “Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.”

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

Deep State Technocrats Convene in D.C. Spy Museum, Collude to Rig 2024 Election

The Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), a self-described “nonprofit whose core mission is to work with election officials and build confidence in elections that voters should trust,” hosted a May 8-9 conference billed as “The Summit on American Democracy.” The venue was a curious choice.

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

Elon Musk Challenges Don Lemon: Bring Your Show to Twitter — ‘Audience is Much Bigger’

Elon Musk made an offer to free agent Don Lemon.

Musk responded to Lemon’s tweet last night about his dismissal from CNN, saying that Lemon should bring his next endeavor to Twitter because of the platform’s larger audience.

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

Family of French Tourists Attacked by Gang of Teens in NYC

A family of French tourists are recovering from physical and mental distress after being attacked by a gang of teenagers while out for a walk on Manhattan’s Midtown section.

Giles Viguier, 71, and his family were on their way back from dinner on Saturday night when they were approached by the teens on West 55 Street near Broadway. The Frenchman’s son-in-law, 29-year-old Michael Poret, debated de-escalating the situation, but said he opted not to get too involved, citing the horror stories he’d heard of criminals in the United States resorting to firearms when confronted.

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

Florida Mom Whose Teen Son Stabbed Cheerleader 114 Times Sentenced for Evidence Tampering After Washing Blood From His Jeans

Crystal Smith, 37, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 5 years of probation for the crime, a 3rd-degree felony, the state attorney’s office for Florida’s 7th Judicial Circuit said in a statement.

Smith was captured on a home security camera washing the blood out of Aiden Fucci’s jeans after the May 9, 2021, killing of Tristyn Bailey, 13, the statement said.

“What the defendant did was not protecting her child — she was assisting him in avoiding responsibility for an extraordinarily vicious and merciless crime,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a statement.

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

Former Disinformation Board Chief Nina Jankowicz Sues Fox News for “Defamation”

Nina Jankowicz, who previously served in the Biden administration as the leader of the now-defunct Disinformation Governance Board, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The suit accuses the network of engaging in a “malicious campaign of destruction.”

She had previously hinted that she was considering a lawsuit.

Jankowicz’s lawsuit, filed in Delaware state court, claims that Fox News mentioned her over 300 times throughout 2022 in both broadcast and online publications.

She says the network’s hosts and commentators spread lies about her. The suit specifically accuses Fox News of defaming Jankowicz by falsely stating that she was dismissed from the board and aimed to censor Americans’ speech. This coverage, according to the lawsuit, resulted in violent threats against her.

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

GOP Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Says Voting Age Should be Raised to 25

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will announce a proposal on Thursday that would act as an amendment to the United States Constitution and raise the national voting age from 18 to 25, according to Fox News.

Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old author and entrepreneur, told the network that he thinks raising the national voting age will create a more informed population of voters and will make voting seen as a “true privilege” in the US.

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

Jordan Neely: Daniel Penny to be Charged Over New York Subway Death

A former US Marine is to be charged with the manslaughter of a homeless man on the New York City subway, the Manhattan district attorney has said.

Daniel Penny, 24, will be arrested and formally accused on Friday of causing Jordan Neely’s death after he placed the 30-year-old in a chokehold.

Mr Penny’s lawyers say he could not have known his actions to subdue Mr Neely would lead to his death.

The incident on Monday 1 May was captured on mobile phone footage.

“We can confirm that Daniel Penny will be arrested on a charge of manslaughter in the second degree,” said a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in a statement.

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

Libel Suit Against Rep. Maxine Waters Can Go Forward

From Collins v. Waters, decided today by the California Court of Appeal, in an opinion by Justice John Wiley, joined by Justices Grimes and Viramontes:

In 2020, challenger Joe E. Collins III and incumbent Maxine Waters competed for a seat in Congress. During the campaign, Waters accused Collins of a dishonorable discharge from the Navy.

Collins shot back that he had not been dishonorably discharged. He showed Waters a document saying so. This document apparently was official. There was nothing suspicious about its appearance. The document, if genuine, would have established without doubt that Waters’s charge was false.

Waters easily could have checked its authenticity, but did not. Her appellate briefing asserts that today, years later, she still does not know the truth about whether Collins’s discharge was dishonorable.

This disinterest in a conclusive and easily-available fact could suggest willful blindness.

Collins sued Waters for defamation during the campaign, but Waters convinced the trial court to grant her special motion to strike his suit. We reverse that order.

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

Likely New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is a WEF Executive Chair That Suggested Elon Musk Limit His Tweets

Twitter’s likely new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, a World Economic Forum Executive Chair and NBCUniversal advertising executive, recently tried to get Twitter owner Elon Musk to commit to self-censorship and urged him to allow advertisers to feel that they can “influence” Twitter.

During an April 2023 interview with Musk, Yaccarino told Musk that advertisers “need to feel there’s an opportunity for them to influence what you’re building.”

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

Major Retailer to Close Flagship San Francisco Store After Less Than a Year

Another major retailer is leaving downtown San Francisco — this time Coco Republic, an Australian furniture store that is leaving the iconic Union Square less than a year after opening a flagship location there.

The ongoing retail exodus from San Francisco follows years of worsening crime, drugs, and homelessness, plus a wave of “mass looting” events that have caused many other retail stores and chains to leave the city.

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

Nearly Every U.S. State Has Introduced Measures to Combat Critical Race Theory: Report

A growing number of Americans vehemently oppose critical race theory and have pushed a wide variety of measures to combat it, according to a recently released report from UCLA.

The report, “Tracking the attack on Critical Race Theory,” found that in 2021 and 2022, every state except Delaware had government officials introduce “at least one anti-CRT measure at some level.”

The report defines anti-CRT measures as attorney general letters, executive directives, legislation, policies, regulations, resolutions, and statements.

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

Prime Suspect in Natalee Holloway Murder to be Extradited to US 18 Years After Her Disappearance

Peru will send convicted murderer Joran van Der Sloot to the United States for extortion and fraud charges related to the disappearance and murder of an Alabama teen in Aruba 2005. This comes after years of developments in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared during a high school graduation trip in May 2005.

Holloway’s disappearance prompted a sweeping investigation and hightened media attention, with authorities determining she was last seen with Van der Sloot and another man.

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

Report: CNN’s Donald Trump Town Hall Yields Ratings 5x Higher Than Typical Night

CNN’s Wednesday town hall featuring former President Donald Trump reportedly yielded ratings about five times higher than the network’s typical viewership in the 8 p.m. hour among the 25-54 age demographic.

