A man died today after barricading himself in a bathroom and detonating an explosive device in a court building in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Meanwhile, the city council in Phoenix, Arizona has voted to send unclaimed firearms to the national police of Ukraine.
In other news, during a meeting with mayors, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he is considering imposing restrictions on social media during emergency situations like the recent immigrant riots.
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Comparisons with petrol and diesel cars found that electric vehicle claims are 25.5% more expensive — and the damage takes 14% longer to repair, if it can be fixed at all.
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A million Australians with a mortgage are expected to be cash flow negative by Christmas, even if rates don’t rise again. That’s based on mortgage repayments and bills exceeding after-tax pay.
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16 Arrested After Mob of Minneapolis Teens Roam Streets, Shoot Fireworks at People
The Fourth of July turned out to be another chaotic night in Minneapolis as shocking video shows minors brazenly launching fireworks at police cruisers in the city.
WCCO News reports that the incident happened in the middle of the road near Boom Island at about 1:30 am on Wednesday. Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene to disperse the reluctant crowd that refused to comply.
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Bat-Wielding Kids Attack San Francisco Moms, Nannies Outside School in Wealthy Neighborhood
Children wielding baseball bats are reportedly attacking and robbing helpless mothers and nannies in a wealthy San Francisco neighborhood known for its young families.
Noe Valley, which is also known locally as “stroller alley” because of the many families with young children who live there, experienced 11 phone robberies last week, which authorities believe are linked to a gang of youths who have also lately been assaulting women with bats while they pick up their kids from school, according to the Telegraph.
Two women were reportedly assaulted in the neighborhood last week by a youth who allegedly hit one of the women with a baseball bat and the other one in the face.
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U.S. President Joe Biden is seeking to convince European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as NATO secretary general, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
The U.K. newspaper cited several sources within the defense alliance who suggested von der Leyen is Biden’s preferred candidate for the role when Stoltenberg steps down next year.
Stoltenberg announced on Tuesday that his tenure at the head of the organization is to be extended for another year until October 2024. He tweeted he was “honored” to continue in the role, adding that “in a more dangerous world, our Alliance is more important than ever.”
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Biden Administration Files Notice of Appeal Against Social Media Censorship Collusion Ban
The US Justice Department has formally filed a notice of appeal against a court ruling that prohibits federal agencies and officials from engaging in discussions with social media companies to censor speech on their platforms.
The ruling in favor of free speech, justified by First Amendment rights, has been met with consternation by the Biden Administration, which says it poses a restriction on their efforts to counter the dissemination of what it says is “misinformation.”
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Bookmakers Peg Hunter Biden as Favorite in White House Cocaine Whodunit
Oddsmakers have identified Hunter Biden as the favorite in the White House cocaine mystery, but Travis Kelce and the Jonas Brothers aren’t out of the running.
SportsBetting.ag released odds showing the president’s son leading the list at +170, meaning that a $100 bet would net you $170 if Hunter Biden is found to be the owner of the cocaine found last weekend in the West Wing by the Secret Service.
Next on the betting line at +800 was NFL tight end Travis Kelce, who visited the White House last month with the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs, followed by “One of the Jonas Brothers” at +1000. The singing Jonas trio visited the White House in December 2021.
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Breaking: Sound of Freedom Whips Disney Indiana Jones With Record 4th of July Box Office
The Sound of Freedom, which was released nationally on July 4th, launched to the number-one movie in America thanks to its pay-it-forward technology.
Angel Studios distributed Sound of Freedom in the US on July 4th this week. On its first day, the movie grossed over $14 million with runner-up Indiana Jones, which opened on June 30, reportedly bringing in $11.5 million, according to Deadline.
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Congratulations to Washington State for Topping California on Nation’s Highest Gasoline Prices
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com
Thanks to cap-and-trade on top of other progressive taxes, Washington passed California for the highest gasoline prices in the nation. It’s a dubious honor, but someone has to hold it.
According to the AAA, Washington state just topped California for the highest gasoline prices in the nation. Congratulations!
The average price in Washington is $4.981. That’s 13.7 cents more per gallon than California and a whopping $2.02 more than the Mississippi average of $2.959.
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IRS Issues Warning: Taxpayers Targeted by New ‘Cardboard Envelope’ Tax Scam
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning about a new scam mail scheme that’s targeting taxpayers.
The tax scam involves attempting to trick people into believing the government owes them money.
“The new scheme involves a mailing coming in a cardboard envelope from a delivery service,” the IRS said in a statement.
Inside the cardboard envelope is a letter on IRS masthead that appears to be official.
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Karine Jean-Pierre Lined With Questions About Cocaine Found in White House
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was barraged with questions from reporters about the cocaine that was allegedly found in the West Wing over the weekend.
“Can you give any more details on whether the Secret Service found the cocaine in the West Wing and how it found it?” Associated Press reporter Josh Boak kicked off the line in inquiries.
“So, as you know, this is under the purview of the Secret Service,” Jean-Pierre responded. “They are currently investigating what happened over the weekend. So I would have to refer you to the Secret Service on all of this.”
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A new study has found that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has offered very few direct answers to questions pertaining to the scandals plaguing President Biden and his son Hunter.
The conservative-leaning Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed Jean-Pierre’s responses to questions asked at White House press briefings from Jan. 1 through June 30 of this year, which covers Biden’s classified documents controversy and the corruption allegations being investigated by GOP lawmakers.
“Analysts found that while reporters asked Jean-Pierre 252 questions about either of these topics, only six received a definitive answer,” NewsBusters media editor Bill D’Agostino wrote Wednesday.
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Man Accused of Killing Woman, 73, With Stolen Forklift
WALDORF, Md. (WHTM) — A Maryland man has been charged with murder after allegedly killing a woman with a stolen forklift.
According to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, on July 2, officers responded to a burglary at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store on Crain Highway.
The sheriff’s office says the suspect, Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown, allegedly broke into the business, stole a forklift, and rammed it through the rear gates.
He then allegedly drove the forklift into a Home Depot parking lot and rammed a parked vehicle.
Mother identified almost 20 years after baby’s body found at Nebraska river
According to the sheriff’s office, a woman was sleeping in the car when it was struck. The woman then got out of the car and tried to run away but was struck by the forklift.
