The horrific wildfires on Maui are now reportedly the deadliest such blazes in the USA during the past 100 years. Meanwhile, former President Trump said that President Biden’s response to the Maui fires was disgraceful.
In other news, Ukrainian men are said to be paying up to $10,000 in order to avoid the draft.
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Australia’s most generous pay increases in a decade during a cost of living crisis could see jobs sent offshore. More than two-thirds of business leaders have indicated they will do this.
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Authored by Jonathan Turley
I recently asked, in light of the free speech implications of the second federal Trump indictment, when the price is too high for those who seek to jail the former president.
The chilling answer is found in a new report out of the University of Chicago showing that almost 12 percent of the population, representing 30 million people, believe that violence is warranted to prevent Trump from assuming the presidency. That is almost double the number who believe that violence is warranted to ensure that Trump does become president.
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Arkansas the Latest State to Remove Controversial AP African American Studies Course From Schools
The Arkansas Department of Education revoked an AP African-American studies pilot program for the 2023-24 school year after it was tested in a few schools the previous school year.
According to the Arkansas Department of Education, there was no exam offered to students during the 2022-2023 school year, and that the course “may not articulate into college credit.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Henning further elaborated how they can’t approve of the pilot because it would put state educators at risk of violating state law.
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On Monday, prosecutors charged disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried with seven counts of fraud and money laundering, alleging he had stolen over $100 million in customer funds to make contributions to political campaigns.
Bankman-Fried was originally indicted for conspiracy to make unlawful campaign contributions in 2022, however, prosecutors dropped that charge in order to ensure the Bahamas allowed for his extradition back to the United States. The superseding indictment stays true to that agreement, and does not include that charge.
According to Reuters, the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan filed a superseding indictment on Monday evening, accusing him of directing other FTX executives to make donations in order to evade contribution limits to push for crypto-friendly regulations.
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Conspiracy Theories Swirl Over Devastating Maui Fires as Media Blames Climate Change
Social media is abuzz with conspiracy theories and questions surrounding the Maui wildfires that have killed at least 67 people.
Despite the fact the cause of the wildfires has not yet been determined, media outlets like Newsweek and AFP have insisted the fires were NOT intentionally started by direct energy weapons.
This of course has only fueled more rumors online.
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Cruz: It’s Time for Biden Impeachment Inquiries
GOP Senator Ted Cruz called Sunday for impeachment inquiries against Joe Biden to begin, noting that the special council appointment of U.S. attorney David Weiss is a “cover up”.
“I think it’s disgraceful,” Cruz told Fox News, adding “David Weiss was the U.S. attorney handpicked to lead this investigation who spent the last five years covering it up.”
“David Weiss, who was personally selected by the two Democrat senators from Delaware, Tom Carper and Chris Coons, for five years, the investigation has gone nowhere, other than to protect Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Cruz further asserted.
“Not only that, David Weiss is the one that is subject to two whistle-blower complaints from senior career IRS officials who came forward,” the Senator continued.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (WESH) — A Daytona Beach woman is accused of killing her roommate and trying to hide possible evidence by pouring Mountain Dew soda all over her body.
According to court documents, 35-year-old Nichole Maks is charged with first-degree premeditated murder.
According to an affidavit, an officer was flagged down on July 1 due to a fire at 622 Clark Street in Daytona Beach. A victim was found inside the home with multiple stab wounds to his torso and blunt-force trauma to the back of his head.
The victim was identified as 79-year-old Michael Cerasoli.
Inside the victim’s bedroom, detectives found a knife covered in blood near the victim’s body. Police say there were two cell phones inside the victim’s bedroom: one belonging to the victim and one belonging to Maks.
The victim’s landlord told police that Maks lives at the Clark Street residence with the victim.
Early the next morning, officers found Maks in Holly Hill. Police say when they made contact with her, she dropped a knife and a hammer. Police say she had blood on her leg.
According to detectives, Maks changed her story multiple times while being interviewed about Cerasoli’s death. She stated she was homeless but eventually admitted that she lives with the victim.
She told officers the victim’s bedroom is upstairs and she never goes upstairs except to “feed her spiders.”
When detectives questioned her about the knife and hammer, police said she became agitated and refused to continue cooperating without a lawyer.
When Maks was told officers were going to take her DNA, she requested a drink and was provided a Diet Mountain Dew.
Police say Maks poured the soda all over her body and hair “in attempt to interfere with the possible evidence on [her body],” an affidavit reads.
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DeSantis Calls on Disney to Drop Lawsuit Against Him, Warns Company it is ‘Going to Lose’
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is re-upping his call for Disney to drop its lawsuit against him and other state officials in his ongoing fight with the entertainment giant, warning the company it is “going to lose.”
DeSantis was asked during a sit-down with CNBC what he would say to Disney CEO Bob Iger if the governor were to call and discuss what has become a very public feud that began under former Disney chief Bob Chapek.
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DeSantis Says He Will Slash ‘Footprint’ of All DC Federal Agencies by 50 Percent
GOP presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to cut the “footprint” of all D.C. federal agencies in half if he is elected to the White House in 2024.
“We’re going to let the economy function again,” he told CNBC’s Brian Sullivan on “Last Call.” “We are going to — our goal is going to reduce the footprint of all agencies in D.C. by 50 percent.”
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East Village Resident Stabbed 40 to 50 Times, Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack, Prosecutor Says
Maxwell Logan, 25, faces charges including murder in the death of 38-year-old Andrew Phillip Holland
SAN DIEGO — A 38-year-old East Village resident was in his kitchen last week, looking through his mail when a stranger showed up, a prosecutor said Monday.
The stranger walked into the apartment — the front door had been propped open with a fan — and stabbed Andrew Phillip Holland 40 to 50 times “in an unprovoked, callous rage,” Deputy District Attorney Miriam Hurtado told a judge in San Diego Superior Court.
Holland was stabbed in his head and torso, and died at the scene.