The network scored 3.12 million total viewers and 703,000 viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic in the 8 p.m. hour, Nielsen Fast National reported Wednesday.

In recent weeks, CNN’s prime-time average hung around half a million viewers, well behind Fox and MSNBC.

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

Seattle-Area Blood Banks Can’t Keep Up With Demand Amid Increased Shootings

Violent crime has gotten so bad in Washington that a blood bank is begging for donors.

Dr. Kirsten Alcorn, Co-Chief Medical Officer at Bloodworks Northwest told KOMO News, “An increase in gunshot wounds, which is really sad to say, but we are definitely seeing it.”

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

Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Bill That Would End Private Messaging

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted for the third time to advance the controversial EARN IT Act to the floor. The bill would require online platforms to scan messages and other content for harmful or illegal material, essentially banning end-to-end encryption and ending privacy for law-abiding Americans.

The bill will soon be put to a vote in the Senate.

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

Teachers Union Pres Promotes Service to Scrub Teachers’ Social Media History

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, offered a new artificial intelligence-powered tool to teachers to help erase their social media history, and she noted that AFT members get a discount.

Weingarten wrote in a tweet, “Our union is here for you to help you future-proof your social media. @AFTunion has partnered w/LifeBrand for a 25% discount off the cost of this powerful tool that scans your social media to catch forgotten posts that may not reflect who you are today.”

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

‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Do Stop Mass Shootings

by Daniel Greenfield

In 1968, LBJ’s National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence claimed in its report that “half of the nation’s 60 million households possess at least one gun, and the number of guns owned by private citizens is rising rapidly.”

The Gun Control Act of 1968, a supposed response to the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK by, respectively, a Communist, a ‘Palestinian’ terrorist and a white racist, failed to head off a decade of leftist political violence during the 1970s.

Next year, in 1969, black nationalists took over a high school and college campus in Greensboro, North Carolina and opened fire on police officers and the National Guard in what became an extensive armed siege and the largest battle fought on a U.S. college campus.

Gun control was already working wonders.

By 1972, an estimated 43% of American households owned firearms. The only two mass shootings that year were by an angry unemployed security guard and Mark Essex

Essex, a black nationalist terrorist, opened fire on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans killing, among others, a honeymooning couple. Betty Steagall was shot in the back of her head while embracing her murdered husband. Essex left a Black Liberation flag lying near the corpses of the doctor and his wife. Black nationalists and leftists still view him as a hero.

Today, 45% of American households own a gun. The number of mass shootings is far greater than was the case in the 1960s and 1970s. Not only have the various gun control measures failed to stop shootings, the overall number of shootings and the otherwise unusual phenomenon of individual mass shootings have increased to a staggering degree.

The issue is not, as Democrats, leftists and their media insist, “gun culture”. America had far more of a gun culture in the 1950s than it does today. A visceral hatred of gun ownership pervades the entertainment industry even as it glorifies all sorts of physical violence. Cultural elites decry the existence of firearms as a senseless evil and dream of a world without them.

And thus far there’s been a record number of mass shootings in 2023…

           — Hat tip: Daniel Greenfield [Return to headlines]
 

Trans Activists, Socialists, and ‘Chronically Homeless’ Sit on Board to Oversee Recommendations for Seattle’s Housing Crisis

The newly appointed members of a board tasked with overseeing Seattle’s government-managed housing program for people who are homeless and without income, up to those making middle-class salaries or 120 percent of the area median income, gathered last Friday morning for the first time at a Seattle City Council meeting.

As part of the new social housing, rent will be set according to what people are able to pay. According to the Public Development Authority Board, proceeds will go towards paying off the construction and operational costs of the building and any excess profit will be reinvested into building new affordable housing.

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

US Prohibition Against 18-to-20-Year-Olds Buying Handguns Tossed

The US government’s prohibition on 18-to-20-year-olds buying handguns violates the Second Amendment and “cannot stand,” a federal judge in Virginia ruled.

The right to purchase a handgun falls under right to “keep and bear arms,” and young adults are among “the people” protected by the Second Amendment, Judge Robert E. Payne of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at Richmond said Wednesday.

Restricting the right of 18-to-20-year-olds to buy handguns, via an interlocking collection of federal law and regulations, isn’t supported by the nation’s history and tradition, Payne said. The government presented numerous militia laws from around the time of the nation’s founding, but they showed that 16 or 18 was the age of militia service then, he said.

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

Jordan Peterson Attacks Media ‘Scumrats’ for ‘Lying’ About Slavery

Canadian academic Jordan Peterson has lashed out at “scumrats” within the legacy media for “lying” about slavery.

The psychologist has taken issue with a report on slavery published in the UK media on Wednesday, calling those responsible for the article “scumrats” who were “lying” about the UK’s role in slavery.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Despite Nature Study Showing COVID-19 Vaccinated People Suffer 2X as Many ‘Mini-Strokes’ in the Eye Than Unvaccinated People, the EU is Jumping Into New mRNA Therapies

In a new opinion piece in Germany’s Welt newspaper, journalist and editor Elke Bodderas highlights a new Nature study showing that those vaccinated against Covid-19 suffered twice as often from vascular occlusions as non-vaccinated people even two years after vaccination. She writes that despite evidence these vaccines are involved in a number of negative health outcomes, including the Nature results, the EU is “taking the leap forward when it comes to mRNA substances.”

“What was written in a publication by the Nature publishing house, which appeared a few days ago, does not sound good at all. In the third year after the first large-scale use of mRNA vaccines, it says, a side effect has been identified that is quite serious. The source of the news couldn’t be more respected; the study came from a team of U.S. researchers from Stanford University involving a team from Taiwan and 1.5 million patients,” wrote the Welt journalist.

The mRNA vaccines have long been associated with myocarditis, but the Nature study shows that when it comes to the vascular system, the vaccines may have a number of negative health outcomes in all areas of the body.

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

EU Trains More Than 17,000 Ukrainian Soldiers — Borrell

The European union has trained over 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers already and plans that this number will reach 30,000 by the end of the year, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday.

“We have been training more than 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers and by the end of the year our training mission will be training about 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers,” Borrell said during the European Defence and Security Summit.

On Financial Aid to Kiev

Commenting on Western support to Zelensky, Josep Borrell added that the total assistance to Ukraine from EU countries and organizations has amounted so far to 16 billion euros ($17.5 billion) and pledged to give more.

