An F-35 fighter jet out of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort near Charleston, South Carolina ran into difficulties yesterday, and the pilot was forced to eject. The plane continued on autopilot, and its location was unknown. Last night the US government asked the public for assistance in finding the plane. Then today debris, possibly associated with the missing F-35, was found in South Carolina. The pilot of the plane is in the hospital recovering.
In other news, the Ukrainian military said its forces have wrested control of a village from Russia in the country’s east.
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Bankruptcies on the Rise in the Netherlands; Up 5% in August
The number of bankruptcies in the Netherlands has been rising for 16 months in a row, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on Tuesday. In August, the courts declared 5 percent more companies bankrupt than in July, corrected for the number of court hearing days.
Not corrected for hearing days, 308 companies and institutions went bankrupt in August.
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German Home Building Permits Plunge as Industry Calls for Stimulus
FRANKFURT, Sept 18 (Reuters) — Building permits for apartments in Germany fell 31.5% in July from a year earlier, the statistics office disclosed on Monday,…
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Japanese Panic Buy Gold as Yen Implodes, Inflation Soars
A gold-buying frenzy in hyperinflating banana-republic basket cases such as Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Argentina or Turkey makes sense; one can also imagine Indians and Chinese liquidating rushing to buy the precious metal, as they periodically do (for other, not less relevant, reasons). But Japan?
That’s right: the otherwise quiet (and rapidly aging) population of Japan has found a new infatuation with gold, and it has the relentless money-printing juggernaut that is the BOJ to thank for it.
As the FT reports, the price of gold in Japan (denominated in that joke of a currency, the Japanese lira yen) has jumped to an all-time high as the yen extends its historic slide against the US dollar, vaporizing the purchasing power of residents and forcing cash-rich households to find a hedge against ubiquitous inflation.
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Tucker Carlson broke the Internet with his new video on Twitter/X about hyperinflation and “reckless monetary policy.”
Carlson warns viewers about how Democrat President Joe Biden and Congress are leading us down a path we may not recover from.
Tucker’s interview with Javier Milei in Argentina, a nation ruined by inflation, has 340.7 million views in less than one day.
“Hyperinflation and reckless monetary policy could soon devastate the global economy,” Tucker says in the video.
“We traveled to Argentina, where it’s already happened.
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“File the F***ing Motion”: McCarthy Melts Down After Gaetz Threatens Removal
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has McF***ing had it with GOP threats to remove him for failing to perform on a laundry list of demands from his party’s Freedom Caucus members.
“If you want to file the motion, file the f***ing motion,” McCarthy told GOP colleagues Thursday, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) criticized him earlier in the week — giving him a list of demands while threatening to bring a motion to vacate McCarthy’s chair.
Gaetz and other Republicans have slammed McCarthy for dragging his feet on a Biden impeachment inquiry, which the Speaker finally announced earlier in the week. Gaetz, however, says this isn’t enough.
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Albuquerque Gun Shops See Spike in Sales After Governor’s Ban
Gun stores in Albuquerque, New Mexico have seen a surge in customers after Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order banning the carrying of firearms in and around the city.
“Today was the busiest day I’ve had in months,” Arnie Gallegos, owner of ABQ Guns in Albuquerque, told The Epoch Times. “I’ve been getting a lot of people who have never come into a gun shop before who are rightfully concerned about their freedoms.
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Biden’s Gaffetastic Week — More Than a Dozen Lies and Bumbles
Rare is the day that President Biden doesn’t tell a lie or garble a sentence, but even by his standards, this week was a mess — featuring ramblings in Vietnam, fibs about where he was around 9/11, claims he taught Ivy Leaguers political theory, and more.
The horror show kicked off in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday when the 80-year-old commander-in-chief began a press conference by forgetting that a classic Robin Williams film was, you know, a film.
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Biden Backs Auto Union in Strike for 40% Pay Hike and 32-Hour Week
WASHINGTON — President Biden endorsed a United Auto Workers strike at manufacturing plants of the “big three” domestic car makers as the union demands a 40% pay raise and a 32-hour work week.
“Over the last two — past decade, auto companies have seen record profits, including the last few years, because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices of the UAW workers,” Biden, 80, said at the White House Friday, hours after the strike began.
“Those record profits have not been shared fairly, in my view, with those workers.”
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Breaking: Sound of Freedom Hero Tim Ballard Says He is Considering a Run for Romney’s Senate Seat
Tim Ballard, former DHS agent, founder of Our Rescue, and hero on whom the hit film Sound of Freedom is based, has said he will likely run for a Senate seat in Utah. He would the seat from Mitt Romney, who recently announced his intention to not seek a second term in office.
Ballard made the remarks during an appearance on the Sean Spicer Show. “I keep getting phone calls from people,” he said. He said it’s easier for him to consider it now that Romney announced his decision to vacate the seat.
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Breaking: Armed Man Pretending to be Federal Agent Arrested at Los Angeles RFK Jr. Event
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been denied secret service protection by the federal government, despite his numerous requests and persistent threats to his safety. On Saturday night in LA, the fears of his campaign came true when an armed gunman posed as a federal marshal at a campaign event.
Police were alerted to a disturbance at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre at 4:30 pm. Breitbart reported that police said “that a male was in front of the event venue with ‘a badge on their lapel, a gun, and a shoulder holster, and claimed to be a U.S. Marshall.’“
The man claimed to be on the event staff, but no one on staff could corroborate his story. A note viewed by Breitbart, provides by an officer at the scene to the campaign read “Male imp. fed. agent w/ handgun and ammo exposed. Claimed to be employed for event, but wasn’t recognized by sec.”
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Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Biden’s Department of Justice to go after President Donald Trump, is now seeking to prevent the former president and current Republican front runner from speaking publicly about the federal government’s prosecution of him.
In August, Smith asked for a gag order against Trump in the case he brought against him in Florida after the Department of Justice instructed the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago home and seize his personal documents. They claim that Trump should not be permitted to speak about “sensitive and confidential information” as it would have a “harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case.”
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Breaking: Three Men Accused of Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Plot ACQUITTED
The last three men who were charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer have all been found not guilty. William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were among the 14 charged in the alleged plot, and all three have been acquitted.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of kidnapping conspiracy in 2022. The two were also found guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction such as a bomb to destroy a bridge near the governor’s vacation home.
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After a pilot ejected during a “mishap” on Sunday afternoon, the US military is still looking for a missing $80 million F-35.
Joint Base Charleston posted on Facebook that personnel from the base and “…Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort (MCAS Beaufort SC) are responding to a mishap involving an F-35B Lightning II jet from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 501 with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.”
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Breaking: Debris Found in South Carolina Amid Search for Missing F-35
A debris field has been found in the area of Indiantown, in Williamsburg County, South Carolina amid officials’ search for an F-35 military jet that went missing on Sunday.
According to News 2 NBC, officials with Joint Base Charleston confirmed the discovery on Monday evening.
The search for the missing $80 million jet began on Sunday after a pilot ejected from the plane and was found on South Kenwood Drive in North Charleston. The pilot was transferred to a local medical center and is in stable condition.
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Breaking: Ken Paxton Speaks Out After Failed Impeachment: ‘Today, the Truth Prevailed’
After he wwas acquitted on all impeachment charges in the Texas state Senate on Saturday, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a blistering statement.
“Today,” he wrote, “the truth prevailed.”
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Breaking: Biden’s DOJ Secures Conviction Against Journalist Over Reporting on January 6
An independent journalist has been found guilty by a DC jury on charges related to January 6, 2021.
Stephen Horn was found guilty of entering or remaining in a restricted area, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building.
In a post to X, Horn wrote, “I told the same truth to the jury that I posted along with my video on January 7th: ‘I did not enter the capitol building as part of the protest, or for cheap thrills, but to accurately document and record a significant event which was taking place.’“
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Burglar Foolishly Warns Armed Homeowner ‘You’re Gonna Have to Kill Me’
A burglar made a big mistake by challenging an armed homeowner to try and kill him during a home invasion.
The Georgia homeowner confronted the crook in the basement of his property on Thursday, Fayette County Sheriff Barry Babb told WAGA-TV.
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California to Spend $267M to Crack Down on ‘Brazen’ Smash-and-Grab Store Thefts
California will spend $267 million to help dozens of local law enforcement agencies increase patrols, buy surveillance equipment and conduct other activities aimed at cracking down on smash-and-grab robberies happening around the state.
