A British general warned that Europe should be prepared for the worst-case scenario of a war with Russia over Ukraine. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that the next logical step will be American military advisors in Ukraine.
In other news, a Chinese media outlet said that Canada was the laughingstock of the world for giving a standing ovation in Parliament to a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran of the Waffen-SS.
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Final Second Quarter GDP Estimate Remained Unchanged at 2.1%
The third and final estimate for real gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2023 was unrevised. It showed that the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.1%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Compared to the first quarter, the deceleration in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected a slowdown in consumer spending, a downturn in exports and a deceleration in federal government spending that were partly offset by an upturn in private inventory investment, an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment, and a smaller decrease in residential investment.
Resilience in consumer spending comes as inflation and rising prices prompted the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates 11 times since 2022, bringing the federal funds rate to a targeted range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the highest level in 22 years. Healthy economic growth paired with slowing inflation and steady job growth supports the narrative that the economy may be headed towards a soft landing.
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‘$100, $150 a Tank’: San Diego Drivers Grumble About California Gas Prices Nearing $7 a Gallon
Gas prices in California have had a history of being higher than in many other areas of the U.S., but recently they have risen to well over $6 and even $7 a gallon in some parts. This far exceeds the current national average of $3.96, per Y-Charts.
The gas price hike has caused many California residents to make hard choices, sometimes having to choose between filling up their tank or buying lunch.
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‘100% Made in America’: Beer Can With Donald Trump’s Mugshot on it Pulls in ‘Record-Breaking Sales’
This is outright glorious, and totally some beer I need to buy.
Ultra Right Beer — the “100% woke-free” adult beverage company launched after Bud Light’s bombing of a partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney — is claiming that they’ve brought in a whopping $500,000 in just 12 hours after releasing a beer can with former President Donald Trump’s mugshot on it.
Speaking with Fox Business, founder Seth Weathers said that he “knew people would go wild over these collector cans, but we had no idea the response would be this crazy.”
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A Student Wants to Join West Point. But He’s the Wrong Race
by Daniel Greenfield
B is a high school student with a 4.2 GPA. One of his grandfathers fought in the Army on D-Day. Three of his family members are currently serving in the military. He would like to attend West Point Academy and continue a proud family tradition of military service, but there’s one problem.
He’s white.
The United States Military Academy is highly selective, but not in the way that it should be.
In 2019, Vice President Mike Pence addressed the graduates, hailing them as “the most diverse class in the history of the United States Military Academy” with the “highest number of Hispanic women graduates”. He told them that, “I couldn’t be more proud to stand before the graduating class of 2019 that includes the highest number of African American women cadets in the history of the United States Military Academy!” That’s been the emphasis at West Point for too long.
Earlier this year, West Point put out a press release boasting of its 38% minority enrollment as part of what a new lawsuit alleges is a practice of achieving its “desired percentages … of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities” through systemic discrimination in admissions.
As the lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions on the behalf of B, the anonymous student, lays out, “West Point sets benchmarks for the percentage of each class that should be filled by ‘African Americans,’ ‘Hispanics,’ and ‘Asians,’ and it meticulously tracks its compliance with those figures down to a tenth of a percentage point.” The problem is too many white people.
During the Biden administration’s defense of racial discrimination in Harvard’s admissions policies, the federal brief complained that, “white service members are 53% of the active force, but 73% of officers.” West Point’s goal is to match the percentage of officers to the number of enlisted men and so there needs to be only 53% white officers. The white officers must go.
Thomas Jefferson may have said that, “the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance”, but the price of diversity is eternal racial vigilance…
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Amicus Brief Supports the Babylon Bee Against New York’s “Hateful Conduct” Law
Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have supported the satire news site, The Babylon Bee, with a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. This action comes in the wake of New York’s contentious online censorship law, which effectively forces online platforms like the Bee to track and suppress what it designates as “hateful conduct.”
We obtained a copy of the brief for you here.
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Anti-Deepfake Law Proposal Threatens Memes and Parody
There is a new legislative proposal, the DEEPFAKES Accountability Act, re-introduced by a Democrat, that seeks to criminalize the use of a certain type of generative AI content.
Creators targeted here would be those who fail to label their work as required by the bill, namely, as “malicious deepfakes,” while all content of this kind would have to be labeled regardless.
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Arizona Governor Steps Down in Short Absence as State Treasurer Temporarily Fulfills Role
On Wednesday evening, the Arizona treasurer announced that she would serve as acting governor beginning later that evening until mid-morning Thursday, amid a short absence from Gov. Katie Hobbs.
In a press release on X, formerly known as Twitter, Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced her brief tenure as acting governor, saying that she is “pleased to step in this role.”
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Blue City’s Rampant Violence Led This Former DC Resident to Flee the Crime-Ridden Capital
Skyrocketing violent crime led one woman to flee the nation’s capital as she no longer felt safe walking alone after dark, the former Washington, D.C., resident told FOX News Digital.
“I would get up before work to go grocery shopping because I didn’t feel safe going to the grocery store at night,” Lindsay Reusser, who lived in the nation’s capital for over a decade, said. “Why am I paying $1,800 plus a month to live like this? This isn’t worth it.”
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Breaking: Elon Musk Promises to Trim List of Demonetized Words After Chaya Raichik Revelations
In an X Spaces held on Thursday, Elon Musk said the list of demonetized words revealed by Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik “needs to be trimmed,” and promised to get on this.
“I should preface this by saying we do a lot of dumb things … one should not attribute to malice that which easily can be explained by incompetence.”
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On Thursday, Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore revealed that he had been kicked out of the Republican caucus over his calls to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Moore slammed the Senate GOP’s decision, accusing members of “acting like children.”
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Britney Spears Gets Police Welfare Check After Disturbing Knife Video
Police checked on Britney Spears’ well-being Wednesday after the pop star shared a video of herself dancing with knives.
Spears twirled around her Southern California home holding two large knives while wearing a crop top and bikini bottoms.
The video, which she shared on Instagram, prompted concern, and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department conducted a welfare check on the “Circus” singer, Fox News Digital confirmed.
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Two good Samaritans in California were seen on video stopping an attempted carjacking last month after running at the suspects’ vehicle and busting its windows with what appeared to be wooden sticks.
The incident unfolded on Aug. 14 at 2:45 p.m. on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, according to surveillance footage obtained by FOX KTVU.
The victim is seen crossing a street to return to his parked car when another vehicle pulls up and two masked, hooded men jump out, the video shows.
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Christie Rips Trump for Not Showing Up to Debate, Suggests New Nickname of ‘Donald Duck’
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie mocked former President Donald Trump on the debate stage on Wednesday night saying that he will start calling him “Donald Duck” if he continues to skip debates.
