Taking advantage of a power outage, six illegal migrants at a French detention center were able to set fire to the facility and escape. Meanwhile, almost 800 illegal migrants have arrived on the island of Lampedusa since yesterday.
In other news, the flight recorders from the plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin have been found, and DNA tests on remains found at the crash site are underway, according to Russian investigators.
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Americans Panic Search “Live Off Grid” as Housing Crisis Worsens and Democrat Cities Implode
What’s piqued our interest is the sudden panic by some Americans searching ‘live off grid’ on the internet, hitting the highest level in five years.
The driving force behind finding a rural piece of land for dirt cheap, buying or building a tiny home, installing solar panels, and sourcing your own food and water might have to do with the worst inflation storm in a generation while Democrat cities implode under the weight of soaring violent crime.
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Germany has remained the ‘sick man of Europe’ as its economy stagnated in the second quarter, new figures show, as the country battles an industrial slowdown and stubborn inflation.
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371 Charged for COVID-19 Fraud Totaling $836 Million: DOJ
Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched two new COVID-19 fraud strike forces, the department said Wednesday in announcing the filing of criminal charges against 371 people in relation to the theft of more than $836 million in pandemic relief funds.
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Biden Booed by Onlookers While Speaking to Press in Lake Tahoe, California
President Biden was booed Friday as he vacationed in Lake Tahoe on the West Coast.
According to the White House, the Bidens are renting the $18 million home of environmental activist, businessman and former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer at fair market value for a nine-day vacation following the president’s trip to Hawaii to survey damage from the recent devastating wildfires.
A video spread like wildfire across social media of the president approaching the press and speaking about economic issues as a gathered crowd of onlookers jeered.
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Biden Admin Pumps $1.4 Billion Into New COVID Vaccine Push
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is pumping a staggering $1.4 billion of taxpayer money into a new Covid vaccine push.
Despite the pandemic being over, Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) has directed the funding for new Covid research, vaccines, and therapies.
The move comes amid a recent expansion of a Covid fear campaign from the corporate media as the 2024 election approaches.
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Biden’s ‘Alcohol Czar’ Moves to Recommend Americans Consume Only 2 Drinks Per Week
President Joe Biden’s “alcohol czar” said in a recent interview that the USDA could soon be recommending that Americans limit themselves to just two drinks a week.
Dr. George Koob, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) told the Daily Mail that the USDA could revise its alcohol recommendations to match Canada’s guidelines which recommends residents limit their alcohol consumption to two drinks per week.
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Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd, Who Shot Ashli Babbitt, Promoted to Captain
Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd, who shot Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt inside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, has now been promoted to the position of captain.
Byrd, who has been in the position of lieutenant, shot Babbitt as she was trying to make her way into the Speaker’s Lobby of Congress through a window on Jan. 6, 2021. After the fact, Byrd did not face any charges.
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Brian Moore was waiting to board a Los Angeles-bound plane with hopes that his trip would mark the start of a successful music career. But suddenly, federal agents descended on him and seized his money along with his opportunity.
“It was terrible, the worst experience of my life,” Moore, 30, told Fox News. “They basically, in that one day, in those few minutes, ruined my entire music career.”
Moore had never heard of civil asset forfeiture, which allows the government to seize and keep property it suspects is connected to criminal activity, until he found himself knee-deep in a complex, yearslong legal battle against the Justice Department. But even after he won and got his property back, a federal court rejected his request for the government to repay him $15,000 in legal fees.
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Disabled Vet Dead After FBI Swats Tennessee Home, Family Seeks Answers
A disabled veteran, Theodore Deschler, of Henderson, Tennessee, was killed during an early morning FBI raid. The family is still looking for answers.
On Wednesday, August 16, eyewitnesses reported the shooting at a home in the city with a population of 6,400, WBBJ reported. The shooting occurred between the hours of 6 and 7 am, and the family is still looking for answers.
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Donald Trump Posts Mugshot Meme With Guns Pointed at His Face Saying ‘Soros’ and ‘Pedophiles’
Donald Trump has reposted a meme of his mugshot complete with 19 CGI guns surrounding his face just hours after his humiliating surrender at a Georgia county jail.
The meme shared on Truth Social 4.8k times shows the former president’s police picture modified with a flurry of pistols pointed at his head, each emblazoned with words representing his apparent enemies.
Illustrating the 77-year-old’s narrative that he is under fire from corrupt, politically-motivated authorities who want to sabotage his 2024 White House bid, the guns are branded with words like ‘Soros’, ‘pedophiles’, ‘Democrats’ and ‘fake news’.
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Former Ukraine Prosecutor Makes Explosive Claims Against Joe and Hunter Biden in New Interview
EXCLUSIVE: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin told Fox News in an exclusive sit-down interview that he was fired during the Obama administration for investigating Burisma, the energy firm whose board Hunter Biden served on.
During the interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade — set to air Saturday at 8 p.m. — Shokin said it is his “firm personal conviction” that he was fired because then-Vice President Biden and Hunter were bribed. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ousted Shokin in 2016 — he was hired a year prior — due to Shokin’s alleged corruption and pressure from the U.S. government led by Biden.
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Critics ripped gun control group Moms Demand Action for a social media post claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse “was not held accountable” for killing two men and injuring another with his AR-15 rifle during a Black Lives Matter riot in 2020.
Even though a Wisconsin circuit judge ruled in 2021 that Rittenhouse was not guilty of all charges relating to the deaths of the two men and the injury of the other, Moms Demand Action claimed justice hadn’t been done in post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday, which marked the three-year anniversary of the incident that happened during the riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse’s defenders slammed the post for ignoring that Rittenhouse had been through a highly publicized trial and judged as acting in self-defense against his attackers that day.
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NBC News appeared to edit Trump’s mugshot to make him look more orange, but it still looks completely iconic anyway.
