President Biden tripped over a sandbag and took a hard fall today at the Air Force Academy commencement. Former President Trump expressed his concern for Mr. Biden’s well-being after the mishap, but the president appears to have sustained no permanent damage.
In other news, the Russian government said that it repelled another cross-border attack from Ukraine in the Belgorod region.
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Capital city house prices have risen for the third straight month, with Sydney seeing the biggest increase despite interest rates rising for the 11th time in a year.
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Inflation in Europe Falls to 6.1%, But Consumers Are Still Reeling From Cost-of-Living Crisis
Inflation in Europe has dropped to 6.1%, but some experts warn that consumers won’t immediately see a difference on market shelves.
Europe’s inflation rate took a positive turn with a significant drop to 6.1%, but consumers are yet to see real relief in what they pay for food and other necessities.
The annual figure in May eased from 7% in April for the 20 countries that use the euro currency, the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat said Thursday.
Inflation in Germany, France and Italy — the three largest economies to use the currency — fell by 6.1%, 5.1% and 7.6% respectively.
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Jobs Report: Hiring Expected to Slow in May as Labor Strength Remains in Focus for Fed
Government data set for release on Friday is expected to show the US economy added fewer jobs in May than in the previous month.
The May jobs report, scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m. ET, could help determine whether the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates at its next meeting in June.
Nonfarm payrolls for May are set to rise by 195,000 while the unemployment rate is expected to tick up to 3.5%. In April, the US economy added 253,000 nonfarm payroll jobs while the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%.
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Netherlands Inflation Climbed to 6.1 Percent in May
The rate at which prices are rising in the Netherlands increased faster in May than a month earlier. This was mainly because energy prices fell less sharply last month than in April. Food, beverages, and tobacco prices also rose again, albeit less sharply than in April. And the costs of industrial goods also increased.
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported in a quick first estimate that inflation amounted to 6.1 percent last month. In April, inflation unexpectedly increased to 5.2 percent on an annual basis, from 4.4 percent in March. That was mainly due to a less pronounced fall in energy prices, but more expensive food also played a role. At its peak in September last year, inflation was 14.5 percent.
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Poland: Inflation Falls to Lowest Point in a Year
The annual rate of inflation is estimated to be running at 13 percent, according to the Central Office for Statistics (GUS) for May. This means that inflation, after peaking in February at 18.4 percent and falling to 14.7 percent in April, is continuing to ease. Some economists now expect interest rates to be lowered in the autumn.
GUS data shows that food price inflation is still high at 18.9 percent. Energy prices have also climbed steeply since May of last year, rising by 20.4 percent. However, fuel prices have fallen by 9.5 percent.
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“Pedestrian” Busted at Scene of Fatal Crash
Police in University Heights arrested a bystander on the scene of a fatal crash last weekend — determining he was the one who caused it. The fiery wreck happened around 4:30PM Saturday — when two vehicles crashed, struck a utility pole and burst into flames near the intersection of Cedar and Brockway Roads. One person was dead inside each of the wrecked vehicles after Fire crews doused the flames. They were identified this week as 57-year-old John Nelson of Akron and 20-year-old Marlon Emory of South Euclid. Emergency responders found 19-year-old Khaleel Johnson of South Euclid on a nearby front lawn — with obvious injuries to his leg and hands. He was taken to University Hospital and while being treated, police determined he was driving the vehicle in which Emory was found dead. He was ordered held under a 200-Thousand dollar bond after being booked on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide.
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Air Force AI Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Its Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test
An artificial intelligence-piloted drone went rogue and turned on its human operator during a simulated mission according to a report from the 2023 Royal Aeronautical Society summit.
Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, said: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat.
“The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat.
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Al Sharpton Humiliated as Jordan Neely’s Uncle Arrested Again in NYC
Civil rights grifter Al Sharpton has been humiliated yet again after Jordan Neely’s uncle Christopher Neely was arrested for the second time in just a couple of weeks.
Sharpton has been eerily silent as Neely was arrested again Wednesday morning, right before he was to appear in court on multiple grand larceny charges.
As Slay News reported, was released on bail with a slap on the wrist just last week after he was arrested on charges of theft and resisting arrest a few days earlier.
The career criminal was swiftly cut loose when his attorney said his family needed him to deal with the death of his nephew, who died on the New York City Subway after threatening random passengers.
Neely has a long criminal record that includes over 70 arrests.
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Alabama Governor Signs Bill to Prevent Purchase of Land by Enemy Nations
(The Center Square) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill on Wednesday that is intended to protect land from purchase by hostile nations.
House Bill 379 is known as the the Alabama Property Protection Act and was sponsored by Rep. Scott Stadthagen, R-Hartselle. The new law bans the sale of agricultural and forest land; and “critical infrastructure” such as chemical plants, electricity generation plants, airports or water treatment facilities to China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
The new law also prohibits sale to any foreign entity agricultural and forest property and any real estate within 10 miles of a military base or “critical infrastructure.”
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Armed Pregnant Woman Shoots Attacker Targeting Her Family in Arkansas Parking Garage
An armed pregnant woman shot an attacker who targeted her family as they were packing up in an Arkansas parking garage on Memorial Day after a visit from out of state.
The Tennessee family was in Little Rock to celebrate their daughter’s seventh birthday, FOX affiliate KLRT-TV reported without revealing the family’s identities.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Laments ‘No One Gives a S***’ About Climate Change
Climate crusader Arnold Schwarzenegger is urging a rebranding of global warming as “pollution” to generate more intense fear among the general population.
“As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere,” Schwarzenegger said in an interview this week on CBS’ Sunday Morning. “Cause no one gives a shit about that.”
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Baltimore Parents Terrified of ‘School-to-Grave Pipeline’ as Violence Worsens
Baltimore City Public Schools held a ceremony last week remembering the 19 students shot and killed within the past year. The youngest victim was 8 years old. The previous year, gunfire claimed the lives of 12 students.
Some of the shootings occurred on or near school grounds, while others happened elsewhere in the community.
