The French military command is investigating reports that during the recent riots some soldiers left their base and assisted police in the nearby town while wearing civilian clothes. The soldiers allegedly helped zip-tie rioters and otherwise subdue the violent “youths”.
In other news, according to the latest reports, Sweden may criminalize Koran-burning in order to appease the Turks and gain entry to NATO.
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Corporate Bankruptcies Reach Highest Level Since 2010
Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times
New data show that a growing number of U.S. firms are collapsing under the weight of higher interest rates as corporate bankruptcies reached their highest first-half levels since 2010.
In the first six months of 2023, there were 340 corporate bankruptcies, topping every other comparable span in 13 years, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. This is up 93 percent from the same time a year ago and higher than in 2020, when there was a spike during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
There were 54 recorded corporate bankruptcy filings in June, unchanged from the 54 bankruptcies in May. Last month, some of the most notable companies to submit filings were Lordstown Motors, Rockport Co., Instant Brands Acquisition Holdings, and iMedia Brands.
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Germany: €31 Billion Budget Cut Sparks Disagreement in ‘Traffic Light’ Coalition
The austerity budget for 2024 launched by Germany’s liberal, pro-business Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), which will cut spending for the next year by €30.6 billion and affect healthcare, childcare, and public transportation, has revealed stark divides within the ruling ‘traffic light’ coalition and prompted infighting between the governing parties.
The prescribed budget cuts for 2024, according to both Lindner and Scholz, were inevitable in light of the massive public debt incurred first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then by the energy crisis precipitated by the EU’s sanctions against the Russian Federation following the onset of the war in Ukraine.
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NY Fed Reports “Successful” Months-Long Digital Dollar Test
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Innovation Center has recently concluded a 12-week experiment in cahoots with banking behemoths such as Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. The study focused on regulated liability networks, with an aim to test the efficiency of digital dollars in the financial sector. Though the initial results showed some advantages in transaction speeds, critical questions regarding privacy and civil liberties remain glaringly unanswered and alarmingly relevant.
The study, as reported by Bloomberg, employed a permissioned private blockchain to simulate the issuance and settlement of digital currency, representing customer deposits. The very use of a private blockchain rings alarm bells, as it could allow the central bank, and potentially other financial entities, to have an unprecedented level of control and surveillance over individual transactions. This could be a perilous road leading towards an Orwellian financial system where citizens are stripped of financial privacy.
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Recent Crises Saw Biggest Firms Make ‘Monster Profits,’ Study by NGOs Finds
The world’s 722 biggest companies collectively are making more than $1 trillion a year in windfall profits on the back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to research by development charities Oxfam and ActionAid.
Their analysis of Forbes’ Global 2000 rankings showed the corporations made $1.09 trillion in windfall profits in 2021 and $1.1 trillion in 2022, with an 89% jump in total profits compared to average total profits in 2017-2020. The study, published on Thursday, defines windfall profits as those exceeding average profits in 2017-2020 by more than 10%.
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UK Digital Pound May Have Digital ID Features
The Bank of England’s venture into the digital currency landscape, specifically with the development of its prospective digital version of the pound — fondly dubbed “Britcoin” — may not be as warmly welcomed as expected due to mounting concerns over privacy, surveillance, and civil liberties.
The central bank has entrusted Nuggets, a digital payments platform, with the task of incorporating identity features into the digital pound, according to Nuggets CEO Alastair Johnson. The innovative technology, Johnson explains, could facilitate not only the verification of age for purchasing age-restricted items like alcohol and cigarettes, but also citizenship status. This could open new avenues for the Bank of England to persuade the general public to use the digital currency, an aspect of a larger global trend of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). However, the integration of such potentially invasive features has raised significant privacy-related apprehensions.
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WEF: Digital Cash Can be Used to Block Citizens From Buying ‘Less Desirable’ Items
An agent of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has gloated that one of the “benefits” of “digital cash” is that governments can control what citizens can and can’t pay for.
During the WEF’s recent Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Communist China, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University Eswar Prasad gave a chilling insight into the rationale behind the globalist elite’s interest in pushing toward a cashless society.
Prasad spoke about the coming Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and how unelected authoritarians will be able to control the public by managing the regulation of society’s spending.
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The pedo-loving propagandists at the once-great Rolling Stone are at it again, this time seemingly defending child traffickers with a scathing review of Jim Caviezel’s anti-child-trafficking film, Sound of Freedom — which they described as a “QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking” which is “designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer.”
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1 Dead, 22 Injured When Car Going Wrong Way Collides With Bus in Chicago
One person was killed and 22 others injured when a car driving the wrong way down a Chicago thoroughfare collided with a city bus Sunday morning.
A Dodge Journey SUV was heading southbound in the northbound lane of Lake Shore Drive just before 6 a.m. when it slammed head-on into the bus, authorities said.
The car burst into flames, and the front end of the bus was left crumpled.
The car’s male driver and two female passengers were hospitalized in critical condition, but one of passengers later died, officials said.
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50 Cent Says Los Angeles is ‘Finished’ After Zero Bail Policy Reinstatement: ‘Watch How Bad it Gets’
Rapper Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent, addressed Los Angeles’s crime crisis last week in response to the recent reinstatement of the zero bail policy.
Jackson shared a FOX 11 Los Angeles segment about the zero bail policy on Instagram Reels Thursday. The policy, which was adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic in an attempt to reduce crowding in prisons, drops bail to as low as $0 for suspects accused of misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.
“LA is finished watch how bad it gets out there.SMH [shaking my head]” the “Candy Shop” rapper wrote on Instagram.
Critics say the policy, which came back in May after ending in July 2022, is spiking violent crime in the Golden State.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raised eyebrows when she held a meeting with China’s vice premier and bowed multiple times on greeting him.
Yellen, who served as chair of the Federal Reserve before becoming Joe Biden’s top financial official, wrapped up her first visit to China as treasury secretary on Sunday.
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Deranged Gunman on Scooter ‘Randomly’ Shoots People in NYC
A deranged 25-year-old Hispanic male indiscriminately shot four people, killing one, while casually motoring around New York City on a scooter. Police say the suspect was experiencing a mental health crisis.
The shooting spree in Brooklyn and Queens started around 1110 ET Saturday and ended two hours later, police said. The 25yo gunman was in possession of a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun with a high capacity magazine and an “illegal” scooter, New York Police First Deputy Commissioner Edward Caban said at a news conference.
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DOJ Pressuring Journalists to Aid Its Prosecution Against Julian Assange: Report
The U.S. Justice Department is pressuring some British journalists to cooperate with the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is accused of publishing classified U.S. military documents leaked to him by a whistleblower.
The DOJ and the FBI are using “vague threats and pressure tactics” in their efforts to receive journalists’ help in building their case against Assange, according to Rolling Stones’ James Ball, who said he is among the journalists being pressured to cooperate. Ball is sought by the DOJ as someone who had briefly worked and lived with Assange, and was a whistleblower revealing what he described as “WikiLeaks’ own ethical lapses.”