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Kaiser Permanente Removes Patient Mask Mandate at Santa Rosa Location After Backlash
On Thursday, Kaiser Permanente in Santa Rosa once again revised its Covid policy, stating that the mask mandate would only be applied to physicians and staff and not to patients.
According to The Press Democrat, Kaiser officials said in an email that it is “strongly encouraging masks for patients, members, and visitors in the hospital and medical offices in the Santa Rosa Service Area in response to this latest increase in COVID-19 cases.”
Some patients said that they had visited the Kaiser location this week and saw other people not wearing masks even after the mandate was reinstated on Tuesday. Some Kaiser managers notified their staff on Wednesday that the mandate only applied to staff members and physicians.
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Kentucky School District Cancels Classes, Implements Remote Learning Due to COVID Scare
A school district in Kentucky has canceled in-person classes due to Covid just two weeks into the school year.
One in five students in Lee County School District (LCSD) in Kentucky, after reopening its doors for the year, were kept home sick with Covid, strep throat, the flu, or other illnesses, according to the Daily Mail.
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Lakeside Hate-Crime Case: Teen Boy Sentenced for Stabbing 16-Year-Old Girl
The boy, whose name is withheld due to his age, was charged, along with his 15-year-old girlfriend, for the April 16, 2022 stabbing
A teen boy who stabbed a teenage girl in Lakeside in what prosecutors argued was racially motivated attack last year was sentenced earlier this month to spend 480 days in custody in a youthful offender treatment program.
The boy, whose name is withheld due to his age, was charged, along with his 15-year-old girlfriend, for the April 16, 2022 stabbing.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said a group of youths angrily confronted the 16-year-old victim, who is Black, as well as members of the victim’s family. The hostile teens shouted racial slurs at the girl and her relatives, as they were apparently upset about an assault that had occurred earlier in the day, sheriff’s Lt. Shawn Wray said.
The boy, who was 16 years old at the time of the incident, stabbed the victim twice in the back, according to prosecutors, who said his girlfriend wielded a drainage grate towards the victim’s mother just before the stabbing.
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Major Newspaper Publisher Sued for Alleged Discrimination to Achieve Diversity Goals
Gannett allegedly discriminated against White employees according to a recent lawsuit filed on Friday.
The lawsuit claims that Gannett under its “Reverse Race Discrimination Policy” “resulted in the termination of numerous well qualified workers based purely on their non-minority status.”
“Gannett executed their reverse race discrimination policy with a callous indifference towards civil rights laws or the welfare of the workers, and prospective workers, whose lives would be upended by it,” the complaint argued.
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Microsoft Files for a Face-Tracking Patent
A patent filed in the US shows that Microsoft is working on technology that would allow it to track a person’s face in a way so comprehensive that the device powered by the tech could be referred to as a “face reader.”
And it could be used for gaming, but also for tracking remote employees. And who knows what else in between.
Microsoft says it needs the patent approved to develop mixed reality headsets that would be cheaper yet better at “understanding” expressions on human faces.
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mRNA Inventor Warns Public About Return of ‘Illegal’ Lockdowns
World-renowned vaccine scientist Dr. Robert Malone has issued a warning to the public about the anticipated return of Covid lockdowns, mandates, and other pandemic-related restrictions.
Malone, the inventor of the mRNA technology behind the Covid vaccines, responded to Americans’ concerns that pandemic restrictions are returning.
He warns that lockdowns and vaccine and mask mandates are “illegal” and urged the public not to fall for the “fear porn” campaign as it’s rolled out by the corporate media.
The research scientist likens the media campaign to the tactics used to promote “climate crisis” fears.
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As the Department of Justice (DOJ) refuses to release the “client list” of Jeffrey Epstein, new names of powerful elites connected to the deceased child trafficker continue to emerge.
When Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in August 2019, he was awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.
After his death, Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell did face trial and was convicted over her role in the sex trafficking operation.
For trafficking women and underage girls to Epstein’s associates, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
However, authorities have refused to reveal who exactly they were trafficking their victims to.
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Paper Straws Not Safe for the Environment: Study
A new study has revealed that the thought-to-be eco-friendly alternative to plastic straws — straws made of paper — contain potentially toxic chemicals that could harm people and the environment.
According to the study, paper straws contain poly— and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) which are long-lasting and potentially destructive to human health with too much exposure. These chemicals were found in the majority of paper and bamboo straws the scientists tested.
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Police Investigate “Shooting Incident” at Guaranteed Rate Field During Sox Game
CHICAGO (CBS) — An investigation is underway after a “shooting incident” during the White Sox game Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field.
There have been unconfirmed reports of someone being treated for a gunshot wound inside the ballpark as the White Sox were playing the Oakland Athletics. Police have not provided any information on what happened, other than to confirm a “shooting incident at tonight’s game.”
After the game, police could be seen canvassing a section of the bleachers, apparently combing for evidence.
Fans who were inside the stadium shared photos of what appeared to be detectives focusing in on a section of the bleachers, but fans who spoke to CBS 2 said they didn’t hear any gunshots or notice any kind of disturbance or panic.
The game was played without interruption, and the situation inside remained calm throughout.
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A new ‘concerning’ COVID strain has emerged right as Pfizer and Moderna’s profits plunge and new boosters are ready to be rolled out next month.
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Taco Bell’s Push to Go Cashless is a Gateway to a Surveillance Society
Taco Bell’s recent announcement of transitioning to a cashless business model raises alarming concerns about privacy and civil liberties. While the company proudly touts its endeavor to become a fully digital establishment in the near future, it obscures the deeper implications for consumers.
