Mayors of French towns and cities have called for “civic mobilization” to defend the country against violent rioters. Meanwhile, a fundraiser has raised more than $1 million for the police officer who has been arrested for his shooting of the “youth” that prompted the riots.
In other news, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called for the passage of international laws against burning the Koran.
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Most Poles believe the state of the Polish economy and the fight against inflation should be the primary topics during the upcoming parliamentary election campaign, according to a poll by SW Research for Poland’s Rzeczpospolita newspaper.
Respondents were asked what issue should be the main topic of the campaign before the parliamentary elections; they could only select one.
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Swiss Inflation Dips to 1.7% in June, But Rate Hike Still Expected
ZURICH, July 3 (Reuters) — Swiss inflation dipped to 1.7% in June, the government said on Monday, although economists expect the Swiss National Bank to stay its course and raise interest rates at least one more time.
The year-on-year increase in consumer prices reported by the Federal Statistics Office was below the 2.2% rate in May and below the 1.8% forecast in a Refinitiv poll.
June was the first month when inflation returned to the SNB’s target for price stability, which it defines as price rises between 0 and 2% since January 2022.
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15-Year-Old Girl Among 3 Killed, 32 Shot in Chicago Over Weekend
It’s gearing up to be a long summer in the Democrat-run city of Chicago as 32 people were shot over the weekend while authorities struggle to contain the rise in crime.
Among the dozens shot in Mayor Johnson’s Chicago, four ended up losing their lives, Breitbart News reports.
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7-Year-Old Hurt After Boston Democrat Crashes Uninsured Car While Driving on Suspended License
A controversial far-left Boston Democrat lawmaker has left a 7-year-old child injured after crashing her car while driving illegally.
Kendra Lara, 33, was driving on a “revoked license” in an unregistered car without insurance when she crashed into a house, injuring her son, Zaire.
Lara is Boston’s first black socialist city council member.
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AOC Challenges ‘Legitimacy’ of SCOTUS, Threatens Conservative Justices With Impeachment
Radical Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went on CNN and accused the Supreme Court’s conservative justice majority of abusing its power while threatening them with impeachment.
AOC is demanding Congress impeach the SCOTUS justice after their ruling on affirmative action conflicted with her own political beliefs.
The congresswoman called for the Supreme Court to be packed and said that impeachment “must be on the table.”
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A retired cop who found the body of a woman in the backyard of her home after she’d been dead for two days said he called Austin police five times before getting a response.
The unsettling details were described in a letter sent by retired Austin police officer Robert A. Gross to the office of Mayor Kirk Watson and shared on Twitter by fellow retired officer Dennis Farris.
Gross, who served with the Austin Police Department (APD) between 1975 and 2002, had been checking on the elderly couple from time to time, according to Farris.
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Biden Blues? Confidence in US Government Lowest Across G7 Countries Ahead of Independence Day: Poll
A new Gallup poll released one day ahead of Independence Day shows confidence in the U.S. government to be the lowest across all countries in the G7.
According to the poll, just 31% of American adults “have confidence” in the U.S. government, down from 56%, the highest in the G7, in 2006. A whopping 69% of Americans said they did not have confidence in the government.
The U.S. was followed closely by the U.K., with just 33% of British adults having confidence in its government.
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Biden Handed Over South America to China
by Daniel Greenfield
When Biden met with Lula da Silva, the founder of the Marxist Brazil’s Workers’ Party and a convicted criminal, it was a victory lap for both socialists.
Lula da Silva, Brazil’s former leader, had survived his bribery conviction and rigged an election that overthrew Jair Bolsonaro: his conservative patriotic predecessor. Biden had survived his own trial by fire during the midterms which locked down the 2024 Democrat nomination.
Lula also met with fellow Marxists: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Biden and Lula talked of “democracy” and “fighting extremism”. They badmouthed their predecessors, Bolsonaro and Trump, and Biden offered the Marxist some big checks.
“Both our nations’ strong democracies have been tested,” Biden falsely claimed, and “both in the United States and Brazil, democracy prevailed.”
Media accounts compared Biden and Lula who had both faced mass public protests over their stolen elections. Biden had been one of the first to congratulate Lula on his stolen election and invited him to the White House despite the Brazilian Marxist’s longtime enmity to America.
“The United States and the rest of the world can count on Brazil in the fight for democracy,” Lula assured Biden.
The Biden administration and the media had worked hard to bring Lula to power despite the fact that he was an ally of geopolitical enemies like Xi in China and Putin in Russia.
Last month, Lula flew to Beijing where he pledged his true allegiance: signing 15 bilateral agreements and forming an official partnership that will include embedding China’s Huawei technological spy operation into Brazil’s communications infrastructure…
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Breaking: 8 Shot, 4 Killed in Southwest Philadelphia Shooting, 2 Children Among Victims
On Monday night, a shooting took place in the Kingsessing area of Southwest Philadelphia, resulting in the loss of four lives and leaving four others injured. According to authorities, a suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the incident.
The shooting occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m., when a police officer in the vicinity of South 56th Street and Chester Avenue heard gunfire and discovered at least one victim, the Philly Inquirer reported.
Twitter account Philly Crime Updates was first to report on the shooting.
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that a law banning the recording of persons who do not explicitly consent to their voices being captured is unconstitutional, as it violates the First Amendment.
James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) announced the decision online, noting that this follows his filing of a lawsuit in Portland, Oregon about three years ago. In PVA v. Schmidt, O’Keefe’s former journalistic organization argued that Oregon law violates the US Constitution, especially in regard to the rights of those engaging in undercover investigative journalism.
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California Judge Rejects $10 Million Lawsuit Against BLM Leader
A California judge has thrown out a $10 million lawsuit against Black Lives Matter Inc., the New York Post reports.
Melina Abdullah, the founder of BLM Grassroots, filed a lawsuit last year that accused the leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Shalomyah Bowers, of stealing over $10 million from the nonprofit and using the organization as a “personal piggy bank.”
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CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates That List a COVID Vaccine as a Cause of Death
by Aaron Hertzberg
Brownstone Institute
Someone (who needs to remain anonymous) was able to obtain the death certificates from Minnesota for all deaths that occurred from 2015 to the present, which presented the opportunity to see if the CDC is being entirely honest about the US death data. Unsurprisingly, the CDC is not.
As we shall document, the CDC is concealing references to a covid vaccine on Minnesota death certificates (that are exceedingly rare to begin with because of widespread medical establishment denialism of vaccine adverse side effects). In almost every death certificate that identifies a covid vaccine as a cause of death, the CDC committed data fraud by not assigning the ICD 10 code for vaccine side effects to the causes of death listed on the death certificate.
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Climate Change Keeps Making Wildfires and Smoke Worse. Scientists Call it the ‘New Abnormal’
As smoky as the summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change.
It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world.
Kuchlbauer had flashbacks to the surprise of soot coating her car three years ago when she was a recent college graduate in San Diego. Bomba had deja vu from San Francisco, where the air was so thick with smoke people had to mask up. They figured they left wildfire worries behind in California, but a Canada that’s burning from sea to warming sea brought one of the more visceral effects of climate change home to places that once seemed immune.