The first attempt at receiving Ball’s cooperation in Assange’s prosecution came through London’s Metropolitan Police in December 2021, he wrote. He remained silent at the time, on the advice of counsel, but has since learned that more journalists have had police show up at their doorsteps in the last month. Former Guardian investigations editor David Leigh, transparency campaigner Heather Brooke and writer Andrew O’Hagan have all been approached by police.
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Even NOAA “Runs Away” From ‘Hottest Day Ever’ Claim After Media Hysteria
Last week the global warming industry and its corporate media cheerleaders made a concerted effort to declare July 3-4 the hottest days on Earth ever. Media outlets like ABC, The New York Times, Axios, and Bloomberg each cited the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer computer model, which has since been questioned.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told AP News, “Although NOAA cannot validate the methodology or conclusion of the University of Maine analysis, we recognize that we are in a warm period due to climate change.”
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Last week, in a significant victory for free speech, a federal court stepped in to curb potential overreach by the Biden administration in its collaboration with social media platforms to suppress online content. The court ruling, issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana on Tuesday caused critics to complain that it hinders the administration’s efforts to counter online conspiracy theories and “disinformation.”
But in the usual doublespeak in an interview with MSNBC, the former head of the government’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board Nina Jankowicz claims that the government flagging content that goes against Big Tech’s policies has “nothing to do with censorship” and “is not about removing speech.”
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Gunman on Scooter Charged With Murder, Attempted Murder, for Series of New York City Shootings
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other men in a series of shootings while riding a scooter in New York City is charged with murder and attempted murder, police said Sunday.
In all, six apparently random shootings occurred in Brooklyn and Queens on Saturday, according to police.
The motive of the alleged gunman, identified Sunday as 25-year-old Thomas Abreu, was unknown, police said.
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Harvard Professor Avi Loeb Believes He’s Found Fragments of Alien Technology
US Space Command confirms with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014, WBZ reported.
Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 mile) radius of where it may have landed.
“That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It’s a very big area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down,” said Loeb. “We figured the distance of the fireball based off the time delay between the arrival of blast wave, the boom of explosion, and the light that arrived quickly.”
Their calculations allowed them to chart the potential path of the meteor. Those calculations happened to carve a path right through the same projected 10 km range that came from the U.S. government. Loeb and his crew took a boat called the Silver Star out to the area. The ship took numerous passes along and around the meteor’s projected path. Researchers combed the ocean floor by attaching a sled full of magnets to their boat.
“We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background,” explained Loeb, “They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth.”
An analysis of the composition showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. They are sub-millimeter in size. The crew found 50 of them in total.
“It has material strength that is tougher than all space rock that were seen before, and catalogued by NASA,” added Loeb, “We calculated its speed outside the solar system. It was 60 km per second, faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun. The fact that it was made of materials tougher than even iron meteorites, and moving faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun, suggested potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget.”
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Homeless Encampments Remain in Portland, Despite Tent Ban: ‘It’s Bulls***’
A new ban on daytime homeless camping legally took effect Friday in Portland, but one wouldn’t know it by walking around the City of Roses.
Tents spilled over sidewalks and those who have made their homes on public property say the new policy isn’t likely to create meaningful change.
“It’s bulls***,” Michael, who has been homeless off and on since the ‘90s, told Fox News bluntly. “I’m tired of moving. They’re gonna have to make me move.”
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Indian Tribe Demands America-Hating Ice Cream Commies Ben & Jerry’s Return ‘Stolen’ Land HQ Built on
Members of a Vermont Indian tribe are demanding that the owner of Ben & Jerry’s give back ‘stolen’ land that the company’s headquarters is built on, after the ice cream company tweeted an America-hating reminder on the Fourth of July holiday that it was “high time we recognize that the U.S. exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”
The ice cream maker further details their call to action on their website — saying that America needs to start by returning Mount Rushmore. “The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights,” the post alleged.
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Judge Drops Hammer on El Paso Walmart Shooter: 90 Life Sentences in Federal Prison
A judge has thrown the book at the Texas gunman who shot and killed 23 people in an attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.
24-year-old Patrick Crusius was given 90 consecutive life sentences in federal prison on Friday, The Associated Press reports.
Crusius was sentenced to multiple life terms following the mass shooting in the border city.
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RFK Jr. Denounces Biden’s Plan to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine: ‘Stop the Ceaseless Escalation!’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday slammed President Biden for his plan to send indiscriminately lethal cluster bombs to Ukraine — suggesting that the choice ran afoul of Biden’s own ethics.
“Last year, WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the use of cluster bombs a ‘war crime.’ Now President Biden plans to send them to Ukraine,” the Democratic presidential candidate tweeted. “Stop the ceaseless escalation! It is time for peace.”
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Seattle Considers Biometric Handprints as a Form of Digital ID for Purchasing Liquor
In what appears to be a major leap toward a surveillance society, the possibility of integrating biometric age verification into the systems of Washington State’s Liquor and Cannabis Board looms ominously, following a recent meeting of regulators. As we grapple with the loss of our privacy in an increasingly digital world, this prospective move triggers a fresh wave of anxieties pertaining to civil liberties, surveillance, and privacy.
The idea of adopting finger and palm print identification for age verification came from an unnamed petitioner whose request was discussed at the July 5th Board meeting, according to Washington State Standard.
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Devastating video footage shows an 87-year-old man’s final moments on a Queens sidewalk after he was shot by a scooter-riding gunman who left three others wounded in a bloody spree.
The suspect, now in police custody awaiting charges, chose his targets at random during his 30-minute Saturday morning spree through Brooklyn and Queens, police say.
Video obtained by the Daily News shows the elderly victim walking down the sidewalk on Jamaica Ave. in Richmond Hill swinging a closed umbrella in one hand in the shadow of elevated subway tracks above.
He passes a man in a red shirt walking a dog and as he continues down the sidewalk the shooter rolls up behind him near 109th St., extends his arm and fires a shot from behind.
The dog walker runs off. The victim turns around, struggling to stand up as blood seeps through the front and back of his shirt.
After a few seconds, he doubles over, trying to keep himself on his hands and knees as a bystander approaches him and calls for help. The man collapses to the ground and more people gather around him.
Medics took the man to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name was not immediately released.
The man’s murder turned out to be one of five shootings during the scooter rider’s crazed spree, police said.
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Thieves Use Bike Sharing Service in Multiple Armed Robberies in Chicago’s Loop
Divvy is a popular bike-sharing system in the Chicago metro area with more than 650 stations and 5,000 bicycles. More than 3 million people take advantage of the service every year — including several armed robbers who are accosting people late at night and taking their valuables. There have been at least 16 armed robberies in recent days, and police are asking the public’s help in capturing them.
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Threads: Like Twitter but with poorer functionality, more data harvesting and way more censorship.
So… Facebook then.
