The Ukrainian air force announced that it shot down a hypersonic Russian missile using US-supplied Patriot missiles. Meanwhile, the air force also said that it had shot down one of its own drones over Kyiv after the unmanned craft started flying out of control.
In other news, King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey, the first such coronation since his mother was crowned in 1953.
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Annual gas and electricity charges may dip to £1,900 for the typical household by July as ‘normality’ returns to the energy market.
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1 Dead After Texas Post Prom Party Shooting
One teenager is dead after a shooting at a post-prom party in Texas, authorities said Saturday.
Deputies responded to a shooting at a residence located at the 8500 block of Majesticbrook in Harris County, according to a tweet from Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Two teens got into a fight with the father of a female who was at the party, Gonzalez said. Both parties pulled out guns and fired at each other, Gonzalez said.
The teen was pronounced dead at the scene.
The teen has been identified as 16-year-old Isaac Zetino, according to Gonzalez. Zetino was at the house to attend an after-prom party, he said.
Police found the adult male who allegedly fired the gun at Zetino and the other teenager, Gonzalez said. The adult said that said, in part, that he had acted in self-defense when he was shooting, Gonzalez said. No charges have been filed at this time, the sheriff said, the investigation is ongoing and findings will be presented to the grand jury upon conclusion.
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12-Year-Old DC Boy Charged With 6 Carjackings, 3 Robberies
A 12-year-old boy from southeast Washington DC has been arrested and charged with six carjackings and three robbery offenses.
Police say that the spree began on March 21, after the boy exited a vehicle around 5 pm that was operated by another suspect and approached a victim in the 2300 block of Elvans Road.
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Activists Demand Higher Payments From California Reparations Task Force: ‘$200 Million’ Per Person
Activists on Saturday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination, dismissing the mammoth proposals from California’s reparations task force as too little.
The demands were made at a highly explosive official meeting of the task force, which was created by state legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020. The committee was hearing comments from the public as it considers final recommendations to submit to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom’s desk to be signed into law.
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AI Could Have ‘Human-Level’ Intelligence in Next Few Years, Google DeepMind CEO Says
The debut of artificial intelligence systems with capabilities on par with the human brain could be just a few years away, according to the boss of the AI lab Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis touted rapid gains in the development of so-called “artificial general intelligence,” which he defined as an advanced AI system with “human-level cognitive abilities.” “The progress in the last few years has been pretty incredible,” Hassabis said during a Tuesday appearance at the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival.
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Assault Victim of Jordan Neely Rips NYC for Failing to Address His Mental Health Issues
An assault victim of the “dangerous” homeless man choked to death by a Marine on a northbound F train this week ripped the city for not forcing her attacker to get the mental health treatment he clearly needed. Anne Mitcheltree said she was randomly punched in the head in June 2021 by Jordan Neely inside S.K. Deli Market on 2nd Avenue in the East Village. The attack caused swelling and substantial pain but left no permanent damage. After police arrested Neely, Mitcheltree, 65, assumed her aggressor would face charges and psychiatric lockup. “They told me we have him, he’s in custody, we’re going to press charges,” Mitcheltree, a creative arts therapist with New York City Health + Hospitals for over 40 years, told The Post. “I thought the judge would have forced him to take psychiatric meds, but it seems like he bounced out.”
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Bare Biking is Back — Philly Naked Bike Ride Returns on Aug. 26
The gears and rears are in motion for another nude bicycle ride around the City of Brotherly Love.
Organizers of the Philly Naked Bike Ride said the next au-naturel event will speed into town on Aug. 26.
The naked ride launched in 2009 with the goal of promoting body positivity and fuel conservation and has been held annually ever since, with the exception of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It started at 4 miles and last year increased to 12.
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Authorities in Tulsa are investigating whether a homeless black man shot and killed two white men because of their race.
Carlton Gilford allegedly murdered the two strangers he had no connection with on April 18, the Tulsa Police Department told Fox News.
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Breaking: Multiple Arrests Made in NYC Subway After Far-Left Jordan Neely Protesters Turn Violent
Far-left protesters clashed with subway riders and MTA workers in the New York City subway sytem on Saturday, with activists standing in the train tracks preventing trains from moving. The protesters were reacting to the death of Jordan Neely, who was killed during an altercation with passengers on Monday.
Independent journalist and Frontlines reporter Rebecca Brannon was on the scene at the Lexington and 63rd Street MTA stop documenting the chaos. She said that the subway was being evacuated and that there were multiple arrests.
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Chicago-Area High School Offers Racially Segregated Math Classes
Evanston High School just north of Chicago decided to offer Advanced Placement classes in math open only to members of specific races.
According to Spectator World, there are at least five courses that are only open “to either black or “Latinx” students.” according to the school’s website. Why this is so is not explained in the course listing.
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Chinese criminal gangs are turning Oklahoma into a violent crime hub as they take advantage of cheap land and relaxed growing requirements, according to authorities.
