Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of Gaza City, blocking the Salahedin Road, a major route in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israeli troops successfully rescued one of the hostages held by Hamas.
In other news, almost a hundred people were left dead or missing in Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Otis.
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Bidenomics: Hunger & Food Insecurity Soar by 10 Million Americans Under Biden
Under Democrat President Joe Biden’s economy, the number of Americans suffering from hunger and food insecurity has soared by a whopping 10 million people.
The impact of Biden’s so-called “Bidenomics” was revealed in a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report.
The report provides fresh evidence of the impact of inflation on a basic staple of life.
The report found 44.2 million Americans were living in food-insecure households in 2022.
The figure was up from 33.8 million the year before.
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Rand Paul: Dems and GOP Want to Send $100 Billion to Everyone” in Foreign Countries
Senator Rand Paul has warned that “the very existence” of the U.S. is under threat from Democrats and Republicans wanting to send “$100 billion to everyone,” in other countries.
In a Fox News interview, Paul warned that “they’ll bankrupt our country in sending money everywhere all over the planet,” adding “It is probably the greatest threat to our national security.”
Paul further urged that “The greatest threat to it is the national debt. We borrowed a trillion dollars in the last three months. It is out-of-control spending, and we are threatening the very existence of our currency, and perhaps our country, by this crazy, profligate spending.”
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Pictures have emerged from a CVS store in Washington DC where framed images of toilet paper are displayed instead of the real product in an effort to stop people from stealing it.
So rampant is the crime in the Democrat run capital that this particular store and many others are now forcing customers to ask staff if they can retrieve toilet paper out of the stock lock up.
If you frequent this CVS, you must press a button to summon a sales associate and then point to the picture of the toilet paper brand you wish to purchase, then wait while they go and fetch it.
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“War is a Racket” for These 25 ‘Defense’ Companies
Retired US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler said it first and said it best: “War is a racket. It always has been…”
But what often goes unsaid is his next sentences:
“It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
And indeed, every year, the world’s most powerful countries spend billions of dollars on so-called ‘defense’.
But where does this money actually flow?
To gain insight, Visual Capitalist’s Marcu Lu and Bhabna Banerjee ranked the world’s top 25 defense companies by 2022 revenues, using data from Defense News.
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13-Year-Old Shot Dead After Trying to Carjack Armed Federal Security Officer in D.C.
A 13-year-old has paid with his life after a botched carjacking attempt in crime-infested Washington D.C.
The teen boy was shot dead after picking the wrong victim to allegedly carjack.
The victim was an armed federal security officer who was waiting for his shift to start.
The incident occurred shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday in the 600 block of D Street NW, near the D.C. Superior Court building.
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60 Million Americans Under Freeze Alerts as Powerful Arctic Blast Crashes Temps Nationwide
As highlighted in last week’s article (view here), temperatures across the Lower 48 are diving as a cold blast pours in from Canada. These bone-chilling temperatures come just in time for Halloween. About 250 million Americans are feeling below-average temperatures, while 60 million will be under frost or freeze alerts.
According to private weather forecaster BAMWX, the cold air invasion has already begun:
A lot of record cold lows on the table to start out November. 20s all the way down to Central Texas with temperatures 15 — 20F below normal.
We first called for a major Halloween cold front 2 weeks ago and it is here.
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Archives Locates 82,000 Pages of Joe Biden Pseudonym Emails, Possibly Dwarfing Clinton Scandal
Under legal pressure, the National Archives has located 82,000 pages of emails that President Joe Biden sent or received during his vice presidential tenure on three private pseudonym accounts, a total that potentially dwarfs the amount that landed Hillary Clinton in hot water a decade ago, according to a federal court filing released Monday.
The total of Biden private email exchanges was disclosed Monday in a little-noticed status report filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought against the National Archives and Records Administration by the nonprofit public interest law firm the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
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Biden Tightens AI Regulations as Critics Warn of ‘Stifling’ Red Tape on Companies
WASHINGTON — President Biden issued a sweeping executive order Monday regulating the development of artificial intelligence — after Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other industry leaders have warned the technology’s unsupervised advancement could pose a risk to humanity.
Under the first-of-its-kind action, companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft-backed OpenAI will be required to share safety test results with the government whenever they train an AI model that poses a potential “serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety.”
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Black Hebrew Israelites Brawl in the Streets With Anti-Israel Activists During Chicago Protest
On Saturday, a physical battle broke out between Black Hebrew Israelites and anti-Israel protesters in Chicago as worldwide demonstrations increase over the Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East.
Video footage captured by Yeshiva World News shows the two opposing groups throwing punches and violently beating each other with Palestinian flag poles as an all-out battle broke out during the anti-Israel demonstration.
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During Monday’s White House press conference, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked to condemn the widespread anti-Israel protestors seen around the US and the globe, Jean-Pierre instead brought up the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Does President Biden think the anti-Israel protestors in this country are extremists?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked.
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The House Oversight Committee revealed on Monday that Hunter Biden received a $250,000 “loan” from Chinese business associates in 2019, just months before his father announced his presidential run, and did not pay it back himself.
The loan, which used Joe Biden’s Delaware house as the beneficiary address, was reportedly not paid back by Hunter Biden or any family members, but rather Kevin Morris, a Democrat donor and Hollywood lawyer, acquired Hunter Biden’s stake in the Chinese investment company Bohai Harvest RST, assuming the debt.
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Burglars Steal Laptop From Soros Backed DA’s Car
Burglars stole the work laptop of soft-on-crime Oakland district attorney Pamela Price while she was visiting a victims’ justice center on Friday afternoon.
The George Soros-backed district attorney waited an hour for police to show up and help her before giving up and filing a report online, according to a local ABC News reporter. The government computer was one of several items the unidentified thieves took from Price’s $90,000 taxpayer-funded SUV. Price’s bodyguard had parked outside the Alameda County Family Justice Center where the district attorney was attending an event.
The incident is the latest example of lawlessness in Oakland.
