The Russian government said it shot down two Ukrainian drones that targeted Moscow. A high-rise building sustained damage, but no casualties were reported. Air space over Moscow was temporarily closed as a result of the attack.
In other news, a Chicago-area woman named Suheir Barham was arrested after she attempted to smuggle a loaded handgun into DuPage County Courthouse.
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Gas prices in the US have surged to an eight-month high after foreign suppliers slashed production, and experts are warning that a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico could trigger further increases.
On Friday the national average price of regular gasoline stood at $3.73-a-gallon, a sharp increase from $3.55 one month ago, though still well below the record highs seen last summer, according to AAA.
As usual, California has the highest gas prices in the nation, with an average of $4.95, and pump prices topping $6 in the Golden State’s remote Mono County bordering Yosemite National Park.
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Alabama Woman Arrested Over Charges She Faked Her Own Kidnapping
On Friday, 26-year-old Carlee Russell turned herself into the Hoover City Jail in Hoover, Alabama, and was charged with false reporting to law enforcement and false reporting an incident after she confessed to faking her own kidnapping earlier this month.
Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis told reporters at a press conference that Russel faces up to a year in jail and a potential fine of $6,000. He noted that she was released on a $2,000 bond shortly after.
Russell went missing on July 13, after she had called 911 to report a toddler alone on the highway when her voice dropped off the call. She returned home on foot close to 48 hours later. On July 24, police revealed that she had confessed to the hoax at a press conference.
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Alvin Bragg Goes After Melania Trump, Gets Shut Down by New York Judge
Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump is so weak and seemingly political that some Dems wanted him to delay it until the more serious cases against Trump go through the system.
But Bragg, who like many Dem DAs allows criminals to roam the streets with no consequences, needs this Trump case to stick so he can run on it in his next election. And avoid getting a real job because the tide has turned in these cities.
How much has the tide turned against the Dems? The NAACP slammed them and demanded they call a state of emergency to stop the rampant crime in one blue city.
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Arizona Man Sentenced to Prison Over False Allegations of Sexual Assault Against Georgia Tech Coach
An Arizona man was sentenced to almost three years in prison for falsely accusing the Georgia Tech men’s basketball coach of sexual assault and extortion.
Ronald Bell, 57, was sentenced on Thursday to two years and nine months for conspiring to extort money from the school. He conspired with his co-defendant, Jennifer Pendley, as well as a security guard from Georgia Tech (GT) to claim the GT basketball coach, Josh Pastner, engaged in sexual assault. They had once been friends.
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Biden Admin Demands New, Single-Aisle Aircraft Have Wheelchair Accessible Bathrooms
The Department of Transportation announced on Wednesday that it would be requiring all new single-aisle aircraft to be fitted with accessible lavatories in an attempt to make airline travel easier for disabled passengers. Such facilities have been mandatory on twin-aisle aircraft for decades.
The policy will not require manufacturers or carriers to retrofit older planes, though they must comply with the regulations if lavatories are renovated in the future.
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Biden Admin’s Incandescent Lightbulb Ban Takes Effect August 1
The Biden administration’s ban on incandescent light bulbs goes into effect on Tuesday, forcing everyone to purchase more expensive, energy-efficient bulbs such as LED and fluorescent. Critics of the plan say that the light generated by the new bulbs is not as good as the incandescents, which are more akin to sunlight.
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Biden and Meloni Avoid Controversy in Latest Meeting
President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s latest meeting in Washington was a successful exercise in mutual admiration, during which both world leaders appeared careful not to bring up topics that would expose any divisions.
The figures described each other as friends and celebrated the “deep friendship that bonds the United States and Italy.” Their conversations focused on strengthened cooperation in the face of challenges from China and support for Ukraine against Russia. There was, however, a notable lack of discussion around gay rights and abortion.
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As high-powered GOP donors ditch Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and turn their attention towards Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, the state leader says he is humbled to be considered for the role, but is focused on the state.
“It’s really humbling when people talk about 2024 and a national role for me. And I thank them, and then I reiterate that I’ve got a big job to do here,” Youngkin told USA Today.
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Cook County Woman Charged With Bringing Loaded Gun Into Courthouse
WHEATON, Ill. — Bond has been set at $100,000 for a Cook County woman charged with bringing a loaded handgun into the DuPage County Courthouse on Thursday.
Suheir Barham, 47, of Oak Lawn, has been charged with felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon in a courthouse and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.
