A Russian warship fired warning shots before intercepting a Turkish cargo ship in the Black Sea. After the Russians conducted an inspection, the ship was allowed to proceed. This was the first such incident since the grain deal with Ukraine lapsed last month.
In other news, a Native American group launched a petition drive to restore the name “Redskins” for the Washington football team. So far the initiative has gained more than 80,000 signatures.
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16-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Shot in Highland Park by Gunman Who Remains on the Run
Police say a 16-year-old boy has died after he was shot on the sidewalk in Highland Park Sunday morning by a gunman who remains on the run.
The Highland Park Police Department and Highland Park Fire Department responded around 11:30 a.m. Sunday to the 2300 block of Green Bay Road for a shooting.
Emergency crews arrived to find a 16-year-old Highwood boy who had been shot, according to Lake County Major Crime Task Force Spokesman Christopher Covelli.
The victim was walking on the sidewalk when he was approached by the offender.
The two engaged in a brief conversation before the offender produced a firearm and shot the victim, Covelli said.
The boy was transported to Highland Park Hospital and pronounced dead.
Police established a large perimeter around the scene in an attempt to locate the offender.
Witnesses described the offender as a male dressed in all black that fled on a bicycle.
Further investigation showed he likely fled on foot, not on a bicycle, following the shooting, Covelli said.
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Andy Ngo Speaks Out After Losing Civil Suit Against Rose City Antifa: ‘I Didn’t Receive Justice’
A jury in Multnomah County, Oregon, found Portland activists John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter not liable for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress for their alleged attack on journalist Andy Ngo, according to a press release from The Center for American Liberty, the organization representing Ngo.
Ngo and his attorney Eric Sell joined “The Ingraham Angle” to respond.
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Antifa Militant Who Shot First at Kyle Rittenhouse Sentenced to 3 Years Over Kenosha Robbery
This week a court sentenced Joshua and Kelly Ziminski to 20 months in prison for burglary and robbery with threat of force charges that they pleaded guilty to in May. Other charges were dropped in exchange for a plea deal, according to Fox 6.
In the heat of the 2020 riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Joshua Ziminski fired a “warning shot” just before Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men in self-defense. Ziminski was out of bail for his involvement in the riots when he and his wife went on the crime spree that earned them 7 felony charges.
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Virginia country singer and rising star Oliver Anthony drew a massive crowd on Sunday for a musical performance at the Morris Farm Market in which he opened by reading a passage from the Bible.
“It’s crazy to me because I remember back in June, I played here for about 20 people,” Oliver said to enthusiastic fans as he opened the Lord’s book and read Psalm 37.
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Breaking: MiG-23 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Apartment Building During Van Buren, Michigan Air Show
A jet crashed on Sunday at the Thunder Over Michigan air show, in an event meant to mark the air show’s 25th anniversary.
The two people on board who ejected from the MiG-23 fighter jet touched the ground in Belleville Lake, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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The co-owner of a Kansas newspaper died on Saturday after law enforcement officers conducted an unprecedented raid on the paper on Friday, seizing computers, cellphones, and documents from the office and its reporters in what the publisher called an attack on the first amendment.
Joan Meyer, 98, who co-owned the Marion County Record with her son, Eric Meyer, collapsed and died at her home on Saturday afternoon after the police raid had reportedly left her “stressed beyond her limits.”
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A Los Angeles, California, Nordstrom store was ransacked by a mob of more than 30 people on Saturday, with the suspects getting away with nearly $100,000 worth of handbags and clothes.
The Los Angeles Police Department said at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, a mob of “criminals” stole items from the store.
Video captured from inside the store show a group of between 30 and 50 people wearing sweatshirt hoodies over their heads.
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California Thieves Use Forklift to Steal ATM Machine in Sacramento: Video
Astonishing video shows a thief using a forklift to knock over an ATM at a Sacramento bank earlier this month.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office posted surveillance footage of the August 2 incident, which took place at around 6:15 a.m. at a Safe Credit Union location in North Sacramento.
One suspect operated a forklift to knock over the ATM, while another suspect drove a white pickup truck nearby. Video shows the forklift eventually loading the machine into the truck’s bed.
