Early this morning an explosion caused a breach in the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River, unleashing massive floodwaters on southern Ukraine, and prompting the evacuation of thousands of people in towns and villages along the lower reaches of the river. The Russian and Ukrainian governments are blaming each other for the attack.
In other news, a Christian man was arrested after quoting the Bible at a Pride march in Pennsylvania.
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The Reserve Bank has hiked interest rates by another 25 basis points — marking the 12th increase in little more than a year. The cash rate is now at a new 11-year high of 4.1 per cent.
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Jim Chalmers has signed off on the decision to end the cashing of cheques after 2030 as the federal government moves to phase out the paper-based payment.
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Finance expert Mark Bouris says he is ‘filthy’ about the latest interest rate rise and gave a dire warning it could force ‘desperate’ borrowers to sell their homes for knockdown prices.
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Natalie Barr has called out the government over claims their decision to back wage rises for low-paid workers has led to the latest interest rate hike — the 12th in almost as many months.
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ATF Report Reveals Mass Noncompliance With Pistol Brace Rule
Submitted by Gun Owners of America
As we previously predicted in an article prior to the rollout of ATF’s pistol brace rule, very few gun owners have complied with the regulation and registered their pistol braced firearm via the ATF’s registration scheme.
According to a report published by The Reload, as of June 1, 2023, ATF received 255,162 applications for registration. The Congressional Research Service estimates that the number of braces in circulation is anywhere from 10 million to 40 million. This would mean total compliance with the pistol brace rule is around 0.2 — 0.6 percent.
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Biden Slipping in the Polls With Minorities: Report
On Wednesday, FiveThirtyEight released a new report analyzing President Biden’s popularity ahead of the 2024 election. The outlet, which is known to skew left, admitted that Biden had an “enthusiasm problem,” and pointed out that his support was “slipping” among minorities.
While the president has lost the favorability of most groups, the greatest decline in support has been among Hispanics.
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Breaking reports have indicated that a mass shooting just occurred at a high school graduation ceremony being held at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Videos that display the event’s immediate aftermath show a chaotic scene.
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Speaking on a Twitter Spaces session co-hosted by Elon Musk, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr proclaimed that the people of the United States are being “victimized” by their “own agencies,” which he says are intentionally ignoring important context and nuance surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Numerous notable users listened to at least part of the discussion, including Tulsi Gabbard, Rob Schneider and Breit Weinstein.
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson dropped the first-ever episode of his new show, “Tucker on Twitter,” on Tuesday, following his ousting from Fox News in April.
Carlson jumped right into recent news, reporting that there has been an explosion at the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine. He noted that this attack “puts the largest nuclear reactor in Europe in danger of melting down,” and explained that such a catastrophic potential consequence indicates that if done purposefully, such an act was one of “terrorism” rather than a “military tactic.”
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Cessna Pilot Was ‘Slumped Over’ in Cockpit Before Virginia Crash That Killed 4
National Guard F-16 fighter pilots revealed that the pilot operating the Cessna plane that flew over restricted airspace in Washington D.C. on Sunday was found “slumped over” moments before the plane crashed in a remote area of Virginia, which killed four people.
United States Military officials said that the US fighter pilots attempted to get the civilian pilots attention for around 30 minutes before the plane plummeted at approximately 3 pm, Fox News reports.
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Imagine if you will a “retribution presidency” in which the President of the United States ordered “the investigation and prosecution of individuals who he sees as enemies.”
You may think that describes Joe Biden’s presidency to a T — locking up J6ers en masse, ordering the FBI to target the regime’s political opposition, having the DOJ work to jail former president Donald Trump — but it’s actually former FBI director James Comey’s vision of a second Trump term.
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Democrats Target Twitter Over Data Privacy
Four Democrat senators are further targeting Twitter and say they’re investigating whether Twitter has “put consumer privacy and data security at risk” since Elon Musk took over the company last October.
The letter, signed by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie Hirono, Ed Markey (D-MA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) was addressed to Musk and new CEO Linda Yaccarino who started on Monday.
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Deputies: Florida 18-Year-Old Stabs Ex-Girlfriend 15 Times, Slits His Own Throat
ST JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) — Deputies said an 18-year-old Florida man attacked and stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her mother in broad daylight before slitting his own throat.
The incident happened Saturday afternoon at Mr. Chubby’s Wings in Ponte Vedra.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Spencer Ross Pearson.
ABC station First Coast News reported Pearson attacked and stabbed his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend 15 times as well as the teen’s mother and a citizen who tried to stop the attack.
First Coast News reported Pearson then slit his own throat after the stabbings.
All were transported to the hospital with serious injuries. The 17-year-old girl is currently paralyzed.
Should Pearson survive, the sheriff’s office said he will face two charges of first-degree attempted premeditated murder as well as aggravated battery.
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FDA Pulls Emergency Authorization of J&J’s COVID-19 Shot After Final Batch Expired Last Month
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has pulled its emergency authorization for the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine after the pharmaceutical giant’s Janssen unit made the request for removal.
Bloomberg reported that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a company owned by Johnson & Johnson, told the FDA that previously acquired jabs have reached their expiration date and that US demand for the product is no more.
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George Soros’ Son Boasts of Meeting With Kamala Harris; Twitter Reacts: ‘Nothing to See Here Folks!’
Alex Soros, son of liberal billionaire George Soros, boasted of meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on social media, drawing sarcastic reactions and questions from several social media users, including at least one Republican senator.
The younger Soros, who chairs the board of directors for his father’s Open Society Foundations network, has maintained access to Biden’s White House and top Democratic lawmakers.
The meeting with Harris further exemplifies his intimate connection to powerful left-wing politicians in the United States.
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by Daniel Greenfield
“I will not stand by and let criminals undermine our economy and the livelihood of New Yorkers. We are going to act,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed.
After announcing a 44% increase in retail theft in one year, Adams promised a bold new effort called “Second Chance” and “Re-Engaging Store Theft Offenders and Retail Establishments (RESTORE)” that will allow shoplifters “to avoid prosecution or incarceration by meaningfully engaging with services to help address underlying factors that lead to shoplifting.”