She was released from custody Friday morning after posting the necessary 10% of her bail, prosecutors said.
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Dem Rep Eyes Plan to Primary Biden in 2024
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) said on Friday that he is being encouraged to primary President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
Phillips is a three-term Democrat from the state of Minnesota and is eyeing a run for the White House according to a report from the MinnPost. He has been dubbed to be a more moderate pick over the president.
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Ex-ABC reporter James Gordon Meek is now facing at least five years in prison after a guilty plea to child pornography in Virginia on Friday.
Meek, 53, pled guilty to transporting and possessing child pornography and abuse material. The charge carries a mandatory minimum of five years prison time, and 40 at the top end.
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Elon Musk Shreds Elites’ ‘Self-Destructive’ Anti-American Attitude: ‘We Should be Proud’
In a controversial Twitter Spaces interview, billionaire Elon Musk and 2024 hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy discussed the state of the seemingly despondent American dream, ruling elites’ ongoing anti-American efforts as “insane.”
“We should be proud to be American, and I certainly am. It feels like there’s like a weird, like, anti-American self-destructive element, especially in, like the, you know, elite circles within the U.S. Like, teaching it’s bad to be an American. And I’m like, this is insane,” Musk said to Ramaswamy, Friday.
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Fight Over Food Leads to Shooting, Jailtime
ATLANTA — Atlanta police are investigating a shooting in which a man wielding a stick was shot in both of his arms over a disagreement about food.
Police say the 32-year-old man was arguing with another man at 275 Pryor Street SW. That address houses both a medical clinic and a service center for the homeless.
During the argument, the 32-year-old man used a large stick to attack the other man. The victim then took out a gun and shot him, claiming self-defense.
The 32-year-old was arrested and charged as the suspected aggressor.
Both men were taken to the hospital for treatment.
The Aggravated Assault Unit is investigating this case.
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Floating Colony on Venus Latest Plan From OceanGate Co-Founder
Cofounder of OceanGate Expeditions Guillermo Söhnlein revealed his plan to continue in the extreme travel industry, after the tragedy with the Titan submersible, with a goal to send 1,000 people to live in a floating colony on Venus by 2050.
In an interview with Insider, Söhnlein said he has not let the Titan tragedy dampen his ambitions to push the limits of his ambitions. He told the publication of his goal, “I think it is less aspirational than putting a million people on the Martian surface by 2050.”
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Food Service Giant Sued Over ‘White-Men-Need-Not-Apply’ Program
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A former employee of a large food service corporation is suing the company in federal court after it fired her for refusing to participate in a program that discriminates against white male employees.
Courtney Rogers worked for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Compass Group USA Inc. from her home office in San Diego, California.
The company had more than 280,000 employees and $20.1 billion in revenue in 2019, according to its LinkedIn profile. One of the world’s largest employers, the company has thousands of employees in California and counts among its clients Dodger Stadium, San Francisco International Airport, Uber, Snapchat, Netflix, Disney Studios, and NBC Universal.
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Idaho Massacre Suspect’s Attorneys Ask Judge to Dismiss Indictment
The attorney for the suspect accused of killing four students at the University of Idaho last year, Bryan Kohberger, asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss charges against their client on “grounds that the Grand Jury was misled as to the standard of proof required for an indictment.”
According to the court filings released on Thursday, Kohberger’s attorneys claim that the grand jury was not instructed on the required standard of proof required for an indictment. Idaho’s state Constitution says that the grand jury has to believe “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the person committed a certain crime.
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Illegal Chinese Bio Lab, Running Secret COVID Experiments, Found in California
Authorities in California have discovered an illegal bio lab in Fresno County that was running secret experiments on dangerous pathogens.
The unlicenced medical laboratory was found operating in a Reedley warehouse.
Investigators have found bioengineered mice and hazardous pathogens, including Covid, HIV, hepatitis, and herpes.
A joint effort between local and federal officials eventually led to the discovery of the illegal lab after a months-long investigation.
The warehouse was housing the unlawful and unpermitted laboratory filled with lab mice, medical waste, and dangerous substances.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has overruled the Democrats’ attempt to impose regulations on the SCOTUS.
Altio told overreaching Democrats to go pound sand in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“I marvel at all the nonsense that has been written about me in the last year,” Alito said.
“The traditional idea about how judges and justices should behave is they should be mute.
“But that’s just not happening.”
