California Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90. California Governor Gavin Newsom promised to appoint a black woman to fill Sen. Feinstein’s seat. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy will reportedly announce early next month that he will run as an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
In other news, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is considering deploying military troops in an effort to control escalating gang violence in the country’s major city centers.
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BIS Chief Backs Programmable CBDCs, Defends “Limits of Privacy”
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say — and so what are some of the least desirable features of a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) to critics, are promoted as positive by those behind the push for CBDC adoption.
Thus, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) General Manager Agustin Carstens — likes the fact CBDC are programmable, and he also doesn’t mind “limits on privacy.”
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During a recent hearing at the European Parliament, Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), reiterated that the digital euro will lack the anonymity of cash and then dismissed concerns about the state using the digital euro to control what people can buy as a “conspiracy theory.”
Lagarde has previously acknowledged that privacy is one of the main concerns Europeans have about the European Union’s (EU’s) proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital euro. Despite this admission, she has continued to insist that there won’t be anonymity for digital euro users and that it will never be as private as cash.
And at the hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament on Monday, Lagarde coupled her insistence that the digital won’t be anonymous with an admonishment of those who are concerned that the ECB or governments will use the lack of anonymity to impose restrictions on what people can buy.
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Girl Scout Cookies Become Bidenflation’s Latest Victims
Girl Scout cookies appear to be the latest victim of the inflation under President Joe Biden.
In New York, the Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson chapter announced to community members that the prices for all cookies will be $6 per box for this cookie season, according to a report.
The price sat at approximately $5 per box last year.
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Inflation Ticked Up Slightly to 3.5% in August in Fed’s Preferred Gauge
Inflation ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 3.5% for the year ending in August, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, the gauge favored by the Federal Reserve.
The report Friday morning from the Bureau of Economic Analysis tracks other readings that show inflation increased slightly last month amid the Fed’s campaign to slow it by hiking interest rates.
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“We’re in the age of disorder.”
Outspoken conservative media personality Bill O’Reilly joined Tucker Carlson (the man who replaced him in his primetime Fox News slot) for a wide-ranging discussion of the dismal state of the world, and why progressive politicians are to blame.
“America has entered the age of disorder, and it’s because of the progressive movement,” O’Reilly lamented.
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13-Year-Old Facing Murder Charge in Shooting of 12-Year-Old
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) — A 13-year-old has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of 12-year-old Malachi Hagan Moses in Laurel County.
Moses was killed back in July. We’re told the shooting happened in a bedroom inside a home on Shackle Road in the Lily area, south of London.
According to the sheriff’s office, the 13-year-old was arrested Thursday and taken to a juvenile holding facility.
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Backlash Brewing Over San Francisco Mayor’s New Drug Testing Requirement for Welfare Recipients
Experts on San Francisco, drugs and crime responded to San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s Tuesday proposal to require residents who wish to receive welfare services to comply with mandatory drug testing and treatment programs.
Breed’s announcement comes amid growing pressure to hold back the city’s homeless and fentanyl crises and as challengers to Breed as mayor continue to throw their name in for office in 2024.
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Bank That Handles InfoWars Money Appears to be Cutting Ties With Alex Jones’ Company, Lawyer Says
Hartford, Conn. — A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company says a bank recently shut down the company’s accounts, citing unauthorized transactions.
The lawyer, Ray Battaglia, told a bankruptcy judge in Texas on Tuesday that Axos Bank shut the accounts last week and has not explained the alleged unauthorized transactions, which Battaglia denies.
Axos did not return messages seeking comment.
Battaglia says Axos has agreed to reopen the accounts for 30 days.
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Biden Admin Issues Restrictions on Gas Furnaces in Latest War on Appliances
The Biden administration announced its latest regulatory action targeting home appliances late Friday, this time targeting popular home gas-powered furnaces.
The Department of Energy (DOE) said the energy efficiency regulations would slash household utility costs by $1.5 billion on an annual basis while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the residential sector. The proposal, according to the agency, require non-weatherized gas furnaces and those used in mobile homes to achieve a far higher level of efficiency than cheaper models on the market.
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The Philadelphia City Council voted to override the mayor’s veto of a bill that prohibits supervised injection sites across most of the city.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, on Wednesday vetoed the council’s bill to ban sites allowing people to take their drug of choice under the supervision of medical staff. The next day, the majority Democrat council overrode his veto 14-1.
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The man who posted a bomb threat against an event in Richmond, Virginia featuring journalist Andy Ngo on September 22 has been arrested.
Jimmie Lee Jarvis, who is an official member of the Democrat Party and owner of Mission Control Research and Consulting, was taken into custody on Thursday evening by the Henrico County Sheriff’s Department and charged with one count of making a bomb threat.
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Business Owner Decries ‘Get Out While You Can’ Mentality in Philadelphia After His Store Was Looted
Business owner Jay Pross, the owner of a store that was looted on Wednesday in Philadelphia, spoke out about a “get out while you can” attitude in the city following the mass looting.
CNN’s Abby Phillip asked Pross about the rise in retail theft in the city and if he was concerned about the crime surge.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Found in the Hearts of Dead People: Study
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
COVID-19 vaccine was detected in patients who died within a month of vaccination, according to a new study.
U.S. researchers analyzed tissue samples from the autopsies of 25 people, including 20 who were vaccinated.
Samples from the hearts of three patients, all of whom died within 30 days of a Pfizer shot, tested positive for messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA).
Eight bilateral axillary lymph node samples, from people who died within 30 days of a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, also tested positive. The companies’ shots utilize mRNA.
The research shows “the vaccine can persist for up to 30 days, including in the heart,” Dr. James Stone, with the departments of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told The Epoch Times via email.