What “underlying factors” led gangs to steal hundreds of thousands worth of jewels or handbags, pack them up and walk away, or roll a trash can full of them down the street?
The root cause of the crime wave is a lack of consequences.
“Last year alone, 327 repeat offenders were responsible for 30 percent of the more than 22,000 retail thefts across our city.,” Adams noted.
Do the math. The variable after the equals sign is a complete lack of consequences in which criminals, steal, are arrested, get released, steal, get arrested, and do it until their arms get tired. Smarter criminals recruit teens with no formal criminal records to steal for them. They go from store to store in gangs while making sure that each gang member steals less than $1,000 from each individual store at one time even if the total haul is in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Get caught the first time and criminals don’t even have to “step foot in a courtroom”, they’ll just go to a “voluntary one-day program, which can take the form of an educational workshop and restorative justice circle” to “reflect on their actions.” So much for “meaningfully engaging”.
Then they’ll be signed up for every form of social services imaginable…
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Jim Jordan Leads the Charge Towards Ending Section 702 of FISA
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, has said that his “number one goal” is to block the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which expires later this year.
Section 702 was supposed to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the communications of targeted foreign terrorist suspects. However, it has been abused for the surveillance of communications between US citizens.
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Los Angeles DA George Gascon’s Office Leaves Twitter, Cites ‘Unchecked Vitriol’
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s office is leaving Twitter, stating in a Tuesday tweet that minorities have been targeted on the platform, citing the rise in “false information.”
Gascon made the announcement on Tuesday evening and pointed people to the district attorney’s office’s accounts on other social media platforms.
“LADA will no longer be posting content on this platform. As a prosecutor’s office, we uphold the principles of justice, fairness and equality for all. The rise in unchecked vitriol targeting marginalized communities, false information, lack of community guideline enforcement or mechanisms to otherwise address these issues, has left us with no other choice,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement.
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CEO of Lululemon Calvin McDonald said on Friday that he stands by the company’s decision to fire the two Georgia employees that called police on masked robbers last month, stating that their actions went against official company policy, New York Post reports.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators [employees] on around engaging during a theft,” McDonald told CNBC on Friday.
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Majority of Americans Believe FBI Needs Reform, 24% Say it Should be ‘Shut Down’: Poll
A new poll has found that Americans are, by and large, not satisfied with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with more than half of respondents saying they’d like to see the government agency reformed or shut down completely and rebuilt from the ground up.
The poll, conducted by Issues & Insights and TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics between May 31 and June 2, came in the wake of a report by Special Counsel John Durham that revealed the increasing “politicization” of the Justice Department.
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Nikki Haley Lobbies for Continued Ukraine Spending: ‘A Win for Ukraine is a Win for All of US’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley took a strong stance on the Russia/Ukraine war on Sunday during a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, stating that “a win for Ukraine is a win for all of us.”
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and US ambassador to the United Nations, claimed to CNN host Jake Tapper that Ukraine winning the ongoing battle against Russia “is in the best interest of US national security” and that the United States “should not remain neutral.”
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A stunning survey conducted by the CATO Insititute reveals that one-third of Generation Z supports the idea of the government installing surveillance cameras in private households.
The survey shows that while 75 percent of Americans reject the government installing in-home surveillance cameras, 33 percent of Gen Z support the idea.
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Rite Aid Shutters Another Drug Store in Seattle Amid Spiking Crime
On Wednesday, Rite Aid, owner of Seattle-based Bartell Drugs, announced it will be permanently closing the chain’s Ballard location at 15th and Market on June 8 as the area continues to grapple with rampant shoplifting and crime.
In a release, Rite Aid said the store will be closed “on a variety of factors including business strategy, lease and rent conditions and viability, and store performance.”
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Santa Monica Residents Push Back Against Outdoor Needle Distribution Site for Homeless
Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times
Some residents in Santa Monica, an idyllic beach town in Southern California, are pushing for an outdoor county-operated program that distributes clean syringes weekly to homeless drug users near the city’s parks to be moved indoors to a county-owned facility.
The “overdose prevention program”—which is overseen by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s Division of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control—currently distributes syringes, first aid kits, opioid overdose reversal medication, and hygiene kits every Friday at three city parks, according to a spokesperson for the department.
Members of the Santa Monica Coalition, a group of retail and commercial tenants, residents, and property owners, are looking to put an end to the syringe distribution, which they say has been operating without public knowledge since 2019.
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Squalor has gotten so bad in Seattle that, in anticipation of the upcoming MLB All-Star Week in Seattle July 7-11, the Seattle Mariners and local business groups are hosting a community clean-up event to get “key areas” of the city “ready for the national stage.”
On Monday, the Mariners, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and Together Washington announced “…an opportunity for community members across our region to roll up their sleeves and help get Seattle ready for the national stage. The organizations have come together to host a community clean up dedicated to the restoration of key areas within the city inviting all community members to join in this impactful event” on June 23 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.
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Seattle Fire Department Reels After 2 Attempts to Steal Fire Engines
Seattle firefighters have reported two instances of people attempting to steal their fire engine while crews were responding to calls last week.
According to the Seattle Fire Department, on Wednesday while the crew of Engine 10 was responding to a fire at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Spring Street and away from the vehicle, they returned to find an approximately 40-year-old woman sitting in the driver seat.
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New video footage from January 6, 2021, has revealed that a door on the West side of the US Capitol was left open and relatively unguarded during parts of the riot which allowed over 300 people to enter the building unobstructed, while at the same time, officers fought to keep rioters out of other sections of the building.
Security footage obtained by Just the News showed Capitol Police officers, at approximately 2:30 pm, escort a few of the protesters, who were already inside the building, through the non-public Upper West Terrace hallway, and toward a marked fire evacuation door.
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Sources: Multiple People Shot Near Monroe Park During Graduation Celebration
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) — Richmond police have confirmed multiple people were shot outside Altria Theater during a high school graduation celebration.
