A young man named Mohamed Barakat opened fire on police officers and emergency personnel responding to a traffic accident in Fargo, North Dakota. One policeman was killed and two others wounded before the gunman was shot and killed. Police say there is no apparent motive for the attack. The incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.
In other news, Mohammed is the most common first name listed for those who were arrested during the recent French riots.
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Canada’s Per-Person GDP Growth Slowest Since Great Depression
Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) per person is growing at its slowest rate since the Great Depression, a new report from the Fraser Institute said.
GDP per person refers to the total monetary or market value of all finished goods and services produced individually.
The report, What is Behind Canada’s Growth Crisis?, demonstrates that the country’s per-person GDP grew by 0.8% (after adjusting for inflation) between 2013 and 2022.
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Despite High Immigration, Canada’s Standard of Living is Lagging: TD Report
A report by TD Economics ranks Canada’s standard of living, measured by real GDP per capita, far behind other developed nations due to low economic productivity.
The report, authored by TD Bank economist Marc Ercolao, examined the factors behind Canada’s economic performance and prosperity in recent years.
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Globalists Push ‘Public Finance Shock’ to Trigger ‘Great Reset’
Global power elites are promoting the idea that a “public finance shock” would rapidly advance the globalist green agenda and trigger the “Great Reset.”
Government leaders, corporate heads, nonprofit power brokers, and unelected bureaucrats from around the world recently gathered for the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, France.
Prominent participants in the event include United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and World Bank President Ajay Banga.
Members of the taxpaying general public were not invited.
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Breaking: Donald Trump Dominates Turning Point Action Straw Poll With 85%
A new 2024 GOP primary straw poll conducted at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida showed massive support for the re-election of former President Donald Trump.
The survey, conducted by the Trafalgar group, found that 85.7 percent of respondents at the event chose Trump as their top pick in the current GOP primary field.
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Breaking: Trump Explains How He Plans to End Ukraine War Within 24 Hours in Brand New Interview
On Sunday, former President Donald Trump told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo how he would use his “very good” relationship with both Putin and Zelinksy to end the War in Ukraine by telling both sides they needed to stop.
In the video, Bartiromo asked the former president how he would get the deal done in 24 hours. Trump said, “I know Zelinsky very well, and I know Putin very well, even better. And I had a good relationship, very good, with both of them.”
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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Invades US Again, Impacts Air Quality for Nearly 110 Million Americans
Air Quality Alerts are in place for nearly 110 million people as smoke from the Canadian wildfires returns through Monday evening.
Montana through Indiana was reporting Unhealthy air quality levels pm Sunday. Additionally, air quality levels ranging from Moderate to Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups were being reported across the Northern Plains through parts of the Ohio Valley.
Wildfire smoke forecast Monday
The majority of the wildfire smoke moved into the Ohio Valley on Sunday. This impacted major cities, such as Indianapolis, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; and Cleveland, Ohio.
Air quality alerts were issued from Montana to Vermont as the smoke continued to filter into more parts of the U.S.
Monday will bring some slight relief for residents in the Midwest as upper-level winds will continue to drift the smoke east, but the smoke will continue to track into the Northeast.
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DeSantis Fires Roughly a Dozen Staffers With More on the Way
The 2024 presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis (R) has fired roughly a dozen staffers, with more ‘expected in the coming weeks,’ after the Florida governor has failed to gain ground on former President Donald Trump less than two months after he entered the race.
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Fargo Officer Dead, Two Others Injured; Suspect Shot and Killed in Friday Incident
Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was fatally shot in the incident when “for no known reason at all, a violent gunman attacked our officers,” Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski said. Wallin was a St. Michael-Albertville native.
A Fargo, N.D., police officer was shot and killed Friday, and two other officers were seriously injured when a suspect opened fire on several first responders at the scene of a traffic crash.
Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was fatally shot in the incident when “for no known reason at all, a violent gunman attacked our officers,” Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski said.
Also critically injured in the attack were Officer Andrew Dotas and Officer Tyler Hawes. Both are still hospitalized in critical but stable condition. A civilian was also injured in the incident, and the suspect was shot and killed by another officer on site.
The Fargo Police Department first posted on social media before 4 p.m. Friday that they were responding to a critical incident and asked the public to stay clear of the area of 25th Street South and 13th Avenue South.
