The leaders of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) are calling for an orderly dissolution of the European Union. The party proposes instead the establishment of a true confederation of sovereign European states.
In other news, an Afghan migrant in Paris who was experiencing a sexual emergency assaulted a disabled girl in a wheelchair, while shouting “Allahu Akhbar”.
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13 Years Wasted… UK Government Debt Higher Than GDP for First Time Since 1961
So much for the Tories, who have enjoyed 13 years in power in the United Kindom under false promises of fiscal probity: UK net debt is now 100.1 per cent of GDP.
Government figures show government borrowing rose more than expected in the month of May to more than doube the same period last year, pushing total government debt to £2,567.2 billion ($3,2687,200,000,000). This mammoth figure means public sector debt — excluding that of state-owned banks — is now “provisionally estimated” to be 100.1 per cent of GDP.
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Bank of International Settlements Publishes Its Blueprint for CBDCs, Praises Programmable Money
In a press release earlier this week, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that it was throwing its weight behind central digital currencies (CBDCs), publishing a blueprint of a future monetary system “underpinned” by this type of money.
And the BIS also heaped praise on the concept of programmable money.
The announcement of the blueprint that’s supposed to represent the foundation of the world’s new financial and monetary system came just a day after reports that the BIS and the Bank of England had completed a CBCD project.
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EU Scraps Green Sovereignty Fund Despite Rising Protectionism
Are the fiscal wheels coming off the EU’s green transition? MEPs and industry experts have lashed out at a lack of new EU funding streams to finance the onshoring of green manufacturing, as the European Commission presented its budgetary proposals for the next three years on Tuesday, June 20th.
The EU has been accused of failing to live up to its rhetoric on the green transition. Pundits claim that a meagre €10 billion policy announcement launched this week to promote green innovation within Europe is not nearly enough to compete with the €340 billion channelled into American green manufacturing through Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as U.S. subsidies cause an exodus of European green manufacturing.
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2 Dead, 15 Injured After Shooting at Michigan Party
A shooting that officials say occurred at a large street party in Saginaw, Michigan, left two people dead. In all, 15 people were injured.
According to a news release from Michigan State Police, the shooting happened at the party near Fourth St. and Johnson St. after the event was promoted on social media. Police agencies throughout Saginaw County dispersed the large crowd “multiple times in different locations throughout the city” prior to the shooting, the news release said.
Police were nearby when multiple 911 callers reported that people were shooting into the crowd around midnight.
A preliminary investigation uncovered that a fight broke out between partygoers, which resulted in gunshots being fired, the news release said. In response, others began shooting into the crowd, hitting “several victims,” the release said. CBS affiliate WNEM reported that there were more than 300 party-goers.
As people fled, many were injured after being struck by vehicles that were fleeing, the release said. Detectives later found “at least five different caliber weapons” that were used in the incident.
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An investigative blitz is taking place within the corridors of the US Congress as House Republicans, spearheaded by Rep. Mark Green and Rep. Dan Bishop, have doubled down on allegations of a clandestine alliance, which they assert stealthily curtailed American voices during the high-stakes 2020 elections.
The duo’s letter to an independent guardian of electoral integrity alleges that the Department of Homeland Security, particularly its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), played a pivotal role in this purported triangulation involving non-profit organizations and social media giants.
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Louis Rossmann, a popular YouTuber and well known right-to-repair advocate, says he has been punished by Amazon for sharing his opinion about the giant’s recent embarrassing decision to “reach into” a customer’s home and turn off his devices by disabling his Amazon account, based on what turned out to be a false accusation of racism.
But this episode of Amazon’s knee-jerk reaction doesn’t seem to have been a teaching moment, because now the corporation is accused of going after commentators as no doubt a damage-control measure — but one that also might backfire.
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Bridge Over Yellowstone River Collapses, Sending Freight Train Into Waters Below
COLUMBUS, Mont. (AP) — A bridge that crosses Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed overnight, causing portions of a freight train that was traveling over it to plunge into the water below.
There was no immediate word from authorities on whether anyone was injured. Officials at the Montana Rail Link could not be reached immediately Saturday for comment.
Numerous tank cars were partially submerged in the river early Saturday, and railroad crews were at the scene near the town of Columbus, about 40 miles (about 64 kilometers) west of Billings. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a yellow liquid pouring out of tank cars.
The river was swollen with recent heavy rains although it is unclear whether that contributed to the bridge collapse.
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DuckDuckGo Browser Beta Arrives on Windows
In a bid to give Windows users a taste of privacy, DuckDuckGo, the search engine synonymous with privacy, has unfurled its privacy-focused browser to the Windows populace in an open beta. Initially cutting its teeth as a Mac exclusive nine months ago, the Windows avatar of DuckDuckGo’s browser is a veritable treasure trove of privacy features that already grace its kin on iOS, Mac, and Android.
The unveiling of DuckDuckGo’s browser is poised to offer Windows users an armada of privacy shields.
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Exodus: Fox News Staffers Leaving Network to Work for Tucker Carlson
Fox News is reportedly losing employees to Tucker Carlson, who abruptly parted with the network in April.
Carlson’s biographer Chadwick Moore reported Saturday that at least nine Fox News employees already left the cable news network to go work on Carlson’s new Twitter show, with even more preparing to jump ship.
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Kevin McCarthy Supports Efforts to Expunge Donald Trump’s Impeachments
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced his support of House Republicans’ efforts to expunge both of former President Donald Trump’s impeachments.
“Yeah, because, look, I voted against both impeachments,” McCarthy told reporters on Friday when asked if he supports expunging both of Trump’s impeachments.
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Soros Cash Fuels Big Wins for Progressive Prosecutors in Virginia Primaries
Three progressives prosecutors in Virginia won their primary contests Tuesday night thanks to ongoing financial support from billionaire George Soros.
Arlington-Falls Church Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti won a decisive victory against primary challenger Josh Katcher after running a reelection campaign focused on “restorative justice” principles, such as ending cash bail and drug criminalization.
Fox News Digital reported this month that as of June 8, two Soros-backed committees invested a total of more than $350,000 in two Virginia prosecutors, who he helped get elected four years ago, who were at risk of losing their seats to Democrat challengers in the June 20 primary.
