The “Traffic Light” government in Germany is quietly flying 4,000 migrants into the country every month. Meanwhile, migrants staying at a hotel in London staged a demonstration on the sidewalk outside the hotel, demanding private rooms and better wi-fi.
In other news, the pet products superstore PetSmart announced the launch of its line of “Pride” wear for cats and dogs.
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Analysts have revised up their expectations of the peak cash rate to be imposed by the Reserve Bank of Australia, rising from 4.1 per cent to 4.35 per cent.
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Jobs Report: US Economy Adds 339,000 Jobs in May, Crushing Expectations
The May jobs report released Friday showed the US economy remains strong with more than 300,000 jobs created last month, while the unemployment rate rose to 3.7%.
The US economy added 339,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. This marks the 14th-straight month that job creation came in above what Wall Street economists had expected and the largest monthly increase since January.
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Poland Has the Highest Rate of GDP Growth in Europe, Also Tops China
OECD data for the first quarter of 2023 shows Poland is the leader in Europe in terms of GDP growth, which will be welcome news to the Polish government.
Poland’s GDP was 3.8 percent higher than in the fourth quarter of 2022, exceeding expectations. The rate of GDP growth in Poland exceeded the 0.4 percent average for OECD states and the 0.2 percent equivalent figure for EU countries.
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A massive 8.65 per cent increase in the minimum wage — the biggest since 1990 — has stirred fears of more interest rates and a recession as other workers demand huge pay rises to cope with high inflation.
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During a Fox News town hall with host Sean Hannity on Thursday evening former President Donald Trump and top GOp presidential contender for 2024 said he could stop the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours” and would bring inflation down, which he referred to as a killer of empires.
Trump was asked about high inflation, medicare, social security, and the quality of life for seniors.
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Breaking: YouTube Reverses Policy — Will Now Allow Election Fraud Claims
YouTube has announced a reversal of its “election integrity” policy, stating that it will now leave up content that makes claims of fraud, errors, or glitches in elections, including the much-debated 2020 presidential election and previous US elections.
The company confirmed this decision to Axios on Friday, emphasizing that maintaining the policy may hinder political speech without effectively reducing the risk of real-world harm or violence.
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On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan penned a letter to Merrick Garland demanding that the Attorney General reveal the extent to which the Federal Bureau of Investigation was involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into former president Donald Trump. Smith was tapped by Garland in 2022 to dig into “whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote.”
Jordan’s letter comes on the heels of a report conducted by Special Counsel John Durham which exposed the weaponization of the FBI and shone light on the department’s failure to “uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law.”
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Breaking: DOJ Closes Investigation Into Classified Documents Held by Mike Pence, No Charges Filed
On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly closed its investigation into former Vice President Mike Pence’s retention of classified documents. He will not face charges.
Multiple sources told Fox News that the investigation into the alleged improper retention of classified documents held at Pence’s Indiana residence from his time within the Trump administration has been closed.
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Country Music Singer John Rich, Dr. Ben Carson and Larry Elder’s Free Speech Bank is Now Open to All
Radio host Larry Elder, along with country music star John Rich and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, has made a foray into the banking sector with an aim to promote the values of free speech.
The three are now the proud co-owners of Old Glory Bank, renamed from First State Bank in Elmore City, Oklahoma, which carries the legacy of being the state’s oldest bank.
This week, the bank announced that it’s open to all with no need to join a waiting list.
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Elon Musk Becomes World’s Richest Person (Again) After Luxury Bust Hits Bernard Arnault
Bloomberg’s billionaire index shows Elon Musk has reclaimed his position as the world’s wealthiest person. He surpassed LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault’s $187 billion fortune by about $7.7 billion to $194.8 billion this week as the luxury bubble deflates.
The two centibillionaires have been duking it out for the top spot on Bloomberg’s billionaire index. Arnault’s wealth surged in recent months as investors panic-bought LVMH’s stock on the narrative that demand for brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Celine was ‘still in vogue.’ But it wasn’t until last week when news of softening US demand crushed global luxury brand stocks.
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Falcons Dive-Bombing Chicago Pedestrians to Protect Chicks
CHICAGO — A pair of peregrine falcon parents are raising three chicks along Chicago’s busy Wacker Drive, and beware to any pedestrian who ventures too closely to their nest.
Just ask Chuck Valauskas, who was struck by one of the falcons. The patent attorney was leaving work one day last week, walking below the nest situated on a seventh-floor ledge when he felt a thud on his head.
“I thought, ‘What was that?’ It felt like a 16-inch softball,” Valauskas told the Chicago Sun-Times.
He sustained a 1-inch gash on his head and now avoids the path beneath the nest altogether. Has has since gotten a tetanus shot to be safe.
At least one other person has been clobbered by the birds, building security guards said.
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Federal Judge Blocks ATF Pistol Brace Rule for Major Gun Group
Submitted by Gun Owners of America
On Thursday, Joe Biden planned to enact the largest gun ban in U.S. history—a ban on up to 40,000,000 pistols.
But at the eleventh hour, the executive order gun ban was gutted by three federal courts.
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Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin Takes on New Role
Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is stepping into a new role as the executive director of a new justice center at UC Berkeley.
Boudin, who was recalled last year and is no longer an elected official, believes he will still be able to make an impact on the criminal justice system — this time from the ground up.
“We are going to be doing work that makes an impact from coast to coast,” he said Thursday.
In his new role, Boudin will build up Cal’s new criminal law and justice center that will focus on analyzing public safety data, looking into how inequality shapes the justice system and advocating for certain laws.
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FTC: Former Amazon Ring Employee Spied on Women With Cameras in Bathrooms and Bedrooms
In court filings, the Federal Trade Commission said that Amazon violated the privacy rights of people by allowing employees unrestricted access to footage recorded by the Ring doorbell camera. The company agreed to a $5.8 million settlement.
In 2017, a Ring employee spied on 81 female customers and Ring employees for months. The FTC claimed that another employee noticed the misconduct, reported it, and the employee was fired.
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Instagram Bans Dem Presidential Candidate RFK Jr From Creating New Campaign Accounts
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr revealed on Thursday that when his campaign uses the TeamKennedy email address to set up accounts on Instagram, they are automatically banned from Instagram for 180 days.
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Shocking footage has captured the moment a gang of thugs smashed into a San Francisco store and stole over $100,000, as the owner slammed the city officials for failing to halt the crime wave.
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J1 — The Anniversary of the BLM Insurrection at the White House
by Daniel Greenfield
On May 29th, 2020, the nationwide insurrection by the racist hate group BLM and its leftist allies arrived in the nation’s capital in a very big way.
On Friday night, a violent racist leftist mob, falsely described as “peaceful” by its media allies, converged on the White House. The insurrectionists assaulted Secret Service and Park Police officers. They shouted obscenities and threatened President Trump even as they fought their way past law enforcement personnel to reach the White House.
“It looks like a war zone outside the White House,” Adam Parkhomenko, the former co-founder of Ready for Hillary, commented on a retweeted video of a burning building.
The Democrat insurrectionists hurled Molotov cocktails and rushed out for brief tactical forays even as a more telegenic crowd that was proportionately more female held their hands up for the cameras and chanted, “Hands up, don’t shoot”: a BLM hoax popularized during the Michael Brown riots. While these human shields faced off with law enforcement, the real attack was underway with insurrectionists targeting security barriers and Secret Service personnel.
