Various German states have notified the federal government that it has underestimated the financial damage done by ongoing mass immigration. Meanwhile, according to the federal German statistics office, the latest industrial production figures indicate that the country is heading into a recession.
In other news, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a new $1.2 billion long-term military aid package for Ukraine.
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— as 1.2 Million Aussies Struggling With Mortgage Pain Are Left to Fend for Themselves: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Jim Chalmers’ Budget speech on Tuesday was met with applause from colleagues as the 1.2million Australians under mortgage stress drew the short straw.
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Britain’s Economic Trajectory Will Soon See it Overtaken by Poland, Starmer to Warn
Britain’s economy could fall behind that of Poland by the end of the decade, the Labour Party will say today.
The party’s leader Sir Keir Starmer will use the forecast — which is based on World Bank data — to appeal for voter support in the next general election.
Labour’s calculations are based on the assumption that the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita continues to grow at an average of 0.5% annually in real terms, as it did between 2010 and 2021.
The data shows that GDP per capita in 2021 was $44,979 in Britain and $34,915 in Poland, and Labour will say that Poland — should it maintain its 3.6% average annual growth — will overtake Britain by 2030.
Romania, with 3.8%, and Hungary, with 3%, would overtake Britain by 2040, the party will warn.
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Fears of German Recession Grow After Sharp Decline in Industrial Output
German factory orders fell sharply in March as German industry suffered its sharpest decline since during the Covid-19 pandemic, new data released by the Federal Statistical Office show.
Industrial orders dropped by 10.7 percent from the previous month, the largest month-over-month decline since 2020.
Output also fell by 3.4 percent, significantly more than the 1.3 percent estimated by financial analysts.
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Inflation Nation: 700,000 Households Missed Rent or Mortgage Payments in Britain Last Month
The cost of living crisis in the United Kingdom has seen nearly three-quarters of a million Britons miss a housing payment last month, according to data compiled by a leading consumer body.
Research conducted by the British consumer advocate agency Which? found that an estimated 700,000 people in the UK missed or defaulted on a rent or mortgage payment in April.
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Polish Currency Reaches Strongest Point in a Decade
The Bank Handlowy analysis of the Polish currency shows that the currency is at its strongest in a decade based on the real effective exchange rate (REER), which shows fluctuations in value against a basket of currencies belonging to the country’s main trading partners and adjusted for differences in inflation rates.
The strengthening of the REER is a result not only of the nominal appreciation of the currency, but also the higher rate of inflation in Poland compared to other countries.
The annual inflation rate in Poland is currently 14.7 percent, whereas it is 7 percent in the eurozone and 5 percent in the U.S. The REER would have remained at the same level had the zloty weakened by 8-10 percent over the past 12 months. However, in fact, the zloty has risen by 2.7 percent against the euro and by 7.5 percent against the U.S. dollar.
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Blinken Sent Russian Disinformation Claim to Organizer of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter, Email Shows
As a Biden campaign adviser, Secretary of State Antony Blinken emailed to the organizer of the now-discredited Hunter Biden laptop letter the key news article used by 51 U.S. intelligence experts in fall October 2020 to falsely insinuate the computer’s contents were Russian disinformation, according to documents obtained by Just the News.
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FIRST ON FOX: California Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse the cash payments — which could reach as high as $1.2 million for a single recipient — recommended by his reparations task force, telling Fox News Digital that dealing with the legacy of slavery “is about much more than cash payments.”
“The Reparations Task Force’s independent findings and recommendations are a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing. This has been an important process, and we should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country,” Newsom said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
While the Democratic governor applauded the task force’s work, he declined to endorse any specific recommendations, though he pledged to continue to “advance systemic changes that ensure an inclusive and equitable future for all Californians.”
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Chicago Gun Violence: Study Finds Half of City’s Residents Witness a Shooting by Age 40
Half of Chicago residents have experienced a shooting by the time they reach 40, according to a new university study.
The study, conducted by several college departments including Harvard University, Nuffield College and University of Cambridge, found that 50% of people in Chicago had witnessed someone being shot by age 40.