“It’s been very apocalyptic feeling, because in California the dialogue is like, ‘Oh, it’s normal. This is just what happens on the West Coast,’ but it’s very much not normal here,” Kuchlbauer said.
As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say. Already wildfires are consuming three times more of the United States and Canada each year than in the 1980s and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen.
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Critics Shred Latest Indiana Jones as Nostalgic Flop That ‘Debases the Legacy’ of the Franchise
A variety of critics and reviews have skewered the latest installment of the “Indiana Jones” series as it faces disaster at the box office.
Eighty-year-old actor Harrison Ford portrayed a grizzled, older version of the adventurous archeology professor, Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr., who had his debut in 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” However, the latest film has been trashed by movie critics and has had disappointing box office numbers.
“It’s all but official. ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ will put Disney in the red. Again,” Hollywood in Toto reported. “The fifth and presumably final film in the iconic saga opened to a weak $60 million at the U.S. box office.” The article went on to note, “‘Dial of Destiny’ arrives with a bloated $295 million budget (or worse) plus millions in P&A. That means it’ll take a cinematic miracle for ‘Dial of Destiny’ to break even.”
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Departing CDC Director Says the Agency Plans to Work With Media to “Prebunk” “Misinformation”
As the CDC’s Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, concludes her controversial tenure, her revelations about the agency’s decision to work hand in glove with the media to shape public opinion raise alarming questions about government overreach and the erosion of free speech.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Walensky did not mince words about her agency’s attempts to shape the narrative concerning public health information through a process she terms “prebunking.” This involved pre-emptive communication with media outlets to nudge them in a particular direction regarding health reports, ostensibly to curb misinformation.
But herein lies the crux of the issue — who decides what constitutes misinformation?
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Doctors Sue Biden Admin for Blocking Ivermectin as COVID Treatment
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has been hit with a federal lawsuit for unlawfully blocking the use of the antiviral drug ivermectin as a Covid treatment.
A group of doctors is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), accusing the federal agencies of “lying to the public” about ivermectin.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas in Galveston, The Texan reported.
The plaintiffs, Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul E. Marik, and Robert L. Apter, argue that the FDA has overstepped its authority by unjustifiably interfering with their medical practice.
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El Dorado County Group Mulls Secession From California
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times
Frustrated by what they call a lack of representation, some residents of El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, are exploring a plan to split from the Golden State and form their own state.
If enough residents support the idea, the Republic for El Dorado State group will take the matter directly to Congress, bypassing the state Legislature that has squashed numerous past attempts.
“We’re trying to find a way for it to happen without having to go to California on our knees, begging for them to release us. Because we know they will not,” one of the organizers, Sharon Durst, told The Epoch Times.
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Gavin Newsom Steps Out on Biden’s Campaign Trail to Pump His Own Platform
Governor Gavin Newsom is set to campaign for the reelect effort for President Joe Biden, stopping in bright red states to generate support for the 80-year-old president and getting personal accolades along the way.
He stopped in Idaho on Saturday to speak at an event in the state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 4-1, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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House Republicans Consider Plans to Defund WHO “Misinformation” Policing and Surveillance
The US House Committee on Appropriations has floated a budget proposal that, if passed, would ax government funding for the World Health Organization (WHO).
This proposal is a part of the Fiscal Year 2024 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, which aims to cut spending on what the committee believes are “low-priority activities and programs.”
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Hunter Biden Driving 170 mph in Porsche Among New Laptop Photos Posted Online
First son Hunter Biden took photos of his Porsche dashboard as he sped his way to Sin City in the summer of 2018.
President Biden’s son took a photo on Aug. 2 of his Porsche dashboard that showed him driving 172 miles per hour.
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Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Chess Star Hans Niemann Filed Over Cheating Allegations
ST. LOUIS — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a 19-year-old chess grandmaster who alleged his career was ruined by allegations that he had cheated.
Last year, Hans Niemann sued former world champion Magnus Carlsen and the online chess organization Chess.com. He was seeking $100 million in damages for slander and libel.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in St. Louis, Niemann also accused Carlsen and Chess.com of violating antitrust laws by merging online playing platforms and refusing to let him play on them.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig found Niemann’s antitrust claims had no merit. She also dismissed libel and slander claims because she said she didn’t have jurisdiction to oversee them, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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Madison Square Garden is Sued Over Invasive Facial Recognition Tech
Madison Square Garden Entertainment, the company renowned for its famed entertainment venues, is finding itself in hot water as it faces a federal class action lawsuit. The suit alleges that the company violated the biometric privacy ordinance of New York City and state privacy laws by employing a facial recognition system for security purposes.
M. Ross Arnel, the complainant in the lawsuit, contends that MSG covertly profited from the biometric data of visitors to its venues, which include the legendary Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. By collecting and utilizing biometric information, Arnel claims that MSG bolstered security, consequently rendering its venues more attractive to the public, which in turn led to an undue advantage.
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Musk’s Tweet-Limiting Move is to Prevent the Completion of the “AI-Censorship-Death-Star”
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this weekend, you will know that Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that the social media platform will limit how many tweets users can read due to “extreme” levels of system manipulation and data scraping.
Musk said in a statement that Twitter has applied the following temporary limits on users, with new unverified accounts limited to reading just 600 posts per day.
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NRA Slaps Biden Admin With Lawsuit Over ‘Unlawful’ Pistol Brace Rule
FIRST ON FOX — The National Rifle Association of America slapped the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with a lawsuit over a rule that regulates stabilizing braces for pistols.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, the NRA aims to expose “the failings of the new rule — which subjects law-abiding gun owners to penalties, fines, and potential prison sentences for the use of an otherwise legal plastic apparatus on some firearms.”
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Police Chief: More Than 50,000 People Attended Trump’s South Carolina Rally
South Carolina’s upper region has been a popular stopping point for Republican primary candidates. Trump stopped in Pickens, SC for a rally and drew massive crowds this past Saturday in the heavily Republican region. The police chief in Pickens said the crowd was anywhere between 50,000 to 55,000.
Other candidates in recent months have also stopped in the region, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
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RFK Jr. Blasts Biden for ‘Maintaining Secrecy Indefinitely’ on JFK Assassination Records
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused the Biden administration of perpetuating a cycle of secrecy regarding documents associated with the assassination of his uncle, US President John F. Kennedy.
On Sunday, Kennedy — who’s challenging Biden for the Democrat presidential nomination — wrote on Twitter, “It’s not about conspiracy — it is about transparency. In a midnight Friday night announcement the White House has delivered the bad news that President Biden will be maintaining secrecy indefinitely on some JFK assassination related records.”
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‘Shaken Our City to the Core’: Manhunt Revs Up After Baltimore Block Party Mass Shooting
The manhunt for at least two shooters who struck 30 people at a Baltimore block party stretched into a second day as the stunned city mourned the victims and braced for the possibility of more violence.
Police identified the two fatalities as Aaliyah Gonzalez, 18, and Kylis Fagbemi, 20. Twenty-three of the 28 people wounded were teens, and more than half are minors. The oldest was 32.
Police have not identified suspects and said federal and state law enforcement teams were aiding the investigation. Just last week, officials had announced a sharp decline in the city’s violent crime rate, citing the “expanded collaboration between federal, state, and local law enforcement.”
