A church in southern Poland was vandalized in broad daylight, and statues of the Blessed Mother and Saint Anthony were destroyed. Meanwhile, the general public supports Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s call to reinstate the death penalty for the most heinous crimes.
In other news, 900 migrants arrived in New York City in a single day. Mayor Eric Adams warned that the crisis will cost the city more than $4 billion.
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Battered by Inflation, 90 Million Americans Struggle Paying Bills as Credit Card Usage Spikes
A large swath of American consumers are facing financial hardship as they grapple with elevated living costs, record-high credit card use, and two years of negative real wage growth. This perfect storm could decimate financially fragile households in the next downturn.
As many as 89.1 million American adults (or about 38.5%) were found to experience some form of difficulty in covering expenses between April 26 and May 8, according to Bloomberg, citing new data from the Household Pulse Survey. This is up from 34.4% in 2022 and 26.7% during the same period in 2021.
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Joe Biden Leaves Kamala Harris in Charge of Debt Ceiling Negotiations
President Joe Biden left for overseas, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris to be briefed about the continuing debt ceiling talks.
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900 Migrants Arrived in NYC in One Day, Crisis Will Cost Over $4B, Adams Warns
Mayor Eric Adams said Friday that 900 migrants arrived in New York City in a single day this week — and warned that the influx of new arrivals will cost over $4 billion.
During an appearance on Caribbean Power Jam Radio, the exasperated mayor said an average of 300 to 500 migrants are arriving in the city each day.
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A Massachusetts federal court judge ordered Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to remain in federal custody in connection with accusations he leaked top-secret Pentagon documents on social media and allegedly bragged about doing so.
Teixeira wore an orange, jail-issued uniform and shackles as he appeared in a Worcester, Massachusetts, federal court, where Magistrate Judge David Hennessy granted prosecutors’ motion to detain him, according to local news station WPRI.
Hennessy said Teixeira could further obstruct justice and is a flight risk.
The 21-year-old accused leaker has remained jailed since he was arrested last month.
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The Anti-Defamation League ran an “extensive, multi-dimensional counterintelligence operation” complete with “undercover agents with code names” to destroy the influential anti-communist John Birch Society, internal ADL documents reveal.
George Washington University professor Matthew Dallek was given access to “some” of the ADL’s records on the spying operation from their historical archive for his new book, “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.”
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Apple Bans ChatGPT Use by Employees Over Fears of Data Leaks
Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph,com,
An internal document from the tech giant said that while it develops its own AI technology, employee usage of outside AI chatbots will be restricted…
Big Tech giant Apple has restricted company usage of the widely popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT over fears its sensitive data could be compromised.
A report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that an internal document to Apple employees had banned the usage of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and similar AI tools while the company was developing its own AI technology.
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And so, the career arc of Biden’s colorful (literally) “nuclear waste guru”, Sam Brinton, has come to an end after the the bisexual, suitcase stealing they/them was arrested Wednesday night for reportedly being a “fugitive from justice,” according to law enforcement officials.
Brinton’s “career” at Biden’s Department of Energy as a nuclear waste official, crashed after he was accused twice last year of stealing airport luggage, then found guilty in both incidents. Of course, he was not given jail time in either case; one can only imagine a Soros-judge was involved in both.
According to official records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Brinton was taken into custody on Wednesday night at his home in Rockville, Md., in suburban Washington, D.C.
While authorities did not provide further details about the arrest, they said it was led by Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police, the lead law enforcement agency for both Washington, D.C., area airports, and that Brinton is being held on a no-bond status awaiting an extradition hearing.
It wasn’t immediately clear if he was held in a men’s or women’s holding area.
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BLM’s Revenue Dropped 88% in 2022 After Self-Enrichment Scandals, Infighting Over Money
Donations to Black Lives Matter have dropped off significantly since the organization’s peak in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, with 2022 representing one of the left-wing group’s worst revenue years by far.
According to records recently obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the Black Lives Matter Global Network raised only $9.3 million in the “fiscal year ending in June 2022” which is an “88 percent decrease from the year prior.”
It’s a stark reduction in earnings compared to the money BLM was able to raise in the wake of the police killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd in 2020. That year the organization was able to raise $80 million amid anti-police brutality protests and demonstrations that often devolved into civil unrest.
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BofA Gave FBI Access to Jan. 6 Bank Records Without Customers’ Knowledge: Whistleblowers
Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times,
Whistleblowers told Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee that gave Jan. 6 connected bank records to the FBI without customers’ knowledge or consent.
In their testimony, whistleblowers claimed that the FBI had become “enveloped in politicization” and made several claims of “serious abuses” over an extended period of time.
Among those abuses, whistleblowers said that Bank of America (BOA) had transferred information to the FBI on transactions that took place in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Customers were not informed of this data transfer.
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DeSantis Says He is One of Only Three ‘Credible’ 2024 Options, Chances for Trump ‘Not Great’: Report
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he is one of only three “credible” options in contention for the White House in 2024, and that former President Trump’s chances at winning were “not great,” according to a report by The New York Times.
“You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing,” DeSantis reportedly told donors on a call organized by Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting him. “Biden, Trump and me.”
“And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president — Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t going to change their view of him,” he reportedly said.
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DMAX Shooting in Moraine: Feud Over Woman Ends With Man Dead, Suspect in Stable Condition
A shooting at the DMAX plant Thursday that killed a Dayton man and injured another stemmed from a feud involving a woman, Moraine police said.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the deceased at 28-year-old Jeffrey James Allen III, Moraine police Sgt. Andy Parish said during a press conference Friday.
Two other people were injured in the shooting, including the suspect, who shot himself in the head. He had surgery Thursday night and is in stable, but critical condition, Parish said.
A second shooting victim had non-life-threatening injuries. Two other people reported injuries unrelated to the shooting.
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Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor Trade Jabs in Andy Warhol Copyright Case
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan appeared to take umbrage at Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s majority opinion in a copyright case involving Andy Warhol and Prince, telling readers in her dissent that she would trust their “good judgment” rather than counter her colleague’s “fistfuls of comeback footnotes.”
The shot at Kagan’s fellow liberal came in a lengthy second footnote of her dissent, which several Supreme Court observers found “interesting” and “noteworthy.”