“We’ve got to bring law and order back to this country and not just in our cities, but we need law and order back everywhere,” Christie said. “When you go on our back in our suburbs, people are threatened there. We need it in our rural areas. People feel threatened there and we need it in Washington, D.C. also. And Donald Trump should be here to answer for that, but he’s not.”
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A Washington, D.C., landlord who claimed to local news that “he hasn’t been paid rent in three years” was told that he would have to wait “at least another four months to get a trial on evicting the tenants.”
“John Jones owns a single two-bedroom unit in Southeast D.C,” News4 I-Team reported. “The I-Team first met Jones when he complained he was missing $14,000 from a COVID-era rent relief program. City documents show the check was sent in 2021 to the tenants and cashed, but they never sent the money to the landlord. Jones says they haven’t paid rent for a few months before or since.”
“He claims he is now owed $46,800,” the outlet reported.
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Dems Call for Conservative Justice Recusals on Cases That Could Undermine Their Political Goals
Democrats are increasingly calling for conservative justices to recuse themselves from major cases with the potential to hurt their political goals.
Fifty House Democrats called on Justice Clarence Thomas Wednesday to recuse from an upcoming case that could rein in the authority of executive agencies, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, after ProPublica published a story detailing his presence at a 2018 event put on by the Koch network, or Stand Together, founded by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch. Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin likewise called for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse from a major tax case that could undermine the legal foundation for a wealth tax, Moore v. United States, after a lawyer on the case interviewed Alito for the Wall Street Journal in August.
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Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), with nearly three dozen House Republicans, introduced legislation to define America’s strategy with Ukraine and avoid “endless war.”
The Ohio congressman, who has long called for cementing America’s strategy with the conflict against Russia, introduced the Define the Mission Act. The legislation aims to provide the American people with clarity about the Biden administration’s aims in aiding Ukraine’s conflict with Russia. By also clarifying the Biden administration’s strategy, it could limit the “mission creep” and increasing escalation against a nuclear-armed Russia.
“The Ukraine proxy war is the Washington war hawk regime’s latest obsession,” Davidson explained in a written statement. “The Biden administration’s ‘as long as it takes’ approach is not a substitute for a clear strategy. It’s our responsibility to demand a defined mission on behalf of the American people and get concrete answers to avoid endless war.”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), another lawmaker in favor of a noninterventionist foreign policy, introduced the Senate companion bill.
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FBI Discovers Satanic Pedophile Cult Almost 2 Years After Arresting Gun Suspect
A series of investigations have unearthed a sinister online group, named 764, linked to a Satanic pedophile extortion cult, two years after an arrest on gun charges, The Guardian reported Thursday.
Angel Almeida, 23, was initially arrested in November 2021, with subsequent charges related to child exploitation and enticement of minors added in February. The FBI’s probe into Almeida’s disturbing social media posts led to the discovery of the group, which is believed to be an offshoot of the Order of Nine Angels (O9A), a worldwide Satanist group, according to The Guardian.
The FBI issued a public notice on September 12, warning of 764’s activities, which include deliberately targeting minors on messaging platforms to “extort them into recording or live-streaming acts of self-harm and producing child sexual abuse material.”
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Florida Teacher, Disney Employees Among 219 Arrested in Human Trafficking Operation: Authorities
A Polk County, Florida, human trafficking operation earlier this month led to the arrests of 219 people, including people in the country illegally, a high school teacher, and three Disney employees, according to authorities.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd on Thursday announced the results of the operation, saying out of 119 prostitutes who were arrested during the operation that began last week, 21 were possible victims of human trafficking.
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Former Jan. 6 Prosecutor Accused of Stabbing Driver in Tampa Road Rage Fight
Patrick Scruggs, a former assistant U.S. attorney, charged with stabbing a man in Florida road rage
A former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor whose tenure included January 6 cases has been accused of stabbing a Florida man in a road rage fight on a bridge outside Tampa, Florida.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested Patrick Douglas Scruggs, a 38-year-old attorney, on the Howard Frankland Bridge after he allegedly hacked up a 35-year-old man with a pocket knife, according to authorities.
The incident began when the victim slumped over in his driver’s seat and stopped traffic during the morning rush hour Tuesday.
A pair of good Samaritans went to check on him, and he woke up, hit the gas and crashed into the car in front of him, according to police.
Then he put his car in reverse and backed into Scruggs.
Eyewitness pictures obtained by FOX 13 Tampa show the lawyer standing outside his car gesturing near the driver’s window.
Scruggs is accused of smashing through the window and stabbing him multiple times. Witness Tara Iglinski told the outlet she saw blood covering the victim’s arms.
“It doesn’t matter who he is,” Iglinski said. “What he did was really, really scary. And the way he reacted there was really frightening.”
According to police, he turned the knife on the good Samaritans too, and they left without injury.
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The 38-year-old, whose real name is Afa Anoa’i Jr represented the Anoa’i dynasty before the rise of current WWE stars Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa.
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Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Mandating $20 Per Hour Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Thursday that will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers, a press release from the governor’s office announced.
The law raises the current minimum wage to $20 per hour for all fast food workers beginning April 1, 2024, and also requires the fast food minimum wage to increase by 3.5% each following year until 2029, according to its text. Newsom hailed the new law as a chance to reduce “inequity” in the fast food industry and an opportunity to “reward” workers for their “contribution” at the signing, video showed.
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Gen Z Climate Protesters Arrested Outside McCarthy’s Office
Generation Z protesters were arrested outside of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) office Thursday.
More than 150 teenagers made their way into McCarthy’s office where they demanded “he support bridge funding to keep the government open, including funding the Federal Emergency Management Administration to respond to climate disasters.” U.S. Capitol Police later arrested 18 of them outside the Speaker’s office, according to the Sunrise Movement, a climate activist group.
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Here Are the Last 79 Colleges Still Mandating COVID Vaccines
No College Mandates, an advocacy group that argues against the Covid-19 vaccine for higher education, counts 79 colleges and universities that require their students to be vaccinated this fall semester.
“There are 79 colleges in the US still mandating COVID vaccines when there should be zero just like the rest of the world. Do Not Comply!” No College Mandates posted on X.
The advocacy group said “COVID injections for one of the lowest risk populations” is “insanity.” They added higher education has “zero efficacy and safety data for the the newly approved COVID injections. It is incomprehensible that this remains a reality.”
Many of these schools mandating Covid vaccines are situated in or around Democratic-controlled metro areas (map courtesy of X user Broken Truth).
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House Blocks Proposals to End Ukraine Aid, Transfer of Cluster Bombs
The House on Wednesday night blocked measures to end aid to Ukraine and stop sending cluster bombs overseas.
The House voted on two amendments to strip aid to Ukraine from different appropriations bills.