The details about the attack were revealed during an arraignment for the accused assailant, Maxwell Logan, 25, who pleaded not guilty to felony charges including murder and an allegation he used a knife in Holland’s death.
Logan also faces a count of false imprisonment. Prosecutors say he locked his girlfriend in a bedroom in their apartment the same night as the stabbing, and threatened her and her pets.
If convicted, Logan could face 38 years to life in prison. He was ordered to remain held in county jail on a no-bail status.
Defense attorney Robert Hartmann, who represents Logan, said the charges are “merely allegations.”
“We will wait for the truth to come out,” Hartmann said after the hearing.
The attack happened Wednesday at the Market Street Village Apartments on 14th Street near G Street. According to police and prosecutors, Holland’s roommate found him mortally wounded and called 911 about 10:50 p.m.
A blood trail led to Logan’s apartment on another floor in the building, the prosecutor said.
As police investigated that night, Logan’s girlfriend threw notes to officers on the street below, asking for help from the bedroom where she was locked inside. The woman was not injured.
When officers checked on her, they found Logan with blood on him and minor injuries “consistent with being in some type of confrontation,” San Diego police Lt. Steve Shebloski said.
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Far-Left Activist Shot, Killed at Antifa Punk Music Concert in Minneapolis
On Friday night, a far-left activist was killed during an Antifa punk music concert.
August Golden, 35, was identified as the victim by a bandmate. He was killed in the shooting on Aug 11 at the punk venue Nudieland, when gunmen fired into a crowd of people in the backyard of the house on 16th Avenue S. in south Minneapolis killing one and injuring six others.
According to The Post Millennial’s Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo, Golden supported the terrorist-linked group Earth First and the Atlanta terrorist movement “Stop Cop City.”
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EXCLUSIVE: An FBI supervisory special agent told congressional investigators that the Biden transition team and Secret Service headquarters were tipped off in December 2020 about a planned interview of Hunter Biden — a tip-off that resulted in the interview of then-President-elect Biden’s son not taking place at all, even while he was labeled the target of the yearslong federal investigation.
The agent, who worked for the FBI for more than two decades and retired from the bureau last year, participated in a transcribed interview under oath behind closed doors with the House Oversight Committee last month.
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FBI: Utah Man Allegedly Pointed .357 at Agents During Raid Over Threats to Biden
PROVO, Utah (KTVX) — A Provo man killed last week in an FBI raid over threats to President Joe Biden allegedly pointed a .357 at agents during that raid, according to a press release from the bureau Monday.
On the morning of Aug. 9, Craig Deleeuw Robertson was shot and killed during an FBI raid after allegedly making numerous online threats against President Biden and a number of other high-profile targets, such as Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden landed in Salt Lake City later on the afternoon of Aug. 9 and stayed through most of the day Aug. 10.
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Federal Employees in San Fransisco Told to Work From Home Amid Soaring Violent Crime
Federal employees in San Francisco have been told to work from home because it is too dangerous to come to work.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the US Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl R. Campbell issued the stay-home recommendation in an Aug. 4 memo to regional leaders, writing, “In light of the conditions at the (Federal Building) we recommend employees … maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future.”
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Florida Man Allegedly Made Sexual Remarks to Victim at Bus Stop, Then Stabbed Her: Police
Police say Richard Jin tried stabbing the victim’s neck
A suspect was arrested for allegedly making lewd remarks to a woman and then stabbing her at a bus stop, Miami police say.
Miami Beach resident Richard Jin, 34, was charged with second-degree felony attempted murder, third-degree robbery by sudden snatching and third-degree criminal mischief.
The incident took place at around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday while the victim and a witness were waiting at a bus stop on Biscayne Boulevard.
In a police report obtained by Fox News Digital, a witness told police that she and the victim were waiting for the bus when they were approached by the suspect. Jin allegedly made lewd remarks that were later redacted by the police.
When the victim began recording Jin’s behavior, he allegedly grabbed her cellphone and threw it on the street, shattering its screen.
“The victim ran after her phone; to which the defendant responded by chasing her and tackling her to the ground,” the police report read.
The suspect then procured a large knife and stabbed the victim multiple times, according to the witness.
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Georgia Grand Jury Delivers Indictment Hours After Court Claims Trump RICO Document “Fictitious”
Update (2033ET): A grand jury in Atlanta handed in an indictment late Monday related to a Georgia prosecutor’s investigation into former President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
The details were not immediately clear, but we know what’s coming.
Update (1830ET): Attorneys for Donald Trump on Monday criticized the Georgia Fulton County District Attorney’s Office over a report that a document listing criminal charges against the former president was briefly posted earlier in the day, then abruptly taken down.
“The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has once again shown that they have no respect for the integrity of the grand jury process,” attorneys Drew Findling and Jennifer Little said in a statement issued by the Trump campaign.
“This was not a simple administrative mistake,” the attorneys added.
“A proposed indictment should only be in the hands of the District Attorney’s Office, yet it somehow made its way to the clerk’s office and was assigned a case number and a judge before the grand jury even deliberated. This is emblematic of the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.”
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Harvard Physicist Searching for UFO Evidence Says Humanity Will View Alien Intelligence Like ‘God’
Harvard professor Avi Loeb predicted that the scientific discovery of an alien civilization — one that may potentially be billions of years old — will prompt humanity to unify. He talked to Fox News Digital for a wide-ranging interview that covered billions of years of history, and even interstellar fragments from the bottom of the ocean.
Loeb, a trained physicist who received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the age of 24, said it was “arrogant of us to think that we are alone, that we don’t have a neighbor out there.”
“There are tens of billions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone and hundreds of billions of galaxies like the Milky Way in the observable volume of the universe,” he said.
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Harvard Law Professor Warns Hunter Biden’s Special Counsel Has a ‘Clear Violation’
Chiming in on the appointment of Hunter Biden’s special counsel, a prominent Harvard law professor is warning that the U.S. attorney leading the investigation is in “clear violation” of the Department of Justice’s regulations.