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Elon Musk has dropped a bombshell on Twitter as evidence mounts up against the FBI regarding the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Musk called attention to a new report from investigative reporter Michael Shellenberger on Twitter.
Shellenberger’s report states: “FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants.”
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FBI Dropped 4 Probes Into Hillary Clinton, Family’s Non-Profit Ahead of 2016 Election: Durham Report
The FBI had at least four open criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton that were suddenly dropped in the months before the 2016 presidential election, special counsel John Durham’s recently released report shows.
The bombshell report released by Durham — which concluded that the bureau’s probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia was “seriously flawed” — also shed light on the quashed probes.
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FBI Improperly Searched Data on Jan. 6 Suspects, BLM Defendants
Officials at the FBI improperly searched a foreign intelligence database as they investigated suspects in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots and more than 100 people arrested in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in June 2020, according declassified court opinions released Friday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
One FBI analyst also looked up information on more than 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate whose campaign was, in the view of the analyst, a possible “target of foreign influence,” but a subsequent review found only eight of the individuals had potential foreign links, according to the documents. (Officials who briefed reporters on Friday said the candidate, who was running against an incumbent, was ultimately not elected to Congress.)
All of the incidents took place before a range of internal changes were instituted by the FBI beginning in summer of 2021.
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FBI Whistleblower Testimony Exposes ‘Federal Involvement’ in Jan 6
Explosive testimonies from FBI whistleblowers before congressional lawmakers have exposed the staggering extent that the federal agency has been weaponized against the American people.
Several whistleblowers have testified before congressional hearings regarding corruption at the highest levels of law enforcement.
According to the whistleblowers’ testimony, the events that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were instigated by “potential federal involvement.”
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Hunter Biden is dragging his feet and “playing games” in his child support case — a “hallmark Biden litigation tactic,” the mother of his out-of-wedlock daughter claims in new court papers.
President Biden’s 53-year-old son has been trying to lower his $20,000-a-month child support payments to former stripper Lunden Roberts — with whom he shares 4-year-old daughter Navy Joan Roberts — a move that Roberts has vowed to fight.
“Mr. Biden does not want to disclose his income and assets, says that he is somewhat financially destitute, while he lives on a mountain overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, has Secret Service protection, and enjoys his time abroad (which he has also lied about in discovery),” Roberts’ lawyer Clinton Lancaster wrote in court papers Friday.
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Lawmaker Demands Pulitzer Prize Awarded to NYT, WaPo be Rescinded Following Durham Revelations
EXCLUSIVE: One Republican lawmaker is officially calling for the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2018 award given to The New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on the now-debunked Russia collusion hoax.
In a Wednesday letter to the board, Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, called for the prize to be stripped from the two liberal outlets, citing the findings of Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on the FBI’s probe that found the agency, as well as the Department of Justice, “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law” when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has denounced power-hungry tyrannical leaders across the country over efforts to strip the American people of their freedoms in recent years.
Gorsuch issued a fiery rebuke in a statement regarding the Arizona v. Mayorkas decision.
Arizona v. Mayorkas is one of the cases dealing with “Title 42 orders.”
On Thursday, the court issued a procedural order in the case, and Justice Gorsuch wrote a statement regarding that decision.
It began with laying out the “tortured procedural history,” and noting the problems posed by nationwide injunctions.
Gorsuch then continued by blasting leaders across the country for abusing their emergency powers during the pandemic, holding nothing back.
“Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” Justice Gorsuch said.
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On May 18, two US senators introduced the Digital Platform Commission Act of 2023, a bill that seeks to give powers to a new federal agency that will set up a council to regulate AI, in the context of social platforms.
More precisely, the new body — the Federal Digital Platform Commission — would “rule” on what’s termed as enforceable “behavioral codes,” and among those staffing it will be “disinformation experts.”
The move by the two Democratic senators — Michael Bennet and Peter Welch — seems to have come in concert with congressional testimony delivered by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, since the bill was presented shortly afterwards, and backs Altman’s idea to form a new federal agency of the kind.
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Rand Paul: Elon Musk Will Go Down as a Historic Champion for Free Speech
Senator Rand Paul praised Elon Musk Wednesday for standing up for free speech, predicting that the Twitter owner will be recorded as a key figure in history in the fight against censorship.
Referring to Musk’s compelling take down of a CNBC hack earlier this week, Paul noted “Thank God for someone who can still speak their mind and won’t take some guff off a journalist who tells him he can’t speak his mind.”
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Salman Rushdie Makes First in-Person Appearance Since Stabbing, Honored at Pen America Gala
Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award, just nine months being after being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized.
“It’s nice to be back — as opposed to not being back, which was also a possibility. I’m glad the dice rolled this way,” Rushdie, 75, told hundreds gathered at the American Museum of Natural History, where he received a standing ovation.
It was his first in-person appearance at a public event since he was attacked last August while on stage at a literary festival in Western New York.
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San Francisco’s Proposed Reparations Plan Could Cost City $100 Billion: Report
San Francisco’s proposed reparation payments to eligible Black residents could cost the city over $100 billion dollars, the New York Times reported Friday.
San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee unveiled its recommendation in January, arguing that the city owed millions of dollars in compensation to Black residents for decades of discrimination.
“The $5 million payments could top $100 billion — many times the $14 billion annual budget in San Francisco — and London Breed, the city’s mayor, has not committed to cash reparations,” the Times said.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday handed big tech companies, including Google and Twitter, legal wins in a pair of lawsuits alleging that the companies should be liable for ISIS attacks because of content the terror organization promoted using their platforms.
The companies were sued separately by the families of the victims. In the case against Twitter, Justice Clarence Thomas authored a unanimous opinion saying that the families did not provide sufficient evidence to establish that the companies should be held liable for aiding and abetting.
“Defendants allegedly knew that ISIS was using their platforms but failed to stop it from doing so,” the ruling states. “Plaintiffs accordingly seek to hold Facebook, Twitter, and Google liable for the terrorist attack that allegedly injured them. We conclude, however, that plaintiffs’ allegations are insufficient to establish that these defendants aided and abetted ISIS in carrying out the relevant attack.”