Patterson partially blames lack of education for the violence. He’s suing the school system and city officials, alleging schools misused taxpayer funds, reported ghost students in order to gain more funding, falsified pupils’ records and more.
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Biden Corruption Witness Gal Luft Living in Undisclosed Location as Fugitive
Gal Luft, the Israeli professor wanted on arms trafficking charges who went missing in Cyprus, reportedly said he is alive and living as a fugitive after he skipped bail out of fear he would not get a fair trial because he says the Justice Department is trying to “bury” him to protect the Biden family.
“The chances of me getting a fair trial in Washington are virtually zero,” Luft told The New York Post in a phone call from an undisclosed country as he explained why he skipped bail. “I did what I had to do.”
Luft, a former Israel Defense Force colonel, denies the seven charges against him, which include allegations that he conspired to sell Chinese products to Kenya, Libya and the United Arab Emirates. He said he was forced to skip bail and leave Cyprus in April because of political persecution by the U.S. government.
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Democrat Jailed for Stealing Over $1.2M in Taxpayer Money, Including Federal COVID Aid
Former Connecticut State Democrat Rep. Michael DiMassa has been jailed by a judge after being convicted of embezzling $1.2 million in taxpayer money.
DiMassa, a former West Haven municipal employee, was sentenced Wednesday to two years and three months in prison for his role in orchestrating embezzlement schemes.
The schemes resulted in more than $1.2 million being stolen from the city government, including funds set aside for Covid aid.
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DeSantis on Whether Biden’s Up for Another Four Years as President: ‘People Can Judge That’
MANCHESTER, N.H. — EXCLUSIVE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says voters can judge if President Biden is up for another four years in the White House.
DeSantis, who last week launched a 2024 Republican presidential campaign, spoke Thursday with Fox News Digital in a national exclusive interview a couple of hours after President Biden tripped and fell after delivering a speech and handing out diplomas at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado.
Biden was immediately helped up and appeared to quickly recover. The White House later said the president was fine.
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Dozens of Kids Vanish in Cleveland Area as Police Probe Alarming Trend
Almost 30 children were reported missing in the Cleveland area over a two-week span at the start of May, which is something a local police chief said he has not seen in his 33-year career.
Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy, who also serves as the board president of the volunteer nonprofit Cleveland Missing, told Fox News Digital that the number of 12— to 17-year-olds reported missing has remained at unprecedented levels throughout the month.
“There’s always peaks and valleys with missing persons, but this year it seems like an extraordinary year,” said Majoy, who heads a police department in a suburb just outside of Cleveland.
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Elon Musk Explains Why Liberals Aren’t Funny: ‘You’re Premised on a Lie — There’s No Revealed Truth’
Twitter boss Elon Musk has slammed liberals for having “no sense of humor” because their worldview is “premised on a lie.”
“The essence of comedy is to reveal the truth,” Musk explained during a recent interview with The Babylon Bee.
“A hidden truth that people understand intuitively or explicitly, and there’s that moment of revealed, kernel of often unacknowledged truth.
“And in that unacknowledged truth is the humor.
“If you’re premised on a lie, you can no longer be funny, because there’s no revealed truth.”
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Elon Musk Says China and the US Are ‘Siamese Twins’
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk visited his company’s Tesla factory in Beijing, his first visit to China since the country severely restricted travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
After his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Musk said he was willing to expand his business in the country. He also said he is against the decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies.
“The interests of the United States and China are intertwined, like Siamese twins, inseparable,” the Tesla CEO said.
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FBI Reopens Case Around Julian Assange, Despite Australian Pressure to End Prosecution
THE FBI HAS reopened an investigation into Australian journalist Julian Assange, according to front-page reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald.
The news that the FBI is taking fresh investigative steps came as a surprise to Assange’s legal team, given that the U.S. filed charges against the WikiLeaks founder more than three years ago and is involved in an ongoing extradition process from a maximum security prison in the United Kingdom so that he can stand trial in the United States.
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FBI Refuses to Hand Over Communications About Twitter-Related Censorship
The FBI has refused to provide records of its communication with Twitter, related to policing misinformation.
In December, as part of the Twitter Files, journalist Matt Taibbi published several emails between FBI officials and Twitter that showed that the FBI repeatedly contacted Twitter to flag alleged misinformation. The FBI’s National Election Command Post (NECP) and the Foreign Influence Task Force were in close contact with Twitter over election misinformation, according to the emails obtained by Taibbi.
In light of the Twitter Files revelations, watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all records of communication between the FBI and Twitter from January 2020 to November 2022.
The FBI refused to respond to the request, claiming it “will neither confirm nor deny the existence” of the records.
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The FBI is preparing to bring the subpoenaed document alleging Joe Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme to Capitol Hill Monday for lawmakers to review, after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer threatened to hold the bureau in contempt of Congress.
The document in question is an FBI-generated FD-1023 form that allegedly describes a $5 million criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
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Federal Judge Recuses Himself From Disney, DeSantis Case: Report
A federal judge slated to preside over the lawsuit involving Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is stepping aside.
U.S. Chief District Judge Mark Walker decided to remove himself from the high-profile case after attorneys for the state pushed to disqualify him based on comments he made in court about the ongoing dispute between DeSantis and the entertainment giant, Politico reported.
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President Biden, in 2020, took aim at then-President Donald Trump for awkwardly walking down a ramp at a commencement speech — remarks that came back to haunt him on Thursday when he took a tumble over a sandbag at a commencement ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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Harvard Hires Ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to Teach Class on ‘Leadership’
Failed Democrat former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is moving to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to teach a course tentatively titled “Health Policy and Leadership.”
[Comment: That is not a headline from The Babylon Bee.]
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After seeing what President Joe Biden did today, Hollywood legend James Woods made a terrifying prediction that should haunt every single person in this great country. If you missed it, Biden turned in a very shaky public performance that ended with a hard fall.
The country reacted in horror with Tomi Lahren calling it elder abuse while Trump made a crack about the media’s treatment of him when he walked slowly down a ramp to avoid falling.
But it was James Woods who really brought home what the shocking incident means. Woods said: “It’s now looking to be a certainty that she will complete this term. God help us.”