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COVID Victims’ Families Sue EcoHealth Alliance for ‘Funding, Releasing’ Virus
The families of four people who died from COVID-19 are suing EcoHealth alliance, the New York-based nonprofit that was conducting gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, before COVID-19 broke out across town.
According to the Aug. 2 lawsuit filed before the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, EcoHealth and its president, Peter Daszak, knew the virus was “capable of causing a worldwide pandemic.”
Not only did EcoHealth help to create a ‘genetically manipulated virus,’ the lawsuit claims, it worked to cover up the origins of the outbreak.
“If we had known the source or origin of this virus and had not been misled that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, and rather we knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus, and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients, the outcome could have been very different,” victims’ attorney Patricia Finn told the NY Post.
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‘Crazy Plane Lady’ Tiffany Gomas Breaks Silence During Teary Apology: ‘We All Have Our Bad Moments’
The recently identified “crazy plane lady” who was filmed ominously warning passengers in a viral video last month has officially broken her silence.
Tiffany Gomas, a 38-year-old marketing executive from Texas, urged the flight crew to let her off the American Airlines flight from Dallas to Orlando before takeoff. Without giving a reason or explanation, she yelled, “I’m telling you, I’m getting the f — — off and there’s a reason why I’m getting the f — — off and everyone can either believe it or they cannot believe it.”
A visibly distressed Gomas told passengers “that motherf — —er back there is not real” before pointing to the back of the plane, causing confusion over who she was concerned about and why.
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A controversial driverless car firm was blasted after around 10 of its autonomous vehicles broke down and blocked a San Francisco street.
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Far-right activist Ammon Bundy, who ran an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid against Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little, was reportedly arrested on an outstanding warrant.
Bundy’s account on X, formerly Twitter, shared video that showed deputies placing Bundy in handcuffs and escorting him out of a banquet hall.
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Harvard University Encourages Students to Apply for Food Stamps Despite Having $53 Billion Endowment
Harvard University is encouraging students to apply for government assisted food programs despite being the wealthiest school in the world.
This after graduate students complained that their yearly $40,000 salary isn’t enough money for them to skate buy. The Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU) has submitted a proposal demanding a $20,000 salary increase, stating that $60,000 should be the bare minimum given to each graduate student per year, according to Benzinga.
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Hawaii Churches Offer Prayers for the Dead and the Missing After Devasting Maui Wildfires
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing Sunday in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week’s wildfire that demolished a historic Maui town and killed more than 90 people.
Maria Lanakila Church in Lahaina was spared from the flames that wiped out most of the surrounding community, but with search-and-recovery efforts ongoing, its parishioners attended Mass about 10 miles up the road, with the Bishop of Honolulu, the Rev. Clarence “Larry” Silva, presiding.
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Native American Group Calls on Commanders to Rename Team Redskins: ‘Cannot Erase History’
A Native American group has put the rush on against the Washington Commanders and demanded the organization revert its name to “Redskins” — the name the team adopted when it was in Boston in 1933.
The Native American Guardian Association (NAGA) has encouraged fans to sign their petition, which is “designed to promote our history, put an end to cancel culture, and #ReclaimTheName ‘Redskins.’“
The group said more than 80,000 people have signed the petition
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Oprah’s CBS Media Crew Denied Entry to Hawaiian Wildfire Shelter
A CBS camera cred led by Oprah Winfrey was not allowed access to an emergency shelter in Maui, Hawaii after they had tried to secure access to the building.
“Out of respect for those who have come to seek safety and shelter at emergency shelters, our policy remains that no media are given access,” the County of Maui said in a statement.
The county added that it welcomes “Oprah to continue to uplift our community’s spirit” and that it would like to “give her aloha to victims of the tragic disaster and appreciate her understanding of our policy of no camera crews or reporters in our emergency shelters. Mahalo.”
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Around 75% of supporters of the Democratic Party in the USA believe that President Joe Biden is not very capable of leading the country due to his advanced age.
These findings come from a sociological study conducted by Newsweek and Redfield & Wilton Strategies.
The survey was conducted on August 5th and 6th, with the participation of 1,500 potential voters from the United States.
