The Biden administration has approved sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, and NATO supports the transfer. Both had previously been opposed to such munitions, but the dire military circumstances of Ukraine have made it necessary.
In other news, the White House and the Secret Service say that it may never be possible to determine who left a small bag of cocaine in a White House cubby.
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Payrolls Rose by 209,000 in June, Less Than Expected, as Jobs Growth Wobbles
Employment growth eased in June, taking some steam out of what had been a stunningly strong labor market.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 209,000 in June and the unemployment rate was 3.6%, the Labor Department reported Friday. That compared with the Dow Jones consensus estimates for growth of 240,000 and a jobless level of 3.6%.
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Alex Soros, the 37-year-old son of George Soros who recently took control of the mammoth multi-billion dollar Open Society Foundations (OSF), has now visited President Biden’s White House at least 20 times, records show.
In late March, Alex attended three meetings with Nina Srivastava, who previously served as an advisor for Biden’s former chief of staff, Ron Klain; Amanda Sloat, the National Security Council’s senior director for Europe; and Jon Finer, the principal deputy national security adviser, according to recently released visitor logs.
The meetings follow the 17 former visits Alex had with Biden personnel since the administration took power. The objective of the discussions remains unclear. The White House did not answer Fox News Digital’s email on the matter.
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Biden to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine, Despite Being Against US Law
The U.S. has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines.
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Biden Admin Pushes Trio of Vaccines, Including Brand New COVID Shots, to Prevent ‘Tripledemic’
The Biden administration’s CDC, which pushed mRNA vaccines during the Covid pandemic, along with masking, lockdowns, and endless numbers of booster shots, has launched a new initiative to get people vaccinated. This time, they are focusing on three respiratory illnesses: Covid, the flu, and RSV.
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Authored by Connor Freeman via The Libertarian Institute
While on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden spoke with some “Syrian American activists” who favor increased sanctions on the country as well as regime change in Damascus, during a private fundraiser in Maryland last month. According to neoconservative columnist Josh Rogin — one of Bill Kristol’s protégés — Biden told these regime change advocates that, among other things, Assad must go. Rogin says these activists “took advantage of their audience with Biden… to implore him to do more to oppose” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Alla Tello, a Syrian American from Massachusetts, said she declared to Biden that “Assad must go,” to which the president responded “I agree.” That rallying cry was first uttered in 2011, when the Barack Obama administration began launching its dirty war against Damascus, an ultimately failed but extremely bloody regime change effort.
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Biden Whistleblower Gal Luft: ‘I May Have to Live on the Run for the Rest of My Life’
Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness
Dr. Gal Luft, the Israeli whistleblower who has been on the run since April, detailed his bribery allegations against the Biden family in an extraordinary new video obtained by the New York Post.
As American Greatness previously reported, Luft was arrested on weapon trafficking and other charges in Cyprus last February and disappeared after he was let out on bail. After his arrest, the former Israeli army officer tweeted that the Biden administration was out to “bury” him.
The Biden Department of Justice had Luft, the founder and executive director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), arrested on on suspicion of arms trafficking to China and Libya, lying to the FBI and violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), according to his arrest warrant. He’s facing up to 96 years in prison if convicted of the charges.
From an undisclosed location, the fugitive claimed in the 14-minute video that he was arrested to stop him from testifying to the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee about the Biden family’s shady business exploits in China.
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Bizarre New Attack on RFK Jr: He Promotes the “Ugly Message That Being Autistic is Bad”
Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute
It seems clear that most parents of autistic children in America love the children and see great value in the children’s activities and thoughts. It also seems clear that most of these parents also would prefer that their children could live free from the effects of autism and that a way is found to prevent autism from developing in other children.
That is commonsensical.
But, when people in the media are looking for any and every basis to tar Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his presidential campaign, his dedication to the ordinarily perceived of as admirable goal of seeking to reduce the prevalence of autism is twisted by opponents into a vicious perspective.
MSNBC columnist Eric Garcia wrote in Sunday editorial focused on Kennedy that “the crux of his baseless claim that vaccines cause autism is the ugly message that being autistic is bad.”
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The University of California Davis School of Medicine has developed a “disadvantage scale” system that helps select students based on their “adversity scores.” This comes after the Supreme Court tossed affirmative action last week.
The socioeconomic disadvantage scale (SED) was developed by Dr. Mark Henderson, the associate dean of admissions at the university. The system rates an applicant’s adversity from zero to 99, according to the New York Times.
“I’d call it class-based affirmative action,” Henderson said. “Class struggles have a huge overlap with race — that’s how we skirted the issue.”
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Concealed Carry Holder Shoots Armed Robber in Chicago
A concealed carry holder ended an armed robbery attempt in Chicago when the good guy with a gun exercised his Second Amendment rights and shot the thug.
At around 3:33 am on Wednesday morning, an armed crook in a ski mask made a huge mistake and tried to rob three men.
The three “victims” were standing near a vehicle in the 2600 block of West Devon Avenue.
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Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Mark Zuckerberg Over Threads
Elon Musk’s Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, over Meta’s new text-based “Twitter killer” platform.
Yesterday Meta introduced Threads, a text-based Twitter clone connected to Instagram. Hours after the launch, Elon Musk made his move.
A lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
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Eric Adams Allegedly Carries Fake Picture of Fallen Cop in His Wallet, Shows it Off to Press: Report
New York City Hall aides have claimed that Mayor Eric Adams carries around a photo of the late police officer Robert Venable that was created by employees using a printed Google image.
According to a New York Times report on Thursday, Adams has repeatedly told the story of his friend who was killed in the line of duty during media interviews and that he keeps his picture in his wallet. One person familiar with the request told the outlet that employees were instructed to create a photo of Officer Venable.
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Ex-CBP Head Calls Out WH, Says “It Should Take Them About 30 Minutes to Solve” Cocaine Mystery
Mark Morgan, a former FBI agent and acting commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection Agency, called out the White House saying it should take the U.S. Secret Service about 30 minutes to figure out how cocaine came into the White House.
And most importantly, who brought the cocaine into the West Wing of the White House. Biden’s press team was always considered the worst to ever do it. And they stayed true to form by botching the cocaine caper.
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Gunman on Scooter Shoots Randomly in NYC, Police Say, Killing an 87-Year-Old and Wounding 3 Others
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say a man on a scooter fired a handgun in a string of random shootings that killed an 87-year-old and wounded three others. Police say the gunman fired at pedestrians in Brooklyn and Queens on Saturday. Assistant Police Chief Joseph Kenny said investigators don’t know his motive. A 25-year-old man, whose identity hasn’t been revealed by police, was taken into custody. In all, police said there were five shootings carried out during the spree. One man was shot in the face and is hospitalized in critical condition. Another is in stable condition. No one was hurt in one of the shootings.
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House Oversight Chair James Comer Issues Warning to Biden: ‘More Disturbing Findings’ Have Emerged
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has issued a warning to Democrat President Joe Biden that “disturbing” new evidence has emerged.
Comer revealed that “more findings” have surfaced in the Committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s business affairs.
The top Republican said the Committee will make the new information public in an announcement that will follow soon.
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Lawyers for Idaho massacre suspect Bryan Kohberger have successfully petitioned the judge in charge of his case to grant them access to the training records of three officers involved in the investigation. Latah County District Judge John Judge agreed to let Kohberger’s attorneys view the material as they ramp up their efforts to challenge the credibility of the officers.
