A Ukrainian missile did significant damage today when it struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. One Russian serviceman was reportedly missing after the attack.
In other news, Pakistan demanded that a process be established at the UN that will ensure the punishment of Islamophobic crimes.
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Eurostat: Poland’s Inflation Drops to Single Digits, Falling Faster Than EU Average
Inflation in Poland, according to Eurostat, was 9.5 percent, down from 10.3 percent in July. This is the first reading below 10 percent for many months. However, inflation still remains high, with only Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia having higher inflation rates than Poland.
In the EU, as a whole — not just in the eurozone — inflation in August was 5.9 percent, down from 6.1 percent in July.
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German Property Prices Fall at Record Rate
German real estate prices fell a record amount in the second quarter of this year — the sharpest fall since statistics began in 2003. Rising inflation, high interest rates, and a lack of interest from buyers are driving the trend.
The data from the Federal Statistical Office shows that prices fell 9.9 percent year-over-year from April to June. However, this only left prices 1.5 percent cheaper than the first quarter of 2023, with prices still extremely elevated from pre-Covid times.
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Leading Economic Indicators See US on Cusp of Recession Yet Again
By many of the most reliable leading indicators of the U.S. economy, we are long overdue for a recession. Yet the economy stubbornly refuses to cooperate.
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Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, came under the spotlight as he was put on the spot by Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie during a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing. The contentious subject at hand was the Department of Justice’s (DOJ)’s selective focus on investigations, particularly those involving Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, while apparently overlooking social media tycoon, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta.
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9/11 Suspect at Guantanamo Ruled Mentally Unfit to Face Trial
On Thursday, a military judge ruled that one of the five defendents accused of conspiracy in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks is unfit to stand trial. Col. Matthew McCall determined that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, 51, suffered from delusions that rendered him unable to fully understand the proceedings. His lawyers alleged that treatment he received at the hands of the CIA was to blame.
This comes after the Pentagon alerted families of those Americans killed in the September 11 attacks that pleas deals may be broached with those who remain detained awaiting trial for their alleged role in that terrorist action. Part of their reasoning for this was that they say the suspects were harshly interrogated, to the point of torture, when the US was trying to get information on the worst terror attack on American soil in the nation’s history.
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Austin Sees Influx of Crickets — Local Media Wants Residents to Eat Them
Crickets should be considered alongside Austinites’ next meal, the Austin American-Statesman has suggested.
In a recent article titled, “Crickets are invading Austin — can we eat them? Here’s what to know,” readers of the left-leaning newspaper in Texas’ capital city are encouraged to chow down on the unsuspecting insects, which the article attempts to portray as a nutritious “snack.”
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A cross-party delegation of Australian politicians met with U.S. officials, members of Congress and civil rights groups in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to urge the U.S. government to abandon efforts to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is accused of publishing classified U.S. military documents.
The group of Australian lawmakers included former Deputy Prime Minister and National Party Leader Barnaby Joyce, Labor Party member of parliament Tony Zappia, Independent member of parliament Monique Ryan, Liberal Party Sen. Alex Antic and Greens Party Sens. Peter Whish-Wilson and David Shoebridge.
Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, joined the delegation in Washington for its meetings with U.S. officials.
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Biden’s 2024 Campaign Will Continue Flagging “Misinformation” to Big Tech
The Biden regime’s practice of flagging content for censorship and pressuring platforms to remove content that it deems to be “misinformation” is so pervasive that it’s the subject of a major censorship lawsuit where an appeals court recently ruled that the Biden admin violated the First Amendment when pushing for social media censorship.
Despite this ruling, Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential campaign plans to continue flagging so-called misinformation to social media platforms, “reaching out” to social media companies, and working with media outlets to “fact-check untruths.”
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President Biden Friday afternoon announced the creation of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention that he said would be led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Through his executive order, Biden said he was “determined to send a clear message about how important this issue is to me and to the country.”
He added that after every mass shooting he hears to the same plea to “do something.”
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Biden Praises ‘Congressional BLACK Caucus’ During Address to Hispanic Caucus
Puppet president Joe Biden pandered to the wrong race during a speech before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Thursday.
Biden, 80, appeared to forget which minority group he was speaking to at the Institute’s 46th Annual Gala in Washington.
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Breaking: California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban Ruled Unconstitutional Under Bruen
If you’ll remember, back in 2017, Judge Roger Benitez struck down California’s ban on standard capacity magazines the state had arbitrarily ruled to be “high capacity.” That ruling was, of course, overturned by an en banc Ninth Circuit ruling. The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court where it sat until Bruen was decided.
After Bruen, the Supreme Court granted cert, vacated the ruling, and remanded it for reconsideration. Today, Judge Benitez has, as expected, struck down the ban as clearly unconstitutional.
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Breaking: Second Richmond Venue Caves to Antifa Pressure, Cancels Andy Ngo Talk
Senior editor of Post Millennial Andy Ngo is slated to speak at an event organized by The Virginia Council and Common Sense Society at the Commonwealth Club in Richmond, Virginia on Friday; however, due to a coordinated campaign attack from far-left activists, a second venue has backed out of hosting the event.
According to Ngo, the event will go on as planned at a new location that will only be disclosed to ticket holders within close proximity to the start of the event.
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Dallas Mayor Leaves Democratic Party, Switches to GOP: ‘American Cities Need Republicans’
The mayor of one of the largest cities in the U.S. announced in a Friday op-ed that he is leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a Republican.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed with the headline “America’s Cities Need Republicans, and I’m Becoming One,” Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson explains that he is leaving the Democratic Party because “the future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism.”
“Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP,” Johnson wrote.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing to hold back information about its efforts to police online speech in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
The Americans For Prosperity (AFP) Foundation, a political advocacy group, has spent years attempting to get the DHS to hand over records on its efforts to censor “misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.” However, the DHS has responded by heavily redacting any records it turns over to the group.
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Farage Predicts Democrats Will Drop ‘Senile and Dangerous’ Biden From 2024 Ticket
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has predicted that the Democrats will drop “senile” and “dangerous” President Joe Biden as their candidate before the 2024 elections to try to maintain their grip on power in Washington.
