North Korean President Kim Jong-un is on his way to Russia, according to the Kremlin. Mr. Kim is reportedly travelling in an armored train. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said that Ukraine has only six weeks of fighting weather left for its much-vaunted counteroffensive.
In other news, the FDA has approved new COVID booster vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna for all Americans over the age of six months.
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by Daniel Greenfield
As another 9/11 anniversary arrives, we are not in 9/10, a world before the fall of the towers, nor 9/12, the world that was born in the aftermath of the attacks, rather we are in 9/13.
In 9/13, the attacks of September 11 are not considered especially significant.
In 9/13, concern about Islamic terrorism ranks in the low single digits behind everything else.
In 9/13, a thousand trending concerns, some vital and some completely unimportant, have vastly eclipsed not only the barbaric mass murder of thousands, but the recognition that we are at war.
And that war is far from over.
In 9/13, the people who once specialized in talking about the threat of Islam have increasingly moved on. And it’s hard to blame them. No one really wants to hear it anymore. It’s yesterday’s news.
America’s Islamic population is growing. The open border doesn’t just bring in drug dealers and gang members, but massive numbers of people from the Muslim world. The Afghan airlift and visas will probably end up importing at least a quarter of a million as family reunification kicks in. Our national demographics are being transformed with the same eventual outcome as Europe.
But it’s 9/13. When I write articles about Islam, they perform worse than anything else. And I don’t have the same raw feeling toward the day that I used to. The ash used to haunt my nightmares. I snuck past the law enforcement and military presence downtown to make it to the site, the twisted mess of what was left, because I needed to know up close that what I had seen was real. But it’s not the same.
I hope it is for you. But I don’t think it is for most of us…
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A leftist Portland, Ore. business owner who advocated for the city’s destruction during the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 and 2021 announced he is closing his taproom after suffering significant financial losses since that time.
Nat West, the owner of Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider on Southeast 35th and Division Street, who identifies as he/him on social media, is permanently shuttering the doors to his taproom. The taproom’s beverages are a former staple in the progressive city now struggling with surging crime, homicides and business closures following the 2020—21 riots.
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BCSO: 25-Year-Old Man Charged After Stabbing, Killing Mom and Cat
According to arrest warrants, Zachary Hayes stabbed his mom multiple times, even after she died.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Blount County Sheriff’s Office said deputies arrested and charged a 25-year-old man with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse, intentional killing of an animal and aggravated burglary after he allegedly stabbed his mom to death.
Zachary Hayes stabbed 63-year-old Kimberly Hayes multiple times, even after she died, at her house on Samples Road in Louisville on Friday, Sept. 8, arrest warrants state.
Investigators believe Zachary Hayes broke into his mom’s house after pry marks were located on the frame of a storm door.
Zachary Hayes was also charged with the intentional killing of an animal after a stabbed cat was found in the house, according to BCSO.
Officials said Zachary Hayes was arrested on Saturday, Sept. 9. He remains in custody on bonds totaling $1.76 million. He is scheduled to appear on Wednesday, Sept. 13.
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Biden Claims He Was at Ground Zero Day After 9/11 — But His Own Book Puts Him in DC
WASHINGTON — President Biden said Monday that he was at the World Trade Center site in New York City one day after the 9/11 attacks — despite his own autobiography placing him in DC.
The 80-year-old president also claimed he saw the fireball caused by the plane that struck the Pentagon in northern Virginia from Washington’s Union Station, when his own book says he merely saw “a brown haze of smoke.”
“Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. And I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell,” Biden told US troops in Anchorage, Alaska, on the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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Biden Admin Gloats of New Deal With Saudi Arabia on 9/11 Anniversary
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has gloated about forging a new deal with Saudi Arabia on the 22nd Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The announcement is yet another major snub from the Biden admin to victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, their families, and every other patriotic American.
On Monday, the Biden administration applauded Saudi Arabia for its involvement in a global infrastructure deal.
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Biden’s Poll Numbers Alarm Senate Democrats as Economic Messaging Falls Flat
President Joe Biden’s poor poll numbers are alarming some Senate Democrats, with one senator saying, “There’s just no enthusiasm” behind Biden in their experiences with constituents, according to the Hill.
“It does pretty much come down to ‘Well, he’s done a pretty good job, but he’s just too old,’“ the senator claimed.
Vulnerable Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), who is up for reelection this year, told the Hill that Democrats “got to be concerned about those poll numbers, you just do.”
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Billings Police Share Safety Message, Dashcam Video of Mysterious Combustibles on Streets
BILLINGS — Billings police are telling drivers to keep their heads on a swivel, as reports continue of small explosions happening around town.
Over the last few months and as recently as Thursday night, Billings police say drivers have been driving over small, tinfoil balls that are filled with an unknown substance, which triggers a reaction creating a loud bang and sparks.
“When it’s ran over by a car, it has a reaction, whatever chemicals or whatever is inside of it, it blows apart. So makes a little boom,” said. Lt. Matt Lennick with the Billings Police Department.