The former University of Washington student has pleaded not guilty to the murder of four University of Idaho students in November 2022, however, prosecutors have indicated that they intend to seek the death penalty if he is found to be at fault.
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Who would be stupid enough to smuggle cocaine into one of the most secure buildings in the world?
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Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Elon Musk’s Challenge to Fight in Cage Match: “Vegas Octagon”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accepted Telsa CEO Elon Musk’s offer to cage fight (MMA). Musk may have been joking but Mark is not as he has been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the Meta boss just won a tournament.
Zuckerberg is launching a Twitter competitor which sparked the back and forth.
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Skies over Florida, along with southern swathes of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, will look ‘a little hazy’ and could turn brown from the plume.
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Meta’s New Threads App is Censoring From Day One
Threads is Meta’s latest and boldest attempt to go head-to-head with Twitter. Operating as an independent app, but at the moment requiring an Instagram login, Threads is the stage for public textual interactions and dialogues among users, linked to their Instagram profiles. Astonishingly, within less than a day of its debut on Thursday morning, Threads had already attracted a whopping 30 million sign-ups.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid: ‘I Did Not Go Out on July 4th Because America is Awash With Guns’
MSNBC’s Joy Reid has claimed that she was too afraid to leave her home on July 4th because “America is awash with guns.”
During her show “The Reidout” on Wednesday, the host said:
“I have to say, I did not go out on July 4th and would not.
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Did the establishment’s Jan 6 ‘Insurrection’ narrative just go the way of Keyser Soze?
In his first public interview since being fired from Fox News, Tucker Carlson sat down with none other than Russell Brand (on Rumble).
He began by explaining why he chose to launch his show on Twitter:
“I’m not working for Elon Musk… what he’s done is offered me is what he’s offered every other user at Twitter which is a chance to broadcast your views without a gatekeeper”
The whole interview is fascinating, but one section in particular is key, when discussed the events of January 6th.
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Obama White House Emailed Hunter Biden Internal Details on VP’s Call With Ukraine About Burisma
Stunning new information has emerged that reveals former President Barack Obama’s taxpayer-funded White House was sharing internal information with outside actors who had financial interests in America’s foreign affairs.
According to a new report by the Washington Times, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office was emailing information to the VP’s son regarding Ukraine.
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During a podcast appearance with Lex Fridman, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlined how during the pandemic the media engaged in an “organised conspiracy” by acting as “propaganda organs for the government agencies,” and acting to censor “anybody who dissented.”
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Actor Scott Baio slammed the failed state of California on Fox News telling Jesse Watters he moved from California to Florida because the Golden State has turned into a “third-world country.”
Baio said: “I’ve been there for 45 years, Jesse, and I’ve watched Southern California devolve into a third-world country. (See Video Below)
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Teen Survivor of Philadelphia Mass Shooting Escaped Gunman by Rolling Under Car After Being Shot
PHILADELPHIA — The father of a teenage survivor of Monday’s mass shooting in Philadelphia said his son saved his own life by rolling under a parked car when the gunman stood over him after was shot in the legs.
Rafiq Fitzgerald’s said his 13-year-old son was grabbing snacks from a Kingsessing store when he became a casualty of a mass shooting the killed five and wounded several others.
“The guy turned the corner and shot my son first, twice in the legs and proceeded to stand over him,” Fitzgerald said. His son and a 2-year-old are the only people to survive their gunshot wounds.
The murderous rampage began near the intersection of 56th Street and Chester Avenue, and continued onto nearby streets where police caught up with the gunman and took him into custody.
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Trump and Biden’s Iran Envoy Were Both Accused of Mishandling Classified Info
by Daniel Greenfield
Last year, the FBI conducted a raid of former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Biden’s Justice Department bypassed normal protocol for the raid, sidelined the FBI’s Miami Field Office, refused to assign a U.S. Attorney’s Office and pressured the FBI to go forward.
Next year, the Biden administration encountered an internal case of one of its top officials mishandling classified information. The mishandling of classified information on Iran, the linchpin of the Trump indictment, didn’t just hit any Biden official, but its special envoy for Iran.
Even as the Justice Department moved full speed ahead with targeting Trump, the State Department was aware that Rob Malley, Biden’s special envoy for Iran, was being investigated for mishandling classified information. Despite that, Malley remained on the job and apparently retained his access to classified information until his security clearance was pulled this spring.
Under investigation and with his security clearance suspended, Malley still officially remained the special envoy for Iran even though secretly he was no longer able to conduct some of his duties. Only at the end of June when the story broke, did the State Department switch from calling Malley the envoy to Iran to finally stating that, “Rob Malley is on leave.”
Within 6 months, the FBI had gone from a criminal investigation of Trump to a raid. It seems to have taken nearly that long for Malley just to be put on leave and it appears that he would still be named as the special envoy for Iran if the story of the investigation had not come out…
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Trump Claims White House Cocaine Belongs to Bidens; Asks ‘Where Are the Security Tapes?’
President Trump responded to the White House cocaine scandal Wednesday by demanding to know where the security tapes are that would show exactly who hid the drugs.
Trump also asked if anyone really believes the coke belongs to anyone other than Joe and Hunter Biden, and asserted that the Secret Service already know where it came from.
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Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta for ‘Misappropriation’ of ‘Trade Secrets’ Over Thread App: Report
Elon Musk’s Twitter has reportedly threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, claiming the social media rival used Twitter’s trade secrets to create the app.
In a Wednesday letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg obtained by Semafor, a lawyer for Twitter said that company “has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
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The Pentagon announced that the destruction of the weapon marked the end of a thirty year mission to eradicate the stockpile the US had when a M55 rocket was destroyed in Kentucky.
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US Expected to Announce it Will Send Cluster Munitions to Kyiv
The Biden administration plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help it in its war against Russia, U.S. officials said, in a move that will likely anger human rights groups.
The controversial weapons are fired from a cannon and release dozens of “bomblets” across a wide area. They can cause harm long after the fighting has ended. Cluster munitions are banned by 123 countries because of the risk they pose to civilians — but the United States, Ukraine and Russia have not banned them.
The cluster munitions are expected to be part of a new U.S. aid package to Ukraine that is to be announced Friday.
Ukraine and Russia are using cluster munitions on the battlefield. But Kyiv has been asking Washington to send cluster munitions, because its forces are running low on ammunition. So far, the United States has resisted providing the cluster munitions because of the risk they pose to civilians.
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Video: Biden Laughs as Reporters Ask Him About Cocaine Found at White House
The biggest story in America yesterday was the discovery of cocaine at the White House, along with images and video of Hunter Biden at the White House on July 4th looking completely wired and allegedly taking a bump.
According to reports, the cocaine was found stashed in a cubby hole in the West Wing.
Yet Joe Biden seemed to think it’s all funny, laughing at reporters trying to ask him about the incident.
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Videos: Establishment Media Whines About Injunction to Stop Biden Censorship Via Big Tech
The corporate media spent a large chunk of Wednesday complaining about how a Federal Judge issued an injunction to put a stop to the Biden Administration acting like an “Orwellian Ministry Of Truth” by colluding with big tech to censor opinions it doesn’t like.
Here’s the story. The judge described the situation as being “dystopian”.
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Video Shows Hunter Biden’s Strange Behavior at White House as Questions Mount Over Cocaine Discovery
A video has emerged that shows Democrat President Joe Biden’s son exhibiting strange behavior during a White House event as questions mount regarding the cocaine that was found in the West Wing.