The House shot down, 104-330, an amendment sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to strip $300 million from the Defense applications bill, which only received support from Republicans.
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In documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, it was revealed that Hunter Biden expected the IRS investigation into his business dealings to “go away when his dad becomes president.”
In one email sent on September 22, 2021, an IRS employee revealed that he had been contacted by a CNN producer regarding “Sportsman,” the codename given to the Hunter Biden investigation.
“Producer has an email from Hunter saying he expected all of this ‘stuff’ to go away when his dad becomes President.”
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‘I Can’t Handle It’: Portland Small Business Owner Speaks Out Against Rising Crime
Buck’s Stove Palace has been a mainstay in Southeast Portland for nearly 50 years, however increasing theft has led founder and owner Buck Froman to consider shutting down for good.
While some of the break-ins took place at the shop, which has sat at Southeast 68th and Foster Road since 1974, the majority occurred at Froman’s storage facility about a mile down the road.
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James Comer Announces Subpoenas for Hunter and James Biden’s Bank Records
Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced Thursday he is issuing subpoenas for personal and business bank records from Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden.
Comer announced the new subpoenas at the conclusion of the first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden led by the House Oversight Committee.
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A massive manhunt for the man accused of killing a young tech CEO in Baltimore is over after police announced his arrest late Wednesday night.
Jason Billingsley, 32, was reportedly arrested without incident at 11:10 p.m. Wednesday after authorities tracked him to the MARC Train Station of Laurel-Bowie Road in Bowie, Prince George’s County, Maryland, according to FOX 45 Baltimore.
Baltimore police did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for details on Billingsley’s arrest, but did share that a news conference on his apprehension will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday.
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Josh Hawley Demands Alejandro Mayorkas Terminate ‘Intelligence Experts Group’ in DHS
On Thursday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas demanding the termination of the agency’s recently announced “Intelligence Experts Group.”
Hawley argued that the group was nothing more than another attempt by the current administration to suppress the opposition, citing the fact that it is slated to be led by three individuals who deemed the Hunter Biden laptop story to be Russian disiformation when it first broke in 2020.
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Mayo Clinic Removes Webpage Citing Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 Remedy
The Mayo Clinic removed a webpage citing hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for the coronavirus late Monday night, as well as an on-site forum discussing the removal.
While it remains unclear why Mayo decided to remove the site, the same hyperlink has been patched over to a page talking about how the drug is not a viable treatment for the same virus.
“Hydroxychloroquine may also be used to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) in certain hospitalized patients,” the webpage on the drug stated until Monday. “Hydroxychloroquine may also be used to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) in certain hospitalized patients.” The site states that portions of the original page were last updated on Sept. 1 of this year.
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More Voters in Pennsylvania Want to See Trump in 2024 Race Than Biden: Poll
More voters in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state for 2024, want to see former President Donald Trump in next year’s presidential race than President Joe Biden, according to a new poll.
The Republican front-runner has 31% of voters supporting him when asked which candidate Pennsylvania voters would like to see in the 2024 election, a new quarterly poll released Thursday from the Commonwealth Foundation shows. Biden sits at 28% among voters, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) trailing the president at 21%.
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NYC Professor Who Held Machete to Reporter’s Throat Back Teaching: Report
The then-New York City college professor who went viral for holding a machete to the throat of a reporter and threatening to “chop” him up is reportedly back teaching.
Shellyne Rodriguez, a former employee of Hunter College, has secured employment as an adjunct instructor teaching a sculpture class at the Cooper Union in the city’s East Village, according to a report.
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The price of oil is nearing $94 per barrel after U.S. crude inventories fell by 2.2 million barrels last week, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Total U.S. oil supply ended the week at just 416.3 million barrels, the EIA said, 4% below the five-year average.
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Philadelphia suffered its second night in a row of mass looting incidents and destructive social media-fueled mayhem on Wednesday, resulting in more than 50 arrests, police said.
On Wednesday, groups of thieves, apparently working together, destroyed property in several areas of the city, smashed their way into stores, and stole as much as they could before fleeing, authorities said. Suspects also ransacked more than a dozen state-run liquor stores so thoroughly that the state announced it was closing its Philly locations until further notice.
Video on social media also suggested that culprits made off with a Wells Fargo ATM, but a spokesperson for Wells Fargo told Fox News Digital that the ATM was not stolen and that the bank does not currently have an ATM in that location as it is being replaced.
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Philly Looting Suspects Quickly Return to Streets Under Soros-Backed DA’s Cashless Bail System
Nearly half of the individuals booked on charges stemming from their alleged participation in Philadelphia’s Tuesday night looting spree were allowed to walk free on zero bail within 24 hours of their arrest, police records show.
Police arrested 52 individuals after at least 100 rioters descended on downtown Philadelphia, looting 28 stores including Apple and Lululemon, WIO News, a local news network, reported. Police allowed 14 of the 30 people charged to walk free because of the city’s zero-bail policy for certain crimes, according to records from the Pennsylvania Judicial System.
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Republicans Weigh Abuse of Power Charge at Biden Impeachment Hearing
Republicans held their first impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Thursday, where they repeatedly raised the possibility that existing evidence against the president could amount to abuse of power, an impeachable offense.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who led the hearing, opened the six-hour event by saying evidence members would examine revealed Biden’s “corruption and abuse of public office.”
He would go on to point out as an example two wire transfers the president’s son Hunter Biden received from Beijing in 2019 for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The transfers listed Joe Biden’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address, and while Hunter Biden’s lawyer has argued the transfers were mere loans, Comer countered that he had no evidence the loans were ever paid back.
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RFK Jr. Warns ‘Next Step’ is Military Advisers in Ukraine: ‘Have They Forgotten’ Vietnam?
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned on Thursday that the “next step of Ukraine War escalation” is stationing United States military advisers on the ground.
He flagged a recent article by Foreign Affairs titled “Why America Should Send Military Advisers to Ukraine: On-the-Ground Help Will Bolster Kyiv Without Risking Escalation.”
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The Senate unanimously passed a resolution late Wednesday formalizing business attire as the proper dress code while on the floor of the chamber following bipartisan backlash, after Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly relaxed dress requirements last week that allowed Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., to continue to wear hooded sweatshirts and gym shorts.
The bipartisan bill by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, requires that members abide by a dress when on the Senate floor.
The new written rules include a coat, tie, and slacks for men. The resolution does not detail dress codes for women members.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued billionaire Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla over alleged racism, according to a lawsuit announced by the federal agency on Thursday.
Black staff allegedly experienced numerous instances of racist abuse and derogatory slurs at Tesla’s manufacturing facilities in Fremont, California spanning from at least 2015 until 2023, according to the EEOC press release. The company allegedly allowed this racism to occur and unlawfully sought revenge against those who pushed back against it.