The study was published by npj Vaccines. Authors declared no conflicts of interest. They said the research was supported by Massachusetts General Hospital, which is in Boston.
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Dianne Feinstein Dead: Longtime California Senator Was 90
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died. She was 90.
“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C. Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving,” Feinstein chief of staff James Sauls said in a statement.
“Senator Feinstein never backed away from a fight for what was just and right. At the same time, she was always willing to work with anyone, even those she disagreed with, if it meant bettering the lives of Californians or the betterment of our nation,” he continued.
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Donald Trump RICO Case: Scott Hall Becomes First Defendant to Plead Guilty
Scott Hall, a co-defendant in the sweeping Fulton County racketeering indictment against former President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to five charges on Friday.
Hall is a bail bondsman in the Atlanta area who was allegedly among a group of people who breached a Coffee County election office on Jan. 7, 2021. He pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Friday afternoon as part of a negotiated deal with prosecutors.
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Donald Trump Indictment: Judge Schedules Hearing on DOJ Request for Gag Order in 2020 Election Case
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case scheduled a hearing to discuss the Justice Department’s request for a gag order.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m. on Oct. 16 to hear arguments on the gag order requested by special counsel Jack Smith.
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Exclusive: Washington State Moves to Remove Community Notification, Restrictions for Sex Offenders
The Post Millennial has learned that Washington’s Sex Offender Policy Board is working with the state’s Sentencing Guideline Commission in an attempt to roll back restrictions and sentence guidelines for sex offenders, claiming “these laws actually undermine public safety, the exact opposite of what lawmakers and the public so confidently assume they accomplish.”
This is on the heels of community blowback from Washington Democrats including Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, releasing level 3 sex offenders, those deemed the “worst of the worst” and most likely to re-offend from high-security facilities to halfway houses in unsuspecting neighborhoods.
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Feds Considered Trafficking Charges Against Hunter Biden, Document Shows
The House Ways and Means Committee has released a legal document that reveals the criminal charges that federal investigators were considering against Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
According got the document, feds floated sex trafficking charges against Hunter Biden.
The committee obtained the document as part of its investigation into the first son.
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Flashback: Gavin Newsom Vows to Appoint Black Woman to Fill Dianne Feinstein’s Seat
Following the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein, California Governor Gavin Newsom will be tasked with appointing her interim replacement.
Newsom has long vowed to nominate a black woman to fill the seat, with the California Democrat vowing to do such in 2021.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid asked Newsom whether he would commit to naming a black woman for the seat, with Newsom responding, “I have multiple names in mind. We have multiple names in mind — and the answer is yes.”
[Comment: Step 1. Kamala Harris becomes California Senator. Step 2. Gavin Newsom replaces Kamala Harris as Vice-President. Step 3. Biden resigns. Step 4. Gavin Newsome becomes President.]
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A Florida man photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot is blasting what he calls “double standards” after the former Justice Department prosecutor who demanded strict bail terms for him was arrested in a road rage stabbing outside Tampa.
Patrick Scruggs, who spent a decade as an assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting federal crimes, wound up jailed himself this week when he allegedly stabbed a man multiple times after a three-car crash on the Howard Frankland Bridge, west of Tampa, during Tuesday’s morning rush hour.
“I hope the victim of this stabbing is recovering well and will not have any long term health issues as a result of the violent assault,” Adam Johnson, who calls himself “The Lectern Guy” wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
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A simple favor to ask a moviegoer to sit in his assigned seat turned into an all-out brawl at a Florida movie theater — with the incident being captured on camera.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released cellphone video of the altercation, which captured 27-year-old Jesse Montez Thorton II violently attacking 63-year-old Marc Cohen at the AMC theater in Pompano Beach on July 10.
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Head of EcoHealth Alliance to be Questioned in House COVID-19 Origins Inquiry
House Republicans secured a voluntary transcribed interview with EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak in mid-November as part of the congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19 on Friday.
“As mounting evidence and intelligence intensify concerns about the possible release of the COVID-19 pandemic from a laboratory incident in Wuhan, Dr. Daszak’s testimony will be critical to helping the Committees obtain information related to the origins of COVID-19 and any role [EcoHealth Alliance] may have played,” reads a joint press statement from both the House Oversight and Energy and Commerce committees.
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House Passes Rep. Marjorie Greene’s Amendment to Cut Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Salary to $1
Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
House Republicans have approved an amendment to slash U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s annual salary to no more than $1. The move comes as Congress remains in a gridlock over the budget, which could lead to a government shutdown.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday introduced the measure, which was approved in a voice vote as part of the 2024 fiscal year appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). (pdf)
“I’m proud to let you know my amendment to FIRE Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin just passed on the House floor,” Ms. Greene wrote on X following the amendment’s passage.
“Under his failed leadership, our military is being destroyed, and he doesn’t deserve to serve any longer. This is the first time in the 118th Congress the Holman rule has been used to hold a Biden official accountable. It’s time for more,” she continued.
The Holman Rule is a provision that allows members of Congress to reduce the salary, fire federal employees, or cut specific programs during the appropriations process. The provision was first adopted in 1876.
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A former consultant with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been charged with disclosing former President Trump’s tax returns to the New York Times while he was in office, federal prosecutors said Friday.
The Justice Department identified the suspect as Charles Littlejohn, 38, a Washington D.C. resident. In a federal complaint, the DOJ said Littlejohn disclosed the tax returns of “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals” to news organizations and tax information associated with a “high-ranking government official” to a different news outlet.