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‘Sound of Freedom’ Scores 92% Rotten Tomatoes Rating Ahead of July 4 Premiere
The Sound of Freedom, which opens in theaters Tuesday, has received a 92 percent “fresh” rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 100 percent rating from audiences who have seen the film ahead of opening day.
In a review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman said that “you needn’t hold extreme beliefs to experience ‘Sound of Freedom’ as a compelling movie that shines an authentic light on one of the crucial criminal horrors of our time, one that Hollywood has mostly shied away from.”
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Texas Man Whose ‘Dream’ Was to Die Fighting for ISIS Sentenced to Over 13 Years
A Houston man was sentenced today to 165 months, the equivalent of 13 years and nine months, in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
According to court documents, Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, 23, attempted to join and support ISIS from August 2017 until his arrest in December 2017. He pleaded guilty July 8, 2019. In addition to wanting to join ISIS, Damlarkaya also provided information to ISIS supporters about the use of machetes, homemade construction of an automatic weapon and how to build and use explosive materials.
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The Wealth Tax Idea is Headed for Sudden Death in the Supreme Court
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com
This summer, the Supreme Court will decide if ‘income’ under the law can include an unrealized gain. Guess what…
Coming Up, Moore v. United States
The issue, as Wikipedia details is whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized gains as income.
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Freakishly long blood clots continue to be found inside the bodies of deceased vaccinated individuals, embalmer and funeral director Richard Hirschman says.
Hirschman took to Twitter Sunday saying he’s still seeing the long fibrous clots being extracted from vaxxed individuals.
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White House Evacuated After Cocaine Hydrochloride Found on Grounds
The US Secret Service (USSS) rushed many outside of the White House on Sunday after it came across what was initially identified as an “unknown item.”
“US Secret Service Uniform Division Officers located an unknown item on the White House complex,” a spokesperson for the agency told Fox News.
“As a precaution, the White House grounds were evacuated, and the DC Fire Departments Hazmat team responded.”
A hazmat team deployed around 18th St and Pennsylvania Ave, with Secret Service moving in to close off paths surrounding the White House. USSS reportedly said nothing more about its discovery.
Now, a newly leaked audio clip reportedly coming from the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (DC Fire EMS) has revealed that the previously unknown substance tested positive for Cocaine Hydrochloride, a form of cocaine often used in order to help numb the inside of a nose before a procedure in addition to sometimes being abused for recreational purposes.
[Comment: Hunter Biden must have been at the White House recently.]
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The real reason Elon limited tweet views explains why his adversaries are so mad.
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Manitoba Court of Appeal Says Church Lockdowns Did Not Violate Canadian Charter of Rights
The Manitoba Court of Appeal has ruled that several Canadian Christian churches did not have their Constitutional rights violated by Covid-19 mandates.
“Freedom of religion can be limited when the exercise of it can interfere with the rights of others,” the provincial appeal court declared on June 19.
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1,000 Buildings Burnt, 5,600 Vehicles Destroyed, 3,300 Arrests in First Week of France Riots
The huge extent of damage and vandalism caused in nearly a week of nightly riots in France has been dramatically underlined with a summary of recorded burnings so far, with the toll running to thousands of vehicles and buildings.
Ministry of the Interior figures taking account of damage to people and property during the now six nights of riots triggered by the shooting death by a police officer of an Algerian heritage teenager in a Paris suburb at a traffic stop reveals there have been 5,662 vehicle fires so far, reports Le Parisien.
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Absorb Ukraine and Moldova Into EU to Prevent Russian and Chinese Influence Says Von Der Leyen
MADRID (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday it was imperative for the European Union to address the issue of its enlargement as soon as possible to include countries such as Ukraine and Moldova to guarantee they do not fall under the influence of Russia or China.
Speaking in Madrid, von der Leyen said the bloc must look forward four years and imagine what the union should be like.
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Activists Spurred by Affirmative Action Ruling Challenge Legacy Admissions at Harvard
WASHINGTON (AP) — A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.
The practice of giving priority to the children of alumni has faced growing pushback in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action in higher education. The NAACP added its weight behind the effort on Monday, asking more than 1,500 colleges and universities to even the playing field in admissions, including by ending legacy admissions.
The civil rights complaint was filed Monday by Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit based in Boston, on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act.
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Actress Euthanized Over COVID Booster Injuries
Actress Katarina Pavelek has been euthanized after suffering a devastating reaction to a Covid booster shot.
Pavelek, originally from Slovakia, is known for her work on Fox Sports Live (2013), The Mindy Project (2012), and Marry Me (2014).
She died following an “assisted suicide” earlier this month in Liestal, Switzerland.
The model and actress suffered severe injuries from the booster she received a year ago.
Pavelek believed the shot would enhance her immune system.
However, the jab had the reverse effect.
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Amid Widespread Rioting, France Detains Soccer Coach for Making ‘Racist and Islamophobic Remarks’
Police in France responded to widespread rioting throughout the country by detaining a soccer coach and his son for allegedly uttering “racist” and “Islamophobic” remarks a year ago.
Paris Saint Germain coach Christophe Galtier was held for questioning along with his son as part of a probe into alleged discrimination, the Nice prosecutor told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday, June 30. The move comes after an investigation launched in April, following claims he made racist and Islamophobic remarks about players when he coached Nice in the 2021/22 season.
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Anti-Terror Laws Put UK Village Halls ‘At Risk’ of Closure
Thousands of British community centres face being closed if they are forced to introduce a range of new protections against terrorism, the government has been warned.
Critics have accused “jobsworth” officials of taking far too seriously the threat of terror attacks at halls that spend most of the year hosting weddings, local bands, and village fêtes. But the Home Office suggested that village halls needn’t worry because new measures will be “dependent on the size of the venue and the activity taking place.”
These will be introduced under what has been titled “Martyn’s Law” after Martyn Hett, who was one of the 22 victims killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack. The legislation does not even pretend it will try to address the societal context in which a security guard at the arena had a “bad feeling” about suicide bomber Salman Abedi but did not approach him for fear of “being branded a racist.”
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Austria: St. Thomas More Award Recipient Calls for Increased European Unity and Cultural Identity
On the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist, in a crowded, superbly baroque Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall) in a Cistercian monastery near Vienna, Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the St. Thomas More Award was bestowed on the former Italian minister for EU Affairs and Cultural Assets and Activities, Prof. Dr. h.c. Rocco Buttiglione, by Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein.
Recipients of this prize are chosen for their public stance in favor and defense of the highest ideals of justice and truth, as exemplified by St. Thomas More. The prize is sponsored by the Old Order of St. George (Alter Orden vom hl. Georg), a lay order of knights based in Austria. Recipients of the prize are given a solid silver medal with the image of St. Thomas More on the front, and a depiction of St. George on a horse slaying the dragon, on the back.
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Exclusive: U.S. Military Breaks Ground on Troop Staging Area in Poland
The United States recently unveied a new military staging area in Poznan, Poland that will be able to accommodate as many as 3,600 troops.
