A cross-dressing BLM supporter named Kimbrady Carriker allegedly went on a randomly-targeted shooting rampage today in Philadelphia, killing five people and wounding several others. Meanwhile, late last night an undetermined number of gunmen shot randomly into a crowd in Fort Worth, Texas, killing three people and wounding at least eight others.
In other news, the Russian government announced that its air defenses shot down a number of Ukrainian attack drones that were on their way to Moscow last night.
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Inflation in Poland Getting Closer to Single-Digit Level
The inflation in Poland decreased to 11.5 percent year-over-year in June compared to 13 percent in May, according to preliminary estimates by the Statistics Poland (GUS). The consensus forecast was for a reading of 11.7 percent year-over-year.
Prices of goods and services remained at the same level in June compared to the previous month. The lower inflation in June was a result of a slowdown in all its main components: food prices, fuel, energy carriers, and core inflation.
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‘Annoying as Hell’: Texas Tesla Owner Locked Out of Car After Battery Fails in Heat
Dennis Hegstad, a Tesla owner from Texas, was left stranded when he couldn’t access his Model 3. His electric vehicle had 130 miles of charge available, but was completely locked up, requiring a tow to a service center. He believes the car’s 12-volt battery failed under the relentless Texas summer heat.
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Adam Schiff Calls on Democrats to Pack Supreme Court With Leftists
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is renewing calls for Democrats to pack the United States Supreme Court with leftist justices who will further advance the Left’s agenda.
Schiff put out a rallying call to his fellow Democrats to “expand, unstack, and reform” the highest court in the land.
In an email to supporters of his Senate campaign, Schiff said, “We must unpack the court by expanding the number of justices on the court, instituting term limits, and enacting a code of ethics like every other federal court.”
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American Farmer Issues Warning: ‘China is Quietly Taking’ Control of U.S Food Supply
An American farmer is raising the alarm about U.S. food security and has issued a warning to the public that the United States is losing control of its own agriculture industry.
Despite lawmakers’ success in introducing legislation to address the issue, one U.S. farmer warns that China is still infiltrating “many, many acres” in rural America.
National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd Jr. is warning that “China is quietly taking over” control of America’s food supply.
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Two Antifa militants have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder.
Brian DiPippa, 36, and his 40-year-old wife, Krystal, allegedly carried out an explosive attack outside an event featuring the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles at the University of Pittsburgh in April.
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Breaking: Federal Judge Issues Injunction Against WH, Gov’t Agencies on Speech Suppression
Happy birthday, America — and RIP to its newly erected “Ministry of Truth.” That term comes directly from federal Judge Terry Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana, who issued an injunction a couple of hours ago that takes direct aim at the government-media censorship complex. Concluding that plaintiffs in the lawsuit have a strong likelihood of proving that the US government suppressed dissent — and particularly conservative dissent — Doughty ordered the Biden administration and its executive agencies to cease any coordination with social-media companies.
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Kimbrady Carriker, 40, a Black Lives Matter supporter who made numerous posts about guns shot dead four men and a 15-year-old boy in Philadelphia on the eve of the Fourth of July.
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Exclusive: Seattle-Area July 4th Parade Rerouted to Avoid Homeless Camp
The city of Burien, Washington altered the parade route for its 100th Annual Independence Day Celebration to avoid a massive homeless encampment.
The encampment on SW 152nd St near the entrance of a Grocery Outlet and Dollar Tree is now close to 20 tents deep.
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FAA Greenlights “Limited” Flight Operations for SpaceX-Backed Flying Car
About eight months ago, we penned a note titled “Forget Musk’s Tunnels, Early Tesla Investor Seeds First-Ever eVTOL Car.” And come to find out, the flying car SpaceX-backed mobility firm Alef Aeronautics has received a Special Airworthiness Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, marking the first time any vehicle of its kind has received legal approval to fly from the federal government.
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Fourth of July Cookout Costs 15% More Since Biden Took Office
The price of a July 4th cookout has gone up 15% since President Biden took office.
With information obtained from the American Farm Bureau on specific-item price changes in 2021, the White House touted a decrease in a Fourth of July cookout price by 16 cents, compared to the previous year, from $35.70 to $35.54.
“Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working,” the White House said in a tweet highlighting the price drop, after Biden was in office roughly six months.
However, this year’s cost, when compared to the costs cited by the White House from the AFB’s list in 2021, is $40.90 — a 15% increase from 2020, before the president took office, according to an analysis by Just the News.
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Freedom Fuel: Sheetz Sets Price of Gas at $1.776 Per Gallon for Independence Day
A gas station chain is making it more affordable for Americans to drive to their Fourth of July celebrations today, lowering the price of nearly all fuel at its nearly 700 locations to $1.776 per gallon.
Sheetz, a family-run operation with gas stations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, began the tradition in 2022 with the two cheapest grades of gasoline, but expanded the price drop to include everything but diesel this year.
“Don’t sleep on this deal,” Sheetz tweeted. “Promo pricing on all grades while suppliez last.”
Customers were quick to express their gratitude, with many posting pictures of their receipts.
