In recent remarks Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that migrants had opened fire on Hungarian border guards. Meanwhile, Poland announced that it was increasing patrols along its border with Lithuania, due to the smuggling of migrants.
In other news, after a lengthy investigation, the Polish government has determined that the missile that killed two Poles last year in eastern Poland was in fact Ukrainian.
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Germany: Housing Prices Falling at Record Pace
In what appears to be yet another worrying signal for Germany’s economy, residential property prices plummeted dramatically in the second quarter of this year, falling more sharply than has been witnessed since statistics started being recorded.
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office revealed on Friday, September 22nd, that from the period of April to June of this year housing prices fell by an average of 9.9% compared to the previous year, the steepest drop witnessed since the office began recording figures in 2000, with significant price declines taking place in both urban and rural areas, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
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A live streamer filmed herself driving around Philadelphia looting stores before complaining about being unfairly arrested by police.
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All Philly Liquor Stores Closed After Mass Looting
Update (1450ET):
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that all Philadelphia Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores are closed on Wednesday after looters targeted at least 18 locations on Tuesday night.
The decision to shutter more than two dozen Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations was “in the interest of employee safety and while we assess the damage and loss that occurred,” Shawn M. Kelly, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, said in a statement.
The stores will reopen “when it is safe to do so and when the damage is repaired,” Kelly said.
He continued, “We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience,” and “we appreciate their patience and understanding.”
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Biden Slips While Exiting Air Force One, Nearly Tumbles Down Steps
Democrat President Joe Biden almost created another humiliating viral video as he struggled to exit Air Force One in Michigan Tuesday.
The near-miss occurred moments after Biden touched down at the Detroit Metro Airport.
After landing, Biden was greeted on the runway by United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, Michigan Lt. Gov. Garland Gilchrist, and US Reps. Debbie Dingell, Rashida Tlaib, and Shri Thanedar, all Michigan Democrats.
As he disembarked the jet, Biden slipped as he hobbled down the steps and was forced to grab the handrail to stop himself from tumbling to the bottom.
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Biden FDA Vaccine Adviser Refuses Latest Shot, Raises Alarm Over Heart Failure Spike
A top vaccine adviser in Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has refused to take the latest Covid shot and raised the alarm about the long-term effects of the mRNA injections.
Dr. Paul Offit is one of the lead advisers on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccines committee.
Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology.
He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of virology and immunology.
In a video posted on Twitter/X by the popular account “Chief Nerd,” Offit said he “didn’t get last year’s bivalent vaccine” and he’s “not getting this year’s vaccine.”
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Bill Maher Says ‘Ruth Bader Biden’ Will Lose to Trump: ‘He Cannot Run for President’
Democrat strategist James Carville blasted the left wing of the Democratic Party while appearing on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast Sunday.
Carville, a former Bill Clinton advisor, slammed the Democrats as “stupid” and “naive.”
Bill Maher agreed and declared that Democrat President Joe Biden cannot win re-election in 2024.
He warned that Biden will lose to President Donald Trump if he even makes onto the Democrats’ ticket.
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Livestream footage of people ransacking retail stores went viral amid a looting and rioting spree that took place at Philadelphia’s Center City on Tuesday night.
“Oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t,” Dayjia Blackwell, a person who many have referred to as “Meatball,” can be heard saying in the clip.
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Breaking: Elon Musk Fires X ‘Election Integrity’ Team for Undermining Election Integrity
Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that he has cut the Electoral Integrity team at X (formerly Twitter) in half, including the newly brought on board head of the group, Aaron Rodericks.
When the news was reported, Musk replied “Oh you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.”
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Breaking: DOJ Obstructed IRS Investigation Into Joe Biden, FARA in 2020: House Oversight
The House Oversight Committee released emails and documents on Wednesday that show that a US Attorney prevented the investigation by the IRS into Joe Biden as part of a probe into alleged FARA violations. This corroborates the testimony given by IRA whistleblower Gary Shapley to the Committee in June.
“As a priority,” begins an email from Delwarare Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf on August 7, 2020, “someone needs to redraft attachment B. I am not sure what this is cut and pasted from but other than the attribution, location and identity stuff at the end, none of it is appropriate and within the scope of the warrant. Please focus on FARA evidence only,” she writes, going on to say that nothing in the email should reference Joe Biden, who at the time was running for president on the Democrat Party ticket.
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On Friday, the jury delivered its verdict for the suspects involved in a June 2022 fight at LeBron James’ Promise School in Akron, Ohio that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Ethan Liming. Deshawn Stafford, 20, was found guilty of felony aggravated assault, and misdemeanor assault, while his 19-year-old brother Tyler was only hit with misdemeanor assault. Both were acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, which had already been downgraded from murder.
The jury failed to reach a verdict on a count of first-degree felony involuntary manslaughter leveled against the elder Stafford, leading Summit County Common Pleas Judge Tammy O’Brien to declare it a mistrial. The charge can be brought forth again in the future, though prosecutors did not disclose whether that was an option they were pursuing.
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CIA to Use AI to ‘Sift Through an Avalanche of Public Information’
Members of the Central Intelligence Agency have revealed that it will be rolling out a feature similar to OpenAI Inc.’s well-known ChatGPT AI program so analysts can have easier access to open-source intelligence.
The CIA’s Open-Source Enterprise division is set to provide intelligence agencies with the AI tool in short order.
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Cigarette Sparks Explosion Inside Dodge Charger, Starts House Fire
Trapped vapors from a propane tank inside the car was cited as the fuel for the blast
A woman hopping inside a Dodge Charger for a cigarette sparked an explosion that destroyed the car, burned down a significant portion of her home and left her with third-degree burns. How could a cigarette cause so much destruction while sitting in a driveway? A propane tank was being stored in the back seat with the windows rolled up.
Rashanda Broome walked out of her home in Charlotte at around 1:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. She stepped into a Charger, and 30 seconds later there was an explosion. A neighbor described what happened right afterward to WSOC, “The car was just on fire at one point in time. And then the car led to the house being on fire. It made a big noise. It shook everything and everything came out of the wall and the house.”
Immediately after the blast, Broome opened the door and escaped the fire. Video footage also shows a man running out of the home and attempting to put out the fire. According to WSOC, she lit a cigarette. Normally, that wouldn’t be an issue, but there was a crucial difference. A propane tank was being stored inside the car. The cigarette ignited the trapped vapors.
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CVS Pharmacy Plans to Shut Down 900 Stores by the End of 2024 Due to Shoplifting
In response to the escalating issue of shoplifting, CVS pharmacy chain has revealed its intention to close 900 stores by the conclusion of 2024. This development coincides with Target’s decision to shut down nine of its stores for similar reasons, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
CVS is poised to shutter nearly a tenth of its stores, totaling 900 outlets by the close of 2024. This move aligns with the company’s shift toward an online retail strategy, prompted by the substantial surge in shoplifting incidents.
As part of a comprehensive retail transformation, CVS is set to close numerous stores across the nation, mirroring the broader trend of retailers moving toward online platforms amidst a significant rise in criminal activity.
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Exclusive: Portland Antifa Claim Responsibility for Attack on World Forestry Museum
PORTLAND—A Portland Antifa blog has posted a claim of responsibility for a violent attack on the World Forestry Center museum near the Oregon Zoo on Tuesday night.
According to the post on Rose City Counter-Info, the group vandalized the doors, windows, and the museum’s glass facade because they were the venue for a conference that included “landowners, asset managers, investors, forest industry executives and other vampires.” The attack was revenge against capitalism and in solidarity with the Atlanta terror-linked “Stop Cop City” movement. 61 members of the network were recently indicted by a Fulton County grand jury on RICO, domestic terrorism and money laundering charges.