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Is Google Rigging the 2024 Election? the Controversy Over Invisible Republicans
A new report from the right-leaning Media Research Center concludes that Google is burying search results for 2024 presidential candidates, but an expert in search engine optimization has suggested it’s unlikely.
According to various tests conducted by MRC and Just the News, the online visibility of these sites in generic searches for the GOP’s 2024 bench is practically nil, and not significantly better for RFK Jr., Biden’s primary challenge on the left.
Google’s search engine failed to produce even-handed results in multiple searches performed by MRC Free Speech America over the course of a week prior to today’s Republican presidential primary debate. Researchers broadly searched for “presidential campaign websites” as well as two additional searches specifying the party affiliation of the candidates. When MRC searched for “republican presidential campaign websites,” only two candidates’ websites appeared on the first page in the search results — a Democrat candidate and a Republican who is polling at less than half a percent. —MRC
Both MRC and Senator Ted Cruz claim this is unambiguous proof of Google’s bias.
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Kari Lake Launches Senate Bid to Challenge Kyrsten Sinema
GOP rockstar Kari Lake has announced that she is launching a campaign to challenge left-wing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), a former Democrat, for her seat in the U.S. Senate.
The race is sure to be one of the most hotly anticipated elections in 2024.
Lake announced her campaign in an exclusive statement to the Wall Street Journal.
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Man Indicted in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Murder
The only surviving witness of rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder has been indicted, Fox News Digital can confirm.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was indicted on the charge of open murder with use of a deadly weapon along with a gang enhancement, prosecutors revealed during a press conference Friday. In 2018, Davis made media statements that “reinvigorated” the investigation, police explained.
The charges were revealed Friday, hours after Davis, 60, was arrested while on a walk near his home, according to prosecutors.
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Murder Crisis Plagues DC as Mayor Begs for More Officers After ‘Defunding Police’
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a former supporter of the ‘defund the police’ movement, urgently calls for increased policing as the nation’s capital faces an out-of-control murder crisis.
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Newt Gingrich Calls for an End to ‘Pointless GOP Debates’: ‘Trump is Going to be the Nominee’
Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has declared that the 2024 GOP debates without President Donald Trump are “pointless.”
Trump has refused to participate in the debates and has confirmed that he won’t attend any of them in the future.
The debates between Trump’s primary challengers are barely even making news as viewer numbers tank.
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Dozens of small businesses in Oakland, California, participated in a one-day strike this week to protest crime, calling on city leadership to prosecute criminals and put more police on the street.
Small business owners of restaurants, convenience stores, clothing stores and even doctor’s offices went on strike on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon to draw attention to the city’s skyrocketing crime.
Derreck Johnson, the owner of Home of Chicken and Waffles in the formerly vibrant area of Jack London Square in Oakland, spoke with FOX News Digital about the impact the rampant crime has had on his business and those of countless others in the city.
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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Call to Bring Back Mental Hospitals
Crime and homelessness are big issues in the 2024 presidential campaign, as rising lawlessness brings the topic front and center for Republican voters.
Beyond the obvious calls to hire more police and clear homeless encampments, a handful of presidential candidates have resurrected a long-ago idea — bring back the mental institutions that were largely shuttered in the 1980s.
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RFK Jr Teases ‘Major Announcement’ as Speculation Swirls About Independent Run
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is teasing a “major announcement,” fueling speculation that he will be running as an independent.
“I’m going to be in Philadelphia on October 9 to make a major announcement at the very birthplace of our nation,” Kennedy said in a video announcement released Friday.
“I’m not going to tell you right now exactly what that announcement will be. I can say, though, that if you’ve been waiting to come to one of my public events, this will be the one to come to,” he teased.
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Scientists Develop ‘Airborne mRNA’ to Vaccinate Public Without Consent
A team of scientists at Yale University has developed a new form of “airborne” mRNA vaccine that can be rapidly deployed among the public to vaccinate the masses without their knowledge or consent.
The researchers developed the new airborne method to deliver mRNA right into people’s lungs, bypassing the need for voluntary injections.
The method has also been used to vaccinate mice intranasally.
The scientists note that animal tests have now “opened the door for human testing in the near future.”
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Supreme Court Will Review Anti-Censorship Social Media Laws in Florida and Texas
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it intends to hear two major cases featuring technology industry groups challenging state laws written by Republicans restricting social media content moderation.
One, NetChoice v. Paxton, concerns a law enacted in Texas that puts limits on what content can be banned by platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. A second closely related case, Moody v. NetChoice, relates to a similar law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in Florida. The justices added 10 other cases to the calendar as the Supreme Court prepares for a new term on Monday.
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Trump Sues Christopher Steele Over Dossier Entry That Nearly Sunk His Political Future
Former President Donald Trump is suing former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of a disproven dossier that caused him significant political trouble.
Steele, who formerly ran British intelligence’s Russia desk, was the man behind the dossier, funded indirectly by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, which alleged widespread cooperation between the Russian government and Trump’s campaign.
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A woman waited in line at a Florida airport, bare from the waist down. She caught attention of one appalled stranger who filmed a reaction, complete with spirited commentary.
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A Hard-Right Party Gathers Strength in Poland, Pushing a New, Less Friendly Course on Ukraine
KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Poland´s hard-right Confederation party opened its electoral campaign convention as if it were a rock concert, with a singer riding…
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Center-Right Loses Government Vote, Gains Popularity in Spain
Spain’s chance for a turn to the right is officially over, for now.
On Friday afternoon, center-right leader of the Partido Popular Alberto Nuñez Feijóo lost in the second vote in parliament for his potential government.