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Exclusive — Pictured: Finnish PM Sanna Marin’s Husband With His Arm Around Mystery Woman ‘Who Rejected His Advances’ Just Weeks Before He and His Wife Announced Their Divorce

Markus Räikkönen, 37, is said to have flirted and danced intimately with the Indian woman at the Helsinki nightclub just weeks before he and Sanna Marin announced their divorce.

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Finland’s Party-Loving PM Sanna Marin, 37, Announces She is Divorcing Her Husband After 19 Years Together

Finland ‘s Prime Minister Sanna Marin today announced she is divorcing her husband Markus Raikkonen after 19 years together.

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Italy: Watch: Cars and Building Burns as Milan Rocked by Exploding Gas Truck

A goods vehicle reportedly carrying gas bottles exploded in Milan, Italy on Thursday morning, the blast causing a “domino” effect of other vehicles bursting into flame.

Local Milanese newspaper Libero reported a “hell” like scene after a vehicle said to be carrying oxygen cylinders exploded, causing a “domino” cascade of explosions as the intensity of the blast caused other vehicles to combust.

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Italy Looking to Leave China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Global Domination Scheme

The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni is reportedly preparing to leave Communist China’s Belt and Road global domination scheme within the coming months.

In 2019, under the stewardship of then-technocratic Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Italy became the first, and so far only, G7 nation to sign up to Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, which Beijing uses to ensnare nations throughout the world under its boot through debt trap diplomacy tactics.

Now the populist-minded government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni faces a decision on Italy’s continued participation in the Chinese scheme, with the country’s membership set to automatically renew itself in March of next year unless Rome decides to pull out before then.

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Low Birth Rate Risks Costing Italy 18% of GDP —giorgetti

(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 11 — Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said Thursday Italy’s GDP risks coming down by as much as 18% over the next two decades if the country does not end the decline in its birth rate.

“I think that it should be strongly reiterated that the economic system is closely correlated to births,” Giorgetti said in a video message to a conference on this issue in Rome.

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Poland is a Provider and Not Just a Recipient of Security, Says Polish PM

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited Camp Kosciuszko in the west of Poland on Wednesday, where the V Corps of U.S. ground forces is stationed. According to him, the current war in Ukraine has led to major changes in the security architecture for Poland and Europe. This is because Russian aggression has created a different situation on the eastern flank of NATO where threats had to be countered.

The Polish prime minister thanked the U.S. for its cooperation and determination in providing security, citing the provision of Abrams tanks as an example.

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Poland Replaces Russian ‘Kaliningrad’ With Polish ‘Królewiec’ on Maps in Effort to ‘Reclaim Historical Heritage’

Poland decided to return to the traditional name of Królewiec, replacing the Russian Kaliningrad on Polish maps.

Kaliningrad is an enclave seized by the Soviet Union from Germany, then named Königsberg, at the end of the Second World War.

The Commission on the Standardization of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland, operating under the head surveyor of the country, decided that for the city of Kaliningrad, only the Polish name “Królewiec” should be recommended; and the Kaliningrad region should be called the Królewiec region.

The resolution came into force on the day of its publication on the commission’s website, May 9

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Polish Ambassador Accuses Hungarian Army Chief of Rewriting History Over WWII Remarks

The Polish ambassador to Hungary has accused the new chief of staff of the Hungarian armed forces of rewriting history after he claimed the local conflict between Poland and Nazi Germany escalated into World War II due to the lack of peace talks.

Hungarian Lieutenant General Gabor Böröndi, who was appointed to his new role last week, made the remarks about the Second World War during an interview with Hungarians news channel M1 on Tuesday, as he warned that lessons must be learned from previous failures to broker peace, a policy Hungary advocates in relation to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

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Pope Begs Young Italians to Have More Babies as He Warned Country Faces a ‘Demographic Winter’ Due to Falling Birth Rates

The 86-year-old pontiff opened the second day of a Rome conference involving politicians, business and social leaders focused on the dwindling number of babies born in Italy.

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‘Teens’ Arrested for Kidnapping, Torturing Homeless Man in France

A group of ‘teens’ were arrested for kidnapping and torturing a homeless man in France last week, according to reports.

The disturbing incident unfolded in Caen, a commune in the department of Calvados.

On May 3, an injured 20-year-old man was found at a squat in the city and taken to hospital in serious condition, Actu reports.

The man’s wounds suggested that he had been tortured with “bladed weapons” and also burned, the public prosecutor explained after an investigation was opened on May 5.

He was treated for head injuries and scarification.

Four ‘minors’ were later apprehended under suspicion of kidnapping and acts of barbarism.

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Two Killed in Shooting at Mercedes-Benz Factory in Germany

A man opened fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southwestern Germany on Thursday, leaving two people dead, authorities the company said.

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UK: ‘Brits Are Dying in Their Tens of Thousands — and We Don’t Really Have Any Idea Why’

Tens of thousands more Brits died than usual from May to December 2022, excluding Covid as a cause of death, raising serious questions as to why so many died.

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UK: We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday… to ALBANIA! Stunning Resort in the Balkans Joins the Isle of Wight in Tripadvisor’s List of the 20 Most Sought-After Destinations for Brits

It’s Bembridge on the Isle of Wight that tops the charts domestically and the beach town of Badesi on Sardinia that’s the No.1 trending foreign spot. Ksamil in Albania is third in the foreign list.

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Serbians Turn in Guns, Ammo, After ‘Almost Total Disarmament’ Enacted

Serbians have begun handing over firearms and ammunition following President Aleksandar Vucic’s May 5 announcement of “almost total disarmament.”

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The EU Needs Serbia More Than the Other Way Around, Says Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto

In the current difficult situation, the enlargement of the European Union could bring about a rapid improvement in the competitiveness of the continent, and the EU needs Serbia’s accession today more than vice versa, said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó in Belgrade on Wednesday.

“The EU needs Serbia now more than the Serbs need EU membership,” he said. “That is why we do not think it is right for Brussels to take a pompous and condescending attitude towards Serbia.”

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Breaking: Trump on Russia/Ukraine War: ‘I Want Everybody to Stop Dying’

Kaitlan Collins really wanted to know which nation Trump would prefer win the war between Ukraine and Zelensky. Trump, however, would prefer a win for humanity. “I want everybody to stop dying,” he said.

Trump has repeatedly promised to put an end to the war were he to win the 2024 election, saying that he would sit down with Zelensky and Putin and bring the violence to an end.