“Thank you for being the best gas station & happy 4th!” a user wrote.
“Got up early on my day off for it,” one woman said, showing off that she’d paid just $14.73 for eight gallons.
“Woooooo,” exclaimed another user.
The promotion took effect at 12:01 am Tuesday, and some customers made their way to their local Sheetz in the wee hours of the morning to take advantage.
According to the American Automobile Association, the average national price for a gallon of gas is $3.53, with Sheetz’ promotion cutting the cost in half.
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Fort Worth Police said unknown males began shooting randomly into the crowd. Officers said 11 people were shot, 3 of them died.
Instead of spending the day with loved ones on the Fourth of July, several families mourned the loss of people killed Monday night in Fort Worth’s Como neighborhood.
Fort Worth Police said ‘unknown males’ began shooting randomly into a crowd where people gathered in the 3400 block of Horne St. around 11:47 p.m.
Officers said the incident was unrelated to the ComoFest, a community event that took place at a different location.
Eleven people were shot, according to police, three of whom died. One person died at the scene and two others died at the hospital.
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New York Pizzeria Carbon Rules Could Shut Jewish Matzah Bakeries
New York City’s carbon emissions rules for wood- or coal-burning ovens could put Jewish matzah bakeries out of business.
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NYC Council to Probe City Hall’s Response to Toxic Canadian Wildfire Smoke
The City Council plans to hold a hearing next week into Mayor Eric Adams’ response to the dangerous plumes of smoke and soot from Canadian wildfires that blanketed the city, turning the skies a frightening orange and forcing many New Yorkers with respiratory problems indoors.
Adams was faulted by some lawmakers for a slow-footed response as the administration’s first warning about the toxic conditions came shortly before midnight amid deteriorating conditions, despite hours of warnings from meteorologists and scientists about the approaching hazard.
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Oregon Groups Create Segregated Hikes for ‘People of Colour’
The Oregonian reports that hiking groups in Portland are encouraging non-white people to band together in the outdoors so that they can ‘feel safer’.
The report notes that the heads of the groups Unlikely Hikers, OutGrown and People of Color Outdoors understand black people’s “sometimes wavering comfort level when wandering in the wilderness.”
It adds that the groups “want to make recreational public land feel more welcoming to people who are more afraid of encountering a person with a prejudice than a mountain lion.”
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Penn State Forces Faculty to Grade Students by Race, Harasses Whites: Ex-Professor Lawsuit
Pennsylvania State University officials allegedly pressured a white English professor to grade students according to their race and retaliated against him for filing racial harassment and bias complaints stemming from its enforcement of “antiracism,” prompting him to quit.
The state-related institution was not only “deliberately indifferent to the racially hostile environment” for Zack de Piero, but “actively treated De Piero as the problem, suggesting mental health treatment and disciplining him for bullying when he dared to complain,” according to de Piero’s lawsuit, which alleges violations of Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, First Amendment and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
The second-generation Italian immigrant was alarmed by the “race-essentialism focus” soon after arriving at Penn State’s Abington campus in suburban Philadelphia in 2018, “which he feared would be harmful to his students, a majority of which were from minority backgrounds and ethnicities,” according to the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, which is sponsoring the suit.
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Philadelphia Mass Shooting; Sources ID Suspect
The people killed range in age from 15 to 59. Two children were shot and wounded.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Action News has learned the name of the suspect accused of indiscriminately shooting people with an assault rifle on Monday night in Philadelphia, leaving five people dead and four others wounded.
Sources say that suspect is 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker, who lives in the 5600 block of Belmar Terrace. The home is just a few blocks from the shooting scene.
Carriker has yet to be charged, but District Attorney Larry Krasner said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference he expects Carriker will be charged soon with multiple counts of murder.
Sources say the suspect made disturbing posts on social media prior to the gunfire. Sources say Carriker, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, owned the guns used in this mass shooting.
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Popular Anti-Trump Democrat Twitter Account Exposed as Fake
A popular anti-Trump Twitter account, that frequently posted viral tweets promoting pro-Democrat talking points, has been exposed as a fake and shut down.
The “Erica Marsh” account was posing as a young female Democrat operative.
The bio of the account that claimed “she” was a former field organizer for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and an Obama Foundation volunteer.
The account mostly posted regular pro-Democrat tweets mixed with a small amount of outrageous, hate-filled, and divisive tweets, often with false claims that frequently went viral.
However, “Erica Marsh” never existed.
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Republicans Move to Block Biden Admin’s Engagement With World Economic Forum
House Republicans have moved to block Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration from engaging with globalist outside forces on issues that impact the lives of the American people.
The House Committee on Appropriations has floated a budget proposal that, if passed, with terminate the U.S. federal government’s engagement with the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The proposal also seeks to block taxpayer funding of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth Alliance, and dangerous “gain-of-function” research.
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Twitter vs. Scrapers: Musk to Limit Number of Tweets Users Can Read
Last weekend, Twitter’s Elon Musk went on a confusing tweeting spree in which he announced measures to combat so-called ‘scrapers’, i.e., companies that mine large amounts of data from the social media platform for their own purposes.