The state now has 6,300 licensed marijuana grow farms, but almost half of them are under investigation by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics for possible links to illegal black market sales, NewsNation reports.
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Daniel Penny ‘Never Intended to Harm’ NYC Subway Chokehold Victim Jordan Neely: Lawyers
Marine Daniel Penny “never intended to harm” Jordan Neely when he placed the homeless man into a deadly chokehold on a Manhattan subway, he said in a statement through his lawyers Friday.
Penny’s attorneys argued in the statement that he was acting in self-defense during the fatal encounter with Neely aboard an uptown F train Monday.
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Democrat Senator Received Huge Payments From Pharma Companies Behind Opioid Crisis
Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) received hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from pharmaceutical companies behind America’s ongoing opioid crisis, financial records have revealed.
Brown took massive payouts from three drug firms at the center of the opioid epidemic.
Since 2003, Brown raked in more than $200,000 from political action committees associated with Cardinal Health, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen, according to FEC financial reports obtained by the New York Post.
The three pharma giants paid out a $26 billion settlement to settle thousands of individual lawsuits from states and local governments.
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Denver Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca Says White-Owned Businesses Should Pay Reparations
A Denver councilwoman caused a stir when she declared that white-owned businesses should pay reparations.
Candi CdeBaca, a 37-year-old Democratic Socialist who is facing a run-off election in June, told a business forum Thursday that white-owned businesses should pay an additional race-based tax, which would be given in turn as reparations to minority-owned businesses.
“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources,” CdeBaca told the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, 9 News reported.
She said business improvement districts could levy the racial tax.
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Elon Musk Touts Twitter Fact Checks as “Ending Censorship in Guise of Virtue”
Twitter owner Elon Musk has lauded the Community Notes feature on the platform, saying that the fact checking system is proving successful in “ending censorship in guise of virtue.”
Musk responded to a tweet by The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon stating “Twitter used to be a place where false narratives were protected and promoted. Now it’s a place where they’re challenged and corrected.”
Musk responded, “Ending censorship in guise of virtue, handing control of the narrative to the people and actually accurate fact-checking are essential goals.”
“Naturally, those who used to control the narrative and censored views they disliked are less than thrilled,” Musk further asserted, adding “How tragic.”
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Evidence? What Evidence? Old Joe Biden Stands With Hunter: ‘My Son Has Done Nothing Wrong’
After claiming that he was going to be holding a “major press conference,” Old Joe Biden sat down for a scripted, carefully filmed, heavily edited softball interview with MSNBC sycophant Stephanie Ruhle on Friday, in which he addressed the allegations against his notorious son Hunter for the very first time. As you’d expect, Old Joe was no more disposed to admit any wrongdoing than he ever is, so unwary viewers would come away from the MSNBC interview with the idea that Hunter is a choirboy, as pure as the driven snow and doted on by his proud father as he goes around helping little old ladies across the street.
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Fatalities Confirmed in Shooting at Outdoor Outlet Mall in Texas; Shooter ‘Neutralized’
At least nine victims were transported to area hospitals, authorities said.
There is an unspecified number of fatalities and multiple people injured in a shooting at an outdoor outlet mall in Texas on Saturday, police said.
A shooter has been “neutralized,” police said.
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, a northern suburb of Dallas. The Allen Police Department earlier confirmed to ABC News they were responding to an active shooter incident at the mall.
Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey confirmed during a press briefing that there have been fatalities in the incident but did not have a firm number.
“This is a tragedy. People will be looking for answers,” he said. “We’re sorry that those families are experiencing that loss.”
At least nine people were transported from the scene to local hospitals, according to Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd. There may be others who were transported in private vehicles, he said.
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Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Skyrocket 279% Since 2016 Amid Nationwide Drug Crisis
Fentanyl is fueling the worst drug crisis in the history of the US. New federal data shows the rate of overdose deaths linked to the synthetic opioid has skyrocketed over the last five years.
According to a report released early Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System, the rate of fentanyl-related overdose deaths jumped 279% between 2016 and 2021, rising from 5.7 per 100,000 to 21.6 per 100,000.
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Former CIA Officer Says Decision to Drone Attack Kremlin Was Made by the United States
Former CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson says the decision to launch a drone attack on the Kremlin was made by the United States.
The Wednesday attack, which was likely to have been targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, was stopped by electronic warfare systems which disabled the drones before they could reach their target.
According to Johnson, the attack must have been spearheaded by the Biden administration and the US military-industrial complex because “decisions on such attacks are made not in Kiev, but in Washington.”
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A property owner in Austin, Texas is begging the city for help in response to a homeless encampment that he says is negatively affecting his life and business to the point where he may have to pack up and leave.
Pedro Morales, who owns a building in the South Lamar neighborhood of Austin, told Fox 7 Austin this week that a homeless encampment popped up in a narrow area by his building complete with bedding, shelving, kitchen items and a laptop.