Billings police have received seven reports of these incidents, two of which were patrol officers themselves driving over the tinfoil balls.
No injuries or damage to vehicles has been reported.
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Breaking: Trump Honors ‘Supreme Heroism’ of First Responders, ‘Precious Souls’ Lost on 9/11
In a video posted to Truth Social on Monday, 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump honored the lives lost and the first responders who reported to the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.
“No one who lived through the horror of the September 11 terrorist attacks can ever forget the agony and the anguish of that terrible day,” Trump began.
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On Monday, officials within the Biden administration announced that a deal had been reached between the United States and Iran.
In exchange for the release of five American citizens held in Iran, five Iranians held in the US will be returned to their homeland. In addition, $6 billion in Iranian funds that had long been frozen will be given the green light to transfer as the Islamic regime sees fit.
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Car Set Ablaze at Hollywood Skateboarding Event, at Least 3 Arrested
On Saturday evening, a skateboarding event in Hollywood ended in property and a vehicle being set ablaze.
The event began at around 4:30 pm on the 1600 block of Cherokee Avenue with police saying that the event became violent at around 7:22 pm, according to KTLA 5.
Trasher Magazine, a publication dedicated to skateboarding, posted an advertisement for the Hollywood Skate Jam 2023 event, put on by F*cking Awesome, Adidas, and Thrasher.
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Chicago Woman Arrested After Allegedly Unleashing Aggressive Dogs on Police Officers
The Chicago Police Department announced the arrest of the suspect who allegedly unleashed two violent dogs on police officers Sunday.
Chicago resident Vernia Jones, 31, was charged with one felony count of aggravated battery of a peace officer, the Chicago Police Department told Fox News Digital.
She also faces two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing a peace officer.
The incident happened when officers were patrolling in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Avenue in West Garfield Park shortly after 11:20 a.m. on Sunday.
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The communist group that burned American flags outside a Jason Aldean concert in Chicago Saturday night has previously been branded a “cult” and “pyramid scheme” by scores of left-wing organizations and activists.
The Revolutionary Communist Party, also known as RevCom, was denounced by 23 grassroots abortion rights and feminist groups in a scathing 2022 letter pleading with activists to avoid the organization during protests following the overturning of the Roe v. Wade abortion legislation.
“RevCom and its fronts — RiseUp and Refuse Fascism — are notorious for raising tens of thousands of dollars and using those funds to pay RevCom leadership,” the letter read.
The group and its offshoots “essentially function as pyramid schemes that prey on social movements,” it continued, saying the groups’ “only goal appears to be gaining more followers in order to raise more and more money.”
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Elon Musk Accused of Suppressing Links to New York Times on Twitter
Elon Musk’s Twitter/X has been accused of suppressing links to the New York Times’s website on the platform, according to a new report.
Data from NewsWhip reported by Semafor suggests Twitter may be restricting access to the NY Times, an outlet repeatedly called out by Musk as “propaganda.”
Citing NewsWhip data, Semafor reports that there has been a substantial decline in engagement with posts containing links to the NYT.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter.
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From the Dust of 9/11: The Surveillance State
by Diana West
I wrote the following essay, “We Thought We Were Fighting Sharia, for the new book by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, Truth Was My Crime: A Life Fighting for Freedom.
“There are two histories: The official history, mendacious, which is given to us; and the secret history, where you find the real causes of events, a shameful history.”
— Honoré de Balzac
When we think back on the landmark free speech cases of the post-9/11-era, the phrase, “clash of civilizations” still comes to mind. This, of course, was the earliest, buzzy shorthand, strenuously disputed by the shush-minded, for the showdown between Islam and the West that materialized on center-stage as the dust of the World Trade Center still settled. On September 11, 2001, “al Qaeda” may have attacked the West, as we were told, but even then “clash” was problematic. Soon, it would be the “War on Terror” that we were enlisted to support, and terminology was a minefield from the start.
Nearly five years after the final verdict on Elisabeth Sabaditsch Wolff’s European “blasphemy” case (2009-2018), I look back on an era marooned in the discontinuity of forgotten history. “Jihad”? “Sharia”? The “good fight” for “Western civilization”? Those were the days, my friend, when Islam really seemed to be at the forefront of the juggernaut against liberty (if our leaders would only set aside their “political correctness” and acknowledge it!!!), driving jihadist shock troops of violence and mayhem against everything we thought we held precious.
We were so deceived. I now believe our deception started long before the Twin Towers “collapsed” — turned to dust is more like it — allegedly due to being struck, ignited and catastrophically weakened by two hijacked passenger jets. Now I see that at least as many anomalies detract from the government’s line on 9/11 as from its line on the assassination of JFK; I see also how easy it is to be led. Until relatively recently, I knew little of the destruction of the five other skyscrapers in the World Trade Center (WTC) complex; and more than decade passed before I think I ever saw the shocking, videotaped fall of WTC 7, which occurred six hours after the twin towers were no more. In the interest of maximum disclosure (and some embarrassment) I should admit also that I was at the time an editorial writer and newly syndicated newspaper columnist. Mea culpa. But I was a rather quick study on Islam.
