A young man went on a stabbing rampage near a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, killing one person and wounding three others before being apprehended by police. The authorities have not yet determined a possible motive for the attacks.
In other news, Poland deployed troops to its northeastern border in response to joint military exercises between Belarusian forces and the Wagner Group.
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Czech National Debt Soars Above 3 Trillion Crowns for First Time in Its History
The Czech national debt increased to a record of more than 3 trillion crowns (€125 billion) in the first half of the year, crossing the 3 trillion mark for the first time ever. Since the beginning of the year, debt has increased by 149.6 billion crowns.
The debt ratio was 42.8 percent of GDP in the first half of the year, 0.1 percentage points higher than at the end of last year, according to the Czech Finance Ministry.
The debt translates to each Czech citizen owing 280,574 crowns.
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The Federal Reserve has asserted that the FedNow Service, its latest instant payment offering for organizations, is unrelated to the concept of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The new service is expected to revolutionize the payment landscape by offering real-time gross settlement (RTGS), a departure from traditional methods, which can take up to a few days.
Yet, while FedNow isn’t a CBDC and isn’t yet tied to one, it certainly makes implementing a future CBDC much easier — and that’s why critics are skeptical.
The central bank has brought on board a mix of 41 financial institutions, 15 service providers, and the US Department of the Treasury to fine-tune the FedNow Service before its roll-out slated for late July 2023.
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France: Paris Housing Prices Reach Lowest Level in Four Years Amid Rising Interest Rates
Paris housing prices have experienced a significant downturn, reaching their lowest level in four years as the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and increasing interest rates take their toll.
According to data compiled by Le Figaro, asking prices in June dropped by 4.1% compared to the previous year, falling to €10,936 per square meter. This decline represents the most substantial year-on-year drop in at least a decade and is the largest decrease in Bloomberg’s City Tracker.
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Polish Finance Minister: Polish Economy is in Great Shape Despite War, COVID Crisis
Polish Finance Minister Magdalena Rzeczkowska has said that despite the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which both caused the spike in inflation and problems with supply chains, the Polish economy is in very good shape.
According to her, Poland is one of the top countries in which foreign investors want to place their money, and the rating agencies have taken note, giving Poland high marks. Moreover, Poland’s currency, the zloty, is currently appreciating against both the U.S. dollar and the euro.
Inflation forecasts are now optimistic, with 12 percent inflation expected to fall to between 5 and 7 percent next year. Meanwhile, GDP growth is predicted to be 3 percent for 2024.
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Rising Prices Push More Germans Into Financial Crisis
More and more Germans are facing financial difficulties due to the steep rise in prices for groceries and other essential needs, reports Focus online. Experts refer to it as a socially unfair crisis, as low-income earners are particularly hard-hit by the inflation. The federal government expects the level of indebtedness to continue to increase. Many households find themselves compelled to finance their expenses through new debts.
The number of over-indebted individuals is significantly on the rise, further deteriorating the economic situation of private households. The escalating costs of living, combined with the inability to save for unforeseen expenses, create a vicious cycle for many affected individuals. The Consumer Protection Minister and consumer advocates advise those affected to seek debt counseling early on to receive support.
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82-Year-Old Chicago Ice Cream Vendor Robbed at Gunpoint for First Time in 49 Years
An 82-year-old man, whose ice cream truck has been a staple of a wealthy Chicago neighborhood since 1974, was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday.
For the past 49 years, Wilfredo Cintron has been selling ice cream out of his truck.
This is the first time someone has threatened to hurt him.
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After Watching Sound of Freedom, Trump Vows to Institute Death Penalty for Child Traffickers
After watching the anti-human trafficking film Sound of Freedom earlier this week, former President Donald Trump has vowed to institute the death penalty for human traffickers if he gets another term in office.
Trump said: “When I’m back in the White House. I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children. We will fully secure the border.
“I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate. 100% gone, 100% destroyed.
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Amazon Wants to Bring Palm Payments to All Whole Foods Stores by the End of 2023
In a step towards the future of retail transactions, Amazon confirmed that by year’s end, it will integrate its Amazon One palm recognition system across its entire network of over 500 Whole Foods stores. A simple hand wave over an Amazon One device will conclude the transaction, marking an end to the requirement for traditional forms of payment.
You can watch our video report on the privacy dangers of biometric payments such as this here.
Launched in 2020, the Amazon One technology has already found its place at more than 200 Whole Foods outlets and is being offered by various organizations including Panera Bread, Hudson airport stores, and even Coors Field stadium in Colorado.
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Biden Admin Hit With Lawsuit Over Eco Actions That Industry Says Could Cost Million Jobs
FIRST ON FOX: The American Chemistry Council (ACC), a trade group representing a large swath of the U.S. chemical industry, filed a legal complaint against the Biden administration on Thursday over recent actions targeting use of the chemical formaldehyde.
The ACC’s legal action was filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) over the EPA’s draft assessment of formaldehyde published in 2022. The lawsuit accuses the EPA of “numerous” violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which mandates independence during the peer review process.
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Breaking: Trump Hails Judge Cannon’s Timeline as a ‘Setback’ for Biden’s DOJ in Seized Docs Case
In a statement on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump hailed the decision from Judge Aileen Cannon to start proceedings in the Biden DOJ’s seized documents case in May 2024. This is months after the DOJ’s ask to start the trial in December 2023.
“Today’s order by Judge Cannon is a major setback to the DOJ’s crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process,” a Trump spokesperson said.
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CDC: COVID Shots Caused 338X Increase in Cancers & AIDS
Official data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that Covid shots caused a disturbing spike in the number of Americans developing diseases that decimate the innate immune system.
The new data from the CDC shows that large numbers of fully vaccinated Americans are developing cancers and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
The CDC data doesn’t show a phenomenon that’s unique in the United States, however.
Further data made available by the governments of Canada and the UK also suggests that the vaccinated populations in both of these countries are also developing the debilitating condition.
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Christians Arrested for Maskless Outdoor Church Service to Get Payout From Liberal College Town
A liberal college town in Idaho is paying $300,000 to three Christian churchgoers who sued the city after being arrested for not wearing masks at an outside service during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The city of Moscow announced this week that it would settle with Gabriel Rench, as well as Sean and Rachel Bohnet, who brought a case against city leaders in March 2021 that alleged their rights under the First and Fourth Amendments were violated when they were arrested at an outdoor “psalm sing” conducted by leaders from their church in September 2020.