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Russia Resorts to ‘Scarce and Expensive’ Weapons as Ukraine War Drags on, UK Says

Russia is now using its “scarce and expensive” weapons against Ukraine as the war has gone on for much longer than predicted, according to the UK.

The Ministry of Defence claimed that the night before Russia held its annual Victory Parade on May 9 in Moscow, the Kremlin ordered eight cruise missiles to attack Ukraine.

While Russia has been bombarding Ukraine and its citizens with such weapons for months, these particular items were supposedly different.

It claimed Moscow had launched SS-N-30a SAGARIS land attack cruise missiles (LACM) — weapons the MoD describes as “scarce and expensive”.

Up until March, Russia had been using these regularly but then appeared to suspend their use supposedly to “rebuild its reserve stocks”.

The MoD theorised that “in the short-term, Russia likely sees LACMS as a key capability to strike deep into Ukraine to disrupt anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensives.”

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Ukraine Reconstruction Aid Will Focus on Decarbonisation, EU Bigwigs Say

EU efforts to rebuild Ukraine will focus heavily on decarbonisation and other green agenda goals, senior Brussels officials have said.

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Zelensky: Russians to Get an ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ in Near Future

Russians will soon get an “unpleasant surprise” regarding their invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly made an ominous statement regarding the future of the Ukraine war, saying that the invading Russians will soon experience an “unpleasant surprise” regarding the conflict.

It comes as the current Russian offensive against the city of Bakhmut appears to falter slightly, with forces loyal to the Putin administration now engaged in significant political infighting over preferential treatment and the availability of vital ammo supplies.

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Imran Khan: Pakistan’s Supreme Court Rules Arrest Was Illegal

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that former prime minister Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest on corruption charges this week was illegal.

The court ordered Mr Khan’s immediate release. His lawyers had argued that his detention from court premises in Islamabad on Tuesday was unlawful.

At least 10 people have been killed and 2,000 arrested as violent protests have swept the country since he was held.

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India: E-Rick Battery Explosion Kills Woman, 2 Kids

LUCKNOW: Two children and a woman died after the battery of an e-rickshaw exploded inside their rented accommodation in Chinhat on Thursday.

The e-rickshaw driver’s wife was asleep in the home along with her daughter Siya (8), 3-year-old son Kunj and seven-month-old son Chotu, and niece Riya (9) when the blast occurred, said police.

“The victim’s husband Ankit Kumar had put a couple of batteries of the e-rickshaw on charging in their room. It appears that one of the batteries exploded due to overcharging around 5am on Thursday,” said ADCP, East Zone, Syed Ali Abbas. Ankit had stepped out to answer nature’s call and narrowly escaped the blast that shook the neighbourhood, Abbas added. Later, Ankit along with locals informed the police and also doused the fire.

However, the woman and the four children sustained injuries and were rushed to a hospital, the official said.

“While the woman, her son Kunj and niece succumbed to injuries in the wee hours of Thursday her daughter and seventh-month-old son are currently in hospital,” Abbas said.

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ABC’s Medical Expert Norman Swan is Caught Out Making an Embarrassing Blunder About COVID Deaths

Norman Swan appears to have been caught out inflating the number of Covid-related deaths that were recorded in January during a live ABC TV appearance.

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Big Reason Aussies Are Fleeing the City as ‘Sea Change’ Moves to Regional Areas Continues to Rise After COVID-19

Aussies blame the cost of living in urban centres, high stress and traffic as the reasons they want to leave according to new research from the Regional Australia Institute.

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Cheers, Centrelink! ‘Struggling’ Dad on Welfare Spends Two Hours Relaxing in a Café as He ‘Doesn’t Have the Energy’ to Work Full-Time — and Mum Drops Daughter at $8,375-a-Year Private School

Jennifer Searson and Mark Goodrick, a Queensland couple who sparked outrage by complaining about life on Centrelink on 7.30, were spotted going about their daily routine on Thursday.

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Five-Metre Saltwater Crocodile Called Leo Tears Flesh Off Woman, 34, in Horror Mauling at Crocosaurus Cove Reptile Park: ‘There Was a Lot of Blood’

The 34-year-old woman was attacked by the star croc called Leo while on a shift at the Australian reptile attraction Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin on April 29.

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Homeless People Removed From City Park Ahead of Two-Day Festival — as Push Grows for White Elephant Quarantine Facility to be Used as Emergency Housing

Around 50 homeless people have been pushed out of Brisbane’s Musgrave Park where they were living to make room for the upcoming two-day Paniyiri Greek Festival.

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Pauline Hanson is Brutally Shut Down When She Attempts to Introduce a Bill to Parliament to Tighten Up Who Can Identify as Aboriginal: ‘Things Could Get Messy’

Ahead of the referendum for a Voice to Parliament, the One Nation leader attempted to introduce a bill which would change the process of identifying as an Indigenous person.

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Penny Wong’s Brutal Attack on Greens MP as the Minor Party Joins With the Coalition to Oppose the Government’s $10 Billion Housing Package

A stoush over the government’s signature housing package has boiled over after Penny Wong sensationally accused the Greens of caring more about their ego and media attention.

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Tiny Apartment is Slammed as an ‘Inner City Prison Cell’ by Renters Furious Over the Asking Price: ‘Barely Fits a Single Bed’

A tiny studio that has been dubbed a ‘prison cell’ has recently been put up for rent on Flinders Street in Melbourne’s Central Business District for $320 a week.

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Two Locals Who Joined Angry Protest Against Crime in Their Neighbourhood Are Charged Over Heated Clash With Police — as Cops Issue Warning About ‘Vigilante’ Justice

Central Queensland police have implored the community to leave investigations of youth crime to authorities, after two people were charged following a large protest.

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We Make $100K But Have to Live in a Tent Because We Can’t Afford Anywhere to Rent — it’s So Cold at Night We’ve Had to Send Our Children to Live With Relatives and There’s No End in Sight

A family have been torn apart over the rental crisis with the kids at relatives homes hours from their loving parents who are now living in a tent because they have been unable to get a home.

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Why 40,000 Aussies Have Been Stuck on JobSeeker for Ten or More Years Despite a Labour Shortage — After Recruiter Exposed Dole Bludgers for Deliberately Handing in Bogus Resumes to Rort Centrelink

Questions have been raised about why 40,000 Australians have been on JobSeeker benefits for 10 years or more when the nation is experiencing a chronic shortage of workers.

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Why Chinese Students in Australia Are Faking Being Kidnapped With Bizarre Trend on the Rise

Scammers are forcing Chinese students into taking photos of themselves as if they’ve been ‘kidnapped, tied up and gagged’ before sending them to their families for ransom money.

