Violent protests erupted yesterday in the Swedish city of Malmö after an Iraqi anti-Islam activist named Salwan Momika set fire to a Koran. Disgruntled culture-enrichers torched vehicles and threw stones and electric scooters at police.
In other news, Ukraine’s new F-16s will be ready to deploy next spring, but the shortage of pilots trained to fly them remains a major obstacle.
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Civil Unrest Fears Grow as Youth Unemployment Accelerates
In nearly every country in the world, youth unemployment is much higher than general unemployment.
Unfortunately, the pandemic only exacerbated matters. During a crucial stretch of their early careers, young adults were locked out of entry-level jobs, destroying their ability to pick up work experience and potentially impacting their long-term earnings.
Now, nearly three years after COVID-19 first hit, young adults from some countries, like China, are struggling to find jobs. Using data from the OECD and the National Bureau of Statistics of China, Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao and Niccolo Conte chart out the youth unemployment rate for 37 countries.
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Czech Republic Grapples With Rising Debt and High Inflation: An Analysis by the Supreme Audit Office
The Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) has issued a stark warning about the economic health of the Czech Republic, highlighting its rapid debt accumulation and soaring inflation rates. Despite boasting the EU’s lowest unemployment figures, the state struggles to cover escalating expenditures, even with high employment revenues.
The Czech Republic has emerged as the EU’s most rapidly indebting nation continuing this concerning trend from the previous years. Its recent record on inflation ranks fifth in the EU, while the decline in real wages has reached an unprecedented level in the nation’s history.
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Moody’s Confirms Hungary’s Baa2 National Credit Rating With a Stable Forecast
Despite the impact of the war and sanctions, Moody’s has upheld Hungary’s investment-grade rating, reports About Hungary.
The Ministry of Finance announced that Moody’s has reconfirmed Hungary’s Baa2 national credit rating with a stable outlook. Moody’s has provided a positive evaluation of Hungary’s economy, forecasting significant growth for the next year.
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“Exodus Begins”: Thousands Attempt to Flee Burning Man
For the more than 70,000 attendees stuck at the Burning Man festival in the northern Nevada desert, a break in the weather and drying toxic alkaline lake bed will likely spark an exodus of ‘burners’ around noon.
Around 1123 ET, Burning Man Traffic posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, “Gate Road remains too wet & muddy for most vehicles to safely navigate out of BRC this morning, but is drying.”
The event organizer warned an “Exodus likely to begin around noon today.” It said all burners need to listen to “BMIR 94.5 FM, GARS 95.1 FM” for updates.
Gate Road remains too wet & muddy for most vehicles to safely navigate out of BRC this morning, but is drying. Exodus likely to begin around noon today, Monday 9/4. We will update you again in the next few hours. Listen to BMIR 94.5 FM, GARS 95.1 FM and watch here for updates
— Burning Man Traffic (@bmantraffic) September 4, 2023
The chaos began on Friday evening when burners were told to shelter in place and conserve food, water, and fuel when the dried-up alkaline lake bed transformed into a muddy hellhole. By Saturday, the situation deteriorated, and organizers closed the festival’s roads and gates. Then on Sunday, the area was considered a ‘mudpocalypse’ by some.
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200 Homeless Squatters Invade Downtown Casper, Wyoming, Trash Abandoned Econo Lodge
The town of Casper, Wyoming has been inundated with homeless people, with some estimates coming in at 200.
The town is full of abandoned structures, but one that has been hit particularly hard is the Econo Lodge, which was closed in November 2022 due to flooding. Squatters moved in and caused millions of dollars in damage to the already dilapidated building, including leaving 500 pounds of human waste behind.
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Authorities Investigating Deadly Shooting of 1-Year-Old Girl in Florida
FLAGLER COUNTY, FL (WESH) — Authorities are investigating after a 1-year-old girl was shot and killed in a northeastern Florida county Sunday night.
It happened in Palm Coast, which is in Flagler County, Florida.
Flagler County sheriff’s deputies were called around 11:45 p.m. Sunday to a home on Ranwood Lane. They arrived to find the girl with a gunshot wound. She was rushed to Advent Health Palm Coast, but she was pronounced dead at the hospital.
During a news conference, Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly did not rule out the possibility that the shooting was accidental, but said that the child didn’t touch the gun.
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Biden Claims Visiting Delaware Beach House is ‘Not a Vacation’: ‘I Have No Home to Go to’
Democrat President Joe Biden has claimed that he’s not taking a vaccination when he makes frequent visits to his luxury beach house in Delaware.
Biden’s Rehoboth Beach house is the type of property that many taxpaying Americans can only dream about.
The president has come under increasing scrutiny for the amount of time he spends at the lavish home.
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Elon Musk announced on Monday that he is considering suing the Anti-Defamation League to clear the X (formerly Twitter) platform name.
This comes after news broke that X is still down around 60 percent in US ad revenue as the ADL continues to put pressure on its advertisers to skip the wildly popular social media platform.
Further, it was revealed that the ADL has put pressure on X to deplatform popular anti-woke account Libs of TikTok, which is run by a conservative Jewish woman, Chaya Raichik.
Musk claimed that the ADL has been trying to see his platform destroyed by making erroneous claims that both he and X are “anti-semitic.”
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By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints
Stacy Davis-Gates is undoubtedly Illinois’ most prominent and rabid opponent of school choice — and pretty much everybody and everything associated with it, all of which she labels racist or worse. As president of the Chicago Teachers Union, she is at the forefront of its campaign to kill Illinois’ meager Invest in Kids Act, which currently gives about 9,000 disadvantaged kids scholarships to attend private schools. “It must be ‘game over’“ for the program, the CTU says.
But, as initially reported by SubX News, she sends one of her kids to to Chicago’s De La Salle Institute, a private, Catholic high school.
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Eric Adams Uses NYPD Drones to Spy on Backyards as J’ouvert, West Indian Day Parties Commence
New Yorkers planning to attend outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City anytime soon may be in for an unwelcome surprise: a surveillance drone operated by city police.
The New York City police department has said it will be flying these unmanned drones during the Labor Day weekend after it received complaints about big gatherings, private events included. The announcement came during a briefing focused on J’ouvert, a yearly Caribbean festival commemorating the end of slavery.
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Espionage? Chinese Nationals Gate-Crashed U.S. Installations 100 Times
Chinese nationals have illicitly tried to access U.S. military installations and other sensitive areas some 100 times in recent years, raising the issue of espionage.
The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that these incidents range from individuals claiming they were just following GPS to get to restaurants that are actually on bases to speeding through checkpoints to scuba divers. Since we know that the America-hating Chinese Communist Party planted half a dozen illicit police stations in the U.S. and infiltrated all major U.S. institutions and levels of government, the risk of espionage is very real.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Impeachment Trial of Texas AG Ken Paxton
On Tuesday, the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is set to begin for charges of bribery and abuse of public trust.
The case against Paxton appears to center around his relationship with Austin real estate developer Nate Paul, who was indicted over the summer after being accused of making false statements to banks in order to obtain $170 million in loans, the Associated Press reports.
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FBI and DOJ Are Sued for Concealing Biden Administration Censorship Pressure
America First Legal (AFL) has taken legal action against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). AFL alleges that these federal agencies are unlawfully withholding records that may reveal the Biden administration’s manipulation of the 2022 midterm elections through censorship initiatives.