Moscow, home to the University of Idaho, is a town of approximately 25,000 people about 80 miles south of Spokane, Washington. Christ Church is a local congregation of approximately 1,000 people belonging to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
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Chuck Grassley Reaches Limit, Releases FBI Document on Biden’s Bribery Scheme
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has released an unclassified FBI-generated record describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive.
Grassley acquired the record, an FD-1023, via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.
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Cruz-Klobuchar Amendment Would Give Lawmakers Powers to Scrub Private Information From the Internet
In a move that will raise eyebrows amongst transparency proponents, US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are gearing up to put forth an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that could provide lawmakers with unprecedented powers to censor a plethora of internet-based information. The proposed change, however, has sparked concerns around potential censorship of news reports and impingements upon freedom of speech.
The proposed legislation would extend the privilege to lawmakers, their family members, select congressional staff identified as high-risk, and individuals cohabitating with lawmakers, enabling them to demand the extensive elimination of certain personal data online, referred to as “covered information.” The amendment enumerates “covered information” to include home addresses, secondary residences, personal email accounts, cell phone numbers, and other personal and sensitive travel details.
Furthermore, the amendment equips lawmakers with the power to obliterate private data amassed by digital devices, including apps.
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Democrats Sue to Reinstate Absentee Drop Boxes in Wisconsin
A new lawsuit filed in Wisconsin by a national Democratic law firm seeks to once again allow voters to return absentee ballots in drop boxes, a practice that was barred by the state Supreme Court last year following criticism by former President Donald Trump.
The lawsuit filed Thursday by the Elias Law Group comes less than two weeks before the Wisconsin Supreme Court flips from a conservative to liberal majority. Election law challenges like this one are among many issues the new liberal-controlled court is expected to rule on in the coming months.
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A former California sheriff’s deputy says anti-law enforcement bias is to blame after a jury acquitted a man seen on video beating her to the ground and trying to shoot her with her own weapon.
Former San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy Meagan McCarthy told “Fox & Friends First” Thursday that recent reforms to California’s jury selection process allowed jurors with an “expressed bias” against law enforcement to decide her case.
“If you express an implicit bias towards law enforcement, you are allowed to sit on a jury. And that has never been the case before,” McCarthy said. “So in my situation, we had many jurors who expressed this bias towards law enforcement, and they were still allowed to decide guilty or not guilty on my suspect.”
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Five Most Significant Allegations Against the Bidens in FBI FD-1023 Form
President Biden and his son Hunter allegedly “coerced” Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to pay them millions of dollars in exchange for their help in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company fired, according to allegations contained in an unclassified FBI document released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
Grassley said he had released the document so that the American people can “read this document for themselves without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats.”
The document is an FBI-generated FD-1023 form, which Grassley acquired through legally protected disclosures by Department of Justice whistleblowers, according to the senator’s office.
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Investigating the Pro-Censorship UK Group Expanding Across the US
America First Legal (AFL) have announced its investigation into a UK-based group known as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
AFL, a non-profit often described as “an alternative to ACLU,” is starting the probe into CCDH — which it refers to as a pro-censorship group that is a party to anti-free speech collusion with the government — by filing several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
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Jan 6 Protester Sues CNN for Defamation, Demands $37 Million From Network
A protester arrested for entering the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, is suing CNN for defamation.
Jacob Hiles, a charter boat captain from Virginia Beach, said he went to Washington, D.C. to protest on Jan. 6 to “express his support for President Donald Trump by exercising his 1st Amendment rights guaranteed to him under the United States Constitution.”
However, like many of those arrested over Jan. 6, Hiles was smeared by the media.
Now he is fighting back and is suing CNN for defamation over an article the network published about him.
Hiles is seeking $37 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.
According to the lawsuit, a CNN article’s contents were defamatory because the network “falsely accused Hiles of felonious criminal activity of which he was not charged or convicted, either directly or indirectly.”
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Joe Rogan: Jeffrey Epstein Used Blue Dress Painting to Blackmail Bill Clinton
Comedian and top podcaster Joe Rogan dropped a bombshell on a recent show with comedian Duncan Trussell.
Rogan claims that deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing former President Bill Clinton.
During his show, Rogan mentioned the infamous painting that Epstein had of Clinton wearing a blue dress.
He also noted the fact that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane over 20 times.
Rogan said: “That painting is like: ‘I got you, b*tch.’
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Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have just dealt a major blow to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) by introducing a bill to ban stock trading among members of Congress.
The bipartisan Ban Stock Trading for Government Officials Act was introduced Friday.
The bill bans stock trading, stock ownership, and blind trusts; imposes heavy penalties for executive branch stock trading; requires reporting of federal benefits; creates additional transparency in financial disclosure reports; and increases transaction report penalties under the original STOCK Act for Congress, senior executive branch officials, and their spouses and dependents.
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‘Kansas Two-Step’ Highway Patrol Technique Ruled Unconstitutional for Marijuana Vehicle Searching
The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) has been ordered to stop its infamous “two-step” technique by a federal judge, who said it violated people’s Fourth Amendment rights. The technique centered around vehicle searching for marijuana in Kansas from out-of-state drivers, mostly from Colorado and Missouri — states where pot is legal. It is illegal to possess marijuana in Kansas.
In the order filed Friday, U.S. District Judge Kathryn H. Vratil wrote that patrol’s tactics in traffic stops violated the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
The “two-step” is a technique, allegedly taught to officers by KHP Superintendent Herman Jones, where officers end a routine traffic stop, begin to return to their cruiser and then turn around to begin a separate effort to gain entry into a vehicle and search for marijuana.
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Poll: Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden by 18 Points Among Independents
Former President Donald Trump holds an 18-point lead over President Joe Biden among independent Americans, the latest Harvard CAPS-Harris poll revealed.
The survey found that Donald Trump holds a five-point lead over Biden among all voters, with 45 percent supporting Trump to 40 percent who back Biden. However, 16 percent of voters remain undecided in a hypothetical 2020 rematch.
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Private Search Engine Mojeek Adds Openverse, a Search Tool for Openly-Licensed Images
In a move to enhance its user experience and broaden the scope of image search, private search engine Mojeek has incorporated Openverse, a platform dedicated to openly-licensed media. This latest feature marks a new chapter in Mojeek’s journey to remain independent of Big Tech, an ethos that has been deeply ingrained since its inception.