The outcome was expected, as underperformance by the Right in Spain’s July elections has left the country at the mercy of the fickle Catalan and Basque nationalist and independentist parties, whose votes can be bought for the right concessions. Feijóo and his political bloc are unwilling to grant their demands, namely amnesty for the leaders of the illegal 2017 referendum on Catalan secession and a new referendum.
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Germany: AfD’s Tino Chrupalla De-Banked, Cites Political Reasons
Tino Chrupalla, who leads the conservative, antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) together with Alice Weidel, has said that Postbank, a retail banking division of massive financial institution Deutsche Bank, has terminated his account because he’s an AfD member.
In a rather rare appearance on the public broadcasting television network ARD on Tuesday, September 26th, the AfD federal spokesman appeared alongside the Thuringian CDU top candidate Mario Voigt, the Green Party politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt, two journalists from Spiegel and Zeit, and the host of the show, Louis Klamroth, Apollo News reported.
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In Historic Deal, Germany Buys Israeli Arrow 3 Missile Defense System for €4 Billion
A memorandum of understanding on the deployment of the Israeli Arrow 3 air defense system in Germany was signed in Berlin on Thursday, with the defense ministers of both countries describing the agreement as historic.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in a statement after the signing ceremony that his country cannot wait for a European system to be developed and that air defense “must be taken care of now.”
The Arrow 3 is an exoatmospheric missile defense system capable of shooting down ballistic missiles during the space flight phase of trajectory, but its range of up to 2,400 kilometers also makes it capable of shooting down satellites.
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Ireland’s Murder Rate Soars, Nearly Doubles in One Year
Figures released by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) have revealed that in the last 12 months, the number of murders in the country has increased by nearly 100% as domestic killings are thought to be partially behind the surge.
A total of 47 murders were reported within the 12-month period which ended in June of this year, up from just 24 murders in the year prior. It marks a surge since the COVID-19 pandemic when the number of killings significantly dropped, a report by the Irish Times newspaper states.
The number of murders appears to be partially driven by an increase in femicides as the organisation Women’s Aid noted that 12 women had been killed during the period measured by the CSO, a 50% increase from the previous 12-month period.
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Journalist Arrested for Exposing French Intel’s Operations in Egypt
The pre-trial detention of a journalist who exposed embarrassing links between the French military intelligence service (DRM) and Egyptian security forces is raising questions about freedom of the press. Experts believe the affair could potentially complicate Paris’s endorsement of new EU regulations on the protection of journalists.
Ariane Lavrilleux was arrested at her Marseilles apartment in the early hours of Tuesday, September 19th, before being detained for 39 hours at a nearby police station for her alleged role in leaking information obtained from an anonymous Ministry of Defense official into criminal collaboration between France and the El-Sisi dictatorship.
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Netherlands: Public Prosecutor Warned Erasmus About Shooter’s Behaviour
The public prosecution department warned officials at Erasmus teaching hospital in Rotterdam that student Fouad L, who shot three people dead on Thursday, was showing signs of psychotic behaviour.
A letter from the department to the university authorities has been circulating in the Dutch media, and appears to have been published by L himself on a chat group on closed internet channel 4Chan.
In the letter, which Dutch News has seen, the department says that L was not only convicted of animal abuse, but that he showed other signs of disturbing behaviour, including lying on a pile of leaves in the garden half naked and screaming.
A search of his telephone had also turned up photographs of people who had been stabbed to death and of far-right symbolism.
According to the Telegraaf, the man was given a formal warning in 2018 for shooting at fish with a crossbow. Then in 2021, he was reported for throwing a rabbit against a tree. A search of his home, which was filthy and full of animal faeces also turned up two crossbows.
It is not clear when the letter was sent, but the department says it aim was to provide “support” to the university in “your role as the giver of diplomas and, if necessary, to take appropriate measures”.
The letter ends “I trust that the above information will assist you in your decision whether or not the person concerned qualifies for the basic medical diploma.”
Erasmus MC chairman Stefan Sleijfer told NOS on Friday morning that the shooter had been told he needed to undergo a psychological examination before he could be awarded his diploma.
“He had met all the formal criteria to be a doctor and had passed all his tests,” Sleijfer said. The exam committee “took the public prosecutor’s concerns seriously and decided a psychological check was needed.”
That process is still ongoing, he said.
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The Dutch student who killed a 14-year-old girl, her mother and a university professor in a twin shooting spree in Rotterdam was a neo-Nazi and self-professed alcoholic who had previously feuded with his lecturers, it has emerged.
The 32-year-old suspect, named as Fouad L., was arrested by armed police after he allegedly killed a mother and a daughter in their own home and set it on fire before travelling to the nearby Erasmus medical university where he shot dead a 43-year-old professor.
Fouad L., who is understood to be a former student at Erasmus, had first burst into a house in the Dutch city and opened fire, killing a 39-year-old woman and seriously injuring her 14-year-old daughter who later died in hospital.
The suspected shooter then moved to the Erasmus medical centre, where he launched Molotov cocktails and rained bullets at staff, killing professor Jurgen Damen, 43, before he set fire to another part of the facility.
Terrified medics were seen running for their lives from the building, while others trapped on the higher floors begged for help by putting desperate posters on the windows. Elite police stormed the hospital before they arrested the suspect.
It has since emerged that Fouad L. appeared to be an avid 4chan user who spoke about his deeply troubled past which included a conviction for torturing his rabbit in 2021 while drunk according to Dutch media.
Local media reports said the mother he killed in the shooting, who has not been named, was the one who reported Fouad L for the animal abuse, which saw the former student lose his job and place at the university. Police are investigating this as a possible motive.