Biden is not just an “old duffer”, the 80-year-old president is “senile” and “dangerous” according to Mr Farage, who argued therefore that the Democrats will “move quickly” to look for an alternative candidate rather than permitting President Biden to seek a second term in office.
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The head of Baltimore City Schools is under fire after early results for the city’s state testing saw almost 75 percent of students at 13 schools test the lowest possible score, with no ‘proficient’ results.
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Black Lives Matter thought leader Ibram X Kendi appears to have essentially looted the $43 million in grants and gifts he was given to lead Boston University’s “Center for Antiracist Research” in the wake of the “racial reckoning” of 2020.
Boston University hired Ibram X. Kendi to lead its new Center for Antiracist Research in 2020, a year marked by a global pandemic and nationwide racial tension.
Three years later, after at least $43 million in grants and gifts and what sources say has been an underwhelming output of research, the Center for Antiracist Research laid off almost all of its staff last week.
Multiple former staff members allege that a mismanagement of funds, high turnover rate and general disorganization have plagued the Center since its inception.
The $43 million, according to 2021 budget records obtained by The Daily Free Press, includes general support, such as the $10 million from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, as well as donations for specific projects.
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In Reversal, Biden Agrees to ‘Small Number’ of ATACMS Long-Range Missiles for Ukraine
Up until this week, the White House has consistently signaled that Biden is not in favor of giving Ukraine long-range missiles, chiefly on fears they would be used to attack deep inside Ukrainian territory.
But on Friday it was revealed that as Zelensky visited the Oval Office the day prior, President Biden told him he’s willing provide long-range ATACMS surface-to-surface missiles for the first time. But perhaps displaying the administration’s reluctance on the issue, this is being reported as a “limited” or “small number” — according to officials.
“Officials said that a small number of ATACMS will be sent in coming weeks and more could be provided later,” The Wall Street Journal says.
Will the “more” that “could” be provided later be contingent on Kiev not using the initial deliveries to attack Russia?
The WSJ suggests this initial delivery could be more symbolic than anything, given it’s meant to encourage European allies to step up:
The U.S. provision of ATACMS could also encourage Germany to provide its Taurus long-range cruise missile. Berlin has indicated that it prefers to move with Washington in providing new types of military aid.
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More than two thirds of jobs are vulnerable to AI, with white collar jobs likely to be worse affected, a new report has found.
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A Las Vegas thug gloated to cops that he would be back on the streets “in 30 days” after he was arrested for intentionally striking and killing a retired police chief.
Jesus Ayala, who was 17 at the time, mocked the lack of justice in the Nevada city by taunting the arresting police officers that he would just get a “slap on the wrist” for his crime after he was taken into custody.
Ayala, now 18, who appeared to show no remorse while being taken into custody, faces 18 counts, including murder.
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Former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the J6 House Select Committee in 2022 that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of a “the beast,” a limo, on January 6, and just this week copy from her book revealed her claim that she was “groped” by Rudy Giuliani while backstage during the rally at the Ellipse on that same day.
She was counseled in her testimony before the J6 House Select Committee by attorney Stefan Passantino, who said that he advised her to be honest and forthright in her May 17, 2022 testimony. She later hired attorney Jody Hunt, who counseled her for her June 20, 2022 deposition before the House.
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Milwaukee Man Arrested After Allegedly Hitting Gaige Grosskreutz With Car, Fleeing Scene: Report
The Kenosha County Eye has revealed that a man struck during a hit-and-run earlier this month is believed to be Gaige Grosskreutz, the man who was injured by Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 BLM riots in Kenosha and later filed a lawsuit against Rittenhouse after he was acquitted by a jury.
According to Fox 6, on September 2, a man identified as 30-year-old Marvin Thomas allegedly cut through the intersection of Brady and Warren around 9 pm, hitting a 30-year-old pedestrian while crossing the street.
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Calls on Sen. Menendez to Resign Following Indictment
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called on Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to resign following a federal indictment.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced the indictment Friday morning at a press conference.
“Today, I’m announcing that my office has obtained a three count indictment charging Senator Robert Menendez, his wife, Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey businessmen, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes for bribery offenses,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said at a press conference on Friday morning.
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If we told you that a man accused of carrying $1.6 million in fentanyl in Pittsburgh didn’t show up for his court date after being released on non-cash bail earlier this month, would you be surprised?
Us neither.
But that was precisely the case in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where 27 year old Carlos Pichardo Cepeda failed the appear for court. The New Yorker “is accused of carrying hundreds of thousands of fentanyl doses at a Pittsburgh bus station,” according to Triblive.com.
Pichardo Cepeda was previously handed a nonmonetary bond by a district judge and released after his arrest. This past Tuesday was his second court date that he missed, the report says. Republicans are blaming the cashless bail while Democrats are placing blame on the DA’s office dragging its feet in prosecuting the case.
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NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Faces 75% Staff Reduction, Reports Say
A New York Police Department counterterrorism unit that’s the “first line of defense” against a potential terror attack faces staffing cuts of up to 75%, according to multiple reports.
Members of the Critical Response Command (CRC) unit of the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau were warned about impending downsizing in an internal memo reported by Gothamist and the New York Post this week.
“Today, I was informed that our unit will be downsized significantly, by up to 75 percent,” Deputy Chief Scott Shanley, commanding officer of the unit, wrote in the memo, per the Post.
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Officials Find Unusual Discovery Inside New York State House That Exploded
Police in New York state attended to a home that exploded after a gas line was severed. But while that may be out of the ordinary enough, what officials found inside was even more unexpected.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said that several neighboring homes had to be evacuated as a precaution after the blast. Luckily, no was hurt.
What Was so Unusual Inside New York State House?
WKTV says that a stolen car, driven by a teenager, collided with a house in the City of Oneida early in the morning in September. The crash severed a natural gas line causing the house to explode around three hours later, says officials.
Police say the house, as well as six neighboring homes, sustained “substantial damage”.
But while no was seriously hurt from the blast, what the DEC found inside the house that was hit surprised them. WKTV says that during the evacuation of damaged home, New York State DEC officers said they found a six-point, white-tailed deer being kept inside a dog crate inside the home.
Can You Keep a Deer as a Pet in New York State?