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‘What do you say to the majority of Americans who believe that the president is himself corrupt?’ The answer was muttered away from the microphone: ‘Jesus.’
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National Archives Refuse to Release Emails Between Hunter Biden, Father’s Staff
The National Archives and Records Administration is refusing to release myriad communications between first son Hunter Biden and his father’s staff, asserting they are protected under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that covers communications between the president and his advisors, or between advisors.
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Poll: Majority Republicans Believe Trump Has Better Chance to Win 2024 Election Than DeSantis
A majority of Republicans believe former President Donald Trump has a better chance to win the 2024 general election than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a recent LX News/YouGov poll found.
The survey asked respondents, “Which of these two Republicans do you think has the best chance of winning the 2024 general election for president,” giving them the option of Trump or DeSantis.
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‘Rust’ Settlement Approved in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Alec Baldwin
A judge has approved a wrongful death lawsuit related to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ shooting death on the set of the movie “Rust” when a gun Alec Baldwin was holding fired in October 2021.
The order was entered Thursday but does not reveal details about the settlement. In October, Hutchins’ widowed husband announced the parties settled the suit pending court approval.
The wrongful death suit was filed in February 2022 on behalf of Halyna’s husband, Matthew Hutchins, and their son, Andros, against Baldwin and others who “are responsible for the safety on the set” and “reckless behavior and cost-cutting” that led to the death of Hutchins, according to the family attorney.
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San Francisco Mayor Makes U-Turn to Fund Police After Company Exodus Pressures City Finances
A few years back, San Francisco’s Mayor, London Breed, responded to demands from Black Lives Matter protesters by defunding the police. Fast forward to today, the crime-ridden city with out-of-control theft has experienced a business exodus and a shaky recovery. Breed’s decision to defund the police has backfired. In an about-face, she plans to boost police funding to attract businesses back to the downtown area.
Mayor Breed’s new $6.85 billion budget highlights the challenges faced by San Francisco as the city grapples with sliding tax revenue, some of the lowest office occupancy rates in the country, and a growing number of business leaders and residents urging officials to clamp down on crime. Bloomberg said the mayor unveiled the two-year budget that increases funding for police and expands the police force by 200 officers.
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GOP superstar organizer Scott Pressler just put President Joe Biden on notice by securing a $5 million grant to fund ballot chasing efforts in the critical swing state of Wisconsin. Presler, a conservative activist who runs Early Vote Action, got the grant from Turning Point Action.
Pressler said: “I’m thrilled to be partnering in an even bigger way with Charlie Kirk and Tyler Bower and the whole team at Turning Point Action. They are one of the few grassroots orgs that truly understand the urgency behind early voting and ballot chasing efforts.
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Seattle Amazon Employees Protest Returning to the Office Due to “Climate Change”
Amazon employees protested by the hundreds during a lunchtime demonstration in Seattle on Wednesday after the company brought back in-person requirements for three days a week.
Truly, having to drive to work for three days must be a harrowing experience with much struggle and hardship, but not long ago Americans were actually expected to go to the office for at least five days a week. Is three days of responsibility really too much for Seattle progressives?
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Senate Votes to Kill $400 Billion Student Loan Handout, Sets Up Fifth Biden Veto
The Senate voted Thursday to scrap President Biden’s proposal to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt, a vote that is expected to force Biden to issue his fifth presidential veto since taking office.
In a 52-46 vote, the Senate passed a resolution disapproving of the Department of Education rule implementing Biden’s plan. The vote was successful thanks to Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., who voted with all 49 Republicans to scrap the loan bailout.
The Senate vote followed last week’s 218-203 vote in the House to kill the program that Republicans have said is unfair to Americans who either never took out student loans or paid them off.
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State Department Defends “Disinformation” Grant That Funded Online Blacklists
The State Department justified its funding of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), an organization that provides blacklists of certain outlets for the purpose of demonetizing them.
In a letter sent in March, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) criticized the State Department for funding the GDI, and called for an investigation into the $100,000 grant the department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) awarded GDI in 2021. In a response sent last week, the department said it did not regret funding the GDI.
The letter to Rep. Issa, authored by the assistant secretary of the bureau of legislative affairs Naz Durakoglu, stated that reports that the “State Department funding may have been used to fund GDI’s work in the United States” are inaccurate.
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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Unions, Rules Company Can Sue for Damage Caused by Strike
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times
In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 decided that a union’s deliberate destruction of company property as a pressure tactic in a labor dispute is not protected by federal law.
Labor activists have said that endangering and destroying company property during a dispute is fair game that has long been protected by the law, but companies like the petitioner in this case—Glacier Northwest a ready-mix concrete company headquartered in Seattle—pushed back.
Glacier Northwest does business as CalPortland.
The new ruling will allow companies to sue striking unions to hold them accountable for damage caused during labor actions.
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Trump Responds to Biden’s Fall on Stage: ‘Well: I Hope He Wasn’t Hurt’
(The Hill) — Former President Trump appeared to commiserate with President Biden over his fall at the Air Force Academy commencement on Thursday, recalling his own unsteady walk down a “slippery” ramp at the West Point commencement in 2020.
“Well, I hope he wasn’t hurt,” Trump said during one of several appearances in Iowa on Thursday, after a member of the crowd informed him of the incident to a chorus of cheers.
“You gotta be careful about that because you don’t want that, even if you have to tiptoe down the ramp,” he added.
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Trump Responds to Joe Biden Falling Down Hard at Air Force Commencement Ceremony
Former President Donald Trump was giving a speech to supporters today when he was informed that President Joe Biden took an extremely hard fall. Someone told Trump, “Biden fell on stage.”
Trump said: “He did? He just fell on what state? He actually fell down? I hope he’s not hurt. The whole thing is…
“The whole thing is crazy. Even if you have to tiptoe down the ramp… At the Air Force Academy? That’s not inspiring”
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Trump Unveils Plan to Tackle Fentanyl, Drug Addiction Crisis
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his plan to tackle mounting fentanyl trafficking and drug addiction within the United States.