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Vax-Pushing Debate Dodger Linked to ‘Chimeric’ Coronavirus Creation in Wuhan
Over the weekend, the MSM’s new vax-pushing darling, Dr. Peter Hotez, chickened out of a debate with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. after a charity pot to do so reached more than $2.6 million in less than 24 hours.
Hotez, a frequent guest on CNN and NBC during the Covid-19 pandemic, first tried the ‘let’s take this offline’ approach with Rogan, after first posting a link to a VICE article attacking claims made by RFK Jr. on Rogan’s podcast. Rogan called that a “non answer,” and his original $100,000 offer to donate to charity snowballed into millions after a flood of people committed to the pot.
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by Diana West
Do you remember how hard it was to get good information, especially in 2020, back at the Beginning of the End? It is hard still, but it was much worse before so many of us had delved into the sciences with a doggedness we never mustered in high school; before we had learned to see into the geysers of government and media disinformation about the “plandemic,” the “scamdemic,” the garbage-demic, to take apart and stomp on all of the Big Lies we were and are still beset by. And that was even before the government’s biochemical attack on the world via “mRNA vaccine” had begun.
The totalitarian-style censorship and disinformation which government, media and social media imposed upon us were (are) catastrophic and also fatal in all too many cases. That’s why when we learn, through arduous court-ordered FOIA research or congressional hearings or secret interviews or confessions … or autopsies that we were right to doubt and disbelieve and not comply, there are dead bodies, broken homes, ruined lives and a shattered future to embitter our vindication. To intensify our rage. That’s why Dr. Robert Malone’s openly stated goal in 2023 to use the courts to have a “chilling effect’ on debate in the public square, which he’s trying to rebrand as “defamation,” is so disturbing, bizarre and fraught with peril.
Malone’s interlocuters-turned-”defendants” are Dr. Peter Breggin, Ginger R. Breggin and Dr. Jane Ruby — outlandish words to write about such worthies. I don’t recall exactly when in the dark of lockdown I first came upon them. I do remember Dr. Jane’s exciting reports on the then-new Stew Peters Show, her tenacity, her blinking neon commitment to finding the truth, were an immediate godsend. At some point, too, I matched with the Breggins, Dr. Peter Breggin, “Conscience of Psychiatry,” and his wife and co-author Ginger Breggin, benefiting enormously from their warm and civilized discourse, which included (bonus) two interviews with me about American Betrayal. I was delighted to learn my book had inspired the Breggins to dig into the research that became their 2021 success, COVID 19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey.
The point is, separately, in different venues, the Breggins and Jane Ruby are individuals who rose to the challenge to try to inform a brutalized public about what turns out to have been a war: a war of fear, fraud and bioweaponry waged against us by own government. Their contributions were, are and will continue to be vitally important to the flow of essential and also life-saving information.
Ask yourself: Why would anyone want to deflect these valuable contributors from their important vocations? So what if they said something, many things, with which you disagree, even violently disagree? So what if they reject and even rebut your theories? So what if they engage you in a veritable “war of words”? To quote vintage Michelle Malkin, “Boo-the-heck-hoo.” Argue. Gnash your teeth. Write a rebuttal. Quote Voltaire. Exult in the First Amendment. But this — resorting to the punitive enforcement mechanism of a defamation lawsuit — is not right. Asking for $25 million in damages is an outrage. Such aggressive lawfare is akin to dropping a cluster bomb. The landscape that was is no more…
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Whistleblower: Hunter Biden Deducted Payments to Sex Club, Hookers on His Taxes
President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, allegedly deducted tens of thousands of dollars in payments made to a prostitute and a sex club from his taxes, according to an IRS whistleblower.
An anonymous IRS criminal investigator to the House Ways and Means Committee during a June 1 interview that Biden improperly deducted these expenses on his 2018 tax forms. The whistleblower claimed Biden underreported his total income by unto $500,000, or $267,000 using “the most conservative approach.”
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AfD Leaders Call for the Orderly Dissolution of the EU
In a leading motion published days ago that lays out its party program for next year’s European election campaign, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which has seen its popularity in Germany explode over the past months, has called for the “orderly dissolution of the European Union,” insisting that the institution, at this stage, is completely unreformable.
“Our patience with the EU is exhausted. We are therefore striving for the orderly dissolution of the EU and want to found a new European economic and interest community instead, a federation of European nations. The EU project failed,” the leading motion of the Federal Program Commission for the European elections program, in which the party’s co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla sit, reads.
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Agricultural Reforms: Dutch Cabinet Goes it Alone After Talks Founder
After a Friday June 23rd cabinet meeting, Dutch Minister of Agriculture Piet Adema (CU) announced that the ministers will strike out on their own. The Dutch official’s statement came after LTO, the last—and largest—farmers’ organization pulled out last Tuesday.
“The advantage is that now we do not have to negotiate with all parties [i.e. the farmers], only with the cabinet,” Adema said following deliberations in the minister’s council, adding that it would come up with “its own vision on agriculture, which would also include all the issues that were discussed in the [now defunct] agriculture agreement.”
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Anti-NATO Protesters Shout Down Irish Foreign Minister
A small group of demonstrators shouted “no to NATO” as Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin began his opening address at the government’s consultative forum on international security on Thursday, June 22nd. Ireland, which has a long-standing policy of military neutrality, is said to be split 52-48 in favour of joining the military alliance.
The consultation, which runs until Tuesday, June 27th, will look at the country’s engagement with NATO, a subject that has stoked deep passion. This was clearly demonstrated when Mr. Martin was interrupted soon after beginning his speech by protesters holding a banner which read: “NATO WARS MILLIONS DEAD.”
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Bombshell Report: Over 500 Excess Heart Deaths a Week in England Since COVID-19 Began
Over 500 excess deaths a week involving heart diseases have been documented since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The BHF’s report, based on data from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, found that there’s been a total of 96,540 excess deaths involving cardiovascular conditions like heart attacks and strokes since February 2020.
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Commission to Ukraine: No Minority Rights, No EU Membership
Ukraine has a long way to go before it can begin the EU accession process, according to a progress report presented to member states by Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Varhelyi at an informal Council meeting organized by the Swedish presidency on Thursday, June 22nd.
According to the commissioner, Ukraine has made relevant progress in multiple areas, but only two out of the seven criteria—linked to democracy and the rule of law—have been completely fulfilled so far. Corruption, money laundering, and the lack of fundamental rights for national minorities remain the issues that need the most urgent action.