Officials from the California Highway Patrol and San Francisco and Los Angeles law enforcement agencies made the announcement Friday. It follows a string of brazen luxury store robberies in recent months, where dozens of individuals come into a store and begin stealing en masse.
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Cash Bail is Out in Illinois Starting Monday
An Illinois law eliminating cash bail state wide is set to go into effect on Monday, officials have revealed.
According to NBC 5 Chicago, this comes two months after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that the “Pretrial Fairness Act,” which is part of the larger “SAFE-T Act,” was constitutional.
The law faced dozens of states’ attorneys filing suits against it, and their appeals were heard by the state’s Supreme Court, which ruled in July that the law could stand.
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Census Dooms Democrats: U.S Incomes Have Fallen Every Year of Biden’s Presidency
The new U.S. Census numbers spell doom for the Democrats as they show Americans have become increasingly worse off under President Joe Biden’s economy.
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya broke down the new Census numbers in a post on Twitter/X.
The figures are not good for Biden.
Palihapitiya said: “US incomes have fallen every year of the Biden Presidency thus far.
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The number of charges filed in crime-ridden St. Louis, Missouri, has already more than doubled in just three months since George Soros-backed progressive prosecutor Kim Gardner resigned in disgrace, it emerged Friday.
Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore, 54, took over from Gardner, 48, after she suddenly quit in May amid multiple efforts to remove her as murders reached a 50-year high.
Since he was sworn in on May 31, Gore has already filed 1,400 cases — more than double the 620 cases Gardner filed during the same period last year, according to a review of cases by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Wants to Open City-Owned Grocery Stores
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is looking into opening taxpayer-funded, city-owned grocery stores in areas in which businesses have pulled out due to rampant crime.
Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to look into the possibility of opening city-owned grocery stores. The first step in the partnership will be to perform a feasibility study, but the city did not provide a timeline, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Johnson claimed his administration is “committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities.”
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The District of Columbia (DC) Court of Appeals has rejected Meta’s appeal to quash a sweeping subpoena that demanded it hand over “documents sufficient to identify all Facebook groups, pages, and accounts that have violated Facebook’s COVID-19 misinformation policy with respect to content concerning vaccines” to the DC government.
Millions of users, many of whom made truthful statements that challenged the government’s Covid narrative, are likely to be swept up in this government data grab due to the scope of Facebook’s “Covid-19 misinformation” rules and the number of users that were impacted by them.
Facebook’s Covid-19 misinformation rules prohibited many truthful statements during the pandemic. For example, at one point claiming that “vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease they are meant to protect against” was banned — an assertion that health officials have now reluctantly admitted is true.
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CVS Store Manager Killed on the Job by Shoplifter as Epidemic Grows Increasingly Deadly
A CVS store manager was killed on the job by a man suspected of shoplifting, police say — the latest example of a US retail theft epidemic that is becoming increasingly deadly.
Michael Jacobs, 49 — an operations manager at CVS Pharmacy in Mesa, Ariz., where he had worked for the past 20-plus years — was shot and killed allegedly by Jared Sevey in the evening hours of Sept. 7, according to KKTV 11 News.
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DeSantis Checkmates Chicago Mayor, Offers Illinois Cops $5,000 to ‘Make Smart Move to Florida’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis checkmated failing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and offered Illinois cops $5,000 to make the smart move to Florida.
Chicago has seen an explosion of violent crime in the few months Johnson took over and has made excuses for the thugs blaming their crimes on a lack of investment in African-American communities.
Johnson, if left alone, will ruin what is left of Chicago.
The city refuses to allow police to chase violent thugs, even when they see them committing an armed carjacking, and the cops have had it.
Many will take Ron up on his offer.
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Patients with the virus are now most likely to suffer from a sore throat, sneezing or congestion — similar to those with RSV , asthma or a pollen allergy.
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Dove on Thursday was hit with calls for a boycott of its products, after the brand partnered with BLM activist Zyahna Bryant. Bryant wrongly accused a fellow student of threatening a BLM march.
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ESPN to Feature Professor Ibram Kendi in New Show About Racism in Sports
A major TV streaming service’s new original show featuring “antiracist” writer and Professor Ibram Kendi promises to expose racism in sports.
“Skin in the Game with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi” will debut on ESPN+ on Sept. 20, according to a news release from the network. The series “delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports.”
Kendi, a Boston University professor who has not published an academic paper in at least four years, argued in his book “How to Be an Antiracist” that if “discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist,” and if “discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.”
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Gangbanger: 21, Arrested for Murder of Innocent NYC Grandma Shot Dead While Running Errands
Cops arrested a 21-year-old gangbanger Monday for the murder of an innocent Bronx grandmother who was gunned down while running errands last week.
Joshua Evans was busted on murder and manslaughter charges for the broad daylight shooting that killed Enriqueta Rivera, 71, and wounded a 34-year-old woman Thursday in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx.
Evans was also hit with charges of attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Evans allegedly opened fire at a member of a rival gang during an argument on East 138th Street near Brook Avenue just after 12:30 p.m.
The gunman missed his target and struck the two women in the busy commercial corridor.
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Hospital System Imposes COVID Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers
A nationwide hospital system has just introduced a draconian vaccine mandate for all healthcare workers across multiple states.
Providence Hospital System has just dropped an Orwellian bombshell on its employees with a new announcement on its InOurCircle app, a platform designed for employees to “stay up-to-date on company news.”
The healthcare giant announced that all workers are now required to receive the latest COVID-19 vaccine.
The mandate includes those who are already vaccinated and “boosted” with previous shots.
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Hunter Biden Sues IRS Over Whistleblowers’ ‘Embarrassing’ Testimony to Congress
On Monday, Hunter Biden’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing a number of agents of having attempted to “target” and “embarrass” him.
Among those named are Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, whistleblowers who testified before the House Oversight Committee and provided statements to the media regarding limitations they faced while investigating the younger Biden’s tax case, suggesting that the Department of Justice had gone out of its way to protect him.
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The Antiracist Research Center at Boston University has laid off up to 20 of its staff members following accusations from current and former employees that the center was poorly managed and exploitative.
The center’s director, Ibram X. Kendi, a critical race theorist who rose to prominence during the anti-police race riots of 2020, has been accused by staff members of being power hungry and mistreating employees, according to Boston Globe.
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James O’Keefe Sues Hawaii for First Amendment Violations Over Ban on Public Photography in Lahaina
The O’Keefe Media Group filed a lawsuit this week against Hawaii’s Democrat Governor Josh Green and the County of Maui after being told he could not take photographs or video on public land during a trip to investigate the aftermath of the devastating fires that burned the area to the ground.
In hidden camera footage taken during the investigation, law enforcement officers in the devastated area told OMG journalists that due to the governor’s emergency order in response to the fires, they were prohibited from taking pictures or video on public land and even threatened founder James O’Keefe with arrest if he refused to cease recording.
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Jonathan Turley Says Biden Went Too Far: ‘Nixonian-Type Allegations of Abuse of Office’
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley said President Joe Biden’s White House has crossed the line by trying to create “a de facto state media in the United States.”
Turley accused Biden of trying to bully the media and Facebook into covering up his scandals.
The George Washington University Law School professor was responding after Biden’s White House sent threatening letters to corporate media outlets and Big Tech companies demanding they try to discredit the president’s recent impeachment inquiry launch.
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Jury Clears 3 Men in the Last Trial Tied to the Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
A jury acquitted three men Friday in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a scheme that was portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the 2020 presidential election.
William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were found not guilty of providing support for a terrorist act and a weapon charge. They were the last of 14 men to face charges in state or federal court. Nine were convicted and now five have been cleared.
The Nulls and Molitor were accused of supporting leaders of the plan by participating in military-style drills and traveling to see Whitmer’s vacation home in northern Michigan. The key players, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., were convicted of a kidnapping conspiracy last year in a different court.
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Just the Tip: AP Gave Dem Porn-Wife Heads-Up Before WaPo Scoop, Allowing Her to Delete Videos
Democratic Virginia political candidate Susanna Gibson, who was outed by the Washington Post for performing sex acts online for cash — and instead of owning up to it cried ‘sex crime!’, was actually tipped off a week earlier by the Associated Press, which didn’t run the story — allowing her to delete videos before the WaPo piece hit, according to the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak.