Until recently, Mojeek’s image search function relied on Pixabay and Bing, platforms incorporated back in 2018. Pixabay, a repository of over 4 million royalty-free and stock images, was aligned with Mojeek’s values of independence, simplicity, and usability. However, to cater to users requiring a broader search, Bing was added to the mix, albeit without making it the default choice to maintain Mojeek’s core value of independence from Big Tech.
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Rand Paul’s Kentucky Office Damaged in a Downtown Bowling Green Fire
An early morning fire at a downtown Bowling Green building has damaged the office of Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, officials with Paul’s office said Friday.
The fire started early Friday morning at a building on State Street, according to the Bowling Green Fire Department’s Facebook page. The building contained a law office, Paul’s Bowling Green office and a retail store, according to the Bowling Green Daily News, which first reported the fire.
The roof of the structure has collapsed, the Bowling Green newspaper reported. No injuries were reported.
Paul said they are working with authorities to determine the cause of the fire.
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San Francisco Man Punches Store Owner in the Face After Being Told to Stop Urinating on Street
A small business owner in San Francisco was allegedly punched in the face after he told a man to stop urinating in front of his store.
Peterson Harter, the owner of Sandy’s, a restaurant that serves the New Orleans-inspired sandwich, muffulettas, told FOX 2 that the incident happened around 5 p.m. Wednesday, when he heard some type of commotion outside the business.
When Harter saw a man allegedly urinating in front of his business, he stepped in to confront the man.
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Twitter Wants to Subpoena Senator Elizabeth Warren for Communications With Government Agencies
Twitter has stated its intention to serve a subpoena on US Senator Elizabeth Warren. This move, which was announced via a court filing this past Thursday, comes as the social media giant continues to contest the validity of a consent order reached with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the preceding year, in relation to its handling of data breaches.
The consent order that Twitter is looking to void stemmed from allegations of privacy mishandling and data leaks. The request for annulment, which accuses the FTC of bias and unwarranted intervention, was lodged in a federal court in San Francisco.
This week Warren, a member of the Senate Banking, House, and Urban Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Gary Gensler, SEC head, to open an investigation into Tesla and its board of directors’ alleged “failure to manage the actions of CEO Elon Musk in his dual role as CEO of Twitter and Tesla.”
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‘Tyre Extinguishers’ Target Royal Oak Man: ‘They Put Lentil Beans in the Stems’
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (FOX 2) — A man who walked out to his GMC pickup in Royal Oak recently found he suddenly had four flat tires, allegedly deflated by an eco-activist group.
It was Thursday morning when the man walked out and found his four flat tires. Typically, this would be a minor inconvenience
“I want people to be aware of this so it doesn’t happen to them or they could catch them in the act,” he told FOX 2’s Hilary Golston.
Along with the flat tires was a flier that read “Attention, your gas guzzler kills. We have deflated one or more of your tyres. You’ll be angry, but don’t take it personally. It’s not you it’s your car.” The flier cited big vehicles as a “disaster for our climate.”
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Upstate NY-Based Catholic Diocese Declares Bankruptcy Amid Sex Abuse Suits
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg in northern New York said Monday that it was filing for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 100 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse.
The diocese, like others in the state, is dealing with lawsuits dating to when New York temporarily suspended the statute of limitations to give victims of childhood abuse the ability to pursue even decades-old allegations against clergy members, teachers, Boy Scout leaders and others.
Bishop of Ogdensburg Terry R. LaValley said there were 124 cases pending against the diocese, with claims dating from the 1940s through the 1990s.
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Video of Deserted Mall and Streets in Downtown San Fran Reveals Democrats Destroyed City
A recent poll commissioned by Probolsky Research found 60% of voters in San Francisco “disapprove” of Mayor London Breed’s performance, and only 22% believe she deserves re-election.
There’s plunging confidence among the business community that progressive leadership in the crime-ridden metro can revive the poop-infested downtown area. Businesses are closing up shops in droves, while some building owners have stopped payments on malls and hotels as the city’s economic recovery appears bleak.
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce CEO Rodney Fong recently drew a dire historical parallel of the faltering metro area to the 1906 earthquake: “We have a lot of work to do as residents are more pessimistic than ever.”
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Europe at the Polls: What’s at Stake in the 2024 EU Elections?
Next year’s elections might provide a historical opportunity to correct the leftist imbalance of the European Parliament, but the conservative revival of Europe depends on voters realizing that their voice matters. This was the conclusion of an insightful panel discussion at Tusvanyos, a conservative political gathering in Transylvania on Wednesday, July 19th.
The panel, organized by the conservative think-tank MCC, included Rodrigo Ballester, the head of the Center for European Studies at MCC and a former EU Commission official; Mick Hume, a senior writer for The European Conservative; and Thomas Fazi, a journalist at Unherd.
With less than a year until the next European elections, the panelists discussed whether a populist revolution is really possible, what effects it would have in Brussels, and how we could all make it happen.
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France: Woman Butchered With Glass Bottles by African ‘Teens’ Who Disapproved of Her Dress
A 19-year-old woman suffered life-changing wounds when she was attacked with glass bottles by a group of ‘teens’ who claimed her dress was inappropriate, according to reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded during the overnight hours between Tuesday and Wednesday in Toulouse.
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France: A Half-Hearted Ministerial Reshuffle
Expected in the wake of Bastille Day, the reshuffle of the French government was announced in the afternoon of July 20th, a few days after Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne was confirmed in her post by President Emmanuel Macron. Rather than a real reshuffle, these are adjustments that do not indicate any major change in the government’s line.
The cabinet reshuffle comes at the end of the 100-day period announced by the president of the republic to set a new course for his political action following the pension reform passed in April.
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A French teenager was hospitalized after an attack by a group of youths who had taken issue with her choice of clothing on a night out left her face disfigured.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning when the 19-year-old victim, named as Nissan, was on a date with her boyfriend in the southern French city of Toulouse.
At around 3 a.m. on Boulevard Lazare Carnot, the pair were accosted by four youths who accused the teen of being dressed inappropriately. She was wearing a crop top, which the mob claimed to be immoral.
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Germany Far Off the Windmill Mark
Deprived of Russian natural gas, and having closed its nuclear plants, Germany is also behind on its wind energy goals.
A new report from the wind energy association Bundesverband WindEnergie shows that the country is far off from meeting its targets for wind energy installations—an important factor in achieving its set goal of producing 80% of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
The report showed that though windmill installation was speeding up, “the expansion falls short of the requirements for reliably achieving an expansion target of 115 GW in 2030.”