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Why Waleed Aly is Worried About Australia and Does Not Think it’s the Lucky Country Anymore: ‘It’s Such a Tragedy’

Waleed Aly said the emergence of a ‘working poor’ amid the escalating cost of living crisis meant Australia was no longer the ‘lucky country’.

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Brazilian Justice Will Punish Tech Companies That Criticize Government’s Censorship Law

Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, also the president of the country’s Superior Electoral Court, told tech platforms not to campaign against a proposed internet censorship bill.

If they do, he’ll punish them.

Moraes said that the tech companies were undermining Brazil’s democracy.

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Breaking: Yuma, Arizona Mayor Announces First Release of Migrants Into Community as Title 42 Expires

On Thursday, Yuma, Arizona Mayor Douglas Nicholls announced that local Border Patrol agents would be releasing migrants into the community for the first time in over two years.

The release, which is said to involve over 100 illegal migrants, comes as border regions brace for an anticipated influx of crossings with the lifting of Title 42 Thursday at midnight EST.

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Breaking: House Votes YES on Secure Border Act in 219-213 Vote, Includes E-Verify Requirement, With 2 Republicans Joining Democrats to Vote Against Border Security

On Thursday, House Representatives debated the Secure the Border Act of 2023 as Title 42 expired at the southern border, which lays out sweeping new requirements and restrictions for securing the southern border.

The bill passed 219-213. Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie and John Duarte voted along side all Democrat members against the bill.

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Democrats Admit They Want Illegal Immigrants in Order to Fill Low-Paid Labor Jobs in the US

Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) said on Wednesday during a Judicial Committee hearing that illegal immigrants are a necessary force for the United States economy as they fill low-wage labor jobs.

Rep. Johnson made the comments while reportedly debating proposed legislation introduced by House Republicans that would crack-down on illegal immigration.

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Exclusive: Brothers of Italy MEP Vincenzo Sofo Says the Meloni Government is Determined to Fight Illegal Immigration

MEP Vincenzo Sofo left Matteo Salvini’s League and joined Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy in early 2021, when the league joined Draghi’s grand coalition with the left. In an exclusive interview for Remix News, he explains that the line on immigration is the same as when Matteo Salvini was minister of the interior but the situation has changed, making things more difficult

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Florida AG Sues Biden to Block Migrant Influx After Title 42 Ends

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody sued the Biden administration in federal court Thursday to block the mass release of migrants into the US after the expiration of the Title 42 public health order.

Moody is seeking a temporary restraining order to stem the expected influx, arguing that Biden’s current parole policy mirrors a similar order that was struck down by a federal judge last month.

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Germany’s Elderly at Increasingly Higher Risk of Poverty as Country Spends €36 Billion on Migrants in 2023 Alone

As Germany vows to continue spending heavily on its liberal migration policy — more than €36 billion in 2023 alone — an increasing number of the country’s senior citizens are reported to be at a growing risk of poverty.

Federal government data published under a request from several Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmakers revealed that 28.1 percent of the German elderly are at risk of poverty, a figure that is higher than the EU average of 27.4 percent and far greater than its Western European neighbors of France (19.1 percent), Belgium (17.4 percent), and Luxembourg (9.3 percent).

This is 8.3 percentage points higher than before former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ultra-liberal policy of mass immigration came to power in 2005. The risk of poverty for German senior citizens thus rose by 40 percent under “Mutti” Merkel.

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Migrant Bus Arrives at Kamala Harris’ Doorstep Hours Before End of Title 42

A busload of migrants from Texas arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington, DC on Thursday hours before Title 42 was set to expire.

More than 30 migrants — men, women and children mostly from Venezuela — were dropped off outside the US Naval Observatory, which hosts the official residence of the vice president, according to NBC News.

The outlet reports that the bus was the second to arrive at the Naval Observatory in less than 24 hours, with the first vehicle dropping off almost 40 individuals.

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Migration Crackdowns More Popular in Europe, UK Than Anywhere Else on Earth, NGO Finds

Voters in Europe are more passionate about a crackdown on immigration than anywhere else in the world, and seem to be becoming more concerned as time goes on research shows.

Research undertaken by Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) the Alliance of Democracies — which regularly hosts major world leaders at its annual event in Copenhagen — has shown that people in nations across the EU are more passionate about controlling migration than anywhere else in the world.

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Poland Leads EU in Denying Entry to Non-EU Migrants

In 2022, entry into the territory of EU member states was refused to over 141,000 people, including at external borders and airports, according to data from Eurostat. Poland leads EU countries in refusing entry to non-EU migrants, with over 23,000 refusals issued in 2022, followed by Hungary with almost 16,000 refusals.

Almost 29,000 Ukrainians were among those refused entry to the EU, mostly due to exceeding the three-month period for a visa-free stay in a six-month period. The next largest numbers were recorded for citizens of Albania (15,630) and Russia (10,860).

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Ron DeSantis Supports Federal Reform to Deputize States, Allowing Them to Deport Illegal Aliens

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) this week said he would support a federal reform to essentially deputize states, allowing them to deport illegal aliens, thereby bypassing the Biden administration’s poor policies.

DeSantis on Wednesday announced his signing of Senate Bill 1718 — the latest action taken by the Sunshine State to combat the Biden administration’s poor border policies. In part, the legislation would essentially make Florida the largest state in the nation to do full E-Verify for employment.

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Salvini Says France Cannot Lecture Italy on Migration Policy

Tensions between Italy and France continue to escalate. Recently, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini canceled a visit to Paris scheduled for May 4, and now, Salvini wrote on Twitter that recent statements made by French politician Stéphane Séjourné are unacceptable and offensive after Séjourné called Rome’s migration policy unfair, inhumane and ineffective.

Matteo Salvini responded: “France cannot lecture anyone. Show respect for the Italian government.”

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Savanah Hernandez Reports: Border Crossers Seeking Asylum Given Court Date to Appear as Far Off as 2027

On the eve of Title 42 dropping, Turning Point USA and Post Millennial contributor Savanah Hernandez spoke with Laura Ingraham about the scene in the border town of El Paso, Texas.

“I just want to paint a picture for the people at home of what the city streets of El Paso currently look like. Now, behind me is actually a very cleaned-up version of what’s been allowed to prosper on the streets of El Paso over the past couple of weeks,” Hernandez told Ingraham.