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Last week, America First Legal (AFL) filed a class action lawsuit against entities and individuals involved in the Virality Project and Election Integrity Partnership on behalf of The Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft and co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana, Jill Hines.
The lawsuit alleged that the defendants worked with the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA) to influence the 2020 presidential election, censor conservatives’ political viewpoints, and violate the First Amendment.
Documents obtained in the lawsuit revealed violations of the federal records act and “pre-bunk” channels to “fact-check” content.
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Disinfo Governance Board 2.0? New Intel Office Targets ‘Foreign Influence’ to Shield U.S. ‘Opinion’
Critics are sounding the alarm that a new federal office to shield U.S. public opinion from purported threats of foreign disinformation is a thinly veiled reboot under a new name of the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, the Homeland Security Department office abandoned after being defined in the public mind as an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”
Housed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the new Foreign Malign Influence Center was launched with little public notice but is already provoking fears that it will use overstated foreign threats as a pretext to interfere in domestic political debate or will duplicate other federal efforts, especially a controversial State Department unit that tries to squelch populism abroad.
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DOJ Files Criminal Charges Against George Santos: Report
The Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against New York Republican Rep. George Santos, an freshman lawmaker who has faced considerable allegations of legal wrongdoing.
He will reportedly appear in federal court as soon as Wednesday, CNN reported, citing “three sources familiar with the matter.”
The charges remain under seal, though CNN pointed to allegations of false statements in the lawmaker’s campaign finance filings as a possible source of charges.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed another batch of bills on Tuesday, one of which designates September 11 as “9/11 Heroes Day,” requiring middle and high school students to learn about the attack.
DeSantis discussed a series of bills passed by the Florida legislature, slated to empower Florida’s teachers and “reign in out-of-control unions and school boards,” according to the governor’s office.
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Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Signer Says Active CIA Employee Pushed Him to Sign it
One of the signers of the Hunter Biden laptop letter says he and his wife only signed on to the baseless October 2020 claims of Russian involvement after a CIA employee who was active with the agency asked him to sign the document.
David Cariens, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA, told congressional investigators earlier this year that he and his wife Janice Cariens, a former operations support officer for the CIA, signed the letter with other former intelligence officials after a member of the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Review Board, or PCRB, called him and asked him to. The letter aimed at discrediting New York Post stories about the contents of Biden’s laptop came at a critical point before Joe Biden debated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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Jury Holds Trump Liable for Battery, Defamation in E. Jean Carroll Case
A jury held former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation after hearing arguments in a civil trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who said Trump raped her in a department store during the 1990s.
Trump’s conduct was specifically determined to have been sexual abuse. The jury awarded roughly $2 million in damages to Carroll for the battery count, according to CNN. Carroll will also receive $3 million for the defamation count.
The trial concluded last week and the jury returned its verdict on Monday. The case was made possible by a New York law that created a temporary legal window for alleged victims to sue their assailants for damages beyond the normal statute of limitations.
The civil nature of the case means Trump never faced jail time nor the prospect of forcible registration as a sex offender.
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Minneapolis Man Charged in Meth-Fueled Stabbing of 12-Year-Old Boy
The boy remains intubated in the hospital.
A Minneapolis man recently out of treatment for meth addiction repeatedly stabbed his girlfriend’s 12-year-old son over the weekend, according to charges filed Tuesday.
Craig Allen Stevens, 50, faces first-degree assault charges the boy’s stabbing; he remains intubated at the hospital. Charges say the boy was in critical condition but is now stable. He will have permanent damage from the attack Saturday at an apartment in the 3200 block of Cedar Avenue S. in Minneapolis.
Stevens appears Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court. According to the charges:
The boy’s mother called police screaming shortly after 2 a.m. to report that her boyfriend was locked in her apartment holding a knife to her son’s neck. Her 9-year-old daughter was also inside. Officers had to kick in the door to the apartment and they could hear the boy inside screaming for help.
Stevens was sitting on the couch beside the boy holding a knife. The boy was covered in blood and had been stabbed multiple times, including in the upper chest/neck area. Stevens threatened to stab the boy again as police demanded him to drop the knife.
Officers used a Taser on Stevens and the boy was able to escape. Stevens struggled with police during his arrest.