“It’s illegal. The regulation provides clearly that special counsel have to come from outside the government for good reason. What’s so special about a special counsel is that he doesn’t have to answer to the present administration, he’s independent,” Harvard University law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on “Mornings with Maria” Monday.
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Authored by Mark Pellin via Headline USA
U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the Trump J6 trial being prosecuted by the Biden Justice Department, previously worked at a law firm that represented Fusion GPS, the company that helped orchestrate the Russia collusion hoax targeting former President Donald Trump.
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The owner of a historic San Francisco luxury department store called out city and state leadership for the area’s “unlivable” conditions Sunday.
In a full-page ad published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, Gump’s CEO John Chachas penned an open letter calling for their “destructive” and “failed public policies” to be abandoned.
“An Open Letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor Breed and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors: Gump’s has been a San Francisco icon for more than 165 years. Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last because of the profound erosion of this city’s current conditions,” Chachas wrote.
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Maui Victims INCINERATED: Officials Struggle to Identify Remains as Over 1,000 Believed Missing
Only two victims of the 96 found so far after the Hawaii wildfires were able to be identified, and at least 1,000 more are missing, according to officials.
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier in a news conference Saturday explained that the intense heat of the wildfire in Maui, which “melted metal”, has made the task of identification more difficult and that some remains were falling apart as officials tried to collect them.
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Maui Wildfires Now Deadliest US Blaze in 100 Years; Only 3% of Area Searched
Hawaii officials confirmed the death toll has climbed to 96 following the catastrophic wildfire that swept across a resort town on the island of Maui last week, making it the deadliest US wildfire in a century.
“Maui Police Department around 9 p.m. said there are 96 confirmed fatalities,” the Maui County local government wrote in an update Sunday night. This is an uptick from the previous count of 93, and with cadaver dogs searching devastated neighborhoods, the number is likely going to move higher.
At 96, the Maui fire surpassed the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California, which killed 85 but remained under the 1918 Cloquet fire in Minnesota and Wisconsin, which claimed at least 453 lives.
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The Post Millennial has obtained the full-transcipt of the defense lawyer’s closing statements in investigative journalist Andy Ngo’s jury trial against Rose City Antifa and its affiliated members, which confirms our prior reporting that the attorney had declared to the jurors “I am Antifa” and vowed to “remember their faces.”
Defense attorney Michelle Burrows, who argued on behalf of alleged Antifa defendants John Colin Hacker and Elizabeth Renee Richter, made the comments to the jurors on Tuesday after the jury had informed Judge Sinaplasai that they were afraid of being doxxed, and had reported that people were allegedly trying to find out their identities.
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Overdose Deaths Increase 65% in Seattle’s King County in 2023
New data has revealed that opioid overdoses have increased 65 percent since last year in Washington’s most populous county. Overdose deaths were already on track to eclipse last year’s record highs.
According to data from the Seattle and King County Public Health, the county’s first responders’ calls for opioid overdoses have increased 65 percent in 2023 over 2022, and in July, EMS crews responded to 760 opioid overdose calls.
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Philadelphia Teen Charged With Planning National Terrorist Attack
Heavily armed law enforcement officers swarmed the Philadelphia home of a teenager who was plotting to launch a national terrorist attack, authorities said.
The suspect, an unnamed 17-year-old, was in contact with a global terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda and had access to a “significant” number of guns and was building bombs, FBI Special Agent in Charge Jacqueline Maguire said during a Monday press conference.
The teen, who was arrested Friday, “conducted general research” into potential targets that weren’t confined to one location, and they were not just in Philadelphia, she said.
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Portland Police Chief Demands Officers Stop Telling Crime Victims DA Won’t Prosecute Cases
In a memo issued earlier this year, Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell asked all officers and non-uniformed employees of the Portland Police Bureau to stop telling people that they can’t do anything for victims because soft on crime Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt refuses to prosecute cases.
In the memo, which was sent May 4, but obtained last week by The Oregonian, Lovell wrote, “Many times, these people are supporters of police, but feel disheartened by their encounter. A common theme is that officers are telling complainants that there is absolutely nothing they can do for them, or that the problem is the result of someone else’s decisions.”
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Ramaswamy Vows to ‘Shut Down the Three-Letter Agencies’
Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy vowed Sunday that if elected his priority will be to “clean house, shut down the FBI, refurbish the DOJ.”
“My core platform is to get in there and shut down the administrative deep state, the three-letter agencies, the regulatory state that is a threat to our constitutional republic, from the FBI, to the IRS, to the ATF, to the U.S. Department of Education,” Ramaswamy said during a Fox news interview.
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Sound of Freedom Defeats Indiana Jones 5 in Total US Box Office, Closes in on $175 Million
The anti-trafficking film, Sound of Freedom, has grossed over $172 million in sales to date. It is set to be one of the top grossing movies of the year.
Sound of Freedom premiered on July 4th, and has since overtaken the the latest film in the Indiana Jones franchise in total domestic grossing sales.
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Steve Bannon to Appeal Prison Sentence Before DC Judge
Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon will appear before a federal appeals court panel in October to make his case on why he should stay out of prison after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress in July of 2022, according to court documents filed on Monday.
Bannon was sentenced to 120 days in prison for not complying with a subpoena from the January 6 House Select Committee, but a judge suspended his sentence pending appeal.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday told an Australian woman complaining about “too many American flags” to go back to her country in response to a video of her posted to social media.
TikTok user Mia Chloe, who goes by the username @meanderwithmia, often posts about “Traveling the world on a budget & no brain cells,” according to her account page. In a video posted several days ago, she called out the abundance of American flags she observed in her travels to the United States.
“I’m just going to say it. There are too many American flags. They’re on houses. They’re on cars. Some are on couch cushions,” she said. “You’re the only country that I know that does this.”
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Trump: Biden’s Response to Maui Fires ‘Disgraceful’
Former President Trump blasted President Biden’s response to the Maui wildfires as “disgraceful” in a video message posted Monday evening.