In the latest Agenda 47 policy video, Trump touted his success in reducing the problem during his time in office, saying “[u]nder my leadership, we took the drug and fentanyl crisis head-on and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than thirty years.”
“Sadly, under Joe Biden, our hard-won progress has been surrendered,” he lamented. “Now fentanyl and other ultra-deadly poisons are pouring into our country unchecked, stealing more than 100,000 American lives every single year.”
“Joe Biden’s record is one of death, destruction, and misery,” he declared.
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‘What is a (Fired) Woman?’ — Twitter Head of Trust & Safety Gone After “Mistake” Banning Documentary
Update (2000ET): Following Elon Musk’s comments earlier that the cancellation of a deal to show Daily Wire’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ documentary “was a mistake by many people at Twitter,” Fortune reports that Twitter’s head of trust and safety is no longer in Twitter’s internal slack, citing an unidentified person and a screenshot of her deactivated account.
Reuters later reported that Ella Irwin told them that she has resigned from the social media company.
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Canada Plans to Re-Introduce Its Online Censorship Law This Year
The Canadian government has confirmed that it will bring back a bill aimed at regulating speech on the internet by the end of the year.
A previous bill, Bill C-36, which was introduced in June 2021, expired before it was passed. The bill aimed to broaden the definition of “hate speech” to ban content “likely to foment detestation or vilification,” and offenders would have been fined $70,000.
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez was questioned in parliament about a bill to regulate the internet.
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“I, Prime Minister” — Danish Leader Delivers Speech Partly Written by AI
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has delivered a speech in parliament partly written by artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT in order to emphasize the groundbreaking aspects and risks presented by AI.
Amid her traditional speech in anticipation of the summer break, the head of the Danish government made a sensational acknowledgement.
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6 Million Copies of the Works of Marx and Lenin Were Part of East German WWII Reparations for Poland
Dr. Konrad Graczy, a Polish lawyer working for the University of Silesia and deputy director of the research bureau of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN), said that much of the issue around reparations to Poland is clouded by the Soviet Union and how it handled the issue decades ago. He said that territory received by Poland from Germany was offset by territory seized from Poland by the Soviets, while in terms of reparations from East Germany, part of the compensation included 6 million printed works of Marx and Lenin.
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EU Parliament Approves Resolution Seeking to Derail Hungary’s Upcoming Presidency
The European Parliament has voted in favor of a resolution that questions the ability of Hungary to take over the rotating presidency of the European Council next year, citing concerns over a deterioration in the rule of law and breaches of fundamental EU values.
The resolution, which is purely symbolic and non-binding, was passed with 442 votes in favor, with 144 against and 33 abstentions. The motion was widely endorsed by liberal parties including the European People’s Party (EPP), the Socialists & Democrats (S&D), Renew Europe, the Greens, and the Left.
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Germany: From Helmets to Tanks the Greens’ Road to Militarism
The German traffic light coalition’s military policy of not delivering lethal weapons to third parties transformed spectacularly into all-out support for Ukraine with artillery pieces, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles within a matter of months, an analysis in the Hungarian Mandiner newspaper noted.
Before the outbreak of the war, Germany had refused to supply Ukraine with German-made military equipment in every possible way. Then, former German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht announced that Germany would provide the Ukrainian army with 5,000 assault helmets, an offer met with both anger and ridicule among Ukrainian government officials.
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Just Stop Oil Protesters Block England Cricket Team Bus Ahead of Ireland Test Match
Just Stop Oil protesters have delayed the England cricket team bus from getting to Lord’s ahead of the Test against Ireland.
Around 50 Just Stop Oil supporters began marching on roads around Hyde Park and Battersea Park at 8am before a mini march on Kensington Gore delayed the England Cricket Team around 8.30am.
Police arrived on scene within minutes and placed a Public Order Act (Section 12) notice on the march, ending it by 8:43am and all teams were off the road by 10am.
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Macron: I Should Have Listened to Eastern Europe Regarding Reality of Russian Threat
French President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that he should have previously listened to Eastern Europe regarding the threat Russia posed.
Speaking at a security conference in Slovakia on Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to admit that he failed to take warnings about Vladimir Putin’s Russia seriously before the Ukraine war.
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A court in Poznan, Poland has heard that Ukrainian Svetlana Plyushko (pictured) allegedly sexually abused the 10 children aged between 4 and 16.
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Polish PM Criticizes Liberal EU Lawmakers for Voting to Block Hungarian EU Council Presidency
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called a European Parliament vote intended to derail Hungary’s presidency of the EU Council next year a clear violation of EU rules.
Speaking at a press conference following a summit of the European Political Community in Moldova, the Polish leader criticized the resolution passed earlier on Thursday by EU lawmakers who called on the EU Council to find a “proper solution” to its concerns about a Hungary-led organization or else face “appropriate measures.”
He claimed the non-binding motion breached the foundation of European principles and warned of the downward trajectory the European Union would be heading should it seek to silence those with whom the liberal establishment disagrees.
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Russia Funded Environmental Lobbyists to Stop Europe From Fracking, Bombshell Report Claims
The Russian government funded environmental lobby groups to campaign against the extraction of shale gas in order to stop Europe from embracing this alternative source of energy and maintain its reliance on Russian energy, a report from the Polish Press Agency (PAP) claims.
Europe’s deposits of shale gas were originally estimated to be between 13 and 14 billion cubic meters, considerably more than existing deposits of the conventional variety of gas. However, fracking for shale gas proved to be controversial throughout Europe. Due to high population density and geological conditions in areas where extraction would take place, as well as claims of pollution, the shale gas industry never took off, the report reads.
Various environmental groups campaigned against shale gas, organizing protests in local communities. Suspicions began circulating that they may have been receiving financial support from Russia, which was keen to protect the market for its vast reserves of Siberian gas.
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The European Parliament’s liberal majority is waging a fiercer anti-Hungarian campaign than ever before, wrote Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga in a recent Facebook post.
She stressed that those who previously attacked Hungary for its strict migration and child protection policies are now trying to stigmatize and punish Hungary for its pro-peace stance.