The drug was found in a cubby in the West Wing on Sunday, just two days after Hunter Biden visited the White House for an event.
The Secret Service is currently investigating the issue by examining video footage and video logs to determine who may have left it there.
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WH Changes Cocaine Story, Throws Kamala Harris Under Bus: MSNBC Report
The White House is now claiming the cocaine was found “in a much more secure place, near the Situation Room” and next to “where, for example, the vice president’s vehicle is parked” according to a new MSNBC report. (See Video Below)
The entire world knows Joe Biden is desperate to get rid of Kamala Harris because she is his biggest weakness. Biden can’t get through a sentence without embarrassing himself and the nation.
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The Biden administration has done a full 180 on cluster munitions — from last year calling their use in the Russia-Ukraine conflict a ‘war crime’ to this year insisting they are essential.
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MINNEAPOLIS — So far in 2023, no fewer than 24 air quality alerts have impacted our warm weather days this year. That’s a record that may keep building, as the latest update on Canadian wildfires indicates we’re likely not done with smoky skies.
New information from Natural Resources Canada could help Minnesotans plan out what we can expect later this summer.
It has been a record-breaking wildfire year in Canada, in terms of the total area burned (more than 8.8 million hectares), the number of evacuees (nearly 156,000), and the needed international help, which includes 11 countries spanning six continents.
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Canada Pulls Ads From Meta After it Refused to Hand Cash to Failing Legacy News Outlets
The Canadian government has announced that it will withdraw all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. This action comes in the wake of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, banning news content for Canadian users in response to the passage of Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act, whereby the government tried to force Meta to hand over cash to legacy news outlets.
Bill C-18, which obligates tech companies to compensate media outlets for news content, has been met with resistance from Meta.
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Canada’s Wildfires Set to Worsen
There are currently 639 active fires in Canada, of which more than half are out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
Canada is bracing for higher-than-normal wildfire activity to continue into August, as soaring temperatures and drought turn much of the country’s vast forests into kindling.
The Canada fire season, which normally runs from April to September, is barely half over but the country has already surpassed the modern historical record for area burned, with an estimated 8.8 million hectares scorched so far, an area larger than South Carolina. That’s well above the 10-year average of about 805,000 hectares. The previous record of 7.6 million hectares was set in 1989.
“Through July, expected warm and dry conditions will increase wildfire risk from British Columbia and the Yukon across the country right to Western Labrador,” Michael Norton, director general of the Northern Forestry Centre at the Canadian Forest Service, said in a briefing. The area at risk is expected to shrink only slightly in August. “It is anticipated that many parts of Canada will continue to see above normal fire activity,” said Norton.
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Sikh Leader’s Vancouver Shooting Death Sparks Protests in Toronto
A few hundred members of Canada’s Sikh community demonstrated outside the Indian consulate in Toronto on Saturday to protest the unsolved murder of one of their leaders last month in the Vancouver area.
They accused the Indian government of being responsible for the gunning down of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of a Sikh temple and campaigner for the creation of an independent Sikh state that supporters hope to call Khalistan.
“When an Indian agency and system commit a crime, they have to be held accountable,” Kuljeet Singh, spokesperson for Sikhs for Justice, a U.S.-based organization behind the rally, told AFP.
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74% Post-Vaccine Deaths Caused by Jabs, Study Shows
A staggering 74 percent of people who died after receiving a Covid vaccine were killed by the mRNA jab, a bombshell new study has revealed.
The prestigious medical journal The Lancet published the explosive study on Wednesday.
The study, a pre-print that was awaiting peer review, reviewed 325 autopsies of people who died after Covid vaccination.
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reached a new national polling record, while also securing first place in four out of five eastern German states, according to a series of new polls.
The national INSA poll shows that the AfD is the second most popular party in the country and just points behind the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), reaching a record high of 21 percent. As Remix News previously reported, the string of AfD electoral victories and new polling highs has sparked a fierce debate about the anti-immigration party and prompted politicians and journalists to speculate about methods to ban the party and invalidate elections the party wins due to a “threat to democracy.”
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ANDREW NEIL: The scale of Polish rearmament is breathtaking, leaving much bigger Nato allies such as France, Britain and Germany behind in its wake.
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Biden Denies Grooming Von Der Leyen for NATO Secretary in 2024
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen could be moving offices—according to The Telegraph, which revealed that she is the Biden administration’s top pick to become the next NATO secretary general, a job change that would have major implications in the calculus of next year’s European elections. The rumour, though, has been sharply denied by White House sources. That has not stopped speculation that von der Leyen is the preferred candidate due to the criteria she meets as both a German, a woman, and someone amenable to the French.
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Bremen ‘Fridays for Future’ Disbands After Racism Claims
There appears to be no future for the Bremen branch of the climate change alarmist group “Fridays for Future,” which was originally founded by Swedish climate wunderkind Greta Thunberg in 2018.
On July 3rd, the Bremen Fridays for Future (FFF) wrote on their website that they would be dissolving and accused the German national branch of FFF of being “structurally racist” and claimed that “Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPoC)” people had suffered abuse from other activists with the FFF movement.
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Dutch Government Falls, PM Resigns
The Dutch government, the fourth under long-serving Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD), has collapsed, various news agencies and Dutch media report. According to the agency, Rutte has handed in his resignation.
For the last three days, Rutte’s four-party coalition government had been teetering on the brink over its failure to agree on measures to curb the influx of asylum seekers.
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EU Commission Unveils Annual Rule of Law Report
The European Commission published its annual Rule of Law Report on Wednesday, July 5th, which is a detailed assessment of the main democratic shortcomings of all EU member states, complete with recent achievements and further recommendations. Overall, the rule of law situation has improved across the bloc since last year, but no member state is perfect.
This is the fourth time Brussels has published the comprehensive report, with the outspoken aim of letting member states know in which areas they are expected to deliver improvements and to follow up on the initiated reforms.
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EU Signs Contract for Pandemic Vaccine Production
The EU has taken another step in pandemic preparedness. The EU Commission announced on June 30th that it had purchased vaccine production capacity at four pharmaceutical companies.
The Commission signed the deal “for sufficient and agile manufacturing capacities,” with Spanish vaccine makers HIPRA and CZ, the Dutch company Bilthoven Biologicals, and U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Under the contract, the EU is paying €160 million per year for the companies to maintain the production capacity to make 325 million doses a year.
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Last September, the Polish government published a report on the war losses suffered by Poland at the hands of the Germans during World War II. You supervised the work on this report, which was created over several years. Based on this study, the Sejm passed a resolution that same month and the Polish Foreign Ministry sent a diplomatic note in early October in which Poland demanded war reparations from Germany for 6.6 trillion zlotys (€1.4 trillion).
What was the German reaction then and what is it now?
Germany’s attitude and position have been evolving in some ways.
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France: Macron is Challenged Over Threats to Cut Off Social Media to Curb Riots
Amidst the turbulence and protests that have enveloped France following the shooting of a teenager named Nahel in a Paris suburb, President Emmanuel Macron’s recent comments have fueled accusations of an authoritarian approach.
The president’s suggestion to “regulate or cut off” social media networks as a means to curb violence was met with criticism, as many drew parallels between such a move and the measures of regimes in China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea.
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France Approves Remote Eavesdropping of Devices to ‘Identify Terrorists, Criminals’
The French National Assembly, the country’s lower house, on Wednesday approved an article in a legal reform package that would allow the remote eavesdropping of devices if their owners are suspected of involvement in a terrorist attack or organized crime, according to the live broadcast of the parliament meeting.