Chief Zibolski recapped the incident and the facts known so far in a Saturday afternoon press conference in which he described that first responders had been on site of a routine traffic crash when a suspect he identified as 37-year-old Mohamed Barakat opened fire on firefighters and police investigating the crash and attending to victims at the scene.
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FBI Wants to Deny Catholic Advocacy Group Access to Spying Records
Back in February, PJ Media told you about the FBI’s efforts to spy on traditional Catholics. The news broke after an agency memo from the Richmond, Va., field office was leaked to the public. The memo had the rather lengthy title of “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”
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Hampton Shooting Spree Began With Peaceful Morning Before 4 Were Killed
Frankie Worth was debating whether to cut the grass outside his home in the Dogwood Lakes neighborhood in Hampton, so he ventured over to the window at about 10:45 a.m. Saturday and started to open the blinds.
That’s when he said he heard a loud boom and saw a man, who was pointing a handgun in the air as if on recoil, in the road outside his house. The man, Worth said, aimed for another shot at the driver of a vehicle, but perhaps realized he didn’t need to because the shooter did not fire a second shot. The vehicle rolled away, slowly and aimlessly, as if the driver had lost control, he added.
Worth said the victim and suspect were his neighbors and that both lived only a couple of houses down from him. The victim, whom Worth did not identify, was struck from behind. The shooter, who was walking at the time, then continued on his rampage, Worth said.
“He was picking up pace to get to — from what everyone is saying — his next targets,” Worth said.
Henry County police have since identified Andre Longmore as a suspect in the fatal shootings of the four victims. Longmore, who drove a 2017 black GMC Acadia out of the neighborhood, remains at large. Four warrants charging him with murder were obtained, Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett said during a press conference late Saturday afternoon. The sheriff’s office is offering a $10,000 reward for any information leading to Longmore’s apprehension and prosecution.
The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. Police urge residents who may see the suspect to not approach him, but instead call 911.
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Donanemab — a drug taken as a monthly infusion for 18 months — was found to also halt a reduction in the ability to perform daily activities by up to 40%, according to initial findings published on May 3.
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Only Tesla’s Ready to Shift to Electric Cars
Car makers are pushing back on the U.S. environmental regulator’s attempts to push the country into electric vehicles.
In April, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new automobile emission rules that—it estimated—were so tight they would result in 67% of new passenger vehicles and light trucks having to be electric vehicles (EV) by 2032, along with 50% of buses, 35% of short-haul freight tractors, and 25% of long-haul freight tractors.
Car manufacturers are warning, though, that such a transition is unachievable under present circumstances.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Smash and grabs, robberies, burglaries and open-air drug use have historically been contained to a few neighborhoods, but now criminals are targeting the city’s richest neighborhoods, the San Francisco police union chief told Fox News.
“Now you’re seeing crime in the more affluent areas,” Tracy McCray, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, told Fox News. “Larcenies shot off the charts.”
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Secret Service Knows Who Brought Cocaine to White House Despite Claims to the Contrary: Report
The US Secret Service allegedly found fingerprints on the bag of cocaine found in the White House and knows who they belong to, contradicting a report from Thursday that there was no suspect in the case.
Soldier of Fortune magazine reported that a source told it that the Secret Service must have known who had handled the bag since last week. The publication said they are withholding the name until they can get official confirmation.
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‘Sound of Freedom’ Filmmaker Says Hit Faith-Based Thriller is ‘More Than a Movie’: ‘It’s a Movement’
“Sound of Freedom” producer Eduardo Verastegui said the hit faith-based flick is more than a movie — it’s a movement.
Joining “Fox & Friends Weekend” host Pete Hegseth on Sunday, Verastegui said the “people’s movie” that has soared toward the top at the box office, claiming the number two spot and raking in $82 million as of Saturday, cannot be stopped.
“All the experts in Hollywood tell us that this is not a good film for them, that nobody will go see this film,” he said of the years-long struggle to get the thriller onto the big screen.
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The FTC is Investigating ChatGPT for Scooping Up Personal Data
You have been duly warned by now about the dangers of AI taking over your job. In fact, that is one of the reasons why the writers and actors who bring us the products that currently pass for entertainment have gone on strike. While I am sure that some sector of the nation is mourning that tragic development, let us turn our attention to actual issues.
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Twitter Loses Nearly Half Advertising Revenue Since Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter has lost almost half of its advertising revenue since it was bought by Elon Musk for $44 billion (£33.6bn) last October, its owner has revealed.