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France Counts Economic Cost of Unrest
The economic cost is mounting in France after the fatal police shooting of a teenager sparked widespread unrest. Some of the worst violence and looting was reported in the southern port city of Marseille, where 400 businesses were vandalized, the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry has revealed.
“All types of businesses have been targeted, especially those with valuable merchandise,” the head of the chamber for Aix-Marseille-Provence, Jean-Luc Chauvin, told France Info on Sunday. An initial estimate by insurers has put the cost of the damage at more than €100 million ($109 million), a number that will undoubtedly rise, he added.
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A young Parisian fireman was killed last night as he tried in vain to extinguish a fierce blaze in an underground car park as France suffered a sixth night of rioting.
Dorian Damelincourt, 24, was on Monday part of an emergency operation in the troubled suburb of Saint-Denis, just north of the capital.
He reportedly died of heart attack, according to a statement from Paris police. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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French Riots Become Political Hot Topic in Polish Elections
Recent turmoil on the streets of France is influencing the ongoing Polish election cycle as candidates on both the Left and the Right harden their stance on immigration in response to the week-long racial ferment.
Poland will hold crucial parliamentary elections later this year in a race that will pit the ruling centre-right PiS Party against the liberal opposition—primarily in the form of the Civic Coalition—as well as groups further to the Right, such as the insurgent Confederation Party who are critical of Warsaw’s increasing embrace of mass immigration.
Already, the issue of France and immigration from the Islamic world has become a political football in Poland as Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki cited the carnage in Paris during recent EU Council migration negotiations.
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French Mayors Urge ‘Mobilization’ Against Nightly Riots
French mayors have called for a civic mobilization to uphold the rule of law, following six nights of turmoil over the police killing of a 17-year-old French-Algerian, while a poll shows strong public opposition to the rioters.
The national association of mayors urged citizens to gather at their local town halls on Monday at noon to show support for “a return to order in the republic.” Government buildings have been targeted “with extreme violence” over the week, it said in a statement on Sunday.
According to France 24, dozens of people answered the call in the commune of L’Hay-les-Roses, whose elected head has been directly targeted. The home of Vincent Jeanbrun, the mayor of the Paris suburb, was rammed with a burning car on Sunday night. The official was not in the building at the time, but his wife and children were, and managed to escape while suffering injury.
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On Sunday night, the sixth night of rioting in France, schools were burned, dozens of cars were set on fire, and police fought running battles with rioters in a variety of French cities.
Footage of a school in Paris posted to Twitter showed massive flames shooting into the air.
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Fundraiser for French Cop Accused of Killing Teen Surpasses $1M as Violence Rages
A fundraiser for a French police officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old has topped more than $1 million as protests continue to rage nationwide.
The GoFundMe for the officer had raised more than $1.4 million by Monday evening. The page was organized by Jean Messiha, a one-time adviser to French far-right politician Marine Le Pen.
She wrote that the page was for the officer, “who has done his job and is now paying a high price.”
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Germany Elects Its First AfD Mayor
Fresh on the heels of a breakthrough victory in Thuringia, where the conservative, antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had its candidate—for the first time in the party’s history—elected to serve as the district administrator in Sonneberg, the AfD took yet another historic step forward this weekend as its candidate won a mayoral election in Saxony-Anhalt.
In Sunday’s run-off mayoral election in the small town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, Hannes Loth, who serves as a member of the state’s parliament for the AfD, defeated his opponent Nils Naumann, who’s not affiliated with any party. Loth garnered 51.1% of votes, compared to 48.9% collected by his rival, the Berlin-based newspaper Junge Freiheit reports.
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Germany: Incitement Complaint Filed Against Thuringian Spy Boss Over “Brown Dregs” Comment
The Thuringian spy boss’s inflammatory assertion that the 16 million citizens who support the conservative, antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party represent the “brown dregs” of German society could potentially have legal ramifications.
In the wake of last week’s statements made by Stephan Kramer, the head of the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, where he smeared one-fifth of the German population as fascist scum, Thuringia’s AfD chief Björn Höcke, who represents the right-wing faction of the party, has filed a criminal complaint against the state spy boss for incitement to hatred, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
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Netherlands: Less Than 1/5 Trust Rutte’s Globalist Cabinet, Poll Reveals
Results from a new opinion poll have indicated that the trust levels of Mark Rutte’s liberal-globalist cabinet have fallen to a rock-bottom low, with less than one in five Dutch citizens saying that they have confidence in the executive body.
The survey, carried out and published by the news outlet EenVandaag, revealed that a dismal 17% of those surveyed expressed having confidence in Prime Minister Rutte’s cabinet, continuing a trend, which so far this year, has failed to see the ruling coalition—comprised of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), Democrats 66 (D66), Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Christian Union (CU)—gain more than 20% of the population’s trust.
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Scotland: Extinction Rebellion Targets Wood Offices in Aberdeen and Staines
Extinction Rebellion activists have been targeting the offices of Wood Plc (LON: WG), formerly known as Wood Group, in Aberdeen and Staines.
In Aberdeen this morning, activists knelt to the ground and had fake oil poured on them outside the firm’s offices.
Meanwhile the Wood base in Staines, Surrey was sprayed with fake black crude oil.
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Spain: Vox Campaigns on Referenda Agenda
Santiago Abascal, leader of VOX, has been participating in rallies in the lead-up to the fast-approaching general elections. He is scheduled to visit 30 cities and appear with local candidates between now and the end of the campaign period, on July 21st.
He has emphasised the need not only to replace the current government but to change its policies, meaning that entering into a coalition with the centre-right PP—without guaranteeing a thorough change in direction for the country—is not acceptable.
This change would include repealing laws like the Democratic History law and legislation to do with transgenderism, abortion, and euthanasia.
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Sweden’s NATO Membership is a Pipe Dream, Turkey Says Ahead of Summit
There’s just over a week until the major annual NATO summit kicks off in Vilnius, Lithuania — but Sweden has little hope at this point that its stalled application for membership will be accepted.
Last week Sweden allowed a Quran-burning protest to proceed, which took place in Stockholm, drawing about 200 people to the scene which had police protection. Interestingly, this time it was a 37-year old Iraqi man which destroyed the book (reportedly he’s an Iraqi Christian refugee) which is considered holy by Muslims. He was assisted by another man carrying Swedish flags.
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UK: “Conscience Matter”: Welsh Tory MP Resigns Over Sex Ed Laws
Plans to impose a uniform sex education program on post-primary schools in Northern Ireland led a Tory MP to quit his government job.
Robin Millar, a Welsh MP who entered parliament in 2019, said the changes coming out of Westminster were a “conscience matter” for him, BBC reports.
The newly updated curriculum would force schools to teach their pupils about access to abortion services and prevention of adolescent pregnancy through use of contraception.
Before the change, all Northern Irish schools were free to autonomously decide on their sexual education policies, which allowed for religious positions on the matter to be presented.
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— after Sadiq Khan said protesters were ‘a really important pressure group’
Furious drivers attempted to force their way through Just Stop Oil eco-zealots as they blocked roads during rush hour in the capital this morning.
The eco-mob held up banners while slow-walking on the South Circular Road near its junction with the A40 in west London, while also causing disruption on Kings Street in Hammersmith, New Kent Road in Southwark and Hanger Lane in Ealing.