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A local resident told the Tampa City Council Thursday that the cost of reparations in the city should be “$3 million per person.”
“All this nonsense, homelessness and all this other garbage you all talk about. Police violence and all this stuff — don’t nobody care about that,” the man said.
“We care about our reparations. And we have to put White people on notice that we want our reparations. Our foreparents and us didn’t work for free and [get] underpaid and all this nonsense and the White folks get away with it,” the man added,” while “they talk about the great city they’re building.”
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Target CEO Warns Democrats: Rising Crime and Retail Theft Cost Company $500 Million This Year
The chief executive officer of American retail corporation Target has warned Democrats that rising crime and retail theft are devastating the industry.
Target Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell said high crime rates in Democrat-led cities are hitting the company’s profits and may lead to more store closures across the country.
Cornell said the problem is getting worse while blue cities turn a blind eye to crime.
In Chicago, one man was arrested three times for shoplifting in three weeks.
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The Russiagate Players Got Rich and Escaped Consequences
by Daniel Greenfield
Peter Strzok, the man of a thousand sneers, reacted to the release of the Durham report by screenshotting the report’s footnote of his own book and recommending people buy it.
Despite being fired from the FBI, the disgraced former agent got a book deal, “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump” as well as co-hosting a podcast with ‘Mueller, She Wrote’s Allison Gill and scoring an adjunct professorship at Georgetown University.
The Russiagate investigation has been discredited, but the Russiagate grift is alive and well. And none of the participants have any regrets or expect there to be any consequences.
Strzok and fellow agent Lisa Page, with whom he had an affair, are suing for wrongful termination from the FBI, and they’ve been fighting to depose former President Trump.
Their former boss, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe secured a settlement for his benefits including back pay from the Biden Justice Department. There’s little doubt that Attorney General Merrick Garland will eventually arrange for a settlement as a reward for Strzok and Page…
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Trump 7 Points Ahead of Biden in Head-to-Head Matchup: Poll
Former President Donald Trump stands well ahead of his old rival, President Joe Biden, in a hypothetical 2024 rematch between the two, a recent poll suggests.
Trump claimed 47% support among registered voters in the latest Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, whereas Biden claimed 40% support, according to The Hill. A further 13% were undecided between them.
In further bad news for Biden, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis managed to tie the president in a one-on-one matchup, with 42% support each. Biden narrowly led former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by a 40% to 38% margin.
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Tucker Trounces Fox in Favorability Ratings Rout
Tucker Carlson has a 63 point lead in popularity over his former employer, Fox News, according to a new survey from consulting agency Change Research.
Carlson’s net favorability among Republicans is currently at +59, while Fox News’ is sitting at —4, a difference of 63 points
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The allegations against Kouri Richins were raised in an amended court document filed on Thursday that led to the postponement of her detention hearing.
A Utah woman who allegedly spiked her husband’s drink with fentanyl and then wrote a children’s book about grief after he died is now accused of secretly taking out nearly $2 million in life insurance policies on him.
The allegations against the woman, Kouri Richins, were raised in an amended court document filed on Thursday that led to the postponement of a detention hearing originally scheduled for Friday.
Richins, 33, is charged with aggravated murder and three counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute following her husband Eric Richins’ death on March 4, 2022.
He was found unresponsive in the bedroom of their home in Kamas, about 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, after she made him a Moscow Mule to celebrate a business deal. An autopsy and a toxicology report found that he died from a fentanyl overdose, according to a probable cause statement.
Prosecutors said Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into the cocktail.
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Video: Obama Pines for Old Days When Media Narrative Was Accepted by All as “A Common Set of Facts”
Former President Barack Obama said during an interview Tuesday with CBS News that thing he is “most worried about” is the that the mainstream media narrative of events is no long accepted by many Americans as “a common set of facts.”
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Video: Shrieky Purple Haired Democrat Makes a Complete Fool of Herself at FBI Whistleblower Hearing
A Democrat made a complete fool of herself at yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee government weaponisation hearing in the House by attempting to pin some random person’s retweet on an FBI whistleblower as evidence that he supported a January 6th insurgency.
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Washington Post Forced to Issue Several Corrections on ‘Russian Bot’ Stories Following Twitter Files
The Washington Post issued a series of corrections on stories published during the Russiagate saga, a direct result of reporting from the Twitter Files by independent journalist Matt Taibbi.
In January, Taibbi drew attention to Hamilton 68, a “dashboard” that purportedly monitored Russian bot activity and was frequently cited by top Democrats and the media in the height of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. But behind the scenes, Twitter executives trashed Hamilton 68 and deliberated over whether they should publicly rebuke the program.
“In layman’s terms, the Hamilton 68 barely had any Russians. In fact, apart from a few RT accounts, it’s mostly full of ordinary Americans, Canadians, and British,” Taibbi wrote at the time. “It was a scam. Instead of tracking how ‘Russia’ influenced American attitudes, Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming.”
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A straphanger who witnessed the fatal subway confrontation between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely earlier this month called Penny a “hero” for restraining the homeless man before his death.
The 66-year-old woman, who asked not to be identified, also said she’d testify on behalf of Penny, 24, who was charged last week with second-degree manslaughter over the deadly encounter.
The witness told The Post that Neely, 30, went on an explosive tirade just before his caught-on-camera death, telling people he was willing to “kill a motherf—er” and “[take] a bullet” and go to jail.
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Waterskiing Champion Micky Geller Dies ‘Suddenly’ at 18
Waterskiing champion Michael Arthur “Micky” Geller has “died suddenly” at just 18 years old, his team has announced.
Micky Geller was a freshman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
He was a top-ranked Canadian water skier from Ontario, according to Water Ski Canada.
His team said in a statement that Geller “died suddenly.”
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Diplomatic tensions between Hungary and Ukraine, already suffering from strained relations, are coming to a head after a U.S. intelligence leak indicated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to blow up an oil pipeline supplying Hungary’s energy needs, with the Hungarian foreign minister calling the plan a “threat against Hungary’s sovereignty.”