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German Climate Extremists Escape Criminal Organisation Classification
‘Letzte Generation’—or ‘the Last Generation’—Germany’s leading extremist climate alarmist group, will not be classified as a criminal organisation despite having engaged in as many as 580 criminal offences since 2022.
On Wednesday, July 19th, the Berlin Senate Justice Department announced the result of its reviews into the activity of the group and stated that it did not believe it was needed to classify Last Generation as a criminal organisation, according to a report in Die Welt.
Germany has recently been cracking down on the antics of certain extremist climate groups whose members engage in disruptive protests, such as glueing themselves to roads and, more recently, glueing themselves to runways in airports in the cities of Düsseldorf and Hamburg, causing major air traffic disruptions.
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German Birth Rate Falls to 10-Year Low
The number of births registered across Germany last year was the lowest in 10 years, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Friday.
Registrations of newborns dropped in every federal state in the country, according to the Federal Statistical Office. Its data showed there were 738,819 registered births last year, down 7 percent versus 2021.
Germans are now only having 1.46 children on average, an 8 percent decrease from the 1.58 average recorded in 2021 and the lowest figure reported since 2013.
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Germany: Berlin Lion: Crime Family Member Issues Plea for Missing Animal
A member of a notorious German crime family has offered his help in capturing a suspected escaped lioness in the southern outskirts of Berlin.
Police have been searching for more than a day after being notified about a wild animal on the loose but have yet to find it.
Now, the son of the head of the Remmo family has said he can “lead the lioness back to her enclosure”.
Firas Remmo has urged the authorities not to shoot the creature.
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Germany: Anti-Globalist AfD Soars to All-Time Highs in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wurttemberg
Support for the right-wing populist, anti-globalist AfD party has climbed to all-time highs in the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, polls have shown.
According to pollsters from Infratest Dimap in Rhineland-Palatinate, if the election were held this weekend, the AfD would earn 16 percent, an improvement of four percentage points compared to the previous survey at the end of last year.
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Germany: Chancellor Scholz’s Cool Demeanor Hides Deep Coalition Troubles
Halfway through its mandate, Germany’s traffic light coalition is beset with both internal strife and the fast rise of the opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD), and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s outwardly cool facade can only do so much to mask the problems, Hungarian news and opinion portal Mandiner writes.
Opinion polls show that voters are not very satisfied with the policies of the three parties.
Three-quarters of German citizens are not at all or only slightly satisfied with the work of the federal government, and it seems that if the elections were held now, the three parties would no longer be able to win a majority.
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Netherlands: 13 Climate Activists Arrested in Rotterdam During Protests Against Coal Transshipment
13 people were arrested on Friday during protests in Rotterdam by activist groups Extinction Rebellion and Kappen met Kolen. “The demonstrations were peaceful, but 13 people refused to comply with the order to leave. They were taken away and were given a police report,” a police spokesperson said.
Around 15 activists chained themselves to the railway tracks on the Missouriweg in Maasvlakte just after 10:00 am on Friday. This is the route where coal is transported by train from the Europees Massagoed Overslagbedrijf (EMO), one of Europe’s largest dry bulk terminals. The terminal specializes in the transshipment of iron ore, coal, and other bulk commodities.
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Over 600 People Imprisoned Over France Riots So Far, 95 Per Cent Conviction Rate
The massive France-wide riots that saw thousands of cars and buildings attacked and even burnt out has led to over 1,200 convictions and 600 people sent to prison, the French government has revealed.
Swift justice in France, with 600 people convicted and in prison just two weeks after the widespread riots triggered by the shooting of an Algerian heritage teenager by a police officer at a traffic stop gone wrong, but which soon devolved into looting and violence.
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Poland has deployed troops to its border with Belarus, where joint exercises between the Belarusian army and the Wagner Group, a private military company, have begun.
This was reported by Zbigniew Hoffmann, a representative of the government’s security committee, in a statement to the “Polish Agency.”
Hoffmann views the maneuvers in Belarus as an “undoubted provocation.”
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Polish Opposition Activist Handed Paltry Fine After Beating Police Officer With a Flag Pole
A prominent Polish anti-government activist known as “Grandma Kate,” who is a regular participant in opposition protests against the ruling party, has walked away with a fine after being found guilty of assaulting a police officer.
A retired English and Spanish teacher, “Grandma Kate” has become one of the most recognizable faces of the protests against judicial reforms and restrictions on abortion in Poland.
And this was not the first conviction against her. She was previously arrested for abusive, aggressive behavior and has been indicted at least a dozen times.
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Poll: 74% of Austrians Dissatisfied With Globalist Government
A current poll by the Gallup Institute for the ORF report has given the ruling coalition extremely poor marks, with nearly 3/4 of all respondents reporting that they are dissatisfied with the government,
Accordingly, 38 percent of the population aged 16 and over are not at all satisfied with the work of the federal government in the current year, and 36 percent are only somewhat satisfied, Kurier reported.
Most shockingly, only two percent of the population are very satisfied with the ÖVP-Green government. As for what people would like to see for the next government, 33 percent want SPÖ participation, led by Andreas Babler. 30 percent would like the FPÖ and thus Herbert Kickl in a coalition, and 27 percent the current chancellor party ÖVP under the leadership of Karl Nehammer.
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The German economy is losing its DNA as a place to do business, and foreign investors are staying away and focusing their attention on emerging markets as a result, a leading CEO has claimed.
Toralf Haag, the president and chief executive of global technology company Voith Group, sat down with the Die Welt newspaper to discuss the woes affecting his homeland.
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Spain: Lies Take Toll on Last Stretch of Sanchez Road to Election
The spectre of country-wide toll roads will likely follow Spanish President Pedro Sanchez to the polls on Sunday for the country’s general elections.
Despite his recent denials, his government is indeed planning on widely tolling the highways as part of its financial plan submitted to Brussels in exchange for EU Next Generation funds. The EU Commission confirmed on Thursday what the government has dismissed as lies from their political opponents.
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Spain’s Popular Resort Implements Undercover “Secret Police” to Tackle Nighttime Crime
Spain holidaymakers face a warning as a popular resort, Magaluf, announces plans to tackle nighttime crime and enhance security with a new undercover police force.
In response to a surge in boozy behavior and serious incidents on the party island, plainclothes officers armed with tasers will patrol the streets of Magaluf and the nearby town of Santa Ponsa.
Deputy Mayor of Calvia, Esperanza Català, who oversees the police, intends to deploy the secret police later this summer to deter drunken tourists. Local residents in the resorts have expressed concerns and requested increased police presence in recent months. Although a motion for a plainclothes unit was previously voted against, officials are now trying to navigate the bureaucratic hurdles required to establish the new force.