He said the company had not seen the increase in receipts that had been expected in June, but added that July was a “bit more promising.”
Mr Musk sacked about half of Twitter’s 7,500 staff when he took over in 2022 in a effort to cut costs.
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Two Arrests Made in Vandalism Incidents at Catholic Churches in Brooklyn Diocese
Arrests were made Saturday in two separate vandalism incidents at Catholic churches in the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York.
At Resurrection Church in Brooklyn, a white marble statue of the Blessed Mother was spray-painted with black graffiti on her face, shoulders, and hands.
The word “fake” was written on the statue as well as what appears to be an upside-down cross, a symbol not seldomly seen in vandalism incidents on Catholic sites.
Jonathan Bulik, 37, of Brooklyn, was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime in connection with the attack. He was seen spray-painting the statue by two parishioners who stopped him in the act on Saturday, according to The Tablet, the diocese’s news outlet.
Another incident occurred on Saturday at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Astoria by the same man who allegedly desecrated the church in early June.
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US Scrambles to Increase Weapons Production After Biden Let Military Info Slip on TV
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, said the Biden administration is working with the defense industry to increase the production of munitions as concerns grow that the nation’s weapon’s supply is dwindling.
“We’re working very closely with the defense industry to try to ramp up production, particularly for artillery shells,” Kirby told Fox News’ Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Was There Just a Jihad Terror Attack in Fargo, North Dakota?
On Friday afternoon, police in Fargo, North Dakota, responded to a report of a car crash at 9th Avenue South and 25th Street South. Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski said it was a “routine traffic accident,” but what happened when they arrived on the scene was anything but routine. A Fargo resident named Mohamad Barakat, 37, opened fire on the officers, killing one and injuring three others. Zibolski said that Barakat attacked the officers “for no known reason,” and authorities have as yet offered no hints as to the shooter’s motive. One of the most obvious possibilities, however, is being steadfastly ignored, as one might expect given today’s media narrative.
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Bard, Google’s AI Chatbot, Unavailable in Canada Amid Online News Act Fiasco
Google has expanded the availability of its artificial-intelligence-based chatbot Bard to most countries in the world, except for Canada and totalitarian regimes like North Korea.
The company cited “regulatory uncertainty” as the reason for excluding Canada from the launch of Bard, which is similar to ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Bing AI.
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There have been 1,859 reports of harm related to the novel COVID-19 injections, according to a biannual update from the newly-instituted Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP). Of those, only 103 were approved for compensation, which has totalled $6,695,716 so far, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
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Danielle Smith Impresses at Calgary Stampede as She Pledges to Fight Justin Trudeau
On Friday’s live stream, the Calgary Rebel discusses how Premier Danielle Smith electrified the Calgary Stampede, igniting a fervent atmosphere with her unwavering dedication to Alberta’s prosperity. Hosting the Stampede breakfast, Smith showcased her leadership, emphasizing the United Conservative Party’s (UCP) path to victory and revitalizing Alberta’s economy.
Engaging with attendees, Smith rallied support from influential UCP members, including MLAs and ministers, as conversations revolved around securing a prosperous future for the province.
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In Canada, it’s Easier to Access Euthanasia Services Than Health Care
When Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016, a patient had to be terminally ill to access the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. But next year, the state plans to extend MAID to those suffering from mental illness — including those afflicted with PTSD.
Exactly what those who predicted a slippery slope to an ethical breakdown warned us about has now come to pass. Euthanasia proponents scoffed at the idea that the mentally ill would be given the opportunity to end their lives, but it’s come about much faster than anyone would have predicted.
Canadian military veteran Kelsi Sheren developed post-traumatic stress disorder from the Afghanistan war and now campaigns against the expansion of euthanasia.
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Leader of Canada’s Opposition Calls for an End to Discriminatory COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
The London Free Press (LFP) recently published an article detailing the tribulations of a pregnant nurse who faces termination over a lingering workplace COVID-19 vaccine policy. The headline asks: Why are COVID vaccines still mandatory?
Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre retweeted the article stating that the fastest way to get more doctors and nurses is to “end all the discriminatory vaccine mandates blocking them from doing their jobs, so they can work again.”
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Lockdown Charges Against MP Derek Sloan and MPP Randy Hillier Dropped — Lawyer Explains the Case
On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra was joined by Chris Fleury, lawyer for former MPP Randy Hillier and MP Derek Sloan. In collaboration with with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, Chris had the charges against the two, for attending a rally against COVID lockdown measures in 2021, dropped.