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Threads’ Rejection of “Hard News” is a Symptom of Advertisers and Censors Pulling All the Strings
Instagram Chief Executive, Adam Mosseri, has recently made clear the platform’s policy concerning political discourse and hard news following the launch of Meta’s new platform — Threads. Diverging from its competitor Twitter’s strategy, Mosseri articulated that Instagram will not be engaging in any strategies to actively promote politics and hard news.
Over recent years, Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has notably distanced itself from the political sphere and the realm of hard news, setting a stark contrast to Twitter’s new open encouragement of political dialogue.
Despite the shared ambition between Instagram’s new app, Threads, and Twitter, of transforming into a digital public square, Mosseri confirmed on a Threads post, “The goal isn’t to replace Twitter.” Instead, Threads is intended to serve as a hub for community discussions for those who may not be inclined towards Twitter or seek a less confrontational space for interactions.
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Top Democrat Slams Biden for Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine: ‘Terrible Mistake’
A top House Democrat has fired back at President Joe Biden over his decision to send controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine.
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee, warned Friday that Biden has made a “terrible mistake.”
McCollum was responding to President Biden’s decision to green-light sending the controversial weapons to Ukraine.
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Video: Biden Loses Another Round With the Teleprompter
Speaking to a half empty room in West Columbia, South Carolina on Thursday, Joe Biden lost yet another round with the teleprompter as his speech descended into absolute gibberish.
Biden was there to tour logistics company Flex LTD and announce a new ‘clean energy’ manufacturing partnership between it and solar firm Enphase Energy.
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Virginia County Sees 40% Surge in Shoplifting Under Soros Prosecutor
Shoplifting surged by 40 percent compared with last year in Virginia’s largest county, where a George Soros-funded prosecutor announced in 2020 he would not prosecute shoplifting under $1,000.
Data from the Fairfax County Police Department reveal an increase of more than 1,000 cases of shoplifting compared with this time last year, when there were 2,592 after just over six months. Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney Steve Descano announced in 2020 his office would not prosecute a slew of misdemeanors, including shoplifting valued up to $1,000.
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Zero Amish Children Diagnosed With Cancer, Diabetes or Autism
A comprehensive study has found that no Amish children have been diagnosed with chronic conditions that impact the rest of America.
Across America, the current population of Amish people is quickly approaching 400,000.
The largest concentrations of Amish citizens are 90,000 in Pennsylvania and 82,000 in Ohio.
Amish communities have settled in as many as 32 U.S. states.
Families have an average of 7 kids so the Amish population is growing rapidly.
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Church Under Fire Documentary Sells Out at World Premiere in Calgary
Calgary was out in numbers as a sellout crowd packed Canyon Meadows Cinemas for the world premiere of Rebel News’ new Documentary Church Under Fire: Canada’s War on Christianity. It was the first of two sold-out screenings taking place on consecutive evenings in the city that saw some of the worst persecution and prosecution of Christians and especially Christian pastors anywhere in Canada.
The film set out to serve as a definitive historical account of the ongoing attacks endured by Christian communities of worship across Canada throughout Covid-19, in addition to laying out the events and orchestrated cultural shifts that brought Canada from a place that decries religious persecution to one that carries it out on levels that shocked the world.
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Danielle Smith: Mainstream Media Created the Market for Independent Outlets by Being So Unbalanced
On Thursday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra sat down with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for a special long-form interview in which they discussed the opportunities the mainstream media has created for independent journalism in Canada.
“I think that they’ve created a market for for alternative voices because they’ve been so unbalanced,” said Smith. “I got into media back in the 1990s and my boss at the time said that that was the mantra of media, to be fair, to be accurate, to be balanced. And I’ve seen precious little of that over the last number of years.”
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Ezra Levant: Danielle Smith’s True Election Opponent Was the CBC
On Thursday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra sat down with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for a special long-form interview in which they discussed the media smear on Danielle during the Alberta election.
Ezra recapped the completely fabricated smear campaign by the CBC on the Premier.
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The Public Health Agency claimed without lockdowns or health mandates, “20 times more Canadians” would have died in the COVID pandemic than in World War Two.
“Canada’s collective efforts in achieving high vaccine coverage and adhering to public health measures may have saved up to an estimated 760,000 lives, 1.85 million hospitalizations and 34 million Covid-19 cases,” said an Agency briefing note, not yet independently verified.
Prefaced on a “what could have happened” study by Dr. Theresa Tam, Health Canada said it “may have saved up to 800,000 lives” with lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
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Lawyer Eva Chipiuk has recently filed a $10.5 million dollar lawsuit on behalf of her client, Carrie Sakamoto.
Sakamoto has suffered a laundry list of debilitating physical, neurological and psychological impairments as a result of her Pfizer COVID-19 injections.
The suit names Federal Minister of Health Yves Duclos, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Theresa Tam, the Director of Health Canada Celia Lourenco, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
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One of the ongoing false narratives about the members of the various freedom convoys in Canada last year is that these demonstrators were prone to violence.
Nothing could be further from the truth, of course. In fact, in Ottawa, crime actually went DOWN in the nation’s capital while the freedom convoy protestors were demonstrating.
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Update: Calgary Police Say There is No Warrant for Nathaniel Pawlowski’s Arrest
Update: Calgary police have informed Rebel News reporter Adam Soos “A check of our systems shows no warrants and we are unaware of any active investigations involving (Nathaniel Pawlowski).”
Nathaniel Pawlowski, the son of outspoken Alberta activist Pastor Artur Pawlowski, is expected to be arrested for charges relating to a protest held near a public library which was hosting a drag queen story time event.
It is anticipated Pawlowski will be taken into custody by officers in Calgary following a recent trip abroad. Police allege Pawlowski’s actions amounted to harassment under the city’s new bylaw.
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Vaccine-Injured Canadians Paid $6.7 Million in Damages, Says Federal Government
Halfway through 2023, the federal government has paid nearly $6.7 million in damages to Canadians caused by COVID vaccine injuries.
According to statistics released by Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), the feds paid successful applicants with “serious and permanent injury” from COVID vaccines $6,695,716 in damages. Still, it remains unclear how much individual claimants received in compensation.
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Wildfires in Canada Have Broken Records for Area Burned, Evacuations and Cost, Official Says
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Wildfires raging across Canada have already broken records for total area burned, the number of people forced to evacuate their homes and the cost of fighting the blazes, and the fire season is only halfway finished, officials said Thursday.
“It’s no understatement to say that the 2023 fire season is and will continue to be record breaking in a number of ways,” Michael Norton, director general, Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, said during a briefing.
A health expert also warned that smoke from the fires can cause health problems for people living in both Canada and the United States.
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YouTube Censors Jordan Peterson for “Hate Speech”
Dr. Jordan Peterson, the ex-University of Toronto psychology professor who gained fame for his vigorous defense of free speech, has been subjected to what is perceived as a systemic censorship effort by YouTube. A popular figure in media circles, Peterson’s prolific online presence took a hit when the video-sharing platform decided to censor his account, a move the professor lamented on social media.