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Consumer Advocacy Groups Sue ‘Greenwashing’ European Airlines
A total of 23 European consumer advocacy groups, spearheaded by umbrella organization BUEC, are calling out 17 European airlines, wanting to put an end to what they claim are “dishonest business practices.”
While these airlines promote their services as being ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’, advocacy groups contest their claim, accusing them of ‘greenwashing’, i.e. portraying services or products as being ‘greener’ than they actually are.
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Deep State Demand: German Spy Chief Warns Germans Not to Vote for AfD
The populist-conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) has risen to become the second-largest party in recent national polls, ahead of every member of the ruling government coalition, including the Social Democrats, the party of current Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The increase in popularity has come despite repeated attempts to discredit the party by the German media and party members being targeted by the German domestic spy agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).
The head of the BfV, Thomas Haldenwang, has now gone even further by directly warning Germans not to vote for the AfD, claiming the party had elements within it that were against the German constitution, a report from Der Spiegel magazine states.
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EU Members Want Option to Spy on Journalists in the Name of National Security
Journalism groups have expressed concern over new proposed European Union legislation designed to protect journalists from governments using spyware and other methods to spy on reporters as some countries have supported exemptions, citing national security interests.
On Monday, June 19th, 65 organisations, including European Digital Rights (EDRi), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and several human rights groups published a letter calling on the European Commission to scrap the national security clause from the legislation.
The signatories to the letter also demanded that the Commission change wording in the legislation that they argue could allow journalists to be spied on if they are under investigation for unrelated crimes, listing “arson” and “privacy of products,” as the draft claims that any crime with a prison sentence of five years or more would qualify.
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France: Explosion in the Centre of Paris: Concerns About Gas Network
On Wednesday, June 21st, residents of the 5th arrondissement of Paris heard an unusually powerful explosion: a building near the former Val-de-Grce military hospital collapsed, probably due to a gas leak. Six people were seriously injured, and a seventh is still missing. The accident highlights the fragility of the gas network in the French capital.
The explosion occurred in the late afternoon of Wednesday, June 21st, at 277 rue Saint-Jacques, one of the oldest streets in Paris, and resulted in the collapse of a 17th-century building adjoining the Val-de-Grce church. It housed the Paris American Academy, a private American fashion and design school. Four or five neighbouring buildings were also shaken by the force of the explosion. Although local residents initially thought it was a terrorist attack, the explosion was reportedly caused by a gas leak.
A large number of firefighters rushed to the area to extricate residents from the rubble. One person is still missing, but the search had to be suspended on Friday for security reasons.
The accident is reminiscent of another tragedy familiar to Parisians: the explosion of a building on rue de Trévise in the 9th arrondissement in 2019, although caution regarding comparisons remains the order of the day.
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France: Bordeaux: Arrest Made in Violent Attack on 73-Year-Old and Granddaughter
Following a harrowing attack that sent shockwaves across the European continent, and which saw a 73-year-old and her 7-year-old granddaughter viciously assaulted at the entrance of their home in Bordeaux, France, on the evening of Monday, June 19th, police have managed to track down and arrest the suspect.
The suspect has been identified as 29-year-old French national Brahima B., a repeat offender who had previously been known to the authorities for at least 15 criminal convictions, including theft, drugs offenses, and death threats; more than twenty mentions in police files which identify people implicated in criminal cases; and severe psychiatric problems, France 3 reports.
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German Officials Estimate 60 Knife Attacks Per Day in 2022
German police crime statistics presented in April grossly undercounted the number of knife attacks perpetrated in the country. The statistics presented by the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) Holger Münch and the Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) counted 8,160 knife attacks. Official figures from Germany’s federal states and state criminal investigation offices have revealed that the real number of knife attacks is significantly higher.
If one takes into account figures recorded and published by the state criminal police offices in Germany’s 16 federal states, the total number of knife attacks across the entire country exceeded 21,000 in 2022, which amounts to a staggering 60 attacks every single day, the German online magazine Tichy’s Einblick reports.
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Great Reset: Macron Suggests International Taxation System to Subsidise Green Agenda
French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested the imposition of a global taxation system in order to subsidise the green agenda to mitigate climate change.
Speaking at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris on Friday, Mr Macron argued that actions from individual governments would be insufficient to deal with the alleged armageddon set to descend upon the world and therefore a new international taxation framework should be established.
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Greta Thunberg’s Beginning of the End of the World Prediction Was for Today, June 21st
We had five years to stop using fossil fuels to prevent wiping out “all of humanity” from June 21st 2018, Greta Thunberg claimed in a now-deleted Tweet.
Today is the anniversary of a doomsday prediction made by Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg when she was just 15 years old June 21st 2018, stating the human race had five years to end fossil fuels or face certain death. She wrote then:
A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
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In Paris, Macron and Meloni Attempt to Repair Franco-Italian Relations
On a trip to Paris to discuss Rome’s bid for the 2030 World Expo, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday, June 20th, had an opportunity to meet with President Emmanuel Macron. The meeting provided a chance to try to resolve the many misunderstandings and tensions that have built up between France and Italy over the last few months, particularly on immigration issues.
Although Meloni has already met Macron in Rome, this is the first official visit by the head of the Italian government to France since her election in September 2022. There are many areas of friction between the two countries, from the management of migratory flows to relations with North African countries. President Macron is not as friendly with his Italian counterpart as he was with her predecessor Mario Draghi, and in recent months, the French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has made a number of provocative statements about Giorgia Meloni. After a tug-of-war over the reception of the migrant boat Ocean Viking, Darmanin deemed Meloni “incapable of solving the migration problems on which she was elected.”
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Iranian Bio-Bomber Convicted in German Court
Earlier this year in January, two brothers were arrested by German police following a raid on their home in the town of Castrop-Rauxel near the city of Dortmund, as police asserted that the two Iranian nationals were radical Islamic extremists plotting a mass casualty terrorist attack.
Now, five months following their arrest, the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office has indicted 26-year-old Jalal J., the younger of the two brothers, for plotting a terrorist attack and trying to create a biological weapon, a report from the German tabloid Bild reveals.