“In the last few days, news has emerged that the president of Ukraine has threatened to detonate the Druzhba oil pipeline to Hungary. We are all aware that Hungary is currently supplied with oil through this very pipeline. If no more oil were to come to Hungary through this pipeline, then Hungary’s oil supply would simply not be physically possible,” Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó said in a video posted Wednesday.
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Attack on Church in Southern Poland Shakes Local Community
Unknown perpetrators vandalized the interior of the church in the village of Malnia in southern Poland, causing significant damage. The statues of the Blessed Mother and Saint Anthony were destroyed in broad daylight, around 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday; the interior of the church was also vandalized.
“This attack is a strong blow to our community,” said Father Hubert Sklorz, the parish priest. “The statue of Mary is a village statue carried in processions, when devotions are held, and the parishioners have become accustomed to it. It is very painful for us all.”
Father Sklorz told the Tvp.info news portal that the crime scene had already been inspected and that he reported the incident to the police.
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The leader of Austria’s conservative Freedom Party (FPÖ), Herbert Kickl, has criticized President Alexander van der Bellen’s (Greens) proposal to send Austrian mine clearance teams to Ukraine, claiming such a move would be tantamount to Austria joining the war.
Van der Bellen proposed utilizing the Austrian army to clear Russian mines in the war-torn country during a Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, which ended on Wednesday.
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EU Denies Von Der Leyen Pressured Ukraine to Cut Hungary’s Russion Oil Supply
The European Commission has rejected allegations that President Ursula von der Leyen suggested to Ukraine that it should stop the flow of Russian crude oil through the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine.
“This is a fake news story. President von der Leyen has never been in contact with the CEO mentioned in the articles and has never proposed any action on the Friendship pipeline to anyone,” the European Commission representation in Hungary told opposition news portal Telex. This was their reply when asked whether von der Leyen had indeed advised the Ukrainians to stop the Friendship pipeline to Hungary, which supplies Russian crude oil to the Central European country.
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In an exclusive interview, Francesco Giubilei, who spoke to Remix News at CPAC Hungary 2023 as the director of the Italian conservative think tank Nazione Futura, said: “Bringing back freedom of speech in this present cultural moment would be in itself a kind of revolution.”
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Poland is ready to transfer the promised MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, but some of these planes are currently engaged in air policing missions for NATO, which may mean some delay in their transfer, Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed on Wednesday.
Speaking after attending a Council of Europe summit for heads of state in Reykjavik, Duda claimed that Poland was “in the absolute vanguard of states” supporting Ukraine militarily with only the U.S. and Britain doing more. However, he admitted that Poland only has a small number of F-16 fighter planes, and Poland’s assistance regarding these was likely to be concentrated on the training of pilots.
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Germany’s President Backs Lowering Voting Age to 16 and Introducing Longer Terms in Office
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he is open to lowering the voting age for federal elections to 16.
In the wake of the demographic shift, he believes it is “not only necessary but imperative to think about balancing the weight of younger people by lowering the voting age to 16 in federal elections as well,” he said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Wednesday.
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New Demands Urge UK to Criminalize Even More Online Speech
A group of Tory peers led by Baroness Morgan have suggested an amendment to the UK’s already-dystopian Online Safety Bill to crack down on speech in order to “protect” girls and women from online abuse.
But who will protect girls and woman from government overreach?
Speaking to The Telegraph, Baroness Morgan said that the online world is still a “wild west” for girls and women and that the Online Safety Bill presented a chance to correct that.
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General Waldemar Skrzypczak questions the version of events of Polish Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak, who blamed an operational commander of the Polish Armed Forces for failing to fulfill his duty after a stray Russian missile landed on Polish territory in December last year.
Skrzypczak, when asked in an interview by Dorzeczy.pl portal about why Piotrowski failed to inform the defense minister about the incident, reacted with disbelief.
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Poles Support PM Morawiecki’s Call to Reinstate the Death Penalty for Most Serious Crimes
More Poles than not agree with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s stance on reinstating the death penalty for the most serious crimes, a recent poll by United Survey for the Wirtualna Polska news portal has revealed.
The case of 8-year-old Kamil from Czestochowa, who suffered abuse leading to his tragic death, sparked renewed discussion on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Poland. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has strongly advocated for stricter punishments and expressed his belief that the penalties for violent offenders are currently too lenient.
In mid-May, Morawiecki emphasized the need for significantly harsher penalties for “monsters capable of intentionally taking another person’s life,” and maintained his support for reinstating the death penalty for crimes involving extreme cruelty and premeditation, despite its abolition in Europe.
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Polish family businesses are experiencing remarkable success with 88 percent of respondents reporting growth in the last fiscal year, according to the Family Business Survey by global advisory company PwC.
In contrast, only 5 percent of family-run companies reported a decline in sales.
The results indicate a significant improvement compared to 2021 when 70 percent of Polish businesses showed growth and 10 percent reported a decline. This data, however, was largely skewed by the long-lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Russian Cyber Attack on Poland? Media Sites Scramble to Restore Services
Polish cybersecurity services spent Thursday helping news portals that had been attacked by Russian hackers restore their web services.
Several news and information sites were affected by what appeared to be an orchestrated cyberattack by Russian groups. Among those attacked were conservative portals wpolityce.pl, niezalezna.pl, and dorzeczy.pl. Several portals reported problems for users in opening their web pages.
According to the Polish government’s cybersecurity team, the hacking attack hit the wpolityce.pl portal the hardest, but other sites were also affected.
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UK Police Invaded the Privacy of 136,000 People at the Coronation to Get One Arrest
The coronation is over — long live the coronation.
At least, when some of its more controversial — simply societal and political — consequences are concerned.
We’re talking technology, and how it was used when the UK formally got its new king. And what the consequences of the UK police wearing facial recognition devices on them, might spell out for the future.
There are two separate things to underline here: one, the tech is very controversial. Two — here’s one reason. The police invading the privacy of 136,000 punters (by scanning their faces) who gathered for the ceremony in London — only actually got one arrest. Out of the entire crowd.
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UK: Auriol Grey: Huntingdon Cyclist Killer Fails in Appeal Bid
A pedestrian whose actions killed a 77-year-old cyclist when she was angered by her being on the pavement has failed in an appeal against her sentence.