Last year, journalist Matt Taibbi, in his investigative series “The Twitter Files” unearthed communication between the FBI’s National Election Command Post (NECP) and its San Francisco Field Office. The NECP had reportedly flagged 25 Twitter accounts for “misinformation” right before the November 2022 elections and had asked for coordination with Twitter for subsequent actions.
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Frontiersman ‘Colonizer’ Kit Carson’s Monument Toppled in Santa Fe
A sandstone obelisk dedicated to 19th-century frontiersman Kit Carson was destroyed just outside of a federal courthouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Thursday night.
2020, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.
Sgt. Ryan Alire-Maez said that federal law enforcement would be heading the case, as the monument was on federal property. Police, who were called to the scene at 8:04 pm on Thursday, are currently searching for a suspect or group of them, who seemingly fled the scene on foot. A white older model GMC pickup truck was seen at the scene parked near the toppled monument with a cable attached to it.
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‘It’s Frustrating’: Sheriff Reacts to Suspect’s Release in Deadly Road Rage Shooting
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) — Viewers reached out to Factfinder 12 after Daryon Boone was released from jail on Sunday on a $500,000 bond. Two days earlier, Wichita police arrested Boone as a murder suspect in the shooting death of 69-year-old Norma Williams.
Police said Williams was the front passenger of a 2021 Honda Ridgeline traveling northbound on Greenwich Friday night. When she and her husband reached the intersection at Kellogg, police said a group of motorcycles riding eastbound ran the red light. A motorcycle driven by Boone struck the couple’s vehicle.
Police said the couple tried to get away from the group, but as Boone and two or three other riders followed the couple’s vehicle, the 19-year-old produced a handgun and shot twice into the vehicle, killing Williams.
Boone was arrested and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail for first-degree murder among other charges related to the deadly shooting. But now, he’s out of jail.
Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter said there has been an uptick in accused violent offenders bonding out of jail because local bail bonding companies are offering lower percentages to bond people out.
The sheriff said he’s even seen bond percentages as low as 1% of the entire bond.
“You spend all this time and resources to try and get that person into custody and start the process of holding them accountable for the crimes that they committed, especially when it’s murder. And you see them bond back out with the possibility of committing more crimes while they’re out on bond or more victims, I should say, while they’re out on bond,” said Easter. “It is frustrating, but that’s how the system’s set up. People have the right to bond out of jail.”
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Largest Wildfire in Louisiana’s History Was Caused by Arson, Officials Conclude
Officials in Louisiana have concluded that the recent wildfire, the largest in the state’s history, was caused by arson.
The Tiger Island fire has ravaged Louisiana for nearly two weeks.
The wildfire, which broke out in southwestern Louisiana on August 22, has damaged nearly 50 square miles so far.
On Saturday, it was determined by the state’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) to have been the result of arson, the agency announced in a press release.
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Only 36% of Americans Believe Biden is ‘Mentally Up for the Job’ of President: WSJ Poll
A new poll from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that the majority of Americans believe President Joe Biden is mentally unfit for his job, and that the 80-year-old incumbent is too old to run for a second term.
Just 36 percent of registered voters said that Biden is “mentally up for the job” of being president, while 46 percent said the same for 2024 GOP frontrunner and former president Donald Trump, who is three years younger.
73 percent of voters said that they felt Biden was too old to seek a second term. If elected, Biden would be 81 years old, and would end his second term at 86 years of age. Biden was already the oldest elected president in 2020, at 77 years old.
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Scientists discovered traits such as political and religious attitudes, level of education and certain measures of intelligence were strongly similar between the pairs
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Private Zoom Alternative Jitsi Meet Abandons Anonymity Promise
Well-regarded encrypted video conferencing app Jitsi Meet has announced it will no longer promise anonymity to its users. Jitsi Meet, popular among journalists and those seeking enhanced privacy, has long been recognized as a secure alternative to mainstream platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Its no-account-required service model has been a major draw for users — but that changed last month.
This safe haven for privacy enthusiasts now requires Gmail, Facebook, or GitHub accounts to create a meeting room on its platform, a move that has ignited debates about its commitment to solid privacy and security norms. However, these identification requirements currently only apply to those creating the meeting room, not the attendees.
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Rappers Back Trump After Indictments
Various rap artists have revealed that they are standing in support of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign, with many making their public proclamations just after the Georgia mugshot that rocked the world.
One of those people is Chicago rapper BandMan Kevo, who posted a video to his 3 million Instagram followers that showed Trump’s mugshot getting tattooed on his leg.
“Make America Rich Again or Sleepy Joe,” he posted online.
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In an August ruling, a Maine District Court judge denied a request from state Gov. Janet Mills (D) to halt a First Amendment lawsuit launched against her and administration officials by healthcare workers in the state over Covid vaccination mandates.
Judge Jon D Levy of the Maine District Court ruled on August 25 against a motion to stay filed on behalf of Mills and officials within her cabinet, according to Maine Wire.
Mills, as well as Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne M Lambrew and Nancy Beardsley of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, filed the motion to stay the proceedings brought against them.
In Alicia Lowe, et al., v Janet Mills, et all., Maine healthcare workers allege that the state violated their First Amendment rights by refusing to allow a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate, and that healthcare facilities should have offered reasonable accommodations for those who object to the vaccine for religious reasons.
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Seattle on Track to Break All-Time-High After City Tops 50 Murders in 2023
After another bloody weekend, Seattle hit its 50th homicide of 2023 and is on pace to break a record high not seen since the 1990s.
According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), on Thursday the Emerald City reached the grim milestone of 50 homicides. Over Labor Day weekend on Saturday morning, two adults and two children were found dead after a reported shooting and house fire and there were also two suspicious deaths on Sunday, one near a homeless encampment where neighbors reported hearing gunshots and one in a park
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Seattle Loses Last 24-Hour Drug Store Amid Rising Retail Theft
A longtime Seattle drug store chain is closing yet another retail store leaving Emerald City without a 24-hour pharmacy.
Bartell Drugs announced last week that it will be closing its location in Lower Queen Anne on Sept. 10. The 133-year-old chain has already closed five other stores in Ballard, the Chinatown-International District, Downtown, the University District, and South Lake Union.
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Soros’ Son Complains That Another “MAGA-Style” Presidential Victory Would “Imperil” Globalist Vision
Alex Soros, son of arch globalist Open Society founder George Soros writes in an op-ed that he is worried that another Trump victory, or “MAGA style” victory in a U.S. election will endanger the “unity” of globalists in Europe.
“I believe a MAGA-style Republican victory in next year’s U.S. presidential election could, in the end, be worse for the EU than for the U.S.” the younger Soros writes.
He continues, “Such an outcome will imperil European unity and undermine the progress achieved on many fronts in response to the war in Ukraine.”
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Trump Backs US Auto Workers as They Prepare to Strike, Biden Says He’s ‘Not Worried’
Auto workers around the nation who are planning to strike officially have a powerful ally on their side: The 45th President of the United States.
Former President Trump recently put out a video message expressing his support for auto workers around the nation, many of whom are planning to go on strike over the current state of working conditions in the automobile industry.
Joe Biden is not at all concerned about this possibility; he believes the protest will not even start to begin with.