A series of clips shared online showed fed-up motorists nudging against the demonstrators with their vehicles before speeding off or attempting to drive around them and almost knocking them over.
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UK: Two Women Charged After 13 Animal Rights Activists Arrested at Towcester Racecourse
Two women has been charged after 13 animal right activists were arrested at Towcester Racecourse.
Members from Animal Rising were present at the racecourse on Saturday (July 1) at the Greyhound Derby.
The group says they were present to “send a clear message that we need a national conversation about our broken relationship with other animals and nature”. Animal Rising supports calls by the RSPCA, Dogs Trust, and Blue Cross to end Greyhound racing in the UK.
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Organization of Islamic Cooperation Calls for International Laws Against Burning the Quran
The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for international laws to punish burning the Quran, following a demonstration in Sweden last week in which a man burned a copy of the Muslim holy book on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
“We must send constant reminders to the international community regarding the urgent application of international law, which clearly prohibits any advocacy of religious hatred,” said OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha, speaking after an emergency session in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Kremlin: No Mobilization to Replace Wagner, Moves Against Prigozhin’s Businesses
There is no need for a new wave of mobilization after Wagner forces left the Ukrainian front, Moscow announced, as Prigozhin’s influence in Russia keeps dwindling after the Wagner-linked Patriot Media is shut down and his frontline catering company loses its contract with the defense ministry.
As Moscow tries to deal with the fallout of Wagner’s failed coup attempt last month, many suspected that the gap left by the removal of tens of thousands of experienced mercenaries from the Ukrainian front will be filled with a fresh wave of conscripts from across Russia. But according to the Kremlin, there’s no need to worry.
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Moscow Says 700,000 Children From Ukraine Conflict Zones Now in Russia
July 3 (Reuters) — Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, said late on Sunday.
“In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us, fleeing the bombing and shelling from the conflict areas in Ukraine,” Karasin wrote on his Telegram messaging channel.
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Ukraine Once Again Losing Territory in East, They Say
While earlier advising of modest gains in the east of the country, Ukraine now says it is losing territory again around Donetsk to Russian advances, with a spokesman saying “it’s hot everywhere now”.
An update on the progress of their push to rout the Russian invader and recapture territory — some of which has been occupied by pro-Kremlin forces for nearly a decade now — from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence reveals a mixed bag, with advances in the south but losses in the east.
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Genius: E.U. Official Sees ‘Contradiction’ Between China’s Climate Aims and Love of Coal
European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said in Beijing on Monday he was convinced “China is willing to go in the right direction” when it comes to climate action but appeared baffled as to just how the same country can also lead the world in building coal-fired power plants.
“But at the same time, it’s also true that… more coal-fired power plants are opened,” Timmermans said in a speech at Tsinghua University as reported by AFP.
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Anthony Albanese’s energy minister Chris Bowen has been called out by the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson over his advice to Aussies struggling with rising power bills.
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Harry Baker, 29, and his partner Kate Osmond, had only just purchased a home together on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. But on Thursday, she woke up to find him unresponsive.
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A furious customer has closed her bank account after trying to get cash out only to be told the branch had no money inside with the woman’s attempts to get her funds from an ATM continually frustrated.
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Migration is the Key Factor Behind Widespread Rioting in France, Says Hungarian Expert
Immigration in France is leading to street riots, Viktor Marsai, an expert from the Hungarian Migration Research Institute, told M1 News on Sunday afternoon.
“In France, in recent decades, there have been several street riots like the current one, mostly involving young people from immigrant backgrounds who are not integrated into society, do not go to school, have no job, and seek their rights via street demonstrations,” said Marsai.
He added that the integration of second— and third-generation immigrants is also difficult and that those who have arrived in recent years are even more challenging. According to Marsai, the recurrent street riots in France show what a big problem migration is and what a challenge it is to integrate these migrants into French society.
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Poland Reinforces Belarus Border Against Migrants and Wagner
Warsaw is sending 500 additional counter-terrorist forces to patrol its fortified border with Belarus as illegal crossing attempts soar, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski announced on Twitter on Sunday, July 2nd. The move is also seen as preparation for any possible fallout of Prigozhin’s failed coup attempt in Russia, as Polish authorities worry about Wagner’s increasing military presence in the neighboring country.
“Due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus, I have decided to bolster our forces with 500 Polish police officers from preventive and counter-terrorism units,” Kaminski wrote, adding that the units will join the 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers already stationed there.
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The EU’s Planned Migrant Slums for Hungary Go Against the Will of the Hungarian People
It is not only the Hungarian government that has been opposing the European Commission’s plan to establish large migration centers and migrant ghettos with a very strong political will for eight years. The Hungarians people have as well, said Hungarian Minister for International Communications Zoltan Kovacs on Sunday on national Kossuth Radio.
A Hungarian national consultation, referendum and constitutional amendment have all made it quite clear what the Hungarian people want, and the current forced migrant relocation policy of the EU is in total contradiction to the Hungarian constitutional system.
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The EU’s Migration Pact is ‘A Recipe for European Suicide,’ Says Polish MEP
The former head of Polish diplomacy, Witold Waszczykowski, admits that French police brutality may have played a role in inflaming the troubles engulfing France. However, he feels nothing can condone the level of violence France is experiencing. He asserted that this violence is coming from the immigrant communities that have failed to assimilate in France and who reject French law and culture.
In an interview with conservative news outlet wPolityce.pl, Waszczykowski said that Poland should learn a lesson from the riots in France.
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Tusk Says Ruling Polish Government Has Allowed Mass Immigration, Kaczynski Fires Back
The leader of the Polish opposition, Donald Tusk, took to social media over the weekend to comment on the recent mass riots in France. He said that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski were guilty of policies leading to migrants being brought in from countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Nigeria. He added that the ruling conservatives had last year imported 130,000 migrants from such countries, which is 50 times more than in 2015 when Tusk was last in power.
Tusk commented that Kaczynski imported migrants to arouse a fear of them for electoral purposes and that the best thing that could happen would be for Kaczynski to be removed from office so that Poles could regain control over their own state and borders.
In response, Jaroslaw Kaczynski told a meeting in central Poland that Donald Tusk seems to have had a total change of heart in one night and become fundamentally opposed to migration into Poland.
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The number of migrants making the journey to the UK in small boats last month hit its highest since records began five years ago, Home Office data shows.
In the first six months of 2023, 11,424 people were detected making the perilous journey across the Channel to Dover, Kent, from France, according to provisional government figures.
The figures include 115 migrants who arrived in three boats last Friday, taking the total in June alone to 3,824. It’s the highest total for June since records began five years ago.
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“The World is Laughing at Us”: U.S. Army Shares Story of Suicidally Depressed Transgender Major
As part of a ‘Pride’ celebration, The U.S. Army shared to social media the story of a transgender Major who now identifies as a woman after previously being suicidally depressed.
The DoD tweeted the following post linking to the story of Maj. Rachel Jones, claiming ‘she’ has ‘embraced authenticity’ and should ‘inspire us all’ after becoming head of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command’s Cyber Division.