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Exclusive: Barack Obama Secretly Attends Donor Meetings With Jill Biden in Seattle
Former President Barack Obama secretly attended fundraising events in Seattle last weekend with First Lady Jill Biden and mega-Democrat donors. Speculation has run rampant in light of President Joe Biden’s recent polling and never-ending gaffes that he will not be the Democratic party’s nominee for 2024.
Obama and Biden both stayed at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25 and had a jam-packed itinerary while in the Emerald City.
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Fauci May Have Influenced CIA Investigation Into COVID Origin: House COVID Subcommittee
Chairman Brad Wenstrup of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, has revealed “concerning information” regarding allegations that former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci was secretly escorted into the CIA headquarters to “influence” the agency’s Covid origins investigation.
“According to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19,” Wenstrup wrote in a letter sent to Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Christi Grimm on Tuesday.
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A Houston Jack in the Box employee has denied shooting at a drive-thru customer — despite video appearing to show the moment she fires out of the window at his car.
Alonniea Ford-Theriot defended her actions yesterday, claiming: ‘I’m not an angry person, not a mad monster out here. I’m just a woman trying to work for my family.’
The mother of two told ABC13 ‘you didn’t hear the gun go off at all.’ But despite the footage lacking audio, there is clear muzzle flash and at least one bullet casing is ejected.
Ford-Theriot — who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge over the March 2021 incident — is now being sued by the customer, Anthony Ramos, who was in the car with his pregnant wife and their six-year-old daughter.
Ramos and his attorney held a press conference Monday to announce the civil suit which alleges assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence by Ford, as well as negligence by Jack in the Box in hiring her.
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J6 Prosecutor Arrested After Allegedly Stabbing Motorist Who Crashed Into Him on Tampa Bridge
A US Attorney who previously appeared on behalf of the government in a January 6 case has been arrested after being accused of stabbing a motorist on an Old Tampa Bay bridge.
On Tuesday, Florida Highway Patrol said that a 40-year-old Tampa man and his 43-year-old wife were driving south on Interstate 75 when they came across a vehicle stopped in the travel lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge around 9:24 am, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
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A group of young looters created havoc in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, stealing from several stores in a spree that is unrelated to earlier peaceful protests over a judge’s decision to drop charges against a cop who fatally shot Eddie Irizarry, police said.
The unruly crowd outnumbered responding officers as they went from store to store in Center City, lifting merchandise and stuffing it in large plastic bags, CBS Philadelphia reported.
The shoplifters hit a Foot Locker and Apple store near 15th and Chestnut streets as well as a Lululemon in Rittenhouse Square and are accused of assaulting a security guard at the shoe store, according to the local station.
At least 15 people were arrested in connection with the frenzied mass-shoplifting event, according to ABC7.
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Montgomery County Public Schools is Told to Stop Violating First Amendment by Blocking People on X
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) find themselves at the center of a robust constitutional dispute as America First Legal (AFL) condemns the school district for alleged First Amendment infringements. AFL, acting on the grounds of defending constitutional liberties, dispatched a letter to MCPS addressing what they describe as unequivocal violations of free speech rights by unlawfully blocking users on the social media platform, X.
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Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Elon Musk on Tuesday revealed that he took multiple COVID-19 vaccines so that he could travel during the period of intense pandemic restrictions and that after taking his third shot, he nearly ended up hospitalized.
Mr. Musk made the remarks in a post on X that was part of a thread he started as a response to a warning by European Union (EU) officials that X has fallen squarely into the bloc’s censorship crosshairs for being found to be the top purveyor of so-called misinformation and disinformation.
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Hunter Biden told his uncle James in December 2018 that he had run out of money and needed financial assistance from his father, according to new text messages revealed in IRS whistleblower documents.
The now-first son told James Biden that the millions of dollars he’d scooped from his business deals abroad was “all gone” and he could no longer afford school tuition for his three daughters or even basic living expenses.
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Authorities in Ohio have issued an alert to the public after receiving an “extraordinary surge” in reports of missing children in the state.
The number of missing and runaway children in Ohio for 2023 is nearly double that of states with similar populations, sparking panic among parents and police who in some towns can’t keep up with the number of teenagers running away.
In this month alone, 45 children have been reported missing in the Cleveland area, according to the Ohio attorney general’s missing children website.
They join the total number of 1,072 who have been reported missing since the start of the year.
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Philly DA Refiles Charges Against Former Officer Accused of Fatally Shooting Man During Traffic Stop
Charges have been refiled by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office against former police officer Mark Dial, who is accused of fatally shooting Eddie Irizarry last month during a traffic stop.
The office filed a motion on Tuesday afternoon to reinstate the charges, including murder, voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated assault, just hours after a judge dismissed the case. Dial’s next court appearance is scheduled for October 25 with Judge Lillian Ransom, according to CBS News.
During the Tuesday hearing on the initial case, Judge Wendy Pew ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Dial of Irizarry’s murder after viewing footage of the August 14 incident.
Defense attorneys argued that Dial had acted in self-defense, according to Fox News.
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Pritzker’s Illinois: Nation’s Worst State to Own a Home
Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org
Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised to cut property taxes in 2020, part of his State of the State speech. Even then he recognized that those taxes, some of the nation’s highest for decades, were a real drag on Illinois homeowners.
Here’s what he promised:
“Property taxes in Illinois are simply too high. And that’s why it’s time to put the best ideas to work from both sides of the aisle. Local governments continue to max out their levies even when they don’t need to. There are perverse incentives in state law that encourage that. We can change the law to support local governments and lower property taxes. And with nearly 7,000 units of government in Illinois, it’s time to empower local taxpayers and voters to consolidate or eliminate them. [Emphasis added].
Nearly four years on and Pritzker and his Democratic-led supermajorities have done nothing for homeowners. The property tax commission he put together to lower taxes was a flop and many laws that have been passed since he took office have increased property taxes. The pain has only gotten worse.
Illinois falls dead last nationally when it comes to home value appreciation since 2000 — worse even than Michigan, which suffered the Detroit bankruptcy.
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A New York judge’s Tuesday ruling valuing Donald Trump’s sprawling, headline-making Florida estate at $18 million has left industry experts perplexed.
In his verdict, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron delivered a bombshell ruling that the former president committed fraud by inflating the value of his wealth, with details including the monetary value associated with Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
This decision, which came down without a jury, has sent shockwaves through political — and real estate — circles, especially that $18 million base value for the property.
One prominent Palm Beach real estate broker, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Post, “It’s utterly delusional to think that property is only worth $18 million.”
The insider added, “If that property were on the market today, I would list it at around $300 million, minimum … at least. He also has the separate golf course minutes away.”
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Report: 94% of 323,094 New Jobs Among S&P 100 Went to Non-Whites in Year After BLM Protests
Corporate America reacted to the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots by embracing systemic discrimination against whites, according to a new study from Bloomberg.
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Seagoing Bandits Terrorize San Francisco Bay, Residents Say Nearby Homeless Surge to Blame
Burglars have been raiding yachts and houseboats in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary in a surge of one resident compared to the pirate movie “Captain Phillips.”
They steal anything of value, then either sink the ships or dump the remnants of plundered boats miles away in the Oakland Harbor or along its shorelines, said Dan Hill, who lives on his boat like many other families in the 800-foot waterway.
Each “attack” can cost the owner thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, Hill said.
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Seattle’s King County on Track to Set New Homicide Record in 2023
Washington’s most populous county is on track to have record homicides again.
After another bloody weekend, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office reported that there have been 117 confirmed homicides so far in 2023 and that the area is on track to break the all-time high record of 147 in 2022.
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Numerous bodies across the US are pushing for the Supreme Court to review a court ruling that prevents cities from enforcing bans on homeless encampments in public spaces. Among them is the state of California, as well as multiple cities, municipalities, and organizations that are challenging a decision in Johnson vs. City of Grants Pass with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing the decision strips local government authority and as a result, cities are unable to address the homeless crisis on their streets.