Prosecutors had warned the university hospital earlier this year about whether to accept Fouad L as a student after it emerged that he had images of people being stabbed on his phone as well as Nazi material when police responded to the report of animal abuse in 2021.
His posts to the message board 4chan, commonly associated with the far-right, also reveal a shocking and consistent use of racial slurs relating to Jewish and Black people too offensive for publication as he railed against former professors at the university.
He also claimed to be a ‘f***ing genius’ in several posts, adding that he was ‘bordering on predicting the future.’
Upon his arrest in 2021 for animal abuse, officers found two crossbows in his home, which prosecutors described as ‘unhygienic’, ‘dirty’ and covered in ‘animal feces’, according to the leaked documents.
The suspect’s 4Chan post about the incident read: ‘Police got really triggered by the p*** bottles, its just bed pots, why does it trigger normies so much?’
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Only Mexico Surpasses Sweden as Non-Warring Nation With Most Bombings
Sweden is second only to Mexico as the top country in the world not currently at war to experience the most bombings on its territory, according to a leading criminologist.
Ardavan Khoshnood, a guest lecturer at Malmö University and senior fellow at Lund University, warned that the Scandinavian country has become the bombing capital of Europe.
“Sweden stands out completely,” he told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.
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Poland Rejects Ukraine’s Proposal to End Grain Embargo Crisis
On Sept. 27, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Trade Taras Kachka said that if Poland, Hungary and Slovakia guarantee that they will not impose unilateral limits on Ukrainian products in the future, Ukraine will be able to withdraw its complaint from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Piotr Muller, the Polish government’s spokesman, told the conservative TV station Republikaon on Sept. 28 that the Ukrainian proposal for withdrawing the WTO complaint is unacceptable because “Ukraine is in fact proposing that its food products should be able to enter without any limits being set.”
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The latest polling ahead of Poland’s general election on Oct. 15 has offered a potential pathway for the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to retain power, although it is not the most likely outcome.
A survey conducted by the Social Changes polling agency for the wPolityce.pl news site showed PiS enjoying the support of 39 percent of the electorate, nine percentage points more than its biggest electoral threat, the liberal Civic Coalition (KO) led by former Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
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President Duda Highlights Central Communication Port as Poland’s Future
A new, built-from-scratch airport to the south of Warsaw will be one of the largest airports in the world, a “fact that does not sit well with some,” Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has claimed.
Speaking at a press conference in Warsaw, the president drew parallels between the proposed Central Communication Port (CPK) and the port of Gdynia, constructed in the Second Polish Republic.
The Polish head of state called CPK’s construction one of the largest challenges of the 21st century for the Polish government. He underlined the necessity of investing in Polish infrastructure while lamenting the many critics who seek to derail the project.
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Slovakia’s Fico Will Have Little Room to Maneuver Should He Return to Power This Weekend
The possible return of former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has sounded alarm bells in Western Europe for no good reason, according to Politico.
The news site claims that Slovakia, with a population of just 5.5 million, is so dependent on the European Union and EU funds that it would have little realistic chance of moving away from the European mainstream, either politically or economically.
Even the economic turnaround promised by Fico would not be possible without EU funds, and Slovakia would risk losing the confidence of investors, it states.
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Swedish Gang Crime Spilling Into Norway
Sweden and Norway will work more closely together to combat Swedish criminal gangs that have established themselves in Norway, reports Swedish public broadcaster SVT. Norwegian Minister of Justice Emilie Mehl met her Swedish counterpart, Gunnar Strömmer on Wednesday, September 27th, to discuss how to prevent violent crime from crossing the border.
In its threat assessment for 2023 the Norwegian police warned that cooperation between Swedish and Norwegian criminals is now taking place, “especially when it comes to the import and sale of drugs”, and that gang violence might lead to deadly clashes.
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Sweden is considering the deployment of its armed forces to combat the increasing danger posed by organized crime gangs wreaking havoc on city streets.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on Thursday evening after the Scandinavian country was rocked by a deadly wave of shootings and explosions linked to a split in the notorious Foxtrot criminal network.
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Swedish Prosecutor Seeks Hate Conviction for Quran Burning
A Swedish man faces trial this week on charges of incitement to racial hatred for the burning of a copy of the Islamic Quran in what could become a precedent-setting case, as prosecutors have been reluctant to pursue charges against Quran-burning protesters in the past.
The case involves a 27-year-old man who filmed himself burning a copy of the Quran, which was wrapped in bacon, on September 11th, 2020, and then proceeding to drop off the burned Quran outside of a local mosque in Linköping, broadcaster SVT reports.
Alongside the Quran, the man is said to have placed various signs, including one that stated that the prophet Mohammed was a “paedophile” and the film was set to music that was also played by Brenton Tarrant during the massacres at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.
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Police officers raided the upper floors of the employment centre in August, where they found 2,300 cannabis plants growing across 16 different vacant floors.
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Kosovo Accuses Serbia Over Deadly Clashes and Investigates Possible Russian Role
One Kosovo police officer and three gunmen were killed in Sunday´s shootout between Serb insurgents and Kosovo police.
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Israel Pushes Facial Recognition Surveillance Bill to Operate in Public Spaces
In a worrisome development for privacy advocates, a forthcoming Israeli legislative measure is set to expand extensive surveillance over public spaces through the use of facial recognition technology. This legislation is an encroachment on digital rights and is reminiscent of the ominously dubbed all-pervasive surveillance regime, Big Brother.
The burgeoning bill, backed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, has found favor with the Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation. It green-lights the police force to establish a network of high-tech facial recognition cameras, gathering biometric details of individuals within both towns and cities.