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Thousands of UK Hospital Doctors Stage Walkout Over Pay Dispute, Health Services Affected
Thousands of senior doctors in England have initiated a 48-hour walkout to advocate for improved pay and working conditions, leading to the paralysis of hospitals and leaving only emergency care services operational.
This latest wave of industrial action by public sector workers adds to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis in the UK and comes just days after junior doctors undertook a five-day strike, marking the longest walkout in the history of the National Health Service (NHS).
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UK Bank Boss Apologises to Nigel Farage… But Doesn’t Reverse Decision to Terminate His Bank Account
Natwest chief executive Dame Alison Rose apologises for “deeply inappropriate comments” about Nigel Farage in now-public internal bank documents which led to him being debanked, but stopped short of actually changing their decision.
Dame Alison Rose said she wanted to “apologise for the deeply inappropriate comments about yourself made in the now published papers prepared for the Wealth Committee. I would like to make it clear that they do not reflect the view of the bank” on Thursday, weeks into a growing scandal over debanking in the United Kingdom.
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UK Dental Crisis: Millions of Britons Struggle to Access Dental Care
According to British media, with over 12 million people lacking access to essential dental services provided by the National Health Service.
The situation appears to be particularly dire in England, where it’s estimated that one in four adults are not having their dental needs met, as reported by the local Daily Mirror.
Data from the government reveals that over the past two years, a staggering 6 million people attempted to secure dental appointments but were unsuccessful. Even more worrying, more than 4 million individuals believed that obtaining an appointment was a lost cause and decided against trying at all.
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UK: Billy Horschel Helps Remove ‘Just Stop Oil’ Protester Friday at the Open
HOYLAKE, England — Billy Horschel helped R&A security officials remove a protestor from the 17th green during Friday’s second round of The Open Championship.
Three protestors from “Just Stop Oil” disrupted play early Friday with a smoke flare and orange powder. The group tweeted: “Three Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted The British Open — they demand that the UK government halts all new oil and gas projects.”
Horschel declined to comment on the incident, but video shows him assisting security guards remove a female protester from the green. Two men and two women were arrested at the scene on suspicion of conspiracy to commit criminal damage and public nuisance, SkySports reported.
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UK: By-Election Results: Scrap 2030 Petrol Car Ban, Tories Urge Sunak
In the wake of a surprising by-election victory driven by opposition to a green scheme, Rishi Sunak is facing calls to scrap the scheduled ban on new petrol and diesel cars set for 2030, reports The Telegraph.
The recent by-elections in Selby and Ainsty, as well as Somerton and Frome, resulted in substantial defeats for the Tories. However, they managed to secure a win in Boris Johnson’s former constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. The victory in this region was attributed to a campaign that focused on opposing the expansion of Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez).
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UK: Farage Slams Coutts Bank in Account Dispute
Nigel Farage has yet again hammered the British private bank Coutts for closing his account because of his political views. The former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), one of the leading campaigners for Brexit, and currently a host on the broadcaster GB News, reiterated his claims on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday, July 19.
“Read the report, read the conclusions. They say Russia is a risk for them. They say my views do not align with the bank’s,” said Farage, citing a 40-page report he obtained on Tuesday from Coutts that reviewed his suitability as a client. “Brexit is mentioned 86 times, Russia 144 & PEP 10. Support for Trump + views on immigration, net zero & the vaccine are listed as reasons to exit me,” Farage wrote on his Twitter page.
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UK: Video: Just Stop Oil Campaigners Blocked by Counter Protest Group
The civil resistance organisation Just Stop Oil, which has been requesting a stop to the licencing of all new oil, gas, and coal projects, has regularly made headlines in the worldwide media in recent months following a series of high-profile protests, including an interruption of Wimbledon play.
On the one hand, the organisation is simply urging greater action to prevent climate change, a problem that even the UN wants to address. However, the strange manner in which they demonstrate, which includes closing off major roads, has sparked outrage on a global scale.
Today, when the Just Stop Oil supporters were preparing to set off on another slow march in south London, they were surrounded by a group of counter-protesters calling themselves ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’, according to The Metro.
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Unprecedented Decline in Birth Rate in Switzerland for 100 Years
Switzerland is witnessing the most striking decline in birth rates in over a century.
Interest in potential impact of Covid vaccination on fertility
Given these alarming birth rate decline figures, a question is being quietly raised across Europe. Due to the prevailing narrative, any discussion about a potential connection between the birth rate decline and Covid vaccination is often considered taboo.
Findings on spike protein in testes
However, some studies have arrived at a noteworthy result that has yet to be publicly acknowledged. The spike protein has been exclusively detected in the testes of some men who received the Covid vaccine. This discovery has led to further investigations in Switzerland.
Stable birth rates despite COVID-19
Prior to the pandemic, Switzerland had maintained a stable birth pattern for 100 years. Covid-19 had no impact on this pattern, emphasized by the retired Dutch professor, Pierre Capel.
Unexpected decline in births after vaccination campaign
Only nine months after the start of the vaccination campaign, Switzerland’s statistics show an unexpected decrease in the birth rate. “This has not happened in 100 years,” says Capel.
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Video: Just Stop Oil Campaigners Spray Paint on UK’s Energy Department Building
Climate protesters have become a daily sight on London’s streets, undeterred by the honking horns of irate motorists, personal insults and even arrest. This time around, the ‘Just Stop Oil’ protester sprayed orange paint on he Department for Energy Security and Net Zero building and demanded “that the UK government immediately halts all new licences and consents for new oil, gas and coal projects”, as per a report in the Independent.
The incident took place around 7:30 am on July 19. In the video posted by the organisation itself, a man and a woman can be seen using using a fire-extinguisher shaped object to spray the orange paint all over the building. Paserbys can be seen recording video of the two protesters but nobody seemed to stop them.
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Swedish Embassy in Iraq Stormed and Fire Set Over Quran Burning Protest
Burnings of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, have become more and more common in Sweden and have led to a major backlash from parts of the Islamic world, including calls for boycotts of Swedish goods from major influential figures.
This week, police in Stockholm granted permission for yet another burning of the Quran that took place outside of the Iraqi embassy in the Swedish capital by Iraqi migrant Salwan Momika.
The night prior to the demonstration, which did not see the Quran set on fire but simply stomped on by Momika, an angered mob stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set fire to the embassy building, the newspaper Expressen reports.