If “al Qaeda” brought down the towers, then Islamic jihad was the gravest threat to law and liberty, peace and prosperity — a civilizational threat akin to communism, right? Maybe it was, maybe it is; but things break a little differently when you realize your own governments have internalized the tenets of a crypto-communism…
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A group of protesters stormed Kevin McCarthy’s office on Capitol Hill on Monday, demanding he reauthorize PEPFAR, the HIV/AIDS relief program.
‘McCarthy — pass PEPFAR now,’ they shouted and chanted as they seated themselves on the floor.
U.S. Capitol Police removed them from McCarthy’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building, which is across the street from his official speaker’s office in the Capitol building.
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Mayor Johnson Says the Way to Grade Chicago Schools is ‘How Much Money We Given Them’
Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org
“As a former educator and longtime employee of the Chicago teachers union, what grade would you give the current system and why?”
That question was put to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson during his appearance Thursday night at the Economic Club of Chicago.
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New Mexico Citizens Rise Up After Democrat Governor Violates 2nd Amendment: ‘We Will Not Comply!’
The people of New Mexico have been flooding the streets in protest after the state’s Democrat governor violated their Second Amendment rights with an unconstitutional gun ban.
Patriots gathered in Old Town Albuquerque to protest against the suspension of open and concealed carry laws by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
As Slay News reported, Lujan Grisham signed an executive order last week to strip the people of Albuquerque of their God-given rights under the U.S. Constitution.
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Renowned Criminology Professor Who ‘Proved’ Systemic Racism Fired for Faking Data, Studies Retracted
A renowned criminology professor who “proved” that racism is systemic in America’s law enforcement and American society has been fired for faking data and his studies have now been retracted.
Eric Stewart, 51, a now former criminology professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, is now out of work due to “extreme negligence” in his research. According to Google Scholar, Stewart and his work were cited over 8,500 times by other researchers.
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Revealed: Dem Candidate for Virginia House Performed Sex Acts Online With Husband for Money
A new report has revealed that a Democrat candidate for a key seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates engaged in sexual activities along with her husband for a live camera and urged viewers to fund them with “tips” for particular requests.
40-year-old Susanna Gibson, a nurse practitioner and mother who is running in a competitive suburban Richmond district, displayed sex acts on Chaturbate, a platform that states its name comes from “the act of masturbating while chatting online,” per The Washington Post.
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Ron DeSantis Demands US Come Clean on Saudi Arabia’s Role in 9/11
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called Monday for “full transparency” about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks after conferring with grieving families who lost loved ones in the atrocity.
DeSantis’ demand that Biden administration declassify any and all outstanding secret documents on the attacks also amounted to an indirect shot at former President Donald Trump, whose association with Saudi-backed LIV Golf has rankled 9/11 families.
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A judge ruled on Friday that the man who drove onto a closed freeway and fatally struck a BLM protester in 2020 will spend 6 and a half years in prison.
In July, Dawit Kelete pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault with aggravating substantial injuries to the victim, as well as reckless driving after driving a car onto I-5 in Seattle that was closed by the Washington State Patrol for Black Lives Matter protestors on July 4, 2020, killing one and seriously injuring another.
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted the federal judge set to hear his trial on charges that he unlawfully tried to remain in power following his 2020 election loss, calling on the judge to recuse herself from the case.
Lawyers for the 77-year-old former president argued that US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has made “disqualifying” statements while presiding over the trials of individuals who entered the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The attorneys claim Chutkan’s remarks will “taint” the proceedings against Trump.
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On Friday, former President Donald Trump called out the Washington, DC watchdog group that is representing a group of Colorado voters and attempting to use the Fourteenth Amendment to block him from appearing on the state’s ballot in 2024.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “The group suing me in Colorado to ridiculously try and Unconstitutionally keep me off the ballot… is TRUMP DERANGED ‘CREW’.”
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Videos Show Prized Austin Greenbelt Destroyed by Homeless Encampment
A series of videos posted Monday on Twitter shows the extent of damage Austin, Texas’ West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt has endured from a homeless encampment.
The videos, from Austin activist Jamie Hammonds, show the encampment covered in trash “as far as the eye can see,” including liquor bottles, needles, Narcan, and other junk.
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Eventbrite Deletes James Lindsay’s “Save Our Kids” Event
An imminent “Save Our Kids” gathering in Calgary, helmed by cultural critic Dr. James Lindsay, has abruptly been removed by Eventbrite, the ticketing and event management company.
The rationale provided was direct and exacting, stating that the said event was tantamount to “Hateful, Dangerous or Violent Content and Events.”