The article was approved in an 80-to-24 vote.
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France: Macron Threatens to Block Social Media Platforms Amid Continued Rioting
Rioting continues across France in the wake of the fatal police shooting of teenager Nahel in Nanterre last week just outside of Paris. As rioters continue to use social media to coordinate their attacks on shops and public buildings, French President Emmanuel Macron has made new comments that have some criticising him as authoritarian.
President Macron stated that he did not rule out cutting off access to various social media platforms after noting the role they have played in the rioting.
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France’s Right-Wing Parties Surge in First Polling Since Mass Riots
The French electorate is flocking to right-wing parties in the wake of the recent mass riots which enveloped the nation last week.
A new Ifop poll for Sud Radio showed right-wing parties enjoying a 6 percent swing in support from voters across the country when asked for their voting intentions ahead of next year’s European parliamentary elections.
The National Rally, formerly led by ex-presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and now by Jordan Bardella, topped the poll with more than a quarter (26 percent) of the vote share, up one percentage point.
The liberal-conservative Republicans saw their popularity rise into double figures, up three percentage points to 11 percent, while Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête party and Debout la France (DLF) gained one percentage point each to total 7 percent and 4 percent respectively.
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Gargantuan Black Hole ‘Switches On,’ Becoming One of the Brightest Objects Ever Seen
A black hole 10 billion light-years away suddenly ‘switched on’, becoming one of the brightest transient objects ever detected.
Scientists scouring the cosmos for signs of a rare explosion may have stumbled upon something even more remarkable: a gargantuan black hole “switching on” in the early universe, going from dim to tremendously bright in a cosmic blink of an eye.
The black hole, dubbed J221951, is estimated to sit about 10 billion light-years from Earth, meaning the cosmic monster turned up its lights when the universe was roughly one-quarter of its current age. Despite this vast distance, the black hole brightened so intensely that astronomers initially mistook it for a stellar explosion less than 1 billion light-years away.
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German Investment Plummets as Industrialisation Falls
The deindustrialization of Germany is currently underway.
“The numbers are alarming: in the worst case, this is the beginning of deindustrialization,” a recent report from the prestigious Cologne-based German Economic Institute (IW) concluded.
The report is an in-depth look at trends in German industry from 2022.
Falling orders, weak export growth, loss of market share for electric cars, and the outflow of investment are all indications that “the German export model no longer works as well as it used to with increasing protectionism,” according to the report.
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Italy’s PM Meloni Visits Warsaw, Backs Polish Conservatives in Upcoming Election
he Italian PM Giorgia Meloni visited Warsaw on July 5 and expressed her desire that Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) wins the upcoming national election.
During their meeting, Meloni and her Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, discussed the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, the war in Ukraine, and the migration crisis. They agreed on the need to strengthen the protection of the EU’s external borders and that the EU should be run according to the principle of subsidiarity.
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More Than 3 in 4 Hungarians Oppose Ukraine Financial Support From EU Funds
An overwhelming majority of Hungarians do not agree with EU plans to provide further financial support for Ukraine via the European Union budget, new polling has shown.
A survey, published by the Nézopont Institute on Friday, revealed that 77 percent of respondents do not believe the European Union should be providing further financial assistance using additional taxpayers’ cash, while 64 percent are even opposed to the European Commission handing over funds even if member states aren’t asked to cough up more.
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Pentagon: Poland’s Missile Defense Base Will be Finished by the End of This Year
The construction of the missile defense base in Redzikowo is planned for completion by the end of this year, Nancy Jones-Bonbrest, the spokesperson for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
The installation will then undergo the final phase of testing by the United States Navy, she added.
Once finalized, Aegis Ashore, located in the Redzikowo base in northern Poland, will become the second land-based ballistic missile defense site in Europe, marking the completion of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA). The EPAA is part of the NATO missile defense system to protect Europe and the U.S. against short— medium— and intermediate-range ballistic missiles from Iran.
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Poland’s Right-Wing Confederation Leader Rules Out Future Coalition With Governing Conservatives
One of the leaders of the right-wing Confederation party, Slawomir Mentzen, has reacted strongly against media speculation that his party will enter into coalition with the ruling conservatives after the election, as it is what a large part of the ruling party’s electorate expects.
According to polling data by Pollster Institute, voters who identify themselves as supporters or the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) are in favor of a coalition between their party and the Confederation by a margin of three to two.
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Poland’s Central Communication Port Airport and Railway Station Plans Revealed
The architectural concept for the Central Communication Port (CPK) was revealed on social media, showcasing visualizations of the airport and railway station.
The Polish minister responsible for the development, Marcin Horala, highlighted that this achievement is the result of collaboration among several hundred esteemed architects and engineers from Poland and around the world.
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The Polish right-wing Confederation party is attempting to copy the solution adopted by Slovakia to protect cash transactions, which are seen as essential for preserving liberty due to the looming threat of digital-only transactions. Confederation is now proposing to enshrine cash transactions in Poland’s constitution, which is one of the four main parts of the platform on which the party is contesting this fall’s parliamentary elections. The other three are lower taxes, making national insurance voluntary for entrepreneurs, and a 30 percent reduction in the cost of home building.
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Pope Francis Orders Listing of New Christian Martyrs
The number of martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the witness of Christ and the Gospel is higher now than in the first centuries of Christianity, Pope Francis wrote in a document issued on Wednesday after ordering a census of martyrs who have died in the last quarter of a century.
The Commission for the New Martyrs — Witnesses of the Faith is responsible for compiling a list of those whose blood has been shed for the witness of Christ and the Gospel over the last 25 years. The papal document stresses that the work of cataloging is not limited to Catholic martyrs.
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Romanian PM Turns to Germany for Troops and Schengen Support
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Tuesday, July 4th, to request a permanent German military presence in his country, the PM revealed during a joint press conference. Scholz did not commit any troops officially but promised to support Romania’s Schengen membership, which could be finalized before the end of the year.
During their meeting, the two leaders discussed a variety of topics related to their countries’ strategic and economic cooperation, and, in particular, the common security policy on NATO’s eastern flank ahead of the Atlantic Organization’s upcoming Vilnius summit next week.
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Shock Video: Passengers Stabbed With Broken Bottle During Brawl on Plane
A flight to the Caribbean turned ugly when passengers were stabbed with a broken bottle by another traveler this week, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded on Sunday aboard a British Airways plane bound for St. Lucia from London’s Gatwick Airport.
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Spain Elections Threaten Catalan MEPs as EU Court Removes Immunity
Three Catalan pro-Independence MEPs are facing the growing prospect of deportation to Spain on corruption charges following a decision by the EU’s General Court to remove their parliamentary immunity this week.
Self-styled Catalan President-in-exile Carles Puigdemont and two other MEPs from his Together for Catalonia party (Junts per Catalunya), Toni Comin and Clara Ponsati, lost their immunity on Wednesday, July 5th after the EU’s General Court upheld a request by Spanish authorities to deport the parliamentarians in relation to the botched 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
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Sweden Into NATO: Hungary Will Put Up No Resistance if Turkey Relents
Budapest will back a Swedish NATO membership once a still intransigent Ankara, the other sole holdout among all 31 member states, signals that it’s equally ready to do so.
“If there is movement there, then of course we will keep our pledge that Hungary will not delay any country’s membership,” Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó told reporters in Budapest during a press conference on Tuesday, July 4th.
He added that, regarding a possible ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership, he had been, and in the coming days will be, in “close and continuous” contact with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan.