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Thug Arrested for Looting in Philadelphia Was Out on Bail for Murder
One of the thugs arrested for looting and ransacking businesses in Philadelphia earlier this week was already out on bail for a murder case from last year.
As Slay News reported, gangs of brazen criminals ransacked businesses in Pennsylvania’s largest city on Tuesday after murder charges against a police officer were dropped in a case related to a fatal shooting.
Police said thugs erupted in a stealing spree after a judge decided to drop charges against a cop who fatally shot Eddie Irizarry.
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Video: Biden Tells People to Stop Questioning COVID Shots
In remarks made Wednesday, Joe Biden argued that people, including potential “leaders” should stop saying “inflammatory things” about COVID vaccinations and fall into line with what his administration is telling them to do.
“What leaders say matter, in terms of people’s confidence in things they’re not sure about,” biden began.
He continued, “And one of those areas — you saw what happened with regard to the crisis — health crisis that we had that cost us — we lost well over a million people. And as time began to move on, you had more and more voices saying, “No, no, no. You don’t need to get that shot. You don’t need to be — get — you don’t need to.”
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President Biden was briefly interrupted by a climate protester Thursday in Arizona, agreeing to meet with the protester after his speech to discuss climate change if he would “shush up.”
The climate protester was pressuring the president to declare a national emergency on the climate crisis, which would unlock sweeping new federal regulations and funds to combat the climate emergency.
“Why have you yet to declare a climate emergency?” the protester yelled, interrupting the president’s remarks about protecting democracy and honoring the late Sen. John McCain at Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe. “Hundreds of Arizonans have died.”
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit to Stop State Lawmakers From Impeaching a Justice
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that sought to block state lawmakers from impeaching Justice Janet Protasiewicz, whose win flipped the high court to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years last month.
The Supreme Court handed down its decision Tuesday to not hear the lawsuit, issuing the order without comment. The court said Protasiewicz did not participate in the decision.
The decision comes amid a push by state Republicans to consider impeaching Protasiewicz after the state Supreme Court was asked to consider two redistricting cases over the state’s legislative maps.
Republicans have pointed to a comment Protasiewicz made during her campaign that the Republican-drawn maps are “rigged” and have threatened impeachment if she does not recuse herself on the cases.
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Woman Wins Years-Long Battle Against Regulator, Dealing Blow to Administrative State
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped its more than seven year-long case against accountant Michelle Cochran after her April Supreme Court victory against the agency.
Cochran’s case began in 2016 when the SEC brought charges against her for allegedly aiding and abetting in violations stemming from incomplete accounting paperwork, according to court documents. An administrative law judge (AJL) banned her from practicing as an accountant for five years and imposed a $22,500 fine in 2017.
The Supreme Court held unanimously in April that individuals like Cochran who are facing SEC complaints can dispute their constitutionality in federal court before going through the agency’s internal adjudication process. Before Cochran was able to revive her constitutional challenge, the agency dropped the case altogether in June — along with more than 40 other pending cases, according to a press release.
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Woman Returns to Store She Allegedly Shoplifted to Demand Phone She Left Behind
One of two women who allegedly shoplifted from a California nail supply store returned to the business minutes later to demand her cellphone, which she had dropped, police say.
The store owner offered to exchange her electronic device — which Murrieta police said had the suspect’s California driver’s license and a credit card inside the case — for the stolen goods, but the suspect allegedly assaulted him prior to leaving a second time.
The incident unfolded just after noon on Sept. 19. The event was caught on Premier Nail Supply’s surveillance cameras, and footage was shared with FOX 11 Los Angeles.
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Biodegradable Carrier Bags Are More Toxic Than Conventional Plastic Versions, Study Claims
Despite being marketed as eco-friendly, there’s a high level of toxicity in compostable plastic bags, report experts in Spain.
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British General Warns to be Ready for Worst Case Ukrainian Scenario for Europe: ‘Prepare for War’
Former top NATO commander cautions si vis pacem, para bellum — if you want peace, prepare for war — for the West as NATO faces an “existential threat” in a conflict in Europe it may be unequal to preventing.
Europeans do not yet feel truly threatened by the war in Ukraine and this generates a lack of political will to prepare Western nations and NATO for a “potentially existential threat”, says General Sir Richard Shirreff. The retired General, who was a commander in Kosovo and Iraq, and was NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe until 2014 made the remarks speaking to the Daily Telegraph, and said that while he highly rated the “operational art” of the Ukrainian military, there were serious questions to be answered and the West should start preparing for them now.
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Czechia Set to Purchase F-35 Fighter Jets in Largest Defense Purchase in Country’s History
The Czech government decided on Wednesday to procure 24 American multi-role F-35 aircraft, with the deal including weapons for these fighter jets, as well as an offset agreement. The first jet is expected to arrive in the Czech Republic in 2029, with all units to be delivered by the end of 2035.
The U.S.-made F-35s will replace the Swedish Gripen JAS-39 fighter aircraft, which the Czech Air Force is leasing until 2027, as well as the domestically produced L-159 aircraft.
The purchase of F-35 aircraft was announced on the X platform by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
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Dutch Court Upholds Schengen Ban for British Conspiracy Theorist David Icke
A Dutch court in Haarlem upheld an earlier decision to ban David Icke from entering the Schengen Area. State Secretary Eric van der Burg imposed a two-year ban on Icke shortly before he was scheduled to speak at a rally on Dam Square in Amsterdam in November 2022.
The court said in the ruling released on Tuesday that it agreed with the state secretary’s reasoning in imposing the ban. Van den Burg issued the ban believing Icke to be “a potential threat to public order.” Icke rejected that argument, saying that people who are only “potential” threats, and not actual threats, may be banned by the State. Banning people considered potential threats is a blow to free speech rights, he said.
The decision for the entry ban was based on Icke’s writing, his speeches, and reports from the police and the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV), which indicated the risk Icke’s presence would bring to the Netherlands. “This states that openly and uncritically discussing conspiracy theories can lead to social acceptance of anti-Semitism, xenophobia or racism,” the court noted in a statement. If these statements are viewed in the context of the Netherlands as a whole, it can lead to “national figures being regarded as elite groups that wish to keep society in their control, or where prominent persons, administrators and civil servants are dehumanized and democratic principles are rejected.”
While acknowledging Icke’s right to freedom of expression and association, the court emphasized on Tuesday that these rights have their limits. The court also noted Icke’s ability to express his views through alternative means and underlined that the state secretary had no other option at his disposal to ensure public order.
Icke is the purveyor of a conspiracy theory that claims humanity is secretly ruled by alien reptiles masquerading as humans.