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Must Watch: GOP Presidential Candidate Will Hurd Booed Mercilessly in Iowa for Dissing Donald Trump
During the Lincoln dinner in Iowa Friday, 2024 Republican Presidential Candidate Will Hurd got booed after going after former President Donald Trump.
In his statement, Hurd said that Trump is only “running to stay out of prison.”
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Non-Human ‘Biologics’ Recovered From UFOs, Whistleblower Testifies
Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A former Air Force intelligence officer said the U.S. government has recovered UFO vehicles as well as the “biologics” of the pilots during a House hearing on unidentified flying objects, now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a hearing on July 26, where testimony was heard from retired Maj. David Grusch, Former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force, Department of Defense, and other expert witnesses.
Mr. Grusch was one of three witnesses at the hearing entitled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) questioned Mr. Grusch about the recovery of “crashed craft[s]” and whether or if their pilots had been found.
“You’ve stated that the government is in possession of potentially non-human spacecraft. But based on your experience and extensive conversations with experts, do you believe our government has made contact with intelligent extraterrestrials?” Ms. Mace asked.
“That’s something I can’t discuss in a public setting,” Mr. Grusch replied.
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LeBron James’ I Promise School, located in Akron, Ohio, is currently facing severe criticism from members of the Akron Public School Board due to a troubling revelation. Recent reports have disclosed that this year’s incoming 8th-grade class has not produced a single student who passed the state math test in over three years.
The shocking news left board member Valerie McKitrick astonished as she expressed her disbelief, saying, “Not one? In three years?” The data presented to her revealed that not a single student from the fall 8th-grade class at the I Promise School could achieve proficiency in the Ohio state math test, per the Akron Beacon Journal.
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San Diego Skaters Bash Dog Trainer Unconscious With Boards Claiming it Was Their ‘Day to be There’
A pair of San Diego skateboarders knocked a dog trainer unconscious while they were at the skate park. The skaters allegedly said it was because it was their “day to be there.”
According to a report from the San Diego Crime Stoppers, on June 21, the dog trainer, Jay, was in the park with a client, a friend, and the client’s dog when they were approached by a few skaters.
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Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Saturday signed into law a measure that seeks to block state and local officials from closing gun stores during disasters declared by the governor, unless such closures apply to all other businesses.
Regarded as a win for Second Amendment supporters and Alaska residents, House Bill 61 — which was championed by Republican House Speaker Cathy Tilton and backed by the NRA — came in response to business closures in Alaska and other states during the coronavirus pandemic and protects a plethora of firearm businesses throughout the state.
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Senator Calls for Probe After One of Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Allegedly Lied About Her Identity
FIRST ON FOX: A GOP senator is calling for a disciplinary inquiry into Hunter Biden’s legal team after a judge accused one lawyer of lying about her identity to court officials.
“I’ve heard from countless Americans who are concerned our justice system is being weaponized against President Biden’s political opponents while his son gets preferential treatment,” Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“There needs to be accountability for any misconduct or favoritism, including Hunter Biden’s own legal team. Faith in our justice system has been gravely damaged by the Biden administration’s mishandling of recent cases and restoring its integrity is essential.”
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‘Squeegee Boy’ Acquitted of Murder for Shooting Motorist in Back, Convicted of Manslaughter
Besides blaming the commercial real estate office tower crash in Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor district (read: here & here & here) solely on remote work, out-of-control crime is another major issue sparking the business exodus. It’s not us saying this, but large financial institutions we spoke with who dare not utter this in the public domain for fear that Democrats in City Hall would weaponize some city agency after them have told us this.
They also said one of the breaking points was a horrific incident in the summer of 2022 when 48-year-old Timothy Reynolds was shot in the back by a so-called ‘squeegee boy’ in the crime-ridden district at an intersection on President Street.
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Swift Frontier Justice: Texas Man Finds Stolen Truck, Kills Thief in Shootout
One alleged truck thief is dead, another wounded in a Texas shootout that also left the vehicle’s owner wounded. The dead man’s brother audaciously claims “the victim was my brother” — a sentiment that will find few subscribers in the Lone Star State.
The action started early Thursday afternoon at the South Park Mall on the southwest side of San Antonio. A 45-year-old man exited the mall along with his female passenger, only to find his Ford truck was missing. Looking around, they spotted the truck in a nearby lot at the same mall — with the apparent thieves sitting in it.
The owner approached his truck and — displaying a pistol — ordered the 34-year-old male driver and the thief’s 25-year-old female passenger to step outside and take a seat on the pavement. Two minutes after police were called, the male suspect drew a pistol from his waistband and shot the truck’s owner.