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Molotov Cocktail Found, at Least 11 Arrested in Protests Over Jordan Neely’s Death, Police Say
At least 11 protesters were arrested as they clashed with authorities in New York City on Monday night, during demonstrations over the killing of Jordan Neely, who was choked to death on the F train earlier this month.
Crowds of protesters gathered outside the subway station in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood where Neely was killed on May 1, CBS New York reported. Authorities stopped traffic in the surrounding area and made several arrests, taking some protesters into custody who were bleeding from their heads, according to the news station. Police estimated that more than 150 people were involved in the demonstration.
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New York Photo Journalist Arrested at Neely Protest
A photojournalist, Stephanie Keith, was among a dozen people arrested at a Manhattan protest for Jordan Neely’s death. She was detained while trying to photograph an arrest and later released with a summons. Keith claims she identified herself as press, but officers arrested her anyway, charging her with disorderly conduct and interfering with arrests. The speculation is that it was because she was told to say on the sidewalk. “I was trying to photograph what I thought was an arrest but I never even got a chance to see since they grabbed me as soon as I tried to photograph,” she said in a text message to the Daily News. “I said, ‘I’m press’ and they said, ‘You’re not, you’re arrested,’“ she added.
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Pentagon Announces $1.2 Billion Long-Term Military Assistance to Ukraine
The Department of Defense announced a new $1.2 billion long-term military aid package to Ukraine on Tuesday.
This package includes additional air defense systems and munitions, 155mm artillery rounds, and equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems, among other weapons.
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PewDiePie Handed Mysterious Twitch Ban Without Even Streaming
Mega-popular YouTube star PewDiePie has been slapped with a mysterious Twitch account ban despite not even broadcasting live on the platform.
PewDiePie’s Twitch account has been banned on the Amazon-owned streaming platform as of May 8. At the time of writing, an exact reason for this decision is yet unknown.
Primarily known for his pre-recorded content on YouTube, as one of the biggest influencers on the site to this day, PewDiePie isn’t exactly thought of as a Twitch streamer first and foremost. In fact, the Swedish star turned Japan-local seemingly hasn’t directly appeared live on Twitch in quite some time. At least, not in an official capacity.
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Soros-Backed PAC Spends Big to Install Liberal Criminal Defense Attorney as Pittsburgh’s Next DA
PITTSBURGH — A D.C.-based social justice PAC with no ties to western Pennsylvania has invested a whopping $734,000 into electing liberal public defender Matt Dugan as Allegheny County’s district attorney over incumbent Steve Zappala in next Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Democratic primary.
The Justice and Safety PAC, a national organization backed by liberal billionaire businessman George Soros, has used the bulk of its money on ads and mailers aimed at Zappala’s record. Take the Soros money out of the equation, and Dugan has only raised $76,764.17 for his entire campaign, with Zappala raising $226,800.
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Starbucks has launched a trial of Amazon’s palm payment system Amazon One in a community north of Seattle, Washington. The coffee chain has already tried Amazon Go at concept stores built in partnership with Amazon in the city of New York.
The new trial will take place in a waterfront community north of Seattle called Edmonds. Starbucks appears to be testing if older people, who are more resistant to new technologies, will welcome the idea of biometrics payments, The Spoon reported.
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Trump Reacts to Battery Verdict: ‘I Have Absolutely No Idea Who This Woman is’
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday fumed over a jury decision to hold him liable for battery and defamation stemming from claims writer E. Jean Carroll made that he had raped her in the 1990s.
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Tucker Carlson Announces His New Show Will be on Twitter
Tucker Carlson, the former host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, has today announced that he’s bringing his new show to the Twitter social media platform following his departure from the television network.
The move appears to be a strategic step by Carlson to maintain his public presence and continue promoting his views on free speech, following his highly publicized exit from Fox News.
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Construction Production Across Czechia Dropped Sharply in the Past Year
Construction production in the Czech Republic continued to fall in March with a reported year-over-year drop of 6 percent, up significantly from February’s 4.3 percent drop.
New data published by the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) on Tuesday revealed that production in land and engineering construction was lower.