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Majority of Canadians Oppose State Sanctioned Media
Recently released data from pollster Angus Reid shows that most Canadians oppose the funding of newsrooms, citing concern over comprised journalistic independence.
The polling showed that 59% of Canadians responded that the government should not fund newsrooms; 83% of those opposed were conversative voters, 48% were liberal and 38% were NDP.
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One-Third of Canadians Felt ‘Pressured’ to Comply With COVID Lockdowns: Survey
According to a recent study, the authors of COVID lockdowns heeded no concern for the psychological consequences of social isolation. One-third of Canadians felt coerced into complying with public health orders.
Asked, “To what extent did you feel pressured by others to practice or not practice individual public health measures?” Three in ten said they felt pressured, including 38% for parents with young children and 42% for young adults.
Governments prioritized ‘flattening the curve’ or minimizing the risk of COVID transmission during the pandemic, but they paid little attention to the effects of social isolation.
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Pandemic Dissident Politicians Have COVID-Related Charges Dropped
Former member of parliament (MP) Derek Sloan and member of provincial parliament (MPP) Randy Hillier had charges against them dropped on Thursday, June 29.
“The prosecutor agreed to drop the charges in exchange for a modest charitable donation or volunteer work,” explains a press release by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). “Mr. Sloan made the charitable donation and Mr. Hillier volunteered at a food bank in Lanark County.”
Commenting on the recent development, Mr. Sloan said that “[t]he Ontario government’s lockdowns, which effectively banned any political protesting whatsoever, were a grave threat to our freedom in Canada. Restrictions may be over for now, but there was no indication how long they would last at the time. 2 weeks became 2 months which became almost 2 years of failed COVID policies.”
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The son of a Canadian pastor drew raucous applause from the European Parliament earlier this month when he pleaded for international pressure in the case of his father, who potentially faces 10 years in prison after delivering a sermon to truckers blocking the U.S.-Canada border last year.
“I am here today in desperation, a cry for help,” Nathaniel Pawlowski, 23, told members of the EU Parliament on July 4. “I would like to stand here and tell you all the things about freedom and democracy that I like, but I no longer know those things.”
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EU Commission Spent €200k Translating Works of Ernst Jünger
A two-year research project by the EU Commission to translate the travel writings of the author Ernst Jünger cost European taxpayers €200,371. The project discovered previously unearthed audio tapes of the famous German military philosopher that, once made public, will add value to Jünger’s highly esteemed oeuvre.
One of the leading lights of the post-1918 generation of German writers known as the “Conservative Revolution,” Jünger is regarded as one of the greatest right-wing intellectuals of the 20th century for his novel examination of life in a time of total war and rapid technological innovation.
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EU Turns to Musk to Launch Its Satellites Ahead of EU-Twitter Showdown
The final mission of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket took place on July 5 and brought to a close a 27-year history of delivering payloads into space. However, this historic moment has left Europe without an autonomous plan B for its space programme.
The retirement of the Ariane 5 has made the EU entirely dependent on Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch navigation satellites, Commission officials confirmed this week, against the background of Brussels’ ongoing spat with the American Twitter owner over content regulation. This development has led some within the ESA to warn that Europe risked becoming a spectator in a potentially new space race.
Consequently, the ESA is currently without a single heavy-lift spacecraft, as it experiences technical difficulties in bringing its successor, Ariane 6, online.
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Over 300 Explosions Counted in the Netherlands, Mainly Homes and Stores Affected
There seems to be no end to the series of explosions in the Netherlands, and the police fear that this trend will certainly continue in the future. This year alone there have been 303 explosions in the Netherlands, almost more than in the whole of 2022 when 323 explosions were counted. The police said that a double number of explosions can be expected, Nu.nl reported.
Especially in The Hague and Rotterdam, as well as in the central and northern Netherlands, explosions occur more often than usual and even exceed the number of explosions in the previous year, the police reported.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Protesters Cost Drivers 14.5 Years Stuck Behind the Wheel
Drivers have lost the equivalent of 14.5 years stuck behind the wheel after being held up by Just Stop Oil protests so far, figures revealed.
The sit-downs, road blockades and go-slow marches along key main roads around the UK have caused huge delays.
Now the authorities are being urged to clamp down on the eco-protesters, who are accused of trampling over the rights of others.