The owner returned fire, hitting and killing the shooter and critically wounding the shooter’s companion. Clarifying the account at a press conference held at the mall, San Antonio police chief William McManus said, “The bad guy is the one dead, yes. The driver of the stolen vehicle is deceased, shot by the owner of the stolen vehicle.”
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As per usual, former President Trump drew massive excitement at his most recent rally, taking place in Erie, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Trump pulled no punches during his speech, telling the crowd that while he always held respect for the office of the United States President, it is now time to “take the gloves off” when fighting against the ‘Biden crime family.’
Biden’s “been paid off. This is a corrupt president. And you know what, I would’ve never said that. I have too much respect for the office of the presidency and I never said that I can’t say great things about him because he’s been a horrible president … but you know what, now we have to take the gloves off because they took the gloves off, so we take the gloves off.”
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U.S. Virgin Islands Battle JP Morgan Chase Over Jeffrey Epstein Sex Abuses
While notorious paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been dead since August of 2019, due to allegedly hanging himself in his prison cell in New York, the fallout of Epstein’s years of sexual abuse of underage girls continues.
One of Epstein’s most notorious homes was located on Little Saint James, an island belonging to the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose government is now locked in a battle with one of the United States’ largest banks, JP Morgan Chase, over its connections to Epstein and how much the bank knew of his actions involving minors, Reuters reports.
The U.S. Virgin Islands have accused JP Morgan Chase of working with Epstein and having him as a client while the abuses were ongoing, even though they fired him as a client in 2013, long after he had been found guilty of soliciting prostitution from a minor and becoming a registered sex offender in 2008.
The bank dismissed Epstein after one of the bank’s top private bankers, James “Jes” Staley, had left the company earlier that year. Staley had allegedly been the main advocate for Epstein at the bank.
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US Man Who Killed Woman by Driving Car Through BLM Protest Pleads Guilty
A man who hit two Black Lives Matter protesters with his car, killing one of them, during a 2020 demonstration in Seattle has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies.
Dawit Kelete, 30, pleaded guilty Thursday to vehicular homicide in the death of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, the Seattle Times reported. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and reckless driving charges.
Attorneys as part of the plea deal have agreed to recommend a sentence of more than six years in prison and 18 months of probation. Kelete is set to be sentenced in September.
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King County, WA has awarded $25 million in grants to nonprofits, community organizations, and small businesses whose work is “essential” to address “racism” as a “public health crisis.”
In 2020, Executive Constantine and Public Health — Seattle and King County declared racism as a public health crisis.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Canada’s government suddenly morphed into a monster during the trucker protests in that country’s capital of Ottawa last year.
The 69-year-old longtime environmental lawyer and Kennedy family scion made the comments during a 90-minute Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday. During the conversation, he also hailed bitcoin as a “currency of freedom” and revealed that he recently bought two bitcoins (BTC) for each of his seven children.
Kennedy, who provided financial support to the protesting Canadian truckers in early 2022, said his bitcoin moment came during the final days of the protests when the Emergencies Act was invoked for the first time in Canada’s history.
[Comment: Wow, I didn’t know that RFK Jr. donated to the protesting Canadian truckers.]
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China Further Encroaching on European Wind & Solar Sectors Through Spain
In Spain, the government’s ‘green’ energy incentives are attracting foreign investment, and China is on the prowl.
Taking their part in the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Spain has been floating incentives for investment in renewable energy, incentives that offer 100% amortisation when the solar or wind project replaces fossil fuel energy sources. These are part of the Spanish government’s push to energise the Plan Nacional Integral de Energia y Clima (national integral climate and energy plan), by expanding wind and solar panel infrastructure.
Now, Chinese wind turbine giant Goldwin smells blood in the water.
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Feverish BBC Reporting on European ‘Heatwaves’ Debunked by Actual Temperature Readings
Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic
Last week’s heatwaves in southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without humans altering the climate, reports the BBC, quoting model-produced work rushed to press by World Weather Attribution (WWA). Humans caused the spell of Mediterranean summer heat to be 2.5°C higher, it was said. This latest study confirms what we knew before, says frequent BBC contributor and WWA founder Dr. Friederike Otto. More to the point, last week’s coverage of these heatwaves confirmed what we knew before — the BBC will pull out all the stops to promote weather fear in the cause of the collectivist Net Zero project.
