A man went on a stabbing and vehicular assault rampage today in the English city of Nottingham, killing three people and wounding three others. The assailant was described by witnesses as a black man carrying a rucksack. Police have not yet determined a motive. A man is in custody, and is assisting police with their enquiries.
In other news, LGBTQ activists have sent bomb threats to various Target business locations for allegedly betraying their community in the recent Pride merchandise controversy.
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Bank of Israel is Looking for Ways to Convince People to Adopt Digital Shekel
The Bank of Israel is in high gear, mapping out strategies to pump up the uptake of its controversial central bank digital currency (CBDC) as it mulls over the possibility of an official roll-out. The big picture: the central bank is banking on the digital shekel to be a game changer in the financial ecosystem.
The problem: Like with all CBDCs, the creation of a centrally controlled system would mean more government control and could lead to increased surveillance.
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Inflation Rose at a 4% Annual Rate in May, the Lowest in 2 Years
The inflation rate cooled in May to its lowest annual rate in more than two years, likely taking pressure off the Federal Reserve to continue raising interest rates, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
The consumer price index, which measures changes in a multitude of goods and services, increased just 0.1% for the month, bringing the annual level down to 4% from 4.9% in April. That 12-month increase was the smallest since March 2021, when inflation was just beginning to rise to what would become the highest in 41 years.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the picture wasn’t as optimistic.
So-called core inflation rose 0.4% on the month and was still up 5.3% from a year ago, indicating that while price pressures have eased somewhat, consumers are still under fire.
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Federal health officials confirmed that the average lifespan in America has now reached a low of 76 years. While many countries worldwide witnessed a rebound in life expectancy with the introduction of vaccines during the second year of the pandemic, the United States failed to join the positive trend.
Adding to the unsettling news, maternal mortality in the U.S. reached its highest point in 2021. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) also uncovered a distressing rise in mortality rates among American children and adolescents.
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Biden Administration Set to Supply Depleted Uranium Rounds to Ukraine: Report
The Biden administration is reportedly set to follow Britain’s lead in supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium rounds to arm a swath of American tanks planned to be delivered to Kyiv in the Autumn.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing American administration sources, the Biden government is planning on providing Ukraine with depleted uranium rounds to equip the Abrams tanks expected to be sent into the conflict in the coming months.
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Breaking: Trump Visits Cuban Cafe After Arraignment, Customers Pray for Him
Former President Trump was seen visiting a Cuban cafe just after his arraignment, joining others to dine at Versailles Restaurant in Miami.
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President Donald Trump spoke at his golf course at Bedminster, New Jersey on Tuesday following his arraignment at the hands of Biden’s Department of Justice in Miami.
Trump still leads the GOP field for the 2024 presidential nomination, and of all his competitors, only Vivek Ramaswamy stood up for him against the weaponized prosecution today.
Trump pled not guilty to all 37 counts, including “willful retention of national defense information,” “withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation,” “false statements,” and “conspiracy to obstruct justice.” The charges are brought by Biden’s DOJ after Biden promised in November to do everything he could to prevent Trump from being president for a second term.
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In the latest episode of his new Twitter show, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson put the permanent Washington political establishment on blast over its treatment of former President Donald Trump.
“Trump is the one guy with an actual shot at becoming president who dissents from Washington’s longstanding pointless war agenda,” asserted Carlson. “And for that, that one fact, they’re trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him.”
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Breaking: Trump Pleads Not Guilty to All 37 Counts Brought by Biden’s DOJ
2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump plead not guilty to all 37 federal charges brought against him by Biden’s DOJ alleging mishandling of classified documents.
In August, the DOJ employed the FBI to seize 11 boxes of documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, and then claimed that Trump was impeding their investigation. The DOJ did not permit Trump’s attorney to be present during the search and seizure.
Trump was arraigned on the 37 charges on Tuesday afternoon, which include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of withholding a document or record, one count of corruptly concealing a document or record, one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation, one count of scheme to conceal, and one count of false statements and representations.
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Donor-funded news organization ProPublica, marketed as an “independent, nonprofit newsroom,” has been referred to by conservatives as serving a liberal bias. The organization started in 2007 by Paul Steiger, a former Wall Street Journal editor. However, it reportedly is supported now by a slew of liberal donors, such as George Soros and others who were not named in the report, per New York Post.
The conservatives who have accused ProPublica of liberal bias have reportedly suggested that the organization is padded with reporters and editors who consistently attack right-leaning figures and organizations. According to the Post, tax filings indicate that these journalists are paid well for the work that they do.
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Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation are calling on Congress to ensure that a digital surveillance statute set to expire at the end of the year be renewed, despite the fact it was “misused” nearly 300,000 times on Americans who took part in the January 6 and Black Lives Matter riots.
The Section 702 statute of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was enacted in 2008, and gives the US government the ability to “acquire foreign intelligence information from individual terrorists, weapons proliferators, hackers, and other foreign intelligence targets located overseas who operate using US electronic communications service providers.” While it has been praised in the past as an important tool in the fight against terrorism, its use on American citizens has been widely criticized.
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Denver Police say ‘drug nexus’ involving fentanyl believed to be linked to violence
A shooting in Denver, Colorado, early Tuesday morning that left 10 injured is believed to be linked to a “drug nexus” involving fentanyl, police say.
Denver Police Department Commander Matt Clark told reporters Tuesday that two people are in custody and five weapons have been seized following the violence that broke out as fans flooded the streets of the city to celebrate the Denver Nuggets winning the franchise’s first NBA championship Monday night when they defeated the Miami Heat in Game 5, 94-89.
Denver Police said the shooting in the 2000 Block of Market Street — which is believed to be unassociated with the Nuggets celebrations — resulted in 10 total victims. Medical officials said as of Tuesday afternoon, the five who remain hospitalized are in fair condition and four of them had to immediately undergo surgery.
“Crime scene technicians also located a significant quantity of fentanyl pills in the area that were bundled in several baggies,” Clark said, adding that investigators believe a “drug nexus” is linked to the shooting. At least 20 rounds were fired, he said, striking nine adult men and one adult female.
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He Covered Up Cuomo’s Nursing Home Deaths, Now He’s a CDC Deputy Director
by Daniel Greenfield
In March 2020, Dr. Howard Zucker had his name on the infamous ‘Cuomo Death Order’ that has been blamed for the deaths of thousands of nursing residents.
The New York State Health Department’s order stated that “no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission” to a nursing home “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” It even banned nursing homes from testing incoming patients to prevent cases from being detected.