Secret Service personnel faced everything from bricks to incendiary devices and held the line. The insurrectionist assault was aimed at breaking the line, forcing the Secret Service to retreat allowing for a siege of the White House, followed by a full assault and penetration of the grounds. But despite the violence, the Secret Service did not retreat and none of the Democrat insurrectionists were able to make it over the White House fence…
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Millennial Voters Keep With Historical Trend of Leaning Right as They Age
Millennials have kept with tradition and have gradually moved to the right of the political spectrum as they have gotten older. In 2020, President Joe Biden lost nearly half the votes from those between the ages of 18 and 29 who had voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008.
According to The New York Times, Biden received 55 percent of the vote among those who were between the ages of 18 to 29 in 2008. Those same voters preferred Democrat candidates by just 10 points in the 2022 midterms.
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MTG Announces Release of Jan 6 Tapes
On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced the release of the highly anticipated January 6 tapes. The Georgia congresswoman revealed that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will be giving two journalists and a “third outlet” access to the thousands of hours of footage Twitter Files style, adding that their reporting on it would soon be shared with the public.
Greene had previously vowed to release the footage “to the people,” leading some to question why a select group of media figures had been given the opportunity to become middlemen between the content and the masses.
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NASA Panel on UFOs Claims to be Hindered by Stigma, Lack of High Quality Data
On Wednesday, a NASA panel suggested that the study of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) is made much more difficult due to the stigma surrounding the issue. This comes in the form of people being harassed who work to investigate the strange sightings, which can make it near-impossible to learn about the object’s origins, per NBC News.
The panel was formed in 2022, and they presented initial findings during the recent panel talk. A more comprehensive report is expected to be published later this summer. Additionally, the team tasked with investigating UAP sightings and reports said that there is a need for more high-quality data in order to effectively assess the anomalous sightings.
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North Carolina Base Fort Bragg Rebrands as Fort Liberty
Fort Bragg has officially been renamed Fort Liberty, becoming the latest American military base to ditch its Confederate monicker at the behest of the Biden administration.
The North Carolina base was abuzz Friday morning as military leaders gathered to mark the transition with an elaborate ceremony.
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Oakland Residents Pack City Council Meeting Demanding Action Amid Massive Spike in Violent Crime
On Tuesday, hundreds of Oakland, California residents congregated in the auditorium of a local high school to voice their frustration over the city’s crime problem. Dozens lined up to stand behind the microphone and tell their personal stories to North Oakland Councilman Dan Kalb, OPD Capt. Jeffrey Thomason, and Department of Violence interim chief Kentrell Killens, who sat on stage and listened to each one, even as they themselves became the focus of the ire.
Violent crime in Oakland has risen dramatically over the past year, as have robberies. There have been numerous high-profile attacks involving prominent members of the community, leaving many feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods.
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OpenAI Shuts Down Conservative Chatbot Gippr AI
OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, has shut down Gippr AI on the Tusk App. Gippr AI is a right-leaning artificial intelligence chatbot.
OpenAI claims it shut down Gippr AI because it violated policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior and deceptive activity. The move sparked debate on free speech. Conservatives viewed the move as an attempt to silence their viewpoints.
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Seattle-Area Principal Found High on Cocaine With Loaded Gun at Grocery Store, Put on Leave
Two Seattle-area elementary school principals are on leave after their drug use was exposed when one of them was found high on cocaine with a loaded gun at a local grocery store.
Michael and Meghan Griffin, husband and wife, are both elementary school principals in the Northshore School District in Bothell, Washington, and have been placed on administrative leave through the end of the school year.
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Several Injured After Partial Building Collapse Near Yale Medical School
The building was under construction at the time of the collapse
At least eight construction workers in Connecticut were injured after a building partially collapsed just after noon Friday a few blocks from Yale University and its medical school.
The building in New Haven was under construction at the time of the collapse. Workers told first responders that too much concrete pooled in one area after it was poured faster than they could spread it, causing the collapse, Fire Chief John Alston Jr. said during a news conference.
First responders had additional urgency to rescue the victims because the concrete was drying, he said.
“Our units responded immediately within minutes and found several persons in varying degrees of injury, from broken bones to three that were partially buried under the rubble,” Alston added.
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Trove of Nearly 10K Hunter Biden Laptop Photos, Docs Appear on Organized Website
Nearly 10,000 photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were uploaded to a new website — BidenLaptopMedia.com, which has been intermittently unavailable since launch due to overwhelming traffic.
The site, which took months to complete, is the brainchild of former Trump White House aide, Garrett Ziegler, who worked as an aide to economic adviser Peter Navarro.
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Destroyed 12-0 by Team of Older, Male Wrexham Players
A group of older men, some retired, from the U.K. totally destroyed a team of former U.S. women’s soccer players 12-0 at an independent soccer tournament in North Carolina on Thursday.
The Wrexham men’s team, made up of former and current players — some in the 40s — took on a team of U.S. women being coached by famed U.S. soccer player Mia Hamm. The U.S. team was made up mostly of former U.S. National Women’s Team players, including Heather O’Reilly and Lori Lindsey, according to GiveMeSport.
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Umbrel Home Launches to Offer a Plug-and-Play Way for People to Own and Access Their Own Data
Umbrel, the company that develops umbrelOS, has announced a new home server, Umbrel Home, to provide users with more privacy and control over their data.
The $699 home server uses umbrelOS, which comes with self-hosted apps in the Umbrel App Store like Home Assistant, Plex, Bitcoin/Lightning node, and Nextcloud, which acts like a personal cloud solution for documents, photos, videos and more.
The goal is to get more people to own their own data instead of relying on Big Tech.
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‘Vulgarity and Violence’ Cited as King James Bible Removed From Some Utah School Libraries
A Utah committee has responded to allegations “vulgarity and violence” contained in the pages of the King James Bible are reason enough for its removal from some Davis School District younger grade library shelves.
ABC4 Utah reports the original complaint that sparked the move was filed by an unknown person in March. It came on the heels of a statewide law passed in 2022 that allowed residents to challenge any books found in school libraries.
As of March, the law was used 81 times with Davis County having removed 33 books for material found to contain sex, vulgarity, and violence, the report sets out.
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Woman Who Accused Biden of Assault Says She Moved to Russia, Asked for Citizenship
Tara Reade, sitting alongside Russian lawmaker and alleged spy Maria Butina, says she hopes to hold on to her US citizenship; Biden has denied her allegations
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Wyoming Pauses Plans for EV Charging Network, Citing Longterm Financial Concerns
Wyoming legislators are temporarily pulling the plug on a proposed electric vehicle charging network, citing concerns about profitability down the road.
The infrastructure would have been heavily subsidized by the federal government for the first five years, however after that private operators would be tasked with maintaining them, leading some experts to warn that the stations might not make financial sense.
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Brits Resist the WHO’s Coming Power Grab
Tory MPs urged the government to block any part of the WHO’s coming pandemic treaty that would give power over national health decisions to the global organization, fearing that the accord would enable the WHO to enforce border closures and vaccine passports, the Telegraph reported on Thursday, May 25th.
In a letter, seen by the publication, the conservative MPs warned ministers of an “ambition evident … for the WHO to transition from an advisory organization to a controlling international authority.”
The so-called “Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response accord,” also known as the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty (or just the pandemic treaty, for short), is a planned global instrument that was first proposed by European Council President Charles Michel back in 2020, with the aim of creating a common, binding framework of health regulations in order to tackle challenges of future pandemics.
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Brussels to Curtail Practice of Consultants for Its Cabinets
The Belgian federal government is set to restrict certain parties from being installed in its cabinets. Consultants, drawn from publicly listed companies and who are still on their payroll, would be barred.