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ACLU Sues Montana to Demand They Allow Child Sex Changes

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the state of Montana over a bill recently signed into law by the governor banning child sex changes. The lawsuit alleges that the bill, signed on April 28, violates the Montana Constitution which states “No person shall be denied equal protection of the laws.”

“The new law provides commonsense protections for Montana children — who can’t even enter into contracts or buy cigarettes or alcohol — from harmful, life-altering medications and surgeries. This lawsuit is an attempt by a leftist organization to push their radical, fact-free gender ideology on Montanans and circumvent the lawmaking process since they didn’t get their way in the election,” said Attorney General Austin Knudsen spokeswoman Emily Flower.

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Actress Charlize Theron Threatens to ‘F*** Up’ People Who Criticize Drag Queens at LGBTQ Telethon Opposing Laws Attempting to Prevent Performances in Front of Children

Actress Charlize Theron said she will ‘f*** up’ anyone who criticizes drag queens while speaking at an event opposing the recent series of laws seeking to prevent children from seeing drag.

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Anheuser-Busch’s Stock Downgraded Following Tanking Sales and Branding ‘Crisis’

Anheuser-Busch’s InBev stock has been downgraded by HSBC to ‘a stock to hold’ following Bud Light’s disastrous marketing campaign featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.

Managing director at HSBC’s global beverage sector Carlos Laboy told Yahoo News that there are “deeper problems than ABI admits” after the social media partnership with Mulvaney last month.

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Breaking: Trans Activist Who Attacked Anti-Child Sex Change Activist ‘Billboard Chris’ Identified as PSU Faculty Member

The person accused of stealing the phone of Chris Elston, also known as Billboard Chris, has been identified as Chrissa Mae Kalal, a transgender adjunct professor at Portland State University’s geography department.

Kalal attempted to snatch Elston’s phone during a stop earlier this month at the campus, where Elston stood wearing a sign saying “children cannot consent to puberty blockers” and was harassed and attacked by students.

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Canada: School Board Trustee Resigns in Protest of Policies Violating Parental Rights in Prince Edward Island

A school board trustee in Prince Edward Island (PEI) has resigned after attempts to raise concerns about the province’s gender identity guidelines fell on deaf ears, reports the CBC.

Patty van Diepen was elected last fall as trustee for Zone 7 but announced that she plans to step down because the board refused to address concerns raised by parents about the gender diversity guidelines in public schools.

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Colorado Mom Sues School After Secret Trans Group Recruits Her Daughter and Does ‘Unthinkable Things’

“When she got there, she very quickly learned it was actually a gender and sexuality awareness club,” Erin Lee told Fox News. “The art teacher had invited in an outside presenter into the classroom that day,” Lee continued. “And this woman did absolutely unthinkable things with the kids.”

“What you hear in here, stays in here,” the mystery groomer allegedly told the kids, suggesting that telling their parents wasn’t “safe.”

Lee further disclosed that the guest presenter informed the kids they were transgender if they didn’t feel totally comfy with their gender.

“She explained to my daughter that if she is not 100 percent comfortable in her female body, then she’s transgender,” Lee stated.

The secret speaker also told the kids they can refer to themselves as “queer” if they haven’t yet decided their gender.

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Female Field Hockey Player Sustains Neck Injuries After Playing Against Trans-Identified Male in Scotland

A biological male playing on a women’s mixed-age field hockey team allegedly injured a young female opponent at a match earlier this year in Scotland.

Greg MacDonald, who goes by “Anna” on social media, was identified by Reduxx as the transgender player in question.

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Gay California Prof Investigated by Madera Community College for Distributing Jeremy Boreing’s Gendered Chocolate Bars

A tenured history professor at Madera Community College in California is being investigated for handing out gendered chocolate bars.

David Richardson gave students “He/Him” chocolate bars with nuts and “She/Her” “nutless” chocolate, a clear joke nodding to basic human biology, being that males have testicles and women do not.

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Homeless Man Charged With Hate Crimes for Defecating on Pride Flags at Manhattan Eatery

A homeless man in New York City has been charged with two hate crimes after defecating on a Pride flag and using another to wipe his behind at a restaurant in Manhattan, reports the New York Daily News.

The incident occurred on the morning of April 15, when Fred Innocent, 45, walked into a tapas bar in the Upper West Side and took two rainbow flags from a table. According to the NYPD, he proceeded to defecate on one and then clean himself with the other.

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Leading Trans Doctor Insists Non-Verbal, Autistic Minors Can Consent to Sex Change, Can ‘Draw Their Feelings’

Some of the world’s leading experts in transgender healthcare convened in San Francisco last week where they shared their knowledge about how non-verbal autistic youth can communicate their transgender identities through drawing, and told anecdotes about the severely autistic children and adolescents they have set on the medical sex change pathway.

Psychiatrist Dan Karasic delivered a talk titled “Managing patients with co-occurring mental health diagnoses” at the San Francisco Trans Health Summit pre-conference event on May 5, and in the audience was none other than Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, a leading figure in the field of child sex changes, who shared baffling anecdotes about non-verbal children expressing their gender identities.

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Missouri Becomes Latest State to Ban Child Sex Changes, Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports

The state of Missouri passed two bills on Wednesday which ban child sex changes and biological men competing in women’s sports, making it the 16th state to enact laws that safeguard women and children.

One bill passed by the Missouri Republican-controlled House bans trans-identified minors from having access to puberty blockers, hormones, and sex change surgery. The bill also blocks prisoners and inmates from receiving surgical sex changes, and also prevents Medicaid from covering the cost of these gender-affirming surgeries in the entire state, ABC reports.

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Record Complaints Over Netflix Star Calling Royal Family ‘Terribly White’

British broadcaster ITV received a record number of Ofcom complaints in response to Queen Charlotte branding the Royal Family’s appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as “terribly white”.

Adjoa Andoh’s appearance on ITV’s coverage of King Charles III’s Coronation on Saturday during which she described the moment the Royal Family waved to thousands of citizens from the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the first time following the crowing of the King as being “terribly white” received 4,165 complaints from the public.

This, according to the Daily Mail, meant that the segment drew the largest number of complaints to the broadcasting regulator Ofcom for the year so far. Despite this, ITV has so far refused to address the moment or the public outrage that has ensued.

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‘Target Deserves the Bud Light Treatment’: Retailer Faces Backlash for Promoting Trans-Friendly Slogans on T-Shirts for Kids and Gender-Neutral Clothing in Its Pride Collection

Activist group Gays Against Groomers is calling for a boycott of Target after they began selling Pride clothes for children.

