Smog caused by Canadian wildfires is afflicting the East Coast of the United States again. The air quality index here at Schloss Bodissey rose over 150 today, which is unhealthy, but not as bad as last time. The worst air quality was recorded in Canton, Ohio — an AQI of 324, which is extremely dangerous.
In other news, Ukrainian authorities arrested a man alleged to be a Russian agent who helped direct an air strike against a popular restaurant in Kramatorsk, which killed at least eleven people and wounded dozens more.
Ukraine Arrests Man Accused of Directing Russian Missile Strike on Pizza Restaurant Popular With Army Officers and Journalists
To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.
Thanks to Daniel Greenfield, Dean, JF, JW, Reader from Chicago, Roger, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
A graph highlighting the monthly change in CPI shows a steady decline in inflation, however the figures are not seasonally adjusted to exclude volatile items.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
35% of Democrats Say RFK Jr Could Win Presidential Nomination
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is turning out to be a favorite among Democrat voters, with recent polls showing that 35 percent of Democrats believe he will defeat President Joe Biden in the primary election and will become the party’s 2024 presidential nominee.
According to a Rassmussen report that surveyed 1,046 likely US voters, which was conducted between June 20 and June 22, 49 percent of respondents viewed RFK Jr. as favorable, while 14 percent said they have a very favorable view of him
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A 97-Year-Old Los Angeles Church Catches on Fire for the 2nd Time in 2 Years
A nearly 100-year-old church in Los Angeles caught on fire for the second time in less than two years and is now being investigated as arson, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The fire started in the sanctuary of the St. John’s United Methodist Church Saturday evening and moved up to the balcony. The cause has not been determined yet, the fire department said.
[Comment: Article dated June 5, 2023.]
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Air Quality Alerts Remain in Effect for Chicago Area Due to Smoke From Canadian Wildfires
CHICAGO (WLS) — The Chicago area continues to be under an air quality alert Wednesday because of smoke from Canadian wildfires filling the skies.
Chicago’s air quality remains in the very unhealthy category, with people encouraged to limit their time outside, even healthy people with no respiratory problems. AirNOw.gov lists Chicago air quality at 231 as of 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Air Quality Alerts are in effect for the Chicago area and the Rockford area for until midnight Wednesday. Alerts are also in effect in Wisconsin and Indiana.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Arrest Made After Des Moines Church Fire Ruled Arson
DES MOINES, Iowa — A church fire in Des Moines has been ruled arson by police.
The fire happened Monday afternoon at Perfecting Holiness Temple, causing extensive damage.
Police say during the search for evidence inside the church, they found signs an accelerant had been used.
Sgt. Paul Parizek with the Des Moines Police Department said the fire department’s arson dog, Yahtzee, also got a hit on an accelerant in the church.
Police say 27-year-old Emmanuel Philpot was seen by other people behaving suspiciously around the building just before the fire. He was also seen in police body cam footage as they questioned neighbors about the fire.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Bible, Other Items Burned in Church Break-in In Hayward
Members of an East Bay Orthodox church say someone broke into their temple, set fire to several religious artifacts, and took nothing but cash from an adjacent daycare center.
Burnt pages from a holy bible, a charred crucifix and ashes were found around an altar.
“This is The Holy Bible that was in the altar. That was burnt as well as the place where we baptize our children,” said Ana Mourne.
She said her church was attacked early Monday.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A former high-level donor to Joe Biden has revealed that authorities at the FBI asked him to wear a wire and interact with the Democrat president’s campaign team.
Chris Tigani says an investigation was launched after he claimed the president’s campaign manager directed him to conceal illegal donations during the 2020 campaign.
Tigani served two years in prison over campaign finance violations.
He told Fox News that he was approached by federal investigators following a scheme to reimburse his business associates for making donations to the president’s campaign, known as straw donations.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Biden Denies Being in Room With Hunter When He Sent WhatsApp Message Demanding Cash From China
Outside the White House on Wednesday, Joe Biden was questioned about his involvement in a message his son, Hunter Biden, sent to a Chinese business partner demanding payment.
“How involved were you in your son’s Chinese shakedown text message? Were you sitting there? Were you involved?” one reporter asked.
“No, I wasn’t,” Biden asked.
When pressed further by the reporter on whether he was involved, Biden shouted, “No.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Breaking: Human Remains Reportedly Found at Site of Titan Implosion
Human remains were reportedly found at the site of the Titan implosion, which occured on Sunday, June 18, some 1600 feet from the Titanic wreckage on the sea floor of the North Atlantic.
Authorities from the Coast Guard reported that they believe they have found the remains of some of the 5 men who lost their lives on a journey to the bottom of the sea in an experimental submersible to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley alleged on Tuesday that Hunter Biden received $8.3 million from overseas business dealings between 2014 and 2019.
His father Joe Biden was Vice President under Barack Obama from 2008 to 2016, and a senator before that. Biden has repeatedly said that he had no knowledge of his sons business affairs in Ukraine and China.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Breaking: Hunter Biden Settles With Baby Mama Under Condition Child Can’t Use His Last Name
Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, the mother of his 4-year-old child, reached a settlement in their explosive child support dispute in court last week which prohibits the First Son’s daughter from using the Biden family name.
Lunden Roberts, 32, a former stripper that Hunter Biden impregnated in Arkansas, had petitioned the court to rename her daughter Navy Joan Biden after a paternity test confirmed that Navy’s biological father is Hunter Biden. Roberts reportedly wanted to change their daughter’s surname so that Navy could “benefit from carrying the Biden Family name,” according to Daily Mail.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Burglary Suspect Stabbed With Sword After Attacking Homeowner With Pitchfork
On Sunday, a male suspect was stabbed by a samurai sword when he burglarized a residence in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood.
Police responded to a residential burglary in the 2100 block of Beacon Avenue South around 1:30 p.m. Officers located and detained two men one with a sword with visible minor injuries and another with a stab wound to his torso.
During the investigation, officers discovered a man had entered the victims’ residence while they were gone. The 71-year-old male victim noticed items were misplaced and a kitchen window had been shattered once he re-entered his home.
As he walked further into his home, he found a man standing in his living room. A struggle quickly ensued between the two men. At one point, the suspect held the victim to the floor as he attempted to stab him with a pitchfork. The victim was able to escape and retreat to his bedroom where he retrieved a firearm. The suspect followed him and wrestled with him as he tried to take the gun.
The victim attempted to shoot the suspect, but the firearm jammed. When the firearm malfunctioned, the victim picked up his samurai sword and stabbed the suspect. The 61-year-old female victim witnessed the physical altercation in the bedroom and tried to pull the suspect off the male victim. After the stabbing, the suspect ran outside to a nearby residence where he was later detained by officers.
Police provided medical care until Seattle Fire arrived and took over medical treatment to those injured. The male victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries to his face and torso from the altercation. The 61-year-old male suspect was transported to Harborview Medical Center for further medical attention for his non-life-threatening stab wound.