“When asked about it today, as he was getting into a car, perhaps coming home from the beach, where he has been spending a great deal of time, crooked Joe Biden, the most incompetent president in the history of our country, with a laugh and a smile said he had no comment on the death and the tragedy,” Trump said in a video message.
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Over the weekend, a number of legacy media outlets published a Canadian Press hit piece against Pierre Poilievre, accusing the Conservative Party leader of pushing “the language of mainstream conspiracy theories” via his criticism of the World Economic Forum.
Poilievre slammed “Trudeau’s media” for attacking him and opting to discredit his claims by branding them conspiratorial in nature instead of producing a counterargument.
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Authorities in the UK Are Advising: It is Recommended to Postpose Plans for Trips to Sweden
The advice to citizens of the United Kingdom is as follows: avoid visiting Sweden due to a potential threat of terrorist acts. This is according to the assessment of the ministry that a terrorist threat exists in this country. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs points to the likelihood of random attacks in places frequently visited by foreigners.
It has been reported that the United Kingdom has updated its recommendations for its citizens regarding trips to Sweden in light of an increasing terrorism threat, according to information from the publication Iltalehti.
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Children Excluded From Official UK COVID Inquiry
The generation of children who spent some of their most formative years in lockdown will spend decades suffering as a result of this policy decision. To make matters worse, young people may have been effectively silenced by the Tory government’s COVID response.
According to campaigners, the UK’s official inquiry initially omitted the lockdown’s impact on children altogether. Though this element has now been added, no timetable has been set for any investigation. The Daily Telegraph reports that evidence might not be heard on this vital issue until 2025 or 2026.
Molly Kingsley of child advocacy group UsForThem is among those most vocal about this silencing, writing that
children’s health, well-being, and life chances were trashed by a pandemic response which failed to consider them. Their exclusion from [the COVID inquiry] stands to void [its] findings and emphasises the need for wholesale reform to the way we legislate and protect children in politics (or fail to).
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COVID-19 Was a Globalist Plot to Conquer the World Warns Top German Leader
Alex Jones breaks down a video from Christine Anderson, a top EU German Leader and MEP, laying out the globalists’ true objective of the COVID Plandemic.
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A significant decline in life satisfaction has been observed among the Czech population, even among those with monthly earnings of up to 50,000 crowns, as revealed in the “Connected Citizens” study by EY.
Since 2020, there’s been a marked decline in the quality of life contentment across various income groups, with those earning between 30,000-40,000 crowns experiencing the most substantial dip. This indicates increasing economic strains on the middle class, who traditionally enjoy a stable standard of living. Such a trend suggests a widening gap of individuals vulnerable to poverty, possibly leading to more pressure on the social welfare system.
In the pre-pandemic era of 2020, a commendable 69% of Czechs were content with their life quality. However, by late 2022, this percentage shrank to just 54%.
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Germany: A Stunning Coincidence
Germany has devised an ingenious new way to ‘defend” its democracy…by banning political parties the establishment doesn’t like when they attract too much democratic support.
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Germany: AfD Bavaria Chief Beaten Up in Organised Migrant Attack
The chairman of the AfD in the Bavarian district of Augsburg and candidate for state legislature is nursing severe wounds after being set upon in what he describes as a politically motivated attack by migrants.
Andreas Jurca was returning home with a party colleague Sunday when he was approached by a group of foreign males who asked him if he was the AfD candidate featured on nearby posters. Before he could answer, Jurca was punched and kicked to the ground with shouts of “f*****g Nazi.” His party colleague was also assaulted.
After the altercation, Jurca, who is seventh on the AfD’s candidate list for state elections, was rushed to the hospital where his condition was referred to as stable Monday morning. In a post-attack statement, Jurca confirmed that the perpetrators of the attack were indeed of foreign origin. In his own words, “I don’t mean Spaniards or Italians.”
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Germany Purchases Dozens of Decommissioned Leopard 1 Tanks for Ukraine
German defense contractor Rheinmetall has bought 49 second-hand Leopard-1 tanks from a Belgian arms dealer for use in Ukraine, a company spokesman said last week.
A spokesman for the German government said the tanks would be part of a military aid package announced by Defense Minister Oscar Pistorius at last month’s NATO summit in Lithuania. Freddy Versluys, CEO of the private defense company OIP Land Systems, announced the sale of the tanks on Tuesday, telling several media outlets that they were bought by an unnamed European state for an undisclosed price. The Belgian government had negotiated with Versluys earlier this year to buy the Leopards, but ultimately refused to pay the €500,000 per tank that was being asked for.
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Germany: Train Stations Are Becoming No-Go Areas; Violence and Sexual Offenses on the Rise
Significantly more violence, theft and sexual offenses: The situation in German train stations is getting worse. The Federal Police sounds the alarm. The high proportion of foreigners among the suspects is particularly striking.
The number of acts of violence at German train stations has increased significantly in the past year. The Federal Police registered a total of 17,099 violent crimes. That is almost 29 percent more than in the pre-Corona year 2019, reports the Bild newspaper. Compared to 2021, when there were fewer passengers due to the pandemic, the number of violent crimes increased by almost 40 percent.
Compared to 2019, the number of sex offenses in particular increased last year. Here, the security authorities registered an increase of 43 percent to around 1,700 cases. The number of physical injuries rose by 22 percent to more than 14,000 cases. Pickpocketing (plus twelve percent), attacks on police officers (plus 26 percent), robbery (plus 31 percent) and knife attacks (plus 45 percent) have also increased. The number of threats also increased by 120 percent to almost 6,000 cases.
Almost half of the suspects are foreigners
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Jihad in Austria: ‘Christians Must Die’
Two young Muslims living in Austria recently confessed that they would like to “kill Christians” and “restore the caliphate.”
The boys, aged 15 and 16, were put on trial at the Leoben Regional Court on July 16, 2023. They had made plans to massacre as many people as possible during an attack on the middle school attended by the 15-year-old, in Bruck an der Mur, where they both lived.