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UK: Sacked Christian Primary School Teacher Taking Legal Action Against Council After She Was Dismissed for Refusing to Use Eight-Year-Old Pupil’s Trans Pronouns

The Christian teacher claimed she was given a warning that acting on her ‘personal beliefs’ could be a ‘direct breach of GDPR and an act of direct discrimination’.

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‘We’re All Grown-ups!’ Tom Hanks Tells Publishers to Stop Literary Censorship by Rewriting Classic Novels

U.S. actor Tom Hanks has weighed into the ongoing literary censorship debate, vowing to boycott any book that has been re-written by publishers to avoid offense in the modern day.

In an interview broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday to promote his debut novel, the Forrest Gump star insisted that everyone is capable of being mature enough to appreciate the historical context during which literature has been published, and said people should be allowed to decide what they are offended by rather than publishing houses re-writing classic literary works.

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Will Gender Reassignment Surgeries for Minors be Banned in Poland? Catholic Think Tank Proposes New Legislation to Imprison Doctors for Up to 3 Years

The Catholic think tank Ordo Iuris is working on new legislation that would ban sex change operations for minors in Poland. Additionally, any doctor that was involved in a sex change operation on a minor would be sent to prison for up to three years. Currently, minors are permitted to perform a sex change operation with parental consent.

Ordo Iuris indicated that the catalyst for the legislation is the story of Lukasz Sakowski, a gay man who said he was manipulated by a transsexual into taking long-term hormone treatment, which he said left him with deep psychological and physical damage.

After left-wing MPs expressed criticism in a text they published in Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, the head of Ordo Iuris, Jerzy Kwasniewski, took to Twitter to defend his organization’s stance.

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Woke Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones Accused of Covering Up Sexual Assaults by Homeless Man

Infamous Democratic Tennessee House Rep. Justin Jones allegedly covered up two sexual assaults committed by a homeless man, according to a 2020 Facebook post made by fellow activist Jeneisha Harris and recently unearthed by journalist Matt Murphy.

In the post, Harris said Jones witnessed two women get assaulted during a protest, then told the victims not to report the incident to police out of fears it would shift the “narrative” of the event, which he was supporting.

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/12/2023

  1. Defecating on “pride” flags. Awesome.
    Just gave me a new business idea.
    Who wants to buy Loki brand Rainbow Toilet Paper? Rofl…

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    WARNING TO THE WORLD

    Here following statement by Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi
    probably corresponds most closely to what he said
    in his lecture on the big screen in Magdeburg
    during the Reformation 2.o.

    Distinguished microbiologist Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. joins Meryl Nass,
    M.D. alongside colleague Michael Palmer, M.D. to sound the alarm
    on genetic manipulation and the alteration of man through
    gene-based COVID vaccines.

    Bhakdi is currently facing two charges in Germany — one count of “incitement of the masses” and one count of “trivialization of the Holocaust.” His court hearing is scheduled for May 23, 2023.
    If convicted, Prof. Bhakdi could be sentenced to two years in prison
    plus fines — but that does not mean he’ll stop boldly telling the truth.

    https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/dr-sucharit-bhakdis-warning-to-the-world/

  3. Post-war Ukraine “must open itself up to workers from the East”

    Another series of bad news from Ukraine, from Igor Popov, from the Ukrainian Future Institute:

    – Several million Ukrainians will not return to Ukraine, including about a million children
    – there may not be enough workers to rebuild Ukraine
    -Forecast that there may be over 10 million Ukrainians abroad (including the occupied territories)
    – the expert confirms what I have been writing for a long time, refugees, especially those with children, are integrating and will not want to return to UKR due to the economic situation.
    -Ukraine should prepare a support package encouraging the return of refugees, but it will lose the race for Ukrainians with Poland and Germany, especially when it comes to Ukrainians from the east and south
    -Ukraine must open up to workers from the East
    – the main sources of migration are: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Central Asia
    – in the plans to attract millions of immigrants, a plan that can be implemented if there is a global recession and global warming
    -Ukraine, in connection with migration plans, must prepare for problems related to multiculturalism.

    https://twitter.com/DrabinskiAriel/status/1657284868252872707

    • It won’t happen.

      What was once known as Ukraine will be divided up among Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania once the West is no longer able to support the war and the Cokehead of Keev sues for peace assuming the neo-nazis in his regime don’t off him first.

      Even if one is against the Russians and doesn’t view their grievances as legitimate, it would be wise to pray for this outcome as the globalists and money-grubbing vultures like Blackrock are already circling above the carcass while the western MIC is drooling and licking its chops at the thought of increased military spending, new western bases throughout Eastern European and Ukrainian lands, and perpetual war to do the same to the Russian Federation. And don’t even get me started about the influx of hordes more of dark-skinned orcs to colonize the former Ukraine. Or perhaps supporters of sending more money and weapons to Elensky like the idea of gangs of african and mid-eastern orcs rutting and raping Slavic women and extinguishing Slavic genes? Certainly that’s worth it to get rid of Putin, right?

    • Ha. The Russians have already brought thousands of Tajiks, Uzbeks and Kirghiz to the eastern territories. For construction work and digging trenches.
      Migrant rights activist Valentina Chupik (who left for Erbana, Illinois) yells: migrants, don’t agree, minefields will be cleared with your bodies!

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    LOOKING BACK

    What was known 18 months ago.
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    Is the plan to reduce the world’s population?

    by Lars Bern – November 16, 2021

    In 2020, when the corona epidemic raged at its worst and no one had yet been vaccinated with the emergency-approved gene preparations launched towards the end of the year, mortality from all causes was largely normal in most Western countries. This was a clear indication that the coronavirus epidemic was about as dangerous as a regular seasonal flu.

    To create a picture of a serious pandemic, the medical establishment used so-called PCR tests. These tests are not a diagnostic tool, but only a method to find very small DNA fragments in a sample, which is very useful in research and forensic cases.

    To enhance the analysis of very small occurrences of DNA sequences, the PCR method uses a technique to replicate what is found so that it can be analyzed chemically. Replication is achieved by running about twenty amplification cycles, with the track found becoming stronger and stronger. If you continue to run more than twenty cycles, the risk of false positives increases rapidly and becomes completely dominant when you reach more than thirty cycles.

    Through a massive testing of the population with PCR tests that were run up to forty cycles in connection with the flu outbreak, medical professionals obtained very high infection rates that were then used as the basis for the draconian so-called infection control measures around the world. This helped whip up fear-mongering about the supposed pandemic and paved the way for the introduction of mass vaccination with the experimental gene preparations in early 2021.