The company’s aim to capitalize on impulse digital transactions over traditional cash exchanges might sound like a novel approach to modernize sales techniques. However, behind this facade lies a concerning benefit: to heavily surveil and monetize consumers’ preferences. Taco Bell’s new data platform, designed to analyze consumer behavior meticulously, embodies a step towards an invasive corporate oversight into what people eat, when, and how often.
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Trump Posts Own Mugshot on Twitter, Breaks the Internet: ‘Never Surrender!’
President Donald Trump has just made an explosive return to Twitter/X to post his own mugshot following his surrender to the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
Trump’s tweet comes after an absence of more than two and a half years from Twitter, a platform he used to dominate.
His last tweet was dated January 8, 2021, and was posted shortly before the old Twitter suspended the 45th president’s account.
Trump arrived at Fulton County Jail to turn himself in late Thursday.
He was fingerprinted and got his first mug shot taken.
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President Donald Trump and former Fox News star Tucker Carlson shattered records last night with their interview on Elon Musk’s platform Twitter/X.
The interview has mind-blowing 189.2 million views — so far.
To put that in the proper perspective, Super Bowl 57 between the Chiefs and Eagles had 115 Million viewers
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Unarmed Social Workers Hired to Respond to 911 Calls in Seattle
Social workers could soon be responding to 911 calls in Seattle instead of police officers thanks to efforts of the anti-cop Seattle City Council.
Councilmember Lisa Hebold, who led the effort to defund the city’s police department in 2020, said during an interview on Friday that the city is beginning to hire six unarmed “crisis responders” instead of police officers for emergency calls through a new 911 Dual Dispatch/Alternate Crisis Response pilot program for an “alternate response team.”
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Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘Climate Change is a Hoax’
Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy declared during the first GOP primary debate that “climate change” is a “hoax.”
Ramaswamy triggered a furious response from the Fox News audience and his fellow candidates while making the bold declaration.
During the Fox News debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ramaswamy came out swinging.
The successful American entrepreneur jumped in on a question about “climate change.”
Before others spoke, Ramaswamy said he was the only person on the debate stage that was “not bought and paid for.”
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Watch: Maui Residents Turned Back by Police Barricades Recount Their Brush With Death
After Joe Biden’s recent delayed visit to Maui in which he fell asleep during a ceremony honoring the people killed during the terrible event and chuckled about almost “losing his wife, his corvette and his cat” in a fire, many questions about the calamity remain unresolved. Without any obvious pressure from the federal government to get answers, Hawaii’s Democrat leadership is left to its own devices. They are even attempting an information blackout instead of begging Maui citizens for their forgiveness.
Multiple reports from Lahaina indicate that West Maui residents ran into government barricades while trying to flee the rapidly expanding fire; with the survivors being forced to disobey the blocks and bypass police. It’s yet another bizarre occurrence in a long list of disastrous decisions made by Hawaiian officials that likely cost hundreds (if not thousands) of lives.
The following video is an overview of first hand footage recorded by Maui citizens, recounting their brush with death after they barely slipped past the rushing fire only to be turned back into the inferno by police blockades.
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A new study has found that paper straws contain cancer-causing chemicals and are harmful to humans, wildlife and the environment.
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The race to replace outgoing globalist Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Netherlands will now include one of the chief architects of the European Union’s green agenda as the fight to implement Great Reset-style climate initiatives heats up.
A battle over the future of Dutch farming will be waged at the ballot box in November, with veteran Eurocrat Frans Timmermans being selected to lead the coalition of the left-wing Labour Party and the communist-spawned GreenLeft party. Timmermans, who resigned from his Brussels-based posts as the EU Commission Vice President for the Green Deal and the European Commissioner for Climate Action to fight the race, was selected as leader by members of the two leftist parties this week, broadcaster NOS reports.
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Blasphemy Laws Are Back: Denmark Prepares to Ban Qur’an Burnings
“The unfree, medieval forces of the Middle East have won a victory today”, Denmark’s former immigration minister has said as the nation’s present government ploughs on to mollify criticism from the Muslim world by banning Qur’an burnings.
Denmark was the last Scandinavian country to still have historic blasphemy laws on the books when it scrapped its 334-year-old statute in 2017, but now the nation’s left-led government is bringing them back. A new law is being drafted, targeted at a surge in Qur’an burning protests recently which would make desecrating any holy book illegal, with the government saying the legislation is a matter of national security.
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The alleged attack reportedly took place in the early hours of Wednesday morning, between 4.30am and 5am, in the Pondamos area of Halki.
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Clock is Ticking for PP’s Feijóo to Form Government in Spain
The new parliament will hold court on September 27th and 28th to vote for or against centre-right Partido Popular Leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s bid to lead the country’s executive branch.
This gives him just over a month to scramble to gather the four more votes he needs to make it into Moncloa, the Spanish presidential house, and definitively save his country from another leftist-progressive-separatist coalition government.
Should Feijóo’s investiture vote fail, centre-left PSOE’s Pedro Sanchez, former and current caretaker president, will then have until November 27 to attempt to form a government. Should the PSOE leader also fail to take control of the government, repeat elections would fall on January 14, after the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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Denmark Plans Jail Term for Burning Quran in Public
The Danish government has proposed a ban on setting the Quran alight in public after a series of burnings led to uproar in Muslim countries.
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said such burnings harmed Denmark and risked the safety of Danes.
The planned law will make improper treatment of the Quran or Bible a criminal offence punishable by a fine and jail sentence of up to two years.
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Food Security: Norway to Create Strategic Reserve of Grain, Aims to Hold Three Months in Reserve
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway will spend 63 million kroner ($6 million) per year until the end of the decade stocking up on grain as the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe and climate change have made it necessary, the government said Friday.
Starting next year, Norway will start storing 15,000 tons of grain and do so yearly until 2028 or 2029, according to Norway’s minister for agriculture and food, Geir Pollestad, who said the aim is to always have a three-month worth of consumption in storage.