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California Professors Blast University System for ‘Unsafe’ Comments About Hamas
Ethnic studies professors demanded the University of California stop referring to Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians as “terrorism,” arguing in a letter to administrators that such language endangers students.
“We call on the UC administrative leadership to retract its charges of terrorism, to uplift the Palestinian freedom struggle, and to stand against Israel’s war crimes against and ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people,” a statement from the University of California Ethnic Studies Faculty Council reads in part.
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Colorado Man With Explosives, Wearing Tactical Gear Dies at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park
A man died at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park over the weekend after he illegally entered the park in the Colorado high country after hours when no employees or people were present, law enforcement officials say.
The man has been identified as a 20-year-old from the nearby town of Carbondale, although officials did not immediately release his name. A cause of death has also not been released but the Garfield County Coroner is investigating the death as a suicide.
His body was found in a women’s restroom next to a message written on the wall that read, “I am not a killer, I just wanted to get into the caves.”
According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the man was dressed in black-colored tactical clothing, with patches and emblems that gave the appearance of being associated with law enforcement. The suspect was heavily armed with a semi-automatic rifle and semi-automatic handgun and multiple loaded magazines for both weapons. The guns were ghost guns or self-made weapons.
He was wearing body armor and what appeared to be a ballistic helmet, according to investigators. Multiple improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were discovered with the suspect and a vehicle associated with him. Authorities also found several fake hand grenades in addition to the real and fake pipe bombs. The Grand Junction Bomb Squad responded to the scene and they rendered the devices safe.
The Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park was swept by members of the bomb squad as well as operators from the Garfield County All Hazard Response Team to ensure no other IEDs were planted around the park or rides. Investigators said that no one in the public was at risk and that his actions were limited to the property of Glenwood Caverns.
“While this investigation is still ongoing and very active it is important to realize that given the amount of weaponry, ammunition, and explosive devices found, the suspect could have implemented an attack of devastating proportions upon our community and first responders,” said Garfield County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Walt Stowe.
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Fauci NIH Lab Infected Bats With Wuhan Coronavirus, Obtained From Zoo Near Camp David, Report
A15-minute drive from the Camp David presidential retreat, a low-rated zoo gave the National Institutes of Health several bats to infect with a coronavirus from the same Chinese lab that some federal agencies believe is responsible for the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, according to a new investigation and published research.
The White Coat Waste Project, which fights taxpayer funding of “wasteful government animal experiments,” said Monday it’s using Freedom of Information Act requests to get more details about the taxpayer-funded experiments documented in a 2018 paper in the journal Viruses.
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Federal Judge Reinstates Gag Order on Trump in DC Conspiracy Case, Sides With Biden’s DOJ
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan has reversed course on the gag order she enforced on former President and 2024 GOP front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday, saying that the order will remain in place while it is under appeal.
“The First Amendment rights of participants in criminal proceedings must yield, when necessary, to the orderly administration of justice,” Chutkan said.
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Florida Crime Trending Down While California Skyrockets Explained by One Key Difference: Expert
California’s spiking violent-crime rate can be attributed to liberal district attorneys in big cities who promote a “culture of lawlessness,” while Florida’s “law and order” policies have yielded lower crime, according to one crime control policy expert.
“If [California] had law and order DAs, if you had a governor of California — like previous governors, including Reagan — who were pro-law enforcement, pro-law and order, and were hammering [DAs] George Gascon and Chesa Boudin and Pamela Price campaigning for law and order DA candidates, you wouldn’t have the disparity between Florida and California in terms of crime rates,” Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Cully Stimson told Fox News Digital in a phone interview this week.
The FBI released its annual national crime data this month, which analyzed 2022’s crime trends, and found violent incidents decreased by 1.7% last year when compared to 2021. Violent crimes are defined as incidents such as rape, robberies, armed assault and homicide.
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Gavin Newsom Mows Down Chinese Child Then Bizarrely Spanks Him During Basketball Game
A video of California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom playing basketball with children in Communist China is going viral for all the wrong reasons.
Video of the incident shows the Democrat 2024 presidential candidate governor mowing down a young child during the game.
After plowing through the young child, Newsom then rolls around on the ground with the boy before pretending to spank him.
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‘I’m for Israel First’: Trump Backs Military Aid for Israel, Netanyahu
Former president Donald Trump said he supports increasing U.S. military aid to Israel for the war in Gaza and said that Jerusalem “cannot even think about losing” the fight.
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Jen Psaki Attacks Speaker Johnson for Being a ‘Bible-Believing Christian’
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has tried to smear newly-minter House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) by attacking him for proudly declaring that he’s a “Bible-believing Christian.”
Democrat President Joe Biden’s former spokeswoman bashed Johnson for being a “religious fundamentalist” during Sunday’s broadcast of her MSNBC show, “Inside with Jen Psaki.”
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Israel activist and journalist Emily Austin says online death and rape threats forced her to invest in a bodyguard in New York City as tensions escalate over the tumult in the Middle East.
“I’d be lying to you if I told you I didn’t get a bodyguard for the next, who knows how long. I got a bodyguard because of my appearances on TV,” she told “FOX & Friends” Monday.
“People are sending me my address. People are sending me rape threats, death threats. At first, I thought, ‘You know what? They’re all in Gaza,’ but they’re not. I looked into these accounts. They are here in New York.”
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A plan pushed by John Kerry to invest vast sums of American taxpayer money into a “climate reparations” scheme will have no impact on the environment, energy experts are warning.
Kerry, Democrat President Joe Biden’s unregulated “climate czar,” is pushing for billions in U.S. tax dollars to be pumped into the scheme to allegedly “save the planet” from “global warming.”
However, several leading energy experts reportedly told the Daily Caller that the money will do little more than fund discussions about the globalist green agenda.
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Kamala Harris: ‘Biden is Very Much Alive & Running for Re-Election’
Vice President Kamala Harris has tried to downplay concerns about Joe Biden’s viability for the job by assuring the American people that the Democrat president “is very much alive.”
Harris made the comments during a recent interview with 60 Minutes reporter Bill Whitaker.