In nursing homes that complied with the order, residents swiftly began dying. By the end of the pandemic, 15% of the state’s nursing home residents were dead.
Over 9,000 infected patients were sent into nursing homes and over 15,000 nursing home residents died. The outcome surprised no one. Christopher Laxton, the head of the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, noted that Cuomo and Zucker, “unaccountably failed to include clinical expertise in operational leadership when these policies were formed and we don’t know why.”
New York’s Health Department not only caused the deaths of thousands of people, it tried to cover it up by listing only those who died inside facilities, not those who died after being taken to a hospital. Zucker was aware of the real numbers, but their release was blocked for months to protect Cuomo. It finally took a lawsuit and a judicial order to release and expose the information.
The true numbers boosted the actual death rate between 40% to 68%…
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Joe Rogan Slams Democrat Party as ‘The Dark Arts’ Over Biden’s Alleged $5 Million Ukrainian Bribe
Joe Rogan spoke out against the “corrupt” indictment of Trump, and discussed how the Biden administration has weaponized the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents, saying that there is a “two-tiered system of justice” in the United States.
Rogan called out President Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s alleged criminal business dealings in Ukraine, which was recently corroborated in an FBI 1023 document revealing that the Biden family recieved a $5 million which Reps James Comer, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and others have said outright was a bribe.
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Nine Shot in San Francisco as Gavin Newsom Tries to Export California’s Gun Control Laws
Gavin Newsom’s California is home to the most radical gun control measures of any state in America. It also wears crown for having the most shooting sprees. Correlation isn’t causation, but could the two be linked? Maybe all those gun control laws only serve to disarm the law-abiding while leaving the criminals free and emboldened to commit violence against the innocent.
On Friday evening, Newsom’s Golden State notched yet another “mass shooting” with nine wounded in one incident in San Francisco. Of course, with Harry Callahan long retired, the SFPD doesn’t have anyone in custody. And the good guys were unable to carry guns for personal defense. Because that might be dangerous.
It happened in San Francisco’s lovely Mission District . . .
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NPR Traffic Plummets After Rage Quitting Twitter
National Public Radio (NPR) has seen its web traffic tank since announcing its departure from Twitter in April.
The outlet rage quit the platform in response to being labeled “state-affiliated media.”
According to web analytics firm Similarweb, npr.org went from 111.5 million page visits in March to 104.2 million in May, a decrease of over seven million.
During that time, the website dropped four spots in the United States, landing at 143rd most popular.
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Obese Woman Demands Airlines Pay for Free Seats to Accommodate Excess Weight
An obese influencer is doubling down on her demands for a more “inclusive” traveling experience for people like her who do not fit in regular-sized airline seats.
Jae’lynn Chaney, who is a size 6XL, called on the Federal Aviation Administration to update its policy to provide larger passengers with an extra seat, free of charge.
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Pictured: Kamala Harris Cosies Up to New Soros ‘Emperor’
The Vice President Kamala Harris was pictured recently all smiles next to Alex Soros, who has just inherited full control of his father George Soros’ $25 billion empire.
Soros himself tweeted the image
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Pixelfed Makes it Easier to Ditch Instagram With New Photo Import Tool
Pixelfed, the plucky decentralized photo-sharing platform, has rolled out a fresh new feature with an eye on luring Instagram users craving for privacy. The move crafts a handy bridge for folks hunting for an alternative to Instagram, with a privacy-first approach in mind.
The founder of Pixelfed, Daniel Supernault, lifted the curtain on this breakthrough, christened “Import from Instagram.” Purpose-built, this nifty addition allows users to effortlessly ferry photos, captions, and hashtags from Instagram over to Pixelfed, making certain that not a shred of the digital treasure trove is left behind.
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Neighbors are calling out the convicted felon managers of a new Portland homeless village for being the epicenter of crime in the neighborhood.
Only weeks after the city cleared out a massive homeless encampment and opened the new Safe Rest Village, housing 67 people who were formerly living in tents along the Peninsula Crossing Trail, residents told KATU that the situation has not improved.
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Red States Fight Back Against Local, Democrat-Led Climate Policies
While the Biden administration discusses plans to drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels in order to combat climate change through the Inflation Reduction Act, Republican-controlled states have signed legislation that prevents liberal cities from enacting their own radical climate policies.
During the legislative session this year, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota recently passed laws that prohibit cities from banning natural gas hookups, Washington Post reports.
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San Francisco Ice Cream Shop Robbed Twice in One Morning, Owner Forced to Toss Gallons of Product
A San Francisco ice cream shop owner said he felt a “rollercoaster of emotions” and “anger” after burglars broke into his business twice in the same morning.
Security footage showed one pair getting away with the cash register and other equipment, leaving the door wide open when they left. Another sole perpetrator came along later and stole merchandise, including supplies and ice cream she scooped with her bare hands.
Now 24-year-old “What’s the Scoop” owner Anthony Womack is left to foot a $15,000-$20,000 bill to cover the cost of the damages, but he isn’t facing the issue alone.
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Senators Question FBI on Warrantless Surveillance
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on renewing a key intelligence tool. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is under the microscope, and recent FBI reforms on warrantless data collection aren’t cutting it with the Senate.
What’s on the table? Section 702 lets US agencies scoop up electronic chatter of foreigners abroad sans warrant, but it sometimes catches Americans’ data in the net. They say it’s crucial for national security, and the clock’s ticking on its expiration at year-end.
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Soros-Backed Group Ramps Up Spending in Virginia Prosecutors Races
The Justice and Public Safety PAC, a group heavily funded by billionaire donor of liberal candidates George Soros, is pouring more money into the protection of far left prosecutors up for re-election in Virginia, campaign filings reviewed by Fox News Digital reveal.
As of June 8, the PAC invested $125,000 into two Virginia prosecutors, who Soros helped get elected four years ago, as they risk losing their seats to Democratic challengers at an upcoming primary scheduled for June 20.
Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti from Arlington County was initially handed $8,000 from the PAC earlier this year, but received another $62,000 in contributions for her race, according to campaign filings released Monday.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed four bills to “empower” parents.
“Our schools are for education, NOT indoctrination,” Abbott said in a tweet.
“Parents deserve access to curriculum, school libraries, and what their children are taught. Today, I signed four bills to deliver on that promise. A great start, but there is more work to be done.”
Joining Abbott at the bill signing ceremony were Texas lawmakers, parents, and other “parent empowerment advocates.”