The suspect was arrested for burglary and will be booked into King County Jail after being medically cleared.
| — Hat tip: Roger | [Return to headlines] |
California Woman Gets Only 2 Years Prison Time After Fire-Bombing Bank in LA
A woman has been arrested and sentenced to only 24 months in prison after firebombing a bank in Los Angeles, California with a Molotov cocktail.
Tenranee Millet was arrested in January of 2021 on the other side of the country in Georgia after having causing the explosion in September earlier that year. Millet was a student at Santa Monica College in California.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
CNN Legal Analyst: ‘Reasonable Prosecutors Could Have Charged Hillary Clinton’
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig has rejected the claim by former FBI Director James Comey that “no reasonable prosecutor” would have brought charges against Hillary Clinton in 2016 over her private email server.
Comey said that Clinton had been “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
That there was “evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,” he added.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Congressional Report: Biden Admin ‘Colluded’ With Big Tech to Censor Americans
A new congressional report has concluded that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration violated American citizens’ First Amendment rights by colluding with Big Tech companies to censor people online.
The new report was published Monday by lawmakers on the House Weaponization Subcommittee.
The committee released an interim staff report detailing how Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allegedly used the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to surveil and censor Americans’ speech.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci—who is currently enjoying a pension of over $400,000 a year following his retirement—will be joining Georgetown University as a “distinguished” professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine.
A press release from the school states, “Starting July 1, Fauci will serve as a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, an academic division that provides clinical care, conducts research and trains future physicians in infectious diseases.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Fire Destroys Catholic Church on First Anniversary of Dobbs Decision
A fire destroyed the interior of a Roman Catholic Church in Orlando, Florida, on the one-year anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that decided there is no right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution, inviting speculation that it was a deliberate attack as the cause of the blaze remains unknown.
The Incarnation Catholic Church announced on its Facebook page Sunday that “the Church building caught fire last night.” The social media post encouraged parishioners to “attend other parishes” in the area while noting that only one Sunday mass would take place in nearby Royal Hall that day. A statement published on the church’s website explained that “no further information is available on the cause at this moment,” adding that “any updates that may be shared on this matter will be made available here.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Mysterious Gaps & Missing Names Emerge in Biden’s White House Visitor Logs
Mysterious discrepancies have been discovered in Democrat President Joe Biden’s White House visitor logs.
A new analysis of the visitor logs has exposed significant gaps and missing names.
The discovery has raised concerns that people are secretly visiting Biden’s taxpayer-funded White House without their identities being disclosed to the public.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Northern California County Mulls Secession as Local Activist Spearheads Effort
A new proposal would have a county in northern California secede and become its own state, with the local activist behind the effort calling for residents to have their way of life restored and respected.
El Dorado County, which is located just east of the state capitol of Sacramento and nestled between California and Nevada, is about 200 square miles larger than Rhode Island and has just over 191,000 residents as of the 2020 Census.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Obama’s Intelligence Advisor Killed in ‘Car Accident’
Former President Barack Obama’s senior intelligence advisor James Crown has died suddenly after being involved in a tragic “single-vehicle car accident.”
Multi-billionaire Crown was appointed to Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board in 2014.
As a top intel official, Crown served in the administration during Obama’s spying on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign over false claims of collusion with Russia which triggered the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe and ultimately led to the scandal being recently exposed in Special Counsel John Durham’s explosive report.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Seattle Mayor’s Announcement of Downtown ‘Rebirth’ Interrupted by Far-Left Protestors
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell was disrupted during a press brief on Wednesday by a group of far-left activists who demanded that the city stop sweeping homeless encampments on public streets; where vagrants are overdosing on fentanyl as the open-air drug crisis continues to worsen throughout the city.
Democrat Mayor Harrell was announcing plans for a new “vision” for Seattle’s downtown corridor, which has succumbed to violent crime and is now riddled with dangerous homeless addicts, when members from a radical homeless advocacy group called “Stop the Sweeps” disrupted the press conference that addressed new efforts to combat the city’s violent crime and drug crisis.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
State Issues Air Quality Health Advisory in New York Through Thursday
The state has issued an air quality health advisory through Thursday for all regions of New York.
Officials say contaminants from the Canadian wildfires are partly to blame.
The state says it won’t get as bad as it was earlier this month, but people with underlying health conditions could be affected.
The air quality is forecasted to reach unhealthy index levels for western and central New York. On Long Island, the air quality is expected to be moderate with the biggest pollutant being ozone.
As a precaution, the MTA said free KN95 masks would be available at Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and New York City subway stations.
Here is where you can get them.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is warning high-risk population including children, older adults and people with underlying respiratory and cardiac conditions to stay indoors as much as possible and wear a mask if they do go outdoors.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Texas Rep Introduces Bill to Block Federal Bailouts of States That Give Reparations
Republican Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) has introduced a bill to block federal bailouts for states that implement reparations programs.
Babin introduced the No Bailouts for Reparations Act last week.
The bill will prohibit taxpayer-funded financial assistance from going to states or municipalities operating programs giving reparations for slavery.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Trump is Only Living US President Not Descended From Slaveholders, Report Says
Former President Trump is the only living U.S. president who is not descended form slaveholders, according to a Reuters report analyzing the ancestry of U.S. lawmakers.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Turns Tables, Files Defamation Lawsuit Against E. Jean Carroll Over Bogus Rape Claim
President Donald Trump has hit back at E. Jean Carroll by filing a defamation lawsuit against her for falsely accusing him of rape.
This countersuit comes after a civil jury found him “guilty of sexual abuse and defamation,” but not rape, in a May trial.
Trump is appealing that ruling.
Filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Trump’s counterclaim cites Carroll’s post-verdict comments on CNN.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Trump: ‘Crooked Joe Biden is Compromised — He’s Owned by China’
President Donald Trump didn’t hold back during a speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Trump warned the crowd at a luncheon for the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women that Democrat President Joe Biden is “crooked,” “compromised,” and “owned by China.
Biden is “the most corrupt president we’ve ever had,” Trump declared.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
President Donald Trump just scored a huge victory in his classified documents case as U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied special counsel Jack Smith’s request to keep secret a list of 84 potential witnesses in the case.
Federal prosecutors had asked Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge, to keep the witness list under seal.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Leads Biden 47-46%, DeSantis 49-25% Among PA Voters: Poll
A new poll has revealed that 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is beating President Biden among Pennsylvania voters.
The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University, found that 47 percent of Pennsylvania registered voters would vote for Trump if the election were held at the time they were asked, while 46 percent said they would vote for Biden.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Tucker Carlson: Democrats Plotting ‘Coup’ to Replace Biden With Gavin Newsom
Tucker Carlson dropped another episode of his new Twitter show and makes a bold prediction about Democrat President Joe Biden.
During the latest installment of his smash hit show, Carlson called out the Biden family’s obvious corruption.