The VP was asked about her willingness to step up in the event that Biden is unable to run for re-election in 2024.
Harris sidestepped the question, however, and refused to give a real answer as to whether she would be able or willing to replace Biden.
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Los Angeles Model Found Dead in Her Refrigerator With Wrists, Ankles Bound: Police
A Los Angeles-based freelance model was found dead in her refrigerator with her ankles and wrists bound last month, a new report revealed.
An autopsy report released Friday indicated Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found severely beaten, bound and gagged, FOX 11 Los Angeles reported.
Mooney, who also worked as a real estate agent, was found dead in her apartment on Sept. 12.
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Man Arrested Over Meme of Dickson Police Officer’s Grave Settles Lawsuit With DA, TBI
District Attorney W. Ray Crouch and two TBI agents have paid $125,000 to Rutherford County resident Joshua Garton to settle a First Amendment case after Garton’ was arrested back in 2021’s arrest over a photoshopped meme.
The settlement of claims for malicious prosecution, false arrest, and violations of his First Amendment rights came after almost three years after Garton was charged with harassment and held in jail for 12 days.
The charge was later dismissed for lack of probable cause.
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NJ Election Fraud: New Charges Brought Against Two Democrats Over Mail-in Ballots, Registrations
Two Democrats in New Jersey are facing new state election fraud charges from 2020 and 2021 related to mail-in ballots and voter registrations.
State Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office announced the prosecutions last week involving races that occurred in two different cities.
One case has been ongoing for more than three years.
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Over 100 Columbia Professors Sign Letter Defending Students Who Supported Hamas’ ‘Military Action’
More than 100 Columbia University professors signed a letter Monday defending students who supported Hamas’ “military action” in Israel on Oct. 7 and called on administrators to protect those students from “disturbing reverberations” on the Manhattan campus.
As top donors vow to stop giving money to the university amid a swell of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, professors demanded that the administration protect demonstrators from doxxing efforts from trucks dubbing them “Columbia’s Leading Anti-Semites” and halt its educational outposts in Israel.
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Pharmacists Go on 3-Day Strike at CVS, Walgreens, Riteaid Over Working Conditions
Pharmacy workers across the United States have staged a three-day strike to bring awareness to unfavorable working conditions. Employees at CVS and Walgreens say they are being subjected to work in unsafe conditions due to understaffed store locations that have forced them to work daunting hours, according to Reuters.
Rite Aid was also reported to have strikers, per USA Today.
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Salesforce CEO Demands Return of ‘Law and Order’ Across Crime-Ridden San Fran
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest employer and anchor tenant in the city’s tallest skyscraper, urged progressive leaders in City Hall on Sunday night to reverse course on defunding the police. He advocates to “refund” the police force after defunding policies sparked a metro area-wide surge in violent crime. This call from Benioff, alongside others, suggests a growing separation from previously ‘woke’ policies. However, these calls to reverse disastrous progressive policies could be too late.
On Sunday evening, Benioff posted on X, “San Francisco must REFUND the Police not continue to DEFUND the Police. Our SFPD and Sheriffs are the key to a safe and clean San Francisco every day. SFPD must be returned to >2000 officers within 18 months from <1400 where it has been allowed to fall, and the police force must be fully empowered to enforce ALL laws.”
He continued, “Compensate ALL city employees to recruit the best officers in the country. Reward and recognize them for hiring the absolute best now. San Francisco Police Academy must be expanded for hiring surge. All laws must be fully enforced. Police must be fully funded. The DA’s office must prosecute to the fullest level of the law. Return Safety to retail business and residential properties NOW. DISTRICT BY DISTRICT — Police officers need to be enabled to protect assigned districts and rewarded & measured for their effectiveness. Metrics for effectiveness need to be clearly defined and transparent. Let’s institute a Neighborhood Policing model in San Francisco, safety District by District. We can and must do more now with our police force.”
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Sam Bankman-Fried claimed in court more than 100 times Monday he could not recall aspects of his alleged $10 billion theft from FTX users — but did admit his hedge fund was able to “borrow” a fortune from his crypto exchange.
The slippery 31-year-old fallen cryptocurrency king said over and over on the witness stand at his Manhattan federal court trial that he could not remember or was “not sure” about what he said of his business dealings in public — including his constant pledges to keep FTX users’ funds “safe.”
He also repeatedly denied remembering what he said in private, where he called some members of the crypto community “dumb motherf**kers” and confessed to a reporter that his public push for government oversight was “just PR.”
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Senator Johnson: ‘Globalists’ Are Using COVID & Climate ‘Fear’ to ‘Control Our Lives’
Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has dropped the hammer on “globalists” trying to “control our lives” by creating a “state of fear” over Covid and the so-called “climate crisis.”
Johnson blasted the globalist agenda during a recent interview on Fox News.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Says Biden ‘Very Likely’ Committed Impeachable Crimes
House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson said the federal probe into President Biden’s alleged criminal foreign business dealings will continue under his leadership, and stated that it is “very likely” Biden committed impeachable offenses.
This comes on the backs of recent reports that show President Biden cashed a $200,000 check from his brother, James Biden, which was issued the same day that Americore, a rural hospital operator no longer in business, wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sara Biden’s account in exchange for helping the company secure connections in the Middle East.
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Suspected Thief Tries to Rob Philadelphia Convenience Store With Deadly Result
An armed Philadelphia convenience store owner turned the tables on a masked and armed suspect who allegedly tried to rob the establishment.
Philadelphia police say that a 28-year-old man wearing a face mask and gloves entered the Happy Day Food Market & Deli on the 1300 block of South 58th Street just after 10:30 pm on Wednesday, according to Fox 29. The suspect allegedly ducked behind the cash register and began taking money while pointing a gun at employees, CBS News reported.
An employee of the store, described as a man in his early 20s, pulled out his own firearm and fired multiple shots at the suspect. The gunfire struck the 28-year-old suspect in the torso and chest, according to CBS News.