Among the four bills he signed, two address sexually explicit books, which allude to the current national conversation about book bans. Many school boards, especially in states governed by Republicans, have implemented measures to filter books that are deemed inappropriate.
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As President Trump gears up to appear at the Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday following his criminal indictment, the 45th president unleashed on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s political “witch hunt” in a series of posts on Truth Social, and called the indictment over his alleged mishandling of classified documents “election interference.”
President Trump held nothing back as he dug into Special Counsel Smith, calling him a “corrupt thug” within moments before the two are set to meet face-to-face at the Wilkie D. Ferguson courthouse.
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Virginia is Latest State No Longer Requiring College Degrees for Government Jobs
Virginia is the latest in a movement of states no longer requiring degrees for most state jobs.
On May 30, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced a “landmark change in how state agencies will recruit and compete for talent by eliminating degree requirements, preferences or both for almost 90% of state classified positions.”
“The new Commonwealth hiring practices will expand opportunities for Virginians and give equal consideration to all qualified job applicants,” the announcement states.
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Canadian Cop Punished After Hugging Anti-Lockdown Protesters: ‘Discreditable Conduct’
“A veteran police officer in Canada’s Peel region was demoted after pleading guilty to “discreditable conduct” over a 2021 video showing him hugging anti-lockdown protesters.”
Const. Paul Brown was demoted from his sergeant position for a year after a discipline hearing last month, according to Mississauga News, for his conduct with protesters outside a Mississauga gym that opened to the public despite provincial stay-at-home orders.
The report also detailed that Brown caught flak for stances he expressed in the recording, supporting the protesters and noting that he disagreed with lockdown and mask mandates in place at the time.
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Brussels Blocks €100 Million Compensation Package for CEE Farmers Over Dumping Ukrainian Grain
A compensation package worth €100 million for Central and Eastern European farmers is being blocked by the European Commission, as it alleges that Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia are preventing the transit of Ukrainian products being exported to countries that wish to receive them.
Sources in the European Commission have confirmed reports that there are problems with signing off on the financial support for farmers who have been affected in recent months by the dumping of cheap Ukrainian grain flooding the internal European market.
It is understood that €40 million of the compensation is designated for Poland.
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The battle over the right to cash is heating up in Germany, with German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser pushing for an upper limit for cash transactions well below €10,000. While she is connecting the issue to the fight against organized crime, conservatives and other activists warn that the government is slowly eroding the ability of citizens to make cash transactions, which could set the stage for mass surveillance and restrictions on what citizens can buy and sell.
According to Faeser, purchases of expensive jewelry and watches with cash should be a thing of the past in order to fight organized crime.
“I am concerned with breaking up criminal structures and consistently depriving them of criminal income,” she told the Tagesspiegel newspaper, as cited by Welt.
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Dutch Intelligence Service Warned CIA of Ukraine Plan to Attack Nord Stream Pipelines: Report
Dutch authorities learned of a Ukrainian plan to sabotage the Nord Stream gas pipeline three months before the pipeline was damaged in an apparent attack at the end of September 2022. The Dutch military intelligence agency, MIVD, warned the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States of the plans, and American officials then warned Ukraine not to strike the pipeline, anonymous sources told NOS and Nieuwsuur.
Even though Ukraine’s plan was scrapped, the pipeline was still targeted in an attack with a method similar to what the MIVD had suggested could happen. A week ago, the Washington Post reported that a European ally alerted the U.S. to Ukraine’s plans for sabotage. Prior to that, the New York Times reported that American officials suspected pro-Ukrainian groups of the September incident, and that those groups may have loose ties to the Ukrainian government. The MIVD discussed the plan with German authorities, NOS reported. The CIA also shared the information with Germany, according to the Washington Post.
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France: Parisians Must Live With Rats — Mayor
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo plans to form a committee to explore whether citizens in the French capital should learn to live alongside rats in peaceful coexistence rather than attempt to exterminate the vermin, a city official said last week.
“With guidance from the mayor, we have decided to form a committee on the question of cohabitation,” Anne Souyris, Paris’ deputy mayor for public health, said at a meeting of the Council of Paris on Thursday.
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French Bill Would Allow Law Enforcement to Remotely Switch on Microphones When Surveilling Suspects
French senators have given a green light to a polarizing section of the justice bill, permitting law enforcement to clandestinely switch on microphones and cameras on suspect’s devices. This also paves the way for swift access to geolocation data for tracking individuals under investigation.
How it works: The government justifies this move as a tool specifically under the “Keeper of the Seals” justice bill. It’s designed to snag images and audio of those believed to be linked to terrorism, organized crime, or delinquency.
The pushback: Civil liberties advocates aren’t holding back in their criticism. They caution that the provision could morph every gadget into a tattletale. The Observatory of Digital Freedoms doesn’t mince words, labeling it “security overkill.”
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Italy: Meloni Building Regulations Target Mosques
A change to Italian urban planning legislation intended to clamp down on the conversion of garages or warehouses into mosques was presented in the Italian Parliament this month by PM Georgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party. Liberal opposition politicians criticised the legislation which they view as both Islamophobic and unconstitutional.
The draft bill was introduced by the ruling FdI party and amends the Italian building code to force religious groups to seek permission to use unsanctioned buildings, such as garages, and would heavily constrain the location of mosques in Italy.
If passed, the bill would force the closure of places of worship already located in buildings not approved by the Italian state. The legislation is largely seen as a way to stem any potential Islamification of Italy.
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Knife Violence in Germany Prompts Bans
A blanket ban on edged weapons on German trains and buses may shortly become reality, despite the obvious challenges of compliance and enforcement.
The idea has been germinating since last January’s Brokstedt tragedy, the mass stabbing that occurred on a train in Brokstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, claiming two lives.
Using a kitchen knife, a 33-year-old stateless Palestinian killed a 17-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend. A few weeks later, the deadly stabbing of a 12-year-old girl by two girls of similar age in Freudenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, likewise shocked the nation.
Half a year later, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is now taking the next step to introduce a knife ban on all public transport and associated venues, hoping to bring down the number of such incidents, which more than doubled last year.
336 knife attacks—82 on trains and 254 at train stations—were recorded, an increase of 102% compared to the previous year.
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A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were fatally stabbed in the English city of Nottingham and a van attempted to run over more people early Tuesday morning, police said.
Police said they were called to Ilkeston Road in the center of the city shortly after 4 a.m. local time and discovered two people dead in the street. The two victims — both 19 — had been stabbed, Chief Constable Kate Meynell said.