Morales explained to the outlet that the encampment started with just one person but then began to grow and he says he has been vandalized and even found an ankle monitor lying around.
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How Florida Put the ‘Day’ Back in Election Day
Florida elections have come a long way since the “hanging chad” debacle of 2000. During the 2022 midterms, the state reported the results of all elections within two hours of polls closing, and a new report examines the election law changes that have been credited for the turnaround.
The 2000 presidential election between then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush and then-Vice President Al Gore was decided by the 25 electoral votes from Florida, which didn’t announce its results until five weeks after Election Day.
The delay was due in part to difficulties in determining how to count “hanging chads,” or loose flaps of paper on the punch-card ballots then in use. After Florida certified Bush as the winner, Democrats sued for a recount, which was ended by a Supreme Court ruling that ensured Bush’s election.
In the two decades since, Florida has upgraded its election laws to prevent a repeat of 2000, while other states, such as California and Colorado, are taking days or weeks to announce all of their election results.
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Huge Rise in Hate Crimes Against American Churches — and Crickets in the Media
Attacks on churches and Christian institutions on American soil are at an all-time high.
The March 27, 2023 killings in Nashville — where a woman claiming to be a man (aka “transgender”) stormed a private Christian school and murdered three children and three adults — is just the spectacular tip of a growing but concealed iceberg.
According to recent reports by the Family Research Council, “criminal acts against churches have been steadily on the rise for the past several years.” While relying on limited, public information — meaning that the actual number “of acts of hostility [against churches] is undoubtedly much higher” — the organization managed to verify “a total of 420 documented acts of hostility that occurred between January 2018 and September 2022” across the United States.
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Infamous Subway Vigilante Bernie Goetz Says Daniel Penny Has ‘To Pay’ for Killing Jordan Neely
The US Marine who killed homeless subway rider Jordan Neely has “got to pay,” infamous subway vigilante Bernie Goetz sarcastically told The Post. “He killed Michael Jackson,” Goetz said, referring to Neely’s performances impersonating the King of Pop in Times Square and on the subway. “He got to pay.” Asked if he was a fan of Michael Jackson or Neely’s impersonations, Goetz bizarrely quipped: “I think Michael Jackson, tattoos, piercings, and cocaine all suck equally.”
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Joe Biden Claims He Couldn’t Attend King Charles’ Coronation Because He’s Got a ‘Lot Going on’
President Joe Biden brushed his decision not to attend King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday during a softball interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle by saying: ‘I told him I couldn’t be there because I have this going on.’
Biden, 80, said that he told the king that he would be in the United Kingdom during the summer during the NATO conference. ‘He’s a good acquaintance and we’ve worked together on environmental issues,’ the president said of King Charles III.
The president dispatched his wife to represent the US at the celebrations in London. No American president has ever attended a British coronation. First Lady Jill Biden’s first stop was a meeting with Akshata Murty, the wife of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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Left-Wing Protesters Return to Supreme Court Justices’ Homes as Democrats Target Clarence Thomas
Left-wing protesters have returned to conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes as Democrats target Justice Clarence Thomas over alleged ethical issues.
The activists descended upon Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice John Roberts’ neighborhood Friday. The protesters appeared to be outside of Kavanaugh’s private residence in a short video clip posted to Twitter.
“One, two, three, four: We want ethics on the court,” the protesters chant in the video, which then chops between a few moments. Armed security detail appears in the video.
“This is a criminal threat to the safety of Supreme Court justices,” Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee tweeted in reaction to the video. “Why are U.S. Marshals being instructed not to make arrests?”
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Mage Wins Kentucky Derby in Race Marred by Loss of Seven Horses
Mage, a 15-1 favorite, galloped to victory Saturday evening in the Kentucky Derby, setting off a victorious celebration at the end of the 149th running of America’s most famous horse race that had been marred by several deaths of animals beforehand.
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New Georgia Law Targets Left-Wing Prosecutors
The Peach State is joining the chorus of states that have had enough of soft-on-crime prosecutors. On Friday, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) signed a bill into law that creates a commission to discipline and potentially remove prosecutors who don’t do their jobs.
“I am not going to stand idly by as rogue or incompetent prosecutors refuse to uphold the law,” Kemp said at the signing ceremony in Savannah, Ga. “Today we are sending a message that we will not forfeit public safety for prosecutors to let criminals off the hook.”
Georgia isn’t alone, of course. The Associated Press reports that Georgia’s new law joins “pushes to remove prosecutors in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, as well as broader disputes nationwide over how certain criminal offenses should be charged.”
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New Law Bans Foreign Entities From Purchasing Montana Land
Foreign entities will no longer be allowed to purchase or lease land in Montana beginning later this year.
Gov. Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 203 on Thursday that the bans land purchases by what it refers to as “foreign adversaries,” defined as “any foreign government or foreign non government person determined by the U.S. secretary of commerce to have engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national security of the United States …”
The governor’s office identified China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela in a news release about signing the legislation.