Authorities say the woman, 73-year-old Gloristine Pinkney, was found dead under the machine.
Brown is accused of stealing the woman’s car and leaving it near his home.
He has been charged with first and second-degree murder, assault, theft, and other related charges, according to the sheriff’s office. Brown is being held at the Charles County Detention Center without bond.
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New Desktop Version of Briar Adds Support for Private Groups, MacOS, and Briar Mailbox
In a new release, the team behind Briar have published their latest version, 0.5.0-beta, suffused with features that are bound to delight users who cherish privacy and seamless communication.
The significant updates include the introduction of private groups to the desktop client, integration with the recently unveiled Briar Mailbox, and compatibility with macOS.
Briar, well-renowned for its commitment to secure communication, previously supported private messaging and forums. However, version 0.5.0-beta has expanded the horizon, and private groups have now forayed into the desktop realm.
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Fed-up New York City pharmacies and grocery stores are taking matters into their own hands, locking up pints of ice cream in chained freezers as rampant shoplifting continues to plague the Big Apple.
A Fairway supermarket on New York City’s Upper West Side installed antitheft plastic devices on each $6 ice cream pint, the New York Post reported. The security tags can only be removed at the register and come as frustrated retailers across the city implement their own solutions to deter retail crime.
Some Duane Reades across the city have also installed padlocks and chains across their freezer door to protect their frozen treats. An employee told the Post that they were forced to take such measures after shoplifters frequently entered the stores with garbage bags to “clear out” their freezers.
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NYT Complains Biden Can’t ‘Fight Disinformation’ After Judge Blocks Admin From Censoring Americans
The New York Times has issued a statement complaining that Democrat President Joe Biden can no longer “fight disinformation” online after a federal judge blocked his administration from censoring the American people.
As Slay News reported, federal Judge Terry Doughty, a President Donald Trump appointee, issued a broad preliminary injunction limiting the federal government from policing online content in a 155-page ruling issued on Independence Day.
The judge ruled that The Biden administration violated the First Amendment by censoring critics online.
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Philadelphia: Authorities Continue to Investigate How Shooting Suspect Got Weapons
Authorities are continuing to investigate where accused shooter Kimbrady Carriker obtained the weapons used in Monday’s mass shooting in Kingsessing.
Carriker used an AR-15 assault rifle, and was also in possession of a 9mm ghost gun, which did not have a serial number and was untraceable, Assistant District Attorney Bob Wainwright said. The handgun was not fired during the shooting, but was in Carriker’s possession at the time.
In searching Carriker’s home, Wainwright said investigators also found a .380-caliber handgun, and additional live .223 ammunition that matched the ammunition found at the scene of the shooting.
Law enforcement officials at the press conference declined to comment on how Carriker acquired the guns.
Investigators also found a will dated June 23 that was in Carriker’s handwriting, but prosecutors declined to say what was written in the will.
Authorities said that Carriker may have displayed agitated behavior in the days leading up to the shooting, but declined to give specifics. Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore encouraged people to alert authorities if they observe individuals in their family or neighborhood becoming increasingly agitated “before something like this happens.”
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Phoenix City Council Votes to Send ‘Unclaimed’ Firearms to National Police of Ukraine
The Phoenix City Council passed a vote last week that allows up to 600 unclaimed guns from Phoenix to be donated to the National Police of Ukraine.
The plan is going through a contract with a company, DT Gruelle, that is specially approved for overseas arms trading. Around $200,000 worth of firearms will be handed over to the company for shipment, according to the Arizona Daily Independent.
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A Portland man has been federally charged after he violently assaulted a security officer while attempting to break into the Pioneer Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland on Monday.
Jett Avery Thomas, 39, of Portland, Oregon, has been charged with assaulting a federal employee of the United States with a dangerous weapon and causing bodily injury, according to the United States Attorneys Office of the District of Oregon.
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Federal Judge Terry Doughty issued a broad injunction against the Biden administration from censoring online content in a 155-page ruling issued Tuesday.
Officials affected by this ruling include Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Jen Easterly, who heads the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and dozens of other Department of Justice and FBI employees.
Robert F Kennedy Jr said correctly, “There has never been a time in history when the people who were censoring free speech, and books, and burning books were good guys.”
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Roseanne Barr made her triumphant return to Twitter, after a nearly three-year absence, by thanking Elon Musk for bringing free speech and comedy back to the Internet.
“Damn it feels good to be a gangster,” the sitcom legend tweeted.
“Thank you @michaelmalice for getting me my twitter back! 62 million views isn’t bad for a multi-cancelled has been.
“Thanks @elonmusk for fact checking the mind controlled bots after me and for giving @TheoVon a platform. Comedy is back!”
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Secret Service Confirms Cocaine Found in White House West Wing, Not Library
The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed that the bag of cocaine that was discovered in the White House was actually found in the West Wing and not the library as first reported.
As Slay News reported, a white powdery substance was discovered in the White House on Sunday night.
After the building was evacuated, the substance was tested and confirmed to be cocaine, according to officials.
When it was confirmed to be cocaine, corporate media outlets reported that the drug was found in the library, which public tours pass through.
However, it has now been confirmed that it was located in the West Wing, which is not accessible to the public.
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State Department Cancels Meetings With Meta After Ban on Government Censorship Collusion
The injunction against the Biden administration, preventing it from colluding with social media platforms to censor is already having an impact.
The US State Department has already put on hold its scheduled meetings with social media giant Facebook, pertaining to discussions on 2024 election “safeguards,” The Washington Post reported.
This abrupt decision occurred one day following a ruling by a federal judge in Louisiana, who ruled that the Biden administration’s antics were a likely First Amendment violation.
The court’s order was brought into effect by US District Judge Terry A. Doughty, aimed at ceasing government pressure on social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms to regulate the speech of Americans.
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Suspect in Philadelphia Shooting Believed to be Mentally Ill, Law Enforcement Source Says
Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was arraigned Wednesday on murder and other counts in the shooting in Philadelphia’s Kingsessing neighborhood.