Le Soir and De Standaard report that Brussels is to approve a bill towards that end on Friday, June 2nd. If passed, which government sources fully expect, employees of postal service Bpost and mobile telecommunications firm Proximus can no longer be ‘lent’ to politicians.
The impetus for such a bill to be drawn up was, in typical fashion, a scandal.
As outlined by The European Conservative, in early May, Minister for Public Enterprises Petra De Sutter (Groen) drew criticism over revelations that two individuals working in her cabinet were still in Bpost’s employ.
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Dutch Trade Minister: China Vital to EU’s Green Transition
The Dutch trade minister defended her country’s bilateral relationship with China this week stating in an interview with the Financial Times that a potential schism with China jeopardised Europe’s entire green transition.
Liesje Schreinemacher urged caution regarding any EU plans to completely disentangle from China, saying that a working relationship with Beijing is vital to making the European economy more sustainable.
Schreinemacher’s comments are a mild break from the Dutch government’s usually hawkish commitment to mitigate Chinese influence, as EU leaders ponder whether to follow the U.S. lead on severing economic ties with China on national security grounds.
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EPP Fightback Fails to Stop Human Rights Directive
Companies larger than 250 people operating in the EU will be held accountable for human rights abuses and carbon emissions linked to their supply chains. The mandate went into effect Thursday, June 1st, as the European Parliament rubber-stamped new corporate diligence laws 366 to 225 in Brussels.
The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) imposes fines of up to 5% of a company’s global revenue on firms found to be supporting bad environmental or human rights practices.
The Directive was first proposed by the European Commission in February 2022, just three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, and is the latest piece of EU legislation that helps deleverage the European economy away from authoritarian economies.
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EU Censorship Push Aimed at Restoring Government and Media’s ‘Monopoly’ on Power
An EU push for social media censorship is really aimed at restoring the monopoly on power the government and media used to enjoy, an MEP has claimed.
Tom Vandendriessche, an EU parliamentarian for the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, has alleged that the union’s continued push for social media censorship is an attempt to restore the near-absolute control the government and legacy media used to hold over public discourse.
The populist MEP made the comments in relation to a report on so-called “foreign interference” voted on by the European Parliament on Thursday.
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EU Joins Forces With U.S. on AI ‘Code of Conduct’
Rapid advances in AI technology are prompting a transatlantic response.
The U.S. and the EU are working on a voluntary code of conduct to which it wants AI companies to adhere. With enforceable EU legislation still years away, policymakers hope such a code might forestall the potential doom scenarios brought about by AI that various experts have warned about.
At the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in Luleå, Sweden, EU tech chief Margrethe Vestager said on Wednesday, May 31st, that she believed a draft for such a code of conduct could be ready within weeks, allowing industry to commit to a final proposal “very, very soon.”
So-called content-creating ‘generative AI’, of which ChatGPT is the most popular example, is of particular concern to lawmakers. “Everyone knows this is the next powerful thing,” said Vestager, who called it “a complete game-changer.”
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EU Passes Crypto-Asset Regulation
The European Parliament has passed its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation.
Defining a “crypto-asset” as “a digital representation of value or rights which may be transferred and stored electronically, using distributed ledger technology or similar technology,” the new regulation requires that issuers of such assets conform to certain standards, especially criteria pertaining to transparency.
Service providers using crypto-assets, for their part, must register as such and conform to certain security standards, especially criteria pertaining to including to do with the avoidance of money laundering.
The much-publicized Non-Fungible Token (NFT) phenomenon, however, remains unaddressed by MiCA. The same is true of “decentralized finance,” understood as financial services using automated protocols operating outside traditional institutions.
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France First to Regulate Online Influencers
France is set to become the first country in the world to define ‘influencer’ in national law and attempt to regulate the activity of people who seek a digital following and promote everything from products to places in exchange for money.
A joint committee composed of members of the two chambers of Parliament, the Assemblée Nationale and the Senate, unanimously adopted a final text of the bill on May 25th.
Originally proposed by Arthur Delaporte of the socialist party and Stéphane Vojetta from Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, senators and deputies hammered out a text that will likely go for a final vote in the coming week.
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French Bill to End ‘Woke’ Rewrites
Plans to rewrite literary works to conform to the standards of political correctness are thriving: the works of Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie have fallen victim, and those of P. G. Wodehouse are about to undergo censorship. However, the process has been widely criticised and now, in France, a bill is to be considered to prevent the rewriting of literary works.
The initiative comes from Les Républicains MP Jean-Louis Thiériot, himself a historian and author of several works on Franco-German history. Scandalised by the successive rewritings of novels by Anglo-Saxon authors, he wants to put to a vote a law “aimed at protecting the integrity of works from ideological rewritings.”
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Germany: ‘Youths’ Wreak Havoc at Swimming Pool. Beat Mother in Front of Her Children
A mother was brutally attacked in front of her children by a mob of ‘youths’ wreaking havoc at a swimming pool in Germany this week, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded on Sunday evening in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, a municipality in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Historic ‘ASAP’ Ammo Deal Approved by the European Parliament
The European Parliament adopted the so-called ASAP (Act in Support of Ammunition Production) on Thursday, June 1st, greenlighting the investment of half a billion euros into boosting Europe’s arms production capabilities. This marks the first time in history that the EU budget will be directly used by the bloc’s defense industry.
The bill enjoyed almost unanimous support among the 600 MEPs present in the plenary chamber, with 518 voting for the adoption and only 59 against.
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Israeli and Italian Spies Dying in Freak Boat Accident Sparks Conspiracy Theories
An accident that occurred on Lake Maggiore in Italy following a storm resulted in at least four deaths — but these were not just any victims. Among the people on board the capsized boat were Italian and Israeli spies, with the team allegedly celebrating a birthday together when disaster struck. The story has dominated Italian headlines following news of the large number of spies on board the boat, and fueled speculation about how they perished.
So far, the Italian and Israeli governments are mostly keeping quiet about the case, according to Hungarian news outlet Index.
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Leak: Green Farm Odour Resolution Ridiculed by MEPs
A draft resolution by Polish Green MEP Dr. Sylwia Spurek to restrict the location of livestock farming away from residential areas has been scoffed at as being “full of nonsense” by a French parliamentary colleague in a catty exchange of emails.
Spurek, a socialist turned Green MEP who specialises in animal welfare, called for EU citizens to be protected against the bad odours and the negative health impacts caused by animal farming in a resolution asking the European Commission to take legislative action against farms located adjacent to homes.
In emails seen by The European Conservative, French Renew MEP Jérémy Decerle openly rebuked her proposals as hilarious due to how ridiculous the suggestions were. A major proponent of animal farming against green overregulation, Decerle thanked Spurek for brightening up an otherwise dull day with her outlandish proposals saying that the Polish parliamentarian had no understanding of rural life.
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MEPs Clash Over Russian Disinformation Report
The shadow of Qatargate and Russian aggression in Ukraine loomed large as the EU Parliament discussed measures to protect next year’s EU elections against foreign disinformation campaigns.
Lawmakers debated a report by EPP MEP (and former Latvian Foreign Minister), Sandra Kalniete at a plenary session in Brussels on June 1st, calling for a total clampdown on pro-Russian activism and for the strengthening of democratic mechanisms ahead of next year’s European elections.
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The Polish football referee due to officiate the UEFA Champions League final will remain in charge of the game after apologizing for speaking at an event organized by a politician deemed far-right by a Polish activist group.
The Warsaw-based Never Again campaign complained to football governing body UEFA about Szymon Marciniak, who is considered to be one of the most highly rated international referees and oversaw last year’s FIFA World Cup final, after it emerged he accepted an invitation to speak at an event held on May 29 at the International Congress Center in Katowice.