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Germans Hate Polish Success, Claims Former Polish PM After Criticism of Oder River Investment
Germany feels threatened by Polish investment and does not wish to see its neighbor succeed, preferring it to remain as some sort of open-air museum, Poland’s former Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has claimed after reports of German lawmakers seeking to penalize the country for deepening the Oder River.
Sergey Lagodinsky, an MEP from Germany’s co-governing Green Party, has announced he will appeal to the European Commission to complain about Poland’s desire to expand its infrastructure on the river that borders Germany.
In response, Szydlo, now serving as an MEP for Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, wrote that “Germany would most like to see Poland as something like an open-air museum or a reserve.”
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Here’s Why Poland’s Border Barrier is a Lifesaver for Polish Border Guards
The migrants trying to illegally cross the border with Belarus are becoming increasingly aggressive, with migrants hurling stones at Polish border guards, and in one instance, even being shot at.
According to Michal Bura, an officer of the Polish Border Guard, the situation is tense because the migrants’ identity cannot be verified. He stated that when apprehending an illegal migrant, the border guards may be dealing with someone who is dangerous to both them and Poland. He added that the migrants have gone well beyond verbal aggression and are now even hurling explosive devices at the border guards.
Bura told Polish news portal I.pl that he is concerned with the growing aggression he sees, which has been increasing by the day.
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Hungary, Ukraine Establish Presidential Hotline
Hungary and Ukraine will establish a presidential hotline, Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced on Wednesday after meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Novak was in Kyiv attending the third Crimea Platform Summit, a diplomatic summit established by Zelensky in August 2021.
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Norway Pledges Fighter Jets to Ukraine
Norway is joining the Netherlands and Denmark in furnishing Ukraine with much-sought-after F-16s, Aftenposten reports.
This means Ukraine has ound its third partner for the delivery of fighter jets, coming on the heels of last Sunday’s pledges by the Netherlands and Denmark.
While the deal is said to involve dozens of planes, exactly how many is not yet known.
As with the F-16s from the Netherlands and Denmark, Ukraine will not be able to make use of the Norwegian planes this year, making them unlikely to be of any help in Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive.
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Polish Police Discover €40 Million Worth of Cocaine From South America
Drugs valued at nearly 180 million zloty (€40 million) were discovered by law enforcement under the floorboards of a ship in the port of Gdynia. Units from the Border Guard, Central Bureau of Investigation, and the National Revenue Administration participated in the drug bust.
Polish Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro announced the success of the Polish officers on social media, stating that due to the actions of Polish services “almost half a ton of cocaine will not hit the streets of Polish cities.”
Ziobro added that the shipment arrived in Poland from Bolivia via Chile.
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Poll: Scottish Nationalist Party in Free Fall
Scotland’s pro-independence party could be on its way out, boosting Labour’s chances of UK-wide electoral success. The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has dominated politics north of the English border for the better part of the last two decades.
As leader of her country’s largest party for the latter half of this period, Nicola Sturgeon spent almost ten years as the Scottish first minister. That was before she stepped down in June following a scandal over the placing of a transgender rapist in a women’s prison, shortly after which time she was arrested as part of an inquiry into SNP finances. Ms. Sturgeon was released without charge on the same day, but the event left a bad smell.
Her replacement, Humza Yousaf, has done little to excite Scottish voters.
Now, a poll by Survation for the True North public relations agency suggests that the SNP could tank half of its parliamentary seats at the next election, handing 24 to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
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Portugal Joins Training Program for Ukrainian F-16 Pilots
Portugal is ready to join the training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday after talks with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian president noted that Portugal is a member of the international coalition that is helping Ukraine with tanks and air defense equipment.
“Today, Portugal confirmed its readiness to join the training of Ukrainian pilots and engineers on F-16 aircraft. We also discussed the possibilities of expanding defense cooperation, in particular the supply of armored medical vehicles and mine clearance equipment to Ukraine,” he explained.
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Police in Majorca confirmed this afternoon the three British men had been held as they tried to board a flight to Manchester. The woman has claimed she may have been drugged.
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Energy regulator Ofgem said today that the new cap on a unit of gas and electricity for England, Wales and Scotland would reduce the average bill to £1,923 from October 1, from £2,074 per year.
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UK: Eco-Vandals Deflate Tyres of More Than 80 SUVs in Latest Protest Against ‘Gas Guzzler’ Cars
Eco-vandals deflated the tyres of more than 80 SUVs in the latest environmental protest against ‘gas guzzler’ cars.
Vehicles were targeted in St Mawes and Falmouth, Cornwall on August 23 by a group who call themselves ‘The Tyre Extinguishers’.
Every car had a note left on it titled ‘attention — your gas guzzler kills’ in the group’s ‘biggest action in Cornwall yet’.
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UK: Sleeping Rough in London on the Rise Again
More than 10,000 people slept rough in London between April 2022 and March 2023, marking a 21 percent increase from the previous year, according to data from London’s Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN).
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UN Official Wades in on UK Reparations Row
Britain can no longer ignore calls for slavery reparations, a Jamaican UN judge has declared. Politicians and leading institutions have long apologised for the nation’s former role in the slave trade, but for a growing number of countries, “sorry is not enough.”
Judge Patrick Robinson told The Guardian this week that the UK “cannot continue to ignore the greatest atrocity, signifying man’s inhumanity to man.
They cannot continue to ignore it. Reparations have been paid for other wrongs and obviously far more quickly, far more speedily than reparations for what I consider the greatest atrocity and crime in the history of mankind: transatlantic chattel slavery.
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Only one day after Hungarian President Katalin Novak’s visit to Ukraine, the U.S. ambassador to Budapest, David Pressman, said that the Hungarian government should follow the president’s example.