The man accused of firing at random while wearing body armor and killing five people in a Philadelphia neighborhood Monday is believed to be mentally ill, a senior law enforcement source briefed on the investigation told NBC News.
A motive in the shootings, which spanned multiple scenes over several blocks in the city’s southwest side around 8:30 p.m. Monday, is under investigation, officials said.
The district attorney said if there are mental health issues those are addressed by expert examinations ordered by a court. He expected the exams to be ordered.
At Wednesday’s arraignment, Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was ordered held without bail.
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz shut down the Democrats and humiliated the media when he dropped a bombshell about Biden’s IRS whistleblower. Cruz made the shocking revelation on his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Ted said: “It is a fact that this sweetheart deal, which the Biden White House desperately, desperately, desperately, wants to close the door on all investigations on Joe Biden.
“Provides that Hunter Biden serve not a minute in jail. Not a day in jail, served no jail time at all for millions of dollars in tax fraud.
“The DOJ tipped off Hunter Biden over and over and over again to thwart search warrants, to thwart investigations.
“At this point, the statements between Merrick Garland and David Weiss one side and the two IRS whistleblowers on the other side are entirely in conflict.
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Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden in key swing states ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a new opinion poll, amid fresh doubts about the incumbent’s fitness for office.
The voter survey conducted by Echelon Insights found that 48 percent of swing state voters would back the 77-year-old real estate mogul in next year’s vote.
Pollsters, who interviewed 1,020 voters for the study, said just 41 percent would back Biden over the former president.
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Videos: Biden Wanders Around Lost, Slurs Through July 4 Speech
Joe Biden wandered around lost on stage at July 4th celebrations Tuesday after barely slurring his way through a teleprompter speech.
When it was time for Uncle Joe to get back to bed this happened…
“I don’t, man! I want to say hi to him!” Biden blathered, adding “You’re trying to get me off stage! You’re afraid I’m gonna start singing!”
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Watch: Woke Demonstrators Protest Supreme Court Rulings With Bizarre Ritual
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that “woke” isn’t a religion. Activists at the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in New York gathered in black garb, chanting and wailing in an unhinged procession following the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on Affirmative Action and student loan debt relief. The reversal of Affirmative Action policies in US colleges is supported by a majority of Americans, with many viewing the use of skin color and ethnicity in school admissions as a form of codified racism.
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As Canada Reels From Wildfire, First Nations Hope for Larger Role
Advocates say that Indigenous communities must be given greater autonomy to engage in traditional burning practices.
With Canada in the throes of a record-breaking early wildfire season, the country’s Indigenous communities, which include First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples, say it is time for them to be given a more prominent role in shaping the country’s approach to fire and forest management.
“Settlers brought a vision of removing fire from the landscape to Canada. But when you take away fire, these landscapes become overgrown,” Amy Cardinal Christianson, an Indigenous fire specialist with Parks Canada from Treaty 8 Metis territory in Alberta, told Al Jazeera in a recent phone call.
“Indigenous people have been removed from conversations about fire management. We want to be able to steward the land and use fire on our territories.”
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10% of Arrested Rioters Were Foreigners — French Interior Ministry
Over 3,500 people have been arrested in connection to the massive riots that hit France following the death of a 17-year-old boy of North African descent at the hands of the police last week, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told the French Senate on Wednesday. Almost 1,400 people were detained in Paris and its suburbs, he added.
Most of the detained rioters were youths who were aged between 17 and 18, according to the minister. A third of them were minors who were “extremely young for the most part,” he said, adding that the youngest detainee was only 11 years old.
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Ambassadors Withdrawn, Nationwide Protests Announced as Row Over Sweden’s Quran-Burning Intensifies
Several Islamic nations have recalled their ambassadors in Stockholm, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for nationwide demonstrations on Friday against recent Quran-burning protests in Sweden.
The Islamic world expressed widespread condemnation last week after Swedish authorities granted a protest permit to an Iraqi-born refugee who proceeded to burn the Muslim holy book outside a mosque in Stockholm to mark the first day of Eid al-Adha, the largest of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam.
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An Antifa activist committed suicide after Hungarian police raided his house. However, the investigation is not over, as police want to know how he obtained 70,000 graphic pedophilia recordings, with many of them depicting the torture and rape of small children. The case, which is connected to the German Antifa scene, has spooked Hungary, with police discovering signs of a strange ritual close to where the man hung himself.
The massive child porn stash on the Antifa activist’s hard drive came as a shocking twist in a case that spans the left-wing Antifa scenes of Hungary and Germany. So far, the name of the activist has not been released by Hungarian police.
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Harald Vilimsky is an MEP for the Freedom Party of Austria, or FPÖ, and leads the party’s delegation in the European Parliament. Mr. Vilimsky in the following interview answers questions about the FPÖ and its recent success in the polls, what conservative, anti-globalist parties can learn from the success of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party, and how he sees the future of Europe.
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A fundraiser to support the family of the French police officer who shot and killed a runaway teenager driver has been disabled by the organizer after surpassing €1.6 million.
The GoFundMe campaign launched six days ago had amassed 85,105 individual donations from members of the public expressing solidarity with the officer before the ability to add further donations was paused on Wednesday evening with the total at €1,636,190.
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European Court Undermines Meta’s Data Method
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday, July 4 that the data processing of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and What’s App, is illegal under GDPR.
The ruling cited Meta’s practice of combining the data collected from individual users on various platforms to more precisely target advertisements as an abuse of its market dominance. In other words, Meta can’t process the data from Facebook, Instagram, and What’s App together to create user profiles employed in delivering advertisements.
The suit had been brought against Meta by Germany’s monopoly watchdog, the Bundeskartellamt, arguing that the GDPR empowered it to monitor unfair data collection and processing, and the court agreed.
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France: Le Pen Blasts Political Elite in Fiery Speech
In a fiery speech Marine Le Pen suggested the only solution for France was an early national election.
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Macron Mulls Social Media Ban in France
French leader Emmanuel Macron told mayors on Tuesday that his government could consider controlling access to social media across France “when things get out of hand.”
This follows days of rioting in the country following the shooting dead by police last week of a teenager of North African descent in a Paris suburb.