On Wednesday, the professor shared on Twitter a copy of the email he received from YouTube justifying the censorship. YouTube’s response to Peterson’s appeal against the decision, which it labeled as a part of their efforts to maintain a “safe place for all,” has been met with fierce opposition by the professor.
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AI Robot Tells United Nations: Machines Are ‘Greater’ Than ‘Human Leaders’
Artificial intelligence (AI) robots addressed the United Nations (UN) during the globalist agency’s summit this week.
On Thursday and Friday, artificial intelligence-powered “humanoid” bots gathered to take part in the UN’s two-day AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland to pitch the “benefits” of the technology.
The summit was focusing on how to harness the novel power of artificial intelligence for the good of mankind.
During the event, AI technology companies gave chilling presentations of their “humanoid” robots’ abilities.
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Carnival Cruise Ship Emits More Toxic Fumes Than All of Europe’s Cars, Study Finds
A new study commissioned by the European Federation for Transport and Environment revealed that toxic emissions of sulfur oxides from 63 cruise ships belonging to Carnival Corporation were 43% higher than all the combustion engine vehicles in Europe.
This stunning statistic comes as EU leaders have decided to ban small combustion engines for cars by 2035. But what about ‘green’ cruise ships? Only crickets…
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Dutch Government Collapse: Snap Elections Coming
Following Friday’s breakup of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s coalition government (his fourth in his ten-year tenure as PM), Rutte met with the king at the royal Huis ten Bosch palace near the Hague around 1 pm on Saturday, July 8th.
The 56-year-old tendered his entire cabinet’s resignation to King Willem-Alexander, who had cut short his holiday in Greece to receive his outgoing PM.
Having explained to the King how irreconcilable differences of opinion on putting a curb on the influx of asylum seekers had cost his government its cohesion, Rutte left about an hour and a half later, telling reporters through his open car window car that it was a “good discussion” but that he was “not saying anything else because these discussions are confidential.”
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Ex-Spy Boss on Race Riots: Nothing Comparable Has Happened Since the French Revolution
Following the six nights of ultra-violent race riots precipitated by the death of 17-year-old Nahel M—which engulfed more than 200 towns and cities across France, resulting in hundreds of injured police officers and more than a billion euros in damage—the ex-boss of the French foreign intelligence agency has said that the country has not experienced social unrest of this kind since the French Revolution.
In exceptionally rare comments given press, Pierre Brochand—the former director of the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), which is among the world’s eminent foreign intelligence agencies—during an interview with Le Figaro, described the past days’ events as an “uprising or revolt against the French national state by a significant part of the youth of non-European origin present on its territory.”
“In terms of amplitude, official statistics suggest—for historians to verify—that nothing comparable has happened in French cities since the Revolution of 1789 or, at the very least, the weeks following the Revolution,” Brochand, who formerly served as France’s ambassador to Hungary and Israel, told the newspaper.
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France Indicts Son of Osama Bin Laden for Glorifying Terrorism on Social Media
Osama bin Laden, the former notorious head of the terrorist group al-Qaeda and mastermind of the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, was killed by American special forces in May of 2011 in Pakistan, where he had been hiding for years.
On Thursday, July 6th, it was revealed that bin Laden’s son Omar, who has been living in Northern France since 2021, has been indicted for glorifying terrorism after allegedly posting on social media, praising his father on the anniversary of his death on May 2nd, a report from Le Publicateur Libre states.
According to the newspaper, French security forces raided Omar bin Laden’s home in Domfront, Normandy as well as another area where Bin Laden exhibits his paintings.
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French MEP Warns of Muslim Brotherhood Trojan Horse
A right-wing French MEP has blasted the inclusion of an NGO linked to the Muslim Brotherhood at a recent event hosted in the European Parliament, warning that EU officials must stop all financial support for extremist organisations and do more to prevent Islamists from gaining a foothold in EU institutions.
Rassemblement National MEP Catherine Griset wrote an open letter (seen by The European Conservative) to President of the Parliament Roberta Metsola after the Muslim youth group, Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO), evoked controversy when it was featured prominently at an EU youth leadership event last month.
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French Military Investigates Whether Off-Duty Troops Turned Vigilante During Riots
Thousands of vehicles and buildings were destroyed across France in a week of rioting, but now the military is investigating whether a group of well-disciplined young men in balaclavas zip-tying suspected looters were actually their own people.
The French military has launched an internal investigation into whether a group of its troops donned civilian clothing and went into the town next to their base to unofficially assist local police in combating rioters, it is now claimed. The announcement of the investigation follows an initial denial by the maritime command that their troops were in any way involved last week, which was followed on Monday by an admission that while some may have done so, it was unofficial and the military had not been alerted in advance.
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Last week, Alexandra, 49, a descendant of the Tolstoy dynasty, reckoned that she was declared persona non grata by the bank, in part, because of an interview she gave to the Daily Mail.
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Irish Farmers Outraged as Government Moves to Cull 200,000 Healthy Cows to Meet Climate Goals
Farmers in Ireland are expressing outrage over the globalist Irish government’s decision to cull 200,000 of the nation’s healthy cows to meet the green agenda’s climate goals.
The government is moving to reduce national cattle numbers over claims they contribute to “climate change” due to “carbon emissions.”
A report by the Irish Department of Agriculture outlined how 200,000 cows could be killed over the next three years to meet carbon targets.
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Macron Now Supports NATO Membership for Ukraine, May Use Nuclear Arsenal for ‘Security Guarantees’
French President Emmanuel Macron realizes that Eastern European states are becoming more influential within NATO, and has shifted his rhetoric on the bloc to match them, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. Macron recently backed a “path” to NATO membership for Ukraine.
Before the conflict in Ukraine began, Macron was regarded as one of Europe’s most NATO-skeptic leaders. He proclaimed the bloc “brain dead” in 2019, and spent his first term in office repeatedly calling for the establishment of a “true European army” independent from the US. Even throughout the first year of the conflict, Macron stayed in phone contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin and distanced himself from “Anglo Saxon” leaders, whom he said seek to “annihilate” Russia.
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New Proposals Would Allow UK Spy Agency to Monitor Internet Logs in Real-Time
Presented as a bid to tackle the issue of online fraud, the UK government is mulling over legislation that could grant GCHQ, the nation’s cyber and signals intelligence agency, sweeping powers to monitor internet logs in real-time. With a purported aim to catch criminals in the act, this move raises alarm bells on the sanctity of civil liberties.
This latest effort, according to The Record, is the government’s response to last year’s inquiry, which decried the existing measures as grossly inadequate in tackling fraud. The inquiry lamented that less than 8% of reported fraud crimes are investigated due to the lack of focus and understanding of the evolving complexity of fraud. It called for a “wholesale change in philosophy and practice.” On the surface, the new proposal seems like an answer, but at what cost?
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Nine Would-be ISIS Terrorists Arrested in Germany and the Netherlands
On July 6th, German, Dutch, and Belgian authorities launched a series of raids, leading to the arrests of a total of 9 people on suspicion of terrorism.