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Bud Light Now Selling for Less Than Water in Some Places
Once the most popular beer in the U.S., Bud Light is now selling for less than water in some American warehouses.
Andy Wagner, the manager and 18-year veteran of Glenn Miller’s Beer & Soda Warehouse in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania told the New York Times that a 30-pack of Miller Lite was selling for $24.99, while a 30-pack of Bud Light was priced at $8.99 after a rebate.
“At this point, it’s cheaper than some of the cases of water we’re selling in the back,” Wagner said. “It’s just not moving like it used to.”
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Calls Mount for Anheuser-Busch CEO to be Fired for Bud Light Disaster
Calls are mounting for Anheuser-Busch’s CEO Brendan Whitworth to be fired ahead of July 4th over the disastrous Bud Light ad campaign.
Anson Frericks, the former president of Anheuser Busch Sales and Distribution Co., is calling for Whitworth to be ousted ahead of the holiday — the biggest sales day of the year,
The ad campaign featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney has wiped billions off the company’s value and is continuing to destroy the brand.
If Anheuser-Busch suffers poor sales for the Fourth of July holiday, as predicted, it would be disastrous for the embattled beermaker.
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Canada: RCMP Allegedly Grills Saskatchewan High School Students Over ‘Straight and Proud’ Poster
An RCMP officer reportedly came to Swift Current Comprehensive High School and grilled students about a poster they had signed affirming that they were “straight and proud.”
The incident gathered extensive traffic on the internet after independent journalist and videographer Nadine Ness posted details on her Twitter account.
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Georgia Universities Spent Millions on DEI Efforts Prior to State Budget Cuts: Report
The University System of Georgia spent millions on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts prior to cuts from the state budget approved earlier this year, according to a Monday report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).
The report detailed a nearly 200-page response from system Chancellor Sonny Perdue to Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who questioned how much had been spent on DEI efforts following complaints from the former over the approved $66 million decrease in funding for the system.
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JK Rowling Congratulates Anti-Trans Activist After Judges Award $127K for Wrongful Firing
A UK woman has been awarded £100,000 ($127,000) after the woke anti-poverty organization she worked for fired her for saying that people cannot change their biological sex.
Maya Forstater was fired by the Centre for Global Development (CGD), which refused to renew her contract in March 2019 after she posted tweets opposing proposals by the government to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow those who identify as the opposite sex to do so without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
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Major banks are shutting down people’s accounts as punishment for their political opinions, but it could all be about to change.
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Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared Monday the planet is “[…] burning. It’s melting. It’s flooding. It’s depleting. It’s drying. It’s dying,” as he evoked a “dystopian future” for all unless “climate change” is addressed.
AFP reports Turk told a U.N. Human Rights Council debate on food availability that extreme weather events were wiping out crops, herds and ecosystems, challenging communities and their ability to rebuild and support themselves.
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I have today on July 3, 2023 with only one – two or maybe 3-5 years to live,
I turned 88 years old in April, and have an increasingly deteriorating vision
due to macular degeneration, decided to change my signature LN to
FREESWEDEN. / FREESWEDEN@gmx.com
I would venture to say that FRE SWEDEN is ambiguous,
meaning both ‘liberate Sweden’ and ‘a free Sweden’.
I wish you all the best and may your time left in this world be filled with joy and satisfaction. As an immigrant myself in your wonderful country, I very much wish for it to retain its soul, because this is what speaks to me and why I chose it. I believe there is more than a glimmer of hope as I have witnessed Sweden make surprising, collective turnarounds like no other. Given the right momentum, insight that some things just don’t work can gain the upper hand quickly. May you live to see some changes for the better and thank you for your share in making it happen.
For Scandinavian-speaking listeners, here is
realist Arne Weinz’s view of Sweden’s future.
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Two different ways to respond to Muslim expansion
Muslim expansion in Europe raises the question of our rights and freedoms. Can we maintain them without submitting to the demands of Islam?
When an Iraqi burned a Koran outside the mosque on Södermalm in Stockholm the other day, emotions ran high among the easily offended Muslims. Both Shia and Sunni seem to have come together and united in their hatred of Sweden, the Swedes and Swedish legislation which makes it very clear that here in the North you can burn holy books on death days if you so wish. This was decided in 1970 when the blasphemy law (the law on freedom of religion) was repealed, as the legislators felt that “protection of religious freedom did not justify the restrictions on freedom of speech and the press” and that other laws such as incitement to hatred, disorderly conduct, defamation, disturbance of the peace or disturbance of a public gathering were at least as good. It remains to be seen.
The police reported the Iraqi Koran burner for incitement to racial hatred in connection with the small book fire.
In short, we in Sweden do not like the idea that pure superstition (which the secular Svensson thinks religion is) should have special protection.
But now this is about to change, it feels like only a matter of time. The weakness shown by Sweden’s leadership in general also applies to the highest degree in relation to offended Muslim states.
No sooner had the Koran been extinguished in the south than the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Billström, condemned the incident. In a letter to SVT, the Ministry writes that it was an “offensive and disrespectful act and a clear provocation” and that:
“Expressions of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance have no place in Sweden or in Europe.”
It doesn’t get any more backwards than that. Muslims attack the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and Turkey threatens to “teach the arrogant Westerners” a lesson. 57 Muslim states (IOC) demand that the Koran be protected from desecration in non-Muslim countries as well. The US condemns. The Pope condemns. Putin condemns. All because a book considered sacred by Muslims is burned (apparently to provoke).
So Saudi Arabia and other countries that ban, oppress and persecute Christians are now demanding that other countries must protect their holy book, and Western politicians are basically joining the chorus. As I said, it’s only a matter of time before we get blasphemy laws in Sweden, where it will be forbidden to burn the Koran, but probably not the Bible or other religious documents.
That was one way of dealing with what can only be described as a Muslim expansion in Europe. A dangerous way, it should be added, as many people always want more and slowly but surely Islam is advancing its positions. Remember, for example, how it sounded when the minarets were about to get planning permission: “Of course there will never be a call to prayer from them…”.
The second way to respond to Muslim expansion is taught by the Polish winged hussars. So who were they? Well, they were among the largest cavalry units in history, with an impressive legacy that has inspired everyone from Tolkien to Sabaton.
The Hussars were active from about 1503 to 1702, but some of their greatest victories took place in the 17th century, such as saving Europe at the siege of Vienna in 1683.
They rode on horseback and were easily recognizable thanks to the uniquely designed wings they wore. These wings were often made of wooden plates with eagle feathers (or other varieties such as falcon and goose feathers) attached to them. Hussars also wore leopard or bear skins, which further helped to scare the hell out of the enemy.
The Venetian envoy Hieronimo Lippomano wrote about the winged hussars in 1575:
“To frighten the enemy, they dress their horses in feathers, attach eagle wings to themselves, and put leopard or bear skins on their shoulders.”
The hussars came to be known as ‘angels of death’.
They rode the finest horses, which they paid for themselves. Given that the hussars were members of the Polish nobility, they could afford it. Besides the horses, they paid for all other equipment as well, except for the iconic hollow lance given to them as a gift by the king.