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Germany: Anti-NATO Candidates Set to Lead AfD Into 2024 European Elections
Day two of the AfD annual congress in Magdeburg saw victory for anti-Atlanticist factions within the party as delegates selected a slate of anti-NATO candidates to head into next year’s European elections.
Approximately 600 party delegates are gathered in the eastern city of Magdeburg to decide on at least 30 candidates to represent the populist party in European elections that could see the AfD more than double its number of MEPs to over 20 if current polling holds.
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Italy: Air Conditioning and Pollution: Salvini’s Plea for Common Sense
In Italy, a 2007 law under which motorists who run the air conditioning in their cars while stationary can be fined several hundred euros is back in the news. Faced with what they consider to be an unfair system, taxpayers who have been penalised have appealed to the transport minister, Matteo Salvini, who advocates a policy of “common sense.”
Who hasn’t enjoyed a bit of fresh air in their car by turning on the air conditioning while stationary? The practice is commonplace, and particularly welcome at a time when an intense heatwave is hitting southern Europe and Italy in particular, with temperatures frequently hovering around 40°C. Unfortunately, the practice has been banned by Italian law since 2007 as part of the fight against pollution, and offenders face heavy fines ranging from a minimum of €223 to a maximum of €444.
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UK: Unpopular Green Policies Come Back to Haunt Tories
The Tories are looking forward to next year’s general election with trepidation following a string of defeats at the polls that have left the party “in a real fight for our lives.”
In order to win back some favour among voters, the Conservative Party is proposing to abandon several costly green policies—an attempt, according to The Guardian, “to create a dividing line with Labour.” Indeed, while Conservative officials last week mocked Labour for failing to win Boris Johnson’s old seat due to its plans to expand the anti-driver Ultra Low Emission Zone (originally drawn up by the Conservatives), the governing party has itself spent years championing the drive towards ‘net zero,’ under which it has pushed for the banning of petrol and diesel cars, the punishing of households that use gas, and the shutting down of all coal power stations. Now that it faces an electoral wipeout, the Tories “have confected another absurd lie where they appear to be campaigning against their own policies.”
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The video which has been shared online reportedly is of a man said to be Reza Tsaghati (pictured), the head of culture and Islamic guidance in the northern Gilan province of Iran.
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UAE Behind Smear Campaign Against Islamist Opponents in Europe
The exposure of what is alleged to be an underground smear campaign against Qatari-linked Islamic groups in Europe by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), using the services of a Swiss private intelligence agency, is causing diplomatic waves after it was uncovered by investigative journalists.
The so-called Abu Dhabi Secrets saga first surfaced when the left-wing French journal Mediapart obtained hacked documents alleging a vast UAE-financed influence operation to undermine Islamic groups in Europe motivated by regional rivalry against its fellow Gulf State, Qatar.
Beginning in 2017 amid a widening diplomatic spat between the UAE and Qatar, Emirati officials engaged the services of a private Swiss intelligence firm, Alp Services, to target Qatari-linked groups operating in Europe and associate them with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organisation through stories filtered through the press.
The names of approximately one thousand opponents of the UAE regime living in Europe were given to the Swiss agency to research and tailor hit pieces against them in a €5.7 million contract negotiated by the UAE intelligence services.
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Explosions Rock Moscow in Brazen Early-Morning Drone Attack
Several explosions rocked Moscow early Sunday morning in a drone attack that damaged a skyscraper, left at least one person injured, and shut down airspace over the area, according to local reports.
The Moscow City business center took a direct hit in the attack, with footage from the scene showing debris and smoke apparently pouring out of the building. Local outlet 112 reported that a security guard was injured in the strike, though Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said no injuries had been reported.
“Ukrainian drones attacked tonight. The facades on two [Moscow] City office towers were slightly damaged,” Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.
Residents reported hearing multiple explosions just before 3:30 a.m. local time, as air defenses were activated to shoot down the drones. Witnesses told local media at least one of the drones appeared to tear through a floor in the Moscow City skyscraper, blowing out nearby windows in the process.
Airspace over and around the city was shut down as a result of the attack, and Vnukovo International Airport temporarily halted incoming and outgoing flights.
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Russia Says Ukrainian Drone Attack Targets Moscow, Hi-Rise Damaged
Authorities instituted a temporary restriction on the presence of any aircraft in the airspace above Moscow after the attack.