Gibson, a 40-year-old nurse practitioner and mother of two, streamed various sex acts on ‘Chaturbate,’ where more than a dozen videos of she and her husband were archived on a publicly available site, Recurbate, in September 2022 after she entered the race. The most recent were two videos archived Sept. 30, 2022, however it’s unclear when the live stream occurred.
Rosiak also reports that Gibson’s online sex acts could have exposed her to prostitution charges, lawyers say.
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Furious well-heeled New Yorkers erupted as they were blocked from entering a heliport in New York City by angry Extinction Rebellion demonstrators.
The noisy blockage at the VIP Heliport lasted an hour and a half — and six people were arrested for causing the disruption in Chelsea on Wednesday.
Brazen protesters held banners and posters reading ‘Luxury Emissions Destroy Futures’ and ‘Life or Death’ while standing strong along the entrance on West 30th Street and the West Side Highway.
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Major Auto Workers Union Launches Historic Strike Against Three Top Automakers
The United Auto Workers Union (UAW) has just announced a major strike against America’s top three unionized automakers.
The UAW announced that members would not be showing up for work at Detroit’s Big Three automakers on Friday.
According to Reuters, the historic action is the first time that the 146,000-member union has simultaneously gone on strike against Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis.
UAW President Shawn Fain announced that the strike would begin on Friday at GM’s midsize truck and full-size van plant in Wentzville, Missouri; Ford’s Ranger midsize pickup and Bronco SUV plant in Wayne, Michigan; and Stellantis’ Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio.
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Matt Gaetz Eyes Future Florida Gubernatorial Run, Says Trump 2024 ‘Only Political Focus Right Now’
Speculation has grown as of late as to whether Rep. Matt Gaetz will run for governor of the Sunshine State in 2026. While he has not ruled out the possibility, he has stated that ensuring former president Donald Trump wins a second term in 2024 is currently his number one political priority.
Gaetz was a senior advisor to current Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ successful 2018 campaign, however in the years since the two have parted ways, with the congressman becoming a driving force in the “Make America Great Again” movement.
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Meeting ‘Net Zero’ Goals Will Cost Taxpayers $75 Trillion, Analysis Shows
In order to comply with the globalist “Net Zero” climate goals of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and United Nations (UN), taxpayers will need to spend a staggering $75 trillion, a group of leading analysts has revealed.
To put the figure into context, in 2023, it is estimated that the total amount of money in circulation around the world is roughly $40 trillion.
Nevertheless, the public will have to dig even deeper to cover the demands of the global elite to achieve aggressive international “climate change” goals.
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A murder suspect who escaped from custody in Washington, DC is still on the lam more than a week later — with cops now offering a $30,000 reward.
Christopher Haynes, 30, was arrested on Wednesday last week for the Aug. 12 murder of Brent Hayward, 33, in a shooting that also injured another person.
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New York Times Pushes Back Against Biden’s 2024 Candidacy — Says it Could Lead to a Trump Win
On Wednesday, the New York Times published a column by Ross Douthat suggesting that Biden’s “decline” could see Trump win the 2024 election.
“I do not think Biden’s decline is overstated by the media; by some Republicans, maybe, but the mainstream press is, if anything, treading gingerly around the evident reality,” Douthat wrote.
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Pop-Up ‘Speakeasy’ at Denver Homeless Encampment Under Investigation for Prostitution
Homeless residents are “living it up” in Denver as vagrants reportedly made a pop-up speakeasy at a downtown encampment that features an open-air tavern and tents for prostitution.
According to police, the homeless “speakeasy” which is equipped with items including lounge chairs and umbrellas popped up on the sidewalk of 23rd and Champa streets, New York Post reports.
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Pro-Censorship Group, Being Sued by X, Releases New Report With Complaints of Hate Speech
X, the social media company led by Elon Musk, is under fire once again. New research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a pro-censorship nonprofit, states that the presence of “hate speech” is seemingly unchecked and proliferating on the popular messaging platform once known as Twitter, despite being reported.
A little over a month ago, X ignited a legal battle with the CCDH, accusing it of unlawfully scraping data and selectively picking posts to allege a rise in hate speech.
However, for this report, the CCDH says it did not rely on data scraping tools but claimed to have done a simple surface-level investigation.
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Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush DEFEND Antifa-Linked Domestic Terrorists in ‘Stop Cop City’ RICO Case
Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush have come out in defense of far-left agitators indicted for their role in the violent “Stop Cop City” protests against the creation of a police training facility near Atlanta, Georgia.
The Squad members deemed the construction of the compound “racist,” and suggested the decision to prosecute those who tried to prevent the project from taking off was “dangerous and dystopian.”
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Rep. Jim Jordan Subpoenas FBI Agent Who ‘Censored’ Internet as Likely SCOTUS Case Looms
WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed FBI agent Elvis Chan Friday to testify about the bureau’s efforts to “censor” social media — as the Biden administration argued it was merely using its “bully pulpit.”
Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote that Chan did not appear for a scheduled interview and therefore would be compelled to testify in order to establish the “extent the Executive Branch has coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.”
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Search for Missing F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet Continues After Pilot Ejects During ‘Mishap’
The F-35 is suspected to have crashed north of the Air Force base
U.S. military officials are searching for a missing F-35 jet after a “mishap” caused its pilot to eject on Sunday afternoon.
Joint Base Charleston said on Facebook that the aircraft was a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. The pilot ejected safely and was transported to a local medical center.
The base is working with Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to help locate the missing aircraft. Emergency response teams have been deployed to find the jet.
“Based on the jet’s last-known position and in coordination with the FAA, we are focusing our attention north of JB Charleston, around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion,” Joint Base Charleston said in a statement on Facebook.
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Seattle Gas Station Clerk Savagely Beaten During Robbery, Suspects at Large
On Friday night, a group of teenagers ransacked a gas station in the Seattle suburb of Normandy Park, brutally beating the clerk before making off with cash and merchandise.
The suspects, who victim Leah Johnston said laughed while they attacked and robbed her at the Friendly Normandy Market, are still at large.
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Senate Ditches Dress Code as Fetterman and Others Choose Casual Clothes
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says staff for the chamber’s Sergeant-at-Arms will no longer enforce a dress code on the Senate floor
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The stuffy Senate is now a bit less formal.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that staff for the chamber’s Sergeant-at-Arms — the Senate’s official clothes police — will no longer enforce a dress code on the Senate floor. The change comes after Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has been unapologetically wearing shorts as he goes about his duties, voting from doorways so he doesn’t get in trouble for his more casual attire.
“There has been an informal dress code that was enforced,” Schumer said in a statement. “Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit.”
Schumer did not mention Fetterman in his statement about the dress code, which will only apply to senators, not staff.
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Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono this week addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee over the purported misuse of AI tech to spread what she called false narratives, especially during crisis events. The Senator, who has previously criticized AI memes for being allowed to be shared online, zeroed in on the noted perversion of tech during the Maui wildfires, highlighting a critical concern about AI’s potential to fuel false information in the aftermath of future tragedies.
Of AI, Senator Hirono stated, “It is a powerful tool that can be used for good, but it can also be used to spread a lot of disinformation and misinformation, and that happened during the disaster on Maui.” She drew attention to the possibility that AI could facilitate the amplification of disinformation, a hazard linked to foreign entities keen to undermine the trust in federal agencies.
Senator Hirono suggested that criticism of FEMA being shared online was due to a disinformation campaign.
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Teen Driver Arrested After 64-Year-Old Retired Police Chief Hit and Killed During Viral Joyride
A teenage driver has been arrested after he allegedly used a car to ram into at least one car as well as a cyclist in Las Vegas last weekend. The cyclist succumbed to his injuries and was reported dead after the incident.
Andreas Probst, the man who died after being hit, was a retired police chief who had served in law enforcement for 35 years. The teenage driver is reportedly in custody under allegations of killing Probst and has additionally been associated with several other vehicle thefts throughout that morning, according to police.
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Top Doctor Warns ‘Turbo Cancers’ Are Spreading ‘Dramatically’: ‘This is Not Normal’
A world-renowned epidemiologist is raising the alarm over soaring rates of “turbo cancers,” which he warns are spreading “dramatically.”