He continued by saying that Biden’s rapid decline will make the Democrats replace him with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on the 2024 ticket.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Tucker Carlson: Political Elites Cheer on Ukraine Conflict Because ‘War Means Power’
Star news anchor Tucker Carlson has blasted Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration for cheering on the war in Ukraine.
During Tuesday’s episode of “Tucker on Twitter,” the host warned that political elites are encouraging the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to gain power.
Carlson noted that the Biden admin and members of Congress are defending Ukraine as a “war for democracy.”
He pointed to U.S. politicians’ support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
As Carlson highlighted, Zlenesky recently announced a possible cancelation of elections due to the conflict.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Washington DC has been put on code red for air quality as smoke from Canadian wildfires is expected to plunge the city into the ‘unhealthy’ category, as NYC prepares for a second coating of smog.
Nearly 90million people across the US are currently under unhealthy air quality warnings due to the ongoing fires and the DC area is to be Code Red tomorrow.
Canada has recorded its worst fire season on record with hundreds of wildfires currently raging across the country.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Whales Die, While Officials, Media, and Environmentalists Lie
“Save the Whales” is now “sacrifice the whales” to East Coast wind turbines, oil & gas drilling, and reporter lackeys for the marine-industrial complex. Sound familiar?
In Strathmere, New Jersey, the morning of December 10, 2022, began on a somber note.
A dead whale weighing an estimated twenty tons was spotted offshore, soon moved by tide and waves to the shoreline where beachgoers took photos and videos.
Identified as a young female humpback, the thirty-foot-long cetacean was examined by experts dispatched from the Brigantine Marine Mammal Stranding Center and found to have no signs of illness or injury. Later that afternoon the local public works department brought in its heavy equipment to bury her on the beach.
Despite the fact that whale deaths happen, this particular humpback who beached herself that overcast day in Strathmere could be called Whale One. Not just a doomed marine mammal, but a creature who was the first to become emblematic of an ominous plan to industrialize the ocean as quickly as possible. A plan that has made bizarre if unacknowledged bedfellows of environmentalists and their sworn enemies who drill for fossil fuels—and a plan that makes use of the most potent greenhouse gas ever known.
The young humpback became part of a movement that began with the asking of a question: What is killing the whales and dolphins?
| — Hat tip: JF | [Return to headlines] |
Two White House officials confirmed to Bloomberg that President Joe Biden is using a CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea but Biden’s press team has yet to release an on-the-record comment.
The Bloomberg reporters grew concerned after Biden showed up today with visible strap marks on his face while he talked with reporters on the White House lawn in the morning.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Canadians Have Waning Support for International Aid: Study
A public opinion tracking survey commissioned by Global Affairs Canada revealed fewer than half of Canadians think taxpayer money should fund international aid.
The survey—which was conducted online by EKOS Research Associations Inc. between Jan. 16 and Feb. 3 and involved 3,059 nationwide respondents—also revealed support has declined since last year.
According to the poll, fewer than half of Canadians (44%) think Canada should spend more money on international aid because it is morally right, decreasing from 48% in 2022.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Canada’s Pandemic Response Exacerbated Worker Shortage: Construction Experts
The government’s handling of the pandemic worsened the country’s trade worker shortage, pushed labour costs even higher, and has left the industry reeling from its effects, say construction industry experts.
As Canada’s lockdowns began and a number of industries were forced to shut down, Richard Lyall, president of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario, says many workers decided to retire early.
“There was the COVID effect, which meant some people left and took pensions. They didn’t come back and we lost productivity, which was huge,” Lyall said. “We lost 25% right off the bat, and while some of them started coming back, it started taking longer to get things done.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Feds’ New Public Art Installation Ridiculed by Canadians
The National Capital Commission’s (NCC) new public art installation is being roasted by Canadians on social media — with many calling it ugly and comparing it to trash.
The modern artwork in question was made by Prince Edward Island artist Gerald Beaulieu, who is described as “an artist who uses familiar materials to examine the boundary between what is natural and manmade, helpful or harmful, always returning to his larger questions about how we live in the world, and what the consequences and compromises might be.”
The piece of art is a crow made from recycled rubber tires and is titled When the Rubber Meets the Road.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
NDP Abolishes Letter Grades in BC Schools Despite Outcry From Teacher and Parents
Ignoring fierce opposition from teachers, parents — and even pupils — British Columbia’s NDP government is abolishing letter grades for all public school students except those in grades 10 to 12.
The government chose to forge ahead despite hosting consultations during which opposition to the letter-grade abolition was fierce.
In lieu of grading with letters A through F, a proficiency scale will assess students as “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient,” or “extending.” The policy will also introduce a new standard by which students can assess themselves.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Trudeau Government Recruits ‘Insect Protein’ Companies to Attend UK ‘Future of Food-Tech’ Conference
A global meeting called the Future Food-Tech summit, which takes place in the United Kingdom in September, plans to bring over 800 business leaders together to, among other things, focus on bringing “alternative proteins” into the food market. The group has ties to the World Economic Forum (WEF), and companies from Canada specializing in insect proteins have been invited to attend by their very own government’s National Research Council.
The summit aims to bring business leaders together in order to create “foods that are nutritious, accessible, and climate-smart,” focusing on strategies that include “leveraging plant-based, cellular agriculture, insect and fermentation technologies.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A Storm in the French Press: Does the Right Have a Right to Exist?
The microcosm of the French press has been in the grip of a violent storm for several days now. It all started with the dismissal of Geoffroy Lejeune, the young conservative editor-in-chief of the weekly Valeurs Actuelles, at the request of the magazine’s main shareholder. The announcement that he would be appointed as the head of the mass-circulation newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche provoked the anger of a large section of the left-wing journalistic caste, who vociferated and howled at the ‘extreme right-wingisation’ of the media, in defiance of pluralism and the most basic freedom of opinion.
On June 5th, at the end of a battle that had been going on for many months, the young Geoffroy Lejeune, reputedly close to Marion Maréchal and Éric Zemmour and editor of the right-wing weekly Valeurs Actuelles, was sacked at the instigation of Iskandar Safa, the main shareholder in the Valmonde press group that owns the magazine.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Electoral Reform: EU Council Rejects the Parliament’s Attempted Power Grab
Most EU member states continue to hold “serious concerns” about certain aspects of the European Parliament’s proposed electoral reforms, as the recent Council meeting between the bloc’s European affairs ministers in Luxembourg clearly showed. In particular, the ideas of a pan-European constituency and of the enforcement of the Spitzenkandidat system (where parties choose candidates to run for the spot of European Commission president) were seen as incompatible with EU treaties and even violating member states’ sovereignty.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Exclusive: Germany’s Ruling SPD Ready to Talk WWII Reparations With Poland
Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) are ready to “solve” the issue of war reparations with Poland, according to Arkadiusz Mularczyk, the Polish deputy foreign affairs minister in charge of the issue of war reparations, who spoke to Remix News’ Olivier Bault during a meeting in Warsaw yesterday.