The event was organized by Slawomir Mentzen, a co-leader of the nationalist Confederation party in Poland considered to be a part of the radical right.
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Polish Church to Impose Hefty Fines on Priests Found Guilty of Foul Play
The Episcopate of the Polish Catholic Church is set to approve a plan to introduce financial penalties for clerics found guilty by the Church’s court of breaching canon law.
According to the plan, the maximum penalty that could be levied would amount to €15,000, with any rulings needing to be ratified by the Vatican.
Financial penalties are now possible, according to Pope Francis’s amended canon legal code introduced at the end of 2021. The code allows for priests to be punished financially for their misdemeanors, and they can also have their pay suspended.
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Portugal’s New Conservative Party
In a nation long dominated by the Left, a new conservative political party, Nova Direita (Portuguese for ‘New Right’) is trying to seize the moment. The movement is led by Ossanda Liber, an Angolan-born lawyer who has become a rising star for the weakened and fractured Portuguese Right.
Liber, 46, is a fresh face in politics, although she is not without experience. Her first taste of front-of-the-line politicking was in 2021, when she ran for mayor of Lisbon. During the campaign, she made a name for herself in a much-discussed interview with state-owned broadcaster RTP, in which the journalist bluntly told her that he believed “Portugal to be a systemically racist country.” “Do you think so? I do not,” answered Liber, in what became a major moment for anti-’woke’ politics in the country. Liber then proceeded in 2022 to run for parliament as part of Aliança, a small right-of-centre party. With the European parliamentary election drawing near, she is now launching her own force.
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Record Media Spending to Manipulate Spain’s Elections
Following emphatic losses by the Spanish socialist party during the country’s municipal elections, which led PM Sanchez to call a snap election for July 23rd, Spain’s Council of Ministers has approved a massive €440 million spending package to purchase media space and airtime for governmental advertising campaigns.
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Kyiv has long called for Ukraine to be admitted to Nato, but allies are divided about when and how any accession might happen as the war with Russia continues.
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Teenage ISIS Follower Jailed for Life Over Plot to Kill UK Soldiers and Police Officers
A teenage ISIS member has been jailed for life for plotting to kill soldiers and police officers in the UK.
Matthew King, 19, carried out reconnaissance on police stations, railway stations and an army barracks before he was arrested.
He discussed his plans and shared a “gory fantasy” with an online girlfriend with whom he struck up an adolescent flirtation, the Old Bailey criminal court in London heard.
In one message he said “I just want to get my hands on an American marine or British marine” and expressed a desire to “die a martyr”.
While in custody, King made violent threats to “behead” and “kill and chop up staff”.
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The London Metropolitan Police could be given access to the controversial ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) camera system, which is being expanded. Activists have raised concerns about the potential access to the ULEZ cameras by the police because of potential abuse and violation of privacy.
The cameras will be used to identify drivers in non-compliant vehicles, who will be required to pay a daily fine of £12.50 ($15.66) to drive in low emission zones.
During the Mayor’s Questions last month, London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan addressed the issue of Met police having access to ULEZ cameras.
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A Just Stop Oil fanatic has said she would ‘understand’ if her own mother was blocked from getting to hospital for an appointment by protesters from the group.
Eco-activist Indigo Rumbelow told podcast The News Agents she would ‘personally understand’ protesters’ actions and argued that the climate crisis places billions of lives at risk.
When asked about an incident in which members of Just Stop Oil reportedly refused to allow a member of the public past their blockade to travel to a hospital appointment, Ms Rumbelow said she would support that decision, even if it meant ‘life or death’.
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UK: The Sarcastic Message Animal Rising Leader Sent After We Exposed Plan to Ruin Epsom Derby
The organiser of Animal Rising sent one last message to the Express reporter who infiltrated the group of eco-activists. Eco-activist Beau King Houston claimed he had seen through reporter Max Perry’s act long before he revealed who he truly was.
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Why Does the EU Parliament Want to Prevent Hungary’s EU Council Presidency?
For years, I browsed with interest through the WikiLeaks cables released by Julian Assange, and more specifically, the confidential reports from the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. I did not do this because I expected to see anything new per se, but it was still exciting to decipher what exactly the U.S. saw wrong with us Hungarians, what the U.S. ambassador was criticizing the Hungarian national government for and why.
What I expected has been confirmed line by line. Behind the many small pieces of information, the target system became clear. Then, as now, American diplomacy expects the “right thinking” from its Hungarian partners. The elements of this are boiled down to a few basic dogmas of the liberal world order, but if any responsible governmental actor anywhere in the world dares to criticize them, Washington no longer regards them as friends and allies.
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Zelensky Takes Center Stage at European Summit in Moldova, Balkan Tensions Also Dominate Talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the European Political Community summit in Moldova on Thursday morning where he discussed developments in the ongoing conflict in his country with the leaders of 46 other countries, including Russia.
Zelensky was received by the host of the meeting, Moldovan President Maia Sandu, at Mimi Castle in Bulboaca, near Chisinau. The Ukrainian president thanked her for the humanitarian support offered to Kyiv and for receiving Ukrainian refugees.
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Caroline Glick: Ehud Barak’s Complicated Position in Israeli Politics and Industry
This week, two stories came out that placed the left’s anti-government riots in a new light.
First, in a podcast with Haaretz reporter Amir Oren, Gilead Sher—one of the leaders of the “Resistance” against the Netanyahu government—explained that he and his colleagues put together the organizational and financial structure for the mass rioting that Israel has experienced since January, before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his colleagues formed the government. In other words, the riots, protests, acts of political violence and intimidation that have swamped Israel since January were not spontaneous responses to the government’s legal reform proposals. They were planned and financed weeks before Justice Minister Yariv Levin was appointed to his position and well before the government took any position on anything.
Sher served as Ehud Barak’s chief of staff during Barak’s brief tenure as prime minister from 1999-2001. He was Barak’s chief negotiator with the PLO at the failed Camp David Peace Summit and has remained close to Barak ever since.
Speaking to Oren, Sher revealed that the plot to light the country on fire was hatched in mid-December, three weeks before the government was formed. In a meeting hosted by Yossi Kutchik, who served as the director general of the Prime Minister’s Office during Barak’s premiership, Sher and Kutchik met with former IDF Chief of General Staff Dan Halutz and high-tech billionaire and far-left political activist Orni Petruschka.
In Sher’s telling, “The four of us met and very quickly, maybe a week or two, we were joined by a number of other people.”
Among others, Sher mentioned former deputy attorney general Dina Zilber and Shikma Bressler. In 2020, Bressler burst into the public consciousness as head of the “Black Flags” group of anti-Netanyahu protesters. As Israel’s Channel 13 revealed in January 2020, Bressler’s group was funded by Ehud Barak.
Barele Crombly, who organized several of the right’s major pro-judicial reform protests, claimed in a recent interview that Barak is one of the largest funders of the “Resistance.” Crombly claimed that “Ehud Barak is funding the protest with millions if not tens of millions of shekels.”
Sher’s claims were later expanded by former leftist activist Eldad Yaniv. Yaniv, who was a senior adviser to Barak during his 1999 campaign against Netanyahu and maintained close ties to the former premier in the intervening years, organized the 2017 protests outside then-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s home demanding that he indict Netanyahu. After the Nov. 1 elections, Yaniv broke with his political colleagues because he felt that the public had spoken and that Netanyahu and his government had the right to lead the country.