Auriol Grey, 49, shouted an expletive and gestured in an “aggressive way” towards Celia Ward, who fell into the path of a car in Huntingdon in 2020.
In March, Grey, of Bradbury Place, was jailed for three years after being convicted of manslaughter.
Court of Appeal judges dismissed her application for leave to appeal.
The two women passed each other in opposite directions on the pavement of the Cambridgeshire town’s ring road, during the afternoon of 20 October.
In CCTV footage, Grey could be heard shouting at Mrs Ward, a retired midwife, to “get off the [expletive] pavement”.
Appeal judges said Mrs Ward then “collided” with Grey and fell into the road, where she was hit by a car.
Her legal team had sought for her sentence to be reduced and suspended.
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UK: Furious Man Shoves Just Stop Oil Eco-Warrior to Ground at London Protest
A man has been caught on camera throwing a Just Stop Oil activist to the ground as the eco-group slowly marched down a east London street on Friday.
The motorist was filmed ripping banners out of the hands of the activists, and snatching phones before hurling them away, as he took on the protesting group.
He turns to one activist and pushes her to the ground, as others continue to march, amid the din of horns blasting from the built-up traffic behind them.
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WHO Raises Alarm as Deadly Heart Failure Soars in Babies
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an emergency alert as cases of deadly myocarditis are soaring in babies.
According to the alert from the WHO, the United Kingdom is suffering a huge spike in “unusual” heart failure among infants.
There was an “increase in severe myocarditis in neonates associated with enterovirus infection in Wales” between June 2022 and March 2023, the alert reveals.
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Iran Defies US Over Executions, Putting Three Democracy Protesters to Death
JERUSALEM—The Islamic Republic of Iran continued its killing spree of protesters seeking to create a democracy despite a plea on Friday from the Biden administration to “not carry out these executions.”
The Iranian-regime controlled Mizan News Agency, which is affiliated with the country’s opaque judiciary, reported that Saleh Mirehashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were executed on May 19 in a prison the city of Isfahan.
The Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said that there had been at least 90 executions in the last 18 days, marking May as the “bloodiest month” in the nation over the last five years.
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Ukraine Tells China Envoy it Will Not Cede Territory or Accept ‘Freeze’
This week Ukraine’s foreign minister met with China’s special envoy to Kyiv, Li Hui, to discuss Beijing’s as well as Ukraine’s respective peace plans. FM Dmytro Kuleba emphasized in the meeting that Ukraine would not accept any scenario which results in ceding territory to the Russians.
“Ukraine does not accept any proposals that would involve the loss of its territories or the freezing of the conflict,” Kuleba said, reiterating Zelensky’s longtime demand that Russian forces must withdraw from all Ukrainian territory before peace talks can begin. Peace depends on “respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” he stressed.
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Ukraine Stifles Air Attacks But Faces 200,000 Russians in Counteroffensive: Updates
Though Russia continues to fail in its attempts to soften Kyiv through air attacks, the Kremlin has fortified its defensive lines on Ukrainian territory with minefields and more than 200,000 troops to present “potentially formidable’’ resistance to Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive.
Russia’s latest overnight barrage featured 30 missiles fired at different parts of Ukraine early Thursday, including the ninth assault on the capital this month, but 29 of the projectiles were intercepted, Ukrainian officials said. The one that got through killed a civilian and injured two others in the southern city of Odesa.
Early Tuesday, Ukrainian air defenses boosted by Western weapons had downed all 18 missiles Russia launched from air, sea and land, including six of the supposedly unstoppable Kinzhal hypersonic rockets, Ukraine’s military said.
While Ukraine is establishing its ability to repel air attacks, a large question remains about its ability to recapture territory claimed by Russia, including the four provinces in the east and south illegally annexed in the fall. A Western official who requested anonymity told The Associated Press that Moscow’s defenses along the 600-mile front line are “potentially formidable.’’
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300 Islamic Tombs Bulldozed in Last 3 Months Out of 1000 Identified in an Indian State
Uttarakhand HC allows the demolition of illegal Islamic tombs.
Uttrakhand High CourtUpendra Bharti | HENB | Nainital | May 17, 2023:: The court reprimanded the petitioner while hearing a petition filed by the Dhami government of Uttarakhand against the demolition of illegal shrines-mazar-mausoleums built by illegally occupying government lands.
A joint bench of Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rakesh Thapliyal reprimanded petitioner Hamza Rao and others’ lawyer Bilal Ahmed for lobbying for the construction of tombs, and religious places by occupying government land and said — the petition has been made to gain cheap popularity. Justice also said that the petitioner had filed a petition in this regard earlier as well, which is not mentioned in this petition. The court also said why not impose a fine of Rs one lakh on the petitioner for filing a frivolous case with the intention to waste the valuable time of the court in such a way.
The Chief Justice clearly said that illegal religious constructions should be demolished, and there should be no avoidance of religion in this. Describing the petitioner as a land mafia, the court said that by occupying government lands, you illegally make religious places with a vested interest.
It is notable that the Dhami government in Uttarakhand has started the process of demolition of religious places built illegally on forest land in Uttarakhand. On this, the petitioners went to the court against the demolition of religious places of a particular religion.
More than 300 hundred illegal shrines-mazar-mausoleums are already destroyed in the last three months as per reports. The State Govt has detected a total number of one thousand fake constructions without anybody remains of any Muslim Peer or Fakirs. But, those were erected to grab valuable Govt lands under the design of ‘Land Jihad’.
A division bench of High Court Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rakesh Thapliyal has reserved its decision on the action being taken on the shrines.
On the other hand, Dr. Parag Dhakate, the nodal officer of the forest department’s removal of encroachment campaign, said that the Uttarakhand government’s campaign has been upheld by the Hon’ble High Court. Now we will run this campaign more quickly.
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Muslim Man Sexually Exploited Hindu Woman in a Trap of Love Jihad in Uttar Pradesh
Arif posed as Abhay to sexually exploit a Hindu woman; Mirzapur SP calls it a case of ‘Love Jihad’.
LJOrganiser Web Desk | Lucknow | May 19, 2023:: Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh registered its first case under the Anti Conversion Law. Here, a Hindu woman informed the police that, a Muslim man trapped her upon posing as a Hindu. The Superintendent of Police, Mirzapur told the media, this is a case of ‘Love Jihad’.