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Thousands of Muslims Took to the Streets to Express Outrage Over Quran Desecration in Sweden
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, a day after protesters stormed the country’s embassy in Iraq.
The protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran that followed weekly prayers were controlled and peaceful, in contrast to scenes in Baghdad on Thursday, when demonstrators occupied the Swedish Embassy compound for several hours and set a small fire.
The embassy staff had been evacuated before the storming, and Swedish news agency TT reported that they were relocated to Stockholm for security reasons.
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Kiev Threatens to Sink Civilian Ships Bound for Russia
The Ukrainian military has said it will treat all vessels sailing toward Russia’s Black Sea Ports as if they are carrying military supplies, warning they could share the same fate as a Russian warship sunk earlier in the conflict.
The thinly veiled threat was issued in a statement by Kiev’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, accusing Moscow of turning the Black Sea into a “danger zone” while vowing to retaliate in force against any ship in the area, including civilian vessels.
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Pentagon Has Determined That Some of the Western Weapons Supplied to Ukraine Were Stolen
Part of the Western weapons sent to Ukraine was stolen, but Ukrainian intelligence agencies have exposed the channels of theft. This information comes from a report by the Pentagon cited by CNN.
According to the report, from February to September 2022, the Americans did not have the ability to monitor the supplied weaponry and only sent a commission to Ukraine at the end of October. Additionally, tracking systems were installed on the equipment.
Initially, the U.S. European Command attempted to request receipts from the Ukrainians, and they made “good faith efforts” to provide them. However, by the time the investigation was completed, the personnel did not provide the inspecting group with confirming documents, as noted in the report.
As a result, “criminal organizations managed to steal some amount of weapons and equipment.” CNN cites cases of theft.
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Polish Army General: Ukrainian Counteroffensive is a Myth
Polish General Leon Komornicki has said that the so-called Ukrainian counteroffensive that the globalist-owned western press has hailed is a myth since Ukrainians are engaged in tactical not strategic maneuvers.
General Komornicki gave his comments in an interview with the Polish news outlet Nowa Konfederacja. The retired general admitted that the Ukrainians are making very little if any progress at all in taking back Russian-held territory, Dorzeczy reported.
This means that Ukraine does not possess the required numerical or logistical superiority to be able to break through Russian defensive positions and make significant territorial gains, Komornicki said.
He thinks Ukraine simply does not have the assets and resources to launch a proper counteroffensive.
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Russian Airstrike in Ukraine ‘Shook’ Chinese Consulate, Ministry Says
China’s foreign ministry said an explosion “shook” the country’s consulate in Odessa, Ukraine, damaging part of the building’s walls and windowpanes during a Russian airstrike on the city Thursday. It confirmed that no one from the consulate was hurt.
The consulate-general’s staff had already left the premises when the explosion occurred, a ministry spokesperson said in a statement late Thursday.
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‘Some Will Starve, Many May Die,’ U.N. Warns After Russia Pulls Out of Grain Deal
Threats against civilian vessels in the Black Sea are “unacceptable,” a senior U.N. official said Friday following statements by Moscow and Kyiv after Russia withdrew from a key grain export deal.
Russia announced on Monday that it was pulling out of the initiative, which allowed the safe export of Ukrainian grain, effectively ending the agreement signed in July last year between Moscow, Kyiv, Istanbul and the U.N. Russian authorities then announced they would consider any ships heading for Ukrainian grain ports on the Black Sea as military targets.
Ukraine responded by issuing a warning to ships heading for Russian-controlled ports.
“Threats regarding potential targeting of civilian vessels navigating in the Black Sea waters are unacceptable,” the U.N.’s under-secretary-general for political affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, told the U.N. Security Council.
“We are also concerned about the reports of sea mines laid in the Black Sea, endangering civilian navigation,” she added. “We strongly urge restraint from any further rhetoric or action that could deteriorate the already dangerous situation.”
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Ukraine Begins Firing US Cluster Bombs at Russian Troops, Kirby Touts ‘Quite Effective’ Use
Ukrainian officials have confirmed their forces have begun firing US-provided cluster munitions at Russian positions in southeastern Ukraine, which has also been validated by the White House.
“U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are in Ukrainian hands and being deployed in the field as part of Kyiv’s battle against Russia,” national security spokesman John Kirby said Thursday, according to Reuters. Kirby has cited the controversial munitions are already having a positive impact in Ukraine’s war effort.
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Ukraine Fires Top Ambassador After He Criticised Zelensky in Public
Ukraine’s ambassador to London appeared to side with the British government when it said Zelensky would be wise to start showing more gratitude to the Western nations showering the country with tens of billions of equipment and cash, a move that has cost him his position.
One of Ukraine’s top ambassadors, Vadym Prystaiko — the point man for communication with one of the country’s most supportive allies in its defensive war against Russia — has been fired, just days after he said President Zelensky’s “sarcasm” towards his Western underwriters wasn’t “healthy”.
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Ukraine’s Port of Odessa Bombed for Third Night Straight, Chinese Consulate Hit
AFP — Russian missiles and drones hit the Ukrainian port of Odesa [pictured, above] for a third “hellish” night in a row as Crimean authorities said a teenager had been killed in Kyiv’s latest attack on the peninsula.
Russian forces also targeted Mykolaiv, another Black Sea port through which Ukrainian grain is exported, after Moscow’s exit from a key deal giving ships safe passage.
At least two people died and more than 20 people were wounded after strikes on the port cities, officials said, posting images of buildings in flames with facades partially destroyed.
[Comment: Article dated July 20, 2023.]
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Ukraine Has Little Defense Against Russia’s Feared Onyx Missiles
For the third consecutive night, Russia has launched massive missile attacks on the Black Sea city of Odessa. What is unique about these attacks is that they were carried out with P-800 Onyx missiles, which were originally developed against warships.
As pointed out by the English-language Ukrainian news portal Kyiv Post, Moscow has rarely used this weapon against land targets since the war broke out last year, but in recent days it has “carried out a coordinated attack with them, posing a serious challenge to the defenses of the southern city.”
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Wagner Holds Military Exercises With Belarusian Forces Close to Polish Border
Members of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who recently arrived in Belarus are holding training exercises with Belarusian special forces near the border with Poland. Warsaw says it is monitoring the moves and that there is no need for “panic.”
The Belarusian defense ministry clearly wanted the joint exercises to be visible, stating that “the armed forces of Belarus continue joint training with the fighters of the Wagner private military company… During the week, special operations units, together with representatives of the company, will work out combat training tasks at the Brest military range.”