In Johnson v. Grants Pass, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a permanent injunction that enjoined or stopped, a city ordinance enforcing public camping prohibitions unless the city first provides shelter beds for each homeless individual in the jurisdiction.
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A multi-agency manhunt is underway in Maryland for a violent repeat offender who has been accused of killing a 26-year-old tech CEO who was found dead on Monday. Billingsley was released from prison early by Soros-backed former State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby after serving just seven years of his 30-year sentence.
Jason Billingsley, 32, is wanted for the first-degree murder of Pava LaPere, the CEO and founder of EcoMap Technologies, who was found dead in her Baltimore apartment with injuries consistent with “blunt-force trauma,” according to police.
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Former President Donald Trump was expected to deliver remarks blasting electric vehicle mandates in Michigan Wednesday night, skipping the second Republican primary debate in a bid to garner support in the battleground state during a weeks-long autoworker strike.
The 77-year-old’s primetime speech at Drake Enterprises — an auto parts manufacturer outside of Detroit — will focus on unions and workers, his track record of protecting American workers and jobs and his plans for a potential second term, spokesman Steven Cheung told the Post.
Another big part of Trump’s speech will be rallying against President Biden’s rapid push for electric vehicle manufacturing, “which is a big reason why union members are upset,” Cheung said.
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A New York judge ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump will have his organization essentially dissolved by rescinding several of his business licenses, thus making it challenging, if not impossible, for his businesses to function in New York.
In a statement issued by Trump, he criticized Judge Arthur Engoron as being “deranged” and “doing the dibbing” of Letitia James, who he called “completely corrupt and biased.”
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Donald Trump called Joe Biden a ‘wretched old vulture’ and a ‘rotten politician’ trying to ‘rape and pillage’ American jobs in a speech to auto workers.
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Violent Daylight Robbery Caught on Video in Chicago
Violent robberies have skyrocketed in Chicago under the city’s new radical Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Yesterday around 3 p.m. two black men attacked a passerby in the street, in broad daylight.
The victim was walking while eating a slice of pizza.
The crooks attacked the victim and robbed him of his possessions.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino is “Successfully” Censoring “Lawful But Awful” Speech, Interview Reveals
The CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, is once again plunged into a conversation surrounding the principles of free speech, shedding light on her standpoints which seem to contain inconsistencies.
Yaccarino, in her conversation with the Financial Times, appeared initially to champion the concept of free speech, only to subsequently divert the discussion towards other organizational aspects. This oscillation between defending free speech and avoiding the subject has drawn scrutiny, raising questions about the possible politicization of free speech and the role of tech giants in shaping public discourse.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his apologies on Wednesday for the honoring of a Nazi in Parliament on Friday. In making his mea culpa, he emphasized that he was in no way at fault and the blame for the appearance of World War II veteran Yaroslav Hunka was entirely on the shoulders of House of Commmons Speaker Anthony Rota, who has since resigned in disgrace.
“In a few moments,” Trudeau began, “I will address the House in front of all Canadians, in front of Jewish people here and around the world and Ukrainians to offer Parliament’s unreserved apologies for what happened on Friday.”
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Exclusive: Canada Nazi Scandal Demonstrates Dangers of Historical Illiteracy, Says Poland Govt
The fact the entire Canadian Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were blindly led into giving a standing ovation to a former Waffen-SS volunteer demonstrates there is evidently a “large knowledge gap” in the West about its own history, but using this as a learning experience could bring some positive results, a Polish government minister told Breitbart News.
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On Monday, the Muslim Association of Canada released a statement demanding Justin Trudeau apologize for his statements regarding the thousands of concerned citizens who took part in parents’ rights protests last week.
The group accused the prime minister of demonizing families and alienating students who refuse to go along with the far-left gender ideology being inserted into the curriculum at schools across the nation.
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Official Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre called inviting former Waffen-SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka to be recognized and given a standing ovation by Parliament perhaps “the greatest diplomatic embarrassment” in Canadian history.
“Has there ever been a greater diplomatic embarrassment in the history of our country? I mean, literally, in coffee shops and gyms and businesses and boardrooms around the world, people are reading about this massive and shameful disgrace that unfolded under the watch of a Liberal speaker and a Liberal Prime Minister and yet he can’t even show up for work. Where is he and why is he hiding?” Poilievre asked during Tuesday’s daily Question Period.
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Trudeau’s Plane May Have Been ‘Full of Cocaine’ During G20 Summit: Former Indian Diplomat
A former Indian diplomat has claimed that there is a “credible rumor” that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane at the recent G20 meeting was “full of cocaine.”
Deepak Vohra, who was a former Indian ambassador to Sudan, made the claim on Monday on Indian television, also saying that the Canadian leader “has definitely gone insane.”
“When Justin Trudeau came to India for the G20 this month, his plane was full of cocaine,” Vohra said during a show on Zee News, according to the Toronto Sun. “He did not come out of his room for two days.”
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Judit Varga was Hungary’s minister of justice from July 2019 until July 31, 2023, when she resigned to announce her candidacy as head of the governing Fidesz party’s list for the 2024 European elections.
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British BLM Organizer Admits Fraud
by RT
A Black Lives Matter organizer in the UK city of Bristol has admitted to stealing money from a fundraising page set up ahead of a demonstration in 2020 during which a prominent statue was toppled, The Times reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, 23-year-old Xahra Saleem pleaded guilty to one count of fraud last week after an alleged £30,000 ($36,400) went missing from a crowdfunding page she had organized.
A self-described screenwriter, Saleem, who also goes by Yvonne Maina, was one of the five organizers of the Bristol BLM protest on June 7, 2020, held in response to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the US. She was also the co-founder of the All Black Lives Bristol group and had at one point even been named one of the most influential people under the age of 30 in Bristol by a local youth publication.
Several days before the 2020 BLM protest during which a statue of British philanthropist and slave trader Edward Colsten was knocked over and thrown into Bristol harbour. Saleem opened up a donation page on GoFundMe called BristBLM where she asked for help covering the costs of the demonstration and paying for protective equipment for the protesters.
She also entered an agreement with a Bristol youth charity group called Changing Your Mindset, vowing to donate to the organization any money left over from the fundraising. However, despite the GoFundMe page going on to raise tens of thousands of dollars, the charity never received any of the money and eventually had to shut down, prompting the Avon and Somerset police to launch an investigation into the fundraising page.
Saleem is the latest BLM activist to have been found stealing money from a fundraiser set up in the name of the anti-racism movement. Last year, Black Lives Matter Boston leader Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband Clark Grant were indicted for defrauding donors to their nonprofit and stealing over $1 million in grants and donations. That same year, the leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), Shalomyah Bowers, was also accused of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for personal use.
Furthermore, in 2021, BLMGNF co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors found herself at the center of a media storm after it was revealed that she and two other BLM members had purchased a nearly $6 million mansion in one of southern California’s whitest neighborhoods using money that had been donated to the organization.
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Czech Republic to Purchase F-15 ‘Future Fighters’ to Replace Gripen
The Czech government has approved the acquisition of 24 American fifth-generation fighter-bombers, F-35, as reported by Novinky.cz.
As stated by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the decision to acquire the F-35 is intended for the “decades ahead.” The contract will be financed from the Ministry of Defense’s budget. In the future, these fighters are intended to replace the Gripen aircraft, which the Czech Republic has leased until 2027.
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Czechia Wants to Ramp Up Penicillin Production After Mass Drug Outages Sparks Antibiotic Crisis
The Czech government is planning the resumption of penicillin production, which could start within the next 18 months after a year of drug shortages across the country.
“I firmly believe that over the course of the next year I will be able to inform that within a year, a year and a half, the production of these drugs will start here,” Health Minister Vlastimil Valek announced on the Vaclav Moravec’s Questions talk show on Sunday.