The DEC says that the “homeowner was illegally rehabilitating the animal and had refused to release it, choosing instead to keep it as a pet.” WKTV says that the DEC helped remove the deer from the house.
It is illegal to keep wildlife as a pet in New York state. The DEC says that if you encounter a young wild animal that is “obviously injured or orphaned”, call a wildlife rehabilitator for advice and help.
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Pentagon Exempts Ukraine Operations From Potential Government Shutdown
The Pentagon will exempt its Ukraine operations from a potential shutdown if lawmakers can’t agree on a deal to fund the government by the end of the month, allowing key training and other activities in support of Kyiv’s forces to move ahead uninterrupted, according to a Defense Department spokesperson.
Washington is more resigned to the looming government shutdown every day. As the Sept. 30 deadline approaches, congressional leaders showed little progress this week in moving a stopgap funding bill to avert that scenario. The House was in chaos on Thursday as a group of GOP hardliners tanked a vote that could have offered a path to fund the government.
But if lawmakers fail to reach an agreement and government appropriations lapse, DOD has decided to continue activities supporting Ukraine, DOD spokesperson Chris Sherwood told POLITICO Thursday — just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley and other senior leaders at the Pentagon.
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The Portland Police Association has settled a lawsuit brought by anti-police activist and former Portland city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty for $680,000.
The settlement was first reported by KGW8 and was in response to a 2021 incident in which the union’s president at the time, Brian Hunzeker, and Portland Police Bureau staff leaked a report in which Hardesty was mistakenly identified as the suspect in a hit-and-run accident.
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Ramaswamy, Newsom Trade Blows Over Climate Change: ‘Gavin is Ignorant About Science’
FIRST ON FOX: GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom traded blows online over climate change.
Ramaswamy blasted Newsom amid their heated Twitter battle on climate change in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Gavin is ignorant about science, but he’s savvy enough to know not to directly debate someone about it either,” Ramaswamy said.
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San Francisco Reporter Shares Moments After He Was Assaulted by Young Teens: ‘Shocking’
A San Francisco reporter shared he was assaulted while riding his bicycle by a group of young teens, and confessed it wasn’t his first time being a victim of crime in the blue city.
In a video taken right after the assault, ABC7 investigative reporter Dan Noyes says he was on his way home from his bike ride when he saw a group of about 15 young teens across the street from where he was on the bike path.
That’s when he said one of the kids rushed over suddenly and knocked him off his bike in an attempt to steal it.
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Seattle Reverses Course, Makes Public Drug Use Arrestable Crime
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday ruled that public drug use will soon be illegal in the city.
Imagine that!
According to KIRO7, public drug use can now end in arrest — though there remains a large effort to funnel drug users into treatment programs.
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The Republican Mayor of Orem, Utah, was physically attacked outside of a city council meeting on Tuesday by an “unhinged” woman who took issue after he had called out her reporter mother for writing unfavorable articles about his personal life during the meeting.
David Young, the Mayor of Orem, was allegedly punched in the face and spit on by Linnea Pugmire, 31, who has been charged with two third-degree felony counts of threatening elected officials and one count of assault, according to Fox13 who obtained video of the incident.
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U.N. Chief Guterres: Global Warming Has Opened ‘The Gates of Hell’
The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres said this week humanity must urgently find solutions to climate change because it “has opened the gates of hell.”
“Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects,” Guterres warned in his opening remarks Wednesday at the U.N. Climate Ambition Summit in New York.
“Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods; sweltering temperatures spawning disease; and thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage,” the Portuguese socialist intoned.
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Video: Rand Paul Slams “Corrupt” Zelensky “Begging for More Money”
Senator Rand Paul doubled down on his staunch opposition to further funding for the war in Ukraine Thursday, blasting the visiting President Zelensky as a leader of a corrupt regime “begging for more money.”
“It’s not even just going to armaments. You realize we’re funding the pension of their government workers and we complain about bloated government here. They’ve got bloated government and they’ve got corruption. And the American taxpayer, people are struggling in our country, are asked to fund it. I think it’s wrong. And I think most of the American people, frankly, are with me,” Paul said during a Fox Business interview.
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Voters: Biden’s America Becoming a ‘Police State’
Nearly three-quarters of voters believe that America is “becoming” a police state under President Joe Biden, whose administration has invested heavily in investigations of Republican politicians and political challengers.
According to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 72% said that they are concerned that “America is becoming a police state.”
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Watch James O’Keefe Confront Pfizer VP About Company’s COVID Profits & Manipulation of Viruses
O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe approached Pfizer Vice President of Government Relations Josh Brown during a recent school board meeting.
The journalist was questioning Brown about a previous undercover video report where a Pfizer employee made shocking statements about the company mutating viruses behind the public’s back and how Covid was a “cash cow” that was good for Big Pharma.
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Breaking: Violence Erupts Between Antifa and Parental Rights Protesters in Toronto, Multiple Arrests
Antifa militants and far-left agitators violently disrupted an “Education over Indoctrination” protest in Toronto on Friday, which prompted law enforcement officers to make multiple arrests on peaceful protesters who were left bloodied and beaten by the extremist group.
Video footage shows a large group of black-clad Antifa militants physically assault peaceful protesters and members of the press.
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Canada Launches UN Declaration Pledging Restrictions on Online “Disinformation”
A “global” declaration — that only manages to garner the support of 27 out of 193 UN member countries. How dreadfully humiliating — some might say.
But rest assured, Canada’s government will find a way to spin this abysmal result of its effort to use this year’s (likely, as ever, a waste of time and taxpayer money) UN General Assembly gathering in NYC to push some of its own agenda — or the agenda it’s tasked to push.
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Trudeau Unveils C$650M More for Ukraine Defense as Zelensky Addresses Parliament
After leaving Washington, President Zelensky is in Canada, where entering the House of Commons alongside PM Justin Trudeau he was greeted to loud cheers of “Slava Ukraini”.
Trudeau said this marked a “pivotal moment in history” and said of Zelensky there’s “no better inspiration”. Amid these flowery displays of admiration, Trudeau on Friday announced C$650 million more in military aid to Ukraine, set for a three-year period.