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United Kingdom Joins Trans-Pacific Trade Bloc in Largest Deal Since Brexit
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain on Sunday officially joined an Asia-Pacific trade group that includes Japan and 10 other nations during a meeting in New Zealand.
The trade bloc covers more than 500 million people and 15% of the world’s economy. For Britain, it represents the largest trade deal it has struck since leaving the European Union more than three years ago.
Britain first announced in March it had reached an agreement to join the bloc, which was created in 2018, after more than two years of negotiations. It is the first new member to join the bloc, called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster munitions, and warned that Russia “reserves the right to take reciprocal action” if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons.
In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., Putin said that Russia has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far.
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Putin Says Russia Has ‘Sufficient Stockpile’ of Cluster Bombs as Ukraine Gets Its Own Supply From US
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster munitions, warning that Russia “reserves the right to take reciprocal action” if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster munitions, and warned that Russia “reserves the right to take reciprocal action” if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons.
In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., Putin said that Russia has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far. The use of cluster bombs by both Russia and Ukraine has been widely documented, including by The Associated Press and international humanitarian organizations, and cluster rounds have been found in the aftermath of Russian strikes.
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Russia’s FSB Says it Thwarted Ukraine-Linked Plot to Assassinate RT Editor-in-Chief
Russian media is widely reporting that RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan was targeted in an assassination plot, uncovered and thwarted by the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to RIA Novosti, the FSB announced Saturday that members of a neo-Nazi group which goes by the name ‘Paragraph 88’ had been arrested in connection with the alleged plot, which apparently was busted before any attempt.
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Ukraine Claims ‘Intensified’ Fighting as Putin Brands Counteroffensive a Failure
(AFP) — Ukraine on Sunday said fighting had “intensified” on the eastern front as Russian President Vladimir Putin deemed Kyiv’s counteroffensive a failure.
Putin has yet to decide if Russia will renew the grain deal — expiring late Monday — that allowed the resumption of Ukrainian exports through the Black Sea, temporarily halted when the invasion began in February 2022.
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Hindu Temple Attacked With Rocket Launchers, Another Razed to Ground in Islamic Pakistan
Seema Saxena | HENB | New Delhi | July 16. 2023:: Shockingly, two Hindu temples, including one built over 150 years ago, were desecrated within 24 hours in Pakistan’s Sindh province. In both places, the Islamist people did such a menace apparently with the help of the Pakistani Police and Administration.
Temple demolished in Karachi
The first incident happened in Karachi on Saturday morning when the old Mari Mata Temple in Soldier Bazaar was razed to the ground.
Locals said the operation took place while the area was without electricity, said a report by Dawn newspaper.
Diggers and a bulldozer demolished the entire structure leaving only the outer walls and the temple’s main gate intact.
The residents alleged that police vehicles were present to provide “cover” to the men operating the machines, said the report by Dawn.
“It is a very old mandir. It is said to have been built over 150 years ago,” Shri Ram Nath Mishra, priest of another temple nearby said, adding: “The temple covered about 400 to 500 square yards and there had been talk of land grabbers having their eye on it”.
The mandir was under the management of the Madrasi Hindu community of Karachi, he added.
A Hindu temple, believed to be built nearly 150 years ago, has been demolished after being declared an old and dangerous structure in Karachi, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s Sindh province, leaving the Hindu community in shock. The Mari Mata Temple in Karachi’s Soldier Bazar was razed to the ground by bulldozers in the presence of a heavy contingent of police force late on Friday night.
“They (authorities) did it very early in the Saturday very early morning and we were not informed this was going to going to happen,” said Ram Nath Mishra Maharaj, who looks after old Hindu temples in the area.
Mishra, the caretaker of the nearby Shri Punch Mukhi Hanuman Mandir, said that the bulldozers left the outer walls and the temple’s main gate intact, but they demolished the entire inside structure.
Mishra said that the temple was built some 150 years ago and told stories that there was treasure buried beneath its courtyard.