Worryingly, a police officer, regardless of rank, has the authority to initiate the operation of these pervasive cameras, with the alleged aim of combating organized crime.
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Putin Taps Wagner Group Remnants to Fight in Ukraine Amid Drive for New Conscripts
Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed a former Wagner Group commander to “focus on creating volunteer units” to fight in the war in Ukraine, a month after the death of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and other Wagner Group mutineers.
“Last time we met, you said that you would focus on creating volunteer units which will fulfill various combat missions, including in the zone of the special military operation,” Putin told former Prigozhin aide Andrei Troshev. “You know what it is like, how to do it, and what issues should be addressed in advance to ensure the best possible and the most successful fulfillment of combat missions.”
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Putin Says Convicts Killed in Ukraine War Fully Redeemed Themselves
“Everyone can make some mistakes, they once did. But they gave their lives for the Motherland, and fully redeemed themselves,” Vladimir Putin said.
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that Russian prisoners who died in Ukraine had redeemed themselves in the eyes of society.
To boost regular troops fighting in Ukraine, the army and mercenary group Wagner have extensively recruited from Russian penal colonies.
“They are dead,” President Putin said during a televised meeting, referring to prisoners who died in Ukraine.
“Everyone can make some mistakes, they once did. But they gave their lives for the Motherland, and fully redeemed themselves,” Vladimir Putin said at the meeting with servicemen who fought near Ukraine’s Urozhaine on the southern front.
After a short discussion with the soldiers, President Putin observed a minute of silence to honour the prisoners who died in combat.
The Russian leader said that soldiers who fought near Urozhaine — where the defence ministry said a Ukrainian attack was repelled — were “an emblematic example of courage and heroism”.
Convicts have reportedly been used as cannon fodder including in the eastern Ukrainian hotspot city of Bakhmut.
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Russia’s Military Budget Set to Rise by 70%
Russian military spending is set to rise by almost 70 percent — to €106 billion — by 2024, according to a Russian Finance Ministry document published Thursday, an increase that illustrates Moscow’s determination to continue its military intervention in Ukraine despite the human and economic costs.
According to the document, Russian defense spending will increase by 68 percent in 2024 compared to this year and will reach 10.8 trillion rubles (€106 billion). As a result, the amount allocated to defense will represent about 30 percent of total federal spending in 2024 and 6 percent of GDP — a first in Russia’s modern history. The budget for internal security is set to rise to 3.4 trillion rubles (€33 billion), almost 10 percent of annual federal spending.
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Pakistan Bombing During Religious Celebration Kills at Least 51 People
Authorities say the bombing was a suicide attack and killed people who were celebrating the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
A bomb killed at least 52 people during a religious gathering celebrating the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan on Friday.
“Due to the power of the explosion, several people gathered there died instantly, and many others suffered injuries,” Javed Lehri, a local police officer, told The New York Times.
Authorities say the bombing in the southwestern province of Balochistan was a suicide attack and “targeted a procession of hundreds of people who had gathered for Eid Milad un-Nabi,” the Times reported. At least 70 others were wounded from the blast.
“The bomber detonated himself near a police vehicle near Madina Mosque where people were gathering for a procession,” senior police official Munir Ahmed told Reuters.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but the Pakistani Taliban denied responsibility. The group known as Islamic State Khorasan has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in the area before and is active in the region, according to CBS News.
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China’s government has invested billions of dollars across the world to wage a “propaganda, disinformation, and censorship” campaign “to exert control over the narratives in the global information space,” the State Department said in a new report.
The 58-page report, compiled by the State Department-housed Global Engagement Center interagency and released on Thursday, took aim at the Chinese Communist Party for “exploiting international organizations and bilateral partnerships, pairing cooptation and pressure, and exercising control of Chinese-language media.” It is based on a mix of information collected by the U.S. government and publicly available sources.
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Wuhan ‘Batwoman’ Warns Another Coronavirus Outbreak is ‘Highly Likely’
Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s infamous “Batwoman,” has warned that it is “highly likely” that there will be another coronavirus outbreak.
Zhengli earned the “Batwoman” moniker due to her dangerous genetic engineering experiments with bat viruses.
Her controversial experiments in the Chinese lab across town from ground zero of Covid have long raised major concerns.
In the early days of the pandemic, Zhengli’s Wuhan virus database was altered just 48 hours before China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party ordered all virus samples to be destroyed.
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Extinction Rebellion Protesters Disrupt AFL Grand Final Parade in Melbourne
The AFL grand final parade was briefly disrupted in Melbourne on Friday, September 29, as Extinction Rebellion protesters “glued themselves to the road” and halted vehicles.
Extinction Rebellion said the protest was “short-lived”. They said on X that security guards “ripped rebels’ glued hands from the road.”
Footage from the activist group shows protesters in T-shirts with the slogan, “Can’t play footy in 50C”.
Security guards are seen pulling the protesters from in front of the parade, while one protester then complains that she’s hurt her hand.
Collingwood face Brisbane in the Australian rules football final on Saturday.
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Ms Moore has donated $200,000 of Sydney resident’s public funds to international aid causes since January and $50,000 this month alone.
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A Melbourne man has become a local hero after foiling an attack by radical climate activists against residents in his inner-city suburb overnight.
Brendan Lang was walking through the leafy neighbourhood of Princes Hill at about 7.30am on Wednesday when he spotted a ute with a flat tyre.
“I thought it was strange”, he told news.com.au. But what made it even stranger, he said, were the “three detectives holding bags that had licence plate numbers on them”.
He kept walking, and when he got home he noticed his neighbours’ 4WD also had a flat tyre.
“So I grabbed my pump and saw a note on the windscreen from these people that said what they’d done,” Mr Lang said.