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Video: Ramaswamy Hits Back at ABC News Anchor and “Deranged Mental Cultural State” of Media
During an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy refused to back away from saying he would support Donald Trump if the former president is nominated again, adding that there is “a deranged mental cultural state in the media,” where Trump is concerned.
Stephanopoulos questioned why Ramaswamy would say he would support Trump, noting “You find his actions abhorrent around January 6. You said he was wrong to take the classified information, you said you would not do that yourself. But you still say you would vote for him for President. That’s what I don’t get.”
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WSJ Poll: Majority of Americans Disapprove of Biden’s Handling of Ukraine
A majority of American voters disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of Ukraine, according to the latest poll by the Wall Street Journal.
The poll showed that 52 percent of voters disapprove of the Biden’s handling of Ukraine, a rise since March 22, when 46 percent disapproved. The poll did not specify what about his handling they disapproved of.
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WSJ: Blaming Maui Wildfires on ‘Climate Change’ is a ‘Fraud on the Public’
In a damning op-ed, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has blasted claims from Democrats and their allies in the corporate media that “climate change” is to blame for the recent wildfires in Hawaii and elsewhere.
According to Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., this narrative is a “fraud on the public.”
As Slay News has reported, Democrat officials in Hawaii have been quick to blame the so-called “climate crisis” for the fires that devastated Maui.
However, investigators have concluded that the fires were caused by arson and spread quickly because of poor forestry management.
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You Don’t Say: Michigan Police Suspected National Voter Fraud Scheme in 2020
If you dared to question the results of the 2020 election, you not only were liable to get censored and suppressed but also indicted multiple times. But now, according to police memos examined by Just the News, authorities in Michigan had concerns about potential nationwide voter registration fraud during the 2020 election and sought assistance from the FBI. Curiously, what happened since then is unknown.
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Organizers of Trucker Protests Against Justin Trudeau Face Criminal Trial This Week
Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are set to stand trial beginning on Tuesday. The pair were hit with a slew of charges related to their involvement in the protest, which saw tens of thousands of Canadians descend upon Ottawa in early 2022 and demand an end to government-mandated Covid restrictions.
Prosecutors have alleged that by telling supporters to “hold the line” after police asked them to clear the area, Lich and Barber obstructed efforts to restore order in the nation’s capital after nearly three weeks of occupation.
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Alice Weidel of AfD Criticizes Traffic Light Coalition for Deepening Germany’s Crisis
Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, expressed her strong criticism of the “traffic light coalition” at the traditional “Gillamoos” fair in Lower Bavaria’s Kelheim district, a significant political gathering, reports Deutschland Kurier.
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America Intends to Install Nukes on British Soil
The British government has been accused of recklessness after U.S. Air Force budgetary proposals strongly suggested that American nuclear missiles will be placed on British soil for the first time since 2008 as the UK prepares to drastically ratchet up its own nuclear weapons programme.
Toward the end of August, media reports began circulating in the British press that Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath in Suffolk is about to be retrofitted to host American nuclear weapons after funding proposals revealed plans to install new facilities synonymous with nuclear bases on site as soon as 2026.
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Climate Activists in Germany Plan Protests Targeting International Auto Show
Climate activists from the “Last Generation” movement are gearing up for new demonstrations in Germany, particularly targeting Berlin and Bavaria, where the International Auto Show is set to commence on Tuesday, September 5.
According to Tagesspiegel, starting September 18, these activists intend to obstruct roads in the German capital. Notably, the “Last Generation” has not set a definitive end date for their protests, with plans to maintain roadblocks for a duration of at least three months.
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Concerns Rise Over Medication Shortages in the Czech Republic
Persistent shortages of vital medications in the Czech Republic are sparking concerns, especially as the respiratory disease season nears. Although the shortage isn’t as acute as earlier this year, the absence of essential antibiotics in the market remains alarming. There’s growing unease among pharmacists regarding the situation deteriorating further during the fall and winter, with potential impacts on already fragile supply chains.
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Elon Musk’s X Suspends Identitarian Movement Accounts
Elon Musk’s platform, X, has taken action to suspend accounts associated with the Identitarian Movement (IB). These account removals followed recent police operations targeting IB supporters in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and Switzerland. Criticizing this move, an IB Twitter channel rebuked Musk, asserting that his promise of fostering free speech on the platform was being compromised by what they deemed as a form of authoritarian censorship akin to the practices of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
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Escalating Cybersecurity Threats: Germany Braces for €206 Billion Impact in 2023
Germany is projected to face a staggering cost of €206 billion ($224 billion) due to cybercrime in 2023, according to a survey conducted by German digital association, Bitkom. This would mark the third year in a row where damages have exceeded €200 billion.
Ralf Wintergerst, Bitkom’s President, highlighted that Germany’s economic landscape makes it a prime target for not just criminal entities but also adversarial nations. The survey also revealed that the lines differentiating state-backed actors from organized criminal entities are increasingly becoming indistinct.
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Finland Pioneers Digital Passports in Global First, Aims for Swifter and Streamlined Travel
In a groundbreaking move, Finland has initiated the trial of digital passports, potentially marking an end to the traditional queue at border checks. Finnish Border Control authorities have asserted that these Digital Travel Credentials (DTC) are as trustworthy as conventional physical passports.
For passengers flying from Helsinki to destinations in the UK like London, Edinburgh, or Manchester via Finnair, they can now simply flash a digital ID on their mobile devices instead of the traditional passport. This trial ensures travellers experience a more efficient border control procedure without the usual waiting lines.
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FM of Hungary: A New Right-Wing Majority in the EP Offers Hope
The foreign minister of Hungary has expressed dissatisfaction with Brussels’ consistent failure to address the European Union’s most pressing economic and security challenges, reports About Hungary.
Péter Szijjartó, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, stated during a weekend event in Budapest that a “fresh right-wing majority” in the European Parliament following next year’s EP elections could potentially rekindle optimism for Europe’s safety and progress.
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Greece Adopts Technology to Combat Intensifying Wildfires
In the face of intensifying wildfires, exacerbated by climate change, Greece is turning to technological solutions for early detection and prevention. With the Evros fire, the deadliest wildfire this summer still blazing after two weeks, the nation is grappling with unprecedented environmental challenges.
Recognizing the escalating threat, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced measures to bolster the country’s firefighting capabilities. Drones will be deployed to monitor wildfire developments in real-time, providing vital data to ground teams. Additionally, temperature sensors are slated to be installed in high-risk forests and significant archaeological sites to detect early signs of potential fires.
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Hungary: Gergely Gulyas Raises Concerns Over EU Centralization and Discusses Regional Issues
Gergely Gulyas, the Minister heading the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, voiced his concerns about the growing centralization within the European Union. Speaking at the summer university of the Law Students’ Self-Education Organization, he pointed towards a perceived attempt to form an EU superstate, which he feels would undermine national governments in favor of Brussels institutions. He also highlighted ongoing EU uniformity efforts on matters such as migration, gender, family policy, and war.
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Hungarians Are ‘Lucky to Have’ PM Orban, Says Trump
Former U.S. President Donald Trump praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the Hungarian leader called for Trump to be reelected in 2024 during an interview with Tucker Carlson that garnered over 50 million views.
“Viktor Orban is a great leader and man. The wonderful people of Hungary are lucky to have him!’ Trump wrote on the Truth Social network.