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Exclusive: Von Der Leyen’s Brother, a U.S. Betting Giant, and Romania’s Insurance Scandal
The granting of a licence to sell motor insurance in Romania to a company managed by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s brother is raising eyebrows in Brussels. It comes just weeks after the Commission refused access to MEPs to view an official report relating to irregularities by the primary Romanian insurance regulator and an alleged campaign of harassment against one firm in particular.
German MEP Lars Peter Berg, one of the MEPs who have raised concerns over the Commission’s handling of the affair, said in a comment to The European Conservative.
Given the evasive replies of the Commission to parliamentary questions on this whole issue, I wonder whether it is time for an independent investigation into exactly what is happening in Romania, and the abilities of the Commission to oversee the industry.
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Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Calls for Media Crackdown in GB News Free Speech Controversy
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ignited a debate over freedom of speech and potential censorship within the media. Brown specified that and commentators Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox should be barred from broadcasting, according to statements made during his interview with Sophy Ridge for Sky News.
Brown further suggested the UK’s controversial broadcasting regulatory body Ofcom should possess greater regulatory “teeth.”
Brown’s comments came in response to controversial remarks made by Fox about female PoliticsJOE journalist, Ava Evans, during a GB News show hosted by Wootton. “Who would want to shag that?” Fox asked. Fox’s comment led to both him and Wootton being taken off air as an investigation by GB News, which bills itself as a free speech media outlet, ensued.
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France and Germany Push for EU Expansion by 2030
EU enlargement by the end of the decade is essential, a commission led by German and French ministers has said.
The expert commission, led by the European affairs ministers of Germany and France, published a report last week arguing that EU enlargement was necessary for geopolitical reasons. It also suggested a number of far-reaching reforms to be completed before this can happen, such as scrapping unanimity in the Council, which would significantly weaken member states’ sovereignty, Euractiv reported on Tuesday, September 26th.
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France and Germany ‘Plot to Overthrow Polish Government’
The fact that the left-liberal government of Germany and the centrist leadership in France are hoping for a less confrontative government in Warsaw after the Polish elections on October 15th should come as no surprise, but they may be more actively engaged in bringing about such a change, according to a pro-government Polish journalist and a former Polish Prime Minister.
Polish public broadcaster TVP’s Brussels correspondent Dominica Cosic claimed on Monday, September 25th, that “according to off-the-record conversations in Brussels, Germany and France allegedly promised Ukraine a fast entry to the EU if Kyiv helps overthrow the current Polish government.” Berlin and Paris have apparently told Kyiv that in order for Ukraine to be accepted as a member of the EU, treaty changes would need to be made, “which are being blocked by Poland.”
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has expressed strong sentiments advocating for the European Union (EU) to redirect its focus from aiding foreign factories to bolstering manufacturing within Europe. He called on the EU to reconsider its stance on state aid, emphasizing the need to channel resources toward promoting factories in Europe, instead of subsidizing production in nations like China and the US.
During the introduction of France’s budget for 2024, Le Maire revealed his intent to advocate for an amendment of the prevailing guidelines. His proposal entails ensuring public funds are allocated primarily to industrial goods made up of a minimum of 50% European components, in preparation for the forthcoming EU Parliament elections.
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Germany’s Government Accused of Neglecting Energy Sovereignty Amid Pipeline Attacks
Germany is showing no interest in investigating attacks on the “Nord Stream” and “Nord Stream 2” pipelines, which is prompting accusations of damage to its energy sovereignty, according to representatives of the German party AfD.
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The discussion sparked a frustrated response from Madeley, who became visibly furious with the President’s suggestions and at one point slammed the table in anger.
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In an unprecedented move, six young Portuguese individuals are taking 32 countries to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday, accusing them of failing to address climate change adequately.
This landmark case marks the first instance where such a significant number of nations are being held accountable in any global court. The defendants in this trial include all 27 member states of the European Union, in addition to the UK, Turkey, Russia and Norway.
Ranging between 11 and 24 years in age, the young plaintiffs argue that the negligence exhibited by these governments in combating climate change infringes upon their human rights and unfairly targets the younger generation.
[Comment: The case should have been thrown out for silliness.]
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In Estonia Drug Overdose Mortality is on the Rise: 84 Deaths Already Recorded in 2023
In Estonia, the statistics of drug overdose-related deaths are on the rise, as indicated by data from the Institute of Health Development (TAI). Last year, the number of deaths caused by overdoses doubled compared to the previous year.
In 2020, there were 31 recorded fatal cases, in 2021 — 39, and in 2022, the number rose to 80 deaths from drug overdoses. According to information provided by the Institute of Health Development, during the first eight months of 2023, 84 individuals have lost their lives due to drug overdoses.
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Poland’s Ambassador to the United States Marek Magierowski has insisted that Warsaw will not be lectured on the issue of Ukraine and scolded those describing the Polish government as hypocritical and pro-Russian for its recent decision to stop arming its war-torn neighbor.
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published on Tuesday, the Polish diplomat referred to claims of disloyalty following its recent foreign policy U-turn, coupled with the extension of a ban on the sale of Ukrainian grain on Poland’s domestic market, as “farcical” and said they had “served as a pretext to bash my country for its apparent change of heart.”
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Researchers Reveal New Evidence of Nord Stream Explosions
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Seismic data indicates that four separate explosions struck the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year, Norwegian researchers told The Guardian on Tuesday. The explosions destroyed three of the four Nord Stream lines.
Seismologists at Norsar, a foundation set up to monitor for earthquakes and nuclear tests under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, initially identified two explosions along the Nord Stream pipelines last September. One blast hit Nord Stream 2 at 2:03am local time on September 26, 2022, while the second hit Nord Stream 1 at 7:03pm on the same day.
The Norsar team found that data from the day suggests two additional blasts took place seven and 16 seconds respectively after the second explosion.
Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 each comprise two separate pipelines. Given three out of the four lines were destroyed, the use of more than two explosive devices was already considered likely. However, Norsar is the first investigatory body to publicly confirm this suspicion.
Both sets of Nord Stream pipelines were severed near the Danish island of Bornholm. According to Norsar, the second and third explosions took place within 220 meters of each other, while the fourth took place several kilometers away.
The governments of Denmark, Germany, and Sweden are all investigating the blasts, though none has released any findings, and all have prohibited Russia from participating in the probes.
In the meantime, two competing theories have emerged as to who was responsible for sabotaging the pipelines. According to reports in the Western mainstream media, a team of Ukrainian commandos used a rented yacht to transport explosives to the blast sites, with the CIA and European intelligence agencies being made aware of the plot several months beforehand. Reports by the Washington Post and the Netherlands’ NOS news network claim that the CIA in fact told the Ukrainians to abort the plan.
However, American journalist Seymour Hersh has said that US President Joe Biden ordered the CIA to blow up the pipelines. Citing sources in the intelligence community, Hersh has claimed that CIA divers working with the Norwegian Navy planted remotely-triggered bombs on the lines last summer, using a NATO exercise in the region as cover.
By destroying the pipelines, Biden intended to sever Germany’s energy ties to Russia, thus preventing Berlin from lifting sanctions on Moscow in order to save its gas-dependent economy, Hersh argued.
Biden warned in early February that in the event of military action by Russia, “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in March that he “fully agrees” with Hersh’s conclusions. Putin argued that the US in particular benefited from the attack due to its position as a competing gas supplier to Europe.
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Rising Right-Wing Wave in Poland: The Confederation Party’s Push and Its Implications for Europe
Poland’s right-wing surge, as embodied by the Confederation party, made quite the impression with their rock concert-esque electoral campaign convention. The grand spectacle featured a singer on a motorcycle and an elaborate pyrotechnic display.
According to Associated Press, this growing appeal, especially to the younger male demographic signals a weariness with the political mainstream of post-Communist Poland. The event in Katowice appeared to be a strategic move to not only energize voters but to also minimize the antisemitism and extremist views present within their ranks.