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Scientists at Fermilab Close in on Fifth Force of Nature
Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature.
They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics.
Scientists believe that an unknown force could be acting on the muons.
More data will be needed to confirm these results, but if they are verified, it could mark the beginning of a revolution in physics.
All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. These four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.
The findings have been made at a US particle accelerator facility called Fermilab. They build on results announced in 2021 in which the Fermilab team first suggested the possibility of a fifth force of nature.
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The number of men seeking treatment for erectile dysfunction has soared in recent years amid what some have described as a ‘silent epidemic’.
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Woman Stabbed During Argument at United Center Saturday Night, Chicago Police Say
The victim told police an argument with three women turned physical, at which point they struck her several times, authorities said.
A woman was stabbed when an argument inside the United Center escalated on Saturday night, according to authorities.
The stabbing was reported at around 9:25 p.m. during the WGCI Summer Jam show at which Lil Durk took the stage. The rapper’s concert later ended abruptly after police received calls of shots fired that turned out to be inaccurate, officials said.
According to Chicago police, the stabbing victim, a 20-year-old woman, walked into the Chicago Police Department’s 12th district station where she reported the crime. The victim told police an argument with three women turned physical, at which point they struck her several times. A man then stabbed her in the neck with a sharp object, police said.
The victim received medical treatment prior to showing up at the police station, but refused additional treatment upon arrival. No one was in custody late Sunday as detectives continued to investigate.
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Bank of Canada Says Digital Currency is ‘Unnecessary’ and ‘Not Feasible’
The Bank of Canada confirmed Thursday that a government-issued digital currency would be ‘unnecessary’ and only feasible if most Canadians requested the option.
“As a practical matter achieving wide adoption, acceptance and use of a central bank digital currency could be challenging because most Canadians have access to several methods of payment,” said the report Unmet Payment Needs And A Central Bank Digital Currency.
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Beijing-Controlled Media in Canada ‘Enabled’ Election Interference
The CSIS documents obtained by The Bureau outlined a “covert takeover” operation launched in Canada by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to influence and interfere with democratic political processes through a sophisticated campaign to co-opt Canadian media organizations.
While this influence is noticeable and has been reported on by Rebel News and others in foreign-language media outlets, intelligence documents also now allege that there are “massively-funded” projects aimed at gaining control over mainstream media entities as well.
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Exclusive: Danielle Smith on Human Trafficking
Canadians often speak of slavery as though it is a relic of the ancient past that we have overcome, but the truth is that there are more slaves in the world today than ever before. Conservative estimates from the Global Slavery Index suggest nearly 50 million people are currently enslaved, and numerous sources estimate that nearly 30 million of the individuals trapped in slavery are ensnared within human trafficking.
This insidious industry — which treats human beings as commodities for forced labour and sex work — operates within the shadows, rendering accurate estimates a nearly impossible task. It is entirely possible that the real number of victims is much higher.
Many have comforted themselves with the idea that these types of things don’t happen in Canada, but they are sorely mistaken. Human trafficking happens everywhere, not just in far off lands. In fact, in the last decade alone, there have been more than 3500 cases of human trafficking in Canada, and those are just the cases we know about.
Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party are taking the fight to human traffickers and have committed $4 million to establishing an office with the sole task of tackling this grievous human rights violation in Alberta.
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Feds Release Draft Regulations on ‘Net-Zero’ Electricity
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is moving forward on draft regulations for ‘net-zero’ electricity without overwhelming consensus from the provinces and territories.
The federal government has not wavered on its targeted deadline of 2035 despite Alberta and Saskatchewan vehemently opposing the expedited transition from natural gas and coal-powered electricity.
According to Environment Canada, the regulations would drive up residential energy costs offset by supposed savings incurred by moving off fossil fuels.
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Liberal Party ‘Overwhelmingly’ Appoints Party Donors as Judges: Report
Amid ongoing calls to urgently fill judicial vacancies, court watchers have pressed the federal government to bolster transparency on the apparent ‘partisanship’ of judicial appointees.
According to the results of an eight-month investigation by The National Post and the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF), approximately 76.3% of 1,308 judicial and tribunal appointments since 2016 have previously donated to the Liberal Party.