Trudeau also informed parliament, “We are providing funding to support mental health care in Ukraine,” after which the assembly erupted in applause.
He then went after Putin, who he said has broken international norms which “protect our freedom”. He added that “Putin governs with violence and oppression,” but than Ukraine is mounting a fierce defense. “For a lasting peace we must oppose Putin,” he added.
“We are all seeing a rise in disinformation, some state sponsored, some politically motivated that twists facts and refuses evidence and science. In this era of uncertainty, rules are what will protect us,” Trudeau said.
Importantly, the Canadian leader then unveiled the “longer term multi-year commitment” to the value of 650m Canadian dollars ($482m), to included 50 armored vehicles.
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Bombs, Rockets and Torture Cells: The EU is an Islamic Narco-State
by Daniel Greenfield
Less than an hour from the capital of the European Union, gangs fight gun battles in the streets or bomb each other’s outposts. Crime reporters, police and prosecutors are bought off or killed. Torture cells are set up in shipping containers and bodies can be cleanly disposed of, but when the gangs really want to send a message they set up a public execution or fire off a rocket.
That’s the way things are done, not in Bogota or Beirut, but in Antwerp.
Europe’s initial Islamic migration followed port cities. Among those leading port cities were Rotterdam and Antwerp which have become the hubs of Europe’s cocaine crisis. The Moroccan Muslims who came to the quintessentially European cities used them as links to their relatives who were growing marijuana back home. While Islam ruthlessly suppressed the use of alcohol, hashish use became widespread among the invading armies of the new religion. Islamic terrorists nourished on the drug became some of the most useful Jihadis carrying out attacks against Christian knights during the Crusades. Morocco was one of the world’s largest producers of hashish and the new Muslim immigrants established local drug empires.
The drugs grew harder and so did the gangs. Marijuana made way for cocaine in Rotterdam and Antwerp. The gangs became organized crime syndicates whose power rested on control of the docks. The docks in Antwerp are under the control of a hard leftist Belgian union that gleefully shuts down the country and violently clashes with the police during its strikes, but it knows better than to stand up to the Muslim gangs. Leading union figures have allegedly been bribed and ordinary dock workers who refuse to transport the cocaine off ships disappear.
A 2020 bust turned up a secret torture room in a shipping container with a dentist’s chair, handcuffs, pliers and scalpels. And cameras set to record it all as a lesson to others.
The Muslim gangs aren’t subtle. That we hardly hear about them is due to politics and terror…
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Feasible or Not? Belgium Looks Into F-16s for Ukraine
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) has confirmed that the defense ministry has launched a formal study into whether Belgium has the ability to send F-16s to Ukraine after all.
Previously, Defense Minister Michel Hofman had declared the prospect “unthinkable.”
While Belgium’s total of 45 F-16s are too old for use in combat, Belgium still needs them until their replacements, the F-35s, have been delivered—a process expected to take two to four years.
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Film Demonizing Polish Border Guards Becomes Major Source of Debate Ahead of October Elections
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki slammed Agnieszka Holland’s film “Green Border” because it “defames Polish border guards.” Morawiecki warned that the way elites were defending the film about the Polish-Belarusian border was a foretaste of the dangers facing Poland should the liberals return to office after the October elections.
Morawiecki noted that two years ago, Alexander Lukashenko began his hybrid attack on Poland by bussing migrants to attempt border crossings into Poland. The aim was to destabilize Poland.
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Organized gangs, many of them made up of foreigners, have targeted children in Halle’s schools for years, with the police recording hundreds of such cases. However, there is now a citizens’ initiative in the German city that has begun patrolling the area, and students are arming themselves for self-defense purposes as they lose faith in the police to protect the young victims.
The city, located in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, has seen highly troubling statistics emerge regarding the robbery of students, with Die Welt reporting that in just a matter of two years, there have been 203 such robbery offenses with 274 suspects.
The police noted that 40 percent of suspects have a migration background, and the proportion of those robberies committed by intensive offenders features a “significantly higher” share of foreigners, according to police, although no exact figures were given.
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In an exclusive interview with German MEP Maximilian Krah, who is preparing to lead the AfD’s 2024 EU election campaign, he discusses what is behind the surge in the AfD’s popularity, how Germany’s extensive surveillance regime has long targeted the opposition, and how changing U.S. demographics could one day impact Europe’s security
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Polish MP ‘Bills’ Ukraine $23 Billion for Support
A Polish MP issued a ‘bill’ for $23 billion to the Ukrainian embassy on Tuesday, suggesting that Kiev should repay the aid it has received after suing Warsaw for imposing a ban on grain imports from the country.
The politician behind the stunt was Krzysztof Bosak, whose National Movement party is part of the right-wing Confederation Liberty and Independence bloc in the Polish parliament.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda clarified Poland’s position regarding the transfer of military equipment to Ukraine. He affirmed that the new weaponry currently being delivered to Poland from the U.S. and South Korea would not be sent to Ukraine. These purchases, amounting to billions of dollars, are intended to modernize the Polish military, said the president.
This statement came after there were interpretations of remarks by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about military support for Ukraine. When Polsat News asked Morawiecki on Wednesday whether Poland would continue to support Ukraine militarily, Morawiecki mentioned that Poland is no longer sending any weaponry, emphasizing that Poland is currently arming itself with the most modern weapons.
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Slovakia and Ukraine Reach Grain Accord
Slovakia has agreed to drop its ban on Ukrainian grain entering the country.
Slovakia’s agricultural ministry announced that it has reached an arrangement with Ukraine to allow imports of wheat and other agricultural products through licenses. This provides a way to monitor and limit the amount of grain that crosses the border, possibly affecting hits Slovakian markets.
Ukraine’s agriculture minister Mykola Solskyi issued a statement on Thursday saying he was discussing the issue with his Polish counterpart Robert Telus.
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Spanish Police Investigate AI-Generated Child Abuse Imagery
Several minors in the Spanish region of Tierra de Barros could face prison time after they allegedly used artificial intelligence (AI) to create pornographic images of underage girls and released the fake photographs on pornographic websites, including the subscription site OnlyFans.