A First Information Report, in this case, was registered at the Kotwali Dehat police station. The Station Officer, Vipin Kumar Singh told Organiser on May 19 that the accused Arif has been booked under IPC sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 376D (repeated rape) and 504 (intentional insult) with sections 3 / 4 of the Uttar Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act.
Notably, the statement of the Superintendent of Police, Santosh Mishra is being shared widely in this case. In a video statement shared by the official Twitter handle of the Mirzapur police on May 17, Mishra can be seen saying,”In April 2023, a case was registered at the Kotwali Dehat police station by a man alleging someone (SP did not mention the name) has taken his wife with him. When the police started an investigation and interrogated people, the woman showed up and said, she went to Ambala for work and that she has no complaints against anyone”.
“A few days later, the woman’s husband received obscene pictures and videos and his wife with a man, the man on the other side said, his wife was with him. The man demanded the woman to be sent to him and he also issued threats in audio recordings. Later the husband gave another complaint letter to the police,” said Mishra.
He added,”When I interrogated the woman on May 17, she said, in April she started talking to a man through mobile phone. A few days later, this man comes to Mirzapur and takes the woman, who was then living at her parent’s house with him to Ambala. While taking the woman with him he told he was Abhay however, upon reaching Ambala she found, he was Arif. She stayed there for the next 20 to 25 days. During this period, Arif made a physical relationship with her, he also recorded the act, and the video shared with her husband proves it. He also, made her wear Burqa and other things. Then she comes in contact with her husband who asks her to return, later the husband gave a police complaint, and a case was registered based on his complaint.”
“Prima Facie, it looks like the woman at first went with the Muslim man with consent, however, she found out about his religion only after reaching Ambala. After considering all the facts in this case, this is surely a case of Love Jihad. The accused Arif Khan had conspired this whole plot to trap an innocent woman, I have myself seen all the pictures and videos and they all justify his nefarious agenda,” said Mishra.
He added,”The woman had told him how she was made to offer Namaz and wear Burqa. The accused is basically a resident of Sultanpur and the Mirzapur police will make sure they nabe the culprit and track other members of his syndicate if any”.
The victim woman in a video statement said,”I received a call on my phone from a wrong number, the man on the other side introduced himself as Abhay Mishra. We became friends, then he took me to Ambala where he made physical relations with me. He made me wear Burqa”
The woman also showed her pictures in Burqa in the video.
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President Biden Looks Confused, Almost Tumbles Down Stairs at G7 Summit
A confused-looking President Biden had to be gently guided by Japanese leader Fumio Kishida on Friday — before tripping and almost falling down some stairs.
The oldest-ever US president looked confused as first lady Jill Biden led him by the hand to meet his Japanese counterpart and his wife for a photo op in Hiroshima ahead of the Group of Seven summit there.
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Samsung Signs Up to Assist With CBDC Rollouts
We often mention Big Tech, and other corporate giants — and not very often in a positive way — but South Korea’s Samsung somehow manages to slip under this radar.
Nonetheless is a veritable business behemoth, with things as diverse as shipbuilding, insurance, and, of course, Android phones.
And Samsung is not a local, but a true global phenomenon in terms of the sheer size of its business interests. So when this particular conglomerate speaks and makes its stance known on any issue — it’s worth listening.
This time, Samsung has spoken about CBDCs (central bank-issued digital currencies). As part of the super-powerful and rich global elites, nobody should be shocked to learn that Samsung likes the idea — and has in fact pledged to help South Korea’s government with offline CBDC payments associated with the program.
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Australian Cops Under Fire for Tasering 95-Year-Old Woman
Australian police are facing public outrage after an officer tasered a 95-year-old woman in a treatment room at a nursing home, as she was “slowly” walking towards him using a walking frame with a serrated steak knife in her hand. She hit her head on the ground after the jolt and is now reportedly fighting for her life.
The interaction with Clare Nowland, a grandmother from New South Wales, took place on Wednesday morning inside the Yallambee Lodge facility in the town of Cooma. Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter, who spoke to journalists on Friday, said the woman obtained the tool from the kitchen, which prompted a call to police.
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Australia Isn’t Happy Twitter is Ignoring Censorship Inquiries
A few months ago, Australia’s minister for communications Michelle Rowland sent a letter to Twitter asking how the platform would comply with the Online Safety Act after it laid off over half of its employees. Twitter is yet to respond to that letter.
Soon after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he terminated over half of the workforce in order to cut costs at the company that was notoriously losing money.
Musk did not break any law in doing so. However, the Online Safety Act of Australia demands platforms like Twitter to proactively protect users from “harmful” and “abusive” content. The legislation also requires platforms to have systems for handling complaints.
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Doctor Released After Seven Years in Islamist Captivity
An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed.
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Mohammed ‘Moey’ Krayem, 24, was sentenced to a maximum of 17 months behind bars in Sydney’s Downing Centre Court on Friday, after raping a woman in August, 2020.
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Extinction Rebellion Protesters Arrested as SA Government Plans Drastic Fine Increase
The South Australian government is planning a severe crackdown on public demonstrations, as four climate change protesters were arrested this morning after allegedly throwing paint at the Santos building.
Police were called to the building in Adelaide’s CBD about 8am, where the climate action movement group Extinction Rebellion began another day of protests.
A 68-year-old Victorian woman, 50-year-old Victoria man, 49-year-old woman and 66-year-old Flagstaff Hill man were arrested and charged with numerous offences including property damage.
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Minister Admits Age Verification for Websites May Lead to Digital ID System
Australia’s communications minister Michelle Rowland admitted that age verification for adult websites may involve the rollout of a federal government digital ID. The idea of age verification to access websites, forcing users to show ID, is being pushed for in many countries and states, with not all politicians admitting that it forms the early stages of a digital ID system.
Some governments want this system to eliminate online anonymity.
This week, Rowland said the report on a potential roadmap for age verification on adult websites would be released soon, after the government determines a response that puts into consideration other reforms, like the rollout of the digital ID and changes to the Privacy Act.
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The fight occurred this week at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, also known as Shore School, with troubling footage of the classroom brawl appearing online.