Under Twitter’s new rules, users would only be able to read a limited number of tweets per day: verified accounts would get 6,000, while new and existing non-paying users would get 300 and 600 respectively.
The ability for people who haven’t registered to peruse the social media platform is also coming to an end.
According to Reuters, Musk had earlier expressed his displeasure with artificial intelligence companies such as ChatGPT-owners OpenAI, which he believed were using Twitter data to train their language models to generate automated texts.
Musk, however, did not explicitly refer to these companies as being the cause of Twitter’s intervention.
According to Musk, these limitations are “temporary,” as they are meant to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.”
A Twitter spokesperson did not reply to inquiries about how long the restrictions might last.
Less than two hours after his initial tweet, which stirred considerable controversy, Musk quote-tweeted his original announcement but added that those numbers would be bumped up to 8,000 for verified accounts, while new and existing non-paying users would be granted 400 and 800.
Again mere hours later, Musk tweeted the cap was raised to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 per day for unverified users, and 500 posts per day for new unverified users.
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Video: RFK Jr Pushes Back When Accused of Being a Candidate Who ‘Traffics Routinely in Conspiracies’
During an interview with leftist outlet Reason, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr challenged the hosts to prove him wrong when they suggested that he continually spreads conspiracy theories.
Reason editor at large Nick Gillespie told RFK Jr “One of the critiques of your candidacy or even your public profile is that you traffic routinely in conspiracies and that kind of conspiracist mindset where almost everything that we take for granted is bad.”
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Former President Donald Trump expressed his Fourth of July well-wishes on Truth Social Tuesday, calling President Joe Biden a ‘very dangerous idiot’ for twice mixing up Ukraine and Iraq.
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Professor Yoel Inbar teaches psychology at the University of Toronto. Recently his long-time girlfriend who teaches psychology at a different university was offered a job by UCLA. Once it became clear her offer was solid she mentioned to the school that she had a partner who also taught psychology and asked if it was possible the school would consider hiring him as well. These kind of partner hires are not unusual in academia. UCLA asked Inbar to send his qualifications and next they set up a sort of job interview for him on campus.
That campus visit seemed to go very well overall but there was one thing that happened during the trip which seemed a bit odd in retrospect. It happened when Inbar was meeting with UCLA’s diversity issues committee
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Irish student Max Wall, 18, distributed posters appealing to help find his missing friend after Andrew O’Donnell, also 18, went missing on the touristic Greek island of Ios.
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EU Court to Rule on Legality of Including Biometrics on ID Cards
In a crucial legal development, the European Court of Justice is set to pass judgment on a case that calls into question the conformity of fingerprint data storage on identity cards with the European Union regulations. The case, originating in Germany, examines if this practice stands in compliance with the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and its data protection laws.
The case’s genesis was in 2021, when an individual hailing from Wiesbaden, Germany, sought a new identity card. However, the individual declined to provide fingerprint biometrics, which resulted in the city authorities refusing to issue the identification card.
This led to a legal conflict as EU law mandated the inclusion of fingerprint data on ID cards since 2021. The individual’s refusal set the stage for the escalation of the case, which was taken up by the campaign group Digitalcourage, and subsequently made its way to the European Court of Justice.
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MPs suggest the figures show the UK would struggle to fight a war against Russia. Putin’s army is estimated to have lost over 2,000 tanks in the conflict in Ukraine but has as many in reserve.
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France’s Diplomatic Agenda Again Disrupted by Riots
Following the cancellation of Charles III’s planned visit to France at the end of March, which was postponed due to demonstrations against pension reform, France’s diplomatic policy has once again been affected by social unrest, this time with the cancellation of a planned trip by Emmanuel Macron to Germany.
For several months, France’s international image has been seriously dented by the repercussions of national quarrels on the country’s external agenda. In March, France was subjected to a barrage of demonstrations against the government’s pension reform plan. Paris was in chaos, with a long-term strike by street workers causing rubbish to pile up in the streets. As a result, King Charles III was forced to cancel his first state visit as sovereign at the request of the French government, which judged that the conditions were not right for what was supposed to be a festive occasion in honour of Franco-British friendship. The opposition to the government pointed to how the events tainted the image of France abroad and condemned the country as being incapable of ensuring domestic harmony.
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French Media Reports Vigilante Gang Zip-Tying Rioters and Handing Them to Police
The existence of a masked gang of young men tying up rioters in one town is discussed in French language publications, but the mayor insists no such thing exists and tells locals to call the police if they witness unrest.
Witness accounts of a so-called “brigade anticasseur” (anti-thug brigade) in the port town of Lorlent, Brittany are reported by local newspaper Le Télégramme. In addition to what is reported by members of the public to the paper, a journalist for the publication claims to have seen a group of between 20 and 30 “young, hooded men” wearing balaclavas and gloves performing unofficial arrests.
Using zip-ties to restrain alleged rioters, the men are said to have then handed their captures onto the regular police on Friday night as well as having been seen putting out fires.