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EU Commissioner Vera Jourova Threatens X Over “Disinformation” and Tells Big Tech “We Expect More”
While declaring that it wants to combat, among other kinds, “pro-Kremlin disinformation,” the EU is acting suspiciously, and ironically, like the Kremlin of yore: there are arbitrary accusations flying around against (this time social) media, and of course, there are threats.
One by one, major platforms are getting under fresh pressure from the bloc that recently adopted wide-ranging “anti-disinformation” rules for platforms: Facebook/Meta was first, Apple is “on the list” as well, and, of course, Elon Musk’s iteration of Twitter, X.
EU Commissioner Vera Jourova has issued a warning to Musk in true Big Brother fashion: “We will be watching what you do.”
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Germany: Cleanup of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate After Climate Protest to be Longer and More Expensive
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate will have to be cleaned at greater effort and expense than initially thought after climate activists sprayed orange paint on the German capital’s signature landmark earlier this month, a company that manages official buildings in the city said Thursday.
Members of the Last Generation group used fire extinguishers filled with paint to spray all six columns of the gate on Sept. 17 — the latest in a series of eye-catching actions. It is best known for protests in which activists glue themselves to roads and block traffic, a polarizing tactic.
The group’s priorities include getting Germany to stop using all fossil fuels by 2030 and take short-term measures, including imposing a general speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) on highways, to cut emissions more quickly.
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German Supplier Trading in Russian Gas Again
A major German state-owned energy supplier is profiting from Russian natural gas, as opposed to its German customers, who are not.
Bloomberg reports that the company Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE) has resumed shipping Russian liquid natural gas, delivering to India.
The company plans to receive an LNG shipment from the Yamal liquefaction plant in Siberia on October 1st. A SEFE ship, the Amur River, will pick up the cargo in Zeebrugge, Belgium, and then transport it to India.
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Gunman Kills Two in Twin Rotterdam Shootings — Dutch Police
Dutch police have arrested a gunman who killed at least two people in twin shootings in the city of Rotterdam.
They says the male attacker, 32, opened fire in a home before setting it alight, then stormed the city’s Erasmus Medical Center on Thursday.
He was a student at Erasmus University, which is affiliated with the hospital.
A woman, 39, was killed in the first shooting. Her 14-year-old daughter was seriously injured. A male lecturer, 46, was shot dead at the hospital.
Footage has emerged showing a man in camouflaged clothing being taken from the hospital building in handcuffs. The motives for the attack were not immediately known.
Reacting to the shootings, Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said “we have been shocked by a horrible incident”.
And Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wrote in a post on social media: “My thoughts go out to the victims of the violence, their loved ones and to all the people who have been in great fear.”
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Hungary Set to Produce and Arm Its Forces With German Panther KF51 ‘Super Tank’
The Hungarian government has reportedly agreed “in principle” with Germany’s Rheinmetall weapons producer on the development, production and commissioning of the KF51 Panther tank in Hungary. If the deal goes through as expected, Hungary would be the first in the world to equip its forces with the advanced battle tank, even ahead of Germany’s own Bundeswehr, which is expected to stick with the Leopard 2 tank.
The Panther main battle tank has been presented by Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger as the successor to the Leopard 2 tank, which is also produced by Rheinmetall. The move would provide Hungary’s armed forces a major boost, giving first access to a tank being described as a digital “super tank.”
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Latest EU Mood Check Shows Unequivocal Support for Ukraine is Waning Among Europeans
Fewer Europeans fully back the continued financial and humanitarian support of Ukraine by the European Union than at the start of the conflict, the latest Eurobarometer data revealed.
The collection of pan-European public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the bloc showed support is waning among EU citizens for the conflict in their own backyard, which continues to show few signs of easing.
In April last year, a majority of Europeans said they “totally agreed” with opening the borders for Ukrainian refugees, providing humanitarian aid to those who remained in the war-torn country, and imposing economic sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine two months prior.
However, a mood check in August 2023 shows none of these efforts now have the total support of a majority of EU citizens.
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Manhunt in Rotterdam as Double Shooting and Fire at Medical University Leads to Mass Evacuation
A manhunt is underway in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam for a gunman suspected of shooting two people at separate locations on Thursday afternoon.
Authorities responded to reports of a shooting at a residential property on Heiman Dullaertplein, and another victim was shot in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center on Rochussenlaan.
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‘Never Again Any Oil or Gas From Russia!’ — Poland Celebrates Contract for First Nuclear Plant
The contract for the design of Poland’s first nuclear power plant was signed at a ceremony in Warsaw attended by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski.
Poland has decided to make nuclear power the cornerstone of its transition to a carbon-free source of energy, which will also reduce the country’s dependence on foreign sources of energy.
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New Milestone: AfD Party Breaks 20% in West of Germany for First Time
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has hit 20 percent in a new poll in Baden-Württemberg, marking the first time the party has hit the 20 percent mark in a western state in the country.
The poll, conducted by Infratest Deimap, shows the AfD almost doubled its voting share from the last election, while the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD) saw their support soften. The SPD scored 12 percent in the poll, a drop of one point, while the Greens are at 22 percent, a drop of two points.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Marine Le Pen, the former French presidential candidate and leader of the Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary party, in Budapest on Wednesday where the pair discussed the need for a united Right ahead of next year’s European parliamentary elections.
The two conservative politicians assessed the potential for a strengthening of the pan-European conservative alliance and agreed that nationalist parties across the European Union “need to give a joint and strong response to Brussels’ imperial ambitions, its misguided economic policies, and its pro-migrant initiatives,” according to Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication Zoltan Kovacs.
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Outrage and Police Investigation as One of Britain’s Most Famous Trees Cut Down Overnight
The iconic Hadrian’s Wall ‘Sycamore Gap’ tree, voted England’s best tree in 2016, was cut down overnight, prompting a surprisingly large police response to the famous beauty spot.
Sycamore tree at Sycamore Gap, Northumberland, England, which is said to be one of the most photographed trees in the world and one of the best known in Britain was cut down overnight, causing an outpouring of grief on social media.
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Poland Intends to Bid for 2036 Summer Olympics
Poland will be making a bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2036., said Polish President Andrzej Duda during his address to the second European Congress of Sports and Tourism in the mountain resort of Zakopane on Wednesday.
A decision from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will come in 2026, but Poland’s head of state hopes that 13 years will be enough time to prepare for such an event. He said that he would be sending a letter to the head of the IOC to formalize the bid.
Poland has experience organizing major sporting events. In 2012, it hosted the UEFA EURO Championship in men’s soccer, jointly with Ukraine. It also organized the multi-disciplinary European Games in Kraków this year and the Volleyball World Championships in 2014.
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Right Fails to Form Government in Spain
In Spain’s parliament, the debate and first attempt to form a government ended as expected—in failure.
Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, leader of the center-right Partido Popular, lost the vote on his prime ministership by the expected four votes.