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Switzerland Blocks Shipment of German Tanks to Ukraine
Switzerland has finally made its position clear on the possible sale of a large number of increasingly obsolete Leopard 1A5 main battle tanks formerly of the Italian armed forces: it will not sell them to Ukraine as was widely expected.
While EU member states, either voluntarily or under pressure, have supported sanctions and sent aid and arms transfers to Ukraine, Switzerland has rejected this path, resorting to its historical constitution which requires neutrality.
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Top Left-Wing Finnish Politician Tries to Explain Naked Hitler Salute Picture Scandal
A top Finnish politician in the running to replace former Prime Minister Sanna Marin as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has sought to explain how he came to be photographed stark naked, save a balaclava and Santa hat, with a group of friends giving Hitler salutes.
Antti Lindtman, the current chairman of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group and a member of parliament for the Finnish district of Uusimaa, has admitted to being one of the individuals in a number of resurfaced photos taken when the 40-year-old politician was 18 years old.
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Turkey Says No to Sweden in NATO Again Over Permitting Qur’an Burning
Turkey´s foreign minister said Sweden’s failure to prevent Quran-burning protests is raising security concerns and questions.
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Exclusive figures shared with This is Money show that all 20 second-hand cars that have deflated in price across all fuel types are Evs — while not a single one appears in the list of the 20 biggest tisers.
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Youth Gather in Poland for Christian Festival of Life
Hundreds of people from across Poland and wider Europe have arrived in Kokotek in southern Poland to take part in the Christian Festival of Life.
A steady stream of young people with backpacks, suitcases, and tents poured into Kokotek this week. Notably, a group of several dozen people from a Polish parish in Brussels embarked on a nearly day-long journey to attend the festival.
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Israeli Drone Deal Tips Western Sahara Conflict in Morocco’s Favour
A deal between Israel and Morocco to supply drones to the Moroccan air force has handed the military advantage to the Moroccan army fighting in Western Sahara after Rabat signed the Abraham Accords, normalising relations with Tel Aviv.
Morocco has been engaged in a low-level irredentist war in the Western Sahara since 1975 against indigenous Sahrawi rebels which intensified in 2020 following the breakdown of a 29-year-long ceasefire between the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front group leading the fightback.
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Caroline Glick: The Jenin Operation’s Limited Potential
What was the potential of the Israel Defense Forces’ operation in Jenin this week?
According to the IDF, the goal of the operation wa to disable the massive terror infrastructure that Palestinian groups have built in the Jenin refugee camp.
Over the past year-and-a-half, due to the policies of the previous government and to IDF support for those policies, the area became a mini-Gaza. In September 2021, in conjunction with then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Central Command head Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs ordered a five-month moratorium on IDF operations in Jenin, in the interest of “strengthening the Palestinian Authority.”
This week’s operation then was geared towards repairing the damage caused by the policies of the previous government and Central Command. As IDF Spokesman R. Adm. Daniel Hagari explained Monday morning in a spate of television and radio interviews, the purpose of the operation wa not to seize control over Jenin or parts of the city. It was not directed against the P.A. It was meant simply to regain the tactical advantage and degrade the capabilities of the terror groups operating in the refugee camp.
As a limited, tactical engagement, the operation had limited, but important, potential. Over the past several weeks, the Palestinians shot four rudimentary rockets at Israeli communities from Jenin. Although military experts insist these were mere pop guns, the missile industry in Gaza began the same way in 2000. Today, missiles from Gaza have ranges that cover most of the country. The operation in Jenin had the potential to destroy all the rocket workshops and kill or arrest all of the terrorist operatives engaged in the development of the rocket program.
The operation in Jenin also was capable of disrupting and degrading the Palestinian terror capacity by killing and capturing the terror commanders and foot soldiers who together have been carrying out shooting, stoning, roadside bomb and pipe bomb attacks against Israelis throughout the region. These attacks have made life a crap shoot for tens of thousands of Israeli citizens who live and work in the communities in northern Samaria and the Binyamin region.
In the hours before the operation in Jenin began, Palestinian terrorists carried out four shooting attacks against Israeli vehicles, communities and IDF personnel in the area around the city. To get a sense of the magnitude of the problem, every day Palestinians from Jenin and the wider area carry out hundreds of stoning attacks against Israeli vehicles on the roads. And according to the Shin Bet, in May alone, Palestinians attacked Israeli vehicles with Molotov cocktails 139 times. They carried out 51 pipe bomb attacks and 11 shooting attacks.
While some of the terror infrastructure behind these attacks is located in Nablus, and in villages like Huwara and Umm Tzafa, because of the free rein terror groups have enjoyed in Jenin, the bulk of the operational infrastructure is located in Jenin.
The fact that this week’s operation was a tactical engagement doesn’t mean that the problem isn’t strategic. It is. But unfortunately, the IDF doesn’t share the Netanyahu government’s understanding of the strategic realities on the ground. And as a result, a wider operation is unlikely…
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The dangerous maneuvers forced the MQ-9 Reapers to take evasive action, the Air Force said. Thursday’s close-call was the second time in 24 hours that Russia has harassed U.S. drones over Syria.
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British Challenger Tanks Seen Near the Ukraine Front Line in Zaporizhzhya
British Challenger-2 tanks have supposedly been spotted in the Zaporizhzhya region in Ukraine, near the front line, according to unconfirmed reports.
Although the Ukrainians received the tanks from the U.K. in mid-March, and training was completed by the end of March, there is no evidence that they have been used in combat. However, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov tested the Ukrainian-flagged armored vehicles in the spring and promised that they would soon begin their combat mission.
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Another ethnic Hungarian soldier from Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region has been killed in the war between Ukraine and Russia, which has now been going on for almost 500 days, the Hungarian-language Ukrainian news portal Karpataljai Igaz Szó reports.
Last week, Béla Bojza died in a hospital in Herszon following an injury. The 44-year-old soldier was a resident of the village of Rat in the Ung province and was mobilized in February this year, close friends of the victim said. The second hero from the Szürte district left behind a young daughter.
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NATO ‘OK’ With Cluster Bombs After Biden Approves for Ukraine: Stoltenberg
Update(1805ET): Here’s how Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan chose to defend Biden’s agreeing to give Ukraine’s military banned munitions: essentially he argued that since Russia has been using cluster munitions first, it’s okay to given them to Ukraine to use. His words also implied that since the Pentagon has been drawing from its own stockpiles (leaving potential for shortages), and since the US happens to have a lot of cluster munitions on hand, this is the next ‘natural’ step…
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg doesn’t see a problem with internationally banned cluster munitions… only when the US or its allies deploy them, apparently.
Without doubt if cluster bombs were being deployed by Russia or official US enemies, NATO would condemn it (and has in the past). But with the Biden administration now reportedly moving forward with sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, Stoltenberg has said that “Nato does not have a position on them” as some allies have signed up to prohibit their use and some haven’t.
He was specifically asked by a reporter about the wisdom of allowing them to be sent to the Ukrainians. He had further added in response, “This will be for governments to decide, not for Nato to decide.”
“We are facing a brutal war, and we have to remember this brutality is reflected, that every day we see casualties, and that cluster munitions are used by both sides,” he sought to justify and explain. “And Russia used cluster munitions to invade another country. Ukraine is using cluster munitions to defend itself.”
The Associated Press first reported Thursday that the White House has decided to arm Ukraine with cluster bombs after many weeks of intense internal discussion and debate over the controversial munitions. The cluster bombs are expected to be announced as part of the next $800 million arms package.