The Spanish National Police say they have already identified several minors involved in the creation and spread of the images, which first appeared on a WhatsApp group that contained students from various schools in the town of Almendralejo, El Mundo reports.
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Swiss Parliament Approves Burqa Ban, Imposes Steep Fine
Via Middle East Eye
Switzerland’s parliament has approved a ban on face coverings in legislation thought to be targeting Muslim women wearing burqas and niqabs.
The country’s lower parliamentary chamber voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill on Wednesday, which was passed with 151 votes in favor and 29 against. The upper chamber had previously approved the ban, which was strongly supported by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party.
It prohibits the covering of the nose, mouth and eyes in public places, as well as private buildings that can be accessed by the public.
The ban will now become federal law, and those who violate it will be fined 1,000 Swiss francs ($1,114).
Two years ago, Switzerland narrowly voted in a referendum to endorse a public ban on niqabs, burqas, ski masks and bandanas worn by protesters. Over 51 percent voted in favour, while nearly 49 percent voted against it.
The new law has a number of exceptions, including for indigenous customs, religious services, theatrical performances and face coverings for health and climate reasons.
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Mounting accusations pervade the UK’s Dame Caroline Dinenage, the Chair of the Culture, Media & Sport Committee, following her pressure on video-streaming platform Rumble to stop comedian Russell Brand’s ability to earn an income on the platform.
The calls for Dinenage to step down echo the sentiments of free speech advocates who are protective of the rights of individuals under scrutiny and are against the weaponization of government to bypass the legal system and render life-affecting judgements on citizens, such as stopping their ability to earn an income.
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Fathers can have a ‘unique effect’ on their children’s development, according to experts at the University of Leeds.
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My Son Hunter actor Laurence Fox is calling for the resignation of the Conservative member of Parliament who recently pressured Rumble to censor and deplatform Russell Brand.
Fox said Caroline Dinenage — who serves as chairwoman of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee — ought to resign her seat after she and other MPs sent a letter to Rumble demanding to know if the platform would cut off Russell Brand’s income in the wake of several rape and abuse allegations.
Rumble has refused to acquiesce to the pressure campaign.
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UK: Oxford Woman Admits Distributing Terrorist Publications
A 23-year-old woman has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for terrorism offences.
Roma Iqbal, from Oxford, pleaded guilty to distributing Islamist extremist content on 10 December 2021.
Winchester Crown Court heard the 23-year-old had helped set up a website called the People of Tawhid to support the terrorist suspect Abu Hamza.
The FBI intercepted 25,000 messages between the two, discussing admiration of the Islamic State (IS) group.
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The terrifying moment an armed gang smash their way into a family home in Walsall by pretending to deliver a parcel is captured in shocking CCTV footage.
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Thousands of NatWest customers have been plunged into the red and left with a ‘headache’ as money they deposited into their accounts disappears.
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UK: Watch: Wildlife TV Host Chris Packham Says Breaking Law for Climate is ‘Ethically Responsible’
A long-time British wildlife television presenter has come under fire after making the case that it is “ethical” to break the law in order to advance the climate change agenda.
In his recently released programme, Is It Time To Break The Law?, which was aired on public broadcaster Channel 4 on Wednesday, Chris Packham argued that the time for legal protests on behalf of the green movement may have come to an end and that it is now justified to break the law in order to supposedly save the planet.
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The former foreign minister of Poland, Witold Waszczykowski, said he is convinced that Ukraine is being encouraged by both Brussels and Berlin to take hostile actions against Poland. The EU itself does not want to give Ukraine money to compensate for the war, so now it wants to pay for the war by opening up the Polish market to Ukrainian grain, said Waszczykowski, who also serves as an MEP in Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), while speaking with Polish platform i.pl.
Waszczykowski believes that grain is not the issue. The EU is trying to bring down the PiS government. He recommends that instead of attempting to conciliate, Poland should take a tough stance and fight its corner.
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Embattled actor and social commentator Russell Brand broke his silence Friday calling out the UK government for collaborating with the media and Big Tech to censor him.
In a post to X, Brand — who’s been smeared with sexual assault claims in the mainstream media — noted, “By now you’re probably aware that the British government have asked Big Tech platforms to censor our online content and that some online platforms [YouTube] have complied with that request.”
Independent video platform Rumble published a letter it received from the UK government this week asking them to demonitize Brand’s content.
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A wannabe terrorist who was jailed after being caught trying to flee the UK with a rucksack, hair trimmer, factor 50 sun cream and combat fatigues to fight with ISIS has been freed.
Taxi driver Naseer Taj, then 26, was jailed for eight years and three months in May 2016 after his shocking plan to ditch his pregnant wife and marry a jihadi bride was exposed.
At his trial at the Old Bailey in London, Taj’s Walter-Mitty style plans were revealed, which included a rag-tag of items for his kit, such as an eye-patch, manicure set, £200 in cash and a mosquito net.
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Caroline Glick: The Netanyahu-MBS Partnership Comes Into Full View
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)’s interview Wednesday night with Fox News’ Bret Baier was an inflection point in global affairs. There were world affairs before the interview and world affairs after the interview.
The fireworks started immediately, and a major focus was Iran.
Saudi Arabia and its fellow Sunni Arab states oppose the U.S.’s nuclear appeasement of Tehran just as fervently as Israel. But over the past decade, the Sunnis opted to let Israel do the heavy lifting. They gave off-the-record briefings to reporters backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s protests, but they didn’t take the stage themselves.
In a nutshell, the Obama-Biden policy is to enable Iran to become a nuclear threshold state—and beyond. The idea, as explained at various points by former President Barack Obama and his senior aides, was that Iran acted as a rogue state because of Israel’s alleged nuclear arsenal. The key to stabilizing the Middle East, they contended, was to realign the U.S. away from Israel and its traditional Sunni Arab allies and towards Iran.
Empowering Iran, first and foremost through nuclear appeasement, would enable Iran to balance Israel. Just as the balance of terror between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War prevented nuclear war, so a balance of terror between Israel and Iran would prevent nuclear war.