He said that the temple, which covered some 400 to 500 square yards in the area, had been the target of land grabbers and developers for years now…
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Under Wakf conspiracy, Historical Pandav wada sites are encroached on by the Jumma Mosque committee. ‘Disputed’ Mosque sealed by Dist Administration in Maharashtra as Hindutva groups protested.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Jalgaon | July 15, 2023:: The Pandav wada (in Erandol town of Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district) sites, where the Pandavas spent incognito during their time in exile (ajnaatvas), are under Islamic encroachments. Due to the extreme apathy of Hindus, more than 125 years ago Muslims started to slowly encroach on Pandav wada and erected a Mosque within it claiming it as Wakf property. Hindu organizations like Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) and Pandavwada Sangharsh Samiti have been fighting to restore the dignity and historicity of Pandavwada from the encroachments of the Wakf Board. While the main constructions of Pandavwada (like Jain and Hindu Temple style) is apparently 800-1000 yrs old, the disputed mosque has records of 100 years or a little more.
Now, the century-old disputed mosque has been temporarily sealed by the district administration following claims made by the agitating Hindutva groups.
Hindutva groups allege that the mosque was constructed by demolishing a Hindu religious structure that has a mention in the epic of Mahabharata.
On the plea of agitating Hindu organizations, the district collector passed an interim order for restraining the namaz and other alleged activities run by the Pandavwada Jumma Masjid Committee. The collector issued an order under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, immediately banning prayers on the premises. In the order, the collector also directed police deployment in the area. The collector asked the tahsildar to take charge of the mosque, which he described as “disputed”.
The ‘disputed’ and ‘illegal’ mosque presently became a site of controversy because of a complaint filed by an organization called “Pandavwada Sangharsh Samiti”. The complainant, Prasad Madhusudan Dandawate, moved a petition before the Jalgaon district collector Aman Mittal in the middle of May. The move was supported by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS). In the complaint, it is claimed that the mosque was built over a Hindu place of worship and is illegal and should be taken over by the state authorities. The complainant also claims that the Jumma Masjid Trust has “illegally” encroached over the space destroying its Hindu character and structure.
Actually, the connected Wakf committee was engaged in the expansion of the Mosque in dispute in order to destroy the Hindu ambiance of Pandavwada as mentioned in the Mahabharata and local annals.
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Pope Kowtows to Chinese Communists by Accepting a Cardinal Appointed by the State
In 2018, Pope Francis and the Vatican signed an agreement with the Chinese Communists that, among other things, gives both sides a say in the appointment of bishops. This agreement was ignored by Beijing three months ago when they unilaterally named Bishop Joseph Shen Bin to lead the Diocese of Shanghai.
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In a mark of Australia’s spiralling rental crisis, a rundown boat was offered for $200 a week and, keeping the nautical theme, a shipping container has also been listed.
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Land care volunteers were meant to roll up their sleeves to plant 5500 seedlings along Perth’s Canning River on the weekend. But the events in Canning and Gosnells never went ahead
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Support for Labor is at it’s lowest ebb since the 2022 election, although the Coalition has failed to reap the benefits as voters swing to independents and minor parties, according to the latest Newspoll.
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Unvaccinated Firefighters Still Barred From Work Amid Ongoing Vaccine Mandate
Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) has decided to maintain its Covid-19 vaccine mandate, causing unvaccinated firefighters to be sidelined indefinitely from their duties.
The decision comes after specific clauses of the state government’s vaccine mandate legislation expired on July 12, leading to FRV’s implementation of a third vaccine requirement for all firefighters.
This decision has sparked debates about fairness, especially when many other work sectors have relaxed vaccination rules.
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Victoria Police Finally Dumps Vaccine Requirement as it Struggles to Attract New Recruits
Victoria Police have been mocked for their latest recruitment drive that advises potential recruits that standards have been lowered to make the job more attractive.
Information sent to applicants enthuses that:
“The initial psychological test can now be done online, the video interview component has been removed, evidence of Covid-19 vaccination is no longer required” These changes will result in a significant decrease in time taken for the recruitment process, with applications taking as little as 4-6 months!”
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Watch: Anti-Lockdown Protester Says He’s Being Maliciously Prosecuted
Nick Patterson, a familiar face to Rebel News viewers, says authorities are maliciously trying to bankrupt him in his ongoing legal battle against charges stemming from an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne.
Patterson was arrested during a demonstration against government overreach two years ago. Despite having other charges dropped, Patterson continues to fight for freedom, facing numerous obstacles along the way.
He said that the prosecution has changed three times, with the latest prosecutor citing being too occupied with another case as the reason for not proceeding.
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‘Christians Here Really Need Help’: The Persecution of Christians, June 2023
The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of June 2023.