He welcomed Novak’s visit to Ukraine, where she had one-on-one talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, Pressman is not content with this gesture, writing that he hopes that the Hungarian government will soon follow the president’s example.
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Ilhan Omar Met With Al Qaeda Allies on Trip Funded by Islamic Terror States
by Daniel Greenfield
“It’s all about the benjamins,” Rep. Ilhan Omar had explained America’s support for Israel.
What’s the explanation for Omar’s support for Islamic terrorists? Considering her alleged adulterous affair with her non-Muslim chief fundraiser that broke up her marriage (he has since married her and converted to Islam) that led her father to ban her from his deathbed, it’s not as if the Somali Muslim politician from Minnesota is, despite her ritual hijab, all that devout.
Rep. Omar’s hatred for America and Jews is no doubt sincere and commonplace in her part of the world, but recent revelations have raised questions about whether ‘benjamins’ are involved.
Last year the terrorist sympathizer and her new husband jetted off to Doha for the World Cup games where she shared pictures of them posing with soccer star David Beckham and an unknown man in a burnoose. Omar offered scant further details on the trip where she was seen in the stadium with a good view of the games, but in her financial disclosure she was forced to reveal that the Qatari regime paid for her meals and hotel room.
And that a trip to Pakistan had been paid for by the Pakistani government.
Both Qatar and Pakistan are state sponsors of Islamic terrorism. Both had ties to Al Qaeda and the attacks of 9/11 which Rep. Omar had dismissed as “some people did something”…
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Distraction Technique? Russia Talks Up Annexing Georgia Breakaway Republics to ‘Teach West a Lesson’
Vladimir Putin’s ranter-in-chief Dmitry Medvedev made not-so-thinly veiled threats on Wednesday against two regions in Georgia, a NATO and EU aspirant, threatening an annexation and the presumable return to a 15-year-old war.
Writing in a major Russian news magazine, the former Russian President and Putin loyalist Dmitry Medvedev — perhaps best known since the resumption of the Ukraine war for his frequent threats to drop nuclear weapons on all who conspire against his boss — ruminated on the fate of Georgia. A neighbour of Turkey and Russia on the far side of the Black Sea, Russia invaded Georgia in the summer of 2008, prompting a brief war in which Russia intervened on behalf of separatists in two regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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EU’s Top Military Chief: Ukraine Counteroffensive is Floundering
The EU’s top general warned in an interview with the German Die Welt this week that the Russian war machine has much more longevity than most observers believe and that the current Ukrainian counteroffensive is failing to produce the results needed to restore the nation’s full territorial integrity.
Four-star Austrian general and chair of the European Union’s Military Committee (EUMC) General Robert Brieger said he was “cautious to expect a breakthrough” by Ukrainian ground forces as President Zelensky again reiterated his country’s commitment to retaking Crimea, which has been under Russian occupation since 2014.
Regarded as ideologically conservative and politically close to the right-wing FPÖ Austrian party, General Brieger has served as chair of the EUMC since 2022, with the committee functioning as a military advisory board to the EU’s foreign policy wing, the EEAS.
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Kremlin Rejects “Absolute Lie” That Putin Ordered Killing of Wagner’s Prigozhin
Russian investigators say they are currently conducting DNA testing on the recovered bodies from the Wednesday plane crash northwest of Moscow believed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his top commanders.
In yesterday’s condolence speech, President Putin referred to the Wagner chief in the past tense, remembering him as a “talented” businessman who made “mistakes”—which was widely seen as high level confirmation he went down in the plane.
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Prigozhin’s Death: The Old Fashioned Kremlin Way Dating Back to the Tsars
British intelligence believes that the crash of the Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was the result of actions by Russian intelligence services directly under the supervision of Vladimir Putin.
Wlodzimierz Sokolowski, better known as spy novel author Vincent V. Severski, is a former Polish intelligence officer who worked in Eastern Europe. He is convinced that only Putin could have been behind the crash. He would not have to order it directly, just let it be known he wanted it to happen. Severski says he foresaw this outcome once Prigozhin had carried out his attempted coup two months ago.
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Putin Signs Law Forcing Wagner Fighters to Swear Oath
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told reporters on Friday that in a legal sense, Wagner group doesn’t exist. This came as he announced a new presidential decree signed by President Putin on the same day, which stipulates that all Russian paramilitary fighters will be required to swear an oath to the Russian flag and nation.
Fighters, including from Wagner, must pledge “their loyalty to the Russian Federation… strictly follow their commanders and superiors’ orders, and conscientiously fulfill their obligations,” according to the new decree.
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Ukraine Latest: Prigozhin Crash Flight Recorders Found
DNA tests on victims underway, Russian investigators say
Flight recorders from the plane believed to have been carrying Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin have been recovered and work is underway to identify the 10 victims of the crash, Russian news agency Interfax reports, the citing Russian Investigative Committee.
“The bodies of 10 victims were discovered during the primary investigative actions at the plane crash site. DNA tests are being carried out to identify them,” the committee is quoted by Interfax as saying. “The investigation will thoroughly analyze all possible theories of the accident.”
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Zelensky: We Didn’t Do it, But Reported Prigozhin Death ‘Will Definitely Help US’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied any involvement in the plane crash north of Moscow on Wednesday that reportedly killed Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, telling reporters “everyone realizes” who the true culprit is.
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China’s Influence Activity in the US is Unprecedented
“The system is blinking red right now,” an unnamed senior FBI official was quoted as saying in a recent report from the Center for Strategic and International studies (CSIS). “We have not seen this level of Chinese intelligence and influence activity in and around the U.S. homeland ever.”
China is using all means short of war “to expand the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and weaken the United States and its partners,” the report continued.
“This campaign involves sophisticated Chinese espionage activities, offensive cyber operations, disinformation on social media platforms, economic coercion, and influence operations targeting companies, universities, and other organizations.”