Shortly after, police officers were called to another incident a short distance away on Milton Street to reports that a van had attempted to run over three people. One man was transported to a hospital in critical condition, while the other two are believed to have suffered minor injuries, police said.
A man in his 50s was also found dead from “knife injuries” a few blocks away on Magdala Road, according to Maynell. Police believe the suspect stole this victim’s van and then “drove at members of the public” on Milton Street, Meynell said.
Police used a stun gun and detained the suspect on suspicion of murder following the pedestrian attacks, Meynell said.
Meynell said they are keeping an “open mind” as to a possible motive. Police are not looking for any other suspects in connection to the attacks, she said.
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No Motive Yet: Three Dead, Three Injured in UK Stabbing and Vehicle Attacks
Three people were killed in the English city of Nottingham early Tuesday morning seemingly at random after a black-clothed man armed with a knife went on a stabbing rampage at a local bus stop, fatally stabbing a man in his 60s and two students.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the attack. While counter-terror police have been deployed in the area following the stabbings, no motive has been officially announced by UK authorities so far, the Liverpool Echo newspaper reports.
Counter-terrorism police were also active in raiding two Nottingham properties in the wake of the stabbings, which took place in the early hours of Tuesday, with the first attack reported at 4:00 a.m. when a young man and a young woman were stabbed.
Just over an hour later, at around 5:30 a.m., a third victim, a man in his 60s, was found dead on Magdala Street. Around the same time, police were alerted to a man ramming a van into three people, who are all now hospitalized as a result.
A witness to the first attack against the two students stated the suspect was a “black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people,” and added, “I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing—four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.”
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The future security of Europe is reliant upon bringing an end to Russian imperialism, Polish President Andrzej Duda said during three-way talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Paris on Monday.
The meeting in Paris started with a one-on-one conversation between Duda and Macron before Scholz joined the leaders and a meeting of the Weimar Triangle format took place. The discussions focused on the security issues of Poland and the entire region in the context of the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius and support for Ukraine.
At a joint news conference after the meetings, Duda said that the three countries “are absolutely united by common interests.” The Polish president added that all leaders stand with Ukraine and are aware that Russia cannot win this war.
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Polish Support for Ukraine is Diminishing at Some Speed
Polish support for providing further aid to Ukraine, and assisting Ukrainian refugees in Poland, has waned considerably in recent months, the latest survey has revealed.
The poll, conducted by the LAB Research Center at the University of Warsaw and the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, showed a growing disillusionment among Poles toward their Ukrainian neighbors.
“We still want to help, 85 percent of respondents are convinced of this, but not as decisively and unconditionally as they did a year ago or even in January this year,” explained Dr. Robert Staniszewski, project manager of the polling.
In just five months, the percentage of Poles strongly in favor of aiding Ukraine during the war decreased from 62 percent to 42 percent. The number of Poles somewhat in favor of Polish assistance for Ukraine dropped from 47 percent in January to 35 percent.
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Swedish PM Promises Reform After Mass Shooting
Over the last several days, seven people were shot in Sweden. Two of them, a 15-year-old boy and a 45-year-old man, were killed during a mass shooting in Farsta, a town south of the city of Stockholm that falls within the Stockholm region, where four people were shot in total.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the centre-right Moderates, took to Facebook to condemn Sweden’s ongoing scourge of gun crime.
“The situation is extremely serious. According to the police, about 30,000 people are now either in or connected to the criminal gangs. Three new people are added every day. The violence is getting coarser, more indifferent and penetrates further down in age,” Kristersson wrote.
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That ‘Christian Terrorist’ in France Has Been Recognized. You’ll Never Believe What He Really Is.
The news was shocking beyond measure: a man went on a stabbing spree at a playground in the French city of Annecy last Thursday, stabbing four three-year-olds and an adult. The attacker shouted “In the name of Jesus Christ” as he did his stabbing and claimed to be a Christian. He even had a made-to-order Christian name: Abdelmasih Hanoun; “Abdelmasih” means “Slave of Christ.”
It was suspicious and contrived, but it did seem to confirm the Leftist elites’ claim that the largest terror threat comes from right-wing Christians. There was just one catch: some people have recognized Abdelmasih Hanoun and say that he is actually a Muslim. I know, knock me over with a feather, right?
The French-language news site Resistance Républicaine reported Monday that “Syrians living in France and Germany” have recognized the attacker as a “madman of Allah,” and that the identification has been confirmed by others as well. The attacker, according to those who have recognized him, is actually a Muslim named Selwan Majd, “a refugee from Al-Hasakah in northern Syria.”
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Twitter Battle Between PM Orban and US Ambassador Erupts Over George Soros and His OSF Successor
The news that U.S. billionaire of Hungarian extraction George Soros has appointed his son Alexander as the new leader of his Open Society Foundations (OSF) has added new fuel to the ongoing diplomatic duel between U.S. ambassador to Hungary David Pressman and the government of the host country.
Reacting to the news, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted a short clip from the 1972 Francis Ford Coppola movie “The Godfather,” accompanied only by the comment “Soros 2.0.”
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Controversial Labour donor and Just Stop Oil supporter Dale Vince has slammed the suggestion the eco-zealots should foot their own protest bills — as activists staged yet another slow march forcing London rush-hour into gridlock this morning.
The multi-millionaire founder of wind farm company Ecotricity claimed billing protestors would be undemocratic and make Britain like Russia or North Korea as he appeared on Good Morning Britain.
Mr Vince was debating whether activists should cover the cost of policing marches after the Metropolitan Police revealed the last six weeks has cost £4.5million.
Meanwhile, two groups of 28 activists blocked roads around Victoria as they entered their eighth week of daily action — with 95 eco-protesters arrested so far.
Just hours later more protestors in north London had to be moved off the road by police.
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UK: Woman Who Lied to Get ‘Abortion by Post’ Pills to Kill Unborn Child Jailed
A woman jailed for lying to procure a “tragic… very late abortion” sparked indignation from the media and political classes, who are clamouring for the law used to convict her to be stricken down.
A woman who knew her pregnancy was well over the legal limit for an abortion but lied over the telephone to get abortion pills by post has been sentenced to 28 months imprisonment, “up to” 14 months of which will actually be served behind bars.
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The CEO of German weapons producer Rheinmetall has both acknowledged the loss of Leopard tanks in Ukraine and also tersely explained why the German public is seemingly unaware that the tanks have been destroyed.