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Uganda: On the evening of June 16, Islamic terrorists crying “Allahu akbar!” (“Allah is the greatest!”) stormed a private high school, where students were closing the night by singing Christian hymns. Over the next 90 minutes, the attackers committed unimaginable horrors against the Christians — murdering, in the end, at least 42 people, 37 of them teenagers. Locked in their dormitory, most of the boys were burned alive after the Muslim terrorists poured fuel on the building and set fire to it.
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France: Three Quarters Support Stripping Citizenship of Foreign Rioters
More than seven in ten people in France are in favour of stripping citizenship for foreigners who participated in the violent riots that broke out following the death of an Algerian teenager last month.
A survey conducted by French broadcaster CNews this week found that 73 per cent of the country would support removing French citizenship from dual nationals who took part in the recent spate of racially-inspired riots accross the country.
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Greece Migrant Boat Tragedy: New Revelations
Disconcerting details about last June’s high-profile migrant boat tragedy off the coast of Greece have surfaced.
An internal document of EU border agency Frontex, seen by Welt, reveals that EU and Greek authorities had foreknowledge of two children having died aboard the doomed vessel, almost a full day before it capsized and sank late in the evening of June 14th, claiming the lives of approximately 600.
The document reveals that authorities from Rome sent an alert to the Greek Coast Guard’s and EU’s Frontex central offices in Piraeus, their emergency operations center near Athens, at 8:01 a.m.—a report that included news of the 2 dead children—on June 14th, UTC, just over an hour after they first spotted the Adriana at 6:51 a.m. that same morning.
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Lampedusa Under Pressure as Migrants Keep Coming
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 16 — Lampedusa’s migrant hotspot was under heavy pressure on Sunday as the wave of arrivals from North Africa continued unabated.
Early on Sunday there were 2,116 people at the hotspot, which has an official capacity of around 400, even though 933 people were transferred to other parts of Italy on Saturday.
Over 600 migrants are set to be transferred from the island on two ships later on Sunday.
Italy’s southernmost island is often the destination boats carrying migrants and refugees from north Africa head for.
On Sunday around 100 people on two boats rescued by EU border agency Frontex were taken to Lampedusa.
They departed from the Tunisian port of Sfax and originally came from Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea and Mali.
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Mohammed Tops the Name List of Arrested French Rioters
Over 2,300 people have been arrested in connection with the multiple-day riots that shook France earlier this month following the fatal shooting of a teen named Nahel in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Many have speculated about a connection between immigration and the rioting, with former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour explicitly blaming French immigration policy during an interview published last Sunday.
“No one can ignore reality anymore,” Zemmour said and added, “in spite of everything, most of the political class wants to believe that it is a social crisis when the root cause is obvious: immigration.”
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Via The College Fix
Video of prominent Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky telling his class during a lecture he’d lie in a deposition now says he was totally joking, and his class knows it.
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Charles Barkley: Bud Light Boycotters Are ‘Rednecks or A**holes’
Sportscaster Charles Barkley has provoked a furious backlash after he blasted conservatives boycotting Bud Light over its “woke” agenda as “rednecks or a**holes.”
A video has been spreading on social media showing retired NBA superstar and current “Inside the NBA” host mocking the boycotts during a recent public appearance.
At the American Century Celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Barkley made his opinion known about Bud Light amid the Dylan Mulvaney controversy.
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Feminists Were Against Single Sex Spaces, Before They Were for Them
by Daniel Greenfield
Before anyone worried about a 300 lb bearded man sharing dressing rooms, saunas, and sports teams with the fairer sex, the war on single sex spaces was being waged by feminists.
During the 1970s, feminists demanded access to all-male clubs and insisted that female sports reporters had the right to interview half-naked male athletes. The consensual single-sex male space had all but disappeared in the new century except as a distant memory. The triumph of feminism further atomized male spaces and communities while leaving female ones intact.
By the next decade, books like Hannah Rosin’s ‘The End of Men (and the Rise of Women)’ forecast a world in which masculinity had been reduced to an evolutionary dead end. Such hollow triumphalism still persists in some feminist circles, but, as any biologist could have explained, the end of men foreshadowed the end of women.
Men and women cannot in the long run exist without each other either biologically or societally…
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Has the Entire Comic Book Industry Become Woke?
The Gunn Show was joined by David Menzies to talk about how the comic industry has changed over the years.
“What the heck happened to comic books and the entire comic industry? Comic movies, it’s so relentlessly woke,” said Sheila.