The Prosecutor General’s Office states that Jalal J. wished to kill as many people as possible with a bomb using either the highly toxic chemical ricin, which is extracted from castor beans, or a compound containing hydrogen cyanide.
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Ironic Twist: Qatargate Judge Packs it in Over Conflict of Interest
Michel Claise, the Belgian judge in charge of the Qatargate investigation into alleged corruption in the European Parliament, has ceased his involvement following concerns about conflict of interest.
As Le Soir reported late Monday evening, June 19th, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release that “elements have recently come to light … [which] could raise doubts about the objective functioning of the investigation.”
To “allow the Justice Department to continue its work in serenity and maintain the necessary separation between private and family life and professional responsibilities,” the statement continued, Michel Claise had informed the office that he had decided to withdraw from the case.
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Islamic Extremism: Germany Sees Reasons for “Greatest Vigilance”
The terror threat from Islamic extremists remains high in Germany, according to the country’s Federal Ministry of the Interior. Department officials said in a press release this week that they must continue to approach this issue with the “greatest vigilance.”
This followed the publication of a report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which found there were more extremist crimes across the board in 2022 than ever before. The figure stood at 35,452, just shy of 2,000 more acts than the year before.
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Lifesize Sculpture of Julian Assange Appears Outside UK Parliament
A bronze sculpture of three figures including the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in Parliament Square on Saturday as part of the campaign for his release from prison in London where he is under threat of extradition to the US.
The lifesize sculpture of Assange alongside the whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, all standing atop chairs, was unveiled before a crowd holding “Free Julian Assange” signs.
Beside the figures rests an empty chair, inviting members of the public to stand alongside Assange, Snowden and Manning.
“As an artist, I feel I have a duty to defend freedom of speech and the right to know,” the Italian artist Davide Dormino said of the work, titled Anything To Say?.
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NATO Considers Picking Romania as Ukraine’s F-16 Training Site
NATO officials within the “fighter jet coalition” are eyeing Romania as the possible location for training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, Politico reported on Wednesday, June 21st. Although this might show that the much-anticipated Western plan of equipping Kyiv with fourth-generation fighter jets is moving ahead, there’s still no indication that any ally would give up their own F-16s to be actually used above the battlefield.
According to confidential Pentagon sources close to the paper, the fighter jet coalition is currently negotiating a contract with Bucharest to let them host the training of Ukrainian pilots in the country, which most likely would be conducted by specialists of the U.S. arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, the company behind producing the F-16s.
This last bit was confirmed by Lockheed Martin as well, with a company spokesman saying that the firm stands ready to begin training UAF pilots and maintenance crew as soon as there’s an agreement between the Western nations—and as soon as some agree to send the aircraft themselves.
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Poll: Millions of ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Live in Britain
A quarter of people in the UK believe that COVID was a “hoax,” according to reports of a new poll—though critics suggest the polls have read too much into the results, which might themselves also be questionable.
Respondents to an April survey sponsored by Savanta for King’s College London (KCL) and the BBC, said that numerous “conspiracy theories” are either “definitely” or “probably” true, suggesting millions more Britons buy into far-out notions than previously thought.
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Protesters disrupted the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh by storming the stage during a sheep shearing competition and gluing themselves to stalls.
Members of Animal Rising were quickly removed by security after taking to the stage during the Golden Shears Sheep Shears World competition at around 1.45pm on Saturday, June 24. CVampaigners wearing pink t-shirts reading ‘For All Life’ ran onto the platform where the shearing takes place. Three individuals glued themselves to the stalls where the sheep are kept whilst others held placards.
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Stoltenberg: NATO’s Running Out of Bullets
Western ammunition stocks are depleted, so all NATO allies are expected to join in production efforts and ramp up defense spending, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during the Day of Industry conference in Berlin on Monday, June 19th.
The NATO chief began by reassuring the audience that the alliance stands by Ukraine until the war ends and beyond, that’s without question. But then he shifted to internal matters, saying that it’s high time NATO members started thinking about defense more seriously.
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Tractors in Nicosia: Farmer Protests Spread to Cyprus
Hundreds of tractors appeared outside the doors of the EU’s top office in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Monday as farmers took to the streets to protest tough new EU pesticide regulations that they say could destroy their livelihoods.
Cypriot farmers are angry about the proposed EU Nature Restoration Law designed to rewild 20% of the continent’s landmass by turning it back to nature and which farmer organisations claim will cripple their industry due to harsh regulations imposed on what pesticides farmers can use.
Hundreds of tractors assembled outside the EU offices before arriving at the presidential palace, calling on the Cypriot government to veto the pesticide proposals.
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UK Public Support for Rejoining EU Rises to 58% — Poll
Support for rejoining the European Union among people in the United Kingdom has surged to 58%, with 42% saying they would opt to stay out if there was a new referendum on EU membership, a YouGov poll showed on Friday.
The figures come from the pollster’s latest Brexit tracker survey of 2,037 British adults. They exclude those who said they would not vote or did not know.
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The Mail on Sunday understands the insulting description of Sir Winston Churchill appeared on St Paul’s website for more than a year — but it remained unclear who was responsible for writing it.
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UK: Man Throws Water Over Just Stop Oil Protestors
A man has thrown a bucket of water from a third-floor flat at Just Stop Oil protesters, who were holding up traffic in Camden, London.
Footage shows the Just Stop Oil climate protesters drenched in water while slowly marching in front of traffic.
The man who threw the water appears to shout and swear at the marchers from his balcony.
The climate activists held signs that said “For my family”, “New Oil = Murder” and “I won’t die quietly”.
Vehicles can be heard beeping horns while the cars were stuck behind the demonstrators on the busy London road.
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UK: Titan Submersible: Why the Media Suspense?
For once, the conversation wasn’t on Boris Johnson. Instead, the chatter at my local English pub over the past week turned to the Titan submersible story. A glance at the papers from across the world suggests my experience was not unique. But reports now suggest the “round-the-clock media coverage may have been futile from the start.” This is because those with the most information were fairly certain the submersible imploded just hours after its launch.
The world was told on Thursday that the five people on board the craft had “sadly been lost” due to a “catastrophic” failure. On the same day, it was revealed that the U.S. Navy detected “an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” hours into the voyage. So why the need for five days of edge-of-seat coverage?