Efforts by Israelis and other opponents of Obama’s vision to explain the absurdity of the former president’s comparison made no headway. Obama and his advisers refused to acknowledge that Iran is not a status quo power. It is a revolutionary regime that sees itself as the spearhead and leader of an Islamic supremacist empire, which it has built through terror, radicalization and war. As a result, the U.S.-USSR mutually assured destruction nuclear deterrence model cannot work in the Iranian case.
Today, the same arguments hold. But like Obama and his aides, President Joe Biden and his team of Obama alumni are pursuing Obama’s vision with redoubled energy, and the results have been disastrous. Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal. Its decision last weekend to expel international nuclear inspectors signaled immediate danger. Its Hezbollah proxy regime in Lebanon, like Iran’s Palestinian terror proxies, are escalating their threats and aggression against Israel, signaling the approach of a major war.
All the same, the Biden administration insists its nuclear diplomacy is geared towards regional stability and nuclear non-proliferation.
MBS didn’t require a long speech to explain why the administration’s policy can’t work. He did it in one sentence. Bret Baier asked him how Saudi Arabia would respond to a nuclear-armed Iran. He responded simply, “If they get [a nuclear weapon], we will have to get one, for security reasons, for balancing power in the Middle East.”…
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100 NGOs Argue Against Holding Elections in Ukraine
International and Ukrainian human rights NGOs have signed a joint statement arguing that parliamentary elections are incompatible with a full-scale war, despite President Zelensky hinting at organizing them in 2024—if the West is footing the bill. Instead, the NGOs called for extending the mandate of all elected officials until the end of the war, the Euromaidan Press wrote on Thursday, September 21st.
The joint appeal against holding Ukrainian elections next year came in response to growing pressure from the West, mainly from senior U.S. lawmakers, to proceed with the vote as if the country was in peacetime, arguing that Washington did hold wartime elections in the past.
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A Ukrainian Missile Strikes the Headquarters of Russia’s Navy in Crimea
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in a missile attack Friday that left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering, according to military officials on both sides of the war and images from the scene in Crimea.
The Russian Defense Ministry initially said one servicemember was killed but then issued a statement saying he was missing following the attack in the port city of Sevastopol.
The Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, has been a frequent target since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost 19 months ago.
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Poland Announces it Will Stop Supplying Weapons to Ukraine
Poland on Wednesday announced it will stop supplying weapons to Ukraine in order to prioritize its own defense, according to local reports.
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Seymour Hersh Claims Ukraine ‘War Effort’ is ‘All Lies’: ‘The War is Over — Russia Has Won’
Renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed that the U.S.-led war effort in Ukraine is “all lies.”
According to Hersh, the war is already “over” and “Russia has won.”
The veteran reporter alleges that the CIA and MI-6 have been running a “secret disinformation operation” to convince the public to keep funding “the war.”
He says the American and British intelligence agencies have been misleading the public about the disastrous state of the war effort.
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Ukraine dealt a significant blow to Russia’s naval power with a devastating strike against the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters, with one serviceman missing after the attack, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“With a series of carefully calibrated drone attacks over the past several weeks on and around Crimea and deeper into Russia, Ukraine has eroded Putin’s red lines of Russia-proper being off limits for Kyiv’s strikes,” Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, told Fox News Digital.
Friday’s attack in Sevastopol was part of a wider assault against Russian assets on the Crimean Peninsula, which remains a disputed territory and chief target for Ukrainian efforts. Reuters reported that a major cyberattack interrupted internet services on the peninsula.
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According to controversial artist Marina Abramovic, Ukraine’s actor-turned-President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked her to act as an ambassador to his country and to help rebuild schools following the war with Russia.
“I have been invited by Zelensky to be an ambassador of Ukraine, to help the children affected by rebuilding schools and such,” Abramovic said in a recent interview with the Modern Art Museum in Shanghai.
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India Suspends Visas for Canadians, Denounces Terrorist “Safe Haven”
The India-Canada row has continued escalating, with India having suspended visa services for all Canadian nationals on Thursday.
A statement said the temporary move is the result of “security threats” against Indian consuls in India, while denouncing Canada as a terrorist “safe haven”.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had on Monday alleged that Indian intelligence assassinated Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar at a temple outside Vancouver in June. New Delhi angrily rejected the accusation as “absurd”.
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Pakistan Demands Global ‘Accountability Process to Punish Islamophobic Crimes’ at U.N.
Interim Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, representing his country amid an ongoing political crisis following the ouster of popular Prime Minister Imran Khan, used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to demand that nations outlaw “Islamophobia” and that the international community enforce blasphemy laws.
Pakistan is home to one of the most draconian penal codes against blasphemy in the world. A defendant found guilty of desecrating the Quran can be sentenced to life in prison; those accused of insulting Muhammad may face the death penalty. Equivalent punishments for alleged blasphemy against other religions do not exist.
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Apparently, the once beacons of true democracy around the world these days just can’t get a break trying to stuff some authoritarian narrative into their supposedly “liberal narratives.”
So, in trying to guess who one of these may be — too easy. Here’s Australia.
The now long-standing — and the world-witnessing Australia’s federal, and some of its state governments, letting their “authoritarian flower” blossom during the Covid pandemic — is not the whole story.
Of course not the whole country, at every level, has gone off the (political and ideological) deep end.
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Community activists are getting ready to fight plans to create a $1.7million fenced off garden area in front of a controversial injecting room that they say will become a haven for drug users and dealers.
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Bosses of Australia’s ‘big four’ banks were this week grilled at Parliament House in Canberra about regional branch closures and removal of in-person cash services.
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Shocking Video Shows McDonald’s Melbourne Worker Getting Bashed After Giving a Customer Wrong Order
A female McDonald’s crew member was hit in the head twice and had hair pulled amid wild scenes during an ugly confrontation between customers and staff on Wednesday night.
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Cartels are collectively Mexico’s fifth-largest employer, according to a recent study, and some Republican presidential candidates are ready to take them out with military force.
A mathematical model of the criminal organizations’ recruitments and losses revealed that Mexican cartels collectively employ some 175,000 people, according to a study published in the journal Science. The groups have been blamed for flooding fentanyl into the U.S. Over 200,000 Americans have overdosed and died from synthetic opioids like fentanyl since 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Austria Mandates Community Service for Asylum Seekers
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) and asylum representatives from Austria’s nine federal states came to a unanimous decision on Wednesday, September 20th, endorsing the proposal to mandate community service for asylum seekers dependent on the state for their social welfare.