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Rental car giant Hertz hit a huge speed bump with its profitability, and its blaming the ill-advised choice to go green with Elon Musk’s electric cars. The company is blaming its recent quarterly profits miss on Tesla’s price cuts and unexpectedly high EV repair costs, which both caused big problems due to Hertz’s decision to build a large fleet of Tesla vehicles.
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Trial Begins to Remove Trump From the Ballot in Colorado
A Denver courtroom on Monday will hear opening arguments on a legal attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s ballot in the 2024 election by making him ineligible under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.
“Donald Trump tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election,” states the lawsuit, filed on Sept. 6 in Denver District Court. “His efforts culminated on January 6, 2021, when he incited, exacerbated, and otherwise engaged in a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol by a mob who believed they were following his orders, and refused to protect the Capitol or call off the mob for nearly three hours as the attack unfolded.”
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Trump: Biden More Destructive Than TEN Worst Presidents in History Combined
Appearing in Iowa this past weekend, President Trump declared that “Crooked Joe Biden” and his administration have inflicted more damage on the U.S. than the ten worst Presidents in history combined.
“If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history on the United States and added them up, they would not have done near the destruction to our country as Crooked Joe Biden and the Biden administration has done,” Trump told the crowd.
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Alberta Ready for Conversation Over Potential CPP Withdrawal, Finance Minister Says
Alberta’s finance minister says he’s looking forward to a future meeting with his provincial and federal counterparts on his province’s potential withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan.
In an interview with Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday, Nate Horner also said Alberta is within its rights to contemplate its own pension plan.
“It’s Albertans’ right to have the conversation, but I certainly welcome the conversations with other Canadian leaders — I look forward to it,” he told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.
The Albertan government has announced a consultation process that it says could lead to an eventual referendum on the possibility of creating an independent pension for the province, separate from the national Canada Pension Plan (which does not include Quebec).
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Alberta Threatens Use of Sovereignty Act in Throne Speech
The Alberta government intends to lower electricity and auto insurance costs, as well as use the Sovereignty Act against the federal government if it tries to enforce emissions caps or a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani said in Monday’s throne speech.
The speech, which outlines the province’s priorities, marks the start of Alberta’s 31st legislature. It comes five months after Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party won a majority government.
The speech focuses on affordability issues as well as grievances against the federal government. Ottawa is called one of the “powerful forces” in Canada forcing Albertans to fundamentally alter our provincial economy and way of life.”
The province is prepared to use the Sovereignty within a United Canada Act in order to ignore legislation implemented by the federal government.
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Nazis in Canada? A Secret List With Answers May Soon be Released.
For 37 years, Canada has kept close guard on an explosive roster of names.
The classified report lists 883 possible Nazi war criminals who found harbor in the country after World War II, and many believe it offers insights into exactly what the government knew about how they got there, the extent to which they were investigated and why most escaped prosecution.
Canada’s strong privacy laws and government secrecy have kept the report confidential, but a recent political blunder may crack it open.
Last month, Canadian lawmakers used the occasion of a visit by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to honor Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian Canadian man who volunteered for the Nazi Waffen-SS, a combat group that also oversaw concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is discussing whether the time has come to unseal the report.
[Comment: The article is not behind a paywall.]
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Annual Decline in Polish Birth Rate Hits 11%
The annual decline in Poland’s birth rate has reached 11.1 percent — the first time it has hit double-digits since records began.
The new figures show the acceleration of the decline in the number of births that has been taking place since 2018 in Poland, resulting in the country having one of Europe’s lowest fertility rates.
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EU Parliament Wants Further Spyware Investigation
The EU Parliament is considering opening another special committee investigation into spyware use in the bloc. The chamber held an initial debate on the topic on Thursday. The move follows a lukewarm response from the Commission to the recommendations of the parliament’s Pegasus and Equivalent Surveillance Spyware (PEGA) committee.
The parliament only recently completed an almost two-year-long investigation into the spyware industry and use of the software by the Spanish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, and Cypriot governments, delivering its final report with a recommendation for tight regulatory frameworks for spyware to the Commission in May.
Four months later, many MEPs on the PEGA committee are dissatisfied, considering the responses from the Commission and the Council inadequate.
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EU ‘Superstate’: European Parliament Proposes Treaty Change
The European Parliament has just doubled down on its efforts to turn the EU into a federal superstate by overhauling the bloc’s fundamental treaties that govern the internal power dynamics between Brussels and the member states.
The Parliament’s constitutional affairs (AFCO) committee adopted a set of proposed treaty changes last week, put forward by the so-called ‘Verhofstadt Group’, a circle of MEPs led by the infamously Eurofederalist Guy Verhofstadt from the liberal Renew group.
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Leading Polish Liberal Newspaper Prepares Blacklist of Conservatives to be Sacked
As Poland’s new parliamentary majority prepares to take power, its supporters are publicly declaring their intention to purge the public sector of anyone who is suspected of supporting the outgoing Law and Justice (PiS) government.
The most prominent anti-government newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, has published a list of officials in Poland’s northern Warmia Masuria region, whom it believes should be fired because “they had worked with or been appointed by the PiS government.”
The newspaper claims that “with the democratic opposition now taking over we need major personnel changes, with the removal from work of people who were PiS propagandists and not public servants.”
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NATO-Member Norway Decries Israel’s Response to Hamas Terrorist Attack as ‘Disproportionate’
Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store on Sunday decried Israel’s response to the terrorist attack by Hamas earlier this month as “disproportionate.”
Israel is not a member of the alliance however it stands among the closest allies of United States — a NATO founding member — posing diplomatic challenges for those in the coalition, UPI sets out.
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Former convicted terrorist-turned-deradicalization expert Soumaya Sahla has been expelled by the governing Freedom and Democracy (VVD) party in the Netherlands following media allegations that she defrauded its elderly and vulnerable former party leader out of approximately €85,000.
A recently published article in HP/De Tijd alleged that Sahla had swindled significant amounts of money from Frits Bolkestein, a 90-year-old former politician who led the VVD from 1990 to 1998 and served as an EU commissioner from 1999 until 2004.
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1.8 million euros for this monstrosity.