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Photo From Texas Mall Shooting Appears to Shows 4 Bodies on the Ground, at Least 9 Injured
Multiple people, including children, were hurt or dead after a gunman got out of his car and opened fire in the parking lot of a Texas mall Saturday — and the rampage was stopped by a police officer at the scene who killed the shooter, officials said.
At least nine people were taken to area trauma facilities in Allen, Tx., but authorities “do not have an accurate count” of the number of people hurt or killed, Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey said, adding more may have been taken to hospitals by private means.
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Police Memorial Honoring Fallen Officers Vandalized, American Flags Burned
A memorial honoring fallen police officers in Kentucky has been vandalized, according to reports.
The Louisville Law Enforcement Memorial was defaced and American flags that adorned the monument were burned.
The memorial, located in downtown Louisville, was attacked just days before the start of National Police Week.
According to the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and a report by the Louisville Courier Journal, the crime occurred late Wednesday.
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Protesters Jump Onto Subway Tracks, Clash With NYPD Over Jordan Neely’s Death
At least seven people were arrested in Manhattan Saturday after shutting down subway service and clashing with NYPD officers while protesting the chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Dozens of demonstrators jumped onto the subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd Street around 6:15 p.m., forcing an oncoming Q train to slam on the brakes at the mouth of the tunnel, video shows.
“No justice, no peace!” the protesters chanted as police can be heard struggling to call for order in the background.
The risky move caused the power to temporarily shut off in the Lenox Hill station.
After several minutes, the police were able to get the protesters off the tracks, allowing the train to roll into the station, but demonstrators were determined to continue blocking transit service.
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Randi Weingarten Goes Mega-Karen After Twitter Community Notes Expose Lockdown Lies
Revisionist lockdown authoritarian Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has doubled down in her campaign to convince everyone she was for opening schools.
To review — Weingarten testified to Congress late last month that she “spent every day from February on trying to get schools open,” adding “we knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools.”
This earned Weingarten a ‘community notes’ correction on Twitter, in which users noted that she previously called attempts to reopen schools in the fall of 2020 “reckless, callous and cruel.”
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More harrowing encounters have emerged from New York City subway riders detailing their encounters with the 30-year-old homeless man, Jordan Neely, who was put into a chokehold by a fellow subway passenger on Monday after reported “hostile and erratic” behavior.
One user on Reddit said, “This man jumped on me, grabbed my shoulders, and pushed me towards the tracks Sunday night at this very station.”
The station where Neely died was the Broadway-Lafayette station in downtown Manhattan, while inside a northbound F train.
“I was able to run away but he got physical and chased other people standing on the platform before getting on an uptown train,” the Reddit user added. Neely’s encounter with the Reddit user was Sunday, a day before the incident where he was placed in a chokehold.
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Republican House Members Reportedly Thrilled About Tucker Carlson Firing
One might expect that a conservative firebrand — who is not only immensely popular with the party base but who also draws record numbers of liberal viewers into the fold — would be welcomed with open arms by Republicans who ostensibly want a “big tent” party.
But when electoral politics conflicts with their donors’ agenda, which includes perpetual war, the donors always win.
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Seattle CHOP Suspect Pleads Guilty to Murder in 2020 Anti-Police Zone
A Washington man pleaded guilty on Thursday in the death of a 19-year-old inside the since-removed Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone during the 2020 anti-police protests, according to reports.
Marcel Long was accused of fatally shooting Horace Lorenzo Anderson, 19, on June 20, 2020, in the self-professed no-police zone.
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Seattle Police Ordered Not to Pursue Suspects as Part of ‘Reform’ Plans
The Seattle Police Department was ordered by Chief Adrian Diaz on Wednesday to no longer engage in any pursuits.
Thanks to legislation passed by the Democrat-controlled Washington State legislature, officers are now only allowed to engage in pursuits if they have been trained in an emergency vehicle operator course (EVOC) or Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) while employed by SPD.
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An unearthed video shows homeless man Jordan Neely aggressively charging a radio personality who trolled him about Michael Jackson. In a four-minute clip posted on YouTube in 2012, Neely, who is dressed up as Michael Jackson outside the now-closed Ripley’s Believe It or Not! attraction in Times Square is approached by Howard Stern Show contributor Joey Boots.
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Supreme Court Halts Execution of Oklahoma Inmate Richard Glossip While it Reviews His Conviction
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s scheduled execution while it reviews whether his trial and conviction in an alleged murder-for-hire plot was unfair.
Glossip, 60, had been slated to be put to death on May 18 despite Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s contention that his trial was “unfair and unreliable.”
In a rare move for a prosecutor, Drummond filed a motion to the Supreme Court earlier this week asking the justices to halt Glossip’s execution.