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Italy: Kanye West Banned From Venice Boats for Life After Lewd Public Display on the Water
A headline-grabbing nudity stunt by singer Kanye West and his common-law wife in Venice has landed the pair a life ban on accessing the services of one of the city’s most prestigious boat companies, reportedly beloved by A-list visitors to the city.
Rapper Kanye West was photographed travelling Venice’s famed historic canals on an exclusive hire boat, apparently with his trousers down exposing his buttocks to the public, last month. Reports at the time euphemistically noted the journey, shared with his ‘wife’ Bianca Censori was an “amorous” one in which Censori “nestled with her head in his lap”.
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Majority of Czechs Alarmed by the Government’s Consolidation Package, Survey Reveals
The Czech Republic’s proposed consolidation package has stirred significant apprehension among its citizens. A recent survey conducted by Generali Investments, covering 1000 participants, revealed that 81% of respondents are anxious about the repercussions of this package. The main cause for concern among the majority is a potential increase in VAT for certain items, with three-quarters expressing this worry.
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Migration Spike: More Than 450 Illegal Migrants Land on Greek Islands in 48-Hour Period
A surge in migration to Greece has been reported, with over 450 migrants arriving on Greece’s Aegean Sea islands from Turkey in less than two days. Among these arrivals, 51 individuals reached the exclusive resort of Mykonos. The increase in migration to Greece is largely attributed to favorable summer sailing conditions.
In the past, Greece served as the primary entry point to the European Union for individuals seeking better opportunities in the wealthier bloc. However, Italy is now experiencing nearly seven times more arrivals than Greece, the Associated Press reported.
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Polish Government Call for Reparations in Berlin on WWII Outbreak Anniversary Commemoration
During the joint Polish-German commemoration event marking the anniversary of the onset of the Second World War, Dariusz Pawlos, the Polish Ambassador to Germany, delivered a forceful appeal for reparations aimed at compensating Poland for the extensive material and human losses it endured during the war, Onet reported.
In his address, Pawlos emphasized that the absence of compensation for Poland signifies an unresolved historical burden for Germany. He urged a shift in attitude towards Poland’s reparations claims, asserting that failing to do so would hinder any prospects of genuine reconciliation between the two nations. He contended that such a stance would imply Germany’s evasion of responsibility for the actions of the Third Reich and its associated atrocities.
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Polish Women Are Having Fewer Children — Spiegel
Despite the national conservative government in Poland supporting families, an increasing number of women in the country are choosing not to have children. This decision is not solely driven by career aspirations or a lack of childcare facilities, reports Spiegel.
In the small town of Milicz in Lower Silesia, Poland appears as the government would like to portray it. A towering church dominates the town’s center and time passes peacefully and quietl, with the annual “Carp Day” being one of the city’s most significant events.
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Poll: Almost One-Third of Austrians Support the Anti-Globalist Freedom Party (Fpo)
Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) has surged to the forefront of the latest polls, gaining overwhelming support from one-third of Austrians as they gear up for next year’s elections. The right-wing populist party, led by former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl, currently stands at an impressive 30 percent, placing it significantly ahead of the Social Democrats (SPÖ) at 23 percent and the governing Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) at 22 percent.
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Germany has experienced a surge in electricity imports, hitting a new high by purchasing an unprecedented 6,505 gigawatt hours from foreign sources in August, as reported by the Federal Network Agency.
The German government has made a substantial shift towards substituting the electricity previously generated by recently shuttered nuclear power stations with imported power. Ironically, nearly half of this imported electricity is derived from nuclear and fossil fuel sources, BILD reported.
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Sweden Faces Violent Protests Over Quran Burning, Arrests Made
A recent violent outburst in Malmö, Sweden, saw the arrest of two individuals and detention of about ten others following a protest where the Quran was set alight. This event, orchestrated by Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, is just the latest in a series of such protests that have elicited strong reactions throughout the Middle East.
On Sunday, Malmö, a city known for its substantial immigrant population, became the backdrop for a rally during which the Quran was burned. Organized by Salwan Momika, who previously initiated similar controversial events, the gathering drew a passionate crowd. As per a police statement, after the burning of the holy book, the atmosphere turned tumultuous, giving way to “violent riots” by early afternoon.
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Swedish NATO Membership Still Awaiting Turkish Approval
Swedish Foreign Minister, Tobias Billstrom, remains optimistic about Turkey’s endorsement of Sweden’s NATO membership bid. He hopes for positive news when the Turkish parliament returns in October.
Sweden initiated its request to join NATO last year and was rapidly supported by most of the alliance’s members. However, Turkey has delayed its endorsement due to security cooperation concerns.
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The head of the Estonian company Estma OÜ, specializing in international logistics in Russia, expressed his bewilderment at the criticism his business faces from society, according to Delfi Ärileht.
The owner of the company, Danil Ignatenko, raised the question: why do many enterprises collaborate with other countries such as the USA, the UK, Poland and Australia, which also have complex histories and conflicts? He asserts that these countries have no cultural ties to Estonia, whereas Russia is their neighbor and a significant portion of Estonia’s population speaks Russian. Ignatenko expressed his puzzlement regarding “double standards” and emphasized that his company does not engage in demagoguery or hypocrisy.
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UK Government Orders Hundreds of School Closures
As the summer holidays come to an end, thousands of children in England will not be returning to school. Instead, many of these will have to take part in lockdown-reminiscent online lessons.
With next-to-no notice, the government late last week ordered 156 schools, school nurseries, and higher education colleges to immediately shut, either fully or partially, due to buildings made with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC). These buildings are unsafe and are liable to collapse. The announcement has put on display a British educational institution that is literally crumbling.
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UK: Farage Ally Richard Tice Also Debanked for Political Beliefs
Internal emails have revealed that Nigel Farage-ally and leader of the rebranded Brexit Party, Richard Tice was also debanked over his political beliefs.
According to bank documents obtained by The Sun on Sunday newspaper, the London branch of financial heavyweight Swiss Re refused to offer a business loan to Reform UK leader Richard Tice’s Quidnet Capital investment firm in April of last year on the basis that he allegedly posed a “reputational risk” to the institution.
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UK: London Uprising: ‘Blade Runners’ on the Hunt for ULEZ Cameras
Fed up Londoners appear to be taking the law into their own hands, as the London Metropolitan Police has reported 510 crimes against so-called ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) cameras in the period of April 1st to August 31th.
Equipped with license plate recognition software, such cameras are meant to pick out vehicles which do not meet required minimum emissions standards. Most petrol cars made before January 2006 and diesel cars made before September 2015 do not meet these standards. Under the ULEZ initiative, drivers are liable for a £12.50 daily charge if they drive non-compliant vehicles anywhere in London. And those who do not pay face fines of up to £180.
The implementation of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ, meant to improve the quality of air and which was expanded across all of the capital’s boroughs on August 29th, has been an abiding source of controversy since its inception.
The last two weeks, however, saw a significant uptick of citizenry’s open hostility towards Khan’s invasive measures—with the cameras being the obvious targets.
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UK: The “Unenviable” Challenges Ahead of Grant Shapps
Grant Shapps, who last week replaced Ben Wallace as UK defence secretary, is a strange choice for one of the most important cabinet briefs of today, a field in which he has very little experience and, some say, even smaller interest.