The move, which has been discussed several times over the years, will oblige those individuals undergoing the asylum process to carry out service for the community. Under the agreement, those who fail to meet the community service requirements will have their basic social services rescinded, the Austrian news outlet Exxpress reports.
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More than 300,000 migrants attempted to cross into the United States in August, surpassing the national record, as the White House says border number ebb and flow.
Last month 304,162 were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol, exceeding the previous record of 302,412 in December.
The figure is shocking because numbers usually drop during summertime months because of the excessive heat.
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EU Member Calls on Bloc to Designate Areas of Syria Safe to Return Migrants
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, the Cypriot Interior Ministry said Friday.
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Govt Astonished at German NGO-Funding News Say PM Sources
(ANSA) — ROME, SEP 22 — The Italian government is astonished at news that Germany is set to fund NGOs rescuing migrants at sea and helping them in Italy too, and demands clarification, sources at the office of Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday.
The sources voiced “great astonishment at the news reported by ANSA according to which a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany has announced imminent funding to NGOs for a project to assist migrants on Italian territory and a project of ‘rescues’ at sea”.
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Asylum seekers in New York City have been raking as much as $3,000 a month working without work permits while living free-of-cost at The Roosevelt Hotel, where they get free food, bedding and even cleaning services.
The historic Manhattan tower, dubbed ‘the new Ellis Island’ by one city official — has become the registering point for the migrants who arrive by bus in the city after crossing the US-Mexico border in Texas. Many of them have been bused north by Republican governors fed up with what they say are open-arms policies by Democrats.
The hotel is among many in Manhattan that have been designated to house migrant families with children, who have started attending schools in midtown this Fall. The city is currently paying about $385 a night per migrant family that needs housing and feeding. According to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, asylum seekers are costing the city roughly $10 million every day.
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Migration could help to ‘dissolve’ the European Union due to deep differences between member states, the bloc’s top diplomat has warned.
Josep Borrell said member states had failed to agree a common policy to deal with the issue, with some countries wanting ‘purity’ and rejecting migrants while others welcomed them.
Mr Borrell, the EU’s external affairs commissioner, warned that it was a greater problem for the EU than Brexit.
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New York City has taken in at least 95,000 migrants so far in 2023 despite its clear struggles dealing with the huge influx.
The city has welcomed more than twice as many migrants than Los Angeles, Miami and Houston since Title 42 was lifted in May following the end of the pandemic.
A total of 41,277 people listed New York City as their destination when they crossed the border into the US, according to data from Syracuse University’s TRAC immigration database.
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People smugglers are risking lives by packing more migrants into already overloaded boats after being forced to cut prices for Channel crossings.
Criminal gangs operating the perilous journeys crammed an average of 47 people into each dinghy this year — compared to just 14 in 2020. So far this month, the average has risen to a record 55 migrants per boat.
It comes after increased competition between smugglers and a decline in the relative wealth of migrants making the journey meant prices have dropped from around £10,000 per crossing in 2020 to £3,000 this year.
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Texas Declares ‘Invasion’ as 10s of 1000s Illegally Cross Southern Border
On Thursday, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “So, what do you call it here at the White House when 10,000 people illegally cross the border in a single day?”
Jean-Pierre responded, “So, what do you call it, Peter, when [the] GOP put forth a — wait, no, no, no, no, no, you can’t.”
Doocy then attempted to refine the question as she added without answering the initial question: “We’re moving on.”
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UK: Sunak’s Abject Failure on Housing Migrants in Hotels
The British taxpayer pays eight million pounds (€9.2 million) every day to house migrants in hotels. This recurring—and growing—bill is a result of the Conservative Party’s inability to do anything other than talk about illegal crossings.
There has been a lot of rhetoric on this from Tory HQ in recent months, particularly on “stopping” dangerous Channel crossings, given that the next general election is just around the corner. But every new pledge appears to end in disaster.
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Video: Biden Claims it’s Republicans Who Are “Undermining Our Border Security”
Joe Biden claimed Thursday that it is really Republicans that are to blame for undermining the security of the southern border, despite a massive surge in numbers of illegal immigrants coming across under his administration.
Addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Biden also claimed President Trump “spent four years gutting the immigration system.”
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Viral Video: Row of Illegal Aliens Tell Reporter What States They’re Invading
Investigative journalist Anthony Aguero interviewed dozens of illegal immigrants sitting along the U.S. border wall in Arizona asking them where they’re from and what city or state they are heading towards.
Among the locations listed by the illegal aliens were New York, Manhattan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Baltimore, San Diego and Brooklyn.
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Author of ‘Gender Queer’ Book Found in Schools Says “I Don’t Recommend This Book for Kids”
The author of the book titled ‘Gender Queer’, one of the controversial LGBTQ+ materials featuring explicit images that has cropped up again and again in schools has stated that the book is not meant to be available for young children.
Maia Kobabe, who identifies as non-binary told the Washington Post that her book is aimed at “older teens,” not kindergarten aged kids.
“It keeps being called a children’s book … but I think that’s coming from a misreading of the comic-book form. ‘Gender Queer’ is a comic, and in full color, but that doesn’t mean it’s for children,” Kobabe stated.
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An ad for shaving razor company Braun is taking fresh heat on social media after users noticed it featured a trans male model with double mastectomy scars shaving their beard.
Conservative commentators on social media ripped the brand — a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble — this week, claiming it is “celebrating the mutilation cult of gender.” Some users also advocated for giving the brand the “Bud Light treatment,” referring to the boycott that hit the beer over its association with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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Bryn Mawr College has re-energized its effort to promote diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, rolling out a 59-point action plan for the 2023-24 school year that encompasses every aspect of campus life, from curriculum to policies to financial aid.
Bryn Mawr College, a private all-female institution just outside Philadelphia, states on its website it needs to implement the plan to get a handle on “understanding of the processes by which power, privilege, and oppression are perpetuated at the College,” where annual tuition costs $61,190, plus $18,690 for housing and meal plans.