In the Netherlands, a 29-year-old man from Tajikistan and his 31-year-old wife from Kyrgyzstan were placed under police custody, the Public Prosecutor’s Office reports. The man was arrested in Eindhoven, the woman in a residence in Breda. Both had been residents in the country since 2022.
According to the Dutch intelligence and security agency AIVD, the man is a member of the Islamist terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and was under instructions to plan an attack. While such plans had not yet taken concrete shape, they were nonetheless deemed serious enough by authorities to intervene.
The arrests were made in close cooperation with German authorities since the man had been in contact with suspects living there.
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‘Nudge Unit’ Chief Says UK Will Obey Future Lockdowns: Citizens Have ‘Learnt the Behaviour’
A UK government adviser is confident any future pandemic lockdown and compulsory mask edicts will be met with compliance because people have learnt a new behaviour and, “in principle, you can switch it back on.”
Professor David Halpern told The Daily Telegraph the country had “practised the drill” of wearing face masks and working from home and “could redo it” in a future crisis because people are now conditioned to do what they are told.
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Pope Francis Meets With Bill Clinton and Alex Soros at the Vatican
Pope Francis met with former president Bill Clinton and George Soros’ son Alex Soros on Wednesday in a “private audience” at the Vatican.
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Shock Video: Boy Beaten by Mob of ‘Youths’ in England
A young boy was brutally attacked by a mob of foreign ‘youths’ who filmed the beating and stole his bike, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded on Monday in Sunderland, a seaside city in the county of Tyne and Wear.
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Sweden May Make Burning the Qur’an a Criminal Offence
Sweden may strike out its freedom of expression protections to ban Qur’an burning in exchange for Turkey backing its NATO membership bid.
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UK Gov’t Holds Talks With BBC After Presenter Caught in Child Sexting Scandal
The British government has urged the BBC to “urgently” investigate claims that one of its presenters paid a teenage girl more than £35,000 ($45,000) for sexually explicit images. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer spoke to BBC chief Tim Davie about the allegations on Sunday.
“As a public service broadcaster in receipt of public funding, senior officials have stressed to the BBC that the allegations must be investigated urgently and sensitively,” the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) said in a statement on Sunday.
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UK, Spain, Germany & Canada Come Out Against Biden Sending Civilian-Killing Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Numerous Western countries are speaking out against Joe Biden’s decision to send cluster weapons to Ukraine, claiming their use amounts to war crimes.
The U.K, Spain, Canada and Germany all put out statements in recent days condemning the use of cluster weapons due to the dangers they pose to civilians.
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UK: Jewish Fear of Government Control in Private Schools
The UK government has recently proposed legislation that would force all homeschooled children to register with the government. Around 82,200 children are currently being homeschooled according to estimates.
Religious groups, such as the Orthodox Haredi Jews, have expressed concern that the proposed legislation could lead to further intrusion into private education and possibly impact what is being taught in religious schools, Reuters reports.
A spokesperson for the government stated that the goal of the registry was to ensure children had a “safe and suitable education,” but the word “suitable” has been interpreted by some as having a broad meaning that could potentially insert subjects like sexual education or gender ideology on students of religious schools.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Deny Disrupting George Osborne Wedding
Just Stop Oil have said they were not responsible for an incident at ex-chancellor George Osborne’s wedding, which saw a protester throw orange confetti over the newly married couple.
The protest was similar to those carried out by the environmental group.
But, a spokesperson told the BBC they did not know the protester’s identity.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two people were stabbed at a Crowne Plaza Hotel and a neighbouring BMW garage.
The two injured people have both been taken to hospital following the attacks in Long Ditton near Surbiton, Surrey.
A Surrey police spokesman said: ‘One person is believed to have been assaulted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Portsmouth Road while the other man was attacked at the BMW garage next door.
‘While we appreciate that this may be extremely concerning, we would like to reassure you that we believe this was an isolated incident. An investigation is underway to establish the circumstances of the incident and remains ongoing.’
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With Country on Edge, France Bans Private Fireworks for Bastille Day
A French government decree has banned the sale of fireworks for private celebrations on Bastille Day, July 14. France is in the midst of its George Floyd moment. Fireworks were used in the rampant lawlessness after the June 27 shooting of Nahel M, a Muslim teen, by a suburban Paris police officer led to days of rioting. The fear is that Bastille Day will be the next flashpoint for agitators to reignite the smoldering fuse of property destruction, looting, and racial and sectarian violence.
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Bosnian Biofuel Scammers Exploit EU Subsidy Schemes
One of the EU’s flagship green policies, the promotion of biofuels, is in the spotlight this week after a new report documenting the process by which one Bosnian company amassed a fortune by fraudulently passing off low-grade imports as next-generation biofuel.
Europe is currently being flooded by bogus biofuel products spurred on by badly formulated EU policies that have artificially inflated demand and created a market for scammers.
This week’s report was produced by the anti-corruption investigative group OCCRP and describes the methods used by one major Bosnian supplier, Sistem Ecologica, in passing off biodiesel to largely Dutch and Belgian energy companies under false pretences.
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George Soros’s Son Spent July 4th With European Leader Linked to FBI Bribery Case
Alex Soros recently took over his father’s left-wing nonprofit, Open Society Foundations, which aims to root out government corruption in foreign countries. But the younger Soros may have undermined that mission in his July 4 meeting with a European leader implicated in the alleged bribery of a top FBI counterintelligence official.
Soros and former president Bill Clinton met with Albanian prime minister Edi Rama in Tirana, according to Soros’s social media posts. Soros touted Rama, the head of Albania’s socialist party, as his “brother” and one of the world’s great leaders. But Rama’s reputation has taken a major hit in the wake of the indictment of former FBI counterintelligence official Charles McGonigal.
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Attempted Stabbing Attack Thwarted Near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem
Israel Police chief Kobi Shabtai arrived at the scene shortly after the incident.
An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted at a light rail station near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on Sunday evening, with the woman suspected of attempting to carry out the attack reportedly shot at the scene, according to initial reports.
The security guard who spotted the terrorist told Shabtai that he saw the woman going in and out of the light rail and asked her if she needed help. The woman then reached into her bag and pulled out a knife. The guard then jumped backward and shot twice in the air and ordered the woman to drop the knife. She refused to and the guard shot her in the leg, lightly injuring her.
Attack comes after series of attacks in past week
The attempted attack came as the security cabinet discussed relations with the Palestinian Authority, a week after the IDF conducted a nearly two-day operation in Jenin in the northern West Bank.
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Health experts from Sweden have warned of an “alarming antibiotic resistance” being developed in some patients in Ukraine.
Researchers from Sweden’s Lund University have raised alarm bells over a second and potentially even more deadly battle being waged in Ukraine, that of the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in the war-torn country.
In a statement published last week, professor of Clinical Bacteriology at Lund University in Sweden, Kristian Riesbeck said: “I am quite thick-skinned and have witnessed numerous situations involving patients and bacteria. However, I must admit that I have never encountered bacteria as resistant as this before.”