Despite being lighter than a traditional lance, this lance was much more durable, and the length could be extended for greater reach. The end result was a deadly and effective weapon used with great skill. At the Battle of Polonka (June 28, 1660), a horseman is said to have impaled six Russian footmen. And at the Battle of Chocim (September 7, 1621) the Hussars’ lances impaled up to three or four mounted Turks at once.
This was at a time when the Pope did not condemn resistance to Islam.
The siege of Vienna is arguably the greatest victory of the winged hussars, and it was achieved by a cavalry charge that is among the largest in history.
150 000 Muslim troops besieged Vienna, and it looked like they would succeed in taking the city. All hope was lost. Then came the Hussars, led by their King Jan III Sobieski. He rode at the head of 20 000 men, 3 000 of whom were winged hussars.
Before the attack, the king addressed his men, saying among other things:
“Have therefore no other thought than to either conquer or nobly end your lives in this just cause, to which our honor is attached /…/ Consider also that your king fights at your head and thus shares both your honor and danger; and be assured that the god of war whose cause we defend will undoubtedly fight for us.”
The attack was the last decisive blow to the Ottomans before they accepted defeat and retreated. Sobieski said after the battle: ‘Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit’ or ‘We came, we saw, God conquered’.
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Europe’s borders are drawn with the blood of Europeans who sacrificed their lives to prevent Muslim expansion. And now we see the descendants of these Europeans giving away their birthright to the continent without a second thought. Hundreds of thousands of our people have given their lives throughout history for Europe to be the crown of civilizations, and now we are bending our knees to Eastern intolerance and religious aggression.
Our rights and freedoms are not self-evident. They are not God-given. They don’t really exist beyond our ability to maintain them. Right now, things look bad. It looks like we will not be able to uphold them without submitting to the demands of Islam. This in itself is ironically appropriate since Islam means “submission” and “obedience”, something the police, press and politicians in Sweden are experts at.
Magnus Söderman, Juli 3, 2023 in SVEATING.se
If you have any more questions about Muslims and Islam you have a serious mental problem. Preparation and planning followed by action to drive these creatures back down and out.
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The Swedish government chooses to kowtow to foreigners and Islamist dictatorships instead of standing up for Swedes’ freedom of expression.
This is spineless and unacceptable, says Det fria Sverige,
the Swedish people’s interest group.
“Of course, a Swedish government should always defend our freedom of expression, and if foreigners interfere with it, it’s their problem, not ours.
Yet the government chooses to do the opposite, as is clear from the Foreign Ministry’s statement:
“We have noted the statement from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The Swedish government fully understands that the Islamophobic acts committed by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden can be offensive to Muslims. We strongly condemn these acts, which in no way reflect the views of the Swedish Government.
The burning of the Koran, or any other holy text, is an offensive and disrespectful act and a clear provocation. Expressions of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance have no place in Sweden or in Europe.
Sweden has a constitutionally protected right to freedom of assembly, expression and demonstration.
The Swedish government finds it deeply regrettable that extremists and provocateurs seek to divide Muslims and non-Muslims.”
Spineless government
When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the use of Swedish freedom of expression because it risks offending the feelings of foreigners, they are out of their depth.
The whole thing should be quite simple: Stand up for the Swedes, stand up for freedom of speech. But the government headed by Ulf Kristersson is far too spineless, and far too excited by the idea of finally joining NATO, to even imagine putting the Swedes and our freedom of speech first.
The fact that people are sad and offended is not an argument for banning something. You never want to end up on that kind of slippery slope, which is why freedom of expression must be as absolute as possible.
Criticism from freedom of expression expert
Nils Funcke, who is a well-known defender of freedom of expression
— and he reacts strongly to the government’s statement. To the Dagens Nyheter (3/7) he says:
“The government takes it very far when talking about racism and Islamophobia. It dutifully mentions that Sweden has a constitutionally protected freedom of expression. Here it is a person who has used it and then it is the government’s task to defend that right, rather than engage in any kind of discussion about how this affects relations with Turkey.”
He also argues that “politicians should not take this active approach against a person who has used their freedom of expression”.
Funcke is of course absolutely right.
The impossible multicultural democracy
What we are dealing with is an early example of how multiculturalism and democracy cannot possibly coexist.
The fact that since 1975 Sweden has opened up for foreigners to not only settle in Sweden, but also encouraged them to maintain and cultivate their ethnic, religious and cultural identity, has led to a country that will not be able to stay together.
Unfortunately, we have long seen how the political and media establishment has prioritized mass immigration and multiculturalism over cohesion and community, and what goes around comes around.
If a government seriously wants to stand up for Swedish freedom of expression in the future, its first task will be to dismantle multiculturalism and restore community.
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Re: “The impossible multicultural democracy…What we are dealing with is an early example of how multiculturalism and democracy cannot possibly coexist.”
One is reminded of Sir Karl Popper’s philosophical statement of the paradox of tolerance:
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
Whether they like it or not, Swedes maybe very well soon be called upon to decide whether they wish to remain tolerant without limit, or lose their birthright and homeland.
Tolerance, kindness and compassion in their proper time and place are often wonderful things, but any good idea can be taken too far. As Aristotle said, “Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society…” and he was not at all wrong.
And what of the constant drumbeat that “diversity is our strength,” and similar statements by the powers-that-be, both in Sweden and across the western world. That’s known rhetorically as an unsupported assertion. The burden of proof for that claim ought to be on those making it, and not those who liked Sweden as it has existed through most of its history.
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While we wait for the collapse
By Lars Hedegaard / snaphanen.dk
Summer is here, the forest is green, bees are buzzing, birds are singing and people are relaxing by the beach. Fortunately, we don’t hear much from the politicians, who tend to plague us with one crazy plan after another to the delight of the journalists, who get something to write about.
Life should be good, but deep down we feel that the calm is a surface phenomenon and that deep tectonic plates are shifting the foundations of the whole society.
The Aliens Act and mass immigration have turned Denmark upside down forever. Suddenly there are areas in the country where peaceful citizens are not allowed to stay. Suddenly we see some of this year’s students waving Palestinian flags instead of the Dannebrog, even though Danes have paid for their education. And even though Middle Easterners make up maybe 6% of the population, they appear daily in the media, where they never have anything to contribute other than complaints about how bad they feel.
This presence has become commonplace and something that politicians and the media portray as an enrichment of Denmark, and shame on anyone who says otherwise.
But how long will this idyll last? This drumbeat of state propaganda to make us believe that all is well?
Probably not for much longer.
France is currently under scrutiny after an alliance of ‘youth’ and the far left launched a violent attack on the social order. The French police have threatened to take matters into their own hands if Emmanuel Macron does not show the necessary force to put down the rebellion. Macron says he will do something, but who can believe it? It was already clear years ago that France had imported a large North African population that did not want to know the country or Western culture in general. Politicians did nothing to reverse the social breakdown, so why should they do anything now?
Or look at Sweden, where a recent survey shows that half the population is considering leaving the country because it has become too unsafe. Where will they go when immigration has had the same consequences everywhere?
Where will the Danes stay when they are gradually being squeezed by outsiders who want nothing good for them?
Sooner or later we will face the choice between submission and resistance, and it will be interesting to see how the authorities react.