It is the Tory frontbencher’s fifth cabinet position in just 12 months, a dizzying enough path for even the most rounded of politicians. Critics, Tory MPs included, were quick to argue that the appointment had been made simply because “he’ll do exactly what [Prime Minister] Rishi [Sunak] tells him.”
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Ukraine Asks Its Politicians to Boycott International Events in Poland Over Grain Embargo
The Ukrainian government has decided that Ukrainian politicians will boycott international events in Poland to protest Poland’s stance on continuing the embargo on Ukrainian grain, according to a post from Ukrainian MP Mykola Kniazhytsky.
Kniazhytsky, who is a journalist, politician, and co-chairman of the Ukrainian-Polish interparliamentary group, wrote that the Ukrainians are protesting Poland’s support for the continuation of the grain embargo sanctioned by the EU. He stated that “this stance is in part a result of pre-election populism in Poland.”
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Violent Protests After Quran Burning in Sweden
Three men have been arrested in connection with a violent riot following a Quran burning in Sweden.
Unrest erupted after an Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika set fire to a copy of the Islamic holy book on Sunday.
Police said they detained 10 people for disturbing public order in the city of Malmo.
Several vehicles were set on fire after about hundred people gathered in response to the burning.
A group of angry protesters tried to stop the burning, which resulted in a showdown between them and police.
Officers said they were pelted with stones, while some demonstrators threw electric scooters at police vehicles.
Several police cars were set on fire in Malmo’s Rosengard neighbourhood, which has a a large immigrant population, and has experienced other violent protests in the past.
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Today in History: A Forgotten Christian Warrior Saves the West From Islam
Today in history witnessed one of the most stalwart defenses against the Islamic spear-thrust into Europe — the Battle of Albulena in Albania in 1457.
To appreciate the significance of this epic clash, one must first appreciate the leader of the Albanian forces, George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg (“Lord Alexander”). Today, he is as little known in the West as he was once widely celebrated all throughout Europe. His life, which is featured in the new book, “Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam,” certainly validates the saying that “truth is stranger than fiction.”
[Comment: Article dated September 2, 2023.]
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Israel Has Become Unwelcoming for Christians
The New Polish House in Jerusalem is increasingly becoming a target of religious Jewish fanatics. Sister Róza Pacocha, an Elizabethan nun and the superior of the New Polish House, spoke to the Catholic weekly Gosc Niedzielny about recent incidents of aggression.
“They smashed the peephole with a stone and scratched the doors, and I don’t know if they can be fixed or if everything will have to be replaced,” she said. Since mid-June, the religious house has been regularly attacked, including by assailants throwing trash and stones at it. In July, some people got through the fence, took heavy flower pots from the garden and threw them at the building, eventually destroying the doors.
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Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty for Social Media Posts
In an alarming precedent set by Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s paramount enforcers of capital punishment, a resident of Mecca and retired educator, Mohammed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, has been condemned to death. His crime? Expressing dissenting opinions on social media platforms. This distressing development underlines the kingdom’s complete intolerance of free speech and underscores escalating attempts to suppress dissent, gaining international criticism.
Predominantly employed for prosecuting terrorism-related cases, the Saudi Specialized Criminal Court indicted al-Ghamdi with a slew of profound charges, among which were “betraying his religion,” “impugning the kingdom and the crown prince,” “conspiring against the government,” and “disturbing the society’s security.” These grave offenses all trace back to his online activity, which entailed sharing opinions critical of the government.
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A Dire Warning: The US Plan to Make Ukraine Into Europe’s ‘Big Israel’
In his famous anti-Vietnam War speech, the late senator from South Dakota George McGovern told fellow Congressional leaders, “This chamber reeks of blood.” On Saturday, journalist Max Blumenthal opened a hard-hitting talk at the Ron Paul Institute’s “Which Way America…?” conference in D.C.by quoting those words, but applied them to the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
Blumenthal said that in Ukraine, Washington continues “wasting the lives and bodies of over 150,000 men, and that’s according to the Pentagon.” Citing recent studies on the immense numbers of Ukrainians who have lost limbs after a year-and-a-half of fighting (which could be surpassing WWI rates), he said the true Ukraine casualty count could be closer to 500,000 — which marks a monumental tragedy and disaster.
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F-16s to Enter Service in Ukraine Next Spring But Pilot Shortage is Major Challenge
By next spring, the Ukrainian Air Force is expected to be able to use F-16 fighter jets in the war against Russia, said former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in an interview published on Sunday, Sept. 3, by the Ukrinform news agency.
However, he noted that until then it is necessary to train Ukrainian pilots, plus create the entire infrastructure for operating these aircraft and train auxiliary personnel. Reznikov also mentioned that in order to convince the allies to supply Ukraine with F-16 aircraft, he had to write several letters with assurances that the Ukrainian army would use these aircraft exclusively for defensive purposes on Ukrainian territory, not on Russia’s.
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Graft Allegations Bring Down Ukrainian Defence Minister
Kyiv’s clamp down on corruption, intended to facilitate its EU and NATO membership bids, may have claimed another victim with the ousting of Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov. The Ukrainian minister was dismissed from his post Sunday evening amid accusations that he misappropriated Western military aid.
The Ukrainian Parliament is expected to sign off on a decision by President Zelensky to remove Minister Reznikov from a job he has held since 2021, as Zelensky announced “new approaches” internally within the defence ministry, owing to graft allegations.
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NY Times Wakes Up to Corruption in Ukraine as Officials Admit Military Contract Money ‘Vanished’
In a potential signal of shifting attitudes on how the war in Ukraine is covered in the legacy media, the New York Times is starting to slowly acknowledge the endemic corruption that has been a defining feature of the former Soviet state as officials have admitted that money for military contracts has “vanished”.
Following the dismissal of Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov amid a slew of corruption scandals surrounding the war effort against Russia, the New York Times acknowledged that the “enduring challenge of corruption in Ukraine” has “emerged as a rare area of criticism of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership.”
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Putin Says He Won’t Renew the Grain Deal Until the West Meets His Demands. the West Says it Has
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea amid the war won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands on its own agricultural exports.
Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the Kremlin’s demands as a ploy to advance its own interests.
Still, Putin’s remarks dashed hopes that his talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could revive an agreement seen as vital for global food supplies, especially in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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Russia’s airforce has migrated its latest-generation Kinzhal missile to a new type of combat aircraft, it claims, a development which is potentially bad news for Ukraine as it may give Russia the opportunity to deploy its airforce more effectively.
The Kinzhal missile, an air-launched ballistic missile which has seen limited use in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the past year and which they claim is ‘hypersonic’ — this is disputed by Western observers — has been effectively deployed from a new airframe for the first time, they claim. Moscow said in a press statement on Monday that a Sukhoi 34 fighter-bomber had fired the missile in what they euphemistically called the “special military operation”.
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Artificial Intelligence: Top Three Roles Under Threat in Small Australian Businesses
Sobering results of a new survey of 79,000 businesses has found one third of Australian companies plan to replace staff with artificial intelligence.
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Bruce ‘Muckadda’ Shillingsworth posts videos to social media advising First Nations people on how to deal with NSW police, who he calls ‘foreign private corporate agents’.
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Comedian and radio host Dave Hughes has revealed which way he will be voting in next month’s Voice referendum.
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The Voice referendum campaign has been rocked by the resurfaced of a Voice architect saying the Uluru Statement from the Heart is about ‘Voice first, Treaty second’.