Confederation’s leadership, amid the eye-catching smoke and fire, voiced their aspirations: a call for tax reductions, deregulation and a stance that’s critical of both the European Union and Ukraine.
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The Financial Times reported that the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has garnered close to 22% of the votes in Germany. Impressively, this surpasses the combined vote count of the tripartite coalition under Scholz’s direction, including the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democratic Party.
FT indicates that the rise of AfD in the polls signifies a changing political atmosphere in Berlin. Mainstream politicians increasingly find themselves discussing issues like race and immigration, subjects they might not have emphasized in the past. The AfD’s expanding influence has raised eyebrows, particularly with upcoming elections in eastern states like Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia. Some poll-based speculations suggest that AfD could potentially dominate these regions.
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Smer Party Holds Strong Lead in Recent Poll Ahead of Slovak Parliamentary Elections
According to the latest SANEP survey for TA3 television, conducted in the second half of September 2023, the Smer Robert Fico party still maintains a solid lead in parliamentary elections. If the elections were held at the time of the survey, 22.6 percent of respondents would vote for Smer, according to Veci Verejne.
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The EU Tells Apple to Open Up Its Stranglehold on the App Store
Apple, the tech giant famous for its walled garden approach in handling its hardware and software ecosystem, has been directed by the European Union to thaw its boundaries. According to European Commissioner Thierry Breton, the mandate given by the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is just a prelude to what Apple must do to level the playing field and create room for its competitors.
Invoked in May 2023 after becoming law in the EU in November 2022, the Digital Markets Act’s primary objective is to keep Big Tech firms like Apple in check. It aims to ensure a fair business environment for all industry players, in the process, supporting equal opportunities within the digital markets. As underscored by Breton, the core spirit of the latest regulations is to make Big Tech open up avenues for competition.
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Despite a lack of cooperation from Ukraine, Polish investigators have established beyond a doubt that the missile that fell on Polish territory on Nov. 15, 2022, killing two farm workers, was Ukrainian and not from Russia.
The prosecutors remain tight-lipped, according to daily Rzeczpospolita, saying they cannot reveal the details of the investigation. They only revealed that they have asked Ukraine for assistance with more information and that the investigation in Poland itself was now complete.
The details the newspaper obtained indicate that the missile was a Russian-made, S-300-type object used by Ukrainian air defenses.
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The father of stabbing victim Damilola Taylor has said ‘society has broken down’ following news a 15-year-old girl was allegedly murdered on the streets of Croydon by a schoolboy.
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UK: 15-Year-Old London Schoolgirl Stabbed to Death After ‘Turning Down Flowers’ From Boy
A teenage boy has been arrested in London after a girl attending a top private school was stabbed to death on a morning bus, apparently after turning down a ‘romantic’ gesture of flowers.
A 15-year-old girl was attacked in Croydon, South London, “shortly after eight-thirty” Wednesday morning and, despite police and ambulance crews fighting to save her life, was declared dead at the scene. A police spokesman, observing the death of the child is “every parent’s worst nightmare”, said an arrest was made within 75 minutes and they believe the victim and suspect may have been known to one another.
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Xahra Saleem, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position following an investigation by police into a GoFundMe page set up ahead of the protest in Bristol in June 2020.
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A 15-year-old British girl was fatally stabbed on her way to school just moments after she rejected flowers from a boy, according to reports.
The victim — who has not been named publicly — was on her way to school Wednesday morning when she was attacked on a major road in Croydon, South London, the BBC reported.
The girl was targeted after she allegedly turned down flowers from a boy from another nearby school, eyewitnesses told the Telegraph.
The argument initially started between the teen, her friends, and students from the other school on a double-decker bus, and then continued on the pavement outside a shopping center, the witnesses explained.
The girl was pronounced dead on the sidewalk despite emergency responders’ frantic attempts to save her life, the outlet added.
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Emotional tributes are paid at the scene
A 15-year-old schoolgirl who was stabbed to death this morning on her way to school was trying to stop a fight between her friend and her ex-boyfriend, witnesses have claimed.
Tonight the girl, who was a pupil at Old Palace of John Whitgift School in Croydon, has been named locally as Eliyanna. She was attacked at 8.30am — less than a mile away from the school gates.
Locals say they saw a group of schoolchildren getting off the No 60 bus outside the Whitgift Centre, where a row between the girl, wearing a green school blazer, and the boy — in a black blazer — ‘spilled out’ on to a street busy with pedestrians.
It was previously claimed that the girl had been attacked after she ‘refused to go out’ with the boy and ‘rejected his offers of flowers’, but it has now been claimed he was in fact trying to speak with her friend.
The friend had been trying to hand the boy back a bag of his belongings while he tried to give her flowers when the fight broke out, seeing the victim attempt to intervene, witnesses said.
This afternoon, a love note with the words ‘special girl’ and ‘princess’ written on it, along with blood stained red roses, were being examined by forensic officers. The note was then removed from the scene.
Chevanice Thomas, whose friend claims to have witnessed the stabbing, said the girl had rejected flowers from the boy moments before he attacked her with a knife that resembled ‘a sword’. Another witness claimed she heard a girl saying she ‘didn’t want to go out with him any more’.
The bus driver and a passenger tried desperately to save the girl’s life but she died at the scene at 9.21am. Community worker James Watkins said the girl’s ‘devastated’ family were summoned to the scene this morning but were ‘unable to make it’ in time to say goodbye to their daughter.
Officers arrested a 17-year-old boy in nearby New Addington at 9.45am. Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Andy Brittain said police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
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Bradford descended into lawlessness yesterday afternoon after a brawl outside the city’s magistrates’ court led to huge crowds clashing with police.
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HARRIET SERGEANT: Breaktime at school, and 13-year-old Harry was crouching in the only place he felt safe — a bush in the corner of the playground.
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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s recent comments suggesting a lack of solidarity on the part of Poland were out of line, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski has stated. Ukraine and Poland, one of Kiev’s staunchest allies, have been locked in a bitter row over cheap Ukrainian grain flooding the EU country.
In an interview with the privately-owned Polish broadcaster, Polsat, published on Monday, Trzaskowski characterized the Ukrainian president’s speech at the UN General Assembly in New York last Tuesday was a “very sad situation.“ He added that “of course, Zelensky exaggerated,“ and was “carried away“ in his thinly veiled criticism of Poland.
However, the mayor, who is a member of the Civic Platform party, which is in opposition to the ruling Law and Justice party, also lashed out at the way the Polish government has handled the feud. Trzaskowski argued that the issue should have been dealt with quietly but believes the government chose the path of public escalation in the hope of gaining more votes ahead of next month’s parliamentary election.
Addressing his supporters in the city of Swidnik last Friday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki cautioned Zelensky against ever insulting “Poles again, as he did recently during his speech at the UN.“
The Ukrainian head of state claimed during his UN speech that “some of our friends in Europe play out solidarity in a political theater, turning the issue of grain into a thriller.“
Warsaw was quick to react to the remark by summoning the Ukrainian ambassador.
Relations between the two countries soured after Warsaw refused to lift its ban on Ukrainian grain, citing the need to protect its own farmers from the influx of cheap produce from its neighbor. Kiev, in turn, lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization, insisting that the restrictions imposed by Poland were illegal.
The rift saw Morawiecki declare earlier this month that Warsaw was “no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine.“ The country’s president, Andrzej Duda, later toned down the message, saying that Kiev can still count on receiving obsolete weapons from Polish stocks.
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WEF-Linked COVID Drug Causes Virus to ‘Mutate’ & Spread, Study Finds
A popular antiviral drug used to treat Covid has been found to cause the virus to “mutate” and spread more rapidly, a bombshell new study has revealed.
The drug, Molnupiravir, is produced by German pharmaceutical giant Merck in collaboration with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.
Belén Garijo, the Chair of the Executive Board and CEO of Merck, is one of the World Econimic Forum’s (WEF) key “Agenda Contributors.”