During an interview with German news portal RND, Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, was asked why the Germans hear so little about these losses. Papperger laconically replied, “Because we don’t speak about it.”
To the further question as to whether there are any such losses, he replied: “There are always losses in life.”
The loss of the German tanks has not been widely discussed on German television, but there have been articles about the losses in top newspapers like Bild and Welt. It is unclear how many Leopards have been lost so far in combat operations in Ukraine, but there have been multiple videos confirming the destruction or disablement of the German main battle tanks.
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Putin allies haven’t shied away from making nuclear threats since the re-invasion of Ukraine last year, and now Belarussian ‘dictator’ Lukashenko has joined the club, saying he would not hesitate to use the weapons to deter aggression against his nation.
Belarus recently became a forward staging point for Russian nuclear weapons, yet despite claims that control would remain solely with Moscow, the Belarussian President strongly implied he has some discretion, saying he would not hesitate to use them if attacked.
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France Accuses Russia of Faking Websites to Sow Confusion and Disinformation About Ukraine War
France’s government accused Russia on Tuesday of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign, including impersonating the websites of leading French media and the French Foreign Ministry, aimed at spreading confusion and false information about the war in Ukraine.
The French agency responsible for fighting foreign digital interference, VIGINUM, said it has monitored the alleged operation since soon after Russia invaded its neighbor and that France was one of several European countries targeted. It said it traced the campaign to Russian individuals, companies and “state entities or entities affiliated to the Russian state.”
Last month, the agency detected a mirror website mimicking the French Foreign Ministry’s and intervened with “protective and preventive measures,” VIGINUM said in a report published Tuesday.
“France condemns these actions, which are unworthy of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. No attempt at manipulation will distract France from its support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s war of aggression,” the ministry said in a statement with unusually strong wording.
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Kremlin Takes Control of Islamist Chechen Fighters While Wagner Group Refuses
Ramzan Kadyrov’s Islamist-Chechen paramilitary Akhmat group has signed an agreement to come under control of the Kremlin, Russia’s Defence Ministry announced on Monday amid attempts to consolidate control over the various forces fighting on its behalf in Ukraine.
The Akhmat special forces unit of Chechnya, also known as the Kadyrovites, has signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence, which will now have official control over its operations within Ukraine.
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Putin Regrets Explosion at Kakhovka HPP Disrupted Ukrainian Offensive in That Area
The offensive would have ended very badly for Ukraine, had it attacked there, the president said
MOSCOW, June 13. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he regrets the recent explosion at the Kakhovka HPP disrupted the Ukrainian counteroffensive in that area because the attack would have failed.
“This may sound weird, but I’ll say it anyway. Unfortunately, that (the recent explosion at the Kakhovka HPP — TASS) disrupted their counteroffensive in that area,” he said at a meeting with military correspondents.
Putin then explained his use of the word “unfortunately.”
“It would have been better if they had attacked there,” he said. “Better for us, because it would have ended very badly for them, attacking there.”
“Because the flooding happened, the offensive didn’t take place,” the president said.
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Putin Hit by New Blow as Top Russian General Killed by Ukraine in Counteroffensive
Vladimir Putin has faced a fresh blow after one of his generals was killed during Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces.
Major-general Sergey Goryachev died while fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region, where Ukrainian forces have been retaking some territory.
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Putin Declares Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Failing, Mulls Grain Deal Exit
In rare, detailed remarks on the state of how the war is going in neighboring Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive is failing, stating that Kiev has at this point lost a total of 25 to 30 percent of the military vehicles which had been supplied by the West, including tanks.
Putin further affirmed that the counteroffensive began on June 4 and has “not been successful in any area” — and claimed that casualties on the Ukrainian side are ten times greater than Russia’s.
The comments came the same day the Russian Defense Ministry released video showing damaged and abandoned NATO-supplied armored vehicles, including a German Leopard 2 tank and American Bradley infantry vehicles.
The New York Times seems to somewhat agree with the Kremlin’s assessment that no serious gains have been made by Ukrainian forces, with its headline, “Ukraine Claims More Small Advances in Counteroffensive, but No Breakthroughs”…
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Putin Appeals to Russian Patriotism During ‘Difficult Time’ on National Day
Speaking at a splashy award ceremony at the Kremlin on Monday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin invoked the National Day holiday and appealed to his subjects’ sense of “patriotism” during a “difficult time.”
He did not elaborate on those difficulties, which included Ukraine launching a much-anticipated counteroffensive against Russia’s invading force and recapturing several eastern villages.
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‘Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. These are our trophies. Equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Zaporizhzhia region,’ the defence ministry said in a statement.
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Russian Missile Strike Hits Zelensky’s Home Town, Six Killed, Says Ukraine
The death toll in the Russian shelling attack against the city of Kryvyi Rih has risen from three to six, the regional military governor has said.
The overnight cruise missile strike on the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed more lives than initially thought, with Kryvyi Rih military administration governor Oleksandr Vilkul revealing the death toll has increased from three to six.
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Pro-Ukrainian saboteurs again knocked out a major rail link at the weekend, continuing a campaign of attacks that appear intent on isolating Russian-occupied Crimea from resupply.
A railway bridge in the village of Yakymivka, through which a railway connecting Russian-occupied Melitopol to Ruissian-occupied Crimea runs, was said to be destroyed in what is claimed to be a series of sabotage attacks against Russian-held railways over the weekend. Per a report from Ukraine’s state media organisation Ukrinform, the bridge was blown up on Sunday, and the line “served as part of the enemy arms supply artery from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region”.
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Ukraine’s Losses ‘Catastrophic’, No Need for Martial Law: Putin
Russian leader says no need for new round of mobilisation for now, claims Ukraine has suffered ‘catastrophic’ losses in its counteroffensive.
President Vladimir Putin has said there is no need for an additional mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine for now, but said any further mobilisation would depend on what Russia wanted to achieve there.
“There is no such need today,” Putin on Tuesday told a televised meeting of Russian war correspondents and military bloggers when asked about another mobilisation.
Last year, some 300,000 reservists were called up in what the Russian president cast as a “partial mobilisation”.
“Some public figures say we need to get one million or two million,” Putin said. “It depends on what we want.”
“Should we return there?” Putin said of Kyiv, which Russian troops failed to take in the early stages of what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Putin also said Russia needed to fight enemy agents and improve its defences against attacks deep inside its own territory but said there was no need to follow Ukraine’s example and declare martial law.
“There is no reason to introduce some kind of special regime or martial law in the country,” Putin said. “There is no need for such a thing today.”