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Police Shut Down Pastor Peacefully Preaching in Windsor
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, guest host David Menzies spoke with Pastor Alin Armstrong about the Windsor police forcing him to stop peacefully preaching.
“On this particular Sunday, I was maybe ten minutes into my sermon when I saw the cavalry show up. And when I say cavalry, I’m talking about upwards of — by the end of the encounter upwards of six police cruisers,” said Pastor Armstrong.
When asked about what crime he was committing, the pastor said, “I don’t know. I’ve tried to get an answer to that question all week and nobody seems to know. What they keep telling me is ‘you trespassed,’ that I trespassed on the property and therefore I’m not welcome and the city doesn’t want me there.”
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Quebec Doctors Urged Not to Kill Patients After Increase in ‘Non-Complaint’ Assisted Suicide Cases
The Canadian province of Quebec is telling its doctors to refrain from killing patients that have asked to die by lethal injection through the country’s controversial medically assisted suicide program.
In a memo sent to Quebec doctors, the province warned that there has been a rise in “non-compliant” cases, and urged them to reconsider prescribing their patients with a fatal injection through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), according to Daily Mail.
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Still No Closure Regarding Canada’s Treatment of Religious Christians Under the COVID Lockdowns
On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra was joined by Rebel News‘ chief reporter Sheila Gunn Reid to discuss her impressions from touring Rebel News’ documentary, Church Under Fire: Canada’s War on Christianity. The film uncovers the unsettling truth about the banning of religious services during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID lockdowns, and highlights those brave individuals who stood up against such mandates.
Sheila noted how each location visited on the tour was different, just as each pastor interviewed in the documentary is. “I think that was really the story of the documentary,” Sheila said. “It did not matter your style, your theology. For example, you could be like Pastor Art [Pawlowski] and fiery, or you could be like Pastor Tobias Tiessen and gentle like a lamb. It didn’t matter because their crimes were standing up to the state and honouring God.”
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of BC Churches’ COVID Challenge
Three British Columbia churches challenged the government’s total ban on in-person worship services imposed from November 2020 to May 2021 as part of a slate of provincially imposed coronavirus restrictions.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms represents the Fraser Valley area churches.
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This Guy Came Up With a Very Detailed Plan to Conquer Canada and People Are Loving it in the Replies
Ladies and gentlemen, America has a long tradition of liberating totalitarian countries rich in oil, and it just so happens that Canada now fits the bill.
To that end, this very fine random man on the internet has come up with a bulletproof plan — BULLETPROOF, I SAY — to conquer the vast domain of our northern neighbors.
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‘Thy Will, Not My Will’: Tamara Lich on Perseverance Through Prison, Responding to Hate With Love
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra was joined by Tamara Lich, the Freedom Convoy organizer and author of Hold The Line: My Story from the Heart of the Freedom Convoy.
Ezra brought up with Tamara how support for her hasn’t slowed down, even now that it’s been a year and a half since the Freedom Convoy.
“Yes, I think with the evidence that came out at the Public Order Emergency Commission and the more evidence, I think more people are waking up and becoming more aware as to what’s really going on,” she said.
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35 More People Charged in Connection With Fatal Stabbing of Young Greek Football Fan
Michalis Katsouris, 29, died after being stabbed in a mass brawl which erupted on the streets of the Greek capital.
Greek prosecutors on Sunday charged 35 more people in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young Greek football fan before a Champions League game, taking the total to face charges over the incident to 105.
Of that number, 102 are from Croatia and suspected of links with the ‘Bad Blue Boys’, hardline supporters of Dinamo Zagreb who travelled to Greece last Monday, the day before their side’s Champions League qualifier against AEK Athens.
The others are two Greeks and an Albanian. Authorities are hunting for another Greek national, also suspected of being involved in the fatal attack, according to the same judicial source.
Following his death, UEFA postponed Tuesday’s third-round qualifier between the two sides until August 19.
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France: Fighting for Heritage: A Normandy Village of 64 Inhabitants Saves Its Church
As de-Christianisation accelerates, the question of how to maintain village churches is becoming an increasingly thorny issue in the French countryside. Abandonment, destruction, or restoration? One small village in Normandy, with a population of 64, considers this to be a priority cause and, for decades, has continued to save its church against all odds, investing sums that are too high for the budget of such a small commune.