When confronted in court, the boys — who both have a history of violence and criminality— admitted that “We wanted to shoot all the Christians in the class!” Asked how they would have responded if police had intervened, they said, “We would have surrendered” — adding that “Allah would have forgiven” them in prison, since “Killing Christians takes us to paradise.”
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Again with the “disinformation tsars” — as if the attempt in the US to establish such a thing in the shape of the failed Disinformation Governance Board has taught them nothing, now politicians in the UK want to try their hand at it.
Leading the charge is Scottish MP Owen Thompson, who is on the parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). And truthfully, where better to try to set up a “Ministry of Truth” than in the UK. The idea, after all, originated there — albeit in a work of fiction.
Some will say that claims the disinformation allegedly disseminated by the country’s own MPS is as big a threat to national security as Russia is also a work of fiction — but others, particularly in the obliging media, will no doubt dutifully agree.
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Multi-National Sex Trafficking Network Busted
Police in Spain, France, and Italy working with the attorney general’s office of the Dominican Republic have made nearly a dozen arrests after dismantling a sex trafficking network that forced at least 41 into sexual slavery and carried out money laundering offences.
The network is said to have operated mainly in France and coordinated the sexual exploitation of their victims using call centres located in Spain and Italy, the newspaper El Mundo reports.
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National Security Overrides Green Transition on Swedish Island
On the island of Gotland, which sits off Sweden’s east coast in the Baltic Sea, Swedish Armed Forces have prevented several citizens from installing solar panels on their property, citing security concerns for the kingdom.
Olof Thomsson, a resident of Östergarn, had planned to install solar panels on his property when he received a notice from the Armed Forces that told him that he would be unable to do so. “For the security of the Kingdom, [the installation of solar panels] can be an obstacle,” the letter he received from the Armed Forces said.
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Norway Railway Bridge Collapses Into River After Torrential Rains
Following a powerful storm named Hans, a critical railway bridge in Norway has collapsed into the Lågen River due to widespread infrastructure damage caused by the tempest.
As reported by The Guardian, the Randklev Bridge in Ringebu, a crucial passage for the Dovre line connecting Oslo and Trondheim, suffered the collapse of its central section on Monday morning.
Storm Hans wreaked havoc across the southern part of Norway, resulting in an array of challenges including record high river levels, landslides, and mass evacuations. The state-owned rail infrastructure company, Bane Nor, has initiated an investigation into the extent of the damage sustained by the 172.5 meter-long steel bridge, which was constructed in 1957.
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Poland Unveils Final Referendum Question
The fourth and final question of the Polish referendum, to be held together with the upcoming parliamentary elections this fall, would ask voters whether to keep in place the border protection infrastructure erected on the country’s eastern frontier with Belarus since early 2022, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced on Monday, August 14th.
“The most important issues, those that concern security, should be decided by citizens. Poland could become Putin’s next target, and our security is under real threat,” Blaszczak stated in the video posted on the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party’s social media. “That’s why we are consistently strengthening the Polish Army and building a barrier on the border with Belarus and Russia.”
According to the announcement, the fourth question of the referendum will be “Do you support the removal of the barrier on the border of the Republic of Poland with the Republic of Belarus?” After the fashion of the other three questions, the conservative government expects the majority to vote “No” and thus strengthen the legitimacy of the border fence.
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Record Number of Signatures Collected Against Car Tax in Estonia
The number of electronic signatures supporting the petition against the car tax in Estonia has exceeded 50,000 by Sunday morning, as reported by Postimees.
Priit Tammraida, the Chairman of the Estonian Association of Car Owners (EAOL), emphasized that the volume of signatures clearly indicates the deep public discontent regarding the additional taxation of automobiles.
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Soros Group Warns Hungary NGOs of ‘Extremely Limited’ Resources for Europe
BUDAPEST — Open Society Foundations (OSF) has informed organizations in Hungary that rely on its support that a recent decision by the OSF’s board effectively puts an end to most of its activities in the European Union to dedicate those resources to other parts of the world, RFE/RL’s Hungarian Service has learned.
The OSF’s resources for Europe will be “extremely limited,” an August 11 e-mail told those local groups.
The OSF, formerly known as the Open Society Institute, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since it was established with a multibillion-dollar endowment from Hungarian-born founding Chairman George Soros to boost civil society around the world since the fall of communism in 1989.
Several Hungarian NGOs confirmed to RFE/RL’s Hungarian Service their receipt on August 11 of the OSF e-mail, which cites the board’s decision “on a radical strategic change of direction” to achieve maximum impact.
With the organizational restructuring planned for next year, many European programs could be concluded as early as 2024.
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State Secretary Hungary Addresses Slovak Reactions Following Foreign Minister’s Comments
In the midst of a growing diplomatic discourse, Tamas Menczer, the State Secretary for bilateral relations within the foreign ministry, has taken to social media to respond to the recent wave of reactions stemming from comments made by Péter Szijjartó, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as reported by About Hungary.
The statements in question have sparked a series of passionate responses from Slovakia, prompting Menczer to comment on the situation.
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Sweden’s “Psychological Defense Agency” is Using Cold War Strategies to Combat “Disinformation”
Sweden is blaming Russia for the backlash it faces in the Islamic world because of incidents, such as the burning of copies of Quran, that have occurred in that country.
Apparently, Muslims around the world, and in Sweden, would not be outraged by this if there weren’t for Russia’s alleged campaign on social media to spread this information. That is defined as “amplifying global reaction.”
At least, that is being cited as the reason — or an excuse that few will dare criticize — for yet another government devising and putting in motion plans to “combat misinformation.
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Excusive Interview With General Secretary of the Serbian People’s Party Jovan Palalic
Jovan Palalic is the general secretary of the national-conservative Serbian People’s Party and has served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia, the country’s lawmaking body, for 18 years. He is married with two children, is a practicing Orthodox Christian, and is a staunch advocate for the Serbian nation and its autonomy. Throughout his political career, he has worked tirelessly to promote conservative, traditional Christian values and maintain Serbia’s unique European identity. He serves in Serbia’s delegation to Collective Security Treaty Organization assembly and chairs the parliamentary friendship group with Italy. He’s currently based in Belgrade.