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South Korea: One Person Killed, Three Others Injured in Stabbing Rampage in Seoul
Seoul [ South Korea ], July 21 (ANI): One person was killed and three others were wounded after a man went on a stabbing rampage near Sillim subway station in southwestern Seoul on Friday, South Korea-based Yonhap News Agency reported.
The man wielded a weapon near Exit 4 of the subway station around 2 pm (local time), Yonhap News Agency reported. A man in his 20s was killed and three injured men were taken to the hospital for treatment. None of those injured was reportedly in a life-threatening condition.
Police arrested a man in his 30s as a suspect from the site of the attack, according to Yonhap News Agency. The investigation is being carried out to determine the motive of the crime and the relations between the suspect and the victims.
Police officers reached at the spot after an emergency call reported that “somebody has stabbed people and is running away.”
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While U.S. Diplomats Negotiated With China, China Hacked Them
by Daniel Greenfield
In June, America and China traded hacks.
Secretary of State Blinken traveled to Beijing in a visit that had been delayed for a few months after the public learned that China had been flying a spy balloon over America. After days of “high-level talks”, the Biden administration official claimed that the trip was a success.
“We have made progress and we are moving forward,” the State Department official declared.
Meanwhile, China had been hacking.the State Department. While Secretary of State Blinken and State Department officials prepped for the biggest Chinese diplomatic exchange of the administration, Chinese hackers pulled off an ingenious targeted attack aimed at accessing the emails of State Department and other government officials including Blinken’s own messages.
The Biden administration and China had different definitions of “moving forward”.
Secretary of State Blinken learned that China had tried to hack his emails a day before he was set to visit Beijing, and he chose to go ahead with the trip without making any public mention of it, not wanting to spoil the photo op. The previous scheduling of the trip had been bumped because of China’s spy balloon and Blinken chose to demonstrate to the enemy that no amount of abusive behavior was going to stop the Biden administration’s appeasement.
The Biden administration’s idea of diplomacy was talking to China, while the People’s Republic wanted to know what Blinken and other top officials were going to say before they got there. Besides targeting Blinken and State Department officials, Chinese hackers also came after Commerce Secretary Raimondo and members of her department. That won’t stop Raimondo from visiting China later this year. No Chinese attack or provocation will stop the appeasement…
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Commonwealth Bank Customer Rages as His Bank Account Balances Disappear
Chris Burdon, who helps run family business Nonesuch Distillery at Dodges Ferry east of Hobart in Tasmania, shared a video to TikTok on Thursday detailing his issue.
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Australians who are in support of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament are in the minority according to new survey data.
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Argentina Begins to Roll Out Biometric ATMs
Good news for those in Argentina who want their ATMs to have biometric capabilities (any one?): as of today, 90 percent of these machines in the country operated by Red Link, a company behind the largest ATM network there, have biometric tech in them.
And the plan is to finish the job by the end of the year by adding the remaining 10 percent to the scheme.
A press release issued by Red Link’s partner, Diebold Nixdorf, tells of this, and more, noting that the latter company is “a world leader” in transforming the way people shop and bank, by means of “automating and digitizing” these processes.
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Left-wing extremist and human trafficker activist Carola Rackete, who is the captain of the sea vessel Sea Watch 3 that shuttles illegal migrants from North Africa to Europe has been placed on Germany’s Left Party list for the EU elections in 2004, prompting harsh criticism.
The foreign policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, Petr Bystron, described Rackete as a “common criminal” who “belongs in prison” and “not in the EU Parliament”. Bystron is one of the leading prosecutors of the criminal smuggling of migrants into Europe. As early as 2019, the member of the Bundestag filed criminal charges against the organization Sea-Watch and other NGOs registered in Germany.
Carola Rackete, as the “captain” of the tugboat Sea-Watch 3, has been repeatedly criticized since 2019 for so-called “sea rescue operations” off the coast of Libya. On June 12, 2019, she took almost 50 migrants from the Mediterranean on board to bring them to Europe as quickly as possible.
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DOJ to Sue Texas Over Floating Border Barrier; Abbott Says ‘See You in Court’
The Department of Justice says it intends to sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over the use of a floating buoy border barrier to stop illegal immigration into the state — a move that immediately drew a fiery response from the Republican governor.
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Greece: Evros Fence Construction Has Started — Watch Video
The works for constructing the new fence in Evros started a few days ago, which will be 35 km long between Psathades Didymoteicho and Kornofolia Soufliou.
The construction sites of the two contractors, TERNA and Intrakat, who took over with the signing of a contract last March, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in the area of Fera, for the sum of 99.2 million euros to build the new section, have already been installed in Kornofolia.
Currently, local subcontractors are doing preliminary work concerning cleaning the area where the new deterrent barrier will be placed by cutting trees and shaping the areas next to the embankment and towards the area of the Greek bank of the river Evros.
Army and Border Guard patrols are carried out throughout the work to prevent illegal immigrants from entering.
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UK: Iranian ‘Asylum Seeker’ Jailed After Raping 70-Year-Old Woman, Sexually Assaulting Child
An asylum seeker from Iran has been jailed for raping an elderly woman and sexually assaulting a child just ten months after he arrived in the United Kingdom.
Issa Brayzi-Pour, 22, an Iranian national has been jailed for 13 years by the Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, England. The convicted rapist will serve two-thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole, however, given that the court determined he was a “dangerous” offender”, Brayzi-Pour was given an additional five years on license, the Manchester Evening News reports.
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A further 291 migrants were intercepted on Thursday according to government figures taking the number to cross the Channel to more than 1,100 in just three days.
On Tuesday 574 people were picked up by Border Force vessels and brought into the Port of Dover. The following day 297 migrants in six dinghies were rescued in the Channel.
It takes the number in three days to 1,162 people.
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A California school district adopted a pro-parent transparency policy Thursday that requires its schools to notify parents if their child expresses a “gender identity” that is different from their biological sex.
The Chino Valley Unified School District passed the measure on a 4-to-1 vote after a heated four-hour board meeting with nearly 90 speakers that saw the state superintendent kicked out for refusing to sit down after his time expired.
School board president Sonja Shaw lauded the vote as an important move to protect the rights of parents.
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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The teen attended a trans youth support group, where Del Scott Perry had a reputation as ‘the guy who prescribes testosterone.’