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An ongoing battle in France around who should lead a popular weekly newspaper, the Journal du Dimanche (Sunday Newspaper), or JDD, is a perfect illustration of what Frenchman Claude Chollet, from the Observatoire du Journalisme media watchdog, recently said on Remix News: That it is generally assumed in the French mainstream media there should be no room for right-wing conservative opinions as they are automatically dubbed “far right,” “xenophobic,” “racist,” “reactionary,” or even “fascist.”
That battle does not make the headlines like the destructive rioting and looting that have plunged France into a week of chaos already, but it is no less important. Indeed, the worse the situation gets, the more there is a need to enforce and consolidate what the French call “la Pensée unique,” or in other words, the one and only way of thinking that is allowed in the French mainstream media.
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Germany, Poland at Odds Over Tank-Repair Center for Ukraine — Der Spiegel
Kiev has been left without a maintenance and repair hub for its Western-supplied tanks because of a dispute between Berlin and Warsaw, German news outlet Der Spiegel reported over the weekend. The project, announced by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, is more than a month behind schedule as Germany and Poland struggle to find common ground, according to the report.
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Hungary Threatens to Block All EU Military Aid to Ukraine
Hungary will not agree to any further EU financing of arms shipments to Ukraine until Kiev removes the nation’s largest lender from its list of “sponsors of war,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a press conference on Tuesday. The minister blasted Ukraine over putting Hungary’s OTP bank on what he called a “list of shame” by calling the reasons for such a move “outrageous” and “unacceptable.”
“Our position is clear: until the OTP [bank] is removed from this list, Hungary will not greenlight any additional EU funding for weapon shipments to Ukraine,” the minister said. The decision will cover not just the €500 million ($546 million) tranche of arms Budapest vetoed earlier but any further military assistance as well, he added.
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New French Revolution? Majority Support Ending ‘Fifth Republic’ as Macron Fails to Maintain Order
Two-thirds of the people of France would support the end of the Fifth Republic, as the government of President Emmanuel Macron continues to fail to restore social order in the country.
While the streets of France have descended into scenes similar to those seen in violent revolutions not witnessed in supposedly stable Western European countries for some time, the French public is apparently prepared to back a political revolution of their own, with a majority supporting the abolition of the republic that has governed the country since 1958, the fifth such republic since the violent revolution which abolished the Bourbon Monarchy in 1792.
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Pope Francis Appoints Controversial Liberal Archbishop to Top Doctrinal Position
One of the top positions within the Vatican and the Roman Catholic church is the Prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), formerly known as the Inquisition, as the DDF is tasked with safeguarding Church doctrine against heresy.
The position was famously held by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, from 1981 to 2005.
On Friday, Pope Francis announced that he would be appointing a new Prefect, Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel Férnandez, a close friend, who is set to take up the role in September, the National Catholic Reporter states.
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Rapid Response Quells Spread of French Riots to Belgium
Belgian police swooped in to make 64 arrests Friday, June 30th, as authorities in Brussels moved to prevent the spread of violence to Belgium following last week’s race riots in France. Social media posts circulating on Thursday night had instructed young men to gather at Place Anneessens in central Brussels approximately 10 minutes from the European Parliament to confront police in an act of solidarity with the French rioters.
Belgian authorities who had been monitoring the online posts had enough prior warning to prepare and immediately deployed riot squads to quell an attempt at importing French-scale rioting in the city.
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Schlein Stumbles as Italian Left Faces Wipeout in Tuscany
The left-wing Italian Democratic Party (PD) could lose its historic stomping ground of Tuscany after Meloni’s right-wing coalition romped home in various municipal elections this month in the cities of Siena, Pisa, and Massa.
It is strongly suspected that the entire region could flip to the Right by 2025. Tuscany is one of just four out of the twenty electoral regions in Italy not dominated by the right-wing coalition led by the ruling Fratelli d’Italia party and other parties extending further right.
The string of losses is bad news for the Democratic Party’s newly elected uber-progressive leader Elly Schlein who, contrary to initial expectations, is only hastening the party’s demise as a serious force in Italian politics due to appearances of being elitist in the eyes of working-class voters.
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Spain: Sanchez: Blurred Boundaries Between Party Travel and State Business
The Spanish newspaper El Debate has again exposed President Pedro Sanchez’s habit of using the presidential plane for PSOE party events.
This time the paper forced the Spanish government to release documentation about Sanchez’s high-flying trip last March to the Dominican Republic with his wife Begoña Gomez and an additional retinue of twenty-five people, which, notably, for a trip ostensibly intended to advance the country’s foreign relations, did not include Spain’s minister of the exterior.
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Sweden Faces New Diplomatic Headache Following Latest Quran Burning Stunt
Sweden’s latest Quran-burning demonstration, which this time saw an Iraqi national set fire to the Islamic holy book outside of Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday, June 28th, as Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha, has prompted widespread fury across the Muslim world and a diplomatic debacle for the Swedish government as well.
Sweden’s ruling center-right coalition, despite having condemned the desecration of the Islamic holy book and insisting the stunt “in no way reflects the opinions” held by the government, has faced significant backlash on multiple fronts, including—but not limited to—having its embassy in Baghdad, Iraq stormed by an angry mob, the state broadcaster SVT Nyheter reports.