In an alert to students Tuesday afternoon, police say there is an active shooting on Monroe Park Campus to stay indoors.
Richmond Public Schools confirmed a shooting happened outside the theater after Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony and occurred in Monroe Park adjacent to the theater. The district says they have canceled Thomas Jefferson High School’s ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight and plan to reschedule their graduation soon. RPS also says schools will be closed tomorrow.
All RPS schools will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, June 7, out of “an abundance of caution,” according to a message sent to families.
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Texas 7-Eleven Employees Attacked on Video for Refusing to Sell Cigar to Minor
Mesquite, Texas, police are searching for the people who attacked two 7-Eleven employees who refused to sell a cigar to an underage girl Saturday night.
The Mesquite Police Department said the incident occurred at about 9 p.m. at the 7-Eleven on Faithon P. Lucas Boulevard.
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Trump Attorneys Meet With DOJ Ahead of Grand Jury Convening Over Mar-a-Lago Seized Docs Case
Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump spoke with representatives of the Justice Department on Monday morning. This is the same week when the grand jury selected to judge how Trump handled classified documents is anticipated to convene once again.
NBC News reported that three of Trump’s lawyers — James Trusty, John Rowley, and Lindsey Halligan — were seen at the Justice Department’s headquarters and met with department officials that did not include Attorney General Merrick Garland or Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
Just after the meeting ended, Trump posted on Truth Social, “how can DOJ possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other president’s were charged, when Joe Biden won’t be charged for anything, including the fact that he has 1,850 boxes, much of it classified, and some dating back to his Senate day when even Democrat senators are shocked. also, President Clinton had documents, and won in court. crooked Hillary deleted 33,000 emails, many classified, and wasn’t even close to being charged! only Trump — the greatest witch hunt of all time!”
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Former President Donald Trump invited the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir to sing at his upcoming South Carolina rally after the Greenville choir was stopped from singing the national anthem at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. the other day.
Trump said he made the invitation to pay his respects to “a very talented group of people” and to give them the opportunity to share those talents with “tens of thousands of people.”
Choir director David Rasbach said it was “quite an honor” to get the invite from Trump. “I wouldn’t even think of turning him down.” (See Trump’s video below)
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US Knew Ukraine Planned to Blow Up Nord Stream Pipeline 3 Months Before it Happened: WaPo
The Washington Post is reporting that an unnamed European intelligence service told the CIA that Ukraine’s military was planning an attack on the Nord Stream pipelines a full three months before the September 26, 2022 sabotage blasts which disabled them.
The revelation is based on Pentagon and classified intelligence documents leaked by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, or part of the so-called Discord leaks. The intelligence report in question was drafted in June 2022 and shared with the Biden administration, which means the White House has known all along that the “Putin did it” narrative which the West rallied around was false from the start. According to the new report published Tuesday:
Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea, which U.S. and Western officials have called a brazen and dangerous act of sabotage on Europe’s energy infrastructure.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) joined former White House Chief Strategist and War Room host Steve Bannon to talk about the alleged corruption surrounding Joe Biden and the FBI, as well as the notion that the agency believes a whistleblower who brought forth information on the allegations may be assassinated should their identity become public.
During her appearance, Luna said that congressional lawmakers are currently working on a bill that plans to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, prompting questions from Bannon in regard to how far those charges could go.
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Canadian military personnel deployed overseas to bolster NATO operations are against being forced to fend for themselves by the Trudeau government.
Canadians in Latvia are forced to buy their own modern ballistic helmets with integrated hearing protection that can also be used as a headset.
The soldiers, sailors and airmen who are in the eastern European country as part of NATO efforts to curtail any further territorial expansion by Russia call it “Gucci gear” according to CBC News.
The troops are also buying their own rain gear and ammo belts and females deployed with the force are not happy with the body armor that they’ve been issued because it doesn’t fit properly.
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20,000 People Flock to Christian Youth Meeting at Lake Lednica in Poland
More than 20,000 young people from across Poland and abroad participated in the 27th Nationwide Youth Meeting in Lednica over the weekend.
Many prayed and adored the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of the gathering, passed through the symbolic “Gate of the Fish” and set off across Poland.
According to organizers, the procession of thousands of young people through the “Gate of the Fish” symbolizes a conscious choice of Christ as their life’s guide. This year’s motto, “Following the Lamb,” signifies the commitment to walk with Him in daily life, extending beyond the first Saturday of June.
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AfD MP Charged Over “Everything for Germany!” Slogan
German prosecutors have brought charges against the leader of the AfD in Thuringian, Björn Höcke, over the use of the phrase “Everything for Germany!” in a speech to supporters in November 2021.
A leading figure on the Right of the German nationalist party, Höcke fell afoul of stringent government regulations prohibiting the glorification of the Nazi regime with the slogan previously used by the German SA.
The charges had been pending for some time. Prosecution against the populist politician had been greenlighted by a regional Justice Committee back in April. Prosecutors had targeted Höcke multiple times before on the grounds of inciting hatred. This week’s charges, brought after a complaint filed by regional Green politician Sebastian Striegel, are only the latest.
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EU Extends Ban on Import of Ukrainian Grains
The European Commission has extended the restrictions on imports of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seeds from Ukraine until mid-September, the EU executive announced on Monday evening.
The commission has acceded to requests from five EU member states — Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania — to take immediate action to address the unsustainable situation caused by increased imports of cereals from Ukraine.
The EU executive reached an agreement with the member states concerned at the end of April, allowing them to block the marketing of Ukrainian grains on their territory until June 5, provided they do not block transit to other countries. This agreement was extended on Monday until Sept. 15.
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EU Threatens Twitter After Quitting Disinformation Pact
Brussels will take every opportunity to scrutinize Twitter’s actions and compliance with EU law “vigorously” after the company chose to reject its recommended anti-disinformation measures, European Commission Vice President for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova said in a press briefing on Monday, June 5th, after meeting other tech companies who chose to subscribe to the EU’s voluntary disinformation pact.