Dr. Harvey Risch is a Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale University.
Risch specializes in the areas of cancer etiology, prevention, and early diagnosis, and in epidemiologic methods.
The professor was awarded a $3.65 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for a five-year study of the etiology of pancreas cancer cases in Connecticut.
After discovering a disturbing rise in “turbo cancers,” Risch is now speaking out to warn the public about his findings.
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Train Carrying Deadly Chemicals Explodes in Nebraska, 4-Mile Evacuation Zone Triggered
Authorities in Nebraska have enforced an emergency evacuation order covering a four-mile radius after a train carrying deadly chemicals exploded.
The explosion occurred in the Union Pacific Railroad’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska.
The train car was reportedly carrying the hazardous chemical perchloric acid when it exploded, according to the Daily Mail.
The North Platte Volunteer Fire Department issued an urgent evacuation notice and posted an emergency alert on social media.
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Trump Vows to be ‘Champion’ of Families Who Make ‘Courageous Choice’ to Homeschool
(LifeSiteNews) — Former Republican U.S. President Donald Trump, the far-and-away front-runner to secure the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, promised Thursday to “support the growing homeschool movement” and become a “champion” for families that educate their children at home if he regains the White House.
“To every homeschool family, I will be your champion,” Trump declared in a video statement posted to social media on Thursday.
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UN Human Rights Chief Criticizes Elon Musk for Pushing Back Against ADL Censorship Demands
The UN human rights chief Volker Turk rallied against criticism of attempts by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to suppress online speech, particularly on X.
Turk took the bull by the horns in his fervent appeal on Wednesday, levelling sharp criticism at tech tycoon, Elon Musk, who has rebranded Twitter as X, demanding a stauncher response to rampaging so-called “hate speech.”
Turk expressed concern over the criticism leveled against the ADL after the group campaigned for advertisers to pause spending on the platform.
Turk alluded to Musk’s criticism of the ADL’s tactics without explicitly dropping names, although it was clear he placed Musk’s platform X near the heart of his grievance.
Musk, who has painted the ADL in a harsh light, accusing it of pushing baseless claims which have frightened advertisers and inflicted financial damage, is currently in the eye of the media.
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WashPo: Netanyahu Flying to Silicon Valley to Meet With Elon Musk and Discuss ‘Anti-Semitism on X’
In the wake of the #BanTheADL movement catching fire on Twitter/X, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly planning to fly to Silicon Valley to personally meet with X owner Elon Musk and discuss “anti-Semitism” on his social media platform.
From The Washington Post, “Musk expected to meet with Netanyahu as antisemitism controversy rages”:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to fly to the heart of Silicon Valley on Monday to meet with X owner Elon Musk in an effort to help ease an escalating crisis over antisemitism on the struggling social media platform.
The meeting is the latest step in a campaign by Musk’s Jewish friends and allies, and executives of his social media company, to stave off the mounting controversy, according to five people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share behind-the-scenes conversations.
This summer, Netanyahu smoothed things over in a conversation with Musk after the X owner repeated antisemitic tropes about Jewish financier George Soros. Netanyahu’s government minister tasked with fighting antisemitism made of point of saying that Musk’s comments were not antisemitic, despite widespread outcry in Israel.
Soros is just a little “financier” and the ADL is just a little “nonprofit in New York.
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Alberta Pastor Gets 60-Day Sentence for Refusing to Comply With COVID Restrictions
Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski won’t be spending any more time in jail even though he received a 60-day sentence Monday.
A judge gave the minister 60 days but decided to give Pawlowski credit for time already served. Pawlowski was charged and convicted for mischief and breaching a release after he preached to Freedom Convoy truckers at the Coutts border blockade in February 2022.
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Ontario Medical Regulator Drops Disciplinary Action Against Doctor Who Criticized COVID Mandates
(LifeSiteNews) — Disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill, an Ontario pediatrician who became well known for speaking out against draconian COVID mandates in her home province on social media, have been withdrawn by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
“While we are pleased that some of the burden has now been lifted from Dr. Gill’s shoulders and she has been vindicated, it is concerning that it went this far,” said Gill’s lawyer, Lisa Bildy, who is supported by The Democracy Fund (TDF), in a press release yesterday.
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Brussels Prepares Autonomous Wartime Economy in Fear of Trump 2024 Win
The bare bones of the EU’s legislative agenda from 2024 was given on Wednesday, September 13th, as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave her fifth and potentially final State of the European Union address during an assembly at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
While the 64-year-old Christian Democrat hit the expected notes, defending her administration’s controversial Green New Deal and the Ukrainian war, perhaps the most interesting aspect of von der Leyen’s oration was confirmation that the EU would accelerate plans for a common defensive union, as she pledged to create an integrated military-industrial base over the next legislative term.
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‘Danger to Our Communities’: UK Govt Finally Moves to Ban Deadly ‘American Bully XL’ Dogs
American Bully XL dogs are a “danger to our communities”, said UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, saying they will be banned in remarks that come almost two years after the first person was killed in Britain in an attack by one of the breed and hours after yet another fatality.
A deadly and newly fashionable dog cross-breed that has killed several people in recent years in Britain will be banned by the end of this year, PM Rishi Sunak said on Friday, just hours after a man was mauled to death by two of the American Bully XLs in Staffordshire, England, as he tried to protect his mother. Campaigners have criticised the government for not having acted sooner, including the mother of a child who was killed by a Bully XL in 2021.
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EP Adopts Electricity Market Reform, Rejects Pro-Nuclear MEPs
Members of the European Parliament adopted a proposal to reform the bloc’s electricity market in the Strasbourg plenary on Thursday, September 14th, rejecting a motion from 180 MEPs seeking to include protections for nuclear power.
The proposal—which seeks to balance out market rules and subsidize certain energy sources—was initially adopted at the committee level based on the report by Spanish MEP Nicolas Gonzalez (S&D), which has been criticized for “restricting financing options for the construction of new nuclear reactors and the lifetime extension of existing ones.”
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EU Hands TikTok $386 Million Fine for Child Data Breaches
AFP — A European Union regulator hit Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok with a 345-million-euro fine over child data breaches on Friday, in the bloc’s latest salvo against the business practices of tech titans.
The fine, equivalent to $369 million, is the culmination of a two-year inquiry by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC).
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Finland Builds First Section of Border Fence With Russia
Finland’s Border Guard is now protecting the first section of the border with Russia where a fence has been erected, reported Finnish radio Yle on Thursday. The pilot 3-kilometer-long section of the metal barrier, which is 3 meters high and topped with barbed wire, is located in the town of Imatra near the busiest border crossing.
Construction of the fence on the eastern border began in the spring. Initially, it was assumed that the first test section of the barrier would be ready by the end of June. The delay was caused by difficulties at the construction stage, as well as time-consuming installations of the monitoring system.
Several hundred meters of the test section are also located in the area of the local military barracks, where surveillance techniques are being tested.
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Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, known for her pro-Russian stance, has moved to Russia with the help of a Russian military plane, which also reportedly transported her two ponies, according to Austrian media reports.
In 2018, Kneissl made headlines by inviting Vladimir Putin to her wedding and even dancing with him. This caused quite an outcry at the time because it happened just a few months after several European countries expelled Russian diplomats over the Sergei Skripal poisoning, which the United Kingdom blamed on Russian intelligence service agents.
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MEPs Vote to ‘Upgrade Democracy’ by Weakening Member States
The European Parliament’s plenary adopted a report on Thursday, September 14th, calling for restricting the Council’s legislative powers and stripping member states of their veto right while strengthening the powers of the parliament itself. The package would also grant voting rights to “mobile EU citizens” and lower the voting age to 16 across the entire bloc.
The success of the proposal to reform the EU’s entire decision-making process and increase democratic participation was celebrated by Alin Mituta, the liberal Renew’s co-rapporteur on the file:
We send a clear message to upgrade our democracy—a new EU Agora that involves citizens in European democratic life, the right for the European Parliament to initiate laws, and an end to unanimity in the European Council.
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Netherlands: Suicidal Thoughts, Attempts Among Young People Up 47% Since 2019
Those in the Netherlands in life threatening danger should immediately dial 112 for emergencies, and anyone suffering from depression or contemplating suicide can call 113 Zelfmoordpreventie at any time by dialing either 113 or 0800-0113, or by visiting 113.nl.