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Pascal Jombla, 46 dragged the woman into his home in Hackney, east London, on June 21, 2022, where he repeatedly punched, kicked and raped her, threatening her if she did not keep quiet.
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Depending on the situation, up to 12,000 security personnel may be needed to ensure the safety of participants at the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11-12, German news agency dpa reported on Monday.
The security personnel, including 3,000 Lithuanian and 1,000 NATO troops will be responsible for the security of the heads of state and government of 40 countries and 150 other high-ranking politicians, a Lithuanian security officer and a military spokesman told a news conference in Vilnius. However, in addition, other police forces will also deploy, number potentially in the thousands.
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English rock star Morrissey sang about the potential origins of the infamous Notre Dame fire while kissing a rosary at a recent concert.
Video of the moment began circulating on social media Monday, which showed the former frontman for The Smiths passionately singing about the fire, questioning if it could have been an act of terrorism:
Notre Dame, we know who tried to kill you / Notre Dame, we will not be silent / Before investigation they said: this is not terrorism / They said there is nothing to see here.
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Bosnian Serbs Defy Dayton Agreement, Call for Referendum
Bosnia’s internationally appointed peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, stepped in to annul two decisions of the Serb-majority autonomous region on Saturday, July 1st, for violating the 1995 Dayton Agreement. In turn, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik refused to acknowledge Schmidt’s authority, accused the other party of violating the agreement first, and announced his desire to organize a referendum on the country’s status by the end of the year.
The current controversy began after the National Assembly of one of Bosnia’s two autonomous regions, Republika Srpska, voted to suspend Bosnian Constitutional Court rulings and stop publishing the peace envoy’s decrees in the region’s official gazette—both of which are specified by the Dayton Agreement, which ended the first Yugoslav war in 1995.
According to Schmidt, these decisions not only challenge the peace agreement but “directly violate the constitutional order of Bosnia-Herzegovina,” the High Representative said during a Sarajevo press conference on Saturday, July 1st. He also announced a new amendment to make attacking state institutions a criminal offense, effective immediately.
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Pregnant Woman Injured in Tel Aviv Car-Ramming, Stabbing Loses Baby
The expecting mother was one of seven injured in the attack. “There is no moral equivalence, no justification,” the Israeli embassy in Washington tweeted.
(July 4, 2023 / JNS) A pregnant mother, who was one of seven people injured in a car-ramming and stabbing terrorist attack in Tel Aviv on July 4, has lost her baby, the Israeli embassy in Washington tweeted.
The embassy previously wrote of the attack, “There is no moral equivalence, no justification. Acts of Palestinian terrorism are fueled by an ideology of antisemitic hatred that vilifies the Jewish people.”
“Terrorism strikes again in the streets of Tel Aviv today,” tweeted Melissa Lantsman, a Jewish member of the Canadian Parliament.
“Praying for the full recovery of those injured in todays stabbing attack and car ramming attack. One victim— a pregnant woman who was wounded has lost her child as a result of her own injuries. An absolute tragedy,” she added. Another horrific act of terror, another incident the world won’t condemn.”
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Suspect Killed, Seven Injured in Tel Aviv Car Attack
A car-ramming attack in northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday has injured at least seven people, local media has reported. The suspect — who is also understood to have stabbed at least one passerby after exiting his vehicle — was later shot dead by a civilian, Haaretz newspaper has reported.
The assailant, named by Haaretz as a 23-year-old Palestinian medical student from the West Bank, reportedly ran over several pedestrians. One of the injured parties, a 46-year-old woman, is in a serious condition, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service.
The incident comes a day after Israel launched what was described as the biggest aerial and ground offensive in the West Bank city of Jenin in two decades, in which 10 people have reportedly been killed. Israeli military officials described it as an “extensive counterterrorism effort.”
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Saudi Arabia and Russia Push Oil Prices Up With Deeper Production Cuts
Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two largest oil producers, annouce deeper production cuts to push worldwide market prices higher.
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A UN spokesman struggled to explain how the U.S. was not violating the international “rules based order” by continuing its military occupation inside Syria.
In a clip from March receiving renewed interest online, UN Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General Farhan Haq was confronted by Chinese journalist Edward Xu over the hypocrisy of the U.S. foreign policy of occupying any nation they wish but condemning other nations for doing the same.
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Erdogan Blames ‘War Lobby’ for Ukraine Peace Process Failure
Efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev have been “obstructed and eroded by the war lobby,” Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed. The president made the remarks on Monday while speaking to reporters in Ankara.
“The diplomatic efforts, which were initiated with the Istanbul process and proceeded with captive exchanges, have unfortunately been obstructed and eroded by the war lobby,” Erdogan stated.
The president claimed Türkiye itself had been targeted by said “war lobby,” without naming any precise culprits. If Türkiye’s peace efforts had succeeded early on in the conflict, most of the destruction could have been avoided, Erdogan explained.