The two days of discourse preceding the vote, though, presented a perfect picture of Spain’s current political situation.
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Shootings, Bombings: More Deaths as Imported Gang Violence Continues to Plague Sweden
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three people were killed overnight in separate incidents in Sweden as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalated.
Late Wednesday, an 18-year-old man was shot dead in a Stockholm suburb. Hours later, a man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in Jordbro, south of the Swedish capital.
Early Thursday a woman in her 20s died in an explosion in Uppsala, west of Stockholm. The blast, which damaged five houses, is being treated by the police as a murder. Swedish media said the woman who died likely was not the intended victim and that the target was the house next door.
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Sweden Launches Explosives Registry to Fight Gang Bombings
Amid ongoing violent criminal gang conflicts, the Swedish government has announced it will create a new explosives registry, as criminal gangs continue to engage in bombings against their rivals, including two such bombings that occurred only this week.
Sweden’s Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer was part of an emergency meeting on Wednesday, September 27th, and later stated that the government would look to act swiftly to counter the bombing trend, broadcaster SVT reports.
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UK Media Regulator Investigates GB News
Positioning itself as supporting free speech and anti-censorship, something that has several times been brought into question — though it is at least more so than other news outlets, GB News is currently wrestling with the UK’s media regulator Ofcom over what many see as the hand of censorship encroaching on the realm of free expression after a controversy instigated over 7,300 objections.
The issue arises from the Tuesday broadcast of the Dan Wootton Tonight show, during which presenter Laurence Fox made comments about journalist Ava Evans, triggering a backlash and subsequent suspensions for both Wootton and Fox.
Fox drew criticism for his comments to journalist Ava Evans, inciting a scandal that set off the avalanche of complaints from those that want to see the channel shut down.
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UK: Mohamad al Bared Guilty of Terror Offence After Designing ‘Kamikaze’ Drone for ISIS
An academic inspired by Russian attacks in Ukraine to design and build a “kamikaze” drone for ISIS has been found guilty of a terror offence.
Mohamad al Bared, 26, a PhD engineering student from Coventry, adapted a fixed-wing drone to deliver an explosive warhead over a distance of 8km.
He copied the design of a Tomahawk missile and produced the wings on a 3D printer, sending weekly updates to ISIS, so they could be replicated.
The mechanical engineering graduate was remanded in custody after being found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing acts of terrorism between January 2022 and January this year, and will be sentenced at a later date.
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UK: Sunak Green Lights New Oil Licence After Net Zero ‘Rollback’
Just a week after he unveiled a reversal from the government’s ‘net zero’ commitments, Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind a more serious initiative that at least accepts that the road towards decarbonising includes compromises.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero announced on Wednesday that regulators had approved the licence for the Rosebank oilfield, the largest untapped oil field in the North Sea. It made clear that ministers are still focusing on “clean energy sources such as offshore wind and nuclear,” but that the reliance on oil and gas to enable this transition will continue “over the coming decades.”
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The feigned outrage over Laurence Fox is purely motivated by what they’ve wanted from the very beginning — to get GB News taken off air and shut down.
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Warning UK Left Will Strip Tax Breaks From Charities That Don’t Align With Its World View
The UK Labour Party has announced plans to create two-speed regulation for the charity sector, with allowances like tax breaks for good works withdrawn if organisations — and private schools are first in the firing line — don’t align with their vision for a new Britain, it has been warned.
After 13 years of failure to govern conservatively by the Conservative Party it seems likely the next British government, possibly as soon as next year, will be one led by the left-wing Labour Party. Setting out their stall, the British left has made clear it will continue its long-standing crusade against education with a move to remove tax breaks from privately funded schools.
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An 18-year-old rapper executed on a sports field, a second man shot dead and a woman killed in a devastating bomb blast are just the latest victims of Stockholm’s gangland violence.
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Kosovo Shootout: Pristina Points Finger at Serb Politician
A close associate of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Milan Radoicic, has been accused of being an active participant in last Sunday’s shootout between about 30 heavily armed Serbs and Kosovo Police.
After the murder of a Kosovar Albanian policeman, Kosovo police special forces descended on a monastery in the village of Banjska in Northern Kosovo, where the assailants were holed up. Four Serb militants lost their lives in the skirmish, while most of the others managed to escape across the border, into Serbia.
Three were captured and are currently in police custody, having been charged with “terrorist acts” and “grave criminal offenses against the constitutional order and security.”
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NATO’s Secretary-General Meets With Zelensky to Discuss Battlefield Needs in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Zelensky said Stoltenberg agreed to make efforts to get NATO members to help provide additional air defense systems to protect Ukraine’s power plants and energy infrastructure that were badly damaged in relentless and deadly attacks by Russia last winter. He also reminded the secretary-general of the persistent attacks that often strike civilian areas, including 40 drone attacks overnight.
“In the face of such intense attacks against Ukrainians, against our cities, our ports, which are crucial for global food security, we need a corresponding intensity of pressure on Russia and a strengthening of our air defense,” Zelensky said. “The world must see how Russia is losing dearly so that our shared values ultimately prevail.”
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Wagner Fighters Have Returned to the Frontline, Ukraine Says
Senior military officials in Kyiv have reported that fighters from Russia’s Wagner Group have left Belarus and returned to the battlefield in the east of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Colonel Serhiy Cheravatyi told Politico Europe on Wednesday, September 27th, that several hundred combatants formerly associated with the late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin have been observed fighting alongside various Russian military units along the front in eastern Ukraine.
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Separatist Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh Dissolves Itself
Persuaded by a recent military offensive by Azerbaijan, President Samvel Shahramanjan of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian name) signed a decree on Thursday, September 28th ordering all local government institutions to halt their operations on January 1st, 2024.
On that day, the separatist state, which is recognized neither by Armenia nor the larger international community, will cease to exist. Following Arsakh’s dissolution, Azerbaijan will have regained control of the breakaway region overnight, bringing an end to three decades of sporadic violence.
The deal with Azerbaijan reportedly came about after mediation by Russia, according to Shahramanjan.
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Alarmist U.N. Chief Guterres Decries ‘Climate-Related Carnage’ From ‘Apocalyptic Flooding’
The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres has denounced “climate-related carnage” in Pakistan caused by “apocalyptic flooding.”
Apparently unable to sympathize with those in need without invoking the bogeyman of global warming, Guterres took advantage of Pakistan’s flooding plight to advance his crusade against the “climate crisis.”
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Uzbekistan: Warehouse Blast Near Tashkent Airport Kills One, Injures Over 160
An overnight explosion at a warehouse near the airport in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, killed one person and injured more than a hundred, authorities in the Central Asian country said on Thursday.
“A teenager born in 2006 died,” the Uzbek health ministry said on Telegram, adding that a further 162 had been injured.