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— the Building Energy Act (Geg), With High Estimates Indicating the Law Will Cost Germany’s Economy Over €1 Trillion Over the Next 20 Years.
While politicians belonging to Germany’s three-way politician applauded the heating law coming into force on Friday last week, the political fallout has likely yet to be fully realized.
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Crumbling Britain Pledges Record Sum to Climate Fund at G20
British schools are crumbling, houses remain generally unaffordable and hospital waiting lists are so long that tens of thousands of people are dying before receiving treatment. Yet Rishi Sunak, who once talked of weaning the country off the “magic money tree,” has green-lighted the UK’s biggest one-off financial contribution to a fund for tackling climate change.
Taxpayers will now be forking out £1.62 billion—which equates to $2 billion, or just under €1.9 billion—for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). A fund within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the GCF supports developing countries to reduce global emissions.
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A Pakistani international cricketer was sentenced in his absence to 12 years in prison on Monday for placing a bounty on the head of a Dutch politician, but the Netherlands doesn’t have an extradition treaty with Pakistan.
Cricketer Khalid Latif, who offered a $23,000 bounty for anyone who killed trenchant Islam critic and Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Hague court. The court said in a statement: “a long-term unconditional term of imprisonment is the only suitable punishment for these types of offences.”
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Germany: Wagenknecht May Establish New Left-Wing Anti-Globalist Party
After a great many months of speculation, Sahra Wagenknecht, who formerly served as a parliamentary group leader for Germany’s Die Linke before being ostracized from the party due to its shift towards left-liberal and globalist positions, has signaled that she may form her own political party.
In her statements, given exclusively to the Berlin-based tabloid newspaper Bild am Sonntag on Sunday, September 10th, Wagenknecht, among other things, laid out what the not-yet-formed party’s core ideology tenets would be.
While she brushed off the newspaper’s claim that the decision to establish a new party has already been finalized, anonymous confidants of the politician have said otherwise.
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Germany: AfD’s Prophet Wins First Round of Mayoral Vote, Poised to Win Run-Off
Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has scored another victory in another local election, with Jörg Prophet winning the first round of voting on Sunday In the battle for the mayoralty in Nordhausen.
Although the election will head to a second round, the 61-year-old entrepreneur won 42.1 percent of the vote on Sunday, putting him in a strong position to win the run-off vote. The election victory occurred in Thuringia, the same German state where the AfD’s Robert Sesselmann won the Sonneberg district administrator’s office in June, which was the AfD’s first victory for a district administrator.
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Italy’s Local Governments Pave New Silk Road
Italian premier Giorgia Meloni firmly signalled her country’s intention to leave the controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the G20 summit this week as Rome looks to begin an economic decoupling process from China without burning too many bridges with Beijing.
Against vocal opposition from the pro-Atlanticist lobby, Italy became the only G7 nation to join the initiative in 2019, meaning billions of euros were channelled into Italian port and rail infrastructure to integrate Italy into a wider Beijing-led geopolitical order.
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NATO to Stage Largest War Games Since Cold War — Report
NATO is poised to hold early next year its largest military exercises since the Cold War era, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The drills will simulate a potential Russian invasion and is intended to increase the bloc’s readiness for such a scenario, according to the article.
Bearing the name Steadfast Defender, the exercises will involve around 41,000 troops, more than 50 ships, and between 500 and 700 combat air missions, according to the report. While the exercises are designed to simulate a clash with a fictional coalition named ‘Occasus,’ NATO officials told the FT that the maneuvers are “seen as a key part of demonstrating to Moscow that the alliance is prepared to fight.”
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‘Pipigate’ Investigated by Belgian Parliament
Was it an air guitar solo or a charade of public urination?
So ran the debate in the Belgian parliament last Thursday over the alleged bad party behaviour of Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne and his friends, the BBC reports.
Part of the ongoing political fallout saga known in Belgian media as ‘Pipigate,’ Quickenborne, of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats party, had to answer to his country’s parliament over the events at his 50th birthday party on August 14th.
Police surveillance footage showed guests leaving the politician’s home late in the evening and then urinating on the empty police van parked outside.
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Polish PM Promises Average Pay at Over €2,000 Per Month in 6 Years Time
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that Poland should be able to reach French levels of average incomes “but without the riots and cars set alight,” which would amount to €2,000 per month in a matter of six years. Currently, the average wage in Poland is about 7,000 zlotys, which is approximately €1,500 euro.
[Comment: Good trolling of the French, there.]
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UK: Sunak Fears Changing Benefit Program Before Election
The British government has drawn up plans to crack down on people claiming sickness benefits when they could still go to work, but is holding off on enacting them until after the next general election. It appears that top officials are worried that making it harder for Britons to claim they are too sick to work will reduce the number of Tory voters—a pool that is already shrinking, fast.
Taxpayers now spend £26 billion every year supporting those the government believes to be too sick to work; a real-term increase of £6 billion since before the COVID pandemic, The Daily Telegraph reports.