Mularczyk was informed that in the Olaf Scholz-led coalition government, the SPD at least “understands the problem and wants to solve it in some way in a formula of dialogue with Poland.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France: Race Riots Engulf Parisian Suburb After Death of Arab Teen
The multicultural Parisian suburb of Nanterre was the site of overnight clashes between youths and police following the shooting of a 17-year-old Arab teen by police in a traffic stop gone wrong.
The teenager, simply known as “Nael M,” was shot dead after failing to comply with an order to stop his vehicle Tuesday, June 27th, as footage of the incident shows one officer opening fire on the car as it attempts to drive away. The violence adds fuel to the flames of the French Republic’s simmering racial tensions that some critics say risk further destabilising the entire country.
The teenager, who was pronounced dead at the scene, first came to the attention of officers after committing multiple traffic violations. Officers claim that two police motorcyclists had been rammed by the car prior to the altercation. The officer who fired the fatal shots has already been detained on murder charges according to the Nanterre prosecutor’s office.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France Braces for Protests After ‘Unforgivable’ Police Shooting
Celebrities also voiced disgust, concern and outrage at the shooting
France braced for more angry protests on Wednesday after the killing of a teenager by the police during a traffic stop that President Emmanuel Macron called “unforgivable”.
The government said it would deploy 2,000 riot police to deal with any unrest, a day after a 17-year-old was shot in the chest by a police officer who then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing.
The shooting had already sparked unrest in several Paris suburbs overnight.
Celebrities and politicians expressed outrage and grief at the death of the teenager. Mr. Macron called it “inexplicable” and “unforgivable”.
C stop, in Nanterre, Paris suburb, France on June 28, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters
France braced for more angry protests on Wednesday after the killing of a teenager by the police during a traffic stop that President Emmanuel Macron called “unforgivable”.
The government said it would deploy 2,000 riot police to deal with any unrest, a day after a 17-year-old was shot in the chest by a police officer who then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing.
The shooting had already sparked unrest in several Paris suburbs overnight.
Celebrities and politicians expressed outrage and grief at the death of the teenager. Mr. Macron called it “inexplicable” and “unforgivable”.
The teenager, named only as Nahel M., was pulled over by two policemen on Tuesday for breaking traffic rules, prosecutors said.
Police initially reported that one officer had shot at the teenager because he was driving his car at him, but this version of events was contradicted by a video circulating on social media and authenticated by AFP.
The footage shows the two policemen actually standing by the side of the stationary car, with one pointing a weapon at the driver. A voice is heard saying “You are going to get a bullet in the head.”
The police officer then appears to fire point blank as the car abruptly drives off.
The car moved a few dozen metres before crashing. The driver died shortly after.
His death sparked immediate protests in Nanterre, a western Paris suburb, the scene of the shooting.
Bins were set alight and a fire broke out at a music school, while police tried to disperse the protesters with tear gas.
Protests then spread to some neighbouring suburbs.
| — Hat tip: Dean | [Return to headlines] |
Germany: Thuringian State Spy Chief Calls 16 Million AfD Supporters “Brown Dregs”
On the heels of the AfD’s historic electoral victory in Sonneberg last weekend, the head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) in the east German state of Thuringia, who’s responsible for the state’s internal security services, has resorted to using dehumanizing language to describe AfD voters, effectively referring to all 16 million of them as fascist scum.
In remarks delivered in an interview with the public broadcaster NDR on Monday, June 26th—comments reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign event where she branded half of Americans as “deplorables”—Thuringian state spy chief Stephan Kramer characterized AfD supporters, which now make up one-fifth of the population, as the “brown dregs” of German society, Junge Freiheit reports.
The Federal Republic, he said, is presently composed of “about 20% brown dregs,” clearly referring to the latest national polling data which for some time now has revealed that AfD support stands between 19-20%.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Hungary: EU Budget Amendment to Supply Ukraine With €50 Billion is ‘Ill-Considered’
The European Commission’s budget amendment designed to supply Ukraine with €50 billion over the next four years is both ill-considered and unfit for serious consideration, Balazs Orban, political director for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said in a short but significant Facebook post on Monday.
Balazs Orban, who is not related to the prime minister, summarized the flaws of the proposal in the following points.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Meloni Reiterates Vow to Combat Italy’s Demographic Woes
Western Europe is facing a demographic crisis and has been for years as birth rates across the West have fallen well below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, with some countries seeing record-low birth rates recently.
Among the European countries with the lowest overall birth rates is Italy, which saw its birth rate drop to under 400,000 births for the first time last year, or an average of just 1.25 children per woman, and the country now records more deaths than births.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (FdI), has previously stated that the country’s ongoing demographic crisis is an issue she wants to tackle and promised to address falling birth rates in her party’s manifesto prior to last year’s national election.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
New EU Rules Will See Millions of Poles at Risk of Losing the Ability to Sell or Rent Homes
According to the industry portal Murator Plus, as a result of a new EU law, by 2033, millions of Poles will not be able to rent or sell their houses and flats.
The determining factor is the assigned energy efficiency class of the property, with Poles having a 10-year window to prepare for the forthcoming EU legislation.
The EU directive introducing a new energy classification for buildings will invalidate the recently implemented energy performance certificates for buildings in Poland and introduce new categories.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Nord Stream Expedition Reveals New Details About Bombing
THE SKIES OVER the Baltic Sea are a clear blue with just faint ribbons of clouds. It’s May 24 and Erik Andersson eats a bowl of yogurt for breakfast on the deck of the Swedish diving vessel Baltic Explorer. Between bites, the 62-year-old retired engineer and entrepreneur discusses the previous day’s work on his investigation into one of the most significant international crimes in recent history: the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.
“Well, we arrived at the site, it was the southern site, you know, the first bomb that exploded at 2:03 in the morning local time 26th of September, and we started by making sonar scans with the sonar sensors that are attached to the boat,” he says to the camera held by his daughter Agnes, who has joined him on the expedition to document his journey. “We’re scanning back and forth over the explosion site and by doing that, we got a three-dimensional depth profile. And we could map out, we could see immediately that that was the trench, 100 by 60 meters and 10-meter-deep trench, which was quite an interesting discovery. That’s what we were looking for. It’s almost like a photo of the crime scene. I think it’s the first time we have an accurate three-dimensional model of the crime scene.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
During an interview on Tuesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Germany’s Bild Zeitung that Hungary is not pro-Russian and that his policies are solely based on the good of the Hungarian people.
In the first half of the interview, Orban was asked: “In 1989, you made a memorable speech in Budapest, calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. Why is it that decades later, you finally sided with Russia and are seen in Europe as a friend of Putin?
His response was: “Are you trying to provoke me with this question? To say to a Hungarian that he is pro-Russian is something completely…” to which the interviewer interrupted him saying that he was “only quoting European people.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Polish Oil Giant Orlen Signs Major Contract With BP for Norwegian Oil
Poland’s Orlen Group has announced its new contract with British petrochemical producer BP, which will allow the Polish company to utilize Norway’s vast oil reserves.