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EU Strives to be Peace Broker in Middle East
Almost 50 foreign ministers from countries in Europe and the Middle East met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday, September 18th, to unveil a new initiative aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Through this, it hopes to achieve a ‘Two-State Solution,’ with a “sovereign,” “independent,” and “contiguous” Palestinian state based on the June 4th, 1967 lines.
Thirty years after the signing of the historic Oslo Accords, any such peace on that basis, however, remains as elusive as ever.
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Russia May Seek Extradition of Canadian-Ukrainian Waffen SS Veteran — Ambassador
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Moscow may request the extradition of Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian veteran of the Waffen SS, Russia’s envoy to Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, suggested on Wednesday.
“Russia is reviewing the Hunka story. May open a criminal case and subsequent extradition request,” the diplomat said in a statement.
The remarks come amid the fallout of Hunka’s appearance at Canada’s House of Commons, where he was touted as a Ukrainian “hero” who purportedly “fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians.”
The veteran — who fought for the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, also known as the 1st Galician Division, formed by Nazi Germany from mostly western Ukrainians during WWII and known to have committed atrocities against Jews and Poles — received a standing ovation at parliament, with PM Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in attendance.
The controversial honoring of the Nazi veteran triggered a major political meltdown in Canada and sparked anger in multiple other countries. Thus far, the scandal has led to the downfall of now-former House Speaker Anthony Rota, who resigned on Tuesday while expressing “profound regret” for his “error” to host Hunka at the legislature.
Canada’s PM apologized for the Hunka debacle on Wednesday, yet shifted the blame onto parliament’s now-former Speaker for inviting the Nazi veteran. The whole scene was “deeply embarrassing for parliament and Canada,” Trudeau stated, as he offered “parliament’s unreserved apologies for what happened on Friday.”
“The speaker was solely responsible for the invitation and recognition of this man, and has wholly accepted that responsibility and stepped down,” Trudeau stated.
Apart from Russia, Poland, which has been among the top backers of modern-day Ukraine in its fight against Moscow, has also urged a probe into potential war crimes committed by Hunka.
On Tuesday, Polish Minister of Education Przemyslaw Czarnek said he had “taken steps towards the possible extradition … in view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament.” The minister also called upon Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance to “urgently examine the documents whether Yaroslav Hunka is wanted for crimes against the Polish nation and Poles of Jewish origin.”
The SS as a whole was declared a criminal organization by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946, while multiple senior members of the paramilitary group were tried and executed for their atrocities.
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Russia’s Wagner Troops Are Back on the Battlefield, Ukraine Says
KYIV — Mercenaries from the Russian Wagner Group are back fighting on the front line in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian military official told POLITICO on Wednesday.
Several hundred fighters from the group once ruled by now-dead warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin were spotted fighting in the ranks of different Russian military units on the eastern front, said Colonel Serhiy Cherevatyi.
Wagner mercenaries had fought in Ukraine until May when they finally occupied the remains of Bakhmut, a Donetsk region town which was razed during nine months of brutal fighting. Wagner was notorious in Ukraine for mercilessly decapitating Ukrainian soldiers and killing civilians.
After Wagner was thrown into disarray following an aborted insurrection against the Kremlin in June led by Prigozhin — who subsequently died in a fiery plane crash in August — many of its troops were either welcomed to Belarus by its ruler Alexander Lukashenko or deployed to African countries where Russia has interests.
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Transgender Ex-Ukrainian Military Spokesperson Repeats Threats to Journalists
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The former spokesperson for the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, insists that Kiev must use all the weapons at its disposal to target Russian journalists, including sabotage.
The transgender American made the comments during several calls with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who were pretending to speak on behalf of former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko.
The calls are said to have taken place before and after Kiev fired the spokesperson last week following a scandal sparked by Ashton-Cirillo’s public threats to “hunt down” Russian “propagandists” around the world.
The former official told ‘Poroshenko’ that Russian journalists such as Vladimir Solovyov and Olga Skabeeva are “war criminals” and “terrorists” who should not be allowed to hide, while applauding the assassinations of Russian media representatives such as Darya Dugina, who was killed in a car bombing in August 2022.
Ashton-Cirillo claimed that Dugina was “evil” and “died the death she deserved,” and that Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova should be prosecuted.
Speaking of Russia as a nation, the former speaker said that “Russians are not Europeans,“ and that they “come from the Mongols” and are “part of a group of people that want to be slaves and want to be led.”
Elsewhere in the conversation with the pranksters, the former spokesperson revealed some issues plaguing Ukraine’s forces, stating that there is a “terrible problem with foreign fighters” because they are “just a step above mercenaries.”
Earlier this month, Ashton-Cirillo pressured CNN into changing one of their stories to say ‘Western foreign fighters’ instead of ‘mercenaries’. However, despite publicly defending the foreign volunteers, the former spokesperson admitted that most of them go to Ukraine simply because they don’t know anything except warfare and that many of them adhere to radical right-wing ideologies, with some openly supporting Nazism.
Ashton-Cirillo claimed that the presence of foreign fighters is proving to be a security risk and is detrimental to the morale of regular Ukrainian soldiers, explaining that the ones who do it “for the money” are more inclined to abuse drugs and do things to enrich themselves.
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China has issued a grim warning to Anthony Albanese about ‘provocative behaviour’ and economic sanctions before his expected visit to Beijing later this year.
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Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
FOR MUCH OF the cybersecurity industry, malware spread via USB drives represents the quaint hacker threat of the past decade—or the one before that. But a group of China-backed spies appears to have figured out that global organizations with staff in developing countries still keep one foot in the technological past, where thumb drives are passed around like business cards and internet cafe’s are far from extinct. Over the past year, those espionage-focused hackers have exploited this geographic time warp to bring retro USB malware back to dozens of victims’ networks.
At the mWise security conference today, researchers from cybersecurity firm Mandiant revealed that a China-linked hacker group they’re calling UNC53 has managed to hack at least 29 organizations around the world since the beginning of last year using the old-school approach of tricking their staff into plugging malware-infected USB drives into computers on their networks. While those victims span the United States, Europe, and Asia, Mandiant says many of the infections appear to originate from multinational organizations’ Africa-based operations, in countries including Egypt, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, and Madagascar. In some cases, the malware—in fact, several variants of a more than decade-old strain known as Sogu—appears to have traveled via USB stick from shared computers in print shops and internet cafe’s, indiscriminately infecting computers in a widespread data dragnet.
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North Korea Deports American ‘Asylum Seeker’ Soldier — Media
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North Korean authorities decided to expel Travis King, a US soldier who fled to the country this summer, state-run media reported on Wednesday. The news was confirmed by Washington, saying that the service member was now in US custody.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean officials finished investigating the incident in which King “illegally intruded” into the country’s territory near the village of Panmunjom, located north of the de-facto border with South Korea.
The investigators said King had confessed that he entered North Korea illegally because he “harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army and was disillusioned about the unequal US society.” Pyongyang had previously acknowledged last month that the soldier sought refuge in North Korea or another unspecified country due to these reasons.
In this vein, “the relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King… under the law of the Republic,” KCNA added, referring to North Korea’s official name.
A US official, quoted by CBS News, confirmed North Korea had released King, who appeared to be in “good health and good spirits as he makes his way home.”
he agency would not say when the US soldier would leave the country or where he was headed. However, the KCNA report came after General Andrew Harrison, the deputy commander of the United Nations Command in South Korea, said in July that Washington and Pyongyang started a conversation about the release of King, a claim later confirmed by the Pentagon.
King, a 23-year-old private serving as a member of the First Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, “willfully and without authorization” crossed the demarcation line between North and South Korea on July 18, according to the US Department of Defense. Several US media outlets, citing US officials, reported at the time that the soldier was facing disciplinary action after being charged with assault in South Korea.