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A boy is fighting for his life after he was allegedly confronted by unknown offenders and forced into a car before he came out of the moving vehicle moments later in a suspected armed robbery.
A teenager is fighting for his life after a group of unknown offenders allegedly ambushed the boy and stabbed him in what is believed to be a violent armed robbery.
It is understood the assailants travelling in a dark grey Volkswagen confronted a 14-year-old boy on Monday about 3:35pm in Melbourne’s south-east suburb of Glen Huntly.
Investigators believe the teenager was forced into a Tiguan model outside Glen Eira Secondary College before it took off down Neerim Road, a main street in the area.
The boy, believed to be a student of the school, a short time later came out of the vehicle at the nearby intersection of Grange Rd while it was still moving.
Bystanders rushed to his aid, with one student telling The Herald Sun he saw the victim laying on the ground coughing up blood.
The 14-year-old sustained serious injuries in the incident. He was rushed to hospital where he is fighting for his life on Tuesday.
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Thousands of Queensland households are eligible for up to $1000 in rebates by replacing everyday appliances with newer, energy-efficient ones.
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R&B singer Akon is hyping his centrally planned community in Senegal, the country of his childhood, promising that every African American who invests with him will become a millionaire. In addition, he says if they collectively leave the U.S. for Africa, they could do real damage to the country that has oppressed them so much.
The 50-year-old artist, whose real name is Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Senegal. Consequently, he is a big believer in Africa.
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Parents who follow the Christian faith in several parts of Mexico recently set fire to textbooks that contained gender ideology teachings, accusing the books of spreading the “virus of communism”.
More from The New York Post:
Christian groups in Mexico have taken to the streets in protest of their department of education with one group burning books they believed was laced with “Marxist-communist” indoctrination last week, according to a report.
Parents in Mexico from Christian organizations have taken to the streets in the thousands to oppose new textbooks from the Ministry of Public Education they deem to contain sexual and gender ideology content, according to Mexico News Daily. At least 12,000 people attended.
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Texas Sends 12th Migrant Bus to LA; City May Seek Legal Action Despite Approving Sanctuary Status
Texas sent a 12th bus filled with migrants to Los Angeles, California, which arrived on Monday morning, nearly a week after city leaders voted to pursue legal action against the Lone Star State.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s office said the bus arrived at about 7:15 a.m. on Monday at Union Station.
FOX 11 in LA reported that the bus was carrying migrants, which included 23 men, 20 women and 21 children, all from Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia and Venezuela.
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Afghans Allowed to Bring Additional Wives to Germany — a Total of 19 Children
In the Hochsauerlandkreis region, there are currently two Afghan men, each with two wives. The German government has approved family reunification for these first and second wives, resulting in a total of 19 children in these families, despite the practice of polygamy being prohibited in Germany.
This is reported by Deutschland Kurier, citing the newspaper “Westfalenpost”.
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Attitudes Toward Ukrainian Refugees Are Changing for the Worse
Since the beginning of last year, numerous countries in Europe and around the world have provided shelter to millions of refugees fleeing Ukraine. Even the European Union adopted a special directive to grant temporary protection to Ukrainian refugees. Poland hosted over 1.5 million refugees, Israelis accepted non-Jewish refugees for the first time in history and Denmark, a country with a strict immigration policy, passed a special law to aid Ukrainian immigrants. However, just six months after the start of the conflict, attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees began to deteriorate, states Delfi.
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Baerbock Gearing Up for Action Following Attacks on Mass Migrants in Cyrus?
The divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been experiencing an influx of illegal migrants from Asia and Africa for years. Last Friday, there were once again attacks on mass migrants in the Greek part of the island. It is likely that Baerbock will soon take measures to bring migrants from Cyprus to Germany, states Journalisten Watch.
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Eritrean migrants have once again been captured on video engaged in a violent street clash in Europe, this time in Norway. In Bergen, Norway’s second-largest city, Eritreans were witnessed assaulting each other with bats, bottles, and iron rods.
These tumultuous events, highly unusual for the generally peaceful Norway, gained significant attention and elicited a response from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who expressed his strong condemnation, reported VG. He remarked, “This conduct is entirely intolerable. Today, we bore witness to violence and confrontations amongst Eritreans in Bergen due to the situation in Eritrea. The use of violence and engaging in violent clashes, including attacks on the Norwegian police, is entirely unacceptable.”
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Exclusive: Sheltering Costs for Rising Numbers of Migrants Hits $7M/Month in Arizona Border Sector
TUCSON, Arizona — According to a source within CBP, the cost to accommodate the recent spike in migrant encounters in the Tucson Border Patrol Sector is rising rapidly as existing processing facilities reach their capacity. With an operating cost of nearly $7 million each month, one facility in Tucson is undergoing an expansion project to double its capacity to hold migrants. The cost to operate the facility, according to the source, will double as well.
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Israel to Deport All African Migrants and Build Huge Border Wall
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will deport all African migrants and build another giant border wall to keep millions more out of the country.
But wait, I thought diversity was a strength?
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Migrants gave a thumbs up and made ‘V’ signs as a newly-arrived group was driven away from Dover today — as the number of asylum seekers arriving in the UK topped 21,000 this year.
Dozens were intercepted crossing the English Channel in small boats today as temperatures hit 29C.
Groups of mainly men were seen on board the Border Force vessels Hurricane and Ranger as they were brought into the harbour at the Port of Dover this morning.
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A notorious drug trafficker, who stands accused of murdering his cousin involved in illicit activities in Morocco, has returned to the Netherlands to evade capture. However, his reappearance has sparked a bitter gang rivalry on the streets of Rotterdam.
The suspect in question, Soufiane B., a 29-year-old individual holding both Dutch and Moroccan citizenship, allegedly fatally stabbed his cousin, Hicham B., during a dispute over their illegal drug business on a beach in Al-Hoceima, Morocco. Both individuals, who had been residing in Rotterdam, were well-known figures in the drug trade. It is believed that the victim had intentions of leaving the family’s drug enterprise to establish his own drug empire, potentially taking customers with him, De Telegraaf reported.
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These pictures show the Instagram adverts being used to sell fake British passports, as it emerged Albanian smugglers are charging up to £12,500 for documents to get migrants into the UK.
Forgers are seen openly boasting of being able to supply counterfeit passports ‘very easily’, while other adverts also feature driving licences and bank notes.
In one image, a seller is seen swiping a passport over a scanner in an apparent attempt to show they can be used to pass through security gates — although there is no evidence this is the case.
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Roosevelt Hotel: 41 People Have Been Arrested at New York Hotel Since it Became a Migrant Shelter
The NYPD has been called to the Big Apple’s once exclusive Roosevelt Hotel more than 40 times since the landmark became a migrant shelter in May, a shocking new report says.
The vast majority of those arrests stem from domestic violence incidents, reports the New York Post.
Just this weekend, a 30-year-old man was taken into custody after he was accused of endangering a child in the midtown hotel. The alleged victim was his 11-year-old daughter. The Manhattan’s DA office has opted not to pursue charges in the case.
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Staggering figures have revealed that over 1.2million US-born workers lost their jobs last month while the foreign-born workforce increased by nearly 700,000 — as migrants continue to flood across the border under the Biden administration.
Data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics show that between July and August, there was a staggering decrease of 1.223million native-born people in the workforce — which is a low not beaten since the jobs crash when Covid hit in April 2020.