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Meltdown Fears as Russia Claims False Flag Attack Imminent at Nuclear Plant
The ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive looks set to reach the city of Zaporizhzhia shortly as Ukrainian intelligence claims that Russian forces are mining the city’s nuclear power plant to explode in preparation for its potential capture.
The allegation is fiercely disputed by the Russians who in turn issued a counterclaim that Ukraine itself was planning on attacking the plant. Russia has been in control of the hotly contested city and its nuclear power station since March 2022, and experts warn that fighting around the power plant could trigger a catastrophic meltdown.
The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia plant is equipped with six uranium-powered light-water reactors and became known around the world after it was damaged during the early stages of the Russian invasion following intense shelling.
Politico reports that Russian workers at the plant have already been instructed to leave by July 5th.
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Prosecution Center for Russian War Crimes Launched in the Hague
After months of preparations, the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) was finally launched in The Hague on Monday, July 3rd. For now, the goal is building cases against Russia to begin the prosecution of war crimes as soon as the war ends, the EU’s judicial cooperation agency announced.
The ICPA will primarily take on the work of the Ukrainian judiciary, which has already documented 93,000 cases of war crimes and 347 suspects. Kyiv’s work is complemented by the evidence produced by the joint investigation of several European countries, as well as that of the U.S. Department of Justice more recently.
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Report: Western Companies Made $200B in Russia Last Year
Despite threats and promises of leaving Russia after the invasion of Ukraine last year, Western companies still made nearly $214 billion in revenues in Russia, generating billions of profit taxes that fund Putin’s war chest, according to a new report published by the non-profit B4Ukraine and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) on Tuesday, July 4th.
The report, titled “The Business of Staying” provides a detailed look into which multinational companies and which countries are the ones that remain the most responsible for providing foreign revenue to Moscow, “further enabling Russia’s war of aggression.”
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Russia Resisting Hostile Pressure — Putin
Russia is being targeted by foreign nations that have groomed a hostile neighbor at its doorstep then slapped Moscow with unprecedented economic sanctions, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday at a high-profile international meeting. But it is successfully withstanding the pressure, he assured an audience of government officials.
“For a very long time, foreign forces implemented a project at our border, which turned our neighbor Ukraine into a de-facto hostile nation, an anti-Russia. They pumped it with weapons for eight years, turned a blind eye to the aggression against civilians in Donbass, [and] fostered a neo-Nazi ideology,” the Russian leader explained.
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Russia Claims it Shot Down Ukrainian Drones Heading to Moscow Overnight
AP — Russian air defenses on Tuesday foiled a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow that prompted authorities to briefly close one of the city’s international airports, officials said, as a Western analysis said Russia has managed to slow Kyiv’s recently launched counteroffensive.
The drone attack, which follows previous similar raids on the Russian capital, was the first known assault on the Russian capital since an abortive mutiny launched 11 days ago by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. His Wagner troops marched on Moscow in the biggest — though short-lived — challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in more than two decades of his rule.
Authorities in Ukraine, which generally avoid commenting on attacks on Russian soil, didn’t say whether it launched the drone raid.
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Wagner Leader Releases Audio Message, Suggests Mercenary Force May Return to War Front
Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin resurfaced on Monday, posting an audio message to Telegram in which he thanked the Russian people for standing behind the war effort and suggested that his forces could return to the war front.
“Today, more than ever, we need your support. Thank you for that. I want you to understand that our ‘March of Justice’ was aimed at fighting traitors and mobilizing our society. And I think we have achieved a lot of it,” he stated. “In the near future, I am sure that you will see our next victories at the front. Thanks guys!”
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A short video appeared on social media showing Mikheil Saakashvili, who ruled Georgia between 2004 and 2013, looking gaunt at the court hearing of a case brought against him for alleged abuse of power.
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky has protested the situation to the Georgian authorities. Saakashvilli is a citizen of Ukraine.
Zelensky said that “Russia is killing a citizen of Ukraine using Georgia. We have repeatedly called on Tbilisi to stop this abuse and to agree to Saakashvili returning to Ukraine.” Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs summoned the Georgian ambassador to Ukraine and asked him to return to Tbilisi for consultations.
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Afghanistan: Taliban Bans Beauty Salons
The Taliban has issued a one-month closure notice to all beauty salons across the country as the Islamist group has been gradually tightening its grip on power, while bringing life in Afghanistan into line with the strict religious norms the it follows.
“The deadline for the closing of beauty parlors for women is one month,” a spokesperson for the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue, Mohammad Sadiq Akif, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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India: Hindutva Leader Jai Bhagwan Goyal Gets Death Threats in Social Media From Islamic Countries
Delhi Police Registers FIR.
Sakshi Saxena | HENB | New Delhi | July 4, 2023:: Senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, and International Working President of United Hindu Front, Jai Bhagwan Goyal claimed threats to his life emanating from many Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Qatar. He alleged that he has received death threats on calls and social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. The perpetrators have also allegedly threatened to feed him beef and forcibly convert him. Goyal is based in Delhi and he is also the national president of the Rashtrawadi Shiv Sena.