The emergency situations ministry said powerful lightning had caused “an explosion, then a fire, which is still burning” in a warehouse in the airport zone.
Of those hurt in the accident, 138 sustained minor injuries and a further 24 were still in hospital in a more serious condition, the health ministry said.
Videos circulating on social media showed a column of flames and smoke rising into the night sky.
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China Calls Canada ‘Laughingstock of the World’ Over Justin Trudeau’s Nazi Celebration
The Chinese propaganda outlet Global Times joined the global chorus of disgust and mockery of the Canadian parliament on Wednesday, calling the government of radical leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the “laughingstock of the world” for offering a standing ovation to a 98-year-old former Nazi soldier.
“Since the end of World War II, no country’s parliament or politicians have ever honored Nazi war veterans in an official event, as, obviously, it is an act violating the most fundamental value of human society in today’s world,” the Chinese government mouthpiece observed. “But Canada did.”
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TikTok’s Parent Company Blocked China Critics From Using the Popular App: Report
TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company ByteDance allegedly prevented people with critical views of China, potentially even those beyond China’s borders, from accessing the popular app, according to a report released on Thursday.
ByteDance allegedly strives to stop possible critics of the Chinese government from using its platforms, including TikTok, according to a report by the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC). ByteDance allegedly kept a list of individuals who probably faced blocks or limitations on their access to its platforms like TikTok because of negative characterizations of the Chinese government until at least late 2020.
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Alan Jones has labelled the official inquiry into Australia’s response to the Covid pandemic ‘a disgrace’ because it won’t examine the actions of state leaders who behaved like ‘Hitlers’.
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Dan Andrews reportedly launched into an expletive-laden ‘tirade’ during a meeting to determine his successor.
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A Border Patrol agent was left bloodied and injured by a migrant smuggler earlier this month in Texas, sources told Fox News.
The incident occurred on Sept. 14, as agents were trying to make an arrest in Mercedes, Texas, located minutes from the U.S.-Mexico border, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Fox News Digital.
Law enforcement sources told Fox News the agent was assaulted by a migrant smuggler and that it took three agents to get him down. The agent fought with the migrant until backup arrived.
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A 71-year-old man has died after he and his dog were stabbed during an assault by several people on Wednesday evening in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
The incident occurred shortly before 9 p.m. on the Molièreweg in Rotterdam-Lombardijen to the city’s south.
According to a police report, a gang assaulted the man on the street. He sustained a fatal stab wound, while his dog was also stabbed multiple times and left for dead.
Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene and tried to resuscitate the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. His dog was taken away by an animal ambulance, and its condition is unknown.
Police later announced that a 53-year-old Rotterdam resident had been arrested in connection with the incident, and an investigation into the man’s involvement in the attack is now underway.
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Elon Musk has revealed his support for a border wall, and claimed migrants should have evidence of their asylum claims before being admitted to the country.
Just days after announcing an upcoming visit to crisis-hit Eagle Pass, Texas, Musk took to X, known as Twitter before he bought it, to address the thousands who have crossed into the US this month.
The town of just 28,000 people has been overwhelmed by migrants in recent days, with border crossings rising to around 8,000 a day in the week ending September 22, according to the Washington Office of Latin America. Throughout the month of August, upwards of 232,000 migrants made their way over the US-Mexico border.
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Exclusive: Illegal Migrants Fist Bump Border Patrol Agent After He Cuts Through Border Wire
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Illegal migrants fist bumped and thanked Border Patrol agents for cutting through barbed wire that had been erected by Texas authorities to secure the border, the Daily Caller News Foundation observed Thursday in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently instructed Texas authorities to place more wire along the Rio Grande River to address the influx of illegal crossings. Border Patrol agents cut through the wire to take into custody a group of migrants that had crossed the Rio Grande and arrived at the U.S. side of the river.
The migrants who crossed illegally Thursday thanked Border Patrol and the U.S. after they were let in.
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Germany to Lift Its Veto on Migration Crisis Regulation
After blocking the file for months, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz finally decided to stop holding up the so-called crisis regulation—a key mechanism under the EU’s new Asylum and Migration Pact—allowing the interinstitutional negotiations on the package to resume. However, the social democrat chancellor’s last-minute decision split the German government coalition, as the Greens continue to refuse their support for the approval, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Thursday, September 28th.
The “crisis regulation” is a proposed mechanism to allow frontline member states to use different screening and border procedure rules (such as extending detention up to 20 weeks) under particularly high migratory pressure recognized by the European Council as a “crisis.”
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Meloni Rallies Southern Europe Against Migration
The nine Southern European member states of the MED9 need to find “a common and coherent position to make action on migrants more effective,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urged in a letter sent to the partner countries ahead of the group’s upcoming Friday summit in Mdina (Malta), ANSA reported on Wednesday, September 27th.
According to the journal’s diplomatic sources, Meloni also asked the MED9 countries to insist on the rapid implementation of the comprehensive border control measures agreed to by a special European Council summit back in February.
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Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz caused a stir this week as he sharply criticized the liberal federal coalition government’s migration policy, claiming that 300,000 rejected asylum seekers have not left the country and are now enjoying full benefits including free dental care.
Speaking on the “Welt Talk” program, Merz claimed that German voters were questioning why migrants whose asylum applications had been turned down were having their teeth remade at a time when ordinary Germans can’t get a dental appointment.
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Number of Immigrants in Chicago Exceeds 15,000 as 27 Buses Arrive Since Weekend
The influx of immigrants from the southern border into Chicago has now exceeded 15,000 thanks to the arrival of 27 buses since Saturday.
The increasing amount of asylum-seekers in the Windy City — hundreds arrived on seven buses just on Wednesday — comes as the city prepares to relocate over 1,600 immigrants from police stations and airports to more permanent lodgings.
Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his administration’s decision on Wednesday to spend nearly $30 million to retain a private security firm to assist with the relocations. GardaWorld Federal Services and a subsidiary signed a one-year $29.4 million deal with Chicago on Sept. 12.
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New York City will distribute flyers at shelters and the southern border warning migrants that they will not be given free housing in the Big Apple — and telling them to go somewhere more affordable, as the sanctuary city has been overwhelmed by 116,000 new arrivals in just 18 months.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced on Wednesday it would distribute the literature as part of their efforts to keep more asylum seekers from coming to the city, which is currently housing and feeding more than 60,000 asylum seekers.
Deputy mayor for Health and Human Services Ana Williams Isom showed the updated flyers during a City Council meeting, and said they would be used to combat ‘misinformation’ coming from social media or human traffickers about migrant services in the city.
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A 34-year-old illegal immigrant is accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl at knifepoint in a Queens hotel that is housing illegal immigrants after luring the girl and her twin sister to his room.