After the contract was signed, Orlen announced that it had “secured more oil supplies from Norwegian fields in the North Sea,” with the company forecasting that Orlen will now refine 6 million tons of oil from Norway every year, representing 15 percent of the company’s oil needs.
The first tanker with Norwegian oil is expected to arrive at the port in Gdansk during the summer.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Spain’s Center-Right Has No Other Choice But to Stop Demonizing Conservative Vox Party
Castile and León will no longer be the only Spanish region that is governed by a coalition between the center-right People’s Party (PP) and the Vox populists. After the PP’s victory in many regions and municipalities, albeit short of an absolute majority, and Vox’s strong progression in the May 28 elections, the Spanish center-right has no choice but to negotiate new coalitions with a party it has been demonizing for years.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Sweden Investigates Corruption Case Involving Erdogan’s Son
Sweden and Turkey are currently at odds over Sweden’s prospective bid to join the NATO alliance but new revelations suggest that the relationship between the two countries could be strained even further.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Swedish anti-corruption authorities, along with their American counterparts, were actively investigating allegations that Bilal Erdogan, the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, may have been scheduled to profit to the sum of millions of dollars in kickbacks from a Swedish affiliate of a U.S. company.
The allegations were first made public by the news service Reuters on Monday, June 26th, in a report that claimed the kickbacks were only pledged and had not been paid by Dignita Systems AB, a manufacturer of breathalysers that prevent drivers from starting their car if they fail the test.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Two Prime Ministers in Poland? Photo From Latest Cabinet Meeting Causes Shock
The meeting of the Polish Council of Ministers on Tuesday aroused much interest because it was the first meeting of the government since Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling conservatives, rejoined the government as deputy prime minister.
The meeting approved a 60 percent increase in the child benefit, the flagship of the present government’s family and social transfer policy.
However, it wasn’t the policy that raised eyebrows but the seating arrangements at the meeting. In the space normally occupied by the prime minister alone, there were two chairs. In one sat Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and in the other next to him, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, nominally the prime minister’s subordinate.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: Cricket Player Carries Just Stop Oil Protester Off Pitch Before Match
England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow tackled one protester and carried the person about 50 yards before leaving him for security to deal with. England captain Ben Stokes and Australia’s David Warner corralled another protester. Only minimal orange powder was released.
“Police have arrested three people and taken them into custody,” London Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Just Stop Oil released a statement on their protest afterward.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Serbia Threatens Armed Intervention in Kosovo as Tension Escalates
Serbia has put its troops on the border with Kosovo on the highest state of alert.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
Twice as Many Israelis Died in One Month of Biden as in One Year of Trump
by Daniel Greenfield
Each year that Trump was in office, fewer people in Israel were killed by terrorists while every year that Biden has been in office, the number of people killed by terrorists has increased.
2023 looks on track to be the deadliest year in Israel since 2015, under Obama, and the bloodshed is an eightfold increase in Israeli deaths since Trump’s last year in office.
The Biden administration restored Obama’s old policies and doubled down on them. And the death toll in Israel looks the way that it did under Obama. Under Biden, Israelis are dying at similar rates to the way that they did under Obama, but not at all as they did under Trump.
The foreign policy establishment claims that the Trump administration’s foreign policy toward Israel was a failure. And yet during Trump’s last year in office, when all the pro-Israel policies had been implemented, the fewest Israelis were killed in at least a generation.
In one of the least reported events in the region, the violence had all but ended with only three Israeli deaths in 2020. By contrast under Biden, 7 Israelis were killed in just January 2023.
Twice as many Israelis died in one month of Biden than in one year of Trump…
| — Hat tip: Daniel Greenfield | [Return to headlines] |
Intelligence agencies of several countries, including Poland and Ukraine, are training volunteers to overthrow the Belarusian government, the Belarusian KGB has claimed.
Konstantin Bychek, the organization’s deputy head of investigations, warned of a “secret Western training program for Belarusian volunteers” aiming to overthrow the government in Minsk.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Charity Worker Caught Trying to Sell Baby to Organ Harvesters in Ukraine After Paying Mother $1,000
Ukrainian authorities detained a charity worker trying to traffic an 11-month-old baby out of the country to “sell for organ transplants,” according to reports.
The 43-year-old “evil child trader” was detained by police, the SBU secret service, and border guards at the Malye Selmentsy frontier checkpoint on the Ukraine-Slovakia border on Wednesday.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A Ukrainian journalist recently suggested that changing the ethnic composition of the Transcarpathia region adjacent to Hungary, where some 150,000 ethnic Hungarians live, should be accomplished through the relocation of internal refugees into the region to dilute the ethnic Hungarian population.
“The solution is really obvious. Start building housing in Transcarpathia for internally displaced people who have lost their homes due to the war and the occupation. We also need to help businesses move to towns and villages with a particularly large Hungarian population. In this way, the ethnic composition of the region will change, but no one’s rights will be affected,” Denis Kazansky wrote on Ukrainian news portal Novynarnia.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Kramatorsk Missile Strike: Death Toll Rises to 11, Including 3 Children
The number of people killed by the Russians in Kramatorsk on the evening of 27 June has increased to 11, including 3 children, and 61 people were wounded.
Source: press service of the National Police of Ukraine
Quote: “10 killed and 61 wounded in Russian attack on Kramatorsk. The police continue to work at the scene of the attack. As of 11:30, three children were killed and one wounded.”
| — Hat tip: JW | [Return to headlines] |
It was reported that General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin was under interrogation over a plot to oust Sergei Shoigu and had advance knowledge of the weekend armed revolt.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities arrested on Wednesday a man they accused of helping Russia direct a missile strike that killed at least 10 people, including three teenagers, at a popular pizza restaurant in east Ukraine.
The Tuesday evening attack on Kramatorsk wounded 61 other people, Ukraine’s National Police said, in the latest bombardment of a Ukrainian city, a tactic Russia has used heavily in the 16-month-old war.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Five baby skeletons were discovered by workers clearing a former pond in a village in Central Java on June 15. Police investigated the horrifying find and interrogated the 57-year-old suspect.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
Hindu Woman raped and Killed By Muslim Boyfriend For Refusing Physical Relationship, Administration Bulldozes The Accused’s House in UP’s Fatehpur.
Sumita Pandey | HENB | Lucknow | June 28, 2023:: In a shocking case of the murder of a Hindu woman the latest by her boyfriend belonging to the Muslim community, Kiran Devi was smashed to death by Sikander Ahmed in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district this week.
While Kiran was raped and assaulted by Ahmed on 22 June, she died four days later at a hospital in Lucknow of the injuries.
Police told the media that Ahmed has confessed to the crime and said that he killed Kiran as she refused to have sex with him. They had known each other for three years, police said. It is clear that Sikander targeted Kiran in a ‘Love Jihad’ trap to exploit her fatally.