In France, since the French Revolution (which nationalised the property of the clergy), and especially since the 1905 law (that put an end to the Concordat and established the principle of separation of church and state), the vast majority of churches have been confiscated from the Catholic Church by the state. These churches now belong to the cities, which are responsible for their upkeep. For small rural communities, this represents a financial burden that is difficult to bear, and many mayors are tempted to abandon—or destroy—buildings that are less and less used for worship.
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Hungarian Foreign Minister: National Politicians Worldwide Persecuted by Liberal Mainstream
Politicians who courageously represent national interests and oppose the international liberal mainstream are being persecuted worldwide, wrote Hungarian Foreign and Economics Minister Peter Szijjartó on his Facebook page on Saturday.
“In the US, new charges are being brought to discredit the most likely opposition candidate in the next presidential election. In Slovakia, a leader of a party with the best chance of winning parliamentary elections in the autumn has been arrested. And in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the democratically elected leader of the Serb community was indicted.”
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Polish President Calls for All (U.S.) Hands on Deck
Polish President Andrzej Duda has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of harboring imperialist ambitions and has called for him to be brought to heel now, lest American soldiers be called upon to intervene in Europe, as they did in the two World Wars.
Duda made the striking remark during an hour-long conversation with The Washington Post, conducted in the presidential palace in Warsaw, of which the publication released two extracts (here and here) last Thursday, August 10th.
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Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles allegedly told a dinner at the University of Oxford last month that he wished he had learnt to speak Chinese, instead of Arabic, because China is ‘more interesting’.
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Stolen Works of Art Returned to Italy
For many years, the megalopolis of New York has been one of the main hubs of international art trafficking. On Tuesday, August 8th, the New York district attorney for the Borough of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, announced the return of 42 works of art of great value to their country of origin, Italy, following a lengthy investigation.
The works returned to Italy include some very fine pieces dating back to Roman and Etruscan antiquity. Le Monde, for example, recounts the story of a vase from Apulia, dating from the 4th century BC, stolen from a site in southern Italy and then smuggled internationally by an Italian art trafficker. Several other works of art passed through the hands of renowned British art dealer, Robin Symes, who acted as an intermediary between the purveyors of works in Italy and the collectors interested in buying exceptional ancient works. The task was made more difficult by the existence of long-standing and highly organised networks of smugglers, as the prosecutor explained.
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‘Mr Brexit’ Nigel Farage has accused the NatWest banking group and regulators of engaging in an “establishment stitch-up” by intentionally slow-walking investigations into his de-banking and the leaking of his details to the press.
In the wake of the revelation that Nigel Farage’s bank accounts were shut down for failing to “align” with the values of Coutts, the former UKIP leader has filed a second subject access request, demanding that NatWest release any other documents relating to his debanking on the suspicion that the move was discussed higher up the chain in the banking group.
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UK: Great Reset U-Turn: Labour Party to Ditch National Car Emissions Tax Zones Scheme
Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party has reportedly abandoned plans to impose so-called “clean air zones” that would slap drivers with emissions taxes in localities throughout the country.
Following steep public backlash and a disastrous by-election result attributed to anger over leftist London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s widely despised plan to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) car tax scheme to all of London, the Labour Party has reportedly scrapped plans to campaign on bringing the Great Reset-style scheme to the rest of the country.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Protester Storms 17th Hole During Major Golf Event’s Closing Stages
Just Stop Oil protesters brought the AIG Women’s Open to a sudden halt on Sunday afternoon.
The golf event was at a crucial stage when the 17th green was invaded by protesters. The incident occurred straight after England’s Charley Hull had played a pitch on to the par three.
A plume of orange and yellow smoke was seen in the air as they made their way onto the grass, with one holding up a sign. Other spectators in attendance could be heard jeering as security apprehended the disruptors.
One fan even yelled: “Get off you clown!” as the individuals were escorted away to some applause.
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Videos have emerged from Oxford Street in London, where chaos erupted following a social media campaign to “rob JD Sports” and shoplift. Three young men were detained by the Metropolitan Police at the shopping hotspot amid fears of mayhem.