“They are determined to drag our country into the war, and they are doing everything they can to do so, attacking on several fronts. They want to take away our EU presidency for the second half of 2024 and deprive the Hungarian people of the EU funds they deserve,” Varga wrote.
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Top Experts Expose ‘Sudden and Sustained’ Spike in Excess Deaths Beginning Early 2021
World-renowned experts have revealed in a peer-reviewed study that a “sudden and sustained” spike in sudden deaths started in early 2021.
The peer-reviewed study was conducted by Matthias Reitzner of the Institute for Mathematics, University of Osnabrück in Germany, and Christof Kuhbandner of the Department of Human Sciences, University of Regensburg.
Reitzner and Kuhbandner’s study has exposed a significant increase in excess mortality during the years 2021 and 2022.
The study examined Germany’s data for unexpected deaths over a two-year period.
According to the paper, 2021 excess deaths were “two empirical standard deviations above the expected number.”
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UK: I Joined Eco-Mob Animal Rising and Their Contempt for Ordinary Britons Was Extraordinary
Animal Rising — the fanatical band of vegans intent on running riot during the Epsom Derby — is a group full of exactly the sort of people you’d expect; sandal-wearing middle-class semi-pro activists desperate for a banner to stand behind, with contempt for ordinary people who don’t share their radical worldview.
In April, I infiltrated the group of eco-warriors after attending ‘The Big One’ in London — a climate convention led by Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and Animal Rising, amongst others.
A fake name, email address and a vague ability to parrot the vegan fanatics’ mantra of “repairing humans’ broken relationship with the animal kingdom”, and I was in. No ID check, no vetting, no questions asked.
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This is the luxury swimming pool at the family home of high profile trans activist Riz Possnett — whose father is their biggest fan and a fellow climate change zealot.
Oxford University student Riz, 19, made headlines this week by gluing themselves to the stage at the Oxford Union during a speech by gender-critical academic Professor Kathleen Stock.
It later emerged that the teenager had jetted around Europe protesting against climate change alongside Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
Riz’s wealthy businessman father Robert Possnett, 61, is also an Extinction Rebellion supporter who has been arrested several times for taking part in climate change protests.
The former paratrooper hurled red paint over the Guildhall in London in an Extinction Rebellion stunt in August 2021.
But despite Riz’s claim on social media that they were ‘working class broccoli’, their family home is an £850,000 six-bedroom house complete with an open air swimming pool in an upmarket Suffolk village.
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Motoring groups suggest the stores feared an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority would find them guilty of ripping off drivers.
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Michael Flynn, a school teacher in England, was fired over a Facebook post appealing to parents of youngsters who threatened to rape and murder his family.
On May 23, a group of youngsters attempted to take a bicycle from his front yard. His wife, Angela, a former police officer in the US, asked them to leave. One of them threatened to stab her and come back with people who would rape and murder her family.
Later, Flynn made a post on Facebook to appeal to the perpetrator’s parents to contact him.
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A Dresden court delivered on Wednesday the verdict in the trial of the leader of the Hammerbande, a violent far-left Antifa group known for attacking right-wing activists as well as random innocents with hammers. The judge sentenced Lina Engel to five years and three months in prison, while three of her associates received lesser sentences.
Four members of the Hammerbande (German for “Hammer gang”), which were also involved in the beatings of numerous individuals in Budapest, Hungary, as well as attacks across Germany, have been convicted in a mammoth trial before a Saxon regional court in Dresden, after 97 days of evidence, according to Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet.
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Ethnic Serbs Gather in Northern Kosovo Town After Clashes With NATO Peacekeepers
The stand-off has provoked fears of a renewal of the region´s bloody conflicts of the 1990s.
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Russian Ambassador Claims Maidan-Style Coup Attempt Unfolding in Serbia
Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko has leveled some dramatic allegations against the West in relation to both the Ukraine war and ongoing tensions and clashes in northern Kosovo, which has been focus of international media attention.
The Russian ambassador claimed that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s opponents are plotting and attempting to stage a “Maidan-style coup” in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. His word choice implied he things the West is involved on some level.
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Croatian President Milanovic Compares ‘Slava Ukraini’ Salute to ‘Sieg Heil’
The Croatian president’s remark is the latest in a line of controversial statements over the past year.
In an off-colour statement on Wednesday, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic landed himself in hot water after comparing the Ukrainian patriotic chant “Slava Ukraini” to a Nazi salute.
At an awards ceremony in Zagreb, Milanovic told reporters that the Ukrainian slogan — used widely since the Russian intervention in 2014 and even more so since last year’s full-scale invasion — is a throwback to the killing of Jews and Poles during early 20th century conflicts in Eastern Europe.
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Lukashenko Claims West Preparing Coup in Belarus
Western countries along with Ukraine are preparing a coup in Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed. He insisted that Minsk’s security forces are prepared for the threat, and will not let such a scenario materialize.
Speaking on Thursday at a meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) security chiefs, Lukashenko said a “violent regime change is being prepared“ in Belarus.
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Russia Says it Repels New Belgorod Border Attacks, Blasts Rock the Region
MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) — Russia said it had repelled an attempted incursion along its border with Ukraine on Thursday by what it casts as pro-Ukrainian militants, while heavy shelling and a suspected drone attack prompted a partial evacuation of civilians from the area.
Ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive in the 15-month war, Russia has come under repeated attack in recent days, including a major cross-border incursion and the biggest ever drone attack on Moscow.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had repelled three cross-border attacks on Thursday near the town of Shebekino, and it accused Ukraine of using what it said were “terrorist formations” to carry out attempted attacks on Russian civilians.
“The selfless actions of Russian servicemen repelled three attacks by Ukrainian terrorist formations,” the Russian ministry said. “No violations of the state border were allowed.”
Ukraine denies its military is involved in the incursions into Belgorod and says they are conducted by Russian volunteer fighters.
Moscow blames Ukrainian “terrorists” for targeting Russia’s western border. Russian officials say the group of fighters is a proxy run by Ukraine.