On 22 June, Kiran visited Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur for a wedding function where Sikander arranged to meet together. Around 9 pm, she went out of the banquet hall of Asha guest house. She remained missing the entire night. The next morning, her body, smashed with bricks, was found 500 meters from the venue in a battered state. She was then hospitalised in Lucknow where she succumbed to injury after four days.
After Kiran’s death, angry residents and Hindu activists staged a protest and wanted an encounter to kill Ahamed without delay, following which the police bulldozed the house of Ahmed in Fatehpur.
Police said that Ahmed runs a tour and travel business with the name ‘Ghosie Brothers Travels’. Due to the nature of his work, Ahmed would travel to Gujarat, where Kiran lived in the city of Surat.
on 23 June first information report (FIR) was filed at Bindki police station (217/2023) on the statement of Kiran’s father Rakesh.
But, the FIR, as reported by a magazine named Swarajya, did not mention the name of Ahmed. The police booked an unidentified person for kidnapping (IPC 366) and attempt to murder (IPC 307). After the victim died on 26 June, the police added murder (IPC 302) to the case and Ahmed was arrested by the police…
| — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari | [Return to headlines] |
World Economic Forum Lauds India’s Biometric Digital ID System Tied to Digital Payments
The World Economic Forum is lauding India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) for revolutionizing digital payments and cited that it has saved the Indian economy approximately $67 billion since its inception in 2016. However, the praises might overshadow grave concerns regarding privacy and civil liberties tied to the Aadhaar-based digital payment system that is linked to a digital ID.
India’s UPI, which is linked to the Aadhaar biometric identification system, has undoubtedly skyrocketed the number of financial transactions. With a staggering 48.6 billion transactions processed in 2021, India leads the world in real-time payment transactions. While the system has brought in economic savings and efficiencies, it is imperative to address the potential threats to personal privacy and civil liberties.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Klaus Schwab Praises CCP for Its COVID “Control Measures”
At the World Economic Forum’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, which took place in Tianjin, China, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, delivered a speech that reverberated through the halls of the conference center. China has been known for its use of technology to assist with suppression and oppression to control the public through the Covid pandemic and Schwab’s words lauded China’s adoption of new COVID “control measures” while commending the country’s effort in catalyzing “social dynamism.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Wuhan Researcher Blows Whistle: COVID Was ‘Engineered as Bioweapon’
A top researcher from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology has blown the whistle by claiming that the U.S. taxpayer-funded lab “engineered” COVID-19 as a “bioweapon.”
Wuhan researcher Chao Shan made the explosive claim during an interview with Asian News International (ANI) reporter Jennifer Zeng.
Shan, also known as Shao Chao, provided Zeng, a member of the International Press Association, with first-hand information and unique insights about China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
An analysis by Suburbtrends showed Melbourne home to 14 of the 20 worst affected postcodes for AI taking jobs, with Sydney taking four spots and regional NSW having two places
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
A 33-year-old man who has been charged with raping a woman in a Skegness park late at night was staying at a taxpayer-funded hotel believed to be housing migrants.
The man was charged with raping a woman 16 years of age or over and is due to enter a plea at Lincoln Crown Court on July 17.
He was remanded in custody following an appearance at Lincoln Magistrates Court on June 12.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Gang of Moroccans Arrested After Spree of Violence in Germany
A trio of Moroccan men already known to authorities for previous crimes were arrested after a spree of violence in Germany this week, police say.
The gang wreaked havoc for hours on Tuesday in the city of Kassel, located in the state of Hesse.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Germany: Record 2.67 Million Migrants Arrived in 2022
Figures released by Germany’s Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden on Tuesday, June 27th, have revealed that immigration levels reached new record highs last year, indicating that nearly 2.7 million newcomers arrived on German soil.
The federal statistical agency, which cites the refugee crisis precipitated by the Russo-Ukrainian war as the primary reason for the massive influx of foreigners, notes that with 2.7 million new arrivals and 1.2 million departures, a record high net gain of around 1.5 million people was recorded, the Hamburg-based newspaper Der Spiegel reports.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A new poll conducted for top French newspaper Le Figaro shows that nearly three out of four French people believe there are too many migrants in the country, with the poll results coming after the country accepted a record number of foreigners in 2022 under President Emmanuel Macron.
The Odoxa-Backbone Consulting poll shows that at nearly every level, the French want stricter immigration controls, more deportations, and even a referendum on immigration into France.
It further shows that French people are becoming increasingly opposed to mass immigration, with 74 percent saying there are too many immigrants in France. This represents an 11-point increase from when the poll was conducted five years ago.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Immigration to Germany Hits Record High in 2022
Although far more people die in Germany every year than are born, the country’s population continues to soar higher due to mass immigration, with 2022 setting a new record of nearly 2.7 million people arriving in the country.
Last year, with almost 1.5 million immigrants, there was more net immigration to Germany than at any time since records began in 1950, according to a press release of the Federal Statistical Office. Compared with 2021, when there were 329,000 more immigrants than emigrants, the surplus was more than four times as high.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
NY Times: 92% of Illegal Aliens Flown to Martha’s Vineyard Driven Out of ‘Liberal Enclave’
Despite Martha’s Vineyard’s deeply liberal sensibilities, only four of 49 illegal aliens remain on the island after having been flown there by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last year, the New York Times reveals.
In September 2022, DeSantis garnered worldwide attention when he sent two flights of 49 illegal aliens to the ultra-liberal elite island of Martha’s Vineyard where the likes of former President Obama has a $12 million estate.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
250 Hollywood Celebrities Sign Letter Demanding Big Tech Censors Anyone Who Disagrees With Them
250 Hollywood celebrities have signed a letter sent to Big Tech companies demanding their platforms censor Americans who disagree with them on “woke” issues.
The letter specifically demands that people are silenced for raising concerns about transgender surgeries for kids.
Celebrities such as Alyssa Milano, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, and others signed the letter arranged by GLAAD (formerly Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
They sent the letter to the CEOs of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
62% of US Voters Are Sick of Corporate Pandering During Pride Month: Poll
New polls conducted during Pride month have revealed that a majority of Americans want companies to remain neutral during Pride month, and would support boycotts if they make political or cultural statements. The polls also found that the majority of voters believe introducing LGBTQ issues to children hurts their development.
In a poll conducted by The Trafalgar Group in partnership with Convention of States Action found that 61.9 percent of likely general election voters want companies to remain neutral during Pride month, while 23.9 percent said companies should continue to promote political themes.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Anheuser-Busch executives denied reports the company fired Group VP of Marketing Daniel Blake and Bud Light Marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid in a statement to DailyMail.com.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
Apple Thwarts Decentralized Social Media Client Damus
Apple has blocked Damus, a trailblazing decentralized social media app, from its App Store, citing non-compliance with tipping service guidelines. Damus, built on the cutting-edge Nostr protocol, facilitated Bitcoin micropayments through “zaps” on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
The disagreement centers around Apple’s claims that Damus failed to comply with the App Store’s policy that requires using in-app purchases for transactions related to digital content. Apple wants a cut.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Biden Admin Gives Indian Non-Profit $50,000 to Promote Gender Identity Policies
The Biden administration is granting a radical progressive Indian organization nearly $50,000 in taxpayer funds to further the foreign group’s efforts of adopting inclusive policies, which includes normalizing transgender ideology in workplaces.