Footage shows police grappling with two youths and detaining a third. In a separate video, infamous TikToker Mizzy was also stopped by officers. It’s unclear if the TikTok thug was partaking in the “mass shoplifting event,” the Daily Mail reports.
The chaos was sparked by a viral post urging thugs to rob JD Sports and other stores, with a poster instructing a “dress code” of balaclavas and gloves, and warning: “Don’t come if you can’t run,” and “Don’t bring any weapons.”
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Russian Warship Fires Shots to Intercept Cargo Ship in Black Sea
Turkish vessel was inspected before continuing its journey to Ukraine as ships treated as arms smugglers following collapse of grain deal
A Russian warship fired warning shots as it intercepted a cargo ship sailing towards Ukraine, the first time it has done so since a grain deal collapsed last month.
Russia’s ministry of defence said that the Vasily Bykov fired its machine gun to force the Sukru Okan to stall in the Black Sea and then boarded it with a naval helicopter.
“After the completion of the work of the inspection team on board the Sukru Okan, the ship continued to move to the port of Izmail,” it said. Izmail is a Ukrainian port on the Danube River.
The Sukru Okan is a 34-year-old dry cargo ship that is named after a Turkish admiral. Maritime data showed that although it sails under the flag of Palau, a Pacific Island nation, the Sukru Okan is based in Istanbul and is operated by a Turkish company. Civilian cargo ships often sail under different flags to reduce costs and red tape.
A UN-brokered grain deal that had allowed ships to dock in Ukraine to load grain after they had been inspected by Russian officials for arms smuggling collapsed because the Kremlin said that Ukraine had refused to reopen an ammonia pipeline.
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Ukrainians Begin to Despair as Bloody Counteroffensive Yields Small Gains
Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute
According to the Washington Post, many citizens of Ukraine are adopting a darker mood about the war with Russia, and national unity is beginning to fray. The change in sentiment comes as Kiev’s spring counteroffensive fails to retake significant territory despite surging casualties.
“Ukrainians, much in need of good news, are simply not getting any,” the Washington Post reported Thursday. One Ukrainian, Alla Blyzniuk, interviewed by the outlet, said, “[before] people were united.” Now, she described, a sense of collective “disappointment.”
The sense of despair is driven by massive casualties in Kiev’s counteroffensive. Blyzniuk said that most soldiers sent to the front die in just two to three days.
Last week, Politico reported that Kiev had committed 150,000 troops to fight along three fronts. Nevertheless, the Pentagon admits that Ukrainian forces have failed to make any significant gains.
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Australians Rally to Halt Shift to Cashless Society, Garnering 120,000 Signatures
A growing public outcry against the shift towards a cashless economy in Australia has culminated in a petition gathering more than 120,000 signatures.
The initiative, hosted on Change.org and called for ‘An Australian cash and banking guarantee,’ is demanding government regulation over banks that are eliminating in-person cash services and closing branches.
Westpac has initiated a ‘co-locating’ strategy, consolidating some locations of its subsidiary brands such as St George into existing Westpac branches.
Meanwhile, the other big four banks — Commonwealth, ANZ, and NAB — have established cashless branches, directing customers towards ATMs for everyday banking needs.
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Breaking: Senator Babet’s Vaccine Indemnity Bill Passes First Test
United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet announced on social media that his vaccine indemnity bill has cleared the first stage of debate in the Senate and will be referred to the committee for public scrutiny and submissions.
The bill that aims to remove vaccine indemnity from manufacturers, shifting responsibility for any vaccine-related issues from the government to the pharmaceutical companies themselves.
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Two ‘uninhabitable’ terrace homes in Sydney’s inner west sold for almost $2million on Saturday. The deceased estate terraces were advertised as a ‘blank canvas’ and ‘ultimate fixer-upper’.
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Exclusive: 40K Migrants Apprehended Along Southwest Border in First 10 Days of August
Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 40,000 migrants along the southwest border during the first ten days of August. The Tucson and Rio Grande Valley Sectors reported more than 10,000 each.