David responded that it’s “very hard to find reading material genre that is not woke.”
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed the “American right-wing” for Canadian Muslims’ opposition to gender ideology and LGBTQ curriculum in K-12 education.
The video was of Trudeau speaking with the Muslim community last week at a Calgary mosque — Baitun Nur Mosque — after hundreds of protesters rallied against gender ideology in schools, chanting “Leave our kids alone.”
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Portland Man Stabbed to Death Trying to Protect ‘LGBTQ’ Friend
A Portland man was stabbed to death and a suspect has been charged with murder in what authorities are calling a bias hate crime incident.
The fatal stabbing occurred earlier this month outside the High Dive Bar in Southeast Portland when suspect Rahnique Usef Jackson, 24, allegedly stabbed 32-year-old Portland resident Colin Smith. Smith was reportedly stabbed after he intervened to protect his LGBTQ+ friend that was allegedly being harassed by Jackson.
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Pronoun Lockdown: Almost Half of Millennials Want Jail Time for “Misgendering”
Authored by Jonathan Turley
A recent survey by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for Newsweek, found that 44 percent of millennials (between ages 25-34) favor criminal charges for people who use the wrong pronouns for others or so-called “misgendering.”
We have previously discussed how misgendering is now a crime in countries like Great Britain.
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Quebec School District Spent $1,600 on Drag Queen Conference
A Quebec school district spent over $1600 on a drag queen conference with infamous children’s drag performer Barbada de Barbades.
Barbada is the drag personification of elementary school teacher Sebastien Potvin. He has been doing story hours for children as young as three years old since 2016, as previously reported by True North.
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‘Queer Surgeon’ in Portland Reveals Life-Long Complications That Can Come With Genital Surgeries
In a now-deleted video from last year, Dr. Blair Peters with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) described to Dr. Brianna Durand his use of robotic procedures in genital surgery to be experimental as they are still “learning and figuring out what works” and that they will know more in the next “five to ten years.”
In the video, posted by the Daily Mail, Dr. Peters says that his passion “lies in genital surgery,” and that the number of adolescents requesting the operation is expanding.
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Study Shows 60% of Women Regret Their Decision to Abort
Yes, when faced with the question, most women would rather not have aborted, and most experience feelings of sadness, guilt, and regret after the fact.
These are the results of a study published in May 2023 in the journal Cureus, a periodical of the prestigious science publishing company, Springer Nature Group.
Conducted by David C. Reardon of the Elliot Institute in St Peters, Missouri; Katherine A. Rafferty of the University of Iowa at Ames; and Tessa Longbons of the Charlotte Lozier Institute in Arlington, Virginia; the study found that 60% of women who had abortions would have preferred not to have aborted, and that these women experienced negative emotional and mental sequela connected with the abortion.
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Gender-critical author HELEN JOYCE has hit out at transgender issues as she slams prisons for allowing transgender women into all-female prisons.
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Orcs invading North Dakota from Minnesota are just one more reason to curse the Lutherans to burn in hell for their stupidity. Undoubtedly they aren’t the only parasite masquerading as a religion that’s fellating Uncle Sam and doing his dirty work for their thirty pieces of silver, but in this region they’re the ones responsible for bringing in all the orcs.
At least the police here shoot straighter than the ones in Europe, and therefore the orc they killed here today can join his Lutheran friends in the lake of fire for all eternity. Thats almost enough reason to be a believer, if it guarantees such things will indeed come to pass.
The fact that it is ND makes it interesting for those folks over there are not going to tolerate this nonsense and I can image those Prairie rednecks will do some payback after a few beers like they always do. Watch in the coming weeks as the newspapers cry about how mean whitey has been to these poor 3rd worlders and we should be more tolerant. LOL
In my nordern neck of the woods on the Range, we don’t have 3rd world orcs here, they get chased out, despite the MN commiecrats best efforts to import them here. On the 4th in the city I grew up in, a Senator trying to exploit her range roots had water bottles thrown at her and she fled before the parade was over, and everybody cheered. That in it’s self is quite telling.
I wanted to make a story about Fargo in my blog “How do you imagine the new season?” and did not find a single photo of Mohamed Barakat. What is the problem?
Because if it is an orc3rd worlder or black orc, they never put their picture in the paper because it ruins the narrative that orcs good and only whitey does mass shooting.
Mohammad is a terrorist name.
It looks like Voice of Europe is back. 🙂