As we reported Monday, the meeting took place between the commissioner and the representatives of 44 companies and organizations—including most of the big names in Silicon Valley, such as Microsoft, Google, Meta, as well as the Chinese tech giant TikTok—that have all adopted the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation, a set of voluntary commitments to cooperate with Brussels in its effort to tackle harmful and intentionally misleading content on social media.
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German Police Break Up Massive Brawl Between ‘Teens’ at Swimming Pool
Police in Germany were called to a swimming pool in Berlin after a brawl broke out between rival groups of ‘teens’ this week, according to authorities.
The latest incident at a European aquatic facility during the young bathing season unfolded at around 5 p.m. on Sunday in the capital city.
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How the EU Plans to Control the Military Industry in Each Member State
A top EU commissioner is putting forward a legislative proposal on the development of a common EU ammunition industry, which will be submitted to the European Parliament later this month.
Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, submitted the proposal on the advice of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell. It is the final stage of Borrell’s original three-stage plan, which seems more complicated than the relative clarity of the first two stages. In the first stage, €1 billion will go into the European Peace Facility, from which countries that send weapons from their armed forces to Ukraine will be compensated. While the regulatory inadequacies of the Peace Facility have given rise to serious abuses, Brussels politely looks the other way when those that toe the EU line spend European taxpayers’ money on themselves.
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Number of Czech Tenants Defaulting on Their Rent Triples in a Year
The number of people in Czechia who cannot pay their rent is increasing, with cases tripling year-over-year in some areas of the country.
A worsening economic situation and inefficient processes in relation to the rental market have led to a concerning rise in non-payments. Tenants often find it difficult to find alternative housing, resulting in an accumulation of debt, while landlords often experienced legal difficulties in evicting non-paying tenants, costing them significant time and financial resources.
According to data from the Ideal Tenants service, the number of defaulters rose by 11 percent year-over-year in the last quarter of 2022 before rising by 34 percent year-on-year in January.
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Our Top Priority is Joining NATO, Says Sweden Defence Minister
TOKYO (AP) — Sweden’s defense minister said Tuesday his country’s top priority is to gain full NATO membership before the allied leaders gather for their next summit, saying an addition will make the trans-Atlantic alliance even stronger.
NATO wants to bring Sweden into the fold by the time United States President Joe Biden and other allied leaders meet July 11-12 in Vilnius, Lithuania, but Turkey and Hungary have yet to endorse the move. All 31 member countries must ratify a candidate’s accession protocol for it to join the alliance.
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PM Orban: Hungary’s Economic Opening to the East Bears Fruit
Hungary has increasingly sought investment and cooperation with countries like Japan, China and South Korea in order to grow its economy, and those efforts are now bearing fruit, said Prime Minister Viktor Orban after holding talks with the head of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in his office on Monday.
The meeting between Orban and Jin Liqun was also attended by the Hungarian Minister of Economic Development Marton Nagy.
Hungary’s largest foreign investors in working capital are now Asian companies, mainly from China, Korea and Japan. In addition, Asian commercial banks are also showing increased interest, market presence and activity.
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Polish Justice Minister Accuses Top EU Court of Political Bias and Violating EU Treaties
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Monday ruled that Poland’s reform of its Supreme Court was in violation of European law, which also confirmed its earlier ruling that the Polish Supreme Court’s disciplinary chamber was not independent or impartial.
Commenting on the court’s ruling, Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro cited allegations from French media that there is legal evidence that judges in the European Court of Justice have colluded with European Commission officials and European People’s Party (EPP) luminaries. He also pointed out previous media reports that the verdicts of the EU’s top court are decided ahead of time in collusion with powerful figures in the EU.
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Timmermans: “We Don’t Have the Luxury of Slowing Down”
Frans Timmermans has made it clear he has no intention of letting up on the Green Deal regulations he and his fellow EU commissioners are handing down from headquarters in Brussels, despite recent pushback from both heads of state and EU parliamentarians.
In comments on June 2nd at a conference of the Jacques Delors Institute, he cracked down on recent suggestions that the EU regulatory cascade in the name of saving the environment was drowning European industry. Timmermans is the executive vice president for the Green Deal and commissioner for climate action.
He warned that Europe and the rest of the planet were facing “a risk of ecocide that poses a threat to the survival of humanity,” a situation that required the EU to “recalibrate our institutions.”
“We do not have the luxury of a break. We do not have the time to be paralysed,” he said of combating ‘climate change.’
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Organisers of the Tour de France cycling classic have drawn up a host of new coronavirus protocols for the 2023 edition of the event in a return to impositions for riders and team officials not seen since the height of the pandemic.
The new rules include — but are not limited to — impositions on riders, team staff and officials who are set to wear face masks at sign-on and in the team paddock, while riders will be banned from signing autographs, eating out or taking selfies with fans.
Riders will also not be allowed to leave their hotels once sent there for the night.
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The trial of a man accused of murdering a 15-year-old pregnant schoolgirl in France began on Monday at the court for minors in the department of Oise, just north of Paris.
Shaïna, the victim whose name has been changed, was murdered on Oct. 25, 2019. She was pregnant and had been a long-time sufferer of sexual abuse. She has become one of the symbols of violence against women, living in a neighborhood where rumors and injunctions against young women are even more prevalent than elsewhere.
After having been sexually assaulted in 2017 at the age of 13, had only just begun to overcome her trauma in 2019 and had been returning to a normal life when her charred body was found in a burned-out garden shed.
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UK Think Tank Proposes Tracking Vehicles With GPS and Taxing Them Based on Distance Traveled
The UK think tank, Resolution Foundation has proposed a 6p-per-mile (7 cents) road tax on electric vehicles (EVs) to avoid a massive shortfall in tax revenues. To achieve this, vehicles would be tracked with GPS, adding to the growing surveillance nightmare.
The proposed road tax would be measured through GPS data that measures distance traveled. Motorists would also be charged more for using congested areas in an attempt to reduce traffic.