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2 Russian Intelligence Agencies Fight Over Spoils From Wagner Group’s African Operations
After the death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, two Russian intelligence services are competing to take over the mercenary group’s main turf, which is its very lucrative African operations.
By far the most important operations for Russia under Wagner were in African countries such as Libya and the Central African Republic, where mercenaries gained trust and got rich supporting military leaders and autocrats. Their efforts helped Moscow spread its influence in Africa while weakening Western powers like France and the U.S.
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G20 Meeting Concludes With Diplomatic Win for Russia
While the war in Ukraine remains divisive among the G20 countries, against all odds, its leaders reached a final joint declaration at last weekend’s G20 summit.
As this year’s host, India gathered together the G20 (Groups of Twenty) countries in the Indian capital of New Delhi. The G20, founded to solve international economic issues, accounts for 90% of the world’s GDP and comprises 70% of the world’s population.
Predictably, the section in the declaration dealing with the conflict in Ukraine received the lion’s share of interest.
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Kim Jong-un to Visit Russia — Kremlin
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is set to pay an official visit to Russia in the near future at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said in a statement on Monday.
The announcement of the visit, which the Kremlin said would take place “in the coming days,” followed a report by South Korean broadcaster YTN, which cited a senior government official as saying that Kim was “slowly moving inside North Korea on a private train toward the northeastern border.” Russia and North Korea share a short stretch of border near Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok.
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Local Russian Elections Yield Expected Results
There were no surprises in Russia as the governing party United Russia dominated gubernatorial, regional, and local elections held on Sunday in 79 regions of the country. According to results and projections, United Russia is set to receive large majorities in most of the races across Russia, with 60-90% of the population backing the party. Sergey Sobyanin, Moscow’s Mayor since 2010, was easily reelected with 76% of the votes. The Kremlin’s critics argue that elections are not free, as the real opponents of the government have been cowed, exiled, or, like Alexei Navalny, jailed, with critical media shut down. All other significant political forces, including opposition parties, are broadly loyal to Putin and support the war in Ukraine, which Russia launched eighteen months ago.
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Milley Says Ukraine Has 30-45 Days of ‘Fighting Weather’ for Counteroffensive
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Sunday said Ukrainian troops are making “steady progress” in the counteroffensive against Russia but are running out of time to achieve key objectives.
“There’s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days’ worth of fighting weather left, so the Ukrainians aren’t done,” Milley told the BBC on Sunday. “And then the rains will come in; it will become very muddy, and it will be very difficult to maneuver at that point and then you will get the deep winter.”
America’s highest-ranking military officer added it was “way too early” to say the counteroffensive has failed, noting they “haven’t finished the fighting part of what they’re trying to accomplish.”
Some military analysts have told The Hill that Ukraine can power through the next few months regardless of weather, so long as weaponry, equipment and supplies keep coming.
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, told the BBC that Ukraine would continue its operation “one way or another,” and that forces would adjust to the wet and cold weather, rather than halt the offensive.
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Second UK Challenger 2 Tank Reportedly Destroyed in Ukraine
“No Challenger 2 has been lost in combat since it was first deployed in 1994, although one was destroyed in a friendly-fire incident in Iraq in 2003,” The Guardian reported Wednesday after the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed the first Challenger 2 was destroyed on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Russian media now says it has happened again: “Russian forces have reportedly destroyed a second Challenger 2 main battle tank out of the 14 that London has supplied to Kiev, RIA Novosti reported on Saturday, citing a local civic leader from Zaporozhye Region.” If confirmed, this would mark another devastating development for Kiev and its backers.
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Spanish Security Company Recruiting Soldiers for Ukraine
Get your soldier certificate. Join Ukraine’s International Legion. Earn €3,400 a month.
So offers a private tactical and security training company in Spain.
According to Euronews, G.O.A. Tactical, based in Lleida, is recruiting soldiers for Ukraine.
“Our company has contacts with defence ministries all over the world, including Ukraine. What we do is evaluate a person who is interested in fighting and give them the contacts so they can get in touch with them,” Francisco Galvan, director and head trainer of G.O.A. Tactical, said.
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General Mark Milley, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would become ‘very difficult to manoeuvre’ in the region’s autumn rains.
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‘I’m Gonna Go to Bed’: Biden Cut Off by Handlers During Train Wreck Press Conference in Vietnam
Joe Biden was abruptly cut off while rambling on during a press conference in Vietnam on Sunday.
Biden was in Hanoi talking about how productive the G20 Summit hosted by the “third world” was as he bizarrely declared he was going to “go to bed” after the event.
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Anthony Albanese Urged to Scrap the Voice to Parliament Vote to Avoid ‘Dividing the Nation’
Anthony Albanese returned from a series of overseas summits on Monday and told parliament the referendum would go ahead on October 14.