The editorial team at Voice of Europe recently sat down with MP Palalic for an exclusive interview, where we discuss his party, its positions, Kosovo, Serbia’s unique placement in the emerging multipolar world order, as well as its relationship with Russia, the West, and how it seeks to position itself between the two.
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Berlin Calls for More Diplomatic Efforts to End Ukraine Conflict
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for a greater diplomatic effort to end the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, saying that the recent summit on Ukraine in Jeddah was a “very special” event.
Scholz made the remarks in his major annual summer interview with German state broadcaster ZDF, which aired on Sunday. The chancellor urged for further diplomatic efforts, stating diplomacy can be useful to “press” Russia.
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Fire at Russian Gas Station Kills 25, Injures 66
Aug 15 (Reuters) — A fire at a gas station in the southern Russian region of Dagestan killed 25 people including three children, Interfax news agency reported early on Tuesday citing regional emergency medics.
The fire started at an auto repair shop on the roadside of a highway in Dagestani capital Makhachkala on Monday night and caused blasts spreading to a nearby gas station, officials said.
Footage posted online showed a one-storey building ablaze, Reuters TV reported.
“It’s like a war here,” a witness said.
The number of people injured rose to 66, 10 of whom are in a critical condition, RIA news agency said quoting the Russian deputy health minister Vladimir Fisenko.
Thirteen of the wounded are children, Interfax reported citing the Dagestani health ministry.
It took fire fighters more than three and a half hours to put out the fire that spread into an area of 600 square meters (715 square yards), TASS reported, citing a statement from the Russian emergency service.
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Lukashenko Wants Belarus to Make Up With Poland, Blames US Meddling for Rising Tension on Border
Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko has reacted to the stationing of 10,000 Polish troops on the border with Belarus by blaming the Americans for damaging Polish-Belarusian relations and has said he wants to repair his country’s relationship with Poland.
According to the Belarusian press agency Belta, Lukashenko has ordered his prime minister to make contact with Poland.
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Majority of Ukrainians Blame Zelensky for Government Corruption
A new study, conducted by two Ukrainian institutions, has revealed that over 75% Ukrainian citizens, believe President Volodymyr Zelensky is directly responsible for the pervasive corruption in the government and military administrations.
The joint sociological study, carried out by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv International Sociological Institute (KIIS), with the assistance of the Prague Civil Society Center, indicated that 77.6% of Ukrainians surveyed blamed the country’s corruption on the Ukrainian leader. Zelensky has consolidated his power over the war’s duration, the portal NEWS UA reports.
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Ukrainians Paying Up to $10,000 to Escape Draft — FT
Thousands of Ukrainian men have paid large sums in bribes to avoid getting drafted during the ongoing conflict between Kiev and Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
The news comes as Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky launched a massive military purge, sacking all of the regional military conscription officials and citing the multiple corruption scandals rocking the country. The recruitment officials are set to be replaced by combat veterans, according to Kiev’s plan.
Over the course of the ongoing conflict, thousands of Ukrainians have managed to escape the draft through various schemes in a culture of corruption. Kiev banned men aged between 18 and 60 from leaving the country when it first introduced martial law in February 2022, but the move only fueled more corrupt practices. One of the most popular options was simply buying medical exemption papers for some $6,000 on average, the FT reported, citing the findings of a probe into corruption by Ukrainian authorities.
Thousands of Ukrainian men have also attempted to leave the country illegally, with some 13,600 caught near border crossings and another 6,100 apprehended at checkpoints with fake papers, the FT noted, citing the latest official figures.
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Azerbaijan Tourism? Next Stop, the Lachin Pass
A top-level European Commission diplomat sparked online indignation after promoting multiple tourist hotspots in Azerbaijan on his personal Twitter account, despite warnings by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week that Azeri forces are conducting a genocide of trapped ethnic Armenians in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Lawrence Meredith, the EU Commission’s Director for Neighbourhood East, which primarily focuses on the Caucuses, angered Armenian activists after making a Twitter thread highlighting various tourist attractions in Azerbaijan, including the nation’s capital, Baku, and Zoroastrian fire temples.
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In the days before a suicide bomber killed 13 service personnel at Kabul airport in 2021, U.S. military commanders were aware of the threat and twice missed chances to take out the deadly terrorist network behind the plot, according to a new book.
The Taliban, who had seized control of Afghanistan, refused a request to raid a hotel that was a known staging post for ISIS-K, who carried out the atrocity.
And at around the same time, superior officers vetoed a plan for a drone strike elsewhere because of the ‘negative response’ of the Taliban to such a raid.
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Witnesses said the drama on flight MH122 unfolded about 45 minutes after the Airbus-A330 took-off when he reached into his bag and claimed something ‘dangerous’ was inside.
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Breaking: Chinese Military Claims to Have Developed Laser Weapons Capable of Firing ‘INDEFINITELY’
Chinese military scientists claim to have discovered a major breakthrough in energy weapons technology that would allow laser weapons to fire “indefinitely” without overheating.
According to scientists at the National University of Defense Technology, a new cooling system has been developed that completely eliminates the build-up of waste heat generated by high-energy beams.
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China Closer to Bringing Lab-Grown Meat to Dinner Table
Chinese start-up CellX launched the nation’s first cultivated meat factory in Shanghai this week amid the government’s attempts to ensure food security for its 1.4 billion people.
The plant has a 2,000-liter bioreactor with the capacity to produce “single-digit tons” of cultivated meat per year, and more bioreactors will be added soon.
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Australia’s Opposition Leader Peter Dutton Blasts Government’s “Misinformation” Laws
Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton has publicly objected to Labor’s proposed bill over social media misinformation, labeling it “an attack on free speech.” This bill, unveiled by the Albanese government in June, would give the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) enhanced power over how social media corporations tackle “fake news” online.