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A woke Queens lawmaker is looking to get the jump on fare-beating — by having cops hand out flyers for low-cost transit programs to scofflaws. A bill introduced in April by City Councilwoman Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Queens) would require NYPD officers in subway stations to carry leaflets detailing reduced-fare options like Fair Fares and how to apply to the programs. After fare-beaters are arrested or slapped with $100 tickets for not paying the $2.75 subway fee, cops would then give them the informational literature.
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‘Worried’ Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Creation of the ‘Atom Bomb’
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett expressed his concern over the rise of artificial intelligence Saturday, comparing the rise of the technology to the creation of the atom bomb. Buffett and his partner, Charlie Munger, discussed their outlooks on tech and AI during a wide-ranging discussion at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister and head of Israeli Military Intelligence Ehud Barak visited Jeffrey Epstein’s New York City apartment dozens of times between 2013 and 2017, documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal reveal.
“After Epstein was arrested in 2019, photos were published in newspapers showing Mr. Barak, the Israeli politician, entering Epstein’s townhouse in 2016,” WSJ reported.
“The documents provide new details about his scheduled meetings,” WSJ continued. “They show that between 2013 and 2017, Epstein planned at least three dozen meetings with Mr. Barak. They had appointments every month for 11 consecutive months starting in December 2015, the documents show.”
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Over 24,000 People Evacuated From Alberta After More Than 100 Wildfires Rage Across Region
Over 24,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in the Canadian province of Alberta as unusually warm and dry weather has sparked more than 100 wildfires across the region, emergency officials said. There were 103 wildfires raging across the province, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said at a news conference Saturday, declaring the blazes an “unprecedented crisis.” “Much of Alberta has been experiencing a hot, dry spring and with so much kindling, all it takes is a few sparks to ignite some truly frightening wildfires,” Smith said. “These conditions mean it is very easy for a wildfire to both start and spread quickly,” she continued.
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1 in 4 Italians Says Lives in Unsafe Place
(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 5 — In 2023, more than one in four Italian citizens (26.6%) consider the place where they live to be unsafe, according to a survey conducted by polling and research agency Eurispes in cooperation with the Department of Public Security and the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police.
The percentage rises in the South (30.5%) and on the Islands (38.4%).
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Thirty elementary school children were present when 38-year-old Berhan S. climbed over a fence of a school on Mainzer Straße in the Neukölln neighborhood in Berlin and proceeded to stab two girls, aged seven and eight, several times with a knife.
The two students, who attend the Protestant School in Neukölln, were nearly killed. Police report that the suspect calmly smoked a cigarette outside the school before scaling the fence and stabbing the two girls who were playing table tennis in the schoolyard.
Berhan S. allegedly stabbed the eight-year-old in the neck as well as the seven-year-old several times in the upper body.
After the attack, the man reportedly waited calmly for police to arrive. They then arrested the 38-year-old suspect, who was still armed with a kitchen knife. He did not put up a fight and allowed himself to be handcuffed, according to a report from Bild newspaper.
The older child suffered life-threatening injuries. Paramedics responded, and the two victims were flown from the scene via rescue helicopter.
The eight-year-old child’s condition is said to have stabilized, but she nearly lost her life.
The entire school was locked down, and officers with machine guns entered and searched the building. The children were only allowed outside by the police hours later.
According to media reports, many children were in tears, and parents were called to comfort their children at the scene.
Prosecutors requested the man be placed inside a psychiatric hospital instead of being sent to prison, which the judge complied with. According to a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office, the man appears to be suffering from mental disorders.
Police say the man admitted to the crime. He has been charged with attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm.
The man was born in Berlin. Berhan’s name is a common name in the Middle East, but Germany does not keep crime statistics on whether suspects have a migration background through their parents, unlike Denmark, which keeps detailed statistics on the topic.
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Italy: Climate Activists Pour Black Liquid Into Navona Fountain
(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 6 — Members of Italy’s Last Generation (Ultima Generazione — UG) group staged another act of civil disobedience to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis on Saturday afternoon by pouring diluted vegetable charcoal into the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona in Rome.
The act was linked to the” We Won’t Pay for Fossil Fuels” campaign to stop public investment in, and subsidies of, fossil fuels, which are behind the greenhouse emissions causing the climate crisis.
The four activists were subsequently led away by police.
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Scientist Raises Alarm: No Evidence COVID Shots Are ‘Safe’ During Pregnancy
A top scientist is raising the alarm after conducting an in-depth study regarding the alleged safety of Covid shots for pregnant women.
The study uncovered evidence that shows government health agencies around the world knew of the risks for pregnant women but buried the evidence before claiming they were “safe.”
The Brownstone Institute’s David Bell, a physician and biotech consultant in global health, has warned that claims the jabs are “safe” during pregnancy was part of a “sloganeering” campaign by governments to push more vaccines onto the public.
Bell is also a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) and program head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Coronation fever has swept all over the world today, as thousands have gone above and beyond to celebrate the historic crowning of King Charles.
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UK: ‘Grim Reaper’ Spotted at King Charles’ Coronation: ‘Who’s He Looking for?’