Young people said more often that they had thought about suicide in the second quarter of this year than in the first three months of the year. General practitioners also registered more suicide attempts among young people between the ages of 12 and 25 than in the beginning of 2023, according to the latest quarterly survey by the Health Monitor.
In 2019, the number of suicidal thoughts and attempts was 47 percent lower than now. Since the coronavirus pandemic, more young people have had mental complaints. The Netwerk GOR (Health Research in Disasters) uses the Health Monitor to map out the consequences of the coronavirus crisis on health.
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Netherlands: Far-Right Dutch MP to be Prosecuted for Sedition Over Calls to Violence Against Gov’t
The Public Prosecution Service will prosecute 37-year-old Gideon van Meijeren of the far-right party FvD for two counts of sedition. “The suspect suggested that violence against the government was permitted and perhaps even necessary,” the OM said about two incidents last year.
On July 2 last year, Van Meijeren spoke at a farmers’ protest in Tuil, during a time when farmers demonstrated en masse against government plans to cut nitrogen emissions. In his speech, which was also posted online, the far-right politician “pointed out that it is permissible to violently resist the government if it were to expropriate farmers,” the OM said. Van Meijeren told the gathered farmers that they’d never move the government to action with peaceful protests and by waving flags in the meadows, among other things.
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Three gene variants passed down from Neanderthals to modern-day humans makes them more at risk of developing a life-threatening form of Covid, a new study reveals.
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Sarkozy: Ukraine’s NATO Bid Risks Provoking Russia, Not Ensuring Peace
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has again prompted outrage among a large part of France’s political class after he, for the second time in one month, expressed the view that Ukraine ought to adopt a neutral stance between Russia and the West and that Kyiv’s accession into NATO and the EU would only further provoke Russia.
The controversial statements made by Sarkozy, a member of the right-of-center establishment Republicans who formerly served as the leader of its predecessor party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), came on Wednesday, September 13th, during an interview with the French news outlet BMFTV.
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Serbian President: Hungary’s Pro-Family Policy is a Model for My Country
Hungary is a model for Serbia, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday evening at a gala dinner on the occasion of the Budapest Demographic Summit, touted by Hungary as the preeminent summit designed to tout a pro-family message and raise the European birth rate.
Hungarian President Katalin Novak, the host of the summit, stated that Hungary and Serbia are linked by a strategic partnership.
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ROBERT HARDMAN: Could this really be one of the civil rights landmarks? To talk to some people in Peckham, you would think it might be one of those moments when a protest kickstarts a movement.
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The Labour politician, who has positioned himself as a champion of environmental causes, attracted condemnation yesterday as he flew to the US for a climate summit.
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Just Stop Oil is plotting to lobby the Labour Party to turn the eco-group’s demands into legislation.
A leaked document, seen by The Daily Mail, reveals that activists will stand in local elections or general elections ‘to put pressure on Labour’ to fulfil its pledge to halt new licences for North Sea oil and gas drilling.
The group, whose financial backer Dale Vince has also donated more than £1 million to Labour, said it aimed ‘to make our campaign synonymous with this policy’.
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Ian Price, from Stonnall, Staffordshire, was mauled to death by the two dogs which jumped out of a neighbour’s window yards from a primary school.
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UK: Labour Councils Target Drivers of Diesel and High-Emission Vehicles With Fresh Penalties
More than half of councils in London , almost all of which are Labour-controlled, now have some sort of scheme where cleaner cars pay less to park than more polluting vehicles.
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This is the horrifying moment a teenager pulled out a loaded gun in Birmingham city centre as he threatened a man before being chased through a shopping arcade by armed police
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– as Co-Op, John Lewis and Waitrose Tell How Police ‘Inaction’ Has Caused Crime Epidemic With Thieves Using ‘Medieval Maces’ to Openly Loot Shelves
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Walker is the latest retail leader to speak out about the increase in violent attacks on staff across the UK high street.
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The girl’s father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik are accused of the murder of the 10-year-old before her body was found at a property in Woking, Surrey on August 10.
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UK: Tony Blair Demands Junk Food be Made Too Expensive for Poor People and Save the NHS
Unhealthy foods should be taxed by the government in order to shape the decisions of poorer people and reduce the strain on the National Health Service, former Prime Minister Tony Blair said this week.
The opposition to the “nanny state” is small in the UK, Tony Blair surmised, and therefore the government could get away with imposing regressive taxes on so-called junk foods similar to the smoking ban in indoor public spaces imposed when he served as prime minister in 2007.
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Ukraine and Croatia Are Guilty of Price Gouging, According to Hungarian Energy Giant MOL Group
Hungary has the highest gas prices in the region because both Ukraine and Croatia are charging excessive transit fees for crude oil transports via existing pipelines, Hungary’s largest oil and gas group MOL told business daily Vilaggazdasag in a strongly worded statement.
MOL said that it considers the behavior of its Ukrainian and Croatian partners as “abusive,” not only against Hungary, but also against the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They pointed out that these countries have a historic vulnerability, as their refineries are cut off from the sea and can only be supplied via transit countries, typically through the Trans Adriatic and Friendship pipelines.
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Volkswagen’s managing director Alex Smith warned there are currently few incentives to buy EVs. He claimed sales are in ‘stagnation’ with EVs still ‘relatively expensive’.
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No Deal: Talks Between Kosovo and Serbia Hit Impasse
Under the auspices of EU foreign chief Josep Borrell, the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia met for what turned out to be a fruitless attempt at reconciliation in Brussels on Thursday, September 14th.
Kosovo—home to a considerable minority of ethnic Serbs, primarily in its northern region—unilaterally declared independence in 2008, a state of affairs Serbia deems unacceptable. The two entities’ relationship has been strained ever since.
The meeting between Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was their first face-to-face encounter under the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process since last May’s violent clashes between ethnic Serbs and NATO peacekeepers in North Kosovo. The talks are the latest attempt to calm down relations between the two rival nations.
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John Steinbeck and the Fall and Rise of Israel’s ‘Mount Hope’
by Daniel Greenfield
In 1966, a year before the war that would fundamentally change the country and the region, John Steinbeck arrived.
“I want to see everything in Israel,” he told the press.
Outraged novels of class warfare like ‘Grapes of Wrath’ had once made the author a favorite of the leftist establishment, but Steinbeck had turned to other topics. He considered his life’s work to be ‘East of Eden’, a retelling of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel in California, which touched on his own dark family history that he had followed all the way back to Israel.
Steinbeck’s support for the Vietnam War had infuriated the literary establishment and even though he had won the Nobel Prize and his acceptance speech became one of the most famous of its kind, he continued to be dismissed as an outdated fossil. And the author, prone to an old school literary machismo, who never much liked parties and crowds, dismissed them.
After facing the establishment’s fury over the Vietnam War, Steinbeck was not worried about the leftist reaction to his visit to Israel. And he looked at Israel through the lens of a writer who had chronicled pioneers and messianists, but also a man who had come to see the world caught in a struggle between good and evil, the forces of democracy against those of Communism…
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Progress! Ukraine Say They’ve Reclaimed a Village From Russia
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s forces have recaptured a village in the country’s east after intense battles with Russian troops, the military said Friday as the invaded nation pursues a multi-pronged counteroffensive.
The village of Andriivka is located about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of the Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, the scene of the longest battle of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Its liberation would represent another gain for Kyiv in Ukraine’s campaign to oust Moscow’s troops from territory they captured.
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Russia Launches Air Assault on Ukraine’s Western City of Lviv
The western Ukrainian city of Lviv was rocked by blasts in early hours on Tuesday, with local officials saying that air defence systems were engaged in repelling a Russian air attack.
Both Lviv city mayor Andriy Sadovyi and region governor Maxim Kozitsky urged people to stay in shelters as more attacks were expected.
The western half of Ukraine was under air raid alerts, starting from about 0000 GMT.
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Ukrainian Draft-Dodging Scandal Continues With New Arrests as Citizens Attempt to Flee Service
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported that another ring of people engaged in helping people to evade the draft and leave the country has been identified and broken up. With Ukraine short on manpower at the front, it is racing to fill its ranks.