The government has been collecting less fuel duty, which accounts for 2% of the total tax collected. Electric cars are not charged fuel duty for the electricity they use.
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UK: 92% COVID Deaths Are Triple Vaccinated, Government Data Shows
New government statistics have revealed that a staggering 92 percent of people who died from Covid in 2022 had at least three doses of vaccinations.
The shocking data was revealed in the latest official figures published by the UK government.
The data shows that the fully vaccinated population — three or more shots — accounted for 92% of Covid deaths in England throughout the entirety of 2022.
Over the past two years, 86 percent of COVID-19 deaths were listed as being at least triple vaccinated.
The figures were published by a UK government agency, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), on the 21st of February 2023.
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UK: Cambridge: Term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is Racist
Cambridge University in the UK is now demystifying national “myths” around the country’s early medieval past in its curriculum.
The university’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic historical studies, ASNC, has among its aims to “dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism,” particularly surrounding the Anglo-Saxons.
The department’s curriculum “covers the history, society, and culture of the medieval Scandinavian peoples (the Norse) and their actions and interactions in Britain, Ireland, Western and Eastern Europe and the North Atlantic during the period 793-1066,” which is also sometimes called the Viking Age, though the department qualifies that “this is a very Anglo-centric definition.”
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A furious driver pushed a mob of Just Stop Oil eco-clowns out of the way with his white van as their slow march through London obstructed evening rush hour traffic.
Video shows how the man, who is understood to have earlier attacked protesters, tapped them with his vehicle as they paraded down along Marylebone Road.
An angry pedestrian also ran up to the demonstrators, pushing them and grabbing their banners, before slapping a protester around the head.
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UK: Town Halves Anti-Social Behaviour With Just One Police Officer on Foot Patrol
The introduction of just one police officer on patrol reduced anti-social behaviour by nearly half in a small seaside English town, in what is being described as a win for traditional law enforcement.
Over the past nine months, the town of Maryport, in Cumbria, has seen anti-social behaviour decline by 47 per cent in comparison to the same period last year following the deployment of a single “bobby on the beat”, the British phrase for a police officer patrolling streets on foot.
Following the resounding success, Cumbria Police have urged other police departments throughout the UK to follow suit and bring back more “beat” policing, particularly in rural areas of the country where officers have a better chance of engaging with the local community.
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Votes Swapped as Austria SPÖ Leadership Race Overturned
The Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) was thrown into pandemonium Monday, June 5th, after the party’s electoral commission reversed previously declared results in a hotly contested leadership race.
The centre-left party had been engaged in a bitter leadership contest that pitted progressive talisman Andreas Babler against grassroots challenger Hans Peter Doskozil on the back of poor performances in regional elections. The party has been split on how to respond to the rise of the FPÖ—with Doskozil championing a more conservative line on immigration, and Babler wishing to take the SPÖ to the Left. Both candidates were desperate to unseat centrist SPÖ incumbent Pamela Rendi-Wagner, blaming her for poor poll performance.
In a shock decision, SPÖ officials overturned an earlier announcement declaring Doskozil elected in favour of Babler in a move that has unleashed chaos within the already divided party. Doskozil was declared the winner Sunday evening with 53% of delegate votes. Concerns then surfaced that officials had counted misattributed votes due to a mistake in an Excel file.
The SPÖ backtracked Monday afternoon with officials announcing an embarrassing U-turn due to what they described as a “technical error” in the voting process. The final tally for the leadership race was 317 to 280 in favour of Babler, as the party claimed that delegate votes had been accidentally mixed up.
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The anti-government march through the Polish capital of Warsaw on Sunday was of great importance for Donald Tusk, as it confirmed his status as leader of the opposition and brought him a step closer to getting other marginalized opposition politicians to join a Tusk-led alliance in the upcoming elections, according to Prof. Mieczyslaw Ryba of Catholic University in Lublin.
Speaking with the wPolityce.pl news portal, the academic said Tusk could now count on the liberal media to pressure other opposition parties to submit to his leadership, and if he succeeds in that venture, even should he lose the coming election, he will still have established a bridgehead for a future presidential election challenge.
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WHO Plots to Use EU Vaccine Passport Tech to Form Global Digital Health Certificates
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will adopt the European Union’s digital Covid vaccine passport framework to create a global network of digital health certificates. What was long maligned as a conspiracy theory is coming to pass. The new initiative will be called the Global Digital Health Certification Network.
The WHO said it will “take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats.”
The EU’s Covid vaccine certificate was enforced in July 2021 and issued to over 2.3 billion people.
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European Nation Has Weapon Ultimatum for Citizens: Hand Over Guns and Ammo or Else
Serbs have until June 8 to surrender all of their unregistered weapons in a push by the government to disarm society following back-to-back mass shootings.
Two mass shootings in consecutive days in early May rocked the Balkans nation, where the types of mass shootings seen so regularly in the United States rarely, if ever, happens.
A 13-year-old boy armed with his father’s pistol killed nine people, including eight children, at an elementary school in Belgrade on May 3. Just one day later, a 20-year-old killed eight and injured 14 in a rampage through a town just south of Belgrade.
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Analysis: Destruction of Kakhovka Dam Takes Ukraine War Into Uncharted Territory
LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) — The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for a much-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian invaders and threatens an environmental disaster for civilians living in the war zone.
Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine that sent floods gushing towards surrounding towns and farmland and forced hundreds of civilians to flee on Tuesday.
With water levels still rising, officials and analysts have begun to quantify the human and environmental costs for one of the world’s most fertile agricultural countries, saying settlements and thousands of people are at risk.
The dam’s collapse occurred just as Ukraine was poised to launch a counteroffensive and could complicate the advance of its forces in any assault, analysts said, though Kyiv has not divulged in which direction it plans to strike.
“Bearing in mind Russia is on the strategic defensive and Ukraine on the strategic offensive, in the short term it’s an advantage to Russia, definitely,” said Ben Barry, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“It’ll help the Russians until the water subsides because it makes it more difficult for Ukraine to do assault river crossings,” he said in a phone interview.