The note was left by Tyre Extremists, a group of climate change extremists who have targeted vehicles around Melbourne’s affluent suburbs by intentionally deflating their tyres.
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Quincy Zuma Wambitta Timberlake, 43, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his son Sinclair, who died in their Kallangur home, north of Brisbane, on June 18, 2014.
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Deaths in Suicide Bombing at Somali Tea Shop
The blast occurred at a checkpoint on a road leading to the parliament and the president’s office.
A suicide bomber set off an explosion at a shop selling tea in Somalia’s capital on Friday, killing at least seven people, according to a witness and medical personnel.
Police put the number of dead at five. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Friday.
It put the number of dead at 11 and wounded at 18 — its numbers on casualties in attacks often differ from government figures.
The Friday afternoon blast occurred at a checkpoint on a road leading to the parliament and the president’s office and the shop is frequented by soldiers, the witness said.
The witness and medical personnel who were at the scene put the number of dead at seven and the wounded at up to eight.
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They came at breakfast time to murder Theo Bekker, smashing an iron bar stolen from his own farmyard into his skull before slitting his throat so he bled to death.
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday that it is “essential” to preserve the freedom of the press and that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should not be prosecuted for informing the public.
“It is essential to preserve the freedom of the press. A journalist like Julian Assange cannot be punished for informing society in a transparent and legitimate way,” Lula said.
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Berlin-Musk Clash Over NGOs and Migrants to Italy
(ANSA) — ROME, SEP 29 — Friday saw a clash on X between the German foreign ministry and Elon Musk over German NGO-run migrant rescue ships and migrants landing in Italy.
Musk retweeted a video showing rescue operations at sea by NGOs that are allegedly subsidised by the German government and that “collect illegal migrants and bring them to Italy”.
Musk asked: “Are the Germans aware of this?” The English-language account of the German foreign ministry then replied directly to Musk, saying “Yes, and it’s called saving lives”.
Ten of the 19 NGO rescue ships in the Med are German flagged.
Rome says they should take their human cargo to Germany.
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Don’t Do Solidarity With Other People’s Borders Says Meloni
(ANSA) — ROME, SEP 29 — You cannot do solidarity with other people’s borders, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday on Germany’s demands on crisis regulation in the proposed EU Migration and Asylum Pact, which Italy is holding up.
“You cannot make solidarity with other people’s borders”, said Meloni on the sidelines of the Med9 summit in Malta.
Rome has asked for more time to consider the Pact amid a spat with Berlin over German-flagged NGO run migrant rescue ships, which the Italian government says must take their migrants to Germany rather than landing them in Italy as they have done thus far.
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Elon Musk Goes to the Border and Leaves Stunned: ‘Complete Madness’
AUSTIN, Texas — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk stepped away from running Tesla, SpaceX, and X to see the declining situation at the U.S-Mexico border, leaving visibly stunned by the “madness” that has engulfed not just border towns but cities nationwide.
At the invitation of Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Musk traveled to Eagle Pass, a town of 28,000 residents in south-central Texas that has seen as many as 2,000 people arrested daily for coming into the United States illegally over the past few weeks.
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Ron DeSantis Vows to Deport ‘Everyone That Has Come Illegally Under Biden’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged Friday, in his strongest statement on deportation to date, to remove migrants who entered the United States illegally during President Biden’s administration.
“Everyone that has come illegally under Biden. We got to go — they’re sending back,” the Republican presidential candidate said on Friday.
Asked about deportations as he took questions from reporters following a campaign event in Long Beach, California, DeSantis reiterated that if elected to the White House, “that’s going to be the first priority. That’s probably six or seven million people right there. It’s going to require a lot of effort. It’s going to require us to lean in.”
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Public concern over immigration has jumped to its highest level for six years, according to the latest polling.
A survey showed 26 per cent of adults said it is one of the most important issues facing Britain today. That is almost triple the level seen a year ago, when it was mentioned by 9 per cent of those polled, Ipsos found.
And immigration was the number one issue among over-65s and Conservative voters, with 47 per cent of those in both groups saying it outstripped fears over inflation and the economy.
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UN: 186,000 Illegal Migrants Have Arrived in Southern Europe in 2023 So Far
The United Nations (UN) has revealed that a staggering 186,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Southern Europe so far this year.
The vast majority entered the continent by illegally entering Italy.
Between January and September 24, over 2,500 people were found dead or are still missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe from Africa.
The number is a significant increase from the 1,680 people who died or were missing during the same period in 2022.
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Sweden may call on the army to provide law enforcement as violence linked to the “unsuccessful integration” of migrants spirals out of control.
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Criminal charges are now pending against the trans-identified male student who was seen on video violently beating a female student at Hazelbrook Middle School near Portland, Oregon.
Ray Cameron, Director of Washington County Juvenile Department, confirmed in a statement to Reduxx that charges are pending and a petition has been filed in juvenile court against the trans attacker.
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Former Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler has been found guilty of charges stemming from the cover-up of the sexual assault of a female student by a transgender rapist.
On Friday, a jury of six women and one man on Friday found Ziegler guilty of using his position to retaliate against a teacher for cooperating with a grand jury investigating how the district handled the rape of a female student.
After a week-long trial and a day of deliberations, the jury found that Ziegler wrongfully fired the teacher.
The teacher had disclosed to Virginia investigators about the mishandling of sexual assault in her classroom.
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On Thursday, a federal appeals court rejected a preliminary injunction that would have allowed puberty blockers and gender-altering surgeries for minors, thereby allowing Tennessee and Kentucky to enact laws passed by both states’ legislatures that ban transgender surgeries and treatments for children.