After Sher gave his interview, Yaniv explained on Channel 11 said that the same people Sher mentioned in his interview approached him before the elections. Convinced by their polling data that Netanyahu and the religious right would win the elections, they asked Yaniv to begin planning the campaign Sher claims he initiated last December.
The first thing that we learn from these revelations again is that the impetus for the protests and direct actions against Netanyahu, his government and the majority of the Israeli public that voted for Netanyahu’s government was not the government’s judicial reform agenda, nor any other policy the government has launched. Rather, the protests were a preconceived program to paralyze and destabilize the government with the plan to overthrow it. The anti-judicial reform banner was attached to the protests because it was the new government’s first major initiative.
The other aspect that is notable is the apparent centrality of Ehud Barak in everything that has happened…
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Kyiv, Ukraine — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “meaningful” talks over ending the war in Ukraine wouldn’t be possible until the country was capable of defending itself, and that no “just and lasting” peace could be achieved unless it involved Russia’s military withdrawal from occupied Ukrainian territory.
“A cease-fire that simply freezes current lines in place,” which would allow Russian President Vladimir Putin “to consolidate control over the territory he has seized, and rest, rearm, and reattack — that is not a just and lasting peace,” Blinken said in a speech during a visit to Finland, which recently joined NATO and shares a long border with Russia.
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Ukraine is Invading and Shelling Our Border Regions, Complains Russia
Russia has responded with anger to what it calls terror attacks against its border towns, as it comes to experience some of what it has been inflicting on Ukraine for the past year.
The town of Shebekino in Belgorod, a region of Russia bordering Ukraine’s Kharkiv, was shelled and struck with rockets and drones on Thursday, with Russia claiming an invasion of their territory by a force comprising of “two motorized companies with tanks”.
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2 Women Brutally Killed in Hong Kong Mall; 1 Stabbed Over 25 Times
Two women were stabbed to death in a Hong Kong mall on Friday, in what appeared to be a random knife rampage.
The attacker was eventually subdued and arrested after police arrived, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The incident was captured on video by a security camera at the Plaza Hollywood mall in Diamond Hill.
It shows the man going up to the women from behind shortly after 5pm local time.
In the clip, he repeatedly stabs one of them in an attack that went on for nearly a minute, SCMP said.
The second woman attempts to intervene several times, but is also attacked. Nobody goes to the women’s rescue.
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Tanya Plibersek addressed her growing concerns about plastic pollution and the ‘floating island of garbage in the Pacific’.
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The Single Picture That Proves Australia’s Rental Crisis Has Hit a New Low: ‘Is This Even Legal?’
A rental for two caravans with an open lounge and kitchen ‘covered and protected from the weather’ by a roof and tarps in Mullumbimby in the Bryon Shire was posted to social media.
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Mexican Cartels Have Begun Using Weapons Smuggled From Ukraine
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO — American weapons delivered to Ukraine are making their way back to North America in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. What Ukrainians sell on the DarkNet is bought all over the world. Like a huge supermarket, the DarkNet supplies criminal organizations regardless of the origin of the weapon. BulgarianMilitary.com recalls that last year Interpol warned that similar transactions are expected and that weapons delivered to Ukraine may end up in “criminal and terrorist organizations.”
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College Now Free for Illegal Immigrants in Minnesota
The Minnesota Legislature’s Democratic majority voted last month to make illegal immigrants eligible for free college tuition. The bill has passed both the House and the Senate in the state, and Governor Tim Walz approved the program, which was part of a larger education spending package, on May 24.
According to Axios, the North Star Promise makes illegal immigrants eligible for the tuition “if they enroll in a two or four-year program within the University of Minnesota or Minnesota State systems and come from a household with an income of $80,000 or less.”
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Matt Walsh, one of the most influential journalists in the United States, has said that diversity is an anti-White conspiracy while speaking on the Matt Walsh Show, hosted by the Daily Wire media outlet. The comment by Walsh demonstrates how a number of mainstream journalists and conservative activists are increasingly challenging growing anti-White sentiment in the West and the push for diversity.
“My concern is this, that if you still have any confusion about what these diversity initiatives actually are, well, this should clear it up: Diversity absolutely means anti-White. That’s what it means. All diversity initiatives are anti-White initiatives. Anytime you hear about any kind of diversity initiative anywhere, whether it’s in government, in corporations, in any institution at all, it is an anti-White initiative. Diversity is an anti-white conspiracy,” said Walsh.
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Germany: Left-Liberal Coalition Quietly Flies in 4,000 Migrants Per Month
Outside of its official asylum program—and in addition to the illegal migrants, legal migrants, and Ukrainian refugees that continue to flow into the country—Germany’s left-liberal ‘traffic light’ coalition is quietly flying in some 4,000 migrants each month.
The figures, released by the ruling coalition following a request from the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag, revealed that from January to December of last year, between 3,100 and 4,700 migrants, most of whom were Afghans, were flown into Germany every month at the taxpayers’ expense, the Berlin-based newspaper Die Welt reports.
In its response to the parliamentary inquiry, the government stated that a total of 52,575 people were brought to Germany in this way between January 2022 and the end of March 2023.
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Open Borders Germany Halts Afghan Refugee Admissions Amid Claims Migrants Abusing System
The typically open boarders government of Germany announced a temporary halt on admissions of asylum seekers from Afghanistan after claims that some migrants may have been abusing the system.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated that the country would be halting asylum applications for Afghan nationals on a temporary basis after sources within Berlin indicated that some may have tried to abuse the system.
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Poland Vows to Fight Against “Mandatory Solidarity”
Poland will not consent to any form of the EU’s refugee redistribution scheme, also known as the migrant quota system, in the bloc’s upcoming new Migration Pact, Polish Home Affairs Minister Mariusz Kaminski confirmed. PM Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland is not interested in paying instead of taking refugees either, Politico reported on Wednesday, May 31st.
“There is no and there will be no consent to the forced relocation of migrants to Poland,” Kaminski tweeted on Friday, May 26th.
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Poland Spent 1.5% of Its GDP on Supporting Ukrainian Refugees Last Year
Assistance for Ukraine cost Poland between $7-8 billion (€6.5-7.5 billion) last year, equivalent to approximately 1.5 percent of its GDP, President Andrzej Duda has revealed.
Speaking to Almar Latour, the chief executive of Dow Jones, the Polish premier acknowledged that Ukrainian refugees have contributed to Polish economic growth and were not seeking hand-outs, but admitted the financial outlay to support them in the first instance had been significant.
Duda complained that his country had not received any financial assistance from Brussels to handle the 8 million Ukrainian refugees who initially arrived in Poland, with about 1.5 million remaining in the country.
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A deal negotiated in secret between Morocco and the Dutch government to facilitate the easier expulsion of illegal migrants from the Netherlands has had “hardly any effect,” according to an analysis conducted by the joint research editors of NOS and Nieuwsuur.
The agreement on greater cooperation between the two countries was signed in July 2021 but was only made public in December last year.
The basis of the deal would see Morocco provide emergency travel documents for its own nationals illegally residing in the Netherlands, and in exchange, the Dutch government would refrain from commenting on internal affairs in Morocco and would support a Moroccan cultural center in Amsterdam.
However, a NOS/Nieuwsuur investigation into how effective the agreement has been in practice makes grim reading for Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s administration.
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UK: Migrants Stage Pavement Protest Outside London Hotel, Demand Private Rooms and Better Wi-Fi
Better Wi-Fi, more financial assistance, and private rooms were just some of the demands made by migrants who demonstrated outside the doors of their new hotel accommodation in an upscale residential area of central London on Thursday.