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Coles to Introduce Body-Worn Cameras to Fight Theft and Violence in Stores
Coles is introducing staff body cameras to problem stores in response to a record loss due to shoplifting.
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So called ‘Mob Tix’, which give up to 80 per cent discounts to Indigenous Australians for elite cultural events such as ballet and opera, have been slammed as ‘racist’.
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Norah Head Crash: Teenager Bryce Fahey Was Expecting a Baby Before He Died in Collision
Bryce Fahey, 15, and another boy, 14, had been in an allegedly stolen Mazda 6 sedan on Sunday morning when they suddenly crashed into parked cars on NSW’s Central Coast.
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Sky News Australia has launched legal action against RMIT FactLab over its verdicts that deem certain claims from the broadcaster’s presenters to be false, demanding they are retracted.
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Just one month out from the historic referendum, support for the Yes vote has fallen off a cliff with the polling suggesting the majority of Australians plan to reject the suggested change to the Constitution.
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Islamist Fulani Raiders Burn Catholic Seminarian Alive in Nigeria
A mob of Fulani Muslim raiders torched a Catholic parish rectory in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, killing a 25-year-old seminarian, local media reported.
Two priests, Fathers Emmanuel Okolo and Monday Noah, managed to escape from St. Raphael’s parish rectory but the seminarian, Na’aman Danlami, was trapped inside the building and burned to death in the attack that took place the evening of Thursday, September 7.
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Victims of Gun Battle in Mexican Border Town Rushed to US Hospitals
Injured victims, including American citizens, were rushed to U.S. hospitals after a gun battle broke out between rival cartels in a Mexican border town over the weekend, according to authorities.
The harrowing incident unfolded early on Saturday morning in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, located in Tamaulipas state across from Roma, Texas.
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After an African migrant escaped from a psychiatric hospital in the German city of Wiesloch and killed a 30-year-old saleswoman, he will again avoid jail time. Instead, he is being sent back to the same psychiatric clinic he just escaped from, and the Green party is now being blamed for the incident
The 33-year-old suspect, Ahmad M., who came to Germany as an asylum seeker, was attending a “work therapy” session, which is offered by the Nordbaden Psychiatric Center. Despite his violent history, he was permitted to work at an unspecified location due to “progress” doctors said he had made in his psychiatric condition. While working there, he escaped the location and ran into downtown Wiesloch. Although accompanied by psychiatric staff, they lost sight of the man, who then proceeded to find a target he picked at random.
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American Kids Turned Away From NYC Schools to Make Way for Illegals: ‘No More Room’
Thousands of American children have been turned away from schools in New York City as districts make room for illegal aliens.
When the children of NYC went back to school, many were reported told that there is “no more room” due to the influx of illegal border crossers in the “sanctuary city.”
A staggering 21,000 American kids were turned away to make way for the arrival of migrant children.
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Powerful Democratic billionaire donor Michael Bloomberg on Monday ratcheted up the pressure on President Biden over the migrant crisis — skewering him for turning a blind eye to the US’s broken border laws.
Bloomberg — while heaping praise on New York City Mayor Eric Adams for doing an “admirable job” trying to cope with the lack of federal support over the debacle — raged in a column that the White House will be responsible for sweeping Democratic losses up and down the ticket in 2024 if the Biden administration doesn’t wake up.
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Dutch Tourists Choose Hungary Due to Its Anti-Globalist Stances on Migration, LGBTQ
Hungary is turning into a top destination for Dutch people and part of the reason has to do with politics, according to a Dutch MP and the founder of the Forum For Democracy party.
“I’m very excited to be here in Hungary because I’ve been a great admirer of your country for years,” Dutch MP and parliamentary leader Thierry Baudet said on Sunday.
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A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty on Friday to three counts of forced labor and two counts of conspiracy to commit forced labor after he allegedly conspired with others to bring two minors from Guatemala to the US to work in their homes.
34-year-old Lorenza Domingo-Castaneda, pleaded guilty to the counts in the Central District of Illinois. Co-defendant Catarina Domingo-Juan, 37, pleaded guilty to the same counts on August 18, and another co-defendant, Domingo Francisco-Juan, 43, pleaded guilty on August 30 to forced labor, conspiracy to commit forced labor, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to the Department of Justice.
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Fury at attitude of guards supposedly paid out of £480m by UK taxpayers to head off migrants
French police have admitted they are letting some migrant families cross the Channel to the UK because ‘we cannot welcome all the misery in the world in France’.
This is despite UK taxpayers funding Rishi Sunak’s £480million deal with Emmanuel Macron in a bid to stop the crossings.
The Prime Minister struck a three-year deal with the French President in March to inject hundreds of millions of pounds into France. The money will partly be used to increase patrols and enhance technology along the beaches.
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Manhattan DA Won’t Prosecute Curtis Sliwa Over Migrant Protest Outside Gracie Mansion
Curtis Sliwa won’t face prosecution after all following his arrest at a raucous protest outside Gracie Mansion over New York’s migrant housing crisis.