Building construction, which is the construction of residential and non-residential buildings, decreased by 4.1 percent, and engineering, which includes the construction of roads or telecommunications and energy networks, decreased by 12 percent.
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European Superstate! Germany Calls on EU to ‘Reform’: Common Defence and Border Policies
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Tuesday for the European Union to address the political, economic and strategic challenges it faces by embracing a series of reforms, including pooling its defense procurement efforts, forging new trade deals and setting aside long-running disputes over migration from outside the bloc.
Speaking to lawmakers in the European Parliament, he said strengthening the EU’s military, technological sovereignty and independent sources of crucial commodities would boost the bloc’s ties with its closest partner, the United States.
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The dispute over sanctions that would target Russian nuclear fuel is still ongoing behind closed doors in the European Union, according to a report from the Polish newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (DGP).
Poland, Germany, and the Baltic countries are demanding a tougher stance and the expulsion of Russian nuclear energy from the community. However, EU countries have not yet agreed on restrictions against the Russian nuclear sector.
Countries opposed to sanctions against Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom are those that are strongly linked to the import of Russian nuclear fuel: Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia, and most notably, Hungary.
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As seen in many other Western countries, such as France and Britain, the first name Mohammed has continuously gained popularity in Germany, including in the past year.
In cities like Berlin, the name Muslim name was the most popular name for boys in 2022, while in 2021, it ranked third. Previously, Noah ranked first and Adam second, with Noah now dropping to second place for 2022.
In other cities, like Hesse and Bremen, Mohammed was at the top of the list of most common names for newborns, according to the annual survey from the German Language Society on Monday.
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One of the most pressing issues in Hungarian society after the Second World War was the repatriation of prisoners, many of who faced a gruesome fate in Soviet gulags and prisoner-of-war camps.
In addition to soldiers, civilians were also illegally imprisoned en masse — under the pretext of the “Malenky robot,” meaning forced labor — and taken to the Soviet Union. Many families waited in vain: No information was received about the deceased, daily Magyar Nemzet reports.
It is a little-known fact that there are also unmarked mass graves in Hungary. In the 47 municipalities of post-World War II Hungary, there were 56 prisoner-of-war camps, in which approximately 80,000 to 100,000 people died. Even historian Zalan Bognar, who researched the subject, cannot give an exact figure because the camps were shielded by total secrecy. One of the “lessons” of the 1940 Katyn massacre in Poland was Russian leader Josef Stalin’s order that the liquidations should be carried out in such a way that no trace of them would be left.
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Hungary and Finland Could be ‘Strategic Partners,’ Says Finnish Ambassador
With the accession of Finland to NATO, Hungary and Finland could become strategic partners, Finnish Ambassador to Budapest Pertti Anttinen told daily Magyar Hirlap in an exclusive interview.
“You could say that, like Hungary, Finland is situated between East and West, and like Hungary, Finland has chosen Western integration. That is why we became members of the European Union and why we joined NATO,” Anttinen told the Hungarian newspaper.
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Polish Activists Block Russian Ambassador From Laying Flowers at Soviet Cemetery in Warsaw
A group of pro-Ukrainian activists in Poland have refused to allow Sergey Andreev, the country’s Russian ambassador, to lay flowers at the Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw to mark Victory Day, a holiday to commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
Footage circulating on social media on Tuesday showed Andreev engaged in an altercation with several dozen activists from the pro-Ukrainian organization Euromaiden who blocked the ambassador’s path, chanted “Rasisci (Racists),” and called on him to leave Poland.
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Possible Return of Donald Trump Means EU Needs Even More Power, Says Top Eurocrat Verhofstadt
Individual nation-states must hand the EU even more power to help fight off the possible return of Donald Trump, big-government-loving Guy Verhofstadt has claimed.
Prominent arch-Eurofederalist Guy Verhofstadt has declared that individual nation-states within Europe must now hand over more powers to the EU in order to fight off the return of Donald Trump.
A man with a passionate hatred of Brexit, Verhofstadt has regularly pushed for the European Union to be handed more power, having repeatedly called on national governments to surrender their sovereign powers to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
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‘Tories Are Doomed’ After Disastrous English Election Defeat, Says Farage
The Conservatives are “doomed” according to Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who said that there is “no way back” for the Tories after last week’s disastrous local elections.