According to Daily Wire, the US State Department has set aside $49,813 for YR Gaitonde Medical, Educational and Research Foundation, an organization based in India, with the goal to “sensitize employees of corporate entities in Hyderabad and Chennai toward transgender persons in their workforce, adopt inclusive policies, and create a safe and nurturing environment.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
“We’re coming for your children.”
I don’t think this was quite the devastating comeback they’d intended.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Bud Light served as an official sponsor of the Toronto Pride parade on Sunday, where scantily-clad performers danced on a Bud Light stage and a group of nudists walked through the streets.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
Canada: ‘Let Parents Raise Kids, ‘ Poilievre Calls Out Trudeau on N.B. Gender Identity Policy
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should “butt out” of New Brunswick’s gender identity policy debate and “let parents raise kids.”
The New Brunswick government’s new policy requires that transgender or “non-binary” students under the age of 16 receive parental consent in order for their name and pronouns to be officially changed at school.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Ottawa’s Carleton University says refusing to use one’s preferred “they/them,” “ze/zir,” “xe/xir,” and “e/em” pronouns is a violation of its human rights policy, and has an online portal to report incidents of misgendering.
On its website, Carleton says “one of the easiest ways university staff, faculty, and student leaders can make the spaces they work in feel safer for their trans and nonbinary students and peers is by learning and using their correct pronouns.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Canada: BC Conservatives Vow to Protect Women’s Spaces From Biological Men
A BC Conservative government would protect women’s only spaces from biological men, the party announced this week.
Ahead of a pair of weekend by-elections in British Columbia, BC Conservative candidate Karin Litzcke took aim at the NDP and Green Party for trying to “shame and silence women.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Conservatives Shred Target for Resurfaced LGBTQ Ad Featuring Children
While Target is currently under a nationwide boycott over a recent LGBTQ pride month display that included merchandise for kids, an advertisement from 2015 resurfaced on Tuesday sparking further backlash as the video shows the retail giant using kids to promote pride month.
On June 8, 2015, Target released an advertisement on Twitter that encouraged young kids to take pride in the fact that they were born gay.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Corporate Media Defends Drag Queens’ Threat: ‘We’re Coming for Your Children’ Means Something Else
America’s corporate media has been scrambling to shut down the outrage after videos emerged on social media of a pack of drag queens marching in the streets while chanting “We’re coming for your children.”
As Slay News previously reported, decent-minded Americans have been raising concerns about the welfare of their kids after transvestites took to the streets of New York City during Friday’s annual drag queen parade and threatened: “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children!”
However, NBC News is demanding that conservatives stop believing their lying eyes by claiming that “we’re coming for your children” means something else.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Damage Control: Starbucks to Issue New Guidelines on ‘Pride’ Displays
Starbucks’ head office is issuing clearer guidelines for its in-store decorations. The move comes after allegations by an LGBT-friendly union that dozens of the coffee chain’s U.S. stores’ managers had banned or removed pride month-themed decorations.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Michigan Democrats Pass Bill to Make it a Felony to Cause Someone to ‘Feel Threatened’ by Words
A disturbing Michigan “hate speech” bill has passed the Democrat-controlled state House and is now in the hands of the Senate.
The passing of the legislation is alarming freedom-loving Americans across the country.
The bill, HB 4474, would make it a so-called “hate crime” to cause someone to “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened” by using words.
Under the bill, “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” are included as classes protected against intimidation.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
People Euthanised for Autism, Intellectual Disabilities in Netherlands
LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found.
The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia, setting an uneasy precedent that some experts say stretches the limits of what the law originally intended.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK: LGBT Uniparty: Tory and Labour MPs Block Bridgen Bill Banning Radical Gender Theory in Schools
Reclaim Party MP Andrew Bridgen’s legislation to prohibit schools from promoting radical theories on gender and require that they inform parents if their child is seeking to ‘transition’ to the opposite gender was blocked by a cohort of left-wing Labour and allegedly Conservative lawmakers on Tuesday.
An attempt by Andrew Bridgen MP attempt to safeguard children from being used as “science experiments” amid the proliferation of widely contested gender ideology, was blocked from consideration in a rare move by a group of Tory and Labour MPs, who voted by a measure of 40 to 34 to prevent Bridgen’s bill from being put before the entire House of Commons, the Daily Mail reported.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Video: Biden Department of Education ‘Pride’ Seminar Advocates Puberty Blockers for Kids
The Biden Department of Education held a ‘Pride’ seminar last week where it presented, among other things, an eighth grader advocating puberty blockers for children.
The event, titled Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students, was closed to the press. However, video of the seminar has emerged, which also involved officials from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Civil Rights, and the Centers for Disease Control.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its top 10 emerging technologies of 2023, with “flexible neural electronics” among them. At first glance, it appears to be a remarkable stride in scientific innovation, but as we peer into the depths of what this technology entails, it becomes evident that it may be a doorway into a dystopian abyss.
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have now been glorified as heralds of progress. This technology, which facilitates direct communication between the brain and external computers, is being painted as the ultimate blend of man and machine. With the advent of flexible and biocompatible materials, we are told the new generation of BMIs will be less invasive, conforming to the brain, reducing scarring, and capable of stimulating millions of brain cells.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
.
**************** Katerina Janouch *****************
Only in a dictatorship of opinion is an independently
thinking writer labeled a threat to democracy
June 27, 2023 1:10 pm
Here it is. The day when democracy saw another nail driven into its already nailed coffin in Sweden. It is a strange feeling when I find myself being identified as a “threat to democracy” in FOI’s new report, commissioned by SÄPO, called “Rutten demokrati – Konspirationspropaganda, racism och våld”. Virtually all free, system-critical media are threshed through in a dishonest mess where confused mentally ill murderers are lumped together with serious researchers and doctors, nurses who want to create debate about vaccine injuries, freedom fighters and, as icing on the cake, me, Katerina Janouch, an immigrant writer. Who stands up for women and girls and fights against injustice, totalitarianism and the dismantling of our freedom of expression. But yes, these confused leftist girls behind the report point to me, admittedly without a name, but for anyone who knows the slightest bit, they understand that it’s me, host of Swebbtv, active in social media, and with the opinions that Sweden has failed because of incompetent politicians who have sold out our country to a galloping Islamization. What is untrue in that? Of course nothing, but it sounds nice to claim that I am lying. Just like state propagandists claimed in 2017 when I was deplatformed for telling the truth about the failed state of Sweden in an interview on Czech TV.