Who invited this creep?
Eagle-eyed Twitter users spotted what appears to be a cloaked figure scurrying in the background of King Charles III’s coronation, likening the unknown individual to the grim reaper.
A person wrapped in hooded, black robes carrying a long rod, akin to a scythe, was caught dashing in front of the golden arches within the cathedral Saturday.
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UK: At Least 13 Just Stop Oil Protesters Arrested Ahead of Coronation
Just Stop Oil has claimed 13 of its members have been arrested while protesting ahead of the coronation.
The eco-activists say the members were handcuffed by The Mall on Saturday morning. A spokesperson for the organisation said a further five demonstrators were arrested at Downing Street.
The group representative said their plan was “only to display T-shirts and flags”, adding: “This is a dystopian nightmare.”
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UK: King Charles Crowned in Once-in-a-Generation Ceremony — Marred by Family Drama
King Charles III was crowned Saturday in a once-in-a-generation coronation spectacle at London’s Westminster Abbey — but the historic occasion was marred by family drama. In a dazzling display of royal triumph, Charles, 74, sat upon the 700-year-old oak Coronation Chair in front of world leaders, foreign royals and celebrities for Britain’s biggest ceremonial event in seven decades. For the first time since the late Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, Britain crowned a new monarch.
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UK: Police Arrest 52 Including Republicans During King Charles’ Coronation
LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) — Police arrested the leader of anti-monarchy group Republic and 51 others at King Charles’s coronation on Saturday, saying their duty to prevent disruption outweighed the right to protest.
Hundreds of yellow-clad demonstrators gathered among the 10-deep crowds lining the procession route in central London to stand out from those clad in red, white and blue, and to hold up signs saying “Not My King”.
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Apocalyptic drone footage released by Ukraine’s defense ministry showed the Bakhmut emblazed in an inferno as white phosphorus descended onto the streets.
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New BBC Report Insinuates Russia Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline
A new BBC report has pointed to ‘evidence’ in a documentary that Russian navy ships were stationed near the site of the blast that destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline three months before it happened, in a clear insinuation that it was Russia that blew up its own pipeline.
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Pro-Kremlin Novelist Injured in Car Explosion in Russia
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The car of a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist exploded in Russia on Saturday, injuring him and killing his driver, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency and law enforcement officials.
The incident involving the car of Zakhar Prilepin, a well-known nationalist writer and an ardent supporter of what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, took place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow.
It is the third explosion involving prominent pro-Kremlin figures since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Last month, an explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg killed a popular military blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky. Officials once again blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
The regional governor of Niznhy Novgorod, Gleb Nikitin, said Prilepin suffered minor bone fractures and was receiving medical help.
Russian news outlet RBC reported, citing unnamed sources, that Prilepin was traveling back to Moscow on Saturday from Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions and stopped in the Nizhny Novogorod region for a meal.
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Pro-Kremlin Novelist Zakhar Prilepin Injured in Car Bombing in Russia
An underground Ukranian resistance group took credit Saturday for wounding a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist in a car bombing in Russia Saturday.
Zakhar Prilepin, a huge supporter of the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, was injured when his Audi Q7 blew up in the region of Nizhny Novgorod, about 250 miles east of Moscow, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency and law enforcement officials.
He was taken to a local hospital for treatment, reportedly for leg injuries. His driver was reportedly killed in the blast.
Atesh, a partisan resistance group operating in Crimea and other parts of occupied Ukraine, is taking credit for the assassination attempt.
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Russian Paramilitary Wagner Chief Threatens Withdrawal From Bakhmut Over Lack of Ammo
(AFP) — Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Friday threatened to pull frontline troops out of Bakhmut — the epicentre of Ukraine’s determined fight against Moscow’s forces — in an extraordinary attack on military chiefs ahead of an expected offensive by Kyiv.
In a series of scathing videos, Prigozhin blamed Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov for “tens of thousands” of killed and wounded Russian fighters in Ukraine.
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Ukraine Claims to Have Shot Down Russian ‘Hypersonic’ Missile Using U.S. Patriot Defense System
The Ukrainian air force announced that a U.S.-supplied Patriot missile had shot down a Russian KH-47 Kinzhal-type ballistic missile — the first time a Patriot has engaged a Russian airborne target.
Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said in a Telegram post that the missile had been intercepted during an attack on the Ukrainian capital earlier in the week. “Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal,” Oleshchuk wrote. “It happened during the night-time attack on May 4 in the skies of the Kyiv region.”
Experts have pointed out that while Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the Kinzhal is hypersonic, it really isn’t. It’s a souped-up version of a ground-launched Iskander ballistic missile, with only fairly minor modifications for the new launch method — deploying it from an advanced MIG-31.
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Ukraine Accuses Russia of Dropping White Phosphorus Bombs on Bakhmut
The besieged city of Bakhmut was set ablaze by white phosphorus bombs dropped by Russian forces, the Ukraine Defense Ministry claimed.