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Authored by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag via Public (emphasis ours)
After years of official pronouncements to the contrary, significant new evidence has emerged that strengthens the case that the SARS-CoV-2 virus accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by Public and Racket, the first people infected by the virus, “patients zero,” included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses, which increases the infectiousness of viruses.
More than three years after the pandemic’s outbreak, many around the world had given up on learning the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the highly infectious respiratory virus that has killed millions, and the response to which shut down businesses and schools, upended societies, and caused enormous collateral damage.
Public officials in the U.S. and other countries have repeatedly suggested that uncovering the pandemic’s origin may not be possible. “We may never know,” said Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who oversaw pandemic response for two administrations.
Now, answers increasingly look within reach. Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.
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NZ: Police Use of Private Sector Vehicle Plate Readers Undermines Accountability
New Zealand’s police force has received fresh guidance on deploying the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras that are part of Safer Cities and Auror networks, capturing license plate data across supermarkets, service stations, shopping malls, and main streets nationwide.
The backdrop: These ANPR systems are privately-owned and have been garnering increased attention for their usage by the police. The Privacy Impact Assessment recently rolled out by Simply Privacy, headed by ex-police chief privacy officer Mike Flahive, declares that the law enforcement needs “robust governance, policies, processes, and controls,” to ascertain that ANPR usage is “appropriate and lawful and the potential for misuse is limited as much as possible,” The New Zealand Herald reported.
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South Africa Mulls Moving BRICS Summit to China Over Putin Arrest Warrant
South African media is reporting that the country is mulling forfeiting its role as host of this year’s BRICS summit due to growing pressure from the West over the ICC arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It was on March 17 that the International Criminal Court issued the arrest warrant on charges of war crimes, which “requires” countries party to the Rome Statute to make the arrest. South Africa as a signatory would be under obligation, but non-signatories like China or India are not under obligation.
The 15th BRICS summit is currently set to take place in South Africa’s Durban in late August this year, but controversy over plans of President Putin to travel in person has cast a cloud over the event.
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Brazil’s President Lula Lectures Von Der Leyen at Trade Talks
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signaled readiness to finally conclude the much-anticipated EU-Mercosur trade deal during the first day of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s weeklong trip to Latin America on Monday, June 12th, but also voiced concerns over certain environmental obligations Brussels would like to include in the pact.
During Monday’s joint press conference of the two presidents in Brasilia, Lula reminded the Commission chief that Brussels’ usual strong-arming does not necessarily work outside of Europe.
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While the European Union wants to force mandatory migrant quotas on member states, in Sweden, the activities of criminal groups linked to Middle Eastern and African migrants are becoming increasingly brutal. In the Scandinavian capital, seven people were shot dead in a single day over the weekend, the victims and perpetrators are all believed to be criminals with a migrant background, but the media is keeping remarkably quiet about most of these shootings.
A total of seven people were shot dead in Stockholm and its immediate environs in a single day over the weekend; one young man in Jordbro on Friday evening; two in Solna; and two 15-year-old boys, a 65-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man at Farsta metro station late on Saturday. One of the 15-year-old boys died at the scene, and the middle-aged man died from his injuries in the hospital on Monday morning. The incidents come amid a growing wave of violence in recent years, the vast majority of which has been linked to migrant gangs from various backgrounds, with the country breaking record after record for shootings.
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The Biden regime is offering a pathway to citizenship to foreign immigrants living in the US as part of their effort to solve the military’s recruiting crisis.
An occupied country needs an occupation army.
From the AP, “Join the military, become a US citizen: Uncle Sam wants you and vous and tu”
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More than 1,200 small boat migrants have arrived in Britain in just three days, marking a return to levels not seen since last year.
The Home Office yesterday confirmed 545 migrants reached the UK across the Channel on Monday, after 703 over the weekend.
It means levels are at their highest since the end of November.
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Biden’s Chief Diversity Officer Needs ‘Just Over $76 Million’ to Advance Woke Agenda Abroad
On Tuesday, outgoing State Department Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley revealed that her proposed FY 2024 budget for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility was $76 million.
Speaking before the US House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability, Abercrombie-Winstanley explained that of the tens of millions of dollars going towards DEIA initiatives in all bureaus, around $7 million would be allocated to her office in order to fund department analyses, as well as “projects that advance DEIA domestically or abroad.”
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Bud Light Sales Slump Continues Amid Dylan Mulvaney Controversy
The backlash against the Bud Light brand over the Dylan Mulvaney controversy is lingering and sales of the beer continue to slide.
NiselsenIQ data provided to FOX Business by Bump Williams Consulting showed that for the week ending June 3, Bud Light sales were down 24.4% compared to a year ago. Over the last four weeks ending June 3, the data showed Bud Light sales were down 24.6% relative to the same period last year.
The sales slump began after Anheuser-Busch InBev — the parent company of Budweiser and Bud Light — sent personalized Bud Light cans to a number of social media influencers including transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, who identifies as female.
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Canada: BC District to Provide Free Tampons in Men’s Washrooms
The District of Saanich has announced that it will offer free menstrual products at all public washrooms, including men’s rooms, by the end of the month.
Councillors who supported the initiative claim it will benefit “people who menstruate” and those who cannot afford such products.
The district has 281 public bathrooms, including women’s, men’s and gender-neutral facilities, where menstrual product dispensers will be installed.
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Canada: CBC Explains “2SLGBTQQIPAA+” Acronym to Kids in Gender Ideology Video
CBC Kids News recently published a video in which a child explains the “2SLGBTQQIPAA+” acronym to other children.
“Have you seen this term? 2SLGBTQQIPAA+. You know what each letter means? Don’t worry, we’ll break it down for you,” says the child actor in the video.
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Canada: Trudeau Spent Over $12 Million on Pride Events During COVID
Despite severe lockdowns that resulted in many in-person events turning into online events, the Trudeau government issued $12,021,707 worth of grants to dozens of non-profit organizations in order to fund Pride events between 2020 and 2022.
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France: ‘Radical Pride’ March Features “Bullet for TERFs” Slogan
The French city of Strasbourg saw its first-ever ‘Radical Pride’ march on Saturday, June 10th, a week prior to the more mainstream pride event as those demonstrating last weekend professed much more overt militant views toward their perceived enemies.
The group “Pride Radicale Strasbourg” listed on Instagram a variety of proposed slogans for those attending the event to chant, which included “holidays for the trans, for the cis [non-trans people] suffering,” along with what seems like outright calls for violence against trans-exclusionary feminists (TERFs) with the slogan “One TERF, one bullet, social justice!”