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‘Deepfake’ Putin Declares Martial Law, Orders Evacuation After Russian Broadcasters Hacked
Russia has said footage aired on television and radio stations showing Vladimir Putin declaring martial law is actually an A.I.-generated fake deployed by hackers.
Senior figures within the Russian government came out on Monday to assure the public that the supposed “emergency” address broadcasted by Russian television and radio stations declaring martial law was not made by Russia’s real Vladimir Putin, but by an A.I. fake. By Russia’s own account, hackers had control of a television and radio station for 37 minutes.
In the broadcast, the seemingly digitally-created Putin warned listeners that Ukraine had managed to penetrate Russia’s borders, declaring martial law and ordering an evacuation of border areas.
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Discord Leaks: CIA Had Advance Warning of Ukrainian Plan to Bomb Nord Stream Pipeline
The Biden administration apparently knew three months ahead of time that the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline was a target of a covert attack by a small team of Ukrainian divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the armed forces of Ukraine.
The details of the plan were reportedly uncovered by a European intelligence service and subsequently shared with the CIA in 2022, per The Washington Post.
The reporting by European intelligence had been shared on Discord, a social media platform, which had been part of a leak of a trove of documents by Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira. This information from Teixeira provides the most specific evidence linking the Ukrainian government to the attack that took place in the Baltic Sea. The US and other Western nations have condemned the attack as a dangerous act of sabotage on Europe’s energy infrastructure.
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FSB Alleges Ukraine Plotted Dirty Bomb Attack on Russian Territory
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has alleged that Ukraine’s military intelligence mulled plans to detonate a “dirty bomb” on Russian territory as retribution for the ongoing invasion.
The FSB released a Tuesday statement claiming that Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) considered a high stakes plan to utilize a light aircraft capable of flying at low altitudes to fly saboteurs into Russia as well as a dirty bomb, or explosive device covered with radioactive material capable of dispersing contamination over a large area.
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Satellites Watch Floods Ravage Ukraine Following Dam Explosion (Photos)
Russia and Ukraine are accusing one another of causing the dam collapse.
Satellites watched as floodwaters ravaged southern Ukraine following the mysterious collapse of a major dam on Tuesday (June 6).
Floodwaters have been threatening crops and villages throughout war-torn Ukraine, prompting evacuations and what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called a “monumental humanitarian, economic and ecological catastrophe,” according to the Associated Press. Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of destroying the dam in what both are calling a “terrorist act.”
Satellites orbiting overhead caught shocking views of the destruction on Tuesday, revealing the extent of the flooding and the damage to the Kakhovka dam along the Dnipro River.
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Ukraine and Russia Accuse Each Other of Blowing Up Nova Kakhovka Dam
Ukraine blamed Russia for the destruction of a dam on the front lines of the war in Ukraine on Tuesday, threatening a nearby nuclear power plant and hundreds of thousands of people.
The Kremlin, in turn, said Ukraine was responsible for the disaster as water surged through the Kakhovka dam in a Russian-controlled area of the Kherson region.
NBC News has not verified the claims of either side.
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India: The New ‘Gaming Jihad’ for Brainwashing Hindu and Jain Teenagers to Convert Them to Islam
Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | June 4, 2023:: The Islamist perpetrators now explored their new domain in cybercrime for brainwashing Hindu and Jain boys to convert them to Radical Islam.
Ghaziabad police arrested a former member of the local mosque committee, Abdul Rehman (actually, a resident of Balia) in this connection. The accused used to read Quran verses to the youths on the online gaming app in a pretension to win the game and brainwashed the youths to convert them to the Muslim religion.
This is a new type of jihad that’s come to light as conversion to Islam is their ultimate goal. The case came to light on May 30 at Kavi Nagar Police Station jurisdiction under Gaziabad Police.
In this “Gaming Jihad”, Muslim youth along with Maulvis of Masjid used to brainwash Hindu and Jain kids saying reading Aayats from Quran can help them win games in ‘Fortnite’ mobile game. When the kids do win the game by a set of tricks allowed by the app itself, they start believing the power of Aayats as such. Later on, the appointed Muslim youths in this network used to take the Hindu and Jain kids on another ‘Discord’ chat app and show them Zakir Naik videos to brainwash them to the next level. The perpetrators mainly used to target the teen-aged Hindu and Jain boys to convert to Islam.
As per Ghaziabad police, they are searching for one Shanawaj Masud Khan of Sajia Apartment, P.S. Mumbra, Thane, Maharashtra -who is believed to be the mastermind of this Cyber Gaming Jihad.
Police are probing all aspects of this new ‘Gaming Jihad’ as surfaced surprisingly.
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China’s Military Chief Says Clash With US Would be “Unbearable Disaster” for World
Over the weekend Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu told the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit that any potential future conflict between the United States and China would bring “unbearable disaster for the world”.
But he said both rival powerful countries should be able to grow together and to avoid confrontation. His words came as the US condemned what it called unsafe and aggressive maneuvers by a Chinese PLA Navy warship in the Taiwan Strait as the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon conducted a ‘freedom of navigation’ transit on Saturday.
“It is undeniable that a severe conflict or confrontation between China and the US would be an unbearable disaster for the world,” Li said.
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EU Expected to Approve Chinese Sanctions
The European Union is hurtling towards enacting sanctions against the Chinese economy, the South China Morning Post reports, saying EU officials are preparing to sanction eight key Chinese companies believed to be linked to the Russian war effort in Ukraine. The companies have been accused of reselling European technology, mainly in the form of microchips used by Russian forces in Ukraine. EU leaders, however, are split over their future relationship with the rising Asian power.
EU sources said that they expected a deal on sanctions to be announced before European foreign ministers meet in Brussels on June, 26th. Beijing has previously warned that any sanctions are unnecessary and would provoke retaliation. European countries have been grappling with a potential economic decoupling from China, with some officials warning that China is an essential component for economic prosperity and that the United States is rushing Europe into cutting ties too quickly.