A 50-story building was damaged in an alleged Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow, early Sunday morning, according to the city’s mayor. Footage reportedly from the scene showed smoke rising from the building.
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The Russian TASS news agency reported that two Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian air defenses west of Moscow. The city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, reported on his Telegram channel that the facades on two office buildings were slightly damaged and there were no injuries caused by the attack.
Authorities instituted a temporary restriction on the presence of any aircraft in the airspace above Moscow after the attack, according to TASS.
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10 Killed, Over 100 Injured in Fireworks Warehouse Explosion in Thailand
BANGKOK: At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 were injured after a fireworks warehouse exploded in southern Thailand, government officials said. The explosion, which occurred on Saturday afternoon, destroyed 10 houses and partially damaged about 100 houses in a market in Narathiwat province bordering Malaysia, said Deputy Government Spokesperson Ratchada Thanadirek.The local Public Relations Department said at least 10 people were killed and 118 were injured, Xinhua news agency reported. Authorities have now brought the fire under control and are searching for anyone who may be trapped under the debris, Ratchada added in a statement.
Those wounded, including 14 in critical condition, were sent to local hospitals for treatment, she said. In response to the accident, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha instructed relevant agencies to provide support for the injured and those affected, the statement said.
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India: Assam: Muslim Man Kills Hindu Wife, Her Parents, Goes to Cops With 9-Month-Old Baby in Arms
Hundreds of Hindu locals created a ruckus outside the police station on July 24 night after Najibur Rahman’s surrender. They were demanding capital punishment for the murderer.
Ranadhir Choudhury | HENB | Guwahati | July 27, 2023:: A Covid lockdown love story has ended in a gruesome triple murder in Assam’s Golaghat district. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma called it a ‘Love Jihad’ story with a ‘fatal ending’.
The turbulent relationship between 25-year-old Muslim youth Nazibur Rahman Bora and 24-year-old Sanghamitra Ghosh culminated in the grisly crime this Monday when Nazibur murdered her Hindu wife and her parents, before surrendering to police with their nine-month-old baby in his arms.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today met the family at their residence in Golaghat and assured punishment to the accused.
According to police, Nazibur, a mechanical engineer by qualification, and Sanghamitra became friends on Facebook in June 2020, during the nationwide lockdown to contain the pandemic. Friendship turned to love within months and in October that year, the two eloped to Kolkata.
Sanghamitra’s parents brought her back home, but she had already married Nazibur in a Kolkata court.
The next year, Sanghamitra’s parents Sanjeev Ghosh and Junu Ghosh registered a police complaint, accusing her of theft. Sanghamitra was arrested and spent over a month in judicial custody. After getting bail, she returned to her parent’s home, police said.
In January 2022, Sanghamitra and Nazibur eloped again, this time to Chennai, where they lived for five months. When the couple returned to Golaghat in August, Sanghamitra was pregnant. They started living at Nazibur’s home and had a son last November, police said.
However, four months later, in March this year, Sanghamitra left Nazibur’s home with her infant son and went to her parent’s home. She accused Nazibur of torturing her and registered a police complaint. A case of attempt to murder was registered and Nazibur was arrested. He was released on bail after 28 days.
Once out of jail, Nazibur wanted to meet his child, but Sanghamitra’s family did not let him. In fact, on April 29, Nazibur’s brother registered a police complaint, accusing Sanghamitra and her family members of assaulting Nazibur.
On Monday afternoon, as tensions between the two sides reached a breaking point, Nazibur murdered his wife Sanghamitra and her parents. He then fled with his nine-month-old baby. Later, he surrendered before the police.
At the Ghosh’s home, the bodies of Sanghamitra and her parents lay in pools of blood oozing out of machete wounds…
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WEF Slammed for ‘Importing’ China’s Communist ‘Culture’ Into West to Usher in ‘Great Reset’ Agenda
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and its founder Klaus Schwab have been slammed by an international policy think tank for “importing” the “culture” of China’s Communist dictatorship into the West.
The Gatestone Institute accuses the WEF of trying to replace governmental systems in Western nations with totalitarian Chinese Communist Party-style sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology.
On Friday, the Gatestone Institute’s J.B. Shurk issued a warning that the WEF’s plan will result in a tyrannical system in which “a small group of elites bark orders and ordinary citizens dutifully obey.”
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The academic said a No vote would ‘doom Aboriginal people to a permanent status as marginalised peoples’ and cited a ‘growing impatience’ over the delays.