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Poles Split on Who Should Replace Kaczynski as Leader of Outgoing Conservatives
Recent polling has revealed that Poles are split over who should replace the current leader of the outgoing governing Law and Justice (PiS) party following the party’s fall from power.
A survey by SW Research for rp.pl asked Poles: “Who, in your opinion, could become the successor to Jaroslaw Kaczynski as the PiS party leader?”
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Remix News Censored: After Earning 100 Million Views on Facebook, Meta Hits Us With Shadowban
Many who frequent our news site may be unaware how successful our videos have been on a variety of platforms, most notably Facebook. Over the last year, Remix News’ video views on that platform grew 2,500 percent, reaching 100 million, up from just 4 million last year. This explosive growth, we assumed, would eventually catch the attention of Facebook’s censors. That time has finally come.
In terms of views and engagement, Remix News was towering over rival news pages with vastly larger staffs and financial resources, including Politico, Euronews, and a host of other top names on Facebook. Now, our growth has come to an abrupt halt after Facebook hit Remix News with a claim that we were “promoting hate groups” three weeks ago and stopped recommending our page to its users, which amounts to what is effectively a shadowban. We held off on publishing this piece as Remix News was an appeal, but it appears that appeal will go unanswered.
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Slovenia: Ex-Jesuit Priest Reincardinated Despite Alleged Sex Assaults
About a year ago, revelations shook the Jesuits about one of their own, Father Marko Rupnik—a Slovenian priest known for his mosaics—and sexual assaults he had committed on women and nuns in the community he had founded in Slovenia. Although the Society of Jesus eventually excluded him, the way his case was handled revealed complicity in high places to cover up his acts. Last week, it was revealed that Father Rupnik has been incardinated into a Slovenian diocese with no apparent restrictions on his priesthood.
The diocese of Koper in Slovenia, where Rupnik is originally from, is preparing to welcome the priest who has been without an assignment since he was expelled by the Jesuits in the summer of 2023—a situation not tolerated by canon law. In theory, Father Rupnik’s new incardination means that he can now carry out all the functions of a priest—a decision that ordinary Catholics do not understand, given his background. The diocese justifies the incardination by the fact that Father Rupnik has not been convicted of any criminal offence. The decision was taken in consultation with Msgr. Jurij Bizjak, bishop of Koper, Msgr. Jean-Marie Speich, the apostolic nuncio to Slovenia, and Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, vicar general of the diocese of Rome.
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Spain: Madrid: 200,000 Protest Amnesty for Catalan Separatists
Not even the threat of rain could dampen the outrage Spanish protests expressed peacefully on Sunday.
In the largest demonstration yet against a reiteration of a socialist-communist coalition government granting concessions to Catalan and Basque separatists, some 200,000 Spaniards concentrated in Madrid’s Plaza de Colón. The crowd was so large it spread out for blocks on all sides of the plaza in the heart of the country’s capital.
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Social media users tore into U.K.’s “Sex Workers’ Union” this week after the pro-prostitution organization put out an official declaration of its support for the Palestinians.
X users mocked the statement, with some mentioning the irony that Palestinians would most likely not be supportive of sex workers’ liberated views on human sexuality.
One quipped it’s like “Chickens” being “in solidarity with foxes.”
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UK Considers Raising Terrorism Threat
Ministers are holding an official emergency (“COBRA”) meeting this evening on the Israel-Hamas conflict—their first on any possible terror threat.
This comes after Sir Mark Rowley, commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, which is seeking clarification over its policing of extreme language, warned that the terrorism threat in Britain is being “accelerated” by the Middle East conflict. He said the country was facing a “particularly challenging time” which could see extremists at home motivated by fighting abroad.
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A driver has told of his fury after it took 80 officers and 20 police vehicles nearly an hour to remove 62 Just Stop Oil eco zealots.
The activists appeared to be ‘playing dead’ as officers were forced to drag their slumped bodies into the back of police vans in central London.
They ‘slow marched’ across all three carriageways around Parliament Square at 10am this morning, causing traffic gridlock and taking police around 40 minutes to tackle the issue.
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UK: Five Charged Over Palestine Protests
London’s Metropolitan Police force is stepping up its action against protesters responding to the Israel-Hamas war, but officials say they are still unsure about who they can arrest.
Five people are due to appear in court after they were arrested during pro-Palestine protests over the weekend. Their alleged offences include the shouting of racist abuse, the displaying of threatening placards, and the assault of a police officer. The Met said that a total of 11 people were arrested on Saturday and Sunday at demonstrations attended by more than 1,000 officers. Included on this list was a 16-year-old boy who is said to have directed “verbal abuse” at officers escorting protesters.
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Which location is more occupied, Palestine or London?
One man, vastly outnumbered, the silent despair etched on his face.
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Gun License Applications and Firearm Sales Surging in Israel
Gun license applications and firearm sales are surging in Israel weeks after the Hamas terror attacks took the lives of at least 1,400 Israelis on October 7.
The attacks were accentuated by videos on social media that showed terrorists going door-to-door in Israeli communities, finding and killing unarmed Israelis in their homes.
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack, Israeli leaders expedited the process of acquiring a gun license so that Israelis could become armed quickly. The expedited process contributed to a run on guns in areas such as Samaria, where, on October 11, 2023, Breitbart News noted unarmed residents were flooding into offices to fill out the paperwork necessary to secure a gun license.
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Israeli Troops Push Deeper Into Gaza and Free Captive as Fears Rise for Palestinian Civilians
Israeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza, advancing on two sides of the territory’s main city
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops and tanks pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants and advancing on two sides of the territory’s main city. The U.N. and medical staff warned that airstrikes have hit closer to hospitals where tens of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter alongside thousands of wounded.
The military said a female soldier captured during Hamas’ wide-ranging Oct. 7 attack inside Israel had been released during its ground operation — the first such rescue since the weekslong war began. The statement provided few details, but said Pvt. Ori Megidish “is doing well” and has met with her family.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed her home in a brief statement, saying “our forces” had freed her from Hamas. He said the “achievement” by Israel’s security forces “illustrates our commitment to free all the hostages.”