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Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has been called out after local media were banned from attending his address to a secretive pro-China forum.
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Sio and Maria Tupou paid $30,000 as a deposit with Melbourne firm Porter Davis, which collapsed in March leaving 1,700 homes unbuilt.
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Brit Bottled by Migrant Squatters After Confronting Group Living in His Spanish Home
A British homeowner in the Spanish province of Malaga has been hospitalized after traveling from England to confront a group of migrant squatters living in his Spanish property.
The incident occurred on Tuesday in the town of Manilva, located approximately 100 kilometers southwest of Malaga.
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Exclusive — Robert F. Kennedy at the Border: ‘This Problem is Solvable’
Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., made a surprise visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday night and early Tuesday morning and said the situation was “unsustainable.”
“This problem is solvable,” Kennedy told Breitbart News by telephone. “We just need an administration that has the will to do it.”
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Florida Reportedly Sends Illegal Immigrants to Gavin Newsom in Sanctuary State of California
The California attorney general’s office alleged on Sunday that 16 illegal immigrants from South America who were flown on a chartered jet from New Mexico and dropped off in Sacramento had documentation indicating their transportation was arranged by the state of Florida.
A spokesperson with the attorney general’s office, who did not want to be identified, told the Los Angeles Times that the documents appear to show that the flight was arranged by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and was part of the state’s migrant transportation program.
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An independent Irish lawmaker has called for a referendum on immigration after recent polling revealed 75 percent of Irish people think the country is taking in too many refugees.
Speaking to Irish media outlet, Gript, Mattie McGrath TD believes the public concern on the issue is too great to ignore.
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More Suspects on FBI Terror Watch List Try to Cross Into US in April Than During Trump’s Entire Term
Border patrol agents apprehended sixteen people on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s terror watch list in April, more than were caught attempting to cross over into the United States during the entirety of former president Donald Trump’s four years in office.
April’s tally brings the total number of terror suspects arrested trying to cross the southern border illegally in Fiscal Year 2023 to nearly 100. FY23 has quickly become a record-breaking year for Biden’s border crisis, with more apprehensions than ever before.
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Channel boat migrants will be housed on cruise ships for the first time, the Daily Mail can reveal today.
Rishi Sunak announced the acquisition of two vessels on Monday and it can now be confirmed they are passenger liners.
They will house up to 1,000 small boat migrants between them but the ships’ names are being withheld by the Home Office.
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Rishi Sunak is ready to ram his Channel boats plan through the House of Lords despite resistance from peers.
The PM has suggested he will use the Parliament Act to force the Illegal Migration Bill through, saying it was ‘very strongly’ backed by MPs and ‘incredibly important’.
The comments — in an interview with the Telegraph — raise the prospect that the objections of the Upper House, including religious leaders such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, will be overruled.
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DAVID BARRETT: The PM will have to be willing to sign off large bills for extra detention space and other asylum accommodation to the crisis under control.
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More than 200 LGBTQ groups angered by Target’s decision to pull Pride merchandise from shelves are demanding the company “denounce extremists” and restock all the Pride merchandise in stores and online.
The Human Rights Campaign, along with GLAAD, GLSEN and other groups, released a statement asking Target and other businesses like Anheuser-Busch to “reject and speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ extremism going into Pride Month.” More than 200 other progressive and LGBTQ organizations signed on to the statement, which argued that showing support for their community was good for business.
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Breaking: Federal Judge Blocks Florida Banning Child Sex Changes, Declares ‘Gender Identity is Real’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his state legislature have made it clear that they are fully opposed to child sex changes in the state, enacting a law prohibiting the act, but now a federal judge has blocked the ban on such mutilating medical procedures that was due to take effect.
The block is temporary, but it stops the state from preventing doctors from giving minors puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in service to gender transition. Puberty blockers are used to halt the natural development of children into adults and can cause lifelong, irreversible changes, such as stunted growth.
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Breaking: Louisiana Congress Passes Bill to Ban Sex Changes for Minors, With a Veto-Proof Majority
The Louisiana Senate passed HB 648 in a 29-10 vote on Monday. The bill bans puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for minors.
The bill is expected to be vetoed by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards. However, HB 648 passed with veto-proof majorities in both Legislative chambers. The Senate requires 26 votes in favor to override a veto, and the House requires 70 votes to override a veto; HB 648 received 71 in the House chamber.
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Breaking: Nike to Host Doctor Who Performs Sex Changes on Minors to Celebrate Pride Month
A newly surfaced email leaked by The Daily Wire has revealed that Nike is hosting a discussion with a self-proclaimed child sex change surgeon in order to commemorate the so-called Pride month.
Other events the shoe giant is putting on include a Pride fitness event, a Pride-theme rock climbing wall and a function titled “Pride Thirst Thursday,” featuring competitions between employees and local drag queens.
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Canadian LGBTQ2S+ Pride Events Get $1.5 Million for Increased Security From Trudeau Government
The federal government is set to provide $1.5 million in funding to help ramp up security at Pride events across Canada. LGBTQ advocacy organization Fierté Canada Pride will receive the funds, and distribute them as needed to local event organizers who apply for assistance.
The move, which is in line with the Trudeau Liberals’ LGBTQ2S+ Action Plan, comes events in many of the nation’s largest cities struggle to keep pace with growing crowd sizes and potential threats.
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Christian Man Arrested After Quoting Bible at Pennsylvania Pride March
On Saturday, a man was arrested while protesting a Pride event outside City Hall in Reading, Pennsylvania. Police detained Damon Atkins, a self-proclaimed born-again Christian, less than a minute after he arrived on the scene.
At the time of his arrest, Atkins was standing across the street from the event and holding up a sign that read “Jesus said I am the truth, the way, the life” on one side, and “Jesus said go and sin no more” on the other.
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A housing association in Berlin has announced it will soon begin construction on a social housing project in the heart of the city exclusively for female senior citizens who identify as lesbian or bisexual.