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Ukraine War: Deadly Kyiv Attack, Russian Oil Refinery Hit, Eastern Europe’s Russia Warning
All the latest news from the Russia-Ukraine war.
Latest attack on Kyiv kills at least three, injures several
Russian forces began June with a fresh aerial bombardment of Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding others, authorities said.
Following a reported 17 drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in May, Russian forces hit Kyiv in the early morning with ground-launched missiles.
The City Administration reported one child was among the dead, with 10 people wounded.
The casualty toll was the most from one attack on Kyiv in the past month.
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Holidaymakers could have to meet a certain criteria before entering the Indonesian island as the government looks to impose restrictions to prioritise ‘quality’ tourists over ‘quantity’.
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It is unfortunate that even after getting a caution from their parents, Hindu girls keep relations with Muslim boyfriends and face gruesome death…
Sonam Saxena | HENB | New Delhi | June 1, 2023:: In another case of ‘Love Jihad’, even getting numerous caution from her parents, a 16-year-old Hindu girl met the fatal end of gruesome death for favouring indulgence to keep her relationship with a brutal Muslim youth.
The father of 16-year-old Sakshi, who was brutally stabbed and stoned to death by her boyfriend Mohammed Sahil Khan in Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area, had revealed in the FIR that he was aware of the relationship of his daughter with the accused man.
“For the past one year, my daughter was the friend of Sahil. She told us several times about him and we used to tell her this is not the age to do such things. She used to get always offended and go to her friend Neetu’s home,” the 35-year-old Janak Raj said in his complaint to the police after the murder of his daughter.
It is pertinent to mention here that for the past three days, the father of the deceased girl was denying any knowledge about Sahil Khan in front of the media and was claiming that he never heard of this name.
The police then, based on his complaint, registered an FIR under section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
He further said that Sakshi was staying with her friend Neetu for the past 10 days. “In the intervening night of May 28-29, Neetu came running to our house and told me that Sakshi’s friend Sahil has stabbed my daughter,” the FIR, which was lodged in Hindi and accessed by TNIE newspaper read.
It also mentioned that Sakshi and Sahil had fought with each other just a day before the incident. “When I, along with Neetu, reached B Block, Shahbad Dairy, I found my daughter dead with injuries on her head and stomach. Even the police were already present there,” the father said in his complaint.
The victim girl Sakshi, who had just this year qualified her matric exams, met a brutal end on late Sunday when her so-called friend named Sahil Khan, bludgeoned her to death with a knife and boulders. The murder was so brutal that with the impact of constant stabbing by knife and smashing through stones, her head was broken into four parts and her intestines had popped out from her body.
Delhi Police are also investigating whether there was any instigation or support for the murder of Sakshi by Sahil.
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China’s CCP: World’s Most Dangerous Transnational Criminal Organization
What is the world’s largest transnational criminal organization? At 96.7 million members, it is the Communist Party of China.
Beijing’s primary goal is rule — not domination — of Planet Earth and the near parts of the solar system.
This expansive Chinese view has many implications, but one of them is that China’s regime does not believe it is bound by the laws of the international community. China’s regime, with this mentality, thinks that whatever it does by definition is within its right and therefore not criminal.
There are in China, for instance, over 700 million surveillance cameras in its SkyNet system, about one camera for every two residents. Those devices are being connected to one centrally controlled system as the regime stitches together a nationwide social credit system to monitor every person in the People’s Republic.
Taxis and other vehicles also have government-installed cameras. The CCP has thought of everything. As a result, China is fast becoming totalitarian and a total surveillance state.
The Communist Party cannot run such a state and claim it does not know what is going on.
This means the CCP is responsible for the tens of thousands of Americans annually killed by fentanyl… The result, Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution wrote, is “the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history.”
TikTok… which Beijing effectively controls, glamorizes drug use. Yes, the wildly popular app has community guidelines prohibiting videos promoting drug use, but you can find clips with millions of views teaching kids how to take illegal drugs.
The Chinese gangs use burner phones and Chinese banking apps to move vast sums quickly, quietly, and securely through the Chinese state banking system. The Communist Party of China tightly controls all Chinese banks, and no one could transfer sums through their networks without the cooperation of the regime.
“At its core, the People’s Republic of China is focused on gaining geopolitical leverage over countries in Central and South America to be used in an eventual conflict with the United States.” — Joseph Humire of the Center for a Secure Free Society to Gatestone, May 2023
These are just a few of China’s crimes as detailed in Frank Gaffney’s new book, The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World. Unfortunately, American law enforcement prosecutes individuals when it should be prosecuting the Communist Party of China instead.
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Australia’s Average Temperatures Plummet in May as Sydney Experiences Coldest Nights in 66 Years
More than 100 Australian weather stations have just registered their coldest May minimum temperatures on record.
The frigid month brought frequent frost, extending as far north as tropical Queensland and the Northern Territory, along with several snowfalls on the south-east ranges.
Rainfall was well below average across nearly the entire country.
The surprisingly chilly end to autumn was irregular considering records during recent decades have mostly been on the top end of the thermometer.
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Journalist Nick McKenzie said Thursday was ‘a day of justice’ after a Federal Court judge found Mr Roberts-Smith was involved in killing unarmed prisoners while serving in Afghanistan.
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Indigenous Voice Referendum Tipped to Succeed on Back of Support From Young Voters
Cabinet minister Don Farrell told the National Press Club voters aged over 55 tended to oppose the voice, while another group overwhelmingly backed it.
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Pauline Hanson has called on the Albanese government to make three major changes to stop the housing crisis — and she says most Aussies support her and is pointing to a poll to back her up.
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The Australian government ploughs more money into social security and welfare than any other area — with the figures set to skyrocket following Labor’s recent ‘cost of living’ budget.
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Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has spectacularly lost his defamation trial and faces a massive legal bill, possible war crimes prosecution, and career ruin.
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Two former Coalition heavyweights have made merciless fun of the Greens policy, which John Anderson claims is to ‘defund the military’ while Peter Costello laughs at their Ukraine ‘solution’.