Around 200 people took part in the Radical Pride event, according to the newspaper L’Alsace, which noted that the march was attended by several trade unions but mostly comprised of students.
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Illinois Becomes First State to Outlaw Book Bans in Public Schools and Libraries
On the surface, the Illinois law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday appears to protect free speech. But Pritzker could give a flying fig about free speech. “Book bans are about censorship, marginalizing people, marginalizing ideas and facts. Regimes banned books, not democracies,” said Pritzker, a Democrat. “We refuse to let a vitriolic strain of White nationalism coursing through our country determine whose histories are told, not in Illinois.”
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LGBTQ Activists Send Bomb Threats to Target Locations for Betraying Their Community
When Target was revealed to be selling transgender clothing targeting children in its stores, the backlash resulted in billions of dollars of lost market value for the corporate retail giant. In a desperate attempt to minimize the damage and avoid a “Bud Light situation,” several stores in select markets moved the pride collection of merchandise away from the fronts of their stores and pared it down significantly.
This, of course, angered LGBTQ activists.
“Target should put the products back on the shelves and ensure their Pride displays are visible on the floors, not pushed into the proverbial closet,” Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said in a statement last month. “That’s what the bullies want.”
After years of priding itself as an ally of the LGBTQ community, Target’s efforts to minimize the fallout from its pride collection put the company at risk of another wave of backlash from the very community it was pandering to. And that backlash has come in the form of threats of violence.
According to a report from Fox News Digital, Target stores in at least five states received bomb threats in response to the company’s efforts to scale back the pride merchandise promotion in the hopes of quelling the outrage.
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A transgender cyclist has won a professional women’s cycling race in North Carolina, beating his closest female competitor by five minutes. Austin Killips, 27, took part in the 137 mile (220km) Belgian Waffle Ride cycling race over the weekend while competing in the female category.
The course which runs from Hendersonville, North Carolina through rugged mountains features more than 13,000 feet of climbs, 40 percent gravel and rock roads and rugged terrain making the event “challenging” with “unparalleled punishment for entrants” and “among the hardest if not the hardest course,” according to organizers.
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Actress Megan Fox had a bizarre meltdown, threatening to perform an occult ritual, after a conservative activist questioned why her three young sons all identify as transgender.
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PG Wodehouse to Now Carry Trigger Warning as Cancel Culture of Classic English Literature Spreads
PG Wodehouse is the latest literary great to be targeted by cancel culture, as the publisher Penguin announces text removals and a trigger warning for all new editions of Wodehouse books.
While Penguin maintains that removals “do not affect the story,” the publisher has faced backlash for its decision to blue-pencil PG Wodehouse’s works.
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One of the nation’s most prestigious law schools admitted a transgender student who in his application dismissed his diagnoses of mental disorders as coming from a “white bitch” psychiatrist in “Amerikkka,” then later cursed out a feminist law professor as transphobic and sent bizarre emails to the entire student body, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Northwestern School of Law capitulated to the student, Ishani Chokshi, and even gave him his own law journal, which published his screeds likening judges’ gavels to “dildos.” And last month, a year after Chokshi graduated, a prestigious law journal published a “legal paper” by him that details his purported sexual escapades with seven men.
On May 3, Northwestern Law’s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology published “Of Law and Men,” attributed to “badgaltranny,” an alias of Chokshi, in which he wrote, “I, an Indian-American transgender woman, share stories of my sexual escapades with seven Trump supporters.”
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A trans activist has sparked outrage after she bared her breasts at a White House Pride party attended by Joe Biden.
Rose Montoya, 27, unhooked the top of her dress and grabbed her chest on the South Lawn as someone shouted, ‘are we topless at the White House?’
But the move, posted on her Twitter, has sparked outrage from Conservatives who compared it to the X-rated files found on First Son Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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Trantifa Announce Plan to Attack Protest Against Allowing Men in Washington State Women’s Spa
A trans Antifa group has announced plans to target a protest in Washington state on Saturday. The protest is in response to a recent Seattle court ruling that forced a Christian, Korean, female-only spa to allow men access to the facility and to be permitted to bathe nude with women whether those women like it or not.
False claims were made that The Post Millennial’s editor-at-large Andy Ngo would be present, prompting a wider call to action.
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UK, Sweden, and Switzerland Retract Support for Gender Fluidity
For several months now, the UK has been realising the seriousness of the facts concerning the administration of puberty blockers to minors, particularly in the wake of the scandal that rocked the Tavistock clinic specialising in gender transitions. The UK’s National Health Service has just made the decision to severely restrict minors’ access to puberty blockers—which will be limited to “exceptional circumstances.”
In July 2022, the NHS demanded the closure of the Tavistock clinic on the grounds that the treatments provided there were inappropriate and sometimes even dangerous for children. Now, as of this past Friday, June 9th, the NHS has broadened the lessons from Tavistock to apply to all clinics treating gender identity disorders.
At the same time, the NHS has requested an impact study be launched to clarify the exact effects of these puberty blockers.
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A viral video shows the UK flag being clumsily pulled down, landing on the ground, as it’s replaced by the gay pride flag in London.
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UK: Video: Workmen Cut Down Union Jack Flag From Creepy Pride Display in London
Video of workmen in London removing a Union Jack flag from another massive display of ‘Pride’ flags has gone viral after drawing the ire of many online.
It appears that someone somehow attached the national UK flag to one of the many Pride flags that have been placed on London’s Regent Street.
The person who filmed the video is heard telling the workmen “you’re taking the wrong f***ing flag down mate,” to which one of the workmen replies “you think I don’t know that?” and another concurs “we know that.”
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WHO Member Says Agency Needs to “Nullify the Conspiracies” About COVID Vaccines
In 2020, as people challenged the “expert guidance” on Covid during the first few months of the pandemic, the use of the term “misinformation” in news articles almost doubled. This rapid increase in the use of the term by legacy media outlets was followed by an equally rapid rollout of new Big Tech misinformation rules which targeted content that questioned the Covid guidance being pushed by authorities.
Fast forward to 2023 and the first signs of this censorship pattern are starting to play out again.
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A Canadian politician has been accused of pushing a hoax after claiming that he was punched in the face during the Education Over Indoctrination rally against gender ideology in Ottawa on Friday.
Ontario MPP Joel Harden alleged that he had been struck by a protestor, causing a small scratch on his cheek, however, Twitter users quickly utilized the platform’s Community Notes feature to dispel those claims, and show that it was actually his own megaphone that caused the injury.