According to the Associated Press, King was escorted by the US military to a local airport to be transported back home. However, instead of boarding the plane, he reportedly joined a group of tourists near the demilitarized zone and later defected across the Armistice Line.
The US soldier became the first known American to be detained by North Korea since Bruce Byron Lowrance, who, according to Pyongyang, illegally entered the country from China in October 2018. Lowrance was released a month later, as relations between Washington and Pyongyang thawed after a landmark summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
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Alice Springs: Single Picture of a Razor Wire Fence Exposes Sad Truth About Aussie Town
A shocking photo of a razor wire fence needed to protect the residents of a retirement village has exposed the desperate truth about an Australian town.
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Hundreds of angry Yes voters descended on the Royal International Convention Centre in Brisbane on Wednesday night for the event as tension threatened to boil over.
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Hundreds of people gathered on the steps of Victorian parliament on Wednesday evening to celebrate Premier Daniel Andrews’ resignation.
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New Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson has received a baptism of fire after being accused of trying to channel her predecessor Alan Joyce by failing to answer questions at a Senate inquiry.
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New Zealand’s Rural Voters Lean Right in Upcoming Election Due to Climate Change Policies
Growing discontent among New Zealand’s rural voters regarding the country’s environmental initiatives to combat climate change might lead to a resurgence of right-wing parties in the October 14th election. Such a political shift could potentially tarnish New Zealand’s reputation as an environmentally conscious nation, writes Reuters.
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Newman, 77, explosively called on footy fans to drown out the pre-match ceremony with jeers last week, but it had the opposite effect and supporters applauded instead.
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Tyre Deflating Climate Activists Strike Again in Northern Suburbs
A group of climate activists who let down the tyres of large vehicles to draw attention to their impact on the environment have struck Melbourne for the second time, this time in the northern suburbs.
About 40 cars were targeted in the attack in Brunswick and Princes Hill overnight.
The Tyre Extinguishers, who are the same group who let down tyres of dozens of four-wheel drives in Toorak on August 31, claimed responsibility for the action.
Activists left notes on the windscreens of the big cars they targeted explaining the tyres of those particular vehicles were let down because “driving around urban areas in your massive vehicle has huge consequences for others”.
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Warren Mundine: No Campaigner’s Cheeky Insult About Yes Voters Having a ‘Nimbin Vibe’
Leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine has mocked the Yes vote at a packed speaking event, claiming they spoke like they had ‘been to Nimbin and had a few joints’.
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Asylum seekers pretend to be gay to ‘game the system’ and stay in Britain, claims Suella Braverman — as Home Secretary dismisses backlash against her migration speech
Asylum seekers pretend to be gay to ‘game the system’ and stay in Britain, Home Secretary Suella Braverman claimed tonight.
The senior Cabinet minister insisted there are ‘many instances’ where people say they’re homosexual to receive preferential treatment in asylum applications.
‘That’s not fair and it’s not right,’ said Mrs Braverman, adding: ‘It’s not the way our asylum system should work.’
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Cash-for-Visas Scandal Rocks Polish Government
Warsaw’s ruling conservative party is still feeling the fallout from a cash-for-visas scandal that exposed major flaws in the country’s migration system three weeks before Poland’s all-important national elections.
The scandal first emerged earlier this month when elements of Poland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs were revealed to be selling visas through various third-party companies throughout Asia and Africa, radically undermining PiS’s stance on clamping down on immigration both domestically and across Europe.
The visa scam came to light when other European countries noticed an inordinate amount of migrants crossing their borders carrying Polish visas, with multiple officials being arrested for their role in the scandal.
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Democrat Mayor Sends 5 Buses of Illegal Border Crossers to New York, Chicago, Denver
The Democrat mayor of El Paso, Texas has sent five buses of illegal border crossers to so-called “sanctuary cities” across America.
Mayor Oscar Leeser said his city is now at “breaking point” as 2,000 illegal aliens cross the open Southern Border into El Paso every single day.
The mayor says his city is now opening a new taxpayer-funded shelter to house the illegal aliens but it won’t even come close to dealing with the issue.
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Elon Musk Backs Viktor Orban on X Over EU’s ‘Failed’ Migration Pact
Elon Musk posted on his platform X, formerly, Twitter, in support of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after Orban posted a clip of his speech to the Hungarian National Assembly in which he describes soaring violence committed by migrants and the failure of the EU to fix the problem.
Orban’s post stated that “migrant violence is on the rise. Three nights ago, a joint Hungarian-Serbian border patrol came under fire from automatic weapons.” He further wrote: “With this, migrants have crossed the Rubicon. It’s time to face the facts: the Brussels migration pact has failed.”
Musk responded to Orban’s post, writing, “Absolutely, it is unequivocally clear.”
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EU State Plans Major Change to Asylum Rules
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Finland will begin turning away bogus asylum applicants at its EU border, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen told reporters on Monday. A ministry spokesperson said the rule would also apply to non-EU migrants arriving by plane.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Rantanen said that the Finnish government is drafting rules that will empower border guards to determine whether asylum applications are “unfounded,” Finland’s Iltalehti newspaper reported.
Should an application be ruled invalid, migrants will be removed either immediately or within four weeks, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry told the newspaper. At present, asylum applications can take up to six months to process, often at centers far from the border.
Finland’s non-EU borders are shared with Russia and Norway. According to the Finnish Immigration Service, around 1,100 Russians were awaiting decisions on their asylum applications at the beginning of September.
Finnish authorities have already attempted to restrict entry from Russia. Finland now requires that all visa applications by Russians be filed in one office in Moscow rather than the much closer city of St. Petersburg. Additionally Finland has forbidden Russian-registered cars from entering the country, and has demanded that Russian-registered vehicles already in Finland be removed within six months.
Although the latest change to asylum rules is apparently aimed at Russia, the ministry spokesperson said that it would also apply to non-EU migrants arriving in Finland by plane.
Back in June, Rantanen announced that her government would be making “a complete paradigm shift” on immigration. This shift will see Finland cut the number of refugees it takes via UN programs every year from 1,050 to 500, and revoke visas for refugees who return to their home countries for “holidays.”
“We have to react to what we’ve seen in Sweden. We’re looking to take action to make sure immigration doesn’t cause economic or security threats to Finland,” she said at the time.
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A Syrian national who embarked on a spree of violence across the German port city of Hamburg resulting in the smashing of hundreds of car windows and windshields, as well as the violent robbery of a pensioner at an ATM, has avoided prison.
The 31-year-old man known as Firas A. had been a thorn in the side of the authorities throughout the summer months, which began with the migrant being detained twice in April for driving without a license.
After having his car keys confiscated by the police, he reportedly went on the warpath with acts of vengeful destruction, vandalizing vehicles across the city.
It is reported by the German newspaper Bild that the suspect is responsible for the smashing of 245 car windows and windshields throughout June.
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Ireland to Use Terror Legislation Against Asylum Protests
The Irish Minister for Justice has greenlighted the use of anti-terror legislation against growing protests against asylum centres after altercations between protestors and police outside the Irish Parliament (Dail Éireann) marked the return of politicians from their summer recess.
Thirteen arrests were made and the parliamentary grounds were temporarily locked down after hundreds of protesters gathered the morning of Wednesday, September 21st, with one independent politician, Michael Healy-Rae, accosted by protestors and forced to vacate the premises under police protection.
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Italy: Migrant Decree OK’d, Crackdown on Minors, Expulsions
(ANSA) — ROME, SEP 27 — The government on Wednesday approved a decree on migrants cracking down on minors lying about their ages and mandating more expulsions, sources said at a cabinet meeting.
The phenomenon of ‘fake minors’ will be curbed, they said.
The Safe Streets operation will be boosted with 400 more soliders on patrol, especially at major rail stations where migrants gather and crime has risen, they said.