The last set of people detained were connected with the port in Izmail, in the Odessa region. Bribes were elicited from men of service age who wanted to leave the country. They were provided with papers claiming they were navigators on cargo ships, costing between $700 and $1,200.
Those detained are accused of taking a total of $55,000 in such payments. They were allegedly caught in the act, arrested and could face jail sentences of up to 10 years.
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Zelensky Expected to Visit Washington as Congress Debates $24 Billion in Aid for Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected at the White House and on Capitol Hill next week as he visits the US during the United Nations General Assembly.
Zelensky’s trip comes as Congress is debating President Joe Biden’s request to provide as much as $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.
An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive visit, said Zelensky will meet with Biden at the White House next Thursday.
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You know what the Chinese government does really well? Spy.
Last year, a human rights group reported that the Chinese government had set up 100 secret “police stations”—seven of them in the U.S.—to spy on Chinese nationals. At the recently concluded G20 summit in New Delhi, the Chinese delegation refused to put some strangely shaped luggage through the hotel scanner. A hotel employee later reported that he saw “suspicious equipment” in one of the open suitcases. And just a few weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese nationals, posing as tourists, have made some 100 attempts to gain access to U.S. military bases in recent years—including into a missile range in New Mexico. Chinese scuba divers have also been spotted swimming near a rocket launch site in Florida. Military investigators call them “gate-crashers.”
There is a second kind of spying that relies on technology instead of people. Earlier this year, a Chinese surveillance balloon was sighted traveling across the United States. Huawei, the giant Chinese telecommunications company that has close ties to the military, has long been suspected of creating a “backdoor” in its routers and other equipment, allowing it to scoop up information from U.S. users that can be sent back to China. In 2020, the U.S. Justice Department charged Huawei with conspiracy to steal trade secrets. (Huawei has denied that its equipment has been used to spy on the West.) And of course there’s TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company, and which many U.S. officials are convinced is used to collect data on Americans.
Now comes the latest threat—a technology, soon to be ubiquitous, called LIDAR.
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Biden’s rapid push for EVs without securing a fierce American supply chain is likely to cede U.S. power to its biggest adversary, China.
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Anthony Albanese’s Message to NO Voters as Support for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Plunges
‘Not how it works’: Albo hits back on claim that Voice to Parliament doesn’t have enough detail
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Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price made the controversial comments during a provocative National Press Club speech in Canberra outlining her opposition to an Indigenous Voice.
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Australian National University Stabbing Horror: At Least Three People Injured
Two people have allegedly been stabbed and another assaulted at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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More than 1,000 people, many wearing ‘No’ supporter T-shirts, packed into the Adelaide Convention Centre to hear leading No campaigners speak at the Fair Australia rally on Monday night.
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Firefighters were called to two EV-related fires around NSW on Monday night. An expert has warned that even after a battery has overheated and burst into flames, it can still reignite.
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After a series of opinion polls showing it headed for defeat in the Voice referendum, the Yes campaign will roll out a major advertising blitz before the national vote on October 14.
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Jacinta Price broke down in tears when she spoke of her role as a ‘vessel’ for Indigenous people who she said had been ignored by mainstream politics and media during a speech at a packed out No rally.
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Five teens are being questioned after a Mercedes allegedly stolen from Brighton before going on a joyride across Melbourne.
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Sky News Host Chris Kenny Slams Jacinta Price Over Indigenous Voice
Sky News host Chis Kenny has slammed Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, accusing her of deceiving the public over what an Indigenous Voice to Parliament means.
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The report calls for not one, but 36 Voice bodies. One being the national proposal Australians will vote on at the October 14 referendum, and a further 35 ‘local and regional bodies’.
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PM Anthony Albanese’s s claim the Voice referendum is not about a ‘treaty’ with Indigenous people was again undercut in a photo op with independent Teal MPs to promote the Yes vote.
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A key architect of the Voice to parliament slammed the ABC for platforming leaders of the No campaign.
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The $12 billion migrant crisis has touched nearly every facet of municipal government over the past year — with the city even tapping the arts to pitch in, City Hall’s annual report card shows.
As officials raced to respond to the thousands of unexpected waves of arrivals who had to rely on the Big Apple for housing and other services, the shelter costs were into the stratosphere and led to a surge in applications for the Big Apple’s municipal IDNYC cards, according to the sprawling 520-page report, released late Friday.
The city was so desperate for help that it even enlisted the arm of the mayor’s Materials for the Arts office, which is dedicated to financing museums and other institutions, to distribute clothes at shelters, according to the report that summarized the city’s services during fiscal 2023.
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A cluster of suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne are housing a higher proportion of new migrants following a surge in new overseas arrivals. Unit rents have soared by record levels.
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Belgian Court Overturns Ban on Shelter for Male Asylum Seekers
Belgium may no longer deny shelter to single men seeking asylum in the country.
As reported by De Standaard, on Wednesday, September 13th the Council of State (the supreme administrative court of Belgium) annulled a controversial ‘men’s ban’, implemented by State Secretary for Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) at the end of last month.
Faced with a dire shelter shortage—overseen by Fedasil, the agency responsible for the reception of asylum seekers in Belgium—De Moor had opted for a women, children, and families first policy, which saw single men lose out.
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Biden Admin Releases Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants Into San Diego
San Diego received unexpected visitors on Friday when the Biden administration released hundreds of illegal immigrants into the city. This as US Customs and Border Patrol facilities are overcrowded due to the historic crisis at the US/Mexico Border.
While many illegal immigrants were transported by Border Patrol on buses and then dropped off in the city, some said they are eyeing different areas throughout the United States as their final destination.
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Furious protestors screaming “close the border” heckled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jerry Nadler and other Democrats Friday during a Midtown a press conference on the Big Apple’s escalating migrant crisis.
The New York pols were drowned out by the angry screams as they tried to talk outside the Roosevelt Hotel mega shelter Friday morning.
“Send them back,” Jonathan Rinaldi, a Queens City Council candidate and serial sperm donor, shouted as the chaotic scenes unfolded outside the city’s main migrant intake site.
“Close the border, close the border. Respect the constitution AOC. I am your constituent,” a male protestor cried out.
At one point, a security guard grabbed a screaming Rinaldi, 44, and shoved him behind a barricade.
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Chicago Democratic lawmakers have traveled to New York City to ‘bring back’ lessons on how to deal with a migrant surge in the Windy City, which is expected to cost taxpayers $255 million by the end of the year.
Democratic Socialist rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading a tour of New York City’s migrant shelters on Friday for Chicago Reps Chuy Garcia, Delia Ramirez, Mike Quigley and other House members.
Like New York, Chicago has seen a surge of asylum seekers as conservative governors in southern states continue to bus migrants to northern progressive cities, arguing these governments should bare the costs of border crossings, too.
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Congressional Witness: Liberals Siding With Corporations to Keep Wages Down Via Mass Immigration
Liberals are siding with corporate America over the nation’s workers in their promotion of mass immigration, a key tool in keeping wages down, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota told lawmakers this week.
During a hearing before the House Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee, led by Chairman Bob Good (R-VA), Camarota said liberals — such as President Joe Biden — have broken with historical precedent in recent decades to defend the interests of corporations against American workers when it comes to national immigration policy.
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Federal law enforcement stopped 160 people listed on the terror watch list from entering the US illegally at America’s borders this fiscal year — the highest number ever — government statistics reveal.
The worrying number is a huge increase on the 98 of potentially dangerous assailants nabbed last year as thousands of people continue to flood into the country both legally and illegally, often with little to show by way of identifying papers.
The names and identities of those on the list is a closely guarded secret as revealing them could cause diplomatic incidents with rogue states, tip off terrorists and cartels about US border strategy or invite retribution thus posing a grave threat to national security, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Frontex: Illegal Central Mediterranean Crossings Double in 2023
Newly released figures from Frontex, the EU’s border protection agency, revealed on Thursday, September 15th, that over 114,000 illegal migrant crossings across the Mediterranean to Italy were recorded between January and August, twice the number recorded during the same period last year, accounting for half of the illegal border crossing detected in 2023.
The agency, in its latest press release, stated that the number of illegal border crossings along the bloc’s external borders jumped by 18% in the first eight months of 2023, exceeding 232,350 instances, and marking the highest total for the period from January to August since the 2016 migrant crisis.