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Upstart Dutch Farmers Party Makes Strides, But Road is Rocky
After last March’s regional elections in the Netherlands, the agrarian populist BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) suddenly found itself the largest political force in all 12 of the country’s provinces. While in some provinces, coalition talks are still ongoing and plagued by disagreement, in others, the BBB has pushed its agenda through.
Propelled by the Dutch farmers’ years-long revolt in response to their government’s drive towards halving nitrogen emissions by 2030—a goal which entailed lowering livestock numbers and fertilizer use and even included mandatory buy-out schemes—the BBB, founded in 2019, ran on addressing their concerns.
Trust in the BBB now seems to be paying off. Apart from the party’s ability to block the controversial nitrogen emission legislation in the Dutch Senate, its leverage within regional governments, which are tasked with enacting state policy, has turned out to be considerable.
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West Promises EU Membership and Public-Private Partnership to Rebuild Ukraine
Over a thousand decision-makers gathered in London on Wednesday, June 21st, for the second session of the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) to commit billions of dollars toward rebuilding the war-torn country. In addition, the aid and foreign investments are designed to further develop the country and prepare it for EU accession, according to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Meanwhile, the European Commission also held a briefing on the enlargement prospects of its eastern neighbors, which painted a more realistic picture of what to expect than the mouth-watering expectations expressed in the speeches at the conference.
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EU Wants to Use Russia’s €200b Frozen Assets to Rebuild Ukraine
The European Commission is looking into ways to use over €200 billion worth of Russian state-owned frozen financial assets, commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during her speech at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London on Wednesday, June 21st. But the legal feasibility of such a bold move remains quite uncertain.
As we also reported, the conference primarily came together to discuss the Western leaders’ ambitious plan to kickstart the reconstruction of Ukraine by combining over a hundred billion worth of government aid and a program of heavily incentivized private sector foreign investments.
But the €110 billion worth of financial aid planned to be delivered by Western nations—of which the EU promised €50 billion alone—will not be enough to pick up the tab. The reconstruction bill is estimated to be more than $400 billion at this point, which means there are plenty of gaps to fill in with a bit of creativity.
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Prigozhin, the Mercenary Chief Urging an Uprising Against Russia’s Generals, Has Long Ties to Putin
Once a low-profile businessman who benefited from having President Vladimir Putin as a powerful patron, Yevgeny Prigozhin moved into the global spotlight with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
As the leader of a mercenary force who depicts himself as fighting many of the Russian military’s toughest battles in Ukraine, the 62-year-old Prigozhin has now moved into his most dangerous role yet: preaching open rebellion against the leadership of the country’s military.
Prigozhin, owner of the Kremlin-allied Wagner Group, has escalated what have been months of scathing criticism of Russia’s conduct of the war by calling Friday for an armed uprising to oust the defense minister. Russian security services reacted immediately, opening a criminal investigation and urging Prigozhin’s arrest.
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Rebel Russian Mercenaries Will Turn Back to Avoid Bloodshed, Leader Says
ROSTOV-ON-DON/VORONEZH, Russia, June 24 (Reuters) — Mutinous Russian mercenaries who surged most of the way to Moscow have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power.
The fighters of the Wagner private army were just 200 km (125 miles) from the capital, said the leader, former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin. The rebels had captured the city of Rostov hundreds of miles to the south before racing across the country.
“They wanted to disband the Wagner military company. We embarked on a march of justice on June 23. In 24 hours we got to within 200 km of Moscow. In this time we did not spill a single drop of our fighters’ blood,” Prigozhin said in an audio message.
“Now the moment has come when blood could be spilled. Understanding … that Russian blood will be spilled on one side, we are turning our columns around and going back to field camps as planned.”
The decision to halt further movement across Russia by the Wagner group was brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in return for guarantees for their safety, his office said. There was no immediate word on the deal from Putin.
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Russia Blocks Access to Google News
As tensions are alleged to be flaring between the Russian military and Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, a prominent mercenary leader, access to Google News in Russia has been stonewalled. While little is known about what is actually happening in the region, with alarming claims being made from both sides, the blockade ensues amid allegations from Russian generals, who reportedly accuse Prigozhin, the chief of the Wagner Group, of conspiring to orchestrate pushback against President Vladimir Putin.
While Google has not issued a statement so far, the consequences on the ground are evident. Internet freedom in Russia is taking a hit, as NetBlocks, an internet watch service, discerned that a multitude of internet service providers (ISPs) are curbing access to the platform.
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Wagner’s March on Moscow Halted as Belarus’ Lukashenko Negotiates Stand Down With Prigozhin
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, one of the chief allies of Vladimir Putin, has reportedly brokered a deal with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to stop the paramilitary group’s advances towards Moscow.
Following negotiations that are said to have lasted the entire day, Aleksandr Lukashenko has claimed to have struck an agreement with the Wagner Private Military Company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to stop his forces from marching on Moscow and work to “de-escalate tensions”, according to Belarussian state media BelTA.
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Zelensky Tells Ukrainians: “Don’t Panic” About Nuclear Threat
The nuclear spectre has hung in the air throughout the war in Ukraine, but Kyiv has this week stressed the country ought not to panic.
A nuclear disaster has been averted despite the recent destruction of a dam on the Dnipro River which deprived the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant—the biggest in Europe—of its main source of cooling water. The event—and Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim Russia was planning a terror attack in the form of a radiation leak (a lie, according to the Kremlin)—is said to have put Ukrainians on alert.
Reports point in particular to an increased demand for iodine—millions of tablets of which have been donated by the European Union—due to its quality of helping to block the absorption of radioactive iodine. Many pharmacies, AFP notes, have seen a sky rocketing of requests.
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Zelensky Signs Bill Banning Russian Books
In the country’s latest blow to free speech, freedom of expression, and ethnic diversity, President Vladimir Zelensky announced Thursday he’s signed into effect a new law banning Russian books and publications in Ukraine.
The law blocks any new Russian and Belarusian publications from being imported into the country. “I believe this law is the right decision,” Zelensky wrote of the measure.
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EU Sanctions Target China for the First Time
Three Chinese companies accused of funnelling European military hardware to Russia were slapped with sanctions by the EU on Wednesday, June 21st. This is the first time Beijing has been directly hit by sanctions related to the Ukraine war.