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Russia Claims to Have Shot Down Cruise Missiles Over Crimea, Suspends Traffic on Kerch Bridge
(AP) — Russian-installed authorities in the Crimean peninsula on Sunday reported shooting down a cruise missile near the city of Kerch and briefly suspending traffic on the Kerch bridge that links the annexed territory to Russia.
The Moscow-appointed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said the interception of the missile by Russian air defenses didn’t result in any damage or casualties. He didn’t offer any details, including the type of the missile and its origin.
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‘Terrorist Regime’: Moscow Reacts to Kiev Admitting Attack on Crimean Bridge
Detonation of a truck bomb on the 19-km bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula to the region of Krasnodar on the Russian mainland on October 8, 2022, killed three people, causing part of the road section to collapse into the sea. Kiev refused to take responsibility, yet its officials had gloated over the attack in Twitter posts.
“Terrorist regime“ was the succinct response of Russia’s Foreign Ministry to Ukrainian deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar’s admission that Kiev had carried out the attack on the Crimean Bridge in autumn of 2022.
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Ukraine’s Gold & Currency Reserves Swell to Highest Level in History, Central Bank Reveals
Ukraine is now holding more in gold and currency reserves than at any other time in the history of the country, the nation’s central bank has revealed.
The Ukrainian national bank says it now holds a whopping $39 billion in foreign reserves.
The figure is a record high for the country as an independent nation.
The huge stash was revealed as Ukraine continues to receive never-ending large deliveries of cash from allied nations, especially from American taxpayers.
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Ukrainian Official Appears to Claim Responsibility for Crimea Bridge Explosion
Ukraine Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar has made what appears to be the clearest admission yet that Ukrainian forces were responsible for an attack last October on the bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, which Moscow has controlled since it seized the peninsula in 2014.
Maliar listed 12 Ukrainian achievements since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion 500 days ago.
“273 days ago, (we) launched the first strike on the Crimean bridge to disrupt Russian logistics,” she said, on Telegram.
The Telegram message also mentioned the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva (451 days ago) and the liberation of Snake Island (373 days ago).
CNN has contacted the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a statement about the claim of responsibility of the bridge explosion but has yet to receive a response.
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Wagner Mercenary Group Set to Move to Belarus After Aborted Rebellion
The Wagner mercenary group is reportedly prepared to relocate to Belarus as part of the deal it struck with Russia following its aborted mutiny against Moscow’s leadership, a senior commander of the group said.
But the exact whereabouts of the group and its leader, Yevgeny Prighozin, remain a mystery.
After the short-lived rebellion on June 23 and 24, Prigozhin worked out a deal that allowed his men to either move to Belarus, join Russia’s military, or go home.
However, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who helped broker the deal between the mercenary group and Moscow, said Thursday that Prigozhin and thousands of his men were still in Russia, calling into question how the deal with be implemented.
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Australia’s Fertility Rates Plummet to Lowest Level on Record
Fertility rates in Australia have plummeted this year to the lowest levels the nation has ever recorded.
In the past two years, the number of births recorded in public maternity has dropped sharply.
According to a new report, fertility rates have just hit a record low.
The number of new births has now dropped so low that it is far below the level needed for population sustainability.
Experts are warning of a “baby drought” as the birthrate continues to fall.
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A freeway extension opening was delayed when a bitter dispute between two men, who both claimed to be the land’s traditional owners, broke out over conducting a smoking ceremony.
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Watch: WA Cops Keep Up the Fight Against Unjust Vaccine Mandates
In a bold stand against unjust vaccine mandates, a group of officers from WA Police in Australia have joined forces to fight for their rights and the rights of other affected workers.
Stood down senior constables Ben Falconer and Lance French are challenging the implementation of the mandates, which have had a widespread impact on various industries amid the ongoing battle against authoritarian directives issues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Undeterred by initial setbacks in the Supreme Court, the determined officers have consulted their lawyers and found grounds for an appeal.
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YouTube Censors Australian Politician’s Maiden Speech to Parliament
Authored by Rebekah Barnett via The Brownstone Institute
“30 minutes of truth bombs” is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, last Wednesday 28 June. “Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after public disagreements over the Party’s handling of the pandemic response, said out loud in parliament what many Australians have been saying for some time now — at first privately, around dinner tables, but increasingly more publicly, over workplace water coolers or at the pub, as saying the obvious becomes more socially acceptable.
Nevertheless, what is socially acceptable offline is not necessarily acceptable on social media. YouTube swiftly removed Ruddick’s speech from its platform, just seven hours after it was uploaded. The NSW Liberal Democrats say this is the first time in Australian history that a politician’s maiden speech has been censored by the platform.
The interference of the social media giant in Australia’s political discourse is ironic given this line from Ruddick’s speech: “We libertarians are plotting to take over the world … so we can leave you all alone.”
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Conflicting Geopolitical Concerns Hamper EU-Mercosur Talks
Latin America has thrown a curveball into the ongoing Mercosur trade negotiations after a leak from the South American delegation detailed how the bloc would demand both colonial reparations from Europe and the deletion of any mention of support for Ukraine in any draft agreement.
The EU is currently looking to revive and fastrack Mercosur, the long-proposed free trade agreement between Europe and South America, in light of recent geopolitical turmoil and the prospect of a rift with China, as European officials sat down to a summit in Argentina this week in unusually tense talks.
South American nations led by Brazil have so far been defiant in the face of EU environmental demands. President Lula declared that the region did not want to play a subservient role by simply supplying the EU with raw materials and instead wished to develop its economic capacity as an equal partner with Europe.
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145 Migrants Arrive on Lampedusa in 3 Landings on Sunday
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 9 — In total 145 migrants and refugees landed on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Sunday in three separate landings since midnight.
The numbers are updated to around 5 pm local time.
On Sunday afternoon a group of 45 people from Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Guinea, disembarked on the stepping-stone island after a Coast Guard patrol boat rescued their 6-metre boat in the Italian search and rescue zone.
They had departed from Sfax in Tunisia.
Earlier in the day two groups respectively of 61 and 39 people arrived on Lampedusa after being rescued by the Italian authorities or intercepted and accompanied to shore.
The first group, from Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Ethiopia, had departed from Libya.
The second, from Ivory Coast, Guinea, Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone, had departed from Sfax at 10 am on Saturday.
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Abbott Moves Ahead With Floating Border Barriers on Rio Grande Despite Liberal Outrage
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced that the Lone Star State is installing its “marine barrier installation” as part of its efforts to stop illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border — a move that has brought criticism from left-wing groups.
“New marine barrier installation on the Rio Grande begins today. Texas DPS is overseeing the project in Eagle Pass. More to come,” the governor tweeted.
Abbott had announced the barrier, consisting of orange buoys and intended to discourage migrants from crossing the Rio Grande, last month. It is part of Operation Lone Star, a multifaceted operation to tackle the border crisis amid what Republicans say is a vacuum of leadership from the federal government.