The contentious law can impose severe fines on digital platforms that fail to meet industry standards for deleting harmful content, threatening penalties equivalent to 5% of a company’s global turnover.
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Caroline Kennedy Sees Possibility of ‘Resolution’ in Assange Case
U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy said there “could be a resolution” in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested in 2019 over his publishing of classified materials and has since fought in British court to avoid being extradited to the U.S.
Assange, an Australian citizen, was arrested by British authorities on behalf of the U.S. in 2019 and expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy after almost seven years in asylum there. Since then, he has spent the past four years in a London prison fighting against extradition.
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Facial Recognition Company Says There’s Nothing to Worry About
Once again people worried about their privacy and safety of personal data are hearing the tired old (and debunked) platitude that if they have done nothing wrong, “they have nothing to fear.”
This time in Australia, where facial recognition technology is being deployed in large retail chains such as Woolworths and Coles, joined recently by Bunnings, which reports say angered shoppers who found out that their faces and license plates may be scanned — a part of a wider the push to expand the use of biometric surveillance.
Not surprisingly, however, Phil Thomson, the founder and CEO of a company that produces the software used in these stores — called Auror — is attempting to persuade Australians their privacy is under no threat whatsoever.
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The government already spends big on Welcome to Country ceremonies, but the total annual cost could be much higher with major agencies refusing to divulge what they spend on the practice.
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Kiwis Lining Up in Droves to Become Aussie Citizens
Thousands of New Zealanders have signed up to become Australian citizens, weeks after a new pathway to citizenship opened up.
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The airline shared a photo of the new livery to social media before showing off three freshly decked out planes at an official launch party attended by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney
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EU Safeguards Influence in Liberia Ahead of October Elections
A routine EU election-observer mission to Liberia has taken on additional significance as the West seeks to maintain its influence in the impoverished West African nation, as well as neighbouring Sierra Leone, following recent turmoil in Niger and the potential of Russia growing its geopolitical footprint.
October elections are fast approaching in Liberia which will challenge the nation’s nominally pro-Western government under President George Weah as the country experiences low-level food riots indirectly caused by the effect of the war in Ukraine.
Still bearing the political and economic scars of multiple civil wars that lasted until 2003, the 5.2 million, largely anglophone Liberia is regarded as one of the worst economically forsaken nations in Africa with endemic poverty and political corruption.
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Javier Milei: Argentina’s Libertarian Firebrand Tipped to Break Peronist Hegemony
A former member of a Rolling Stones tribute band and self-described “anarcho-capitalist” is hoping to shatter Argentina’s two-party duopoly this October as Buenos Aires prepares for a presidential race that could feature a form of distinctly South American anti-state populism.
Javier Milei, a 52-year-old TV economist turned populist politician is polling a strong third at 20% in the lead-up to the October 22nd elections where Argentinians will simultaneously decide on a new president, vice president, and members of Congress and Senate.
Voters are souring on the country’s ruling left-wing Peronist government with Milei and his populist ‘La Libertad Avanza’ party benefiting from a strong anti-establishment message as Argentina grapples with a crippling inflation rate of 115% and the prospect of yet another embarrassing IMF bailout.
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1,600 Migrants at Lampedusa Hotspot After 5 New Landings
(ANSA) — ROME, AUG 14 — Over 1,600 migrants are currently at the hotspot on Lampedusa after five new landings from small boats crossing from Africa, sources on the stepping stone island, which is closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, said on Monday.
The facility’s official capacity is around 400.
On Monday some 195 more migrants arrived on the island, mainly from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Sierra Leone and Gambia, all in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Czech Police Intercept Hungarian Van Smuggling Over 60 Migrants
Czech police have opened an investigation into an unknown man who abandoned a Hungarian-registered truck near the city of Brno which contained more than 60 illegal immigrants.
The vehicle was being driven on the D1 motorway near the Czech city in southern Moravia, regional police spokesman David Chaloupka said on Sunday.
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Great Replacement Update / Sweden: The “Migrants” Aren’t Just Rapists. They’re Bombers, Too
Sweden’s rape wave isn’t the only benefit “migrants” bring to the country. Another is the long-term bombing campaign.
Peter Imanuelsen, who blogs and tweets as Peter Sweden, has reported 101 bombings for 2023. Through seven months, that’s 14 bombings per month [100 BOMBINGS in Sweden this year, August 7, 2023]. Add attempts and preparations, and the number of bombings or associated crimes rises to 196.
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Manhattan Eateries Shut Down After Hotels Turn Into Homeless Shelters for Illegal Immigrants
Two Manhattan eateries are being shut down because of migrants seeking asylum needing housing. They are having their last service on August 25.
The Redbury Hotel in Manhattan began housing migrants in partnership with the city last Friday. It is home to two restaurants owned by Danny Meyer, Marta and Maialino.
The repurposing of the hotel is a larger move coming from the local government of New York City to house the at least 90,000 immigrants that have come from the border since last spring.
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Poland’s Upcoming Vote: Migration Referendum Amidst Electoral Tensions
As the Polish parliamentary elections draw near in October, the government is set to present a series of referendum questions to the voters. A notable question seeks the nation’s stance on accepting a large influx of illegal immigrants primarily from the Middle East and Africa.
The inquiry goes further, delving into whether the Polish public approves of this acceptance under the “forced relocation mechanism” pushed by European Union (EU) authorities.
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Rape Incidents in Czech Republic Fuel Rise in Anti-Ukrainian Sentiments
In the Czech Republic, there is an active escalation of anti-Ukrainian statements on social media due to two cases of rape in which Ukrainians have been accused. President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, has also engaged in discussions surrounding this issue.
On Friday, August 11th, an 18-year-old Ukrainian was arrested on suspicion of raping and attempting to murder a 15-year-old girl in Pilsen. It is emphasized that he had been residing in the country for a long time and was not a refugee. The young man invited the girl for an evening walk along the river, and then in the forest, he tied her hands, gagged her with tape and committed the rape. Following this, he inflicted cut wounds on her, placed her in a bag, and discarded her into a ravine. However, the girl possibly survived by pretending to be dead.