Hamas and other militant groups are believed to be holding some 240 captives, including men, women and children. Netanyahu has faced mounting pressure to secure their release even as Israel wages a punishing war it says is aimed at crushing Hamas and ending its 16-year rule over the territory.
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Israel warned the streets of Gaza City were now a ‘battlefield’ as fighting intensified between the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and
Hamas terrorists yesterday.
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Israel’s Netanyahu Rejects Cease-Fire, Says it’s ‘Time for War’ Against Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly rejected calls for a cease-fire in comments to the press on Monday.
Netanyahu compared the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., saying Israel is equally justified in retaliating against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. He went on to say that Israel will continue its war against Hamas “until victory.”
“Calls for a cease-fire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen,” Netanyahu said.
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Israeli Officials Identify Shani Louk’s Body, Beheaded by ‘Sadistic Animals’
Shani Louk, a German-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped by Hamas and paraded unconscious on the back of a truck, as seen in footage of the Oct. 7 massacre, was discovered dead and beheaded, according to Israeli government officials.
Israel’s government said in a post to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday morning, that it had identified the body of Louk.
“We are devastated to share that the body of 23-year-old German-Israeli Shani Luk was found and identified,” the post read. “Shani, who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors. Our hearts are broken. May her memory be a blessing.”
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Israeli Ground Troops Rescue Hostage, After Mossad Chief’s Secretive Trip to Qatar
Update(1730ET): Amid the expanding ground operation which has seen Israeli tanks positioned outside of Gaza City and heavy firefights with Hamas militants erupt, Axios has revealed that the head of Mossad, David Barnea, made a secretive weekend trip to Qatar where he met with senior Qatari officials as part of mediation efforts to secure the release of Israeli and foreign hostages.
According to the latest update, over 235 are in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) captivity, and Qatar remains the chief third party communicating with both Tel Aviv and Hamas. But Israeli officials have described that the ground offensive was launched after it became clear that the talks had born no fruit. Barnea was in Doha as the ground invasion kicked off and progressed.
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Israel’s Government Plans to Delay Freedom of Information Requests
A blatant blow to transparency is looming over Israel as the government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu drafts legislation aimed at curtailing the right to information — an indispensable cornerstone of a free society, rights groups say. The controversial law, if passed, threatens to blindfold journalists and the Israeli citizenry, hindering them from delving into their government’s management of one of the nation’s most important events in recent history.
Respect for the freedom of information reflects a government’s commitment towards upholding democratic values. In clever parlance, it is the lifeblood of an informed, enlightened public sphere capable of holding power accountable. Therefore, Netanyahu’s move to shroud the government activities in secrecy is a disconcerting nod towards censorship.
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Israel Advances Tanks to Gaza City, Blocks Major Road
IDF tanks advanced to the edge of Gaza city in the early hours of Monday morning, taking control of a key road and engaging with fighters, taking out “dozens” of terrorists.
The Israel Defence Force (IDF) ground operation into Gaza expanded overnight, with dozens of terrorists said to have been killed by coordinated land and air attacks. IDF tanks are now on the edge of Gaza city, with the Salahedin road blocked and vehicles trying to access it being fired upon, The Times of Israel reports.
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Video Appears to Show a Car Being Fired at by an Israeli Tank in Gaza
Just as the car starts to drive away, the tank then fires a round that hits its back end and black smoke erupts.
A car was fired upon by what appeared to be an Israeli tank on the outskirts of Gaza City, an eyewitness told NBC News on Monday, as the major ground offensive in the Palestinian enclave drew more international calls for civilians to be protected.
Freelance photographer Bashar Talib said he was traveling in a nearby vehicle on the Salah Al Deen road when the vehicle was hit.
The driver of the white car saw the tank “at the last minute,” he said. “He was close to the tank and the bulldozer. He stopped his car to go back, but he was targeted before driving,” Talib added.
Video shot by his colleague Youssef Al-Saifi, a local journalist, who was traveling with him, shows a white car moving ahead of them down the road. As their vehicle slows down, the white car slows down and starts to turn around.
Just as it starts to drive away in the opposite direction, the tank then fires a round that hits its back end and black smoke erupts.
The vehicle carrying Talib and Al-Saifi then turns around and drives away quickly. “The man is dead, a whole family,” they scream as it speeds up.
NBC News could not independently verify that a family was in the white car.
Asked about the incident by NBC News, the IDF said it would not comment on the positions of its forces inside Gaza. But IDF Maj. Nir Dinar told The Wall Street Journal that “terrorists use civilian infrastructure like cars. They don’t have tanks or military jeeps.”
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Turkey: Erdogan’s Words Escalate Tension in Middle East
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heightened tensions in the Middle East with two separate speeches given over the weekend. On Saturday, October 28th, he lambasted Israel and the collective West for the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, which he regularly referred to as a former territory of the Ottoman Empire. One day later, on Sunday, October 29th, on the 100th anniversary of the creation of the modern, secular Turkish republic, he vowed to protect “the unprotected” “from the Balkans to the Caucasus, from Karabakh to Africa, from Turkestan to Palestine.”
Erdogan regularly likes to cast himself as the guarantor of the interests of Muslims in the Middle Eastern region, and is not shy about using Turkey’s geopolitical ambitions to influence nations that once belonged to the Ottoman Empire. He talked of “our determination to protect our independence and future, which we have extended to the whole of our kindred geography.”
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The Kremlin has accused Ukraine of spreading antisemitism and playing a “key and direct role” in the anti-Israeli airport riots in the Russian Republic of Dagestan on Sunday.
Russian Foreign Ministry rep Maria Zakharova claimed that Ukrainians helped coordinate “a planned and externally led provocation” that saw rioters first storm the Makhachkala International Airport in search of Jewish passengers, forcing a flight headed there from Tel Aviv to be diverted.