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SCO: Putin Says Russian People “Consolidated as Never Before”
During an India-hosted virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance co-founded by Russia and China, on July 4th, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the heads of the other member states (China, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan).
For his first appearance on the world stage in the wake of Wagner PMC chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted uprising almost two weeks ago, it was incumbent on Russian President Vladimir Putin to project an image of political stability and strength to Russia’s partners and allies.
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Ukraine: Zelensky Backs Legalization of Medical Marijuana Amid War
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky is supporting efforts to legalize medical marijuana, with a group of Ukrainian soldiers lobbying parliament to pass a bill to ease the suffering of those wounded in the war with Russia, Spanish news agency EFE reported on Thursday.
The current bill to this effect will be voted on soon, after several failed attempts.
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US Set to Greenlight Cluster Bombs for Ukraine — Report
Washington may decide whether to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine this week, CBS News reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US officials. Kiev and its backers in the US have been urging such a move for months.
Cluster weapons, which are subject to an international treaty, spread dozens of small bomblets over a large area. Some of those submunitions fail to detonate and remain a hazard for decades afterwards, especially to small children, who may find and pick them up without realizing the danger.
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India: Hindu Organisations Protested Over the Islamic Plan to Destroy an Ancient Temple in Bareilly
Karni Sena and Azad Hindu Sena vehemently protested and expressed their anger on the information of vandalizing the ancient temple in the way of Bareilly’s Ala Hazrat Dargah lane.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Bareilly | July 7, 2023:: The ancient Lakshmi Narayan temple located in Ala Hazrat Dargah Wali Gali under Bareilly Mohalla Saudagran Police Station Kotwali Biharipur Chowki area is about 450 years old, which was in a state of closure due to a dispute out of the purchase of adjacent lands by the Muslim community. Bareilly is a Muslim-dominated area in Uttar Pradesh.
But, when the Hindu people of the area heard that there was an attempt to destroy the temple from inside, they reached the spot and started protesting. As soon as the police received the information, Circle Police Inspector Shweta Singh, Police Station Head Himanshu Nigam, the Biharipur outpost In-charge Jitendra Kumar reached there. Then the residents of the area told that the process of demolition of this land and temple was going on even after the case was pending in the court, while the main gate of the temple was closed, the Muslim labours were working inside the temple entering from the back gate.
People allege that one Sandeep Sharma a local activist of Samajwadi Party, who is the caretaker of this land and temple, sold it to a person named Jamal Khan, while Sandeep is not the heir of this property. This morning, when the workers started destruction inside the temple, people gathered there to protest. When the leaders and workers of Karni Sena- Uttar Pradesh and Azad Hindu Sena came to know about this, they also reached the spot and started the protest over the matter.
District President of Karni Sena, Thakur Rahul Singh directly accused the Islamist forces which are directly engaged to occupy the Hindu lands under ‘land jihad’ at any cost. National President of Azad Hindu Sena, Amit Rathore Azad, warned that the temples are symbols of our ancient tradition, and an injury to it is an injury to the tradition, which will not be tolerated at all. Anybody against Hinduism will be taught in that language that he can understand well.
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India: Muslim Clerk Molests a Hindu Woman Employee in Uttar Pradesh Shahjahanpur Municipality Office
Caught On Camera: Muslim Civic Official Molests Hindu Woman Employee In UP’s Shahjahanpur; Hindutva Outfits Demand Action.
Priyanka Chaturvedi | HENB | Lucknow | July 7, 2023:: They don’t leave any chance to enjoy any Kaffir girl at any moment, whether in an office or on a crowded journey. Allah made all Kaffir girls Halal as per Sharia to grab them anyway.
Now, in CCTV footage that is going viral on social media, a Muslim municipal clerk from UP’s Shahjahanpur Municipality office can be seen molesting a Hindu woman employee.
According to news reports, as the matter came to light after the video went viral, the municipality chairman sought clarification from both employees. In addition to this, further action is being taken in the matter by the authorities.
In the video posted on Twitter, the man, identified as Babu Shafiq alias Gaffar, can be seen pulling the woman’s hand towards himself as she tries to move back. Initially, Gaffar tried to touch the woman very inappropriately. He then put his arms around her waist and pulls her closer to him in a kissing position. After a brief moment of staying closer, as if frozen, the woman walks out of the room. From the attire of the victim woman, it was supposed a Hindu, and such a claim was supported by another source. However, the video inputs were hazy and could not be confirmed by other scientific or digital verification. A further investigation of the video footage by the authority is still awaited.
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Roshan Ali used to work at a flower shop while living in Delhi. There he met Lakshmi Bansal, daughter of Kamlesh Bansal, a resident of Tilak Nagar, New Delhi. Both of them had a love affair with each other but due to being from different communities, the family members of the girl were not ready for the relationship.
Madhu Arya | HENB | New Delhi | July 8, 2023:: In a new pattern of Love Jihad, a Muslim youth marries a Hindu girl in a temple and then Nikah, which has come to light in Hardoi, UP. Roshan Ali first converted himself in Hinduism as Roshan Lal to marry a Hindu girl in Delhi according to Hindu customs. A few days after the Hindu marriage, the young man returned to his village posing as Roshan Ali and got the girl married again according to Muslim customs. He also converted the Hindu girl in Islam. After protests by Hindu organizations, the matter reached the police. Accordingly, the police brought both of them to the police station where both are being interrogated. On the other hand, Hindu organizations say that the young man who changed from Roshan Ali to Roshan Lal in order to marry a Hindu girl, then in a planned manner married the girl without taking permission to change her religion again becoming Roshan Ali. At present, after the protest of the Hindu organization, the police authority is probing the matter…
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Muslims beat Hindu women and children by entering their home in Haldwani, Uttarakhand ; They tore clothes and kicked a pregnant woman, injuring face with a sharp weapon.
Writu Rathore | HENB | Dehradun | July 8, 2023:: In Banbhulpura of Haldwani in Uttrakhand, people from the Muslim community barged into the house of a Hindu family and beat up women and men. The accused did not even spare the pregnant woman. Kicked her on the abdomen and tore her clothes. Many Hindu relatives and neighbour came to rescue, bled in the beating by iron rods. The face of the pregnant woman was cut by a sharp weapon. The police have named four including the main accused Imran and filed an FIR against 10-12 people under the sections of molestation, assault, threats and intimidation.
According to Banbhulpura police, Rajendra Maurya’s family used to live in Gaujajali of Banbhulpura. A few days back, the municipal corporation had made a drain in the lane, but the drain got high in front of Rajendra’s house which caused accumulation of the sewerage water in front of Rajendra’s house. Rajendra broke the drain on Monday to drain out the sewerage. On Monday night, there was a tussle between Rajendra and neighbor Imran over this matter in dispute. After this, an angry Imran went home and brought 10-12 people to attack Rajendra’s house
The Muslim perpetrators carried iron rods, wooden poles, sharp objects and bricks and stones in their hands and forcibly entered Rajendra’s house and started beating all the Hindu people present there. After kicking the pregnant woman’s abdomen, they attacked her with a sharp weapon. The pregnant woman was badly injured in her face and head. She is now at a risk of abortion. When the ruckus increased, the people around informed the Banbhulpura police station.
When police station officer Neeraj Bhakuni reached the spot with his team, the attackers absconded immediately. The injured persons were given treatment.