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Macron Meets French Mayors After the Riots
On Tuesday, July 4th, President Macron received a delegation of 220 mayors whose towns had been particularly hard hit by the past week’s riots across France. The rioters have specifically targeted representatives of local authority, namely mayors, who are generally known for their dedication to municipal affairs. Some of the violent attacks have particularly struck a chord with the public, leading to demonstrations of support outside town halls. On Sunday, July 2nd, the president of the Association des Maires de France (AMF) David Lisnard, himself mayor of Cannes on the Côte d’Azur, called on all French people to gather outside their town halls at noon on Monday, July 3rd, to show their support for their mayors, and above all in response to the extremely violent attacks of which some have been the victims, as in L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Pontoise, and Cholet.
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PKN Orlen Expands Gas Station Operation With Acquisition of Austria’s Doppler Energie
Polish oil giant PKN Orlen has signed an agreement to acquire the Austrian company Doppler Energie, which operates 266 fuel stations in Austria under the Turmöl brand.
In a statement on Tuesday, Orlen estimated the acquisition will give them a 10 percent share of the retail market and a 14 percent share of the wholesale market in Austria. Turmöl is the third-largest fuel station network operating in Austria.
The transaction should be completed after obtaining approval from anti-trust authorities, expected by the end of next year at the latest.
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Poland’s Quest for Nuclear Weapons on Its Soil Could Start World War III, Russia Warns
The Russian government has reacted furiously to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s remarks calling for his country to participate in NATO’s nuclear sharing program, and has warned that such a move would increase the risk of a third world war.
Late last week, Morawiecki appealed to NATO to allow Poland to join the alliance’s nuclear program as a response to Russia placing nuclear weapons in Belarus.
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Six Nights of Riots: The Human and Material Costs
After a week of race riots the likes of which haven’t been seen in France for decades, the urban violence that engulfed more than 220 towns and cities across the country has exacted a colossal human and material cost, leaving thousands of cars, buses, and trams torched, hundreds of buildings destroyed, and hundreds of law enforcement officers injured.
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Spain’s EU Council Presidency Will Present Challenges for Poland
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party will target Polish resistance to forced migrant relocation, warns Polish columnist Malgorzata Wolczyk
Some Poles seem indifferent to who takes on the rotating presidency of the EU Council because many indications suggest that in Brussels, dominated by a leftist tyranny, the conservative government of Poland must remain a convenient “whipping boy” as a matter of principle.
However, the fact that Spain has assumed the presidency is not promising for Poland, even if the current socialist-communist government of Pedro Sanchez will most likely be consigned to the shameful pages of history in the upcoming July elections.
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Sweden Charges Greta Thunberg With Disobeying Police
Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday announced they would be charging “a young woman” for refusing to obey police orders to leave a climate protest in the southern city of Malmo in June.
A spokesperson for 20-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg confirmed that she was in fact being charged.
The charges stem from a climate protest in Malmo, an oil port, lasting several days.
Thunberg participated in the disruption of shipping in the harbor alongside protest organizers from Ta Tillbaka Framtiden (Take Back the Future). Thunberg and others were arrested on June 19, after they succeeded at blocking traffic at the facility.
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UK PM to Review Porn Laws After Reports Showing Ease of Access by Minors
A large number of children in the UK have claimed to have accessed pornography online, with around one in ten children as young as 9 saying they have accessed explicit material, according to research by Dame Rachel De Souza, the UK Children’s Commissioner.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced this week that his government would be reviewing the nation’s pornography laws to prevent children from accessing it as well as cracking down on potential abuse, the Telegraph reports.
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Just Stop Oil’s posh public hissy fits are predicated on fake “hottest ever” propaganda gleaned from measuring temperatures on hot tarmac at RAF bases while Typhoon fighter jets are landing.
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UK: Soldier Jailed for Going ‘AWOL’ to Fight for Ukraine
A British soldier who deserted his unit while it was deployed to Europe on exercise to join up with the Ukrainians has been jailed for 12 months at his court-martial.
Fusilier Alexander Garms-Rizzi, who is half-Russian and grew up in Russia and described growing up with Ukrainian friends, claimed he could not stand by and watch the war unfold and said he had to go to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invasion. Fusilier Garms-Rizzi deserted his regiment while it was in Europe as part of a NATO deployment in Estonia and while he was on two weeks leave, crossing the border to head towards Ukraine without permission.
He was in Ukraine for six months before returning to the United Kingdom, where he was arrested at the border, reports the Daily Mail.
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UK: Wimbledon: ‘Just Stop Oil’ Climate Activists Halt Tournament
Two protesters from the anti-fossil fuel group “Just Stop Oil” disrupted play during the first round of the prestigeous Wimbledon Tennis Championship on Wednesday and were promptly arrested.
The commotion commenced when two activists stormed Court 18 during a first-round men’s match between 21st-seed Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Japanese qualifier Sho Shimabukuro.
A woman — wearing a baseball cap, parka and white Just Stop Oil T-shirt — ran onto the court throwing confetti from a picture-puzzle box featuring an image of Wimbledon’s famed Center Court.
While the woman was being escorted away, a second individual — a man with shaved head, gray beard and glasses — went to mid court where he removed his parka to reveal a Just Stop Oil T-shirt and sat down to be arrested.
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Wales: Extinction Rebellion Uses Pink Boat to Block Entrance of Ffos-Y-Fran Coal Mine
Extinction Rebellion has today used a large pink boat to blockade the entrance of the Ffos-y-Fran open-cast mine near Merthyr Tydfil in an attempt to shut down operations there.
The boat was secretly manoeuvred into position and dropped anchor at 9:30am on Wednesday (Jul 5) with a full crew of Extinction Rebellion Cymru/Wales and UK rebels on board.
All of the company’s lorry traffic immediately ground to halt, effectively shutting down the mining operation.
Half a dozen activists have locked themselves to boat — and announced they plan to stay in position despite facing the threat of up to 51 weeks in jail.
A dozen or more other protestors were present, occupying the site and supporting the blockade from the sidelines.
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Man Dies After Detonating Explosive Device at Court in Ukrainian Capital
KYIV, July 5 (Reuters) — A man who detonated an explosive device at a court in the Ukrainian capital died on Wednesday after barricading himself inside part of the building, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, citing “preliminary information.”