Bryn Mawr officials have ignored repeated requests for comment from The College Fix to ask them about the “privilege and oppression … perpetuated at the College” and their 59-point action plan to address it.
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Canada: BREAKING: Poilievre Slams Trudeau for ‘Demonizing Concerned Parents’ Amid Week of Protests
On Friday, Pierre Poilievre slammed Justin Trudeau for his response to the thousands of concerned Canadians who took to the streets in protests across the country this week to voice their support for parents’ rights and and end to sexualized content in classrooms.
The Conservative Party leader accused the prime minister of unfairly targeting parents via his decision to dismiss the demonstrations as nothing more than a gathering of people motivated by anti-LGBTQ hate.
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Democrat Congresswoman and Senator Silent on Giving Awards to Ukraine’s Transgender Spokesperson
Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Congresswoman Dina Titus have gone quiet after it emerged they both gave awards to the controversial transgender spokesperson for the Ukrainian military Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, who was recently suspended from the role over making unauthorised comments on the force’s behalf.
In December of last year, the Las Vegas City Council presented Ashton-Cirillo with a series of awards for service to the Ukrainian military. According to a broadcast from the local Fox affiliate at the time, Senator Cortez Masto and Congresswoman Titus gave Ashton-Cirillo certificates of recognition for the work done in Ukraine, allegedly including serving as a combat medic.
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First Trans NFL Cheerleader Compares Role to Becoming Doctor, Says No One Will Stop ‘This Show’
Justine Lindsay, the NFL’s first cheerleader to identity as transgender, wants to influence the next generation and compared becoming a member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats cheerleading squad to other accomplishments like becoming a doctor or nurse.
“I want to change the narrative for my trans sisters and brothers, just to [let them] know that if you have a goal, go for it,” the cheerleader said. “Turn that dream into a reality. Be an NFL cheerleader, or a doctor or a nurse or whatever you set your mind to.”
Lindsay is starting a second season as a TopCats cheerleader.
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Police Drop Charges Against British Woman for Silently Praying Outside an Abortion Clinic
After a six-month investigation, police in England have decided not to bring charges against a woman for silently praying outside an abortion clinic.
Police also issued an apology to Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the director of the UK March for Life, for the length of time it took to reach the decision not to prosecute her for silent prayer. In March, the charity volunteer was arrested after she told police she “might” be praying silently when they asked why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility.
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Police Find Trove of Evidence During Search of ‘Woke’ Ex-Biden Official Sam Brinton’s Home
Police found several items of stolen clothing executing a search warrant of Democrat President Joe Biden’s “woke” former nuclear waste official Sam Brinton’s home.
The disgraced ex-Department of Energy (DOE) official was arrested and charged in multiple cases involving the theft of women’s luggage from airports.
Brinton first made headlines last year when he was appointed to the position that oversees nuclear waste policy at the Biden DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy.
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WEF: AI Will ‘End Human Dominance’ in ‘Five Years’
Top officials with the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) are salivating at the thought of the human race soon being “dominated” by artificial intelligence (AI).
Two high-ranking members of the WEF sat down for an interview with the Rothschild family-owned globalist outlet The Economist to discuss the rise in AI-powered machines.
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of AI technology company Google DeepMind, and Yuval Noah Harari, a senior advisor to the WEF and its founder Klaus Schwab, discussed how advanced artificial intelligence will be in five years.
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Ukrainian grain = US/oligarch grain. US companies own the land it’s grown on and are getting rich dumping it in the nearest market, Poland. Viktor Orban said it was a US project. Zelensky is just the puppet.
‘Ukrainian Puppet Zelensky Asks Demonic Witch’
Eh, how about sticking to certain standards? Like, not insulting people you disagree with? Might look bad, in comparison to simple, factual reporting.
Will there be burning of Chinese embassies and threats to the Chinese?
China Promotes a “Confucianized” Approach to the Holy Quran
https://bitterwinter.org/china-promotes-a-confucianized-approach-to-the-holy-quran/
I keep popcorn ready for the day they try something 9/11-like on the Chinese. Not that the communist party is any better, but it takes a monster to tackle another one. And China won’t fall into a collective Stockholm syndrome over the feelings of a bunch of scraggly nuts. If I can be around to watch that movie, it would be truly gratifying.
This is what a tolerant chatbot thinks about the Confucian interpretation of the Koran
L [23.09.2023 21:00]
How can verse 9:5 be remade in accordance with Confucianism?
When the forbidden months are over, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them, take them prisoner, besiege them and arrange any ambush for them. If they repent and begin to pray and pay zakat, then release them, for Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
ChatGPT & Midjourney | AI bot, [23.09.2023 21:00]
Confucian teachings do not support violence and killing based on religious beliefs. Instead, they promote respect for other cultures and religions, and encourage peaceful resolution of conflicts. Therefore, in accordance with Confucianism, one could rework verse 9:5 as follows: “When the forbidden months are over, then respect the beliefs of other people wherever you find them. Try to understand their point of view and strive for peaceful coexistence. If If they are ready for dialogue and mutual respect, then open doors and opportunities for cooperation for them.”
That’s hilarious!
L [09.24.2023 9:24]
What will verse 47:4 look like?
When you meet infidels [in battle], you cut off their heads. When you have completely defeated them, then fasten the chains [of the captives]. And then either show mercy or take a ransom [and continue] until the war is over…
ChatGPT & Midjourney | AI bot, [09.24.2023 9:25]
In Confucianism there are no such concepts as “fighting” and “disbelievers”, so this verse cannot be reformulated in the spirit of Confucianism. Instead, Confucianism teaches the cultivation of moral values such as honesty, kindness, and respect for others.
I don’t take orders from Pakis
Eh? Where’s the “Paki” here?
Predator vs Alien” Islam vs Commie China ” should be an interest movie, terror jihad against godless Asian mafia Chinese government. Too bad the rest of the world would be destroyed in a war like that. It would put to rest the west current obsession “gender bending children” and bowing down to the 1 percent of pedos who seem to want to influence all government policies. Them and the current climate change religious idiots who might be happy to live like people did 5 thousand years ago when we are bombed into the stone age.
Do the ruling elite Bill Gates and his crowd thing they will be safe in their bolt holes ?