Later, the concerned police officer said that a case has been registered against the accused persons. The accused were identified from CCTV and video footage. He also said that nobody would be spared…
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China Warns Chipmaking Export Curbs ‘Just the Beginning’
China’s export controls on key components for computer chip manufacturing are “just the beginning,” an influential trade policy adviser warned on Wednesday.
Earlier this week China announced that starting next month, special licenses will be required to export gallium and germanium, two key metals used to make computer chips.
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China Dominates World’s Nickel Supply Needed for U.S.-Made Electric Cars
China now dominates the world’s supply of nickel, a critical mineral needed to manufacture batteries for Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the U.S.
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Politics and the End of Private Lives
by Daniel Greenfield
Cancel culture, like most of our contemporary cultural revolution, began in China.
In the aughts, rural Chinese migrated to massive mega-cities whose impossible population densities were matched by the growing interconnection of the internet. While three quarters of China’s population is now on the internet, in 2006 it grew by a quarter to encompass only 10%.
In these cramped quarters, physical and social, there was no room for the individual.
The Chinese internet, unlike its American counterpart, was always centered around social media which is one reason why TikTok is eating Facebook, Twitter and YouTube’s lunches. It was also always mobile. Chinese commuters on public transportation tapped in their grievances against neighbors, friends, family and random strangers. And mobs formed to take sides.
What we call cancel culture, the Chinese called “internet hunting” by “morality mobs” who were enforcing a street-level Confucianism in Maoist fashion by destroying the lives of the offenders.
It took Americans another decade to catch up to China. Cancel culture is more overtly ideological than internet hunting, but they are the common phenomenon of leftist mass societies where people inhabit anonymous collectives, displaced by technology and the collapse of definable communities, they form ad hoc groups to enforce social codes and burn witches…
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Legendary Indigenous rights activist Gary Foley revived his famous poster mocking paternalistic attitudes to Aboriginal people for NAIDOC week. Prof Foley says the Voice referendum is a ‘diversion’.
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Left-Wing Australian Lawmaker Sneers at ‘Big Baby’ Donald Trump Jr.
A minister in Australia’s left-wing Labor government sneered at Donald Trump Jr. after he canceled a planned speaking tour Down Under.
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Former prime minister Tony Abbott has questioned why Aboriginal Australians should get a ‘special voice’ as he accuses Anthony Albanese of forming a ‘separate Indigenous parliament’.
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‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration
The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently “normal” inside the US:
“According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters with illegal immigrants along the southern border.”
These numbers do not include reports that “at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants,” or “gotaways,” who “were confirmed to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.”
“The actual number of illegal immigrants… [is] unknown. It could be double the number of known gotaways, it could be three times worse, or more. We just don’t know…”
Currently, at least 85,000 children are believed to be missing.
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Mark Rutte, 56, has been in power for the last 13 years, and has headed up the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy since 2006.
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EU Court: Conviction of “Serious Crime” is Not Enough for Stripping Asylum
The Court of Justice of the European Union published a new ruling on Thursday, July 6th, according to which EU member states cannot revoke the refugee status of migrants based on a “serious crime” conviction. According to the update, a court must now prove the criminal is also a danger to their communities, independent of the crime itself.
The clarification of EU law was issued after three separate cases were brought in front of the court by Belgium, Austria, and the Netherlands, where refugees were convicted of serious crimes and local authorities moved to strip them of their asylum.
According to the court, the conviction alone is not enough to revoke refugee status.
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France: Afghan Migrant Indicted for Rape of 12-Year-Old Schoolgirl in Nantes
A 29-year-old Afghan migrant has been indicted for the rape of a 12-year-old girl who had run away from home in the French city of Nantes.
The suspect was formally charged on June 29 for the attack, which occurred in the early hours of June 11 under the Willy-Brandt bridge in the heart of the city.
According to the Ouest-France news outlet, the schoolgirl was found alone near the adjacent Aristide Briand Bridge at approximately 5 a.m. by a woman walking home from the New Factory nightclub on Rue de Rieux. The minor reportedly confided in her that she had been raped a few hours earlier, and the police were called to the scene.
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Following a week of rioting and looting across several French cities, the majority of French citizens want stricter migration controls and sanctions against the families of those who participated in the vandalism, a poll conducted by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting for Le Figaro newspaper revealed.
Although the French government has claimed that the rioting had nothing to do with immigration, a point widely mocked. 71 percent of those polled say they want a reduction in migratory flows in response to the riots. A majority also supported two proposals put forward by the right-wing Les Républicains party and the National Rally: the abolition of the “excuse of minors” (78 percent) and an introduction of “financial sanctions” against the parents of delinquents (77 percent).
A whopping 75 percent of respondents said for those rioters convicted of crimes should have their French citizenship stripped if they are dual nationals.
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On Wednesday, 28-year-old Gerson Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, pleaded guilty to the rape of a 10-year-old girl and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Fuentes was charged with felony first-degree rape of a child under 13 and admitted to raping the girl on at least two separate occasions. DNA evidence also proved that he was the man who impregnated her.
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MEPs Blame Greece for the Ionian Migrant Shipwreck
Following the migrant ship disaster that claimed hundreds of lives on the Ionian Sea last month, MEPs in the European Parliament came together for a hearing with representatives of the European Commission and Frontex on Thursday, July 6th. The parliamentarians were presented with a new report calling for increased EU competence to prevent similar tragedies, and also discussed Brussels’s migration cooperation with Libya and its questionable results.
As we reported then, human smugglers crammed between 400 and 750 migrants of various nationalities onto the Libyan fishing vessel which eventually capsized and sank on June 14th, just 80 kilometers off the coast of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, dragging hundreds to their death.
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Migrant Quotas Could Destroy the EU, Says Hungarian Speaker of Parliament
The European Union’s proposal for the mandatory distribution of migrants will lead to an extreme weakening of the bloc at best, and at worst, it will result in the destruction of the entire project, said Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Laszló Kövér on Wednesday at a Hungarian-language summer university in Slovakia.
Kövér said that the roots of many of the continent’s current problems go back to the period of regime change and are linked to the disintegration of the former world order and the disregard of previously accepted rules. He added that in recent years, the results of decades of latent processes, such as the economic crisis and migration, have come to the surface and have surpassed even his wildest nightmares.
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Poland Drops Plans for 400k Annual Non-EU Migrants Annually After Political Backlash
The Polish government is halting controversial plans to liberalise the country’s visa system with the third world and potentially grant 400,000 annual work permits to 21 non-EU nations such as Nigeria, India, and Pakistan after political pressure was piled on the ruling PiS party.
Warsaw had hoped to streamline its visa process for foreign labourers through centralisation requiring applicants to apply directly with the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs instead of their various local consultants to cut down on processing time.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has invited all parliamentary clubs and circles to discuss the European Union’s migration pact after growing increasingly concerned about the efforts of the European Commission to introduce a mandatory mechanism for the relocation of immigrants.
Brussels is attempting to quash the dissent ruminating from Hungary and Poland over the controversial migration reforms, and EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson reiterated this week that, under the principle of solidarity, if a country does not engage in relocation, it must pay.
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Shock Video: Train Conductor Brutally Beaten by Migrants in Germany
A train driver was viciously assaulted by a pair of male migrants in Germany this week, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded at around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening in Lauter-Bernsbach, a town in Saxony.
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Video: German Train Driver Beaten by Afghan Migrant Teen
A 50-year-old German train driver was attacked by a 15-year-old Afghan national at the Lauter train station in the state of Saxony in eastern Germany on Wednesday evening.