No, I can hardly say that I’m particularly surprised to find confused ramblings about myself in the FOI report that relies on left-wing extremist Expo, commissioned by SÄPO and produced by three left-liberal propaganda musketeers – Hannah Pollack Sarnecki (daughter of criminologist Jerzy Sarnecki), Anna Lioufas and Mathilde Jarlsbo – who, under the auspices of the state, invent various conspiracy theories and reproduce lies worthy of the GDR. The report has been approved by Malek Finn Khan, Head of Department for Defense Analysis at FOI. For those who don’t know: This is how it works in a democracy, in a failed state, where the truth becomes a systemic threat to the corrupt abusers in power: you label dissident voices as dangerous and a threat to “democracy”, a term you have kidnapped to legitimize the continued abuse of power. Labeling legitimate criticism as dangerous legitimizes future repressive measures.
The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) is now warning of a new extremist environment in the country, which it calls ‘anti-democratic extremism’. In the study, all alternative media were mapped and the authors write that they spread conspiracy theories such as – “that society is controlled by an elite and is in total decay due to so-called mass immigration and incompetent and corrupt politicians.”
The key words in this confused mess of a “report” are: hostility to the liberal democratic system, conspiracy propaganda, racism, misogyny, hatred, threats, extremism and violence.
At first I’m a bit shocked, it’s an uncomfortable feeling to be singled out in this way by the state’s Opinion Police who get their information from the lying left-wing extremists at Expo. You know, crypto-communists who want to destroy the lives of everyone who does not sing the praises of red-green politics.
Then I get a little puzzled. Do they want to chase me out of Sweden? Make me uncomfortable, make me feel like a bad citizen? A conspirator! Someone who claims that Sweden has failed. Yes, but it has? Nothing works and we lead the rape and shooting league? But what do facts matter when left-liberal pretend feminists who seem to suffer from self-harm more than anything else take the piss.
Here’s what it says about me on page 87 of the FOI report, and I’m easy to identify as I’m Swebbtv’s only female presenter:
“As for writers, there are many different examples. One of them is an actor who is also the host of one of the alternative media channels. She claims, for example, that Sweden has collapsed, that politicians are incompetent and corrupt, and that the Swedish people need to wake up to the fact that their country has been taken over by criminals and rapists. She systematically spreads racist hate speech, especially about Muslims. A theme she often returns to concerns what she claims is an Islamization of Sweden. She claims that Sweden is becoming what she calls a sharia state, and that Sweden is no longer a democracy, but can be compared to a communist state where dissenters and opponents are persecuted, and where freedom of speech no longer exists.
Footnote 138 reads:
Empirical material collected from SwebbTV, Instagram and Twitter during the period August 1, 2022 to April 15, 2023.
They are. Hannah Pollack Sarnecki, Anna Lioufas and Mathilde Jarlsbo have read my social media and watched Swebbtv and then written a small report about me. Now I wonder, can you three girls behind the report deny that Sweden’s politicians are incompetent? And corrupt? Have you not heard about Botkyrka or Magdalena Andersson’s “agreement” with Kakabaveh? What do you think about Chancellor of Justice Marie Heidenborg giving 840,000 to torture rapists but nothing to young people suffering from vaccine damage from swine flu?
Now it also turns out that Anne “Brown Rat” Ramberg, who hallucinates about Nazis behind every bush, will be the new head of the Expo Foundation. The same Ramberg who, in true champagne communist style, thought that some people have no right to exist (the brown rats) and that the elderly must give up their lifestyle. A sermon from multi-million dollar homes on Sweden’s cream shelf.
So this is what we have come to. To singling out free media via state propaganda. It is a huge threat to freedom of expression and democracy that the Swedish state, using taxpayers’ money, is starting to single out individual authors and journalists as if WE were a threat to democracy. I don’t think even my own father was subject to the same kind of supranational persecution under the communists in Czechoslovakia.
How Jerzy Sarnecki’s daughter, Hannah Pollack Sarnecki, who is one of the authors of this murky conspiratorial and utterly bogus rubbish, can engage in this kind of anti-democratic practice as a “researcher” is incomprehensible given that her own father had to flee the communists in Poland? Has daddy Jerzy not told you what happens when propagandists in the service of the state start serving public lies to the people? I would like to have a conversation about that too, with this gang of girls who base their report on the lies of the left-wing extremist Expo and ask them, what is untrue in what I write?
Of course, that will never happen. That they would dare to meet me and have a rational discussion. They hide behind daddy Staten who loves that they write the way they do. They protect the biggest social lies and get paid for it. However, it’s a bit like I imagine it could have been to witness Honecker’s last days in the GDR (remember, only dictatorships call themselves “democratic”, they have to pretend to be open-minded and decent when they are actually the worst oppressors). To be unaware of how the narrative falls. And to cry out in desperation when they realize they are losing control.
The FOI report is actually nothing but dishonest, pathetic and embarrassing. They are right that democracy is rotten. But they are very much complicit in this by spreading lies and their own conspiracies. The report is full of fabrications and outright slander and will one day be used as a blatant example of what it could look like in the last, shaky days of the Swedish state. Days when left-wing extremists set the tone, hoping to keep the biggest societal lies alive. But time is running out. And they know it.
***
If you want to read for yourself and form an opinion, the report from FOI can be read here.
https://www.foi.se/rapporter/rapportsammanfattning.html?reportNo=FOI-R–5473–SE
***
Katerina Magazine has had a number of technical problems and has been subjected to sabotage and other types of attacks. I hope the site will be able to function as usual again.
If you want to support my writing, feel free to order my latest satire book, email me at
katjanouch@gmail.com
and mark the email “Sweden’s little red one”, in Swedish,
send your address and who the book should be dedicated
to and I will send payment details to confirm your order!
***
source:
https://katerinamagasin.se/bara-i-en-asiktsdiktatur-stamplas-en-sjalvstandigt-tankande-forfattare-som-ett-hot-mot-demokratin/
“The bill, HB 4474, would make it a so-called ‘hate crime’ to cause someone to ‘feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened’ by using words.”
I am only waiting for someone to discover the Koran in this context. Probably after some more bloodshed in areas where its adherents feel emboldened. Their coming-out is inevitable and when the wind changes, I’ll watch with very little compassion left for either side of crazy. Only the innocent who get caught in the middle.
A man broke into the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Krasnoyarsk with the remains of a ram and shouts about Chechnya. The incident in the Russian city became known to the portal Ngs24.ru.
According to the publication, during the evening service, an unknown person entered the temple with a package, pulled out the head and other remains of a ram and threw them on the floor.
Presumably, it was a migrant, eyewitnesses of the incident said. They also admitted that the man brought parts of the sacrificial animal that he had left after Eid al-Adha on June 28.
During his visit, the man expressed his disapproval of Russia’s fighting in Chechnya. The National Guard and the police were called to the scene.
The rector of the Krasnoyarsk Church of the Nativity of Christ, Maxim Smolyakov, explained that the man also turned on “Islamic, presumably extremist music” and threatened the parishioners. Later, according to him, the visitor was detained. No one was hurt by his actions. The operatives took away the remains of the ram as material evidence.
https://lenta.ru/news/2023/06/29/krasnoyarss/