Dharmendra Bedi, the vice president of United Hindu Front, and the organization’s Delhi head Mahendra Manchanda have expressed their concern about Goyal and demanded his protection condemning such ‘life threat’. They stated that Goyal has been actively providing assistance to families and children affected by ‘love jihad’ . Both Bedi and Manchanda conveyed their solidarity and support for Goyal.
Goyal is at the forefront of various organisations, including the Hindu Nation Council and the City Council. He is currently leading a signature campaign and organising a Rath Yatra (chariot procession) to garner support for his campaign against forced conversions. He has also urged the Hindu society to transcend caste discrimination and unite against the oft-speculated conspiracy to establish an Islamic State in India by 2047.
Recognising the severity of the threats, Dharmendra Bedi has appealed to Home Minister Amit Shah and the Commissioner of Delhi Police to ensure the immediate provision of enhanced security for Jai Bhagwan Goyal. The safety and well-being of a leader of such significance are of paramount importance in maintaining social harmony and upholding democratic values, he said.
From the source, it is known, a written complaint has been filed with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Delhi Police. Based on his complaint, a First Information Report (FIR) has been registered under Section 295A and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 67A of the Information and Technology Act.
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Islamabad Judge OKs Extradition Request for Saman’s Father
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 4 — An Islamabad district court judge on Tuesday upheld a request for the extradition to Italy of Shabbar Abbas, the father of 18-year-old Saman Abbas who was allegedly murdered by her family for refusing an arranged marriage.
The Italian authorities have requested that Abbas be extradited on charges of killing Saman on the night between April 30 and May 1, 2021, near the northern town of Novellara together with four relatives including his wife, Nazia Shaheen, the only suspect who is still at large.
Abbas can appeal against Tuesday’s ruling to the Islamabad High Court.
The government of Islamabad also needs to give an opinion on the case since there is no bilateral extradition agreement in place between Italy and Pakistan.
Abbas was arrested in Pakistan last November after he and the other suspects fled Italy following the murder.
The trial into the murder of Saman began in Reggio Emilia in February 2023, with her uncle and two cousins in the dock, while Abbas and Shaheen have also been indicted in absentia.
Saman’s boyfriend is standing as civil plaintiff in the trial and says he will use any compensation for her death to set up a foundation for victims of arranged marriages and so-called honour killings.
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Channel 10 switched the names of major Australian cities to their traditional Indigenous names to celebrate NAIDOC Week.
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A source said Australia’s national broadcaster has displayed ‘off the charts bias’ by ‘jumping on every little honest mistake to accuse Australians they disagree with of “misinformation”‘.
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Pixie Curtis — originally from Sydney — is the daughter of public relations mogul Roxy Jacenko, who found her fame by founding Sweaty Betty PR when she was 24.
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An images of a crane taking down a crucifix from a formerly Catholic-run hospital the ACT government has taken over with a forced acquisition has outraged Christians.
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Why Many Young Australians Are No Longer Turning ‘Conservative’ and Voting Liberal as They Get Older
The Coalition could lose the next six elections after new data revealed young Australians weren’t turning ‘conservative’ as they got older like previous generations.
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Bill Gates Plows $400M Into Vaccine Experiments on Africans
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has invested a staggering $400 million into a scheme to test vaccines on thousands of third-world citizens.
The money, funded via the billionaire’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will pay for a phase 3 clinical trial for a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine.
The vaccination experiments will be conducted on 26,000 people at 50 sites in Africa and Southeast Asia over the next four to six years.
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Europe Received Almost 1,000,000 Asylum Applications Last Year
About 996,000 asylum applications were registered in 2022 in European countries, the highest number since 2016, according to the annual report of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) published on Tuesday.
These applicants, whose number was revised upwards from the provisional data published in February (966,000), are in addition to the four million Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion and benefit from special temporary protection status in the EU, the EUAA noted, stressing the “pressure” on national reception systems.
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French Riots Show ‘Failure of Western European Integration’, Claims Hungarian Foreign Minister
The mass riots enveloping France evidence the total failure by Western nations to integrate new arrivals welcomed through years of mass immigration, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó has claimed.
Speaking in the Hungarian parliament on Tuesday, the foreign minister said the unsavory scenes witnessed across France following the killing of a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent last week have shown social integration on a mass scale to be unworkable.
“It is impossible to integrate large numbers of illegal immigrants from other cultures,” Szijjartó told colleagues in the chamber.
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To counteract the shortage of worker personnel, Germany needs 1.5 million immigrants a year, claims German economist Monika Schnitzer, who heads the influentaial German government’s Council of Experts.
She also asserts that skilled workers don’t necessarily have to know German. Instead, it is more important that employees at Germany’s government immigration offices speak English.
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BERLIN (AP) — A man who attacked two girls and killed one of them in Germany last year was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported.
The 27-year-old Eritrean, who came to Germany as an asylum seeker, was found guilty of murder and attempted murder with dangerous bodily injury, a regional court in the Bavarian city of Ulm ruled.
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Illegal Aliens ‘Panicking’, Planning to Flee America Over Florida’s New Immigration Law
Illegal aliens are “panicking” and planning to flee America over the implementation of new immigration restrictions in Florida by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a new report.