Unfortunately, the experience of the last few decades suggests that the state and its apparatus of power will side with the most violent, because it takes courage and determination to act differently, and because it is always easier to oppress the peaceful and unarmed [ Anarcho-tyranny ].
If we want to preserve the fragments of the rule of law and Danish culture, it is time to start thinking about what we will do on the day when the state has allied itself with our enemies. Because that is the most likely outcome.
See the French police union: “Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will be in resistance”.
The French, the Swedes, and others across Old Europe and around the West are facing two threats to their well-being and survival, and neither has anything whatsoever to do with the Ukraine or the Russian Federation.
For 1,400 years the Muslims have sought to bring about the downfall of Christendom and the West. There have been dozens of large-scale attempts to invade and subjugate Old Europe on behalf of Islam, and too many to count smaller battles, engagements and raids. Millions of Europeans, most of them Christian, have been taken as slaves by Muslim raiders operating as far north as Ireland and Scandinavia.
Since being stopped outside Vienna in September 1683, the fortunes of the Islamic invaders have been in eclipse, as the West rose in power, both economic and military. The centuries-long Ottoman Empire fell in 1921.
For these reasons, the long twilight war between Islam and the West – which was once common knowledge even to school children – has now receded into our past and a sort of historical obscurity.
However, today, modern Europeans are learning all over again the things that their forbearers knew about how dangerous and implacable are the Muslims. How fanatical is their zeal to conquer in the name of their creed and their prophet. None of these things has gone away over the three-hundred forty years since 1683; the soldiers of Allah have just been awaiting the right opportunity to strike at Europe again.
And as you already know, they have done just that – in France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.K., Holland, and many other places.
The great question remains: Do the Swedes as a people retain any remnant of their fierce Viking heritage, or has it been bred and conditioned out of them by decades of prosperity and easy living?
If recent events continue on their present trajectory, they may very well find out.
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France is burning – and parliamentarism is crumbling
By Ernest Wolff
source:https://apolut.net/frankreich-brennt-und-der-parlamentarismus-zerfaellt-von-ernst-wolff
channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@ErnstWolffOffiziell
from German by LN
France was in a state of emergency over the weekend. Cars and houses were on fire in many cities across the country. Despite the deployment of 45,000 police officers, more than 700 supermarkets, restaurants and bank branches were looted on Saturday alone. Within just 24 hours, 1,300 people were arrested across the country.
The riots were triggered by a video of the violent death of a 17-year-old car driver, which had gone viral on social media. Contrary to the initial police statement that it was self-defense by a police officer, the recording shows 17-year-old Nahel M. being shot through a side window as he starts his car.
This is not the first time that France has had to deal with burning suburbs and civil war-like scenes in many cities. Twenty years ago, then Interior Minister Sarkozy used similar conditions to distinguish himself by being extremely tough on rioters, helping him to be elected president two years later.
This time, however, the reaction of politicians was more restrained. Although the French police again acted uncompromisingly, President Macron did not declare a state of emergency and the National Front did not launch an offensive against migrants. The reason for this is the helplessness of all political currents and parties, which every day lose more and more support among the population.
President Macron made himself extremely unpopular a few months ago with the pension reform, and Marine LePen’s usual blaming of immigrants is pointless, as many of those who run the looted shops are themselves among the victims of the riots. The left’s usual complaints about state and police brutality are also largely ineffective.
The reason for this reaction is the cross-party helplessness in the face of the biggest problem that has hit France in a particular way in recent years: the explosion of social inequality. Symbolic of this development is, on the one hand, the increasing wealth of the world’s current richest man and, on the other hand, rampant youth unemployment, especially in the French suburbs.
French entrepreneur Bernard Arnault, who at the end of 2022 was still ranked by Forbes as the third richest man in the world with a fortune of USD 158 billion, increased it to an incredible USD 233.7 billion in June 2023, thus becoming the world’s richest person. While the youth unemployment rate in France rose from 16.9% to 17.9% between March 2022 and March 2023, it reached levels between 40% and 50% in some suburbs of major cities.
With energy costs rising sharply over the same period, inflation weakening purchasing power and food, in particular, becoming disproportionately more expensive, an explosive brew was created that was violently unleashed during the protests of recent days.
None of the parties assembled in the French Parliament has a recipe for this development, and there is a reason for that: they all have almost nothing to say these days.
The tone for political and social change is now set by only one force, and that is the digital-financial complex. This historically unique cartel consisting of the financial giants BlackRock & Co. and the largest IT companies in Silicon Valley is also using the current terminal phase of the monetary system in France to systematically loot it, and only tolerates politicians who fully submit to it.
Since the cartel controls virtually all media, it can either call anyone who does not adapt to it or slander or discredit them via social media within a very short time.
Moreover, the digital-financial complex has been thinking ahead for a long time. It knows that the looting of the system cannot continue indefinitely and is therefore preparing a new system in the background. It will be financially based on central bank digital money, but that is far from all: the new money will be accompanied by social controls the likes of which the world has never seen. These include a Chinese-style social credit system, digital ID cards, 15-minute cities, facial recognition, drone surveillance, QR codes to track health or CO-2 footprints, and above all: AI-driven censorship of social media by the cartel.
It is in this area that the loss of power of parliamentarianism is most evident: while in the past it was authoritarian governments, especially dictatorships, that fought their opponents through censorship, in our time it is the largest IT companies and the shareholders behind them, led by BlackRock and Vanguard, that are leading this fight.
They alone decide who can say what and when, and who is completely denied the opportunity to speak to the public. Politicians only have the increasingly difficult task of selling the instructions of the digital-financial complex to their voters as decisions made in their own interest.
The developments of recent days clearly show that not only the monetary system but also parliamentarism has entered its final phase, and not only in France. There, events have only made it particularly clear how far the decay of the last vestiges of parliamentary democracy has progressed. In fact, the digital-financial complex is currently in the process of imposing its ultra-authoritarian agenda all over the world – including here
in Germany.
Whether it will succeed in doing so depends entirely on how many people resist it – not by building barricades in the streets or setting cars or buildings on fire, but because they see through the system, are not prepared to be led unopposed into a digital-financial prison and therefore do everything they can to educate their fellow human beings and win them over to the peaceful struggle for a life of freedom and self-determination.
Macron hates the indigenous French people but he loves the muslim killers and the rapists.
He is a very sick man like Justin Turdeau.
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Mohammad’s little love-book, My Struggle,
is back on the agenda.
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UN crisis meeting on Swedish Koran burnings
Published July 4, 2023 in Fria Tider
The UN has called what the organization describes as an emergency meeting on the Koran burnings in Sweden. At the same time, the Swedish government stands by its “condemnation” of the Koran burnings.
It is in the UN Human Rights Council that Pakistan requested an extraordinary meeting because of “Koran burnings in Europe”.
Human Rights Council representative Pascal Sim says the meeting is a result of the number of Koran burnings in European and other countries.
Foreign Minister Tobias Billström says he stands by the Swedish government’s somewhat ambiguous “condemnation” of Koran burning, which is, after all, legal in Sweden.
– “Freedom of expression goes both ways, and what is legal is not always appropriate,” Billström said.
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