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‘Murdered Like Animals’: The Genocide of Christians in Nigeria Reaches New Heights
The “pure genocide” of Christians in Nigeria, as it has been characterized by some international observers, has reached new levels, according to an April 10, 2023 report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, also known as “Intersociety”, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Nigeria.
According to the report, since the Islamic uprising began in 2009, 52,250 Christians “have been butchered or hacked to death” in Nigeria. With each passing year, the number of slain grows. In just the first 100 days of this year, “no fewer than 1,041 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigeria’s Jihadists … [from] 1st Jan to 10th April 2023.”
As Open Doors observed a year ago, in Nigeria, “every two hours, a Christian is killed for their faith.”
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El Salvador President Blasts ‘Human Rights’ NGOs After Police Death
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador on Wednesday condemned Western nonprofits voicing concerns over his government’s crackdown on criminal gangs, after a police officer was killed in an ambush.
“Let all the ‘human rights’ NGOs know that we are going to wipe out these bloody murderers and their collaborators. We will put them in prison and they will never get out,” Bukele said on Twitter.
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The historic Roosevelt Hotel opened its doors to 20 busloads of migrants as an “asylum seeker arrival center” on Friday as New York City continues to grapple with an influx of migrants from the southern border.
An MTA bus loaded with men, women and children pulled up at the iconic building at 45 E. 45th St. shortly before 7 a.m. The new arrivals clutched brown envelopes and walked in single file.
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Britain Paying to Deport Albanian Criminals
The UK government is now paying Albanian prisoners to comply with deportations, a report on Wednesday has claimed.
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German Officer Under Investigation for Shooting Knife-Wielding Migrant at Asylum Center
A German police officer is under investigation for attempted manslaughter after he shot a knife-wielding migrant who attacked staff at an asylum center this week, according to reports.
The incident unfolded at around 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning in Hannover.
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The Syrian suspect, Aram A. became known in Berlin for targeting a Jewish man in a brutal attack in 2021, which resulted in the victim’s eye socket, cheekbones and nasal bones being crushed. The attack was so brutal, the victim went blind in his right eye.
The 61-year-old victim was attacked while attending a vigil for Israel on Sept. 18, 2021 in Mönckebergstraße in Hamburg. The suspect, who was 16 years old when the attack occurred, and he received 16 months of probation due to his age. He appealed the sentence and was then re-sentenced, this time to 24 months of probation and 60 hours of social work.
However, new information has now come to light that Aram A. also raped an underage girl in Berlin while his trial was still ongoing, according to German news outlet Berliner Zeitung.
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Northern U.S. Border Encounters With Illegals More Than Double in 7 Months
Encounters with undocumented illegal migrants have more than doubled in the past seven months on the NORTHERN U.S. border, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.
The figures show that Border Patrol agents recorded 4,827 migrant encounters between October 2022 and April along the U.S.-Canadian border.
Through the entire fiscal year 2022, Border Patrol along the northern border encountered 2,238 illegals.
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Irish authorities have launched an investigation after a Zimbabwean national newspaper reported a man wanted for the murder of three people in the African nation is living in Ireland having claimed asylum under a false name.
The Sunday Mail newspaper reported that businessman Peter Dube had been put on Interpol’s most wanted list after Zimbabwean authorities claimed the 37-year-old man — who is wanted for a triple murder in 2021 and also a separate attempted murder charge — fled the country to southern Africa and changed his name before traveling to Ireland where he claimed asylum.
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Police Officer Investigated After Shooting Knife-Wielding Asylum Seeker in Hanover
An investigation has been initiated into the actions of a German police officer who shot a knife-wielding asylum seeker outside a refugee center in Hanover-Vinnhorst on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old asylum seeker had reportedly attacked a security guard outside the facility on Alt-Vinnhorst Street at around 6:50 a.m. He also threatened officers several times upon their arrival at the scene.
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UK to Probe Up to 100 Lawyers for Helping Criminals Get Asylum
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is preparing to launch an investigation into up to 100 lawyers suspected of helping criminals get asylum in the country, Rob Richardson, the head of the NCA’s modern slavery and human trafficking unit, told British press on Thursday.
“So it’s been well reported that there are concerns that particularly Albanian organised crime groups are frustrating law enforcement efforts by claiming that they are victims of trafficking or seeking asylum, and where we are particularly interested from a NCA perspective is how does the legal industry, how do lawyers, support organised crime groups to do that,” Richardson told the newspaper.
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A group of five Arab migrants have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault in Sweden after filming themselves pushing a Ukrainian refugee into a river and watching the man fight for his life in the freezing cold water.
The incident occurred on Nov. 22 last year when the Ukrainian victim, working as a truck driver for a Polish hauling company, decided to stop at Sydhamnen in Malmö and opted to try his hand at some late-night fishing in the nearby river.
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Because it’s not like these two clowns to exaggerate something for clout, is it?
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Daily Mail Australia can reveal the controversial influencer has been served an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) by NSW Police on behalf of Mitchell Latham, a transgender artist.
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Business Index Exposes Corporations Threatening Free Speech and Religious Freedoms
Several major corporations have been exposed for their support of suppressing the free speech and religious freedoms of the American people.
Many companies celebrate “transparency” when it comes to “woke” issues such as diversity, gender identity, and “climate change.”
However, they often remain silent on issues like free speech and other constitutional rights.
Non-profit Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has just published this year’s Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index.
The index puts the spotlight on corporations with little respect for freedom of faith and speech, putting Americans at risk of getting punished for their beliefs.
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A Ring doorbell camera caught two FBI agents speaking with a pro-life activist’s mother in recently released video.
The Daily Signal first reported Wednesday on the footage showing the agents, identified as Ashley Roberts and Kathleen Brown, visiting the childhood home of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) member Elise Ketch on April 18 at approximately 2:45 P.M. Though Ketch no longer resides in the Woodbridge, Virginia, house, her mother, Tracy Ketch, spoke with the agents who were looking for her daughter.
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Ford’s ‘Redefining Tough’ Commercial Features LGBT Colored Truck
Ford Motor Company has found itself ensnared in a potential controversy after Twitter users highlighted an ad that features a rainbow colored vehicle as part of a campaign called ‘redefining tough’.