The group of adult men, many of whom arrived in Britain illegally in small boats via the English Channel with a view to claiming asylum, used their suitcases to barricade the front doors to the Pimlico Comfort Inn and staged a pavement protest against what they consider to be offensive living standards afforded to them by the British government.
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Head of Twitter Trust and Safety is reported to have resigned on Thursday. This comes after a deal between Twitter and The Daily Wire to promote the year anniversary of Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman? documentary was collapsed over “misgendering.”
A report from Forbes stated that “Ella Irwin, twitter’s VP of trust and safety and one of Elon Musk’s top lieutenants, is no longer in Twitter’s internal slack, according to a source familiar and a screenshot of her deactivated account viewed by Fortune.”
Reuters reporter Sheila Dang said that Irwin’s resignation was confirmed.
“Confirmed,” Dang wrote, “Ella Irwin tells me she resigned today.” She shared a tweet on the scoop from Fortune.
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With the start of June’s Pride Month, the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board in Ontario has told staff that it will be going all out to “celebrate, uplift and empower the voices of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.”
The Ontario school district’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion superintendent Jamila Maliha used the opportunity to suggest that students’ “privacy” was more important than parents’ rights, informing teachers and administrators that they were required to keep children’s gender identities confidential unless given explicit consent otherwise.
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The hashtag “#StolzMonat” or “Pride Month” in German was trending on Twitter yesterday, garnering over 50,000 tweets. However, it was not a celebration of June’s LGBT Pride Month but instead a critique of it, with German conservatives and anti-woke activists substituting the rainbow flag with the German flag.
The hashtag ranked first in Twitter’s trending section at one point yesterday, highlighting the growing culture war in Germany. It was picked up in other countries as well.
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Elementary School Taps Planned Parenthood to Teach Gender, Sex Lessons in Olympia
Fourth and fifth-grade students at Lincoln Elementary in Washington State’s Olympia School District were taught graphic sex-ed curriculum by Planned Parenthood, which included depictions of vaginas and penises, as well as intersex private parts.
Brandi Kruse of the unDivided podcast obtained the material that was given to students on May 9 from a parent in the district. According to one of the pamphlets, “Bodies can look all sorts of ways!” and “It’s okay if you don’t look like one of these photos! It’s impossible to represent everyone in just a few photos. Every body is a good body.”
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Glamour Magazine Puts Pregnant Transgender ‘Man’ on June Cover for Pride Month
The British version of Glamour, a fashion magazine for women, has put a pregnant transgender “man” on its June cover in recognition of Pride month.
Logan Brown is a biological woman who now identifies as a “man.”
As Glamour tells it in its cover story, Brown unexpectedly became pregnant by her partner Bailey J Mills, who is a gender “non-binary” drag performer.
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Montana Trans Lawmaker Zooey Zephyr Lashes Out at Target’s Decision to Pull Pride Merch for Kids
Zooey Zephyr, a transgender Democrat state representative from Montana who was barred from the House floor for “hate-filled testimony,” lashed out on The View at Target’s decision to remove or relocate Pride month merchandise.
When asked about companies facing backlash for promoting Pride collections, many of which include clothing for children, Zephyr, who recently became engaged to trans activist Erin Reed at Missoula’s queer prom, said LGBTQ people can’t “take our identities off the shelf.”
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PetSmart Launches Pride Wear for Cats and Dogs
PetSmart is the latest company to face backlash for offering LGBTQ-themed merchandise before the start of Pride Month with their “You Are Loved” collection. A donation to the trans activist group GLSEN drew the most ire about the campaign.
PetSmart announced on its website, “We proudly support the LGBTQ+ community with a $200,000 donation to GLSEN. Celebrate the spirit of Pride with your pet!” In a press release on May 2, they added, “This marks the fourth consecutive year PetSmart has donated to GLSEN, with contributions totaling $600,000 to date.”
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Ron DeSantis Shouts Down Protester: ‘We’re Not Gonna Let You Impose an Agenda on Our Kids’
Florida governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis (R) shouted down a protester who interrupted his speech during a campaign stop in South Carolina Friday.
“Unfortunately, there’s bad stuff that’s getting into the schools. There’s pornography that’s getting into schools. So the parents have had to blow the whistle in Florida,” he said during the speech in Lexington as a protester began to interrupt, talking back to the governor.
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Social Media Censorship Destroying Evidence of War Crimes, Report Claims
A.I.-powered censorship regimes on social media platforms are reportedly destroying evidence of war crimes, the BBC.
Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Youtube have allegedly been erasing footage of war crimes that took place in the likes of Syria and Ukraine, even when such footage does not go against their terms of service.
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, big tech companies have embraced regimes of mass censorship in the hopes of appeasing progressives, developing algorithms that can rip content from their sites in a matter of minutes should it be deemed undesirable.
According to a report by the BBC however, such algorithms are now putting investigations into war crimes in danger, with graphic footage depicting human rights abuses and dead civilians being quickly erased from online platforms without archived copies stored.
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An educator at El Dorado High School in Placentia, California was captured on video giving students explicit instructions during class on how to have pleasure during anal sex, and where to find sex toys that will stimulate the prostate gland.
The video, posted to the Instagram account @edhscaughtlacking, shows the educator, sitting atop a desk in front of a classroom full of students, discussing why anal sex is pleasurable for gay men, with an enlarged image of a prostate gland behind her.
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Researcher acquitted – no offence to show that most rapes are committed by migrants
Published 2023-06-02 in Samnytt
Many people have taken for granted that research in Sweden is free. So did doctor and researcher Kristina Sundquist – until she became the subject of a criminal investigation for conducting prohibited research into who commits rape in Sweden. After living with a criminal stigma for two years, the investigation is now closed. However, Sundquist will not receive an apology or compensation for her ordeal.
Kristina Sundquist is a doctor in general medicine. During a research project, she accidentally discovered that there is a large overrepresentation of migrants as perpetrators of rape and chose to draw attention to this. She should not have done so.
The fact that this information was not disclosed was not looked upon favourably higher up in the research world. The Board of Appeal for Ethics Review (Önep) decided on its own initiative to report Sundquist for ‘unethical’ research and thus put a stop to it.
‘Not authorised’ to do research
According to the report, Sundquist was “not authorised” to mention such things in her research and the case was handed over to the prosecutor for criminal investigation. For two years, she has had to live with the degrading stigma of a criminal offence in the research community, with the consequences for her career.
But now the yoke is lifted from Sundquist’s shoulders, at least in part, when Eva-Marie Persson, Chief Prosecutor at the Prosecution Authority’s Development Centre, announces that the investigation will be closed. However, this is not because it has been concluded that it is not possible to prove that Sundquist has committed a crime.
The reason is instead that the limitation period has expired. This means that Ms Sundquist will never be fully exonerated and receive redress. This may mean that she may find it difficult to conduct research in the future.
Both happy and critical
In a comment to Läkartidningen, Sundquist says that she is happy that the investigation has been closed, but that she is also critical of the fact that it has taken so long and that this is the only reason why she can no longer be investigated for criminal offences.
She still hopes that the high-profile investigation will lead to research in Sweden becoming truly free, so that no more researchers will risk being taken to court for mentioning things in their theses that are perceived as uncomfortable by some in positions of power.
– If it is decided that certain data can be used more freely, provided that people’s integrity is protected, I think that some medical research can also be exempted from ethical review.
Has sparked debate
The case of Kristina Sundquist has initiated a debate on how free research in Sweden really is and to what extent the so-called ethical review has become a way of silencing uncomfortable critical research for political reasons.
Samnytt has continuously monitored developments in the case. You can read all related articles HERE.