In a 2-1 ruling obtained by Just the News, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th Circuit Court of Appeals stated, “The concept of gender dysphoria as a medical condition is relatively new and the use of drug treatments that change or modify a child’s sex characteristics is even more recent.”
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GRAHAM LINEHAN: When Ireland voted to overturn the abortion ban, Amnesty Ireland tweeted that this was a victory for ‘pregnant people’. I was enraged.
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‘They/Them’ Utah Preschool Teacher Proudly Comes Out as Furry Called ‘Flint’
A preschool teacher in Utah opened up about her double life as a “furry,” in which she detailed the struggles of balancing teaching kids and wearing the kink costume in her private time.
The 22-year-old teacher of Salt Lake City, Utah, who uses the/them pronouns, might teach young kids during the day, but her true passion comes alive by night when she transforms into a furry named “Flint,” which is part of the “Dutch Angel Dragon” community.
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A fledgling news channel in the U.K. has suspended a third presenter in relation to public outrage over alleged misogynistic remarks made by outspoken presenter Laurence Fox during an interview on Tuesday evening.
The Rev. Calvin Robinson confirmed on social media on Friday that he had been taken off air by GB News just hours after publicly supporting Dan Wootton, one of the suspended presenters suffering a backlash from media commentators and politicians following the controversy.
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Furry things should be burnt at the stake.
And with all that fur, I would wager they will burn very well…
Don’t know how long I can avoid prison for writing this but whatever…
Prise the Lord !
For removing Demonic abomination and corrupted Satanic seed , living among moral and ethical people in the purpose to destroy what’s good in us ..
Thank you Lord !
Germany = an nation of sex offenders
America = a nation of sex offenders
The UK = a nation of sex offenders
France = a nation of sex offenders
Womens rights was always nothing more than the normalisation of sex offenders.
Well done wimin, you really screwed the pooch this time.
Maybe your beloved coloureds can come and finish off the job?
Oh, right they are…
Thanks again
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The terrible consequences of early LGBT sexualization of children in German kindergartens.
https://unser-mitteleuropa.com/kollateralschaeden-der-frueh-sexualisierung-an-deutscher-kita-kinder-urinieren-sich-gegenseitig-in-den-mund/
Well, what else did you expect from Kali Yuga?
The gubmint is running an embalming operation, as evidenced by the late (but still voting) Senator Feinstein, the late Justice Ginsburg and, the moribund Senator McTurtle. Next in line for draining of vital fluids include Waters, Pelosi and Sanders. Schumer’s not ripe, yet, but, his time will come.
We need a hard age limit on senators, congresscritters, judges and certain other top gubmint positions.
It’s not the age per se thats the problem so much as being unrepresentative and out of touch with their constituents.
The longer these fossils spend in Mordor-on-the-Potomac, the more difficult it becomes to dislodge them, as incumbent advantage and the support of various entrenched interests who have come to view them as investments becomes almost impossible for challengers to overcome.
If I was dictator I would make all these positions including judges subject to being filled by a jury-duty type system. Perhaps repeal the 17th Amendment and let state legislatures sort out who will represent their interests in the Senate.
But the basic problem, that these fossils are unrepresentative and almost impossible to remove unless one is super wealthy, a political prostitute, or both, would be solved by making those offices into a fixed term of service filled by a random lottery.
Certainly it couldn’t be worse than the current farce that produces such imbeciles as Fetterman, and such superannuated dinosaurs as Feinstein, Ginsburg (may they forever burn in hell), Pelosi, McConnell, etc.
There was news in the Russian media that the Taliban delegation lost its passport in a Moscow supermarket. https://lenta.ru/news/2023/09/29/talibi_v_moskve/
And here is what Afghan observer Andrei Serenko writes in his Telegram channel.
Suffered for love: a new interpretation of the incident with the missing passports of members of the Taliban delegation in Moscow
1. The news published in the media about the disappearance of Taliban passports in Moscow is true, but the method of disappearance, which allegedly occurred in a store, is a lie.
2. After Amir Khan Muttaqi (Taliban Foreign Minister) was disappointed in the Moscow meeting, one of the Taliban lobbyists in Russia organized a party for the Taliban in a private apartment. Several prostitutes took part in this party.
3. After the party participants drank alcohol and smoked hookah, it was time for pleasure in solitude. Each member of the Taliban team has secluded himself with his girlfriend with low social responsibility.
4. The person who was responsible for the organizational issues of the Taliban’s trip to Russia, who kept the passports of the delegation members and cash with him, also took part in the entertainment, but apparently did not calculate his strength and eventually lost consciousness from an excess of feelings. The prostitute who was with him took advantage of the moment and left the palace of vice, taking with her a nice-sized purse with cash (over 190 thousand dollars), which also contained Taliban passports. The passport of Taliban Foreign Minister Mullah Muttaqi was also stolen.
5. It is said that Muttaqi became very angry after learning about this incident and slapped the delegation members Latif Nazari and Kahar Balkhi. After long discussions, the Taliban decided to report the problem, but in order to protect themselves from the wrath of the Taliban leadership, they announced that the passports allegedly disappeared during a visit to the store.
6. As a result, the Taliban delegation flew from Moscow to Kabul today. The costs of returning Muttaqi and his cheerful companions home were covered by the Afghan Embassy in the Russian Federation.
7. There is a high probability that Latif Nazari and Qahar Balkhi will be removed from their positions upon returning to Kabul.
As they say, no comments… https://t.me/anserenko/6494?single
And the Elite will drink to her passing from a Fein Stein whose contents will be a bier with a head on it. Cheers! Jahwol!!