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Protesters Turn Up at Melbourne Neo-Nazi Powerlifting Event at Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine North
The European Australian Movement and Nationalist Socialist Network, which is led by known white supremacist Thomas Sewell, hosted the ‘White Power Lifting Meet’ at the Legacy Boxing Gym.
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Migrant Landings at Lampedusa Pick Up Again
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 29 — Migrant landings at Lampedusa are picking up again after a lull lasting a few days, sources on the stepping stone island between Sicily and Tunisia said Saturday.
Landings have resumed at full pace on Lampedusa where 252 migrants have arrived since last midnight after the rescue of seven boats.
on Friday, after two days of stoppage due to rough seas, there were nine landings with a total of 271 people.
The Catania hub has received and assisted 15,000 people in the last three months, including 700 minors and a dozen pregnant women, mostly from Tunisia, but also Eritreans, Ethiopians, Afghans, Moroccans and Egyptians.
The Lampedusa hub is currently about three times over capacity.
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Climate Sceptic Uninvited! IMF Cancels Nobel Prize Winner’s Speaking Engagement
Nobel-prize-winning physicist John F. Clauser has had his speech cancelled by the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Clauser, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2022, along with two other scientists for his pioneering work on quantum information science, was scheduled to present a seminar to the IMF about climate models on July 25th.
“According to an email he received last evening, the Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Pablo Moreno, had read the flyer for John’s July 25 zoom talk and summarily and immediately cancelled the talk. Technically, it was ‘postponed’,” the Co2 Coalition said in a statement on July 21st.
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Klaus Schwab’s Daughter: COVID Was Precursor to Coming ‘Climate Lockdowns’
The daughter of World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab has declared that tyrannical restrictions during the Covid pandemic served as a precursor to coming “climate lockdowns.”
According to Nicole Schwab, Covid was a “tremendous opportunity” to test how the public would comply with authoritarian measures that could be used to usher in the WEF’s “Great Reset” agenda.
The WEF’s promotion of the “climate crisis” narrative seeks to “create a change that is not incremental…to position nature at the core of the economy,” according to the younger Schwab.
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UK: Common Sense Up in Arms Against Woke Banks
Nigel Farage’s ‘de-banking’ scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and points to a much wider practice of banks cosying up to woke ideology and prioritising certain ideological beliefs over profit maximisation and the interests of clients.
As we previously reported, the British private bank Coutts closed the account of Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) on political grounds, citing his views on Brexit, Donald Trump, immigration, and LGBT issues, and for not supporting the “diversity, policies and ‘purpose’ of Coutts.” In the wake of the scandal, Dame Alison Rose resigned as the boss of NatWest, the holding company which owns Coutts, after she admittedly leaked false information to the BBC on Nigel Farage’s bank records.
As an article in The Telegraph last week pointed out, Dame Alison Rose is the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with global banks these days. “Tackling the climate emergency is one of, if not the biggest issue of our time—and banks have a massive role to play in mobilising the power of finance to meet the net zero ambition,” she announced after becoming the first female chief executive of Natwest Group—and sure enough, on that very same day, the bank ended new loans for oil and gas extraction. “Just what that had to do with banking is anyone’s guess. This may point to the deeper problem: Dame Alison had been led to believe that getting ahead in banking now meant following a political agenda,” commented The Spectator.
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In Russia, interreligious relations have reached a new level. In the Moscow district of Kotelniki, which is gradually becoming a Muslim ghetto, there is a debate over an illegal mosque located in a residential building.
First, riot police in shoes came and dispersed them during prayer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GoyzHUjpDY4
After that, the Muslim lobby made a big fuss and then they already dispersed this OMON unit to other structures.
On the last Friday, the Muslim so-called. the “cultural” center (an illegal mosque) was closed due to mining threats. And they did not think of anything better than to go to pray in the Orthodox Church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTogrzTAlCA
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The situation is far more serious than in 2006
30/7-23
This is a test of strength
between the Islamic world and the West
By: Hans Rustad / snaphanen.dk
Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakim Fadan, wants the Danish government to intervene to stop the Koran burnings. In Sweden, the police’s National Operative Department (NOA) has declared a “special incident”, which means that they are prepared for anything. The situation seems more serious today than during the caricature controversy in 2006.
On Monday, the Organization of Islamic Countries, OIC, with 57 members, will meet for a digital meeting to agree on what to do in relation to the burning of the Koran.