The decision by a meeting of European ambassadors has been taken as a small diplomatic victory for China after Brussels scaled back initial plans to sanction eight Chinese companies accused of helping the Russian army in Ukraine.
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Chinese Suspect Arrested for Ax Rampage in New Zealand
A man armed with an axe raided three neighboring Chinese restaurants in New Zealand’s biggest city of Auckland, injuring four individuals before he was arrested by police.
The 24-year-old was taken into custody and charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
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Stats show QLD’s youth justice reform initiative which was reintroduced in an attempt to tackle the youth crime epidemic is failing as more than 50 per cent of participants are reoffending within a year.
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— as it comes under renewed attack from locals who claim they’ve been intimidated
Williams said he played by the rules to get construction up and running, and has catered to the demands of residents in building the mosque in a residential area in Sydney’s south.
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NSW Leader Wants to Ban Online Live Streaming of Climate Change Protests
Civil liberties advocates have lashed out at the New South Wales Labor government’s attempts to stop climate activists from live streaming protests on Facebook.
Members of Blockade Australia staged and streamed protests across the country this week.
The premier, Chris Minns, announced via the Daily Telegraph on Thursday that he would request a meeting with the social media giant, alongside police, to see what they can do to “stop the broadcast of illegal acts.”
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Jihadists Slaughter Dozens of Christian Schoolchildren in Uganda
Islamic extremists slaughtered dozens of Christian schoolchildren at a boarding school in Uganda on Friday, including 20 girls who were hacked to death with machetes, the Barnabas Fund reported Tuesday.
A group of militants from an Islamic terror group called Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) stormed the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in western Uganda at around 11:30 p.m.
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Report: Fulani Jihadists Slaughter 700 Christians as ‘Farewell’ to Nigeria’s Buhari
Islamist Fulani militants slaughtered some 700 defenseless Christians during May 2023 as a parting gift to outgoing Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, a leading human rights organization reports.
Emeka Umeagbalasi, a Catholic human rights activist and chairman of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, declared in a June 12 report that Plateau State was the worst hit, accounting for the murders of 350 Christians, while another 110 Christians were massacred in Benue State.
Going back slightly further, the report notes that at least “1,100 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigerian Government backed Islamic Jihadists in the past 60 days or between 12th April and 12th June 2023,” an ongoing slaughter translating to a “daily average of 17 Christian deaths.”
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Austria: FPÖ Launches Nationwide Referendum to Deport Criminal Asylum Seekers
The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), the most popular political party in the country by a substantial margin according to the latest of a succession of polls, has announced its intention to launch a nationwide referendum that, if adopted by the people, would see all asylum seekers who have been convicted of a crime deported.
Calls for the referendum have come almost exactly two years after the infamous “Leonie case,” where three military-aged males from Afghanistan raped and murdered a 13-year-old Bavarian girl named Leonie before going on to callously dump her body on the side of a road in a residential area of Vienna.
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The US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) recent unveiling of a $1.7 million initiative to foster the development of digital wallets will raise eyebrows among privacy advocates. While DHS’s Science & Technology Directorate ostensibly presents this as the “Privacy Preserving Digital Credential Wallets & Verifiers” SVIP Topic Call, the devil will be in the details.
The plan is to use the system for “travel, immigration and citizenship status, employment, residency status and more.”
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Egyptian People-Smuggling ‘Mastermind’ Arrested by UK Authorities
The Mediterranean Sea has seen a boom in illegal migrant crossings so far this year, much of which is organised by networks of people smugglers who are said to be making large amounts of cash despite the suffering of the migrants involved in the often dangerous journeys.
This week, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of a prolific people smuggler accused of being the head of a smuggling network that may have aided thousands of migrants to enter Europe illegally by boat from North Africa.
According to the NCA, the suspect, a 40-year-old Egyptian national, was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday.
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Four Migrant Landings on Lampedusa, 258 More Arrive
(ANSA) — ROME, JUN 24 — A total of 258 migrants arrived in Lampedusa late Friday evening after four boats were rescued by the Harbour Master’s Office and the Guardia di Finanza, sources said Saturday.
In total, there were 18 landings on the island Friday, for a total of 775 people.
With these latest arrivals, the number of people housed in the island’s hotspot has risen to 1,208, against a stated official capacity of under 400.
On Saturday morning, the Government’s territorial office ordered the transfer of about 500 migrants with the Coast Guard ship Cassiopea from the island to post in Sicily.
Meanwhile Alarm Phone warned on twitter that a boat with 50 migrants from Libya is adrift and in dire straits in the central Mediterranean in international waters.
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France: Migrants Demanding Halal Meals Riot at Detention Center, Multiple Officers Injured
Half a dozen officers were injured during riots at a holding facility for criminal migrants this month in France, according to reports.
The incident unfolded at around 5:30 p.m. on June 8 in Lyon, near the Saint Exupéry airport.
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France: Afghan Migrant Shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ Sexually Assaults Girl in Wheelchair in Paris
An Afghan migrant yelling Islamic slogans was arrested in France after sexually assaulting a disabled girl in a wheelchair and then trying to steal a ridesharing vehicle she was preparing to enter, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded during the overnight hours between Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris.
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Germany: Family Reunification Chain Migration Sees Tens of Thousands Arrive in 2022
Official figures have revealed that the Residence Act, a law that grants migrants living in Germany the right to reunite with family members from abroad, is facilitating a process known as ‘chain migration,’ allowing tens of thousands of migrants to settle in the country in the past year alone.
The figures, released by the federal government following an information request from the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) parliamentary group, showed that the left-liberal ‘traffic light’ coalition issued more than 117,000 visas for family reunification of migrants, while a total of 179,420 non-EU citizens received residence permits for family reasons in 2022, the Berlin-based newspaper Junge Freiheit reports.
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Need Further Step From EU on Migrants Says Meloni
(ANSA) — ROME, JUN 24 — A “further step” is needed on migration to the European Union after a “paradigm shift” obtained by Italy and Austria, among others, Premier Giorgia Meloni said in joint statements with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer after their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Europa Forum Wachau Saturday.
“It is thanks to our cooperation that a paradigm shift has taken place in Europe on the issue of illegal migration flows,” she said at a castle 80 km south of Vienna.
“A paradigm shift has been made, now a concrete step has to be taken for solutions to deal with this matter, and it will be the subject of the next European Council. The Chancellor and I have talked about it, and we count on each other”, said the Italian PM.