Mr Farage noted that the Coronation of King Charles III served as a good way to “bury bad news” for the Conservatives, with the true scale of their loss to the left-wing Labour Party of Sir Keir Starmer only fully emerging on Friday.
“The Tory newspapers will tell you that Rishi Sunak has brought stability — well I guess after Truss and Johnson anything would have seemed more stable — but it is a stability in failure,” the Brexit leader said on his GB News programme on Monday evening.
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A furious mother ranted at Just Stop Oil protesters blocking the road as her son and other children tried to get to school — before she was told to ‘think about the dolphins that are dying’.
Activists were back slow marching through the streets of London yet again this morning — being monitored by police who walked alongside them around the Camden area.
An angry mother pointing to her watch told activists her son was ‘missing out’ as they blocked the road.
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UK: Christian Charity Worker Stabbed to Death in Unprovoked Attack by Mohamed Nur, Court Hears
A female Christian charity worker died after being fatally stabbed in the neck as she returned home from a shopping trip on May 1, London’s Old Bailey court heard on Tuesday.
Mohamed Nur, 33, was charged on Friday for the murder of 31-year-old Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey and for three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent after allegedly attacking a man and two other women in separate incidents just two days prior to the murder.
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UK: GB News Broke Rules Over COVID Jab Claims — Ofcom
A GB News programme which broadcast claims that the Covid-19 vaccination programme amounted to “mass murder” has been found to have broken Ofcom rules.
The claims were made in an interview with Naomi Wolf on a show hosted by Mark Steyn last October.
Ofcom received 422 complaints about the comments, and has now asked GB News to attend a meeting on the matter.
GB News said it accepted Ofcom’s findings and it welcomed the opportunity to meet with the watchdog.
Ofcom found that the broadcaster did not do enough to protect viewers from potentially harmful content.
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UK: Just Stop Oil’s Secret Training Sessions Where They Refuse to Start Until Pronouns Agreed
Following an undercover investigation inside Just Stop Oil, Express.co.uk can reveal the bizarre training the eco-warriors undergo, the hilarious codenames they give each other such as “Rhubarb” and “Brussel sprout”, and how they plan to disrupt the great British summer with two months of making an almighty nuisance of themselves. We can also reveal the group is looking to recruit activists who they’ll pay to become “full-time protesters”.
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Von Der Leyen Could Easily Secure Second Term as EU Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen could easily secure a second five-year term as president of the European Commission, Politico writes.
As the stars are currently aligned, there is no particular obstacle to the re-election of von der Leyen as European Commission president after her first five-year term ends, following the 2024 European Parliament elections, the portal writes, adding that it could even happen that von der Leyen will be re-elected to the top job without any serious political competition.
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Bizarre Spectacle as Russia’s Victory Day Parade Only Has One Running Tank
The toll Russia’s war in Ukraine is taking on its own armed forces was apparently laid bare as a major military parade attended by President Putin was graced by just one tank, and an 80-year-old one at that.
May 9th is one of the most important days in the Russian civic calendar as the country celebrates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, but despite the fact the occasion is typically a showcase for Russian military prowess, this year the parade was conspicuously short of tanks.
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Putin Marks WWII Victory: Nazi-Like West Seeking to ‘Destroy Our Country’
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told his country during a speech Tuesday to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II that the West was seeking to “destroy” Russia and “cross out the results” of the war, comparing the greater West to Nazis.
The remarks were part of a subdued observance of Victory Day, Russia’s national holiday marking the fall of the Nazis in the Second World War.
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Putin Blasts West at Victory Day Parade
Western “arrogance” is driving a “real war” against Russia and the West’s “superiority ideology is, by definition, repulsive, deadly, and criminal,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday during a Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square.
Putin’s speech came the same day a key mercenary leader warned Russian troops could be ill-prepared for a Ukrainian military offensive and that Russia does not deserve to win the war.