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Russia Welcomed Hamas Terrorists Days Before Muslim Lynch Mob Airport Attack
The Russian Foreign Ministry welcomed a delegation representing the genocidal jihadist terror group Hamas on Thursday, three days before a Muslim mob stormed Dagestan’s Makhachkala airport looking for Jewish people to kill.
In addition to welcoming Hamas terrorists to Russia, the regime led by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has used its veto powers at the United Nations Security Council to prevent that body from responding productively to the massacre of over 1,400 people — including babies, the disabled, and the elderly — in Israel by Hamas on October 7.
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Russia Subjects Ukraine to ‘Terrifying’ Night of Shelling, Says Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shells struck residential areas of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, killing a 91-year-old woman in what a local official described Monday as a “terrifying night” in the 20-month war that shows no signs of ending.
The overnight shelling set fire to a high-rise apartment building, blew out windows and reduced some apartments to rubble, according to video footage posted by Kherson Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin.
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Russia’s Shoigu Accuses West of Seeking to Expand Ukraine War to Asia-Pacific
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu accused the West on Monday of wanting to expand the conflict in Ukraine to the Asia-Pacific region, Russian state media reported.
Speaking at the Xiangshan Forum, China’s biggest military diplomacy conference, Shoigu said the U.S.-led NATO alliance was “covering up the buildup of military force in the Asia-Pacific region with an ostentatious desire for dialogue, imposing alliances and lines of operational interaction on partners,” the TASS agency reported.
“Having provoked an acute crisis in Europe, the West is seeking to spread conflict potential to the Asia-Pacific region, and in several directions.”
Not only were NATO countries driving an Asian arms race, but the emergence of security blocs such as the Quad and AUKUS was also undermining the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and nuclear non-proliferation efforts in Asia, Shoigu said.
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Ukrainians Believe Polish Support for Their Country is Waning
An increasing number of Ukrainians believe the enthusiasm from neighboring Poland to continue supporting their country in the ongoing conflict with Russia is wavering.
A new study conducted by the Ukrainian sociological group “Rating” for the International Republican Institute revealed a shift in Ukrainian public opinion on international support.
Respondents were asked to name the top three countries they believe are most engaged in helping Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy Aide on Corruption in Ukraine: ‘People Are Stealing Like There’s No Tomorrow’
An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government has suffered “reputational damage” on the world stage for its sluggish efforts to battle corruption.
TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster wrote about his experience following Zelenskyy and his team back to Ukraine after they visited the U.S. in September to appeal for aid, noting in Washington they had faced “insistent calls for Zelensky to fight corruption inside his own government, and the fading enthusiasm for a war with no end in sight.”
Shuster reported that similarly grim sentiment appears among the public as well, as those with the money available “sometimes bribe their way out of service” and that such cases “became so widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country.”
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Antisemitic Lynch Mob Attack at Russian Airport Leaves Over 20 Injured
Russian officials on Monday said more than 20 people were injured when a mob of antisemites descended on the Makhachkala airport in Dagestan on Sunday night, looking for Jews to attack after a flight landed from Tel Aviv.
Local health officials said ten of the injuries required hospitalization, and two were in critical condition. Nine of the injured were police officers. Security officials said none of the passengers on the plane from Tel Aviv were harmed.
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Fans have grown defensive after an ‘acknowledgement of country’ sign was displayed at Sir Paul McCartney ‘s concerts in Sydney.
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EU Protectionism Dooms Australia Trade Deal
Hopes for an EU-Australian free trade agreement before the European elections in 2024 have seriously diminished after Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell signalled that EU agricultural protectionism made a deal impossible. The setback is a massive blow to Europe’s plans to tap into Australian mineral resources.
Talks have been ongoing since 2018 to nail down the tricky terms of a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and Australia. However, a dispute over the protected status of feta cheese and prosecco derailed plans for an early deal in July. Canberra also rejected the European Commission’s demands that the Australian economy comply with EU green edicts.
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The federal government’s decision to abstain from a UN motion calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has pleased almost no one and drawn widespread condemnation.
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Traditional Owners Call for a Ban at Horizontal Falls in Western Australia
One of Australia’s most naturally beautiful places could become the latest to be closed off to visitors due to a ban by traditional owners — following similar bans and fines in other areas.
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Deadly Explosion Off Nigeria Points to Threat Posed by Aging Oil Ships Around the World
OKITIPUPA, Nigeria | It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day.
The explosion that night woke him and knocked him to the floor. He tucked his phone and his ID card in his pockets, strapped on a life jacket and made his way to the upper deck. As the flames barreled toward him, he prepared to jump nearly 100 feet (30 meters) into the sea.
Five workers were killed and two others presumed dead in the blast on the Trinity Spirit, a rusting converted oil tanker anchored 15 miles (24 km) off the coast of Nigeria that pulled crude oil from the ocean floor. It was by the grace of God, Aganyebi said, that he and two fellow crewmen escaped, rescued by a pair of fishermen as the burning vessel sank along with 40,000 barrels of oil.
The Trinity Spirit’s explosion in February of last year stands among the deadliest tragedies on an oil ship or platform in recent years. The Associated Press’ review of court documents, ship databases, and interviews with crew members reveals that the 46-year-old ship was in a state of near-total disrepair, and the systems meant to ensure its safe and lawful operation — annual inspections, a flag registry, insurance — had gradually fallen away.
The Trinity Spirit fits a pattern of old tankers put to work storing and extracting oil even while on the brink of mechanical breakdowns. At least eight have been shut down after a fire, a major safety hazard, or the death of a worker in the last decade, according to an AP review. More than 30 are older than the Trinity Spirit and still storing oil around the world.
Jan-Erik Vinnem, who has spent his career studying the risks of offshore oil production, said he’s sometimes shocked when he sees pictures of oil ships in Africa.
“I call them ‘floating bombs,’“ he said.
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Hurricane Otis Leaves Nearly 100 People Dead or Missing in Mexico
ACAPULCO, Mexico — The number of people dead and missing due to Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week, has risen to nearly 100, authorities in the state of Guerrero said on Monday.