Author of the text
Mats Dagerlind
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Handed in a found 500 note – fined 14,000 instead of a finder’s fee
Published on 2023-06-02 in Samnytt
A woman who found a 500-krona note on the ground and handed it in to the police is not only deprived of her finder’s fee. She will also be fined SEK 14 000. This is because she is considered to have handed in the banknote too late.
It was at the end of March that a woman in the Råslätt area of Jönköping stumbled upon a five hundred kronor note that someone had dropped. The woman picked up the note with the intention of handing it in to the police.
Submitted the note too late
The woman did so, but not until mid-May. Because she was honest enough to tell the officer on duty when she found the note, the zealous police officer filed a crime report.
According to the police in Jönköping, it is a criminal offence to carry something of value around for so long before going to the police. The prosecutor agreed that what the woman was guilty of was a so-called finds offence and sent out a penalty order to the woman.
It states that she must pay a fine of around SEK 14 000 for her double honesty in both handing in the banknote and telling us when she found it. If she does not pay, she will be taken to court and penalised even more severely.
Critical reactions
The incident has attracted media attention, and many people have criticised the judicial system’s treatment of the woman. “Normally when you find something of value and turn it in to the police, you get a finder’s fee and a favourable mention of your honesty.
But in this case, the finder and submitter is treated as a criminal and instead of a finder’s fee, she is punished with a five-figure fine.
The police defend the prioritisation of the case
But at the Police Authority, where there is a shortage of investigators, where reports are piled up and never acted upon, and where most gang murders are not solved, they see nothing strange in prioritising and showing great zeal in this particular case.
– “The law states that if you find something with a value of more than 50 or 100 kronor, you must quickly hand it over to the police, and if you don’t do this or hand it over later, you commit the offence of misappropriation,” explains police officer Bo Gunnarsson in Jönköping in a comment to state radio.
Gunnarsson still thinks that the woman will get off lightly as she will receive the lowest daily fine that can be imposed, which is 30 days.
Since the woman is working and doing the right thing, the amount per day fine is high, SEK 460. This compares with, for example, a criminal who lives on benefits and has no income being sentenced to the same penalty, where the amount per day fine would remain at SEK 50 and the total sum at SEK 1 500.
That’s all any western police thuggery departments are good for these days besides padding their pockets. Using the full force of law on those not likely to cut your head off, or are white is the new normal throughout the West.
Diversity is an Anti-White Conspiracy.
Of course. It is a cultural Marxist Trojan Horse.
Until the natives get really excited and do what they always do.
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Ekeroth: “We have created countries to live with like-minded people”
Published on 1 June 2023
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It is obvious, or at least it should be, that countries have been created, consciously or unconsciously or a mixture of both, so that like-minded people can live together. Europe, as we know, has been at war with each other for a long time, between countries but also to some extent within countries. But once ethnically homogenous geographical areas have been stabilised and nation states established, they are undoubtedly the most stable and peaceful constructions. Mass immigration in recent decades has destabilised this and the effect on ordinary people is becoming increasingly apparent.
Readers of Samnytt are of course fully aware of the obvious advantage of homogeneous countries. Even seemingly small differences in culture, religion or other things can give rise to long and deep conflicts. Ireland, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Spain are just a few examples where relatively small differences cause long and sometimes bloody conflicts. Sunni versus Shia, Rwanda or Africa at large are other international examples.
In short, even small differences between communities can lead to large and bloody conflicts. Imagine then what big differences between European peoples and peoples from the Middle East and Africa cause.
Public places are taken away from us
Then, of course, we come to Sweden. I, SD and Samnytt have been warning about these conflicts for a long time. The worst are of course murder, rape and other such gross physical attacks on others, but more widespread problems are theft, threats, assault, burglary, robbery. But in addition to this, we have even more common problems when the generally threatening atmosphere that many Swedes experience in public places where aggressive immigrant groups from the Middle East and Africa judge, dominate and control places.
The other day Samnytt showed one of many such examples when the “Burger King Turk” judged a Swede at Burger King. In this case, the slap that the immigrant thought he had the right to give to a Swede in his own country resulted in a minor assault. But this is of course a drop in the ocean. The Arab attack on peaceful demonstrators in Gothenburg is another example.
Samnytt has previously highlighted this “silent” violence, the “silent” oppression, in a series of documentaries. Where a Swedish mother and her son in their former Swedish neighbourhood are now oppressed, bullied, threatened and abused. Where Swedes who used to have their “watering hole”, literally, taken away from them by immigrants who now dominate the bathing area. Like in Kil where immigrants terrorised Swedes. Or much else. When Swedes’ public spaces are taken away from them.
We are not equal
It has long been a dominant idea in Sweden that if you cross our border, take the metro and get a job chopping vegetables in a kebab shop, you are as Swedish as Astrid Lindgren. Honestly, that is still the prevailing thought in this poor country. But we are not the same and it is deceptive to think that a person is Swedish because of such superficial attributes.
These differences are visible when you scratch the surface. The seventies may think that Alibaba, Muhammad and Fatima are Swedish when they crossed the border and got a job – then they are “integrated” – but as we see all the time, their deeper values shine through when it comes down to it.
It can be about “integrated” people working at the Migration Agency, where they, true to their culture and clan, become corrupt towards their people and clan and hand out or sell residence permits. This is because their culture is accustomed to corruption and their values do not see anything wrong with it, or even the long-term disastrous consequences of such behaviour. A Swede, however, does, at least to a far greater extent.
We have seen it when Säpo quotas immigrants, who then became spies. We see it when our naïve society tries to mobilise immigrants to integrate other immigrants in, for example, leisure centres, security guards and so on. It often ends up in a panic. We saw “integrated” immigrants working as lawyers, which in the eyes of society are prime examples of successful integration but which of course ended up becoming, or being, part of the gangs in the country.
In everything from the small to the large, these immigrant groups may have a polished surface but underneath their culture, background and mentality still permeates them. There are, of course, many exceptions with successful assimilation, but in general this is unfortunately not the case.
Characterised by Bullerbyn
The nation of Sweden was eventually formed, after turmoil and war with other peoples in our neighbourhood, into an ethnically homogeneous nation that went from great poverty to become one of the most peaceful, wealthy and successful countries in the world that people looked at with envy. Our laws were moulded to fit this “Bullerby” that Sweden actually was until about 40 years ago when mass immigration began.
We still live with that legacy today. That’s why our laws still have large doses of naivety, of Kling and Klang police officers and Kling and Klang laws. That’s why our benefit systems can’t cope with the predatory mentality of other cultures. It’s why we don’t have walls and barbed wire around some of our prisons. It’s why we repeatedly read in the news about bizarre laws that are extremely naive, about bizarre behaviour by those who administer our authorities.
Because our society, though greatly changed by immigration, still carries the legacy, in terms of laws, mentality and culture, of what was a paradise on earth.
Living with equality
The point of this somewhat sprawling text is that people are not adapted to live with differences. As I wrote earlier, Swedes flock to ethnically homogenous Swedish areas on their holidays. The reason is simple: like children play best. People seek out their own, the peaceful, cosy and communal aspects when Swedes get together.
As Jens Ganman also wrote recently when he visited a festival attended almost exclusively by Swedes:
Everyone I meet is nice, even the annoying drunks. Despite the chaos, the atmosphere is relaxed and I feel myself getting… happy. Tamejfan.
Gröna Lund-gate, the Burger King Turk or, for that matter, loud-mouthed immigrants celebrating their own country and demeaning Sweden during their student celebrations are just a few examples of what it’s like to live with different people. Research shows that nobody likes different. Migration patterns and segregation show the same thing.