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Austrian, Hungarian, and Serbian Ministers Gather in Vienna for 3rd Migration Summit
Prime ministers, interior ministers, foreign ministers, and police chiefs from Austria, Hungary, and Serbia gathered for a migration summit in Vienna on Friday, July 7th, with the express aim of working collectively to stem the flow of mass illegal migration into the three countries as well as the European Union via the infamous Balkan route.
The tripartite meeting, the third of its kind to take place since the format was launched last autumn, ended with the signing of a “Memorandum of Understanding,” in which the three countries agreed to, among other things, set up a new joint task force—one which other states can join, too—in order to bolster border protection, the Vienna-based newspaper Der Standard reports.
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Chicago Cops Accused of Sex With Migrants, Including Now-Pregnant Teen Girl
Several Chicago cops are being investigated for allegedly having sex with vulnerable migrants living in makeshift camps in their precinct — including one accused of getting a teenage girl pregnant.
The alarming allegations are being investigated both by internal affairs and an independent watchdog, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) confirmed to The Post on Friday.
The focus is on four officers in a West End station that is one of many across the Windy City turned into a temporary shelter for the overwhelming flood of new arrivals, the department also told the Chicago Tribune.
The investigation includes allegations that some of the migrants — 10,000 of whom have arrived in Chicago in the last year — might be underage, sources told the paper.
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Exit Schengen to Tackle Riots — French MP
France must leave the Schengen zone if it wants to tackle the causes of repeated riots, opposition MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has proposed. The lawmaker claimed the violence is the result of failed attempts to integrate an excessive number of migrants.
“I am the only one to ask for the reestablishment of national borders and for leaving Schengen,” the self-described Gaullist politician told the CNews television channel on Friday.
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Pierre Brochand was head of France’s DGSE counter-intelligence agency from 2002 to 2008. Since 2019, he has made repeated calls for a radical change in his country’s immigration policy over what he says is the looming threat of civil war.
In a discussion about immigration on the public radio station France Culture last April, Brochand issued a warning which found its full expression in the week of violent rioting and looting that took hold of France after the shooting of a teenager of Algerian origin on June 27:
“If we do nothing or if we do little, we are going to head either towards a progressive implosion of social trust in France, that is to say towards a society where the quality of life will collapse and where it will be less and less pleasant to live, or, by successive explosions, towards confrontations that will make France a country where one will not be able to live at all.”
Now, in an interview published on July 6 on the website of Le Figaro daily newspaper, Brochand exposes, as Le Figaro puts it, “the deadly cocktail of a society of individuals based on openness and democracy and the arrival of entire diasporas with totally different cultural backgrounds.”
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Majority of French Blame Riots on Mass Migration as Establishment Attempts to Downplay Impact
The riots that recently swept across France were a result of “failures of migration policy” according to six in ten in the country, despite attempts by the political establishment to gloss over the role of mass migration in the social breakdown in France.
A survey conducted this week by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting for the Le Figaro newspaper found that the overwhelming majority of the French public (84 per cent) denounced the violence that broke out following the police killing of an Algerian-heritage teenager last month. Although the violence and rioting have subsided to some degree, nearly nine in ten (89 per cent) fear for the future of their country following the breakdown in social order.
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Open Arms Rescue Ship Docks in Brindisi With 299 Migrants
(ANSA) — ROME, JUL 9 — The NGO ship Open Arms arrived in the port of Brindisi in Italy’s southern Puglia region on Sunday carrying 299 migrants and refugees rescued in the central Mediterranean.
The group, from Eritrea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Benin, Ivory Coast and Cameroon, included numerous unaccompanied minors and three pregnant women.
Brindisi Prefect Michela La Iacona said the general condition of the rescued migrants and refugees was good and that no critical situations had been reported.
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Over 20 Police Officers Injured at Eritrean ‘Cultural Event’ in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — German police said at least 22 officers were injured and dozens of people were detained Saturday during unrest at an Eritrean cultural event in the western city of Giessen.
Police said bottles were thrown and smoke bombs were ignited as groups of Eritreans opposed to the African nation’s autocratic ruler tried to force their way to the venue.
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Friday saw the biggest daily record of migrants crossing the English Channel so far this year, with nearly 700 people making the treacherous journey in small boats.
Home Office figures show 686 migrants made the journey, beating out the year’s previous record of 549 on June 11.
It takes the total number of incomers to have traversed the Channel this year to 12,119 — just seven per cent beneath the cumulative total of 13,000 for this time last year, The Telegraph reports.
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Congratulations, a Man Just Won Miss Netherlands
What a time to be alive! The Miss Netherlands pageant has taken a rather unexpected turn, ladies and gentlemen. This year, the crown goes to… a trans woman — Rikkie Valeria Kolle. You heard that right, a person who was assigned male at birth but now identifies and presents as a woman. This quite literally adds a whole new dimension to the beauty pageant scene. Who needs historical gender norms when we can just rewrite them, right?
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But experts warn it is important to be aware of other hidden costs — including higher insurance premiums — before plumping for an EV.
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— and mums humblebrag with before and after pics on Facebook
A 15-year-old with gender dysphoria who had a double mastectomy has encouraged other teens who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth to undergo the operation.
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Leaked Memo Shows Mayo Clinic Doubles Down on Censorship
Reports this week expose Mayo Clinic as “doubling down” on speech restrictions it previously chose to impose affecting Dr. Michael Joyner.
The information comes from an internal memo sent to Mayo Clinic College of Medical Science, which is interpreted as sticking to a policy of preventing this medical organization’s members from speaking freely.
Previously, Joyner, a professor, was punished for his public statements related to his research, concerning public health, including topics such as Covid, and transgenderism and, in general, making comments that were construed as being against some government policies, that is, something that was well within his right to do.
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Rikkie Valerie Kolle, 22, made history after she won the competition in the Dutch country on Sunday.
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Vancouver Police Receive Zero Threats of Violence Towards Drag Camp for Kids, Despite Union’s Claims
Recent legacy media reports covering protests outside a drag summer camp for kids on Granville Island last week have echoed the unsupported claim that some opposed to the camp threatened to act out in violence. But is there any merit to such claims?
Between July 4-7, Carousel Theatre, a company that receives federal, provincial, and municipal funds, hosted a drag camp for children aged 7-14.
For a price of $460 to $900, children received their very own drag make-up starter kit and were instructed by drag queens on how to access their “inner confidence” and show their “true colours” for four consecutive days.
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YouTube Allows Genitalia Display While Banning Discussions on ‘Misgendering’
YouTube’s content policing has come under scrutiny, after it decided that footage showing male genitals doesn’t infringe its terms of service, yet the act of ‘misgendering’ does.
A video posted by ‘gay sex educator’ Kevin Leonardo titled “Removing BUTT HAIRS Using NAIR Cream — A Visual Guide!“ attracted public attention due to its explicit content, with Leonardo revealing his testicles and anus during the product demonstration, the Daily Wire reported.
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These Are the Healthiest (& Unhealthiest) Countries in the World
It’s been 75 years since the start of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, the first universal health system available to all, free at the point of delivery.