The Ukrainian military released drone footage that showed what appears to be buildings burning while white phosphorus raining down on the city Friday.
The chemical weapon is not banned, but its use in civilian areas is considered a war crime, according to the Geneva Convention.
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Ukraine Delegate Punches Russian in Face at Economic Summit
Multiple physical altercations occurred on Thursday between Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) assembly in Turkey, including one in which a Ukrainian delegate punched his Russian counterpart in the face.
The latter incident occurred after Ukrainian representative Oleksandr Marikovski unfurled a Ukrainian flag behind a Russian delegate filming a video in a hallway at the meeting’s venue, an Ankara hotel. Russian delegation secretary Valery Stavitsky seized the flag mid-photo to prevent it from appearing in his colleague’s video and appeared to run away; Marikovski chased him and punched him repeatedly in the face, knocking off the Russian’s glasses.
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Ukraine Shoots Down Own Drone Over Kyiv, Leaving Trail of Fire in Sky
Ukraine’s air force said it destroyed one of its own drones on Thursday evening after it started flying out of control over the Kyiv region.
A trail of fire and smoke could be seen in the sky as the drone fell to the ground in the heart of the city.
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‘State Sponsored’ Conversion in Pakistan: Fifty Hindus Converted to Islam in Mirpurkhas
It seems that the state is involved in these conversions. Hindu community members have been demanding the government for the last five years to initiate legislation against the practice.
Sameer Mandhro | Express Tribune Online | Karachi | May 4, 2023:: At least 50 members from 10 Hindu families residing in different areas of Mirpurkhas division have embraced Islam, The Express Tribune learned on Thursday.
Mohammad Shamroz Khan, son of Minister for Religious Affairs, Senator Muhammad Talha Mahmood, attended the ceremony held at a local seminary — Bait-ul-Iman, New Muslim Colony.
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Qari Taimur Rajput, one of the caretakers of the organisation, confirmed that 50 members of 10 families have converted to Islam.
“They all willingly converted to Islam. No one has forced them,” Rajput claimed quoting Khan. He also reportedly inquired from the new converts whether they willingly took the step during the conversion ceremony which was attended by several local residents…
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A court has heard the stabbing of a Services NSW worker in Sydney’s CBD was allegedly due to the employee being unable to amend the birth certificate of Mahmoud Salhoub.
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Suburbs on Sydney’s upper north shore have become hot property with Chinese buyers willing to pay up to $400,000 above the price guide.
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Sudan’s Rival Fighting Forces to Meet for First Time After Hundreds Killed
After weeks of brutal fighting that left hundreds dead, Sudan’s rival military factions have agreed to meet in person for the first time. The “pre-negotiation” talks set to be held in the Saudi city of Jeddah between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Force (RSF) were organized by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, both countries said in a statement. The face-to-face meeting comes after three weeks of intense fighting over who will run the nation of Sudan that came to a boiling point on April 15 when the RSF took control of the presidential palace, the state TV station, the army chief’s home, and Khartoum International Airport.
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Brazilian Leader Lula Calls for Efforts to Free Julian Assange
Assange has been fighting extradition to the United States.
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Rockland County Officials Declare State of Emergency to Halt NYC Migrants’ Arrival
Officials in Rockland County have declared a state of emergency in an effort to stop New York City’s plan to dump hundreds of migrants there. The declaration by Rockland County Executive Ed Davis, prohibits other municipalities from bringing and housing people in the county, according to the Rockland Report. It also bars hotels and motels from housing migrants without a license and requires municipalities that wish to house migrants or asylum seekers in Rockland County to ensure they will cover their expenses.
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Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova: “Women’s Sports is Not the Place for Trans Athletes”
Multi-time grand slam winning tennis champion Martina Navratilova has taken a stand for women’s sports, voicing her objections to trans identified male athletes competing against biological women.
Navratilova pointed to the fact that a trans athlete identifying as a woman, Austin Killips, won the women’s category of the Tour of the Gila bicycle race in New Mexico this week.
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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into a medical center after allegations emerged that doctors are performing illegal sex-change surgeries on children at the facility.
On Friday, Paxton announced that his office is investigating the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin.
Allegations surfaced that the clinic illegally performs “gender transitioning” surgeries on so-called “transgender” kids — a crime in the state.
In 2021, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services declared that gender surgeries on minors are “child abuse.”
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University Slammed for Erasing the Word ‘Woman’ From Its Maternity and Menopause Policies
A London University has been criticised for removing the word ‘woman’ from it’s maternity policy and declaring that maternity, as well as the menopause, applies to “all genders”.
The University of the Arts London (UAL) implemented the wording in its policies a year ago, but the move has attracted attention since the institution began virtue signalling about it on social media and its own website.