In stark contrast almost 688,000 jobs were secured by foreign-born workers, underlining the difference in Joe Biden’s pro-migration policies versus Donald Trump’s tough border stance.
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UK Students “Ruthlessly Dumped” as Migrants Get Their Luxury Lodgings
A last-minute accommodation cancellation upset 168 British students’ plans as they were told their housing contracts, set to start in September, had been made null and void to make room for illegal migrants.
According to an exclusive LBC radio report, the property manager, Prestige Student Living, had confirmed that the agreements with the students—who were soon to start their courses at Huddersfield University in Yorkshire—had been “terminated with immediate effect.”
This follows an agreement reached between Huddersfield Student Management, the property’s landlord, and the Home Office.
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Villagers claim their sleepy idyll will be overrun with asylum seekers when a luxury four-star hotel becomes the second migrant holding centre in their local area next week — and have vowed to march in defiance to stop it happening.
Villagers of Standish, Wigan have protested heavily against the Home Office’s acquisition of the plush luxury Kilhey Court court complex becoming outfitted for refugees fearing the small village will not be able to cope with the influx of ‘young men’.
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Germany’s left-wing government has introduced a blitz of social welfare reforms more and more attractive to the point that it is becoming hardly worth working. The policy has confounded economists and business leaders, who say the government acknowledges there is a lack of workers, but nevertheless provides ample incentives not to work. Instead, it has turned to promoting immigration.
A column from Dorothea Siems in Die Welt notes that for many single parents, low-skilled workers and migrants, the labor market has created an absurd situation, with Siems writing: “The state is acting as a caretaker, but it is keeping the recipients dependent instead of helping them to gradually stand on their own two feet.”
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Call of Duty to Introduce AI-Based “Toxicity” Censorship Tools
The globally popular Call of Duty franchise is jumping into the murky waters of voice chat censorship relying on AI technology. Activision, the company behind the franchise, revealed a unique partnership with AI technocrat Modulate, aimed at curbing the toxicity associated with in-game chatter.
This stern approach will see the integration of Modulate’s proprietary voice moderation tool—ToxMod—into Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2, and the anticipated Modern Warfare 3.
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Far-Left Feminist Professor Praises Transgender Agenda for ‘Frightening’ People
A gender studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley said the transgender agenda is supposed to make people “uncomfortable” and has aims at “changing reality.”
Judith Butler is a professor at Berkeley. She has research expertise in critical theory, gender and sexuality studies and explained her ideas to “Big Think” in June.
Butler argued that “gender wasn’t a predetermined reality, but a fluid construct formed by culture, history, and individual identity.”
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Viganò Responds to MediaPressInfo on the Request for Dissolution of “Civitas”
Paul DEROGIS: Excellency, during his recent appearance on the French programme ‘Géopolitique Profonde’, when asked about his “Roman” contacts, the president of Civitas, Alain Escada, replied that Bishop Viganò was the only Roman prelate today, apart from those ordained without Roman consent, to fight the New World Order and to support Civitas which also fights against globalism. Do you actually consider yourself an exception among the Roman prelates? And if so, how do you explain this worrying situation?
+C. M. Viganò: I do not claim to consider myself the only Prelate to have denounced the subversive globalist plan: other Bishops (very few, in fact) have expressed concern about woke ideology, gender theory and green environmentalism. But what I haven’t heard them denounce is Bergoglio’s complicity with the New World Order, which reached new heights of enslavement to Big Pharma during the pandemic farce, and at the World Economic Forum with the climate fraud. I think, however, that in their hearts, some of my colleagues are beginning to open their eyes to a crisis that certainly did not begin in 2013.
The element that, in my opinion, must be understood — for the denunciation to be complete — is the mirror relationship between the coup d’état of the Deep State in the civil sphere and that analogous equivalent of the Deep Church in the ecclesiastical sphere. The modus operandi of subversive actions is identical, as are the principles that animate them and the objectives they set for themselves. It is essential to understand that the Second Vatican Council and the Novus Ordo were to the Church what the Revolution and the Declaration of Human Rights were to civil societies, because at the base of both of them broods the poisonous seed of the Revolution, that is to say the subversion of the natural order that God established for man and for human societies.
Do you believe, like the president of Civitas, that globalism is essentially satanic?
The essence of globalism is satanic, and the essence of Satanism is globalist. Because Satan’s plan is to establish the reign of the Antichrist, allowing him to parody Christ’s earthly life, to imitate His miracles with grotesque wonders, to lead crowds not with the simplicity of Truth but with deception and lies. Globalism is, so to speak, the staging, the script and the scenario that must prepare humanity for the political ascent of the Antichrist, to whom the leaders of the world — his servants — will cede national sovereignty so that he becomes a kind of global tyrant.
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Everything for foreigners – nothing for Swedes
BY MAGNUS SÖDERMAN – SEP 04
Prompted by:
Riots in Rosengård. And just think. From right to left, politicians agree that the focus is: what is best for the foreigners, not the Swedes.
video:
https://youtu.be/_kgPsjQJizk
So there were riots in Rosengård. Again. This time after a Koran was burned somewhere in Malmö. By an Iranian, I might add. So the angry Muslim men went home to their locality and felt that the best way to let loose was to burn cars and destroy. Well, why not, they’re not the ones paying for it. Nor are they forced to clean up. They are probably sound asleep when this is written. I belong to the group in society that is nourishing (I get up, work, etc.) while the majority of these “new Swedes” (new even in the third generation) are consuming, or just draining.
It’s not the first time Rosengård or other (what’s the buzzword again?) “exclusionary areas” have been affected by the destructiveness of their own inhabitants. It happens on a regular basis and the same modus operandi occurs in every new ‘exclusionary area’ that is established.
Fascinatingly, this repetition is a blind spot for the politicians, you know, the ones who push the distribution buttons when tax money are distributed. It sounds the same all the time and has done for the last 30+ years I have followed the debate:
“We need more resources and efforts (police officers, social workers, calm streets, fathers or mothers patroling the city, recreational centers, etc.) in these areas”. Ad nauseam.
And we need all this, why? Well, because it’s good for the people who live there. We need to hold hands, help and support. But why?
Well, I’ve never heard anyone answer to that. But everything is for “their” sake. The Swedish perspective does not exist.
This became clear when I saw this tweet from Moderate MP Fredrik Kärrholm:
“These riots first and foremost affect honest residents in the area. The burning car is probably owned by a hard-working parent. More off-duty police officers are needed to curb this kind of barbarism.”
‘Yes, I am saying that. Without going into a clinch about “honest inhabitants” and “hard-working” rosengårders, I note again that his gaze is: how should we Swedes make it better for “them”. And the answer is: more money, more resources. More, more, more into the black hole.
I answered him:
“Yes, let’s focus on how bad it is for ‘good’ foreigners. Can’t someone like you ever talk about what’s best for Swedes? You know, the people you belong to. Do you even care about us? More police, more resources for hopeless areas. The same show for 40 years. Shameful!”
It’s depressing, upsetting and frustrating to be constantly taking these kicks in the pants and belly laughs from politicians. The hatred for them grows inside me. I think of all that is taken from me (or not offered) so that we can throw money at these ungrateful bastards.