Police sources told the New York Post that the girls and their family are staying at the Hotel Mint JFK Airport in Far Rockaway. They were playing in the hallway around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday when the man convinced the two girls to follow him to a second-story room.
The man allegedly held a knife against one of the girls and molested her.
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Right-Wing MEPs Call for Overhaul of EU Asylum Policy After Visit to Lampedusa Migrant Hotspot
The right-wing European parliamentary party, Identity and Democracy (ID), has called for a total overhaul of the European Union’s asylum system following a visit by a delegation of its MEPs to the Italian island and migrant hotspot of Lampedusa.
A total of 26 EU lawmakers from the group sought to gain first-hand experience of the crisis unfolding on the island located just over 100 kilometers from the African mainland.
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Anthropological Societies Ban Discussion of Biological Sex to Protect ‘Trans and LGBTQI’ Communities
Two major anthropological associations have canceled a panel discussion on the importance of biological sex, citing harm to the “Trans and LGBTQI” communities and their collective “dignity.”
On September 25, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) wrote a letter canceling the upcoming conference panel, “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology,” which they had previously accepted.
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Florida ‘All-Ages’ Pride Events Features Children’s Books on Sex Positions, How to Masturbate
An all-ages Pride event in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday featured a children’s table with sexually explicit books and other pornographic content.
According to Florida Voice News, the Space Coast Pride event, which was marketed as “family-friendly,” had a kids’ picture book table that included the controversial children’s book titled “It’s Perfectly Normal,” which describes masturbation, shows images of sex positions, and other pornographic content.
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Trans-Identified Male Violently Beats Female Student in Oregon Middle School: Video
A young female student was violently beaten by a trans-identified male in the hallway of an Oregon public school.
The shocking incident occurred at Hazelbrook Middle School in the Tigard Tualatin School District, which is right outside of Portland, Oregon.
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WEF: ‘Pandemic Emotions’ Create ‘Opportunity’ to Push Climate Fear
Members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) have gloated that the “emotions” people felt during the pandemic have created an “opportunity” to advance the globalist green agenda by pushing “climate crisis” fear onto the public.
During a recent WEF panel discussion, members of Klaus Schwab’s unelected organization discussed methods of persuading the public to comply with unpopular green agenda policies.
The group lamented that installing WEF Young Global Leaders in government positions can only go so far if the majority of the world’s population doesn’t support radical climate policies.
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Latest News from Rotten Sweden
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has invited the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of Police to a meeting today, September 29, to find out how the Armed Forces can help in the fight against criminal gangs.
On Thursday evening, Ulf Kristersson gave a “speech to the nation” in response to the serious violence.
The night before, a 25-year-old woman had been killed in a major explosion in Storvreta in Uppsala.
– A 25-year-old woman went to bed yesterday, an ordinary evening, but never woke up again. This morning she was killed in an explosion in Uppsala.
In his speech, the Prime Minister also mentioned the blind 70-year-old who was killed last week in a shooting at a pub in Sandviken,
and the three children, aged 13, 14 and 14, who were found executed in a forest area outside Stockholm.
– Now more and more children and innocent people are being affected by this gross violence. I cannot emphasize enough how serious the situation is. Sweden has never seen anything like this before. No other country in Europe has seen anything like it,” said Ulf Kristersson.
– It is “political naivety and cluelessness that has brought us here”, continued the Prime Minister, who – it should be noted – earlier in his political career called for open borders and free welfare immigration to Sweden.
– It is an irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration that has brought us here, he claimed. Ulf Kristersson also announced that he had summoned the national police chief and the commander-in-chief on Friday.
This “to inquire about how the Armed Forces could possibly help the police in their work against criminal gangs”.
– “I hope that all parties in the Swedish Parliament can now unite around the powerful and pattern-breaking measures that are needed,” Kristersson said.
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Here are some headlines from the last few days.
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Girl would buy Saturday candy at Ica.
– was beaten unconscious by a gang.
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Brutal attack on Malva in Mörrum. “They spat on me, kicked me in the head and punched me in the face.”
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Shot dead among children at a sports ground in Stockholm. Football training ended in a bloodbath.
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18-year-old shot dead at Mälarhöjdens IP, in the middle of football practice.
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Woman dead after powerful blast.
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Two killed in shootings
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Several houses damaged in explosion in Storvreta.
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Deadly shootings in both Jordbro and Fruängen.
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A man in his 60s has been found shot outside a villa in Åkersberga.
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Near new annual record in bombings – already in September.
Gloomy new statistics. One blast a day.
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Here now follows Swedish Radio’s technically deficient
reproduction of the Prime Minister’s speech to the nation
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/hor-statsministerns-tal-om-valdsvagen
Crime does indeed pay, if your black or female.
What happened to the Swedish news article ? The bombs going off and a general state if anarchy caused by enrichers !? Taken down ?
No description of the gang of “youths” who went on this high spirited fun ?? Must be that local Christian Sunday school group again! Or the Friday afternoon public school debate team, or the chess club starting to rumble with the dragon and dungeon throwing them many side dice hard!
..” continued the Prime Minister, who – it should be noted – earlier in his political career called for open borders and free welfare immigration to Sweden “..
Yeah..That was his political platform which catapult him to political position and place hi is now on..
Now hi want fight a problems hi personally created in the first place..
Why hi is not brought to the Court as a culprit and political accessory toll for dead Swede people ?
Yeah..Swede Protestant heretics hypocrisy in full light..
RFK, Jr. is behind the curve, which is atypical for him. Not only are there already American military personnel in the Ukraine conflict, there have been some KIA and WIA. The Biden regime and Pentagon/DOD have kept this fact carefully-hidden from the public, which is perhaps one reason Kennedy is in the dark. The other being that the White House has not sought the constitutionally-mandated permission of Congress to wage war in Ukraine; the regime just did it sans the advice and consent of that legislative body.
The U.S. personnel on the ground are special forces types and other specialist types, as well as technical advisors and the like.
So this British Genral means we should prepare for war.
Which war?
Germany has only ammunition for two days, then we have to wait for 6 months till we have again ammo for two days.
And if the rumors of the rest of Europe are trustworthy, then the rest of Europe is in nearly the same shape as Germany.
It will be a short war.
You are wrong in presented opinion.
No guns or airplane are needed…
Germany, France,Italy has an Army…
Islamic migrants from Africa, Middle-East, Asia..
Hundred of thousands Orks..Armed with knifes , machetes , guns , molotov coktails …
New Führer is born as well..
“American military advisors”, eh?
Reminds me of a newspaper cartoon from the 1960s; a US soldier saying to his South Vietnamese comrades: “Let’s get the hell out of of here! I mean, my advice is, let’s get the hell out of here!”