According to a local police report, the train driver attempted to intervene in settling a dispute between two passengers when he was set upon and severely beaten by two individuals.
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has continued its push to established a government office for men — like there is for women.
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The ice cream company has been receiving backlash after calling for the United States to ‘return indigenous land’. And now and Indian Chief has said the company runs their business on such land.
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A California school district suspended two children for five days after a misgendering incident took place, and then subjected them to a training called “restorative justice,” according to an email reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The email was sent by a recently departed principal of Herbert Hoover High School located in the Glendale Unified School District. It was first reported by GUSD Parents Voices.
The former principal, Jennifer Earl, described two students who misgendered a transgender student, and then ran away as the teacher attempted to correct them.
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CDC Issues Guidance for Men ‘Chestfeeding’ Newborn Babies
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just issued new guidance that advises biological men on how they can “chestfeed” newborn babies.
The CDC’s advice gives information to male transgenders, who claim to be “women,” on how they can take a cocktail of drugs and use pump devices to “feed” infants.
However, the information has been met with a backlash from medical experts who warn of the dangers to children from such procedures.
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Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Lorie Smith, the Colorado website designer at the heart of the Supreme Court’s landmark 303 Creative v. Elenis June 30 decision upholding every American’s freedom of speech, is receiving a barrage of increasingly intense harassment, including serious death threats, following the 6-3 ruling.
“Especially in the last week, despite the victory last week, I do continue to face horrific attacks, people saying they hope I would be raped; they want to burn my house down; they know where I live, and they want to come kill me and my family,” Ms. Smith told The Epoch Times on July 5 in an exclusive interview.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Made ‘Mathematically Absurd Claim’ on Black Newborns: WSJ Op-Ed
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made a “mathematically absurd claim” about Black newborns in her dissenting opinion in the affirmative action decision, attorney Ted Frank wrote in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Jackson argued in her dissent that diversity “saves lives” and that it was essential for “marginalized communities.”
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LGB-T War: Transgender Group Loses Bid to Strip Gay Group of Charity Status
A UK tribunal has rejected calls for a gay charity to be stripped of charitable status following a complaint that because the group only supports gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, amid accusations that its activities were inherently “transphobic.”
The LGB Alliance was registered with the UK Charities Commission in 2021 and states that it represents men and women with same-sex attraction but rejects gender ideology and does not claim to represent transgender people.
On Thursday, July 6th, the group announced victory in a 2-year battle brought by the transgender activist group Mermaids, which attempted to have LGB Alliance stripped of its charity status, arguing the LGB Alliance was created to “destroy” the reputation of the group, which was formed in 1995, and to siphon off funding.
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Sam Kerr will not put the Matildas’ World Cup chances at ‘risk’ in protesting FIFA’s decision to ban captains wearing the OneLove rainbow armband.
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—damning proof that radical trans politics are corrupting medicine
MCCAIN: Postpartum health is no longer about the wellness of mother and baby. It’s now about the feelings of biological men! The CDC has reduced our babies to guinea pigs.
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EXCLUSIVE: Women have condemned a charity after it suggested the vagina could instead be referred to as ‘the bonus hole’ to avoid upsetting non-binary or trans men.
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Spanish Pro-Life Group Takes Country’s Constitutional Court to Court
The Spanish pro-life movement is not letting the country’s supreme court get away with judicial improvisation.
The Asamblea de Asociaciónes Por la Vida, La Libertad, y La Dignidad announced in Madrid on June 28th that it was filing a complaint against the country’s highest court with various institutions of the European Union.
The group, which is an umbrella organisation of more than 130 pro-life entities, publicly presented its legal strategy to challenge the recent decision of Spain’s top court on a 2010 law that allowed for abortion on demand up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
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The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell called the term — used for centuries at the start of The Lord’s Prayer — ‘problematic’ for victims of abusive parents.
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Sikhs are a bunch of criminals and terrorists.
They should all go back to their imaginary country.
“Help me, I’m winning”
The regime of the Cokehead of Kiev is winning so bigly the Brandon regime needs to send it 155mm cluster munitions banned by most of the rest of the world? And this partly because regular artillery shells are becoming extremely scarce in US arsenals?
The best thing to come out of this war is Russian demilitarization of almost every western country through it’s use of its unwitting actor clown puppet/cokehead as a kind of a sump, drawing in all military hardware and expendables from across the West to where they can be easily destroyed.
The ultimate outcome will be the budding Western dictatorships not having the means to adequately suppress their outraged populations when the dollar finally goes mammaries up and western economies crash in the Greatest Depression. But third and fourth-order effects were never these Clown World ringleaders strong suit.
This is hot: https://journalistenwatch.com/2023/07/09/suididgefaehrdet-wissing-bekraeftigt-regressforderungen-gegen-vorgaenger-scheuer/
Suicidal? Wissing reiterates demands for recourse against predecessor Scheuer
If this proposal is accepted, then God have mercy on the traffic light politicians:
Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has announced a careful examination of recourse claims against his predecessor Andreas Scheuer (CSU). “Taxpayers alone should not have to pay for this grave political mistake,” Wissing told the Bild am Sonntag. “We will take a close look at the legal situation and carefully examine whether and to what extent recourse is possible.”
On Wednesday, it became known that the federal government would have to pay damages of 243 million euros because of the collapsed car toll. Taxpayer President Reiner Holznagel has called the liability review a “glimmer of hope”. “This procedure must be made the rule in cases of wasted tax money,” Holznagel told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
“I can think of a few more projects, for example the Berlin airport or screwed-up Bundestag buildings.” To prevent such audits from coming to nothing, “we need the criminal code to be expanded to include the offence of budgetary embezzlement.”
Well then, have fun. Whether Karl Lauterbach, Nancy Faeser, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock – to name but a few – have so much money in their pockets to be able to answer for the disastrous consequences of their policies?
But perhaps compulsory liability insurance for all governing politicians would be a solution. If an insurance company would take the high risk at all and the insurance premiums would not exceed the parliamentary allowances… What about imprisonment if the politicians who burn the taxpayers’ money do not have enough money in their bank accounts? Wirsing’s proposal is dangerous – for the traffic lights and also for the previous government. Because there should be no statute of limitations in these serious cases.
Translation: deepl.com
A hair follicle test will tell who in the WH has been using any street drugs in the last 3 months. So, a hair follicle test will NOT be used.
Don’t they have security cameras everywhere?
Clown world.
It’s not so much the drug use that is so infuriating as much as it’s the double standard.
Everyone knows it was likely the imposter-in-chief poopypants kidsniffer pursuivant’s worthless spawn who left the coke there since it’s been too long since the Cokehead of Kiev had been there. And with all the cameras covering every inch of the Whore House it’s impossible for the Secret Service to find out who left the blow if they were seriously interested in finding out.
If it had been some street pharmacist who had left some of their product in the passenger’s seat of their ride and the cops found it then that person would be doing hard time and even more so if they were melanin-rich.
The problem is the blatent double standard. Either investigate the incident and treat it like a real crime with real penalties or stop hassling poor brown and black people for the same crimes. Personally, I despise hard-core drug use but I despise the police state more. Better in my opinion to decriminalize it all, tax it, regulate for purity and proper dosage and sell through licensed shops and then use the cops to go after violators for taxes, improper purity and dosage than maintain the fiction of a war on drugs in order to militarize the police, violate privacy, and through poor and dark-skinned people in prison for decades while looking the other way as wealthy whites do the same thing.
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