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Self-hatred under the rainbow
By Roberto J. De Lapuente / APOLUT
10 June 2023
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For a long time, German nationalism was a European problem – now it is German anti-nationalism that disturbs and alienates its European neighbors.
Germany is showing its colors. But not its own. The color combination of black, red and gold now seems to some Germans to be something to be ashamed of. At least on the international stage, these colors are denied by analogy with national interests. Instead, Germany boasts in its external presentation of a supposed hyper-tolerance under the sign of the rainbow.
Whether it’s a rampant nationalism in the past or a contrary anti-nationalism in the present, Germany is once again showing its gift for galvanizing ideology against the red extreme.
Consider yourself lucky if you didn’t watch the Eurovision Song Contest. Because traditionally, it was once again an insult to all senses. And a politically rather tasteless show, it was too. When the people in the hall in Liverpool – the contest could not be held at the home of last year’s winner Ukraine – started singing “You’ll never walk alone”, the anthem of the local world football clubs, the propaganda was at its peak: the crowd screamed, the presenters and contestants went up on stage and sang along loudly, and at the end there was a pan to Kiev, where people let Ukrainian flags flutter to the song.
Rarely has there been so much staging. So much choreography. It had something of a Stalinist performance about it; dripping with pathos and the aesthetics of socialist realism. But without socialism, of course.
In the middle of all this were the German contestants, a band called “Lord of the Lost”- more or less young, well made-up men who waved the rainbow flag when the camera lenses were pointed at them.
Before the competition, all participants had been photographed for a poster: everyone with their nation’s flag. Only the androgynous, glamorous Germans did not: they allowed themselves to be photographed under the colorful splendor of the rainbow flag.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Black, red and gold: these were once the colours of the Federal Republic of Germany – or of Germany, if you want to be more historically accurate, given the Hambach Festival of 1832. Today, they are clearly not.
Wherever you can avoid the German colors, you avoid them. And they go one step further, replacing the original color triad with the rainbow of colors.
Another aesthetically offensive scene: let’s think back to November 2022, when Interior Minister Nancy Faeser flies to Qatar to represent the German colors. That is, the colors that encompass all color spectrums. Interior Minister Nancy showed up there with a colorful bracelet, showing off her uncovered upper arms under the rainbow to the Muslim people. The world oscillated between amazement and ridicule. Especially since the national team made a huge fuss about the rainbow armband, but on the pitch only delivered dull shades of gray and didn’t open up at all.
Germany has acquired a new color doctrine in recent months. Of
course, the ministries already adorned themselves with it. Critics called it ‘symbolic politics’, while advocates declared the display a a great success.
Which minimum wage earners are helped by the full spectrum of colors waved in front of the Ministry of Labor has never been fully explained. There are even rumors that this is exactly the intention of symbolic politics: to pretend, rather than to improve anything.
Rainbow Germany fights about identities – not entities: about socio-political concepts, for example. There is a lot of talk about emotions and sensitivities, less about facts and realities. Colorful Germany has decided to turn itself into a sentimental kingdom. A country that has written mission awareness on its colorful banner: Germany no longer knows nationals – it only knows antinations.
German (anti)nationalism
In European historiography, Germany is seen as a hegemony, an exploding Prussia that became a central problem for Europe: it grew both economically and geographically. With the establishment of the ‘Reich’, Bismarck declared that this new Germany was saturated. But even then, too large a colossus had emerged that had to define itself as a nation. German nationalism was older than the German Reich; in a sense it was an ideology that led to the founding of the Reich. But the arrogant excesses of this ideology only became apparent when there was finally an empire.
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Self-hatred under the rainbow
Nationalism made Wilhelm Zwo (2) rattle his sabres, von Schlieffen draw up a plan of attack and von Tirpitz a naval plan. Bismarck wanted to dominate France and keep the eastern European territories under control. Nationalist thinking led to acting as a kind of protective force for Austria and accepting a war with half the continent. The history after the First World War is well known. German nationalism gave rise to a system that was both rigid and totalitarian.
Other European countries had similar experiences, and nationalism spread around the world. However, Germany abandoned its nationalist approach after the Second World War – whether out of insight or because it seemed opportune for the new friend of the United States remains to be seen. Foreign policy turned into checkbook diplomacy; German affairs were now governed by economic interests. Nationalism in the heart of Europe seemed to have been successfully put in place, hegemony in the center of the continent had found a new role. Until reunification approached, and Europe feared a relapse. The Poles and the British in particularly were skeptical. Sometimes it seemed that German arrogance was back. During the euro crisis, for example, there was a tone towards southern Europe that was hard to get used to: if Europe were like Germany, it would prosper – slogan: Hartz IV for all!
But that was a flash in the pan.
For some years now, Germans have been frightening this continent, not with their exuberant nationalism, but with its opposite: anti-nationalism. Germany appears to the world as a country that does not want to be a country, but a religious community.
The extreme country at the center of Europe
Germany constantly appears on the international scene as a country ready to abolish its national interests. At least on a purely informal level: it constantly emphasizes Western values, but specifically German ones. Issues of identity politics, also known as wokeness, are hardly ever defended so tenaciously and aggressively, and pushed through even against the will of the population, as in this country, except, of course, in the US.
The country seems to be under constant anti-nationalist irrigation. Anyone who cannot warm up to this is regarded as eternally stubborn, as a right-winger, perhaps an extreme one, and even a Nazi, yes, as someone who still thinks in national or even nationalist categories – and who in any case has outlived himself. Just as in the past anyone who engaged in internationalism was called “fatherless”, today it is a matter of course in German public opinion to reproach everyone for their fatherland if they ever bring it up.
In other words, Germany is again a land of extremes. As almost always in German history, this area in the middle of Europe seems to be a breeding ground for extremist thinking.
Where does this come from? Possibly it has to do with its geostrategic location: as a transit country for various global influences, an extreme attitude always forms in certain circumstances, which is then to be represented as a new state doctrine.
Currently, the feared nationalism of the Germans has become an equally dangerous anti-nationalism that ignores national interests and, with its eyes open, maneuvers the country into a situation where it may become almost incapable of acting. All this happens under a colorful flag, surrounded by loudly shouting party people who pretend that a little diversity and handheatism is half the battle in the geopolitical struggle between countries.
Today’s German anti-nationalist is the grandson of former nationalists: neither has any sense of moderation.
Both are radical dreamers who care about fame, long for recognition and always being right.
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