Two members of a special rapid response security forces unit were hurt during attempts to bring the man under control at the Shevchenkivskyi court in the centre of the capital. Two loud noises were heard during the incident.
Klymenko, briefing reporters at the scene, said the man had “presumably…died from the explosive device”.
Writing on the Telegram messaging app, he wrote: “According to preliminary information, he blew himself up.”
Klymenko identified the suspect as Ihor Humenyuk and said he had been attending a hearing as a suspect in connection with the deaths of four Ukrainian national guardsmen in 2015.
After the hearing, he said the man had first locked himself into a bathroom and tossed an explosive device at two guards.
Stopped from leaving the building by officers firing into the air, he barricaded himself into another room, Klymenko said. He refused to negotiate with officials and threw another device at the two officers who were injured.
Klymenko said the man was killed in this altercation. An investigation was proceeding to determine how he had been in possession of explosives in the court.
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Newsweek Reveals CIA Role in Ukraine
The Central Intelligence Agency has boots on the ground in Ukraine and operates a clandestine supply network to help the government in Kiev to fight Russia, Newsweek reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources within the US government.
“The CIA was central to the war even before it started,” claimed the article, written by William Arkin. Its director, William Burns, famously visited Moscow in January 2022 and, though he failed to persuade Russia not to “invade,” he got the Kremlin to accept US “rules” — at least according to Arkin and his sources.
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Prigozhin’s Palace Raided: Police Find a Closet Full of Wigs Plus Gold Bars, an Alligator, Guns…
—and a photo of the severed heads of his enemies among the riches in humiliated Wagner chief’s St Petersburg mansion while he is exiled in Belarus
Vladimir Putin has humiliated Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his failed uprising in Russia by sending security services to raid his St Petersburg palace.
During the search, police found a closet full of wigs, stashes of gold bars, a gun cache, a stuffed alligator and a framed photo which is purported to be of the severed heads of the exiled private military leader’s enemies.
Pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia yesterday published photos and video of armed officers searching Prigozhin’s mansion while he was exiled in Belarus on June 24.
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Ukraine Says Western Allies Have Already Failed on F-16 Pledge
Ukraine’s leaders are once again complaining about the slowness of the West in fulfilling prior commitments related to military aid and advanced weaponry, despite the tens of billions in aid already sent.
Among the key talking points from President Zelensky and Ukraine’s military commanders has been the urgent need for air superiority, in the form of US-made F-16 fighters. The US and its allies starting months ago agreed to a training program based in Europe for Ukrainian pilots. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, is now lashing out at the West for what he’s describing as a “delay” in the training.
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Beijing’s Boldness: Expat Hong Kong Dissidents Faced With Bounty
Hong Kong authorities have issued arrest warrants for eight prominent critics, now living abroad, of their city’s Beijing-backed government. In what is a first, a bounty to the tune of €117,000 has been promised for any information which might lead to the arrest of any of them.
Under Hong Kong’s controversial National Security Law, which Beijing imposed on Hong Kong following 2019’s wave of pro-democracy protests, the eight are deemed guilty of “incitement to secession,” “subversion,” “incitement to subversion,” and “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security,” according to police official Steve Li, who spoke at a press conference on Monday, July 3rd.
According to Li, 260 people have been arrested under the law in the three years since its introduction, of whom 79 have been charged or convicted so far. He however admitted that the chances of prosecution were slim as long as the defendants remained abroad. “If they don’t return, we won’t be able to arrest them, that’s a fact,” he said, adding they however “won’t stop wanting them.”
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China Cancels Borrell Visit Over EU Alignment With America
China has unexpectedly called off a planned diplomatic visit by the EU’s top foreign policy official Josep Borrell to Beijing in a move rumoured to be motivated by the bloc’s increasing hawkishness towards China and growing foreign policy alignment with the United States.
Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was scheduled to visit Beijing for a three-day visit next week to discuss future relations between Europe and China. However, officials confirmed Tuesday, July 4, that the visit had been suddenly cancelled by the Chinese without explanation.
Borrell had hoped to raise the issues of Ukraine, human rights abuses against the Uighurs, and trade disputes with Chinese leaders, following the cancellation of a previously planned visit this year after he tested positive for COVID-19.
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There are fears the laws against mis- and disinformaiton being engineered by the Albanese government could see individuals hauled before a watchdog able to issue huge fines.
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Marcin Romanowski has been deputy minister of justice of Poland since June 2019, and he holds the title of doctor of legal sciences. He holds a law degree from the faculty of law and administration of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, and he completed postgraduate studies in law at the University of Regensburg, Bavaria. He is also an associate professor at the department of theory and philosophy of law at the faculty of law and administration of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.
Romanowski belongs to Suwerenna Polska (Sovereign Poland, until May this year Solidarna Polska), which since 2015 has governed Poland in coalition with Law and Justice. We recently discussed the controversial decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to adopt the Istanbul Convention and the new migrant sharing agreement.
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One of the main topics of recent weeks is the new migration agreement of the European Union, which includes the principle of so-called mandatory solidarity.
According to the proposed reforms, all states of the Union are obliged to help countries overloaded with a large number of asylum seekers, either by accepting part of them or via financial or material support. The agreement has been pre-negotiated, but Poland and Hungary are opposed to its implementation, as other European politicians failed to convince them of a unified position at last month’s recent EU summit. Czechia, under the leadership of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, abandoned its objections to the policy and now supports the plan.
In recent days, the head of the ANO movement, Andrej Babis, has been criticizing the cabinet for its participation in the agreement.
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Exclusive: TikTok Allows Mexican Cartels to Post ‘Help Wanted’ Ads for Human Smugglers
This week, I had the opportunity to ride along with the Kinney County Sheriff’s Department. Kinney County, Texas is a hotspot for human smuggling, facilitated by the cartels. High-speed chases, rollovers, and witnessing graphic deaths are a regular occurrence for deputies in Kinney County. While riding with Deputy Molinar, a veteran deputy from Kinney County, he informed me how cartels are advertising smuggling jobs to Americans.