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Brazilian Congress Deals Critical Blow to Environmental Agencies, Lula Administration
Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers away from the country’s new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists. It’s a rejection of the priorities of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who took office in January,
The move shows the increasing power of Brazil’s so-called “beef caucus,” shorthand for cattle businesses and other large-scale agriculture that together control the majority of both legislative chambers in the country.
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Mexican TV Spots Cartel Wielding Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher in Border Town Near Texas
The Mexican government has been waging war against drug cartels for over a decade with limited success. These cartels illegally procure modern military equipment from Western countries, making the fight comparable to those in Middle Eastern warzones.
On Wednesday, Mexican TV channel Milenio published an article titled “Mexican cartels prepare for a war; they have military grade ROCKET LAUNCHER” that shows a video of a Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) member carrying a “military-grade grenade launcher during a checkpoint in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.”
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Migrants who pass through Georgia on the way to Britain risk being sent back under an agreement that came into force yesterday.
Asylum seekers who lived in or ‘transited through’ the former Soviet republic and then arrived in the UK can be put on a flight back to Tbilisi.
The agreement says requests for a removal must be considered by either country within 12 days and, once agreed, the foreign national will be flown out within three months.
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The German broadsheet Die Zeit has caused a storm on social media after publishing an article in which it claims Germany will soon be “a country in which migrants will no longer be a minority.”
Die Zeit, the Hamburg-based newspaper widely considered to be a more highbrow read than the tabloids, posted the article highlighting Germany’s irreparable demographic change to its socials on Tuesday with the caption:
Integration was yesterday: Germany is the second-largest immigration country in the world, and the original Germans are likely to become a numerical minority among many in the foreseeable future. And now?
The accompanying photo showed a group of four young immigrants in a top-down flash convertible smiling at the camera with the headline: “They will be the powerful.”
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MS-13 Gang Members, Released Into U.S.
By Feds, Among Illegal Aliens Charged With 15-Year-Old Boy’s Murder
MS-13 gang members, released into the United States by federal officials, are among five illegal aliens charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy in Frederick County, Maryland.
As Breitbart News reported this week, 21-year-old illegal alien Alexis Alfredo Ayala Lopez, 23-year-old illegal alien Jose Roberto Ramos Lopez, 29-year-old illegal alien Ismael Lopez Lopez, 27-year-old illegal alien Elmer Bladimir Reyes Reyes, and 20-year-old illegal alien Ismael Ivan Rivera Canales have been arrested and charged with murdering Limber Lopez Funez, who went missing in February before his remains were found in Gambrill State Park in April.
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The Prime Minister wants to use a meeting of the new European Political Community to urge closer co-operation in securing the continent’s borders.
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Rishi Sunak to Urge European Leaders to Make Ending Illegal Migration Their Number One Priority
Rishi Sunak is set to tell European leaders that stopping illegal immigration must be their top priority, at a meeting of the new European Political Community.
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UK: London Mayor Calls for Even More Migrants and Wants the Power to Set City’s Migration Policy
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed that his city needs to welcome even more migrants to fill labor shortages, and urged the British government to give him the power to decide how many people can come to London.
Speaking to journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy on a Channel 4 podcast, the Labour politician said he has “no hesitation” in calling for even more mass immigration into Britain, despite the country receiving 1.2 million new arrivals last year and posting a net migration figure of 606,000, yet another record.
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Unelected UK Deep State Employees Threaten to Strike Over Migrant Deportation Plans
Bureaucrats in Britain’s deep state are seeking to thwart the will of the people yet again, with thousands threatening to go on strike over the government’s long-delayed plan to deport illegal boat migrants to a third country.
Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which represents nearly 16,000 civil servants at the Home Office and the Border Force — parts of Britain’s unelected, permanent government — are threatening to take industrial action in an attempt to prevent the elected element of government implementing relatively minor measures to stem the tide of the illegal boat migrant crisis that has run roughshod over authorities for years.
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Virginia, West Virginia Governors Sending National Guard Troops to Texas Border
Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The governors of Virginia and West Virginia are the latest Republican state leaders to announce deployments of National Guard troops to assist Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security efforts.
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EXCLUSIVE — Twenty Republican attorneys general are joining forces in an amicus brief against several LGBTQ+ groups that are pushing to allow minors to receive gender reassignment surgery and hormone altering drugs.
The GOP attorney generals said there is scant evidence that the surgical and chemical interventions on children with gender dysphoria should be considered the standard of care. They added that some mainstream media and activists are bullying dissenting viewpoints into silence, and blasted court decisions for interfering with states’ rights.
The amicus brief — led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey — opposed decisions on a federal lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, which challenged a ban in West Virginia on transgender medical interventions on children as well as a suit against North Carolina for blocking sex-change coverage for employees and their dependents.
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After ‘Little Mermaid’ Remake Endures Harsh Reviews, IMDb Steps in, Alters Review System for Movie
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) activated an “alternate weighting calculation” in order to compensate for alleged “unusual activity” among audiences reviewing the new “Little Mermaid” remake.
“The Little Mermaid” is one of many live-action remakes of iconic, animated Disney films from the late 1980s to the 1990s.
The new film has been criticized from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the racial recasting of what was originally a White character to criticism of Asian actress Awkwafina’s rap song “The Scuttlebutt” and Wesley Morris lamenting in The New York Times that the children’s film lacked “kink.”
The movie’s mixed reflection appears to have extended to its reviews, to the point IMDb has stepped in.
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One 12-year-old’s lawsuit against his school for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights after he was prohibited from wearing a shirt saying, “There are only two genders” hits a speed bump after a district court hearing.
“We were asking for an immediate order so that he could express himself for the rest of the school year,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) legal counsel Logan Spena told Fox News Digital. “Liam’s suing for the right to do what every other student in his school currently has the right to do, which is respectfully express their own view on a matter of enormous public concern. What is the relationship between sex and gender?”
Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) filed a federal lawsuit last month against Nichols Middle School (NMS) officials and the town of Middleborough, Massachusetts on behalf of Liam Morrison, a seventh grader who was forbidden to wear a T-shirt to school that reads “There are only two genders.”