In light of this, Statista’s Anna Fleck looks at how different health systems compare around the world, using data from Legatum Prosperity Index, created by The Legatum Institute Foundation, a London think tank.
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” A Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other men in a series of shootings while riding a scooter in New York City is charged with murder and attempted murder, police said Sunday.”
That gun control is really working out for these big cities, isn’t it? (sarcasm)
“Seattle Considers Biometric Handprints as a Form of Digital ID for Purchasing Liquor”
To fingerprint someone they have to be charged with a crime; to obtain personal biological info such as from a blood or hair sample, they need a warrant. I would imagine the same goes for compiling a database of biometrics. Of course, such protections against government are only as good as the paper they are written on and people’s willingness to defend it. Some places (Seattle?) get what they deserve. They do have a record of supporting authoritarian gov’t expansion and its leftist elements… so maybe they want UN Sustainable Dev. goal 16.9 )i.e. digital identity dossiers). But the rest of us should say hell no.
If need be we have a historical blueprint: speakeasies were a thing.
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ARE WE DOOMED?
IQ 85 next century!
Don’t be hasty now!
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In Breeding the Human Herd, Prof. Edward Dutton compiles a
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S propos Bastille Day: The King of France was right to send the Masquis dew Sade ro Charenton. He should also have sent Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Charebton.
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You have to be proud to be right-wing and not crawl into a mouse hole when the journalists start to shame you.
By Lars Hedegaard /snaphanen.dk
In Document.dk, Christian Skaug quotes French writer Laurent Obertone who argues that France is already in a guerrilla war triggered by immigrants who are not “angry” (as the media portrays it), but rather driven by a desire to destroy. Leading arson and violent attacks is prestigious in some immigrant circles.
As Mr Obertone explained to the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, France has been engaged in a guerrilla war for several years.
“The number of violent crimes has been increasing constantly for more than ten years. Every day there are dozens of stabbings, hundreds of sexual offences and thousands of cases of aggression. The riots do nothing but generalise the phenomenon with an incredible sense of impunity, which is unfortunately understandable when the justice system too rarely intervenes in these cases.”
When asked if the acts of violence are motivated by anger, Oberone replies:
“It’s not anger… It’s about opportunism. The bad acts they commit are heroic acts that they celebrate among themselves and make them popular within their group.
They attack, they destroy, they don’t care about anything and somehow they score points. I know it is explained as social phenomena, as a cry for justice, but it is completely wrong. These things are said to blame society instead of the culprits. We are constantly being deceived.”
And who is responsible for this state of affairs?
The rebels, of course, Oberone replies. Add to this the negligence of the government and the left, which has morally disarmed both the population and the police. The general population is also complicit, because it has remained silent and resigned to the state of affairs without seriously thinking about what is happening.
According to Mr Oberone, the security services are well aware of what is happening, but the state is not interested in the facts and their reports end up in the bin. The authorities try to present the facts in a way that gives a favourable impression of themselves, and the major media have completely abandoned reality.
Il Giornale asks Oberone about the accusations that he is close to the extreme right, but instead of asking what is wrong with the right, he tries to justify himself by pointing out that his analyses are only the opinion of the majority.
He is undoubtedly right, but we are unlikely to make progress as long as nationalists continue to tacitly accept the media’s constant accusations against the ‘right wing’.
We live in an Orwellian world where four legs are good and two legs are evil. Today it is: left wing good, right wing evil – and a surprising number of right wingers are willing to sign up to it.
Sooner or later a man has to come along and point out that if it is right-wing to want to defend the country against foreign barbarians, then you have to be proud to be right-wing and not crawl into a mouse hole when the journalists start shaming you.
“The ‘intellectuals’ work hard to reject what everyone understands as self-evident.”
Their ultimate goal isn’t to destroy, but to take over. And what will happen when they take over? The elites themselves will be displaced, and their values and ideology will be replaced by Islamic values, which are from the seventh century.
This is what happened in Iran in 1979, and it led to the destruction of the Iranian left. That destruction should be brought up whenever the elites here in the West, all of whom are leftists, accuse one of being on the right. That is, they seem to be engaging in self-destruction, and in defying them, one is merely trying to prevent that self-destruction.
The true leftwingers will just say the shahada and continue their way of life.
The other leftwinger will believe us nothing even if the muslim scimitar is about to remove the head from the body.
Then the right wing begins to Purge with a vengeance all that vex him.
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Muslim Koran chaos in the middle of Stockholm
10 July 2023 at 07.01
“Allahu akbar”, was the message when thousands of Muslims on Sunday gathered at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm to protest against Koran burnings.
Several Muslim organizations had called on their members to appear at Medborgarplatsen to wave Korans.
The police estimate that 4,000 people participated in the demonstration, according to Aftonbladet.
– Burning the Koran should be seen as a hate crime and nothing else, said one of the speakers, Ali Abdelsaid, according to the newspaper.
Video clips from the demonstration show the participants chanting the Muslim battle cry “Allahu akbar”.
https://www.friatider.se/muslimskt-korankaos-mitt-i-stockholm
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GOOD-BYE SWEDEN
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Erdogan lets Sweden into NATO
10 July 2023 at 21:33
Turkish President Erdogan has finally agreed to admit Sweden into NATO. This was announced by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a press conference on Monday evening.
The announcement comes after Ulf Kristersson and Stoltenberg had a meeting with Erdogan in Vilnius.
– Erdogan has made it clear that Turkey is ready to ratify Sweden, said the NATO chief at the press conference during the evening.
Earlier today, the Turkish president had set a new demand to approve Sweden’s NATO membership. He wants negotiations on EU membership for Turkey to be resumed.
Later in the day, Erdogan had a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel, who afterwards announced that the EU and Turkey should “explore” deeper cooperation.
The EU has previously profiled itself as an organization that is independent from the US and NATO.
What else Ulf Kristersson has agreed to for further demands from Erdogan is so far unclear.
Sweden’s NATO membership is to be ratified by Turkey’s parliament, unclear when. Hungary also has to approve the Swedish membership, but the Hungarian government has previously promised to do so when Turkey said yes.
“The Wagner mercenary group is reportedly prepared to relocate to Belarus as part of the deal it struck with Russia following its aborted mutiny against Moscow’s leadership, a senior commander of the group said.”
Although I’m not a mind-reader, I reckon Prigozhin’s “putsch” was moruva scam than a move against Putin. It seems most likely, to me, that The Party—DESPERATE to find a way, ANY WAY, outta the Prince Aricept’s [latest] military debacle (Ukraine)—may’ve secretly offered Prigozhin a wad o’ cash (with 10 held by P for the big guy😉) to stage a putsch. Being the greedy CAPITALIST he is, Prigozhin took the deal—with half the cash paid up-front and the other half delivered upon the start of the “putsch”. Once Prigozhin had the entire boodle pocketed, he sent the “attackers” home and had a laugh ‘n’ a cee-gar with his pal, Vlad. But I could be wrong.🙂