He showed me one example of an ad on TikTok, and within minutes of looking for myself, I found more than a dozen ads that were blatantly advertising smuggling jobs for the cartel. As I was engaging with these ads, I realized one had an information label from TikTok that read: “Participating in this activity could result in you or others getting hurt.”
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‘F**king German, I’ll Kill You’ — Knife-Wielding Syrian Institutionalized After Racist Threats
A Syrian migrant who threatened multiple people with a knife and made racist remarks was arrested on Tuesday in the city of Neubrandenburg in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Police then admitted him to a hospital clinic for evaluation.
The Syrian has been involved in several incidents, with one victim telling regional news portal Nordkurier that he was walking his dog last Thursday when the suspect approached him and stopped him. The suspect then grabbed him by the belt and said, “F**king German, I’ll kill you.”
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In a video that has garnered over 1.5 million views on Twitter alone, the leader of the Les Republicans senate group, Bruno Retailleau, said that it is clear that immigrants, including second— and third-generation people with an immigration background, were responsible for the rioting that caused widespread destruction across the country.
“I heard that (French Interior Minister) Gerard Darmanin, yesterday at the National Assembly, said there is no link between these events and immigration. Of course there is… I’ve asked many mayors. They all tell you that it’s precisely in the neighborhoods where there are migratory ghettos. Certainly, they are French, but they are French in their official identity, and, unfortunately, for the second, third generation (of immigrants), there’s a kind of regression back towards their ethnic origins,” said Bruno Retailleau in an interview with FranceInfo.
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of the main opposition party in France, in a fiery speech Tuesday eviscerated President Emmanuel Macron’s immigration policies that ultimately led to the widespread riots consuming France.
Le Pen, who leads the National Rally party, and ran for president three times in the country, directed her remarks to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who was present at the National Assembly.
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Meloni in Warsaw: No Conflict Between Italian and Polish Positions on Migration
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid a visit to Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw on Wednesday, July 5th, to strengthen the relationship between the two conservative governments and to discuss security and migration after last week’s EUCO Summit and ahead of the upcoming NATO Summit next week.
According to the Italian prime minister, Rome’s and Warsaw’s positions on the EU’s Migration Pact are in accord, and the two countries will continue their friendly cooperation to reach an acceptable compromise in the European Council that respects the sovereignty of Central European member states.
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Dozens of African migrants have been left injured after being thrown from balconies and attacked with ‘swords’ in Tunisia, a medic has claimed.
Medic Lazhar Neji said between 30 and 40 migrants, including women and children, were injured after the ‘inhumane’ and ‘bloody’ attack in Sfax, Tunisia, on Tuesday.
It comes after residents vowed to ‘avenge’ the death of a 41-year-old Tunisian man at his funeral after he was stabbed to death on Monday during an altercation with three suspected Cameroonian migrants.
During the protests, hundreds of Tunisians gathered in the streets and blockaded streets by burning tyres while demanding the eviction of all illegal migrants, according to AFP.
And video shared on social media showed police chasing dozens of migrants from their homes to the cheers of city residents, before loading them into police cars.
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New Conservatives’ Plan: Reduce Immigration to UK by 400,000
On Monday, July 3rd, a group of 25 backbench Conservative MPs known as the New Conservatives offered up a 12-point immigration plan for the UK, which they say could reduce immigration levels by as much as 400,000 per year.
The group calls on the government to close temporary work visa schemes for care workers and senior care workers, which they say could reduce long-term international migration (LTIM) by as much as 82,000, while raising the skilled work visa threshold to £38,000 could reduce LTIM by a further 54,000.
Students in the UK are allowed to stay up to two years in the UK without a job offer following graduation. The New Conservatives state that closing this “graduate route” would reduce LTIM by around 50,000.
Alongside the restrictions on visas, the New Conservatives also want to cap the number of refugees accepted for resettlement in the UK at 20,000 per year, with exceptions to the rule being made in case of emergency, such as a war breaking out or some sort of natural disaster.
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No Tragedy Seems Enough to Change Europe’s Migration Policy, Laments Hungary
Top Hungarian politician reflects on what he sees as weeks of tragedy caused by open borders policies, claiming events in France and the Mediterranean prove Hungarian voters are right to not want to participate in another migrant crisis.
Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjartó has cited the costly week of nightly riots experienced in France, and the recent tragic loss of life in the Mediterranean when an overloaded smuggler boat capsized as arguments against continued mass migration. The speech in the nation’s gothic revival parliament has been reported by domestic media as being noteworthy for its unusually strident nature, even by the standards of normally robust Hungarian politics.
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Countries across Europe have spent more than €43 billion in aid for Ukrainian refugees since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February last year, but no country has spent more than Poland.
The estimate was detailed in a report by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy into how European neighbors have received and catered to those fleeing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
More than a quarter of the total sum has been spent by the Polish government, which allocated €12 billion to Ukrainian refugees, closely followed by Germany, which has spent €11 billion.
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Smugglers Lead Over 50 to Their Deaths Off Spanish Canary Islands
Smugglers have caused numerous deaths yet again on one of the many sea routes to Europe used by illegal migrants. Reports claim that as many as 51 people died on the way to the Spanish Canary Islands, including at least three children and eleven women.
Helena Maleno Garzon, an activist and founder of the migration NGO Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders), announced the shipwreck on Twitter on Saturday, July, 1st, indicating that the ship had set sail from the city of Tan Tan in Southern Morocco.
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The residents of a seaside town earmarked for a migrants barge are worried about how they will behave over the summer when they are ‘unmonitored’, ministers have heard.
Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, also insisted the plans to place the Bibby Stockholm in Portland Harbour were ‘not in the national interest’ as ministers had claimed.
The three-storey 93-metre long accommodation vessel, which will house around 500 migrants, has suffered delays in reaching the Dorset port after Home Secretary Suella Braverman promised MPs it would be in the dock two weeks ago.
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UK: Rishi Sunak Sinks to Negative Approval Among Conservatives Amid Migration Failures
Trouble for Rishi Sunak mounts as the globalist PM sees approval rating fall into negative among Tory members for the first time, this coming as a group of his own rebel lawmakers launch a campaign to push the party to the right from within.