NBC News is reporting that the new law cracking down on undocumented workers is sending illegals scrambling.
The new law requires businesses with more than 25 employees to use the online database E-Verify.
The system will make sure their new hires are legally allowed work in the U.S.
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Immigration to the Netherlands Jumped 60% in 2022; Now Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
The number of immigrants coming to the Netherlands in 2022 increased dramatically compared to a year earlier. Last year, about 403,000 people came to the country, 151,000 more than in 2021, representing an increase of about 60 percent. The increase is largely due to the war in Ukraine. This also means that the immigration figure is now higher than in 2019, the last year before the coronavirus pandemic, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) said on Tuesday based on new data.
Even excluding those making use of the Temporary Protection Directive (RTB) because of the war in Ukraine, the number of immigrants to the Netherlands was higher than in 2019. Roughly 295,000 immigrants came to the Netherlands for reasons other than that war, compared to about 269,000 in 2019, and almost 253,000 in 2021.
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Living the High Life Back in Britain, the Albanian Burglar Who Has Already Been Deported Twice
Standing on a luxury Cornish spa hotel’s golf course dressed in a scruffy animal print shirt, cargo shorts and sandals, Dorian Puka strikes an incongruous figure.
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Spain EU Presidency: We Need a Deal on Migration by the End of the Year
The European Union needs to reach an agreement on the stalled Migration Pact in the next six months, by the end of Spain’s term as the EU Council President, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said during a joint press conference with EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in Madrid on Monday, July 6th, marking the new presidency’s official launch.
It’s not surprising that the Spanish presidency will put the Migration Pact high up on its agenda, considering that its controversial ‘solidarity mechanism’—forcing countries to choose between accepting refugees or paying €22,000 per migrant into a common EU fund—would mostly benefit the Mediterranean frontline countries: Italy, Greece, and Spain.
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Tunisia: Migrants Arrested After Stabbing Death
Tunisian authorities have arrested three migrants suspected of involvement in the killing of a local man in the country’s coastal city of Sfax.
A spokesperson for the judiciary, Faouzi Masmoudi, told AFP on Tuesday that the suspects, thought to be from sub-Saharan Africa, are alleged to have fatally stabbed a man in his early forties during a scuffle on Monday.
He said preliminary information indicates that all three are from Cameroon.
Police fired tear gas on Sunday to break up clashes, which saw residents and migrants hurling stones at each other.
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Illegal Algerian immigrant Marwen Darwish (pictured), 23, found the victim drunk and distressed in Newcastle city centre, then carried her into a secluded alleyway and raped her.
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A college has officially reprimanded a professor after complaints she was gloating about forcing her “woke” agenda onto students.
29-year-old gender studies professor Melanie Nipper received an official reprimand from the University of Cincinnati over her far-left ideology.
The situation came to a head when Nipper failed a student for using the term “biological woman” in an assignment.
The college has now ordered Nipper to complete free speech training.
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Indiana Cringe Gets Woke, Goes Broke
Cultural iconoclasts are happy to destroy legacies and re-package them to a new generation raised on a banal diet of mediocrity and cringe.
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Jim Caviezel Reveals Disney Told Him to Remove Reference to God From Movie Script
Christian actor Jim Caviezel has revealed that Disney executives told him to remove all references to God from the script of one of his hit movies.
Caviezel, one of the rare vocal Christians in Hollywood, gave a behind-the-scenes insight into working with Disney during a new interview.
The humble star played Edmond Dantes in an adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel “The Count of Monte Cristo.”
During the making of the hit movie, Caviezel recalled finding himself battling Disney executives over references to God and Christianity, according to Newsbusters.
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Philadelphia Massacre Gunman is Transgender BLM Supporter
Corporate media reports of the Philadelphia massacre are about to drop out of the news cycle after the gunman has been identified as a transgender Black Lives Matter supporter.
40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker was arrested late Monday evening.
Carriker was identified as the gunman responsible for fatally shooting 5 people and injuring two children in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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The Numbers Don’t Lie: Corporations Are Realising Going Woke Kills Business
The Wall Street Journal reports that corporations are increasingly backing away from woke policies and stances.
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UK: Convicted Double Rapist Isla Bryson Complains of ‘Transphobia’ in Male Prison
A biological male who was convicted of raping two women has complained about allegedly suffering transphobic abuse after being sent to a male prison.
Adam Graham, who began identifying as a female named Isla Bryson after being charged with raping two women, has sent letters to the British media complaining about alleged transphobia within His Majesty’s Prison Edinburgh, which he was sent to after initially being placed in a female prison.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday for a fee of £1,000, the 31-year-old rapist said: “I’m not doing too good because of abuse from the staff members all because I am transgender and other prisoners too.
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Re Penn state English racism… easy to see why math is considered racist. Math isn’t subjective.
Blackrock, Gates, China buying farmland everywhere. Will there be food for the rest of us plus all the illegals we import? Australia’s food may all go to China, the best beef already does. We eat mince and sausages. We can’t afford lamb.
Ulm isn’t in Bavaria. Neu Ulm is.