The Guardian Angels founder, dressed in his signature red beret and jacket, didn’t even have to appear before a judge on Monday — and was instead handed a slip of paper from a Manhattan Criminal Court clerk saying prosecutors won’t be moving forward with the case.
“That was the quickest, easy pass of criminal justice that I’ve ever had,” Sliwa, 69, said while holding up the document.
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Meloni to Crack Down on Adult Migrants Posing as Minors
Abusing the asylum system by faking one’s age is an all-too-common occurrence in Italy, but that could change soon.
Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Italian government has begun to overhaul its current legislation on unaccompanied minors arriving on its shores to root out fakers looking for an easy way in and securing further benefits, Il Giornale wrote on Sunday, September 10th.
According to the journal, the Interior Ministry is preparing the new legislation as we speak, with concrete age verification proposals expected to be put forward in the coming weeks.
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Migrant Arrivals Continue on Lampedusa
(ANSA) — ROME, SEP 11 — Some 300 migrants and refugees arrived on Lampedusa in seven landings on Monday.
The figures are updated to around 9:45 local time.
One group of 40 people from Ivory Coast, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Cameroon disembarked at the commercial port after being rescued by the civil rescue sail boat Nadir.
Another group of 44 people landed autonomously in the same spot.
Following the latest arrivals there were 526 migrants and refugees in the Lampedusa hotspot, compared to 19 on Sunday morning.
228 people were due to be transferred off the tiny island by passenger ferry later in the day.
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Minnesota to Issue Driver’s Licenses to 81,000 Illegal Aliens
Officials in Minnesota are set to issue driver’s licenses to 81,000 illegal aliens residing in the state.
The new law, dubbed “Driver’s License For All,” comes into effect on October 1.
Under the law, illegal aliens will be officially eligible to apply for driver’s licenses.
However, the move is raising major concerns about voter fraud ahead of the critical 2024 elections.
A Minnesota driver’s license is all a person needs to register to vote online.
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More than 23,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, according to official figures.
It comes after 1,034 people were rescued in 18 dinghies in just three days from Friday to Sunday during the September heatwave before being brought ashore in Dover, sending the total for this year to 23,103.
Images show young male asylum seekers queuing today to go into the Atrium Hotel in Feltham next to London Heathrow. Numerous former hotels have been taken over by the Home Office to house asylum seekers.
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The NYPD can expect a brain drain thanks to a flood of retirements if overtime is cut as proposed by Mayor Adams to help plug a multibillion-dollar, migrant-fueled budget hole, police sources say.
“A lot of people that are eligible to retire are going to leave if the overtime stops because overtime is pensionable,” an NYPD sergeant said Monday.
New York’s Finest “haven’t heard anything officially” about a potential reduction in overtime, but the source told The Post that such a move wouldn’t make financial sense.
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Over 300 West African Illegal Immigrants Flood Across US-Mexico Border Into Arizona
More than 300 mostly West African immigrants illegally entered the United States through the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona on Tuesday, something the Border Patrol described as a daily occurrence, according to Breitbart News.
Border Patrol agents say that the large group of illegal immigrants, which included persons from Peru, India, Ecuador, and several Middle Eastern countries, will be released into the domestic United States unless a background check shows a criminal record, the outlet reports.
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Reward for Pennsylvania Escaped Illegal Alien Murderer Raised to $25,000
On Monday, police raised the reward for information leading to escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante to $25,000 as the search for him approaches two weeks.
Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said in a news conference Monday afternoon that “we don’t have a defined search area at this point,” with a spotting over the weekend forcing a “change in direction” for investigators.
“We’re considering and certainly acting on and investigating any piece of information or tip that we receive,” Bivens said.
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— as pair are jailed after being detained at Dover
Two migrants who were involved in an attack on French officers before arriving in the UK on a small boat have been jailed.
Salih Taib Abdullah, 33, from Iraq, and Ahmed Omar Saleh Khater, 25, from Sudan, were sentenced to a combined two years and two months in prison for attempting to arrive in the UK illegally at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday.
Violence broke out at Oye Plage near Calais in June when a team of UK-funded gendarmes came across a group of fifty-one migrants, including Abdullah and Khater, trying to launch a small boat to the UK, the Home Office said.
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Survey: Poles Fear Left-Liberal Opposition Election Victory Will Lead to Open Borders
Nearly half of Poles are convinced that if the Civic Coalition takes power, Donald Tusk will bow to pressure from Brussels and agree to accept migrants from the Middle East and Africa.
The polling agency Social Changes, on behalf of the news outlet wPolityce.pl, asked Poles: “Do you think, if Donald Tusk wins the election and becomes prime minister, he will agree to accept immigrants from the Middle East and Africa as part of the relocation mechanism imposed by the European Union?”
To this question, 45 percent of respondents answered positively, with 22 percent of this group indicating the answer “definitely yes” while 23 percent said “rather yes.”