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Nigerian Man Stabbed During Street Fight in Switzerland
An African teen was arrested after a Nigerian man was stabbed during a brawl outside a bar in Switzerland this week, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded at around 7:15 p.m. on Monday evening in the city of Basel near the borders of Germany and France.
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Slew of Sex Attacks, Brawls at German Swimming Pools
Sex attacks and mass brawls unfolded at swimming pools across Germany over the past few days as ‘teens’ and young men, many of foreign origin, wreak havoc during the summer bathing season, according to reports.
On Tuesday evening, three underage girls were sexually assaulted at an aquatic facility in Kandel, a town in Rhineland-Palatinate state near the French border.
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Supreme Court: States Lack Standing to Force Mayorkas to Arrest Criminal Aliens
WASHINGTON, DC — Texas and Louisiana lack standing to sue the Biden administration’s policy of not enforcing a federal law requiring the arrest of certain criminal aliens, the Supreme Court held on Friday.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion for justices, examining 8 U.S.C. § 1226, where Congress commands that the Department of Homeland Security “shall” arrest and detain some types of criminal aliens when they are released from state prison. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has refused to enforce that law.
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Switzerland: African Migrant Stabs Officer During Standoff at Asylum Center
A police officer was stabbed by an African suspect during a standoff outside a migrant reception center in Switzerland this week, according to reports.
The harrowing incident unfolded just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday in Lausanne, capital of canton Vaud.
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Estonia: Hate Speech Laws Expected After Gay Marriage Legalised
The Estonian Parliament set a historic precedent Tuesday, June 20th, becoming the first post-Soviet state to legalise same-sex marriage, despite stiff opposition from the country’s conservative lawmakers.
The new law will take effect on 1 January, 2024 and comes three months after contested elections where the liberal Reform Party comfortably defeated the national-conservative EKRE Party amid claims of voter fraud.
Members of the Riigikogu, the Estonian Parliament, voted Tuesday night 55 to 34 in favour of amendments to the Family Law Act enabling homosexual couples to marry. The Baltic nation is experiencing a wave of liberalisation under the new Reform administration and is also considering a new bill against anti-LGBT hate speech.
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EU Climate Chief Warns ‘Culture Wars’ Put Net Zero Target at Risk
The European Union’s Green Deal is at risk of being dragged into “culture wars” in which “the facts don’t matter anymore,” the bloc’s climate chief has claimed. Frans Timmermans, who has consistently warned that when it comes to climate policies, “we do not have the time to be paralysed,” this week told reporters of his concerns that the drive towards carbon net zero may be halted by vindictive political blocks.
This drive is at the ‘heart’ of the European Green Deal, which is itself the first of the Commission’s ‘legislative priorities’ for 2023 and 2024. Brusselsreport.eu’s Editor-in-Chief Pieter Cleppe told a panel event hosted by The European Conservative in March that this was “no coincidence” since it “encompasses all aspects of our lives.” He also noted that while much of the rhetoric around the Green Deal appears to be soft, the plan is actually resulting in the “sharpening up of already sharp regulations.”
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Kylee Alons (left) told DailyMail.com she and some of her teammates were forced to change clothes in a cupboard to avoid trans swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Championships.
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France: Storm in a Beer Bottle: Macron in “Toxic Masculinity” Row After Downing Corona
It must be a slow news week because much of the media has been in a frenzy over video footage of Emmanuel Macron downing a beer. The 17-second “remarkable performance” was met with whoops and cheers in the Stade de France changing room, but outside has promoted reports on “toxic masculinity,” problematic drinking, and an attempt to appeal to the Right.
Bernard Basset, a representative of the charity Association Addictions France, told BFMTV that Mr. Macron had failed in his “responsibility as a role model in terms of setting a healthy example for behaviour,” as The Guardian highlighted the sparking of a “binge-drinking row.” Addiction specialist William Lowenstein also described the act as “inappropriate,” suggesting that “you could do it, but not in front of the cameras.”
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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni: ‘Religious Liberty is Not a Second-Class Right’
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this week that Italy intends to set an example in aiding persecuted Christians around the world, insisting that “religious freedom is not a second-class right.”
Meloni’s statement came the day after a United Nations “expert” declared that when religious liberty clashes with LGBT rights, religious liberty must yield.
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Nolte: Mr. They/Them’s ‘Flash’ is a Certified Box Office Catastrophe
Ezra Miller — AKA Mr. They/Them serial criminal and credibly accused non-binary child groomer — saw his $250 million The Flash nosedive a jaw-dropping 75 percent in its second weekend at the box office.
This 75 percent collapse happened after The Flush opened to a devastating $55 million. This means that after ten days of release, this dud will sit at a paltry $87 million. How bad is that? Well, had The Flush opened to $87 million, that would’ve been considered a disappointment.
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What we are witnessing is an all-out war on parental authority — but the ultimate victims are our children, writes MARY HARRINGTON
The roots of this madness are far more insidious. We are witnessing nothing less than an all-out war on ‘normal’. And it’s justified by a sinister body of thought known as ‘queer theory’.
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Spain: Vox-PP Coalition Bans LGBT Flag in Public Buildings in Naquera
The display of LGBT flags on public buildings is set to be banned in the eastern Spanish town of Naquera, in the Valencian community, in accordance with a government agreement reached between the national-conservative VOX party and their center-right junior coalition partner party Partido Popular (PP).
While VOX came in first place in Naquera’s municipal elections in May, securing four councilors, the party, in order to obtain the outright majority required to govern, needed to forge a coalition agreement with the establishment of Partido Popular (PP), which acquired three councilors.
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Spain Records 370 Euthanasia Deaths Since Law Enacted
Just two years ago, in June of 2021, Spain became yet another country in the Western world to legalise assisted suicide, with nearly all of the votes that passed the law coming from left-wing parties while those on the Right, such as the entirety of the populist-conservative party VOX, were strongly against it.
A pro-assisted suicide group in Spain has now released a report on the first year and a half following the legalisation of euthanasia, revealing that from June 2021 to December 2022, a total of 370 people have been killed via medically assisted suicide.
The association Right to Die with Dignity (DMD), who presented the report, lamented the difficulties faced by those who wish to seek assisted suicide, noting that there was a lack of commitment to assisted suicide by private health providers, the newspaper El Mundo reports.