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Video: Boy Smacks Down School Board for Telling Him He Can’t Wear ‘There Are Only 2 Genders’ Shirt
A 12 year old boy in Middleborough Massachusetts gave his school board a lesson in Constitutional rights after he was told that he was not allowed to wear a t-shirt emblazoned with the statement ‘There are only 2 genders’.
Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, noted that he was removed from gym class on March 21 by school staff who claimed that the statement on his shirt was “making some students feel unsafe.”
The teachers told Morrison that he would have to remove the shirt if he wanted to return to class, and he refused.
Brave Liam related his story to school officials and defiantly defended his First Amendment right to express himself.
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WHO Downgrades Coronavirus Pandemic, No Longer a Global Emergency
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.
WHO first declared COVID-19 to be an emergency more than three years ago. The U.N. health agency’s officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
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So, Elenskiy’s forces with their US supplied weapons supposedly shot down a hypersonic missile?
Uh huhhhh….
Homey don’t play that.
Remember, their weapons are supplied by the same incompetent clowns that cannot even successfully launch a hypersonic missile of their own, a feat which the Russians and Chinese long ago mastered, yet they expect us to believe that they can shoot them down???
The only remarkable thing about this tale is that there are flocks of idiots in the West who will uncritically believe such nonsense. I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised; after all there are ‘Muricans who believe Emperor Poopypants won the election fairly and squarely, and that someday they’ll receive their Social Security checks.
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Listen to Document’s interview from Brussels with British
MEP Andrew Bridgen.
The second half of the video is his speech at the
CHD Conference in Stavanger
April 15, 2023.
Doc-TV: An interview with Andrew Bridgen
Streamed on: May 6, 1:00 pm
https://rumble.com/v2mcqf4-doc-tv-et-intervju-med-andrew-bridgen-sendes-1900.html
We caught up with British politician and businessman Andrew Bridgen at the Spotlight conference in Stavanger.
Bridgen is one of the few politicians in the Western world who questioned the COVID-19 response and injections early on, and in this interview, Bridgen and Rebecca Mistereggen discuss the WHO’s plans for the future.
Bridgen has been a Member of Parliament for
North West Leicestershire since 2010.
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There is no doubt that Sweden is currently in a deep crisis.
Some might object that the national debt is unusually low, that unemployment is under control, that supermarket shelves are not empty and that the Muslims have not yet taken over.
All this is true. In addition, many Swedes have the opportunity to go on vacation every year, there is a huge range of TV channels to enjoy and many can afford to eat in restaurants several times a month. In addition, after 200 years, we are now to become warlike by joining NATO.
This is also true, although we could discuss household indebtedness and thus consider what are assets and what are actually just debts.
But it is not in an economic sense that I think Sweden is in crisis. And it is not the state of Sweden I am talking about. When I talk about Sweden, I talk about our nation; our people; our tribe.
Sometimes nationalists shout “Sweden for the Swedes”, but it would be more accurate to shout “Sweden is the Swedes”.
It is quite easy to confuse the state of Sweden with the nation of Sweden, which is not surprising, not least because they share the same name – but also because until half a century ago the state was our nation state.
The cunning coup d’état carried out by the Social Democrats with the establishment of the 1974 form of government broke the monarchical tradition, facilitating continued Social Democratic rule and turning Sweden into a multicultural state.
Since then, it has not been the nation state of Swedes. It has been a tool of an ideological occupying power that has also actively worked to replace the legitimate people with immigrant, invited and loyal voting cattle from inferior other nations.
Swedes born after the new form of government came into force ended up in a state that was no longer theirs; they were born to produce and consume in order to keep the tax wheels turning in the new state that had no interest in the real and original people.
I give the Swedes a lot of manure for their enthusiastic flight off the cliff in their version of “The Great Leap Forward”, but truth be told they are just ahead of the curve. The same mass insanity is going on everywhere within the West.
As I see it, all the stories that are posted here every day are just manifestations of this madness; the real cause is a loss of sense of purpose in the West. This can be debated as to the causes of this loss of purpose. I am not particularly religious but I do see the utility of a unifying belief and a shared code of morality and decline of religion certainly is part of this. I am a big believer in the need for new frontiers as a relief valve for those not suited for conformity, or those seeking freedom from abusive governments. There is nowhere for those individuals to go now. The mass entry of women into the workforce and change in sexual behaviors and relationship dynamics brought about by safe, effective, cheap contraception, liberalized divorce laws, and now the internet, online dating, smartphones, etc., have also contributed enormously to the destructive breakdown in traditional gender roles and relationships. The result is seen in males across the west losing interest in relationships, dating, or marriage, which was previously a huge stabilizing factor in societies. And females pursue their hypergamic nature with a vengeance now that the advantages are tilted towards them in their youth and the disastrous costs to them aren’t visible until they are too old for the lessons to be of much use.
So, I don’t pick on Swedes because of a particular animosity; its just that they are easier targets because the decay is further along there than just about everywhere else in the West except possibly Germany. And as an American I am acutely aware of my own society’s flaws and pathologies.