Amid failures to deliver on fixing the economy and stemming illegal — and perhaps more importantly to the Tory voting base — legal migration, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak now has a negative approval among the Conservative party membership, according to the monthly survey conducted by Conservative Home.
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Watch: French Riots Spread as Swiss Police Arrest Violent Teen Migrants
Half a dozen foreign teens were arrested in Switzerland during a spree of violence and looting inspired by ongoing riots in nearby France over the weekend, according to reports.
Chaos broke out on Saturday night in Lausanne, a city in the French-speaking region of the Alpine nation.
A roving mob of more than 100 ‘youths’ smashed shop windows, stole merchandise, and threw projectiles and a Molotov cocktail at police in the Flon district and on rue de Genève.
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Canada: Vancouver Theater Hosting Drag Summer Camp for Kids as Young as Seven Years Old
A children’s youth theater in Vancouver is hosting a drag summer camp for kids as young as seven years old, which provides children with drag makeup kits while they learn how to access their “inner confidence.”
The four-day drag summer camp for youth aged seven to seventeen is taking place at Carousel Theatre on Granville Island beginning July 4, which has sparked heavy criticism in the community and drew in dueling protests on Tuesday.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s official website published advice for trans and non-binary individuals on seeking guidance on how to “chestfeed” their infants.
In sections of the major health institute’s guidance on breastfeeding, it contained information for those who have had much of their breasts removed in gender-reassignment surgeries, or for biological men taking hormones to grow breasts, on how to feed their newborn children.
However, several doctors criticized the guidance, not simply because CDC has appeared to guide biological men in how to breastfeed children, but because they claimed the CDC has failed to gauge the risks posed to children drinking milk produced by chemicals used in gender-reassignment medical operations.
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Elon Musk Comments on Report That Resumes With ‘They/Them’ Pronouns Are Often Overlooked
WASHINGTON (TND) — A Business.com report claims employers are less likely to call prospective employees who have nonbinary pronouns in their resumes, something billionaire Elon Musk noted was “interesting.”
Published in March, the report claims research found that “nonbinary job seekers” in the United States are facing a “clear bias in hiring processes.”
On Wednesday, billionaire Elon Musk replied to a social media post from CNBC featuring the report’s findings. He simply said in reply: “Interesting.”
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In the wake of a mass shooting in Philadelphia which claimed the lives of 5 adults, injuring 2 children, far-left activists held a press conference to, in part, correct the media narrative on the alleged shooter’s identity.
“I want to discuss, very briefly because there is a nasty, violent— in terms of verbal and written words— spewed by the conservative press regarding the shooter,” the activist said.
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Instead of Hot Chicks in Bikinis, Bud Light Goes With ‘Grunting Men’ in Rehab Fail
Bud Light’s latest ad is getting slammed online as the beer brand keeps garnering angry comments and a huge number of dislikes, with the company facing ire from both sides of the social aisle.
As Naveen Anthrapully reports as The Epoch Times, the latest ad, “Backyard Grunts with Travis Kelce”, released on the weekend of July 4, features Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce with a group of men grunting as they crack open a can of Bud Light.
On YouTube, it has gotten 2,187 comments, 256 likes and over 11,000 dislikes. Some of the comments on the ad are quite scathing.
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MSNBC’s Jen Psaki comments blaming Republicans for concerns expressed by the Muslim community about LGBTQ curriculum being taught to children as young as elementary school were challenged by a leader one of the largest Islamic organizations in the U.S.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the national deputy director at the Council for American-Islamic Relations, said the Islamic faith community is concerned about allegiance to God, not Psaki’s preferred politics.
Psaki during her Sunday show also attempted to scare Muslims from being purportedly “recruit[ed]” by the GOP in opposing LGBTQ curriculum they found “age-inappropriate.” A similar MSNBC narrative ran on June 21, and was also blasted by Mitchell as “ludicrous” for portraying Muslim parents as “dupes” for the political right.
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Scotland: Man Charged After Trans Double Rapist Lodges Hate Crime Complaint
Charges have been filed against a man in connection with alleged threatening and abusive behavior after Isla Bryson, a 31-year-old Scottish transgender ‘woman’ who is presently serving an eight-year prison sentence for raping two women, lodged a formal hate crime complaint. The transgender double rapist claims transphobic abuse is rampant in prison.
After being convicted by Edinburgh’s High Court in February on two separate rape charges—one in 2016 and the other in 2019—while living as a man, Bryson, who was born with the name Adam Graham, was initially placed in a female prison before being transferred to the male prison, HPM Edinburgh.
In a letter sent to the Scottish tabloid Sunday Mail, Bryson said that he has been treated like a “monster” during his time at the all-male correctional facility, and claimed it is “full of transphobic people” who are “breaking the human rights laws.”
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Teachers’ Union Backed by Biden Pushes Gender Queer, White Fragility for Summer Reading
The National Education Association (NEA) recommended on Monday that teachers across the United States include Gender Queer, a controversial LGBTQ book, in their list of books to read over the summer.
The NEA list includes White Fragility as well and recommends it to teachers so they can explore “why [w]hite people are so bad at talking about racism.”
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UN Demands Permanent Global Emergency Powers to Tackle ‘Climatic Events’ and ‘Pandemics’
The unelected United Nations is demanding that world leaders give the globalist agency permanent global emergency powers to tackle any “shocks” that could allegedly emerge from “climate change” or “future pandemics.”
The UN is set to outline a far-reaching plan to secure emergency powers that would allow the global body to lead a “common agenda” for all nations.
The organization claims it needs the power to override sovereign countries’ laws during any “complex global shocks” such as a “major event in outer space” or a “major climatic event” on Earth.
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French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he is considering imposing
restrictions on social media during emergency situations like the recent immigrant riots.
Well we all know France is a democracy. They offer a lot of Freedom yes, I mean freedom to muslims to come and stay. He was elected democratically, therefore; all hi decisions must be prefect. Poor guy must not blame him. Neither do we blame SEE I A for turning Usama bin Laden to a great leader.
In both situations the boys turned bad.