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Reporters Discover China’s Massive Electric Vehicle Graveyards Green??
Massive graveyards filled with electric vehicles were discovered across China, ostensibly caused by the collapse of ride-sharing companies.
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‘Fit & Healthy’ 14-Year-Old Boy Dies Suddenly in His Sleep During Sleepover
A 14-year-old boy’s devastated family is in shock and mourning after the young teenager died suddenly in his sleep while staying with his grandparents.
Australian teen William Pfeiffer has no apparent health issues and was described as “fit and healthy” by those who knew him.
However, when William went for a sleepover at the home of his grandparents on Sunday night, he never woke up, Adelaide’s The Advertiser reported.
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6 Illegal Migrants Remain at Large After Torching French Detention Center and Fleeing
Six illegal migrants who took advantage of a power failure to escape from a detention center in the French city of Nîmes on Saturday evening remain unaccounted for.
French police have launched an investigation into the incident, which saw a group of migrants in an irregular situation set fire to 14 rooms, leading to six individuals escaping the complex and evading the authorities. A further 11 migrants were taken to the hospital following the incident.
It is understood that a power failure at the administrative detention center on Saturday led to a number of detainees ripping out surveillance cameras, smashing doors, and torching rooms in three areas of the facility.
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There were a total of 78,768 asylum applications to the UK in the year ending June 2023, 19 per cent more than the previous year.
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Conservatives Hope Key Legal Case Can Bring Biden Migrant Parole Policies ‘Tumbling Down’
The Biden administration is facing a significant legal challenge to a key border policy that allows 30,000 nationals from four countries to fly in and be paroled into the U.S. each month as part of the administration’s efforts to tackle the ongoing crisis at the southern border — with the conservative plaintiffs in the case believing a win could bring down other Biden policies in its wake.
Arguments began Thursday in a case challenging a Homeland Security policy expanded in January to allow up to 30,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) nationals into the U.S. each month. Those brought in, who are not present at the border, are flown in and paroled, and allowed to apply for work permits if they meet certain conditions such as having a sponsor and passing background checks.
Twenty GOP-led states are suing to block the policy, claiming that it represents an abuse of parole — which is set out by Congress to be used on a “case-by case” basis for “urgent humanitarian need or significant public benefit.”
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Dozens of Migrants Arrive in Trieste Every Day — Experts
(ANSA) — ROME, AUG 25 — Dozens of migrants and refugees are arriving each day in the northern border city of Trieste on their overland journey along the Balkan route from Greece to central and northern Europe, experts said on Friday.
Volunteers and cultural mediators monitoring the situation in the central Piazza Libertà near the city railway station and in the local day centre for migrants say that 7,890 people arrived during the first seven months of the year, with a peak of 2,277 arrivals in July.
To these numbers must be added other migrants and refugees crossing into Italy in Gorizia and Tarvisio near Udine.
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Germany: Afghan Migrant Raped Young Man ‘For Hours’ on Munich Metro Platform
A 20-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested this week after a brutal sex attack in a Munich metro station in which an intoxicated 18-year-old Polish student was raped for several hours. Part of the incident was captured on the Munich metro CCTV cameras, according to reports. Despite this, it remains unclear whether or not anyone witnessed the assault and, if they did, why no one came to the aid of the Polish teen.
The incident began on Saturday, August 19th, at around 1 a.m. at the Max-Weber-Platz station on the subway platform after the teen, who was in Munich studying German, had laid down on the platform following an evening of drinking with his friends, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
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German Victim Blinded in Glass Attack by Moroccan Migrant Speaks Out Over Paltry Compensation Offer
The 30-year-old victim of a vicious attack in a German nightclub by a Moroccan migrant which left him blinded has spoken out on the incident for the first time.
Tony B. sustained life-changing injuries including the loss of sight in his left eye and considerable damage to his right when 41-year-old Moroccan Aissam D. struck him with a glass to the face in the early hours of April 30.
The incident occurred at the Milchbar nightclub in the Bavarian city of Munich at around 5 a.m. when video footage showed a dispute between the pair which resulted in Tony being attacked and falling to the floor where he awaited rescue workers in a pool of blood.
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Hochul Announces Jobs Program for Illegals With 380K New Yorkers Jobless
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has announced a jobs program for tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens.
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Migrant Arrivals Continue on Lampedusa
(ANSA) — ROME, AUG 25 — A total of 783 migrants and refugees have arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in 24 separate landings since midnight on Friday.
The figures are updated to around 2 pm local time.
The last five boats to arrive carried between 25 and 55 people reportedly from Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Sudan, Chad, Gambia, Ghana and Guinea.
They had all set said from Sfax in Tunisia.
The latest arrivals take to over 2,000 the number of people in the Lampedusa hotspot, which has an official capacity of around 400 but has recently been reorganised to temporarily accommodate many more.
A group of 100 people was due to be transferred off the island by ferry to Porto Empedocle on the Sicilian mainland later on Friday.
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Musk Slams ‘Black Supremacist’ AG Going After SpaceX for Not Hiring Refugees
On Thursday, Biden’s DOJ slapped SpaceX with a lawsuit for not hiring refugees and asylum seekers, one day after Musk announced he was suing organizations funded by George Soros for lying about ‘hate incidents’ on X (formerly known as Twitter).
And while there’s no obvious link between the two, the timing couldn’t be more suspicious.
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NY Gov. Hochul Urges Biden to Help Fund Housing, Grant Work Authorization to Illegal Immigrants
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is urging President Joe Biden to direct the federal government and help provide the sanctuary state with housing, support, and work authorization for illegal immigrants.
In an Aug. 24 letter (pdf) to President Biden, Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, laid out a number of specific requests, including expedited work authorizations for illegal immigrants to allow them to “resettle in communities more quickly,” financial assistance for New York City and New York State, and the use of federal land and facilities for temporary shelter sites.