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Ukraine to Allies: Please Give US One Per Cent of Your GDP to Fight Russia
One per cent of Western Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a worthy sacrifice to defeat Russia and is dwarfed by what America spent to beat Nazi Germany, says a Ukraine spokesman.
Ukraine very much appreciates the near-$37 billion the United States is already giving in military aid but more — much more, in fact — is needed, a Ukrainian diplomat now working as a full-time procurer of military equipment has said.
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Hindu Headman of a Village Beheaded by Suspected Muslim Goons in Pakistan’s Sindh
50 yrs old Amlakh Bheel brutally beheaded by suspected Islamist goons in Snghar, Sindh. Relatives and neighbours staged a protest.
Rana Ranjeet | HENB | Karachi | May 9, 2023:: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday arrested by paramilitary Rangers from outside the Islamabad High Court. As an effect of that the supporters of PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) created an anarchy-like situation in a wider range of Pakistan leading the country to a civil war. The situation in Pakistan is being worsened every moment.
While the such big news is spreading from Pakistan, an incident of the brutal beheading of a Hindu Bheel elderly in Shahdadpur, Sanghar District in the province of Sindh, could attack the notice of the media as a dreadful situation of minority Hindus in Pakistan.
A 50-year-old Hindu man, Amlakh Bheel has been decapitated in Shahdadpur, Sanghar District. The relatives of the deceased are protesting for the arrest of the accused The police hold an investigation into the case. The last year in December, Diya Bheel, a widow was brutally murdered and the police failed to arrest the murderer in that case.
As per a video uploaded on Twitter by Rise News, it was known that some unknown persons came to attack Amlakh Bheel in the middle of the night. Hearing the noise, when the relatives of Amlakh rushed to the outhouse, the suspected Islamist miscreants fled the scene after beheading Amlakh Bheel in a gruesome way. Amlakh was brought dead to a nearby health center.
It is told that Amlakh was considered the headman of Shahdadpur village in the Sanghar district.
The police started a formal investigation into the case.
Such brutal attacks on minority Hindus including abduction, conversion, forced marriage of minor Hindu Girls, rape of women folk, extortion of money from Hindu business holders and cultivators, eviction from lands, and destruction of Hindu worship places are common phenomena in Pakistan without any check from the Govt administration or Police anyway in any manner.
No International Rights body, no Govt of India, the UK, or the USA has any time to address the plight and persecution of the minority Hindus and others by the Islamist perpetrators in Pakistan.
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Sally Rugg was awarded almost $100,000 in an out-of-court settlement after suing the Commonwealth for unreasonable work conditions while Monique Ryan’s chief of staff — and now has a new job too.
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Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has urged those fed up with crime in their neighbourhoods not to take matters into their own hands.
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Why the Rental Crisis Could Soon Become Much Worse for Millions of Aussies
The rental crisis could worsen with housing approvals falling in every state and territory bar one. Experts say a continued shortage of rental homes will drive up and lower vacancy rates further.
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Arizona’s Democratic Governor Slams Biden for Leaving State to Deal With End of Title 42 ‘Alone’…
—Katie Hobbs says White House response has not been ‘adequate’ — and needs to help before migrant surge gets ‘worse’
Arizona’s Gov. Katie Hobbs is not satisfied with Joe Biden’s handling of the migrant crisis at the southern border, and specifically the president’s decision to end Title 42 without other fail-safes in place.
The Democrat said at a press conference Monday that Biden has not given an ‘adequate response’ to her letters outline action needed in her border state before the end of the pandemic-era expulsion policy on Thursday.
She also said that she expects the situation at the border to only get ‘worse’ if nothing is done to help once Title 42 is done.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Declares State of Emergency Over Growing Migrant Crisis
Chicago’s outgoing mayor, Lori Lightfoot, declared a state of emergency Tuesday afternoon, authorizing emergency funds to deal with the thousands of immigrants seeking asylum who have settled in the city and are struggling to live under harsh conditions.
The emergency declaration, which also asks for help from the Illinois National Guard, comes after more than 8,000 immigrants showed up in Chicago over the past 10 months. Thousands from Central and South America were bused in from Texas after the influx at the southern border stretched the state’s resources.