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MEPs Call for Alliance to Stop Migrant Boats
MEPs of the European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) Group met in Madrid for their annual Study Days starting on Tuesday, September 26th, to discuss the party’s most pressing challenges in the current legislative session. On the first day, focusing on security and border protection, the panelists agreed that the only way to solve the current migration crisis and keep Europe’s internal borders open is to ensure the external borders are fully protected, calling for a coalition of countries who are willing to defy Brussels’ threats and failed policies.
Moderating the panel, Spanish MEP Jorge Buxadé (VOX) began with some sobering statistics: According to Frontex, over 132,000 illegal entries were registered in the EU in the first six months of the year, which doesn’t even include the recent wave of record landings in Lampedusa. On the other hand, the Commission confirmed that only 20% of rejected asylum seekers have been deported.
Violent crimes, such as assaults, rapes, and murders are also on the rise. “Twenty years ago [Sweden] had the least amount of deadly shootings in the EU. Now we’re at the top,” Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (SD) said, adding that kids in Swedish schools are being advised to dress poorly to avoid being robbed.
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More than 24,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel in dinghies this year after 212 asylum seekers were recorded making the perilous journey on Tuesday — including a number of small children.
Migrants packed onto three boats were rescued and brought to the Port of Dover yesterday — just hours after French media reported a suspected asylum seeker had been found dead on a beach near Calais.
Small children wrapped up in puffer jackets were seen arriving at the major port, alongside young men and women, as Suella Braverman claimed those crossing the Channel are not facing ‘imminent peril’.
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NYC to Pay Over $1 BILLION to House Illegal Immigrants Over Next 3 Years
With the migrant crisis in the Big Apple showing no signs of slowing down any time soon, Mayor Eric Adams has proposed extending the city’s contract with the Hotel Association of New York.
The plan to house illegal immigrants until August 2026 is expected to bring the projected cost since the crisis began in 2022 to $1.35 billion.
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The windows of the shuttered bar at New York City’s The Roosevelt Hotel, now home to 3,000 asylum seekers, have been covered with trash bags and sheets after migrants were seen sleeping on the floor and chairs.
The historic hotel, dubbed ‘the new Ellis Island’ by one city official, has become the registering point for the 300 to 500 migrants who arrive by bus every day after crossing the US-Mexico border in Texas. Many of them have been moved north by Republican governors fed up with what they say are open-arms policies by Democrats.
Migrants were seen sleeping on the floor and upright in chairs at the hotel’s former Vander Bar on Monday, hours before the windows were completely covered the next day, hiding the scene inside as the Roosevelt hit capacity, The New York Post reported.
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Orban: Migrants Open Fire on Hungarian Border Guards
At the opening of the Hungarian parliament’s autumn session, Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered a grim speech where he, among other things, spoke of the relentless assault on nearly all flanks of the European Union’s external borders by illegal migrants, and underscored migrants’ increasing willingness to use violence.
In the speech, delivered on Monday, September 25th, Orban likened the continuous torrent of illegal migrants landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa to an “invading army,” adding that not only have Hungarian authorities so far this year thwarted some 128,000 migrants from breaching the border but that violent attacks on guards have become increasingly common.
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Poland is Increasing Patrols on the Border With Lithuania Due to Migrants
Not only in southern Poland but also on the Lithuanian border, the number of patrols monitoring passenger cars and minibuses, as well as vans and buses on the roads is increasing, according to RMF FM.
Border guards in collaboration with the police are responding to the growing wave of foreigners who illegally enter Latvia and then continue westward through the internal borders of the European Union.
Since the beginning of the year, 454 foreigners have been detained on the Lithuanian border. Most of them are citizens of Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, and India. The majority of them enter the European Union through the Belarusian-Latvian border. Local authorities report an average of 100 attempts of illegal entry into the European Union daily in that area.
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Elderly residents at a dementia home in Sweden are being served porridge without milk for breakfast due to a lack of funds, despite the governing municipality only recently finding the cash to put up migrants in hotels, according to local reports.
The Samnytt news site revealed the demise of pensioners at the Kärråkra’s nursing home in Eslöv, which it claims is just the latest cutback in the quality of care provided to residents in recent years.
“The money has run out,” Sofia Persson, the manager of the facility, told the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper when asked about the substandard breakfast on offer to its elderly residents.
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Veteran Removed From Staten Island Nursing Home to Make Room for Illegal Immigrants
An elderly military veteran was kicked out of his New York City nursing home to make room for illegal immigrants amidst the ongoing crisis at the US/Mexico border.
Frank Tammaro, 95, a veteran of the Korean War, said he was only given two months notice to find a new assisted living facility after management had sold it to the city to house illegal immigrants, according to Fox News.
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On Sunday, the infamous Folsom Street Fair took place in San Francisco, with the kink festival celebrating its 40th year.
California state Senator Scott Wiener, who has been photographed at the event in previous years, applauded the day as “one of the best days of the year in San Francisco.”
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Germany: Firewall Cracks in Thuringia Over Gender Language
Thuringia’s center-right CDU has defended a bill to ban the use of “gender language” after its federal counterpart accused it of cosying up to the conservative, anti-globalist Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD).
In its draft law, the CDU parliamentary group in Thuringia says the “use of ‘gender language’ unsettles and overwhelms people,” and “makes it more difficult to understand and therefore leads to cultural conflicts.” Furthermore, they say ‘gender language’ is an “expression of a certain socio-political view” that “questions the traditional binary gender system of men and women.”
Continuing, the draft says that the German language “with its diversity and clarity” offers satisfactory opportunities to “communicate publicly without discrimination.” Thus, spellings and special characters like the “gender star,” the “gender underscore,” or a “colon within the word” ought to be prohibited in schools and government administration.
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Texas LGBTQ-Centric Congregationalist Church Funds Transit for Child Sex Changes
Following the passing of Senate Bill 14, which prohibits anyone under 18 from receiving so-called “gender-affirming care,” a Texas church has taken it upon themselves to raise money to shuttle children to states where puberty blockers and child genital mutilation are still legal.
The Fort Worth-based Galileo Church, which bills itself as a “quirky, LGBTQ-friendly church seeking spiritual refugees” whose first missional priority is to “do justice for LGBTQ people,” announced the creation of the North Texas Trans-portation Network in late August.
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A woman who worked as a daycare worker in San Francisco, as well as an East Bay suburb, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after she used her access to vulnerable children to create and distribute child pornography.
A press release from the United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California, which describes Jace Wong as a man despite her gender being female, said that Wong has been sentenced to serve 300 months in prison for the production, attempted production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. Wong was said to have taken part in a scheme to snap photographs and videos of four— to six-year-olds that she could then post on child pornography sites, according to US Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.
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If “rapefugees” are trying to claim asylum by claiming to be “gay”, I think we should test their claims by inserting baseball bats up there, where the sun doesn’t shine.
Perhaps.
Throwing them in a prison cell full of bull queers would be another way to find out.
Or, just subject them to the same penalties they would face in their countries of origin.
Either way its missing the point that they are illegal invaders. The declaration that they are gay in addition to being in the country illegally should be irrelevant.
If one wants to be humane, perhaps locking them up as enemy combatants would be appropriate. My view is that they are invaders and not wearing a uniform and therefore fall under the category of spies and saboteurs and thus not protected under the Geneva Convention. Execution by firing squad or hanging is therefore appropriate.
British General Warns to be Ready for Worst Case Ukrainian Scenario For Europe: ‘Prepare For War’
The English would like their country back.
The Scots would like to escape the “British” too.
And Wales, was never fond of the “British” to begin with.
Hopefully civil war starts soon, and the British are rounded up and slaughtered like the demons they are.
Freedom from the “British” is something worth fighting for.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/ireland-to-use-terror-legislation-against-asylum-protests/
Ireland To Use Terror Legislation Against Asylum Protests
The ruling party in Czech has now published Tomio Okamura’s home address – where his son and family live – and marked it and sicked their followers to attack it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvsan1cvrUg