It has become a test of strength between freedom of expression in the West and Islam. Western governments seem to have a clue, too. They hesitate to take steps that may become irreversible, such as banning blasphemy against Islam. If such a concession is made, it may be difficult to withdraw. It will most likely be met with violence.
Hezbollah is already calling on young Muslims to act if governments do not.
The leader of the powerful Muslim Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, calls on Muslims to “punish” those who violate the Koran.
If governments do not act against those who facilitate the desecration of the Muslim holy book, young Muslims must do so, Nasrallah said, according to the AP news agency.
In 2006, Anders Fogh Rasmussen stood his ground when ambassadors from Islamic countries demanded a ban. Western governments seem weaker today.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, is asking Denmark to take urgent measures to prevent more Koran burnings, according to the Turkish foreign ministry.
Fidan condemned the Koran burnings in a telephone conversation with Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, on Saturday.
According to Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fidan must have told Løkke, among other things, that it is unacceptable to allow Koran burnings “under the guise of freedom of expression”.
The situation seems most serious in Sweden. They have the largest Muslim population and have lost control over parts of the country.
Due to the worsening security situation after the Koran burnings, the National Operative Department (NOA) has taken an internal organizational measure.
It is only an internal organizational action we have taken, where we have gathered different skills to work on a specific topic. In this case, it is due to the changed world situation with the terrorist situation, says Mark Vadasz, spokesman for the police.
The police do not want to go into detail about what changes have been made.
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The West is stuck in the Ukrainian impasse
30/7-23
By Lars Hedegaard / snaphanen.dk
How many times have we heard about Ukraine’s “spring offensive” that was supposed to inflict a painful defeat on the Russians? Spring passed and no offensive came. Now it is summer, and it is claimed that the offensive has finally started – for the time being without shaking the position war that has been the reality for a year and a half. Putin is holding on to the Ukrainian territories he has conquered, and there is not much the Ukrainians can do about it – except send their soldiers into the meat grinder.
Meanwhile, Putin’s “special military operation” has developed into a proxy war between the US and Russia. It was hardly what the Russian dictator had planned, but wars rarely go as the political and military leaders intended.
Vladimir Putin bears the ultimate responsibility for this slaughter, but in the real world we can use moral considerations for nothing but crying. We have to deal with how the war is going. And things are not going well for Ukraine.
This sad development has prompted the Biden administration to step up its major to Zelenskij. At first, Washington just wanted to give Ukraine money and ammunition. Later it became tanks and planes, and now the US has decided to supply the Ukrainians with cluster bombs, which are so cruel that they are banned in a hundred countries.
Putin will surely respond again with equally cruel methods.
And since the Ukraine war has now become an American war, it may be useful to remember how American wars have fared since 1945.
The fact is that the United States has lost every single major war it has entered into. Prominent examples are the Korean War, where it failed to defeat the Russian-backed communists. The Vietnam War ended with the US having to withdraw with its tail between its legs – and recognize that well over 50,000 American soldiers had died for a dead-end effort. Later came the US’s failed military interventions in Afghanistan – which ended with the Taliban’s victory – and Iraq, where everything is as before, the US troops had to ensure “democracy” and “freedom”.
The US government apparently has no idea how the Ukraine war will end. A majority of the Republican members of the House of Representatives recently demanded that Biden should explain what strategic goals he has in throwing new billions and more and more weapons into Ukraine, but the proposal was voted down.
It could be beneficial if the Danish government would explain what goals it has in Ukraine. Frederiksen and Løkke will probably answer that the war must end with a Ukrainian victory – without telling how that could be done.
My dear, I will tell you one thing in secret: Everything is going according to plan.
“Tasty” territories are being cleared of the southeastern Slavic “Untermenshes”. At the same time, the northeastern “untermensch” who live in territories with such “delicious” subsoil will be brought under genocide.
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Col. MacGregor:
Ukraine is DISINTEGRATING – the hospitals are FULL
Redacted w Clayton Morris
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Clayton Morris is a felon who had a real estate scam going on a few years ago. He would make claims about the “properties’ he represented. He would sell those properties to his victims. The properties turned out to be run down shacks, and other broken down real estate. When the feds got wind of what this dirtbag was doing, he moved his family to Portugal where he would be protected from being deported.
CLAYTON MORRIS IS A LIAR, A DECEITFUL INDIVIDUAL AND HE HAS LEFT A TRAIL OF VICTIMS IN HIS WAKE.
I wouldn’t trust this son of a ______ for any amount of money.