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Dutch Government to Stop Funding Accommodation for Failed Asylum Seekers
The Dutch government has announced it will stop funding emergency accommodation for failed asylum seekers from next year, broadcaster NOS reported on Thursday.
In a rare restrictive measure by liberal Mark Rutte’s cabinet, the National Aliens Facility (LVV) will be cut from the budget despite local opposition. LVV provides funding to five key local authorities to house migrants who do not leave the Netherlands after their asylum applications are refused.
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Germany: Federal Government Has Underestimated Financial Strain of Mass Migration, States Say
The federal government has underestimated the financial pressure mass migration has put on authorities, German state officials have claimed.
Local authorities throughout Germany have lashed out at the Federal Government over its pro-mass migration policy, saying that ministers have vastly underestimated the serious financial strain that arrivals are having on individual states.
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Is Poland Heading Toward Diversity? Country Sees Huge Increase in Non-EU Immigration in 2022
Poland has historically been a country that has seen very little immigration from non-European countries, but 2022 shows that this historical trend is changing even under a conservative government. New data shows that large increases in foreign labor from countries like India, Turkey and Uzbekistan were recorded.
In 2022, 2.3 million work permits were issued to foreigners in Poland for various activities. These could be related to a variety of reasons, including notifications from employers about the intention to employ a foreigner, notifications of employment based on a special law for refugees, and others.
Of these 2.3 million permits, one category, “work permits for foreigners,” saw 365,000 issued. Out of those, 85,000 were for Ukrainians. In 2021, 504,000 permits were issued, of which 325,000 were for Ukrainians. There has therefore been a rise in the number of permits issued to citizens of countries other than Ukraine.
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New York City is scrambling to ready for an expected surge in the number of migrant arrivals, with city officials considering housing migrants in the Flatiron Building, in tents in Central Park, or in hangars at JFK airport.
With the pandemic-era migration control Title 42 expiring on Thursday, large crowds of migrants are congregating on the U.S.-Mexico border preparing to cross.
New York City has already received 61,000 migrants this year, and is currently housing more than 37,000 in city-operated or city-funded shelter facilities.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has selected multiple transportation companies to organize the relocation of more migrants to Democratic-led cities in the north.
The move, first reported by CNN, is the latest development in his plans to once again move migrants from Florida to Democratic enclaves elsewhere in the country.
In September, he flew four dozen migrants from Texas to the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, causing an uproar among his Democrat opponents.
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Gov. Greg Abbott revealed in the early hours of Tuesday morning that Texas authorities are using razor wire to close gaps in border barriers where large numbers of migrants are crossing.
The Texas governor said in a tweet along with a video of the new wiring that there is ‘more to come’ as the fencing is erected to stop migrants from illegally crossing the border before pandemic-era policy Title 42 ends on Thursday.
Border crossings are already spiking in the days leading up to the end of Title 42 with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehending more than 26,000 migrants in just 72 hours.
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More than 124,000 people are expected to leave a major eastern state within the next five years as 1.5million migrants move to Australia by June 2027, Treasury Budget figures predict.
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Bud Light Sales Down 12.5% Since April, New Report Confirms
Following the controversial partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch saw a significant fall in sales for April while other beer brands saw a slight rise.
In a report released by Beer Business Daily, the beer company, along with its brands, Bud Light and Budweiser, faced net losses for four weeks in April leading up to April 29. This followed initial reports that showed Bud Light in-store sales dropped 26% in the week of April 22.
“A-B volumes went down 12.5% while Molson Coors was up 7.6% and Constellation up 3.8%. Bud Light was down 21.4% while Coors Light was up 10.9% and Miller Lite up 12.8%,” the website reported.
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Pharma Giant Behind Botox, Breast Implants Bankrolled Doctors Pushing Trans Cosmetic Procedures
Allergan Aesthetics, a pharmaceutical company that produces Botox injections and breast implants, funded doctors who promote cosmetic procedures as particularly beneficial and even medically necessary for transgender people.