Year in, year out. And the smiley face like Mr Kärrholm’s sits in the parliament and plays the democratic game. He reproduces the same nonsense that the entire political establishment has done over the years. He and everyone else.
It only gets worse for the Swedes, and they don’t care! Get that through your head. They don’t care but on the contrary, they continue to take from us and give to their protégés. It is a betrayal.
I have not considered the possibility of real political action. But we need something else than these drone politicians who allow themselves to be squeezed into the same template as everyone else. We need revolutionary thinking politicians. Fearless and idealistic representatives who would rather live under a bridge than whore themselves out to the political nobility. We need men who, in the political “fine rooms”, say indecent things like “all efforts should be based on what is best for the Swedes”.
These men exist. But they are few and far between. When they appear, support them. You can say what you think about other pernicious politicians, preferably directly to them. They should not be allowed to get away.
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The EU answer will be an Islamic Mosque Worshiper, who tells you what you can and cannot say in Sweden and in Denmark. While simultaneously deafening you and your children with Islamic war cries from the white man’s loud speaker system.
Burn more korans.
And it’s about time we start burning people like True-dope and Bidin.
They are obviously practicing witchcraft which is illegal.
We need to burn them at the stake
And I expect to be arrested for saying this
ARTICLE
There are perhaps a handful of traditional German high street retailers that ALL Germans grew up with.
One such retailer is called TCHIBO. Basically, they sell coffee beans and ground coffee.
When you enter their small cozy shops – in every high street across the country – you can also pick up a kitchen scale or a winter coat, a flash light or some slippers. Small items, easy to carry.
For the first time in history, they’re now losing money.
While this might appear to be a non-story, it’s really not. A national magazine (Focus) ran a story and the user comments – those that were actually allowed through by the radical left-wing moderators – are all telling.
TCHIBO has been pushing a very woke advertising. The consumer is now pushing back against the advertising in which white couples are seldom represented and Africans and Arab models are dominant. Often only white females are to be seen. An attack on white families.
I think we’re reaching as tipping point in Germany.
Consumers. The indigenous people are beginning to fight back. They reject the anti-white advertising and they are voting with their wallet. The Germans appear to be boycotting the shop.
This is a TECTONIC shift in public sentiment. A sign that an end of radical-left wing genocidal madness may be coming to Europe. When large organic companies like TCHIBO are feeling this, something has changed in the German Psyche.
GERMAN ANGST is being replace with GERMAN ANGER.
Links.
ARTICLE
Company wants to focus more on coffee again167 million minus!
Now Germany’s giant Tchibo is beginning to falter
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/lieber-neuen-kaffee-als-jede-woche-eine-neue-welt_id_203699137.html
USERS COMMENTS
https://kommentare-focus-de.translate.goog/embed/stream?asset_id=203699137&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
WEBSITE
https://www.tchibo.de/
MONTAGE (using GoFile File Sharing platform – can’t upload an image here)
https://gofile.io/d/BoJhzR
MUSLIMS Destroying Germany
https://t.me/leaklive/15780
MUSLIMS Destroying Sweden
https://t.me/leaklive/15796
CITIZEN ARREST, Scottsdale
African American thief
https://t.me/leaklive/15793
Angela Merkel destroyed Germany
SWEDEN
Malmö: The Quran Qiots
https://t.me/redicetv/8068
Looks like Lebanon. I wonder why?
SWEDEN
VIDEO
Muhammed the Muslim climbs the ladder to the first floor apartment so he can kill the white people living there with his IKEA knife.
https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/51824
Bang! Problem solved!
“violent riot” following a Quran burning in Sweden.
Translation: intimidation attack on democracy.
The report is from the BBC.
According to Jayell, a commenter at JihadWatch, the BBC is “crawling with muslims”.
No hope there of a critical analysis.
A LGBTP studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley said the LGBTP agenda is supposed to make people “uncomfortable” and has aims at “changing reality.”
Ju dith Butler is a mental case at Berkeley. She has research expertise in critical anti white theory, genderising, genital mutilation and sexuality abuse approval studies, and has explained her ideas to “Big Pedo Think Tank” in Ju ne.
Butler argued that “gender wasn’t a predetermined reality, but a fluid construct formed by culture, history, and individual identity.”
= I look forward to the Islamification of America, Europe and the UK.
Dirty perverted sex baiting white scum like this, sure are changing reality…
But I somewhat think, they might not like the outcome….
Bring on Shira Law please..
Islam is right about “white” women.
They really are a tragedy!
Christian parents in several parts of Mexico recently set fire to textbooks that contained gender ideology teachings, and which they believed were laced with “Marxist-communist” indoctrination.
Stand by for Marxist-communist reprisals, the burning of police cars. the stoning of police and shop windows, and a general violent riot.
No?
Why is that? This is the standard response in Sweden to the burning of a certain book.
EU sees asylum requests jump 28% so far in 2023 — agency
BRUSSELS: The number of migrants lodging asylum applications in the EU has jumped 28 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, official figures released Tuesday showed.
Between January and the end of June this year, there were 519,000 such requests made in the 27-nation bloc and associated countries Switzerland and Norway, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) said.
That puts the EU on track to receive more than one million asylum-seekers this year — the biggest number since 2015-2016 when it saw a huge influx, mainly Syrians fleeing the war in their country.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2367576/world
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Dr. Royal Rife’s Nephew Fights For Medical Truth:
Are Parasites The Cause of CANCER?
The quest for alternative treatments for illnesses has been ongoing for decades.
Matthew Rife is the nephew of renowned scientist Dr. Royal Rife and he joins Stew to talk about his uncles amazing technology.
One of the leading alternative medical proponents of the 20th century was Dr. Royal Rife.
Dr. Rife promoted a practice called high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.
Since the Covid-19 vaccine rollout many people have found parasites in their blood.
If you change the electromagnetic signature in your body it can repel these parasites and make them want to leave your body.
Ivermectin, which is a known anti-parasitic, was demonized as a treatment for Covid-19.
However, it works to defeat the spike protein.
We deworm our pets and animals so why shouldn’t we do the same for humans?
https://rumble.com/v3cpu12-dr.-royal-rifes-nephew-fights-for-medical-truth-are-parasites-the-cause-of-.htmlPurge
SWEDEN
More on the Algerian Muslim climbing the ladder to kill people with his knife.
Shock video: the victim is still filming a knife offender who climbs in via a ladder
The scenes are unbelievable: an Algerian climbed a ladder onto his ex-girlfriend’s balcony, smashed the window with a stone and then stabbed the young Swede’s new boyfriend. He filmed the crime beforehand. The attacker was sentenced to just two years in prison.
https://exxpress-at.translate.goog/schock-video-opfer-filmt-noch-messer-taeter-der-ueber-leiter-einsteigt/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
That Swedish male refused to defend himself, bloody sheep to the slaughter!
And here’s what I googled for “Islamophobia”. Funny article. Why do they want to ban the burning of the Koran, but do not want to ban Islamic extremism?
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/islamophobia-rife-in-germany-so-quran-burnings-should-be-a-no-go-warns-expert/2983808
I suffer from IslamoNAUSEA.
I am sick to death of these Satan worshiping pervert.
Quran or Koran is nothing but toilet paper
“Quran or Koran is nothing but toilet paper”
Nah, the “Washington Post” is toilet paper—softer and much more absorbent. The Quran makes for great kindling though.