She also requested Title 32 designation to grant funding for the roughly 2,000 New York National Guard members who have been providing logistical and operational support to shelter the illegal immigrants across the state.
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NYC Residents Erupt Over New Migrant Shelter Near Schools: ‘No F***ing Way!’
Hundreds of New Yorkers protested NYC’s plan to turn a former school into a migrant shelter as the city continues to battle an overflow of asylum seekers with limited resources.
Parents took to the streets outside Staten Island’s St. John Villa Academy to rally against the move, citing concerns surrounding public safety, since it would ultimately position the site near multiple schools in the area.
New York Democratic State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton called on the city to reverse the decision before migrants arrive during “Fox & Friends” Friday.
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Rishi Sunak has insisted he is working ‘night and day’ to deter migrants from making small boat crossings across the English Channel as people were plucked from the water by Border Force agents for a 10th consecutive day.
The PM — who has made ‘stopping the boats’ a cornerstone of his government’s policy — said on Friday that the current situation was ‘unfair and unsustainable’, after the number of crossings in 2023 to date hit more than 19,000.
Pictures taken at the Port of Dover on Friday show the Border Force vessel BF Typhoon pulling into the harbour before docking to unload more people believed to have been rescued as they tried to cross the Channel.
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Syrian ‘Youth’ Suspected of Sexually Assaulting Children at Pool in Germany
German authorities are investigating reports that a Syrian teen sexually assaulted multiple pre-teen girls at a swimming pool this week, according to reports.
The disturbing string of events unfolded at around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Asperg, a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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Alice Cooper Loses Deal for Speaking Truth to Democrats: ‘So Absurd’
Alice Cooper has been dumped by a cosmetics company after the rock music legend spoke out against the Democrats’ radical gender ideology agenda.
The singer spoke the truth and questioned the rush to perform life-altering transgender surgeries on children.
The rocker argues that the “transitioning” of kids’ genders is a “fad”.
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Bank of America Faces Backlash for Debanking Christian Charity
Memphis-based Christian charity, Indigenous Advance Ministries, claims it has been unjustly debanked by banking giant, Bank of America (BoA). The charity suspects their account closure is tied to the bank’s disapproval of its religious ideologies. These debanking allegations, the suspension of financial services without clear explanation, signal an alarming trend that has free speech advocates calling for improved transparency in banking practices.
Indigenous Advance Ministries, which provides critical aid to orphans in Uganda, has served since its founding in 2015. Advocating for pro-life and traditional marriage views, the charity has been transparent about its religious beliefs, but maintains that these beliefs should not have influenced its banking situation.
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Leftists Accuse Massachusetts Catholic Schools of ‘Violence’ for Rejecting Gender Ideology
Leftists have launched an offensive against a Massachusetts Catholic school system over its policy regarding gender ideology.
The Catholic Diocese of Worcester has implemented a policy for the 21 schools it oversees in Massachusetts regarding the teaching of LGBTQ and gender.
The policy strictly prohibits “confused notions of gender ideology” and gay activism from being taught to students.
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Maryland Court Says Parents Can’t Opt Kids Out of LGBTQ+ Curriculum: ‘Not a Fundamental Right’
A federal court in Maryland decided Thursday that parents can’t opt their kids out of reading books with LGBTQ+ content in Montgomery County Schools.
In Tamer Mahmoud v. Monica B. McKnight, parents sought to reinstate a MCPS policy that would allow them to opt their children out of reading and discussing books with LGBTQ+ characters in elementary schools. The parents argued the content in these books was a form of indoctrination that violated their families’ religious beliefs.
The court disagreed. Judge Deborah L. Boardman, a Biden appointee, concluded that the parents’ “asserted due process right to direct their children’s upbringing by opting out of a public-school curriculum that conflicts with their religious views is not a fundamental right.”
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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is charging a parental rights group more than $18K to fulfill a public records request.
MCPS will charge Parents Defending Education $18,290.96 to obtain public records of correspondence about the district banning parental opt-out policies for its gender and sexuality curriculum, according to a letter released by the organization.
In response, Nicole Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education, stated: “In Montgomery County Public Schools, ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’ are dirty words, but the graphic sex acts that parents object to in their children’s books is completely acceptable.”
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Trans-Identified Florida Faculty Required to Use Bathrooms Per Their Biological Sex, Not Gender
On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education (BOE) voted unanimously that bathrooms in private K-12 schools and state colleges must be used according to a person’s biological sex rather than gender identity.
The new rule also applies to university student housing and changing facilities. Additionally, student handbooks, including codes of conduct and disciplinary procedures must be updated to conform to the new guidance.
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https://files.catbox.moe/3eaz5a.mp4
They write that this is the women’s section of the slave market in Libya.
Off grid. In Australia I searched for cheap blocks of land and cheapest was A$50,000 and subject to flooding. Land prices here are so expensive. In other countries can get house and land for fraction of that.eg Hungary, Bulgaria.House may need work but still.
Another week of people of African decent yet again showing how demonic they are, and also threatening to be even more demonic than normal.
And another week of Islamic domination on top.
It has been like this since the 90’s..
Is anybody going to tell them they are getting old, senile and clingy?
Or are we just expected to tolerate these pathetic “peoples” forever parasitising off us?
One evil after another.
The pattern never changes.
Baron, this week I have tried posting several times to be meet with the “server time out” responses, or the duplicate post detected response.
Something seems a miss with the site lately.
Everything ok, on the back end?
I’m not having any problems at the moment.
It could be an Internet service provider issue. For example, GatesofVienna is blocked in Potbelly’s restaurant, in the good old USA.