Allergan has been quietly funding research that promotes neurotoxin injections and injectable facial fillers, which the company produces under the labels Botox and Juvederm, for transgender people. The company has also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting and public speaking fees to doctors who are involved in this research, or who offer transgender cosmetic procedures that may involve Allergan products, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
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TikTok Monitored Who Watched Gay Content, Kept a Database
Former TikTok employees have revealed that some staff had access to a dashboard that listed users who watched “LGBT” content on the platform, including affiliated users and their ID numbers. Workers in the US, UK, and Australia raised concerns in 2020 and 2021 that the data could be shared with outside parties or used to blackmail users. TikTok deleted the dashboard nearly a year ago and denies identifying users’ sexual orientation or inferring such information. Some users in parts of the world could be vulnerable if such data were to fall into the wrong hands.
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— Friend says she’s fled on holiday ‘to recover’
EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Thomas, 55 (pictured) was seen on camera being screamed at by the trans store manager near the ferry terminal of Southampton, Hampshire.
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UK: Watch: Starbucks Sacks Transgender Barista for Berating Female Customer for Being ‘Transphobic’
A Starbucks cafe in England has fired a transgender barista for berating a female customer for supposedly being “transphobic” before going on to allegedly attack a man who was filming the altercation.
A violent incident that occurred at a branch of Starbucks in Southampton, Hampshire, on April 30, according to the Daily Mail, has caused outrage as a transgender individual was filmed shouting at a female customer, calling her “transphobic” and dubbing her a “Karen” before allegedly assaulting a man who was filming on his phone.
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Ulaa Browser is a New Privacy-Focused Browser From Zoho
The Zoho Corporation has launched a privacy-focused web browser called Ulaa. The browser comes with, among other things, built-in activity and data blockers to protect users against tracking.
“Not many browsers on the market today are built to protect user privacy. They were created to protect respective company’s ad-based business models and surveillance companies that complement them, which runs counter to protecting users,” said Raju Vegesna, Ulaa’s chief evangelist.
The browser aims to allow users to privately browse the internet without compromising on browser functionality.
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Hear why ex-Russian politician said Putin was
afraid on Victory Day
https://youtu.be/N6A8x5eZW6Y
I actually watched the speech given by President Putin, and had my wife watch it too so when I showed her the absolute horse(manure) that was being said about the speech and celebration in western media she would know what liars they are.
She said, that in her country there’s still the impression and belief that western news is honest. At least now she’s seen it with her own eyes and knows it’s just as dishonest here if not more so than TASS or Pravda were in soviet times.
I hated this holiday from the very Soviet childhood. Corpses, corpses, grief, grief… A complex of guilt for the fact that we were born and owe someone for it. Military uniform at school, all sorts of dramatizations, military films on TV, from which nightmares are then dreamed.
I thought that one day it would all disappear, but it only got worse. Militarism, violence and senseless sacrifice offend my conscience.
Don’t listen to Putin’s putrid rotten fish. His words mean nothing.
Ha. About your Kyrgyz wife.
For some time now, the “multinationality of victory” has begun to unwind in Russia. So much so that the Bantustans were inspired and believed in it.
Now they are trumpeting on every corner what great heroes they are and saved the world from fascism. Ha.
In fact, they were USELESS. They even stopped being called to the front for some time.
Do you know such an award “Hero of the Soviet Union”?
As a result of the Second World War, this award was received by 7 thousand Russians, 2 thousand Ukrainians … and ten to twenty from each Bantustan.
And now their dark-skinned descendants are shouting “our grandfathers fought and therefore the Russians owe us.” Each Bantusan grandfather who fought had 50 grandchildren, the same number of grandfathers who did not fight. And we owe them all.
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The USA sure is an idyll –
some white communities are dying like flies…
by their own hand. Life sucks!
Deaths of Despair Review –
Greg Johnson & F. Roger Devlin
https://youtu.be/rdX3nD8iQLEYanni McQueen
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What the hell is WHÖ planning?
WHO Power Grab –
a presentation for both ordinary people and lawyers and legislators
by Philipp Kruse.
It exposes the plans of the corrupt and criminal organization WHO.
An important video to understand the WHO’s proposed evil agenda
to rule the world.
https://tube.childrenshealthdefense.eu/w/sUz7dFMVR4FjqXEoLuBhNg