The complex will comprise an eight-story building with 72 apartments “in the best inner-city location.” It will also have a cultural center, a neighborhood café, consultation rooms and event rooms.
The project is a collaboration between Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte (WBM) state-owned housing association and the Rad und Tat (RuT) lesbian initiative, which will open an office in the new complex.
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In Rebuke to Trump, DeSantis Says “Woke” is “Existential Threat to Our Society”
After Donald Trump proclaimed at the weekend that he doesn’t like the term ‘woke’ because nobody knows what it really means, his GOP challenger Ron DeSantis charged that those who do not treat it as an “existential threat” are missing the point.
Commenting to reporters on Trump’s comments, DeSantis noted “Woke is an existential threat to our society,” adding that “to say it’s not a big deal, that just shows you don’t understand what a lot of these issues are right now.”
DeSantis described woke as a “form of Cultural Marxism,” and “basically a war on the truth,” adding “it’s about putting merit and achievement behind identity politics.”
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A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists some parents’ rights organizations as “hate and anti-government groups” akin to neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
With the release of their “Year In Hate and Extremism 2022” report on Tuesday, SPLC appeared to change their infamous “Hate Map” to now be a map of “hate and antigovernment groups.” After counting 733 “hate groups” in 2021, the number increased to 1225 “hate and antigovernment extremist groups” in the 2022 report, many of which were focused on education.
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Countries that reportedly produce “excessive levels” of greenhouse gas emissions could be ordered to pay trillions of dollars in “climate reparations” to low-polluting developing countries in order to ensure that the global climate target can be reached by 2050, according to Nature Sustainability.
The countries that will be ordered to pay a collection of $170 trillion, or $6 trillion annually, as means of “climate reparations,” includes the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Russia, and Germany, the journal states.
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Poll: More Than 7 in 10 Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage
More than 70 percent of Americans say same-sex marriage should be legal, up from 27 percent in 1996 and matching last year’s percentage, a new Gallup News poll found.
“When Gallup first polled about same-sex marriage in 1996, barely a quarter of the public (27 percent) supported legalizing such unions. It would take another 15 years, until 2011, for support to reach the majority level,” according to the poll report. “Then in 2015, just one month before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, public support for legalizing gay marriage cracked the 60 percent level. In 2021, it reached the 70 percent mark for the first time and has been there each of the past three years.”
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Portland Anne Frank-Impersonating Drag Queen Trans Activist Arrested for Murder in Virginia
On Saturday, Michael Horwitz was arrested after fatally stabbing his father, Dr. Abbey Horwitz, at their home in Virginia Beach.
The 34-year-old, who identifies as a transgender woman and goes by the name Norah, has been charged with second-degree murder and stabbing in the commission of a felony.
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s ‘Sister Roma’ Honored by Scott Wiener, California’s LGBTQ Caucus
On Monday, the California State Legislature honored a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with a community service award, despite nationwide backlash against the anti-Catholic group of drag nuns. The group will also be featured by the LA Dodgers at the Pride night on June 16.
Democrat state rep Scott Wiener presented the official honor to “sister Roma,” where he recognized the trans-identified “drag nun” for exceptional service to the community. Wiener has also made the California a “sanctuary state” for children who want to undergo sex changes without parental consent or knowledge. The law also allows the state to strip custody from parents who won’t go along with their children’s wish to change sex.
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IS to Muslims in Sweden: Tear Swedes “to pieces”
Published 7 June 2023 in Fria Tider
Islamic State (IS) is calling for brutal acts against Swedes after Rasmus Paludan’s Koran burnings, Doku reports.
Behind the message of violence is the media channel Al-Adiyat, which spreads Islamic State news.
The March article urges Muslims in Sweden to attack and “tear apart” Swedes on the streets.
This is in retaliation for Rasmus Paludan’s Koran burnings.
The text was published in Arabic, English and French, according to Doku.
The IS channel also incorrectly identifies Stefan Löfven as Sweden’s prime minister, claiming that he has declared war on Islam. He is also targeted with brutal calls for violence.
Al-Adiyat writes:
“O revenge for your prophet
They have opened the gates of hell for themselves.
They have allied themselves and quarreled and mocked the Book of God.
Besiege them and force them, tear apart their bodies in the street
O Muslims torture them”
Two Syrian brothers were recently arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning to blow up a church full of visitors in Sweden in revenge for the Koran burnings.
They have allied themselves and quarreled and mocked the Book of God.
And their ‘book of god’ calls for premeditated murder of Jews and Christians. That fact alone should be sufficient cause to have I-Slam placed under judicial interdict and its ‘leaders’ arrested for inciting others to commit violence without cause against others. Of course, Eu-rope is enlightened and wishes to rid itself of those who espouse the myth of God’s visit to Israel and the salvation of humans that He accomplished there. Thus, the I-slams are nothing more than hired goons who will be disposed of after the Christians and Jews are disposed of.
Stay tuned, film at 11:00
The Chinese military chief is correct, but only to proceed without blinking to his country’s own, epic hypocrisy… “… that China remains strongly opposed to imposing one’s own will on others, placing one’s own interests above those of others and pursuing one’s own security at the expense of others.” — Great. So the democratically expressed desire of the Taiwanese to not be ruled by the CPC does count for nothing. While the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine have voted to join the Russian Federation, in the case of Crimea even already in 1990, which nobody was interested in even noticing. All these big powers are alike. Yes, the EU, too, one of the biggest hypocrites of all.
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Störer beschimpfen Scholz als „Kriegstreiber“ – der brüllt zurück
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IAEA issues statement following Kiev’s attack on the Nova Kakhovka Dam that puts ZNPP at risk.
Today the Nova Kakhovka dam was severely damaged leading to a significant reduction in the level of the reservoir used to supply cooling water to the ZNPP.
https://scotlandtoday.online/iaea-issues-statement-following-kievs-attack-on-the-nova-kakhovka-dam-that-puts-znpp-at-risk
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Tucker Carlson about the terrorism against the Nova Kakhovka dam
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Thrivetime Show: The ReAwakening versus
The Great Reset
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