Bestiality. An unknown man raped a donkey in a children’s park in Dresden.
https://www.dnn.de/lokales/dresden/dresden-unbekannter-vergeht-sich-sexuell-an-eseln-im-abenteuerspielplatz-eselnest-O5OG4A63EZGCZO4SWJBGWUKUSQ.html
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Zelenskyy bought luxury villa in Egypt for $5 million
By: Hans Rustad & Snaphanen.dk
Zelensky already has a villa in Tuscany, which he rents out for 50,000 euros.
El Gouna is a luxury resort in Egypt where wealthy individuals buy luxury villas, including foreigners. On May 16, 2023, a purchase contract was signed for a villa worth 5 million dollars (34.5 million Danish kroner). The buyer was Olga Kiyashko. This is the same name as Volodymyr Zelenskyj’s mother-in-law. Egyptian investigative journalist Mohammed Al-Alawi discovered that the Zelenskyj family owns a luxury villa on the Red Sea. This is politically very uncomfortable for Zelenskyj.
Mohammed Al-Alawi presents photo documentation of the contract. He says he has obtained the information from reliable sources. It should not be excluded that there are intelligence sources, either Egyptian or foreign, who want this information to become public knowledge. If it is true that Zelenskyj’s mother-in-law is the buyer, she is probably a front for the family and the origin of the money may not stand the light of day.
There is a magnificent property in the VIP resort of El Gouna, often called the Venice of Egypt, on the coast of the Red Sea. The property is a luxurious villa with beautiful interior design details and a swimming pool. It is located on the coast and provides owners with stunning views of the sea and a beach for recreation.
There are many luxury properties in Egypt created for wealthy citizens and foreigners, so there would be nothing remarkable about this villa if it wasn’t for one small detail. The new owner of this villa is Ukrainian citizen Olga Kiyashko, who has the exact same name as the mother of the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Corruption in Ukraine is legendary. It reaches the level of Russia. But morally, Ukraine has found itself in a special position. That’s why the US and European countries have given large sums of money, not only for war material and training, but also for pensions and healthcare in Ukraine. If it turns out that the money is taken out of the country and used for personal luxuries, it could have a devastating effect on goodwill, public support and morale.
Just over a week ago, the head of the recruitment office in Odessa was arrested. He had taken 5 million dollars in bribes from families who wanted to buy their sons out of frontline service. The money had been used to buy houses in Spain.
Zelensky came forward and condemned the corruption. Since then, recruitment offices across the country have been raided.
If Zelensky is found guilty of the same things as those he has just dismissed, it could have a devastating effect.
Zelensky already has a villa in Tuscany that he rents out for 50,000 euros, but it was bought before the war began.
Story published in Punch: Luxurious Villa owned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Family Discovered On Egyptian Coast
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https://www.snaphanen.dk/2023/08/25/zelenskyj-koebte-en-luksusvilla-i-egypten-til-5-millioner/
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545 vs 300 Million
https://swebbtube.se/w/6iCho38xD7RmtekvyXq7hF
GERMANY The planned economy of the traffic light [coalition] has been derailed
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The traffic light [coalition] has opened floodgates for unregulated mass immigration that go far beyond Merkel’s welcome putsch .
Neither the resistance of the overwhelmed citizens nor the cries of alarm from municipal officials will dissuade them from doing so. It’s not just “loss of control,” it’s willful relinquishment of control.
Millions of people immigrating into the social systems, the financing of which is burdened on a shrinking base of taxpayers and service providers, who are under increasing tax pressure, is bursting the welfare state.
This has long been misused from the solidarity security system to the instrument of recruitment and financing of mass migration.
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https://jungefreiheit-de.translate.goog/politik/deutschland/2023/planwirtschaft-ampel/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Excellent, the sooner the German Republic falls, the sooner we can get the Kaiser or military coup we need to start setting things right. Then let the Great Purge begin, because democracy(spit) is dead as we know it.
GERMANY
If you want to go for a beer in Germany, you have to go through a gauntlet of 500 police officers, The price for open borders. Who are they kidding? It changes nothing. Murders, stabbings, rapes, gang rapes occur 100 times every day.
Police Cordon in Dusseldorf and Cologne : No one gets past here with a knife
Düsseldorf/Cologne – No weapons from here! This rule applies throughout Düsseldorf’s old town and on the Rings in Cologne. Does everyone stick to it?
According to the Interior Ministry, around 10,000 people were checked.
https://www-bild-de.translate.goog/regional/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-aktuell/koeln-und-duesseldorf-polizei-mit-messer-kontrollen-auf-partymeilen-85185846.bild.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
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Beatrix von Storch (Alternative for Germany) has been smeared with dog faeces at a public appearance.
A left wing radical asked for a photograph and they attacked her.
https://www-n–tv-de.translate.goog/politik/AfD-Politikerin-von-Storch-mit-Faekalien-beschmiert-article24352507.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
And just like that, the new brown shirts are born.
BBC Publishes Pedo Report, Then EDITS to Remove Pride, Drag History.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been caught repeatedly doctoring a report about a man convicted for attempting to have sex with a 14-year-old boy, scrubbing it of references to the fact the suspect is a Pride organizer and drag queen.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/25/bbc-publishes-pedo-report-then-edits-to-remove-pride-drag-history/
The cartels of Marseille – Drugs war and contract killings | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu7wBTlB8GQ
Radical left-wing journalists report in wonderment of the Islamic caliphate being installed in the South of France.
Of course, they never mention the ethnicity just the fact that they live on welfare benefits. The murdering perpetrators become the victims of white supremacy, trodden on by police boots whilst living in tax-payer funded ghettos, [sumps] they themselves created.
Yes it is a bitter truth that the people who foul their own nest have to live with their own filth .Islam the biggest fouler of all nest on earth complains the loudest they do not like the smell of their own [solid waste]!