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Ordinary Serbs have taken to patrolling woodland near their communities to deter migrants after dozens were recently located equipped with firearms and ammunition in the rural territory along the country’s border with Hungary.
Disillusioned by the competency of the Serbian authorities, the people of Hajdukovo (Hajdújaras in Hungarian), a village near the Hungarian border, went on their own patrol into the nearby forest on Saturday evening.
Earlier, unknown persons had thrown hand grenades at a family home, suspected to be migrants or people smugglers. Two grenades exploded and caused damage. During the evening patrol, they almost immediately came across migrants in hiding, who then fled the scene. Locals say the authorities are not helping them.
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Watch: Machete-Wielding Africans Attack Train Passengers in Italy
A gang of African thieves were arrested after they attacked passengers with machetes aboard a train in Italy, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded in the province of Lecco in July, but authorities just released surveillance footage amid an ongoing investigation.
In the video, a man wielding a large blade and his comrades can be seen terrorizing victims in train cars on a Milan-Lecco line.
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The Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) ran a segregated, week-long summer education program only for black students. The training included a day of gender ideology indoctrination.
Former high school teacher and social media activist Chanel Pfahl noted the program in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“The Ottawa Catholic board (OCSB) ran a summer program only black students could attend, and they spent at least a full day immersed in workshops on ‘gender and racial identity.’ In a month they get to go back to school to see their ‘oppressor peers.’ That should go well,” she wrote.
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Riley Gaines Slams Justin Trudeau After Trans Powerlifter Sets Unofficial Women’s World Record
Riley Gaines, an advocate for women’s sports, called out Canada prime minister Justin Trudeau after a transwoman set a national and unofficial world record in powerlifting on Sunday.
Anne Andres, a 40-year-old biological male who identifies as a woman who currently holds multiple powerlifting records in the female division, was competing at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship on Sunday in the Female Masters Unequipped category when she blew out her opponents.
Her total weight lifted in squat, bench and deadlift resulted in a final score of 597.5 kilograms, which was over 200 kilograms more than her closest opponent, SuJan Gill, who finished at 387.5 kilograms.
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Serbian President Refuses to Legalize ‘Non-Binary Genders,’ Same-Sex Marriage
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday that he will not sign any laws on marriages for same-sex couples or non-binary genders as long as he is the head of state.
“I will not sign a document recognizing any gender other than male and female, or gender fluidity, when a person says they feel male or female at different times,” Vucic said on air of Serbian TV.
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Skittles Are the Latest Bud Light After Releasing Trans BLM Packaging
Skittles, the borderline poisonous kids candy, is the latest product to throw all in with wokeness after it released special edition packaging celebrating transgenderism and the Black Lives Matter organisation.
The normal red and rainbow packaging has been replaced with black and white packet replete with a trans flag and the phrase “Black Trans Lives Matter”.
The confectionary, owned by the Wrigley Company, in turn owned by Mars Incorporated, has also whacked a drag queen on the packet for good measure.
The packaging was designed along with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation organisation.
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Maybe some GoV visitors go to the cinema?
‘The Physics Behind Oppenheimer’s Atom Bomb – EXPLAINED
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https://youtu.be/ES0C3et3YMI
Oppenheimer didn’t “design” the atom bomb.
The physical principles were pretty widely known amongst scientists and physicists pretty much from the time it was discovered that the uranium atom could be split and create a chain reaction.
The most important contribution Oppenheimer made was as a herder of cats; managing and orchestrating the numerous gifted but prickly and eccentric personalities who each had a piece of the puzzle. And he acted as the intermediary between General Groves who built the vast infrastructure needed, secured the funding, and supplied everything the project required, and the scientific personnel who had to be managed to keep their attention and energies directed upon the goal. Oppenheimer decided the direction of research and the priorities, assigned personnel and supervised their efforts, and basically kept them on task.
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Who would want to contradict you?
Certainly he was the great conductor,
who would not condescend to quote
the Bagavad Gita in a coital situation.
But that’s what the masses want.
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Obama has been married to Michelle Obama – who, according to a relatively widespread conspiracy theory, is alleged to be a transvestite – since 1992.
Barack Obama dreamed ‘daily’ of ‘making love with men’
August 15, 2023, Fria Tider
In the letter, former US President Barack Obama describes himself as “androgynous” – and talks about how he “makes love to men daily, stuck in the imagination”. The New York Post reports.
The more than 40-year-old letter, which was sent to ex-girlfriend Alex McNear, has the form of a kind of bizarre peco-oral in which the young Obama describes, among other things, his view on homosexuality.
“As for homosexuality, I must say that I think it is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, possibly a refusal to perpetuate the endless farce of mortality. You see, I make love with men daily, stuck in the imagination,” wrote Barack Obama, then 21 years, in November 1982.
Furthermore, Obama describes himself in the letter as “largely androgynous”. He explains that he wants to develop this quality even more until it is possible for him to “think in terms of people, rather than women as opposed to men”.
“But, if I return to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life I choose to accept that possibility,” the future president continues.
Alex McNear, who dated Obama during his year at Occidental College in Los Angeles, later censored the embarrassing gay passages in the letter. However, historian David Garrow managed to fish out the lines about homosexuality and androgyny.
The letter is currently owned by Emory University, which does not allow it to be photographed or moved from the site. Instead, Garrow’s friend Harvey Klehr transcribed the pieces by hand and sent them to the historian. Klehr also passed on the censored portion of the letter to the New York Post.
David Garrow himself states that he does not think there is anything strange about young Obama’s gay musings.
“I’m a historian, not a psychologist, but I think it’s pretty common knowledge that a (large?) majority have sexual fantasies!” he writes in an email.
A representative for Barack Obama has declined to comment on the matter, writes the New York Post.
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Maui Wildfires and the Theft of Sacred Hawaiian Land
Aside from the federal government’s bureaucratic failure,
Hawaiians have good reason to be suspicious of the recent fires.
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