Otis battered Acapulco with winds of 165 miles per hour (266 km per hour) on Wednesday, flooding the city, tearing roofs from homes, hotels and other businesses, submerging vehicles, and severing communications as well as road and air connections.
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Chicago Races to Keep Thousands of Migrants Warm Ahead of Bone-Chilling Winter
The city of Chicago has announced plans to assist migrants who find themselves exposed to the cold in the months ahead.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office on Sunday announced the deployment of “warming buses” provided by the Chicago Transit Authority to designated locations. The city is also collaborating with “external partners to provide blankets, coats and other items,” according to a press release.
City officials say the Windy City has accepted more than 19,000 migrants since August 2022, but they are not the only ones who will need assistance during the winter. There are over 68,000 Chicagoans experiencing homelessness, according to a recent study, the city says.
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Deported Syrian Illegal Returns to Switzerland to Commit More Violent Crimes
An illegal migrant from Syria who was ejected from Switzerland after serving multiple prison sentences managed to sneak back into the country and commit more crimes, according to reports.
“Idriss” (name changed by Swiss media), a 30-year-old Syrian national with a “lengthy criminal record” who was well-known to cantonal authorities, was previously deported from the Alpine nation and banned from reentering for five years.
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Judge Orders Biden Admin to Stop Cutting Razor Wire on Border
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from cutting razor wire installed by Texas on the border with Mexico.
“The Court grants the motion for a temporary restraining order until the parties have an opportunity to present evidence at a preliminary injunction hearing before the Court,” wrote U.S. District Judge Alia Moses in her ruling. She did, however, allow an exception that permits federal agents to cut the wire in the case of a medical emergency. The order will last until Nov. 13, barring any extension, and the parties will have a hearing on the case on Nov. 7.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s hard-line immigration policy has been vindicated amid the terror attacks and demonstrations witnessed across Western Europe in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel earlier this month, a leading U.S. conservative journalist has claimed.
In an interview with The Critic, U.S. editor and author Rod Dreher told the magazine’s executive editor Sebastian Milbank that Orban had been proven right in his decision to oppose mass migration from the Arab and Muslim world, citing the pro-Palestine protests and the rise in anti-Semitism experienced across many European nations.
“One thing I can say about Budapest is that, whatever else is happening in Europe with radicals in the street, Islamists on the street causing mayhem, it doesn’t happen in Budapest,” Dreher said.
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Slovak Government Announces Mass Deployment of Armed Forces to Man Border With Hungary
New Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico honored his electoral pledge to crack down on illegal immigration by announcing on Monday a mass deployment of police units and armed forces along the Slovak-Hungarian border.
Less than a week after being sworn in, the country’s new government, led by Fico’s left-wing populist Smer party, approved tougher measures at the border which has frequently been used as a transit route for illegal newcomers into the European Union migrating to more prosperous Western member states.
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Tucker and Farage: Why Aren’t Muslim Countries Taking Muslim Refugees?
Tucker Carlson sat down with former UK politician Nigel Farage to discuss where refugees from current conflicts in the Middle East should go, considering that there will be “hundreds of thousands, possibly millions” of them in the coming weeks, months and years.
Carlson posited a scenario in which Israel is asked to take in refugees who hate them.
“So if you were to suggest ‘well why isn’t Israel take them in, it’s their War’, the response you would get would be… ‘that’s insane these people are dangerous.’“
Likewise, a country with Christian roots such as the United States — which feels it should try to help people, should remember that “the duty of any government its primary duty is the Integrity of its own country and its citizens,” Carlson continued.
Carlson then observes that there’s a distinct lack of voices calling for countries with booming economies, such as China, to bear the refugee load. Why instead are Christian countries, historically bastions of refuge, the only ones saddled with this “obligation”?
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Vacant properties in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia are being confiscated by the authorities in order to accommodate an influx of migrants to the area, the CDU general secretary for the state has revealed.
“We are confiscating apartments. We are at the end of our capacity there,” Paul Ziemiak told the Markus Lanz talk show on ZDF in response to a question about the asylum crisis in his Iserlohn constituency.
He explained that the municipality of Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde, which he claimed has a “super-committed mayor” and a community “that is committed to refugees,” has been confiscating apartments “in order to create living space so that people are not on the streets.”
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Boston Children’s Hospital Given $1.4 Million in Taxpayer Money for Child Sex Changes
The state of Massachusetts issued a $1.4 million reimbursement to Boston Children’s Hospital for providing sex change procedures to minors, according to records obtained by the Daily Caller.
The children’s hospital performed 204 “gender-affirming surgeries” on minors between 2017 to 2020, which included 65 chest surgeries. The youngest patient was 15-years-old, records show. The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of Massachusetts told the outlet that the more than one million dollar reimbursement was for the hospital’s “gender transition services” between 2015 and 2023. The services provided included surgical procedures, prescription drugs, therapies, physician and hospital services, and inpatient and outpatient treatments.
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U.N. Chief Guterres Issues Latest Climate Warning — ‘Fossil Fuel Age Must End’
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Nepal as part of a flying four-day visit and paused Monday to issue the latest in a long string of dire climate warnings, declaring there is no future on the planet for fossil fuel.
“The rooftops of the world are caving in,” Guterres said on a visit to the Everest region in the mountainous country, adding it had lost nearly a third of its ice in just over three decades.
“Glaciers are icy reservoirs — the ones here in the Himalayas supply fresh water to well over a billion people,” he said, according to AFP. “When they shrink, so do river flows.”
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Welsh Government Redefines Legal Definition of ‘Women’ to Include Men
The Welsh government is overhauling the nation’s laws in order to redefine the legal definition of “women.”
Under the new laws, the official legal definition of a “woman” will include men who claim to be transgender “females.”
The proposal was revealed on Sunday in a leaked draft of the government’s Gender Quotas Bill.
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“A driver has told of his fury after it took 80 officers and 20 police vehicles nearly an hour to remove 62 Just Stop Oil eco zealots.”
I finally have a use for Ham-Ass. Let them out of prison just long enough to subcontract these removals to them. All will be well.