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An exclusive interview conducted at CPAC Hungary with Polish lawyer Jerzy Kwasniewski, who is the chairman of the conservative Polish lawyers’ association Ordo Iuris and an expert on human rights. Kwasniewski warns against the growing power of international organizations and explains why accepting a right to abortion in Western countries was the beginning of a slippery slope that led to the West increasingly questioning its own traditional understanding of human rights
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Google is Sued After Planned Parenthood Decided to Install Its Trackers
Someone has anonymously filed a lawsuit against Google alleging that the tech giant illegally collects health data, including data on abortion searches, on websites that use Google’s technology like Google Analytics.
Google is the one being sued, despite the fact that it was Planned Parenthood’s decision to install the Google trackers on the website.
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Republicans Launch Investigation Into Bud Light Over Dylan Mulvaney Campaign
Republicans have turned up the heat on Bud Light and opened an investigation into the embattled beer brand to determine if the company’s self-destructive Dylan Mulvaney campaign targeted underage drinkers.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced they have opened an investigation due to Mulvany promoting alcoholic beverages to his young followers on social media.
The senators note that Mulvaney dresses in girls’ clothing, plays with dolls, and pretends to be a “small child” on his social media accounts, which would clearly attract young children.
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Riley Gaines Torches Adidas for ‘Disgusting’ Women’s Swimsuit Ad That Accentuates Model’s ‘Bulge’
Riley Gaines, a former NCAA swim star and outspoken defender of women’s sports, called out Adidas Thursday for accentuating “the bulge” of a biologically male model in an ad for a woman’s swimsuit as part of the company’s pride collection.
Adidas collaborated with South African designer Rich Mnisi to release the “Let Love Be Your Legacy” collection and campaign. The company said it attempts to “encourage allyship and freedom of expression without bias, in all spaces of sport and culture” with its campaign with Mnisi. One of the models seen on the Adidas website in a woman’s bathing suit has ignited fierce backlash online, with lawmakers and other prominent figures weighing in on the issue.
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In the latest efforts to turn America “woke,” Democrat President Joe Biden’s State Department ordered mandatory pronouns to be used in the “from” line of all official emails.
But the administration’s “woke” initiative backfired because the incorrect pronouns were added to the email system and it is screwing up and “misgendering” people — a faux pas among the Left.
It isn’t clear why the department is using taxpayer resources in this effort, however.
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The same legacy media institutions that fan the flames of hysteria surrounding misinformation and fake news got another one completely wrong.
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Where once this couple had three daughters, now they have Olive, who is non-binary (and prefers to be known as ‘they’); Tylan (who uses ‘he/him’ pronouns), and Arlo (‘he/they’).
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Transgender Mass Shooter Also Targeted Cathedral
During her killing spree, transgender mass shooter Audrey Hale also targeted a neo-Gothic cathedral attached to the Covenant School, it has been revealed.
The detail was not known and only came to light in an article for the National Review written by Graham Hillard, whose wife survived the shooting.
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A man dressed as a woman, who offered to give a schoolgirl a lift home, abducted his victim and held her hostage before subjecting her to a 27-hour-long sexual assault at his home, a Scottish court has heard.
Andrew Miller, a 53-year-old transgender butcher who also goes by the name Amy George, pleaded guilty to four charges of abduction, sexual assault, watching pornography in the presence of a child under the age of 13, and possessing 242 indecent images of children at Edinburgh High Court on Thursday.
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UK: ‘Transgender’ Butcher Admits to Abducting, Sexually Abusing Child
A “transgender” male in the UK has admitted to abducting and repeatedly sexually abusing a child while dressed as a woman.
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Pupils at Swanton Morley VC Primary School in Dereham, Norfolk, are also being taught about being ‘born with a vagina’ but ‘feeling like a boy’.
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MASSIVE Explosions in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine – May 13, 2023 вибух у Хмельницькому
https://youtu.be/KmjweDDPoq4
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Dr Vernon Coleman Info recorded
on March 23_2023 “Nuclear War is Coming”
https://rumble.com/v2ja50m-dr-vernon-coleman-info-recorded-on-march-23-2023-nuclear-war-is-coming.html
That weapons depot ( made of depleted uranium, very dangerous, used in Iraq by human rights loudmouth USA, kills not only Iraqis but also American soldiers who fought there) was provided by Rish Sunak.
Britain is ruined. Most of its cities belong to Pakistan, Somal and Bangladesh). Its citizens are stabbed, raped and massacred, then why do they care about Ukrainians or Russians.
The servility shown to Muslims by the infidels in Europe is dizzying, unnatural and apocalyptic.
Is the world coming to an end as a result of sin and then loss of common sense?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSKCBMKd-ag&t=1261s
How did Enoch Powell know that in 15 years Britain and Europe will go insane.?
>A local resident told the Tampa City Council Thursday that the cost of reparations in the city should be “$3 million per person.”<
I think I know this guy. Not personally but, he's a local loudmouth activist who can be heard across the bay in my home city.
We need to put an end to the myth of "slavery is free labor" and present these race-baiters with a bill for all the food, clothing, housing, medical care and burial expenses given to their ancestors.
Oh, I almost forgot: "sarcasm".
Reparations: would that include the descendents of Negro slave owners also? In 1840 there were 6000 free egros slave owners in the country. Then what about all the soldiers who died for the Union? Approx 360000 died and countless others suffered injuries.
Of course establishing one’s lineal descent from a slave, just how would that be done? And if one had mixed blood then what? The whole issue is just ridiculous.
About that pipeline: If Ukraine blows it up or tampers with it would that not constitute an attack on a NATO country? Then what?
Most” Blacks “in America have “White” blood in their gene lines they should just pay reparations to themselves. Any progressives who wants to empty their bank accounts, turn the keys of their cars and houses , to the American Blacks who were never slaves is free to do so .Maybe every democratic register voter can volunteer to give half their after, tax income to BLM so they can buy more homes in gated mostly White rich areas for their leaders. When reparations dream is stopped when state representatives vote it down everyone in major blue cities be living threw the summer of love rioting we had in 2020?