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Two in three voters are dissatisfied with the Government’s handling of immigration, reveals a report.
Public discontent over the contentious topic is at its highest since the survey by pollsters Ipsos and think-tank British Future began in 2015.
Only one in five (22 per cent) Conservative supporters are happy with how ministers are dealing with migration, with more than half (56 per cent) unhappy.
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Biden’s Department of Education is Investigating Christopher Rufo for “Misgendering”
The Department of Education, under President Joe Biden’s administration, is wielding its influence against Christopher Rufo, a conservative advocate and the New College of Florida.
Allegedly, the civil liberty offenses committed by Rufo include the “misgendering” of certain individuals and the closing down of the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) division within the school.
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Instagram Censors Chloe Cole After She Shared DeTransition Journey
Instagram has taken action against Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old who identifies herself as a “former trans kid” and had undergone a double mastectomy at the tender age of 15. The platform has restricted her profile, deeming its content to be “violent.”
Chloe Cole shared the news with her followers, saying, “Facebook has notified me that my Instagram bio is too ‘violent.’ If you think reading it is violent, imagine actually living through all that!” Cole’s bio explicitly states, “19, female (XX), former trans kid, started T & Blockers at 13, Double Mastectomy at 15, detransed at 16.”
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Marxist-Led ALA Honored by Barbara Bush Foundation
A new report has revealed that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is putting on an event in October in which it will be offering an award to the American Library Association, an organization marked by numerous controversies including its attempt to sabotage a Christian author, giving out its own honors to groups that push “LGBTQ+” literature into children’s schools and being led by an openly Marxist president named Emily Drabinski.
The group has also reportedly been caught providing small-town librarians with tips on how to quietly push “LGBT” agendas on children, particularly in a way that goes against the community’s values and subverts its standards.
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Milwaukee Police Will Hide Victims’ Gender, Race After Claims of ‘Misgendering’
The Milwaukee Police Department will no longer list a crime victim’s race or gender in public releases after previous instances of misgendering transgender crime victims.
“It’s a way to preserve the dignity and privacy of all victims,” Heather Hough, Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) chief of staff said last week, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “MPD wants to ensure the best service possible for our entire community.”
The announcement was made last Wednesday after the department held discussions with members of the LGBTQ community, according to Hough.
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A Muslim father in Maryland says Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is holding religious students “hostage” by refusing to allow parents to opt children out of controversial content related to gender.
Kareem Monib, 45, is the father of four sons and has lived in Maryland for 20 years. In March, he became actively involved in the local community after the Maryland House of Delegates voted to use state funding for “gender-affirming treatments,” a term that Monib described as “gender-mutilating surgery.”
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Police Declare ‘Biohazard’ After Transgender Destroys Teen Girl’s Car Over ‘Transphobia’ Claim
Police in Portland have declared a “biohazard” after a transgender activist destroyed a teenage girl’s car and defecated inside the vehicle.
Eric Neil Bowen, a 44-year-old male who claims to be “female” and goes by “Vivian Shemansky,” accused the girl of being “transphobic” before he wrecked her car.
Bowen reportedly exploded in a rage after the 17-year-old girl parked near his tent in the Hollywood District of the city on August 27.
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School Rehires Transgender Female Coach After He Used Girls’ Locker Room & Bathroom
Via The College Fix
Board members of the Gettysburg Area School District in Pennsylvania recently voted to rehire a transgender female tennis coach despite reports he had used a girls’ locker room and bathroom in the past year.
According to PennLive.com, the school board rehired Sasha Yates on September 5 by a 6-2 vote after deadlocking 3-3 on the issue a few weeks earlier.
The report notes board members provided “scant” details about Yates’ coaching contract, but denied it was due to his gender preference.
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Sometimes This Stuff Writes Itself
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Winner: Novaxx Djokovic.
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The COVID Crisis Response Has Driven a Global Increase in ‘Learning Poverty’
International Literacy Day, celebrated on September 8 each year, is a global observance dedicated to promoting the significance of literacy as a human right and a powerful driver of sustainable development.
Literacy is a key ingredient of personal development and social progress because it empowers people to access education and information, enabling them to make informed decisions and participate fully in society. It also plays a pivotal role in reducing poverty, improving health outcomes and fostering gender equality. International Literacy Day reminds us that literacy is not just a fundamental human right but a catalyst for positive change, both at the individual and societal level.
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German mental health clinic performance is pretty poor. If they think he is schizophrenic then he should have been on antipsychotic medication. Many medications are given by injection to deal with the issue of compliance and efficacy. Terrorists would be ideal candidates for injection treatment to avoid a dangerous relapse. Clearly he wasn’t medicated properly which means the German mental health system is pretty hopeless. I’m starting to envy the third world countries. I was speaking to an Indian woman and she said the family just ring the hospital and they come and get them and treat them. In western countries we have cut funding so money can be spent on other crap so people with mental health issues can’t get treated.