While the primary points of departure for those making the dangerous journey across the Central Mediterranean were Tunisia and Libya, most migrants come from Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, and Guinea, Frontex wrote.
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In the German city of Soest, a Syrian migrant is accused of stabbing a snack bar employee in the neck inside the Penny supermarket chain, causing life-threatening injuries that nearly severed a vital artery.
Police say that the suspect had already been banned from the supermarket chain, and when he entered the premises at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, a 42-year-old employee attempted to stop him.
“Since the accused did not want to leave the snack bar, a scuffle broke out,” said police spokesman Marco Baffa-Scinelli, according to German newspaper Soester Anzeige.
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‘If it Weren’t for Poland, Western Europe Would be Swamped With New Arrivals’
As another wave of migration descends on Europe, the lies of Ursula von der Leyen and a newly acclaimed Polish film director have much in common when it comes to slandering Poland, writes columnist Marzena Nykiel
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LA Mayor ‘Fearful’ Texas Will Send Planes of Illegal Immigrants to ‘Sanctuary City’
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has expressed concern over the possibility that Texas governor Greg Abbott may soon send planes full of illegal migrants to that sanctuary city in California. He recently shuttled busloads of people from the southern border to the California metropolis, a move that Bass called “evil.”
Speaking at an Axios event in LA on Thursday, Bass made it clear that while the City of Angels welcomes immigrants, she disapproves of the way Republican border state governors are going about sending them there.
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Only 800 of New York’s Tens of Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Have Applied for Work Authorization
It has been revealed that out of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that have taken over New York City within the past 18 months, less than two percent have applied for work visas. Democrats at every level of government continue to say that getting more work visas will solve the illegal immigration problem in New York.
AOC and other Democrats staged a press conference outside midtown Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel on Friday to speak about work authorizations, more federal funding, and the American dream, but they were shouted down by constituents who very clearly want the border closed.
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Retired CPS Teacher to File Injunction vs Migrants in Hyde Park
Saying she has had enough, retired Chicago Public School teacher Doris Lewis on Sunday, September 10, said she is going to file an injunction against migrants who were relocated from the Second District police station into the Lake Shore Hotel, located across the street from where she has lived for 50 years, creating a nightmare for nearby residents.
In an exclusive interview with the Chicago Crusader, Lewis vowed to file an injunction against the migrants, who were sleeping inside and outside of the Second District police station prior to being relocated to the Lake Shore Hotel, 4900 S. Du Sable Drive. The hotel is within walking distance of the Chicago lakefront, in a community of expensive rental properties and homes. Lewis described her life living in proximity to the migrants as being “sad.
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Sanctuary City Chicago Faces $538M Budget Deficit Over Illegal Immigration
The sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, is facing a massive budget deficit due to illegal immigration, while non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rake in huge sums of taxpayer cash for providing services to border crossers and illegal aliens.
Since the summer of last year, Chicago has seen an influx of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens — 13,500 of which are living off taxpayers in the city’s shelter system.
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UK: ‘Big Mistake’: Left Wing Labour’s Border Plan Will Make Immigration Worse, Warns Farage
Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer made a move to park his tanks on the Conservatives’ lawn by announcing he would fix the English Channel migrant crisis if elected, but observers including Brexit leader Nigel Farage warn it would fail solve the problem and would even make things worse.
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UK: Labour Seeks to Outdo Sunak on Stopping Channel Migration
Under a Labour government, Britain would accept migrants from the EU in return for the bloc taking back some of those who arrive here illegally via the Channel. Revealed today, this blueprint is a challenge to Rishi Sunak’s government, which is failing to get a grip on small boat crossings.
This is also the first major act of Sir Keir Starmer’s party in anticipation of next year’s general election to create the impression it is capable of forming a competent government. Few voters should be expected to break ranks from the Tory party (or, indeed, from abstention) as a result of this, with the plan’s focus on Brussels likely to deter a good number of Brexit supporters.
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Watch: “Hell in Lampedusa” as Thousands of Migrants Invading Tiny Italian Island
Thousands of migrants continue to swarm the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the days since more than 6,000 arrived in just 24 hours, according to reports.
The ongoing invasion of Italy’s southernmost island, which lies just 60 nautical miles from the Tunisian coast, hit ‘apocalyptic’ levels earlier this week when as many as 8,000 illegal migrants invaded in more than 160 ramshackle watercraft launched from Africa.
Since then, at least 1,000 more migrants, virtually all of whom are military-age males from Africa, have arrived in Lampedusa, and reports indicate as many as 10,000 more are on their way.
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The topless model promoting the Series X Hybrid Trimmers for the grooming brand appears to have scars related to the surgery.
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Dove Hit by Growing Boycott for Hiring BLM Activist Zyahna Bryant, Which Elon Musk Calls ‘Messed Up’
Beauty giant Dove is facing a Bud Light-style boycott for partnering with controversial Black Lives Matter activist Zyanha Bryant, who was previously accused of getting a white student expelled over “misheard” comments.
Some once-loyal customers even posted pictures of bars of soap in the trash after Bryant, 22, announced she was a “Dove ambassador” helping to promote “fat liberation.”
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Florida City Drops Fine Against Pro-Lifer Who Held Signs Outside Abortion Facility
GAINESVILLE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A Florida city has dropped allegations of an ordinance violation against a pro-lifer who held life-affirming signs outside of an abortion facility. The charges were withdrawn before the case went to court.
Andrew Scholberg was given a $100 citation in July “for supposedly violating Gainesville’s sign ordinance at the local ‘Bread and Roses’ abortion mill,” he wrote in a summary of the incident shared with LifeSiteNews. On September 6, the city “dismissed the citation” rather than appear at the court hearing for which Scholberg had opted rather than pay the fine.
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LGBTQ Residents Claim Muslim-Majority Michigan City Council ‘Betrayed’ Them With Pride Flag Ban
Woke LGBTQ Americans are shocked to find out that the Muslim community does not support their values. Residents in the small town of Hamtramck, Michigan called the all-Muslim city council’s decision to ban Pride flags on city property an act of “betrayal.”
The city’s LGBTQ citizens are outraged by the council’s decision and have lambasted the city for not reciprocating support when their group reportedly vigorously campaigns for immigration rights in the US, according to the Washington Post.
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A federal jury today found three defendants guilty of a two-count indictment charging them with federal civil rights offenses after an occurrence on October 22, 2020 at an abortion clinic in Washington, DC.
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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he would use a Constitutional protection — the notwithstanding clause — to ensure that students wanting to change their gender or pronouns at school must have parental permission to do so.
The notwithstanding clause — proposed by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to broaden support for the new Canadian Constitution repatriated from the United Kingdom — allows a province to opt out of or override any decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that affects the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Moe is introducing legislation to protect parental rights in his province against what many see as the intrusion of schools into the lives of students in the name of gender ideology.
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The controversial Northwest Community Bail Fund, known for bailing out violent criminals and prolific offenders, will resume operations starting September 15 with a new twist.
According to an email obtained by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe, the nonprofit stated that this time around they “will be prioritizing bail assistance for self-identified non-white and non-cisgender people.” The group solicits donations from the public and routinely bails out people accused of violent crimes, many of whom are repeat offenders.
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Series of School Arsons Linked to Unrest Over Sex Education Program, Belgian Officials Believe
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Friday that he will seek the help of government experts on extremism in the wake of a series of school arsons.
Officials believe the attacks are connected to a controversial sexual education school program.
De Croo spoke just hours after a sixth school in the French-speaking Wallonia region was torched this week.
Signs protesting the so-called Evras program were discovered in some of the schools, according to authorities.
The program is a required four hours of training for students aged 11 to 12 and 15 to 16, intended to help them develop their relational and sexual lives.
The program had been around and available for all age groups for years, but was not compulsory until now.
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UK: BBC Radio Scraps Irish Singer Róisin Murphy After She Called Out Puberty Blocking Drugs
The BBC has removed an Irish singer from a prepared feature radio broadcast following leftist backlash over her opposition to children being put on puberty-blocking drugs.
Róisin Murphy, an Irish singer-songwriter formerly of the pop duo Moloko, has become the latest figure of hate for the woke transgender movement after a private post on Facebook criticising the radical practice of prescribing hormone-altering drugs to children was leaked onto social media by a friend last month.