In a Wednesday hearing the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston denied Morrison’s attorneys’ request for a temporary injunction, or restraining order, which would have suspended the school’s ability to prohibit Morrison from expressing his views about gender before the court issued its final decision.
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A new study has found that far-left activism is linked to a pathological and narcissistic urge to satisfy ego rather than achieve actual social justice.
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The Pentagon has vetoed plans for a drag show scheduled for Thursday, at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was visibly angry when informed.
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Arkansas’ Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has just scored a huge win for the people of her state.
Gov. Sanders signed the “Arkansas LEARNS” act into law to ban “the indoctrination of our kids.”
“Arkansas LEARNS gets politics out of the classroom and bans indoctrination of our kids,” Sanders said.
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Target’s Stock Downgraded by JP Morgan Analyst as Sales Tank Amid Boycott
After failing to learn the lesson from Bud Light, retail giant Target has seen billions of dollars wiped from its market value after trying to go “woke.”
Target’s stock ended Wednesday down 2.2 percent and was downgraded by a top Wall Street analyst.
This is the ninth straight day of decline and is the company’s longest losing streak since an 11-day stretch in February of 2000.
Wednesday’s stock closing price also was the lowest price since August 11, 2020.
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United Kingdom’s RAF Filtering Out ‘Useless White Male Pilots’ in Diversity Push: Report
The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force is being pressured to filter out “useless white male pilots” in an effort to hit diversity targets, according to leaked emails obtained by local media.
The messages seen by Sky News also show that a number of selection boards used to place new recruits were canceled if they didn’t include women or minorities.
The RAF maintains its standards have not been lowered to increase the number or diverse applicants.
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A “frustrated” Virginia mother told Fox News Digital that Fairfax County Public Schools Board members need to address sexually explicit books found in their school library.
Stacy Langton, a mother of six, called out Fairfax County Public Schools for lack of inaction and accountability after she called to attention a book that contains illustrations of “deviant” “sex acts” that she discovered in the Fairfax County Public School Library.
Langton said that over the last 18 months, she spoke about several other books during the public comment period at school board meetings, a series she has titled “porn book story hour.”
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Sweden: City of Stockholm donates $1,225,000 of
taxpayer money for construction of giant mosque
JUN 2, 2023 BY ROBERT SPENCER8 COMMENTS
What could possibly go wrong? In Israel in 2021, 29 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites. In Tunisia in 2015, police found weapons in 40 mosques. Bombs and rocket-propelled grenades were found in mosques in a “Palestinian” “refugee” camp. In mosques in Austria, children are taught not to take non-Muslims as friends (in accord with Qur’an 3:28 and 5:51). In Germany, mosquegoers tried to stop police from arresting a knifeman who had fled into the mosque. In Pakistan, jihadis openly fundraise in mosques. Also in mosques in Pakistan, girls were taught how to behead people. A mosque in Sweden has been dubbed an “espionage nest” for the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says that mosques in the U.S. are used to plot jihad attacks. In the UK, a mosque trustee was convicted of encouraging terrorism. In France, a mosque was accused of incitement against Jews, women, and homosexuals.
“The city of Stockholm donates 13.3 million for mosque construction: ‘Contributes to a diverse urban environment,’” translated from “Stockholms stad skänker 13,3 miljoner till moskébygge: ‘Bidrar till mångsidig stadsmiljö,’” Samnytt, June 1, 2023:
Taxpayers contribute SEK 13.3 million to Islamize Skärholmen in southern Stockholm. It was only the Sweden Democrats who opposed and tried to stop the giant construction. The city’s administrator writes that the mosque project is viewed “positively” as “contributing to a diverse urban environment.”
The new giant mosque is currently under construction at Äspholmsvägen in Skärholmen and will be ready in 2025. The mosque will consist of three floors, an indoor area of 2,500 square meters and two 63-meter high minarets. This is reported by the newspaper Kvartal.
The plans to build the mosque have existed for over fifteen years and over the years the project has been stuck in various municipal bodies. Eight years ago, the project took a positive turn for the Islamists when the city of Stockholm donated the land to the Islamic Foundation in Skärholmen.
But despite the fact that the foundation has close links to the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Görüs, which is strongly established in Germany, several board members are members of the movement, no municipal body has ever asked questions about their activities – for example, the view on democracy and equality or how the construction should be financed.
However, the taxpayers in Stockholm have had to pay for earthworks. On May 12, 2022, Stockholm’s development committee decided to approve expenditures of SEK 13.3 million for the earthworks on the site.
Today, the politicians who made the decision do not want to answer questions about the mosque building or the movement behind it, but instead blame each other and refer to the ground work affecting other parts of the area.
When Kvartal is looking for Emilia Bjuggren (S), who at the time of the decision was vice-chairman of the board, she refers to the Moderates who held the chairmanship.
The committee chairman at the time, Johan Nilsson (M), downplays the approval by saying that it involved the relocation of power lines, footpaths and cycle paths.
“I assume that the development office before the decision in 2013 carried out an examination of the actors who applied for a land right. If the examination would have shown that the actor did not have financial opportunities or was engaged in some type of illegal activity or was convicted of, for example, economic crime, then such an application would reasonably be rejected,” says Johan Nilsson (M) to Kvartal.
Only the Sweden Democrats opposed the project. Anders Edin (SD) stated that he wanted to see the city tear up the land assignment agreement. According to Edin, the mosque project contributes to serious segregation and the consequences risk becoming unmanageable.
“Positive – contributes to a diverse urban environment”
In connection with the development committee in the city hammering through the taxpayers’ 13.3 million kroner for the ground work for the mosque – administrator Britta Eliasson wrote that the city views “positively on the project which contributes to a diverse urban environment”.
Furthermore, she writes that the project is not judged to have “any negative impact on children”. When Eliasson was recently asked how she views the assessment today, she replied that the administration sees the movement as a positive force. This is because the mosque mobilized people to minimize the Muslims’ anger when the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan held an Islam-critical meeting in Skärholmen.
Want to see Sharia Law
The newspaper writes that it says to read on the mosque’s website that a majority of all Muslims want Sharia law.