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France: National Rally MP Introduces Bill to Preserve Women’s Athletics
A lawmaker from the National Rally introduced a piece of legislation earlier this month that, if passed by the National Assembly, would assure the preservation of women’s athletics in France, making it so athletes are required to compete in categories that correspond to the biological sex that appears on their birth certificate.
The legislation, seen by the press on Tuesday, July 18th, was presented to the French chamber by National Rally MP Julien Odoul, who has repeatedly decried what he calls the “transgender drift” in women’s sports. The text’s primary aim, he says, is to “preserve women’s sport” and rectify a situation that allows transgender ‘women’ to “win competitions because of their physiological advantage,” BFMTV reports.
Odoul likened the rules that are currently in place, which allow biological males who have ‘transitioned’ into transgender ‘women,’ to “a form of legalized doping.”
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Jason Aldean’s Anti-Crime Song Hits Number 1 on the Charts After Being ‘Canceled’ by the ‘Woke’ Mob
Country music star Jason Aldean is getting the last laugh after the “woke” mob tried to cancel his anti-crime song “Try That in a Small Town.”
As Slay News reported, Country Music Television (CMT) pulled Aldean’s song from the airwaves after caving to the mob.
The Left has been bashing the song and pushing false claims about its lyrics while calling for boycotts.
But today, Billboard is reporting that the song hit number one on the US iTunes charts.
The YouTube video has also received 4.9 million views in less than a week.
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Miss Italy Beauty Pageant Bans Biological Males From Competition
Italian beauty pageant Miss Italy has banned biological males from entering its competition. Patrizia Mirigliani, who oversees the nation’s beauty pageant, said “only women since birth” are welcome to compete while she is in charge of the event.
Mirigliani told Radio Cusano in a recent interview that there will be no trans at Miss Italy, the most popular beauty contest in the country, and that any beauty competitions that allow biological male competitors only do because they want to create media buzz.
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Sadiq Khan’s new ‘maaate!’ program to stop toxic masculinity says “banter,” using the phrase “boys will be boys,” calling women “drama queens” and thinking men and women are different are all examples of hateful misogyny.
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US Judge Halts Arizona From Banning Transgender Girls in Female School Sports Teams
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arizona from enforcing a law banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams.
The judge in Tucson granted a preliminary injunction to allow processing of a lawsuit filed on behalf of two transgender girls against the state’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year.
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Whistleblowers Says Fox News is Financially Supporting Satanic Temple and Planned Parenthood
Whistleblowers at Fox News revealed that the company is matching employee donations to the Satanic Temple, LGBT activist organization The Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the SPLC.
Two current Fox News employees and a former producer told The Blaze that Fox News has set up an internal app, known as “Fox Giving,” which allows employees to donate to various charitable organizations with the company matching donations up to $1,000.
The company is willing to match donations to the Satanic Temple, the Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood (and local Planned Parenthood branches), and the Southern Poverty Law Center — radical groups that go against core conservative values.
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A novel by Houellebecq partly depicts Sweden’s current situation
21/7-23
It is Sweden that lets fiction become reality
By: Hans Rustad / SNAPHANEN.DK
From Danish by LN.
People have stopped reading novels because they don’t feel the authors are in step with the time. But Michel Houellebecq is the exception. His 2015 novel ‘Submission’ is about to become a reality.
In the 2022 French presidential elections, the Muslim Brotherhood will come to power. We are now a year late, but in Sweden, on the other hand, fiction is about to become reality.
A Muslim-infiltrated, Western country collapses not with a bang, but with a whimper. There is no sign that the Swedish government will challenge Muslim demands for submission, for that is what respect for the Koran is really all about.
Notice how the regime-controlled media is paving the way for Islam by starting to call the Koran a holy book. This is no accident. Next year, cities will be decorated for Ramadan just as they are for Christmas.
Islamization is happening at such a frighteningly fast pace, so fast that it should almost feel like a liberation to finally submit.
That’s the whole point of Houellebecq’s book: there were initial hints of an impending civil war, but then it all died down. There was no strength in the politicians to prevent it. It was much easier to just surrender.
This is descriptive of all politicians in Western Europe right now. There are rumblings in Italy, Spain and Germany, but when the media and politicians beat the drum, they conjure up fascism. They think it will help – and be enough…
But they are not beating the drum to eradicate Islam. They do not even understand what is meant. They have long since mentally prepared themselves to surrender.
We remember how in 1938 the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain handed over the Sudetenland to Hitler, who shortly afterwards marched in and took the whole of Czechoslovakia. It was done by force of arms and could not be ignored.
But today’s politicians have passed hate laws that prohibit the publication of what is happening. In that light, we are much worse off than we were in 1938. These laws are designed to keep the population in check. Politicians and the media have realized that the resistance is much stronger than what appears on the surface.
What could happen?
Soldiers could sit quietly and watch as the city is burned and looted.
Civil war could break out in France. During the Intifada, there were soldiers in civilian clothes assisting the police. These were soldiers on active duty who could not sit still and watch the city being burned and looted.
It does not take much of a coincidence for someone to be shot and for the unrest to escalate in a few moments.
The media immediately went after the soldiers who wanted to defend their homeland. The media are on the side of the Muslims. They portray all resistance as right-wing extremism.
Sweden could be the first country to fall like a ripe fruit. The Muslims will not take over openly. But they will have a hand on the wheel, they will be let in. Erdogan is pushing for concessions that the Swedes do not dare to oppose. In practice, Sweden will have capitulated.
It doesn’t take many moves until Sweden has crossed that line.
A law against Koran desecration would be an important step along the way.
This is just around the corner, and if Sweden leads the way, Denmark and Norway will follow.
FREESWEDEN: It’s interesting to see Houllebecq “Submission” beaten up in Amazon’s reviews. This must mean the novel is 100% on target.
internal newa!!!
Happy me – for the firdt time in 9 years I can observ
a slight but nevertheless improvement of my vision –
suddenly I could see the flashing colon on my digital
alarm clock = 6:11 am
GOOD NEWS
You, Baron,
You obviously do not read the comments
before you ‘publish’ them. Original but
dangerous, then any one [vulgar intensifier] muslim
can ‘publish’ here whatever the hell he wants.
If you want to leave a personal message, send me an email. Otherwise, if it’s a comment, and it doesn’t instruct me not to publish it, and it obeys the rules, then I approve it (albeit with redactions, if necessary).
sancta ineptia
The West eagerly abandoned Christ and society is collapsing. Fools
“Thousands of Muslims took to the streets…..”
Translation:
Thousands of Muslims obeyed instructions from the mosque.
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