“Puberty blockers are f—ing, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank,” Murphy wrote. “Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.”
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At first glance it might seem ludicrous to some — or indeed, many people — that we are still discussing “the pandemic” at the highest international level — where the United Nations purports to still be.
But those people need to pay attention to detail.
The push is no longer about promoting one and only truth about “the” pandemic — but about pandemics in general (as if the Covid one was the first the humankind ever experienced — and, for that reason, now extra special measures need to be in place for the next one).
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DA CAPO
It’s about your health and your future life!
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Detta är absolut obligatoriskt !!
This is absolutely mandatory !!
International vaccine critics in hearing at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg on 13.9.2023
“No one should take one more Covid shot”
– watch all 5 english videos on the original
danish page below:
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2023/09/17/ingen-boer-tage-en-covid-sproejte-mere/
text:
At the conference “Health and Democracy under WHO’s proposed rules” at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, Dr. Peter McCullough spoke more sharply than he has ever been heard before. In the beginning of his speech, he mentions the main guilty institutions, above all the WHO, which works for the pharmaceutical industry and has prevented all true knowledge about the “pandemic” from getting out. Then the UN; WEF, Gates and Rockefeller Foundation, CDC, The Department of State and EMA in Europe. Dr. McCullough’s 17 minute testimony to the EU Parliament yesterday – brilliant and tragic.
It is from the same conference the speech by Dr. David E Martin in the post below. It’s one of the very best. Dutch MEP Rob Roos speaks about the EU Digital Services Act, which Lars Hedegaard has written about here.
It’s not easy to find the videos individually (that’s why they are from different places), but at the bottom there is a video with all the speeches. You can see who they are on the poster I’m reproducing. It’s not easy to find the conference via searches, censoring, politicizing Google has made sure of that. Search from Duck Duck go instead.
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Detta är absolut obligatoriskt !!
This is absolutely mandatory !!
2 more videos from snaphanen.dk
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David Martin:
“A criminal cartel is killing you”
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2023/09/16/david-martin-et-kriminelt-kartel-myrder-jer/
NB, watch the first video from the above DK page.
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“WHO should not be weakened, it should be dissolved”
A great speech from a conference in the EU Parliament the day before yesterday. (There will be more in the next post.) David Martin has gone on the offensive against the main culprits, the actual people behind the mass murder of mainly Western populations. He has taken off the gloves and done what every citizen should do. Go on the offensive against criminals who want to kill them. That may come when the scale of the crime is realized by a majority, but it’s hard that so many will die and be disabled before then.
Due to statistical fraud, we don’t know how many have died so far. The conservative estimate is 700,000 in the US and somewhat more in the EU, a little over a million. However, I saw these numbers today: Experts estimate over 20 million are already Dead due to COVID-19 vaccination & over 2 billion are Severely Injured. If this is anywhere near the truth, the guilty must be dragged to the trough by the population before some will admit guilt, because a crime cannot get any more serious.
Below, Lars Bern summarizes David Martin and the entire vaccine crime. “The vaccine is a biological weapon, it has been in preparation since the 60s. There is a hidden agenda and it is probably to reduce the world’s population. The entire healthcare system, government and media have deceived us.” Pfizer should replace the injured financially.
In the first 25 minutes, Lars Bern says what every newbie needs to know, and Bern is a man you can trust. (It’s to his credit that I didn’t get vaccinated when he said at the beginning: “Wait, wait, wait, let’s see what this is.”)
All those in denial, or simply kept in the dark by the media, don’t need to hear anything else about the shots and the politics behind them to be up to date. You could probably live without knowing that Pfizer’s boss, Albert Bourla, has a $200 million annual salary – plus bonus, as he also tells us. But as cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra says, Pfizer should compensate the injured financially. They have never made as much money as they do now, but their wealth has been created on top of unimaginable tragedies for many people.
Undertaker John O’Looney: “They’re doing everything they can to kill you”
Nurse: “When the people realize what we have done to them, they will stone us to death.” – The detention camp the undertaker is referring to is HMP Five Wells, which opened in 2020. It was built in just 45 weeks.
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second video:
https://swebbtube.se/w/shJyTVbazdhqAA27SBn4qW
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Lars Bern video, mentioned in the text,
in Swedish:
https://swebbtv.se/w/cSGNxUZXXdMPghhFtikeFE
Many insightful people believe that every doctor who promoted the vaxxx should go to jail.
Now that there are several years of accumulated experience of the globalist agenda and its covid scam etc, no doctor can any longer claim to be in good faith when they join the covid narrative and perhaps even injection-murder small children themselves.
Nevertheless, the Globalists are currently in the process of restarting a new covid pandemic. More or less unchallenged by the cowards in the medical profession.
Did you pick up on this news?
“Sikh Terrorist Training Camps in North America”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1671109910095097856
Source:
Justin Trudeau Accuses India Of Extrajudicial Killing On Canadian Soil
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/justin-trudeau-accuses-india-extrajudicial-killing-canadian-soil
Commie Trudeau protecting the terrorists?
I’m more worried about the red chinks training in Canuckistan.
Time for Thomas Dolby to reprise his old hit (“One of Our Submarines”). I realise it’s a stealthy aircraft, but if DoD can’t track its own aircraft over CONUS, how can they credibly call themselves the Department of Defence?
Residents in the small town of Hamtramck, Michigan, including the woke especially, will be finding a hard truth; in Islam – only Islam matters.
Baron, I have begun to wonder if all the phone/internet downtime in “your area” is malice rather than incompetence. Nothing like that in my area.
The outage included my immediate neighborhood — at least a dozen homes. It seems unlikely that the PTB would go to that much trouble to create what is essentially just a minor annoyance. It would be far simpler and more straightforward just to get the hosting service to cancel me, or delete me from the DNS system (which has happened to other sites).
No, it’s far more likely that the landline infrastructure is simply deteriorating, and it’s not cost-effective for the phone company to maintain it properly. All the action has now moved to the cell phone industry, which is where the real profits are being made.
I’ve heard from a friend in the DC area that the phone company that serves his condominium complex no longer repairs the buried trunk lines for the legacy phone system. When water gets through the casing surrounding the cable and corrodes the wires, the phone lines quit working. The company informed him that he would have to get a cell phone; there was nothing else he could do.
Out here there is no cell service, so I presume that there is a state regulation that requires phone companies to maintain the landlines, because there are a lot of poor and retired people who depend on phone service. I also assume that when full coverage comes to the area, I will eventually lose the landline option, and be assimilated by the Borg, like my friend in NoVa.
“No, it’s far more likely that the landline infrastructure is simply deteriorating, and it’s not cost-effective for the phone company to maintain it properly. All the action has now moved to the cell phone industry, which is where the real profits are being made.
I’ve heard from a friend in the DC area that the phone company that serves his condominium complex no longer repairs the buried trunk lines for the legacy phone system. When water gets through the casing surrounding the cable and corrodes the wires, the phone lines quit working. The company informed him that he would have to get a cell phone; there was nothing else he could do.”
Just fyi…
Last year, Verizon replaced my 40 year-old copper-paired land-line with optical fiber. In those 40 years, I’ve lost dial tone twice. In both cases the cause was a telephone tech who’d mistakenly disconnected my pairs during unrelated work.
Copper-paired land-lines’re powered by the phone company, which used to be mandated to maintain backup power for at least 30 days. Over the past 40 years, I’ve experienced three week-long power outages, where I sat in the cold/hot dark. The ONLY bright light was my phone, whose dial pad lit up every time I picked-up the handset (to make or receive a call). That land-line was a life-line!
Optical fiber’s powered locally. So when the local mains power goes out, so does the phone. To counter this, for an additional fee, Verizon will install a bank of 12 D-cells that (they say) will keep the phone alive for “up to 24 hours” should the local mains power go out. Last month, the local mains power went out for 48 hours. Verizon’s D-cells gave up the ghost in < 20 hours. The mains power came back on just before the cell phone's battery gave up its ghost.
Moral: Beats me. But come the apocalypse, I'm sure gonna miss those copper-pairs when the lights go out.
Ah, but if they simply canceled you, you’d know you had been attacked. This way, they have plausible deniability. And so far, you are buying it. 🙂
I know, going paranoid… what else is new… 🙁