Unofficial reports obtained from law enforcement by Breitbart Texas reveal that during the first ten days of August, Border Patrol agents apprehended 39,324 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This is an average of 5,708 apprehensions per day.
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Food Bank Reports 72% of Users Have Been in Canada Under a Year
Food bank reliance has skyrocketed over the past year, with new immigrants representing the vast majority of demand.
A Toronto-area food bank, Feed Scarborough, has sounded the alarm following a dramatic 112% increase in new clients across its five locations.
Based on the clientele demographics, 95% of those relying on Feed Scarborough are not Canadian-born and less than three-quarters (72%) have been in Canada for less than a year.
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Germany: Police Stormed Asylum Seeker Home in Cologne
A large contingent of Cologne police stormed an accommodation for asylum seekers on Thursday evening. Officers were looking for a man who had fractured an officer’s face and seriously injured a colleague the day before.
During a traffic stop, the 19-year-old BMW driver and his accomplice, who was two years his junior, suddenly became extremely violent, brutally kicked the two officers, and beat them to the point of hospitalization. Two women helped the perpetrators.
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Witnesses have claimed that gunfire and clashes involving migrants broke out just hours before a small boat travelling from Dunkirk to Britain sank, killing six people and leaving two missing.
An unnamed teenage boy from Afghanistan said that he heard gunshots ring out at the Grande-Synthe camp near Dunkirk on Friday night, amid clashes that he believed were between Afghans and Kurds.
The 15-year-old told The Times that he also saw chaos in the camps after Afghans were turned away when they reached overcrowded dinghies on French beaches.
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Scores of migrants were seen heading for beaches in northern France last night, apparently undeterred by the deaths of six Afghan men in the Channel.
Within just a few minutes the Daily Mail witnessed three groups of up to 50 people, all laden with bags, emerging from the undergrowth beside the motorway near Dunkirk, and heading for a bus stop in the direction of the Channel coast.
A police van pulled up opposite the bus stop, but did nothing to stop the groups.
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On Saturday, at a Pride event in Austin, Texas, one 16-year-old and three 17-year-old boys had Red Bull and other items thrown on them in addition to insults hurled at them as they told people to “spread the gospel.”
One instance was caught on camera as The Post Millennial reporter Tyler Hansen was conducting an interview. As Taylor was giving his intro, one of the teenagers said, “Spread the gospel, baby” to a group walking by, and as one of the others was saying, “Spread the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Red Bull was thrown at them.
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Radical trans activists descended upon the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas on Saturday to protest a free speech event called #LetWomenSpeak.
The mob attempted to drown out speakers like Meghan Murphy, Keri Smith, TPM’s Libby Emmons, and Amy Sousa, who expressed their dissent against radical trans ideology currently being promoted in all walks of life by the Democrats and corporate America.
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CNN raised eyebrows on Saturday after publishing a detailed explainer on the use of “neopronouns,” a “new” kind of “gender-neutral or nonbinary pronoun” that allows subjects to characterize themselves using genderless descriptors like “leaf,” “sun,” and “star.”
In the story titled “A guide to neopronouns, from ae to ze,” CNN’s article outlined the use of alternative grammar that eliminates “gender markers,” quoting one of “the foremost experts on neopronouns” who encouraged readers to “use and respect” neopronouns like any other common pronoun.
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On Thursday, a Green Bay, Wisconsin, school district determined that a trans-identified male will be allowed to play on a female high school sports team as long as they meet Wisconsin Interscholastic Atheltic Association (WIAA) guidelines.
According to Fox 11, 40 to 50 parents concerned about the safety of their girls attended the closed-door meeting with the Green Bay school district’s Title IX coordinator, where the district informed them of the decision. One parent, Ryan Guisck, told the outlet that the conversation “was really one-sided.”
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A Princeton University class curriculum slated for the upcoming fall semester claims that Black people can be considered “disabled” due to the purported systemic racism they face, according to information in a course description.
A class taught by a professor who specializes in women, gender and sexuality studies — Satyel Larson — featured a book called “Permission to Maim.” The book argues that Black people, along with other groups the author — Jasbir Puar — deemed to be oppressed by systemic racism, can be considered “disabled” since the supposed structures in place limit their agency in society.