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U.N. ‘Expert’: Religious Liberty Must Yield to LGBT Demands
A U.N.-certified “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity declared Wednesday that religious communities must yield to the demands of LGBT persons to avoid charges of violence and discrimination.
Freedom of religion or belief need not be incompatible with equality for LGBT persons, Victor Madrigal-Borloz asserted in his address to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, as long as religious groups accept the claims of gay and transgender persons.
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UK: Staff From Disgraced Tavistock Child Sex Change Clinic Set Up Private Practice
Former staff from the disgraced Tavistock gender clinic in London, which is set to be shut down over child safeguarding concerns, have established a private practice to continue offering contested medical interventions to children.
In the wake of NHS England’s decision to shut down the Tavistock Centre and its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which has been accused of offering puberty blocking drugs to children after as little as just one consultation, former staff members have opened up a private clinic named Gender Plus.
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“Prigozhin, the Mercenary Chief Urging an Uprising Against Russia’s Generals”
…does anyone else get the feeling that Prigozhin works his own “psyop” of sorts?
The war in Ukraine seems to keep a predictable schedule:
1 – Russians are a bunch of losers
2 – Russians are losing big time! Their leadership is incompetent, and russians soldiers don’t want to fight
3 – oh look, the Russians just took another village/town/city….
Prigozhin seems to have stood up as a preacher of this psyop, IMHO, he records videos how the Russians keep on losing… …and then the Russians take another town…
I stick to my opinion that what we are witnessing is actually an Ukrainian Genocide.
The best way to run a genocide is to make the victims believe “nothing’s going on” until it’s too late.
I would be gladly mistaken
We won’t know for a few months what the truth is. If Prigozhin is reborn as a PMC in Belarus then the whole thing was staged. Risky, but if he invades Ukraine from Belarus and this is strategically important then it worked. The war only has another few weeks to run anyway. Belarus is not exactly out of Russia’s orbit and influence so not convincing.
Re: High risk of moslom terrorism.
Here is a simple solution. Shut down all mosques. Arrest and imprison all imams. And when the ragheads get uppity and start rioting shoot them.
What is so hard about that pray tell?
I mean, couple weeks ago I personally beat up a crackhead who was starting trouble around my place. No problemo… it’s not that hard to do [offensive-smelling substance] like this. You just need the will to power.
You are falling for their psyop, divide and conquer etc. too … left vs. right, vaccine vs. non-vaccine, banana vs apple …
Christianity vs. Islam vs. Judaism is the global elites (it is most likely aliens ruling this planet) oldest form of psyop, agitprop. divide and conquer.
It’s all the same Abrahamic belief in some cosmic whatever-whoever creator.
The source is not even Judaism (Cananite) – try reading various translation of the “Dead Sea Scrolls” -, but the ancient Sumer/Ubaid people.
All played like fools, by made up myths and stories.
https://folkmaktnu.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/lucifer-enki-jesus-enkidu/
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1814.htm
https://michaelruark.blog/2017/12/11/sumer-tablets-real-history/
There was never any real danger of musliem terrorism, just as there were no “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq/Afghanistan wherever.
It’s all fake, staged, false flag, psyop-shooting and attacks by the likes of CIA and other puppets.
Wow!
All I can say is that you have had your head in the sand for years
and that you know nothing about the Abrahamic religions..however, Islam is NOT a religion.
It is an evil political ideology.
No clue what you are trying to say here. But deducing from your answer I assume you are a theist of whatever religion?
I can’t think of any other major reason denying objective facts and research about mentioned topics.
If correct, than sorry to break your bubble and tell you’ve been indoctrinated for many years. I was too btw 😉
Thus I understand talking with you, or discussion, is pointless, as you [ad hominem redacted] and haven’t even read the few links I provided.
[ad hominem redacted], sit down for a couple of hundred hours, read the books (starting with the information I gave), read various other things, and then try to argue again about “head in the sand for years”.
I was a Christian believer for many years, now agnostic.
Once you learn the truth, it’s not possible to come back.
[ad hominem redacted]
And thus the elite continue to play their psyop, agitprop, divide et impera.
You say banana isn’t a fruit? Carrots aren’t a vegetable?
Exactly this comical it sounds if you say things like “Islam is not a religion”.
I hope – for the best for you – that you at least understand that 9/11 was an inside job, by the same global elite pushing their NWO, and the USA’s industrial military complex?
Cheers
Oh dear. The former religionist gets another religion, berates those who disagree with it.
I just hope that AFD pull 30 % vote , then they can clean up this country from all filth and Europe in the same time..
You are falling for their psyop and divide and conquer … left vs. right, vaccine vs. non-vaccine, banana vs. apple etc.
The “AFD” is the elite’s “controlled opposition” party. There was never “rule of the people” (democracy”) anywhere. Politics is a farce. No citizen has any real power not does voting decide anything.
Pulling 30% of the vote means 70% of the electorate are against you. And they are not likely to find any other parties willing to form a coalition with them since they are politically untouchable. It’s possible that even with 30% of the vote they will still be locked out any kind of ruling coalition.
The burning dumpster fire that is Germany and just about every other European country isn’t going to be fixed through voating moar harder. Things unfortunately need to get a lot worse, as in pimping-your-teenage-daughter-for-food-worse, before the average European moron has had enough and decides to throw in with whatever wannabe dictator promises to make the trains run on time (and deport all the africans and other assorted orcs through Morbark Travel Co.).
The AfD proposal is a sample of how cowardly and subservient the European right, the few that are left, are in not understanding the context, and getting used to the status quo. The League of Nations at the beginning was very bureaucratic, and was supposedly unable to fulfill its “democratic” designs. After that came the UN; Can anyone say that the UN manages to fulfill all its designs? Is it really democratic? Do your decisions respect sovereign states? There is no league of sovereign nations. Either one is sovereign being a nation, or one is not. Changing the name “European” Union to a fancy name is a mistake.
I don’t get triggered by words really but it would appear I get triggered by the term “sexual emergency”. As far as I know, originally coined by a migrant raping a 10 year old boy at a public swimming pool. A good follow up story would be what happened to that guy.
Islamic terrorism is real and not a psyop. At least the AfD are awake.