This is why nation states were once designed. It became natural that like ended up with like. It becomes more peaceful, more convivial and more successful.
As long as we have multiculture and diversity, the public space, the Swedes’ own country, will increasingly be taken away from them. The only question is how long the Swedes will accept this.
Author of the text
Kent Ekeroth
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GOOD TO KNOE
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The United States has a Central Bank. A Central Bank, which is in fact our dictator. We who want to avoid tyranny, but we are our own guards our own slave. Central banks that have illegally done something to endanger the world’s worst violation of their essence: De Rothschild.
This means that the Rothschilds pretty much control almost every government in the world (certainly all known modern ones). And it is without limitations.
The Federal Reserve is a perfect example. They manipulate our economy for their own hidden and nefarious purposes. They create indentations and print endless amounts of fraudulent dollar bills. And who do you think owns it? Yes, the Rothschilds!!!
Here is a complete list of which banks the Rothchilds own:
Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan
Albanien: Bank of Albania
Algeriet: Algeriets centralbank
Argentina: Argentinas centralbank
Armenien: Armeniens centralbank
Aruba: Centralbanken i Aruba
Australien: Australiens centralbank
Österrike: Österrikes nationalbank
Azerbajdzjan: Centralbanken i Republiken Azerbajdzjan
Bahamas: Centralbanken i Bahamas
Bahrain: Bahrains centralbank
Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bank
Barbados: Barbados centralbank
Vitryssland: Republiken Vitrysslands nationalbank
Belgien: Belgiens nationalbank
Belize: Centralbanken i Belize
Benin: Centralbanken för de västafrikanska staterna (BCEAO)
Bermuda: Bermudas monetära myndighet
Bhutan: Bhutans kungliga monetära myndighet
Bolivia: Bolivias centralbank
Bosnien och Hercegovina: Bosnien och Hercegovinas centralbank
Botswana: Botswanas centralbank
Brasilien: Brasiliens centralbank
Bulgarien: Bulgariens nationalbank
Burkina Faso: Centralbanken för de västafrikanska staterna (BCEAO)
Burundi: Republiken Burundis centralbank
Kambodja: Kambodjas nationalbank
Kamerun: Centralafrikanska staternas centralbank
Kanada: Kanadas centralbank – Banque du Canada
Caymanöarna: Caymanöarnas monetära myndighet
Centralafrikanska republiken: Centralafrikanska staternas bank
Tchad: Centralafrikanska staternas bank
Chile: Chiles centralbank
Kina: Kinas folkbank
Colombia: Republiken Colombias bank
Komorerna: Komorernas centralbank
Kongo: Centralafrikanska staternas bank
Costa Rica: Costa Ricas centralbank
Elfenbenskusten: Västafrikanska staternas centralbank (BCEAO)
Kroatien: Kroatiska nationalbanken
Kuba: Kubas centralbank
Cypern: Cyperns centralbank
Tjeckiska republiken: Tjeckiska nationalbanken
Danmark: Danmarks nationalbank
Dominikanska republiken: Dominikanska republikens centralbank
Östra Karibien: Centralbanken för östra Karibien
Ecuador: Ecuadors centralbank
Egypten: Egyptens centralbank
El Salvador: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador
Ekvatorialguinea: Centralafrikanska staternas bank
Estland: Estlands centralbank
Etiopien: Etiopiens nationalbank
Europeiska unionen: Europeiska centralbanken
Fiji: Reserve Bank of Fiji
Finland: Finlands Bank
Frankrike: Frankrikes centralbank
Gabon: Centralafrikanska staternas bank
Gambia: Gambias centralbank
Georgien: Georgiens nationalbank
Tyskland: Deutsche Bundesbank
Ghana: Bank of Ghana
Grekland: Greklands centralbank
Guatemala: Bank of Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau: Västafrikanska staters centralbank (BCEAO)
Guyana: Guyanas centralbank
Haiti: Haitis centralbank
Honduras: Honduras centralbank
Hongkong: Hongkongs monetära myndighet
Ungern: Magyar Nemzeti Bank
Island: Islands centralbank
Indien: Indiens centralbank (Reserve Bank of India)
Indonesien: Bank Indonesia
Iran: Centralbanken i Islamiska republiken Iran
Irak: Iraks centralbank
Irland: Central Bank och Financial Services Authority of Ireland
Israel: Bank of Israel
Italien: Italiens centralbank
Jamaica: Bank of Jamaica
Japan: Bank of Japan
Jordanien: Jordaniens centralbank
Kazakstan: Kazakstans nationalbank
Kenya: Kenyas centralbank
Korea: Bank of Korea
Kuwait: Kuwaits centralbank
Kirgizistan: Kirgiziska republikens nationalbank
Lettland: Lettlands centralbank
Libanon: Libanons centralbank
Lesotho: Centralbanken i Lesotho
Libyen: Libyens centralbank
Litauen: Litauens centralbank
Luxemburg: Luxemburgs centralbank
Macao: Macaos monetära myndighet
Makedonien: Republiken Makedoniens nationalbank
Madagaskar: Madagaskars centralbank
Malawi: Malawis centralbank
Malaysia: Malaysias centralbank
Mali: Västafrikanska staternas centralbank (BCEAO)
Malta: Centralbanken i Malta
Mauritius: Mauritius centralbank
Mexiko: Mexikos centralbank
Moldavien: Moldaviens nationalbank
Mongoliet: Mongoliets centralbank
Montenegro: Centralbanken i Montenegro
Marocko: Marockos centralbank
Moçambique: Moçambiques centralbank
Namibia: Bank of Namibia
Nepal: Central Bank of Nepal
Netherlands: Netherlands Bank
Netherlands Antilles: Bank of the Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Nicaragua: Central Bank of Nicaragua
Niger: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Nigeria: Central Bank of Nigeria
Norway: Central Bank of Norway
Oman: Central Bank of Oman
Pakistan: State Bank of Pakistan
Papua New Guinea: Bank of Papua New Guinea
Paraguay: Central Bank of Paraguay
Peru: Central Reserve Bank of Peru
Philippines: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Poland: National Bank of Poland
Portugal: Bank of Portugal
Qatar: Qatar Central Bank
Romania: National Bank of Romania
Russia: Central Bank of Russia
Rwanda: National Bank of Rwanda
San Marino: Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino
Samoa: Central Bank of Samoa
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Senegal: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Serbia: National Bank of Serbia
Seychelles: Central Bank of Seychelles
Sierra Leone: Bank of Sierra Leone
Singapore: Monetary Authority of Singapore
Slovakia: National Bank of Slovakia
Slovenia: Bank of Slovenia
Solomon Islands: Central Bank of Solomon Islands
South Africa: South African Reserve Bank
Spain: Bank of Spain
Sri Lanka: Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Sudan: Bank of Sudan
Surinam: Central Bank of Suriname
Swaziland: The Central Bank of Swaziland
Sweden: Sveriges Riksbank
Switzerland: Swiss National Bank
Tajikistan: National Bank of Tajikistan
Tanzania: Bank of Tanzania
Thailand: Bank of Thailand
Togo: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Tonga: National Reserve Bank of Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia: Central Bank of Tunisia
Turkey: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Uganda: Bank of Uganda
Ukraine: National Bank of Ukraine
United Arab Emirates: Central Bank of United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom: Bank of England
United States: The Dirty Nasty Stinky Fed, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Uruguay: Central Bank of Uruguay
Vanuatu: Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Venezuela: Central Bank of Venezuela
Vietnam: The State Bank of Vietnam
Yemen: Central Bank of Yemen
Zambia: Bank of Zambia
Zimbabwe: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
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