    The systematically false PCR tests allowed the medical establishment to designate almost all deaths from cancer, heart attacks, etc. as “Covid deaths” if the patients received the false PCR test run on too many cycles. A person who died with a false positive was counted as a Covid death. Italian medical authorities later corrected Italy’s COVID-19 death figures to include only people who died from COVID-19. The number of COVID-19 deaths dropped from 130 000 to 3 783. In other words, in Italy, the “pandemic” was created by overestimating Covid deaths by over 30 times!

    We can now see that the excess mortality rate in the current year is rising sharply in many Western countries, which should be unexpected if these so-called vaccines worked as a protection against the COVID-19 flu. What is frightening is that statistics from Scotland, for example, clearly show that excess mortality occurs about six months after the start of injections in different age groups. Recent data from the UK Office for National Statistics shows that people who have been double-injected die from all causes at a rate six times higher than the unvaccinated.

    This is a clear indication that these injections harm rather than protect.

    The question we have to ask ourselves is – what is this whole so-called pandemic really about?

    We know that the NIH (US National Institute of Health) has been funding gain of function research on viruses at the University of North Carolina and then at the Wuhan China lab with US money for at least a decade. Today, we can be sure that the SARS-CoV-2 virus with its spike proteins is a laboratory-produced virus. We now know that the vaccines do not provide long-term protection against this virus. We know that they inject a gene that produces a pathogen in the body. We know from lots of side effect reports that this pathogen causes death and disease.

    There are rows of known facts on the table. Yet the medical establishment continues the campaign to force universal “vaccination” at all costs with a largely useless “vaccine” that is far more dangerous than Covid-19 for the vast majority of people. This represents complete dishonesty (or is it sheer stupidity?) on the part of the medical and political establishment.

    An alternative explanation could be that the real agenda is hidden from the wider public and even from our often completely ignorant politicians.

    A South African researcher has recently launched the hypothesis that the virus being scared is not the dangerous pathogen at all, but that it is just a vector to infect people so that they ingest the really dangerous pathogen, which are the spike proteins that the medical men in their labs have placed on the capsule of the virus particle via gain of function manipulation.
    American researcher Dr. David Martin has mapped the entire process over the last decade in the development of the virus particle and the supposed vaccines that were later launched. He has documented this through the series of patents that this development has left behind. His documentation shows that the genetic preparations were developed even before the supposed Corona outbreak. This suggests that the whole process was planned and that the launch of the gene preparations was postponed until they had succeeded in sufficiently scaring public opinion and politicians through false infection analyses. The aim is not to stop the epidemic, but to provide a pretext for infecting the entire world population with the extremely dangerous and harmful spike proteins. In the Western world, this goal has largely been achieved.

    Recent research shows that the effect of being infected by spike proteins is to cause cardiovascular damage, break down the immune system and reduce the ability of cells to repair DNA damage by 90%. In this way, all disease processes in the population will accelerate as the natural protective mechanisms are disrupted by the spike proteins.

    Mortality will increase but not primarily because of the coronavirus but because of a range of other diseases. The medical establishment will throw up its hands and swear that the rapid increase in mortality has nothing to do with the gene injections. Exactly what we now see happening in Scotland and elsewhere.

    The South African scientist says that when you realize the plan, you understand that they intend to kill most of us. It’s no coincidence that the hyper-billionaires, led by Bill Gates, who are pushing for mass vaccination are also heavily involved in the eugenics movement that wants to decimate the world’s population. That is the purpose of the spike protein in the “vaccine”, he says.

    Note that there are a lot of health professionals who have seen the effects of the “vaccine” on people who prefer to lose their jobs rather than be “vaccinated” themselves. The medical industrial establishment in the Western world does not care that the result of the campaign is a dramatic reduction in medical staff but continues to push the campaign. This is a sign that the South African researcher is probably right.

    Despite all this, there are some encouraging signs in the fact that country after country has stopped the various so-called vaccines and now even Taiwan has stopped Pfizer’s product after its testing was found to be based on fraudulent research.

    More will follow.

    Lars Bern

    Original publication:
    https://anthropocene.live/2021/11/11/ar-planen-att-minska-jordens-befolkning

    • That politicians and their elite masters are not dying of “suddenly” is empirical proof that there’s more to the vaxx than meets the eye. I would be shocked if any of these top 1 percenters ever got the real vaxx.

      That the elites want to eliminate most of us isn’t really debatable. The part I have difficulty discerning is just exactly who do they want to be remaining when their schemes have played out? Because the populations which are currently breeding like rodents are also the same populations which have very low vaxx participation. Basically every country with enhanced amounts of melanin hasn’t fallen for the vaxx scam. But these populations are also the most useless when it comes to building modern society, keeping industrial production going, and creating new technology, inventions, and life extension advancements.

      Again, this begs the question of why all the effort to kill off those who one would think the elites would find most useful to keeping them living in the luxury they’ve become accustomed to?

      • I think they may be confident that AI will take care of their technical requirements. So maybe they envision the remaining humans as being the elites (themselves) and a lot of disposable peons to act as waiters, busboys, gardeners, housekeepers, and prostitutes. And lots of little children to be exploited for their sexual needs, of course. Then robots to do all the tasks that require technical skills.

        • Perhaps it would still be possible to get rid of even more of the old, wasteful clientele.
          So far, the success has been gratifyingly large.

          Author:
          Public Health Agency of Sweden

          quote:

          The Swedish Public Health Agency sees weaknesses in Sweden’s current infection control legislation, in society’s ability to create conditions for good health in the entire population, and in the ability to protect the entire population against serious health threats. This is what CEO Karin Tegmark Wisell writes in a debate article published in Dagens Nyheter on May 12, 2023.

          More people aged 80 years and older need a refill dose of vaccine against covid-19
          Published: April 25, 2023

          To avoid serious illness and death, it is important that everyone who is recommended to be vaccinated against COVID-19 does so. So far, less than half of people aged 80 and older have been vaccinated with the recommended booster dose since March 1. The Swedish Public Health Agency is now drawing the attention of people over 80 years of age, or living in special housing for the elderly, to the urgency of vaccination.

          Vaccination against COVID-19 of persons 18 years and older with severe immunodeficiency – A guidance on vaccination schedule and follow-up of immune response
          Year of publication: 2023

          This guidance is aimed at physicians responsible for patients aged 18 years and older with severe immunodeficiency and has been developed in consultation with the Swedish Medical Products Agency and the National Board of Health and Welfare.

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