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Prof Claims That Violence Against Asians From Non-White People is Still Caused by ‘White Supremacy’
A professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder claimed that “white supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.”
Jennifer Ho — a professor of ethnic studies and critical race studies — wrote an article for The Conversation entitled “White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US,” which alleged that even though “Black people are also attacking Asian Americans,” White people “are the main perpetrators of anti-Asian racism.”
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Study Reveals Which AI Chatbot Most Woke, While Hackers Trick LLMs Into ‘Bad Math’
A landmark study from researchers at the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University reveals which AI chatbots have the most liberal vs. conservative bias.
According to the study, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, including GPT-4 are the most left-leaning and libertarian (?), while Google’s BERT models were more socially conservative, and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-leaning.
AI chatbots use Large Language Models (LLMs), which are ‘trained’ on giant data sets, such as Tweets, or Reddit, or Yelp reviews. As such, the source of a model’s scraped training data, as well as guardrails installed by companies like OpenAI, can introduce massive bias.
To determine bias, the researchers in the above study exposed each AI model to a political compass test of 62 different political statements, which ranged from anarchic statements like “all authority should be questioned” to more traditional beliefs, such as the role of mothers as homemakers. Though the study’s approach is admittedly “far from perfect” per the researchers’ own admission, it provides valuable insight into the political biases that AI chatbots may bring to our screens.
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Uganda Pivots to Russia Amid World Bank LGBT Boycott
The World Bank announced Tuesday, August 8th, that it would suspend all financing for Uganda after the East African nation passed a law criminalising homosexual acts in May.
A relatively stable African nation under the leadership of long-time President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda incurred the wrath of Western NGOs earlier this year for its decision to introduce the death penalty for certain homosexual acts, with prison sentences of up to 20 years for those caught encouraging homosexuality.
President Museveni has defended the legislation in spite of direct criticism from the UN and President Biden, saying that it was essential to protecting the place of the family in Ugandan life as well as affirming his country’s cultural independence against the West.
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UK: Government Spends Over £500,000 in Taxpayer Funds on LGBTQ+ ‘Pride’ Month Promotion
Local governments throughout Britain spent over £500,000 in taxpayer money during LGBTQ+ Pride Month to promote the leftist sex agenda, including drag time story hour events, rainbow flags, and propaganda clothing for state employees.
According to research conducted by the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), during the month of June, alone, local councils, police forces, fire services, and National Health Service trusts spent a staggering £554,000 on promulgating the increasingly radical ideology surrounding so-called LGBTQ+ issues, The Telegraph reported.
Unsurprisingly, far-left Sadiq Khan’s London led the way in Pride spending, dumping £126,700 for flags, t-shirts, and grant funds last month, despite the ongoing cost of living crisis ravaging the wallets of many in the city.
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A group of Wisconsin parents are outraged over what could potentially be a transgender athlete participating in a girls’ sport at an area school, according to FOX 11 in Green Bay.
Parents said their daughters started coming home from summer games and practices with welts and bruises that they never noticed on their children before, the outlet reported Wednesday.
Though they declined to specify which sport and which school is involved in the dustup, citing confidentiality concerns, the school in focus belongs to the Green Bay Area Public School District.
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Britain spent over £500,000 in taxpayer money on Pedo Month.
This is the same government that was operating the Pedophile Information Exchange, in the 70’s.
Westminster is just a den of pedophiles, hedonists and negrophiles.
RIP England
RIP
democracy in western countries means any party can be suppressed with ridicolous motivations, so you’ll not even have any possibility to vote out of the mainstream parties (anyway the electoral process is a waste of time and resources in first place, and it is all fake and made up). just anybody can be labeled far extreme right, antisemite, and be prosecuted.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/08/07/france-moves-to-ban-far-right-party-for-anti-semitism_6083926_7.html
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The CIA has big PLANS for Zelensky –
ex-CIA Larry Johnson in Redacted News
https://swebbtube.se/w/cUfM16TAAwLHGAhxUxJ8yR
Here in Australia there is no reporting on the vaccine push back. There was a little bit in the Dailymail about mandatory vaccination but nothing about excess deaths and injuries. Media is silent.