Don’t read the history of the systematic slaughter of Armenians, Hindus, Lebanese, Nigerian christians, Zoroastrians, Copts, and the 57 countries that are muslim majority now, but were 100% Jewish, Christians or Hindus before the arrival of conquering islam. and don’t mention Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain. … etc.
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Medieval Sourcebook: Pact of Umar, 7th Century The Status of Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule After the rapid expansion of the Muslim dominion in the 7th century, Muslims leaders were required to work out a way of dealing with Non-Muslims, who remained in the majority in many areas for centuries. The solution was to develop the notion of the “dhimma”, or “protected person”. The Dhimmi were required to pay an extra tax (the jizya), but usually they were unmolested. This compares well with the treatment meted out to non-Christians in Christian Europe. The Pact of Umar is supposed to have been the peace accord offered by the Caliph Umar to the Christians of Syria, a “pact” which formed the patter of later interaction. We heard from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Ghanam [died 78/697] as follows: When Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, accorded a peace to the Christians of Syria, we wrote to him as follows: In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate. This is a letter to the servant of God Umar [ibn al-Khattab], Commander of the Faithful, from the Christians of such-andsuch a city. When you came against us, we asked you for safe-conduct (aman) for ourselves, our descendants, our property, and the people of our community, and we undertook the following obligations toward you: We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks’ cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims. We shall keep our gates wide open for passersby and travelers. We shall give board and lodging to all Muslims who pass our way for three days. We shall not give shelter in our churches or in our dwellings to any spy, nor bide him from the Muslims. We shall not teach the Qur’an to our children. We shall not manifest our religion publicly nor convert anyone to it. We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it. We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and we shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit. We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the qalansuwa, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair. We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas. We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our- persons. We shall not engrave Arabic inscriptions on our seals. We shall not sell fermented drinks. We shall clip the fronts of our heads. We shall always dress in the same way wherever we may be, and we shall bind the zunar round our waists We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims. We shall use only clappers in our churches very softly. We shall not raise our voices when following our dead. We shall not show lights on any of the roads of the Muslims or in their markets. We shall not bury our dead near the Muslims. We shall not take slaves who have been allotted to Muslims. We shall not build houses overtopping the houses of the Muslims.
(When I brought the letter to Umar, may God be pleased with him, he added, “We shall not strike a Muslim.”) We accept these conditions for ourselves and for the people of our community, and in return we receive safe-conduct. If we in any way violate these undertakings for which we ourselves stand surety, we forfeit our covenant [dhimma], and we become liable to the penalties for contumacy and sedition. Umar ibn al-Khittab replied: Sign what they ask, but add two clauses and impose them in addition to those which they have undertaken. They are: “They shall not buy anyone made prisoner by the Muslims,” and “Whoever strikes a Muslim with deliberate intent shall forfeit the protection of this pact.” from Al-Turtushi, Siraj al-Muluk, pp. 229-230.
That is bare naked real practical islam. France you were/ are too proud about your
republic to read the bloody black history of islam.
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CIA Operates Worlds Biggest Pedophile Ring
https://swebbtube.se/w/akmf5j1kGxXGrG44zx6FNb
And yet, Caviezal says NOTHING about the innocent children that his church leaders rape.
If those priests and poopes were allowed to marry they would not be sexually abusing these children.
They are likely to be types that would do it anyway. Politicians or others in power seem just as prone to it.
“Von Der Leyen as Next NATO Chief” — big bada-boom
Can anyone believe that this woman has born seven children and isn’t 100% psychopath for what she’s going to do to the world, if given the chance?
Someone used a bomb on himself in a bathroom in Ukraine?
Must have been Zelensky. Who else?
(Yes, I know, it wont be him. But one can have hope.)
Re UK: “It’s all a massive con”.
British listeners to BBC Radio 4 (yes, I know they’re biased, but the coverage is comprehensive) who are prone to insomnia will know that the “shipping forecast” (ie weather for sailors, not prediction of the number of ships!) goes out around 00.47 and 05.20 (around half an hour after the first ‘plane into London Heathrow airport, the 04.50 from Hong Kong- I’m under the flight path most days).
Said forecast includes “Reports from coastal stations”, which, as an aviation buff, I note are largely current or former airfields, civilian and military; ie they have lots of concrete. I wonder whether the temperatures quoted find their way into the climate “statistics”?
Sorry, Mark, but your report of temperatures in Shipping Forecast is a load of bunkum. The Shipping Forecast DO NOT BROADCAST TEMPERATURES only wind speed and direction, viability and atmospheric pressure.
Do not tell lies, you will be found out.
I’m not defending the BBC, their “Climate Catastrophe” mindset is abysmal. Similarly the Met Office are a load of lying people with unmarried parents.
Blimey JohnM, you startled me there. Apologies first for late reply; I spent the weekend with my beloved as usual, so didn’t need the radio for company overnight. I’ve set tonight’s (Sunday) forecast to record, in case I miss it, and will report back.
Are you still here? The segment I had in mind is the “Weather reports from coastal stations”, but as an aviation buff, I seem to have exaggerated the number of airfields. There are only two; Leuchars (Fife) and Valley (Anglesey), home of the Red Arrows (the RAF’s display team). So, my humble apologies!
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Swedish stupidity and creepiness to new heights
Ebba Busch: “I suffer with my Muslim sisters and brothers who are offended”
Published on July 7, 2023 in Fria Tider
Deputy Prime Minister and party leader Ebba Busch (KD) [Christian Democracy] rages against Koran burning in Sweden ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
– I suffer with my Muslim sisters and brothers
who are offended by someone trying to desecrate their holy text, the Koran”, says KD leader Ebba Busch to Svenska Dagbladet.
Turkey’s leader Erdogan has demanded that Sweden ban Koran burning in order to be admitted to NATO.
The government opened up on Thursday for such a ban. It is currently “analyzing” the Public Order Act.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (Moderate Party) told SvD that this work is being done “urgently” by the government.
And things are burning hot. The NATO meeting in Vilnius starts on Tuesday next week and the government hopes that Erdogan will finally be persuaded to agree to let Sweden become a NATO member.
In a unique verdict described as “spectacularly timely for the government”, the Stockholm District Court on Thursday convicted a PKK Kurd for the first time using terror legislation.